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Mamdani and the Midterms

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It looks like the next wave of Democrat politicians, the ones that will displace Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden and even Kamala Harris are much more openly radical.  The more mainstream edge of this new wave are people like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.  They are communists but they are too stupid to actually figure out a strategy to put their absurd theories into practice.

The new wave is like Zohran Mamdani.  They unapologetically want to set up soviet style demand economies by expropriating money and property and giving it to the people who don’t work but will vote for him.  This is a major change.  And there are more of these people out there.  Omar Fateh is the Minneapolis version of Mamdani.  He’s challenging the already incredibly left-wing mayor Jacob Frey.  Both of these men plan to turn large cities (well Minneapolis is large, New York is gargantuan) into socialist experiments complete with real property seizure and redistribution, municipal grocery stores (that we assume would allow you to pay according to your means and take according to your needs) and mental health agents replacing police to move away from that whole crime and jail thing.

You have to ask yourself, “How can any of this possibly go wrong?”  Alright, stop laughing.

I think the timing of this is almost perfect.  It’ll be about a year after Mamdani’s election that the Congressional midterms will occur.  I’m guessing a year should be enough for total chaos to envelope Gotham City.  I won’t guess at how Minneapolis will fare.  It’s a very odd place and I don’t think the mayor is actually in charge the way he is in New York.  But New York’s fate should be enough to clue in the rest of the country about how well the Stalinists are able to handle large scale American government.

What I’m guessing is that the break down in law and order will be instructive.  I assume Trump won’t make anything easy for Mamdani.  He’s already threatening to cut off social funding for things like Medicaid and Medicare where he can show that illegal aliens are receiving benefits from the local and state governments.  Letting Mamdani’s administration sink under the weight of its own excess welfare benefits would prove the point that quixotic socialist boondoggles are a recipe for disaster in a megalopolis like New York with an enormous poor population that can’t be fed through taxing the rich and middle class.

Now maybe I’ll be proven wrong.  Maybe Mamdani is the future.  Possibly all along we’ve missed out on how giving away free stuff to anyone who doesn’t want to work is really the optimal strategy for running a society.  And in addition, getting rid of the police and the courts and the prisons will seamlessly transition us from a human society with crime suppressed by these listed means, into a utopia where everyone is good and just and crime doesn’t exist.  Well, I’m willing to take a bet on it.  If Mamdani is elected and doesn’t back out of his current positions I’d bet a hundred bucks that things will explode into chaos in less than a year.  And by chaos, I mean the Democratic party in New York will be screaming to impeach Mamdani and crime will become completely unmanageable.  Only time will tell but I’m feeling confident.

You Can Take it to the Bank

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If I need another reason to sing the praises of Donald Trump, here it is.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-prepares-executive-order-fine-banks-dropping-conservative-customers-over-political-views

I have been hearing this for the last five years.  Banks and other financial institutions like PayPal and Stripe deny service to conservatives based on nothing but their political or social views.  In fact, this happened to Trump himself when Biden got into office.

And it’s not as if Bank of America would do this to someone and then the debanked individual could go to Chase Manhattan or another bank.  It was coordinated so that these people had no options.  They wouldn’t have a bank and they couldn’t do business.

“The issue arose earlier this year when Trump accused Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan in January of not offering banking to conservatives during the World Economic Forum.   “You’ve done a fantastic job,” Trump told Moynihan during a question-and-answer session, “but I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives, because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank – and that included a place called Bank of America… They don’t take conservative business.”

Moynihan did not respond to Trump’s remarks regarding fair banking for conservatives during the forum. A Bank of America spokesperson denied the bank has closed accounts for political reasons and said they “welcome conservatives.”

“We serve more than 70 million clients, and we welcome conservatives,” the spokesperson told FOX Business. “We are required to follow extensive government rules and regulations that sometimes result in decisions to exit client relationships. We never close accounts for political reasons and don’t have a political litmus test.””

