From NorthJersey.com:
Do presidential elections affect the housing market? Here’s what experts had to say
The time surrounding a presidential election is often said to see a slowdown in real estate activity in some markets. Though not by a significant margin, inventory levels and completed transactions may dip as buyers and sellers take a wait-and-see approach before making any real estate decisions, according to Nationwide Mortgage Bankers.
“I think a lot of years, you’ll see a bit of a slowdown during an election month. I think people are just kind of waiting to see what happens this year,” said Dutch Mendenhall, co-founder of RADD Companies. “It’s been a rough year for people in real estate up until about 60 days ago, and then 60 days ago it really started to change. And then 30 days ago, it really started to shift more, with interest rates shifting and changing.”
Bankrate analyst Jeff Ostrowski said the idea that there is less real estate activity during this time is something that is typically spoken about by real estate agents and loan officers. But he said there’s very little, if any, statistical evidence to demonstrate that it is a consistent trend in presidential election years.
In addition to inventory, things like mortgage rates and listing prices are also not typically affected during an election year, Ostrowski said. If home prices or interest rates shift, it is due to factors that have already been at play in our real estate markets.
…
Both Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump have several proposed policies as part of their campaigns that relate to housing. And while these things will not have an immediate impact on our housing market, they could in the long term, based on which candidate is elected.
Harris’ plan calls for the construction of 3 million new housing units across the country over the next four years to increase housing supply; $25,000 in down payment assistance to as many as 4 million first-time buyers who have paid their rent on time; and stopping investors from buying and marking up housing, USA Today reported.
Frist
On a roll
Harris’ plan calls for the construction of 3 million new housing units across the country over the next four years to increase housing supply; $25,000 in down payment assistance…
Two questions: How will she deal with local restrictions, ordinances, etc. to ensure these units will be built? Where does $25,000 come from?
Fast
Where will the saw mill capacity come from to produce the building materials?
Jobs Day!
On a roll
Taylor ham egg and cheese, salt pepper ketchup.
Taylor ham egg and cheese, salt pepper ketchup.
You fucking Jersey people… ugh!
BREAKING NEWS!
PRESIDENTIAL Published October 31, 2024 8:00pm EDT
The Economist endorses Kamala Harris, defends presidential endorsements as ‘example’ of independence
On Thursday, the editorial board of The Economist announced it would throw its support behind Harris over former President Trump in the days leading up to the election.
“Tens of millions of Americans will vote for Mr. Trump next week. Some will be true believers. But many will take a calculated risk that in office his worst instincts would be constrained. We see that as recklessly complacent. By making Mr. Trump leader of the free world, Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace. Ms. Harris’s shortcomings, by contrast, are ordinary. And none of them are disqualifying. If The Economist had a vote, we would cast it for her,” the article read.
Fast Eddie says:
November 1, 2024 at 7:07 am
“Where does $25,000 come from?”
Bucktooth Phil has taken NJ’s budget from $35 billion to $55 billion and SlowJoe has has pushed the national debt to $35 trillion. You could argue the Dems have never really cared where the money came from, but the modern Dem party no longer even pretends. As for Carmella, she’s un-burdened by such trivial matters when there are still votes to be bought.
“In our newsroom, opinions are shaped by two core values: a respect for liberal ideas, which have guided us since we were founded in 1843, and a belief that ideas should be challenged.
Our editor decides our line after vigorous debate among our entire editorial staff. Everyone, from a recently hired intern to a 30-year veteran, is encouraged to say what they think.
We began endorsing American presidential candidates in 1980, when we backed Ronald Reagan, and since then have backed both Democrats and Republicans. We assess politicians not by their party but on their merits,” the editorial read.
Lesser of two evils is just barely an endorsement.
a respect for liberal ideas…
Modern translation: 160 million people are garbage and conservative women are stup1d.
So, in Michigan, Black folks are saying that they’re fed up with being used for votes and had more money under Trump; Muslims are backing Trump because of the Middle East issues and EV mandates threaten auto jobs and yet, Cumella is leading in Michigan based on the average of polls. Okay, got it.
