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Mamdani could walk out onto the street corner and just stand there, and Republicans would just shit their pants and scream all day. it's their job. just the fact that he exists is absolute torment to them.
I love it
he's their new Obama. remember the tan suit and the dijon mustard bullshit? it's what they attack because they have nothing else.
Republicans fume at the mere existence of anyone different than them
In this case it's not about being different, but being successful and popular. Fascists don't have competence, they can't compete against competence.
In this case it’s not about being different, but being successful and popular.
That's different for them.
They complained that he violated pool dress code by jumping into a pool with his suit on, to start the season off. What the fuck kind of complaint is that, honestly. Unless hoards of children start jumping in with full business attire, I think we'll all be fine.
It's a party of Karen's. What do you expect?
BTW he took his shoes off.
has he been spotted riding a bicycle already? That was among the most ridiculous of the Obama "scandals".
he rode a Citi Bike to work one of his first days in office, and the right collectively shit their pants. FOX News hosts went hoarse from screaming about it non-stop for a week
"Bloated" lmao. I don't think there's a single school district in the US that has sufficient funding
But you see, as he notes himself in the article, the students are under performing. So we should be removing money from the schools to punish them. That will help the grades come up, you see
Unironically the logic used by the same caste of people who keep backing dump trucks of money into the "AI" bonfire when it will never be profitable at its current scale
This is literally the logic used to route public money toward "charter" (private) schools.
I remember that season of The Wire!
It’s bloated because it’s not “their kids.”
To be more accurate it's not "white" kids. 😒
The irony is that the US actually does spend more per capita on education than pretty much any other nation, but only because we've gutted public funding in favor of private providers and schools.
Same for our healthcare.
Our basic services are insanely expensive because we refuse to socialize them like a normal fucking country.
The result is hypocritical conservative headlines like the above that amount to a "NO SERVICES FUNDING, ONLY EDUCATED WORKFORCE" version of the frisbee dog meme.
Josh Johnson said it’s like Mamdani found the “make government work” button that nobody else wanted to press.
But when government does stuff, that's socialism. And the news tells me that is scary.
Yeah, I can’t remember who it was that was screaming this over and over, but some right wing politician was freaking out saying “do you know how many New Yorkers are on Medicare?“ And all I could think was, “anyone who can’t afford their own,” because that’s what New York does. If you’re below a certain income level, and can’t afford your own insurance, New York State will cover you. I know this because that’s how I had health insurance when I lived in NYC. It’s awesome.
And here’s this Republican asshole, freaking out, making it sound like everyone having health insurance is somehow a bad thing, lol
But the school budget is "bloated," how could he give more money to the public school system? Charter schools need that money so we can teach our future about being taken advantage of and being propagandized.
School budget is bloated but the ~~genocide~~ military fund could use another trillion or two.
Can we make the New York post just... Go away? They're a net negative on society
This but with right-wing ideology as a whole
"already bloated budget"
This bitch is crying that they spend too much on education in the same article that he talks about how edution stats from last year show that students are falling behind. And just to be clear, the budget was 38 billion, and this increase makes it 38.6 billion, a 1.6% increase. Pretty fucking marginal. He's specifically whining that those dollars don't go to police instead.
The majority of that money is going to keep schools funded and open whose enrollment is dipping, because otherwise you have school closures, redistricting, and lost teaching, administrative, service, and maintenance jobs, etc. And that only after months or years of limited resources and worse overall education and opportunities for the students.
That's the thing though. Less education and more police is exactly what these people want. They don't want well-educated poor people. Because well-educated poor people don't vote the way they want them to. They know their rights and they have the intelligence to make informed decisions. And this is terrifying to the elite class in our society. Educated peasants are the most dangerous thing to a feudal land owning group.
And just to be clear, the budget was 38 billion, and this increase makes it 38.6 billion, a 1.6% increase.
Isn’t inflation currently like 4.1%? So this is not even a budgetary increase commensurate with inflation? Clowns.
How do media outlets report like this and still get taken seriously by any human being on this planet?
Schools and teachers are so underpaid and under budgeted that it's WIDELY known and universally accepted as a systemic problem all across the united states.
Tax the rich and educate the public. He must be evil
He literally is...
if you are an ultra wealthy oligarch that has a malignant cancer of greed.
I liked it when he froze the rent and a lot of Republicans started ranting about how people didn't have to pay rent at all. They might not know what a policy even is, but if it's Mamdammy, it must be bad.
new York post be like
NYPost is written for leaded gasoline survivors.
Schools make you intelligent. Intelligence is anathema to conservatives/regressives.
He might legit be the only effective politician
Many other politicians are also very effective. Just not for their voters.
NYPost editor sounds like a miserable shell of a human.
I just want to put this here for context...
NY Independent Budget Office FY 2026: https://www.ibo.nyc.gov/assets/ibo/downloads/pdf/education/2025/2025-december-a-slow-start-limited-progress-in-first-years-towards-class-size-compliance.pdf
Thanks for these. The New York State law that the city just comply with further contextualizes things.
What’s not to like?
So he spent 700 million on schools ... in order to comply with state law.
Obviously, the Republicans are outraged. They hate complying with laws.
This is extremely valuable to see wins on the local level, and that it is getting national press.
It will serve to blunt the years of "socialism = always bad" propaganda that has been endemic since forever. More local wins so we can elect and win on the state and national level in numbers with a mandate to actually get something done.
I like how they say bloated. Carry that implication that public school bad.
It is bad. But only because it's been so chronically underfunded and dismantled by decades of abuse.
I can't WAIT to VOTE him Out and get that Money OUT of Schools and into Elon's Pockets!
-LITERALLY Republican Voters!
Doesn't seem quietly at all if the New York Post writes about it.
Hey, $700M is a lot of money! That's $81.50/ per New Yorker! That's $6.80 every month! Where are poorer New Yorkers going to get that kind of money? From some kind of public transit discount?!
Somehow directing millions to people's education is wasteful, but having a trillionary ($1.000.000.000.000) is totally reasonable.
Some neolib putz on Mastodon was arguing with me about Mamdani not including enough money to the budget for education. I guess he has to shut the fuck up now.
