The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The conventional wisdom is that the soon-to-be-NYC Mayor, Zohran Mamdani is an unrepentant communist who will bring the societal havoc that is part and parcel of socialism to NYC's streets.

Except...it's already there. The NYC council is probably more left than Mamdani, and the city's crime policies have been destroyed by a combination of leftist mayors and leftist governors. Criminals roam NYC's streets with impunity, and they have for a very long time. That the city hasn't descended into anarchy like Chicago and Oakland and Memphis and Detroit and Baltimore and New Orleans (see a pattern?) is the remnants of four terms of mayors who took public safety seriously. But that is rapidly eroding, and the coming election will not change NYC's trajectory.

NY 'justice' is now a revolving door for serial violent perps -- and Zohran Mamdani will make it WORSE

All this is the fruit of a half-decade of misguided criminal-justice reforms and a political culture that produces soft-on-crime judges — both of them the product of the progressive “decarceral” movement that insists jail and prison are the wrong approach to even serial violent criminals, even as it offers no better way to protect the public.

What is even more problematic is that the conventional wisdom is ignoring the 800 pound gorilla in the mosque: Mamdani is an Islamist. He comes from a family of Islamists, and he embraces the goals of Islam, which is the creation of a world-wide Caliphate. His communism is a tool with which to bring sharia to the ignorant masses, and that is more dangerous than an incremental shift to the left for NYC. He will not defend the large Jewish community of NYC from the predatory anti-Semites who see Jews as fair game. He will shift the tone of the city administration to hyper-sensitivity to "anti-Muslim" rhetoric and behavior (which is a vanishingly small problem), and he will cheerfully allow sharia-compliant rules to ooze into city policies.

And of course he will bring his lunatic foreign policy to New York City's streets. He claims that he will arrest the prime minister of Israel if he ever comes to NYC, under the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant. The small issue with that is: the United States is not a party to the ICC, so its warrants have no force of law in America. Will he also remove police protection from Jewish organizations and Israeli diplomatic facilities? Will he be antagonistic to traditional Christian organizations?

Islam has a single goal, and its adherents are single-minded in its pursuit. Mamdani is simply an Islamist under cover of communism, using the useful idiots of the left to further his Islamist goals.

It is tremendously destructive to have sharia-compliant cities in America. Dearborn MI, and Paterson NJ are small, but NYC is the largest city in the nation and will have a commensurate influence over policy and tone for the nation's cities.

That is an unalloyed bad thing, and the next four years will be a struggle to combat encroaching Islam.

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Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 First!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2025 11:00 AM (2WIwB)

2 Ha!!!
*does the FIRST dance*

Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2025 11:01 AM (2WIwB)

3 Soon?

Posted by: Snake Plissken at October 21, 2025 11:01 AM (PiwSw)

4 Islam delenda est

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 21, 2025 11:01 AM (XQuPc)

5 Everything will be fine

Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2025 11:01 AM (wHaGM)

6 Not first!!+×@

Posted by: Socialism at October 21, 2025 11:02 AM (SBwP+)

7 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:02 AM (1a9a5)

8 I won!!! Wait wut?? You cheated me!!!

Posted by: ClHillary at October 21, 2025 11:03 AM (SBwP+)

9 NY 'justice' is now a revolving door for serial violent perps -- and Zohran Mamdani will make it WORSE

Seems like NYC will become a Mecca - hehe - for serial violent criminals. Sure, that sucks for the residents of NYC, and maybe some of the nearby surrounding areas, but it might mean peace for other places.

Maybe someone can get representatives of all the gangs in the city to assemble in Central Park for a peace conference.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:03 AM (ExV1e)

10 Is there a podcast incoming?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:03 AM (+U7B7)

11 Democrats Have Become the Party of Grumpy Elderly People

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Hey! Some of us are still conservative!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 11:03 AM (L/fGl)

12 Where is Brade? We want Brade!

Posted by: Totally Not CCP-affiliated Elric the Blade fangirls at October 21, 2025 11:03 AM (PiwSw)

13 It is tremendously destructive to have sharia-compliant cities in America. Dearborn MI, and Paterson NJ are small, but NYC is the largest city in the nation and will have a commensurate influence over policy and tone for the nation's cities."

I believe it's economic and social collapse will have an even greater influence.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK8)

14 NYC is no longer the center of the universe. The internet killed that.

Businesses can and will bail to the hinterlands. Wall Street will bail. Money will bail.

That leaves Broadway shows and museums. Pffft.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:05 AM (1a9a5)

15 Honestly I don’t give a fuck. I don’t live there. Let them vote for whatever.

NYers keep saying crime in the city is not so bad and it’s just Fox News lies. OK cool. Then you keep voting for the same people since it’s not so bad. Have at it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 11:06 AM (PGEno)

16 13 I believe it's economic and social collapse will have an even greater influence.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK

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I'm mostly looking for the performative nonsense resistance Mamdani demonstrates while Trump decides it'll be fun to send the DOJ to look into corruption of the city council.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

17 All this is the fruit of a half-decade of misguided criminal-justice reforms and a political culture that produces soft-on-crime judges — both of them the product of the progressive “decarceral” movement that insists jail and prison are the wrong approach to even serial violent criminals, even as it offers no better way to protect the public.

IOW, the 60s. Everything old is new again.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

18 NY 'justice' is now a revolving door for serial violent perps -- and Zohran Mamdani will make it WORSE

Seems like NYC will become a Mecca - hehe - for serial violent criminals. Sure, that sucks for the residents of NYC, and maybe some of the nearby surrounding areas, but it might mean peace for other places.

Maybe someone can get representatives of all the gangs in the city to assemble in Central Park for a peace conference.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

And then blow the bridges.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:06 AM (1a9a5)

19 Time to admit the truth: 9/11 worked. Islam has conquered New York City.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at October 21, 2025 11:07 AM (V362x)

20 OMG! Will the horror never end?

U.S. Government Shutdown Delays Unilever’s Magnum Ice Cream Spin-off

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

21 Sooner or later you run out of other people's money.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:07 AM (+U7B7)

22 Mamdani did a grip and grin, I think, with the most homophobic imam in NYC. But the gays salivating to vote for him will never know that.

I think what annoys me about him most is he's such an obvious con job snake oil salesman. He just tells them what they want to hear and the woke lefty New Yorkers swallow it up. They are supposed to be the smartest, most sophisticated people in the world, as they let us know. That they can't see the con job under their noses baffles me. If i were him I'd be laughing at them every night.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:08 AM (gWBY1)

23
Chicago and Oakland and Memphis and Detroit and Baltimore and New Orleans (see a pattern?)

I do see a pattern!

The first letters in the names of each of these cities spell out"

B CONDOM.

Don't get it!!!!

Be Condom! BE (a) CONDOM!!!

It couldn't be more obvious.

Wake up, sheeple!

It's like we're living in the movie "They Live"!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 11:08 AM (iJfKG)

24 That leaves Broadway shows and museums. Pffft.
Posted by: rickb223

Gonna be hard for the Rockettes to dance in burkas.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

25 Sooner or later Communism runs out of other victims.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 11:08 AM (v7zmp)

26 U.S. Government Shutdown Delays Unilever’s Magnum Ice Cream Spin-off

And why does the US government need to be involved? Is national security at stake?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

27 Hey folks, let's fix this problem. Below is the text of letters I've sent this morning to my legislators and the ladders of the state judicial oversight Committees.
I invite you to copy the text and do the same so that we can end the revolving door of our courts for case criminals once and for all.

(Note: The same content is being sent to your Senatorial counterpart)
Sir:
In the execution of their duties, some justices across this nation are doing a great disservice to the public whom they serve. These justices have turned out criminal courts into a revolving door for the career criminals and habitual repeat offenders, granting them unmerrited probation and leniency on parole violations. This directly puts the public at danger and significantly increases the costs to our communities as police and prosecutors must continually expend our limited financial and labor resources to apprehend, process, and prosecute repeat offenders.
It is way past time for this situation to change and this practice to stop.
Since the states are the crucible of experimentation for the republic it behooves us to seek out possible solutions which can be tried, tested, refined and eventually elevated

Posted by: Jamie Walker at October 21, 2025 11:09 AM (/t1JJ)

28 22 Mamdani did a grip and grin, I think, with the most homophobic imam in NYC. But the gays salivating to vote for him will never know that.

I think what annoys me about him most is he's such an obvious con job snake oil salesman. He just tells them what they want to hear and the woke lefty New Yorkers swallow it up. They are supposed to be the smartest, most sophisticated people in the world, as they let us know. That they can't see the con job under their noses baffles me. If i were him I'd be laughing at them every night.
Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:08 AM (gWBY1)

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I think the funniest part is that he's a textbook Marxist, the kind of Marxist that the left largely abandoned a few decades ago in favor of other flavors inspired by intersectionality.

But he's full on class warfare with the added spice of anti-whiteness.

If he weren't brown, he'd never have gotten traction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

29 Been a few articles now Mondani is a Red diaper baby and is a true Marxist, said he will push Marism with his plans

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 11:09 AM (xatjc)

30 Is the Government financing lousy icecream now?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:10 AM (+U7B7)

31 29 Been a few articles now Mondani is a Red diaper baby and is a true Marxist, said he will push Marism with his plans
Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 11:09 AM (xatjc)

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"Sure, we'll start a grocery store. It will cost $3 billion, and it'll be open in fifteen years."
-the city council

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

32 You don't think Mamdani is the face of the compassionate Caliphate?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 21, 2025 11:10 AM (vYF78)

33 22 Mamdani did a grip and grin, I think, with the most homophobic imam in NYC. But the gays salivating to vote for him will never know that.

Queers for Palestine!

Posted by: Boys for Gacy! at October 21, 2025 11:11 AM (TbWk/)

34 OMG! He's lost Kenny Loggins!

Kenny Loggins Blasts Use of “Danger Zone” in Trump’s AI No Kings Video

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

35 Zohran Mamdani is an unrepentant communist who will bring the societal havoc that is part and parcel of socialism to NYC's streets.

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People are just afraid to say who he really is - an unrepentant islamist, with jihadi-centric world view.

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 11:11 AM (g47mK)

36 Is the Government financing lousy icecream now?
Posted by: Boss Moss

They're trying to undermine Donny Two Scoops. Joe Biden will still get the good stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

37 Sure Mandami will destroy the economy and make the streets a war zone. But Republicans want to bring back slavery and kill all gay people.
So what choice do I have?
- NYC “moderate” voters

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 11:11 AM (PGEno)

38 Also, some woke Karens were caught canvassing door-to-door for Mamdami in a private apartment building in a NYC borough, which is illegal. They admit they got some tenant to let them in. A man who looks to be the super booted them out pretty fast, and they totally knew they were in the wrong, because they left without any protest other than asking his name.

