#195 In which we head to the Finland Station

Nothing much new came from the man of wealth and taste’s reaction to the off-year election yesterday. To begin with, the Republicans’ poor showing was a result of himself not being on the ballot, and then there’s the whole mail-in ballot rant, etc., etc., etc. He saves his strongest venom for the anti-American mayor elect of New York, who will no doubt be pushing the city steadily into the toilet for the next 4 years. Given that Mamdani is not white, Muslim, and on top of that a democratic socialist (as are the Scandinavian countries, BTW), he pretty much checks off all the boxes on Trump’s knee-jerk hate list. The only thing we saw of note was Mr. T's comment about Mamdani that his “principles have been tested for over a thousand years, and never once have they been successful.” We’re guessing that means what Trump calls Mamdani’s inherent Communism. According to the ConstiToonies arithmetic department, this would mean that Karl Marx was born some time around the turn of the millennium (the 1000 one), which would probably have come as something of a surprise to Mrs. Marx. Trump could be referring to the French Revolution, but he's still off by a few months. Then again, maybe Trump’s talking about Islam—he’s only off by four or five hundred years on that one—or not being white, which goes back to Australopithecus and the like. 

Your guess is as good as ours.