Now some of this attention has to do with crypto-currency.  And Trump is heavily involved in crypto.  But his emphasis on people being de-banked for social and political beliefs means these banks will be forced to justify anyone they debank.  And for the next three years at least, any conservatives de-banked will get an attentive ear from the Trump administration and this should make all the difference in the world.

Of course this isn’t just an American problem.  I read a while ago that Nigel Farage was de-banked in England.  Here’s a guy who might end up the next prime minister of the UK and he’s not even allowed to bank in his own country.

But it just goes to show you that the corporate entities that supposedly adhere to the American Constitution really only believe in power and money (in that order).  When the George Floyd riots and COVID irrupted they bent the knee and served the interests of the Democrats and the Deep State because they knew that was where the power was.

The only way these institutions will ever live up to their responsibilities is if the occupant of the White House forces them to.  And that brings me back to my praise of Trump.  When W was in the White House conservatives were told they had a friend in him.  But the abuse from government agencies and corporations never even slowed down.  RINOs and Democrats don’t give a damn about us.  That we’ve learned.  Trump does.  And for that he has my gratitude.

Boola Boola

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Primativa Babullah – Welcome to the PBS NewsHour and I’m your host Primativa Babullah and tonight I will be interviewing President Donald Trump and will find out what new atrocities he plans to inflict on the people of this country and the rest of the world.  Good evening Mr. President.

Donald Trump – That was a very nasty introduction.  What foreign country are you from where they’re that rude?

Primativa Babullah – I’m from Westchester.

Donald Trump – Well, that explains it.  They have no class up there.

Primativa Babullah – Mr. President, the whole world is waiting to hear what new outrage you have waiting for us.  Yesterday you fired the head of the BLS.  The day before that you raised tariffs on India.  What’s next.

Donald Trump – I’m glad you asked Boola Boola.  I’ve had my DOGE crew looking into ways to get all those lazy useless bureaucrats to quit and save the tax payers a lot of dough.  And they came up with something really good.  What they discovered is that most of these people have become very fat from eating free government doughnuts.  Especially the ones with the chocolate coating and the sprinkles.  So today I signed an executive order banning the sale, manufacture and ingestion of sprinkles withing the District of Columbia.  That’s another name for Washington Boola Boola.

Primativa Babullah – My name is not Boola Boola, Mr. President.  It’s Primativa Babullah.

Donald Trump – Yeah okay whatever.

Primativa Babullah – But how will banning sprinkles from Washington help you to reduce the budget?

Donald Trump – I will let it be known that sprinkles will be available at one new government office site going forward.

Primativa Babullah – And that place will be?

Donald Trump – A new facility down in Florida.  Here it is on the map.

Primativa Babullah – But sir, that’s Alligator Alcatraz!

Donald Trump – No, no.  That’s across the lagoon.  This is called Crocodile Castle.  It’s a much classier place.

Primativa Babullah – You want government workers to work in a prison.

Donald Trump – It’s not a prison.  It’s a cutting-edge office environment that utilizes various incentives and feedback mechanisms to get the maximum value out of the employees.  For instance, there is an exercise facility that also helps correct a slight flaw in the construction design.  The stationary bicycles that the employees operate while working are attached to the pumps that keep the water level below the containment wall that keeps out the local fauna; let’s see Burmese pythons, American crocodiles, Nile monitor lizards.

Primativa Babullah – Why that’s horrible!  These people have to pedal for their lives?

Donald Trump – Well, technically we can’t force them to keep pedaling.  But it’s probably a really good idea if they do.  And they can take turns.  They don’t have to pedal more than eighteen hours a day, on average.

Primativa Babullah – But this is obviously illegal.  It’s a form of slavery.

Donald Trump – No, actually it’s just the terms of their employment.  They can always quit.

Primativa Babullah – But why go through all of these elaborate machinations just to save some government salaries?  Surely there’s an easier way.

