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It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “So-called iBuyers purchased a total of 70,402 homes in 2021, more than doubling the number purchased in 2019, according to Zillow. The shopping spree led to Zillow’s implosion and a lot of red ink on Opendoor’s books. Zillow notably lost so much money through its headfirst dive into iBuying – $881 million – that it shelved the program in November. Opendoor, however, managed to exceed Zillow’s overall net loss in 2021, recording a $662 million loss of its own. Not analyzed in the report was Redfin, which reported a $110 million loss in 2021 due to ramping up its iBuying program.”

“What a Hamptons headache Peloton founder John Foley and his wife must be having! The couple are quietly shopping their sprawling East Hampton oceanfront estate at a loss. Is it a case of buyers’ remorse? They had bought the 4-acre spread, at 442 Further Lane, last December — for $55 million, which was $2.5 million over the home’s asking price.”

“A Bel Air mega-mansion marketed as the most expensive home in America was sold at auction Thursday, for less than half the asking price, and less than a quarter of the intended value. The roperty, dubbed ‘The One’ by its developer Niales Niami, sold for a record-setting price of $126 million.”

“A group of local landlords filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday seeking to overturn Oakland and Alameda County’s current eviction bans. According to the lawsuit, Oakland landlord John Williams, one of the plaintiffs, stopped receiving $1,500 in monthly rent from a tenant in a West Oakland duplex he owns after the moratoriums were approved. Williams had trouble paying his mortgage, and according to the lawsuit, he unsuccessfully tried to sell the building. He moved into the duplex’s upper unit because of his own financial difficulties.”

“Last October, Williams was ‘so riddled with stress caused by his non-paying renter and the very real possibility of losing 1109 32nd Street to foreclosure, he was hospitalized and, to date, remains disabled as a result.’ ‘Small mom-and-pop property owners have endured two years of not receiving rental payments. As a result, they are now on the brink of foreclosure and bankruptcy,’ said Joe Arellano, spokesperson for the Oakland-based nonprofit Housing Providers of America.”

“If you’re purchasing a home in Bristol, you can expect to sign a form notifying buyers of the stench coming from the Bristol, Virginia Landfill. But several homeowners in Bristol have purchased their homes since the landfill smell started getting worse. Mike Dean purchased his Bristol, Tenn. home last Spring, just as the stench started intensifying. ‘I would’ve like to have known about this situation,’ Dean said. ‘I probably would not have chosen this place to live. Don’t buy it unseen. Take a visit. Get a real whiff of the toxic gases.'”

“Last weekend was Sydney’s biggest auction weekend of 2022 so far. Australia’s sporting capital has witnessed unprecedented levels of auctions in the last fortnight, with listings triple what they were this time last year. On Saturday Melbourne recorded a clearance rate of 74.3 per cent from a whopping 1112 listings. But, last weekend showed the supply may have already exceeded the number of buyers in the market, with a final clearance rate of 68 per cent from 1261 listings being recorded. That’s a 6.3 per cent drop week-on-week, and what the oversupply may be doing is allowing buyers in Melbourne to be more patient and astute when buying a home.”

“‘Sellers have entered the market earlier this year, which has provided four weeks of strong levels of new listings,’ Dr Nicola Powell, Domain’s chief of research and economics, said. ‘This means buyers can approach the Autumn selling season knowing they have greater choice and can act with less haste than this time last year.'”

“Landlord Matthew Ryan came under fire in December when he said the housing market had turned and prices could fall 20 per cent, but he says the evidence is mounting, and he’s dropping asking prices to match. Ryan said he would drop the price of one of his Kāpiti Coast properties by $100,000, and accepts he may make a loss when he sells. It was a reality investors and home-sellers alike would have to accept, Ryan said.”

“Ryan first listed the property in Raumati Beach in early November for offers over $799,000, according to CoreLogic. The wording on one of the listings, as recorded by the property data firm, reflected Ryan’s confidence of a sale: ‘Fancy appearing on Crimewatch? At this price, you will literally steal this extraordinarily meticulously renovated home,’ it read. At that time, a buyer offered $750,000, and Ryan said no. ‘Now I’d be jumping as fast as I could on them,’ he said. ‘It’s amazing how your sentiment can change, depending on where everyone is at.”

