President backs Cuomo in election eve Truth Social post as Mamdani hits back at Trump’s ‘threat – it is not the law’
On the eve of New York’s well-watched mayoral election, Donald Trump issued a threat to its voters: stop Zohran Mamdani or pay.
“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.”
Trump’s comments echo those broadcast on Sunday during his appearance on CBS’s 60 minutes, in which he said: “It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there.”
it’s interesting to see how the lemmy users handle this communist lib vs trump being a friend of China and Russia alignment
Well first of all, Mamdani isn’t communist. He’s more in line with a democratic socialist.
Second, Russia isn’t communist, they’re fascist. China is very mich a capitalist country, which means they can not be communist. I don’t know exactly what they are, but they’re definately authoritarian, something Mamdani isn’t at all.
doesn’t NY already pay more than it’s ever received? Guess it’s time to reserve some for the home team
Yeah wtf. These are not just “funds”. They are taxes. Payed by the people. The one who voted.
Hilarious watching these idiots call literally everything they don’t like “communism”.
McCarthy never died. He just took a nap.
Communist, socialist, anarchist, antifa, woke, leftist. Which ones am I missing that ain’t slurs?
Radical!
It’s their catch all term for any policy that helps average Americans. After all, licking billionaire’s butts is just too irrestible for these class traitors.
Communism, pedophiles, terrorists. Take your pick.
Go ahead TACO.
Your move, orange boy.
This is impeachable … par fot the course with Trump and MAGA. So sick of injustice.
how many times do you think any other president would have been successfully impeached for trump’s roll of crime? 50? 100 times?
to me, the confidential docs debacle and j6 are the worst of the worst; the docs one stings especially because I know what it takes to obtain and maintain a security clearance and wonder how much he put at risk - both human assets and strategic plans - in his fucking bathroom - knowing that similar behavior in the military would get you a nice stretch at leavenworth federal correctional facility and you might see freedom in a few decades. maybe.
dems should enumerate the list and use it any time someone talks about presidential fitness. “Oh you’re worried about a woman president, but this fuck did treason after treason and that’s fine?”
For what the world understood you impeached a president because he lied about receiving head, I guess the two parties are indeed different.
The billionaires don’t want you to know this but you pay taxes to the states your business is located in. You don’t just “leave” because taxes. The businesses these billionaires own in New York are still subject to taxes.
What’s crazy is the right has “donated” more money to supporting cuomo than Mamdani would have even taxed them.
Businesses already set up headquarters in Delaware for tax reasons. They’re not going to leave New York City, one of biggest markets on Earth. This argument from conservatives was always stupid.
My Trump-addled father is now declaring that Wall St is going to relocate to Texas because of Mamdani’s victory. 😐
Cool so the stock market will collapse when their power goes out and the servers go out!
Yeah but there is no quid pro quo with Mamdani. As far as I know…
I’m sure it’s perfectly legal to interfere with a free and fair election.
what is anyone going to do about it? I think it’s clear that dumpy is immune to laws.
Yeah, I guess that’s how fascism happens.
Trump has a lot of property in New York.
Sure would be a shame if he finally saw some consequences and lost a few dozen of them.
Does the cityhave the right to seize property or is that the state that would have that authority? I suspect it’s at the state level.
I’m not sure why you think that.
Eminent Domain works just fine for both cities & states.
Because this isn’t eminent domain. They wouldn’t be taking Trump Plaza to widen the street. This is Albany’s job.
Are you telling me that you honestly believe that the City of New York (via the state of New York) can’t use eminent domain to turn that plaza into a park, school or subway station.
Because they absolutely can.
Yes, last I looked they don’t have the right to seize property on that scale.
Uh huh. Meanwhile, back in reality, New York City is currently demoing an entire neighborhood for part of a subway line.
Which was done under the MTA. The MTA is a NY State organization not an NYC one. Again this is all the role of Albany.
sure why not.
laws mean nothing anymore. I hope Mamdani seizes dumpy’s shit anyway.
I may be wrong, but isn’t NYC more of a money generator than it’s a receiver? If that’s so, I don’t see how NYC would suffer, but it would widen the divide between such areas and poor dotational ones, making their people possible maga recruits.
Most blue areas produce money, most red areas (excluding Texas I think) are leeches.
T*xas very much does too, despite how much they like to act big and bad and independent.
I don’t know what T*xas is. Is that like Voldemort?
I man they do generate a lot more money than most red states. Being able to admit that doesn’t detract anything from the overall point.
Yeah but we’re talking about net here. Most blue states are net producers, most red states are net leechers. Texas might not be as big of a leech as some others, but it’s still a leech.
Texas would be but they reject some federal funds they’d be entitled to.
YeeHaw exports look especially bad right now.
Florida and Texas are the two notable red states that aren’t mostly empty.
i think people are still expected to pay federal taxes. even if trump blocked funds.
Like King George did? How did that work out?
I’m not sure how all the recent tax changes will effect this either.
There is still a system in place where states contribute their federal taxes before that revenue is used for whatever we have budgeted. A state doesn’t take “their share” first, and states depend on federal funding for a lot of projects and services.
