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I men, somebody has to pay for those tax rebates to billionaire developers, right?

As the Daily News reports, HRA is already so understaffed that NYC residents are suing due to outlandish delays in processing program applications.

Mayor Adams, however, believes that there is no sufficient harassment for NYC’s most vulnerable.

In his new budget, he advocates for major cuts to HRA as well as so many other essential agencies and institutions. Then he gaslights the city by insisting that still more cuts don’t mean still-more remiss functinality.

Say what you will about Christopher Miller’s deference to Trump —
but —
the former acting Defense Secretary is spot on here:

CBS News reports that Miller “has a message for Washington: cut the defense budget ‘dramatically’ and stop making China a bogeyman.

‘Miller argues the Pentagon budget, now at $816 billion, could be slashed by as much as half.”

The poor little rich girl is one badly brought up little missie.

More than that, she is psychotic.

The GOP’s embrace of her–she is now the party’s trailer park Red Queen–is one more indictment of America’s cultural decline.

Even with that mug, DeSantis doesn’t have to present such an obtuse, belligerent appearance.

I mean, if Tallullah at thirty-six could have thought as well as made herself up into the ingenue role in Maugham’s The Circle, DeSantis wouldn’t look so malevolent if anything but malevolence was being entertained behind those squinty, scowly eyes.

Irrefutable.

This was their moment to craft a coherent message and remind America that Republicans believe ardently in socialism for the rich–only. Instead, they played defensive, as usual.
How in the world can we now assume they will stay strong against the GOP’s hostage-taking over the debt ceiling?

Not every Democrat is as stupid, reactive, and collusive as Pelosi, Jeffries, et. al.
My Congressman, Rep. Nadler, voted No.

“This vote has nothing to do with socialism,” Rep. Frost of Florida said, “and everything to do with gutting the programs that millions of Americans have paid into, and have earned,”
all of which, including public education, are stigmatized by the GOP as ‘socialist.'”

Frost is a rising star who is also taking on De Santis’s fascism.

Apparently, the Republicans don’t believe in paying their bills.

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to lift all caps on residential development in New York.

As if the behemoths of 57th Street weren’t already tall enough– and they’re built under the existing height restrictions.

And they’re plying the same fraudulent, condescending scam about “affordable” housing being a justifiction, despite the fact that, as Village Preservation informs us:

“The truth is,the proposal to lift the cap wouldn’t result in or require the creation of a single unit of affordable housing.”

Thanks to John Kerry and other odious, feckless sell-outs, the Summit has become a travesty.

DeSantis weaponizes the people of Florida against their own physical survival via his ruthless attacks on COVID mitigation, but that won’t stop his absurd pretense of populism.