In the comments of my post on Adams this morning, I said that Hochul’s approach would be to say “let the voters decide.” Here’s Hakeem Jeffries, a person that it’s already been reported that she consulted as to whether to fire Adams the first time around, telegraphing that approach. Here’s Hochul’s first response:
Speaking at an unrelated press conference in Manhattan, Gov. Kathy Hochul said she’s committed to working with Adams, and she refused to speculate about the motives behind the Justice Department’s letter. Hochul, who theoretically has the authority to remove the mayor, referenced her directives last year to Adams to shed his most ethically challenged aides.
“I’m going to continue doing what I’ve done since September, when all this started. I worked with the mayor to make sure that he brought in a different team to manage the operations of government,” Hochul told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Manhattan on Tuesday. “There is a new police commissioner. I’ve spent time with her, I have confidence in her. Crime is going down on the subways. In particular, I want to make sure that we have the resources to get the housing plan over the finish line.”
The emphasis is mine — this is from City and State NY, a respected political newspaper, and they can’t even report it straight. It is a legitimate power of Hochul’s to remove a New York Mayor. The courts have ruled multiple times on it, starting in the time of FDR. Republican Governor Pataki (ab)used the power to remove a Bronx DA who didn’t support the death penalty, and the courts supported him. But, since she’s a Democrat, the power is “theoretical” because Democrats are never expected to actually use power in a way that Republicans would use it.
Hochul, at a time when her use of power could send a message, and when it could right a wrong, is not using that power, and part of the reason is that the rest of the downstate machine doesn’t want her to use it. It’s as simple as that. She lacks the permission structure, as City and State put it the first time this came up, from Jeffries and the other NY machine politicians.
Open thread.
Update: Sorry, I guess the feels are off. Do I need to say that part of a democracy is granting power to elected officials for them to use those powers?
Feckless
Fuck Jeffries and Hochul, both useless cowards, DINOs.
prostratedragon
Maybe the good people of NYC could weigh in somehow before the election.
President Johnny Gentle (famous crooner)
Cue the endless media anguishing over whether it’s right or fair to remove Adams, yet meanwhile, Ron DeSantis freely removes Democrats from elected office to own the libs and no one cares.
Old School
What happens if Hochul removes Adams? Does she appoint a new mayor until the election? Does someone in the mayor’s office get elevated?
@mistermix.bsky.social
@Old School: Next in line is the public advocate, Jumaane Williams. He’s a dirty hippie so that’s probably part of the calculus here.
Jertian
The town of Berne, NY had to sue Gov. Hochul to appoint someone to their town board or call a special election in January after 3 out of 5 members resigned back in August in protest of a rogue MAGA supervisor. The town board lacked the quorum needed to review the town budget or take any actions.
Hochul is not interested in using her powers to help local governments.
Hildebrand
Why is it that NYC can’t seem to elect a decent mayor? When was the last really good one?
Trollhattan
NY governor has the power to remove mayors? Is that unique or do other states have the same?
Meanwhile in the because of course he did, Fort Bragg is back, baby!
Is this week 4 or year 4? I’ve lost track.
WaterGirl
@Feckless:
Spend a few minutes watching this, and I dare you to say again that Jeffries is useless.
Sure Lurkalot
Just like we had an election to see what the American people thought about Trump’s inciting an insurrection and stealing classified documents…they liked it!
No criminality too severe to run a city or country! Who says we’re not an equal opportunity employer nation?
tobie
Well, this sucks, especially for the people of NYC. The ICE raids there are going to be horrendous. I shudder to think how this is going to play out.
prostratedragon
@WaterGirl: To make my remark @2 a little plainer, with the focus a the federal, where Jeffries is a leader, is so much on assholes summarily firing the government, it seems unlikely that he’d run to get ahead of the expressed wishes of voters on this. Folks in NYC should know what to do.
scav
In the new American Empire circus, the bread is unfettered free-market and the lions eat the citizens.
MomSense
Ugh. I never liked Adams but I think we need to choose our battles. Let the voters decide is fine. We are positioning ourselves as defenders of democracy and we are currently in a constitutional crisis with an Executive and unelected billionaires circumventing Congress and acting in defiance of the law and the courts. Saying the voters should decide on their next mayor seems to fit with our pro democracy stance. Doesn’t mean we can’t say what a POS he is at every turn.
