Eric Adams Drops Out of Mayoral Race to Consolidate the Anti-Communist-Jihadist Vote

So our best possible outcome in NYC is the election of covid authoritarian and King of Corruption Andrew Cuomo.

Zohran Mamdani leads by about 20 points. Eric Adams did not have nearly that level of support.

It seems that NYC has chosen the form of its destructor.

Mayor Eric Adams' decision to drop his re-election bid provides a boost to Andrew Cuomo in the race for City Hall, but not nearly enough to topple mayoral front-runner and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, pollsters and campaign strategists said.
Before his Sunday announcement, Adams was polling in the high single digits -- not enough alone to change the trajectory of the race, said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist University Institute for Public Opinion.
The mayor received 9% support in Marist's poll released earlier this month, a distant fourth behind Mamdani, Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
There are too few Adams voters to shift elsewhere to make a dramatic difference.
"It gives Cuomo a boost -- but it's not enough," Miringoff told The Post.
Slingshot Strategies' founding partner Evan Roth Smith, who is also a lead pollster for Blueprint, echoed Miringoff's point.
"There just aren't enough Adams voters out there to go somewhere new," Smith said.
"So all said, it's probably worth a couple points for Andrew Cuomo, but Andrew Cuomo needs way more than a couple points to catch up to Zohran."

Zohran Mamdani will, of course, make it so onerous to live in NYC that anyone who can flee, will flee. The city's tax base will depart, and the city will be left with Mamdani's trillion dollars of spending and thimble-full of tax revenue.

I think the entire plan is to bankrupt the city and then demand that the federal government bail them out. The real plan of socialism is always to pirate away other people's money.

But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that Mamdani will get no bailout from the US.

And he uses a line from the 70s, when a bankrupt NYC demanded a bailout from the accidental president Gerry Ford.

Reuters Terror Wire:

U.S. Treasury's Bessent message to NYC on any bailout: 'Drop dead'
The Trump administration will not bail out New York City in any financial crisis if Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani follows through with his plans, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday.
"I guarantee you - and there are not a lot of things in life that are sure - that New York City will be coming to the federal government for a bailout if the Mamdani plans are implemented," Bessent said in an interview with Fox Business Network.
Asked if he would give the city a bailout under those circumstances, Bessent said, "It will be the same thing that Gerald Ford said: 'Drop dead.'"
While former President Ford never actually said those words, a New York tabloid headline used the phrase to capture the moment in 1975 when the Republican president refused to bail out New York as it was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Mamdani's office did not immediately return a request for comment on Bessent's remarks.

Below, Bessent's remarks made to Maria Bartiromo. Bessent notes that NYC already saw the greatest flight of capital in history, from Manhattan to Palm Beach County, under "Red" diBlasio.

I'm worried about Trump overruling Bessent. Trump has billions of dollars of NYC real estate which will be devastated by a collapsing NYC. Plus, he really likes the city. It's his home (more or less, I know he's in Palm Beach now).

Posted by: Ace at 05:40 PM

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1 First but never last.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2025 05:40 PM (6PCLE)

2
In before Elric.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 05:40 PM (n7CIX)

3 I loved NYC before and into 2010 or so. Now I would not go back. So I do hope someone beats the commie moose limb.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2025 05:41 PM (6PCLE)

4 So cute Back when the "Dow, Down 12" meant something.

Posted by: LASue at September 29, 2025 05:41 PM (lCppi)

5 Stocks skid. Dow down 12. LO fucking L

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2025 05:42 PM (Q4IgG)

6
Did Jimmah Cahtuh come to New York's rescue?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 05:42 PM (n7CIX)

7 I don't think Ford said "drop dead". But he should have.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at September 29, 2025 05:43 PM (rii+a)

8 Poor dumb bastards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2025 05:44 PM (zZu0s)

9 Do we really know enough about polling of Dims to say that MameMe is ahead by a lot? If polls oversample Dims over Republicans because AWFLs have a 110% response rate on polls, why could that not hold when you're trying to compare MameMe's AWFL support versus Adams' black support or Cuomo's Tammany Hall ethnic support?

Posted by: the lower depths at September 29, 2025 05:44 PM (+b4rY)

10 You know what New Yorkers' could really use?

Universal Basic Income!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 29, 2025 05:44 PM (Sco7b)

11 > Zohran Mamdani will, of course, make it so onerous to live in NYC that anyone who can flee, will flee.

IMO the smart people should be fleeing now.

Even in the unlikely event that Other Brother Fredo wins, it's not going to be a good time to live in NYC.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 05:44 PM (qpyNK)

12 Loved going to New York during the Giuliani years, holy shit was it fun and clean

That New York will never exist again

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at September 29, 2025 05:45 PM (yJom6)

13 The end of times is approaching. I just got back from the store. In the meat department they had Pumpkin Spice Bacon.

Please Lord, take me now.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 29, 2025 05:45 PM (w3u3d)

14 New York needs some Hugo Boss uniforms and precision marching.

Posted by: Kingsman at September 29, 2025 05:46 PM (ehY6c)

15 Vote for the crook, it's important.

Posted by: toby928 at September 29, 2025 05:46 PM (jc0TO)

16 Soon, Gotham. Soon.

Posted by: League of Shadows at September 29, 2025 05:46 PM (iQuWX)

17
I think the entire plan is to bankrupt the city and then demand that the federal government bail them out. The real plan of socialism is always to pirate away other people's money.

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I think so, too. And then step 3: the blame game.
Trump
Corporate greed
Bad luck
The economy
Some vague liberal failure (cf. Ezra Klein, crying)
Failure to get the right people in there
Et anything-but-socialism cetera

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 05:46 PM (n7CIX)

18 Trump won't bail out Mamdami. He might bail out Cuomo.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2025 05:46 PM (uWKK8)

19
NYC has always been a foreign country to me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 05:47 PM (tgvbd)

20 So cute Back when the "Dow, Down 12" meant something.

Noticed that.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 29, 2025 05:47 PM (amplj)

21 "I say them them crash"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 29, 2025 05:47 PM (xcxpd)

22 You know what NYCers could use even more is a vigorous spanking. Looks like Bessent is the right man for the job

Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 05:47 PM (gKWVE)

23 17
I think the entire plan is to bankrupt the city and then demand that the federal government bail them out. The real plan of socialism is always to pirate away other people's money.

================

That only works with a Biden or Harris at the top.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2025 05:47 PM (uWKK8)

24
And he uses a line from the 70s, when a bankrupt NYC demanded a bailout from the accidental president Gerry Ford.

All the cops on Barney Miller were whining about not getting a bailout.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (63Dwl)

25 Another prediction I got wrong. I thought it would stay split to propel Madmani to victory.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (E0p3T)

26 If I go my whole life without ever seeing NYC first-hand, or stepping foot in it, I don't care.

About the only thing I wanted to go to NYC for was to try Peter Luger's Steak House, and guess what? They opened a location in Vegas.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (8z6SV)

27 I say sure, bail out NYC is necessary.

IN EXCHANGE

Mamdani moves back to Uganda, and a federal controller, appointed by Trump, takes over financial control of the city. He has free reign to renegotiate all contracts and fire any unnecessary workers. He also has the power to change all rules, laws and regulations pertaining to the city.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (gDhA9)

28 When is this thing, November?

Seems like it's been going on for a couple years now.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (7c6NI)

29 NYC's been going downhill since the Dutch left.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (77rzZ)

30 [The Blade sticks head in]

[Sees another tiresome ‘I Hate NYC’ thread from people with little idea what what they’re talking about]

[Thinks about saying something. Declines]

[Heads up to private roof deck in Manhattan for scotch and cigar]

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (+LTqD)

31
You know what New Yorkers' could really use?

Universal Basic Income!
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

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lol. I can't think of a needier, more deserving city.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (n7CIX)

32 Pumpkin spice fentanyl

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 29, 2025 05:49 PM (amplj)

33
NYC has always been a foreign country to me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A foreign country with a superiority complex.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2025 05:49 PM (63Dwl)

34 Trump has also said he isn't giving Mamdani a nickel.

>>“Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises,” he continued.

>>Trump added: “He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him? This ideology has failed, always, for thousands of years. It will fail again, and that’s guaranteed!”

https://tinyurl.com/2m9snt9r

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2025 05:49 PM (viF8m)

35 New and improved socialism with a hint of muzzie fascism. Yummy!

Posted by: Squid at September 29, 2025 05:49 PM (LZWE1)

36 The city's tax base will depart, and the city will be left with Mamdani's trillion dollars of spending and thimble-full of tax revenue.

No. They will not. This is the "conservative just a liberal not mugged" crap.

Come on. We saw J.J. flee - to Wisconsin. Dildo still lives in New Jersey.

At this point ? Everyone has pretty much self-sorted. But I hear the restaurants are great.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at September 29, 2025 05:49 PM (eCxiN)

37 You know what New Yorkers' could really use?

Universal Basic Income!
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 29, 2025 05:44 PM (Sco7b)

Rent control for everybody!

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2025 05:50 PM (7c6NI)

38 O/T

Ace, my love, I am going to start weekly telling you how much I appreciate you and this blog.

Blows kisses.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2025 05:50 PM (6PCLE)

39 But just think of the selection and variety of items to be found at Gotham Grocers.

That's worth the price of bankruptcy.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at September 29, 2025 05:50 PM (5yDGQ)

40 >>> So our best possible outcome in NYC is the election of covid authoritarian and King of Corruption Andrew Cuomo.

You forgot to add murderer and sex pest.

Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 05:50 PM (gWBY1)

41
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (+LTqD)

==============

Oh for heaven's sakes, tell us where we're wrong about Mamdani. What's your prediction, will anyone leave?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 05:50 PM (n7CIX)

42 Blonde, I'm weird. I think what NYC really needs is a stray nuke.

I've joked before: if Putin destroyed it, I wouldn't blame Trump if he didn't know whether to send Vlad another nuke back, or an FTD Sunshine Bouquet.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 05:51 PM (8z6SV)

43 That's my fear, that Trump's affection for New York will blind him to the necessity of their pain.

I don't worry so much about the Blue Locusts as 1) all that could have fled are already gone and 2) those that stayed are True Believers and would never move to a Red State.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2025 05:51 PM (nzqwv)

44 Willowed:

I cannot stand bony and plastic Nichole Kidman.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Christy, I like you a lot, but right now I am looking for the world's largest booger.
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 05:51 PM (77rzZ)

45 After Ford told the city to drop dead , NYC and NYS came up with a restructuring plan led by Felix Rohatyn. It stabilized the finances. If Mamdani wins he and and the NYC common council , as well as the NYS legislature and Hochul will go full commie corrupt crap and there won't be any way out of a massive crash. I don't think they'd listen to Trump if he was willing to bail them out with requirements

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2025 05:51 PM (A2I8b)

46 I also hate Chicago.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 29, 2025 05:51 PM (xcxpd)

47 The best possible outcome is Mamdani winning handily.

It's going to burn anyways. Might as well get it over with.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at September 29, 2025 05:52 PM (eYAt4)

48
So our best possible outcome in NYC is the election of covid authoritarian and King of Corruption Andrew Cuomo.

You forgot to add murderer and sex pest.
Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 05:50 PM (gWBY1)

__________

We all have our little peccadillos.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 05:52 PM (tgvbd)

49 Never been to NYC.

But, I’m not much of a city person.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2025 05:52 PM (W2Pud)

50 Ace, my love, I am going to start weekly telling you how much I appreciate you and this blog.

Blows kisses.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Does Garrett know about this?

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 05:52 PM (77rzZ)

51 You forgot to add murderer and sex pest.
Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 05:50 PM (gWBY1)

Don't forget his nickname: Nipple Bars

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2025 05:52 PM (zZu0s)

52 41
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (+LTqD)

==============

Oh for heaven's sakes, tell us where we're wrong about Mamdani. What's your prediction, will anyone leave?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 05:50 PM (n7CIX)

His know-it-all posts are a welcome relief from his usual bullshit of explaining how much pussy he pulls.

Posted by: stick stormbringer up your ass, friendo at September 29, 2025 05:53 PM (DZBap)

53 Does Garrett know about this?
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 05:52 PM (77rzZ)

Plenty of women love gay dudes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2025 05:53 PM (zZu0s)

54 Afternoon, all,

Sorry I didn't get a chance to weigh in on the Emma Watson clown show. I'm back in Da Swamp, and after Indiana and Kentucky, it seems even more of a pesthole than it did a week ago. The cats knew me and greeted me, Stirling with energy, Dagny as reservedly as ever. Linda has the remnants of a migraine, so she is not enthusiastic about anything. She did some overdue laundry for me while I was gone (but also ate all my Ritz crackers!).

I've unpacked and am thinking about dinner. And am glad I am not anywhere near NYC.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2025 05:53 PM (omVj0)

55 In ten years, the President of the Gaza City Hotel, Resort and Casino will be appointed to the Board of Peace to manage New York City.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2025 05:53 PM (nzqwv)

56 Don't forget his nickname: Nipple Bars
Posted by: Aetius451AD

So close to dinner? Ugh

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 29, 2025 05:53 PM (B6WIy)

57 I was back in Queens this past weekend. They can have it. No one cares.

Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (Udy3r)

58 Does Garrett know about this?
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 05:52 PM (77rzZ)

He does now!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (6PCLE)

59 >> Ace, my love, I am going to start weekly telling you how much I appreciate you and this blog.

Blows kisses.
>Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I'm right here, you know...

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (tH0WK)

60 So our best possible outcome in NYC is the election of covid authoritarian and King of Corruption Andrew Cuomo.

Well, yes, that's the best outcome IN NYC. For everyone else, though, having the city fall into chaos as a result of socialism, or having Mamdani sellout and moderate to keep the lights on, and have the far-Left riot in the streets, will be a wonderful reminder to shun socialists and the Far Left. Hopefully in time for the midterms!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (ycI94)

61 Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (77rzZ)

It was ok under Giuliani.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (Nx5jP)

62 > But, I’m not much of a city person.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2025 05:52 PM (W2Pud)

Same.

Anchorage is more of a city than I really like, to be frank.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (qpyNK)

63 Posted by: stick stormbringer up your ass, friendo at September 29, 2025 05:53 PM (DZBap)

Huh. Getting your sould devoured through your ass is just adding insult to injury.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

64
It is heartbreaking how our once great cities have turned into shitholes.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (3ek7K)

65 47 The best possible outcome is Mamdani winning handily.

It's going to burn anyways. Might as well get it over with.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at September 29, 2025 05:52 PM (eYAt4)

Do it now while there's a feckless, useless governor and Trump still holds the executive reins and is in a position to say "Drop Dead".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (06Hmj)

66 We all have our little peccadillos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025

***
I'm fuzzy on the whole genetics thing. Is a peccadillo a cross between a peccary and an armadillo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (omVj0)

67 Ace, my love, I am going to start weekly telling you how much I appreciate you and this blog.
Blows kisses.

If you really cared, you'd do it in a furry suit...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 29, 2025 05:55 PM (ycI94)

68 It is heartbreaking how our once great cities have turned into shitholes.

It only started in the 60s. Not exactly a shock.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at September 29, 2025 05:55 PM (eCxiN)

69 The early 1970s economy of high inflation and dollar devaluation and oil embargo price shocks wiped out millions of “middle class”; that was like a light switch went off in the public sphere sentiment.

Prior to that there was a decided “can do” attitude, and the belief that American industry and technology would continue its inexorable progress towards a higher standard of living for everyone. Medicine, energy, space program, defense etc.

Then it all went doom and gloom all the time. 24/7, and a series of bugaboos like the coming Ice Age, nuclear war winter, Acid Rain, the Ozone layer, nuclear energy catastrophe and polyester leisure suits, orange shag carpeting, and Jimmy Fucking Carter in a goddamned sweater lecturing everyone “You Suck” and it really never got any better, with the possible exception of a brief period during the Reagan era.

He was an optomist, at least.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2025 05:56 PM (tM8U8)

70 I have a certain soft spot for NYC because my Grandma was from Queens and we visited Aunt Doris in Brooklyn. I still remember uncle Danny yelling, reduced at the table in the kitchen: im not italian- im Sicilian!

But, yeah, not a fan of large cities.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2025 05:56 PM (zZu0s)

71 OT: Trump's Gaza peace plan has been released and yeesh!

https://is.gd/3uIHg8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 29, 2025 05:56 PM (L/fGl)

72 All the Batman villain plots to destroy the city never needed be more complicated than "promise losers free shit."

Man-man-man-Mandami!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2025 05:57 PM (nzqwv)

73 New York Shitty richly deserves whatever calamity befalls it. Unfortunately the rats that flee there have a tendency to come to Florida. DeSantis should slap them all with tariffs.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 29, 2025 05:57 PM (V362x)

74 Reduced= red faced.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2025 05:57 PM (zZu0s)

75 I've unpacked and am thinking about dinner. And am glad I am not anywhere near NYC.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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FWIW, buried in the bowels of the National Weather Service website, you can find historical averages of temperature, rain, etc. by state and then by cities within that state. Might find it useful to use to screen out places.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025 05:57 PM (WDjG6)

76 Plenty of women love gay dudes.
Lived 12 years in N.O. and that was very surprising to me. Wife's cousin loved loved loved gay parties. She married a tranny who sliced and diced himself. But he is an MD. Has terrible taste in women's clothes, he's about 6'2''. Hurricane Katrina saved me from more time in Nawlins.

Posted by: Kingsman at September 29, 2025 05:57 PM (ehY6c)

77 The Trump peace plan. Is a piece of shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2025 05:58 PM (kurEY)

78
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2025 05:51 PM (A2I8b)

==========

From the internet:

>>In 2004, the state, through a different shell nonprofit, the Sales Tax Asset Receivable Corporation, borrowed $2.5 billion to refinance its remaining 1970s-bailout debt. Peel off layer upon layer of refinancing, and New York still owes money that it borrowed in the early 1970s.

Trump ought to make them pay up.

Also from the internet:

>>New York never cut back its spending on a sustained basis.

Trump ought to offer them a bailout contingent upon a 10-year receivership executed by Don, Jr.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 05:58 PM (n7CIX)

79 Aetius, I have read that other Italians hate the Sicilians.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 05:58 PM (8z6SV)

80 FWIW, buried in the bowels of the National Weather Service website, you can find historical averages of temperature, rain, etc. by state and then by cities within that state. Might find it useful to use to screen out places.
Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025

***
I've been examining weather conditions retail, i.e., looking at data for a particular location. Maybe this "wholesale" approach is the way to go!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2025 05:59 PM (omVj0)

81 I still have the same question about the election in NYC: one day before the primary election Cuomo and Mamdani swapped places. There was a huge gap, Cuomo was comfortably leading, big margin. Then in a single day, they swapped positions.

How? What happened? Why this enormous change in polling data?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 05:59 PM (dfIr7)

82 Socialism works until they run out of other peoples' money. Communism skips the middle steps.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2025 05:59 PM (ynpvh)

83 Bed bugs uptown.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2025 06:00 PM (v0R5T)

84 Blade is in Manhattan. Manhattanites will feel very little so long no one from north of 110th street heads south looking for a riot.
The outer burbs are so mixed non white that nothing much will happen there either.

Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2025 06:00 PM (Udy3r)

85 49 Never been to NYC.

