@SenatorSlotkin I dunno, I’d say Mamdani and Sayed have been competing for the “most anti-American thing I have seen in a Long Time” trophy 🏆… this doesn’t even register.
@StatisticUrban Also, now that I think about it, it’s not as if the left has covered itself with glory as “tastemakers” in the last decade. We are mired in a chaotic moment of everything and nothing, it seems to me. Derivative slop is the order of the day.
Democracy is a check on power. Immigration creates an override to that check, so long as immigrants are dependent on handouts from one party, and citizenship requirements for voting are effectively suspended.
It’s an attack on our consent, effectively the rāpe of the Republic.
@DwayneS96420464@WallStreetApes The signature comparison has been demonstrated to be joke, and all those “provisionals” get counted like all the others. Our Secretary of State sees to that.
@MarioNawfal His demeanor and physical comportment in the presence of his own supporters was interesting. He is a proud man with very little (he believes) to learn. His ambition is boundless.
RFK Jr. sat on CNN and said something that should not have been controversial. He said the government’s first duty in any future pandemic is to protect constitutional rights. Not balance them against expert opinion. Not temporarily suspend them. Protect them.
Dana Bash reacted as if he had just committed a category error. She told him she did not want to “allow” him to say things that were not entirely true. Allow. That is the word she chose. Not “challenge.” Not “disagree.” Allow.
Watch that moment carefully and the entire posture becomes clear. This is not a journalist testing a claim. This is a gatekeeper deciding which premises are permitted on air. The substance of Kennedy’s argument ... that the last response got almost everything wrong ... barely registered. What registered was the unacceptable suggestion that rights might rank above the public-health machinery.
That is the scandal that never ended. A large part of the media and the expert class still treats constitutional rights as optional equipment that can be powered down whenever the right people declare an emergency. They do not say it in those words. They simply act as if the Bill of Rights is a set of guidelines that apply only when the experts find them convenient.
Bash’s performance was not an outlier. It was a clean demonstration of the surviving mindset. The lockdowns are over. The mandates are gone. The emergency declarations have expired. But the assumption that experts outrank rights never left the building. It just learned to speak more politely until someone like Kennedy forced the issue back into the open.
The Constitution was not written as a suggestion for calm weather. It was written to restrain power precisely when fear is highest and the people in charge are most certain they know better.
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New York City will require IDs to prove you live in the city in order to shop in the city owned grocery stores. So you need an ID to shop in the city’s stores, but it would be racist to require an ID to vote. Perfection.
Their low-IQ solutions are ALWAYS the same: more taxes. As if we don’t already funnel more money into our government than any country on the planet. Who listens to this midwit trash?
Pete Buttigieg says higher taxes would help America build fast trains.
Has he seen California’s high-speed rail?
"If we had a more reasonable rate of taxation on capital gains and corporate income, and made it harder to pass along inherited wealth..."
"We’d be out of this doom loop we’re in saying... We can’t possibly do something like fast trains here in the United States. Of course we can. This is the wealthiest economy in the world."
"If we aren't collecting a fair level of taxes, then of course we're going to come up short when we're trying to fund those things."
California started its high-speed rail 18 years ago. Original cost: $33 billion. Current estimate: $230 billion. They've already spent $15 billion.
They've built 0 miles of operational high-speed rail.
Low taxes isn't why America can't build fast trains.