Understanding the US - Again

[uddu]

SHOCKING details revealed after FBI foils ISIS-inspired terror plot
Fox News' Mike Tobin reports the latest on the investigation into the U.S. citizens accused of planning the attack in Michigan.

[uddu]

https://x.com/sanjeevsanyal/status/1985726800732082658
@sanjeevsanyal
The US government shut down is now on its 34th day. It really boggles the mind that the world's largest economy and (still) most powerful superpower periodically goes through this. And it causes exponentially increasing costs the longer it lasts (a very short shutdown would be like a long weekend, but after a few weeks, things will break down, contracts will lapse, government employee will stop spending etc). Just one example, 3.2 million passengers have been hit by flight cancellations in recent days. This is not just a US problem as it will begin to impact the global economy if it goes on for another week as fund flows begin to jam up.

[uddu]

https://x.com/MAGAVoice/status/1985454099295588417
@MAGAVoice
BREAKING Robert F Kennedy Jr announced it is official. Mercury is REMOVED from all vaccines

“Now that America has removed mercury from all vaccines, I call on every global health authority to do the same”

THIS IS HUGE

[uddu]

https://x.com/DesiKing_/status/1986047269704221097
@DesiKing_
JD Vance’s brother lost to an Indian-origin candidate in the Cincinnati mayoral election. Indians can't stop taking W's.

[uddu]

https://x.com/AmyMek/status/1985924242098307362
@AmyMek
HEY TEXAS — PAY ATTENTION

NYC was the dry run. Your state is THE target.

They call Texas “the Mecca of the West.” That isn’t praise — it’s a warning.

In my investigations, I learned that Sheikh Uthman Ibn Farooq - born in Pakistan - is reportedly moving to TEXAS.

He is not here to assimilate. He is here to transform.

He says it plainly:

“Islam will enter every house.”
“Their children will be Muslim.”
“You can stop immigration, you can do Muslim bans — it’s not stopping.”
“If you fight Islam, I will fight you — even if you are my own father.”
“Our sisters, promote the dawah… on TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp.”

They tell you their plans - so why aren’t your leaders listening?

If Texas falls to this takeover, there will be no turning back.

Texans: demand answers. Demand accountability.

I will be publicly reporting every elected official and bureaucrat who enables this takeover. No more platitudes — our public servants must answer for allowing this invasion to proceed.

Enough empty promises. Demand action now.

[Rudradev]

With Zohran Mamdani in charge, NYC has become a safe haven not just for any illegal immigrant but specifically for ISIS and other Islamic terrorists.

[ricky_v]

^ gods i hope so

here's to wishing mamdami all the best for his endeavors, a green paradise, khusboos ,wives, and homemade bombs for all, and a steady reversal to the halcyon days of 7th century

the states could do with a bit of dose of freedom and democracy at home, and this internal diversion also saves the rest of the world from the ever erratic nature of us politics, and the specific unhinged 5d chess ruling of the incumbent, i would even take a cessation of the constant attention whring on truth social, may he lead usistan to greener and greener pastures, godspeed to mamdami and his ever increasing (hopefully) ilk

[Tanaji]

https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/why-are-nr ... am-9580707

A MUTU simping for Mamdani

[A_Gupta]

^^^ likely fake news.

https://x.com/i/trending/1985748958107279503

Zohran Mamdani Elected NYC Mayor as Fabricated ISIS Threat Spreads Online
Last updated
9 hours ago
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic socialist and state assemblyman, won New York City's mayoral election on November 4, 2025, defeating Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa with about 50% of the vote, becoming the city's first Muslim and South Asian mayor. His campaign emphasized rent caps, public transit expansion, and inequality reduction, mobilizing young voters. During the election, a fake ISIS document alleging a 'jihad victory' tied to his win circulated widely on X, but experts debunked it due to missing authentic markers and lack of official confirmation, highlighting misinformation risks.
This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.

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In fact only X and Bharat-Rakshak carry this ISIS-Mamdani story.

I have serious misgivings about Mamdani, but this fake news and fear-mongering IMO crosses a limit.