The comments about intervening against North Korea’s entry into the Ukraine conflict are interesting, but I think world powers are inviting it. Not because anyone wants to see an escalation in the conflict, but because everyone wants to see what NK’s real-world military capabilities actually are.
And Reddit has to be the angriest left-leaning platform I have ever seen. They are apoplectic beyond description. I’m a relatively new Reddit user and when it comes to politics, holy shit! Who’s this dude, John Oliver? There’s a current discussion listing the reasons why Trump wasn’t shot. One reason states there’s a little blood showing on his tooth. Wh.. what? I won’t list them all, no reason to. Someone ask the family of the guy that got killed if it was fake.
wHeRe wILL wE gEt tHe sAwMiLLs
BahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahaha
lEsSer oF tWo eVilS
BahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahaha
( )( )====D BahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahahaBahahahahahahahaha
Jobs
Zippo
Hurricane impact
Ten 426
Between the strike, the hurricane, and the fact that the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%, I think there’s a good chance that people will dismiss this all as noise and move on.
The Stalwart
BREAKING:
12,ooo on jobs report… dark brandon rocking it!
Lowest retail and warehousing openings since 2011.
September jobs revised down 31,000.
People are not quitting their jobs any more, scared shitless of economy.
August jobs revised down 81,000 as well.
Doubtful anyone here reads The Economist, but it signals the thinking of the elite right wing class.
The Economist is not interested in the likes of Fast Eddie
grim says:
November 1, 2024 at 7:43 am
Lesser of two evils is just barely an endorsement.
Trump on Liz Cheney: “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
Biggest increase was in government jobs.
Shocker.
The Economist subscription is over $200
Maga would never spend that much on any kind of reading material
Except for a Trump Bible.
A TRUMP BIBLE!
That’s like an oxymoron. Or you have to be an Oxy abusing moron to not see how you are being played.
The Economist subscription is over $200
Maga would never spend that much on any kind of reading material
True. They’re too busy producing, working and running America so that the coastal elites can preach righteousness from the Ivory towers.
8:28
Hey stoner. It’s a supply chain issue. I guess you’ve lost too many brain cells to recall Chinese dry wall and how few appliances and new cars were available during Covid.
Any of you country fans want to buy a country legends grandson’s house for 7 million?
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/flower-mound-texas-mansino-loretta-lynn-grandson-bayshore-drive/287-7d6f4e11-57bf-41dc-87e2-b66507f2f25b
They should probably send a text message out statewide to stop with the fire pits. I know there are signs and they’ve announced it on the radio but it’s clearly not getting through.
Talked to 3 people who are firemen in different towns. Non-stop driving around telling people to put it out. The entire state is one blanket of kindle right now.
“Where does $25,000 come from?”
It’s amazing so-called smarter-than-thou Trumpanzees here can’t understand the difference between a tax credit, a loan and a giveaway.
Talked to 3 people who are firemen in different towns. Non-stop driving around telling people to put it out. The entire state is one blanket of kindle right now.
Where are those arsonists when you really need them. F’n never to be found, that’s where.
Manufacturing jobs on a two year decline… flat over the last four years. No manufacturing jobs were created under O’Biden/Cumeela:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP
BRT,
I am surprised there haven’t been any bad forest fires yet. At least in the Pine Barrens where there are fires nearly every year. It is so incredibly dry.
When you are being gaslighted you are not supposed to ask any questions. Hehe.
Harris’ plan calls for the construction of 3 million new housing units across the country over the next four years to increase housing supply; $25,000 in down payment assistance…
Two questions: How will she deal with local restrictions, ordinances, etc. to ensure these units will be built? Where does $25,000 come from?
Mike Rowe, dirty Jobs.
Fast Eddie says:
November 1, 2024 at 9:43 am
Manufacturing jobs on a two year decline… flat over the last four years. No manufacturing jobs were created under O’Biden/Cumeela:
Texas …. outrage
Three Trips to the ER: At 6 months pregnant, Nevaeh Crain visited two Texas ERs a total of three times in 20 hours, seeking care for troubling symptoms.
Fetal Tests Cost Time: On her third trip, a doctor insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise” before moving her to intensive care. Hours later, Crain died.