“Ryan predicted more price falls to come, and maintains he believes the market could drop up to 20 per cent. ‘People seem to get a bit wound up, and I’ve had people say to me ‘it’s ridiculous – you never see drops like that’ – but it does happen a lot more with property than people realise.’ Ryan regularly attends auctions to get a gauge for how the market was tracking and said he had seen many examples of recently-purchased properties failing to reach previous sale prices.”

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  1. ‘They had bought the 4-acre spread, at 442 Further Lane, last December — for $55 million, which was $2.5 million over the home’s asking price’

    The winnah!

      2. I always date the women who love sex and couldn’t bear to weld their legs shut because they would be punishing themselves and miserable. 🙂

  2. ‘Williams was ‘so riddled with stress caused by his non-paying renter and the very real possibility of losing 1109 32nd Street to foreclosure, he was hospitalized and, to date, remains disabled as a result.’ ‘Small mom-and-pop property owners have endured two years of not receiving rental payments. As a result, they are now on the brink of foreclosure and bankruptcy’

    Well look at the bright side. You can go piss on any lamp post you like, in the middle of the day.

    1. I have zero empathy for the landlord class – they have helped turned one of the basic human needs into a casino. I hope they lose everything.

        1. Yeah I thought the standard advice here was to rent, not own houses in times of bubbly valuations. But who are you gonna rent from if there are no landlords?

  3. ‘The shopping spree led to Zillow’s implosion and a lot of red ink’

    These idiots were taking a$$ poundings in a bunch of sh$thole cities all over the US. So how can the REIC say it’s red hotness?

    1. Zillow was losing tens of thousands on every flip, but trying to make it up on volume. LMFAO. At some point, remarkably, the CEO threw in the towel before the company failed. It seems there are others carrying the torch in the meantime…

      1. LOL! I saw a news story last night about how some professional staisticians published a paper showing that Putin’s covid numbers are made up. I thought the Russians were good at maths…

        1. And put a large dent in the Green Movement.’

          Wait until they blow up a nuclear power plant

    3. Russian Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky killed by Ukrainians in ‘major demotivator’ for invading army
      Death seen as ‘major demotivator’ for Putin’s troops
      Tom Batchelor, Jane Dalton
      17 hours ago

      2. Death seen as ‘major demotivator’ for Putin’s troops

        Sounds like wishful thinking by globalists and their bought and paid for media lapdogs.

    5. Vlad the Terrible’s attack on Ukraine brings to mind King George’s attack on the American colonies a couple of hundred years ago. Things didn’t work out very well for King George, despite his overwhelming military advantage. It’s too soon to say if Vlad is on the same path.

      2. Boomers are still living in the past as if this is the 1965 Cold War days. Old habits die hard, I guess.

    6. We are on Putin’s side when “Ukraine” really is just a phony puppet state created by Clinton, Kerry, Davos, Obama, Victoria Nuland, Robert Kagan and the Vindman boys. If Putin wins, Globo-homo loses.

      1. Trotting out TDS-afflicted, treasonous Vindman tells you everything you need to know about this phony media coverage. I’d love to piss in that guy’s mouth and tell him it’s warm lemonade, then slap him silly.

  6. ‘Ryan regularly attends auctions to get a gauge for how the market was tracking and said he had seen many examples of recently-purchased properties failing to reach previous sale prices’

    More a$$ poundings for da winnahs!

    ‘People seem to get a bit wound up, and I’ve had people say to me ‘it’s ridiculous – you never see drops like that’ – but it does happen a lot more with property than people realise’

    This is an interesting topic as a blogger and it can be applied to “narratives” generally. The globalist scum media are so in the hole of REIC, they can’t back down. It’s all built on a pile of lies. Shortages, when we never had shortages when nails were hand made.

    About NZ specifically. A few years ago shack prices dropped 30% and more. Wham, just like that. It’s all forgotten. Australia: the “leafy” most expensive hoods dropped 30% and more in 2017. Now it’s like that never happened. How bout the US ebola! days in 2018? Never happened if you listen to the globalist scum media.

    1. “The globalist scum media are so in the hole of REIC, they can’t back down. It’s all built on a pile of lies.”

      I’m curious about the reasons for this. Does it reflect financial codependency?

        1. I could never be a member of any club that would accept me but I DID save my “Members Only” black shiny polyester jacket from back in the day. ahh, good times. temporary layoffs.

          somehow the valet drivers remain unimpressed & keep parking my previa in the back lot.
          when i washed it last year i noticed it certainly has accumulated a lot more door dings lately.

          maybe i should actually tip ’em? naaah

      3. Typically REIC was the largest advertiser in newspapers, I’m assuming they still represent a large amount in digital media. Zillow began as an advertising firm. Often times what appears to be an article is actually paid advertising in the form of an article. It would be interesting to see what percentage of articles in the MSM are actually purchased space. It’s all about the money.

