Thank you for this…. I watched his entire swearing-in ceremony. He’s very impressive!! I may become a full-fledged “social democrat” after-all… !!! A man of, by and for the people.
And those of us who are good at it don't have the money / institutional support to stay out in front and the ones who ARE out front don't have the guts
A public official is not required to use a bible for their swearing in ceremony. There was even a question about that on the infamous 1964 Alabama literacy test (which today’s wingnuts would never be able to pass)
Beware the hard-liners. Any comment that displays Israel in a less than flattering light will be conveniently labelled Anti-Semitism, effectively ending any further dissent. Take it from a guy who was kicked off of DKos permanently for said offense. And me, a lifer and all... Ah, well...
A rocking new year here... earthquake this morning about 8 this morning. I only noticed it when the bed started shaking. A whole lotta rockin' but no boots knockin'.
Ta, Dok. Mamdani got the #1 spot on my ranked choice primary ballot, which had room for neither Cuomo nor Adams. Both of those losers ran as "Independents." Adams dropped out too late for the ballots to be changed. I appreciate the WSJ gift link (that and archive links are the only way I ever read that rightwing rag), because the interview with Sliwa was fucking hilarious. And NYC does *not* need an ambassador to cats, but I do appreciate that the six cats Curtis and his wife have are all seniors.
I wish our new Mayor Mamdani (how I love the way that looks and sounds) every success. As rental tenants of a slumlord (our old landlord sold the building for the highest offer) who has done too much illegal shit in our little building already, and far more *horribly* illegal shit in the other buildings he and his equally crooked wife "own" (the banks and venture capitalists own them on their behalf), I look forward to bad landlords being held to account. I also hope Mayor Mamdani can persuade City Council that city-owned properties are perfect for *genuinely* affordable housing, not the so-called affordable housing that prices out the poor and lower middle class.
And yes, he and Rama are a really good looking couple. Happy New Year to NYC and beyond!
I loved it when Curtis laughed in Cuomo's face and told him he would never drop out or endorse him. And told him the NYC GOP won't vote for him because he's not a Republican! Curtis knew he wasn't winning the election, he accepted that. He certainly enjoyed contributing to Cuomo's desperation and ultimate failure.
I used to trot this out occasionally on another blog- possibly partly why I got kicked off ;)
1: Judaism is a religion.
2: Semitism is genetic.
3: Israel is a country.
4: Zionism is a philosophy.
None of those four things are the same thing!
But people have conflated them for for their own purposes (and profit) for thousands of years. They're still not the same things. It's quite possible to be Jewish without being Semitic (See Ivanka Kushner, nee' Trump). It's quite possible to be Semitic without being Israeli (See Gaza). It's quite possible to be Israeli and not Zionist (There are many philosophies represented in Israeli government). It's quite possible to be Zionist without being Jewish (See some Xtian nutbars trying to bring about the "2nd coming").
These Are Not The Same Things.
Only one is unchangeable - You can convert to and from Judaism. You can enter or leave Israel (with Israeli permission). You can decide that Zionism is what comes out of the south end of a northbound camel if you want to. Genetics are a bit trickier - which is at least partly why is has been so conflated - everything else they can easily change.
It's probably the same thing I don't understand on people referring to others as a different race when we are all the same race. It drives me crazy if I perseverate on it.
When I was a welfarian on Medicaid, I was sent to Lenox Hill Hospital for a test. The paperwork asked me to choose a race. I crossed out all the choices and printed in big block letters: HUMAN. I have done so ever since.
One of the things I like about Mexico is that "race" (raza) is used more in the sense of cultural identity than ancestry. That is, while there's some specific definitions for "Indigeno" or "Afro-Mexicano" on census forms for allocating community grants and some DEI type things, it's more a matter of self-indentity... Besides, nobody here really can claim to be "pure" anything. Who knows (or cares) who great granddad might have boinked?
re: Note to dude who canceled his Wonk subscription with note 'Mamdani is an anti-Semite': Fuck off till you run out of road.
