#George Bragg

[sixsongplaylists]

Skull Snaps, Alex Lahey, Stevie Wonder, Gang of Four, Joss Stone, The Bad Plus: Six-Song Playlist for 15-Jan-2025

Playlist for 15-Jan-2025:

Skull Snaps, "It's a Brand New Day"

Alex Lahey, "Leave Me Alone"

Stevie Wonder, "Higher Ground"

Gang of Four, "She Said 'You Made a Thing of Me'"

Joss Stone, "Never Forget My Love"

The Bad Plus, "Pound for Pound"

YouTube   |   Spotify

[jackass-democrats]

George Soros Obama Puppet

As always, never buy anything made in china. Don't ever trust a democrat and NEVER leave your child alone with one.

[harrisonarchive]

George Harrison, 1969; photo by Harry Goodwin (presumably).

In 1969, George named his three Desert Island Discs; and, as it happens, in the 1970s, several people named some of George’s songs as one of their Desert Island Discs.

George’s 1969 choices were:

“Let’s see, Ravi Shankar playing Raga Drbari Kanada [listen here]… and I’d like to have Sathya Sai Baba singing devotional songs. And what else? Maybe Blonde On Blonde [the full album playlist on YouTube].”

Here are Harrisongs chosen by others, including George’s friends Eric Idle, Ravi Shankar, and Barry Sheene:

Barry Sheene - “Crackerbox Palace” (broadcast October 1977) [episode] Eric Idle - “Dear One” (broadcast November 1976) [episode] Jimmy Tarbuck - “My Sweet Lord” (broadcast August 1972) [episode] Ravi Shankar - “My Sweet Lord” (broadcast February 1971) [episode] Laurie Lee - “Isn’t It A Pity” (broadcast January 1971) [episode] Melvyn Bragg - “My Sweet Lord” (broadcast August 1976) [episode] (x)

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Bragg has his man. Now all he needs is a crime🙄

Alvin Bragg is a dirty cop.

Great Job by Trump's Attorneys

[thenewdemocratus]

Early Start With Kasie Hunt: 'You're Lying': George Conway Clashes With Republican Commentator Over Donald Trump Guilty Verdict'

Source:CNN with a George Conway vs Scott Jennings live TV debate. Source:The New Democrat “Lawyer George Conway and CNN Senior Political Commentator Scott Jennings joined “CNN This Morning” to discuss Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in his criminal hush money case.” From CNN I’m not going top try to play mindreader and argue that Scott Jennings is lying here. He just might be complete idiot when it…

[eloquent2]

Biden and the Jews plus the Spirit of Amalek

On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag in Germany was burned. On January 6, 2021, people marched into the U.S. Capitol not being officially invited although unofficially they were invited at times by the police and undercover FBI agents. These two events are very similar for one important reason. The government wanted to make Biden’s political enemies seem like extremists who must be arrested and…

[encantada29]

Animal Farm Playlist

Playlist on George Orwell's book ‘’Animal Farm’’

https://unmondedechimere.wordpress.com/2023/04/02/la-ferme-des-animaux/

‘’Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine

"Money" by Pink Floyd

"Freedom" by Rage Against the Machine

"Animal I Have Become" de Three Days Grace

"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy

"Power" by Kanye West

"Man in the Mirror" by Michael Jackson

‘’The Red Flag’’ by Billy Bragg

"We're Not Gonna Take It" de Twisted Sister

"The Big Money" de Rush

"Imagine" de John Lennon

"The Internationale" by Billy Bragg

"Revolution" by The Beatles

"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits

"War" by Edwin Starr

"Bandiera Rossa" by Bandiera Rossa

"Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine

"Greed" by Godsmack

"What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye

"La Marseillaise" by Chorale de Saint Cyr

[marnanel]

The morning of the world

England, 1649: the king has been executed, the monarchy has ended at last, but it's been replaced with a dictatorship. Yet suddenly we're back in the morning of the world.

It's a mindset. In the evening of the world, life will always go on as it's gone on before. If it changes, it can only get worse. In the morning of the world, everything seems possible.

