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  • According to the report released this month, Linda Wilson, the Queens regional manager for the office that supports students in temporary housing, took her own children on trips that were paid for through grants for homeless students and encouraged employees she supervised to do the same but to keep quiet about it. “What happens here stays with us,” one staffer quoted Wilson as saying. Contacted by the New York Post, Wilson denied bringing her two daughters on trips or encouraging staff members to bring their children. Wilson called the special commissioner’s probe “a witch hunt.”

    Queens. The same place that gave the world donald trump.

    I haven’t been, but Queens sounds like America’s festering asshole, with little demons crawling out of it? Can anyone with first hand experiences there elaborate?
















  • This is a huge reach and false equivalency. There is a difference between being a pop culture focus of a moment where you’re mom was compelled to volunteer at his local election office and wear a button versus the maga bullshit that OP describes.

    No. It’s never been to this level, or close for that matter. Not because a candidate didn’t want it, but because society maintained a basic level of decency and civil education that made today’s depths impossible at scale really. Of course a huge focus of the last 50 years for Republicans has been denying access to and attacking public education to help form the undereducated and easily frightened mass that they now use to support trump. And then social media feeds and predatory news algorithms were probably the nail in the coffin to break that once held floor of civility.

    Not on the same scale as trump, but there was an American Nazi party and there’s the kkk. Those are probably your closest analogies in this country.




  • Pretty clear you didn’t read the above explanation. You’re missing nuance. I’m frustrated as well, but that’s not license for self-righteous whining. There are larger influencing factors here and (as designed by the bad guys) that’s too much other shot on fire for them to directly spend political capital on this (which, by nature means something else would have to lose out). No true motivation for Biden or any other dem to keep Dejoy in, even when considering broken personal philosophies. What’s the benefit you’re claiming? Why would they be doing it, to what ends?