Maybe You Shouldn’t Have Borrowed So Much In The First Place … Tisk Tisk, So Foolish
It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “Brian Glendenning, a Realtor with Edina Realty, says even for those move-up buyers who are having success, sometimes they find themselves in unexpected predicaments. Maybe they have the money for their new larger house payment, but other necessities can leave them stretched thin. ‘A million dollars used to be an amazing amount of money where you could get these grand houses and it just doesn’t stretch as far right now,’ says Glendenning.”
“Ada and Canyon counties both had heightened numbers of home sales in September 2024 compared to the same month last year. In Ada County, the median home had a sales price of $534,900, which was 97.3% of the original listing price. There, median prices have declined $35,000 since June. ‘People are still interested in moving into the Treasure Valley,’ realtor Jodi Harada of The Agency said. ‘Our market is a little bit more balanced than it used to be, and so we are able to have more negotiation and be on the market a little bit longer.'”
“Scripps heir Sam Logan has taken a $2 million hit on the sale of his Miami Beach home. The stunning modern residence just sold for $11 million, Gimme can reveal. Logan, 33, bought the house for $13 million in an all-cash deal a little over a year ago. Known as Villa Una, it was featured in Season 5 of the MTV reality show ‘Siesta Key.’ In a frightening incident, Logan and his friends were robbed at gunpoint in the home — after an extravagant night out in Magic City.”
“An area along Florida’s west coast including affluent Sarasota is seeing the worst home price declines since the aftermath of the Great Recession. Metro areas in once-hot Florida and the Southeast dominate the short list of places where they are actually falling from a year ago in data from 226 metro areas compiled by the National Association of Realtors. The Punta Gorda metro area had the biggest quarterly decline since 2011, with the median price falling 6.5% over the year to $350,000 in the third quarter, NAR data show. Fifty miles north, prices in the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton area fell 5.8% over the year to $485,000, also the biggest decline since 2011. And in the nearby Cape Coral-Fort Myers area, prices fell 3.7%, although it saw a bigger drop earlier this year.”
“Other metros seeing year-over-year drops last quarter were San Antonio-New Braunfels, Texas, and Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Both areas saw huge annual gains of more than 20% two years ago, NAR data show.”
“Some homeowners in South Jordan’s Daybreak community are about to pay hundreds of dollars more a month in HOA fees. This comes after years of fighting and legal drama over their damaged homes. Starting Jan. 1, homeowners of the nearly 400 units in the Daybreak Townhomes 1 Owners Association will have to pay $240 more a month. In a recent letter to homeowners, the HOA board acknowledged the painful size of the increase. After the problems surfaced, the HOA went after the builders in court but lost. Now, homeowners are stuck paying for the repairs to the tune of an additional $240 a month over 20 years. Josh Lewis already pays around $440 a month for his townhome master and sub-homeowners associations. With the increase, Lewis will soon be paying nearly $700 a month in total HOA fees – unless he opts to pay a one-time lump sum for the repairs of nearly $31,000. ‘It is a lot,’ Lewis said. ‘And it’s hard to swallow.'”
“The Gas Company Tower, in receivership after a Brookfield entity turned the keys back to its lenders last year, will have a new owner: the County of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday to approve the purchase of the Gas Company Tower for $200M, a more than 68% discount from the $632M the tower was appraised for in 2020, the Los Angeles Times reported. It’s also a drop from the $270M the tower was appraised at in summer 2023. The Gas Company Tower has lost a number of larger tenants, including its namesake, which announced it will move into nearly 200K SF at Two California Plaza on Bunker Hill.”
“Vornado Realty Trust reported lower cash flow and a nearly $20M net loss in the third quarter, and while its executives were able to soothe investor concerns on its earnings call Tuesday, there are still problem spots in its portfolio. ‘We do still have a handful of assets that are overleveraged,’ Chief Financial Officer Michael Franco said. ‘Most of these assets do not contribute to our [funds from operations] right now and have little to no equity value.’ The REIT, one of New York’s largest office owners, signaled it is prepared to lose those buildings, which it didn’t identify, to its lenders. Foreclosure activity in New York is up significantly this year, with lenders expressing less patience for large, well-capitalized landlords seeking extensions and modifications on their loans. ‘Unless these loans are restructured on terms that allow us to put the assets on sound footing … we will not invest any more capital,’ Franco said. ‘The nonrecourse nature of these loans provides us with this option.'”
“A former Barrie landlord says she been scammed by a woman recently charged by provincial police with posing as a nurse after allegedly falsifying her credentials to work in long-term care homes. Paris Moradian says Hailey Roberts left the four-bedroom south Barrie rental property she was squatting in for a full year starting in September of 2019 and left the home in disarray with garbage and dog feces everywhere. ‘She has stolen so much things from my house. The house was furnished. 11 TVs were stolen from the house,’ says Moradian who tells CTV News her home with a walkout basement had a hot tub which was seriously damaged.”
“‘We’ve been through hell. Especially with all the LTB (Landlord Tenant Board) delays and all of this it took me over a year…I lost a lot,’ she says. Moradian went to Barrie Police and claims they did very little to help her charge Roberts or at least remove her from the home. ‘To try to take her out and I said, ‘She’s a squatter, She’s not my tenant.’ Unfortunately, Barrie Police didn’t help.’ Moradian says she eventually ended up selling the home and lost $300,000 on the investment. She believes Hailey Roberts scammed her and wants her to be charged criminally for it. Moradian says she will not rest until justice is served and she gets back the money she is owed.”
“A mysterious real estate listing in the Sault has surfaced over the past couple of weeks, advertising a home in the city’s downtown core — without a civic address — for just $1. Joshua Persaud, a salesperson for HomeLife Hearts Realty Inc. in Mississauga Ont., says the downtown property isn’t actually being sold for a buck. ‘I did this before in another small town, and it literally was the talk of the town,’ Persaud told SooToday. In reality, the vague real estate listing has been deployed as more of a sales tactic in a housing market where there’s ‘not much movement,’ despite a drop in interest rates. Persaud feels Toronto-based real estate agents ‘get a lot of hate’ from agents in smaller towns throughout the province, including the north. He’s had his real estate signs ripped down, while others were vandalized with moustaches drawn on signs with his face on them. ‘I’ve had realtors want to shoot me — and you can put that on record,’ he said.”
“Frustrated residents are calling for action on a stalled housing scheme which they have branded an ‘eyesore’. People living in Hart Street in Newsome, Huddersfield, say building work on a 22-home development ground to a halt several weeks ago and they fear it could be spring before work resumes. The Newsome Ponds development has been hit by two company insolvencies, according to the developer, Yorkshire Housing. It says a stone supplier and also its construction partner both became insolvent and ceased trading. Les Farrow says the development appeared to be only 20% completed, with the houses in ‘different stages of construction.’ ‘It’s just an eyesore,’ said Les. “It’s got to the stage where we just want it finished. It has been at a complete halt for at least ten weeks.’ Sue, who also lives on Hart Street, said: ‘It is an eyesore and has been like that since August. It is dangerous due to two missing pavements.’ She called on the developer to ‘either finish it off or pull it down and flatten it’ and is fearful work won’t restart until the spring.”
“When Cristian Coccia agreed to buy a three-bedroom flat off-plan for 600,000 euros ($650,000), the 51-year-old businessman hoped to move his family swiftly into the swanky high-rise overlooking an artificial lake in Milan’s western suburbs. After prosecutors seized the three-tower development in July, his dream of a new home turned into a nightmare. It is one of more than 100 active or planned building sites that have stalled since Milan prosecutors started investigating alleged abuses in the fast-tracking of building permits in Italy’s financial capital, according to industry executives. ‘We’re at the sharp end of all this chaos,’ said Coccia.”
“South Africans are enduring the effects of a sustained period of rising costs and increased debt payments which in turn have put them under severe financial pressure, for many homeowners, this pressure has seen them being unable to keep up with their monthly home loan repayments. According to credit bureau TransUnion, as many as 7.2% of homeowners are three months or more in arrears on their home loan repayments, with this number having increased by 20% year on year during the first quarter of this year. Aside from rising costs such as fuel and food, the real squeeze has come from the 67% increase in interest rates, from 7% in October 2021 to the current 11.5%.”
“For a homeowner with an R1 million home loan, the monthly repayments have increased from approximately R7,753 to R10,837 per month, an increase of over R3,000 in after-tax money. For an R2 million home loan, the monthly increase in payments is R6,100. For the most part, salary increases have not kept pace with these increases in repayments and homeowners are feeling the pressure. ‘It’s not just entry-level homeowners that are struggling to balance the increased cost of debt in the current environment,’ said Herschel Jawitz, CEO of Jawitz Properties. ‘We’ve increasingly listed homes to be sold by distressed sellers in more affluent areas which have typically been immune to this kind of re-payment shock.'”
“‘Homeowners who are experiencing financial stress should do everything they possibly can to control their costs and manage their debt commitments so that they can avoid having to sell their properties in the current market,’ Jawitz said. ‘Property prices in most parts of the country are under pressure, which means it’s not a great time to sell if you are under pressure to sell in a short period.'”
“The RBA must act now to save Christmas and cut the cash rate before the end of the year. It might go some of the way to helping mortgage holders out of a bind that it contributed to, when it implied in 2021 that the 0.1 per cent cash rate would not begin to rise until at least 2024. We were free to borrow and we were also free to do as the government suggested and spend, spend, spend our money to help the economy emerge from the pandemic. By the RBA’s reckoning back then, the many Aussies who went out and borrowed with confidence would now be dealing with a cash rate between 0.1 per cent and 0.6 per cent. Instead, we’re at 4.35 per cent. Mortgage holders are paying more than three times the interest we were three years ago.”
“And who is to blame? Why we are of course! We shouldn’t have gone and borrowed and spent all that money. What were we thinking? Alarming research by Finder has revealed nearly half of younger mortgage holders believe they overstretched when borrowing to buy a home. Now, one in four are skipping paying other expenses to make mortgage payments. Ten per cent of respondents to Finder’s consumer sentiment survey even said they had missed meals to do so. ‘But’, the mortgage holders protest, ‘we don’t spend on rent. That’s the renters. And doesn’t raising rates actually cause rent to increase? Because landlords hike rent to cover their higher loan repayments?’”