Donald Trump – Because it makes great television.  I’m going to put this on one of the cable networks and call it, “So You Wanted to be a Lazy Slug!”  We’ll rig it so every Friday a python will get in and chase the fattest worker around the bathroom or something.  It’ll be an instant hit.  We’ll make a fortune.

Primativa Babullah – Mr. Trump, you truly are a monster.

Donald Trump – Hey I don’t try to sell people crappy over-priced tote bags so don’t get all holier than thou with me Boola Boola.

Primativa Babullah – Dammit, it’s not Boola Boola, it’s just plain Boola.  I mean Babullah.

Donald Trump – Hey calm down lady.  You asked me for this interview.

Primativa Babullah – Well, I’m sorry I did.

Donald Trump – Alright boys let’s roll.  Find the closest McDonalds.  I’m hungry (leaves the set).

Primativa Babullah – Well folks, sorry for that fiasco.  As you heard, the President has become unhinged.  But thanks to PBS this is the kind of hard-hitting journalism you come to expect from us.  Make sure to stick around for our begathon, I mean telethon coming right up.  Stay tuned and enjoy an anti-depressed viewing hour.

Donald the Great Cuts the Gordian Knot

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President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) hours after the agency released a jobs report that included substantial downward revisions for May and June, slashing a combined 258,000 jobs from prior estimates (May revised to 19,000 from 125,000, and June to 14,000 from 147,000).  Trump said McEntarfer, a Biden appointee manipulated the data to make him look bad.  He said on Truth Social that she would be replaced with someone “much more competent and qualified.”

It must be so much fun being Trump.  I think of how much fun it would be to fire the people who tick me off.  I’d fire the mailman when my mail was misdirected.  I’d fire the guy at the IRS who audited me.  I’d fire that cop who gave me the speeding ticket.  I’d fire the guy at the DMV who made me stand in the wrong line for a half hour.  I’d even fire that annoying woman who keeps sending me all that spam from my local politicians.  All these people would be fired and then I would crow about it and make them feel bad.  It would be so much fun.

But seriously, Trump is the guy who cuts through the nonsense and attacks problems as straightforwardly as can be imagined.  Base on the size of the revisions which are the largest such changes in sixty years he knows he’s being sabotaged by partisan operatives and he responds directly and effectively.  Something tells me the BLS is about to get a complete make-over that includes removing all the apparatchiks that were placed there by Obama and Biden and replacing them with a software program that gathers this data from the endless list of government statistics that already exist.  My guess is that it will streamline and optimize the process and it will also do it with a fraction of the number of employees and in a small percentage of the time currently taken to do it by abacus and cuneiform tablets.  I also imagine that there will be some BLS employees who will be willing to confess where the bodies are buried and whistle blow on McEntarfer and her cronies as to how they were cooking the books.

So, as we move past the six-month mark of the Trump administration the important thing to remember is that the fun is never really over.  At any time, Trump can descend from Mount Olympus and hurl a thunderbolt at some blasphemer among the denizens of Tartarus who still refuse to abase themselves at his feet.  Whether it’s the head of BLS or a climate scientist at the EPA or a college president or some state official in a “sanctuary community,” any of them are fair game for the “wrath of Don.”  And for me, the best part about it is the relish he seems to feel when he lowers the boom on these unfortunate targets.  They not only get fired or fined or audited he also mocks them mercilessly with deadly precision; replaced with someone “much more competent and qualified.”  I love that.

August 2025 Update on Ukraine War

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I thought I’d do a short update on the Ukraine war.  Over the course of spring and summer 2025 the Russians seem to have increased troop strength significantly and adopted strategies and tactics that involve very slow encirclement of large cities like Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka and Kupiansk.  These tactics were aimed at limiting Russian casualties while attritting the Ukrainians during counterattacks.  The glacial speed of the Russian advance was mocked by Kiev.  They kept saying that it would take a hundred years for this type of warfare to reach Kiev.

