[SkaredShtles]

Trump vows ‘No more money for RINOS,’ instead encouraging donations to his PAC

Former President Trump encouraged donors to give money to his Save America PAC instead of to Republicans he dubbed “RINOS” in another departure from traditional GOP campaign o…

thehill.com

 

[SkaredShtles]

I wonder how they're going to spin this such that private *campaign* contributions are OK, but private donations "to help pay for any aspect of election operations, including voter registration" are out of bounds.

Private Donations Helped Pay For 2020 Elections. Arizona Republicans Say No More

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated more than $400 million to nonprofits that in turn distributed grants last year to state and local election officials.

www.npr.org

Fucking morans.

 

[mandown]

ORLY

 

[kidwoo]

Hey guys. Just started a new club called the Bowl Shuck Vicks. We're gonna play with things that kinda look like bowling balls but we're probably going to something different them since they don't have finger holes. Probably gonna hang out at a lot of rich peoples' houses and see what happens. It's fun!

 

[mandown]

Culture wars strain once unshakeable bond between Republicans, corporate America

"Talking about corporate tax cuts and reducing burdensome regulations doesn't do it for our new voters," one Republican lobbyist said.

www.nbcnews.com

Such public dust-ups between businesses and members of the GOP are becoming more frequent, though the divide — possibly one of the most consequential in U.S. politics and society — is years in the making. The shift is the product of a Republican Party increasingly driven by "culture war" issues that animate a base invigorated by Trump and corporate powerhouses that are under more pressure than ever to align themselves with the left on voting rights, LGBTQ rights and anti-racist efforts.

The result is a fraying in relations between a GOP that has for years advocated for the kinds of libertarian economic policies that have widely benefited these businesses and companies that are using their might to help advance racial and social justice causes.

"We have long thought and still think of the big institutional drivers of this culture war as more in academia, the arts, the media, and corporate America has mostly sat it out until recently," retiring Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., told NBC News in an interview. He added that while he does not think of corporate America "as the biggest player yet," companies coming off the sidelines "can change the dynamic."

 

[Pesqueeb]

Matt Gaetz Is the Model GOP Representative: A Creep No One’s Surprised About

If so many of his colleagues knew about his dirtiness, why are they only speaking up now and on background?

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[mykel]

Matt Gaetz Is the Model GOP Representative: A Creep No One’s Surprised About

If so many of his colleagues knew about his dirtiness, why are they only speaking up now and on background?

www.thedailybeast.com

After reading that, I feel dirty. Very very dirty. Ewwwww.

 

[Westy]

Mitch making a stand! His shell must have hardened.

McConnell: Big Business acting like 'woke parallel government'

The broadside from the Senate minority leader is just the latest sign of a fraying alliance between big companies and the Republican Party.

www.politico.com

 

[mandown]

Mitch making a stand! His shell must have hardened.

McConnell: Big Business acting like 'woke parallel government'

The broadside from the Senate minority leader is just the latest sign of a fraying alliance between big companies and the Republican Party.

www.politico.com

LOLZ @ this. Dems can’t use “our” tools against us! This whole thing is rich.

“Our private sector must stop taking cues from the Outrage-Industrial Complex. Americans do not need or want big business to amplify disinformation or react to every manufactured controversy with frantic left-wing signaling," McConnell said in a lengthy statement on Monday. "Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order."

The cozy relationship between Republicans and business is no secret in Washington...

 

[mandown]

... Corporate America: Well, we got the Reps to cut our taxes, and they won’t raise them back up without looking like fools, so let’s go do social justice to win consumers from the left.

Could be that big business figured out they can make more by swaying consumers than they can save by cutting taxes. Sales generates cash flow and maintains market share. Cutting taxes only cuts taxes.

 

[kidwoo]

LOLZ @ this. Dems can’t use “our” tools against us! This whole thing is rich.

