seangralton.bsky.social
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Schumer’s entire personality is an elongated whine.
And who is this Jeffries person you speak of? Is he elected somewhere?
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Narrator: they were not, in fact, planning anything in secret. 🤷🫣😡
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Looks like it was pretty successful. 🤣✊🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Back in the day, federal jobs used to be Really Good Jobs. Now, federal lawyers and judges and, I’m sure other well-educated professionals, leave good federal jobs for higher paying jobs in the private sector when the kids are in college. Not great. And it’s clear trump will further crappify them. 🫠
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In the coming Insurgency Against Jackassery, dactylonomy won’t be the tell.
Interrogator: You say you aren’t from Canada and yet your attitude suggests otherwise.
Insurgent: What aboot my attitude???
Got ‘im.
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Good to hear that it was changed. But it is EXHAUSTING to see so many institutions presume that this guy can just wave a hand and do anything he wants.
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What’s with that headline? Just bc trump SAYS he’s done something should NEVER be interpreted as him ACTUALLY having done said thing. This headline is giving him way too much power. Right now, the cameras are still on. Congestion pricing is not actually dead.
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And the B-roll footage accompanying the Habba babble is all jammed up cars from before congestion pricing. Like… how does that look good in any way?
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Ok, looks like I’ll be reposting this a lot.
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Maybe HE is the crime! 😬😬😬
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Yup. Basically, their argument is “I want free stuff,” but opposition to CP tends to be among people who otherwise scream about government “handouts” to anyone but them, so it’s a really tough argument for them to make.
Dumb, dumb, disingenuous, dumb.
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That is a valid (tho risable) argument from personal interest, but most folks make a special pleading for why CP is bad.
For instance, I haven’t heard Gov Murphy say “Tolls are bad,” just “CP is bad.”
“Sir,” I say, with tears in my eyes, “Have you heard of the NJ Turnpike?”
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Time to touch grass. 🤣
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Now I’ve won Bluesky. 🤣😂🤣
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None of the arguments against CP are in good faith. Not one.
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Actually, a good number, yes.
Wealthy people are famously cheap. Perhaps, as a Marxist, you don’t know many.
If you’re right, why don’t you propose a toll based on car model? Good proxy for income. $5.80 for a Honda, $5,000 for a Porsche. Easy to do. We could do that for all tolls. Everywhere.
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Marxist, it’s $9 a day.
And the subway is $5.80 a day.
Are you worried about the poor people having to pay the subway fare or just on the road?
Some Marxists have gotten strangely niche these days.
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If your imaginary poor person is spending the cash to own a car and drive it into Manhattan daily where parking costs $50 a day, I’m sure they can use the same imaginary accountant they use to manage their imaginary millions of dollars in the stock market.
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Look, Marxist, NYC isn’t the only place in the US that has a road toll.
Do you oppose them all, or just the one in NYC, because vibes?
Fact is, opposing it is virtue signaling nonsense from a “billionaire” looking for another distracting issue to rant about.
of course, MAGA folks will lap it up.
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Seems like you don’t like an unequal society, where some
people have more money than others
Are you a Marxist?
Oh, low income folks get a rebate. But, you’d know that if your opinion was based on more than vibes.
Subways, of course, are still cordoned off for the wealthy.
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The goal of the tax is clearly stated in what it is called. It’s a congestion charge.
Before the toll, when driving was free, the subway cost 5.80 for the same trip. It still does.
By your logic, I guess the whole point of that 5.80 was to make sure that only rich people could afford the subway.
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It’s so weird that people from outside NYC care about a toll inside NYC. Like, don’t you have roads in your own towns? It’s seriously weird to get all jacked up about a toll you’ll never pay in a city where, if you EVER visit, you’ll get around by walking. BTW, in NYC normal people take the train.
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We’ve figured out Phil Murphy’s price for supporting fascism.
$9 dollars, minus a $3 toll credit.
To paraphrase Rick in Casablanca: “I don't mind a fascist. I object to a cut-rate one.”
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Clever argument. I’m convinced.
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Thank you for accurately characterizing DOT’s action with scare quotes!
Too many folks just take these scraps of paper as done deals.
DOT claims it is cancelling the agreement. That doesn’t mean it has or can.
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To own the libs. Burning down anything good and popular to own the libs.
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It’s a signed agreement.
Under what legal authority can the DOT unilaterally withdraw it?
While i appreciate your fight for this, I don’t think trump reversed the congestion pricing agreement because i think trump CAN’T reverse the agreement. Don’t characterize it as effective reversal!
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The DOT did not terminate an agreement.
The DOT issued a statement saying that they terminated an agreement.
Because you say something does not mean that you’ve done something. There is no evidence that the DOT can rescind it’s previously granted approval.
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The difference between $8 billion and $8 million is approximately $8 billion.
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If it’s good, trump will destroy it.
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🤦🤦🏻♀️🤦♂️🙈
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You know, NBC News, you might have mentioned that had they followed the legally mandated procedure, instead of freelancing illegally, this “oopsie” would not have happened.
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That’s right outside the German school. They have experience with real fascists, and know that Musk’s “Nazi salute” was, in fact, a Nazi salute. Americans are still
coming up to speed.
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That’s a great article. I’ll have to read the book. The nihilism is the point, and the effete left of linguistic etiquette and consciousness raising doesn’t seem to understand and seems woefully unprepared for what we are facing.
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It’s super hard to convince anyone that Chuck Schumer is going to start throwing serious punches when he’s always looking over the top of his readers. My guy, nobody gets in a fistfight without taking off their glasses. Image matters.
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Job losses at this level will cause GDP growth to stall. Wages will likely crater. Stagnation.
And tariffs will cause prices to rise. Inflation.
Stagflation. Thanks trump.
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Cutting jobs at this scale will hurt GDP growth, not to mention wage growth (and could even reverse it).
Tariffs will increase prices.
So what we have is stagnation plus inflation.
Stagflation. On purpose.
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Most Members won’t use the miles they earn by flying home every weekend to upgrade from time to time, because some clown will pop up and ask why they aren’t in economy. The good ones work 24/7. The bad ones should be voted out- that’s on voters. Giving people crap for how they travel is stupid.
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That has crossed my mind…
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Monetary stress is one of the biggest reason people sell out their country, and while most will likely resist the temptation, a child asking “When can we eat again, mommy?” could make the most ardent patriot desperate enough to do anything. 🫠
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Huh, lots of angry people, some with security clearances and lots of knowledge valuable to foreign adversaries, suddenly facing mortgage payments and hungry kids, with no jobs, limited prospects and a feeling that their nation just betrayed them.
That won’t end badly, will it?
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Yup. Not fun though! 🤷🤣
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Did @wired.com set you up? I’m getting the same message.