This mornings cartoon is somewhat edgy portraying Mamdani as a demonic wolf in sheep’s clothing. I can hear now the predictable calls of “Islamophobia” by those on the left.
Many people are admittedly uneasy with a Muslim/Socialist as Mayor of our largest city. When looking closely at Mamdani, you find a treasure trove of facts that explains his worldview. Born to wealthy elites in Uganda, moved to Cape Town, then to NY. Dad a academic, Mom a filmmaker. Mamdani is fluent in 5 languages and is poised to be the most influential Muslim/Socialist politician since Abel Nasser of Egypt.
Finally, the election of Jay Jones for VA, AG says everything one needs to know about the values of the Democratic electorate. Jones, who is black, threatened the life of his opponent and his family, who are white, with capital murder and still manages to get elected despite calls to bail out. What are voters thinking? Clearly, race and party are more important than the interests of the people of Virginia. What do people think would be the result if the roles were reversed and a white Republican candidate threatened a black opponent and family?
Thank you for this post. Alot covered! Agree United States politics are far from transparent. My caution to those who hate Trump so much they're willing to buy into false "America is bad" rhetoric. Yes, he too spins some tall tales!
As with glorifying Mamdani, what many Trump haters do not understand is the culture that many elected Muslim leaders are bringing to our country. Women are identified as property. Like FGM. More than 230M girls and women in 30 counties in Africa and the Middle East of recent time have had their sexual organ cut off. This just occured in Michigan at a medical clinic! Dr Nagarwala used this religious practice, the Dawood Bohra, an Islamic sect based in India to perform this atrocity against these female children in secret. Why? Because these cultures see women as a necessary property. And to ensure they never experience pleasure to stop them from sexually engaging with men period. The only man will be her captor, not her choice. AND once impregnated she will not be allowed to get an abortion! Agree with abortion or not, that is the Hill many people/women are fighting for the right to decide for their choice. However, be aware most male dominated cultures, like the Muslim religion, do not esteem females. Do not sell out your freedoms just because you may despise the current sitting president. Once you give your power away, you may never see freedom again.
Isn’t it ironic that over 80% of NYC young females voted for Mamdani? WHY? Looks like they seek to be ‘taken care of’ by government, since presumably not in a 1:1 secure monogamous relationship. As elce posted, analyze closely the NYC vote. Why did young females vote for Mamdani?
What are the insights from these female voters, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists?
Female genital castration is rampant in Africa, along with slavery, trafficking, mass murder and targeting of Christians in Nigeria, perpetrated by Islamic lunatics. Starvation, plague, civil war and human suffering all happening now in the Sudan.
The unbelievable irony is many from the Rainbow movement and the left in general, are oblivious to this.
Thanks for the re-cap. Well done. We voted at the polls not trusting Newsom's translucent ballot return envelopes, so our No on 50 votes may still be in the pile of uncounted California votes.
Gen Z voting patterns will need special scrutiny when the final numbers come in. If they keep voting Democrat, why are they not registering Democrat?
Latest update on Prop 50 turnout. Scroll down. My GenZer and many friends (mostly NPPs, all college grads) tell me they voted NO on 50 because they asked others ‘how to vote and why?’. Then some concluded Newsom was acting politically, unilaterally for self-serving reasons to override the CA Constitution. “He wants to be Prez; he manipulates.”
Additionally these specific local GenZers were aware of how much work for an entire year Cheryl and others did on the CA Citizen Redistricting Commission to ensure “fairness”, concluding a Y vote was “demeaning to Cheryl and other Santa Barbara Commissioners” who gave a year of their lives to redistricting our area.
WHY are Gen Z not registering Democrat, while voting Democrat? Some say they’re “confused” and “uncertain”. They were schooled to “be kind, inclusive, accepting, non-competitive and collaborative”: to go along to get along. At the same time some in GenZ can’t relate to self-identifying as a CA Democrat, protesting, demanding, whackos who “group think, then hate you for disagreeing”.
