Trump is a master. He took Mamdani and that obsequious plastered phony smile of his, wrapped him in a Trump hug and showed everyone in the country exactly who the democrats are, and who their leader is-a smug, entitled Ugandan whose family is worth millions and who lives in a rent controlled apartment in the most expensive city in the country. The let them eat cake version of today’s communist takeover of America, Mamdani. And now, Trump made it known, he is Mamdani’s daddy.
Trump came to maturity while learning how to successfully maneuver through the toughest most vicious real estate market in the Universe. If anyone knows human nature, how to deliver a shiv thru the 3rd and 4th ribs while making look like an embrace or how to deliver a note with a mailed fist inside a velvet glove, it’s our boy T. Did I mention how to deal face to face with some of the most vile human beings on the planet without barfing his kishkas out… no?… well that too.
We’re lucky we got him at this time in history. 3 more years doesn’t seem nearly long enough now does it!
Amen. And Trump also came to maturity during the period the Mafia was being destroyed, especially in New York and nearby New Jersey. I do not know the details of this, but IIRC what I've heard, Rudy Giuliani was central to this destruction of the Mafia when he was a NY prosecutor.
Trump has an outstanding success record with his real estate projects, of which there were over 100. But the Left regularly tries to smear Trump because he had 4 bankruptcies--and IIRC all 4 were related to the Atlantic City, NJ casinos, which was a bastion of Mafia strength. This is purely speculation on my part, but I wonder if Trump deliberately allowed his Atlantic City properties to fail as part of Giuiliani's successful effort to take down the mob. Whether Trump directly participated or only was present during the fray, Trump certainly had first-hand knowledge and experience of the Mafia as well as the vicious NY real estate market. Note that the NY real estate development market likely had to deal with the Mafia alot, in the form of contractors, subcontractors, etc. etc.
All of this contributed to Trump developing into the man he is today--our hero against world thugs of all types.
We had friends who were involved in construction projects in the city and the amount of overlap from Union to city and borough and infrastructure and you name it was mind boggling.
I asked him how it was dealt with and this was his answer…
‘Just after breaking ground, usually within the first 3-4 days, a low level representative, usually from one of the smaller unions would show up. At that point all you had to do was write a cheque. From then on, traffic, police, overlapping jurisdictions, by-llaws, competing union beefs and everything down to the smallest inconvienience seemed to disappear. And it was all written into the cost.
So you are absolutely correct. Just another lesson big DT learned then and apples now.
I do but international engineering firms build all over the place. I intially got involved with him and his family when the Cayman Islands was transitioning from a sleepy little banking haven (honest it was just like someone took a little town from W Texas an dropped in the Caribbean) to the big deal it is today. They built the first electronic toll highway and the Ski Resort at Whistler.
He gives real meaning to FAFO and it makes me laugh every time he makes them crazy with the element of surprise and they are all too stupid to figure out they're being played. Go Trumpy!!! We love you. (insert heart emoji's)
By those numbers, 4 speculative projects out of a hundred going South isn't that bad; and anybody knowledgeable about real estate knows the wisdom of incorporating a separate company for each project. It's ordinary prudence, so one mishap doesn't topple your entire empire.
From personal experience in Atlantic City ,I can tell you in the mid 1970s the mob had a lot of power. We set up a carnival ride on the million $ pier then parked our truck in the A.C.PD parking lot before getting a ride to our hotel in unmarked cruiser. After a night highlighted by hookers coming to my table and explaining it would not cost a dime as they were paid to pleasure us ,no limits but I passed. In the morning we made a call and an unmarked took us back too our truck.
There are two types of people who support socialism, those with nothing, chiefly ambition who want a free meal, and those with large quantities of cash who want to stifle upstarts from challenging their dominance by imposing regulations that destroy competition .
The first are caught, cannot flee, and are mostly unaffected by the results of socialism.
The second are the ones who can and will flee the nest they soiled and repeat the process having learned nothing from the epic disaster they championed.
you may have just posted the comment of the year kind sir....and your likes are indicative of such. some have alluded to this elsewhere (american thinker) but you stated it perfectly.
trump ate his lunch and in the process exposed the democrats for what they are...frauds.
Exactly (or close to it) what I told some friends when they were whining about him letting Mam come to the WH. I marvel how many people STILL don't understand how he operates.
I agree. I grew up in suburban NJ. My two sons, grandson and I had planned a trip to go back there and visit; NJ and NYC. Now it seems unsafe to me but maybe I am over-reacting. There is, after all, safety in numbers and those three guys are young, tough and must might appear to be my body-guards. I think we would limit our visit of the City of the 911 area and take a walk up Broadway. I have done that scores of time in the past. Then buzz back over to NJ; see the home town; go down to the shore and leave out of Philly back to the West. Still considering the trip but still have reservations. One last sail across the Hudson from Hoboken on the ferry; the skyline approaching; that would be special.
The "down the shore" cities should be pretty good, especially the high toned, wealthier ones. I've always had the "be aware" motto my entire life and served me well. common sense?
Pete, you would have fun!! My daughter (26) lives in NYC with loads of kids that age, all employed and having a blast! I have fun there but definitely head-on-a-swivel and stay in safe areas. The bad parts are indeed bad so just stay out of them. She loves that she can walk everywhere she wants to go.
Do it now with your bodyguards and realize it may be the last time it will be somewhat safe but keep eyes peeled and take your pepper spray or a stun gun, lol.
I envy you the trip. Your guys would put a big hurtin' on anyone that bothered you. I last saw NYC in 1963 when the Twins played the NY Yankees in one or two play-off games.
I grew up in Detroit and its environs came to nyc in 1977 - where it was safer. Oh there has been some backsliding. But if this is the thitd world, the world has vastly improved. Nyc has issues... the most dangerous things however, however are the bike lanes...brware.
I have the same feeling. I'm 79 & spent 35 years of my life living in NYC - loved the restaurants & theatre. I left in 1987 & came back to NYC when I worked as a consultant for ConEd from 2016 to 2022. I was stunned at the changes since I left in 1987 - NYC turned into a 3rd world shithole. Now that I'm retired, I won't being going back.
