Mayor Mamdani Is Governing Like A College Theater Kid
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‘America’s mayor’ is hospitalized in critical condition as tributes and well-wishes roll in
On Sunday evening, a spokesman for "America’s Mayor" Rudy Giuliani shared the news that the 81-year-old former New York City mayor is in critical condition in a Florida hospital.
“Giuliani is currently in the hospital,” spokesman Ted Goodman wrote on X, “where he remains in critical but stable condition. Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he's fighting with that same level of strength as we speak.”
‘I pray he pulls through this. The world needs more of him.’
Goodman added, “We do ask that you join us in prayer for America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani.”
Almost immediately after the news broke, well-wishes and tributes started pouring in.
“Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized,” wrote President Donald Trump on Truth Social. “What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!”
The president isn’t the only one offering well-wishes.
Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, a New York City native who served four years as a police officer with the New York Police Department, wrote on X, “Mayor Rudy Giuliani was the most transformative figure in the history of NY City politics.”
“He pulled off an economic and public safety miracle in a relatively short amount of time, and the city rose from the dead. I worked for the NYPD during the end of his second term. It was the honor of a lifetime,” Bongino continued. “I pray he pulls through this. The world needs more of him.”
Another former mayor of New York, Eric Adams, wrote on X that Giuliani “devoted his life to this city, from his days as a federal prosecutor to leading New York through 9/11. He was there when we needed him most.”
Adams then shared that he would be praying for Giuliani.
There have been no further updates from Giuliani’s team on the reasons for the hospitalization or the prognosis as of Monday morning.
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Glenn Beck: Think NYC is ruined now? Wait until you hear about Mamdani’s newest proposal.
On April 28, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), speaking at a joint press conference with Council Speaker Julie Menin, declared a "budget crisis of a historic magnitude" larger than any “since the Great Recession,” blaming inherited mismanagement and a structural imbalance with the state.
"We cannot close this deficit with savings alone. We need new revenue. And we need a structural reset in our relationship with the state. … That is the only way to meet our legal obligation to pass a balanced budget and to do so without imposing a financial burden onto the backs of working people,” he stated.
“When a politician says, ‘We need new revenue,’ it's not like when you're working at the S&P, man,” scoffs Glenn Beck. “What that means is we're going to tax people.”
But to avoid taking the working class, Mamdani is proposing what he always proposes: another “tax the rich” scheme.
There’s only one problem.
“You've already taxed [the rich] so much, and you've chased them out of your city!” exclaims Glenn.
“It happens every time. Socialism is neat until you run out of somebody else's money. They're running out of money. They're running out of the rich people to destroy. They're coming after you.”
Mamdani has also floated the idea of extending the timeline for the city to fully fund its pension obligations by pushing the deadline out to the 2040s.
“That's illegal!” Glenn laughs.
“Highly educated elites,” like Mamdani, he argues, are always the ones who “[start] these revolutions.”
“It's not the poor people. It's the highly educated elites who are like, ‘You know what? We have to help all these poor people. I mean, I don't want to touch them, but we have to help them,’” Glenn mocks.
The stats prove it.
Glenn’s executive producer, Rikki Ratliff-Fellman, points to a 2025 study from Skeptic Research Center that found that Americans with the highest levels of education (graduate or professional degree) are about twice as likely to support political violence than those with less formal education.
Glenn explains that this alarming trend has emerged because universities shifted from teaching “the Scriptures” to pushing “the philosophies of man.”
“And the philosophies of man are so rotted to the core now because there's no universal truth. There's no universal truth in science. They've made it so science is the exact opposite of faith and of God,” he laments.
“It’s nothing but nonstop arrogance.”
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Illegal alien allegedly sets fire and then watches as people die in agony — but NYC officials don't want ICE to have him
An illegal alien has been accused of intentionally starting a fire in New York City that left four people dead and seven others injured. Though an alleged mass murderer, he may yet dodge federal immigration authorities, thanks to NYC officials.
Around 11:43 a.m. on March 16, Roman Amatitla, a 38-year-old Mexican in the U.S. illegally, allegedly set fire to a three-story building in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens and then, according to the office of Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, stood by and "watched as the building burned."
'An act of mass murder.'
Firefighters discovered three deceased victims in the building: 49-year-old male Chengri Cui, 61-year-old female Shin Chie Ming, and Sihan Yang, a 3-year-old little girl. All three died from smoke inhalation, Katz's office said.
A fourth victim, 64-year-old male Hong Zhao, escaped the fire by jumping out of a window but sustained catastrophic injuries in the fall, including broken bones and head trauma. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to Katz's office.
