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Ben Wetzler
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2025 candidate for NYC Council. Fmr East Side Democratic District Leader. Public servant. Views do not reflect those of my employer. www.voteben.nyc
Federalist No. 74 specifically deals with this issue- what if the president sympathizes with an insurrection. Hamilton argues that it may be necessary to pardon traitors in high stakes ceasefire negotiations. That's obviously irrelevant now, as Jan. 6 was >4 years ago.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Reposted by Ben Wetzler
trump wants to place urban america under occupation not because american cities are dangerous crime ridden slums but because theyre not.
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Trump's old enough that it could be purely nostalgia.
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The average American sells their home after 7 years. Even assuming you could get the same rate on a 50 year loan as you can currently get on a 30 year, you'd own a little less than 3% of the equity.
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
If you buy your home at 30 years old with a 50 year mortgage you are basically guaranteed to be on Social Security by the time you own >half the equity.
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
She's talking about ballot measures that all passed overwhelmingly. It's an attitude about housing and city planning that is rapidly dying in NYC.
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"New York City is the Albania of America" was the funniest. Like, did he forget the name of the city?
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This isn't the same as "last time you moved" but close enough.

For the record: the belief that being born somewhere makes your opinion more valuable than someone else's is both dumb and un-American.
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The nexus of this is anti-corruption "outsider" politics. If your main goal is affordability then your agenda will be defined mostly by how many middlemen you are willing to cut out. It looks "left" when the middlemen are businesses and "right" when they're bureaucrats but mostly the same policies.
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
BTAS Wayne is woke billionaire, O'Neill era comics Wayne is Ackman-style rants.
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The wording of Q5 might lead someone to conclude that it shifts important power away from the BP and SI Republicans know that BP is the most important job they'll ever win in city government. But I think it's simpler than that: they knew that the ballot props were pro-housing and they are not.
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Yeah they are. Click "AD details," then select a borough. It'll take you to the assembly district table.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
You can get the AD breakdown which isn't great but you get the vibes.
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
It was down yesterday, too
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM