While Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is promising a world of exquisitely expensive "freebies" to the people of New York, he's apparently inflicting the most cartoonish version of the raw, unbridle boot of capitalism onto his supporters throats.
Unexpectedly:
Mamdani is under fire for charging people $13 per beer at his ‘victory party’.
— 🇺🇸 Pecan 🇺🇸 (@PecanC8) November 7, 2025
"I arrived thinking everything would be free, only to be charged $13 for a Bud Light. I was shocked after all the hard work I put in," one progressive campaign worker said.
This is gonna be fun! 🍿🤣 pic.twitter.com/RniVT5fdYg
Hey, an extra-special candidate required an extra-special victory party:
We’re at the beautiful and newly refurbished Brooklyn Paramount for Zohran Mamdani’s election night party. Cash bar with the venue’s standard fare and high prices. Just journalists so far - doors open for supporters at 9 pm. pic.twitter.com/RZlFquKHcI
— Jeff Coltin (@JCColtin) November 5, 2025
With extra special guests:
Leftist streamer/commentator Hasan Piker is here at the Mamdani election night party, surrounded by press. Cuomo attacked Mamdani relentlessly for appearing on his stream ahead of the primary, given Piker’s history of controversial comments. pic.twitter.com/3CGIsZoMtN
— Jeff Coltin (@JCColtin) November 5, 2025
But $13 for a (no doubt ironic) PBR?
Well, New York ain't cheap. Of course they're charging a lot for a beer...
...er...
While it’s not uncommon for campaigns to expect supporters to pay for their own booze, the Cuomo and Sliwa campaigns were more generous.
Cuomo’s viewing party was an open bar for supporters at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on West 54th Street even if the mood was dampened by the ex-governor’s loss.
Republican nominee Sliwa offered two free drinks tickets per attendee as they awaited the Election Day results at Arte Café, an upscale Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side.
After that, supporters coughed up their own cash for booze. But waiters passed around free fried calamari, meatballs, chicken parmesan and shrimp.
Given that bars and restaurants are about the only businesses for which coddled upper-crust leftists like Mamdani and Piker have any sort of emipathy, to say nothing of interaction with, I'm not sure if this says more about Mamdani, or his coddled, upper-middle-class, depressingly naive supporters:
Mamdani is facing backlash after attendees were charged $13 per beer at his “victory party.”
— Digital Gal 🌸 (@DigitalGal_X) November 8, 2025
“I showed up expecting everything to be free, only to get hit with a $13 charge for a Bud Light. After all the work I put in, I was stunned,” one progressive campaign staffer said.… pic.twitter.com/Q8SLsX5niU
The plot thickens.
— AmericanPapaBear™ (@AmericaPapaBear) November 8, 2025
Mamdani was charging people $13 per beer at his victory party the other night.
"Socialist by day, capitalist by night."
"You can't even have the decency to offer people an open bar!"
NOTHING about this guy is authentic.
Total wolf in sheep's clothing. pic.twitter.com/YfmJQG1tFh
Now, Schadenfreud is a bit of a sin - but on the other hand, one can rejoice that perhaps some dizzy young Marx-symp "progressives" might be learning from their mistakes. Unlikely as that seems.
Because even as they whinge about paying more for a macrobrew than most of us pay for a premium cocktail these days, the free market provides them alternatives:
Lol
— Gaston Mooney (@gastonmooney) May 21, 2023
7 cents a beer….and not a case sold. pic.twitter.com/5gLQ48H8dq
Of course, the true believers are sounding off as well:
$13 beer is nothing unusual in high-cost NYC. That’s precisely what Mamdani hopes to address.
— Rodney Proctor 🇺🇸🇺🇦🪖🖋️ (@rpwpb) November 8, 2025
I keep wanting to ask: what do you think is going to pay for the "Free" daycare and buses? For subsidizing all those "city run grocery stores"? What precisely do you think they're going to have to shove into the money pit that Mamdani is opening?
I'll wager a shiny new quarter that, assuming Mamdani can actually get any part of his agenda passed, that $13 PBR is going to sound like the "good old days" by the end of his first term.
