Don't Mess With The Zoran

Graypilling The Results With Emily Litella

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Now I’m really showing my age. I bet most of you don’t even know who Emily Litella was. She was that dotty lady on the very old, actually sometimes funny, SNL who based crazy rants on a single key misunderstanding because she lacked a hearing aid. When Chevy Chase would gently point out her error, she’d smile brightly and say, “Never mind.”

What’s all this fuss about presidential erections?

It’s Zoran. Not Zohan.

Zoran. Zoran. Zoran.

Sorry not sorry, I have to get some humor out of this.

And I’m not just making a joke: until a few weeks ago, most New Yorkers had never heard of the guy.

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What happened yesterday two days ago (time flies when you are draped around an air conditioner), was a nasty shock. It happened right in the middle of a next level heat wave, in June - which made it even more unbearable.

Gothamites gear up for July and August heat waves. But June? June is supposed to be a flirtatious, teasing month. A few hot days here, cool days there. But on the whole, June weather is almost glitteringly pleasant. The city looks handsome and functional in June. New York City was built for June.

We got SLAMMED. And in the middle of that, the Democrat party decided to shit all over NYC. Now we’re all staggering around wondering what hit us.

Let me set the stage with my perspective as an average but reasonably well-informed New Yorker. I’m going to use my info level as a baseline. Call me a racist, call me anything you like, but I stand by this: if I didn’t know something, I am going to assume that Adelina Rodriguez of Washington Heights didn’t either.

A lot of New Yorkers just didn’t know what was going on until quite recently. Then came the primary — and now here we are, in deep doo-doo.

Until a few weeks ago, I didn’t even know that our incumbent mayor, Eric Adams, had dropped out of the Democrat primary and was running as an Independent. (He is still formally a member of the party.)

Until I kept seeing Cuomo ads on my YouTube feed, I didn’t even know that Cuomo was running. I saw them and I was like, “Isn’t he dead politically?” Welp, he was — he just didn’t know it.

I put all of this together retrospectively as the disaster took shape in the last few weeks. It was only because of the Mamdani surge that I schooled myself on Adams dropping out, etc. I still can’t figure out who fished Cuomo out of the necropolis.¹

So, after Adams dropped out, the Democrat machine fished in its slimy barrel of eels and gave us the most tainted, corrupt candidate they could possibly find. That’s what Nate Silver says, so it must be true, right?

Not exactly. Microsoft Co-Pilot sez:

Andrew Cuomo did receive some notable endorsements during the Democratic primary—like from Brooklyn Democratic Party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall²—but it would be a stretch to say he was the clear favorite of the Democratic establishment.

In fact, the party was pretty fractured. Some major unions, like the United Federation of Teachers, didn’t endorse anyone at all. And while Cuomo had high-profile backers like Michael Bloomberg (who donated millions to a pro-Cuomo super PAC), others in the party were either silent or openly critical. The New York Times, for instance, declined to endorse anyone and criticized both Cuomo and his main rival, Zohran Mamdani.

So while Cuomo had institutional support from some corners, it wasn’t a full-throated embrace by the Democratic machine. It was more like a patchwork of alliances—some strategic, some nostalgic, and some just pragmatic.

I think this is accurate. The big money endorsements Cuomo got are not what I define as “the Democrat machine.” The machine is pols, hacks, and operators.

The situation in NYC is a bizarre combination of exhaustion and chaos: an incompetent mayor who had recently escaped federal indictments because he tacitly swung towards Trump, who had also been a victim of a lawfare. Does anyone even remember that?

A dead Republican Party that can’t even get up the energy to nominate a colorless but competent businessman.

A former governor who was widely hated for behaving like Mussolini during Covid and being a total sex pest. You can’t blame New Yorkers for checking out, even if the stakes are so high.

In my neighborhood, stickers with the words, “Cuomo killed my grandma” sprung up everywhere. Bad sign. He did. And the fact that he had enough political muscle to get on the ballot tells you a lot.

This is when voters begin to… rationalize. I, who once said that Cuomo should be in jail for manslaughter, shrugged and thought, “He’s a goombah, but maybe that’s a good thing. This town is so fucked up it needs a Mussolini strong hand who knows where all of the bodies are buried.” I voted for him.

I’m not proud of myself. I probably should not even have voted, but voting is such a habit with me. I never intended to vote for him in the actual mayoral campaign. I’d have thrown away my vote for Curtis Sliwa, a nice guy and a joke, the way I did last time. But this time, I wanted to squash Zoran Zohan, so I voted for him.

Mamdani won against a widely-hated zombie. Now, what about the future?

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I just do not know.

Liel Leibowitz urges us all not to freak out. I agree with him on that, but there’s a flaw in his reasoning.

First, let’s have some fun with numbers. There are upwards of 4.7 million registered voters living in New York City. Of them, 432,305 supported the former rapper and terror enthusiast. That’s 9.1 percent, an absolute minority—and, as polls suggest, it skews heavily toward the very affluent and very educated ninnies who indulge in recreational Marxism and prefer to sort out their mental disorders in the ballot box rather than on the therapist’s couch.

“An absolute minority—”?

Liel leaves out something crucial.

Mamdani was the second and third choice of “tens of thousands” of voters. We don’t know how many but they happened and they need to be taken into account. Grok:

However, due to Andrew Cuomo’s concession on June 24, 2025, and Zohran Mamdani’s declaration of victory, the final RCV results were not fully reported in the available sources. Unofficial results from the Board of Elections indicate Mamdani was ranked second on “tens of thousands” more ballots than Cuomo, but exact counts of second- and third-choice votes for Mamdani were not released. Comprehensive RCV results, including specific second- and third-choice vote counts, were expected by mid-July 2025, but no confirmation of their release is available in the provided data.

