Well, THAT didn’t take long. Mamdani wins in New York and the MAGA propaganda began right away. Mamdani said he wants to open city run grocery stores to make groceries more affordable for people. Price gouging corporations would HATE that idea. Mamdani said the stores wouldn’t sell alcohol, cigarettes, or lottery tickets. Mamdani said those thing would not be on offer because the city stores will target healthier options.

Oh, but you can’t fool a MAGA. Unless you try, of course. They just KNOW that Mamdani will leave those particular things out – are you ready for this? – because he’s Muslim. They know it’s the first step to Sharia Law, here in the US. Of course, they also “know” that he’s a communist. He’s not. He’s a Democratic Socialist, a form of Capitalist economics. A BETTER form, by the way. No wonder the Capitalists are scared.

Now the Democrats need to get a little scared, too. THEY think they “won” these elections so all is well. They didn’t and it isn’t. The GOP leaves little choice for anybody with any decency – vote for the Democrat. The Dems are taking credit for Mamdani’s win. They didn’t participate in it. In fact, they tried to torpedo the whole campaign.

Mamdani’s win proves that people are looking for change. Not the same ole, same ole that keeps making rich people richer and everyone else poorer and poorer – and, yes, I know the cons are FAR more aggressive and open about robbing the struggling, but you know the Dems have done precious little to change things when they’ve had the opportunity.

Oh, and as a side note, Mamdani’s win proves something else. Bernie would have won. If the Dems had not rigged the 2016 primaries to bump Bernie and replace him with a FAR less interesting and far more incendiary candidate – sorry, Hillary – the country might never have had to deal with the nightmare that is Donald Trump…

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Okay, so here’s why I think it’s important to maintain contact with MAGA. Just one example. California just passed Prop 50, the redistricting proposition. California passed Prop 50 in an effort to gain five more seats in the now-corrupted House of Billionaire’s Representatives. California passed Prop 50 in an effort to gain five more Democratic seats in the House of Billionaire’s Representatives, because Texas decided to redistrict in the middle of a term in an effort to create five more Republican seats.

Texas decided to redistrict in the middle of a term in an effort to create five more Republican seats because Felon 47 told them to. He said he “deserved” five more seats. Texas, of course, does as their Precious demands, bending the knee and dropping into a supplicant genuflect so quickly they’re often in danger of kneeing themselves in the nose. Texas politicians are like slugs: spineless and slimy – if you touch one, your hand feels nasty for hours afterward. But here’s the thing: MAGA doesn’t know Donny told Texas to redistrict.

MAGA thinks Texas was just finishing up a redistricting process begun after the 2020 census. The story they’ve been told is that Texas put up a map that was rejected. They had to rework it so it just got settled and this new map is the result. The thing is, much of that story is true. It’s all true, in fact, right up until the part about them just getting the maps settled now, in 2025. In fact, those maps were set in 2023 and intended to remain in place until the next census. This change happened because Donny demanded it. But telling MAGA that story causes them to believe it’s the left making the power grab, not themselves.

When I have these conversations with MAGA, I’ve learned NOT to try to convince them they’re wrong. Based on the information they have, they’re not. I focus, instead, on the fact that we get different information from the media we consume and I ask – and I really want to know – why?

MAGA media has downplayed Donny’s involvement in the Texas redistricting so they can paint California as an out-of-control rogue player trying to rig the election. That is to say, MAGA media is pretending that California is doing the very thing Donny is actually doing to rig the election in Texas. It’s just that MAGA doesn’t know it…

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Surely, someone has explained it to him by now. I know, one cannot dispute the nattering narcissist, but maybe someone could pull him aside quietly and explain that one CAN NOT reduce prices on anything by more than 100%. The first time he speculated otherwise, I teased him (of course) but let it slide as a misspeak, the kind of hyperbolic braggadocio he loves to use. He’s got the biggest hyperbolic braggadocio, the best hyperbolic braggadocio. Nobody’s ever seen hyperbolic braggadocio like his.

But he keeps saying it. I suppose MAGA media sane-washes him for their masses. MAGA just won’t be told what he actually said, only that he “lowered prescription drug prices.” But the rest of us see him blathering his bunk, the actual language. He keeps saying he lowered drug prices by as much as 1,500% and at his age, that does nothing to mitigate people’s concerns that he’s losing – or has lost – his mind.

Now, in the name of his hyperbolic braggadocio, he has taken to telling people, all people, even MAGA – people who actually go into grocery stores – that he has lowered food prices, too. But I say again, people who actually go into grocery stores! People who actually have to pony up a LOT more money than they used to for the same groceries. (He thinks he invented that word, ‘groceries’).

We KNOW he is – at BEST – wrong. Most of us believe he’s flat-out lying. He seems to actually believe he can LIE his way to success. That has been a pattern of his life, though having millions of dollars surely greased the wheels. But everyone is feeling the pain of corporate coddling, assuming one took their ID to go grocery shopping. Sure, the on-again, off-again tariffs create price instability, but anyone who thinks the corporations aren’t taking advantage of Donny’s dumbassery and padding their bottom line, probably isn’t qualified to comment honestly on the topic.

