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DrFunkenstein

(8,884 posts)
18. Not If You're A New Yorker
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:16 AM
Saturday

This was a massive win for New Yorkers facing massive budget cuts from Trump's terror regime.

And, just to be clear, we would have been much better off to negotiate with the Taliban and Saddam than to spend $6 TRILLION of the federal budget that could have gone to making people's lives better. How many thousands of lives would have been saved by avoiding unnecessary wars. But we'd rather piss that money away and wave our macho D's around than have bad optics.

People outside of the city worry about images and their small D energy. People inside the city have to deal with the fallout. Kudos for Mamdani for working smarter, instead of chest thumping like Hakeem Jeffries literally waving around his bat.

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