The Ladies of the View & New Yorkers Get What They Deserve (posted 2/20/26)

Okay, today is officially Schadenfreude Friday.  (Because “Schaden-Friday” was just a little too cute.)  That’s when I only cover stories in the news that give me joy from the well-deserved karmic arse-whoopings received by bad actors in our society.

First up is Whoopi Goldberg and the round table of ten-cent heads at the View.  That televised Mensa Meeting had a field day last year, when Trump’s name turned up many times in the Epstein files.  While many people’s names appeared because they were sleazebags who were chummy with Epstein for many years and implicated in his bad behavior, many were there in non-incriminating contexts.

For example, while Trump was photographed with Epstein numerous times before Epstein’s crimes had gone public and he was charged, he also kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago, called the cops on him, and eventually arrested him.  Also, something like a thousand of the references to Trump were from Epstein, who hated him and constantly badmouthed him. 

Legal and PR tip: If your name ends up in a criminal sleazebag’s files, you don’t want it to be in the context of what a great guy and a close friend you were.

Anyway, the gals of the View had a lot of theories about why Trump was in the files, and all of them were in the “What does he have to hide?” and “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” vein of innuendo.  If Trump’s name was there, it proved that he was guilty of very bad things.

Annnndddd…a few weeks ago one tranche of the Epstein files included Whoopsie Goldberg’s name 21 times.

Unexpectedly!

Now I’m not going to act like them and say that Whoopi is automatically guilty.  But at best, she’s a colossal hypocrite.  The only reference to her I’ve seen quoted is a perfect distillation of lefty privilege, as she requested the use of one of Epstein’s private jets: “Whoopi Goldberg needs a plane to get to Monaco.  John Lennon’s charity is paying for it.  They don’t want to charter so they are looking for private owners.” 

Before you can ask, no, Goldberg wouldn’t think of flying commercial, not even in first class.  And no, a chartered plane wouldn’t be acceptable either.  She needed to go private, and at no cost to her Predator-looking arse.  Because: Leftist Woman of the People!

When the news of her appearances on the list first came out, Whoopi tried the ol’ Leftist 101 response: She denied it.  “There is a fake list.  And I’m on it.”  She went on to lie-splain that there are a lot of “satire sites” out there, and “that people don’t realize that they can be harmful.”

When that explanation collapsed like a chair that Whoopi or Ana Navarro sat in, she revisited the issue this week: “In the name of transparency, my name is in the files.”

Transparency!   Once you get caught lying and then admit what can no longer be denied, that’s apparently being “transparent” now.

Joy-less Behar tried to help Goldberg, pointing out that “anybody can be on this list.”  Gee, that’s not what you harpies said when Trump’s name was reportedly on the list, was it?

But Whoopi couldn’t leave bad enough alone, because she couldn’t even stop lying once she was obviously caught.  She made it sound like Epstein tried to trick her into taking his plane – “So they’re trying to get me on a plane to get to this thing for Julian Lennon” – instead of HER asking HIM for use of the plane. 

“And no,” she continues, “I didn’t get on the plane because you know what I would have to do to get on the plane.”

Actually, it appears that Epstein turned her down, because she was never offered the use of his plane.  I guess Epstein didn’t want his reputation to be sullied by being associated with Whoopsie.

Oh, and one more thing: Trump kicked Epstein out and called the cops on him before he was charged and pled guilty in 2008.  And Whoopi asked to fly on Epstein’s plane in 2013, five years after he was a convicted felon.   

Perfect!

Next up is New York City, where Dem voters are getting a taste of that sweet Mamdani-mania that the commie jihadist promised.  Or is he a jihadi communist? 

Either way, the schadenfreude sandwich with a schadenfreude salad is being served, and the gullible leftist voters are already having second thoughts. 

First, it turned out that the “warmth of collectivism” actually results in homeless Dem voters freezing to death.  (Oh, the irony.)  On inauguration day Zohran nixed the practice of forcing mentally ill addicts inside during winter.

Annnnddddd…six weeks and 16 deceased meth-sicles later, Mamdani sheepishly reversed course.

Unfortunately, when another one of his promises – blowing out the city’s already profligate spending – proved to be equally stupid and painful, Mamdani stayed the course, at least so far. 

His first choice was to add yet another ruinous tax on the richest New Yorkers to pay for free buses, driving out the Jews, giving illegals benefits, and seizing the means of production. 

But NY Governor Hochul is apparently smarter than she looks, because she quickly said no bueno to “taxing for the sake of taxing.”  (Could she be the rare lefty who realizes that rich people who are already paying the lion’s share of taxes can always move, rather than staying and being victimized by greedy Dem politicians?)

So Zohran slapped on his Marxist blinders and declared that there is only one other possible choice: raising already high property taxes on all New Yorkers by another 9.5%   As he put it, “[T]he city will be forced down a second, more harmful path.  Faced with no other choice…we would have to raise property taxes.” 

Yes.  They would be forced.  There’s no other choice.  They couldn’t possibly cut any current spending – say, the estimated $5 billion they’ve been spending on illegals – or cut back on any of their bold, new, cash-incinerating programs.  Nope.  They must raise the mortgage and rent payments of every single New Yorker…so that they can make things more affordable.

If only there was a certain Free State, with the Best Damn Governor in America™, to give them a few pointers. 

Oh wait.  There is.

Within a few hours after Zohran gave his dire budget warning, Ron DeSantis released a few helpful facts.  To wit, Florida has over 23 million residents, and the budget for the entire state is $117 billion this year. By comparison, NYC has 8 million people, and Mamdani just proposed a budget of $127 billion. 

So if Zohran gets his way, he’ll spend more than 3 times as much per resident as Florida is spending.  And for that money, New Yorkers get frozen homeless, millions of rats, bad roads, worse schools, armies of illegals, high crime, and more bureaucrats with their hands out than there are rats and criminals.

It’s going to be fun watching Zohran sell this plan to his naïve voters. 

Buckle up, Bolsheviks!

Hamas (and Trantifa) delenda est!

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