Tomorrow – Tuesday, the 4th of November – is the first election since the election of Trump last year. Will New York City elect an outright Communist? Will my state – Virginia – elect one that’s not quite entirely out-of-the-closet yet?
It looks like it, from the standpoint of 24 hours away. The polls already decree the Communist will be the next mayor of New York City and it seems to be headed the same direction in Virginia, too.
But then, what is the alternative?
In New York City, it is the loathsome Andrew Cuomo. Imagine being a resident of New York who remembers what it was like to live in New York when Cuomo was the governor – and turned the city into a sickness gulag during “COVID.” He all-but-literally put a gun to the head of tens of thousands of elderly people in nursing homes that were forced to accept contagious people routed there from hospitals, who passed the bug along to these actually vulnerable old people, thousands of whom died. He also tortured everyone else in the city with some of the most extreme “COVID” mandates that destroyed the city economically in the process while also, apparently, sexually harassing women he worked with. He resigned in 2021 – to avoid being removed – and now he is back.
And now he’s the only alternative to the outright Communist.
In Virginia, the alternative is not a Communist. Just an ineffectual opponent of Communism. Winsome Sears characterizes the female crypto-Trotsky who appears likely to be my state’s next governor as “weak” – as opposed to being a Communist.
Sears is like so many opponents of Communism in that she is afraid to say what it is. Probably because she – like so many Republicans – fundamentally agrees with Communists. Or at least, is afraid (or unable) to contradict them on principle when it comes to such things as government schools and the forced funding of them by people who do not have children in the government’s schools and would never send their own to them. She critiques the crypto-Trotsky for favoring policies that allow boys – not just little boys, either – to use the girl’s room in government schools (in one case, a “boy” old enough – sexually mature enough – to perform rape did just that in a Loudoun County, Va government school girl’s room) but does not question government schools. Or the so-called “property taxes” that finance them.
She tried – in the one debate that was held with the crypto-Trotsky – to tsk tsk her for failing to renounce the racialist Communist who may just become the state’s next attorney general. But overall, she has been ineffectual in beating back the advance of the crypto-Communist from Northern Virginia, which is the blue hive adjacent to the imperial city that effectively controls the state.
To win, Sears must persuade just about every other eligible voter outside the blue hive to vote for her and even that may not be enough. The Communists who live in the hive appear to be fired up and wanting revenge; they are rested and ready – like Nixon was, back in ’68. They are not demoralized by having a hair-plugged senile old man as their standard-bearer. The crypto-Trotksy is young-ish and full of the vicious vigor of Communism, which is premised on the dictum that power is all that matters and so it follows that whatever is necessary to get it and hold onto it is all that matters.
Sears – who seems like a nice woman – is too nice to be effective against a Communist. What is needed is a real nut-cutter. But would the state’s Republicans vote for one? Most of them also support “the schools,” which means they support one of the planks of the Communist Manifesto. Read it yourself and see. How does one effectively thwart Communism by agreeing with it?
It is wearying – if you are not a Communist and if you do not want the authoritarian “alternative” to it, either.
People who want to deal with others on the basis of cooperation and consent, who believe what’s not theirs doesn’t belong to them (and request that others agree that what belongs to them does not belong to others) are in essentially the same dreadful position as the man who got falsely convicted of some victimless-crime statutory offense such as “tax evasion” and got sent to a prison full of actual criminals.
There appears to be no escape, in other words.
The same scales. Where will New Yorkers who are not Communists flee when the red flag rises – and the call to prayer is heard? Where will the Virginians who aren’t Communists – or authoritarians who want no part of “the schools” – go if the pants-suited crypto-Trotsky is handed the baton of power over the people?
Where does the man sent to prison in our example go?
His only options are submit – or fight. The latter is no rhetorical device, either. It is not Vote Harder next time. It may well actually come to a fight.
Either that, or the other option.
It is no joke. Ask a Russian who remembers the Revolution that turned Russia into a Communist state (Solzhenitsyn wrote it all down).
