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NowThis: How the lottery industry targets low-income communities

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  2. 2

    Theres a clip, I’m sure there are many, on Instagram of DeFuckFace being interviewed and asked about his pol ratings against The FuckHump, that I wanted to link to but was afraid to do so because I thought it would include revelation of my personal identity. The clip was hillariuos and disturbing at the same time…..it was of DeFuckFace looling like a real nutjob.

    Wish I could link to it.

  3. 3

    A lot of people dead due to the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus that I posted about in the last thread.

    Check them out. Bitches better drop your man.

  4. 4

    I like transparency in the court system, but could names of Grand Jurors be withheld for security reasons?

  6. 6

    The DOJ’s sentencing memo for Proud Boy Joe Biggs includes excerpts from interviews and testimony from Biggs that DOJ argues show his intent to mislead, and harm the FBI investigation into the Jan 6 attack that they hope will substantiate an obstruction enhancement to his sentence. Among these interviews Biggs informs the FBI agents that during the period from the election leading up to Jan 6 he was “meeting regularly” with an FBI handler from the FBI’s Daytona field office who hoped Biggs could act as an informant on “Antifa” for the FBI, and with whom Biggs had numerous meetings and conversations in which Biggs described the Proud Boy activities going on during that period. That being the period in which Biggs and other Proud Boy leadership were forming their elite, secret “defense committee”, and organizing their attack on the United States Congress.

    Daytona field office got some ‘splainin to do.

  7. 7

    Tipping ‘nudges’ are now popping up on DoorDash. If you don’t leave a gratuity, you’ll hear about it.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/tipping-nudges-are-now-popping-up-on-doordash-if-you-don-t-leave-a-gratuity-you-ll-hear-about-it/ar-AA1fd64g
    Base pay for DoorDash orders is as low as $2, making tips a key source of income for workers.

    Users typically see service fees from $1.99 to $7.99, so the overall cost to use DoorDash ranges $7.99 – $13.992
    Plus the expected 20% tip.
    A $30 order with a $13 service fee with a 20% tip pencils out to $50. If nothing else, it a way to take money from people who are not good at finances.
    This is why I don’t use any of these services.

    Reading the reviews, they can no longer attract competent gig slaves resulting in endless upset reviews of terrible service. Which makes sense. At $2 an order, who can afford to be good or nice. Late Stage Capitalism at it’s finest.

  8. 8

    Redditors in LA are compiling a list of restaurants that ask customers to pay extra fees as diners grow increasingly frustrated with added charges
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/redditors-in-la-are-compiling-a-list-of-restaurants-that-ask-customers-to-pay-extra-fees-as-diners-grow-increasingly-frustrated-with-added-charges/ar-AA1ffDqZ?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover

    “A 4% service charge will be added to each guest check to ensure competitive industry compensation, as well as health and medical benefits, for all of our valued full time team members. In support of this initiative, the entirety of the charge is retained by the restaurant.”

    “4% Security Fee is added to every check to ensure the safety of our guests and staff.”

    “Restaurant Adversity Surcharge – 3%. As a result of supply chain difficulties & increasing operational costs the restaurant industry is experiencing (including rising wage, benefit & other government requirements), a 3% surcharge will be added to all checks. ”

    “❋ A 20% SERVICE CHARGE IS ADDED TO ALL CHECKS. THIS IS USED TO HELP PAY FRONT OF HOUSE, KITCHEN & MANAGERS. EXTRA GRATUITY GOES TO THE SERVERS. ❋”

    —

    Not all that surprisingly, many would-be restaurant patrons have responded to price increases by avoiding eateries altogether and cooking at home instead. According to Black Box Intelligence, that same month (April 2023) saw restaurant traffic decline by 3.5% year-over-year.

  9. 9

    We have too much Army!

    “I don’t care if they promote anybody to be honest with you,” Tuberville said. “We’ve got 44 four-star generals right now. We only had seven during World War II. So I think we were a little overloaded to begin with.”

  10. 10

    @ 6

    Daytona field office got some ‘splainin to do.

    Who the fuck are you, and whatever have you done with QoS McHillbilly?

  11. 11

    Andres’ total weight lifted in squat, bench and deadlift resulted in a final score of 597.5 kilograms, which was over 200 kilograms more than her [sic] closest opponent, SuJan Gill, who finished at 387.5 kilograms. With that total, Andres set a new Canadian women’s national record and an unofficial women’s world record.

    Just wait until Hunter Biden “transitions” and then claims he’s being pursued because of discrimination.

  12. 12

    @ 8

    I was at a restaurant earlier this week that added a 5% fee. It also stated that it was appropriate to adjust the tip accordingly.

  15. 15

    Republicans think 13-year-olds are old enough to give birth to their rapists’ baby but 24-year-olds aren’t old enough to vote.
    Course Republicans want to be rule by a dictator so I question their decision making skills.

  16. 16

    @7 Cheap labor is a key objective of all business models. Delivery is not new, nor less labor and fuel intensive, than it always was; the only new thing about these new business models is the drastic pay cuts for the (non-union, of course) delivery drivers, and even that isn’t new. Every time some wunderkind from the business schools propagates a new business model, it’s based on lowering wages. Nothing ever changes.

  17. 17

    @8 “❋ A 20% SERVICE CHARGE IS ADDED TO ALL CHECKS. THIS IS USED TO HELP PAY FRONT OF HOUSE, KITCHEN & MANAGERS. EXTRA GRATUITY GOES TO THE SERVERS. ❋”

    —

    Not all that surprisingly, many would-be restaurant patrons have responded to price increases by avoiding eateries altogether and cooking at home instead. According to Black Box Intelligence, that same month (April 2023) saw restaurant traffic decline by 3.5% year-over-year.

    That’s not the only thing they do. I’ll bet a fair number of those still patronizing restaurants see “20% service charge” and think of it as the tip, see no reason to tip 20% twice, and the end result is tipped employees aren’t tipped. There are several ways to think about this, including the following:

    1. The 20% is no accident; it intentionally looks like a tip.
    2. The restaurant is diverting tips into the till.
    3. It’s a 20% wage cut for the tipped staff.

    It all comes down to what I said @16, to wit, every new business model that comes along has as a key element paying less for labor by cutting wages and making employees work for less pay. This scheme fits that template perfectly.

  18. 18

    However, this won’t affect workers at the local restaurants and grills that Doctor Dumbfuck patronizes, because he never tipped in the first place. He’s one of those patrons who leaves nasty notes on the receipt instead of a tip.

  19. 19

    @12 “I was at a restaurant earlier this week that added a 5% fee. It also stated that it was appropriate to adjust the tip accordingly.”

    See #17 for further details of new restaurant tipping policies.

    @13 Well, did you tip less then?

    No, he didn’t. See #18.

  20. 20

    https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35571/heartstopper-books-removed-from-marion-county-library-amid-anti-lgbtq-complaints
    A Mississippi public library just removed “Heartstopper,” a popular coming-of-age romantic comedy series, after MAGA activists claimed “homosexuals” are using the gay teen love story “to recruit your kids.”

    “If the Bible says it’s wrong, it’s wrong. Why can’t we have good, uplifting books that would tell them the good news about God and the right things?”

    >> I wonder how long before conservatives start purging the internet like they do in conservative Islamic countries. Course Republicans want to be ruled by a dictator

  21. 21

    @15 Another way of putting it is Republicans think 13-year-olds are old enough to be moms but have to be grandmothers before they can vote.

  22. 22

    @ 17

    I’ll bet a fair number of those still patronizing restaurants see “20% service charge” and think of it as the tip, see no reason to tip 20% twice, and the end result is tipped employees aren’t tipped.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you have demonstrated that you cannot afford to dine out. In these scenarios the servers are paid an hourly wage that reflects the fact that they are no longer compensated at diner whim; they are no longer “tipped” employees.

  23. 23

    8,
    …many would-be restaurant patrons have responded to price increases by avoiding eateries altogether and cooking at home instead.

    Guest count is down.
    But there is mixed data regarding the assumption that these potential diners are saving any money. A high percentage of diners responding to price and fee signals in restaurant settings by opting to dine at home are substituting take out, prepared foods, and home delivery meal kits. Many such options are actually more expensive, or yield massive reduction in quality.

    But it’s such a chaotic environment that the truth is hard to ever know. What we can know is that some distinct and growing groups of American consumers are losing or abandoning their ability to prepare their own food.

    The professionals who prepare their food for them (and serve it to them) have more leverage right now than at any other time in our past.

  24. 24

    @ 20

    Non-consensual kisses are A-OK with The Even Bigger Fucking Moron if they are forced on gays by other gays.

    If they are heterosexual assaults well, then, those motherfuckers should be canceled.

  25. 25

    @23. Had not considered that some people are forgetting how to cook fused with money management that makes no sense to olds. Seems to be the youngest generations. Should make for interesting times, and meals, when they are forced to learn if conditions change.

  26. 26

    @24. That’s not what was said. but the greedy racist incel has nothing to say if he doesn’t lie. Who will the greedy racist incel go after once the LGBTQ are erased?
    That’s the part that baffles me. The greedy racist incel’s own brother was not straight and yet he has have no empathy. Did greedy racist incel celebrate when his brother erased himself?
    Damn. Did the greedy racist incel’s brother abuse him? That might explain the greedy racist incel’s violence fantasies’ toward children and hatred of LGBTQ.

  27. 27

    Why was there no water in the hydrants when flames came to Lahaina? A big reason: The plantation economy.

    The victims of the Maui fires were native Hawaiians. The hydrants were dry because of colonial-style exploitation.

    Many scandals will emerge in the aftermath of the Lahaina disaster that took over 100 lives, and its sordid history of water theft from the natives is a tale of greed and exploitation as ugly as they come.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/hawaii-fires-maui-water-rights-disaster-capitalism?ref=upstract.com

  28. 28

    @22 Behold Doctor Dumbfuck’s feeble attempt to argue that tipping results in servers being overpaid.

  29. 29

    @25 Maybe that’s why they can’t afford homes? Back when I was their age, you could eat out frequently, or make mortgage payments, but couldn’t do both. Not even on two incomes.

    I assume Doctor Dumbfuck knows how to cook. By now, he’s been kicked out of every restaurant and grill within 50 miles of Freeland, and his wife quit cooking for him years ago.

  31. 31

    @25. Why save for a house? you might as well save for being able to fly.
    Housing market affordability index is now ~10% below the 2006 lows and mortgage rates are approaching 8% (this is the least affordable housing market in history)
    https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Ff2rqpxr0kiib1.jpg

    8.9 years on average to save for a downpayment
    https://charlotte.axios.com/334113/saving-downpayment-first-time-homebuyer-charlotte-north-carolina/
    >> 12+ for the Puget Sound.

    “I needed $50,000 for 20%, but by the time I saved that much, I needed $75,0000. So, I saved that. And by the time I did….. I needed $100,000. And so on and so on. I have never caught up to the market, and now even though I have 20%, I can’t afford the mortgage payments. It’s a sick joke. No matter how much I work to save, I can never afford it.”

    Not everyone is a successful old capitalist who grew up in the boomer generation.

  32. 32

    20,
    “If the Bible says it’s wrong, it’s wrong.”

    Don’t stop there.

    What about me?

    The Eights – a morality which is based on harmonious co-existence, non-judgemental conduct and generally not being a dick.

    1. I’d really rather you didn’t act like a sanctimonious, holier-than-thou ass when describing my Noodly Goodness. If some people don’t believe in me, that’s okay. Really, I’m not that vain. Besides, this isn’t about them so don’t change the subject.

    2. I’d really rather you didn’t use my existence as a means to oppress, subjugate, punish, eviscerate, and/or, you know, be mean to others. I don’t require sacrifices and purity is for drinking water, not people.

    3. I’d really rather you didn’t judge people for the way they look, or how they dress, or the way they talk, or, well, just play nice, okay? Oh, and get this in your thick heads: woman = person. Man = person. Samey-samey. One is not better than the other, unless we’re talking about fashion and I’m sorry, but I gave that to women and some guys who know the difference between teal and fuchsia.

    4. I’d really rather you didn’t indulge in conduct that offends yourself, or your willing, consenting partner of legal age and mental maturity. As for anyone who might object, I think the expression is go f*** yourself, unless they find that offensive in which case they can turn off the TV for once and go for a walk for a change.

    5. I’d really rather you didn’t challenge the bigoted, misogynist, hateful ideas of others on an empty stomach. Eat, then go after the b******.

    6. I’d really rather you didn’t build multimillion-dollar churches / temples / mosques / shrines to my Noodly Goodness when the money could be better spent (take your pick):
    a. Ending poverty
    b. Curing diseases
    c. Living in peace, loving with passion, and lowering the cost of cable
    I might be a complex-carbohydrate omniscient being, but I enjoy the simple things in life. I ought to know. I am the creator.

    7. I’d really rather you didn’t go around telling people I talk to you. You’re not that interesting. Get over yourself. And I told you to love your fellow man, can’t you take a hint?

    8. I’d really rather you didn’t do unto others as you would have them do unto you if you are into, um, stuff that uses a lot of leather / lubricant / lass Vegas. If the other person is into it, however (pursuant to #4), then have at it, take pictures, and for the love of mike, wear a condom! Honestly, it’s a piece of rubber. If I didn’t want it to feel good when you did it I would have added spikes, or something.

  33. 33

    Every time some wunderkind from the business schools propagates a new business model, it’s based on lowering wages. Nothing ever changes.

    Reminds me of something I read in the late Joe Coulombe’s memoir, the founder of Trader Joes.

    He thought he’d interview a newly hatched Stanford MBA for a job. This was sometime in the 70’s or probably 80’s many years after the start of TJ in 1967. Coulombe wanted to get a sense of the latest thinking from his alma mater’s business school.

    He related to her his policy of employee compensation. Stanford and probably all business schools teach that a policy is a “standing decision”. But to Coulombe, his employee compensation policy was something deeper. If growing his company could be compared to waging a war – the most reasonable as opposed to optimal employee compensation policy was a fundamental strategy to prevailing – through any curve the economy would throw at the business. Reasonable vs optimal. Tenacity trumps brilliance. Coulombe read a book by Barbara Tuchman about WWI and read that although the French and the Germans had brilliant military staffs both sides deviated from their initial war plans and the war became a quagmire. He thought of that book as the best book on management and mismanagement he’d ever read.

    So what was his employee compensation policy? Pay every employee well – the median California family household income.. In 1967 it $7,000 and by the time he wrote his memoir it was $40,000. And even though he didn’t anticipate so many women entering the workplace starting in the late 60’s – he stuck with the policy. He never deviated.

    Why did he do that? One reason I saw was gratitude. Trader Joes was originally called Pronto Markets and originally a division of Rexall Drug Stores and about to be spun off so its owner, Justin Dart, could go big into the very profitable Tupperware business. Coulombe leveraged himself to the gills, borrowed from family members, got some bank financing and persuaded a bunch of Pronto employees who believed in him to put up their own meager savings.

    Another reason was more business school oriented.. Every school teaches that the biggest labor expense is NOT wages.. It’s employee turnover. The solution to that headache to Coulombe seemed so obvious – pay your employees well, make sure they’re productive, problem solved. Businesses that do that are the great exception and it’s not easy. Coulombe admits that to maintain that policy every other policy flows from that – from store siting, to leasing decisions, merchandising and pricing – almost everything. But he got the most loyal and dedicated workforce one could imagine in the bargain.

    So what did the Stanford MBA think of that? She told him: “Joe, you’re doing all the wrong things for all the right reasons!”

    She didn’t get the job.

  34. 34

    Housing affordability plummets to lowest level since 2007 as prices jump
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/housing-affordability-plummets-lowest-level-since-2007-prices-jump

    Even though rates are nearly double what they were three years ago, home prices have hardly budged. That is at least in part due to a lack of available homes for sale.
    Sellers who locked in a low mortgage rate before the pandemic began have been reluctant to sell, leaving few options for eager would-be buyers.

    >> Just get a fourth job.
    >> Maybe that’s why there is so much door dash. Who has time to shop and cook?

  36. 36

    10,
    Current events? Ever? Put the Bourbon down. It’s not even 11 am.

    I have always held the confirmed belief that FBI agents are overwhelmingly Republican voters who generally hold all non-whites and poors in suspicion and allow that bias to cloud their professional judgment to the detriment of public safety.

    To whit: despite the plain fact that the overwhelming majority of annual incidents of politically motivated terror attack within the Unites States are undertaken by individuals and organized groups motivated by decidedly right-wing, authoritarian political ideology, the FBI continues to refuse to even observe any of it.

    Yet ever since John Erlichman, an un-elected political appointee of yet another criminally corrupt Republican President ordered them to, the FBI has diligently monitored, surveilled, infiltrated, policed, and in plenty of cases entrapped and framed individuals and groups associated with or motivated by left-wing ideology, such as nuclear disarmament, environmental protection, civil rights, and free speech. And they have done this even when the political leadership the FBI is answering to admits very openly that it is all based entirely on bullshit:

    “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

    There’s absolutely nothing surprising about Republican FBI agents in Daytona answering to a malignant slug like Stephen Miller, cooperating with a right-wing terrorist to go after “hippies”.
    The planning for the Jan 6 terror attack to place in the open in front of everyone.

  37. 37

    My first sold GNRC naked put expired yesterday. I’d like to thank Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit for overpaying for his GNRC shares, which gave me the idea to sell at a strike price that would net me a profit unless the shares fell more than 15% below Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s buy-in point.

    Nearly $2700 paid up front, and all I had to do afterward was watch and wait. Oh, and that money earned up to 5% in a money-market account while I waited.

    Next up: The sold naked call with a $160 strike price. Meanwhile Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit earns no dividend on his pitifully small number of purchased shares and recently has watched their value fall more than 30% from their recent temporary elevated levels.

    Options activity is what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit calls “gambling”.

    Placing a trade based on Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s poor investment decisions is not gambling. He’s as predictably awful with his investments as is the sun’s rise in the east each morning.

  38. 38

    25,
    Boomer males have almost no real home cooking skills unless it involves some kind of $15,000 offset smoker, built-in wood-fired pizza oven, or computer monitored grilling appliance. For all the hoopla associated with the hippie generation, they mostly fell into very traditional roles as far as domestic life is concerned. But a common element of aging is that the traditional home maker in a couple wants to retire just as much as the traditional bread winner. So what happens with both spouses fully retire? The meal preparation at home stops as well.

    Previous generations solved some of this by moving into adult/assisted communities or joining a country club with a lot of those meal preparation services provided. But Boomers are aging at home a lot more than predecessor generations. So they’ve been dining out a lot more too. And now that is catching up to them.

    We could of course easily import cheap labor to “fix” all of this.
    But ironically the very same Boomer generation is the most vehemently opposed to the importation of cheap labor unless the imported laborers can be confined, monitored closely, and preferably sterilized so they never have children who require public schools and compete for doctor’s visits.

    And that leaves dudes like Beavis and Butthead with all the leverage.

  39. 39

    Sometimes a bad guy with a guy can be a good thing.

    BREAKING NEWS
    IRS special agent killed at Phoenix gun range during training exercise

    This is the March 18 version of the story. The March 17 version admitted that the shooter was another IRS agent.

    Oops.

  40. 40

    @ 38

    Boomer males have almost no real home cooking skills…

    Boomer males are married to females who do. They do other fun stuff, too.

  41. 41

    They do other fun stuff, too.

    She let’s him watch.

    Sometimes she even let’s him watch her cook.

  42. 42

    The latest Emerson Poll has DeSantis and Ramaswamy tied at 10%.

    Meanwhile, Momala strengthens her RCP favorability rating over DeSantis.

    Joe Biden 40.0
    Donald Trump 38.5
    Momala Harris 37.1
    Ron DeSantis 36.4

    Probably best that we discuss options trading, don’t you think?

  45. 45

    To the real unserious twat @ 42

    Meanwhile, Momala strengthens her RCP favorability rating over DeSantis.

    Joe Biden 40.0
    Donald Trump 38.5
    Momala Harris 37.1
    Ron DeSantis 36.4

    No argument. Those are the numbers. But let’s look at a different set of numbers, shall we? Let’s look at the spread between favorable and unfavorable. ’cause they’re different.

    DeSantis is at negative 11.4, which I’ll admit is not pretty. His unfavorable is at negative 47.8

    What about Momala? This unlikable, incompetent pitiful excuse for a public servant is at negative 15.9, and a full 53% find her unfavorable.

    My corrupt, incompetent, senile president is at negative 14.7, and his unfavorable is at 54.7%.

