Youtube comments of Daniel Bradford (@Falconlibrary).
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I'm a retired teacher.
Women teachers have always preyed on students. It's only now that they're being punished for it.
I've seen male and female colleagues prey on students. The men lost their jobs, their marriages, their teaching licenses, their freedom, and were put on the SO registry for life. The women were allowed to resign, kept their teaching licenses, didn't go to jail, and weren't put on the SO registry. Even now, women aren't punished as harshly as men, but at least they are punished. And I guarantee you that for every case that gets on the news, there are 10 cases that the district administration hushed up, involving both men and women.
Btw, notice that the female teacher "made out" with the 11 year old boy. If it was a male teacher, would the news report it using the same language? Of course not.
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"Sexual harassment is subjective" = "If the guy is really handsome, it's flirting, if he's ordinary looking, it's harassment and he should be fired and never work again"
It's all based on feelings, not objective standards, which is why it's best to avoid women in the workplace as much as possible. Never be alone with one. Never.
I had a co-worker, aka Prince Charming, who could've been a male model. He said the crudest things to my female colleagues, massaged their shoulders, commented on their body parts, all in front of multiple witnesses.
Nothing ever happened to him, of course. It was just "playful banter".
Regular guys, try this sentence in a work meeting: "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention, I was distracted by _______'s cleavage." See where that playful banter gets you.
By the way, Prince Charming was on our sexual harassment committee and helped draft the policy.
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"Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"--Monty Python, "Life of Brian"
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I've dated single mothers. Every one of them made it abundantly clear that her top priority was her and her kid (or kids) and that I would always come last.
Their concern was always what I could do for them--no thought as to what they could do for me.
To be fair, that's all women: they neither know nor care what men want. Marriage and relationships are 100% centered around the needs and wants of women.
That's why women file for divorce 90% of the time.
I'll go further and say that all families revolve around women. Over the holidays, at a family gathering, I was very ill. My brother in law and nephews noticed it; my nieces, sister, and mother were oblivious because men's feelings, pain, and suffering are invisible to them. In fact, the women in the family were very concerned about a family member--my mother's dog, who'd hurt his paw. And even when the women in our family found out I was very ill (I spent several weeks in bed recuperating), none of them turned a hair. After all, I'm just a man, and male suffering is nothing.
Western society caters to women. It's not an exaggeration to say this is now a feminist society, and that's a big reason it's falling apart.
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We had a major tornado in our area (Midwestern USA) last year and hundreds of people lost their homes (tornadoes reduce houses to matchsticks). Local hotels refused to accommodate the displaced people even if the people or the government paid, so the newly homeless folk were forced to seek shelter in tents in the middle of winter (and it gets well below freezing at nights). The hotels said that they wanted to keep the rooms available for holiday travelers, but the truth eventually emerged that our federal government had reserved those rooms for newly arrived illegal immigrants.
If you're an American born and bred and become homeless through disaster or no other fault of your own, we've nothing for you.
If you're an illegal immigrant who broke our laws to enter the US, free cellphones, free food, free housing, free transport, free medical care, prepaid debit cards with up to $1000 spending cash.
The idea is to displace the working class with even cheaper workers who will ask no questions and be compliant. Our own Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, let the agenda slip when she said the illegal immigrants were needed to harvest crops (and to clean and maintain the mansions of people like her).
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I'm a retired college professor, and there's a letter from the dean still in my personnel file that scolds me for refusing to give my "preferred pronouns" in a staff meeting, i.e., I told them "call me whatever you think is appropriate." I just refused to participate in that nonsense.
Our department had just gotten a 25% funding cut, which was devastating to us and meant non-tenured professors would lose their jobs, but let's all focus on which pronouns to use. Priorities, people.
I did use whatever name my students requested, because I figured that was their business, not mine. If you wanted to change from Charles to Charlene, fine by me, just turn your paper in on time and spellcheck it first.
I don't miss academia at all. When I started my career, I was considered a raging lefty-liberal. When I finished thirty years later, I was considered, well, to be the spawn of the devil. I didn't change, but the environment around me did.
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I live in a small town in Kansas, population about 2500.
There's a new housing development in our town, 120 houses in all.
I inquired and to qualify to "buy" the house, you have to be an undocumented migrant (it's basically free and property taxes and maintenance are paid for first five years).
We already have 400-500 Spanish-speaking illegals here, put up at taxpayer expense in the town's three hotels (which used to be for truckers passing through and hunters in season).
If an illegal family of 6 occupies each of the 120 houses, that's 720. Assuming the illegals in the hotels move into the houses, 22% of our town will be "undocumented migrants" by this time next year.
Oh, by the way, our property taxes are going up to pay for the infrastructure for the new development.
We had a literal zero crime rate before the illegals were sent here. Now we have lots of property crime, still not much violent crime. Local cops are totally inadequate to the task. They took the job expecting Mayberry and instead are getting actual crime.
We're being colonized, folks, and the illegals are putting down deep roots.
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I'm old enough to be Taylor's dad and women didn't take accountability when I was his age, either. I grew up with two sisters and my parents absolutely protected them from the consequences of every bad decision they made, while making sure that I suffered for my mistakes and was made responsible for fixing them. My parents thought they were doing my sisters a favor, but they weren't: to this day, my sisters are unable to take a step back, examine the situation they're in, take responsibility for fixing it, and then making things better as much as they can. My sisters aren't unique; my ex-wife was/is the same way.
The difference between now and then is that it didn't matter if women took accountability for their actions, because men were mostly in charge, and we were able to overrule them when they were about to make a bad decision. My dad never interfered with any of my relationships, even though I dated a couple of "bad girls", but he didn't hesitate to shut down my sisters' relationships with "bad boys". Now that women are in charge of society, and of themselves, well...the phrase "dumpster fire" comes to mind. And they have no idea how to put out that fire.
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I have a confession: I was a simp in my marriage. My wife ran around with her girlfriends ("it's just the girls!"), cooked maybe three meals for me in thirteen years (I can remember each one), and told me on many occasions I was boring. Spent every cent I earned, kept 100% of the money she earned, and kept us in constant debt (which was very stressful for me). I didn't wake up until she walked out after I lost my job and jumped right into some dude's bed, a guy she'd been warming up for a few months.
That's when I got myself straight, in my mid-thirties. Didn't have channels like this back then. If only I had, I'd have never married her, and maybe wouldn't have married at all. She did me the biggest favor by abandoning me because I was forced to see her and ME for who we really were.
Young dudes, listen to the Romanian. Take the red pill. The sooner, the better.
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I was on a first date with a woman when her phone went off about 45 minutes into the date. She said she had to take it because it was an "emergency", then said "There's an emergency and I have to go right after we eat" (we'd ordered but the waitress hadn't yet served us).
I said "Oh no, no, that's ok, if you have to go, it's fine." I flagged down the waitress and canceled the order.
My date said: "Well, I can just take it to go."
Me: "Oh no, every second counts when it's an emergency."
We both knew what the "emergency" was--she didn't want to spend one minute more with me than was necessary to score her free meal.
On future dates (with other women, obviously not this one):
+Coffee on first date, we both pay for our own
+Restaurant meals, Dutch treat, we each pay for our own
+Feel free to interrupt the date at any time and say "This isn't working, let's end it now"
Back to the restaurant. The waitress brought me my order after my "date" had fled (glaring at me for spoiling her plan) even though I'd cancelled both meals.
"I know her," the waitress said. "Third guy she's done that to in the last two weeks. She sure has a lot of emergencies in her life."
I left the waitress a 100% tip. There are good women out there.
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I saw trouble coming awhile back when I taught the son of one of the top Disney execs (private school, of course).
He said that his dad "only hires people he knows", which means the nepotism network.
Any organization that hires on who you know, rather than what you know and what you can do, is eventually fated to self-destruct.
I met the father. Daddy Dearest made it clear he had nothing but contempt for the unwashed masses who go to Disney parks and watch Disney films and tv shows--he considered them to be far beneath himself, a man of wealth, taste, and refinement.
Truth be told, Daddy Dearest didn't seem to particularly like the Disney brand--it was just a job for him, nothing special, just a way to make a lot of money until he found something worthy of him.
And that lies at the heart of all of this: you have people who don't love Disney the way its generation of fans do. The Disney magic isn't something to be treasured, nurtured, and promoted: it's beloved by the masses, which means it's automatically wrong and bad and must be destroyed.
Imagine being a top executive in a company you hate, whose brand you wish to destroy.
Now imagine you're a Disney executive.
But I repeat myself.
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I worked with mainland Chinese students for many years as a teacher in the States. While I appreciated the respect that my Chinese students gave me as a teacher, and their willingness to cooperate and work very hard, I also saw some of the dark side of Chinese culture. Chinese are very nationalistic and with that comes xenophobia. Whenever China has internal troubles, the cultural and political response is to blame foreigners and to pull up the drawbridges (while stocking the moats with crocodiles). China has massive internal dissent among its ethnic minorities, particularly in its Western provinces, as well as burgeoning economic problems due to its now-defunct "one child" policy and its real estate bubble.
This is why I think China has been oversold as a rival to the United States: the US as a culture and a country is far more open to outside ideas and influence than China, which makes us more adaptable. Few people aspire to immigrate to China, while millions around the globe still yearn to go to America (yes, even now). China sees that openness and inclusivity as a weakness, but really, it's our not-so-secret superpower. Any country that deals with China eventually comes to the realization that the Chinese hate them and can't be trusted to deal fairly. China's partners around the world are learning this to their lasting sorrow.
Really, the only nation on Earth that can defeat the United States is...the USA. And we're doing a pretty good job of it so far by shooting ourselves in the foot and then reloading it. But China? Naw, we can handle China.
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I don't engage in "casual conversation" with women any longer and haven't for years because so many of them immediately assume a defensive posture like I'm trying to sleep with them. Their egos are both boundless and fragile. Example: I like hanging around bookstores and looking at different books because I'm an avid reader. I tried talking with the clerk and she pulled the "I'm sorry, but I have a boyfriend" line. I said "I don't see how that pertains to a conversation about books, but OK." A few weeks later, same store, same clerk, except this time I had my very pretty Japanese girlfriend in tow. Miss I Have a Boyfriend was suddenly very friendly and flirty towards me (so much so that my girlfriend got annoyed) because NOW I was suddenly "desirable". She was that way when I returned to the store without my girl and yes, I said "I'm sorry, but I have a girlfriend." She didn't like that (but tried a few more times). I'd actually broken up with my girlfriend at one point, but I wasn't going to tell the bookstore clerk.
Three lessons for you younger men:
1. Don't try to talk to women unless you're genuinely trying to score with them. Because sex is all they have to offer and so they assume 100% of the time that's why you're talking to them;
2. Women say they hate it when men flirt with them but if none of us do it, they will go crazy, because male attention is their oxygen;
3. If a woman says she's annoyed by a man flirting with her, it's because he's not Chad or Tyrone. The woman could be fighting off rabid wolves and still make time to flirt with Chad or Tyrone.
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No, she wasn't. Marlene Headley, aka Ngozi Fulani, had a tape recorder running at the event, looking for trouble.
As the old saying goes, "If you go looking for trouble, you're bound to find it."
Lady Hussey's curt and cold dismissal by Charles and William, not even thanking her for six decades of service to the Crown, shows the weak character of these two men, neither of whom is fit to be king because they lack any sense of loyalty or proportion. Everything is expedience with them.
Here's three responses to Lady Hussey's situation:
King Charles/Prince William: You're sacked.
Queen Elizabeth: Lady Hussey has apologized for unintentionally giving offence and that is the end of the matter.
Prince Philip: Bugger off.
I'm inclined to the third, but the second is far more regal and politic.
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"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"--Monty Python, Life of Brian
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My advice to my students was always the same when it comes to college:
1. Community college for the first two years. It's cheap and in some states, free. Rather than go deeply into debt, have a gap year after CC, live at home that year, and work/save.
2. Major in whatever you want, but get a minor in a practical field like accounting, etc. I did that and ended up working as an accountant for years when no one was hiring teachers.
3. College is part of your education, not all of it. Work in the summer, do internships, etc, to get practical experience and see what fits with you. Get skills, experience, connections.
4. Money isn't everything. I know highly-paid people who are miserable in their work. Find out what you're good at and find a way to make a living at it. Not having a huge student loan debt will help you make better choices.
5. College isn't for everybody. Many successful people have quit college or skipped it altogether to start their own businesses, acquire skills, etc. My nephew joined the Navy and acquired a lot of technical skills and training. Don't try to force a square peg into a round hole.
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When I got divorced, my ex-wife had guys crawling all over her, while I took a break for a year before pursuing relationships of any kind.
My ex boasted about all the guys she slept with (while living with a guy that she hooked up with less than two weeks after we separated), but then fast-forward to six months post-divorce, and she was begging to come back to me because "they just use me for sex and don't care about me as a person."
Well, duh. Most or all those guys in women's DMs just want easy sex. Women thinks that attention means they're desirable goddesses. Naw, you're just available, or guys at least want to see if you are. (And I'm the first to admit that while my ex-wife was very beautiful, mental acuity was not her strong point and her vanity and need for constant attention was her Achilles' Heel.)
Of course I didn't take her back, but when I was ready, I dated women much younger than me. I was a college professor at the time and dated undergrads, so typically younger than 22 years old. My opportunities expanded as I got older while my ex-wife's contracted. That's something for every guy to remember: every year past 30, a woman becomes less desirable while a man becomes moreso.
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Women don't make these TikToks for men, they make them for each other.
This is what women tell other women: girl, you're amazing, a "10", a queen, you deserve only the top 10% of men. don't settle for anything less. If you don't get what you want, it's because you haven't been more demanding, difficulty, and bossy, so double or triple down on that.
It's a kamikaze strategy for relationships and they can't see it because they're blinded by their massive narcissism and sense of entitlement.
And women are supposed to be the "emotionally intelligent" ones? Yeah, right.
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Personal story that illustrates the 80/20 rule: I was once colleagues with a very attractive divorced mother in her early 30s. Very beautiful, bright, and sweet woman. Every guy on staff wanted to date her but I got in there first. We got along great, her son thought I was super, BUT--she was divorced from a guy who is high on the food chain in Hollywood. Got his pick of gorgeous women to sleep with. She thought she'd put him in check by threatening to divorce him. But that's what he wanted! He took off and left her to raise the kid (with his financial support) while he slept with an endless stream of 22 year old models and actresses.
She couldn't handle the rejection and the way he'd turned the tables on her. He hadn't done it out of malice: he simply didn't want to be monogamous. She couldn't get this guy out of her mind and he kept popping up in her conversation again and again.
I got sick of it and just walked out of her life. She didn't even notice because she was so focused on him.
Her ultimate fate?
She ended up being "in rotation" with her ex, his fallback when he was lonely or bored. She knew he was using her, she knew he would never be faithful, but he was a bad boy and an Alpha Male. It was only then, in my early thirties, that I finally realized the truth: women would rather share a "bad boy" than have a "nice guy" all to themselves. This is a fact of life. It is a fact of female psychology and behavior the world over. The sooner we men come to grips with the fact that the vast majority of women don't prefer us, and in fact only have relationships with us out of desperation, the sooner we can begin to stop pursuing women who don't want us. Which is most of them.
It was hard to accept at first but over time, it gets better.
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Always looking for additions to this list
10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother (especially never married)
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
17. Talks in an extremely annoying British accent
18. Has been featured on Taylor the Fiend's channel
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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I'm a retired college professor and in my thirty year career, had to deal with both male and female administrators.
When things went wrong, the males often (not always) responded with "How can I fix this?", taking accountability for correcting the situation.
When things went wrong, the females rarely responded with "How can I fix this?" but instead sought to assign blame to someone else without correcting the situation. When they female administrators did acknowledge that a mistake had to be set right, they invariably delegated the task to someone else, distancing themselves from it as much as possible. The female administrators, when criticized, almost always assumed the posture of a victim, while the males often said (grudgingly) "Ok, fair enough, I hear you."
Male-led departments at our college were almost always more effectively and decisively led than female-led departments.
I've come to the painful but inevitable conclusion that in most cases, it's desirable to have men in charge because we will take accountability for correcting mistakes, while women seek to avoid it. There's a reason societies have been led by males throughout civilization; females rarely possess the essential trait of leadership, which is Harry Truman's motto: "the buck stops here".
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I saw this at work all the time. Women would reject men and the men were just expected to suck it up and take their ego check without complaint.
But if a man rejected a woman? It's scorched earth time, baby! Because in their heart of hearts, women think that all men either do or should want them. This is why you can't be a gentleman and offer to help a woman in trouble (carrying a heavy package, changing a flat tire, etc) without getting the "I have a boyfriend!" or "I have a husband!" response. Because in Woman World, no man would ever want to do anything just to be nice--he MUST want to sleep with them.
Last time I experienced this, I saw a very short woman in the grocery store trying to reach a very high shelf. I was passing by, so I asked her what she wanted and fetched it for her.
"There you go," I said, ready to be on my way.
"I have a boyfriend," she said.
Not "thank you" or "thanks" but "no sex for you." Because why else would I help someone who was struggling?
I looked her in the eye and "ma'am, it's a can of soup, not a marriage proposal" and walked off.
My one regret? I should've reclaimed the can of soup and put it back on that top shelf. I won't be able to do that next time, because there won't be a next time. I'm done white knighting for any woman except my girlfriend.
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When I was young, I worked on my dad's construction crew. We worked pouring concrete in the summer. In Kansas. When temperatures were over 100.
We had a butch lesbian who walked into my dad's office and demanded to be hired for the crew, or she'd sue his company. She presented as very tough and masculine.
My dad's foreman wanted to tell her to get lost, but my dad chuckled and hired her.
"Who knows, she might work out," he said.
She lasted until Wednesday afternoon of the first week, when she walked, crying, to the nearest town and bought a Greyhound bus ticket home (little towns all had bus stations then). It was too hot, too dirty, and she wasn't able to lift a lot of the stuff the job required.
All of the crew were farm boys who'd worked in the fields in the summer, but it was tough even for us. Some days it was so hot, we took siesta in the afternoon and worked again at night.
Some jobs are best filled by men: construction worker, combat soldier, beat cop, anything that requires physical strength.
I will give that woman props for one thing: she demanded a tough, dirty job. 99% of the women who demand "male jobs" mean "I want to be CEO without working my way up".
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I rent half of a duplex in the USA and my landlord has made it abundantly clear he prefers my Iraqi immigrant neighbors to me. They are degrading the property by throwing trash onto the ground, cramming eight to ten people into a house meant for four, etc, but their rent is guaranteed by a combination of a private charity and government aid. What's more, the charity and the government (using my taxes) are paying above market rates for the property. My landlord is actively seeking more immigrant tenants and when he finds them, I'm out the door. The other side of the duplex will come available soon, anyway, since the same combination of private charity and government grants of taxpayer funds is giving a newly renovated house, free and clear, to this immigrant family. I've paid tax for 45 years and served honorably in the US Air Force. Where's my free house? They are even having moving expenses paid, so they're not a penny out of pocket.
It took me four months to find this place. My neighbors were settled here by the charity organization and never had a single hour of stressful house-hunting. I've been searching for a house to buy for two years now, but always get outbid by investors who want to turn them into rentals. My neighbors got a nice house without lifting a finger. I did everything I was supposed to do all my life and this is my reward: unwanted and dispossessed in my own country. I'm trying not to be angry and bitter about it, but it's sometimes hard not to.
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If women are really interested, they'll pursue you. They'll arrange to be in the same place at the same time as you, they'll strike up conversations, they'll ask about you. You have to make the next move but women will make the first move--IF they're interested.
I knew my current girlfriend was interested because she asked me all kinds of questions about my life, including my relationship status, said she couldn't believe such a "handsome man" was single, etc. But then again, she's a Vietnamese immigrant (a doctor) and Western women are losing their ability to flirt, subtly or blatantly.
Going back in time (almost forty years): I married my college sweetheart. She sat next to me in class (later found out she enrolled in it just because I was in it), hung out in the library when I was in there studying, "just happened" to be walking the same way as me, eventually asked me why she never saw me with my girlfriend. Back then, I trusted women and thought they were more likely than men to be faithful (wrong!) and to be honest (wrong!). I learned the hard way. But I learned.
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I feel your frustration. Not so long ago, that would've been MY rant.
When I first moved to LA in the 1990s, I got an apartment 1.4 miles from work, thinking it'd be an easy drive.
On a good day, it took me 45 minutes each way. Seven, eight changes of a traffic light before I could get through an intersection.
I got a bike and made the trip in under 10 minutes, but angry/careless motorists hit me three times, nearly killing me the third time (one was carelessness, the other two clearly intended to hit me, the third one being a woman in a Range Rover who tried to slam me into a tree and actually bent the bike frame in half. LAPD didn't ticket her).
Public transportation? A bus ride meant six changes of buses and the trip took me nearly two hours.
After that, I walked, and every day, the same LAPD patrol partners stopped me. I asked them why they stopped me every day and one cop said "Because you're walking and that's a suspicious activity. Don't you own a car?"
Miami has a long way to go to equal or exceed that level of crazy.
My last five years there, I lived in Beverly Hills and never went anywhere. Groceries = Instacart, car stayed in the garage, walked to work (the BHPD doesn't consider walking a suspicious activity).
This is why I've chosen to buy a house in a SMALL town with no traffic and nothing there but houses, a gas station, a Pizza Hut, and a grocery store. Will it be boring? God, I hope so.
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I know many, many women of all ages who have no clue how much things cost, how the real world works, how to do any of the things we men are expected to know just to survive day to day.
One of them is a feminist in her forties whose acting "career" was two brief appearances in films (less than a minute total). She's never had a job outside of that and dropped out of college when she was 19. She married and divorced a movie studio executive and lives off her divorce settlement and child support for her two sons (driving a Range Rover, living in a nice house her ex-husband bought, shopping exclusively at Whole Foods). She waited until the 10 year mark to file for divorce because her attorney told her she'd get a bigger settlement that way.
She told me, without blinking an eye:
1. She doesn't need any man to support her because she's a strong and independent woman;
2. She would never date any man who doesn't earn "at least $500,000 a year".
She was recently mulling over being a "kept woman" by a much older man (no idea if she accepted his proposal). She refuses to speak to me because I said "that sounds like prostitution to me". (I'm happy to be incommunicado with her, since she rants constantly about how awful all men are, despite owing everything she has to men).
There are younger women who are emulating her. Women use men, but only if WE let them. Why men support women in this way while the women disrespect and disparage us, I don't know. We men need to have self-respect is what it comes down to.
I hope this younger generation of men will learn from my generation's mistake: woman have a high bar to clear to prove that they're worthy of our time, our money, and our commitment. 90% of them can't do it.
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10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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We had a major tornado in our area of the US that left hundreds homeless. None of the displaced were able to stay in area hotels because they were all fully booked. In the off-season. The hotels were all housing illegal immigrants who'd come by bus from Texas and were given free accommodation, free food, a debit card loaded with $1000, free cellphone, free healthcare. The hotels preferred them as guests because they were long-term stays at inflated rates, so it was guaranteed income for the hotel owners.
Meanwhile, storm victims, all US taxpaying citizens, were forced to shelter in tents and were on their own when it came to obtaining food and water.
The illegals soon appeared on local television, complaining that they didn't want to be in the Midwest, and demanded to be transported to other cities (for free, of course) where their relatives are living. They said "their rights" were being "violated". Their "rights"? To what?
This isn't just happening in the UK. It's happening throughout the West, and it's part of a plan to displace native populations with illegal immigrants who owe their loyalty to the politicians who allow them to violate immigration laws and even reward them for it. The native-born people--that's us--can go hang.
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I have some bad news for the 50 year old divorced woman: When I turned 40, I was a tenured college professor and I was told life was over...it had actually just begun because younger women LOVE older, accomplished men. My forties were when I began to attract really gorgeous younger women who would've passed me over in my twenties and even early to mid thirties. As a college professor, I had contact with a lot of young women because 2 out of 3 college students now are female, so just about every college is a "women's college". Things didn't slow down for me until I was in my late fifties (I just turned sixty and am semi-retired now), but my current girlfriend is a 33 year old doctor, so I'm nearly twice her age. Now for women who are over forty, well, it's all downhill from there. Their choices diminish noticeably with each passing year while men's not only stay broad but actually expand. My older sister, who is divorced, bemoaned that it's "not fair" that men get "sexier" as they get into their forties and fifties (assuming we take care of ourselves, and I still have a full head of hair), and it is NOT fair. It's just how it is.
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I was a teacher for 30 years. Taught in California, and so had students from every possible ethnicity and background.
The only time I was ever called a "racist" was by black students, when they weren't getting their way. I've seen white colleagues cower when black students used that word against them. I brushed it off and didn't try to argue with them that I'm NOT a racist--that's the trap they want to lure you into. The father of a black student tried to argue in a meeting that I was a racist. I ignored the charge and instead focused on his son's behavior, which included sexually assaulting several female students by fondling their breasts and groins, and punching the boyfriend of one of the girls who tried to stop him.
I also had a black colleague file a charge of racism against me when I joked in a meeting that we should all sign a document being circulated around with an X (the joke being that we're all so highly educated and yet can't write our names). I wasn't even addressing my black colleague, and yet he felt it was a racist remark, insinuating that "black people are illiterate". The dean demanded I apologize to him, I refused, and the administration let the matter drop because, well, the charge was baseless.
I've never had students nor colleagues of any other ethnicity call me a racist, even when they were unhappy with my decisions. Outside of the classroom, same thing: it's an intimidation tactic designed to get entitled black people what they want. I don't play that game, and you shouldn't, either.
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My favorite part of interacting with women now is when they see the older cars I drive, the unflashy way I dress, etc, and conclude that I don't have much money. The truth is, I got lucky and bought and sold several houses in California at the peak of the market, invested well, and was able to retire early because of it. I figure any woman who gets past the surface will discover this eventually, but very few of them bother. My current girlfriend is a physician who thought I was pretty much broke, and decided to date me anyway, because she thinks I'm handsome and nice and funny. I actually have more money than she does, something that slowly dawned on her.
My advice to men is to live as modestly as you feel comfortable doing, and not to ever worry about attracting women through a display of money and possessions. You'll attract the wrong kind. The other kind do exist, and they're the ones worth having.
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I was a teacher for thirty years. Every single one of those thirty years, there was at least one scandal--often multiple ones--of inappropriate behaviour of male or female teachers (about a 60/40 split) with the students. Every single one of those years, school administrators had to remind teachers what the boundaries were between adults and the children in our charge. Sometimes the older kids (teens) wanted to trespass those boundaries, but it's the responsibility of adults to be sensible and just say "no".
We are now at a point where paedophiles--oops, "minor attracted persons"--are being normalised, which was always one of the aims of the transgendered movement.
After all, if an 11 year old can consent to hormone therapy and choose a gender, which is a life altering decision, can't that same 11 year old consent to equally important decisions, such as sex with an adult? That's the slippery slope of the transgendered movement and they know it. Many (not all) transgendered activists embrace paedophilia, although of course they'll never call it that. These people are perverts, and that's another word they want to banish from the English language: perversion. Because that's what their belief system is, perversion of traditional Western values. It's the same reason the English cops haven't done a damned thing about the grooming gangs that target underaged girls; it's all part of normalising paedophilia. Many of our elites are on board with this because they belong to paedophilia rings (see the Jeffrey Epstein revelations). I can guarantee you that there are sitting MPs who are into appalling sexual perversions, and who wish to make what they do not only legal but widely accepted.
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10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
17. Talks in an extremely annoying British accent
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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Know who's good at screening out bad men?
Fathers.
Know who's been driven out of the family unit by feminists?
Fathers.
My mother and father had a disastrous marriage. My dad was physically and emotionally abusive, cheated from day one, was absolutely uninterested in fatherhood or family life, and drove my poor mother to the brink of suicide more than once because of the torment he inflicted on her. My mother, a devout Catholic, even seriously considered divorce at one time because she simply couldn't bear the suffering any longer.
Know who warned my mother not to marry him? Her father. "That boy will never settle down, and he'll make you miserable every day of your marriage" is what granddad said, and he was right. My maternal grandfather was so set against the marriage that he refused to walk my mother down the aisle, and sat in the front pew of the church, arms folded across his chest, shaking his head during the ceremony.
My youngest niece recently married. My sister doesn't approve of the young man, but my niece's father does, and he's right, too: the new husband is ambitious and has outstanding character, very bright, and is the steady, dependable type. He's good husband and father material.
If you want to know about men, ask other men. Which is something women refuse to do. Instead, they consult one another and trade bad advice for bad advice.
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Part of the problem with Brits is their own good, welcoming nature. I was made to feel very welcome on every visit to various parts of the UK. That hospitality has been turned against you, your strength made its weakness. There were many times when I needed help in the UK, mostly small matters but one or two large ones, and Brits unfailingly offered me meaningful and genuine aid. That attitude reminds me of the helpfulness of the people from my region of the US, the Midwest (flyover country), where we will not hesitate to help a stranger in need.
Another part of the problem is that many Brits don't want to make common cause with other peoples experiencing similar problems: we Americans, for example, the Germans, the Italians, the French, etc. The governing elite have a divide and conquer strategy of the working classes of many nations, both internally and across national borders, and so far, they've played us like a borrowed fiddle.
Yes, the ruling class have betrayed you, but they have betrayed us in every Western nation. If we unite across borders, we can end their misrule and institute governments of, by, and for the people. The first step is to recognize that we have common cause, and the second is to agree on a course of action. Imagine a working people's strike not just across the whole of the UK, but of Europe and North America as well. The mighty would tremble in their Guccis.
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I know where Scott Adams lives, because I used to teach there (Pleasanton, California). Very nice, very wealthy town, the last stop on the eastern leg of the BART rail system.
Pleasanton used to be an almost all-white town, but Asian and Indian tech workers discovered its low crime, high property values, and excellent public school system, so when I taught there, we underwent a demographic shift. Blacks are less than 2% of Pleasanton's population, while Asians and Indians make up 40%, and Hispanics are about 10%. 20 years ago, Pleasanton was 85% white, and now is only 48%, so that's a big change. But the town is still a very nice place to live with a lot of community pride.
I was not raised to be racist and (wait for it) I actually have black friends--and I mean close friends, not acquaintances. I'm sixty years old and the first time I was ever called racist in my entire life was three years ago, after decades of working with colleagues and students of all different races and backgrounds.
There are people who are trying to gain power by stirring up the old hatreds when most of us thought we'd put them behind us. It's very disturbing and I think Adams is overreacting, but he always was a bit of an oddball. And no, I don't believe Scott Adams is a racist.
The incident that caused me to be called racist? I wouldn't let a black woman get ahead of me in the grocery checkout line because I only had a few items and she had an entire cart full. That's not how it works and I explained that to her. She cussed me out in front of everybody, calling me racial slurs (and also surmising I'm a homosexual, because homophobia and racism often go together) and no one spoke up--and that's the problem. We've been taught that being accused of racism makes you automatically guilty, and now the charge of "racism" has been diluted to mean "I didn't get my way".
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Gentlemen: When you're dealing with women, the baseline assumption (if you want to protect yourself) is to assume they are some version of Amber Heard, aka an insane Borderline Personality Disorder case.
From the National Library of Medicine website: DSM-IV-TR states that borderline personality disorder (BPD) is "diagnosed predominantly (about 75%) in females." A 3:1 female to male gender ratio is quite pronounced for a mental disorder and, consequently, has led to speculation about its cause and to some empirical research. Borderline Personality Disorder happens more often in women because they are socialized to be more dependent on others (a symptom of BPD) and can be more sensitive to rejection.
What are the BPD syptoms? Wide mood swings lasting from a few hours to a few days, which can include intense happiness, irritability, shame or anxiety. Ongoing feelings of emptiness. Inappropriate, intense anger, such as frequently losing your temper, being sarcastic or bitter, or having physical fights.
Sound like anybody you know?
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I grew up with an older and a younger sister, only boy in our household. No matter what my sisters did, it was my fault. My older sister hit me and I hit her back--I was punished. "You NEVER hit a girl!" My younger sister broke something? My fault. Chores? I did them, but not my sisters. I learned early on that girls and women are NEVER responsible for anything even when it's clearly their fault. My sisters learned it, too, and raised their kids the same way: boys bad, girls good. My friends all confirmed similar experiences in their households: both fathers and mothers held up girls as perfect little angels and boys as barely-tolerated monsters. This was in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and that's when all this anti-male propaganda started. It didn't just drop out of the clear blue sky: it took a couple of generations to root itself and then spread through our society. It's gotten worse, but it started a long, long time ago, when the poisonous ideology of feminism was introduced.