I'm sorry, but even if i liked Mamdami, you show up at my private door asking me to vote for your guy? Screw you ten ways to Sunday. You're violating my peace and my safety, breaking into my building to peddle your socialist crap.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:11 AM (gWBY1)

39 Can you expect anything better in a city renown for the poor quality of their salsa?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2025 11:11 AM (0sNs1)

40 NY has a lot of tall buildings. That will come in handy for the Caliphate.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:12 AM (+U7B7)

41 Kenny Loggins only sang the song, he wasn't the writer of the lyrics or music.

Georgi Mordor created the music.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 11:12 AM (v7zmp)

42 Islam is a totalizing political system masquerading as a religion, and has been since Mohammed discovered that he could do anything he wanted as long as it was (conveniently enough) the will of allah, which was (even more conveniently) only communicated to him by allah so he could pass it on to others*. Viewed in that light, the alliances of convenience islamists tend to make with communists are easier to understand.

*My personal favorite is the time his adopted son had a hot wife and, wouldn't you know it, it was the will of allah that Mohammed's adopted son divorce her and Mohammed marry her. "Hey man, I'm just telling you what allah said, this is hard for both of us."

Posted by: Ham Biscuits at October 21, 2025 11:12 AM (6yjW1)

43 OMG! He's lost Kenny Loggins!

Kenny Loggins Blasts Use of “Danger Zone” in Trump’s AI No Kings Video

Royalties were paid. STFU & STFD.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:12 AM (1a9a5)

44 Trump should start making plans to build a wall around NYC.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 21, 2025 11:12 AM (g8Ew8)

45 An islamist who never had a real job, sinecure after sinecure.

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 11:12 AM (g47mK)

46 44 Trump should start making plans to build a wall around NYC.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 21, 2025 11:12 AM (g8Ew

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I've seen the proof of concept.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

47 But Republicans want to bring back slavery and kill all gay people.

I've seen that first argument more than once. I finally challenged it and demanded proof. Basically the source was "Bro, trust me."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 21, 2025 11:13 AM (99eI0)

48 Can you expect anything better in a city renown for the poor quality of their salsa?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

But its 3 AM Thai delivery is to die for.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

49 Is there a podcast incoming?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:03 AM (+U7B7)

Tomorrow!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at October 21, 2025 11:13 AM (n9ltV)

50 They can burn NYC to the ground and I don't give a shit. Just don't flee south, mmmkay.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 11:13 AM (jFCkp)

51 44 Trump should start making plans to build a wall around NYC.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 21, 2025 11:12 AM (g8Ew

Maybe a moat?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 11:13 AM (PGEno)

52 NY has a lot of tall buildings. That will come in handy for the Caliphate.

Huh. I didn't know muslims preferred high-rises.

Posted by: That guy who always misses the main point at October 21, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

53 I spent a month in NYC once. OK, it was only a day, but it felt like a month.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 11:13 AM (0U5gm)

54 Escape from New York was prophecy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:13 AM (+U7B7)

55 An islamist who never had a real job, sinecure after sinecure.

Mahdani or Hasa Piker?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 11:14 AM (v7zmp)

56 [The Blade peeks in]

[Sees another rant about NYC]

[Shakes head]

[Steps out]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

57 Kenny Loggins Blasts Use of “Danger Zone” in Trump’s AI No Kings Video

So buy the rights and move on, dude.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 21, 2025 11:14 AM (99eI0)

58 But Republicans want to bring back slavery and kill all gay people.

That would be the goat fuckers. Doing what they do best.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:15 AM (1a9a5)

59 [The Blade peeks in]

[Sees another rant about NYC]

[Shakes head]

[Steps out]

I'd have thought you'd be used to it by now.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

60 NY has a lot of tall buildings. That will come in handy for the Caliphate.

Huh. I didn't know muslims preferred high-rises.
Posted by: That guy who always misses the main point

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:15 AM (1a9a5)

61 56 Sorry we're pointing out what a sh*thole NYC is, Elric.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

62 Where is Brade? We want Brade!
Posted by: Totally Not CCP-affiliated Elric the Blade fangirls at October 21, 2025 11:03 AM (PiwSw)
_____

The Blade will return next post. Wait stop -- don't throw panties at him. Not the sexy pink ones. No not them. The horror!

Posted by: Manager for Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

63 OMG! He's lost Kenny!

You bastard!

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM (lWPQK)

64 58 But Republicans want to bring back slavery and kill all gay people.

That would be the goat fuckers. Doing what they do best.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:15 AM (1a9a5)

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Islamists are running slave markets right this very minute in Libya, the country that Hillary Clinton destabilized on purpose with bombings in order to create her own legacy as a foreign policy Secretary of State in preparation for her presidential run.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

65 Born in Brooklyn, 1955. Lived in NYC area until 1988. Never going back. Not even to visit or sightsee. Enemy territory. Not planning to visit North Korea, either.

Posted by: NYC Refugee Since 1988 at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM (oftw2)

66 WATCH: Jeffries tells @AndiNapier that he does NOT support legislation that the Senate is expected to vote on this week to pay federal employees and service members calling, it a "political ploy."

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Another brilliant move!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM (L/fGl)

67 Kenny Loggins is a whiny bitch

Posted by: what kind of zone are we headed to at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM (TbWk/)

68 62 The Blade will return next post. Wait stop -- don't throw panties at him. Not the sexy pink ones. No not them. The horror!
Posted by: Manager for Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

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Soon we will talk about Star Trek, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

69 "He say you Brade Lunner!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM (v7zmp)

70 Soon we will talk about Star Trek, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I hated Jar-Jar Binks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

71 Everyone hated Jar-Jar Crusher

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 11:17 AM (v7zmp)

72 Slavery was much like mass immigration. It cheapened the value of labor.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:17 AM (+U7B7)

73 "Gonna be hard for the Rockettes to dance in burkas."

And they'll each need a male relative on stage

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 21, 2025 11:18 AM (v/YwY)

74 Islamists are running slave markets right this very minute in Libya, the country that Hillary Clinton destabilized on purpose with bombings in order to create her own legacy as a foreign policy Secretary of State in preparation for her presidential run.
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Mmm, Libyan Sweet Crude is always in demand and its short hop to Europe.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 11:18 AM (jFCkp)

75 70 Soon we will talk about Star Trek, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I hated Jar-Jar Binks.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

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He's better than Dumbledore in that episode where the USS Millennium Falcon went to the gangster planet, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

76 my bad Kenny is very much alive

Posted by: doug at October 21, 2025 11:18 AM (Hy+R4)

77 Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:18 AM (+U7B7)

78 Part 2

to other states and eventually the nation.
Proposal: For all individuals convicted of 3 or more crimes, leave the decision on revocation of probation and or parole and the eligibility of the same in the hands of a 5 or 7 person jury.
Doing so would immediately end the revolving door of leniency as citizens would act in their self interest to ensure those who are a threat to our civil society are rightly denied the freedom they should not enjoy.
I ask and request that you and your peers draft and submit such legislation to affect this proposal and to shepherd it through the Legislative process until it becomes the law of our state.
Respectfully and very grateful for your time and attention to this matter
Signed

Posted by: Jamie Walker at October 21, 2025 11:18 AM (/t1JJ)

79 Soon we will talk about Star Trek, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I hated Jar-Jar Binks.

Don't generalize; there are good gungans and bad gungans...

Oh wait, they all suck.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

80
I think it's going to be interesting for New Yorkers

when the No-Go Zones, No Jew Zones, Muslims Only Zones, No Dog Zones, No Pork Zones and the cat-on-fire calls to prayer start showing up 5 times a day.

On the upside: You'll be able to get all the kabob you want at 3 am.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 11:19 AM (iJfKG)

81 Only the Sith deal in absolutes!

Posted by: Ewan McGregor, just following the script at October 21, 2025 11:19 AM (PiwSw)

82 79 Don't generalize; there are good gungans and bad gungans...

Oh wait, they all suck.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

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*jumps out of chair*

I will not have you talk smack about Boss Nass.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

83 There are many good people in NYC. GOD was willing to spare Sodom and Gomora for a Lot less.

Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2025 11:19 AM (LHPAg)

84 New York Chinatown will become an autonomous zone.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 11:19 AM (v7zmp)

85 72 Slavery was much like mass immigration. It cheapened the value of labor.
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You have that backward. Slaves have to be fed, clothed and sheltered year round. They are expensive. Wage slaves get fired first cuz cheap.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 11:19 AM (jFCkp)

86 (Note: The same content is being sent to your Senatorial counterpart)
Sir:
In the execution of their duties, some justices across this nation are doing a great disservice to the public whom they serve. These justices have turned out criminal courts into a revolving door for the career criminals and habitual repeat offenders, granting them unmerrited probation and leniency on parole violations. This directly puts the public at danger and significantly increases the costs to our communities as police and prosecutors must continually expend our limited financial and labor resources to apprehend, process, and prosecute repeat offenders.
It is way past time for this situation to change and this practice to stop.
Since the states are the crucible of experimentation for the republic it behooves us to seek out possible solutions which can be tried, tested, refined and eventually elevated to national implementation. Such is what I bring you and propose today.
Proposal: Restructure the state of South Carolina criminal courts to utilize a jury of 5 or 7 individuals of the public to decide matters of revocation of parole/probation and qualification and/or opportunity for probation in crimi

Posted by: Jamie Walker at October 21, 2025 11:20 AM (/t1JJ)

87 3am thing is kind of a myth anyway. One of the things that struck me when I was in NYc was how early restaurants closed. I had this image in my mind of 24/7 restaurants everywhere. When in fact they closed about the same time restaurants close everywhere. Because even in Nuuu Yorrrkkk City people tend to eat around the same time as everywhere else. Not a lot of demand for dinner entries at midnight.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 11:20 AM (PGEno)

88 Soon we will talk about Star Trek, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM

There is. Never.
* hand chop*
A. Bad. Time to. Talk about. Star. Trek.

Posted by: William Shatner at October 21, 2025 11:20 AM (0sNs1)

89 88 Soon we will talk about Star Trek, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:16 AM

There is. Never.
* hand chop*
A. Bad. Time to. Talk about. Star. Trek.
Posted by: William Shatner at October 21, 2025 11:20 AM (0sNs1)

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Sometimes it's hard to remember the lines so...

pauses....

are necessary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

90 Plans are already being laid to move most of Wall Street to Dallas. Mamdami is going to target large businesses, because that's where the money is and he needs it - but they'll just leave.
In a digital age, with zoom calls and instant communications available to all, there is no longer any reason for large concentrations of corporate power. They can fan out across the country, wherever local tax and economic benefits seem best.
In other words, there's no longer any reason for New York to exist other than as a shadow of what it formerly was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 11:20 AM (uWKK8)

91 87 3am thing is kind of a myth anyway. One of the things that struck me when I was in NYc was how early restaurants closed. I had this image in my mind of 24/7 restaurants everywhere. When in fact they closed about the same time restaurants close everywhere. Because even in Nuuu Yorrrkkk City people tend to eat around the same time as everywhere else. Not a lot of demand for dinner entries at midnight.

