Image of the Day: All Hail the Great Proletarian Triumph Over the Oligarchy, Comrades!

Shot, in the No Oligarchs/Fight the Billionaires campaign on the Left:

Thank you, New York City.

Now let’s win. pic.twitter.com/3EL0X30UAh

— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) October 27, 2025

Chaser, nine days later:

So proud to be a New Yorker! The American dream continues!

Congrats, Mayor @ZohranKMamdani 🇺🇸🗽🌊 pic.twitter.com/nvR5Zb46TI

— Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) November 5, 2025

For those still unaware, Alex Soros is the scion of the George Soros empire. Two years ago, Soros père handed control of the $25 billion Soros Open Society Foundation to Soros fils. According to the Wall Street Journal, Alex controls the distribution of $1.5 billion in annual disbursements to influence government policies, not to mention the influence he applies to another American institution:

The 37-year-old, who goes by Alex, said in the first interview since his selection that he was broadening his father’s liberal aims—“We think alike,” the elder Soros said—while embracing some different causes. Those include voting and abortion rights, as well as gender equity. He plans to continue using the family’s deep pockets to back left-leaning U.S. politicians.

“I’m more political,” Alex said, compared with his father. He recently met with Biden administration officials, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and heads of state, including Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to advocate for issues related to the family foundation.

The Soros’s nonprofit Open Society Foundations, known as OSF, directs about $1.5 billion a year to groups such as those backing human rights around the world and helping build democracies. Foundation money also goes to universities and other educational organizations. The Soros super PAC, Democracy PAC, has backed the election campaigns of district attorneys and law-enforcement officials seeking to reduce incarceration rates and racial bias in the justice system, among the efforts that have riled the right.

Alex Soros is not just oligarch-adjacent. He practically fills the bill for a comic-book version of an oligarch. The Soros wealth, based on currency investments and political manipulation, has long infiltrated both politics and Academia for the purpose of controlling both. This is exactly what the Left screeches about in its "No Oligarchs" and "No Kings" campaigns, while embracing the very betes noires they claim to oppose. 

Walter Kirn called out the hypocrisy today, with a pointed reference to a famous warning from George Orwell:

This is the ending of Animal Farm.

The very ending.

Read it while you still can and you'll know what I mean. https://t.co/aXz7hSO5PO

— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) November 5, 2025

Allow me to present the ending, but please read the whole book -- while you still can, to echo Kirn:

Like all of Napoleon's speeches, it was short and to the point. He too, he said, was happy that the period of misunderstanding was at an end. For a long time there had been rumours-circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy - that there was something subversive and even revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues. They had been credited with attempting to stir up rebellion among the animals on neighbouring farms. Nothing could be further from the truth! Their sole wish, now and in the past, was to live at peace and in normal business relations with their neighbours. This farm which he had the honour to control, he added, was a co-operative enterprise. The title-deeds, which were in his own possession, were owned by the pigs jointly.

He did not believe, he said, that any of the old suspicions still lingered, but certain changes had been made recently in the routine of the farm which should have the effect of promoting confidence stiff further. Hitherto the animals on the farm had had a rather foolish custom of addressing one another as "Comrade." This was to be suppressed. There had also been a very strange custom, whose origin was unknown, of marching every Sunday morning past a boar's skull which was nailed to a post in the garden. This, too, would be suppressed, and the skull had already been buried. His visitors might have observed, too, the green flag which flew from the masthead. If so, they would perhaps have noted that the white hoof and horn with which it had previously been marked had now been removed. It would be a plain green flag from now onwards.

He had only one criticism, he said, to make of Mr. Pilkington's excellent and neighbourly speech. Mr. Pilkington had referred throughout to "Animal Farm." He could not of course know-for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it-that the name "Animal Farm" had been abolished. Henceforward the farm was to be known as "The Manor Farm"-which, he believed, was its correct and original name.

"Gentlemen," concluded Napoleon, "I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm! "

There was the same hearty cheering as before, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs. But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing? Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away.

But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.

Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

All oligarchs are equal, it seems, but some oligarchs are more equal than others. 

Editor’s Note: Zohran Mamdani is an avowed Democratic Socialist and has become the next mayor of New York City.

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