President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

This is my weapon, this is my gun.

 

That wealth IS taxed. You want to double tax it?

Always so easy to spend other people's money.

 

Its funny, the only actual legislators who have acted on "defunding the police" are "back the blue" Republicans.

 

I'm fine with the tax the way it is - but maybe eliminate some loopholes and shelters?

World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer

Granted these are the uber of the uber wealthy, but can anyone explain what they actually DID or accomplished since COVID to merit such a windfall? Its not like they invented another Amazon or Tesla in the last four years.

 

It's a lot easier to make $2 million from $1 million than it is to make $1 million from $0.

Those guys just throw some exponents on that equation.

 

I mean, ok - he beat Hilary - people wanted to "shake things up," instead we got Capt. Chaos and his henchmen. And the American people are stupid enough to give it another try? Biden is too old? What's the worst thing that could happen? A black woman President?

 

Sorry for the confusion, my friends.

But for this to work anything like Gov. Hochul describes - “No one heading to their job or to visit family or go to a doctor appointment should worry that the person sitting next to them possesses a deadly weapon,” the governor said. - it has to be stop-and-frisk, doesn't it? Not just random bag checks.

Stop-and-frisk is unconstitutional.

Random bag checks are political theater.

 

Shoot, with drones and everything - if terrorists want to take out a plane, they don't need to go through the trouble of trying to bypass TSA screening. I mean, one guy tries to make his shoe into a bomb and we all take our shoes off - get the x-ray screenings. Thousands of kids shot in schools over the last 20 years.....nothing we can do about.

 

Charles Barkley Goes Off on Black People Wearing Trump Mugshot Merch: ‘You Are a Freakin’ Idiot’

Imagine all the MAGA-bots thinking they'll "get" Barkley, by not just showing a picture of a Trumper with a mugshot T-shirt, but composing/photoshoping/AI-ing a foto of a BIG black man to respond to his "threat." And show how many black people love Trump. Give me a break.

 

If we really want to make the subway safer, we have to

- change the laws around involuntary psychiatric commitment

- build a mental health apparatus commensurate with a metropolitan population of more than 30 million people

- build housing for the homeless commensurate with a metropolitan population of more than 30 million people

 

Most folks mean well, but don't realize the scale of the thing under discussion.

More than 450 stations. Nearly 2 billion rides a year.*

24 hours a day / 365 days a year.

500 trains in service at rush hour. Each with 8 0r ten cars.

1000 extra National Guard MPs or State Troopers won't make a dent.



*pre-pandemic