“That’s not how economics works. Now if you need to come up with extra mortgage money, try bringing your lunch to work. Or maybe skip that morning latte. ‘We’re already skipping entire meals and never buy coffee from cafes.’ OK well maybe you shouldn’t have borrowed so much in the first place … tisk tisk, so foolish. Monty Python couldn’t make this stuff up. Do you know any ‘average’ Aussies who could seamlessly absorb almost $30,000 more in household expenses each year? Canstar data insights director Sally Tindall said that ‘after 12 months with a cash rate at 4.35 per cent, borrowers may have now reached their limit.’ Meanwhile, 110,000 callers to Lifeline’s suicide prevention hotline this year identified financial trouble as the main cause of their distress. Three more months of hanging on by their fingertips will prove too much for many struggling families. The RBA must cut this year or, for many, it will be too late.”
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Realtors are liars.
Realtors are liars.
‘A million dollars used to be an amazing amount of money where you could get these grand houses and it just doesn’t stretch as far right now,’ says Glendenning.”
Thanks to BlackRock Jay & Yellen the Felon, soon we will all be millionaires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bV4aweiGmg
“….A million dollars used to be an amazing amount of money…”
Wake up call for Relator Brian Glendenning
When you have a moment between setting up ‘For Sale’ signs on someone’s front lawn, try Googling ‘Weimar Republic’
Here’s a hot stock tip for Brian: Invest in wheelbarrows. You will make a wheelbarrow full.
Brian, while yer idling away the hours at empty open houses, you can get a preview of coming attractions as the RBA prints the Aussie dollar into worthlessness.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8567383-when-money-dies
‘It is a lot,’ Lewis said. ‘And it’s hard to swallow’
This poor bashtard lives in Utah.
“Starting Jan. 1, homeowners of the nearly 400 units in the Daybreak Townhomes 1 Owners Association will have to pay $240 more a month.”
The problem with HOAs, you really are in this together!
I read the attached article. They filed a lawsuit in 2017. The homes were built before 2005. I mean c’mon. AT this point most of the townhomes are almost 20 years old. Of course they lost the lawsuit and they thought they weren’t going to have to pay for regular maintenance.
And the construction firm is under new ownership, for years.
‘Unless these loans are restructured on terms that allow us to put the assets on sound footing … we will not invest any more capital,’ Franco said. ‘The nonrecourse nature of these loans provides us with this option’
That’s some sound lending right there.
the banks are gonna take it in the ………….behind on these. non recourse. pffffffffffffffft. they can walk away at any time.
Some context: when the CRE lending was at its most fevered, the loan guys constantly bragged about their non-recourse loans. They were actively pushing it as a way to get business. Everybody was making money like crazy and they said it often.
“Scripps heir Sam Logan has taken a $2 million hit on the sale of his Miami Beach home.
It was only Yellen Bux. Numbers on a screen, backed by nothing of intrinsic value.
With the increase, Lewis will soon be paying nearly $700 a month in total HOA fees – unless he opts to pay a one-time lump sum for the repairs of nearly $31,000. ‘It is a lot,’ Lewis said. ‘And it’s hard to swallow.’”
Gosh, Josh. I’m no economist like AOC, but looking at these numbers, it seems like you might’ve been better off renting.
The REIT, one of New York’s largest office owners, signaled it is prepared to lose those buildings, which it didn’t identify, to its lenders.
The only thing more heartwarming than watching REIT parasites get schlonged bigly, is watching their lenders who enabled rampant speculation forced to take back their decimated collateral.
so the bidnezz’ easily & quickly walk away from their financial obligations yet the banking structure endlessly browbeats regular people to “honor their commitments!”. . . ? classic!
has anyone noticed the intense pressure the past few years of requiring a cell phone number just to transact normal business?
everything from paying your internet bill online, to buying a shake shack burger in-person, even interacting with CA DMV, demands a cell number or you are greatly at a disadvantage, if completely unable, to process a once easily-done transaction!
“marketing purposes” are the veneer, but even as I chafe at being corralled into a lifetime relationship with every purchase, it’s quite apparent the real reason is to make an easy exit from your personal financial responsibilities very, very hard.
after the last financial shellacking the muni utilities, banks, etc wised- up when unable to easily hound the debtors by telephone.
they are determined that will NOT happen again!
has anyone noticed the intense pressure the past few years of requiring a cell phone number just to transact normal business?
Outside of those ever present “loyalty programs” at retailers I can’t say that I have. I just tell the cashiers that I’m not signed up nor interested in signing up. It’s never stopped me from completing a purchase. Probably the only one I do use is at the grocers, as it’s the only way to get the sale price.
INCO, here in CA there has been an noticeable increase in cell phone requirements to conduct transactions. here are some examples:
* PG&E are rolling out the final phase of REQUIRING a cell number if you want to keep online acct. access, even if only to pay your bill.
(for “Your fraud protection” of course!) no cell #, no online access.
since when does having a INTERNET connection requires a CELL PHONE number? one does not require the other. except in PG&E’s world. which leads to . . .
* XFinity now requires same cell number to access/pay online accts.
once again, why is a CELL number required for internet payment?
* not to be left out, all financial institutions require a textable CELL PHONE for verifiable online access. same question as above?
* CA DMV: good luck waiting in the lobby all day without a CELL PHONE number to callback for an apt.
this was instituted during COVID and now just too handy to drop.
Harbour Freight, Best Buy, repair shops, etc the list goes on, all give you a hard time if you pushback. I’ve long given just my e-mail BUT, as mentioned earlier, that just won’t do any longer.
you get the idea. maybe it’s not as invasive there in CO? just give it time.
oh yes, don’t forget about alcohol purchases, which demand birth data entry. I’m clearly over 50, but “the computer” locks up until given the required data.
whattya gonna do, yell at the clerk?! haha they’re just functionaries.
slowly & surely we’ve all given or had taken away our right to just be Left ALONE!!
Mr. Roboto world is here
‘all financial institutions require a textable CELL PHONE for verifiable online access’
All of mine will also use/accept emails and phone calls.
accept emails and phone calls
Me too.
“Our market is a little bit more balanced than it used to be, and so we are able to have more negotiation and be on the market a little bit longer.’”
Balanced? The only way your Ponzi works is if it is unbalanced to the upside. What most of these knobs don’t realize is they can’t have flatline home prices, let alone price declines. Without constant appreciation it is all doomed to collapse.
And doesn’t raising rates actually cause rent to increase? Because landlords hike rent to cover their higher loan repayments?’”
OK, so my understanding of supply & demand is a bit hazy, but the thing is, renters are under no obligation to cover the higher loan payments for overextended housing speculator scum. We can simply move to a cheaper place as we bide out time waiting for the bottom to drop out of Housing Bubble 2.0. Suck it, greedy landlords. Choice is a wonderful thing.
Meanwhile, 110,000 callers to Lifeline’s suicide prevention hotline this year identified financial trouble as the main cause of their distress.
Lil’ Fidel’s globalist quisling government in Canada has a final solution for debt serfs who are no longer “financially viable.”
I’ve been calling them nonstop for the last two days so that the libtards wont be able to get thru. 🙂
Hahahahaa !!
a final solution
I hope Pierre Poilievre cancels that satanic program when he becomes Prime Minister
By all the measures that count, inflation is still surging but the Fed feels compelled to loosen even further as asset prices melt up. What could possibly go wrong?
https://x.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1854603256225579508
Not only did the globalist quislings plan COVID quarantine camps, but the vast majority of Democrat-Bolsheviks were zealous supporters of such draconian government overreach and fraudulent science in the name of “public health.”
Unity with these totalitarian zealots? I don’t think so.
https://x.com/bell00david/status/1854605280598016466
There will be no “pandemic amnesty” only nooses. The Day Of The Rope is coming, for Fauci, and for all of you.
Yes they were. And vaccine passports too, which was the Trojan horse for unlimited tracking of everybody’s medical records.
I’m still convinced that we were saved by the Black Swan of COVID evolving so from Delta to Omicron so quickly, cutting at least 6-9 months off the duration pandemic. Everybody both got and survived COVID — ending the pancemic — before the WEF and WHO etc could install their medical dictatorships.
Everybody both got and survived COVID
Round 3 as I type.
Just once for me in 2021. No jabs
“Round 3 as I type.”
Are the variant(s) getting any easier?
I had very strange symptoms the first time around with pain up and down my spine. That was when I was treated like a leper and scolded at Urgent Care for not being vaccinated. These last two rounds have been like an ordinary but bad cold, both courtesy of hubby’s work buddy bringing it back from Las Vegas. So far my son is missing out on Round 3.
I realize being a mom, you’re probably not getting the required hours of rest and sleep that you really need. 🙁
My son has sleep disturbances. It’s not uncommon for him (and at least one of us) to be awake anytime between 3-5AM. He’s been growing a lot this year so he’s been more tired than usual.
Whenever I feel a tinge of schadenfreude guilt, I remember this time. Poof!
Lots of RE and election crater to come, here’s a video to start:
Unhinged Tiktoker says White women upset at election results shouldn’t complain to Black or LGBTQ people because they’re more oppressed than White women
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1854524202289680780
Trump laid out a plan to dismantle the Deep State and purge our globalist-subverted institutions of governance back in 2023. If he’s serious about “draining the Swamp” this time around, the corrupt elements in Panem on the Potomac will be soiling themselves at the thought of being held accountable for their abuses of authority and for usurping the Constitution and rule of law.
https://x.com/MTGrepp/status/1854720823203959042
Priceless.
The DNC’s puppetmaster is shocked, shocked! that a party that represents only its globalist oligarch donors got repudiated by voters.
https://x.com/AlexanderSoros/status/1854616045996458216?
The Soros family belongs on a global terrorist watch list.
They belong behind bars. No need to “watch” them.
Better yet, send them to their master.
