joab samson

@AdamKinzinger This is MAGA coded tho…

I’m sorry, but i support this. Bring back the old Pizza Hut. I’ll read books for the personal pan pizza

@BernJ302 @mtracey Michael is an overt MAGA shill

@mtracey But if Tina Peters was an anti-MAGA never Trumper you’d be yelling that this commutation was outrageous. You don’t fool anyone but dumb MAGA, Tracey.

Perfectly sensible commutation. There is no legitimate need for this 70-year-old woman to remain locked up in a government cage for several more years, as if she's some grave danger to society

@COSecofState Didn’t you do basically the same thing?

Today Governor Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, who was convicted of four felonies and three misdemeanors by a jury of her peers in Mesa County for her role in breaching her own election equipment in 2021.

@brotherday1980 @0hour1 She is a sexy ass trailer park ho fo sho and she’s based af

@0hour1 Mistake. Hard body baddie won in Colorado after they thought they cooked her. It will bring down trumps approval 5 points. She goes on all the shows and is lived by the audience. You go on no shows and suck Israel’s dick. You’re getting a bad deal brother.

Lauren Boebert has been banned from the WH 😂😂😂😂😂

@jeremymstamper Are those burn marks on his fingers?

If this guy can be homeless, it can happen to anyone.

@SamuelSage77 @pfau The delaying of payments and loss of compounding interest will guarantee a larger future liability to the taxpayer. Hopefully this pied a terre tax is the revenue generator he’s claiming it is

@pfau It sounds like pension payments are not being reduced, to the pensioners. A bit of a sleight of hand you did there. To the larger point, American socialists can’t just do whatever they want yet bc there are not enough American socialists. It’s a growing movement.

As far as I can tell, "socialism" to American millennials means nothing but vaguely screw-the-rich vibes, because if a European social democrat tried to balance their budget by reducing pension payments they would be burned at the stake.

@sbutleriv @pfau @asymmetricinfo Bailout from the federal gov when this blows up is the plan

@pfau @asymmetricinfo I think given the constitutional protection of public employee pensions in New York, what will actually happen is that the state/city/federal government will eventually pay in way more, and payments will not be reduced. Time will tell.

@Jmizzle212 @sho_of_hands @davidsirota It makes you a kulak

@sho_of_hands @davidsirota Does your parents helping you buy a home make you an oligarch?

The NY Times published its piece insinuating that Graham Platner's $200,000 home makes him an oligarch on literally the same day Sen. Susan Collins' new financial disclosure shows she is worth literally millions of dollars. It's a reminder that there's no such thing as "objectivity" - a news outlet's story selection is a sign of its subjective viewpoint and its goals. Of course, all candidates deserve scrutiny — but the point here is that what corporate news outlets decide to cover and not cover is a subjective and often ideological decision, even if they then write the stories in the language of objectivity. Everyone should stop pretending “objectivity” is a thing. It’s not. Fairness and accuracy is — but the moment decisions are made that something is news (say, Platner’s modest house) and something isn’t news (say, Collins’ massive wealth), there is inherently no objectivity. It would be better for outlets just to be more honest and admit what their goals, values and viewpoints really are.

@Trad_West_Art Kek’d and Check’d 👏🏽

These are going to be re-enacted for years to come like the plays of Sophocles

@clusterbitch_ @_rotimia All of those things are fake, billionaire astroturfed slop that is increasingly irrelevant in the internet age

@_rotimia how are we not culturally relevant? super bowl, hollywood, the music industry, etc. is ur definition of "culturally relevant" just "relevant for some men"

Democrats used to feel culturally relevant. We were the party of football dads, union halls, and mainstream American life. It doesn’t have to stay this way though. With the right candidate, we can rebuild that coalition. Obama understood this instinctively.

@dorsizzle2 @chriszilles @A_Colker @BlueGeorgia He had a billion dollars in deposits why would they let him remove it if he owed them money?

@chriszilles @A_Colker @BlueGeorgia so none of that shows why they closed the accounts. No one would’ve known that’s why he banks so there would’ve been no retaliation if they kept his accounts opened. So most likely why they closed his accounts was because he wasn’t paying on debts or abusing the accounts.

Ben McKenzie: Crypto is only good for two things: gambling and crime. Bill Maher: And bribes. McKenzie: That's the crime... Donald Trump, most of the money that he's made in office is via cryptocurrency.

@DavidRCampbell6 @Austin__Berg And missing all that compound interest

@Austin__Berg And then increasing them after the ramp.

Seems notable that the single largest lever in Mayor Mamdani’s proposal to close New York City’s budget deficit is not a new tax on the rich or new state funding. It is simply lowering the city’s contributions to its pension funds (saving $2.3 billion). And that move was made possible due to higher-than-expected investment returns over the last several years. Capitalism was the mayor’s saving grace.

