Disappointment beyond words, and the Republican Senators aren’t helping fixed this issue. This how Democracy dies with Rhinos like Leader John Thune in charge of our Senate! The Republican Senate should put on the shirts of the other team!
So, basically, we just learned that if a state passes a law to accept mail-in ballots weeks after Election Day,
SCOTUS will uphold the law.
This is how our country dies.
The Senate returns from vacation on July 13th.
The Senate goes on vacation — again — beginning August 8th.
If we don’t pass the SAVE America Act by August 7th, it likely won’t happen.
You should be calling & emailing your Senators every single day.
Call local state offices.
Joy Reid is warning America that MAGA wants to take the country back to when:
"there were no income taxes, no regulations on business. You could earn as much money as you want and leave 100% of it to your children with no taxes."
She says that’s the world we want back.
And she said it like it's a bad thing!!
Are these people really this stupid?😂
Imagine your family worked for a generation to save enough money to buy a brownstone occupied with rent stabilized tenants on the Upper West Side. The family financed the purchase with a mortgage from a bank based on the premise that rents and cash flow would at least keep pace with inflation so you could pay interest and principal on the mortgage and hopefully have some cash flow left as a return on your investment.
While you had rent stabilized tenants, you were led to believe that the NYC Rent Guidelines Board would be required to adjudicate rental increases each year by taking a measure of the inflation of costs to own and operate a building and setting rental increases appropriately.
You believed the RGB would do its job as the board is comprised of two representatives each for landlords and tenants and five independent representatives that represent the general public.
Now, a new mayor @NYCMayor Mamdani is elected on the promise of freezing rents. There are about two million rent stabilized renters that benefit if rents are frozen so by promising frozen rents the new candidate for mayor buys votes and wins the election.
The new mayor achieves his objective by stacking the RGB with directors who do not follow their obligations and simply vote for a rent freeze as a preordained conclusion as evidenced by the statements of an RGB director who resigned in protest for this very reason.
Meanwhile, inflation in NYC is rampant in utilities, real estate taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, etc. and now your rents are frozen. Real estate is a high operating leverage business which means that frozen rents and inflating expenses will cause property cash flows to plummet and your after debt service cash flow to go negative.
I expect therefore there will be hundreds if not thousands of small NYC property owners who are now or will shortly be underwater on their mortgages, and without any cash flow to maintain their assets.
If you remember the images of the South Bronx burning in the mid 1970s, you can viscerally understand what is happening to small NYC real estate owners.
While the rent freeze appears to be short-term good news (long term it will lead to poorly maintained apartments) for 2 million NYC renters, it is bad news for the 2 million or more renters in the 1 million market rate apartments in the City because a landlord-hostile market is not likely to add meaningfully more supply and market rents will likely continue to escalate at a high rate.
All of this seems quite unfair and wrong unless I missing something?
Why am I wrong?
For disclosure: I do not own any NYC rental apartments.
🚨 SENATE SNAKES OUT 2.5 WEEKS: Senator Ashley Moody (R-FL) just gaveled in her SECOND pro forma session in two days for @LeaderJohnThune, BLOCKING work on the SAVE America Act AND Trump's recess appointments!
The Senate is OFF FOR 19 DAYS!
SHOULDN'T @realDonaldTrump use Article II Section 3 and CALL THEM BACK NOW TO Pass the SAVE AMERICA ACT!?
🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: The South Dakota GOP Sergeant at Arms has been FIRED after denying Scott Presler entry to an event with Leader John Thune
The party chairman has now APOLOGIZED to Presler:
“I want to personally apologize for how things were handled tonight at the SD GOP Convention…Matt Bruner has been relieved of his duties as one of our Sergeant at Arms by the lead Sergeant at Arms.”
The GOP should know by now that peaceful FAFO is always waiting!
Keep pushing, @ScottPresler 🇺🇸
John Thune’s team has worked harder to argue that they weren’t responsible for @ScottPresler being kicked out of the SD GOP event than they have to pass the SAVE America Act.
I just heard @ScottPresler say the truest thing I’ve heard today:
“The contempt that they treated me with, that’s the exact same contempt they have for you.”
And he is 100% right.
@LeaderJohnThune has contempt for WE THE PEOPLE.
He doesn’t believe he owes us respect.
He believes he is above us in every way.
John Thune says he "doesn't have the votes" for the SAVE Act. So go get them! That's what you were elected to do. Pelosi and Schumer would twist arms until they had the votes. Man up and do your job!
Passing Voter ID makes too much sense.
The only reason to not pass it is because you are aligned with the evil forces trying to destroy America from within.
While the rest of the country is fighting, this guy just sent the Senate home for 19 straight days of vacation...
He is a failure and proves it over and over.
FIRE JOHN THUNE!
John Thune's body language says it all. He hates President Trump and he has no intention of helping us get the SAVE Act passed.
Thune's plan is to delay and wait out the next 2 1/2 years until President Trump leaves.
Senator Mitch McConnell, 84, has been hospitalized for over a week with no diagnosis and no public appearances—just vague staff statements. This isn’t partisan. Feinstein served until she died at 90, visibly diminished. Biden’s decline was on national TV. Both parties fail at accountability. When senators can’t serve, unelected staff run the show. We need term limits and real mechanisms to hold them responsible.
The blatant ARROGANCE. “We don’t have the votes…MY job, obviously, is to DEFINE REALITY” says Traitor Thune. What? The only REALITY is that YOU are the Senate’s leading SABOTEUR of the SAVE America Act. GET IT DONE NOW OR GET OUT.🔥@SenateGOP @POTUS @VP
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials as part of a federal immigration enforcement investigation. Judge Patrick Schiltz ruled the subpoenas appeared aimed at pressuring state leaders to support federal immigration policies and amounted to retaliation rather than a legitimate criminal probe.
The investigation sought records from Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and several local officials over allegations they obstructed immigration enforcement. Minnesota leaders welcomed the ruling, calling the subpoenas politically motivated.