    What this means it that the current DNC re-election ticket has both candidates well into majority unfavorable range. Which is far worse than DeSantis’ standing.

    Those interested in Trump can look it up themselves. Since Unserious Twat called out Momala over DeSantis, DeSantis vs. the DNC ticket is my focus.

    Shoulda left it alone.

  46. 46

    @33 The “brilliant” French idea in the early stages of WW1 was that esprit could overcome machineguns. Hence the flashy red uniforms (“pantalon rouge”) and fruitless offensives that sent so many Poilus to early graves. I read somewhere (possibly in Tuchman’s book) their monthly pay was insufficient to purchase two eggs; so much for morale. No wonder some of them had to be shot to get the rest to climb out of the trenches into No Man’s Land.

  47. 47

    @33 Would she have been hired if she’d said, “Joe, you’re doing all the right things for the wrong reasons?” At that point, most execs would think she’s a philosophy major, not an MBA. But Joe wasn’t most execs.

  48. 48

    @35 Ford doubled wages, such that every Ford worker could afford a Model T, but at the same time turned his factory into a sweatshop.

    He also introduced the 8-hour shift, but that was so his factory could run three 8-hour shifts instead of two 10-hour shifts a day, getting 4 more hours of production out of every workday.

  50. 50

    @38 “So they’ve been dining out a lot more too. And now that is catching up to them.”

    Is it really a bad thing if it operates as an intergenerational wealth transfer mechanism?

  53. 53

    @45 What it means is nobody in this country likes politicians anymore, and the more they see of politics the less they like politicians. I’ll let you figure out why.

  55. 55

    50,
    No, hard working busboys and dishwashers making a good wage with benefits is not a bad thing. And that’s why you only see lots of Republicans complaining about it.

    I just want the world to know that the reason Republicans are non-stop complaining about the price of dining out is because they are too entitled and too lazy to pull themselves up by the bootstraps they always talk about….
    … and make a dang quesadilla!

  62. 62

    I have a list right here of all the reasons I’m voting for Trump.

  63. 63

    Parental Consent for THIS ONE THING os important.

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Children ages 14 and 15 would no longer need a work permit or parental permission to get a job under a bill Republican Wisconsin lawmakers released on Friday.

    Under current law, 14- and 15-year-olds in Wisconsin are prohibited from working most jobs unless they have permission from a parent or guardian and have verified their age with the state Department of Workforce Development.

    Does anyone have any idea why young voters are telling our pollsters that we are hypocrites?

  64. 64

    Trump supporters dumber than a box of rocks. The FuckHump is dumber than a box of rocks.

    Generally speaking, gay people like gay people, straight people like straight people, white people like white people, black people like black people, jocks like jocks, Americans like Americans, Polish people like Polish People, nice people like nice people, mean people like mean people, Neanderthals like Neanderthals (I tossed that one in for fun, hehehe), rich people like rich people, poor people like poor people, etc.

    Smart people like smart people, and you guessed it DUMBFUCKERS like DUMBFUCKERS, especially King DumbFuck the FuckHump, he even said He like the Uneducated. Wow, what a surprise, he’s one and wants to be felt like one of the smartest of the dumbfucks…….and the Dumbfucks they are more eager to appease him.

    Doctor Dumbfuck is in that group…..he doesn’t hang out with other doctors, because he ain’t one, and they know it!

  65. 65

    Children ages 14 and 15 would no longer need a work permit or parental permission to get a job under a bill Republican Wisconsin lawmakers released on Friday.

    How about panties? Did they regulate that they can’t wear panties yet unless they get permission from Donald The FuckHump? They like them pantyless.

    Gross, I know – but just ask Bob….it’s the way he likes all his young horses.

  66. 66

    Fight to the Death People!

    Just thing how satisfying it would be to knock one of them off!

  67. 67

    ‘listless vessels’? What kind of weak sauce insult is that? No Trump supporter knows what a listless vessel is. Does Desantis figure that trump supporters are too stupid to know what that is and or look it up?
    No way he makes it through the primaries. Because insulting the people he need to vote for him, works so well.

  68. 68

    Elon Musk on Xitter

    Pretty fun blocking people who complain that blocking is going away.
    How does the medicine taste? 😂😂

    What a petty bitch.

  69. 69

    @ 63

    Does anyone have any idea why young voters are telling our pollsters that we are hypocrites?

    Because it’s yet one more definition public school education fails to correctly teach them.

    Your NEA at work.

  70. 70

    The New York Times makes clear that the appointment of Weiss as special counsel is intended to bury the Hunter Biden criminality for a couple of years.

    The deal’s collapse — chronicled in over 200 pages of confidential correspondence between Mr. Weiss’s office and Mr. Biden’s legal team, and interviews with those close to Mr. Biden, lawyers involved in the case and Justice Department officials — came after intense negotiations that started with the prospect that Mr. Biden would not be charged at all and now could end in his possible indictment and trial.

    Earlier this year, The Times found, Mr. Weiss appeared willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. Biden at all, and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges. But the correspondence reveals that his position, relayed through his staff, changed in the spring, around the time a pair of I.R.S. officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation. Mr. Weiss suddenly demanded that Mr. Biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses.

    DOJ fully in the tank for The Biden Crime Family. Thank Christ Cocaine Mitch kept political hack Merrick Garland off the High Court.

  72. 72

    Russia’s version of NASA:

    “Preliminary analysis results suggest that a deviation between the actual and calculated parameters of the propulsion maneuver led the Luna-25 spacecraft to enter an undesignated orbit and it ceased to exist following a collision with the surface of the Moon.”

    The problem was traced to incompetence on the part of Russia’s version of Kamala.

  74. 74

    @ 71

    It’s increasingly difficult not to conclude that The Even Bigger Fucking Moron‘s stupidity is related in some way to his homosexuality.

    Why else would he be given a pass by everyone else who posts on HA, if not to advance DEI goals?

  78. 78

    “Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) accused both parties of villainizing each other on Sunday, as the moderate Democrat continues to fuel speculation about a potential third-party White House bid with the bipartisan group No Labels.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4160544-manchin-claims-both-parties-villainize-each-other-amid-speculation-about-no-labels-bid/

    What the fuck is he talking about? Democrats don’t engage in the lying, smearing, and demonizing that Republicans routinely do. Democratic criticisms of Republican racial gerrymandering, voter suppression, campaign finance law violations, and efforts to subvert and overthrow elections are perfectly legitimate. When it comes to painting the other side as villains, or being villains, Democrats and Republicans aren’t remotely alike. This is false-equivalency bullshit. Is Manchin turning into a Doctor Dumbfuck?

  80. 80

    @63 More proof that the GOP “solution” for the labor shortage is repealing child labor laws and reinstating 19th century child labor practices.

    But the 19th century labor practice they really want to reinstate requires repealing a constitutional amendment.

  81. 81

    @68 It’s his toy, he can play with it as he likes. Whether anyone plays with him is up to them.

  82. 82

    @69 “Your NEA at work.”

    Really? It’s not the teacher unions who are telling teachers what they can teach, and even when they can or can’t say in a classroom, if they don’t want to go to jail.

    Maybe you should put the responsibility of what kids learn (and don’t learn) on the people deciding what they’re allowed (and not allowed) to learn.

  83. 83

    This is EXACTLY what sane people have been telling you would happen with Moms For Liberty, Proud Boys, A Former President, the largest sect of American ‘Christians’ and a slough of media spreading the idea of ‘groomers’

    When deputies arrived, they found 66-year-old Laura Ann Carleton with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead on the scene.

    According to the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department, the suspect, who has not been identified, “made several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag that stood outside the store before shooting Carleton.”

    He was a law abiding gun owner up until the moment he murdered someone he disagreed with.

  84. 84

    @70 “The New York Times makes clear that the appointment of Weiss as special counsel is intended to bury the Hunter Biden criminality for a couple of years.”

    It looks to me like it was intended to give Weiss a free hand to prosecute Hunter Biden as the evidence justifies, in any jurisdiction or venue Weiss chooses, without interference from DOJ or the White House.

    Funny how a human and a rabbit can look at the same forest and see totally different landscapes.

  85. 85

    @72 It still exists, disassembled.

    I wonder if there’s a fine for littering on the moon? And who would enforce it?

  86. 86

    @74 “Why else would he be given a pass by everyone else who posts on HA”

    Does it shock you that some of the posters on a partisan blog aren’t politically neutral?

  87. 87

    By not cutting his POS felon son loose..

    Just the other week, the shithead babbled about Joe not caring about a grand daughter…

    Now it wants Joe to disown the surviving child of his deceased first wife.

    Dominic Toretto would call teh widbee freak a pos:

    You don’t turn your back on family..

  88. 88

    @79 So if you had a son who cheated on his taxes and violated a gun possession law (that a federal circuit has declared unconstitutional), would you cut him loose?

    You being you, sure you would. He wouldn’t even have to do that; being born would be enough. You wouldn’t admit paternity, even if his mother was your wife.

  89. 89

    There’s the Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit excuse @ 27 for the Maui fires.

    The victims of the Maui fires were native Hawaiians. The hydrants were dry because of colonial-style exploitation.

    And then there’s the real reason.

    Hawaiian Electric is Hawaii’s principle electric utility, providing power to roughly 95% of the state. Financial disclosures and reports show the company worried about the state of its electrical grid, and specifically the risk of wildfires, but devoted resources to building out the utility’s green energy network with limited action to mitigate fire risk, according to The Wall Street Journal.
    …
    The utility concluded in a 2019 report after one of the worst fire seasons in Maui’s history that the company needed to do more to mitigate fire risk. From 2019 to 2022, the utility spent less than $245,000 on projects to mitigate fire risk, according to financial filings reviewed by WSJ.
    …
    The focus on Hawaii’s energy priorities over the past decade has been dominated by its push for green energy. The state enacted a first-in-the-country law in 2015 mandating that Hawaii’s grid be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2045. In 2021, regulators finished a top-to-bottom restructuring of the regulatory framework to guide that transition, offering Hawaiian Electric large bonuses for finishing green energy projects on time, and threatening the utility with fines if it missed deadlines.
    …
    The utility submitted a plan to the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission last year that said the utility would spend $190 million on projects on Maui such as removing trees and brush from areas around power lines and shoring up the island’s aging electrical infrastructure. While the commission approved the plan, Hawaiian electric put off implementing it until it received approval to pay for the project by increasing rates on customers. That approval still has not been given, according to WSJ.

