NYC Democratic Socialist Leaders Living Capitalist Dream

From the New York Post we get a completely predictable story of hypocrisy. DSA leader sold luxe NYC triplex for nearly $2.5 million, used profits to buy pad in Brooklyn

Limousine liberals. Nepo Babies. Hypocrites.

Two NYC Democratic Socialists of America leaders have been caught living the ultimate capitalist dream, with one quietly collecting millions in real estate flips and another nesting in a sleek $500,000 Brooklyn apartment, The Post has learned.

The two are Labor Coordinator Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth and DSA Steering Committee chair Julie Swoope. Swoope has a half-million-dollar pad in Brooklyn. Gonzalez Killingsworth sold an Upper West triplex for $2.4 million back in 2022.

Not exactly the proletariat.

Hat tip to Clayton Cramer: This Brings Back Memories

I was taking first semester American History at Sonoma State University. Another student asked a question that degenerated into an anti-capitalist diatribe. At the break, I approached him: "Is your Dad a banker or a CEO?"

"Banker. How did you know?"

Police Response to Antifa Terror Attack on Texas ICE Facility

The Other McCain has an interesting review of the entire incident and its aftermath. Police Bodycam Video Shows Response to Antifa Terror Attack on Texas ICE Facility

Why did I begin this post by talking about the red van that officers stopped near the Prairieland shooting? Because when these Antifa terrorists were sentenced to decades in federal prison — including 100 years for Benjamin Song — their defenders insisted that they were merely “protesters” exercising their First Amendment rights.

Except of course that violence directed at government agencies is not a first amendment guarantee.

It would have taken at least 45 minutes of driving to get to the scene of their “protest,” and that van was packed with weapons, yet the Antifa comrades didn’t have the faintest clue that Song was planning to shoot up the place? God knows what might have happened had it not been for Lt. Gross’s excellent marksmanship, firing a shot that disabled Song’s rifle.

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The Lanterns Show Is Typical Woke Slop

From Marvin Montanaro at Geeks + Gamers, we get the update. REVIEW: Lanterns Episode 3 is a Race-Baiting Betrayal of Green Lantern Lore—Possibly the Worst Thing DC Has Ever Produced

The article contains spoilers, in case anyone is worried about watching this drek.

Lanterns Episode 3 “OutKast” replaces willpower with a nonsensical fear test, turns John Stewart’s childhood into an abusive social experiment, and rewrites Green Lantern mythology around one of the ugliest racial messages ever forced into a superhero adaptation.

Marvin M. is a reviewer/editor at That Part Place and Geeks + Gamers. I like his take on pop culture.

I don't think we have viewer numbers that anyone trusts yet. Nielsen takes several weeks. There is probably some data available, but I'm not interested enough to go looking.

More proof that Hollywood hates heros in general, superheros in particular, and want nothing more than to pull the genre down into the dirt. Well, that, and the fact that most of them can't write worth a damn.