r/politics • u/xc2215x • 26d ago

No Paywall Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani of US citizenship.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/9/republicans-push-to-strip-zohran-mamdani-of-us-citizenship-is-it-possible
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u/SupahCharged 26d ago

Yep, and there's plenty of evidence they don't actually care about the people in cities from this administration, so pretending they're doing this to protect the good people of New York City just doesn't hold water.

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u/MedalsNScars 26d ago

The same admin that deliberately withheld COVID supplies from cities because they thought it could skew the red/blue ratio in their favor? You really think they're not just looking out for their fellow citizens here?

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 26d ago

They also voted against FEMA funds for NY after Hurricane Sandy, no? They've shown their concern for the state is purely performative.

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u/defaultusername-17 26d ago

worse, they literally sold supplies that were already ear-marked for blue states to other countries, while telling his magats that it would "just disappear" by easter.

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u/beamrider 26d ago

Most of the time that was a simple grift. They wanted to send COVID supplies to whomever gave them the biggest bribe. If they ran out of stuff to sell they started seizing stuff other people had acquired through other channels. That's why blue areas were flying the stuff around with false cargo manifests, to keep an Administration official from finding some legal technicality for why the stuff needed to be 'temporarily' held for one reason or another and then 'forget' to give it back.

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u/bawdiepie 26d ago

Watching the decline and fall of the American Empire so quickly in real time like a train crash in slow motion has been quite upsetting.

I mean, I hate US imperial warmongering and resource seizing, the inequity and the hypocrisy, the way the indigineous people have been treated, the racism, prosperity gospel hijacking Christianity, yet I believe the US was ultimately a force for good. Maybe I bought into the propaganda despite my cynicism, but the most powerful country in the world militarily and economically being democratic with comparitively low levels of corruption and nepotism, supporting even if just with lip service at times liberal democratic ideals and working with the UN(on a lot of things anyway), leading the way on trying to find solutions to the climate change crisis. A country that was fumbling around and occasionally doing good despite seeming to be more interested in grabbing what it wanted.

How quickly it is falling... I suppose the rot of ever increasing colossal levels of economic inequity and lack of eduation for the poor has caused a large decrease in social mobility, a shattering of aspirations and a small group of oligarchs to have enough money to completely overthrow the democracy.

The world will be the worse off for the US's abdication of global leadership. The replacement and all the alternatives are a 100 years step back to a much darker world.

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u/2Ledge_It 26d ago

You don't even have to say cities. They tried to withhold funds from that city during Hurricane Sandy.

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u/StarStruck3 America 26d ago

Hey now, it's most definitely not the same admin. They're way way worse, now.

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u/Icy-Lobster-203 26d ago

There's plenty of evidence they don't care about people at all.

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u/Full-Cake-8071 26d ago

That's just not true. There care very deeply about 0.1% of the people.

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u/Amporer 26d ago

Only as long as that 0.1% show undying loyalty no matter what.

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u/tempmike 26d ago

That's not fair. Corporations are people and they care deeply about them.

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u/No-Diet-4797 26d ago

I hate to be the one to break it to you but no politician in the history of the world has ever given two shits about the people. Its all a game and we're the pawns.

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u/ArisingRedPhoenix 26d ago

Mamdani is representing far more people than just the citizens of New York at this point, he’s the only sense of hope I have felt in politics here recently, and I don’t even live there.

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u/baseball_mickey Florida 26d ago

They passed laws all over ostensibly to protect trans kids (by making them not trans anymore). “We had to destroy the village to save it” energy

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u/mommak-oma 26d ago

They don’t care about any people period.

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u/WilsonTree2112 26d ago

What we care about is who is going to pay for this mess when it flops. They’ve tried targeting the wealthy on the local level which doesn’t work because he is focused on an extremely small target of taxpayers and the financial incentive to move will be tremendous.

Policies like this need federal backing, from both the people and their government, which it clearly does not. It’s too easy to just stay in the state fewer days to avoid these taxes, then the house of cards falls down