Politics/Religion Consolidated Megathread Extravaganza

[Herman]

Polls or No Polls, liberal voters do not care for anyone but themselves. Very evident. With people living in a tent, a car, in the woods, or on a street, it should NEVER happen in Canada. Thanks Mark Carney & Liberal voters!

[DKG]

No one should believe Eric Swalwell's stories were unknown to Democrats. Far more likely is that the details behind his downfalls were not unknown to Democrats; they were simply unacknowledged. There's a big difference, and it makes all the difference. Second only to the scandals themselves is the fact that Democrats stayed silent about them while letting him continue to ascend. California values strike again.

One woman accuses Swalwell of raping her in July 2018. Four other women have also made accusations of sexual assault and harassment.

This was hardly the first time Swalwell had been involved in controversy. A decade ago, he was at the center of a story regarding Christine Fang, aka Fang Fang, a woman accused of being a Chinese operative. According to an Axios story on Fang, she was a fundraiser for Swalwell's 2014 campaign and "interacted with Swalwell at multiple events over the course of several years."

Swalwell also had other questionable activities. He was involved in the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. As commentator Jonathan Turley described Swalwell's role in a Hunter Biden 2023 press conference held to thumb its nose at a congressional investigation of the laptop episode: "Swalwell was standing in front of the same building aiding and abetting both a potential crime and the obstruction of congressional proceedings."

Neither the inner ring of Democratic Party nor the House of Representatives is heavily populated. People know each other. They talk to each other. Yet we are supposed to believe that none of them talked about these episodes.

Scandals were covered up until someone uncovered them and made all the details public. Then Democrats were forced to run for cover themselves. Now they are rushing to run from them and make us forget that they, in all likelihood, knew significant details about both.

This is nothing new in their behavior. We are supposed to believe that the same thing happened with President Biden's incapacity. With Hunter Biden's behavior.

The pattern of admitting only when a thing is undeniable, and despite that it was obvious earlier, is all too clear. It is not simply the product of being above the rules. It is also the product of an establishment news media that Democrats know regularly avoid covering their scandals for as long as humanly possible. And when they are forced to cover them, Democrats know they will not ask the broader question: How did you not know? And when the rumors began to swirl — as they did in both cases — how did you not bother to see if they were true?

[DKG]

New York governor Kathy Hochul has a proposal to implement an annual tax surcharge on luxury second homes in New York City that are valued at $5 million or more.

Announced on April 15, the new surcharge, which would be on top of regular property taxes, is designed to make ultra-wealthy non-residents who do not pay city or state income taxes "contribute their fair share" to city services so that New York City's socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani can close the city's budget gap.

[Lokmar]

New York governor Kathy Hochul has a proposal to implement an annual tax surcharge on luxury second homes in New York City that are valued at $5 million or more.

Announced on April 15, the new surcharge, which would be on top of regular property taxes, is designed to make ultra-wealthy non-residents who do not pay city or state income taxes "contribute their fair share" to city services so that New York City's socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani can close the city's budget gap.

   

Stupid ugly bitch asking for the rich to move back from income tax free Florida!!!!

I think these motherfuckers are ACTUALLY crazy!