Subj : Re: Merry Christmas To : IB Joe From : Ron L. Date : Thu Jan 01 2026 08:04 am -=> IB Joe wrote to Aaron Thomas <=- IJ> I think this Mamdani election was/is a pivotal point. Staten Island is IJ> talking about leaving the city... GBG. IJ> NY might just need a few years of the Mamdani Shit Show to wake up a IJ> little. I don't think that will do any good. NYC (and California) are models for what happens when the majority of the population is useless and wants only hand outs. For NYC, I believe that the Great Replacement Project has some to fruition. They imported illegals and let them vote. They went lax on crime to get people to allow them to have more power to fix the crime problem that they created. Then the productive people closed up shop and left. The city is now majority leeches and useless people, so there's no legal way to change direction. What's going to happen now is that Mamdani will have his hand out to the state and federal gov't's to give him money to prop up his socialist programs ("Socialism only works until you run out of other people's money."). But that won't work. IHMO: By the end of Trump's term, NYC will have completely collapsed. IJ> More companies may have to leave taking their tax base with them... More companies **WILL** leave... And that's in addition to the companies who already have dropped their leases because it's cheaper to have their people work from home. And the companies who have already left. IJ> There will be a point where California, Illinois and NY will have lost IJ> whatever tax base it had to even run the states, now gone. They've aleady lost it. They are so deep in debt right now it's amazing. And the Fed flow of money is stopping. IJ> I was watching the news and they said they need at least 10K more IJ> police for NYC... there maybe an additional 4K retiring in 26... Let's just build a wall around NYC and turn it into a prison. Maybe we can send Kurt Russell in sometime. IJ> The over weight blue haired freaks may never learn They **CAN'T** learn. That's the problem with them. But they have probably gotten 16 COVID jabs. So they will probably die soon. IJ> Chicago is looking at doubling the property taxes for the residence and IJ> Florida is on the cusp of passing no property taxes for its residence. Standard Leftist play: When their policies fail, double down on the failed policies. It's like they never learned basic math (2*0 = 0) or economics (raise prices and people will buy less of it). IJ> People are catching on. They are realizing that they can't change things in the gov't because of the voter fraud. So they are acting on what they CAN change. IJ> I think 2 years of Mamdani's policies implemented and you'll have new IJ> Republican Senators and hopefully y'all can pull out of it. Nope. Won't happen. There's simply not enough people who will vote for them. If you have a population that's 75% "gimme, gimme, gimme", they aren't going to vote for a Republican. .... Never trust a person who says, "Trust Me".... ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52 --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32) * Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi (1:120/616) .