“I want Mamdani to be a great mayor and he certainly has potential.”
Watch Trump Flirt With Mamdani
Off to a Start
Question of the Day
What ideology would you think someone has when they hate Thomas Massie but believes Zohran Mamdani deserves respect??
Another Good Question
True to form MAGA is defending this. They would defend it Trump blasted him as much as Massie.
Here’s the Defense
Gotta Love This
“Refusing to work with people you do not agree with is a weak man’s game.”
Yeah, tell me about it. Start with Canada. Then tell me about representative Massie, and Senators John Cornyn, Thom Tillis, Joni Ernst, and Sue Collins where voting with Trump 90 percent of the time is not good enough.
Trump Likes Winners
Trump uses the game theory strategy called Tit-For-Tat. That strategy is to play however the other player most recently played. If they attacked you, you attack. If they played nice, you play nice. Your first play is to play nice.
I’m simplifying. Look up the details.
Trump’s statement about Mamdani makes it a harder to claim than having one Muslim in the US Senate (El-Sayed from Michigan) would be a terrifying risk. Anyone who knows anything about Mike Rogers (neocon deep state hardcore Zionist monster) knows he’s the greater risk.
– Trump Praises NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Great Potential.
> He is playing everyone.
– “I want Mamdani to be a great mayor and he certainly has potential.”
> He does mean that, but not the way most think. He is playing you.
– Watch Trump flirt with Mayor Mamdani. He obviously has a man-crush on him. There is no denying that.
> Simply part of the Con.
1. Gets people talking about some other possibility.
2. Creates a feeling of kinship. He supports him or some think so.
3. Doesn’t do anything but allude to potential.
My take on this moment…
When Trump says it, that is The Kiss Of Death.
not really complicated. NYC survives on funds from Albany. the corporate tax on manhattan businesses goes to albany. mayor of nyc has to play beggar to albany. albany gets billions from DC. a good mayor knows where the funds are coming from. mamdani is wise to be gracious and suck up Trump and whatever party government in DC and Albany are. this is political science 101. mish analysis is way off the mark. i love your financial analysis mish. your political handicapping is great too. but this analysis on Mamdani is just off the mark. you swung and missed. no big deal. your journaling and blogging is great.
Methinks the city of New York has some incredible dirt on the big man. Either that or he really does love the town.
no doubt the FEDS in lower manhattan have the epstein tapes. it was a CIA and Mossad blackmail operation on island of manhattan for decades. those same FEDS who work in the most powerful US attorney office in the empire all live in NYC area. it is the seat of the empire, like george washington explained in 1785 letter to the NYC mayor. so yea, donald hometown has the goods. but donald is the most powerful of the many powerful men on those tapes. blue and red team members plus non usa citizens who are on those child rape tapes. Sun Tzu would be proud. spooks at work.
Both Massie and Mamdani are men of integrity. For starters, neither is a pedophile and both are thus barred from the Epstein Club, led by the Orangutan in Chief.
Add to this Madami’s apparent statement
“Netanyahu is a war criminal and an architect of a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people.”
Courageous man. Speaking the truth these days carries risk. CIA certain to gather material.
signed his own death warrant?
“Netanyahu attacks Mamdani:
“Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani. Shame on you for supporting the Hamas terrorist monsters who slaughtered our people.
Shame on you for inciting riots against New York’s Jews.
I am coming to the United Nations. I will tell the truth about our soldiers, and I will tell the truth about you.”
Whether trump means what he says or vice versa is unfalsifiable.
On the one hand, this implies we shouldn’t pay any attention to it.
On the other hand, I consider Mish’s journaling an objective benefit to present and future historians.
Therefore, I regretfully grant a Mishellin star (tm MPO) for keeping score, rather than pursuing his “Mish & Massie 2028” campaign.
Actually, arguably, it is falsifiable, at each and every turn, from a neutral observer. It’s the flip-flopping that renders everything he says “noise”.
We know why Trump is coseying up to Mamdani but why is Mamdani Coseying up to Trump? Is he “star struck”? Is New York expecting some federal money that Trump could put on hold? It would seem to me that Trump should be persona non grata to any democrat at this point especially in New York. Does it relate to Trump & CO’s business dealings in the city? Puzzling!
It’s not puzzling once you realize that both belong to the same club and you ain’t in it.
You may know why Trump is “coseying up” to Mamdani, but I don’t. I also don’t know why Mamdani is “coseying up” to Trump. However, I would observe that the ability to blend in, to adopt the mannerisms and sentiments of the people you live amongst, is characteristic of all Middle Eastern and Mediterranean people. Trump as a man of the world should know this. He is probably just playing along.
Mamdani is head down while listening to Trumps offerings of acceptance and survival when the Musk robots are turned loose on the plebeians.
The other day there was a big NYT article about how the real estate billionaires in NYC love working with mamdani. The trumpster just wants in on the action- same as usual
He changes his political position depending on the money opportunity – always been that way, even when he was a democrat in NYC
Thats whats so insane about the MAGAs- if they just did a little bit of homework they would know they’re being had, but instead they are dumbasses who just want confirmation of their ignorant views and get played by the orange moron.
“Thats whats so insane about the MAGAs- if they just did a little bit of homework they would know they’re being had, but instead they are dumbasses who just want confirmation of their ignorant views and get played by the orange moron.”
Cults, how do they work?
How /do/ they work? I’m disabled. But maybe this is a WFH opportunity.
bingo. winner. maga are the laziest amerikans. too lazy to read and think. born on 3rd and watch endless sports and entertainment and eat buckets of fried chicken…….a good easy life.
