brandon

I don’t know why, but if I had to guess, because it was easier to get the amendment to the city charter passed if they excluded the general election. Once they prove it works maybe it will be easier to expand the scope.

I haven’t heard him mention it, but I bet he would be in favor of it.

Only in the primary, not in the general election.

For 98% of Dems (the politicians, I mean–I don’t think the percentage is as high among the general population) being weak ass babies is what they want. “Norms and traditions” is their ideology.

And she’s already being primaried by her own lieutenant governor, who’s focused on some of the same issues as Mamdani.

My guess is that the benefits only pay out after you’ve been employed a certain number of months or years. So if you get fired for incompetence you probably won’t get the benefit, or you’ll be required to pay it back.

I was chastised by a random person at my local protest for joining in a chant of “Fuck Donald Trump”.

Many of these people are still so attached to the idea of civility politics that they don’t even want anyone to curse.

That’s because they’d rather have a serial sex pest than a s̸̼̹̼͂͐̚ò̵̳͇̝͍̲̪̥͎̆͆͋͊͘͜ͅc̵̡̤̰̳͙̱̰̞̟̈́̈́͝i̶͕͕̹͆̃̈́̽͗̓ḁ̶̯̠̳̅͌̿̋̈́̐͠͝l̶̡̟̮͕̖͉̪̺̇͗ḭ̵͎̲̇ş̶͙̱̼̮̮̼̜̮̃̄́͒̐̒͗̚t̴͙̏̌̈́̎̃̀̀͋͝

It’s a $5M gold card visa program. I don’t think they’ve made any details about the scheme public yet.

I empathize with the hope that the national guard would side with protesters in violation of their orders, but is there any historical precedent for that?

On the other hand, there have been plenty of historical confrontations where the national guard has engaged in violence against demonstrators.

Maybe it can be different this time, but I don’t know.

Typically this position is referred to as ‘Lieutenant Governor’, and every state I know of has one.