CHECKMATE: Omar, Tlaib HUMILIATE Themselves, Trump SOARS at SOTU
Trump’s SOTU exposed Omar and Tlaib’s radicalism, inviting Epstein survivors like Haley Robson while they heckled with "black people aren’t apes" signs. Democrats refused to stand for tributes or policies, undermining unity, as Spanberger’s ICE defense clashed with systemic critiques. A MoveOn-hosted "People’s SOTU" flopped amid awkward singing and Markey’s divisive transgender focus, while Carville’s insults and Kimmel’s performative outrage backfired. Harris’ vague loss excuses hint at deeper Democratic fractures. Weakening Iran policy risks Israeli strikes and China/Russia emboldening Taiwan/Ukraine aggression, but Democrats’ messaging—from Mamdani’s snowball denial to Gates’ Epstein ties—may further isolate them, setting the stage for electoral backlash. [Automatically generated summary]
President Trump draws a stark contrast with the Democrats at the State of the Union.
And man, is it ugly for the Democrats?
Ilhan Omar.
She gets to leave just terrible.
Plus, the media have a total meltdown over President Trump's very successful State of the Union address.
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President Trump's State of the Union address last night went a whopping length, one hour and 48 minutes.
But it was the moments that mattered most because President Trump humiliated the Democrats.
He humiliated them, or more precisely, they humiliated themselves.
So the content of President Trump's speech was not really the centerpiece of President Trump's speech.
President Trump, as I've said many, many times before, is a politician who does one thing very well and one thing not so well.
What he is great at doing is making it hard to vote for his political opponents.
He makes it very hard to vote for his political opponents.
He is excellent at shredding the people who face him down.
But when it comes to making himself more popular, that's more difficult.
And so where Trump shines is in those moments when he can put in stark relief his own agenda and the agenda of the people who oppose him.
This is where Trump is just masterful.
And last night, he did something that I've never seen a president do before during a State of the Union address or really ever in a public address.
And that was he used the Democrats' opposition to him, their anger at him against them.
He really jiu-jitsued them in a masterful way.
See, he knew, President Trump knew for a fact that when he went into this address, when he gave the State of the Union address, that we would see the same spectacle that we've seen before in many years past, that he would say something, Republicans would stand up and cheer, and Democrats would sit there and do nothing.
They would sit on their hands at the very least.
And in recent years, of course, Democrats have done more than that.
Last year, during his faux State of the Union address, where I was in the chamber, Democrats dressed in white.
They all color coordinated to demonstrate that President Trump hated women or some such nonsense.
They yelled at President Trump from the gallery.
They heckled him.
They jeered him.
They did all these things that when all of us were growing up were sort of unthinkable.
I'm old enough to remember when Joe Wilson, a representative from South Carolina, yelled, you lie at Barack Obama, and this created a national firestorm.
Well, now we basically have people throwing rotten eggs at the president from the Democratic side of the aisle, and it's considered perfectly normal.
So Trump knew what he was walking into.
He knew how the Democrats would act, that they would be incredibly performative, that they would be obnoxious.
And so what he did, and again, this is in broad strokes what he likes to do politically.
He took positions that are 80-20 positions.
He said things that are easy to understand for the American people and that unify Americans.
And then he pointed at the Democrats over and over and over and said, why aren't you clapping?
Why aren't you cheering?
Why aren't you standing up in unity?
And this is a great question because, again, if you go back to the Bush administration, Democrats hated George W. Bush, despised him.
But when it came to the State of the Union address, they were politically savvy enough to understand that if George W. Bush said something that was generically good, they should stand up and clap.
They're politically savvy enough to understand that if the camera is on you and the president says America's great, you should probably stand up and clap, even if you don't like that particular president.
Democrats have lost their minds because of Trump derangement syndrome.
And so they have decided that it is more worthwhile for them to sit on their butts, flat on their butts, while the president does unifying and obvious things.