Some of us may not be the smartest people in the world, but you get that in any political grouping. At least we are all smart enough not to fall for the education religion. I don’t watch sport or entertainment myself, but I think that is harmless enough, especially compared to swallowing propaganda and thinking it is knowledge.
We can tell that you avoided education. You don’t need to say it.
I didn’t avoid it. I just didn’t get deceived by it. I also wasn’t deceived in Sunday School. I didn’t like being lied to and made to repeat lies back to the liars. I shouldn’t need to have to say again that education is the living religion of today, the one that has the power and that enough people still believe. Christianity is the traditional religion of the civilized world, but almost nobody believes its magic stories any more. Quite a lot of people still believe its moral code, which as Nietzsche says is a slave code. Most people can recognize magic stories for what they are, but not many of us can think in the abstract well enough to reason about a moral code.
Trump trying out the Peronist thing: personally handing out (or denying) attention and favors as governance. This exalts the big dog always. It can recruit sycophants and attract the poor. All the new “events” and noise keep it bouncing along, and distracting from problems. But all his promises (and the glow of his favor) are revocable in the blink of an eye. As in a more Stalinist style, former comrades can become targets in another eye blink. Orchestrated group love-bombing can become hate-bombing.
The 2028 surprise is Don Jr. stepping up, in the best Juan Peron tradition. It keeps the DOJ (and all exploitable agencies and information) and all the corruption and patronage marching forward, all in the crime family. That way, there’s no chance of a defection. This requires a new level of tossing trinkets to the poor voters. No need to curry favor with people like the Murdochs any more. State-affiliated Trump TV will fill that space.
This truly is a moment of potential institutional rot on an even deeper level.
YOU are on to something. we are already financially a banana republic like latin world. the trump crime family cult will still wield a ton of power for decades to come.
The United States has long been on the path to becoming a glorified Brasil, except Brasil has better beaches, more attractive females, and a less hyperbelligerent foreign policy.
Bigger mosquitoes, though, so it sort of balances out.
Such a state of affairs suits the elites just dandy.
It almost reminds you of old Joe Kennedy’s family.
One would think further descent into impulse, arbitrariness and incoherence was impossible, especially with the cult tagging along. But Trump continues to astound us. Don’t let him start offering them kool-aid.
That’s how Trump rolls. Nothing to see here.
It’s a common narcissist play.
Shower somebody with praise and compliments and then expect something in return. What he doesn’t get it he’ll suddenly turn and say he’s a radical something.
Immediately after the election he’ll switch
My war vet brother married a narcissist 6 weeks before a war injury made him a quadriplegic. Trapped for almost 19 years before he divorced her 1 year and over $150,000 in attorney fees ago.
The term for what you are describing is “love bombing”
“Love bombing” was a term, and a practice, explicitly done (under that name) by members of the Unification Church of Reverend Sun Myung Moon in the 1970s, to prospective cult members. They would surround the person with a massive group hug.
Wasn’t there also a religious leader who called himself “Mo” (short for Moses), and who urged his young female followers to be “happy hookers for Jesus,” using their sex appeal to bring boys into the cult? I think that would probably have worked better on me than a “massive group hug.”
I’m sure it would have worked on you, Mr Little Hookers.
I suppose it could be called love bombing but the intention here is probably different.
It’s a theatrical setup so that the mayor will go from being a really great guy with tremendous potential to a radical communist something something lock them up.
The intention is to target Mamdani as the next crisis focal point because of the Epstein files.
3-star Mishelin award for pointing out Trump flaws, hypocracy and triggering a reader.
Keep ‘em coming Mish.
Bye bye Mish. Lots of things happening internationally (and I know you have the talent to write nice compact articles about them), but you resort again to “Trump this and that”, including irrelevant political bander and fake niceties. Probably someone’s paying you per post, otherwise it’s a mania. Even if you were writing about AOC it would be equally annoying at that frequency and style.
Goodbye Lefteris. I dont know how we will manage without you but we will figure out a way.
If you’ll excuse me, I am getting a little verklempt.
We still have Jojo to come out from under the bridge and amaze us.
I’m about as Conservative as they come but face the facts Trump is a non stop never ending wrecking ball. You look at every other President of our lifetime, for the most part they worked quietly in the background without any drama or subsequent media attention. Trump on the other hand moves from one self created crisis to another, a day doesn’t go by without him saying something stupid or putting his foot in his mouth, face the facts, the man is absolutely exhausting. If he didn’t do and say so many stupid things on a daily, sometimes an hourly basis he wouldn’t get the media coverage he constantly gets.
It’s not “mania” pointing this out, honestly Trump has nobody to blame but himself for his constant bad press.
How is complementing the mayor of NYC a crises??? It’ s only a manufactured crises by the fake news media.
Who said this event was a crisis?
You pegged Trump perfectly…’wreaking ball’
Thank you. There was a time when I could disagree with people politically without having to worry if they were going to do something stupid like trying to kill me. It’s very, very bad for the nation that we now have a fascist gang sitting on the conservative party, but it’s nice to know there are conservatives who reject this lunacy.
Kumbaya Creamer, that’s all you need. Alternatively, a good exit strategy.
Unfortunately I cannot elevate a reply to the featured comment, or I would do it.
Thanks
It works for him. I just hope it keeps working for him.
Off to your safe space, snowflake!
You’ve said goodbye like three times now. Don’t let the door hit you on your way out to kiss Epstein ass.
How can I miss him if he won’t leave?