High-net-worth libtards in Beverly Hills will be clutching their pearls and hyperventilating as their offspring who have witnessed first-hand how everything “progressives” touch turns to sh*t are openly rejecting the Marxist-Leninist ideology of their privileged parents and the Comrades of Proven Worth in the California Statehouse, and are celebrating Trump’s victory over liberal lunacy.
https://x.com/saras76/status/1854883171654939112
Trump flipped 10 more CA counties red.
But not along the coast. 🙁
Now that Trump is in the catbird’s seat, the real Garbage People are starting to backpedal on their previous public slanders.
https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1854894123859206144
Democrat-Bolshevik mayors who have seen the writing on the wall have started to distance themselves from their previous facilitation of the Biden-Harris regime’s migrant invasion.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14058345/eric-adams-mayor-NYC-stop-migrants-FREE-pre-paid-cards.html
In the spirit of “kick ’em while they’re down”….
https://x.com/MostlyPeacefull/status/1854696283383984413
Unhinged Tiktoker
The eyes!
Dang, we really dodged a bullet when we went to the polls on Tuesday.
“A little-known federal group assembled by the Biden-Harris administration is preparing to issue dietary guidelines for Americans that will formally recommend beans, peas, and lentils take precedence over meats like chicken and beef…
Under the proposed guidelines presented by committee chairwoman Sarah Booth, beans, peas, and lentils would leave the vegetable category and be prioritized over soy products, seafood, meats, eggs, and poultry.”
https://freebeacon.com/biden-harris-administration/biden-harris-committee-set-to-take-action-pushing-beans-to-replace-red-meat-shortly-after-election/
In other news:
The UDSA has six positions for “Advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture.” One of those positions has already been accepted by Joel Salatin. That is HUGE for the true organic/homesteader movement.
Can’t wait until DJT give the heave-ho to the WHO too.
White Dudes for Harris would revolt if denied their soy products.
This sister has a message for black men who voted for Donald J. Trump.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fIRLsBk5a6wc
1:35.
Classy, unlike the hood rats who backed Kamala.
A bronze casting of her could easily be a figurehead on a battleship!
Ever notice how societies’ started going downhill once they took hooters off their coinage?
WOW!! what great video. just goes to show you can NOT always judge a book by it’s cover. or lack of one . . . Yowza
* if I was only 20 years younger & single . . . ok, 30 years.
aw hell, who am I kiddin’: that soft-spoken, smart, sexy, sensual, soul sistah would still be outta’ my only possible league.
my bowling league
The DNC gangsters aren’t the only ones having sleepless nights. Their CCP ideological mentors must be soiling themselves as the long-deferred financial reckoning day slouches closer.
https://x.com/SuburbanDrone/status/1854897800682615083
Scenes you would never see from Trump supporters.
https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1854837011309371901
She can look forward to decades of cats, boxed wine, and SSRI anti-depressant meds.
That’s a bullhorn, not a microphone! LOL
[People are stupid. A three-minute video …]
https://metro.co.uk/2024/11/07/americans-exposed-no-idea-2024-us-election-21946173/
Guardian offers therapy to staff after ‘devastating’ Trump election win
Newspaper vows to support workforce following Republican candidate’s ‘upsetting’ victory
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/07/guardian-offers-staff-counselling-after-trump-win/
The Guardian is offering counselling to staff as it vowed to support its workforce after Donald Trump’s “upsetting” US election victory this week.
In an email to staff, The Guardian’s editor Katharine Viner said the election had “exposed alarming fault lines on many fronts” and urged journalists based in the UK to contact colleagues in the US “to offer your support”.
Ms Viner said that the result would be “upsetting for many others”, according to the memo seen by Guido Fawkes, adding: “If you want to talk about it, your manager and members of the leadership team are all available, as the People team. There is also free access to free support services, which I’ve outlined at the end of this email.”
It comes after Ms Viner sought to reassure readers over the election outcome, writing in an editorial on Wednesday that the paper would “stand up to four more years of Donald Trump” and that the election was an “extraordinary, devastating moment in the history of the United States”.
Ms Viner added: “With Trump months away from taking office again – with dramatic implications for wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the health of American democracy, reproductive rights, inequality and, perhaps most of all, our collective environmental future – it’s time for us to redouble our efforts to hold the president-elect and those who surround him to account.”
Above an invitation to donate to The Guardian, her editorial ended with the message that the paper “will stand up to these threats, but it will take brave, well-funded independent journalism. It will take reporting that can’t be leaned upon by a billionaire owner terrified of retribution from a bully in the White House”.
A Guardian spokesman said on Thursday: “What you refer to as ‘therapy after Trump result’ is actually our employee assistance programme – a function that any responsible international media organisation has available for staff at all times.”
In the US, some colleges have given students time off, an extension on deadlines, art therapy classes and access to a therapy duck in response to Trump’s win.
The University of Oregon told students this week that to “promote well-being and lessen anxiety during election week, University Health Services is bringing Quacktavious the Therapy Duck to campus”.
Students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy were reportedly told this week that they could play with Lego, colouring books, and have milk and cookies in “self-care suites” following the result.
The University of Michigan is also hosting an “art therapy” and “post-election processing” event.
Some stores in the US even closed on Wednesday, with Iowa retailer The Collective writing on its Instagram page that it was closing to allow for a “day of collective grief”.
Among the overseas reaction was Germany’s popular weekly Die Zeit, which led its website on Wednesday with the one-word expletive “F—”.
Among the overseas reaction was Germany’s popular weekly Die Zeit, which led its website on Wednesday with the one-word expletive “F—”.
Meanwhile, in The Netherlands, the globalist quisling government has a law-and-order problem as refugee “guests” that have flooded the country bring their jihadi and criminal proclivities to the heart of Europe.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14059365/Amsterdam-gangs-scooters-targeted-attack-Israel-football-fans.html
Link for The Guardian writers and staffers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encopresis
“They’re not sending their best”
Trump’s win brings uncertainty to borrowers hoping for student loan forgiveness
Savannah Britt owes about $27,000 on loans she took out to attend college at Rutgers University, a debt she was hoping to see reduced by President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness efforts.
Her payments are currently on hold while courts untangle challenges to the loan forgiveness program. But as the weeks tick down on Biden’s time in office, she could soon face a monthly payment of up to $250.
“With this new administration, the dream is gone. It’s shot,” said Britt, 30, who runs her own communications agency. “I was hopeful before Tuesday. I was waiting out the process. Even my mom has a loan that she took out to support me. She owes about $18,000, and she was in the process of it being forgiven, but it’s at a standstill.”
https://www.wowktv.com/news/ap-trumps-win-brings-uncertainty-to-borrowers-hoping-for-student-loan-forgiveness/
“With this new administration, the dream is gone. It’s shot,” said Britt, 30, who runs her own communications agency.
F*ck off, you freeloading deadbeat. I worked my a$$ off in college to pay for my own education. I’m paying for my kids’ college, even though I hate contributing to the cultural Marxist indoctrination centers they chose to attend. You signed on Mr. Banker’s dotted line for student loans, which makes them YOUR responsibility – taxpayers are already overburdened paying the bills for parasites like you.
she could soon face a monthly payment of up to $250
That’s it? Wait until she has to buy a new car to replace the one daddy gave her while in school. Then she’ll really know what a monthly nut is.
Maybe Savannah should take her own advice.
“The mantra that drives Britt is “Nobody cares. Work harder.” “I live by that quote. Truly, no one cares. It’s all about you getting the job done and being responsible for yourself.””
https://rollingout.com/2017/12/30/savannah-britt-youngest-magazine-publisher-turned-industry-plug/
Anger, despair and relief across CT as Trump defeats Harris
While some Connecticut residents said Wednesday that they are upset about the results of Tuesday’s Presidential election, others said they are optimistic about former president Donald J. Trump’s return to office.
Mary Collins from West Hartford, an English professor at Central Connecticut State University, said she wept when she saw the news.
“It’s a totally devastating outcome,” Collins said. “Donald Trump is a totally depraved, immoral person, and anyone who voted for him is depraved and immoral.”
Collins said her reaction is intense because the election may have ramifications for her family.
“I have a transgender son, so this is personal for me,” Collins said. “We have to go into hiding. We have to hide in blue states because we’re going to be hunted.”
But Brian Garrow, a Somers resident and Central student, said he is looking forward to the next four years.
“Personally, I’m pretty happy with it,” Garrow said. “I grew up in a pretty conservative town, so that’s always how I’ve voted.”
Some on campus, including Tyrek Marquez, a Central student from New Britain, said that voters are not educated enough.
“The frustrating part is that people who aren’t informed get to be a part of the decision process when they don’t even understand what they are voting for,” Marquez said.
Ciara Gregory, a Central graduate student from New Britain, said too many voters were blind to Trump’s flaws.
“I cried when I woke up this morning,” she said. “The people backing him only see what they want. They don’t care about what he’s done.”
Another Central student from New Britain, Ethan Roy, saw wider implications in Trump’s victory. “I am saddened that the nature of freedom and the right to choose is in jeopardy,” he said.
Miguel Pagan, a Central student from New Britain, said he woke up Wednesday morning and looked at his phone hoping that Harris had won. Still, he added, “I’m tempted to see how he does and we need to back him. He can always be mad at something, but as long as they do the work, you can’t hate that.”
Clare Bransfield, a Guilford resident, said that she was stunned by Trump’s victory. “The results are not what I was looking for, and I am so shocked this is the opinion of so many people,” Bransfield said. “I thought the country was ready and excited for our first woman president.”
https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2024-11-07/ct-election-reaction-trump-defeats-harris
“I have a transgender son”
Actually, you don’t, Mary.
You have an innocent child that YOU allowed/promoted to be groomed by pedophile teachers, school counselors, psychologists, and doctors.
+1 Well said!
Philanthropist and Levi’s heir Daniel Lurie has won the hard-fought race for San Francisco mayor, ushering in a new era of leadership for a city whose voters made clear they are fed up with brazen retail theft and sprawling tent cities.