    Each and every state has an oversupply of stupid liberals running utility districts. The state that gave us the laughable clowns Daniel Akaka and Mazie Hirono is no different.

  90. 90

    @83 There’ll be no murder trial in that case. The bad guy with a gun who killed a shop owner over a Pride flag shot at the police when they caught up with him. Case closed.

  91. 91

    @89 So you’re saying Hawaii Electric should’ve taken the water back from the corporate interests and real estate developers to mitigate the fire risk from its green energy projects?

  93. 93

    @45 blah, blah, blah

    To continue….

    Trump’s RCP favorable rating is lower than both Biden and Momala. Trump’s RCP unfavorable rating is higher than both Biden and Momala. Trump’s favorable-unfavorable spread is higher than both Biden and Momala.

    Shoulda left it alone, you unserious twat.

  94. 94

    @ 88

    So if you had a son who cheated on his taxes and violated a gun possession law (that a federal circuit has declared unconstitutional), would you cut him loose?

    Would I engage in corrupt behavior to keep him from facing the music? No. Would I encourage him to cut a deal and minimize his penalty by taking down everyone else involved in his criminal enterprise? Fuck yeah.

    Problem is, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, in the present case that means taking down a Democrat president.

  95. 95

    @ 91

    @89 So you’re saying Hawaii Electric should’ve taken the water back from the corporate interests and real estate developers to mitigate the fire risk from its green energy projects?

    For a day, when it mattered, yes.

    Hawaii official concerned with ‘equity’ delayed releasing water for more than 5 hours as wildfires raged: report

    M. Kaleo Manuel, former deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, waited for more than five hours to release water during the wildfires that devastated Maui, according to reports.
    …
    The West Maui Land Company said in an Aug. 10 letter to Manuel that his commission refused its request to divert streams to fill landowners’ reservoirs in the hard-hit Lahaina area until the wildfires raged out of control, according to a report.

    Sources told Honolulu Civil Beat that Manuel had asked the company to consult with a local farmer about the impact of water diversion before approving their request.

    By the time this liberal POS decided that maybe a wildfire out of control needed some water in the system, the downstream system had melted due to the wildfire and was unusable.

    Maybe blame the farmer for not picking up the phone because was busy trying to save his house from going up in flames, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  96. 96

    @89

    Slamming headfirst into the point.

    A privately owned capitalist power provider was unwilling to insure their product was safe for consumers UNLESS someone else was paying for it.

    Hawaiian Electric has paid a $.25-.35/ share dividend since the 1980s. Maybe instead of enriching investors they could have upgraded safety? Nah…that’s not Capitalism. Fuck the customers the owners need the cash.

    The most recent round of payments will be sent on September 8th.

    https://www.hei.com/investor-relations/stock-information/dividends/default.aspx

  97. 97

    Would I engage in corrupt behavior to keep him from facing the music?

    No evidence of that… except in the fever swamps of the likes of teh gateway moron and vip lounge lizards in miserable burgs like widbee…

    that means taking down a Democrat president.

    Of course… As AI is about to be adopted by the IRS… the greedee, racist incel of widbee grows ever more desperate..

  98. 98

    kon-klown.. Asshole born and bred..

    His subject was Yale University, where Mr. DeSantis was educated and where, as he tells it, he first met the enemy…

    “I’m a public school kid,” Mr. DeSantis told the audience,..

    “My mom was a nurse, my dad worked for a TV ratings company, installing the metering devices back then. And I show up in jean shorts and a T-shirt.” The outfit “did not go over well with the Andover and Groton kids”

    Then there are the parts of the story he doesn’t tell: How his new baseball teammates at Yale — mostly fellow athletic recruits from the South and West who likewise viewed themselves as Yale outsiders — were among those who teased him about his clothes, and how he would nevertheless adopt their insular culture as his own. How he joined one of Yale’s storied “secret societies,” those breeding grounds of future senators and presidents, but left other members with the impression that he would have preferred to be tapped by a more prestigious one. How he shared with friends his dream of going to Harvard Law School — not law school, Harvard Law School — and successfully applied there, stacking one elite credential neatly onto another, and co-founded a tutoring firm that touted “the only LSAT prep courses designed exclusively by Harvard Law School graduates.” How his Yale connections helped him out-raise rivals as a first-time candidate for Congress, and how he featured his Ivy credentials — “a political scarlet letter as far as a G.O.P. primary went,” Mr. DeSantis likes to say — on his campaign websites, sometimes down to the precise degree of honors earned. And how that C.V. helped sell him to an Ivy-obsessed President Donald J. Trump, whose 2018 endorsement helped propel Mr. DeSantis to the governor’s office in Florida, where his Yale baseball jersey is displayed prominently on the wall next to his desk.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/us/politics/ron-desantis-education.html

  99. 99

    This is the part that makes widbee vip lounge lizard kreepula beam with pride:

    Along with many of his teammates, he joined Delta Kappa Epsilon, a fraternity composed largely of athletes, many from working-class backgrounds.

    At Yale, D.K.E. was known as boorish even by fraternity standards, with a reputation for over-the-top hazing of pledges.

    When Mr. DeSantis was a senior, according to former brothers and pledges, a large group of pledges quit after one hazing episode turned violent. On another night, pledges were ordered to a frat house room, two of them recalled. After entering one at a time, each was blindfolded and ordered to drop his pants, with Mr. DeSantis, other brothers, and at least one female guest on hand to mock their genitalia. One of the pledges recalled that a blender was placed between his legs and abruptly turned on to scare him, splashing water on his groin.

    During the fraternity’s “hell week,” pledges wore costumes smeared with rotten food and condiments. They might be ordered to simulate sex with one another or do outdoor calisthenics in the winter air. According to four former pledges and brothers, Mr. DeSantis required one pledge, for whom he served as “father,” to wear a pair of baseball pants with the back and thighs cut out, exposing his buttocks and genitals.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/us/politics/ron-desantis-education.html

    Our kreepee, greedee racist incel troll became a “Senior” too at one point. Booyah! It exclaimed back in the day..

    “It’s my turn!”

    It had been fully turned, from Carter voter after the REAL miracle on ice, to bonzo raygun butt-licking klownservatic for life. Its transition was complete.

  100. 100

    So why would a Defense Bill amendment be a trending item on the TikTok.

    Oh. Because Josh Hawley is trying to sneak in a TikTok ban that INCLUDES civil and criminal penalties for individuals having the app on their personal devices.

    Amendment 841

  101. 101

    Can someone explain how the greedy racist “erase LGBTQ” incel can take mocking his desperate fever dream trumper fan fiction about the “Biden Crime Family” and somehow see a gay plot involving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? That’s some seriously 17D Q chess moves there.
    I don’t see the connections, but then, I only have a rural conservative Southern Oregon education. You know, the kind that conservatives want for all kids except the conservative elites.

  102. 102

    @ 99

    At Yale, D.K.E. was known as boorish even by fraternity standards, with a reputation for over-the-top hazing of pledges.

    Maybe he’s got a brand! Like my wife’s horses. Or, like, you know…

    For a guy so far behind in the polls, DeSantis certainly has Queen YLB’s panties in a twist.

  103. 103

    @102 kon-klown is a source of comedy here at HA dear kreepula..

    like you are…

    You two are a match made in heaven.. Now please continue.. for our entertainment.. don’t be boring…

    Lol… behind in the polls? just the other day you were touting kon-klown’s “likability”… keep the dope alive kreepula..

  104. 104

    President Biden, were you ever present when your son, Hunter, snorted cocaine?

    President Biden, were you ever present when your son, Hunter, smoked crystal meth?

    President Biden, do you know if your son, Hunter, has used heroin?

    President Biden, were you ever present when your son, Hunter, had sex with prostitutes? Was there more than one prostitute in the room at the time?

    President Biden, were you present when your son, Beau, passed away? Was that in Iraq, as you have repeatedly claimed in public, or was it somewhere else?

    President Biden, which member of your family did the Secret Service inform you was responsible for bringing cocaine into the West Wing?

    Hunter’s Lawyers Vowed to Call President Biden As Witness — Complained About Trump Influence In Newly-Leaked Documents

    In a Politico deep-dive on the collapse of the plea deal, Betsy Woodruff Swan reveals she obtained over 300 pages of emails and other documents related to communications between Hunter’s lawyers and the prosecutors.
    …
    One letter from attorney Chris Clark lashed out at an earlier leak from the investigation, and warned that “President Biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial.”

    Well, this certainly helps us understand why Weiss was so eager to sweep all of this Biden family corruption under the rug.

  105. 105

    a gay plot involving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?

    kreepula heroes like kon-klown and Chris Rufo prefer

    white males only, the rich always get richer, and all “abnormals” (queer, transgender) excluded… and minus a few token females and those a shade darker, all the darker skinned, funny last names – yeah exclude those too.

  106. 106

    So I’m not sure there’s any way to comment on Weiss’ conduct without venturing into some speculation. But since speculation, and frankly bizarre MOON LASER conspiracy peddling is all Republicans have left when it comes to DICK PICS, what the hell.

    But first a recitation of the known facts may be in order.

    David Weiss was appointed to serve as the United States Attorney for Joe Biden’s home state by President Trump. We know by now that as President, Trump made such appointments strategically, and that throughout his presidency, but certainly by the time of Weiss’ appointment Trump was obsessed with former Vice President Biden as a potential re-election challenger, reasoning quite correctly, that Biden would easily kick his ass. And by the time of Weiss’ appointment by Trump the campaign had already begun to put in motion it’s efforts to produce a Ukraine based smear campaign targeting Joe Biden, and employing Rudy Giuliani as Trump’s “personal lawyer” to head up that project for him the following year.

    As United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, it fell to Weiss to take on various aspects of the investigations into Hunter Biden when the tampered laptop hard drive file was first produced by the Trump campaign and Giuliani. Right away there were, and still are, legal evidentiary obstacles that would prevent the laptop files, such as Giuliani produced them, from every being used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against Hunter Biden. Large sections of the files and file structure are unable to be authenticated owing to the alteration of the contents subsequent to those contents no longer being in the possession and control of Hunter Biden, and presumably while they were in the possession and control of Rudy Giuliani. Other portions of the file contents have been confirmed to have been added into the contents after Rudy Giuliani first obtained possession and control over those contents. Thus tainted by alteration and corruption the laptop would not be able to be introduced as reliable evidence to any jury or other criminal hearing.