[A_Gupta]

https://x.com/MAGAVoice/status/1985454099295588417
@MAGAVoice
BREAKING Robert F Kennedy Jr announced it is official. Mercury is REMOVED from all vaccines

“Now that America has removed mercury from all vaccines, I call on every global health authority to do the same”

THIS IS HUGE

Mercury (thiomersal) was removed from North American vaccines years ago.

[A_Gupta]

I’ll add that while taqiya/chameleonhood might be a Mamdani trait, he spent Diwali campaigning at Hindu temples, the night before Election Day campaigning at gay bars; and promises to make NYC safe for LGBTQ+.

I don’t think a Muslim Brotherhood type could do that.

[A_Gupta]

From JVL at The Bulwark:

The single most important data point last night was the Hispanic vote. Union City, New Jersey, was my bellwether here because it’s a heavily Hispanic town (81.6 percent Hispanic) that swung toward Trump for two consecutive elections:

Trump vote share, 2016: 19 percent
Trump vote share, 2020: 28 percent
Trump vote share, 2024: 41 percent

How did Republican Jack Ciattarelli do in Union City? Holy shit:

15.1 percent.

[Rudradev]

Mamdani is a jihadi terrorist sympathizer, period. He has been voluble about that when it comes to Hamas. He has publicly embraced jihadis involved with the World Trade Center bombing of 1993. He has come out in public support of Khalistanis, who are a known proxy of the ISI jihad against India. He has echoed propaganda about supposed "Muslim genocide in Gujarat" that is completely indistinguishable from anything that has appeared in Daesh publications.

Whatever one may think of Trump, Stephen Miller, or any of the MAGA crowd, there is simply no comparison when it comes to the existential threat that jihadis pose to Hindus (Indian and Indian-American alike).

[Rudradev]

I’ll add that while taqiya/chameleonhood might be a Mamdani trait, he spent Diwali campaigning at Hindu temples, the night before Election Day campaigning at gay bars; and promises to make NYC safe for LGBTQ+.

I don’t think a Muslim Brotherhood type could do that.

You may want to pay attention to how the Muslim Brotherhood types managed to achieve their stranglehold over Hamtramck, Michigan.

This was a town with a Muslim immigrant plurality (not majority). Democrats (including LGBT party officials and campaign workers) enthusiastically encouraged Muslim candidates to run for office because DEI. Riding on Democratic party funding, messaging, and campaign machinery, the Muslims of Hamtramck managed to vote in a city council that was ALL Muslim Brotherhood types.

I wasn't there or anything, but I can bet this wouldn't have been possible without some amount of campaigning in gay bars and lip service to LGBT+ rights, etc.

Once they were elected, the city council determined that municipal buildings would stop displaying the rainbow flag for pride month. A couple of gay municipal employees defied the order and displayed the flag anyway. The city council fired them from their jobs.

If there is a good reason to assume Zohran Scumdani is less adept at taqqiya than his counterparts in Hamtramck, I don't see it.

[A_Gupta]

AI Overview


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Zohran Mamdani does not support Hamas; he has explicitly condemned the group. He has described the October 7, 2023, attacks as a "horrific war crime" and has called for the return of the hostages.
However, Mamdani has faced significant criticism and accusations of being a "Hamas sympathizer" from opponents and some Jewish leaders due to certain actions and statements, including:
Initial statement after October 7: In his initial public statement the day after the attacks, he did not mention Hamas by name, drawing sharp condemnation from critics.
Reluctance to condemn fully: Early in his mayoral campaign, when asked if Hamas should lay down its arms, he sidestepped the question, saying all parties, including Hamas and the Israeli military, must "abide by international law". He later clarified that he condemned Hamas.
Criticism of Israel: Mamdani is a strident critic of Israel's government, has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, and has described it as an apartheid state, which has led some, including the Israeli Foreign Ministry, to label him a "mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda".
Views on "Globalize the Intifada": He initially appeared reluctant to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada," which many Jews find threatening due to its association with violence. He has since said he would discourage the use of the phrase.
Despite these controversies, Mamdani has consistently maintained his opposition to antisemitism, met with rabbis, and attended synagogue services as he courted Jewish voters.

[Sumeet]

I’ll add that while taqiya/chameleonhood might be a Mamdani trait, he spent Diwali campaigning at Hindu temples, the night before Election Day campaigning at gay bars; and promises to make NYC safe for LGBTQ+.