That said, a state with large surpluses can probably write policies to use their state taxes to pay for federal programs that people want to keep, but that’s a snarled-up and anti-american system, the taxes are supposed to be used for the people, not be used like a cudgel to enforce political partisanship. There would be a lot of courts who would challenge this, which still might go in Trump’s favor because of his corruption of the judicial branch, but that’s a LOT of work and expense for something that isn’t going to actually get the administration anything but ire from the citizens of one of the
country’sworld’s largest, most prominent cities.Largely, this is as usual, a massive pile of bullshit meant to fit into a right-wing news site’s headline ticker, because people largely don’t read stories, they just read headlines and don’t question it. This kind of rhetoric has always been about making his most powerful asset, his ludicrously stupid and armed and fanatical base feel like he’s still big strong daddy choking everyone.
djt wouldn’t be able to name the communist countries in the world to save his life. It is a very anti-American behavior to label half of Americans as enemies. The US totally includes an opposition party. Idiot still doesn’t understand what a democracy is and how to stay in his lane.
China and Cuba, that’s the only places they ever mention if they do.
No way, he’d way over estimate
Sweden The UK Venezuela Colombia New Zealand France Etc
Iran/DPRK
I’d love to see NYC set up a voluntary escrow account for federal taxes.
You don’t have to pay shit till taxes are due, have NYC sit on their withholdings and trump won’t be able to build any ballrooms.
The problem is employers take taxes directly out of paychecks and send directly to the federal government.
Pretty sure they don’t have to, you can opt out and pay the full bill come tax day. That would certainly put sand in the gears.
You have to pay quarterly if your withholding doesn’t match you tax burdon. That’s oversimplified but in general you cannot wait till tax day or else everyone would. You would just self withhold, leave the cash in a safe money market fund and make 4% on it till tax day.
Illegal if a few thousand people do it, but defacto legal if a few million people do it.
We need a 2025 word for illegal things getting a pass due to systemic chaos in the same way we had truthyness in the early 2000s. I propose “derelegal” to mean technically illegal but unenforced due to systemic chaos or legal rot.
Anarchy?
Who cares? Do it anyway. The law doesn’t fucking matter any more.
It does for us plebs.
An in-group that the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group that the law binds but does not protect.
If withholding doesn’t match tax burden
AND difference exceeds the $1500 quarterly buffer. That is, you only owe penalties if your withholding is more-than-a-little off in your favor.
I mention that because it’s an important detail for a useful tip re: filling w-4s. Since the withholding percentage is just an estimate based on that form, including the number of allowances you specify, it’s usually a good idea to “tune” that number to prevent over-withholding and, preferably, err somewhat in your favor.
It’s better to owe taxes on your return. If the IRS owes you, it means you inadvertently gave them an interest-free loan last year.
On second thought. Pretty sure you need to withhold too, otherwise you just do the same thing per quarter. If someone knows, please let me know so I can turn off withholding lol
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Those are called “withholdings” and you pick what they are on your W4…
And honestly everyone should know that, literally every legal job in America you fill out a W4…
One rather large employer in each state is the state government…
Whenever these fucks try and paint Americans as terrorists and threaten to cut off anything they create monsters they can’t control. Anyone he attacks becomes wildly popular and almost assures them victory. Especially if he has his thugs come rough them up.
Fuck you cancer. You take far too many good people while skipping this piece of shit.
Well, It did hit Scott Adams, so that’s something.
What if trump is actually a secret good person and is aware of his meirdas touch and is actually trying to make the world a better place by attacking the people trying to make it better, therefore assuring their victory.
I mean he obviously isn’t, but it’s a nice thought.
Doing it this way would make him the dumbest person imaginable, though. We already know there is evil in the world, championing it does nothing but feed it.
Good thing it is legal for Trump and only Trump to meddle in elections. Yay.
This is what’s happening. We all get riled up saying NY contributes more to the federal government than it receives so Trump needs NY more than it needs Trump. Which may be true, but the reality is that Trump is trying to dissuade voters.
This seems the require a better descriptor. Extorting an election.
Idk man, I see a lot of red caps at a certain party’s rallies
red = obvious communist symbolism
I think those caps even say “make america great again” which obviously sounds like a communist slogan
I’d say we arrest these filthy communists 😏
sounds like a communist slogan
I’ve always been amused by the fact that “gung ho” (which in Mandarin means “pull together”, as in pulling on a rope in unison) started out as a slogan of the Chinese Communist Party under Mao and then migrated to the US during WWII because of an openly-communist Marine. Its real meaning is more like “be a team player” but it was somehow transformed into “eagerly shoot brown people”.
Also, the Marines’ “ooh rah” chant sounds exactly like the Soviet Red Army’s chant. More weird shit.
“gung ho” (which in Mandarin means “pull together”, as in pulling on a rope in unison)
I’m a native Mandarin speaker and I’m so confused what ur talking about lolz.
You mean like 共和? “together in unison/harmony” aka: “republicanism”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho
The wikipedia article doesn’t mention the “pull together” (as in rope pulling) interpretation. That was from a book about Mao that I read a long time ago, I can’t remember what it was. The book had a bit about Evans Carlson traveling with Mao’s army and meeting him. I am certainly not a Chinese speaker so I’m happy to have my inaccuracies corrected.
Sounds like a borrowed term from a random word converted into English. I wasn’t aware there were any nationwide propaganda slogan related to it, looks like just some random slogan from a state-owned organization.
