Disa, I didn’t take it as equating Israel with Iran. Frustration with both, yes. The “f” bomb? So he said it in public. You know that expletive is probably heard on a regular basis no matter who sits in the Oval Office.
We watched it three times. I will watch it again. My husband can’t stand Trump, and for the first time ever, after seeing the clip, said he actually liked Trump, “just a little bit.”
I agree- fascinating how people can watch the same clip and see different things!
As we learned yesterday our individual perspectives and life experiences color our comments, even when we largely agree. My two cents is Trump was just pissed the attacks hadn’t immediately stopped. As to the coarseness of public discourse, we’re drenched in a violent obscene culture and while President Reagan for example would never have used such language in public, the bar is so low for public figures in 2025 that to paraphrase Sir Charles Barkley “Presidents ain’t no role models”. Hopefully we won’t see Trump caught in a sting with a Scottsdale hooker 😳🤭
And after elected Dems and media prudes pearl clutched for years over Trump’s perceived crudeness and seeing that most voters didn’t give a steaming dump about it, they decided it was cool to swear on record. Hilarious.
I wouldn't ever believe anything Iran says. There will only be peace when they love their children more than they hate the West and want to dominate the world.
Trump said he believes Iran wants peace on the same day the Iranians are chanting Death to America yet again and committing to building a Nuke to threaten Israel and the west
I watched that clip several times. I understand why Trump was pissed off. At the same time I see his criticism of Israel as accomplishing something that is not obvious to me for one of this foreign policy alignments. I did not see his comment as equating islamic clerics to anyone in israel. I’m happy with Trump’s action and continue to take his words lightly.
He was mad at both countries for violating the ceasefire he had announced. They had betrayed and embarrassed him, albeit that his announcement might’ve been overly optimistic. I don’t see it as “equating” the countries in any other way. Everybody knows that Trump is a great friend of Israel’s - probably, among all other foreign leaders, Israel’s best friend. Don’t read too much into Trump’s fit of anger.
1. Cuomo -- why did the Dems run him when he had so much COVID baggage? Most voters have punished high profile transgressors when they have had the chance.
Political parties don't run people anymore -- it's a free for all. There were at least five other wannabes yesterday.
Just as in 2015 there were about 11-12 Republicans running in the GOP primary which Trump won. They all resembled one another more or less, and Trump didn't.
It’s a fine analogy, but with my ability to over complicate everything as I mused on your comment, I ended up with the 3 Body Problem and threw up my hands in despair!
I'm not sure that many individuals understand how imbecilic the dems truly are. And the proof of that is the millions who are still dems and vote for them. They have truly fallen off the cliff. NY is just the new CA. They're headed for total destruction...of their own making.
Hmm. I'm not sure I agree with that; somebody pulled Biden out of the dustbin of history (and shoved him back just as quickly when they elevated Kackles).
The DNC is the party of superdelegates, and I think that in their push to centralize power (the commie model), they've left the state races to fend for themselves.
No putting lipstick on that pig. Say what you will about Cuomo - and I find him disgusting - but only a full out, non-stop retard would vote for a socialist. NYC is a lunatic asylum.
It also shows the extent of capture within the Democratic party. It will be interesting if there are enough 'yellow dog' Democrats to vote the dyed in the wool socialist (I think state owned grocery stores are more communist) in or if you get an independent etc. As Labour has discovered in the UK, it wins when it tacks centre, not to the left.
It Is Said that eastern Europeans and Russians (plenty of both in NYC!) when interviewed rejected Mr Mamdani -- they've experienced State Stores and want no part of them. As one wag put it, "Ya want an actual grocer or City Hall picking your produce?"
It depends on if they were registered Democrats doesn't it? It is only registered Democrats who take part in the primary and usually it is not a great turnout. Thus far, there seems to be plenty who are willing to outsource their choice of candidate to the system and still vote straight down the ticket.
I wonder how many illegal aliens (I'll say it, unblinkingly) voted. I never wanted to live in San Francisco or Los Angeles, but I USED to enjoy visiting there. My last trips, I decided, were my last there until they change a few things.
If things keep going this way I'll just add NYC to that list. I kind of like visiting there, never got the appeal of living there but to each his own, but I would imagine it will be off my list of places to visit.
I haven't been since before COVID, though, so I may not have any idea what it looks like today.
I don’t think anyone ran cuomo but himself. Then faced with commie nut baggery combined with Muslim Jew hatred, the old guard of the party endorsed him.
So now it looks like commie Muslim nut baggery will prevail to the general and then people either need to wake up or watch the city become a third world country.
Correct. Mamdani is the perfect combination of buffoon left wing marxists and moron islamic miscreants. What a marriage. NY is already near a third world country.
I read earlier that Bloomberg was the big money man by funding Cuomo’s campaign with $25 million. I assume Cuomo is still sitting on a chunk of that cash.
But all bets are off if Cuomo also runs as an ‘independent’. If that occurs, NYC will have 3 different shades of D’s running.
Mamdani is the most dangerous though. He is a standing member of the Democrat Socialist of America. I think he’s still for defunding the police. Ranked voting allowed this. So did the D party thrusting the ghost of Cuomo (sex scandals, Covid disaster) onto voters.
And this is the Telegraph on the SiP report -- they homed in children's publishing and the number of trans book aimed at children (complete with sparkles) https://archive.ph/nM0O7
I was struck by this quote from the original 'Jazz' book: "didn’t feel like herself in boy’s clothing." That seems like a sign of other psychological issues, not gender confusion. I feel 'like myself' regardless of what I'm wearing. My comfort (or lack therefore) with any given item of clothing is entirely dependent on fabric and cut, not on stereotypes. The uniform shirt I've worn to work for the last 10 years is, of necessity (due to my wide shoulders and long torso) a 'male' uniform. I don't feel 'less like a woman' in it.
Yesterday my husband, who is starting to write fantasy stories himself, asked me if I ever planned to start writing (fiction) again. I told him that I had decided several years ago that the Cancel situation in publishing had convinced me that it was not worth my time and effort. The original novels I've started (but never yet finished) are not even remotely 'acceptable' by Woke standards, and I have no desire to change them to be.
My sentiments exactly. I got on a kick of free short story/essay contest submissions a couple of years ago. The hoops I had to jump thru were ridiculous (imo). I did have a couple of small successes but mostly rejections and it was a helluva lot of work for very little reward. Not trying to make money per se, but even just trying to put your voice out there is pretty difficult these days.
It’s pretty nuts that D’s tried to run Cuomo. I think they did so because the party ‘bench’ of moderates is completely empty AND there isn’t any D ‘leadership’ anymore. It’s now becoming a free for all. We’re back to 2020 when the D party sidelined Bernie (see South Carolina). But now D’s no longer have power to do this. Michael Bloomberg gave Cuomo $25M for his primary campaign. Eric Adams smartly jumped off the crazy train. Can look around country and see more prominent D’s also bucking the party. That said, don’t know what’s in the water up in Alaska that has Murkowski pondering a move to the D party.
I just had the same thought, though I feel I shouldn’t have. It’s the old “if I had a time machine would I go back to 1932 and smash Hitler over the head at the Hofbrau Haus with one of those giant steins?” YesI I would 😔
Yes. Democrats were all in on finding one fingernail of one skeleton in the closet of any possible No Labels candidate. In normal times, his political views alone would have taken him out. Bernie Sanders is gloating today.
I believe it's it is closed; one of my cousins wanted to vote against him but couldn't because he declined to state party affiliation. He'll vote for Adams in the general election.
NY is becoming like CA with regards to elections. The results are very suspicious. It really is hard to believe Mamdani can win a primary like this. But as we all know, elections in these two places are run by democrats, and there you have the problem.
We’d have to deport them off the planet!🤣. Or as Matt Taibbi suggested for enemies of the First Amendment, put them all in a rocket and blast them into the sun.
