I want to gouge my eyes out. What the bloody ef is he doing?
And I say this as a homeowner. The last thing we need is to inflate this housing bubble end more. Dude, just stop. Go move more chairs for Bibi and spread more red carpets for Putin. Even that is less humiliating than this, although it’s mega humiliating.
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What the bloody ef is he doing?”
Most charitable explanation I can find: 80s brain, he has no real idea what the housing market is like and is stuck in the model “‘”higher prices mean more equity for the middle class… yeah! Prosperity!”
Less charitable explanation: He’s fine with a large majority of the country being shut out of the housing market.
Other explanations?
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He subconsciously wants Rs never to win again without him, leaving him as the only R who could deliver a win at the polls. In other words, vanity and narcissism. Like if I create a mess in department affairs so that the next Chair looks like an impotent fool and everybody remembers me as the last great Chair.
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Which I obviously would never do because I’m not a massive dick.
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“subconsciously wants Rs never to win again without him”
Same thing with conservative/right wing politicians that he keeps sabotaging… He thinks he’s Highlander (there can only be one)….
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I will continue current strategy of not reading or listening to anything the man says seriously, and stick to watching what happens. Dude seems to just get in front of camera and stream-of-consciousness whatever.
But it’s what actually happens that matters. So… will keep watching. RE prices in my area have peaked, and we are starting to see listings go unsold for prices that would have been tempting a year ago. Now: sits on the market five months, then they pull the listing to “wait for a better market”. Good luck with that. There’s nobody left to buy your overpriced unfinanceable house that you have neglected maintenance on for the last 20 years. Flippers are not feeling enthusiastic anymore, because they’re not moving their current inventory at the prices they were hoping for.
I’m not convinced the market can be salvaged at this point no matter what anybody does– the fraud and interest-rate manipulation that have been going on for a decade guarantee a crash, and whoever’s in office when it all unwinds will get the blame. Stupid.
Probably the best any administration could do at this point is… what the current admin appears to be *trying* for (whether it’ll succeed or to what degree is anybody’s guess): freeze prices, and try by various other means to raise wages (for hourly labor specifically), and put a damper on ghetto investor strategies by squeezing Section 8 so that more people can afford those prices. Would be nice if they’d also do an aggressive push against mortgage/occupancy fraud, but I suspect that problem is so large now that any serious tackling of it would instantly crash the RE market.
Election fraud, illegal immigration, and welfare fraud are, sadly, all higher-priority problems.
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I agree that only the results matter. Your points are very well-taken. My biggest issue is that he’s turning away potential voters and if we can’t win the next election we are cooked on every issue that matters. The Dems are rabid and energized for vengeance.
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Yeah, I think we all wish there were *any* better options out there. But after the previous two terms of first: “OMG HE SAID AN UNPRESIDENTIAL THING” and then “There are no such things as confused dementia mumblings you didn’t hear that”… I have no effs left for what anybody is saying, and I hope a lot of other voters don’t either.
Let’s see what happens.
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” only the results matter”
Which at present are, quite frankly, svkking donkeys…. russia gets free reign in Ukraine, the EU no longer thinks of the US as a reliable partner (yeah big parts of the EU suck but big parts don’t) which helps China (and again… russia).
Mass deportations are sidelined into martyr olympics in Minnesota…
4D chess and all that but when?
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I’m not counting on 4D chess. I don’t think anybody in politics is really that smart or capable these days.
But there are a lot of balloons in the air right now, and I don’t think we know yet where they’ll land. If we’re lucky, maybe we limp along for another few decades. If not: well, the republic had a good run, but they all end sooner or later. We’re not that special.
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“not convinced the market can be salvaged”
I’ll start gathering kindling so that when the heretics are burned it will at least be fast.
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Heh. Entire current pricing scheme is built on unsustainable debt and outright fraud. If it *doesn’t* collapse, we’ve got an even bigger problem.
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“If it *doesn’t* collapse, we’ve got an even bigger problem”
I agree, but you’re talking about a transformation along the size of 1989… for a people that are psychologically and culturally completely unprepared to deal with it.
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This is where you get the lovely difference between a problem and a predicament. Problems have solutions. Predicaments… your results depend on your ability to dodge shrapnel, but there’s no avoiding the blowup.
The current housing market situation is a predicament. There are no solutions, only strategies to try and influence the blast radius.
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Have you taken a look at our current deficit and national debt under both Trump terms? It’s an absolute disaster. Don’t know what more do you need to see happen?
Like Clarissa said, he’s a narcissist and doesn’t care what comes after him.
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National debt has gone up $2.3 trillion since he took over in January 2025. He doesn’t care if we go bankrupt or collapse shortly after he leaves. His economic policies are a quantifiable disaster.
There you have actual numbers. Not just talk.
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“As of early January 2026, the national debt stood at $38.4 trillion and was growing at a rate of about $71,884 per second (Fortune) . The debt had jumped from $37 trillion to $38 trillion in just two months between August and October 2025, which the Peterson Foundation noted was the fastest rate of growth outside the pandemic (Fortune) .
