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.