    This fact would have left Weiss and his investigators to attempt to produce the same or similar evidence via parallel construction – that is to determine and authenticate whatever evidence they can of any criminal wrongdoing that they discovered from the corrupted laptop contents from other independent sources. We may safely assume that Weiss would have subpoenaed all appropriate sources for records that might provide that parallel construction. Those sources would include IRS filings and other federal and state governmental records, ISP and mobile phone provider records, search engine provider records, messaging app records, social media account records, personal and business banking records, credit card, debit card, and other purchase records, and personal and business accounting records. With those records and any other leads they might have produced they could then determine most of Hunter Biden’s whereabouts, communications, movements, and activities for the relevant time period dating back to the Obama administration. That evidence produced from parallel construction would then be admissible as evidence.

    In May of this year attorneys from Weiss’ office approached Hunter Biden’s criminal defense attorneys to propose discussions and negotiations for a plea agreement and a prosecution diversion agreement. Those negotiations initially proved fruitful and resulted in a proposed settlement that was presented to the Delaware district court on July 26. The settlement and agreement required for Hunter Biden to waive jurisdiction on some of the criminal charges and allow the matter to be heard in Weiss’ district. It was the understanding of Hunter Biden and his lawyers at that time, and based on affirmation from attorneys from Weiss’ office, that the agreement would provide him with immunity from further federal criminal charges relating to the matters included in the plea agreement and the accompanying diversion agreement. The agreement as documented and as filed to the court referenced the diversion agreement, even though such a diversion agreement falls outside of the jurisdiction of a federal court.

    The inclusion of that diversion agreement by reference into the plea agreement being sought caused Judge Norieka to pause the proceedings and engage in further inquiry among the parties. Initially it was her purpose to determine if the diversion agreement could legally be included in any plea agreement for her to consider. Then subsequently she sought further inquiry into whether the diversion agreement needed to be referenced. Her inquiries of the parties into the purpose and necessity of the inclusion of the diversion agreement into the plea agreement led to the discovery that Hunter Biden and his defense attorneys had become misled about the future status of immunity that the plea agreement would produce. We don’t know if they were deliberately misled. But the judge became substantially alarmed and frustrated over that, since it would be her obligation under any such plea agreement to certify that the defendant entered into the agreement with full knowledge. Good federal judges (Aileen Cannon notwithstanding) actually care about reaching final outcomes that do not produce gigantic errors, especially when those errors deprive the accused of due process – due process is a judges main job.

    So then Weiss notified the DAG that it was his intention to seek appointment as a Special Counsel under that statute so that he could proceed to trial in whatever venue – the waiver of venue having gone out the window with the rest of the plea agreement. And because of the loss of the waiver of venue Weiss also filed to dismiss some of the charges in Delaware, since without the waiver that court would lack venue jurisdiction. The Attorney General approved the appointment. In the interim, in contemplation of the dismissal of the charges in Delaware, Hunter Biden’s lead defense attorney removed himself from the case and Abbe Lowell was entered. This is because Hunter Biden contended in his filing to the court ahead of the dismissal that one of Weiss’ attorneys, prior to the Juyl 26 hearing, had attempted to significantly narrow the scope of the immunity granted. His attorney in that interaction, Chris Clark, thus became also a witness to those alleged facts and can no longer both serve as Hunter Biden’s attorney and a witness for Hunter Biden in any claims about the events that caused the collapse of the plea agreement. And that’s basically where things now stand in terms of knowns, with the previous charges filed in anticipation of the plea agreement dismissed, the diversion agreement on gun charges signed and filed in June still standing, and the two parties potentially in dispute about the previously signed criminal diversion agreement on gun charges.

    Now for the speculation. Since becoming Attorney General one of the many laudable accomplishments of Merrick Garland has been to restore some integrity to the DOJ by really putting a lid on all the unauthorized (and frankly even authorized) communications with the media. Obviously an investigation like this one (or any of the Trump grab-bag) are very newsworthy and sensational. There is tremendous pressure and frankly plenty of inurement on offer from giant global media companies courting leakers. Further complicating that is a Republican House committee and its staff attempting every public and private back channel means at their disposal to pry loose any detail to be used for political purposes. It’s noteworthy that all the leaks about Trump’s criminal adventures have come from Trump himself. But alas, as Weiss’ tenure and this investigation precedes Garland, it has not been so with the Hunter Biden investigation. And while “senior law enforcement officials close to the investigation” may have earned themselves a future in network television or as a lead staff attorney for an Oklahoma cow farmer, they have almost certainly complicated things for Weiss in terms of his aims and objectives going forward from here.

    It would be very ironic if that same “senior official” turned out to be Weiss himself in at least a few cases.

    There are reasons Weiss instructed his lead attorneys to approach Biden for a deal. There are reasons Weiss scuttled the deal at the last minute. And those reasons are now free, and very likely, to come out in criminal discovery ahead of any criminal trial wherever the Special Counsel may choose to file it. None of those reasons will be persuasive in getting the diversion agreement vacated. And the more Weiss or his subordinates attempt to clean the shit off themselves by placing more leaked details, especially false and misleading details about their investigation into the media as they struggle forward from here, the worse this will get. All of Donald Trump’s and his corrupt DOJ and White House appointee’s imprecations to Weiss to bring charges will be available to the trial defense. All of Devin Nunes’, Gym Jordan’s, Stupid Cow Farmer’s, and Stupid Corn Farmer’s pleadings and pressure campaigns will get entered into discovery. And Clark, who represented Hunter Biden throughout the period when Weiss was stalling in a decision and yielding to pressure, notified Weiss through formal presentations of his intentions to seek discovery from DOJ and Weiss in particular about the sources of the many Weiss leaks that somehow found their way into the news media and into the hands of Stupid Cow Farmer staff. As we now know, such leaks involving a grand jury information are illegal. But moreover, they provide the credible and persuasive evidence of a powerful political campaign to persuade sway a prosecutor making a charging decision.

    I think Weiss fucked this thing up, just like Giuliani did. Maybe he’s a drunk or megalomaniac like Rudy. Or maybe his weak willed and succumbed to pressure. If I had to I’d guess the later. Those are precisely the qualities that Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions would have been looking for.

  107. 107

    @104 zzzZZZZzzzzzzz….. then it goes and bores us…

    shades of its “questions” for CCM in Nevada.. we all know how that turned out..

    first pretend journo, now pretend lawyer.. yawwwn…

  108. 108

    @ 105

    … “abnormals” (queer, transgender) …

    You forgot children of unserious twats and moronic people, Queen YLB.

  109. 109

    @104

    Dumbfuck imagines a scenario where addicts are super open and using in front of family.

  110. 110

    You forgot children of unserious twats and moronic people

    kreepula, you’re on record here about how you want to educate your grandkids:

    This.. with extensive instruction in “kick the living shit”.. preparing them for entrance into the likes of D.K.E. for “twenty minutes of action”

    yeah, that should put them into ranks of the “normals” for ya, kount kreepula..

  111. 111

    Dumbfuck imagines a scenario where addicts are super open and using in front of family.

    Like pop pop pounding down the bourbons in front of the grandkids…

    ” ya two are.. hiccup… gonna.. hiccup.. tipple.. kick the livin’ shit… hiccup… tipple…”

  112. 112

    82)Always learn something about past transit operations on the NW Bus Fans Facebook group. A member shared some old photos of an odd bus model Seattle Transit repurposed after its revenue service days were over. One of three remaining Kenworth buses inherited from Seattle Municipal Street Railway in 1939. The wheels removed, out up on blocks, and most windows filled in. They were converted to vault buses. I asked if it was a holdover from the days when operators could give change, but turns out the coin changers were issued in a different room. These were for depositing the farebox reciepts at the end of the day.

    Learned more from the member about the transition to exact fare in 1969. Did the operators and union oppose it? Apparently, they were all for it. The reason was, several robberies between 67 and 69 including one murder over the coin changer. He said it was $50-60 in the device, adjusted for inflation, that was about $500. I can see why they were relieved. The current Metro Farebox, a model dating back to the 90s, seems well mounted on the bus. Tge HistoryLINK article about the first day of exact fare, mentioned management was surprised about the transition being so smooth, that they couldn’t believe it. Although the fine for not having the exact fare was just an IOU slip where the rider would pay twice the fare next time.

  113. 113

    Yeesh
    “It’s the Seven Mountains Mandate. And it’s quietly creeping from America into Australian political life, with the express purpose of taking control of all the institutions of power.

    A plan by a shadowy group of “prophets” and “apostles” to take over the world sounds like the stuff of a bad airport novel, but it is one of the most important ideas in the Pentecostal movement today.

    The premise of 7M, as it’s often called, is that the seven pillars of society have been taken over by demonic powers. Believers have to reclaim control of these “mountains” so that Christ can return to rule

    The so-called Seven Mountains are:

    education;
    religion;
    family;
    business;
    government and the military;
    arts and entertainment; and
    the media.

    This is not a conspiracy theory — these lunatics admit openly they want to take over all the important parts of society and thus bring on Armageddon.

    And now it is taking hold in this country.”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate

  114. 114

    @ 109

    … imagines a scenario where addicts are super open and using in front of family.

    Just one addict. Just one.

    “It’s Dad. I called to tell you I love you. I love you more than the whole world, pal. You gotta get some help,” Biden says in the message. “I don’t know what to do. I know you don’t either, but I am here no matter what you need, no matter what you need, I love you.”

    An entitled addict whose reckless behavior might prove enough to take down a president.

    Sound far-fetched? Weiner’s behavior proved reckless enough to take down a congressman.

  115. 115

    Nother! Nother! Nother!

    Former New York Sen. James Buckley, an early agitator for then-President Richard Nixon’s resignation [kreepula sez BOO!] and winner of a landmark lawsuit challenging campaign spending limits, died Friday at age 100.

    Buckley died at a hospital in Washington, D.C., according to his son David Buckley of Arlington, Virginia.

    Buckley was the fourth of 10 children of a millionaire oilman and older brother of conservative commentator William F. Buckley

    Jr., who died in February 2008. He was the last survivor of the 10 siblings.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/james-buckley-conservative-ex-senator-dies-100-rcna100731

    100.. fuck.. 1 century.. dude. gotta admit. Took better care of himself than WFB, Jr.

    ooooolld.. guy.. No more SS or gubmint pension checks for him…

    Following from the insane, deranged, imbecilic and moronic babbling of kount kreepula, shit-stain of widbee..

    this turn of events can only be

    GOOD…

    for my kids..