Some additional context: Interest payments on the public debt broke the $1 trillion barrier for the first time in fiscal year 2025 (Fortune) , and budget watchdogs project interest costs will remain at or above $1 trillion annually going forward. While Trump has argued that tariff revenue could help address the debt, tariff collections are estimated at $300-400 billion per year, covering only a fraction of annual interest costs (Fortune) .”
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Look, just think of all the equity you have in your home. As long as you have no interest in moving and your mortgage id paid off who cares? Think of all the masses of people that can be put in jail. Jail means cheap labor for labor that isn’t replaced by AI. Felons often lose the right to vote and can’t get it back. Why are you worried?
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Somebody is having a very normal one, it seems.
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Democrats are so wimpy. I laugh at what vengeance they could cook up. This is about as consequential for you as who wins the Super Bowl.Cheap labor, favorable market for homeowners, resurgence of manufacturing = winning. Just think of how productivity will soar. Your portfolio will thank you and Trump as it’s invested in defense contractors and prison companies. It’s not like any of you rent. Of course the time frame is everything here.
But, gloom and doom over the death of the Republic? Cheer up, it’s not that dire, especially not for you.
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https://x.com/i/status/2016917654448013592
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I know most of y’all will groan any think “Oh Heavens he’s going on about the Great Tribulation again.” But I really think it needs to be stated. One World Government, One Financial System, One Religion. Oh and when the four horsemen are released, Massive Worldwide wars with huge casualties, and the economy so bad that the average days wage can only buy a loaf of bread.
Seriously does no one else see just how close we are to cash and physical money being phased out? I mean maybe its because I am in finance, and I also pay attention to this stuff, but there is an extremely high chance currently that you will see the dollar phased out for digital money in the next couple of years. Not just the US dollar, but all currencies.
Think about what it would take. Most people are resistant to change, you would need some form of massive worse than the great depression level financial breakdown to convince the world to not resist a new currency. Kind of like what we see today, where trust in the dollar is at an all time low. Where the elite can no longer artificially suppress the price of silver, which has gone from going up or down 4 dollars a year, to up around $80 in a year. Its currently as of 1/29/26 sitting at $118 an ounce. This time last year it was $30-ish. Also keep in mind the phrase artificially suppressed. Which means it went up around $80 in a year despite being suppressed.
The economy is absolute garbage, and from DC, to London, to Berlin, to Moscow, to Tokyo, to Taiwan, to wherever, the elite in government are not even pretending to attempt to fix things. They are acting everywhere like they are expecting a crash of the financial system and are simply waiting for it to happen.
Vox Day had an article out earlier about how far the Church of England has fallen. In the US a great many churches are no longer being run by pastors, but by charlatans, and those attending are for a lot attending because they need to be seen attending, not because they believe Jesus is God.
We are told one of the signs of the end of the Age is the Great Falling away. Not the falling away, but the Great Falling Away. There has never been a point in history where so many people who profess to be Christians have turned their backs on the word of God.
Frankly I don’t know what Trump is doing. I censerly hope that he is just playing games with his opposition, but he is also elderly. I suspect that like Cliff Arroyo stated,
“Most charitable explanation I can find: 80s brain, he has no real idea what the housing market is like and is stuck in the model “‘”higher prices mean more equity for the middle class… yeah! Prosperity!””
I have found that when people get past 70, they tend to get lost in the past. Trump likely hasn’t interacted with the housing market in years if not decades. (Houses, not skyscrapers, hotels, etc.) It is extremely likely that he is remembering them being what they cost in his 50s and thinking that’s what they cost now.
Then again I have no idea what’s been running through his head recently. Some of his latest decisions have been extremely questionable.
So my advice is this. Things are about to get a lot worse. A lot worse. Buckle down, and get ready for a wild ride. Also and most importantly if your not saved. Now is the moment you will want to come to Jesus. We are not promised tomorrow, and you will live for eternity, its just a matter of where.
Right now salvation is easy. First you must hear the gospel, the good news. That we were born sinners, and that because of our sin we are unable to enter heaven. But do not be discouraged, for God loves us so much, you, me, and everyone else. That he was willing to send his son Jesus to live a perfect sinless life, and die on that cross to pay for our sins. Stop and think about that for a moment. The creator of everything, the one who knows every single hair on your head, every grain of sand on the beach. He was willing to die in your place. To take your sins and bear them on that cross at Calvary. All you have to do is but believe. Believe who he said he is, and believe that he died for you, that he sacrificed himself for you, and that he rose again on the third day. He rose victoriously. He is offering eternal salvation, just put your faith in him. Just accept what he did for you and have faith that he will save you. It is that simple. There are no works involved, for how could we who are mortal remove our sins which stain our very souls. We cannot, only Jesus can, and he shed his blood for the forgiveness of our sins.
Put your trust in him, for our time is quickly coming to a close, and you do not want to be left behind for whats coming. Trust in Jesus while there is still time. Have faith and Believe in him and his promises.
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My daughter is right at this moment writing messages to delivery people and store assistants about Jesus and salvation. It’s like she heard you.
I agree about paper money. I noticed something was weird the last time I was in Spain and throughout the 10-day trip I never held a Euro bill or coin in my hands. There was never any opportunity or need. Even the homeless prefer to be Venmoed. Which puts me right off giving alms because it’s weird.
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