From Reuters:
US new home sales exceed expectations; rising supply curbs house price growth
Sales of new U.S. single-family homes increased more than expected in December, further evidence that housing market activity regained some momentum at the end of 2024, though rising mortgage rates remain a constraint.
The report from the Commerce Department on Monday also showed the rebound in home sales in November was much stronger than initially estimated. It added to data this month that showed single-family housing starts and building permits increased to a 10-month high in December, while sales of previously owned houses also rose to the highest level since February.
“New home sales in December wraps up a solid year for newbuild demand in an otherwise stagnant housing market,” said Thomas Ryan, North America economist at Capital Economics. “We expect new home sales to continue to grind higher this year.”
New home sales rose 3.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 698,000 units last month, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said. The sales pace for November was revised higher to a rate of 674,000 units from the previously reported 664,000 units.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast new home sales, which account for about 14% of U.S. home sales, would rise to a rate of 675,000 units. New home sales are counted at the signing of a contract, and can be volatile on a month-to-month basis. They increased 6.7% on a year-on-year basis in December.
An estimated 683,000 new homes were sold in 2024, up 2.5% compared to 2023. The median new house price increased 2.1% to $427,000 in December from a year earlier. The pace of increase in home prices is slowing amid rising inventory of new homes.
What a scam from the OrangeTurd crowd. You have to be fearful, uneducated and not paying attention to take this moronic threat, is not even an offer. Is a threat because they know they can’t do anything else.
The ” OMB Letter” offering employees a way out is just a “psych you out” letter. What they offer is a “Deferred Resignation Program” where you resign 0n 9/30/2025 the end of this fiscal year. There is no “Buy Out” or here $XX and get out or “Early Retirement Option” where penalties associated with leaving before 60 are removed and enhances the pension. Anyone can resign anytime for any reason when is convenient to you, this is not the Jehovah Witnesseses, Scientology or the Mob.
Overall it looks like a move to delay having to fight for an increase in the debt ceiling. The rules are rules and are set a certain way to prevent issues and maintain legality and accountability with the Chain of Command, just in like in the movie in the bridge of a Navy ship, the Captain gives the order to the Lieutenant, which gives to Petty Officer, which gives to Seaman., unless a serious emergency -the Captain does not generally give the orders to the Seaman bypassing the Chain of Command.
What these OrangeTurd dumbasses are trying to do with the OMB stunts is to bypass the system by scaring people. Of course this will end badly, looking back a decade from now.
New homes sales: Which part of the country is seeing the most growth? Are they single family houses in new communities? Rentals in our area are being built like mad, no such thing as a single family house. Maybe out in Warren County but not within a 50 mile radius of NYC.
#1 – also this
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/federal-workers-sue-to-halt-trumps-government-wide-email-system
Rules don’t matter and everything needs to be settled in the courts. Just like in Rwanda or Philippines
The transformation into a third world country is accelerating. Flash illegal executive orders, rounding Spanish speaking people without proper identification and warrants, incapable decision making, instigating civil disobedience continue full-speed ahead. Trumpistan is the end we deserve.
Reference the ‚offer‘ being made to Federal employees, I imagine those able to retire now will do so. There will obviously be RIFs coming for certain employees, for example those working in the DEI field. But the thing is that the Federal government is just too big and we just can’t keep spending money we don’t have and continuing to increase the national debt.
I don’t know how anyone can actually trust him to pay up.
Elon Musk’s support of right-wing parties ‘is really disgusting,’ German Chancellor tells CNN
By Sebastian Shukla and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN
2 minute read
Updated 9:14 PM EST, Tue January 28, 2025
In the week that the world, and Germany, commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Musk told the crowd there is “frankly, too much of a focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that.”
RentLord,
That email thing is a big one. OMB is the nerd central of Fed Govt HR, is full of accountants, lawyers, actuarialist,etc. that is why 90% of them would fall under Schedule F changes. Their policies are then sent to each Federal Agency for execution in their Department.
Federal Employees are cautious because in 2015 OMB got hacked by the chinese and they got the list of all federal employees and their have been many problems with identity fraud from that time. Secret agencies are handled differently. Many changes were made to ensure more security. The fact that OrangeTurd’s little turds don’t know how to ensure that their sent emails are not flagged as “external” shows they don’t know squat.
Chad,
If you have a disaster in your new neighborhood, the Bundespolizei does the job of National Guard, State, County and Local cops and FEMA with Disaster Rescue and Security in the USA. More importantly, because of decentralization of our federal and state system is very inefficient, so it relies on contractors.
There is 1 fed employee to 2 contractors in the Federal system. Let’s say FEMA disappeared and the it is up to the states. What do you think is going to happen vis a vis corruption on contract?, preferential treatment based on politics? do you actually think a black farmer in Florida or Alabama is going to get the same services as a GOP well off area?
Phoenix,
This is for you — https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2024-12-18/long-telegram-1990s-whose-russia-it-anyway-toward-policy
You are going to like the site, your paranoia is going to go bonkers, but this cable is the fight between the Free Marketeer (Clinton’s people) and the experts pushing for build democracy first in Russia.
Why don’t you guys go on the Reddit wailing rooms to commiserate on the collapse of your utopian visions? You had four years (really, 50 years) to implement your progressive dreams and it seems that people have finally said enough. Barking at the advancement of the other side is not progress.
I will say this: Trump is moving fast to implement his programs. No navel gazing, no nonsense. His targeting of illegal criminal gangs is getting headlines and I cannot think of anyone who would have an issue with that. I am speaking as a Democrat.
I applaud his hard stance on Hamas College demonstrators as well. He’s simply not dithering. He has caught the Democrats off balance and they are simply reeling from what looks to be a coordinated effort to “reinvent” gubmint.
We’ve talked a lot on here about government and it’s role as both obstacle and hinderance to progress. Well, here’s a guy who, like it or not, is taking no prisoners.
Yes. I find MAGA to be a cult, but the members are sincerely convinced that what is happening is in the best interest of the Country. We shall see.
re: Trump is moving fast to implement his programs.
How about the proposed a 30,000-person facility at Guantanamo Bay? Fit lots of WOKE people in there for sure.
Too bad Obama never closed it…
I’m not sure you even really know what a “woke” person is.
“Burn the m’fker down!” is NOT a plan.
That worked for electing the moron. But to deliver you need a plan. You don’t reel the patient into the operating table, open his heart up and THEN think of a plan.
Even Osho had a plan. Grow up cult!
Has anyone watched the pathetic RFK today?
He does not even look healthy.
4:12 hate to say it but, “project 2025” is the plan. He’s implementing it at lightning speed.
In other news: Menendez, 71, was found guilty on all 16 counts last year in his federal trial, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to be convicted of acting as a foreign agent. His children, Alicia and Rob, were in court to witness the sentencing.
“The fact that he was a public office holder who held a position of great public trust has to be taken into account,” Stein said as he explained how he calculated the sentence.
Stein said Menendez “became a corrupt politician” as he ticked off the spoils of the corruption: the gold bars, the cash, the convertible.
“When there’s wrongdoing of this magnitude there are serious consequences,” Stein said.