I have it on good authority that Subway is open at 3 am in Chicago, no matter how cold it is.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

92 39 Can you expect anything better in a city renown for the poor quality of their salsa?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

First time I've agreed with Duncanthrax on anything, but then again, a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at October 21, 2025 11:21 AM (oftw2)

93 All my lefty friends on social media living in NYC are excited to vote for him. They put up decorations in the colors of his campaign stuff...of course he's too cool to use boring racist red white and blue. That would be too gauche!

"The Anatomy of Zorhan Mamdami's Winning Campaign Poster."
https://www.fastcompany.com/91360641
/the-anatomy-of-zohran-mamdanis-
winning-campaign-poster

The fact that Sandy Cortez has hired the same ad people as Zorhan tells me she is definitely running to unseat Schumer. Though when asked about it recently by a journalist, she skwawked about it so angrily that how dare they ask her such a thing!

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:21 AM (gWBY1)

94 Sharia patrols will get an official designation from the city and will extend beyond muslims.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 21, 2025 11:21 AM (yPgbG)

95 33 year old, never had a real job, communist boomers are the worst.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:22 AM (viF8m)

96 94 Sharia patrols will get an official designation from the city and will extend beyond muslims.
Posted by: Halfhand at October 21, 2025 11:21 AM (yPgbG)

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Them happening in Broadway and the police refusing to respond because they hate Mamdani and the people who voted for him would entertain me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

97 Mamdani is an arsonist of civilization with the torch of communism in one hand and the torch of Islam in the other.
Both movements will draw energy from the fires he sets. There is no way to confine that fire to NYC. It will arrive at places we care about if we don’t stop it there.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2025 11:22 AM (jbnUc)

98 The fact that Sandy Cortez has hired the same ad people as Zorhan tells me she is definitely running to unseat Schumer. Though when asked about it recently by a journalist, she skwawked about it so angrily that how dare they ask her such a thing!

Schumer has apparently dropped some hints that he's thinking about retirement.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

99 First time I've agreed with Duncanthrax on anything, but then again, a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at October 21, 2025 11:21 AM (oftw2)

Stopped digital clocks ( with battery backup ) are right only once a day, and if there is no battery, the display is dark, therefore they are never right.

Posted by: Data Crusher at October 21, 2025 11:22 AM (PiwSw)

100 In other words, there's no longer any reason for New York to exist other than as a shadow of what it formerly was.
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All the wharfs and warehouses are gone. I guess they will have to make it on day time programming or something.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 11:22 AM (jFCkp)

101 Wasn't that the story of Obama?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:23 AM (+U7B7)

102 33 year old, never had a real job, communist boomers are the worst.
Posted by: JackStraw

33-year-olds are not boomers.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

103 Hey Chuck, how goes the shutdown?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 21, 2025 11:23 AM (v7zmp)

104 Barracuda.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:23 AM (+U7B7)

105 The bigly big money is already moving to Miami. This might just be the final push to move it all. No income tax, sunshine and beaches. Why stay in the shithole up north?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 11:24 AM (PGEno)

106 Shutdown you better take care.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:24 AM (+U7B7)

107 102 33 year old, never had a real job, communist boomers are the worst.
Posted by: JackStraw

33-year-olds are not boomers.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

Dude!!!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 11:24 AM (PGEno)

108 Lia Thomas Unrepentant over Taking Titles from Women: 'It's Easier to Fight the World Than Fight Yourself"

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Incorrect.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 11:24 AM (YGkzu)

109 98 The fact that Sandy Cortez has hired the same ad people as Zorhan tells me she is definitely running to unseat Schumer.
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My understanding of AOC is she was created and backed by dot Indians. Don't know if Muzzies and dot Indians work well together.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 11:24 AM (jFCkp)

110 Some Republicans Upset That Republican Candidate Refuses To Drop Out To Help ... Andrew Cuomo (?) Win

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Vote for the grandma killer! It's important!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 11:24 AM (L/fGl)

111 >>33-year-olds are not boomers.

You don't say.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:25 AM (viF8m)

112 TJM and he said will buy up vacant buildings to have no homeless, free rent.

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 11:25 AM (xatjc)

113 CAAAAAN YOUUUUU DIG IT?

Posted by: Cyrus at October 21, 2025 11:25 AM (AaY6N)

114
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You have that backward. Slaves have to be fed, clothed and sheltered year round. They are expensive. Wage slaves get fired first cuz cheap.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Nearly no use of slaves in mining. Too much invested to have them in danger. You just kill the Irishmen. More will be arriving on the next boat.

Posted by: Paddy O'Furniture at October 21, 2025 11:25 AM (oftw2)

115 What I see happening in NY is a replay of Dr. Zhivago, including the sharing of people's homes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 11:25 AM (0U5gm)

116 And then blow the bridges.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:06 AM (1a9a5)

I imagine what would happen is that the person who called for the conference would be murdered and one of the smaller gangs, probably from Coney Island, would be framed for it and they would have to fight their way across the city to make it home.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:25 AM (ExV1e)

117 My understanding of AOC is she was created and backed by dot Indians. Don't know if Muzzies and dot Indians work well together.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Against Christians and Jews? Absolutely.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)

118 33-year-olds are not boomers.
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This is true. They are millennials and were raised on Harry Potter.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 11:26 AM (jFCkp)

119 We reach.

Posted by: As long as were throwing out Star Wars phrases at October 21, 2025 11:26 AM (PiwSw)

120 Lia Thomas Unrepentant over Taking Titles from Women: 'It's Easier to Fight the World Than Fight Yourself"

The mantra of the weak-willed

Posted by: Halfhand at October 21, 2025 11:26 AM (yPgbG)

121 Don't forget the tunnels.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:26 AM (+U7B7)

122 Islamism isn't exclusively a Jewish problem. It's an everybody problem. They just have Jews as a focal point for the demographic they want to kill first (of course if there are no Jews around they'll murder whoever else is available), The focus is according to their venerated prophet.

They want to kill and enslave everyone. The Jews are just at the top of the list. Islam is a thorough evil.

Posted by: Minuteman at October 21, 2025 11:26 AM (47/pr)

123 Sooner or later you run out of other people's money.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:07 AM (+U7B7)

Just watched a video about some OF model going broke. This could have been the title.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:26 AM (ExV1e)

124 First time I've agreed with Duncanthrax on anything, but then again, a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at October 21, 2025 11:21 AM

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

-- Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2025 11:27 AM (0sNs1)

125 here's an on-the-street what-do-you-know-about-Mamdani video:

Zach Sage Fox
@zachsagefox
Sep 10
MOST Zohran Mamdani supporters CHANGE THEIR MINDS after learning about his RADICAL policies and past in my shocking new hidden camera social experiment

Which means there’s still hope we can save NYC if we get the TRUTH viral by November 4th

(pinned tweet)

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 11:27 AM (RuTUS)

126 123 Sooner or later you run out of other people's money.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:07 AM (+U7B7)

Just watched a video about some OF model going broke. This could have been the title.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:26 AM (ExV1e)

Boob-adjacent comment yet on topic, well done

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 11:27 AM (xcxpd)

127 >>This is true. They are millennials and were raised on Harry Potter.

And apparently every single one of them doesn't know what gender they are.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:27 AM (viF8m)

128 Kenny Loggins Blasts Use of “Danger Zone” in Trump’s AI No Kings Video
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but legally speaking I don't think that Kenny has any say in such matters so long as the royalty is being paid. A similar dispute came up years ago in that Axl Rose didn't like the Jim Rome Show (syndicated national sports program) using "Welcome to The Jungle". The show's response was basically "You're cashing our checks, we'll play what we want."

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:27 AM (TN0g+)

129 Wait until Mamdani gets access to all the information that the NYPD Counterterrorism Unit has.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 11:28 AM (xTIDn)

130 114
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You have that backward. Slaves have to be fed, clothed and sheltered year round. They are expensive. Wage slaves get fired first cuz cheap.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Nearly no use of slaves in mining. Too much invested to have them in danger. You just kill the Irishmen. More will be arriving on the next boat.
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Yep. Irishmen were worked like rented mules. You'd never use slaves to drain a swamp cuz slaves where worth something.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 11:28 AM (jFCkp)

131 "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

-- Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64

"You will meet the love of your life today".

--fortune cookie, House of Dynasty

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

132 117 My understanding of AOC is she was created and backed by dot Indians. Don't know if Muzzies and dot Indians work well together.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Against Christians and Jews? Absolutely.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)

I see your understanding of the history of India is...as expected.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 11:28 AM (xcxpd)

133 In other Go Figger news, AMZN is up 2.5% today.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 21, 2025 11:29 AM (3nLb4)

134 G'day, y'all. Clocking in 🕚 on a fine, slightly chilly Oklahoma Autumn morning.

What is even more problematic is that the conventional wisdom is ignoring the 800 pound gorilla in the mosque…

The tsunami of MAGA wins and converts has been so encouraging to see, bringing great hope for the future of our Republic, and the m/l free world, but the wall of opposition and thoughtless reactionaries creates a lot of concern. We can't afford to let up, lose to the communists and cohorts, before greater victory has been achieved, or we'll be in a situation like Israel when they don't finish the job IYKWIM.

Seems like we are going to need more Trumps, perhaps even more than Trump, in the coming battles, inspiring generals willing to go the distance, empowered by massive public support. A tall order, and one that `I would not even have thought to suggest just a few years back, but which in this era of renewed winning seems possible. God willing.

🤔
What, did I just write all that? Sheesh.
*pours another cuppa coffee*
*heads back down to read the Morning Report*

Posted by: mindful webworker - let that light shine at October 21, 2025 11:29 AM (Qqyu2)

135 Only the Sith deal in absolutes!
Posted by: Ewan McGregor, just following the script at October 21, 2025 11:19 AM (PiwSw)

How frequently do you eat actual shit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:30 AM (ExV1e)

136 MOST Zohran Mamdani supporters CHANGE THEIR MINDS after learning about his RADICAL policies and past...
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I'm a stupid person. I really am. Because if I weren't a stupid person, I would already be rich beyond avarice having found a way to sell something/anything to people who were dumb enough to have even tangental awareness of Zohran Mamdani and think to themselves "That guy would make a good mayor".