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The idea of leveraging national debt is to invest in education, infrastructure, and research, which will grow the economy faster in the future, thus allowing us to pay off or handle the debt (because the debt is bigger but its size relative to our overall economy is smaller). Imagine if you spent $40,000 to get an engineering degree that gets you a job that pays $200,000 a year right out of school. That's "good debt" because it made you more productive, and $40k isn't that much when you're in the top 10% of earners. An arts degree that costs $40k in debt and gets you a job making crapuccinos at Starbucks is "bad debt" because you could've gotten that job without the degree.
THE PROBLEM with the debt our nation is taking on now is that most of it has been used for corporate tax breaks, or spent on the military, or used to prop up businesses that deserve to go bankrupt or at least get a free market correction. In other words, "bad debt" because it doesn't make our economy more productive.
Good debt = debt that grows the economy
Bad debt = debt that does not grow the economy
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. T-shirts for sale in the lobby.
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From Monty Python's "Life of Brian":
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
XERXES: Brought peace?
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Over the past two weeks, any time I watched television adverts, I tallied the percentage of ethnic groups represented. Here's my results from 212 ads:
PERCENTAGE REPRESENTED IN ADVERTISEMENTS
Black: 52%
White: 12%
Asian: 2%
Hispanic: 4%
Here's the proportions of these groups in the US population:
Black: 13.5%
White: 57.8%
Asian: 7%
Hispanic: 18.9%
All groups are drastically under-represented except for blacks, who are dramatically over-represented. In addition, in EVERY advertisement, there were black actors, even if there were whites, Asians, or Hispanics, so black people now have 100% of a presence in television advertisements.
It's no wonder that in a recent survey, Americans of all races thought black people are about 50% of the population (but they also think that one out of three Americans are LGBTQ, when in fact the number is about 3%-5%, depending on who is reporting the statistics).
It seems odd that advertisers are featuring one group who have only 13.5% of the population and who have half the individual purchasing power of whites or Asians. It's as if the advertisements aren't to induce people to buy products or services, but to sell a political and cultural agenda.
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Very few people will read this comment because of its length, but here goes anyway:
The same economists who just a few months ago told us:
1. There will be only modest inflation;
2. Inflation will be short-lived;
3. Housing prices are going to go up 20% in 2022
Are now telling us that it'll either be no recession or a brief, mild one.
Here's the five biggest problems:
1. Americans have no cash reserves. 61% of Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency in the "richest country on earth".
2. Inflation is mostly supply-side, not demand side. Fed raising interest rates will crush wage growth more than the inflation rate because interest rate rises are meant to fight demand-side inflation. Supply-side inflation caused by material shortages and supply chain disruptions isn't being dealt with by our government.
3. As Michael and Nick pointed out (and also Elon Musk), many badly-run, unprofitable companies have been keeping themselves going with free money. Free money train has been derailed by the Fed and now we may see a lot of companies large and small failing.
4. Housing is in a bubble and when that bursts, it's going to burn a lot of speculators (20% of all houses were bought by investors, aka speculators aka riverboat gamblers) who are going to lose possibly hundreds of billions overnight.
5. Americans not only have no savings, but high debt: the average US household holds debt equal to 129% of its annual gross income. You don't need to be Dave Ramsey to know that ain't good.
I think all of these things added together, plus a government run by clueless people who live in a bubble of their own (elderly millionaires), is going to result in a collapse that will be different in some ways from 2008, but actually worse, because there's no clear path to getting out of it. 2022 doesn't look so bad; 2023 looks stormy, indeed.
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1. Check your insurance and property tax costs BEFORE you buy. There are people who don't do that.
2. Budget 2% of your home's total value for annual maintenance. If your house cost $200,000, budget $4k a year for maintenance. Some years it'll be higher, some years it'll be lower. Set aside a fund for this (you can do it in a liquid investment like a 12 month CD that has a 3 month penalty for early withdrawal--the money doesn't have to just gather dust).
3. Keep up with preventive maintenance on gutters, HVAC, painting, etc. I had a neighbor who had an elevated deck that had a small bit of rot on one of the supporting posts. I pointed it out and he said "no big deal". Two years later, the deck collapsed on top of friends and family who were underneath the deck. #1 problem I've seen with houses I looked at? People not keeping water away from foundations with properly maintained gutters (and sometimes no gutters at all).
4. Do as much maintenance on your home as you can, but know your limitations and hire pros if you don't know what you're doing.
5. Take classes at Home Depot, etc, to develop your skills if you didn't grow up using tools as I did. Everyone can learn how to do something Human beings have been using tools for at least 200,000 years. A hammer was built for a human hand--YOUR hand.
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I can confirm that Mark Hamill and his wife Marilou are some of the nicest folks out there, celebrities or not. I taught two of their kids and so had many opportunities to interact with both Mark and Marilou (and Griffin and Chelsea, the two kids who were my students). Not merely polite, but warm and genuine.
I also taught one of Gregory Peck's granddaughters and met several members of the Peck family, including Gregory himself. The Pecks are the definition of "gracious" despite their status as Hollywood royalty.
She wasn't on this list, but Annette O'Toole (another parent of two of my students) was one of the sweetest, funniest people I've ever met, and her two daughters were a delight, very sweet, intelligent, and well-mannered. Michael Balzary aka Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is another nice guy (yep, taught his daughter Clara).
My experience as a teacher at not one but two "celebrity schools" (which I shall not name) is that most celebrity parents are, well, just parents. They want their kids to do well in school and to get along in society, so even though the kids have incredible privilege, their parents raise them to be decent people. That's not easy, and I saw some kids whose parents didn't manage that difficult feat very well. I won't mention THOSE names!
By the way, one of the celebs on your list isn't quite as nice as you think (but he's good at pretending to be), but don't worry--it's NOT Keanu!
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10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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With all due respect, you're overcomplicating Amber Heard.
Amber became hot in her teens and, like all hot girls, learned that she now had a license to be really mean to people. Subsequent interactions, in which she was rewarded and not punished for bad behavior, reinforced her Mean Girl mindset.
There's lots of Amber Heards out there, it's just that most of them aren't sort of famous.
Amber is clearly a narcissist who, as she ages and her beauty fades, will be Queen of the Karens.
Whose fault is this?
It's not really Amber's (although she is a horrible person).
It's OUR fault. WE give the pretty people (women and, to a somewhat lesser degree, men) a license to be cruel to others and kind only to themselves. Lawyers have actually successfully used the "she's too pretty for prison" defense to get zero jail time for criminal defendants who need to be locked up. It's not unreasonable for Amber to act like a sociopath. Why shouldn't she? She gets her way and she's never punished for it.
What if WE stopped giving people a "license to ill" just because they won the genetic lottery? Now wouldn't that be something: no more monsters like Amber Heard.
We're not going to do that, are we? It was a dream I had.
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When I started as a teacher thirty years ago, the process of stripping out "shop class" (aka "the industrial arts") began in our schools. It was a process of feminizing the schools, but we need to bring that back. I had many boys (and a few girls) express a great interest in learning how to use tools, and even if that doesn't become your livelihood, it's a good life skill to have.
Want to lift poor kids of all colors out of poverty? Shop class in high school, followed by technical school (all expenses paid) and a paid apprenticeship as a plumber, carpenter, electrician, welder, auto mechanic, etc. They'll earn a decent wage and have a meaningful life BUILDING things. My dad was in construction all his life and he used to drive us past a building and point to and say "See that? I helped build that!" Things my dad built 50 years ago are still standing to this day, and may stand for 50-100 years longer.
I don't care what color or gender my plumber is, I only care that the person knows their stuff and can do good work at a fair price.
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I was a teacher for thirty years and at one time, I taught in the Palm Springs School district. We had so many schools where violence was so bad that teachers were either quitting to go to other districts or transferring to the few schools in our district that weren't plagued with serious violence. I worked in one of the "good" schools, and we had fights several times a day between students--I was also threatened numerous times by parents with serious bodily harm and even murder. And Palm Springs is far, far from the worse school district in California, or indeed, this country.
Schools don't exist in isolation: they reflect what's going on in society. The family unit has broken down, the middle class is shrinking, there is no respect for legitimate authority, and the result is chaos. No, it's not wokeness nor CRT nor cellphones nor the teachers unions (which are often toothless, despite what the public believes) that are to blame--it starts with the family. Kids aren't taught respect and discipline at home, so they don't show any at school. Teachers cannot raise children nor give them values; we can only reinforce what's being taught in the home.
Turning our schools into prisons isn't going to fix the problem. The problem is outside the schools. When I started teaching, one call home to the parents usually fixed all but the worst discipline problems. Now, the kids call their parents and the parents threaten the teacher with violence and a lawsuit, and sue the school district at the drop of a hat (intimidation by lawyers is what I call it). People seem angrier every year and more and more prone to violence, and the very idea of granting authority or respect to anyone else--a police officer, a teacher--offends them.
I don't know how we fix this, but I know that unless we address what's going on outside schools, our schools will continue to be chaotic and dysfunctional.
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I've dated single moms. The reason I don't recommend it is because their kids get attached to you and then when you break up, it's very hard on them. I dated a woman and stayed with her longer than I wanted to because her son, who had no father in his life, had come to look upon me as a father figure. She was a lovely woman but there was just no romantic chemistry. And I really enjoyed doing things with her young son, who is autistic (I identified with the kid because I'm "on the spectrum" myself and my own dad didn't want anything to do with me, either, because of it). In fact, I tried to stay friends for her sake and her son's, but she kept pressuring me for a romantic relationship, so I had to end it. But I knew from Day One she was a mom and that's OK if you choose it.
What kind of woman doesn't want her dates to know she has a child (or children)? A woman who's trying to attract Chad and Tyrone, because those guys do NOT date single moms. Only nice guys do that, and who needs THOSE losers, am I right? The "nice guy" Betas are for later on, after she's done riding the CC in a decade or so.
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Our local gun stores are reporting record business today. This always happens after a mass shooting, because people are afraid that the federal government is finally going to institute meaningful restrictions on firearms.
Don't worry. If our country couldn't do anything after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, when twenty kindergarteners and six adults were murdered in cold blood, we won't do anything now. Sandy Hook was a turning point for this country: our refusal to take any steps to prevent another mass shooting means that we've accepted these as a way of life.
What's that, this isn't a good time to discuss this? It's NEVER a "good time" to discuss this, is it? So we never do.
This isn't the first mass shooting in the US and it won't be the last. And they will just keep getting bigger and deadlier, and it will never, ever, ever be the "right time" to discuss how to prevent it.
By the way, I was a teacher for thirty years, including elementary school at one point. If you say "arm the teachers", I'll just ignore you. Because if having teachers pack pistols and rifles is your "solution", you are just too stupid for words.
Y'all feel bad about this but you won't lift a finger to prevent another one. You can't bring back these little kids, but you could make the next shooting less likely. But you won't. So save your prayers and telling us all how really awful you feel. So do something. Words are meaningless. Only actions count.
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My landlord is a Boomer property investor. He just bought five new "starter" homes and is going to keep them rent them out at a handsome profit. The listings never made it to the MLS--a realtor he works with hooked him up with the sellers (he paid all cash). I'm living in Lexington, KY right now, and the local paper found that 235 investors controlled one in every 10 Lexington home sales since 2019. The top five investors bought 1,000 houses between them 2019-2022, every single house a "starter" house that people used to buy as their first home.
The market is NOT going to fix this problem--we need limits on investors buying single family homes. Period. I know you have a lot of investors watching your channel and they're going to yell Communism or something at me, but everything has to have limits, and that includes capitalism. We already have limits, don't we? Companies aren't free to pollute, they have health and safety standards, we have a minimum wage, and anti-discrimination laws. Limiting investors from buying single family houses will be a good thing for our society.
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10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
17. Talks in an extremely annoying British accent
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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I was married for 13 years. My wife didn't cook, she didn't clean, she kept us constantly in debt, and there was ALWAYS drama (especially when I needed it least). I did everything I could to keep her happy. Today's young people call it "simping".
Guess what? She left anyway because she was "bored".
Greatest favor anyone has ever done me. I was able to save and invest, buy a house, travel, and retire at age 59 looking and feeling younger than my years. There were lots of women in-between the divorce and now, but I never married any of them because once you see women as they really are, self-serving and faithless (unlike our dutiful mothers and grandmothers), you simply don't want to marry them. The closest I came to get married was with a Japanese woman who is very smart, pretty, and feminine, but not a Western-style feminist. But the longer she lived in the US, the more American she became in her attitude and behavior, and I knew long-term she'd turn into my ex-wife.
If young men want to marry, I simply quote Oscar Wilde to them: "Every woman should marry--and no man."
Never sign a contract that rewards one party for breaking it.
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Warren Buffett switched his holdings from Wells Fargo to Bank of America for a number of reasons, this being among them. WF is a dysfunctional organization and, despite being judged "too big to fail", is at high risk of being absorbed by another bank. You have to be well-managed to make it through tough times, and Wells Fargo just isn't. There might be someone out there with the skill and vision to pull the bank through to the other side, but Charlie Scharf ain't it.
From CNN: "Buffett had publicly urged the Wells Fargo board not to hire a leader from Wall Street. Though Scharf has a track record of running consumer-facing businesses and improving them with technology, his resume featured time at securities-industry giant JPMorgan Chase & Co., and more recently atop Bank of New York Mellon Corp. Scharf also struck an agreement to work from New York, instead of the San Francisco headquarters, a move Buffett’s business partner, Charlie Munger, called “outrageous.”
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Dude, I lived in Oakland for five years, literally within sight of the cop shop.
There were some thugs shooting at each other outside the 12th Street BART station (that's the subway for you out-of-towners) during the afternoon commute. I actually got nicked in the face by shrapnel when a bullet ricocheted off a building. I got down on the ground, as did some other folks, but most did the dumb thing and ran around, exposing themselves to gunfire.
Of course people were calling 911. Know how long it took the Oakland PD to respond, four blocks from their headquarters?
I was on the ground 45 minutes before the firing stopped, then I got up and ran home. It was then and only then that I heard sirens.
45 minute response time and the cops didn't come to the 12th Street station until THE SHOOTING WAS OVER. Because cops don't like civilians with guns; that's dangerous and officer safety comes first. Officer safety, as we saw in Uvalde, is the ONLY thing that matters to a lot of cops, screw the civilians.
That's why I have zero respect for the Oakland PD: corrupt, lazy, and cowardly. The department is beyond saving. Not even years of federal oversight have been able to turn it around.
Dissolve the Oakland PD and put the Alameda County Sheriff's Department in charge of policing for the city. They're real cops, not these clowns.
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Nick, the prediction was 8.3% inflation and the CPI was announced at 8.6%. Which is what anyone who isn't a shill for Wall Street or the government expected. Inflation is going to be driven into double digits before the summer is over, which means mortgage interest rates MUST go at least two points above inflation in order to tame it. Right now, mortgage rates should be at 10.5% and may have to go as high as 12% by the end of the year, but instead, they're around 6%. 10.5% would absolutely devastate home sales. I'm an all-cash buyer so I'm going to wait until rates go up another two points, to 8% on a 30 year, before I start making offers.
Anyone who doesn't sell NOW is in an Indiana Jones-style trap, where you just slid under the big rock door in time to grab your fedora on the way out. Unfortunately for many sellers, they're refusing to cut their prices enough for a fast sale (which would still give them a profit or at least break even), and so they'll take a loss. I have no sympathy, just as they had none when trying to sell a house for two or three times what they paid for it a few years ago. The house flippers are going to get burned, and they should.
One more data point: inventories at Amazon, Target, and WalMart are up 30%-50%. They're laying off people and cutting prices to get rid of that excess inventory. If that isn't a signal that we're in a recession already, I don't know what it is.
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Astrology is a red flag for sure--
10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
17. Talks in an extremely annoying British accent
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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My experience in the States:
I lived in Beverly Hills. A homeless man vandalized my car in a futile attempt to break into it, causing thousands in damage. As two very bored Beverly Hills police officers were taking my report, I shared security camera footage with them that clearly showed the man's face--and as I was doing that, THE MAN ON THE VIDEO WALKED BY US, dressed exactly as he appeared in the video.
The cops agreed this man was the guy, but one of the officers said "Oh, we know him. He does this all the time. If we arrest him, he'll be back on the streets today, so I'm not going to waste time on that. The law doesn't allow us to hold him for a non-violent crime. You have insurance, don't you?"
The vandal/thief was standing watching and listening to this exchange. He hooted with laughter and pointed at me: "GET IT FIXED! SO I CAN DO IT AGAIN! YOU CAN'T DO NOTHIN' TO ME!"
Then he ran off laughing like the madman he is. But not so mad he didn't know he's immune from consequences, and surely more sane than the people who made him immune.
I moved back to Kansas after that, where the laws actually allow the police to actually DO something about crime.
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Our local gun stores are reporting record business today. This always happens after a mass shooting, because people are afraid that the federal government is finally going to institute meaningful restrictions on firearms.
Don't worry. If our country couldn't do anything after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, when twenty kindergarteners and six adults were murdered in cold blood, we won't do anything now. Sandy Hook was a turning point for this country: our refusal to take any steps to prevent another mass shooting means that we've accepted these as a way of life.
What's that, this isn't a good time to discuss this? It's NEVER a "good time" to discuss this, is it? So we never do.
This isn't the first mass shooting in the US and it won't be the last. And they will just keep getting bigger and deadlier, and it will never, ever, ever be the "right time" to discuss how to prevent it.
By the way, I was a teacher for thirty years, including elementary school at one point. If you say "arm the teachers", I'll just ignore you. Because if having teachers pack pistols and rifles is your "solution", you are just too stupid for words.
Y'all feel bad about this but you won't lift a finger to prevent another one. You can't bring back these little kids, but you could make the next shooting less likely. But you won't. So save your prayers and telling us all how really awful you feel. So do something. Words are meaningless. Only actions count.
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The next step will be physical violence against critics of the transgender movement. In fact, in the case of former UK swimmer Riley Gaines, this has already happened: a mob of trans activists attacked her at San Francisco State University and held her captive for three hours, and attempted to extort money from Ms. Gaines. We've also seen violent protests against Matt Walsh, Posey Parker, and Michael Knowles--but so far, none of them have seriously injured or killed critics. It's only a matter of time until they do so.
All critics of the transgender movement will be banned outright from social media platforms before that happens, though. I'm surprised we're still allowed to discuss it even on demonetized channels, but that won't last long, either.
The final step will be to make criticism of transgendered people or their ideology a criminal act, i.e., "hate speech" that can be punished with fines and jail times. That, too, is in our future.
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Women will chase you specifically because you're married. I was taking a graduate school class and a very attractive woman in the class (she modeled part-time) saw me at the mall with my wife. When she saw me in class, she asked who the woman was and I told her. After that, she began pursuing me, not despite being married, but because I was married. Same thing with women when they found out I had a girlfriend, especially when they got visual confirmation (I like slim, dark-haired, pretty women): women want what other women have and want the "achievement" of stealing another woman's man.
I once had an assistant at work who had a dozen guys at work who wanted to date her, many of the guys nice and not just interested in sex, but she ignored them all to pursue a married man who was, quite frankly, scum. He showed up at our workplace one day and started being abusive to my assistant, so I threw him out. And I mean physically. Just made my assistant want him more. The man's wife called my assistant at home and at work and texted her mean messages on her cell, warning her to stay away from her husband. Just made my assistant want him more.
Not all women are this way, but if you meet a woman with a story like this, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit, because they aren't going to change.
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I lived in Beverly Hills. I can spot every single bit of plastic surgery a woman has had, no matter how artful.
I went through a period where I gained a lot of weight, hated being fat, and went on a crash exercise/diet program where I lost 60 lbs in 3 months. It would've been more, but I was adding muscle at the same time.
HELL YEAH people treat you different. I was offered food, women hugged me, sales people at clothing stores made a beeline for me. Part of it is feeling more confident, but most of it is that people judge on appearances.
Women complain that they're judged on looks. Same women who demand a guy not only be rich but have a full head of hair, be over six feet tall, and have the body of an Abecrombie and Fitch model. Dear darlings: we're ALL judged on looks. But men are judged on looks AND money. A broke and beautiful woman can attract many suitors; a broke and handsome man isn't considered husband material by most women, he's just a roll in the hay.
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My friend and I are both tall, successful, and not bad looking. My approach to women was always gentlemanly and I had my share of successes.
He, on the other hand, is crude and piggish with women ("Know what'd look good on my face? You!"). And he has been, and remains, at sixty years old, WILDLY successful with beautiful women. If he were ugly, short, broke, they'd have called the cops on him. I've seen women slap his face and then end up in his bed the same night. Remember Sean Connery smirking at Barbara Walters about how women flocked around him after she warned him his "slap" comment would turn them off? Connery knew women.
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I'm a retired teacher who taught at a school where the majority of students were either American or Persian Jews.
The Persian Jews have despaired of ever returning to Iran because of its government and particularly its enforcement of so-called "shariah" (religious law), which is a misinterpretation of Islam.
The American Jews, almost all of whom have visited Israel at least once, say that Israel is also much changed from their parents' time: it's far less secular, perhaps an "equal and opposite" reaction to the rise of militant Islam. One boy said that his father told him that Israel today is unrecognizable from the Israel of 30-40 years ago, with Orthodox Jews insisting on strict adherence to religious codes governing diet, dress, etc.
I do know that at both our school and at the neighborhood synagogues, it was felt necessary to post armed guards (and I mean kitted out with military gear and military-grade weapons) to protect them from attacks. Two of the synagogues were attacked in the past five years, once by "white Christian nationalists" and another time by Muslim fundamentalists.
Iran is not solely to blame. Remember, 15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were Saudi nationals; two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Egypt, and one from Lebanon. I say that Saudi Arabia is a far more malign influence in the world than Iran.
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I was a public school teacher for thirty years. School administrators often cover up sexual assaults on campus and pressure the victims and their parents into silence. One of the more egregious cases occurred when I was a high school teacher and the victim was forced to go on home study while her rapist (a popular athlete whose father was close friends with the superintendent) roamed the campus freely. Many teachers were upset by this but no one did anything because they were afraid of retaliation. I pushed the issue forward and got the rapist expelled and his West Point appointment revoked. My "reward" was to be hounded for two years after that, each day a new nightmare, until I finally resigned and took a better job teaching at a college.
In my last teaching job, a boy sexually harassed a girl for two years, eventually escalating to sexual assault. The matter was covered up and the boy continued in school, while the girl's parents enrolled her in a private school to get her away from her rapist. Why didn't the boy get punished or even investigated, even though the girls' parents complained and filed multiple police reports?
His father was the principal of the school.
Daddy Dearest later left the district and went to an even better job with a glowing recommendation, taking his rapist son with him. The only person who ever suffered was the girl herself, who became depressed and suicidal, and was eventually hospitalized with mental issues. The district made a large financial settlement to the girls' parents, but money doesn't make it right.
That's how things work in public education, folks. Some teachers fight the system and get punished by losing their careers or being tormented daily by administrators and our colleagues (not to mention parents and board members) because they have a prison yard mentality: "snitches get stitches". Sexual assault traumatizes its victims, so they're reluctant to report and even more reluctant to press the matter, because peers, teachers, and other members of the community shame and blame the victims. I saw this happen with my own niece many years ago, and nothing has changed since then.
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10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
17. Is a "dating coach"
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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Every time a woman says "man/men", substitute "Chad" or "Tyrone". Because that's who they're talking about, Chad or Tyrone, not 90% of men, because those 90% are invisible to them until they need an ATM in middle age.
I didn't realize until after my divorce that in our fifteen year marriage, my wife NEVER really apologized to me. Oh, she did say "sorry" from time to time, but it was always "sorry, but really, when you think about it, this isn't my fault". It was always me or external circumstances or the phases of the Moon, but NEVER her. If you pay attention to when women do apologize, you'll realize they're what the "Seinfeld" writers called an "unpology": "The facade of an apology created by uttering obligatory words of remorse devoid of actual regret, contrition, or even an admission of guilt." Also known as a "female apology", although some men do, it, too, but few women in the history of the world have ever expressed sincere contrition. Because accountability = contrition = a real apology and we all know how women feel about accountability.
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I can only speak from my own experience:
After my wife cheated on me and ended our 15 year marriage, I said "no more Mr. Nice Guy". I dated multiple women at once, never promised them a thing, slept with them as early in the relationship as possible, dated women in their early twenties, etc. Even when they realized they weren't the only woman in my life, they came back for more. There were times when I though to myself "What's wrong with them? I'm not being gentlemanly, nice, and sensitive at all--quite the opposite. But they seem to love it."
That's when I realized that women are lying when they say they want a nice guy. My wife left me, a nice guy, for a guy who is the opposite of nice. And when I went against my upbringing and started being a player, I was successful as I'd never been before (doesn't hurt to be a university professor and date only students).
This is women's nature. It's not a new development, because this was 25 years ago. The only thing that was different in the past was that there were more social constraints on women. Women have shaken those off now, and we see women's true nature unleashed and revealed. To quote the philosopher Robert DeNiro, "It is what it is. This is this."
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Big institutional investors can tap limitless funds to buy houses--I don't call them "homes" unless they're owned by individuals--and can and will swoop in and increase their holdings during this crisis. It's exactly what happened in 2010-2012, when they went as far as rigging bids in the Bay Area. Unless our government intervenes to secure housing for individuals, which it has shown zero inclination to do, by 2026, the share of houses sold to investors will go from 20% to 50% (and higher in the most desirable areas). This is demonstrably bad, since owning a house is the best route for people to build wealth for retirement. What's more, people owning their own homes provides much-needed social stability. I live in a neighborhood of duplexes that are 100% rentals and the neighborhood is constantly in flux. Nobody knows their neighbors, so nobody looks after one another. I've owned homes in the past where everyone was an owner and knowing that your neighbor is there for the long haul makes it more likely you'll befriend them. People need those social bonds; we're individuals, but we're also tribal animals and being isolated is bad for us. American society is already under severe strain not just from the pandemic but by the wage gap, and shutting people out of owning their homes may be good for investors' profits, but it's harmful for our society overall.
And no, I do not want to debate anybody who bleats about the magic of the market or other Ayn Rand BS. That stuff is a fantasy. We have local, state, and federal government agencies for a reason: they're supposed to intervene and manage our society to make it as fair as possible. If you want to live in a country where there's no government, try living in Somalia for a year and then check back with me if you're still alive at the end of it.
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@mkeogh76 Every kid of a famous director/producer/actor was 100% confident they'd get plum jobs in the industry. I thought "no, people will see they don't have the talent required and that'll be the end of them". But my former students just keep rising up and up. Tribal loyalties have a big part to play in this: as the 13 year old son of a Disney executive explained it to me: "If my dad has a choice between hiring two people and one is a Jew and one isn't, my dad always hires the Jew. We have to look after our own people." I know lots of celebrities have been cancelled for stating this obvious truth, but, as Dave Chappelle recently said in his SNL monologue, "I've been to Hollywood...and it's a LOT of Jews." No, it's not a Semitic conspiracy, it's just a group taking care of its own. In my last teaching job, I worked for a district that hired an openly gay superintendent. When he started in the job, he and one other administration member were openly gay. Now, 10 of the 12 top administrators in the district are openly gay (and openly incompetent, which is the important part). Doesn't feel like a coincidence.
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It's even worse than you know. Three things emerged from this weekend:
1. The FDIC has $128bn, or about 1.27% of the total insured deposits, in its insurance fund. That fund was built up under the assumption that there was a $250k cap on insured deposits.
2. The FDIC and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, without an act of Congress, removed the $250k cap and are now covering deposits with no limit. Roku's $487m deposit in Silicon Valley Bank is 100% covered, for example. The FDIC's $128bn fund could be wiped out with one or two bank failures.
3. US banks have losses of $620bn on long-term bonds they bought when interest rates were low. The Fed has said they will give them par value (100% value) for these bonds. Where is that $620bn coming from? Money printer go brrrrr.
The likely results:
1. Depositors and banks now have no need to manage risk, because the FDIC, Treasury, and Fed are going to bail them out, no matter what. This will encourage reckless behavior.
2. FDIC is going to get wiped out before the summer is over, and that means it'll need a quick infusion of cash, perhaps hundreds of billions. Maybe trillions before this is all over. In other words, a bailout and more spending, more money loosed into an inflationary economy.
3. The Fed has just committed, in principle, to injecting up to $620bn into the economy at a time when inflation remains dangerously high.
Yellen and Powell have thrown us all to the wolves to rescue a bunch of One Percenters who foolishly deposited tons of money into a badly managed bank. And they didn't hesitate. Think they'd do that for us? Of course they wouldn't. The swiftness with which they acted to make the rich deposits of SVB and Signature Bank 100% whole should frighten everyone, because now the precedent has been set: there are no speed limits. Pedal to the metal, baby.
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I lived in the Bay Area for twenty years.
Most special dining experience: Eating at a sidewalk cafe with some colleagues. A homeless man drops his trousers and takes an enormous dump on the sidewalk less than two feet from where we were sitting, then turned around and urinated on us.
The waiter didn't turn a hair. Aberrant, antisocial behavior is normalized in San Francisco.
When I described this experience to my boss, with no embellishment and no judgmental words nor profanity, she said "Oh here we go, hating on the homeless!"
See, that's the problem right there: the homeless are saints and you cannot say a word against their antisocial, disgusting behavior, or you're an irredeemable bigot.
I have lots of other stories, some of which involve saving women who were being chased/attacked by homeless men, but I think you get the picture.
When I retired, I moved out of the Bay Area within twenty-four hours and I will never go back.
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Thanks for sharing, William.
In Iowa, a farmer killed a single crow with a rifle (to stop the crows raiding his crops).
He never killed another.
The other crows, observing the maximum range of the rifle, passed over that farmer's land at a height just beyond the range of the weapon he'd used to kill their fellow crow. The crows attacked the cornfields out of sight of the farmer, raiding him mercilessly in what seemed retaliation. The crows ate as much corn as they could, but also destroyed the plants they could not eat. Revenge?
A Japanese man attacked a crow with his umbrella in Kyoto. The next day, when the man emerged from work, he found his car covered by angry crows, and many more crows perched all around him on window ledges, rooftops, and telephone wires in a scene that belongs to a Hitchcock film. Crows have become such a menace in Japan that the government has actually declared them to be public enemy number one. Japanese crows are much larger and more aggressive than their American cousins, and cause millions of dollars of damage every year.
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When I was in my thirties, I tried to do "the mature thing" and date women my own age, thinking we'd get along better because we had more in common.
Nope.
They were suspicious, demanding, mean, and bitter. More baggage than an airport luggage carousel.
So I started dating college girls (I was a professor at the time) and they were enthusiastic, optimistic, funny...and didn't break my balls.
I've always dated younger women since then and have never regretted it. I'm retired now, just had my sixtieth birthday, and my girlfriend is a thirty-three year old doctor (an immigrant from Vietnam, NOT an American woman).
Men: Don't get married but do date. It's fun. And remember the wisdom of The One True Prophet, also known as Leonardo DiCaprio: when they're twenty-five, treat 'em like expired milk.
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(edited to correct misinformation) I've seen grackles--who are NOT corvids but are in the Icteridae, or blackbird family, which includes orioles and cowbirds.--organize to drive squirrels away from my bird feeders. There were four squirrels and a large grackle cawed four times. FOUR other grackles (same as the number of caws) showed up and they coordinated to harass the squirrels until the squirrels fled.
Another time, there were two squirrels and the grackle (I call him Scout, since he always checks out the area before the others come in) cawed--you guessed it--TWICE. TWO other grackles showed up to drive out the squirrels. Not sure if the number of caws correspond to the number of squirrels or number of grackles!
These grackles know I'm the one who fills the feeders, so I am not feared. When I go into the yard, they stay put and wait for the food. When other people go into the yard, they take off, since those people don't feed them. In the winter, I had on a ski mask because it was so cold and the grackles did NOT trust me, because they couldn't see my face, even though I was carrying food for them.
Those grackles have reproduced and one day, I was sitting on my back patio and an adult brought in younger grackles. They landed around me and explored the area. I was being introduced! "This area is good for food, this human is a friend." Those juvenile grackles will allow me to get closer than their parents did and also don't fly away when I'm in the yard, but they do fly from other humans.
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“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what did the British Empire ever do for us?”
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Same in the US.
