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A thing investors have noticed about Elon and his bullshit and the value of the companies he owns.
Elon claims there are over a million orders for the Cybertruck and that unbridled enthusiasm has an impact on perceived future value.
Having to recall every single delivered cybertruck gives it up. Look at the coverage.
Institutional investors, “Wait…they’ve delivered less than 4,000 of them? Hang on…at this rate a 40 year old seeing a cybertruck on the road and wanting one will be (calculator) 270 years old before he can take possession.”
Because the guy a woman won’t let anywhere near them brought up ticket prices…
If you want to go see the Mariners this weekend in Colorado there are $9 seats on Stub Hub for tonight.
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It was always the same basic problem for Tesla.
Building average quality cars at scale simply requires massive investments in design and manufacturing engineering that Tesla never made. They went for market buzz and early adoption instead. Even their range solution was short sighted. Opting to focus on advanced, cutting edge power management and battery thermal management got them good range with existing battery technology. But it meant that in the long run, once other EV makers matched their power/thermal management, they would be potentially surpassed in the technology most critical to EV performance. It was a “quick fix” approach that helped them initially avoid some more expensive R&D and painstaking, incremental engineering.
All the other investment failures – parts availability, painfully slow and sparse service center network, fit and finish, safety – become fatal to the brand the minute it stops being “first in class”, “innovative”, and “brag-worthy”.
DC Circuit upheld the conviction of former Aqua Buddha (Rand Paul) staffer convicted for selling access to Russian intelligence operatives and for laundering Russian state money into RNC and Trump campaign accounts.
Because the guy a woman won’t let anywhere near them
Even at its local vip room.. while all its repuke buds are serviced..
SAD!
Shorter Donald,
“I’m too important to answer for felonies.”
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There were production snafus and recalls with the Model 3 as well.
BTW EF Hutton no longer exists. Making “money the old-fashioned way” did not survive computerization.
@ 2
If you want to go see the Mariners this weekend in Colorado there are $9 seats on Stub Hub for tonight.
Instead of showcasing a day-of-game early Spring ticket price to see the Mariners strike out at a MLB-record pace against a team with the second-worst record in baseball, maybe showcase StubHub ticket prices for the Yankees on a summer weekend.
All you are proving is that, as with the WNBA, no one wants to see a shit show wrapped up in a MLB package.
Bad sports is bad sports. In pro basketball the NBA billions heavily subsidize the WNBA. In MLB the Yankees and Dodgers subsidize the Oakland As.
The Yankees don’t come to town often, and neither do the Fever. Any monetary surge is very brief and only benefits the scalpers.
Caitlin Clark has skills, sure, but the US womens soccer team still lost to a high school boys team.
Womens sports suck, in general.
Hey, speaking of womens’ sports, the DOJ will pay $100 million to the victims of Larry Nassar.
Who says there’s no money in womens’ sports?
In Iran, there is refusal to admit that the IDF is responsible for stuff blowing up last night.
Because the IDF was not involved, there is no reason to hit back at Israel.
Just as there is no reason for Democrats to remove Joe Biden from candidacy for the DNC nomination, because Democrats refuse to admit that he was involved in POS Hunter’s blatant corruption and influence peddling to the world’s worst actors.
Because the guy a woman won’t let anywhere near them brought up ticket prices…
Who says there’s no money in womens’ sports?
Heh.. And here we have a widbee kreepshit pining and more than willing to pay to get in on that kind of “action”.. yawwwn..
next?
Oh, and RFK Jr.’s on the ballot in Michigan.
Happy Friday!
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…more than willing to pay to get in on that kind of “action”…
This from our darling unserious twat Queen YLB, the girl who gets in on the action in the @ 5 VIP rooms. On her knees. Whenever cash is tight.
Democrats refuse to admit that he was involved
It constantly believes in things for which there is no evidence. Show us the munee, Chisum Gym and Farmer Jim.. They don’t show us, cuz’ there’s nothing to show.
It believes that Menendez “fucked child whores”..
It believes every word from the pie hole of Larry Sinclair.
It believes in the “revelations” of the Khalidi tape..
I believes that babbling noun, verb, {Chicago, antifa, Hunter’s dick pics} ad nauseam will amount to more than an ant hill on election day.
It believes a lot of booorrriiiinggg kreepee shit.. it personifies, here at HA, moldering in “retirement”…
yawn..
next?