The concepts of independence, personal responsibility, accountability, financial success, competition may or may not have been taught and practiced at home or sport. The CAGOP or SBRCC certainly have never reached out to youth. TPUSA is for Christians. How many youth self-identify as religious? Attend church on weekends?
Junior year of high school, in class, they are registered to vote in CA public schools. Presentations usually made by Democrat influencers (locally Al Gore’s daughter has been hugely successful): “you want to be on the winning, the controlling team, don’t you?”
Rather than register Democrat, these independent GenZers register NPP. They need a political party yet to be created.
The CA law registering kids in class must be abolished but won’t be until CA voters end single party control.
All good points, thanks for the insights. Good target, how do we get younger, secular GOP influencers to also show up for these HS voter registration presentations?
elections are a stage show, always designed to be 'close' as the Uniparty that is comprised of both the democrats and republicans pretend to switch being in power now and then for looks, while the uniparty continues uninterrupted no matter who supposedly 'wins'. I hate to say this but it has become so obvious that both parties are completely dysfunctional that I now believe sooner or later we will need to take Elon up on his offer to create a new third party to replace the republican party. Makes me sad, but it is an unavoidable conclusion at this point as we watch Thune/McConnell slow walk and block Tumps agenda just trying to wait it out until they can pretend Democrats 'won' again. Sad times.
From where I sit, the passage of Proposition 50 was the worst of a nasty election year. The Yes vote was a certainty, as was its landslide in the ballot box. But consider what California just embraced: the setting aside of a constitutional amendment. Chew on that. And while it was sold as an attempt to counter Texas and other Red states in mid-cycle gerrymandering plus feeding off extreme TDS, the prize all along was fixing the 2028 electoral field for Gavin Newsom. Our governor is salivating for the presidency. Aligning California's congressional districts further left was the first volley. Presidents come and go. Mayors come and go. But the dismantling of good law, laws crafted to maintain good and transparent governance, they don't easily come back. They don't. Precedence has taken root. Remember when the Patriot Act was overwhelmingly, hastily passed? Ordinary citizens agreed: "Well, if it keeps us safe." But at what cost? What is the Bill of Rights worth to you? What is California's citizens congressional districting commission worth to you? The price was too dear.
Childless, Mrs Mamdani has announced her intention to dissolve her marriage to Zohran. When asked, Mrs Mamdani claims a loss of consortium in their marriage. Apparently, each evening upon retiring to the bedroom, Zohran props himself on the edge of the bed and goes on and on about how great it is going to be.
Civic duty is MIA as relates to budgeting time to become informed and then to easily vote. Civics education, outreach to adult voters is missing. I bet less than 5% of Californians have read our state’s Constitution; less than 1% of parents have read the CA Education Code. The CAGOP is dead: the party is void of leadership at all levels. America became a socialist country in 1965 and was forever changed. Socialism is now embraced by the majority. How much tax, confiscation of privately owned property, public housing is enough?
The entitled benefiting from tax generated checks or benefits outnumber those few remaining Americans, Californians who choose to be independent, free of a government hand out. Everything now is a demanded “right”, someone else’s responsibility. Social Security is a huge unfunded problem.
Boomers, and those older, voting Democrat in the 1960s are the two generations that delivered modern day reality.
How now do we motivate others to participate? To make time to become informed, to get involved, to run for office or actively support those who do, and help build a bench to prepare youth for leadership. There’s much work to be done locally. There’s more to it than attending lunch to hear a speaker. Action is required.
1962. The year JFK allowed government employees to unionize. America has never been the same ever since. Prop 50 was just one more government employee union tax dollar grab election. The very same horse Gavin Newson is running on too.
We need a time line of programs, events, laws that led to current problematic realities. Can you TVW & elce make such a timeline? I’ll pay to print on reference cards to hand out. GenZers would benefit as would many voters and socialist deniers. Info is power. Ignorance is dangerous.
Yes...A very dark horse! Woe to California. Woe to our nation. They let the wolf in the door. Foolish children. What? Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio, Snow White? And they believed His/Her sweet talk. ☠️⛓️🔒🪞The fairest of them all...
