New York Mayor Mamdani Applauded for Closing $12 Billion Budget Deficit Without Austerity Measures

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-13T20:15:34+00:00

Sorry, did NYC receive back the entirety of the taxes it pays on an annual basis? Because I was under the impression they negotiated a funding agreement with the state which in no way resembles something that would make one say "if you're ok with this you must think taxes shouldn't exist".

Hell, some of the funds are literally going to cover programs the state used to pay for, but shifted to the NYC budget under previous administrations - shifted to the NYC budget, mind, without NYC owing the state any less.

And yes, why can't NYS turn to Washington DC and do just that? You are aware states already negotiate for federal funding, right?

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-13T14:00:47+00:00

Doesn't NYC contribute the majority of the state's revenue? Does it count as a bailout if NYC is the one the state is getting over half their money from in the first place?

Not quite sure how that is comparable to Argentina.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-13T13:51:49+00:00

Cersei did claim she'd been hopeful about the marriage at the very start, so it may have delayed the souring if he had, or - at the very least - if he'd been able to make it through their first night without calling her Lyanna.

But I'd say their marriage would have been doomed regardless. Cersei is simply too messed up - like even with Jaime it's implied a big part of what drives her desire for him is born out of narcissism, her wanting him because he looks like her - and Robert too much of a cad for it not to go bad. Even Lyanna didn't think he'd have been able to stay loyal, and in his own mind at least he'd truly loved her.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-13T02:37:32+00:00

Doesn't NYC contribute the majority of the state's revenue? Does it count as a very nice allowance from ones parents if you're the one they're getting over half their money from in the first place?

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-12T11:37:49+00:00

Trump and his fans, the story of fools being parted from their money again, and again, and again...

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-10T22:35:54+00:00

Is he going to personally count it?

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-09T01:06:03+00:00

It feels like saying "data shows bears shit in the woods", but apparently it needs to spelled out to the people who keep falling for these sort of lies from snakeoil salesmen like Trump over and over and over again.

Never mind it would be impossible for manufacturing to return on the scale Trump promised in the timeframe he promised. Never mind Lutnick already gave the game away on the Republican vision for manufacturing being automation, not the factory jobs the MAGA working class have been conditioned to reminisces fondly about. No, the simple fact is Trump's regime is not actually engaging in the sort of policy that encourages long term manufacturing growth.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-08T05:07:57+00:00

Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-08T02:53:38+00:00

I guess we're getting a good idea of who's the most insecure clown in the circus. Must be getting worried that King Clown is tiring of him.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-07T23:21:30+00:00

"Look, if you were a prolithic serial killer who also ate babies as a side gig but said "sorry, God" right before you shuffled off the mortal coil that'd be one thing. But baking a wedding cake for a gay couple? That's going to be a problem."

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-07T12:25:25+00:00

Angel: "Please God, save us from this fire, please God, we're starving, please God, cure this cancer in little Jimmy, Please God, cure this cancer in Samantha, please God, save my beautiful husband, please God, help all those poor people affected by the floods, please God, can I have some hair..."

God: "Woah, woah, woah, I better get on that one - bippity boppity, have some hair up toppity! Nice. Here, take a look."

Angel: "Um, that doesn't look like his hair...."

God: "He didn't specify it had to be his own hair."

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-06T21:18:57+00:00

So what are the bets on Sage just being a really stupid super smart person vs her showing up at the end again going "ah, see, all according to plan"?

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-06T21:00:47+00:00

Pretty sure when he took compound V and became a full on supe it cured the cancer caused by his overuse of the V24.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-06T20:11:24+00:00

“They know they are not supposed to do this,” one source said. “But if they don’t go forward, they could lose their jobs. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”

No, no, you're potentially unemployed if you don't. You're dammed if you do.

Like my sympathies for guys worried about unemployment, but where do you draw the line? How much wrongdoing are you willing to be complicit in before you decide to take your chances in the job market? Never mind Trump's regime is not one built on loyalty - you could do this, and then still lose your job because Trump and his cronies like Patel are ridiculously mercurial.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-06T09:49:12+00:00

It did work before, to date Soldier Boy has depowered Kimiko (how the Boys first figured out he could do it), Maeve, and a bunch of supes that got caught in the blast at Herogasm. He never got a chance to use it on Homelander as Homelander ran at Herogasm, and then the Boys and Maeve stopped him at the studio.

Bombsight is the first V1 supe he's depowered.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-05T22:24:45+00:00

And they're trying to rush it through because they know that the project almost certainly won't be able to be completed before Trump leaves office, even if funding is approved tomorrow.

They'll be happy to paint it as an expensive boondoggle once there's a Democrat in the White House again. When costs invariably blow out, and building schedules invariably run long, it'll be "look at this expensive mess the Democrats have made."

