General cowardice. With moments of crazy bravery.

Instagram of McLaren (@mclarenf1): “Catching up with OP81 after the Monaco Grand Prix”

“So, P4, which is not the number I was expecting to say today. Yeah, bit of a mad race. You know, any time you finish ahead of where you start around this place is normally a pretty good day. So, yeah, I'll take it for sure. We got a... I saw like one penalty, another penalty, another one, another one, another one. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, relax.

Lando: It was good to watch, good to watch.

Yeah, up and down day, obviously. But yeah, we obviously need to work on some things. We didn't quite have the pace, or not even quite, we didn't have the pace this weekend. But we had some good decision making and stayed in the race when we should have and took advantage of the opportunities we had. So yeah, nice haul of points. We'll take it when we can. But hopefully next weekend is much stronger for us.”

It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.

It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.

What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.

If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."