Gov. Hochul has fallen and can’t get up.
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Hochul → fall → ?
Having already put her re-election campaign in the hands of Mayor Mamdani and his Socialist comrades, Hochul is now foolishly trying to rescue him from the fallout of his long trail of anti-semitic actions and words.
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Hochul → put → actions
Her effort to play the role of a helpful “Big Sister” to the young mayor isn’t helping Mamdani, who by all signs remains fully committed to demonizing and hating the Jewish state.
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who → play → state
Instead, Hochul’s gambit is succeeding spectacularly in confirming that she has only shape-shifting positions instead of genuine convictions.
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she → succeed → positions
Calling her a weathervane is unkind to weathervanes.
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Calling → call → weathervanes
After all, they do what they were designed to do.
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they → do → what
Hochul, on the other hand, was elected to govern the state in a sensible fashion that would stop the exodus of families, businesses and the wealthy, who have been fleeing the Vampire State in record numbers for years.
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who → elect → years
On that, she has failed miserably.
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she → fail → that
Instead of fixing the core problems of too much taxing and spending, she has stayed the destructive course and made the problems far worse.
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problems → fix → course
A fair reading of her record reveals that the key decisions she has made in those areas have plunged New York into an accelerating decline on her watch.
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she → reveal → watch
The state’s finances, stretched in part by her decision to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to Mamdani to curry favor with him and his radical base, are a growing concern among Wall Street rating agencies and investors.
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finances → stretch → agencies
The far left, as exemplified by Mamdani, has captured her and turned her into their eager and willing financier and water carrier.
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left → exemplify → financier
An obvious result is that her campaign for re-election is aimed largely at his followers, in the hopes they will repay the favors by turning out for her in November.
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they → aim → November
The latest revealing incident of the pattern involves a mere sideline event at the raucous opening session of the United Nations General Assembly last week.
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incident → involve → Assembly
But to those paying attention, the main takeaway is that the governor undercut her claim of being a strong supporter of Israel by showing that her stance is expendable when it could interfere with her Mamdani alliance.
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it → pay → alliance
The moment of truth unfolded when she awkwardly waded into a fight between Mamdani and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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she → unfold → Mamdani
By defending the mayor and calling Netanyahu a liar, she revealed what she values most.
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she → defend → what
That she did it, despite Mamdani’s long history of demonizing Israel as a genocide state and saying he opposes its existence as the Jewish homeland, underscores her willful blindness to the poison the mayor is spreading.
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mayor → demonize → poison
If that weren’t disqualifying enough, how could she possibly rush to defend him against Netanyahu after his spiteful bid to have the NYPD arrest the Israeli leader?
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NYPD → rush → leader
The fracas began before Netanyahu’s fiery Thursday address to the General Assembly.
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fracas → begin → Assembly
He had released a video in which he accused Mamdani of “supporting the Hamas terrorist monsters who butchered our people” on Oct. 7, 2023, and of “inciting riots against New York Jews.”
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who → release → Jews
Eventually, the mayor was forced to back down on the arrest issue by admitting what was obvious all along: the US doesn’t recognize the International Criminal Court, which had indicted Netanyahu for waging Israel’s war of self-defense in Gaza, and so there was no basis for the NYPD to execute the warrant.
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NYPD → force → warrant
Instead of apologizing, the mayor all but urged his fellow-travelers to turn out and protest Netanyahu’s visit and speech at the UN.
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mayor → apologize → UN
That is a clear example of what Mamdani cares about most and how his role as mayor of the whole city and its 8.5 million people takes a back seat when it comes to his obsessive hatred of Israel.
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it → care → Israel
Asked about Netanyahu’s sweeping accusations against Mamdani in a radio interview, Hochul declared that “I have enormous disagreements with Prime Minister Netanyahu — and this is added to the list,” she said, adding that Netanyahu is “not telling the truth.”
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Netanyahu → ask → truth
She insisted that “The mayor has not called for riots against Jewish people in this city, either.”
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mayor → insist → city
That was low-hanging fruit, but Hochul conveniently skipped the main focus of Netanyahu’s criticism, which was Mamdani’s virulent obsession with Israel.
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which → hang → Israel
The prime minister used part of his blistering address Thursday to unload directly on Mamdani.
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minister → use → Mamdani
His charges included the claim that “Jews no longer feel safe in New York” and that the mayor “falsely and repeatedly” accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza.
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mayor → include → Gaza
Netanyahu went on to say that, “Now it’s no wonder you praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas — you count as friends people like Hasan Piker, who said . . . America deserved 9/11.
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America → go → 9/11
Some friends you have.”
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you → have → friends
He added, “you tried to stop me from coming here.
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you → add → me
You tried to silence me.
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You → try → me
Well, you can’t silence me.
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you → silence → me
You can’t silence the truth.
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You → silence → truth
Israel didn’t commit genocide, Israel prevented genocide.”
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Israel → commit → genocide
As if to highlight his contempt for the prime minister and Israel, the mayor posted a video on X taken during the speech.
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mayor → highlight → speech
It showed him at Gracie Mansion with guests, his caption saying: “I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.
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I → show → Gaza
”
Let’s see him take that act on the road and try to sell it to Hamas and Iran
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him → see → Hamas
As for Hochul, her defense of Mamdani actually violates her own previous guidance to him.
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defense → violate → him
…and 6 more, not listed.
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