The Seller Understood: If We Wanted To Sell, We’d Need To Adjust Our Price
A report from Villages-News in Florida. “A seller hopes a $30,000 price cut will get things moving at a home in The Villages. The home at 4168 Burgess Drive in the Village of Richmond is now listed at $1.12 million. It’s been on the market for more than 100 days. The home was originally purchased in 2022 for $496,700.”
The Olympian in Washington. “For at least the third straight year, more than 100 homes sold for $1 million or more in Thurston County, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Owning a home that costs that much is no longer unusual, said Mitch Dietz, owner and designated broker of Coldwell Banker Evergreen Olympic Realty in Olympia. Dietz recalled that in 2010, few, if any, homes in the county, including those with waterfront views, sold for $1 million. Dietz said 2024 was a ‘weird’ year. By all indications it was a market that favored sellers, yet his office had more canceled transactions than ever because buyers felt they had more options, he said. It’s still a market that favors sellers, but buyers last year were able to negotiate price, ask the seller to help pay for closing costs and ask for home inspections, Dietz said.”
Summit Daily in Colorado. “Buyers largely held the upper hand in Summit County’s real estate market in 2024 and had more negotiating power compared to recent years as trends moved away from the High Country’s pandemic-fueled real estate spike, real estate agents say. While the average sales price climbed around 10%, the listed-price-to-sold-price ratio dropped a percent or two and remained at 95-97% throughout the year. Homes were often sold for less than originally listed. ‘Previously (a listing) would get multiple offers, and so the sellers (were) getting a higher sales price. …Now that we’ve become more of a normalized market, there’s more room for the buyers to negotiate because they’re not competing with other buyers for the same property,’ Re/Max agent Jan Leopold said.”
“Summit-based real estate agents reported prices jumping 15-20% each year from 2020 to 2022. It was the epitome of a sellers market. Sellers could list their properties at record-high prices, and buyers had competition. A new normal was set for sellers based off a couple years of the same trend. Real estate agent Dishon Lutz said the market hasn’t been this way in years because of the pandemic-fueled real estate boom, and that created a lingering sentiment among sellers Lutz said the real estate market is a rapidly evolving one, and sometimes the general public might not realize it and refer to price ranges that worked maybe a year ago, but not now.”
Business Insider. “Linda Sims was away visiting family in October 2017 when her next-door neighbor called: Sims’ house was on fire. Within hours, the entire structure — and much of the surrounding northern California canyon — was wiped out by the Tubbs wildfire. The flames destroyed years’ worth of Sims’ and her husband’s memories, possessions, and the house they planned to sell one day to add to their retirement savings. She told Business Insider that the couple had worked hard to save for retirement throughout their careers, but most of that money was invested in the house they lost in the fire. Despite the hundreds of thousands of dollars they received in insurance and settlement money, it didn’t come near to covering the full cost.”
“With limited savings left, Sims recently moved in with one of her children so that she could reduce her housing costs to cover the steep price of the memory care her husband now needs. She said what she receives monthly in Social Security barely covers her daily essentials. ‘There was nothing I could do but just watch the money flow out of my account that I had saved,’ Sims said. ‘We lost half the value of our house or more because we didn’t have enough insurance. Every two years, we went in and upped the insurance,’ Sims said, explaining that she tried to increase the total amount of disaster coverage on the house several times before the wildfire. ‘But that’s all the insurance companies would allow in one of those areas.'”
The Globe and Mail in Canada. “1 Balmoral Ave., No. 602, Toronto. Asking price: $1.495-million (November, 2024). Previous asking price: $1.75-million (September, 2024). Selling price: $1.495-million (November, 2024). About two dozen buyers made time to tour this three-bedroom unit in one corner of a boutique building on Yonge Street, but none came forward with an offer. To draw a buyer the seller cut the asking price by $255,000. Within a week, a new visitor signed a deal for the lowered asking price. ‘In my 25 years plus in the business, last year was the most challenging time to sell condos,’ said agent Dino Capocci. ‘The seller understood: If we wanted to sell, we’d need to adjust our price.'”
Lancaster Guardian in the UK. “Residents on a half-built housing estate near Lancaster are calling for action to be taken against the developers over a host of concerns. The new estate at St Michael’s Gardens in Cockerham was supposed to have 36 homes along with enough car parking spaces, as well as an approved drainage scheme and maintenance plan. Lancaster City Council is now taking enforcement steps against the developers, Pleasington Homes Ltd. Residents’ worries have been highlighted by Lancaster city councillor Sally Maddocks and Jason Park, chairman of Cockerham Parish Council. Coun Maddocks said: ‘The situation is causing residents to feel angry, depressed and incredibly frustrated at the slow progress to put things right.'”
“Mr Park criticised the city council’s communication with residents, but he also believes it faces big planning pressures, along with other councils. ‘With big developers, there’s an assumption that everything will be in place financially. But budgets are tight and some developers go bust. Should due diligence tests be part of the planning process? Pressures on council planning departments could get worse because the government is pushing for more homes to be built. There could be a greater risk of more housing schemes going wrong, with half-built estates and ghost towns.'”
From ABC News. “Inflation, global uncertainty and a tight jobs market are making conditions tough for Australian businesses and many are expecting it to get worse before it gets better. Builder Joey Pamment’s work has slowed by up to 75 per cent compared to the COVID years, when the construction industry was booming. ‘It’s a tough time to be a builder,’ he told the ABC. ‘When we were booming, we were getting two to three inquiries sometimes a day, or at least a week,’ Mr Pamment, the director of his eponymous building company, said. ‘At the moment we maybe get inquiries once a month, or every second month. A lot of the inquiries are dead leads, where you put the price in and the price is so exorbitant the client doesn’t go ahead with the project.'”
“The most recent national data showed the pipeline of unfinished residential construction work has risen to a record high, while the number of dwellings under construction continued to fall. Over 10,000 insolvencies have already been recorded for the current financial year, while a record 14,000 were recorded for the whole of the previous financial year, and 10,000 for the year before that. It’s a trend builder Joey Pamment has noticed, with his company taking a hit from numerous subcontractor insolvencies. ‘We’re still feeling it,’ he told the ABC. ‘We’ve had projects where the joiner has gone broke, the plumber has gone broke, and that puts pressure on us, because we lose money out of pocket if we have to get a new trade, a new subcontractor. We have lost money many times in the last couple years with insolvencies.'”
From Bloomberg. “Distressed property sales in Hong Kong are beginning to bite banks that used to be well protected against loan losses. The city’s commercial real estate sector is going through one of its worst slumps in history, with no end in sight. Average prices of office buildings, shopping malls and other properties have fallen more than 40% from their highs in 2018, eroding the value of the collateral backing many bank loans. Defaults are also rising as more property owners and developers run into cash flow difficulties. Banks with soured loans and mortgages have been reluctant to sell the underlying real estate assets at a loss — but that is changing. Some recent transactions, including the HK$2.6 billion ($334 million) sale of the Cheung Kei Center to a university in November, saw lenders offload assets at less than the face value of their loans, crystallizing losses.”
“‘Banks are realizing that if they don’t sell their commercial properties, the values will go lower and lower,’ said James Mak, chief sales director at Midland Commercial Realty Ltd., a property brokerage. ‘They have to sell at a loss because that’s how the market is now.’ At least HK$2.1 trillion has been erased from commercial and residential real estate values in the city since 2019, according to a BI analysis.”
South China Morning Post. “A glut of new homes is likely to saturate Shanghai’s property market this year, increasing pressure on developers to sell their projects quickly and prevent an inventory from building, according to agents and analysts. At least 270 residential developments with some 30,000 units are expected to go on sale in mainland China’s commercial and financial hub this year, on top of the existing inventory of 54,000, according to property agency Baonuo. Based on last year’s sales, developers could take more than a year to offload their inventory.”
“‘Homebuyers are fully aware of the excessive supply of new homes,’ said Wang Feng, chairman of Ye Lang Capital, a Shanghai-based financial services group. ‘They are hoping developers offer steep discounts to lure buyers.’ Some developers have taken note of the situation, slashing prices by as much as 30 per cent ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, which starts on Tuesday and ends on February 4, to bolster sales. Since 2017, the Shanghai government has had the final say on new home prices to prevent a bubble in the local property market. Now, the government’s aim is to keep prices stable to avoid a sharp downturn in the market.”
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‘Summit-based real estate agents reported prices jumping 15-20% each year from 2020 to 2022. It was the epitome of a sellers market. Sellers could list their properties at record-high prices, and buyers had competition. A new normal was set for sellers based off a couple years of the same trend. Real estate agent Dishon Lutz said the market hasn’t been this way in years because of the pandemic-fueled real estate boom, and that created a lingering sentiment among sellers Lutz said the real estate market is a rapidly evolving one, and sometimes the general public might not realize it and refer to price ranges that worked maybe a year ago, but not now’
That may be Dishon, but the lending back then was sound. At the time.
Realtors are liars.
NVDA market cap of $3.5 trillion is going to ZERO.
Magical AI will have the same economic long term impact as that of the fax machine or VCR.
NVDA was profitable before the AI GPU craze began. It is insanely overvalued, but it isn’t worthless.
I have their Quadro RTX A4000 video card.
$600 billion of market cap erased in a SINGLE DAY.
It was only Yellen Bux.
