New York City is screwed. I have the same queasy feeling about Mamdani's surprise victory as I did when DiBlasio was first elected mayor. From the relative peace and prosperity of the two decades under Giuliani and Bloomberg, I had a sense of impending doom for Gotham when DiBlasio won. And I was right. I wish I had not been right because my daughter and her family often had to venture across the George Washington Bridge from New Jersey and do business in town.
Mamdani is a damned socialist and a Muslim to boot. There are two million Jews in the Big Apple, many of them with considerable assets. I'll bet they will be a little nervous to watch a privileged Gen. Z socialist with an anti-Israel bias take up residence in Gracie Mansion. Capital will now flee the city; how is Mamdani going to pay for the handouts that he has promised now that the tax base will thin out?
I'm sure that looting "Government Grocery stores," will be a big city sport. A great new way to "Get Back at the Man," at taxpayer expense! Who couldn't love that???
Sad thing is, actual REAL businesses, who are getting pummeled with theft, close. I don't expect government stores to have that common sense, though.
Then you hear, "Those companies are so racist--they move out of the bad city areas and create food deserts."
Expect theft to be tolerated, because the city will pick up the tab. New way to "get back at the Man."
When you expect NO responsibility for anything, this is what you get.
I find it astonishing when Americans criticize socialism when they get nothing for handing over their paychecks to the government. The 1% live off the rest of us, what is that called?
OK maybe this is worth my looking, but seriously - if you give me an anonymous link, but you cannot bother to tell me what I will get out of it I really do just ignore it. WHAT IS IT??
And by the time i get to this point, I don't care.
I DID look. You twit. And as expected, I got nothing substantial from it. I have learned from experience who is, and who is not, trustworthy. You are not.
I'd be willing to bet that a fair number of those Jews are of the self-loathing Steven Spielberg variety and will be all too willing to appease the Islamists until it is too late – and it will be all too deserved.
Compared to Mad Man I DeBlasio is Giuliani. That's how bad it is. Looks like its going to take total ruin for the country to wake up. I hope I live long enough for the recovery. Assuming it happens.
Mamdani is WORSE than DiBlasio, who was very bad. It is going to be beyond ugly. Sasha, get out your movie references like "Batman Returns" and "Fort Apache, the Bronx". You will be able to use them prolifically in coming years.
New York will be a shithole city within 2 years. This is what happens when you give everyone a trophy for participation. Trump hopefully will not bail them out this time. Fortunately he can't run for President. Snake Plisskan standby!
I first moved to NYC back in the bad old days. Got married. Emigrated. Got divorced. Returned. I came back to a different city. Years later, I would read a young person on Reddit talking about the "movie" New York, completely convinced it was never like that. Yes, it was.
Because it's our largest city, the center of finance and other industries, and it survived near bankruptcy in the seventies, New York thinks it's immune to the problems that have plagued other cities. I'm afraid they are about to find out otherwise.
I haven't been a big fan of Adams, but Mamdavi makes me glad I left New York.
The city will fail and accelerate the fall of the entire Democratic Party. 2026 and 2028 Republicans will point to the failures and Democrats will have no convincing responses.
NYC's (and America's) movers and shakers created the problem, as they've been the ones with the power to do so. This site talks about it, and how Trump was eventually elected in response. The inconvenient truth here is that Mamdani's election is an *exact mirror* of Trump's, but with a different constituency and "solution". Trump's "solutions" are going nowhere, and so will Mamdani's, because they're both lopsided, angry flailing.
So now, after those movers and shakers creating big piles of shit the last five decades all over America, with the corruption of finance, law, media, education, and more, we must accept, and adopt, the sociopathic attitudes of individualist nomads toward society? We don't like it, so we run away? And we who are asked to just "take it", are to remain Stockholm syndrome victims? Well, that's how the US was hollowed out and handed over to China, along with a dozen other major problems.
Weak stuff A-H. Your comments are nothing more than simple talking points of the current DNC. Yes, Trump has his idiosyncrasies (quirks). Well, so what…..
During my 70+ years the U.S.A. has only been recently been led been led by such a utterly fearless, highly intelligent individual and natural politician (Reagan fits that mold, but that was nearly 50 years ago.) Why now for a leader like Trump ? Well since the mid-60’s, I’ve witnessed the U.S. society largely go down the path laid out by legacy government institutions created by The Great Society (some may rightly opine since The New Deal; that’s before my time.). Unfortunately the results have not been good; by most measures our culture has been badly degraded. Trump (and those like him) is a necessary corrective.
Whether one like’s his personality, Trump’s courage, energy, drive and vision are very rare for someone his age. The Trump administration is now only 1/8th of the way into their final term. Many of my Boomer generation are glad (no, actually giddy) to see the Trump admin. actively working to tear down and reshape the institutions of our Federal government. Many state leaders in the U.S.A. are now choosing to follow his example.
A-H, we’ll never “see things the same way” and that’s O.K. by me. Although badly degraded, we both are blessed to live in the greatest country in the world. I know this because I’ve traveled to and worked in nearly two dozen countries distributed across every continent on earth.
I don’t know if this former failed rapper who won last night’s NYC’s Democratic Party primary for mayor will eventually win the position, since another election will follow. If he becomes NYC’s mayor and actually attempts to govern as a Socialist, he will fail to improve NYC. Look no further than Chicago, which is now in downward free fall. Socialism: the naive leading the naive.
Have a pleasant day A-H, try not to be so ill-tempered, and remember to count your many blessings as a very fortunate citizen of the U.S.A.
Great comment. I lived in the Soviet Union for 6 months in the 1980’s. If everyone had that experience no one would vote for a socialist. I was not alive for the New Deal either but did a paper on it at university. I went back and read original documents. It was supposed to be temporary to deal with horrible conditions. We know how temporary it was.
"... try not to be so ill-tempered, and remember to count your many blessings as a very fortunate citizen of the U.S.A."
But if we don't get a good bit more serious than just venting here (because I do), the US is most definitely going down, and if we lose (actual) free speech, that's really the end. We've been tested continuously since 9/11, and have failed every one of these tests.
Circling back: Remember, Mamdani is a symptom, not a cause. Save your ammunition for our actual enemies.
"Trump’s courage, energy, drive and vision are very rare for someone his age."
He's certainly earned a spot in history for being a loose cannon who's dared spilled a lot of the beans about many aspects of our Potemkin government (even when he can't even remember what he said the day before). That's going to be seen as his greatest achievement.
"I don’t know if this former failed rapper who won last night’s NYC’s Democratic Party primary for mayor will eventually win the position, since another election will follow. If he becomes NYC’s mayor and actually attempts to govern as a Socialist, he will fail to improve NYC"
I *never* said he would succeed -- in fact, I said the opposite. I meant only that his election -- just like Trump's -- is a SYMPTOM of our increasingly sociopathic *behind-the-scenes* leadership style, where it's become crystal clear no one with (actual) power today cares about the people. (Listen to George Carlin's 2005 "American Dream" speech.)
"utterly fearless, highly intelligent individual and natural politician (Reagan fits that mold, but that was nearly 50 years ago."
You missed the part where Reagan started going senile during his re-election campaign, and then lost track of it 1985-89 while people like Deaver et al covered up for him. Certainly not as bad as Joe Biden, but unacceptable. No, I'd go back to JFK and Ike for leadership.
Yeah, your instigating comments were clearly middle of the road, not DNC, to me. I don't think W.A. read them closely or considers 1/4 right to be middle. It's where I am, but I recognize it's not dead middle.
Thank you. I don't really think of myself as "middle", but as trying to call out the BS that has been so thoroughly normalized that we just shrug and accept it. Mamdani's election -- just like Trump's -- speaks to this, no matter how wildly different their beliefs and styles.
It was nothing like this bad 50 years ago, when W.A. Samuel says he also remembers.
The rank-and-file don't actually "hate America", they just follow the saboteurs who instruct them to do this, giving the a Trojan horse ride to create maximum chaos for an eventual drastic weakening of federal and local governments.