    AMIRITE????

  116. 116

    @94 “Would I engage in corrupt behavior to keep him from facing the music? No.”

    Neither would I. Nor would, or did, Joe Biden based on all available evidence. What dirt on him do you have that House Republicans don’t? Imaginary and fabricated stuff doesn’t count.

    “Would I encourage him to cut a deal and minimize his penalty by taking down everyone else involved in his criminal enterprise? Fuck yeah.”

    Of course you would. Fuck yeah! But not me. Even though I’m a lawyer — maybe because I’m a lawyer — I wouldn’t supplant the advice his defense lawyer is giving him. But you would; you just said so yourself.

  117. 117

    @96 Liberal POS? Colonialist POS, you mean. Which was my whole point. Him and others like him just might owe Lahaina survivors a new town.

  118. 118

    @102 “For a guy so far behind in the polls, DeSantis certainly has Queen YLB’s panties in a twist.”

    It wasn’t so long ago he was a frontrunner. That was before people really got to know him and got a whiff of his sparkling personality.

  119. 119

    @114 The only think far-fetched about a father’s concern about his son is that you think that’s far-fetched. I guess being a Republican, you’re used to throwing friends and family under the bus, and can’t relate to it.

  120. 120

    ” … Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz made comments about shootings in the city …. ‘How do we stop this? How do we make our communities safer?” said Diaz. ‘It seems like every incident that we’re coming across, people are having a gun. Whether it’s … drug-related, whether it’s conflict-related, sometimes it’s drive-by, sometimes it’s road rage, sometimes it’s domestic violence, but it seems like everybody is carrying a gun. And that is something that we got to figure out how to address.’ Diaz said 869 guns have been seized so far in 2023, the highest in 13 years.”

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/2-killed-multiple-injured-south-seattle-shooting/281-5403a0c1-8acd-4239-9c65-fd2038fe7871

    Repeal the Second Amendment. It’s time; it has outlived any usefulness it ever had and become a license for criminals.

  121. 121

    Come on. You know this mele was starte over who had the pretiest boa scarf or the prettier drag wig.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-soldiers-arrested-fatal-stabbing-germany-funfair-wittlich-rcna100911

    What fucking Heterosexual Neanderthals. The violent virus STD disposition is real!

    The Fentanyl! The Fentanyl! The Fentanyl!

    ““This is certainly an intolerable and preventable tragedy in our peaceful community,” Col. Kevin Crofton, commander of the 52nd Fighter Wing stationed at the base, said in the statement.”

    Really? You think so? This guy has no idea of the deaths of The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.

  122. 122

    Once the conservative fascists get into power, they will reinterpret the second amendment to get rid of weapons. And I will enjoy the howls of impotent rage from the gun nuts as the fascist government confiscates their guns.

  124. 124

    @ 123

    Robiinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, what are the odds that Romney’s seat will flip to the Democrats?

    Are they has high as the likelihood that Manchin’s seat will flip to the GOP?

    Relatedly, is Ruben Gallego a sure thing if he prevails in the Arizona Democrat primary? Or will 15 more months of unrestricted illegal immigrant migration into Arizona cause enough voters in that state to wake up and admit that the Democrats’ approach to the illegal alien crisis has been to harm American citizens, by intent?

  125. 125

    @ 123

    Joe Lieberman was his party’s VP nominee in 2000. By 2006 he was beaten by Ned Lamont in the primary, but won as an “independent Democrat” in the general.

    Lisa Murkowski is the daughter of an Alaskan GOP governor, but lost the Republican nomination in 2010 to Joe Miller, forcing her to mount a write-in campaign. Which she won.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, there is nothing new about Romney’s situation in Utah. Whether he chooses to run or calls it quits, the seat he holds will remain in GOP hands.

    The same cannot be said for WV or for AZ. Particularly if the Democrat party renominates a corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil or an incompetent, unlikable woman who was nominated last time around only because of her skin color and gender.

    GLWT.

  128. 128

    The chance that Queen YLB’s fucked kids will ever be able to afford a home continues to shrink.

    U.S. Treasury yields climbed on Monday as investors remain concerned that interest rates could remain higher for longer than expected.

    The yield on the 10-year Treasury
    was up by more than 8 basis points at 4.34%, trading near levels last seen in 2007. The 2-year Treasury
    yield was trading over 5 basis points higher at 4.98%.

  129. 129

    @124 Nowhere did I suggest or imply that Romney’s seat “will flip to the Democrats.” To the contrary, I implied the opposite when I referred to “the reddest of all states” and Republican voters who’ve “gone down the MAGA rabbithole.” You’re seriously in need of a remedial reading comprehension class.

    If you had bothered to read the article, which you obviously didn’t, you would’ve learned that Romney is at high risk of being displaced by a little-known real estate developer whose most prominent legislative accomplishment was attempting to deny $1500 Covid bonuses to Salt Lake City teachers because their school district went to remote learning during the Covid crisis.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Wilson_(politician)

    Which suggests Utah voters are so far gone they put a higher premium on Covid malarkey than successfully organizing the Salt Lake City Olympics. Which is perhaps best explained in terms of mass hysteria; for further details, read:

    https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4162222-tracking-americas-freefall-down-the-rabbit-hole-of-toxic-politics/

  130. 130

    Never understood how a cult could form around some birther reality tv failed businessman klown..

    What are there? 333 million people in this country? Some millions of them had to be gullible dumbasses.

  131. 131

    Yesterday Hawaii’s governor said that there are 1,050 people still unaccounted for in Lahaina.

    What no one is willing to say is how many of them are children.

    This disaster is entirely on liberals. It’s the first disaster directly related to woke local politics. Congrats!

  133. 133

    will ever be able to afford a home continues to shrink.

    Whatever goes up comes down.. yawwwnn.. Young people outlast sclerotic boomer farts.. They outlast high interest rates.. We did.. We refi’d at 4.5 percent.

    Not everybody cares to buy.

    And some places are still a bargain…

    https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/peoria-ranked-among-the-top-20-best-places-in-the-nation-to-buy-a-home-for-first-time-buyers/

  134. 134

    @127 She’s not running. It’s not often possible to make a definitive statement about a future event, but sticking your head this far up your ass makes it possible in this case.

  135. 135

    Update: 850 still unaccounted for in Lahaina.

    Hawaii officials said on Monday that 850 people are still missing on Maui in the wake of wildfires that destroyed historic Lahaina and other areas. So far, just 27 of the 114 confirmed victims have been identified.

    According to the Hawaii State Department of Education, Aug. 8 – the day the fire ripped through Lahaina – was students’ first day back at school. Lahainaluna High School, however, was closed that day because of a power outage caused by high winds. The local intermediate and elementary schools were scheduled to bring students back on Aug. 9.

    Stories have started pouring in of children who were lost in the flames.

    President Biden comforted those who lost children by relating that he lost his son, Beau, in a fire pit in Iraq, and that while the children of Lahaina undoubtedly died screaming as their skin and hair were the first to catch fire, they didn’t scream for long.

    Fun fact: The hair Joe Biden most likes to sniff is singed hair.

  136. 136

    @130 Remember, statistically speaking only half of those 333 million people possess above-median intelligence.

    If we didn’t already have a political party to stash the other half in, we’d have to create one, because we sure as hell don’t want them in ours.

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    It’s the first disaster directly related to woke local politics.

    First?

    When anyone dies in a fire, flood, earthquake, riot in a blue state it’s supposed to be as a consequence of noun, verb woke mind virus.. woke.. woke. woke..

    If kon-klown was still a schoolteacher he’d give you an F.

    But good to see you’ve graduated from “bidenflation”.. That WSJ editorial page stuff is so bonzo daze… heh.. Its gotten w/ teh kon-klown program..

  140. 140

    @ 136

    I wish to congratulate Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit for finally learning the difference between mean and median.

  142. 142

    kon-klown says the listless vessels believe the true repukes kiss cheetolini’s rear end…

    funee.. I find it almost impossible to argue with that. What’s happening to me?

  143. 143

    @ 133

    And some places are still a bargain…

    Queen YLB sends her fucked kids out the door with one-way tickets to Peoria. Peoria will roll up and die the second Caterpillar closes the factory that employs more than 10% of Peoria’s population. Peoria is in Illinois, with its sky-high tax burden, its unsustainable public employee pension obligations, and its flight of highest-earning residents into states that aren’t mere years from financial implosion.

    Other than that, hey, the minimum wage is $11.00 there. Working two jobs isn’t that hard, as long as you’re young.

    If Queen YLB had done some checking she would have seen that Peoria is # 18 on that list of 20 places to live. The top three are all in Texas, as are five of the top eight.

    Why not send your fucked kids to a state that isn’t a shithole in waiting, Queen YLB?

  144. 144

    The top three are all in Texas, as are five of the top eight.

    Oh miracle of miracles.. According to the unhinged babbling of teh widbee shit-stain, there’s places where the kids can go to piss away money on a ticky tack box..

    My kids if they want can help turn TexASS blue..

    They probably won’t want to do that but thanks for the recs.. widbee shit-stain..

  145. 145

    @ 133

    • Mortgage rates soared to the highest level since November 2000, crushing affordability for potential homebuyers.
    • The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage hit 7.48%, according to Mortgage News Daily.
    • The average on the 30-year fixed last year at this time was around 5.5%.

    Queen YLB opines that “whatever goes up goes down”. Yes, those rates will fall, beginning with the 2025 administration of the GOP winner of the 2024 presidential election.

    Also falling: real wages during the Biden administration’s tenure.

  146. 146

    @145 You just admitted @143 there’s places where young people can go NOW…

    Not making enough to make ends meet? Just get a higher paying job.. That’s what you’d be babbling if Nixon or Gerry Ford was prez.. Remember price controls? Whip Inflation NOW?

    When Bill Clinton was President, we had full employment, a booming economy and a balanced budget..

    yawn…

  147. 147

    Drumbeating that interest rates drive home affordability is a shibboleth of the finance industry because lower rates are better for greed-heads.

    Supply drives affordability.
    Constraints on supply, more than anything else by a metric shit-ton, are what have produced the massive shortage of affordable homes.