During a Fox Not-News interview, he said, “They have this new word called ‘affordability.'” THAT’S NOT A NEW WORD, DUMBASS! ‘Affordability,’ as a word AND as a desire, has been around for a long, long time – at least for those of us who weren’t born into millions of dollars. Donald Trump is an out-of-touch elitist who is definitely showing signs of dementia. I wonder if MAGA will ever notice…

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We all pretty much know that the double helix of DNA was unlocked by a duo named Watson and Crick, right? That happened in 1953. Dr. Watson just died yesterday, aged 97 years. Watson was a bit of a racist so his legacy is somewhat marred, but the DNA thing was pretty big and he was part of it. It’s just weird to think that our understanding of DNA is so… new…

I’ve noticed an uptick in media commentary about how bad Socialism is, always was, and must always be. I’m sure it’s related to this Zohran Mamdani guy. He is running for Mayor of New York City on the Democratic ticket but he calls himself – you might want to sit down for this – a Democratic Socialist! Arghhh! Terrifying.

There’s a huge swath of people in the country who simply accept that “Socialism” is, always was, and must always be, Communism. People like that are generally referred to with the comforting euphemism, “low information voters.” That is, people who don’t know enough to have a valid opinion. It turns out, there are lots of different kinds of Socialism.

The reason for the uptick I think I’m seeing? Well, first, Bernie. See? I don’t even have to write his surname and you know who I mean. Bernie. Sanders, the guy who would have wiped the floor with Trump in 2016 if the Democrats hadn’t artificially sidelined him in favor of Hillary, who lost spectacularly, leaving the world in the clutches of insanity. But her check cleared, right? Free Market Capitalism bought the election, Free Market Capitalism lost the nation. To Trump.

Bernie is an independent. He caucuses with the Democrats, but he’s a New Deal kind of guy and the New Deal was very definitely Socialism. It was Democratic Socialism, or elements thereof. The US DID adopt elements of Socialism. The US was never Communist. The New Deal, or Democratic Socialism, is what made America great in the first place. Not “cruelty to immigrants.” Socialism.

Bernie has remained popular ever since the nation discovered him. He’s too old to run for President again but he remains a visible spokesperson and he continues to hold the feet of power to the fires of exposure. That is, he’s not afraid to point out the flaws of our current system and suggest fixes – and his “fixes” tend to be Democratic Socialism.

People readily embraced him. Now he’s running around with AOC. She’s straight up Democrat but she’s hanging with the Democratic Socialist and she’s gaining much of the popularity and gravitas Bernie enjoys just from her association with him. That, too, is scaring the bejesus out of the Capitalist class. Now comes Mamdani.

Mamdani is out there promising Democratic Socialist solutions to problems created by Free Market Capitalism and, once again, the victims of that Capitalism are responding. I mean, it’s pretty clear so-called Free Market Capitalism has failed. No, it hasn’t collapsed, yet. But it seems a collapse is coming and with the Orange Moron at the helm, I’m betting on sooner rather than later.

So, people are looking for a better way. Democratic Socialism IS that way, scary name or no. The beauty part? We don’t even have to figure out if it’s going to work. It already works like a charm in several countries and the citizens of the Democratic Socialist nations are counted among the happiest citizens in the world. All we have to do is borrow the bits that work the best and fuse them into our own version. Simple.

But the powers that be work overtime to convince low information voters that Capitalism and ONLY Capitalism should rule the world. We’re supposed to ignore all the desperate poverty rampant in this, the richest country on the planet. Income inequality is dismissed as the normal course of events. Pay no attention to people who can’t even secure a place to live. They don’t “count.” Need a doctor? Oh, you should have been born rich.

The worst part is, we KNOW Socialism is better than Free Market Capitalism. From time to time, the Free Marketeers overdo it and crash the economy in a way their blessed Free Market can’t save them from. So what do they do? Why, they turn to Socialism! They let the government bail them out. Socialism. Then, once things settle down, right back to the “Free Market.” There’s even a saying about it: privatized profit, socialized risk.

I’ll tell you this: I’ve come to the conclusion that we should just socialize the whole thing, profit AND risk. Since we, the people, are going to be asked to suffer the consequences, we should also be able to enjoy the benefits…

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Speaking of Free Market induced poverty, homelessness. It’s already a huge problem in this once great nation and it’s getting worse, pretty much everywhere. Donny has a new “solution.” He has ordered all homeless people to leave Washington, DC. That’ll solve it, at least in his pea brain.

It works, in his mind, because all cons know that all homelessness is caused by drug addiction, meaning it’s all their own fault, which is why it’s okay to leave them suffering in the streets rather than follow the teachings of Jesus, right? But the truth is, the vast majority of “homeless” people make up a group called “the working poor.” In this case, the emphasis should be on the word “working” because when 47 manages to run all of the “homeless” people out of Washington, DC, there are going to be a LOT of jobs left undone. It seems like everything he touches turns to garbage…

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Oh, hey, I didn’t want to leave before reminding you that Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell were the best of friends for years and seem to have worked together in a ring of sex traffickers of minors. The co-conspirators all insist the story is false and point to the so-called “Epstein Files” to prove their point. BUT, one of the co-conspirators also refuses to release the evidence they pretended would clear their names because of the obvious common sense needed to NOT supply exonerating evidence when one has it.

MAGA was so upset by Hillary Clinton’s non-existent child sex trafficking ring in a non-existent basement of an actual pizza parlor, one acolyte shot the place up trying to rescue the kids. Now that the mountain of actual evidence suggests it’s their Precious involved in an actual child sex trafficking ring, though, they’re pretty ho-hum about it. Funny, that…