Go ahead TACO.
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Hilarious watching these idiots call literally everything they don't like "communism".
Communist, socialist, anarchist, antifa, woke, leftist. Which ones am I missing that ain’t slurs?
It's their catch all term for any policy that helps average Americans. After all, licking billionaire's butts is just too irrestible for these class traitors.
Communism, pedophiles, terrorists. Take your pick.
Your move, orange boy.
I'm sure it's perfectly legal to interfere with a free and fair election.
what is anyone going to do about it? I think it's clear that dumpy is immune to laws.
This is impeachable ... par fot the course with Trump and MAGA. So sick of injustice.
how many times do you think any other president would have been successfully impeached for trump's roll of crime? 50? 100 times?
to me, the confidential docs debacle and j6 are the worst of the worst; the docs one stings especially because I know what it takes to obtain and maintain a security clearance and wonder how much he put at risk - both human assets and strategic plans - in his fucking bathroom - knowing that similar behavior in the military would get you a nice stretch at leavenworth federal correctional facility and you might see freedom in a few decades. maybe.
dems should enumerate the list and use it any time someone talks about presidential fitness. "Oh you're worried about a woman president, but this fuck did treason after treason and that's fine?"
The billionaires don’t want you to know this but you pay taxes to the states your business is located in. You don’t just “leave” because taxes. The businesses these billionaires own in New York are still subject to taxes.
What’s crazy is the right has “donated” more money to supporting cuomo than Mamdani would have even taxed them.
Businesses already set up headquarters in Delaware for tax reasons. They're not going to leave New York City, one of biggest markets on Earth. This argument from conservatives was always stupid.
My Trump-addled father is now declaring that Wall St is going to relocate to Texas because of Mamdani's victory. 😐
Yeah but there is no quid pro quo with Mamdani. As far as I know...
Communism vs the dictator l
Trump has a lot of property in New York.
Sure would be a shame if he finally saw some consequences and lost a few dozen of them.
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I wanna see Mam win!!
He won
djt wouldn't be able to name the communist countries in the world to save his life. It is a very anti-American behavior to label half of Americans as enemies. The US totally includes an opposition party. Idiot still doesn't understand what a democracy is and how to stay in his lane.
China and Cuba, that's the only places they ever mention if they do.
No way, he'd way over estimate
Sweden The UK Venezuela Colombia New Zealand France Etc
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Whenever these fucks try and paint Americans as terrorists and threaten to cut off anything they create monsters they can't control. Anyone he attacks becomes wildly popular and almost assures them victory. Especially if he has his thugs come rough them up.
Fuck you cancer. You take far too many good people while skipping this piece of shit.
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Idk man, I see a lot of red caps at a certain party's rallies
red = obvious communist symbolism
I think those caps even say "make america great again" which obviously sounds like a communist slogan
I'd say we arrest these filthy communists 😏
sounds like a communist slogan
I've always been amused by the fact that "gung ho" (which in Mandarin means "pull together", as in pulling on a rope in unison) started out as a slogan of the Chinese Communist Party under Mao and then migrated to the US during WWII because of an openly-communist Marine. Its real meaning is more like "be a team player" but it was somehow transformed into "eagerly shoot brown people".
Also, the Marines' "ooh rah" chant sounds exactly like the Soviet Red Army's chant. More weird shit.
“gung ho” (which in Mandarin means “pull together”, as in pulling on a rope in unison)
I'm a native Mandarin speaker and I'm so confused what ur talking about lolz.
You mean like 共和? "together in unison/harmony" aka: "republicanism"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho
The wikipedia article doesn't mention the "pull together" (as in rope pulling) interpretation. That was from a book about Mao that I read a long time ago, I can't remember what it was. The book had a bit about Evans Carlson traveling with Mao's army and meeting him. I am certainly not a Chinese speaker so I'm happy to have my inaccuracies corrected.
Sounds like a borrowed term from a random word converted into English. I wasn't aware there were any nationwide propaganda slogan related to it, looks like just some random slogan from a state-owned organization.
I may be wrong, but isn't NYC more of a money generator than it's a receiver? If that's so, I don't see how NYC would suffer, but it would widen the divide between such areas and poor dotational ones, making their people possible maga recruits.
Most blue areas produce money, most red areas (excluding Texas I think) are leeches.
T*xas very much does too, despite how much they like to act big and bad and independent.
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Florida and Texas are the two notable red states that aren't mostly empty.
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So that would mean that New York could stop paying federal taxes, no? I'm sure it contributes more than it receives
I always find it hilarious how red states and their leaders are all about cutting off funds to the blue states that fund their miserable existence. "We will secede from the US!" Ok Boomer, good luck with funding yourself as all of you are so mismanaged that you would fail to feed your own population within the year.
lol NY doesn’t need “his” funds. Trump needs NY funds though.
Other states should protest by withholding taxes, as well. United, yes?
That's not really how it works - there's no one big sack of cash that gets handed over by the state, individual businesses (and people) pay their taxes to the IRS directly, and then separately to the state tax agencies (obvs leaving out some of the draconian nuance here). States don't have a practical method of withholding taxes short of going to every business and demanding they stop paying the feds. While hypothetically possible at some point, it's not in the short term feasible.
There is a big sack of cash that gets handed over by the state: the federal payroll taxes for all the state government employees.
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Good thing it is legal for Trump and only Trump to meddle in elections. Yay.
This is what’s happening. We all get riled up saying NY contributes more to the federal government than it receives so Trump needs NY more than it needs Trump. Which may be true, but the reality is that Trump is trying to dissuade voters.
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I really can’t think of higher praise.
I'd love to see NYC set up a voluntary escrow account for federal taxes.
You don't have to pay shit till taxes are due, have NYC sit on their withholdings and trump won't be able to build any ballrooms.
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How the fuck...
When the ever loving fuck are people going to wake up and remember their government/civics lessons??
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