Happy Friday. There are 410 days until the midterm elections. The brain worm guy is gonna kill a lot of kids, another fascist firing and the First Amendment is on life support.
The DNC and folks like the NY Dems leader work hard to keep folks like Cuomo in office. They spend your donations on undermining folks the majority of people want. Who offer real solutions to problems like housing, schools, healthcare. Dem leaders are puppets of AIPAC and corporate lobbyists. They gave us the mess around Biden's run and did not allow an honest primary to find the 2024 presidential candidate who could win. In 2016 they bent over backwards to undermine Bernie Sanders, though he appeared to be the people's choice and could have likely beaten Trump. Folks became totally disillusioned with a half baked party leadership who did not represent them. This has led to the rise of Trump and apathy of dems.
Why does it scare you that Mamdani actually cares about working people? They called FDR a socialist because he created the social security system so working people wouldn't starve when they were not able to work anymore. They called FDR a socialist because he created jobs to help the country come back after the depression which was created by the former republican president pushing tariffs!
Because Dem leadership, billionaires, and trump are spending tens of millions to scare you. They so badly wish to keep the status quo, to keep working Americans down and keep the exploitation going. To prevent regulations which protect workers and consumers and limit corporate profits. AIPAC controlled politicians and mouthpieces are trying to scare you. Please read more about what Mamdami is offering before you make a decision.
Ms Getz, you were right to react to Mr Gilbert as you did. He has no business guessing what scares you about Mamdani. And his guess was an insult to you.
So Ms Wiersma, and I, and Mr Gilbert have now all asked you the same question: what scares you about Mamdani. Mr Gilbert has withdrawn his impolite swipe, and he just wants to know. He asked you "kindly." So...? (Maybe you've detected something the rest of us missed, and you'll help us better understand the NYC Mayor's race, and the candidates in it. We're just asking.) Although you did say there was "no one else to vote for," so whatever it is that scares you about Mamdani is not apparently going to prevent you from voting for him. I don't live in NY, so I can't vote in this election at all. I'm just curious.
I have not replied yet, because I haven’t had the time to sit and reply properly. Please know that my knowledge of him is somewhat limited, but my main concerns are with him and his feelings about the Jews and Israel. He has been very supportive of BDS for many years, even before the October attack by the Palestinians, and he feels that Israel should not be a Jewish country. Israel allows a person of any religion to live within its borders unlike so many of the Arab countries which surround it. Where is his criticism of those countries? An Arab can live in Israel but a Jew (and in many cases Christians) would never be allowed to live in those countries. My parents are Holocaust survivors and most of my family perished due to acute antisemitism. That is why we need Israel. If we had an Israel then, who knows how many lives could have been saved.
I hope this clarifies things for you and I think it’s unfortunate that in this day and age, a Jewish person must still be petrified about antisemitism. Of you don’t agree with what’s going on between Israel and Hamas go ahead and speak your mind. But, don’t attack Jews around the world for this’s territorial war.
And that’s what scares me about Mamdani. Jew hatred.
Thank you for the very generous reply. And I'm very sorry about your family.
I grew up Jewish even though I never believed there was any such thing as "god." Eventually, I gave up calling myself Jewish. I didn't have the entry criterion, and it didn't make any sense. I was never opposed to any group, and I always tried to understand various people's feelings about things. I agreed that Israel had value as a safe home for the Jews, but the choice of the middle part of Palestine was complicated. It was not uninhabited, and 1M Palestinians, probably a notable proportion of them nomads, were displaced to make room for the Jews. Maybe one of the other places would have been better, and they were mostly or all in Africa. But the Jews wanted what used to be Judea and Samaria, lobbied hard for it, and the rest of the world gave it to them.
It's also important to note that after WWI, the Arab world was reboundaried, with leaders and even names of some countries being changed. The Arab world was very angry at the West, and since it was the West that imposed Israel on the Middle East, they were mad at Israel, too. Arabs had gotten along well with Jews, and vice versa, and I think they just felt it was another imposition and insult, and a loss. As you know, some wars were fought over this early on: the Yom Kippur war and the Six Day war, for example.
There have been efforts to negotiate peace, such as Carter's successful effort between Israel and Egypt, and Clinton's attempt between Israel and the PLO.
