Donny Trump took time out from battling Mexican drug lords today to order Boston voters to oust Marty Walsh because Walsh objects to his racist comments about Mexicans and vows to block the serial bankruptcy filer from building a hotel in Boston (which raises the question of whether Trump was even thinking of doing that).
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Compromise
By Michael
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 9:46pm
What if Boston voters oust him because of his bungling of the 2024 Olympic fiasco but allow him to stick around long enough to infuriate the "circus clown made of mummified foreskins and cotton candy"* known as Trump?
*- John Oliver
Who made Walsh king
By Markk02474
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 10:02pm
and gave him dictatorship powers over who can buy property and develop it?
Move to Boston
By adamg
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 10:12pm
Then we'll talk.
In the meantime, if Walsh is really serious and not just giving an off-the-cuff answer to an out-of-left-field Herald question (Trumpy briefly made an appearance up here when casinos first became a Thing and talked about turning a Harbor Island into one), I'm sure he'll find out that he legally can't block Trump anymore than Menino could really block WalMart or Chick-fil-A.
City residents
By Sheckie
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 5:40am
Mr. Blogman, this sight is going to shrink if only city residents are allowed to comment.
By "sight", did you mean
By tcf098
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 9:14am
By "sight", did you mean "site"? Hurry up and get your comments in before your AOL minutes run out.
WOW!
By BostonDog
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:39pm
I haven't seen that insult lodged in almost 20 years. Impressive.
Anyone can comment, Only
By dd808
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 1:43pm
Anyone can comment, Only Bostonians can complain. After all he is their mayor.
Good job protecting Trump's civil rights!
By perruptor
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:31am
We shall overcomb!
The most interesting man...
Short-fingered vulgarian!!!
By Sally
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 10:12pm
Somewhere--I do not know quite where--I have a box full of Spy magazines as well as some Mirabella's and Sassy's. Complain about the hair all you want but the 80's and 90's were a great time for magazines.
Me too
By Ishmael Jones
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 9:26am
I have a boxfull in a closet, had to convince my wife not to throw them out when we moved. It was consistently hilarious.They were great years for magazines: the now defunct Movieline was unafraid to snipe at the studios, Esquire and GQ had a more literary bent, Spin was excellent, and Entertainment Weekly was required reading before it turned into the pitiful PR flack magazine it is today.
I flew into the then Soviet Union with a Spy magazine...
By bibliotequetress
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:19pm
...in my luggage, along with a Playboy, as I had been advised/warned that mainstream porn and cigarettes were more valuable currency than rubles. The Spy was for me. In JFK airport, I thought for a minute about the fact that I was about to fly into the country with whom we had an espionage laden and stressful relationship carrying a magazine called Spy, but figured that I could explain my way out of it as necessary.
I didn't need to worry as the young customs officer opened my suitcase, deftly removed the Playboy, closed the suitcase & handed it back to me, no paperwork, no problem, welcome to Moscow.
I think the Spy had Sandra Bernhardt dressed as Cleopatra on the cover (I can't believe I'm remembering this). I was in a Glasnost-era student exchange program.
One of my favorite Spy issues was dedicated to DC, and involved, in part, tailing Lee Atwater around Washington by stuffing a potato in his tailpipe and "following the smell of burnt french fries." When Walter Monheit died a few years ago, I actually felt all verklempt.
Spy and later Might were a turning point in refining American snark, bless 'em.
Please....
By Brian Riccio
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:54am
A lot of men will use their etchings as an excuse to impress their guests, my bound complete collection of Spy is my enticement.
Please let us know if that works on anyone under 40...
By bibliotequetress
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:21pm
...that is, if you're actually interested in picking anyone up under 40 :)
Google
By aging cynic
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:20pm
"Hillary bondage photo"
Greatest. Spy Cover. Ever.
Trump
By Meowzer
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 10:30pm
It's so hard to care about Donald Trump.
I dunno
By erik g
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 9:00am
I dunno, I kind of like the thought of him winning the GOP primary. Mostly because I own a potted fern that has a better chance of winning the general election.
Yes, but
By Michael
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 9:08am
I don't like the thought that there are millions of people out there - driving cars, raising children, operating machinery - who think that giving Donald Trump access to nuclear weapons is any kind of idea.
We Shall Know Them By Their Bumper Stickers
By bibliotequetress
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 10:35am
.
Did Trump make some new statements deemed racist?
