Daniel Penny, Trapped in the Soros Mouth of Madness
By John Kass
Friday Dec. 13, 2024
What did the neo-Marxist zealots seek as they took George Soros’ millions to elect destructive and woke prosecutors in the big blue cities of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago?
They got what what they wanted:
Anarchy.
And what came with it? A nightmare for law-abiding citizens in those Sanctuary Cities that were offering sanctuary to violent criminals.
The neo-Marxists who elected the woke prosecutors, like Alvin Bragg in New York and Kim Foxx in Chicago weren’t demanding strict adherence to law and order and sending repeat offenders to prison to keep the law-abiding safe. They didn’t reinforce law enforcement, which they argued was part of a systemically racist justice system. They despise cops and wanted to defund the police, remember?
Cops who pushed back were isolated and threatened with the loss of their pensions. Violent street crime was rising and victims were bleeding and the pro-Democrat corporate media went out of its way to shout that crime was decreasing. It wasn’t. It was increasing. Blue cities could not retain law enforcement officers. And journalists who dared push back against this left wing anarchy were denounced as bigots and de-platformed, remember? I remember that some journos were told to kneel publicly, apologize and beg forgiveness in struggle sessions. And that I can’t forget.
The seeds of lawless anarchy kept growing, like some wild strangling vine. It kept growing, with the law-abiding becoming increasingly afraid as street gangs and flash mobs swooped into high end shopping districts to attack jewelry stores. Or attacking them on public transit. And the do-nothing Soros prosecutors would not prosecute, or softened prosecutions to apparently address racial discrimination from decades ago. It was anarchy.
It was absolute madness, funded and supported by left wing billionaire George Soros and others. Their permissive policies were destroying the great cities. The arson, looting and destruction in the cities in 2020 continued on, insatiable. It was the mouth of madness.
And into it stepped a tall, thin young man riding on the subway in New York. A former Marine who, many years before, fell in love with classical music, playing the stand-up bass:
Danial Penny.
Into his subway car was an angry habitual criminal and madman Jordan Neely, high on the synthetic cannabinoid known as K2. He was screaming he was thirsty and hungry, screaming he was ready to go to jail if he didn’t get what he wanted, screaming he was ready to die. And Neely did die, after Penny stood to face him and defend terrified commuters. Penny was a hero. Neely wasn’t. Neely’s family did little if anything to help him, but a few sought to cash in and make money off the taxpayers of New York.
“There’s outbursts on the train all the time,” Penny told Judge Jennine Pirro in the exclusive interview on Fox News. “Unfortunately, in New York City, there’s always people coming on and saying, kind of, talking crazy, and this was unlike anything that I’ve ever experienced. It was very serious. I completely believed what he was saying.”
I’ve been there on the CTA trains when a deranged madman starts threating behavior. So have you if you’ve ridden public transportation in a blue city. People look away, trying to avoid the stare of the threatening madman. Some find solace in their ear-buds. Some fantasize there would be someone to help them. But no one comes. They don’t want the grief that would come to them if they stood up and defended themselves and others. And in that instant the anarchists have won. That is their nourishment.
In his interview with Pirro on Fox Nation, Perry was asked, if faced with the same situation on the subway where someone was making threats and acting erratically, would he take action again?
“I would not be able to live with myself if I didn’t do anything in that situation and someone got hurt,” he said. “I would feel guilty for the rest of my life.”
But the jury rejected Bragg’s attempts to put him in prison. Penny was acquitted. Now Penny is thanking the jurors.
He wants to give them a hug.
“I’d like to give them a hug. I’d like to thank them. Yeah, definitely. It takes a lot of courage, especially in this climate in New York City, to stick up for me,” he told Judge Jeanine Pirro in the exclusive FOX News interview.
Penny said if he faced the same situation on the subway where someone was making threats and acting erratically, he would take action again. That’s what the Soros left wanted to take away. Penny, an architecture student ,added that he feared Neely would act on his threats to kill people in the subway car.
Mason Letteau Stallings of The American Conservative noted that District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office attempted to make race a salient factor in the trial, with the prosecutor, Dafna Yoran, referring to Penny as “the white man” and “murderer” throughout the trial,” writes Stallings.