They are doing this worldwide. As you must know, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, South Africa, the component countries of the EU, etc. etc. are all weaker leadership today, and they'll schmooze you into thinking its all a great thing. They're now trying to do this to Russia, Iran, and every other sovereign country that get in their way. It's about the psychopaths who are panting and salivating an eventual complete control (with complete plausible deniability) over the world.
It isn't rocket science to figure this out, it's simply about getting out the US MSM bubble.
It is completely unimportant what "identity group[s]" "they" are, and they certainly are NOT any single group. They ARE defined by their actions, which are psychopathic. They include people like the neocons getting us into endless wars for power and wealth; neolibs who want to tie us (the lower 80-90% at least) economically into straitjackets so that we "behave"; poisoners of our environments and foods; speech censors who always have a reason to keep peoples' feelings from being hurt but never a reason for speech to run its course to perform its political function; and many more.
They have always existed, but due to unceasing technological advances, their power is increasingly concentrated. Someday, this may allow them such power that it may simply be impossible to oppose them ever again.
They won't be permitted to work as the Trump admin advertised, because the powers-that-be will twist them into whatever they want. Excellent example is the monstrous mess of the "Big Beautiful Bill", why don't you take a look at the land-grabs, debt-piling, and much more. And how are the actual numbers for illegal immigration deportation going, as opposed to all the theatre? Hey, is that Epstein list out yet? Haven't seen any perp walks. Oh, and how is Trump doing keeping us out of wars? I'm sure that last one will be spun madly for a year or two or three, but when the fog clears, we'll understand what happened to us for the umpteenth time in two decades.
That's just off the top of my head. Need I go on? But I've got to get to work soon, like the other chumps funding our epic fiascos.
How much is umpteen? How does dropping bombs for a few hours constitute a war? Trump is anti-war more than any president in my 69 years. The mental midgets prior to Trump did not have the gonadle structure to eliminate the bomb. Had the quivering pansies before him in all nations followed Trump’s lead to get out of the Iran nuclear agreement th
The democrats are in danger of becoming a footnote in history books. The US is the strongest country in the world because it supports entrepreneurial business and competitive capitalism while limiting government through the bill of rights while helping the least fortunate.
We need a strong two party system
That provides a counter to the GOP, maybe a party that doubles down on individual liberty but with a modern twist—like hardcore free speech, personal responsibility, and economic freedom, but also tackling issues like tech monopolies or healthcare access without heavy government overreach. It could mix entrepreneurial vibes with practical solutions for the average person, appealing to folks fed up with both big government and corporate cronyism. X has some chatter about “liberty-focused” movements or populist-leaning independents, but nothing solid yet
Satan is in control. It is going along as told to us. And they win because it is organized evil and has supernatural power and information. Other than being supernatural, how could Jasmine Crockett be that dumb? She is almost as dumb as Eric Swallwell.
The good news is, if you know Christ you win for eternity. All we are doing now is keeping a finger in the dike of a planet sized tsunami that can’t be stopped. Evil must win, proving we are helpless in our earthly form. The prince of peace is our big victory. Evil will be destroyed forever. Be on the right side of the fence. Now.
If God is all powerful why does Satan win at all? Because Satan is called “the god (small g) of this world. He has the reign of it for a time.
Putting your faith in non-life creating every living thing and the first cell creating DNA. You know that is nonsense. It won’t help you on judgement day. Nor will any of the religions who point you to no real hope.
If he is elected as expected, New York City will go bankrupt. And the federal government had better not bail the city out. When people vote for someone this obviously evil, they should face the consequences of that, not taxpayers from other states.
You would think NYC would have learned its lesson after the disaster that was Bill de Blasio.
The only possible piece of good news about this is that this gives an Independent or even Republican candidate a strong chance of winning in September.
I’ll be holding my nose and voting for Adams and then hopefully moving to Florida by the end of 2026 either way. At best, Adams can hold back the tide for 4 more years. But NYC has changed and it isn’t going to change back.
One of the problems in New York is a lack of institutional memory. There are always new people coming in and they are Tabula Rasa as far as previous eras of New York are concerned. I wonder what any of these people would say if you asked them about New York under Ed Koch, or about the Daily News headline, "FORD TO NEW YORK: DROP DEAD," or about a certain flamboyant real estate developer who invested in New York City when others were fleeing.
Yes, the wealthy in NYC that should have known better voted for the Democrats over the last thirty years because it was easier to abdicate their position of greater intelligence and education, take the easy path and make tons of money than to make sound voting decisions.
Exactly. Not only were they lazy voters -- they were lazy citizens.
Here's another idea for the so-called "liberals": LEAD YOUR PEOPLE! And all of them, not just your most entertaining "pets"! Stop cattle-herding them with Machiavellian mind-f*ckery! Re-learn, also, what noblesse oblige was about, and where it once *worked*, for leaders who actually gave a damn about their constituents. Meanwhile, you can't just let people run amok with their "feelings" about things when some of those are that are ignorant, there needs to be an *interactive* process for all classes in healthy societies to come to rough agreement on the extent of knowledge, of what's true, what's false, what's right, what's wrong.
God, the 21st century is getting so damn twisted and psychopathic!
Not sure what your core beliefs are, but if you believe that, you will fall for any shine trinket that some puppet master dangles before you. I would be careful
On top of the $9 congestion fee, they raised the toll on the Lincoln Tunnel from about $13 to $18. I am paying nearly $1,000 (including parking) a month to get to and from work each month.
So by moving to Jersey you get a $12k raise? Maybe not everyone will bite on that proposition but surely some will. City finances depend on the marginal taxpayer just like business profit depends on the marginal customer.
No, you misunderstood. Because I live in NJ and work in NYC, I have to pay $12,000 a year to get to and from work. I have four options: suck it up and pay, get a new job in NJ, move to NYC or move out of the area entirely. I am 61, so I will suck it up for two years and then move out of the area entirely.
It would be one thing if the city wasn’t a place that many rely on. How will airlines re-align for one thing? Shipping? All the stuff that can not be done electronically.
"The New York metropolitan area has the busiest airport system in the U.S. and the second busiest in the world after London. NYC is also the most frequently used port of entry and departure for international flights."
The Port of New York and New Jersey is also very important for cargo.
On the plus side, I don't think the mayor has much effect on those things.
Mamdani will never be able to "deliver on what he promises" because communism doesn't work. It's never worked and it never will work because it goes contrary to human nature. The only way to make it "seem" to work is with through cruel, cut-throat (sometimes literally), vicious, demonic ways......like Lenin did when he fed and clothed all those in Russia by making the Ukrainians send all their grain and meat and food to Russia, so that Ukrainians all starved to death (or ate those who were dead to try and stay alive).
The NYC bloated bureaucracy, many many regulations, and many many big competing egos and interests will also tie his hands. Easy to talk big with promises. Wait till he has to actually govern....and NYC no less.
Ilya Sutskever, one of the world’s top AI scientists, says the “emergence phenomenon” of complexity emerging from simplicity is also a tailwind for AI acceleration. This means Mother Nature is at work helping to save us and this is a very powerful tailwind.
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Yeah. It would be a good idea if the grocery stores in NYC relocated out of the city. The government grocery stores prices coming will be subsidized by the city taxes.
I'm sure that looting "Government Grocery stores," will be a big city sport. A great new way to "Get Back at the Man," at taxpayer expense! Who couldn't love that???
Sad thing is, actual REAL businesses, who are getting pummeled with theft, close. I don't expect government stores to have that common sense, though.
Then you hear, "Those companies are so racist--they move out of the bad city areas and create food deserts."
Expect theft to be tolerated, because the city will pick up the tab. New way to "get back at the Man."
When you expect NO responsibility for anything, this is what you get.
In England, we have a country in the gutter. We fought for Brexit and a break from the globalists (we kicked obama's ass in the process) and then watched gutless conservatives throw it away.
