YES. And a new series would be fine with me. I think Mamdani is going to end up being one of the most popular mayors in NYC history. And I lived through Beame, Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani ... . Then, I departed.
Unlike the conservatives' choice of presidential candidate who always delivers - inflation, shuttered clinics and hospitals, war, ICE-murdered US citizens, incarcerating toddlers, ...
Years ago I was on a case in DC and staying at the Hay Adams hotel. I was in the lobby on my way to the elevator when security guards held us back. A man who looked a little like Liberace walked to the elevator, smiling and waving at the four or five guests in the lobby. I learned he was the President of Albania, Enver Hoxha. Not a good person.
I have fallen HARD for Zohran. No exaggeration, he is a light in the crushing darkness. He's so great at connecting with people. It's still too early to determine his success, but so far he seems to be doing great things for New Yorkers.
I. Swear. To. God, if we find out he's done something like Swalwell…
I feel fairly comfortable having faith in his integrity because he seems to exude a kind of genuineness that's really hard to fake over time. Think Mr. Rogers, Jimmy Carter, or Carl Sagan. They were all just transparently decent people.
I find it hard to believe that the good Mayor has any skeletons in the closet. Mamdani was investigated inside out during the election process by all those hysterical rich asswipes threatening to take their money and spend it elsewhere. You know, all the rich people who are still in NYC.
By comparison, Swalwell was a white guy around for a long time, so he didn't get the same scrutiny.
"ROME (AP) — In his strongest words yet, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace. “Enough of the idolatry of self and money!” Leo said. “Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!”
Praying for peace, Leo said, was a way to “break the demonic cycle of evil” to build instead the Kingdom of God where there are no swords, drones or “unjust profit.” “It is here that we find a bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive,” he said. “Even the holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death.”"
There is an ALBANIAN in my fair town who owns an eatery. He has many hispanics working for him and they all seem quite satisfied. He set up his daughter with another eatery in a nearby town with additional hispanics working there. So far the ICE turds haven't been slinking around. It is a real asset for everybody!
My introduction to Albania was a legless beggar trying to get in front of my campervan to make me stop so the other beggars could swarm round. In front of police officers.
Actually no, that was after coming across a human turd on the carpet at reception on the ferry.
I love that every single comment on Adams becoming Albanian is about Adams potentially trying to evade the law by fleeing to Albania.
There's an extradition treaty, so unless he's planning on claiming political asylum... Which actually isn't the worst idea. Trump has certainly provided lots of evidence to support a claim.
Might be more difficult if/when the State gets around to charging him.
And it's right out of sci-fi (John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider" had something called the "delphic market" or some shit that was basically the Polymarket).
just tomato based things. grocery store fresh ones are only worth a damn twice a year.
::::gasping in horror::::
Mamdani is protecting CONSUMERS?? Isn't that now considered anti-American?
I grew up in Albany (though I was never voted the handsomest boy there*) and at first figured that Eric Adams had simply moved upstate, but noooo ....
* https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/7f2ee63a-9c6c-498f-a37d-52c1ea6f97cf
Lol!
I remember Albany being called Albania!
(Used to work for an assemblyman.)
YES. And a new series would be fine with me. I think Mamdani is going to end up being one of the most popular mayors in NYC history. And I lived through Beame, Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani ... . Then, I departed.
Meanwhile NYT still has their knives out for him. Billionaires gotta billionaire I guess
“How to Be Mayor in 100 Days: Mamdani Grapples With a Learning Curve
Zohran Mamdani has accrued a long list of quick accomplishments as mayor of New York City, but he has also abandoned some key campaign promises.”
Who?
The NYT can FOAD.
Unlike the conservatives' choice of presidential candidate who always delivers - inflation, shuttered clinics and hospitals, war, ICE-murdered US citizens, incarcerating toddlers, ...
Demolished White House, shuttered Kennedy Center…
Promises kept!!
Because if you haven't delivered everything on your wish list within 100 days, you've abandoned them.
I seem to remember how the same thing was said about Obama.
They also tried it with Biden before he took office.
Meanwhile the NYT created Vance’s “negotiating skills” out of thin air
LOL
Years ago I was on a case in DC and staying at the Hay Adams hotel. I was in the lobby on my way to the elevator when security guards held us back. A man who looked a little like Liberace walked to the elevator, smiling and waving at the four or five guests in the lobby. I learned he was the President of Albania, Enver Hoxha. Not a good person.
The lying liars at Google tell me Hoxha never visited DC. It was Sali Berisha I saw, during his visit in September 1995. Mea culpa.
Hey! Adams! Why you moving to Albania?
Hay Adams is a very nice hotel.
Your timing is impeccable: he died on this day in 1985.
Cool. But I didn’t know he rotated out to citizen of hell so soon after I saw him.
