Closing Seizing the means of tabbing ...
Zohran Mamdani says he'd be in favor of the "abolition of private property" pic.twitter.com/WRs6JEG5tv
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 17, 2025
Ed: But don't call him a communist! Seriously, the world's greatest capital market seems ready to elect someone who would seize every last penny of it if he could. Democrats are now lining up to endorse him, too.
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Asked by a reporter if she thinks the Democratic Party is moving in a more socialist direction, Rep. Debbie Dingell said, “It's a question by the media to try to stigmatize the Democratic Party. Every member of Congress runs in a district that is unique, and we all can learn from each other.”
Dingell praised Mamdani as “bright” and praised his campaigning.
“Donald Trump and he both get out and they talk to people, and they listen to people, and they understand how people feel. And he's using social media the way that Donald Trump has,” she said. “And you know what? All of us in life have different perspectives, different experiences … everybody can learn from -- if we take the time to listen to each other, see what they're doing. Learn. We can all learn.”
Ed: In theory, anyway. In practice, there are no signs that Democrats are either listening or learning.
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Zohran Mamdani on abolishing prisons and jail: "What purpose do they serve, besides making people feel good?" pic.twitter.com/KYgD1nRP8U
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 17, 2025
Ed: Keeping violent people away from the rest of the community, for a start. Does New York City really want to go back to the Bill de Blasio/David Dinkins eras?
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"He spent a lot of time talking about the cost of living in New York, in this country, and how we address it," [Rep. Ro] Khanna said. He said Mamdani is a "very charismatic, relatable person."
Host Lawrence B. Jones asked Khanna if he agrees with Mamdani's views on Israel. Mamdani has said that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to New York, he'd have him arrested.
He answered that he doesn't agree with Mamdani on every issue.
Ed: Well, fair enough, but isn't this a rather big issue? Does Khanna agree on abolishing private property? Seizing the means of production? Globalizing the intifada? Defunding the police and abolishing property crime? Sheesh. And if you thought that was crazy ...
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BREAKING: Mel Witherspoon, the Democrat City Council President for Erie City, PA, just claimed he shot a man in the head when he was 17 and got away with it because of mafia ties and connections.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 17, 2025
"I shot him in the head point blank... I stayed in jail one night, I never went to… pic.twitter.com/SCzrZRKTWb
"I shot him in the head point blank... I stayed in jail one night, I never went to court... that 'family' [mafia] made a call... and I was out the next day."
Ed: There is no statute of limitations on murder. This is an unprompted admission to such. Will Ro Khanna endorse Witherspoon in the next election too? This man should be arrested and tried for this crime, if indeed this isn't just some stupid PR attempt.
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Hunter Biden, in his first interview since the 2024 election, denied there was a “grand conspiracy” to cover up issues with his father’s health and said Democrats only lost the race because they abandoned President Joe Biden.
“We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party,” Hunter Biden said on a new podcast hosted by Jaime Harrison, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. “That’s my position. We had the advantage of incumbency, we had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration, and the Democratic Party literally melted down.”
Ed: Democrats lost because the cover-up of Biden's cognitive impairment got exposed. I understand why Hunter would consider his dad's administration as "incredibly successful," but you'd have to be on drugs otherwise to believe that. Democrats will continue to lose elections as long as they set fire to their credibility, and as long as they line up behind the radical Leftists, Acadamia-urban elites, and flat-out criminals over Main Street American voters.
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When there were only five channels I can understand why PBS might have been publicly funded. But does anyone think we suffer from a lack of channels or shows now? There have never been more. Let them all compete in the marketplace. Zero taxpayer dollars should go to any of them. https://t.co/fVCUqljjgA
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 17, 2025
Ed: Exactly. Those days were long gone by the time the Internet arrived, by the way; most rural areas had cable long before it went into the suburbs and cities. Many rural families had C-band satellite TV too, which was fun if rather expensive and clunky. Commercial AM radio provided even more options. Only an urban progressive could believe that the hicks in the sticks relied on public broadcasting for anything.
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Embracing the mantras of the Great Awokening, NPR became a caricature of itself with headlines like these:
Microfeminism: The Next Big Thing in Fighting the Patriarchy
Which Skin Color Emoji Should You Use? The Answer Can Be More Complex than You Think
Black Women’s Groups Find Health and Healing on Hikes, But Sometimes Racism, Too
Bringing Diversity to Maine’s Nearly All-White Lobster Fleet
Diet Culture Can Hurt Kids. This Author Advises Parents to Reclaim the Word ‘Fat’
These Drag Artists Know How to Turn Climate Activism into a Joyful Blowout
Inside NPR, rules on the use of language reflected the direction and mindset of the organization. We were told to avoid the term biological sex, warned not to say illegal immigrant (a hurtful label). A racial punctuation hierarchy was imposed; black would be uppercase, white lowercase. NPR adopted the phrase “gender affirming care” to describe childhood medical interventions that can mean sterilization and the surgical removal of genitals. These were not merely style choices. They were tribal signals, ideological markers.
Ed: This comes from an essay at The Free Press by Uri Berliner, a former senior editor at NPR forced out over his dissent from its policies. He declares this NPR's 'Independence Day,' an apt framing for its disconnect from the federal trough. Now it can test whether a market exists for its output ... and I suspect that they will soon discover how little connection Americans have to it, and even less affection.
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Remember that woman who Democrats and the media claimed was kidnapped from a parking lot by ICE, shoved into an unmarked car, held in a building, starved, to force her to self-deport???
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 17, 2025
Turns out she staged the entire “kidnapping”
She’s now facing criminal charges for… pic.twitter.com/QG7NrKWkWA
Ed: Old and busted: Hate-crime hoaxes. New hotness: Deportation hoaxes.
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🚨NEW: CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane tells Chuck Todd he got "PTSD" after Trump assassination attempt — *NOT* from the shooting, but because the crowd blamed the media🚨
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) July 16, 2025
"For those of us there, it was such a horror."
"I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got… pic.twitter.com/JYeA7FZ90G
Ed: Oh yes, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was all about ... the media. As Rusty Weiss points out at Redstate:
We all just heard the imbecilic comment, but it's essential to break down some of its parts.
- A reporter was diagnosed with PTSD and is weeping about it in a podcast a year later. Meanwhile, the target of the assassination attempt rarely mentions it other than to say he was saved by God.
- The shooting wasn't traumatic in his eyes, but an agitated crowd was.
- Was that really the crowd reaction? Were they not more concerned with getting to safety than trying to criticize the media?
- A man died in this attack, two others were severely wounded, the future President was almost killed, and the nation would have almost surely been plunged into chaos - but the real victim is Scott MacFarlane and his colleagues.
Read it all.
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Majorities of all U.S. adults express “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in just three institutions — small business (70%), the military (62%) and science (61%). pic.twitter.com/rH97jXb6P1
— Gallup (@Gallup) July 17, 2025
Ed: Note where the media ends up on this list. Only 17% have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers, and only 11% in television news. Respectively, well over 40% have very little or no confidence in newspapers and 53% have little or no confidence in television news.
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