[Apparently President Donald Trump made yesterday’s decisions concerning our relations with Columbia from a golf course, while he was playing golf. I ran across this and thought I would share …]
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1883653586032238739
To fully understand just how remarkable today’s exchange with Colombia was, you need to understand how Washington DC has traditionally worked through these sorts of issues, and the different way it works now under Trump.
I’ll illustrate.
Traditional Approach:
1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
2. On Monday, the State Department convenes an interagency task force with DoD, NSC, DEA, INS, ICE, Commerce, Treasury and Homeland Security.
3. The task force meets for four days and develops a position paper.
4. The position paper is rejected by the Secretary of State, who is unhappy that insufficient equity considerations are built into the process.
5. The task force reconvenes a week later to redevelop three new, equity-centric courses of action and create a new position paper.
6. The process is delayed a week because Washington DC gets three inches of snow.
7. SecState approves the new position paper for interagency circulation, and considerable input is received from the heads of other departments so the task force must reconvene.
8. The original three proposed responsive courses of action are scrapped in favor of a new, fourth course of action that achieves the worst aspects of the three prior courses of action but satisfies the interagency.
9. Someone in State who disagrees leaks to the Washington Post, who writes a story about how ineffective the Presidential administration is.
10. The White House Chief of Staff sets up a session three days later to brief the President, who approves the new fourth course of action.
11. Over a month after the issue is first raised, the State Department Public Affairs Officer holds a press conference announcing that Colombia has agreed to try to send fewer criminals into the US and everyone declares victory.
Trump Approach:
1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
2. After a par-5 third hole where he goes one under par, Trump uses his iPhone to post on social media as to how the USA will destroy Colombia’s economy if they do not do what the USA demands.
3. By the time Trump gets to the par-4 sixth hole, Colombia’s President has agreed to repatriate all the illegal Colombians in his own plane, which he will pay for.
4. Trump finishes three under par and goes to the clubhouse for a Diet Coke where he posts a gangsta AI image of himself and the new FAFO Doctrine.
5. Winning.
See the difference? It’s called LEADERSHIP.
At one point in my career I worked at an American state owned corporation.
For a simple change I required 6 teams and 15 people. Each meeting to move the project needed at least 3 months to find time on calendars.
That company has zero leadership. The CEO makes like 20 million per year.
A report from Villages-News in Florida. “A seller hopes a $30,000 price cut will get things moving at a home in The Villages. The home at 4168 Burgess Drive in the Village of Richmond is now listed at $1.12 million. It’s been on the market for more than 100 days. The home was originally purchased in 2022 for $496,700.”
This is delusional. I hate FL. Can’t wait to get out. 4 more months…
Florida is finished
Florida makes sense when a bungalow costs $30k.
Florida makes sense when a bungalow costs $30k.
I would say maybe $130K but I agree with the idea.
Depending on when in 2022, it was close to the tippy top in the shack market. And they want twice that 2 years later.
Looks like a new build in ‘22 and never lived in. I don’t know, Oxide has a better eye for that kind of thing. Probably speculator.
A seller hopes a $30,000 price cut
You will need to saw and slash a lot more than that
Eastcoaster….where are you moving?
Heading back to PA for now. Have elderly parents that need some support and my siblings all live elsewhere.
Gotcha….it’s great you can do that…I know they will appreciate it. Good luck on the move!
Back near Hatboro?
Yes. Parents are near there, so is my job.
I checked The Villages on Zillow. To be honest, part of it looks like a really nice place! There are a LOT of little 2bed/2ba 1000 sq ft houses for $250K. Of course that seems like a high price. But, if you retire with a good 401K and $500K equity from a paid-off family home, you could live there comfortably, with plenty of cash leftover for penicillin, ceftriaxone, and azithromycin.
Ellen DeGeneres relists LA home at major discount
Ellen DeGeneres’ bitter move following Donald Trump’s rise to the US Presidency for the second time, has fallen flat.
Ellen DeGeneres is cutting her remaining ties to the US just months after she and wife Portia de Rossi relocated to the UK.
According to Realtor, the 66-year-old comedian has relisted one of her final Los Angeles properties at a huge discount.
The former daytime TV host and her wife bought the five-bedroom, 6.5-bathroom home for $US29 million back in November 2022 and quickly put it back on the market for $US33.9 million just 18 months later.
The property remained on the market for close to 100 days, before its listing was removed in August 2024.
Now, DeGeneres and de Rossi are trying their luck again, relisting the residence for the discounted price of $US29.99 million ($A47.8 million), reducing their potential profit on the home by quite a hefty amount.
It was reportedly Ellen decided to move to the UK after Donald Trump was voted in as the 47th US President on November 5.
DeGeneres and de Rossi purchased the sprawling dwelling in two parts in 2022, first snapping up the main property—a five-bedroom, eight-bathroom, Tuscan-style mansion—for $US41.7 million.
The couple then added the adjoining 6.58-acre land for $US28.2 million in order to create a jaw-dropping, 10-acre estate atop a bluff overlooking the ocean.
Those Montecito locals may well have breathed a sigh of relief in November, when it was revealed that DeGeneres and de Rossi were upping sticks to move to the UK for good, with a source telling TMZ at the time that they will “never” return to the US.
Insiders told the outlet that, while the couple purchased the property before the election, it was Trump’s win that prompted them to “get the hell out” of the US, with one source adding that the couple felt “very disillusioned” with the results.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/ellen-degeneres-relists-la-home-at-major-discount/news-story/94a4591e2651364509d0f7eb56a789e8
“while the couple purchased the property before the election, it was Trump’s win that prompted them to “get the hell out” of the US,”
The wins just keep on coming.
“…DeGeneres and de Rossi purchased the sprawling dwelling in two parts in 2022…”
No tangible Prop13 savings for these two lovebirds.
I give Ellen a lot of credit. At least she actually moved, unlike those other celebrities who just threaten to move and never do.
(heh, nowadays, anytime some righteous starlet threatens to leave the US, they get shellacked on X with hundreds of comments that say “bye.” That’s gonna make in dent in the ego.]
At least she actually moved
Did she have this all arranged before the election? If so, she is just a liar.
Germany’s Economic Model Is Broken, and No One Has a Plan B
INGOLSTADT, Germany—Christian Scharpf, the mayor of this city of 140,000, Germany’s second richest, is looking for ways to save close to €100 million.
Carmaker Audi, headquartered here near the Danube river, used to pump over €100 million a year in municipal tax into Ingolstadt’s coffers through its parent, Volkswagen, but those flows dried up over a year ago. Audi in November reported a 91% decline in operating profit for the three months through September and has been cutting thousands of jobs in Germany.
Audi’s business in China, where Germany’s flagship car industry used to make a big chunk of its sales and an even bigger chunk of profits, shrank by a quarter in the nine months through September from a year earlier. Chinese carmakers, once mocked by Western auto executives as primitive, have turned into formidable rivals, gobbling up market share in and outside China.
Slowing economic growth in China and growing competition from companies there have undercut German industry as a whole. Combined with exploding energy costs and the threat of new trade tariffs, the forecast is grim.
German carmakers and their suppliers have announced tens of thousands of job cuts. Germany’s manufacturing industry, the world’s third largest, has shrunk steadily for seven years. And Germany’s economy as a whole has contracted for the past two years, marking only the second back-to-back annual contraction in records dating back to 1951, according to Germany’s federal statistics agency.
Economists say the current crisis is worse, because it questions the very foundation of Germany’s export-reliant economic model. In the earlier downturn, China’s economy was growing at around 10% or more a year, absorbing goods and powering global trade and the global economy. Today, China’s economy is growing at half that rate, and global trade volumes have stalled, according to the World Trade Organization.
Without fast-growing export markets, Germany’s model “is dead,” said Jacob Kirkegaard, a Brussels-based senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.
Yet few politicians are focusing on the major changes economists say are required. Germans “don’t want to look at the problem in the face. They still think it’s a blip, and it can be addressed the way they usually do things,” incrementally, said Ludovic Subran, chief economist at Allianz, the German insurance group. “I don’t think this will suffice.”
The country, with 83 million inhabitants, grew into the world’s third largest economy by making and exporting the engineering products—cars, robots, trains, factory machinery—others wanted to buy. Now, the world is turning its back on made-in-Germany, and Germany has no plan B.
This year, the crisis has turned political. Most polls show the economy has upstaged immigration, security and climate change as voters’ top concern. The outgoing government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz is the most unpopular since 1949.
“I see no serious initiative to try and develop a new economic model,” said Jens Südekum, an economist and professor at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. “In the short term, it’s all about how to tactically deal with the situation along the lines of: ‘If Trump imposes tariffs, then we’ll go and manufacture there.’”
In Schweinfurt, a former American garrison town north of Ingolstadt, workers at auto supplier Schaeffler went on strike late last year to protest plans to cut up to 700 jobs. ZF Friedrichshafen, another supplier, agreed in November to reduce local employees’ working hours by 7% to save jobs, as it starts to cut 14,000 jobs across the country. The IG Metall trade union has warned of thousands of possible job cuts in the central German industrial region.
To try to cover the shortfall in Ingolstadt, Scharpf, the mayor, has jacked up fees for museums, parking spaces and buses, and ordered that public lawns be mowed less frequently. He is considering raising property taxes and cutting spending further.
“You can’t simply replace a company with 40,000 employees,” Scharpf said.
Even the upstart antiestablishment parties that have thrived on challenging old consensus positions are sticking to traditional economic policies.