We are trying though. We are lifting the REFORM UK party and winning the working class ex Labour vote while crushing the tories...the point is we're doing it with same day, paper ballots and IDs for polling.
I feel sorry for all of the wise people of the UK who understood before all of their EU counterparts just how anti-democratic the EU is. And how were those UK patriots rewarded? Their elite betters purposely failed to capitalize on the opportunities of Brexit to teach their neanderthal voters not to f*ck with their global plans.
Yes, the Conservatives threw it all away, much like the RINOs have tried to do it here. That's the problem when you have a Uniparty...
We're fortunate. Trump came along at exactly the right time, and we are replacing Republicans-in-Name-Only with American Patriots. Still a ways to go, but I hope the ship keeps turning around.
Globalism has been so destructive to western Europe. The only countries with any sense are Hungary and Poland, and hopefully you guys recover!
We have protest marches broken up by the police as the scandal of a child sex ring was hidden by the present politicians. In Ireland it looks like the country has found something to unite North and South.. Catholic and Protestant. England is protesting but only the working class.
America, the PRESIDENT, and American citizens are once again the last hope...but you're going to be fighting the embedded mercenaries and the even worse judiciary.
I know what you guys are up against too. But globalists and the government have definitely hidden the race of all the child, sex, molesters and predators.
People over there have to wake up and realize that Europe seems to be importing its own demise. I hope it isn't too far gone.
You mean zuckerbucks, bezos, gates, and the billionaires that funded obama, clinton, and obama 2020. They switched sides because like Jake Tapper they knew biden was disease ridden and the Kamal had no chance. They were your billionaires
Free ice cream for everybody works out fine until the tax base moves out - then the whole thing collapses. In Eastern Europe, they used barbed wire fences, dogs, and minefields to keep the productive classes in. This eventually failed when the productive classes said "you pretend to pay us, we pretend to work." The only problem remaining is keeping the dependent classes in and not infesting the rest of the country.
FDR didn't hate America. Neither did Truman, nor did JFK & Bill Clinton. But that was yesterday's Democrat Party. This weak excuse of a party beginning with an empty suit community organizer, then a brain dead cadaver, and lastly a proven prostitute is not that party.
FDR was one of the first to want to greatly increase the taxes on the productive to pay the unproductive. There wasn't the empirical evidence to show that the productive will only continue to produce up to a point. He also did not have empirical evidence to show just how much of the tax revenue will be siphoned off by the grifters and campaign contributors before it reaches the unproductive.
"FDR's" social security program set the first date for eligibility for benefits at age 65 when average life expectancy was 62.
There is a huge difference between government programs that help people who cannot help themselves -- the mentally and physically disabled, the elderly -- and socialism.
That is why SSI, the program’s real initials, stand for SUPPLEMENTAL Security Income. It was never meant to mean all of one’s income. Also, I think they made a huge mistake linking disability to SSI.
Trump is working on it. A big part of the coming "insolvency" of Social Security and Medicare, is people who are not eligible for it, who are getting benefits, i.e, illegal aliens.
That's a great way right there to turn the ship around on that as far as insolvency goes.
As long as we are Cherry picking I pick "Cynthia Gonzalez" as your typical democrat elected official. She openly called for gangsters to attack federal officials in LA. You need to wake up and realize the Democrat party is the Anti-American America LAST party.
Yes, and this genius Cynthia Gonzalez has a bachelor’s degree, two masters degrees, and a doctorate in education. That’s what we call a dumb “smart” person.
Paul Gossar or George Santos did NOT call for gangs to attack federal law enforcement and praise people waving Mexican flags on top of burning police cars. Come on man. You can't be that dumb.
I've also heard that Gen Z is more conservative than previous generations and not just the men either. Here the great Jeff Childers discusses a NY Times article about the Young Women’s Leadership Summit:
What Cuomo did during Covid should have landed him in jail. He lied to Federal Health authorities on the number of deaths in NY due to Covid to make himself look good.
As bad as the Federal government's response to Covid was, it wasn't helped be being fed false information from a Governor with higher political aspirations.
And then the "people" chose Hochul. Just when it was thought that it couldn't get worse than under Cuomo. Hopefully NY has hit rock bottom at this point and can start reversing direction. . .
Living in AZ, I fully understand stolen elections, cartels, communists, dubious wins of fringe candidates, but NY also reminder Islamic terrorism is HERE: 'This was an election rigged by leftists in a series of ways, from ranked choice voting, to whatever actually happened today. It wouldn’t be the first time an election was stolen in the city. It won’t be the last. But it’s probably the first time it was stolen, not just by Communists, but by Islamic terrorists. ~ https://www.frontpagemag.com/new-york-citys-highly-dubious-mayoral-race/
Our liberal / Democrat class always follows the lead of France. They are all Francophile wannabes. So, watch the disaster in France, the 20%+ Islamization and that is where America is headed. It will get ugly for Christians and Jews in the future. See Syria and South Sudan for an example. Of course all the gay and trans people that make up much of the Progressives in America will also be exterminated. But for some reason, they do not see that obvious future
I don't live in NYC anymore. I did during Giuliani and Bloomberg's terms and it was a lot of fun. Never feared for my safety. Streets were clean. The mentally ill were spotted ranting in the streets on occasion, but for the most part they were being taken off the streets -- were they getting help? I have no idea. I was having too much fun living in NYC as a young, single, creative guy to honestly care back then.
I still go into the city for work on occasion. My wife commutes in 3 days a week. It's not nice. While I don't feel unsafe, I do see a lot of unstable people wandering around. You have to spot them coming and get out of their way. Cross the street. Go into a store. Just avoid them. If you've lived here long enough, you know if you catch their eye, they will key in on you and begin ranting and pursuing you for a reaction. Especially, if you're white these days. Again, I don't feel like I'm in end times, but I'm hyper aware that there's a shift and a lot of mentally ill folks walking the streets.
I guess my long-winded point here is if this degrades further because someone takes control who wants to decrease police presence, I don't think people are being dramatic about businesses fleeing.
My wife's company has already opened up offices in Texas and Florida. If they offer it to her, we may consider it. Living near NYC for the access to art and museums doesn't have the same luster for me as it had when I was younger. Everything feels like too much for us now. The commuting is a grind. The mentally ill being allowed to do whatever they want is stressful to see and deal with. I won't go near a Subway. Neither will my wife.
What I do know is that this guy is going to be the next Mayor. He's appealing to under-40 college-educated (especially women) who are terminally online and easily swayed. This wasn't an organic grassroots campaign -- this was a slickly produced social media ad that appealed to the people who care enough to leave their house to vote for a few minutes. They will show up in November for him.
The Republican candidate is a joke. Curtis Sliwa should drop out so he doesn't siphon any votes from Mayor Adams. Mayor Adams, for all his faults, is NYC's last hope right now. I don't see him winning because Brooklyn females under 40 are deciding this election. Why? Because they've all bought into the lie that the Democrats have sold them. They have no husbands. No children. No religion. No real sense of community outside of the communities TikTok makes them feel they are a part of. They're angry with no sense of purpose and when a guy like this with well-produced content shows up, they all get hot and bothered because he promises to fix the things they don't actually care about. They just think they do. They're not going to ride free buses. That's beneath them. They will pass out if he has City run grocery stores and they lose Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. They are faux-activists.
I work, unfortunately, with a lot of these women. Some are nice. Some are not. But the Democratic party is angry, unfulfilled women and gay men who have no purpose. They think the causes they see on the screen are their purpose. They think showing up for this guy for Mayor is a win for them, even though the causes he says he will support don't affect their lives.
Social media is the worst thing to ever happen to humanity.
I was commenting to a friend in Albuquerque as I was leaving the city. I had three reasons that leaving was inevitable, although let it be known I do love NM.
