Mamdanonium! (NOT 10/11/25)

10/11/25 MatthewCrawley 10

I didn’t see a NOT so I thought I’d spout off.

Here in NYC people are losing their minds over Comrade Zohran. Some see him as the fifth horseman of the apocalypse but more of us see him as the herald of a new age. The young, of course, adore him, but even us old geezers have put up with decades of the same old hackerama and were hankering for something new. I thought we had that in Obama but it didn’t quite work out that way. But Zohran should have an easier time of it, because the City Council is overwhelmingly Democratic and half of them are Socialists, even if they don’t admit it.

But what about Trump’s threats of retribution? He can bluster and babble all he wants but in his dementia even he must remember that NYC is still a great economic engine powering much of the American economy. If he wants to turn us into a Detroit, good luck pal, but it won’t do anyone any good.

(Did I ever tell you that Better Half had an aunt who was a shop steward at one of the car factories? I think Ford, in Dearborn. BH would go out and visit her every so often with his mother, the shop steward’s older sister, and my God, the stories he came back with. He ran into Anita Baker once, back when she was at the height of her popularity. She lived in the Palmer Park neighborhood, I think it is called that, if any of you know Detroit geography.)

Let’s conclude this with a golden oldie:

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  1. Here is a telling comment from King of the Dipshits Kevin O’Leary (I’ve hated this smug motherfucker since he appeared on Canadian Bidniz TV for a long time. He would rail and shit all over Nortel (which I got and that’s not the reason), but not understanding the bidnez constantly trying to get them to wipe out my division (the international wireless group) which he claimed only cost money despite the fact we won huge contracts for major Euro carriers and in part kept the other lines of business afloat. I didn’t hear a peep from the shithead when the wireless group got sold off to our Swedish rival for 3.0 Billion while the rest of the company was sold for pennies on the dollar.)

    For him, it’s all about Mamdani not kissing his corpulant festering (should be in jail for vehicular manslaughter) ass. I really hope Mamdani flips these fuckers the bird and treats them the way they’ve treated us lower orders.

    I’d also like to point out that he was the man who nearly killed Barbie.

  2. I know a lot of people would like to see the shrieking whatever-aires actually leave NYC in the greatest social experiment of the century. I think we all know how useless the money-havers would prove to be.

    • We all know the rich won’t leave.
      Don’t get me wrong, I love St Louis. We’ve got a good arts scene and restaurant scene, especially for our size. But for someone used to NYC level of theater, music, galleries, shopping, culture? Parties? Socialites?
      Nobody is going to leave. Where are they going to go in the US? They got Chicago, Miami, and LA for their options. If they wanted to live in one of those cities, they already would.

      • I would actually love to live in Chicago, even though the Trumpenführer sent in the army. We also had a place in South Beach so I know Miami quite well. And of course next year we’re spending a month wandering around France and I’ll be doing a little househunting. There’s a very charming villa outside Avignon but I assume it’s been snapped up by now.

        These are the benefits of having a robust 401(K) and private IRA and the divident reinvestment option. I came from peasantry, essentially, but like any good Baby Boomer, albeit on the tail end, I entered the workforce during the Roaring 80s and thrived.

        I feel so bad for young people now. My sister has two children. Her son has three part-time work-from home jobs, all of which he loves, but his home is his parents’ home. They’re all perfectly comfortable with this situation. His sister is engaged and her parents bought them a—it’s like a condominium but it’san attached two story—it doesn’t matter, so my niece and her fiancé are paying them rent. My sister says they’re going to give the place to my niece and her husband as a very generous wedding present (approx $400,000). My sister went to junior college and studied bookkeeping (so did my mother.) Her husband barely graduated from high school and started off in the mailroom at his company. But, again, the Roaring 80s and a labor shortage, and here we all are.

        Not that this can’t happen nowadays. I have three godchildren and one is a young Ivy-educated young woman who lives at home and is an unpaid “community activist.” Roll your eyes all you want, I certainly do, but again everyone seems very happy with this arrangement.

  5. PS: Chuck Schumer, who’s well past his sell-by date, might be primaried by AOC!

    Rumors of a 2028 primary: There has been speculation about a potential primary challenge in 2028, with POLITICO reporting on a poll showing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leading him in a hypothetical 2028 matchup.

    My God, imagine that. A Democratic Senator who’s not in her 70s and not slightly to the right of President Eisenhower. And don’t @me about Eisenhower. I wasn’t alive during his presidency, but in my mind he’s vastly underrated, as is Coolidge and Nixon. David Halberstam wrote a book called The 1950s.

    It’s like 1,000 pages long so it’s right up my alley. The 50s were not the somnolent “Happy Days” era that we have been brought up to believe. One of the things that Eisenhower did was to send in the National Guard to desegregate the Little Rock public schools, where “Bubba” “Depends on what the meaning of is, is” Clinton went nearby in Hope—

    I have to get over this. I loathe the Clintons, and Bill and Hill have one foot in the grave, and Chelsea must be about 40 and hasn’t worked an honest day in her life, and is supposedly contemplating a run for office, in which case I’ll be voting Republican, as long as the Rethug isn’t completely vile and repugnant, like Handsy Cuomo.

    Well. I’ll conclude with a music video. In 1992, at the DNC, Bill gave a concluding speech and Hill joined him, as did his VP Al Gore and his then-wife Tipper (and what sort of name is that?) They played this song and if you remember it Al and Tipper smooched like no couple have ever smoochd before. Had eccentric multi-millionaire Ross Perot not thrown his hat into the ring it’s almost cerain that George H. W. Bush would have won re-election. Fate is funny that way.

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