Just imagine a Jim Crow era prosecutor talking like that, referring to “black man.” Who talks like that now? Drooling racists, yes. And the neo-Marxist left working for Soros prosecutors who see themselves as morally superior to all of us.
Their ends justify their means. And all animals are equal though some animals are more equal than others.
“Yoran is also known as a proponent of “Restorative Justice,” writes Stallings, “having earlier reduced the charges against a man caught on camera killing an elderly college professor from felony murder to manslaughter.”
Outside the courtroom, Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome stood after the verdict to threaten white people. The reason? Skin pigment in common with Daniel Penny is a call to violence.
Newsome, shouting the way cowards shout, called on ‘black vigilantes’ to step up after the Marine veteran was found not guilty.
Was he arrested or indicted by Soros prosecutor Bragg’s office? No. Bragg was silent as a church mouse. Newsome, who says he is Jordan Neely’s uncle, threatened Penny inside the courtroom during the chaos which immediately followed the verdict, reported the Daily Mail. He shouted, ‘it’s a small f**king world, buddy.’
And then outside came more of his racial hate.
Black vigilantes? Sounds like a call for direct violence to me. Did it sound that way to you?
In City Journal, author and lecturer Heather Mac Donald wrote “New York’s Government is the Real Villain in the Daniel Penny Trial” asking mentally ill addicts are certain to attack more innocent New Yorkers—what will city officials do to protect them?
“The Daniel Penny homicide trial was a travesty of justice. On May 1, 2023, a psychotic, wildly gesticulating vagrant burst into a New York subway car as it travelled beneath Manhattan’s SoHo district. The new arrival, Jordan Neely, started screaming that he wanted to return to jail and was ready to die. Some eyewitnesses recalled that the 30-year-old Neely threatened to kill the straphangers.”
When Penny made his move others helped him. Black subway riders, Latin subway riders helped hold Neely for a time. And then Penny found himself in that mouth of madness, until a jury of his peers defied Bragg and his race-baiting prosecutor, and defied the courtroom judge, to make Penny a free man.
Some of you may have picked up on the fact that this is not written at a dispassionate distance and that I’m bitter. You’d be right.
I wasn’t forced to defend myself and others from a madman, but my loyal readers know that I spent some time in the Soros mouth of madness. It was hell for me and my wife and kids. The pro-Soros activists in the Tribune–at the Tribune newsroom union–hated my conservative politics. And they defamed me when I dared criticize Soros for funding his do-nothing prosecutor in Chicago, the ally of Jussie Smollett Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. And they demanded I come to them and apologize.
I would not apologize. I would not kneel.
I’d written a column about the lawlessness and anarchy “Something grows in the big cities run by Democrats: An overwhelming sense of lawlessness.” The neo-Marxist Tribune guild defamed me, and their defamation found its way to Robert Feder, a left-wing Chicago media critic (aren’t they all?) who published it. They called me a religious bigot, an anti-Semite even though I made no mention whatsoever of Soros’ religion. I referred to his corrosive attempts to change the big blue cities by electing Soros prosecutors.
Feder did publish their names for the record so that Tribune readers might be reminded of what happens when the left destroys an institution.
The Chicago Tribune Guild Executive Board:
Megan Crepeau
Elise De Los Santos
Sara Harvey
Erin Hegarty
Charlie Johnson
Steve Johnson
Todd Lighty
Greg Pratt
I won’t forget them.
A guild cheerleader who once wrote a column at the paper–and is now apparently and desperately seeking to find paying readers–demands that I debate him. That’s ridiculous horse poop from a hysteric in search of status . I don’t care. The leftists of the Tribune guild don’t need to be defended from me. But they should apologize to their readers for protecting the disaster that was Kim Foxx and the Democrats who gathered around her like the Stygian Witches searching for an eye.
There are still some good journalists there, but the guild has all but gutted a once-great paper. It is dying like the rest of the corrupt corporate media. And I’m here for readers at johnkassnews.com. You keep subscribing for a good cup of Midwestern common sense and I’ll keep on writing.
I wrote back then that the left doesn’t like my politics. I get that. I don’t like theirs much, either. But those who follow me on social media know that I do not personally criticize my colleagues for their politics. I try to elevate their fine work. And I tell disgruntled readers who don’t like my colleagues’ politics that “it takes a village.” I did it at “the paper” and I do it now at johnkassnews.com
Here’s what I’ve learned over my life in and around Chicago, what my immigrant family taught us in our two-flats on South Peoria Street:
We come into this world alone and we leave alone. And the most important thing we leave behind isn’t money.
