I guess mamdani better start grabbing women by the pussy, committing felonies, sucking Russian dicks, and committing treason.
Uh huh. He’s got A LOT of catching up to do.
So, NYC gets about $100B in federal funds annually. I wonder how much they pay in taxes to the federal government. I’d bet they pay more than they get.
The problem is that federal income taxes are generally paid directly by employers to the federal government. It’s not clear by what mechanism states and/or cities might withhold them.
It’s true that the State of New York, and NYC are both large employers, so hypothetically I guess they could refuse to collect income taxes from their employees on behalf of the federal government, but certainly the IRS would still hold the individual taxpayers responsible for those taxes at the end of the year.
If it gets to the point where the States are withholding money from the federal government, I’d wager it’s because they no longer view the federal government as legitimate. I guess, good luck to the IRS trying to collect?
What would stop the IRS from sending federal agents arresting people on the streets? We’ve already seen ICE doing it without badges, uniforms, or warrants
This is the problem with a dictatorship. They have too much power. They can do whatever they want
Well, NYC has way too many policemen. Maybe they can turn that on the feds
We will always outnumber them.
With our communications, transactions, and travel all recorded, and soon to be fed into AI for threat assessment, it’s going to be very difficult to organize without predicted leaders getting MLK’d.
What would stop
Guns and bullets.
Time to get armed.
What would stop the IRS from sending federal agents arresting people on the streets
I thought they fired all of them?
The state is a pretty big employer, so that portion might be held back for a while. That would still have to be paid by the end of the year, though.
lol more like NYC stop funding the federal government. They give more than receive.
I agree with the sentiment, but it’s individuals and businesses paying the federal taxes in NYC. You’d have to somehow get them all to agree to put their personal freedoms at risk by not paying their federal taxes
Donald Trump knows he faces no personal risk by withholding funding, because the SCOTUS has declared him immune. He can break any law with impunity
Well, the IRS uses regional IRS offices which would be easier to disrupt if a large number of states such as KY, MO, and NY participated, and there is some talk of something like that happening soon in WI, NY, MD, and CT as a result of Trump withholding federal funding for programs which were passed by congress.
This definitely isn’t a battle Trump would want to escalate if he were smart.
Hi, Clevelander here. I have no horse in this race, but thanks for making Mamdani go from being completely unheard of from me, to now a household name due to the Streisand effect.
Thanks for letting me know who I’m voting for in 2028.
He can’t run, he’s naturalised. Bullshit rule.
He can totally run against Trump for his third term. If Orange Chicken tries that, there are no rules anymore anyhow.
If trump remains in office beyond his second term it’ll be in the absence of elections
Supreme Court’s got baby don’s flaccid chode down their throats, so no rules for him but others unfortunately…
From what I heard from someone’s testimony, it can’t reach the throat.
Eh, it’s not the worst rule.
Fox News ironically being the source to learn about your new social democrats
Globalize mamdanism
The oligarchy’s cries are the kind of endorsement that money can’t buy.
New York should just become Southern Ontario
And be under Ford?
Fair point. I wouldn’t want to subject anyone to that
Sounds good to me!
NY was the eleventh state in the US. We’d become the eleventh province of Canada, nice!
So I wrote a good long comment all about how Trump is… In the end I decided it was too incendiary and was likely to get me banned both from this community as well as my instance.
Enjoy some US anti-fascist propaganda instead.
trump is white supremacist extremist pornography.
new york should require anyone wanting to consume media of Trump online should have to give NY state two pieces of ID and wait for NY to verify them or be blocked.
I recommend New York stop paying taxes to the federal government.
Cool, maybe we’ll stop giving charity to all the red states then. NY can be self sufficient. Shit hole red states can’t.
So election interference? Can the court rule if the president has that power too?
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I just need the answer on record. I’m fine with protesting. However if the sitting president can steal money from the people bc of party difference, yeah violence will be the correct response.
Disclaimer: I am not calling for violence, mods.
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These people can’t stop advertising Zohran.
Don’t Mess With The Zohran
I know, stop selling past the close.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
*spreads attention to this matter*
Daddy’s gonna bring out the strap.
Has Lemmy just became a hub for stories on this guy?
Whatever I want more stories about cool people who make me happy
No way man, needs to be Trump and Musk news 24/7.
As opposed to the 24/7 Trump show?
I get your point this though.
“This guy” is likely going to be mayor of New York, joining the likes of Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and Eric Adams.
As such, he’s making headlines everywhere, although the spin is all over the map.
As a New Yorker I would like to see that orange fascist try. I can almost guarantee that if Zohran organizes a workers militia today itll have tens of thousands of volunteers tomorrow. I myself would happily throw arms with federal pigs.
I read that as feral pigs but still made complete sense.
Hmmm… maybe time for the left to appropriate the 30 to 50 feral hogs meme.
I would like to see that orange fascist try
Yanking funding from state and local agencies is almost trivial, thanks to the DOGE infestation of the US Treasury. Quite literally a matter of button-clicks.
The dream of the Unitary Executive under Bush, has finally been realized under Trump 2. Congress simply could not stop handing the Executive branch more and more authority, both implicit and explicit, until now they’re effectively superfluous.
The one upside is that - given the state of Trump’s BB
LB - there may not be much funding left to pull from NYC by the time they’re done gutting the domestic budget.The executive has so much power because the Republicans in congress are his complete bitches. And they are in charge.
Is this how a civil war starts?
No. It started with the Brooks Brothers Riot.
It start when terrible people in power have decent support for part of population and the other part fight for freedom by any mean
I guess so.
Very much so.
This is how the American empire falls
Which was Putin’s goal in all of this anyway.
Just take over wall street and cut the trader’s communications.
Trump can suck a dick. Lousy bastard has got megalomania so bad it would be a worldwide disservice to allow him to continue
