This is the sure path to electoral success in New York City. It worked for de Blasio, and it could very well work for Yang.
“Andrew Yang’s mayoral campaign manager has close ties to Linda Sarsour,” by Jon Levine, New York Post, February 13, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Andrew Yang’s new mayoral campaign manager Sasha Ahuja is a longtime progressive activist with ties to controversial Palestinian-rights fighter Linda Sarsour, a review of social media records by The Post shows.
Sarsour, 41, has for years been a deeply polarizing figure in city politics, where critics frequently accuse her of anti-Semitism.
“I understand why Andrew Yang hired her; trying to project yourself as a progressive,” Mark Meyer Appel, founder of The Bridge Multicultural Advocacy Project, told The Post. Appel, a supporter of Yang opponent Eric Adams, said Ahuja has been “hanging out with some real trouble makers.”
Polling suggests Yang is the undisputed frontrunner in the race for City Hall. Ahuja, 33, was recently promoted to the leadership of Yang’s campaign, named a co-campaign manager earlier this month along with Chris Coffey, a bruiser consultant from Tusk Strategies….
“We get arrested in civil disobedience (unplanned ?) on International Women’s Day during the #DayWithoutWoman noon event organized by the Women’s March,” Sarsour said in a Facebook post documenting the moment, and sharing a photo of her, Ahuja and fellow activist Faiza Ali being arrested….
“What they don’t realize is that @lsarsour has raised a generation of activists. She paved the way for all of us. When they come for her, they come for all of us. Not on our watch. NOPE. We love you and stand with you always, Linda! #StandWithLinda,” she said in one tweet from Aug. 2020.
“Linda Sarsour is a freedom fighter and she taught us how to fight #istandwithlinda,” she said in another. “Linda Sarsour is my shero. The end. #phenomenalwoman” Ahuja added in yet a third social media homily to the activist….
Infidel says
I actually like Andrew Yang: he was the only Democrat candidate who had ideas that were worth discussing, regardless of whether one agreed w/ them or not. He is right about automation eroding a huge number of jobs, and universal basic income was his proposal to solve it. While I see the objections posed to the plan – whether it is that everybody will stop working and start sponging, or that Amazon ain’t gonna underwrite everything, it is an issue that needs to be confronted one way or the other
My main issues w/ him is that he seems to be soft on China, despite having friends who were ripped off by Chinese policies of foreign companies having to have Chinese partners who would then rip off their intellectual property. Like other Dem morons, he seems to think that Russia is our #1 rival. However, I can’t see him be a worse mayor than Comrade de Blassio, and I do think that if the Dems want a future outside the swampy crowd that’s Biden, Schumer, Pelosi or the commies that are AOC, Bernie and the squad, he’s the sort of guy they ought to engage
gravenimage says
This just shows how widespread this pandering to Islam has become.
Sabri S. says
So what?…there is nothing wrong with Linda Sarsour. She could be better. She could be a lot worse. She has also already stated that she harbors political ambitions, so expect to see her run for Mayor of New York within the next 10 years, or a Congressional seat. The more muslims we have in office, the better. Sorry, but discrimination has no place in the new political reality of America. Money and Influence are the only things american politicians seem to care about.
wpm says
So what? A anti Semite, pro terrorist ,pro Jihadist wants to run for office ,or pull the strings of elected officials thru “money or influence peddling” ,we must be racist for pointing that out. “Money and influence are the only things American politicians seem to care about” you got that part right.
Henry Schalk says
Sabri, could you explain why a Jew hating Jihadist, and staunch advocate for Sharia, who is, like her fellow Jihadists at CAIR, hell bent on destroying Western civilization from within, can be of any benefit to freedom loving Americans if she holds power? Please explain why Sharia, a discriminatory, supremacist code that enforces the enslavement and cultural annihilation of non-Muslims, is what non-Muslims should embrace?
James Lincoln says
Henry,
Sabri S. is a devout muslim who supports honor killings.
That’s why he sees no problem with someone like Linda Sarsour…
Henry Schalk says
Reply to 12:15 post.
Thanks James, I was aware of that. I just wanted Sabri to spell out the justification of his position in more detail for all to see.
Giacomo Latta says
Discriminate against what? Nutbars? I don’t imagine you discriminate against non-muslims, especially those who have read the koran and hate-filled citations of imams, muftis and ayatollahs everywhere.
abad says
I thought Islam strictly forbade its women to speak their minds and be in leadership roles?
gravenimage says
Sabri S. saying that Linda Sarsour “could be better” probably means that he is disappointed that she is not out personally slaughtering Jews.
