Donald Trump has said that he will withhold funding for New York City if presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor after November’s general election and doesn’t do the “right thing.”

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        You can check the mod logs for that, but in this case, the entire account’s comments appear to have been removed.

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      For real. Imagine successful infrastructure and social welfare programs being carried out at the city level, with little or no involvement or oversight from the state or federal governments.

      Decentralization is what Republicans claim to be all about. Of course it’s a bullshit claim.

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        Small government only when the conservatives institute Christianity in school, ban abortion and sexual education and rob their constituents of everything they have.

        Big government when conservatives need to oppress minorities, fight wars in the Middle East and deport people.

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      The problem at this point isn’t Republican hypocrisy, this is a known thing, it’s every institution that supposedly has the duty to put checks and balances on it not doing that. Congress, the courts and the press are all complicit at this point. It’s not leaving the people many options.