My Iraqi neighbors haven't paid a penny in rent in 8 years--all paid by a combination of private charity (which is often funded through government grants) and direct payments from the local and federal governments. The landlord loves the arrangement because he's guaranteed his rent from them no matter what (he has no idea how they're trashing the place, but he won't hear it from me--I complained once and got slapped down for it).
Meanwhile, so much of my income goes to rent I have almost nothing left at the end of the month. They have five cars, including a Mercedes and a Maserati, and host big parties weekly (yes, even during Ramadan).
Until 10 years ago, it was quite easy to find rental accommodation--there was always a surplus. Now, there's a permanent shortage. Many hotels in my area are booked indefinitely at 100% capacity because they're housing illegal immigrants.
Conditions in the countries they fled from are so terrible that they go back there frequently. The Iraqi "refugees" next door go back to Iraq 3-4 times a year for a visit. They're only allowed to bring $10,000 cash into the country each trip, and they do, literally carrying back a bag of cash from their investments and properties in Iraq. The neighbors bitterly complain about how terrible the US is, but you'd have to blast them out of their sinecure with dynamite. They know a good thing when they see it.
I started my first paid job at 16 years old and have worked and paid taxes all my life. New arrivals to my country get everything free indefinitely, it seems, without ever having paid into the system.
Americans, famous for our patriotism, recently responded to a poll: A record low 38% of us said we were "extremely proud" to be American, down from 70% 20 years ago. Only 30% of Americans believe that hard work pays off in the "American Dream": work hard like I do and end up with nothing, hardly work like my immigrant neighbors and you win the lottery.
I can't help feel that this is being deliberately done to Brits and Americans to thoroughly demoralize and displace us. Very well, let the ruling classes try to summon up their new immigrant friends to fight their wars for them. Those people won't lift a finger for a country they view as nothing but a vessel to be drained. And I, a military veteran, won't, either.
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I was at the gas station on a road trip recently and because it was out in a rural area, the pumps had two nozzles: red for gasoline and yellow for diesel. A woman pulled up and selected the yellow nozzle and started to insert it into her car (same size nozzle as the gas because it's a hick gas station and they just slapped a yellow guard on the diesel nozzle).
I swore I wouldn't rescue women, but I broke my vow this time and said "Pardon me, but you shouldn't use the yellow nozzle to fuel up your car because--"
That's as far as I got, because she said "Oh, you think a WOMAN doesn't know how to do a simple thing like fill up her car's gas tank? I'm perfectly capable. I don't need YOU to tell me how!"
I said, "but the yellow is for diesel, and you don't want diesel in your car's fuel tank."
She glared at me and pressed a button to select a grade of gasoline (not diesel), tried to pump fuel. Nothing, of course.
She started cursing and I realized she was cursing at me, as if I'd caused this problem.
I got in my car and drove away without another word. No idea if she eventually figured it out. Maybe some strong and empowered woman explained it to her.
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When I was 39, I dated a 20 year Japanese woman who was cute, very smart, and very, uh, enthusiastic. She was crazy for me and I liked her a lot. One reason she liked me was because as an older guy, I had money and could take her out to nice restaurants and on trips (she was a student and always broke, of course). She was a really good tennis player and helped me improve my game. Despite our cultural differences, we had an amazing lot in common. In fact, I had more in common with her than I did with any woman I've ever been with, including my ex-wife. Especially my ex-wife.
I did catch some catty remarks from colleagues and total strangers. The worst were women my own age. They didn't want to date me--and the feeling was mutual--but somehow it was a cardinal sin for me to date a younger woman. Suddenly my personal life was THEIR business.
Their bitterness reminded of why I started dating women in their early 20s once I passed the age of 35. Women my own age were just not fun and a lot of them were not only bitter but domineering.
I understand why middle-aged post-Wall women get that way: they're desperate to get commitment, they've had their fun, and they want to pressure the men they date into a monogamous, purposeful relationship.
That's their problem. As a man, my most successful dating years started after I turned thirty-five, and things didn't cool down until I was in my late fifties, when I finally settled down with a Vietnamese immigrant doctor who is twenty-five years younger than me.
Men, look after your physical and financial health. Once you hit your mid-thirties and beyond, IF you've got your life on track, you're going to really love those years.
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That woman in her fifties? I've dated her. Well, not her exactly, but her kind: older, divorced, bitter as hell due to HER bad choices, entitled as the Queen of England...and I went right back to dating women young enough to be my daughter. The last "age appropriate" date I had actually turned to me at one point and said "I'll bet you really pat yourself on the back for dating someone close to your own age, don't you?" This was after two months of dating and she'd been holding that inside the whole time while I treated her very well (as I always try to do). I didn't say a word and took a left turn, drove to her house, got out, and opened the door for her without a word. Never saw or spoke to her again. I don't need a bitter woman in my life, taking out all of her problems on me. These women just don't get it. They really don't.
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I agree about lack of work ethic, most of my young neighbors have no job and no desire to hold one, yet somehow manage to have loads of cash (they do make a lot of trips late at night, so speculate on what that entails if you will). I'm sixty and retired; it took my employer eight months after my last day of work to find a qualified replacement for me, even though I gave them six months notice. The replacement is a young woman who is struggling so much in the position that she contacted me for advice. She was apparently hired because she's a woman and from an ethnic minority, but lacks any relevant experience and only has the minimum qualifications. I did help her as much as I could, on my own time, but I can't do the job for her. She asked me how many hours I worked every week and I told her between fifty and sixty, which is when she stopped contacting me, because she doesn't want to work more than thirty-five hours weekly.
Nigellus, I doubt either of us will live long enough to see things turned around, but we will live long enough to see things get worse and worse.
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10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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I live in a small town in Kansas, population about 2500.
There's a new housing development in our town, 120 houses in all.
I inquired and to qualify to "buy" the house, you have to be an undocumented migrant (it's basically free and property taxes and maintenance are paid for first five years).
We already have 400-500 Spanish-speaking illegals here, put up at taxpayer expense in the town's three hotels (which used to be for truckers passing through and hunters in season).
If an illegal family of 6 occupies each of the 120 houses, that's 720. Assuming the illegals in the hotels move into the houses, 22% of our town will be "undocumented migrants" by this time next year.
Oh, by the way, our property taxes are going up to pay for the infrastructure for the new development.
We had a literal zero crime rate before the illegals were sent here. Now we have lots of property crime, still not much violent crime. Local cops are totally inadequate to the task. They took the job expecting Mayberry and instead are getting actual crime.
We're being colonized, folks, and the illegals are putting down deep roots.
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@pamelawillow1526 I recently retired having worked for 45 years, faithfully paid taxes, served in the Air Force and honorably discharged. I cannot afford to buy a house because prices have doubled or even tripled. My Iraqi immigrant neighbors (here legally!), who speak only broken English and just arrived in the US three years ago, are moving into a newly renovated house that is being donated to them. They'll own it free and clear, no mortgage. The funds for this came from a combination of charity money and government grants.
Nothing for me, a native-born citizen, a taxpayer since my teens, a veteran who volunteered to serve the country. All I ask is to be treated as well as immigrants who've been in the country less than three years, and that apparently is a bridge too far. The plan to degrade and displace the native population in North America and Europe should be quite obvious to us by now. Question is, what do we do about it? I've never voted for a Republican in my life, but if Trump runs in 2024, he's got my vote. Trump is far from perfect but at least he stands up for his fellow Americans.
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I live in what the Brits and Aussies call a "detached house" now, but for five years prior, I lived in a 12 unit apartment building in Beverly Hills. I had five male neighbors and six female neighbors.
I knew the occupation of every single one of the male neighbors, i.e., What They Did For A Living.
I never found out the occupation of the female neighbors, because they didn't seem to have one. They didn't have jobs, they didn't work from home, they didn't have a business, yet somehow they were driving BMWs and Mercedes and paying their rent and always having Amazon packages and UberEats delivered. All without any visible means of support.
Men take it for granted that we're on our own. If we don't get up every day and go to work, we're homeless.
Women take it for granted that all they have to do is show up and someone will take care of them. Oh, they might have a job, but if the job goes away, they won't be homeless or hungry. If women work, odds are strong that they will bitterly resent having to do so, because earning their keep is alien to their nature.
Men and women live in entirely different worlds: in Man World, you'r entitled to nothing, while in Woman World, you're entitled to everything.
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I take the same position, more or less. I grew up in the country where the sheriff's department might come in 45 minutes if you called them, but sometimes the next day, or not at all. So we had to provide for our own defense. We also needed guns to hunt and to shoot coyotes, etc that were trying to kill our livestock. In the city, you might want a gun for protection. But we need a culture of RESPONSIBLE gun ownership and laws that require that responsibility. There are responsible gun owners and the law should emulate what those people already do, plus the restrictions talked about in this video.
What I'd do: 1. Government would pay for training courses required for gun ownership, with annual recertification mandatory. Government pays so that poor folks can afford guns, too. Number of weapons per person would be limited to three. 2. No open carry and no concealed carry. Keep your guns under lock and key. 3. Raise the age for all gun ownership to 21. 4. No high capacity magazines or armor piercing bullets sold to the general public. 5. Red flag law so that you can report people who are mentally ill, but they get a hearing to protect their rights.
The aim of this isn't to take guns away from people, but to shift the culture towards responsible ownership, which is what all rational people want.
As for assault weapons like the AR-15: You don't need them for hunting nor for self-protection, and I'm not going to take anyone seriously who claims they do. I'm done wasting breath on the tiny minority of gun nuts who'd get bazookas and rocket launchers if they could.
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@alcasey3551 I agree. Social media, their friends, and society in general now send women the constant message that THEY DESERVE BETTER (when in fact they are, as the late Kevin Samuels said, "average at best"). So they are never, ever, ever happy. My wife left me after 15 years of marriage because I got laid off from work; within a month, she had a new boyfriend. I got back on my feet and got the best job of my life, new house, etc, and then my ex wanted to come back because turns out her new guy is a loser. I said "no thanks" and never spoke to her again. That was what opened my eyes about women and how materialistic they are. "A woman is never really single"--my ex proved that, because she had another guy waiting when she ended our marriage. It's why I've never remarried and never will. I wish I hadn't married her the first time. I could've had a lot of fun in my twenties had I not.
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You aren't the only one anticipating this, Nick. A majority of the new inventory on the market that I'm seeing are rental properties: landlords are trying to offload them rather than deal with the high potential for evictions, which I know from my own long-ago experience as a landlord are costly and perilous (my evicted tenants trashed the house and caused $30,000 worth of damage).
An economist on one of the news channel said that many people who were hurt in the 2008 crash (ordinary folks) have STILL not recovered economically from that. Home ownership and net worth went down and haven't climbed back up. Here we go again!
The problem with the Fed raising interest rates to fight inflation is that this strategy only works for demand-side inflation, but 75% of the inflation is supply-side (supply chain disruptions, material shortages), so we're likely to end up with stagflation, a flat economy with high prices. Worst of all possible worlds. A better strategy would be a wage and price freeze and even price controls for certain commodities, such as gas (Richard Nixon successfully did this by executive order Executive Order 11615 in 1971). You'll find a lot of articles denouncing that move, all written by scholars for right-wing think tanks funded by the usual suspects. Don't worry, folks, Nixon was ten times smarter and bolder than Joe Biden; Biden's just going to blame everything on Putin.
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Within my lifetime in the US (if I can manage to live just a few more weeks), 100% of the people will be gay, which means that we straight people will be not just a minority, but extinct.
I taught for thirty years in public schools and knew many students as teens and later as parents with kids of their own.
Many of my "gay" students later married into heterosexual relationships, and when I asked them about this, they said "oh, being gay was just something I was trying out."
Here are the facts from the open air lunatic asylum officially known as the United States:
"More than 1 in 5, or 21 percent, of Generation Z adults identify as LGBTQ, Gallup found. That’s almost double the proportion of millennials, who are 26 to 41, at 10.5 percent, and nearly five times the proportion of Generation X, who are 42 to 57, at 4.2 percent. Less than 3 percent of baby boomers, who are 58 to 76, identify as LGBTQ, compared to just 0.8 percent of traditionalists, who are 77 or older."
https://tinyurl.com/yc6re92u
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The US has multiple advantages in international propaganda: 1. English is the de facto international language because of the post-WW2 global dominance of the US and the pre-WW2 global dominance of the British Empire; 2. The US, through Operation Paper Clip, brought in Nazi propaganda experts who taught the CIA, et al, scientifically refined psychological techniques that were "field tested" by the Nazis; 3. There is a lack of organized internal dissent in the United States. With the domestic population effectively pacified, the American Empire is free to focus on its efforts to bend other countries to its will. And those countries that will not be bent will be broken.
Nothing we can do about the first two, but we Americans could organize an effective resistance if we'd get up off our asses. I've tried for forty years now and my only successes have been at the local level, and even then, I had to fight against a numbing apathy. Only 1/3 of Americans have passports, so we live in a bubble where we think we're THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH. Unless you're counting projection of military power, we're not. Not even close. On top of that, I've found that many white leftists are too tied into identity politics to organize on the basis of class, and have a mixture of fear and contempt of working class people. There's also racism on the left, where a lot of white leftists think that leadership should naturally fall to THEM because, you know, they're white. We have a lot of work to do and not much time.
I've lost hope but maybe the younger generations (who have been screwed royally by the Boomers) can get things going.
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10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is (facial tattoos = RUN NOW!)
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
17. Talks in an extremely annoying British or American accent--see Clip #3 today, I think that was English she was speaking?
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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I'm even seeing price drops in areas that didn't experience the 2008 crash. In my hometown in Kansas, a house that was listed at $160,000 (which is expensive for Kansas) last June recently got reduced to $132,000--a 17.5% drop. It's the fourth price cut since it was listed. There's nothing wrong with the house, it's a lovely 2200 square foot two-story brick Tudor on a half acre lot, it's just that pre-pandemic, it would've sold for $85,000-$100,000, depending on condition. My mom was a realtor for 35 years and she said that maybe the seller can squeeze $115,000 out of the place, but more likely $105,000-$108,000, which is still a bit overvalued but not too bad.
If you're thinking "wow, I'm gonna move to Kansas", Kansas had its share of telecommuters who moved there during the pandemic, and every single one of them has their house back on the market. Kansas weather: burn in the summer, freeze in the winter, two nice weeks in the spring and two nice weeks in the fall, maybe three if Mother Nature is feeling generous. (Also, Kansas is great if you're the outdoors hunting/fishing type, but if you like cultural attractions and nightlife, not so much.) If you want to understand why we Kansans live so long (more centenarians than anywhere else in the country), it's because the climate killed off all the weak people a long time ago.
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It's worse than what you've just said, Nick.
SVB, like almost all banks, invested in long term securities which pay very low interest rates.
Interest rates for short-term securities skyrocketed recently. Depositors want to take their money out of the banks and invest them in short term treasuries, etc, because it's a more profitable investment.
To cover those withdrawals, banks have to sell their long term securities at massive losses, which will cause many more banks to fail.
The Fed and Treasury (Yellen) have now promised to basically redeem those long term securities without a loss to the banks which means the Fed is going to subsidize the banks for infinity. How do they do that? By printing money.
The result: banks now have no incentive to manage risk, inflation cannot be tamed because the Fed has to keep pumping money into the system to keep banks from failing, and we are trapped in a vicious cycle.
All of this could've been avoided if the Fed hadn't bowed to Wall Street and kept the money printer going from 2008 onwards. The Fed should've GRADUALLY adjusted rates to historical norms over the last 15 years, giving everyone time to adjust.
How do we get out of this? Damned if I know.
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Our local gun stores are reporting record business today. This always happens after a mass shooting, because people are afraid that the federal government is finally going to institute meaningful restrictions on firearms.
Don't worry. If our country couldn't do anything after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, when twenty kindergarteners and six adults were murdered in cold blood, we won't do anything now. Sandy Hook was a turning point for this country: our refusal to take any steps to prevent another mass shooting means that we've accepted these as a way of life.
What's that, this isn't a good time to discuss this? It's NEVER a "good time" to discuss this, is it? So we never do.
This isn't the first mass shooting in the US and it won't be the last. And they will just keep getting bigger and deadlier, and it will never, ever, ever be the "right time" to discuss how to prevent it.
By the way, I was a teacher for thirty years, including elementary school at one point. If you say "arm the teachers", I'll just ignore you. Because if having teachers pack pistols and rifles is your "solution", you are just too stupid for words.
Y'all feel bad about this but you won't lift a finger to prevent another one. You can't bring back these little kids, but you could make the next shooting less likely. But you won't. So save your prayers and telling us all how really awful you feel. So do something. Words are meaningless. Only actions count.
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My sister has been married three times, always to nice guys. They didn't cheat on her and I like all three of them.
She got divorced from all three husbands because her marriages lacked drama; in other words, boredom. Ironically, the marriage that lasted the longest was the one that had the most conflict (one husband stood up to her while the other two let her run things).
There's no use in being a good guy, a bad boy, or any other type of guy in a marriage nowadays. No matter what, a woman is very likely to divorce you. It doesn't matter how nice you are, how handsome you are, how rich you are--your wife WILL find a problem because no one's perfect, and God forbid she should settle for anything less than perfection. If she doesn't divorce me, she'll torment you endlessly as your wife. You can't win, so don't play the game.
Don't believe me? Ask Tom Brady.
And fellas, you are NOT Tom Brady.
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Can someone tell me why it's legal to turn a house into a hotel in a residential-zoned neighborhood? Because that's what an AirBnB is, a hotel. It's a commercial enterprise. We have zoning laws for a reason. I used to live next to an AirBnB in Beverly Hills and we had the cops out there dealing with loud parties four, five nights a week, trash everywhere, illegal parking, etc. Beverly Hills eventually cracked down on AirBnBs and the woman who owned the house blamed her neighbors when she lost it to foreclosure, because her plan to pay it off depended 100% on AirBnB income.
AirBnB and similar ventures need to be made illegal, full stop, no limits, just outlawed outright. Want to open a hotel? Fine, do it in a commercially zoned area of town.
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My money's on Charlize in the fight--her mom killed her dad and got away with it, so Charlize has likely inherited that masculine-style aggression and killer instinct.
According to Charlize and her mother, Gerda, Charlize's father, Charles, fired first through a locked door, and then Gerda returned fire, killing Charles.
South African authorities said it was self-defense.
My older sister is a retired cop and she wondered how Charles could've missed all three of his shots at the same range as Gerda's, all of which hit Charles. IF Charles fired first, and was uninjured at the time, at least one of the bullets should've found their target. But a man who has already been shot and is dying might not have very good aim--or perhaps the shots from his gun were fired AFTER he died of his gunshot wounds?
The "self-defense" shooting was in 1991, and the South African police accepted Gerda Theron's account of events at face value. But Gerda's and Charlize's story wobbles severely under closer scrutiny.
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The past isn't always a guide to the future, but after prices crashed in 2008, they didn't bottom out until 2010. I expect the same timeframe this time, though, because of the cumulative effect of valuing housing on the market. Sellers reduce their prices by 10%-15%, which becomes the new base. If houses still don't sell at that base, sellers reduce their price further, and that becomes the new base--it's a snowball rolling downhill. When owners wake up and realize they're paying a mortgage on a house market valued at $300,000 that they bought for $600,000, people are just going to start walking away if they don't see values recovering in the foreseeable future. This is the scenario all the banks are preparing for right now.
Wild cards in the scenario: 1. Will a recession tame inflation or will we have stagflation? 2. How long and how deep will the recession be? Housing prices are going to come down, but these wild cards affect whether prices go down by 20% or as much as 50%.
This will vary area by area, but I expect a minimum of 20% price reduction and 50% in others. Not all markets are as wildly overvalued (out of line with household incomes) as others, and all-cash investors may continue to partially prop up some markets. If you want a good bargaining position, wait a year. If you want to really gamble to get the best deal, two years.
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We have a very multiracial police force in the United States. It hasn't made a difference one way or another, because regardless of an officer's ethnicity, a cop is either assimilated into police culture and the "blue brotherhood" or leaves the job.
I know this for a fact because one of my best friends (we've been mates for over 40 years) was a career police officer and my older sister was a cop for 10 years. My sister finally resigned in disgust at the appalling brutality and callousness of her colleagues, who included black, white, and Hispanic officers. My friend said that he did his job to the best of his ability and learned to turn a blind eye to misbehaving colleagues because if he didn't, he'd lose his job. None of this has anything to do with race or gender; female cops don't behave better or worse than male cops and black or brown cops don't behave better or worse than white cops. The problem with the police is politics and culture.
The UK has been very wise so far in engineering a society where the police don't go forth armed, but I expect that will change very soon as your lovely new arrivals bring mayhem to your cities and villages. The police will demand, and be granted, firearms and every one of them will have a deadly weapon in their hands. On that day, which is to come soon, you'll have lost your country and culture forever.
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No. Take it from someone who house hunted after the 2008 crash: there is no "new inventory" coming.
I looked at over 100 houses with one of the top realtors of the Bay Area.
Every single decent house repossessed by banks during the crash was snapped up by all-cash investors who offered $50k-$200k over asking.
Those investors conspired to rig auctions; private individuals, like me, who thought this was a chance to get a house, were shut out.
It won't be any different this time.
We don't need a housing crash. There is no shortage of houses: investors and banks are holding 16 MILLION houses VACANT to make an ARTIFICIAL shortage. If they let the market deflate and inventory grow, their business model, which depends on monopolizing the supply of houses, is over. They aren't going to give it up unless they're forced to.
I know this isn't what people want to hear, but the truth is, we need government regulation to get those houses on the market, and to make sure that investors don't snap up houses.
1. Vacancy tax that incentivizes selling houses to private individuals, not to investors
2. A tax on multiple properties (if an investment company or private individual owns multiple properties, the property taxes are reassessed at higher rates)
This Ayn Rand "let the market work" stuff is garbage. It's shutting two generations out of decent housing and squeezing millions into deep financial and mental distress. It's tearing apart communities and the fabric of our society.
This aggression will not stand, man.
Come at me with your "free market" stuff, folks. It doesn't work and if you don't see that by now, you never will.
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I wouldn't say sellers are "slashing" their listing prices. When you bought the house as an investment 2 years ago, demand double or triple what you paid for it, and then cut your asking price by 10% after sixty days...that's not much progress. Here's an example from the Midwest, using price history from the listing:
2019: Purchased for $80,000
March 2022: Listed for $210,000
June 2022: Price reduced to $195,000
That's with no improvements, either cosmetic or structural. The house needs new windows, a complete bathroom and kitchen remodel, roof is 15 years old...no garage, area is so-so.
I would buy the house for what they paid for it, but no more. It's a long way from $195,000 to $80,000. Anybody who pays more than $80,000 and isn't a deep pockets investor is an idiot. You'll have to buy and hold for a decade to recover your investment (but if you're looking to take a loss or stash some cash, it's a "buy").
The seller is apparently heavily indebted with lots of "investment properties" but sellers haven't adjusted to reality yet: people are either getting laid off or afraid of layoffs, inflation is destroying income gains and then some, banks aren't writing new loans, companies are putting an end to remote work, which means Californians who work in tech aren't going to swoop in and rescue property values with their high salaries. And the president can't get up a flight of stairs on his own. No one in Washington is doing anything. Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell have that deer in the headlights look and the president, well, let's just say he might not be a big help here and leave it at that.
Will that $195,000 house drop belong six figures? Depends on how long and how deep that recession is. If I were the seller, I'd drop the price to $120,000 for a quick sale and hope some dumb fish takes the bait. But dreams die hard and greedy ones die harder.
To answer your question: Yes, I'm fun at parties.
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I wish a collapse in housing prices was coming, because I'd love to buy a house of my own, but it's not going to happen.
Here's why:
1. All-cash investors are going to scoop up any and all decent houses. Quick closing, no contingency issues with financing, they'll even pay over asking. The investors can afford to rent out a house at a loss or sit on a vacant property for years before showing a profit from it.
2. There are millions of houses--the estimate is 16 million but it may be as many as 40 million--vacant in the US. They're deliberately being held off-market to create an artificial shortage. The institutions doing this have literally bet trillions in maintaining that shortage indefinitely, and they sure as hell aren't going to let inflation, recession, or even another Great Depression screw with their business model. The economics of institutional investors who can tap cash reserves of hundred of billions is beyond the comprehension of most of us, and the normal "supply and demand" rules do not apply.
3. If the federal government sees any big investors in trouble, they will rush to bail them out with as much money as it takes. These investors literally can't lose. They cut our elected representatives in on the deal (Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul is a huge player in real estate speculation, to take one prominent example) and in turn, our representatives make sure that they and their patrons' interests are protected.
Feel free to argue with me. I wish that none of the above was true, but I can't ignore the evidence in front of me.\
tldr; we're all doomed
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I'd LOVE to date women close to my own age, but they're all so bitter and damaged after being run through that I've confined my attentions exclusively to women under thirty. It's been easy for me to date younger women because they've been all around me (I'm a semi-retired college professor, now only teaching a few classes). I don't date American women: our college has a high percentage of foreign students, especially young women from countries where women are still feminine-acting and -sounding. For the past decade, we've had a huge influx of Ukrainian women who are very forthright in their approach because they come from a country where they have to compete for eligible men (I never met a Ukrainian woman who didn't want to get married and settle down, and if they're interested, you'll know it!). They also have an open contempt for the attitudes of American women, who publicly disparage their husbands or boyfriends.
To answer questions:
1. No, I don't date students in my class. No rule against it at our college but it's against my personal ethical code.
2. Foreign women are more worldly and mature in their mid-20s than American women are at any point in their life. Having to actually struggle in life--emigrating to a foreign country and studying for a university degree in a second language, far from the support of your family--requires character and a strong work ethic. No one hands my students anything and it shows in the way they approach the world. They don't feel entitled to *anything*.
3. Yes, American women generally despise intellectuals while foreign women, especially Russian-speaking Ukrainians, are turned on by them.
4. Yes, I speak Russian, thanks to the US Air Force. It's a long story.
MY ADVICE TO YOUNGER MEN: Even if studying full-time isn't for you, enroll in an on-campus course or two at a college that has a lot of foreign students. You'll thank me later.
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Just to be clear: I won't reply to any comments that say this is the fault of the teachers unions, or woke educators, or cellphones, etc. Because none of those are major issues. Unions have been calling for SAFER schools--why would the unions want schools to be more dangerous? And the nutjob "educators" you see on TikTok are a small, noisy, visible minority who won't last in the profession more than a few years. I lasted thirty years and you have to be tough to do that, because it's a hell of a job.
The main thing that's changed? Parents are now our enemy--they send their kids to school with the attitude of "F the teachers". When you talk to these parents, you find out that they're angry at other things in their lives (high cost of living, bad jobs, strained relationships, broken marriages) and they have to take that anger on SOMEBODY--so they give it to their kids and have them take it to school. We can't get new teachers in the profession because they know they'll be underpaid, overworked, abused, and made the whipping boy for every politician and every parent with an axe to grind.
I have one word of advice for any young person thinking of becoming a teacher: DON'T.
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"Good Morning," said Deep Thought at last.
"Er..good morning, O Deep Thought" said Loonquawl nervously, "do you have...er, that is..."
"An Answer for you?" interrupted Deep Thought majestically. "Yes, I have."
The two men shivered with expectancy. Their waiting had not been in vain.
"There really is one?" breathed Phouchg.
"There really is one," confirmed Deep Thought.
"To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the Universe and everything?"
"Yes."
Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.
"And you're ready to give it to us?" urged Loonsuawl.
"I am."
"Now?"
"Now," said Deep Thought.
They both licked their dry lips.
"Though I don't think," added Deep Thought. "that you're going to like it."
"Doesn't matter!" said Phouchg. "We must know it! Now!"
"Now?" inquired Deep Thought.
"Yes! Now..."
"All right," said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.
"You're really not going to like it," observed Deep Thought.
"Tell us!"
"All right," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question..."
"Yes..!"
"Of Life, the Universe and Everything..." said Deep Thought.
"Yes...!"
"Is..." said Deep Thought, and paused.
"Yes...!"
"Is..."
"Yes...!!!...?"
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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I don't want to blame women for my problems, but now that I don't have any women in my life, the quality of my life is a lot better. No pendulum of drama, no irrational demands, my life centers around what I need and not what they need. Even the best women are self-centered and demanding. It's their nature. Add on a culture of feminism that teaches women to be argumentative, aggressive, and immune to criticism and accountability, and you've just described a nightmare of a person. Quite honestly, I feel like more of a man now than when I had a wife and girlfriends. I don't have to bow to anyone, I don't have to serve anyone. Women aren't interested in an equal partnership; they want us to be their servants. No, thanks.
Women have been blaming and shaming men for a long time now. It's driving us away, so their "solution" is to double down on the same behavior. Yes, some men are awful people, too. And yet we clearly see women CHOOSING those men over the rest of us again and again. 20/80 ratio: 20% of the men get 80% of the women, and that's with the women's consent.
Welcome to the world you made, women. You're going to have to live in it. Men are either going to use you or ignore you.
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In California, all public services are done in a multiplicity of languages. When my mother's parents came to the US from Sweden, they had to learn English in order to survive and thrive in their new land. In other words, being forced to assimilate was a good thing for them--they weren't locked in a language ghetto where they were perpetually at the mercy ofothers.
I know many people who've been in the US for generations and still don't speak English. I have neighbors from Iraq who've been here 15 years--15 years!--and most of the adults in the household know only a few words of English. They don't need to, because the government provides translators for them for everything (as well as generous public assistance), so they've no incentive to learn English. Truthfully, they've never even tried.
They won't be my neighbors much longer. A combination of local government grants and charitable aid have bought them a newly refurbished house, free of charge, and a monthly stipend for them to maintain it. I, being born in the US and having paid taxes since I was fourteen years old, get nothing. So much for "white privilege".
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My dad stayed home for two weeks while my mom was in the hospital when I was nine years old. I had two sisters, eleven and four years old. It was during the school year, so two of us were in school during the day.
Dad cooked, cleaned, did all the yard work, and had time to spare every day. I think it took him 3-4 hours a day depending on what needed to be done. We went to school in clean clothes, came home to a clean house, and didn't miss a meal.
Being a stay at home mother/housewife is NOT that difficult with modern conveniences (refrigerators, microwaves, washer/dryer machines, etc). It's just not.
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In 2012, at the bottom of housing and rental prices after the last crash, I tried to buy a house. I thought it was my big opportunity.
None were available.
All-cash investors scooped up all the decent homes at $50,000-$100,000 over asking price.
Same thing will happen this time. SOME investors will get badly hurt, but others have hoarded cash and are waiting to swoop in and get bargains.
The only way to stop this is for the federal government to declare that individual buyers, not investors, should have first crack at foreclosed houses.
They won't do that, because there are so many big institutional investors now, like Blackrock, which has former executives on both the president's and vice-president's staff.
The housing crisis doesn't mean a thing for individual homebuyers. You'll still be shut out of the market.
Rents may go down for a few years, but once those all-cash investors have consolidated their holdings, rents will skyrocket again.
It's a destructive cycle that is permanently destroying the American Dream, a wheel that grinds most of us underneath.
We don't need to stop the wheel, we need to break the wheel.
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My older sister's ex-husband, who is sixty, recently scored a cute 35 year old Filipina girlfriend. My sister is livid because, well, he's happy. The Filipina girlfriend is feminine and nurturing, not bossy and masculine, the way my sister is. Her ex was miserable for years until he found this new love. Oh, by the way, he's filthy rich, looks like Tom Selleck in his early forties, and the new girlfriend gets all that just by showing up and not being a pain in the ass.
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First, I'm jealous of your amazing adventure, Giselle. Second, I've visited other countries, including Mexico, and at every one, I had to show a valid passport, return airline ticket home, and in some cases, a visa, before they'd let me set foot in their country. And I was there lawfully. Illegal immigrants are breaking the law and Biden is letting half a million a year just slide on through--and I can't decide if it's incompetence, a deliberate policy, or both. Whatever it is, it is unacceptable.
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Sellers were frightened in my area for a minute, now with the recent mortgage rates dip, they raised prices back up again.
Example: House was purchased in 2020 for $140,000, listed 6/22/22 for $310,000, price cut 7/24/22 to $285,000, just went to $315,000.
I'm working with a buyer's agent and she said that the widespread belief is that there won't be any further interest rate increases this year, and almost certainly a reduction in the first quarter of next year.
We'll see if that plays out. It's going to take another 6-9 months before we can see a clear direction. A lot of people are clinging desperately to the market of the past two years as if it wasn't some freakish anomaly. It's like getting up every day and expecting a total solar eclipse, man.