Ahead of the former senator’s sentencing Wednesday afternoon, two New Jersey businessmen convicted of paying bribes to Menendez received lengthy prison sentences. Wael Hana was sentenced to eight years in prison and Fred Daibes to seven years.
Project 2025 is a vision. To get there, as ugly, stupid and unconstitutional some if it is, needs a plan.
Gold bar Bob…… to da’ slamma….
¿Tienes un problema con eso odiador?
njtownhomer says:
January 29, 2025 at 2:11 pm
The transformation into a third world country is accelerating. Flash illegal executive orders, rounding Spanish speaking people without proper identification and warrants, incapable decision making, instigating civil disobedience continue full-speed ahead. Trumpistan is the end we deserve.
I have a client who had me put in a position based on whether RFK gets confirmed….. pending the news, I will then take it off…….
RentL0rd says:
January 29, 2025 at 4:15 pm
Has anyone watched the pathetic RFK today?
He does not even look healthy.
BTW – grim fuck you for screwing up the threads…. we pay you big bucks for this service…. we expect 24/7 latency….
re: “I’m not sure you even really know what a “woke” person is.”
I will quote Bob Menendez from his courtroom speech on this somber day of him receiving an 11 year sentence.
“Every day I’m awake is a punishment”
Juice, I hope you paid equal if not more attention to the RFK spectacle.
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
Trump doen’t even know how our government works. What a pathetic moron. So many illegal executive orders. I am not even convinced he is doing these things for show. The damage he is about to do to our country may be a kin to what Germany looked like after WWII. So many terrible appointments are going to result in so many setbacks. And it’s the bottom rung that will surely pay for it as the oligarchy grows richer. Wall Street doesn’t like uncertainty, neither do businesses. Lots of layoffs and RIFs coming. And when you need to collect your unemployment, will there be enough people working in the government for the paperwork to be processed for you to collect it in a timely fashion? The worst part of all of this is that the rich are going to get richer and Trump won’t do a damn thing with the deficit and debt since the economy is going to slow down as a result of his throw everything at the wall and see if it sticks agenda. Inflation is a coming too, if he plans to fight every battle with tariffs. It failed last time, it will fail again. So will trying to raise revenue through corporate tax cuts. The money will again go to juicing the bottom line resulting in enriched shareholders and executives. The trailer trash crowd who thinks immigration is a problem is going to be praying for their return when they see supermarket prices increase again. I shopped yesterday in person for the first time in a long time at ShopRite. I think prices have started to climb again already. Heck, I got a BK big fish at the rest area on the GSP on Sunday. Just the sandwich was $10. This is without fries or a soda, which I skipped.
Everyone feeling great?
Now MAGA is floating a bills for a Trump third term (if he’s alive) and they want his head on Mt. Rushmore. Shouldn’t he accomplish something first?
MAGA is truly the dumbest thing I have ever witnessed in my life. Trump is a true dictator and it’s only a matter of time before the whole country protests his removal. Nearly all of his actions are completely laughable. And those who think the only MAGA leadership qualifcation that matters is one’s willingness to ignore the Trump idiocy and kiss the moron’s ring is about to regret their decisions to grin and ignore it.
Heck, one natural disaster without FEMA and the whole thing collapses. Popcorn and a passport anyone?
To think that someone who has gold plated toilets would be qualified to the run the country! What the heck did you expect?
My prayer is that a better option than what used to be the Republicans or Democrats will arise to save us all in 2028, if there is even an election. Shouldn’t be long before some high-school dropout MAGA congressperson floats a bill to outlaw elections and I wouldn’t put it past our kangaroo SCOTUS to approve it.
Oh yeah, the RFK that used to blend animals in his basement, want to get rid of the measles vaccine and attaches whale heads to the family roadster.
THIS is MAGA! We are the dumbest country in the world.
And besides the identity politics swinging to far, really, we were in amazing shape as a country. We will all be wishing this nightmare was over soon enough. It’s like the stupid, leading the even more stupid.
Why are you so shocked or surprised about RFK?
He is a looney Democrat…
Lib: Amazing shape?? That is an exaggeration, you used to be more balanced and certainly not as emotional. Another 4 years of chaos, apparently the majority of Americans decided to take another chance with that, then to vote for Harris. That’s the reality, and if the country was in amazing shape then the American people would have voted for Harris, to continue the great shape the country was in.
Everyone feeling great?
Yup!
3b,
Politics aside, one of the issues that was brought up more than a few times in different Bloomberg Surveillance morning show is that the USA is the only country moving forward economically, while other advance economies are stand still or going down.
One arguments that keeps standing out is the pandemic and loss of working adults in all countries. In the USA we lost about ~1 million, but we have had ~3 millions new (legal/illegal) immigrants since then.
Questions being asked many times are – Did those ~3millions make the difference in our economic growth vs the rest of the world? – What is the size/amount of economic growth that will be affected by the anti-immigration policies?
BTW From NY Times – I guess bending the knee and kissing OrangeTurd little winnie works. Even Menedez after sentencing said – Trump was right, system is corrupt!. I guess Menendez might be taking a trip to OrangeTurd Lago, after all what could come from a couple of felons enjoying a meal together.
Senior officials under President Trump have talked with prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of abandoning the corruption case against New York City’s mayor.
Jan. 29, 2025Updated 4:37 p.m. ET
Senior Justice Department officials under President Trump have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of dropping their corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, according to five people with knowledge of the matter.
The officials have also spoken to Mr. Adams’s defense team since Mr. Trump took office, the people said. The defense team is led by Alex Spiro, who is also the personal lawyer for Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and one of the president’s closest advisers.
Mr. Adams was indicted in September on charges including bribery, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign contributions after an investigation that began in 2021. He has pleaded not guilty, maintained his innocence and contended that he is being prosecuted because he criticized the Biden administration.
In recent weeks, Mr. Adams, a Democrat, has curried favor with Mr. Trump. He met with the president-elect near Mar-a-Lago, attended the inauguration and has said that, from now on, he will share any criticisms of the president in private. Mr. Trump has the power to pardon Mr. Adams, and in December said that the mayor had been treated “pretty unfairly” by prosecutors, and suggested he was considering issuing a pardon.
The two men, according to several people close to the mayor, have been in direct communication for weeks, speaking on the phone.
A spokesman for the office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, which is prosecuting the case, declined to comment. The office, known for its independence, is being led on an interim basis by Danielle Sassoon, a veteran prosecutor selected by the Trump administration. A spokeswoman for Mr. Spiro did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Can you imagine, Trump pardoning Menendez.
At this point I’m just here for the popcorn.
Exploring RE in NorCal and it’s a costly place to live.
1500 Square Ft/$1.5M
Algorithms on your feed are designed to piss you off. It keeps you scrolling. You guys are displaying that full scale the past week. You guys gotta unplug yourself.
I am no fan of Eric Adams, and he is certainly corrupted and/or corruptable, but definitely his prosecution has all the hallmarks of him being railroaded by the Biden Administration. When you hear allegations of weaponizing the Justice Department by Garland, you can add Adams to the list of alleged targets…..
NoBillionaireKleptocratThatBendsTheKnee ShouldEverPayTaxesAgain says:
January 29, 2025 at 6:21 pm
Senior officials under President Trump have talked with prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of abandoning the corruption case against New York City’s mayor.
