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David Noll
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Vigilante Nation: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
Updates on the meritocracy: https://tinyurl.com/56u9n6zc
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Trump for Zohran in the Zohran type style
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Is Trump Starting to Correct His Course? He’s made wise moves on the Epstein files and tariffs. What’s next? Healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Brian Leiter had him pegged from the start.
leiterreports.com/2016/11/12/h...
Second, Trump has the classic "Mafia mentality" that I've remarked on before, and will be familiar to any New Yorker who has paid attention. In the Mafia mindset, the only question is who is with you and who is against you. Those who are with you, who are loyal and pay respect, benefit from largesse and generosity and protection. Those who are against you, who are disloyal and disrespectful, are to be destroyed, with no constraints on how. Of course, you can't destroy all your enemies all the time, so when necessary you do business with them, until the opportunity presents itself to exact revenge. Because those who are part of the "in group" are beneficiaries of the boss's largesse, they invariably idolize him. Some readers who are old enough will recall the mafia boss John Gotti, who thrived on media attention and showy displays, and who survived numerous prosecutions (it turns out mainly through witness and juror intimidation and bribes), before finally dying in jail. I will never forget in the late 1980s, at the height of Gotti's power, a reporter was interviewing a young Mom with her baby in the stroller in Gotti's Bensonhurst neighborhood in Brooklyn. She was a big fan of Gotti; as she put it, "Thanks to him our neighborhood is safe." Undoubtedly this was true: it would be an imprudent criminal who plied his trade where the consequence for infraction was death and dismemberment. The moral myopia of the in-group permitted the new Mom to ignore the fact that crime and misery elsewhere was due to the same man: what mattered was she and her baby were safe. There is no doubt Trump has the Mafia mentality (if one doubts it, see the choice quote here: "I love to remember my enemies and I love to get my enemies whenever I can, absolutely. … So many people that were enemies of mine were wiped out, and I do not really care about that." ). Again, this mentality is dangerous in a mobster with guns, but dangerous at a world-historical level with access to U.S. military might.
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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This guy is like an evil Forrest Gump.
Then, in March 2020, an arm of the U.S. government first publicly presented Cartel de los Soles as an actual drug trafficking organization led by Mr. Maduro. That’s when the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, during the first Trump administration, obtained an indictment of Mr. Maduro and several officials in his government on drug trafficking and corruption charges. The indictment contained accounts of many alleged actions that would support those charges, drawing on witnesses and evidence gathered in a yearslong investigation. But it also laid out a narrative that this was not just a criminal conspiracy, but the activities of Cartel de los Soles. The drafting of the indictment was overseen by Emil Bove III, then a terrorism and international narcotics unit prosecutor in New York. Mr. Bove went on to be a defense lawyer for Mr. Trump and ran the Justice Department in the opening months of the second Trump administration. He had a turbulent tenure, including firing dozens of officials and ordering the dismissal of bribery charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, before he was rewarded with a judicial appointment.
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Are we reading the same story?
The emails are like a portal back to a lost Manhattan power scene. Mr. Epstein’s inbox was larded with boldface names — many of them now faded or forgotten — that once meant everything to status-obsessed New Yorkers. It was the world that Donald Trump came out of, and the one that Mr. Epstein had so effectively beguiled after having grown up in a middle-class household in Coney Island. As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement. Mr. Epstein and some of his male correspondents seem to squirm as they notice society changing around them.
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York The disgraced financier’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy [means presenting evidence to a grand jury without a court reporter present]
Currie seemed particularly concerned that a portion of the grand jury proceedings that led to Comey’s indictment was “missing,” leaving certain aspects of Halligan’s interactions with the grand jury unreviewable. Currie said that it appeared at about 4:28 p.m. on the day the indictment was returned in September, there was no court reporter in the room to transcribe the proceedings, leaving no record of the final minutes of the grand jury’s session.
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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New one from DHS: ICE agents wear masks to protect themselves from rapists.
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
According to Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, the man who was detained is from Guinea, illegally entered the United States in 2021 and was ordered removed by an immigration judge in 2024. She added, in part, "When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists."
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Just a factual statement of the theory!
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Many people are saying
A photo from the No Kings march that shows a group of normie women carrying a large banner that reads " Trump: we all hate you." They are flanked by a protester carrying an American flag and a senior citizen riding a scooter.