They’re playing the long game. A simple term lefties have no comprehension of. Hasty bandaid solutions and flowery but muddled rhetoric are their answer to crises. It’ll take the well armed and willing right to deal with the problem.
I harken back to Michael Corleone sending his consigliere and brother Tom to Vegas when things got dangerous with the other 4 families back East. “I need a war time consigliere” he explained and chose his father Don Vito to take over Tom’s role.
America chose Don Trump to handle things and sent Dim Joe to his imaginary Vegas. We are seeing significant changes around the globe as a result.
Contact your reps, we need to get the Muslim Brotherhood listed as a terrorist organization. Both CAIR and the organization that certifies halal in North America have direct links to MB. Read Azra Noomani's Woke Army. MB is all over the US and has been for decades.
I agree wholeheartedly. I tell folks that Egypt banned them and that does seem to insert a little wedge into the conversation. And thanks for the book recommend.
I dont read those terrorist lists much, but I would have assumed the Muslim Brotherhood would have been listed by the US as a terrorist organization long ago. They are literal terrorists, and are one of the allies of the Ayatollah.
It is insane that they are not a recognized terror group in the US. I will keep recommending Woke Army until everyone has read it! The level of infiltration and organization these people have is shocking.
Illegals. Someone please prove me wrong, it would make my day. But until I get convinced I am going to believe that outlier elections like this are swung due to poor, or unenforced, voting laws.
you know, generally, it really is the people and not some rigging. "Free" , "work less" , "its not your fault blame a 3rd party and gov will help you with our lovely wasteful policies" is music to more peoples ears than we are willing to admit.
I visited Tampa/St Pete a few years ago, when downtown Seattle and Portland were swamped with the blue tarps, shopping carts, and filth associated with the “homeless” (things have gotten somewhat better since). In Tampa? Not a blue tarp in sight. I really liked the area.
On the other hand, those pesky hurricanes and the occasional gator ….
Also check out northeast FL, Mark. Fernandina Beach/Amelia Island, Jacksonville, St. Augustine all seem very sane to me. More like South GA, if you like that vibe.
Consider western NC. We are red but the commies from Trashville keep invading. Begging all my sane friends to come here and out populate them. It’s truly beautiful here.
This is a fund raising appeal from Love for the Least. A missionary organization run by an Episcopal priest. He and his wife has been doing this for 20 years. I think it is interesting because it explains a possible path of regime change in Iran.
It's one thing to win an election on charm, charisma, and talking big. Wait till he has to actually govern. NYC is full of conflicting special interests and regulatory roadblocks in every direction. I'm dismayed but not really that concerned. NYC politicians can never get much done because of the bloated bureaucracy and way too many egos. It takes someone who knows how to wield power like Giuliani back in the days or a corporate titan like Bloomberg.
What spells real doom to me is the NYC voters put that shit bag Alvin Bragg back in office over someone more centrist.
It can but I had another in mind. I just love academics and so called journalists who throw around words like colonialism and oppression and fail to ( by design or ignorance) fail to point out the greatest perpetrators.
I’m still stuck on figuring out what you had in mind. So many countries and religions and people accused of colonialism, so little understanding of what colonialism is, or was, or what it’s morphing into? As with “fascism”, our shared language is has been infected with dog whistles decodable by only those in the know.
Yup. Just like Muhammad and his Muslim followers colonized the entire Middle East, North Africa, Spain and parts of India. At least they were stopped at Vienna and Tours.
Islam exemplifies colonialism. The 7th and 12th Century expansions a long with Europe & Canada today. Islam is the biggest colonial power in the history of mankind.
I don’t believe the election is somehow rigged. The truth is much sober: the results show the dense brain fog that has descended on New Yorkers. It is an indication of the irreversible effect of the left propaganda. Half of the country in blue states and cities is no better. All New Yorkers had to do is look around and try to remember years of prosperity and safety under Giuliani and Bloomberg. But they are brain dead. That’s my diagnosis and I stick to it.
I think you're right. I look at friends and family members who used to be rational people and see how they've been captured by Leftist propaganda, to the point that they no longer even perceive it as propaganda.
I continue to be horrified and yet also fascinated that so many women - educated women - have aligned themselves with forces that want to take every imaginable thing from them.
AP - not just women. The self destructing tendency is wide spread: Jews voting for a Jihadist who refuses to say Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state; women allowing mutilation of their children; sport fans who want to see men winning in women’s competition; and just otherwise “normal” hard working people who all of a sudden decided they prefer to see the law enforcement diminished, police replaced with social workers, borders left wide open, and taxes increased to support even more of government provided welfare. It is like people make choices that harm them rather than benefit. I trace it back to the mass psychosis of COVID era, riots, TDS and most recently events in the Middle East. Was it all triggered by isolation during pandemics? Hatred of Trump? Oct 7? And this suicidal self destruction seems to be accelerating.
Even if there is some fraud, I doubt it was illegals’ votes who brought victory to Mamdani. The truth is much more frightening when the majority of citizens vote for a socialist and antisemite.
The union at The New School emailed nudges to vote for Mamdani. So what little tax dollars are available after the wealthy flee the city will go to transgender surgeries.
But hey, those who voted Mamdani are the same Useful Idiots who cried "defund the police" with straight faces.
These people are utterly focused on themselves, and not on the effects of their causes.
The president of the union at TNS is a delusional ideologue with whom I have spent a significant amount of time.
Years ago, she told me that men and women are the same. Nothing, but nothing, distinguishes one from the other.
What about testosterone? I asked.
She claimed that testosterone does not wield the effects that I said it does.
Then she proclaimed that being a female who feels male should be given testosterone.
That's about the only way to deal with it. I just refuse to talk to those people. They have the brain of an amoeba. And the worst thing is that they LOVE to display their sheer stupidity to anyone who will listen..
Good Morning Underdog did you teach there? I read poetry there once in a large upstairs room. I was on sabbatical in NYC and was on a white whale hunt to meet Christopher Hitchens, which didn’t happen that night but finally did at one of HIS public library readings where we shook hands, visited briefly, and he signed one of his books for me.
Oh, how I wish that Christopher Hitchens was still alive and we could enjoy his erudite commentary on world affairs. He was brilliant and such a great debater. I didn't like his atheist hobby horse but he was spot on about islamofascism.
I guess the oh-so-smart Mamdani voters didn’t or couldn’t read Mondays WSJ piece on the impact of LA’s $30/hour wage on hoteliers. Ganbatte, New York. Luck may be the last life boat on the Titanic.
Wondering how this happened? Maybe illegals. More likely ranked choice voting. It’s the handiwork of the satanic left, and far more efficacious than handing a ballot over to your Tren de Aragua neighbor. It doesn’t require free housing or EBT cards. And it exudes “democratic values.” Shoot, what can be more red, white, and blue than giving the average low-information dunderhead five chances “to get it right”? Anyone who thinks RCV will lower the political temps and give us moderate candidates we can all rally around better open their eyes. Mamdani is your future.
Attending union meetings at the New School was an exercise in feminine emotions run amok. The president of the union promoted Mamdani. During the faculty strike in 2022, which was protracted for weeks over health insurance, the elders presented their research. TNS's offer bested the market by a longshot.
The union president responded: But we're a FAMILY! And you don't treat your FAMILY like that!
RCV is how Maine’s Bruce Poliquin of Maine’s conservative Second District won — hands down — the 2018 Congressional race, but went home the loser. He garnered more than two thousand more votes than Democrat Jared Golden. Thanks to RCV 10,000 votes were transferred to Golden, giving him the win.
You wonder? Talk to a New Yorker. Like talking to a space alien. They don't think, act or talk like normal people. And, mind you, I'm not talking about the working class in the outer boroughs. They are sane and live normal lives like the rest of us. But the self-adoring elites, the cafe society, the doyennes in the salons are all bat shit crazy.