3b, >> if the country was in amazing shape then the American people would have voted for Harris, to continue the great shape the country was in.
You are conflating being in” amazing shape “ with making the right decision.
We were in great shape. We seem to be slipping into a shitty shape… fast.
Someone get this commerical the fuck out of my face…… it is everywhere…. including radio…..
https://youtu.be/OwRTqbur6Wo?si=rJtNJELlaU7jpiOL&t=47
No more celebrating
– MLK day,
– Black History Month,
– Pride month,
– Holocaust days of remebrance,
– National Hispanic Heritage Month,
https://apnews.com/article/trump-holiday-mlk-day-pride-black-hispanic-dei-047bbdbfc12ea6e9a9731f5861d84e70
We just need to celebrate Jan 6 as National Redneck Day!
chi,
No hay problema para los idiotas que no saben que Puerto Rico es EE. UU.
BRT says:
January 29, 2025 at 6:51 pm
Algorithms on your feed are designed to piss you off. It keeps you scrolling. You guys are displaying that full scale the past week. You guys gotta unplug yourself.
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Let them go , it is hilarious watching them whine and cry like little momma boys. Sit back and just watch. We just had the most corrupt president ever in the history of the United States and they were peep less. Joe had 25 bank accounts which laundered 30 million dollars, gave pardons to Fauci , Schiff, his son(10 years) , judge who took bribes and kickbacks, his WHOLE family….wouldn’t it be nice to know what crimes they all committed?? Yet these clowns thought it was all OK for Biden to cheat, lie steal, forgive college debt, weaponize our government against the competion, and Harris still lost. Let them go it is worth the laugh. The best is yet to come.
Chi,
That is BS. You admit he’s corrupt. But because the cops that got him are Biden’s people then he gets a pass.
What you are saying and how you view the situation is a great example of how OrangeTurd’s many illegal adventures have move the Overton window toward criminal behavior as no big deal.
Hell, at this point if Michael Jackson was alive people would be tar, feathering and stoning the boys he molested, because how dare they challenge such a great person.
Charles Manson would be excuse for supporting the white race and Bin Laden for supporting religious liberty.
They are hiring the greatest of people. My kid graduated last year and has a merit badge in First Aid, he is perfect to work for RFKs Chief of Staff in HHS.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-office-personnel-management-opm-neuralink-x-boring-stalin/
Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government—are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry. Among them is a person who, according to an online résumé, was set to start college last fall.
[…]
The other, who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024, according to a mirrored copy of an online résumé and his high school’s student magazine; he lists jobs as a camp counselor and a bicycle mechanic among his professional experiences, as well as a summer role at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company.
Adams, went to the Inauguration and Mar-a-Largo for a one on one with Donnie. He bent the knee and Donnie will dangle the pardon and keep him swinging in the wind while he is useful.
Jim, It’s okay to be rightfully pissed off. Unfortunately, there are no grown ups in the white house right now. I understand that is difficult to swallow, but a fact.
That 27 yo Candy Leavitt can put a cross around her neck and sugar coat everything, but it’s not going to change the fact.
$26,000,000 to prevent retribution
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-agrees-pay-25-million-225650507.html
So much winning!
Jim – we can’t even keep up with the onslaught of fraud. The least we can do is air it for everyone to see. Menendez worked hard for his corruption. Orangeman doesn’t – cuz he has support from suckers like you.
Donnie pardoned a cop killer. Yes, the Dems are corrupt. But Trump has taken this corruption thing to a level never seen before. If Biden did one 100th the immoral acts Trump has committed and continues to commit, MAGA would have marched on Washington.
3B, it’s not about balance. It’s about having the high school dropout represent half a state. And there is nothing more corrupt than Trump providing favorable status to anyone and everyone (including foreign dignitaries) at his inauguration. He doesn’t pay taxes, his stock, coin, etc. So much grift it makes Biden look like a paiuper and I’m not defending Biden. They are all disgusting.
Look at every economic report. The U.S. was cruising. And I don’t know of a single person negatively impacted by immigration. Not a one! Do you know of any? But Trump sure was smart to play the dummy lower class citizens against the new lower class citizens. Meanwhile, he is profiting like no other politician in the history of politicians. Could you imagine if Biden wanted to rename the Gulf of Mexico? Come on. What we are witnessing will be the most forgetful period of US history. The failures are running the show and they will run it right into the ground. And yes, the Dems were disgusting, but not dangerous. With their personal enrichment, they ran the country well enough to lead the world economically. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I really hope the people in this country wise up. Trump on Mt. Rushmore? What are we, in fucking kindergarten? A third term for a POTUS who most believe was the worst ever.
As for Harris. Not only was she not voted for, but she was a poor candidate. But Trump??? Just wait and see. I’m not even sure he’ll juice the market this time around. Trying to position my wealth for preservation is like shaking the magic eight ball.
How many more ILLEGAL executive orders before someone is willing to admit that he doesn’t even know how our laws work? Right, MAGA can do no wrong.
Just watch. My recent appearance of being unbalanced is completely justified. This country is in big trouble. You’ll agree with me later on down the road. Probably sooner than later.
3B,
Check this out. DJT announced today that they are becoming a bank for Patriots. You know Trump owns 114,000,000 shares of this bank? Are you cool with this level of immorality? You and I thought Pelosi was bad with her insider trading. She’s a peon compared with Trump. And all of his supporters are the biggest financial suckers alive. And no one says boo.
“Trump Media
is expanding into financial services, including investment vehicles, the firm announced Wednesday.
Shares of the Truth Social parent company, which trade under the ticker DJT, jumped 6.8% on Wednesday. President Donald Trump indirectly owns 114,750,000 shares of the company, held in a revocable trust.
The financial services division will be known as Truth.Fi, and it will be started with up to $250 million from the company that will be custodied with brokerage firm Charles Schwab
, according to a news release. That money will be allocated to customized exchange-traded funds and cryptocurrencies, among other investment vehicles.
The company said it expects to launch products and services, including its own investment vehicles, later this year.
“Truth.Fi is a natural expansion of the Truth Social movement. We began by creating a free-speech social media platform, added an ultra-fast TV streaming service, and now we’re moving into investment products and decentralized finance,” Trump Media CEO and Chairman Devin Nunes said in the release.
“Developing American First investment vehicles is another step toward our goal of creating a robust ecosystem through which American patriots can protect themselves from the ever-present threat of cancellation, censorship, debanking, and privacy violations committed by Big Tech and woke corporations,” added Nunes, a former congressman from California.”
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Jesus, throw “woke” and “patriot” on a product and Jim and Gary will sell their kids to the sex trade to get a piece of the action. Suckers. Duped in the election and duped in life. All of these supporters are going to end up broke.
Get your Crypto! Kill the dollar! Enrich Trump!
“Donnie pardoned a cop killer. ”
Donnies worst pardon will always be Eddie Gallagher. I know a few marines and it is the tightest brotherhood I have ever encountered. For them to reject one of their own is a big deal.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallagher-trump-navy-seal-iraq
I think the worst thing Trump does is threaten repercussions against Republicans who have issues (as they should) with many of his appointments that require confirmation. Then there are the potentially illegal firings of agency heads. But Trump doesn’t know the law. Nor does he know the difference between Taiwan and Thailand. But that’s okay. MAGA can do no wrong. Neither could any other fascist.
