Cross Town Thoughts
Everything old is new again. Bill’s former foes and friends. Ken Starr. Alan Dershowitz. Doddering Senators who were there during the Lewinsky case. America’s erstwhile beloved Mayor Rooody.
Senate Impeachment Trial begins today. Trump is fiddling in Davos while Rome burns. As Mayor Mike stays out of fray to mount a race. Oy vey. The Boys Club never seems to go away.
Have we learned nothing from 2016? When all the polls said Hillary would win by a landslide? Now the media is extolling Biden’s lead in the National Polls. Danger. Danger.
How are these polls derived? What’s the demographic make-up? Sample size? How do you reach them? Land-lines? Average age 75. Cell phones? Caller ID prohibits most people from even answering.
Here are some polls. Trump has 68 million followers on Twitter. Biden has 4 million. Trump packs huge sports arenas. Biden can barely fill a high school gym. Déjà vu all over again.
Go Mike!
As Dems rearranged deck chairs on the Titanic, Mayor Mike was out and about playing the long game. He’s had more air time with his non-stop ads than all of the rest combined. Except maybe Steyer.
Mike is dissecting the Country to target consequential counties making the case that Trump needs to go. Whether you vote for Mike or not. And. That the Democrat Party needs an overhaul. If anything can steer the barge into a 180 degree turn, it’s Bloomberg’s juggernaut.
GOOD
BEST
Watching Tiger win The Masters with Gary & Ben
mAdBen’s crazy cool career & interview
TV
Succession
Killing Eve & Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The Affair, Series Finale – The Whole of the Moon
THEATER
Moulin Rouge
Peter Dinklage as Cyrano
Brothers Wright by Colby Herchel
JOURNALISM
Miranda Devine, Steve Cuozzo NYPost & West Side Rag
Shining the bright if futile light on the scaffolding cabal
POLITICS
Mayor Mike joins the Dem race
BAD
WORST
Hotels have become kennels
Sheds shroud the entire City
Man-hating woke-tards
JOURNALISM
If everything is a bombshell breaking news story,
nothing is a bombshell breaking news story
SPORTS
NFL IR List
Bryson de Chambeau’s robot golf
POLITICS
Mueller Report fizz
Schiff Show bore
Dem Scrum – too many meh candidates
TV
Mrs. Maisel Season 3
Catherine the Great
Over on PBS. On the impeachment margin. Did you know? There was a Democrat debate tonight. Boring as hell.
Mayor Pete did spar with Lizzie & Amy. They tore him up. Not pretty. Klobuchar strong. Her best night. Warren a bit off her game. Biden still senile. Yang made some futuristic points which nobody on the stage understood. Steyer is creepy. Bernie. Always Bernie. Other than that. Boring as hell.
Advantage Trump. Mayor Mike!! Oprah! Where are you?
A cobbled together partisan impeachment. Russian collusion a joke. Ukrainian interference also laughable. Nothing about this process is dignified by statesmanship or comity. Rather. Pure political pulp.
Trumpistas condone bad behavior to get good judges. Dems criticize everything he does. To what end? Instead of finding the best candidate, they have contrived a just desserts for no compelling crime.
In the meantime. Go Mayor Mike! That’d be truly sweet.
Das Vedanya Rooody & Friends. Boris Badenov & Natasha Fatale. You all gambled the Trump Presidency for dirt on the Bidens and a few rubles in Pottsylvania. Relegated the American government to cartoon characters from the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.
See you at the Senate trial. Dudley Do-Right McConnell vs. Schiffty Schiff & Snidely Schumer. The reality television spectacle of the decade.
Bullwinkle dahling. We retire to Mar-a-Lago now? Dah. We go.
Opinion columns widely lament the dilution of impeachment. As with all things Trump. Bad behavior has become the norm. By him and as the IG Report showed many others in government. So if everything is bad. Nothing is bad.
Two old white guys steadily lead the Democrat pack. Biden and Bernie. Frank Bruni wonders if Mayor Pete is too young. Mike Bloomberg is too rich. Elizabeth & Amy too female. So. Then. Who?
On the fun side. The Presidents Cup. Golf in Australia on TV last night. U.S. vs. Non-European International players. Despite a certain son saying I’m the only person lame enough to have watched it, seeing Captain Tiger play well was great. So there.
Mike Bloomberg billionaire. A man of the people? Actually. Yes. He could be seen riding subways, grabbing breakfast at a diner on the Upper East Side, walking around town. Talking to regular folks.
One night we were having dinner at Lure Fishbar in SoHo. Mayor Mike and Senator Chuck Schumer with their partners were in the next booth. We tried not to stare and went on with our orders. After they were finished, they walked by our table. Bro Joe said, “Hey Mike why don’t you run? He said, “For what?” Bro said, “For President.”
The two women kept on going. But. Mike & Chuck stopped to chat. Mike said he wasn’t thinking about that then. In 2010. He wanted to know where our son was going to college and such. They stayed for quite a long time. Nice and curious men.
With a lopsided partisan impeach pit on the horizon in 2019. Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted that she knew there were no weapons of mass destruction when she was on the Intelligence Committee in 2002. Yet she didn’t push for the impeachment of W. and his Neo-Cons.
So. Going to war under false pretenses when our troops were maimed or killed every week vs. Water-Gate. Monica-Gate. Ukraine-Gate. No contest. The latter three pale by any standard.
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