As strange as the news often is, the world usually makes sense to me.
When a crime is committed, it’s usually by someone you most expect. If it’s a crime of violence, the perp is usually a young male with a long list of prior arrests. If an arrest involves a female who is throwing a cringe-inducing fit and making a scene, she’s going to turn out to be someone who hates her dad, would never vote conservative, and whose hair is not the color God made it.
If you tell me you saw a guy walking down the street with prominent face tattoos, I’ll have two initial questions. “Was he Jelly Roll?” and “Was he Mike Tyson?” If the answers are no, that guy is in a gang, or has done time in prison, or has a very low IQ. Often, it’s all three.
If you tell me that there was a high-profile, violent crime and that the perp reportedly screamed something right before all hell broke loose, I’m going to tell you what he did NOT scream: “Jesus loves me, THIS I KNOW!” or “That government is best which governs LEAST!” or “This is MAGA COUNTRY!”
I am too respectful to all groups to say what the person was almost certainly screaming. But it’s exactly what you are thinking right now. And it rhymes with, “Ballahu Bakbar!”
That is just a round-about way of saying that I have not been surprised by the start Mamdani is getting off to in NYC, or by the evil shooting on Bondi beach in Australia last week.
A few weeks ago Mamdani was looking to appoint someone “to advise him on the criminal justice system.” And he picked… wait for it… a convicted criminal!
Because of course he did. After all he really doesn’t like cops, and one of the first goals he articulated was to release as many criminals from New York jails as possible. In September, he criticized Eric Adams for putting more criminals in jail, and said that he’d like to release enough criminals to get down to 4000, or maybe 3700 people in jail. He didn’t say anything about releasing innocent people, or those wrongly incarcerated; he just wants more of them out and on the streets.
And if that’s your goal, why not pick a criminal to advise you on crime?
The convict in question is named Mysonne “Dirty” Linen. (Okay, I gave him the middle name. But it was sitting right there, and it would take a more mature man than me to not swing at that slow pitch over the middle.) And he did 7 years in prison in the early 90s for armed robbery.
I know what you’re thinking. Even though it was thirty years ago, and NYC hadn’t descended into the extreme soft-on-crime insanity in which it is now wallowing (and you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!), how many robberies would a criminal have to commit to end up doing 7 years?
The answer, according to the reports I read, is “a string.”
Perfect!
But after getting some blowback about that call, Mamdani realized he needed to get his act together, appointment-wise. So he did an extensive search, and on December 17th he announced with great fanfare his pick of Catherine Almonte Da Costa for Director of Appointments. Because as he said on that day, this is a “new era,” and Da Costa is “joining us…to bring top talent into this administration.”
Annnnndddd…she’s gone.
That’s right, the New Era lasted ONE DAY! Because when he did his extensive vetting, Mamdani missed something that the Anti-Defamation League came up with in 27 seconds, i.e. a bunch of 2011-12 social media posts from Da Costa opining on “rich Jewish peeps,” and “money hungry Jews smh.” (For those who don’t know social media abbreviations, “smh” doesn’t mean “stupid moronic hater,” but “shaking my head.”) She also pointed out that “the Far Rockaway Train is the Jew train.”
Gee, who could imagine that a guy who tied himself in knots to avoid rejecting the Jew-hating genocidal credo “globalize the intifada” would pick an anti-Semite to put in charge of picking his appointees?
Buckle up, NYC, because you’re about to get what you voted for – good, and hard, and glazed with incompetence, and served with a side of anti-Semitism and whitey hatred.
Even less surprising than the motley crew of miscreants and boneheads with whom Mamdani is staffing his administration, is the story behind the vicious attack on the unarmed Jews celebrating the first day of Hanukkah on Bondi beach in Australia.
Let’s connect the obvious dots. First, think through your rolodex of religions – start with Amish and go all the way through to Zoroastrians – and I think I can guess which letter you’re going to stop on. (I worked my way through college as a mentalist, billed as the “Mysterious Martini.” You may have seen me with Johnny Carson, when I was telling audience members the name of their first childhood pet, and which card was theirs.)