So much for checks and balances. Do what I say and I’ll hook you up. Heck of a leader. Put that head up on Rushmore.
I’m embarassed by my countrymates. They will be embarassed soon enough too for putting us in this predicament.
Chief, you speak with big wampum .
I stand behind my soapbox. And on it too. I have never witnessed anything like this in my entire life. This is Nixon to the tenth power. And there are no checks as the SCOTUS is now a branch of MAGA. I’m not sure how it will all get cleaned up? Do you? And it’s not a Dem/Republican thing,
America is not the country that deports immigrants that have committed no crimes.
This is how xenophobic, unintelligent, developing nations behave. Nicoragua is laughing at us right now. I don’t blame them.
Lib: Just trying to keep some sort of calm rational distance here, but what’s the point. We have had numerous conversations on some of these topics, and you from time to time acknowledge them, and then after a few days or week it’s back to the same narrative.
You guys screwed up with Biden, and then pulled him and said hey take Harris she is even better. That whole episode was pathetic. As I have noted, millions voted for Trump even after the chaos of his first term. That says it all. As for the rest, it’s the same rehash, lower class against the lower class, that may be some of it, but certainly not all of it. As I noted some of the most wealthy, and highly educated towns in Bergen County voted for Trump in the majority and he did extraordinarily well in other highly educated and wealthy BC towns. That’s only one small sample of course, but I suspect it was the case in many educated affluent towns across the country. So the old only the ignorant blue collar plumber crack people voted for Trump is tiresome. Trump even increased his percentage of Black and Hispanic voters, and specifically increased the share of Black American males in the Bronx. The fact is right or wrong or for better or worse, people are not buying the Democrats message. You seem to have great difficulty in acknowledging that. As for immigration, I have no issue with violent criminals being rounded up and sent back to where they came from. As for the rest a path to citizenship. Secure the border and follow an orderly process to enter this country just like we did in the past. Millions over the years came this way, and it worked.
Anyhow, I will leave it at that. Have to rest up, off to Orlando on Friday to pick up a cruise to the Caribbean. I will let you guys continue to do what you are doing here. Peace.
I hope you guys never reach the acceptance phase, the ongoing meltdown over the death of the leftist movement is beautiful to behold.
It not about the Democratic message anymore. It’s about the fundamentals of our Constution. Trump is claiming to be a Patriot while behaving like a fascist dictator and his supporters don’t know better. Much like most Dem supporters think their shit don’t stink. But run of the mill corruption and what we are witnessing now are two different things entirely. Yes, the Dem strategy was terrible. I agree with most of what you say. But how anyone can sit back and watch Trump wreck our country and say it’s because of Harris, is simply surprising. I forgot how bad Trump was last time. This time, he’s on steroids.
I listened in on the union call of my BIL who works for customs. Anyone with talent is absolutely bailing from their government jobs. All of the supervisors are in disbelief. Trump doesn’t even realize that Tariffs will be completely handled by the same Customs office he wants to dismantle. It got to the point where some of the Trump supporters on the call apologized for their ill-advised decision to not just vote for him, but to promote him. And if you think the current executive orders which would have stopped such programs as before school breakfasts and medicare payments, the union head claimed he heard much more (many illegal) were coming.
And this ignores the monumental grift.
But Harris, a federal prosecutor, was unqualified. Yes she was, but she wouldn’t have been opening Patriot banks, selling MEME coins and threatening repercussions to those who didn’t agree with her. But ues, she would have been unqualified.
Gary,
Glad to see some of the identity politics crushed. But there will never be acceptance of this perpetually burning tire fire of an adminstration.
Sit back and watch. In four years, you will be praying someone steps up from somewhere to fix things, even if they have a dick and two tits.
What’s your opinion on the POTUS owning a billion dollar bank anbd appointing his family members to every important cabinet position? You cool with POTUS ignoring the Constitution? You cool with a guy who doesn’t believe in the measles shot running the health department?
Crickets.
Acceptance? You’ll be questioning why you didn’t listen to the voice of reason soon enough.
I’ll accept your apology. The Germans thought Hitler was the second coming of Christ too.
Deep down, I hope I am wrong. But everything I’ve read is downright scary, inhuman and immoral. It’s like being okay with letting Harvey Weinstein babysit your 13-year old daughter.
Plane crash tonight in DC.
If I was MAGA and this was before Trump took over, they’d be blaming Biden for it. They probably still well. I would expect no less.
My sympathy for lives lost.
U.S. air travel was on a heck of run until tonight.
10 days done, and looks like a lot of Trump voters FAFOd. EBT recipients, Fed employees, union members. contractors employing immigrants. Project 2025 just started. Hang on. There are mouths to feed. Cryptocrats, Private Equity moguls, Real Estate developers, Datacenter builders, online gamblers, Weed retailers and so on.
Forget Mt. Rushmore, and build a new Cape Canaveral like site to give his name. Cape Orange!
Libturd, You are not wrong and you are not alone.
Too bad Grim won’t be admitted to sit in the WH press conference in the “new media” section – because of our comments. But that’s the price of “freedom”.
I heard from a scientist in Florida, that they are now meeting ONLY in person. Because zoom transcribes everything – whether you allow it or not, and they are afraid they can be read / given to this govt, and lose their jobs as retribution. Can’t make this sh1t up.
https://imgur.com/a/F6u0uF2
Crickets on every single point I make. This is not left vs. rigfht. This is about saving democracy. It sounded stupid when Biden said it. But that’s truly what we are looking at. I hope the international community does not have to intervene. Someone is eventually going to take Trump to task and he will not back down. Some day your kid might die in a war over Trump’s big fat mouth.
‘Nuff said.
Rentlord,
That OPM note is how Trump works. Complete disregard of the law. Like Thomas taking millions in gifts. MAGA can do no wrong. Until it’s too late.
Here’s more MAGA.
https://x.com/i/status/1884686830161060204
And Biden wasn’t fit for office?
Come on Gary. I love you like a brother. You are okay with this madness? Condom bombs? Jesus.
Broadcastify. Hundreds of people at the airport for their loved ones. How nice of them to get food and refreshments for them.
Or better yet, don’t put f’n military helicopters on the flight path of commercial airlines you f’n dolts.
Why would a military chopper even be there? Rounding up immigrants?
As ridiculous as it sounds…
Gas-filled balloon bombs launched by Hamas-linked activists in the Gaza Strip were said to have been responsible for the breakdown of a month-long ceasefire.
https://youtu.be/UctyJskN7gY?si=lBVaJAcVsN23Os6N
You are channeling your inner Pumpkin here. Lighten up Francis.
says:
January 29, 2025 at 10:35 pm
Crickets on every single point I make.
I despise this columnist’s chronic nasty partisan dreck.
Regardless, I find the allegations referenced in this screed rather plausible.
I give the NY Post credit, while they post biased nonsense in Fox News style, they pretty much report the truth when it comes to their facts.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/29/opinion/miranda-devine-rfk-jr-hearings-reveal-the-border-crisis-under-the-biden-administration-is-why-our-healthcare-has-faltered/
The Grifter in chief is fully responsible and liable. Last week he fired heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee
“The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports“
DC airport hasn’t had a collision since 1970s. He achieved this one week in after he fired TSA leaders and no replacements yet.
Trump fired 400 FAA senior officials, the TSA head, and 3,000 air traffic controllers just 8 days ago. Policy choices have consequences.
It’s truly fitting that this happened near Reagan’s airport.
He was the scum that deleted the air traffic controllers years ago.
America loves it’s miltary clowns. You reap what you sow.
RIP to the innocents. It’s just the beginning for many more of you.
US Transfers Missiles to Ukraine. It continues.
“I will end the Ukraine-Russia war in 24 hours.”
– Trump
Ain’t no “God” to bless anything. If there was a God and if he/she/they/it wasn’t a lazy azz hole, this wouldn’t have happened, right?
F Trump and his fake azz “God” references. This happened because of humans and their stupidity and arrogance, just like most other things that happen on this planet. Shove your reference to “God” up your azz Trump. You are just as fake as the last brain dead dolt put in charge of USS America that is going to continue to sink under your leadership.
President Donald Trump said he had been ‘fully briefed on this terrible accident’ and, referring to the passengers, added, ‘May God Bless their souls’,
Duped again.
https://youtu.be/_GlB3cPcrXg
See an airplane? I’m not looking for a plane, I’m searching for illegals. God directed me to.
Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asked the helicopter, whose callsign was registered as PAT25, if it had the arriving plane in sight.
The controller made another radio call to the helicopter moments later at 8.47pm ET – minutes before the American Airlines flight was projected to make its landing.
‘PAT25 do you see a CRJ? PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ,’ the air traffic controller said.
You people are suffering a mental disorder.
You can hear the Regan Air Traffic Controller telling the helicopter pilot to GTFO. That American Airlines Jet was on final approach on runway 33 at about 400 ft. Collision avoidance does not operate below 1000 ft. Plane pilot was doing a visual approach and was maybe 10 seconds from landing… Army Helicopter was flying south along the river…they should have moved out of the way and didn’t.
These Military helicopters (if it is the gold topped one) are generally VIP transportation for the Department of Defense, they land at the Pentagon for example and fly down the Potomac river sometimes to Andrews Air Force base or other places. It’s very crowed airspace, but because it’s the military they are allowed to cross directly in front of those runways and scoot across the river. That is a very bad practice that has been going on for many years and probably should be changed now.
F’n old Goat Trump now an “aviation” expert. Blaming ATC. Next he will try to claim he knows more about medicine than doctors. Oh, wait, he did that already.
Need to get him on MasterChef so he can tell Gordon Ramsay how to cook.
President Donald Trump declaring the crash ‘should have been avoided’.
‘The plane was on a perfect approach path to the airport. The helicopter was heading directly toward the plane for some time. The night was clear, the lights of the plane were visible, why didn’t the helicopter climb or descend, or make a turn?’ he wrote.
‘Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane? This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!’
It’s a bit early for popcorn but carry on guys.
lol.
Juice Box says:
January 30, 2025 at 7:36 am
You people are suffering a mental disorder.
I’m not the one believing there is some magical guy in the sky who controls our destiny.
Even Edward Bernays couldn’t come up with a better dupe. Those in power use that stupid belief of the minions below them to control every facet of their lives while they laugh and manipulate your life.
No “God” had anything to do with what happened last night.
Hegseth is now dealing with a hangover but will tell us the truth later today
Libturd says:
January 30, 2025 at 12:41 am
Why would a military chopper even be there? Rounding up immigrants?
Feeling great again yet?
Why would the military do training excersises near an active commercial airport. Someone was either getting a private ride to the airport, or summoning a private ride home. 60 innocent passengers dead on Trump’s watch.
Isn’t it great to politicize every single event? I was mad Trump kept the snow around for so long in my backyard. Hopefully he can summon the Lord to bring us some much needed rain to end the Biden drought.
In further news, Starbucks is trimming 30% of it’s menu. Multiple gender coffees wasn’t working out, I guess.
Lib – You know they considered closing Regan Airport permanently after 9/11.
The airspace near the Pentagon and Airport has been flight restricted airspace since 9/11. Only commercial planes with pilots that have been vetted by TSA can takeoff and land there, they are vectored in too. Must stay within the ILS up and down the river. NORAD even has a laser light system that will shine directly into the cockpit of any private or other aircraft violating the 33 mile zone around Washington DC. If they don’t respond to hails and the laser lights and turn away immediately jets are scrambled to intercept.
I have stayed near there a few times for conferences. If you watch the river it has helicopters flying up and down it all the time at low altitudes, and all were military, even saw a formation of three MV-22 Osprey Ospreys training along the river…
There is a military base with a helipad directly across from the airport and the Pentagon has a helipad and it’s next to Regan Airport just to the west only a few hundred yards at the end of that runway 33. As I said the military are the only ones allowed to fly near those runways up and down the river. It was perhaps only a matter of time that a collision would occur.
Very tight rules to fly there as I said, they can only get tighter. There can’t really be any good reason to fly right in front of a very active airport runways at a few hundred feet, even if you are training to evacuate the Pentagon.
Golden Age of America = first plane crash since 2009 with 60 potential casualties!
Good thing you fired the head of the TSA, the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and froze hiring of all Air Traffic Controllers on Day 2.
2025 is starting off very badly. Thanks Trump.
If Joe Biden fired 100 FAA employees and a plane crash happened just a few hours later, Fox News would bring Lou Dobbs back from the dead with wall-to-wall coverage blaming it on Biden.
Definitely Hegseth was on a serious bender and in a blackout rage demanded to copter back to the Pentagon. Is he confirmed one the dead? Is it Kobe Bryant redux?
LAX says:
January 29, 2025 at 3:22 pm
“I will say this: Trump is moving fast to implement his programs. No navel gazing, no nonsense. His targeting of illegal criminal gangs is getting headlines and I cannot think of anyone who would have an issue with that. I applaud his hard stance on Hamas College demonstrators as well. He’s simply not dithering. ”
Possibly your best, most cogent post ever! Keep up the good work.
Meanwhile, interesting to see that of all the lefty loons on this blog, Lib is having the most trouble coping with the new reality. In any case, on the immigration front, I think there are many Dems like LACKS who are appalled that SlowJoe really did let murderers, rapists and pedophiles enter the country, and that Dem mayors are actively trying to protect those illegal alien criminals. I know you’re in the midst of a mental health crisis right now Lib, but if you’re able to work through it you’ll realize that your wife and family are much safer today than they were a week ago, thanks to the thousands of really bad guys that DJT has removed from the streets.
Give it a few months smalls. We are the deer and Trump clearly is not flashing the headlights.
Can’t wait to see what idiocy he promotes today to go with his lie about Hamas condom bombs.
Hamas condom bombs. Really! And he says it with a straight face because he actually believes it. Like shooting bleach into yuor vains to stop Covid.
After electing a nursing home MVP, we have elected a complete moron for a second term. We are the dumbest country in the world.
And I always supported vetting immigrants. There is still no will to do so. Not even before paying for their deportation. Again, we are the dumbest country in the world. It serves us right to have a moron embarassing us with regularity.