Reminds me of a white Gen Z or thereabouts female I saw at the park in Bed-Stuy wearing a pink T-shirt that said something like 'I would much rather be with an immigrant than a white racist.'
That was her Monday shirt. Tuesday's shirt said: Proud of My Abortion.
Not hard to see why he won. Just look at the alternatives. All the antisemitic Marxist had to do was to act cool on TikTok, and suddenly he looks like a breath of fresh air. Plus, to give him credit, he was the only one out on the streets talking to people. It's the same thing Trump did that won over Bronx voters. Fact is, in NYC, politicians are never seen out there working for their votes. When someone actually comes down to their level, they lap it up like puppies grateful for scraps.
I feel I went a bit overboard yesterday on posts as I’d been gone almost a week so I’ll just say the discussion epitomized why The Purple Gang is such a special online community. Excellent intellectual discourse focused mostly on the ideas with no trolling and people sharing revealing personal anecdotes in a respectful manner.
Unfortunately, I had to go all the way to Iowa City for a dr appt yesterday (we have a serious shortage of dermatologists in this area), so I didn't get to finish reading comments or responding yet.
Yup, it's all good. I just have an intractable (but fortunately localized) rash that has foiled my regular doctor's efforts to diagnose and treat. Nothing scary, just irritating (literally). If a two-week course of two new creams doesn't do the trick, my new dermo is planning to investigate more.
I cannot believe the City where 2,977 people were killed, thousands more injured and first responder health issues are ongoing would select THIS troubled individual to represent the Democratic Party as Mayoral candidate. I cannot believe the City where Muslims wanted to build a Mosque on the site of the terror attack would elect this to run for Mayor. I cannot believe the aging rage against the machine activists will vote for a Republican. I'm glad I got to see NYC and the boroughs before it became a third world haven for the most depraved criminals, setting people on fire, having sex with a corpse in public and prosecuting a man who tried to help people.
It’s good on many levels but also brings back the pain of that morning, people leaping to their deaths, planes full of innocents turned into cruise missiles, first responders crushed in heroic sacrifice . . . the meme is ironic, powerful, and frankly, awful. It’s not clear that it will have the intended effect based on the comments I read. In a cost/benefit analysis it’s likely not going to show a return.
Thank you for that. she did nail it. I don't hold all Muslims accountable for 9/11(well, kinda, privately, in my heart) but I hold them accountable for the insensitivity, arrogance and selfishness afterward and to this day.
At the time of 9/11, one of our oldest son's best friends was the son of a Muslim family who lived in the apartment building up the road. I assume they were there to study at the university.
After 9/11, they wouldn't allow our son (who was 11 at the time) to come over to play anymore. (Note that they had never allowed their son to come play at our house.) As much I was trying to 'not blame all Muslims,' I had to wonder (only privately; I never said it out loud) why our son was no longer welcome. Surely they didn't think they were in danger of a hate crime from an 11-year-old who was friends with their son? Or were they afraid of what he might hear or see in their home that would show they weren't actually 'innocent Muslims' after all?
Yes, all of that. But history was still erased. Under the Dome of the Rock is the most important archeological site on the planet. But it cannot be disturbed because a band of Arabian Bedouins came conquering 700 years after the destruction of the Second Temple and built their shrine on top.
but Brian, what do you mean? The Palestians werent there first???? Thats what a million twitter bots have been telling me so it must be true. what is this strange implication that the land was conquered by an invading force of Arabs who then decided it was their holy city?
Yes, but if I my foil hat is working properly, this administration has the goods on old Alvin. He won't be grandstanding anymore. Best candidate, a Dem brought to heal by his own corruption, easily controlled.
OK one thing eclipses all else. New York City nominated an effing socialist for mayor. Socialism. An economic/political system that has never worked and cannot work because it is inimical to human nature. A city of fools, morons and clowns. Nothing else to say.
He's not a socialist. He's an Islamist-Facist-Communist caliphate agent who simply identifies as a socialist so that the mentally-challenged virtue-signalers will make sure he gets elected. God help us all!
How long are mayoralty terms in NYC? It will be interesting to see how people like his first time at bat. All the comments above are spot on: no one likes government cheese, and that's what they're going to get for a while.
I read that too but not sure how strong he is as a candidate. Also maybe Adams as an independent. But why only these two. There’s got to be better choices or more choices than this
Adams is running as an independent and he may be NYC’s last hope before total collapse. As the saying goes, Adams may be a crook but at least he’s our crook now!
Actually, there are times you need a strong asshole in the White House. Now we have one, and he gets a lot of things done that have needed to be done for years. I didn't vote for him to come to dinner at my house; I voted for him to do a set of tasks. So far, he's doing a great job.
I agree 2000% Joe. One of my liberal friends back in the 2020 election stated that she would prefer dinner with Biden over Trump. How foolish. I think dinner with Trump would be fascinating. But I still want him as my asshole.
Never expected to be rooting for Adams this fall. In that contest, I wouldn't completely cut Sliwa out as he's got name recognition in the city and might appeal to people once more of them start paying attention to the communist and if some shocking crimes occur over the summer. Some of us still remember him from the Guardian Angel days and he's going to play into that the more the other guy talks defund the police.
It doesn't matter WHO runs against the Democrat! This just reinforces my political philosophy that "People are stupid, and vote for people and things that are contrary to their own self interests, because it FEELS good."
I sometimes check the AP news website, just to scan their headlines. Today's winner was something about "The Emotional Toll of Climate Change on Young People." My first laugh was figuring how to gage the change over a short period of time "Young People" denotes. The next laugh was that article's accompanying photo and caption of a mother consoling a weeping son (looking more girl) in front of their burnt down Alta Dena, CA home. The writers and editors of this stuff are real people? They must think everybody is as nuts as they are.
I can't believe they are still saying that the devastation was caused by "climate change" ...... not lack of water in the reservoir .... lack of water to the hydrants ..... lack of brush/forestry control ..... lack of firefighters fit for firefighting!
I think they blame the bullet barely missing Trump on climate change. I always had the fleeting thought "Climate Change" might be caused by the climate.
Since kids are not taught to think and are strongly encouraged to just do as the party commands, yes. They have no idea there's another POV on "climate change."
A climatologist has posted a chart on FB (can’t find it anymore or I’d link it) showing temperatures measured in Florida over more than 100 years. It showed that 7 of the 9 highest days on record came before 1940; the 30’s were a warm decade. Only one of the highest 15 recorded temps was in the past decade. The overall daily average was up slightly , but he attributes that to higher nighttime temps due to urbanization.
The meteorologist on the radio said that the highest temps recorded for Ohio were in 1914 and 1930 ... as we are experiencing a heat wave .... not near the top historical temps of almost 100 years ago!
I track LA's temperature because my daughter still lives there. For two years they've barely had any days with the temp over 80. Today even, in the Valley, it's not getting over 80, the basin, high 74.
On the averages, there are also more measuring stations now than 100 years ago and more precise instruments. And yes, the urbanization effect is an issue with temperature, especially, if instruments are close to buildings or pavement (e.g., an airport runway).
It always bothers me that Warmists ignore the issue of urbanization when it comes to temperatures. As a gardener, I am aware of the issue of 'microclimates' even within the small space of a house's lot. Concrete and stone absorb and concentrate heat. This is a problem that makes green spaces in cities all the more important, to prevent them from becoming hopeless heat islands.
You can't site weather instruments in the same place over time while construction around the site changes and still expect to get scientifically comparable readings. They need to be placed in the same conditions that were prevailing earlier if you want to get scientifically meaningful numbers over time.
I’ve seen the emotional impact “climate change” propagandists have had on young people first hand. It’s pretty fucked up that such propaganda can affect people that way, but it can and does.
Very true statement. I've seen it in my family. But I will say this...even the closest person to me has FINALLY seen the light and admitted that 'climate change' is a HOAX.