Another Scott
I think the important words are “at this point in time.”
I saw some comment somewhere that the directed DOJ lawyers have not actually officially dropped the case yet.
Maybe Hockul and others are waiting for that to happen?
Dunno.
I’m willing to give our elected officials who respect their oaths and the seriousness of their jobs a little space, and a little time, to make decisions.
Politics is slow.
My $0.02.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Kelly
@Trollhattan: I saw that. Cute trick finding a respectable Bragg to name the base after. Kinda like the white power folks claiming plausible deniability when flashing the OK hand sign. Using the names of respectable people will keep the names from changing back. The search is on for a respectable soldiers named Hood, Lee, Benning, etc.
Quinerly
AP reporter blocked today from Oval Office in retaliation for AP not using “Gulf of Mexico” in its recent reporting.
3 weeks ago: “The Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years. The Associated Press will refer to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen. As a global news agency that disseminates news around the world, the AP must ensure that place names and geography are easily recognizable to all audiences.”
I guess the AP will have no access to the WH until it capitulates.
Anybody reading anything on BlueSky about this pettiness?
Kay
I like her just for passing leave to go to pregnancy appointments. Its like the only progress women have made in ages. A small thing, but in the current hatred of women environment it meant a lot to me.
So I’m sticking with her :)
Baud
@Quinerly:
Good. I hope AP sticks to its guns.
Baud
@Kelly:
There ain’t never been a respectable Lee.
Kay
@Quinerly:
Wow. Well, media helped elect him and they’ve been doing breathless , manly man coverage ever since.
When do you think they’ll figure out that kissing his ass hasn’t worked for them? FAFO. They’re all going to be dubbing in cheers when he gets boos.
BC in Illinois
So they’re not going to re-name Fort Bragg after the Confederate General that the old Fort Bragg was named after? They’ve found an honorable soldier who fought for the US, and now they’re going to name New Fort Bragg after HIM?
What a chicken-shit move.
What’s next? “Confederate Heroes Day” (Texas, Florida) – – but now it celebrates the Swiss Confederation? “Lee-Jackson Day” (Virginia) – – in honor of Spike Lee and Mahalia Jackson?
Peale
@@mistermix.bsky.social: Like honestly, what do they expect that he’s going to accomplish as a lame duck mayor that’s more dangerous and damaging to the party than keeping in the unpopular Adams? Condemn Rockefeller Center and replace it with low income housing? Lead Black Lives and Latino Lives Matter protests? Submit a budget with 100% of taxes going to bike lanes?
Captain C
@Kay: “We’re having so much fun in these Trump Camps for Media!!! He loves us so much!!!” — Maga Habs and Peter Baker from the concentration camps they got tossed into.
Quaker in a Basement
So. How’s fundraising going for Adams’s reelection?
Kelly
@Baud: “Father of US Airborne” Commander 101st Airborne WW2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Lee
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Baud:
Bobby Lee’s father, Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee, was considered respectable. One of the best leaders on the American side of the Revolution, widely admired during that time frame.
Of course his life was pretty tragic, well suited for the battlefield, ill-suited for real life. He spent his last 5 years hopping from one Caribbean island to another basically scamming people.
That still makes him head and shoulders above his traitorous son who’s ending should have been in a noose.
His best, and very well-known quote:
“First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
Lumpy
Hochul is risk averse, maybe more than a typical politician… she backed off on the Congestion Pricing plan after spending years studying the issue, the state had spent a half-million dollars on cameras, and it was set to take effect in a few days. But she apparently worried that congestion pricing might have had an effect on NY house races (she did enact congestion pricing recently, after modifying it to make it less expensive). Congestion pricing will help subsidize the subway, which is barely limping along. There’s a risk that removing Adams is seen as anti-democratic, and leads to a backlash against her. And she’s already unpopular.