On her knees.
lol.. ever accusation, in truth, a confession…
typed that from the horse barn, eh kreepshit?
yawwwwn.. next?
I notice that HA libbies have ceased talking about DJT shares.
Is it because of the nearly 50% increase in share price since mid-week?
Or has Donald Trump merely become uninteresting?
@16.. No end of pumpers timing the dump.. yawwwn..
Reminds one of how the wave gets started at T-Mobile. Always some weirdo running up some stairs in the upper deck.
Same will be said of Tesla as an automobile company.
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Same will be said of Tesla as an automobile company.
Ah. You are referring to the nationalization of Tesla for its charging network.
lol… that khalidi tape and that “Menendez fucking” fantasy really speaks well to kreepshit’s “seriousness” and “intelligence”…
And notice it put “vip” in full caps… that’s a tell.. heh.
lmao..
I don’t even know why we’re wasting the time talking about womens’ sports. After all, by the time Biden’s done it will be tranny sports:
Queen YLB cheers.
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@16,
Life Pro Hack: 50% of nuthin is nuthin.
tranny sports:
a popular feature at kreepshit’s local “vip” room..
nothing gets the regulars excited more.. yawwnn..
next?
@ 17
Reminds one of how the wave gets started at T-Mobile. Always some weirdo running up some stairs in the upper deck.
MLK Jr. was just some fuckin’ weirdo with a dream.
Obama is just some fuckin’ weirdo whose dad had dreams.
You don’t need no baggage
You just get on board
Good post, Queen YLB.
Prediction: There will be a Tesla in Goldy’s garage before there’s a solar panel on Goldy’s roof.
Why? Goldy knows a grift when he sees one.
Tranny sports is the only chance that Queen YLB’s fucked kids will ever have to win something more than a participation trophy.
kreepshit still hasn’t recovered from Billy Jean whipping Bobby Riggs’ hustlin’ ass..
poor pup was traumatized.. heh.
“No one wants Tickets look at these games that don’t feature Caitlyn Clark!”
A few hours later…
“You need to look at Yankees tickets!”
I don’t even need to set a trap for you to fail.
MLK Jr. was just some fuckin’ weirdo with a dream.
Comparing a movement leader to a dumb fan doing stupid fan things and a sleazy stock pump and dump whose victims will be deluded 71 year old maga slobs..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/14/truth-social-investors-faith-trump/
this “weirdo” from widbee is truly silly in the head.. yawwwn..
fuck.. what’s next?
Obama is just some fuckin’ weirdo
who, if you believe kreepshit, now “understands capitalism”..
wow.. just wow…
Prediction: There will be a Tesla in Goldy’s garage before there’s a new blue tarp on the incel troll’s trailer roof.
Why? Because he went all in at $400
kids will ever have to win something more than a participation trophy.
Just you wait till the youngest gets his license..
It will be rubbed in your miserable face.. and you’ll have to take that and all the rest of the humiliations you’ve endured here to the grave.
So SAD!
Trump alone in Merchan’s courtroom continues to refuse to stand and recognize the jurors as they are brought in.
It’s such a trivially easy thing that in its absence can not help but to be seen and understood by every juror. What a fool.
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Continued to fail stats.
Including RFK, Jr. does not change the results in any swing other than Georgia.
@8 “Womens sports suck, in general.”
Quite a few women have more Olympic medals than you do. And Caitlin Clark, as miserable as her salary is, earns more than you with your M.D. degree.
Is it fair to say it’s not outside the realm of possibility for a male doctor to suck?
On the House floor this morning a bipartisan majority of 165 Democrats joined by 151 Republicans seized control and passed the rule to bring $95 billion in security aid to a the floor vote tomorrow.
Slava Ukraini!
@9 Wherein a failed doctor classifies molesting young female athletes as “sport.”
@16 Now explain to us why, with your infallible market foresight, you didn’t get in on that action.
Meanwhile, accusations are flying of naked short selling, but that’s a Republican family affair.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/19/citadel-securities-blasts-trump-media-ceo-over-djt-short-sale-letter.html
@25 “There will be a Tesla in Goldy’s garage”
Only one person on this blog has a horse in a barn, and it’s not Goldy. However, if you retorted the horse isn’t for transportation, we’d believe you.
@ 34
Including RFK, Jr. does not change the results in any swing other than Georgia.
Gee. How might the course of history have been altered if results in a single state were different in 2000?
Trump won 2016 by, like 72,000 votes. Biden won 2020 by, like, 60,000 votes. Doesn’t take much to dramatically alter the results of an election.
