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Parroting misleading headlines, esp. via a video on social media, makes conservatives look gullible. In context:

He’s proposed an additional 2% tax on New Yorkers earning more than $1 million a year. Added to the city’s current top rate of 3.876%, the tax would bring the combined New York City and state tax to 16.776%, by far the highest in the country. The combined federal, state and city rate would be 53.776%.

- https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/new-york-city-braces-for-wealth-flight-with-mamdanis-political-rise.html

Russian Intelligence has no doubt been watching President Trump coordinate oil supply increases, and preparations to cut off Russian exports, since his election (even before inauguration). Every month, Russia tries unsuccessfully to prevent OPEC+ from raising its production quotas again. The math of Bone-Crushing secondary sanctions on buyers of Russian oil, is inescapable to serious analysts.

Now the trap is set, after long, careful and determined preparation. Russian analysts must know, but can they tell the boss, and are his personal interests aligned with those of Russia as a whole? Will Putin take down Russia with him?

OilPrice.com (17 Oct):

Indian Refiners Pivot to Guyanese Oil

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“Two Indian refiners have bought cargoes totaling 4 million barrels of Guyanese crude, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed trade sources who also said the oil will be delivered by the end of this year or the start of 2026.

Each of the refiners—Indian Oil Corp. and Hindustan Petroleum—has bought a cargo of 2 million barrels from the (Guyanese) Stabroek Block…

…The news report comes after Reuters earlier this week wrote that some Indian refiners were moving away from Russian crude under pressure from the White House. Once again citing unnamed sources, the publication said some refiners on the subcontinent were preparing to start curbing their purchases of Russian crude from December onwards, after already placing orders for deliveries next month.”

This protects India from supply disruption, if a flock of flamingoes were to suddenly impede Russia’s ability to deliver. President Trump gave them enough time to prepare - that’s what friends do.

There is only enough in this story to create racial tensions, which was probably the intent, LSM is evil.

Missing a lot of relevant facts, the jury literally found the guy guilty which would indicate he did more than just film.

The judge override the jury decision, makes me ask the question, is this yet another two tier law structure with racial favoritism?

As near as I can determine from this sparse information race had nothing to do with the incident. Not sure why the guy recording while black is relevant.

However, a judge overturing a jury verdict is worth noting.

And New Dorkers said, “Sounds great!”

Oldest tenant in economics, nothing is free

IF they elect this guy they get what they deserve

Let me speak for the usuals
Smoke is just camp fires of the glorious Soviet era ah Russian army camps.

Aircraft loss is propaganda or technical failure.

Gas rationing is to fight climate change

Russian Losses of land around pokrovsk are strategic realignment for coming glorious winter campaign

Insert appropriate memes😂

This is hilarious, I am a retired jarhead. There are places on I-5 to pull off and watch landing ops, a rest stop that can fill up with watchers and by the beach where they do most landing ops there is RV camping. { they do most landing ops in one area because it has a tunnel under the interstate}

They advertised for No Kings marches
And nobody showed up

True! There’s no chance DJT would ever win the NPP. He’s not sufficiently anti US. Obama won after his “US Apology Tour”. Period.

Cons never give up the con. Both Mars and Venus have over 97% CO2 atmospheres. On Earth CO2 is only .04%. This is because plants have become so efficient in pulling CO2 from the air. It is actually a good time to be a plant with mankind adding all that extra CO2. The World is even greener now!

Re: "New Yorkers should expect to give up 52% of their paychecks..."

Affluent New Yorkers ALREADY pay 52%.

Federal - 37% Income Tax + Soc Sec tax

Federal Medicare tax - unlimited 2.4% for incomes over $200K-$250K.

Federal Capital Gains Tax - 20%-37%

NY State Income Tax - 10.9% max rate

New York City-State Sales Tax - 9%

NY City Income Tax - 3.9% max rate

New York City Property Tax

They’re really dumb if they elect this guy.

Well now that this is out there - from the horse's mouth no less - we'll see what the polls do.

Of course, how many New Yorkers watch Fox News...

What Russian Air Defense doink? Shooting down their own planes again.

Kyiv Independent (17 Oct):

“Russia shot down its own military aircraft over Crimea while its air defense was trying to intercept Ukrainian drones flying to the occupied peninsula and deep inside Russia overnight, Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Navy, said on Oct. 17…

…The Ukrainian drone attack appears to have hit a facility near the Gvardeyskoye airbase in Crimea, and the footages appear to show the oil depot nearby on fire, the Crimean Wind Telegram channel reported…

…In Russia, cities including Sochi, about 400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, were under attack.”

“cheaper to just abandon everything and start walking to Florida.”
Iowa or Kansas would be a better choice. I just looked around...Florida is full, we don’t have room for any more New York lefties.

Not if the majority of his constituents are dependents.

Well, if that’s true then that should be the end of his election bid.

As a side note, I have not seen any information about anybody, including Tesla, offering EV-style moving trucks to compete with U-Haul. I wonder why that is.

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Kewel