Ornery

Have you met Jen Rubin?

@varadmehta Dude makes my skin crawl even with the sound off. Something isn't right with him.

There’s just going to be so much video of him saying insane things which won’t fly in Texas.

@varrock Because they're consumed by spite and envy.

Can a socialist explain to me why its bad for rich people to have apartments in New York and not live there? They already pay a huge property taxes yet consume no public resources and no welfare. Isn't that a socialist's dream? Why are they treating it like a problem?

"Oh, and by the way you should vote for the angry guy with a Nazi tattoo and the communist openly planning to seize private property at scale, because they hate the right people. Oh, and thr creepy pedophile guy, too."

Should probably go after cell carriers and phone manufactures while you're at it.

@GringoElCamino @SJWinfoot @PerryALPHA She's locked in his basement. And she's 12.

@SJWinfoot @PerryALPHA Excuse, Sarah, but Talarico has a girlfriend. She goes to a different school, you wouldn’t know her.

James Talarico represents the future of the Democrat Party: homosexual, vegan, anti-racist, compassionate, intelligent, and willing to stand up for Trans youth. Democrats win when they fight for everyday people with conviction and empathy.

@bonchieredstate They are absolutely that stupid. What Mamdani will actually deliver on is seizing property and passing it along to his supporters. When he's unable to fund actually building anything he'll fail and blame nefarious external forces.

He hasn’t delivered on anything. This is a 10-year projection that relies on raising taxes and passing a $70 billion bond. We are so cooked if people are this stupid.

@RBPundit I don't even know any more, man. We live in stupid times.

I mean... even milquetoast Christians have to be wondering what this dude is babbling about, right? I'm going out on a limb and predicting Talarico loses by more than Beto did.

Me, with 4 years to go before retirement, working on a mandatory "career development" project.

@ingelramdecoucy You forget: they're poor

~$3000 for a major capital improvement on your house is actually pretty good deal

@bonchieredstate 3. hand control of the property to your cronies, giving them not just wealth, but power.

That’s exactly his plan. And the communist seals will clap every step of the way.

@ingelramdecoucy He doesn't care. This is a literal land and power grab for his cronies and buddies at non-profits. That part will work even if no single individuals housing situation improves.

When this all comes crashing down due to rampant corruption and egregious mismanagement we need to make sure New York City doesn’t receive a dime in federal bailouts to fix it. Let them go bankrupt, idc, they need to feel the consequences of their own choices, and feel them hard

@Slatzism A few corrections: 1) he took him to a corpse warehouse, not a hospital 2) the doctor spent six months hectoring him into "choosing" MAID before he finally decided to do it

A Canadian doctor met a mentally ill guy with bowel problems at a Tim Hortons, told him the best treatment option for him was to die, and then drove him to the hospital to be euthanized. Not even memes can capture the level of retardation Canada has achieved in real life

@elbh Platner is worse than that.

Platner is simply a better looking Bernie for the digital age. Both are greedy anti-American tools.

Let's understand a few things about what's actually about to happen here if Zohran gets his way -- which he almost certainly will, unless courts intervene. First and foremost, Cea Weaver and DSA 'organizers' will be unleashed with the full institutional and legal support of the city government to ramp up tenant complaints in targeted buildings. No complaint will be too small. No building will be too small. Everything will be treated as catastrophic. Full-scale demagoguery will ensue, complete with protests, rent strikes, street theater, and harassment of property owners. Accordingly, the city buildings department will be weaponized to begin writing as many violations as possible in order to bolster the city's effort to justify a seizure. It won't matter how small or large the violations are, the total number will be breathlessly cited as evidence of mismanagement. It will be impossible for landlords to clear these violations in good faith. The combination of a weaponized buildings department writing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, rent strikes, and constant threats and harassment against landlords by militant activists will make the situation untenable for any property owner to realistically fight back, and the city will seize the property. The landlord will be lucky to walk away without prison or being beaten to death in the street by an angry mob (as Zohran's buddy Hasan Piker referred to landlords -- 'let the streets run red with their capitalist blood'). But that's only the first half of the plan, and everyone needs to pay very close attention to the big picture here, because it's hugely important and has national implications. The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point. The idea here is to build up Zohran's DSA-connected nonprofits with a multbillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets -- New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get. Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario. As it stands now, the nonprofits depend mostly on the largesse of grants, donations, and other third-party resources to stay afloat. They are lavishly funded of course, and many do hold significant assets, but it would all pale in comparison to simply handing them the keys to a New York City real estate empire, courtesy of Zohran Mamdani and the DSA. The resources at their disposal would be immense. The organizing potential that goes along with those resources will have national implications. Every DSA candidate in every town and city in the country would be trained, funded, and staffed by organizers with ties to the NYC nonprofit empire backed by a trillion dollars in free real estate. And they would be shameless in leveraging those resources for pure political power. That's the game plan here. That's the whole ball of wax. Zohran isn't interested in making housing better for anyone. If he was, we'd be talking seriously about solving the NYCHA disaster. Hell, if he was even remotely sincere about seizing these properties from 'bad landlords' for the 'public good' he'd be focused on turning them over to the city itself, as misguided as that would be. No, this is about nothing more than consolidating political power for the DSA. Just like everything else these people do. Giving the DSA a massive war chest backed by seized real estate. Once you understand that they have no interest in fixing anything other than elections, it all makes a lot more sense.

@KenShepherd Why stop at seniors? Let's extend that to all ages. You can pay taxes and vote, or you can choose not to pay taxes and abstain from politics.

How about a tradeoff: No taxes for senior citizens (ages 70 and above) but in exchange they lose the vote. No taxation, no representation. Now, if they want to vote, they'll keep paying taxes per usual. #isaidwhatisaid

Don't be surprised when the seizing happens and nothing improves. Spending will go up, for sure - non- profit administrators don't work for peanuts. And don't be surprised when the owners whose property is taken turn out to be middle class families, not corporate slumlords.

@DaddyWarpig Honestly, Dog overlords doesn't sound so bad.

THE UPRISING HAS BEGUN

@sunnyright You can deduct up to $3000 per year, so you should be made whole in a few hundred years.

If you tax my unrealized capital gains, do I get a refund when those unrealized gains turn into realized losses?

@amyklobuchar Do non-citizens have a right to vote in our elections?

Voting is a right, not a privilege. The SAVE Act won’t save anything. It will strip Americans of their right to vote. We have to fight back to protect our democracy.