    Once again, median household income in the Seattle area (as an example) is $98k.
    Median home price is $820k.
    That puts homes in the Seattle area triple the historic national trend for affordability. In the Seattle area, because of supply constraints driven by restrictive exclusionary zoning and sweeping development restrictions, it takes three median household incomes to afford a single household.
    That is not sustainable at any interest rate.

  149. 149

    Constraints on supply, more than anything else by a metric shit-ton..

    Nimbyism is a big problem here on the west coast.. The logjam has broken here in Seattle to some extent.. Everywhere we look old brick and mortar places are being torn down and these mid-rise apartment blocks are taking their place. But by and large the rents or leases are barely affordable.. For dual income no kids.. some high tech drone couple.. yikes..

    Developers want to site a 7 story monster right near us w/ sub surface parking. So far the City is giving them a hard time. But it’s only a matter of time. Fortune favors the tenacious. Two other monsters have gone up right near that foot print. Gaaaaak…

    And who are buying single family houses around here nowadays? Two places on my block have sold to asian buyers, one of them right across the street. It sits empty still. I saw a couple w/ a young child at one time.. Haven’t moved in yet.

    The other place has rented out.. I sense these buyers are mainland Chinese that are parking their money. China is melting down financially right now.. kount kreepula thinks this country has problems..

    The old Northgate mall was the first of its kind when it was built in the early 50’s. The very first although some mall in MN gets the credit for the first enclosed indoor mall. Now it’s dominated by the Seattle Kraken’s training facility, a public ice rink, a sports bar and a few other retail shops and restaurants – completely different although I rarely shopped at the old mall. It was ok back in the day to have a choice of three department stores, a hardware store, a toy store, some restaurants, food court and other retail available close by when you needed them. Some more barely affordable multi-unit housing and office space are going up over the old footprint. Will I miss the old stuff? Sure.. I just said I didn’t shop there that often but there’s still some good memories there.

    Dang, live long enough, you see a lot of shit change.

  150. 150

    “Drugmakers Teva Pharmaceuticals and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay criminal fines totaling $255 million and to divest their versions of a certain cholesterol drug to resolve charges related to price-fixing.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/21/teva-glenmark-enter-deferred-prosecution-deal-with-doj-over-price-fixing.html

    I suppose there are honest businesses, but they’re rare. Even so, Republicans would rather be ripped off than allow business regulation. They’re against consumer protection agencies, too. They must enjoy being swindled.

    I’ll bet there’s an honest ice cream shop on Whidbey Island. I’m not sure about every one of their customers, though. I can think of one that might be sticking his fingers in the ice cream tubs and licking them when the store clerk isn’t looking.

  151. 151

    @138 Hitler liked kids, too, except for Jewish kids. It was their parents he couldn’t stand. So he made a lot of them orphans.

  152. 152

    @143 Houses are cheap on top of Superfund sites, and Texas has a lot of Superfund sites.

  153. 153

    @147 “In the Seattle area, because of supply constraints driven by restrictive exclusionary zoning and sweeping development restrictions, it takes three median household incomes to afford a single household.”

    Seattle has always had “exclusionary zoning and sweeping development restrictions,” which today if anything are more accommodative of greater density than in the past (there’s a massive amount of apartment construction in my neighborhood, plus cottage developments and backyard auxiliary living units are springing up, but $800,000 starter homes is a new phenomenon. I would argue one of the drivers of that is an influx of high-salaried tech workers whose home greed is freezing everyone else out of the housing market.

    Years ago, during the heyday of exclusionary zoning and development restrictions, a home selling for $1 million made the local news. Now, you have to pay $1.4 million to be one of my neighbors. And, needless to say, I’m surrounded by neighbors who work for the likes of Amazon and Google.

  155. 155

    No word, yet, on whether he’ll jet over to Oahu to do some Electric Beach snorkeling afterward. It wouldn’t look good to go snorkeling before his Maui flyover and campaign fundraiser, after all.

    RNC Research
    @RNCResearch
    Biden heads to Maui almost two weeks after wildfires devastated the island.

    He needed a vacation at the beach first — then he needed another vacation. Then, after his fly-by, he will resume vacation.
    9:08 AM · Aug 21, 2023

    Over/under on a mention of his son’s death in the fire pits of Iraq hovering at 85% likelihood right now.

  156. 156

    “Developers want to site a 7 story monster right near us w/ sub surface parking.”

    Good example. The combination of the height restriction combined with the requirement for underground parking will cause the per unit pricing to soar. Then figure in all the various layers of citing restrictions and other land use limitations that were built in from the start, and the underlying land value is probably double what it might be without all the limitations. Put it all into the spreadsheet and what comes out is a design spec demanding luxury condos instead of affordable apartments.

  157. 157

    @156 Well the new building is supposed to accommodate low or modest income tenants. I must admit I don’t know much about how that works these days. I sense there has to be a catch.

    There is one section 8 and one largish senior living apartment building several blocks away.

  158. 158

    157,
    Typically there is an even lower restriction on height or other restriction on density (scale, massing, set back) that the developer can partially avoid by including some limited number of “market rate” units based on some multiple of the calculated cost index or affordability index.

  159. 159

    @158 Interesting. I have to read up more on that kind of thing. So many of those kinds of projects have gone up around here.

  160. 160

    Anybody wanna go to the local hookah lounge for a smoke?

    I hear it’s a bang-up good time!

    #urbanliving

  161. 161

    @ 149

    And who are buying single family houses around here nowadays? Two places on my block have sold to asian buyers, one of them right across the street. It sits empty still. I saw a couple w/ a young child at one time.. Haven’t moved in yet.

    The other place has rented out.. I sense these buyers are mainland Chinese that are parking their money.

    Nimbyism indeed, Queen YLB. Your lack of introspection is revealing.

    Careful about those “asians”, Queen YLB. Before you know it they’ll be accepted into the health care program instead of one of your fucked kids. Just “mainland Chinese” that are parking their children.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit won’t mind, Queen YLB, if you drop a racial slur to further accentuate your point.

  162. 162

    Why does Queen YLB capitalize Black, but not asian?

    Has she passed this slight onto her fucked kids, too?v

  163. 163

    Your lack of introspection is revealing.

    As is yours, give us some cunts or twats while you’re at it. asshole..

    Two buyers of homes on our block are at the moment absentee landlords. Yes, I look at King County records and they have mandarin names. Their motives are as suspect as any real estate speculator out there bidding up the prices of houses and keeping the available inventory low..

    ya pos..

  164. 164

    capitalize Black, but not asian

    How’s WHITE ASSHOLE MOLDERING IN WIDBEE?

    That racist ’nuff for ya?

  165. 165

    Before you know it they’ll be accepted into the health care program…

    ya mean the black guy’s program that he copied from the “man who understands [vulture] capitalism”?

    Both my kids have good health insurance. No worries… All bases covered.

    Anyone of any background are more than welcome to affordable healthcare in my book..

    Does the WHITE ASSHOLE OF WIDBEE have a point?

  166. 166

    @ 163

    Yes, I look at King County records and they have mandarin names.

    Wait until you see the graduate list at University of California professional schools, Queen YLB.

    It’s hard to predict what you’ll find more repulsive:

    • Your fucked kid is passed over in favor of someone with a “mandarin” (there you go with the lower case spelling again) last name.

    • Your fucked kid is accepted and is outcompeted by nearly all of its classmates with “mandarin” last names. After which your kid is passed over, repeatedly, in its job search, in favor of people with “mandarin” last names.

    Oh, you xenophobic, unserious twat. You have no idea how things have changed.

  167. 167

    It’s hard to predict what you’ll find more repulsive:

    Oh that’s easy peasy…

    WHITE ASSHOLE FROM WIDBEE..

    How you like the caps on that?

  168. 168

    accepted and is outcompeted by nearly all of its classmates with “mandarin” last names.

    O that’s sweeter..

    When my youngest gets his licence, it’ll be all the sweeter when its rubbed in your WHITE ASSHOLE OF A PIEHOLE..

  169. 169

    You have no idea how things have changed.

    Look up the fastest aging population in human history..

    It’s neck and neck w/ the bonzo luvin’ boomer pos like you..

    tho’ I’m rootin’ for your ilk any day.

  171. 171

    Oh, you xenophobic…

    yawwwnn.. there’s no more boooriiing cheerleader of police shootings of unarmed people of color than the MOLDERING WHITE ASSHOLE OF WIDBEE..

  172. 172

    @170 Vacuous troll is a misogynist and a racist.. and so tiresomely greedee..

    boooriiiing us all to tiers…

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    It’s understandable, of course.

    If I was Queen YLB, and I knew my fucked kids had inherited my genetic material, I’d be afraid of everyone else, too. Particularly Asians, who so frequently prioritize education, rather than the expectation that others will provide for them, as Queen YLB does.

  174. 174

    Asians, who so frequently prioritize education

    Oh I get it.. a bit like the writings of racist Jared Taylor… if whites fall down on the job then another “race” like Asians or those of jewish extraction have to take up the superiority mantle..

    As long as the skin ain’t too dark..

    Both my kids are college graduates.. Both made the grade.. Both are well adjusted.. making their way in life.. Yes, education was emphasized.

    But its too obvious WHITE SUPREMACIST ASSHOLE of WIDBEE’s upbringing gave it nuthin’ better to do than bloviate about someone casually pointing out the ethnicity of real estate speculators in his neighborhood.

    Way to spend quality time in your golden years.. It’s all come to this..

  175. 175

    my genetic material

    One thing I’m pretty certain about:

    Your grandkids have NONE of your genetic material.

    I’m happy for that.. I hope they survive the “education” or rather abuse you have planned for them.

    Life is hard enough but kids often prove resilient.

  176. 176

    https://thebusinessjournal.com/foreign-investment-in-u-s-homes-hit-59b-see-where-those-dollars-landed/

    All-cash sales accounted for 44% of transactions, almost twice the rate of all existing-home buyers. Sixty percent of foreign buyers not living in the U.S. paid all cash for homes compared to 30% of resident foreign buyers.
    According to the survey, 44% of investors purchased their properties for use as a vacation home, rental property or both.

    There is much anger directed at foreign buyers. They feel foreign buyers swoop in and steal homes away from locals and offer to rent them back to the locals. Locals cannot compete with cash buyers.

    However foreign home buyers are small compared to hedge fund, ibuyer companies. Banning foreigners buying US homes won’t solve the problem.

