President Donald Trump
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
MAGAts: MAGA is not a cult
Leader of MAGA:
1. Don’t believe the opposition unless they agree with me
2. Don’t believe your own party unless they agree with me
3. Don’t believe my own administration unless they agree with me
4. Don’t believe the pentagon run by loyalists I installed unless they agree with me
5. Believe me always
Mamdani isn't going to persecute Jews in New York. I don't think that's a reasonable worry.
He has never really grappled with the cost of the things that he wants to do, and if I am being honest, I simply don't expect him to be able fit all, or most, of it into the city budget.
For whatever it is worth, there were a lot of candidates in the primary with progressive bona fides who have much more experience in city government than Mamdani. Whether you viewed that experience as a positive or a negative was a matter of perspective, I guess.
Equally predictable and sad that you come rushing in to defend Benito ****ing Mussolini.
I haven't been to Portland, but Seattle and SF are horrendous. Seattle is a stark contrast to what it was back in the aughts. There's some great areas outside dt, but the city centre is a hell hole.
I've been to all three many, many times. The problems in all three cities are greatly overstated by Republicans, and I wouldn't describe any of those places as remotely close to "horrendous."
That said, I know a fair number of people in those cities who define themselves as left-wing Democrats, some of whom have worked them entire lives in public sector jobs that serve the indigent and marginalized. And more than a few of them believe that the current policies in those cities are not working well.
I've been to all three many, many times. The problems in all three cities are greatly overstated, and I wouldn't describe any of those places as remotely close to "horrendous."
Sure they aren't Port-au-Prince or Mogadishu. For America, land of the free, they are shells of what they once were.
Godspeed to Mamdani and NYC.
I did see a number of people say they'd leave if he won. Guessing they won't. Just like everyone who was going to leave America if Trump won, but stayed put.
I've been to all three many, many times. The problems in all three cities are greatly overstated by Republicans, and I wouldn't describe any of those places as remotely close to "horrendous."That said, I know a fair number of people in those cities who define themselves as left-wing Democrats, some of whom have worked them entire lives in public sector jobs that serve the indi
The money spent on homeless people in those places is beyond parody
https://www.sf.gov/reports--september-20...
The adopted budget allocates $846.3 million to HSH in FY 2024-25 and $677 million in FY 2025-26.
https://www.sf.gov/data--homeless-popula...
That's for approx 8k homeless people.
So 100k per homeless person per year, more or less. That's on top of federal and state funds , and on top of medicaid, SNAP and all other forms of non-homeless specific welfare.
With that budget, even achieving perfect results (ie permanently solving homeless completly) would be redicoulously overpriced and grotesque. Having any homelessness with those funding is , again, beyond parody, and so tragically disastrous it's hard to use different words to describe it.
Now that isn't necessarily going to mean that those places are "horrible" or anything else, but the homelessness management with those budgets is either one of the biggest ongoing corruption schemes ever, or proof of the worst possible city management ever.
We are not talking "they could do better", we are talking "it's almost impossible to believe those numbers are real" level of incompetence or fraud.
Anyone connected to those programs should be banned for life from ever holding public office as a minimum.
Those funds are enough to buy every single homeless person 2 decent apartments and using the money to pay the mortgages
also, this mf searched Twitter for "Zohran" and "Italy" or "Italian" to find this insanely milquetoast **** from 2020 to get angry about
lmao
Those funds are enough to buy every single homeless person 2 decent apartments and using the money to pay the mortgages
Huge if true
lol
You know who lives in, or at least spends a bunch of time, in San Francisco? Elon ****ing Musk. Take like 10% of his wealth, and after a bit of work, you could house and feed the entirety of San Francisco's poorest. And if you want universal childcare and whatever else... good news, Peter Thiel ALSO lives in SF! Take 10% off of him and there you go.
(don't get me wrong, they should have way way way more than 10% seized, I'm just saying that's all that's needed to essentially fix whatever's broken in the city)
Look at Lucy's "beyond parody" numbers. They don't even reach a billion a year! Elon wipes his ass with $677 million! He wastes more money than that on his dream to establish a slave colony on Mars!
lolYou know who lives in, or at least spends a bunch of time, in San Francisco? Elon ****ing Musk. Take like 10% of his wealth, and after a bit of work, you could house and feed the entirety of San Francisco's poorest. And if you want universal childcare and whatever else... good news, Peter Thiel ALSO lives in SF! Take 10% off of him and there you go.(don't get me wrong, t
I have less than zero love for Elon, but what is the legal mechanism that would allow San Francisco to simply take 10% of his existing wealth?
I have less than zero love for Elon, but what is the legal mechanism that would allow San Francisco to simply take 10% of his existing wealth?
None, and it also has nothing to go with democrats wasting 100k per homeless person per year, but given that behaviour by democrats is absolutely indefensible, he just trolled with a completly unrelated idea
I have less than zero love for Elon, but what is the legal mechanism that would allow San Francisco to simply take 10% of his existing wealth?