It is not that Democrats are winning on better ideas or policies. They have none. Instead they gamed the system so badly after the 1990's, they now have a total lock on the entire election process.
Prop 98 automatic massive funding for schools produced a prodigious revenue stream, which now funds the overly powerful state teachers unions, and their SEIU (CSEA) school staff cohorts. Just thee two unions provide granular level political operatives for every single election. While we are forced to pay them with our own tax dollars to do this to us. This is the real depth of the problem.
This alll smacks of deep, deep, deep partisan and coordinate corruption of the entire political process in this state. With their now Democrat super-majority lock amplified further by the passage of Prop 50, digging out of this mess will take herculean efforts. We cannot just phone this one in.
Democrats = tax and spend Big Government protectionist party. We have to slowly chip away at this devouring behemoth. Never give up.
Voters have been on an inexplicable suicide mission for many election cycles. When given the "opportunity" to pay a larger tax slice of their paychecks to further enrich the political and bureaucratic elites while concurrently diminishing their own quality of life...they jump at it...as evidenced by the majority of locally elected officials.
Hats off to Saul Alinsky...he called this many years ago...get the educational system to do your dirty work. It's the one area where education has succeeded.
What? Our local officials greatly enrich their personal lives with tax dollars from their positions and NGO pay. Their “own quality of life” in no way is “diminished”.
Untrue: “When given the "opportunity" to pay a larger tax slice of their paychecks to further enrich the political and bureaucratic elites while concurrently diminishing their own quality of life...they jump at it...as evidenced by the majority of locally elected officials.”
Sherrill (NJ) and Spanberger (VA) are fine picks for Governor in blue states. Both are patriots. Both are moderates. And Republicans didn’t put up good competition.
VA’s situation is exactly what we need here. Youngkin winning election last cycle was a shot to the system in blue VA. We need some big seat Republican wins in this midterm, Governor, Assembly, Congress to reset the system. For a moderate (Clinton type) Democrat, you are voting for change back towards the common sense direction, because it sends a message that you want to see more Abigail Spanbergers from your party, and less Mamdani’s.
There are multiple Democrat Socialists of America members running for city councils next cycle. When 5 Mamdani’s populate councils and boards, you’ll be asking why you are being fined for spare bedrooms, property taken for low income housing, and 18 story project structures going up behind your backyard…
Carpinteria City Council just reported last night the state overruled the city for 3 low income housing structures to the dismay of many citizens/commenters. So what I said above isn’t rhetoric, it’s happening, and it’s what you keep voting for.
Bob, Thank you for your dedicated service this Veteran's Day-and every day.
I'm a little taken aback reading your comments on the NJ & VA elections
Election by Election, we are fighting to save this country--Every election is critical!
I am constantly disappointed that Republican Candidate's do not "take the gloves off" and bear down against their democratic opponents (both progressives and moderates). There is no room for congratulations for electing moderate democrats. I want candidates who will fight to save the country--from school boards to president. Have we not learned that the boot will be applied to our neck (taxes, social policies and insane laws) when any democrat takes office?
I’m not congratulating, just fair political analysis. I can’t be dismayed in blue states that the Republican Party put up bad candidates to win and I’m not going to be upset with a moderate Naval Academy grad when in other places Democrats are electing socialists. Democrats are 50% of the population, and if they are going to elect someone in an area they control, I’d rather it be a Spanberger or Fetterman, than a Mamdani. I think that’s better for our country.
What is disturbing is that we only had 43% turnout on Proposition 50, Republicans could have blocked this with full turnout.
It’s also interesting statement to say “candidates that fight.” I’ve had no life for 6 months now. I’ve made it to zero of my kid’s sports. And I’m seeing firsthand how difficult it is to get support from Republicans here.
Let me give you an example of last night. I called 3 random Republican donors out of state, they all donated a little and said “go get Newsom.” I called 100 Republicans in district. I was hung up on 75 times, and no donations.
This mornings cartoon is somewhat edgy portraying Mamdani as a demonic wolf in sheep’s clothing. I can hear now the predictable calls of “Islamophobia” by those on the left.
