While the nation’s focus this past week has been watching California’s Democrat machine handcuff and abandon a bleeding Los Angeles with mocking joy, Mayor Mamdani is pushing ahead with turning NYC into the real Moscow on the Hudson.

(with apologies to everyone who enjoys this movie)

And while New York City’s tries to dine on the last of the Sinatra-esque nostalgia, a city’s who skyline is a testament to running-dog capitalism, the smiling communist in bespoke duds has his eye on confiscating property — for The People, of course.

The mayor’s socialist-stacked Rent Guidelines Board (RGB), not the free market, will decide how much is too much for a landlord to charge. The board is scheduled to take its final vote on price adjustments for rent-stabilized apartments on June 25, 2026. This plan, by design, injects government into the housing market through rent-control policies that would lower the stock of available units, increase rents and reduce housing quality.

Mamdani recently promised to transfer ownership from landlords to the community — or as Karl Marx might say, seizing and redistributing the means of production.

The RGB sets a price ceiling on 1 million rentable units, limiting the ability of owners to profit. Mamdani then attacks landlords for not maintaining rentals, though they have no profit incentive, using “Rental Ripoff Hearings.” This forum gives tenants the platform to share poor housing and landlord experiences, with the objective of removing “negligent” owners and confiscating private property. This is the textbook communist excuse for expropriation.

From Stalin’s imposition of famine on the Ukraine (the Holodomor) to bring the masses in line, to Mamdani’s plan to starve property owners of access to capital to create an excuse to seize their property, the tactics of the collectivist Left rarely change. Just their target du jour. It certainly isn’t for the good of actual people — in a mass they are just statistics. But the power to control their lives is the real goal of toxic narcissists like Mamdani. Nothing is really beyond the pale, including the hijacking of Christian scripture and torturing it to serve his ends.

Ah good.

The Islamist is now twisting scripture to support his socialist policies.

What could go wrong? https://t.co/cD3nfxVCd6

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 8, 2026

Isn’t that special? Zohran isn’t just after private property, he’s coming for people’s children, too.

The last free citizen to leave New York, please turn out the lights.

featured image original artwork by Darleen Click