One of at Least Two Deaths: Crain is one of at least two Texas women who died under the state abortion ban. Josseli Barnica died after a miscarriage in 2021.
These highlights were
Lib there actually is. You just aren’t hearing about it . They e been on top of it and constantly asking for former firefighters to help. Saw a dude flick a cigarette into the corn maze over the weekend
. I went over and poured water on it
Fast Eddie says:
November 1, 2024 at 8:40 am
“Biggest increase was in government jobs.”
They’re the only jobs that Dems know how to create. Or care about, since another government worker typically represents another Dem voter. Wait’ll you see how many government ‘jobs’ they create to support Carmella’s down payment assistance program!
10:10
virtually every job new in America over the past 35 years was created under a Democratic president (see chart 1). Often, the chart goes viral, and Democrats are only too happy to boast of their job-creating prowess. Since 1989 a mere 1.3m jobs have been created in net terms with Republicans in the Oval Office—despite the party’s reputation for being more business-friendly. With Democrats in power a net 49.4m jobs have been added.
Source: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/03/19/five-charts-compare-democrats-and-republicans-on-job-creation
The Economist- I don’t think a foreign publication should be endorsing US presidential candidates. Doesn’t seem right to me. They should concentrate on fixing UK politics, which will likely take years!
Where does the money come from? Put the printing presses on high speed, that’s where the money comes from!
The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps. At the second, she screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.
Sepsis and you are fine to leave?
Well, when you invest all of your money in weapons instead of hiring and training real doctors, this is what you get. RIP lady. You were screwed by American capitalism.
Newspapers should’t be endorsing anyone. Any paper that is not being objective is fish wrap.
Chad Powers says:
November 1, 2024 at 10:30 am
The Economist- I don’t think a foreign publication should be endorsing US presidential candidates. Doesn’t seem right to me.
Doc is just following the law.
We do like and insist on law abiding citizens. Criminals need to be prosecuted. No exceptions. Back the blue. Arrest that doctor. He “allegedly” may be commting a crime. Be tough on criminals. “Murica” is tough on crime.
The state’s laws banning abortion require that doctors record the absence of a fetal heartbeat before intervening with a procedure that could end a pregnancy. Exceptions for medical emergencies demand physicians document their reasoning. “Pretty consistently, people say, ‘Until we can be absolutely certain this isn’t a normal pregnancy, we can’t do anything, because it could be alleged that we were doing an abortion,’” said Dr. Tony Ogburn, an OB-GYN in San Antonio.
Don’t even try LAX. Facts don’t matter to MAGA. Haven’t you seen the commercials?
Jill Blahblahblah is a radical communist and bad for America.
Joe Blahblahblah is a radical communist and bad for America.
My name is Mary Crossburner. I’m at the border, of Westchester and Yonkers (air raid siren) and a bus filled with terrorist illegal murderers has just pulled into Poughkeepsie (repeat air raid siren). Jill and Joe Blahblahblah support gay marriage (air raid siren again). If you look behind me, there are 17 white men, 2 cops, one 90 year-old woman and a Hasidic Jew in a prayer shaul (which makes no sense sinse they don’t wear them on the outside except when headed to temple, but LOOK IT’S A JEW!). This is what passes for MAGA facts. They learned from the best duper of all.
And the endorsement by the Economist was exactly right. Nice to see their honesty in at least pointing out the lack of excitement around Kamala. This was the first honest endorsement I’ve seen in a while.
Meanwhile, I looked all over for a list of politicians who switched to support Trump. It appears only to go the other way. Hmmmmm. Duped?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose_the_Donald_Trump_2024_presidential_campaign
This plane gonna crash whether or not you pick a Repuke or Democrap pilot.
Should have chosen the passenger from 22b. He is a nobody but at least has common sense and isn’t the devil in disguise.
Ruskies are taking larger swaths of land in Ukraine. That train ain’t stopping now. NK has traded some soldiers and shells for nuclear and ballistic missile technology. Didn’t take them long to just send one out of the ballpark out of Mookie’s reach.
Smoke ’em while you got ’em.
10:45 if the Party of stupid decides to elect Trump they’ll effectively seal their fate.
