All_Pro_Bills

People wearing and flying American flags and comprising most of the enlisted personnel of the armed forces are anti-American? Everyone with a handful of functioning brain cells can understand the far-left is anti-American.

If proven to be correct, I would imagine they'd bomb those sites again in a couple months. So its all kind of a moot point.

So does Canada. But the purpose isn't to provide taxpayer subsidized cheap liquor prices to alcoholics. Mamdani is the prototypical young commie. Knows what's best for the working person without ever experiencing the life of a working person in any way. I used to see these douches at college. Talking lots of hypothetical bull crap about worker exploitation and and economic theories minus any real world experience. I think these people were allergic to work or manual labor. Meanwhile I'm working the night shift full time at a factory paying my way through college concluding these fools don't know nothing. The probable next Mayor of NYC doesn't have a single original idea. Free this, free that. Nothings free. Its all been tried before. Look at the failed Soviet model. Its all there. It will all result in a very large and spectacular failed social experiment. After the experience it would be fitting if they never win another election.

Well for one, by stopping sex obsessed maniacs and unscrupulous medical practicioners from conning children into going thru gender transition surgeries. Damn Nazis!

Even Wikipedia says he's here illegally. Came here illegally around 2011 at age 16. A gang member coming to escape gang violence. Left out the gang member part to the judge ruling he could stay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia

He's getting due process. Is he here legally or illegally?

I expect years of satellite imagery of personnel and vehicles moving in and around the facilities have provided a good deal of information on the specific coordinates of the facilities. Combine that with eyes on the ground thought to be providing intelligence. Add electronic eavesdropping and "pinging" cell phone coordinates of known participants in the program. Maybe even debriefings of U.N. inspectors as suspected by the Iranians? I would expect all that and other intelligence produced the high degree of confidence about the targets that was necessary to green light the mission. As for deception in war, absolutely. There's good reason it's said "the first casualty of war is the truth".

A deeper inspection of the political environment yields the question how bad are the democrats that voters are willing to tolerate this type of behavior because they conclude he'll get things done that the democrats won"t or he'll fix things they screwed up? My personal assessment in 2024 was overall I disliked Trump less than I disliked Harris.

The latest stats I could find are from 2021 that said NYC has about 36K tax filers making $1 million+. Probably a good assumption there's somewhat more people making that much in 2025. So I think the plan is to tax the crap out of those $1M earners to pay for all the goodies for everybody else. Maybe drive it down to those at $400K? The problem is the basic tax the rich approach which is attractive to voters wanting a lot of perks but not wanting to pay for them directly creates a lot of disincentives for high income individuals to stay in the city. many could decide to leave and set up permanent residency in lower tax States. Which erodes the tax base and makes the expected additional tax revenue vanish. Given the reality that technology has the capability to render the mid-town Manhattan office complex obsolete if you're willing to deal with the lower productivity with working-from-home arrangements and it gives high earners more options than just staying and paying. It changes the decision from having to be in NYC to wanting to be in NYC. Don't think for a minute New Jersey and Connecticut won't be dangling lots of incentives to large employers to leave Manhattan and move to their States.

If Israel wants to be certain the sites and the nuclear material and enrichment equipment have been destroyed they're going to have to send in ground forces.

A victory in the Mayoral general election will provide Democrats almost 3 years time prior to the 2028 national election to destroy NYC.

It's is complicated and i need to say being an American does not obligate a person to side with the government. And if I'm being objective about the situation rather than taking the "American perspective" I don't see any good guy here. I think the cease fire is a farce and hostilities will soon resume. Whether or not those sites and the uranium were destroyed is unimportant. I see the strikes as reinforcing the desire to develop nukes. Mainly, to deter other attacks. I've seen comments out of Russia and China critical of US action with pledges to support Iran. Whatever that means. So far both countries have decided to sit this one out. Other comments saying well just "give" Iran some nuclear weapons. What would be the response to that? Sanction Russia? Doing that already. Direct confrontation? Our forces are superior but there's risk of end of world scenarios. And what about China? They see Iran as essential to their belt and road initiative and global ambitions. The Clerics ruling, maybe not so much. Add to the mixture Trump's penchant to act like a 20 ton truck with no road manners and it's a very volatile situation. Lots of ways everything could go sideways. This could drag on for a lot longer than most think.

The Prez should not be negotiating cease fire or any other deals through social media. Trump's fatal flaw may be he fails to distinguish between the functional roles of US President and Corporate CEO. They are definitely different.

On the other side of the coin the Iranians did not trust the inspectors as they suspected the International Atomic Energy Agency personnel were providing intelligence about the program and the facilities to the U.S. and Israel.

I watch this clip and all I see is what looks like an abandoned series of rail cars from the 1950's.