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(Before I start, apologies for a long comment no one will read)
People ask "Why haven't home prices collapsed yet?"
Three reasons:
1. The recession is just starting. We haven't seen job losses yet--but Target just posted a 90% decline in profits, with many other companies to follow. Companies will stop hiring and/or lay off people, especially after the 2022 Christmas shopping season.
2. The Fed promised to sell off its MBS (mortgage backed securities) but instead is BUYING them. The Fed actually added $8 billion in MBS over last month instead of selling the $17.5 billion they planned. Mortgage lenders set their rates when financial markets open, and then they monitor MBS prices all day (or they pay a service to do this and alert them to significant changes). When MBS prices drop, lenders raise interest rates, and when prices rise, they drop their rates. The Fed is propping up MBS prices and keeping rates from rising.
3. Many sellers are trying to wait this market out. I was negotiating for a house this past week and in the middle of negotiations, my broker informed me that the seller had decided to pull the listing "until he figures things out". Figuring things out = why he can't dictate terms and demand twice what he paid for the house in 2019. How can this be?
Ignore all the real estate industry shills (rhymes with "Bamsey") who assure us that home prices are just going to go up. They said the same thing before 2008. The inexorable principle of housing prices is this: when housing prices become disconnected from wages, housing prices will eventually correct back to their true value. A home at the top of the bubble in 2007 that was $250,000 is $475,000 today, while the average income went from $55,000 to $63,000 in that same time period. When people tell you "this isn't 2008", reply: "No, it's a far bigger bubble, much worse" and the coming recession of 2023-25 will be worse than 2008-11.
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I was out running errands earlier today and traffic at an intersection was blocked by a white SUV. Cars started going around it. As I rolled past, I looked to see who the clueless driver was who was not paying attention to the change of signals.
A twentysomething woman recording herself alone in the car, oblivious to the traffic snarl she'd just created while she created her latest TikTok or Instagram confessional. TikTokking while driving? Yeah, that's a great idea.
The level of self-absorption and narcissism in women now is truly shocking. I started noticing that women are ALWAYS on their phones, either talking or texting, while we men are less likely to be--and if we are, the call or texts have a purpose and are conducted as efficiently as possible. A few days ago, a woman who appeared to be in her early forties dropped her keys in a store and a man tried to get her attention to return them to her, but she was so engrossed in her phone call that she didn't even respond when he tapped her on the shoulder. I'd have just tossed the keys back on the floor at that point, but he was a kinder soul and took them to the customer service desk, aka "lost and found". I guess he could've gotten her attention if he was a Chris Hemsworth lookalike (or at least Liam Hemsworth).
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Our local gun stores are reporting record business today. This always happens after a mass shooting, because people are afraid that the federal government is finally going to institute meaningful restrictions on firearms.
Don't worry. If our country couldn't do anything after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, when twenty kindergarteners and six adults were murdered in cold blood, we won't do anything now. Sandy Hook was a turning point for this country: our refusal to take any steps to prevent another mass shooting means that we've accepted these as a way of life.
What's that, this isn't a good time to discuss this? It's NEVER a "good time" to discuss this, is it? So we never do.
This isn't the first mass shooting in the US and it won't be the last. And they will just keep getting bigger and deadlier, and it will never, ever, ever be the "right time" to discuss how to prevent it.
By the way, I was a teacher for thirty years, including elementary school at one point. If you say "arm the teachers", I'll just ignore you. Because if having teachers pack pistols and rifles is your "solution", you are just too stupid for words.
Y'all feel bad about this but you won't lift a finger to prevent another one. You can't bring back these little kids, but you could make the next shooting less likely. But you won't. So save your prayers and telling us all how really awful you feel. So do something. Words are meaningless. Only actions count.
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The black population in the US is 13.5% overall, but here, they are also overrepresented in advertising and media. This has led some black people to wildly overestimate their own numbers. I got into an argument online yesterday with a black man who insisted that black people were at least 50% of the US population and that I had no basis for my claim it's 13.5%.
I posted a link from the US Census Bureau, which is considered a reliable source for demographics, and he ignored it, saying that he wasn't going to engage with a racist.
Facts are racist now.
I looked at advertisements for upcoming Christmas sales, and out of 16 people modeling clothes, 11 were black, 5 white, no Asians nor Latinos (Latinos are 18.9% of the US population). This is not a one-off: black models are always at least 50% of the models for stores. I live in a city where black people are 14.62% of the population, so this is not models representing the community. It turns out that during the Black Lives Matter riots, many stores signed pledges to hire 50%+ black models. Latinos are 7% of the population in my city, but they have no guarantee of representation. I suppose if they wanted some, they should've rioted.
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As with 2008, the inflation in values and the deflation of the bubble vary widely from region to region. Many housing markets in the Midwest and Great Plains are relatively stable; it's the houses in Florida, Colorado, and west of the Rockies that soared in price the most, and which are now crashing hardest. As a native Midwesterner, I never could get used to the cyclical boom and bust of California real estate, because that's not how real estate works in Kansas.
I have to hand it to the real estate industry, though: they have the best sales force on the frikkin' planet. Who else can convince people that if they don't buy this house at a 200% markup from what the seller paid three years ago, at a significantly higher interest rate, they will NEVER get a house? Look no further than Trump, who has a real estate empire; the guy's a master salesman (not an endorsement of Trump, just an observation).
Full disclosure: My mom was a realtor and she can still sell ice cubes to Eskimos. When I rented my first apartment at age 18, my mom negotiated down the rent by pointing out flaws with the apartment. The landlady was so intimidated she knocked 20% off the rent.😂
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Con Descending I wouldn't say women are evil so much as they are what they are. Women are ruled by their emotions; the woman in your story cheated because the $50k guy gave her the tingles. She didn't think about the consequences because that would require a logical thought process that most women can't manage. It sounds as if she was of very poor character to begin with if, as you said, "Her infidelity doesn't shock me." Women will cheat given the opportunity, which is why we men shouldn't marry them, live with them, nor have kids with them. The reason this woman cheated? She expected her infidelity would not only be free of consequences, but would result in her getting rewarded financially. This was a rare case where a woman wasn't rewarded for bad behavior. We need to get rid of "no fault" divorce and punish unfaithful partners. Until then, why not cheat if you're a woman? You'll get child support, half (or more) of your ex-husband's property, no social stigma applies, etc. For all of human history, we acknowledged this is women's nature and that's why we had social restraints in place to keep them in check. With those restraints gone, chaos ensues.
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Capitalism as embodied in the US economy is cyclical. It's a boom-bust cycle and the swing in the cycles is getting more pronounced as successive governments deregulate the economy and as more and more economic power is concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer companies and individuals.
Right now, I'm seeing a lot of denial and panic about a recession that's already underway. It's not coming, it's here.
One of my nieces is married to a home builder. Most of his clients have disappeared overnight. This is how recessions snowball.
When you predict a recession or say there's one happening, people mistake that for cheering for a recession. I'm not. Recessions can cause lasting harm to individuals and communities. But they're a fact of life and right now is a terrible time to buy a home, either to live in or as an investor, unless you're certain you won't have to sell it in the next decade. I think that's how long it'll take to recover the inflated values we're seeing now.
One factor so many people are missing is that we have a depopulation crisis in the US: the Boomers think they're never going to die, but even they are mortal and Millennials and Generation Z don't have the money to buy homes and raise kids. Mass immigration has always meant a periodic influx of young people into the States, but that's going away, too. We're left with an aging, maybe even declining, population. Once a society starts down that road, no one has ever reversed it.
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I have a colleague and friend whose parents are Japanese immigrants. FDR violated her parents' Constitutional rights by dispossessing them of their farm in northern California and interning them in a camp. It took decades, but the surviving immigrants (and their descendants) were finally compensated for this injury by the US government, and I supported it. I also support reparations for the Holocaust. But all of those were done within living memory; if no one who was injured is still living, then that ought to be the end of the matter.
It's strange how silent black Americans are when asked about reparations for the most injured group of all, Native Americans who were almost wiped out by Europeans in one of history's greatest genocides. Nothing for the Native Americans, because there's so few of them that their votes don't really matter in an election. Black Americans are 13% of the population, so they can demand and receive reparations--in other words, this isn't about any redress of historical injustice, it's about buying votes for the Democratic Party from black Americans. "Remember me, Gavin Newsom? I got (or tried to get) $233,000 for each black person! And now I'm running for president!" Bribe people with your own money, Newsom, not mine.
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10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is (facial tattoos = RUN NOW!)
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
17. Talks in an extremely annoying British or American accent
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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Not true. I wish it were only 10%!
I shopped the exact same grocery list from January 2022 in January 2023 at the exact same store.
81% higher overall. And I don't eat fancy, getting generic and store brands when available.
Example: I used to get a dozen eggs for $1.62. They're now $4.18. And the eggs are smaller.
We need a Real People Inflation Index that measures how much higher prices really are.
Can we just say it? One of the big causes of inflation is plain old price gouging. If it were just stores raising prices to cover their costs, their profits would be the same.
But they're not. A lot of grocers are raking in record profits.
Why do this?
Well, if you used to sell 1000 cartons of eggs at $1.62, you brought in $1,620 in gross sales.
At $4.18, you only have to sell 388 cartons of eggs to get $1,620 gross, and most of your operating costs (labor, etc) are the same.
If you only sell 65% of what you used to, that's $2,717 in gross sales (650 x $4.18).
This inflation has permanently raised prices. Prices are never going to go back to what they were pre-2020, not even close, and that creates a permanent cost of living crisis for 70% of Americans.
Not that anybody cares about us.
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Believe it or not, I'm seeing a lot of big price increases on houses that have sat unsold on the market for 3-6 months. Price INCREASES. Because if a house doesn't sell, you raise the price, right? I cannot understand the thinking about this move, and don't even want to try.
Example: I'm tracking houses in Kansas (where real estate is cheap because it's Kansas), and a house that's been on the market since July 2022 recently had a price increase from $125,000 to $165,000. No, the sellers didn't do any work or upgrades on the house. Maybe the comps went up? But if it didn't sell at $125,000 after eight months on the market, why would it suddenly get snapped up at $165,000?
My only explanation: There's a lot of crazy people out there, and some of them own houses for sale.
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I've owned four houses in my life, currently looking for #5. Here's my experiences FWIW in a long comment even I wouldn't read:
House #1: Built by the owner, a locksmith, back when manly men did such things, in 1948. Solid as a rock, plumbing, electrical, roof, HVAC, everything, maintained with love and care. I was so lucky that I had a great realtor who put me in that house.
House #2: A "charming" 1920s era house that my then-wife and I decided to renovate. A nightmare and a money pit. That house put a strain on our relationship because something was ALWAYS wrong with it. I'd come home from work and spend every night and every weekend working on the house. I dreaded going home. Eventually moved out and rented it to a couple who accidentally burned it down with candles from a Satanic mass (they were OK--I guess Satan looked after them).
House #3: A house built in the early 1950s, designed by a GM engineer to be passive solar. Like house #1, solid as a rock, virtually maintenance-free, everything was quality from the foundation to the roof.
House #4: The house I bought in California, built in the 1990s. Former rental, shoddy workmanship top to bottom, something always going wrong, eventually sold it before the 2008 crash for a huge profit that I didn't deserve but I cashed the check anyway.
House #5: A house can be badly built in any era, but any house built pre-WW2 is going to have quirks and problems, so I won't go back before 1950. A pre-war house is great IF you have the budget to renovate and maintain it AND if it's in GREAT shape when you buy it. I see so many older houses that would've been great buys had they had someone to love them. #1 issue is the foundation: people don't keep water away from their foundations by grading the landscape and using diverter hoses on their gutters (and I've seen a lot of houses that don't HAVE gutters, which is a huge red flag.). My advice? Stay away from any house that hasn't been maintained, unless you're doing a total down-to-the-studs renovation. For every issue you spot with a neglected house, five more are lurking under the surface.
My oldest niece's husband, a contractor, has done well for himself buying neglected older houses and totally renovating them. He can do so cost-effectively, and just bought a house in Florida to do the same. But that's him. Most of us don't have that skill level and should look for houses that have been cared for by their owners. I'd stay away from former rentals--they're cared for about as well as rental cars.
Just remember this: you aren't as smart as you think you are, especially when it comes to buying a house. I've bought four and made mistakes with two (well, house #4 was a lucky mistake, because I'm still spending the money I made from the sale--Cali real estate is a casino), and I'm a cautious person who does his homework and due diligence. With all due respect, DON'T rely entirely on realtors--they're all optimists who have trouble seeing downsides. Get multiple opinions on buying a house, not just the inspector but specialized inspections (plumbing, HVAC, roof, foundation). Yeah, all of that is expensive, but it's more expensive to buy a money pit, right?
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Michael, I don't know about Florida, but all I'm seeing in the Midwest are flippers and investors trying to dump their half-finished projects, landlords offloading rentals they no longer want to manage, the usual "needs TLC" junk that should be torn down, and a lot of very small, very overpriced vacation homes ("cozy cabin by the lake" that's 600 feet, etc).
Still, it's more than we were seeing a few months ago. It's a start.
When we do see homes that are worthwhile, most, if not all, will be snapped up by "all cash" investors who will overbid the asking price, same as happened during the last housing crash. I know a lot of folks are pinning their home ownership hopes on this crisis, but I don't see any good news anyone in this except the usual suspects (Boomer investors in the top 10% income bracket). Everybody else is SOL and when we're done, the housing market will be even more skewed than it is now.
The federal government needs to manage this crisis, but I don't see that happening, either. They didn't ten years ago and they've made no signs of doing it now.
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When I lived in Los Angeles, I was treated only once in twenty years by an American. Everyone else had been born and often trained abroad. Often, I enjoyed excellent care, but there were linguistic and cultural gaps between the doctors and me that sometimes hindered my care. I had a problem with a persistent infection that no foreign-trained doctor diagnosed correctly, but the US-born and -trained physician diagnosed and treated it correctly, solving a problem that had plagued me for 18 months.
I have many relatives who are doctors and nurses and I know why there's a shortage: the working conditions are bad and getting worse, the training is long and expensive, and the salaries just aren't keeping pace with the effort required to obtain them. I imagine it's the same with the NHS.
I was an NHS patient in 2004: I got injured and was told to go to the nearest community clinic. I was treated promptly, effectively, and courteously. NHS never asked for my passport or any sort of identification and never asked to be paid for the treatment they gave me. My followup care in the States was horrible by comparison, both in quality of treatment and in service (I had to wait six hours to be seen by the doctor, and that's with an appointment). The NHS is a marvel and Brits should fight to keep it at all costs.
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I thought this was totally different from 2008 because everyone with a mortgage has great credit?
I had a realtor who took her Christmas holiday in Branson, Missouri: she said that people were spending like there was no tomorrow at the designer outlet mall, and she overheard many people say they'd "maxxed out" their credit cards.
Carrying debt at 26% interest is such a genius move--why didn't I think of that?
As for Wells Fargo: Charles Scharf is a Wall Street guy, not a banker, who was brought in by the Wells Fargo board to slim down the bank so that it can be absorbed by other bank(s), which will enrich Scharf, the board, and big stockholders and screw over everybody else. That's why Scharf operates out of NYC (where Wall Street is located) and not in San Francisco, as past WF CEOs have always done.
Remember, under Scharf, Wells Fargo had to pay a $3.7 billion regulatory fine--the largest in US history--just last month, for widespread violations in the way it managed auto and mortgage loans. But Scharf still got a 20% bonus on his $24.5 million salary because hey, why not?
Warren Buffett bailed out of Wells Fargo and bought into Bank of America instead. Buffett knows what's going to happen.
Wells Fargo will exist in name only--if that--by 2025.
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I taught for thirty years in public schools at every level (elementary, middle, high school, as well as college) and I can confirm that covering up sexual harassment and sexual assault by students and by staff members is the way our schools do business. This is a rare example of accountability for administrators failure to discharge their legal (and moral) duty to protect students. But this is not how it usually goes: the school administration and the perpetrators usually intimidate the victims and their families into silence. In almost all of the cases that I've seen, if the offender is a teacher or administrator, he or she is allowed to resign and take a job elsewhere; in the case of students, it's the VICTIM who has to transfer to another school or district or go on at-home study, NOT the offender.
Our wonderful politicians in California changed the education code so that it's now virtually impossible to suspend or expel students, no matter the offense, but the problem precedes that: it's caused by bullying administrators who identify with the perpetrators, not the victims (guess why), by a "code of silence" in schools, by cowardly politicians on school boards, and bad parents who threaten to sue the school district if their darling is suspended, expelled, or disciplined in any way. If you're like me and try to stand up for students who are being sexually harassed or assaulted (by other students or by staff members), you find yourself ostracized and harassed.
Don't believe me about California schools? SB 419, is a bill by Senator Nancy Skinner which banned school suspensions as a result of “willful defiance” or “defiance disruption,” a catchall category undefined in the California Education Code. This law took effect on July 1, 2020, and expanded the ban against defiance/disruption to more grades.
And that, folks, and not COVID, was the straw that broke my camel's back. It's why I retired last year. Teachers aren't in charge of our schools now; it's the badly-behaved kids and their enabling, bullying parents. Who suffers the most? The well-behaved kids who just want to go to school and get an education.
By the way, I know a lot of people hate teachers' unions, but the CTA (California Teachers Association) fought against these changes that make disciplining students impossible, and now it's unleashing chaos in California public schools. Coming soon to a school district near you, because California always leads the way in insanity.
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My questions are (genuinely looking for answers)
1. How did it become acceptable to demonize white people?
My answer: white feminists are at the root of it. At my work, it was always the white women who were excited about Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc. My black and hispanic colleagues were not interested.
2. Who does the demonization of white people serve?
My answer: It's used primarily to silence white men and is being used on a younger generation of men to think that being white and male is inherently bad. What I can't work out is why our ruling class in the States, the UK, and Western Europe would encourage this view, since almost all of them are white males. There must be some gain to them, or they wouldn't allow it--my best guess is that they don't feel the "white males are always bad" rule can ever be truly applied to them, since their wealth and power insulates them from it, but that it's a useful cudgel against the white working class (who are still far and away the majority in the UK, Europe, and the USA). I would also guess that white feminists can use the "white is bad" to show that they are the "good ones" (willing to wear the hair shirt) while white men are the "bad ones", and thereby gain the upper hand.
A personal story: I recently retired, but in my last job, the teaching staff were upset that I was hired (despite having far and away the best credentials and potential for the job according to the hiring committee) because I didn't tick enough diversity boxes. They wanted a woman who was either a member of a religious or ethnic minority (or both). They hired such a woman for another job at the same time and she didn't last the year, because she wasn't very well-qualified for the position and didn't take the effort to learn how to fulfill even the basics of her job. I was very successful and exceeded expectations, rebuilding a department that had fallen apart under my predecessor and rejuvenating it. Despite this, I was told on more than one occasion: "You only got this job because you're an older white man." All of my years of experience and going from success to success were devalued simply because of two characteristics I didn't choose (being male and being white). This is the opposite of the colorblind society Dr. King dreamed of, where a person is judged not by race, but by character.
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I keep hearing guys doing wishful thinking that if only they were better looking, etc., they'd have it made.
Not true. I've had women chase me since I was a teenager, and have yet to meet one who was worth the effort. The older I've gotten, the less patience I've had for their nonsense. When I started dating decades ago, women at least made some effort; now, they make none, convinced that all they have to do is show up.
Ask a woman "what do you bring to the table?" and she'll either be confounded or smugly announce "I AM the table", which means the same as "nothing".
Women say they don't need us, but again, gaslighting: it's us who don't need THEM, and we're proving it.
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I'm seeing price cuts of 5%-10% for houses that are priced 200%-300% more than they sold for in 2018-19.
Example:
$210,000 house
Reduced to $199,000
Seller bought it for $89,000 in 2019, has made no significant improvements (foundation, roof, plumbing, electrical) but painted everything gray, just like Chip and Joanna Gaines said they should.
So I'm supposed to feel lucky that I get a house that's 223% higher than it was 2.5 years ago why? Nice little profit for the flippers, but I don't see how we can get sellers to cut prices by 50% absent a very long and very deep recession on the scale fo 2008-2012. Because I refuse to pay more than $99,000 for a house that was $89,000 2.5 years ago--and that's 11% more than the seller paid for it, annualized increase of 4.4%, which is generous. They might break even on the deal or a lose a bit of money. Not my problem that they gambled on selling at the height of the biggest speculative bubble in history and their timing was bad. Ponzi schemes always burn somebody. It's not going to be me.
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I'm white and a military veteran. I was beaten by the police in Kansas City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco on three separate occasions.
No, I was not drunk, was not disorderly, did not provoke them. In one case, I was mistaken for someone else; in another case, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time; in the third, I was a witness in a case of excessive force involving one of the cops and he tracked me down to intimidate me into not testifying.
Five cops beating Tyre Nichols to death is an extreme example of everyday police misconduct in the US. Our police in most places are roving gangs of armed thugs who enjoy violence and bullying civilians.
US police aren't accountable in any meaningful sense to civilian oversight, and the culture is both brutal and deadly. Ironically, these tough guys are the most self-pitying bunch you will ever meet: no one likes them, no one understands what great heroes they are, etc. We're all ungrateful bastards who don't deserve them.
That's truly how the cops see themselves.
The police cannot fix this with "more training" or "better recruitment". The only three things that have a chance of making this better:
1. Civilian oversight of cops by an elected board;
2. Revoke qualified immunity in most cases;
3. National police licensing board that has the power to issue or revoke a license to be employed as a cop. No license = no job *anywhere*.
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Taiwan is a democracy, unlike Communist China. In a Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation poll conducted in June 2020, 54% of respondents supported de jure independence for Taiwan, 23.4% preferred maintaining the status quo, 12.5% favored unification with China, and 10% did not hold any particular view on the matter. Taiwan has 23.5 million people. At least half of them want to leave. You really think 12 million people are going to just peacefully leave their country and go to Australia?
China's invasion of Taiwan would be more complicated than the Allied invasion of Normandy. China would have to transport over 500,000 troops over 160km of open water, during which time its navy would be a sitting duck for Taiwan's anti-ship missiles. Once the Chinese reach Taiwan, they'd find heavily fortified beaches, mud flats, and mountain ranges between them and the capital of Taipei. The Chinese navy and army also haven't fought in an actual war since 1979, when the Vietnamese army kicked their asses in a border dispute.
If the will of the Taiwanese people matter, 77.4% of them do NOT want reunification with mainland China. Your idea of a mass exodus is nonsense and your assessment of China's military capability reads like propaganda. Do you have any military service or training? Doesn't sound like it.
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If you were filming on my street, 8-10 cars would've passed you already. And I live on a cul-de-sac. We have 24/7 traffic because three of the houses on this street are "drop houses" and drug deliveries go on round the clock. According to my security camera, it's an average of a car every 35 seconds.
(Me, renting 18 months ago: "A cul-de-sac! Oh boy, low traffic and a quiet street!")
So yes, I'm buying a house this year, either in the country or in a small town, because I want some peace.
I remember growing up in Kansas and we had truck drivers and doctors and accountants and store clerks all living in the same neighborhood, because the wage gaps weren't so big then. In fact, our family doctor lived the next street over and used to make house calls when my sisters or I were sick. I feel that was the best kind of society: we're now segregated sharply by class and it gets worse with every day. We'll never go back to that again, but it was nice for awhile.
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I worked for years in the business district of San Francisco, only a couple of blocks away from the TransAmerica Pyramid, leaving just a few years ago.
If I hadn't had that experience, I'd say the horror stories of homeless everywhere, public defecation/urination, out of control street crime, etc, were wildly exaggerated.
They're not--they're accurate (and I understand from friends that conditions have gotten worse since then). The last time I ate at a sidewalk cafe in SF, a homeless man dropped his trousers and defecated a few feet from us, then turned, his trousers still down, and urinated on us. My friend's wife says she's been chased many times by homeless men who wanted to harm her, and I've witnessed that, too.
I had MANY tourists tell me that while they enjoyed parts of San Francisco, the public misbehavior of the homeless shocked them--and they said they'd never return.
Those people went home and told their family and friends about their experiences, folks. San Francisco's economy is heavily dependent on tourism, and its government is killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
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@WelcomeInc "Prioperty taxes, interest, and insurance are all tax deductible."
Wrong.
1. If you itemize your deductions, you can deduct the property taxes you pay on your main residence and any other real estate you own. The total amount of deductible state and local income taxes, including property taxes, is limited to $10,000 per year.
2. The interest you pay on a qualified mortgage or home equity loan is deductible on your federal tax return, but only if you itemize your deductions and follow IRS guidelines. For many taxpayers, the standard deduction beats itemizing, even after deducting mortgage interest.
3. You can only deduct homeowner's insurance premiums paid on rental properties. Homeowner's insurance is never tax deductible your main home.
You don't know what you're talking about, but you keep talking.
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Similar thing for Yosemite National Park in California. Black people are 13% of California's population but only 2% of the park's visitors. It was pointed out that no one is stopping black people from visiting Yosemite, and that it's a NATIONAL park that attracts people from all over the country (and the world--one meets many Europeans and Asians there). But of course there had to be a diversity commission to find out why so few black people visited Yosemite. It turns out the answer was that most black folks prefer to spend money being pampered on a holiday (nice hotel room, fancy restaurants, etc) rather than roughing it in the great outdoors. But of course the "official" reason black people have this preference is because so many white people at Yosemite make them feel uncomfortable just by being so numerous--sounds as if black people need to get past their racist attitudes towards whites and enjoy the natural splendor of California. I don't know what black people think we're going to do to them. Microaggressions aplenty, perhaps?
As an aside, if any of you are traveling to the US and truly enjoy natural beauty, I highly recommend Yosemite National Park. You will not regret visiting and you'll always remember it. The US doesn't have the history, art, and architecture of the Old World, but we compensate with some jaw-dropping natural beauty that is well-preserved thanks to the foresight of men like Teddy Roosevelt (yes, a heterosexual dead white male, and therefore the devil). Cheers.
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Remember when Lincoln banned the Democratic Party during our civil war?
Oh wait, he didn't. And stood for re-election in 1864, when many of Lincoln's supporters counseled him to suspend elections until the war was won.
Lincoln's statement:
November 10, 1864: In Response to a Serenade
It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its own existence in great emergencies.
On this point the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test; and a presidential election occurring in regular course during the rebellion added not a little to the strain. If the loyal people, united, were put to the utmost of their strength by the rebellion, must they not fail when divided, and partially paralized (sic), by a political war among themselves?
But the election was a necessity.
We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us. The strife of the election is but human-nature practically applied to the facts of the case. What has occurred in this case, must ever recur in similar cases. Human-nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged.
But the election, along with its incidental, and undesirable strife, has done good too. It has demonstrated that a people's government can sustain a national election, in the midst of a great civil war. Until now it has not been known to the world that this was a possibility. It shows that, even among candidates of the same party, he who is most devoted to the Union, and most opposed to treason, can receive most of the people's votes. It shows also, to the extent yet known, that we have more men now, than we had when the war began. Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, patriotic men, are better than gold.
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Most Americans are bad with money and worse at math, but are also perpetual optimists. If you understand this, it all makes sense.
Story of my neighbors: the husband just got laid off, the wife is still working, so even with unemployment benefits, their household income has been reduced by a significant amount.
They just bought a new 75 inch flatscreen tv. Because it was "on sale" and they're "saving money". They put their old 65 inch on the curb (still working) and some scavengers came and collected it (there's a good side hustle, collecting other people's castoffs). Oh, and the husband is sure he'll find a job "after the benefits run out". Going to take a long vacation until then!
Saw it, wanted it, bought it, it's on the credit card, how will we pay it off? Who knows?
My neighbors are NOT a unique case--I'd say most people are like that. Hell, people bought entire houses on impulse, what's a $1100 flatscreen tv or a $45,000 car compared to that?
I'm no financial genius and not rich, but I never carry credit card debt, drive a well-maintained car that I paid off years ago with 0% financing and another one I inherited from my dad, and have cash on hand for emergencies. And my television is over a decade old, but it works just fine, so why get another one? I have no financial worries because I've always lived below my means. The materialism of Americans is one of the biggest problems in our society: it's the source of a lot of stress, and part of it (not all of it) self-inflicted.
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Psychological studies prove (most guys stop reading at the mention of that phrase!) that having a Plan B makes you much less committed to a Plan A, and so Plan A is much less likely to succeed.
This is why so women are failing at relationships: they ALL have a Plan B guy. Instead of giving everything they've got to their current relationship, they hold back, thinking "if this doesn't work, I'll just go to my backup guy." Since they ALWAYS have a backup guy, they NEVER invest fully in their current relationship. They lurch from failure to failure, blaming men, never realizing that their true enemy is...themselves.
This happened in my own marriage. My wife, as it turns out, had a close male friend (she did not cheat with him) who she considered her Plan B guy. As soon as we hit a financial rough patch, she pulled the cord on that parachute. 15 years of marriage meant nothing. She didn't say "well, I promised to stick this out for richer or for poorer" because she had a Plan B. Our society removed the stigma of women having a long queue of lovers and of divorce, and this is what we get: women who can't commit because there's always another guy to run to.
And yes, a year after the divorce, my wife asked me to take her back because her new Prince Charming wasn't so charming: "I didn't know what I had with you." I hung up on her because I had two dates that day and had to get ready. My ex-wife assumed I was just sitting in my house, waiting for her to come back when she was tired of her new thrilling adventure. The arrogance makes my teeth hurt.
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Women file 90% of divorces, breaking up families and depriving children of the presence of their father--and also setting back the family economically.
And then pose as the victim. Women are in love with victimhood, when in fact, they are the primary abusers of men in today's society.
Young men (men of all ages): Do not live with a woman. Do not marry a woman. Do not have children with a woman. Your money and your property and your residence should be exclusively YOURS. It took me a long time to come to this point, because I was raised in the generation that emphasized a traditional family life (marriage, kids), but women have destroyed that. What's left is a system that will exploit and abuse you by design. If it doesn't, it's because you lucked out. I have a neighbor who was married for thirty six years and his wife divorced him because he "wasn't meeting her needs"--took half his Social Security, his pension, and his house, so now he lives in poverty after a lifetime of work, with no way to rebuild. Think you're "safe" after three decades of marriage? You're not safe this side of the grave.
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I live in a small town in Kansas, population about 2500.
There's a new housing development in our town, 120 houses in all.
I inquired and to qualify to "buy" the house, you have to be an undocumented migrant (it's basically free and property taxes and maintenance are paid for first five years).
We already have 400-500 Spanish-speaking illegals here, put up at taxpayer expense in the town's three hotels (which used to be for truckers passing through and hunters in season).
If an illegal family of 6 occupies each of the 120 houses, that's 720. Assuming the illegals in the hotels move into the houses, 22% of our town will be "undocumented migrants" by this time next year.
Oh, by the way, our property taxes are going up to pay for the infrastructure for the new development.
We had a literal zero crime rate before the illegals were sent here. Now we have lots of property crime, still not much violent crime. Local cops are totally inadequate to the task. They took the job expecting Mayberry and instead are getting actual crime.
We're being colonized, folks, and the illegals are putting down deep roots.
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Here we go again. For your self-education, gentlemen:
10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos and piercings the more she has, the crazier she is (facial tattoos = RUN NOW!)
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
17. Talks in an extremely annoying British or American accent
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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I was reading a Miss Marple novel last winter, The Murder at the Vicarage, written in 1930. In it, Miss Marple has a discussion with a friend about a man Miss Marple almost married when she was young (so at least 40-50 years ago) who was a bad boy. Marple's parents put a stop to it, and Marple sighs that young women are often attracted to men who are bad for them.
That was from a novel nearly a hundred years old, before television, before social media, before the internet, before modern feminism. The difference? Parents had the authority then to override the poor judgment of their daughters. But female nature, such as it is, has never really changed--it's only in the past few decades it's been unleashed to roam the countryside, like Frankenstein's monster.
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I live in a small town in Kansas, population about 2500.
There's a new housing development in our town, 120 houses in all.
I inquired and to qualify to "buy" the house, you have to be an undocumented migrant (it's basically free and property taxes and maintenance are paid for first five years).
We already have 400-500 Spanish-speaking illegals here, put up at taxpayer expense in the town's three hotels (which used to be for truckers passing through and hunters in season).
