Was the Brian Fox demonstration at Foot Locker on Wednesday intended to help stir up anti-Arab ferver against their community in Bay Ridge

At the Brian Fox rally in front of the Foot Locker store on 86th Street in Bay Ridge on Wednesday  >>>  Fox and several of his guest speakers referred to the December 26th incident as both anti-semitism and as a hate crime  ---  even though the investigation of the event is ongoing and many relevant facts are still being gathered

There were only about a dozen people there  in front of Foot Locker  ---   interestingly, some of the speakers at the Fox rally spoke as if they had some official NYPD standing, because of their positions in a pair of NYPD officers' unions.....  In fact, they were nothing but police union hacks doing their best to instill fear in the public

Already, various media outlets with their own agenda are picking up on the allegations that the Foot Locker incident was an assault, and that it was an anti-semitic hate crime  ---  and using that and the failure of bystanders to intervene as a sticks to beat on the Bay Ridge Arab community

Here's one of just that kind of anti-Arab, anti-Bay Ridge outburst:

"...  The punch in the eye that Blake Zavadsky received on Monday followed the assailant’s asking, 'Why are you in our neighborhood?' The victim was wearing a hoodie with the logo of the Israeli Army while shopping at a Foot Locker in Bay Ridge with his friend Ilan Kaganovich....  'He punched me two times over here,' Zavadsky said, pointing at his left eye in a video shared by Brooklyn Councilwoman Inna Vernikov. 'Afterwards he threw iced coffee all over my sweatshirt.' The victims added that the manager and employees of the Foot Locker on 86th Street witnessed the attack and did not intervene....  While the suspect remains at large, the broader question is whether it is safe for a visible Jew or Zionist to walk the streets of a neighborhood that has a sizable Arab American community. This past May, a massive crowd marched through the neighborhood to mark the anniversary of the Nakba – the Palestinian term for 'catastrophe' as they regard the rebirth of the Jewish state....  The rally appeared spontaneous, generated by social media to disrupt traffic. Participants climbed on buses and lampposts while chanting 'from the river to the sea,' and for a third intifada. Although that week there was an Israeli retaliatory strike against Hamas positions in Gaza, the rally was in protest of the very existence of Israel, rather than a specific action by its government....  In this country, no neighborhood truly belongs to a specific ethnicity or religion. As there are laws against discrimination in housing and public facilities, freedom of expression also has no borders. That there were indifferent bystanders and local activists who tweet about Islamophobia but are silent on antisemitism shows that our security cannot be taken for granted. Such laws have strength only as long as there are public officials, agencies, and a populace that uphold them."  (See "Is Bay Ridge Safe For Jews?"  by Sergey Kadinsky. 12/29/2021,  queensjewishlink.com/ Community Corner [ https://www.queensjewishlink.com/index.php/local/26-community-corner/5764-is-bay-ridge-safe-for-jews ] ). 

Brian Fox shows everybody that he doesn't know much about Bay Ridge --- or even how to describe where his favorite "crime of the day" might actually have taken place

When Brian Fox posted his most recent mis-report about a well-reported crime that allegedly happened in Bay Ridge  ---  which according to Brian Fox took place at the Foot Locker store  "... on Fourth  Avenue..."  ---   we thought that it was just one of the routine mistakes, which find their way into all of Brian Fox's rushed reports to tell everybody, who might be stupid enough to listen to him anymore that   >>>  "The sky is falling !  The sky is falling !!!  The sky is falling !!!!!"

Well, we gotta tell yuh  ---  this Brian Fox has become one VERY BIG  ...  "Chicken Little".  ---   AND he is one plucked clucker that has no sense of direction, or place, or where he is in Bay Ridge from one moment to the next

The worst of it is that this time, it demonstrates quite clearly that neither Fox nor his so-called "staff" has a clue about what very recognizable parts of Bay Ridge look like  ---  or what it feels like to be there.....

Here's how Fox presented his report about an alleged anti-semitic attack on a fellow named Blake Zavadsky on his "Campaign" Meta-Facebook page: 

"Brian Fox for City Council is at Bay Ridge Brooklyn...  [@7:30 AM, 12/28/2021]...  What happened to Blake Zavadsky in Bay Ridge on 4th Ave. at 11am in the morning, is disgusting and should have never happened. Antisemitic hate crimes are abhorrent and unacceptable. I blame our local officials for their lack of any doing whatsoever. Where is Councilman Justin Brannan, Andrew Gounardes or Mathylde Frontus? An uptick in crime goes against their narrative so this will be put under the rug to be forgotten. Make no mistake about it, our local officials and their lack of action and lack of support for more law enforcement, is the reason this incident happened. This cannot continue to go on but it will if we continue to elect officials that are stagnant and unable to do their job truthfully effectively.... [hyperlink to NY post article]"

 

It would be bad enough if that's all that Brian Fox had to say about all of it  ---  BUT IT WASN'T..... You see Brian Fox took this opportunity to do his own video report from the alleged scene of the crime.....   He was so proud of himself, he also posted the video on his "Campaign"  Mete-Facebook page,,,,,

In that video, Brian Fox said,  "I am coming to you right here on Fourth Avenue right in front of Foot Locker.  I'm standing here with some of my staff members...." 

EARTH TO BRIAN FOX  ---  EARTH TO BRIAN FOX !!!!!

There is no Foot Locker location in Bay Ridge on Fourth Avenue.....