But it appears to be working.  Trump recently shortened his window for the Russians to avoid additional sanctions by calling for a ceasefire.  And the reason is that the situation on the ground is deteriorating rapidly for Ukraine.  Ukraine is finding it impossible to reach its conscription targets.  And the United States has fallen far behind on the originally promised weapons aid.  Even worse, the state of the art of Russian drone warfare has begun to cause the Ukraine army real problems.  Anti-drone drones have become very good at knocking out the large drones that Ukraine uses for dropping grenades on Russian troops.  And long-range Russian drones have wreaked havoc in the supposedly safe regions far behind the lines in places like Pakrovsk and Kostyantynivka.

And this week the Russians announced that they had finally taken complete control of the strategic high ground in the town of Chasiv Yar, to the west of Bakhmut.  Kiev denied this and claimed that their soldiers were still on the ground there but the geolocated photos showed Russians with their flags in front of the rubble that once were high-rise buildings in Chasiv Yar.

So, Trump has said that he’ll sanction Russia and the customers that buy oil and gas from them if a ceasefire isn’t called in eight more days.  But the Russians have already signaled that they aren’t interested in a ceasefire at this time and it will have to be the Ukrainians agreeing to their conditions that will stop the fighting.

What will actually happen?  If Trump adds more sanctions and nothing changes; then what?  The way things are going by the end of the fall fighting season so many troops may have been lost and so much territory ceded that Ukraine may decide that the Russian war objectives represent the facts on the ground. In which case ending the bloodshed might make sense to them.

Or maybe not.  The sunken cost fallacy is a pretty powerful rationale in a war.  Maybe they really will fight to the last Ukrainian soldier.  Who knows, maybe they can fight until Putin has had enough and goes for a Korean War permanent ceasefire approach.

I watch way too much information on this war.  It’s a depressing but mesmerizing spectacle.  The losses on both sides are horrific.  But based on what I’m hearing from both sides the Ukrainian attrition is becoming unsustainable.  Pokrovsk is a very important place for Ukraine to hold.  But it seems to be falling faster than Bakhmut or Avdiivka did.  If it doesn’t hold out till winter, I think it will have a very negative effect on Ukraine and its European allies.

Well, the madness continues.

CPB Shutting Down; Red Lobster Buried Under with Resumes

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting, funder of NPR and PBS, says it will end operations within months after federal budget cuts

Well, I’m guessing this doesn’t bode well for the rest of the folks downstream of CPB.  As I’ve hinted in my parody posts the folks at PBS and NPR will start feeling a little hungry very soon.  Lightening the ship by throwing the deadwood overboard will be tricky because they’re all deadwood.

But watching it happen should provide quite a bit of entertainment this fall.  Luckily Books and Capon were on the leading edge and managed to find positions before the crush got too heavy.  I’ll have to make a point of visiting my local Red Lobster and quiz my waiter on the latest in avant-garde lesbian performance art.

Just Leave the Bow Tie Home

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PBS Anchor/Carnival Barker – It’s Friday on the News Hour and that used to mean our weekly pilgrimage over to the desk of our resident sages David Books and Jonathan Capon.  But as you know budget cuts forced us to part ways with Jonathan.  And now the second round of layoffs has done the same to David.  But all is not lost.  We have arranged a teleconference with them at their new employer the Chevy Chase branch of the Red Lobster.  Gentlemen, can you hear me.

David Books – Yes, I can.  As you can see, I’m the assistant manager here at Red Lobster and happy to have landed on my feet as it were.  And I’m relieved to say that Jonathan has escaped from the refrigerator box under the overpass and is one of my most promising new waiters.

Jonathan Capon – Well the jury is still out on this whole gig.  I was promised all the shrimp I could eat and generous tippers.  Well, the shrimp is tiny and the tips are sub-par.  But we’ll see.

PBS Anchor/Carnival Barker – Tonight we wanted to get your sense of the Trump economy.  Last quarter’s GDP was up 3% which is quite robust but we were hoping you could throw your usual cold water on the Trump parade for our viewers’ amusement.

