On yesterday’s final reflexive twitch of the FUSA’s mouldering cadaver.
Live Around the Planet: Grim Morning After Edition
Lots going on in the world, but today’s show will likely be a special Two Points Up In Iowa! edition analysing all the great news from Tuesday’s mid-terms for the mid-terms:Zohran Mamdani made a pledge to New Yorkers in Arabic – here’s what it means
It means: If he can make it there, you should try making it to anywhere else while you still can. For those who thought Curtis Sliwa would be the spoiler, the Ugandan Twelver beat both Sliwa and the mass-murdering sex-fiend Cuomo combined, and then some.
Still, if you are heading for the hills, probably best to eschew Virginia, where the guy who fantasises about killing your kids is the state’s new chief law-enforcement official.
And probably best to skip Maine, where the kind of people who insist that Elon Musk waving his arm is a Nazi salute are happy to vote for a guy with an actual Nazi death’s-head tattoo smack in the centre of his chest.
The usual experts are happy to argue that it’s not such a bad night for the GOP because these were all Democrat races to lose. But it’s more basic than that: it’s not about parties; it’s about the country. If, like me, you’re a demography bore, the results in New York and Virginia aren’t surprising: thanks to a coalition of leftie sentimentalists, the government payroll and post-1965 immigration, one’s a post-American city and the other’s a post-American state. But keep waving that US Constitution! Even if stores only seem to be selling the Arabic version.
I’ve been on tenterhooks waiting for Mark’s first post-traumatic-election barrage to drop, obsessively checking Steyn Online ever thirty seconds or so, and as usual he doesn’t disappoint. Elsewhere, this story might make y’all feel a bit better about things.
Local NC Farm Steps Up Amid Schumer Shutdown
As the federal government continues to display its blatant dysfunction, communities are stepping up to take care of their own, and thank goodness. Here in eastern North Carolina, we have a local treasure called Pogies at the Farm, and they are stepping up in a big way: boxes piled with farm-fresh produce to neighbors in need for free.With a valid ID and SNAP card, folks can claim enough fruits and vegetables to feed a family of four for a week.
“There is no reason anyone should go hungry in a nation as plentiful as ours,” the farm posted on their Facebook page.
Corn, squash, potatoes, peppers, and apples are just a sampling of the bounty grown on the farm. If families want to purchase meat harvested from the farm’s livestock, they can get 30% off on Saturdays with the same credentials. So far, 200 boxes have been requested, but not enough have been sponsored. For $25, anyone online can help put food on someone’s table. Click here if you’re interested in helping.
Pogies at the Farm is open to the community in the form of free events, school field trips, and market days. Pogies also has a fishing and kayak business half an hour from the farm, offering summer camps, hourly rentals, and charters. I mention this because Pogies is wholly invested in our community in ways that I’ve not seen in other places. I am not at all surprised they are holding the line while the Schumer Shutdown lingers.x
Folks, it just doesn’t GET any more American that that right there: private citizens stepping in and doing whatever they can to help out their neighbors in need, rather than just sitting back on their lard-asses bitching, pissing, and moaning because De Gub’mink ain’t come riding in on the big white charger to save the day yet. Endless kudos to the good people at Pogies at the Farm for their kindness and open-hearted generosity. One last thing before we move along.
It is worth mentioning that I have no idea what Pogies’ political affiliations or preferences are.
Yeppers, I do believe it is worth mentioning at that. A big ol’ tip of Ye Aulde CF Chapeau to the folks at Pogies for that last line; that really shouldn’t be such a big deal, but these days it most certainly is.
These lifelong New Yorkers would like to cast their vote:
Heh. TAKE IT, DEEDEE!!!
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I’m not surprised by last nights results. No one should expect the 3rd world city of NYC to vote anyway but communist. The vast majority of the current inhabitants are just that, communists. They deserve what they get, the sooner the better IMO.
Virginia voted for the government benefits to keep rolling in. Those people are also communists and outnumber the normal Virginians due to the influx of government workers that have relocated to Virginia in the DC area.
So, no surprise, no real change. It will not end well. The only question now is how the red states respond, and if not, when the hot civil war begins.
Nope, no big surprise, definitely. What Our Side REALLY needs to be taking note of and troubled by is that, after every last one of these candidates had incited violence explicitly and openly, those selfsame Dem voters we’re constantly being assured are reasonable, normal, everyday Americans went out and voted for the evil sumbitches anyhow.
I used to constantly admonish myself that not all Dems are hard-Left zealots, that the vast majority of them held views very much like my own, etc etc. To this day I know a cpl-three people who tell themselves this bushwa still, repeating it like a Zen koan in hopes that if they repeat the words enough times, they will miraculously become truth. Me, I stopped trying to convince myself of that patent rubbish years ago. As Jack Nicholson told Mary Steenburgen in Goin’ South: “I know about dreams. I know about wakin’ up, too.”
Johnny Ramone knew what that meant. The others, in varying degrees, not as much.
I doubt Joey wuld have even cared, really. Having met DeeDee several times on the LES stoned out of his friggin’ gourd, I KNOW he wouldn’t have.
I’ve read that Joey and Johnny clashed over politics a lot. Amongst other things.
The other two I could see being neutral. I wonder about Tommy being on Johnny’s side but just keeping quiet about things.