I've mentioned Political Man many times in this blog. He's 69 and an ardent leftist. As he is walking the streets he approaches passersby and begins his spiel, excoriating Republicans, lauding Democrats. He spends $500 a month on marijuana. He is ecstatic about gay marriage approval but won't marry his boyfriend because they would have to declare income that would be taxed heavily. I usually let him rant without comment, although there have been times I wanted to strangle him. I suspect he bad mouths me for my anti-abortion views as I hear him bad mouth others, especially Russian immigrants, about their views. Before last night's Democratic debate, he was touting Jim Webb as a sleeper who would vault into public approval. That didn't happen. He must be really worried that the Democrats will lose the presidency, and that Republicans will be in complete charge. In an op-ed piece in today's
NY Post, conservative pundit Jonathan Podhoretz said, based on her performance last night, Hillary has sewn up the nomination, especially since Bernie Sanders demanded that everyone move on from the email scandal. Anyway, Dave, a chef in a Manhattan hotel, stopped by and commented how dismayed he was at all the Democratic candidates promising even more free stuff. PM showed up and the two of them went at it pretty good. To my regret, I jumped in when PM said NY was doing fine. The city is, the rest of the state is in the crapper. PM insisted he knows more about the issues than anyone, since his IQ is 149. He called Dave, who hopes Trump is the Republican nominee, stupid. Dave is an independent, a union guy who usually votes Democrat. When it comes to government largess, like me, he wonders "How much is enough?" Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, prescription drug coverage. corporate bailouts, heating subsidies, housing subsidies, homeless shelters, free meals, free needles, free cell phones and now, the
coup de gras, all that for illegal aliens too. I don't blame him for being fed up. He's in his 40's and will be in the work force for many more years, supporting freeloaders. On his way back from the store, he apologized to me. There was no need. He's a good person. I don't know that I can say that about PM.
I also had a visit from Ol' Smoky today, who leavened the mood. He parked his butt on the ledge of the garden that surrounds the building where I set up shop and rambled for about an hour, at one point saying his sister didn't know if she wanted to be a nun or a whore, which he pronounced in the old Brooklyn way "Who-er." He also said that every time he has meatballs and spaghetti he imagines he's eating the planets. Bless his addled brain and heart.
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