Said Robert Zimmerman — some political fund-raiser, not the Robert Zimmerman.
Holly Peterson, a Park Avenue and Southampton based novelist who, as she put it, owes her career to being able to skewer the “selfishness” of high society types, said she can barely find anyone on the East End who is over 40, works in finance and is “pro-Mamdani.”
That's reminiscent of Pauline Kael's immortal remark: "I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him."
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What if Hibbing Bob never changed his last name?
Holly Peterson is the daughter of Peter Petropoulos from Kearney, Nebraska.
What if Kearney Peter never changed his name?
More reminiscent of Lenin's claim capitalists would sell the rope used to hang them. Except these suckers bought the rope to give to Mamdani.
Overpriced lobster salad is one thing but Grey Poupon is quite another.
Mamdani is not doing well under scrutiny. He is proving to be really quite stupid.
A lot of pretty people have the unfortunate arrangement socially that from a fairly early age nobody will say anything that may upset them or turn away attention from that person.
It looks like Mamdani may have been so pretty and charismatic and cloistered that nobody around him told him how stupid he was.
I hope Mamdani wins, stupid people deserve what they want.
so, what's happened with the inbred Somali in Minneapolis?
is he still running?
Hasn't Mamdani promised to sell lobster salad at a fair price from city-run outlets? What's up with these people? To each according to their needs.
I'm curious how the "reporter" persuaded his Editor to send him "on assignment" to the East Hamptons for the last two weeks in August. How many lobster rolls did he expense ?
What does "overpriced" mean? That common people are being too highly paid for their service to the wealthy? I doubt any of the buyers are balancing their checkbooks after shelling out for one or six of them, if they have friends along.
Reminds me of the late great Christopher Hitchens who said the three most overrated things are anal sex, champagne and lobster.
Apparently he is backed by the Qataris. Perhaps it would be better to cede administrative control of NYC to Qatar.
You don't need to be a weatherman, Bobby...
Well that is rich. The Hampton set didn't realize that their Progressive nonsense would lead to a guy like Mamdani as mayor of New York.
The article doesn't mention the Republican candidate. I guess they aren't ready for that yet.
I am thoroughly enjoying watching the elites in NYC starting to sweat a bit. I am hoping Mamdani wins in a landslide. And then watch as he promptly destroys the city. The great divide is coming.
You brought this on yourselves. Bet that didn’t materialize in their struggle session
You don't want an unqualified Hamas Representative in commie sauce with your lobster?
hmm.
Free groceries.
Reminds me of the late great Christopher Hitchens who said the three most overrated things are anal sex, champagne and lobster.
I get no kick from champagne, but Maine lobster always floats my boat. As for anal sex, I will avoid commenting because my wife reads the blog sometimes.
Mamdani is an extreme liberal but at least he is not a crook like indicted Mayor Adams who will get lots of votes courtesy of the straw votes bought and paid for by the Turkish government.
I keep hoping that the working people of New York who are not involved in finance* will be, as my mother-in-law was when confronted with poverty, too proud to go for the handouts. But then, I also keep hoping Californians, who red-shifted a lot this year, will turn the state red again, as it used to be - but I'm not sitting on a hot stove waiting.
* The working people in finance will go for Mamdani because they all went to lefty colleges and, while I won't say they "don't know history," are at least sure that this time will be different.
“Said Robert Zimmerman — some political fund-raiser, not the Robert Zimmerman.”
I was wondering why the head of Cincinnati Country Day Schools would be hobnobbing in The Hamptons.
Extreme Liberalism... Hah!
Only the New York Times is pro-Mamdani.
“Even overpriced lobster salad can’t seem to make people out here feel better,”
Might be they’re all on Ozempic.
The gad stated unequivocally : “ Mamdani is an extreme liberal but at least he is not a crook …”
How do you know that? Mamdani has been on the national stage for what? Twenty-two seconds? DA Tush James, formerly clean as the wind driven snow, is now rolling up charges on a weekly basis.