My third reason was the homeless. In downtown Albuquerque, it literally has become similar to a 'zombie apocalypse.' They roam the central corridors of the city, aimless, high, zig zagging, sometimes naked, and they are slowly expanding to all areas of the city. You look upon them and feel pity, and not saying my life is amazing and the way others should live, but I know that living in the streets as an addict was not high on anyone's list. And similar to a zombie apocalypse, when you do encounter them on the streets, you try not to make eye contact, try not to be noticed by them for fear they might notice you and worse, come towards you. And eventually you become numb to these people-they just exist.
Here is the part that I have begun to understand is the worst for us as a caring human-becoming numb to other human suffering. We, as humans are not designed to be numb to suffering. We are not designed to walk past people who need help and to turn and walk away. This is an inhuman state to see other's suffer and do nothing about it. And yet we are powerless to fight the drugs, the policies, the politics, and so on at least directly. The way that I can affect change is to no longer put my tax dollars to bad policies, and to vote for people that I think will make a change. I have done both.
The Democrat Party is now run by shrill, hard Leftist feminist Progressives.
Most are not religious, but it is curious that their Progressivism has become their religion. It gives them a sense of purpose, a feeling of "belonging."
The most outspoken Democrats are all angry, out of control women. Toe their line, or you will be cancelled. Only soy boys need apply!
I hate to agree with you, but you are so right. What angers me about these idiotic women is all the Democrats have to do is shriek “abortion” and they come running like rats to a corpse. They are angry about basically nothing, yet their anger is fueled by fake online outrage. I know some of them and they scare me.
What is it about big cities that turns them blue? Why this many insane voters? Is life so easy in big cities that people lose touch with reality? Too many renters and not enough owners? These are many of the same people that vote for AOC....
I have been here 10 years now. Most miserable decade of my life and I'm old. I have seen corruption in every GOVT agency from HUD to the courts system and everything in-between. Having had the privilege to live in 3 states. I noticed right away a HUUUGE problem w/NY people. Everyone I have met is on 'mental health meds- (some are taking 3 different ones??!!!) or a victim of DV!!
"There is no such thing as conspiracy. There is no such thing as coincidence."
The sick and downtrodden will stick to their own. All I know is I DO NOT BELONG NOR FIT THE CULTURE HERE.
Big cities no longer make stuff. The high end is legal and finance (plus tech in some places), the low end is welfare and in the middle is struggling service industry. Plus they are a theme park for 20 somethings and the theme is sex. This does not lead to a healthy economy or politics.
I think you nailed it Richard...all the above. Promiscuous sex is a selfish act of sin and youngsters got no idea today that it is not healthy, that it turns to selfish lust, that they should repent of it, refrain from it. Unrepentant sinners, reprobates, become 'blinded' to the truth -- its Biblical. II Corinth 4:3-4 , and other places.
Big cities: no accountability, everybody does it....me, me, me. Dems will give ME more....
NY mayoral democratic primary = US election 2020. There is literally NO way NYC will elect a Republican. If Mamdani can win the primary, they can fix the election in November. That's what all those illegal voters are for.
Gotta love it. The best way to rid this country of the Left is to wall them up legislatively in their urban cancer cells and force them to live on the insanity they want to impose on the country. The catch? They have to do it on their own dime. No free speech, no children, no beef, no oil or oil based products, no internal combustion engines, just wind and solar to power their batteries. They'll disappear in one generation.
New York City is screwed. I have the same queasy feeling about Mamdani's surprise victory as I did when DiBlasio was first elected mayor. From the relative peace and prosperity of the two decades under Giuliani and Bloomberg, I had a sense of impending doom for Gotham when DiBlasio won. And I was right. I wish I had not been right because my daughter and her family often had to venture across the George Washington Bridge from New Jersey and do business in town.
Mamdani is a damned socialist and a Muslim to boot. There are two million Jews in the Big Apple, many of them with considerable assets. I'll bet they will be a little nervous to watch a privileged Gen. Z socialist with an anti-Israel bias take up residence in Gracie Mansion. Capital will now flee the city; how is Mamdani going to pay for the handouts that he has promised now that the tax base will thin out?
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.”
Margaret Thatcher
I'm sure that looting "Government Grocery stores," will be a big city sport. A great new way to "Get Back at the Man," at taxpayer expense! Who couldn't love that???
Sad thing is, actual REAL businesses, who are getting pummeled with theft, close. I don't expect government stores to have that common sense, though.
Then you hear, "Those companies are so racist--they move out of the bad city areas and create food deserts."
Expect theft to be tolerated, because the city will pick up the tab. New way to "get back at the Man."
When you expect NO responsibility for anything, this is what you get.
NYC to taxpayers:
"You LOSE. You GET NOTHING. Good day, Sir!"
I find it astonishing when Americans criticize socialism when they get nothing for handing over their paychecks to the government. The 1% live off the rest of us, what is that called?
Actually, you live off of them. The 1% pay 65% of our taxes.
Your math does not add up.
Sounds like you live on Fantasy Island.
Absolutely. But, the socialist/marxist never believe it….and their leaders never seem to run out of money for themselves.
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OK maybe this is worth my looking, but seriously - if you give me an anonymous link, but you cannot bother to tell me what I will get out of it I really do just ignore it. WHAT IS IT??
And by the time i get to this point, I don't care.
Either click on it, or don't.
If you can't bother, then stop complaining.
I DID look. You twit. And as expected, I got nothing substantial from it. I have learned from experience who is, and who is not, trustworthy. You are not.
I'm so sorry that the gif triggered you.
Go back to your safe space, if you can't handle it, here. 😂
I'd be willing to bet that a fair number of those Jews are of the self-loathing Steven Spielberg variety and will be all too willing to appease the Islamists until it is too late – and it will be all too deserved.
I call them "Soros Jews".
Jews who would literally work for Hitler.
Over correction for Hitler and the Bolshevik immigration from Russia and Eastern Europe. In any case, front end boomers phasing out now.
Their "self-loathing" toward Jews will once the have to deal with "other-loathing" toward Jews. But by then it will too late.
Hello FL, TX, TN, NC, etc. Ait conditioning changed America.
We're good. Stay up there. Got enough people down here already.
No kidding. We’re getting flooded with escapees….and too many of them vote for the same situation they left.
Yep. Leave us alone.
It is time to have a national divorce.
Compared to Mad Man I DeBlasio is Giuliani. That's how bad it is. Looks like its going to take total ruin for the country to wake up. I hope I live long enough for the recovery. Assuming it happens.
Mamdani is WORSE than DiBlasio, who was very bad. It is going to be beyond ugly. Sasha, get out your movie references like "Batman Returns" and "Fort Apache, the Bronx". You will be able to use them prolifically in coming years.
Escape From New York was ahead of its time.
New York will be a shithole city within 2 years. This is what happens when you give everyone a trophy for participation. Trump hopefully will not bail them out this time. Fortunately he can't run for President. Snake Plisskan standby!
"The Warriors," one of my favorites.
I first moved to NYC back in the bad old days. Got married. Emigrated. Got divorced. Returned. I came back to a different city. Years later, I would read a young person on Reddit talking about the "movie" New York, completely convinced it was never like that. Yes, it was.
"The Message."
https://youtu.be/PobrSpMwKk4?si=3vS5tdcxr98jRhiR
Because it's our largest city, the center of finance and other industries, and it survived near bankruptcy in the seventies, New York thinks it's immune to the problems that have plagued other cities. I'm afraid they are about to find out otherwise.
I haven't been a big fan of Adams, but Mamdavi makes me glad I left New York.
Watch the NYC municipal bond market tank.
The city will fail and accelerate the fall of the entire Democratic Party. 2026 and 2028 Republicans will point to the failures and Democrats will have no convincing responses.
Then the Jews should have gotten their asses out to vote.
"Capital will now flee the city"
NYC's (and America's) movers and shakers created the problem, as they've been the ones with the power to do so. This site talks about it, and how Trump was eventually elected in response. The inconvenient truth here is that Mamdani's election is an *exact mirror* of Trump's, but with a different constituency and "solution". Trump's "solutions" are going nowhere, and so will Mamdani's, because they're both lopsided, angry flailing.