You clearly have never heard or read ANYTHING Mamdani has said on this topic. I have, and he very graciously accepts all people of all religions, including none at all. He is a very great man, and we are very lucky to have him in these perilous times.
My guess is that the commenter is, in reality, a RW troll who bought a short-term sub just so he (had to be a he) could leave gaslighting comments like that one.
Fortunately for the rest of us, the Wonkommunity has been inoculated against fascist bullshit (by shooting many vaccines into our private parts, as he has long suspected), so we don't even cough when exposed (that noise you hear in the background is actually the sound of retching, from others who heard about this troll and are now losing their lunches, but that's a psychological response, not a disease symptom).
Also, please do fuck off forever, and in the next life, too, just for good measure. Bye!!
Who cares about someone cancelling a subscription? It was probably a subscriber like me who doesn't really move the money needle much either way. But I stick at it.
"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig." Alfred Hitchcock
Here's my favorite collective farm and tractor song, as sung by a New York klezmer band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSaxq8lsQqc
Thank you, Dok. You bring me joy — and great stuff to quote over cawfee with my Democratic Socialist friends. And others, when I’m feeling stabby.
Maybe not in my lifetime, but I'd love to see someone sworn into office on a copy of Isaac Asimov's "New Intelligent Man's Guide To Science".
Thank you for this…. I watched his entire swearing-in ceremony. He’s very impressive!! I may become a full-fledged “social democrat” after-all… !!! A man of, by and for the people.
Curtis Sliwa said something good that makes sense for once?
Well, I'll be.
"only oaths on the Bible are legal"
Then said Wingnuts have a fair amount of 'splaining to do considering Donald Trump didn't put his hand on anything
https://youtu.be/jrncSg-kaVE?si=SVo2kJ1wDQRCezIL
(even Fox and The Post say so)
https://youtu.be/avJjwqEje2w?si=9gj4DNUVp7TXt8KX
and is also an illegitimate POTUS on account of being an insurrectionist
https://youtu.be/3A-55XsIAG8?si=Ia8iyZWLPMFu7qAO
because JACK SMITH and TEAM know so
(and so does Gym Jordan since he dropped the hearing transcript NYE when he figured nobody was looking)
They have to say *Something* to gin up outrage. It doesn't have to be substantial. It's just *something.*
They’re too good at the propaganda
And those of us who are good at it don't have the money / institutional support to stay out in front and the ones who ARE out front don't have the guts
Except for Da Mayor
A public official is not required to use a bible for their swearing in ceremony. There was even a question about that on the infamous 1964 Alabama literacy test (which today’s wingnuts would never be able to pass)
Beware the hard-liners. Any comment that displays Israel in a less than flattering light will be conveniently labelled Anti-Semitism, effectively ending any further dissent. Take it from a guy who was kicked off of DKos permanently for said offense. And me, a lifer and all... Ah, well...
A rocking new year here... earthquake this morning about 8 this morning. I only noticed it when the bed started shaking. A whole lotta rockin' but no boots knockin'.
Ta, Dok. Mamdani got the #1 spot on my ranked choice primary ballot, which had room for neither Cuomo nor Adams. Both of those losers ran as "Independents." Adams dropped out too late for the ballots to be changed. I appreciate the WSJ gift link (that and archive links are the only way I ever read that rightwing rag), because the interview with Sliwa was fucking hilarious. And NYC does *not* need an ambassador to cats, but I do appreciate that the six cats Curtis and his wife have are all seniors.
I wish our new Mayor Mamdani (how I love the way that looks and sounds) every success. As rental tenants of a slumlord (our old landlord sold the building for the highest offer) who has done too much illegal shit in our little building already, and far more *horribly* illegal shit in the other buildings he and his equally crooked wife "own" (the banks and venture capitalists own them on their behalf), I look forward to bad landlords being held to account. I also hope Mayor Mamdani can persuade City Council that city-owned properties are perfect for *genuinely* affordable housing, not the so-called affordable housing that prices out the poor and lower middle class.
And yes, he and Rama are a really good looking couple. Happy New Year to NYC and beyond!
If a government leader is going to be sworn in on a book, something from Confucius makes more sense.