“If you ask about plan B, my opinion is that we should go back to plan A,” said Leif-Erik Holm, a lawmaker and economy expert for the right-wing AfD, which is expected to emerge as the second-biggest party in the next German parliament.
“Our business model worked very well, when we had lower energy costs,” Holm said. The next government should focus on lowering these and cut environmental regulations for business, he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/germany-s-economic-model-is-broken-and-no-one-has-a-plan-b/ar-AA1xUp5V
To try to cover the shortfall in Ingolstadt, Scharpf, the mayor, has jacked up fees for museums, parking spaces and buses, and ordered that public lawns be mowed less frequently. He is considering raising property taxes and cutting spending further.
So he’s going to raise taxes. That’ll make what is left of manufacturing more competitive.
Why is raising taxes the left’s answer to everything?
Why is raising taxes the left’s answer to everything?
The only other option is firing people/cutting bennies and that ain’t gonna be easy.
Like ANY profit depending small business, midsize business and large corporations. But of course, government is different according to politicians of all gilt and when in pain go get (tax) or borrow more money is always the answer. Nothing the jeopardized a vote can be considered and the gimme gimme voters are always in the majority.
Germany’s Economic Model Is Broken, and No One Has a Plan B
A thought: Germans firmly believe that the only way to do something is “the right way”. You don’t improvise, “think outside the box”, take acceptable shortcuts, etc. Clearly the way they have been doing things is “the right way”, which is why there is no plan B. They will stick to Plan A until it works.
It is the same old story with the liberal-left-leaning communist loving socialist’s that the only way to keep their economy moving is to simply keep abusing the workers until their morale improves.
“…liberal-left-leaning communist loving socialist’s…”
Clearly not a fan! LOL
It is the same old story with the liberal-left-leaning communist loving socialist’s that the only way to keep their economy moving is to simply keep abusing the workers until their morale improves.
I cannot fathom how the DAX can be at all-time highs?!? Germany is pooched in so many ways, I don’t even know where to begin.
–Geezer
‘A country that should be a state’: Trump renews Canada comments in press Q&A
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — U.S. President Donald Trump hasn’t been shy about sharing his thoughts since taking office, and he added a 20-minute Q&A with reporters aboard Air Force One to the mix. He held forth on everything from the color of the presidential plane to the fate of TikTok, Greenland and Canada.
Asked about the series of executive orders he’s signed since taking office that have placed new rules on the federal workforce, Trump said he was opposed to work-from-home concessions that became more common during the coronavirus pandemic.
“You have to go to your office and you have to work,” he said. “Otherwise, you’re not going to have a job.”
Trump also said he’s not worried about existing federal employees leaving and the talent pool to find replacements being diminished: “We have very deep talent. We also have a lot of excess people.”
“This was a gimmick for Democrats, to a certain extent,” he said of existing federal worker rolls, which he suggested were too large.
Trump reiterated his desire to somehow purchase Greenland from Denmark, despite that country insisting it’s not for sale.
“I do believe Greenland, we’ll get because it really has to do with freedom of the world,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the United States, other than we’re the one that can provide the freedom.”
The president also made some of his most extensive comments about his recent suggestions that Canada could become part of the U.S.
“I love Canada,” he said. “I have so many friends up in Canada. And they like us, and they like me. But Canada’s been taking advantage of the United States for years, and we’re not going to let that happen.”
He suggested that the U.S. is losing hundreds of millions annually to Canada in trade deficits while Canada does “almost 90% of their business with the United States.”
“I don’t want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on supporting the country unless that country is a state. And, if it’s a state, the people of Canada will pay a much lower tax.”
He said Canadians would also “have no military problems, they’d be much more secure in every way, and I think it’s a great thing for Canada.”
“I view it as, honestly, a country that should be a state,” he said. “Then, they’ll get much better treatment, much better care and much lower taxes and they’ll be much more secure.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/a-country-that-should-be-a-state-trump-renews-canada-comments-in-mid-air-press-briefing/
Trump said he was opposed to work-from-home concessions
I chatted with my co-worker, Glen, about this today. Glen believes that the unions and fedgov employees should go to Congress, bend the knee, kiss the ring, and beg for a little telework. If they do that, Congress will probably grant them some “flexibilities.” For example, 1 day telework/week + occasional telework days.
But nope, the unions are digging in and pushing their luck like little toddlers. They think they’re special and that remote work or extensive telework is a right, not a privilege. Glen thinks that if the unions keep up with this arrogant attitude, it will just p-o Congress, and Congress will grant them nothing, that is, 5 day/wk in office, see you Monday.
Trudeau pulled the Liberals left. Where do they go from here?
The first — and perhaps most predictable — victim of the Liberal Party’s current period of self-reflection was the carbon tax. The carbon tax was undone not only by its own lack of public support, but also the unpopularity of the prime minister. Justin Trudeau’s potential successors were always going to want to show that they were not him — and perhaps the quickest and easiest way to do that was to renounce the carbon tax.
Of the three presumed front-runners in the current Liberal leadership race — Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland and Karina Gould — only Gould has said she wouldn’t repeal the consumer carbon tax entirely (she’d freeze it at the current price).
The capital gains tax changes announced last spring were another inviting target for reconsideration. As evidenced by Freeland’s rhetorical salvos, the Liberals were initially eager for a fight on the policy. But they were not winning that fight — a poll conducted by Abacus this month found that 27 per cent of Canadians supported the policy, while 44 per cent wanted it scrapped. (The prorogation of Parliament also left legislation to codify the changes in limbo.)
Like the carbon tax, the policy now seems effectively dead — the Conservatives already opposed it and so now do all the front-runners for the Liberal leadership.
The Liberal Party has long operated on the left side of the political spectrum, but it has also long displayed a willingness and an ability to shift with the prevailing political winds. That’s how a party gets from Mackenzie King (famously cautious) to Lester B. Pearson (famously active) to Jean Chrétien (famously balanced the federal budget) to Justin Trudeau (famously didn’t).
In word and deed, Trudeau moved the Liberal Party further to the left than it had been under his immediate predecessors. To some extent that might have been dictated by the pre-eminent concerns of the moment. But long before Trudeau was compelled to resign, it was possible to see how the party might change tack again, even if only slightly, in his wake.
“In addition to the fiscal cost [of scrapping the capital gains changes], there should be some caution politically … because the question will be: do you put something else in the window that speaks to progressives?” Tyler Meredith, a former senior policy adviser in the Trudeau government, warned on the Race to Replace podcast this week (he was speaking before it became clear that all of the front-runners would reverse the changes).
“Because I think from an income and a wealth inequality perspective, we have to be careful about also leaving ourselves exposed to the NDP.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberals-capital-gains-freeland-carney-analysis-1.7441195
Trump administration to halt funding for agencies that provide housing and food to refugees already in U.S.
Donald Trump’s administration warned it would halt funding this weekend to refugees already in the U.S., issuing a stop-work order to agencies that provide housing and food to tens of thousands of people from strife-ridden countries who have entered the U.S. with government backing.
The order was sent to agencies that have the task of shepherding refugees through the first months of their stay in the U.S. Those agencies, which use federal dollars to provide the basics of life to new arrivals, said Sunday that they were seeking greater clarity on its full meaning.
But the stark wording of the order leaves little room for interpretation. The directive forms part of a broader 90-day halt to U.S. foreign aid imposed by Mr. Trump in his determination to upend U.S. involvement in global humanitarian work, even if it places his administration on a collision course with church-affiliated groups that play a major role in the country’s refugee resettlement.
“The language of the letter is, ’you shall stop work on these programs,’” said Matthew Soerens, vice-president of advocacy and policy at World Relief, which was founded by the National Association of Evangelicals and is one of the major refugee-resettlement agencies in the U.S.
Across America, 27,308 refugees entered in the last three months of 2024; figures for January are not yet available. More than two-thirds came from just five countries: Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Syria and Venezuela.
The U.S. government provides resettlement organizations with US$3,000 per refugee. The withdrawal of funding is likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars.
Some refugee agencies are asking for private donations to fill the gap. Global Refuge issued a call this weekend for “critical support” funds. It counts nearly 6,000 recent arrivals currently in its care.
But senior advisers to Mr. Trump, including Stephen Miller, who is now his deputy chief of staff, have sought to dramatically curtail the numbers of refugees, arguing that they constitute a financial drain and pose a security threat to the U.S.
That is a “bizarre, extremist, ideological policy stance,” said Michael Clemens, an economist at George Mason University who specializes in migration.
“Jesus instructed his followers to welcome the stranger,” said Randall Balmer, a historian of American religion at Dartmouth College who wrote Evangelicalism in America. He is mystified by the Christian support for Mr. Trump.
”How can I conclude anything other than the fact that we are a racist, misogynist, xenophobic people,” he said.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-trump-administration-to-halt-funding-for-agencies-that-provide-housing/
”How can I conclude anything other than the fact that we are a racist, misogynist, xenophobic people,” he said.
t doesn’t occur to him that most of the so called refugees are not refugees. They are people who have come to join the Free Sh!t Army. Those smiling NGO workers told them that upon arriving in the US they would never have to work again in their lives.
I also find it amusing that Mexico is wringing its hands over the tsunami of deportees that would be sent back to Mexico. Gee, maybe the shouldn’t have allowed those zillions of caravans entry into Mexico or help them reach the US border.
I can envision President Sheinbaum’s reaction when Harris lost the election. She probably met with her cabinet and told them “we’re fooked”. They clearly have no plan to deal with millions of repatriated Mexicans, other than to somehow get them back to their towns and villages. They have no clue on how they will provide employment, healthcare, education, etc. to them. And on top of that that they will also have to deal with non Mexicans who get deported to Mexico.
Mexico for decades has viewed the US as an escape valve, a place where they can dump their surplus population. But the current administration is so inept (think FJB) that it’s powerless against the cartels, who are the defacto rulers in Mexico.
And USAians who don’t make $3000 a month are having that borrowed in their name to give it (no work mentioned) to these deadbeats with no end in sight. And they have to pay for their families healthcare, schooling housing etc. I think I’ve been called a racist blah blah before? Oh right it was the scumbags who just lost the election in a landslide, who have said that for 30 years.
an economist at George Mason University who specializes in migration.
Obviously another useless parasitic job.
I was told these refugees just wanna work.
So why not work to pay for stuff like housing and food? The rest of us schmucks work to pay for stuff.
Maybe try making coffee at home?
I was told these refugees just wanna work.
That’s the narrative. Problem is, most have no marketable skills. Few have ever held a job. They are fundamentally unemployable and we have all the roofers, painters and drywall guys we need.
US$3,000 per refugee. The withdrawal of funding is likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars.
This sounds extremely low. I thought these refugees were getting $1000/mo debit cards for a year, for culturally appropriate food? I thought that the Haitians in Springfield were getting big checks to buy a car which they promptly crash. And who was reimbursing landlords for the free housing? I even read that somebody was subsidizing employers who employ the CBP-1 folks. This should be in the billions, not tens of millions. States don’t have that kind of scratch. I suppose this is just the start.
Robbery Suspect Freed by Weak Judge – in 30 Min He Sex Assaults 3 Women and 2 Girls: Police
One day after a trip through what NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch calls the “revolving door of our criminal justice system,” a man charged with robbery was accused of groping and grabbing five women.
Jason Ayala, 31, was charged with two counts of robbery after allegedly attacking a 61-year-old man and a 51-year-old man on Jan. 12 and then stealing a cell phone from one of them, the New York Post reported on Saturday.
Although the second-degree robbery charges are among those where bail can be set, Judge Robert Rosenthal, appointed by former Mayor Bill de Blasio, put Ayala on the street.
But as the Post told the tale, Ayala was free to do as he pleased, which led him to a public housing project where he began a 30-minute spree that started with him allegedly grabbing the buttocks of a 14-year-old girl in the lobby of the building.
After a walk to a different project, Ayala was accused of grabbing the buttocks of a 35-year-old woman.
Fifteen minutes after the first offense, he had returned to the first housing project. A 49-year-old woman was slapped on the buttocks, with Ayala being accused of the deed.
Five minutes later, Ayala was accused of touching the crotch of a 12-year-old girl and her 32-year-old mother as they rode an elevator.
The mom of the 14-year-old called police, who hauled off Ayala.
“The next day, the day after he was arraigned on the earlier robbery arrest, he victimized five additional females in Manhattan,” Tisch said.
“All of the arrests were for forcibly touching intimate parts and endangerment. He shouldn’t have been out on our streets the next day doing that,” she added.
Earlier this month, Tisch said in a statement that “we must stop the revolving door of our criminal justice system that has allowed too many violent and repeat criminals back onto our streets.”
Housing project resident Juana Catalan, 50, said she was upset that the suspect was ever let loose.
“How are they going to let a criminal go and get away with that?” she said. “That is just really insane to me.”
The most recent crime figures since the start of 2025 in New York City show a 50 percent increase in rapes relative to the first few weeks of 2024 and a 20.7 percent increase in other sex crimes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/robbery-suspect-freed-by-weak-judge-in-30-min-he-sex-assaults-3-women-and-2-girls-police/ar-AA1xUcgT
We All Lose in Trump’s War Against Trans Americans
WE’RE SHOCKED. THE PRICE OF EGGS is going up, not down. The Russo-Ukraine War has not ended, nor is it likely to end anytime soon. Deporting every undocumented immigrant isn’t happening anytime soon.
On the other hand, in his first week back in office, Donald Trump has made good on a number of the campaign promises that resonate the most with the cultural grievances of his broad MAGA base. He has permitted immigration officers to start making arrests at schools and churches. He has “liberated” the January 6th “hostages,” who have been going home to buy guns (a newly legal option for some of the violent offenders whose felonies were wiped away by pardons) and get ready for a future call-up. And, having expended hundreds of millions in campaign advertisements, Trump has rolled out a program, beginning with executive orders, to legally erase the existence of transgender Americans.
Perhaps the most pernicious, if predictable, part of Trump’s order covers “Privacy in Intimate Spaces.” This section leads with separating out trans inmates in prisons and detention facilities and prohibiting funding for gender-affirming care in these facilities, even for those who may have already transitioned and are receiving hormone therapy. Again, Florida has been a leader in this sort of cruel treatment; inmates have had their hair shorn, possessions confiscated, humiliatingly had their breasts measured to determine whether they could keep their bras, and been compelled to undergo a form of the discredited “conversion therapy.”
Thus it is particularly dispiriting to watch Democrats truckle to Trump on trans issues. As on immigration, spinelessness is becoming congenital. Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton received attaboys for his independence when, in the week after the election, he declared, “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete,” as though Mean Joe Greene was about to lower the boom on Snow White.
Moulton did have a point in saying that Trump and MAGA had sacked the Democrats on trans issues. But this has been an entirely self-administered failure, the result of a surrender to soi-disant “trans advocates” from the faculty lounge and other dens of leftism—few of whom are themselves transgender. These radicals view trans rights as a means for dismantling all traditional structures—the patriarchy, capitalism, you name it—rather than an end in itself: an expression of the pursuit of individual happiness.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-all-lose-in-trump-war-against-trans-americans
I saw a headline yesterday proclaiming that trannies are now terrified.
Gee, maybe they shouldn’t have forced their way into women’s bathrooms, lockers and sports. Back then their attitude was “you can’t stop us”.
So now the tables have turned and they are afraid? On a related note my teacher relative tells me that her school just hired a trans teacher. This alleged persecution can’t be all that bad if local gooberment is still hiring them.
“These radicals view trans rights as a means for dismantling all traditional structures—the patriarchy, capitalism, you name it—rather than an end in itself”
Marxists gonna Marx.
..in the Village of Richmond is now listed at $1.12 million. It’s been on the market for more than 100 days. The home was originally purchased in 2022 for $496,700.”
Wow! With this sort of wealth dreaming approaches, it is no wonder that young blue collar working people and other new adults have no entry in to home ownership. Thanks American big money financialization of housing in to another type of stock market gambling asset.
It’s a stunning example and something you only find with web searches. Puddle watchers don’t put in the work.
Donald Trump is Your President(?): Cal Poly Humboldt reacts to the presidental inaguration
The interim period between the 2024 U.S. Presidential election day and Donald Trump’s official inauguration came on Monday, Jan. 20. At Cal Poly Humboldt, students and faculty alike have been expressing their strong opinions on this polarizing transfer of power from the very first day of classes. When campus reopened after the MLK Day of Service, which coincidentally lined up with the day of the inauguration, students gathered for a pro-Palestine march of resistance that put the University Police Department and the incoming Trump administration under the microscope.
Buildings were once again plastered with profanities and paint balloon explosions while hallways echoed with the now familiar drumming and chanting, but the crowd seemed charged with a fresher anger that one could only assume hailed from events of the previous day. Members of the protest shared a common sentiment of frustration and demoralization paired with insightful commentary on their motivations for taking action.
Haley, an environmental science major, indicated her bleak expectations for the incoming administration while maintaining an air of hope as a dissident. “Generally [the next four years] seem not great, but I, like everyone here, came together to fight and protest [Trump]. Will anyone in power listen to it? Probably not, but we could still make it known that this is not a popular opinion amongst people.”
A natural resources student who goes by Skunk describes why he protests the new establishment through the march and beyond.
“The thing about this struggle is that you won’t care about it until it affects you personally, but by then it’s too late if you don’t speak up for the people who are being affected,” Skunk said. “I want to because I have a passion inside. But the thing is, if you don’t have anywhere to get it out, it can kill you — it can eat you inside. So, I want to inspire my fellow students and our communities like a ripple in a pond. I want the people who have been feeling unmoved by this to get out here and do something with us, because otherwise, nothing’s gonna happen.”
https://thelumberjack.org/2025/01/26/donald-trump-is-your-president-cal-poly-humboldt-reacts-to-the-presidental-inaguration/
These protesters are a fraction of the student body (here and everywhere else) but the media gives them a platform for their anti American thinking. These young indoctrinated students have not lived long enough nor experienced anything beyond their closed minded liberal approaches to everything. Protesting gives them their needed virtue signalling which most media people adore.
The interim period between the 2024 U.S. Presidential election day and Donald Trump’s official inauguration came on Monday, Jan. 20
So, the period of time between two events came at the time of the second event.
Two misspellings in the title:
‘Cal Poly Humboldt reacts to the presidental inaguration’
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, aka “Cal Poly SLO,” was a serious Engineering University when I attended. Sure, they had their liberal students who could barely pass a basic algebra course, but engineering was their bread-n-butter, and the atmosphere was rather conservative.