But, I’m not much of a city person.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2025 05:52 PM (W2Pud)

I am not, either. But under Mayor Giuliani it was a great place to visit. The Met Museum alone was worth the trips I made with my husband on business. I spent days there alone. We took one son and his gf now wife on a trip when they graduated college. Fabulous then!

This redneck farm girl loved the Upper West Side and Ouest restaurant...and their famous martini. No longer there. That martini was legal anesthesia. Katz Deli. A walk to Zabar's. Fun times!

The theater was also wonderful. Le Mis, Miss Saigon, Hairspray, etc. We even rode with crazy moose limb cab drivers and, while probably near death, had a great time.

Now? Since the illegals were welcomed into our hotel, the Lucerne, I will never go back. I doubt ever.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2025 06:00 PM (6PCLE)

86 Hurricane Katrina saved me from more time in Nawlins.
Posted by: Kingsman at September 29, 2025

***
You're fortunate. What "charm" the city had (and it was mostly illusory, like that of L.A. or Vegas) vanished after that storm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2025 06:00 PM (omVj0)

87 83 Bed bugs uptown.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2025 06:00 PM (v0R5T)

S'not my fault. I was there for the girl.

Posted by: Billy Joel at September 29, 2025 06:01 PM (ynpvh)

88 wth, that town's in tatters!

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:01 PM (8z6SV)

89 Yes it's appalling to *hope* for Cuomo being elected mayor. Yet, I want to defeat communists whenever I can, not give them a single victory. Isn't one anti-American mayor in Dearborn, Michigan enough?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 29, 2025 06:01 PM (LBHDk)

90 If Trump bails out those NYC maroons, I'm voting for a Tucker - MTG ticket in 28...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 29, 2025 06:01 PM (TGPs7)

91 Dow Down 12. Heh.
That’s the equivalent of 1000 today.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 29, 2025 06:02 PM (wrRTB)

92 The Communist is going to win is my bet
And a 🕌 at the former World Trade Center monument

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2025 06:02 PM (+qU29)

93
Hey, Bulg, here's a project for your new job. The judging program, parking pass and meal ticket for Wednesday's Morris and Essex KC show arrived today. It was postmarked last Monday. Her Majesty is 1250 miles away.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 06:02 PM (tgvbd)

94 My time in NYC was landing at JFK, getting on a bus and riding across Manhattan en-route to Fort Dix to out-process from the Army.

That's good enough for me.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, +CK+ at September 29, 2025 06:02 PM (0aYVJ)

95 67 Ace, my love, I am going to start weekly telling you how much I appreciate you and this blog.
Blows kisses.

If you really cared, you'd do it in a furry suit...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 29, 2025 05:55 PM (ycI94)

With a front bump?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2025 06:02 PM (ynpvh)

96 Shadoobie

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2025 06:02 PM (v0R5T)

97 You’re trolling us, Mr. Taylor?

Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2025 06:02 PM (Udy3r)

98 The moderately wealthy AND middle class will flee to Florida.

The working class will be (rightfully) scared to travel on the subway.

The Democrat billionaire class will celebrate.

I truly do not understand how that forms an electoral majority?

I assume I am massively underestimating the "gimme free stuff" crowd.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 29, 2025 06:02 PM (HlyYF)

99 I grew up reading about NYC in fiction, Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe, and seeing it on Naked City and other shows. Finally I got to visit in autumn 1998. It was fascinating . . . but I could tell it was way too expensive for a normal human who wanted to live in something bigger than a coat closet.

I suppose now I'll never go back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2025 06:02 PM (omVj0)

100 All I need to know about Trump's Gaza deal is if Candace Ovens is in favor of it or opposed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2025 06:03 PM (nzqwv)

101 The crime rate's going up up up up UP!!!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:03 PM (8z6SV)

102
Does Garrett know about this?
Posted by: Bulg
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He does now!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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I'm right here, you know...
Posted by: garrett

I love this place.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2025 06:03 PM (QVmho)

103 Huh. Sounds like a direct pitch to the "people of Gaza", in so far as that's actually a thing, to sidestep Hamas.

I suppose the hope is not that Hamas will say "Hey, this sounds great let's do it", because they will no sooner give up rape and murder than the sun will give up emitting radiation. The hope is probably that it will sway the people who are really sick of living in squalor while their "Other Man's Freedom Fighters" yuck it up in Doha. You mean we can actually have money for once, and these retards wearing ski masks in the desert won't take it all and blow it on goats and hash? Yeah, forget the Jews, gimme the money!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2025 06:03 PM (06Hmj)

104 "for thousands of years" -- DJT
My bro has read about Uruimagina of Lagash (whose regime got the silver medal in the next war it had to fight)

Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 06:03 PM (gKWVE)

105 Not a Rolling Stones fan, but I am getting all the random comments.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, +CK+ at September 29, 2025 06:03 PM (0aYVJ)

106 101 The crime rate's going up up up up UP!!!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:03 PM (8z6SV)

No it won't; they'll redefine what a crime is...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2025 06:03 PM (ynpvh)

107 Meteor like that 1979 film

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 29, 2025 06:04 PM (bXbFr)

108 Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 05:48 PM (77rzZ)

It was ok under Giuliani.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Fen, it was a joke based on my ethnic heritage.

Peter Stuyvesant >>>> Rudy Giuliani

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 06:04 PM (77rzZ)

109 jim, Jagger reference ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:04 PM (8z6SV)

110 Bailout or no, I just opened my sixth dry cleaners and me and Weezie are movin' on up to the East Side!

Posted by: Dee-luxe Apartment In The Sky at September 29, 2025 06:04 PM (oftw2)

111 I grew up in a midwest industrial town. The north end rioted when Martin King was murdered in 1968 and burned quite a few businesses.

There are still yet today a few boarded up or vacant derelict buildings from that. It never recovered from that, the downtown proper atrophied. They claimed it was due to inadequate parking but …. Everyone knew why. There was within a few years a huge construction boom south of town in what were prime farm lands building huge mall complex and shopping centers. Downtown withered away.

These shopping malls held sway for decades, but have now died too. If you would have told me Sears would go bankrupt…. I’m sure this exact scenario plays out all over America.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2025 06:04 PM (PVt/n)

112
Blade is in Manhattan. Manhattanites will feel very little so long no one from north of 110th street heads south looking for a riot.
The outer burbs are so mixed non white that nothing much will happen there either.
Posted by: Accomack

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You're talking about rioty stuff, right? I'm wondering about a financial implosion that for real causes long-timers or mid-timers to bail out. It's hard to make a move like that. Where would you go from NYC? Indiana? Ohio? Mississippi?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 06:04 PM (n7CIX)

113 If Trump bails out those NYC maroons, I'm voting for a Tucker - MTG ticket in 28...

He will. And I'm tired of sending my money to the SALT States - then sending more when thats not enough.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at September 29, 2025 06:04 PM (eCxiN)

114 *Uruin___ina.
Guess I better go back to scribal school.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 06:04 PM (gKWVE)

115 If it gets to that point yeah Trump is 100% bailing out NYC. Or any other major city. He’s not going to be the president who lets NYC or Chicago or LA go kaboom. Much like how the imbecile GWB bailed out all of Wall Street and GM.

The left knows this. Which is why they can spend themselves into billions of deficits. They’ll always have uncle Sugar Sam as a backstop.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 29, 2025 06:04 PM (wrRTB)

116 With a front bump?
Posted by: jim

Notices bulge OwO what’s this?

Posted by: Tyler Robinson at September 29, 2025 06:05 PM (ycI94)

117 When NYC was peak safe, from Guiliani and Bloomberg's policies, my sibling lost her purse on the subway. With show tickets in it.

A lady called her saying she'd found it, and returned it to her, all the contents intact.

NO WAY that happens today. No how. My sister won't even take the subway at night anymore, it's far too dangerous.

You don't know what you got till it's gone, NYC.

Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 06:05 PM (gWBY1)

118 Andy wants back in the club.
He will do what he’s told.

Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2025 06:05 PM (Udy3r)

119 ... as does Pixy. WTF?

Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 06:05 PM (gKWVE)

120
Shoodooby!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2025 06:05 PM (iJfKG)

121
The crime rate's going up up up up UP!!!!
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:03 PM (8z6SV)

______

When the crime rate goes up, up, up,
And the income goes down, down, down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 06:05 PM (tgvbd)

122 We all have our little peccadillos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
.......

I was in the pool!

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2025 06:05 PM (v0R5T)

123 The charm of NOLA was gone forever after Katrina. Many people never returned and they were several generations...gone forever.
Growing up in Mobile in the 1950's we often visited New Orleans to Xmas shop on Canal. Lived on Marshall Foch when Katrina came to town. Broke my wife. She was made for N.O.

Posted by: Kingsman at September 29, 2025 06:05 PM (ehY6c)

124 They need to end SALT, just shut it off, but that won't ever happen

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 06:06 PM (dfIr7)

125 >>> NYC already saw the greatest flight of capital in history, from Manhattan to Palm Beach County,

Which will lead to the death of Florida.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 06:06 PM (/lPRQ)

126 Bessent looks like an Indiana Jones villain in that still frame.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 29, 2025 06:06 PM (XvL8K)

127 People dressed in plastic bags
Directing traffic

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 06:06 PM (qpyNK)

128 Hadrian, pull out and spin your old vinyl of Some Girls... :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:06 PM (8z6SV)

129 I lived in NYC when Rudy was mayor. I had a blast. The city was well run, subway was safe. I was never worried about crime. Good times.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 29, 2025 06:07 PM (wrRTB)

130 I suppose a small consolation is that both Cuomo and Mamdani stand next to no chance of reversing the collapse of NYC. Most of it comes from the council, not the Mansion. All Mamdani will do it auger the bitch in at dead plumb vertical, while Cuomo will let it pathetically belly-flop into a deep, sad rut.