David Books – Well normally I’d gleefully accommodate you.  But working in retail and in a very tenuous part of it I have to say I’m praying on my knees each night before bed that Trump pulls off all the miracles he can.  Now that I’m part of the great unwashed and have lost my sinecure at your underfunded hothouse media company my whole attitude has taken a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.  I’ve got kids in expensive private colleges and if I can’t come up with twenty grand this semester those kids will be coming home and taking over my rec-room.  So, as much as it pains me to say “God bless Donald Trump!”

PBS Anchor/Carnival Barker – How about you Jonathan?  Surely you must have some of your trademark snit for Trump and his economy.

Jonathan Capon – Look, I don’t have time for this.  There are fourteen orders of King Crab Legs and a giant crab cake that are starting to get cold.  If I don’t move my gay little butt pronto, I’ll be bouncing out the door on it without a paycheck.  So, make up whatever cute little anecdotes you want for your tote-bag fixated geriatric audience but for those of us below eighty we’ve got to make a living.  All I can say is thank Trump for deporting those five Congolese guys that showed up last week.  I could never have outworked them and one of them kept pinching my butt and I think he had monkey pox.

PBS Anchor/Carnival Barker – Well, there you have it.  Trump’s American hellscape has destroyed the intelligence and the objectivity of two former beacons of cultured intellect and turned them into knuckle-dragging Trump sycophants.  A truly discouraging side-effect of the 2025 defunding of PBS.

Security Agent – Okay pal, here’s your termination notice.  We’ve got your stuff in a box so just take off the microphone and head for that door.

PBS Anchor/Carnival Barker – David, David.  Is there room for me at the Red Lobster?

David Books – Sure Barry.  There’s always room for everyone in Donald Trump’s America.  Just leave the bow tie home.

Books Without Capon

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Pitchman/Host – Well, that was a fascinating two-hour in-depth discussion on how a tote-bag ended its life as a cat sarcophagus for Mr. Fluffy Pants.  And now it’s time for us once again to receive our daily dose of wisdom from Books and Capon.  Well, of course only David Books is still on the set.  Jonathan Capon had to be let go due to “H.R. 4 – The Rescission Bill of 2025” stripping us of $1.1 billion of funding and reducing us to this endless round of begathons and hawking those lousy tote bags and crumby umbrellas.  Well, anyway hello David.

David Books – Hello Barry.  Actually, I will have Jonathan Capon on this episode.  We have a camera crew out on the street and they ran into him plying his new trade.  Hello Jonathan, how is your new career working out for you.

Jonathan Capon – Hello David, hello Barry.  Career?  Currently I’m living under an overpass in a refrigerator box and I have become the property of Big Bob and his “posse.”  It’s not great.  However there has been some talk about me taking classes to become a sidewalk mime.  Apparently, this would increase my status and Bob might be able to trade me to Carl who has two refrigerator boxes and rules over a corner that has a working fire hydrant.  Now that’s hope and change.  And how is the fund-raising going back there at the old place?

David Books – Well, not so good.  I thought I had my mother and sister committed on a tote-bag sale but at the last moment those cheap old bags reneged.  Now I’m reduced to cold-calling from the Manhattan reverse directory and avoiding the station manager in the hallways and elevators.  And last night when I went to get my car in the parking lot, someone scratched, “ALWAYS BE CLOSING” on the driver door.  They checked the security camera and I swear the guy looked like Donald Trump.  I’m a nervous wreck!

Jonathan Capon – Yeah, well, compared to keeping Big Bob satisfied I’d say you’re complaining about some real “first world problems” Davy boy.  Has there been any progress on having H.R. 4 rescinded and restoring us to the good old days.

David Books – No, not so much.  In fact, last week CBS cancelled Stephen Colbert and the whole Late Show.  There’s even talk about Kimmel and Fallon getting canned too.