I grew up in Bakersfield, CA - late ‘50s to mid ‘70s. Summers were always mostly 100+, hit 115 degrees more than once. Schools let out the first week of June and didn’t resume until after Labor Day because no one could concentrate in the heat.
If kids could sneak out with an egg, they’d fry it on the sidewalk (one of my more memorable and well-deserved spankings). “Hot” didn’t describe it.
After I moved away, Bakersfield cooled down a bit. For some time, summers were bearable. I began to think it was me.
Then, a little over ten years ago, heat made a comeback. “Climate Change!” the local media screamed. “Yeah, right,” murmured the old-timers.
Good news here in Cincinnati! Just saw the Channel 12 piece about UC.
The statement from UC is pitiful, but they are doing away with the central equity and inclusion center plus the four other identity centers (LGB, AA, women and who knows?). 🎉
POTUS Trump cursed ( f* CK) and lost his temper yesterday to the Press regarding The ceasefire between Iran Ana Israel.
He actually equated The savage mullah regime in Tehran to regal Israel .
It was an awful ugly moment
Not true.
What’s not true?
I watched it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. Trump was pissed that after an agree to ceasefire, bombs were still flying.
Disa, I didn’t take it as equating Israel with Iran. Frustration with both, yes. The “f” bomb? So he said it in public. You know that expletive is probably heard on a regular basis no matter who sits in the Oval Office.
I heard it too
It was an ugly moment- unpresidential.
He did equate the two
I stand by my statement
It is fascinating how people can watch the same clip and see different things
We watched it three times. I will watch it again. My husband can’t stand Trump, and for the first time ever, after seeing the clip, said he actually liked Trump, “just a little bit.”
I agree- fascinating how people can watch the same clip and see different things!
As we learned yesterday our individual perspectives and life experiences color our comments, even when we largely agree. My two cents is Trump was just pissed the attacks hadn’t immediately stopped. As to the coarseness of public discourse, we’re drenched in a violent obscene culture and while President Reagan for example would never have used such language in public, the bar is so low for public figures in 2025 that to paraphrase Sir Charles Barkley “Presidents ain’t no role models”. Hopefully we won’t see Trump caught in a sting with a Scottsdale hooker 😳🤭
I didn't watch a clip. Maybe that's the difference?
I watched it way too many times. I found it calming.
And after elected Dems and media prudes pearl clutched for years over Trump’s perceived crudeness and seeing that most voters didn’t give a steaming dump about it, they decided it was cool to swear on record. Hilarious.
It shows what the gift of a plane from Qatar can do...
Also I suspect Xi leant on him.
🤣🤣🤣
Xi wanted to purchase oil from Iran, which is now a green light after the bombings.
That’s how Trump got Xi to stand down so the US could attack the nukes.
Right ... and not retaliate by closing the Strait of Hormuz (sp?)
Yes. The ships going to China go through the Straits.
From the wonderful Christian Reverend Dumisani Washington on X
https://x.com/dumisanitemsgen/status/1937831393729372491?s=46
Reporter: Do you believe that (the Iranian regime) is still committed to peace?
Trump: Yeah. I do.
Iran’s parliament enthusiastically chants “Death to America…Death to Israel” after today’s vote to suspend cooperation with the IAEA.
This is what peace looks like
I wouldn't ever believe anything Iran says. There will only be peace when they love their children more than they hate the West and want to dominate the world.
Trump said he believes Iran wants peace on the same day the Iranians are chanting Death to America yet again and committing to building a Nuke to threaten Israel and the west
Trump was awful yesterday
I watched that clip several times. I understand why Trump was pissed off. At the same time I see his criticism of Israel as accomplishing something that is not obvious to me for one of this foreign policy alignments. I did not see his comment as equating islamic clerics to anyone in israel. I’m happy with Trump’s action and continue to take his words lightly.
That is a lesson I think we're forgetting here--what Trump says is often ridiculous. I pay more attention to what he does.
Yes, watch his actions.
Good reminder.
Too many eligible voters prefer words rather than action.
He was mad at both countries for violating the ceasefire he had announced. They had betrayed and embarrassed him, albeit that his announcement might’ve been overly optimistic. I don’t see it as “equating” the countries in any other way. Everybody knows that Trump is a great friend of Israel’s - probably, among all other foreign leaders, Israel’s best friend. Don’t read too much into Trump’s fit of anger.
Yup, he was just pissed.
We don’t know what the back channels were in getting to this deal.
How dan we criticize him without knowing the process and agreements.
He was one of several working the phones I would guess as well.
A couple of things:
1. Cuomo -- why did the Dems run him when he had so much COVID baggage? Most voters have punished high profile transgressors when they have had the chance.
2. SEEN in Publishing and Sex Matters have published a report into the silencing of GC authors. Most trans books have tanked despite the high profile marketing campaigns btw. https://sex-matters.org/posts/publications/everyday-cancellation-in-publishing/
Political parties don't run people anymore -- it's a free for all. There were at least five other wannabes yesterday.
Just as in 2015 there were about 11-12 Republicans running in the GOP primary which Trump won. They all resembled one another more or less, and Trump didn't.
Fair enough. But I am surprised that the Cuomo donors didn't see the danger and decide to back someone else.
Maybe they pushed him to do it so that he would fail miserably and kill his plan to run for president in 2028. Or maybe they are as stupid as he is.
Or the Law of Inertia applies outside of Newtonian Physics. (It does!)
It’s a fine analogy, but with my ability to over complicate everything as I mused on your comment, I ended up with the 3 Body Problem and threw up my hands in despair!
I'm not sure how gramps pulled the D and dad pulled the D and I'm gonna pull the D goes three-body. Now RCV, fer sher!
I'm not sure that many individuals understand how imbecilic the dems truly are. And the proof of that is the millions who are still dems and vote for them. They have truly fallen off the cliff. NY is just the new CA. They're headed for total destruction...of their own making.
Who else would they have chosen to back? This was the democrat primary chock full of communists
Hmm. I'm not sure I agree with that; somebody pulled Biden out of the dustbin of history (and shoved him back just as quickly when they elevated Kackles).
The DNC is the party of superdelegates, and I think that in their push to centralize power (the commie model), they've left the state races to fend for themselves.
No putting lipstick on that pig. Say what you will about Cuomo - and I find him disgusting - but only a full out, non-stop retard would vote for a socialist. NYC is a lunatic asylum.
It also shows the extent of capture within the Democratic party. It will be interesting if there are enough 'yellow dog' Democrats to vote the dyed in the wool socialist (I think state owned grocery stores are more communist) in or if you get an independent etc. As Labour has discovered in the UK, it wins when it tacks centre, not to the left.
It Is Said that eastern Europeans and Russians (plenty of both in NYC!) when interviewed rejected Mr Mamdani -- they've experienced State Stores and want no part of them. As one wag put it, "Ya want an actual grocer or City Hall picking your produce?"
It depends on if they were registered Democrats doesn't it? It is only registered Democrats who take part in the primary and usually it is not a great turnout. Thus far, there seems to be plenty who are willing to outsource their choice of candidate to the system and still vote straight down the ticket.
My outsider's take is that turnout -- lack thereof -- is the root of all evil City-electionwise.
I wonder how many illegal aliens (I'll say it, unblinkingly) voted. I never wanted to live in San Francisco or Los Angeles, but I USED to enjoy visiting there. My last trips, I decided, were my last there until they change a few things.
If things keep going this way I'll just add NYC to that list. I kind of like visiting there, never got the appeal of living there but to each his own, but I would imagine it will be off my list of places to visit.
I haven't been since before COVID, though, so I may not have any idea what it looks like today.
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I don’t think anyone ran cuomo but himself. Then faced with commie nut baggery combined with Muslim Jew hatred, the old guard of the party endorsed him.