Politics is downstream of culture, and their culture is F-U-K-T fucked.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2025 06:07 PM (06Hmj)

131
The charm of NOLA was gone forever after Katrina. Many people never returned and they were several generations...gone forever.

_______

They're not gone, they're here in Houston. And not, to put it mildly, assets to the city.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 06:07 PM (tgvbd)

132 Its Go Time Donald, remember what Giuliani was doing right before 9/11?

I remember him dancing with the Rockettes. Complete with leotards. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:08 PM (8z6SV)

133 Shoodooby!

Posted by: naturalfake

Shipoopi!

Posted by: Worst Song from the Music Man at September 29, 2025 06:08 PM (77rzZ)

134 Just tell me when.

Posted by: Snake Plissken at September 29, 2025 06:08 PM (PiwSw)

135 125 >>> NYC already saw the greatest flight of capital in history, from Manhattan to Palm Beach County,

Which will lead to the death of Florida.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 06:06 PM (/lPRQ)

Possibly.
Texas had a yuuuge influx of tech money and it hasn’t been a net positive. But the state is still doing pretty well overall.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 29, 2025 06:08 PM (wrRTB)

136 42 Blonde, I'm weird. I think what NYC really needs is a stray nuke.
__

It was an accident, President Putin! It was an accident! But look, to show we're being honest, and that we don't want an all out nuclear war -- no one wants that, Mr. Putin! -- to show we're on the level, I have ordered our military to drop a nuclear bomb on New York City! [Giggles in background.] Ok, Mr. President? Will that satisfy your Government that we're being honest with you?

Posted by: Fail Safe at September 29, 2025 06:08 PM (qUkBO)

137 Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots!

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 29, 2025 06:08 PM (V362x)

138 They gonna pump up the SALT.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 06:09 PM (/lPRQ)

139 They need to end SALT, just shut it off, but that won't ever happen.

No. They will not. Because that is the life-blood of everything northeast of the DC - Philly - NYC line. The rest of the country carries them. Pure and simple.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at September 29, 2025 06:09 PM (eCxiN)

140 I still think the Minneapolis mayoral race is much more entertaining than the NYC one. The Omar Fateh is a hoot. At the debate he said that Billionaires need to pay their fair share.

Psssst....there aren't any billionaires living in Minneapolis. Cargill used to, but moved the hell out of there to Wisconsin. Pohlad is dead. And Barbara Carlson Gage, also, got the hell out of there and moved to a suburb. His "Vacancy Tax" is the foundation of his campaign. It's basically stacking a new tax on top of property taxes to punish those businesses that own property in Minneapolis, but GOT THE HELL OUT OF DODGE, because of the allowed rioting and looting.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2025 06:09 PM (dIske)

141 We all have our little peccadillos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 05:52
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Heh.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 29, 2025 06:09 PM (hoCmQ)

142 132 Its Go Time Donald, remember what Giuliani was doing right before 9/11?

I remember him dancing with the Rockettes. Complete with leotards. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:08 PM (8z6SV)

I left in early 2000. But shit like that was whatever. Dance with whomever you want. Keep the subway clean. That’s the mayors job not selecting good dance partners. 😁

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 29, 2025 06:09 PM (wrRTB)

143 Off, sock. All right-thinking people, please avoid gazing at my toenails.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 06:09 PM (77rzZ)

144
Detroit in the 50s was one of the wealthiest cities in the country. No reason NYC can't follow the same trajectory.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 06:10 PM (tgvbd)

145 There's nothing that can save a place where Cuomo and a raging Muslim Communist are the choices. If those are your options, you're already doomed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 06:10 PM (dfIr7)

146 DFW got some of the New Orleans diaspora as well.

The Big Easy did not send their best.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2025 06:10 PM (iJfKG)

147 71 OT: Trump's Gaza peace plan has been released and yeesh!

https://is.gd/3uIHg8
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Balancing act. While a lot of us here might want Ham Ass exterminated like the cockroaches they are, that is not the position of most of the world and that will inevitably hurt Israel and make them even more isolated in the rest of the world.

No one wants the Palestinians in their country as they have proven themselves to be evil plotters trying to seize power in those host countries and darn near ruining them. So if you cannot move the population out, then options are limited unless Israel wants to occupy Gaza again which failed the last time (sort of like our cordoning off Iraq after first Gulf War), exterminate the population which will create massive hatred of Israel, try to force refugees into adjoining countries which would probably trigger an immediate war, or figuring out some modus vivendi.

But, my guess, is that Ham Ass will reject the peace so the war will continue. Ham Ass thinks they are winning which from the decline in favorable sentiment for Israel across the world, may actually be correct.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025 06:10 PM (WDjG6)

148 Re Fail Safe:

Katheryn Bigelow has actually just completed a kinda-sorta remake of it, to be released this month. It's titled A House Of Dynamite. First nuclear thriller to come around in years.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:10 PM (8z6SV)

149 I've mentioned this before, but the Museum of the City of New York has a video on the history of NYC, narrated by Stanley Tucci.

NOWHERE in the vid does it credit Guiliani for a darn thing. Of the pre Guiliani years, it gently states the city fell into a rough patch, but when it gets to Guiliani, it says the citizens of NYC "Took their city back." What?? How, pray tell, did they did that? Broken Windows policy anyone? Remember it?

IF NYC is so willing to unlearn every hard earned lesson from that era, then it deserves its fate, I guess. But it's an utter shame.

Peak safe NYC was a jewel. Times Square was a playground for normie tourists, and the rest of the city was safe enough that the residents could go almost anywhere and just do their thing.

Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 06:10 PM (gWBY1)

150 We all have our little peccadillos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 05:52

My peccadillos have nine bands.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 06:10 PM (77rzZ)

151 From Alex the Chick on X:

So the 100,000 Federal workers quitting tomorrow is actually 100,000 workers who took the deferred resignation program and September 30, 2025 is the separation date what with it being the end of the fiscal year.

That's not a sexy headline, though, is it?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2025 06:11 PM (WZaJc)

152 77 The Trump peace plan. Is a piece of shit.
Posted by: Ben Had

At a guess it's a plan to force Hamas into saying "nah brah, we just want to kill us some yahudis" in which case, they'll continue taking Ls until the next deal which makes Mar-a-Gaza a reality

Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 06:11 PM (gKWVE)

153 Possibly.
Texas had a yuuuge influx of tech money and it hasn’t been a net positive. But the state is still doing pretty well overall.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It's not the money. It's the people who bring themselves with it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 06:11 PM (/lPRQ)

154 is it too late to declare 'nood'?

Posted by: DanMan at September 29, 2025 06:11 PM (8uzBS)

155 145 There's nothing that can save a place where Cuomo and a raging Muslim Communist are the choices. If those are your options, you're already doomed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 06:10 PM (dfIr7)

https://youtu.be/bXEglx-or6k

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2025 06:12 PM (ynpvh)

156
Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2025 06:09 PM (dIske)

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Frey losing to Fateh, lol. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 06:12 PM (n7CIX)

157 144
Detroit in the 50s was one of the wealthiest cities in the country. No reason NYC can't follow the same trajectory.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

If Big Finance and corporate HQs leave, then indeed, NYC might have serious issues. The decline of the US auto industry did Detroit in along with Coleman Young's policy of driving whitey out of Detroit as mayor.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025 06:12 PM (WDjG6)

158 seems that NYC has chosen the form of its destructor"

David Dinkins 2.0

Posted by: man at September 29, 2025 06:12 PM (tubbA)

159 that will inevitably hurt Israel and make them even more isolated in the rest of the world.

I am challenged to think of any way they can be more isolated from the world than they are right now

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 06:13 PM (dfIr7)

160 My peccadillo is of average or better size, thank you.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2025 06:13 PM (v0R5T)

161 153 Possibly.
Texas had a yuuuge influx of tech money and it hasn’t been a net positive. But the state is still doing pretty well overall.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It's not the money. It's the people who bring themselves with it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 06:11 PM (/lPRQ)

Yeah, of course.

Actually a better example would be Salt Lake City. Tech money/people from California poured into the area. And now it’s a blue city shithole.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 29, 2025 06:13 PM (wrRTB)

162 Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok

Lawrence Katz, a member of the Supreme Court Bar, posted online that Charlie Kirk was a "dead MAGA monster" and people should "focus" on the dangerous Conservatives who are still living.

He also thought the attempted Trump ass*ssin Ryan Routh was a "patriot" and should have been let off.

Disgusting. He should be disbarred

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 29, 2025 06:13 PM (TGPs7)

163 Detroit is dead.
NYC on its deathbed.
LA is choking itself.

Just another reason I want out to a state like AZ, NV, WY or ID.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:13 PM (8z6SV)

164 LizLem the Museum of the City of New York has a video on the history of NYC, narrated by Stanley Tucci

You may have mentioned it before but this is my first read of it, so thank you for the "spam".
Elric the Blade: consider that sometimes living in an area, means you cannot zoom out so easily to see what is actually going on around your area.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 06:13 PM (gKWVE)

165 Apparently there are a bunch of wannabe dem politicians in downriver elections that celebrated Charlie Kirk's death or promoted violence.

Name and shame!

Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (gWBY1)

166 Disgusting. He should be disbarred
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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You can file a bar complaint if you want to.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (WDjG6)

167 David Dinkins 2.0

But this time, there's not going to be a backlash that elects someone to fix the city. They're just going to find someone even worse

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (dfIr7)

168 NYC wants to be a shithole again, I say let it. Problem is that the idiots who voted for third-world shithole mayors and policies will flee the inevitable consequences of their decisions, then attempt to repeat the exact same thing in a city or state that has resisted descending into a third-world shithole.

Posted by: Stupid useless fucks incapable of learning at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (TbWk/)

169 DFW got some of the New Orleans diaspora as well.

The Big Easy did not send their best.