Or Machiavelli's "The Prince".
Don’t give them any idea!
I loved it when Curtis laughed in Cuomo's face and told him he would never drop out or endorse him. And told him the NYC GOP won't vote for him because he's not a Republican! Curtis knew he wasn't winning the election, he accepted that. He certainly enjoyed contributing to Cuomo's desperation and ultimate failure.
Cold revenge is supposed to be better
But Curtis seemed pretty happy with his white hot flamethrower of vengeance.
Remind me not to piss him off.
One thing I don't understand is the use of the word "anti-Semite"
By definition Arabs,Palestinians, North Africans are semitic peoples
I used to trot this out occasionally on another blog- possibly partly why I got kicked off ;)
1: Judaism is a religion.
2: Semitism is genetic.
3: Israel is a country.
4: Zionism is a philosophy.
None of those four things are the same thing!
But people have conflated them for for their own purposes (and profit) for thousands of years. They're still not the same things. It's quite possible to be Jewish without being Semitic (See Ivanka Kushner, nee' Trump). It's quite possible to be Semitic without being Israeli (See Gaza). It's quite possible to be Israeli and not Zionist (There are many philosophies represented in Israeli government). It's quite possible to be Zionist without being Jewish (See some Xtian nutbars trying to bring about the "2nd coming").
These Are Not The Same Things.
Only one is unchangeable - You can convert to and from Judaism. You can enter or leave Israel (with Israeli permission). You can decide that Zionism is what comes out of the south end of a northbound camel if you want to. Genetics are a bit trickier - which is at least partly why is has been so conflated - everything else they can easily change.
Et flippin' cetera.
It's because "anti-Semite" has become right-wing code for "dares to disagree with the Israeli government"...
It's probably the same thing I don't understand on people referring to others as a different race when we are all the same race. It drives me crazy if I perseverate on it.
When I was a welfarian on Medicaid, I was sent to Lenox Hill Hospital for a test. The paperwork asked me to choose a race. I crossed out all the choices and printed in big block letters: HUMAN. I have done so ever since.
One of the things I like about Mexico is that "race" (raza) is used more in the sense of cultural identity than ancestry. That is, while there's some specific definitions for "Indigeno" or "Afro-Mexicano" on census forms for allocating community grants and some DEI type things, it's more a matter of self-indentity... Besides, nobody here really can claim to be "pure" anything. Who knows (or cares) who great granddad might have boinked?
I am not as bold. I am white and check "Other."
re: Note to dude who canceled his Wonk subscription with note 'Mamdani is an anti-Semite': Fuck off till you run out of road.
You clearly have never heard or read ANYTHING Mamdani has said on this topic. I have, and he very graciously accepts all people of all religions, including none at all. He is a very great man, and we are very lucky to have him in these perilous times.
My guess is that the commenter is, in reality, a RW troll who bought a short-term sub just so he (had to be a he) could leave gaslighting comments like that one.
Fortunately for the rest of us, the Wonkommunity has been inoculated against fascist bullshit (by shooting many vaccines into our private parts, as he has long suspected), so we don't even cough when exposed (that noise you hear in the background is actually the sound of retching, from others who heard about this troll and are now losing their lunches, but that's a psychological response, not a disease symptom).
Also, please do fuck off forever, and in the next life, too, just for good measure. Bye!!
Who cares about someone cancelling a subscription? It was probably a subscriber like me who doesn't really move the money needle much either way. But I stick at it.
I know somebody who was forcibly kissed by Andrew Cuomo.
Like Wonkette said, it's not too late for him to keep his campaign promise that he would leave NYC if Zohran was elected.
Apparently George Santos has tweeted that he's left NYC. See! Mamdani's already getting rid of the criminals!
All he has to do is move out of his DAUGHTER'S apartment in Tudor City and return to his OWN home, which I believe is in Westchester county.
Good God--what a GD pig....
"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig." Alfred Hitchcock
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Now come on, pigs are cute and (I assume) friendly creatures. That person was not that.
I do hope however that he endlessly steps on a Lego and that his pillow is always hot.
Has anyone checked on Debra Messing...?