They’ve Forgotten How Bad It Could Be

Posted on | December 9, 2025 | No Comments

Why did people vote for Zohran Mamdani? It’s as if the people of Gotham City elected the Joker as mayor — a nihilistic appetite for destruction as the motivation of a political movement. If one were in a generous mood, it might be stipulated that Mamdani’s votes came largely from younger voters, who can be forgiven for not knowing how bad life was in New York City during the mayoralty of David Dinkins (1990-1993), the previous rock-bottom of misgovernance in Manhattan.

Permitting ignorance as an excuse for error, however, relieves citizens of their duty to inform themselves before making their choices at the ballot box, and that is a formula for irresponsibility. There was a time when no one avowing themselves to be a socialist could have gotten elected to any position of influence in this country, because Americans viewed socialism for what it is — an immoral philosophy, the justification of theft on a grand scale — and we had seen enough of its failures to know that whatever your problem is, socialism is not the solution.

Yet the voters of New York City have made their choice, and now we get to watch them learn their lesson:

Last week, New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced that he would end his predecessor’s policy of clearing homeless encampments in the city. On social media, this announcement was greeted by strong language which would not bear repeating here, but reminded me of H.L. Mencken’s timeless aphorism: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Never has anyone more deserved this kind of democracy, gooder and harder than do the voters of New York City. Life in the city is already very bad — it’s been a steady downhill slide since Rudy Giuliani left the mayor’s office in December 2001 — but the decline has accelerated in recent years, and many observers are interpreting Mamdani’s election as the omen of an impending apocalypse. Maybe the best explanation of what’s gone wrong in the Big Apple is simply hubris. Figuring that their city has somehow managed to survive the blunderings of Mike Bloomberg, Bill de Blasio, and Eric Adams, perhaps New York voters looked at Mamdani’s avowed radicalism and thought, “Why not? How could it possibly get worse?” (Snake Plissken could not be reached for comment.) . . .

Read the rest of my latest column in The American Spectator.

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In The Mailbox: 12.08.25

Posted on | December 9, 2025 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The Feast of St. Nicholas was this weekend.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Single #2 Pencil Outsmarts the Entire Progressive Movement, Blood In The Sand, The Illustrated Laptop From Hell Part XII,
357 Magnum: A Funeral for Star Trek – 17 December, also How Is That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?
EBL: Fluke or Flounder, Immaculate Mary, “JAP LANGUAGE USEFUL PHRASES” USMC Training Film, Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After, and Women of Pearl Harbor
Twitchy: The AWFL Face That Launched A Thousand Quips, Sloppy Slotkin, and HHS Deadnames Adm. Levine On His Official Portrait And Weiner Plots Revenge
Louder With Crowder: Patriots film themselves calling Tim Walz a retard outside of his home as his daughter forgets how the internet works, Mamdani calls on NYers to actively STAND UP to ICE agents, Vietnamese immigrant explains to Somalis how America works, Democrat rep says quiet part out loud, BRAGS about her goal of sending your tax dollars back to Somalia, and Chicago church zip-ties Jesus & puts Mary in a gas mask
Vox Popoli: On the Genji Translations, It’s the BECAUSE That Gets You, Alabama Should Be Out, Fixing College Football Conference Championships, and The Count to Zero
Cedar Sanderson: The Art of Design
Weird Catholic: Teen Jesus Battles Nonbinary Devil, also, A Beddl Preview – From Newman to Holmes With Stops In Japan & Antarctica
Stoic Observations: Ruin, also, There Is No Antimemetic Division
Toni Airaksinen: Your Efforts Worked! LinkedIn No Longer Censoring Jobs Related To Zionism & Zionists
Postcards From Barsoom: The Sweden Syndrome
Jim McCoy: Fossil Force

