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New York Post
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- New York Post
Can't get more extreme: Mamdani's DSA rallied for NORTH KOREA
Wow: Zohran Mamdani's Democratic Socialists of America actually co-sponsored a rally for Korean unification — under the tyrannical Kim Jong Un. Yep: The DSA's NYC chapter backed the 'People's Summit for Korea' at Riverside Church late last month, along other progressive outfits like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, even though (or because?) it glorified the grotesque North Korean state. Somehow, admiring a dictatorship that has impoverished and starved half the Korean peninsula (even as South Korea has risen to prosperity) is part of the modern left's 'unicause,' right up there with taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries. The rally even featured a speaker from the Palestinian Youth Movement insisting Palestinians increasingly see their movement as similar to North Korea's, as both are engaged in battles to 'dismantle a US imperialist outpost.' Mamdani skipped the summit, but his ideology fits right in: He's an avowed anti-capitalist who decries 'settler colonialism.' American socialists from Bernie Sanders to AOC have sided with goons from Fidel Castro to Nicolás Maduro, and the (tiny) DSA is even more extreme. Which is why the vast majority of New Yorkers should be alarmed that enthusiastic DSA member Mamdani is Instagramming his way to City Hall.


Buzz Feed
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- Buzz Feed
13 Families Torn Apart by Political Differences
Recently, we asked the friends, siblings, parents, and loved ones of MAGA supporters to share the "last straw" moments that broke their relationship. Here's what they said: Note: Some responses have been edited for clarity. "My father voted for Trump in 2016, even though I made it clear to him that he would try to get rid of Obamacare, which prevented insurance companies from discriminating against me as a recent survivor of stage 3 cancer." "I am divorced now because my ex-husband's attempt at Trumpism was the final straw... He would come home and try to repeat the Trumpy rhetoric he heard on the radio, and he was too stupid to even get it right." "I'm not even American but Australian, and my mum is English. That's how far this crap reaches. Trump is objectively bad for our native countries, and you'll still find people squawking this crap. How can you be pro-nationalist when it's hurting your own country... I dunno. Anyway, my mum isn't fully gone. But she seems to be getting a lot of her news from Instagram and social media post-COVID. Borderline anti-vax." "I have no contact with any of my family thanks to asshole Trump. But they also don't like me because I'm gay, and trying to talk to them is just hopeless." "I didn't even want to stop talking to my MAGA relative; it just became impossible to talk to them at all. Every conversation, no matter what we were talking about, devolved into the latest conspiracy theory and attempts to catch me in a 'gotcha' using Fox News-esque logic." "My mom voted for him, and my sister and I both chewed her out for it because she voted for hate, she voted for a misogynistic felon, and most importantly, she voted against the interests of her two children and her very young granddaughter." "I cut my brother out of my life on Nov. 6, 2024. He is a total MAGA. I told him I can't and won't have someone in my life that voted to negate the very existence of people I love." "I called my dad out a few times on the hate and bigotry he spouts off about. Every time he tells me that I need to watch real news and that I have been brainwashed by the radical left into killing our country. He is completely blind to what is actually happening because Fox News keeps telling him it's all OK." "My oldest son and his Venezuelan-born wife are dyed-in-the-wool Trumpers. While talking to him one day, he launched into a rant that Biden was too old to be president a second time. I responded that Trump was just four years younger, so I didn't see how four years was much of a talking point. When he started to list what was wrong about Biden, I said, 'That's it.' I didn't want to ever discuss Trump with him ever again. He went off about me refusing to talk to him again. I said, for a smart guy, he was being really dumb. I said I didn't say I was never talking to him again. I told him I was never discussing Trump with him ever again. He calmed down at that point." "I hate that my parents' right-wing MAGA beliefs are being championed at their church and within Christian circles. My mother has worked in medicine for over 40 years (and very outwardly advocates for vaccines and preventative healthcare) and is deeply pro-choice, and yet still believes immigrants, Joe Biden, and the Fed (unironically, my husband's employer) are killing the country." "My aunt constantly sends me right-wing shit on IG, including anti-trans rhetoric, knowing full well my best friend is trans. And best friend is not even a good enough term for them. They lived with me and my husband during COVID and were there when I walked out of the bathroom mid-miscarriage, sobbing. This friend has been there through my hardest moments, and I love them like family. My aunt? She and her kids hate the term 'chosen family.' Hmmm, wonder why." "I mentioned to my aunt that the last 9 out of 10 recessions occurred under Republican leadership, according to Musk's AI. She said she did not believe anything from AI." And finally, "During the first Trump administration, I was visiting my father and his wife in deep rural Georgia. As we were sitting down for breakfast one morning, they were telling me how a bad storm had recently knocked down several trees across their road, trapping them and their mostly well-off neighbors for a few days." Now we want to hear from you. Have you ever cut off someone for their political beliefs? What happened? Share in the comments or, if you'd like to remain anonymous, use the Google form below. Want to know if Trump's economy is actually doing as well as he promised? Subscribe to the Economy Hate Watch newsletter and never miss our monthly update.