BTW, when Brian Fox said that he was  "... coming to you right here on Fourth Avenue right in front of Foot Locker...." he was actually standing on 86th Street, in front of the Foot Locker store that's nearly mid-block between Fourth and Fifth Avenues, but actually much closer to Fifth Avenue than Fourth.....

Also, during Fox's video presentation, he repeatedly refers to the people standing with him as  his  >>>   "STAFF".....

WOW !!!   YOUR NEIGHBOR, CITIZEN FOX HAS A "STAFF" !!!!!   

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APPENDIX:  DISPLAY ART WITH TEXT POSTED ON THE  "BRIAN FOX FOR CITY COUNCIL"  META-FACEBOOK SITE ABOUT PLANNED STREET DEMONSTRATION ON 86TH STREET IN FRONT OF THE FOOTLOCKER STORE 

Here's the latest from Brian Fox and his brain trust, whidh was  posted in the dead of the night on his old City Council "...Campaign" Meta-Facebook page:

"Brian Fox for City Council [@ 11:00 PM 12/29/2021]...  **PRESS RELEASE ADVISORY**...  

Bob Capano** is making sure that his peeps don't miss Curtis Sliwa's endorsement of Andrew Giuliani to be the GOP nominee for NYS Governor in 2022

 
This is throwing down the gauntlet to the current GOP establishment  ---  including the current Brooklyn GOP leadership  ---  which seems to be all but locked-in to Lee Zeldin for the top spot on their 2022 ticket

It remains to be seen whether Curtis Sliwa and his allies are ready to work as hard for the young Giuliani in 2022 as they did for themselves in 2021  ---  in 2021, Capano and Siwa succeeded in handily defeating the GOP candidate for mayor backed by the Fox-McCabe-Ghorra faction of the Brooklyn GOP

Although the Giuliani brand might be somewhat tarnished ouside the GOP  ---  especially among the most rabid anti-Trumpers   ---   the Giuliani name still has cachet inside the GOP as one of the symbols of those pre-9/11 better times and a better way of life all around NYC  ---  the support by the most recent GOP mayoral candidate, Curtis Sliwa, will be a boost to the personal stature of Andrew Giuliani and make his run for governor even more credible

According to the NY Post article that Bob Capano linked in his E-mail to his followers  ---  

"...  Curtis Sliwa, who recently campaigned as the Republican candidate for New York City mayor, is backing Andrew Giuliani — the son of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani  — for governor....   The red-beret wearing Guardian Angels founder slammed the state Republican Party leadership for attempting to “anoint” Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin to be the GOP’s standard bearer for governor...."   (See "Curtis Sliwa backs Andrew Giuliani for governor, slams efforts to ‘anoint’ Lee Zeldin"  by Carl Campanile, 12/26/2021.  NY Post/ Metro/ Exclusive   [https://nypost.com/2021/12/26/curtis-sliwa-backs-andrew-giuliani-for-new-york-governor/] ). 

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** When it comes to something as important as this,  it is this independent Republican blog's duty to lift it's prior ban on Bob Capano's announcements.....  

READ IT AND WEEP --- HE IS THE CHAMPION --- AND --- YOU ARE THE LOSERS ! YOU ARE THE LOSERS !!! YOU ARE THE LOSERS !!!!!

 

Thanks to the likes of Liam McCabe, Brian Fox and the rest of their "FILTH"  >>>  the Brooklyn Republican Party LOST its one and only chance to dump Boss Brannan  ---  and his whole crew of Bay Ridge Dems, Radio Free Bay Ridgeites, BLMers and other wierd wokesters, their likes not seen together since whenever Jango Fett turned over the family bounty-hunting business to Boba Fett

AS YOUR PENANCE  >>>  AS ANY KIND OF BROOKLYN GOP-ER <<<  FOR HAVING SIDED WITH ALL OF THE FOX-MC CABE "FILTH"  ---  AND BLOWING THE "MUCH BETTER THAN GOLDEN" OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEAT JUSTIN BRANNAN  >>>  ALL OF YOU MUST READ RE-ELECTED "PROGRESSIVE" DEMOCRAT COUNCILMAN BRANNAN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

BTW, any coal that those Brooklyn Republicans might find in their Christmas stockings needs to be shoved up their individual, joint, several, and collective asses as far as they can possibly force it  ---  so that  >>> MY GIFT <<<  to them might be complete in the spirit for which it was given.....

But until then, everybody in the Brooklyn GOP needs to enjoy Brannan's Christmas Eve victory lap on all your unhappy faces.....

"Justin Brannan [@11 AM, 12/24/2021 on Twitter]...   Christmas Eve 2021. I’m at the office catching up on some emails and listening to Alice In Chains* (update: listening to Corrosion of Conformity now)...  

Thanks to YOU, yesterday I was sworn in for a second term. I can’t believe it’s been four years already! Time flies when you’re filling potholes I guess. I am forever grateful to the hardworking people of Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, and Dyker Heights for renewing my lease for another two years. To serve the neighborhoods where I grew up in the city I love is truly an honor and a privilege that cannot be overstated. I pinch myself every day to have this awesome responsibility.