A natural resources student who goes by Skunk
Haley, an environmental science major,
I gotta give these two some credit. These are legitimate courses of study, although a bit lightweight. At least they are going outdoors and doing experiments, not sitting around reading books about oppression.
Never forget the globalist sc*m media gaslighting about gang activity
“The Drug Enforcement Administration detained 49 people in Adams County early Sunday morning at what the special agent in charge called an invitation-only Tren de Aragua party.
Denver7 Investigates’ cameras exclusively captured video around 5:45 a.m. along the 6600 block of Federal Boulevard in Adams County, showing agents rounding up people and escorting them onto a bus.
At least 41 of the 49 people detained are undocumented residents and are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a DEA press release.
According to Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen, the DEA was executing a federal search warrant at a vacant property where a large group had been gathering to party for several months.”
https://www.denver7.com/news/investigations/tda-invitation-only-party-dea-raid-in-adams-county-ends-in-50-arrests-including-some-venezuelan-gang-members
This was DEA, not ICE, but yes, you’re all getting deported.
Is Meta boosting Trump and Vance on Facebook and Instagram?
Meta is pushing back on claims from social media users who say they’ve been forced to follow Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to U.S. President Donald Trump, his wife Melania Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance.
The allegations gained steam on Tuesday, a day after Trump took office, with some users saying that the platforms, both owned by Meta, made them followers of those accounts without permission.
Pop singer Gracie Abrams said on Instagram she had to unfollow the official pages of Trump and Vance three times because the platform “kept automatically following” them.
“How curious! Had to block them in order to make sure I am nowhere near that. Sharing in case this is happening to your accounts as well,” she wrote. Others claimed that Meta was censoring searches for terms like “democrats” on its platforms by labelling them as sensitive content.
Meta referred CBC News to social media posts by its communications director, Andy Stone. Stone, writing on Meta’s Threads platform, said the confusion was due to the previous administration giving control of the official @POTUS account to Trump’s team.
Anyone who had been following @POTUS during the Biden administration, for example, would still be a follower after control of the account had been handed over to the new administration.
“People were not made to automatically follow any of the official Facebook or Instagram accounts for the President, Vice President or First Lady,” Stone wrote.
Stone did not directly address claims that some users had to repeatedly unfollow those accounts, but said it “may take some time for follow and unfollow requests to go through as these accounts change hands.”
There’s a growing perception that Big Tech is getting closer to the Trump administration, says Brett Caraway, an associate professor at the University of Toronto, and that a tension already felt by part of the American public was exacerbated by the presence of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other tech executives at the Trump’s inauguration.
“With all of the concerns about the possibility of authoritarianism visiting the United States, one of the first things that typically happens in that sort of scenario is that an authoritarian government would seize control of the means of communication,” Caraway said.
“I think that the general sense of distrust and animosity that is being directed towards the tech industry is pervasive. And it’s not just on the left. I think it’s also on the right,” he said.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/meta-boosting-trump-vance-facebook-instagram-1.7438276
Hail Emperor Donaldus Trumpus! For his is an imperial presidency
Like most such revelations, it came to me late, which is to say early in the morning while I was still catching up, reading about the potentially disastrous effects Donald Trump’s tariffs will have on Windsor, whose lifeblood and backbone are directly connected to the American auto industry. After a week of watching the rituals and ceremonies heralding the re-installation of President Trump, the denarius suddenly dropped: This isn’t the inauguration of a president. It’s the proclamation of an emperor. Never mind the oligarchs of Silicon Valley. This is an imperial presidency.
Ave Imperator Caesar Trumpus! Hail Donald!
You think I’m exaggerating. You think it’s still early days. But the signs are all there. No president has ever resembled an emperor more.
Let’s start with the striking of two cryptocoins, one bearing the likeness of Emperor Donald (and the words “Fight! Fight! Fight!”) and the other the likeness of the Empress Melania. This has happened, already. On Wednesday, TRUMP was the 25th most valuable cryptocoin in the world, although its value was already plunging.
Does this ring any bells? That’s a big imperial thing, to have your face on a coin. Nero did it, Marcus Aurelius did it. Roman coins thus doubled as propaganda devices, reminding everyone who was the boss. Julius Caesar was the first living Roman emperor to put his mug on a coin, and the Donaldus is the most recent emperor to do so.
Then there was the public (televised) signing of countless decrees – er, sorry, executive orders, with Mr. Trump squeakily scratching and etching out his mountainous signature with a subsequently gifted imperial Sharpie, and then displaying his signature for all to see. The public display of his bold tagline is an imperialistic gesture in and of itself: the presentation of the herald, the seal of the emperor! In ancient Rome, they were often called emergency decrees, just as many of the orders Mr. Trump signed Tuesday were “emergency” orders – to halt any further action at the border, to “drill, baby, drill” etc.
The visual topper, of course, was Elon Musk’s “salute” onstage at Mr. Trump’s rally in the Capital One arena the night of the inauguration. Many onlookers quite reasonably interpreted it as a Nazi salute, because hey, that’s what it looked like. Mr. Musk’s subsequent trolling – when he pushed back on the idea that it was a Nazi salute but did not quite deny it – was obviously intentional, as the alternate explanation, amid much distracting debate, emerged – no, no, it wasn’t a Nazi sieg heil, it was a “Roman” salute, just like the ones Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 in his famous painting Oath of the Horatii! And indeed Mr. Musk’s arm-thrust was that too, Consul Elon hailing his new emperor.
Or is that too far-fetched? It sure doesn’t feel too far-fetched. To celebrate their election victory, Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk and their cronies attended an over-the-top UFC smackdown at Madison Square Garden. Spectacle – shock and awe – is the name of the game in 2025 in Trumpian America, just as it was in imperial Rome. The action in the Forum distracted the inhabitants of Rome from the poverty and carnage in the streets.
And of course there is the biggest dictum of all, Emperor Trump’s declaration that he will subjugate Canada – the new 51st state (his description) led by Governor Trudeau – by economic force. The ostensible reason is that Canada is letting illegal immigrants and fentanyl cross its border into America, but the amounts of each are so minuscule as to seem like window-dressing. The whole episode is baffling and woe betide me to search for logic in the chambers of the human heart. But what if the Emperor actually wants our oil, would like our minerals but especially, desperately needs our water? And so until he gets it, we will have to face a 25-per-cent tariff on everything we sell to the United States. Given that we sell $1.9-billion worth of stuff to the Americans every single day – about a fifth of our gross domestic product – and that we’ll have to put up corresponding tariffs of our own, we will be in a very tight spot, and will have to bend to the Emperor’s will.
That, of course, is the most painful wound the new American imperium has dealt us. It has forced us to recognize and admit how dependent we are on America, on its economy and its protection. There are ways to reduce that dependency, of course – easier interprovincial trade, new trading partners (some of whom, such as eager China, would invite further retaliation from the Imperium in Washington), more innovation and productivity, more self-reliance, national military service … but that is a long, long road. In the meantime, we will have to adapt to abusive decrees from the imperial palace known as Mr. Trump’s White House, the way Rome’s provinces did.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-hail-emperor-donaldus-trumpus-for-his-is-an-imperial-presidency/
Ok, so they have announced a AI generated flu vaccine in trial stages.
My friend went to Dr who said 3 meds Dr recommended were AI generated. Also, medical charts were done by AI, with a disclaimer.
AI replacement has started .
So, Klaus Schwab has said in summary that whoever controls technology will control the World.
First, doesn’t seem to be any regulations on the use
of this technology, in spite of them projecting it will replace 50 % of the human jobs in the next 10 years.
Nothing about the displaced humans that won’t be able to pay taxes and will become dependents on Government.
If a Industry creates that level of displaced humans, and the benefit of the technology only goes to that industry, without a tax , without regulation , its no different than forced replacement with only conquences to humans.
So, a industry has a AI slave that displaces a number of human workers who won’t pay taxes on a job that has been eliminated. The AI doesn’t have to pay taxes on the labor it generates for Industry.
Now, the WEF has discussed what to do with all the useless eaters that will have no roll in industry.
Apparently that’s a problem for Government, not a problem for the industry that replacing the humans.
I see no reasons that AI shouldn’t pay taxes on its labor , and it shouldn’t be a tax write off as a business investment.
Now, what exactly is the benefit to the displaced unemployed humans who will require low level survival from the Government?
Basically Industry is saying that the conquences of AI labor that benefits them , is not their problem, in spite of them replacing human labor on a massive scale.
And doesn’t this play into the overarching theme of you will own nothing and eat bugs, under a One World Order, Great reset?
People will argue that AI is superior to humans and that innovation cannot be stopped, just like the tractor wasn’t stopped or automation in a car plant wasn’t stopped.
But AI and Robots goes beyond machines that relieve back breaking work and speed up production. AI replaces the mind of humans whereby than that technology rules humans.
I don’t really care if AI and Robots are superior to humans, therefore the replacement is justified.
The purpose of human existence is for the benefit of humans, not for a technology to eliminate humans and humans be subservient to a machine.
And trans humanism where they want humans to be some sort of half machine/half human is pretty absurd.
I think they are a bunch of fraudster liars regarding any of their claims of trans humanism benefits. They can’t even create a vaccine that works, let alone improve life by trans humanism.
Seriously, who wants to be tied to some technology grid in which your a drone to the New World Order.
And , the absurdity and fraud of Climate Change and Panademics, and save the world by enslavement and deprivation of humans is just so debunked as true or valid.
