Maryland benefits from jobs in Washington D.C. but is not burdened with paying for their public services. Same with Connecticut and New Jersey in regards to being close to NYC without having being burdened by the city’s vast public services needs. New Jersey has the extra benefit of also bordering ...
Jump to post[threeid][/threeid] Look at the tax trends after 2020, when revenue really took off after all the tax changes worked thru the economy. It’s not just one year. The true “tax” burden government imposes is the spending, not taxes. We need spendingbto decline as a percentage of GDP. The government goose...
Jump to postYou're right... Bush II spent a lot of money on wars, and Trump spent a lot of money on COVID, which Biden continued and accelerated. All 4 of the presidents in the 21st century spent a lot of money. It has added up. We need to stop the trend. I think people often bring up Trump's tax cuts, but rev...
Jump to postThen why didn't the GOP balance the budget when it controlled all branches of government ? And did instead the exact opposite, make a bigger hole ? You're right... Bush II spent a lot of money on wars, and Trump spent a lot of money on COVID, which Biden continued and accelerated. All 4 of the pres...
Jump to postTitle says it all. PM Jacinda Arden will not seek re-election and will leave office next month. She says she is exhausted. Didn’t see that one coming.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/ ... 5Z6GHGU4Y/
Top Canadian military official says country should be involved in AUKUS. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-officer-aukus-deal-1.6714845 While he obviously is not a politician he is a public servant, I take this as a sign that there are negotiations happening in the background. Trudeau was c...
Jump to postAll JFK-bound flights coming in from the north or west have to fly over the NYC metro area at 15,000+ feet to avoid LGA and EWR airspace. Doesn’t matter what the arrival runway is. Also, they don’t often go as far south as central NJ. That only depends on the arrival traffic volume and how far south...
Jump to postA follow up article from the NYT regarding background checks on Santos. Seems like the GOP did some due diligence on the guy and found some unflattering things, but basically looked the other way because they didn’t have another candidate to replace him. The Dems didn’t due much opposition research ...
Jump to postNYS has no recall laws, no? So if he refuses to resign, and the house (probably) won't expel him (or even vote on the matter), then there's nothing that could be done? He just serves until Jan 2025 if he is shameless enough? No recalls in NYS, unfortunately. We’re stuck with him unless he’s expelle...
Jump to postI should add that China has claimed Okinawa for themselves in the past. https://www.dw.com/en/japan-angered-by-chinas-claim-to-all-of-okinawa/a-16803117 China has also been active in supporting Okinawan independence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/27/national/politics-diplomacy/chinese-gr...
Jump to postNYS has no recall laws, no? So if he refuses to resign, and the house (probably) won't expel him (or even vote on the matter), then there's nothing that could be done? He just serves until Jan 2025 if he is shameless enough? No recalls in NYS, unfortunately. We’re stuck with him unless he’s expelle...
Jump to postEasy! Usually sexual creeps are religious people or back sliding religious people (push come to shove, they're wll the Jesus schtick) therefore, that kind of person is usually a Republican or Conservative. People who do everything humanly possible to not think about their sexual urges, desires or n...
Jump to postMaybe slightly off topic, but wasn't there a 4th runway planned for PEK? I never really heard anything of it other than some postings on this forum.
Jump to postQueue the “thoughts and prayers” and ridiculous mental gymnastics ”moar gunzzz” defenses in 3…2…
Jump to postWhen casting his vote for McCarthy, Santos apparently made a White power gesture. His father is black. This guy is so sick. https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1611374839620849668?s=20&t=4fC_OlpshEcand28tl7oTg This is a product of years of people like Tucker Carlson screaming about “whit...
Jump to postHe does not have an office or staff in his district https://www.fox5ny.com/news/george-santos-office-ny-3rd-congressional-district https://brooklyn.news12.com/residents-of-3rd-congressional-district-concerned-as-rep-elect-santos-office And he is not taking or returning calls. How is he supposed to ...
Jump to postRussia has more than enough resources to manage on its own. It's in a far better situation than Germany was post-WWII, with it being split into East and West, with much of its former territory being given to other countries as well. If some republics don't want to be in the Russian Federation, let ...