Los Angeles Times
a minute ago
- Los Angeles Times
If Trump's presidency were a late-night talk show, he'd be collecting unemployment with Colbert
At a recent news conference, President Trump touched on questions about tariffs, Gaza and vaccines before zeroing in on one of his favorite subjects: TV and radio ratings. A journalist, referring to an unconfirmed report that Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show was being canceled, handed Trump a sugar-coated softball: 'Is the Hate Trump business model going out of business because it's not popular with the American people?' The president was primed and ready to take a swipe at late-night television, namely Paramount's recent cancellation of 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' and other types of hosted programs he perceives as The Enemy. Anything to distract from his broken promises around IVF funding, a tepid jobs report and his failure in producing the Epstein files. 'Colbert has no talent,' said the president. 'I mean, I could take anybody here. I could go outside in the beautiful streets and pick a couple of people that do just as well or better. They'd get higher ratings than he did. He's got no talent. Fallon has no talent. Kimmel has no talent. They're next. They're going to be going. I hear they're going to be going. I don't know, but I would imagine because they'd get — you know, Colbert has better ratings than Kimmel or Fallon.' Ratings are important to Trump. It's data he's fond of weaponizing. Just ask his 'Celebrity Apprentice' successor Arnold Schwarzenegger. But what about the president's ratings? According to a Gallup poll, six months into Trump's second term, his job approval rating has dipped to 37%, the lowest of this term and just slightly higher than his all-time worst rating of 34% at the end of his first term. In comparison to other two-term presidents at the same point in their presidency, he's well below the 59% average, second-quarter rating set by all post-World War II presidents elected from 1952 to 2020. Bill Clinton (44%) came the closest as the only other president to have a sub-majority approval rating during his second quarter. So Trump and Clinton do have something in common other than their association with the late sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein. Which brings us to polling numbers about Trump's handling of those files. A recent YouGov poll shows 46% of Americans think Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Epstein. A whooping 82% of Americans — including 91% of Democrats and 76% of Republicans — believe that the government should release all documents it has on the Epstein case. And only 4% of those polled are in favor of Trump pardoning Epstein's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. There are no major polls yet on how folks feel about Maxwell being quietly moved from a Florida prison to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas where the majority of inmates are serving time for nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes. Maxwell's role in a violent crime — the recruiting and trafficking of minors for sex — led to her 20-year sentence. Trump's public obsession with ratings date back to his time hosting the television reality competition 'The Apprentice.' It was a genuine hit in that first season, rounding out the year 2004 as the seventh-most-watched TV show of the year. But its ratings declined steadily each year after that, according to the Chicago Tribune, from 11th place overall in its second season, to 15th, then 38th. By its sixth season, it finished as the 75th-most-watched show. If Trump's presidency were a reality TV show, he'd be headed into his sixth season. Enough about TV shows. Let's look at a quantifiable way to apply television ratings to the presidency: inaugurations. According to Nielsen, Trump's first swearing-in ceremony drew 30.6 million total viewers — 19% less than Barack Obama's in 2009, when 37.8 million tuned in. Trump's 2025 swearing-in ceremony had 6 million fewer U.S. viewers than his first-term inauguration. Even worse, that's 9 million fewer viewers than Biden attracted for his big day in 2021. Here's where the art of distraction comes in handy. Focus on other people's faults to cover your own. Enter the Clintons, again. At Wednesday's news conference, Trump said that shock jock Stern's ratings 'went down when he endorsed Hillary Clinton [in 2016].' What's Trump's excuse?