I recently told my daughter "I never thought I'd say I wish we still lived in the '50's" but then I did. Many people today are just feral animals and ruin it for the rest of us. PDJT best be getting this bail, jail, etc. straightened out and start prosecuting criminal...anyone caught illegally with a gun should get an automatic, non=negotiable 10 years in prison. Set an example.
Had a lot of fun up there too; used to jump a train from BWI & take it into Penn Station - hit an audition - then go hit a bar for some liquid libation before hopping on a train back down. Good times & fun stuff.
They’re going to get what they voted for good & hard & deservedly so.
I think the last time I was there some friends and I went especially to attend Pavarotti's free concert in Central Park - what a treasured memory - I'd never choose to step foot in that total mess of a city these days!
Agree and it's an easy train ride from Phila but NO MORE, NO HOW there is nothing there I can't replicate anywhere else and I refuse to give one cent to that hell hole city and those ignoramuses who would vote for a socialist, hater, who never held a job...
I haven’t finished the column yet but I had a gut reaction to this quote from the Lightbringer…
“…that the work that you are doing right now, the investment you’re making, the focus that you’re applying, the issues that you are developing, the interactions that you’re having with your constituencies…”
Can 0bama name one of those things specifically? As far as any of us can see, the demonicrats only work, investment, focus, issues and interactions all boil down to “Orange Man Bad”. They’ve got nothing else. Nothing.
Hey, I was a young white hippie maggot but I grew out of it eventually. At the tender age of 75 I don't believe anything I read or hear and used to believe only half of what I see. With AI, now I don't believe anything I see either. It sucks.
Well no wonder. Those are the boomers who never grew up.
I'm in the same generation, but shook myself out of the fantasist stupor during the mid seventies. Partly through Ayn Rand but also through the sinking in of harsh words in Atlas: "There's your job. Now go pick it off the tree where you think it grows."
I was 20 and looking for work and my fancy degree meant very little. It was much like what GenZ faces now.
Degrees are somewhat meaningless. Too many see them as a guarantee of a good future without realizing they have to compliment the degree with actual hard work and a thinking brain. I never hired the arrogant smart guys and girls. I hired people who had a record of hard work and smart thinking.
I think those old white hippies are hysterical when they do their dance routines in their very-stretched leotards and spandex. Obviously they have no clue how they appear to everyone else and how they literally beclown their own agenda.
Another take by another great pollster. Both Baris and Rasmussen have been screaming this dramatic fall-away of voters for quite some time. I am glad Trump is now listening because the mid-terms are the most important thing to focus on. We lose the House, it's over folks.
Republicans are terrible at expressing what being an American is and what is required to remain one. Young people aren't hearing from us what they need to know about our history and system. They hear the term "socialism" and all they see is "social" and think that is a good thing. Our leaders don't even try to inculcate any of our values in young people. Instead, they allow the leftists who control the educational systems to brainwash them without any challenge. And we pay exorbitant amounts of tax money to them so they can destroy us. We are indeed The Stupid Party.
Way too much group think in the GOP like the Donks. Everyone is afraid of being themselves. MTG should be commended for bucking that system but she couldn’t figure out how to create a coalition of the same people. Both parties suck in that regard. The exception is maybe Fetterman.
I’m not sure what is going on with him but maybe I misjudged him a bit in the past. Maybe. But not sure he will have his own choice on the matter in the future. If the socialist/radical/dumbass Donks gain momentum, they will likely freeze him out of the party functionally. He will probably become a Joe Manchin type Donk. Frankly, Fetterman makes better sense than some on the right too.
You are right about this but it is quite an uphill battle to overcome the “institutional socialism” (my term) deeply rooted in almost all educational systems. By the time a kid can vote, they are brainwashed.
Messaging must be improved, but can’t overcome the “programming” of mushy brains by itself.
Part of the problem is that the public education system stopped teaching Civics and real History. Also, there is no accountability in a lot of places. In my state that is purple, there are now 3 HS degrees. The Ed Dept wanted 6 and the Universities said no. Two of those degrees are basically for showing up and one is for actually doing homework. Teachers are not held accountable neither or the students.
In Oregon, there are now no tests for graduation. There is no demand to show that you can read, write or think. It is in place to 2029 with the recommendation that it is made permanent.
It is a true mess. Charlie was catching them in college which was great and they were seeing their answers didnt make sense, a lot of them anyway.
We have to stop the left from changing the meaning of words and changing up into down and evil into good.
Agree , the rest of the problem is not making the youth work summers and part time jobs . That is where they can begin to understand what an education is all about . Fiscal responsibility makes for a conservative mind set .
I understand your point. Ds are masters of manipulation, using classic communications strategies. Framing, repetition, sound bytes, passion/energy are easily digested and passed on. Rs seem immune to the power therein. They seem to rely on history, knowledge and traditions that have been passed over, subsumed, demonized. I listened to a speech by John Kennedy (of Louisiana) the other day and was stunned by his clarity and humanity. Of course, it was 30 minutes, and an eight second sound byte would not convey much of that. But that there is one cogent person remaining in Congress lifts my spirit, momentarily.
Actually, John Kennedy (the Senator) has said a lot of very effective, succinct and funny things, that only lasted a few seconds. I've accumulated quite a lot of those. So he deserves a bit more credit.
GMTA and ESP, Sam Prentice. Sorry--wrote my Comment replying to Chuck Goldman before I saw your comment. Totally agree, youth "...hear the term "socialism" and all they see is "social" and think that is a good thing." And the communists know that and exploit it big time.
Or as Georgie Boy once gushed (when comparing the Great Lightbringer to George W.), "he speaks in complete sentences". Actually, they were run-on sentences.
With all due respect, he has been schooled. He might be smart, but he is lazy and does not steer his own ship. He would most likely rather do a permanent fade, but his handlers aren’t finished with him.
"Orange Man Bad" is the distraction for the Lightbringers. Like the rattles on the tail of the rattlesnake getting ready to strike. The real target is our Freedom.
You hit it. That’s why Donks talk in generalities generously laced with emotion. They haven’t ever fixed anything. Their one good deed was to give us DJT in desperation.
That's why Harris didn't succeed. She gave me--and many other critical thinking independents--nothing to vote FOR. And since when are you supposed to "develop" issues?? Identify, assess, prioritize, solve. Isn't that the way things work?