One really bad outcome we could have in NYC is that the awful Andrew Cuomo runs for mayor (and wins). I’m not sure who would be worse, Cuomo or Adams (but I suspect Cuomo would be, because the media would probably be captured)
Josie
@WaterGirl:
Thanks for posting this again. I listened to the whole thing yesterday and was impressed with his tenacity and focus. Those like MM and Feckless who want instant gratification from their leaders need to consider all the angles those leaders need to view when making their decisions. It’s easy to criticize from the sidelines, not so easy when in the middle of this mess.
Quaker in a Basement
@Baud: Brenda.
Quinerly
@BC in Illinois:
They found a Private Roland Bragg from Maine.
And he now has a brand new Wikipedia page as of yesterday. Died in 1999.
BC in Illinois
@Baud:
Spike, Brenda, Bruce, Opal, and Sheila Jackson [!] Lee would like a word. Not to mention Annabel Lee, friend of Ed A. Poe.
@mistermix.bsky.social
@Kay: Not to harsh your mellow, but what happened in NY State around the time that Hochul became governor is that Dems finally got a working majority in the Senate via redistricting. Then, the state leg started to actually pass progressive legislation. Before that, there were a couple Democratic turncoats who Cuomo could manipulate to block/pass whatever legislation he thought was important.
For example, my state Senator was a crusty old Republican nepobaby failson. Now it’s a young, vibrant black woman, Samra Brouk, who was a big supporter of prenatal leave.
After redistricting, we finnnalllly legalized pot (Cuomo blocked that forever because he lives in the 50’s in his head) for example.
Anyway, I was 100% inclined to support Hochul when she took over. What a breath of fresh air! Then she started vetoing progressive legislation (like one requiring that independent contractors be paid, something she and Trump apparently agree on–they shouldn’t be). After that, not so much.
TONYG
I generally disagree when “The Left” says that Democrats and Republicans are exactly the same. But, damn, they have a point.
Betty Cracker
I wonder when Trump will get around to pardoning Gold Bar Bob Menendez? He’s made the correct overtures.
Lumpy
I believe Adams won with a broad constituency including normie Dems and Republican voters, who liked his tough on crime rhetoric. Registered Republicans can’t vote in the Democratic primary but they can obviously vote in the general election, and we have ranked choice voting here now (a relatively new development). Adams was probably considered the best Democratic candidate from a Republican’s POV, and rightly so
TBone
@Betty Cracker: on that note
Bannon Pleads Guilty To Defrauding MAGA To Avoid Prison
Elno & Bannon LetThemFight.gif
Kay
@Captain C:
The books. They’re going to write more books about Donald Trump, aren’t they? Haberman will have a multi volumn set.
I like when Trump pretends they’re adversarial and they have a fake fight. Its like a high drama romantic coupling.
Belafon
@Kelly: Robin Hood, Spike Lee, and Henry Arthur Benning (the last one I dug up).
Quaker in a Basement
Well, sure. Hochul could fire him. Then we’d all be here talking about how OUR firings are clearly more justified than theirs. The Times could bothsides the hell out of it.
Quaker in a Basement
@Belafon: Annette
Peale
@Lumpy: If its Cuomo and it looks like the city and state aren’t going to do anything to stand up to Trump because of their own corruption, well, expect Mike Lawler to be governor. All they have to do is put forward a GOP candidate who wears pants and they will win.
Quinerly
@BC in Illinois:
And Peggy! And Harper!
ExPatExDem
The reason Democrats lose so often is that so many of them are gigantic chickenshits.
Jeffries wants “bipartisan consensus” with fascists (which only normalizes fascism). Hochul doesn’t think it would be “very democratic” to exercise her lawful powers as Governor against a totally corrupt quid pro quo between the White House and the NYC Mayor.
Stop rearranging the damned deck furniture on the Titanic as the water continues to gush in!
Belafon
@Quaker in a Basement: Only has one n in her last name.
Matt McIrvin
@Kelly: It kind of reminded me of King County, WA deciding it was named after Martin Luther King and not whatever horrendous person named King it was named after before. But that’s a bit different: there was no interlude of it being named something else, so no opportunity for nudge-wink when naming it back.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Josie:
This! The constant Monday-morning quarterbacking is so damn tiresome. And seems like it is every other post these days.
tam1MI
Could someone direct me to the recent Kay thread that seemed to cause a kerfuffle? I seem to have missed it, and would like to know what caused the fuss. Thanks!
