FYI your taxes were supposed to pay for this getting fixed but instead they gave all your money to cops so they could keep shooting innocent people and now regular citizens are just having to do it themselves.
On the plus side, this shows Hochul's support of Israel isn't cynical. The model of checkpoints and a permanently dispossessed underclass is something she genuinely admires.
A lot of people who would rightly lose their minds if Trump sent the National Guard into the New York subway seem fine with a Democratic governor doing it. And that's a big chunk of what's wrong with politics here.
“If trump wins the presidency, the USA will devolve into fascism.” Babe you just had to go through a military checkpoint to load the NYC subway. Your president is a genocidal sociopath. They’re throwing women in jail for having miscarriages. Be serious. You are already there.
It's really hard convincing liberals that 2.5X as many ppl have died of Covid under Biden than under Trump (despite Trump not having the vaccine), that Biden dismantled the govt Covid infrastructure that could have been a new floor + that 300 ppl/day are still dying of Covid
Some things the Democrats have done in the last week:
- passed mandatory drug testing to get public benefits in SF
- nominated a war loving piece of shit for CA senate
- proposed sending armed troops into subways to check bag (while banning ppl w felonies from the subways)
7. The parade of horribles liberals tell you will happen if Trump is elected is *already happening and will continue to happen no matter who is President* and this is the least important election of your lifetime. (5/5)
5. If you haven't already abandoned the Democratic party, I have no idea why. They range from fascists to neoliberal corporatists and you shouldn't vote for them.
6. Remember when Working Families Party endorsed Hochul? Yeah you don't need to take them seriously. (4/)
4. The bag checks will indisputably result in lawsuits when "random" checks are overwhelmingly targeted at Black and brown people. NY is thus not only paying for the Guard itself, but also to fight and settle lawsuits. The whole thing is a huge taxpayer boondoggle. (3/)
2. 2023 subway crime is on par with 2013/2014 numbers, when everybody was crowing about how safe the subway is.
3. All of this is fake. All of this is phony. This is a means to create a narrative. This is an op.
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Oh look the thing everyone was worried Trump would do is being done by Hochul. Let's be adults for a thread here, ok? Let's speak honestly
1. 2023 subway crime was DOWN 2.5% from the year before. (1/)