By O-FISH-L
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 10:32pm
Certainly that isn't a racist statement. If anything, Trump can be criticized for narrowly limiting his comments to just illegal Mexicans. After all, just this week, it was a Guatemalan who allegedly sexually assaulted the 11 year-old in the Waltham DCR pool. It was a Dominican arrested today for the serial rapes on the Charles. Jose Casellas and Luis Nieves arrested in Lawrence on June 29th with $2.2 in heroin and guns had been deported twice before. State Police called it "the largest drug bust in recent memory." As for people with lots of problems, the disturbed man who climbed to the top of the Tobin Bridge, endangering the lives of our first responders, wanted a phone passed up to him so he could call home to Guatemala. Tens of thousands of similar stories across the country and growing every day.
God Bless Kathryn Steinle, Matthew Denice and the countless others gone to soon at the hands of illegals. Just remember, Donald Trump is the bad guy.
One could
By kisumxes
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 10:50pm
One could mention that immigrants - documented or otherwise - statistically commit less crimes than "Americans".
One could point out the painfully frequent All-American mass shooting.
One could bring up white collar crime overwhelmingly commuted by "Americans".
One could even try to delve into socio-economic reasons for migration, poverty, crime.
But simple minds need something to fear, and it's oh too easy to fear what you think you don't know.
Be very afraid of the brown man out to rape your daughter, inject you mother with heroin and steal your car!
So what? Irrelevent
By Markk02474
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:02am
You may want to familiarize yourself with the immigration process that doesn't involve paying coyotes, crossing rivers, fences etc.. That is, the legitimate one. The one where people apply and pay fees far lower than illegal methods besides being safer. Applicants are evaluated so that the criminals are not admitted. This process betters your statistics showing that legal immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than average Americans or average illegal immigrants who are not evaluated.
[edit]
How can statistics on illegal immigrants committing crimes in the US be accurate when local law enforcement (apparent misnomer) won't check or acknowledge if someone is here illegally and report it? So, you end up with very inaccurate data, automatically favoring your claim.
i swore i'd never reply to you..
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:39am
but there's a first time for everything.
undocumented immigrants have all the more incentive to stay off the radar, particularly when officers are like our dear fish up there.
and you don't know anything about the migration process, documented or otherwise, so simmer down. let's go to el salvador and walk back up through guatemala and southern mexico (like many of them actually do) and you see if keep calling them criminals.
you're a jokkke.
but we've known that for a while.
Illegal aliens
By dmcboston
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 9:52am
Illegal aliens (or as the US Supreme Court refers to them, unlawful aliens) exist. You can call them whatever you want. (1)
If I was an illegal, I'd keep a damn low profile, but that's just me. Not all of them have my shining, likeable personality.
I can list a bunch of links indicating some startling crime statistics, but all that will happen here (because the MSM isn't doing it) is I'll be called a racist KKK teabagger by the thoughtful libs.
So, here's the FBI current 'murderers wanted' page. Scroll right, have fun.
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/murders
Oh, (1) is NY times, a dubious source...http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/26/us/s...
Racist, Breitbart/KKK/Teabagger list of links:
Just kidding: CS Monitor...
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2014/0303/No-...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-182b5e1.pdf
http://www.illegalimmigrationstatistics.org/illega...
http://www.constitutionparty.com/illegal-alien-cri...
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/01/illegal-...
Oh, our head of DHS had no clue who Kate Steinle was:
"Later during his testimony, Johnson was again asked about Steinle and her family, which has been heavily critical of sanctuary cities since her murder. “Has the administration reached out to the Steinle family, to your knowledge?” Ohio U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot asked.
“To who?” a perplexed Johnson asked.
“To the family of the woman who brutally murdered by this individual who had committed seven different felonies in four different states and my understanding had been deported, kept coming back, has the administration reached out to that family?” Chabot said.
“I’m sorry, I don’t know the answer to that question sir,” Johnson responded."
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/07/15/surprise-home...
It's a serious problem and sugarcoating/denying it won't help.
What's the matter MarKKK?
By kisumxes
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 8:17am
No more darkly dressed pedestrians roaming the streets of Suburbia whilst not carrying plastic shopping bags?
Undocumented aliens are 100 percent criminals
By Capecoddah
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 2:49am
Illegally entering the country gives undocumented immigrants a 100 percent criminal rate. Labeling illegal immigrants as merely undocumented does not erase the fact that they are all criminals.