But Israel has been on an unrelenting path to destroy the Palestinian states (West Bank and Gaza Strip) with constant help from the US. There are many illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, from which settlers attack civilian Palestinians, and Israel has made life difficult in the Gaza Strip. No one stops them. The Israelis, and Jews in general, like to think the problem started on 10/7/23, but that was a moment of retaliation.
It's also worth noting that in my Jewish experience (Hebrew school, Saturday school, Bar Mitzvah, etc), there was always a disturbingly singular focus on the Holocaust. It was as if being Jewish meant being a victim of the Germans. But for millennia before that, the Jews were thrown out of various places, including Judea and Samaria, and a number of their holidays are about one victimization or another. In the '50s or '60s, the Coasters had a song written by Lieber and Stoller (Jewish), and it was called "Charlie Brown." A recurring refrain line was "why's everybody always pickin' on me." Jews never ask that question. They never wonder if they're doing something to infuriate or provoke everyone else. They just poke, in whatever ways they do it, and complain when someone pokes back. A '60s Tom Lehrer (Jewish) song contains the line "everybody hates the Jews." The Jews don't seem to understand what everyone has against them.
I was never anti-Zionist until recently, and I've about lost my ability to ward off being anti-Semitic. I have an Israeli-American friend who approves of everything Israel does to the Palestinians. He claims he was previously opposed to the illegal settlements in the West Bank, but he's no longer opposed. He claims Israel/IDF is strategic in sparing innocent civilians. When it is pointed out to him that innocent civilians are the substantial majority of people the Israelis kill, he either claims this is a "lie, lie, nothing but lies," or he says Hamas, which is largely decimated, uses civilians as human shields. He talks about hostages held by Hamas, and he can't acknowledge that Israel has had opportunities to get those hostages back (already got back half of them), but Israel is only interested in wiping out Palestinians, and isn't interested in Israelis held hostage. They got back half of them in the last week of November, 2023, during a ceasefire to which they agreed. All they had to do was extend the ceasefire, or make it permanent. They had already killed many more innocent Palestinians than Hamas killed innocent Israelis.
So your bottom line concern is that you think Mamdani hates Jews. I've heard no evidence that that's true. But you don't ask the Coasters' question, either, or give any thought to Tom Lehrer's refrain. Why does everybody hate the Jews? Is it something they're doing, and they ought to stop doing it?
Just wait! It will get crazier. He's scared just about shitless now, maybe it will stroke him out.
It's like he's running around in circles, with that stupid looking vagina neck! GOD! That is Hideous! Jesus! SOMEONE should give him a CLUE to what that looks like! (Eyeroll)
Anyhow, LET'S ALL keep screaming about RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES! : )
I knew his second term was going to be bad, but I never dreamed it would be as bad as it is or that we would see our democracy crumble chunk by chunk , or that the Supreme Court would totally abandon The Constitution and pander to Trump.
They abandoned our Constitution long before his 2nd term. They've been ALL IN with Project 2025 since the beginning of his 1st term. My god! Alito & his wife flew insurrection flags at BOTH of their homes on Jan 6th! And we know this b/c they had a fight with their neighbors over that crap! THEY put us where we are now. Except for 3, the rest of the 6 are ROTTEN and have gone ROGUE.
Hey guys, check out this MSN article coming from "the economic times" where it says
"Next steps for the Charlie Kirk Day resolution
For the remembrance day to take effect, the House must approve a similar resolution before sending it to President Joe Biden. The vote is expected to be contentious."
Sam and Adam, oh how this 74-year-old hippie woman looks forward to your message every day! Laughter is the very best medicine. I did cry over the penguin video. If this keeps up, the animal kingdom will disappear! But then, so will we!
"Cankles said he wants the Bagram base in Afghanistan back. Yeah, genius, go back into Afghanistan. We dare you." Adam, the real reason he wants to go back - Google how much precious minerals, metals, and stones are in Afghanistan. Oh, and don't forget the oil.
Alvin Bragg got the 34 felony convictions against trump. Tish got him convicted of fraud. That conviction stands but the amount of penalty is up on appeal.