Many people are admittedly uneasy with a Muslim/Socialist as Mayor of our largest city. When looking closely at Mamdani, you find a treasure trove of facts that explains his worldview. Born to wealthy elites in Uganda, moved to Cape Town, then to NY. Dad a academic, Mom a filmmaker. Mamdani is fluent in 5 languages and is poised to be the most influential Muslim/Socialist politician since Abel Nasser of Egypt.
Finally, the election of Jay Jones for VA, AG says everything one needs to know about the values of the Democratic electorate. Jones, who is black, threatened the life of his opponent and his family, who are white, with capital murder and still manages to get elected despite calls to bail out. What are voters thinking? Clearly, race and party are more important than the interests of the people of Virginia. What do people think would be the result if the roles were reversed and a white Republican candidate threatened a black opponent and family?
Exactly.
Thank you for this post. Alot covered! Agree United States politics are far from transparent. My caution to those who hate Trump so much they're willing to buy into false "America is bad" rhetoric. Yes, he too spins some tall tales!
As with glorifying Mamdani, what many Trump haters do not understand is the culture that many elected Muslim leaders are bringing to our country. Women are identified as property. Like FGM. More than 230M girls and women in 30 counties in Africa and the Middle East of recent time have had their sexual organ cut off. This just occured in Michigan at a medical clinic! Dr Nagarwala used this religious practice, the Dawood Bohra, an Islamic sect based in India to perform this atrocity against these female children in secret. Why? Because these cultures see women as a necessary property. And to ensure they never experience pleasure to stop them from sexually engaging with men period. The only man will be her captor, not her choice. AND once impregnated she will not be allowed to get an abortion! Agree with abortion or not, that is the Hill many people/women are fighting for the right to decide for their choice. However, be aware most male dominated cultures, like the Muslim religion, do not esteem females. Do not sell out your freedoms just because you may despise the current sitting president. Once you give your power away, you may never see freedom again.
Isn’t it ironic that over 80% of NYC young females voted for Mamdani? WHY? Looks like they seek to be ‘taken care of’ by government, since presumably not in a 1:1 secure monogamous relationship. As elce posted, analyze closely the NYC vote. Why did young females vote for Mamdani?
What are the insights from these female voters, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists?
Female genital castration is rampant in Africa, along with slavery, trafficking, mass murder and targeting of Christians in Nigeria, perpetrated by Islamic lunatics. Starvation, plague, civil war and human suffering all happening now in the Sudan.
The unbelievable irony is many from the Rainbow movement and the left in general, are oblivious to this.
Hatfields v McCoys
Civil War
Families, friends, neighbors turning on each other.
Because of a worthy goal.
Beat the Orange Man.
Mature civilization at its best.
Thanks for the re-cap. Well done. We voted at the polls not trusting Newsom's translucent ballot return envelopes, so our No on 50 votes may still be in the pile of uncounted California votes.
Gen Z voting patterns will need special scrutiny when the final numbers come in. If they keep voting Democrat, why are they not registering Democrat?
https://abev.optiqdata.com/
Latest update on Prop 50 turnout. Scroll down. My GenZer and many friends (mostly NPPs, all college grads) tell me they voted NO on 50 because they asked others ‘how to vote and why?’. Then some concluded Newsom was acting politically, unilaterally for self-serving reasons to override the CA Constitution. “He wants to be Prez; he manipulates.”
Additionally these specific local GenZers were aware of how much work for an entire year Cheryl and others did on the CA Citizen Redistricting Commission to ensure “fairness”, concluding a Y vote was “demeaning to Cheryl and other Santa Barbara Commissioners” who gave a year of their lives to redistricting our area.
WHY are Gen Z not registering Democrat, while voting Democrat? Some say they’re “confused” and “uncertain”. They were schooled to “be kind, inclusive, accepting, non-competitive and collaborative”: to go along to get along. At the same time some in GenZ can’t relate to self-identifying as a CA Democrat, protesting, demanding, whackos who “group think, then hate you for disagreeing”.