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:30 AM (TN0g+)

137 116 And then blow the bridges.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:06 AM (1a9a5)

I imagine what would happen is that the person who called for the conference would be murdered and one of the smaller gangs, probably from Coney Island, would be framed for it and they would have to fight their way across the city to make it home.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:25 AM (ExV1e)

Can you dig it?!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

138 Correct me if I'm wrong, but legally speaking I don't think that Kenny has any say in such matters so long as the royalty is being paid.

Yeah, this has been settled many times - if you license your music through ASCAP or a similar organization, you relinquish all rights to your music, other than receiving royalties.

If you want to keep control over your music, don't license it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 11:30 AM (xTIDn)

139 I imagine what would happen is that the person who called for the conference would be murdered and one of the smaller gangs, probably from Coney Island, would be framed for it and they would have to fight their way across the city to make it home.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:25 AM

Islaaaamists....come out to plaaaaay!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2025 11:30 AM (kgE5c)

140

In other Go Figger news, AMZN is up 2.5% today.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 21, 2025 11:29 AM (3nLb4)

I think that's the "Well, at least we didn't wind up killing anybody" bump

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 11:30 AM (iJfKG)

141 >> "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

It begins by thinking about it.

Who made the Chinese deep thought experts?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:31 AM (viF8m)

142 My classic rock station juat played Barracuda twice in a row. I wonder if that is the prompt to call in for the thousand dollars?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:31 AM (+U7B7)

143 122 Islamism isn't exclusively a Jewish problem. It's an everybody problem. They just have Jews as a focal point for the demographic they want to kill first (of course if there are no Jews around they'll murder whoever else is available), The focus is according to their venerated prophet.

Muslims killed non Jews in Yugoslavia, in India, in Russia, in Armenia. The list is long.

Hamas gets all the headlines for killing Jews. But that’s just more of a factor of convenience. They kill whomever is next to them. They’re very diverse in that aspect. Must be why the left loves them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 11:31 AM (PGEno)

144 NYC is no longer the center of the universe. The internet killed that.

Businesses can and will bail to the hinterlands. Wall Street will bail. Money will bail.

That leaves Broadway shows and museums. Pffft.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:05 AM (1a9a5)
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It's already set - the big banks will move to Dallas. Once that happens all the rest falls apart - and the money falls apart - and the domestic gangs will make their wishes known to the new mayor rather quickly. It will force the bastardization of Islam to be shown in public, not that the UK hasn't shown us enough of what it is. But it seems as if the population is beginning to figure out the convergence of global commie, Islam, and each country's political elite. The whole thing will have a Ceaușescu feel to it.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 21, 2025 11:31 AM (GZYu7)

145 Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:21 AM (gWBY1)

It looks so perfectly leftarded. Accessible and just "off" enough to seem like the person behind it isn't the most disgusting vile hateful POS on the planet.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 11:31 AM (uWTh9)

146 I have it on good authority that Subway is open at 3 am in Chicago, no matter how cold it is.

That’s because it’s MAGA country.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 21, 2025 11:32 AM (3cXfB)

147 MOST Zohran Mamdani supporters CHANGE THEIR MINDS after learning about his RADICAL policies and past...

One of the scary things about Mamdani is how open he is in his beliefs - refusing to condemn Hamas, announcing that he will arrest Bibi, etc.

It would be one thing if he was trying to disguise his beliefs, but he thinks he can win without disguising his beliefs at all.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 11:33 AM (xTIDn)

148 141 >> "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

It begins by thinking about it.

Who made the Chinese deep thought experts?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:31 AM (viF8m)

India

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 11:33 AM (xcxpd)

149 It's worth noting, and we all see it, that the Democrat Party has now fully identified itself with Islam.

I think that by 2030, that will be the death of the current Democrat Party. Something else will arise, and will probably use the same name for branding purposes (Just as MAGA is using the Republican name even though it's mostly a new party) But the party of Schumer, Pelosi, and Jeffries is finished. What we're seeing are just its death throws.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 11:33 AM (uWKK8)

150 It would be one thing if he was trying to disguise his beliefs, but he thinks he can win without disguising his beliefs at all.

He's probably right.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

151 Normalcy bias is a real thing.

The truth is all large cities are pretty much in the same boat. NYC is probably the bellwether. The infrastructure and economy, structure of government, pensions, the whole shootin’ match is predicated on a legacy economy that died a long, long time ago.

They can’t print money, unlike the federal government. They are completely fooked, whether they recognize it or not. Mamdami represents the looting phase of the decline. It should likely be quite rapid at this phase, with astonishing speed. Or put another way, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2025 11:33 AM (uQjsv)

152 Islamism isn't exclusively a Jewish problem. It's an everybody problem. They just have Jews as a focal point for the demographic they want to kill first (of course if there are no Jews around they'll murder whoever else is available), The focus is according to their venerated prophet.

And when all the non-muzzies are gone, they'll go after each other. Sunni vs. Shia, and then the various subsects of the surviving branch vs. each other.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

153 "Islam has a single goal, and its adherents are single-minded in its pursuit. Mamdani is simply an Islamist under cover of communism, using the useful idiots of the left to further his Islamist goals."

This is precisely correct.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at October 21, 2025 11:34 AM (P7Iz+)

154 Hear, hear!

Philadelphia, which has a significant Sunni Muslim population. >Religion News dot com: News. 'In Philadelphia, a Muslim hub, presidential election feels to many like no choice at all.' Rhonda Roumani, October 24, 2024

In part, "While other cities’ Muslims comprise mostly immigrants with smaller pockets of African Americans, in Philadelphia, the situation is reversed. The majority-minority city’s Muslims are predominantly Black Americans, with growing pockets of immigrant communities, including Palestinians, Bangladeshis, Uzbeks, who represent the diverse world of Islam. That, locals believe, creates a city with a distinct Muslim feel."

Another Mamdami: Philadelphia Councilmember Nicolas O'Rourke introduced the "Affordable Philly Now" package in October 2025, which draws inspiration from New York City politician Zohran Mamdani's campaigns.

Last but not the least, a revolving door for serial perps, for ex: Fox 29, 2 days ago: Kada Scott: Human remains found in search for missing woman. 🙏🕯

Soros DAs reign in PA.
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Bill deBlasio aka Warren Wilhelm Jr., is having a very fine time on X loving No Kings Day in Manhattan and h8ing on Andrew Cuomo.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 21, 2025 11:34 AM (NFX2v)

155 'It's Easier to Fight the World Than Fight Yourself"
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That is as scripted a mobilization call as you will find.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 11:34 AM (uWTh9)

156 "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

-- Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Man who fellowship with bats, unstable in thoughts and deed.

Posted by: Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935) at October 21, 2025 11:34 AM (oftw2)

157 But the party of Schumer, Pelosi, and Jeffries is finished. What we're seeing are just its death throws.

If those three are the best the Dems can do, they deserve to die.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

158 Can you dig it?!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

I was expecting this from TJM but maybe that movie is too old for him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)

159 >>India

China and India.

I think I see the problem.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:35 AM (viF8m)

160 Plans are already being laid to move most of Wall Street to Dallas. Mamdami is going to target large businesses, because that's where the money is and he needs it - but they'll just leave.

So now there's going to be two groups of people clamoring for a wall to built around NYC, but for diametrically different reasons.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at October 21, 2025 11:36 AM (Hx0tZ)

161 158 Can you dig it?!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

I was expecting this from TJM but maybe that movie is too old for him.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)

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Movies older than me scare me. I refuse to watch them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

162 China and India.

I think I see the problem.
Posted by: JackStraw

Yeah. Which do I wanna order for take out?

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

163 The truth is all large cities are pretty much in the same boat. NYC is probably the bellwether.

I'd put Chicago and some other cities before NYC, but otherwise, you are correct.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

164 What they've done is brand him a "commie" because people cannot hold two ideas in their mind at once.

And they know the Democrats in NYC are not remotely turned off by voting commie like they would be for voting for a terrorist.

Hence they've gone all in on the "omg no please don't call him a commie" thing.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 11:36 AM (uWTh9)

165 General Tsos ftw.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:37 AM (+U7B7)

166 Movies older than me scare me. I refuse to watch them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

There is iron in your words of celluloid.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:37 AM (ExV1e)

167 I'm sure Mamdani will have both crazy islamist and crazy trans at fund raisers.
Love to see those two talking.

No trans shooting up islamist children.

racism

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 21, 2025 11:37 AM (EyfuW)

168 Californication.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:37 AM (+U7B7)

169 166 Movies older than me scare me. I refuse to watch them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

There is iron in your words of celluloid.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:37 AM (ExV1e)

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Silver nitrate, actually.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)

170 109
‘ Don't know if Muzzies and dot Indians work well together.’

Better than you’d expect. Particularly if white people are their opponents.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2025 11:38 AM (jbnUc)

171 Movies older than me scare me. I refuse to watch them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

There is iron in your words of celluloid.

Sorry, I just can't see it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

172 >>Yeah. Which do I wanna order for take out?

Visit either country and then you will order Italian.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:38 AM (viF8m)

173 Man who fellowship with bats, unstable in thoughts and deed.
Posted by: Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935) at October 21, 2025 11:34 AM (oftw2)

Those are fighting words!

Posted by: Alfred Pennyworth at October 21, 2025 11:38 AM (FLx59)

174 The truth is all large cities are pretty much in the same boat. NYC is probably the bellwether. The infrastructure and economy, structure of government, pensions, the whole shootin’ match is predicated on a legacy economy that died a long, long time ago.

The other key thing is that people vote with their feet - if you don't like the politics of the big blue city, you move elsewhere in the metro area (which generally has much more population outside the big blue city than the city has).

So, you generally get an ever-more-intense distillation of hard-core Leftism over time in big cities, because most people who disagreed with those policies have left.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 11:38 AM (xTIDn)

175 OMG! Will the horror never end?

U.S. Government Shutdown Delays Unilever’s Magnum Ice Cream Spin-off
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 11:07 AM

No joke, I would never allow this inestimable gerzsmior threat to choca choco chocolate ice cream, Jack! That is trouble, spelled with a capital B, like the cancer Beau cured on with, you know the thing.

Anyway....

Posted by: Joe Biden. Miss me yet? at October 21, 2025 11:38 AM (47/pr)

176 I was expecting this from TJM but maybe that movie is too old for him.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)

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Movies older than me scare me. I refuse to watch them.
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Except for "Duck Soup".