Ah, but your fellow independents forgot about all the IMAGINING, and the UNBURDENING, and the TRANSFORMING, and our ALLIANCE WITH THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH KOREA, and AS A WOMAN MYSELF, AND A DAUGHTER OF A WOMAN, AND A GRANDDAUGHTER OF A WOMAN, and let's never forget her command TO SEE THE MOMENT IN TIME IN WHICH WE EXIST AND ARE PRESENT, AND TO BE ABLE TO CONTEXTUALIZE IT, TO UNDERSTAND WHERE WE EXIST IN THE HISTORY AND IN THE MOMENT AS IT RELATES NOT ONLY TO THE PAST BUT THE FUTURE !!!!!!!!!!! Oops, sorry; maybe I COULD have picked something more succinct, like: IT IS TIME FOR US TO DO WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING, AND THAT TIME IS EVERY DAY.
But that is not taught anymore, and Reevaluate is the last step of that cycle.
Dims create a problem, convince people money will fix it, it doesnt. They push more money at it. Usually donors or someone they know are the recipients. And yes, the RINOs do it too.
The other day I was down in the dumps, feeling sorry for myself but I heard a little voice say to me, "Cheer up! Thing could be worse.". So I cheered up! And sure enough things got worse. 😕😎
I like to think I’m an optimist. We engineers have an ancient Latin phrase: “Illegitamenti non carborundum!” (Don’t let the bastards wear you down!)🤣🤣😘
The rise of Ilhan Omar, Tlaib, Mamdani, and the growing muslim population centers across the country are the creation of Barack Hussein Obama, spearheaded by Valerie Jarrett, who aligned with the muslim brotherhood (a member herself) and brought them here to destroy our freedom and liberty.
Not just Repubs making money. All politicians are making insider money. Nancy P. is the leader of the pack. Sadly, nothing is being done to stop it. I suppose if they weren't insider trading they'd steal money some other way.
I just listened to Tuckers interview of a 9/11 widow Kristin Breitweiser and you would be interested at the heart of all the fraud - lawyers which is what politicians are - failed lawyers. Most of the sanctions we place on other countries goes into the pockets of lawyers, not to people such as the survivors of 9/11 victims. Disgusting.
Maxine Waters- Let me be the first to donate $100 for her next vacation. May I suggest a cruise in a banana boat off the coast of Venezuela headed towards the US? I hear the view is wonderful; bright and shiny.
Great column Big D. I find myself caring less and less about the affairs of CONgress and CONgress Critters, so this was insightful. As to “NYC can’t get worse,” I chortled out loud. Mamdani might not be able to implement all of his worst proposals in full, but considering that NYFC’s governing cretins’ impulse are even worse than his - the NYC Council is practically a leftist insane asylum - I expect that the Mayor-elect’s first term will us her in a slow motion train wreck. Other than driving up popcorn futures, the brightest outcome might be to usher in Elise Stefanik into the Governor’s Mansion in 2026. Be nice to have a governor actually living in the place for a change instead of NYFC.
I live in Connecticut after moving here almost 30 years ago from Pittsburgh. Republicans are a very strange breed here and all of New England. They were all neutered several decades ago and are convinced their only role in life is to bow to Democrats and always do their bidding. They are incredibly disgusting wimps. I was a member of a "conservative" meetup group and they were all such linguini-spined RINOs and they thought I was some kind of barbarian.
They are definitely a different breed, and when you see how they are it is very clear why Republicans are a joke up here.
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it Obammy who declared, "At some point, you've made enough money." That was his entire statement but I forget to whom he was speaking.
There is a global network and international power structure whose entire mission is to destroy capitalism and establish socialism on steroids into this country. It has the backing of a multitude of people and organizations who have gazillions of dollars all earmarked specifically to assure that that happens by any means necessary.
They now have “their boy” in place over the financial capital of the world, NYC.
They will do everything in their power to make it appear that he and his policies “appear” successful and brilliant and, most importantly, as an effective and viable alternative to capitalism - at least for the first few years. They will dump money by the bushel loads into his coffers to prop him up and create a facade of success, the ultimate aim of which will be to convince Americans that Socialism is good and and can make life better for them.
Mamdani’s success in his first term in office is looked upon by these “powers that be” as the opportunity of a lifetime, and they’re going to go to the mat to make it appear to work, so other cities and citizens will want to follow suit.
We have a younger generation that is almost wholly ignorant about world history and the devastations brought about upon nations and peoples who succumbed to socialism and communism. Until the American people wake up to the fact that there’s no such thing as “free” anything, and dependence upon government to make your life “better” is akin to becoming a slave to that government, and all your rights and freedoms are gradually stripped away, they will be seduced by socialism’s charms.
Those who want to rule over us with an iron fist now have their perfect poster boy in place, knowing, as the old saying goes in NYC, “ if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.”
The rich benefactors can prop him up all they want and throw as much money behind him as they can, but they will never successfully implement socialism. It will blow up right in their faces. Despite how much money they throw at them, government-owned and controlled grocery stores will be a calamity. Rent controls will be a disaster. Free buses!!!! No, a gigantic fence around the entire region will have to be erected to keep the savages from escaping - calling Snake Pliskin!
Actually, NYC has had rent control for many decades, and it has only deteriorated the housing stock and led to the building of high-rise Public Housing blocks --which promptly were promptly turned into piss-saturated slums. As to Madmani's other ideas: the Wall Street characters watching their results up close may well have a change of heart.
"White neighborhoods have the highest property values because they are safer, cleaner and better kept than other neighborhoods." Don "The Noticer" Surber says the quiet part out loud. By the way, has anybody seen how anxious the 22 Arab League countries are to bring in refugees from Gaza? Yeah, me neither.
Waters wishes for the House to debate solutions (as if), but her party's "solutions" have the opposite effect because all of them are predicated on the false premise that government can fix the economic problems it has created. The real solution is less government: fewer regulations on healthcare insurers and providers, energy production, manufacturing, construction, and farming, and less printing of money to pay for the absurd and wasteful programs designed to reward favored donors and launder money back to both parties. "Inflation Reduction Act," my ass. Congress is a grift mill, and the first order of business is insuring that the talentless hacks that populate the House and Senate leave office magically wealthy and set for life. In that, and nothing else, they are doing a stellar job.