The Powers that Be want to force a World that they envision , that is anti humanity, anti animal, and anti earth, and they control all the resources and dictate consumption, and AI is the superior mind that takes over.
Just saying .
My friend went to Dr who said 3 meds Dr recommended were AI generated.
So were they meds properly tested? Or were they released under some sort of emergency use scenario?
I caught a bit of the sportsball yesterday. As expected, a lot of big pharma ads. One was for some sort of cancer med that on average will buy you 3-4 months. I know that Big Pharma doesn’t sell cures for anything, just “treatments”, but an extra 3 months doesn’t even seem like a treatment. At the end all they can really do is morphine you up and “keep you comfortable”
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/03/ai-drug-development.html
I have read that antibiotics research is neglected because the profits are small. Per the article above they are using AI to create new antibiotics.
Interesting how they never ask AI if there are natural substances in combination, without adverse side effects , that could be curative. Its all about chemicals, and speeding up the approval process, never mind long term effects.
Maybe they can ask AI to come up with cheap alternative energy that is a boost to survival of humanity.
This narrative of saving lives is now just so fraudulent to me. New AI generated Cancer vaccine, or AI generated Aids vaccine, etc.
Now you know why they won’t band the failed , fake MRNA technology , that has killed and injured millions.
I think AI is a cover story for fake answers.
speeding up the approval process
Speeding up the path to Profit.
How do you know they haven’t asked AI about combination effects? And computer models for designer molecules have been around for decades. Designing the molecule is the easy part. Synthesis is much more difficult.
Interesting how they never ask AI if there are natural substances
Well, you wouldn’t be able to patent it then, would you? 😉
You’d be surprised the stuff people can patent. One company I’m familiar with was developing a system of sensors to detect metal degradation of various components at an industrial facility. The sensors themselves were commercial-off-the-shelf. The patent they wanted was for the placement of the different sensors.
AI is the superior mind
Bubbles based on things that don’t work, can’t work and aren’t intended to do what is promised.
Today, right now, is your last chance to buy Bitcoin below $100,000.
Also, another thought I have is that I don’t want to stop thinking and give up my thoughts to the superior intelligence of AI. If you don’t use it you loose it.
“Intelligence” as used in AI is a marketing gimmick.
Britain Backs Trump – Stunning Data Shows Mass UK Support for Trump 2.0 Policies: Deportations, Free Speech…
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/01/27/britain-backs-trump-stunning-data-shows-mass-uk-support-for-trump-2-0-policies-deportations-free-speech/
British voters support several key policies associated with U.S. President Donald J. Trump. An Opinium poll involving 2,000 participants surveyed opinions on 16 statements derived from Trump’s inauguration speech, adapted to a British context—and without President Trump’s name attached—finding huge support for a ‘Britain First’ platform.
Presented with the pledge, “We will declare a national emergency in the Channel, and we will begin the process of returning thousands and thousands of criminal migrants back to the places from which they came”—a reference to Britain’s ongoing boat migrants crisis—35 percent strongly agreed and 23 percent somewhat agreed, against just 12 percent each for strongly disagree and somewhat disagree.
Moreover, a net 63 percent agreed with the statement, “Our state fails to protect our law-abiding UK citizens but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals that have illegally entered our country from all over the world,” against only 26 percent disagreeing.
Presented with the statement, “After years and years of efforts to restrict free expression, we will immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech,” 53 percent agreed, against only 26 percent who disagreed. Censorship is a major issue in Britain, which lacks a First Amendment and sees thousands arrested for “grossly offensive” communications every year, up to and including sharing George Floyd memes in private WhatsApp groups.
Additionally, 56 percent of Britons support imposing tariffs on foreign countries “to protect UK workers and families [and] enrich our citizens to benefit UK citizens.” This result is particularly curious, as while economic nationalism has been part of America’s public discourse for years, free trade dogma stands virtually unchallenged among Britain’s political and media establishment.
A majority of 51 percent also agreed with the statement “there are only two genders: male and female,” against 32 percent who disagreed.
Meanwhile, 53 percent support moving to “end the government policy of trying to socially engineer ethnicity and gender into every aspect of public and private life [and] forge a society that is color-blind and merit-based,” against just 23 percent who disagreed.
Happy CR8R Day, stock HODLerz!
Are you sheltering from the tech stock rout by purchasing large cap stocks at bubble valuation levels? Good luck with that strategy working well over time!
Stock Market Today: Nasdaq, S&P 500 down sharply as DeepSeek fears spark $1.3 trillion tech rout, Nvidia drops 17%; Dow turns positive
Follow here as a tech rout sparked by China’s AI startup DeepSeek rattles markets on Monday.
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Tech sector plunges as Wall Street’s fears over stretched stock valuations intensify
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https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-nasdaq-plunge-leads-s-p-and-dow-lower-on-china-ai-fears
R u missing out on the bond rally?
Investors are flocking back to bonds for safety as DeepSeek sends risks spiraling
Filip De Mott Jan 27, 2025, 11:38 AM PST
– The 10-year Treasury yield hit its lowest level of the year as stocks plunged on Monday.
– Fears about a new AI tool from China are sending investors to safe havens.
– The Fed’s policy meeting this week is also likely to affect the bond market
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https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/bonds/treasury-bond-yields-deepseek-ai-tech-stock-magnificent-7-fed-2025-1
Time to buy new TV for the Souper Bowl!
I like stories with happy endings:
Mayor Johnston (yes, Adams County so no jurisdiction) and almost all of /r/Denver on Reddit want these people here.
[A view from Down Under …]
The Week after Trump 2.0: EU suddenly realizes they have too many Green rules.
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2025/01/the-trump-effect-eu-suddenly-realizes-they-have-too-many-green-rules/
By Jo Nova
The dam has broken.
Trump has only been President for a week, and already policies on the far side of the world are shifting. Just like that, the European Union has realized they might have too many green regulations.
It’s only a “leaked draft” of a five-year economic plan — but the favored hyperbolic term du jour “unprecedented” now applies to deregulation, not climate change: ““This Commission will deliver an unprecedented simplification effort…”. And apparently, next months unprecedented effort is just the first round of simplifications.
The draft document says they need to adapt to “new realities” — like possibly that the US economy is about to unshackle itself from the Net Zero ball-and-chain-fantasy and eclipse the EU.
EU’s new economic vision is speaking to Green Deal critics
A draft document shows Brussels putting deregulation before decarbonization.
Zia Weise, Politico
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s new economic “compass” has a north star the burgeoning movement to revoke stringent green rules will love.
A leaked draft of the European Commission’s competitiveness compass — an economic doctrine to guide the EU executive’s work for the coming five years — points toward widespread deregulation targeting the European Green Deal in particular.
Naturally, the EU will “stay the course” on its climate targets (that’s what they all say, as they back away). But the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk demanded a “full and critical” review of the EU’s Green Deal last week and laid the cards out about as bluntly as anyone could:
“If we go bankrupt no-one will care about the world’s environment any more,” Tusk said, calling for an honest, full and “very critical review of all regulations, including those arising from the Green Deal”.
Tusk wants any review to identify and change EU laws that may lead to higher energy prices. “There is, for example, the issue of ETS 2 in front of us,” he said, singling out the separate trading system covering emissions from road transport and heating fuels, which is scheduled to launch in 2027. — EU must be honest about Green Deal — The Argus
Unthinkably, Tusk even appeared to suggest that the Green Deal had caused high energy prices:
He called for a “review of all legal acts including those under the Green Deal” and for “courage to change those rules that might result in prohibitively high energy prices,” attacking, in particular, a carbon fee on fossil fuels used to heat homes and power cars coming into force in 2027. — Politico
France is also asking the EU to delay the corporate sustainability rules. The French “far-right” (sensible) Jordan Bardella wants to “tear down the European Green Deal”. He is urging conservative parties to work together to kill off the Green Deal altogether.
In the end Trump may kill Green movements all over the world, not by invading, but through free speech, capitalism and competition. That’s why they hate him so much. The whole levitating fantasy of global weather control could only be maintained if every other western nation kept up the Cosplay game.
‘If we go bankrupt no-one will care about the world’s environment any more’
But we’re all gonna die Don? The globalist scum never believed the lies they were pedaling.
‘The whole levitating fantasy of global weather control could only be maintained if every other western nation kept up the Cosplay game’
Well said and the USAian voters broke it wide open.
[Move over Newsom, Big Dog is movin’ in …]
Trump Orders Federal Government Control Over California Water.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-orders-federal-government-control-172721089.html
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump is asserting more federal government control over water management decisions in California and ordering US officials to override local authorities, casting the steps as necessary to boost the state’s firefighting capabilities.
The actions — enshrined in an executive order that was published Sunday but dated Friday — came as Trump visited California to examine devastation from the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles and after days of withering criticism of the state’s response to the blazes.
The order builds on Trump’s day-one declaration that the US is in the grip of an energy emergency by directing federal officials to expedite exemptions waiving protections under the Endangered Species Act for a complex of dams, reservoirs and other facilities that irrigate farmland across California’s Central Valley and supply water to millions of people.
Trump is also directing meetings of a committee of cabinet-level officials that can green light ventures even when the survival of a species is at stake. The panel, known informally as the “God Squad,” has met only a handful of times over the past four decades.
Imperiled plants and animals listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act have figured prominently in Trump’s criticism of the state’s firefighting efforts. He’s repeatedly blamed efforts to protect the endangered delta smelt, a tiny fish that lives in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary, where fresh and salty water mix.
