Making Lemonade from Socialists

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Mamdani, I think, is probably going to end the city. Being an entrepreneur, I think that in five years we’ll go and pick up all the pieces at a very low price point.

Kevin Maloney
Founder and chief executive officer of Property Markets Group
November 5, 2025
Mamdani Won. South Florida Expects a Real Estate Bump. – The New York Times
And here: NYC’s Mamdani sparked $100M rush into Florida real estate as ‘nervous’ New Yorkers flee city, developer says. Is this the ‘end’ of the Big Apple?

Socialism is destructive. But some people can make money from destruction. Broken windows need to be fixed so invest in glass production if you are expecting widespread riots in the near future. Lemonade from lemons and all that.

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16 thoughts on “Making Lemonade from Socialists”

  2. “Mamdani Won. South Florida Expects a Real Estate Bump. – The New York Times”
    And having watched So. Oregon turn into a shithole because of shit-for-brains Californians moving in?
    So. Florida is in for a big bump in assholes voting for more NYC style filth.
    I saw a meme of DeSantis asking if Florida should charge New Yorkers a tariff to move there, or build a wall?
    Definitely a wall. With machine gun towers, mine field, and foo gas emplacements.
    The likes of which to make North Korea blush.
    Dear Ron, If they won’t fight to conserve New York. They won’t fight to save Florida either.

  3. That’s absurd. “end the city?” Give me a break. It’s just loose talk that means nothing.

    Dude wasn’t elected king, he doesn’t have the power to suddenly make NYC whatever he wants. At most he can push for policies in a socialist direction, but they still have a city council to push back, and a bureaucracy full of people who have their own motivations.

    It’ll be like Seattle, though less so since New Yorkers aren’t as empty-headed as Seattlites, and last I checked, Seattle was still here. More graffiti and homeless people, but doing fine otherwise. Average home price is now over 1 million. Doesn’t seem like a socialist hellscape to me.

    If we want to look at actual threats to the economy of any of these big cities let’s talk about AI. *That’s* an actual threat. But a socialist mayor (whether in NYC or Seattle)? Gimme a break.

    • Please explain what happened to Detroit.

      “End the city” is certainly exaggerating. The fire bombing of Dresden and Tokyo and nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not end them. But, the damage was not something to dismiss.

      • Well, it wasn’t socialism, that’s for sure.

        https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2013/09/15/how-detroit-went-broke-the-answers-may-surprise-you-and/77152028/

        I’m pretty sure Detroit took it in the shorts because American car makers didn’t bother to watch the Japanese and try to make a better product, and as a result got handed their head on a platter. And they still don’t…buying an American car is just asking for trouble, unless you get one designed in Japan and manufactured by a company managed by Japanese processes (even if made on U.S. soil).

        • Sorry buddy. My job for years was working 10-12 hours a day, to work myself out of a job.
          And just because you don’t have work. Don’t mean you can’t go find work. (And I always left my rentals clean and nice so I could get my deposit back, and a good reference.)
          Detroit could have been a nice clean city with a lot of cheap real estate. Right?
          But it ain’t.
          No, Detroit died because shiftless assholes were all that wanted to run and live in the place.
          And they did. Straight into the ground.
          Detroit isn’t the product of lack of work. It’s the product of shitty attitudes.
          Socialism is just what we call that attitude.
          And Joe’s right. It’s a meme about Detroit and Nagasaki. Pictures of both, before and after.
          Socialism is more destructive than nukes.
          Go look for yourself.

        • Read some of the articles about NUMMI, the mutual manufacturing facility of GM and Toyota. I got inside perspectives on that place. When GM closed the facility in the early 80’s, where I worked hired a girl that worked in the original GM plant. She had stories of the shenanigans the union workers engaged in.

          When Toyota took it over, they agreed to give the original workers first shot at applying for hire. I had a housemate that was hired as an engineer by Toyota, and he stated that they rehired ~ 1/3 of the original workforce. They weren’t really looking at talent, but attitude. They figured that they could be trained, but only if their attitude was not an obstacle to good workmanship.

          He said that he had similar issues with suppliers for the factory. They were making parts that were too delicate, not designed for real world situations. When he hammered a prototype hubcap onto a wheel using a rubber mallet, they freaked out when it broke. He had to point out that the mallet was a real world installation tool for that, and to redesign it.

          The Japanese got a good look at the problems of a labor union work force. It took decades for GM to copy Toyota’s manufacturing processes, but the legacy labor union costs is what bankrupted them.

    • Once again it comes back to where people flee to.
      I always liked New York. Because that was small corner of the country to sacrifice for the assholes that every society has to suffer.
      Same with most big cities.
      But city people move to get away from the double-extra-stupid-morons that got voted into place by the morons cities always breed….. Into nice places.
      Then f’in destroy those places too.
      Real-deal, watched it happen, live time.
      So, to recap. Commie-mami won’t destroy New York. (It was already gone.) But he will chase people away to good parts of the country.
      And that’s very bad.

    • Dude wasn’t elected king, he doesn’t have the power to suddenly make NYC whatever he wants.

      Hold up. You mean, elections don’t make kings? And elected officials don’t have unlimited power?

      Huh.

      I bet the “No Kings” folks feel real embarrassed right now, seeing as their “movement” doesn’t have a leg to stand on. (J/k, TDS has removed all sense of shame.)

    • Neither New York’s city council nor its bureaucracy are going to push back – they’re further left than he is.

  4. there are two kinds of people: people who regard their perception as reality, and people who take advantage of people who regard their perception as reality. The former who live in NYC will be fleeced by the latter.

  6. What is it that drew people to New York City in the first place? What is it that kept them there? Will Mandami – supported by the left-leaning city council – do more or less of the things that drove those two factors?

    I think two things are correct: Kevin Maloney is correct (although by the time Mandami, the cty council, and the residents are done there may not be much one would want to buy no matter how cheap it is), and Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina are under direct and immediate threat from refugee New Yorkers.

    Realtors will make bank, but they don’t care about how much societal corruption they’re supporting. Residents in those places will have to engage in pushback – and I mean severe pushback – against the “newcomers” or those areas will become a White Minneapolis in 5 years.

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