    The real cause of housing problem is houses are being used by investors as an investment. So despise of affordable housing shortage, there are plenty of empty houses in the markets.

    The only real solution to housing problem is the government needs a new law to limit real estate investment.

  177. 177

    Look the map halfway down. That one company, owns all those homes, keeping locals from being to own in their neighborhoods. They are trapped as renters. Worse they target the poorest and blackest areas of the cities. And that’s JUST one company of MANY doing this. There is much anger directed toward those vultures with too much money.
    https://news.stlpublicradio.org/economy-business/2023-06-07/vinebrook-homes-owns-thousands-of-midwest-properties-st-louis-tenants-cry-foul

  178. 178

    The real cause of housing problem is houses are being used by investors as an investment. So despise of affordable housing shortage, there are plenty of empty houses in the markets.

    Yes thank you.. As I type, there’s an empty house right across the street. Part of the problem.

    Mea culpa, I’m a bit biased towards homeowners who actually live and make a life in the homes they buy.

  179. 179

    @ 176

    Xenophobes Queen YLB and The Even Bigger Fucking Moron:

    In total, foreign investment made up 2.6% of the $2.3 trillion in existing home sales in the period.

    That’s one out of every 40 homes. Let’s not get carried away here, you stupid fucks; there are still 39 more homes that Queen YLB’s fucked kids will never be able to afford because of decisions made domestically, not by foreigners.

    But it makes Queen YLB feel better to blame it on “asians”. Who were born here. Whose parents very well may have been born here.

    Nothing frightens Queen YLB like The Yellow Peril. It’s garden variety xenophobia.

  180. 180

    Denver Archdiocese sues Colorado over LGBTQ rules for universal preschool
    – “State’s non-discrimination requirements “directly conflict with St. Mary’s, St. Bernadette’s, and the Archdiocese’s religious beliefs,” the lawsuit says.”
    https://www.denverpost.com/2023/08/16/colorado-catholic-schools-lawsuit-lgbtq-preschool/
    They want to use the taxes of LGBTQ parents to provide services that will exclude their children.

    “We demand to exclude LGBTQ parents, staff and kids from Archdiocesan preschools but we also demand you give us the free public money. It’s our god given right to discriminate and get paid to do it. ”
    And they wonder why fewer and fewer are embracing Christianity.

    Representation without taxation must feel pretty good.

  181. 181

    @ 178

    As I type, there’s an empty house right across the street. Part of the problem.

    Quite the contrary, Queen YLB.

    Mobile societies are mobile. This means there will always be people looking for a job in their new city, so there will never be zero unemployment. This means there will always be housing turnover as

    1) there is upward movement of people in their prime earning years
    2) there is family expansion during reproductive years, requiring square footage expansion
    3) there is downsizing by people who are entering their retirement phases of life

    so there will always be empty dwellings awaiting their arrival.

    For this healthy mobility to occur, there must be emptiness. An empty house means nothing just as an Asian surname as owner means nothing.

    Unless you need to fan the flames of xenophobia by turning it into something, girlfriend.

    You embarrass yourself. Queen YLB, you have embarrassed Darryl today.

  182. 182

    Final State Report Concludes More Than 200 Colorado Children Were Abused By Priests, Catholic Church Vows Reform
    https://www.cpr.org/2020/12/01/final-state-report-concludes-more-than-200-colorado-children-were-abused-by-priests-but-catholic-church-vows-reform/

    Remember when the greedy racist “Erase the LGBTQ” incel was demanding that if a single individual of a group did a bad thing, that was a mandate to obliterate the group? I’m not holding my breath for him to follow through…..

  183. 183

    @181. [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, a tap dance of flop sweat. Watch him wiggle and squirm desperately trying to justify the goodness of vulture investment capitalism by lying with accusations of xenophobia. What’s next? Phantom eggplants?

  184. 184

    @ 182

    …demanding that if a single individual of a group did a bad thing, that was a mandate to obliterate the group?

    … 37 boys and nine girls …

    It certainly seems that homosexual pedophilia is overrepresented among that group of priests, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.

    I think that across-the-board obliteration of homosexual men is going too far, don’t you? Although until proven otherwise each and every homosexual man should be viewed as a potential child predator, those data suggest.

    To keep our communities safe, homosexual men should restrict themselves to professions immortalized by the costumes of The Village People.

  185. 185

    one out of every 40 homes.

    And two on my block go figure…

    Quite the contrary…

    When the house was in the process of being sold, some homeless snuck in the back and camped in the basement..

    yawwwn.. I’d rather have the house w/ an occupant.

    white asshole (notice the caps)…

  186. 186

    Nothing frightens

    white asswipe (notice the caps) kount kreepula than a knock on the door from an AI empowered IRS..

    courtesy of manchinema…

  187. 187

    blame it on “asians”. Who were born here.

    I don’t think the two buyers on my street were born here. I’ve seen one of them. They’re definitely not from here..

    I don’t care. I just wish they’d settle in or just flip the house already to someone who’ll actually care to live here.

    And capital flight from China is a thing:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-14/shanghai-woman-in-focus-as-probe-shows-fear-of-capital-flight#xj4y7vzkg

    white asshole (notice the caps)…

  188. 188

    I’m contacted roughly twice each month by people wanting to purchase one of our rentals.

    About two-thirds of these are via text. The other third is via phone call. No one ever sends a letter.

    Purchase overtures made via text are unserious.

  189. 189

    @ 187

    I don’t think the two buyers on my street were born here. I’ve seen one of them. They’re definitely not from here..

    I’m reminded of that indie-ish movie by Edward Burns, She’s The One:

    The father claims that the new wife looks like she’s “from the islands”.

    Burns’ character: “Yeah, Rhode Island.”

    Keep up that xenophobia, Queen YLB. Maybe call the cops on The Yellow Peril on your block a time or two, just to be sure.

  190. 190

    Nothing frightens

    like a kreepshit troll…

    I feel bad for the people of widbee..

    well only the ones lacking that kreepee white asshole vibe…

    (notice the caps?)

  191. 191

    There’s a term applied to people who denigrate others who don’t look like them, based on appearance (or, in your case, based on surname-derived assumptions). Queen YLB, what is that term?

  192. 192

    Keep up that xenophobia

    Perhaps some magaphobia coulda served ya in good stead kreepula..

    all of us on the side of the angels here at HA have that in spades, kreepula..

    that zoomer redneck and its beer/blunt buds really did a number on your ass…

    I really like that junker on blocks part. Thanks for sharing that w/ us. And the baby momma and your “rule”..

    PRICELESS!

  193. 193

    A Virginia Boogaloo gang is taking guns onto school grounds to protest the arrest of four of their members for sneaking guns into a school board meeting. “We will … try to force them to perform arrests,” their leader said. I certainly hope so.

    https://www.rawstory.com/boogaloo-bois-virginia-school/

    If we can’t restrict guns, then I want to see much tougher enforcement of violations of gun laws. Take a gun where it’s not allowed? Jail. Brandish a gun in a threatening manner? Jail. Felon in possession? Ten years in prison.

    Use a gun to commit a crime? Extra ten years in prison. (Current statutes say five, but it’s not enforced; gun enhancements either run concurrently or are plea-bargained away.)

  194. 194

    There’s a term applied to people who denigrate others who don’t look like them..

    point out the denigration.. up above you were praying for a “slur” – didn’t find it didja..

    ugly misogynist white asshole (notice the caps?)

  195. 195

    @169 If he’s a boomer, he’s a baby boomer. I’m an early boomer, and was already a teenager when he hatched.

  196. 196

    so there will always be empty dwellings awaiting their arrival.

    memo to the white asshole of widbee (notice the caps):

    yawwwn.. the house across the street from me traded hands over a month ago..

    It has been empty for well over a month..

    In the process of trading hands, the homeless camped there.. For all I know, they could be camped in the back right now.

    I’d much prefer real neighbors than capital refugees..

  197. 197

    @195 But you aren’t bonzo luvin’.. we’ll keep you any day together with the likes of its wifey Mary Kay who gives generously to liberal causes…

  198. 198

    @180 No equality, no public money. It’s our money; we have a right to dictate how it’ll be used.

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    @181 Look at the troll pretending we don’t have a dysfunctional housing market. Ask Millennials how that upward housing mobility is working for them; they can’t buy a first home, let alone upgrade. And seniors are sitting on a mountain of paper equity, but are afraid if they sell they might have no place to go. Meanwhile, small towns are being taken over by remote workers, pushing out the locals. Republicans have a solution: FEMA camps for their political opponents, to free up housing supply for themselves. Doctor Dumbfuck found his own solution: Right now he’s chopping firewood for next winter, after sweeping out the barn.

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    @182 They condemn LGBQT people who don’t hurt anybody, but their own priests are pedophiles.

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    @185 “Although until proven otherwise each and every homosexual man should be viewed as a potential child predator, those data suggest.”

    Look who’s spewing hate group propaganda.

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    you have embarrassed Darryl today.

    yawwwn.. Darryl likes to sort through polls at election time and collect and share political media.. He used to step into the fray here from time to time.. clearly that doesn’t interest him any more.. I don’t blame him..

    You on the other hand have..

    distinguished yourself.. yes the very opposite of embarrassed…

    by bleating “cunt” and “twat” at every turn.. by babbling noun, verb antifa ; babbling noun, verb Chicago and all that repetitive bleating failing to turn out as you hoped.. putting your faith in disasters like Durham; by sharing how you failed to protect your interests over a zoomer redneck and its baby momma; by sharing how they humiliated and disrespected you..

    And I’m supposed to be embarrassed over speculating that the ethnic Chinese absentee landlords in my neighborhood are sheltering their capital here in Seattle, right in my neighborhood as the mainland Chinese capital and real estate markets melt down?

    Yep such activity crowds out families who actually want to settle and make a life here in Seattle.

    It’s not the kind of thing I like to see in my neighborhood no matter if it’s done by a hedge fund or people from other countries.

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    The greedy racist incel posts racist, homophobic, and misogynist slurs all the time so he really enjoys it when one of us write something that he can misinterpret and pretend that we are as vile as he is. It’s eggplant all over again.

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    @203 The Chinese are accustomed to stashing their savings in empty dwelling units. If it’s in the USA, that’s even better. However, in the event of a war between our countries, just across Puget Sound from Bangor and the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons might not be the best place to own real estate.

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