Queens Bohemian Rhapsody was released.

Feel old?

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New Yorkers predict city will become a cesspit of violence, vacant stores and antisemitism under Mamdani in disturbing new poll… but this is why they’ll give him a landslide victory anyway

If I owned property in New York City, I think I’d be selling it and moving anywhere else.

In some areas…

‘Cause according to what I hear, there will be no SNAP (Food Stamps) benefits come Nov 1…all those cards ain’t gonna get refilled. (Unless the Republicans cave to the minority, which is not unlikely)

The reported numbers are all over the place, but a LOT of people get some form of SNAP benefits…and not all of them are nice people. As far as I can tell the number of SNAP users is somewhere north of 42,879,500 (ish) people.

If I were you, and I lived or shopped in an area where there were a lot of folks on Federal government food assistance, I’d get my shopping done before Sat, Nov 1st and not go back for a few days…..or find another place to shop.

Best way to stay out of trouble is to Not Be There when it starts off.

I always believed in the adage “Stay strapped or get clapped“, but I only carry one spare magazine, and in some places that puts me at a disadvantage (and severely outnumbered)…so I won’t be going shopping in those places in the near future…..

And some segments of our society are more prone to unscheduled group action than others….

You never know how (some) people will react to having their Free Shit stopped:

Found at Kenny’s place

That’s because the europeans all have the same morals, and basically only two religions…which area, at the base of it, the same. Not so much our current immigrants.

The “Government Shutdown” is now starting to pinch people, Government workers are now actually missing paychecks. Some “Entitlements” are about to stop.

I am all for standing firm and getting change. If you actually get change.

Anyone wanna bet that the Republicans fold like they always do?  Thus making the “shutdown” a waste of time and need less pain go a lot of people with no real gain?

Were it legal, I’d put real cash on the line—9:2 that the Republicans give up before Thanksgiving and thus gain nothing for the pain they have already helped cause.

Put your dates as to when they fold in comments.

“A person whose heart carries poison yet wears a mask of kindness is more dangerous than one who walks with a sword”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do”

“The best way to get ahead is to get started”

“Endeavour to live such that even the undertaker will feel sorrow”

“Don’t leave a lover or a friend to teach them a lesson…. rather, leave because you have learned yours”

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters”

They got the shit smacked out of them by Hurricane Melissa. Cleanup is gonna be a real bitch.

When I was there many years ago, most people had family shelters for such weather, for both people and possessions, but still the damage appears to be HUGE.

Seems that there is some evidence that Biden did not actually do the last minute pardons of folks like Anthony Fauci (why did he need a pardon???) and all the others..

Biden aides used autopen to pardon Fauci and president’s family without his approval, House report says

It would seem to me that the use of the autopen should be reserved for instances, rare instances, where the President is travelling and needs to sign emergency authorizations in instances like war or terrorism or sudden natural disasters.

The rest is like “normal” voting: do it in person  or it isn’t valid. Handwritten signatures.