DSA! DSA!

 


This is the aftermath of a cargo plane crash near the Louisville airport, but it could just as well be the morning after Election Day for the Trump cult.

The fully fueled UPS plane (destination Honolulu) hit a petroleum recycler but according to the governor it could have been worse -- it missed a restaurant, a large auto plant and a convention center filling up for a livestock show.  Nine people are dead rather than hundreds.  

Not such good news for the Republicans, who were rebuffed from coast to coast, from Prop 50 in California to Mayor-elect Mamdani in New York.  Even in Georgia Democrats took control of the Public Service Commission, the first time in two decades they have won a non-federal statewide election.  The PSC sets utility rates and is in a position to tell Dear Leader where he can drill, baby, drill.

Even the Democratic Congressional "leadership" awoke with stiffened spines, writing to "demand a bipartisan meeting of legislative leaders to end the GOP shutdown of the federal government and decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis...Thank you for your attention to this matter."  Nice one, especially since even yesterday Schumer wouldn't say who he had voted for.  What a difference a day makes, as Dinah Washington used to say.

Three Democratic justices won ten-year terms on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court although Dear Leader labeled them with the dread word "woke."  (He blames them for Biden winning the state.)  Philadelphia elected district attorney Larry Krasner to a third term despite the rage of Elon Musk.   Democrats added to their majority in the Virginia House of Delegates by flipping thirteen seats.  Cory Bowman, J.D. Vance's half-brother, lost in Cincinnati to incumbent mayor Aftab Pureval.  Mary Sheffield will be the first woman to serve as mayor of Detroit, and Ghazala Hashmi will be lieutenant governor of Virginia, the first Muslim woman elected to statewide office in the nation.

Some of the reactions have been a tad extreme:

That's from last July, when Dersh was embroiled in the Great Pierogi War.  I hope he has had time to calm down.  He doesn't even live in New York.

Same with Trump's ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, who has been busy comparing Mamdani to Hitler.  First he's a communist, then he's a Nazi -- could they settle on one?  A communazi?

Sean Hannity's friends are "officially depressed and scared" and he criticized Cuomo for "spending too much time in the Hamptons."  That's where you go for money, not votes, but money can't buy you love.  Of course, Dear Leader had his own explanation for the debacle:

Interesting -- he gave up at 7:05 pm.  The Trump we know would have been rage-posting through the early morning and blaming Joe Biden for everything.  New prescription?
 
Meanwhile Nancy Mace is still in psychotic meltdown about the airport.  Senators Scott and Graham both decided it was time to come to the defense of the personnel who gave her grief by treating her like a member of the public and she can't stop tweeting.  She has brought out her "victimized woman" persona and accuses everyone of  "coming after me."  As of today she is suing Charleston Airport, American Airlines, CBS, the Cleveland Browns -- no, I'm sorry, that was Whiplash Willie Gingrich in The Fortune Cookie.  Also, she thinks Lindsey Graham might be G-A-Y.  Doesn't Congressional health insurance cover mental therapy?

MAGA is having a sad day and I'm already out of popcorn.  Here's former Congressman, former federal prisoner, Cordon Bleu chef and discoverer of Atlantis George Santos:  "Fuck you Curtis Sliwa!  I HATE YOU, your dumb wife, that stupid Beret of yours and all your fucking cats!"  Sliwa only got 7 percent of the vote, not enough to put Cuomo over.  Other disappointed New Yorkers were less eloquent:  "I truly hope Curtis Sliwa is shunned in NYC.  He is a disgrace, a coward and a traitor and should no longer be welcome to walk the streets he claimed to support."  "Shame on you, you're a scumbag, you will never be loved in New York City ever again."  If only Sliwa had some sort of organization, a kind of militia, which could watch his back.  


Trump finds all physical disabilities yucky.  According to General Mark Milley he didn't want Captain Luis Avila, a disabled veteran who sang "God Bless America" at Arlington, anywhere near him.  He told Miriam Adelson that the Medal of Freedom was much better than the Medal of Honor because you don't have to be all shot up and gross.  He's not going to be happy that Judge Amir H. Ali has ordered the White House to bring back ASL interpreters for the hearing impaired.  Having the stage to himself is evidently more important than reaching additional viewers.  

He may be "better looking" in his own imagination than Zohran Mamdani but he's probably enraged that People magazine named Jonathan Bailey "Sexiest Man Alive."  Hmmm......


Lots of people will be enraged because Bailey is openly gay.  I wish Charlie Kirk were here to see it.

This will bring back memories for New Yorkers:


In the old days he would have hired undocumented workers and then had them deported.  Trump has sacrificed so much for his Country.

























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