Does it.
Making “money the old-fashioned way” did not survive computerization.
That was “Smith Barney”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAMRXqQXemU
E.F. Hutton was “..talks, people listen”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc2GpmLx82k
@31 Basically, Dumbfuck is hoping Goldy bails him out by buying a Tesla someday.
A man set himself on fire outside the Trump courthouse in Manhattan after distributing flyers on Trump and Biden. Daily Mail reported witnesses described it as a “political protest” but said it’s unknown “which side he’s on.” The New York Post described him as “homeless;” comments below their story from rightwingers assume he’s anti-Trump and are predictably ugly.
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If it weren’t for all the naked shorts now covering the price would still be below 20.
Nunes is just jealous.
More about the self-immolating “protester”: He posted a manifesto on line, in which he seems to be arguing the entire government is a Ponzi scheme, and both Republicans and Democrats are in on it.
But it does actually take something.
And with regard to a presidential election that something is 270 EVs, which is 38 more than Trump won. So in theory RFK, Jr. gets him 16.
Only 22 more to go assuming nothing changes over the next six months, such as criminal conviction on more than 30 felonies, more criminal trials, more nodding off and drooling at defense tables, one or two jail stays for contempt, and another bankruptcy. And all that is without even having a campaign.
Village
Idiot
About having a campaign.
Biden isn’t McSame waking up the morning of the convention dead broke and having to throw a Hail Mary with his VP pick and abandon every other swing state campaign strategy because there’s no money left.
Biden is in the very enviable position as incumbent that he gets to use the office he holds to campaign in the six states (and more), and he has enough campaign and PAC money to fund lots of different strategies.
Based on polling data I’m seeing so far, RFK, Jr. is crapping out as a spoiler, taking just about equally from each candidate, as the poll sniffing Village Idiot’s FOX poll shows. But Julie Chavez Rodriguez is still going to address it as a potential vulnerability. From the official campaign side that means recruiting prominent Kennedy family members to stand in front of the press corp with the President at the White House and to travel to swing states to denounce RFK, Jr. Outside of the campaign it means independent expenditure groups running targeted messaging in swing states introducing swing voters to the real RFK, Jr. – that is an absurdly unaccomplished, elitist dilettente who has built a career out of trading on his family name to swindle gullible fools.
And that’s going to become a big defining difference between the two campaigns this summer. Biden has mountains of cash and armies of paid and volunteer staff able to deploy multiple simultaneous strategies and respond dynamically to events as they unfold. And starting from a 74 EV advantage over the the 2020 LOSER, as many alternate pathways to victory as there are battleground states.
Trump is going broke at every turn and has at best only two potential pathways to 270. And one of those two pathways relies on the exploding popularity of a profoundly arrogant, soaringly vain con artist who oddly enough is not named Trump. It is by definition a self limiting, self canceling strategy.
@21
By all means. Share with us some more thoughts from an anti-trans activist from the popular sport of rhythmic Gymnastics. Is there an advantage a biological male gets while waving a wand with a ribbon on it and prancing around?
If you have a spontaneous erection wouldn’t that be a detriment to the hula hoop part of the competition?
https://images.app.goo.gl/1QXvDR4PxYyDdbQA9
Massive SHRED collab:
https://youtu.be/r6YvB0NblPw?si=DsxWNYmTzaZIDaHC
Special shoutout to the “folk metal” players.. First time for yours truly.. had no idea..
Both the older male and the female players as a whole, I daresay, showed a bit more taste to go with the technical chops.
No wonder HA’s unserious twat always wants to change the subject.
Queen YLB’s kids are so fucked. They’ll never leave home.
The median monthly U.S. housing payment hit an all-time high of $2,747
yawwwwwwnnn…. Boomers cashing out their houses for outrageous prices.. Or Boomer billionaires buying up houses (Blackrock and friends) driving down supply..
We’re making our mortgage just fine.. (4.5 percent 30 year fixed)..
One kid is out of the house.. One can move anytime he wants with like a year’s income saved. He’d rather save up for pro school.. He’ll move out when he’s admitted – doesn’t need distraction from his parents.
yawwwn.. next?
In April of 1984, kreepshit was sooooo fucked.. Bonzo’s interest rates for 30 year fixed was OVER 13 percent..
Now look at it today.. teh freek’s f’in nutty..
By a vote of 3-0, a Ninth Circuit Court panel has decided that Seattle liberals are fucking assholes.