Honestly, I hate Trump so much it's affecting my dreams, and probably my health. And I do love your outrage and no-holds-barred humor and news delivery. But the truth is, cussing (and slang) are a mentally lazy way of expressing things. (Not saying you should change a thing, Adam). But here's the thing, Shumer can use all the f-bombs he wants, but he needs to be very specific about how serious this latest trampling of our rights is, what it means, and exactly what steps need to be taken to stop it. not just stamp his feet.
Schumer is a lazy shit as are all of the other D's who knew this was coming! BC THEY TOLD US WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO!! and YES! I'm shouting! Project 2025, the fucking Dems all preached about, they did nothing to stop it or derail it. Don't give me the - We're not in power- it's a specious argument. The slope gets more slippery by the second and the D's are clutching their pearls. Send in the Dem Women - they'll get shit done - because we are stronger because we've had to be from the beginning of time!
There has not been a removal of a broadcast license since the 1980’s and that was a local station involved in bribery. The only reasons fcc does revoke are falsification on app or criminal behavior. The reason they don’t revoke for anything else is that it is very complicated legally and would be tied up for years in court.
NY Dem leader is why we have a second trump presidency. Support the people! Support Mamdami!
The DNC and folks like the NY Dems leader work hard to keep folks like Cuomo in office. They spend your donations on undermining folks the majority of people want. Who offer real solutions to problems like housing, schools, healthcare. Dem leaders are puppets of AIPAC and corporate lobbyists. They gave us the mess around Biden's run and did not allow an honest primary to find the 2024 presidential candidate who could win. In 2016 they bent over backwards to undermine Bernie Sanders, though he appeared to be the people's choice and could have likely beaten Trump. Folks became totally disillusioned with a half baked party leadership who did not represent them. This has led to the rise of Trump and apathy of dems.
No, he supports Crook Adams
I don’t like Mamdami at all. He scares me. The problem is that there’s no one else to vote for. If I lived in NY, this would be a major problem for me
Why does it scare you that Mamdani actually cares about working people? They called FDR a socialist because he created the social security system so working people wouldn't starve when they were not able to work anymore. They called FDR a socialist because he created jobs to help the country come back after the depression which was created by the former republican president pushing tariffs!
Does Bernie scare you too? Or are you just falling for the race baiting under a different shade?
Scott, perhaps you might want to reconsider making accusations that you know nothing of.
Then kindly explain yourself. WHY are you afraid of him?
Why on earth would he scare you?
Because Dem leadership, billionaires, and trump are spending tens of millions to scare you. They so badly wish to keep the status quo, to keep working Americans down and keep the exploitation going. To prevent regulations which protect workers and consumers and limit corporate profits. AIPAC controlled politicians and mouthpieces are trying to scare you. Please read more about what Mamdami is offering before you make a decision.
Ms Getz, you never answered Ms Wiersma's question. I'm curious, too.
Ms Getz, you were right to react to Mr Gilbert as you did. He has no business guessing what scares you about Mamdani. And his guess was an insult to you.
So Ms Wiersma, and I, and Mr Gilbert have now all asked you the same question: what scares you about Mamdani. Mr Gilbert has withdrawn his impolite swipe, and he just wants to know. He asked you "kindly." So...? (Maybe you've detected something the rest of us missed, and you'll help us better understand the NYC Mayor's race, and the candidates in it. We're just asking.) Although you did say there was "no one else to vote for," so whatever it is that scares you about Mamdani is not apparently going to prevent you from voting for him. I don't live in NY, so I can't vote in this election at all. I'm just curious.
I have not replied yet, because I haven’t had the time to sit and reply properly. Please know that my knowledge of him is somewhat limited, but my main concerns are with him and his feelings about the Jews and Israel. He has been very supportive of BDS for many years, even before the October attack by the Palestinians, and he feels that Israel should not be a Jewish country. Israel allows a person of any religion to live within its borders unlike so many of the Arab countries which surround it. Where is his criticism of those countries? An Arab can live in Israel but a Jew (and in many cases Christians) would never be allowed to live in those countries. My parents are Holocaust survivors and most of my family perished due to acute antisemitism. That is why we need Israel. If we had an Israel then, who knows how many lives could have been saved.