“Our private sector must stop taking cues from the Outrage-Industrial Complex. Americans do not need or want big business to amplify disinformation or react to every manufactured controversy with frantic left-wing signaling," McConnell said in a lengthy statement on Monday. "Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order."

The cozy relationship between Republicans and business is no secret in Washington...

representative telling the corps that bought him how to behave....sit down bitch

 

[jonKranked]

LOLZ @ this. Dems can’t use “our” tools against us! This whole thing is rich.

“Our private sector must stop taking cues from the Outrage-Industrial Complex. Americans do not need or want big business to amplify disinformation or react to every manufactured controversy with frantic left-wing signaling," McConnell said in a lengthy statement on Monday. "Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order."

The cozy relationship between Republicans and business is no secret in Washington...

why does moscow mitch hate the free market?

 

[mandown]

representative telling the corps that bought him how to behave....sit down bitch

it’s like the corner the housing market got painted into with falling rates. Well, we aren’t making competitively priced American products, but real estate is valuable. Let’s inflate the value by dropping the rates. As a bonus, homeowners can borrow against the inflated equity to spend more and feel good about it because of the lower cost of borrowing. Oops, we can’t ever bring the rates back up without tanking the economy. Ummm.... how about about another quantitative easement?

On the bright side, we have a “cost of housing” boogeyman to blame homelessness on.

 

[kidwoo]

On the bright side, we have a “cost of housing” boogeyman to blame homelessness on.

Unfortunately the ground level effect of that boogeyman is very real.


But your larger point of 'we don make jackshit any more so have to keep inventing financial gymnastics routines to keep the machine running' is spot on.

The USA is just becoming baseline service industries, and then just fucking weird ways to invent value to place bets on.

see also: blockchain bullshit as a way to get teslabros to accept a new form of money laundering for millionaires

 

[mandown]

Unfortunately the ground level effect of that boogeyman is very real

It’s definitely a factor, but not the only facet. There’s a lot of urban camping in my area that wouldn’t go away if rents were lower. It’s a lot easier to blame housing costs and shrug shoulders while proclaiming “what can we do?” (while not doing anything) than it is to work on creating and implementing the social assistance programs needed to help and house.

 

[jonKranked]

see also: blockchain bullshit as a way to get teslabros to accept a new form of money laundering for millionaires

i learned myself about NFT's the other day, and they immediately struck me as nothing more than a way for techbros to create something pointless and charge stupid amounts of money to other rich assholes for it. bernie madoff is gonna fuckin' hang himself once he learns about them.

 

[jstuhlman]

i learned myself about NFT's the other day, and they immediately struck me as nothing more than a way for techbros to create something pointless and charge stupid amounts of money to other rich assholes for it. bernie madoff is gonna fuckin' hang himself once he learns about them.

epstein too!

 

[jonKranked]

epstein too!

i almost said that madoff would epstein himself. but epstein didn't hang himself.

 

[Westy]

It’s definitely a factor, but not the only facet. There’s a lot of urban camping in my area that wouldn’t go away if rents were lower. It’s a lot easier to blame housing costs and shrug shoulders while proclaiming “what can we do?” (while not doing anything) than it is to work on creating and implementing the social assistance programs needed to help and house.

Something like 50% of homeless in Seattle refuse assistance. I am sure some are just rugged individualists but we are looking at the results of opioids. Sure they may not be homeless if the can land a $50/week room but they would probably still be in the same jam if things were half as expensive.

Now the other 50% could be a lot better off if things were cheaper.

 

[kidwoo]

It’s definitely a factor, but not the only facet. There’s a lot of urban camping in my area that wouldn’t go away if rents were lower. It’s a lot easier to blame housing costs and shrug shoulders while proclaiming “what can we do?” (while not doing anything) than it is to work on creating and implementing the social assistance programs needed to help and house.

biggest homeless population: here
dumbest housing market: here

Now we're also just the flat out most populous state so everything should be here by numbers, but the percentages don't bear that out. This place is fucked.