So now it looks like commie Muslim nut baggery will prevail to the general and then people either need to wake up or watch the city become a third world country.
Correct. Mamdani is the perfect combination of buffoon left wing marxists and moron islamic miscreants. What a marriage. NY is already near a third world country.
I read earlier that Bloomberg was the big money man by funding Cuomo’s campaign with $25 million. I assume Cuomo is still sitting on a chunk of that cash.
I think the D’s nominating Mamdani just means that ‘independent’ Eric Adams wins Mayor again.
I suspect you are right. He certainly has a decent shot at it.
But all bets are off if Cuomo also runs as an ‘independent’. If that occurs, NYC will have 3 different shades of D’s running.
Mamdani is the most dangerous though. He is a standing member of the Democrat Socialist of America. I think he’s still for defunding the police. Ranked voting allowed this. So did the D party thrusting the ghost of Cuomo (sex scandals, Covid disaster) onto voters.
This is the scenario I imagine too. Sliwa, Cuomo, and Adams will split any semblance of a sane vote, and Mamdani will come in.
Who can make a call to Cuomo and tell him not to do it? Trump? Maybe Andrew is smart enough on his own not to run.
I don’t like the idea of Mandani winning, but appreciate your comment.
Just arrived in NYC and it seems more over run with weirdos than usual. Maybe it’s just the heat. Or normal people are away somewhere.
P.s. When did Boomer women start dying pink, purple or blue patches into their hair? Old enough to know better, one would think.
I really hope Adams wins. I think he may be the only hope for NYC.
I hope so.
And this is the Telegraph on the SiP report -- they homed in children's publishing and the number of trans book aimed at children (complete with sparkles) https://archive.ph/nM0O7
I was struck by this quote from the original 'Jazz' book: "didn’t feel like herself in boy’s clothing." That seems like a sign of other psychological issues, not gender confusion. I feel 'like myself' regardless of what I'm wearing. My comfort (or lack therefore) with any given item of clothing is entirely dependent on fabric and cut, not on stereotypes. The uniform shirt I've worn to work for the last 10 years is, of necessity (due to my wide shoulders and long torso) a 'male' uniform. I don't feel 'less like a woman' in it.
Yesterday my husband, who is starting to write fantasy stories himself, asked me if I ever planned to start writing (fiction) again. I told him that I had decided several years ago that the Cancel situation in publishing had convinced me that it was not worth my time and effort. The original novels I've started (but never yet finished) are not even remotely 'acceptable' by Woke standards, and I have no desire to change them to be.
My sentiments exactly. I got on a kick of free short story/essay contest submissions a couple of years ago. The hoops I had to jump thru were ridiculous (imo). I did have a couple of small successes but mostly rejections and it was a helluva lot of work for very little reward. Not trying to make money per se, but even just trying to put your voice out there is pretty difficult these days.
It’s pretty nuts that D’s tried to run Cuomo. I think they did so because the party ‘bench’ of moderates is completely empty AND there isn’t any D ‘leadership’ anymore. It’s now becoming a free for all. We’re back to 2020 when the D party sidelined Bernie (see South Carolina). But now D’s no longer have power to do this. Michael Bloomberg gave Cuomo $25M for his primary campaign. Eric Adams smartly jumped off the crazy train. Can look around country and see more prominent D’s also bucking the party. That said, don’t know what’s in the water up in Alaska that has Murkowski pondering a move to the D party.
Maybe she fears being replaced by a more traditional Republican?
The D party would be her only option.
The Shia Muslim communist who has only been a US citizen for less than a decade won the Dem primary in NYC - God help us all.
From @Sultanknish on X
Mandani polls poorly with minority and working class voters
And voters over 50
He underperforms among women
They aren't enough white hipsters in New York to give him the numbers he's supposedly getting especially in places like the Bronx
There's something very wrong here”
I said it on another Substack yesterday. Someone needs to quietly take him out before real people get hurt.
I just had the same thought, though I feel I shouldn’t have. It’s the old “if I had a time machine would I go back to 1932 and smash Hitler over the head at the Hofbrau Haus with one of those giant steins?” YesI I would 😔
I agree.
He’s arrogant too.
Assassination is not good for your side or their side.
I don’t necessarily mean death. I mean find some way to get him out of the race. A scandal would work.
I'm fine with digging up a scandal. Assassination is not acceptable.
Yes. Democrats were all in on finding one fingernail of one skeleton in the closet of any possible No Labels candidate. In normal times, his political views alone would have taken him out. Bernie Sanders is gloating today.
Maybe the groups you mention aren’t primary voters?
Or registered Democrats - not sure if it's a closed primary.
Good point.
I believe it's it is closed; one of my cousins wanted to vote against him but couldn't because he declined to state party affiliation. He'll vote for Adams in the general election.
NY is becoming like CA with regards to elections. The results are very suspicious. It really is hard to believe Mamdani can win a primary like this. But as we all know, elections in these two places are run by democrats, and there you have the problem.
It was 100 degrees in NYC and no one wanted to wait in line to vote.
Sad that citizens don’t care and NYC will spiral into a bigger hell hole
The caliphate is getting stronger in the USA every day. There's loads of jihadi $$$ support for him, I'm sure. God help us indeed!
That’s their plan.
If only Americans would stop virtue signaling and WAKE UP!! 😢
The global progressive left is a big problem.
We should pass a law to deport them.
We’d have to deport them off the planet!🤣. Or as Matt Taibbi suggested for enemies of the First Amendment, put them all in a rocket and blast them into the sun.
I like Matt’s idea.
I know I guy who has some rockets that would likely be happy to oblige.
And sadly not just the progressive left, but imo also the cons and indies who are - and let's just say it--pro Hamas sympathizers at the very least.
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They’re playing the long game. A simple term lefties have no comprehension of. Hasty bandaid solutions and flowery but muddled rhetoric are their answer to crises. It’ll take the well armed and willing right to deal with the problem.
I harken back to Michael Corleone sending his consigliere and brother Tom to Vegas when things got dangerous with the other 4 families back East. “I need a war time consigliere” he explained and chose his father Don Vito to take over Tom’s role.
America chose Don Trump to handle things and sent Dim Joe to his imaginary Vegas. We are seeing significant changes around the globe as a result.
One has to wonder if George S is behind this.
Contact your reps, we need to get the Muslim Brotherhood listed as a terrorist organization. Both CAIR and the organization that certifies halal in North America have direct links to MB. Read Azra Noomani's Woke Army. MB is all over the US and has been for decades.
I agree wholeheartedly. I tell folks that Egypt banned them and that does seem to insert a little wedge into the conversation. And thanks for the book recommend.
I dont read those terrorist lists much, but I would have assumed the Muslim Brotherhood would have been listed by the US as a terrorist organization long ago. They are literal terrorists, and are one of the allies of the Ayatollah.
It is insane that they are not a recognized terror group in the US. I will keep recommending Woke Army until everyone has read it! The level of infiltration and organization these people have is shocking.
Il still processing the shock that they aren’t on the list already …
Illegals. Someone please prove me wrong, it would make my day. But until I get convinced I am going to believe that outlier elections like this are swung due to poor, or unenforced, voting laws.
you know, generally, it really is the people and not some rigging. "Free" , "work less" , "its not your fault blame a 3rd party and gov will help you with our lovely wasteful policies" is music to more peoples ears than we are willing to admit.
We need to make a phone call to 2001 and tell them Osama bin Laden won.
I'm not talking in hyperbole either. Over time, bin Laden's got Americans completely converted.
“The government you elect is the government you deserve”. Still rings true.
NY Dems choose keffiyehs over kippahs. One step closer to Lennons Imaginary World.
I think Lennon would be shocked and dismayed.
Perhaps. The other Lenin quite delighted
Of that, I am certain.
All I can say is, the fu#%£ng sh%^hole New Yorkers with their hands out who voted for this Islamic Marxist panderer.
