“Going after an unelected official [Zohran Mamdani] who said something back in 2020 when many people were — I mean, c’mon.” — Gov. Kathy Hochul, Tuesday
We say: Hochul was excusing Mamdani’s past anti-police smears, but (as usual) couldn’t have been more lame: She implied that it’s no big deal he called cops “racist” and a “threat to public safety,” because he didn’t hold public office at the time — never mind that he’s running for mayor now.
She pooh-poohed his vile slurs as just “he said something.” Something? He defamed cops! “Many people were” saying similar things.
Sorry, that only proves Mamdani is a principle-free opportunist. Not to mention, it wasn’t many people; just the left.
“We don’t censor anyone.” — UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Monday
We say: True, as social-media wags snarked, Britain’s government doesn’t “censor”; it lets you say whatever you want — then arrests you if it doesn’t like it.
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That’s what happened to Brits calling for mass deportations of illegal immigrants, a black woman using the N-word, even someone holding a sign saying, “Coercion is a crime” near an abortion clinic.
The Times of London reported 3,395 arrests for online speech alone just in 2016. And the crackdown has only grown since.
“[Trump’s tariffs are] going to be about potentially millions of people losing their jobs . . . savings . . . retirement security.” — Sen Elizabeth Warren, April 9
We say: Well that didn’t hold up well. Just four months after President Donald Trump rolled out his tariffs, the Commerce Department reported that GDP grew at a fine 3% clip in Q2.
Private-sector employment spiked by 104,000 jobs last month.
Yearly wages are up 4.4%, outpacing inflation.
Doomsayers like Warren actually predicted a recession, but there’s clearly none in sight.
We say: Schiff warns against “attacking” climate “science” but then shows precisely why it’s attacked: “Step outside and feel the heat,” he says, as if a hot summer day is proof climate change is a catastrophe already destroying humanity, and Dems’ economically suicidal green agenda is the only cure. Please.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board