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3 hours agoRon Varo.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/09/peter-navarro-pseudonym-ron-vara/
This shit is turning my hair white.
Just when you think that they can’t top Four Seasons Landscaping, they strap on a jet pack.
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Good article that details the whole story.
As an added bonus, John Baron makes a cameo
No. He’s from the borough of Queens. He always tried to get in good with the real Manhattan elites, and was always shot down. In fact, at the start, he only got a little fame because his first wife, Ivana, was really glamourous. He was just the guy who carried her bags.
https://abc7ny.com/election-2016-nyc-results-president/1598306/
In 2016 Trump lost by 80%. So I was a bit off.
It cuts across all classes. The truly rich despise him. When he was building his Tower, he had a golden opportunity to preserve the original building. This was at a time when Jackie Kennedy was pushing to keep the classic NYC buildings safe. Even his own architect told him to keep the old façade and build around it. Instead he demolished it AFTER he’d promised not to. Then there was the time he brought the Plaza Hotel and had to sell at a huge loss because he couldn’t finance it. And that’s not even half of what I could tell…
“Favorite son” has been a standard American politics term for decades.
When Rudy Giuliani won in his second term, he was considered a massive winner, and he got less than 60% of the vote.
Something you don’t hear much about is the death of the ‘small town rich.’
Back in the day, a town would have a local bank and a local newspaper. The factory owners kids would go to the local high school. Sure they were capitalists, but they saw the town as their home. Those days are over. Even if a rich person lives in the town, they send their kids to a private school and would love to move out.
The locals can go hang.
The other part of the story is that a pollster told people that Trump was hated in his hometown and MAGats loved it. The same people who watch TV and movies made in NYC; who buy everything Madison Avenue advertises; who accept New York fashion sense without question, seem to hate New York.
The Red States will lose their healthcare and find a way to blame Joe Biden.
I’m a life long New Yorker. Donald Trump was also born and raised in New York.
I can tell you that getting 90 percent of New Yorkers to agree on anything is an amazing feat. You couldn’t get 90% of New Yorkers to say something nice about the Yankees, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or Central Park.
Donald Trump lost his home town by 90% of the vote.
Old joke.
“If you don’t like Manhattan, come back in fifteen minutes. We’ll change it.”
Two things. First, we could probably sit down and swap stories and each of us would hear at least one tale that was completely new to them.
Second, if you’re a New Yorker you’ll love this book. It’s about a man who owned a furniture store on 125th Street back in the 1960s through the '70s. He’s a hard working man, a loyal husband and a good father. All he wants to do is sell good merchandise at a reasonable price and take home a decent profit. The book is full of colorful characters and loads of great descritions of Harlem and the rest of the city, including Radio Row [which was demolished to make way for the World Trade Center]
There’s some criminal activity and a couple of murders, but those aren’t the main thing.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/harlem-shuffle-colson-whitehead/16311673?ean=9780525567271&next=t
He was a joke. I remember telling a good friend of mine that he was running for President. She’s extremely political and she pooh-poohed the idea that he’d ever win anything. I watched him roll on and on and I still have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that so many people could vote for the pussy grabber.*
*After the tape came out, a Conservative woman went on ‘The View’ TV show to defend Donnie. Another panelist kept repeating ‘pussy’ over and over. Finally the GOP lady had had enough and demanded that the other woman stop using the offensive term.
I live in New York City, and there are so many stories about how stupid Trump is.
When he built his Tower, the building he had to raze was considered on of the most beautiful examples of Deco on 5th Ave. His architect told him to preserve as much of the building as he could, but Trump overruled him. When people asked him to save some of the art work, he promised he would, then destroyed it. Later, he lied about everything.
He had a golden opportunity to get in good with the Manhattan elites, and threw it away because he was too dumb to listen to anyone.
That’s going to be an internet legend!
And I was there at the creation!!
I understand wishes, but let’s be realistic.
Nearly half the voters went for Trump, even after everything from pussy grabbing to January 6.
If AOC god the nod, she’d have to have someone like Manchin as Veep.
3·3 days agoIt’s funny that you get salty when the Times uses ‘thousands’ then put in a port that also uses ‘thousands.’
11·3 days agoThis is the problem we have to overcome.
Look at the old time abolitionists. People today try to paint them all as morally driven saints. The fact is that a lot of the opposition to slavery came from Northern capitalists who were mad they couldn’t have slaves in their factories. Other opponents were tradesmen who couldn’t compete with the slaveowners who rented out their slave carpenters and blacksmiths.
Pragmatism gets shit done.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/
Here’s an entire article, including Trump using Polish immigrant workers like slaves, and a guest appearance by John Baron