  7. This is a medical genocide article.

    COVID “vaccines” are not vaccines, they are deadly poison.

    New York Times — The surgeon general calls on Big Tech to turn over Covid-19 misinformation data (3/3/2022):

    “President Biden’s surgeon general on Thursday formally requested that the major tech platforms submit information about the scale of Covid-19 misinformation on social networks, search engines, crowdsourced platforms, e-commerce platforms and instant messaging systems.

    A request for information from the surgeon general’s office demanded that tech platforms send data and analysis on the prevalence of Covid-19 misinformation on their sites, starting with common examples of vaccine misinformation documented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    The notice asks the companies to submit “exactly how many users saw or may have been exposed to instances of Covid-19 misinformation,” as well as aggregate data on demographics that may have been disproportionately exposed to or affected by the misinformation.”

    https://archive.ph/jwgdf

    More children have died from the COVID “vaccines” than have died from COVID.

    2. “More children have died from the COVID “vaccines” than have died from COVID.”

      Sad that parents would kill their own children over politics, virtue signaling, and ego.

    1. so the concept of safety boxes in the sky for rich individuals from the former eastern bloc, China, middle east etc. might have some truth.

      The issue is that many will sell at once – but they will still have some cash from the sale – which is better than a 90%+ loss on your shares in the business

  9. ‘Three weeks ago, Pixelmon, an NFT gaming project on the Ethereum blockchain, raised over $70M in a highly anticipated drop. That’s insane. And you’ll soon learn why.’

    ‘The ongoing boom in GameFi and Metaverse NFTs has clearly caused investors to drop their standards when it comes to doing their research. Mainstream media coverage of NFT flippers making millions has led to a fresh influx of fortune hunters looking to strike gold, or in this case, a rare jpeg. Hype and the fear of missing out rule the day, and are a lethal cocktail that enabled Pixelmon to pull it off.’

    ‘Drawing on elements from established gaming franchises Pokemon, Minecraft and Fortnite, the project’s roadmap promises Pixelmon NFT holders play-and-earn abilities, future airdrops of in-game assets, and other perks in “the largest and highest quality game the NFT space has ever seen.”

    ‘The sale was conducted via a Dutch auction that started at 3 ETH ($9,000) with prices dropping by 0.01 ETH every minute. The entire collection of 10,000 NFTs sold out in an hour and the final buyers ended up paying 2.4 ETH ($7200).’

    ‘The hype couldn’t sustain the lofty launch price, and prices on OpenSea quickly fell below 1.5 ETH ($4500), saddling initial buyers with a whopping 50% loss.’

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pixelmon-fiasco-augurs-trouble-frothy-194022150.html

    You’ve been saddled! I don’t even know what this crap is.

    1. It’s real money buying fake virtual money to buy fake virtual art to…

      Sell to some greater fool.

      Meanwhile, pefo Joe just removed 40% of the wheat and 50% of fertilizer from the global supply chains on a senile whim “sanction.”

    2. fresh influx of fortune hunters looking to strike gold, or in this case, a rare jpeg.

      You know, for supposedly being a relic of the OK boomers, these young guns still sure as heck like using gold, both in their idiomatic phrases and their imagery of their so-called coins.

  10. Russia Today — Why does this influential, unelected globalist entity really exist? (2/26/2022):

    “Speaking at a United Nations videoconference in the fall of 2020, Justin Trudeau raised eyebrows, with a hint of a potential link between the global pandemic and the Forum. “This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset,” Trudeau said. “This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts, to re-imagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change,” he added, evoking a “reset” concept much promoted by the WEF from the onset of the pandemic, that frames the crisis as an opportunity to fundamentally change the way that developed societies function.”

    https://www.rt.com/news/550523-wef-davos-agenda-covid-schwab/

    The alleged “misinformation” these globalists are warning you about is all in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

    Russia today link, because globalists, GFY 🙂

    1. ‘This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset’

      I said a while back that anybody in a position of power talking about reset, no going back to normal (that’s you jerry!) should be tried and hanged. Most of these criminals aren’t elected dog catcher. Just who appointed you king for a day? We aren’t going to forget your murderous “opportunity” mofos.