And so the president came in last night and he knew, he knew they were going to do this.
And he decided to use that tactic against them.
See, this is where the president of the United States really understanding TV helps.
The president is a visual creature.
He understands innately where to put cameras, how to light things.
If you've ever watched tape of the president in an interview, he will tell people in the room how to relight him from particular angles and where the camera should be placed to its best effect.
So he knows that this is a great stage for him.
And he also knows that the cameramen in the wings are going to be focusing in on Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib, who made absolute fools of themselves last night, which was the big story.
If you're looking for campaign ads, the president provided an enormous number of campaign ads for Republicans all across the country.
As Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar screamed at him for saying baseline rational things, as Democrats put on their sourest faces as he said things like, boys are not girls.
Democrats sat there while he paid tribute to actual, honest to God, American heroes because they couldn't bring themselves to stand up if the president so much as uttered their name.
And so the genius of what Trump did last night had very little to do with his policy discussion.
There wasn't all that much policy discussion is the truth.
Usually the state of the union is a long list, a big litany of policy, and it gets pretty boring because of it.
Last night, the president focused unusually heavily on people in the gallery, which I think was smart because it allowed him to demonstrate that he is sympathetic toward human beings.
But more importantly, it made Democrats look unsympathetic toward human beings.
If a Democrat is president and Democrat calls out an American hero in the wings or somebody whose daughter was murdered and pays homage to that person, it doesn't matter if the president's a Democrat, you get up and you clap, obviously.
Trump knew they weren't going to do it.
And so he played that to its full effect.
President Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he used the tactics he used last night.
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Now, to go back to the beginning, the way the president knew that the Democrats were going to do this is not only from prior experience, but also because Democrats were performatively oppositional, even in the lead up to the state of the union.
So for example, Ayanna Presley, the ringo star of the squad, you know, the one that everybody forgets, she stood up right before the state of the union, holding a giant sign that said, the state of our union is traumatizing our children.
When you have people openly announcing they would rather stick forks in their eyes than be there, but they'll be there anyway to be performatively oppositional.
Well, that's a tool.
That is a tool.
Representative Rocana, another performative Democrat, said that he was going to bring a heroic Epstein survivor named Haley Robson.
Our FBI director Kash Patel flew for the Olympics to Italy, drinking with our hockey team.
Our Attorney General Pam Bondi is hurling insults to members of Congress, but they've forgotten about the survivors, the thousands of survivors who just want justice.
Haley Ropeson just wants justice.
That's why I'm inviting her as my guest tomorrow at the State of the Union.
She'll be speaking not just for herself, but for the thousands of survivors.
She's a former Trump voter.
It's not about politics.
It's about making sure we're prosecuting those men who abused these young girls and who committed horrific crimes.
The person that he brought, Haley Robson, literally recruited other girls for Epstein.
She was effectively a co-conspirator.
And he brought her because he wanted to humiliate Trump.
So this is what Trump was facing.
So he comes in, he gets the cheers from the Republicans, and he starts off with the big unifying moment.
And very close to the top, he brings in the men's hockey team, the men's Olympic hockey team that just defeated our communist neighbors to the north.
And it was a great moment because guess what?
The men's hockey team winning the gold is great.
And if you don't like it, you can F off.
Like, it's great.
I don't think there's a normal person in America, doesn't matter the politics, who wasn't ecstatic at the performance of the men's Olympic hockey team in what was one of the great gold medal games in Olympic history.
I do love the journalists having to pretend that they don't care and not clapping or anything because,
you know, they have to be very, very important journalists.
They're so journalists, they can't clap.
Just clap, guys.
It's fine.
That was great.
And then the president went into a detailed description of the game, which I thought was actually the most entertaining part of the evening.
The president went into the saves that were made by Connor Hollebuck, the co-lead for the U.S. men's Olympic team, and actually said that he was going to give him the presidential medal of freedom.
