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While blaspheming and publicly feuding with Pope Leo XIV and turning against his right-wing ally Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, Trump then angrily posted about Mayor Mamdani.

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Trump finally turns on Mamdani, screeching that he's "DESTROYING New York!" and "the United States of America should not contribute to its failure"

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Apr 16, 2026 at 5:25 PM

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The diabolical Trumpf junta finally released $60m in withheld funding for NYC's Second Avenue subway extension.

Oligarchic real estate emperor Dummkopf Trumpf's uncalled for attack against NYC Zohran Mamdani (D) may have been his overreaction to NYS Governor Kathy Hochul's (D) tax proposal for luxury second homes valued at $5m or more. Source: The Superrich Hate the Poor and Property or Income Taxes That Might Help Them

Dummkopf Trumpf's illegal and costly war against the people of Iran on behalf of Israel, sky-rocketing fuel and food prices, special election losses, and disenchanted Republican voters, like the Sword of Damocles, hang over the head of the morbidly obese, geriatric draft-dodging pedophilic oligarch who siphoned away billions of dollars for the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) with the looming US midterm elections scheduled for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.



#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-17 04:24 AM | Reply

*** NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and his First 100 Days in Charge of the Big Apple ***

Link: A True Democratic Party Leader Delivers for the People

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-17 07:06 AM | Reply

*** The Far Right in Europe Now Finds Dummkopf Trumpf "Toxic" ***

"The Dotard-in-Chief has become so politically toxic in Europe that even his closest ideological allies increasingly view him as a liability.

"We need to keep our distance," France's Marine Le Pen told her fellow far-right National Rally lawmakers.

Europe's right-wing populists had been pulling away from the morbidly obese geriatric senile pedophile even before Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban suffered a bruising loss in Sunday's parliamentary election. The contest had featured multiple endorsements from Dummkopf Trumpf and a touch-of-death visit by the globally unpopular VPOTUS JD Vance."

Source: politco.eu

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-17 11:42 AM | Reply

So, Mayor Mamdani does what he said during his campaign that he would do if elected.

And, after the campaign, Pres Trump was effusive in praise of him.

Now, suddenly, Pres Trump turns against Mayor Mamdani?

What's up with that?



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-17 07:55 PM | Reply

First of all, Mamdani played Trump, and he knows how to do it again.

Second, Trump is upset he will have to pay taxes on his properties in NYC which aren't his permanent residence.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-17 08:04 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

He's flooding the zone again. People like the OP are helping him do it.

#6 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-04-17 09:38 PM | Reply

More like.

He's flooding his diapers again.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-17 09:43 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Speaking of Mamdani.....

i0.wp.com

#8 | Posted by MSgt at 2026-04-18 11:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"He's flooding his diapers again."

I will never understand why people are so obsessed with Trump's body parts, much less his nether regions. Either you have a fetish for that, or you've fallen under his spell.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-04-18 11:15 AM | Reply

I will never understand why people are so obsessed with Trump's body parts, much less his nether regions.

Are you considering his feces filled diapers as part of his body or his nether regions?

Take a deep breath and get back to me.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 01:00 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Apparently ClownHack thinks it just magically appears in diapers... or he's being coy here.

And now he's asking me to breathe heavily...

Hard pass.

#11 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-04-18 01:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I mean.

Trump is full of shht.

You may be onto something by insisting his feces are part of his body and nether region.

Let us know what you discover once you finish consuming his shht.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 01:15 PM | Reply

"We're talking about a federal administration that has spent close to $30B killing thousands of people at a time when working class people across this country cannot afford the bare minimum and to be told a city run grocery store is implausible, but spending more than $500M a day to kill people in Iran and Lebanon is not only plausible, but necessary - it speaks to a broken kind of politics"

-Zohran Mamdani

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 03:40 PM | Reply

Hi Clownshack:

How are you today, old friend?

Thanks for posting the words of my fellow Bronx High School of Science alum.

When NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) declared that he would order the NYPD to arrest notorious international fugitives Benjamin Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin if they ever step foot into NYC jurisdiction for UNGA, people should believe him.