Betty Cracker
@Quinerly: It’s a stupid thing to get upset about when the menu of outrages is so extensive, but the Gulf of Mexico thing really pisses me off. Every time I hear about it, I think, “That’s MY coast, dammit!”
I’m trying to persuade Baud to run on “If elected, I’ll issue an EO on day one changing the name to “The Gulf of Donald Trump Is a Stupid Motherfucker.” Let’s see if Google will comply with that!
Trollhattan
Here we go again. Looks like most of California gets the next storm—LA is included and now will have to deal with flooding of the recent fire zones.
Glug.
Kay
@@mistermix.bsky.social:
My daughter lives in NY and she likes Hochul. She’s busy so maybe she doesn’t follow it closely but she does like her.
Trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
GODTSM could catch on.
“I also decree each of the next one-hundred hurricanes be named Hurricane Donald Trump.”
“Donald Trump blew into Boca Raton this morning, leaving hundred of million dollars of damage in his enormous orange wake.”
–AP
Jackie
@Betty Cracker:
And has done the correct crimes FFOTUS approves of.
Quinerly
Just saw a picture of Joan Baez wearing the “Is He Dead Yet” t shirt just like mine that came last week. I’m smiling.
Peale
@Betty Cracker: Sadly, its Baud, so he’ll probably rename it “The Gulf Between Us Will Be Bridged If We All Removed Our Pants Here.”
PJ
@ExPatExDem:
If you lived in the USA, you’d know that a huge number of (mostly clueless) Americans believe that “bipartisanship” is a good thing. And in this case, it is absolutely the thing that Democrats should be talking about, because Republicans control the House and the Senate. Republicans could pass a budget without Democrats, except that too many of them are batshit crazy. So they need Democrats – bipartisanship – to pass a budget, which means that Democrats get a big say in the budget, how long it lasts, conditions on Trump’s behavior, etc.
With regard to Adams, it’s not a good look for a white Governor to throw out a Black Mayor on her own, particularly in an election year. If there is a consensus among local pols and citizens in NYC that Adams should go, then it would be politically astute, but not until then.
Kay
@@mistermix.bsky.social:
My daughter also grew up in rural Ohio so she’s “MEDICAL leave? Really!? Wow!”
Its all relative mm.
HeleninEire
@Lumpy: One of the interesting things about the whole congestion pricing thing is that everyone bitched. But now, just a few weeks later everyone is loving it. You can actually get around midtown. The MTA is considering increasing the number of busses since the bus drivers are way ahead of their schedules because they can actually move.
Fun congestion pricing fact…the economist who figured that out was named William Vickery. He was a prof at Columbia University. I was in the MPA graduate program there. He died in 1996…I graduated in 1998.
And now 25 years later we decide to do this.
Another fun – well not really fun- fact. Vickery won the Nobel prize, and died just a few weeks after.
Old School
@tam1MI:
Today’s Gaza threads are:
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Save Our Common Heritage
Extinction Burst
Trollhattan
@HeleninEire:
Not unlike what Venice has had to do with limiting how many ginormous cruise ships invade. The locals deserve a place to live between tourist surges.
IIUC Kyoto is feeling crushed by tourists now.
cmorenc
@Quinerly: Next up after restoring the name of military bases to honor Confederate Generals, the Trump Admin will be after any southern state that doesn’t restore monuments to confederate officers and soldiers that were taken down. Looking at you too South Carolina for Trump’s upcoming retribution for insulting ancestors of the Palmetto state when then-Gov Hailey had the confederate flag removed from atop the state capitol in Columbia, unless they reverse that pronto.
cain
By the way, referring to the other thread about “corps not our friends”
Check out what buddy said:
https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=15398
the bill authorizes Trump to purchase Greenland and rename it to “Red, White, and Blueland” – I’m curious to know if Google plans to also update their maps accordingly and thus cause the entire state of Denmark to basically de-Googlize.
ExPatExDem
@PJ: Optics uber alles!
Quinerly
@Betty Cracker:
Renaming the Gulf (and Denali) has pissed me off. I think I may be more pissed off about Trump taking over the Kennedy Center, though.
