If there's anything that truly marks the new socialists running the Democrat Party, it's their total, abysmal ignorance of the world outside their bubble. So this is rich. (Updated)

The smarmy bastard is out on the hustings peddling his screed against MAGA people (half the country, so it’s too bad his constituents can’t read; he’d have done much better hiring his ghost writer to create a comic book.

“There are lots of Trump voters who don’t know much about the facts,” he said during a stop on his book tour last week at Judson Memorial Church in New York City.

“Not if they watch Fox News,” a woman sitting next to the senator sarcastically remarked, prompting Murphy to add, “Not if they watch Fox News, but, frankly, there’s other sources that are even further rigged than Fox News, more in the tank for Trump.”

“So, I think part of it is that there’s a big element of his base who just isn’t hearing the real story,” the Democrat claimed.

This is hardly the only insult Murphy has hurled at 77 million+ Americans as of late. During a May appearance on The View, the Democrat described the MAGA movement as a “divisive, hateful community.”

“It’s not enough to be just against Trump. And this is, frankly, getting us to what this book is about. I want the Democratic Party to really speak to where the people of this country are emotionally right now,” Murphy said, admitting that Trump has done a much better job than Democrats of speaking directly to the American people.

“MAGA, whether you like it or not – it is a place where people find community,” he said before describing this community as “a divisive, hateful community.”

“But this to me is, you know what this book is about, trying to say to his base as well that there is something sick in America today when we have a harder time than ever finding companionship and communion, when our communities have been hollowed out by a global economy, when the technologies poison our kids,” he said, adding:

“And so if you talk about rebuilding a sense of the common good in this country and talk about it through the prism of unrigging our economy and unrigging our democracy, I think you’ll find a way to speak to his base and to our base, and maybe pry people away from him who now see him exposed as a fake populist. You know, that’s a lot about what this book is about.”

A recent Times/Siena survey found that barely over a quarter of voters, just 26 percent, feel satisfied with Murphy’s party, the Democrat Party.

UPDATE: 64% of Democrats believe Trump knew about and participated in Epstein’s sexual abuse. That includes, I’m sure, Murphy himself, because he’s from the same gap-toothed, fifth-generation-harelip crowd his constituents belong to.

Is it something we said?

7 Heusted Drive sold to an Aurora Colorado couple a year ago March for $2.750 million; they put it back up for sale last month at $2.995 million and today it’s reported pending. I can’t confirm the rumor, but word is that they’ve joined forces with the similarly-newly-arrived Evergreen Colorado couple that’s selling their own house on Boulder Brook Drive and are all off to start a commune in Sante Fe. We wish them well.

What a difference a year makes

33 Boulder Brook Road was listed at $6.695 million in September ‘23 and sat on the market, unloved and unwanted, until April ‘24, when the present owners came east from Evergreen, Colorado, and paid $6.3 million. This year, probably after discovering that the icy snow slopes of Stowe and the Birch Hill rope tow don’t provide the quality skiing they were accustomed to, they decided to move, and put it back on the market last week, unchanged, for $6.650 million.

It’s gone pending in 8 days.

A S**t Parade on Old Timber?

Mr. Anthony Martello, of 29 Split Timber Road in NoPo, has sued the town for failing to clean raccoon poop out of a culvert near his home. Details of the suit, filed this past May 19th, can be found here, but essentially, he claims that raccoons are living in a culvert behind his house (the Greenwich Public Works Department denies that racoons live in culverts — I’ve never asked the masked bandits personally about this, so I’ll withhold judgement) and demands a quarterly cleaning and stern “No Raccoons” signs posted near its entrance.

Hmm. From the filed complaint, Freddy Camillo and every other possible public official, including little Jimmy Johnson, Riverside School’s 6th-grade chief of the Safety Patrol, have stopped by, listened to Mr. Martello’s complaint, and told him to piss-off, so to speak. And he is pissed off, so he’s sued, pro-se; it’s the new American way.

Lesson I’d draw from this? Don’t buy (or inherit, as seems to be the case here) a house in a swamp.

The town hasn’t filed an answer yet, so we’ll await developments.

Well, okay then, fine; but if it wasn't that, what DID cause her to do such a lousy job?


“Oooh, joey, you did so well! You answered all the questions! Now let’s go get you a puddin’Pop at Waffle house.”

Jill Biden Assures Nation Joe’s Old Age Did Not Hamper Her Ability To Serve As President

U.S. — While making media appearances to promote her new book, Jill Biden assured the nation that her husband's old age did not in any way hamper her ability to serve as president.

Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe to talk about her highly anticipated book, A View from the East Wing, the former first lady was adamant that former President Joe Biden's advanced age and significant decline in cognitive ability did not prevent her from carrying out her duties as leader of the free world.

"I was fully able to carry out all my duties as leader," she said. "I know everyone was concerned [about] Joe's decrepit age and the fact that he seemed to be near death at all times, but … I was not prevented from serving as president at any point during my four years in the Oval Office. I'm grateful that we had a highly qualified staff that kept Joe occupied and cared for while I got all my work done as president."

Reader Pierre DeLecto sent along the following clip from the archives in response to an earlier post here, and although I’m not sure of its exact relevance to that post, I’m glad he did, because it fits in neatly here; besides, Biden and Corn Pop can never get old — on tape, anyway — so these goldie oldies are always welcome.

The year's not halfway gone, but we may already have the winner of the 2026 Hank Johnson Award

Plenty of contenders down in D.C., but I’m ready to cast my ballot

And just for fun, here’s the award’s namesake for one more run of the tape

Whatever

New construction at 36 Dunwood Place (off Dingletown) (never made it to the MLS, so no link) has been sold by its builder for $9.230 million. Two acres, perfectly unobjectional architecture, 6 bedrooms and 8 1/2 baths, in case anyone wants his and her separate bedrooms, one for three kids, and 3 for the illegals in the basement; not sure where the extra bathrooms are, or who might use them, but nice to know they’re there.

From the few pictures posted on the Greenwich Realtors’ website, it looks fine; it also looks like every other new construction in the $5-$10 million range, but perhaps this has hidden qualities.

Follow up on Britain's Henry Nowak; as expected

Police officers cleared in Henry Nowak murder

Yesterday, the UK Telegraph reported,

Officers in Nowak arrest did nothing wrong, police watchdog claims.

Nothing? Nothing at all? From the Telegraph,

The police watchdog claims there is no evidence the officers who handcuffed Henry Nowak as he lay dying committed misconduct, The Telegraph can reveal.

The 18-year-old university student was arrested by police after being stabbed by Vickrum Digwa, who lied and claimed he had been racially abused and assaulted.

PowerLine:

The independent “watchdog” for police (IOPC) has been investigating the case since the day after Nowak was murdered back on December 3. That is a full six months of investigation, and the IOPC has found nothing wrong. Nothing. No evidence.

Official Britain has been telling everyone to wait for the official IOPC report before reacting to this horrific incident. But the IOPC has already decided the issue. Why wait?