I think it's the "herp derp people shouldn't be allowed to have too much money" mechanism.
Anyway states can establish wealth taxes and that's not controversial under the federal constitution (it's the federal government who can't establish one), unless ofc that state constitution forbids them.
And counties might be allowed to set wealth taxes as well, depending on the state.
But Musk isn't a resident of SF for fiscal purpsoes so those taxes wouldn't apply to him
He proposed a person who killed a woman in cold blood only because she was the mistress of a fascist dictator.
I would classify being the mistress of a fascist dictator qualifies as a horrendous violence against the people (giving aid and comfort and all that). I thought you were all for unilaterally getting rid of all those awful people? Are you getting soft?
Residency is a function of where you actually are - e.g. professional athletes pay taxes in every state they play in.
I have less than zero love for Elon, but what is the legal mechanism that would allow San Francisco to simply take 10% of his existing wealth?
legal mechanism?!?
Dog, I think the city's underclass should band together, storm his offices, flip that mother****er upside down and shake him until enough money falls out to feed and house people. I think we should send him to prison unless he ships 95% of his wealth to those who need it.
Trying to use legal mechanisms against the rich, within a system they created, and in which they've created loopholes and carveouts to hoard their wealth and avoid prosecution, is playing a rigged game. Goooood luck. Hey, maybe we can elevate some of Elon's financial crimes to the Supreme Court, I bet they'll help!
legal mechanism?!?Dog, I think the city's underclass should band together, storm his offices, flip that mother****er upside down and shake him until enough money falls out to feed and house people. I think we should send him to prison unless he ships 95% of his wealth to those who need it.Trying to use legal mechanisms against the rich, within a system they created, and in whi
Man, it's almost like I took a soul read or something.
legal mechanism?!?Dog, I think the city's underclass should band together, storm his offices, flip that mother****er upside down and shake him until enough money falls out to feed and house people. I think we should send him to prison unless he ships 95% of his wealth to those who need it.Trying to use legal mechanisms against the rich, within a system they created, and in whi
Which offices owned by Musk do you have in mind, for san francisco?
Your average libtard grossly overestimates the liquidity of billioniares.
Though, I suppose if you grease the palms of the local building-inspectors, some of these corporate assets could theoretically be repurposed for housing.
Your average libtard grossly overestimates the liquidity of billioniares.
Though, I suppose if you grease the palms of the local building-inspectors, some of these corporate assets could theoretically be repurposed for housing.
I like those Facebook posts that go along the lines of "guys, Elon Musk has 387 billion dollars, so he could give every ant on earth a billion dollars and still have like 500 billion dollars left". I mean, it's usually not that exactly, but the arithmetic goes along similar lines.
Trolly McSocialist. Predictable, and sad.
I'm pro Mandami fwiw. NYC will turn into SF, Seattle, Portland sh*thole. People may finally realize its not the best form of government.
I spent a couple weeks in San Francisco within the last year. Gorgeous city. Top 3 financial hub in the whole country. Definitely overcrowded
My guess is youve never been to San Francisco and don’t have any clue what it’s generally like day to day. 99% of the cities in the US would sell their souls to have 1% of the success that San Francisco enjoys
99.9999% of the world wishes it was San Francisco including every major city in canada
I haven't been to Portland, but Seattle and SF are horrendous. Seattle is a stark contrast to what it was back in the aughts. There's some great areas outside dt, but the city centre is a hell hole.
I have to fly into Portland in July. We are visiting the Oregon coast. I was looking for an alternate city to fly into and that would be SF. The whole area is a disaster. I wish I could just fly straight to the coast. They better not be blocking any roads while I'm there.
My guess is youve never been to San Francisco and don’t have any clue what it’s generally like day to day.
Your guess is wrong, as always.
I have to fly into Portland in July. We are visiting the Oregon coast. I was looking for an alternate city to fly into and that would be SF. The whole area is a disaster. I wish I could just fly straight to the coast. They better not be blocking any roads while I'm there.
We did Oregon coast last year. It was awesome.
SCOTUS says they can (for now, litigation still pending), so it's legal.As far as diplomatic elements are involved, i have no idea. I don't know if they discussed this with South Sudan authorities or not, neither i think you do. I do prefer the El Salvador setup with official agreement, but i think that only applies to people that have a sentence and have to be imprisoned (the
Because it might have to do with S. Sudan refusal to take them in (i don't know, but information on this is scarce), and you had asked why S Sudan.But i ask again: What's your plan to deport people their original country don't want to take? do you have a plan or is the plan to say "oh well, they are considered so horrible that even their home country doesn't want them, so i gue
I think there are lots of much better plans than deporting them to a random country that doesn’t want them and is facing massive political instability.
And while the SC overturned the TRO, that doesn’t mean they’ll find it legal once it processes through the system, it just means they are not allowing the TRO to stand. So I wouldn’t read too much into that.
Imo they should negotiate with their home country and put pressure on them to take a deportation, not throw people into random places that are on the precipice of civil war for the lulz