The most important thing we leave is our name.
We leave that to our children.
And I will not soil my name by groveling to anyone in this or any other newsroom.
The larger question is not about me, or the political left that hopes to silence people like me, but about America and its young. Those of us targeted by cancel culture are not only victims. We are examples, as French revolutionaries once said, in order to encourage the others.
Human beings do not wish to see themselves as cowards. They want to see themselves as heroes.
And, as they are shaped and taught to fear even the slightest accusation of thought crime, they will not view themselves as weak for falling in line. Instead they will view themselves as virtuous. And that is the sin of it.
Those who do not behave will be marginalized. But those who self-censor will be praised.
I don’t equate what I’ve done to the heroism of Daniel Penny. But now is the time to close the book on what happened to me at the paper. I want to live my life. And I have many stories to write.
Daniel Penny’s pain was obvious and breathtaking, as was his stoicism in going to that courtroom every day to be jeered at by the mob outside, to be smeared by the Alvin Bragg prosecutor inside railing against “the white guy.” He did what he did for the people around him in that subway car and he was drawn into that Soros mouth of madness. He and the jury gave America a sense of hope.
And he prevailed, unbowed and unbroken and walked out of the mouth of the Soros madness.
Naturally, the Greeks have a word for Daniel Penny.
He is axios. He is worthy. It doesn’t refer to a left-wing magazine website. I use it to refer to Penny:
Axios!
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Comments 43
Most good on Daniel Perry. With a name like Daph Yoran, I know exactly what and who she is. I still say, Soros, and his worthless kid need to be deported to Hungary where they will be dealt with accordingly.
Closure is good, it leads to a new start.
Couldn’t agree more with this part about the (life) long game:
“…the most important thing we leave behind isn’t money.
The most important thing we leave is our name.
We leave that to our children.”
Amen!!
Alvin Bragg somehow finds time to prosecute people like Daniel Penny and President Trump but somehow cannot work into his schedule prosecution of violent thugs who prowl the streets of New York, terrorizing people going about their business. Bragg’s clone in this city, Kim Foxx, offers the same approach to carrying out her responsibilities, which means protecting the public by denying parole to those accused of violent crimes.
Thank you for writing about this,John.
You nailed it John. We need more like you who will stand up for their beliefs and not succumb to spineless officials and executives that run our government and institutions. The Chicago Tribune will soon be out of business.
Thanks for naming the names at the Guild. Having been to several of your events when the Paper allowed you out in public I would also add Mark Jacobs to the list of those who hated your politics. I know you will disagree but it’s true.
Whenever you had a pig roast or breakfast Jacobs would alway be sitting next to you at the Q and A and I wondered why. I got my answer at your pig roast at Cantiny many years ago when I asked you a question. You looked at him before answering and he gave you a small nod as if to give you permission. I realized he was there to censor you from telling too much truth.
Reading some of Jacob’s posts on X he must need a crutch to stand up straight because he leans so far left.
Thank you John for writing about Daniel Penny. He is truly “axios”! The most important thing we leave behind when we leave this world is a good name. A name of a person who showed others love, kindness, goodness, caring, courage, sacrifice and patience, sought to create good in this world for both themselves and others and to put their neighbors and friends and fellow travelers in this world as important, not just themselves. It is about thinking about others! Those are characteristics that define a “good name” in my view. Daniel Penny put his fellow travelers as important to protect, as did those who chose to assist him. The good news is the jury defended his good name! When people try to make you afraid to speak and act on the truth, they are doing so for their selfish ends – that is “progressivism” and its selfishness breeds hate and anarchy.
This great column portrayed real villains and real heroes defining themselves in deeds and words.
It’s easy to see the villains today. Freed by leftist sociopaths, they repeatedly threaten and harm innocent people on streets and subways. Not as publicly obvious, other villains threaten healthy values and real news in the halls of failing newspapers and dumbo TV studios, where cowards and fools have largely taken control.