No thanks, Maxine. I think we'll just try and plod along on our own without your assistance. We all clearly experienced all of your great work during the four years of Biden in making everything affordable. We decided we could no longer afford your inspired leadership.
Hey, there's a famous song in "The Merry Widow": "Dann geh'ich nach Maxim's, da bin ich sehr intim ...". OPEN INVITATION to all would-be writers of catchy lyrics: Listen to it on YouTube, never mind the German, and then create an American variation, like (for example): "Don't listen to Maxine, she's part of the machine, she spouts the loudest nonsense, from an indignant orifice ..."
I wonder who's teaching them how to steal and get away with it? AOC took her bartender skills to Congress and now is worth upwards of thirty million dollars.
It should be clear to any sentient human being that socialism ONLY works in the nuclear family and fails miserably when applied to groups any larger than that. Because we no longer have nor value nuclear families with fathers and mothers both living with their children, the allure of the socialist candy man is hard to resist. But resist we “much!”
I don’t think Maxine wrote her rant. She must have a staff member that made it past the 5th grade. Poorest district represented by one of the richest representatives. Now that’s a successful socialist.
Trump is a master. He took Mamdani and that obsequious plastered phony smile of his, wrapped him in a Trump hug and showed everyone in the country exactly who the democrats are, and who their leader is-a smug, entitled Ugandan whose family is worth millions and who lives in a rent controlled apartment in the most expensive city in the country. The let them eat cake version of today’s communist takeover of America, Mamdani. And now, Trump made it known, he is Mamdani’s daddy.
Trump came to maturity while learning how to successfully maneuver through the toughest most vicious real estate market in the Universe. If anyone knows human nature, how to deliver a shiv thru the 3rd and 4th ribs while making look like an embrace or how to deliver a note with a mailed fist inside a velvet glove, it’s our boy T. Did I mention how to deal face to face with some of the most vile human beings on the planet without barfing his kishkas out… no?… well that too.
We’re lucky we got him at this time in history. 3 more years doesn’t seem nearly long enough now does it!
Amen. And Trump also came to maturity during the period the Mafia was being destroyed, especially in New York and nearby New Jersey. I do not know the details of this, but IIRC what I've heard, Rudy Giuliani was central to this destruction of the Mafia when he was a NY prosecutor.
Trump has an outstanding success record with his real estate projects, of which there were over 100. But the Left regularly tries to smear Trump because he had 4 bankruptcies--and IIRC all 4 were related to the Atlantic City, NJ casinos, which was a bastion of Mafia strength. This is purely speculation on my part, but I wonder if Trump deliberately allowed his Atlantic City properties to fail as part of Giuiliani's successful effort to take down the mob. Whether Trump directly participated or only was present during the fray, Trump certainly had first-hand knowledge and experience of the Mafia as well as the vicious NY real estate market. Note that the NY real estate development market likely had to deal with the Mafia alot, in the form of contractors, subcontractors, etc. etc.
All of this contributed to Trump developing into the man he is today--our hero against world thugs of all types.
We had friends who were involved in construction projects in the city and the amount of overlap from Union to city and borough and infrastructure and you name it was mind boggling.
I asked him how it was dealt with and this was his answer…
‘Just after breaking ground, usually within the first 3-4 days, a low level representative, usually from one of the smaller unions would show up. At that point all you had to do was write a cheque. From then on, traffic, police, overlapping jurisdictions, by-llaws, competing union beefs and everything down to the smallest inconvienience seemed to disappear. And it was all written into the cost.
So you are absolutely correct. Just another lesson big DT learned then and apples now.
How lucky are we!
But I thought you lived in Canada!
I do but international engineering firms build all over the place. I intially got involved with him and his family when the Cayman Islands was transitioning from a sleepy little banking haven (honest it was just like someone took a little town from W Texas an dropped in the Caribbean) to the big deal it is today. They built the first electronic toll highway and the Ski Resort at Whistler.
He gives real meaning to FAFO and it makes me laugh every time he makes them crazy with the element of surprise and they are all too stupid to figure out they're being played. Go Trumpy!!! We love you. (insert heart emoji's)
By those numbers, 4 speculative projects out of a hundred going South isn't that bad; and anybody knowledgeable about real estate knows the wisdom of incorporating a separate company for each project. It's ordinary prudence, so one mishap doesn't topple your entire empire.
From personal experience in Atlantic City ,I can tell you in the mid 1970s the mob had a lot of power. We set up a carnival ride on the million $ pier then parked our truck in the A.C.PD parking lot before getting a ride to our hotel in unmarked cruiser. After a night highlighted by hookers coming to my table and explaining it would not cost a dime as they were paid to pleasure us ,no limits but I passed. In the morning we made a call and an unmarked took us back too our truck.
Thanks for this, Chuck; it cannot be said often enough.
There are two types of people who support socialism, those with nothing, chiefly ambition who want a free meal, and those with large quantities of cash who want to stifle upstarts from challenging their dominance by imposing regulations that destroy competition .
The first are caught, cannot flee, and are mostly unaffected by the results of socialism.
The second are the ones who can and will flee the nest they soiled and repeat the process having learned nothing from the epic disaster they championed.
Mamdani aka Mad Mammy—giving foolish NewYorkers a good commie enema for their foolish leftist beliefs. Enjoy the colonic Big Apple 🍏.
At General Hospital's nursing school they called the procedure "High, Hot and a Helluva Lot.
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In real hospitals it was known & written in the orders as a 3-H. Gave a few myself.
Ugh, it's too early in the morning to contemplate.
Neat!
No.. the obsequious phony smile has been parltented by Adam Schiff
you may have just posted the comment of the year kind sir....and your likes are indicative of such. some have alluded to this elsewhere (american thinker) but you stated it perfectly.
trump ate his lunch and in the process exposed the democrats for what they are...frauds.
WHY don’t more people see this? X is rife right now with people bleating about how Trump bowed to Mamdami. This includes Republicans.
Maybe these are posts from the folks revealed to be from other countries, similar to those bellyaching about Gaza, etc.
Psyops
stupidity has no boundaries.
well...orange man bad and you can't fix stoopit and other stuff.