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:38 AM (TN0g+)

177 176 Movies older than me scare me. I refuse to watch them.
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Except for "Duck Soup".
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:38 AM (TN0g+)

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The real funny thing is that I just watched an Austrian movie from 1931.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

178 Boston is about to get fucked. It’s fine u see the radar but there is a bigly “enrollment cliff” coming for universities. Post 2008 crash the birth rate plummeted. So starting in 2026 the number of college aged kids will be much lower. As much as 10%. Which means 10% fewer college kids. On top of the already shrinking enrollments we’ve been witnessing recently.

A large portion of Boston’s economy is based around colleges. There are something like 60 of them in the metro area. All those kids spending money there, renting apartments, parents staying at hotels when visiting, etc. Shave 10% off all that economic activity and it’ll be brutal.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 11:39 AM (PGEno)

179
It would be one thing if he was trying to disguise his beliefs, but he thinks he can win without disguising his beliefs at all.

He's probably right.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

I suspect that this may be the one lesson the Dims take away from Trump's Presidency.

If you say exactly and clearly what you believe and plan, and then when elected do exactly what you promised...well, not only does that make you an honest and moral politicians but really no one has any right to complain. You won "fair and square" on your expressed platform.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 11:39 AM (iJfKG)

180 155 'It's Easier to Fight the World Than Fight Yourself"
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That is as scripted a mobilization call as you will find.
Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 11:34 AM (uWTh9)

This quote coming from someone who grew tired of boxing his "bishop" and decided to try a different game.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2025 11:39 AM (N39Ws)

181 I'm sure Mamdani will have both crazy islamist and crazy trans at fund raisers.
Love to see those two talking.

Separate fundraisers - Mamdani doesn't want what he says at the Muslim fundraisers to be publicized.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 11:40 AM (xTIDn)

182 179 I suspect that this may be the one lesson the Dims take away from Trump's Presidency.

If you say exactly and clearly what you believe and plan, and then when elected do exactly what you promised...well, not only does that make you an honest and moral politicians but really no one has any right to complain. You won "fair and square" on your expressed platform.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 11:39 AM (iJfKG)

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Mamdani is genuine like Trump and unlike most establishment politicians.

Genuineness counts for something. A lot, really.

Since people don't actually vote on policy all that much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

183 161 158 Can you dig it?!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

I was expecting this from TJM but maybe that movie is too old for him.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)

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Movies older than me scare me. I refuse to watch them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

After 'Five Dolls for an August Moon', I almost understand why

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 11:41 AM (xcxpd)

184 Separate fundraisers - Mamdani doesn't want what he says at the Muslim fundraisers to be publicized.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

He'll say it in Arabic and provide a phony English translation, just like Arafat used to do.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

185 183 After 'Five Dolls for an August Moon', I almost understand why
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 11:41 AM (xcxpd)

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I warned you off it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

186
Posted by: Charlie Chan"

Woof

/shih tzu

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 11:41 AM (tubbA)

187 Did they have movies back then?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:42 AM (+U7B7)

188 187 Did they have movies back then?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:42 AM (+U7B7)

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There was nothing before Year 0.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

189 >>A large portion of Boston’s economy is based around colleges. There are something like 60 of them in the metro area. All those kids spending money there, renting apartments, parents staying at hotels when visiting, etc. Shave 10% off all that economic activity and it’ll be brutal.

Visited any of those schools recently?

For the last 40 years an ever increasing number of students come with a passport. That's how we got here.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m)

190 Except for "Duck Soup".
Posted by: Crusader

Watch "Million Dollar Legs" (1932), more absurd and funnier than Duck Soup.

Posted by: William Claude Dukenfield at October 21, 2025 11:43 AM (oftw2)

191 Apropos of nothing:
I've been reading history of the Plains Indians, and this specific meeting was described.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X4UERRVFQrU?feature=share

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:43 AM (Riz8t)

192 Slaves have to be fed, clothed and sheltered year round. "

Not our slaves...
/Arabic states

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 11:43 AM (tubbA)

193 There was nothing before Year 0.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

1 BC.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

194 So starting in 2026 the number of college aged kids will be much lower. As much as 10%. Which means 10% fewer college kids. On top of the already shrinking enrollments we’ve been witnessing recently.

As I understand it, there are a lot of videos on TikTok of the yoots complaining about college loans. About the amount, about the interest rates, about the fact that the degree they got is useless...

Maybe, probably not but maybe, some wisdom will come from this.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)

195 I don't think New Yorkers would like the South very much. Trump understands us. He is an exception and most welcome.

Posted by: Case at October 21, 2025 11:44 AM (9HFDU)

196 "Islam has a single goal, and its adherents are single-minded in its pursuit. Mamdani is simply an Islamist under cover of communism, using the useful idiots of the left to further his Islamist goals."

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On the subject of communism vs mohammedism:

One is a religion masquerading as a political party, and one is a political party masquerading as a religion, but both are totalitarian dictatorships.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2025 11:44 AM (0U5gm)

197 141
Who made the Chinese deep thought experts?

You don’t think they could have thousands of years of civilization and not learn all of life’s secrets do you?
(Looks at last century of Chinese history)

OK . Maybe you have a point.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2025 11:44 AM (jbnUc)

198 From GP:
Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales has been accused of carrying on an extramarital affair with his senior aide, Regina Santos-Aviles, who tragically died after dousing herself in gasoline and setting herself on fire last month.
Gonzales, 43, a married father of six representing Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, which stretches from San Antonio through Uvalde to El Paso, hired Santos-Aviles, 35, as his regional district director in 2021.

According to a report from the Daily Mail, local police are stonewalling the release of critical evidence, including the 911 call, surveillance video, and police records.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:45 AM (TN0g+)

199 >>> It looks so perfectly leftarded. Accessible and just "off" enough to seem like the person behind it isn't the most disgusting vile hateful POS on the planet.
Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 11:31 AM (uWTh9)

The design firm Mamdami hired clearly took lessons from Obama's winning campaign brand. A powerful brand presence to hide an empty suit.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:45 AM (gWBY1)

200 ======

I'm mostly looking for the performative nonsense resistance Mamdani demonstrates while Trump decides it'll be fun to send the DOJ to look into corruption of the city council.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors
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Speculating that Trump will clear all of the Justices road blocks using other cities first so that when he does move on NYC and NY state there will be not Judicial interference with his actions.
Troops and DoJ will be a simultaneous, co-operative action.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 11:45 AM (kkYD1)

201 Thx CBD
Guess we have to get the commies fighting the Muslims. Too many oppose positions within the Dem coalition.
If Mamdani is elected things will come to a head quickly when the first pogrom occurs. I have no doubt that is being held back now to get him elected. Bad times ahead

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 11:45 AM (8RjCi)

202 There was nothing before Year 0.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

That's why it's Year 0.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:45 AM (ExV1e)

203 NYT

One Sign of Mamdani’s Surge: The Impersonators Are Out in Droves

https://archive.is/3qbqT

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 11:46 AM (RuTUS)

204 "Not our slaves...
/Arabic states"

Nor ours
/Latinx states

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 21, 2025 11:46 AM (v/YwY)

205 As I understand it, there are a lot of videos on TikTok of the yoots complaining about college loans. About the amount, about the interest rates, about the fact that the degree they got is useless...

Maybe, probably not but maybe, some wisdom will come from this.

It seems that Trump is considering loan forgiveness (or has already forgiven it, it isn't clear).

https://is.gd/K5Ugzf

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

206 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

A film buff friend of mine once subjected me to a German movie about a train filling up with water and the conductor keeps telling the viewer how long they have until they drown.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 11:46 AM (uWTh9)

207 Boston? It's not a big college town.

Posted by: Ian Faith at October 21, 2025 11:46 AM (0bjKf)

208 bigly “enrollment cliff” coming for universities."

It's already here. Higher education administration in a complete freakout, and the only solution they see is "import moar now!"

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 11:46 AM (tubbA)

209 PSA

Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) retweeted Ian
Ellis@ianellisjones . yesterday

Today , the U.S. announced its 7th strike in SOUTHCOM, destroying a boat affiliated with a Colombian cartel. The U.S. has massed 10,000+ troops in the region, with most in Puerto Rico and on 12 U.S. Navy ships. Also:

• - USAF B-52H bombers + USMC F-35B fighters conducted a bomber attack demo
• - Special forces spotted near Trinidad and Tobago
• - AC-130J Ghostrider gunships deployed to Puerto Rico
• - Additional ships arrived in theater: Military Sealift Command oilers USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187) and USNS Kanawha (T-AO 196), U.S. Army landing craft utility USAV Wilson Wharf (LCU 2011), littoral combat ship USS Wichita (LCS 13) replaced USS Minneapolis-St. Paul (LCS 21)
• - NYT: U.S. installed a new long-range radar system (AN/TPS-75) in St. Croix, USVI, and built a new bunker to store ammunition and support drone ops at Rafael Hernández Airport
• - New Joint Task Force (JTF) under II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF) established
• - SOUTHCOM Commander, Admiral Holsey, retiring

Last week, POTUS acknowledged authorization for the CIA to conduct covert op

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 11:48 AM (kkYD1)

210 I don't think New Yorkers would like the South very much.

Overnight lows in mid 100s, insects the size of horses, the requirement to carry 12 firearms on your person at all times AND be a member of a church... what NY'er would deal with that?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:48 AM (ExV1e)

211 The design firm Mamdami hired clearly took lessons from Obama's winning campaign brand. A powerful brand presence to hide an empty suit.
Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:45 AM (gWBY1)

From a design standpoint it seems they tried to make it look like an ironic ripoff rather than a straightforward one, which is harder to mock and also more "accessible".

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 11:48 AM (uWTh9)

212 Guess we have to get the commies fighting the Muslims"

We're the first targets...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 11:48 AM (tubbA)

213 Zorhan Mamdani. Born in Uganda. Then lived in South Africa. Came to the US when he was 7 and went to Bowdoin College, likely as quota kid. Never had a real job because his family has money.

And now a communist is likely to be the mayor of the financial capital of the US.

Just a thought but maybe we should have less immigration. Diversity is not our strength.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:49 AM (viF8m)

214 205 It seems that Trump is considering loan forgiveness (or has already forgiven it, it isn't clear).

https://is.gd/K5Ugzf
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

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It's no more than the continuation of the long-standing Income Based Repayment plan that allowed people to pay set amounts over set periods, as long as they met income requirements, that allowed expunging the rest of the debt after something like 20 years.

The headlines keep throwing out "millions" but it's bullshit.

There are roughly 2.5 million in the program in total. That's not the number granted their scheduled relief.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

215 I'm not sure if this is real or not but Jamie Lee Curtis thinks you won't be able to guess which of her "daughers" is trans.

https://is.gd/Mna8IC

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 21, 2025 11:49 AM (PiwSw)

216 206 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

A film buff friend of mine once subjected me to a German movie about a train filling up with water and the conductor keeps telling the viewer how long they have until they drown.
Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 11:46 AM (uWTh9)

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I don't know what this film is, but it sounds thrilling!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

217 what NY'er would deal with that?"