So I’m going to say…the letter “M.” And no, I’m not talking Methodist, or Maronite.
Another detail that makes sense: in a country that prides itself on not letting citizens have guns to protect themselves:
1. One of the few guys in the country who was allowed to have guns – and he had 6 of them, enough for him and his evil son to split the murdering duties! – was a Muslim immigrant whose son had earlier been investigated for ties to ISIS, and who had an ISIS flag in his car when he went out to kill Jews.
(Just for comparison, when my dad and I went out to do some father-and-son stuff, it was to fish, or to have a catch, or to go to a pancake breakfast at our church. But not the jihadi family. They bonded over their hatred for the Juden.)
2. It took forever for someone to show up and stop the killing. Reports I’ve read say that the shooting went on for at least 10 minutes, and possibly for 15. Just sit and look at a clock for 15 minutes. Maybe you could start the timer when the first boat hits Normandy Beach at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, and try to get a rough count of the number of American soldiers the national socialist soldiers shot during that 10-15 minutes. That’s an unimaginably long time.
For one more comparison, a year or two ago some jackass went into a Church of Christ in Texas on a Sunday morning and started shooting worshipers. His kill count was not 15, with more than 40 injured – as was the case in “gun free” Australia – but 2. That’s a result of the killer in America opening fire in a decidedly NOT gun free zone, where the first return shot was sent his way in…I am not making this up…6 SECONDS!
Jack Wilson was in church that day, and he was strapped, as they apparently say in Church of Christ circles. He fired just one warning shot into the murderer’s head, and it was very effective. The killer fell to the floor and quickly stopped breathing, presumably so that Jack Wilson wouldn’t shoot him anymore.
Another detail: “at least 2” church members drew weapons, but Jack was the first guy on target. And that was enough.
Are you listening, Australians?
On the bright side, many people have pointed out that the guy who jumped the second terrorist and took his gun was also a Muslim, and we should appreciate that. And I agree. It’s good to remember that many Muslims are good people, even as we can acknowledge that Islam is not compatible with a Western democracy.
But we also shouldn’t fool ourselves, because no sooner than we start singing the praises of the Muslim hero who jumped the gunman, we are reminded of a larger problem: all those Muslims back in jihadi-land, and how they reacted.
The Daily Mail reported that the story of his heroism was printed in the Ramallah News, which is apparently one of the most popular news outlets in “Palestine.”
Annnnnddddd…the majority of “Palestinian” Arabs “overwhelmingly condemned him for saving Jewish lives.”
Unexpectedly!
And before the soft-headed amongst us think that it was just one or two idiots in the comments section, NOPE! Of the thousand comments on the article, 75% condemned the hero, with lots of wishes that the bullets had killed him, and promises that Allah would “chop [him] to pieces.” They basically sounded like a bunch of malevolent Democrats after Charlie Kirk was murdered. (And before, too!)
In their defense, they were following their religious worldview, which commands them to make war against unbelievers, teaches that Jews are the worst enemies of their faith, and etc.
And you don’t have to be the Mysterious Martini to predict their actions, which are consistent with that worldview. And it’s a worldview very different from Jack Wilson’s, who said that the killer who came to his church “put me in a position that I would hope no one would have to be in. But evil exists, and I had to take out an active shooter in church.”
Yes, you did. And well done.
As for the Aussies, I think they might be too far gone. After watching their police cower and do nothing for a very long time while jihadi murderers shot into a crowd of helpless, unarmed people, their prime minister immediately vowed to…toughen their gun laws even more, to ensure that the next time some law breaker attacks, the law-abiding citizens will remain defenseless.
I’d suggest he look at the areas in America where the gun laws are the strictest – like Chicago, and DC, and Baltimore – and look at the death toll in those open-air firing ranges, except that he’s obviously allergic to facts and logic.
How bad is it? Cassie the Wonder Dog – my great Aussie shepherd – has asked me to file paperwork to renounce her breed. From now on, she is going to identify as an American shepherd.
Hamas (and Trantifa) delenda est!
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