      1. Arrests, trials, convictions, and executions. That would be the “legal” route of how we kill all of these globalists.

        But if some unhinged 4chan reader decides to go rogue and turn in their homework early, there’s nothing we can do to stop them.

        P.S. when I say “all” the globalists, that means all of you. The Day Of The Rope is coming, and you’re all going to die ☠

    2. “No citizen in any country actually voted to adopt the Davos agenda.”

      Same goes for our various “think tanks” scattered around the U.S. that heavily influence political decisions.

  11. “…Mike Dean purchased his Bristol, Tenn. home last Spring, just as the stench started intensifying…”

    In real estate, timing is everything, Mike.

    “…Dean said. ‘I probably would not have chosen this place to live. Don’t buy it unseen. Take a visit. Get a real whiff of the toxic gases…”

    But, but Suzanne said you can do this.

    Are you telling us that all the dead squirrels wasn’t a clue?

    Look at the bright side. In about 200 years, you can mine
    the landfill for all the re-cyclables.

  12. A reader sent this in:

    ‘2-10yr curve chart. the last 6 times we were at current levels presaged major economic and/or financial crises. during that time we have NEVER seen a simultaneous increase in oil this fast without recession. i rest my case.’

    https://twitter.com/spomboy/status/1499474673783955468

    I’m still amused that the REIC isn’t mentioning that 30 year loans are being handed out at half the “official” rate of inflation.

    1. “…NEVER seen a simultaneous increase in oil this fast without recession. i rest my case.’

      Come to think of it, wasn’t there a similar oil price spike to the current one connected to the 2007-2009 Great Recession?

      1. The 2008 Oil Price “Bubble”
        Mohsin S. Khan (PIIE)
        Policy Brief
        09-19
        August 2009

        As oil prices began to rise in 2009 from a low point of about $40 a barrel in January to around $70 a barrel in July, a question is whether the world is in for another oil price spike in the near term similar to that witnessed in early 2008. World oil prices skyrocketed from about $90 a barrel in January 2008 to cross the $140 a barrel mark in June, finally hitting a record high of $147 a barrel on July 11, 2008 before collapsing to less than $40 a barrel in December. Was the oil price increase of over 50 percent in the first six months of 2008 a bubble? If it was a bubble and oil prices overshot their long-term equilibrium level in the first half of 2008, did they undershoot when the bubble burst in the second half of the year?

        https://www.piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/2008-oil-price-bubble

    2. – Some additional “R word” fin twit porn provided for your enjoyment. 🙂

      1)
      https://twitter.com/biancoresearch/status/1499385705591709698?cxt=HHwWhIC9sd3W8c4pAAAA
      Jim Bianco biancoresearch.eth
      @biancoresearch
      Not every recession is led by a 50% rise in crude.
      But every 50% rise in crude has led a recession.
      7:06 AM · Mar 3, 2022·Twitter Web App

      2)
      https://twitter.com/BittelJulien/status/1499354254372392960
      Julien Bittel, CFA@BittelJulien🇺🇸 Late-cycle checklist:

      Wages >4% ✅
      Peak margins ✅
      Tight labor market ✅
      Closed output gap ✅
      Extreme valuations ✅
      Oil 70% above trend ✅
      Peak earnings revisions ✅
      Declining mfg sentiment ✅
      Plunging consumer conf. ✅
      Inverted 2s10s (<40bps) ❌
      Fed hiking into a slowdown ✅

      5:01 AM · Mar 3, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

      3)
      https://twitter.com/michaellebowitz/status/1499011388173426688?cxt=HHwWgIC9pcu6x80pAAAA
      Michael Lebowitz, CFA 🇺🇦@michaellebowitz
      The Atlanta Fed GDPNow and Jim Belushi’s (Bluto) GPA in Animal House are now the same – zero point zero
      6:18 AM · Mar 2, 2022·Twitter Web App

      – Same as Brandon’s IQ, IMHO…

      https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow.aspx
      GDPNow
      Latest estimate: 0.0 percent — March 1, 2022

      4)
      https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/10Y2YS
      U.S. 2Yr/10Yr Spread 10Y2YS:Exchange
      LIVEWatch live logo
      RT Quote | USD
      Last | 10:33 AM EST
      0.26 quote price arrow down-0.05 (-15.26%)

      -26 bps away from an inverting yield curve. Check!