I don’t think a Muslim Brotherhood type could do that.

You may want to pay attention to how the Muslim Brotherhood types managed to achieve their stranglehold over Hamtramck, Michigan.

This was a town with a Muslim immigrant plurality (not majority). Democrats (including LGBT party officials and campaign workers) enthusiastically encouraged Muslim candidates to run for office because DEI. Riding on Democratic party funding, messaging, and campaign machinery, the Muslims of Hamtramck managed to vote in a city council that was ALL Muslim Brotherhood types.

I wasn't there or anything, but I can bet this wouldn't have been possible without some amount of campaigning in gay bars and lip service to LGBT+ rights, etc.

Once they were elected, the city council determined that municipal buildings would stop displaying the rainbow flag for pride month. A couple of gay municipal employees defied the order and displayed the flag anyway. The city council fired them from their jobs.

If there is a good reason to assume Zohran Scumdani is less adept at taqqiya than his counterparts in Hamtramck, I don't see it.

Rudradev & A Gupta nice discussion. Here is a very pertinent article on Jihad and Jihad sympathy, various ways one can participate and all of how it can be used to achieve establishment of Islam. This is an article where nothing is hidden.

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/20214/r ... s-of-jihad

Imagine how unfortunate it is that most folks (non muslims) only think Jihad means physical fight and quantify it accordingly. This is a fundamental mistake but also a lethal one, may be not to the person who does it but to his future generations.

[A_Gupta]

Wow, “outgoing mayor Amer Ghalib … was recently nominated by President Donald Trump to be the U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait” - this is from Hamtramck, Michigan- does not sound like a Democrat.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/voices/adam-a ... al-results

Maybe this story that Democrats helped a Muslim majority city council be elected needs to be examined more closely.

Maybe Trump can nominate Mamdani to be Ambassador to Syria

[A_Gupta]

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politi ... 241155001/

This is from 2021:

Amer Ghalib, a 42-year-old health care worker, has defeated Hamtramck Mayor Karen Majewski, marking the first time in 100 years that a non-Polish mayor will lead the city.

According to results from Wayne County and confirmed by the Hamtramck city clerk, Ghalib received 68% of the vote while Majewski received 31%.

….
Cultural issues were intensely debated during the campaign, with Majewski touting her support for LGBTQ people and the flying of the Pride flag outside City Hall this summer. Majewski cast the tie-breaking vote to fly the flag.

Ghalib opposed the flying of the Pride flag, saying that if such a vote came up again, he would consider what the majority of Hamtramck believes. LGBTQ issues have existed in Hamtramck since 2008, when voters rejected a ballot proposal to include LGBTQ people as a group protected against discrimination by the city. Religious groups rallied to defeat the proposal.

[A_Gupta]

Amer Ghalib is apparently a Democrat who endorsed Trump.

[ShauryaT]

If there is a good reason to assume Zohran Scumdani is less adept at taqqiya than his counterparts in Hamtramck, I don't see it.

The only thing I will add: While there would be deviations and meandering by the faithful, eventually the ideology in the book and its historical experiences will win. No muslim can conquer Islam. Islam will conquer them.

[A_Gupta]

Three stories on Hamtramck, read in sequence:

https://www.thehamtramckreview.com/no-p ... me-around/

https://michiganadvance.com/2023/07/14/ ... a-militia/

https://www.freep.com/story/news/column ... 514274007/

[uddu]

https://x.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1986 ... 2APFw&s=08
@TheEmissaryCo
Here Matt is advocating for violence against Indians & remarking (accurately) how even leftists won't bat for Indians so it's open season.

[uddu]

https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1986017308788101192
@realMaalouf
Muslim Brotherhood leaders openly explain how they plan to conquer America and Europe and destroy Western civilization:

“Muslims tried and failed to conquer Europe for 700 years through war.

But now there’s a much easier way: we can peacefully infiltrate via immigration, with help from naive Western governments and voters.”

Pay close attention, and you’ll understand how New York and London ended up with Muslim mayors!