Sincerely I hope DJT rounds up all illegal immigrants and filter this country from crime. Force only good old English speaking in public, oppress people and cherish white/semite culture with full force. Scare skilled talent out of the country. Install trade controls and tariffs at full speed.
In the meantime the podcast bros 30s and under, and ED prone 60+ should compete for these jobs and rekindle the economy. But I have a hunch it won’t happen easily.
Lots of things to break, we just don’t know. Recession guaranteed in 2025
We are the dumbest country in the world.
We are the fattest, dumbest country in the world, get it straight!
Lib —–> https://x.com/PatrioticPizzas/status/1884442953734578678
and here..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_airborne_arson_attacks
I guess when you have the star of the Real World running the DOT, planes crash. Or maybe he was too focused on his 9 kids. I mean, he did serve on the Great Lakes task force so he is uber qualified to deal with transportation issues.
This is most likely just the start of it too. When you appoint and confirm completely unqualified TV stars to positions of importance, you get dumpster fires.
I wish this was just the warning shot, but it likely will not be.
Buy your Trump Coin now and open a Patriot Bank account now. It’s what REAL patriots do.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel much safer with pardoned cop killers free to reek havoc again. Heck, wasn’t one of the Proud Boys who was just pardoned arrested again?
It’s a complete shitshow now. You can’t make this stuff up anymore. But Biden’s son made millions!
Libturd says:
January 30, 2025 at 9:37 am
“We are the dumbest country in the world.”
While everyone is focused on how rapidly DJT is working to clean up Joe’s immigration mess, perhaps the most underreported story of the past few days is the terrible news that student test scores continue to decline, and the realization that the US education system is now completely broken — largely as a result of the Dems having abandoned it to the teacher unions during/after COVID, in exchange for votes. Another black mark for Joe, and a really tough problem for DJT to tackle.
Juice. It’s a lie. Do some research and get off of X already.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-condoms-fact-check-trump-50-million-26884cac6c7097d7316ca50ca4145a82
And the whole immigration/crime thing is one big farce that Trump used to get elected. Meanwhile, the home across the street from me was invaded to steal their two cars while they slept upstairs. Likely by fullblown American citizens. But it is so much more convenient to see an occasional immigrant commit a crime and blame all of America’s ilk on them.
We really are stupid.
Do you know anyone personally anywhere who suffered a crime at the hands of an immigrant? I don’t. You don’t either. THINK!
Hate to say it Smalls, but there is way more to our educational decline than our school lockdowns, which occurred all over the world. Perhaps TikTok has something to do with it? Kids don’t read anymore. All they do is watch short video snipits. In the rest of the world, most of the kids don’t even have smartphones. Oh the pain of being the richest country in the world. Perhaps Trump will fire all of the teachers and replace them with Fox News anchors?
Juice,
Think! Hamas repeatedly gets rearmed with rockets. You don’t think Iran/Egypt/Syria/Lebanon can’t ship a few balloons or condoms with their weapon shipments?
Trump sees a condom bomb video, believes it because he is a moron and then makes up a story about Biden sending condoms to Hamas. And YOU believe it.
Come on now!
Boeing killed hundreds of people with it’s American made planes.
Guess those don’t count as “American” deaths since the planes that crashed didn’t crash here.
Guess we outsource and distance our “American” airplane deaths as well to make us look perfect to the world. But the world knows better.
Maybe Hamas were using these?
https://tinyurl.com/condombombs
Juice, I love you, but can’t believe you believe the lies.
How many condoms does $50,000,000 buy? There are only 2 million Gazans. So we are to believe that Biden sent 200 million condoms to Gaza? I know that Muslims like to have a lot of kids, but 10o condoms per Gazan does seem quite preposterous. No?
Lib – Trump is again using the media to play you. He has already telegraphed his position. Cut all aid to Gaza and clear them out, but first lets cut all foreign aid as a ruse.
This USAID “condom” money was going to Gaza for emergency tent hospitals because the Israelis used up all of the 500lb , 1000lb, and 2000 lbs bombs we manufactured and fly in daily on C-130s to blow up every single building including every hospital in Gaza.
FYI we sent them 14,000 Bombs that weight 2,000 lb each. They used them all up. Each bomb has a blast radius of shrapnel of 1,000 ft. There are thousands more of brand new ones headed there now as Trump lifted Biden’s embargo on them.
The media is playing you too……. wait and see how many Palestinians end up living in a neighborhood near you, as Jordan and Egypt won’t take them.
Oh no!
The first wave of Palestinian airborne arson attacks on Israel from Gaza Strip using airborne incendiary devices (incendiary balloons, incendiary kites, etc.) was launched in May 2018 during the 2018 Gaza border protests. These attacks are taking an advantage of the prevailing westwards winds which propel the airborne devices to Israel.[1][2] The fires that ensued annihilated distinctive habitats, ecosystems, and agricultural fields.[3][4]
And these were balloons, not condoms. Save the distinctive habitats!
Condom bombs?
No one is playing me.
MAGA can do no wrong.
Condom bombs!
Maybe I’ll upload a video to X and claim the Chinese are trying to set fire to California.
Think this will suffice?
https://youtu.be/euD_boQWKXs
Forget everything else I’ve said.
Trump’s shares of his DJT SPAC are worth 4 billion dollars.
And Biden had 7 homes was an issue to MAGA.
But MAGA can do now wrong.
Crickets.
Lib – Are you a Schwab customer? If You are you may want to find a new place to park your money.
Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT, DJTWW) has announced plans to enter the financial services sector, unveiling a new division called Truth.Fi. The expansion will be backed by up to $250 million in funding from Charles Schwab (SCHW).
The company plans to roll out various investment products and services through Truth.Fi in 2025.
🚨#BREAKING:
Emergency crews has pulled at least 30+ bodies so far from the Potomac river after a military helicopter collided into a American Airlines jet last night in Washington DC
4 Billion!
Yet Pelosi insider traded to a net worth of what 300 million?
Now yes, what Pelosi did was deplorable. But what Trump is doing is frigging immoral. I hope it all collapses (and it will) and he takes all those idiot MAGA investors with him.
Juice,
Yes, the Trump bank. Nothing wrong with the POTUS having a bank that he is marketing as a place for Patriots with Miracle Ear to put their money. A bank that lost .43 per share last report.
He’s President Ronco and you find nothing wrong with it.
I can count 100 ways to purchase favor from the orange imbecile. Can you?
Crickets.
where the 10 eggs price at?
Mentioned to a friend previously, wanted to state here on record. With $TRUMP coin, truthfi, world financial, djt and much more (media, rumble, entertainment, real estate, mining royalties) will come. Trump family will accumulate 1TRILLION $ in 4 years. Putin, Erdogan, Sisi all made similar magnitude sums. His best strong friends. But Hunter made millions right?
A lot of crazy, unprecedented bad stuff happening, and the first thing Small man is focussed on is the rounding up of immigrants. He is our Lou Dobbs.
The ignorance and the absolute arrogance is mind boggling.
I need to ask. Small man, what are your credentials? That you dare speak with such stupidity without any shame? Where did you go to school? What public office have you held? What types of teams have you governed in your career?
Seriously!
