That headline is a bit deceiving. The voter fraud is not elusive, it's that it is happening in jurisdictions that refuse to take action such as cleaning up voter rolls or investigate the known cases of it occurring.
Unless their feet are held to the fire, their inaction or willful disregard of violations will continue as it benefits them.
@scrowder Not a lot of sailors, yachtsman or general boating enthusiasts on the social medias apparently. Prolonged exposure to salt water causes metal to rust. This is common and treated when the vessel comes into port. There is a reason our carriers show use and Cina's do not..
Welfare programs need to get back to their intended purpose, helping people out during a period when someone has fallen on hard times.
Being able to use programs such as SNAP at restaurants, to buy snack foods and sodas is not what it is intended for. Aligning it to grocery stores only is a good first step, but making these programs more restrictive and with conditions for use will limit fraud and dependency on a program that should only be available to the most vulnerable until they are able to get back on their feet.
Rep. Brandon Gill just introduced a bill that would BAN people from using SNAP benefits at restaurants, restricting them to only grocery store use.
“SNAP is supposed to help struggling Americans put nutritious food on the table, not stick taxpayers with the bill for fast food" 🔥🔥🔥
NO MORE WASTING TAX DOLLARS
@JDale_Shoemaker Sounds like they are doing the job the American people overwhelmingly supported based on the elections. If your against more job opportunities, cheaper housing and groceries, then I can see why you may think this is a bad thing.
You definitely make a good point. H-1B and then the other programs available need to have action taken to fix the issues we are seeing today.
"We’ll just hire overseas.”
Okay.
You can move the jobs.
We can tax the software, the consulting contracts, the products and the services you sell back into this country.
That’s not protectionism. That’s reciprocity. You wanted a free market. This is what one looks like when both sides get to set terms.
@BasedMikeLee That's a based take from a based Senator. My only concern is that they would be perverted by a subset of the population.
Always a group that ruins it for everyone else...
@alx@stephenasmith No, I fully support them in that belief. I hope they adopt that into their messaging to their constituents for the midterms and beyond.
Who am I to challenge their own deeply held beliefs...
@StanSmithsSUV@GarandThumb1 Clarified in a previous response. That is the cost for an AR-clone/based with a transferable automatic MG component (such as a lightning link).
https://t.co/K9CqMaYZiU
People keep calling Amazon “corporate welfare” like that’s the whole story. It isn’t.
In 2019, Amazon was ready to put part of HQ2 in Long Island City: 25,000-plus high-paying jobs, about $2.5 billion in investment, and a lot of tax revenue that only showed up if the jobs and the buildings actually happened. A lot of the incentives were performance-based. No jobs, no checks.
AOC opposed the deal, then took a victory lap when Amazon walked. Cuomo called it a massive lost opportunity. She treated chasing off one of the biggest private employers in the country like a moral win. The jobs left. The talking points stayed.
https://t.co/FQYyk7TQN9
Now it’s 2026, and City Hall is back at it. The Delivery Protection Act would blow up Amazon’s last-mile model in the five boroughs. Amazon says it could push delivery facilities out of the city, put 40-plus local delivery partners and 5,000-plus jobs at risk, and make packages slower and more expensive. Citing an AKRF analysis, the company says full relocation could jack costs on packages now handled in NYC by 267%, cut service levels 10–21%, and cost the average household as much as $664 a year.
You can hate Amazon’s labor practices. You can argue about taxes. Fine. Calling every incentive “welfare” does not cancel the bill New Yorkers get when politicians run the company out and then start squeezing what’s left.
They already celebrated 25,000 proposed HQ2 jobs leaving town. Now the same political machine — AOC’s wing of the party, a DSA mayor, a council that never met a contractor it didn’t want to ban — may give residents the privilege of paying more and waiting longer while another piece of Amazon’s operation looks at New Jersey.
The question stopped being whether Amazon can afford New York’s politics. It’s whether New Yorkers can keep paying for the victory laps.
@SenateGOP Yeah, but the program was never fixed. Been on that train towards insolvency forever.
Pass a bill to change it (investment account-style; individual pays themselves) or do the hard, but prudent thing and eliminate the program all together.
@awniithezombiie It was much better when everyone generally united behind being American and if they didn't, that person was considered the weirdo.
That was a very long time ago though.
@JamesOKeefeIII TikTok = 🇨🇳 still. Nothing has changed, it still actively functions in that it will ban those that shed light on the bad and continues to push mind rot content to those that use the platform.
@TPoseMasterRace@GarandThumb1 Yeah, thatis price for a real one. I think what is selling for the $40k-$60k are clones that have an automatic trigger like a lightning link, which is what is making the setup cost that much. Pretty ridiculous.
You can criticize Amazon’s wages and still understand opportunity cost. AOC helped drive away 25,000+ high-paying HQ2 jobs and billions in investment, because she didn't understand the difference between a tax break and a free handout.
https://t.co/FQYyk7TQN9
Now NY is back at it targeting Amazon’s delivery model too, risking higher prices and slower service. That’s not “fighting corporate welfare.” It’s self-inflicted economic damage.