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Foreign. Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Pod Force One. This feature is a little more topical and relevant to my job as a columnist for the New York Post today. The topic is New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani's short, toxic reign as encapsulated by his awkward presence at the funeral of an American hero, fallen soldier Angel Ampasad. Mamdani was unwelcome there, just as he is unwelcome at September 11 commemorations where he has vowed to impose his presence despite 911 families telling him to stay away. It took a lot of courage for the family of Angel Sarah Rampasad to refuse to allow Mayor Mamdani to speak at her funeral on Friday. The 28 year old US army staff sergeant from Queens was killed on July 17th in an Iranian missile attack on Mufawak Salti air base in Jordan where she was stationed as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Rampassad lost her life in a battle against the world's largest terrorist regime whose proxy Hamas, Mamdani tacitly supports. She gave her life for the country she loves and Maamdani clearly does not. Relegated to the fourth floor in the Calvary assembly of God church just half a mile from Rampassad's Ozone park home, New York's Islamo Marxist mayor was forced to endure a succession of Christian hymns and gospel songs as he reportedly fumed and fidgeted while waiting in vain to be called upon to give a speech. The family is more conservative and wanted to limit any political distractions, as a source involved in the funeral planning told the New York Post. Good move. We know Mamdani well enough after his seven benighted months as mayor to know that he would have delivered a speech slyly designed to divide and aimed not at the grieving mourners inside a church whose faith he disdains, but at an international audience of anti American Muslims and the like minded diaspora he cultivates at home. After the service, as NYPD cops carried Rampassad's flag draped coffin from the church and into a hearse for the blocks long police procession to her eventual resting place in Long Island, Mamdani stuck awkwardly in the shadows, his face clouded like a chastised schoolboy in the principal's office, he clasped his hands tightly together as he was ushered into the middle of the road road for a photo op in front of the honour guard that stood motionless and impassive. For a few moments he stood with his back to the congregation staring at the New York flag two inches from his face. It was only when his Democrat stablemates, Governor Kathy Hochul and AG Letitia James, joined him that he realised that he had to turn and face the crowd. Awkward, of course. Pakistani news service DRM News, one of the many sycophantic foreign news feeds that covers the Mayor's every move with breathless admiration, described their livestream as, quote, mamdani consoles the family of US soldier killed in Jordan, end quote. But there was no consolation from Mamdani. How could there be? With every ounce of his being, he demonstrates his contempt for America and all it stands for. He pretends he represents New York because he's struck it lucky in an election that split the Democrat vote. But it isn't taking long for New York to turn its back on him as he tries to enact impractical policies driven by envy and paid for by bailouts from Albany funded by New York's workers. What a humiliation for Mamdani to be in one of the most diverse neighbourhoods in the world and yet find he is an outsider. He should have been in his element in the Democrat working class heartland of Queens and even in the more conservative leaning Ozone park, which still voted for him by 23 points over Andrew Cuomo last year. These are his people, he keeps telling us. But in a neighborhood of white picket fences and American flags fluttering at half staff in honour of Rampasad, his revolutionary poison is not wanted. Like Mamdani, Rampasad was not born in this country. She came to America at the age of two with her family from Trinidad. But unlike Ugandan born Silver Spoon Mamdani, she grew up to be a patriot who wanted to serve her adopted country. Like so many other immigrants before her, her family was a proud military family. Her uncle served in the army and her brother in law served in the Marines, according to family friend and neighbour Carlos Garcia. Quote. She died for her country doing what she loved, he said. Before the funeral, her grieving mother stood outside her home where an American flag flew at half staff, as did flags on porches up and down the street, and addressed the crowd of reporters and well wishers and neighbo. She died for this country and I am a mother who's highly proud of her, said Carol Acevedo. Where Rampassad and her family and neighbors see America, Mamdani sees a collection of tribes. He emphasizes conflict and differences for political advantage and personal psychological catharsis. While New York has always been about success and cooperation, it was patriotic heroes like Angel Rampasad who gave their lives on September 11, 2001. Mamdani's hate flecked reign is an insult to them all. His capitalist bashing and Jew bashing comes from the same dark place that is anathema to the spirit of New York. His malicious publications of the names and addresses of New York property owners who he crows are subject to his new pied a terre tax was aimed at inspiring bloodlust from his Marx revolutionary comrades. Like the loathsome twitch streamer Hasan Piker who has said he wants the streets to quote soak in red capitalist blood, Mamdani is inviting professional squatters at best and wannabe Luigis at worst to prey on the so called rich. He poses as a principal defender of human rights and the downtrodden, when really he is just a zealot driven by hatred and bent on destruction. It's why the 911 families want him nowhere near September 11th commemorations. Of course, he insists on imposing himself nevertheless to make himself feel good by asserting his dominance over people he despises. Whether Mamdani is an aberration or a sign of things to come will become clearer after the next slew of Democrat primaries and the midterm election. Will Democrat voters put the brakes on Marxism Mamdani style, or will they allow the cancer to metastasize? The sacrifices of Rampassad and the 911 heroes will come to nothing if the Marxist revolutionary likes of Mamdani get their way. Thanks for listening. Don't forget to come back on Wednesday for a new episode of Podfors one. Hope you can tune in and have a great week. Sam.