Craig C. Glorioso

Debbie’s husband; USC Law dad; U of Arizona dad; IVC dad; Chocolate Lab dad; Dolphins fan; Knicks fan; Mets fan; U of Miami Law; Ohio U. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@PolitiBunny McConaughey can read the ingredients on a cereal box aloud and it will get you fired up. Such a talent. God bless America!🇺🇸

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@GuntherEagleman Born in NY, live in SoCal, but love my brothers and sisters from the Great State of Texas! God Bless America!🇺🇸

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@JasonMiyaresVA Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus. If you have kids that you can dance with as well, it’s a banger. 🇺🇸🦅

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

God bless our troops!🇺🇸🦅

[ustonymc @ustonymc]

250 Years and counting... 🇺🇸🫡

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

The VAR system is 1000% broken. This is 10x more of a red card than what they called balogun for. It’s just some guy who buzzes down when he feels like it?

[Lori @lori_usaforever]

Per the rules, holding a player back while trying to score IN THE BOX especially, is a RED CARD! And an automatic PK!!!

Why wasn’t this called?

Consistency eases anger!

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@EverythinKnicks Proud member of the ‘crying my eyes out’ team.

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@theCheeman We’re America. We should have Independence Week.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

One of the richest men in all of America signed the Declaration of Independence knowing it could cost him everything. Then he left home to serve, died far away in a borrowed town, and never came back. Meet Philip Livingston.

This guy was not a scrappy underdog. Just the opposite. He was born in 1716 into the Livingston family, one of the wealthiest, most powerful dynasties in colonial New York. Manor lands, a Yale education, and a shipping empire he built into one of the biggest merchant fortunes in New York City. He had everything the British system was designed to reward.

And he spent that fortune building things that still exist. He helped found King's College, which you know today as Columbia University. He helped start the New York Society Library. He helped create the New York Chamber of Commerce. The man was basically constructing the civic backbone of New York with his own money and time.

Here's the thing though. He was not some hothead revolutionary. He actually feared independence. He worried it would bring chaos and disorder, and he was cautious about the whole idea for a long time. This wasn't a man itching to burn it all down.

But when New York finally gave its delegates the go-ahead, Livingston signed. He put the name of one of the great fortunes in America onto a document the crown treated as treason. A rich man betting his wealth against the empire that made him rich.

And the war came straight for him. When the British took New York, they seized and used his properties. He started selling off his holdings to help fund the fight, watching the empire he'd defied pick apart the life he'd built.

Then comes the ending that gets me. His health was failing, and he knew it. Congress had been driven out of Philadelphia and was meeting in the small town of York, Pennsylvania. Livingston could have gone home to rest. Instead he told his family he probably wouldn't see them again, and he went to York to keep serving anyway.

He died there in June 1778, in the middle of a session of Congress, far from home. He's buried in York, Pennsylvania to this day. He never made it back to the New York he spent his whole life building.

A man who had every reason to stay comfortable and loyal, who gave his fortune and his final months to a country he wasn't even sure would work.

Philip Livingston. He died at his post, a long way from home.

[Growing Up Italian @GrowingUpItalia]

USA gotta do what Italy couldn’t 😂

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@TommyBeer Charlotte

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@jerryferrara Just for his first visit during the tribute video. Then, he’s getting booed until he retires and becomes a treasured member of the Knicks’ alumni. He’ll always be beloved for his run in NY, but good luck with the free throws at MSG, Mitch.

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@EverythinKnicks You cheer loud and long on his first visit. Play the tribute video. Let him feel the love…for the final time. Then, he’s dead to us and we’re going Hack-a-Mitch and booing that mfer for the rest of his playing career. Then, upon retirement, he’ll be a revered part of the alumni.

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@NBA_NewYork There were only three unforgivable teams Mitch could have signed with and the Celtics are at the top. It’s really frustrating that we wouldn’t meet that asking price. Want to give our championship winning front office the benefit of the doubt, but this one hurts and confounds.

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@ShamsCharania @KnickFilmSkool Double heartbreaking!! Curses!! Now fans are going to be upset that we wouldn’t match that fairly reasonable number.

[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."

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Today the California Senate Committee held a hearing on the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” known as AB 2624. This bill will criminalize and punish anyone from looking into fraud inside immigrant communities in California.

This bill was created only after I exposed billions of dollars in fraud throughout immigrant communities in the US. “Immigration support services” have become a billion dollar industry in California, and now that the fraud has been exposed, they are trying to criminalize those who look into the fraud.

The bill has passed through the California Assembly and is set to pass through the Senate and then to Governor Newsom’s desk. This bill was created by the Attorney Generals WIFE and will allow him to go after citizens if they film nonprofits and “immigration support services providers”.

Welcome to Califraudia.

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@MarshallGreen_ Way to ruin my morning coffee.

[Craig C. Glorioso @glor0428]

@BuellerTrading @BoringBiz_ Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Germans?

Forget it. He’s rolling.