But there’s good news in the rare heroes like Marine-bred Daniel Penny. That strong profile stands out sharply against those of people who prosecute heroes and sympathize with villains. Standing up to the false-justice advocates and the thought police requires strength both in deed and word, which we grateful subscribers are happy to see exercised here. Worthy indeed.
John, truer words were never spoken. Your name is your legacy.
Thank you, John, for providing depth and perspective to what otherwise would only be a headline story. That is what journalism should be and why I subscribe.
Foxx is gone and the new prosecutor apparently is making some course corrections on petty theft/non prosecutions lowering the threshold to $500 (still too high) and a new Sheriff literally. The people (us law abiding types) finally got enough spine (ba**s) to say ENOUGH! Maybe when Brandon is up the people will again say enough. Stand up to the CTU. I Look forward to your columns and am glad there is a cup of midwestern common sense in the offing. Kasso has the best revenge with a successful blog/podcast. No chumbalones here!!!
Your Magnum Opus!
John
Thanks for a great column & having the courage to stand up for Mr. Perry.
Sadly our liberal minded New Yorkers will re-elect Alvin Bragg again.
Great column.
Woe to the last Daniel Penny left in a Soros hellhole, whom is then judged by a jury comprised no longer of peers.
God bless 12 brave New Yorkers
God bless Daniel Penny
God bless John Kass
No such affirmations for the Trubune Guild and all those of their ilk!
Merry Christmas! Optimism reigns in America.
Mr. K. John your views have always been in line with those of us with common sense @ human decency.
The prosecution of Daniel Penny was disgusting, and let’s be honest the system truly failed Jordan Neely the many times he was pinched and incarcerated, where were those liberals demanding the man receive the psychiatric treatment he definitely needed?
This was not a hate crime, this involved a decent human being protecting others against an emotionally disturbed African American whose family and his community failed him.
Now they make Neely into a martyr justifying his dangerous threatening behavior because he was African American. Had a Black citizen intervened Bragg would have never looked at the police reports. They make you with their narrative believe Daniel Penny got up that morning and said on the way to school let me murder a Black person on the train..
After watching the police interviews, as a retired detective cop I would never talk to law enforcement without an attorney. Being honest also got Penny railroaded.
Let’s remind the public, George Soros worked with the Nazis turning in his fellow Jews to the Nazi War Criminals, as the Nazis seized anything of value the poor souls had before being dispatched to death in the Concentration camps. Soros was a war criminal a collaborator, turning in his own people, for his financial gain, to begin to build his wealth.
Let’s remember who he has gotten elected. Garceitti in LA, Chesa Boudin, San Francisco, (raised by the Weathermen Aryers and Dohrn, acolytes of Obama) Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore, Bragg in New York, and our home grown States Attorney Crimeisha Fox, Tony Preckwinkles play daughter.
What’s the common denominator they all have in common. Black on Black genocide, young men destined to die on the streets of the concrete jungles in our cities. Media not talking about that, Black Lives Matter, not a word living in mansions in Hollywood.
How many more mothers will bury a son over nonsense from lack of discipline, and proper education in our society, enforcement of our laws enacted to protect people.
Cities that were once vibrant now being vacated by the middle class. Look in our own great city, rich upper class people moving from the Loop, Gold Coast and West-town.
Those people will never come back.
Blatant arm robberies, car jackings, murders on the Mag Mile, gangs over taking stores committing felony retail thefts, even if stopped and arrested released from custody with in an hour.
Walgreens downtown has all the merchandise in locked containers, they play opera music in the doorway to discourage the undesirables from blocking the doorway demanding money from the customers.
I feel for the poor decent hard working folks in the food desserts of this city. Let’s face it do you blame Jewel or Walmart from leaving the city when they loose a thousand dollars a day from shoplifting? Thank you Kim and Mr. Soros.
What’s sad it’s occurring nationwide.
John you,Christine McQuerry, Ray Long, or Mike Royko never created a go fund me page like one of your former colleagues at the Paper did to bury a relative. Wasn’t it ironic that the reporter who covered city hall received donations from the former mayor at his time of need. Nothing like a journalist taking money from those they cover, kind of like bribery.
John you were vindicated long ago, you are the only journalist in the state that cares about the common man…
Remember Bonfire of the Vanities by Thomas Wolfe? The movie wasn’t so great. The book was great. Read it if you haven’t. Wolfe foresaw so much. In this book, a black child gets accidentally killed and then is turned into something he wasn’t for the goals and means of racists.