We Americans may well have to remember it, again.
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At Lew Rockwell’s site this morning, Caitlin Johnstone quotes a depraved old R-party fudge-packer with brown smudges on his nose:
‘Massacre fetishist Lindsey Graham said “Trump is my favorite president” because “we’re killing all the right people and we’re cutting your taxes” during a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Summit on Friday.’
And that ain’t all. A dreadful kerfuffle has broken out among the R-party faithful, because Tucker Carlson dared to interview … Nick Fuentes. The New York Slimes paints Carlson’s offense against decency in lurid colors:
G.O.P. Figures Seek Distance From Tucker Carlson, Denouncing Antisemitism
Prominent Republicans rejected the views of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist
Oy vey! Graham went on to aver that “I’m in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the Republican Party.” (When it comes to what Graham sucks, you really don’t wanna know.)
But this passage from the Slimes stenographer takes the cake:
‘Mr. Carlson in the past described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, as “sweaty and rat-like”; “shifty”; “dead-eyed”; a “persecutor of Christians”; and a “friend of BlackRock,” the investment company.’
https://archive.ph/jKGZx#selection-933.157-933.377
Shocking words indeed! But there’s just one leeeetle problem: they’re one hundred percent true! Ah ha ha ha … VICTORY IN UKRAINE! 🙂
When our nation’s founders were trying to overthrow the despotism of King George, they wrote: “[W]hen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” But once they had succeeded, they codified the new government’s ability to “suppress insurrections” with armed force. So much for sic semper tyrannis. It just shows that any form of organized government will always trend toward tyranny, which is why voting — or any participation in formal government — is always a mistake.
People always form governments no matter what. Is there an example of a community within the last 100 years without it?
A potentially divisive fragmented comment there, Mr. Goundhog:
“People always form governments no matter what. Is there an example of a community within the last 100 years without it?”
I wonder, do you Love a boot on your neck? And, enjoy giving your money to goons?
Anyway, It Is a good-ish question. The Check Mate answer is: The Amish.
See also:…Go back a bit further in time & you’ll find that the Vikings did pretty well without a “goobermint” for a Very long while.
You might even conclude that Native American Indians didn’t really have a, “goobermint” either. The ‘Chief’ wasn’t an absolute ruler as portrayed on the TeeVee, rather; he was a wise man to be counseled.
…But, I suspect your mind is already made up, and closed? Idk.
“we believe that government as a legitimate agency of coercion was absent for a long enough period to provide insights into the operation and viability of property rights in the absence of a formal state. The nature of contracts for the provision of “public goods” and the evolution of western “laws” for the period from 1830 to 1900 will provide the data for this case study.” …
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/07/no_author/the-not-so-wild-wild-west/
You can rail against government all you want but it’s human (tribal) nature to form them. It’s a rigged game but it’s the only game in town. And if you don’t play, you still get played.
Hmm, “but it’s human (tribal) nature to form them”
Or, it’s the result of a bunch of Jerks who stand to gain, who manipulate others, to do their bidding in order to enrich themselves and gain power & control?
Nothing ‘natural’ about it. It’s all about the seven deadly sins, of which, you’re just fine with (lust) so, perhaps that leaves you blind? Idk.
Anyway, your comment reeks of defeatism.
Roll over & expose you belly, already.
You want to remember that all of these political labels like communist, socialist, democrat, republican, right, left etc. apply to collectivist ideologies that will always develop into tyrannical application of violence against individuals……Robert Heinlein said it fifty years or more ago….
“Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
One thing I’d point out about Mamdani is that he’s talking about issues that matter to residents of NYC, even though he’s full of shit….the other
“candidates” are in competition to see who can fellate the state of Israel the hardest….meanwhile, the war pigs in charge openly don’t give a shit about the citizens of this country……tis a condition of chronic recto-cranial inversion from which any vision is a shitty one for we the people…just saying…..
Seems like, you just described the two wings of the same bird of prey. The head – the eating beak – is the Communist/Marxist/Socialist desire to devour & destroy the individual.