Lurie, a centrist Democrat, outpaced incumbent Mayor London Breed and three other prominent local Democrats, receiving 56.2% of the total ranked-choice vote compared with Breed’s 43.8% as of Thursday’s count.
Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, the only leading candidate running as an old-school progressive, came in third after being eliminated from the running with 21.6% of first-choice votes, and venture capitalist Mark Farrell, a moderate, trailed in fourth place. Supervisor Ahsha Safaí was knocked out of the running early after getting just 2.7% of first-choice votes.
The election was broadly viewed as a referendum on Breed’s efforts to address homeless encampments, crime and a flagging post-pandemic economy that cut at voters’ sense of a safe, well-functioning city.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/levis-heir-and-political-outsider-daniel-lurie-wins-san-francisco-mayors-race/ar-AA1tI83u
Lurie, a centrist Democrat
Doesn’t the incumbent, London Breed, also claim to be a “centrist democrat”? Does that term have any real meaning?
Opinion | Why Harris lost US polls: First-hand account from 2024 campaign trail
Having travelled across the United States from the start of the primary season in the US presidential election, I’ve had a unique vantage point from which to witness both the campaign’s successes and struggles. From the bustling streets of Pennsylvania to the rural counties of West Virginia, I spent countless hours talking to voters, campaign operatives, and political insiders.
In Michigan’s auto industry heartland, where factories are emblematic of America’s economic backbone, Harris’s forward-looking messages on innovation and clean energy were often met with scepticism. Workers in this region, particularly those impacted by automation and outsourcing, were more interested in immediate job security than in ambitious policy goals for the future.
Many voters expressed concerns that her plans for green energy and infrastructure investments, though promising, felt disconnected from the job losses and economic restructuring they were facing now. One autoworker said, “We keep hearing about a greener economy, but what about today? We’re losing jobs today.”
The same sentiment echoed in North Carolina’s urban centres and Pennsylvania’s rural areas. In these communities, families struggling with rising healthcare costs and inflation felt that Harris’s speeches, though polished and well-intentioned, missed the mark on their most pressing needs.
A number of voters expressed disappointment that the Democratic messaging seemed to veer into idealistic narratives without addressing the immediate “kitchen-table” such as healthcare affordability, housing costs, and inflation that concerned them daily. As one mother in Pennsylvania put it, “We want leaders who understand what it’s like for families trying to make ends meet. Harris talks about the future, but we’re worried about today.”
In swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and even parts of North Carolina, voters frequently expressed unease over what they perceived as the party’s distraction from the core economic concerns that once defined it.
In Michigan’s labor-heavy districts, for example, union workers voiced frustration that the Democratic Party’s traditional advocacy for labor rights and fair wages seemed increasingly overshadowed by ideological battles. Issues like gender identity, parental rights, and threats to democracy âwhile undeniably significant â didn’t align with the daily concerns of these communities.
One union leader said, “Our people are worried about keeping their jobs and feeding their families, not debating progressive ideology.” This sentiment echoed among many blue-collar voters who felt that the Democratic Party was more focused on pushing cultural change than addressing bread-and-butter issues.
In interviews with Democratic operatives, there was a recurring acknowledgement that this leftward shift was alienating critical centrist voters. While certain progressive policies had broad appeal within blue-leaning states like California, they struggled to gain traction in battleground areas where economic anxiety and social conservatism held greater sway.
A volunteer in Pennsylvania admitted, “We’re losing touch with the voters we need to win those who want to hear about good-paying jobs, affordable housing, and healthcare. They see us arguing over topics that feel secondary to their daily lives.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-why-harris-lost-us-polls-first-hand-account-from-2024-campaign-trail/ar-AA1tGWGu
They see us arguing over topics that feel secondary to their daily lives.
We see adherents to an alien ideology, Marxism, who are totalitarian control freaks attempting to coercively force productive, law-abiding citizens to bear the costs as the Democrat-Bolshevik termites in the foundation serve as their globalist masters’ wrecking ball against Heritage America, Christianity, and the Constitution. Those are not “secondary” topics. Let me remind you commie control freaks that the Founding Fathers bequeathed us a 2nd Amendment knowing traitors like you would try to hijack and subvert our Constitutional Republic.
and threats to democracy âwhile undeniably
significantnon existent â didn’t align with the daily concerns of these communities.They see us arguing over topics that feel
secondaryirrelevantt o their daily lives.Restructuring Underway At Soros Fund Management As Hong Kong Office To Shut
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/restructuring-underway-soros-fund-management-hong-kong-office-shut
An administrative restructuring is underway at Soros Fund Management, founded by billionaire George Soros in the 1970s, as it plans to shutter its Hong Kong office, according to a Bloomberg report. Although the exact reasons were not disclosed, this move comes just days after Soros’ son, Alex Soros, through the family’s Open Society Foundations, wasted tens of millions of dollars backing the biggest Democrat loser in a generation: Kamala Harris.
The New York-based investment firm, best known for its $10 billion trade against the British pound in 1992, explained in an emailed statement that its Asia investments will now be managed by traders in its New York and London offices. The firm added that it will continue allocating capital to managers in Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
Bloomberg reporters working on the story could not obtain further comment from the investment firm.
A key question remains: Why is Soros Fund Management shrinking its Asian physical footprint? Bad china bets?
This administrative restructuring at the investment firm comes months after a major restructuring occurred within OSF over the summer. OSF reportedly laid off over 40% of its workforce worldwide and implemented a new operating model.
Even with all this restructuring, the philanthropic organizations controlled by the Soros family, with Alex Soros somewhere at the helm—and even further off the reservation than his father—wasted a lot of daddy’s money on supporting the biggest Democratic loser in a generation: Harris-Walz. This historic loss will be detrimental to the Soros family and far-left Davos elite, who push nation-wrecking globalist policies. The tide has turned.
We still need to get to the bottom of those millions of ballots all marked for Biden that materialized in the wee hours of the morning on Election Day 2020. Maybe 20M Biden voters have since died of the clot shot?
https://x.com/TRHLofficial/status/1854848007461622218
Globalist sc*m media does NOT want to report this or acknowledge it is being discussed outside of their narrative plantation.
The 2020 election was stolen.
And every one of VERMIN who report that it wasn’t are liars.
Citizen! Attorneys for the Vermin Anti-Defamation League request that you cease and desist from comparisons of the globalist scum media to far more innocuous vermin.
It is probably safe to assume that at least 2 million of them were vaxecuted. However, they imported enough illegal invader voters to fill that gap. There are some inconvenient truths that the libtards don’t seem to want to address. Isn’t it odd that such highly educated intelligent folks are so willfully ignorant? Sad!
Isn’t it odd that such highly educated intelligent folks are so willfully ignorant?
Not really. Most are educated in BS degrees and therefore think they are smart and “above” the peons but in reality they just had upper middle class parents who protected them throughout HS and then sent them to college to get them the H3ll out of the house.
Based on the above posts, it doesn’t look like Trump is a Globalist plant.
He’s talking term limits for the Swamp. Breaking up the Deep State
hold on Government. This is the kind of stuff that got JFK killed so many years ago.
Yesterday, after watching those left wing women have their mental breakdowns one thing was clear to me.They were all parrots of the fake news nonsense and the brainwashing that was more toxic than the Covid19 scam.
I heard a Podcaster say in summary that we should go after the “Brainwashers”, rather than the “Brainwashed”, who are victims of fraud and deceit, by the real Powers That Be.
I have a few liberal friends battling for their lives right now because they were dupped into taking 5 Covid vaccines, by CNN. They spend a good deal of time in the emergency hospital enduring the most horrific side effects, getting cancer and heart problem emergencies. I consider them victims of the ” safe and effective” fraud.
And, I remember saying, a while back that I was concerned about being taken to a camp because I wasn’t going to take the vaccine..Now it comes out that they were planning to do this. And , I can’t forget watching the cheerleaders on CNN starting to push the idea ,along with denying right to buy groceries or get medical services. There was push back , but that’s what they wanted to do. .
So, this incredible evil that was launched on the World was reflected on Fake News, by the Powers That Be. I say that Covid19 exposed the true colors of a pre planned power grab to take over the globe and enslave humanity under a One World Order global goverance dictorship.
Climate Change , along with manufactured panademics were the launched pre planned warfare to justify this strike against humanity , plants, animals and the earth..
But, the enemy from within isn’t going stop their sinister plans and humanity has to stop them, because they are the greatest threat to this earth.
Invasions of borders, depopulation, you will eat bugs and own nothing, is their end game, as unbelievable as it sounds..
Just saying.
Wiz, I also have quite a few friends that have been dealing with health problems after getting jabbed. About 6 people I personally know with heart problems. One died at age 60 of Covid after getting the poison jabs.
One 40 yr old with an aggressive cancer, a couple more of my daughters friends with monthly cycle issues, and one with the droopy side of the face thing. (I forgot the name of that) But these things are probably just a coincidence, or climate change,
droopy side of the face
Bell’s palsy
Ralph Nader?
* “She has stolen so much things from my house. The house was furnished. 11 TVs were stolen from the house,’ says Moradian who tells CTV News her home with a walkout basement had a hot tub which was seriously damaged.”
hot tub? 11 TV’s ?!? sounds like an informal nightclub, who’s owner got burned by someone even more deceitful.
and, of course, NOW the owner’s all up-in-arms being on the losing end, and demands “someone” (always the govt) DO SOMETHING!!
however, that same “someone” damn well better keep it’s nose out of & grubby paws off HER profit$ when things are going well.
If I had 11 TV’s in my house, even the bathrooms would have TV’s
frat houses start the weekend early w/a fun friday morning taking a shot every time the harpies on The View snarl “Donald Trump”
hell, those harridans should be happy as hell as they now get to screech that ratings bonanza, name triggering phrase for 4 more years, guaranteeing renewed contract$.
bet ya’ fiddy bucks they’re all shopping luxury vehicles as we speak.
HaHa
Voters are getting payback for the inflation crisis
The unemployment rate in the United States is hovering near historic lows. The stock market is on a tear – great news for the 62 per cent of American adults with exposure to equities. And the U.S. economy is growing so quickly that peer countries would gladly trade places.