Don't forget his toilet bowl-white teeth......
Exactly (or close to it) what I told some friends when they were whining about him letting Mam come to the WH. I marvel how many people STILL don't understand how he operates.
I’m 67 and CANNOT see myself EVER visiting NYC AGAIN. Wife and I went in April 2002 and had a GREAT time, but those days are long gone…
I agree. I grew up in suburban NJ. My two sons, grandson and I had planned a trip to go back there and visit; NJ and NYC. Now it seems unsafe to me but maybe I am over-reacting. There is, after all, safety in numbers and those three guys are young, tough and must might appear to be my body-guards. I think we would limit our visit of the City of the 911 area and take a walk up Broadway. I have done that scores of time in the past. Then buzz back over to NJ; see the home town; go down to the shore and leave out of Philly back to the West. Still considering the trip but still have reservations. One last sail across the Hudson from Hoboken on the ferry; the skyline approaching; that would be special.
Remember, it's a crime to resist criminals in any fashion. Don't want the boys to become Daniel Penny's. NJ isn't much better.
According to Steven Seagal, the State of New Jersey is a “toxic waste dump” and not fit to make dog food. Is that true?
Also true of New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan and California.
It's not limited to the East Coast. The three Pacific states are on the same political track. Oops - did I forget Hawaii?
I got lazy and decided to not list them all.
City of brotherly love is no more and neither is usually great Columbus, Ohio and who would have ever thought!!!?
Who's kiddin' whom here, Vicki? Philadelphia has a huge queer population. The City of Brotherly Love ain't called the Hershey Highway for no reason.
The shame of it all is NJ is a really nice state with plenty of great outdoor spaces and many safe suburbs.
Moved out 3 years ago though because of the rediculous taxes and wanted warmer weather in the south.
My 45 year old twins and the five grandkids are still there because their mother will never leave there.
I hope they one day find their way outta there!
Its the garden state!! At least thats their motto and they are sticking to it.
The "down the shore" cities should be pretty good, especially the high toned, wealthier ones. I've always had the "be aware" motto my entire life and served me well. common sense?
So, what do New Jerseyites grow, fruits and vegetables? They seem to elect many of them.
Pete, you would have fun!! My daughter (26) lives in NYC with loads of kids that age, all employed and having a blast! I have fun there but definitely head-on-a-swivel and stay in safe areas. The bad parts are indeed bad so just stay out of them. She loves that she can walk everywhere she wants to go.
Do it now with your bodyguards and realize it may be the last time it will be somewhat safe but keep eyes peeled and take your pepper spray or a stun gun, lol.
I envy you the trip. Your guys would put a big hurtin' on anyone that bothered you. I last saw NYC in 1963 when the Twins played the NY Yankees in one or two play-off games.
I grew up in Detroit and its environs came to nyc in 1977 - where it was safer. Oh there has been some backsliding. But if this is the thitd world, the world has vastly improved. Nyc has issues... the most dangerous things however, however are the bike lanes...brware.
I have the same feeling. I'm 79 & spent 35 years of my life living in NYC - loved the restaurants & theatre. I left in 1987 & came back to NYC when I worked as a consultant for ConEd from 2016 to 2022. I was stunned at the changes since I left in 1987 - NYC turned into a 3rd world shithole. Now that I'm retired, I won't being going back.
True about the blue cities everywhere, actually.
A day trip to Boston used to be easy for me and a pleasant event.
I swore some time during the Obammunist's second term never to set foot there again, and I haven't and won't.
Obamunism, because communism couldn't be the dumbest idea forever.
Yeah, just remember how much the ACA lowered your healthcare costs. That is enough reason to never vote for a D again.
We are after all an obamanation...abomination? Now in HIs likeness and trying to escape... Go Donald go!!
The obamnation of desolation.
I prefer to live in the past: groceries, gas and rent are much cheaper there. (And I can be a World Class complainer.) ;)
I recently told my daughter "I never thought I'd say I wish we still lived in the '50's" but then I did. Many people today are just feral animals and ruin it for the rest of us. PDJT best be getting this bail, jail, etc. straightened out and start prosecuting criminal...anyone caught illegally with a gun should get an automatic, non=negotiable 10 years in prison. Set an example.
For anyone who really wants to see NYC, may I suggest doing so from orbit? SpaceX is expensive, but may be worth it if it keeps you alive.
Viewing it from a conventional plane may put you in range of the mostly peaceful gun fire spontaneously erupting in democrat paradises.
Or from 'obit..'. great view from there too.
Had a lot of fun up there too; used to jump a train from BWI & take it into Penn Station - hit an audition - then go hit a bar for some liquid libation before hopping on a train back down. Good times & fun stuff.
They’re going to get what they voted for good & hard & deservedly so.
Lots of us feel that way. Until there is another mayor like Rudy Giuliani, NYC is a no-go zone for me.
I think the last time I was there some friends and I went especially to attend Pavarotti's free concert in Central Park - what a treasured memory - I'd never choose to step foot in that total mess of a city these days!
An excellent read as the socialism vote was pretty much mothballed by the media bubble heads
Agree and it's an easy train ride from Phila but NO MORE, NO HOW there is nothing there I can't replicate anywhere else and I refuse to give one cent to that hell hole city and those ignoramuses who would vote for a socialist, hater, who never held a job...
The fickle finger of fate beckons... free bus rides????
I haven’t finished the column yet but I had a gut reaction to this quote from the Lightbringer…
“…that the work that you are doing right now, the investment you’re making, the focus that you’re applying, the issues that you are developing, the interactions that you’re having with your constituencies…”
Can 0bama name one of those things specifically? As far as any of us can see, the demonicrats only work, investment, focus, issues and interactions all boil down to “Orange Man Bad”. They’ve got nothing else. Nothing.
Speaking in vague and empty platitudes is obooboo’s modus operandi. What is amazing, to me, is the youth soak it up and think he is a genius.
All those old white hippies at the No Kings rallies are just as gullible.
Hey, I was a young white hippie maggot but I grew out of it eventually. At the tender age of 75 I don't believe anything I read or hear and used to believe only half of what I see. With AI, now I don't believe anything I see either. It sucks.
