Since I don’t live there and only visit four or five times a year, I really shouldn’t care much about who becomes the next mayor of New York City. But, I have to admit, the fear that Bill de Blasio invokes on the right is so immensely satisfying and amusing that I can’t wait for him to install his socialist regime. With any luck, they’ll be playing the Clash’s “Washington Bullets” as the balloons drop at his campaign victory party.
But they better hold the mayo.
Oh, who will be the first economic refugee?
Bloomberg? David Koch? Is Rick Perry holding get togethers with NYC billionaires and repeating “come on down here y’all; Texas knows how to treat billionaires with respect. And the “help” is real cheap.”
and we haven’t even gotten to the vitriol that will be vented towards his natural locks-wearing Black wife.
That’s Chairman De Blasio to you, comrade.
Yes, you are correct, Mishka. My mistake.
Nostrovia! Welcome to the People’s Republic of Manhattan.
I assume there shall be Mao-style portraits and at least a few appropriately stylistic statues around NYC following his swearing in. lol
I heard deblasio is going to dye the Hudson red and make the statue of liberty wear a burkha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQthFDpYCys
5 Million Ways…
And here is the remix by DJ Spooky:
Some great film clips in there.
Definitely.
And Boots Riley is the real deal. I don’t listen to a lot of rap, but when I do, The Coup are near the top of the list.
Gosh, that Wall Street Journal editorial lacks self-awareness, doesn’t it? If a friend wrote me an email which sounded that unmoored from reality and completely desperate, I’d call or visit them next day and ask them if they were feeling better now. But there it is in the front section of the business newspaper of record.
Well, at least the editorialists will be able afford their psych physicians and medications. Even with that commie trainwreck Obamacare!
The WSJ editorial page has always been “unmoored from reality.” The office WSJ copy was always circulated for all of us to read. The Republicans favored the editorial pages. The centrists glanced at a few stock prices. The liberals read the news and front page articles (some of the best reporting anywhere at that time).
That was before Murdoch bought it. There’s been a lot of erosion of the editorial/newsroom firewall under his watch, to the paper’s detriment.
you speak the truth. If you wanted honest, straight forward excellent reporting on economics , it was the WSJ pre-Murdoch.
The quality of the news and front page reports declined over the two decades before Murdoch as well. But the editorial pages remained consistently rightwing and usually loopy.
From the blog: “Wingnuts hung up on the fact that di Blasio expressed admiration for the Sandinistas, for God’s sake, instead of the Contras as a true Reaganite would.”
Sandinistas -vs- Contras? That is WAY too complex for today’s typical Republican. What ever happened to “You’re either with us or against us!”? Now THAT was world-class lizard brain rudimentary tribalism!
As usual, epistemic closure applies almost exclusively to wingnuts…
Shameless plug for a campaign I’m helping run: watch Sawant in Seattle, too:
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022131936_westneat27xml.html
Westneat’s as establishment as they come, and even he’s not ruling out a Sawant win – in a lot of other estimations she’s got a good shot of beating a 16-year, two-terms-as-president council incumbent. And she is a socialist. Openly.
The terror she’s been kicking up in all the right places is a thing of beauty. Even funnier has been watching a lot of other candidates, including both mayoral candidates, chasing after her on the issues. They can tell which way the wind’s blowing.
I have friends in Seattle. I’ll make sure they know about her. Good luck with the campaign!
An avowed Socialist? I can barely type it. LOL Yipee!
I love the idea too. Look, anything to start the national Overton window moving from the extreme, almost over-the-cliff far-far right towards somewhere where it was, oh, say pre-Reagan.