Suffice to say, it is a very… interesting time to be an elected official. It's the crux of what we signed up for: to be there for people when things are bad. It's easy to be there when things are good, much more challenging to be a steady hand in times of unrelenting crisis. I'm not gonna lie, when I decided to run for office a few years ago, I never thought I would have to govern during a global pandemic. But the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing social and economic collapse have only reminded me of how many of our neighbors are just one missed paycheck away from a very different reality. It reminded me clearly how inextricably bound we are to one another’s health, safety, and well-being. Above all, the past 2 years have reminded me that when times get tough, leadership doesn't mean having all the answers: it means communicating clearly and often and addressing every issue that comes across your desk seriously, no matter how big or small. It means being there, all the time, for the people who put their faith and trust in you to serve. And that's what I've tried to do.

If you know me, you know how much I love my job and how much I care about this community. It's in my blood, in my soul. It's where I took my first steps and where I grew up. It's where my mom was a teacher for 40+ years and where my wife and I owned a small business together. I go to sleep thinking about Bay Ridge and Bath Beach. I wake up thinking about Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights. I'm lucky to serve nearly 170,000 hardworking people in this district. We are a home to everyone from everywhere and we are all just trying to harness the promise of this city and this country to make a better life for our families. We all want clean and safe streets, beautiful parks, and strong local schools for our kids. Between all of that and our unique small businesses, it's no wonder so many people have decided to live, work, and raise a family here. And whether you've been here since birth or since breakfast, it's my job to make sure it stays that way.

Look, I know times are tough and there's no way around it: the past 2 years have been unlike anything we’ve ever known or experienced. The social and economic impact of the COVID lockdown measures was nothing short of catastrophic. There is no playbook for what we are going through. There is no playbook for something that comes once-in-a-lifetime so it's not like any of us can say “well, the last time we had a pandemic, things were back to normal by now!” Indeed, it has been an extremely anxious time everyone but our community has always come together like a small town when things get tough. This time, the challenges we face are extraordinary and they are not unique to our community. What's happened here has happened in every neighborhood across the nation. So recovering and rebuilding after this pandemic is going to be a heavy lift, but I have never been more ready.

I am here for you and your family 24-7-365. And my job is to serve. I'm not a moderate Democrat. I'm not a progressive Democrat. I'm a “get shit done” Democrat. That’s my job. These days, when I post a photo of a local park or playground being cleaned or a stop sign being erected at my request and some trolls on social media call me a “radical leftist commie socialist Clinton Soros globalist robot”, I just laugh. American politics have never been more divisive. Sadly, local politics aren’t immune to national animosity. It’s sad but I’m an eternal optimist. Frankly, I have no choice but to be because the alternative is just too damn depressing. Better days are ahead and the best is yet to come for our city, our state, and our country. In my heart, I know that. We are living through enduringly surreal times but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

At the end of the day, I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican. I don't care if you voted for me or not. I am a public servant and my job is to help make life just a little bit easier for you and your family. My job is to stand up for what's right and for the values we all share in this strong and diverse community. Together, we've come so far. But there is so much more we need to do. I’m ready for it. Thank you for believing in me.

OK, I need to go buy bread for tonight. Love you all. -- JB"

Another election has come and gone, as in "gone badly" --- AND --- Has anybody seen or heard from Liam lately ???

 

This recurring theme sounds like it is a joke  ---  but it is a very played-out and sad joke.....

Something or somebody needs to break this cycle

Let's start with the basics.....

Does anybody know; and/or has anybody seen this man recently  ???

No, it's not Ray Charles or Roy Orbison  ---  but there might be similar reasons for the resemblance, as well as the need for the shades.....

Maybe, a full-color headshot photo might be more useful if you want to go looking for him in all the old familiar places.  So try using this one:

There are at least some indications that this man has skipped town completely.....  This pix is extremely suggestive of somebody getting ready to bolt (checking his passport  --  calling for flight availability  -- the whole deal):

Whatever it really might be about, all of this kind of stuff has got to stop.....   It's just NOT THAT FUNNY anymore.

OMG --- the Brooklyn GOP "Christmas" Party was a filthy affair, now obviously thrown by and for a few filthy people --- thankfully, it appeared to have been almost empty

 

The most recent filth to taint the Brooklyn Republican Organization  >>> Brian Fox <<<   has such a limited knowledge of the Brooklyn GOP that he didn't realize that his commentarry posted on Meta-Facebook along with pictures showing what he said were scenes from the 2021 Brooklyn GOP "Christmas Party" was a complete confirmation of a key epi-phenomenon of the parlous condition of any Republican Party apparatus that might arguably still exist in Kings County

Now, as to the "Christmas" of 2021 Republican bash  ---   it looked like it was being held in the small basement room of the Bay Ridge Manor, and it wasn't even close to being filled up  ---  By comparison, less than a decade ago, Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton was throwing his Holiday parties in the much larger main floor hall of the Manor, and they were completely packed year after year, Holiday Season after Holiday Season

We must say that Brian Fox posed with several people that he wants you to think are "Brooklyn Republicans"  ---  but, pardon our scepticism  ---  most of them looked very little like most of the folks that were likely to have voted on the GOP line in the recent elections for NYC Mayor and/or the  City Council races anywhere in Southwest Brooklyn  

And if Brian Fox were really there at the Brooklyn GOP "Christmas Party" like he said in his posted comments on his Meta-FB site  

>>>  and he were "...  joined by members of both 
the South Brooklyn Coalition To Save Small
Businesses and Verrazzano Republicans...." <<<

... then there weren't very many of those folks in attendance at the so-called Brooklyn GOP event depicted by Fox either

Here is exactly what Brian Fox posted a little while ago by way of commentary:

"Brian Fox for City Council...  [@ 12:30 AM. 12/21/2021]...   An amazing night out at the annual Brooklyn GOP Christmas party. I was joined by members of both the South Brooklyn Coalition To Save Small Businesses and Verrazzano Republicans and was thrilled to see several elected officals and many more. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, happy holidays and good health going into the new year!..."