So now, after those movers and shakers creating big piles of shit the last five decades all over America, with the corruption of finance, law, media, education, and more, we must accept, and adopt, the sociopathic attitudes of individualist nomads toward society? We don't like it, so we run away? And we who are asked to just "take it", are to remain Stockholm syndrome victims? Well, that's how the US was hollowed out and handed over to China, along with a dozen other major problems.
"Trump's solutions are going nowhere." Explain.
Weak stuff A-H. Your comments are nothing more than simple talking points of the current DNC. Yes, Trump has his idiosyncrasies (quirks). Well, so what…..
During my 70+ years the U.S.A. has only been recently been led been led by such a utterly fearless, highly intelligent individual and natural politician (Reagan fits that mold, but that was nearly 50 years ago.) Why now for a leader like Trump ? Well since the mid-60’s, I’ve witnessed the U.S. society largely go down the path laid out by legacy government institutions created by The Great Society (some may rightly opine since The New Deal; that’s before my time.). Unfortunately the results have not been good; by most measures our culture has been badly degraded. Trump (and those like him) is a necessary corrective.
Whether one like’s his personality, Trump’s courage, energy, drive and vision are very rare for someone his age. The Trump administration is now only 1/8th of the way into their final term. Many of my Boomer generation are glad (no, actually giddy) to see the Trump admin. actively working to tear down and reshape the institutions of our Federal government. Many state leaders in the U.S.A. are now choosing to follow his example.
A-H, we’ll never “see things the same way” and that’s O.K. by me. Although badly degraded, we both are blessed to live in the greatest country in the world. I know this because I’ve traveled to and worked in nearly two dozen countries distributed across every continent on earth.
I don’t know if this former failed rapper who won last night’s NYC’s Democratic Party primary for mayor will eventually win the position, since another election will follow. If he becomes NYC’s mayor and actually attempts to govern as a Socialist, he will fail to improve NYC. Look no further than Chicago, which is now in downward free fall. Socialism: the naive leading the naive.
Have a pleasant day A-H, try not to be so ill-tempered, and remember to count your many blessings as a very fortunate citizen of the U.S.A.
Great comment. I lived in the Soviet Union for 6 months in the 1980’s. If everyone had that experience no one would vote for a socialist. I was not alive for the New Deal either but did a paper on it at university. I went back and read original documents. It was supposed to be temporary to deal with horrible conditions. We know how temporary it was.
"Have a pleasant day A-H..."
Thank you. You as well.
"... try not to be so ill-tempered, and remember to count your many blessings as a very fortunate citizen of the U.S.A."
But if we don't get a good bit more serious than just venting here (because I do), the US is most definitely going down, and if we lose (actual) free speech, that's really the end. We've been tested continuously since 9/11, and have failed every one of these tests.
Circling back: Remember, Mamdani is a symptom, not a cause. Save your ammunition for our actual enemies.
"Trump’s courage, energy, drive and vision are very rare for someone his age."
He's certainly earned a spot in history for being a loose cannon who's dared spilled a lot of the beans about many aspects of our Potemkin government (even when he can't even remember what he said the day before). That's going to be seen as his greatest achievement.
Great comment, but you mistakenly responded to someone else, not Anti-Hip.
"I don’t know if this former failed rapper who won last night’s NYC’s Democratic Party primary for mayor will eventually win the position, since another election will follow. If he becomes NYC’s mayor and actually attempts to govern as a Socialist, he will fail to improve NYC"
I *never* said he would succeed -- in fact, I said the opposite. I meant only that his election -- just like Trump's -- is a SYMPTOM of our increasingly sociopathic *behind-the-scenes* leadership style, where it's become crystal clear no one with (actual) power today cares about the people. (Listen to George Carlin's 2005 "American Dream" speech.)
"Although badly degraded, we both are blessed to live in the greatest country in the world."
Unless one spends significant time in other countries, it is pretty hard to get a fix on this. In which countries have you done this?
"utterly fearless, highly intelligent individual and natural politician (Reagan fits that mold, but that was nearly 50 years ago."
You missed the part where Reagan started going senile during his re-election campaign, and then lost track of it 1985-89 while people like Deaver et al covered up for him. Certainly not as bad as Joe Biden, but unacceptable. No, I'd go back to JFK and Ike for leadership.
JFK didn't fare so well in the end. Trump's avoided it so far, but his term isn't over yet.
"Your comments are nothing more than simple talking points of the current DNC."
This is silly. Did you read my comments on Trump below? Does it sound like something a DNC spokesperson would advocate?
Yeah, your instigating comments were clearly middle of the road, not DNC, to me. I don't think W.A. read them closely or considers 1/4 right to be middle. It's where I am, but I recognize it's not dead middle.
Thank you. I don't really think of myself as "middle", but as trying to call out the BS that has been so thoroughly normalized that we just shrug and accept it. Mamdani's election -- just like Trump's -- speaks to this, no matter how wildly different their beliefs and styles.
It was nothing like this bad 50 years ago, when W.A. Samuel says he also remembers.
Going nowhere for the people that hate America.
The rank-and-file don't actually "hate America", they just follow the saboteurs who instruct them to do this, giving the a Trojan horse ride to create maximum chaos for an eventual drastic weakening of federal and local governments.
They are doing this worldwide. As you must know, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, South Africa, the component countries of the EU, etc. etc. are all weaker leadership today, and they'll schmooze you into thinking its all a great thing. They're now trying to do this to Russia, Iran, and every other sovereign country that get in their way. It's about the psychopaths who are panting and salivating an eventual complete control (with complete plausible deniability) over the world.
It isn't rocket science to figure this out, it's simply about getting out the US MSM bubble.
Who is “they?”
Lol, Craig. I think it's "they/ them" LOL 😂😂😂
It is completely unimportant what "identity group[s]" "they" are, and they certainly are NOT any single group. They ARE defined by their actions, which are psychopathic. They include people like the neocons getting us into endless wars for power and wealth; neolibs who want to tie us (the lower 80-90% at least) economically into straitjackets so that we "behave"; poisoners of our environments and foods; speech censors who always have a reason to keep peoples' feelings from being hurt but never a reason for speech to run its course to perform its political function; and many more.
They have always existed, but due to unceasing technological advances, their power is increasingly concentrated. Someday, this may allow them such power that it may simply be impossible to oppose them ever again.
They won't be permitted to work as the Trump admin advertised, because the powers-that-be will twist them into whatever they want. Excellent example is the monstrous mess of the "Big Beautiful Bill", why don't you take a look at the land-grabs, debt-piling, and much more. And how are the actual numbers for illegal immigration deportation going, as opposed to all the theatre? Hey, is that Epstein list out yet? Haven't seen any perp walks. Oh, and how is Trump doing keeping us out of wars? I'm sure that last one will be spun madly for a year or two or three, but when the fog clears, we'll understand what happened to us for the umpteenth time in two decades.
That's just off the top of my head. Need I go on? But I've got to get to work soon, like the other chumps funding our epic fiascos.
How much is umpteen? How does dropping bombs for a few hours constitute a war? Trump is anti-war more than any president in my 69 years. The mental midgets prior to Trump did not have the gonadle structure to eliminate the bomb. Had the quivering pansies before him in all nations followed Trump’s lead to get out of the Iran nuclear agreement th
Going nowhere.... 😆 Haha 🤣
He will pay with local tax money until all the taxpayers leave, then he will get federal money once Trump is out. Communism never sleeps.
The democrats are in danger of becoming a footnote in history books. The US is the strongest country in the world because it supports entrepreneurial business and competitive capitalism while limiting government through the bill of rights while helping the least fortunate.
We need a strong two party system
That provides a counter to the GOP, maybe a party that doubles down on individual liberty but with a modern twist—like hardcore free speech, personal responsibility, and economic freedom, but also tackling issues like tech monopolies or healthcare access without heavy government overreach. It could mix entrepreneurial vibes with practical solutions for the average person, appealing to folks fed up with both big government and corporate cronyism. X has some chatter about “liberty-focused” movements or populist-leaning independents, but nothing solid yet
Even Adams changed his tune after FAFO
This is insanity!