The R & the D give The monster the power of flight & expansion. The Power to grip individuals within its claws.
Oh wait, … the focus should be about improving the economy.
Making sheet more affordable.
…Forget all that other stuff. MIGA! And, Ukraine. ,,,Don’t forget about them! ..And, Argentina, they need money, too. Lots.
Spend. Spend. Spend. Print. Print. Print.
…With All your heart, Print!
It’s said you vote your way into communism and shoot your way out of it. This will of course be a learning experience for many in NYC…….
I am not sure how they are going to shoot their way out seeing is only the criminals are allowed to have guns there. Maybe the serfs can beat them to death.
Hi Shadow, that’s why I called it a learning experience. Once the “Citizens” discover that they are actually closer to being “Helots” (state owned slaves) they might actually do something. I have my doubts but I can always hope.
Here is communism from the Republicans. A bill to JAIL those who actually believe in, and exercise, constitutional rights, by refusing to identify themselves in traffic stops:
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/11/ohio-bill-would-jail-drivers-who-refuse-to-identify-during-traffic-stops.html
Calls for Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa to drop out of the race are even coming from the GOP.
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2025/10/20/curtis-sliwa-republican-calls-to-drop-bid
How often do we hear a “3rd Party” is needed? Do you ever NOT hear people complaining that they don’t support the D or R offerings.
Yet.
When Cuomo loses the Democrat Primary to Mamdani he enters the race as an “independent”. Why this is allowed, I don’t know. But, now people are calling for Sliwa, who won the R primary to drop out because it will help Mamdani win.
The electoral process is FUBAR in this country. However, if voting could change things it wouldn’t be allowed.
Mamdani needs to give it to NYC good and hard, it’s what they’ve voted for.
“None of the above”
Until that’s a valid option on the ballot, both sides will continue putting clowns on the ballot.
Once government workers have to pack up cardboard boxes of their mementos and leave them vacant until at least the next election, we will start seeing a trend towards government workers worth having.
There would be lots of empty offices, and that would be good!
Have the option to vote for a ”do not fill’ the position.
Just the fact of its being back after 4 years speaks volumes on the mind of the new yawker. The commie is a better ummmmm choice. Existing in a sardine can does this.
New York City just has to pee on the electric fence by electing Mamdani.
I think it’s because the generations that remember how awful New York City once was and how awful Communism is have mostly faded away.
But New York City is asking for it, so there’s that.
It shouldn’t matter who is elected because the feral and state gov’mints are required by law to be republican in form. They are supposed to be limited to specifically listed privileges in a written constitution.
That was to be enforced by the people, by various means including the veto power of voting out the management, the prohibition on standing armies (née cops) and the right of all people to keep and bear all military weapons.
The problem is when some critical mass of corruption is voted in and/or tolerated, it required real direct action to remove. And so far that hasn’t happened. And while El Trumpo is breaking a lot of rules and giving way too much support to Israel, we are seeing progress for the first time in my 60 years. I pray it’s not too little and too late.
Comments similar to yours often remind me of plots/themes/solution in films such as ‘Chisum’.
‘CHISUM – Full Western Movie with John Wayne’
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x958k32
“America is at that awkward stage; it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” ― Claire Wolfe
Claire wrote that a long time ago…
Yup, seems like, in a galaxy far far away, too.
Reminds me of this line:
‘There Are Decades Where Nothing Happens’ and ‘Weeks Where Decades Happen’
So much for the that once Jeffersonian Republic. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Welcome to the revolution Eric. Here’s hoping the power of steal has weakened in the Old Dominion. Sic Temper Tyranus. Every state could use more of that.
Manhands Spamburgler is kind of scary with all the past CIA association. Being the dude, that plays a chick, that plays another governesses is no great look. Be weary, having communists bitchez run your state is a helluva thing. Our lick-lick AG is still trying to prosecute ‘election deniers’ from 2020.
