I don’t live in New York City, or even close enough to feel its presence, and so, no, I’m not scared about who they’re going to elect as mayor tomorrow. I do find it interesting, however, because Mamdani is making a lot of promises, some of which I’m pretty sure he can pull off, some others that seem more challenging, so I guess it may provide some test-cases for the rest of us.
But I’m not scared of socialism because I’ve lived next door to Bernie for nearly 40 years and he seems like a decent guy who cares about people, which makes him stand out more than it ought to.
If you want to worry about “socialism” why not focus on the communists in the White House? Not only has the Central Government begun helping itself to shares of what had been private industries, or, as one might say, owning the means of production, but now the commissars are setting prices and policies for grocery stores.
In this case, they’re ordering grocers not to offer lower prices to the poor, apparently because it interferes with their plan to use food as a weapon and starve people into submission. (BTW, if they cut off the funding, those folks aren’t “SNAP-EBT customers” anymore, are they?)
It reminds me of a story I’ve told before, of sitting with a group of Soviet timber executives in a lecture on supply and demand, after which one of them said, “But you have not told us the role of the central government in setting production quotas.”
That’s communism, folks. Before you run around complaining about socialism and communism, how’s about you find out what those terms mean?
I’m also reminded of an assembly I went to in the third grade where a couple from the John Birch Society warned us that, if we didn’t fight the Russians, we’d end up in a country where police would stop you on the street and demand to see your papers.
Well, we didn’t fight them and here we are. I wish tariffs were only the issue upon which Dear Leader has departed from Reagan’s policies, which seemed so extreme at the time.
At least we haven’t started throwing our opponents out of windows. Yet.
Of course, Wexler is kidding. Dear Leader doesn’t torture people and put them in dungeons. He ships them off to other countries who torture them and put them in dungeons.
But Mamdani wants to have the city run non-profit grocery stores and provide free public transportation and childcare. No wonder Andy Ogles (R-TN) wants to revoke his citizenship and send him to one of those foreign dungeons.
To be clear, Andy’s office in Columbia, Tennessee is only 925 miles from New York City, which explains why he’s worried about whether they elect a socialist mayor.
If it were 1,000 miles distant, it would be none of his business.
Meanwhile, over in England, a young woman’s story of sexual assault and pederasty has toppled The Prince Formerly Known As The Prince from his pedestal.
When the facts first began to emerge, Buckingham Palace announced that Andrew would be stepping back from his royal duties, whatever the hell they were, but once the details came out in Giuffre’s autobiography, he was stripped of his title and cast out of his royal mansion.
This was significant, given the general reverence in which the Royal Family is held, despite a recent rash of scandals, broken marriages and general misbehavior.
They managed to shuffle off a Nazi-loving king with some romantic codswallop about giving up his throne to marry the woman he loved — Hello, Camilla! — but there’s no way to cover up Andrew’s appalling criminal behavior and it seems, as Morland suggests, that there’s little urge on anyone’s part to do so.
That could never happen here. For one thing, we don’t have royalty.
For another, we’ve got Mike Johnson keeping an elected Congressional Representative from taking office so she can’t become the deciding vote to release the Epstein files.
Telnaes suggested that Johnson go as a wienie for Halloween because he’s a wienie all year long and works hard to make a mockery of the concept of checks-and-balances upon which our government is based.
Though in all fairness, whether Andrew remained a prince or became a commoner was at the discretion of the king, so that learning of his behavior through Giuffre was sufficient to allow his removal without a formal trial.
It would be harder to remove a president from office and the January 6 committee provided ample evidence of how even having ample evidence won’t do the trick.
As Katauskas notes, the whole world is watching. Mostly with a growing sense of disdain, horror and disbelief.
It’s hard to understand how those in power can forgive attempting to violently overthrow the government but are terrified of having drag queens read stories to children.
The British were able to uncrown a royal based on reports of what he had done, but the fact remains that, in this country, we don’t believe in punishing people without giving them a fair trial with evidence and attorneys and so forth.
Unless we want to.
Which brings up this question: Am I the only one who wonders why the Coast Guard apparently doesn’t even sweep up the wreckage?
Back when I was working in a newsroom just south of the Canadian border, the customs guys were eager to show us what they’d come up with. They’d spread it out on a table and then call all the TV and radio stations and newspapers and have a press conference to tell everybody how it all went down and to show off what they’d found.
They were proud of what they’d done.
I suppose that’s probably the difference.
It should be hard to explain why you’ve arrested or blown up somebody without any proof of a discernible reason. But as Pett points out, sometimes there’s just something about a person that Dear Leader doesn’t like. If only we could find a pattern of some sort!
Anyway, here’s something Dear Leader would really hate, so crank it up.
And keep the faith, baby.
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