Into this churn of chaos, worry, and excitement steps a 40-year-old man named Gerard Winstanley. He has a story and a plan.

You always need both, you see. If you don't have a plan, nobody can hope. And if you don't have a story, nobody will believe the plan: they've been given too many lies before to believe the truth.

Winstanley's plan was, literally, radical. He was going to build a community which planted crops on common land. They would live together, work together, eat together.

Today, we might call it anarchism or communism. But then, people called them the Diggers.

You see, common land was a contentious topic. For centuries, ordinary people had had the right to grow food to eat.

But in the last fifty years, the lords of manors had obtained legal permission to take these rights away: to "enclose" common land.

(Modern privatisation is similar.)

So the ordinary people lost their right to plant crops on the land they and their forebears had used for centuries. You might have heard the rhyme:

The law condemns the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

But lets the larger villain loose

Who steals the common off the goose

This was the first part of Winstanley's story.

The second part looked back a few centuries, to when the Norman aristocrats took over England by force— as they soon did to Wales and Ireland, too.

Winstanley said that Cromwell had had a chance to undo the damage the Normans had done to England. But instead, he had set up his own dictatorship. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

But the third part went back to the beginning: the literal morning of the world.

You know the story of Adam and Eve, and how taking the apple was the original sin. But what *was* the sin? Aquinas thought it was pride. Many people have suggested it was lust.

But Winstanley said the tree was for everyone and they wanted it for themselves; so their sin was covetousness— greed, if you like.

He punned that Adam was "a dam": he wanted to take things and hold them himself.

And the lords and the landlords were still living in Adam's sin.

That was the story: what was the plan? Occupy the land they'd lost once more, and build the new world piece by piece.

Communities of the Diggers sprang up around the country, most famously in St George's Hill in Surrey. They lived together, ate together, worked together.

They were peaceful, but the landlords saw their very existence as a threat. So they had them arrested, and destroyed their fields and their houses.

I mention all this because a Marxist-Leninist asked me "What is the anarchists' plan to change the world?"

When I said, "hope", he didn't take it for a serious answer. But it was.

What do you need, to live in the morning of the world? What story, and what plan?

Resources:

"The Law of Freedom in a Platform", Winstanley 1652:

Leon Rosselson's song "The World Turned Upside Down" (famously covered by Billy Bragg)

Elmen, P : The theological basis of Digger communism

[favorite-music-tourney]

Adjusted Round 1 match ups

I’m against the government by Defiance, Ohio - Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds

Vienna by Billy Joel - Miracle of Life by Bright Eyes

Hungry Dog on the street by the Taxpayers - Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell

Excursion Around the Bay by Derina Harvey band - I am a Union Woman by Bobbie McGee

Jolene by Dolly Parton - Wild World by Cat Stevens

At Seventeen by Janis Ian - The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton

Everybody's Talkin' by Harry Nilsson - Do you Believe in Magic by the Lovin Spoonful

Blackbird by the Beatles - Mr. Tambourine Man by the Byrds

Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Paul and Mary - Blister in the Sun by the Violent Femmes

Ooh La La by the Faces - Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers

Tear the Facists Down by Woody Guthrie - Fire and Rain by James Taylor

Rule #4 Fish in a Birdcage by Fish in a Birdcage - Strangers by Apes of the State

Angel From Montgomery by Bonnie Raitt - I'd work for Free by Blake Rouse

I'm not a good person by Pat the Bunny - Ho Hey by the Lumineers

Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation by Tom Paxton - Pure Obsession by Mirabai Kukathas

Not Yet/Love Run by the Amazing Devil - Budapest by George Ezra

Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez - Paradise by John Prine

What a time to be alive by Matt Press - Ballad of a Wobbly by David Rovics

Glad to be Gay by Tom Robinson Band - Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen

All The Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands by Sufjan Stevens? - Kill the Boy Band by She/Her/Hers

Every Town will Celebrate by Mischief Brew - Oak & Ash & Thorn by The Longest Johns