If an illegal family of 6 occupies each of the 120 houses, that's 720. Assuming the illegals in the hotels move into the houses, 22% of our town will be "undocumented migrants" by this time next year.
Oh, by the way, our property taxes are going up to pay for the infrastructure for the new development.
We had a literal zero crime rate before the illegals were sent here. Now we have lots of property crime, still not much violent crime. Local cops are totally inadequate to the task. They took the job expecting Mayberry and instead are getting actual crime.
We're being colonized, folks, and the illegals are putting down deep roots.
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I was a teacher for 30 years and I hate to admit it, since I'm "on the left", but our schools are absolutely indoctrinating students in political ideology and doctrines. One of the biggest problems is that the vast majority of teachers are "woke" middle class white women, who insist on pursuing this indoctrination over the objection of the students, the students' parents, and their own colleagues.
Schools aren't there to educate children, they're there to babysit them and to keep rowdy teens off the streets. Social control, in other words. A school regiments children's behavior so that they learn routines and how to take orders. Any education that happens is coincidental and beside the point.
When I was at the beginning of my career teaching English, I had a class called The Unteachables because every one of them had been transferred into "remedial English" for failing "regular English". Average reading score of these 8th graders was 3rd grade. I was given the most boring standardized textbook to teach them and they hated it. I'm a former newspaper reporter, so I started bringing newspapers to class and had them read the articles and learn how to write "newspaper style", with eye-catching headlines, pyramid structure, declarative sentences. We made our own classroom newspaper and the kids loved it because they could write on any subject they wanted. Every one of the Unteachables tested at grade level in the middle of the second semester.
Administration found out and gave me an ultimatum: teach from the text or they wouldn't renew my contract for next year.
I quit.
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Charles has to choose: family or duty? Because if he acquiesces to the bottomless demands of Harry and Meghan, his kingship is ruined before it really gets started.
Harry has forced Charles into this choice. Charles is a weak and sentimental man, not nearly as strong-minded as his mother or father, and I've always predicted that he will attempt to appease Harry.
It will be a fatal mistake, and one from which Charles' monarchy may never recover.
Harry knows he'll never be King of England, so his goal is to make sure William isn't, either--Harry's goal is nothing less than the abolition of the British monarchy.
The only thing for Charles, Williams, et al, to do is to stand fast and let Harry and Meghan howl. Weather the storm. Sooner or later, the public will tire of the one-sided drama and turn away. It won't be easy, but it has to be done.
And that's my advice as an American who, has we say in the States, "doesn't have a dog in this fight" (neutral observer). Doesn't matter to me one way or the other how this comes out, but this is psychological warfare, and I know a bit about that.
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@edmundmcgrath213 I'm not fed up with life, just big cities. When I was younger, the big city was the place to be, but at a certain age, you need a slower pace. I grew up on a ranch in Kansas and we only went into town once a month for supplies, so to me, that's "normal". It's not true that people aren't leaving California: It had a net loss of 500,000 people from 2020-2022, not a small number, and those people were leaving the Big Three (San Diego, LA, San Francisco). The 500,000 who left are also significant because they tend to be the better-educated, high-earning people who contribute more to the tax base.
I find your assumption that I'm a misanthrope and suffer from "PTSD" to be insulting. Do you make assumptions about everybody's life and personality based on a single comment on a Youtube channel? Stay in West Hollywood, buddy, from what I know of WeHo, sounds perfect for you.
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November 11th is called Veterans Day in the States.
I'm a veteran, my nephew is currently serving in the US Navy, my father was a decorated combat veteran of the Korean War. There's been a member of our family serving in the military since our revolution against Great Britain. An ancestor of mine was with Washington at Valley Forge. Several of my direct ancestors fought on the Union side of the Civil War to end slavery.
After my nephew retires from the navy, that will be the end of it. No more of us will join. We bled for the USA and what did we get in return? Shoved aside for the very rich and for illegal immigrants. There are no remembrance ceremonies for the war dead in our town and no care for the veterans left crippled or homeless as a consequence of their service. But free homes and free money for anyone who sneaks across the border, and more money for the rich men who decide to take us to war. They can do it without our family. Perhaps they can convince their new friends from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Venezuela to do their dirty work for them.
I'm flying the flag today, the only person in our neighborhood to do so, and wondering what our sacrifice was for. We thought it was to win ourselves a home and keep it, but it's been taken from us.
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I was puzzled as to why I no longer enjoy most of the films, music, and books being produced in the States, and chalked it up to aging and thereby becoming a grumpy old man.
My much younger (and smarter) Vietnamese girlfriend explained it to me: all of the films, music, and books are being produced for the "midwits" who have an IQ between 75 and 100 (between 100 and 110 in the case of books), and therefore are not meant to appeal to either her or me.
It's considered snobbish to even suggest that one might be more intelligent than other people in the US. Anti-intellectualism has always had a stronghold here. For proof, Google "the highest paid public employees in each state in the US" and you'll see that in all but a few, it's a football or basketball coach. Not one in 100 Americans can name even one of this year's Nobel Prize winners, but 95 out of 100 can name all of the Kardashians.
If smart people are so smart, why don't we do something about it? Why are the stupid people in charge? Same reason zombies overrun the heroes in every film: there are simply too many of them.
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My parents bought their first home in Kansas in 1952 for $5,000 when they were 19 years old. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath.
Adjusted for inflation $5,000 is $55,900.
That house just sold this year for $240,000.
My parents always lecture their kids and grandkids about how lazy and unthrifty we are etc, but my mom admitted my dad never filled out a job application in his life. Jobs were so plentiful back then that dad would quit one job, walk into another place, and be immediately hired at higher wages. If he wanted a raise, he just threatened to quit and the boss would up his wages because it was easier than finding a new worker. When we kids were sick, mom paid the doctor $10 cash to stop by the house to examine us.
Let's face it, since 1980, it's been the unstated policy of this country to screw over working people. Commenters on real estate channels tend to be high-income investors and they curse me out for saying that, but it's the truth.
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The anti-racism movement has unleashed utter chaos in the States in two ways:
One, immigrants have swamped the cities and states bordering Mexico, overwhelming the local authorities. The federal government's response has been "don't be so racist" when locals objected to being overrun by illegal immigrants. Many of these locals are not white, they are of Hispanic origin, but they or their parents came to this country legally, and they don't want to be associated with the illegal immigrants.
Two, crime is soaring in many of our cities as prosecutors now refuse to charge for even serious offenses. There is no impediment to people looting stores, and they do so in broad daylight with absolutely no intervention by citizens or police. All of this is the consequence of misreading the crime statistics: the anti-racist mob saw that black people were being arrested in higher proportion than whites and decided that was a consequence of racist laws and racist prosecutors and police. In fact, the higher arrest rate was a consequence of a higher rate of criminality among black people, which is rising and unchecked. People who have the means to do so are fleeing our cities (and I mean law-abiding people of all races) rather than suffer anarchy and the constant threat of violence and theft.
I live in a big city in the Midwest where this is happening. The city used to have one of the lowest crime rates in the country; now, under an anti-racist mayor, it has a soaring murder, burglary, and vehicle theft rate, and 30% of the police force have resigned. I'm moving to a small town soon where such nonsense is not tolerated. If someone steals from a shop in that small town, the police will actually arrest them and the thief will be convicted and go to jail. Imagine that!
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@atdsifb Diminishing returns.
If they have 100 rooms that used to rent out for $130 a room and now rent for $200, how much does that chase away business?
At the old prices, this hotel was almost always full occupancy, so 90 x $130 - $1350 cleaning cost = $10,350 total revenue for 1 day
At the new prices, they were struggling along at half occupancy, so 50 x $200 - $750 cleaning cost = $9,250 total revenue for 1 day
That's $1,100 more per day under lower prices, or $33,000 lost revenue in one month
That's some brilliant pricing strategy
I talked to some people staying at the hotel and they said they were repeat guests, too (business travelers) and were not going to stay there in future
Greed rules in most American businesses these days, and greed is going to be their undoing.
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There's an argument to be made that the $250k FDIC insurance limit should be abolished. After all, if I run a business that needs $10m operating capital, I can't realistically open accounts at 40 different banks. Would this encourage even more reckless behavior by the banks? Yes, and that's why they need stricter rules and even stricter oversight. This is aside from the issue that our banking system has, for decades, incentivized extreme risk taking and punished prudence. The image of stuffy, cautious bankers that I formed in my childhood is wildly outdated: bankers today are riverboat gamblers, with all of their bets backed by the taxpayers.
My solution would be to just nationalize the banks. After all, isn't that effectively what Treasury, the Fed, and the FDIC have done? What they will always do? So taxpayers may as well reap the profits in the good years if we're expected to cover the losses in the bad years.
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Nick, from a purely rational standpoint, your analysis is and always has been quite sound.
Unfortunately, many people are not rational with money, especially when it involves real estate. This is why FOMO pressure sales tactics are effective; people buy out of fear, or greed, and sell for the same reasons. It's why over 75% of pandemic house buyers now regret their purchases: they let fear drive their decision.
It's not unreasonable for Wall Street and for other asset owners to expect the Fed to bail them out, as you said, since the Fed's consistently done so for the last 20 years.
I don't think Powell can hold the line going into the 2024 elections. I believe Powell and the board of governors will be pressured into a rate pivot that will stoke inflation into double digit territory in the long-term, but will boost the economy in the short-term so the incumbent president can get re-elected. That's why I predict inflation will persist throughout this decade, and we can't really fight it until Powell is replaced in 2028.
Senator Elizabeth Warren said this of Jerome Powell: "“He has had two jobs. One is to deal with monetary policy. One is to deal with regulation. He has failed at both. Look, I don’t think he should be chairman of the Federal Reserve. I have said it as publicly as I know how to say it. I’ve said it to everyone.”
You don't have to agree with anything else Warren says on other issues to admit that on this issue, she is 100% right.
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Or black and Latino students could just do their homework and study harder?
I'm a former teacher.
Here's your homework: There's a free short story online by Kurt Vonnegut, takes less than five minutes to read.
The title? "Harrison Bergeron".
It's about this topic. Vonnegut saw this coming. Trust me, it's good.
By the way, when I taught in "Little Saigon" in Orange County (Huntington Beach Union High School District), half our students were Latino immigrants, half Vietnamese immigrants.
The kids of both ethnicities would start out in ninth grade with the Latino students able to speak English fluently, the Vietnamese students barely able to speak it at all.
By the time they graduated four years later, all of the top honors were won by Vietnamese students, including the schoolwide essay competition.
The difference was culture: Vietnamese families prized education and working hard in school, the Latino families did not.
I remember a staff meeting where a Latina teacher brought up the issue of why the Latino kids weren't doing as well as the Vietnamese kids (her answer: racism).
An older teacher, white and male, said: "No, it's because the Vietnamese kids work their asses off."
He was called "racist" for that, but he wasn't called "wrong".
The library was open after school for studying.
100% Asians.
I rest my case.
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Big Tech companies are laying off thousands of workers (Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, et al) but are still importing computer programmers from India on HB1 visas. The Indians ask no questions, will not unionize, and work for far cheaper than their American counterparts. The HB1 visa's purpose is to import workers whose skills are in short supply, but there are now thousands of jobless, experienced American programmers. No work for them! Have a look at the top executives of most "American" Big Tech and Big Pharma firms and you'll see they're Indians.
As for illegal immigrants from Central America, our own Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said they were needed to pick crops and to work as domestic help. She should know: she owns a vineyard in California and several mansions, all of which must be kept sparkling clean, and at the lowest wages possible.
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Let's talk about gender gaps
There's a pretty hefty gender gap in U.S. federal prisons, and prisons and jails in general. According to the most recent numbers published by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), 93.2 percent of the approximately 185,500 federal inmates are men, and only 6.8 percent are women.
There are studies that indicate that men aren't necessarily more criminal by design but there indeed is an institutional bias against them. For example, men are regularly given much longer sentences and "female arrestees are also significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted."
If a man had cheated society bigshots out of $250,000 as Anna Delvey did, he'd have gotten at least ten years in prison. Delvey got four.
Allison Mack, the Smallville actress, was convicted of human trafficking for the NXIVM cult. If a man had done that, he'd have gotten at least 10-20 years. Mack got 3 years.
In the US, 80% of murder victims are men. But violence against women is constantly discussed and resources given to fight it.
"Male privilege" and the "patriarchy", am I right?
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Chris Hedges has said that all dying empires start wars that have no strategic value; wars that, in fact, hurt the empires. The ruling class don't know what else to do to revive the empire, because they have no new ideas, so they start wars. Wars always enriched the empire and made it stronger in the past, but now wars do the opposite, robbing the public treasury and weakening the empire's hold. World War I, which the Europeans call the Great War, was the beginning of the end of the British Empire. Thirty years after the end of that war, the empire was reduced to a handful of possessions. The US is now twenty years out from the start of its ruinous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and now Taiwan have bled or will bleed our empire dry of its diplomatic and military power. The pattern repeats itself throughout history, and the only thing to do is to hang on tight and hope to survive the decline and fall. We're blessed with a front row street to the demise of one of history's great conquering nations, the United States of America: enjoy the ride while it lasts. I say this is the last decade of the greatness of the USA.
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Wow, is this timely--a house that went under contract last month before I could make an offer came back onto the market today with a 17% price reduction--putting in an offer tomorrow and hoping the seller will accept. If so, by this time next month, I'll be a home owner again!
The house is a mid-century single story with a covered front and back porch, two car garage, full basement, partially finished, and a hardened bomb shelter (hey, it was built during the Cold War). It has the original 1950s era kitchen appliances and they all work.
What happened: a woman who just retired bought the house without having it inspected or checking out the town it's in. Didn't like the town's small size and felt overwhelmed by some of the house's repair issues (which I know I can handle). Now she's re-selling after closing on it just three weeks ago and hoping to break even. Never even moved in. I can't believe she didn't have an inspection done (but she says she's selling because she moved to this small town from the big city and is having culture shock, which I won't have, since I grew up in the country).
Use your head as well as your heart when buying a house, you guys.
The Big Six for an inspection:
1. Roof (general inspection)
2. Foundation (general inspection)
3. Plumbing (general inspection)
4. Termite/rodent infestation (specialized inspection)
5. HVAC (general inspection)
6. Electrical (general inspection)
I might add a seventh, check for insulation in the attic, but insulation isn't that expensive to add, so not a dealbreaker.
#3 and #6 are tricky to check and even a really good inspector can't catch everything, so you inspect what you can and hope for the best. I always have the house inspector use a fiber optic camera to inspect the sewer line from the house to the street, because that's the house owner's responsibility, and it can be messy and expensive to replace.
Even a bad foundation isn't a dealbreaker IF the house is priced right and you're willing to do the work.
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What'd you say just a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even thought of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what?! Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken-down that -- You know how long it takes a workin' man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be.--George Bailey, "It's A Wonderful Life"
Mr. Potter? That's you.
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Jesting aside, I see Harry as an abused spouse.
Harry, as a child, had a fantasy of saving his mother. Which, of course, he could never do.
Meghan has consciously posed herself as a Diana substitute and this time--this time!--HARRY CAN SAVE HER!
Save Meghan from what? Well, she'll invent peril if there is none. She'll wear his mother's favorite perfume on their first date.
We can all see that Harry is being played by this woman, but he's blind to it. When "H" is no longer fit to purpose, Meghan will kick him aside, as she did with her first husband. That day may be some years away, but it's definitely in his future. Harry will be left alone, utterly alone.
The whole thing sends a chill down my spine.
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A major tornado tore through some small towns in southcentral Kansas when I was a kid. The devastation was total and people lost everything.
The governor mobilized the National Guard to protect against looters.
The National Guard roadblocks stopped a convoy of trucks that were piled high with clothing, blankets, food, toys, furniture--not coming out of the disaster area, but into it. Not to loot, but to help, in any way we could. No one organized us to do this: we just saw our fellow Kansans in need and started down there. I lived in an area with a lot of Mennonites, the most charitable and honest folk I have ever met. They are an example to us all.
Not all cultures are equal. Kansas isn't the same place I grew up, but people there will still help you without being asked, and they will be kind about it, too.
On the other hand, Buffalo appears to have a lot of...Norwegian immigrants, as I call them...who only think of taking, never giving.
Not all cultures are equal. Before you hand over power to people, observe how they handle crises, because that shows how they'll act when they're in power.
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The most popular genres are actually romance (a bookstore manager once punished me for some unfathomable transgression by assigning me full-time to the romance section, which I thought was against the Geneva Conventions) and mystery. The mystery genre has a wide range from the cozies of Christie to the noir of Chandler and all territory in-between, but what they all have in common is that the bad people are punished, or at least someone makes a noble effort to punish them. In reality, murderers and thieves are rich and free whilst good men die like dogs for no good reason, so you can see why people prefer the tidy moral universe of the mystery.
Same for fantasy: there's a known good and evil in most fantasy novels, and even if the good guys often don't win, at least they're trying. The villains are also interesting, unlike dullards such as Boris Johnson, Joe Biden, and Sadiq Khan, who are morally vacant bumblers rather than clever malefactors. If you admire any of the men I've just listed, your mother didn't raise you properly.
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Ironically, Andrew undermines his anti-tax rant that he recently unleashed on California not long ago with this video. I speak as a resident of California for 23 years, most of the time in working class neighborhoods.
If Los Angeles is starting to resemble Rio de Janeiro, with masses of poor people and a few very rich people who have to live behind security walls and private armies of security guards, then that proves that even rich people are worse off in a country that has massive socioeconomic inequality. A tax on the rich that is used to benefit the poor would help address that inequality.
Instead of working to change our society for the better, Andrew's "solution" is to give up your citizenship and move...well, where? As inequality grows even in the Scandinavian countries, is any place safe? There's no place to run and no place to hide unless you're one of the ultra-wealthy, like Musk or Bezos, who truly can afford to isolate themselves from society.
I, for one, don't want to live in that kind of society, based on fear of one's fellow man, no matter if I was in the top or the bottom.
There's some not-so-subtle racism in the dire warnings about crime, either.
By the way, I see Scandinavians in the comments claiming that crime is skyrocketing in their countries. Really?
The crime rate in the USA is 87% higher than in Norway.
The Gini coefficient measures social inequality--the higher the number, the more unequal a society is. Every society with a high Gini has a high crime rate, while almost every societ with a lower Gini has a lower crime rate.
The United States has a Gini coefficient of 41.1. In 2015, the top 1% of earners in the United States averaged 40 times more income than the bottom 90%. In the U.S., poverty is a growing issue, where an estimated 12.3-17.8 percent below the poverty level.
Norway's Gini coefficient? 27.6
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This argument "the police don't have a legal duty to protect us" is being trotted out by cop supporters to shut down criticism of their inaction when they're actually strengthening the case for MAJOR (systematic, nationwide) police reform or police defunding.
Police departments often have the largest budget of any city department. 40% of the city budget in Uvalde. 17% of Los Angeles' city budget. If the police have no duty to prevent crime, solve crime, or protect our lives and property, then why do we have them?
Cops can't continue to have it both ways: nearly unlimited authority over our lives, armed with a license to shoot if they recite the magic words "I was in reasonable fear of my life", a sweet pension after 20 years (and it's NOT one of the most dangerous jobs, sorry, cop supporters), and then say "Oops, I don't have any actual legal duty to you, the taxpayers". It's one or the other. I'm not paying taxes for THIS.
We need a new Constitutional amendment if that's what it takes, either that, or just abolish government altogether if it has no duty to us. I'm not kidding.
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Just thought I'd pop in with a quick update: I'm starting to see property deals fall through and inventory is suddenly growing, quite likely because rates are down a bit and sellers are doing their own version of FOMO. I'm starting to see price cuts on properties where the listings show a vacant house. Price cuts used to be small (less than 2%), I'm now seeing some price cuts of 10%-15%, which still puts these houses above 2019 valuations, but closer to reality. I also noticed that in smaller towns, there's no marketing to investors, but that's very much the case in the bigger cities (not interested in living there, anyway).
In Lexington, where I live right now, incentivizing or even forcing investors to divest their starter home portfolio would put thousands of such houses on the market--about 25,000 houses altogether. That would make a big difference in a city with a population of 320,000.
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10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is (facial tattoos = RUN NOW!)
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology or believes in "manifestation" (willing things into being without effort)
17. Talks in an extremely annoying British accent
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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Another Long Comment No One Will Read:
I ran into this issue as a teacher. My female colleagues would not discipline students for misbehavior, but instead would insist on talking with them to try to understand why the student was not following the rules, etc. This was not only ineffective but often counterproductive.
Example: There were two girls lingering in the hallway after the last bell rang. A female colleague started arguing with them, giving them a long explanation as to why it was important for them to attend class on time, etcetera, etcetera. The girls were all too happy to waste time arguing back, since it meant they still didn't have to go to class. After witnessing a couple of minutes of this, I stepped in and said "pardon me" to my colleague. To the girls I said "Go to class. NOW." And without another word, the girls went into their classroom.
My female colleague looked at me with astonishment.
"How did you get them to do that?"
"They don't need a long explanation," I said, "just simple directions. Have a nice day!"
Disciplinary codes in American schools have been softened to the point of total ineffectiveness, again under the guidance of female leadership. The problem, according to the women, is that misbehaving students are just misunderstood and consequences such as detention or suspension will just make the students feel badly about themselves. The result is chaos, and female teachers are turning to male administrators and colleagues to bring students back into compliance--but they've taken away our tools to do so.
I retired early from teaching after my last principal, an old school male principal in his seventies, retired and was replaced by a "woke" thirtysomething woman (who had only one year of administrative experience but was promoted over men who had 15-20 years experience) who said that instead of the old disciplinary code, we'd have "restorative justice circles", which misbehaving students consider a joke. Her administration is famously indecisive; everything is discussed endlessly but nothing is ever decided upon because making a decision upsets some people who didn't get their way, and no one must ever be upset.
Women have their place in teaching, a vital place, because they employ an empathetic communication that is sorely needed, but they should not be in charge of deciding who gets disciplined and how. They simply cannot do it.
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"Woke" activists are now vandalizing statues of our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator and savior of the Republic, because he ordered the execution of 38 Sioux warriors who had massacred civilians--they were not executed for participating in battles but for rape, pillage, and murder. Originally, 303 Sioux were sentenced to die, but Lincoln reviewed the trial transcripts of all 303 men (yes, all of them!) and granted clemency to all but 38, over the strenuous objections of many US senators who howled for revenge.
By the standards of his time, Lincoln was an enlightened and fair-minded man who didn't allow hysteria, cries for revenge, nor racial prejudice to influence his decisions. There was literally no one advocating to spare the lives of any of the captured Sioux warriors; but Lincoln, ever the scrupulous man of the law, could not bear to see injustice done.
Lincoln, lacking the perfection of one of God's angels, is a villain in the eyes of the woke. The woke activists are children who only see black and white, good and bad, with no shades of gray. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both owned slaves, but without them, there'd be no Republic. Lincoln lived in hard times and did hard things that he thought necessary. Oddly enough, none of the woke activists seem upset that one of Lincoln's generals, William Tecumseh Sherman, burned the city of Atlanta to the ground in what would now be considered a war crime--but that crime was against white people, so that's alright.
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ME: I wonder why Waller-Bridge is such an arrogant, entitled arse?
WIKIPEDIA: Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born in Hammersmith, London, on 14 July 1985, the daughter of Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, founder of the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, and Theresa Mary, daughter of Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th Baronet, employed by the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.
HALL & OATES: You're a rich girl, and you've gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the old man's money
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I was a public school teacher for thirty years, retired in 2021.
The parents used to be our allies.
Now, they're our enemies. Both sides are at fault in that.
I always taught in California schools, so we always had a ethnically diverse student body.
In the early 1990s, I taught at school that was 50% Hispanic, 40% Asian, 10% white. A Hispanic teacher said our standards were racist because Hispanic students didn't test as well as our Asian students. The white, male head of the math department pushed back, saying "Maybe their parents should make them come to school every day and do their homework if they're so worried."
Now, that same statement would get him investigated, publicly shamed, suspended, perhaps even fired. Now, no one dares push back against the "objective standards are racist" lie.
Congratulations, woke activists both inside and outside the school: you won! How does it feel, champ?
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"Just stay the hell away from them."--Scott Adams
Btw, black folks do this in other countries. They tried looting and burning businesses in north London in 2011, but those shops are owned by Sikhs, Turks, and Kurds. The Sikh men got out their sabers and stood 24/7 watch outside their shops alongside their Turkish and Kurdish friends--and none of their shops nor restaurants were looted nor burned. As Dr John Watson once said in "The Sign of the Four": "the Sikh is no man to trifle with."
The London police refused to take action against the black rioters because they didn't want to be seen as "racist", but threatened arrest against the men protecting their community--apparently, it's ok to arrest a brown man protecting his store but it's not ok to arrest a black man who's trying to burn it down.
What's worse than shoplifting, looting, and arson? White liberals who cheer it on, as if these black criminals are somehow "fighting the Man". No, they're just destroying their own communities.
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[Harvey has challenged Butch to fight for control of the Hole-in-the-Wall gang]
Harvey Logan : Guns or knives?
Butch Cassidy : Neither?
Harvey Logan : Pick!
Butch Cassidy : I don't want to shoot with you, Harvey.
Harvey Logan : [draws a big knife] Anything you say, Butch.
[Butch walks over to Sundance]
Butch Cassidy : [in a low voice] Maybe there's a way to make a profit in this. Bet on Logan.
Sundance Kid : I would, but who'd bet on you?
Harvey Logan : Sundance, when we're done and he's dead, you're welcome to stay.
Butch Cassidy : [low voice, to Sundance] Listen, I don't mean to be a sore loser, but when it's done, if I'm dead, kill him.
Sundance Kid : [low voice to Butch] Love to.
[waves to Harvey and smiles]
Butch Cassidy : No, no, not yet. Not until me and Harvey get the rules straightened out.
Harvey Logan : Rules? In a knife fight? No rules!
[Butch immediately kicks Harvey in the groin]
Butch Cassidy : Well, if there aint' going to be any rules, let's get the fight started. Someone count. 1,2,3 go.
Sundance Kid : [quickly] 1,2,3, go!
[Butch knocks Harvey out]
Flat Nose Curry : I was really rooting for you, Butch.
Butch Cassidy : Well, thank you, Flatnose. That's what sustained me in my time of trouble.
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Jerome Powell caused this but Congress and the presidents going back to Bush Jr. are to blame, too.
Powell swore to the banks that the Fed wasn't going to raise rates.
The banks, reassured, invested in long-term bonds and treasury securities at low interest rates.
Powell then turned around and more than doubled rates, causing those low-interest securities to lose between 30% and 50% of their value. A liquidity crunch is underway, too, as depositors shift their money into treasuries and CDs that pay up to 5% interest.
There is no way out of this except for the Fed to print more money, thus fueling inflation. Congress will NOT bail out the banks because they're terrified of voter backlash if they do, so they'll let the Fed handle it.
This is what a country looks like when the federal legislature and four successive presidents abandon their duty to manage the nation's finances for decade after decade, relying instead on the unelected Federal Reserve governors to do it. The Fed doesn't have all the tools it needs to manage things, and is very biased towards Wall Street, too.
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I lived in downtown Oakland from 2011-2015 (9th Street). Crime even then was out of control. I lived two blocks away from police HQ aka "the cop shop" (I could see it from our building's rooftop garden) and it was nearly impossible to get cops to respond to any kind of a call, especially an active shooting. I chose that neighborhood because I could walk to the 12th Street BART station or to the Oakland ferry and be at my job in SF in about 15-20 minutes.
Couple of three things, as my friend Phil Leotardo would say:
1. It used to be that you avoided certain places at certain times of the day and you'd usually be OK. But even by 2015, that rule was breaking down. I don't scare easily, but Oakland has some very scary psychopaths roaming the streets in broad daylight. You don't want to know what happens after dark. Every night, I could go up to the roof and listen to the sounds of gunfire throughout the city. Every single night.
2. I was nearly shot twice as an innocent bystander. In the last incident, in 2015, I was grazed by a fragment of stucco knocked loose by a bullet as two gangs were exchanging gunfire outside the 12th Street station. Cops did not respond until 45 minutes after all suspects had left the area, even though HQ was 3 blocks from the scene. Oakland cops have basically been "on strike" since Occupy Oakland and the department is totally dysfunctional: they once had four interim chiefs IN ONE YEAR who all had to resign because of one scandal or another. Many Oakland cops are busy running their own drug/prostitution rings, which is the only reason anyone joins the force nowadays.
3. The people running Oakland, including former CA governor Jerry Brown, live up in the hills, far from the consequences of their stupid policies. They don't care about the chaos they've unleashed on the ordinary citizens of Oakland.
Oakland needs to be taken over by an outside entity because it's incapable of proper self-governance. I don't say that lightly, but every mayor and city council is worse than the last. Several council members have active gang affiliations and have gang members as donors and political organizers. It doesn't get worse than this.
My friend Phil Leotardo also has another saying: No more of this, Butchie. No more of this.
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Watching "business tv" (which targets the top 10% of income earners as its audience, those earning over $200,00/year) is like watching tv from Opposite Earth, where inflation is low, Joe Biden is the smartest man in America, and the economy is booming. These folks think everything's great and is going to get better and better. And for them, that's true.
Meanwhile, back to the reality of the other 90% of us--the 9.1% inflation number (which is really 17.1% CPI when you take into account ALL goods and services) was higher than predicted, and this "transitory" inflation that was going to last a quarter or two has gone on for more than a year, with no end in sight. We're already in recession and massive joblessness and defaults on mortgages and auto loans are going to spike, perhaps at a high not seen since the Great Depression.
The top 10% won't be affected by any of this. In fact, all this pain for the rest of us is just a whole new set of opportunities for them.
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What I know about Australian law, I could fit in a thimble and leave room for my thumb.
I am well-versed in American law and have been a member of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) for 42 years. So for the benefit of non-Americans--
This restaurant violated federal law and has opened itself up to federal prosecution as well as private litigation. Here's why:
Under Title II of the Civil Rights Act, certain places of business, such as most restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, sports arenas, stadiums, and other entertainment venues, are called “public accommodations.” Public accommodations cannot discriminate against customers based on their religion. You have the right to the full use and enjoyment of these places regardless of your faith.
Whether or businesses, such as website designers, etc, are "public accommodations" is a matter for the courts to interpret or for the Congress to legislate. We keep our lawyers busy here in the States!
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I wish a collapse in housing prices was coming, because I'd love to buy a house of my own, but it's not going to happen.
Here's why:
1. All-cash investors are going to scoop up any and all decent houses. Quick closing, no contingency issues with financing, they'll even pay over asking. The investors can afford to rent out a house at a loss or sit on a vacant property for years before showing a profit from it.
2. There are millions of houses--the estimate is 16 million but it may be as many as 40 million--vacant in the US. They're deliberately being held off-market to create an artificial shortage. The institutions doing this have literally bet trillions in maintaining that shortage indefinitely, and they sure as hell aren't going to let inflation, recession, or even another Great Depression screw with their business model. The economics of institutional investors who can tap cash reserves of hundred of billions is beyond the comprehension of most of us, and the normal "supply and demand" rules do not apply.
3. If the federal government sees any big investors in trouble, they will rush to bail them out with as much money as it takes. These investors literally can't lose. They cut our elected representatives in on the deal (Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul is a huge player in real estate speculation, to take one prominent example) and in turn, our representatives make sure that they and their patrons' interests are protected.
Feel free to argue with me. I wish that none of the above was true, but I can't ignore the evidence in front of me.\
tldr; we're all doomed
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Wichita, Kansas and Lexington, Kentucky have taken the next logical step beyond this, giving free homes, no loan, with years of subsidies for home maintenance and paying property taxes, etc, but you have to be an illegal to qualify. I know, because my neighbors from Iraq in Lexington got a free house through an NGO that receives taxpayer funds--they rented out the house and stayed in their low-cost rental house (a local church pays 50% of their rent). In Wichita, Kansas, a similar setup, giving away homes for free, no loans, to illegals.
The people running the USA can't be clearer in their hatred and contempt for the legal, taxpaying citizens. Nancy Pelosi recently said on Bill Maher's show that the "solution" to millions of illegal immigrants is to grant them all citizenship.
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Clearance rates of all crimes have plummeted as cops become far less ineffective at their jobs.
This is happening while police budgets soar (the LAPD takes 50% of the LA city budget, for example). NYPD's budget for 2023 is $10.8 billion.