That's another reason why AIPAC, Michael Bloomberg, Alan Dershowitz, John Fetterman, and Andrew Cuomo did their utmost worst to try and defeat him.

A few weeks ago, someone posted here (or another platform) that the Democratic Party way forward for 2026 and beyond was not to follow Zohran Mamdani's path to political success, but rather Gov Abigail Anne Spanberger's (D-VA), formula.

This competent young woman-- a former CIA officer-- caught a break by having a father who was a US Postal Inspector. So, she applied and worked for the hard-to-get-into agency while waiting for CIA to finish their security clearance on her. Pays to have a familial connection, even in the federal civil service.

This specific author who pushed Abigail Spanberger's winning formula over Zohran Mamdani's, inexplicably skipped over two other American candidates with similar platforms and messages who are, so far, doing well in their respective races: Graham Platner (D-ME) and James Talarico (D-TX).

So, why would this "Democratic" political writer promote Abigail over Zohran?

As a Congresswoman, "Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) supported delivering more bombs for Israel to drop on the same people she votes to send humanitarian aid to."


Governor Spanberger can order the Virginia State Police (VSP) to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when his El Al plane lands at IAD airport when he comes to visit Dummkopf Trumpf at the White House.



#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-18 05:22 PM | Reply

#14 Translation: Virginia should have elected the Republican (Winsome Earle-Sears) over the Democrat (Abigail Spanberger)

#15 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 05:27 PM | Reply

How are you today, old friend?

Doing well, thanks! 82 and beautiful here today in the San Fernando Valley.

How has your day been?

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 05:30 PM | Reply

15. I await the response.

#17 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-04-18 06:02 PM | Reply

#17 #15 As do I, my friend, DBT2.

As I do.

#18 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 06:18 PM | Reply

Pretty sure the preferred option is the Non AIPAC, Non Republican candidate.

If none are available, the democratic candidate will have to suffice.

But, I see nothing wrong with sharing information about a political candidate's policies and who's paying them.

Large donors demand large returns on their investments.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 06:30 PM | Reply

As for Abigail Spanberger, despite AIPAC's contributions to her and her prior voting record in Congress, I'm very fond of everything she's done while governing Virginia.

Hopefully she sees the value of distancing herself from AIPAC and continues to put America first.

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 06:35 PM | Reply

#19 Clownshack says, "Pretty sure the preferred option is the Non AIPAC, Non Republican candidate."

So, preempting any/all Democratic candidates because they're not pure (anti-AIPAC)?

In that case, the Republican candidate is the preferred candidate?

Is that what you're saying, Clownshack?

I ask because few voters could ever differentiate your nuanced position (""Pretty sure the preferred option is the Non AIPAC, Non Republican candidate."") from DON'T VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS BECAUSE AIPAC.

Vis-a-vis: Caius Marcius Coriolanus says: Vote Republican because Democrats are AIPAC

No room for nuance there.

#21 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 06:38 PM | Reply

#20 Stop being an apostate to Caius Marcius Coriolanus' demand for non-AIPAC candidates only... despite its purposeful delay of the eventual repair of the years/damage of Trump.

The time for internecine warfare is not now.

#22 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 06:42 PM | Reply

#21 | POSTED BY A_FRIEND

Are you being dense on purpose?

Re read this sentence a until it it makes:

" ... the preferred option is the Non AIPAC, Non Republican candidate."

You seem grouchy.

Go eat a sandwich and take a walk.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 06:52 PM | Reply

Hi Clownshack:

Glad to hear you're doing fine. We just ate dinner and now listening to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony (Maestro Herbert von Karajan conducting). Tonight we're playing Spades.

Some Democrats have started their AIPAC divorce proceedings, but that may be 75,000 dead Palestinians and one beachside Gaza resort for Israeli oligarchs too late.

Former D/NCTC Joe Kent-- a cat person-- suggested a bipartisan bloc of non-AIPAC Democrats and non-AIPAC Republicans to retake the USG.

My position has been to simply let billion-dollar AIPAC become its own political party: The America Israel Party (AIP). This acronym was first used in 1968.

