Your Weekly American Top Ten List

​10.   “DID YOU ​EVER CONSIDER ‘WORD SALAD’ FOR YOUR SECRET SERVICE NAME?

​   9.   “WHILE SIGNING BOOKS, DO YOU REFLECT ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME?”

8.   “WHAT WAS WILLIE BROWN REALLY LIKE?”

7.   “NOW THAT YOU HAVE TIME, WILL YOU VISIT THE BORDER AND EUROPE?”

6.   “CAN YOU RECALL ANOTHER VICE PRESIDENT WHO DROPPED AN ‘F-BOMB’ IN A MEMOIR?   MAYBE ALBEN BARCLAY?'”

5.   “IF ‘CYCLIN’ PETE BUTTIGIEG WAS ‘TOO GAY’ TO BE YOUR RUNNING MATE, WOULD YOU SAY THAT TIMOTHY WALZ IS ‘GAY-LITE?'”

​​      4.   “IF THAT’S REALLY YOU ON YOUR AUDIO BOOK, HOW COME THERE’S NO CACKLE?”

3.   “DID YOU KNOW ABOUT ALL THAT ‘NANNY’ DRAMA BEFORE YOU MARRIED MR. DOUG?”

2.   “MY DAD GAVE ME THESE CRAYONS SO I COULD COLOR YOUR BOOK.”

…and the NUMBER ONE QUESTION HEARD DURING KAMALA’S BOOK TOUR is…

1.   “IS THERE ANY CHANCE THAT IF YOU HAD MORE THAN 107 DAYS TO CAMPAIGN….    EVEN MORE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE VOTED AGAINST YOU?”

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     1o.    WHICH ANTHEM DO YOU PREFER,  STALIN  AND CASTRO’S “THE INTERNATIONALE,”  OR THE CCP’S “THE EAST IS RED?”       

       9.       HOW DOES MRS. MAMDANI FEEL ABOUT CREEPY GUYS IN THE LADIES’ ROOM?

8.  WHICH BERET ARE YOU MORE LIKELY TO WEAR?   CURTIS SLIWA’S RED MODEL, OR KILLER CHE GUEVARA’S BLACK ONE?

7.   AS A SOCIALIST, WHEN DO YOU THINK YOU WILL RUN OUT OF OTHER NEW YORKERS’ MONEY?

6.  IS YOUR VISION FOR A FUTURE NEW YORK CLOSER TO HAVANA OR PYONG YANG?

5.   IF YOUR TAX POLICIES CAUSE THE STOCK EXCHANGES TO LEAVE THE CITY…   WOULD YOU AT LEAST WAVE GOOD-BYE??

4.  COPS WENT TO A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CALL THIS WEEK, AND FIVE WERE SHOT, WITH THREE MURDERED.   IS THIS THE SORT OF CALL YOU’D SEND SOCIAL WORKERS TO INSTEAD?

3.  IF ELECTED, HOW WILL YOU VET ILLEGAL MIGRANTS BEFORE GIVING THEM SANCTUARY IN GRACIE MANSION?

2.    IF “GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA” DOESN’T MEAN KILLING JEWS, WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

…and the NUMBER ONE SUGGESTED “LIGHTNING ROUND” QUESTIONS for SOCIALIST/DEMOCRAT MAYORAL CANDIDATE ZOHRAN MAMDANI is…

1. CAMPAIGN CAMERA CREWS FILM YOU in the SUBWAYS.   BUT DO YOU EVER RIDE THEM ALONE LATE AT NIGHT?

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In memory of Charlie Kirk and all those who died on 9/11/2001 and since then from World Trade Center- related illnesses, we are not posting this week.

It’s our version of a “moment of silence.”    Pax Christi to Charlie, his family.  and to all victims of evil.

10.  The Girl with the Biden Tattoo–  (Jen Psaki pens a memoir of her White House years)

9.  Fahrenheit 451  – (Stacey Abrams creates a dystopian tale of extreme global warming, to justify her scoring a mind-boggling $2 billion “climate” grant from her friends in the Biden White House)

8.   Gone With the Wind  –  (Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s wife has yet to explain how New Yorkers benefitted in any way from the $1 billion “mental health” program her husband gifted to her)

7.   ​Love in the Time of Covid –    (Congresswoman AOC gets engaged during the pandemic and the couple attends the elite “Met Gala,” brandishing a socialist slogan on her dress…. but WITHOUT masks!)