[uddu]

https://x.com/HinduHate/status/1986170924773875731
@HinduHate
Dinesh pretending he wasn't part of that "very loud group" on the Right telling Indians to go home!


https://x.com/DineshDSouza/status/1986066999458550105
@DineshDSouza
A very loud group on the Right said, “Indians go home,” and so many of them did—to the Democratic Party.

@umichvoter
A very South Asian precinct in Edison, NJ has swung from Trump +30 to Sherrill +76

Awaiting full results

[uddu]

Indian Americans must have kept away from voting seeing the hate on both sides for the Hindus. Trump's friends the Jihadis ,Pakistanis, Bangladeshis voted for Mamdani. Add to that the other major issue of inflation etc that kept traditional Republican voters away as well.
Only 1 out of 9 New Yorkers voted for Mamdani, pollster says
After wins from far-Left Democratic and socialist candidates, including Zohran Mamdani in New York, there are growing concerns the party has taken a major turn that will cause wide divisions and ultimate defeat for the party in the midterms.
They won all the key races, but the races aren’t as decisive as some people want them to be,” Scott Rasmussen, who is the president of RMG Research, as well as a pollster and analyst, said during a one-on-one interview with the National News Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat on Wednesday.
The reality is only about one out of nine New Yorkers voted for Mamdani,” Rasmussen said, adding that Mamdani ran a good campaign against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is “deeply flawed.”
As for New Jersey and Virginia, Rasmussen said both are Democratic states, so the wins there aren’t surprising.
“We also have to remember that these kinds of races -- low turnout, off-year races – are dominated by groups who typically vote Democratic, especially people with a post-graduate degree,” he said, noting that the ongoing government shutdown likely played a part, particularly in Virginia.
“The impact across the nation is growing. When we first polled on this in the earliest days of the shutdown, hardly anybody noticed anything was going on," he added. "As of yesterday, 44% of voters nationwide say they have been impacted by the shutdown, at least to some degree. Sixteen percent – so, one out of six voters -- said they’ve been impacted ‘a lot.’ We’re starting to see the impact in flight delays and other things, and I think we’ll see those numbers keep going up. And, yes, voters hate shutdowns, and they blame the party in power.”

[uddu]

https://x.com/Incognito_qfs/status/1986015482466734112
@Incognito_qfs
Zohran Mamdani supports Khalistanis who killed Jawaharlal Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi.

You are glorifying Zohran and I don't think Nehru ji will like that.

[uddu]

https://x.com/HinduHate/status/1986174703497846936
@HinduHate
Chairman of the Republican Party in Texas is an Indian Christian, Abraham George. He is against idol worship! Meanwhile in India, Christians have erected giant "idols" of Jesus! Idols of Jesus in India ok but not Hindu gods in Texas? Hypocrisy much?

[uddu]

https://x.com/JaipurDialogues/status/19 ... 8145823151

[uddu]

https://x.com/RenuMukherjee1/status/1986131060367802508
@RenuMukherjee1
Well, The Blaze just hired a “reporter” whose entire beat is, apparently, to demonize a single ethnic group in the US—Indian Americans. “DEI” or “Deport Every Indian,” as he writes.

This will end terribly for the GOP, who made substantial gains with Indian voters in 2024.

https://x.com/Cloudwatch199/status/1986228608755814747
@Cloudwatch199
This person @ realmattforney that
@theblaze
decided to hire has a long, disturbing record of harassment and hate.

He’s the creator of a vile campaign called “Operation Chimp Out,” a project explicitly designed to target, threaten, and terrorize Indian immigrants in the United States.

He has also doxxed and hounded multiple individuals including techies ,lawyers , an electrical engineering PhD graduate named Siddharth Iyer — falsely claiming that person is me.

So I’ll ask again: Is this what passes for “journalistic ethics” at
@theblaze
?
Because if this is who they choose to platform, it says everything about what they stand for.

[uddu]

@ProfVemsani
It’s Hackenkruez! Not Swastika. Use the original term Hitler used.

@NMalliotakis
Brooklyn’s Jewish community wakes up to two swastikas at Magen David Yeshiva in Gravesend. While
@NYPDHateCrimes
investigates, the Mayor-elect must unequivocally condemn this hateful graffiti…Time to represent and protect ALL New Yorkers.