The concepts of independence, personal responsibility, accountability, financial success, competition may or may not have been taught and practiced at home or sport. The CAGOP or SBRCC certainly have never reached out to youth. TPUSA is for Christians. How many youth self-identify as religious? Attend church on weekends?
Junior year of high school, in class, they are registered to vote in CA public schools. Presentations usually made by Democrat influencers (locally Al Gore’s daughter has been hugely successful): “you want to be on the winning, the controlling team, don’t you?”
Rather than register Democrat, these independent GenZers register NPP. They need a political party yet to be created.
The CA law registering kids in class must be abolished but won’t be until CA voters end single party control.
All good points, thanks for the insights. Good target, how do we get younger, secular GOP influencers to also show up for these HS voter registration presentations?
elections are a stage show, always designed to be 'close' as the Uniparty that is comprised of both the democrats and republicans pretend to switch being in power now and then for looks, while the uniparty continues uninterrupted no matter who supposedly 'wins'. I hate to say this but it has become so obvious that both parties are completely dysfunctional that I now believe sooner or later we will need to take Elon up on his offer to create a new third party to replace the republican party. Makes me sad, but it is an unavoidable conclusion at this point as we watch Thune/McConnell slow walk and block Tumps agenda just trying to wait it out until they can pretend Democrats 'won' again. Sad times.
From where I sit, the passage of Proposition 50 was the worst of a nasty election year. The Yes vote was a certainty, as was its landslide in the ballot box. But consider what California just embraced: the setting aside of a constitutional amendment. Chew on that. And while it was sold as an attempt to counter Texas and other Red states in mid-cycle gerrymandering plus feeding off extreme TDS, the prize all along was fixing the 2028 electoral field for Gavin Newsom. Our governor is salivating for the presidency. Aligning California's congressional districts further left was the first volley. Presidents come and go. Mayors come and go. But the dismantling of good law, laws crafted to maintain good and transparent governance, they don't easily come back. They don't. Precedence has taken root. Remember when the Patriot Act was overwhelmingly, hastily passed? Ordinary citizens agreed: "Well, if it keeps us safe." But at what cost? What is the Bill of Rights worth to you? What is California's citizens congressional districting commission worth to you? The price was too dear.
Childless, Mrs Mamdani has announced her intention to dissolve her marriage to Zohran. When asked, Mrs Mamdani claims a loss of consortium in their marriage. Apparently, each evening upon retiring to the bedroom, Zohran props himself on the edge of the bed and goes on and on about how great it is going to be.
Civic duty is MIA as relates to budgeting time to become informed and then to easily vote. Civics education, outreach to adult voters is missing. I bet less than 5% of Californians have read our state’s Constitution; less than 1% of parents have read the CA Education Code. The CAGOP is dead: the party is void of leadership at all levels. America became a socialist country in 1965 and was forever changed. Socialism is now embraced by the majority. How much tax, confiscation of privately owned property, public housing is enough?
The entitled benefiting from tax generated checks or benefits outnumber those few remaining Americans, Californians who choose to be independent, free of a government hand out. Everything now is a demanded “right”, someone else’s responsibility. Social Security is a huge unfunded problem.
Boomers, and those older, voting Democrat in the 1960s are the two generations that delivered modern day reality.
How now do we motivate others to participate? To make time to become informed, to get involved, to run for office or actively support those who do, and help build a bench to prepare youth for leadership. There’s much work to be done locally. There’s more to it than attending lunch to hear a speaker. Action is required.
1962. The year JFK allowed government employees to unionize. America has never been the same ever since. Prop 50 was just one more government employee union tax dollar grab election. The very same horse Gavin Newson is running on too.
And Jimmy Carter....Department of Education; CA...SEIU...ad nauseam...
We need a time line of programs, events, laws that led to current problematic realities. Can you TVW & elce make such a timeline? I’ll pay to print on reference cards to hand out. GenZers would benefit as would many voters and socialist deniers. Info is power. Ignorance is dangerous.
Yes...A very dark horse! Woe to California. Woe to our nation. They let the wolf in the door. Foolish children. What? Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio, Snow White? And they believed His/Her sweet talk. ☠️⛓️🔒🪞The fairest of them all...