The Galway Girl by Sharon Shannon and Steve Earle - Curses by the Crane Wives

You're So Vain by Carly Simon - The Chemical Worker's Song by Great Big Sea

I'm Gonna Be an Engineer by Peggy Seegar - Follow Me up to Carlow by the Young Dubliners

American Pie by Don McLean - Murder in the City by the Avett Brother

Rhododendron Honey by Leslie Fish - The Fox by Nickel Creek

California Dreamin by the Mama's and the Papa's - Ohio by Neil Young

It's too Late by Carole King - There is Power in a Union by Billy Bragg

Have you ever seen the rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival - I ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs

The Wrote and Writ by Johnny Flynn - Wayward Prodigal by Cora Reef

Landslide by Fleetwood Mac - Place to Be by Nick Drake

Space Girl by Shirley Collins - Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons

Delta Dawn by Tanya Tucker - Where have all the flowers gone by Pete Seeger

Take Me to Church By Hozier - Solidarity Forever by Utah Phillipps

Let the Mystery Be by Iris Demont - Brave as a Noun by AJJ

A Horse with No Name by America - Mrs. Robinson By Simon and Garfunkel

Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega - A Song for a Computer Programmer by Cricket!

War on the Workers by Anne Feeney - War isn't Murder by Jesse Welles

Me and my Bobby Mcgee by Janis Joplin - For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield

You're Dead by Norma Tanega - The Gambler by Kenny Rogers

Color in your Cheeks by the Mountain Goats - March of the Jobless Corps by Daniel Kahn

Stick Season by Noah Kahan - O Valencia by the Decemberists

Fuck it by Days N Daze - Dream a Little Dream of Me by Cass Elliot

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by The Band

Deny Defend Depose by Joe Devito - Big Rock Candy Mountain by Harry McClintock

Annie's Song by John Denver - The Funeral by Band of Horses

Union Maid by the Almanac Singers - 32 Flavors by Ani Difranco

Our House by Crosby, Stills, Nash, And Young - Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

The War Racket by Buffy Sainte-Marie - Hurt by Johnny Cash

One Great City by the Weakerathans - Loose Lips by Kimya Dawson

Feed the Machine by Poor Man's Poison - Everything I Own by Bread

I want wind to blow, the microphones - City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie

Todos Juntos by Los Jaivas - II: The Road Giveth by RENT STRIKE

Roll On, Columbia, Roll On by the Highway Men - Ballad of Ho Chi Min by Ewan MacColl

Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison - Time in a Bottle By Jim Croce

The Trolley Problem by Windborne - One Kind of People by Amigo the Devil

Season of the Witch by Donovan - House of the Rising Sun by the Animals

The Times they are a changing by Bob Dylan - Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapman

Closer to Fine by the Indigo Girls - Two Headed Boy by Neutral Milk Hotel

Heave Away by the Fables - Your Heart is a Muscle the Size Of Your fist by Ramshackle Glory

Who would Jesus Bomb by Jordan Snart - Electricity by Sister Wife Sex Strike

Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell - Plastic Jesus by Tia Blake

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald By Gordon Lightfoot - Bread and Roses by Judy Collins

Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford - I'm a Believer by The Monkees

[mariacallous]

Trump Bemoans the Injustice of No Consequences

This morning, I headed to chilly lower Manhattan to witness the criminal sentencing of Donald Trump. As I walked alone in the post-dawn quiet through Foley Square, where the borough’s courthouses are clustered, I read the inscription above the entrance to the New York State Supreme Court building: “The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government.” It’s a line lifted from one of George Washington’s letters. Just up the block, in a courtroom on the fifteenth floor of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, this sentiment was about to be put through an extreme, absurd, test.