This way gun-loving evangelical anti-abortion Republicans can vote for the corporate master of their choice, progressives can vote for the antiwar, universal healthcare Democratic Party candidate of their choice, and MIGATs can vote for the pro-Israeli candidate of their choice.

I bet moribund voter turnout will finally exceed 65% with three choices.


#24 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-18 07:00 PM | Reply

#23 What you're saying is Look for the unicorn.

Reality is so much more difficult.

Tis either Democrats or Republicans in charge of the White House, Congress and SCOTUS.

Me?

I prefer Democrats.

You, apparently, prefer purity over power.

And the GOP wins every time.

#25 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 08:06 PM | Reply

You have to be a unicorn not to accept money from AIPAC?

What a weird perspective.

We've been at war in the Middle East for the past 26 years on the behest of Israel.

We pay them with our tax dollars and they use those tax dollars to buy our politicians who spend our tax dollars on more wars in the Middle East instead of focusing on America.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 08:13 PM | Reply

#26 You said, " ... the preferred option is the Non AIPAC, Non Republican candidate."

And if the choice is the Democratic candidate who is "pro-AIPAC" and the Republican candidate is also "pro-AIPAC," who do you advocate voting for?

And if the choice is the Democratic candidate who is "pro-AIPAC" and the Republican candidate is "anti-AIPAC," who do you advocate voting for?

And if the choice is the Democratic candidate who is "pro-AIPAC" and the Republican candidate is also "pro-AIPAC" or anti-APAIC, who do you advocate voting for, when the balance of power in the Congress is at stake?

You live in LA in California, you never have to worry about the balance of power in Washington DC.

But why are you (and others) hell bent on destroying the only alternative to Trump/conservatism/GOP, etc: the Democratic Party.

#27 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 08:25 PM | Reply

#27

You really are trying hard not to understand.

I wrote:

" ... the preferred option is the Non AIPAC, Non Republican candidate.

If none are available, the democratic candidate will have to suffice."

So. Here's how this breaks down.

The preferred option means, "the candidate I'd preferred voting for is one not funded by AIPAC and is not a Republican."

The second sentence then amends the first to clarify if such a candidate is not on the ballot, the democratic candidate on the ballot would suffice.

I mean. I could also vote third party. But I'd have to weigh the weight of such decisions.

#28 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 08:45 PM | Reply

#28 With "allies" like you ("the democratic candidate will have to suffice.") ...

...who the f*ck needs enemies.

#29 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 08:47 PM | Reply

#28 "But I'd have to weigh the weight of such decisions."

That's mighty white of you, Clown.

F*ck America, you know best.

Right?

#30 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 08:49 PM | Reply

With "allies" like you ...

... America would be trillions wealthier.

#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 09:33 PM | Reply

F*ck America, you know best.
Right?
#30 | POSTED BY A_FRIEND

Israel is way ahead of me.

#32 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 09:34 PM | Reply

#31 A non-sequitur response.

#33 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 09:35 PM | Reply

#32 A non-sequitur response.

#34 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 09:36 PM | Reply

#31 | #32 Focus, Clown:

Who do you want running the USA government (White House, Congress, SCOTUS):

Democrats?

Or Republicans?

There are no nuances here.

Step up.

Which do you prefer running the USA government:

Democrats?

Or Republicans?

#35 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 09:38 PM | Reply

This entire discussion is a non sequitur.

Democrats need to attract voters.

I'm not subscribing to cult mentality just because republicans have.

#36 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 09:48 PM | Reply

#31 lown says, "Democrats need to attract voters."

Yeah?

By having ostensible "allies" damn successful Democratic candidates/officeholders, Clown?

Like this, Clown?

Feel the warmth.

#37 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 09:53 PM | Reply

#36 Choosing purity (and a loud mouth) over political success.

A recipe for a future Whig History Lesson.

#38 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-18 09:55 PM | Reply

iran-cost-ticker.com

#39 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-18 11:04 PM | Reply

The reason Americans can't have universal healthcare and education is because neither party cares about Americans and voters are kept scared by being threatened to either vote for the party who mainly represents the rich and keeping some of our tax dollars helping us, or get stuck with the party who only represents the rich and openly loots the nation.

#40 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 11:13 PM | Reply

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