Studies have shown that police have been effective in one thing: alienating the communities the police. Citizen trust in the police has plummeted the same as clearance rates for crimes. That's because the police rely on citizen cooperation to prevent and solve crimes, which is a principle Robert Peel, the founder of London's modern police, called "policing by consent".
“Policing by consent” indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so.
The rising lawlessness is partly from lax prosecution but also has a great deal to do with the high-handedness and arrogance of police forces. How many cops in Uvalde, Texas have been fired? The police chief and one officer out of the hundreds of cops who stood by while kids were killed. The Uvalde cops harassed parents who complained about police inaction on the day of the massacre. Cops are accountable to NO ONE, protect only themselves, so the public doesn't trust them and doesn't work with them.
I used to consider it my duty to work with cops, even if I didn't like them, because I wanted a safe community. After experiencing police abusing their authority and/or witnessing them failing to protect people, I no longer trust the police and won't cooperate with them. Years ago, I was attacked and beaten by four men on the subway in San Francisco. Got one broken rib, two cracked ribs, and a concussion from the attack. Bystanders called 911. The police never responded. When I complained about the lack of police response, a lieutenant told me "Next time, make a citizen's arrest", laughed, and hung up on me. That was in 2012, well before any "defund the police" calls. I haven't called the cops since.
Police have to work to regain the trust of citizens and so far, they have shown little inclination to do that. Nothing is going to get better until policing changes.
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The "black history racket" is not confined solely to the UK. I have a black neighbor who insists that Alexander the Great was black, most of the Roman emperors were black, that African sailors discovered and colonized the New World two centuries before Europeans, and that many prominent people's blackness was deliberately hidden (he claims Albert Einstein is half-black, for example, which would come as quite a shock to Dr. Einstein's parents). The "evidence" for this is scanty at best, but if you point that out, the revisionists will claim that white scholars deliberately erased much of it to promote a false narrative of white supremacy. I'm not sure why it's necessary to make things up: black Americans have many notable accomplishments they can point to with pride, and Africa has its own history and civilizations, no need to invent one. Next, they'll be telling us Wakanda is a real place and that white racists are hiding it from the world (not sure how a technologically superior nation like Wakanda could be oppressed by inferior white-ruled nations, but logic is not wanted here).
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One factor we have to keep in mind are uninsured drivers. 16% of California drivers are uninsured, and many of them are illegal immigrants. With 10 million illegals coming in since 2020, many of them driving without insurance--well, somebody has to cover the cost. I'm a very careful driver, but I was hit six times in ten years by uninsured drivers in California (four minor fender benders, one non-injury crash, one injury crash), all of whom fled the scene either by car or on foot. I was seriously injured in one of the accidents and have a permanent limp because of it.
Surprise, people without driver's licenses or insurance who come from other countries tend to be very accident-prone. I had a Chinese girlfriend who learned to "drive" in her thirties and she was a menace to everyone on the road. And, on occasion, on the sidewalk.
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Our ruling class certainly believe so. Bill Gates is investing in a company that turns bugs into human food (not for him, for us--he'll dine on the finest steaks and seafood, of course) and is the largest owner of farmland in North America. Gates has also openly opined that about the "need" to reduce human population by 15%, which means getting rid of 1.2 billion people. Mass famines will do the trick.
Gates isn't predicting the future, he's authoring it. He and others like him (such as Klaus Schwab of the WEF) are deliberately running farmers off their land so they can LOWER food production. The ultra-rich have decided to save the planet for themselves--after they trashed it--by getting rid of a whole lot of us and turning the survivors into their feudal peasants.
I'm getting older, am childless, and am not in the best of health, so I won't be here to see the endgame of the World Economic Forum's "Great Reset" Plan (at least, I hope not), but if I were a younger man, I'd fight to the last breath against these monsters. Their vision of the future is a boot stamping on a human face, forever. My vision of the future is a whole lot of their heads rolling down a chute after the guillotine blade drops.
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When you point out that, logically and factually, a woman is wrong, her response is always "Well, that's how I FEEL." Feelings > facts for women. That's always how they've been, but prior generations were smart enough to disregard female "logic". Now female "logic" rules, which is why we have nasty "cancel culture". If someone FEELS offended, then the person who offended them may lose their job, their career, their reputation, and maybe even their freedom.
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Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg are both the children of college professors, raised in highly educated households by left-leaning parents. (Both of Pete's and both of Kamala's parents were college professors and respected in their fields.)
And both of them appear to be rather dim and inarticulate, as well as personally awkward.
What went wrong?
I'm a retired college professor myself, so I spoke with one of my former colleagues, a psychologist, to solve this mystery.
According to him, Kamala and Pete are what you get when you have very privileged children who've always been told they're special and have never had to really compete for anything. Everything's been handed to them on a silver platter. Neither Kamala nor Pete have ever had to earn any of their achievements, despite overwhelming evidence that they're bad at whatever they lay their hands to.
Kamala was bad at all of her former jobs (San Francisco DA, California Attorney General, California senator), got zero votes in 2020, had to drop out before Iowa.
Didn't matter, she was handed the vice presidency, with which she's done nothing.
Pete was a disaster as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, earning the unfortunate nickname of "Pothole Pete". Got more votes than Kamala in 2020 (26 delegates), but had to drop out after placing 4th in the South Carolina primary.
Didn't matter, was appointed Transportation Secretary, where's he proceeded to be ineffective or AWOL on the supply chain crisis, the American Airlines holiday meltdown, and now the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
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From The Guardian:
"Police said the shooter, who was killed, wrote a “manifesto” and planned the attack extensively. The police chief, John Drake, told NBC that “resentment” over attending the school might have played a role in the shooting.
LGBTQ+ rights groups have expressed concern that Hale’s writings could be published, a step police have said they will not take while the investigation continues."
You can safely bet $1 million that if this murderer was motivated by white supremacy, anti-Semitism, etc, and not by anti-Christian hatred, the manifesto would be unmissable, broadcast 24/7/365 in every available media outlet. But a murder by an alphabet person motivated by hatred for conservative Christians? Well, we must protect the alphabet people and let's not worry about the six victims, including three little kids.
Alright, who wants some ice cream?
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Why is the US and European "leadership" conspiring to immiserate the citizens of the EU? Several reasons:
1. Big Oil is partly behind it. They want to destroy the Green agenda, which is very strong in Europe, by making Europeans suffer through a long and terrible winter and then present themselves as the saviors.
2. The US ruling class see Europe beginning to drift out of their control and want to yank the leash back of their European poodles HARD. Again, a long and terrible winter and cutting off all possibility of economic or political rapprochement with Russia is necessary to achieve this goal.
3. The European ruling class see trade unions as too powerful and want to permanently crush wages so they can keep people under control. What better way than to destroy the German economy, which will throw the entire EU into a prolonged recession?
In short, the imperial masters and their European lackeys cannot rule by light and reason, so they're intending to rule by fear. No one is more afraid, and more compliant, than a cold, hungry, and jobless people.
What the planners, these Masters of Disasters have forgotten (or don't know about themselves), is that they're quite incompetent. What they are doing is creating a febrile environment for breeding the same monsters we saw arise in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, aka the fascists. The German industrialists, for example, thought they could make Hitler their puppet. How did that work out for them?
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There's a reparations commission in the state of California right now, officially sanctioned by Governor Newsom, that has recommended a payment of $800,000 to each descendant of an African slave. Reparations for slavery to be paid to individuals who were never held as slaves, paid by individuals who never owned slaves.
I used to ignore call for reparations because I thought it was virtue signaling, politically untenable with no real chance of ever passing, and therefore unworthy of my attention.
Now I see that these mad fools may really do it. While we're on the subject--
What about reparations for Native Americans, who have an even stronger moral claim for harm done? Well, there's only a small number of them, and so they aren't an important voting bloc. Governor Newsom wants to be President of the United States, and he's trying to buy black votes with taxpayer money.
The bill to the State of California's taxpayers should reparations be enacted? $1.9 trillion.
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I taught HS for thirty years.
Women were always the majority of sexual predators, but only the male teachers were punished.
I observed a 60-40 female-male ratio among predator teachers.
Male teachers: Put on sex offender registry for life, sent to prison, lost job, lost marriage, lost teaching license
Female teachers: Allowed to resign or contract bought out, kept marriage (no, really), kept teaching license, went on to teach elsewhere
We had a female teacher who smoked cracked with her male students on campus and then had sex with them. The school board bought out her contract, she kept her license, kept her marriage, and moved twenty miles down the road to teach in another district. Meanwhile, we had a 23 year old male teacher who had a consensual affair with an 18 year old female senior, but under California law, it's statutory r*pe even if the student is 18 if the other person is a teacher or school administrator.
I see now that it seems female teachers are getting punished more appropriately, but those are the ones you see. I guarantee that for every female teacher you see on the news, there are five more who were allowed to quietly slip away. That never happens with the men.
p.s.--Look how nice the cops are to the pretty sexual predator. Female privilege in spades. Not saying they should've roughed her up but they were very solicitous. "Unfortunately" the cop has to handcuff her. I'm surprised her didn't ask "So, what are you doing after the arrest?" Disgusting.
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@jlvandat69 Putin is no master military strategist and if this war is about generalship, with NATO planning Ukraine's moves, Ukraine has the advantage. Problem is, Ukraine no longer has offensive capability as this point, so superior generalship doesn't mean squat if you don't have the materiel and manpower in the field. If you're asking about the politics of this, the Western Europeans, citizens of parliamentary democracies who are accustomed to material comforts, are facing a very hungry, very cold winter, while the Russian civilian population is not. The Russian people are not enthusiastic about this war, and were even less supportive of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, but Russia is an authoritarian state and Putin has no credible challengers. I marched against the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan (as a civilian ofc) along with millions of others, but Bush Junior ordered the invasions, anyway, and that was in a so-called democracy. Putin has reserves he hasn't tapped yet, which is what Ritter was alluding to. Putin can outmatch the Ukrainian forces 5:1 with what he has now. That's why the US and NATO have to choose an eventual Russian victory or a dramatic escalation that will be NATO fighting Russian troops directly. The third option, negotiation, has been sidelined by all parties to the conflict. Will this conflict endure in a "meatgrinder"? Absolutely. Putin isn't looking for a knockout punch. He has definite goals and sanctions are not harming the Russian economy, so, once again quoting Ritter, he's in "the catbird's seat" (sitting pretty). Putin doesn't want to capture and try to hold more territory during the winter. The ground in that region doesn't freeze hard; it turns to mud. Ask the Wehrmacht. Ask Napoleon's Grand Armee.
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Did you just call out Dave Ramsay? I'm surprised Dave's cult hasn't flooded the comments section yet. FWIW, I don't think Ramsay is lying to his viewers, I think he's just misinterpreting the data because, as you say, he's got a wee bit of bias and has never recovered from his trauma of going bankrupt in real estate speculation.
Does anyone remember former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld? He gave us one of the great philosophical statements in American history:
"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
Known knowns: Interest rates are going to stay up for the foreseeable future to correct for the overstimulation of the economy
Known unknowns: The economy's overall performance (mild recession or a deeper one?)
Unknown unknowns: If I told you in 2019 that a pandemic would upend the global economy in 2020, would you have believed me? As my grandpa used to say, "It's not the things you worry about that bite you in the ass, it's the things you never saw coming." Grandpa was a philosopher, too.
Feliz Navidad and Merry Christmas, dude. My niece and her husband just moved to Florida after selling their house for a nice chunk of change. I referred them to you as a realtor (they're renting for now).
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I know many black folks who are convinced they are descended from African royalty, i.e., "my ancestors were princes and queens in Africa." Apparently, only the nobility were sold into slavery, no commoners (that's the only way this claim makes sense), and all of the black people living in the US today would be wearing a crown if not for the slave trade. Also, I've spoken with a few, including my hair stylist, who claims that all of Africa would be Wakanda if not for the slave trade, a super high-tech utopia. I'm not sure how a continent that was many centuries behind Europe in technological development at the start of the Transatlantic slave trade would've managed this great leap forward, but let's not quibble about logic and facts.
I'm not sure why black Americans feel the need to indulge in substituting fanciful myths for actual history. It used to be that black people were proud that they'd remained strong through so many centuries of hardship, and felt no need to embellish or embroider the past. This mythologizing just makes anyone who believes in it look foolish and weak. Black people don't need to do this to feel proud of their own history, culture, and accomplishments, because their real history should be a source of pride.
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Former Air Force intelligence analyst here, specializing in SALT II compliance during the 1980s. If you came here to read a snappy slogan and not an analysis of the military situation, keep scrolling.
Putin cannot afford to lose in Ukraine. His regime won't survive a defeat. Ukraine has no offensive capability at this point; many of the arms and supplies NATO is delivering to Ukraine are simply vanishing into thin air and its forces are badly-trained and badly-led. Ukraine's recent tactical victory was masterminded by NATO generals, not its own, and was a Pyrrhic victory that destroyed Ukraine's remaining offensive capacity. The Russian generals aren't any better, but they have the manpower and resources to overwhelm Ukraine in the field. Russia can still attack at this point; Ukraine cannot.
The ONLY way to deny Putin ultimate victory is for NATO forces to become DIRECTLY involved. That's called "World War Three" because at that point, Putin would commit everything he's got and might even call upon the Chinese and North Koreans for support. Putin isn't Saddam Hussein nor any of the Third World pushovers the US is used to fighting: Russians will fight to the last man against what they'd perceive as a foreign invasion. Look at what the Russians did in World War Two and you get the idea.
No, I don't want to argue with any of you who read Sun Tzu or play Call of Duty with your buddies. I've studied Russia and spent 64 weeks learning the Russian language and culture. If you think Ukraine can push Russian forces out without direct support from NATO, you obviously don't know what you're talking about. We're being lied to about the state of Ukraine's military. Biden and his Secretaries of State and Defense are both openly talking about NATO countries sending in air support (not yet ground troops). This is the most danger the world has been in since the Cuban Missile Crisis--one wrong move and this is going to slide sideways into Hell REAL fast.
The solution is political, but every time I listen to "leaders" in Europe and the US, they're doubling down, making a necessary rapprochement harder and harder.
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Facts:
Liberal white women love transgenderism, because transgenderism pushes the same lie as feminism: men and women are interchangeable in every area of life (including sports).
67% of marketing executives like Alissa Heinerscheid are women, which is why we're seeing this huge push of transgenderism and anti-masculine sentiment in advertising.
The only reason this didn't work with Bud Light is because it's a brand primarily marketed to men, and we men aren't having this nonsense. Tampax, Kate Spade, Nike, and Olay have all hired Dylan Mulvaney as their spokesperson and no boycott or general outcry has resulted, because those brands are marketed to women.
Women are going to have to decide: do they want to be erased or not? If they want to erased, then continue embracing transgenderism. If not, then get up of the couch and start boycotting. Boycotting works, and we men just proved that. Do better, women.
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I just walked away from a house after having it inspected by multiple experts, including a whole house, termite, foundation, and roofing inspection.
The person who'd purchased the house before me did not have any of this done, to her lasting regret. She's going to take a huge loss on the sale.
Foundation: Solid
Roof: Needs a new roof on the house and detached garage
Sewer line: Collapsed, needs to be replaced from the house to the street
Termites: Active infestation
Electrical: Breaker box needs replacing
HVAC: Needs a new furnace and central air
Driveway: Needs to be resurfaced because it's crumbling
Total cost of work: $35,000-$40,000
I was willing to do the work to rehab the house but walked away for three reasons:
1. Active termite infestation, which had gone on at least one year--the likelihood of structural damage in such a case is high and I couldn't get a structural engineer to inspect because they're scheduled months in advance in my area
2. Woman living in the house has four dogs that she keeps inside all the time and they urinate/defecate on the hardwood floors (she has some "issues")
3. The seller's agent is a lying so-and-so and I just couldn't deal with him--most buyers' agents in the area refuse to show any houses he lists and after dealing with him, I know why--he tricked this not-all-mentally-there lady into buying this house when he knew damned well it had massive, multiple problems
DO NOT WAIVE INSPECTION. Always have these items inspected:
1. Whole house inspection, including a radon test, mold test, and sewer scope
2. Followup inspection of roof by expert if indicated in the whole house inspection
3. Always have the foundation inspected by an expert, even if the whole house inspector says it's ok
4. Termite inspection
THE SELLER'S DISCLOSURE IS MOSTLY WORTHLESS and should be categorized as fiction. Yeah yeah yeah, you can sue them if you can prove they lied on the disclosure form--good luck with that.
DO NOT BE AFRAID TO WALK AWAY OR RENEGOTIATE THE PRICE. Had it not been for the active termite infestation, I might have gone through with the deal if we could've renegotiated the price.
The house is now under contract to a different buyer who is a professional investor/contractor who can rehab it. I hope he does a good job; it's basically a nice house that was badly neglected.
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Black culture in the US is wildly dysfunctional, but the US in general is becoming wildly dysfunctional, too. There are "street takeovers" in California where mobs of black people block off streets and bridges and then do very dangerous car stunts. *Parents bring their young children to watch*. Imagine taking your child to watch other people commit crimes as a form of entertainment. In the past few days in Compton, which is a city adjacent to Los Angeles, mobs of young black people looted a gas station and the police didn't respond to protect property. Anyone who complains about this culture of criminality is labeled a "racist" and criminals aren't punished under new laws that basically give no consequences for theft under $1,000.
The thing is, in Chicago, people saw what happened under Mayor Lightfoot--then voted in a replacement, Brandon Anderson, who is even more radical than Lightfoot. This is what Chicagoans appear to want, and it's not just black folks voting for this: only 29% of Chicagoans are black but Anderson got a majority of the vote, which means he has Hispanics and white people voting for him, too. Same in many major US cities: people of all colors are voting for leftist politicians who facilitate rampant criminality.
I'm moving out of a large city to a small town. I'm tired of waiting for the next shoe to drop. I suspect this summer is going to be a very tough one, indeed, as we see what happens when people no longer respect law and order.
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@tc5273 I'm a retired teacher and I had black students (nice kids) who informed with a straight face that the police killed "at least 100,000 black men a year". I showed them the statistics from the Department of Justice and showed that it was around 200.
We had many incidents of racism in some of the schools where I taught, almost all of them perpetrated by black students against white, Asian, and Hispanic students. Despite the obvious racial motivation (to which the black students often admitted), the administration either didn't punish them at all or else gave them a punishment so light as to be meaningless. In one particularly bad case, a black student sexually assaulted two different white girls, and was not criminally charged nor punished internally--in facts, the girls' lives were made unbearable, and they both had to leave the school. I pressed the case with the police, which led to him being criminally charged and also unleashed a campaign of harassment against me which led to me resigning my post and going to another school. The other teachers saw what was done to me and learned their lesson very well, I'm sure.
The reason I post on Simon's videos is because I know that whatever happens in the US eventually gets replicated in the UK. As I said, it's too late for us, but maybe Brits can organize to stop this. Most black folks do NOT want this--it's a minority of grifters who see their chance to get power and money and are going to seize it.
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I'm an American, so I cannot speak about my observations of black British culture.
My observation of black American culture over a thirty year teaching career: a defiant attitude, a readiness to explain away personal failings with claims of victimhood and racism, and a lack of discipline, all of which come from the home. It doesn't help that so many black students lack the discipline of a father in the home.
I think the achievement gap is cultural, not racial. My highest achieving students were always the Asians, and their culture is the polar opposite of black culture.
Black students whose parents have followed the Asian mindset--study hard, exert self-discipline, respect the school and its rules, as well as others--have done very well.
Schools cannot change black culture. Black people must undertake a conscious effort to do that.
Given their recent revival of the victimhood mentality, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
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I was a volunteer in the US Armed Forces, but being in the military gave me discipline, self-confidence, focus, and team skills I wouldn't have learned otherwise. My nephew is a career man in the US Navy and is a better person as a result. The downside, as you point out, is that you may be in harm's way, but absent a major war, most military personnel are in a support role and their level of personal danger isn't that high. We should also mention that being in the military is good for young women, too, who are often taught to undermine their belief in themselves and are instead called upon to be just as responsible as their male counterparts. The military is also one of the few institutions in the US that brings together people of different races and ethnicities and regions into a cohesive society.
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And here's more:
http://prospect.org/article/50-million-potential-first-true-silicon-valley-candidate
Excerpt: "Despite his strategic messaging shift, there’s no doubt that Khanna is still the Valley’s golden boy. He has pulled in nearly $3.5 million, with 99 percent of that coming from big donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. His top contributors are employed by tech giants like Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, as well as Salesforce, Facebook, and Oracle, along with several top tech law firms and venture capital outlets. Meanwhile, most of Honda’s money has come from labor unions and liberal PACs.
After Khanna announced last year that he was challenging Honda again, the incumbent went on the offensive, attacking Khanna for his past support from controversial donors like Thiel, Marc Leder (who hosted Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” fundraiser), and Texas energy investor (formerly of Enron) John Arnold, who poured hundreds of thousands into a supportive super PAC."
By the way, it didn't long for the DNC to co-opt the "Justice Democrats", did it? The ones who were going to "reform the party from within". ALL progressives in the Democratic Party get quickly neutralized or co--opted by the Democratic Party establishment. That's why I'm DONE with the Democrats. I thought Jimmy was, too, but now he's doing a 180 and supporting the Democrats because they've changed!
Yeah, same reason abused spouses go back to their batterers: "He's really changed this time!" Yeah, right.
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I know no one will read my comment because of its length but here goes anyway:
Cops shave their heads military style, wear military-style uniforms, tote military-type weapons, always go with military-style body armor, wear Oakleys (in Texas, $350 Stetsons plus Oakleys) because they look badass and swagger around like they're Special Forces,.
Except Special Forces troops would've stormed into that school immediately and taken out the shooter.
People need to wake up to the true nature of US police: when they're beating an unarmed man or harassing a citizen who drove over the speed limit, they're tough guys. When faced with even one person who can shoot back at them, their bravado crumbles and they cower. That's what bullies do. We've recruited bullies by design to our law enforcement, given them nearly unlimited power over us (literally the power of life and death), made excuses for them a million times rather than held them accountable, and then act surprised when they don't do their job and don't take responsibility for their failures.
Either defund the police or reform the police. No excuses and no compromises. Either the cops work for us or we get rid of them.
I don't want to hear: 1. "The Supreme Court says cops have no legal duty to protect us." Pass a federal licensing law that says they do. Remove the cops' qualified immunity that removes almost all of their accountability and replace it with a civilian review board that governs the police. Cops have proven they won't police themselves, so we need to do it. Problem solved. 2. "Gun control won't work". It does in every country except the US. Federal ban on assault weapons NOW. Problem solved. 3. "This is a mental health issue, not a gun control issue." It's both. Fund a national healthcare system that includes robust mental health services. Problem solved.
If you don't want to do any of the above, then the next mass shooting is blood on YOUR hands. YOU looked at the mass murder of little kids and said "nothing can change, this is fine". There's a mass shooting every day in the US on average. Every day. Either we just accept this as normal or we make our best effort to stop it. Maybe our isn't good enough, but I want to say we tried. We're not even trying.
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I once worked for an employer who needed me to come to the main office to sign some papers. I got news that my younger sister, who lived out of state, had just died. I called HR to tell them I needed to be out of town for a few days and gave the reason why. They told me that if I didn't come in for my appointed time, I'd be fired. HR director never said "I'm sorry" etc about my sister's death. She did say "I don't care about your dead sister". I went to the funeral and when I got back, I quit and went looking for a new job.
The company head called and asked why I quit. I told him and he said "well, the HR director is like that". But he didn't overrule her nor make her apologize, so I didn't rescind my resignation. He wanted to play bad cop, good cop, with himself in the "good cop" role, but nobody was fooled. One of my former colleagues said that she was 100% certain the HR director was a psychopath, because she enjoyed inflicting suffering on people and went out of her way to do so. She was a morale killer, and then the company wondered why they had such high turnover. Their solution? Personalized coffee mugs with people's names on them.
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I don't have any special insights nor will I make any predictions. Just an observation and some questions.
I've been looking at houses in a rural area of Missouri (between Springfield and Branson).
The houses sold for $40,000-$60,000 in 2019.
The same houses, without improvements or remodeling, are now listed at $120,000-$200,000 (3x-4x the purchase price of three years ago).
The houses are still selling at these inflated prices, and selling slightly above listing price.
So were they vastly undervalued in 2019, or vastly overvalued now?
There are no good-paying jobs in that area. A "good job" would be $10-$12 an hour.
The realtors tell me that the primary purchasers of these houses are all-cash investors.
They also tell me that the investors are not renting out the houses, but are keeping them vacant, and local meth-heads breaking into the vacant houses is a major problem in the area, so much so that after the houses are sold, they're being boarded up to make entry more difficult (and that is blighting neighborhoods). Since this has reduced the available houses for sale/rent, rents are skyrocketing in the area.
I don't see the end game for this, really. Buying a house and just letting it sit there must have some purpose, else why do it? To drive up rents for other properties (seems like a rather expensive way to do that). Laundering money? Some sort of tax reduction strategy? Where does this lead?
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1.4 million Americans identify as transgendered. That's .00424%, or a less than one-half of one percent. Women are 53% of the population. Why do 53% of the population have subordinate rights to a group whose entire population could fit in the city of Dallas, Texas?
I'm glad to see that the Brits are resisting this madness, which has resulted in the US destroying women's sports by allowing "transwomen" (i.e., biological males who claim to be females) to "compete" in sports, winning all or most of the matches.
I'd heard terrible things about JK Rowling, but all second-hand, so I decided to investigate for myself.
I agreed with almost everything Rowling wrote on this issue. Rowling isn't a bigot, she's an advocate for protecting women's rights in our society.
I don't have a daughter, but I do have nieces. I don't want them in a changing room with "women" who have penises, nor do I want them competing in sports with "women" who have penises or the XY chromosome, even if they've had "reassignment" surgery. There is NO surgery that can change the chromosomal makeup of human being, and that's what determines sex.
XX = female
XY = male
Biology has spoken and it cannot be refuted.
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Oh, so she ruined a man's life with a false accusation. Isn't ruining men by any means necessary the whole point of feminism?
Btw, I once had a female assistant who was very bad at her job and knew that I was documenting her poor performance to have her fired. She confronted me and said "You'll be the one who's fired if I say you sexually harassed or assaulted me, so you'd better back off. I'll ruin your life!"
She was not bluffing, but I'm single, no kids, and at that point had so much money saved up I could've quit working that day--plus I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation--so I told her to go to the Devil. She didn't file false charges, but if she had, I wouldn't have had a prayer. Her threat would've worked on most men who had something to lose--she just picked the wrong victim that time. She went on to another job and filed sexual harassment charges there, got her male supervisor fired, and then was fired herself for poor performance a few months later by her female boss. These women are damaging the cases of women who are genuinely harassed or assaulted, as well as hurting innocent people, all because they can't face grownup consequences.
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I retired in 2021 after 30 years as a teacher. The inhumanity of bosses started after the 2008-09 financial crisis, when employers clearly gained the upper hand and management became drunk on their own power. In 2012, my younger sister died at the beginning of the school year, so I called the Director of Human Resources that I was going to take a week off for my sister's funeral. She told me that she wouldn't approve the leave and that if I didn't report to work as scheduled, I'd be fired. I went anyway, and got a termination notice the day of my sister's funeral. My union took over at that point and said I wasn't fired, because only the Board had the power to hire and fire. To their credit, the Board members were shocked that the HR director had acted that way. No one at any point--not my principal, not my union reps, not the Board members, nor the HR Director--ever said the simple words "I'm sorry for your loss."
I resigned from that district at the end of the year and went elsewhere, but each district I worked in had similarly inhumane practices. I suffered a stroke and was told I had to discharge myself from the hospital for an important meeting the next day. I showed up deathly ill and had a second, smaller stroke at the meeting. I suffered permanent damage as a result of being forced back to work prematurely.
And that's in public education, with a union to bargain for my rights. I can't imagine how bad things are for non-unionized workers who have NO rights.
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This is actually smart marketing strategy by Nike, Bud Light, Kate Spade, et al.
Let me explain!
66% of people 18-29 strongly support the trans movement. The more affluent someone is, the more likely they are to support it.
The 18-29 demographic is coveted, as we all know. Establish loyalty to a brand when people are that age, and you've got them for life.
By supporting the trans movement (or pretending to), these companies are establishing and/or reinforcing loyalty to their brand among young people.
Ex: "I support the trans movement and so does Nike, so I can support trans people by buying Nike."
That's how "socially conscious" advertising works. It's why so many big companies donated millions to Black Lives Matter.
The people who oppose the trans movement's push for special rights--older folks, conservatives, etc--are NOT a coveted demographic and if you buy their products, it will actually DIMINISH their brand among the 66% of young people who are "woke" and "pro-trans".
In America, always, always, always FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Does it all make sense now why these companies are pushing the trans movement on us? It's a cynical attempt to exploit support for trans people so they can make more money.
(I think it's horrible, but I also know people in advertising, and this is how they think. They're all basically Don Draper.)
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Target and the California Communists deserve one another, actually.
Last time I was in our local Target store, after not visiting for nearly three years, I was shocked at how shabby the store looked and how shoddy its merchandise appeared. The employees had the morale level of prisoners on a roadside work detail.
I lived in California 1993-2021. Left when I retired. Will never return. Californians voted for the government they have, and will continue to vote for more of the same.
I live in my home state of Kansas now, and it IS home, even though I spent nearly half of my life in California. The weather isn't as good as California, but in all other measures, my quality of life is greatly improved. I thought I'd miss California. I haven't, not one day since June 4, 2021.
(on edit: I miss Trader Joes, but not Trader Joes customers)
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I paid $2,400 a month for a one bedroom in Beverly Hills, but I could walk to work in five minutes and Beverly Hills fire and police protection (as well as other city services) are world class. I never had to worry about my safety and the stress of LA traffic was mostly lifted from me, so it was worth it.
Would I rather have bought? Not possible except somewhere two hours from work, and I saw what those commutes did to my colleagues. My assistant had to make that drive every day and some days, she'd break down crying from the stress of a traffic jam (I helped her get a job closer to her home). I did that when I was her age and it sucks even more now, because the law of LA traffic is that it gets worse every year no matter what anyone does or doesn't do.
Rents are relative to location and salary. I earned the most money I ever made in my life and living in Beverly Hills has a premium. For most folks, rents are too high for their location, which is why we need the government to build multi-family housing because if the free market was going to fix this, it would've been fixed by now. People have to have a decent place to live, and if that means the government has to help, then they should do it for the good of our society.
No, I don't want to hear anybody's Ayn Rand bullshit about how all government is evil. You have to have some government in your life or civilization doesn't exist. If government can't help provide one of the basics of life--shelter--then it's pretty much useless.
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I was married for 15 years. My wife was a spendthrift who kept us in constant debt and stressed me out. She cooked me maybe 3 or 4 meals in 15 years and expected me to move heaven and earth for her. And I did, because I was raised as a "happy wife, happy life" simp.
My wife deserted and divorced me to get piped by Chad.
Turns out that after the thrill wore off, Chad turned out to be a selfish pig who treated her like dirt and just used her for sex.
A year after the divorce, my ex called and asked if we could get back together.
I hung up on her. After all, I had three girlfriends to juggle, a new car to buy, and a new house to move into.
I'm now retired early, living in a paid-for cottage in a Mayberry-type small town, with my health intact and all the money for my wants and needs. In between the divorce and now, I've been with lots of women, most wonderful, some awful, and now have a girlfriend 25 years younger than me. We're never getting married and we're never living together, and she knows that.
My ex, after divorcing husbands #2 and #3 to find "something better", is living in a rented room in someone's house, and will have to work until she dies.
No, I don't hate her. I do feel sorry for her. She went to a feminist therapist when we were married who encouraged my ex to divorce me and "explore new horizons". All of my ex's problems were my fault, you see. Erase me from the equation and she'd be in paradise.
Adam and Eve were in paradise. It wasn't good enough for Eve, as the story goes.
I wish my ex's life had turned out better. I hoped that it would. But she's not my responsibility anymore.
I know lots of stories like mine: men thrive after divorce and women don't. Men can be on their own, because we know we are from the time we're boys. No one is riding to our rescue if we fall off our white horse. Women always have a savior--until they don't. Then they're lost.
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SUMMARY OF THE INTERVIEW
STEPHANOPOLOUS: Mr. President, dude, you are, like, SO old. You should just quit, dude.
BIDEN: We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
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@phoenixobrien163 People have already complained and the responsible government authorities, as well as the private charity, have done exactly nothing. If they do, they'll be called Islamophobic and racist.