What’s a fitting punishment for a President who breaks the law? America has never been quite sure. Last spring, when Trump sat through a weeks-long trial in Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom, it almost seemed like the rules would, finally, apply to him. Yes, he was the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, and, yes, the trial was held under oppressively tight security restrictions, and, yes, Merchan gave Trump leeway to viciously bash the court, the prosecutors, the witnesses, and the jury in ways not typically tolerated from criminal defendants. But inside the courtroom the proceedings proceeded. Testimony was heard, evidence was introduced, a verdict was reached: guilty on all thirty-four counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, as part of a scheme to suppress damaging evidence from becoming public during his first Presidential campaign. That was the unanimous decision of twelve of Trump’s peers on May 30th.

Much has happened since. The sentencing in the hush-money case, which Merchan postponed several times during the election season, was like a bit of unfinished business from a time when the true administration of justice was the firmest pillar of good government. It had always been thought unlikely that this case would end with jail time, or some other serious consequence, for Trump. The November results insured it. Merchan was put in a bind: How to resolve the case that had resulted in a guilty verdict without impinging on Trump’s ability to be President? A potential solution presented itself in the idea of an “unconditional discharge,” wherein Trump’s conviction would stand, but the matter would be left there.

The hearing began at 9:30 A.M. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his team of prosecutors were in the courtroom. Trump, with Merchan’s permission, appeared virtually, via Microsoft Teams. (Among other things, the Trump sentencing may be remembered as the apex of the W.F.H. era in this country.) He was sitting next to his lawyer, Todd Blanche, whom he has nominated to serve as Deputy Attorney General in his second term. Trump’s face appeared on screens mounted on the courtroom walls.

Joshua Steinglass, an Assistant District Attorney, spoke first. He excoriated Trump, accusing him of breeding “disdain” for the rule of law, and of putting those involved in the trial in “harm’s way.” “This defendant has caused enduring damage to public perception of the criminal-justice system,” Steinglass said. Still, he acknowledged, the defendant was about to become the President. As such, the District Attorney was seeking a sentence of unconditional discharge.

Blanche went next. “I very, very much disagree with much of what the government just said about this case,” he said. He reiterated arguments Trump’s defense team had made before, about the timing and the motivations underlying the case. He suggested that the votes of tens of millions of citizens should outweigh the verdict of twelve jurors. It was a “sad” day for Trump, Blanche said, and for the country. Nevertheless, he, too, requested that Merchan issue an unconditional discharge.

Then it was Trump’s turn. While Blanche was speaking, Trump was mostly frowning, and looking off camera. Occasionally, he leaned and his face went partially out of view, like a doddering grandfather during a family Zoom. During the trial, he had not testified in his own defense, and in the courtroom he’d stayed mostly silent, save for the occasional outburst of muttering or sighing, for which Merchan repeatedly admonished him. Now he had the floor. “This has been a very terrible experience,” he said. “The fact is, I’m totally innocent. I did nothing wrong.” He referred obliquely to Michael Cohen, his former lawyer who became one of the prosecution’s star witnesses in the trial. “He was allowed to talk as if he were George Washington,” Trump said. “But he’s not George Washington.”

Merchan, sitting on the bench, looked impassively on through all of this. When it finally came time to render judgment, he began by thanking the court clerks, officers, and staff. Then he acknowledged his bind. Because Trump was about to become President, he explained, the “only lawful sentence that permits entry of a judgment of conviction” was an unconditional discharge. “Sir, I wish you godspeed as you assume a second term in office,” Merchan said. Then, the unpleasant task finished, he quickly left the courtroom. The live-stream screens went blank, and the prosecutors filed out. The first criminal trial of a former and future President was over.

[simply-ivanka]

In December 2022, Colangelo, the high-flying third most senior official in President Joe Biden's Justice Department, astonished colleagues by packing his bags and leaving for the Big Apple to take a less senior role working for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Colangelo's 'unusual' move was technically a demotion, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo told DailyMail.com.

'Moving from [The Justice Department] to the Manhattan DA’s office must mean that someone is a true believer,' said Yoo, who served in the George W. Bush administration and now teaches law at the University of California at Berkeley.

‘It suggests that the prosecutor here is after the man, Trump, and not the crime,’ said Yoo.

[jackass-democrats]

Democrats control the news, the language and the words society uses.

