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And So It Goes

Today is Wednesday, November 5, 2025. Flush over triumphant Democratic victories across the country yesterday on Election Day, today conservative news outlet The Wall Street Journal torches MAGA triumphalism in a hard-hitting editorial published today. An online article by Isaac Schorr entitled “A ‘Warning on ‘Trump’s Unpopularity’: The Wall Street Journal Torches ‘MAGA Triumphalism’ After Election Night” reports about the paper’s editorial which declares “The era of MAGA triumphalism should be over.”

Under the headline, “Democrats Start Their Comeback,” and sub-headline, “A warning for the GOP from New Jersey and Virginia on affordability and Trump’s unpopularity,” the Journal observed that “President Trump rolled to victory in 2024 promising to reduce inflation and make middle-class life more affordable. The warning to Republicans in Tuesday’s election results is that Democrats are turning the tables on affordability, especially when they steer clear of leftist cultural snares.”

After reviewing Democrats’ victories in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City, the conservative newspaper suggested that the Orange Turd played a role in the GOP’s losses. Even though the GOP won both states in 2009 and Virginia in 2021, under Presidents Obama and Biden, “this time Democrats had the advantage of rallying voters upset at President Trump.” Exit polls showed the Orange Turd’s approval rating at 44 percent in New Jersey and 42 percent in Virginia.

The conservative Journal wasn’t the only media entity to acknowledge as much. On the fake news station, Fox News, Brit Hume chalked up Democrats’ triumphs simply to anti-Dump sentiment.

“Today Donald Trump went from a lame duck to a humiliated lame duck,” so states Lawrence O’Donnell on his show tonight, The Last Word. The election of New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani to be New York’s newly elected 111th mayor signals “Donald Trump’s days are numbered,” according to an online Mirror article by Christopher Bucktin entitled “‘New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s win signals Donald Trump’s days are numbered.'” Here the piece boldly declares “the tide has turned” against the fascist in the White House.

I’ll quote some of this lovely piece here: “It is the first major, flashing-neon, impossible-to-spin sign that the American public has begun to reject the catastrophic second presidency of Donald Trump.”

Again, the language here is impossible to not overstate: “New York did not just choose a new mayor. It chose a new direction, a new generation, and a new political vocabulary.”

According to the article, Mamdani built a powerful coalition that Trumpism has never understood and cannot compete with: younger voters, working-class immigrants, and the Black and Latino communities who know too well what it means to be used (by Dump and his horrible party) as political props and then summarily abandoned.

Mamdani didn’t just win, according to the article, he redrew the map of who holds power in New York City. He did it while becoming the city’s first Muslim mayor and the first South Asian to ever hold the office.

So, what did the idiot in the White House do in the wake of these disastrous results? He does what he always does: he shrugs, he deflects, he denies, he snarls, he bursts out in anger. Here he blamed Congress, his staff, the government shutdown, the “media elite,” but always forgetting to blame himself. He was the sole person on the ballot and people came out in droves to vote against him!

This was also on the ballot, according to this well-written article, “his policies, his cruelty, his chaos, his hollow nationalism, his disdain for every person who does not fit his reflection – those were the issues voters saw. And they rejected them.”

All of those states that racked up large Democratic victories were saying one thing very clearly: We are done with the policies of this cruel administration. The conclusion is quite telling: “And Trump, for the first time in this term, looks like a man who knows he is being outplayed.”

In the wake of this wonderful good news, today will be my last blog before next Monday, November 10, because Elliot and I are flying to Nashville, Tennessee, tomorrow morning for a four-day birthday celebration. It was this or a party, but I decided upon going somewhere where I haven’t been to before. One friend is joining us: “Harvey.” He overheard Elliot mentioning our going to Nashville a while ago, and he asked if he could come along. Elliot cheerily said “sure, you can.” He’ll be meeting us in Nashville since he’ll be leaving out of Newark Airport. He is also staying at the same hotel where we’ll be staying. But he will not be accompanying us to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday, November 8. He said he might be going to an ice hockey game. But we’ll join up for some nice meals, that’s for sure.

Have a good four days. Hope to see you on Monday.

And so it went!

And So It Goes

Today is Friday, October 10, 2025. One day after the monster-in-chief gave the go-ahead to indict a sitting attorney general in New York for absolutely nothing, that Attorney General, Letitia James, achieved the best single day of fundraising in a nearly 30-year political career. This stunning reality is covered in an online CNN article entitled “Letitia James sees a record fundraising surge and Democratic support after indictment.”