This is what half of the population is thinking about:
https://youtu.be/8BH2dCbom5o?t=36
LAX says:
November 1, 2024 at 10:51 am
10:45 if the Party of stupid decides to elect Trump they’ll effectively seal your fate.
Hehe
The Economist, black people, Jews, illegal immigrants,
Trump will send them all to concentration camps
Chad Powers says:
November 1, 2024 at 10:30 am
The Economist- I don’t think a foreign publication should be endorsing US presidential candidates. Doesn’t seem right to me.
DJT down another 8%. Put a fork in it.
I’m gonna lose $200.
In other news, the sore losers plan to play the election fraud card to the fullest extent since well, their leader behaves like your average 1st grader. If I was MAGA, I would be embarassed. Good riddance. Now, maybe the protest vote can focus in fixing everything that is ACTUALLY WRONG with the DNC gravytrain, and not use hate and lies to generate power. Here’s a clue from Stu to you. You might gain a few religious votes focusing on backwards social positions, and sure, placating the alpha males who, “pick things up and put them down,” will get you a few more morons. But, ultimately, you have to convert current Dem voters. Focusing on hate will never work. Even when the Dems put up abhorent candidates and choose their candidates for you. If I were Trump, I would have focused on all of the grift and spending. But’s hard to do when that’s what you are personally in it for. Oh well. On to 2028, unless our Patriot Kangaroo Courts somehow dismiss elections as unconstitutional.
If Trump loses I just wanna see MAGA people go nuts.
Hopefully it won’t rain for the next week or so.
Damn one just went nuts in Orlando.
Well that couldn’t have been predicted.
The end of MAGA occurred right here.
https://youtu.be/kwgfgUDgcRI?si=SEwGL_fGx-bJAca0
I’m not vindictive. Though, I won’t feel that bad when the worst POTUS gets shipped off to prison.
Phoenix,
Shooter was a 17 year old former grand auto theft criminal. He couldn’t even vote. But he could smoke pot and gamble in an Indian casino.
Lib,
The left is cute and all about that PR joke, but looking at the bigger picture what have they actually done to help that island?
The answer is nothing.
One outwardly hates, the other pretends to like but isn’t going to open their wallets to help people who are essentially fellow Americans.
A “friend” who deceives you is ultimately worse than someone that is your enemy.
They will attempt a second coup d’é·tat
Phoenix says:
November 1, 2024 at 10:59 am
If Trump loses I just wanna see MAGA people go nuts.
Hopefully it won’t rain for the next week or so.
The followers of “God” failed her.
Those religious controlling freaks. And her mother who blindly belived that God made her stronger than sepsis.
It ain’t faith that fails you, its f’ n humans. They hide behind their religions. Sorry kid, the minute you believed in the guy in the sky you were doomed.
Frantic and crying, Fails locked eyes with her daughter. “You’re strong, Nevaeh,” she said. “God made us strong.”
Crain sat up in the cot. Old, black blood gushed from her nostrils and mouth.
Very Stable Genius says:
November 1, 2024 at 11:13 am
They will attempt a second coup d’é·tat
Looking forward to it. I don’t really drink but one cocktail might be appropriate if this is shown in at least 1080P resolution.
PR should become a state as they have sent thousands to WWII and Vietnam (unlike Trump who never served)
But they have voted against statehood
Phoenix says:
November 1, 2024 at 11:09 am
Lib,
The left is cute and all about that PR joke, but looking at the bigger picture what have they actually done to help that island?
The answer is nothing.
One outwardly hates, the other pretends to like but isn’t going to open their wallets to help people who are essentially fellow Americans.
A “friend” who deceives you is ultimately worse than someone that is your enemy.
Kind of ironic that her mother named her Heaven backwards.
Live by the fake religion, die by the fake religion.
Like all of the snakes that hide in those Catholic churches. I wonder how much of that money that goes into the basket pays for the lawsuits of those child molesting priests.
Not the first or the last time people will do things that aren’t in their best interests.
Edward Bernays years ago figured out how to manpulate humans.
AI will be the final nail in the coffin for full human manipulation. The youth are pre-programmed and will not be able to resist. They can’t even read a basic map.
VSG my post above was for your response.
