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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
Master Thread Dance Your Cares Away/Fraggle/Law Abiding Citizens
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Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami.
The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue.
The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price.
Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over.
Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides.
Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores.
I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance, so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality.
People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain, but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving.
This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it.
If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”
Michael Goodwin: Graceless sore winner Zohran Mamdani immediately drops his mask and declares war on NYC
Having fallen in love with the sound of his own voice and apparently convinced he is heaven-sent, a besotted Zohran Mamdani missed the warning that you never get a second chance to make a first imp…
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Rich New Yorkers freaking out after Zohran Mamdani’s win — but escape options are limited
“People are really worried,” a financial adviser told On The Money. “Many are telling me they’re looking to move everywhere from Florida to Connecticut.”
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani admits he wants to take aggressive action on socialist agenda: ‘It is a mandate’
Fresh off the back of his election victory, the Democratic socialist wasted no time in vowing to follow through on his bold and unabashedly progressive plans.
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Miranda Devine: Trump knows he has just one year to fireproof his agenda, safeguard future elections
Donald Trump’s dramatic, four-word salvo on Truth Social just before midnight Tuesday means he knows the honeymoon is over.
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This right here: IS THE SINGLE GREATEST CRIME EVER PERPETRATED AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: Democrats have shut down the government because they want Medicaid for their invasion.
Here is Carlos Arrellano, the administrator of the largest hotel in New York City — the ROW NYC:
• Housing almost 5,000 illegal aliens
• 10- to 14-year-old kids getting drunk
• Trashed hotel rooms
• Guns, violence, and theft from local stores.
And a maternity ward
That’s:
• $950,000 a day
• $6,650,000 a week
• $26,600,000 a month
• $319,200,000 a year
Between the ROW and the Roosevelt Hotel, it has cost the American taxpayer about $7.7 billion over three years to house the invasion under the Biden–Harris administration — just in New York, in these two hotels.
Border Czar Tom Homan: “No one ever talks about it. I’ll talk about it.”“Why did they release people into the interior United States rather than put them into an ICE bed? Why not put them in an empty ICE bed — $127 a night — rather than a hotel at $500 a night?
The Biden administration did it on purpose. If you put them in an ICE detention bed, they get a hearing in 35 days.”In other words: you’ve been Robbed. Blackmailed. Extorted and Deceived. Meaning: they despise the American taxpayer.
Chuck 2020
2022 Fantasy ⚾️ 🏆
I am getting angrier by the day and can’t hold it in anymore. All mooselums should be given 48 hours to leave this country or be executed. Period. So tired of this shit.
Why hasn't DJT/Rubio declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization like Tren de Aragua?
Goldhedge
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Trump has been waiting for Mamdani to win.
He’s been bankrolled by the Muslim Brotherhood from the beginning.
CAIR is a terrorist supporting group that is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
I’ve been trying to tell people, not to fear a Mamdani ascension.
His candidacy was a “gift.”
Mamdani opens the door to a huge part of the insurgency that took a major foothold under Obama.
Was Trump waiting for Mamdani to win?
Trump’s post on Truth Social after Mamdani’s victory.
“…AND SO IT BEGINS!”
Anybody remember this little nugget of information dropped by Secretary of State Marco Rubio a while back?
“Marco Rubio says US working to designate Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization”
“In an interview with Sid Rosenberg on Sid and Friends in the Morning, Rubio was asked about the support New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is receiving from groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood. Rosenberg pressed Rubio on whether the administration would move to officially designate the group, and possibly the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as terrorist entities.”
"Yeah, all of that is in the works," Rubio said, noting that the Brotherhood operates in multiple branches, each requiring its own designation. He stressed that the process is lengthy and must be thorough, but confirmed that it is a priority. “We are constantly reviewing for groups to designate, for what they are: supporters of terrorists, maybe terrorists themselves. We haven’t done this in a long time, so we’ve got a lot of catch-up to do. And you’ve mentioned a couple names, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, that are of grave concern.”
SCOTUS filled with POS traitors too so dont expect them to rule in favor of Trump.
