{"id":81074,"date":"2026-05-21T21:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/81074\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:16:08","slug":"the-week-in-whoppers-hakeem-jeffries-goes-ballistic-on-maga-fran-lebowitz-reveals-her-ignorance-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/81074\/","title":{"rendered":"The week in whoppers: Hakeem Jeffries goes ballistic on MAGA, Fran Lebowitz reveals her ignorance and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions<\/p>\n<p>This strategy:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to break [MAGA extremists] electorally, and then we have to break their spirit.\u201d \u2014 House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>We say: Break their spirit? What happened to tolerating differing viewpoints and democratic traditions?<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries is in line to be speaker if <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/18\/opinion\/dems-idiotic-rhetoric-on-courts-reveals-what-theyre-really-after\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats win the House<\/a>, yet his yearning to crush his opposition sounds more like the Third World dictator he claims President Trump is.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>This claim:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The wealthy] add nothing to New York . . . We don\u2019t need you.\u201d \u2014 Fran Lebowitz, Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>We say: How ignorant can you get? Lebowitz insisted New York\u2019s wealthy don\u2019t employ anyone, produce anything or add value. <\/p>\n<p>Huh? The companies they run employ millions. The top 1% pay nearly half the city and state\u2019s taxes. <\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/23\/business\/ken-griffins-citadel-claps-back-at-mamdanis-viral-penthouse-video-threatens-to-scrap-6b-nyc-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they contribute tens of millions<\/a> to charities that make the city great. Just for starters.<\/p>\n<p>This promise:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I\u2019ll] turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and . . . a castration processing center.\u201d \u2014 Maureen Galindo, in an Instagram post that circulated Tuesday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>We say: This blatantly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/19\/us-news\/sex-therapist-dem-candidate-calls-for-converting-ice-facilities-into-camps-for-american-zionists-with-castration-center\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">antisemitic, screwball \u201csex therapist\u201d<\/a> actually won the most votes (29.2%) in last month\u2019s Democratic primary for a Texas congressional seat. <\/p>\n<p>Worse, her lunatic antisemitic hate actually appeals to many Dem voters. Beyond\u00a0 disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>This charge:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Israel\u2019s] occupation in Lebanon . . . [is] on its way potentially to being a genocide.\u201d \u2014 Brad Lander, May 15<\/p>\n<p>We say: Dem <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/21\/us-news\/mamdani-endorsed-brad-lander-could-pull-off-huge-win-against-ny-rep-dan-goldman-poll\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">congressional wannabe<\/a> Brad Pander, er, Lander can\u2019t stop at lies about \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza; he\u2019s also claiming the Jewish state is on the verge of genocide in Lebanon, too. <\/p>\n<p>Israel is merely defending itself from terrorists while taking care to protect civilians. <\/p>\n<p>(By the way, the imam who hosted Lander for this remark later prayed for \u201cthe killing of infidels,\u201d which would include . . . Lander.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions This strategy: \u201cWe have to break [MAGA extremists] electorally, and then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[144],"tags":[8566,477,486,3427,45237,485,243,55],"class_list":["post-81074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hakeem-jeffries","tag-brad-lander","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-editorial","tag-fran-lebowitz","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-israel","tag-opinion"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116614646288587188","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}