Dim bulb, big city

 Marjorie Taylor Herbert Walker Jingelheimer Schmidt Greene arrived in New York yesterday to support her Savior through his Stations of the Booking.  She had previously endured a fawning interview on Sixty Minutes with the clearly awed Lesley Stahl (stop calling her Lesley RiefenStahl, it's very hurtful) and she lingered for another slurp from Tucker Carlson, but mostly she couldn't wait to get back to the manicured lawns of Rome, Georgia, in the heart of God's and Jeff Davis's country.   Pee-yew!

Almost at once she tweeted, "I compare it to what I call Gotham City."  I don't see her as much of a reader so she probably doesn't know that Washington Irving, who coined the name, was also critical of New York in 1807 ("Gotham" means a home for goats in Old English or something).  Maybe Irving thought it smelled bad, and with hogs and horses dominating the streets, it probably did.  Margie's mind is furnished with comic books and movies rather than The Salmagundi Papers, so she was referring to Batman's dark and crime-ridden hometown.  It was a sunny spring day, temperature around 70, so the comment is a little confusing, but consider the source.  Since she was downtown at the courthouse with a small collection of other MAGAts, I guess it did smell pretty bad.  Many hadn't dry-cleaned their outfits since January 6.

This is not how New Yorkers dress downtown, except for the Village Halloween Parade.

Margie pronounced it "disgusting," with "so much crime."  The courthouses abut Chinatown, so this was probably her first time seeing Asian people who were not serving her egg foo yong.  Who knows how much crime she witnessed?  With all those police, reporters and spectators on the street, probably not much.  Maybe an inept pickpocket.  "The streets are filthy, they're covered with people basically dying on drugs."  So Junior was there?  I can tell her that New Yorkers are famously rude, but they're not the reason her speech was inaudible.  Those whistles were brought by a fellow Trumper and distributed to other Trumpers.  Poor coordination.  

It sounds like she stayed at the Hotel Dixie (now Carter) and rode the subway, but I'm hearing it was a five-star hotel in Midtown and an Escalade.  I could get used to that.  Next time, get out and walk through Harlem.  On second thought, go home and don't come back, y'hear?  And have a blessed day.