New York

[riverhunter]

https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1938288372977701157

[Del.]

Socialist Commie.

[beej]

he is a proud member of the Democratic Socialists. Here is a link to their platform. these are their words, not mine.

https://www.dsausa.org/dsa-political-platform-from-2021-convention/

1)they want to put an end to minority rule by abolishing not only the filibuster but also the senate
2)they want to put an end to the majority rule of the conservative party in the Judicial
3)they want to end the electoral college
4)take political power away from rural areas
5)Extension of voting rights to non-citizens who otherwise meet durational residency requirements for voting
6)Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero
7)Eliminate funding for police public relations campaigns
8)End investment in police training or facility renovations
9)End all misdemeanor offenses, accounting for 80% of total court dockets, reduce jail churn by reducing arrests, and cut funding to prosecutor's offices
10)End all fines and fees associated with the criminal legal process, including ticketing, cash bail, court costs, and parole and probation fees
11)Free all people from involuntary confinement
12)Disarm law enforcement officers, including the police and private security
13)Repeal local ordinances that criminalize people involved in the sex trades, drug trades, and street economies; that criminalize homelessness; and that criminalize squatting and other productive occupation of unused housing
14)Social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure
15)The legal right to a union for all
16)Decertify police unions and associations
17)We call for the nationalization of businesses like railroads, utilities, and critical manufacturing and technology companies, alongside regulation of corporate, communications, data, and financial sectors and collective land ownership
18)Increase consideration of the intersection of disability and sex work  (what the hell?)
19)Encourage replacement of individually-owned vehicles and short-haul air travel with free public transit
20)Immediately withdraw from NATO
21)Demilitarize the border and end all immigrant detention in the US
22)Abolish USAID, NED, Voice of America, and other governmental agencies that cynically disguise capitalist control as aid and journalism
23)Discontinue US support of Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people, including an end to all military aid and resisting the "normalization" of relations between the Israeli government and other governments.
24)Close all US foreign military bases
25)Support self-determination and full sovereignty for Hawai'i
26)Support creation of a new global monetary order that treats all nations equally, to replace the current order that privileges the US dollar
27)Demilitarize the border and end all immigrant detention and abolish ICE


wowzers!

[Smit]

he is a proud member of the Democratic Socialists. Here is a link to their platform. these are their words, not mine.

Well, you're a Trumper so I don't think you have a lot of leeway in mocking other platforms. 

[beej]

Bernie Sanders and AOC were both critical of Doge wanting to cut USAID funds, while at the same time belonging to an organization that advocates for dissolving USAID.

[beej]

Well, you're a Trumper

Am I?

[Smit]

Am I?

I'll ask the magic 8 ball.

Hmmm...signs point to yes.

So, yeah.   

[beej]

I'll ask the magic 8 ball.

Hmmm...signs point to yes.

So, yeah.   

dude! look up and to the left. Not a Trumper, I'm a stinkin' Papist

[Smit]

dude! look up and to the left. Not a Trumper, I'm a stinkin' Papist

That's not mutually exclusive.

See JD Vance. 

[gcode]

Well, you're a Trumper

The bigotry is strong with this one 

[neurosis]

Bernie Sanders and AOC were both critical of Doge wanting to cut USAID funds, while at the same time belonging to an organization that advocates for dissolving USAID.

I was wondering about this.

Has the new Mayor of NY been critical of gutting USAID? 

I don't know that every proclaimed Democratic Socialist supports every platform policy in the same way I would expect that not every Trump voter supports every single Trump policy. I don't know anything about this guy so I was curious about this one in particular.

[beej]

I was wondering about this.

Has the new Mayor of NY been critical of gutting USAID? 

I don't know that every proclaimed Democratic Socialist supports every platform policy in the same way I would expect that not every Trump voter supports every single Trump policy. I don't know anything about this guy so I was curious about this one in particular.

that is a fair point. But in that long list of things that I found disturbing from their platform if he even believes in half of those...he is unfit for office. (IMO of course)

[Del.]

that is a fair point. But in that long list of things that I found disturbing from their platform if he even believes in half of those...he is unfit for office. (IMO of course)

He wants a $30/hr minimum wage.

[beej]

I wonder why journalist never ask the question, "Are there things the Democratic Socialist believe that you disagree with?"

[Smit]

I wonder why journalist never ask the question, "Are there things the Democratic Socialist believe that you disagree with?"

There's no point to the question. Politicians lie.

Like a journalist asks, "do you support project 2025?"

Politician answers, "never heard of it."