Again, if you're a defenseman, I guess you just don't get one, but, you know, kind of great, kind of wonderful.
And that's when the crazy began.
So Democrats throughout the night could not stop their crazy.
Al Green, who not the singer, the representative.
So Al Green last year got booted from the chamber as well.
So he got booted from the chamber this time because he was holding up a sign that said, black people aren't apes.
And pretty early on, he got his butt kicked out of the chamber for this.
This is as President Trump was walking in, obviously.
The big moment came.
The sort of announcement, the shot over the bow from the president, is when he overtly, in the middle of the speech, challenged Democrats to stand in solidarity with Americans and not in solidarity with illegal immigration.
And Democrats couldn't bring themselves to do it.
And this is smart.
It is smart.
Optically, it is a very smart thing to do.
Politically, it's a very smart thing to do.
As I've said before, President Trump in a vacuum, pretty much any president in a vacuum, but Trump specifically, you see all the flaws, right?
The president is perfectly authentic.
Whatever enters his brain exits his mouth.
Whatever he is thinking is on his face.
And so what that means is when you just look at the president, well, you see all the flaws.
But when you put him next to Rashida Talib and Nohan Omar, suddenly he looks like a knight in shining armor because the Democrats are so awful.
They're so god-awful.
So here was Donald Trump saying a very obvious proposition and daring Democrats to sit on their hands, which they did.
Like, truly, what do they lose if they stand and they say, sure?
Like, they don't give like the raucous cheers, but they, but they stand up.
And of course, I mean, duh.
What else would the first duty of the American government to be?
To protect people who are not American citizens?
What the hell are you talking about?
Democrats sitting on their hands are what a giant fail.
Again, that was scripted, right?
That was in the speech.
There are certain things the president did last night that were not, where he was having fun with the crowd.
The president is basically a stand-up comedian and he's an insult comic.
And so he has a lot of fun batting it around with the Democrats.
But that was written in.
You can see it.
He's reading when he says this.
And Democrats could not bring themselves to do the most obvious thing.
Now, there are two possibilities for why this is.
One is the nefarious possibility and one is the stupid possibility.
So the stupid possibility is that Democrats, on a generic level, agree that American citizens come first, but they hate Trump so much that they cannot bring themselves to stand up and cheer because they're afraid that their psychotic base will get angry at them for acknowledging the obvious.
That is the stupid explanation.
Then there's the nefarious explanation, which is they actually do not agree that Americans should come first, that American citizens are the top priority, that somehow they believe that illegal immigrants in the country ought to be treated exactly the same as though they've not broken the law as legally papered Americans, as U.S. citizens, as green card holders and all the rest.
And if they believe that, that's crazy towns.
But it doesn't matter for optical reasons.
It doesn't matter why they're doing what they're doing.
It's incredibly dumb.
And President Trump calling it out, this was just the beginning because over and over and over, he beat them over the head with their own idiocy, with their own optic delusions.
Truly, it was amazing.
So there came a point where President Trump was talking about fraud.
He mentioned the Somali community in Minneapolis.
And he proceeded to get in a yelling match with Ohan Omar, who could not hold it back.
And again, these images are so bad for Democrats.
My understanding is the Democrats had been told by leadership: if you want to show up and not clap, fine, but please don't provide performative spectacle for the president to rip off of.
And they couldn't do it.
They couldn't do it.
The other thing that obviously makes a huge difference here is this is again where the president understands how visuals work.
The president is standing on a dais.
He is up.
The members of Congress are in the crowd.
They're down.
They do not have a microphone.
He does have a microphone.
So you can't even hear what they're yelling.
You just hear them heckling the president and yelling at him, but you can't hear quite what they're yelling at him.
And you can hear him slap them down because he's got the mic and he's got the physical position.
And what are they thinking here?
And I understand what they're thinking.
Ilhan Omar is thinking, I'm the resistance.
I'm the hero.
You looked awful.
You looked terrible because, I mean, first of all, the bitterness against America is written all over Ilhan Omar's face.