In the end, none of this mattered for the Democratic Party, which was handed an emphatic defeat in this week’s presidential election.
Any number of theories for the party’s misfortunes will be proffered in the weeks and months ahead. But the roots of their demise may come down to something very simple: People hate inflation. It’s a message that voters around the world have hammered home repeatedly over the past two years.
“Incumbent governments are going down to defeat, and the two salient issues seem to be inflation and, to some extent, immigration,” said Avery Shenfeld, chief economist at CIBC Capital Markets. “There was clearly a global dimension to the price shock,” he added. However, “in every country, voters have blamed their own government for the inflation that they saw.”
Jason Furman, who served as the chair of the council of economic advisers during president Barack Obama’s second term, said on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday that there was “cherry picking” of statistics that made the situation seem rosier than it was.
Mr. Furman noted that millions more people were living in poverty and that mortgage rates had increased significantly. Adjusted for inflation, median household income was lower than in 2019, he said.
There’s also the simple fact that price levels are much higher than they were a few years ago. Consumer prices in the U.S. have jumped 20 per cent since Mr. Biden’s inauguration in January, 2021. (Prices in Canada have risen 16 per cent over the same period.)
“The facts are inflation and interest rates have come down faster and further than in the U.S. That’s real relief for Canadians,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters on Wednesday.
But she also noted that “inflation has hurt people.” If the polls are correct, Canadians will punish the federal Liberal Party for this at the next federal election.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-voters-are-getting-payback-for-the-inflation-crisis/
There’s also the simple fact that price levels are much higher than they were a few years ago.
And they are also much higher that officially reported.
“And they are also much higher that officially reported.”
YES!
Bigger than inflation: Trump burst open Miamians’ dissatisfaction with ‘rigged’ system | Opinion
If the results of Tuesday’s elections in Miami-Dade County are truly about “the economy, stupid” — as the old political slogan goes — it’s not very hard to see why.
When Donald Trump won the county, he flipped it from blue to red for the first time in a presidential election since 1988 and led a countywide wave for Republicans. That’s a big shift in a place where Hillary Clinton won by nearly 30 percentage points in 2016 and Joe Biden by seven in 2020.
Viewed through an economic lens, though, it makes sense.
South Florida has been struggling under the weight of skyrocketing housing costs and an extreme shortage of affordable homes. That’s a real life obstacle for many in South Florida who feel stuck — or sliding backwards — on the economic ladder.
Yes, the crisis has slightly abated, with rents down by a mere 2.1% in June. Some condo prices have dropped a lot, but that’s because of safety-related special assessments after the Surfside condo collapse. Single-family home sales slowed a bit recently but median prices still rose. Along the way, home ownership has become simply unattainable for too many, including the middle class.
At the same time, wages haven’t kept up. Income inequality, in a town where glittering high-rises soar and billionaires keep moving in, is an inescapable fact of life.
A Census Bureau survey found that more than three-quarters of South Floridians reported difficulty paying for normal household expenses in 2023, making greater Miami one of the most cost burdened metropolitan areas in the country.
Add inflation to the financial squeeze, and it’s no wonder South Florida voters may feel the system doesn’t work for them — or, to borrow Trump’s terminology, the whole thing is “rigged.”
The Democratic Party used to be known for looking out for “everyday people” but Trump is now donning that mantle, even if some of his policies — such as tariffs on imports — could create more inflation and chaos.
So when voters in majority-Hispanic Miami-Dade chose Trump and Republicans this year, it seems apparent they were voting for economic relief. As Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer noted this week, about 85% of Latino voters said their top election priority was the economy, according to a Pew Research Center Poll.
This economic emphasis in the election is not a fluke. Nor is it a single issue. It’s a complicated stew — astronomical housing costs, terrible insurance rates, wages that don’t keep up with costs, inflation at the grocery store — that leaves a lot of South Floridians out in the cold when it comes to the American dream.
It’s not a new phenomenon. Both parties are to blame for the deepening of income inequalities over the past decades. Most Americans know that, as big business became more profitable and politicians enriched themselves, their own financial security diminished.
Pull yourself up by the bootstraps? Middle class families used to be able to save money and buy a home or send their kids to college. They could retire with corporate pensions. Today those kinds of goals seem to be moving farther away, leaving the middle class without a clear upward path.
That safer, more stable life of their parents and grandparents is what many Trump voters envision when they embrace “Make America Great Again.” As much as critics dismiss that slogan as bigoted — after all, women, Black people and other minorities didn’t have the same rights for much of America’s history — that’s an oversimplification.
Trump understood something when he promised that he would bring America back to its period of greatness, whenever that may be. When you lose the middle class, as the Democrats clearly did in this election cycle, you’ll see it in the ballot box.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/bigger-than-inflation-trump-burst-open-miamians-dissatisfaction-with-rigged-system-opinion/ar-AA1tHpHt
At the same time, wages haven’t kept up.
This is an area where the gaslighting crashed and burned. Telling everyone that their wages were outpacing inflation was insulting, as everyone knew that was simply not true as making ends meet became harder and harder.
Latino voters put identity issues aside in 2024
Former President Trump’s election to a second, nonconsecutive term instantly rewrote the playbook for pursuing the Hispanic electorate, burying immigration and identity politics as gateway issues for the Latino vote.
Tuesday’s election drew a line under the idea of a nonmonolithic Hispanic community, making evident that geographic, economic, gender, age, national origin and ideological gaps outweighed any considerations of Latino identity.
In other words, Hispanic voters largely behaved like others in the general electorate and were swayed in either direction by campaign pitches on major issues, especially economics.
“There were a lot of Latinos who didn’t know, or, frankly, not just didn’t know [but] who couldn’t tell you who was with them and who was against them on economics,” said Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), a progressive who won reelection by a wide margin Tuesday. “So, I think that not only does the Democratic Party need to be much more clear about who we’re for — I think for Latinos, they wanted to also know who we’re against, so that when the rubber hits the road, that we’re willing to stand up for working people, Latinos included, when we have to stand up to special interests, or we have to stand up against corruption, or we have to stand up against the very rich and powerful.”
Cultural identity issues, on the other hand, proved not to be as galvanizing as some expected.
The final week of the campaign kicked off with a squabble over a slight against Puerto Rico at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. Community leaders, pundits, the press and campaign officials all read the incident as a galvanizing moment for Puerto Rican voters to emerge as the key bloc to nudge Pennsylvania toward Vice President Harris.
That moment did not come.
“Part of what it shows us is that a lot of the people who have had very loud microphones and have tried to speak out on behalf of the people of Puerto Rico as a whole, or Puerto Ricans stateside as a whole, maybe aren’t tuned into the reality in their community as much as they thought,” said George Laws García, director of the Puerto Rico Statehood Council.
Harris did beat Trump in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh County — host to Allentown, a key hub for the state’s Puerto Rican community — but she trailed President Biden’s 2020 performance there by about 4,000 votes. She lost Florida’s Osceola County, that state’s Puerto Rican capital, underperforming Biden by more than 13,000 votes.
But Harris’s platform did not connect with enough voters at a national level, something observers throughout the political spectrum attribute to her economic message.
“People are going to vote with their wallets, like it happened with Reagan, like it happened with Clinton,” said Ivan Garcia-Hidalgo, a Republican strategist. “And the wallets are screwed right now for a lot of people. And the problem is she didn’t address it. And they gave her a ton of opportunities — ‘What would you do different?’ and ‘What would you correct?’— and she didn’t do anything.”
It’s still unclear whether Hispanic would-be Democratic voters mostly stayed home or converted to the GOP, but the shift is staggering. According to exit polls, Trump’s share of the electorate grew by 25 points, rivaling former President George W. Bush’s 2004 record-setting tally.
Democrats such as Casar were shocked at the size of the shift but not surprised that the party was unable to break through Trump’s portrayals of the left.
“Trump would lie and say your housing is more expensive, or health care is worse, your wages are worse because of immigrants, right? He would lie and blame immigrants for people’s economic stresses, and Democrats weren’t able to clearly enough say, ‘Housing is more expensive because of Wall Street, not because of immigrants. Your health care is worse because of Big Pharma, not because of immigrants. Wages are stagnating not because of immigrants but because of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos,” Casar said.
“And without Democrats clearly having a message that pointed the finger at the real villains … all that was left was Trump’s lie. And we Democrats can, fairly or unfairly, cannot survive being mischaracterized as a party that’s out of touch for with working people’s economic interests.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/latino-voters-put-identity-issues-aside-in-2024/ar-AA1tFOuR
Corporate Donors Guided Kamala Harris to Defeat
Rich donors like Mark Cuban boasted about their success in shaping Kamala Harris’s campaign and inducing her to ditch progressive economic policies. We shouldn’t let them shrug off responsibility for a disastrous defeat.
There’s a memorable scene in the film The Big Short involving the lightly fictionalized hedge fund manager Mark Baum. Baum is listening in horror as some real estate bros describe all the shady practices that have fueled the housing bubble in Florida. Halfway through the conversation, he brings his team aside and demands to know why the crooks would give up their secrets so easily.
“They’re not confessing,” his colleagues explain to him. “They’re bragging.”
A few weeks before the presidential election, the New York Times published an article about the influence of big donors over the Kamala Harris campaign based on not-so-humble bragging from the heights of corporate America. Now it reads much more like a confession. While Harris refused to distance herself from Joe Biden over the carnage in Gaza, she had no problem signaling her intention to scrap parts of his economic agenda that benefited working-class Americans but went down badly with the very rich.
The Times described “a steady stream of meetings and calls in which corporate executives and donors offer their thoughts on tax policy, financial regulation and other issues,” which had resulted in “a Democratic campaign that is far more open to corporate input than the one President Biden had led for much of the election cycle.”
According to one business executive, the Harris campaign was “definitely giving large corporations a seat at the table and giving them a voice,” in a way that marked “a significant difference from the Biden administration.”
