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New Yorkers will keep voting blue because they’re stupid, masochistic, insane or some combination of the three.
#DitchtheWitchin26
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Yep!
@SenateGOP destroyed the enthusiasm of their own constituents by arrogantly ignoring the people - and wasting 2 yrs in power.
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Two years ago, voters powered Trump to the political comeback of the century. On Tuesday, they rejected him comprehensively.
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But we were the bad guys for not calling it Indigenous People Day…🫠
New York state is suing to remove the sovereign status granted to properties owned by the Seneca Nation of Indians in Buffalo’s Old First Ward and on Grand Island. buffalonews.com/news/local/a…
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Okay, so she's definitely raising taxes.
And the newly elected Legislature looks set to hold supermajorities in both houses, meaning they could override her veto even if she objected.
She won't.
But here are some facts.
Universal childcare: $12-15 billion a year.
Housing: $100 billion over ten years, much of it borrowed.
Free buses: $700 million to $1 billion a year.
That's roughly $24 billion a year in new commitments. The biggest tax hike on the table raises $5.2 billion. The math doesn't close.
And it all sits on top of $233 billion in state, NYC and MTA debt that already costs us about $1.8 billion a month.
So who pays?
99,404 millionaires pay 44.6% of all state income tax. Just 799 corporations pay 75.7% of all corporate tax.
Every new tax lands on this small, mobile, fragile group. And they can leave. Many will.
When they do, everyone feels it, including the unions who put her in power.
A fiscal mess in the making.
After campaigning on no new taxes, Gov Hochul tells reporters she is open to new taxes ‘if there is a need’ nypost.visitlink.me/bFAjjk
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Governor DeSantis says the NUMBER ONE reason Republicans lost is corruption like Susie Wiles lobbying schemes, insider trading and prediction markets.
DeSantis says you are going to find out the extent of it when Democrats start investigating.
“Think about it. You show up to Congress. You've never displayed any investment acumen in your life. All of a sudden, you're meeting Warren Buffett with this suspiciously timed trade.
Oh! A company that is actually under one of your committee's jurisdictions. That is just something. And then you see all the other things. And you're going to see a lot more in the news, I think, in the next few months. And that's going to be the focal point, probably, of the Democrats' investigations and oversight.
But the reality is that was the number one issue that voters thought was important. It was even more important, if you look at the polling, than economy. And that was very high, too. And then it was just general lack of confidence in Republicans beyond that.
I get elected to Congress in 2012, sold the stocks. I’ve never traded a stock in elected office. Why? Because I don't want to be in a situation where I do something and then, oh, you did this and you voted this way, you did that. I’ve never done it.
I declined the pension as a member of Congress and the health care. In governor, we've increased pay for state employees a bunch of times. I never took it for governor. My salary is the same as it was there.
The idea that public service is a way to leverage power to enrich yourself was anathema to what our founders believed.
And so I've tried to lead by example with how I behave. But what you're seeing in Washington is clearly not consistent with what our founders believe was necessary to kind of create a foundation for a successful republic. So I think we should ban the congressional stock trading.
You should not allow them to be making money on prediction markets. You should not be able to allow the way the lobbyists and everything happens. So there's definitely things that need to be cleaned up.
Republicans should be leading this. Weren't we the ones saying, drain the swamp not a few years ago? And yet the Democrats now are able to take that and they're making hay out of it. But that was a big issue.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.”
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New York, I have a serious question. How much longer are we going to tolerate this?
Look at these election maps. An overwhelming majority of New York’s geography votes Republican, yet Democratic strongholds in densely populated cities determine statewide elections.
That’s how representative democracy works. I understand the arithmetic. What I refuse to accept is political power without measurable accountability.
I come from Buffalo, New York, where Democrats have controlled City Hall for decades. Yet we continue confronting abysmal educational proficiency, generational poverty, struggling neighborhoods, and economic stagnation.
Where are the results?
I’m tired of politicians celebrating electoral victories while the communities they represent continue struggling.
I’m tired of political loyalty being mistaken for progress.
And I’m particularly tired of the sophistry that questioning Democratic leadership somehow means betraying the Black community.
I don’t care how many elections your party wins. Show me what you’ve accomplished for the people who entrusted you with power.
Show me the educational improvements. Show me the economic mobility. Show me the neighborhoods that have genuinely recovered.
And don’t hand me another press release announcing how much taxpayer money you’ve spent. Spending is an input. Improved lives are the outcome.
I’ve reached a conclusion. Complaining isn’t enough anymore. It’s time for me to do something about it.
New York deserves accountability, and I’m prepared to start demanding it publicly, systematically, and relentlessly.
#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks
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After Tuesday’s blue wave and devastating Republican losses, there’s a reckoning the GOP can no longer ignore. Our friend Reese wrote a thoughtful reflection on how the party got here, the principles it’s abandoned, and what accountability should look like. Well worth your time.
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It's almost that time, dummies!
#DemocratPlantation
#CelebratePoverty
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I remember Megyn Kelly making fun of the way DeSantis smiled in a debate and going full on for Trump who refused to debate. Same with Tucker. I don’t usually cuss but F all of them. You helped to destroy this country. You don’t get to now come back and say OOPs, my bad.
Chick form @TheView limiting responses.
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There's so much to unpack here in this TruthSocial post by POTUS after such a stunning repudiation of his administration yesterday in the midterms.
He doesn't like it being dark so early?? He is whining about the clocks???
After a generational shift in political parties has just occurred - this is his priority? We are NOT a serious country.
Grandpa needs to sundown after he resigns in disgrace.
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🚨 WOW. Gov. Ron DeSantis is GOING OFF right now post-blue tsunami:
"I see the ad, 'so and so voted against releasing the Epstein Files.' I'm like, that's a bad vote. We ran as Republicans saying we need to do that. And you have people in Congress voting against release when the Attorney General said she had all the all this horrific stuff on her desk and that people are gonna be held accountable?!"
"It's untenable when you have people going in trading stocks! I've never traded stocks since I've been in elected office. How do you have no investment acumen, and then all of a sudden get elected to Congress, and then you're outperforming Warren Buffett?"
"I saw how they were running and it was a rejection of what was going on in DC."
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It was a smack down of voters rejecting you and your corruption, tariffs, the war, your lies, and your attempt to remake DC in your image. Lie to yourself all you want, but Americans despise you, Trump.