As always, never buy anything made in china. Don't ever trust a democrat and NEVER leave your child alone with one.

[dertaglichedan]

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth marked his first day on the job by hinting that military bases renamed under the Biden administration because they referenced Confederate officers would revert to their original names.

“Every moment that I’m here, I’m thinking about the guys and gals in Guam, in Germany, in Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, on missile defense sites and aircraft carriers,” Hegseth told reporters as he arrived at the Pentagon on Monday morning. “Our job is lethality and readiness and warfighting.”

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged that he would revert nine southern Army posts that were initially named after officers who fought for the South in the Civil War back to their original monikers. While the switch happened in 2023, under former President Joe Biden’s watch, the effort to rid the bases of their Confederate-linked names began during Trump’s first term in office amid a nationwide racial reckoning following George Floyd’s 2020 murder.

“Here’s what we do: We get elected — I’m doing it,” Trump told supporters last October in a town hall event near Fort Liberty. “I’m doing it… we did win two world wars from Fort Bragg, right? So, this is not a time to be changing names, and we’re going to do that. We’re going to do everything we can, and we’re going to get it back.”

[houseofbrat]

There is no place more locked down in the country than Washington D.C. right now. DC locks down weeks ahead of any inauguration. Go ask anyone who lives and works in DC. It will be perfectly safe for anyone attending.

New Orleans, Louisiana, and Las Vegas, Nevada, are both thousands of miles away from Washington D.C. To insinuate that what happened in those places is going to affect a state funeral with all the possible security is nothing short of ridiculous. Secret Service, Washington DC police, Capitol Police, FBI, Homeland Security, and police from Virginia and Maryland usually are present during an inauguration, and that's just the security forces I can name off the top of my head. I have no doubt that they will also be involved in the security for the state funeral given that it involves traveling from the Capitol Rotunda to the National Cathedral.

The US is a nation that has school shootings on the regular. To imply that it is unsafe for any foreign dignitary to travel to DC for a state funeral is RIDICULOUS! We have school shootings all the time and the UN hasn't picked up and left NYC yet.

And can we stop referring to those two incidents as "terrorism." It clearly wasn't "terrorism," regardless of how many media outlets want to get better ratings by saying so. One guy died by suicide in a Cyber truck, and the other guy killed a bunch of people in what could be an attempt at suicide-by-cop.

Instead, we should be talking about the mental health problems in the US military, and the shit that goes on at Fort Bragg/Liberty. It's not the first time for either of those.

To bring it back to your original question, William would be unquestionably safe for the mere 24 hours he would possibly be on US soil. Just as Edward will be. To act as if William can't travel to Washington D.C. for a funeral is nothing short of RIDICULOUS! Charles attended George H.W. Bush's funeral in 2018, and he had been out of office for 25 years at that point.

Why is everyone making excuses for a 42-year-old man who can't and won't do HIS JOB?

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Nothing to Bragg About

"Bragg, the first black Manhattan DA, grew up in Harlem but on one of the safest blocks around, an upper middle-class enclave of brownstones known as Strivers Row, and since age 4 commuted to the elite Trinity School on Manhattan's Upper West Side - details he conveniently leaves out when he makes his case."

"At least a dozen lawyers have quit Bragg's office in the first two weeks of Bragg's term.' He wants to get rid of all the senior people who prosecuted high-profile cases and replace them with young inexperienced people who think like him and don't want to uphold the law,' said one former prosecutor."

NYC is Gothem City. It was never my favorite place to visit because of the rats and the grime. I did however enjoy day trips for special shows, food, or for a conference. Those days are long gone because like Chicago, NYC is not safe. People like George Soros are deliberately invested in urbicide: widespread and deliberate destruction of the urban environment. He uses crooks like Alvin Bragg as the faces for all the dirty work, and unfortunately Bragg is too blinded by greed to see that he's just a tool. I've seen a few posts that highlight Bragg's skin colour. Yes, he is black but skin colour is not what makes him a crooked cop. It's his character. He's a greedy tool blinded by absolute power which corrupts absolutely.