Liberace died two years later.
A blow to show business.
Albania
Albania
You border on the Eric Adams
You win the internet today.
I have fallen HARD for Zohran. No exaggeration, he is a light in the crushing darkness. He's so great at connecting with people. It's still too early to determine his success, but so far he seems to be doing great things for New Yorkers.
I. Swear. To. God, if we find out he's done something like Swalwell…
I feel fairly comfortable having faith in his integrity because he seems to exude a kind of genuineness that's really hard to fake over time. Think Mr. Rogers, Jimmy Carter, or Carl Sagan. They were all just transparently decent people.
I find it hard to believe that the good Mayor has any skeletons in the closet. Mamdani was investigated inside out during the election process by all those hysterical rich asswipes threatening to take their money and spend it elsewhere. You know, all the rich people who are still in NYC.
By comparison, Swalwell was a white guy around for a long time, so he didn't get the same scrutiny.
I truly hope that nothing comes along to crush your "true believer" status.
Gonna guess we do not have an extradition treaty with Albania
We do, of fairly recent vintage. Maybe Adams didn't keep up with the news.
This is stunning: https://cms.accuweather.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Eclipse1.jpeg?w=1440
A solar eclipse from the Artemis II flyby. The crescent of light on the left side comes courtesy of the Earth.
Pope Bob from Chicago can't even:
"ROME (AP) — In his strongest words yet, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace. “Enough of the idolatry of self and money!” Leo said. “Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!”
Praying for peace, Leo said, was a way to “break the demonic cycle of evil” to build instead the Kingdom of God where there are no swords, drones or “unjust profit.” “It is here that we find a bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive,” he said. “Even the holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death.”"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-leo-denounces-delusion-omnipotence-fuels-iran-war_n_69da969de4b00247ba9b72ac?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Without the idolatry of self and money, Donald Trump would shrivel up and disappear like Jack Nicholson at the end of the Witches of Eastwick.
Pope back.
I love “How to With John Wilson.”
Albania is, in parts, beautiful and every Albanian I have met (which is literally several) has been very nice.
That said, you know. It's weird to want to be an Albanian when you aren't already.
There is an ALBANIAN in my fair town who owns an eatery. He has many hispanics working for him and they all seem quite satisfied. He set up his daughter with another eatery in a nearby town with additional hispanics working there. So far the ICE turds haven't been slinking around. It is a real asset for everybody!
My introduction to Albania was a legless beggar trying to get in front of my campervan to make me stop so the other beggars could swarm round. In front of police officers.
Actually no, that was after coming across a human turd on the carpet at reception on the ferry.
Skanderbegging.
Well played.
I either want to be mayor of New York City, or an Albanian.
To paraphrase George Carlin: "I once was Mayor of NY, now I'm an Albanian. You know, you grow."
𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯.
Wait, what?
Also, huh? And WTAF?
Is dude THAT worried about being indicted?
I love that every single comment on Adams becoming Albanian is about Adams potentially trying to evade the law by fleeing to Albania.
There's an extradition treaty, so unless he's planning on claiming political asylum... Which actually isn't the worst idea. Trump has certainly provided lots of evidence to support a claim.
Might be more difficult if/when the State gets around to charging him.
He committed the crimes while he was an American citizen, so changing status after the fact shouldn't matter at all.
He committed the crimes within US jurisdiction, his citizenship is irrelevant.
Still fighting this cold.. but I gotta go over to a neighbors for a farewell before we blow town..
I may not be my usual charming self, though..
Um...would you consider just telephoning your good wishes instead, so as not to get them sick?
Unless you don't like them.
They really want to see me.. I may just have to sit far away...
If you caught what I had, you’ll be down for about ten days to two weeks.
ugh, I think I had that
ugh :(
Look on the bright side: I didn’t die, I only wanted to. Brace for nausea.
Sure Jan:
https://www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/white-house-staff-email-warning-bets-prediction-markets-kalshi-polymarket/?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17759335308029&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fwhite-house-staff-email-warning-bets-prediction-markets-kalshi-polymarket%2F
and two weeks later, Trump offered to pardon them all
For a cut of the profits.
Isn't Trump in the process of starting up his own version of Kalshi? For real.
But do they have to disgorge the proceeds of their ill-gotten gains up to this point? LOLOL
"...𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, "𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫: 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞."
Best fucking laugh I've had all day.
"Those losers aren't cutting in on any of MY action!"
"Insider trading for ME, not for THEE." . . .
Unless he can wet his beak.
The fact that such a goddamned thing even exists is such a sham. And a scam. And probably evil.
All of the above.
And it's right out of sci-fi (John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider" had something called the "delphic market" or some shit that was basically the Polymarket).
Well, THAT should take care of it.
Now they've got their legal cover when the court cases begin