      – And of course the Joe Bite-Me factor…
      5)
      https://freebeacon.com/politics/obama-biden-warning/
      Politics
      Obama Tried to Warn Us: ‘Don’t Underestimate Joe’s Ability to F— Things Up’
      Andrew Stiles • August 26, 2021 2:29 pm

      Former POTUS urged Biden not to run, was concerned he would ’embarrass himself’

      “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*ck things up,” Obama told a fellow Democrat during the 2020 presidential primary. The former president disparaged his running mate again during a conversation with a Democratic candidate: “And you know who really doesn’t have it?” Obama said. “Joe Biden.”

      – We’re in the best of hands. Have a nice day!

      1. And recall that farming is like being squeezed in an economic vise where the jaws are energy prices on one side and interest rates on the other, and both are rising.

  13. Booting disabled people?

    What’s next Special Olympics?

    Pack your bags and get your retarded Russian @ss outta here!

    Athletes force a change in ban of Russians at Paralympics

    By EDDIE PELLS
    yesterday

    Athletes around the world cheered when leaders of the Paralympics booted Russia from the Games. The move, in many eyes, marked the high point of a growing movement by the people who actually deliver the show to find a greater voice in the Olympic world.

    https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-sports-europe-beijing-vladyslav-heraskevych-409d6e5467b6f024a52b69b0368b0a05

  15. After the i-raq war debacle. Western elites’ new plan for us:

    1. Cold war with Russia (keeps MIC busy)
    2. Send Mo’ jobs and capital to China (China has to open its market one day, right? /s)

  17. Zillow notably lost so much money through its headfirst dive into iBuying – $881 million – that it shelved the program in November. Opendoor, however, managed to exceed Zillow’s overall net loss in 2021, recording a $662 million loss of its own. Not analyzed in the report was Redfin, which reported a $110 million loss in 2021 due to ramping up its iBuying program.”

    Meh. It was only Yellen Bux, not real money.

    1. “Not analyzed in the report was Redfin, which reported a $110 million loss in 2021 due to ramping up its iBuying program.”

      Seems like the Redfin losses story is underrepresented in the MSM! Can’t wait for more iBuyer cockroaches to come out of hiding.

  18. We went from the unvaxxed are killing people and should be fired, given dishonorable discharges, welded into their houses, shunned by family, shunned by friends and not be allowed to buy food or sit in a restaurant…

    To…

    My bad. No hard feelings!

    Oh….Fook no.

      3. Taken to Covid camps. Some forced the jab against their will. Couldn’t go to concerts. How about your business destroyed over the scam or loss of job.

  19. Small mom-and-pop property owners have endured two years of not receiving rental payments. As a result, they are now on the brink of foreclosure and bankruptcy,’ said Joe Arellano, spokesperson for the Oakland-based nonprofit Housing Providers of America.”

    That was always the plan. Sorry, independents, but you need to be squeezed out so BlackRock, etc. can become America’s landlord and the gouging by these shysters can begin in earnest.

      1. “Makes you wonder why the press never talks about this.”

        Our host and moderator posted the answer a couple of threads ago, e.g., China man: Press: “I can’t complain.”

    2. Fun Factoid: Blackstone just swallowed up the Follett College Bookstore chain after covid pushed Follett towards bankruptcy. Now Blackstone can push it’s SJW ideals to all of the young minds through colleges from coast to coast.
      These types of blowouts are not being reported on but they are happening. Hopefully Blackstone goes bankrupt during the coming bust. They also just bought a massive apartment portfolio at the peak.

      1. For those trying to keep track, Blackstone and BlackRock are different but very similar. If something nefarious isn’t hiding under the black rock then it’s probably under the black stone.

  20. ‘I would’ve like to have known about this situation,’ Dean said. ‘I probably would not have chosen this place to live. Don’t buy it unseen. Take a visit. Get a real whiff of the toxic gases.’”

    Stupid SHOULD hurt, Dean. Caveat emptor.

  21. The wording on one of the listings, as recorded by the property data firm, reflected Ryan’s confidence of a sale: ‘Fancy appearing on Crimewatch? At this price, you will literally steal this extraordinarily meticulously renovated home,’ it read.

    Every time a hack REIC scribbler misuses “literally” they should be kicked in the jimmies, along with their editor.

    1. ** misuses “literally” they should be kicked in the jimmies

      if i may add “actually” to the overused list of annoying words ?! thankyouverymuch

    2. Theyre all graduates from the correspondence course “How To Talk Like A Man With A Paper Asshole”.

  22. Ryan regularly attends auctions to get a gauge for how the market was tracking and said he had seen many examples of recently-purchased properties failing to reach previous sale prices.”