6.  The Unbearable Lightness of Tim Walz  –  (Whether wondering aloud if the president has expired or placing tampon machines in boys’ bathrooms, the goofy governor always fails to “read the room”)

5.    Vampire Academy   –  (A no-experience kid Assemblyman prepares to seize power in the world’s financial capital, bursting with socialist schemes to drain taxpayers’ wallets & paychecks)

4.  A Confederacy of Dunces –  (James Carville shakes his metaphorical head as he contemplates a future Dem nominee to be drawn from the likes of Kamala, Gavin, Buttigieg, AOC and Rosie​ O’Donnell)

3.  The Old Man and the Sea​   –   (A failed ex-president gazes out at Delaware Bay, as he dreams of glory days in family grifting…)

2.  Lolita Beijing–   (A married California Congressman “mentors” young Fang-Fang, never apologizing when her espionage career is revealed to the world.  He continues to be re-elected.)

…and the NUMBER ONE BOOK RELEASE for AUTUMN ’25 is….

1. Where the Wild Things Are (​Even “progressive” Mayor Brandon Johnson admits he wouldn’t ride the Chicago subway’s “Blue Line” from downtown to O’Hare Airport)

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10.  The Girl with the Biden Tattoo–  (Jen Psaki pens a memoir of her White House years)

9.  Fahrenheit 451  – (Stacey Abrams creates a dystopian tale of extreme global warming, to justify her scoring a mind-boggling $2 billion “climate” grant from her friends in the Biden White House)

8.   Gone With the Wind  –  (Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s wife has yet to explain how New Yorkers benefitted in any way from the $1 billion “mental health” program her husband gifted to her)

7.   ​Love in the Time of Covid –    (Congresswoman AOC gets engaged during the pandemic and the couple attends the elite “Met Gala,” brandishing a socialist slogan on her dress…. but WITHOUT masks!)

6.  The Unbearable Lightness of Tim Walz  –  (Whether wondering aloud if the president has expired or placing tampon machines in boys’ bathrooms, the goofy governor always fails to “read the room”)

5.    Vampire Academy   –  (A no-experience kid Assemblyman prepares to seize power in the world’s financial capital, bursting with socialist schemes to drain taxpayers’ wallets & paychecks)

4.  A Confederacy of Dunces –  (James Carville shakes his metaphorical head as he contemplates a future Dem nominee to be drawn from the likes of Kamala, Gavin, Buttigieg, AOC and Rosie​ O’Donnell)

3.  The Old Man and the Sea​   –   (A failed ex-president gazes out at Delaware Bay, as he dreams of glory days in family grifting…)

2.  Lolita Beijing–   (A married California Congressman “mentors” young Fang-Fang, never apologizing when her espionage career is revealed to the world.  He continues to be re-elected.)

…and the NUMBER ONE BOOK RELEASE for AUTUMN ’25 is….

1. Where the Wild Things Are (​Even “progressive” Mayor Brandon Johnson admits he wouldn’t ride the Chicago subway’s “Blue Line” from downtown to O’Hare Airport)

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10.  You really, truly, want to have margaritas with illegal gang-banger Abrego Garcia and US Senator Christopher Van Hollen (D-MD).   In fact, drinks will be on you.

9.    You never make the connection between “mass shootings” and so-called Gun Free Zones…    where they take place.   

8.   “No one is illegal”   —   unless he’s smoking weed & yelling on YOUR front steps.

​      7.     Your education has been rounded out by Greta Thunberg, AOC & Zohran Mamdani  — theoretically speaking, of course.

​      6.    ​   On the street, a​ migrant asked YOU for money!  The nerve.

5.   Paying a “fair share” in taxes is always for someone else.

​    4.   CNN praises your “climate” call live on-the-air…   ( from your private jet circling above  San Francisco.)

3.   You can’t explain “from the river to the sea,” but it sounds kinda green.

​  2.     It’s irrelevant that CBS is losing $40 million a year on the Stephen Colbert show.

​                          …and the NUMBER ONE TIP-OFF THAT CERTIFIES YOU as a GENUINE “PROGRESSIVE” is:

1. ​You’ve always hated Joe McCarthy’s anti-communism….  but lately, you’ve come around on his methods.

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10.  “Hey Zel, that’s a better look…..    but how about a white shirt and leather shoes next time?  I’ll buy, as always.”

9. “​Bongiorno, Georgia….   Just how ‘populist’ are you, …if you get my meaning?”

8.   “Wow, the White House.   How are the property taxes?”

7.  “Friedrich, you ever see that ‘White House Down’ movie?  Don’t turn around!”