This post turtle, filthy pantsuit, female DEI hire governor BS is getting way out of hand. 25% of all governors in the country are now chewish tokens representing a fraction of a fraction of the populace. GTFO, not an accident, not buying that shit for a minute.
As for New Yorkers, If you guys are smart you will dissuade them from relocating to Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. We’ve found here in AZ, they tend to be the soft R types, only enlarging the ranks of the McShame brand of uni-party stooges. No state needs more of that. Except maybe California, or New York.
New York City is the epitome of citizen disarmament whose residents have been taking it for a very long time…and apparently liking it.
Since the Sullivan Laws were enacted, enabling the most extreme and restrictive limits on the acquisition and uses of firearms, the Constitutional right to defend one’s self and others has been almost totally obliterated.
Once restricted to handguns, the laws have been extended to rifles and shotguns, all of (what were supposed to be “registered”) demanding that they either be confiscated or taken out of NYC.
I’ll bet that those people who voluntarily turned in their weapons added to NYC police officers’ extensive, nice gun collections.
NYC prosecutors relish the thought of prosecuting those who legally defend themselves, even a “rolled up newspaper” is considered to be an illegal “weapon”.
The honest citizen is the easiest person to charge and convict.
If you defend yourself successfully against a criminal without NYC police being involved, you WILL be prosecuted.
Witness Daniel Penny who was being viciously prosecuted for saving fellow subway passengers from mentally ill Jordan Neely who had been harassing and threatening subway passengers for decades. Thankfully he was acquitted of all charges.
The case of the bodega owner, Jose Alba who successfully thwarted a knife attack, his attacker succumbing to his injuries, was under indictment and prosecution for murder until a groundswell of opposition forced the prosecutor to back off on prosecuting him.
The case of Bernie Goetz, the subway rider who thwarted being robbed by dispatching three of his attackers to the “hospital”. Subway crimes dropped dramatically after that act. If Goetz had kept his mouth shut, no one would have been the wiser.
What kind of society prosecutes the victim of a crime?
It happens in NYC all the time.
You see, the approximately 36,000 NYC police officers constitute a powerful lobby and do not want to give up their monopoly on the use of force.
They cannot have their monopoly on the use of force jeopardized by allowing honest citizens to provide for their own self-defense by “taking the law into their own hands”.
Despite having relatives who live in NYC, I will not visit or enter NYC. This also applies to New Jersey.
Remember back in 2012 when a New York City reporter published the names and addresses of concealed carry permit holders? These people real have a hard-on for tyranny. Below is the news link that I found via a Google search. https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/25/us/new-york-gun-permit-map
Some of us wont even discharge a Cessna relief tube over that miasma. Waste of good fertilizer.
Say it isn’t so…
Eric, your statement about the muslim call to prayer doesn’t hold water. There is no way that such a mandate would be forced on New Yorkers or tolerated by them, or is there?
That being said, when doing business, I trust muslims over jews any day.
In my businesses, I have dealt with people of all stripes. I have provided a much-needed technical service at a fair price which is beneficial for all.
I have had many repeat customers, not having to advertise except by “word-of-mouth”. My reputation is valuable and is a part of my ethics–providing an honest service at a fair price.
I have dealt with many middle easterners, where “haggling” is a part of doing business. I have no problem with “haggling”, understanding that in middle eastern and even in other cultures, bargaining on price is “the way things are done” and I respect that.
I have never had a problem with Muslim customers. Yes, “haggling” does go on, but when I explain the reasons for the pricing of my services, they accept the agreed-upon costs.
I have NEVER had a good experience in my business dealing with jews.
Yes, they “haggle” which is to be expected, but they also are aggressive in their demands for a lower price, no matter how reasonable the cost.
Not only that, jews do not pay their bills either on time, or the agreed-upon amount. The times that I have accepted business from a jew, they either don’t pay at all, late pay or attempt to pay a lesser than the agreed-upon amount. Attaching a lien to the property is one of the only ways to assure that a jew will pay his bill.
I learned my “lesson” many decades ago and will not deal with jews without demanding payment “up front”.