Very Stable Genius says:
November 1, 2024 at 11:13 am
“They will attempt a second coup d’é·tat”
Having succeeded in overthrowing SlowJoe, I’m surprised the Dem power brokers haven’t already attempted a second coup with Carmella, no doubt realizing immediately that she was also an incompetent, un-qualified imbecile.
“Edward Bernays years ago figured out how to manpulate humans.”
Don’t be saucy with me Bernays!
Phoenix,
I am well aware of all that is wrong in this world. I can’t stand our corrupt politicians on both sides of the aisle. I’ve always said that we won’t get any where until we get the lobbyists and PAC money out of government. If you think these campaign funding numbers are huge, you should see what corporations anonymously give. And when I say give, it’s often a resort vacation in Puerto Rico so you can see where say, Pfizer’s Oxyconton is manufactured. And it’s not just the senator or congressperson who goes. It’s their family, and the family of everyone in their office write down to the person who answers the phone and even the interns. The more Pfizer can spend, the better. Over the years, we learned how everyone in DC was getting sweatheart loans, every state trooper in NJ got EZpass and fuel for free (including for their personal car) and nearly every public worker in New York City got a free unlimited MTA card. Heck, for almost ten years, an executive at the Port Authority got nearly his own high speed ferry from Atlantic Highlands to the WTC. And you think all of these public servants care about you? All of these people only care that you will keep on paying your taxes. Yet we are worried about some poor Columbian who wants to flip burgers or pick berries. Or for some reason care about Sue’s zygote or Joe’s gay partner.
Phoenix, yes, you personally suffered from another flaw in our laws and society. The unfair treatment men often receive in both life and in the courts when it comes to relationship laws. Your bias is understandable. Though, sometimes, I think misdirected. One day I’ll share you the story of what happened with my sister and the custody of her kid. In short, since she was the breadearner prior to being married, and he was a grown up kid who made minimum wage, she not only had to share custody, but pay for him and her daughter almost completely. You clearly don’t know how to play the game.
Bomb threat at 72. Hey Granny, you were supposed to stop doing that when you turned 12.
Wayne Woman, 72, Made Bomb Threat That Locked Down Holy Name Medical Center: Prosecutor
A 72-year-old woman has been charged with calling in a bomb threat to Holy Name Medical in August, authorities said.
Ending this is NEVER going to happen.
If you think Kamala is going to end this, you are mistaken. But I think you know this already.
We are not “getting anywhere” with the current system, and never will. This is reality.
It won’t end well.
I’ve always said that we won’t get any where until we get the lobbyists and PAC money out of government. If you think these campaign funding numbers are huge, you should see what corporations anonymously give.
Ten 434
Next Fed meeting is next week
12,000 jobs this month, September and August revised down 113,000 jobs. The FED will cut as wages fall and deflation accelerates.
The left can’t stop turning away its traditional supporters
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14030295/latino-hispanic-voters-latinx-democrats-republicans-election-trump.html
What are the odds the left actually asked their Hispanic and Latino voters what they thought of the word Latinx? I’m going with zero chance.
I wonder what Malcolm X would have thought of LatinX?
I’m sure Princess Amanda is fighting hard for us, because being a woman, she clearly understands and empathizes with those of us struggling to pay our electric bills.
Google worked out a deal with Dominion Energy, blessed by regulators, to pay 6 cents per kilowatt hour for its power. That is less than half of what residential customers pay, as well as substantially less than is paid by businesses like Best Mattress, the company Delaney’s grandmother founded 96 years ago. The difference amounts to as much as $1,000 on the Best Mattress monthly power bill.
Google’s head of data center energy, Amanda Peterson Corio, said in a statement that the company is “working closely with our utility partners in all the communities where we operate to ensure our growth does not impact existing ratepayers.”
“Current residential ratepayers are going to pay a lot, lot more because of data centers that bring almost no employees,”
And I am just as sure that Princess Kamala will be looking to help me out just as much.
Like my female judge did.
Which one is more likely to put American boots on the ground in Ukraine? Princess Kamala, who has never signed up for Selective Service-along with the other Princesses that don’t have to either?
Or Orange head, who must have signed up-but had enough money to pay off a greedy physician who diagnosed him with BONE spurs?