I hope this clarifies things for you and I think it’s unfortunate that in this day and age, a Jewish person must still be petrified about antisemitism. Of you don’t agree with what’s going on between Israel and Hamas go ahead and speak your mind. But, don’t attack Jews around the world for this’s territorial war.
And that’s what scares me about Mamdani. Jew hatred.
Thank you for the very generous reply. And I'm very sorry about your family.
I grew up Jewish even though I never believed there was any such thing as "god." Eventually, I gave up calling myself Jewish. I didn't have the entry criterion, and it didn't make any sense. I was never opposed to any group, and I always tried to understand various people's feelings about things. I agreed that Israel had value as a safe home for the Jews, but the choice of the middle part of Palestine was complicated. It was not uninhabited, and 1M Palestinians, probably a notable proportion of them nomads, were displaced to make room for the Jews. Maybe one of the other places would have been better, and they were mostly or all in Africa. But the Jews wanted what used to be Judea and Samaria, lobbied hard for it, and the rest of the world gave it to them.
It's also important to note that after WWI, the Arab world was reboundaried, with leaders and even names of some countries being changed. The Arab world was very angry at the West, and since it was the West that imposed Israel on the Middle East, they were mad at Israel, too. Arabs had gotten along well with Jews, and vice versa, and I think they just felt it was another imposition and insult, and a loss. As you know, some wars were fought over this early on: the Yom Kippur war and the Six Day war, for example.
There have been efforts to negotiate peace, such as Carter's successful effort between Israel and Egypt, and Clinton's attempt between Israel and the PLO.
But Israel has been on an unrelenting path to destroy the Palestinian states (West Bank and Gaza Strip) with constant help from the US. There are many illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, from which settlers attack civilian Palestinians, and Israel has made life difficult in the Gaza Strip. No one stops them. The Israelis, and Jews in general, like to think the problem started on 10/7/23, but that was a moment of retaliation.
It's also worth noting that in my Jewish experience (Hebrew school, Saturday school, Bar Mitzvah, etc), there was always a disturbingly singular focus on the Holocaust. It was as if being Jewish meant being a victim of the Germans. But for millennia before that, the Jews were thrown out of various places, including Judea and Samaria, and a number of their holidays are about one victimization or another. In the '50s or '60s, the Coasters had a song written by Lieber and Stoller (Jewish), and it was called "Charlie Brown." A recurring refrain line was "why's everybody always pickin' on me." Jews never ask that question. They never wonder if they're doing something to infuriate or provoke everyone else. They just poke, in whatever ways they do it, and complain when someone pokes back. A '60s Tom Lehrer (Jewish) song contains the line "everybody hates the Jews." The Jews don't seem to understand what everyone has against them.
I was never anti-Zionist until recently, and I've about lost my ability to ward off being anti-Semitic. I have an Israeli-American friend who approves of everything Israel does to the Palestinians. He claims he was previously opposed to the illegal settlements in the West Bank, but he's no longer opposed. He claims Israel/IDF is strategic in sparing innocent civilians. When it is pointed out to him that innocent civilians are the substantial majority of people the Israelis kill, he either claims this is a "lie, lie, nothing but lies," or he says Hamas, which is largely decimated, uses civilians as human shields. He talks about hostages held by Hamas, and he can't acknowledge that Israel has had opportunities to get those hostages back (already got back half of them), but Israel is only interested in wiping out Palestinians, and isn't interested in Israelis held hostage. They got back half of them in the last week of November, 2023, during a ceasefire to which they agreed. All they had to do was extend the ceasefire, or make it permanent. They had already killed many more innocent Palestinians than Hamas killed innocent Israelis.
So your bottom line concern is that you think Mamdani hates Jews. I've heard no evidence that that's true. But you don't ask the Coasters' question, either, or give any thought to Tom Lehrer's refrain. Why does everybody hate the Jews? Is it something they're doing, and they ought to stop doing it?
HOLD THE LINE! Encourage friends and neighbors to cancel Disney+ and boycott your local ABC affiliate advertisers!
Canceled Hulu yesterday ✊️
: ) I've got a LINK for that. You can find your local stations here!
https://act.freepress.net/call/kimmel-calls/?rd=1&t=19&referring_akid=42079.9726314.OExfS-
Please stop calling them reporters. They're only repeaters.