He can always try the Gavin Newsom / California solution: claw back assets 10 years after someone moves out of state.
Mamdani is technically a Millennial, but I agree with the rest.
Satan is in control. It is going along as told to us. And they win because it is organized evil and has supernatural power and information. Other than being supernatural, how could Jasmine Crockett be that dumb? She is almost as dumb as Eric Swallwell.
The good news is, if you know Christ you win for eternity. All we are doing now is keeping a finger in the dike of a planet sized tsunami that can’t be stopped. Evil must win, proving we are helpless in our earthly form. The prince of peace is our big victory. Evil will be destroyed forever. Be on the right side of the fence. Now.
If God is all powerful why does Satan win at all? Because Satan is called “the god (small g) of this world. He has the reign of it for a time.
Putting your faith in non-life creating every living thing and the first cell creating DNA. You know that is nonsense. It won’t help you on judgement day. Nor will any of the religions who point you to no real hope.
If he is elected as expected, New York City will go bankrupt. And the federal government had better not bail the city out. When people vote for someone this obviously evil, they should face the consequences of that, not taxpayers from other states.
You would think NYC would have learned its lesson after the disaster that was Bill de Blasio.
The only possible piece of good news about this is that this gives an Independent or even Republican candidate a strong chance of winning in September.
It gives Adams a shot. Curtis Sliwa has no chance. Someone like Michael Bloomberg would have a chance.
I’ll be holding my nose and voting for Adams and then hopefully moving to Florida by the end of 2026 either way. At best, Adams can hold back the tide for 4 more years. But NYC has changed and it isn’t going to change back.
Woketards don’t learn. They just scream harder
I think the current Mayor, who is sensible on a good day, is running for re-election as a Republican. So, yes, there is hope.
Independent
One of the problems in New York is a lack of institutional memory. There are always new people coming in and they are Tabula Rasa as far as previous eras of New York are concerned. I wonder what any of these people would say if you asked them about New York under Ed Koch, or about the Daily News headline, "FORD TO NEW YORK: DROP DEAD," or about a certain flamboyant real estate developer who invested in New York City when others were fleeing.
City Journal had an interesting article: The Fading Lessons of New York's Fiscal Crisis https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-york-fiscal-crisis-1970s-migrants-welfare-costs
Trump should start selling of his New York assests/businesses.
Yes-- get out, while the getting's good.
Yes, the wealthy in NYC that should have known better voted for the Democrats over the last thirty years because it was easier to abdicate their position of greater intelligence and education, take the easy path and make tons of money than to make sound voting decisions.
NYC is much much like Rome around 300 AD.
Exactly. Not only were they lazy voters -- they were lazy citizens.
Here's another idea for the so-called "liberals": LEAD YOUR PEOPLE! And all of them, not just your most entertaining "pets"! Stop cattle-herding them with Machiavellian mind-f*ckery! Re-learn, also, what noblesse oblige was about, and where it once *worked*, for leaders who actually gave a damn about their constituents. Meanwhile, you can't just let people run amok with their "feelings" about things when some of those are that are ignorant, there needs to be an *interactive* process for all classes in healthy societies to come to rough agreement on the extent of knowledge, of what's true, what's false, what's right, what's wrong.
God, the 21st century is getting so damn twisted and psychopathic!
You need look no further than today's wokeness... Boys put on a dress and suddenly become girls. Men can become pregnant. Progressives...WTF?
The more the left sticks their noses in the rabbit hole of Marxism, the easier the midterms become.
The NY State government will have to bail them out, I think. Not the Fed.
Yeah, then just wait...
Just like California, and Illinois, New York will expect the federal government to bail them out 😡
Is it bad enough yet? Looks like NY is about to find out.
DeBlasio to Adams, “hold my beer”.
Adams to Mamdani, “hold his beer”.
Mamdani to his constituents, “Here, have a free beer”.
Heaven and Hell can be had in this world.
Not sure about the heaven part. It can be promised but not delivered.
AI will bring us heaven.
Not sure what your core beliefs are, but if you believe that, you will fall for any shine trinket that some puppet master dangles before you. I would be careful
This sounds very Heaven's Gate.
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AI is doubling its capabilities every 6 months. That’s called exponential growth. That’s the wild card in our future which is already upon us.
How long before they come out with a more competent "Seva" model? 🤔
It’s a very old Yiddish proverb
On top of the $9 congestion fee, they raised the toll on the Lincoln Tunnel from about $13 to $18. I am paying nearly $1,000 (including parking) a month to get to and from work each month.
what a crime,,,I hope you're making the big bucks
So by moving to Jersey you get a $12k raise? Maybe not everyone will bite on that proposition but surely some will. City finances depend on the marginal taxpayer just like business profit depends on the marginal customer.
No, you misunderstood. Because I live in NJ and work in NYC, I have to pay $12,000 a year to get to and from work. I have four options: suck it up and pay, get a new job in NJ, move to NYC or move out of the area entirely. I am 61, so I will suck it up for two years and then move out of the area entirely.
What keeps your job in NYC?
"Move out of the area," for the Win!
NYC, not the larger geographic areas of Upstate NY. The urban areas will become "socialist paradise", the rural areas, not.
NYC runs the state just as Chicago runs and ruins Illinois.
I know, rural NY is very similar to rural PA. If it weren't for NYC, NY would be dark red.
That can be fixed. All it takes is the will to do it. "Sanctuary Counties," the conservative way.
Not so easy to do it when so many want it this way.
The "so many" are in NYC.
Paradise,,,for like ten people
It would be one thing if the city wasn’t a place that many rely on. How will airlines re-align for one thing? Shipping? All the stuff that can not be done electronically.
Airlines? Who goes through the NYC area anymore except if it is the end destination?
It's a hub for several airlines.
"The New York metropolitan area has the busiest airport system in the U.S. and the second busiest in the world after London. NYC is also the most frequently used port of entry and departure for international flights."
The Port of New York and New Jersey is also very important for cargo.
On the plus side, I don't think the mayor has much effect on those things.
How long is the Atlantic coastline?
Mamdani will never be able to "deliver on what he promises" because communism doesn't work. It's never worked and it never will work because it goes contrary to human nature. The only way to make it "seem" to work is with through cruel, cut-throat (sometimes literally), vicious, demonic ways......like Lenin did when he fed and clothed all those in Russia by making the Ukrainians send all their grain and meat and food to Russia, so that Ukrainians all starved to death (or ate those who were dead to try and stay alive).
Yep, which is another way of saying, they eventually run out of other people's money.
Love that saying by Margaret Thatcher. How evil it was for Meryl Streep to play her the way she did!
Don’t forget, the New York Times vigorously denied there was mass starvation in Ukraine at the time Stalin moved all the grain out of Ukraine.
The NYC bloated bureaucracy, many many regulations, and many many big competing egos and interests will also tie his hands. Easy to talk big with promises. Wait till he has to actually govern....and NYC no less.
“and it never will work because it goes contrary to human nature.”
But it’s also deeply embedded in human nature which is why it’s always so popular. Only AI can resolve this dilemma and save us from ourselves.
You keep talking about AI being the end all, cure for everything.
Explain how AI will bring us utopia
Ilya Sutskever, one of the world’s top AI scientists, says the “emergence phenomenon” of complexity emerging from simplicity is also a tailwind for AI acceleration. This means Mother Nature is at work helping to save us and this is a very powerful tailwind.
“Ilya Sutskever Calls for SuperAlignment Before Data Centers Evolve Into Artificial Life.” (8 min)
Financial Wise. May 20, 2025
https://youtu.be/n13GppYIMg4?si=UQ3PAU45dqcOUZv0
“Jon and Vangelis-I hear you now.” (5 min)
https://youtu.be/pwPwXdz2qeA
🤣
AI will force socialism as well because with the level of automation and non-need for humans where do you put millions?
