Darran Giangiobbe

WHY YOU SHOULD BECOME A DEMOCRAT I don't like lima beans. But if somebody sat me down at a table and put a plate of lima beans and a plate of dog crap in front of me, and put a gun to my head and told me to eat one of them, I'd eat the lima beans. Which is why you should become a Democrat. If you live in Monroe County, New York, and are an independent or a Republican, you should change your voter registration to Democrat. If you want to have a say in important countywide elections, you should change your voter registration to Democrat. Here are the facts: With an almost 2-to-1 enrollment advantage, Democrats own Monroe County. There are holdout Republican towns, but countywide, it's jackass all the way. Which means your vote in November is meaningless. Not meaningless. You can still put your sticker on Susan B's headstone. But you can't pick the winner. The Democrat candidate will almost certainly win. Which makes the Democrat primary where the action is. And there will be a lot of action there. Because there are two types of Monroe County Democrats -- lima bean Democrats and dog crap Democrats -- and they are at war for the soul of their party and control of your county. Lima bean Democrats are moderates; dog crap Democrats are woke, DEI-obsessed, pro-criminal socialists. Lima bean Democrats have drunk half the Kool Aid; dog crap Democrats inject it into their veins. And the dog crap Democrats are on the ascendancy. You see it on the City Council, where they sit through the pledge. You see it in the City Court, where everybody walks free. You see it in the County Legislature, where a cop killer is a welcome guest. And they want you to see it everywhere. They want to take over. They want Monroe County to become the upstate headquarters of the revolution. And they'll do it, unless you stop them. They will use the Democrat primary to advance woke candidates for sheriff, district attorney, county court judge and, when Joe Morelle retires, Congress. That means they -- the dog crap Democrats -- will be able to destroy law enforcement and criminal prosecution in the county, and turn the House seat into a branch office of the Mamdani administration. And all it will take is about 75,000 woke Democrat primary votes, in a county of some 750,000 people. That means one-tenth of Monroe County's population will pick 100% of Monroe County's countywide elected officials. As long as you stay an independent or a Republican. But if you register as a Democrat, and become eligible to vote in the Democrat primary, you tip the balance of power in that party, and you kill the prospects of the dog crap Democrats. There are 201,000 total Democrats in Monroe County, 157,000 independents and 125,000 Republicans. A shift of part of the independents and part of the Republicans into the Democratic Party tips that party's primary results away from the extremists and toward the moderates -- away from the dog crap Democrats and toward the lima bean Democrats. A lima bean Democrat district attorney is still going to prosecute criminals, like a lima bean Democrat sheriff is still going to enforce the law, and a lima bean Democrat county judge is still going to follow the law. The same cannot be said for dog crap Democrats. The worst thing that could happen is for some woke, dog crap Democrat to take over any of those offices. You can't stop that from happening in the general election, but you can in the Democrat primary. And to vote in the Democrat primary, you have to register as a Democrat. So hold your nose, and eat your lima beans.

"There is now unambiguous, solid economic evidence, not just abstract economic theory, that rent control would make the affordability problems facing [Massachusetts] worse, not better." - Jon Gruber, Chairman of the Economics Department at MIT

Kathy Hochul making a weak plea for wealthy people who have left New York (to red states like Florida) to come back to pay their high taxes to fund failing (unaccountable) social programs: “I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs we have in our state. Some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Ok! Cut the me the checks. But if you want to supportive, maybe the first step should be go down to palm beach and see who you can bring back home

Sources: Teams that have called the Miami Dolphins to inquire about trading for Pro-Bowl RB De’Von Achane have been told that he is not available.

Me tryna secure JAŸ-Z seats for July 10 & 11

If Mamdani rams through a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments, tenants will have no reason to rejoice. Most older buildings are heated by No. 2 heating oil, and oil prices are going through the roof. Forcing landlords to operate at a loss will tee up a SCOTUS decision ending rent controls in NYC and everywhere. That is what happens when you elect a 34-year-old Marxist who has less work experience than most baristas.

Full trade: Broncos get Waddle and Dolphins’ 4th-round pick (11th in round) in this year’s draft. Dolphins get: 1st round pick (30th overall) along with late 3rd and 4th round picks (30th in each round) in this year’s draft.