    You ain’t seen nothing yet, Ryan. When the Fed’s Everything Bubble bursts, the wipeout of fictitious value created by Yellen Bux funny money is going to be downright Biblical.

      1. I’m still predicting one more dive-bomb in gold, but it might not be until next fall. Depends on how long this European war lasts.

  24. 60 Minutes will be all over this any day now.

    New Zealand’s Pandemic of the Fully Vaccinated | Up to 100% of Covid-19 Hospitalisations are among the Fully Vaccinated according to official data

    https://lorphicweb.com/new-zealands-pandemic-of-the-fully-vaccinated-up-to-100-of-covid-19-hospitalisations-are-among-the-fully-vaccinated-according-to-official-data/

    Official data hidden within News Reports published by the New Zealand Ministry of Health has revealed that the fully vaccinated population account for the vast majority of Covid-19 hospitalisations in New Zealand, with some days seeing the triple/double jabbed account for 100% of people admitted to hospital.

    The Expose – On the 16th Feb 22 the New Zealand Ministry of Health published a News Report containing information on Covid-19 Hospitalisations by vaccination status. In it they confirmed that of the current hospitalisations among the Northern Region, the unvaccinated population accounted for 2 hospitalisations, whilst the fully vaccinated accounted for 23 hospitalisations.

    1. Didn’t New Zealand have a much higher vaccination rate? And much lower hospitalization rate than many other countries?

      1. HBB just had a discussion this week that you can’t directly compare vax to unvax without normalizing for the fraction of the population that is vax or unvax. Didn’t get much traction tho. It’s so much more comforting to say “half the hospital patients are vaxed REEEEEEEE!”

        1. “half the hospital patients are vaxed REEEEEEEE!”

          After months of being bomarded with “99% of people in hospitals are unvaxxed REEEEEEE!” and this a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” 🙄

        2. “half the hospital patients are vaxed REEEEEEEE!”

          Wasn’t the last Narrative they had left that the jab would make sure your infection was mild and keep you out of the hospital?

          1. Wasn’t the last Narrative

            I predict that you will not get much traction with such logical observations.

          2. That narrative is still borne out by the UK paper posted this week. Unvaxxed are more likely to be in the hospital, when normalized to the population.

          3. Unvaxxed are more likely to be in the hospital

            That was not the Narrative. It was that the jabbed would not be hospitalized or die. Now it’s been watered down to “you’ll be less likely to be hospitalized and die” and even that one is crumbling as we speak.

          5. “Never ending shifting goal posts.”

            For Covid or global Warming or I mean Climate Change or any other settled science the Woke monster uses to strip rights from free people.

        3. Well, since it’s not a vaccine, perhaps we should come up with a different name for people who took an experimental drug, showed their band-aid on Tick Tok, and belittled those choosing not to join the guinea pig route?

          How about….gullible?

          1. Guillable only describes taking the experimental drug, which I can understand. But the virtue-signaling and othering needs a contemptuous adjective. Turnabout is fair play.

          7. Guillable

            Gullible!!

            An absolutely perfect Freudian slip.

            Guillable = able (eligible) to be guillotined.

    2. 23 hospitalisations

      There isn’t any useful information in that statistic. There won’t be as long as coincidental “with Covid” is all that’s said rather than “for Covid treatment”.

    3. At work there were some who caught everything that was currently happening, and it affected their productivity at work as well as those who were burdened with taking up the slack. I’m sure they tend toward gov jobs where accommodation is recognized.

  25. Another “Post-Pandemic Stress Syndrome” casualty. No need to ask his vaccination status.

    Cricket legend Shane Warne dies aged 52 from a suspected heart attack at his villa in Thailand

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10577963/Cricket-legend-Shane-Warne-died-aged-52-massive-heart-attack.html

    Shane Warne has died suddenly from a massive heart attack at the age of 52.

    The Australian cricketer turned pundit, considered the greatest leg spinner, was found unconscious in a villa in the Thai resort of Ko Samui today.

  26. These neocon scum are bound & determined to provoke WWIII. While their defense stocks will soar, none of their kids will be doing the fighting & dying.