Well no wonder. Those are the boomers who never grew up.
I'm in the same generation, but shook myself out of the fantasist stupor during the mid seventies. Partly through Ayn Rand but also through the sinking in of harsh words in Atlas: "There's your job. Now go pick it off the tree where you think it grows."
I was 20 and looking for work and my fancy degree meant very little. It was much like what GenZ faces now.
Me too. Graduated college in 1975. Though I was only into the partying part of the hippie culture and not the politics.
Degrees are somewhat meaningless. Too many see them as a guarantee of a good future without realizing they have to compliment the degree with actual hard work and a thinking brain. I never hired the arrogant smart guys and girls. I hired people who had a record of hard work and smart thinking.
Rrlead Ayn rand. Good story. A bit stilted and cartoon extremist for me. Still... offrts good lessons... like animal farm fareinheght 451, 1984....
I think those old white hippies are hysterical when they do their dance routines in their very-stretched leotards and spandex. Obviously they have no clue how they appear to everyone else and how they literally beclown their own agenda.
And you have to love the reactions when ICE actually cuffs one of these jackasses, comic gold.
They still don’t get it. Way too much time on their hands.
Question ! Anybody ever seen a hippie that worked hard for a living 🤔 ?
I have known a few who worked harder avoiding a steady job than I did at mine.
Me
No Kings!! He spat... as his dentures flew out!!
The future lies with the youth and whether they lean toward Mamdani or Trump. The youth need to hear different voices.
That's what Charlie Kirk did for MAGA.
Here's another version of that same assessment from Rasmussen:
https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1991584607637037505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1991584607637037505%7Ctwgr%5Ef4b4706675e7a69a33deb7007f6d81a6d303fabe%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Frevolver.news%2F2025%2F11%2Fpresident-trump-holds-emergency-meeting-with-top-pollster-mark-mitchell-2%2F
Another take by another great pollster. Both Baris and Rasmussen have been screaming this dramatic fall-away of voters for quite some time. I am glad Trump is now listening because the mid-terms are the most important thing to focus on. We lose the House, it's over folks.
https://x.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/1991254943584432208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1991254943584432208%7Ctwgr%5Ec01efb3dec13b90cfd8970f1b3cf86b20fa3739d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Frevolver.news%2F2025%2F11%2Ftrump-reacts-to-5-alarm-polls-update%2F
Republicans are terrible at expressing what being an American is and what is required to remain one. Young people aren't hearing from us what they need to know about our history and system. They hear the term "socialism" and all they see is "social" and think that is a good thing. Our leaders don't even try to inculcate any of our values in young people. Instead, they allow the leftists who control the educational systems to brainwash them without any challenge. And we pay exorbitant amounts of tax money to them so they can destroy us. We are indeed The Stupid Party.
Way too much group think in the GOP like the Donks. Everyone is afraid of being themselves. MTG should be commended for bucking that system but she couldn’t figure out how to create a coalition of the same people. Both parties suck in that regard. The exception is maybe Fetterman.
When Fetterman came through that stroke he had, he developed more brain capacity. I'm not taking bets on his changing sides. Yet.
I’m not sure what is going on with him but maybe I misjudged him a bit in the past. Maybe. But not sure he will have his own choice on the matter in the future. If the socialist/radical/dumbass Donks gain momentum, they will likely freeze him out of the party functionally. He will probably become a Joe Manchin type Donk. Frankly, Fetterman makes better sense than some on the right too.
You are right about this but it is quite an uphill battle to overcome the “institutional socialism” (my term) deeply rooted in almost all educational systems. By the time a kid can vote, they are brainwashed.
Messaging must be improved, but can’t overcome the “programming” of mushy brains by itself.
Part of the problem is that the public education system stopped teaching Civics and real History. Also, there is no accountability in a lot of places. In my state that is purple, there are now 3 HS degrees. The Ed Dept wanted 6 and the Universities said no. Two of those degrees are basically for showing up and one is for actually doing homework. Teachers are not held accountable neither or the students.
In Oregon, there are now no tests for graduation. There is no demand to show that you can read, write or think. It is in place to 2029 with the recommendation that it is made permanent.
It is a true mess. Charlie was catching them in college which was great and they were seeing their answers didnt make sense, a lot of them anyway.
We have to stop the left from changing the meaning of words and changing up into down and evil into good.
Homeschooling does give me hope.
The Oregon teachers' union owns the legislature. That's all there is to it.
Agree , the rest of the problem is not making the youth work summers and part time jobs . That is where they can begin to understand what an education is all about . Fiscal responsibility makes for a conservative mind set .
TPUSA is continuing and it seems the LEOs are doing a better job of responding to protesters so maybe Charlies death was not in vain as converts grow.
I understand your point. Ds are masters of manipulation, using classic communications strategies. Framing, repetition, sound bytes, passion/energy are easily digested and passed on. Rs seem immune to the power therein. They seem to rely on history, knowledge and traditions that have been passed over, subsumed, demonized. I listened to a speech by John Kennedy (of Louisiana) the other day and was stunned by his clarity and humanity. Of course, it was 30 minutes, and an eight second sound byte would not convey much of that. But that there is one cogent person remaining in Congress lifts my spirit, momentarily.
Actually, John Kennedy (the Senator) has said a lot of very effective, succinct and funny things, that only lasted a few seconds. I've accumulated quite a lot of those. So he deserves a bit more credit.
Good to know. The rs would be doing a solid to get him out in the limelight. True I live in the dark ages. I’m glad others are more aware.
GMTA and ESP, Sam Prentice. Sorry--wrote my Comment replying to Chuck Goldman before I saw your comment. Totally agree, youth "...hear the term "socialism" and all they see is "social" and think that is a good thing." And the communists know that and exploit it big time.
We need a new Rush Limbaugh type orator who expresses what we believe
Oh , it won't be over ; but it will probably get bloody. Congress is just as much of a problem as the treasonous judges .
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Or as Georgie Boy once gushed (when comparing the Great Lightbringer to George W.), "he speaks in complete sentences". Actually, they were run-on sentences.
Filled with “uhs” almost every other word if he wasn’t reading from the teleprompter.
Obama IS a genius, but only in concocting rhetoric vague enough to convince the incurably naïve.