Spouse to self: "Stop cursing. Only I can hear you."
I hear you.
We all hear you.
To quote H town’s own rap legends the Geto Boys “for you other motherf—kers in the atmosphere/I’m saying F.U. LOUD AND CLEAR” 🤬
"...and pretty soon the people who knocked down these building are gonna hear you..".
I have no patience for these Islamist cretins and their acolytes. Hang 'em high.
DEPORT ASASP!!!
Those voters think that “From the River to the Sea”, meant the Hudson to the Sound…
Not only has NYC forgotten "Never Forget" from 9/11 - they're actually trying to install a follower of the death cult as Mayor. UN-F**KING-BELIEVABLE.
We've just entered the twilight zone.
“Never Remember” is their new motto. History means nothing to them.
Free stuff that other people pay for. It’s music to their little socialist ears. Is the 65 million for trans “care” a real thing /threat?
Maybe now my kids will leave NYC.
Good to "see" ya, Maureen 💕
When are you moving? Where? I'd love to get together.
Just put the house on the market, looking at moving to the Tampa/St. Pete area.
You mentioned Zephyrhills. Have you found a spot?
Not yet ... I felt like looking so hard was putting the cart before the horse, since we haven't even gotten an offer on our house yet.
So happy for you! 🎉🌞
Wish I could get my hubby to move forward a little faster on our exit from the hellscape that is Commiecago!
As an aside, how do you teach at the New School while living in Chicago? Is it via Zoom or another remote learning tool?
I visited Tampa/St Pete a few years ago, when downtown Seattle and Portland were swamped with the blue tarps, shopping carts, and filth associated with the “homeless” (things have gotten somewhat better since). In Tampa? Not a blue tarp in sight. I really liked the area.
On the other hand, those pesky hurricanes and the occasional gator ….
Pick your poison.
Also check out northeast FL, Mark. Fernandina Beach/Amelia Island, Jacksonville, St. Augustine all seem very sane to me. More like South GA, if you like that vibe.
It’s amazing how things can be when you have a competent governor who listens to his voters.
Consider western NC. We are red but the commies from Trashville keep invading. Begging all my sane friends to come here and out populate them. It’s truly beautiful here.
This is a fund raising appeal from Love for the Least. A missionary organization run by an Episcopal priest. He and his wife has been doing this for 20 years. I think it is interesting because it explains a possible path of regime change in Iran.
https://mailchi.mp/lovefortheleast.org/were-leaving-theyre-moving-turkey-invading-euz0n58ei6-9300603?e=4a87b17a42
About halfway down is a sentence that doesn’t make much sense. I think supper means support.
100% of supper made it to them which we were able to verify.
Thanks Carter. It looks like a really good group to support.
Mine did, but she won't admit the reason why.
I was thinking of you today. I second JBell!
Thank God we have guns!!
I might have a few now, but if a Dem gets elected next time around:
For the record, all mine got lost in a boating accident.
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Hey! What a coincidence! Same for some of my friends!
I live in Commiecago, though, so mine were stolen of course. 😉
Thank you.
I’ve got some ranting to do as well.
It's one thing to win an election on charm, charisma, and talking big. Wait till he has to actually govern. NYC is full of conflicting special interests and regulatory roadblocks in every direction. I'm dismayed but not really that concerned. NYC politicians can never get much done because of the bloated bureaucracy and way too many egos. It takes someone who knows how to wield power like Giuliani back in the days or a corporate titan like Bloomberg.
What spells real doom to me is the NYC voters put that shit bag Alvin Bragg back in office over someone more centrist.
Did they? I saw the headline re Mamdani and then stopped reading.
Period. I'm done.
Yes they did
Fu#%ing parasites.
I am sorry. I am beside myself this morning. Will have to wash my mouth out with soap.
Anyone who has had any minor success against Trump are heroes in Blue York. Of course Bragg was reelected. It was the only reason.
That balloon Bragg needs to be poked and all of the air let out.
Do illegals vote in NYC local elections?
If yes, that explains this primary win for the Shia Muslim communist who has been a US citizen for less than a decade
And his father is a Columbia university anthropology professor!,
His father specializes in colonialism. Hardly an anthropologist.
Isn't colonialism when a country exploits another country and essentially steals its natural resources?
Does that definition include Islam?
It can but I had another in mind. I just love academics and so called journalists who throw around words like colonialism and oppression and fail to ( by design or ignorance) fail to point out the greatest perpetrators.
I’m still stuck on figuring out what you had in mind. So many countries and religions and people accused of colonialism, so little understanding of what colonialism is, or was, or what it’s morphing into? As with “fascism”, our shared language is has been infected with dog whistles decodable by only those in the know.
Lets focus on rare earth minerals for today
Yup. Just like Muhammad and his Muslim followers colonized the entire Middle East, North Africa, Spain and parts of India. At least they were stopped at Vienna and Tours.
I get the feeling all of your factual points are no longer allowed to be mentioned in high school or college history classes. For obvious reasons.
Oh, no. Islam brings enlightenment when they conquer a Country. Just look at the UK.
Literally LMFAO 😂
Islam exemplifies colonialism. The 7th and 12th Century expansions a long with Europe & Canada today. Islam is the biggest colonial power in the history of mankind.
I don’t believe the election is somehow rigged. The truth is much sober: the results show the dense brain fog that has descended on New Yorkers. It is an indication of the irreversible effect of the left propaganda. Half of the country in blue states and cities is no better. All New Yorkers had to do is look around and try to remember years of prosperity and safety under Giuliani and Bloomberg. But they are brain dead. That’s my diagnosis and I stick to it.
I think you're right. I look at friends and family members who used to be rational people and see how they've been captured by Leftist propaganda, to the point that they no longer even perceive it as propaganda.
I continue to be horrified and yet also fascinated that so many women - educated women - have aligned themselves with forces that want to take every imaginable thing from them.
AP - not just women. The self destructing tendency is wide spread: Jews voting for a Jihadist who refuses to say Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state; women allowing mutilation of their children; sport fans who want to see men winning in women’s competition; and just otherwise “normal” hard working people who all of a sudden decided they prefer to see the law enforcement diminished, police replaced with social workers, borders left wide open, and taxes increased to support even more of government provided welfare. It is like people make choices that harm them rather than benefit. I trace it back to the mass psychosis of COVID era, riots, TDS and most recently events in the Middle East. Was it all triggered by isolation during pandemics? Hatred of Trump? Oct 7? And this suicidal self destruction seems to be accelerating.
I definitely won't argue with brain dead. Mentally ill, disabled, deranged, you pick.
I'm sure illegals vote in NYC, just like they do in CA.
Even if there is some fraud, I doubt it was illegals’ votes who brought victory to Mamdani. The truth is much more frightening when the majority of citizens vote for a socialist and antisemite.
The union at The New School emailed nudges to vote for Mamdani. So what little tax dollars are available after the wealthy flee the city will go to transgender surgeries.
But hey, those who voted Mamdani are the same Useful Idiots who cried "defund the police" with straight faces.
These people are utterly focused on themselves, and not on the effects of their causes.
The president of the union at TNS is a delusional ideologue with whom I have spent a significant amount of time.
Years ago, she told me that men and women are the same. Nothing, but nothing, distinguishes one from the other.
What about testosterone? I asked.
She claimed that testosterone does not wield the effects that I said it does.
Then she proclaimed that being a female who feels male should be given testosterone.
How do you stand it?
I try to see the humor in it.
That's about the only way to deal with it. I just refuse to talk to those people. They have the brain of an amoeba. And the worst thing is that they LOVE to display their sheer stupidity to anyone who will listen..
Good Morning Underdog did you teach there? I read poetry there once in a large upstairs room. I was on sabbatical in NYC and was on a white whale hunt to meet Christopher Hitchens, which didn’t happen that night but finally did at one of HIS public library readings where we shook hands, visited briefly, and he signed one of his books for me.
