A Muslim voted in to run New York City and we also have a felon running our country.

[Salty Again]

Originally Posted by jayzee43

How can anyone bankrupt even ONE casino? The art of the deal? Lol. trump is a fucking caricature of a businessman.

... Yet me point was - you were WRONG, yes?

#### Salty

[txdot-guy]

Originally Posted by jayzee43

How can anyone bankrupt even ONE casino? The art of the deal? Lol. trump is a fucking caricature of a businessman.

Originally Posted by Salty Again

... Yet me point was - you were WRONG, yes?

#### Salty

Regardless, The fact is that over the course of his business career he’s declared bankruptcy 6 times and restructured debt (failed to pay back his creditors) to the tune of three to four BILLION dollars. And now this fool is doing the same thing to the American people. This should loosen the bowels of every taxpayer out there.

[jayzee43]

Originally Posted by Jacuzzme

Pretty easy when the entire city goes bust because they were solely reliant on casino revenue, which they had a near east coast monopoly on, and all the sudden the market gets saturated in surrounding states. There were once busses full of oldsters pouring in to drop their social security checks in a slot machine, then casinos started popping up all over PA, NY and Delaware and destroyed the market. AC was awesome back in the day, better than Vegas in a lot of ways, but now you can gamble all over the place, even on your phone.

No you don't. Facts matter, and words mean things.

trump bankrupted those casinos LONG before AC became a dump or casinos started popping up in other states. And DECADES before gambling on your phone was a thing.

But hey, nice try

[jayzee43]

Funny how it's fucking crickets from the Maggies regarding Mamdani's utter THRASHING of trump in the Oval Office the other day.

I'll just leave this here again, in case any Maggies wanna step up to the plate and explain how their boy got ROLLED by Mr. Sharia Law

https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2027113267710021738

[lustylad]

Originally Posted by bambino

BREAKING: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is getting absolutely TORCHED online after his administration's emergency snow shoveler signup was exposed — requiring two passport-style photos, two original forms of ID (plus copies), and a Social Security card just to shovel snow for $19/hour.

Meanwhile, most registered voters in New York City can cast ballots without showing any ID at all.

UNBELIEVABLE!

[bambino]

Oops

[fd-guy]

Originally Posted by bambino

BREAKING: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is getting absolutely TORCHED online after his administration's emergency snow shoveler signup was exposed — requiring two passport-style photos, two original forms of ID (plus copies), and a Social Security card just to shovel snow for $19/hour.

Meanwhile, most registered voters in New York City can cast ballots without showing any ID at all.

UNBELIEVABLE!

So just to untangle this a bit — applying for a temporary city job that pays $19/hour requires identity verification and employment eligibility documents… and that’s being compared to voter ID laws?

Those are two completely different systems governed by different legal standards. One is payroll and employment law. The other is election law.

Requiring documentation to get paid by the city isn’t some shocking dystopian twist — it’s how hiring works everywhere.

‘UNBELIEVABLE!’ feels like it’s doing most of the heavy lifting here

[fd-guy]

Originally Posted by Green_Mountain

So NYC is in a budget crunch.

Far left Mamdani proposes to raise taxes, raid the rainy day and pension fund.

And now he wants to waste $70 million more at the expense of tax payer, for city run grocery stores? These grocery stores have never worked any where.

He’s actually ahead of schedule to run NYC into the ground.

Crazy fucking Dems ruin everything they touch.

https://x.com/nypost/status/2026758682998886580?s=20

Budget debates in New York happen almost every year, regardless of who’s in office. Raising taxes, tapping reserves, or funding new programs are policy choices — people can disagree on whether they’re smart or not.

But saying ‘Democrats ruin everything they touch’ isn’t analysis, it’s just a slogan.

If you think city-run grocery stores won’t work, that’s a fair argument to make — what evidence is there from other cities? What were the outcomes? That’s a policy discussion.

‘NYC is going to hell’ is a headline. Whether a $70 million program is wise or not is a debate.

[jayzee43]

Anytime Mamdani faces a budget crisis, he knows (and has already proven) all he needs to do is request an Oval Office meeting with donnie diaperload, present him with some phony award and some flattering rhetoric, and trump turns to putty in his hands.

Every pet project in NYC will soon be funded by the federal government. Mamdani knows how to roll trump.

And it's fucking glorious. The blueprint has been laid. trump just loves "winning awards" and having nice things said about him. Like a precious little princess. Mamdani owns trump.

[Green_Mountain]

Originally Posted by fd-guy

Budget debates in New York happen almost every year, regardless of who’s in office. Raising taxes, tapping reserves, or funding new programs are policy choices — people can disagree on whether they’re smart or not.

But saying ‘Democrats ruin everything they touch’ isn’t analysis, it’s just a slogan.

If you think city-run grocery stores won’t work, that’s a fair argument to make — what evidence is there from other cities? What were the outcomes? That’s a policy discussion.

‘NYC is going to hell’ is a headline. Whether a $70 million program is wise or not is a debate.

For starters Eric Adams warned about the coming budget concerns due to, well, illegals. Old Biden let ‘em in and bused or flew them all over and NYC is a big attraction. But those illegals aren’t free. Shelters, food, etc. They got help that wasnt budgeted and Biden and the Dems cheered at the expense of the NYC taxpayer.

Other budget stuff? Free stuff ain’t free. Does this model, and how Mamdani appears to be echoing certain aspects work in Cuba? Venezuela? Where did it work? Nowhere.

Lastly you know what the profit margin for a grocery store is? It’s 1-3%. So NYC and government cronies are going to set up shop and run this thing as efficiently as the experts and the public will see that level of profit margin as additional savings off of their groceries? Sure.

If food access is a concern I’d rather see him offer tax incentives for multiple grocery stores to move in and do what they do best. Let them compete against each other, the consumer will benefit.