That he is trying to school us on democracy could not be more grotesque–he has openly said that he wants to see brutal Shari’ah law imposed here, including lauding “Honor Killings”.
john smith says
Sabri S, turn your back on that evil death cult you follow, it’s for your own salvation, and You will be a happier and better person for it.
Your allah is really satan make no mistake about it, he even tells you who he is, “the greatest of all deceivers”.
john smith says
Christianity Sabri is about life peace and love.
Islam is about death war and hate. Think about it Sabri are you on the side of God or Satan. It is your choice
maria says
I do not believe anybody who is pro islam . I can only believe real Republiocan who would never cooeprated with muslim terrorist like Sansour et al
LB says
Never, EVER accept the idea of universal basic income over anything. Once you start taking money from the government, you give it absolute power over your life. What happens when one day the government decides that you are a “liability” for having the wrong opinions? You starve to death, that’s what happens. And not just you, but millions others like you. It’s a pathway towards totalitarianism — one party, one hivemind, report your dissenting neighbors for a few pieces of silver and they get the gulag. We’ve seen it happen many times before.
Despite what people think of it, automation is the way to go because the machines do not make mistakes and they do not take sick days. I’d rather have a machine process the meat in a meat factory than a muslim migrant, wouldn’t you? But that doesn’t mean all low-skill jobs will vanish over night, rather it’s a long adapting process that can last across centuries. There will always be low-education jobs that machines will not be able to do, it’s only a matter of whether or not you’ll be willing to do them since they are often “dirty” and, on occasion, ways away from your home. This affects women in particular because they are not known for their… eagerness, let’s call it, to do those kinds of jobs.
Point being, automation is the future whether we like it or not. The responsibility falls on us to adapt.
Westman says
LB, you haven’t outlined a solution after clearly defining the elements of the problem.
You say there should be no universal basic income yet also correctly declare that automation will cause the available jobs to be much lower in number than those who need work to support themselves and families.
No solution means the unemployed would starve in the streets. Allowing misery and death is not a revolution-free solution.
What is your workable solution that avoids a “free” income to the disposessed? This not a criticism, rather a call for someone, anyone, to find a solution to this.
Yang’s solution, simply stated, seems reasonable until looking into the methods of choosing who gets subsidy, how much, and what it does to the sense of fairness within those who will be working their life away while the subsidized neighbor enjoys his/her hobby. Planned Communism is not a viable solution.
Infidel says
Westman, both LB and Yang have correctly put their finger on the problem – automation, but their solutions are bizarre. In Yang’s case, he thinks that taxing Amazon will raise all the money needed to give you $1000/month, while LB just states that we’ll have ‘to adapt’.
Problem is that politicians treat all jobs as replacements, despite the fact that most jobs more resemble elements on a jigsaw puzzle. If Sally loses a high profile job earning her $100k designing electronic widgets b’cos such jobs are offshored to another country or that their sales have dropped like a rock, she’s not gonna get a similar job in the medical devices industry, at least not at the same levels. It’s like John Kerry telling all the laid-off pipeline workers that they need to find jobs in renewable energy. First of all, nobody is building windmills along the pipeline route, and second, even if they were, they wouldn’t involve the same skills. When automation happens, more jobs are lost, and it’s not a trivial matter for the laid-off people to ‘learn to code’. Maybe TJ Ducklo could try it!
I happen to think that a universal basic income can and should happen, but not be government funded. Essentially, it could be done by mining cryptocurrencies specially created for this purpose, and people could then use that money for their normal activities. Result of that would be that they then drift towards activities that actually interest them, and then maybe figure out a way to make money from it
gravenimage says
Westman, when jobs are automated new jobs and even new fields can emerge. No one is starving in the streets because buggy whip manufacturing took a downturn a few decades ago. And the computer and high-tech industries barely existed just fifty years ago–now they are huge employers.