I am sure leftists can alleviate their hyperventilating by resting assured that if we only count the mattress tag pullers and jaywalkers, then we are all criminals. The only thing is that I cannot get thrown out of the country for pulling a tag off a mattress. I belong here. When the penalty for the crime is getting kicked out of the country, then you do not belong in this country.
Jaywalking is a crime too.
By MattL
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:02pm
Jaywalking is a crime too. Better throw jaywalkers in with the other "illegals" then, huh?
Absolutely right
By Kaz
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:34pm
They are criminals. When you're ready to pay $10 per head of lettuce, then we can discuss making sure every last one of them is no longer in the country.
http://www.fairus.org/publications/illegal-immigra...
Don't forget!
By erik g
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 2:23pm
Don't forget about the collapse of the restaurant industry, and the massive hit social security would take!
Agriculture, construction, meat packing...
By Sally
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:03pm
The list is pretty long.
They took my job!
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:12pm
I used to grab the farm bus to make cash picking various crops on a day to day basis when I was a teen.
Now all that work is done by migrant laborers and not trailer trash.
THEY TOOK MY JOB. Actually, they can have it. Picking produce is tough work.
Welcome
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 6:56am
Please understand that Fish is pretty fact-resistant when it comes to parroting the extremist talking points.
Markkk has been expanding his hobbyhorse inventory of late as well, as he seems to have worn more than a few out.
Keep it in mind when you see their comments, and enjoy the show.
Thanks Swirly
By kisumxes
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 8:18am
Been lurking for years.
yeah because
By aging cynic
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:25pm
everyone knows it's the messenger, not the message, right? What I call a selectively chosen FACT, you call a talking point. Just another day in the Orwellian Athens of America.
Were you also foolish enough
By Kinopio
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 11:02pm
Were you also foolish enough to agree with trump when he took out a full page ad to call for the execution of a group of innocent minorities? Or the many other times he was proven wrong?
So to prove to us that Trump is not racist.....
By Whurlz
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 11:11pm
....you are showing us, in your post, what a racist really looks like.
*slow clap*
It's standard fried Fish fare.
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:43am
For an alternate sense of Meso American people, enjoy the following in today's installment of Learning To Like The 'Other'.
Guatemala: https://youtu.be/mpyIZYQdG2A
Dominican Republic: https://youtu.be/lcPHaV3p6S4
Mexico. https://youtu.be/WcjGY6RNhBg ( a huapango, no less)
And a bonus of Lydia Mendoza .singing about Fish before he was born.
https://youtu.be/IpejsYhqN7M
Hey now
By Michael
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 8:45am
His hatred and fear of the Great Invasion of the Southern Hordes is based on science and logic, not racism! How dare you?
He's in deep. Like, Andy-Kaufman-deep.
By erik g
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 9:05am
It's a damned shame that UserScripts is no longer a thing, or else you could install the plugin I once wrote, which puts every comment Fish writes into a speech bubble coming out of a giant cartoon rooster. I find it adds the appropriate level of gravitas to his insightful commentary.
UserScripts.org is gone, but other forums remain
By Jeff F
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 1:14pm
There's the mirrror of the old UserScripts site of course. But I would say that Greasy Fork is making a good case for being the best/biggest user script site out there, and in many ways much superior to the old userscripts site.
There's also monkeyguts et al, but I don't know as much about them.
(fwiw, I'd love to see that cartoon rooster script!)
What everyone seems to ignore
By Cutriss
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 10:48am
Forget about the people for a moment.
Mexico isn't sending people here, they're coming here on their own. It's not like the government has an official "ship out the bad elements" program.
For all the blame that DHS/ICE deserves over the border defense, Mexico could certainly afford to step up its efforts as well, both on preventing people from crossing in from southern nations and to keep people from leaving. It's a two-way street, guys.
No, they can't
By BostonDog
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:20pm
Mexico is involved in a huge drug war the likes of which the US has never known. It isn't clear who's winning. It's extremely violent with both the drug lords and government abiding to few rules. Thousands of innocent people are killed. Things have gotten better as of late but it's still pretty bad.
The country is poor. Not bottom rung 3rd world poor but most citizen's standard of living is far, far below what is the average in the US.