I do teach there.
Congrats on tracking down Hitchens.
I imagine it must have been gratifying to read poetry at TNS. It seemed the height of cool to me once upon a time.
Now it's the seventh circle of hell.
Hitchens was a gem.
Oh, how I wish that Christopher Hitchens was still alive and we could enjoy his erudite commentary on world affairs. He was brilliant and such a great debater. I didn't like his atheist hobby horse but he was spot on about islamofascism.
Virtue signaling costs lives, Dog.
I can't believe our world is this messed up in 2025. I had pictured more of a world like in the Jetsons.
As I wrote on that other post:
I guess the oh-so-smart Mamdani voters didn’t or couldn’t read Mondays WSJ piece on the impact of LA’s $30/hour wage on hoteliers. Ganbatte, New York. Luck may be the last life boat on the Titanic.
Wondering how this happened? Maybe illegals. More likely ranked choice voting. It’s the handiwork of the satanic left, and far more efficacious than handing a ballot over to your Tren de Aragua neighbor. It doesn’t require free housing or EBT cards. And it exudes “democratic values.” Shoot, what can be more red, white, and blue than giving the average low-information dunderhead five chances “to get it right”? Anyone who thinks RCV will lower the political temps and give us moderate candidates we can all rally around better open their eyes. Mamdani is your future.
I can't "like" this.
Attending union meetings at the New School was an exercise in feminine emotions run amok. The president of the union promoted Mamdani. During the faculty strike in 2022, which was protracted for weeks over health insurance, the elders presented their research. TNS's offer bested the market by a longshot.
The union president responded: But we're a FAMILY! And you don't treat your FAMILY like that!
Hearts and butterflies fluttered in the chat.
NO school should be endorsing any political candidate!!
I pray for a return to both education and institutional neutrality, both of which support intellectual pursuit of truth and critical thinking!
RCV?
Ranked choice voting
That is terrifying and true.
Ranked choice voting is how Alaskans end up with Lisa Murkowski.
RCV is how Maine’s Bruce Poliquin of Maine’s conservative Second District won — hands down — the 2018 Congressional race, but went home the loser. He garnered more than two thousand more votes than Democrat Jared Golden. Thanks to RCV 10,000 votes were transferred to Golden, giving him the win.
It's such a scam -- and Alaskans voted to keep it in place last election.
Another ballot stuffing maneuver for that win!
You wonder? Talk to a New Yorker. Like talking to a space alien. They don't think, act or talk like normal people. And, mind you, I'm not talking about the working class in the outer boroughs. They are sane and live normal lives like the rest of us. But the self-adoring elites, the cafe society, the doyennes in the salons are all bat shit crazy.
What's worse, they think they are right and the rest of us "mouth breathers" are "holding the country back." 🤦🏼♀️🙄
And this is why I'm thankful the USA still has an average of about 2 guns per person.
Reminds me of a white Gen Z or thereabouts female I saw at the park in Bed-Stuy wearing a pink T-shirt that said something like 'I would much rather be with an immigrant than a white racist.'
That was her Monday shirt. Tuesday's shirt said: Proud of My Abortion.
Egad!
WOW!!!
The brain-washing is terrifying! We've got to take back our schools ASAP!
Not hard to see why he won. Just look at the alternatives. All the antisemitic Marxist had to do was to act cool on TikTok, and suddenly he looks like a breath of fresh air. Plus, to give him credit, he was the only one out on the streets talking to people. It's the same thing Trump did that won over Bronx voters. Fact is, in NYC, politicians are never seen out there working for their votes. When someone actually comes down to their level, they lap it up like puppies grateful for scraps.
I feel I went a bit overboard yesterday on posts as I’d been gone almost a week so I’ll just say the discussion epitomized why The Purple Gang is such a special online community. Excellent intellectual discourse focused mostly on the ideas with no trolling and people sharing revealing personal anecdotes in a respectful manner.
Ken, you beat me to it. I was going to comment on what a great conversation we had yesterday about Social Security.
So many excellent ideas and you could tell people that truly given it a lot of intellectual thought.
I second all of that Ken! 👍🏻
(edited for auto-correct's incorrect correction...or insurrection, as the case may be. 🤣)
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Yes, I enjoyed the discussion yesterday as well.
Unfortunately, I had to go all the way to Iowa City for a dr appt yesterday (we have a serious shortage of dermatologists in this area), so I didn't get to finish reading comments or responding yet.
Hope all is well.
Yup, it's all good. I just have an intractable (but fortunately localized) rash that has foiled my regular doctor's efforts to diagnose and treat. Nothing scary, just irritating (literally). If a two-week course of two new creams doesn't do the trick, my new dermo is planning to investigate more.
I got a tick bit about a month ago and I’m still putting cream on it to clear it up. We heal much slower as we age.
That’s definitely what I’m finding. I don’t bounce back the way I used to.
I cannot believe the City where 2,977 people were killed, thousands more injured and first responder health issues are ongoing would select THIS troubled individual to represent the Democratic Party as Mayoral candidate. I cannot believe the City where Muslims wanted to build a Mosque on the site of the terror attack would elect this to run for Mayor. I cannot believe the aging rage against the machine activists will vote for a Republican. I'm glad I got to see NYC and the boroughs before it became a third world haven for the most depraved criminals, setting people on fire, having sex with a corpse in public and prosecuting a man who tried to help people.
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Not enough likes for this!
The best parody account on X captures your post in a picture and a line . Please look
https://x.com/realrabbilinda/status/1937736540681105821?s=46
That’s very good
Check this one out!
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1937682638443028711?utm_campaign=june25morningnote&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=morningnote
Oh, I enjoyed that. I gotta learn to expect the unexpected with these guys.
ROFL!
Loved it!
Perfect !
It’s good on many levels but also brings back the pain of that morning, people leaping to their deaths, planes full of innocents turned into cruise missiles, first responders crushed in heroic sacrifice . . . the meme is ironic, powerful, and frankly, awful. It’s not clear that it will have the intended effect based on the comments I read. In a cost/benefit analysis it’s likely not going to show a return.
I agree it is witty and cringy at the same time.
We each read different comments depending on who one follows , the algorithm feeds the user accordingly
It is contributing to the inability to tell what’s true and what’s false
I didn’t know that about X (twitter). I’ve never really used it. I only go there when following links. Kind of makes me sound like a Luddite.
I'm hardly ever on X. And when I am, I make sure not to sign in.
I never, ever use TwiX on a mobile device.
Tragedy + time = humor
---- Woody Allen
Thank you for that. she did nail it. I don't hold all Muslims accountable for 9/11(well, kinda, privately, in my heart) but I hold them accountable for the insensitivity, arrogance and selfishness afterward and to this day.
At the time of 9/11, one of our oldest son's best friends was the son of a Muslim family who lived in the apartment building up the road. I assume they were there to study at the university.
After 9/11, they wouldn't allow our son (who was 11 at the time) to come over to play anymore. (Note that they had never allowed their son to come play at our house.) As much I was trying to 'not blame all Muslims,' I had to wonder (only privately; I never said it out loud) why our son was no longer welcome. Surely they didn't think they were in danger of a hate crime from an 11-year-old who was friends with their son? Or were they afraid of what he might hear or see in their home that would show they weren't actually 'innocent Muslims' after all?
Exactly.
JD Vance trolled Mamdani on his Bluesky account: “Congratulations to the new leader of the Democratic Party.”
Dark but very, very on point.
No one does it better than Rabbi Linda! Idk how solidly many people fall for it 😆
They built a mosque over my Temple is Jerusalem.
That’s their method of erasing history.
Spreading their hands wide, saying, "I meant it in the name of peace. You must be islamophobic".