Seven others — including two firefighters, who endured a terrifying sudden fall to the basement when a stairway collapsed beneath them — were also injured on account of the fire.
The steps that the suspect allegedly took just before setting the fire are bone-chilling. According to the report from Katz, Amatitla:
- entered and exited the targeted building multiple times that morning,
- urinated on the outside of it,
- crossed the street to the gas station and purchased one beer and stole another,
- asked the gas station clerk for a lighter, but since lighters were available only for purchase, settled for a book of matches, and then
- returned to the building, lit a piece of paper on fire, and placed the burning paper atop garbage near the stairwell.
As smoke began to billow out onto the street, Amatitla allegedly "stayed in the immediate area and watched the fire consume the building," Katz's office said. The DA characterized the deadly fire as "an act of mass murder."
Authorities believe that the suspect selected the building entirely at random, as he "had no known connection to the building or any of its occupants."
Amatitla has been charged with eight counts of murder in the second degree, arson in the first degree, two counts of assault in the second degree, and petit larceny.
Despite the severity of his alleged crimes, the Department of Homeland security claims that the NYC Department of Corrections has refused to honor a request to turn him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
"ICE ARREST DETAINER DENIED. On April 14, ICE requested the NYCDOC not release this monster from jail back into American communities. However, because of New York’s sanctuary politicians, the NYCDOC told ICE that they will REFUSE to cooperate," the DHS tweeted Friday afternoon along with an image of what appears to be the detainer request.
"This monster set fire to a building and watched as innocent people, including a three-year-old, burned to death. New York City sanctuary politicians REFUSE to cooperate with ICE and are choosing to RELEASE this MURDERER onto New York streets," DHS acting assistant secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
In a response to Blaze News, the DA's office sidestepped questions about the city's cooperation with federal authorities and said only that "the defendant is remanded and is due back in court on May 12."
An NYCDOC spokesperson told Blaze News: "The DOC processes ICE detainers consistent with local law, which defines the extent of our cooperation with federal immigration authorities."
A source familiar with the matter indicated that the NYCDOC notifies ICE about a defendant's possible release only if certain ICE warrants have been issued or the defendant has been convicted of a serious and/or violent crime within the last five years.
The DHS and the respective offices of Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) did not respond to a request for comment.
As of Monday morning, Amatitla remains in custody, NYCDOC records confirm. The jail records also note that an immigration detainer has been lodged against him.
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WATCH: Glenn Beck ruthlessly mocks Kathy Hochul for begging ex-New Yorkers to return and fund her social programs
As the state of New York continues to experience a mass exodus of its richest denizens, Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is getting desperate.
On March 11, during a Politico New York Agenda: Albany Summit, Hochul essentially admitted that the state is toast without the rich to sustain its costly social programs.
“I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state, right? Now there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Okay, cut me the checks. … But maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home, because our tax base has been eroded,” she said.
Glenn Beck was shocked by her brazen treatment of the wealthy as cash cows.
“Do you hear what she's saying there? I need people of high net worth because I need their money to do stuff in the state,” he scoffs.
Glenn says that the reason he doesn’t permanently move to Idaho, where his vacation home is located, is because of a single interaction he had with a Republican politician in the state.
“When I went to speak to some of the Republicans up in the House and the Senate in Idaho … a Republican came up to me and said … ‘We hope you [move here], because we want to add you to the tax base,”’ he recounts. “And I said, ‘You know what? You've guaranteed that I will never move to Idaho.”’
Similarly, ex-New Yorkers have zero incentive to return to the state. “If you live in the city, you're already taking an additional 12%, plus the state gets their [cut] as well, plus the federal government,” says Glenn, “so, you know, if you're making good money, you get to keep, like, I don't know, 40% of it.”
“Who doesn't want to live like that?” he asks sarcastically.
Glenn speculates that Hochul’s desperate pleading won’t produce the results she desires and neither will her proposal to implement an annual tax surcharge on luxury second homes in New York City that are valued at $5 million or more.
Announced on April 15, the new surcharge, which would be on top of regular property taxes, is designed to make ultra-wealthy non-residents who do not pay city or state income taxes "contribute their fair share" to city services so that New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) can close the city’s budget gap.
The choice is simple, says Glenn: “Pay none of that in Texas or Florida or Tennessee," or “go back [to New York] and pay all of that and then pay an extra if you have something that [Kathy Hochul] thinks is too much.”
“I'm so tempted to go back to New York right now. … I'm like, I don't know, should I live in Florida or should I maybe go back to New York City and help them build that supermarket?” he mocks.
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