Weaponizing the DOJ, or things you won't read on Chris Murphy's official website

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How's that student loan forgiveness program going? There are millions of kids in learing centers now who are about to graduate well trained, highly educated, and buried in debt

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his vote cancels yours

TV reporter finds the dumbest spring breakers in America: ‘Who the f–k is ayatollah?’

Fox News managed to find some of the most clueless revelers in America in a series of Florida beach interviews on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Monday.

The ayatollah? These kids never heard of him. Is the US at war in Iraq or Iran? Who can say?

And the most pressing issue facing the US?

“What bikini I’m gonna wear next,” one scantily clad partier on the Fort Lauderdale beach obtusely remarked in the jaw-dropping video.

“Getting a tan on the beach. That’s the most important thing in my life right now,” another young woman said.

President Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown? Not a concern to one guy.

“ICE — not personally, I’m legal,” he said, then tipped his cup to the camera.

When asked what they think Trump “has been doing recently,” a tan brunette suggested, “The Gulf of America. That’s the last thing I kept up with.” 

“We’re going to war with Iraq — that’s been crazy,” another young woman told Fox producer Johnny Belisario.

When Belisario brought up slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the pea-brained respondents came up short, according to the bewildering clip. 

“Who the f–k is ayatollah” and “I’ve never heard that word before” were among the grim responses. 

“I haven’t heard. I found out about Chuck Norris yesterday. That was more devastating to me,” one girl said, referring to the Hollywood action star’s death at 86 last week. 

When the host asked the gaggle what they know about what’s going in Venezuela, one scholar asked if that’s in Spain. 

The beachside respondents said their dubious educations came from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Florida Atlantic University, Connecticut’s Sacred Heart University and Ohio State University, to name a few of the schools. 

When asked what their “game plans” were for vacation, one woman charmingly responded, “Black out with my rack out.” 

“If my mom is watching, I’m sorry, Mom, but I’ve been getting pretty drunk almost every day,” said one guy, who looked straight out of an episode of “Jersey Shore.” 

Other thirsty male respondents reported having similar plans, which were to “hook up with girls” and “get with as many girls as we can and not come back with an STD.”

One woman said her goal was “to make out with one person each night” — a mission she had already fulfilled 10 days into her vacation. 

The blonde drew a blank when asked what her make-out partners’ names were. 

Other interviewees admitted to pole dancing, skinny dipping in the ocean and witnessing people ingesting cocaine off a woman’s breasts while on the beach. 

Well of course the lines have disappeared: Chris Murphy told passengers that they were going to be raped and shot by ICE, and they’re staying home

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Stephen Green: “How many thousands of Americans are learning that the ICE they see on the news is not the ICE they see with their own lyin’ eyes?”

(Less than) two years, two sales: it's this sort of turnover that keeps Greenwich real estate humming

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gimmicky, but effective

16 Windrose Way has sold again, this time for $14 million. The owner paid $13.750 for it in July 2024 (it had started at $21.5 million in May 2022), and apparently promptly changed his mind or his plans.

This buyer has a Chelsea/West Village Zip (10011), the seller came from Delaware. (19807).

It's on old — 2024 — clip, but his sentiments and his actions haven’t changed. (Updated)

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I’ll correct one thing: Murphy refers to them (26 seconds in) as “undocumented Americans who are in this country”, not “migrants”. Telling, that.

UPDATE

Fox News provides the context:

In the clip, posted on Monday night by the conservative influencer account End Wokeness, MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked Murphy in 2024 about negotiations between Democrats and Republicans happening at the time about a border security bill. Hayes pressed Murphy on why Democrats were pushing to get funding for Ukraine instead of pushing for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, as the party had done in the past.

"Well, I mean, Chris, that’s been a failed play for 20 years," Murphy replied. "So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country."

Pending on Pinecroft

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14 Pinecroft Road, guide price $5.450 million. Started at $5.795 million February 24th, but listing agent Martha Jeffrey is one of the best, and quickly dropped it to its current price on March 3rd. We can all overestimate an initial price (or, more often, an owner can), but no harm’s done if, as here, that price is adjusted promptly.

Great house and grounds, and the location’s good. I’d remove the faux ceiling beams in the living room and maybe the library’s dark paneling, but those are quibbles.

Is it really a problem for the Democrats? It seems to me they wrote them off long ago

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in fact, you might say that, at best, they're only offering them lip service