Yes, all of that. But history was still erased. Under the Dome of the Rock is the most important archeological site on the planet. But it cannot be disturbed because a band of Arabian Bedouins came conquering 700 years after the destruction of the Second Temple and built their shrine on top.
That alone is proof enough for me that it is Jewish land. They can blot out, diminish, re-write history all they want. The promise stands.
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One of those things they seem to be incapable of explaining...and therefore ignore.
It's amazing the things Muslims will ignore.
but Brian, what do you mean? The Palestians werent there first???? Thats what a million twitter bots have been telling me so it must be true. what is this strange implication that the land was conquered by an invading force of Arabs who then decided it was their holy city?
It is what is printed in history books that have not yet been revised.
You left out Alvin Bragg won and on his way to a second term.
Yes, but if I my foil hat is working properly, this administration has the goods on old Alvin. He won't be grandstanding anymore. Best candidate, a Dem brought to heal by his own corruption, easily controlled.
Hope you’re right. I’m not holding my breath though. This admin has bigger fish to fry,
That's why he's left swimming. If he pulls anymore BS he becomes a priority to fry and I think they can.
OK one thing eclipses all else. New York City nominated an effing socialist for mayor. Socialism. An economic/political system that has never worked and cannot work because it is inimical to human nature. A city of fools, morons and clowns. Nothing else to say.
Haha. Bruce, I doubt you have nothing left to say!
He's not a socialist. He's an Islamist-Facist-Communist caliphate agent who simply identifies as a socialist so that the mentally-challenged virtue-signalers will make sure he gets elected. God help us all!
Well said.
It’s really communism.
I don’t believe you.
Nothing to say ?
You could write a whole book on this.
Come on man.
How long are mayoralty terms in NYC? It will be interesting to see how people like his first time at bat. All the comments above are spot on: no one likes government cheese, and that's what they're going to get for a while.
Government Cheez - what little they get won't even be actual cheese.
ba-da bing!
Now it’s very important to have a good Republican candidate or independent. Who will that be?
Silwa?
I read that too but not sure how strong he is as a candidate. Also maybe Adams as an independent. But why only these two. There’s got to be better choices or more choices than this
Adams is running as an independent and he may be NYC’s last hope before total collapse. As the saying goes, Adams may be a crook but at least he’s our crook now!
Your problem with Mr Sliwa is...?
😂
Yup, that’s what I say about Trump.
He is an asshole, but he’s my asshole.
Actually, there are times you need a strong asshole in the White House. Now we have one, and he gets a lot of things done that have needed to be done for years. I didn't vote for him to come to dinner at my house; I voted for him to do a set of tasks. So far, he's doing a great job.
I agree 2000% Joe. One of my liberal friends back in the 2020 election stated that she would prefer dinner with Biden over Trump. How foolish. I think dinner with Trump would be fascinating. But I still want him as my asshole.
Never expected to be rooting for Adams this fall. In that contest, I wouldn't completely cut Sliwa out as he's got name recognition in the city and might appeal to people once more of them start paying attention to the communist and if some shocking crimes occur over the summer. Some of us still remember him from the Guardian Angel days and he's going to play into that the more the other guy talks defund the police.
Cuomo had registered to run in the general as an independent just in case. After last night not sure he will follow thru with that plan.
Guessing he was thinking if he lost on the tenth ballot of RCV it would make sense, but he was behind from the initial count.
Where are Alec Baldwin and Michael Avenatti? This is their chance.
It doesn't matter WHO runs against the Democrat! This just reinforces my political philosophy that "People are stupid, and vote for people and things that are contrary to their own self interests, because it FEELS good."
Maybe lazy that leads to not caring and then they act stupidly. So much to digest these days I can understand why some just check out
Because they want stuff and are miserable with the status quo.
Mr Sliwa, Mr Adams, Mr Cuomo (if he stays in) and another "independent" no-name. That's it.
Can Melania Trump run?
I just read her new book. She really is awesome!!
I will add it to my list.
I sometimes check the AP news website, just to scan their headlines. Today's winner was something about "The Emotional Toll of Climate Change on Young People." My first laugh was figuring how to gage the change over a short period of time "Young People" denotes. The next laugh was that article's accompanying photo and caption of a mother consoling a weeping son (looking more girl) in front of their burnt down Alta Dena, CA home. The writers and editors of this stuff are real people? They must think everybody is as nuts as they are.
I can't believe they are still saying that the devastation was caused by "climate change" ...... not lack of water in the reservoir .... lack of water to the hydrants ..... lack of brush/forestry control ..... lack of firefighters fit for firefighting!
I think they blame the bullet barely missing Trump on climate change. I always had the fleeting thought "Climate Change" might be caused by the climate.
“Political climate change.”
There…fixed it.
They do -- and far too many are. And they vote.
Since kids are not taught to think and are strongly encouraged to just do as the party commands, yes. They have no idea there's another POV on "climate change."
A climatologist has posted a chart on FB (can’t find it anymore or I’d link it) showing temperatures measured in Florida over more than 100 years. It showed that 7 of the 9 highest days on record came before 1940; the 30’s were a warm decade. Only one of the highest 15 recorded temps was in the past decade. The overall daily average was up slightly , but he attributes that to higher nighttime temps due to urbanization.
The meteorologist on the radio said that the highest temps recorded for Ohio were in 1914 and 1930 ... as we are experiencing a heat wave .... not near the top historical temps of almost 100 years ago!
Historical statistics don’t matter to the climate changers. The only history they care about is what Greta said last week.
I track LA's temperature because my daughter still lives there. For two years they've barely had any days with the temp over 80. Today even, in the Valley, it's not getting over 80, the basin, high 74.
I’m just a few miles from Altadena. It was chilly this morning.
On the averages, there are also more measuring stations now than 100 years ago and more precise instruments. And yes, the urbanization effect is an issue with temperature, especially, if instruments are close to buildings or pavement (e.g., an airport runway).
It always bothers me that Warmists ignore the issue of urbanization when it comes to temperatures. As a gardener, I am aware of the issue of 'microclimates' even within the small space of a house's lot. Concrete and stone absorb and concentrate heat. This is a problem that makes green spaces in cities all the more important, to prevent them from becoming hopeless heat islands.
You can't site weather instruments in the same place over time while construction around the site changes and still expect to get scientifically comparable readings. They need to be placed in the same conditions that were prevailing earlier if you want to get scientifically meaningful numbers over time.
I’ve seen the emotional impact “climate change” propagandists have had on young people first hand. It’s pretty fucked up that such propaganda can affect people that way, but it can and does.
Very true statement. I've seen it in my family. But I will say this...even the closest person to me has FINALLY seen the light and admitted that 'climate change' is a HOAX.
I grew up in Bakersfield, CA - late ‘50s to mid ‘70s. Summers were always mostly 100+, hit 115 degrees more than once. Schools let out the first week of June and didn’t resume until after Labor Day because no one could concentrate in the heat.
If kids could sneak out with an egg, they’d fry it on the sidewalk (one of my more memorable and well-deserved spankings). “Hot” didn’t describe it.
After I moved away, Bakersfield cooled down a bit. For some time, summers were bearable. I began to think it was me.
Then, a little over ten years ago, heat made a comeback. “Climate Change!” the local media screamed. “Yeah, right,” murmured the old-timers.
Anecdotes are the reality of History.
I blame "equitable math". Just ask Gates about charitable work "offsetting" the carbon of his private jet.
Good news here in Cincinnati! Just saw the Channel 12 piece about UC.
The statement from UC is pitiful, but they are doing away with the central equity and inclusion center plus the four other identity centers (LGB, AA, women and who knows?). 🎉
And the Reds beat the Yankees - 2 in a row!
God help us all if the Islamo-Facist-Commie gets elected in NYC!!!
We have to stop the caliphate before it's too late!!
Please click on this link to see a post from the best parody account on X
https://x.com/realrabbilinda/status/1937736540681105821?s=46
Brutal.