Houston can contribute a few more...

Posted by: DanMan at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (8uzBS)

170 It could very well be that the "Trump peace plan" is intentionally a non-starter, knowing that the first half of the first point is one of Hamas's non-starters, and the whole thing is a formality as prelude to wiping the fuckers out.

If he eventually says "we're planning on bombing in two weeks", grab your goat and kiss your ass goodbye.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (06Hmj)

171 RIP Sarah Jane Moore, an early victim of the Woke Mind Virus.

She threw her life away.
Her poor children...five of them.
She violated parole at 89 for almost another year in the slammer.

Posted by: torabora at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (KtOUo)

172
Is mayor of NYC Mamdani's ceiling in electoral politics? Or could he make congressman?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (n7CIX)

173 118 Andy wants back in the club.
He will do what he’s told.
Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2025 06:05 PM (Udy3r)
Don't think that will happen. Andy is part of the Clinton mob.
He was pushed out of the Gov. chair to keep him from challenging Biden.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (w3u3d)

174 @78 yup , but I don't think the NYC lunatics will agree to any type of restrictions on a bail out. They'll go full communist and start confiscating private property and money. The common council was leftist in the 70s but some had common sense. Mamdani and this bunch , forget about it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2025 06:15 PM (A2I8b)

175 81 I still have the same question about the election in NYC: one day before the primary election Cuomo and Mamdani swapped places. There was a huge gap, Cuomo was comfortably leading, big margin. Then in a single day, they swapped positions.

How? What happened? Why this enormous change in polling data?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 05:59 PM (dfIr7)

B/c no one actually wanted Cuomo strong enough to show up to vote...and they still don't.

Honestly, I said an R could never win NY, but I think he has a better chance than Cuomo to turn out a voter, so if we drop to 2 folks in the race, Cuomo should be next...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2025 06:16 PM (tOcjL)

176 He should be disbarred
Posted by: Mister Ghost

"How many bars have I been thrown out of, Mrs. Charles?"

"That would be all of them, Mr. Charles?"

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 06:16 PM (77rzZ)

177 Smell the Glove, first thing they'll confiscate is Trump Tower.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:16 PM (8z6SV)

178 Life is too short to live in Dallas, but cowtown has everything everywhere, is solid strip malls and pottervilles; too old to move.

Posted by: Kingsman at September 29, 2025 06:16 PM (ehY6c)

179
She violated parole at 89 for almost another year in the slammer.
Posted by: torabora

===============

Good lord, I missed the (old) news that she was paroled.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 06:16 PM (n7CIX)

180 Here's all you need to know about NYC's future. Currently...right this moment, the MTA (NY Transit Authority) is sitting on over $47 Billion in debt. Now, you may think to yourself..."Gosh, self, how are we going to get this debt under control? We're just a fraction of NYC's expenditures, and we're screwed."

Nope...instead, in June of this year they announced a $68.5 Billion overhaul of the entire system.

Now. Who doesn't want to see an inexperienced wide-eyed socialist have to deal with that conundrum. We'd have automatic content for the site as walls fall down, trains collide, and the subway starts betting pools on literal rat races.

I'm in for that.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2025 06:16 PM (dIske)

181
Is mayor of NYC Mamdani's ceiling in electoral politics? Or could he make congressman?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (n7CIX)

_________

Congressman would be a step down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 06:16 PM (tgvbd)

182
ThePersistence
@ScottPresler

Holy cow.

How cow.

I’ve found it.

This is what is going to take down the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (peacefully).

All 3 of the Justices ruled to OVERTURN Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction.

Wecht, Donohue, & Dougherty ruled to OVERTURN Bill Cosby’s sexual assault.

https://is.gd/S2ffSa

Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 29, 2025 06:17 PM (3goEG)

183 Is mayor of NYC Mamdani's ceiling in electoral politics? Or could he make congressman?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (n7CIX)

I think he's gunning for General Secretary.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2025 06:17 PM (06Hmj)

184
She violated parole at 89 for almost another year in the slammer.
Posted by: torabora

________

Are we still talking about Emma Watson?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 06:18 PM (tgvbd)

185 is it too late to declare 'nood'?
Posted by: DanMan at September 29, 2025 06:11 PM (8uzBS)

Yes! I leave my best comments at the tail end of threads because nobody noods!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 29, 2025 06:18 PM (E0Kkk)

186 It could very well be that the "Trump peace plan" is intentionally a non-starter, knowing that the first half of the first point is one of Hamas's non-starters, and the whole thing is a formality as prelude to wiping the fuckers out.

If he eventually says "we're planning on bombing in two weeks", grab your goat and kiss your ass goodbye.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
......

Yeah, I don't see Hamas throwing in their towels.
Get it? Towels? ha ha I crack myself up.
I wonder if rubble makes good foundation subgrade for high rise casinos?

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2025 06:18 PM (v0R5T)

187 While anything is possible I don’t see NYC ever going down the path of Detroit. It’s too big in too many areas. It’s not just finance. It’s got a big tech presence. The biggest law firms are there. Insurance is there. Telcoms like Verizon is HQed there.

It’s too big to fail.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 29, 2025 06:18 PM (wrRTB)

188 Mamdami announced as mayor he will provide $65 Million of funding for gender affirming care. From @DefiantLs

I thought New Yorkers were supposedly the savviest of us all. At least that's what they tell us. How can they fall for this BS high school election crap??

"Every day is pizza day, and soda and candy is free!"

Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 06:18 PM (gWBY1)

189 The kids were white/the caregiver was black...

Dane@UltraDane

On September 29, 2019, 3-year-old twins Raelynn and Payton Keyes died from neglect and heat stroke while in foster care. Their foster caregiver, Claudette Foster, had taken them and their two brothers to her boyfriend's house for the night.

The next morning, the boys, aged 8 and 6, reported that their sisters were missing. After a search in the 92°F heat, the girls were found deceased in the boyfriend's car, which had a temperature exceeding 150 degrees.

Two children were left like trash in a baking vehicle so Claudette, who had been reported numerous times for physical abuse against the twins, could see her boyfriend. Not once, in a span of 12 hours, cared for any of the 4 children as 2 of them died from the deadly heat in the car.

RIP little ones, you didn't deserve this fate, you were murdered by 2 entities, her and the state.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 29, 2025 06:18 PM (TGPs7)

190
They'll go full communist and start confiscating private property and money.

Posted by: Smell the Glove

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THAT would be wild. If they're really smart, they'll live-stream it and monetize it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 06:18 PM (n7CIX)

191 The vote in NYC is rigged, the powers that be can select who they want to be mayor.

The idea that Cuomo has an opportunity to climb out of the political graveyard and get an opportunity to be on the national stage again is nauseating.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2025 06:19 PM (Jwqya)

192 Okay, here is a stupid question. Feel free to laugh at me and call me an idiot or something.
There's a move in Long Island to secede from Hochul's despotate and become State 51. In the last Census this island had over eight million souls... including Brooklyn and Queens.
I assume these are US citizens.
So if Mamdani takes Manhattan, can a countermove be to recognise Long Island as a State (or as part of Rhode Island, I'm not picky)? In which case at least the damage to NYC is limited to 3/5ths.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 06:19 PM (gKWVE)

193 Actually a better example would be Salt Lake City. Tech money/people from California poured into the area. And now it’s a blue city shithole.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Decades ago I would not imagined moving to SLC because it is too conservative. These locusts move with the intent to destroy.

Unfortunately even the ones who think they are conservative aren't. They just seemed like it relative to the blue shit-holes they were in.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 06:19 PM (/lPRQ)

194 Is mayor of NYC Mamdani's ceiling in electoral politics? Or could he make congressman?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (n7CIX)

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Dictator of Colombia?

Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 29, 2025 06:19 PM (3goEG)

195 All I have to say to NYC is welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 29, 2025 06:19 PM (7o2WQ)

196
Peak safe NYC was a jewel. Times Square was a playground for normie tourists,
Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 06:10 PM (gWBY1)

And the native New Yawkers screamed like a bunch of junior high school girls who just got grounded and had Daddy take away their Taylor Swift concert tickets. All because of the "Disneyfication" of Times Square which destroyed the vibrant culture of the Square by closing down the porn theaters, picking up the garbage in the street and running off the drug dealers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2025 06:20 PM (y9nCu)

197 If laws were created to stop college students from switching parties every year between their dorms and their parents house, wherever they think their vote counts more, Madami would be in the low single digits.

NYC if run by people from NYC would be center left with the ability to swing center right. But the amount of shitty white Midwestern college kids and those coming here to become a celebrity swing things way left (on top of raising a 400 square foot studio apartment in Brownsville to $2500 a month).

Posted by: Rbastid at September 29, 2025 06:20 PM (Yse2u)

198 What, specifically, is the downside to a communist hellhole NYC that isn't already there?

A GUM department store?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2025 06:20 PM (Q4IgG)

199 Ace, I don't think Bessent would've said that if Trump hadn't already approved it.

Posted by: DougW at September 29, 2025 06:20 PM (KzhxU)

200
NYC is fucked.

The idiots will vote for the Muslim because they are stupid.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 29, 2025 06:21 PM (3ek7K)

201 This town's in taters.

Posted by: Brian Stelter at September 29, 2025 06:21 PM (63Dwl)

202 Where did Mamdani come from, I mean politically? Wasn't he a nobody?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 29, 2025 06:21 PM (kTd/k)

203 Stelter, we been shattered!

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 29, 2025 06:21 PM (8z6SV)

204 B/c no one actually wanted Cuomo strong enough to show up to vote...and they still don't.

Yeah but why was the polling so great then swapped the day before the election? There was no big event, no gaffe, no great speech. It just... swapped, like 100% opposites, the day before the election. If nobody wanted to vote for Cuomo, and who could blame them, why did the polling claim he was way more popular? I mean he had Mamdani like 20 points then was down by 20 in one day.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 06:21 PM (dfIr7)

205 Stocks slide...DOW down 12...holy shit...

Posted by: Eva Grubb at September 29, 2025 06:21 PM (AV0a+)

206 170 It could very well be that the "Trump peace plan" is intentionally a non-starter, knowing that the first half of the first point is one of Hamas's non-starters, and the whole thing is a formality as prelude to wiping the fuckers out.