And here were his pictures --- each of them worth more than a thousnad words.....

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Appendix of 12/22/2021, photos of same time and place(s) posted by Michael Demartino, Jr., on 12/21/2021.....

Just looks like more of what was in the Brian Fox photo array, above.....

Here on Earth to Brian Fox... Here on Earth to Brian Fox... --- Here on Earth to Brian Fox supporters... Here on Earth to Brian Fox supporters...

We listened to Brian's  saucy podcast  ---  and there's a chunk of our life that's gone forever.....  Maybe, we can count it as some special kind of Advent time in the wilderness, wonder as we wander, penance.....    But since we have the transcript  ---  it will be the gift that keeps on giving for quite some time, probably even well beyond the Twelve Days of Christmas

In any case, here are some initial thoughts for Fox & Friends, the rest of the Brooklyn GOP, and their one or two or three other followers  >>>  about what Brian said whenever this podcast was originally recorded by Fox and Mr. Ragu:

Brian, your terrible 2021 campaign for the NYC Council is over.....  Just, let it go.....

YOU LOST, WHEN MANY BELIEVE THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE WON (btw, we here at "... Fountainhead" are not part of that group).  So, stop BS-ing about what a tremendous job was done by you and your campaign.....

FYI  ---  Justin Brannan is no longer your "OPPONENT"  ---  However, he continues to be what he's been since before the election "YOUR CITY COUNCILMAN"  ---  and thanks to you and your horrible 2021 campaign,  Brannan will continue to be your City Councilman for at least another two years, and probably another two after that.....

And thank you for finally admitting that the whole  "... Brannan voted to defund the police..." thing  >>> was a big fat lie from the get go.....

What is needed now that the Brooklyn GOP can't possibly be on the winning side ever again --- except maybe for POTUS in 2024

 

Don't let anybody fool you   ---  the filth at the top of the Brooklyn GOP that has selected and run two guys with criminal pasts and nothing acomplished for the betterment of anybody that you might know as their top local candidates in the last two elections,  2020 & 2021  >>>   WELL, THEY AIN'T GONNA BEAT ANY DEMOCRATS EVER AGAIN ANYWHERE IN BROOKLYN  

It's time to clean house and get rid of this filth inside the local GOP that has done nothing but lose ground to the Democrats during the last decade  ---  take advantage while there is nothing to lose  (it's all been lost already) ---  anybody new can be no worse than who and what we have running things right now in Brooklyn

Getting rid of Ted Ghorra as Republican Kings County Chairman would be a good start,  unless you think replacing him with Steve Maresca is the right thing to do.  ---   If that's the best that you can do to change things for the better in the Kings County Republican Organization,  then put your dreams away for another day.....

Somebody has mentioned to us that an interesting outside the box play, might be the one for the new Republican City Council person in Brooklyn, Inna Vernikov**  ---  and she might well be made GOP County Chairperson by acclaim if recent electoral success were the only criterion  (of course, nobody inside the Brooklyn GOP could possibly trust her to act on behalf of their best interests or the party's).

However, more important than any of that, any real house cleaning means breaking up the completely dysfunctional alliance the Brooklyn GOP has with the so-called NYS Conservative Party in Brooklyn.  The biggest filth inside the Brooklyn GOP actually comes from outside the Brooklyn GOP;  and it includes the likes of Liam McCabe, whose roots aren't in the Brooklyn GOP at all, but are deep in the muck of the Conservative Party.....

Did you see that Brian Fox was put in charge of the Verrazzano Republican Club  (a Liam McCabe front group) ---  Fox might have been a good choice except that he knows nothing about Verrazzano, the Republican Party (locally, statewide or nationally), or anything about  political clubs and what makes them tick,  

And one more thing, Fox is the very embodiment of the filth now rotting the insides of the Brooklyn GOP,  because HE IS ONE OF THE CANDIDATES WITH CRIMINAL PASTS AND NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE BETTERMENT OF ANYBODY THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW.  

As everybody now knows, Brian Fox was brought in by McCabe, and then chosen by Ghorra and Kassar to take the fall against Boss Brannan as part of a very dirty deal to preserve jobs for a handful of Republicans and Conservatives. All of the usual suspects at the top of the Brooklyn GOP pressured John Quaglione not to run again against Brannan, even though he would have been a far better candidate than Fox  ---  and events in 2021 show that Quaglione was good enough to have certainly won this past November.

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** Inna Vernikov is a former Democrat staffer, who became a Republican only to run for City Council in 2021.  Her most important base of support was among the local Democrat leadership in collusion with the Conservative Party, both of whom preferred her to the incumbent Democrat, who was himself a former Republican candidate, well-known to the Conservatives, who had been elected only recently as a Democrat in a special election for City Council. His election had  upset deals that the Conservatives had made with those very same Dem leaders. The only way that Ms. Vernikov gets a district with boundaries within which she can possibly be re-elected in 2023 is if the Democrats in charge allow that to happen.

