Mandami

Quote: SOOPOO

Let’s say you are correct. You want someone in your administration openly saying they don’t care about stores being torched because a different crime was committed? Really? You try and defend the undefendable, quite often, actually!

Quote: GenoDRPh

So says the man who supports the ring leader of the Jan 6 insurrection, illegally tried to stay in power, pardoned those who were charged or convicted of said Jan 6 crimes, and is now trying tio gaslight the American public about said Jan 6 events.

But, hey, Joe Kennedy, a known swindler and stock cheat, was made the first commissioner of the SEC. No different than using reformed ex-cons and street criminals and gang members to help clean up the streets.

Quote: SOOPOO

I don’t accept your assertion that Trump was ‘a ring leader’ of the insurrection.
I don’t accept your assertion that he illegally tried to remain in power. He filed a gazillion lawsuits challenging the result, and when he lost, he left office when Biden was sworn in.
I am 100% against his decision to pardon the insurrectionists.
Joe Kennedy? The guy dead for 56 years? You ok? Blaming Trump for him too?

My point is simple Mamdani has appointed an official involved in ‘crime’ who openly stated she didn’t care about the arson of a large store. It’s another of many ‘you can’t make this up’ moments about Democrat leadership.

Quote: SOOPOO

Let’s say you are correct. You want someone in your administration openly saying they don’t care about stores being torched because a different crime was committed? Really? You try and defend the undefendable, quite often, actually!

Quote: SOOPOO

My point is simple Mamdani has appointed an official involved in ‘crime’ who openly stated she didn’t care about the arson of a large store. .

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In 2025, corporate bankruptcies in the United States reached their highest level in 15 years, with more than 700 companies filing for bankruptcy through November. Economic reports from early 2026 attribute this surge to a combination of President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, persistent inflation, and high interest rates.

Key impacts on business closures and survival as of January 2026 include:

Corporate Bankruptcies: At least 717 companies filed for Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 bankruptcy between January and November 2025, a 14% increase from the previous year and the highest since 2010.

Sector Impact:

Industrials: This sector was hardest hit, with 110 companies filing for bankruptcy due to rising manufacturing and supply chain costs linked to tariffs.

Consumer Discretionary: Retail and fashion businesses represented the second-largest group (85 filings), as import costs rose and consumer spending declined.

Agriculture: Farm bankruptcies rose sharply, with 181 filings in the first half of 2025 alone, surpassing the 115 filings from the same period in 2024.

Small Business Crisis: Approximately 74% of small-business owners expressed concern about surviving the next 12 months due to a threefold increase in tariff
costs since April 2025. Roughly 236,000 small-business importers paid an average of $151,000 in additional tariffs during the middle of 2025.

Retail Store Closures: Projections suggest that the escalating trade disputes could lead to as many as 12,000 retail store closures as businesses with low profit margins struggle to absorb higher import taxes.

Legal Challenges: More than 1,000 firms have filed lawsuits against the administration seeking tariff refunds, with cases currently facing the Supreme Court as of January 2026.

Quote: Gandler

I would be very curious to see the original quote. My guess is it was something like, "You ask me to care about retail losses while not addressing murders happening in front of our eyes."

I doubt they said they are glad Target is getting attacked, or that they explicit don't care about Target.

Quote: SOOPOO

Then google it. You’d be wrong of course.

Mamdani just joined a picket line, expressing his support for striking hospital nurses. NOT expressing support for the tens of thousands of patients affected by the strike. Not expressing support for the large employers that truly struggle in their mission to provide care to New Yorkers. It’s just so ‘knee jerk’ of Mamdani as his knuckles drag to say ‘Strikers good, employers bad’.

Edit. Median salary for a hospital nurse in NYC is around $110k, not including good bennie’s. Experienced nurses can expect $130k before overtime. It’s always hard to say what ‘fair’ is? But it’s not like they are NOW near the poverty line!

Quote: Gandler

All strikes effect customers. They wouldn't be effective if they didn't. Hence during the NYC sanitation strikes all of the famous photos of huge trash piles in front of every building in NYC in the 60s. And, countless other examples in NYC alone, even more nationwide.

If strikes didn't effect output and inconvenience customers, it would be against the whole purpose of strikes.

If you want health care to be a free market with private hospitals, you have to allow workers to engage employers however they want. For example healthcare strikes are illegal in most countries with centralized systems.

Quote: SOOPOO

You miss my point as usual. I am not against strikes. Nor do I actually know enough about this particular one to say which side I favor. My point is that NO MATTER WHAT THE FACTS ARE, Mamdani will side with the workers. My point is also that Mamdani DOES NOT CARE about the guy waiting now longer for his knee replacement. Or the overall decreased level of care HIS CONSTITUENTS will be getting due to temporary or lesser skilled nurses filling the shoes of the strikers.

Mamdani just assumes the nurses are being unfairly treated, versus the more likely scenario that they just are using patients as pawns to get more money.

Quote: Gandler

So you don't know anything about it, but the nurses are wrong, and Mandami is wrong for siding with them?