    US should formally recognize Taiwan as a country to stop China’s ‘egomaniacal’ President Xi seizing it after Beijing’s ‘brutally successful takeover of Hong Kong’, says Mike Pompeo

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10576925/Mike-Pompeo-formally-recognize-Taiwan-country-stop-Chinas-President-Xi-seizing-it.html

  27. Chinese public health officials are reportedly incensed to learn that citizens confined to COVID lockdowns in the city of Baise have been entertaining themselves by dialing outside numbers at random, then telling whoever picks up that realtors are liars.

  28. Yellen the Felon has had a hunted look lately, like she’s worried that the globalist oligarchs who have been the exclusive beneficiaries of the Fed’s monetary policies might forget their promise to take her with them when they jet off to New Zealand to escape the pitchforks & torches.

  29. less than a quarter of the intended value

    Intended value. It’s odd on how some people think. Is it an illness?

    1. LMFAO@ Reddit and all the Twitter Blue Checkmarks who think virtue signals can win an actual war.

      “They’re not sending their best”

    1. I must admit I smiled when she started talking about journalists getting killed.

      Oh if only that were here. Goodbye Rick Newman of Yahoo!

    2. Hosts are stunned.

      I guess they figured that because she’s Ukrainian that there was no net to vet her before bringing her in.

    1. 25m48s

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      Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting cries of “We are all Ukraine,” many have been eager to downplay the proliferation of neo-Nazis in Ukrainian paramilitary groups, the Ukrainian armed forces and even parts of the government.

      As Jimmy and The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal discuss, reports of neo-Nazis in Ukraine are not at all exaggerated, and the Zelensky government is, in fact, largely beholden to these racist, xenophobic, anti-gay groups that brag of the “fun” they get from fighting and killing.

  34. After stealing the election, now Pedo Joe is going to steal $1.7 trillion from U.S. taxpayers, because CCP Flu:

    “President Joe Biden made no mention of student loan forgiveness at his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Yet a spokesperson for the administration says cancellation remains on the table.

    White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said a decision on whether to forgive student debt through executive action will be made before the payments resume. The bills, which have been on pause since March 2020, are currently scheduled to start back up again in May.

    “The president is going to look at what we should do on student debt before the pause expires, or he’ll extend the pause,” Klain said on the podcast “Pod Save America,” which was posted Thursday night.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/04/white-house-may-delay-student-loan-payments-as-it-weighs-debt-forgiveness.html

    I’m still waiting to hear about the refund check I’ll be getting for the loanz I already repaid in full…

    1. More:

      “The payment pause has already been extended five times throughout the pandemic …

      progressives and advocates say the student debt crisis has caused the most pain for women, people of color and those who didn’t come from wealthy families who could foot the rising costs of a college education.

      And they warn that inaction will hurt Democrats in the November midterms.

      “A lack of movement on student debt cancellation will result in the Democratic party’s base — young people, Black voters — staying at home,” said Thomas Gokey, co-founder of the Debt Collective, a national union of debtors.

      A recent poll found that nearly two-thirds of likely voters are in support of Biden canceling some or all of student debt, with more than 70% of Latino and Black voters in favor.”

      Make whitey pay.

      And pay, and pay, and pay, and pay.

      F* Joe Biden, and f* you for voting for him.

    2. Yet a spokesperson for the administration says cancellation remains on the table.

      Not gonna happen. No universal jubilee. Some special groups might have their debt forgiven, but it won’t be universal. And I expect there will be caps, like $10K.

      1. Caps like a minority? Black and Hispanic to the front of the line. Back of the line for you Whitey. Better yet, kneel again.

    3. “Yet a spokesperson for the administration says cancellation remains on the table.”

      They’re wait for the midterms to get closer as the democrats expect to buy votes with bailouts.

  35. No, I am not making this up.

    Union 76 Corner of Santa Monica and San Vincente. (Los Angeles)

    Full service
    Regular $6.74
    Premium $7.04

    Self Serve
    Regular $5.69
    Premium $6.04

    Nothing to see here. Move along. Inflation is ‘contained’.

    Interested in pricing in other HBBers ‘hoods

    1. Interested in pricing in other HBBers ‘hoods

      $3.42 at Sam’s Club, $3.58 at King Soopers. Was 30 cents cheaper just two days ago, when I filled up the tank.

          1. It will mostly move fence sitters. True believers will celebrate, even if they can’t afford to fill the tank.

    3. Regular is around $3.75, premium is, I dunno, $4.25 or so, I’m not keeping track of the good stuff. I don’t expect to see gas under $3.25 ever again. There’s just too much inflation.

    4. As a noted economist stated so eloquently, “Get long term rates back up into the 12% to 15% range and most of these problems go away on their own.”