How was Brian Fox personally involved in a "potentially fatal" or "near death" incident on the rocks next to the sea wall below the Verrazzano Bridge ???

 

Sometimes people like Brian Fox just try to slip one by  ---  and get away with something by skirting the real issues involved

With Fox this is especially true when it comes to something that he considers "personal" to himself

On December 10th, Brian Fox made this rather intriguing statement:  "...  I want to personally thank BRAVO and the NYPD for their quick response to what could have been a potentially fatal circumstance...." Although Fox provided significant details about the apparent life threatening circumstances involving the woman in question; as usual, he didn't provide any significant details about his "personal[ ]" connection to the case.

Here are some of the details --- The NYPD ESU, regular NYPD units, and other emergency personnel rescued a woman who was stuck on the rocks under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Dec. 8th.  According information gleaned from Fox's statement and other reports, officers from the 68th Precinct spotted a distraught woman near the sea wall outside the fence by the paths near 101st Street and 4th Avenue at 6 PM on December 8th. Her yellow and black print dress and her hair were wet, and when questioned about her circumstances, she gave non-responsive answers and refused to comply with the police officers’ commands. There was no explanation as to why the NYPD and other emergency personel were called and responded to the scene along the sea wall under the bridge to be in a position to "spot" the woman in apparent distress.

Interestingly, in all of the reports of the incident, only Brian Fox's described the woman's circumstances as "potentially fatal".....

This matter needs to be scrutinized much more closely than it has been to date, because Brian Fox does say that this is personal to him >>> and he does have a "personal history" involving domestic violence.

 

WTF --- The Feds, NYC & NYS obviously want us to go back into another COVID-19 panic.....

On cable, the ads for COVID-19 vaccinations are almost continuous.....   How many hundreds of millions of out tax dollars are going into those ads ???   (Last summer, they admitted to spending $125,000,000  ---  the total is surely higher than that, or it soon will be)

Now, NYS is again ordering the resumption of a universal indoor masking protocol

Are the Democrats getting ready to pull the same scams in 2022 that worked so well for them in 2020  ---   with COVID-19 again/ still being used to justify almost universal mail-in voting

As usual, too many Republicans just don't know what to do or say.  ---  And   ---  meaningful "PUSHBACK !!!"  ---   just "FUGGEDABOUDIT !!!!!"

Nearly a million new non-citizen voters will soon be eligible to be added to the NYC voter rolls

 

At least three or four of them will be enrolled as Republicans;  and a few others might on occasion be voting Republican

So, let's project a little  ---  and be very conservative in our estimates  ---  let's say there will be probably 250,000 to 500,000 new non-citizen Democrat voters City-wide;  and what, maybe a few hundred, or at most a few thousand, might be potential non-citizen Republican enrollees and/or voters

Does anybody want to get a little granular, and project how many of these new non-citizen voters will be registered within the boundaries of new Justin Brannan and Andrew Gounardes* districts after reapportionment ???

To whom it might concern:  

Good luck, with all of that.....

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* Oh, you believe that the enrolled non-citizen voters will only be voting in NYC municipal elections  ---  AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!

Very far afield --- Indeed ! Brian Fox and Mike Demartino, Jr., wish everybody "Happy Holidays !!!" at a far away tree lighting

 

OMG !!!!!   Do Brian Fox and Mike Demartino think that Our Lady of Grace Church and nearby Lincoln High School are in "South Brooklyn" ?????

We knew that these two would be real button guys in "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight"  >>>  but it sure looks like Brian Fox and Mike Dimartino don't know which end is up when it come to reading a BOE district map and/or navigating around Brooklyn neighborhoods with any connection whatsoever to "South Brooklyn".....

Somehow, they managed to find themselves at the far end of that faux neighborhood "Homecrest"; and they even wangled being introduced on video at the Christmas Tree lighting at Our Lady of Grace R.C. Church way out around Avenue W & Ocean Parkway not far from Lincoln High School in Brighton Beach.  

Of course, our question is  "WHY  ?????"   It wasn't all that long ago when OLG was a remote RC parish with next to no RC parishioners.....

But times change, and so do political boundaries for things like State Senate and NYS Assembly districts.....

Who knows ???  All this "busy work" might have an upside payoff for Brian and Mike, and their new "South Brooklyn Small Businesses" front group.

"And the grift goes on.... And the grift goes on....." (Sung to the tune of Sonny and Cher's "The Beat Goes On")

 

Well, "...La-Di-Dah-Di-Dah...."

Don't this beat all:

WOW !    AT "THE LIEF" !!!   HAVE THEY NO SHAME !!!!!  

Paying-off  Liam's long-term bar tab at The Lief with Fox's matching funds  ---  now that's chutzpah.....

2022 Prediction for the Brooklyn GOP..... with a favorable wind at their back, and very likely riding on a high National GOP tide ---

 

The Brooklyn GOP will come up with no runs, no hits, and with so many errors to go all around  ---  there will be plenty left over for the next time, and the next, and the next.....

Picture New York State's biggest county with not even the hint of any elected Republican government office holder  ---  and with the one-sidedness of the total vote coming out of Brooklyn making any outside chance of a statewide GOP upset a virtual impossibility

That is exactly what we at this independent Republican blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island see happening to the GOP in Kings County as we head into these 2022 statewide contests, NYS Assembly and Senate races, and off-year federal elections 

Is there anybody out there that might see things differently ?????