The donors weighed in behind the scenes when Harris promised to ban “price gouging” for groceries and secured an immediate rollback on the pledge: “In the days after, Ms. Harris’s team clarified that the plan would apply only during emergencies and would mirror laws already in place in many states — a narrower concept that would not immediately address rising grocery prices.” Harris might have been left with little to say about one of the most pressing economic problems in the United States, but at least her corporate backers were happy.
Back in 2019, Joe Biden famously told an audience of rich donors in New York that they shouldn’t worry about minor reforms that would leave their wealth and power fully intact:
‘You all know in your gut what has to be done. We can disagree in the margins, but the truth of the matter is it’s all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change.’
As well as making “remarks that indicate a less zealous approach to antitrust enforcement,” which went down very well on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, Harris explicitly rejected Biden’s plan to raise the capital gains tax to 39.6 percent. Billionaire Mark Cuban boasted that he had inundated the Harris campaign with “a never-ending stream of texts and calls and emails,” urging them to support various economic policies that would benefit his class: “The list is endless, and in all those areas I’ve seen something pop into her speech at some level.”
According to Cuban, the (very limited) shift to the left in the Democratic Party under the impact of the two Bernie Sanders campaigns would soon be a fading memory with Harris in charge:
‘ She says she’s open to inputs from independents and Republicans, she means it. She truly is open minded. I’ve put some wild things in her direction that they don’t laugh at. People are trying to say, “Here are the progressive and liberal principles that have always been the principles of the Democratic Party.” Those are gone. It’s Kamala Harris’s party now.’
At the time when he made this boast, Cuban presumably expected to have his feet well under the table of the next administration. When the results started coming in, Cuban swiftly congratulated Trump on his victory — “you won fair and square” — and offered congratulations to Elon Musk too.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/corporate-donors-guided-kamala-harris-to-defeat/ar-AA1tGVAI
inducing her to ditch progressive economic policies
When did that happen? I don’t recall her saying that the way to defeat inflation was to get out of business’s way. Sure, she stopped yammering about price controls and price gouging, but she never disavowed them. And she was about growing the Free Sh!t Army to the bitter end.
US elections 2024: The Arab capital of America voted for Trump. Now, the work begins
Put simply, it was not Dearborn, Michigan, that brought down Kamala Harris.
Yes, the Arab-majority suburbs of Democrat-blue Detroit went Republican red on Tuesday, with voters overwhelmingly choosing Donald Trump over the vice president.
But ultimately, it was the direction much of the United States decided to take. Whether it was due to conflicts bankrolled by the US, culture wars over identity and gender or the soaring price of groceries, Trump won six of the seven battleground states and the race was effectively over by 1am (6am GMT) on election night.
The Democrats were handily defeated – a result that many Arab-Americans here were not disappointed by, given they feel the party abandoned them over the past year.
“I think the entire country is going to have buyer’s remorse in the next few months,” Sally Howell, director of the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Center for Arab American Studies, told Middle East Eye.
“And I think that the Arab American community is definitely going to have buyer’s remorse, but I also think that there’s a moral principle here: I don’t know where else the Arab American community could have gone,” she said.
There was, of course, a third-party option: Green Party candidate Jill Stein, an openly anti-Zionist, anti-war candidate with no chance of ascending to the Oval Office. Even though she was an option, she received far fewer votes than Harris. Nationwide, Stein barely reached 1 percent of the tally.
Trump had sent a steady stream of surrogates here since May – including his new Lebanese relatives, Massad Boulos and his son Michael – and pledged to end the wars in the Middle East.
Just a few days before the election, the former president himself came to Dearborn. Though the visit was brief, no other presidential candidate had done the same before.
“It might sound to you like it’s a low bar, but it’s a really important symbolic bar,” Howell said.
Howell notes that Arab Americans spent the past year doing everything they could to salvage their relationship with the Democratic Party.
“It is really a measure of how abandoned this population feels by the Democratic Party.
“I don’t know what they could have done more than they did. They tried to raise [the wars on Gaza and Lebanon] issue. They’ve worked on every single level of society to try and raise this issue, and no one paid attention to them.”
Abdelhalim Abdelrahman, a Palestinian-American writer and political analyst in the Dearborn area, said he voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and described himself as sometimes Democrat, sometimes Libertarian.
After Michigan opened up early voting this year, Abdelrahman filled out his ballot on 29 October and shared a photograph on X.
Rather than choosing any listed candidates, he cast his vote as a write-in, naming Palestinians Hind Rajab and Muhammed Bhar as his presidential ticket.
So, the question remains: did Abdelrahman and others like him inadvertently help Trump win?
“We’re prepared for it. We’re ready to bear the consequences of it – not because we want to or because we love it. But we’re trying to change the status quo and we want to make Palestine a pre-eminent foreign policy issue,” Abdelrahman said.
Egyptian-American Hassan Abdel Salam, co-founder of the Abandon Biden and now Abandon Harris movement, looked up at the screen and allowed himself a small smile.
If those numbers held, would it be a victory for his movement?
“Yes, we won. But there’s also the case of establishing with our data that we were the reason for peeling the significant percentage away from the vice president,” he told MEE.
“That has been our goal: to punish the vice president for her genocide, then take the blame for her defeat, which we will happily do in our press conferences,” he added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-elections-2024-arab-capital-america-voted-trump-now-work-begins
For reference purposes:
https://www.antiwar.com/
Rep. Thomas Massie is against war. My former Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is and was. Now is the time to speak to the new government and tell them the people don’t support and don’t want to pay for any more wars.
Dems rage against Biden’s ‘arrogance’ after Harris loss
Democrats are directing their rage over losing the presidential race at Joe Biden, who they blame for setting up Kamala Harris for failure by not dropping out sooner.
They say his advancing age, questions over his mental acuity and deep unpopularity put Democrats at a sharp disadvantage. They are livid that they were forced to embrace a candidate who voters had made clear they did not want — and then stayed in the race long after it was clear he couldn’t win.
“He shouldn’t have run,” said Jim Manley, a top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. “This is no time to pull punches or be concerned about anyone’s feelings. He and his staff have done an enormous amount of damage to this country.”
According to interviews with nearly a dozen officials and party operatives, Biden squandered valuable months only to end in disaster on the debate stage. And by the time he decided to pass the torch, he had saddled Harris with too many challenges and far too little time to build a winning case for herself.
The fresh anger at Biden came as Democrats devolved into a round of recriminations following Tuesday’s decisive loss to Donald Trump, with officials struggling to explain why a majority of the electorate voted Republican for the first time in 20 years.
The loss, said supporters and critics alike, will put a lasting dent in a legacy that Biden built steadily over more than a half-century in politics, culminating in what he envisioned would be a resounding defeat of Trump and his divisive brand of politics. Instead, Biden’s presidency will now be inextricably linked with Trump’s return to the Oval Office and his legislative accomplishments risk getting undercut by his successor. It’s in part a consequence, some Democrats concluded, of Biden letting pride and ego cloud the sharp political judgment that had aided his long ascent to the White House.
“There was a Biden weariness,” James Zogby, a three-decade veteran of the Democratic National Committee, said of the shift among the electorate in recent years. “And he hung on too long.”
“People, for whatever reason, feel it was better four years ago — and I don’t think we could fight that,” said one longtime Democratic operative, pointing to the growing percentage of Latinos and Black voters who flipped to Trump. “We just have a bad brand right now.”
Several Democrats pointed to the administration’s handling of a spike in inflation as a key misstep. The White House initially dismissed it as a temporary phenomenon, and it took months for Biden to grasp the impact it was having on the electorate. The episode cost them credibility with voters and overshadowed the economic strides being made elsewhere.
“They didn’t jump on it fast enough,” said Mike Lux, a Democratic strategist and co-founder of Democracy Partners, who defended Biden’s record but lamented that it never took hold with working-class voters. “It was really hurting people, and we just didn’t respond in the way that we could have and should have on policy, to an extent, but definitely on communications.”
Biden, who had at one point in the 2020 campaign pledged to be a “bridge” candidate to a new generation, later based his run for reelection on the belief that only he could defeat Trump — even as he showed clear signs that, at 81, he was not the dynamic candidate of even four years ago. In polling dating back to 2023, more than three-quarters of Americans believed Biden was too old for office.
“They failed to see his inability to step up his game,” Zogby said of Biden’s top aides. “There was this sense that there was nobody out there who could do it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/06/democrats-blame-biden-trump-win-00188092
10 Democratic Thinkers on What the Party Needs Right Now
Stunned Democrats are still sorting through the wreckage of Donald Trump’s victory, but the debate over what went wrong is already ramping up.
Were inflation and an unpopular incumbent to blame? What about the seeming radicalization of young men? Has class and education become more important than identity? Why are Latinos bolting the party? These are not idle questions as Democrats lurch into the wilderness: Where do Democrats go from here?
POLITICO Magazine reached out to top Democratic strategists, activists and thinkers to see if they had answers. Their solutions for the party varied, but one thing that’s clear to everyone is the need for change.
Here’s what they proposed. ‘Abandon policing cultural behaviors’
BY ANDREW YANG
Andrew Yang is a former Democratic presidential candidate and founder of the Forward Party.
First, the Democrats should apologize for sandbagging Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary.
After, they should name Dean Phillips the new chair of the DNC, as the only Democrat with the character to sacrifice his own career for the good of the country.
Next, they should apologize for not having a competitive primary this year, which would have resulted in a vetted nominee and ticket with the buy-in of hundreds of thousands of voters. They will agree to always hold a primary no matter what, as it resulted in victories in 2008 and 2020, while not holding a competitive primary resulted in losses in 2016 and 2024.They should voluntarily adopt open primaries (and ranked choice voting) in all of their primaries, inviting independents to participate in their candidate selection process, as this group represents a plurality of Americans.
They should pledge never to back extremists in Republican primaries to boost a more beatable opponent in the general election, and they should agree never to keep minor parties or independent candidates off the ballot in states around the country. If you believe yourself to be the better option, you shouldn’t be scared of healthy competition.
