Mind the bollocks

shedding light on the bs

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

The insanity of the Left on full display. How do we co-exist with people like this?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Senate must enact the will of the people

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes!

[Nate Friedman @NateFriedman97]

The Iran protests in New York City are bought and paid for, here it all is with proof. Watch how they load the signs into the car and at 3:10 the leader confronts me and I expose her salary. She celebrated october 7th, and got paid to do it. Best of luck @LaynaLazar.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. CNN was just FORCED to air a Democrat Iranian-American EVISCERATING her own party for attacking President Trump!

"It's imperative the Democrat Party WAKE UP and get past their dislike of President Trump!"

"I AM a huge Democrat. I am INCREDIBLY disappointed with my party! I do NOT see myself in them in this moment."

We all saw this coming. The Democrats screwed up.

TDS is a mental illness!

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

NYC taxes explained for people who don't pay attention:

Property tax. Income tax. Sales tax. Unincorporated business tax. Commercial rent tax. Hotel tax. Mortgage recording tax. Mansion tax. Utility tax. Congestion pricing. Twenty-plus taxes.

And the mayor wants more.

Let me show you what that actually feels like.

You're 26. First real job. $85,000. You feel rich.
Then you see your paycheck.

Federal takes a cut. Fine. Then New York State takes 6%. Then New York City takes another 3.5%. Then there's a "metropolitan commuter mobility tax" you've never heard of.

Your $85K is now $54K before rent.

You grab coffee. 8.875% sales tax. You take an Uber to the airport. Congestion pricing just added $9. Your landlord raised rent, he's passing along a property tax increase you'll never see on a bill but you're paying every month.

You're not rich. You're not even comfortable. You're just surviving. But fine. It's New York. You chose this.

Now here's the part nobody talks about.

In 2000, NYC's budget was $40 billion for 8 million people. That's about $5,000 per person.

Today it's $121 billion for 8.5 million people. $14,244 per person.

Population grew 6%. Inflation was 82%. Spending per person nearly tripled.

So things must be three times better, right?

In 2017, 51% of New Yorkers rated quality of life as good. Today it's 34%.

Only 12% think the city spends money wisely. Only 22% feel safe on the subway at night. Felony assaults hit a 24-year high.

They spend $31,000 per student on education. Less than half kids can read at grade level.

They tripled the spending. Everything got worse.

Where'd the money go?

Pensions up 115%. Outsourced contracts up $7 billion. A brand new $5 billion asylum seeker expense that didn't exist three years ago. Social services doubled. 302,000 city employees. Debt ballooning.

And the new mayor doesn't look at this and say "we need to spend better."

He says "we need to tax more."

A 2% income tax hike that would push the combined state and city rate to 16.8% -> the highest in the entire country. Tax increases that impact everyone.

His supporters chant "tax the rich" at rallies. The top 1% already pay 40% of the city's income tax. And they're leaving anyway. NYC's share of the nation's millionaires dropped from 7% to 4%. They have accountants. They have Florida.

You know who can't leave?

Your uncle with the restaurant. Your parents in that house. You, watching your paycheck disappear into twenty taxes before you can save a dollar.

You need to make $312,000 in New York to live the same lifestyle as someone making $125,000 in Houston.

Houston spends $2,850 per person. No state income tax. No city income tax. Population growing.

NYC spends five times more. Worse results.

NYC is a Netflix subscription that keeps raising the price while the product gets worse.

And you can't cancel.

$40 billion wasn't enough. $60 billion wasn't enough. $80 billion. $100 billion. Now $121 billion.

It will never be enough. Because the problem was never revenue.

There is enough money. There has always been enough money.

They don't need more of yours. They need to do better with what they already take.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Join Rupert Lowe in Restore Britain, because he is the only one who will actually do it!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The UK has become Orwell’s worst nightmare

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

100 %

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Barack Obama is asked since he’s deporting 1,000 illegals per day, “won't you at least consider unilaterally freezing deportations for the parents of deferred action kids?”

Obama’s response: No, that's not an option.

No media outrage

“Here's the problem that I have and I've said this consistently. My job in the executive branch is supposed to be to carry out the laws that are passed. Congress has said, here's the law when it comes to those who are undocumented, and they allocate a whole bunch of money for enforcement — I would be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally. So that's not an option.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you pay organizations per homeless person, you get more homeless people and the NGOs fight hard to maximize the homeless population.

Whatever you incentivize will happen.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

No kidding 🤔

[X @XaviercMiller]

Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami.

The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue.

The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price.

Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over.

Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides.

Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores.

I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality.

People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving.

This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it.

If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

They tell on themselves constantly when they say women who stand up for women’s rights look like men. It’s the new ‘I never met a pretty feminist.’ Like every other dangerous virus, misogyny mutates to survive.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Mayor Adams doesn’t mince his words in endorsing Cuomo, issuing grave warning for New Yorkers.

"New York can't become Europe, folks. I don't know what's wrong with people. You see what's playing out in other countries because of Islamic extremism. Not Muslims, let's not mix this up, but Islamic extremists that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over logical thinking. That's why I'm here today to endorse Andrew Cuomo, to be part of this fight."

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

You can't really argue with this dude...

Narratives vs. Reality
-Trump hates immigrants - married to an immigrant
-Trump hates women - first ever woman Chief of Staff
-Trump will start WW3 - Stopped 8 wars in 9 months
-Trump is a dictator - People are free to protest him 24/7
-"Democracy" is at risk - Trump won electoral AND popular vote AND all swing states which sounds pretty democratic to me...

Anyone else smell the BS coming from the left?

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Banksy has been in Hull with another political masterpiece. 👏👌👍✊

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

New York went from "never forget" to this in 2 decades