And pickup trucks...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (tubbA)

218 202 There was nothing before Year 0.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike
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You can't make something from nothing.
You heard that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (kkYD1)

219
Genuineness counts for something. A lot, really.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO

Yep, and if you can fake that like Mamdani you've got it made.

No leftist is genuine. Unless they literally admit they are a lying sack of shit, in which case, paradox time.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (uWTh9)

220 It's no more than the continuation of the long-standing Income Based Repayment plan that allowed people to pay set amounts over set periods, as long as they met income requirements, that allowed expunging the rest of the debt after something like 20 years.

The headlines keep throwing out "millions" but it's bullshit.

There are roughly 2.5 million in the program in total. That's not the number granted their scheduled relief.

Thanks. I found the article rather hard to understand. It was almost as if they were...trying to mislead people.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

221 The truth is all large cities are pretty much in the same boat. NYC is probably the bellwether. The infrastructure and economy, structure of government, pensions, the whole shootin’ match is predicated on a legacy economy that died a long, long time ago.

They can’t print money, unlike the federal government. They are completely fooked, whether they recognize it or not. Mamdami represents the looting phase of the decline. It should likely be quite rapid at this phase, with astonishing speed. Or put another way, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Posted by: Common Tater

The internet killed big cities. Everything you needed a big city for, can now be done over the internet. Major department stores? Gone. Woolworth's? Gone. (Not counting their shrink to CVS standards) Kresge's 5& 10? Gone. Big business HQs? Gone. Hell, even the courthouses and sheriff's departments have left the downtown areas.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (1a9a5)

222 Who made the Chinese deep thought experts?

You don’t think they could have thousands of years of civilization and not learn all of life’s secrets do you?
(Looks at last century of Chinese history)

OK . Maybe you have a point.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2025 11:44 AM (jbnUc)

China has been given the chance to learn much about science, history, politics and economics over the centuries...and has drawn the wrong conclusion every single time. It's baffling.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (xcxpd)

223 Interesting & more than 60 years ago:

>Jewish Telegraphic Agency: 'Three Rockwell Supporters Arrested in Philadelphia Demonstration,' Feb 3, 1961

Last paragraph of article:
(Arab college students, who are in the United States on temporary visas, were disclosed today in Washington to have circulated notices to at least 20 universities in the United States which urged fellow Arab students to “Join the American Nazi party in its efforts to stamp out an insidious group” and to demonstrate against the Israel-based film, “Exodus”

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Same newspaper, yesterday:
United States
Thousands of haredi Orthodox Jews protest Israeli military draft in New York City
The demonstration highlighted Israel’s contentious debate over haredi military service.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (NFX2v)

224 Movies older than me scare me. I refuse to watch them.
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Except for "Duck Soup".
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:38 AM (TN0g+)

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The real funny thing is that I just watched an Austrian movie from 1931.
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What did you watch?

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (TN0g+)

225 Maybe the financial capital should be in a city that is solvent.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (+U7B7)

226 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 11:51 AM (xatjc)

227 Last week, POTUS acknowledged authorization for the CIA to conduct covert op
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 11:48 AM (kkYD1)

Saw the former prez of Columbia (the country) interviewed by PBS News Hour last night. It was hilarious… they kept prompting him to condemn Trump’s actions of blowing up votes and he kept giving it a big thumbs up. Interviewer was flummoxed… LoL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 21, 2025 11:51 AM (5MZNC)

228 >>> For the last 40 years an ever increasing number of students come with a passport. That's how we got here.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m)

They can charge an international student almost three times the cost they can charge an American student. that's why universities were really shrieking about Trump's student visa challenges. It wasn't the racist angle they were claiming. Lose the foreign students, their fiscal viability tanks.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:51 AM (gWBY1)

229 It seems that Trump is considering loan forgiveness (or has already forgiven it, it isn't clear).

https://is.gd/K5Ugzf
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

That would be the resumption/continuation of a program which has been going on for some time and whose requirements are pretty strenuous.

Since you have to have made 20-25 years of payments, ain't no yoots being rescued by that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:51 AM (ExV1e)

230 BTW, isn't it interesting that during the celebration of the Marines' birthday, a piece of "shrapnel" from a "misfired" 155 round conveniently hit a vehicle owned by California state government, fortunately without damaging the paint on the car.

Weirdly enough, no one present noticed the "misfire", and there is no photographic evidence of the "misfire".

Weird.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 11:51 AM (xTIDn)

231 224 The real funny thing is that I just watched an Austrian movie from 1931.
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What did you watch?
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (TN0g+)

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Die große Liebe.

It was okay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

232 180 This quote coming from someone who grew tired of boxing his "bishop" and decided to try a different game.

the bishop!

Posted by: python, monty at October 21, 2025 11:52 AM (sGtp+)

233 Just a thought but maybe we should have less immigration"

But labor is the bester value. Or something! I heard that in kolledge!

/our illiterati

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 11:52 AM (tubbA)

234 I'm not sure if this is real or not but Jamie Lee Curtis thinks you won't be able to guess which of her "daughers" is trans.

https://is.gd/Mna8IC
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

The one who stands when she pees.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:52 AM (1a9a5)

235 Back from rendering unto Caesar.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 11:52 AM (jc0TO)

236 233 Just a thought but maybe we should have less immigration"

But labor is the bester value. Or something! I heard that in kolledge!

/our illiterati
Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 11:52 AM (tubbA)

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GDP line go up. That's all that matters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

237 Who made the Chinese deep thought experts?

Many ancient Chinee secrets. We are one.

Posted by: Calgon Laundry Additive at October 21, 2025 11:53 AM (oftw2)

238 Three Rockwell Supporters Arrested in Philadelphia Demonstration,' Feb 3, 1961

I guess they were really big fans of today's art.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

239 Is there a subtitle version?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:53 AM (+U7B7)

240 I'm not sure if this is real or not but Jamie Lee Curtis thinks you won't be able to guess which of her "daughers" is trans.

https://is.gd/Mna8IC
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Its the two on the left, correct?

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:53 AM (TN0g+)

241 and there is no photographic evidence of the "misfire"

Well of course. It's not like everyone walks around with a camera in their pockets...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 11:54 AM (tubbA)

242 227 — blowing up BOATS (not votes). Good grief… damn autocorrect

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 21, 2025 11:54 AM (+kWhq)

243 Jamie Lee Curtis thinks you won't be able to guess which of her "daughers" is trans

Ask them a question and listen to the voice.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 21, 2025 11:54 AM (99eI0)

244 218 You can't make something from nothing.

perhaps not, but you *can* make a mountain from a molehill.

Posted by: anachronda at October 21, 2025 11:54 AM (sGtp+)

245 I'm not sure if this is real or not but Jamie Lee Curtis thinks you won't be able to guess which of her "daughers" is trans.

https://is.gd/Mna8IC
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Its the two on the left, correct?

Funny how all the rumors that JLC was really a man stopped after True Lies.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Riz8t)

246 Thanks. I found the article rather hard to understand. It was almost as if they were...trying to mislead people.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

They want leftists to become hopeful, and then pissed off. They want Trump supporters to become pissed off.

It's all an op, like everything else.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:54 AM (ExV1e)

247 > That is an unalloyed bad thing

Speaking of unalloyed things: gold and silver getting absolutely pounded today.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 21, 2025 11:55 AM (1Nv0l)

248 I'm not sure if this is real or not but Jamie Lee Curtis thinks you won't be able to guess which of her "daughers" is trans.

https://is.gd/Mna8IC
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Its the two on the left, correct?
Posted by: Crusader

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 11:55 AM (1a9a5)

249 A film buff friend of mine once subjected me to a German movie about a train filling up with water and the conductor keeps telling the viewer how long they have until they drown.
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"The Poseidon Adventure" on a train.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

250 195 ‘ I don't think New Yorkers would like the South very much. Trump understands us. He is an exception and most welcome.’

They’ll like it like illegal aliens like the US, as a place to invade and exploit.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2025 11:55 AM (jbnUc)

251 233 But labor is the bester value.

i thought what bester valued was telepaths that followed the rules.

Posted by: anachronda at October 21, 2025 11:56 AM (sGtp+)

252 215 I'm not sure if this is real or not but Jamie Lee Curtis thinks you won't be able to guess which of her "daughers" is trans.

https://is.gd/Mna8IC
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 21, 2025 11:49 AM (PiwSw)

Point and laugh.

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 11:56 AM (RuTUS)

253 >>> Speaking of unalloyed things: gold and silver getting absolutely pounded today.

Wasn't me.

Posted by: Goldfinger at October 21, 2025 11:56 AM (gWBY1)

254 Three Rockwell Supporters Arrested in Philadelphia

Didn't know that Rockwell was still an active musician.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 21, 2025 11:56 AM (99eI0)

255 249 A film buff friend of mine once subjected me to a German movie about a train filling up with water and the conductor keeps telling the viewer how long they have until they drown.
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"The Poseidon Adventure" on a train.
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

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In Airport 3, the plane goes down in the ocean and sinks.

It's real dumb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

256 Visited any of those schools recently?

For the last 40 years an ever increasing number of students come with a passport. That's how we got here.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m)

Indias birth rate was 4.0 in 1990 down to sub replacement rate today. Chyna’s been at 1.5 to 1.6 for 20 years.

There’s not a lot of kids out there.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 11:56 AM (PGEno)

257 Funny how all the rumors that JLC was really a man stopped after True Lies.

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True Lies was the pinnacle for just about every actor / actress in that movie.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 21, 2025 11:56 AM (sX1BW)

258 Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales has been accused of carrying on an extramarital affair with his senior aide, Regina Santos-Aviles, who tragically died after dousing herself in gasoline and setting herself on fire last month.
Gonzales, 43, a married father of six representing Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, which stretches from San Antonio through Uvalde to El Paso, hired Santos-Aviles, 35, as his regional district director in 2021.

According to a report from the Daily Mail, local police are stonewalling the release of critical evidence, including the 911 call, surveillance video, and police records.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 11:45 AM (TN0g+)

That is the missing explanation in a really strange case - a month ago or so, Regina Santos-Aviles walked into her own back yard, poured a gallon of gasoline over her head, and set herself on fire. No one before now has ever admitted why she might do such a thing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 11:56 AM (uWKK8)

259 Legalinsurrection.com 9th Circuit shoots down the Commissar Judge and allows President Trump to send the Nation Guard to Portland.
Guess they better start building barricades

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 11:57 AM (xatjc)

260 >>China has been given the chance to learn much about science, history, politics and economics over the centuries...and has drawn the wrong conclusion every single time. It's baffling.