Books like that, Orwell’s “1984”, Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”, Ray Bradbury “Fahrenheit 451” were not supposed to be “how to manuals”. But, they have become that. I dare you to read Ayn Rand and not see people like Gary Gensler, Fauci and others personified.
Move on with your life John. Keep writing. Keep exposing. Keep connecting dots.
Mr. Kass- great writing as always from a loyal “No Chumbolone”, drinking coffee from my “Chicago Way” cup. You continue to make your Greek ancestors proud.
I find it curious that the same idiots who are trying to justify the murder of the United Healthcare CEO by Luigi Mangione are claiming that Daniel Penny is himself a murderer for defending himself and a group of fellow New York subway riders from a nut-job who was making threats.
And the BLM clowns are asking for some type of “retribution” after demanding that NYPD Cops be defunded, which probably aided in having less Cops on that subway system. In the immortal words of Lewis Carroll, (it gets) “Curiouser and Curiouser”
Great column. You once quoted the most cunning and devious character from Game of Thrones. “Chaos is a ladder”. That is George Soros. Littlefinger, the pimp.
Greetings John. It will be shoving it right at Alvin Bragg when Trump and Vance invited Daniel Penny to attend the Army/Navy game with them tomorrow. I’m sure the crowd will go crazy. The Paper won’t be around too long with the promotional prices and offerings currently. They are a joke. I appreciate your journalistic abilities.
Excellent article Mr. Kass!
I used to be a straphanger on the blue line reading the daily edition of ‘the paper’; I immediately called to cancel it once you were hung out to dry, told them that was why and joined JKN.
I now refuse to ride anything public because Soros and his ilk have made Chicago truly unlivable and no place to leave a name to my infant son. You will have new Indiana neighbors soon, the movers are booked and that good cup of Midwestern common sense will be much sweeter in greener pastures this New Year.
Here’s something I find incredible. The once great Chicago newspaper, who’s name shall not be mentioned in deference to a former columnist, has not published a story about Daniel Penny’s acquittal, with the exception of a short segment in the News Briefing segment in Tuesday’s 12/10 edition. This has been one of the biggest news stories this week and “the paper” practically ignored it the past four days. I guess the acquittal doesn’t fit their political agenda these days. Shameful. Here’s a copy of their coverage.
“ NYC chokehold death: A Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider was acquitted Monday in a death that became a prism for differing views about public safety, valor and vigilantism.
A Manhattan jury cleared Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely’s 2023 death. A more serious charge of manslaughter was dismissed last week because the jury deadlocked on that count.
Penny, 26, who had shown little expression during the trial, briefly smiled as the verdict was read. While celebrating later with his attorneys, he said he felt “great.”
Applause and anger erupted in the courtroom, and Neely’s father and two supporters were ushered out after audibly reacting. Another person also left, wailing with tears.
The case amplified many American fault lines, among them race, politics, crime, urban life, mental illness and homelessness. Neely was Black. Penny is white.
Penny’s attorneys argued that he was protecting himself and other subway passengers from a volatile, mentally ill man who was making alarming remarks and gestures.“
The beginning of the end of the Tribune for me was when they moved your column far back in the paper. It was a disgusting slap in the face to you. Maddening! When you left, I left. Now I happily subscribe to John Kass News. And, this week was great – Daniel Penny acquitted and the CEO murderer arrested.
I ride CTA many times daily, have seen all kinds of frightening people. I would have been hard put to find Daniel Perry guilty of anything.
The Democrat Party is comprised of criminals helping other criminals. The highers-ups steal millions from taxpayers and large corporations and try to hide their thefts by unleashing lower-class thugs to terrorize and rob citizens and smaller businesses. They ALL need to know that come January there’s a new sheriff in town and his name isn’t Reggie Hammonds, it’s Donald Trump. DJT needs to pick the best and brightest non-swamp legal minds he can find and start prosecuting ALL these criminals. Start at the top with Obama, Clinton, Biden, Pelosi, Schiff and Schumer, then work on down to the petty criminals and grifters residing at he bottom rungs. Time’s up.