If he eventually says "we're planning on bombing in two weeks", grab your goat and kiss your ass goodbye.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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US and the West does not need a repeat of 1973 oil embargo. While the US would weather it better than Euroland, it would probably result in a massive recession as oil prices spiked. This would also get a shot in the arm for Putin, Iran and the sheiks.

PDT thinks globally and economics are part of the big picture as well as military action as well as the position of nations in the vicinity of Israel.

And as I mentioned a couple of days ago, you can only get away with massive force to destroy and make the rubble bounce immediately after a terrorist event like 9/11.

By two years later, for the majority of other nations have moved well on and will now call the US a bully for Afghanistan and later Iraq. They then sympathize with the underdog.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025 06:22 PM (WDjG6)

207 So if Mamdani takes Manhattan, can a countermove be to recognise Long Island as a State (or as part of Rhode Island, I'm not picky)? In which case at least the damage to NYC is limited to 3/5ths.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 06:19 PM (gKWVE)

Interesting conundrum.

Brooklyn and Queens are New York City, but as counties/boroughs, can their respective councils vote to disincorporate from the City, form their own charters, and join up as counties in a new state of Long Island?

Does the State Assembly or Governor have the final say? I don't know what the State's mechanisms are for incorporating or disincorporating cities, and even less for the odd and unique amalgam that is New York City.

I think at a certain point it's just Calvinball, and Who Dares Wins.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2025 06:22 PM (06Hmj)

208 I'm right here, you know...
Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2025 05:54 PM (tH0WK)

I'll share some for you, too. I gots kisses and hugs. Almost wrote hogs. I don't have hogs. xoxo

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2025 06:22 PM (6PCLE)

209 "Every day is pizza day, and soda and candy is free!"

Hochul is sending everyone in the state money just for existing. Just, printing money to hand out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 06:23 PM (dfIr7)

210
What, specifically, is the downside to a communist hellhole NYC that isn't already there?

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Moscow has nicer subways.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 06:23 PM (tgvbd)

211 If New York City is too big to fail, is it too big to demand the rest of the country bail them out when they do fail?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 29, 2025 06:24 PM (E0Kkk)

212 By two years later, for the majority of other nations have moved well on and will now call the US a bully for Afghanistan and later Iraq. They then sympathize with the underdog.
Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025 06:22 PM (WDjG6)

Spiking oil prices would be a boon in such a scenario if we ramped up our own production, fully unfettered from any need to kowtow to other oil producers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2025 06:24 PM (06Hmj)

213 Pressler is wrong as a matter of law. I don’t like the Judges, but in the Cosby case they followed the law. It was the prosecutor who fucked everything up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2025 06:24 PM (WZaJc)

214 NYC is something I haaate
It's so 1978...

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 29, 2025 06:24 PM (wBaIH)

215 213 Pressler is wrong as a matter of law. I don’t like the Judges, but in the Cosby case they followed the law. It was the prosecutor who fucked everything up.

yep

he's way off on this

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 29, 2025 06:24 PM (FHttA)

216 @202 at present Mamdani is a NYS assemblyman. He worked in government or Dem politics his whole working life, which ain't much

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2025 06:24 PM (A2I8b)

217 Are we still talking about Emma Watson?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Just bothered to bing up some recent pics.

Young Jack Nicholson in drag... and he isn't trying very hard

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 06:24 PM (/lPRQ)

218 Moscow has nicer subways.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I've ridden the Moscow subway. It is indeed awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 06:25 PM (77rzZ)

219
It’s got a big tech presence. The biggest law firms are there. Insurance is there. Telcoms like Verizon is HQed there.

It’s too big to fail.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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That's why I keep asking who would leave. Remote working has probably hollowed it out a bit. But why do insurers, telecoms, and tech firms HAVE to stay? Those firms attract talent from all over the country (probably the world), so it's not as if they rely on the local population to staff up. They could go anywhere.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 06:25 PM (n7CIX)

220 By two years later, for the majority of other nations have moved well on and will now call the US a bully for Afghanistan and later Iraq. They then sympathize with the underdog.
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Their opinions don't really matter.

Posted by: Methos at September 29, 2025 06:25 PM (vSvIl)

221 Where did Mamdani come from, I mean politically? Wasn't he a nobody? Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 29, 2025 06:21 PM (kTd/k)

Nepo red diaper baby. Got on the city council, I think? And like AOC has delusions of grandeur and is propped up by shadow money.

People have pointed out that all the problems he is complaining about, he can fix by STAYING ON THE CITY COUNCIL AND DOING HIS JOB. Cutting red tape, vendor permits, housing rules...all in his current power to change.

Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 06:25 PM (gWBY1)

222 This town's in taters.
Posted by: Brian Stelter
......

Twice baked.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2025 06:26 PM (v0R5T)

223
And the native New Yawkers screamed like a bunch of junior high school girls who just got grounded and had Daddy take away their Taylor Swift concert tickets. All because of the "Disneyfication" of Times Square which destroyed the vibrant culture of the Square by closing down the porn theaters, picking up the garbage in the street and running off the drug dealers.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2025 06:20 PM (y9nCu)

None of those people screaming were native new yorkers. They were young transplants who want to think they're cool because they came to gritty by and walked past CBGB's once (but we're too scared to go in).

Posted by: Rbastid at September 29, 2025 06:26 PM (Yse2u)

224
Twice baked.
Posted by: wth at September 29, 2025 06:26 PM (v0R5T)

__________

With brisket. Mmmmm.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2025 06:26 PM (tgvbd)

225 Decades ago I would not imagined moving to SLC because it is too conservative. These locusts move with the intent to destroy.

----------------

The LDS church leadership has become poisoned with the #Woke mind virus as well.

I remember being stunned some years ago when their genealogy websites (like FamilySearch.org) added an option for same-sex married couples and/or parents.

I gave that stuff up about 5 years ago so it wouldn't surprise me if they now have a tranny (or 57 other) "gender" options ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 29, 2025 06:26 PM (3goEG)

226
Who wants to see something weird?
This goes way beyond "uncanny valley" shit.

There's this new-ish Youtube channel that uses AI to generate Leftist-Fake-News-mocking content. It's delves deep in the demonic aspect, too. Don't watch if you're a fag. But you should watch it. Here's a sample of their good work exposing the evil in a sort of humorous way:

https://is.gd/jX4Jl1

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 29, 2025 06:27 PM (E/NtD)

227 Unfortunately even the ones who think they are conservative aren't. They just seemed like it relative to the blue shit-holes they were in.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Semi fiscal cons worried about taxes but socially liberal. Eventually when taxes get too high, they leave for elsewhere but before they leave, they are fully on board with Big Gay, now Big Tranny, Love is Love bullshit in institutions, and compassion like letting criminals out with no bail. For the most part, these sorts have enough money to insulate them and theirs from teh destruction until it gets too big.

That too is the story of Palisades, by all accounts a decent place to live in CA which leftist mayor and governor put a torch to in order to steal the valuable land for their political cronies.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025 06:27 PM (WDjG6)

228 > Nepo red diaper baby. Got on the city council, I think? And like AOC has delusions of grandeur and is propped up by shadow money.

Queens Assemblyman.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2025 06:27 PM (Yp6az)

229 Moscow has 326 miles of subway track. NYC has 665 miles.

Posted by: Subterranian Homesick Blues at September 29, 2025 06:27 PM (oftw2)

230 FML. Caught my pad for my cast iron skillet handle on fire.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2025 06:27 PM (Q9Vcs)

231 >>>I'm worried about Trump overruling Bessent. Trump has billions of dollars of NYC real estate which will be devastated by a collapsing NYC.

I guess that's one way to look at it if you are inclined to think the worst of Trump.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2025 06:27 PM (syz1S)

232 Where did Mamdani come from, I mean politically? Wasn't he a nobody?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 29, 2025 06:21 PM (kTd/k)

No idea but it's an interesting question. Obama was basically a nobody then an obscure state senator then BAM president, and now we know he was a handpicked puppet. This could be the same kind of thing.

Posted by: Probably astroturfed at September 29, 2025 06:27 PM (TbWk/)

233
btw, I'll bet most of You People wouldn't know it was AI if I didn't tell you, which is not good. You People need to be able to recognize this stuff.

Anyway, watch the video I linked.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 29, 2025 06:28 PM (E/NtD)

234 Hochul is sending everyone in the state money just for existing. Just, printing money to hand out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I don’t think the states can just print money, unlike the Fed.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 29, 2025 06:28 PM (E0Kkk)

235 Pressler is wrong. The prosecutor said they wouldn't prosecute if he gave depositions in civil actions. Cosby did so , then the prosecutors had him arrested. I have no live for Cosby or his behavior, but the prosecutors acted like scumbags

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2025 06:28 PM (A2I8b)

236 >>> Queens Assemblyman.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2025 06:27 PM (Yp6az)

Ok, I was like 75 percent correct.

Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 06:28 PM (gWBY1)

237 Even if Trump pulls a troll and denaturalized Mamdani after he wins, the replacement would be a city council member who's just as much of a commie.