It is not that Democrats are winning on better ideas or policies. They have none. Instead they gamed the system so badly after the 1990's, they now have a total lock on the entire election process.
Prop 98 automatic massive funding for schools produced a prodigious revenue stream, which now funds the overly powerful state teachers unions, and their SEIU (CSEA) school staff cohorts. Just thee two unions provide granular level political operatives for every single election. While we are forced to pay them with our own tax dollars to do this to us. This is the real depth of the problem.
This alll smacks of deep, deep, deep partisan and coordinate corruption of the entire political process in this state. With their now Democrat super-majority lock amplified further by the passage of Prop 50, digging out of this mess will take herculean efforts. We cannot just phone this one in.
Democrats = tax and spend Big Government protectionist party. We have to slowly chip away at this devouring behemoth. Never give up.
Good summary.
I am not surprised by the CA vote on Prop 50.
Voters have been on an inexplicable suicide mission for many election cycles. When given the "opportunity" to pay a larger tax slice of their paychecks to further enrich the political and bureaucratic elites while concurrently diminishing their own quality of life...they jump at it...as evidenced by the majority of locally elected officials.
Hats off to Saul Alinsky...he called this many years ago...get the educational system to do your dirty work. It's the one area where education has succeeded.
What? Our local officials greatly enrich their personal lives with tax dollars from their positions and NGO pay. Their “own quality of life” in no way is “diminished”.
Untrue: “When given the "opportunity" to pay a larger tax slice of their paychecks to further enrich the political and bureaucratic elites while concurrently diminishing their own quality of life...they jump at it...as evidenced by the majority of locally elected officials.”
Sherrill (NJ) and Spanberger (VA) are fine picks for Governor in blue states. Both are patriots. Both are moderates. And Republicans didn’t put up good competition.
VA’s situation is exactly what we need here. Youngkin winning election last cycle was a shot to the system in blue VA. We need some big seat Republican wins in this midterm, Governor, Assembly, Congress to reset the system. For a moderate (Clinton type) Democrat, you are voting for change back towards the common sense direction, because it sends a message that you want to see more Abigail Spanbergers from your party, and less Mamdani’s.
There are multiple Democrat Socialists of America members running for city councils next cycle. When 5 Mamdani’s populate councils and boards, you’ll be asking why you are being fined for spare bedrooms, property taken for low income housing, and 18 story project structures going up behind your backyard…
Carpinteria City Council just reported last night the state overruled the city for 3 low income housing structures to the dismay of many citizens/commenters. So what I said above isn’t rhetoric, it’s happening, and it’s what you keep voting for.
Bob, Thank you for your dedicated service this Veteran's Day-and every day.
I'm a little taken aback reading your comments on the NJ & VA elections
Election by Election, we are fighting to save this country--Every election is critical!
I am constantly disappointed that Republican Candidate's do not "take the gloves off" and bear down against their democratic opponents (both progressives and moderates). There is no room for congratulations for electing moderate democrats. I want candidates who will fight to save the country--from school boards to president. Have we not learned that the boot will be applied to our neck (taxes, social policies and insane laws) when any democrat takes office?
I’m not congratulating, just fair political analysis. I can’t be dismayed in blue states that the Republican Party put up bad candidates to win and I’m not going to be upset with a moderate Naval Academy grad when in other places Democrats are electing socialists. Democrats are 50% of the population, and if they are going to elect someone in an area they control, I’d rather it be a Spanberger or Fetterman, than a Mamdani. I think that’s better for our country.
What is disturbing is that we only had 43% turnout on Proposition 50, Republicans could have blocked this with full turnout.
It’s also interesting statement to say “candidates that fight.” I’ve had no life for 6 months now. I’ve made it to zero of my kid’s sports. And I’m seeing firsthand how difficult it is to get support from Republicans here.
Let me give you an example of last night. I called 3 random Republican donors out of state, they all donated a little and said “go get Newsom.” I called 100 Republicans in district. I was hung up on 75 times, and no donations.
Yep!!