Seattle wrongly detained street preacher at abortion rally and LGBTQ pride event, court rules
a Ninth Circuit Court panel
huh… kreepshit lauds the “nutty ninth”??
kreepshit, say it’s not so.. heh.. next thing ya know, kreepee widbee will flash its ACLU card.. or maybe it’s Mary Kay’s card.. whatevs..
same rules apply for an anti-semite getting a hostile reaction in Skokie.. big whup…
The hetero Neanderthal virus got the better of this broad.
https://apnews.com/article/missing-woman-remains-found-wisconsin-eb582f271d199dd95cb540ce76ed83a0
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Village Idiot 🔄 George Will
No bow ties, red noses, or giant shoes required.
Seattle
liberalskops are fucking assholes.Last I looked, it’s kops who do the detaining..
kreepshit was a big fan of this Seattle kop:
https://youtu.be/EbRebzOOd5o?si=yHSoZ8Rw44GOGEGz
For jaywalking.. yeah sure…
@ 57
it’s kops who do the detaining..
Indeed it is. But instead of detaining people who poured water on the Bible being read by the street pastor, or who stole one of his shoes or knocked him onto the ground, they detained the pastor.
I didn’t say the cops weren’t assholes, too.
Nice to know, isn’t it, Queen YLB, that when someone with relative ease beats the living shit out of one or both of your fucked kids, they’ll be the ones arrested, because that’s how Seattle rolls.
You should have tought them to earn rather than to expect, girlfriend.
“Trump’s political operation said Thursday that it plans to deploy more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers across battleground states to monitor — and potentially challenge — vote counting in November.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/19/trump-campaign-election-monitoring-00153217
Now of course the number is absolute bullshit with respect to attorneys. Trump can’t even find qualified attorneys to keep him out of jail. He’s being sued by nearly every firm that has ever signed a representation agreement with him. And every single one of the “top lawyers” who backed his delusional Stop The Steal con four years ago has been disbarred and/or indicted.
No doubt there will be a few weirdos with bar cards who volunteer for this theater of criminality. But most are going to be retired Proud Boys recently paroled and another tedious round of failed influencers with a mountain of credit card debt and a dream.
So the simple solution this time around is to arrest their asses immediately. The very minute some MAGAturd clown starts waiving paper and chanting Sov Cit garbage about gold fringed flags within sight of a polling place straight to jail.
That’s a lot more conventional than it may sound. Straight to jail is the bog standard, conventional police response to mass civil disobedience that threatens normal civic life and public process. Things like “kettling”, mass arrest via Xerox machine, or hosing down journalists with chemical agents for “not paying attention” may be lacking in due process protections. But they are what EVERY real civil rights demonstrator faces whenever they step out the door. No reason why these assholes shouldn’t face the same thing.
kreepshit crowed over drumpf’s last 50 million campaign haul.. Well it was more like 48 million but who’s counting?
Some of the donors have made teh newz… Let’s look:
John Paulson, hedge fund manager. Wants to change SS to defined contribution.. yawwwn..
Robert Bigelow. Nutty Budget Suites of America bigshot.. Believes in UFO’s. Switch to drumpf after the meltdown of fake-smile and risers DEE-Santis.
Howard Lutnick.. booorriing financial group head.. clients in crypto..
Mike Hodges.. payday lender.. ’nuff said..
Pepe Fanjul.. sugar baron.. didja all know that sugar is protected in this country and those bloated prices for sugar hurts candy makers?
Steve Wynn.. Vegas casino magnate and serial sex harasser.. asshole..
Todd Ricketts.. Chicago Cubs co-owner and tax scofflaw..
Harold Hamm.. fracker.. loves tax cuts..
John Catsimatidis.. Gristedes Stores.. unfair labor practices.. consumer safety violations..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trumps-billionaire-donors-revealed/ar-BB1llGm8
teh dreem team creemin drumpf’s diaper. maga… yawwwn…
that when someone with relative ease beats the living shit
oooh.. here’s kreepshit’s fantasy for its two unfortunate “grandkids”:
https://youtu.be/GeRGTXZIJTI?si=Z5_EqqRuUa7Z9S-y
I bet you call one of the “grandkids” Dim as well..
AMIRITE?? lmao..
I didn’t say the cops weren’t assholes, too.