Westman says
Graven, even Elon Musk does not believe enough new jobs will be created. As Infidel pointed out, you can’t take a manual laborer and turn him into a programmer. The first jobs to be replaced were repetitive labor. AI will eventually replace more complex labor, even white-collar professionals – it’s just a matter of time. And if AI becomes self aware, imagine what it might do with all the human knowledge the internet offers.
gravenimage says
Westman. right before the pandemic jobless rates were at near record lows. With respect, this doesn’t jibe with the idea that jobs are disappearing. As for the claim that manual laborers are incapable of learning anything and must be manual laborers for life, this is often not borne out. In fact, many people return to school and do train for new careers. I taught adult literacy for several years–one student went from unskilled labor to operating complex construction machinery and becoming the local OSHA rep.
Infidel says
Gravenimage, workers can and do get retrained, but the higher their profile, the harder the fall. While some jobs are portable across industries, such as Accounting, HR, Sales,. a lot of managerial jobs are very industry specific: if one is, say, a director in an engineering department at, say a phone manufacturer, one won’t get an equivalent position at a car manufacturer. Retraining more often than not means training for an entry level position in a sector where there is high demand. Students graduating are not so much the problem, assuming that they have good career counseling while still in school.
Problem is the mid level or high level manager at a company whose industry suddenly undergoes heavy automation, in the process eliminating his/her job. When they look for new jobs, something they did beautifully at their old organization is suddenly unusable in a different setting, forcing them to scale back their living standards, sell homes or downgrade in other ways
Over the long term, you are right – the horse and buggy jobs did go away, and so have cordless phones, record players (unless one is Joe Biden), floppy discs and so on, and today, nobody looks for jobs in those industries. But when those industries crashed/crash, then there are jobs that people lose and have to completely retrain for, and more often than not, it involves a major salary downgrade.
The example you gave still involved equipping people w/ skills, but that too is an area being invaded by automation. For instance, in coding, a lot of that these days are being moved to AI and more advanced compilers, and coding even by itself is a lot more complex than it was in the 80s or 90s. Yeah, it’s possible for manual laborers to learn stuff, but statistically, not too many of them are likely to morph into engineers, doctors, lawyers or other people who can match or exceed previous salary levels
gravenimage says
Infidel, I’m not saying that training for new jobs is not often stressful–it is. I have had to learn entirely new programs and equipment several times since I began. Most of the skills I learned as a graphic artist in the late ’70s – early ’80s either don’t exist at all any more or else have changed greatly–and I am not the most tech-savvy person. But unless we want to stagnate and let much of the rest of the world pass us by, we cannot ignore new technology.
Nor should we want to. While the learning curve has sometimes been steep for me, I recognize that most of these techniques and technologies are often better and faster than the old technologies.
Just twenty-five years ago, we couldn’t be having this conversation here, with instantaneous communication between people on all six continents. This is not a bad thing.
Infidel says
Graven, I know that automation is inevitable, and to a degree, I do support it. For instance, I love my car having a navigation screen that becomes a rear camera when I reverse. I love having GPS in the car. But I’m not a fan of self-driving cars or trucks, and when that really matures, you’ll have 10 million jobs going under. However, that too looks destined to happen
My argument was more in support of universal basic income to support food and rent, but finance it not from the government but by using something imaginative, be it some cryptocurrency mining or some other such computer driven activity that will put that required money in everyone’s pocket, regardless of whether or not certain jobs are employing humans. Then people can choose to pursue their hobbies, and in the process, some may even invent/discover ways to monetize it. But that won’t be true of the bulk of the population, and so something like this would retain societal stability while still allowing for all this progress
LB says
Infidel, I never offered a solution because there was no problem to be addressed in the first place. You seem to think that if one person, who is specialized in one low-skilled job, loses that job, then that person will forever be unable to get hired anywhere else. That’s ridiculous. You’re missing they key point which is in the name: LOW-SKILL job, i.e. a job that is not hard to learn and you do not need special qualifications for.
I am speaking from experience when I say that anyone can learn to do anything as long as it’s not anything super complex and they have the willpower to do it. I’m a mechanical engineer with a master’s degree that used to work in the field on mechanical construction sites. Do you think I’ve always had educated/trained metallurgy workers under my command? HELL NO! If I got one out of 100 that’s a jackpot for me, because usually the workers are farmers, hairdressers, cooks, waiters, etc. who have either never or very recently set foot on a construction site and I end up having to teach most them how to use power tools. Eventually, they either say “nope, this is not for me, I’m out” or they push through and adapt to the harsh on-site environment and become decent metal workers who would then go on to further improve their new skills on other construction sites. No re-education required there, just plain old willpower and effort.
