Neil Douthat

Wealth Management Professional

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

Fauci ruined countless lives, stole a proper education from an entire generation of children, and forced people to watch their relatives die alone-- while making himself rich, famous, and powerful. He will be remembered as one of history's worst megalomaniacs.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Jim Banks is Now the THIRD Senator to Oppose August Recess Until the SAVE America Act Passes

"We don't need a recess. Let's pass the SAVE America Act. It's more important than taking a break, taking a recess!"

Every Republican Senator should join him.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Outgoing UK PM "Proud To Have The Gayest Parliament Of All Time Anywhere In The World" https://t.co/5G04fAHg1I

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

My official statement on the budget, as read in chambers this evening, before I was muted:

"I’ve been a member of this city council going on five years now. And I’ve voted yes on the budget every year so far. All of them had problems. All of them contained things I didn’t like or agree with. But I’m not here to demand perfection, I’m here to work with what we have — within reason.

Unfortunately, this year is very different. And I must vote no.

Even in the context of our dysfunctional city government, this year’s budget represents a complete departure from reality, spending more money than we’ve ever spent — precisely when we can least afford it.

We have never seen a larger single-year increase in spending in the history of this city. Requiring not only new taxes from Albany, but pension deferrals and an eight billion dollar bailout from the Governor. And even still, the revenue projections are optimistic at best.

This isn’t a ‘balanced budget’ — it’s budget by bailout. A ticking time bomb.

And it’s the beginning of a fiscal death spiral that our current leadership will not be able to pull us out of, because they lack both the experience and the seriousness to do so.

What will we do next year? And the year after?

The only responsible way for our city to spend more is to grow the economy. New businesses, new private economic development, major investment. That’s how you grow an economy, and get more money into the city budget.

But we’re doing the opposite. Deliberately chasing away everything our city needs to sustain our spending with childish political attacks on very people we need most.

Our tax base is isn’t growing. It’s leaving.

The middle class, the financial sector, and businesses of all sizes are choosing to go elsewhere. And they’re being replaced with low-income foreigners and transplants who require significant subsidies just to survive here.

We’re trading investment banks and small businesses for delivery app drivers on welfare, and nonprofit workers whose paychecks ultimately come from government spending. That isn’t growth.

And when ordinary New Yorkers complain, they’re told to shut up and leave if they don’t like it. And that’s exactly what many are doing.

This is obviously unsustainable. But nobody in this chamber really seems to care.

And what are we getting for our money? We already spend more in real dollars AND per capita on everything from schools to housing to healthcare than anyone else in the country.

We can’t even build a public bathroom for less than three million dollars.

Why would anyone believe that shoveling even MORE money into this broken system will improve anything?

It won’t. I guarantee that we’ll all be sitting here again a year from now, with the exact same problems, listening to the exact same lectures about how the city needs even MORE money, AGAIN.

At what point do we, as a City Council, start to demand results before we allow more spending? When do we demand accountability?

The answer seems to be never. Because this spending isn’t really meant to fix anything. It’s meant to keep the machine going, keep the money flowing into the special interests and nonprofits and the political allies of the Mayor, with no real consideration for anything else.

I realize a lot of people don’t want to hear this, but we are a municipal government, not a sociology experiment or a political slush fund or the United Nations.

We are here keep the lights on, keep the water running, pave the roads, and put criminals in jail. That’s it. And we would be very well advised to get back to basics. Because we’re failing on nearly every count, other than our peerless ability to hand out free money.

Shame on this Council for pretending this budget is anything other than a disaster. I know that my single vote ultimately doesn’t matter here, but nonetheless I won’t put my name on it. I respectfully vote no."

[Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan]

How did the Southern Poverty Law Center grow its endowment to more than $730 MILLION?

By paying informants to manufacture hate and then fundraise off of it.

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

To Democrats claiming that President Trump is 'destroying the White House' by adding a much needed ballroom, what is this?

[Bob Woodson @BobWoodson]

“They use race to conceal this exploitation." - Bob Woodson (1937-2026)

When victimhood is currency, who pays the price?

Watch "The War on Agency" before episode 3 drops next month: https://t.co/Dd0R7Pqt4r

#RememberingBobWoodson #WoodsonLegacy

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

We need more “community activists” like Bob Woodson, writes @jasonrileywsj
https://t.co/Wkdtd7AZPc

[Neil Douthat @DouthatNeil]

A “Community Activist” Who Listened to Communities by@jasonrileywsj https://t.co/dGJ1VNQbMB via @WSJopinion

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

George Floyd’s autopsy

Democrats hate when you share this

[Jason Riley @jasonrileywsj]

WSJ Edit Board: The thinking of civil-rights hero Robert L. Woodson Sr., who died on May 19 at 89, ran counter to the dominant orthodoxy of the day. Decades of evidence have vindicated him. https://t.co/uHS7LmQLVU via @WSJopinion

[Bob Woodson @BobWoodson]

The Woodson Center Mourns the Passing of Founder and President Robert L. Woodson, Sr. - A visionary leader whose life's work transformed communities from the inside out.

Read the full statement here: https://t.co/qkCExpOiJh

[Neil Douthat @DouthatNeil]

https://t.co/Ndy7loJiS8

[Blake Neff @BlakeSNeff]

We can’t crush the accreditation cartel quickly enough.

[Maria Davidson @MariaDavidson]

SF spends $102k a year per homeless person.

It spends $20k a year per resident.

SF spends more per homeless person than the 10 largest US cities combined spend per resident.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

Prestigious doctor leaves a crowded room stunned after asking pro-abortion politicians:

"If abortion is healthcare, my question is: what disease are you treating?"

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

Pro-abortion activists CANNOT FACE THE HORROR of what abortion is.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

We extend criminal and civil liability to bartenders who overserve people who later kill others while driving drunk. Why aren’t judges who release violent criminals who then commit murders also held liable by, at a bare minimum, losing their jobs?

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Raped corpses, and we had dumb college students marching for this terrorist group