2026 kicked off in New York City with a brand new mayor, a victory lap for democratic socialism, and free bus fare that somehow turned into a price hike, sources have confirmed.
Zohran Mamdani, who campaigned relentlessly on making buses “fast and free,” reportedly learned after the election that slogans do not outrank math and that the buses belong to the MTA, not his campaign website.
Riders celebrated the revelation by paying more starting January 4.
Mamdani immediately blamed billionaires, Republicans, and people who understand spreadsheets, insisting the fare hike was an act of capitalist sabotage rather than the predictable outcome of promising free things without owning them.
“The buses would be free already if the wealthy hadn’t fled to Florida,” Mamdani allegedly explained, moments before entering a city-funded vehicle driven by someone else.
When pressed on how the city would pay for free transportation, aides said the plan was always to tax billionaires emotionally and hope the buses ran on moral superiority.
Progressive activists protested the hike by chanting that buses don’t need fuel, maintenance, or drivers, insisting they can be powered entirely by collective will, climate justice, and very aggressive interpretive dancing.
As of press time New York voters were discovering the radical truth that campaign promises don’t fuel buses.
REAP THE WHIRLWIND NEW YORK. You voted for it now live with it. NOTHINGVIS FREE.
The only thing free is the heart ache and high blood pressure you get voting for a commie mayor.
You can’t fix stupid and that is what they are, stupid.
Unfortunately for N.Y.C. the Islamist/Marxists have reached critical mass.
There are more of them to vote for the economic unreality of their delusional counterculture then there are to vote for the economic reality of the American capitalist economic system.
I recently met a couple who told me that after their family lived in New York for generations they have sold their house and all their positions and relocated to Florida. “ Was it something Mamdani said,” I quipped ? They just laughed and replied, “ We’re just over it ! “
Sad, but that hissing sound New Yorkers are hearing is the sound of peoples hard earned capital running away for its lives ! I suspect that the Islamist/Marxists are going to very quickly run out of other peoples money to spend !
Mamdani is going to put Camels on every corner of NYC streets for transportation. And all the free camel sh-t you want to grow your own garden food. NYC government is going to filled with Muslims than American citizens the East Coast cesspool is going to overflow and you will never get rid of the stench. You dumb bastards voted for this don’t even think of moving south because we don’t want your dumb assholes in our great states.
Sue, you have a Very imaginative mind, it and gave me laugh…😂🤣
“Camels on every corner of NYC streets for transportation and all the free Camel dung…for your gardens. “
Thumbs up on your reply. 😎🇺🇸
So how does this idiot thinks he’s going to pay for the fuel for buses without bus fares? Government run grocery stores, he still has to pay for the products on the shelves. Free rent. Who’s going to pay for the heat, electric,and water? Not him. This fool will drive out businesses and billionaires and millionaires, because capitalism is bad. No individualism, but collectivism is what this communist just said in his speech. He’s not the legitimate mayor, because he took the oath on the Quorom and not the Bible. This is so Marxist,socialist,and communistic, that the city is DOA. I hope at some time he asks Trump for financial assistance and Trump tells no, and to kiss his ass.No more funding or financial money for NYSHITTY.
The more likely outcome: Trump overplays his hand so badly that, first the House and then, the whole government goes back to the woke idiots at which point New Yorkers’ plea to bail them out by “taxing the rich” of the whole country will fall on sympathetic ears in Washington. The dumbing down of the electorate has gone so far that it’s now self-perpetuating.
New York has been told repeatedly not to put the hands on the flame, they have to get burnt to really comprehend the warning.
How long before Mandami proposes an exit tax for anyone leaving NYC?
Good luck trying to collect it.
This is what New Yorkers voted for so suffer the consequences you had your chance to vote for someone else but you stayed home or didn’t vote for the other candidates and now you’re complaining y’all made your bed now it’s time to to take your socialist nap 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Typical democrat first day in office his lies are already exposed just another democrat scumbag right out of the box. Start putting Camels on every street corner for his free transportation and you can have all the free camel sh-t you want for growing your own garden. When is going to open government controlled grocery stores with bacon and pigs feet or nice cuts of pork chops. Just more ass blowing smoke. Wait in till all the Muslims move into NYC.