So to say that instead of policing their own drug war (most of the drugs go to the US) or investing in things to improve their standard of living they should spend money to prevent people from leaving is just idiotic. If the US won't prevent it's citizens from leaving the country why should Mexico?
Clown
By MagzWood
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 10:56pm
Everything that comes out this guys mouth is total factless, pulled-outta-his-ass garbage. The fact that he's one of the top GOP contenders really does scare me. Not to mention, a person that constantly refers to themself in the third person is extremely sketchy in my book. Sure Marty may kinda suck as a mayor but he sure as hell is allowed to voice his opinion, and Trump's trying to get him kicked out of office for it? I can only imagine what he'd do if he got elected. He'd probly "fire" every left leaning politician in congress. Secretly though, I think he's really a double agent working for the Democrats by sabotaging the GOP's image and making them all look like the fools they truly are. By the way, this guy had to pay people to attend his announcement to run for president, I'm sure he'd do a hell of a job.
If we're being vulgarian
By ErnieAdams
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 11:25pm
Then this is an obligatory classic:
Once in a while the Gawker blogs hit it out of the park
By ladycommentariat
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 8:32am
:applauds:
Babysteps for them embracing
By gotdatwmd
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 1:18pm
Babysteps for them embracing the fact that they are tabloid trash and not real journalists. I wonder how their "blogger union" is going.
classic today
By aging cynic
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:28pm
they're claiming the video of the lady selling embryo parts is a vast right wing conspiracy. Where DO you go these days for a good infant femur?
This moron accidentally
By ZachAndTired
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 11:40pm
This moron accidentally tweeted out a picture of himself and some nazis on an American flag today. I feel like his entire life is an elaborate piece of performance art.
Well maybe it wasn't an
By Baker-Christie 2016
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:57am
Well maybe it wasn't an accident, former California GOP Governor Schwarzenegger was a nazi fan and he was a two termer. He also groped several women. Perhaps Trump did the polling and found that the 'birther' demo would go for this.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/ar...
Also of note
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:03am
He claims to have been threatened via twitter by a drug lord. So far, only Infowars, NYPost, and the Daily Mail have "covered" this story direct from the Trump Pogrom, never once requesting any authentication that it was an actual tweet from an actual drug lord.
Interesting that no reputable news organization is touching it so far - other than MSNBC, which appropriately framed it as unverified conjecture.
Ha, you believe there's a
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:18am
Ha, you believe there's a reputable new source. Your losing some credibility with that one.
There are
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:10am
some reputable old ones.
Let's face it: Infowars sets a very low bar for veracity. NYPost parroting Infowars is even lower.
Reputable? MSNBC?
By relaxyapsycho
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 8:15am
LOL. Surely you jest.
So
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:04am
You think Infowars is reputable?
(passes the tinfoil)
MSNBC is far more reputable than that. At the very least, they pointed out that the whole thing is entirely as told by a Trump campaigner, and what was and was not credible about the story.
Go ahead and lube up your copy of the NY Post - easier to swallow it hook, line and sinker that way.
Reputable?
By Brian Riccio
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:49am
if it wasn't for Maddow, that channel would have no reason to exist. Also, having Al Sharpton on their channel basically negates any and all complaints about Fox.
Not to come to his aid
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:16am
But they weren't nazi, someone just said they were so Twitter went nuts.
And they weren't even real Nazis.
By jmeltzer
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:23am
They were World War II re-enactors dressed up as Nazis.
Occidentlism?
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:40am
Occidentlism?
Couple of things,
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 6:31am
There are not many Mexican immigrants in this area. The majority of Hispanic immigration to this area since the 90s, whom maybe some confuse as Mexican, are Central American, especially Salvadoran. BTW you can easily tell by accents. Historically, most Hispanic immigrants to this area and the northeast in general are from the Caribbean, especially Dominicans, and of course Puerto Ricans, who are not immigrants, they are American. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Central Americans are different people. People from the Caribbean are not the same as people from Central America, they are culturally different, different food, different music, generally look different, and speak Spanish differently (Puerto Ricans, for example, speak VERY fast, while for example Salvadorans speak Spanish at the same pace most Americans speak English. Mexicans have their own unique accents, including the stereotypical very slow drawl like Speedy Gonzales, which is a Mexican version of a rural 'hillbilly' accent.)