With all due respect, he has been schooled. He might be smart, but he is lazy and does not steer his own ship. He would most likely rather do a permanent fade, but his handlers aren’t finished with him.
One doesn't exclude the other. In fact, it was schooling that enabled him to hornswoggle the voters.
What does that say about the youth of today then?
Hope & Change --- Who could quarrel with that?
"Orange Man Bad" is the distraction for the Lightbringers. Like the rattles on the tail of the rattlesnake getting ready to strike. The real target is our Freedom.
Being in total control is easy. Leading thru results and inspiring people to be better is hard. Pols always choose the easy way.
You hit it. That’s why Donks talk in generalities generously laced with emotion. They haven’t ever fixed anything. Their one good deed was to give us DJT in desperation.
Dems have no solutions, only vitriol. It's gotten really old for me but I guess it still works for the Karens et al.
Yes, their party wouldn't exist without that most essential ingredient: sour-faced liberal women who make up with screeching what they lack in sense.
That's why Harris didn't succeed. She gave me--and many other critical thinking independents--nothing to vote FOR. And since when are you supposed to "develop" issues?? Identify, assess, prioritize, solve. Isn't that the way things work?
Ah, but your fellow independents forgot about all the IMAGINING, and the UNBURDENING, and the TRANSFORMING, and our ALLIANCE WITH THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH KOREA, and AS A WOMAN MYSELF, AND A DAUGHTER OF A WOMAN, AND A GRANDDAUGHTER OF A WOMAN, and let's never forget her command TO SEE THE MOMENT IN TIME IN WHICH WE EXIST AND ARE PRESENT, AND TO BE ABLE TO CONTEXTUALIZE IT, TO UNDERSTAND WHERE WE EXIST IN THE HISTORY AND IN THE MOMENT AS IT RELATES NOT ONLY TO THE PAST BUT THE FUTURE !!!!!!!!!!! Oops, sorry; maybe I COULD have picked something more succinct, like: IT IS TIME FOR US TO DO WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING, AND THAT TIME IS EVERY DAY.
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That’s way too much word salad for breakfast.
Maybe so, but the salad chef herself was unburdened by imposing such a burden.
But that is not taught anymore, and Reevaluate is the last step of that cycle.
Dims create a problem, convince people money will fix it, it doesnt. They push more money at it. Usually donors or someone they know are the recipients. And yes, the RINOs do it too.
New "mandami song"
I tax you
You scream at me!
I freely spread
around your money
With an antisemetic shout
And a pick pocket or two
Redistribution is alwsys due!!!
U pwith the downtrodden!! And once they are up... down with the new capitalists!!
The befriending is
Nevet ending!
Madmami can definitely make New York worse.
One of the tenets of life is no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse. My golf game is a great example of this tenet.
Yeah but as we get older you get to chalk it up to “being older”. Silver linings in everything.
The other day I was down in the dumps, feeling sorry for myself but I heard a little voice say to me, "Cheer up! Thing could be worse.". So I cheered up! And sure enough things got worse. 😕😎
My dad's favorite saying.
Does that make you an eternal optimist or the inverse?😎
I like to think I’m an optimist. We engineers have an ancient Latin phrase: “Illegitamenti non carborundum!” (Don’t let the bastards wear you down!)🤣🤣😘
He is certain to drive out more high earners!
Then perhaps they will hit rock bottom and see the error of their ways. Maybe.
Until things get unbearable, nothing will change.
Madmami. I LIKE THAT!
The rise of Ilhan Omar, Tlaib, Mamdani, and the growing muslim population centers across the country are the creation of Barack Hussein Obama, spearheaded by Valerie Jarrett, who aligned with the muslim brotherhood (a member herself) and brought them here to destroy our freedom and liberty.
Mamdani is the result of BHO.
I guess he's BHO's Trevon, but in politics...
As Rush would say, "Right on, right on, right on!"
Catch Victor Davis Hanson's take on Ilhan Omar and the downfall of Minneapolis. I just clicked on it, and came back here to notify the interested.
Has VDH gone AI? His recent videos have a weird, static vibe.
Bambi’s queer so, are you suggesting Mama’s-boy Mamdani was found floating in a toilet bowl?
It's all a part of the plan.
"Those who want to implement socialism gradually and those who want to implement it yesterday."
Since elected republicans take money instead of fighting back against the socialist a$$holes this could describe both parties.
That's why it's called a UniParty.
Not just Repubs making money. All politicians are making insider money. Nancy P. is the leader of the pack. Sadly, nothing is being done to stop it. I suppose if they weren't insider trading they'd steal money some other way.
I just listened to Tuckers interview of a 9/11 widow Kristin Breitweiser and you would be interested at the heart of all the fraud - lawyers which is what politicians are - failed lawyers. Most of the sanctions we place on other countries goes into the pockets of lawyers, not to people such as the survivors of 9/11 victims. Disgusting.
Derek Hunter had a good column on the insider trading in Townhall a couple of days ago. It makes too much sense for true consideration.
Where is the dime's worth of difference that used to be there??
Maxine Waters- Let me be the first to donate $100 for her next vacation. May I suggest a cruise in a banana boat off the coast of Venezuela headed towards the US? I hear the view is wonderful; bright and shiny.
My only problem is that any Hellfire missile sent that way would see her face and return
sorry for your keyboard folks...
My coffee was gone too so I got lucky as Lawsy.
Lucky for you, my coffee was all gone--3 paragraphs up.
Oh geeez…I cannot love this comment more.
Yes, it would attempt making a U-turn. But thanks to military progress, the plane would be long gone.
OUCH !
Please make sure that banana boat has a couple dozen gallon sized ziplock bags filled with white flour laying across the open seats.
Taking out the corrupt Maxine Waters would be justified in itself, having a back-up cause will be helpful.
She will only waste your C-note on another ugly wig. She has dozens of them.
Great column Big D. I find myself caring less and less about the affairs of CONgress and CONgress Critters, so this was insightful. As to “NYC can’t get worse,” I chortled out loud. Mamdani might not be able to implement all of his worst proposals in full, but considering that NYFC’s governing cretins’ impulse are even worse than his - the NYC Council is practically a leftist insane asylum - I expect that the Mayor-elect’s first term will us her in a slow motion train wreck. Other than driving up popcorn futures, the brightest outcome might be to usher in Elise Stefanik into the Governor’s Mansion in 2026. Be nice to have a governor actually living in the place for a change instead of NYFC.
