Sep 13, 2026 · 34 min · 9 segments
Amid the politicized ugliness and street skirmishes around the 25th anniversary of 9-11 in New York City, a conspiracy-theory confab convenes, glorifying MAGA martyr Charlie Kirk and headlining such…
And, of course, the other thing to note concerning the passage of time is, of course, the 25th anniversary of 9-11, which was yesterday, Friday, as I speak, because I haven't been to bed yet.
The permanent war in the Middle East is again escalating, and there was much ugliness and some physical skirmishes in the streets here in New York City.
As you probably heard, leading area Republicans, including, entirely predictably, Rudolph Giuliani, who was, of course, mayor at the time of the disaster, And less predictably and somewhat disappointingly, George Pataki, governor at the time of the disaster, and again, all too predictably, ultra-reactionary Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, all called on Mayor Zoran Mamdani to stay away from the commemoration ceremonies in a display of overt and undisguised Islamophobia.
Giuliani has particular beef with Mamdani, who had, as you may be aware... just released a trove of city documents from Rudy's administration revealing a cover-up of the dangers of the post-9-11 air quality.
Oops! Apparently, they both attended the ceremony, so that must have been awkward.
But this Blakeman, who is the Republican gubernatorial candidate here in New York State, is also really a piece of work.
You may have heard that he has launched a kind of Nassau County militia deputizing armed citizens for mobilization under the Sheriff's Department during emergency declarations with much hype about Central American gang activity out there on Long Island.
This is happily being challenged in the courts by his political opponents who call it An authoritarian power grab in the heart of suburban America, quote-unquote.
And very tellingly, especially given what we're going to talk about in this podcast, this Blakeman... has taken criticism for appearing with Brooklyn Republican congressional candidate Joel Anibila Azuma, who is, wait for it, a 9-11 conspiracy theorist, apparently, in a tweet in April 2024, he wrote, quote, 9-11 was an inside job.
You don't have to believe it, but that's what happened, and history is pretty clear on that.
Whoever had the put option on the American Airlines stock dropping is still spending that money, and their children are still spending that money, unquote.
And this, Giuliani, Pataki, and Blakeman, was the more patrician crew of By today's standards, the real undisguised fascists were out in the street.
a self-dubbed Crusader March, quote-unquote, with signs reading, Deport All Muslims and Deport 200 Million, quote-unquote, with Lange at the head of a few score of people, at least, wearing what appeared to be a flak jacket with a big American flag on the chest and holding aloft a big wooden cross, quote, That's not ominous at all.
This Lange, convicted of assault in the January 6th attempted putsch and released from prison upon being pardoned by Trump, formerly identified with the Proud Boys, and made a brief show of running for Senate in Florida last year, on a platform of banning Islam, quote unquote.
Happily, Jake's rabble were met with counter-protesters down at Ground Zero, as I still call it, the former World Trade Center site, now the 9-11 memorial.
There were at least two arrests, according to media reports, though it isn't clear which side they were on.
However, some of the counter-protesters, if you can believe it, were further to the damn right than Jake in one absolutely surreal spectacle.
I saw being circulated on social media, there was a phalanx of masked neo-Nazi counter-protesters against fascist Jake Lange, giving the Sieg Heil and holding a banner reading, Jake Lange is a Jew, quote, unquote.
And they're all kind of in matching outfits with white shirts and khaki pants and black berets.
And, of course, the other thing to note concerning the passage of time is, of course, the 25th anniversary of 9-11, which was yesterday, Friday, as I speak, because I haven't been to bed yet.
The permanent war in the Middle East is again escalating, and there was much ugliness and some physical skirmishes in the streets here in New York City.
As you probably heard, leading area Republicans, including, entirely predictably, Rudolph Giuliani, who was, of course, mayor at the time of the disaster, And less predictably and somewhat disappointingly, George Pataki, governor at the time of the disaster, and again, all too predictably, ultra-reactionary Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, all called on Mayor Zoran Mamdani to stay away from the commemoration ceremonies in a display of overt and undisguised Islamophobia.
Giuliani has particular beef with Mamdani, who had, as you may be aware... just released a trove of city documents from Rudy's administration revealing a cover-up of the dangers of the post-9-11 air quality.
Oops! Apparently, they both attended the ceremony, so that must have been awkward.
But this Blakeman, who is the Republican gubernatorial candidate here in New York State, is also really a piece of work.
You may have heard that he has launched a kind of Nassau County militia deputizing armed citizens for mobilization under the Sheriff's Department during emergency declarations with much hype about Central American gang activity out there on Long Island.
This is happily being challenged in the courts by his political opponents who call it An authoritarian power grab in the heart of suburban America, quote-unquote.
And very tellingly, especially given what we're going to talk about in this podcast, this Blakeman... has taken criticism for appearing with Brooklyn Republican congressional candidate Joel Anibila Azuma, who is, wait for it, a 9-11 conspiracy theorist, apparently, in a tweet in April 2024, he wrote, quote, 9-11 was an inside job.
You don't have to believe it, but that's what happened, and history is pretty clear on that.
Whoever had the put option on the American Airlines stock dropping is still spending that money, and their children are still spending that money, unquote.
And this, Giuliani, Pataki, and Blakeman, was the more patrician crew of By today's standards, the real undisguised fascists were out in the street.
a self-dubbed Crusader March, quote-unquote, with signs reading, Deport All Muslims and Deport 200 Million, quote-unquote, with Lange at the head of a few score of people, at least, wearing what appeared to be a flak jacket with a big American flag on the chest and holding aloft a big wooden cross, quote, That's not ominous at all.
This Lange, convicted of assault in the January 6th attempted putsch and released from prison upon being pardoned by Trump, formerly identified with the Proud Boys, and made a brief show of running for Senate in Florida last year, on a platform of banning Islam, quote unquote.
Happily, Jake's rabble were met with counter-protesters down at Ground Zero, as I still call it, the former World Trade Center site, now the 9-11 memorial.
There were at least two arrests, according to media reports, though it isn't clear which side they were on.
However, some of the counter-protesters, if you can believe it, were further to the damn right than Jake in one absolutely surreal spectacle.
I saw being circulated on social media, there was a phalanx of masked neo-Nazi counter-protesters against fascist Jake Lange, giving the Sieg Heil and holding a banner reading, Jake Lange is a Jew, quote, unquote.
And they're all kind of in matching outfits with white shirts and khaki pants and black berets.
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