Great point!
Why do the Republicans want us to have more kids so they can kill them? A return to the good old days when people had 10 kids only to have 2 survive?
That's about it. They want little slave workers. It all makes me want to vomit.
They are really doing a good job of steering away from the Epstein issue...First it was Kirk, now the first amendment.
Just wait! It will get crazier. He's scared just about shitless now, maybe it will stroke him out.
It's like he's running around in circles, with that stupid looking vagina neck! GOD! That is Hideous! Jesus! SOMEONE should give him a CLUE to what that looks like! (Eyeroll)
Anyhow, LET'S ALL keep screaming about RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES! : )
you just insulted vaginas!! LOL!!
If Trump would just do something positive, we wouldn’t have to criticize him. Bless his heart!
The one positive thing he could do now is die.
I knew his second term was going to be bad, but I never dreamed it would be as bad as it is or that we would see our democracy crumble chunk by chunk , or that the Supreme Court would totally abandon The Constitution and pander to Trump.
They abandoned our Constitution long before his 2nd term. They've been ALL IN with Project 2025 since the beginning of his 1st term. My god! Alito & his wife flew insurrection flags at BOTH of their homes on Jan 6th! And we know this b/c they had a fight with their neighbors over that crap! THEY put us where we are now. Except for 3, the rest of the 6 are ROTTEN and have gone ROGUE.
All in a few months….what about the next few YEARS?!?
That was good lol!! ☮️
Hey guys, check out this MSN article coming from "the economic times" where it says
"Next steps for the Charlie Kirk Day resolution
For the remembrance day to take effect, the House must approve a similar resolution before sending it to President Joe Biden. The vote is expected to be contentious."
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/charlie-kirk-day-what-is-national-day-of-remembrance-for-charlie-kirk-heres-what-us-senate-resolution-said/ar-AA1MUi8z
Joe Biden ? Its about 5 paragraphs down.
Hiliarous.
MSN = AI?
Sam and Adam, oh how this 74-year-old hippie woman looks forward to your message every day! Laughter is the very best medicine. I did cry over the penguin video. If this keeps up, the animal kingdom will disappear! But then, so will we!
"Cankles said he wants the Bagram base in Afghanistan back. Yeah, genius, go back into Afghanistan. We dare you." Adam, the real reason he wants to go back - Google how much precious minerals, metals, and stones are in Afghanistan. Oh, and don't forget the oil.
And EPSTEIN
Alvin Bragg got the 34 felony convictions against trump. Tish got him convicted of fraud. That conviction stands but the amount of penalty is up on appeal.
Honestly, I hate Trump so much it's affecting my dreams, and probably my health. And I do love your outrage and no-holds-barred humor and news delivery. But the truth is, cussing (and slang) are a mentally lazy way of expressing things. (Not saying you should change a thing, Adam). But here's the thing, Shumer can use all the f-bombs he wants, but he needs to be very specific about how serious this latest trampling of our rights is, what it means, and exactly what steps need to be taken to stop it. not just stamp his feet.
Schumer is a lazy shit as are all of the other D's who knew this was coming! BC THEY TOLD US WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO!! and YES! I'm shouting! Project 2025, the fucking Dems all preached about, they did nothing to stop it or derail it. Don't give me the - We're not in power- it's a specious argument. The slope gets more slippery by the second and the D's are clutching their pearls. Send in the Dem Women - they'll get shit done - because we are stronger because we've had to be from the beginning of time!
Thanks Michele. Schumer is so lazy, checked-out and hauling in grift… essentially complicit with MAGA
Jasmine Crockett.
:-D BINGO!! Thank You!! And . . . . PLEASE vote PROGRESSIVE. : )
Every last word of this made my fucking day fellas! Thank you!
There has not been a removal of a broadcast license since the 1980’s and that was a local station involved in bribery. The only reasons fcc does revoke are falsification on app or criminal behavior. The reason they don’t revoke for anything else is that it is very complicated legally and would be tied up for years in court.
I haven't stopped criticizing trump since his first presidency and I'm not about to stop.
And that about Schumer - he doesn't have the backbone to talk like that. It takes a real man.
You know The Hill is part of Nexstar media.
just another day at the office for these incompetent "repeaters"..🙃