Petty dictator stuff.
I guess you saw where Rep Buddy Carter (R GA) is introducing a bill to rename Greenland.
“Red, White, Blueland”
Quinerly
@cmorenc:
I don’t doubt that the monuments are coming back. And, of course, the Confederate Battle Flag
tam1MI
@Old School: Thanks! 😊
Quinerly
From the Oval Office today
Trump’s newest order directs the federal government to implement a “workforce optimization initiative” created by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, which has been moving rapidly from one department to another to slash spending and gut programs.
“It’s not optional to reduce federal expenses, it’s essential,” Musk, wearing a black MAGA hat and joined by his son, X, said in remarks standing next to Trump, who was seated behind the Resolute Desk. Musk called the federal bureaucracy the “unelected” fourth branch of government and said it must be held accountable.
“The people voted for major government reform and that’s what the people are going to get,” Musk said, responding to detractors who call his involvement a hostile takeover. “That’s what democracy is all about.”
Agency heads are ordered to “coordinate and consult with DOGE to shrink the size of the federal workforce and limit hiring to essential positions,” a White House handout about the order says.
“Agencies will undertake plans for large-scale reductions in force and determine which agency components (or agencies themselves) may be eliminated or combined because their functions aren’t required by law,” the White House document says.
Musk’s appearance with Trump in the Oval Office marked the first time the billionaire SpaceX CEO has taken questions from reporters in a public setting since he’s assumed power in Trump’s second term.
USA reporting
Betty Cracker
@Quinerly: There should be a trapdoor under every House seat that drops the occupant into an alligator-infested pool, activated only when the uncut stupidly warrants such a drastic measure. Buddy would have met some toothy reptiles today!
lowtechcyclist
@Another Scott:
You may be right, but I’ll never see that phrase without its bringing Watergate to mind.
Quinerly
APPLE renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
Bloomberg reporting
Elizabelle
@BC in Illinois: I am absolutely loving the WaPost reader commenters about restoring the Fort Bragg name.
Second: So they named Fort Bragg after Alvin Bragg, the DA who got Trump convicted of 34 felonies? Wow. Never saw that coming./s
Others brought up Germany naming something for Gunther Hitler; why not Benedict Arnold?, Fort Herman Goering, the works.
You just have to laugh. Curious how the local Fayetteville area TV stations will report this one.
Elizabelle
@Quinerly:
Yeah, that is pure trolling. Better to ignore it.
Captain C
@Kay:
They’re going to write books with actionable and important news that they withheld from their nominal employer(s) for years. I don’t know why they didn’t get fired for that.
ExPatExDem
@Quinerly: Unsurprising, and yet another example of why no one on the left should be waiting for a rich savior to ride to the rescue.
Elizabelle
Also, the WaPost put together an extraordinarily diverse set of 50 “fascinating” people to watch.
In which were nestled Stephen Cheung, Susie Wiles, and maybe 3 or more billionaires.
Sir Will Lewis and One Inch Bezos.
Captain C
@Quinerly: This is starting to feel like a bad parody of the Soviet Union.
Elizabelle
WaPost website at top running a photo of Trump at the Resolute Desk, with President Elon and his unfortunate human shield preschooler son, X.
I wonder what Grimes thinks about her child being paraded around like that.
lowtechcyclist
@Trollhattan:
Right now, I’m gonna enjoy this storm. Had 4″ at 5:30 pm. How’s it down your way, Spanky?
Betty Cracker
Bill posted new signage while rebuilding the formerly flooded downstairs game room.
lowtechcyclist
@Betty Cracker:
I’ll just pee outdoors, TYVM!
Quaker in a Basement
@Belafon: I won’t tell.
TBone
@Betty Cracker: muah!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Quinerly:
Who elected Musk? Who is he accountable to? These are questions I hope those reporters asked him
Quinerly
@Captain C:
Or North Korea
Betty Cracker
@lowtechcyclist: If it makes one visitor think twice before dropping a deuce… ;-)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Quinerly:
@ExPatExDem:
Why are these people so weak? It’s been the Gulf of Mexico for 400 years with no dispute until Trump opened his fucking mouth about it like 3 weeks ago!
