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Political pundits are predicting a slew of doom and gloom if New Yorkers wake up in three months to find that Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City. People are critiquing everything from his expected dismantling of the NYPD’s elite units to the possibility that he may appoint former “Squad” member Jamaal Bowman to run the city’s schools. With Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams unlikely to catch him if current polls are accurate and New York’s heavy Democrat majority probably not willing to cross party lines for Curtis Sliwa, it appears everybody is bracing for the worst four year stretch in the Big Apple’s history.
Everybody, that is, except stand-up comics. For people like Jimmy Failla, the thought of a socialist mayor running the Big City is a career boon. Failla, host of "Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla,” which can be heard weeknights at 9 on WOR, appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to discuss why Mamdani is the comedic gift that keeps on giving.
“Coming from a family of cops, they’re obviously not big fans,” Failla told host Larry Mendte. “But this past week has just been a lot of laughter about hypocrisy. The seminal tweet in our family is Mamdani’s classic, as you know, ‘We don’t need an investigation to tell us the NYPD is racist and anti-queer and a threat to society.’ And it’s so funny to me that a guy who’s concerned about anti-queer goes to Uganda, which, I’ve gotta be honest, Larry, doesn’t actually have the longest gay pride parade in the world. If you have a gay marriage in Uganda, they don’t play ‘Here Comes the Bride,’ they play ‘Here Come the Cops’ and you all go to jail, because it’s a capital offense!”
Failla then picked on Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren for enthusiastically backing Mamdani’s campaign Monday. “Oh, that makes me sound confident, Larry- ‘Yeah we’re going to experiment, it’s going to be great!’ Which is a fancy way of saying they can’t make any of these promises happen anyway. And that’s why Warren likes him- he’s an Indian giver. Good night, everybody!”
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