Or brand. Lets go with branding, after a good hog tie when they try to run away. They aren’t the best trained of critters.

Thanks, though it is a username I have used variously for probably 20+ years.

Maybe if we literally ate some of those billionaires it might help. Is the leader of our church Luigi Mangione freed from his unlawful religious persecution yet? And where are the Epstein files?

Better fighting to keep things from getting worse and worse then handing everything over to billionaires without any resistance. And if there’s one thing politics has been consistent on is that they don’t make our dreams come true, but they can make life even worse than it was previously. They got a real talent for that.

For the next year, Progressives are dealing from a position of strength, and the Democrats, and especially the MAGAs, are in the defensive position.

The Establishment Dems will pretend they are all for it, but we know the real truth, and they will be doing everything they can to foil any Progressive gains.

MAGA has a choice - either ease up and get in step with where the CITIZENS of this country are going, or crack down hard on this budding Resistance.

They are as fucking stupid as stupid gets, so they will definitely choose #2. For the next year, expect them to be more oppressive than ever, and try to engineer some excuse to declare Martial Law, and suspend the Midterm elections.

No election has ever been cancelled in American history, not even during the Civil War. If he tries that, his administration becomes officially illegitimate, and every person who occupies a leadership position in the MAGA government should be declared a national security threat, and sent to the new 30,000 bed facility they are building there.

Oh, you don’t know about that? Oh, yeah, construction is underway at Guantanamo Bay on the biggest detention facility in America, about 20 times larger than the average maximum security prison, and far from the prying eyes of the courts or the media. They clearly intend to lock up a lot of people, and since it isn’t scheduled to be finished around 2029, I suspect they intend to use it to house all the citizens who will protest his third term, which he will win with 98% of the vote.

And the Establishment Dems will declare the election “Fair & Square,” even as their own voters are all locked up on a hostile foreign island.

Let’s just have a primary without the DNC’s finger on the scale, and see how it shakes out.

Are there still people out there moaning that “Americans won’t vote for a woman,” despite, y’know, Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote in 2016?

My cynicism never wavered on the stupidity capable of the human race

Competence is so rare in modern politics, that just doing what you’re supposed to do is seen as extraordinary.

Not even strictly policy, but the way he conducted the campaign. He actually addressed the people standing in front of him in their language.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Texas has a tiny net mirgation rate. Its not much of a threat. Its a shithole state, like most states with republican leadership. Musk is trying to get back into the bay area as we speak, and a lot of people who moved there from California for a cheaper life have found that its no cheaper than California, and less comfortable of a place in nearly every way-- so they are moving back again at great expense.

That’s a good idea, you get right on that, Wheels.

“Hey! I’m walkin’ here!”

and the UK was a better place for their leaving.

It is still an event that is mostly relevant to people living in NYC with little bearing on other US states, despite the media reporting on it as if it was a big deal everywhere. We are just starved for good news.

Most of the other news stories here affect entire countries or regions. I’ll grant you, it is more impactful than Japan sending soldiers to deal with bear attacks, but less than any other world news posts on my page 1. It would probably become world news if he pushes through some of his policies for being unprecedented in the US, though.

This rule is legacy from Reddit, where r/news got dominated by US-centric news. r/worldnews was created to allow non-US news to be seen.

That said, I agree that this is a world news event. If nothing else, this may distract the Trump administration from international bullying for a while. Perhaps even redirect the Venezuelan invasion force to the NYC harbour…

The problem is the word “internal”, someone winning a mayoral election should only be relevant to people of that city. World news should have bigger impacts than potential future city guidelines.

Kyoto’s tourism tax may be world news, who is elected its mayor isn’t.

That said, we are so starved for good news from the US that I confess it was of interest to me, a person not in the US. And it was treated as way more than a regular local election by the media.

It’s based on users sending in reports, and positive news for the left or news critical of Israel unleashes an army of rules lawyers.

Can he promote work from home? Maybe for city employees. But what can he do about private companies that are paying for expensive Manhattan offices for the prestige and don’t want them to be empty?