TBone
I can’t wait till Tiedrich sinks his teeth into today’s presser. Gonna be lit.
Quinerly
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace:
JiveTurkin
So now Trump owns the mayor of NYC.
TBone
@JiveTurkin: Tiedrich says so too.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/donald-trump-has-replaced-the-rule
Quinerly
Looks like Trump doesn’t even know that the old style incandescent light bulbs aren’t even made in the US anymore. Plus, it seems like he doesn’t know what Lee Zeldin does.
“I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe,” Trump posted online Tuesday.
**********
Zeldin is the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Energy Department — not EPA — is responsible for establishing efficiency standards for consumer products and appliances.
Trollhattan
@lowtechcyclist:
Clouding over in the Capitol of all state capitols, rain begins tomorrow through Friday. Rivers are high and the flood control bypasses have been opened.
But, it’s a cold storm and the snowpack is “meh” so we should be fine.
IDK if it’s Donny’s hijinks or what, but AF C-17s have been flying past the office, out of the nearby airfield all day. They’re…hard to miss. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you.”
Trollhattan
@Quinerly:
What if they spell it Golfo de América?
tobie
@Elizabelle: That poor kid, being paraded around like a prop by his father who, no doubt, hands him over to the nanny as soon as the cameras stop running.
Another Scott
@HeleninEire: +1
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Lavocat
She just lost my vote. If she isn’t finished off in a primary, I will be voting Republican for governor for the first time in my life.
Fuck this absolute spinelessness!
Another Scott
@Elizabelle: Reminds me of deciding yesterday to look into who owns WeatherUnderground these days.
Francisco Partners – Team.
Lots of bright smiling faces!
But, how many Black men and women are shown there? 3??
MotUs and TechBros live in their own tiny insular little world.
Grr…
Best wishes,
Scott.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
Am I on it?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Lavocat:
What Republican could possibly be better?
Another Scott
Meanwhile, …
Good, good.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Elizabelle
@Baud: You might be. Several of the “fascinating” were head shots. No telling if pants were worn.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
Assign me to your favorite.
Ken
“She lacks the permission structure” which is why NYS politicians hate AOC: how dare she take Crowley’s seat without waiting for him to retire.
Geminid
There is an important election in New York today. Westchester County voters will replace County Executive George Latimer, who was elected to Congress in November. The candidates are Democrat Ken Jenkins and Republican Christine Sculti.
Westchester County has a population of 990,000, so this is an important post. It was held by a Republican as recently as 2017, when Latimer beat the incumbent by 14 points.
WaterGirl
@ExPatExDem: Wondering if you listened to the video of Jeffries that I posted.
He does say repeatedly that Democrats “will work with anybody in this town” to help make people’s lives better. But he repeatedly goes on to say that the Rs are focused instead on enriching their Republican billionaire friends instead of helping the people.
I wonder how many people – who think Jeffries is saying “we’ll work with Republicans” on the awful stuff they want to do – haven’t actually listened to Jeffries and are being misled by the “Dems are pussies and vowing to work with the enemy” talking points.
If that’s what’s happening, then we are being tools of the Republicans, making their talking points for them.
Elizabelle
Thinking about the bratty renaming of Fort Bragg: yes, it is trollish.
But our armed forces truly do “look like America” — they are multicultural. I wonder how some of them will feel, training at a base that was *wink, wink* named after a Confederate, excuse me, a private who served in WW2.
Another WaPost reader commenter compared Hegseth to his predecessor, a superbly qualified retired US Army General, who was Black.
Very concerned with what might be happening to the military, and how our readiness will slide and insurgent behavior tolerated, with the wrong type of person promoted.
Layer8Problem
@Lavocat:
Vader: “The Sarcasm is strong with this one.”
WaterGirl
@Quinerly:
Tim Apple has been a disappointment on so many levels.
HeleninEire
@Ken: Yes, yes, yes. NY (certainly NYC) politics are all about “who’s next?” on the list.
She defied that.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: Nice!