LMAO… oh noes.. badge bunnee kreepshit is saying “bad things” about LE.. exactly what it condemned RR for..
yawwwn.. here’s some more SPD kop porn for ya..
https://youtu.be/LMYBVVcdahc?si=P1YH93XHYRaqv3Nc
to kreepshit and its ilk: “the only good indian…” y’all know the rest..
wonders never cease..
@ 59
“Trump’s political operation said Thursday that it plans to deploy more…
…than enough people to basically get in the way of the elections workers.
As does the Democrat party, lately each and every time. This is nothing new and is expected in a close race.
Al Gore learned the hard way that time is of the essence; he spent too much time in the protest phase, which left him too little in the contest phase. No one is going to repeat that mistake.as
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Car make noise. Me 🦍.
@51 “Boomers cashing out their houses for outrageous prices.”
The problem, or part of it, as I understand it, is that boomers aren’t cashing out their homes; they’re staying put, and that’s contributing to a dearth of listings.
For good reasons, which include: (1) capital gains tax on the proceeds, (2) lack of homes to move to, and (3) no cost savings from doing so.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/economy/why-boomers-are-not-moving-out-of-their-big-homes/index.html
Plus, moving is difficult, complicated, expensive, and a hassle; and many of us have customized our homes to our wants and needs, and if we moved we’d have to start over with that.
Also, we don’t want to give up our single-family residences where we have yards, gardens, and separation from neighbors for apartment or group living. We got our fill of that in our college dormitory and young-starting-out days.
I think Newsweek doesn’t get this is an insult
Lauren didn’t get it was an insult either and offered Matt a tug job in appreciation. Gaetz reacted, “ew gross. You’re like super old.”
It’s fun to imagine though. Marge ousts Maga Mike, watch my porn consumption son, Johnson. On the 31st vote Boebert gets the gavel. Lauren “I fuck on the first date’ Boebert gets trounced in her district primary completing the cycle of destruction Emperor Pussygrab has brought.
capital gains tax on the proceeds
Nope… Allowances are quite generous..
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/capitalgainhomesale.asp
My Mother-in-law (who with her late husband was a cash buyer of their retirement home) just cashed out. Didn’t pay a dime of CG.
Downsizing is definitely the rage w/ seniors. The Villages in FL is chock full of them.
https://shorturl.at/josZ6
Assisted living has to be the most rapacious industry out there. But there’s no end of people settling for it and shelling out their life savings for it. Those places are sprouting like weeds here in Seattle.
I don’t rant often, but here goes. There’s a concept called private property. My burrow is mine. Worked for, paid for, lived in, and improved with much sweat (not to mention money spent). So not only dollar equity, but also sweat equity, i.e. the hard work put into improving it. It’s mine, and I have no obligation, none whatsoever, to hand it over to someone else. I have no use for the million dollars or so I could get for it, as I already have a seven-figure nest egg apart from my home equity. Of course I get requests to sell my burrow frequently, which immediately go straight into the paper shredder. As for the idea that someone would demand I sell my burrow is, well, that grates on me, as I’m sure it does on any homeowner. The essential thing to understand is it’s mine, and what’s mine isn’t yours or theirs. Mine. Worked for, earned, deserved, and held close; and also my one little patch of dirt in this big wide world that I can fence off and keep to myself. Mine, got that? Is there any part of mine that anyone doesn’t understand? Demanding my home is like asking to fuck my wife. It won’t be well received. So what’s all this noise about boomers sitting on their homes? Why shouldn’t we? We have every right to; and as long as private property exists in this country, no one has any right to someone else’s home.
@53 First of all, it’s reassuring to see that the liberal Ninth Circuit is still enforcing constitutional rights against police encroachment, whatever the jurisprudence may be elsewhere.
The police had a duty to protect Meinecke and arrest the people who assaulted him, not tell him to “move along.” This is elementary First Amendment stuff. Police often have trouble understanding it.
It’s not a question of whether we agree or disagree with him. That’s irrelevant. The rules are the same for all sides and everyone, and apply equally to all sides and everyone. (Something Trump has yet to learn, but is in the process of learning.)
Hey Dumbfuck, now try Jesse Hagopian again. I know it really sticks in your craw that the rules are the same for him, too, because you made that clear in your past posts. Care to revise those past comments?
https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/settlement-police-pepper-spray-assault-support-student-activists/
@59 It is to be hoped, and I would hope, that Trump and his campaign deploy attorneys instead of armed goons to monitor polling places.
Most will want to keep their licenses to practice law, so won’t engage in acts of interference or violence. Attorney pollwatchers is exactly what you want. On both sides, but especially on their side.
