HALF-FULL REPORT 10/31/25
All Treats, No Tricks
Happy Halloween. Meet the Skittles Rebellion In an unexpected twist, trick-or-treat in my town took place a night early this year to avoid a clash with Friday night football. The streets were full of polite kids, most in homemade costumes, proof that American neighborhoods still hum with decency beneath the noise. But a subtle cultural shift was hiding in plain sight. Three separate groups of girls 10 to 12 years old, turned down Skittles for chocolate, explaining, “Synthetic dyes aren’t healthy. Mr. Kennedy says so.” That moment, repeated three times, said more about the next generation than a thousand polls: Generation Alpha and their mothers are quietly choosing RFK over Red Dye 40.
Meanwhile, north on the Hudson, New York is watching a generational revolt of its own. Zohran Mamdani leads the city’s mayoral race, powered by youth, ideology, and viral energy that bypass traditional media channels. Cuomo’s experience and Sliwa’s populism can’t counter a movement that runs on online momentum instead of institutional blessing. Mamdani’s rise marks the old Progressive class fighting to preserve its relevance as digital-age executors we know as builders, coders, and operators supplant the credentialed elites. Like the girls rejecting candy, Mamdani’s voters are rejecting the establishment’s diet, though what they’ll swallow next may be harder to digest.
Across the world, the same tension is visible. Russia clings to fossil-fueled power while America, under Trump’s Pacific realignment, rebuilds alliances grounded in production and execution. Canada throws tantrums while Washington moves steel, energy, and manufacturing back home. The global pattern is clear: symbolic capital is dying; operational mastery is ascendant. From costumed kids to collapsing empires, the message echoes that the age of performance is over; the age of execution has begun.
It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals. No one normal believes that was wise or should ever be repeated.
When a man seeks to lead the largest city in America, his citizenship should be beyond question. Yet the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani, an avowed Radical Muslim Communist Democrat and recently naturalized U.S. citizen, has raised a troubling question: Did he obtain his citizenship under false pretenses?
Lying takes a huge toll on our relationships, our physical health, and our mental health. But sometimes we’re not so clear about what it means to be honest. Does it mean we say everything that we think or feel?