It won’t be socialism since there’ll be plenty for everyone.
I'd ask for some of whatever you're drinking, but I have bills to pay...
You're a one-trick troll....I won't degrade ponies.
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You’re too dense to deal with. Can you even count past 4?
Ocasio-Cortez Appears On 'The Price Is Right,' Guesses Everything Is Free
Keep dreaming about socialism... 🙄
Have you ever heard of AI?
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https://babylonbee.com/news/ocasio-cortez-appears-on-price-is-right-guesses-everything-is-free
Yeah. It would be a good idea if the grocery stores in NYC relocated out of the city. The government grocery stores prices coming will be subsidized by the city taxes.
Let the people suffer for their stupidity.
I'm sure that looting "Government Grocery stores," will be a big city sport. A great new way to "Get Back at the Man," at taxpayer expense! Who couldn't love that???
Sad thing is, actual REAL businesses, who are getting pummeled with theft, close. I don't expect government stores to have that common sense, though.
Then you hear, "Those companies are so racist--they move out of the bad city areas and create food deserts."
Expect theft to be tolerated, because the city will pick up the tab. New way to "get back at the Man."
When you expect NO responsibility for anything, this is what you get.
NYC to taxpayers:
"You LOSE. You GET NOTHING. Good day, Sir!"
In England, we have a country in the gutter. We fought for Brexit and a break from the globalists (we kicked obama's ass in the process) and then watched gutless conservatives throw it away.
We are trying though. We are lifting the REFORM UK party and winning the working class ex Labour vote while crushing the tories...the point is we're doing it with same day, paper ballots and IDs for polling.
I feel sorry for all of the wise people of the UK who understood before all of their EU counterparts just how anti-democratic the EU is. And how were those UK patriots rewarded? Their elite betters purposely failed to capitalize on the opportunities of Brexit to teach their neanderthal voters not to f*ck with their global plans.
I hope Reform can deliver you.
Yes, the Conservatives threw it all away, much like the RINOs have tried to do it here. That's the problem when you have a Uniparty...
We're fortunate. Trump came along at exactly the right time, and we are replacing Republicans-in-Name-Only with American Patriots. Still a ways to go, but I hope the ship keeps turning around.
Globalism has been so destructive to western Europe. The only countries with any sense are Hungary and Poland, and hopefully you guys recover!
We have protest marches broken up by the police as the scandal of a child sex ring was hidden by the present politicians. In Ireland it looks like the country has found something to unite North and South.. Catholic and Protestant. England is protesting but only the working class.
America, the PRESIDENT, and American citizens are once again the last hope...but you're going to be fighting the embedded mercenaries and the even worse judiciary.
Whenever there are riots in France, the media always calls it "youth protesters."
Tell the truth.
Muslim protesters.
In England, if you try to protect your family, and get the word out, you're persecuted like Tommy Robinson.
Globalists are evil
Truth...
The deep state is totally against the changes.
I know what you guys are up against too. But globalists and the government have definitely hidden the race of all the child, sex, molesters and predators.
People over there have to wake up and realize that Europe seems to be importing its own demise. I hope it isn't too far gone.
Trump is the embedded mercenary with all his billionaire buddies.
You mean zuckerbucks, bezos, gates, and the billionaires that funded obama, clinton, and obama 2020. They switched sides because like Jake Tapper they knew biden was disease ridden and the Kamal had no chance. They were your billionaires
Free ice cream for everybody works out fine until the tax base moves out - then the whole thing collapses. In Eastern Europe, they used barbed wire fences, dogs, and minefields to keep the productive classes in. This eventually failed when the productive classes said "you pretend to pay us, we pretend to work." The only problem remaining is keeping the dependent classes in and not infesting the rest of the country.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is becoming real.
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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
He also said…
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
We might be approaching that point.
See! Democrats hate America. What more proof does anyone need?
So FDR hated America?
FDR didn't hate America. Neither did Truman, nor did JFK & Bill Clinton. But that was yesterday's Democrat Party. This weak excuse of a party beginning with an empty suit community organizer, then a brain dead cadaver, and lastly a proven prostitute is not that party.
FDR was one of the first to want to greatly increase the taxes on the productive to pay the unproductive. There wasn't the empirical evidence to show that the productive will only continue to produce up to a point. He also did not have empirical evidence to show just how much of the tax revenue will be siphoned off by the grifters and campaign contributors before it reaches the unproductive.
He was for socialism the very point you and Sasha hate
"FDR's" social security program set the first date for eligibility for benefits at age 65 when average life expectancy was 62.
There is a huge difference between government programs that help people who cannot help themselves -- the mentally and physically disabled, the elderly -- and socialism.
Don't confuse that brain dead troll with the truth.
In addition to your astute observation, FDR said he did not want Social Security to be the sole source of retirement income for seniors.
That is why SSI, the program’s real initials, stand for SUPPLEMENTAL Security Income. It was never meant to mean all of one’s income. Also, I think they made a huge mistake linking disability to SSI.
Well everything else got ruined so SS has become its last leg.
To which many GOP dont care either otherwise they would of solved the insolvency issue already
Trump is working on it. A big part of the coming "insolvency" of Social Security and Medicare, is people who are not eligible for it, who are getting benefits, i.e, illegal aliens.
That's a great way right there to turn the ship around on that as far as insolvency goes.
As long as we are Cherry picking I pick "Cynthia Gonzalez" as your typical democrat elected official. She openly called for gangsters to attack federal officials in LA. You need to wake up and realize the Democrat party is the Anti-American America LAST party.
Yes, and this genius Cynthia Gonzalez has a bachelor’s degree, two masters degrees, and a doctorate in education. That’s what we call a dumb “smart” person.
Shes not a leader of the party in no way better than Paul Gossar or George Santos was.
Paul Gossar or George Santos did NOT call for gangs to attack federal law enforcement and praise people waving Mexican flags on top of burning police cars. Come on man. You can't be that dumb.
Paul Gossar made a mod of killing Biden and other democrats
commendable
One more from the genius of H.L. Mencken:
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears, or wishes rather than with their minds.”
This is true of most Democrats
I've also heard that Gen Z is more conservative than previous generations and not just the men either. Here the great Jeff Childers discusses a NY Times article about the Young Women’s Leadership Summit:
About 1/4 of the way down:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-bourne-coincydink-monday-june
And we all know how the Dems are fretting about how to attract young men.
So is Gen Z bifurcating with not much of a center?
And as far as Cuomo as the main alternative goes, as South Park would say, it was a choice between a sh*t sandwich and a giant d0uche.
How to attract young men, Democrats.... Hmmm 🤔🤔
Maybe young men aren't as stupid as Democrats think.
30 plus years, denigrating men.
Everything wrong is due to men, especially white men.
Ads on TV always make the woman out to be the genius, and men are always idiots.
The most outspoken "leaders" in the Democrat party, are all shrill Leftist feminist Progressives.
Maybe men have woken up, and figured out that they've been taken for granted for TOO long by the Democrat party. ABOUT TIME!
Shrill angry women run the party, now. Follow the narrative, or be cancelled.
Only soy boys need apply.
What Cuomo did during Covid should have landed him in jail. He lied to Federal Health authorities on the number of deaths in NY due to Covid to make himself look good.
As bad as the Federal government's response to Covid was, it wasn't helped be being fed false information from a Governor with higher political aspirations.
And then the "people" chose Hochul. Just when it was thought that it couldn't get worse than under Cuomo. Hopefully NY has hit rock bottom at this point and can start reversing direction. . .
Who the heck votes in NYC? The stock brokers and bankers? The merchants? The workers who I assume can't afford to live there?
Illegals??
College students?