This is a person who despises the fundamental basis of the country, truly.
And so does Rashida Tlaib, her cohort, who is sitting next to her, wearing watermelon earrings in solidarity with Hamas supporters.
But here's the president going at it with Ilhan Omar.
You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.
They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country.
And I got these two benighted women screaming at the president, Ilhan Omar, giving like the full open hand to try and direct the sound.
But I'm not sure that there is a more irritating image than these two caterwalling America haters screaming at the president of the United States.
Truly, I'm not sure I've ever seen a more irritating image in politics.
I've seen a lot of irritating images in politics, but Ilhan Omar, who has a constant face of disdain for the country that has given her everything on her face, pasted on her face, and Rashida Tlaib, who bitterly despises America's place in the world, sitting there and screaming at the president while Rashida Talib is wearing a pin that I kid you not says F-Ice, but it's not blurred out.
I mean, truly, Democrats, this is what you want your future to look like.
This is what you want it to be.
You know, sometimes you have to wonder, why are Republicans so overconfident in the way they approach politics?
Why do they get distracted by shiny baubles or nonsensical issues?
Well, it's easy to get overconfident, frankly, when your opposition is Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib, whose policies and approach are approved by their district and literally no one else in America.
How radical are Talib and Ilhan Omar?
Well, after this started, the crowd on the Republican side of the aisle started chanting USA.
Look at what Rashida Tlaib, if you can see this, this is why you should subscribe so you can go watch the show.
Look at what Rashida Tlaib appears to be mouthing while people are chanting USA.
OK, well, it doesn't take an amazing lip reader to see what Rashida Tlaib and her watermelon earrings and her keffiyeh are mouthing to Ilhan Omar, KKK.
So you got the Republican side of the aisle chanting USA, and she is chanting KKK.
That's sick.
That is sick.
Our immigration system has failed.
Our legal immigration system has failed when these people are in the United States.
Seriously, our vetting system sucks if not only are these people in the United States, but they're sitting in Congress.
Truly, people who despise the fundamental, very basis of the country.
All Trump said in the lead up to that, again, was that America, our first priority, is to defend American citizens.
And that led to that.
That's what led to that.
Amazing stuff.
Well, President Trump kept dunking on Democrats all night long, using their own radicalism against them.
So he mentioned a story of a little girl who had essentially been taken from her parents and socially transitioned.
He's talking about the insanity of the trans issue.
And at a certain point, he just turns to the camera.
He's like, these people are crazy.
And these people are crazy is a pretty great line because, I mean, they didn't show themselves to be not crazy last night.
She, of course, attended yesterday the State of the Union address.
The entire political world in sympathy with Erica Kirk, except for Candace Owens, who, of course, is exploiting her husband's death in order to attack Erica Kirk for cheap clicks and grifty cash.
The president called on Erica Kirk and talked about political violence.
According to Michael Knowles, who was in the room, I believe he was the guest of the speaker, apparently there were some Democrats who wouldn't even stand for this one.
I'm very proud to say that during my time in office, both the first four years and in particular this last year, there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity, and belief in God.
This is especially true among young people, and a big part of that had to do with my great friend, Charlie Kirk, a great guy.
So last year, Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really martyred for his beliefs.
His wonderful wife, Erica, is with us tonight.
Erica, please stand.
Thank you, Erica.
Been through a lot.
In Charlie's memory, we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind.
Now, the president did have some policy talk last night.
It was not all stories and medal awarding.
He did some of that.
He went after the Supreme Court very briefly, certainly in, and I thought, a better vein than he did in his immediate reaction to the Supreme Court decision last week that struck down his abuse of tariff power that had not been delegated to him.
He kind of went after the Supreme Court.
He called it disappointing, but he withheld his accusations of foreign meddling or stupidity from the Supreme Court.
Now, the other area of policy the president touched on that is interesting because it is unfolding in real time is, of course, the possibility of a conflict again with Iran.
