Thursday's Final Word – HotAir
Up next
Author
Tags

Thursday’s tabs have far to go …





Ed: Mamdani provides SO MANY reasons for concern that it’s difficult to keep up. These are just more data points. The real question, though, is why the Protection Racket Media refuses to fully report this aspect of Mamdani and the DSA. Unfortunately, we know the answer to that question — they approve of Soviet and Beijing propaganda. 

===

Axios: Between the lines: Wall Street can be more of a vibe than a place these days.

Wall Street South in Florida and Y’all Street in Texas have both gained in popularity, with the Texas Stock Exchange winning federal approval in September.

“Wall Street” is often the bête noire of retail investors, whose growing influence makes them account for 25% of daily stock trading volume.

The bottom line: Home is where the heart is, and for Wall Street, the heart follows the money.

Ed: The bottom line is that the bottom line matters most to capital markets. This report fleshes out the options I have spelled out on occasion for the financial markets to move to Texas, and why those incentives matter. They haven’t yet made that decision, but they have spent the last few years preparing for that contingency. Inertia only lasts so long when the bottom line gets threatened. 

===

Ed: Guy’s right. I hadn’t heard that Jared Golden had announced his retirement, but it’s a big deal. Democrats keep marching to the Left. The DSA is taking control and leading Democrats into “pretty dark” places, as Guy warns. 





===

Politico: “Business people, smart business people, going into this are thinking, ‘Watch your ass, you’re in combat,’” said John Catsimatidis, a billionaire oil executive, grocery store tycoon and ally of President Donald Trump. “I talked to him once. He’s a young kid … He never ran anything. If he came in with a job application I wouldn’t hire him to run a supermarket.”

Catsimatidis, who unsuccessfully pressed Republican Curtis Sliwa to get out of the mayoral race to aid former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s bid, is weighing his business options.

“What I’m going to do is reduce my exposure to New York,” he said. “I have a lot of businesses in New York, I have a lot of assets in New York. Remember the old expression, ‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket?’”

Ed: Catsimatidis won’t be the only venture capitalist weighing options and contingencies. It won’t take much to have one or two players start making moves, and then have everyone else scramble to keep up or get ahead. 

===

Ed: It’s not the judge. It’s the DC jury. Supposedly, the statute requires an establishment of intent, but the fact that he ran away was plenty of evidence that he knew he had committed an intentional, criminal act. It’s absurd, but there’s not much more that can be done in this instance. 

===





Ed: Duly noted. Also duly noted is the WaPo’s characterization of an assault on a law enforcement officer as a “slapstick symbol of resistance.” Imagine how the WaPo would have characterized it had a pro-life demonstrator did this to an FBI agent. 

===

Politico: Republicans made a new offer to Senate Democrats Thursday in hopes of cutting a deal that would end the 37-day government shutdown and advance a package of three full-year spending bills, according to four people granted anonymity to disclose the private discussions.

The new offer arrived just ahead of a crucial closed-door lunch where Democratic senators will discuss the path forward. Republicans have thrown a new sweetener in the mix, according to two of the people — that they are willing to discuss rehiring federal workers who have been laid off during the shutdown as part of a deal to end it.

Ed: So much for draining the swamp. I’m not sure they’re really giving much away, though. Courts would likely have forced the administration to rehire these workers eventually. Russ Vought claimed that the shutdown enabled layoffs, and maybe one could interpret the law that way, but it would drag out for months and years. If Republicans made this offer, they got a green light from the White House to do so, which tells me that they figured this out, too. That’s why Vought only issued a couple of rounds of RIFs. 

===

Ed: Make another video for Washington DC residents that want law and order, and want criminals prosecuted. Granted, there may only be a few dozen of them, but still … 





===

i24 News (France): A recent survey conducted by direct polls chaired by Zuriel Sharon for i24NEWS suggests that a large majority of Israelis perceive New York City’s mayor-elect, Mamdani, as antisemitic, and that his election could influence travel plans to the city. …

According to the survey results, 83% of respondents said they believe Mamdani is antisemitic, while only 8% disagreed, and 9% said they did not know.

When asked whether Mamdani’s election would affect their decision to visit New York City, 46% said they would avoid traveling to the city, 34% said they would continue visiting as usual, and 20% were unsure.

Ed: Why go where you are clearly not welcome? Mamdani is not just an anti-Semite, he is explicitly and especilally anti-Israeli. His party wants Israel destroyed and replaced with a Greater Palestine run by Hamas. Mamdani’s own policy set will make New York City more unsafe generally and especially for Jews. However, I certainly hope that Israelis will visit America and meet people in communities where half of its electorate doesn’t vote for Jew-haters. 

===

Ed: It’s the most wonderful time of the year … but wear a hat if you’re in Florida. 

