Run away from NYC

Part 1 of 3: The fun times

Jun 26, 2026

I began writing this June 9th but after the blowout elections (primaries) in New York I thought I would share with you my impressions, as if you don’t have any yourself, but in a visual manner with movie references that I am sure you haven’t considered.

You may not agree with what I have to say. But I show through cultural icons and headline news a way to create a mental model for RISK.

Risk of property. Risk of Investment. Risk of physical injury.

The value proposition you get in anything that I write, in my humble opinion, is that I take what we enjoy and consume and extrapolate how it can be applied to current events.

You have to realize everything I’m sharing reflects the inputs of so many talented contributors and their unique experiences along with a finance guy who took his money to invest in these ventures.

In truth, I stand on the shoulders of giants and add a sentence or two.

While you will have a deeper appreciation of a headline, a movie, a quip, and what it takes to appreciate this wonderful form of freedom we must fight hard to keep.

Maybe an investment insight or two

Or we will just not enjoy each others company anymore.

To begin…

If I were a White dude, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near NYC and the race war coming up…it’s inevitable now.

At first, it’s “hilarious” but later it won’t be.

The Knicks games where tickets were going for $3000-$500,000 had a very white tone-deaf crowd that were, on the most part, not very Republican but very much in support of ideology that belie the audiences skin color.

What the newly emerging Democrat Socialists are espousing in New York City.

They should have had subsidized ticket holders right next to the celebrities, right? Isn’t Mamdani freezing rent?

To hammer this home, this happened to the former mayor of NYC where the event took place:

It wasn’t hilarious.

That headlined motivated me to write but I only figured out what to write after seeing Larry David at the game.

What I find hilarious is Larry David’s court side appearance with the head of Warner Brothers getting ready for his new show on HBO

The other day I mentioned Charlie Chaplin is the epitome of a comic. A hero. A true comic tells jokes but underneath those jokes are reflections of our true nature.

He may not have your viewpoint but you can respect his perspective.

Truth to power. Only a free society is allowed to deliver this.

And then there is Larry, who I thought was a comedian, but is now just an entertainer after seeing a headline to promote his new show.

“Embarrassed” isn’t funny. And just random. I’m sure you can find many things during other President’s that were equally as such, or more. You got to be consistent buddy. Truth to power isn’t one side vs the other but our nature.

I would say a comedian is actually the modern day prophet who spots our weaknesses. An entertainer just says things to get you interested and enjoy a moment or two.

They break that promise and go down the ladder to political shill when the apparently the show is produced by the artistic, not Presidential, Barack Obama.

Note the progression:

Comedian→Entertainer→Political hack

Which follows the title of his new show

Life→Larry→Pursuit of Unhappiness

The symmetry is uncanny.

A comedian is his former partner Jerry Seinfeld. You know the one that is not vulgar and had the monster TV show Seinfeld, who points out life’s absurdities including ones that you may be harboring.

He’s willing to get booed if that’s what it takes.

Now lets get back to the elephant in the room: Hitler and Nazis and what the big fear of what “could” occur in NYC. A rise of rate, revolution, and complete overturn of what makes America, America.

But you wouldn’t know it from entertainer Larry David who wrote a piece with the New York Times about Bill Maher’s dinner with Donald Trump who he alleges is a Nazi.

Nowhere to be seen is a comment on what is occurring in NYC or Maine where the Democratic candidate for Senator had a Nazi Tatoo and salutes as one.

But a true comedian, the legends, the ones that are remembered don’t do potshots at political foes, he makes a movie…his first one in sound…and for the first time the entire world hears words coming from Chaplin’s mouth about the dangers of Nazism

and this was before the horrors were known…

That is a true comedian