Strange Days Indeed

 I follow politics far less than I used to, largely since I can't stand MOST politicians these days -- both on the Right and Left.

Wifey and many others give people like Trump FAR too much free real estate in their brains -- I get nearly daily emails and FaceBook (TM) posts about how evil he is -- same with DeSantis. I didn't vote for either of them -- never would -- but like Dave Chappelle, I chose to stick around and see how their favor the rich policies work for me. The latest is Florida GOP coming up with a bill to essentially eliminate most property taxes for those 65 and over. Hey -- if they want to save me $20K per year or so, who am I to complain? I'd probably just have to spend the money helping the grandsons attend private schools, since the GOP seems hell bent on weakening public schools, anyway.

Joey contacted me about a former high school classmate of his who now lives near us, and is running for Congress as a Democrat -- to maybe unseat Maria Salazar, our current joke of a representative. Salazar beat Donna Shalala, who lost due to her hubris -- she didn't bother to campaign -- thinking, like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, that she was an so important, she would serve forever. Not so fast, Donna -- the far dumber and less qualified Salazar won.

Anyway, I told Joey I'm done with giving any campaign contributions -- with the exception of a few judicial campaigns for old friends. I'd like to see more Dems win, but the party of my grandparents, parents, and until recently myself, is batshit, too.

When we were in Maine, Joelle and Kenny were crowing about some guy named Platner, supposably (always use the Miami spelling) who was the future of the Dems -- could unseat the old lady incumbent -- was an oyster farmer and retired Marine -- a "muscular" new candidate who could shake things up. I read up on him -- he's a bit anti-semitic-ish. Said nasty stuff on Reddit, and has had, for years, a Nazi tattoo he claimed he got not knowing its meaning -- but he kept if for 7 years! A chief of staff even quit his campaign over it -- and Bill Maher, who I like more and more, calls him the Nazi Oyster Farmer. Yeah, no, to coin another Miami neologism.

I guess the Dems bother me more lately -- seems much more Jew hatred comes from the extreme left. This guy recently elected in NYC is amazing to me -- apparently 20% of Jews voted for him since he's promising free crap to the young ones there -- and cheaper rent. Anyone with any sense knows that turning NYC into Havana or Caracas on the Hudson isn't a great idea. And the other day, during a meet at a venerable NYC synagogue, the idiot Hamas lovers hassled the Jews attending a pro-Israel meeting -- saying their catchphrase "Globalize the Intifada!" Mamdani said it shouldn't have happened, but criticized the synagogue for the content of the meeting!

How did NYC go from 9/11 and all it meant to a time, 24 years later, when they elect a mayor largely sympathetic to the goals of the terrorists who flew into the World Trade Center?

Hopefully the pendulum swings more towards the Center in the years ahead. All I know is, my money goes to my family and charity -- the scoundrels in politics can go tap other sources.

Strange days, indeed, as the late Lennon (not Lenin) sang.