In fact, I prefer not to deal with jews at all. The hassle and aggravation is just not worth it.
I would LOVE to see Mamdani acieve political office in NYC. The jewish power structure deserves some real opposition.
So excited for NYC. I am 100% behind Mamdani. Not because I adore communism, but because I can’t wait for this infested shithole to fall into the Hudson River. These people shit where they eat and they roundly deserve everything that’s coming. Those that can, will flee to north Jersey, Connecticut, and Westchester County, driving up property values just like when they fled Coofmo. New York State should be kicked out of US.
Except when it inevitably fails, the fools that think “Communism” equals “Free Crap Forever” will go after those of us who actually suffered under such a system in the past (growing), and tried to warn them. No, they will think it failed because they did not double down hard enough. These pro-Commies (people & politicians) will never admit they are wrong until they are faced with death as a result (in some form), and even then, that is debatable.
Yep, to a communist/socialist/democrat the problem is always the reactionaries, the breakers, and the free/black marketeers. It is never their evil and intrinsically corrupt ideology.
The problem for them is, ‘the right people have never been in charge.’
It’s never been done right, they weren’t real communists, we didn’t have enough power, and right down the list. It is a religious heresy (communism/socialism/demo) and they are zealots and fanatics.
Ernie,
Let us not forget the reaction from many Democrats when it became increasingly obvious the “Safe and Effective COVID jabs!” were NOT…. instead of blaming Big Pharma for creating unsafe and ineffective jabs, they blamed the jabs’ ineffectiveness on people who DIDN’T take them. Remember the narrative “Pandemic of the unvaccinated!” being pounded by bureaucrats such as Tony Fauci and Rochelle Walensky, corporate media, and the Biden regime? Democrats even advocated severe punishment for those who refused to be guinea pigs for the mass vaccination experiment conducted by Big Pharma. If we should have another gain of function virus leaking into the public, I wouldn’t put it past corrupt governments to try to enact the same nonsensical but also harmful diktats they issued in 2020-22 under guise of EMERGENCY.
The later reaction of many Democrat supporters regarding the “not-so-safe-and-effective” jabs, was their telling us un-jabbed it was OUR fault for not warning them that it was an unsafe jab. That it was OUR fault they were now sick and suffering for taking the very jab they were willing to destroy us for NOT taking. You cannot make this crap up if you tried.
Hi Shadow,
You may like the below clip of a recent Jimmy Dore interview with James Corbett. He makes the case that after COVID, many people came to LOVE the proverbial government boot on their necks, which may also explain why there are people who STILL wear face diapers everywhere even in 2025…
https://rumble.com/v713cby-covid-taught-americans-to-love-the-boot-on-their-necks-w-james-corbett.html?e9s=src_v1_cmd%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
Most remaining public diaper donners are obviously terrified olden hypochondriacs. One outa 10 might be male. Havent seen one under 30 in weeks. This is as its always been.
Not my experience in TN….the diaper wearers are young, old, and in between…..the young males do tend to be generally unhealthy though…..come to think of it…none of the maskerbators seems healthy….I wonder why
Same here, Giuseppe!
Just yesterday, I saw a guy wearing a muzzle who was prolly in his 30s. I try hard – and it’s hard – to not openly laugh at these people. The better part of me says don’t do it; they’re literally sick in the head and deserve compassion. Even so… .
RE: “Just yesterday, I saw a guy wearing a muzzle who was prolly in his 30s”
Thankfully, it’s been YEARS since I saw such a sight.
All the face diaper pod people here in Eastern Iowa have all been Very frail & Fearful looking old women & old men(women).
As you say, it makes my teeth hurt to even imagine a 30 yr old doing that.
…Every day. I’m more & more glad I live in Iowa. They got their Jackboots, and loonies in Iowa City & Des Moines, but it ain’t exactly ‘crazy town’ here. A few Pink & blue hair chicks with a booger hog nose-ting, sure.
I’ll suffer that over a 30-something guy submitting to a face diaper, any day.