Actual illegal Mexican immigration to the U.S.,of Mexicans from Mexico, has slowed to a crawl, for years now. Vast majority crossing illegal across the Mexico/U.S. border ARE NOT MEXICAN, they are mostly Central American, and even people from other parts of the world. And interestingly, Mexico and other Latin American countries have VERY STRICT immigration laws. Mexico is NOTORIOUS for treating Central Americans, crossing through their country to get to the U.S., like shit.
Let them be illegal in Mexico
By Markk02474
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 10:56am
If there are so many Central Americans desperate to leave their countries, let them be illegal in Mexico, which is a shorter trip for them! Or, perhaps Mexico doesn't have sanctuary cities and welfare benefits to welcome them like foolish Americans.
Maybe Mexico didn't style itself a land of immigrants
By Michael
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:08am
Or, more accurately, a land of wave after wave of immigrants who immediately tried to slam the door behind them when they got in. Good thing there weren't immigration laws whenever your people got here, eh, Markk?
Mine came through Ellis Island
By Markk02474
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 1:53pm
so did follow the legal immigration process at the time. Another first came to Portsmouth, NH in 1632, so yeah, probably no immigration laws yet then.
Some Spaniards found their way to Mexico, at least leaving behind a language. Canada is a country of immigrants with very welcoming policies. My limited understanding is that illegal immigration isn't the widespread problem the US has, though some Canadians are less than pleased with all the legal immigrants and the benefits they suck up.
I should acknowledge how illegal immigration is a global problem, from the DR kicking out Haitians to Europe's problem with a flotilla of Africans flooding their shores. Gypsy pickpockets are few in number compared to the hoards now flowing into Italy and Greece, really testing socialist policies.
Mine were here first!
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:15pm
Some as early as 1620, some were several thousand years earlier than that!
Get off my lawn!
same
By Malcolm Tucker
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:37pm
Mayflower Society or GTFO
Wampanoags or cave dwellers?
By aging cynic
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:37pm
I once enjoyed informing my Pilgrim descendant in-laws of my family's connection to Jacques Cartier in late 1500's Quebec. My understanding is that we hooked up with some indigenous "First Nations" people during that time as well. Fat lot of good it ever did me.
Mine kept roaming
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:21pm
On the frontier, you marry who you find. More frontiers, more mixing it up.
Do you check Native American box
By Markk02474
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:29pm
Like Liz Warren? Did your gran tell you of your indigenous heritage?
No
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 9:51pm
But my ancestors come from a number of different tribes, and I was not culturally raised in any of them. My cousins do, but their grandfather was enrolled in the Federated Tribes of the Umatilla and their mother spent her summers on the reservation.
Warren represented what she knew at the time, and, as I have pointed out before, Harvard only asks those questions AFTER someone is hired.
Our industrial revolution has come and gone
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 2:05pm
we don't need the gigantic level of immigration, especially poorly educated, unskilled or even semi-skilled, and who collectively put a massive drain on civic resources, that we had in the mid-late 19th century. As for the visas for skilled workers, that is to keep labor costs down, same as the huge wave after wave I mentioned above create a tight labor market for semi and unskilled workers.
And when a political party, no matter who they are, think the only way they can win elections is through never ending, poorly regulated immigration, that's beyond being a sad comment on them. Likewise, if a politician or political party looks the other way because it keeps labor costs down, that is beyond contemptible.
Finally, the U.S. takes in more immigrants on a yearly basis vs any other country on Earth, throwing in the EU for good measure. And our neighbors to the north, Canada, a similar 'immigrant' nation as the U.S., stopped allowing birth-right citizenship years ago. The U.S. almost stands alone in giving automatic citizenship to any baby born on U.S. soil, while the rest of the world shakes it's head and laughs.
We just need more white babies?
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:22pm
Amirite?
Oh, if you ever collect social security, THANK AN IMMIGRANT! They have made up for the dearth of children born to baby boomers when it comes to keeping our economy from collapsing from the aging of a massive generation.
Excuse me?
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 9:32pm
Did I say or imply anything whatsoever about 'white babies', or are you putting words in my mouth? Your post is troll-like.
As for our alleged baby shortage and future, alleged demographic problem:
Since the 60s and 70s the 'progressive' mantra has been have fewer babies, better still don't have kids at all! They're bad for the environment! Our population growth is too large! Now...in 2015, 'progressives' are saying our population growth is too low, and we can't sustain social security and our welfare state. Answer: we need massive, unchecked, apparently never ending immigration. You can imagine why many are confused, scratching their heads.
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