Recognizing That Changes Have to be Made.

​Seventeen games under five hundred (40 and 57) pretty much sends the Mets packing it in at the All-Star Break. So much for any chance for a playoff berth.

Now, the “Boy Wonder”, David Stearns has to begin dismantling his band of has-beens and never-wases which he chose after he decided to trade or not re-sign the core of Alonzo, Nimmo, Diaz and McNeil.

The team is now in a rebuilding state, which has only a few certainties. These include Benge, Ewing, Soto, Lindor, McLean and the catching core. And maybe, one or two more pitchers. Everyone else is expendable.

Steve Cohen needs to shed payroll and bring some sanity back to the roster. As fans, we recognize that his five-year plan is not happening now and Stearns’ patchwork of misfits is a failure. 

The Boy Wonder may have been a success in a small market, but has no idea of what he is doing in New York. Even with unlimited resources. And his smug attitude has become tiresome, as he blames everyone else for his own shortcomings.

This team has brought back reminders of past years under the Payson and Wilpon ownerships. But at least we knew that failure WAS an option, and the cost of witnessing disappointment in person was not your monthly rent payment.

And the desperation of putting cheeks in the seats by offering giveaways to the first 15,000 people doesn’t cut it anymore, either. Perhaps, the ‘86 Mets World Series Ceremony and Carlos Beltran’s Retirement Day will provide a positive response to an otherwise disappointing season.

We can only hope that a new manager, coaching staff and a revamped roster will come to pass for 2027 and give us something better to root for than this disaster. Anything will be better than this.

Wait until next year. Let’s Go Mets!

The Latest Mamdani Public Relations Disaster

We have forever acknowledged, proudly, that this country is a nation of immigrants, coming from all parts of the world. And for our entire history, we have recognized the contributions each generation from each ethnicity has made to our unique development as a nation.

Until this week.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Socialist Mayor of New York City and an immigrant himself, willfully neglected to recognize a key group of immigrants who helped to make New York the Greatest City in the world in his “immigrant map” by omitting Little Italy and the enclave it represents.

But Italians were not the only ethnic group which was neglected. While the City Council’s Italian-American caucus fumed Thursday over Mamdani’s map which didn’t list Italian enclaves, and pointed out that big Irish and Jewish neighborhoods were also eliminated, his map spotlighted thirty other areas, including Little Palestine, Koreatown, Little Pakistan and Little Odessa.

“You cannot tell the story of immigrant New York while airbrushing out one of the city’s most recognizable and historically significant immigrant communities,” the caucus said in a statement Thursday, calling the omission “incomplete at best and insulting at worst.”

The caucus said the Mamdani administration should work with historians and community groups so the next version of the map gives Italian‑Americans and other groups a fair shake.

“Italian‑Americans are not a footnote in the history of New York,” the group added. “We are one of the city’s foundational immigrant communities, and our neighborhoods, churches, small businesses, feast traditions, civic institutions, and family networks helped build modern New York.”

The Italian Caucus pointed out Belmont in the Bronx, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights in Brooklyn and Italian‑American pockets in Queens and Staten Island are also neighborhoods where Italian roots run deep.

But this is typical of actions by the Socialist Mayor. He has frequently neglected history of his city, while glorifying the groups who pay homage to his agenda.

Hopefully, New Yorkers will remember this in November and elect a new Governor, who will remove this disaster from New York City under the State Constitution before he destroys it completely. 

The current governor certainly does not have the guts or nerve to do it.

More Failure by Democrat “Leaders”

​Once upon a time, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand happily endorsed Graham Platner for the Democrat nomination for Senator from Maine after Janet Mills withdrew from the primary race. They thought this Democrat Nazi was an excellent choice to run against RINO Senator Susan Collins in the Fall.

Now, they are calling on Platner to “immediately withdraw” from the Maine Senate race after the embattled Democratic candidate was accused of rape by an ex-girlfriend. 

 “The allegations reported today are incredibly disturbing – violence, abuse and sexual assault are absolutely unacceptable,” the New York Democrats said in a statement released by the DSCC.

“Graham Platner needs to immediately withdraw as the Democratic nominee for Senate and allow Maine Democrats the opportunity to choose a new candidate who can defeat Susan Collins,” Schumer and Gillibrand continued.

