Dear MAGA, I'm sorry you're dumb

[Simeon Salus]

19. I'm still not sure why it says that. The date change happened during some software upgrade.

I remember precisely the day I joined the Democratic Underground. 9/24/2001.

I was working in Manhattan at the time. September 11 was the NYC mayoral primary that year. Mark Green was going to win the Democratic Party nomination. I voted for Mark Green in that primary before I got to work. But after the terrible events of the day, they rescheduled the primary for two weeks later, which seemed reasonable. All of a sudden lots of money was flowing into Fernando Ferrer's campaign and Green had to keep pace just to win a primary he was predicted to win easily on the morning of September 11.

Billionaire Mark Bloomberg, who'd been grooming the NYC electorate for years (I still have a Bloomberg Business Radio he sent out to every NYC address in 1998), was able to outspend Green easily in the general.

On September 24, out of nowhere Rudolph Giuliani (recently anointed as America's mayor by Fox and Friends) announced he was going to run for a third term, which was illegal. Everybody laughed him down.

But that was the day I joined Democratic Underground.

On September 11, I was in Manhattan all day and didn't catch a train back to my neighborhood until well after dark.