Jump to postWhen casting his vote for McCarthy, Santos apparently made a White power gesture. His father is black. This guy is so sick.
https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/sta ... nd28tl7oTg
He does not have an office or staff in his district https://www.fox5ny.com/news/george-santos-office-ny-3rd-congressional-district https://brooklyn.news12.com/residents-of-3rd-congressional-district-concerned-as-rep-elect-santos-office And he is not taking or returning calls. How is he supposed to ...
Jump to postI am still in disbelief Hochul won because her attitude toward the crime was insulting not only to the Asian community but all New Yorkers, between her and Mayor Adams they have done nothing to even engage on how to combat crime. Look I am only working 10 years maybe 12 max and then I will be full ...
Jump to postChang owns a place in Manhattan, but supposedly lives with his mother in Brooklyn. This is one will be interesting because of the political implications. NYC Asian voters have been trending towards the GOP the last few cycles because of the sentiment that NY Dems are taking advantage of them and ig...
Jump to postChang owns a place in Manhattan, but supposedly lives with his mother in Brooklyn. This is one will be interesting because of the political implications. NYC Asian voters have been trending towards the GOP the last few cycles because of the sentiment that NY Dems are taking advantage of them and ign...
Jump to postDisagree. China was ultra capitalist, but it has been changing. Xi personally admires the Soviet system and the economy has been slowly trending towards more state control. It hasn’t happened overnight, but this is the direction Xi wants it to go. All you need to do is look at the recent slogans wi...
Jump to postXi is a hardcore communist. He’s pushed back on free market capitalism. Not at all! Nothing could be farther from the truth! He formally wraps himself into the flag of the communist party, but that is all of it. In actual reality China has been turned into a brutally ultra-capitalist system, just w...
Jump to postThe Zero-Covid policy is officially done in China. Everyone I know either has it or got it in the last month. We don't even have to self-isolate anymore. Fever clinics and hospitals have all been overrun with patients. The borders will totally re-open on January 8th. It had to end. My WeChat feed w...
Jump to postXi is a Han supremacist and believes in the superiority of the Han race. He’s viewing this war in the broader spectrum of a front of a global clash between cultures/races. Russia is a pawn in this broader conflict and he would really like them to succeed. Which is why you see pretty much all PRC se...
Jump to postThe difference with Santos is his entire life story is a complete fabrication. He never went anywhere near those universities he claimed to have a degree from. He never worked a day at companies he claimed to have spent years at. His identity as being gay, Jewish, having health issues was a total f...
Jump to postXi telling Putin what to do? I do not speak any oriental languages, so cannot tell if this (from September) is accurately translated and reported in this youtube video: Xi Jinping ‘demands Vladimir Putin to explain when the Ukraine war will end. It is reported also that he wanted a written explanat...
Jump to postWhat's the deal with the Hindustan Times video's on YouTube? Sure seems to take a pro-Russian and anti-American position. They’ve always been biased. They’re owned by Shobhana Bhartia, who is part of the left-wing United Progressive Alliance and a member of the Indian National Congress party. This ...
Jump to postRetirement! Or to to work in airport operations/management again. Miss that industry so much.
Jump to postThere is a difference, though. Sen. Warren got a DNA test, found she has zero Native ancestry and corrected herself. Blumenthal actually did serve in the Marines during Vietnam, not in Vietnam and did correct himself. Oh, and neither claimed to be Jewish, wealthy real estate tycoons, married then g...
Jump to postMAGA/incel Twitter was all over the LGBTQ community over “child grooming” fears. Funny watching them play mental gymnastics defending their hero for doing something so much worse.
Jump to postHe was a great player, but the GOAT? Football has evolved tremendously. IMHO he’s the GOAT of his era and one of the greatest of all time. Also is Maradona and Messi, to name a few. He didn’t play in European competitions, but had to stay in Brazil. European leagues had very strict rules regarding ...
Jump to postThank you so much for this. I was going to start a thread on him.