Living in AZ, I fully understand stolen elections, cartels, communists, dubious wins of fringe candidates, but NY also reminder Islamic terrorism is HERE: 'This was an election rigged by leftists in a series of ways, from ranked choice voting, to whatever actually happened today. It wouldn’t be the first time an election was stolen in the city. It won’t be the last. But it’s probably the first time it was stolen, not just by Communists, but by Islamic terrorists. ~ https://www.frontpagemag.com/new-york-citys-highly-dubious-mayoral-race/
Our liberal / Democrat class always follows the lead of France. They are all Francophile wannabes. So, watch the disaster in France, the 20%+ Islamization and that is where America is headed. It will get ugly for Christians and Jews in the future. See Syria and South Sudan for an example. Of course all the gay and trans people that make up much of the Progressives in America will also be exterminated. But for some reason, they do not see that obvious future
I don't live in NYC anymore. I did during Giuliani and Bloomberg's terms and it was a lot of fun. Never feared for my safety. Streets were clean. The mentally ill were spotted ranting in the streets on occasion, but for the most part they were being taken off the streets -- were they getting help? I have no idea. I was having too much fun living in NYC as a young, single, creative guy to honestly care back then.
I still go into the city for work on occasion. My wife commutes in 3 days a week. It's not nice. While I don't feel unsafe, I do see a lot of unstable people wandering around. You have to spot them coming and get out of their way. Cross the street. Go into a store. Just avoid them. If you've lived here long enough, you know if you catch their eye, they will key in on you and begin ranting and pursuing you for a reaction. Especially, if you're white these days. Again, I don't feel like I'm in end times, but I'm hyper aware that there's a shift and a lot of mentally ill folks walking the streets.
I guess my long-winded point here is if this degrades further because someone takes control who wants to decrease police presence, I don't think people are being dramatic about businesses fleeing.
My wife's company has already opened up offices in Texas and Florida. If they offer it to her, we may consider it. Living near NYC for the access to art and museums doesn't have the same luster for me as it had when I was younger. Everything feels like too much for us now. The commuting is a grind. The mentally ill being allowed to do whatever they want is stressful to see and deal with. I won't go near a Subway. Neither will my wife.
What I do know is that this guy is going to be the next Mayor. He's appealing to under-40 college-educated (especially women) who are terminally online and easily swayed. This wasn't an organic grassroots campaign -- this was a slickly produced social media ad that appealed to the people who care enough to leave their house to vote for a few minutes. They will show up in November for him.
The Republican candidate is a joke. Curtis Sliwa should drop out so he doesn't siphon any votes from Mayor Adams. Mayor Adams, for all his faults, is NYC's last hope right now. I don't see him winning because Brooklyn females under 40 are deciding this election. Why? Because they've all bought into the lie that the Democrats have sold them. They have no husbands. No children. No religion. No real sense of community outside of the communities TikTok makes them feel they are a part of. They're angry with no sense of purpose and when a guy like this with well-produced content shows up, they all get hot and bothered because he promises to fix the things they don't actually care about. They just think they do. They're not going to ride free buses. That's beneath them. They will pass out if he has City run grocery stores and they lose Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. They are faux-activists.
I work, unfortunately, with a lot of these women. Some are nice. Some are not. But the Democratic party is angry, unfulfilled women and gay men who have no purpose. They think the causes they see on the screen are their purpose. They think showing up for this guy for Mayor is a win for them, even though the causes he says he will support don't affect their lives.
Social media is the worst thing to ever happen to humanity.
Great observation, partner.......keep the faith. America is far from ruin despite these freeloaders.
I was commenting to a friend in Albuquerque as I was leaving the city. I had three reasons that leaving was inevitable, although let it be known I do love NM.
My third reason was the homeless. In downtown Albuquerque, it literally has become similar to a 'zombie apocalypse.' They roam the central corridors of the city, aimless, high, zig zagging, sometimes naked, and they are slowly expanding to all areas of the city. You look upon them and feel pity, and not saying my life is amazing and the way others should live, but I know that living in the streets as an addict was not high on anyone's list. And similar to a zombie apocalypse, when you do encounter them on the streets, you try not to make eye contact, try not to be noticed by them for fear they might notice you and worse, come towards you. And eventually you become numb to these people-they just exist.
Here is the part that I have begun to understand is the worst for us as a caring human-becoming numb to other human suffering. We, as humans are not designed to be numb to suffering. We are not designed to walk past people who need help and to turn and walk away. This is an inhuman state to see other's suffer and do nothing about it. And yet we are powerless to fight the drugs, the policies, the politics, and so on at least directly. The way that I can affect change is to no longer put my tax dollars to bad policies, and to vote for people that I think will make a change. I have done both.
The Democrat Party is now run by shrill, hard Leftist feminist Progressives.
Most are not religious, but it is curious that their Progressivism has become their religion. It gives them a sense of purpose, a feeling of "belonging."
The most outspoken Democrats are all angry, out of control women. Toe their line, or you will be cancelled. Only soy boys need apply!
I hate to agree with you, but you are so right. What angers me about these idiotic women is all the Democrats have to do is shriek “abortion” and they come running like rats to a corpse. They are angry about basically nothing, yet their anger is fueled by fake online outrage. I know some of them and they scare me.
Yes, sad. What happens when they make all their decisions based on emotions, not logic.
"escape from new york"
I gotta get out!
#EliseStefanik ✅️ -Gov NYS
#CurtisSliwa ✅️ -Mayor NYC
Please VOTE 11/4/25!!! I am truly concerned whether THIS primary today was FIXED
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THERE ARE THIS MANY INSANE voters.
BE SAFE AND WELL TO ALL!!
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Great article Sasha!!! ThankQ
'There are this many insane voters.'
What is it about big cities that turns them blue? Why this many insane voters? Is life so easy in big cities that people lose touch with reality? Too many renters and not enough owners? These are many of the same people that vote for AOC....
I have been here 10 years now. Most miserable decade of my life and I'm old. I have seen corruption in every GOVT agency from HUD to the courts system and everything in-between. Having had the privilege to live in 3 states. I noticed right away a HUUUGE problem w/NY people. Everyone I have met is on 'mental health meds- (some are taking 3 different ones??!!!) or a victim of DV!!
"There is no such thing as conspiracy. There is no such thing as coincidence."
The sick and downtrodden will stick to their own. All I know is I DO NOT BELONG NOR FIT THE CULTURE HERE.
Thx MB. Now I know why the MSM are all twisted as they are. They all based in NYC. They live in that cocoon of corruption.
Check this out
https://x.com/realrabbilinda/status/1937736540681105821?s=46
Everyone knows the legal system in New York is corrupt.
Big cities no longer make stuff. The high end is legal and finance (plus tech in some places), the low end is welfare and in the middle is struggling service industry. Plus they are a theme park for 20 somethings and the theme is sex. This does not lead to a healthy economy or politics.
I think you nailed it Richard...all the above. Promiscuous sex is a selfish act of sin and youngsters got no idea today that it is not healthy, that it turns to selfish lust, that they should repent of it, refrain from it. Unrepentant sinners, reprobates, become 'blinded' to the truth -- its Biblical. II Corinth 4:3-4 , and other places.
Big cities: no accountability, everybody does it....me, me, me. Dems will give ME more....
Hell, I didn't understand it when I was that age a long time ago. Fortunately, I hated cities for other reasons
NY mayoral democratic primary = US election 2020. There is literally NO way NYC will elect a Republican. If Mamdani can win the primary, they can fix the election in November. That's what all those illegal voters are for.
Exactly
This is the fear. The fear IS REAL.
Gotta love it. The best way to rid this country of the Left is to wall them up legislatively in their urban cancer cells and force them to live on the insanity they want to impose on the country. The catch? They have to do it on their own dime. No free speech, no children, no beef, no oil or oil based products, no internal combustion engines, just wind and solar to power their batteries. They'll disappear in one generation.
NO BAILOUT WHEN THEY GO BANKRUPT!
They'll move to Florida and Texas and spoil them.
Florida is a terrible place to relocate! Stay put! Don't come!
🤣 See ya in a month or so!
I need an update! What's the scoop?
Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!