Yes, not all Robert Zimmerman's are alike. He's just a Robert Zimmerman, not THE Robert zimmerman.
Howard said...
“Reminds me of the late great Christopher Hitchens who said the three most overrated things are anal sex, champagne and lobster.”
I agree. But it has to be noted that the British Empire could not have existed without the British Navy, which supposedly functioned on run, sodomy, and the lash.
The really sad thing is that Mandingo will change little that needs to be changed. But rich libtards love to get hysterical.
"Jaq said...
What does "overpriced" mean? That common people are being too highly paid for their service to the wealthy?"
Yeah, mowing the lawn of a high-earning person is more valuable than mowing the lawn of a lower-earning person because the alternative of the individuals mowing their own lawns has a different dollar cost for their time. This is one of the underlying principles of why I favor more restricted immigration. We live in a competitive free-market country but the tacit deal ought to be that we compete to see who can become the surgeon but that surgeon still hires the other guy's kid to mow their lawn so what they can charge will scale somewhat with how much the higher earner earns. Unfettered immigration is just a way for the higher earners to get out of this tacit deal.
That should be rum, sodomy, and the lash. Stupid tiny little iPad keyboard.
The overrated Chris Hitchens talking about overated things. How appropriate. And I love how he tosses in "anal Sex" - wow how edgy. I'm sure the little old ladies in the Hamptons were titilated over that.
Holly Peterson, a Park Avenue and Southampton based novelist who, as she put it, owes her career to being able to skewer the “selfishness” of high society types…
I dare to put it that she owes that career/lifestyle to her inheritance.
So the very rich who don't work in finance support him? I guess. As do the finance workers under 40.
meanwhile; it is considered RACIST, and HATEFUL,
to display the English Flag.. IN ENGLAND.
you see, moslems HATE and FEAR the west (westphobic), and because of that; if you display the English Flag.. IN ENGLAND, it causes Fear and Loathing amongst moslems..
So, it's considered a hate crime.
Serious Question: HOW LONG? How Long before displaying the United States' Flag in NYC is considered Racist?
What is Mamdani's position on this?
I looked up the Wikipedia article on Holly Peterson, because I wanted to know how old she was because she spoke of looking for people "over 40." Why is her line of interest drawn at 40???
Anyway, I found out she "married investment banker Richard A. Kimball Jr, in 1994. They had three children,then divorced 15 years later, in 2009."
I see "She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[6] She serves on the board of trustees of The Children's Storefront, an independent school in Harlem as well as the board of trustees of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and New York Presbyterian Hospital."
Good thing she skewers the selfishness of the rich and not the selfishness (or whatever) of the children of Harlem.
Why would she have such positions, related to education in Harlem? Hmm. "Her stepmother is Joan Ganz Cooney, the co-creator of the children's television program Sesame Street."
Her books: "The Manny, a satire of the lives of wealthy people in New York City... The Idea of Him... another work of social satire based on the high powered New Yorkers... Smoke and Fire... over 60 recipes and 100 photographs on outdoor entertaining.... It Happens in the Hamptons..."
The last book is described by the publisher like this: "When Katie Doyle moves across the country to the Hamptons, she is hoping for summer employment, new friends for her young son, and a chance to explore a new love affair with a dazzling investor. What she finds is a strange cocktail of classes, where society’s one-percenters vacation alongside local, hard-working people who’ve lived in the Hamptons for generations. Though she’s looking forward to their move, Katie is wary about mingling with her boyfriends’ East Coast elite circles. She soon discovers Southampton isn’t all that it seems to be on the surface—and neither are the people who live there. As George takes Katie on a whirlwind tour of country clubs, haute couture, and lavish events, she is amazed to witness sudden whims become dire needs, extra-marital affairs blossoming right and left, and people purchase friends and loyalties like a pair of shoes. Even the middle-class townspeople maintain a determined façade while maneuvering like sharks among the wealthy summer invaders. The more Katie becomes immersed, the more she learns the secrets of both the upstairs and downstairs, the upper crust and middle of the road. The combustion between the classes becomes explosive as the summer tears on. Betrayals, a sexual predator, and a missing person lost in murky waves drive the reader on a racing Learjet ride through impossible twists and turns until landing at the shocking conclusion. When she meets Luke, a local surfer and middle school teacher, he makes her question what it is she really wants as she understands the life she’s begun for herself is built on shifting Hamptons’ dunes."
