You are missing the point of this specific scaremongering. Nobody ever said the ultra rich would leave the US if he won. They said (just like the headline and article state clearly) the rich would leave the city, going to FL and TX. It is QUITE easy to keep all your market investments and corporations and even your real estate holdings while living in another state, or heck, even another city within NY.

Your argument makes sense when talking about the federal government implementing a wealth tax, but it doesn’t have much to do with a city raising taxes. The rich are going to stay in NYC because it’s a great city to live in if you are rich, though it isn’t where I want to live if I were poor or even as an upper middle class person. The regular wealthy people have houses in multiple cities in their country and will live in the city they enjoy living in. The ultra rich have houses in multiple countries, but they will still choose where they spend most of their time based on where they like spending most of their time.

One important thing to note is that there are only two types of commercially available rodenticides. The 2024 state law banned one of them, because the WAY that it kills is “grosser” than the other one.

The problem is veterinarians only have a cure to treat dogs/cats that accidentally eat the rodenticide for the one that was banned, and not for the one still available. Before, if a dog/cat accidentally ate rat poison, there was a good chance the vet could easily save your pet’s life. Now, they just say, “sorry, nothing we can do while your pet dies a slow, painful, but not outwardly gross death.”

As the saying goes, “if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bicycle.”

If he actually did what the state accused him of, then I would be in favor of him spending his life behind bars. But since the ONLY evidence against him is a pair of forensic specialists whose testimonies have been overturned as junk science in 9 different cases already (including the only living one of the two saying he no longer believes in the science he testified about back then), plus the recanted testimony of a jailhouse snitch, then the burden of proof has not been met. There were no witnesses and no other forensic evidence that this wasn’t more than negligence in leaving a 2 year old in a bathtub.

That’s why I have a hard time with the death penalty. A lifetime in jail gives time to find out the state did something wrong (like in this case). Once a person is dead, then we can’t say, “whoopsie.”

Exonerated might not be the correct term. His murder conviction was vacated and death sentence set aside, which is different from saying he is exonerated.

What would a non-criminal person be expected to do in this scenario? Let’s assume for a second that these people were innocent (tough to do for us Americans, assuming people are innocent before given a fair trial by their peers), and their boat suddenly explodes in the middle of the ocean. Are they expected to stay floating in the open ocean forever just in case a second explosion happens? Or are they expected to try to not drown or get eaten by sharks?

That’s not being a bootlicker. That’s stating the actual official policy of the DoW, disseminated to everyone who has a NIPR account and “proclaimed” in an executive order by the President. It isn’t official law as passed by Congress (yet), but nobody in this administration cares about the law. They are making everyone who works with the DoW call it the DoW.

Yeah, I hate it so much and still call it the DoD in casual conversation at work, but “they” being the DoW did change the name even if Congress hasn’t.

It is hard to argue he isn’t correct.

However… Wow. It’s so shocking to see how happy people are these days to flaunt how evil they are. It’s not like evil people didn’t exist before, but it’s almost like they are celebrated these days.

Holy crap, her eyes are burning into my soul.

To be fair, in CA it costs exactly $45 to get a renewal REAL ID drivers license. That is paid by the traveler, not the taxpayer. The difference is that is a one-time fee to get a card that works for either 5 or 10 years, versus a fee every time you fly.

Showing this was not about security at all.