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 Glenn Greenwald explains:

 A Democrat who keeps forgetting to report his stock trades  won over a former member of the IDF  turned Republican in a race for a seat recently held by someone you wouldn't buy a timeshare from. 

 Margret Kimberley pretty much sums it up : New York City's mayor isn't just a self-interested member of the Black political class. He is also singularly incompetent and lacking in the most basic political skills. After a Black man was publicly murdered on the subway, Adams saw no need to go through the motions of expressing appropriate concern. New Yorkers are protesting but the clueless mayor insists that he can only mouth tin eared platitudes that please his most racist constituents. Obama had an uncanny ability to seem concerned about issues while doing next-to-nothing about addressing them. This ability helped protect him in the black community (black Democrats in particular). Not every black politicians has this gift.

  BTW, Wikipedia describes " service academies " as " federal academies for the undergraduate education and training of commissioned officers for the United States Armed Forces ."  Out of 19 federal academies, only five (5) are non-military: The Foreign Service Institute The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center United States Mine Health and Safety Academy The FBI Academy The National Fire Academy There's three main ways someone in "undergraduate education" gets connected to the military: On their own; Via a friend/relative who is already connected; Through recruitment. If they're doing the first two, there was no need to go to the event. 

 As we near the mid-terms and after that the inevitable politics-as-sports push to support either Democrats or Republicans for 2024, people will get in front of cameras and microphones and try to convince you that there are stark differences between the parties.  Now while anyone who's been through at least three difference presidents ( or just pays attention ) can debunk this (for pretty much the lifespan of every American, none of us have experience three back-to-back-to-back Democratic or Republican presidents) we sadly have a country full of short memories and easily propagandized psyches.  Case in Point: the 1984 Presidential Election : Reagan won in an electoral college landslide and with 58% of the popular vote. As in most elections, you can trace some of that other 42% to counties that are heavily urban, but as the map suggests, Reagan enjoyed crazy crossover appeal. (Let's pause here real quick to remind everyone that Reagan was the last major politician before ...

 Without the ability to use her identity as a woman and a minority (she's of Greek descent) against a female Latina who is running for the same office in NYC, TYT contributor and journalist Nomiki Konst begins claiming violence and complains about running fair campaigns: Funny how this happens whenever white women encounter someone to their left that they can't dismiss with identity politics. Or, to be honest, how anyone associated with the Democratic Party acts when challenged by someone to their left (they are either unreasonable, radical, or violent).  Keep in mind that the target of Konst's ire (DSA member Kristen Gonzalez) was in the race before Konst, and has a number of endorsements . 

Turning back the clock to the shooting that occurred in Buffalo , New York, it's interesting that one of the victims, security guard Aaron Salter , was working on vehicles that could run on green energy (as in water ) and even started his own company .  I say this because when the smoke cleared surrounding the beltway sniper , a theory was floated that the real target was the sniper's ex-wife and that the other shootings were just cover to draw him away as being a suspect (take note that the judge in the trial didn't believe there was much to that theory).  Anyway, it's odd that someone who was working on something that could have turned the energy industry on its head was murdered before he could finish his work. 

Compare the Democrats' strategy for self-described socialist India Walton for the Buffalo mayor's race to their strategy for GOP candidate in the VA Governor's race .   In Buffalo, NY Walton was labeled as an ineffective radical by her opposition (who were ignoring the fact that Walton touted the endorsements of establishment and left-leaning Democrats ). Panicking by her primary victory, supporters of Byron Brown (who has been mayor for 16 years) relied on money and votes from Republicans and Independents. Technically-speaking, Brown is not currently a Democrat, so he can keep doing what he's been doing without having to worry about incurring their wrath. In Virginia, Democrats were desperate to get Democratic Terry McAuliffe any traction. Instead of addressing some really bad takes , they decided to flood the Commonwealth with Democratic Party celebrities and act like the election was Biden vs Trump Part II. The truth is McAuliffe had some things in common with Yo...

 As the ex-nurse-turned mayoral candidate India Walton is finding out:  

 COVID-19, or more specifically, how we combat COVID-19 may lead to (yet) another economic spiral. If the federal government and other states follow New York's lead to mass fire health care workers for refusing the vaccine mandates , and end up hiring people with little-to-no experience in applying vaccination properly, who go on to follow jab procedures that even the vaccine manufactures don't recommend , we're going to end up with a lot more sick/dying people.  Good luck convincing people to get the booster if there is a fallout. And those who haven't been jabbed at will look at this and say, "SEE?!? I told you that it was dangerous!"  Being skeptical of people who choose professional advancement, monetary achievement, or personal gain over the well-being and health of the public is not a crime. 

 Despite trying to defend his actions in the oddest way possible , New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will resign amidst sexual harassment accusations.

  Guess all of that "Stop the Steal" and contesting the certification was for naught : Former President Trump's personal lawyers on Monday urged a federal judge to find that a New York state law on congressional tax return requests no longer pertains to the former president because he's out of office. "While the TRUST Act is not the clearest statute, the best reading is that it does not apply to former Presidents," Trump's lawyers wrote in a court filing. New York in 2019 enacted a law, called the TRUST Act, that allows the chairs of Congress's tax committees to request public officials' state tax returns. Trump then filed a lawsuit in an effort to prevent the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining his state tax returns.

...and it makes sense that college tuition is reduced or even free as we go forward. So congrats to New York , (even though this is certainly a power move for Cuomo to position himself as a 2020 presidential candidate). Especially since companies like Navient is making a killing approving loans to students they have no business approving .

Apparently some people in NYC aren't taking a liking to these anti-teen pregnancy ads . I say if the goal is to scare some 13-to-19-year olds from having unprotected sex, then keep it coming. If the goal is to "slut-shame" teen moms, then the tone needs to change. (Personally, I think the ads are speaking to the former group, and not the later.)

NY Gov. Paterson in more trouble... and now he's dragging Jay-Z into his mess .

I don't have a problem with him being a conservative Democrat, but for him to try and convince Democrats in New York that he's some born-again liberal is just deceptive .

Could Jay-Z's new song ever replace Sinatra's as the theme of New York? Possibly .