I see social programs as kind of an intermediate bandaid. We need them but until the drivers of the process are addressed (IE treating housing as solely investment potential), it's kind of just pissing in the wind.

You see this? Addresses a bit of what that 'driving demand' comes from.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-sell-a-house-these-days-the-buyer-might-be-a-pension-fund-11617544801

Non-paywalled version: https://remarkboard.com/m/if-you-sell-a-house-these-days-the-buyer-might-be-a/1fjn8z3qo8k9n

 

[jstuhlman]

i almost said that madoff would epstein himself. but epstein didn't hang himself.

 

[kidwoo]

Something like 50% of homeless in Seattle refuse assistance. I am sure some are just rugged individualists but we are looking at the results of opioids. Sure they may not be homeless if the can land a $50/week room but they would probably still be in the same jam if things were half as expensive.

Now the other 50% could be a lot better off if things were cheaper.

Drugs as a lifestyle is a symptom of giving up.

chicken/egg


And the fact that 50% of eligibles are taking advantage of a social program is awesome!

If only the govt saw that kind of success rate with Ratheon...

 

[mandown]

You see this? Addresses a bit of what that 'driving demand' comes from.

not surprising.

 

[kidwoo]

not surprising.

It's not that people need housing that just isn't there, it's that the entities buying the houses aren't buying them for housing. My palatial 9th mountain mansion in westy's imagination aside, this is what I've been saying for a while now.

We're starting to treat the internet like essential infrastructure before we treat housing as such. That's fucked up.

 

[mandown]

It's not that people need housing that just isn't there, it's that the entities buying the houses aren't buying them for housing. My palatial 9th mountain mansion in westy's imagination aside, this is what I've been saying for a while now.

We're starting to treat the internet like essential infrastructure before we treat housing as such. That's fucked up.

I’ve got encampments walking distance from my apartment. One direction is tents and an RV that can barely drive lived in by a guy who begs for income. The other direction is an RV where the guy living in it has an SUV and a motorcycle and a day job. Nearby, there’s also a modern mansion that rents out for $10k+ a weekend, while the other side of me is a nice 1 bed in a duplex that has been “for rent” for well over a month. It’s quite the variety pack.

 

[kidwoo]

See: Norman Rockwell's Profile of America 2021©

You in LA county? Fuck that sheriff's department. Busting homeless camps doesn't solve homelessness.

 

[mandown]

See: Norman Rockwell's Profile of America 2021©

You in LA county? Fuck that sheriff's department. Busting homeless camps doesn't solve homelessness.

Hollywood sure is. Sheriff here doesn’t bust camps. They can’t and won’t. Boise judgement changed things. It’s a different department that clears camps (when and if that happens), and cops are only on scene for the safety of the workers.

 

[kidwoo]

Hollywood sure is. Sheriff here doesn’t bust camps. They can’t and won’t. Boise judgement changed things. It’s a different department that clears camps (when and if that happens), and cops are only on scene for the safety of the workers.

Well LAPD is certainly making up for it.

I forget....LASD is the fucking gang, like the literal gang masquerading as cops.

Muh bad.



And in that case no, LAPD most certainly was not there just for the safety of workers at the echo park fiasco. They fucked some people up. Press included.

 

[mandown]

Well LAPD is certainly making up for it.

I forget....LASD is the fucking gang, like the literal gang masquerading as cops.

Muh bad.



And in that case no, LAPD most certainly was not there just for the safety of workers at the echo park fiasco. They fucked some people up. Press included.

LAPD has the same restrictions under Boise. It wasn’t the police shutting down the park. The city ordered the park closed and the cops were ordered to assist. I’m not saying they assisted in the warmest, fuzziest way, but they didn’t decide to bust up the camp. Outside of that high profile park closure, the cops (PD or SD) aren’t moving people. You and I won’t see eye to eye on this topic, but I’m the one living here and I’ve been to the neighborhood meetings with the local officers and council members. I’ve seen and heard what I’ve seen and heard in person.