NYS Republicans? You mean RINOs, aka Democrats by another name? You’re not from around here, are you?
I live in Connecticut after moving here almost 30 years ago from Pittsburgh. Republicans are a very strange breed here and all of New England. They were all neutered several decades ago and are convinced their only role in life is to bow to Democrats and always do their bidding. They are incredibly disgusting wimps. I was a member of a "conservative" meetup group and they were all such linguini-spined RINOs and they thought I was some kind of barbarian.
They are definitely a different breed, and when you see how they are it is very clear why Republicans are a joke up here.
The "NY Republican Party in NY" died a long time ago - as well as the NY Conservative Party.
Exactly!
Seems to me NY State Republicans really are making all the money they need right now w state a fiscal shamble..
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it Obammy who declared, "At some point, you've made enough money." That was his entire statement but I forget to whom he was speaking.
I don't know either, but one thing's for sure: he was NOT looking in the mirror.
Yep, and he said it before he ended up with millions in Netflicks and book money. Amazingly, he hasnt said it since he got rich.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/obama-i-do-think-at-a-certain-point-youve-made-enough-money/
Yep.
But under MamaCommie even they may feel the pinch.
Wrong color, you know.
There is a global network and international power structure whose entire mission is to destroy capitalism and establish socialism on steroids into this country. It has the backing of a multitude of people and organizations who have gazillions of dollars all earmarked specifically to assure that that happens by any means necessary.
They now have “their boy” in place over the financial capital of the world, NYC.
They will do everything in their power to make it appear that he and his policies “appear” successful and brilliant and, most importantly, as an effective and viable alternative to capitalism - at least for the first few years. They will dump money by the bushel loads into his coffers to prop him up and create a facade of success, the ultimate aim of which will be to convince Americans that Socialism is good and and can make life better for them.
Mamdani’s success in his first term in office is looked upon by these “powers that be” as the opportunity of a lifetime, and they’re going to go to the mat to make it appear to work, so other cities and citizens will want to follow suit.
We have a younger generation that is almost wholly ignorant about world history and the devastations brought about upon nations and peoples who succumbed to socialism and communism. Until the American people wake up to the fact that there’s no such thing as “free” anything, and dependence upon government to make your life “better” is akin to becoming a slave to that government, and all your rights and freedoms are gradually stripped away, they will be seduced by socialism’s charms.
Those who want to rule over us with an iron fist now have their perfect poster boy in place, knowing, as the old saying goes in NYC, “ if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.”
Let the games begin…
The rich benefactors can prop him up all they want and throw as much money behind him as they can, but they will never successfully implement socialism. It will blow up right in their faces. Despite how much money they throw at them, government-owned and controlled grocery stores will be a calamity. Rent controls will be a disaster. Free buses!!!! No, a gigantic fence around the entire region will have to be erected to keep the savages from escaping - calling Snake Pliskin!
I pray you're correct.
Actually, NYC has had rent control for many decades, and it has only deteriorated the housing stock and led to the building of high-rise Public Housing blocks --which promptly were promptly turned into piss-saturated slums. As to Madmani's other ideas: the Wall Street characters watching their results up close may well have a change of heart.
Perfect phrase--"piss-saturated slums".
Sad but true.
They are using socialism as a beard , their true goal is the spread of Islam.
I believe that also.
The last thing Mamdani wants is safer neighborhoods.
By having a meeting with Mandami Trump pinned the tail on the donkey and the donkey doesn’t like it.
Ooooh, good one. I wonder if AOC and Jazzy are ok with Mamdani being leader of their pack??
"White neighborhoods have the highest property values because they are safer, cleaner and better kept than other neighborhoods." Don "The Noticer" Surber says the quiet part out loud. By the way, has anybody seen how anxious the 22 Arab League countries are to bring in refugees from Gaza? Yeah, me neither.
Waters wishes for the House to debate solutions (as if), but her party's "solutions" have the opposite effect because all of them are predicated on the false premise that government can fix the economic problems it has created. The real solution is less government: fewer regulations on healthcare insurers and providers, energy production, manufacturing, construction, and farming, and less printing of money to pay for the absurd and wasteful programs designed to reward favored donors and launder money back to both parties. "Inflation Reduction Act," my ass. Congress is a grift mill, and the first order of business is insuring that the talentless hacks that populate the House and Senate leave office magically wealthy and set for life. In that, and nothing else, they are doing a stellar job.
No thanks, Maxine. I think we'll just try and plod along on our own without your assistance. We all clearly experienced all of your great work during the four years of Biden in making everything affordable. We decided we could no longer afford your inspired leadership.
Hey, there's a famous song in "The Merry Widow": "Dann geh'ich nach Maxim's, da bin ich sehr intim ...". OPEN INVITATION to all would-be writers of catchy lyrics: Listen to it on YouTube, never mind the German, and then create an American variation, like (for example): "Don't listen to Maxine, she's part of the machine, she spouts the loudest nonsense, from an indignant orifice ..."
I wonder who's teaching them how to steal and get away with it? AOC took her bartender skills to Congress and now is worth upwards of thirty million dollars.
Precisely.
Lobbyists are the initial conduit for money internally , foreign diplomats elsewhere in the world .
It should be clear to any sentient human being that socialism ONLY works in the nuclear family and fails miserably when applied to groups any larger than that. Because we no longer have nor value nuclear families with fathers and mothers both living with their children, the allure of the socialist candy man is hard to resist. But resist we “much!”
My family wasn't socialist. My parents were parents. We only became friends much later.
Re: meeting with Mamdani- as the great philosopher, Don Corleone, said ‘keep your friends close & your enemies closer’. I was not surprised nor upset.
Before I read this I commented and used that same quote!
On the money.
Great minds think alike!
I don’t think Maxine wrote her rant. She must have a staff member that made it past the 5th grade. Poorest district represented by one of the richest representatives. Now that’s a successful socialist.
She didn't. MadMas is illiterate, like most jacka$$e$. Ever heard her speak? She is dumber than a fence post.