Here is another one: he claims he had a brain tumor.
https://gothamist.com/news/george-santo ... rain-tumor
And that journalist was Michael Babaro (he of grunting fame). He’s such a smug and sanctimonious prick. His response is typical NYT arrogance. This attitude is what’s led them to lose their status. BTW, Great Neck is in Nassau County, right next to Queens. Is NYT really printed there? I go there qu...
Jump to postOh hello Russian fascist weasel Tulsi, thanks for poking your head out again. She's got a very RT host at the edge of destruction vibe with the dark hair down and the dark background against the capitol. You're right, to her credit she goes out and asks the questions that need to be, and he just in...
Jump to postSantos had a train wreck of an interview with Fox’s Tulsi Gabbard. To her credit, she pushed back on Santos’s attempted deflections. Santos also tried to insinuate that his constituents were too dumb to understand the intricacies of his work in financial services vis-a-vis him working “with” Goldman...
Jump to postHe is part of the 2022 election, but, yes, this whole thing is so crazy. I was wrong: he has not stayed silent. In fact, he has said it is "liberal media's" fault he lied and "so what" and "it was resume embellishment, not lying" and every excuse but taking personal re...
Jump to postNotice Santos only spoke to GOP-friendly publications like the NY Post and WABC Radio? Both tried to somewhat downplay his actions. There is a real possibility that Santos engaged in voter fraud. He claimed to be registered to vote in Whitestone, NY, but his address is in Huntington, which is a dif...
Jump to postHow is FRA doing runway capacity wise? I know FRA opened a fourth runway many years ago, but as far as I know no further runways can be built. So runway capacity isn't going to increase much beyond what they have now. When full capacity comes back, it will be busy as it used to be. T1 cannot be exp...
Jump to postGeorge Santos is supposed to come out (no pun intended) with his side of the story this week https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/george-santos-promises-answers-amid-discrepancies-personal-background/story?id=95718391 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-santos-congress-new-york/ https://www.npr.org/2022...
Jump to postHe is part of the 2022 election, but, yes, this whole thing is so crazy. I was wrong: he has not stayed silent. In fact, he has said it is "liberal media's" fault he lied and "so what" and "it was resume embellishment, not lying" and every excuse but taking personal re...
Jump to postGeorge Santos is supposed to come out (no pun intended) with his side of the story this week https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/george-santos-promises-answers-amid-discrepancies-personal-background/story?id=95718391 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-santos-congress-new-york/ https://www.npr.org/2022...
Jump to postFlew business class, too. Nice to see he was relaxed enough to take his shoes off. So much for passenger etiquette. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11571071/FTX-fraudster-Sam-Bankman-Fried-relaxes-JFK-lounge-class-AA-seat-flies-home.html I've read that he thinks that he's smarter than ever...
Jump to postFlew business class, too. Nice to see he was relaxed enough to take his shoes off. So much for passenger etiquette.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -home.html
Supreme Court has intervened and issued a stay on the order to end Title 42. So, it remains in place for now.
https://www.axios.com/supreme-court-tit ... fd3d8.html
Interesting that neither party in New York vetted this guy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/19/george-santos-new-york-republican-resume https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/fake-jobs-bogus-diploma-did-a-ny-republican-make-up-his-resume/4003906/ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/c...
Jump to postInteresting that neither party in New York vetted this guy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/19/george-santos-new-york-republican-resume https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/fake-jobs-bogus-diploma-did-a-ny-republican-make-up-his-resume/4003906/ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/c...
Jump to postAnyone else noticed algorithm changes recently? I've never been especially politically active on twitter (especially in the US sphere) but a day or two ago my recommendation were entirely from the hard right; Tomi Lahren, one of Trump's ex press secretaries, Matt Gaetz, Tucker Carlson and a few oth...
Jump to posthttps://mobile.twitter.com/AldoRossiSI/status/1603159200041177089 https://mobile.twitter.com/EdwardHobden/status/1603163830577766400 https://mobile.twitter.com/Afroditaa1984/status/1603148555228774402 https://mobile.twitter.com/Justice_forum/status/1603178394182729729 Can any French posters comment...
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