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Who argues over a parking spot?  How lazy can you be?  They act like it's the last parking spot on earth and is some valuable commodity.  Even though it was self defense, it's not even worth it for that lady to have to live with that and deal with the investigation.  Grow the eff up.

A New Jersey native who served in the Army was fatally shot by a woman during a dispute over a parking spot outside a Florida Walmart.
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That guy won the Darwin Award too.  When someone is pointing a gun at you, over one of many parking spots, maybe don't keep approaching them.

Toddlers don't even behave like those two did.
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Mamdani marks July 4 with a pro-immigration speech, ripping Trump’s policies without using his name
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 Mamdani offers a contrast to Trump’s vision for America in a 250th anniversary address
The New York City mayor gave a solidly pro-immigration speech, flanked by recently naturalized citizens, hours before the president plans to give his own address at Mt. Rushmore.

Mamdani criticized Trump’s immigration policies from New York’s City Hall while sitting behind a desk that once belonged to George Washington and flanked by recently naturalized U.S. citizens, rebuking the view held by “the powerful” that America “becomes less the more people it welcomes.”

“America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are. How weak, how unoriginal,” the mayor said.

“The irony” of American exceptionalism, he said, was that the country’s history was often written “by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.”

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 Mamdani was surrounded by some of America’s newest citizens waving U.S. flags, the same week that the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, dealing a major blow to Trump’s immigration agenda.

“The work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, that work endures, and it belongs to us all. It belongs, too, to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized,” Mamdani said.

“Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel, the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too,” said Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2018.

The mayor called “division” the “oldest” and “cheapest” trick in politics.
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 “At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another,” Mamdani said. “Time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.”

He concluded his address with a pitch for the future.

“Those ideals upon which our nation was built, they are strong enough to endure any authoritarian regime, but only if we reach for them,” he said, moments before ending his address.

“Ours is a nation working each day towards the perfection in which it was conceived, a nation striving each day to better itself. Therein lies the work of America, the striving, the bettering, the reaching towards perfection,” he added.

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“At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another,” Mamdani said. “Time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.”

He concluded his address with a pitch for the future.

“Those ideals upon which our nation was built, they are strong enough to endure any authoritarian regime, but only if we reach for them,” he said, moments before ending his address.

“Ours is a nation working each day towards the perfection in which it was conceived, a nation striving each day to better itself. Therein lies the work of America, the striving, the bettering, the reaching towards perfection,” he added.
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https://www.npr.org/2026/07/02/nx-s1-5879162/freedom-250-report-house-democrats-controversy

"Based on their analysis, Aguilar Rosenthal said of the more than $120 million in public funds funneled toward the anniversary celebrations, over $100 million has been "funneled" directly to projects, events and entities with ties to the Trump administration.

Some of those public contracts raise particular alarm among watchdogs. Federal contracts have directed tens of millions of dollars to a company called Event Strategies, Inc., which helped organize Trump's infamous rally outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

"They had a chance to do this in a bipartisan way or a way that wouldn't enrich cronies, but they pretty clearly didn't do that," said Zibel. "I think that this is a follow-the-money situation that needs to be explored."

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"There is little visibility into the origins and destinations of donations in general, Aguilar Rosenthal says. Best case, they are still being used for some of America250's original goals, she says. Worst case, she says, "public dollars and funds that have been earmarked for semiquincentennial celebrations are being used as a slush fund" for the administration and its political allies."

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They don't even care if the 250 celebration is successful.  It was all used as a slush fund.
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Do you like him?

Sure. He has good ideas. Some can't be done right away. Has to have approval of other governing bodies and has to have funding but he is helping people which is what people in power should do
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Sure. He has good ideas. Some can't be done right away. Has to have approval of other governing bodies and has to have funding but he is helping people which is what people in power should do
Communism, Even in a Democrat socialist wrapper has never been successful.....   Just Saying the whole truth....
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