‘Occult Ritual Transformation and Coronavirus: How Mask Wearing, Hand Washing, “Social Separation” and Lockdowns Are Age-Old Occult Rituals Being Used to Initiate People Into a New Global Order’
https://haveyenotread.com/occult-ritual-transformation-and-coronaviruS/
Indeed, Helot –
I see these perpetual “mask” wearers as the threat they are. These people are certain that it is righteous to wear a “mask” and no doubt seethe with hate toward all of us who don’t. If they are ever empowered again, look out.
Corbett is spot-on. Sadly, people revert to that of toddlers and small who need to be told what to do. Adults do not want to make adult decisions and take responsibility. Another reason why Communism appeals to them. They just do not realize how much it will cost them in the end because they cannot think that far ahead.
What concerns me regarding people who STILL wear face diapers is what will they do if and when governments try to reimpose face diaper mandates. Will they snitch on those who refuse to comply, or perhaps even attack them, as I’ve heard stories of face diaper zealots who attacked those who refused to comply with nonsensical mask mandates during COVID hysteria.
What will they do? They will do what they did last time: Demand forced diapering, vaccination, social isolation, and financial ruin. It may go even farther with demands for FEMA camp round ups for those daring to think for themselves and exercise bodily autonomy. Worse case scenario? They simply start shooting us for non-compliance.
Don’t kid yourself John. The next ‘gain of function’ will occur about nine months from now. Just as the Ds need millions more Chinese mail in ballots to usher in their glorious Bolshevik revolution. They’ll probably steal both houses of clowngress and quickly impeach Trump a third time, thus being the charm. I’d love to be proved wrong, but I don’t see Trump or the Rs standing up to these out of control children.
RE: “but I don’t see Trump or the Rs standing up to these out of control [Monster] children.”
Why would they?
Two wings. Same bird of prey.
More war.
More Spending/printing.
More – you pay, they gain.
…Said the scorpion to the frog…
It’s the epitome of Einstein’s statement that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
My thoughts exactly, BAC!
Enjoying the fruits of something that doesn’t work, and which has destroyed your city? Lets do more of the same, only on steroids! Eric Adams wasn’t communist enough!
The only thing that may slow down the inevitable Detroiting on NY is the institutionalized generational corruption of all involved. which, be they communist or otherwise, will always seek to protect the assets of the enshrined organized political, business, union and private organized crime interests.
Gotta love people voting for their own gulag! Maybe this Ugandan Moslem “democratic socialist” will rise above the corruption and lure of personal wealth, and actually implement the communism that the residents of NYC so richly deserve. Scary thing is, the same thing is likely going to happen all over the rest of the country, whether by the young commies electing others such as Mamdani, or by electing ones such as that Sears character whom Eric describes. Either way, these pricks are going to get what they deserve…..and I pity anyone among the sane who is not positioned to endure the shit-storm that is coming to a city, town or state near you.
Yikes!
Winsome-Sears’ opponent looks like James Woods in a wig.
The Virginia polls are much closer than they are letting on. The current AG poll show Miyares in a tie with Jones. This won’t be close. Miyares will end up winning by 7 points. Which means the governor’s race is in a dead heat.
Youngkin cleaned up the electoral roster two years ago, which means my grandpa (who passed away over a decade) will no longer vote Democrat this year. Youngkin’s approval rating also stands strong at 50%. One also needs to consider if Kirk’s assassination could have an impact for getting younger voters (especially college aged men) to veer more conservative. Spanberger is also a former CIA agent. There was a time that the Left would have never considered voting for a government spy.
I am not going to proclaim that Spanberger won’t win, but the Jones’ texts and her subpar debate performance did decrease her approval rating by a solid 4%. Undecideds are running at 7-10%, which we all know trend red. This campaign will be a nail biter.
As for The Big Apple I say give them what they want. Let’s see how long their municipal grocery stores hold up when they are unwilling to find farmers and suppliers to decrease their prices to charge $1.99 a pound for chicken or fresh veggies packaged for an all time low. Communism never works, but you will never be able to convince some people of that until the teat runs dry.
