Pat Johnson

Yeah, I took off again. Love my #hockey and it was a joy and a pleasure to see the @SeattleKraken’s last home game on Friday night. Miss you all and in the immortal words of Dr. Frasier Crane… Thank you #Seattle! @nhl #Kraken #hockey #EmeraldCity #thankyouseattleweloveyou

@nypost @miriam_riviera @karol @mirandadevine How powerful is the Teachers Union? The city could cut a ton of this and build subways or maintain infrastructure with the money…

Cowardly Mamdani keeps bankrolling failure in NYC’s schools. Read today's cover here: trib.al/pCRV3bE

Almost 40% of New York City’s budget. The waste and fraud is absolutely incredible.

This is the state of Upstate New York right now. It’s becoming a commercial solar wasteland, all for a form of energy that only converts at 15% of its annual potential in this climate. This is a money-laundering scheme between NY, @KathyHochul, and foreign renewable corporations cashing in on millions in green energy subsidies and credits. Those credits? They’re subsidized using YOUR taxpayer dollars and delivery charges on our electric bills. We need the federal government to intervene in New York State YESTERDAY!

I know four people personally who are lifelong New Yorkers who are crouched in the starting blocks to move to Florida. They're just waiting to finish up a few things, and poof! Out the door. And all four own businesses.

New York City Council need to either enforce the law, if there is already one, or pass a law that prohibit protests within three city blocks of a religious establishment. We must also BAN Islamic prayers in the middle of the street because they are an act of social terror. They do not do that even in Islamic countries. I am happy to help draft such a law. Please let’s work together.

What's going on across New York tonight is a disgrace. A sickening display that should embarrass every 'leader' in our city government. A phalanx of 500 police officers should not be needed to protect a synagogue from a violent mob of masked jihadis carrying the flags of designated terror organizations. Make no mistake -- this is exactly what Mamdani was elected to facilitate. It had nothing to do with free busses or public services or the 'working class' or anything else lied about during his campaign. It was always about a revolutionary vanguard led by the Islamist-Marxist alliance to bring chaos to their political enemies in naked power plays that are meant to clearly announce who's now in charge here. When they say 'every issue is Palestine' this is what they mean. When they say 'globalize the intifada' this is what they mean. This is it. This is what New York now has to look forward to. And it's going to get much worse. For Jews, for homeowners, for businesses, for executives and banks and restaurants and everyone who isn't part of their radical nexus. Nobody is safe. Everyone will be targeted. And they will continue to escalate, likely until they start killing people. All as the mayor looks on and smiles. Our City Council should now call for a massive investigation into who organizes and funds these groups with the exact same vigor they used to futilely investigate 'islamophobia' on social media. But they won't, because they already know the answer and don't have any real interest in stopping any of it. Fact is your tax dollars fund a great deal of this illegal activity through New York's multibillion dollar nonprofit-industrial complex, and a great many staffers and appointees of both the Mamdani administration and the City Council have close ties to these people. You get exactly the government you vote for, and the fact is a shocking number of New Yorkers want exactly this kind of terror to permeate our streets. And for that, they elected exactly the man for the job. Be prepared for what comes next. Because it's not going to get any better.

If you are a Millennial or later, you may be unaware of the near total domination Democrats had over American politics in the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s. Yes, the Dems and the GOP swapped Presidencies pretty routinely, but Congress tended to be overwhelmingly Democrat. When Newt Gingrich and his GOP team won a majority in the House in 1994, it was shocking and felt unbelievable. Now, in 2026, we are truly coming to understand that for decades Democrat electoral victories were built on: 1. Artificial, racist voting district constructs, ostensibly under the Voting Rights Act. 2. Complete control of votes and voting in most large cities. 3. Taxpayer dollars funneled to Leftist NGOs to promote Democrat policies. 4. A mass media with complete obedience to Democrats. 5. Illegal aliens, both for purposes of census district apportionments and illegal voting. 6. Highly questionable voting practices such as mail-in ballots, lack of voter ID, ballot dropboxes and ballot "harvesting." 7. "Errors" in census data that always pointed one-way. 8. The success of calling anyone who challenged their voting policies "racist." 9. Federal government employees "resisting" GOP policies while showing complete fealty to Democrat policies. Today, however, these electoral crutches are being kicked out one by one, and Democrats are becoming increasingly insane and violent as a result. Reality is being laid bare, and we are all coming to understand just how artificial Democrat power actually has been. In ten years they might be a powerless rump party, which suggests a third party supplanting the Democrats might soon be a reality. It's shocking, isn't it?

@StreetsblogNYC Not even a trillion dollars will fix that subterranean ruin

I love all these transplants who want to make you think that congestion pricing is like the story of the loaves and the fishes in the Bible. I think they’ve already mentioned this hundred million dollars being spent at least 11 different ways. Yes they actually think you are this stupid.

It's 1985, bottom of the 18th inning, game on the line, and Atlanta's relief pitcher, a career .060 hitter with no prior home runs, did the unthinkable. It's not called the "Rick Camp Game" for nothing!⚾️😲

When is England going to punt this loser? Definition of weakness

Keir Starmer: "Muslims are successful, brilliant, and creative people. They have made an enormous contribution to Britain's history, in goodness, art, and education. They are the face of modern Britain. They are exceptional people."

@mirandadevine What couldn’t is the better question!

Obama, Soros, Carney. What could go wrong?

Happy 77th Birthday to Billy Joel, born this day in The Bronx, New York, NY. What are your thoughts and memories of The Piano Man?

"The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time" - AOC

WRONG. 🤡

Most downtown Seattle businesses are GONE because of leftist rule. Starbucks Old Navy The Loft And many more GONE. They left because of crime and homelessness & now most of downtown Seattle is VACANT. How SAD.

I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said. I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her. Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it. "Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record. I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at. My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building. Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment. I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate. I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic. When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change. I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that. My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say. They want me to apologize. I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.