One thing that had me confused. Daniel Penny – a true hero if ever there was one – is a Marine because Marines have corrected me – when I used the term “former Marine” – that “once a Marine always a Marine”. This being so where were his Marines brothers to offer support especially when he was directly threatened by the assholes in BLM? I was never in the military so I plead ignorance. Just wondering what are the opinions of those who were.
So the Tribune has 4 women for 4 men in their guild. However with due respects to the women readers of this column, looking at Kim Fox and the 3 women at the Supreme Court chained to the democratic party that put them on the bench rather to the Constitution, I have to say that Judiciary is not the women’s place, the same way motherhood is not for men!
It was all Bozo Reagan’s fault. He appointed the first woman to the bench to please his wife, Nancy. However much I appreciate his views and what good he had done, I think the nation can never forgive him for this grave mistake.
Clinton followed suit and appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the supreme court. And was she badder to the end?! Even after so much injuries and hospitalization, she refused to step down during Trump’s presidency until God stroke her down so Trump could appoint her replacement!
And now, the Latina justice refuses to retire for fear of Trump having a chance to appoint her replacement. Watch what happens to her, next! My only prayer is that Trump will choose a male this time in spite of the general expectation that he replace the woman with another.
Perhaps the first question asked of a women SCOTUS appointee during confirmation hearings should be, “Can you open a pickle jar?”
Then, hand her a jar.
That pretty much spells out the nonsensical idea that men and women are equals. Lock and key are not equal. But each is essential for the job they do. It is the same with hammer and nail.
I rest my case.
Hi John-can you send out a link that teaches us the choke hold that Daniel Perry used? Everyone needs to know how to perform this procedure as the need will arise again very soon. Whether you are getting car jacked, beaten, robbed by mostly black men or illegal brown alien gang members.
Google “Rear Naked Choke.” “Naked” because the victim is in street clothes rather than a Gi or shirtless like in the UFC Octagon. Very, very dangerous once locked in. And once the choke is “locked in” it is virtually inescapable. Like I said. Very dangerous.
Yianni,
Remember…success is the best revenge! The past is best left there as you continue to chart a new and better course forward! The socialists have been defeated, even though we still have mayor pannix and governor Maximus! But the tide has turned and we will survive our adversaries! We are blessed to have your voice with us! Εις ανώτερα!!
I always suspected Robert Feder was a marxist pos, but it wasn’t until I learned his hero was marxist pos Walter Cronkite that I knew for sure.
Feder blocked me from his fb page years ago when I pointed this out.
Search “The Real Truth About Walter Cronkite”.
Thank you for another great column, John.
I grew up at 60th and Honore, and as a young teen could take the bus and the El all over the city. Downtown, Rainbow Beach, going to my cousins at 1o6th and Western…
There was such a sense of independence for me and my friends. I cannot imagine what life is like now for the young who want to learn and work, and who rely on public transportation.
And now Neely’s father is going to sue Penny? Where was Neely’s family when he needed help and care? Every rider in that subway car should sue Neely’s horrible neglectful father for the fear and danger his negligence caused.
And what a horrible, accurate picture at the top of your column.
Great column as usual John. I used to use Eric Zorn’s column to potty train our puppy. Could he be the mysterious “guild cheerleader”? 🧐
Jim Razz
Pure Horatian Gold! ” a hysteric insearch of status.” Eric Zorn! The most unctious of all the talentless ideologues slinging ink anywhere!
And said that The Babe could hit to the fences.
I’m a 4th generation American with Jewish Austro-Hungarian ancestry. I friggn hate Soros and all the damage he’s done. It’s not antisemitic to hate the guy, millions of Jews do as well..
John Kass:
If we had more writers like you, we would need fewer writers like you.
I borrowed that paraphrased line spoken by Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in an episode of ‘Mash.’
John, I clearly understand that you not hold the management of The Chicago Tribune in the highest esteem. But, why hold back? Tell us what you really think! LOL.
Just the other day, I sped a stack of Friday Tribune print editions piled up for sale at a local store. I picked one up and noticed how thin and small the paper now is. This is what happens when you abandon 95% of your market to cater to only the extreme left. The Trib, the WaPo, the NYT…all cannot go bankrupt fast enough.
Great reading and listening in 2024 and looking forward to the same in 2025!!!
Wow!, this is a great column. Sock it to them!