https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/clay-travis-obliterates-woke-wnba-10-million-challenge/

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anthropic-says-claude-ai-hacked-three-companies-cyber-tests-rcna590164

https://www.westernjournal.com/mamdani-election-bombshell-fraudulent-votes-cast-margin-mamdanis-victory-says-election-auditor/

I think Cuomo could have won, but he ran a very half-hearted campaign against Mamdani. He knew he was a longshot. Mamdani promised to tax the rich and give people lots of free things. Of course the media loved him. He was a fresh face full of promises.

Republicans don't bother much with NYC, but they should. Sliwa is a good man and has done lots to help the city in the past through the Guardian Angels, but he couldn't compete against a fresh face. He's old-school.

There also are a lot of cucks and commies in NYC. Mamdani also got most of their votes.

There was a mainstream media hype cycle promoting him, similar to what they did to Obama. Around 1-2 months before the Democratic mayor primary, there were lots of "news" stories on "Check out this interesting longshot candidate running as a Democrat." As he got more news coverage, he steadily rose in the polls, became the frontrunner, and then won. Once he won the primary, he was a near-lock to win the general election.

Some people say Cuomo ran to lose on purpose. Cuomo didn't get enough votes to win, but he did get enough votes to prevent a better anti-Mamdani candidate from getting traction.

The Republicans didn't even try, letting Sliwa get the Republican nomination unopposed.

A big dose of truth by Sid Rosenberg about Mamdani in the Fox News clip at the end. I'm happy they let him speak because people need to hear it. Mamdani is a terrorist threat to the country spreading pure Jew hatred. He would arrest Netanyahu if he could when he comes to NYC. Mamdani needs to be slapped down hard.

I'm not happy with the war in Iran and the price of oil. He thought it would be a slam dunk in Iran, but he miscalculated. He'll fix it, but the war will take a lot longer. In the meantime, the Strait of Hormuz problem keeps energy prices high and it affects prices of everything. I wanted Trump to concentrate on fixing America's problems but here we are again. Another war.

You say you don't hate Trump, but then you call him an oligarch tyrant in the next sentence. It sounds like you do hate him. I'm disgusted that we have to deal with the Iran war, but I haven't given up on Trump. I think he'll fix things.

The real big fires are caused by lightning strikes but then you have all the random lunatics setting fires, like you said. It sure isn't "climate change". I don't think liberal Canada would ever get rid of their environment/development protections for their forests. They want to leave them untouched because they're eco-nuts.

I was really surprised to hear that many people do not have air conditioning in Europe. Its over a hundred degrees during their heatwaves. A lot of people can't handle heat like that. Its awful that the government controls whether you can have air conditioning in your home or not. That's a miserable way to live. Why the Europeans tolerate it I don't know.

Its the climate change scam that justifies whatever they want to do.

Obviously, Social Security can be legal if Trump says so. That is all you need.

If you define legal as "don't make promises that can't possibly be kept", then Social Security is an obvious Ponzi.

No, a Ponzi scheme cannot be made legal because the structure itself is a form of fraud. By definition, it involves paying early investors with money raised from new investors rather than from legitimate profits or actual business operations. Because this requires inherent deception, it violates securities and consumer protection laws.

It will NEVER be fixed. My brain did a "Ctrl Alt Del" when I read your last line - Even though its a Ponzi scheme it works and can be made solvent.

I take the tack that SS is a Ponzi scheme that I am a fortunate accidental benefactor of, and I am inadvertently screwing current workers who will never see a similar return on their labor.

And you say that I hate Trump. Sure, say whatever. "Hate" is a way to dismiss someone as irrational. I've had family members gaslight me with that logic.

I don't hate Trump. I really wish he would turn back into pre-election Trump. He's doubled down. 100% oligarch tyrant now.

There's nothing for me to grab onto in any of your points that's worth disputing.

The idea they are pushing is that wildfires are happening more often and are worse because of "climate change". The reality is that there are eco-nuts and random lunatics setting fires intentionally (usually mentioned in the aftermath but downplayed) and old systems of wildfire spotters have been shut down and governments just aren't trying to actually put them out anymore.

I'm sure that there are also other motivations... like wildfire-affected land being easier to strip of environmental/development protections and repurposed/sold/developed, the unburned forest areas adjacent to the burned-out areas suddenly being legally eligible for logging or something.

It's the same in Europe. When a normal non-apocalyptic heatwave hits, their media and authorities tell them it's the hottest heatwave ever and also "No, you cannot have air conditioning!" and also use bureaucratic-expert paperwork schemes invented a few decades ago to automatically collect death data and then inferring and link normal deaths to the heat somehow (similar to what happened with "covid death" tallies during the scamdemic) ... to drive people into a sort of near-hysteria.

It's all about creating the illusion of a grand, global external crisis to make people fearful and malleable and provide a pretext for huge societal changes that non-miserable, non-fearful people would reject.

The rain cleared out a lot of the smoke, but not all of it. I hope Canada tries to put out the fires soon because it would suck to have a summer with smoky air.

Its unacceptable that Canada isn't taking care of it NOW. They're poisoning the air we all breathe. I was outside for a little while yesterday and my eyes still burn today.

I thought Lindsey Graham was a good senator in other ways, but he was too pro-war. He went to Ukraine ten times during their war with Russia. Zelensky said Graham was a strong supporter of the war. I'd say he focused on Ukraine too much when he should've been focused on other US issues.

I think he is a loss for us in the Senate, however. If anyone could've gotten the Save Act passed it was him.

Our generation is much demonized by the younger generation no matter what we do. We're convenient to blame. Its not our fault if they can't make it in life. They can make their life whatever they want if they try. When they get older, they'll understand more how the system works. Its a safety net.

FSK said it best

"The whole point of Social Security is using current taxes to pay current benefits, leaving a huge future liability. It's a political football that can never be undone, because people who paid into Social Security their whole lives will be annoyed if there's a default. Instead, there will be a partial default, either by inflation making the benefit worth less, or higher taxes on current workers."

Even though its a Ponzi scheme it works and can be made solvent.