Here is the president speaking about the Iranian government, what they've been pursuing.
They've already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they're working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America.
After Midnight Hammer, they were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program, in particular, nuclear weapons.
Yet they continue starting it all over.
We wiped it out, and they want to start all over again.
And are at this moment, again, pursuing their sinister ambitions.
We are in negotiations with them.
They want to make a deal, but we haven't heard those secret words.
We will never have a nuclear weapon.
My preference, my preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy.
But one thing is certain.
I will never allow the world's number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon.
Now, it's interesting because there are a couple of ways to read what he's saying.
And this is going to be pretty relevant for the negotiations that are slated to happen Thursday, possibly Friday.
So there are really several issues that are on the table with regard to what the Iranian regime must do or should do.
One, no nuclear program, not no nuclear weapons, no nuclear program, because, of course, a civilian nuclear program can be converted into a military nuclear program pretty quickly and easily.
And the Iranians simply saying we won't build a nuclear weapon is no assurance they won't build a nuclear weapon.
That's called the JCPOA and Barack Obama did it.
He also talked there about the ballistic missile development of Iran, but he did not really link that ballistic missile development to concessions that Iran must make.
This has been sort of an open divide inside the administration.
Some members of the administration are pushing the Iranians they need to give up their ballistic missile program as well so they can't threaten surrounding countries and allies ranging from Israel to Saudi Arabia and all the way to Europe.
Should that be part of the negotiation?
There are some people who are saying, no, no, no, no, that shouldn't be part, which of course I think is insane and ridiculous because they can attach not only nuclear weapons, but chemical and biological weapons to warheads that are capable of hitting populated centers in allied nations.
And as the president says, are building long-range ICBMs, theoretically capable of even hitting American territory.
And then there is the question of their treatment of their own population, the murder of 32,000 people in the streets, the support for regional and global terrorism.
Are all of those things going to be on the table in the negotiations?
Or is the United States going to seek an off-ramp by basically cutting an even weaker version of Barack Obama's JCPOA deal?
I don't think it's clear from what the president is saying right there which direction he's going to go.
According to CNBC, the U.S. and Iran are poised to hold further nuclear talks in Geneva on Thursday.
Again, he says that his preference is negotiated endpoint here.
The question really, in the end, is going to be whether the president of the United States is too concerned about the possibility of a multi-week air campaign against the Iranians to actually do it.
And the Iranians just bluff him.
That's really all this is about.
No one, again, no one is talking about a massive ground invasion of Tehran.
No one is talking about a long-term occupation of Tehran.
Nobody is talking about hundreds of thousands of American boots on the ground in theater.
Nobody's talking about that.
The question here for the president is: What is the risk reward here for a multi-week era campaign to defenestrate the IRGC and the Ayatollahs and the Moahs in Iran?
And then, whatever happens, happens.
Because I will tell you that everyone else is watching.
If the United States backs off of this and cuts some sort of unbelievably weak deal, the consequences will not just be for the Middle East, where Israel will be forced to ramp up its military even more and probably go and attack Iran itself, given Iran's capacity and increasing capacity in both nuclear and ballistic missile development and its renewed attempts to support terrorism.
But aside from the Middle East, the Russians are looking on.
The president has put a lot of pressure on the Ukrainians and not enough pressure on the Russians.
They're probably thinking to themselves the United States is backing off.
They probably renew their offensive in Ukraine, redouble it, triple it.
China probably looks at Taiwan and says, why not blockade Taiwan?
Who's going to stop us?
And the reality is that the United States remains extraordinarily dependent on the microchips that are produced in Taiwan.
And if you're China and if your window of opportunity is closing, which it is demographically, the Chinese have a massive demographic problem.
They have a major debt problem.
If your window of opportunity is closing, you're being out-competed, particularly in the AI industry, then why not make a move on Taiwan if you no longer fear the big red button that President Trump holds?