Small man is a wonky Republican. IMO, it doesn’t matter if it’s Trump or SpongeBob. As long as the party is in power, he’s singing it’s praises.
Believe it or not, I met Smalls and consider him a good friend and an all around good guy. Mislead politically, but so is half the country.
ChiFi,
Ignoring the noise and witnessing the true tire fire of an immature administration, I am concerned about investing in our country. I am still doing quite well, but want to take about 25% of my equity portfolio off the table to leave it 50/50 again. I am noticing what looks like a sector rotation into the good old Dow Jones Industrials, which I am guessing is due to the planned corporate tax cuts which should really help those megacap industrials. Are you seeing it too? The Nasty is so stretched and over concentrated in the semis, which is why my tech portion is mostly in QQQE. But, am I the first to see the sector rotation into the megacap industrials? Right now, I have way to much VUG and the Nasdaq is too weighted into the mag 7.
Libturd says:
January 30, 2025 at 10:44 am
“I met Smalls”
You did? Was I there? I recall offering to buy you a beer at halftime of the RU/Washington game, but we definitely didn’t meet then. In any case, you’re right about the all around good guy.
But seriously Lib, I hope that you’re working out and eating healthy. Given the hysterics and hyperventilating, and the mental stress that you’re feeling, I’d be really worried about a stroke if you’re not staying healthy outside of politics.
In “Mississippi Burning” you can see generational deep rooted racism
In the south blacks were not considered citizens or allowed to vote until the civil rights movement of 1960.
Spoiler Alert: first scene of movie is the lynching of Jewish students helping blacks with voter registration
I bought some yellow metal.. but still way over exposed to the market.
Smalls, I must be mixing you up with another long-term Republican wonk here.
My apologies for this. I take it all back. :P
Healthwise, I’m fine. My high school alum Matt Pinfield just had a stroke and is in bad shape. For me, the Ozempic is working and I’m perfectly fine. I am not stressed at all quite actually. Just calling it like I see it and I don’t like what I’m seeing. A dictator is not what our forefathers had in mind. Especially not one who grabs them by the pussy. But what do I know. I think I’ll go out to see Making Led Zepellin. Perhaps there will be a senator or congresswoman I can grope there.
Meanwhile, life goes on for Americans who just wish to wake up, go to work, come home and live their lives. The vast resources that we pour into overseas adventures while our own citizens go homeless, lack medical care and die penniless is an outrage.
The irony is that in this election so many people just sat it out.
They couldn’t be bothered and probably for good reason. Government has ceased to be effective. Incompetence reigns. California pissed away billions on “homelessness “ and no one batted an eye, yet when two of the best neighborhoods in the State burned it signaled the end of Newsom’s ambitions and his hopes of any future in politics.
My friends on the right believe deeply in the causes that Trump champions. What does the left believe in? Or, how has the left improved lives? Hard question to answer.
Life has a way of surprising you. Through all of these bullshit political regimes we still have lousy schools, bad healthcare, and no safety nets. Both sides are complicit. So many people are just tuning out.
Gold is a bad investment Rent. Too much carry cost and impossible to time. At best, it can be used as a hedge against inflation, but even that is quite tricky. Don’t worry. It’s not the end of times. It’s the end of civilized times in America, but what would you expect from fat, drug-addicted, blame-it-on the immigrants Americans?
Hoping crashes stick to planes and not to markets.
Don’t worry.
You are all in God’s hands. He’s got you covered.
Trump praised God. Biden praised God. They all praised God.
They are all looking out for you, their referring to God is irrefutable proof.
Cause who would praise God and then go and hurt you? Other than a Catholic preist that is.
Just learned gold coin/bullions are tax free as of jan 1st. Finally NJ government/senate worked it out. Didn’t know that before ordering on costco dec last year. Did you guys know?
Menendez did.
njtownhomer says:
January 30, 2025 at 11:20 am
Just learned gold coin/bullions are tax free as of jan 1st. Finally NJ government/senate worked it out. Didn’t know that before ordering on costco dec last year. Did you guys know?
11:15 anyone who has any sense realizes this just isn’t how things work.
Heck,
Santos looks like a saint compared with Trump’s lies.
Sounds like the crew that works at General Motors making the 5.3l engines that keep blowing up. Fairly experienced.
Or in “American” thought process, mediocre enough. Send them off, they kinda get it. Don’t worry, God will watch over them.
An Army Black Hawk helicopter was carrying out an annual proficiency training flight “with a fairly experienced crew” aboard when it collided with a civilian passenger jet over the Potomac River, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a recorded video released Thursday morning.
Hot Dog, Top Gun, Maverick.
Hey lets see how fast we can fly at that jet and scare the guy. Maybe make him spill his coffee like in the movie.
We are heroes. We can do anything! YeeeeeeHaaaaaa!
Fight those Ruskies. Oopsy.
Oh, and that poor F35. How much did that flat spin kaboom cost the taxpayers?
Time to go splash a Mig. Hehe.
Lib – new law against the car thieves…They are beginning to round up the latest gang of car thieves who are doing home invasions to get they key fobs.
https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/01/19-year-old-nj-man-helped-steal-700k-worth-of-cars-state-says.html
However the next generation of car thieves are only around the corner. This was filmed years ago by Michael K Williams…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCTggr07feU
Nice to see. It’s a real problem. We actually lock our keys up in a closet by our bedroom at night. Gator wanted to put them in the safe, but that’s cray cray.
Skaters from the National competition.
Victims Killed in Washington Plane Crash Over Potomac River Identified:
Spencer Lane
Jinna Han
Eddie Zhou
Everly Livingston
Lydia Livingston
Franco Aparicio
Sean Kay
Angela Yang
Vadim Naumov
Evgenia Shishkova
Inna Volyanskaya
Figure skaters, their coaches and family members were passengers on an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday.
During his press conference Trump blames Biden for the plane crash and accuses him of lowering aviation standards.
Just last week, Trump fired the heads of TSA and the Coast Guard, disbanded the Aviation Security Committee and froze TSA hiring.
VSG – Save your copy and paste nonsense for the less informed. TSA checks bags they don’t do air traffic control. The head of the Coast Guard also is does not manage public airports.
Yipeeeee Kai Eyyyyyy
Tippecanoe and Tyler Tooooooo
Lib 11:05.
bought gold at about $1130 – $1300/oz several years ago and gave a pause. Now its about 2800.
I have a locker at my bank… not worried about storage. I say its done well.
I can walk anywhere and get top dollar for the suisse tablets. Only get the 10g ones so they are easy to liquid.
As the investigation into the devastating Palisades Fire continues, early indications show the blaze was probably not natural in origin.
Two leading theories have emerged, the Los Angeles Times reports. Investigators believe an 8-acre blaze that was extinguished in the same area on New Year’s Day somehow “reignited and spread because of intense winds,” or a new fire was started nearby.
Either way, “sources have told The Times the blaze appears to have human origins,” the newspaper reports.
The not-my-fault president doesnt fail to disappoint. Congrats maga.
You most likely bought in 2016/17. That’s the last time gold was at those prices. In that time period, you pretty much did 110-120% depending on your average cost per ounce.
In that same time period (not handpicked, I just chose 1/1/2017 arbitrarily), Nasty is up 266%, S&P 171% and even the DOW is up 127.5% with no carry costs whatsoever.
