‘Miserable’ Quality of Up-and-Coming Mafiosi

IGOR PETYX/EPA-EFE/REX Police officers in Palermo drive through an entrance snapped by photographers

Shameful! More paparazzi than defendants.

What’s this world coming to? You can’t hire good help because there is none out there. (“It’s the staff, you see.” –Basil Fawlty)

Even in the Mafia, the quality of new recruits is “miserable” (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/sopranos-real-life-cosa-nostra-wiretaps-show-sicilian/). So say the Sicilian crime bosses, caught on wiretaps.

Or, as Tony Soprano once said, “See, things are trending downward… Guys today have no room for the penal experience.” Well, yeah: they turn state’s evidence as soon as they’re arrested. It used to be, if you sang, you got whacked. Now all they want to do is make deals with prosecutors.

Or as Caligula once said,”People really are despicable.”

Well, Don Cheech, it ain’t like you old-guard Mafia are alone in this. Our crooked politicians don’t measure up, do they? Biden could’ve stolen half the country if he’d put his mind to it. And if you think organized crime has hit the skids… have you seen any movies lately? Disgraceful!

Looks like the Mafia is in the same boat as the rest of us.

Yeah, Standards Are Slipping, All Right…

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[Warning: Disgusting content. Read at your own risk.]

Remember when it was, like, romantic to fly aboard an airliner? It was high-class travel, jet set stuff, fly the friendly skies with celebrities, etc. Very classy! Big prestige.

Well, it ain’t anymore.

A Delta airliner en route from Amsterdam to Detroit (that was their first mistake) had to turn back to the airport when it started raining rotten fish and live maggots on the passengers (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/delta-flight-amsterdam-detroit-forced-turn-around-after/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=delta-flight-amsterdam-detroit-forced-turn-around-after). Someone had a suitcase full of rotten fish infested with maggots, stored in an overhead compartment–and somehow it broke open.

[Here the report loses coherence as the “reporter” tries to avoid using normal pronouns and stfarts referring to single persons as “they” and “them.” So we don’t really know how many people were to blame for this; but I’m guessing just one. Or hoping just one.]

An eyewitness said of a fellow passenger, “The maggots were falling on her head.” Where’s Burt Bacharach when you need him? (If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, look up Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head…) I do wish I could get this image out of my mind.

The romance of airline travel. Next time bring an umbrella.