Jonathan Capon – No!!!  How is that possible?  CBS is the Tifanny Network.  They speak truth to power and hold Trump accountable.

Pitchman/Host – Yeah, well it turns out Tifanny was losing forty-six big ones a year and Daddy’s gotta eat too.  So, we all have to do our part around here David.  Starting tomorrow we’re gonna have a little sales contest.  First prize is a corner office.  Second prize is a set of steak knives.  Third prize is you join Jonathan and Big Bob in the refrigerator box.  And another thing.  No more coffee until you sell a tote bag.  Coffee is for winners.  Losers clean the men’s room after hours.  And today is your turn, loser.

Jonathan Capon – Well David, maybe I’ll be seeing you around.  Better stock up on lifesavers.  Big Bob favors wintergreen.

Trump, You Magnificent Bastard, You Did It!!!

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H.R.4 – Rescissions Act of 2025 signed into law July 24th 2025.

 

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4

It’s over, it’s over.  Books and Capon will have to panhandle outside the deserted Dept. of Education office building and turn tricks for the homeless.

What a wonderful time to be alive.  All of the dreams of my youth are coming true.  Who knows?  Maybe they’ll put Tricky Dick Nixon on the thousand dollar bill.

So remember kids, dreams really can come true.  All you need is an ornery enough bastard like Donald Trump and enough people who are sick and tired of being lied to and gaslighted by their elected officials.

Company on the Unemployment Line

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So today was the weekly zoom call with the boys.  Coincidentally, I received my “Del Boca Vista” tee shirt.  One of the guys had them made up It says,

“Del Boca Vista

They don’t want us there

so we’re going.”

It captures the petty spiteful spirit of the Costanzas and honestly, I’ve always felt a kindred mean spirited impulse toward almost everything out there.

I wore it to the zoom and immediately sensed a greater respect from my fellow Deplorables.

I read off the Costanza rant verbatim,

“This is Frank Costanza. You think you can keep us out of Florida? We’re moving in lock, stock, and barrel. We’re gonna be in the pool. We’re gonna be in the clubhouse. We’re gonna be all over that shuffleboard court! And I dare you to keep me out!”

It was a proud moment.  But we must move on.

So, everyone has been whining about Colbert getting the boot.  The Democrats in Congress want to have Senate investigations to make sure Trump didn’t order the firing.  Gee, if they could prove he was responsible I bet he’d hand out lists with almost every name in Hollywood and the networks including Tom Hanks, George Clooney and Alec Baldwin to start.

But finding out that the Late Show costs $100 million a year to produce and loses $46 million a year was hilarious.  If ABC and NBC are losing anything close to those numbers, I’m guessing that Kimmel and Fallon will both be given the boot sometime soon.  And that would leave Greg Gutfeld not only the highest rated show on late night but the only one.

And how about the View?  Is that turkey actually making money for ABC.  It’s kind of hard to believe.  But then again maybe they don’t pay those demented hags much of any salary.  I mean, why would you?  They’re not actually celebrities.  The closest they have to a star is Whoopi Goldberg who was in a couple of popular movies about a thousand years ago while she was still alive.  Now she’s just one of the undead subsisting on the leftovers from the craft services table and sleeping upside down in an equipment storage closet on the set.  I couldn’t imagine they pay people like Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin or Ana Navarro at all.  I figure they just wandered on the set one at a time and became domesticated by the crew.  I’m sure they’ve been taught a few stupid pet tricks over the years like a parrot learning to mimic human speech somewhat.  It can be a fun trick but one soon tires of the irritating repetition of some catch phrase like “systemic racism” or “mansplaining.”

Well anyway, we’ll have to wait and see whether the other shoe drops and Jon Stewart is also given his walking papers by Paramount.  Now granted, he doesn’t make $20 million a year like Colbert and his show doesn’t cost a $100 million dollars a year to make but maybe just so Colbert doesn’t feel picked on they should also heave Stewart overboard too.  After all they’re old friends.  They could keep each other company on the unemployment line.