BTW, anybody that thinks Stephen Maresca is the answer to the Brooklyn GOP's Ted Ghorra problem, not only is not asking the right question, they are not speaking in any language that makes any sense to us, or to anybody else that has followed this stuff for any length of time.....

If this were an episode of the "... Flying Circus" --- we might say, "And now for something completely different..." except it's really not.....

 

More appropriate might have been:  "... and nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition..."

However, the most apt "...Python..." for this one  >>>  And now this from "... the Bureau of Silly Walks"

AND OF COURSE, OUR VERY OWN:   "YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP !!!"

This over the transom yesterday from "God-knows-who for who-knows why":

"...

Stephen Maresca announces Run for Kings County Chairman,,,,

[Words, words words ! !*^^+@)(^%$@#$  ---   Blah,blah, blah, blah !!! #@!*^*(*)(^%(#((YWz((*&^%#U+]...."

NOT WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED  ---  ANOTHER STATUS QUO REPUBLICAN COUNTY CHAIRMAN

What we don't need is another low energy Republican County Chairman for the Brooklyn GOP.  

It's just too easy to say it, and we can't stop ourselves:  "Another day, a different toupee..."

Moving up on the list of scoundrels and bad people that need to be purged from the Brooklyn GOP ASAP is Michael Demartino, Jr.

 

As Casey Kasem would say   ---   "Number Two with a bullet".....

Michael Demartino, Jr., takes a big jump up on our Joe McCarthy list of so-called Republican conservatives who are trying to subvert our public institutions by using a nefarious mix of fraud, lies and deceit

Brian Fox's personal mention of Michael Demartino, Jr., as his "Exective Director of Community Outreach" for the latest Fox-McCabe subversive front group, the "South Brooklyn Coalition To Save Small Businesses" goes along nicely with Demartino's own description of himself as a "Field Operative for Brian Fox for City Council" ---  and it fits right into our Bill of Particulars for a Nuremberg-type indictment against Demartino

What is clear is that, with Brian Fox's recent post about the ""South Brooklyn Coalition To Save Small Businesses,"  and Michael Demartino's own admission that he is a "Field Operative for Brian Fox for City Council"  >>>  there is ample evidence to prove that Michael Demartino, Jr.,  IS NOW AND/OR HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF A REGISTERED ORGANIZATION OR UNREGISTERED VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION THAT HAS SOUGHT THE OVERTHROW OF LAWFUL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES OR OFFICERS IN THESE UNITED STATES BY MEANS OF FRAUD, LIES AND DECEIT ---  AND/ OR  ---  HAS BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF AN ONGOING CONSPIRACY TO  OVERTHROW LAWFUL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES OR OFFICERS IN THESE UNITED STATES BY MEANS OF FRAUD, LIES AND DECEIT..... 

Also, obviously this Demartino clown is one of those fat guy DUFFs,  who hang around and think that Brian Fox is cool and that a "Brian Fox" fleece vest is a fashion statement  ---  as an added feature, Michael Demartino, Jr., is also a Mark Bistreich look-alike.....

At the top of the list of Brooklyn GOP scoundrels and all-around bad guys is --- "SURVEY SAYS !!!" --- LIAM MC CABE --- DING ! DING !!! DING !!!!! DING !!!!!!! DING.....

Liam Ambrose McCabe took an artifically created "cypher" named Brian Fox, a campaign worth almost $200,000, a red wave, and a relatively locally unpopular incumbent named Justin Brannan  >>>  and he turned it into a massive steaming pile of turd

Meanwhile, McCabe, McCabe's "family," and McCabe's business associates made out like bandits off all the 8X matching funds that poured into the Fox campaign

It turns out that many of the so called "volunteers" that Liam brought in were really paid employees or paid independent contractors

As long as the Brooklyn GOP puts up with the likes of Liam McCabe, and his unique "set of skills"  >>>  it will be no more than one losing three card monte game after another for Ghorra and the rest.  

Not only did the Fox-McCabe operation fail to win an election that was both eminently and immanently winnable;  none of the almost $200,000 was used for GOP party building in and around the 43rd City Council District.

In a very telling post that was quickly taken down, Liam mentioned that he met Brian Fox playing darts in a bar.  That was probably the first, last and only honest thing that was ever mentioned by Liam McCabe about Brian Fox.  Everything else that McCabe let everybody "know" about Fox was a contrived presentation  ---  running from the early roll-out of the perspective candidate Fox, through the lackluster campaign of missed issues, false and inconsistent messages, demonstrably fales charges against Fox's Democrat opponent, and most recently capped off with a post-election sour grapes, self-pity party. 

Well, what did anybody expect after letting Liam McCabe convince them that a "DUFF" in every way like Brian Fox would be the best choice to take on Justin Brannan in 2021.

Let us close by asking how you think that Liam McCabe woud answer these questions: 

1. "ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A MEMBER OF ANY REGISTERED ORGANIZATION OR UNREGISTERED VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION THAT SOUGHT THE OVERTHROW OF ANY LAWFUL GOVERNMENT ENTITY OR OFFICER IN THESE UNITED STATES BY FRAUD, LIES AND DECEIT ???"  AND/ OR

2. "ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF ANY ONGOING CONSPIRACY TO  OVERTHROW ANY LAWFUL GOVERNMENT ENTITY OR OFFICER IN THESE UNITED STATES BY MEANS OF FRAUD, LIES AND DECEIT ?????"