What’s this about chicken and fresh veggies? You can’t live on that stuff.
What New Yorkers want in their ghetto government grocery stores are loosies (single cigarettes) for 50 cents apiece. Think of the children! 🙂
Hi Jim,
Maybe it is where I live or maybe it is because I shop sales and play the coupon game, but it is doable to feed a family somewhat affordability. This time of year has the cheapest prices because of the holidays. Flour, sugar, cranberries, frozen turkeys, canned veggies, etc.
One can take home quite the haul if they are willing to flick through the weekly circulars between now and Thanksgiving.
Indeed, a large pantry and a couple freezers are some of the best investments available. Though we’re not seeing 99cent turkey promos any more, it’s still cheap to stock up in November
Give it time Ernie. Next week either Lidl or Aldi (don’t remember which one) has $.25 lb. Shady Brook turkey (limit 2). Giant/Martins in my area offers reward points to go toward a free turkey this time each year.
I agree though a large pantry and a couple of freezers can save someone hundreds, if not thousands, in grocery prices.
Yeppers. We have a local discount store “Grocery Outlet” a combo of stuff they always stock and odd runs/mis packaged things (mispacked usually is a wrinkled label or too much sealer on the pull to open gizmo under the cap). I got a USA raised/processed pack of chicken thighs 9 in the pack for $7.35 yesterday.
The freezer for 3rd day of leftovers, home made soups freeze really well. Also to take advantage of the big sales you noted. The Commander and I won’t give up our rib eye steaks occasionally find an over run in the “old folks meat bin” at Safeway 50% off with “sell thru” that day. Just watch for “imported” on the label, no thanks to those.
Hi Sparkey,
Yep, if I want beef/chicken if I show up by 7AM most of the stores will have them marked down to 25-50% off from the day before if there is 24 hours or less remaining on the “sale by date”. In my area we have an Ollie’s and I buy all of my toiletries, cleaning products, and a few dry foods from there. Twice a year they have an additional 15% off everything in the store. I usually leave with a full cart (sometimes two).
RE: “if I want beef/chicken if I show up by 7AM ”
You are Such a racists capitalist pig!
By, 7 A.M.?
Don’t you know that….
I can’t even continue that leftist.Commie b.s, even in jest
You know it’s out there. Seething in anger at your freezer & foresight.
…Makes me furrow my brow. Hand on forhead… etc
Hi RG,
I could be wrong, but isn’t Mamdani making the same promises in his run for NYC Mayor that Barack Obama made when he ran for president in 2008? And if he does become Mayor, will he be doing the bidding of his billionaire donors like Obama did the bidding of large banks in his first term as President? We shall see. This New York City Mayor’s race has 2 horrible candidates plus a Republican candidate who has virtually NO chance of winning given it’s NYC. Sounds like so many presidential and gubernatorial races over the past few decades.
Hi John,
No doubt. Politicians lie…all of them. As Shadow, Ernie, and Norman all mentioned the Socialists will just double down when the plebs still don’t have affordable healthcare, rent is still skyrocketing, and the system bankrupts itself. Then there will be the mass migration of the wealthy and Middle Class to exit the city. We obviously learned nothing from Chicago or San Francisco.
Sounds like governors and politicians who are doubling down on “Safe and Effective!” just to spite Trump & RFK Jr, or are doubling down on the GINORMOUS cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change scam even after Bill Gates all but admitted recently that climate change ISN’T an existential threat after insisting for years it WAS an existential threat.
But we’ll likely have propagandized people thinking we need to elect MORE Democrats to “Fix the problems Donald Trump caused”, despite the problems they speak of having existed LONG before Donald Trump even became president.
Yeah, France is learning this the hard way. They are trying a millionaire tax, and whadya know, the millionaires are leaving! Who would have thought?