This is the part where you reply with the ROFL reaction and catch phrase.

 

[jstuhlman]

hey! our city wants to play in the big leagues! we, too, recently saw a coordinated city/county effort to bust up tent city! because of an impending vermin problem and stuff and for reasons...

 

[mandown]

hey! our city wants to play in the big leagues! we, too, recently saw a coordinated city/county effort to bust up tent city! because of an impending vermin problem and stuff and for reasons...

we noticed

 

[kidwoo]

LAPD has the same restrictions under Boise. It wasn’t the police shutting down the park. The city ordered the park closed and the cops were ordered to assist. I’m not saying they assisted in the warmest, fuzziest way, but they didn’t decide to bust up the camp. Outside of that high profile park closure, the cops (PD or SD) aren’t moving people. You and I won’t see eye to eye on this topic, but I’m the one living here and I’ve been to the neighborhood meetings with the local officers and council members. I’ve seen and heard what I’ve seen and heard in person.

This is the part where you reply with the ROFL reaction and catch phrase.

Nah that's reserved for dano (RIP)

They've been busting homeless camps since january. Echo was just the big publicized recent one.

Cops will not solve this greater problem. I don't have to see eye to eye with you because you know it.

It's not just LA either.

 

[Westy]

hey! our city wants to play in the big leagues! we, too, recently saw a coordinated city/county effort to bust up tent city! because of an impending vermin problem and stuff and for reasons...

I am waiting for a cholera outbreak here. I stopped riding a tiny little trail system at the local park due to a proliferation of unburied human feces that drains directly into a popular lake for watersports that has no outlet. At least the RVs that dump shit in the streets goes into the sewer system.

 

[kidwoo]

I am waiting for a cholera outbreak here. I stopped riding a tiny little trail system at the local park due to a proliferation of unburied human feces that drains directly into a popular lake for watersports that has no outlet. At least the RVs that dump shit in the streets goes into the sewer system.

Let me know if you need a truck to start driving that stuff to capitol hill to be distributed evenly and equitably amongst 2mil+ neighborhoods.




Can't be held responsible if some goes missing, later to be identified in front of empty lakeside mansions in an unnamed community to your south.

 

[jstuhlman]

Opinion: Tent City Isn’t New, It’s Newly Visible

Adrienne C. Threatt, the executive director of Hope Vibes, shares her thoughts on the recent visibility of Charlotte's tent city community.

qcnerve.com

 

[Westy]

Let me know if you need a truck to start driving that stuff to capitol hill to be distributed evenly and equitably amongst 2mil+ neighborhoods.




Can't be held responsible if some goes missing, later to be identified in front of empty lakeside mansions in an unnamed community to your south.

Seattle/Capitol Hill is a budget wonderland compared to Mercer Island, Bellevue, Sammamish. There was a recent $26,000,000 "tear down" on the East Side.

 

[kidwoo]

Recent price structure aside, what im saying is, if you know of a good source of drug addled poop, I'm here to help. I have ideas, man. We can figure out specific adresses later.

 

[Westy]

I've got a solid supply nearby, but I bet HAB could get you a bulk source.

 

[Pesqueeb]

I’ve got encampments walking distance from my apartment. One direction is tents and an RV that can barely drive lived in by a guy who begs for income. The other direction is an RV where the guy living in it has an SUV and a motorcycle and a day job. Nearby, there’s also a modern mansion that rents out for $10k+ a weekend, while the other side of me is a nice 1 bed in a duplex that has been “for rent” for well over a month. It’s quite the variety pack.

Our friends in Eagle Rock, their hood is like this. I find it both fascinating and horrifying in equal measure. The wealth disparity is more visible there than no where else I frequent.

 

[kidwoo]

Our friends in Eagle Rock, their hood is like this. I find it both fascinating and horrifying in equal measure. The wealth disparity is more visible there than no where else I frequent.

How are the poop reserves?