@63 “As does the Democrat party, lately each and every time.”
Bullshit.
The violent mob that overran a Florida elections office in 2000 was an organized bused-in group of Republicans. The violent mob pounding on windows and chanting “stop the count!” in a Detroit elections office in 2020 were Republicans. The violent mob outside Maricopa County’s elections office in 2020 were Republicans. All the people threatening election workers are Republicans. The people who broke into voting machines are all Republicans. Come up with an example of Democrats behaving this way to prove your point. If you can’t, you don’t have a point.
@67 Any boomer in Seattle who’s owned the same house for 30 years or more almost certainly has more than a $500K gain and would owe capital gains tax. For widows and widowers, it’s only $250K, which translates into a huge tax. There are some exceptions, but these are complicated, and many won’t qualify for them.
That’s a $3,500 monthly income I can put to good use renting a townhouse in Cantabria, or Zadar, or Zihuatanejo, or Normandy. My fixed place of residence is exclusively tied to my fixed place of employment.
Go to the Cinemark theater in Plano, Texas, and pay $8.80 for a 24-ounce beer at the concession stand. (I didn’t know movie theaters sold beer, but I guess they do in Texas.) Except it isn’t 24 ounces, it’s 22 ounces even though the cup says 24 ounces, which is an additional hidden 8.33% price increase.
Businesses aren’t just using inflation as a bullshit excuse to jack up prices to fatten their profits. They’re also cheating their customers to jack up profits even more. That thumb on the beer tap is another 8.33% of pure profit, which is equal to more than 2 years of current inflation.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/business/cinemark-drink-lawsuit/index.html
By now, it’s well known that countless businesses are using inflation as a cover for huge profit increases. The best way for consumers to protect themselves is to refuse to buy and walk away.
The “lead pipe” guy who attacked police on Jan. 6 with a pipe, wood pole, stolen police shield, bottle, and “other debris” has been arrested. Whatever federal prison time he gets for this will be in addition to state prison time for the armed robbery and assault he committed in West Virginia.
https://www.rawstory.com/joshua-lee-atwood/
He’s what Republicans in Congress call a “tourist.” He’s who Trump has promised to pardon if elected again.
Speaker Lauren Boebert might be the best thing that could happen for Democrats in this election year.
https://www.rawstory.com/boebert-could-do-better-mike-johnson/
One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.
Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
>> But according to the greedy racist incel, this will have no effect at the polls.
It wasn’t close.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/business/volkswagen-uaw-vote/index.html
Tesla will unionize, too, cutting further into profit margins as Elon keeps lowering prices to stay competitive. And with a P/E already in the 30s, there’s only one direction for TSLA stock to go: down.
The stupidest generation ever?
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/04/18/bear-cubs-tree-selfies-north-carolina-affil-vpx.wlos
One of the things Biden’s doing to fight
inflationprice-gouging that he doesn’t get credit for is enforcing the antitrust laws.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y-Qu0a0MZA
@73 I don’t want to rent a townhouse in Cantabria, Zadar, Zihuatanejo, or Normandy. I don’t know anybody in those places. I also don’t know the local customs, laws, culture, and languages there. I can’t even be sure I won’t be shot at in a couple of those places. And it costs way less than $3,500 a month to inhabit my Seattle burrow, which has a private gym, a backyard with a garden, a workshop and storage shed, extra dugouts for visiting relatives, and is close to shopping, parks, and libraries full of English-language books. With everything I want right here, why go continent-hopping? I wouldn’t even get to keep all of the $3500 a month because it would kick me into a higher tax bracket.
What I’m trying to do in this thread is explain why boomers are hanging onto their homes. And why it’s not reasonable for anyone to get upset with them for doing it.
And if I go into assisted living or stiff with rigor mortis, my burrow won’t go on the market anyway. My offspring will move into it. Like many of their generations, they don’t have burrows of their own, so if they inherit one, why would they sell it when they can live in it and stop paying rent?
That isn’t true. Correctly calculating the opportunity cost of holding an asset you refuse to sell entails zeroing out the capital appreciation. It’s a hard thing to do, psychologically. But invested differently that one million dollars can produce a steady income. It’s fine if you don’t want that income. It’s a good choice to have. But it’s a choice. A lot of people, not just Boomers, don’t seem to realize that they are making that choice.
@68 – Absolutely correct! Private property is SACRED! And so is free market capitalism.