Same with India.

Bazillions of people and thousands of years later and the highest form of intelligence is a guy named Pradip who calls himself Bob on a dishwasher help line.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:57 AM (viF8m)

261 and there is no photographic evidence of the "misfire"

Well of course. It's not like everyone walks around with a camera in their pockets...

A setup by Gavin Newsom's government, conveniently justifying Newsom's shutting down of I-5 because of the "danger" posed by the Marine artillery fire.

By the time the Marines come out with the report saying the "shrapnel" story was BS, the news cycle will have moved on.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 11:57 AM (xTIDn)

262 You can't make something from nothing.
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Nothing from nothing leaves nothing...

Posted by: Billy Preston at October 21, 2025 11:57 AM (TN0g+)

263 Funny how all the rumors that JLC was really a man stopped after True Lies.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Riz8t)

Trading Places didn't do it?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)

264 216 206 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

A film buff friend of mine once subjected me to a German movie about a train filling up with water and the conductor keeps telling the viewer how long they have until they drown.
Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 11:46 AM (uWTh9)

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I don't know what this film is, but it sounds thrilling!

pretty sure it got turned into a dr. who episode.

Posted by: anachronda at October 21, 2025 11:57 AM (sGtp+)

265 Sam Rockwell is a great actor. Galaxy Quest alone proves it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 11:58 AM (8RjCi)

266 Tom Servo that is a horrible way to kill yourself

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 11:58 AM (xatjc)

267 How do we feel about Jamie Lee Curtis playing Jessica Fletcher in the new Murder She Wrote reboot? Other than it's an abomination to do reboots, of course.

I own all of Murder She Wrote on DVD. I'll survive.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:58 AM (gWBY1)

268 265 Sam Rockwell is a great actor. Galaxy Quest alone proves it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 11:58 AM (8RjCi)

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I didn't even know his last name.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

269
Good morning. This is one of my favorite topics and it's probably soon over!

Accelerationism: yes or no?

Bill Ackman and various "moderate Democrats" want Curtis Sliwa to drop out. They cite the damage Mamdani will do to America as well as NYC if other socialists are emboldened to take over.

Others say to stfu. Mamdani won the Democrat primary, and it is not duty of Republicans to save Democrats from their own asses.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 11:59 AM (ldc7S)

270 Are CIA "covert ops" generally disclosed in press releases?

Posted by: Cyrus at October 21, 2025 11:59 AM (AaY6N)

271 Bazillions of people and thousands of years later and the highest form of intelligence is a guy named Pradip who calls himself Bob on a dishwasher help line.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:57 AM (viF8m)

They haven't mastered the outhouse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 11:59 AM (ExV1e)

272 238 Three Rockwell Supporters Arrested in Philadelphia Demonstration,' Feb 3, 1961

I guess they were really big fans of today's art.
Posted by: Bulg

Could have been, but likely dead as doornails now.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 21, 2025 11:59 AM (NFX2v)

273 If they were that would be an overt op.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:59 AM (+U7B7)

274 True Lies was the pinnacle for just about every actor / actress in that movie.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 21, 2025 11:56 AM (sX1BW)

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More specifically, I'm not sure many of the actors / actresses ever did anything good after True Lies.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 21, 2025 12:00 PM (sX1BW)

275 month ago or so, Regina Santos-Aviles walked into her own back yard, poured a gallon of gasoline over her head, and set herself on fire. "

It was in the news for about 2.5 seconds, then vanished.
It's a mystery. Wrapped in an enigma. Then deep fried...

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 12:00 PM (tubbA)

276 Put me in the let it burn camp. My interactions with NYC residents over the years has convinced me that they are smug, insufferable pricks. They deserve what they vote for.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 21, 2025 12:00 PM (kanec)

277 Except for "Duck Soup".
Posted by: Crusader

Watch "Million Dollar Legs" (1932), more absurd and funnier than Duck Soup.
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Just read the wikipedia page of it--I'll check it out.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 12:01 PM (TN0g+)

278 Who made the Chinese deep thought experts?

Many ancient Chinee secrets. We are one.
Posted by: Calgon Laundry Additive

If you have to fart...fart. You'll feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao Zedong at October 21, 2025 12:01 PM (jBe0D)

279 9th Circus sided with Trump?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 12:01 PM (PGEno)

280 The rumor was that JLC was a hermaphrodite. Still nice bongos

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 12:01 PM (8RjCi)

281 >>There’s not a lot of kids out there.

That's fascinating.

Go visit Harvard, Northeastern, BC, BU or any of the other dozens of colleges in and around Boston and see how many accents you hear.

Have you looked at the US birthrate? Not that many here either.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 12:01 PM (viF8m)

282 9th Circus sided with Trump?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 12:01 PM (PGEno)

Trump flipped the 9th Circuit during his first term.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 12:02 PM (ExV1e)

283 9th Circus sided with Trump?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 12:01 PM

Two of three on a panel. The third opined that there was zero evidence of crime or unrest in Portland. I am not joking.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 12:02 PM (jc0TO)

284 What did Sun Zhou have to say about General Chicken?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 12:02 PM (+U7B7)

285 268 265 Sam Rockwell is a great actor. Galaxy Quest alone proves it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 11:58 AM (8RjCi)

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I didn't even know his last name.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

Golf clap. Nicely done.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2025 12:02 PM (N39Ws)

286 279 9th Circus sided with Trump?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 12:01 PM (PGEno)

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9th circuit is even now. Has been since Trump 1.

Plus, this was a three judge panel, two of whom Trump had appointed.

There was a request for an en banc hearing from the lone dissenter, but he called for en banc a couple of months ago on the Los Angeles deployment which went nowhere.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

287 Accelerationism: yes or no?

The problem with "The Worse, the Better" is that it usually turns out to be "The Worse, the Worse".

Having the biggest city in the US controlled by a jihadist Communist is not a Good Thing.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 12:03 PM (xTIDn)

288 How do we feel about Jamie Lee Curtis playing Jessica Fletcher in the new Murder She Wrote reboot"

Ah, some small New England place is about to have an insane murder rate?

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 12:03 PM (tubbA)

289 279 9th Circus sided with Trump?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 12:01 PM (PGEno)

Wasn't it a 3 panel ruling not the full court ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 12:03 PM (VE6XX)

290 No one before now has ever admitted why she might do such a thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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Why did she do it?

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 21, 2025 12:03 PM (1Nv0l)

291 269 Good morning. This is one of my favorite topics and it's probably soon over!

Accelerationism: yes or no?

Bill Ackman and various "moderate Democrats" want Curtis Sliwa to drop out. They cite the damage Mamdani will do to America as well as NYC if other socialists are emboldened to take over.

Others say to stfu. Mamdani won the Democrat primary, and it is not duty of Republicans to save Democrats from their own asses.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 11:59 AM (ldc7S)

@beyondreasdoubt brought this up yesterday and the comments are engaging

LB
@beyondreasdoubt
Oct 20
We really need to bully @CurtisSliwa to drop out. Dude, you have no chance and may very well be personally responsible for our next Mayor being a commie. You can’t love this city and stay in the race. Drop out now.

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 12:03 PM (RuTUS)

292 Go visit Harvard, Northeastern, BC, BU or any of the other dozens of colleges in and around Boston and see how many accents you hear.

Have you looked at the US birthrate? Not that many here either.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 12:01 PM (viF8m)

I’m Not disputing the existence of foreign students. I’m saying there will be a lot fewer of them in the next decade based on Chinese and Indian birth rates from the 2010s and onward.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 12:03 PM (PGEno)

293 I don’t want NYC to burn… but with Cuomo it’ll still burn just a little slower. Sliwa can’t win… it’s a no win situation

Can’t believe it’s gonna go from Giuliani to Mamdani from 9/11 to now. Astonishing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 21, 2025 12:04 PM (P/Wjn)

294 222
‘ China has been given the chance to learn much about science, history, politics and economics over the centuries...and has drawn the wrong conclusion every single time.’

‘Political power blossoms from the barrel of a gun’
is about the only thing that they got right recently and every civilization knows it anyway.
However, the only 2 governments they ever seem to get are either regional warlords or a single brutal empire.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2025 12:04 PM (jbnUc)

295 1993, 2001, 2025

A new World Financial Center tower was completed in Guangzhou, China in 2022.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 21, 2025 12:04 PM (NFX2v)

296 The fact that the NYC GOP can't find a better guy than "always be running but always the bridesmaid" Sliwa, and the NYC DNC is running "fatally damaged from killing grannies during covid and his sex pest allegations" Cuomo again, proves that NYC has a talent drain of any useful, viable politicians.

Of all the cities, how can NYC have a dearth of vibrant politicians? It baffles me.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 12:04 PM (gWBY1)

297 The third opined that there was zero evidence of crime or unrest in Portland. I am not joking.

The judge is on senior status, 76 (I think), and lived in Portland years ago before it collapsed.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 12:04 PM (xTIDn)

298 LB
@beyondreasdoubt
Oct 20
We really need to bully @CurtisSliwa to drop out. Dude, you have no chance and may very well be personally responsible for our next Mayor being a commie. You can’t love this city and stay in the race. Drop out now.
Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 12:03 PM (RuTUS)

Sorry, but Cuomo not much of an improvement

Posted by: It's me donna at October 21, 2025 12:04 PM (VE6XX)

299 Jamie Lee Curtis had her shirt off half the movie in "Love Letters". They were the highlight of the movie.

Posted by: Fun Bags Jones at October 21, 2025 12:05 PM (oftw2)

300 Having the biggest city in the US controlled by a jihadist Communist is not a Good Thing.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

The leftist arguments:
1. Religion of Peace.
2. This is the good kind of communism.
3. You're a homophobe, islamaphobe and a raysis who wants grandma to die.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 21, 2025 12:05 PM (99eI0)

301 there will be a lot fewer of them in the next decade "

Not if we have anything to do with it!

/kolledge admissions officers

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 12:05 PM (tubbA)

302 244 218 You can't make something from nothing.

perhaps not, but you *can* make a mountain from a molehill.
Posted by: anachronda
-------------------------------

youtube.com/watch?v=8HqyEHqEYho

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 12:05 PM (kkYD1)

303 298. Sorry, but Cuomo not much of an improvement
Posted by: It's me donna

👍

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 21, 2025 12:05 PM (NFX2v)

304 The judge is on senior status, 76 (I think), and lived in Portland years ago before it collapsed.

The tallest building in Portland was just sold.

