The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him.

On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist, declared victory over Andrew Cuomo, former governor of the state of New York, in the Democratic primary for the 2025 New York mayoral election.

The outcome, one of the first major Democratic primaries since Donald Trump returned to office, is being considered as a barometer for the party’s potential recalibration nationally, at a time when it remains ideologically divided about its future.

  • NegativeNull
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    40917 days ago

    This shows how scared they are of him. This is a bellwether moment.

    • @[email protected]
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      Exactly, people were talking about controlled opposition and it looks like it is true.

      If they thought he was so left he had no chance they would just laugh or even ignore (which normally they did not pay attention to primaries).

    • @[email protected]
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      It also shows how broken this country is when two groups of people can both look at this and have completely opposite reactions to it.

  • @[email protected]
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    11616 days ago

    Remember when they all claimed they had no problem with LEGAL immigration?

    Well yeah, they had a problem with any kind that makes them lose.

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      I wish the ironic gift of Trump’s grandfather’s German birth certificate hadn’t gone straight over the heads.

    • @[email protected]
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      1216 days ago

      Well yeah, they had a problem with any kind that makes them lose.

      They just take issue with brown people immigrating here.

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      I wish I had artistic talent. I would love to make a political cartoon of the Statue of Liberty holding a sing saying “You must be this color or lighter to enter” with a color chart X’ing out the brown and black colors leaving only white ones. With a caption stating this is the current republican immigration policy.

      And to answer the inevitable: No, I refuse to use “AI”.

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    17 days ago

    I am becoming increasingly sick of seeing the word ‘deport’ being used by Republicans who are suggesting revoking citizenship and a banishment. It’s exile.

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      Deporting immigrants is one thing. But when a country starts deporting it’s own citizens, and stripping them or reducing their citizenship to justify their treatment, well… before you know it, the half-citizen deportees end up coming out of the concentration camps through the chimney.

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        115 days ago

        Maybe deporting immigrants sucks. Maybe destabilizing geopolitical regions suck. Maybe we could have drawn the line way sooner, if it was abou what’s right and not about indulging bullies and slave traders.

        Police brutality we can eat dinner through, but not lying about chatel slavery and torture camps anymore.

        If I sound extreme, look up the state of food in U.S. prisons. If it doesn’t seem like I should care, you don’t know how many reprecussions legal, manditory, insurance redlining really had on the body and soul of the nation. It was mutilation, still visable today.

  • @[email protected]
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    3916 days ago

    I hope Zohran gets a group of armed bodyguards. Sooner or later, ICE will try to disappear him.

  • @[email protected]
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    3317 days ago

    Everyone else asks God to shoot captive bolts into MAGA foreheads but we can’t always get what we want.

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    17 days ago

    In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act into law. In theory, this outlawed the Communist Party of the United States and banned communists from serving in certain roles.

    WTF

    [It passed because] many opposed communism because of its explicitly declared and historically demonstrable goal to undermine liberal democracy. In the words of Ernest van den Haag, there was “no place in democracy for those who want to abolish [it] even with a peaceful vote”.

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    The irony of using it here would be palpable

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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    2317 days ago

    Ideologically divided, yes. That old rift between the two ideologies of “try to govern mostly okay” and “where’s my check from AIPAC?”.

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    Don’t Republicans hate New York? You’d think they’d be thrilled with the opportunity for socialism to ruin one of the bluest cities in the US. Maybe they’re worried something else will happen.

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      Exactly… It’s all so rich coming from these losers who refuse to even enter NYC because Fox News told them it’s warzone or some bullshit.

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    For the sake of consistency, I would revoke the citizenship of everybody who’s not a native American. Because ya know, it’s in the name… “Native American”: either you’re one, or you’re a terrible immigrant who should be deported.

    Including the terrible son of German and Scottish immigrants currently soiling the White House.

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    If he does try to do this, Democrats will fall over themselves to explain why they support the action, but quibble on how the paperwork was filed to implement it.

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      “Communist” and “socialist” are no different than “liberal” for them – just labels to selectively target those they don’t like, for whatever reason they decide. Just slap the label on and you’re good to go

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      The first time I heard of “communists” and “socialists” was back when I was in middle school, when Bush Jr got us into war. All I did was ask why in the world we were invading Iraq, which had nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden. Sincerely trying to understand the world. That’s when the already-brainwashed kids starting flinging “socialist” and “communist” like they meant the same thing as “idiot.”

      So, I decided to read about those concepts to see what all the hubbub was about. Surprise surprise, when I later responded to those same kids by asking what they thought the words meant, they couldn’t answer the question.

      Now I’m thinking it’s kind of like the Streisand Effect - 'Muricans don’t want you to know about how other countries run. I didn’t know about systems besides capitalism yet, until the spawn of conservatives decided to use ancient fears from the 1950s as an insult in the year 2003. Surprise surprise, now there’s a swath of Millennials (and other generations, of course) just like me who learned that if conservatives hate something, it’s worth looking into.

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    As a perpetually online individual I could swear that “conservatives” absolutely hated “thought crime” and political persecution for their beliefs…

    Ohhhhh right, hypocrisy. I almost forgot. “Conservatives” use words as weapons and are only consistent in their inconsistent stated beliefs.

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    4817 days ago

    Having the Government STRIP the Citizenship of Americans it DOESNT LIKE and THEN Deporting them to El Salvador or Libya is called FREEDOM!