Water allocation plans that took effect in December following years of negotiations by state and federal officials aim to balance withdrawals and safeguards meant to ensure sufficient water flows downstream to protect habitat for several species, including the delta smelt, Chinook salmon and steelhead trout.
Trump cast his moves as common-sense steps to unlock much-needed resources. “I don’t know what’s controversial about sending millions of — sending millions and millions of gallons of beautiful fresh water from the Pacific Northwest and further up than even that into an area that’s bone dry,” he said Friday.
Both farmland and firefighting stand to benefit, Trump said. California farmland is “as good” as Iowa’s, he said, but “it has no water.” “When we let that water come through your valleys and down to Los Angeles,” he said, “it’s going to be a whole different place.”
Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for California Governor Gavin Newsom, called the premise of Trump’s order false. “California continues to pump as much water as it did under the Trump administration’s policies, and water operations to move water south through the Delta have absolutely nothing to do with the local fire response in Los Angeles,” Gallegos said by email.
Environmentalists blasted the effort, calling it a water grab meant to free up more supply for the agriculture sector.
“It’s just idiotic to keep scapegoating endangered salmon and smelt and fixate on gutting the Endangered Species Act when it had nothing to do with the LA wildfires,” said Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity.
Trump’s order asserts broad executive and federal authority over water management decisions in California. The president directed his Interior and Commerce secretaries to immediately “override existing activities that unduly burden efforts” to maximize water deliveries. And he orders the federal Bureau of Reclamation to take every possible step to ensure state agencies don’t interfere with its operation of the Central Valley Water project “to maximize water delivery to high-need communities or otherwise.”
‘She told Business Insider that the couple had worked hard to save for retirement throughout their careers, but most of that money was invested in the house they lost in the fire. Despite the hundreds of thousands of dollars they received in insurance and settlement money, it didn’t come near to covering the full cost…With limited savings left, Sims recently moved in with one of her children so that she could reduce her housing costs to cover the steep price of the memory care her husband now needs. She said what she receives monthly in Social Security barely covers her daily essentials. ‘There was nothing I could do but just watch the money flow out of my account that I had saved,’ Sims said. ‘We lost half the value of our house or more because we didn’t have enough insurance. Every two years, we went in and upped the insurance,’ Sims said, explaining that she tried to increase the total amount of disaster coverage on the house several times before the wildfire. ‘But that’s all the insurance companies would allow in one of those areas’
We got some sound lending going on in California.
“She said what she receives monthly in Social Security barely covers her daily essentials.”
That was the idea all along.
That was the idea all along.
Duh!!! What did she think it was for? Trips to Greece and a new Lexus?
‘About two dozen buyers made time to tour this three-bedroom unit in one corner of a boutique building on Yonge Street, but none came forward with an offer. To draw a buyer the seller cut the asking price by $255,000. Within a week, a new visitor signed a deal for the lowered asking price. ‘In my 25 years plus in the business, last year was the most challenging time to sell condos,’ said agent Dino Capocci. ‘The seller understood: If we wanted to sell, we’d need to adjust our price’
Just like that Dino, you gave it away. You could relist in the brief spring, which is months away. No, you just want yer commission you greedy defeatist!
‘With big developers, there’s an assumption that everything will be in place financially. But budgets are tight and some developers go bust. Should due diligence tests be part of the planning process?’
It’s called bonding Jason:
What Is a Construction Bond?
A construction bond is a type of surety bond used by investors in construction projects. Construction bonds protect against disruptions or financial loss due to a contractor’s failure to complete a project or failure to meet contract specifications. These bonds ensure a construction project’s bills will get paid.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/construction-bond.asp
‘‘When we were booming, we were getting two to three inquiries sometimes a day, or at least a week…At the moment we maybe get inquiries once a month, or every second month. A lot of the inquiries are dead leads, where you put the price in and the price is so exorbitant the client doesn’t go ahead with the project’…‘We’re still feeling it…We’ve had projects where the joiner has gone broke, the plumber has gone broke, and that puts pressure on us, because we lose money out of pocket if we have to get a new trade, a new subcontractor. We have lost money many times in the last couple years with insolvencies’
That’s interesting Joey cuz the globalist scum media told us it was red hotcakes the whole time.
‘Banks are realizing that if they don’t sell their commercial properties, the values will go lower and lower,’ said James Mak, chief sales director at Midland Commercial Realty Ltd., a property brokerage. ‘They have to sell at a loss because that’s how the market is now.’ At least HK$2.1 trillion has been erased from commercial and residential real estate values in the city since 2019′
Is that a lot Jim?
‘Homebuyers are fully aware of the excessive supply of new homes,’ said Wang Feng, chairman of Ye Lang Capital, a Shanghai-based financial services group. ‘They are hoping developers offer steep discounts to lure buyers.’ Some developers have taken note of the situation, slashing prices by as much as 30 per cent ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday’
That’s the spirit Wang, fook the previous buyers!
[This is nuts.]
California considers letting wildfire victims sue oil companies for damages.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-considers-letting-wildfire-victims-223401431.html
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Oil and gas companies would be liable for damages caused by climate change -related disasters in California under legislation introduced Monday by two Democratic lawmakers.
The proposal, introduced by two Democratic lawmakers, claims that the oil industry intentionally deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels on climate change that now have intensified storms and wildfires and caused billions of dollars in damage in California. Such disasters have also driven the state insurance market to a crisis where companies are raising rates, limiting coverage or pulling out completely from regions susceptible to wildfires and other natural disasters, supporters of the bill said.
Under state law, utility companies are liable for damages if their equipment starts a wildfire. The same idea should apply to oil and gas companies, said Robert Herrell, executive director of the Consumer Federation of California, “for their massive contribution to these fires driven by climate change.”
The bill aims to alleviate the financial burdens on victims of such disasters and insurance companies by allowing them to sue the oil industry to recoup their losses. It would also allow the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plan, created by the state as a last resort for homeowners who couldn’t find insurance, to do the same so it doesn’t become insolvent.
If approved, California would be the first state in the U.S. to allow for such lawsuits, according to the author.
“We are all paying for these disasters, but there is one stakeholder that is not paying: the fossil fuel industry, which makes the product that is fueling the climate change,” state Sen. Scott Wiener, who authored the bill, said at a Monday news conference.
The new measure is bound to face major backlash from oil and gas companies, who have faced a string of defeats in California in recent years as the country’s most populous state started to shift policy priorities to address climate change.
The Western States Petroleum Association, representing oil and gas companies in five states, already signaled it will fight the bill. President and CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd said state lawmakers are using the LA fires to “scapegoat” the industry.
“We need real solutions to help victims in the wake of this tragedy, not theatrics,” Reheis-Boyd said in a statement. “Voters are tired of this approach.”
Supporters said the measure will also help stabilize the state’s insurance market by allowing insurers to recover some of the costs after a natural disaster from oil companies, which will prevent increased rates from being passed onto policyholders. The bill is supported by several environmental and consumer protection groups.
The legislation comes as California begins the long recovery process from multiple deadly fires that ripped through sections of Los Angeles and burned more than 12,000 structures earlier this month. The fires were named the most destructive in the modern history of the city of Los Angeles and estimated to be the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Lawmakers last week voted to spend $2.5 billion to help the area rebuild.
Dozens of U.S. municipalities as well as eight states and Washington, D.C., have sued oil and gas companies in recent years over their role in climate change, according to the Center for Climate Integrity. Those suits are still making their way through the courts, including one filed by California more than a year ago against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels.
Scientists overwhelmingly agree the world needs to drastically cut the burning of coal, oil and gas to limit global warming. That’s because when fossil fuels are burned, carbon dioxide forms and is released, which accounts for over three quarters of all human-caused greenhouse gases.
California is also working to persuade insurers to continue doing business in the state by giving insurers more latitude to raise premiums in exchange for more issuing policies in high-risk areas. Citing ballooning risks of climate-driven natural disasters, seven of the top 12 insurance companies doing business in California in 2023 either paused or restricted new business in the state. The state now allows insurers to consider climate change when setting their prices and will soon also allow them pass on the costs of reinsurance to California consumers.
“If approved, California would be the first state in the U.S. to allow for such lawsuits, according to the author.”
People around the planet that are still swinging from the trees could sue too since the climate doesn’t recognize borders.
The home at 4168 Burgess Drive in the Village of Richmond is now listed at $1.12 million. It’s been on the market for more than 100 days.
Dream on, greedhead.
‘In my 25 years plus in the business, last year was the most challenging time to sell condos,’ said agent Dino Capocci.
You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet, Dino.
Average prices of office buildings, shopping malls and other properties have fallen more than 40% from their highs in 2018, eroding the value of the collateral backing many bank loans.
Fake wealth created by fake money flying off to debauched currency heaven.
At least HK$2.1 trillion has been erased from commercial and residential real estate values in the city since 2019, according to a BI analysis.”
Is that a lot?
Some developers have taken note of the situation, slashing prices by as much as 30 per cent ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, which starts on Tuesday and ends on February 4, to bolster sales.
Happy New Year, FBs who just saw the value of their skyboxes slashed by 30 percent! Be kind to yer new neighbors who paid much less than you!
Speaker Johnson Asked Point Blank: Will Voter ID Be ‘Red Line’ For California Wildfire Relief?