85% haircut from the previous sale price.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 12:05 PM (xTIDn)

305 Speculating that Trump will clear all of the Justices road blocks using other cities first so that when he does move on NYC and NY state there will be not Judicial interference with his actions.
Troops and DoJ will be a simultaneous, co-operative action.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 11:45 AM (kkYD1)
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I doubt he is thinking quite that far ahead - or that he would want to - but the ability to take Mamdani and use him as tool to show lots of Americans what is behind curtain number 1, and actually start rolling back global Islam in the US would be an interesting thing - because the DOJ can pretty much wipe out anything he wants to do in that area from day 1.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 21, 2025 12:05 PM (GZYu7)

306 Do judges opine or is there a verb form of dicta?

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 12:06 PM (jc0TO)

307 306 Do judges opine or is there a verb form of dicta?
Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 12:06 PM (jc0TO)

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I prefer to use the verb spew.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

308 But Republicans want to bring back slavery and kill all gay people.

I've seen that first argument more than once. I finally challenged it and demanded proof. Basically the source was "Bro, trust me."

Show them a picture of the 1926 Democrat National Convention where everyone was wearing KKK robes.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 12:06 PM (Da7Vv)

309 We really need to bully @CurtisSliwa to drop out. Dude, you have no chance and may very well be personally responsible for our next Mayor being a commie. You can’t love this city and stay in the race. Drop out now.
Posted by: m

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Nah, let them vote in the communist terrorist. Gooder and harder. There's nothing sacred about NYC. It has brief periods of non-shitholery separated by decades of decay.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 21, 2025 12:06 PM (1Nv0l)

310 Will he also remove police protection from Jewish organizations and Israeli diplomatic facilities? Will he be antagonistic to traditional Christian organizations?

Will he start blaring the Islamic call to prayer in NYC five times per day as is done in Dearborn, MI?

Will he ban people from walking their dogs as is done in London, England?

Will he arrest Jews for wearing the Star of David around Muslims as is done in the UK?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 21, 2025 12:07 PM (P5BPp)

311 Republicans ended slavery.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 12:07 PM (+U7B7)

312 308 Show them a picture of the 1926 Democrat National Convention where everyone was wearing KKK robes.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 12:06 PM (Da7Vv)

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The parties switched, bruh.

It's why modern day Democrats hate FDR and love Coolidge and modern day Republicans love FDR and hate Coolidge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

313 However, the only 2 governments they ever seem to get are either regional warlords or a single brutal empire."

Tribalism 101. The individual is nearly useless except to support the tribe.

Posted by: man at October 21, 2025 12:07 PM (tubbA)

314 Show them a picture of the 1926 Democrat National Convention where everyone was wearing KKK robes.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump

The argument they will use is "They switched sides!"

Posted by: NR Pax at October 21, 2025 12:07 PM (99eI0)

315 >>I’m Not disputing the existence of foreign students. I’m saying there will be a lot fewer of them in the next decade based on Chinese and Indian birth rates from the 2010s and onward.

The combined population of China and India is about 3 billion people.

We'll all be dust by the time a population implosion in the 3rd world happens.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 12:07 PM (viF8m)

316 I doubt he is thinking quite that far ahead - or that he would want to - but the ability to take Mamdani and use him as tool to show lots of Americans what is behind curtain number 1

The only good thing about Mamdani winning is that he'll get to run New York for ten months before the midterms.

It will be a cautionary example.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2025 12:08 PM (xTIDn)

317 - Hmmm. Lots of comments since and yet, no threat of banning if link shortner not used.

Have the rules changed or just unequal application of them by mister this isn't a democracy.
Yes, I was threatened for a much shorter link some months back.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 21, 2025 12:08 PM (Sq4+7)

318 269
Good morning. This is one of my favorite topics and it's probably soon over!

Accelerationism: yes or no?

Bill Ackman and various "moderate Democrats" want Curtis Sliwa to drop out. They cite the damage Mamdani will do to America as well as NYC if other socialists are emboldened to take over.

Others say to stfu. Mamdani won the Democrat primary, and it is not duty of Republicans to save Democrats from their own asses.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 21, 2025 11:59 AM (ldc7S)

All those folks should ask Cuomo to drop and should vote Silwa...problem solved.

I would vote Silwa and bring everyone I knew to do so...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 21, 2025 12:08 PM (tOcjL)

319 300 Having the biggest city in the US controlled by a jihadist Communist is not a Good Thing.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

The leftist arguments:
1. Religion of Peace.
2. This is the good kind of communism.
3. You're a homophobe, islamaphobe and a raysis who wants grandma to die.
Posted by: NR Pax
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Trump's troops and the DoJ will move in and move them out.
Mandani & Co have a high probability of deportation. They may not have authority to remove him from office but they can deport him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 12:08 PM (kkYD1)

320 His parents too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 12:08 PM (kkYD1)

321 315 The combined population of China and India is about 3 billion people.

We'll all be dust by the time a population implosion in the 3rd world happens.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 12:07 PM (viF8m)

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China will have 1/4 of its current population in 50 years.

It's what a 0.7 birth rate will do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

322 Nood. Cincinatti Chief of Police.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 12:09 PM (ExV1e)

323 The Chinese Empire will fall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 12:09 PM (+U7B7)

324 Trump's troops and the DoJ will move in and move them out.
Mandani & Co have a high probability of deportation. They may not have authority to remove him from office but they can deport him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025
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Would M. be mayor-in-absentia then? Does NYC or state law allow for that?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 12:09 PM (IBQGV)

325
Thousands of haredi Orthodox Jews protest Israeli military draft in New York City

The Israelis are drafting New York Jews?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2025 12:10 PM (63Dwl)

326 >>China will have 1/4 of its current population in 50 years

And we'll all be dead.

I'm a bit more focused on tomorrow.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 12:10 PM (viF8m)

327 The immediate problem if Mamdani is elected will be the number of cops leaving. They are already well below proper numbers but they numbers will drop like a rock if he's elected

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 12:10 PM (8RjCi)

328 Polymarket says Madmani wins hands down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 12:10 PM (kkYD1)

329 326 >>China will have 1/4 of its current population in 50 years

And we'll all be dead.

I'm a bit more focused on tomorrow.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 12:10 PM (viF8m)

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I'll probably be alive.

Decrepit, but alive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

330 Das Toot?

Posted by: Jurgen Prochnow at October 21, 2025 12:11 PM (7Q0e+)

331 Curtis Sliwa, the only Republican candidate. BS on dropping out.

The wealthy and the pols who thought they were just f*cking with PDT caused it. No bailout. Let them & their families feel the pain.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 21, 2025 12:11 PM (NFX2v)

332 227 — blowing up BOATS (not votes). Good grief… damn autocorrect
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 21, 2025 11:54 AM (+kWhq)

"Elvis's got votes,
Elvis's got votes,
Elvis, Elvis, Elvis, Elvis
Elvis's got votes."

Posted by: Zombie Mojo Nixon at October 21, 2025 12:12 PM (47/pr)

333 208 bigly “enrollment cliff” coming for universities."

It's already here. Higher education administration in a complete freakout, and the only solution they see is "import moar now!"
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This happened about two years ago. What is the worth of a College degree these days?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 12:12 PM (jFCkp)

334 That leaves Broadway shows and museums. Pffft.
Posted by: rickb223
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Free idea for entrepreneurs: Pay-per-view streaming subscription service for live plays. Production location becomes irrelevant. Who needs Broadway?
Museums: The value of a museum is the collections. They can be moved, and leave the building to the bums and the pigeons (in NYC, technically, rock doves).

Posted by: buddhaha at October 21, 2025 12:12 PM (1jBX9)

335 ---
Would M. be mayor-in-absentia then? Does NYC or state law allow for that?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Don't know. But it would be difficult running NYC from Ethiopia or Eritrea or even London.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 12:12 PM (kkYD1)

336 @268 I didn't even know his last name.

They actually use it in the movie.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2025 12:13 PM (WPL6O)

337
The parties switched, bruh.

I'm old enough to have been around when that supposedly happened. What actually happened in the 1967 election is that segregationist George Wallace split the Southern Democrat vote, allowing Nixon to take the south. No - the parties switching sides NEVER EVER happened.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 12:13 PM (Da7Vv)

338 What did Sun Zhou have to say about General Chicken?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Ahhh Tso?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 12:14 PM (1a9a5)

339
Democrat Zohran Mamdani
Independent-Democrat Andrew Cuomo
Republican Curtis Sliwa

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 12:14 PM (RuTUS)

340 337
The parties switched, bruh.

I'm old enough to have been around when that supposedly happened. What actually happened in the 1967 election is that segregationist George Wallace split the Southern Democrat vote, allowing Nixon to take the south. No - the parties switching sides NEVER EVER happened.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 12:13 PM (Da7Vv)

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But ALL the dixiecrats became Republican!

There was Strom Thurmond and...you know...all the rest! All the rest did it too!

(all the rest became Democrats again)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

341 "The immediate problem if Mamdani is elected will be the number of cops leaving. They are already well below proper numbers but they numbers will drop like a rock if he's elected"

They'll stay (and stay low!) until they get enough years in to retire.

There will be barely a trickle of new recruits and even that will peter out once someone who was just starting to turn their life around gets shot.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 21, 2025 12:15 PM (v/YwY)

342 Maybe NYC thinks Mamdani can't be any worse than De Blasio. Heck, his wife made a $1 Billion disappear without a trace.

Posted by: WisRich at October 21, 2025 12:15 PM (G0vdT)

343 China will have 1/4 of its current population in 50 years

And we'll all be dead.

I'm a bit more focused on tomorrow.
Posted by: JackStraw

If I am lucky, I've got 20 to 23 years left.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 12:16 PM (1a9a5)

344 The combined population of China and India is about 3 billion people.

We'll all be dust by the time a population implosion in the 3rd world happens.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 12:07 PM (viF8m)
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China will be down to 650M by 2050 - some of us may still be around to see that. India is farther down the glide path, and it won't be as steep, but fewer Indian kids coming down the pike as well. That decline has already started.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 21, 2025 12:22 PM (GZYu7)

345 Actually, I think Mamdani is exactly what NY needs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 21, 2025 12:27 PM (Ot2mX)

346 Kenny Loggins Blasts Use of “Danger Zone” in Trump’s AI No Kings Video
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Question: Does Logging still control the copyright? If so, a simple letter to the Trump org will get it removed.
If not, well... tough shit, kid.

Posted by: buddhaha at October 21, 2025 12:29 PM (1jBX9)

347 This is just crazy
NYC Islam heaven
Right here in America
Where they drove hijacked planes killing 3000 into the twin towers and the fields of Pennsylvania

Posted by: Gonzotx at October 21, 2025 04:34 PM (nGraA)

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