Oregon has been pushing and continues to push all sorts of taxes itself, and guess what? Dutch Bros, a coffee chain that started in Grants Pass, Oregon in 1992, moved its headquarters from Grants Pass to Arizona earlier this year. And current Governor Tina Kotek, who has increasingly resorted to acting like a QUEEN lately, wants to pass EVEN MORE TAXES under guise of funding ODOT. Her precious bill was passed by the Democrat supermajority legislature in a special session a few weeks ago, but she has yet to sign it, as the bill is VERY UNPOPULAR with Oregonians and they want a say on whether these new taxes pass but don’t get a say until she signs it.
What’s amazing to me, as pissed off as the public seems, given the chance they still won’t fix it.
Here in WA the ballot initiative to eliminate “cap and trade” carbon tax grift went down to defeat, wasn’t even close. Yet, it had easily gathered the signatures to qualify for the ballot. Here we are with $4.50 a gallon gasoline, thanks.
Salt in the wound, last year the anti initiative ads “without the carbon fees we’ll run short of wildfire fighting funds!” This year, the headline last month:
‘ Washington wildfires burn 250K+ acres, budget cuts may affect fire prevention efforts ‘
Gawd people in this state are beyond stupid.
PS: The tale of two states – neighbors
Idaho:
https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/idaho-ends-fiscal-year-with-balanced-budget-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-on-bottom-line/
Washington:
https://www.nbcrightnow.com/legislature/washington-state-lawmakers-tackle-16b-shortfall-as-legislative-session-adjourns/article_848cac41-6cf1-498f-b36e-3bc9985e4f77.html
There are people who hate Trump soooooooo much that if they’re told high gas prices are BECAUSE of Trump, they’ll eat it up as TRUTH.
They probably also belieeeeeeeeeeve that wildfires are BECAUSE of cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change, and that carbon taxes will magically fix it and cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change. These people are chumps.
Funny you should mention that! Exactly John B !!
https://ecology.wa.gov/air-climate/responding-to-climate-change/wildfire-risks
And the lazy ignorant media here laps it up and spews it back on the evening news.
And yet, one of the BIGGEST purveyors of cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change hysteria, Bill Gates, flip-flopped on it recently. Perhaps he thinks he’ll make MORE money on pushing mRNA jabs, as more & more people have awakened to the ginormous scam called cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change. Either that or “Green energy” won’t provide the massive amount of electricity that AI Data centers will need to operate. Are people in Washington state raising a stink over THAT?
What’s with the west coast and high gas prices? Don’t you guys have oil in Alaska and Commiefornia?
Oh yes…nothing like having an oil pipe line in the back yard ans yet pay the highest prices for heating fuel and gasoline. Commiefornia has us beat with the insane gas taxes. However, Anchorage is not called Los Anchorage or North Seattle for nothing. Just like Colorado the stupid commie Californians are fleeing and “trying it again somewhere else “.
Clue:
Its all fake and polls are rigged. No matter what “wins” the result will be as programmed by whatever is the decider.
What did we learn last year?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Bloomberg, Ackman and Cuomo have already done far more damage than the so-called “communist” Mamdani. If I lived in New York City, anyone who said he was going to arrest Netanyahu and caused the billionaire Jewish oligarchs to have panic attacks would get my vote. I wouldn’t vote for Cuomo if you put a gun to my head.
But Mamdani’s not a true communist, that’s a slur. He IS a socialist, but this country is half-socialist already. ESPECIALLY New York.
I’d worry a whole lot more about Abigail Spanberger if I were you. Because if she is elected western Virginia is gonna look a whole lot like New York in terms of the woke feminized socialist policies and the gun control that New York has already suffered with for decades.
Abigail Spanberger — the Golda Meir of Virginia. 🙂
Virginia, unique among the fifty states, already has a Virginia Israel Advisory Board, established in 1996, that facilities economic, cultural, and educational ties between Israel and Virginia. And it’s working.
Y’all are just luckier than a two-dicked dog! /sarc
Dang, Jim H.
In the future, please consider -as a reader in general – I’m not, The Enemy.
I do hope to soon forget the idea of a a two-dicked dog!
Knick Knack Paddy Whack, mang.