6.  “So you run Finland.   Any Nokia discounts for us?”

5.  “In America, ​zey call ​zis ze ‘White House Mess.‘   But ze lobster is ​‘tres bien.​‘”

4.  “​Welcome to the White House, friends.    Which one of you got the whoopee cushion ??”

3.   “Nice ‘merch’ room you got, Don.   Bill Clinton did WHAT in here?”

2.    “I give-ya my-thousand Euros-to-your- hundred that Starmer is gone before Macron.”

    …and the NUMBER ONE COMMENT OVERHEARD at THAT WHITE HOUSE MEETING with WESTERN LEADERS LAST WEEK was:

1.   “Mark my words.  Within a week, you’ll be able to walk safely from here to your hotels at night.”

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10. “IT’S TOO LATE”     – Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ponders blocking another interest rate cut

9.  “WALK ON THE WILD SIDE”    – U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) claims to stroll alone at dawn in Washington, D.C., never noticing any blood stains or mayhem at all

8. “ROCKET MAN”   –   What better theme to play in the lobby of that new “luxury”North Korean beach “resort,” catering to Russian oligarchs

7. “HE AIN’T HEAVY, HE’S MY MIGRANT GANG-BANGER”     –  Alejandro Mayorkas, Joseph Biden’s failed Secretary of Homeland Security

6. “WE BELONG TOGETHER”    –   Illegal Migrant Gang Leader Kilmar Abrego Garcia and U.S. Senator Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (D- Md)

5. (Two Song Medley:)  “BLACK MAGIC WOMAN”  and  “NOT FADE AWAY”   – former Vice President Kamala Harris

4. “MY KIND OF TOWN”    – President Trump croons about D.C. as he charges Federal agents with driving crime down in a 30-day project

3. “ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST”    – U. S. Border Czar Tom Homan praises I.C.E. staff for arresting multiple illegal migrant convicted killers in one day

2.   “I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR EVERYTHING”  – (If elected NYC Mayor) Socialist NY Assemblyman Mamdani wants to massively expand taxpayer-funded services…    except for policing.

…and the NUMBER ONE LATE SUMMER ’25 HIT SONG is :

1.    “STAYIN’ ALIVE”   – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khameni

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10.   Donald, nice place you got here.   Could we buy Alaska back for that ol’ $7.2 million price….    maybe with a little interest??

9.    No, I would never fly right above your ICBM missile base.

8.   Bad news, Vlad.    We just joined the International Criminal Court.      Place your palms up against the vehicle.

7.     Just kidding!    We would never join those ICC gangsters!

6.   OK, we just might remove troops from the Donbass and Crimea.    But can you pony up the Aleutian Islands for us?

5.   Two grizzlies in a hotel room are unfair intimidation in any negotiation.

4.   Imagine the money we could make here with a “Borscht & Stoly” restaurant chain…!

3.   We’ll send you Edward Snowden for three Kardashians of our choice.

2.   No, we won’t take Mamdani.   Now there’s a REAL communist.

…and the NUMBER ONE COMMENT WE MIGHT EXPECT to OVERHEAR at the TRUMP-PUTIN “SUMMIT” in ALASKA THIS WEEK is:

1.      Whaddya say, Donald….​?  Even up:  A 3-bedroom place in Trump Tower for a lakeside ​dacha in Soshi!

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10.   19% of voters have confused Zohran with Adam Sandler’s role as “the Zohan”

9.  23% of independents don’t think Andrew Cuomo “looks his best” in a red beret

8.   100% of refugees from Cuba and the former USSR oppose government-run supermarkets

7.   Only 17% of Bronxites correctly knew that Curtis Sliwa stands for ” tax cuts​, support for police and animal rights”

6.   72% of those currently accused of violent felonies favor “de-funding the police”

5.   Asked of MTA bus fare-beaters, 76% support “free” mass transit

4.    41% of New Yorkers who favor the vague concept of “socialism” admit they got such ideas from their high school teachers

3.   17% stated that a “Mamdani” is “an overpriced falafel,” while 32% said ​“Mamdani” will “mean the end of freedom” in our city 

2.   31%​ correctly identified Eric Adams as the current mayor​ , but 6% believe he is the grandson of John Quincy Adams

… and the NUMBER ONE “DEEPER DIVE INTO POLLING ABOUT NYC’S MAYORAL ELECTION is…

1.   98% of New Yorkers who favor “freezing the rent” do NOT support freezing their own incomes

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