These are the consequences of foreign policy.
We'll have to see how it plays out.
Democrats did deliver a response last night.
Abigail Spanberger, the new governor of Virginia, she is the face many Democrats are pushing because she is perceived as moderate.
Again, Democrats are attempting.
This is why last night was a failure for the Democrats, because the question is, did you emerge from last night thinking Democrats look more like Abigail Spanberger in their politics or more like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib?
If the latter, Democrats have a really rough road.
If the former, maybe they have a better road.
So Abigail Spanberger delivered her message.
It was supposedly more moderate, but even Abigail Spanberger could not help but attack ICE as terrorizing Americans.
And yet, our president has sent poorly trained federal agents into our cities where they have arrested and detained American citizens and people who aspire to be Americans.
And they have done it without a warrant.
They have ripped nursing mothers away from their babies.
They have sent children, a little boy in a blue bunny hat, children to far-off detention centers.
And they have killed American citizens in our streets.
And they have done it all with their faces masked from accountability.
Every minute spent sowing fear is a minute not spent investigating murders, crimes against children, or the criminals defrauding seniors of their life savings.
Our president told us tonight that we are safer because these agents arrest mothers and detain children.
Think about that.
Our broken immigration system is something to be fixed, not an excuse for unaccountable agents to terrorize our communities.
And what they really mean is just the people who agree with us.
So Senator Ed Markey, who looks like he is straight from some sort of nursing home at this point, senator from Massachusetts, got up there and started ranting about trans rights at the People's State of the Union, a thing at the top of everyone's concern list.
Americans are deeply concerned about Ed Markey's views on chopping the penises off of healthy boys.
I will not stand by while they target transgender people, demonizing trans kids, banning them from schools and sports, and trying to erase their very existence from public life.
You got to feel a little bit bad for Ed Markey, who is sort of low-rent Bernie Sanders, which I know it seems impossible because Bernie Sanders has never paid rent.
He's a useless human being.
But Ed Markey, he's the one everyone forgets about.
He's even got a little bit of that.
Ted Kennedy, we are saying that you must love the transgender ideology.
He's got that, but nobody cares about him.
So that was a success.
And then there was just the sheer anger.
So James Carville, he delivered a personal message to President Trump.
I think this is going to be an effective tactic for Democrats is to speak like James Carville does.
Groundbreaking stuff under the 75th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
If James Carville tells you that you're a fat, sorry, sack of bleep and that people hate you, you are no longer president.
So I'm sure the president is sitting there and taking all that in and weeping this morning because James Carville said those mean, mean things to him.
Jimmy Kimmel, who decided long ago that he would stop being funny in favor of just being a second-rate politico, got up there, tears in his eyes as per our usual arrangement, and gave the real State of the Union address.
We have a nutjob wannabe king who's doing everything he can to censor opinions he doesn't want to hear.
He has his goons arresting, incarcerating, and killing American citizens.
He's got funding for cancer research at children's hospitals while he rakes in literally billions of dollars for himself and his family.
He's coming after our right to vote.
He's protecting pedophiles and won't explain it.
He's lining the pockets of billionaires all while neglecting the sick, the poor, the hungry in the name of Jesus, by the way, who you can read all about in a Donald Trump edition of the God Bless the USA Bible that is made in China and available for $99.99.
For long stretches of the speech that were essentially sort of violence, he talked about people being covered in blood, gushing blood, blood pouring out of things.
He talked about people being on the edge of death.
He went into graphic detail on a number of different people's injuries of various kinds.
And in those moments, he slowed down, ad-libbed a lot, and tried to give seemingly as much sort of gory detail as he could, talking about very bloody scenes.
When somebody is wounded during the snatch and grab of Nicolas Maduro, you must never talk about their bloody wounds ever.
Ever.
You must instead describe them in the most antiseptic terms possible.
Now, it never apparently occurs to Rachel Maddow that the reason that you describe these injuries is for the emotional effect of the thing.