@simongerman600 Now do revenue

If you have this weird gut feeling that the rich pay little tax in the US, your gut is spot on... Source: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@deepscribe @jamesrambin Health nut liberals were anti vaxxers before Covid

@jamesrambin Naomi Klein explains how people like him turned into conspiracy nuts in her book Doppelganger. She calls it "diagonalist politics" like how health nut liberals became anti-vaxxers during COVID.

completely forgotten to people under a certain age that when this movie came out alex jones was a beloved local figure among the vaguely progressive crunchy austin counterculture, like dennis kucinich bumper sticker bouldin creek cafe chronicle readers. hard to explain now

@iTiffanyDarling @Ebbs091 @SirMichaelRocks There’s no wealth tax. The only new tax is the pied a terre tax and it will barely raise revenue. The vast majority of the money is a one time bail out from the state, then he’s raiding pension contributions. The pied a terre revenue won’t even plug 10% of the deficit

@Ebbs091 @SirMichaelRocks But is this TRUE. My understanding is that the money came from (or will come from) the wealth tax.

Can somebody educated in politics explain to me how Mamdani is able to do all this stuff but no other politician is ever able to make any noticeable progress? How does he evade the same bureaucracy the other politicians always blame for not being able to do shit?

@james_roe @JeremiahDJohns “Relatively flat rather than significantly increasing it”. What do relatively and significant mean here?

@joabsamson2 @JeremiahDJohns

Very, very bad and irresponsible of Mamdani to screw with pensions to fix his budget problem. "Restructuring" pension obligations has led to fiscal meltdown in so many cities. It's the fiscal equivalent of a character wandering off alone in a horror movie. You know how it ends.

@jjl8813 @Houseofyogi the only new tax is the pied a terre, which is the smallest part by far in plugging the budget. He failed to get the taxes he campaigned on and had to abandon many of the policies he campaigned on as well. He’s facing and 8 billion dollar deficit next year and 10 bil the next

@Houseofyogi Ok so basically he got some tax hikes on the wealthy and $ from the state, which people said he wouldn’t get either, and the deficit isn’t as bad as it seemed? Sounds like a win lol he capitalized on Hochul desperate for a win? sounds like effective wielding of power to me!

Mamdani is lying to you. He didn't turn a $12B budget deficit to $0. Spark notes: He inflated the deficit by $8B compared to Adams, brought it back down, then closed the rest with one-off bailout funds from Kathy Hochul who's desperate for a win. Funny thing is most of you morons believe it. The entire Democratic party is cheering a lie while "cooking" the books. New York City has been LEGALLY REQUIRED to balance its budget every single year since 1975. State law. The Financial Emergency Act. Passed after the city almost went bankrupt and Gerald Ford told them to drop dead. Mamdani's own budget message brags this is the 47th consecutive balanced budget. Bloomberg balanced. de Blasio balanced. Adams balanced. Giuliani balanced. Crediting Mamdani for balancing the budget is like crediting a taxi driver for stopping at a red light. Now the $12 billion. Adams left office with a projected FY27 gap of $4.69 billion. So where did the extra eight billion come from? Mamdani's own team. They walked in and moved hidden spending back onto the books: rental assistance, shelter ops, special ed reimbursements, NYPD overtime. Legit cleanup work. Then they ran to a podium and called it a deficit they inherited. They printed the number. Then they took credit for printing the number. How did they "close" it? Half came from Albany. Hochul wrote a check: $8 billion in state aid over two years. THIS IS NOT SUSTAINABLE. HE DIDN'T FIX ANYTHING. Mamdani's signature millionaire's tax? KILLED by Hochul. Corporate rate hike? KILLED. Free buses he ran on? KILLED. CityFHEPS expansion he campaigned on? He's in court right now fighting it. Then there's the pension trick. $1.64 billion of the "savings" comes from extending pension amortization from 2032 to 2037. The Citizens Budget Commission called it "a pension gimmick" that "balances this budget on the backs of future New Yorkers." William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance, said it "creates a debt that's more expensive than muni bonds." And the kicker. The budget IS NOT ADOPTED. Council votes June 30. The state budget the whole thing depends on was still not enacted as of last week. Out-year gaps under Mamdani's own numbers: FY2028: $7.1 billion FY2029: $8.5 billion FY2030: $9.8 billion The hole grew $5.4 billion in three months. So the real headline. Hochul cut a check. Future workers eat the pension bill. The structural deficit is BIGGER than the day he walked in. They didn't fix anything. They moved it. The math: $4.69B real gap. $8B from Hochul. $1.64B pension can-kick. $25.9B in future gaps. He didn't balance the books. But he's gambling your future and kicking the can down the road. So maybe stop celebrating. But what do I know. Good luck.

@gayest_tone He’s a repeat felon he can’t get a gun anywhere lol

Yeah I wonder where he would get one of those

@james_roe @JeremiahDJohns It’s his budget though. The under budgeting he was blaming on Adam’s went away from increasing projected revenue based on the increased wall st taxes. The actual 5 billion dollar deficit is entirely from Mamdanis increased spending

@JeremiahDJohns It's only his budget problem if you ignore that it was Mayor Adams who created the issue.

@ethelredunread @JeremiahDJohns This option won’t be on the able tho to help out with the next recession. Hopefully this doesn’t blow up in their face

@JeremiahDJohns This is literally what Bloomberg did after the the Great Recession. It’s a reamortization. People need to stop speaking on this stuff if you don’t know what you’re talking about.