Forbes Breaking News
1 hour ago
During a House GOP Leadership press briefing on Monday, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) was asked about withholding disaster relief aid for California unless the state adopts voter ID laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wacip1U58aU
2 minutes.
Stop wasting everybody’s time, greedheads.
https://x.com/VladTheInflator/status/1883663394827645011
Google searches for “give back car” hitting all-time highs in Paul Krugman’s strongest economy ever.
https://x.com/VladTheInflator/status/1883995786314461322
But…but…Yellen the Felon said that record-high credit card debt was “evidence of a strong consumer.” Until they stiff the credit card companies, that is.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/minimum-payments-on-credit-cards-hit-record-level-as-delinquencies-also-rise.html
San Francisco may be seeing a political shift and it could be starting in Chinatown
KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA
22 hours ago
Huge crowds have come out to Chinatown for Lunar New Year as new political faces take office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7yldd0oeHg
3:28.
[An opinion from the Wall Street Journal.]
Why Climate-Change Ideology Is Dying.
Voters have concluded that the private jet-flying alarmists don’t really believe their own claims.
By Barton Swaim
Jan. 27, 2025 1:47 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/climate-ideology-is-dying-environment-change-policy-movement-8c8fb882?mod=hp_opin_pos_4#cxrecs_s
Momentous social movements begin to die the moment adherents figure out their leaders don’t believe what they say. Liberal Protestantism’s long decline started in the 1950s, when congregants began to wonder if their ministers still believed the old creeds (they didn’t). Communism dies wherever it’s tried because sooner or later the proletariat realize their self-appointed champions aren’t particularly interested in equality. Many sects and cults dwindle the moment their supposedly ascetic leaders are revealed to be libertines.
Something similar is happening to climate ideology.
For three decades you were labeled a crank, a “climate denier,” someone who pigheadedly rejects “settled science,” if you didn’t embrace the belief that life on earth faces imminent extinction from “global warming” and, later, “climate change.” The possibility that an entire academic discipline, climate science, could have gone badly amiss by groupthink and self-flattery wasn’t thought possible. In many quarters this orthodoxy still reigns unquestioned.
That climate ideology was alarmist and in no way settled should have been obvious. For many, it was. The conclusions of genuine scientific inquiry rarely reinforce the social and political biases of power brokers and influencers, but climate science, like some of the softer social sciences, did exactly that. It purported to discover foreboding trends in inscrutable data and assured us that the only way to arrest them was to do what America’s liberal cultural elite wanted to do anyway—amass political and economic power in the hands of credentialed technocrats, supposedly for the good of all.
The ordinary person, though lacking familiarity with the latest peer-reviewed science, wasn’t wrong to regard the whole business with skepticism. His suspicions were further aroused by contemplating the sheer immensity of the data, all correctly interpreted, required to confirm the conclusions asserted by climate science and its media champions.
Were scientists really so confident they understood what was happening with sunbeams in the upper atmosphere, or that they knew how to gauge accurately the temperature of roughly 200 million square miles of the Earth’s surface, or that they knew how to compare present-day temperatures with those that obtained 50, 100, 1,000 or 5,000 years ago? Or, more important still, that they knew what political and economic measures would mitigate the theoretical apocalypse they inferred from these mountains of data?
Even if aggregate global temperatures are warming, the question is whether this will lead to civilizational cataclysm unless humans radically rearrange how they live. Many capable interpreters of the evidence think the answer is no.
But what has finally convinced ordinary people that the doomsayers are wrong isn’t any interpretation of climate figures. It is the palpable sense that very few of the doomsayers believe what they say.
Why aren’t the moguls and corporate executives who claim to be unnerved by the predictions of climate science giving up their carbon-heavy lifestyles and living in caves—or at least in simpler dwellings than mansions? If progressive VIPs in media, politics and entertainment believe sea levels are ready to rise precipitously, why do they keep buying properties in Martha’s Vineyard, Bar Harbor, Provincetown, Santa Monica and Malibu?
The climate lobby can wave aside these questions if it wishes, but appeals to reports and studies weigh little against the appearance of insincerity. If activists predicting global mayhem really believe what they predict, they would favor an instant transition to zero-emission nuclear power. But they mostly don’t. Every September the transnational elite gather at the U.N. General Assembly to denounce America for its failure to limit carbon emissions—and clog the streets of Manhattan for a week with their privately chartered oversize SUVs.
Disdain for climate alarmism has gone mainstream. Last year the liberal comedian Bill Maher delivered a monologue on his television show in which he blistered celebrities who insist on the need to reduce our “carbon footprint” but zip around the globe on private jets. It is a masterpiece of political invective and has been viewed online by millions.
I don’t call any of this “hypocrisy,” because that term properly refers to the difference between private behavior and public words, and in the case of climate alarmism there is no attempt to hide the behavior or to make it match the words. So, for instance, the Defense Innovation Board, a group sponsored by the Pentagon and chaired by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, issued two studies this month recommending the reconstitution and strengthening of America’s defense industrial base. The reports have merit. But following all their recommendations would require the procurement of vast arrays of manufactured materials produced with natural gas, petrochemicals and coal. Meanwhile, Mr. Bloomberg oversees two nonprofit organizations, Beyond Coal and Beyond Petrochemicals, whose stated aim is to end the country’s use of natural gas, petrochemicals and coal.
Mr. Bloomberg isn’t embarrassed by the contradiction. He hasn’t tried to explain it, except indirectly in a vaguely worded Washington Post op-ed, co-authored with David H. Berger. “The technology needed to make today’s advanced military supplies,” Messrs. Bloomberg and Berger write, “relies on computer chips more than blast furnaces and on research labs more than assembly lines.” Sure. But it does rely on blast furnaces and power stations of the sort Mr. Bloomberg’s activist groups want to shut down. Which will make any thinking person wonder if he believes the catastrophism emitted by his nonprofits.
Climate skeptics groused about these and many similar contradictions for two generations, to little effect on the consensus that ruled unquestioned in boardrooms, universities and government agencies. Then Los Angeles burst into flames. California has been run for many years by people who believe, or say they believe, that climate change is an immediate threat to civilization. Yet now, as thousands of homes are destroyed by fires spread by a seasonal wind so historically predictable it has a name, state and local officials, with the endorsement of a cheerleading media, blame climate change.
These same officials have told us for decades that they accept the direst predictions of climate activists, but they have done little to counter what they now purport to be the effects of climate change. Mayor Karen Bass’s 2024-25 budget proposed a 2.7% cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department, mainly in areas of new equipment purchases. And although the department’s total budget later increased as a result of salary negotiations, it’s pretty obvious that the dangers of wildfires—supposedly the outcome of climate change—weren’t foremost on city leaders’ minds. California has for years underinvested in land management, which might have inhibited the fires from spreading, and water storage, which would have enabled firefighters to put out more fires.
Climate catastrophism has begun to die, the victim of its apostles’ unbelief.
Voters have concluded that the private jet-flying alarmists don’t really believe their own claims.
As the saying goes, I’ll believe it’s an emergency when they act like it’s an emergency. Being sermonized by someone who owns 10 mansions and several private jets isn’t very compelling,
Paul Krugman’s muh strongest economy ever comes for the upper income brackets.
https://x.com/GayBearRes/status/1884029569675714755
Cry if you must, globalist scum media, but your beloved Great Replacement illegals are being returned to sender.
https://x.com/saras76/status/1884015732209668129
‘Numbers Are the Numbers’: CNN Host Loses Cool as Data Guru Shows a Different Story on Trump.
‘This is a very different Donald Trump. He’s leading a very different administration, the way he’s attacking things…’
https://headlineusa.com/cnn-data-bolduan-trump-approval/
CNN host Kate Bolduan lost her cool Friday as the network’s senior political data reporter shared numbers that contradicted her negative spin on President Donald Trump.
Harry Enten stood before CNN’s big board and revealed that Trump’s approval rating skyrocketed by six points in January compared to his previous high when he was up three in March 2017.
“This is a very different Donald Trump. He’s leading a very different administration, the way he’s attacking things. And the American public is very much more in line with him than they were at any point in his entire first term,” Enten said as he stood before graphics on the wall displaying the Reuters/IPSOS adult polling results.
[The video associated with the link is about one-minute long and is worth a watch.]
CNN Anchor Kate Bolduan in DISBELIEF…
https://youtu.be/kUyjm95grhI?t=16
Selena Gomez Shares Video Crying Over Mexican Deportations – Quickly Deletes After Taken To Woodshed
by Infowars.com
January 27th, 2025 4:00 PM
Singer and actress Selena Gomez deleted a video of herself crying over illegal alien deportations after social media users slammed her for the embarrassing, pathetic spectacle.
On Monday, Gomez posted a video to Instagram sobbing and saying, “I just wanted to say that I’m so sorry…All my people are getting attacked, the children. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I wish I could do something but I can’t. I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything, I promise.”
Gomez’s post featured a Mexican flag emoji.
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Selena Gomez sobs uncontrollably amid ramped up deportations of illegal aliens:
“I’m so sorry. All my people are getting attacked. The children, I don’t understand. I wish I could do something.”
“My people?” Aren’t you American?
Where was the sobbing over the 100,000 Americans dead from fentanyl poisoning? Where were these tears over the 340,000 children who went missing after being trafficked over our border? Why wasn’t there a breakdown for Rachel Nungary, Rachel Morin, or Laken Riley? I guess those Americans weren’t “your people?”
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12:29 PM · Jan 27, 2025
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1883930439431393612