The reason why we pay tribute to heroes is because they have undergone tremendous suffering, and you must talk about that suffering in order to actually understand the level of the heroism.
Or if you're talking about the victim of a crime, it doesn't suffice to say that someone was struck by a car.
You actually have to describe their injuries if you wish to explain just how bad the injuries were.
But apparently, this is violence to okay.
That's that's a that's a take as well.
Again, Democrats have got a problem.
They want to portray themselves as the great moderates of the American political scene.
Last night demonstrated full scale that they are not, but it's not just at the state of the union, they continue to make fools of themselves nationwide.
Zorhan Mamdani, the smuggest man on earth, Captain Smarm, a man whose smile is pasted on his face, plastered on his face in almost Joker-like Cesar Romero fashion.
Well, Zarmamdani yesterday announced there would be no prosecutions against people who injured NYPD officers.
We talked about this yesterday on the show.
There was a situation in which NYPD officers arrived at Washington Square and people began pelting them with snowballs.
And he said it was all fun and games, don't you understand?
They're just having a snowball fight, you know, like one would with an armed officer.
Here is Zarmamdani just being predictably terrible.
Well, see, here's the fun thing about snowball fights.
Usually, I've been in some with my kids.
Usually the way that it works is that everyone is throwing snowballs.
So unless the police officers were also throwing snowballs back at people in the crowd, and it was just a funnel, good time.
You know, people diving into snowbanks and people enjoying it and laughter and happiness.
I mean, we do have video of the thing, and it is officers walking away from giant crowds of people who are walking after them, hurling snowballs at them.
You want to know why cops are quitting?
You want to know why cops don't want to serve in the NYPD?
Because of the political leadership that says if you assault an officer and you do it with a snowball or an ice ball or whatever, then Zorhan Mamdani will come out and defend you as just a frisky snowball throwing kid.
I wonder why so many people are like, hey, maybe law and order is in jeopardy here.
And then if you just keep your eyes on Zorn Mamtani just grinning at the camera, oh my God.
Regardless of your occupation, income or immigration status, how free free child care for the illegals.
Oh, isn't that nice?
Yay, New York.
This is what you guys got yourself into.
Congrats.
You have AOC jabbering in Spanish at you and Zorin Mamtani sitting there as though he fell into a vat of toxic waste and now his face is frozen that way.
Enjoy your multiple years of this sort of happiness, New York City.
It'll go well.
Well, at least the Democrats still have some national figures who are worth their assault.
Like Kamala Harris, fourth look, seventh look at Kamala Harris.
Is she making her great comeback?
Or did they finally run out of wine at the Harris mansion?
Well, here she was yesterday explaining the reason she lost was miss and disinformation and also his information and disinformation.
All the information.
So here is Kamala Harris, the world's worst presidential candidate, who failed upward into every job she has ever held, except for some of her original jobs where she was, you know, Willie Browning it.
And here is Kamala Harris.
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Who do you regard as your biggest opponent in this election?
Miss and disinformation about a number of things, whether it be anything to do with what we were challenged with as an economy and what the source of those challenges are, affordability, mis and disinformation about who actually had a plan to deal with affordability.
And, you know, I mean, frankly, I think one of the big issues that impacted the outcome of the election was my opponent told people on day one he was going to lower prices and he lied.
And, you know, so the and time also can work in conjunction with, or the lack of time can work in conjunction with mis and disinformation, meaning that there's not a sufficient amount of time to get the facts out to get accurate information out.
By the way, it will be the most hilarious thing ever if Democrats run her again.
It will be hysterically funny.
I do not think that will happen.
I think that the donors are not going to pour their money into that failed candidacy.
I do not think they will do that.
I don't think they're that stupid.
On the other hand, are they that stupid?
Maybe.
They might be that stupid.
It's possible.
All righty, folks.
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I mean, this thing is going to get dark.
It just is.
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