They publicly backed Platner even after he met with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill last month following bombshell reports in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal about the former oyster farmer’s suggestive texts with at least six women.

They were so blinded by their need to win this Senate seat that they ignored all the warning signs Platner freely revealed before and during that primary. And afterwards, too.

Doesn’t say much for their evaluation and vetting of their candidates. Does it!?

Most recently, Jenny Racicot, Platner’s ex-girlfriend, alleged in a Politico piece published Monday that the Maine Senate hopeful drunkenly broke into her home and raped her about five years ago.

But it took until now for Schumer and Gillibrand to grow a spine and join many other Democrats to call on Platbrt to step aside. As usual, Schumer, the Minority Leader, stuck a finger in the air to see which  way the political wind was blowing. Then, he humpfed up like a big shot to act like he had a pair.

It is time for New Yorkers to send these two failures out to pasture before they can do any more harm to the State and the Country.

Celebrating Independence Day Weekend

​It has been a week since this writer posted anything about anything. A well-deserved vacation to recharge the batteries was needed, even though much activity was occurring over the last few days, including the celebration of 250 years of our Glorious Independence and Liberty.

The world went on as usual, with the same pluses and minuses as it always has. And, by the way, the anticipation of the wedding of the year spectacular is also finally behind us. T and T FINALLY got married. Thank God, we could not take any more of PAGE SIX.

Iran is still acting like a belligerent tyrant during this period of ceasefire while rattling its destroyed weapons. And is still murdering innocent civilians, who only want water and lights, all while the occupiers blaspheme God. 

In New York City, Socialist (Communist) Mayor Mamdani continues to push his anti-American agenda even harder since his candidates beat traditional Democrats in the recent primary. 

And has the audacity to sit behind George Washington’s desk denigrating this country as he mocked Independence Day calling out the “powerful” who treat American ideals as a given only for the “select few.”   But he forgot to mention the sacrifices made by so many who made this country great.

“We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions,” he intoned. “We see the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections.”

Spoken like a true Socialist, born with a Communist spoon in his mouth.

But enough about him. Instead, we can remember that we still live in a country where we can say anything, even when we disagree, knowing that no other country has that same freedom. And can condemn same without fear of reprisal.

God Bless America, Land that I Love.

Another Reason For the SAVE America Act

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When someone says there is no “Election Fraud” committed by anyone, point them to this. It is rampant, even in a school board election.

A Long Island school clerk overseeing board of education elections tore up ballots and threw them in a dumpster to rig the election for a local DJ, a newly revealed internal probe found.

Hempstead Union Free School District Clerk April Keys allegedly rigged the May 19 trustee election by smuggling official ballots out of her office and handing absentee ballots to incumbent candidate Victor Pratt so he could trash them, according to a 51-page petition filed by the district with the state Education Department.

Keys could now face criminal charges as the district is looking to overturn Pratt’s razor-thin win. Pratt is a third-term trustee and former school board president who moonlights as a local DJ under the stage name DJ Vic-Lover, according to his social media.

“The Board of Education Trustee election must be overturned because widespread irregularities affected the outcome of the election and were so pervasive that they vitiated the electoral process,” the filing, from the Hempstead school district’s attorneys, said. “The Board of Education Trustee election must be overturned because widespread irregularities affected the outcome of the election and were so pervasive that they vitiated the electoral process,” the filing, from the Hempstead school district’s attorneys, said.

The filing, which was submitted June 15 but emerged Thursday,  asks state Education Department Commissioner Betty Rosa to order a new one election, with a replacement clerk and oversight by the state Attorney General’s Civil Rights office.

The district launched an internal investigation after it discovered major irregularities in its election for the unpaid trustee seats.

What a surprise! NOT!!

And here is another little tidbit, friends. Pratt won by just 81 votes, boosted by a suspiciously large number of absentee and early mail ballots that boosted him to the win even though he only came in third on machine voting, the probe found.

Pratt racked up 87% of absentee votes and 55% of early mail votes, compared to just 27% of in-person machine votes, while other trustee candidates received fewer than 100 absentee and early mail ballots combined, the probe found. 