[uddu]

https://x.com/SanUvacha/status/1985999849943400638
@SanUvacha
Ann Coulter wouldn’t vote for Vivek because he is Indian and Dinesh D’Souza wouldn’t vote for him because he is Hindu. — MAGA in a nutshell

[uddu]

3 key quotes from Supreme Court hearing on Trump tariffs
The majority of Supreme Court justices at a hearing on Wednesday appeared skeptical that President Trump can use a federal emergency powers law to impose his sweeping tariffs unilaterally. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has the details.

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[A_Gupta]

Does this link work?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ma ... and-is-not

There are three things that candidates use victory speeches to do: thank supporters, reconcile with opponents and their supporters, and indicate thematically, if not substantively, what lies ahead. Mamdani did effusively thank his campaign workers, his parents and wife, but he didn’t thank local Democrats like Brad Lander and Jerrold Nadler who were important to his campaign, or Kathy Hochul or Hakeem Jeffries who will be important to getting things done.

Mamdani didn’t mention Curtis Sliwa, and he was downright nasty toward Andrew Cuomo. Sure, they said harsh things about him, but that’s politics — unless you are Donald Trump. When you win, you give your opponents a nod. That’s a way of speaking to the 49 percent of New Yorkers who didn’t vote for you. I suspect, but don’t know, that Mamdani deeply resented Cuomo’s refusal to accept his defeat in the primary and his and his supporters’ attempts to insinuate that Mamdani, as a Muslim, could not give Jews or Israel a fair shake.

It is as clear as day that Mamdani will have a hell of a time achieving those of his campaign promises that require, based on the 1975 agreement during the city’s debt crisis, approval by Albany. That includes taxes on the rich and free buses and childcare. In his victory speech, Mamdani highlighted these promises — they were his refrain reminiscent of Trump’s “build the wall” in 2016 — without making clear the huge obstacles that lie ahead. Those Mamdani campaign speeches I heard, including his primary victory speech, were pitch perfect; his victory speech was not.

… Mamdani put out a video celebrating socialist congressman Vito Marcantonio. Marcantonio, who represented East Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s, was an early supporter of organized labor and of civil rights for Blacks and Puerto Ricans. But if Marcantonio wasn’t a member of the Communist Party, he was close to them — not just on their commendable support for workers’ rights, but on their subordination to Stalin and Soviet communism. For instance, Marcantonio defended the infamous Hitler-Stalin pact in 1940 and called for the United States to exempt itself from the “imperialist war” that had begun raging in Europe. He’s not someone that a “democratic socialist,” eager for the public to understand his politics, should put forth as a model.

[ShauryaT]

3 key quotes from Supreme Court hearing on Trump tariffs
The majority of Supreme Court justices at a hearing on Wednesday appeared skeptical that President Trump can use a federal emergency powers law to impose his sweeping tariffs unilaterally. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has the details.

I do not think we can make much from the line of questioning. It is their job to do so, to each side. One thing I have noticed, on highly political cases very good chances the judges align. That is the record. IOW: The so called independence of judges is highly compromised. They look for law to reason their alignments. If I have to bet, I would bet that judges will align along party lines and at best may put some limits to "emergency powers" to maybe reconfirm with Congress?

One very interesting observation though, power once ceded to executive, is almost always forever due to veto.

[Manish_P]

@ProfVemsani
It’s Hackenkruez! Not Swastika. Use the original term Hitler used.

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The christians use the word Swastika to deflect

Do the Jews at least call it the Hackenkruez ?

[Rudradev]

Professor Vemsani, as an academic scholar, should at least make sure to use the correct spelling, "Hakenkreuz"-- especially when trying to correct somebody else's use of terminology.

No one called it the Swastika except in the English-speaking world (which most of the world experiencing the Jewish Holocaust was not).

The use of the word Swastika can be traced back to the original translation of Mein Kampf into English by a Roman Catholic Priest, James Vincent Murphy, in 1937. It was he who decided to use Swastika instead of Hakenkreuz (which translates as "Hooked Cross" and is the word used in ALL Nazi documentation)-- probably to shift the blame for Nazism onto Indic philosophy instead of the Christian philosophy that actually inspired it.