Alvan Bragg's Victims:

Mother of slain US Veteran

Bodega Owner Stabbed then defended himself against the assault & charged with 2nd Degree Murder. Sent to jail on Rikers Island for 1 week on $500,000 bail

NYC Garage Worker shot twice in stomach

Feb 2022 Calls for Bragg to step down

It only took 12 members out of 23 of a NYC grand jury (where the prosecutor only needs to show a LOW standard of proof that a person has committed a crime) to indict a ham sandwich.

Thomas Sowell graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics

"In every disaster throughout American history, there always seems to be a man from Harvard in the middle of it."-Thomas Sowell

Controversial woke Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is seeing a mass resignation from his prosecutors over his soft-on-crime policies. 

Bragg has spent most of his first month in office under fire over his approach, which include calling on prosecutors to ditch felony armed robbery charges and instead charge suspects with petit larceny and not seeking carceral sentences for criminals. 

At least a dozen lawyers have quit Bragg's office in the first two weeks of Bragg's term.

'I know one [ADA] who was with the office over 20 years who left without a job,' a law enforcement source told the New York Post. 'They didn't want to work in this kind of office. They wanted to continue prosecuting the law.' 

Perhaps the most high profile departure is Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, who successfully prosecuted sex pest Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

Illuzi-Orbon had been in the Manhattan DA's office since 1988, save for a leave in 2015 when she unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for District Attorney of Staten Island.  

John Irwin, formerly a trial division chief, is among the other quitters, while a veteran prosecutor was told she was being demoted and would have to work under a hire Bragg made from the nonprofit Legal Aid Society.  

'He wants to get rid of all the senior people who prosecuted high-profile cases and replace them with young inexperienced people who think like him and don't want to uphold the law,' said one former prosecutor.

All of the departures are cases of prosecutors quitting, as Bragg has yet to fire anyone.

Bragg, the first black Manhattan DA, grew up in Harlem but on one of the safest blocks around, an upper middle-class enclave of brownstones known as Strivers Row, and since age 4 commuted to the elite Trinity School on Manhattan's Upper West Side - details he conveniently leaves out when he makes his case.

Drug dealers will not be prosecuted for felony crimes unless they commit other offenses on top of drug dealing, and prison should be a 'last resort' - despite the mounting number of violent crimes being committed on the streets of New York by repeat offenders who have been let out of jail early. 

NYPD unions, New York Republicans and angry residents were left dumbfounded amid growing fears that the crime-ravaged city will experience the same fate as other progressive-run bastions on the West Coast that have been plagued by looting and lawlessness.   

The Police Benevolent Association president Patrick J. Lynch, who leads the nearly 24,000-member union, said that has 'serious concerns' over the new policies.

'Police officers don't want to be sent out to enforce laws that the district attorneys won't prosecute.

'There are already too many people who believe that they can commit crimes, resist arrest, interfere with police officers and face zero consequences.'Under Bragg's new soft-on-crime approach, robberies are directed to be prosecuted as petit larceny if no victim was wounded and there was 'no risk of physical harm'. 

However, the manager of the Duane Reade said that she feared for her life and didn't want to go back to work, according to the New York Post.  

Former Bronx prosecutor and defense lawyer Michael Discioarro said that Bragg is doing a huge disservice to this woman.  

'He just ignored the victim,' Manhattan defense lawyer Michael Discioarro said of Bragg. 'He's telling the victim: You don't deserve protection from the state.' 

Meanwhile, prostitution, turnstile jumping, weapons possession (of non-firearms) and marijuana possession won't be prosecuted at all under Bragg.

A former Manhattan DA called Bragg's policies 'an affront to every law-abiding citizen.' 

'Violent criminals now have carte blanche to re-offend, knowing full well that they will never again sniff the inside of a jail cell,' added former Manhattan assistant DA Daniel Ollen 

'If you thought things couldn't get any worse, think again. God help us.'  

Bragg was elected Manhattan DA in November after winning a crowded primary in June.