Perhaps a third question needs to added specifically for Liam McCabe  ---  

3. "HAVE YOU EVER PRETENDED TO HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF ANY REGISTERED ORGANIZATION OR UNREGISTERED VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION THAT SOUGHT THE OVERTHROW OF ANY LAWFUL GOVERNMENT ENTITY OR OFFICER IN THESE UNITED STATES BY FRAUD, LIES AND DECEIT  AND/ OR  HAVE YOU PRETENDED THAT YOU ARE OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF ANY ONGOING CONSPIRACY TO  OVERTHROW ANY LAWFUL GOVERNMENT ENTITY OR OFFICER IN THESE UNITED STATES BY MEANS OF FRAUD, LIES AND DECEIT FOR THE PURPOSE OF YOUR OWN PERSONAL FINANCIAL GAIN ???????" 

The time has come to revive one of the great tools of one of the Golden Ages of real Conservative GOP history --- the famous Senator Joseph McCarthy's "I have a list...." moments

"... I HAVE A LIST..."  ---  AH, JUST THOSE FOUR WORDS  ---  WHY THAT PHRASE AND ALL THAT IT MEANS BRINGS ME TO "CRESCENDO"

We here on this Independent GOP blog are going to do it even better than the famed Wisconsin senator  >>>  HE NEVER DID A SPECIFIC LIST OF SUBVERSIVES INSIDE THE GOP <<<

We are going to do exactly that and start with  >>>  THE BROOKLYN GOP & THE SO-CALLED BRIAN FOX FOR CITY COUNCIL CAMPAIGN

Needless to say, there will be lots to say about "the routine suspects"  ---  however, let's see how the "other people" like it when the focus is on them  

"... Are you now, or have you ever been..."   ---   another great phrase from those good old times  ---  BTW,  the rest of that question, when we pose it locally, will make a few heads spin.....

We'll see what happens soon enough.....  Right now, it's time to go out and dig in the dirt.......   And also dig some coal for lots of people's stockings next month.....

BrooklynJester ??? SURELY --- SOMEBODY MUST BE JESTING !!!!! --- Or, they're just plain jackin' off into the turkey gravy for the rest of us to have something to remember them in a special way during our Thanksgiving dinners

 

Whoever this guy is  ---  he don't need no stinkin' flame thrower  ---  it's certainly obvious that he's quite a flamin' asshole.....

We seen everybody's list of suspects as to who this guy might be  ---  we've done some very detailed analysis of everything that's been posted, including the comments at  >>>  BrooklynJester@BklynJester <<<  since last summer  ---  and here's our conclusion  ---  WHO GIVES TWO SHITS, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ???  AND WHY WOULD WE OR ANYBODY ELSE FOR THAT MATTER ?????

As far as we're concerned, before December 1st of this year  ---  this "BrooklynJester" clown, and all his specifically named enemies both inside and outside the Brooklyn GOP, should all get together at some local or suburban professionally-run "escape room" attraction  ---  making sure that it will accomodate some special customized features: first, that it's lit up by about a hundred candles of all shapes and sizes for atmosphere, maybe with a few torches in sconces on the wall;  and second, that arrangements can be made for all the participants to play versions of "pass the parcel," "egg toss," "cornhole" or "hot potato" with about 55 gallons of kerosene (or as some of us real affected faggotty phonies like to call it "parafin") equally measured into about 55 real latex Trojan condoms.....   

NOW THAT COULD BE LOTS OF FUN FOR THE REST OF US 

TO WATCH OR EVEN JUST HEAR ABOUT !!!!!

Since there seems to be something apocalyptic that this joker is expecting to happen by December First, this whole "BrooklynJester" phenomenon should be somewhat short- lived.....

It looks like Fox speaks --- but WTF's he talkin' 'bout ???

Here is a very up-to-date Meta-Facebook post on the Brian Fox for City Council campaign page:

"Brian Fox for City Council...  [@ 7:00 PM, 11/20/2021]...  I want to take the time to thank all of my donors, supporters and my campaign staff. Although we came up short, we have a lot to be proud of. As far as I'm concerned, district 43 spoke on election night. I believe in my districts need for change and believe that together, with your continued support, we will get there. I firmly believe that my opportunity to represent my community has arrived...stay tuned for new and exciting updates in the very near future!... I love you all!..."

Maybe, this is nothing more than the routine blah-blah-blah for the folks watching from the cheap seats. On the other hand, maybe the paid consultants movin' and shakin' around the by-now stimulant besotted main attraction for City Council against Justin Brannan in 2021 are stakin' out territory inside the Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party for future ventures byTeam Fox-McCabe --- whether it's for Fox himself or somebody else

Here's the really problematic part of the Meta-Facebook message purportedly posted by Fox personally: ".... As far as I'm concerned, district 43 spoke on election night. I believe in my districts [sic] need for change and believe that together, with your continued support, we will get there. I firmly believe that my opportunity to represent my community has arrived...stay tuned for new and exciting updates in the very near future...."

That certainly has the look and feel of a very provocative teaser by somebody inside the Fox-McCabe juggernaut.

As one of our onetime heroes inside the Brooklyn GOP used to like to say:

"...  The question begs..." what could Mr. Fox or his muse(s) possibly be talking about ???