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Unveils $12 Billion Aid Package for Farmers
American Greatness: Immigration Gone Wild, Minneapolis’ Police Chief Is Undermining ICE and It Makes Little Sense, Tom Homan Reports Trump Admin Has Rescued 62,000+ Migrant Children, Biden’s Own Advisors Warned Him His Open Border Policies Would Lead to Humanitarian Crisis, and A Force of History: Why Trump’s Influence Keeps Growing
American Thinker: Democrat Rule, by Any Means Necessary, The EU-US Battle Line, Minnesota Proves that Politics is a Spoils System, Is There a ‘Sleeping Giant’ to Awaken As China Builds for War? and Europe Is Dying
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Obama DEA Official Supervising Anti-Cartel Money Laundering Operations Indicted For Cartel Money Laundering, Ian McCollum: “Why The M7 And 6.8x51mm Are Bad Ideas”, and Paxton Sues EPIC City Again
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites, sets new record for Falcon 9 reuse, dominates the world in rocketry, Astronomers detect a seven-hour-long gamma ray burst, the longest many times over, More than 300 companies in discussions in connection Space Force’s “Golden Dome” project, A small galaxy with lots of massive stars, and The war-mongers are always those in power
Cafe Hayek: Darkhizer, also, Neither Laws of Economic Nor Logic Are Suspended by Political Borders
CDR Salamander: The Better Part of a Decade & A Half with The Navy & Midrats, You Wanted a National Security Strategy – Well, You Got One
Chicago Boyz: “Affordability”, also, An Inconvenient Memory
Dana Loesch: It Wasn’t the Tylenol After All, also, Jasmine Crockett Will Lose Her Texas Senate Bid
Don Surber: Winning A Venezuelan War Without A Fight,
Elizabeth Nickson: Absurdistan Is Resting
First Street Journal: “No one is above the law.” — Joe Biden
Gates Of Vienna: Black Country Blues, Part I, Part II, Part III, and This Place Looks Good in Snow
The Geller Report: FROM PRISON TO PENTAGON, Pope Denounces ‘Fear’ of Islam, Tucker Carlson Embraces Jihad in Doha, “SHE DOESN’T SERVE AMERICA”, and REPEAT ILLEGAL STRIKES AGAIN
Hollywood In Toto: Why Unbreakable Was Nothing Less than Radical, Rental Family Shows Other Side of Class Divide, Hollywood Media Downplay Trumpian Kennedy Center Honors, Family McMullen – Comfort Food Direct from the ’90s, and Golden Globes Voters Step on Yet Another Rake
Legal Insurrection: New Study Suggests Raccoons are Showing First Signs of Domestication, Over 20 Injured After 7.5-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Japan, U. Missouri Prof Accused of Racism After Asking Student for Update on Work, Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett Files to Run for Senate From Texas, and Dr. Oz Tells Gov. Walz – Address Alleged Somali Medicaid Fraud or Lose Funding
Matt Taibbi: Is Germany Previewing America’s Speech Future?
Outkick: Notre Dame’s Opt-Out vs. Clark Lea’s Refreshing Honesty At Vanderbilt – Both Can Be Right About The CFP, Dueling Praises For Jesus Christ And Allah In Texans Sunday Night Football Interview, Colts Gambled On Daniel Jones And Look Like They’re About To Lose It All, Seattle’s Woke World Cup Agenda In Shambles With ‘Pride Match’ Set Between Countries With Anti-Gay Laws, and Cougar Pioneer Jane Seymour Isn’t Letting Age Slow Her Down, She’s Still ‘Very Sexually Active’ In Her 70s
Power Line: Operation Walz, A Criminal Injustice System at Work, The Somali margin, DFL Insider Deported, and Supreme Court Poised to Restore Constitution?
Shark Tank: Bilirakis Reintroduces Kids Online Safety Act
Shot In The Dark: Batting Order, also, Fraud – The Entire Story So Far
Victory Girls: AZ Rep Adelita Grijalva Claims ICE Pepper-Sprayed Her, also, Tim Walz’s Political Career SHOULD Be Toast By Now
Watts Up With That: GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE: Refrigerants Are No Global Warming Threat, Claim: Battery Rationing is Required to Contain an Aussie Green Subsidy Blowout, Greenpeace Asks a DUTCH Court to Overturn a $345 Million Dakota Pipeline Judgement, New York’s climate law will ration fossil fuels and tax the rations, and Rationality Returns to Australia as Climate Scare Wanes
The Federalist: ‘The War Department Will Not Be Distracted By Regime Change’, Justice Jackson Downplays Unelected ‘Experts’ Running The Executive Without Presidential Oversight, Boy Scouts Have Themselves To Blame For Losing The Pentagon’s Favor, Senator Who Helped Write Birthright Citizenship Clause Specifically Said It Doesn’t Include Aliens, and The Ops Against Pete Hegseth Are Designed To Further A Color Revolution
Mark Steyn: The Wham of Sam, (How Little It Matters) How Little We Know, When Men Walk Away, and The Bank Dick – W.C. Fields Forever?

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Rule 5 Sunday: Old Trucks & Young Babes (Part 2 of n)

Posted on | December 8, 2025 | No Comments

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H/T @kbdabear on X
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Captured Pipe Bomber Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, How To Be Popular, Maybe You Just Need To Sit In A Creek, Yo Yo Ma & Alison Krauss, Marisa Tomei, Vintage Swedish Commercials, Girl In NYC, Brenda Lee, No Reservations, Nashville Bachelorettes, Jolakotturin, Monday Night Girls With Guns – UK Edition, “Caga Tio”, The Baltimorons, and Josephine Baker

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Stefani Somers, FBI Nabs J6 Bombing Suspect, Supes Buy Texas Gerrymander, Fish Pic Friday – Desarae Funderburk, Trump Dumps Biden’s CAFE Standards, Rise Up, Pubs Save Tennessee Seat, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday – Christmas Time is Here By Golly, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday, and Trump Trashes Biden Autopen Pardons

BACON TIME: Rule Five Red Hot

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Another Winning Week

Posted on | December 7, 2025 | No Comments

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It was a good week to be a Senators fan. First we swept the A’s (again), this time at Oakland; then we went to Cleveland and lost two out of three, but Game 1 was close until Roger Nelson blew the save, and Game Three wasn’t even close: we pounded Steve Busby for eight runs while Jim Kaat held the Tribe to one run on five hits. So that meant we were 4-2 on the week and are now tied with the Brewers at 17-25, eight games behind the Red Sox, who we’ll be playing Tuesday at Fenway.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.