Bob Kain

Husband, father just trying to make sense of a nonsensical world.

[Bob Kain @NBBear2]

@AriDrennen That's a lot higher than Will Thomas would have placed if he had kept swimming against men.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

If Will Thomas didn't swim against the women, he still would have come in 462nd place, and nobody would know his name.

See how that works?

[Bob Kain @NBBear2]

America’s Governor https://t.co/z2MYRRdzoz via @WSJopinion

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Imagine a future president who never resided here except as a newborn, campaigned virtually from abroad, and ruled virtually from abroad.

[Bob Kain @NBBear2]

@destiny_lugardo Stupid rule. Guy goes 4 2/3, leaves with the lead. Lead is never given up and a guy that pitches 1 2/3 gets the win.

[Bob Kain @NBBear2]

@balsamspecific @nicolegelinas Thankfully, you don't speak for actual Americans.

[Bob Kain @NBBear2]

@jimstinson @EndWokeness By walking unarmed in someone's direction? Did you see any threatening moves?

[Bob Kain @NBBear2]

@DStateRespTeam @EndWokeness What does that have to do with whether this is murder?

[Bob Kain @NBBear2]

@BillKristol LOL...yeah Dan Goldman was so unwilling to criticize Trump. You've become a total moron.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

An insane thread. Somehow, I don't think Pritzker will be using the money to solve AIDS in Africa.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

We’re all trying to find the guys responsible for making Chicago like this, David. It’s a real mystery

[Bob Kain @NBBear2]

@EthanforMD @CarilynJohnson Idiot...you think it sounds better to say it's ok for men to compete in women's sports? What sets women back decades is not allowing them to have bathrooms, restrooms and sports of their own.

[Bob Kain @NBBear2]

@patriot_todd @NBCSPhilly @JClarkNBCS @WapnerNewman Yeah the guy coming in from the pen really helped the team.

[Bob Kain @NBBear2]

@Chrisdyer777 @NBCSPhilly @WapnerNewman Pretty sure Zach wouldn't have hit the next two batters on two pitches and forced in a run. He deserved to finish the inning.

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

For the record, Drag Queen Story Hour now receives more city funding than the Department of Veterans Services.

Understand where we are.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

This little guy survived 6 days trapped in the Venezuelan rubble.❤️

Every life a blessing.🙏🇻🇪

[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."

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

What Kenneth doesn’t mention is that every single country with a “Palestinian” population has either had to fight and/or expel them (Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt) or be conquered by them (Lebanon).

This idea that Palestinians otherwise live in peace is an outright lie.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Everyone dunking on NPR because they published fake news on accident but I think it’s a welcome break from their usual practice of publishing it on purpose.

[Brent Scher @BrentScher]

Why isn’t that dumbass @Acosta on the National Mall tonight to tape another video about how nobody is there?