Posted by: Rbastid at September 29, 2025 06:28 PM (Yse2u)

238 No idea but it's an interesting question. Obama was basically a nobody then an obscure state senator then BAM president, and now we know he was a handpicked puppet. This could be the same kind of thing.
Posted by: Probably astroturfed

Ironically, the fey dogeater began his ascension to power by scaling Jerri Ryan's boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2025 06:29 PM (77rzZ)

239 Stocks slide...DOW down 12...holy shit...
Posted by: Eva Grubb

SELL SELL SELL !

Posted by: Jim Cramer - Investment Pro and Media Personality at September 29, 2025 06:30 PM (v0R5T)

240
He's only interested in man boobs.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 29, 2025 06:30 PM (3ek7K)

241 States give money away they get from taxes and Fed handouts, they don't need to print money

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2025 06:30 PM (+qU29)

242 >> By two years later, for the majority of other nations have moved well on and will now call the US a bully for Afghanistan and later Iraq. They then sympathize with the underdog.

We conquered Iraq and were eating out of Saddam’s fridge in record time. We also literally crushed the Taliban in short order with roughly two ODA’s and air support. After that was a lot of mopping up. In Iraq we did some coalition building, and that came later in Afghanistan. I won’t criticize any of the troops in either coalition, but we did most of the heavy lifting. That’s not because some of those meant couldn’t carry the load. It’s because their government weenies are a bunch of pussies. That goes doubly for the Euro Trash that now wants us to partner with them against Russia.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2025 06:30 PM (QIKsx)

243 21 "I say them them crash"
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 29, 2025 05:47 PM (xcxpd)

I saw them them open for The The in Bora Bora in 2020.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at September 29, 2025 06:31 PM (8hxDK)

244 > The LDS church leadership has become poisoned with the #Woke mind virus as well.

Depends on who you mean by church leadership. The members of the Twelve and First Presidency don't seem to be infected. BYU is going through a cleanup that is clearing out some of the leftist chaff. Some of the Relief Society leadership seems to be embracing woke.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2025 06:31 PM (Yp6az)

245 Spiking oil prices would be a boon in such a scenario if we ramped up our own production, fully unfettered from any need to kowtow to other oil producers.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

High energy prices hurt manufacturing and average citizens. All the economy is a balancing act which Democrat presidents, never having become acquainted with economics, fail.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025 06:31 PM (WDjG6)

246 Time to find out the truly important, true news.

NBC Nightly News is on....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 29, 2025 06:31 PM (Sco7b)

247 Diw Jones is up..15

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 29, 2025 06:31 PM (iF0wO)

248 None of those people screaming were native new yorkers. They were young transplants who want to think they're cool because they came to gritty by and walked past CBGB's once (but we're too scared to go in).
Posted by: Rbastid at September 29, 2025 06:26 PM (Yse2u)

People forget the rampant drugs, rape and murder of the "good old days" of Times Square. But stupid fucking hipster trust fund kids think it's "authentic" or some shit but obviously they never got dragged into a cheap flophouse, been decapitated then set on fire.

Posted by: They're not just stupid they're proud of it at September 29, 2025 06:31 PM (TbWk/)

249 Pressler is wrong as a matter of law. I don’t like the Judges, but in the Cosby case they followed the law. It was the prosecutor who fucked everything up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2025 06:24 PM (WZaJc)

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Yes, I remember people pointing that out here years ago.

Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 29, 2025 06:31 PM (tnLk2)

250 "So all said, it's probably worth a couple points for Andrew Cuomo, but Andrew Cuomo needs way more than a couple points to catch up to Zohran."

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Perhaps it wasn't such a great idea to have acquired the reputation of COVID Cuomo when he could have accepted Trump's help in 2020. Personalities like Cuomo think that they will always be in power and could do as they pleased, it's called megalomaniac. If this is the best option for New York City, God help them.

Posted by: Decaf at September 29, 2025 06:32 PM (unUNN)

251 "I say them them crash"
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 29, 2025 05:47 PM (xcxpd)

I saw them them open for The The in Bora Bora in 2020.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science

me too.

Posted by: zombie Boutros Boutros-Ghali at September 29, 2025 06:33 PM (v0R5T)

252 Mamdami has the used car salesman grin.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at September 29, 2025 06:33 PM (9EO0O)

253 People forget the rampant drugs, rape and murder of the "good old days" of Times Square. But stupid fucking hipster trust fund kids think it's "authentic" or some shit but obviously they never got dragged into a cheap flophouse, been decapitated then set on fire.

Posted by: They're not just stupid they're proud of it at September 29, 2025 06:31 PM (TbWk/)

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It was all right there in "Taxi Driver (1976)."

Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 29, 2025 06:34 PM (tnLk2)

254 I'm worried about Trump overruling Bessent. Trump has billions of dollars of NYC real estate which will be devastated by a collapsing NYC. Plus, he really likes the city.

Hell No. I'm not going to be plundered so NYC can fuck around with Communist Muslim Suicide Fetish.

Go find someone else to plunder. I don't prop up drunks, whores, junkies and other idiots that refuse to take responsibility.

You want to open your doors to the third world, then you can be the third world.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 29, 2025 06:34 PM (a4flb)

255 Diw Jones is up..15
Posted by: Boss Moss

BUY BUY BUY !

Posted by: Jim Cramer - Investment Pro and Media Personality at September 29, 2025 06:34 PM (v0R5T)

256 His 15 minutes of fame, were up in 5...

Aesthetica@Anc_Aesthetics

Astroturfed grifter Brilyn Hollyhand has been outed for lying about being sponsored by TPUSA. He's going around claiming his new tour is a partnership with TPUSA when that is an outright lie.

Tyler Bowyer from TPUSA confirms that Brilyn does not work for TPUSA and that his tour is not sponsored by TPUSA. Calling the lie "distasteful".

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 29, 2025 06:35 PM (TGPs7)

257 johnny maga@_johnnymaga
Zohran Mamdani admits that his “free bus” program will cost taxpayers $700 million per year.
Besides costing a fortune, the buses would become completely unridable after being taken over by vagrants and the homeless.

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$700 million? Hell, Kamala spills more than that!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 29, 2025 06:35 PM (L/fGl)

258 We conquered Iraq and were eating out of Saddam’s fridge in record time. We also literally crushed the Taliban in short order with roughly two ODA’s and air support. After that was a lot of mopping up. In Iraq we did some coalition building, and that came later in Afghanistan. I won’t criticize any of the troops in either coalition, but we did most of the heavy lifting. That’s not because some of those meant couldn’t carry the load. It’s because their government weenies are a bunch of pussies. That goes doubly for the Euro Trash that now wants us to partner with them against Russia.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Iraq was not WWII era destruction which is a prerequisite to permanently change a society that had to unconditionally surrender. Same for Afghanistan or Vietnam for that matter.

To quell resistance, it requires something like 30-40 percent of all military age males be dead or handicapped, a helpless and non functioning economy to the point where people are starving, and thus, welcome occupation more or less as a chance to survive.

Otherwise, in most wars, you end up repeating over and over again because one side or the other does not feel they got beat bad enough.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025 06:35 PM (WDjG6)

259 I wonder if we aren't seeing the end of big cities. They've all been destroyed by the Dems. They are expensive and not an attractive place to live

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 29, 2025 06:35 PM (kUxzU)

260 Last week President Donald Trump’s Justice Department notched another win for American-born college students who for years have been treated as second-class citizens by our public universities.

But according to my research, many of our most prestigious private colleges are still providing financial benefits and other perks to undocumented students — shortchanging Americans in the process.

Who would fuck your children faster:
Drag Queen Reading Hour Child Fuckers
Progressives Giving Your Child College Spot to Illegals

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 29, 2025 06:36 PM (gbOdA)

261 Stocks slid 12 that day.

Ha.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 29, 2025 06:36 PM (scbc5)

262 NYC is going to look like Bartertown after they elect this commie. There will be an outflow like never before. NY is already headed into dire fiscal straits according to the comptroller. The MTA is simply going to collapse. The only place they have to go is after the taxpayers and those who haven’t left, will.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2025 06:36 PM (QIKsx)

263 I have no live for Cosby or his behavior, but the prosecutors acted like scumbags.

The sheer number of Cosby accusers is unsettling. But I have to say, the ones I am most familiar with from the media did not come off well; they weren't convincing and it seemed like a lot of #metoo style second-guessing long after the fact.

Posted by: struggle session at September 29, 2025 06:36 PM (NCsQU)

264 evil in a sort of humorous way:

https://is.gd/jX4Jl1

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 29, 2025 06:27 PM (E/NtD)

Weird. And creepy. But also pretty funny. Most accurate: chicks who play bass guitar are hawt.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, +CK+ at September 29, 2025 06:37 PM (0aYVJ)

265 [i[So if Mamdani takes Manhattan, can a countermove be to recognise Long Island as a State (or as part of Rhode Island, I'm not picky)? In which case at least the damage to NYC is limited to 3/5ths.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 06:19 PM (gKWVE)p/i]

No, it is the Virginia rule, no portion of a state can secede to become a new state without permission from the old state. Hochul and the legislature would have to say yes

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2025 06:37 PM (rbvCR)

266 Soothsayer -
White Liberal Late Night - Another Crybaby Late Night Host: the algorithms are getting increasingly sophisticated. I could see it was fake, but it’s getting harder to do so!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 29, 2025 06:37 PM (E0Kkk)

267 259 I wonder if we aren't seeing the end of big cities. They've all been destroyed by the Dems. They are expensive and not an attractive place to live
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 29, 2025 06:35 PM (kUxzU)

Domestic tranquility
Common defense
Justice and Welfare

No big city does this

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 29, 2025 06:37 PM (gbOdA)

268 Almost wrote hogs. I don't have hogs

I'll take the hogs, they make bacon

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 06:37 PM (dfIr7)

269
t was all right there in "Taxi Driver (1976)."