Novels!
Well, I can think of one sex act, at least, that is not overrated, but it wouldn't have appealed to Hitchens.
Hey! She’s livin’ the Scheme!
"Liberal" and "Mamdani" are words that do not belong anywhere near each other.
Mamdani is a radical leftist authoritarian communist.
.. in hamas marinade
The Man With the Glad-Handing Style and the Stimpy Smile!
Get serious, NYC… or don’t. Learn the Lesson the lesson the hard way.
Martha's Vineyard offers migration reform.
Liberalism is a philosophy of divergence. Progressivism is monotonic. Progressive liberalism is monotonically divergent. Throw another baby... fetus on the barbie, they're done.
Offer me champagne, I will accept.
Offer me lobster, I will decline.
Offer me anal sex, I will decline.
Trump was once a New York City Democrat. Trump defected. His wealthy neighbors in New York will also defect or provide tacit support. The political screw inevitably turns and old alliances are inevitably reconfigured.
When revolutionaries like AOC, Bernie, and Mamdani demand changes that would end the upper class, executing a revolution becomes infinitely harder. In contrast, the French revolution was made possible by a resentful petty aristocracy that didn't want to pay more taxes to the king. This involved wealthy people fighting even wealthier people.
The Pinkerton Detectives stand ready to assist.
Rocco: Well, it is more intutitive to say "Run! Sodomy and the lash!" RR, JSM
Gilbar, after 9/11, loud objections were made to local fire trucks flying the American flag. Because microaggression or something.
It was Berkeley CA, of course.
Reminds me of the late great Christopher Hitchens who said the three most overrated things are anal sex, champagne and lobster.
Caviar belongs in that group. You can all decide for yourselves whether to drop one of the others, or expand the set to 4 members.
Now, of more interest, what are the 3 most UNDER-rated things in the world? Off the top of my head:
1) Homemade cinnamon French toast with real maple syrup.
2) Time spent reading aloud to your loved ones, be they small children or your terminally-ill mom or dad.
3) A walk in the forest after a light rain.
How could a "based" novelist stand living in the Hamptons? Or did the NYT forget to insert a hyphen or two?
Reminiscent of the Romanov’s looking over their shoulder in 1916. Oh-oh
Few things say "money" more than ""Park Avenue and Southampton based novelist". I'm surprised that more was not said about her father, Peter George Peterson, whose lightweight résumé included the following:
* United States Secretary of Commerce
* Chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell
* Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers
* Co-founder and Chairman, The Blackstone Group
* Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations
* Ranked 149th on the "Forbes 400 Richest Americans"
* Founder and principal funder of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting fiscal austerity.
That last item is interesting.
Jamie said..."I also keep hoping Californians, who red-shifted a lot this year, will turn the state red again, as it used to be - but I'm not sitting on a hot stove waiting."
Would that be a gas stove or an electric one? Maybe a wood burning stove for fun.
Martha's Vineyard offers migration control suitable for elite living through shifted responsibility by the rising waters at the seashore forced by climate change.
"she married investment banker Richard A. Kimball Jr, in 1994"
She married The Fugitive? Or is that his son?
"The article doesn't mention the Republican candidate. I guess they aren't ready for that yet."
If NYC isn't ready for a Republican mayor yet, perhaps Republicans should vote for Mamdani, to help hasten that day.
Regarding your link at the end: John Podhoretz is either a ponderous doofus, or for some reason it suited him to play one in this instance. Surely I am correct in thinking Kael's statement was marvelously self-deprecating.
