I hate to say it…
But I’m struggling to be generous after all the fraud we’ve seen.
There’s so few charities I trust now.
I do a deep dive on a homeless charity… oh look, my tax dollars are funding that and it’s run by a Trump-hating Leftist.
A Christian charity? Oh look, they’re helping illegal aliens.
An education nonprofit?
Oh look, it’s getting money from Left-wing political groups to send in Democrat activists to give lectures on LGBTQ oppression.
Even my TAX DOLLARS I know are being used to fund some BS non-profit that probably has me on a list somewhere as an extremist and is actively trying to cancel me.
It’s hard to be generous when I’m already being generously stolen from in taxes and when even the nonprofits aren’t actually solving the problems they reportedly exist to solve.
This is worth repeating:
I never cared that you were gay until you started shoving it down my throat, and I never cared what color you were until you started blaming me for your problems.
I never cared about your political affiliation until you started condemning me for mine.
I really never even cared where you were born until you wanted to erase my history and blame my ancestors for your problems.
I never even cared if your beliefs were different from mine until you said my beliefs were wrong.
But now I care. My patience and tolerance are gone, and I am not alone in feeling like this. There are millions of us who feel like this.
So basically what will happen is this:
>Owners of $5 million+ properties who don't live in NYC full time will immediately look to sell before the tax kicks in... flooding the top end of the market with inventory all at once.
>But buyers will factor the new annual fee into what they're willing to pay, meaning sellers can't get what the property was worth before the tax existed, so values at the high end drop.
>Some owners won't sell and won't pay...they'll just stop using the property, let it sit, and fight the bill in court for years, which is exactly what wealthy people with expensive lawyers do.
>Others will convert their ownership into an LLC or trust structure designed to obscure primary residency status, and the city won't have the staff or resources to unwind thousands of complex real estate holding structures.
>Foreign owners, yhe ones the politicians are actually talking about, will simply ignore the bill, because the city has no mechanism to force collection from someone with no US income, no US bank accounts, and ownership held offshore.
>The city will collect far less than $500 million because the pool of people who just comply and pay is much smaller than projected, leaving a budget gap that still needs to be filled.
>Meanwhile the high end of the real estate market has been spooked, construction financing for luxury developments dries up, and the trickle-down effect hits construction jobs, broker commissions, and the city's existing property tax base.
>Albany will eventually water down enforcement to keep the real estate lobby quiet, and what's left is a tax that raises a fraction of what was promised and costs more to administer than anyone budgeted for.
Bookmark this for 2 years from now.
My local Buckinghamshire WhatsApp groups are full of sympathy for
And a desire to protect British Jews
I think people underestimate the strength of support - Britain is not Twitter
British Jews have been here for hundreds of years and never put a foot wrong - people love them
Will people get a bloody grip
British Jews fund 4 ambulances *for everyone* because they are lovely
Just like the 200 other lovely organisations that fund ambulances
Fund ambulances = good
Burn ambulances = evil
Get a bloody moral compass.
You know you are an antisemite when..
Your outrage is directed at a Jewish charity for running ambulances, rather than at the fact those ambulances were deliberately targeted and torched.
Have you noticed ..
The people criticising his comments..
which I agree with, by the way
are predominantly men !!
and are deliberately obfuscating..
Other ‘celebrations’ are generally fun with people mixing in and enjoying their time together…
This demonstration of male dominance and segregation
sums up the concerns we have ..
The women won’t comment for obvious reasons..
We now have cultures living side by side in this country..
There is no integration ..
by so many who do not want their families to integrate with us ..
Many imams in mosques across this country 🇬🇧 spew hatred and bile about Christianity and other religions.. nothing is done !!
along with using abusive practices on their own women and girls ..
How can I have a conversation with a woman forced to wear a niqab or burka .. 🤷♀️
The extremism which has escalated from the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood makes it impossible for real cohesion to occur ..
So those criticising @NJ_Timothy need to get off their high horse and open their eyes to what’s really happening..
Staying silent has got us ..
to where we are now and it’s untenable..
Nick Timothy and Nigel Farage are right, and Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer are wrong.
Small groups of people, of whatever religion, praying in public places is fine. And as a Christian country we should allow a special privilege for churches to lead services in our national spaces, like the Palm Sunday celebration that happens in Trafalgar Square.
What we don't want is mass ritual observances intended to claim the civic realm for another religion, or assert the domination of another culture over our own Christian traditions.
What happens in our national spaces is not neutral. People use Trafalgar Square, for celebrations and demonstrations, to make a point about the kind of country they want us to be. The Palm Sunday pageant reminds us of who we are - not as individuals (many or most of us don't identify as Christians at all) but as a national community, with the roots of our institutions in the ground of the Bible and our most solemn communal moments, from coronations to funerals, mediated through the liturgies of the Church.
A mass Adhan held there, or in any town square, is making a different point: that Britain is not a Christian country, and that - inshallah - one day it shall be Muslim. This is unacceptable to the British public and indeed incompatible with our constitution.
As ever with these debates, the issue is partly one of kind and partly one of degree. There is an issue with Islam itself as a religion which in most interpretations does not admit of pluralism or freedom of conscience, and therefore is inherently aggrandising, including over territory. But with a bit of confidence and a bit of toleration we could handle that - if it were not for the issue of degree.
It is the scale of Islam in Britain, and the ambition of its leaders for greater scale, that makes the problem. The numbers of people who assembled for the adhan in Trafalgar Square, clearly and openly claiming the territory for a faith with no connection (indeed, with strong doctrinal disagreement) with the model of Western liberal democracy that Britain has developed and exported to the world - that is the problem. The numbers, whether everyone there understood it this way or not (and I suspect many did), convey an explicit threat to the foundations of our country.
Being relaxed about other people's religion is a good thing, a very British thing. I don't mind modern druids dancing around Stonehenge in my constituency (arguably, though the historicity is tenuous, they have a claim to the place). I don't mind small groups of Hindus or Buddhists or Muslims demonstrating the reality of Britain's religious toleration by worshiping in Trafalgar Square.
But let's not kid ourselves about this adhan, or pretend that we're just seeing another harmless expression of Britain's religious diversity. We are seeing an abuse of liberalism, led by people who are not themselves liberal; or - let us imagine they are acting in good faith - who are themselves deceived about what they are doing.
It should not happen again. And it would be good to hear the Church of England say so.
To all the Senate Republicans trying to make the SAVE Act happen, let me say it again:
We are NOT 👏 going 👏 to 👏 pass 👏your 👏 voter suppression bill.
Period.
I’m 46 and grew up in the digital age, nothing shocks me. I saw Twin Towers fall, London buses explode, Ken Bigley and Lee Rigby get decapitated and massacres at concerts. The only thing that DOES shock me is that after all that, the PM still calls it “the religion of peace.”😂