DeSantis should drop out. This is painful to observe. He’s a great governor. He shouldn’t be soiling his record with this exercise in ineptitude.
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DeSantis should drop out. This is painful to observe. He’s a great governor. He shouldn’t be soiling his record with this exercise in ineptitude.
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His presidential ambitions were in steep decline before he even officially announced. I have no idea why he didn’t say “after much consideration, I’ve decided not to run for president” and graciously bow out.
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Things seem to be coalescing behind Haley. How did she do?
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Honestly, they both looked sad and irrelevant. Instead of explaining why they are better than Trump or Biden (the real candidates to beat in this election), they attacked each other over boring minutiae nobody cares about.
Still, Haley looked better than DeSantis because he was doing a mini-Trump routine while she, at least, looked like her own person.
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You might enjoy this: https://wilderwealthywise.com/
The most recent post made me think of you, because soi-disant President Trump’s many machinations and maneuvers to get a border wall* in place were epic. Despite being a crony-capitalist Democrat shut, Mr. Trump tried to keep the Deal he made when he campaigned. He nominated Federalist Society judges. He moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. Large or small, he tried to keep his campaign promises to rule as a pretend Republican.
Both party regulars blocked him at every turn. He tried executive orders that were disobeyed by every tier of government. And then the covidiocy happened and he appointed Mr. Reagan’s second worst mistake – Puppy-Torturer-Fauci to manage the circus.
So that is a partial reason. The other part is that you wondered why USAians are willing, nay, eager to vote for Trump (beyond the Superman/Savior baloney). If we do not have the opportunity to choose a DeSantis (or a Walker, or a Jindal – proven governers)… Not being traitors to the Globohomo or foreigners whose allegiance is to (justifiably) another nation… And wanting no king but Jesus..
MOLON LABE.
*Full disclosure: I opposed this. Still do. I remember the Iron Curtain.
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I keep hearing about this embassy in Jerusalem like anybody voted for him to get that. Nobody did. People voted to get the wall. There’s no wall. “I tried so hard” is an excuse that C-level Freshmen give. Who cares if he tried? The only thing that matters is the result. And the result is more immigration than ever.
If you go to a restaurant and you get served a plate of disgusting, inedible food, will it help if the chef says that he tried very hard to cook well? Nobody cares about “tried.” I don’t want a president who tried. I want one who succeeded.
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“will it help if the chef says that he tried very hard to cook well?”
Trump as a chef
Trump: You dont’ need to thank me for that wonderful dinner!
Client: I couldn’t eat it, it was awful.
Trump: It was a perfect dinner, I’m known for my perfect dinners!
Client: The chicken wasn’t fully cooked and the potatoes were just mush….
Trump: Locally sourced potatoes! I pick the very best potatoes! You’ll never want to eat anything but my potatoes!
Client: I’m still hungry because I couldn’t eat this slop.
Trump: You’ll want to pay double the price it was so good! But for you, just regular price, you’re welcome! Everybody comes back for my perfect potatoes!
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It is evidence of campaign promises kept, no more, no less. You seem to find that a usual state of affairs.
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Campaign promise no one (literally no one) cared about: moving the US embassy to Jersualem.
Campaign promise everyone cared about (pro or con): border wall
He did not build a wall.
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The very fact that the embassy in Jerusalem is brought up so often is evidence that there are few other achievements. Something this irrelevant to voters keeps getting mentioned because nothing more relevant exists.
Another simple question: why didn’t he fire Fauci? We all hate Fauci. But who made him the face of COVID?
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Who is talking about inflation and predatory real estate investing?
I will vote for any politician who starts talking about this as a campaign issue.
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“Who is talking about inflation” every Republican running in the 2022 midterms, so far as I could tell. Predatory real estate investing, not so much, though a few individual politicians have spoken out on that.
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It has to be both. Not being able to buy a house, and being squeezed closer and closer to insolvency by insane rents and rising grocery prices, are the single biggest issue in existence right now, as far as our family is concerned. Absolutely none of the rest of that stuff matters, if we have to move into a shed in my parents’ backyard next year.
I check the local rental and houses-for-sale listings a few times a week, to keep tabs on the market. We cannot move to a cheaper rental. There aren’t any cheaper ones, even in the really scary neighborhoods, and we’re already paying more than a third of our take-home pay just for rent. We are middle-aged with kids, and we are one rent hike away from moving our family back in with relatives. Every single house that pops up for sale in our price range immediately gets snapped up by investors offering more than the asking price, cash. We cannot compete with that. They are deliberately targeting ALL the houses in our price range. They’re not monopolizing the market on $350k houses in nice suburbs. They’re after the houses we could actually afford. Every one of them. Every salvageable dwelling that goes up for sale in the $60k (needs walls, floors, meth remediation and wiring) to $190k (move-in-ready) range, is going to investors, who then rent it out, to people who could afford to buy that house, but are forced to rent it instead because they were outbid by… sure, Blackrock, Vanguard, and the rest of Satan’s investment minions, but also arseholes who spend their weekends at real-estate seminars and casually throw around terms like “passive income streams”. I may involuntarily spit on the next person who spouts that phrase near me. Reflex.
I hate them all.
Burn it down.
If we can’t fix inflation, then we need to find a way to kick investors to the back of the line when it comes to home sales. If you’re not gonna live in it, take a hike. If x% of houses on this street are already rentals, take a hike. If you don’t live in the house, no tax exemption on the mortgage for you. If you’re an investment firm, you pay 3x property taxes. Using a residential property as an AirBnB? Congrats, that’s not a house anymore, it’s a hotel, and you can pay taxes on it the same as any other hotel, and maybe an added surcharge for crapping on a previously residential neighborhood you don’t live in.
So far, I don’t see ANY politicians talking about any of this, and to me, that says *they’re part of the problem*. They probably have a quarter of their portfolio in rental properties, and their investment accounts are loaded up with mortgage-backed securities. They’d be skint if real estate prices took a tumble. And that means they need to be ousted. All of them. They only represent the rich.
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Yes. 100%
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“Tried and failed” isn’t promises kept. Only “succeeded” is. Trump ran on immigration. That was the only thing voters wanted. And look what’s happening. Immigration is at a peak. That’s not a promise kept. It’s the opposite.
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Then want shall be your master.
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“People voted to get the wall. There’s no wall.”
One weird thing I’ve noticed lately are trump diehards saying he did build a wall but Biden dismantled it….
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I have a friend who passionately insists that Trump built a wall. It’s sad because people so want to believe that there will be one savior, one magic champion, one happy pill that will make anything right. They’ll always lose because that’s a childish fantasy.
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“It’s sad because people so want to believe that there will be one savior, one magic champion,”
This is true.
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OT: Cliff: I’m seeing footage in my newsfeed of protests in Poland– if you’ve got a minute, are those real? What are they about?
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” protests in Poland”
I started to answer here but then decided it should be a blog post:
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It’s explained really well, people. Do go over and read the post.
It turned out to be a somewhat funny situation.
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Thanks so much!
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There is a fundamental difference between the iron curtain and the border wall. Iron curtain served to keep people in their countries and prevent them from leaving, while the border wall serves to prevent the non-citizens from entering illegally. We can have a discussion about whether the border wall is a good or a bad thing, but comparing it to the iron curtain does not seem right. I lived behind the iron curtain (in a very close proximity to the actual thing) and the first time I (or anyone from my family) was able to go to the other side was after it fell. My father still has a piece of it somewhere at home.
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Exactly.
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