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Guess the Mayor doesn't buy the arguments that nothing possibly could've been done to prevent or at least mitigate the damage from the wildfires. Durn democrat hating partisan hack. 😉

Nah, the powers that be in that party know that's not the reason. But they still hope to keep the plebes believing that, so they keep shouting it.

Well, considering his task force expires on July 4, 2026, probably not.

Seriously, you think if 45/47 is on that list that that particular tidbit wouldn't have come out by now? He flew on one of Epstein's planes from FLA up to NY once. If he ever flew on the Lolita Express it would've come out if not when Crossfire Hurricane were in full operation then during one of the several other investigations into him during 46's term.

Minor quibble, it was engineers that figured out how to power the space shuttle.

A big chunk of the reason for the need to raise the debt ceiling is to, at a minimum, keep the 2021 tax cuts from sunsetting. Because regardless of how pretty much every past tax cut resulted in an increase in tax revenue, as the economy grew and the feds took in a smaller piece of a larger pie resulting in more revenue, the CBO continues to score all tax cuts, and tax increases btw, as purely stand alone events with no effect on the economy other decreasing or increasing revenues by exactly what those tax cuts/ new taxes would bring with no other changes. 47 is trying to cut taxes further than where they were in '24. With no debt ceiling increase, no tax cuts are possible. And, yes, the budget deficit and the national debt also routinely go up when tax cuts are enacted. But that's due to the typical spending blowout that accompanies the legislation providing for the tax cuts. Should they hold the line on spending, they shouldn't be raising the deficit by nearly a full $4T as last year's deficit was "only" $1.8T. So, without any signigicant changes to the budget from what it was in 2024, they'll increase the national debt by ~$2T. Personally, would really like to see that go down and expect a good way to move in the right direction is to significantly reduce fraud and waste so spending at worst holds steady and at best actually goes down and to also grow the economy. Work both sides of the financial equation for the 1st time since at minimum when the former Soviet Union broke up and we could reduce military spending significantly resulting in the so called "peace dividend." One final note, contrary to popular belief, ALL government spending is a tax. Whether it's paid by taxes, levies, whatever other word one would like to use for current taxes or by taking on debt; eventually every penny of it will have to be paid for and the way that happens is through taxes.

Umm, THAT ship sailed when 44 and the rest of the West turned a blind eye to Russia annexing Crimea. The question now isn't will Ukraine cede additional territory but rather how much. Would guess that it'll be more than it would've ceded had it accepted the ceasefire proposed in the first months of the conflict that Boris Johnson (in one of his last acts as PM and acting on the behalf of both the UK and the US) talked Zelensky out of accepting. But we shall see.

And THAT is why IIRC the RI judge (there's so many lawsuits currently in play, hard to keep track of them all) ordered DOGE and the Treasury Secretary to not just not access any files/servers/databases but also to delete anything they've currently obtained. And THAT in a TRO is truly d*mning of the judge's intentions. To tell them not to do anything with the data while the lawsuit is in motion seems reasonable. To tell them to get rid of it all which allows any bad actor an ability to delete potentially without any records of what they're deleting should they also manage to delete items from the current archives, seems rather shortsighted and premature at a minimum and rather nefarious in itself in a worst case.

You should've specificied a bit more precisely to "(h)ow anyone that isn't in a position considered to be "overhead" at one of these reseasrch institutions has a problem with it ..." as pretty sure those people have a BIG problem with it. 😉

You thought he was investigating Burisma for nepotism? 🤨

That's the stated reason for why 44's administration in general and 46 in particular wanted him gone. The fact he was investigating Burisma for corruption and then that investigation ended after he was removed was purely coincidental, right?

Then you should be happy as SoS Rubio who now directs USAID said that's exactly what he plans to do. Keep the actual charitable work open and shut down the grift that doesn't align with US Foreign Policy.

Or the cognitive dissonance it creates hits a little too close to home.

In NYS the mandates to get the latest boosters to attend a state university weren't lifted until shortly after classes begain in September 2022. Thanks, Kathy. (Hoping there aren't a lot of myocarditis injuries courtesy of that little gift to our students.) Pretty much the rest of the country had gotten rid of mandates by then, but not NYS. Of course, NYS also had the mandates requiring nursing homes to accept residents with Covid back into them until almost the end of May 2020 and was asking retired (aka those individuals most at risk of death should they get infected) doctors and nurses to come back to work in the Spring of 2020 to help alleviate the workload of the healthcare workers early in the crisis.

Far more likely an accidental lab leak. Which was then run with because in the words of Rahm Emanuel "never let a crisis go to waste." Makes extremely little sense for the CCP to intentionally release the virus into their own populace rather than in a foreign nation if they were releasing it intentionally. (And it could EASILY be released into a foreign nation via a scientist from the lab being "accidentally" infected and then immediately traveling to an international conference held somewhere else or from a worker in the lab "accidentally" getting infected then immediately traveling internationally for vacation or whatever. And they did quite a number on Italy via essentially that route; but well after they were already dealing with the crisis domestically.) Yeah, China has a demographic problem as they have a very large elderly population relative to the overall population, but can't believe their leadership saw releasing a manufactured virus into their own population (and literally in the same city the lab that sure seems to have created the virus is located) as being the solution to that problem. Occam's razor says accidental lab release is most likely.