Panic in Needle Park

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2025 06:38 PM (63Dwl)

270 Two things 'Escape From New York' got wrong:

1. The year.
2. The wall around Manhattan was built by the mayor to keep people in.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 29, 2025 06:38 PM (f64fn)

271 Weird. And creepy. But also pretty funny. Most accurate: chicks who play bass guitar are hawt.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, +CK+ at September 29, 2025 06:37 PM (0aYVJ)

Why thank you!

Posted by: Tina Weymouth at September 29, 2025 06:38 PM (PiwSw)

272 Can we haz Virginia reunification?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 29, 2025 06:38 PM (iF0wO)

273 I saw Megalomaniacal Pierced Nipples open for Lactical Jungle Rot at Creepy Crawl in '99.

Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 29, 2025 06:40 PM (cI5wi)

274 on the other hand, Brilyn Hollyhand looks like he could rake it in on OnlyFans.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 06:41 PM (gKWVE)

275
Weird. And creepy. But also pretty funny. Most accurate: chicks who play bass guitar are hawt.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo

Yeah, especially when they live inside my computer.

the algorithms are getting increasingly sophisticated. I could see it was fake, but it’s getting harder to do so!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

I could almost be convinced some of the people are real. It's kind of alarming.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 29, 2025 06:41 PM (E/NtD)

276 169 DFW got some of the New Orleans diaspora as well.

The Big Easy did not send their best.

Houston can contribute a few more...
Posted by: DanMan at September 29, 2025 06:14 PM (8uzBS)

Dallas, got a soft machine;
Houston, too close to New Orleans
New York's got the ways and means
But just won't let you be, oh no

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 06:41 PM (qpyNK)

277 No, it is the Virginia rule, no portion of a state can secede to become a new state without permission from the old state. Hochul and the legislature would have to say yes
Posted by Kindltot

Are you telling me West Virginia got permission from the Old Dominion to secede at the start of the Civil War? That’s hard to believe!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 29, 2025 06:41 PM (E0Kkk)

278 Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, +CK+ at September 29, 2025 06:37 PM (0aYVJ)

Why thank you!
Posted by: Tina Weymouth at September 29, 2025 06:38 PM (PiwSw)

*winks* *adjusts Carhart t-shirt*

How you doin'?

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, +CK+ at September 29, 2025 06:41 PM (0aYVJ)

279
lol @ "Tina Weymouth"

Rick James y'all!
What a fraud.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 29, 2025 06:42 PM (E/NtD)

280 New thread from El Jefe.

Posted by: Dad of Six at September 29, 2025 06:42 PM (5NMbq)

281 NYC is going to look like Bartertown after they elect this commie. There will be an outflow like never before. NY is already headed into dire fiscal straits according to the comptroller. The MTA is simply going to collapse. The only place they have to go is after the taxpayers and those who haven’t left, will.
Posted by: Marcus T

The bridges must be blown and tunnels flooded.
Only way for Jersey to protect itself.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 06:42 PM (/lPRQ)

282 Two things 'Escape From New York' got wrong:

1. The year.
2. The wall around Manhattan was built by the mayor to keep people in.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 29, 2025 06:38 PM (f64fn)

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3. Even Snake Plissken won't go near that shithole.

Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 29, 2025 06:42 PM (cI5wi)

283 >> Otherwise, in most wars, you end up repeating over and over again because one side or the other does not feel they got beat bad enough.

No, you get bogged down because your political leaders are indecisive cowards who yield to Leftist subversives in places like our DoS. We won those conflicts militarily, several times. Bush, his nation building assholes and those who followed right up to Biden just kept it going for their own reasons. They even went after Trump and subverted him as CiNC to keep it going. We probably could have avoided conquering Iraq in a military way. But when they made that decision, it should have been balls to the wall, kill everyone on the way and negotiate with those still breathing. Instead we got DoS involved in running the government and they outlawed the Ba’ath Party. That started the forever war and nation building jerkoff. We also knew better in AFG and state did almost the same thing.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2025 06:43 PM (QIKsx)

284 And creepy. But also pretty funny. Most accurate: chicks who play bass guitar are hawt.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, +CK+ at September 29, 2025 06:37 PM

Nikki Monniger thanks you too

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2025 06:43 PM (+qU29)

285 Great. Ben Crump is suing my city for a police screw up. A kid was arrested for child porn but it was a apartment building Internet connection. A good local attorney got the charges dismissed because the DA admitted there was no evidence against the kid. Taxes will go up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2025 06:44 PM (A2I8b)

286 >>> The MTA is simply going to collapse.

It will never happen, but they could re-privatize it.

I saw images of some of the first underground subways in NYC. Chandeliers, fish ponds, the finest tile...

Posted by: LizLem at September 29, 2025 06:44 PM (gWBY1)

287 >> The bridges must be blown and tunnels flooded.
Only way for Jersey to protect itself.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 06:42 PM (/lPRQ)

Jersey is about the elect a USNA cheat, liar and card carrying AWFL. So we may need to draw different battle lines.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2025 06:45 PM (QIKsx)

288 R. I. P. Reveille IX. 2013 - 2025

Texas A&M's mascot

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2025 06:46 PM (Q9Vcs)

289 274 on the other hand, Brilyn Hollyhand looks like he could rake it in on OnlyFans.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 29, 2025 06:41 PM (gKWVE
The intertubs are saying he’s some of reincarnation of Charlie Kirk, which he most certainly don’t look to be.

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2025 06:46 PM (LHPAg)

290 Hell No. I'm not going to be plundered so NYC can fuck around with Communist Muslim Suicide Fetish.

Go find someone else to plunder. I don't prop up drunks, whores, junkies and other idiots that refuse to take responsibility.

You want to open your doors to the third world, then you can be the third world.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 29, 2025 06:34 PM (a4flb)

You will send money to NY and like it! You have no choice.

Posted by: Honorable Judge Lackanookie at September 29, 2025 06:47 PM (5xuJ/)

291 One of the servers in a Houston coffee shop told me the other day, “this ain’t Texas. You have to get outside Houston to be in Texas”. I laughed.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2025 06:48 PM (QIKsx)

292 Are you telling me West Virginia got permission from the Old Dominion to secede at the start of the Civil War? That’s hard to believe!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 29, 2025 06:41 PM (E0Kkk)

Nope, the Congress merely identified the West Virginians as the only government that mattered, the other being in rebellion.

This is something that Greater Idaho and the presumptive state of Jefferson need to keep in mind. If Salem and California become contumacious they better have their briefs straight for approaching Congress RIGHT THEN

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2025 06:49 PM (rbvCR)

293 288 R. I. P. Reveille IX. 2013 - 2025

Texas A&M's mascot
Posted by: rickb223

The first Reveille was a mutt. Since then, it’s been a series of overbred collies. I’m sure they’ve already picked out Reveille V.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 29, 2025 06:51 PM (E0Kkk)

294 Sorry V —> X

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 29, 2025 06:52 PM (E0Kkk)

295 they weren't convincing and it seemed like a lot of #metoo style second-guessing long after the fact.

Something about that entire trial felt off, like it was a fake pileon. I am sure there was something to it all along but too many of those girls seemed like they were hired on to yell at Cosby

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2025 06:53 PM (dfIr7)

296 Any separation of a state into another has to be approved by Congress which, as you may imagine, can be laborious. W. Va. separation from Va. happened in 1862 as they didn't want to secede the Union and their population differed on that and several other issues from the Tidewater region.

Posted by: I could be wrong at September 29, 2025 06:54 PM (fBqj1)

297 291 One of the servers in a Houston coffee shop told me the other day, “this ain’t Texas. You have to get outside Houston to be in Texas”. I laughed.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2025 06:48 PM (QIKsx)

Alex, I'll take Conversations That Never Happened for $500.

Posted by: Retard Jeopardy at September 29, 2025 06:55 PM (Y+vTx)

298 If Salem and California become contumacious they better have their briefs straight for approaching Congress RIGHT THEN

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2025 06:49 PM (rbvCR)

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You're single-handedly improving my vocabulary today -- thank you ... and thanks for making me feel ignorant, poorly-read, and inadequate.

Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 29, 2025 06:55 PM (zN1uo)

299 The Dem running for district 47 in Brooklyn did a campaign ad entirely in Arabic.
Kayla Santosuosso campaigned for Khader El-Yateem a member ofthe Democratic Socialists ofAmerica.

Posted by: Vivi at September 29, 2025 06:58 PM (cpunl)

300 223 thankyou.

Posted by: Vivi at September 29, 2025 07:03 PM (cpunl)

301 Posted by: Marcus T
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Both Iraq and Afghanistan were wars of choice essentially. Bin Ladin could have been routed as a punitive expedition as the Brits liked to call such matters but both military high command and DoS decided not to let loose the dogs of war but then compounded the error by nation building.

Compare Iraq with the fire bombings of Tokyo and Dresden. Yes, our weapons are more precise, but to break a nation's will requires a huge butcher's bill or you get a repeat sometime in the future.

It took Linebacker I and II to drive the North Vietnamese back to the bargaining table.

What has changed though is that real time or near real time consequences of war can be seen by the world almost instantly. And that prevents sustained mass casualties operations by the West because of leftist anti US (or in Israel, anti Israeli) political opposition. Otherwise, people sort of get used to it like the massive bloodletting in Russia and Ukraine as no big deal.

Fighting humanely is a real challenge to winning modern warfare as it upends breaking the enemy will to resist by destroying their armies aka young men as a primary factor.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2025 07:05 PM (WDjG6)

302 If Americans didn't vote for the debt, we should not be expected to pay it.
Pray for NYC voters, that the Mandami voters stay out late Monday before election and wake up Wednesday without voting.

Posted by: PTSD giver at September 29, 2025 07:08 PM (k3AX8)

303 Break up the city into very small cities. You can't get that kind of waste and corruption otherwise.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2025 07:44 PM (8avO+)

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