Whom will these “tens of thousands” of voters vote for in the mayoral election? Mamdani.

Then, there are the Brad Lander votes. Brad Lander is someone I’d rather not write about too much: he’s an cookie-cutter, textbook example of a Jewish liberal: insane, masochistic, parasitic. He and Mamdani “cross-endorsed” one another. More from Grok:

Brad Lander received approximately 54,635 first-choice votes in the 2025 NYC Democratic mayoral primary, equating to about 11.4% to 13.3% of the roughly 1.1 million votes cast, based on reports with 38% to 93% of precincts counted.

His voters will go for Mamdani.

The Leibowitz white pill ignores this.

Leibowitz:

This leaves us with 4.3 million people to mobilize, and, come November, the candidates they’ll be mobilizing around will—baruch Hashem—not be named Andrew Cuomo.

No, Liel, it does not leave us 4.3 million people to mobilize. But it leaves us quite a few (3.5 million?), so I offer you readers my prescription for the upcoming months:

The Emily Litella Gray Pill.

What you get when you mix black & white pills

Looks more like a little gray cushion

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I’m clinging to the hope that sane New Yorkers will rally around Adams. He’s been a crap mayor, but in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

But even if he wins, I’m gloomy. Look at what happened.

The Democrat Party³ gave us one disgrace and one certified antisemitic radical to choose from. And Jewish progs like Brad Lander supported Mamdani. Lander was elected.

I’m sure you’ve read them all, but here, in one handy list are Zohan’s Zoran’s Greatest Hits. No commentary, just the list. From Grok:

• Free city buses, costing $630 million

• Rent freeze for over two million rent-stabilized units

• $10 billion tax hike on high earners and corporations

• $30/hour minimum wage by 2030

• Defunding the police

• Support for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel

• Defense of “Globalize the Intifada” slogan

• Opposition to ICE and mass deportation, calling ICE “fascist”

Regarding BDS and “Globalize the Intifada,” it’s worse than I thought. He was no passive supporter. From Grok:

• Support for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel:

  • Mamdani has consistently supported the BDS movement, calling it a "legitimate movement" rooted in non-violence to ensure compliance with international law.

  • In 2021, he led a chant for BDS at an anti-Israel protest organized by Within Our Lifetime, stating, “We have 3 letters for them: #BDS. Every elected must be pressured to stand with Palestinians, oppose Apartheid & assert that the fight for dignity knows no exception.”

  • Co-sponsored the “Not on Our Dime!” Act in 2023, aiming to prohibit charitable donations from supporting Israeli military operations or West Bank settlements; the bill was criticized by 66 legislators as targeting Jewish charities.

  • At a 2025 UJA-Federation of New York forum, he reaffirmed BDS support, linking it to his politics of non-violence and ending complicity with violations of international law.

  • Declined to confirm whether he would promote BDS as mayor, focusing instead on local issues, but noted in 2020 that BDS is a salient local issue for mayoral candidates.

  • Founded a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Bowdoin College, advocating for academic boycotts of Israeli institutions, and wrote in 2013 urging Bowdoin to shun Israeli academics.

  • Expressed in a 2021 interview that he worked to block a state resolution honoring Israel’s Independence Day, citing opposition to “apartheid.”

• Defense of “Globalize the Intifada” Slogan:

  • In a June 2025 podcast with The Bulwark, Mamdani declined to condemn the slogan, stating it reflects “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.”

  • Claimed the term “intifada” was used by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to translate “uprising” for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Arabic, arguing it means “struggle” and is often misinterpreted.

  • In response to criticism, he said, “As a Muslim man who grew up post-9/11, I’m all too familiar [with] the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted,” framing the slogan as solidarity with oppressed people globally, not a call to violence.

  • At a June 2025 press conference, he denounced accusations of antisemitism as politically motivated, stating, “Antisemitism is such a real issue in this city, and it has been hard to see it weaponized by candidates.”

  • In 2015, he posted on X about a “looming third intifada” in response to a New York Times article, referencing a wave of Palestinian violence known as the “Knife Intifada.”

  • Did not personally chant “Globalize the Intifada,” but supporters, including Mohammed El-Kurd and Steven Thrasher, celebrated his primary win with the slogan on social media.

  • The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned his comparison, stating, “Exploiting the Museum and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to sanitize ‘globalize the intifada’ is outrageous,” noting Jews have been attacked under its banner since 1987.

That’s what we’re up against.

Voting for Adams is a no-brainer, to me. A no-brainer is what happens when your brain doesn’t need to function and something more primitive takes over.

Leibowitz ends his article with one of those, “even if he wins” takes. I don’t look at things that way.

I think that the Democrat party has become the Intifada party.

I’m gloomy.

1. “Co-Pilot, in the recent Democratic primary who was Cuomo's biggest financial backer?”

In the recent Democratic primary, Andrew Cuomo’s biggest financial backer was former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who contributed over $8 million to Cuomo’s main super PAC, Fix the City. That PAC alone spent more than $24 million in total, far exceeding the city’s direct campaign spending limits by relying on outside groups.

Other notable backers included hedge fund managers Bill Ackman and Dan Loeb, both of whom were vocal supporters of Cuomo’s campaign. Interestingly, one of the top donors, investor Mark Gorton, gave $250,000 to Cuomo’s PAC but later said he didn’t even rank Cuomo as his first choice in the primary.

Despite this financial firepower, Cuomo lost to Zohran Mamdani, whose campaign was powered by grassroots support and endorsements from progressive leaders like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders. Quite the political upset.

2. Heh, Co-pilot is being polite. The first I never heard of, and the second is a fossil whose endorsement means shit.

3. Yeah, I’m calling them that. I’m sounding like a white trash mouth breathing Dixiecrat. They deserve it.