Putin is going to call the bluff. It’s written all over his face. This is how things start and the average American best understand just how severe this is.
Mr. Trump has promised to bring the war to a quick end, and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, has outlined a peace plan that looks a lot like one advanced by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Ms. Harris, on the other hand, has vowed to fight on, warning that if Russia was not stopped in Ukraine, its forces could attack NATO.
The election, and its uncertain outcome, is weighing heavily on Ukrainians.
After a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv last week, American officials said the Ukrainian leader looked worn and stressed, anxious about his troops’ battlefield setbacks as well as the U.S. elections.
Ukraine’s biggest shortcoming now is troops, U.S. officials said.
Ukrainian officials have struggled to put in place a military draft that brings in enough troops. The country has hesitated to lower the conscription age, worried about the long-term demographic impact. Ukraine has limited itself to what one official called a more “democratic and measured” response to the shortage of troops, but as a result it is running low on soldiers.
Trump is the dumbest waste of flesh to ever occupy the Oval Office.
Sending him back is simply asking to be fucked over by he and his stupid family.
LAX says:
November 1, 2024 at 4:44 pm
Trump is the dumbest waste of flesh to ever occupy the Oval Office.
Yet he was elected as President of America.
What does that say about the general health of the American Government and the American people?
If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap
60% tariffs on all Chinese goods are going to slam the IT sector
icon Iain Thomson
Fri 1 Nov 2024 // 15:30 UTC
Tariffs have become a major issue in the current US election, with former president Donald Trump claiming his plans to put a 10-20 percent tax on imports, rising to 60 percent with China, would fill government coffers for tax cuts and make American manufacturing great again. His rival Kamala Harris called the plans a ‘sales tax on the American people.’
“A tariff is a beautiful thing but it’s got a bad image,” Trump said in a recent interview. “You can stop wars with tariffs.”
4:46 it says the popular vote should be how we elect Presidents.
When Trump put in the last tarriffs, Biden and Harris kept them in place.
That was spoken about during the debate.
Those tarriffs are still in place for the last 4 years.
Whey didn’t they remove them if they were so “bad?”
Good cop, bad cop, nahh, they are all bad cops. Kamala was hit flat footed by that question.
A storm is brewing….
Ten closed 438.8!
It has also been acknowledged that slavery played a role in solidifying the Electoral College system, as states with large populations of non-voting slaves “could have no influence in the election” if the popular vote determined the president, future president James Madison had observed.
“The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to the fewest objections,” said Madison.
The current Electoral College system isn’t without its critics, either. The way it works now — with each state’s popular vote determining how all of that state’s electors will vote in January (with the exception of Nebraska and Maine) — has been criticized for giving more influence to a handful of swing states, and therefore dictating how and where the candidates campaign in the months leading up to the election.
But the Electoral College is also often questioned when it comes to the accurate representations of how each constituency — and the nation, overall — votes. Since the 1800s, five candidates who have won the popular vote ended up losing in the Electoral College. The most recent instance occurred during the 2016 election, when Hillary Clinton earned nearly 3 million more votes than former President Trump, but earned nearly 80 fewer electoral votes.
There have been more than 700 proposals to overhaul the Electoral College, but changing a system that has been used for centuries is a steep uphill battle, historians say. The “closest” our government came was in 1969, according to the House of Representatives, when the House passed a measure to implement a popular-vote system, with the condition that a runoff election would be held if no candidate was supported by at least 40% of eligible voters. It had “widespread bipartisan support” in the House, but failed in the Senate, the House noted.
Trust this woman, she was doing this out of the goodness of her heart, not “upcharging.”
Yeah, right….
After a Taylor Swift super fan went viral for booking 191 hotel rooms in New Orleans, Louisiana ahead of her Eras Tour stop, Swifties are speaking out about the experience, with some comparing it to the failed music festival Fyre Fest.
Rebecca Fox was charging a deposit of $25 on top of almost $500 for hotel rooms when the Eras Tour concerts were being held at the Caesars Superdome on October 25, 26, and 27.