A source familiar with James’s political operation told CNN she brought in $567,000 from over 24,000 donors in the 24 hours after she was indicted yesterday afternoon on felony charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. A little reminder: this monster-in-chief was actually indicted some years back by this same attorney general for doing exactly the same thing. Sounds quite rich to me, don’t you think? Most of the same fundraising came in response to emails her political operation was sending out to capitalize on the news, though some donations came in on their own.

James’s prepared video response to the indictment drew 4.3 million views on X in that same 24 hours.

In the immediate aftermath of the announcement, national and New York Democrats rushed to support her, led by mayoralty candidate Zohran Mamdani, whom James has been helping both on the New York City mayoralty campaign and in gearing up for governing if he wins.

That same candidate for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, spoke in front of the same courthouse where Attorney General James was doing her job – indicting and thrusting the monster-in-chief in front of a jury that eventually ruled against him – and said, “This is a blatant miscarriage of justice; this is a shameless act of political retribution.”

If Mamdani wins the race, it is the avowed promise of the monster-in-chief to pull billions in funding from the nation’s largest city if the 33-year-old candidate is victorious, which seems to be the case. I forgot to mention that the current mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the race sometime last week, and I say, “Good riddance!” He is inextricably connected with the monster-in-chief and many staffers in his administration have been arrested and charged for financial crimes. This does not look good in a candidate for mayor, and he probably knew his chances of winning a second term slid into the toilet when the Dump administration dropped charges against him last year. I disliked him for this very reason and his about-face on removing Medicare from over 250,000 city retirees, which he initially said he wouldn’t but when he took office, he did an about-face and changed his mind to deciding to throw all of us in a Managed Care program that met with opposition for many years. This alone turned me on him, and this happened very early in his first – and only – term.

The other candidate for mayor, Andrew Cuomo, was a little reticent when it came to defending the attorney general in her upcoming legal case. It’s very apparent why this was so since it was James who led the investigation and release of a report into sexual misconduct allegations that ultimately resulted in Cuomo’s resignation as New York governor. So it doesn’t seem too farfetched if he is reticent in condemning these charges since James would be considered his opponent who drove him out of office in the first place.

Hours after Mamdani’s rally in Manhattan, Cuomo did issue a new statement calling for universal condemnation of politicizing the justice system. The statement now included a mention of James’s name, but said Cuomo too had been the victim of politically motivated investigations.

In the statement, Cuomo said, “The weaponization and politicization of the justice system is wrong no matter which side you are on – period.” Then he plays the poor victim, saying, “I know firsthand as the White House weaponized the DOJ against me when I was governor of New York and three other democratic states during the height of COVID and it’s wrong that it appears to be happening with AG James and Former FBI Director Comey – it is part of why people have lost faith in the Justice system, the cornerstone of our democracy.”

Mamdani said he had spoken to James shortly after the indictment became public to reassure her of the support she had.

“She told me, ‘Don’t worry about me,'” Mamdani said. He added, “That’s indicative of an attorney general who has spent all of her time worrying about the people of the state.”

Maybe then this monster-in-chief should be worried that James will emerge victorious after these baseless charges against her are either dismissed or she is declared innocent of all of the drummed-up charges against her. She’ll be more powerful after this, not less, and the little, fearful man sitting in the White House will appear ever more weakened altogether.

Dump is the smallest of men who must be stewing in his own Adult Diapers after it was revealed today that he lost the Nobel Peace Prize. The award was given to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a Latina and a woman, which should enrage the small, petty man in the White House to no end. She was given the prize “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” according to a statement from the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Today Elliot and I performed a mitzvah by driving to Long Island to pay a visit to our friend “Joseph,” who is recovering at a rehabilitation center after having surgery for a broken hip sustained in a fall there. We spent less than a hour visiting him since we were parked by a one-hour parking stand. We spoke about our last trip with Joseph and he mentioned how he got into his current predicament. He was sitting in a wheelchair and seemed quite shvach, which is to be expected. He couldn’t tell us precisely when he might be discharged, but he did posit that it could be another four weeks or longer. So there will definitely be further visits with him in the near future.

Have a good weekend, everyone. Unfortunately, it might be quite a wet one this time.

And so it went!