Maybe, it really is something momentous.  Could it be that Brian Fox will announce that he actually won this year; and he will be sworn in instead of Brannan at the end of the year ?????

House of Representatives' passage of the mammoth "Build it Back Better Bill" shows that Nicole Malliotakis was 100% wrong in last week's vote to pass the similarly wasteful [Not really very much for the] "Infrastructure Bill"

 

Remember last week when Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis said one of the reasons for her to vote for the Biden-Pelosi Faux Infrastructure Bill was to keep the Progressives in Congress from leveraging their momentary opposition to the so-called "Infrastructure Bill" into passing the much worse and monstrous "Build It Back Better Bill".....

Now it's perfectly clear that  >>>  all that Malliotakis accomplished was to give Biden, Pelosi, AOC and the rest of the PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS in Washington, D.C., some momentum for this week's really big push for their really big bill  ---  which they passed in less than a week after Nicole's very bad vote for the mostly not for infrastructure bill

THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE IN THE RESULTS OF THESE TWO VOTES IF MAX ROSE HAD BEEN RE-ELECTED INSTEAD OF NICOLE'S HAVING REPLACED HIM

Anybody in the Staten Island or Brooklyn GOP and/or Conservative Party that continues to support Nicole Malliotakis after all of this is  >>> part of the problem and not part of the solution <<<

In 2022, we need to kick Nicole and anybody that sticks with her to the side of the road; and make sure  that they stay out of every real Republican's and Conservative's way as we try to clear up all of this Biden Democrat mess all over the place.

The "... Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" is a very old book that is all about this year's fascination by GOP and so-called "conservative" voters with a completely unworthy and ineffective candidate named Brian Fox, and the equally unworthy an ineffective campaign for Fox run by Liam McCabe

 

The  "...  Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" is a seminal investigation and discussion about irrational mass behavior(s) of the sort that led many with a rooting interest against the incumbent Democrat City Council Member Justin Brannan to think that a respectable, attractive candidate was running against Brannan, and a pro-active and effective campaign was being waged against the incumbent councilman

The numbers on election day and since pretty clearly indicate that nothing could have been further from the truth 

Brian Fox and the Brian Fox for City Council campaign hardly moved the needle up, down, or sideways compared to the results from the prior election between Brannan and Quaglione

In two elections in a row, with two completely different styles of Republican-Conservative candidates, the election results showed a nearly identical numerical outcome in the voting for the 43rd City Council District. Both times the Democrat Justin Brannan won with a nearly 50-50 split between the voters that voted for Brannan and those that voted against him. 

In 2021,  neither the issues raised nor the intensity of the campaigning seemed to matter even a little once the votes were all counted.  Whatever re-election strategy was pursued by Brannan,  it didn't click to advanse his vote even a little. Conversely, nothing done by the GOP-Conservative side ate into Brannan's 2017 vote in anyway that really mattered to the outcome in 2021's hotly contested election.

The "... delusion and madness of [the pro-Fox] crowd[ ]" continued to be on full diplay even after the reality of Fox's loss was well-known and widely acknowledged.  The Fox folks kept  telling anybody that might be listening to them that the Fox-McCabe campaign against Brannan had been well done, and should have resulted in a Fox win.  Clearly any such expression is "... delusion and madness...";  and it ignores the real facts in the real world.

If anybody on any side of the great partisan divide that appparently exists in the near-purple area and district in Southwest Brooklyn does not approach the election results in 2021 as a cautionary tale, they are being very foolish. That also applies to the internecine warfare that has already broken out inside the Brooklyn GOP over all that happened in 2021 from January through November.

Now, some might argue that 2021 was a "one-off" kind of election  ---  that would be too pat an answer  ---  and it would be an example of sinful sloth.....  It would also be a very bad way to kick off the preparations for the rather quick turnaround for the City Council election in 2023; or the even sooner, the statewide federal and NYS offices, and the federal congressional and NYS legislative local elections of 2022.

 

Moving forward means "moving in" for Fox and friends in the Brooklyn GOP

Brian Fox's post-concession Meta [formerly just "Facebook"] message to his "supporters" rattled some GOP cages and even pulled some GOP chains

Rightly or wrongly, the anti-McCabe factions in the Brooklyn GOP are ready to etch this recently past Brian Fox campaign into stone tablets as the "EPIC FAIL OF MC CABE'S CONSULTING CAREER" and the final nail in his political coffin

Many old[er]-line Brooklyn Republicans started out by not liking Liam McCabe  ---  and they haven't changed their opinions one bit because of what went down in 2021.....    Mostly, the same folks didn't know Brian Fox at the start of the 2021 campaign  ---  and of those, most didn't like what they saw and heard [or just as important, what they didn't see or didn't hear] from him  during the whole of the 2021 campaign.....  

It's pretty safe to say that they want a McCabe-Fox political tagteam as a part in their lives now about as much as a case of the clap.....

This story is very interesting  ---  since it seems to be going forward quickly,  

One of the more interesting parts is that a couple of the anti-McCabe-anti-Fox people, who we know as such, have posted laudatory comments about the McCabe-run Fox campaign on the thread following Fox's statement on Meta [formerly just "Facebook"]. These stood out to us for two main reasons, their mendacity and their cynicism. They also stood out starkly in between all the trash talk on the Fox campaign's Meta page going back'n'forth between the Fox friends and those Democrats or more left-wing supporters of Brannan.