They should back the Local Journalism Sustainability Act to provide a path for local journalism, increasing information going to the electorate. They should also back the Fair Representation Act as a way to fight gerrymandering and give voice to voters in the minority party of a district. Yes, they’ll lose some seats in Democratic gerrymandered states. What a message it would send to voters that they’d rather build a representative government than hold onto power at all costs.
Finally, they should adopt one central mission: improving Americans’ standard of living. They should abandon policing cultural behaviors, especially since many of their stances aren’t even popular with Democrats in real life. They should also create solutions for men and boys — who are struggling — instead of engaging in identity politics that excludes at least half of the country.
In many ways, these all boil down to one thing: The Democratic Party should act more democratically. But they will do none of these things. Instead, they will begin jockeying for position within the party to run in 2028. That is why more and more voters will look for options, like the Forward Party, or declare themselves independents as Trump returns to power. Institutions incapable of reform get replaced.
‘Begin by admitting that our party has been entirely directed by Donald Trump’
BY SARADA PERI
Sarada Peri is the founder of Peri Communications and served as a senior speechwriter to President Barack Obama.
Whatever the reasons — and we will hear all of them over the coming months — Democrats got our asses handed to us. It’s time to start from scratch. Maybe we begin by admitting that our party has been entirely directed by Donald Trump since he came down that golden escalator. The stale ideas the party has run on have been a laundry list reaction to his agenda. The ideologies, including identity, that Democrats have publicly, clumsily tested and adjudicated have been a response to his ideology, including racism. The electoral coalition Democrats assembled was an unwieldy assortment of groups barely held together by their shared opposition to Trump. Even the way we listen and respond to voters is refracted through Trump.
As a result, Democrats have put forward a cramped, pointillist rendering of a worldview — squint and you can make out something semi-coherent. But it is not a clear vision, a clear project, not just for how we will help an electorate that is crying out for help, but for what America is and ought to be. Fearful of some voters and dismissive of others, we persuade almost no one.
But now, the worst has happened. There’s no point in holding on to prior assumptions or being risk-averse. The party of Trump will undoubtedly overplay its hand in the next two years. If Democrats are going to be ready with an actual narrative about why Americans can trust us to lead — if we’re going to tell a story that is authentic and persuasive and not only speaks to people’s concerns but also to their moral and material aspirations — then we need to put aside everything we know and ask ourselves the most basic questions: Who are we? What do we believe? What America is possible?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/10-democratic-thinkers-on-what-the-party-needs-right-now/ar-AA1tGLf5
‘Grueling and arduous’: A look back at Canada-U.S. relations during the first Trump presidency
Canadian political leaders are congratulating Donald Trump on winning back the U.S. presidency — a victory that raises stark questions about what Canada-U.S. relations will look like over the next four years.
During Trump’s first term in office, his administration sparred with Canada over trade issues, including the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and tariffs imposed on certain Canadian aluminum products.
Immigration also became a source of tension between the two countries when Trump announced a travel ban that affected several Muslim-majority countries — a move that prompted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to tout Canada’s immigration system.
These issues are expected to crop up again after Trump takes office in January. During his campaign, Trump promised to impose a minimum 10 per cent global tariff and stage mass deportations.
Almost immediately after taking office in 2017, Trump and his team called for the renegotiation of the NAFTA trade deal with Canada and Mexico — and threatened to give six months’ notice of the deal’s termination if those two countries didn’t play ball.
That kicked off 14 months of intense and often fractious negotiations between Canada and the U.S. A deal was finally reached in September 2018 and took effect in 2020. The new agreement also had a new name: the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
Aaron Ettinger, an associate professor at Carleton University who specializes in U.S. foreign policy, said the negotiation process was “grueling and arduous,” although “things turned out okay for Canada in the end.”
“But the entirety of Canada’s economic prosperity was put on the line there,” Ettinger said.
The USMCA is up for review and renewal in 2026. Trump has vowed to reopen the agreement, but so did his election opponent Kamala Harris.
Trump has pledged to go after all undocumented immigrants in the United States and carry out mass deportations during his second term, a vow that has some experts asking whether there will be spillover effects for Canada.
Jason Kenney, who served as immigration minister under former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, told CBC News last week that Canada needs to take that prospect “very, very seriously” and warned that “we don’t have the ability to police” a sudden wave of newcomers.
On the heels of a G7 summit in Charlevoix, Que., Trump suddenly tweeted out personal attacks on Prime Minister Trudeau, calling him “very dishonest” and “weak.”
He was apparently reacting to remarks Trudeau made when he was pressed by reporters to respond to Trump’s tough talk on trade at a closing press conference. At the time, Canada and the U.S. were in NAFTA talks and at odds over adding a sunset provision to the new agreement.
Trudeau shut down the idea of a sunset provision and said “that’s not on the table.” The prime minister also said his government was going ahead with a plan to impose more than $16.5 billion in tariffs on U.S. goods.
In a separate tweet, Trump wrote that he instructed U.S. representatives to withdraw support for the summit’s closing communique and explore imposing tariffs on “automobiles flooding the U.S. market!”
When asked by reporters for his reaction to Trump’s tweets, and his thoughts on what Trump’s move could mean for the future of the G7, Trudeau didn’t answer.
Ettinger said that Trudeau’s relationship with Trump “started off promising but eventually became completely poisoned.”
“If Trudeau is still in power [when Trump takes office], it will be the worst start of a new president’s term in terms of prime ministerial [and] presidential relationships,” he added.
Ettinger also said that if Trudeau can “say all of the nice things about Donald Trump that Trump wants, then I can see that relationship being repaired.”
“But whether or not Justin Trudeau has the stomach to do that kind of thing is a whole other story,” Ettinger said.
Trump has promised to implement a minimum tariff of 10 per cent on all imports entering the United States during his second term. Sources have told CBC News that Trump’s allies have offered no assurances of a reprieve for Canada.
Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s former principal secretary, developed close relationships with some of Trump’s advisers during his first term. He told CBC’s The House that he’s “not sure there’s going to be a way of talking Donald Trump out of this.”
Butts also said Trump is not afraid to wield access to the U.S. market to get what he wants out of negotiations.
Canada already has started talks with members of Trump’s inner circle about avoiding new trade tariffs. The federal government has warned of retaliation on U.S. goods if the tariffs are imposed on Canada.
Ettinger said he expects Trump to impose the tariffs quickly and he doesn’t think Canada will get the exemption it wants.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-united-states-trump-1.7375698
Some one here asked about this yesterday:
‘The USMCA is up for review and renewal in 2026’
Some one here asked about this yesterday:
‘The USMCA is up for review and renewal in 2026’
That was me. By 2026 Lil Fidel should be long gone, and DJT can negotiate a mutually beneficial agreement with Pierre Poilievre.
This raises an important point: all ‘treaties’ used to be done through congress. They debated in the senate what this and that should be in the latest Japan deal for instance. And they always had sunset provisions. It might be 5 years, it might be one. Whatever they could convince a higher majority to agree to and for how long. Some actual democracy there.
With WTO and Nafta, it’s a done deal. It will exist forever funded by the filthy lucre and administered by globalist scum bureaucrats with a meaningless annual review.
RCMP already ‘on high alert’ for potential wave of migrants after Trump election
When Donald Trump vowed to clamp down on immigration as part of his campaign for president of the United States, the RCMP was listening closely.
Canada’s federal police force has been preparing for months on a contingency plan for a potential massive influx of migrants across the border following Trump’s promise of “mass deportations” of millions of undocumented immigrants(opens in a new tab) in the U.S.
Now that the former president has been elected for another term(opens in a new tab), the RCMP has been “on high alert.” If a surge materializes, the Mounties expect it to take place before Trump’s inauguration in January.
Questions remain on how many people would cross into Canada and whether Canadian authorities have the resources to handle them.
“We started planning because we knew that there were a lot of people in the United States who will fear to be deported, and if that happens, they won’t wait for the Trump administration to seize power, it’s more likely that they will attempt to cross into Canada from now in the next few weeks until he takes on power,” RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Charles Poirier told CTV News on Thursday.
The Mounties are preparing for all outcomes, including a worst case scenario of a huge wave of migrants, especially along the roughly 800 kilometre Quebec-U.S. border.
The plan for that includes deploying more RCMP officers along the border, including in wooded areas. It also involves buying or renting space to temporarily hold migrants, buying more police vehicles, and borrowing officers from other provinces, similar to what was done after the 2016 U.S. election.
“All options are on the table right now,” Poirier said. “But at the end of the day, if someone comes in we absolutely need to arrest them so we’ll put in whatever resources we have to make sure we arrest everyone that comes in.”
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/rcmp-already-on-high-alert-for-potential-wave-of-migrants-after-trump-election-1.7102193
Once Trump purges the Border Patrol of Biden-Harris loyalists who facilitated mass illegal immigration, he should require fleeing libtards to pass through Ports of Entry along the border where they can be mocked and laughed at by MAGA supporters. The resultant meltdowns would be comedy gold. He should also permanently strip these butt-hurt libtards of their citizenship – Lil’ Fidel and his Liberal Party globalist quislings can be on the hook for taking care of these leftist parasites for life.
Questions remain on how many people would cross into Canada and whether Canadian authorities have the resources to handle them.
Oh, so NOW that matters.
Lessons from Trump give Dutton a path to victory next year
Peter Dutton already knows linking migration and inflation is electorally potent. Trump’s victory will only confirm its power.
Two events over the last week illustrate why Donald Trump’s victory will give heart to Peter Dutton that he has a real chance now to consign Labor to one-term status at next year’s federal election.
One was the High Court accepting the arguments of refugee advocates that around 150 foreign-born convicted criminals, including scores of sex offenders who can’t currently be deported, can’t be subject to monitoring and curfews. The decision reignites the controversy around criminals freed by the High Court in its NZYQ decision, which the government badly bungled in 2023. At least this time around, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke had new legislation ready for introduction to restore ankle bracelets and curfews and find new ways to deport the criminals. Needless to say, that didn’t stop the Coalition from savaging the government over the decision.
The other was the announcement by NSW state government-owned Sydney Water that it wanted to increase water charges by an astonishing 50% over the next five years. Why? “To secure Sydney’s future by planning and building today to support population growth of 1.7 million people by 2050.”