I would say you picked poorly, but at least you got diversification. And your timing was spot on, pardon the pun.
You don’t know how well you’ve done unless you benchmark.
Trump claims that blaming DEI for the plane crash is just ” common sense ” .
Which apparently he has and very few people do. Probably the dumbest person you could get to lead the US. Great job! MAGA
To the leftist who complained about his $10 whopper at the NJ Turnpike rest area yesterday:
Your long names are dumb, but a leftist complaining about the high cost and poor quality of food at a state-owned rest stop is even dumber.
Maybe for purposes of “equity” the state of NJ will start multiplying those Burger King checks by your IQ.
Libturd,
I wonder what you would think about a long term investor taking down US stock exposures and getting into lower valued foreign stock markets? Something like EFV or EFAV for example. Lots of duller, cheaper stuff out there.
US has the most concentration and the biggest premium vs the rest of the world and the quants are chasing mostly high valuation momentum stocks. On a 7-10 year basis, hard to see you folks are going to get a lot more returns out of that.
The more the US stocks go up, the more retail seems to think that double digit annual returns is what they are sure to get. While pros are starting to indicate ratcheting down equity exposure in favor of more fixed income, it seems like most roll-your-own types are either allowing equity exposure to increase, or are actively raising their equity allocations on the premise that “US stocks always go up” and always outperform non-US stocks. You ever read the FIRE reddit boards for example? Retire early, plug in 9% annualized returns from your 80% stock, 20% bond portfolio for the next 40 years, and live off market gains. What could go wrong?
2:22, thanks for the math.. and you are right.
But given my portfolio is 85% us equity, 10% RE and 3% gold, it’s as good as it gets.
Just can’t rely on s&p delivering the same under the orange turd
Our hearts break for the families who lost loved ones in the tragic plane and helicopter crash at DCA. Michelle and I send our prayers and condolences to everyone who is mourning today, and we’re grateful to the first responders who are doing everything they can to help under extremely difficult circumstances.
President Barack Obama
LAX,
Sounds like you’re maybe a Bill Maher democrat rather than an AOC democrat.
Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch.
President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.
– Secretary Pete Buttigieg
United States Department of Transportation Inspector General found that 77% of air traffic control facilities critical to the industry’s daily operations were short-staffed.
This review was done under the leadership of Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden.
I would love to know if that controller was working mandatory overtime and on six-day work weeks at many facilities.
No One, it was a BK Big Fish.
I use to keep between 15 and 20% of my equity portfolio in international markets. Did this for almost 20 years. We are the hardest working country and our freedom fosters ingenuity and new businesses like nowhere else on the planet. It’s worth the premium. Hoping Trump doesn’t destroy this for his personal wealth accumulation. He’s already driving people into high risk and speculative garbage. Like his SPAC and meme coins. If he fires the FED, I’m fully out and will diversify globally. Lower. Interest rates will kill fixed income, which just went through a rocky couple of years.
You can blame the most famous Republican president For the air traffic control shortages.
And it was the Parkway!
Sheesh.
Does anyone laugh like I do everytime you drive by the Whitney Houston rest area?
RentLord,
We are mainly into real estate, both in the US and Germany, and I also have some gold. I prefer British Sovereigns but also have a few gold coins from the Kaiser‘s time. If things go downhill fast due to war (Ukraine), the economy (auto plants closing), and political unrest (you know), then smaller gold coins could be used for barter for food and ammo. I like to keep my options open.
Lib – It’s Covid to blame this time for the shortage of Air Traffic controllers, but Buttigieg did not move the needle on saftey there were many close calls over the last few years blamed on overworked controllers. Whether it be the current shortage of controllers or the mismanagement of $5 billion spending for computer upgrades that to my understanding was never completed Buttigieg and Biden did not fix the FAA.
BTW Newark airport is one of the most critical. 59% below targeted levels for Air Traffic controllers.
If everybody making ten stacks for five minutes of work, why all these mfers broke?
I hear the deportees are headed to Guantanamo… indefinitely?
How does this work? They committed crimes, but have not been charged, and will now presumably be charged and tried in Gitmo?
Glad to have them off the streets, but Gitmo is a place where one goes to exist forever and that just has me confused.
Boomer Remover,
They are broke because they live beyond their means. I remember someone wrote that Michael Jackson was a millionaire but spending like he was a billionaire. He was $500 million in debt when he died! Many people live like this, just on a smaller scale than Jackson.
then smaller gold coins could be used for barter for food and ammo.
Silver’s better for that.
Juice, what happened in DC has nothing to do with ATC staffing levels of budgets. ATC did not make a mistake. The heli pilot requested visual separation, was granted visual separation and proceeded into the airspace. The fact that the heli pilot sighted the wrong plane before responding that he had traffic in sight is simply not a political issue.
Juice,
I knew abouty the shortage for years and all of the close calls that came with them being short.
Flying to Florida tomorrow. Hope I make it.
And I’m flying Spirit. No bags. $88 round trip outta Newark to FLL. Pray for me.
Chad, do you think Trump thought this deportation thing through?
Do you think the he thinks anything through?
Do you think he has the capacity to think things through because everything he does ends up a disaster.
Boomer – Human error sure but there are rules that may or may not have been followed here by both the Helicopter Pilot and the ATC. Several more qualified people have commented about it on the TV news as well as social media.
Case in point the helicopter was flying low they say it was restricted to only 200 ft at night under visual flight rules while wearing night vision goggles etc. We did not hear in the media much of the previous communications before the last few seconds that is out there now online.
Just remember that runway 33 is not used much. Half of the runway is now closed because it’s facing the Pentagon. Only small jets can land on it. A few minutes before the plane was set to land, air traffic controller(s) asked the pilots if they could land the jet on that shorter runway 33 at Reagan International. The airplane pilots said they could, and they were sent there to land at Runway 33.
Less than a minute before the crash, an air traffic controller asked the Army helicopter if it could see the plane: “PAT25, do you have the CRJ in sight?” Something like 30 seconds before it crosses the runway???? That it’s much time to have a conversation or make a correction. The controller made another radio call to the Army helicopter only 2 seconds later “PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ.” then seconds later, the Army helicopter and plane collided.
Look I don’t want to blame anyone here but if the helicopter was flying at 100 MPH it was less than a mile away from the Runway when ATC made the call to them probably anywhere from a 1/2 mile to 3/4 mile away… That is not much time, you can fly approximately 4400 feet in 30 seconds at 100 mph. I don’t know what the speed was but they were obviously close.
I mentioned fatigue and hours worked because it will be covered in the eventual FAA report as to the health of the ATC and the amount of hours they have been working etc.
Juice, you can say all you want. But because it was a military aircraft, the blame falls on the commander in chief.
I don’t even know why you pretend to not be maga.
Of course the report will say nothing about blaming the administration in any shape or form – Trump has openly advocated for repurcursions to anyone who doesn’t fall in line.
Not even a month and so many disasters!
Juice, you sure cut and paste a lot, none of it dispositive. I don’t want to have a pissing match. None of this was political. At any rate, the multiple minute full ATC recording from multiple frequencies is/was available on YouTube just hours after the crash. You just have to know where to look.