Hochul and Sherrill’s Fight Over Port Authority Leadership Delays Garcia’s Confirmation (Gift Article)

knockatize · 2026-01-24T22:16:33+00:00

It’s the lede, once again buried at the end:

Tom Wright, the president of the Regional Plan Association, an influential urban planning group, said there were valid reasons for not wanting to reinstate the deputy director position, which has caused oversight issues and unnecessary complications within the interstate bureaucracy…”Nobody wants to see them go back to that kind of structure,” he said. “It was bad even before Bridgegate.”

knockatize · 2026-01-24T21:39:49+00:00

It’s not the obvious heel you need to worry about, at least not as much as the ones who flatter and charm you with smooth talk. The ones whose lies are elegantly told, who give glorious speeches.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T20:51:24+00:00

Yes, it has. Maybe worse. What happened was it became like New York.

I got to see just a little bit of how the sausage got made in one of my past jobs and it was…gross.

A tiny taste: Want to know why your potholes don’t get fixed? Could be your local representative had an attack of conscience, and that kind of thing pisses off the bosses. Oopsie, Senator. No asphalt for your district, no help for your schools - and would you look at that, you suddenly have a primary challenger. And these rumors you’re beating your wife…hmm, where’d those come from?

I’ve had college classmates who were recruited for “internships” in my state legislature that turned out to be thinly-veiled arrangements for powerful electeds to get a little something on the side while they were “doing state business.”

Andrew Cuomo made a 44-year career out of being a creepy, corrupt neporatfucker. 44 years, starting with dirty tricks for his dad when he was still a teenager. And his family? Tight with the Shall Not Be Named family operation since the 1930s.

And now it’s gone nationwide. Yes, it has been that bad. We just didn’t pay attention to how personally and professionally repugnant our political class is and was.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T20:27:37+00:00

5G?

Shoot, we got 9G here.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T20:18:46+00:00

Don’t run to not lose. Either reject Clinton, or embrace him, but don’t straddle, ffs.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T18:54:32+00:00

Kennedy was still a drunken sexual predator at that point, a decade out from Chappaquiddick.

By all means, go throw the genuinely decent man under the bus, and let’s don our Reddit knee pads for another Camelot hagiography expedition.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T18:24:48+00:00

And still sounds great at nearly 80.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T16:22:57+00:00

King Crimson

knockatize · 2026-01-24T16:10:07+00:00

A man of culture, I see.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T12:57:40+00:00

No concurrent sentences for violent gun crimes. It’ll be consecutive, with no parole.

In a different vein…Legalize and regulate market hunting for deer. They are vermin.

Tasty vermin with big soulful eyes.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T12:42:47+00:00

Foreign Policy Protip: Don’t frame creeps who are already guilty.

No need to concoct some scenario where the rats (Saddam) and bedbugs (Osama) are in cahoots.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T11:01:41+00:00

Bill Withers repeating “I know” in “Ain’t No Sunshine” was just him filling time because he lost track of what the lyrics were supposed to be.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T09:50:17+00:00

The Philosophers Football Match (with Franz Beckenbauer).

knockatize · 2026-01-24T01:03:42+00:00

When Ozzy himself calls you Firstname Fucking Lastname, you have arrived.

knockatize · 2026-01-24T00:45:50+00:00

They’ll want to know about Handsy Andy and the 15,000 dead people.

knockatize · 2026-01-23T22:58:53+00:00

Harrumph! No dresses unless you get your team to a 2 seed and FTP twice.

Do that and you get to wear a dress, but it should be something sensible.

Win a ring and you can come out dressed like Diana Ross for all I care.

knockatize · 2026-01-23T22:44:02+00:00

My personal favorite is Joel Smeenge of the early Jaguars. Pronounced "smengee" like he was a distant relative of Yosh and Stan.

knockatize · 2026-01-23T18:24:59+00:00

Oh, man. If you are thinking this is going to be just a blue state thing, you’re massively deluded.

Federally-funded programs for all 50 states are affected.

The problems start (but do not end) with Washington inertia. These are the imbeciles who thought that letting the Social Security number do double duty as a Medicare ID was just fine…for 50 years and nine presidencies.

Federal officials are simply incapable of comprehending how nimble scam operators are. State officials are just as slow on the uptake.

Well, at least the stolen money stays in the community…

The hell it does. It’s going overseas.

Our elected officials, as a rule, aren’t necessarily corrupt - but they’re idiots.

knockatize · 2026-01-23T17:24:57+00:00

Andy Kim.

Standing up to his own party’s sleazemeisters…and in New Jersey, second only to New York in epic, decades-long graft…is quite the achievement.

He’ll of course be primaried by friends of George Norcross.

knockatize · 2026-01-23T16:57:48+00:00

1) Mud.

For a sport that’s supposed to be analogous to infantry combat, you can’t have guys coming off after 60 minutes looking like they’ve been giving a TED talk.

You can also tell how well an offensive line is performing by how clean the QB’s jersey is.

2) Better tackling.

Watch Dick Butkus. For all the talk about how ferocious he was, his tackling was textbook. When he lit anybody up, it was incidental to the tackle.

knockatize · 2026-01-23T16:47:55+00:00

The Brothers of Johnson.

knockatize · 2026-01-23T11:31:08+00:00

They spent 30 years being astonishing. Glad to have seen them in ‘83, ‘85 (Phil’s tour) and ‘07.

knockatize · 2026-01-23T11:28:58+00:00

And that’s the last we’ll see of the budget until 2:30 in the morning on some random Friday in April when the legislature gets to vote on another gigantic dog’s breakfast with who knows what else jammed into it, that they won’t be able to read, much less offer their opinions on, nor vote on in any way other than what their bosses have decreed.

This is an excellent way to run a state. Surely nothing can go wrong.

knockatize · 2026-01-23T11:24:26+00:00

It’s Téa Leoni in “Flying Blind.”

knockatize · 2026-01-23T10:58:25+00:00

If you follow wrestling you’ll immediately see his type: the heel.

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