People have often voted for the lesser of two evils. In New York they have turned this on its head. They, apparently, have decided to vote for the worst of four evils.
The money people? One suspects they will back Mamdani when/if his election becomes inevitable. They will also, likely, have teams of green eye-shade people looking into protecting their assets and be scouting their new homes outside of New Yawk.
@Hassayamper: "Caviar belongs in that group."
When I was a toddler my parents took me walking along the shore of a fishing lake. I often spotted stray bright red and orange "fish eggs." The first time I tasted caviar, the smell and texture of bait eggs came back in a flash.
Fish bait salmon eggs = $6.99 for 0.56 oz on Amazon
Sturgeon caviar = $119 per 1.0 oz on Amazon
I never ate bait eggs, but I feel about as much love for caviar.
“But rich libtards love to get hysterical.”
And this gives them a break from obsessing about the other guy. An emotional vacation.
Maybe we can offer New Yorkers a token to go live somewhere else outside the U.S.
Mamdani will do what all communist politicians do when they hold office- live in luxury.
Kirk Parker, I think most people recognize in the fuller context than simply "I don't know anybody who voted for Nixon" it was a statement of awareness she lived in a bubble. I'm not sure about the self-deprecation since it also seems like a bubble she was very comfortable to stay in.
That wasn't what Kael said. She wasn't surprised by Nixon's win and she recognized that her circle was very different from the rest of the country. You linked to the article that explains what she actually said but gave us the wrong version of the quote. Strange.
If you live on Park Avenue and in Southampton and skewer the selfish rich, odds are that you are rich yourself, and pretty danged selfish. Moralistic and humanistic talk and art don't hold up as well now as they did in the past. There's too much suspicion that people share all the blind spots of their class and single out someone else as the scapegoat for all that they believe they are supposed to reject and abhor.
Peter G. Peterson was once a big name. He was forever warning us about the deficit. We didn't listen.
Sadly, there's nothing "selfish" about not supporting a mayoral candidate who's no more than another rich kid socialist with an elite education and a six-figure government salary, telling people "government-run" (meaning taxpayer-provided) subsidies will enhance lives and lifestyles of the welfare class.
Wealthy people’s lives won’t be much affected by Mamdani becoming mayor. Most of what he wants to do, he won’t be able to do. There aren’t going to be massive tax increases, and rents are controlled by a stabilization board that doesn’t report to the mayor. Yes, the board might agree with Mamdani but there are actual laws, which will be used by property owners, that courts are obligated to enforce. He’ll probably be allowed to waste some money setting up grocery stores that will fail. Those most affected by Mamdani’s mayoralty will be the poor and working people who will feel the brunt of of his anti-police efforts, making life unnecessarily more dangerous for those who don’t live in guarded, gated splendor. The lobster-roll crowd won’t be affected one bit.
"You linked to the article that explains what she actually said but gave us the wrong version of the quote."
Print the legend. It's a rule.
Hassayamper said...
3) A walk in the forest after a light rain.
respectfully, sb: A walk in the forest DURING a light rain.
We still have a yellowing NYT article by Peter Peterson. Title: :You Saved, and They Didn't". It informed our entire financial thinking. Save, and expect that Uncle Sugar will take much of it because the money wasters have none to take.
Perhaps Alec Baldwin can lend them a gun.
We went to Montauk for a week ever year when it was cheap. Now they can go fuck themselves waiting on rich scrum.
Lazarus:and your point is?
How many of these people thought buying a ticket the Robin Hood Foundation Gala (screw the middle class, fund the lazy poor with their payroll taxes, which don't affect the rich), thought they could keep playing this scam?
Well, here it is. Also, all through history. We enforce law and order. Now you get the dregs. Good and hard. Your wives and kids too.
Hide in New Paltz, you quislings. Take pictues of crackhead's tit to "reveal their humanity." Ignore your own children. You're pathetic.
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