      He’s right.

      1. “Regular $3.99. NY. Full service is a thing of distant memory.”

        I thought you were from Jersey?

        2. from Jersey?

          Sort of. Born in Western NY. School years in Jersey. Raised kids on a farm north of Pittsburgh. Gulf Coast, Philly, back to NY as my parents got old. I’m still here.

    2. “First they came for people’s yachts but I did not complain because I did not own a yacht …”

      LOL.

    1. I liked his other quote:
      “If you can loot in person, you can vote in person.” —Donald Trump, Jr.

  38. Thomas Massie Explains The Poison-Pill Buried In The Ukraine Resolution

    The American Journal
    March 4th 2022

    Media attacks politician by claiming he doesn’t support the Ukrainian people

    Meanwhile, Massie exposes the dirty details of the legislation

    Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) details his reason for voting against the U.S. Ukraine resolution while urging for a de-escalation of the ongoing conflict.

    “This resolution ended up to be seven pages, and I think it runs the risk of escalating the conflict in Ukraine and drawing the United States into it,” he noted. “For example, it guarantees we will have defensive security assistance for the Ukrainians.”

    https://www.infowars.com/posts/thomas-massie-explains-the-poison-pill-buried-in-the-ukraine-resolution/

  39. Curious if anyone here can access RT.com? Not sure if my ISP is blocking access or it’s something bigger.

    1. I’ve been listening to people from NYC, UK and Greece. All have had problems accessing RT this week.

    2. Here is what I got back when I gave rt.com a try using Google …

      “403 – Forbidden . That’s an error.”

      “Client does not have access rights to the content so server is rejecting to give proper response. That’s all we know.”

        1. It’s a network DNS issue.

          A VPN might take care of that. Curiously, I am with one of the “big” ISPs and haven’t seen any issues.

  40. An article that has nothing to do with housing:

    The West’s Green Delusions Empowered Putin
    https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-wests-green-delusions-empowered?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MjgwMTk1LCJfIjoiTWVKWjQiLCJpYXQiOjE2NDYxNTM4NjcsImV4cCI6MTY0NjE1NzQ2NywiaXNzIjoicHViLTI2MDM0NyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.9wXae5axt66wI2A8_G9Su_BM41KA1_QwuEbtFbnjq3c&s=r

    (snip snip)

    “How is it possible that European countries, Germany especially, allowed themselves to become so dependent on an authoritarian country over the 30 years since the end of the Cold War?

    “Here’s how: These countries are in the grips of a delusional ideology that makes them incapable of understanding the hard realities of energy production. Green ideology insists we don’t need nuclear and that we don’t need fracking. It insists that it’s just a matter of will and money to switch to all-renewables—and fast. It insists that we need ‘degrowth’ of the economy, and that we face looming human ‘extinction.’ (I would know. I myself was once a true believer.)”

    I suggest everyone give this article a full read.

      1. There’s no way Europe’s 900-million consumers can enjoy their hedonistic pacifism with solar panels and wind turbines.

  41. Never mind all his cars catching on fire for a minute, at least he retains a principled stand on censorship.

    Russia Today — Musk’s Starlink will only block Russian media ‘at gunpoint’ (3/5/2022):

    “Billionaire Elon Musk vowed on Friday that his SpaceX Starlink internet service would only block Russian news outlets “at gunpoint” after he was allegedly ordered by unnamed governments to censor the country’s media sources.

    Musk claimed in a Twitter post that Starlink had “been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources.”

    Here’s the best line of the whole article:

    “Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, TikTok, Reddit, and other tech companies all complied with the EU’s censorship order.”

    https://www.rt.com/news/551275-musk-starlink-block-russian-media/

    All complied. Sounds like a globalist media dictatorship.

    Ben, get the ropes ready. We got a lot of killing to do 🙂

    1. Another reminder for all the Keyboard Commandos, *TODAY* is the day that you get on the plane to Warsaw. Bring your sons, daughters, grandchildren, any other non-binary theybies in your family.

      Go to the Ukraine now.

      Get on the Right Side Of History™ and watch your whole family die in some Eastern European sh*thole.

      Mr. Internet Tough Guy, it’s time for you to die for the globalist lie 🙂

    2. Yet he is in bed with China, the biggest censor out there, which is perfectly acceptable to him because M-O-N-E-Y. We are truly living in bizarre times. There are so many layers to everything that you’ve got to constantly peel them back to see the truth.

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