She said she paid almost $500 per booking for 191 rooms at the Holiday Inn on Loyola Avenue in late 2023 and said she wasn’t up-charging, she simply wanted to spend time with ‘like-minded Swifties.’
Guests were promised a Taylor-themed goodie bag, as well as a pool party with a DJ and cocktails, scavenger hunts, a talent show, a karaoke party, friendship bracelet making, and a swamp tour. But Swifties were left furious, claiming she didn’t deliver and essentially charged them for free hotel amenities.
Rebecca has since responded to critics of the event, admitting to DailyMail that ‘things did not go as planned but there was no ill intent.’
First on 2nd. Booyaah!
We voted on Friday. The place was surprisingly packed (central jersey). The poll worker was saying there was a 15 minute line earlier. Never seen a poll place so packed before election day.
If you put aside everything you hear about in the news and ask yourself. Is your net worth better off now than 4 years ago, you know the answer on who to vote. Not your so called expenses.. but your net worth! Be honest.
10:43 pffffffft. Ridiculous. Huge run-ups in real estate and stocks mean lots of people are going one helluva lot better. More jobs, too. Your measure is “you” then. Maybe you’re the loser.
LAX, you answered my question. Vote Blue!
A longtime federal corrections captain and a former close-quarters battle instructor with the U.S. Marines who last week was ordered held in a Morris County jail after allegedly stabbing, strangling and holding a gun to his wife’s head allegedly exhibited disturbing behavior in the past, according to authorities.
Patrick O’Kane, 45, an 18-year officer with the United States Penitentiary (USP) Canaan in Pennsylvania, is accused of forcing his wife to her knees, cocking the hammer of his government-issued revolver and pointing it to her head while making threats to kill her during an Oct. 5 rampage in Mount Olive, according to prosecutors.
The situation? O’Kane had just seen a text message that his wife was having an affair.
“Going out for a photoshoot and turning it into a terroristic rampage … is completely out of proportion to find out that one’s wife may have been having an affair,” Gaus said. “That very well may form a basis for a divorce, and it can even form a basis to lose your temper and be angry … but it doesn’t form a basis for the nature of the conduct that is alleged here.”
A ‘dropped pin’ and witness may have saved a life.
O’Kane and his wife hired a photographer and the trio had driven to Sussex County to take photographs before heading to another location in Morris County on Oct. 24, Sandler said.
O’Kane, who was driving, saw a text message on his wife’s phone between her and someone else with whom she was having an intimate relationship, Sandler said. O’Kane became “absolutely enraged” and pulled over the car. Prosecutors said the woman jumped out of the car through the driver’s side door to get her phone back and O’Kane choked her and threw her to the ground; O’Kane’s defense attorney said the wife lunged at O’Kane and held onto him, and when he got out of the driver’s side, she was dragged out. He said she was never choked.
The photographer, who had been seated in the back of the car and made attempts to calm O’Kane down, told police he was fearful for his own life as well as the woman’s and dropped a “pin” — a term for sending his location — to his girlfriend via text, telling her, “Call 911. ASAP. Don’t call me. Seriously. Her bf is trying to kill her. He’s got a gun. She got caught cheating.” The photographer’s girlfriend called 911.
Portions of a roughly 16-minute audio recording captured by the photographer of O’Kane’s alleged obscenity- and derogatory-filled statements to his wife was played in court. The photographer told police O’Kane made statements that shooting his wife would be “too good for her,” and instead suggested a slow, painful death. O’Kane also suggested he would hide her body in the nearby quarry, the judge said, referring to statements in police documents.
Sandler added a blunt statement: “[The photographer] believed if he was not there, Mr. O’Kane would have killed [his wife].”
Sandler said after the woman told police she was choked, she grabbed her husband’s gun from his waistband and put it in the car to protect herself in fear that he would use it. O’Kane retrieved the gun from the car, told his wife to get on her knees and threatened to kill her several times, police said. Porreca contended that his client feared for his own life when his wife grabbed the gun, fearing “he’s going to get his head blown off.” He denied his client strangled the woman or pointed the gun at her, but justified O’Kane’s verbal ire after finding out his wife was having an affair.
“My wife says she will put me on a ‘sex ban’ if I vote for Trump”
Get a divorce. Hehe.