My Iraqi neighbors can't drive very well (they have accidents every other day, it seems) and have a rotating host of cars (one for each member of the family)--they wreck them, then abandon them and get a new one. I finally had enough and had several of their abandoned cars towed off the street, since no one else could find a parking space. I thought the Iraqi neighbors would protest, but they didn't say a word--glad to have rid of them at the taxpayers' expense. I'm told that in Iraq, there's no car insurance, so if a car is wrecked, you just abandon it. I don't know if they have proper car insurance--some of their cars don't have tags and the ones that do expired months ago.
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Nick, I've come to the conclusion post-SBV bailout that there won't be a housing crash, at least not in 2023.
Yellen and Powell are determined to prop up asset values. They made that clear when they covered the uninsured depositors and didn't charge them a fee to do it (so the uninsured depositors got all the benefits of FDIC protection without paying the requisite fees for such coverage). I'm not saying that housing prices aren't going to decline from pandemic highs--they are clearly already doing that--but a "crash" by my definition would be a return to pre-pandemic prices or even lower than that. So long as the Fed keeps printing money, and the federal government continues with massive deficit spending, housing prices won't crash.
Four facts:
Biden's proposed budget adds $500 billion in spending
JPMorgan estimates $2 trillion needed to prop up banks, which could easily become $6 trillion (SVB and Signature gobbled up $300 billion in a single week!) or more--that's more money the Fed has to print
Consumers, retail investors, and institutional investors are still psychologically fixated on acquiring real estate, even when it doesn't make sense to do so. Such decisions aren't made rationally but emotionally, and we're seeing that now.
The wildcard is the R word (recession): If we get one deep and long-lasting enough, throw the above three facts out the window as irrelevant and reconfigure the analysis.
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Ibn Fadlan was an Arab chronicler. In 921 C.E., the Caliph of Baghdad sent Ibn Fadlan with an embassy to the King of the Bulgars of the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan wrote an account of his journeys with the embassy, called a Risala. This Risala is of great value as a history, although it is clear in some places that inaccuracies and Ibn Fadlan's own prejudices have slanted the account to some extent.
During the course of his journey, Ibn Fadlan met a people called the Rus, a group of Swedish origin, acting as traders in the Bulgar capital. The first allusion to the Rus comes toward the close of the description of the Bulgars. When the Rus or people of another race came with slaves for sale, the king of the Bulgars had a right to choose one slave in each ten for himself. The full description begins:
"I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant journeys and encamped by the Volga. I have never seen more perfect physical specimens, tall as date palms, blonde and ruddy; they wear neither tunics nor caftans, but the men wear a garment which covers one side of the body and leaves a hand free."
"Blonde and ruddy". I guess Ibn Fadlan wasn't committed to anti-racism or diversity.
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I can't believe a company run by a bunch of Harvard graduates and a "former" CIA agent could be so monumentally incompetent. Didn't see that coming.
By the way, the brain genius who thought up this ad campaign, Alissa Heinerscheid, lives in a $7.5 million house in New York City.
Rich white women aka feminists are the primary peddlers of the transgendered "men can be women" myth, which is why we're seeing so much of it in advertising: 67% of advertising executives are women. These rich women genuinely believe it’s “feminist” to pretend that men and women are interchangeable.
We're going to have to boycott a LOT of products, but with a recession coming, that should make it easier.
We men handled this one, but women are going to have to start fighting back, too. We can't do this alone and really, it isn't our war. It's women the transgendered people want to erase and displace, and it's women who need to stop supporting this madness.
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The US has been made into a bubble economy.
That's not good.
If you subtract the equity extraction from the housing bubble, average economic growth during the Bush years (2001-2009) was about 1% annually.
Same thing now: without inflated housing values, our economy is pretty much flat. And we've yet to reckon with the losses of 190 banks, which are at least $2 trillion and may be as high as $7 trillion. You KNOW the feds are going to bail the banks out when push comes to shove, same as 2008. And no, they don't care what we think about it. This country is not run by anyone we elect.
There's things the government could do to spur economic growth: ban stock buybacks, which was the rule before 1982. Corporations, instead of buying their own stock to boost its price, would invest the money in research and personnel, which result in lasting productivity gains. Incentivize repatriation of manufacturing jobs to the US from overseas. (If there's one thing the pandemic taught us, it's that we need our own manufacturing base.) End speculation in real estate by limiting most single family home purchases to owner occupants. Quit favoring big banks over small banks; community banks are the primary lenders to small businesses. Stop corporate price gouging with an excess profits tax that would recapture the higher corporate profits that are contributing to inflation. Restrain federal government spending, which is defeating all of the Fed's efforts to tighten the money supply. Quit relying on the manipulation of interest rates to "manage" our economy: interest rates are a very blunt instrument and the poorest tool in the kit to guide an economy to prosperity.
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Are you in the top 10% of income earners (over $200,00/year household income)? If not, then this propaganda was NOT for you. If you don't have a minimum income of $200,000, you don't count to these "business programs" on tv, nor to the economists, nor to the politicians. In fact, you don't count, period. This program reflects THEIR reality, not ours, and in THEIR reality, things aren't so bad. In fact, they're pretty damned good.
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Reading the angry denials--some with personal attacks--on my comment that the primary beneficiaries of this housing crash will be the same folks who benefited last time. Also, that banks and big investors are going to rig the market.
A roundup of responses, none of them backed by any logical process:
"That's illegal."
Steve Mnuchin's One West mortgage company illegally repossessed hundreds of thousands of homes in California. Attorney General Kamala Harris refused to prosecute. Mnuchin went on to become Trump's Secretary of the Treasury. Harris became a US Senator. Crime does pay.
"There were plenty of bargains in my area!"
Maybe so. This time? This time, big firms like Blackrock (worth $10 trillion, with a stockpile of cash) are going on a national buying spree. If the houses in your area are worth buying, they'll buy them. Real estate is no longer local.
"You're lying about your buying experience in 2011-12."
Right, because I woke up today and said "Hey, I think I'll make up a story about what happened ten years ago as part of my master plan to rule the world."
"There is no housing bubble!"
Right, because in a normal market, housing prices go up 40% every year. Totally normal.
Have a nice day, everybody.
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Two elements omitted from this analysis of the trans movement:
1. The intersection of feminism and transgenderism. White feminists are the #1 supporters of transgenderism. Both promote the idea that "women and men are the same" in temperament and even in physical and intellectual capacity, when evolution did not design us that way. Transgenderism takes this to its logical conclusion, asserting that since men and women are "the same", why can't a man be a woman and a woman be a man?
2. The transgendered ideology arose as more and more economic and political power has been concentrated into fewer and fewer hands; the people promoting transgenderism are not ordinary folk but the ultra-rich, who have an outsized voice in human affairs. Transgenderism has also taken hold as the traditional institutions of the nuclear family and the church have been destroyed by feminism and by the ultra-rich capitalists. The chief proponents of feminism in the West have always been, and remain, wealthy white women, because feminism is their ideology and primarily benefits them. It's no surprise that the chief proponents of transgenderism in the West are ultra-rich men; looking back, this was an entirely predictable outcome. Ultra-rich men got knocked down a rung by ultra-rich women because of feminism, and their answer is transgenderism, which puts them "back on top" by devaluing what it means to be a woman. Being a woman is nothing special, according to them--ANYONE can say "I'm a woman" and et voila! they are!
Feminism began with laudable goals, chiefly that women should have a voice in our political and economic life, but as with all -isms, it kept going until it twisted itself into something unrecognizable from its original goals. We went from "women should have more independence and be treated fairly" to "women are the same as men". Look at surveys of women taken fifty years ago and today--women today have far more independence and rights than those in 1972, but the women in 1972 reported far higher levels of happiness in their lives.
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I no longer practice law in California but I'll answer about the "misappropriation of construction funds" charge: does not apply to this case. Relevant statute is California Code, Penal Code - PEN § 484b: "Any person who receives money for the purpose of obtaining or paying for services, labor, materials or equipment and willfully fails to apply such money for such purpose by either willfully failing to complete the improvements for which funds were provided or willfully failing to pay for services, labor, materials or equipment provided incident to such construction, and wrongfully diverts the funds to a use other than that for which the funds were received, shall be guilty of a public offense and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 , or by both that fine and that imprisonment if the amount diverted is in excess of two thousand three hundred fifty dollars ($2,350). If the amount diverted is less than or equal to two thousand three hundred fifty dollars ($2,350), the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."
The communication between the customer and shop owner appears to have made it clear that the customer was still going to receive his Batmobile, but later than originally promised because the customer missed an installment payment. A classic case of misappropriation is paying for work that's not under way and the contractor hasn't bought the supplies, etc, to start the project. That charge will never stick in court, but I guess when a rich guy in San Mateo County throws a tantrum, the law is perverted by craven DAs and cops to assuage his hurt feelings. It's disgusting.
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I can explain the "insanity" that Chomsky referenced.
The neocons lied to get us into Iraq and Afghanistan. This has been proven.
Obama declined to prosecute for war crimes (such as mass torture of Iraqis), which means the neocons got away with it. One reason Obama didn't prosecute was because he agreed with them, but even if he hadn't, the prosecution would've included former President George W. Bush and former vice-president Dick Cheney. Obama certainly wouldn't want to set the precedent that such high officials could be criminally prosecuted.
The neocon influence has persisted in the US foreign policy establishment, and the neocons (like John Bolton) are indeed psychopathic. I see their influence in trying to start wars simultaneously with Russia and China, and now alienating Saudi Arabia, which is the de facto leader of OPEC.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and USAid Director Samantha Power are both neocon-influenced, and those two are key in this push for major wars. Jake Sullivan, Biden's National Security Advisor, is also a neocon-influenced member of Biden's foreign policy team. Neocons LOVE interventionism and believe in American global military supremacy. The neocons hate Donald Trump with all their black hearts, because Trump is an anti-interventionist politician who scolded the Europeans for not spending more on their military defense. The GOP neocons are the Never Trumpers who jumped party lines to support Biden in 2020.
So who should you vote for in 2024? Any candidate who is anti-interventionist. I don't know of any Democrats who are, and very few Republicans. Just know that the Deep State is going to target any politician who advocates for anti-interventionism.
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In the US, we white folk already paid reparations.
In blood.
620,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, 1861-65, almost all of them white.
That's equal to the total of American fatalities in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, combined.
If any American black demands reparations, I'll instruct them to visit the Vicksburg National Cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Vicksburg National Cemetery is 40 acres and holds the remains of 17,000 Civil War Union soldiers, a number unmatched by any other national cemetery.
There's the receipt for reparations, paid in blood and paid in full. End of discussion.
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Our local gun stores are reporting record business today. This always happens after a mass shooting, because people are afraid that the federal government is finally going to institute meaningful restrictions on firearms.
Don't worry. If our country couldn't do anything after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, when twenty kindergarteners and six adults were murdered in cold blood, we won't do anything now. Sandy Hook was a turning point for this country: our refusal to take any steps to prevent another mass shooting means that we've accepted these as a way of life.
What's that, this isn't a good time to discuss this? It's NEVER a "good time" to discuss this, is it? So we never do.
This isn't the first mass shooting in the US and it won't be the last. And they will just keep getting bigger and deadlier, and it will never, ever, ever be the "right time" to discuss how to prevent it.
By the way, I was a teacher for thirty years, including elementary school at one point. If you say "arm the teachers", I'll just ignore you. Because if having teachers pack pistols and rifles is your "solution", you are just too stupid for words.
Y'all feel bad about this but you won't lift a finger to prevent another one. You can't bring back these little kids, but you could make the next shooting less likely. But you won't. So save your prayers and telling us all how really awful you feel. So do something. Words are meaningless. Only actions count.
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THE SIMPSONS PREDICTED THIS
Bart: Uh, say, are you guys crooks?
Fat Tony: Bart, um, is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family?
Bart: No.
Fat Tony: Well, suppose you got a large starving family. Is it wrong to steal a truckload of bread to feed them?
Bart: Uh uh.
Fat Tony: And, what if your family don't like bread? They like...cigarettes?
Bart: I guess that's okay.
Fat Tony: Now, what if instead of giving them away, you sold them at a price that was practically giving them away. Would that be a crime, Bart?
Bart: Hell, no!
Fat Tony: Enjoy your gift.
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Very misleading on the baby formula shortage. The FDA shut down one of the biggest plants for serious safety violations that were contaminating the baby formula, making it unsafe for infants, and Abbott, the manufacturers, have refused to correct the problems at their Michigan plant. So it's corporate malfeasance that is largely to blame.
If I were president, I'd declare a health emergency, seize the Michigan plant under eminent domain, correct the safety violations, and start shipping formula. I'd charge Abbott for correcting the violations and a management fee for running their plant for them. And if they didn't like it, they can kick rocks.
Fox News lies to you just as much as MSNBC and CNN, folks.
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(Monty Python voice) "What have white people ever done for us?"
“All right, but apart from the BBC, Dr. Who, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, electric lights, penicillin, computers, sanitation, public education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have white people ever done for us?”
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I commented on some of the more popular videos about the latest mass shooting.
Filled with prayers and statements of how awful people felt.
All I said was that if nothing was done to curb this after Sandy Hook Elementary mass murders in 2012 (20 kindergarteners and 6 adults murdered), nothing would be done now, or ever. That we've decided that this is normal and acceptable: mass murder, prayers for the dead and for the living, expressions of horror, and then...nothing. No action to back up the words, because the NRA puppet politicians don't want that.
The reaction I got from the Second Amendment crowd (the only amendment to the Constitution that matters to them) was over-the-top hysteria.
My message to them: "Relax, you've won. Mass murderers have access to the tools you placed in their hands. The debate is over and your view--which is in the minority--has prevailed. This is the world YOU made. YOU. Every mass murder is by YOUR design. Be proud of YOUR accomplishment, because no other country has successfully convinced its people to accept the periodic murder of ordinary people where they work, shop, worship, or attend school, but this one. And that is YOUR accomplishment."
No, I will not debate anyone now or ever on the merits of gun control. I'm a realist, and the debate is lost. Abbott Elementary isn't the first mass murder in our country and it won't be the last. Nor will it be the biggest. The biggest and bloodiest are yet to come.
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The chick with the neck tattoo has more red flags than a Chinese Communist party meeting.
10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN
1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos
2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is (facial/neck tattoos = RUN NOW!)
3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character)
4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family
5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times
6. She talks about her exes a lot
7. Single mother
8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man")
9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates
10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits)
Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit.
If we want to add some:
11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends)
12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc)
13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc)
14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out)
15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws.
16. Lives her life by astrology.
17. Talks in an extremely annoying British or American accent
Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do.
(Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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Have you not heard of the "climate pass"? Bill Gates has put it forward, and that means it will be implemented sooner or later.
Here's how it works:
You're given so many carbon credits per year, and when you've used them up, that's it for you: no more air or ground transport is available. Rather like a rationing book, except monitored by very intrusive and omniscient technology.
What about the rich and their private jets? Easy, you can buy extra credits, but they're very, very expensive, far beyond the means of the ordinary person.
In this way, the rich will be able to go wherever they please, when they please, while we peasants will be confined to our villages.
By the way, on average, a person filed under the lower 50 percent income group only produces about one ton of CO2 per year compared to about 48 tons of carbon dioxide per capita emitted by the wealthiest one percent, which means the very rich have a carbon footprint 50 times greater than the average person. The people who are the biggest villains in this problem are going to make the rest of us pay the price, while they continue on as they always have. Sound familiar?
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I expect Netflix will be taken over by another company or hedge fund etc in the coming year, and many more deals will be cancelled. Reed Hastings shoveled money to the Obamas as a legal bribe, and what has he gotten for his money? Can anybody name one show they've produced? If so, how successful was it?
Meghan and Harry's $135 million dollar content deal with Netflix was always ridiculous. Meghan is a C-list actress and Harry is a British royal, not the brightest people God ever put on the Earth. If you're going to spend $135 million, spend it on talented, creative people who could actually make something folks want to watch.
Nobody knows how much the Obamas got paid for their Netflix production deal, but my Hollywood sources say it's at least $300 million, and the Obamas get paid whether their shows get produced or not. Reed Hastings sure screwed over the workers at Netflix by throwing money at Barry and Michelle.
Here's a sample of one of the shows the Obamas are producing:
“Listen to Your Vegetables & Eat Your Parents,” a half-hour series for preschoolers that will “take young children and their families around the globe on an adventure that tells us the story of our food.”
$300 million for a glorified Sesame Street episode?
I'm canceling my Netflix at the end of this billing cycle, by the way. I have three streaming services: HBOMax, Amazon Prime, and Netflix. The first two have shows I actually want to watch, with HBO far and away the winner. Netflix runs a distant third. I originally signed up for Netflix to get DVDs, and Hastings foolishly disinvested resources in that part of the business. DVD rentals enabled Netflix to provide content for which it can't afford or get digital licenses and was very popular, but Barry, Harry, Michelle, and Meghan gotta get paid somehow.
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I was married for 13 years. Women, not men, are the ones who withdraw from sex.
The answer is simple: most women are emotionally 14 years old and they get bored banging the same old dude over and over again. Like, literally, you know? That's why when married people cheat nowadays, 80% of them are women.
I know this from experience: when I was a teacher, I got propositioned by a lot of married women, most of them my colleagues, some of them parents of my students. Every one of them said the same thing: their husbands were ok guys, but the women were just bored with them. They wanted someone new who could give them that thrill, and the marital vows meant nothing to them. I asked myself: why me? Because they saw me as someone who was good enough for a good time, but not someone for whom they'd leave their husbands. Every single one of my married female colleagues under 40 had been unfaithful at least once, and it gave them a taste for more. This is also partly why we see an epidemic of women teachers bedding their teenage students: it's an adrenaline rush.
Why do women stop developing emotionally at 14? That's a whole other discussion.
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@MichaelBordenaro If you want to find out what the real economy is, talk to people who live in it. Statistics are manipulated and all those economists are just salesmen with Ph.Ds. I talk to waitresses, store clerks, lawn care guys, etc. Lawn care guy told me that landlords are cutting back (pardon the pun) to the bare minimum, just having grass at their properties mowed often enough to keep code enforcement off them. Store clerks tell me the stores don't hire replacements for people who quit (staff reduction by attrition) and that inventory deliveries are being cut back, too. So yeah, lots of job vacancies, if you want to work for low wages with no benefits. Everybody I talk to says customers are disappearing. I live near a very busy WalMart and went there on a Saturday, during their peak business. Easy to find a parking space close to the doors. Same thing at Target. I talked to a guy who sells sheds and he said the thing that keeps him busiest nowadays is repossessing sheds because people fell behind on the payments (if you're buying a shed in installments, you've got money management issues). Folks are maxing out their credit cards and only paying the interest. Those people on tv are getting paid to sell us something, same as they did coming up on 2008.
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Three things about The Witcher:
1. Henry Cavill and Anya Chalotra are the only really good actors in The Witcher and have fantastic chemistry together.
2. The actress who plays Ciri (Freya Allen) is just dreadful, and she's been given more and more screen time in Season 2 than Season 1, which is hurting the show.
3. Season 2 devolved into All About Ciri: every single character has to tell us how special Ciri is, Geralt included, and everything revolves around her. I'm not a big of The Chosen One but if y you're going to do that, you need a truly charismatic actor or actress to pull it off. Instead, we get the wooden performance of Freya Allen, who was cast because--well, I assume the casting director is blind and deaf, otherwise I've no explanation. (Allen comes from a very posh background, and we all know how casting directors love their rich boys and girls.)
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Was Roald Dahl, rabid anti-Semite, on the list?
No. Guess old Roald should've just written brilliant children's books and kept his big mouth shut about his political views.
There's a novel by the infamously misogynistic writer VS Naipaul, though. I guess writers of color get pass on problematic views.
But nothing for Rowling, who wrote seven out of the twenty best-selling novels, ever. Rowling is like a one-woman literary Beatles. But she crossed the trans activists (a tiny minority) and besides, she's white, anyway.
Nothing for Dame Agatha Christie, either, who had the bad luck to be born white and English.
Nothing for JRR Tolkien, either. White, English, and male. Bad combination, mate.
Here's the good news: 100 years from now, no one will remember these writers' critics, but we will still be reading their books.
Creating something immortal is the best revenge, don't you think?
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Sounds like whoever wrote this affordable housing bill was watching your channel and reading the comments!
Even if you're against government intervention on principle, remember: affordable housing is the basis for a stable, prosperous society. People who are always moving and are always under financial strain are stressed, unhappy people who don't have an emotional investment in our society.
Incentives, rather than price controls, allows the market to work within limits. We have all kinds of limits on capitalism: OSHA health and safety regulations, speed limits on roads, hygiene standards for restaurants, child labor laws, pollution regulations, etc. Libertarians will tell you that we don't need any of those, but none of us would really want to live in a society where anyone could do anything they wanted without limits.
I haven't read this bill in Florida, but from your summary, it seems the main thrust of it is to make housing more affordable for families and individuals, not to fatten up investors, and that's going to be a good thing for the people of Florida. If you have a nice house that you can afford, you'll stay there, your neighbors will stay there, and you'll build a stable community. I grew up in a neighborhood like that in Kansas, and I still keep in touch with people I knew as a kid because we were all part of a real community. That's what this country needs.
By the way, are you the real Michael? Because I wasn't aware that he owns any long sleeve shirts. Just seems wrong.
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At some point, the democratically elected leaders in North America and Europe declared themselves independent agents, unanswerable to the people. In fact, many of them, such as Johson (and now Truss), Trudeau, Macron, and Biden, gloat that they defy the will of the people. And their putative replacements in office are just as bad, if not worse.
What to do, then? We need a new way of thinking, new parties, and most importantly, a mass organization of we, the people, with a clear agenda that benefits us, and not the rich. I predict the winter of 2022-23 will be a turning point for many of us, a breaking of the last illusion any of us hold that our "leaders" are interested in our welfare or even capable of conceiving of it. They'll beat their chests and boast of more billions poured into the rathole of Ukraine while we proles starve and freeze in the dark. If we accept this, then we're finished as a free people. Die on your feet or live on your knees.
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"The American people have no doubt that Joe Biden is cognitively impaired."
Yet millions will still vote for this man, who is clearly incapable of fulfilling the duties of President of the United States.
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public."--George Carlin
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4 Mistakes Every Rich Dude Makes
1. Offering a settlement. You don't negotiate with terrorists or 304s. You tell them $10 million, they demand $50 million, because you've shown you care. It never, ever works.
2. Being reactive instead of proactive. Let the 304s make their move and then you counter. Nope. Get in front of things and go on the attack and stay on the attack.
3. Quit worrying about a hit to your public image. It's going to happen so the sooner you get this over with the more aggressive you are, the sooner the storm will pass.
4. Putting your dick in a gold digging 304 in the first damned place. There are high class escorts who are paid to remain DISCREET. But rich guys think the rules don't apply to them and they get excited by the danger of messing with crazy broads.
This has been going on forever, by the way. The Duke of Wellington is a national hero in England to this day for defeating Napoleon. In 1824, one liaison came back to haunt him, when Wellington received a letter from a publisher, John Joseph Stockdale, offering to refrain from issuing an edition of the rather racy memoirs of one of his mistresses, Harriette Wilson, in exchange for money. It is said that the Duke promptly returned the letter, after scrawling across it, "Publish and be damned". Wellington knew that once you submit to a blackmailer, there is no end to it. And yes, there were 304s 200 years ago and 2000 years ago and every time in between.
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I remember two things:
One, watching the original miniseries with Richard Chamberlain. It was flawed, but beautifully so. The original Shogun, like this one, was ambitious and sometimes its reach exceeded its grasp.
Two, buying novel by James Clavell and reading it in three days (422,000 words for those of you who want to know). That's equivalent to the entire LOTR trilogy. If you haven't read the novel, do so, and read anything and everything by Clavell.
Clavell started as a screenwriter rather than a novelist, so his novels tend to be very cinematic and adaptable. Clavell was the writer or co-writer of The Fly (1958), The Great Escape (1963), To Sir, with Love (1967) (writer, director and co-producer), and The Last Valley (1970) (writer, director and producer), among others. I highly recommend that last film, by the way (it's for free on Youtube).
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All real is local and anecdotes are not evidence, but I just lost a bid on a house that sold after three days on the market.
It's in a small town with a declining population, no industry and no high-paying jobs. The house has some foundation issues, although otherwise well-maintained.
The seller had held the house for only 18 months and it had a 22% markup over the price he paid. He never lived in it and made no improvements.
Three buyers bid on the house. My realtor says two of us bid asking price, all cash, but an out-of-state investor put in a standing bid for $20,000 above what anyone else offered, and of course that's the offer the seller took.
Individual buyers cannot compete with deep pocket investors. It's not the only factor in the housing market, but investor activity is a key factor in why the housing market has not and will not crash. And if it does, they'll swoop in with bags of cash and scoop up houses left and right.
Market forces cannot fix this situation. I wish they would. Only regulation can do it. You can raise interest rates to 100% and it won't make a difference to investors. House prices can go up or down and it won't make a difference to investors. You can build ten million new houses and investors will buy them all. As long as they're allowed to participate unrestricted in the housing market, this situation does not get better.
Libertarians, attack away, I will ignore you. Anyone with two functioning brain cells knows I'm right.
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My landlord is in poor health, so he's selling his entire portfolio of single family houses.
That's bad news for my landlord (hope he gets better), but good news because now all those houses will go to families that live in them!
Oh, come on. You know better than that. He brokered a deal through a real estate agent and these houses are already sold but never appeared in the MLS--they were sold to other investors. The price, my landlord's wife said, was about 20% more than they expect marketing to non-investors, and the entire inventory was sold in a few days.
I wonder how many houses get sold like this nowadays? The shadow market, I call it. Anybody have any statistics, guesstimates, etc? This is all I could find: "Ten percent of all sellers find a buyer without listing on the MLS, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2019 Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends Report." That 20% price premium for an investor-to-investor sale is one thing keeping inventory low and housing unaffordable.
How will the new landlords recoup their investment? Easy, they're raising rent by 45%. I'm moving on May 18th because I can't afford the new rent. They've already rented the place to a new tenant, sight unseen.
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@angieg495 Angie, It's A Wonderful Life is one of my favorite movies for lots of reasons, not the least of which is its insight about what happens when people react out of fear. Were it not for George Bailey's clear thinking, the people of Bedford Falls would've sold their very souls to the evil Mr. Potter, who George describes as "a scurvy little spider". There are no George Baileys now, and, as you said, everyone is more than willing to sell to Potter. And everyone has (quite amazingly) forgotten that we had a crash in February 2020 that the Fed quickly remedied--but it won't be possible for them to repeat that, even if Jerome Powell wanted to.
"Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's picking up some bargains. Now, we can get through this thing all right. We've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other."--George Bailey during the bank run
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@MichaelBordenaro There are always solutions, what is lacking is the political will to do it. The underlying problem for all of these crises is that we have a top-heavy economy in which wealth and political control are increasingly concentrated in the top ten percent of our population. The middle class was deliberately created post-WW2 to stabilize our society by spreading out wealth and political power, but capitalism, left unchecked, tends to concentrate money into fewer and fewer hands. That's why our housing policy, for example, is guaranteed to be unstable, with booms and crashes. Imagine if you owned a store and ten percent of your customers accounted for ninety percent of your sales, and those ten percent didn't like bananas. Everybody else likes bananas but those ten percent don't, so you don't stock them. So that's why yes, we have no bananas. And by bananas, I mean affordable, middle class housing.
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I gave up riding motorcycles because of the aggression of motorists, and 90% of the time it was women. I don't know why exactly, but women seem to have a very strong negative reaction to bikers. I was run off the road several times and almost killed once. That was enough for me.
What a tragedy this is. One bad choice after another. The librarian could've and should've stayed in her house, locked the door, and called the police. But of course she couldn't do that because she knew she was in the wrong, and then escalated significantly.
The motorcyclist, instead of following the woman to her home, should've gotten her tag number, pulled over, and reported the hit and run to the police. But of course he didn't do that because he was angry at the woman deliberately hitting him.
There were two people who lacked self-control and mature judgment, and now two (counting the baby) are dead.
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SUMMARY OF THE INTERVIEW
STEPHANOPOLOUS: Mr. President, dude, you are, like, SO old. You should just quit, dude.
BIDEN: We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
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There've been riots in Sweden in the past week because a political activist burned the Koran.
Try burning a pile of Bibles or the Torah and you won't see Christians or Jews rioting, although of course they'd be upset.
Europeans took Muslims into their society without any plan to integrate them, naively believing that Muslim immigrants would see the innate superiority of Western mores and values and would adopt them. Politicians whose greatest fear was not their own constituents but rather being labeled a racist for insisting on a cultural identity and common set of values exacerbated what was always going to be a difficult situation.
Why doesn't the United States have a problem on this scale? We're a nation of immigrants and absorb each new wave over time. The waves crest and fall, and there's always strains when immigration is high, but somehow we manage. I've taught immigrants English for a great deal of my thirty year teaching career, and one question they ask again and again is "How do I know when I'm an American?" I tell them the definition is always changing, which is the key: our national identity isn't as fixed as those of many older societies. We're also a geographically bigger country (the UK would easily fit inside Texas with ample room to spare), so we can absorb huge numbers of people more readily.
I have Muslim neighbors from Iraq (currently observing Ramadan), and at the beginning, the wife and daughters wore the hijab. Last year, the daughters stopped wearing it because they want to be more Americanized. Now, the wife has stopped wearing her hijab, as well, because she is interviewing for jobs and doesn't want to the hijab to put anyone off. No one told the women to do this, and no one ever would have forced them. We let them figure it out for themselves: you can wear the hijab as long as you want if you're willing to be less integrated. My own mother's parents came from Germany, speaking German and reading a German language newspaper. Now none of my mother's side of the family have a German accent or speak more than a few words of the language. Over time, immigrants choose to integrate into the larger culture (changing it some as they do so) IF politicians don't incentivize them staying separate. European politicians thought they'd be noble and enlightened by incentivizing the Muslim immigrants to remain apart and to basically have their own society within Europe, and in the process, did neither the native Europeans nor the new arrivals any favors.
If you took the 1-2 minutes to read this comment, thanks.
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Former USAF intelligence officer here.
I anticipate with a high probability that the next propaganda round in Western media will be a "debate" about boots on the ground of NATO troops in the Ukrainian-Russian conflict. "Debate" because it's actually already been decided, and the Rubicon was crossed when Biden ordered NS1 and NS2 pipelines torpedoed. There is no other definition for this coming conflict except WW3. The danger to Taiwan during this time will be particularly acute, because if Xi is going to invade that island, he'll never have a better opportunity than when the US is tied down in Ukraine.
The idea is to introduce a small force of not less than five and no more than ten battalions (5,000-10,000 soldiers) at the beginning, most of them European rather than American, then claim unfounded Russian attacks on that "defensive" force to bolster US and EU public support for an inevitable mass mobilization. Once again, this appears to have been decided as early as January-February of 2022. Weather in that region is a huge factor in deciding when to muster the full NATO ground forces: both winter and spring present different challenges, so the really big confrontation has been deferred until the summer of 2023. The US in particular has a long history of easing into big wars by starting with a smaller force, such as it did in Korea and Vietnam.
NATO planners have discussed whether or not Putin would actually use tactical nukes, and have decided it's a bluff. All our futures will depend on them being right.
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All real is local and anecdotes are not evidence, but I just lost a bid on a house that sold after three days on the market.
It's in a small town with a declining population, no industry and no high-paying jobs. The house has some foundation issues, although otherwise well-maintained.
The seller had held the house for only 18 months and it had a 22% markup over the price he paid. He never lived in it and made no improvements.
Three buyers bid on the house. My realtor says two of us bid asking price, all cash, but an out-of-state investor put in a standing bid for $20,000 above what anyone else offered, and of course that's the offer the seller took.
Individual buyers cannot compete with deep pocket investors. It's not the only factor in the housing market, but investor activity is a key factor in why the housing market has not and will not crash. And if it does, they'll swoop in with bags of cash and scoop up houses left and right.
Market forces cannot fix this situation. I wish they would. Only regulation can do it. You can raise interest rates to 100% and it won't make a difference to investors. House prices can go up or down and it won't make a difference to investors. You can build ten million new houses and investors will buy them all. As long as they're allowed to participate unrestricted in the housing market, this situation does not get better.
Libertarians, attack away, I will ignore you. Anyone with two functioning brain cells knows I'm right.
