Juulio Jones®️CFA, MBA, Esq.

If it is to be said, so it be — so it is.

[Mary Marslender @MaryMarslender]

Rent control now temp control.

Setting your thermostat to 78 degrees is next level insane.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Show us your thermostat, commie

[Erling Haaland @ErlingHaaland]

Howdy!🤠

[Juulio Jones®️CFA, MBA, Esq. @TonawandaTony]

@NYCMayor Fuck off mate

[Juulio Jones®️CFA, MBA, Esq. @TonawandaTony]

@CodyHodgsonFan Showtime!

[GhostOfKenTon @CodyHodgsonFan]

The prince who was promised

[Liam Gallagher @liamgallagher]

Harry Kane lick it up to ras

[Juulio Jones®️CFA, MBA, Esq. @TonawandaTony]

@Breaking911 They can get married in jail

[Sir Doge of the Coin ⚔️ @dogeofficialceo]

Saw this movie last night. Pretty good but it’s literally just about a normal experience with a woman.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A must read on New York City.

[The Sabre Report @TheSabreReport]

Jack Eichel was never playing another game for the Buffalo Sabres after 2020-21; surgery or no surgery.

He was the first of this crop of US talent to use their power to get to new destinations.

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

This budget is almost entirely ‘budgeting tricks.’ The sheer gall to use that phrase is absolutely incredible considering what they’re doing here today.

Bailouts, pension deferments, higher taxes, endless fees to nickel-and-dime every working person, and magical revenue projections that simply won’t materialize.

This budget is setting the table for a crisis.

Next year should be even more fun.

I’m voting no.

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

Again, I cannot emphasize enough how much I dislike Zohran Mamdani with every fiber of my being.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Stephen Miller is absolutely GOING OFF over SCOTUS' birthright citizenship ruling

"Citizenship means NOTHING if it is open to EVERYONE.

The idea that you can have a cruise ship filled with foreigners and they just dock at a port for an HOUR and someone has a baby, and the baby is an AMERICAN CITIZEN!

They can vote in EVERY ELECTION for the REST OF THEIR LIVES. They can be living in a FOREIGN COUNTRY and cashing WELFARE CHECKS from American citizens!"

— @StephenM

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

The ideal Corporate Middle Manager Archetype:
• male
• balding
• overweight, slightly obese
• hates his family more than he hates his job
• acts like he has any power, but all he is is an information jockey
• promotes RTO mandates so he can walk around and look like he's actually doing something
• loves messaging you "are you free" on Microsoft Teams without adding context
• lives in a state of constant mild panic that someone will ask him a direct question

[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."

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

This is a lie.

[JH @jarodhitchcock]

Bernhard Langer WITB - Golf Digest 2002

[BvB Sporting Spurs @BvbSpurs]

@StanUsmnt We need Haaland to procreate while here. A lot.

[Nick Sabato @NickSabatoGNN]

Hear me out. ... It's the best way to separate himself from Jordan. #Sabres