That is, a state Labor government wants people in Sydney to pay half as much again for the water out of their taps so that a federal Labor government can bring millions more people into Australia. It’s a very direct connection between migration and inflation. The former, famously, is Trump’s signature issue, and one that Dutton has emphasised as well, while inflation is now being cited as the reason why Trump was able to prevail in the US despite the rude health and declining interest rates of the US economy.
Reinforcing that narrative is the Albanese government’s failure to bring immigration down as fast as it forecast, with Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy admitting this week that the budget migration forecasts would be exceeded. Why? “Rather than depart, many migrants have extended their stay by applying for new visas, including permanent visas.”
That would have been music to Dutton’s ears — the government admitting that Labor was failing to meet its migration targets because too many people were staying longer than they should. Dutton was ahead of the game on that issue, describing foreign students extending their visas as “the modern version of boat arrivals”.
Dutton is already well down the path laid by Trump. The latter’s victory will confirm the need to go even harder — that and the fact that the Albanese government looks weak, even helpless, and has sat by and watched its lead in the polls vanish. Even if Dutton is not able to secure a resounding victory, he may well win enough seats to make the Coalition the largest bloc in the House of Representatives, putting him in the box seat to negotiate his way to the prime ministership.
That’s if the misogynist right within and outside his own ranks doesn’t inflict the same damage on Dutton that Robbie Katter inflicted on David Crisafulli. No wonder Dutton has been laying down the law to his feral reactionary MPs on abortion. Suddenly he can see a real path to power next year. He wants to spend the months leading up to the election talking about migration driving up household bills, not men trying to control women’s bodies. If he can do that, there’s a solid chance he’ll be the next prime minister.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/08/peter-dutton-donald-trump-prime-minister/
Worst.Hitler.Ever
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1854944785838338108
Infighting has broken out between the Biden-Harris camps as their globalist oligarch donors realize their funding was squandered, and it’s glorious to behold.
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1854949565926887834
TDS can have consequences for your professional careers, unhinged libtards.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1854931854396411930
Clinical Def. of TDS from UC Davis Urology.
Seems to fit, at least for the men
https://health.ucdavis.edu/urology/specialties/male_infertility_and_sexual_dysfunction/Male-Reproductive-Sexual-Health/Testosterone_deficiency_syndrome.html
LMAO – I’m sure whatever globalist oligarch Kamala donor commissioned this mural just wants to put this mistake behind him as quickly as possible.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1854920765101293988
Tucker Carlson Explains His Political Awakening! (live Rumble Time show)
The Jimmy Dore Show
23 minutes ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkymeAURNc
4 minutes.
For the past four years, the corrupt DoJ and FBI have been weaponized against conservatives, Christians, and political opponents of the Left. Now the reckoning day is drawing closer for traitors in high places who oversaw such travesties as the J6 show trials and the persecution of concerned parents at school board meetings.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/their-days-are-numbered-federal-bureaucrats-are-panicking-over-trump-win-especially-at-the-doj-and-fbi
Bwahahahahahaa. Buh-bye, illegals!
https://x.com/immeme0/status/1854511605448389114?s=46
Restore the Republic – End the Fed.
https://x.com/liz_churchill10/status/1854969624594723316
A lot of misplaced reliance on a 1933 Supreme Court case. A reply to Danielle DiMartino Booth’s pinned tweet on the matter a couple months back:
Respectfully, you are way out of your depth here. Relying on Humphrey’s Executor, an FTC commissioner case from the FDR era, tells you nothing about how current constitutional doctrine would apply today to a President firing a Fed Chair.
That case was decided in large part on seperation of powers grounds and found the FTC’s quasi legislative power should be protected from the Executive Branch. But, in the present, we just had a raft of SCt cases (including Loper Bright) that have severely curtailed the quasi legislative power that an agency like the Fed can exercise even under Congressional delegation. No quasi legislative power, then no seperation of powers issue protecting the Fed Chair from the President.
Second, Humphrey’s Executor was a narrow exception to the general rule that the President is the embodiment of the Executive Branch and generally has unfettered power to remove officials. See Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926), which is still good law.
Finally, in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. 197 (2020), the Supreme Court receded from Humphrey’s Executor and held that the single director of the CFPB could not be protected from the President’s sweeping removal power. I’d argue the Fed Chair’s power is hyperdominant and more like the CFPB director paradigm than the FTC commissioner model. Thus, a Fed Chair could very well be removed by the President.
That being said, #EndTheFed.
Correction: 1935
I mistakenly relied on DBB for the year.
I’m not Catholic, but can appreciate how the Biden-Harris regime’s sneering contempt for people of faith and the FBI targeting devout Catholics as Enemies of the State caused a backlash against Comrade Kamala and FedGov tyranny.
https://x.com/CatholicVote/status/1854909746454692264
I think a lot of stupid decisions cost her the election. The first one, of course, was nominating her.
nominating
elevating
Globalist oligarch donors out a billion dollars is almost as good as watching Comrade Kamala’s shambolic campaign go down in flames.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14059789/biden-allies-eviscerate-kamala-harris-campaign-spending-billion-losing.html
“….donors out a billion dollars…”
Sure, radio/TV/what have you advertising is expensive, but a Billion?
Must of been some really great [expensive] parties going on during the last 6 campaign months. Scarfing the champagne and caviar.
I’m sure a lot of consultants charged the campaign some very hefty fees for services of dubious value.
This is the way:
https://ibb.co/hD1K4Cm
Traffic — Light Up or Leave Me Alone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpFIw_CngUE
Trump won! Japanese Woman’s Live Reaction (compilation) #election2024
randomyoko2
18 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88wa4Mw4spQ
8:51.
‘Logan has taken a $2 million hit on the sale of his Miami Beach home. The stunning modern residence just sold for $11 million, Gimme can reveal. Logan, 33, bought the house for $13 million in an all-cash deal a little over a year ago. Known as Villa Una, it was featured in Season 5 of the MTV reality show ‘Siesta Key.’ In a frightening incident, Logan and his friends were robbed at gunpoint in the home’
It was still cheaper than renting Sam.
‘Other metros seeing year-over-year drops last quarter were San Antonio-New Braunfels, Texas, and Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Both areas saw huge annual gains of more than 20% two years ago, NAR data show’
Nothing about Austin All Time High Larry?
‘We’ve been through hell. Especially with all the LTB (Landlord Tenant Board) delays and all of this it took me over a year…I lost a lot,’ she says. Moradian went to Barrie Police and claims they did very little to help her charge Roberts or at least remove her from the home. ‘To try to take her out and I said, ‘She’s a squatter, She’s not my tenant.’ Unfortunately, Barrie Police didn’t help.’ Moradian says she eventually ended up selling the home and lost $300,000 on the investment’
Tiff broke it off in yer a$$ Paris.
‘Persaud feels Toronto-based real estate agents ‘get a lot of hate’ from agents in smaller towns throughout the province, including the north. He’s had his real estate signs ripped down, while others were vandalized with moustaches drawn on signs with his face on them. ‘I’ve had realtors want to shoot me — and you can put that on record’
They really hate you in Barrie too Josh. I’ve posted numerous videos discussing that.
‘When Cristian Coccia agreed to buy a three-bedroom flat off-plan for 600,000 euros ($650,000), the 51-year-old businessman hoped to move his family swiftly into the swanky high-rise overlooking an artificial lake in Milan’s western suburbs. After prosecutors seized the three-tower development in July, his dream of a new home turned into a nightmare…‘We’re at the sharp end of all this chaos’
You got schlonged Cristian.
‘Homeowners who are experiencing financial stress should do everything they possibly can to control their costs and manage their debt commitments so that they can avoid having to sell their properties in the current market,’ Jawitz said. ‘Property prices in most parts of the country are under pressure, which means it’s not a great time to sell if you are under pressure to sell in a short period’
Yer right Hersh, battle stations. What ever you do, don’t give it away!
Once Again, I’m The Bearer Of Bad News (Peel Region Real Estate Market Update)
Team Sessa Real Estate
41 minutes ago MISSISSAUGA
This episode shows the current Brampton, Mississauga, Ajax, Whitby, and Pickering Real Estate home prices and market trends for the week ending Oct 30, 2024. We also discuss what’s been happening more often recently as we receive calls from people who were previously listed and not sold, wondering why they haven’t sold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW0SYB25v7Q
14 minutes.
At 3:30: ‘How did you come up with this price?’
Election Meltdowns Going Supernova – And Feminists “Solutions” Are Getting More and More Bizarre!
Mark Dice
1 hour ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5BToiSasrg
8:16.
Jeebus, that phat woman at 58-sec has no neck. WTF?
“Jeebus, that phat woman at 58-sec has no neck. WTF?”
LMAO
Make us great again’: world leaders react to Donald Trump’s victory
Guardian News
1 day ago
In a stunning political resurrection that sent shockwaves through the US and the rest of the world, Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRCW-afYxIE
5:43.
The women who have shaved their heads and claim they are going to deny men sex now are seriously going off the rails.
One of these days you might understand that you were under great threat, and you were useful idiots
and effectively brainwashed by Powers That Be that want to enslave you and deprive you.
Do you plan to be long Bitcoin when it goes the way of the South Sea Bubble?
Leak Reveals BlackRock Is Quietly Doubling Down On Bitcoin As The Price Suddenly Rockets Toward $100,000
Billy Bambrough
Senior Contributor
I write about how bitcoin, crypto and blockchain can change the world.
Nov 8, 2024,07:55am EST
Updated Nov 8, 2024, 07:56am EST
Bitcoin and crypto prices have surged this week as traders cheer Donald Trump’s decisive U.S. election victory, putting a $100,000 bitcoin price in view.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/11/08/leak-reveals-blackrock-is-quietly-doubling-down-on-bitcoin-as-the-price-suddenly-rockets-toward-100000/
“The women who have shaved their heads and claim they are going to deny men sex…….”
So good to have DJT back, the entertainment value is priceless.
Are they going to hold their breath and stamp their feet?