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I don't agree with Colonel Mac that Biden using nukes is "unthinkable". Three things:
1. Biden won't be making that decision, not really, someone else will;
2. To this "someone else", losing to Russia is unthinkable, not a nuclear exchange;
3. To this "someone else", a nuclear war is winnable because in their mind(s), Putin will surrender as soon as the US uses nukes (he won't, but that's what they think).
A nuclear war, aka mass murder, is not only thinkable but more likely than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Oh well, it's been an interesting sixty years.
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Emmanuel Macron himself said it: "The age of abundance is over." Not for Macron and his class, but for the great masses of Europeans, it is. By design. Ask yourself why the likes of Rutte, Macron, Truss, et al, would wish to impoverish and immiserate their own people. Any ideas? I have several.
I will add that I do not think President Biden nor any of the European leaders are evil masterminds. They are, in fact, puppets, and rather incompetent ones at that. Yes, they are this stupid. They are unleashing forces they cannot predict nor control.
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I worked in a female-dominated profession (teaching) most of my life. Every single male teacher who got romantically involved with a female colleague ended up getting hurt professionally, and this was decades before the "Me Too" movement. When a couple breaks up, men will shrug and move on. Women will plot revenge and exact it, knowing that just an accusation without evidence is enough to ruin a man's life.
I had a female assistant who was upset by the work I assigned her, so she threatened to file sexual harassment charges against me, thinking this would intimidate. I was at a point in my career where I didn't need to work, so I told her to do her worst. She ultimately didn't file, but did spread rumors about me to the staff, which resulted in noticeable ostracism. Again, didn't care, because I was there to do my job, not socialize, but had I been at a different time of my life, just those rumors would've destroyed me.
This is why you see fewer and fewer men every year in the teaching ranks: it's the most toxic environment imaginable, and that's because it's female-dominated.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Are you in the top 10% of income earners (over $200,00/year household income)? If not, then this propaganda was NOT for you. If you don't have a minimum income of $200,000, you don't count to these "business programs" on tv, nor to the economists, nor to the politicians. In fact, you don't count, period. This program reflects THEIR reality, not ours, and in THEIR reality, things aren't so bad. In fact, they're pretty damned good.
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The problem with many people today is that they take advice from their social media followers.
Social media followers who question bad life choices get blocked.
Social media followers who cheer on doing dumb, self-defeating stuff get a ❤❤❤ from the person they're following.
Either stop listening to "followers" on Instagram, Youtube, TikTok, etc, or else start listening to the ones who are telling you what you DON'T want to hear but what you may NEED to hear.
I'm glad I had my parents and other trusted people in my life to guide me, not a random bunch of strangers who liked my TikTok video about me dumping a perfectly nice person because I was bored after three weeks.
Everything and everyone has to be entertaining now, and if you're not good at putting on a song and dance routine and just want to be a normal person who isn't launching a sea kayak out of a plane to go whitewater rafting in the Grand Canyon and climbing Mount Everest later that week, God help you, because you're boring. No one has an attention span long enough to even read this comment (it's over ten words, a magnum opus!). ENTERTAIN ME OR BEGONE.
This is the world we made. Try not to choke on it.
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China's rise has been aided and abetted by the American and European ruling classes, aka "the elite".
Here's how to put China in a corner:
1. Bring manufacturing jobs back home. Repatriation of these jobs will take years but it can be done. America needs to have a manufacturing base as part of our national security and for the well-being of our people.
2. Remind the other Asian nations that they all hate the Chinese, and with good reason: the Chinese have always exploited and oppressed them whenever and wherever they could. If China has to constantly feud and fight with nations in its backyard, it'll keep it from mischief elsewhere.
3. Stop threatening China militarily. We can't carry out a credible threat without destroying ourselves in the process, so stop wasting resources doing this. The Chinese, like Americans, are very nationalistic and threatening China only strengthens Xi.
4. Bide our time. Due to its One Child policy, the Chinese are facing a demographic crisis, with not only a declining population but a rapidly aging one. The US is open to immigration and immigrants are younger people of child-bearing age; the Chinese cannot and will not allow mass immigration. Time is on our side if we play it smart.
People talk as if China has already won this game. No, the game's not over yet, but we need to be smarter about it, and we need to stop listening to our traitorous ruling class, who will sell out America to fatten their own wallets. We need patriots leading our nation who will put America first.
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1.4 million Americans identify as transgendered. That's .00424%, or a less than one-half of one percent. Women are 53% of the population. Why do 53% of the population have subordinate rights to a group whose entire population could fit in the city of Dallas, Texas?
I'm glad to see that the Brits are resisting this madness, which has resulted in the US destroying women's sports by allowing "transwomen" (i.e., biological males who claim to be females) to "compete" in sports, winning all or most of the matches.
I'd heard terrible things about JK Rowling, but all second-hand, so I decided to investigate for myself.
I agreed with almost everything Rowling wrote on this issue. Rowling isn't a bigot, she's an advocate for protecting women's rights in our society.
I don't have a daughter, but I do have nieces. I don't want them in a changing room with "women" who have penises, nor do I want them competing in sports with "women" who have penises or the XY chromosome, even if they've had "reassignment" surgery. There is NO surgery that can change the chromosomal makeup of human being, and that's what determines sex.
XX = female
XY = male
Biology has spoken and it cannot be refuted.
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Two points: 1. Black people have repeatedly asked white people to NEVER say the N-word. Not in any context. It's deeply offensive. Rogan casually did it many times. Maybe he's a racist, maybe not, but he definitely is a jackass. 2. Rogan DID refer to a black neighborhood as "the Planet of the Apes". Context? In what context is that OK?
Sure, he apologized. After he was caught. They always do, don't they?
That said: why is everyone making such a fuss over this mediocre white man? I've listened to his podcasts a few times. They were rambling, boring, not entertaining or insightful at all. Other people like Rogan's content, so they can listen to it. Free country (sort of).
There IS definitely a coordinated campaign to take Rogan down. I don't want him taken off Spotify or any other platform. What I would do if I were one of his prominent critics on any issue (COVID, the use of the N-word, etc) is ask to be invited onto his show to confront Rogan face to face, man to man. That's how you do it. If he says no, then he's a coward. But I'm guessing he'd say "yes". It'd be great for ratings.
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I can see an upside to the dollar losing global supremacy if it shifts us to being an export economy.
That means we can repatriate manufacturing jobs to the US and rebuild our manufacturing base that was deliberately demolished by Wall Street from the 1980s onwards.
The United States is in a unique position in the world, because we're the only nation on earth that is capable of producing literally everything our people need, such as food and energy, without imports.
One of our first moves should be to begin rebuilding factories now, and to ban foreign ownership of our farm land and other real estate. Force divestment by any participant in BRICS. The Chinese, who don't have enough arable land to feed their people, won't like that.
To do this, we'll need political leadership that truly cares about the American people and right now, we don't have that in either party. Both parties ship money by the barrel to Ukraine, cut deals with China that benefit them and their donors at the expense of the people, refuse to secure our northern and southern borders against mass illegal immigration, etc. All of that has got to stop.
The only people who can make this change is we, the people. Get rid of the bought and paid for politicians who've sold us out to foreign powers and make America for Americans again.
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This isn't complicated. Jimmy Dore explained it recently in one of his Youtube shows: Jimmy wants the Youtube shows to sell tickets to his live performances. To do that, Dore wants the biggest audience possible. Like any good performer, he looks at the metrics of different shows. The shows where Dore gets angry, rants, and ignores facts contrary to his narrative get the biggest audience. So those are the shows he does.
People who've been watching him for a long time see that he briefly tried to be "serious" and organize for "Force the Vote" and The People's Party, but that proved unpopular and doesn't sell tickets to his live performances. So he's largely abandoned that.
Jimmy Dore is a businessman. He's in this to make money. He's making more money than he ever could have as just a standup comedian, where he was moderately successful at best. He never hit the "big time"--but now his Youtube channel has made him rich. Jimmy won't kill the goose that laid the golden egg and cross Youtube, despite his frequent complaints.
Stop looking to a self-described "jagoff comedian in his garage" for insightful political analysis or leadership on any issues. That's not why Dore is here. He's here for himself. Just understand this is his business model, be entertained, and end it there. Dore does sometimes have interesting, thoughtful guests, such as Max Blumenthal and Glenn Greenwald, but I noticed that such guests are becoming less and less frequent because, again, Dore doesn't get a lot of views for those "serious" programs. Rants = views and views = money.
If you understand that Dore is an entertainer who wants to make money, and that politics is just a way to do that, then you understand him very well.
By the way, I used to be a defender/supporter and found him funny. But Dore shifted and hasn't made a secret of why he did that. The worst part of it is that he's not even that funny; he's become increasingly an angry man who yells at the camera and has lost his comedic detachment. Where this will take him, I don't know. Certainly the American public have always rewarded mediocrity, and Dore has cast himself in this role. I think eventually his audience will dwindle but never entirely disappear. Dore has already sidelined himself and there's no coming back from the path he's taken.
And so it goes.
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What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
From Henry V, Act IV, Scene III
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Homosexuality is only confirmed in Wilde's case, and speculated in the other three. We have no way of knowing about Plato, but the ancient Greeks didn't have a concept of "homosexuality", so the label is meaningless for Plato. As for Leonardo and Michelangelo, it was common for artists of their time not to marry--that's not an indication of sexual preference. In fact, Michelangelo protested when he was accused of being a homosexual--people who knew him said that Michelangelo only cared for his art and was more likely asexual. Leonardo may also have been asexual, but there's rumors and gossip from Da Vinci's time that he bedded some of the aristocratic women he painted. Gay activists have tried to claim many historical figures are gay with scant or non-existent evidence.
For the record, I don't care if any of those men were gay, but I insist on evidence for every claim, and except in Wilde's case, there's little to none.
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I see fewer people eating regularly at "fast food" places as one silver lining of our dark clouds. When I was a kid, we got McDonald's as a treat, maybe a few times a year. There are people who eat almost every meal from these "restaurants" and it's not healthy nor inexpensive. When I was homeless in LA after I got out of the service, I was grateful for the cheap food at Taco Bell, though (and when they found out I was a homeless vet, they started putting extra food into my takeaway sack and sometimes didn't even charge me), so it does have its place. It just shouldn't be at the center of your diet long-term.
I'm a retired teacher and every morning, I'd see kids with a sugary drink and pastry from Starbucks as their "breakfast"--800 to 1200 calories right there, and none of it nutritious. My mom made oatmeal or scrambled eggs for us, and we didn't drink coffee until we were in college.
There's a Taco Bell and a McDonald's where I live. McD's prices have gone up about 60%, Taco Bell's about 10%. Funny how inflation hasn't hit the Bell as hard as the Golden Arches. It's almost like one of those places is price gouging.
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Dear anti-gun control people: Celebrate! You've won a total victory in this country. No, I'm not going to argue with you. You've won. We gun control people lost, big time, and the debate is over. Don't you get it? This story, Uvalde, the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park, and all the others, are a result of your victory. This is the country YOU made: one where we are not safe on the road, at work, at school, not even in our own homes. Everywhere is a free-for-all shooting gallery. And it wouldn't have been possible without YOU.
Get used to this, because this is the country we live in now. Well, we'll live in it until we get shot and killed but until then, enjoy your freedom as a moving target.
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http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/site/entry/medicare-for-all
California will spend about $370 billion on healthcare in 2017. Assuming the state’s existing system stayed intact, the cost of extending coverage to all California residents, including the nearly 15 million people who are currently uninsured or underinsured, would increase healthcare spending by about 10%, to roughly $400 billion.
That’s not the full story, though. Enacting a single-payer system would yield considerable savings overall by lowering administrative costs, controlling the prices of pharmaceuticals and fees for physicians and hospitals, reducing unnecessary treatments and expanding preventive care. We found that Healthy California could ultimately result in savings of about 18%, bringing healthcare spending to about $331 billion, or 8% less than the current $370 billion.
How would California cover this $331-billion bill? For the most part, much the same way it covers healthcare spending right now. Roughly 70% of the state’s current spending is paid for through public programs, including Medicare and MediCal. This funding — totaling about $225 billion — would continue, as is required by law. It would simply flow through Healthy California rather than existing programs.
The state would still need to raise about $106 billion a year to cover the cost of replacing private insurance. This could be done with two new taxes.
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Relevant section from Trump's executive order: "I hereby proclaim that the immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens from countries referred to in section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12), would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants, of such persons for 90 days from the date of this order (excluding those foreign nationals traveling on diplomatic visas, North Atlantic Treaty Organization visas, C-2 visas for travel to the United Nations, and G-1, G-2, G-3, and G-4 visas)."
This portion of the order references a law Obama signed naming seven countries in section 217(a)(12) of the INA law. Those seven countries are:
Iran
Iraq
Syria
Sudan
Libya
Yemen
Somalia
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I searched my heart and here's my answer: I will vote for anyone I believe will actually deliver on the promise of universal health care, stopping the Drug Wars, fighting against big money in politics and halting our wars of empire around the world. I do not care if that person is female, male, white, black, Asian, Latino, Muslim, atheist, Jewish, Christian...I don't care for "identity" politics at all and even less for tokenism.
I was a bit offended when Clinton claimed we HAD to vote for her because she's a woman and it's time for a female president. We had a black President and the lot of black Americans is worse now than it was when he took office. Obama didn't identify with the color of his own skin, but rather with the social class (the oligarch) that he wants to be part of. The one identification that's important to me is CLASS interest.
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I'll just say this and then shut up: I don't see the housing market slowing down at all. In two years of searching, I've seen maybe five or six houses that weren't dilapidated "handyman/investor specials". Each and every house went at or above asking price and went under contract in less than 72 hours. The sales history of each and every house showed that each one had huge markups amounting to double-digit annual gains, e.g., a house purchased for $150,000 selling for $260,000 five years later, etc.
I don't see this changing moving forward, for all kinds of reasons, including market manipulation. I told my buyer's agent today that after two years of fruitless searching, I'm done. I'll just keep renting and hoping the rent doesn't go too high.
People who think that the housing market crash is coming and will open a window of opportunity to buy a house are sadly misguided. Prices aren't going to collapse and if they do, investors will just scoop them up. Housing prices have been boosted and are being kept high not by some accident but by design. Anyone who denies that is either delusional or is selling something.
Feel free to block my comment, I won't mind and I won't blame you, either. It's got too much truth in it to be palatable. Take care and good luck with your channel.
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@CarlWithACamera We have one more thing in common: I'll turn 60 this year, too. I've thought about the same plan as you (part-time in the States and part-time traveling), but traveling closer to home in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, etc so I can practice my Spanish. Also, the food down South is more to my taste. Have you tried other places in the Philippines besides Cebu? I've heard that some places are cleaner and more orderly than others, but since I've never been to the Philippines, all my information is second-hand. The ones I heard good things about are Bacolod, Davao, Makati. In Mexico, for example,Querétaro is famous for being much cleaner and orderly than other Mexican cities, and in fact, cleaner than many US cities.
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They didn't study lockdowns in Asia (Vietnam, Taiwan, mainland China, etc), which had much lower COVID mortality rates than in Europe or the US.
Were lockdowns different there?
Yes, they were REAL lockdowns, with people sheltering in place with government support. The US did lockdowns the absolute wrong way, state by state, city by city, industry by industry. Europe's story is somewhere in-between Asia and the US.
In the US, we can't even get people to wear masks in public without throwing adult tantrums. In Asia, everyone wears them without complaint during the cold and flu season and now during this pandemic.
Kim is exhibiting confirmation bias: a single study says that lockdowns weren't effective in lowering COVID mortality, but that's ONE study. If that same single study claimed lockdowns WERE effective, would she now be saying "I was wrong"? Don't think so.
Common sense tells us that real lockdowns, in which huge groups of people drastically reduce their social contact, works to drastically lower transmission and hence rates of infection. NUMEROUS studies also say that a REAL lockdown (not the half-hearted ones in the US and Europe) WORK but only for a limited time--they aren't an effective long-term strategy. Masking compliance, universal testing, and vaccination are the way to go long-term.
I Googled "lockdowns effective preventing spread of COVID-19" and found that many studies confirm they DO work in the initial stages of a pandemic.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01009-0
"Reuters contacted two experts, Dr. Elizabeth Stuart, Associate Dean for Education at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ( here ) and Dr. Stuart Ray, infectious disease expert with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ( here ) . Both confirmed that lockdowns do reduce transmission of the SARS-Cov-2 and highlighted that a more “targeted” or “proportional” approach of restrictions can mitigate the risk of infection, while balancing other concerns about the economy and mental health." (source: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-lockdowns/fact-check-studies-show-covid-19-lockdowns-have-saved-lives-idUSKBN2842WS)
But of course Kim Iversen always believed, without proof, that lockdowns were ineffective and now she's grabbing onto a single study as her life raft.
By the way, Kim hasn't been mingling in public during the pandemic--she's been, uh, in lockdown, doing her job with little to no public contact. So do as she says, and not as she does.
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By the way, the Nazis broke Virginia state law, but none of them will ever be prosecuted:
§ 18.2-282. Pointing, holding, or brandishing firearm, air or gas operated weapon or object similar in appearance; penalty.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to point, hold or brandish any firearm or any air or gas operated weapon or any object similar in appearance, whether capable of being fired or not, in such manner as to reasonably induce fear in the mind of another or hold a firearm or any air or gas operated weapon in a public place in such a manner as to reasonably induce fear in the mind of another of being shot or injured. However, this section shall not apply to any person engaged in excusable or justifiable self-defense. Persons violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor or, if the violation occurs upon any public, private or religious elementary, middle or high school, including buildings and grounds or upon public property within 1,000 feet of such school property, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
I saw over 100 violations of that law in the streets of Charlottesville by the white Nazi thugs. NOT ONE DAMNED ARREST.
If BLM activists had those same military assault weapons, you can be damned sure there would have been six different kinds of hell unleashed on them by the cops.
The cops have chosen their side. It's not ours.
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Our Congress recently passed a bill spending $753 billion for the military. More than than China, India, Russia, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Australia combined. No debate, no agonizing over "how are we going to pay for this?" Isn't education part of national defense? The American reluctance to invest in education (not just teaching salaries but also facilities) is a huge and ongoing threat to our country's future. We could close the "salary gap" for teachers nationwide for 3.5% of the annual military budget. This is madness.
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I was working the reference desk at our library, long line, made it move as fast as I could, when two young black women were my next patrons.
"How can I help you?"
"Took you long enough, you dumbass m*****f***er. Why the f**k you make us wait this long, m*****f***er!"
"Miss, I'm not going to help you after you yell at me and insult me. Next, please."
"OH LOOK AT THIS! HE BEIN' RACIST! THIS LIBRARY IS RACIST Y'ALL!"
Did that young woman and her friend really think I'd allow white, Latino, or Asian people to yell at me or insult me? Lot of black folks demand respect without giving any. I'm tired, boss, real tired.
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Are you in the top 10% of income earners (over $200,00/year household income)? If not, then this propaganda was NOT for you. If you don't have a minimum income of $200,000, you don't count to these "business programs" on tv, nor to the economists, nor to the politicians. In fact, you don't count, period. This program reflects THEIR reality, not ours, and in THEIR reality, things aren't so bad. In fact, they're pretty damned good.
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The first woman in your video, the blonde, is pretty, but her voice is high, whiny, and annoying. Also, who wears Timberlands on a first date? I wouldn't date her, not even for an easy lay, because I don't want to be discussed on her TikTok or Instagram or whatever.
I've come to the sad conclusion that for most women, their whole life is a reality show, staged for drama, with us men as supporting characters.
Honey, you aren't a Kardashian and I'm not Scott Disick. This is real life. When you end up empty, bitter, and alone in your forties and wonder where it all went wrong, here's a clue: it went wrong when you relied on astrological signs instead of logic, when you spent more time making kissy faces and posing on social media than you did talking to your boyfriend or husband, when you decided to broadcast every detail of what's supposed to be your private, personal life just to get some fleeting attention.
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1. Our government is entirely co-opted by Big Business. The two have merged. When you speak with the director of FEMA, or the Secretary of the EPA, or the Secretary of Transportation, or the President of the United States, you're speaking to a corporate employee.
2. These chemicals will persist in the water and soil for thousands of years to come. There is no "cleanup".
3. This disaster is just the beginning. Biden, who broke the railroad workers strike, will get away with this, same as Obama got away with ignoring the water crisis in Flint. The railroad will not pay a penny for cleanup and will go about its business as if this never happened. And the next disaster will not be one but many, more and more until this country becomes a hellscape. And no one cares because the people affected are Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables".
Our government--our society--is rotten at the top. Big Business and Big Government are run by corrupt, self-serving sociopaths. This train derailment didn't happen on Martha's Vineyard; it wouldn't be allowed. East Palestine? Well, why not poison the town of East Palestine for one thousand generations to come? I'll bet the town doesn't even HAVE a country club.
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In the bad old days, when there was open and legalized discrimination against black people in the States, Markle would've done a PFW (passing for white) and gotten away with it quite easily. The States have had many generations of racial intermingling, with the result that many black folk in our country are very light-skinned, some as light as Markle. President Obama and Vice-President Harris are both biracial, although their skin and features are "black enough" for them to credibly claim that they're treated as black people. Markle isn't in that category.
I've noticed that in the run-up to the premiere of the Netflix documentary, Markle has been using makeup and perhaps sunbathing to make her skin appear as dark as possible, and even then, she appears very light-skinned. It appears that Markle didn't fit in with the royal family because of her personality, but needed something external to blame, so she played the race card. I've taught and worked with many biracial people in the States, and it's ordinarily quite easy to tell who has a mixed heritage--but even with that experience I, like Mr. Webb, didn't realize Markle was biracial until I saw her mother.
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In 1998, both Serena and Venus Williams lost in tennis playing against the 203rd ranked male player, Karsten Braasch, who spent the morning before the matches smoking, drinking, and playing golf. The match was at the instigation of the Williams sisters, who claimed they could beat a top-ranked male player.
Braasch played against the two sisters back-to-back.
6-1 against Serena, 6-2 against Venus.
But remember, according to feminists, there is NO gender advantage in sports.
That's why you see all those women as star quarterbacks in the NFL, right?
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90% of all divorces are initiated by women.
27% of the women who get divorced say they regret it.
Women make decisions based on feelings, not logic, so if they are feeling bad about the marriage for even a short period of time, they'll file for divorce and then later realize they've made a huge and irreversible error.
This is what happened in my marriage. I was briefly unemployed (less than six months) and my wife ended our 15 year marriage because "I don't ever want to have to struggle financially". A year after the divorce was finalized, she begged to come back, saying that the guy she'd left me for (without her being single even one day, which means she was warming him up as her Plan B) was emotionally unavailable and struggling financially (while I was not only back on my feet but had landed the best job of my life).
Of course I said "no" because she'd taught me a valuable lesson: that women's commitment is conditional on external circumstances we men can't entirely control, such as income and employment status. I was laid off from my job through no fault of my own, she knew that, and still left.
I haven't remarried and never will. It took me 15 years, but I've learned my lesson: don't get married. All that "in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer" stuff means nothing to women.
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I live in a small town in Kansas, population about 2500.
There's a new housing development in our town, 120 houses in all.
I inquired and to qualify to "buy" the house, you have to be an undocumented migrant (it's basically free and property taxes and maintenance are paid for first five years).
We already have 400-500 Spanish-speaking illegals here, put up at taxpayer expense in the town's three hotels (which used to be for truckers passing through and hunters in season).
If an illegal family of 6 occupies each of the 120 houses, that's 720. Assuming the illegals in the hotels move into the houses, 22% of our town will be "undocumented migrants" by this time next year.
Oh, by the way, our property taxes are going up to pay for the infrastructure for the new development.
We had a literal zero crime rate before the illegals were sent here. Now we have lots of property crime, still not much violent crime. Local cops are totally inadequate to the task. They took the job expecting Mayberry and instead are getting actual crime.
We're being colonized, folks, and the illegals are putting down deep roots.
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I have a cat I call Tiger. She's a very sweet lap cat. Her owner is an old lady who lived across the street from me and went into long-term care. The adult daughter doesn't want Tiger, so Tiger has just been roaming around the neighborhood, foraging garbage. Tiger came to me when I moved into the neighborhood a few months ago and wanted affection as much as food. I gave her flea treatment, feed her every day, and cuddle with her for at least 2 hours a day. Tiger still goes to her former owner's house, which sits vacant, and meows to be let in, but then she returns to my house and stays over here most of the time. There are several cats in our neighborhood who are also castoffs and I'm feeding them, too, but none of them want to cuddle on my lap as Tiger does. Tiger appears to be 9 or 10 years old, so she's officially a 'senior kitty'.
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I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, I'd like to see you if you don't mind
He said, I'd love to, dad, if I can find the time
You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, dad
It's been sure nice talking to you
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when"
But we'll get together then, dad
We're gonna have a good time then
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Somebody wake me up when Jimmy talks about something besides COVID. Important issue, not the only one in the world. Here's why he does it: Jimmy's Youtube show is an advertisement for his standup comedy. He said this himself on a recent show: he does the show to get people to buy tickets to his live shows. He's found that all COVID, all the time, gets lots of views, so that's why he focuses on this issue to the almost total exclusion of everything else.
Jimmy has become a one-issue person and really, this show has become, well, boring. I can't even watch all the way through one of these COVID rants.
Remember The Movement for a People's Party? Jimmy was all for it, but those shows didn't get views, so he dropped it. He's dropped a lot of stuff simply because it didn't attract the biggest audience. Well, I guess Jimmy wants a million subscribers and maybe he'll get them soon, but today, I'm unsubscribing and won't watch his videos again. This channel no longer serves to advance any progressive cause (and Jimmy has banished Graham Elwood and Ron Placone for disagreeing with him on COVID-related issues), just Jimmy's career. Ok, it's his channel, and nobody's forcing any of us to watch. Good luck, y'all.
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"The unthinkable"--yeah, right
Our local gun stores are reporting record business today. This always happens after a mass shooting, because people are afraid that the federal government is finally going to institute meaningful restrictions on firearms.
Don't worry. If our country couldn't do anything after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, when twenty kindergarteners and six adults were murdered in cold blood, we won't do anything now. Sandy Hook was a turning point for this country: our refusal to take any steps to prevent another mass shooting means that we've accepted these as a way of life.
What's that, this isn't a good time to discuss this? It's NEVER a "good time" to discuss this, is it? So we never do.
This isn't the first mass shooting in the US and it won't be the last. And they will just keep getting bigger and deadlier, and it will never, ever, ever be the "right time" to discuss how to prevent it.
By the way, I was a teacher for thirty years, including elementary school at one point. If you say "arm the teachers", I'll just ignore you. Because if having teachers pack pistols and rifles is your "solution", you are just too stupid for words.
Y'all feel bad about this but you won't lift a finger to prevent another one. You can't bring back these little kids, but you could make the next shooting less likely. But you won't. So save your prayers and telling us all how really awful you feel. So do something. Words are meaningless. Only actions count.
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I know a woman whose profession is marriage.
She's a failed minor actress who had a few bit parts in the late 1990s. Her biggest claim to fame was that she played a waitress in an Al Pacino film and was on-screen for 20 seconds.
She's married and divorced three men now. Cleaned up in each divorce and is still collecting child support for two kids.
She has a house in Santa Monica, a new Lexus, no job, zero money worries (buys her groceries at Whole Foods exclusively, because the sky's the limit when you're not paying the bills).
And what did she do to deserve this comfortable, easy life?
She got married.
And more importantly, she got divorced.
Why would ANY man get married when there's a strong possibility a woman is going to do this to him?
"Wait, you'll take half my stuff, my house, my kids, stick me with child support for almost two decades, and we actually get 2-3 years of happy marriage? SIGN ME UP!"
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Chris Hedges has said that all dying empires start wars that have no strategic value; wars that, in fact, hurt the empires. The ruling class don't know what else to do to revive the empire, because they have no new ideas, so they start wars. Wars always enriched the empire and made it stronger in the past, but now wars do the opposite, robbing the public treasury and weakening the empire's hold.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and now Taiwan may bleed the empire dry and squander its diplomatic and military power. The pattern repeats itself throughout history, and the only thing to do is to hang on tight and hope to survive the decline and fall. We're blessed with a front row street to the demise of one of history's great conquering nations, the United States of America: enjoy the ride while it lasts.
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Walter Tevis (who wrote The Queen's Gambit, The Hustler, The Man Who Fell To Earth, and Mockingbird) taught college in the 1960s. Even then, Tevis was alarmed at how unlettered students were becoming, which was the impetus for his novel Mockingbird, which envisions a future in which human beings are illiterates who are tended to by super-intelligent machines. And students in the 1960s were Rhodes Scholars compared to those of today.
I was a teacher for thirty years. When I started, students could name all 50 states and their capitals, the dates of this country's major wars, etc. But education was deliberately dumbed down decade after decade, until by the end, the vast majority of them were like these interviewees.
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@learyan Having lived through four recessions in my life, all of which affected me personally, I do NOT wish for a recession. I don't wish for tornadoes or earthquakes, either, but I prepare for them.
Houses will NEVER be cheap in the US again. What happened in the 2008 crash will happen again this time: distressed properties will go up for sale and be snapped up by all-cash investors, then held off the market until they're ready to release them.
Don't you understand that these periodic crashes are part of a pattern and a plan? Right now, the rich folks aren't buying, they're selling. They'll buy later, after all the suckers have lost those overpriced homes to default.
Buy low, sell high. That's how the rich got rich and how they stay that way.
We have a nationwide shortage of 5 million homes. Investors and banks are holding 17 million VACANT homes off the market, creating an ARTIFICIAL shortage.
I'm leaving the United States in four months, going to SE Asia where an American can afford to live well. The United States has been undone by the greed of our psychopathic oligarchs. This country is circling the drain.
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@geoffdundee Jehovah describes His people as “my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms” (Jeremiah 51:20).
Is Christianity a militaristic religion, then? Or does interpreting the Bible literally lead us to think so?
You can find cruelty in any of the monotheistic religions IF you want to. You can also find a message of peace and brotherhood, too.
Today, the most quoted — and the most misinterpreted — Quranic passage (2:190-192) is the one giving permission to fight the unbelievers. What many don’t know is that it speaks only to a specific time, and only at the city of Mecca, when the idol worshippers of Mecca had broken a truce with the Muslims and did horrible injustices.
The passage speaks to the Muslims with numerous conditions, including that fighting in self-defense was a last resort.
2:190 Fight in the way of God those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. God does not like transgressors.
2:191 And kill them wherever you find them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah [Persecution] is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
2:192 And if they cease, then indeed, God is Forgiving and Merciful.
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In May of 2021, a homeless guy trashed my car, causing nearly $3000 of damage, because he was trying to break in to steal whatever he could from it (he failed to get in, by the way, and even if he had, I'm not stupid enough to leave anything of value in my parked car). I showed Beverly Hills police video surveillance footage and one of the officers said "Oh, I know this guy". I said "Ok, so who is he?" "A frequent flyer", the cop said. "He does this all the time. I just saw him walking around this morning." Guess what the BHPD did on the case. That's right, nothing. I don't live in California any longer. Enough is enough. (The cops didn't do anything because it would've been a waste of their time. No way was anyone going to prosecute or jail the offender, so why bother arresting him? The BHPD is an excellent police force, but their hands are tied.)
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I don't have a problem with reparations for black folks. Not for slavery, even, but for historical injustices which have occurred in our lifetimes. Black veterans, for example, were excluded from the GI Bill after World War Two. I taught with a woman who had to drink from the "colored" water fountain. The War on Drugs has really been a war on black and brown people. All in our lifetimes or in our parents' lifetimes.
What I do have a problem with is a rich white man (or anyone) lecturing ME as if I was part of the problem.
I'm white. I'm also poor. I worked my whole life as a teacher and never made much money. Black folks can't get any reparations out of me because I don't have any money. Guys like Jon Stewart are the ones who own five houses and have multimillion dollar investment portfolios. Go talk to THOSE white folks. And rich black people, because they exist, too.
Advocates like Stewart are the worst enemy of black people, because they make it solely a racial justice issue. It's also a class issue and class is the one thing we must NEVER talk about in America. Dr. King was murdered because of the Poor People's Campaign, which brought together black, brown, and white folks of the same class (poor, working class) to demand their due. If you said we're going to address socioeconomic inequality and that means eliminating poverty in this country for everyone, regardless of race, you'd have something that many people can support. But a policy based on All White People Are Bad? Naw, that ain't happening.
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