Take your time deliberating.

And judging by how effective they are, they are overpaid.

Pakled Homan’s bitch.

The general already has Mamdani, Adams, and Sliwa. Anyone voting for Adams or Sliwa probably wasn’t voting for Mamdani anyway. So if Cuomo jumps in as an Indy, he won’t take any votes from Mamdani, who’s already beaten him once, so he’ll have to shave votes from Adams (he can’t be getting too many votes) and Sliwa (he never wins anything). Mamdani will end up with half the votes, and the other three will split the remaining half.

Cities and states sometimes have different rules for different races. Cities are often so Democratic, that elections sometimes end up being between two Democrats. I’ve even seen Republicans register as Democrats so they have a shot at getting people just to listen to them.

Often races like judges, school boards, etc. are officially “non-partisan,” but you can usually figure out which is which by their positions on the issues.

I’m a Hogger.

Me, too. Guy is a typical weak, ineffective nothing. I would vote for any strong-willed Democrat who opposed him.

Peaceful protests, boycotts and sternly worded letters rely on the people you’re protesting having a sense of shame. Which the right (and most of the left) no longer have.

They can do a lot more than that - it can scare them, and that will have an effect.

At their core, Conservatives are cowards. They are literally afraid of EVERYTHING - it’s their primary characteristic. They want to remain in their safe little bubble, with no changes to anything. Any changes can only bring uncertainty, and uncertainty is terrifying to them.

So when the crowds at the protests get larger and larger, week by week, they begin to realize that they are outnumbered, especially the leadership, who KNOWS they cheated to win the election, and know they don’t have anywhere near the numbers on their side that they claim. They know that when the Tipping Point arrives, and the Left finally rises up, they don’t stand a chance.

All they have to defend themselves is empty bluster, and they are scared shitless that we all see it, which we do. That HitlerPig/ Hegseth presser this morning is a perfect examples. Those were two frightened cowards, demanding that everybody acknowledge their empty power, and hoping nobody will realize how weak they really are.

So protests, boycotts, letter campaigns, etc. all serve to amp up their fear, and sooner or later they will do something about it. It’s likely that the first reaction will be violent, but when the counter-response is crushing, and continues to be crushing, they will quickly start demanding to make a deal.

That’s when we should purge MAGA once and for all. No mercy.

Take it from them, and distribute it to the workers who earned it, not the guy who cracked the whip.

Max Frost

I have a bunch in my car. Now I have to remember to take them into the store.

The Conservative Propaganda Machine sure does love it’s buzzwords. They just spend their down time socializing their followers to respond to certain words and phrases like Pavlov’s dogs, and when anything big spins up, they just start chanting them like a mantra until everyone is wound up tight.

9/11, Muslim Jihadist, Muslim Brotherhood, Obama, etc. All they have to do is intone the Holy Propaganda, and they go into a MAGA trance.

Beating well-established Democratic royalty on their home turf by a Muslim is a pretty solid punch in the face.

He even had Clinton’s endorsement. This was a very clear Fuck You to the Democratic party.

Never forget that the President is of pure German ancestry. It’s in his DNA.

How you doin’?

I’m with ya.

I deleted my comment after rereading it, and realizing that it could be easily, and rightfully, misconstrued. Thanks for this link, though.

When people say it’s about Money, specifically, it is about Profit. They are making obscene profits, and they can’t sacrifice one single penny of it; in fact, they have to have even more of it. They can’t continue to exist without a constant stream of ever increasing profits, to hear them tell it.

The Federal Minimum Wage has been increased only twice since 1997 for a total of $2.10. It has been at $7.25 since 2009. When people demand an increase in the minimum wage, there are only two outcomes expected from it - higher prices, or lost jobs, and it is always presented as if those are the ONLY two options available. It never occurs to anyone to perhaps demand that corporations should MAKE LESS PROFIT.

That profit should go back to the workers who actually EARNED that profit through their sweat equity. The argument that they already earn enough doesn’t wash when employed people are living in their cars as a housing choice. Push those sorts of lifestyle compromises long enough, and they become normalized. Someday soon, we’ll have celebrities on TV talk shows going on about how they lived in their car for the first few years they were in town, and it was AWESOME!

Since Covid, Transnational Corporations and their Sociopathic Oligarch owners have reset the costs of living in America, raising prices on everything, without any adjustment on the compensation for labor side.

We’ve been screwed since Congress redrew the Tax Code in 1974, which baked Trickle Down Economics into the tax code. Ever since then, more and more money is transferred from the middle/working classes to the wealthy. They’ve been stealing from us for decades, and they just want to keep doing it.

The median salary of $43K in 1975 has increased to only $50K today, while they would have been making $92K if the tax code hadn’t been steadily re-written to enrich the wealthy at the cost of the middle class and poor.

In that same time period, the mean income for the top 1% went from $289K to $1.384 million, while they would have been making $630K under the old tax codes.

Thats a 17.4% increase in the lower median, and an increase of 321.6% in the 1% median. Clearly there has been an upwards distribution of wealth at the expense of the middle class since the tax codes started to be re-written in 1974 to favor the top economic tier.

Read more about it :

New York Mag: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/09/rand-study-how-high-is-inequality-us.html

Fast Money: https://www.fastcompany.com/90550015/we-were-shocked-rand-study-uncovers-massive-income-shift-to-the-top-1

Just having a job where you can say No to unreasonable demands makes life a lot easier. That’s probably the best benefit of being self-employed - nobody forcing you to do stuff you hate.

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