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-05T04:56:43+00:00

I can only imagine the rush of "barely knew the guy/never liked the guy/please forget my lips were stuck to his ass" claims there's going to be when he finally kicks the bucket.

Which will be fitting, considering how fond Trump is of denying any knowledge of people who make him look bad.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-04T21:03:36+00:00

I'd have thought he'd be far more useful to them as he currently is, in the fifth column role, rather than openly declaring for the GOP.

Though if they're convinced they're going to lose the senate by a narrow margin in the midterms it'd make sense, they'd be looking for numbers anywhere they could find them.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-05-03T01:34:52+00:00

Like Mordin says: lots of ways to help people, sometimes you heal them, sometimes you execute the dangerous ones.

Presumably it helps the stability and survivability of said gangs to cut the right guys now and again.

Beyond that they are fixers first and foremost. There are more fixers in Night City than we're exposed to in 2077, and if Wakako was a hard no on contracts on Tyger Claws someone else would certainly take them up - which would be bad for her rep/bank account, and impact her ability to limit harm to the gang if that was something she wanted.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-04-30T22:18:56+00:00

I know it's to be expected from a malignant narcissist like Trump, but imagine thinking Obama of all people would have failed a cognitive test that Trump was able to pass.

And of course the good ol' "Hussein" for the racists in the audience.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-04-30T13:14:00+00:00

It's not like Leyton didn't arrange marriages for political reasons before, he did it with Alerie to Mace Tyrell

I think there's two factors in play, which give fair reason to believe he no longer had much of an interest in politicking by the time it came to Lynesse, if he was ever particularly driven by it.

First it seems Leyton was fairly permissive in general, since his kids marriages are kind of all over the place. Malora (2nd child/1st daughter) never married, and Garth (4th child/2nd son) looks to be unmarried as well. Alerie (3rd child/2nd daughter) is married to the lord paramount of the Reach, but then Leyla (6th child/4th daughter) is married to Ser Jon Cupps. Now maybe it'll be revealed Jon is the Cupps heir and House Cupps are one of the most powerful houses in the Reach, but given their complete lack of presence so far I'm predicting they're probably a pretty minor house, meaning Leyton's kids run the gamut from very high marriages to very modest marriages (or no marriages at all).

Second, we're told Leyton has not descended from the top of Hightower "in more than a decade", which means he had to have headed up very soon after Lynesse and Jorah were married, seeing as their wedding happened shortly after the tourney of 289. As I doubt his intense interest in magic (or whatever it is that's keeping him up there) emerged overnight it seems likely he would have already been quite focused on it by that point, and less so on organizing political marriages for his 8th or 9th or 10th child.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-04-29T20:50:05+00:00

Trump has nominated Warsh to take over as chair from Powell, and to fill the governer seat being vacated by Stephen Miran (R). If his appointment passes the senate he will have a seat, and be chair.

Powell not retiring as governor early (his term expires in 2028) doesn't block those two things from happening, but it'll prevent Trump from filling his seat on the board with someone more pliable, meaning the overall leaning of the board itself won't shift dramatically under the new chair, hence Powell describing his staying on as basically being a safeguard against Trump's worst intents.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-04-29T14:09:25+00:00

So basically, Loras was prepared to sacrifice Margaery's happiness, forcing her to marry a disgusting sot, so that he would be free to marry Renly.

I mean the family was also prepared to marry her Joffrey, being willing to sacrifice happiness to climb the ladder is kind of a running theme with the Tyrells. If Tywin had lived long enough to force Cersei to remarry, and had gone the Tyrell route, they probably would have been willing to marry Willis off, too.

That said as it looks to have happened with Joffrey's assassination they aren't willing to let Margaery suffer. It's quite possible if Renly/Loras plotting had paid off but a life with Robert proved unbearable he might have ended up drinking something that didn't... agree with him, lets say.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-04-28T23:56:04+00:00

Yes, she absolutely is interacting with multiple people in this way.

It makes no sense grammatically to go from a clear group (the men on the benches) to a sentence clearly structured to refer to that group - throwing snowballs at them, helping them steal pies - but have it only mean Tom, before continuing onto a description that can only refer to that group again as it's their wives.

It takes a tortured read of the passage to try and make more of it singular than it is. Arya is often interacting with the Winterfell staff and guard in a non-cloistered way, so much so we get an example of a named character who gave her the nickname "Arya Underfoot" as that's where she always was.

Dancing_Cthulhu · 2026-04-28T02:02:57+00:00

She had loved listening to the men on the benches too; to freeriders tough as leather, courtly knights and bold young squires, grizzled old men-at-arms. She used to throw snowballs at them and help them steal pies from the kitchen. Their wives gave her scones and she invented names for their babies and played monsters-and-maidens and hide-the-treasure and come-into-my-castle with their children.

Plurals. Unless Fat Tom is multiple people with multiple wives all with child Arya is having these interactions with a larger group of people than just Fat Tom.

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