If this can happen for a local school board election, with only two people involved, one can only extrapolate that with many more people at state and federal levels counting absentee and mail-in ballots, greater fraud is probable. Especially when there are no fail-safe checkpoints like cameras installed in the rooms where ballots are counted.

Eighty percent of ALL Americans want election integrity in our elections. It seems that forty-five Democrats, two Independents and several Republicans keep voting to allow fraud in our elections by voting against the SAVE America Act.

It is well beyond time to finally pass and enact this bill.

Krazy Kat’s Embarrassing Big Fail

​In an effort to inspire the crowd which attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Buffalo Bills stadium, Governor Krazy Kat received a tepid response from the crowd for her Biden-like cheering antics.

The Buffalo native, clad in a Bills hat and a blue-and-white blazer and shirt combo, enthusiastically took the stage at the newly completed Highmark Stadium Tuesday, kicking off her remarks with a fervent “alright let’s get this party started, let’s go!” to a response of what could charitably be called a trickle of applause.

Undeterred, the fired-up governor belted out an earnest chant of “Buffalo, let’s go!”, attempting to get the audience to join in the call-and-response, and even pointing to either side of the crowd to give them their cue.

“Alright, seriously? You want to win a championship season with that kind of enthusiasm? Men and women of labor you know what I’m talking about,” before, improbably, again trying to rouse the audience from their slumber with another botched chant attempt.

It was pitiful.

She was met with such deafening silence she aborted the effort and called them out for their lethargy.

If this is the response her hometown is giving her, perhaps she should rethink her ambition to run for another term. The rest of the state’s residents don’t have the same tepid feelings for her. She is blinded by her own conceit.

Oh, and by the way, the $2.1 billion, 60,000-seat stadium, which her husband was intimately involved with developing, will be the home of the NFL franchise for the next 30 years. 

Ultimately, it was yet another big fail for Krazy Kat.

Socialism Has Finally Reared Its Ugly Head

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it, and hell where they already have it." Ronald Reagan  

​The death knell for the Democrat Party in New York City yesterday as the DSA (no relation to the traditional Democrat Party) won several key contests ousting several key Democrats from their Congressional seats. Several were previously considered untouchable.

Shades of Joe Crowley when AOC surprised him and us in 2018.

“The roof is collapsing on the Democratic Party establishment tonight,” progressive political activist and CNN commentator Van Jones told Kaitlan Collins as election results rolled in.

“And you can’t write off New York City because this … is a power center for the establishment and the insurgency. And they’re going head to head tonight,” he said.

“And right now, this is no longer a movement. This is a movement and a machine at the same time. And there’s just no way to sugarcoat this: if Mamdani pulls off a hat trick this is a new era in Democratic Party politics.”

He is not wrong. This has been long-coming since AOC became the darling of the media and the left.

And what was once considered the loony fringe of the Democrats, is now rolling to become its voice.

Even Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) whose independent streak has rankled his own party since his own surprise victory in 2022, didn’t hold back in voicing his consternation about Tuesday’s results when speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

“This has become the dancing days of the dirtbag left,” he said.

“Some of these candidates are outrageous. You have candidates, they [want to] abolish ICE, abolish police, abolish the border. She even said ‘f Kamala Harris’ and more of these outrageous kinds of things,” the senator said, referencing a deleted, expletive-laced social media post by Chevalier in 2021.

He said the slate of candidates who won their races represent the “full pro-Hamas wing” of the party who have declared “war on regular Democrats.”

As well, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) suffered a blow Tuesday night after far-left congressional hopefuls defeated his preferred candidates.

Wins by socialists Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez in the Empire State’s 13th and 7th congressional districts, respectively, along with left Israel-critic Brad Lander’s victory in New York’s 10th District, could complicate Jeffries’ path to retaining the Democratic leadership post, and potentially the speakership, after the November midterms.

Jeffries endorsed defeated incumbent Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) for re-election in the 10th and 13th districts – both of whom had pledged to fall in line behind Jeffries if Democrats reclaimed the majority.

The once-revered party of JFK and Truman  is crumbling rapidly before our eyes, at least in New York.

Reagan’s quote about socialism is now alive and well in New York City, too. God Help Us All.