“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues”
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Hate to say it - but there is something to this post and reality.
Japanese celebrating their soccer match at SHIBUYA crossing. Notice the difference in behavior New Yorkers?
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Japan fans are cleaning up after themselves at AT&T Stadium.
The American mind cannot comprehend this.
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Jun 14
As New York City celebrated a Knicks championship last night, the men and women of the NYPD were working across all five boroughs to keep people safe.
That included dealing with a relatively small number of people who used celebration as an “excuse” to turn to violence.
Many cops worked long, grueling tours. Many came in on their days off. And many went straight from a long night into the Puerto Rican Day Parade and FIFA watch parties this morning.
To every cop who put themselves at risk to ensure others could celebrate safely: thank you for your noble service.
This city is grateful.
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sit back have a cigar and enjoy the fights...
Jun 14
Remember, during today's literal cage match on the White House grounds:
No matter what, it's not his house. It's our house.
Get a hat, coaster, or sticker to support groups and candidates who will respect the form AND the function of the people's house. shop.onwardtogether.org/coll…
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not to be crude but she may want to sit this one out... idk
Jun 14
Remember, during today's literal cage match on the White House grounds:
No matter what, it's not his house. It's our house.
Get a hat, coaster, or sticker to support groups and candidates who will respect the form AND the function of the people's house. shop.onwardtogether.org/coll…
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Jun 12
Apollo snubs Mamdani, picks Texas tech hotspot for second US HQ trib.al/hmVUH92
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yes this is a big issue and not good for anyone. The costs of an education has gone up way too fast - we need to rain in underlying costs - administrative bloat and other costs and improve the productivity of higher education.
My mom paid $1,200 a semester for college in 1995. Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $2,500 today.
I just checked my tuition bill. It’s $14,000 a semester.
And they still tell us we’re broke because we eat avocado toast.
No. What’s crushing this generation is a system that let tuition grow 6x faster than inflation while wages barely moved.
It was never about the toast.
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Jun 13
.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.
SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.
Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.
SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.
Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.
The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.
Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.
Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.
Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.
Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.
We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.
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Jun 12
Elon Musk's contribution to the national economy:
Over 2021–2025, Musk's companies (Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company) reportedly injected ~$338 billion directly into the U.S. economy via:
• $110.7 billion in wages/salaries (supporting • 200,000 employees at competitive pay).
• ~$46 billion in taxes (corporate, payroll, etc.).
• $182 billion in supplier spending (e.g., Tesla alone spent heavily on U.S. batteries, chips, steel).
Source: odaily.news/en/post/5207545
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During his lifetime, Bernie Sanders has contributed approximately $0.00 to the national economy.
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Jun 12
2021. Elizabeth Warren calls Elon Musk a freeloader and falsely claims that he pays no taxes.
A week later it was revealed that Elon would be paying over $11 billion in taxes for the year.
Meanwhile Warren continues to contribute nothing to society.
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Jun 13
Does this look indicative of $729,729.73 per unit?
@GovKathyHochul announced the opening of Freedom Village on Manhattan’s Lower East Side!
This $54M fully accessible development provides 74 affordable supportive homes for survivors of domestic violence and older adults experiencing homelessness, with on-site services to help residents live independently and with dignity.
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Jun 12
"Socialists have a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they know, wealth just exists somehow, and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it,” Thomas Sowell said.
If Mamdani wants to unveil billions in new programs he should be far more concerned with wealth creation that redistribution... @AmericaRpts @SandraSmithFox
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Jun 12
Hiking water rates is another way Mamdani tosses ‘affordability’ overboard trib.al/fYuDv2L
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Jun 12
Open your eyes, your hearts and your minds.
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This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
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Jun 11
Listen, the Office of Mass Communication isn't going to fund itself. Choices need to be made.
NEW: With NYC’s cash flow tightening the Mamdani Admin considers delaying payments -due in July- to hundreds of nonprofits serving ppl in need. A new law requires NYC to pay these contractors more up-front this yr with an exception for fiscal constraints.
nbcnewyork.com/new-york-city…
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Jun 12
NYC Transit Felony and Misdemeanor Complaints 2018-2026
2018: 10,940
2019: 10,684
2020: 6,293
2021: 7,807
2022: 9,733
2023: 13,204
2024: 25,839
2025: 30,960
2026 (YTD through March): 8,153
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Jun 11
"While some 63 people were responsible for more than 5,000 arrests on the subway last year."
This is what happens when the same offenders are allowed to cycle through the system without consequences. New Yorkers are tired of this lawlessness.
We need to crack down on transit crime, remove repeat and violent offenders from transit systems, and restore safety to our subways.
thedispatch.com/article/crim…
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Jun 10
NYC Common Sense released the following statement regarding a horse collapsing and passing away in Central Park yesterday.
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Jun 10
OMG KATHY HOCHUL IS ON THE BRINK OF BANKRUPTING THE GREAT STATE OF NEW YORK; NYS BUDGET IS NOW $277B
Not the $260B Hochul announced; not the $268B later announced but $277B.
Here are some of the insidious details of Horrible Hochul's budget:
1. Through 2030, government spending increasing at 5.4% while tax revenue only increasing at 2.9%.
2. Medicaid spending growth this year is 16.1% YOY to a whopping $39.44B. New York is now spending $80% more per year per resident than the national average.
3. School enrollment peaked at 2.8M; current enrollment only 2.4M. Spending continues to increase despite already being the highest per-pupil in the nation while yielding just mediocre test scores.
4. Executive branch of the NYS government has expanded from 115K employees in FY26 to 125K in FY27 - an expansion in government.
5. Debt is exploding
FY25 - $55.9B
FY26 - $60.3B
FY27 - $69.3B
14.92% increase in a single year!
6. This spending is being spent on unproductive uses while the state acknowledges they are funding recurring spending with revenue tied to Wall Street bonuses and stock-market performance.
7. State continues to shift huge money to socialist Mamdani who hasn't even managed a lemonstade before. The subsidy provided to the socialist in FY27 is 50% more than aid provided five years ago during the pandemic.
8. Budget was balanced with one time measures.
9. The State admits it needs emergency powers to cut spending if imabalcne of $2B or greater emerges. The admisntration knows there is meaningful downside risk.
10. The budget is full of bloat for Kathy Hochul's cronies in government.
Attorney General budget up 11.5%
Comptroller budget up 9.6%
Legislature budget up 13.1% in one year
Governor Hochul's FY27 budget grows spending by 8.3% while tax revenues are projected to grow only 2.9% annually going forward. The result is a structural deficit that explodes from a balanced budget today to a projected $14.7 billion gap by FY2030, even as Medicaid spending surges 16%, school spending rises despite falling enrollment, the state workforce grows by more than 12,000 employees, and state debt approaches $70 billion.
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