===

Brendan O’Neill at Spiked: The most galling thing about the Mamdani phenomenon is its claim to be a working-class uprising. Mamdani himself says he’ll fight for the working classes, though surely he’ll have to meet some of them first. The global left is gushing over his win as if it were New York’s equivalent of the Paris Commune. What we have here is the staggeringly dishonest co-option of class politics by an over-credentialled emergent elite who will in truth be pursuing their own Bushwick bullshit, not the improvement of the lot of New York’s workers. They cosplay as class warriors because that’s sexier than the reality – that they’re privileged members of an activist class that will cancel you if you say lesbians don’t have penises but love you if you say ‘Destroy Israel’.





Mamdani’s campaign has exposed how the faux-socialists of the burgeoning young elite really view the working classes – as the saps of history; as agency-lacking victims who require smart cookies from Brooklyn with two degrees in political studies to rescue them from the moral doldrums. Hence, Mamdani’s ‘working-class uprising’ involves talk of free bus travel and city-run grocery stores. It’s charity masquerading as revolution. To the Uber-taking arts crowd of the downtown Mamdani set, ‘working class’ means tragic little people who can’t afford the bus and who crave an apple from the government. Please stop calling paternalism ‘socialism’.

Ed: Honestly, this may be the best and most brutally accurate analysis of the Mamdani phenomenon. And the AOC phenomenon, for that matter. But don’t underestimate the Marxism inhererent in this movement. They are deadly serious about that aspect, because even with all of the absurdity of the people that make it up, they do at least understand power. 

===

We’ve got millions who LOVE Trump but stay home when he’s not on the ballot. That’s how blue states slip through. Focus. Discipline. Victory. Are you in or out?

Ed: Look, I’m in, but that doesn’t mean I’m simply going to take marching orders. The GOP didn’t lose these elections because we had a controversy over whether to mainstream Nazi fans and anti-Semites. We lost these elections because (a) they took place in blue states, and (b) the leaders of the party still aren’t matching the organizational intensity of the Left. That’s not an “in or out” issue. That’s a leadership issue. 





===

Newsbusters: Tur then openly wondered “if the exodus out of New York is overblown or if it might happen,” citing an open letter from The Florida Council of 100 to New York business leaders.

Pretending that the ongoing relocation won’t continue to be a trend, Tur mentioned how plenty of rich folk (like herself) stuck around: “There was a move for many hedge funders and bankers to move to Palm Beach during the pandemic. But still, I mean, the city has a lot of billionaires, has a lot of millionaires, has a lot of big companies based here.”

We’ll see how long her contract lasts under MSNOW.

Tur’s main source of proof for why the rest of New York’s elite will stay? That’s right, the “culture”:

We offer a whole lot more than Florida or Texas or anyone else has in terms of culture and opportunity and dining and plays. I mean, it is the cultural — one of the cultural capitals of the world, and you can’t really — you can’t copy it in other places, you can’t find a lot of this in other places.

Ed, Ah, the old “the world ends at the Hudson” attitude, which is related to Pauline Kael Syndrome. Tur doesn’t understand that the ‘culture’ in New York City relies on its population and commerce. When people start leaving NYC, they will take those resources with them and use them to create “culture” where they live next. 

===

Ed: FA, meet FO. When you stan for Hamas, don’t cry when you get treated like Osama bin Laden. 





===

Ed: We are the counterculture now. Mark Judge grasps this. Time for us to embrace it. 


If we thought our job in pushing back against the Academia/media/Democrat censorship complex was over with the election, think again. This is going to be a long fight. If you’re digging these Final Word posts and want to join the conversation in the comments — and support independent platforms — why not join our VIP Membership program? Choose VIP to support Hot Air and access our premium content, VIP Gold to extend your access to all Townhall Media platforms and participate in this show, or VIP Platinum to get access to even more content and discounts on merchandise. Use promo code POTUS47 to get 74% off your VIP membership!



You May Also Like
Dua Lipa has revealed she would 'love' to have children with her fiancé Callum Turner after announcing their engagement

Dua Lipa reveals her family plans with fiancé Callum Turner after confirming their engagement

Dua Lipa has revealed she would ‘love’ to have children with her…
“What Is Wrong With You People?”: Woman Who Dreamed Of Having Freckles Gets Them Tattooed On Face

“What Is Wrong With You People?”: Woman Who Dreamed Of Having Freckles Gets Them Tattooed On Face

A 26-year-old woman’s quest to have freckles left the internet claiming she…
The Cornish fishing port of Mousehole, which teems with short-term lets, is a tourist hotspot

I love my French second home. But I’d NEVER buy one in the UK… and here’s why

The woman in the bakery hands me my loaf and asks if…
Myleene Klass cuts a glamorous figure in a plunging red silk dress as she switches on the Covent Garden Christmas lights with actor Luke Evans

Myleene Klass cuts a glamorous figure in a plunging red silk dress as she switches on the Covent Garden Christmas lights with actor Luke Evans

She never puts a foot wrong when it comes to fashion. And…