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   Democrat logic at work here.   
      
   "NYC Mayor Mamdani Says You Don’t Need ID to Vote, but You Need FIVE   
   Forms of ID to Do THIS"   
      
      
      
   "Comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City is a proud member of the   
   New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which   
   claims that “in the United States,” and yeah, there should be a comma   
   right there, but in the original, there isn’t, “voter suppression tactics   
   have a disproportionate impact on the most marginalized communities,   
   especially the African-American community.”   
      
   Accordingly, the DSA calls for “Eliminating Voter ID Laws,” and endorsed   
   Mamdani’s candidacy enthusiastically. Now, however, the favorite mayor of   
   every Marxist lunatic this side of Bernie Sanders has discovered that   
   there is something for which he very much believes that there should be   
   stringent identity verification: not voting, but something far, far more   
   important: snow shoveling. And not just one ID, or two, or even three.   
   Mamdani’s New York City wants you to prove your identity with no less   
   than five forms of identification before you can exercise the privilege   
   of clearing away snow for the people, comrade!   
      
   What does this clown think people are going to do — steal the snow   
   shovels? Given the fact that this is New York City we’re talking about,   
   that’s a live possibility, but for the princely sum of $19.14 an hour,   
   the requirements are still just a wee bit stringent.   
      
      
   Gotham is facing the likelihood of a blizzard on Sunday, and so on   
   Saturday afternoon, as his sign-language interpreter gesticulated wildly,   
   Mamdani announced: “You, too, can become an emergency snow shoveler. Just   
   show up at your local sanitation garage between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.   
   tomorrow with your paperwork.”   
      
   This is the warmth of collectivism, after all, and so it would behoove us   
   not to look too closely at this particular gift horse, but Mamdani’s Tom   
   Sawyerish offer raises a number of questions. One is, Doesn’t New York   
   City have people who do this sort of thing? This is not, after all, the   
   first snow that has ever fallen in the City That Never Sleeps. Does the   
   city own no snowplows? Or are the city streets too choked with the   
   garbage that Mamdani has left uncollected since he became mayor to allow   
   for efficient snow-clearing?   
      
   Either way, it’s not a good look. It looks as if Mamdani is quickly   
   abandoning all pretense and going straight to illustrating that socialism   
   is a failed system that always lowers the quality of life for those who   
   are unfortunate enough to live under it. Is he a closet capitalist?   
      
   Related: Mamdani Has a Terrific Idea for How the U.S. Should Handle the   
   Immigration Issue   
      
   No, he is a communist through and through. That’s clear from the fact   
   that accompanying Mamdani’s call for help from the comrades with the   
   expected heavy snow is a stultifying layer of needless bureaucracy. In   
   Zohran Mamdani’s New York, you can’t just grab a snow shovel and start   
   clearing pathways for cars and pedestrians. That would be too easy, and   
   allow for all manner of unregulated activity.   
      
   Socialists hate unregulated activity, and so the New York City Department   
   of Sanitation has a form. It says: “Please confirm by selecting each item   
   below that you understand all the criteria to be a snow laborer with DSNY   
   or DOT.” Criteria to be a “snow laborer”? Like, maybe, you can handle a   
   shovel with a bit more energy and efficiency than Mamdani himself can   
   muster? No. To become a Comrade Snow Shoveler, you have to agree to do   
   the following:   
      
   I will bring two small photos (1 ½ inches square)   
      
   I will bring the original and copy of two forms of identification   
      
   I have a Social Security card and will bring it   
      
   I am at least 18 years old, able to do heavy physical labor and am   
   eligible to work in the US   
      
   That last one is particularly delicious in light of Mamdani’s   
   declarations about how he will impede ICE’s efforts in the city. Doesn’t   
   he want all the illegal aliens he is helping to stay in the city to be   
   able to work? Apparently, he just wants them all to go on welfare, so   
   that he can drain the evil capitalists of more of their allegedly ill-   
   gotten gains to support the aliens.   
      
   And wait, there’s more:   
      
   I will not report to a DSNY Garage or DOT location if I have COVID-19   
      
   At least that one makes sense. For the left, COVID is the never-ending   
   pandemic, an eternal instrument of control of the masses. And that’s what   
   the rest of these requirements are all about as well, as silly as they   
   make Mamdani’s stance against Voter ID appear. They’re all about a   
   proliferation of bureaucracy that will allow for ever greater control of   
   the daily lives of citizens. Every socialist state has had a massive   
   bureaucracy; after all, it takes a great deal of effort to keep tabs on   
   every individual in every facet of life, so as to exert totalitarian   
   control.   
      
   Mamdani’s ridiculous snow-shoveling requirements are laying the   
   groundwork for a great deal more of this sort of thing, in a much more   
   sinister vein. And if a Democrat wins in 2028, what’s happening in New   
   York City will start being rolled out on a national level   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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