Another Scott
Meanwhile, …
The 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)
2 page abstract – PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC FORMATION MECHANISMS OF “POPPY SEEDS” AND “LEOPARD SPOTS” IN THE BRIGHT ANGEL FORMATION, NERETVA VALLIS, MARS.:
IOW, there’s pretty strong evidence that life once existed on Mars.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
OT: Apparently MapQuest has no plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico. They’re memeing about it on Twitter
Baud
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
This is their chance to win back hearts and minds of the people who have them.
Leto
@Quinerly:
We can blame this on the elite NYC society that refused to accept his gaudy, tacky ass. Thanks NY’ers! /s
Montanareddog
@Quinerly: how about “Freedom Fries Land”
Captain C
@Leto: What they should have done is evict him Casino-style whenever he stole someone’s seat/sat in the VIP area on stage for those charity events at which he never donated to the cause (which was one reason Manhattan society hated him).
This is also how Lone Skum should be taken out of the White House and brought to jail to spend the rest of his life (after being duly convicted, of course).
Geminid
@Another Scott: Last month Axios posted a good article about Deb Haaland’s prospective candidacy. They quoted New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Lujan: “Deb knows how to win.”
The Wikipedia biography of Deb Haaland is well worth reading, inspirational even. Haaland has seen a lot in her 62(?) years, and she’s overcome tough challenges both personal and political.
Deb Haaland first came to my attention in January of 2019, when she was sworn into the 117th Congress. She won the seat Michelle Lujan Grisham vacated when she ran for Governor. But Haaland had been a factor in New Mexico politics for much of the decade. Most recently, Haaland had served from 2015 to 2017 as a very effective Democratic Party state chair. The Party had hit a low point in the 2014 elections, but Haaland helped bring it back stronger than before.
hitchhiker
So far, I still know right from wrong. They can change the names of things, they can laugh at the idea of “legal” and “illegal,”, they can have a thousand kids by 900 women, they can do whatever the fuck enters their gloaty brains.
But I will still know right from wrong, and they will still be ignorant assholes.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
Since I was a ballerina, I’ve had more friends send me the Borowitz blurb Trump names himself principal ballerina with Kennedy Center Ballet.
Please photoshop gods, I want a tutu wearing Trump.
eclare
@Betty Cracker:
Hahaha…
Quinerly
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Cool. TY.
I love Mapquest. That’s what I use when mapping out my drive abouts.
Quinerly
@MomSense:
That Borowitz was great. Forwarded it to a guy friend in St. Louis. His third wife was a ballerina.
Kayla Rudbek
@Hildebrand: Fiorello LaGuardia in my opinion
frosty
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): They’re all richer than Scrooge McDuck and they’re bending the knee? WTF is wrong with these people?
They’re weird.
There go two miscreants
Brain bleach, STAT!!!
Elizabelle
@hitchhiker: That is the way to look at it.
And shame be on our media for sanewashing it all.
Manyakitty
@Betty Cracker: welcoming!
chemiclord
So, let me make sure I’ve got this straight.
1) Voters make a very stupid decision.
2) Voters beg Democrats to save them from them stupid decision.
3) Democrats remind voters that elections have consequences.
4) Voters get angry at “feckless” Democrats.
Am I following along correctly?
prostratedragon
@Betty Cracker: Are you me? Another one I like for capital idiocy is that the offender be forever trapped in a room where a recording of them speaking their remark plays on an infinite loop, with various auditory effects.
frosty
@Quinerly: Mapquest was my go-to when I was working. Printed out directions to client offices and kept them in the map pocket of my car. I’ll have to see if they have something to replace GoogleMaps on my phone.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
When he showed at the inauguration it was a kick to the junk. The other dudes, yeah, but I thought he was different. Stupid me.
Quinerly
@frosty:
I have the MapQuest app on my phone.
Gvg
@Captain C: I have been wondering if the employers have been censoring their reporting these important facts. Since the things that get us angry that weren’t reported are negative info about Trump and minions and the media seems to be in the Tank for them, out of greed or fear, well it’s possible they are told if you report that, you are fired.
Report it years later, and it’s ok though.
not sure I buy it, but I have been wondering.
prostratedragon
@Captain C: Oh my yes, to both.
PJ
@ExPatExDem:
Spoken like a true white person.