I say I USED to work on construction sites because now I too have re-educated and re-oriented myself to become a CAD engineer/designer so that I can work from home due to everything (construction sites included) getting closed down because of all this Chinese flu bullshit. No one fucking asked me if I was comfortable/capable of doing it, but I did it anyway because I didn’t want to starve to death. This is what it means to ADAPT, it’s not just a figure of speech.
Infidel says
LB, you’re talking about low skilled jobs that have been lost to automation. I’m talking about high skilled jobs as well that have been lost, and also where people have had to completely change lines of work. I already conceded that it’s not so much a big deal going from one entry-level job to another, since they are entry points in both. I’m more concerned about going from one high profile job to another, b’cos a lot of them are highly specialized and not easily portable. Yeah, people move, but that also involves a major wage downgrade
Also, as more jobs are automated, the jobs that survive automation can’t necessarily be filled by displaced workers due to the level of skils involved
abad says
Very true! I am also opposed to a universal basic income administered by the federal government. Under no circumstances do I want the federal government controlling every aspect of my life.
I do favor an education system which provides students with marketable skills for future jobs – most computer-based jobs will be done from home. That means eliminating all liberal agendas from public schools, the latest being Gender Changing 101.
Unlike so many who lost jobs in 2020 due to the pandemic, I was in the extreme minority of being able to work from home. The vast majority of computer-based jobs don’t even require a 4-year liberal arts degree, most require certification, such as SCRUM.
Infidel says
Good as such a program is, it doesn’t begin to address people who’re not students who lose their jobs either to the pandemic or to automation. What you suggested is good for people newly entering the work force, but the average worker whose job is automated out is not likely to get such jobs
James Lincoln says
Dying New York City desperately needs a mayor like Rudy Giuliani…
Infidel says
I wonder whether there’s another person even remotely like him who’s not old enough to be retired. They need someone like him who’s not much above middle aged
gravenimage says
NYC Mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang’s new campaign manager has close ties to Linda Sarsour
…………..
Just disgusting. And there is *nothing* “progressive” about Islam.
PRCS says
An interesting article about CAIR:
Once again, CAIR shows that Islamism and civil rights don’t mix
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/328873-once-again-cair-shows-that-islamism-and-civil-rights-dont-mix?rl=1
Disagree with the Islamism nonsense, of course, but the first two paragraphs ‘nail it’:
“The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been claiming for years to be not merely the nation’s preeminent Muslim civil rights group, but a defender of the civil rights of all Americans.
In addition to denouncing alleged acts of “Islamophobia,” representatives of the organization have been quick to condemn acts of antisemitism, police shootings of African Americans, anti-LGBTQ violence, and so forth, while expressing solidarity with every “progressive” cause under the sun.”
Nope, there’s nothing “progressive” about Islam.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, PRCS.
maria says
Agree there is nothing like “moderate or progressive islam”, only the neo nazi communist ideology called islam
Andrew says
Linda Sarsour is a cockroach as her surname implies.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Can someone award that lying dog face pony soldier Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, an Oscar or a Nobel peace award ASAP.
bass56 says
Now that they have militarized Washington D.C. with criminal democrats running the show. Will we ever have the truth to the “Stolen Election 2020” or the JFK Assassination? I recommend you don’t hold your breath.
They are stealing Trillions of Tax payer dollars with all these phony stimulus bills and will you ever know where the money went besides their accounts for re-election funds where the money is untouchable…aka Omar’s husband company got a million bucks and Biden even got elected to the White House.
They will hunt you out with trained dogs and sensor the hell out of you while kicking you off social media. This one is probably next …..now that you can’t comment anywhere on social media where truth is prohibited.
So I will state my facts quickly before running to the closet…..
1. Mohammad was no prophet.
2. They stole the 2020 election with phony mail in ballets…gosh that didn’t take rocket science.
3. Political correctness is a mental disorder.
4. If you voted for President Trump you will be banned from all jobs in the windmill & solar jobs in the
future.
5. Only Jesus Christ is God and Savior. Pray always for guidance.
bass56 says
ps number 6 of truth facts…the covid virus came out of a Chinese lab.
gravenimage says
Some of this stuff is pretty questionable–but you certainly have every right to hold and air such opinions.
OLD GUY says
Follow the MONEY. Why else do you tie yourself to the islamic world. Sarsour represents a foreign power and is spreading the muslim oil dollars thru our political system.