Squawkbox

Squawkbox – September 25, 2025

The Nazis tried to exterminate the Jewish race with gas chambers and furnaces. Today, Israelis are trying to exterminate Arabs with heavy ordnance and famine. It was a crime in the 1940's; it's a crime today.

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Squawkbox – September 23, 2025

The Second Amendment was set up to give citizens the right to bear arms to defend against a threat from a tyrannical government. Not be able to take a gun to the grocery store.

Squawkbox – September 20, 2025

If you think today’s Republican party is anything but Trump’s MAGA cult, you are willfully blind. The GOP used to stand for a strong military and fiscal responsibility. Now it’s whatever Trump wants: A military parade, troops patrolling blue-state cities, and selling everything from bibles, sneakers, and watches from the Oval Office. Stop projecting the GOP’s shortcomings onto the Democrats.

Squawkbox – September 18, 2025

After two hours, a telephone call and faithful utility worker restores Sunday midnight electric outage, City’s expensive auto outage reporting system fails, touted Albany Utility App’s map shows no outage existing nor allows outage to be reported. Ratepayers pay millions spent on ill-functioning systems and gadgets.

Squawkbox – September 16, 2025

This guy that's being lionized by the right: He said a few people had to be killed to hold onto our gun rights. Looks like he nailed it.

Squawkbox – September 13, 2025

Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett says people commit crimes because they are fighting for survival. What does a thug stabbing a young Ukrainian girl who was minding her own business on a train have to do with trying to survive? Her comments don't even make sense. 

Squawkbox – September 11, 2025

Is the APD waiting for a fatality before it enforces driving laws with 12-year-olds driving golf carts all around in the streets in the Doublegate area? The parents have lost control.

Squawkbox – September 9, 2025

So you just stood by and allowed the Civil Rights Museum to deteriorate, and now you want the taxpayers to fund all the repairs? I say you start a Go Fund Me and allow the ones that want it pay for it.

Squawkbox – September 6, 2025

Imagine, if you will, a country where 1% control almost all of the wealth and power and the other 99% are so brainwashed that they fight each other vigorously to keep it that way.

Squawkbox – September 4, 2025

Renovating 1900s commercial buildings to “affordable” apartments is cost prohibitive, requiring massive taxpayer subsidies for development, maintenance and perpetual rental assistance. It creates a low-rent future slum, not a vibrant commercial downtown. These old buildings are over except for romantics and taxpayer-funded developers.

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