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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hahaha
Hi David, this is Shernelle reaching out for Stanley Montfort (Kantha Team at SERHANT.) < With the mayoral transition coming up in early 2026, Stanley's checking in with a few condo owners in the area curious if you've thought at all about leasing or selling sometime next year? Happy to set up a quick call if that's something you'd consider. 11:07 AM
November 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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January 6 was no big deal
January 6 United States Capitol attack The January 6 United States Capitol attack was a riot on January 6, 2021, in which supporters of President Donald Trump, protesting the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 election victory amid widespread claims of voting irregularities, breached security barriers and entered the U.S. Capitol Building during a joint session of Congress, temporarily disrupting proceedings and prompting the evacuation of lawmakers.[1][2] The breach followed a rally near the White House where Trump repeated fraud allegations and directed the crowd to march to the Capitol, stating they would proceed "peacefully and patriotically" while also declaring "we fight like hell" and that if they did not, "you’re not going to have a country anymore."[3][4] Several hundred individuals entered the building after overcoming Capitol Police lines, engaging in vandalism, confrontations with officers, and unauthorized occupation of areas including the Senate chamber, though most carried no firearms and the incursion was cleared within hours, allowing certification to resume that evening.[5][6]
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Protestors with signs that say SCOTUS Betrayed Us Fake Time Magazine cover with Trump reading Time to Retire Big sign: Trump: we all hate you Kid with a sign that says don't make me go to law school
October 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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No Kings New York
Flags waving in a crowd of people on the street Times Square full of marchers An inflatable frog with a sign that says "do I look the enemy within?" Signing reading no eres rey guey
October 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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A beautiful day to protest wannabe dictators
A green hill with a tall poodle in the foreground looking quizzical
October 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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sir you are driving a cybertruck
Back of a cybertruck with a bumper sticker that reads "Elon killed my resale value"
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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A few small issues I might have raised if I were editing this.
October 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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some of you need a reminder about engaging trolls
Sally Jenkins post sharing Caitlin Flanagan's "Don't Bet Against Bari Weiss" Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read.
October 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Cropped and zoomed in image of Tisch almost maintaining poker face as Adams goes off
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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"No superficial individual expression"
The famous photo of Hegseth's cringe-inducing Christian nationalist tattoos
September 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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some language that actually incited violence
So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to the Capitol, and we’re going to try and give. The Democrats are hopeless, they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don’t need any of our help. We’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
September 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
Brian R. Marvel, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents over 87,000 public safety officers, said he was outraged by the passage of the law. He said in a statement that he believed that California did not have the authority to regulate federal agents, so it would ultimately apply only to local law enforcement officers, which he called a “troubling betrayal that California’s local law enforcement community will not soon forget.” He said that limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state.
September 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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his scorn for "the groups" and the conceit that you can build a new party from scratch through this half-assed process suggest to me that, at a fundamental level, he does not understand what the democratic party is and how it works.
Searchlight, Mr. Jentleson said, will conduct its own polling and serve as an ideas generator in the service of winning with margins big enough to advance meaningful policy in Congress, where increasingly slim margins have made such achievements difficult. Mr. Jentleson described a “Shark Tank-style policy generation process” to attract proposals from outside Washington with an aim of untethering mainstream Democratic thinking from the current ideological spectrum.
September 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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it's pretty hard to argue with this
58. President Trump’s hundreds of history-making media appearances and roles include: WrestleMania V (1989); Ghosts Can’t Do It (1989); All My Children(1992); Lady Boss (1992); Home Alone 2 (1992); Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993); Fresh Prince of Bel Air (1994); The Little Rascals (1994);Across the Sea of Time (1995); Eddie (1996); The Nanny (1996); The Associate(1996); The Drew Carey Show (1997); NightMan (1997); Spin City (1998); 54(1998); Celebrity (1998); Sex In The City (1998); Miss Universe 2001 (2001); The Job (2001-2002); Zoolander (2001); Donald Trump Real Estate Tycoon! (2002)(video game); Two Weeks Notice (2002); Miss USA 2002 (2002); Ali G Show (2003);Marmalade (2004); Days of Our Lives (2005); Miss Universe Pageant; The Apprentice (2004-2015) and Celebrity Apprentice (2008-2015); Hosted Saturday Night Live (2015); Hosted WWE; and much more.
September 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM