From the Record:
Single-family home listings in NJ were down in 2024. See by how much
The number of new listings for single-family homes in New Jersey grew in 2024 compared with the prior year, but that number remained well below the levels seen in 2022.
The Garden State saw a total of 75,101 new single-family home listings in 2024 — a 4.5% increase from 2023. But this number was 14.6% lower than the 91,781 new single-family listings the state had in 2022. This suggests that elevated mortgage rates and rising home prices continue to keep homeowners from putting their properties on the market.
This is according to New Jersey Realtors — a state branch of the National Association of Realtors — which released its 2024 end-of-year report that recaps how real estate performed throughout the state.
With a total of 56,541 closed single-family home sales last year, the report said, the state had a 0.8% decrease in single-family homes sold compared with the previous year.
Home prices were on the rise last year compared with 2023, though, just as they have been for the last several years. The median sales price in New Jersey was $560,000 at the end of 2024, an 11% jump from 2023, the report said. The report said most New Jersey homes sold over asking price in 2024, at about 102.8% of what they were listed for.
Single-family homes stayed on the market for about 35 days in New Jersey last year, 5.4% less time than in 2023.
As for the townhouse-condo market, the report said there were a total of 19,760 housing units sold in 2024, or 2.3% more than in 2023. New listings increased by 8.7%, with 27,380 listings.
The prices of these housing units were 11% more in 2024 than the year before, with a median sale price of $417,000. And most of these properties sold for about 101.6% of their listing price — 0.2% more than 2023 — after staying on the market for about 34 days, according to the report.
Friskies
I”lol see your 10 and raise you 5.
The Chinese government slapped tariffs of up to 15% on U.S. imports of coal and liquefied natural gas and 10% higher duties on crude oil, farm equipment and selected cars, effective Feb. 10.
Grrrr
And export controls/restrictions on rare earths.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-curbs-exports-strategic-minerals-2025-02-04/
The median sales price in New Jersey was $560,000 at the end of 2024, an 11% jump from 2023, the report said. The report said most New Jersey homes sold over asking price in 2024, at about 102.8% of what they were listed for.
Gen Z’ers are going to start hacking Boomers to death. Or, if you want to side with Boomers. you can say they fell into an asset that skyrocketed in value.
Watch out Grim. You may face 10 years for downloading DeepSeek.
https://www.404media.co/senator-hawley-proposes-jail-time-for-people-who-download-deepseek/
Nobody admirers the Boomer generation. They Implemented Trickle Down Economics and then turned Maga because Trickle Down Economics was a fraud. so stupid
Fast Eddie says:
February 4, 2025 at 7:56 am
Gen Z’ers are going to start hacking Boomers to death. Or, if you want to side with Boomers. you can say they fell into an asset that skyrocketed in value.
Hello All….been a while….cursory glance seems to show everyone staying calm and carrying on….:)
Given the crazy proliferation of AI models, a couple questions for our resident AI experts, including our gracious host….
1. Which overall LLM is ‘best’ (paid and free) for general queries
2. Which model is best to draft standard documents, eg legal, financial
3. Best model (if any) to upload a specific ‘standard type form’ document (think something like a will or trust), then request and get updated copy or reply
The last two points are basically asking, I suppose, is there a model that can replace a lawyer or FA to originate updates or replies to standard documents in the industry.
TYIA, and well wishes to all.
I found Qwen from Alibaba to be giving great reaults. Better than openAI
https://chat.qwenlm.ai/
My 2 yuan
For paid – Anthropic/Claude and OpenAI/ChatGPT (o1) are basically the two top platforms/models when it comes to security, reliability, latency, applications, etc.
IMHO, Claude has better UI/UX, and I personally think it edges out ChatGPT when it comes to coding. I pay for both, I flip flop between them. I’ve been an OpenAI member/customer since before GPT3, so I’m a bit partial there. I have Google early access to Gemini and similar. Cool, but I feel like Google is locked into playing catchup, and their UI/UX, tools, seem so incredibly crude (and the bar is NOT high). The only exception at all here is Google’s Notebook LM, which is hands down awesome for content generation.
Microsoft’s Copilot chat is obviously a gimped version of OpenAI – likely quantized to reduce the compute requirements. Trying to use Copilot, after using Claude, feels like an incredible step backwards.
Local models are interesting, but outside of playing around, hobby, r&d, the level of upfront investment required, management required, it is not something I would ever recommend.
Free cloud-hosted AI? Well, the answer is simple. If you aren’t paying for the service, it’s because you, and your data, are the product.
Hey Left.
I still write my own materials and occasionally do it in cursive.
I still write my own materials and occasionally do it in cursive.
You should see his cursive when he’s mad…
Where the fuck have you’ve been? Someone said you had a minidiatribe and bailed. Big Red shitting the bed. In the NCAA ranking they received ONE vote, and that was probably Shaefer.
leftwing says:
February 4, 2025 at 8:19 am
Hello All….been a while….cursory glance seems to show everyone staying calm and carrying on….:)
Given the crazy proliferation of AI models, a couple questions for our resident AI experts, including our gracious host….
1. Which overall LLM is ‘best’ (paid and free) for general queries
2. Which model is best to draft standard documents, eg legal, financial
3. Best model (if any) to upload a specific ‘standard type form’ document (think something like a will or trust), then request and get updated copy or reply
The last two points are basically asking, I suppose, is there a model that can replace a lawyer or FA to originate updates or replies to standard documents in the industry.
TYIA, and well wishes to all
Chatgpt still messes up images.
I had several images generated that had d1ck pictures (kid you not) in some corner or a shadow.
Barring minor differences, for text most seem ok. For something high value, spending time on the context to provide as input will go a long way.
Its so refreshing to geek out on ai and not think of the world burning.
I need ideas beyond Gold to hedge against the madman. I asked chatgpt by the way, but it only had stock responses.
I heard there has been a 10% increase in shipments from bank of england to nyc.
Here is a nice writeup on DeepSeek vs Qwen.
https://x.com/thisguyknowsai/status/1886676719207375239
For me, I dumped ChatGPT4 for Gemini. 4 started strong and went off the rails.
Can’t hack the boomers to death, too messy. Smother them.
Call it the Velvet Pillow program.
Leftwiiiiiing out there living!
good to hear from you left
general queries – Google Gemeni is getting real time feeds so it would be more up to date. Google indexes everything already and have the partnerships established for the data. Gemini does block certain categories political etc.
draft standard documents, eg legal, financial – Genie AI. Thousands of templates and legal clauses all wrapped up in that one. Uses ChatGPT, give it a try. It’s used by law firms today.
Lexus Nexus probably has an AI that is as good as a paralegal, probably super expensive.
When I Google a question Gemini provides the paragraph long answer up top, and I find that I rarely if ever click through on a page to essentially extract the same information manually. This surely must have an effect on page visits going forward.
I use chatgpt or grok for the small amount of scripting I have to do for work. Grok is free now with an x account.
I use ChatGTP to wipe my ass in the morning.
Job openings drop 556,000 to 7.6 million in December
Layoffs fall 29,000; hires rise 89,000 to 5.462 million
Jobs openings to unemployed ratio dips to 1.1 from 1.15
U.S. job openings dropped by the most in 14 months in December, but steady hiring and low layoffs suggested that the labor market was not abruptly slowing down and probably keep the Federal Reserve on the sidelines at least until June.
Trump is a moron level mercantilist when it comes to economics.
Going after Mexico and Canada seems extra dumb. China at least there’s actual national security at stake, given their regime and stated intentions.
Sovereign Wealth Fund – more nonsense, bad idea even if the Federal budget was in surplus, but there will be a deficit and a need to pay interest and debt for decades to come.
Trump is really a legend in his own mind.
DOGE might do something ok, but they are working on the small fringes of the federal budget. Most federal spending now is really coming from social programs that nobody is seriously trying to cut. And rising interest expenses which they can’t cut.
“An egg shortage has restaurants scrambling”
Intensional pun?
Google Gemini’s advanced subscription has MOE (Mixture of experts) built in.
Legal questions are routed there, contract law, criminal law, legal docs and contracts, amongst others. No idea how good it is for legal stuff or how well it with with google docs.
NoOne- who says you need a surplus? Right now Treasury holds as of Today about 800 billion in cash parked at the Fed mostly. Who is to say they cannot play the markets with it? One account is at the Fed in cash and others at commercial banks. As far as I know cash and UST only.
How about let some of it ride? Stocks, bonds, options, crypto etc…Donnie was a gambler he has an itch still I bet.
yesterday Eric pumped ETH and it went to bagholders.
Once Soverign Wealth Fund, named as TrumpFund or MagaFund is created, it will be used in DJT, Kalshi, Rumble, Tether etc. In a downturn, they need to protect the bank.
Juice,
Why not gamble it all. Put it all on black. We know how well fund managers behave. There is a very good reason it is in safe places. We gonna need it one day. And it can’t be like Fannie or Freddie that’s solvent on Monday and bankrupt on Tuesday.
Feeling great is everyone no?
No One says:
February 4, 2025 at 12:36 pm
“Trump is really a legend…DOGE might do something ok…”
It’s certainly been a spectacular start for DJT. All rational, law-abiding, tax-paying citizens have to be thrilled at what’s been accomplished on their behalf — border problem for instance, is completely fixed. And then of course there are the Dems, who are completely flummoxed and so mad that they’re actively rooting for illegal alien criminals. Speaking of DOGE, shining a light on the rot and decay at USAID might turn out to be one of the biggest stories of the year — it appears to be a massive, swampy slush fund. Go DOGE!
Lib – re: safe places
You mean that now 36 trillion pile of IOUs known as UST. It’s going to be 37 trillion before the ides of March.
Every geriatric politician in Washington DC is hoping they die before the cows come home on that debt.
Unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare. 226 Trillion with a T…
I don’t blame the crypto kiddies for wanting to buy meme coins.
https://www.usdebtclock.org
You mean like DJT? and $TRUMP?
Let me know when the fentanyl deaths decrease won’t you please?
Juice,
I worked in the city back when Clinton actually got the debt clock to stop. They even turned it off for a while since it couldn’t count down, only up. Long gone are those days.
I see Trump is doing his best to make friends all over the world. I mean, who needs friends when you can sucker your supporters into giving you 7 billion dollars? Heck, that’s probably many billions less than was wasted in USAID. But, MAGA not so good at math. MAGA not so good at anything but getting felt up in the movie theater and grabbing them by the pussy.
This is MAGA.
https://www.youtube.com/live/SvT5cEjymxU?si=GbuNTpoXxd9_kV-N&t=12
Watch 60 seconds. It is so cringeworthy. This is MAGA. This is your future. It’s like Idiocracy, only here and now. Smalls. Do you find this crap entertaining?
Trump coin hits another all time low today. How much did you idiots contribute?
Lib,
I’ve noticed that you have become a lot more vocal and negative of MAGA as of late. MAGA’s been around for quite some time, but I get the sense that something’s changed for you.
I think something has changed for a lot of people. I just got invited to my first celebrity shindig. Not really feeling it. I would rather just hang out of with ordinary folks.
Lib really has gone all in on the Trump resistance as is his right! (no pun intended) What has really got me thinking is “narrative” and the narrative of who is good and who is bad in the World. You really have to wonder when so much of the image famous people put forth is crafted by a PR machine. Are we really getting authenticity or are we getting some version of an image. This polarization is also really tedious and tests the bounds of friendship and family. When in fact you and I are all pawns here.
To the folks who have previously in the past raised the issue of Hillary’s emails: How do you feel about citizen Musk being allowed to plug into Treasury’s records/systems?
What Trump represents is the worst in all of us. I used to have a lot of pride in our country. He duped all of you. He really did. He is held to no standards by his idiot supporters who are just as willing to lie as he is. Nothing has changed in me. I know there was plenty of corruption with the Dems. But Trump has taken assholery to a whole new level. I mean, who lies about a meeting with Trudeau? What world leader lies about deals with China?
If anyone besides a MAGA candidate did 100th the foolishness that Trump is doing, you would never hear the end of it. Sure, I hated the HRC bathroom server and Hunter’s dealings in Russia. But 7 billion???? in free money overnight. It’s the most abhorrent thing I have ever witnessed in my life. It’s truly disgusting and no one cares. One can’t be silent when this much damage is occuring sorry, but it truly is. Who the fuck pardons a cop murderer?
Nothing has changed in me. What has changed is the level of tolerance in everyone else.
At least in the coming months, I can offer you one great, big, I told you so.
Boomer,
At least you are noticing.
And the worst part of all of this is that the economy was in pretty decent shape considering. Now we are dismantling so much of what makes America who we are. Trump doesn’t care about you or me or even the country. All he cares about is how many golden toilets he can purchase and show off. 7 billion dollars is a lot of dough to someone who supposedly didn’t make any money for the four years prior. Or at least that’s what the tax forms he refused to share revealed. We let that go too. He hugged the flag!
What suprises me is how everyone can sit back and take this pussy grabber at his word.
Remember, last time around he enriched the rich. This time he is really working hard to enrich himself and his friends at the expense of you and me.
Did you see this Project 2025. It’s like Mein Kampf. But no one seems to care. He hugged the flag.
Meanwhile Tulsi and RFK, jr advance to the Senate.
This is what happens when a clueless person makes a deal with China.
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2022/china-bought-none-extra-200-billion-us-exports-trumps-trade-deal
Yet he keeps on doubling down on his past failures. But no one says boo. He hugged the flag!!!
Can’t wait to see our healthcare destroyed by the whale head.
This is MAGA. Kiss the ring. Get some DJT shares. Nothing to see here. MAGA can do no wrong.
All three indexes up. DJT and $TRUMP down. What a loser.
Tathat DC plane crash was due to the Jews, I meant DEI. This is your President.
Let me ask you guys something. I know I am annoying the fuck out of a bunch of you. But has anything I said been wrong? Any of it conspiracy? And of it even non-sensicle? Because I don’t lie. I don’t exagerate. I just tell it like it is. Shame no one seems to care any more.
Lib, I think most people have very little faith in the government to operate efficiently or offer anything other than a minimum of satisfaction to it’s populace. In many cases government is an obstacle to good sense. EPA needs twenty acres for each burn site to dump waste en masse and then move it from there? WTF. It’s the lack of execution and common sense in most areas that make government the enemy to many folks. But yeah, I don’t think you are wrong at all. We are witnessing history.
Listen. I’m not denying that the Dems deserved to be thrown out. But to be replaced by having the richest man in the world (who made most of it off of government subsidies and then had the gaul to promote DOGEcoin on SNL I mean, when is enough, enough?) end US Aid and have access to the inner workings of our entire government simply because he kissed Trump’s ring? You can’t make this shit up. It’s 100 times worse than anything anyone has done before and nobody cares. The middle class and poor in this country are going to get railed, much like the gays and the transgendered. Shouldn’t be long before us Jews get thrown into the trash heap with them.
Libturd says:
February 4, 2025 at 2:59 pm
“I can offer you one great, big, I told you so”
Like you told us that the SCOTUS reversal of Roe would absolutely, positively, most definitely ensure that SlowJoe would beat DJT? Unfortunately Lib, you’ve become a blow-hard; completely overcome with hatred of DJT — and incredulous that anyone would disagree with you. It’s going to be a long four years so please go back to dropping stock tips and investment strategies, that’s your strong suit.
The Jews can’t win. We were villainized under the Squad members of the far left. The right likes us because we are an important part of their end of days scenario. I’m not really sure which is worse.
^^ Agreed.
Juice, wasn’t it you who used to foam at the mouth over Hillary’s emails? Apologies if it wasn’t.
Bro, the hairplug PayPal pedo-diver guy has interns going through Treasury records as you are reading this.
wtf is a “special government employee”? Is he even on payroll?
I meant to agree with Lib’s 3:42 post
Lib, your sentiment is echoed by a lot of folks I’m close to. Me being one of them, and I come off as annoying as well.
I have moved from a state of disbelief to a state of “what can I do about it”… as are a lot of folks I know.
We don’t have the guts of the middle east folks who are willing to give up their lives (sometimes misguided). Or the Bangladeshis who overthrew a corrupt woman prime ministrer. We don’t even have the resolve of the tank man in china. We are in the midst of a government coup by the world’s second richest man and what we do is fight amongst ourselves.
So, What do we do now – given that the govt has been taken over?
3:52 We Hope like hell the DEMs can field enough decent candidates to restore some balance to both the House and Senate in….checks calendar….two years.
Libturd,
I doubt Trump is grabbing much pussy these days. Melania doesn’t seem very loving, and he surrounds himself mostly with men. It would be entertaining if he and Tulsi were caught having an affair though.
Though I live around people who are more Republican than not, I don’t hang out with any truly MAGA people who claim everything he does is right. The people I know who voted for him did so because the alternative was so bad. As I predicted, Trump would bring chaos, and he wouldn’t be more stable. Occasionally his changes are for the better, often for the worse. The best news is that Trump can only serve 4 years, if he survives that long, while I might have been stuck having to hear Quota Queen Special K talk for eight more years.
LAX says:
February 4, 2025 at 3:57 pm
“We Hope like hell the DEMs can field enough decent candidates…”
Ritchie Torres from da Bronx. The most impressive, level-headed Dem that I’ve seen in decades. DNC should do everything it can to raise this guy’s profile and make him the face of the party. But alas, they’ll probably push AOC and Gavin Gruesome
You are right. People were struggling in Biden’s economy. Kamala was filled with “joy” and other emotions that seems refreshing at first glance, but wound up being empty and kind of off-topic for most. She was “loyal” to Biden in that she didn’t try to distance herself from his policies. But that was another facade. Many on this board called it though when Kamala was appointed to represent us rather than go through any Democratic process. These miscalculations and the fact that most Americans were tired of the politics de jour. Trump was just waiting for the moment Biden sun downed during the debate. It was “easy” pickins’ and the Dems have now proven to be completely ineffectual. One does hope that Elon didn’t rig the election though. That would be a pretty bad offense. But I would not put it past him.
4:05 I think Newsom is probably “done” on the National Stage. The fires really cost him.
AOC is an acquired taste that I haven’t acquired.
If any of you dem lefists were defense lawyers and fed the jury nothing but hyperbole, the defendant would be convicted in an hour. Trump Derangement Syndrome feasts on hyperbole, void of anything substantial. Distortion, hype and your gingerbread antics are the reason the democrat party no longer exists. Even during slo joes regime, it was Legacy media’s 90/10 proliferation of exaggerated insanity that blinded your flunkies which ended the 197 year reign of the democrat party.
You didn’t want to admit you had nothing left to stand for, nothing left to fight for and nothing left to offer. The American people saw the wounded seal drifting in the wake; Trump was just the bull shark that put it… a failed political movement, out of it’s misery.
LAX,
When you mention acquiring the taste for AOC, I remember the Gentle Giant album cover “Acquiring the Taste”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiring_the_Taste
“Artwork
The album cover artwork shows a giant tongue licking what appear to be buttocks. When the album gatefold sleeve is opened completely, however, it actually shows the tongue licking a peach. In 2005 the cover was featured in Pitchfork’s list of “The Worst Record Covers of All Time”
$:35 That is where you are wrong. We still need clean rivers and oceans. We still need some checks on Corporate greed and overreach, and we still need decent healthcare and benefits for retirees and those in need. I agree that the arguments that Trump ran on were FAKE. He claimed he’s fix XYZ on “day one” and yet all he has managed to do is paralyze government.
Trump won because most people stayed home on election day. Many of those stay at homes might regret that decision as the years go on. I have friends who are true believers in Trump. He’s a reaction to some really misplaced priorities on the part of the Federal Government. Trump is what you get when you stop caring and turn over the keys to the kingdom to a con man.
Well to keep the dupe train on the tracks, today he called for abolishing the current DOE and merging it with the department of labor. I suppose his emergency powers invoked due to all the DEI in the DOE. Fortunately, there are enough sane minds in DC to make sure the moron in chief didn’t get his way. And the right had issues with Obama’s executive orders. So another Trump campaign promise broken. But at least he’ll claim he tried. Because it’s one big mouth and the worl’s smallest stick marketing to his cult followers once again.
Last night, the tariffs never went into effect and Trump gained absolutely nothing except pissed off a ton of Mexicans and Canadians who will now boycott American products. His so called deals were already in effect as I linked to the articles that showed both the Mexican military had been in place since Biden requested them back in 2023 and since Trudeau revealed his plan for border guards back in December. Yet Gary and Smalls thinks Trump actually accomplished something. In truth, all he did was hurt future relations. I applaud the Canadians who booed our national anthem at the hockey games last night. I hope most Americans start booing ours too. And I full well expect them to.
Feeling great yet?
Gary,
Give me one substantial thing that Trump has done to improve your lot or the lot of anyone around you?
“void of anything substantial.”
Did you listen to that Gutfeld post I linked? Holy crap is that man a moron. It’s not even the slightest bit humorous. And the parrots on the stage with him? It’s worse than that awful Joy/Whoopie morning show which I thought would be impossible to top. A bunch of alpha males all one-upping each other is what passes for entertainment for the cult.
Midterms can’t come soon enough. My honest to goodness, absolute greatest worry is that Trump is going to make things so bad, that an unqualified Dem nincompoop is going to win and just up their idiotic identity politics game and will try to up the personally enriching corrupt Federal leadership game to compete with Trump’s new benchmark of fraudulance. And America has proved it’s stupidity to allow it to happen.
Perhaps, when things get as bad I expect them too, when other sane nations around the world form alliances leaving MAGA out of it, Americans will get off their fat asses and march on Washington. Everyone knows that all that Trump cares about besides getting rich is for everyone to love him. The only way to slow him is to show him for the farce that he is.
And since the Cult is about to get their asses reamed financially, I have two stock picks. NICE and MP. Wait for a pullback in the latter. Forget gold and meme coins (wtf is a meme coin?) and crypto and invest in great American companies that profit right here in America.
I could shoot myself for missing Spotify too. Even my kid subscribes. No brainer, especially with the playlist sharing.
Trump is president because of the Democrats. They caused this. Ya dun goofed.
This is a blitzkrieg. Musk was an avid reader growing up and the power – akin to all his heroes in the books, really gets him off. He has done it with twitter.
Too fast for people on the Left to react and the Right still waking up.
Two years is too long. We are now inside that little blue bird.
Boomer re: ” foam at the mouth over Hillary’s emails”.
Not quite foam. Like most people who understand technology when I heard about here home brew server Windows that had Remote Desktop access from her toilet right to anywhere on the internet I was a bit perturbed by the coverup which had been going on since she was made Secretary of State by Obama in 2009. This only got worse later during the election in the summer and fall of 2016 when the criminal investigation(s) the FBI was performing were twice concluded with a recommendation of no charges. Two official coverups….by Comey and crew. The DNC had time to switch to a better candidate one who could defeat Trump. Some of us say it was Bernie.
But hey I was foaming over Trump right? Nope…..
I don’t think Bernie stood a chance. People just aren’t ready for his brand of socialism.
5:26 You aren’t wrong. It was a complete debacle. But buckle up buttercup. It’s gonna be nuuuuuuts.
Thanks guys on the replies, especially grim.
Chi, how you! Yes, Red hurts…what can you do? You going to be seeing a lot of games up there (son must have picked a school by now)? And Minidia Tribe, you think I’m in the SW smoking peyote? I’m on a Liberal island for the loose women, unique drinks, and interesting music surrounded by a sea of Red that would make Eddie blush.
Lib, to grims point, you breaking many pens lol? Love you man so…be well. Big picture, honestly, none of it really matters…..More importantly how’s your son, good year in FL?
LAX, you good with fires? BRT, still gardening, Spring be here before we know it…
Cheers!!
I have to say allot of foaming at the mouth today over Democrats. That would be RFK, Tulsi and well Elon and Trump. They were Democrats a long long time before they changed their stripes and became MAGA.
I just noticed the Dems elected two white males to run the party. Why exactly?
Ken Martin a straight white male from flyover country and 24 year old David Hogg who some of the left believe David Hogg can be the masculine figure they need to regain the young males….
BRT – Are they going to be missed by the teachers?
“President Donald Trump could soon sign an executive order directing the secretary of education to dismantle the federal Department of Education, according to sources briefed on drafts of the order that have circulated among top administration officials.”
The muslim bloc is the stupidest of them all. If they voted for Kamala they would have had a chance.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-netanyahu-washington-ceasefire-1c8deec4dd46177e08e07d669d595ed3
Gaza will be razed to the ground for a few beach houses.
“President Donald Trump could soon sign an executive order directing the secretary of education to dismantle the federal Department of Education, according to sources briefed on drafts of the order that have circulated among top administration officials.”
The DOE was created by congressional statute. I don’t think the president has the constitutional authority to dismantle it under our constitution.
Give me one substantial thing that Trump has done to improve your lot or the lot of anyone around you?
Destroyed hiring quotas based on race, equity and gender and encouraged hiring based on merit, experience and qualifications. Firms are still free to hire as they please but they’re not afraid to change course. And many have done a 180 after being hog-tied for years out of fear of retribution. I work for a global firm and all of a sudden, the DEI notifications in TEAMS and SLACK have vanished. And, I’ve received one email and one call from a recruiter asking if I’m interested in a full time role with another global firm. I’m not even looking. The name on my resume doesn’t exactly scream some ethnicity other than American/European nor do I have a pronoun beside it. And the guy is in office for 12 fucking business days… to say he “failed” to implement his plan(s) is beyond absurd. But, in 12 days, he’s done more than the vegetable has done in four years. The transition and ground-breaking of a new era is simply remarkable. You asked for on thing that has opened the door for me personally, I gave it above. As for the country… things are just starting to ramp up.
“You didn’t want to admit you had nothing left to stand for, nothing left to fight for and nothing left to offer. ”
No, the issue is with the GOP who are rotten to the core and spineless. They laid out the plan with Project 2025, they denied it and now we see the implementation. Forget about the midterms, we will not get there. Donnie already said that that was the last vote you needed to cast.
The Dems will still fight and we have a great new generation of leaders.
https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1886917622412828773
Your GOP.
Senator Bill Cassidy was the deciding vote to advance RFK Jr.’s nomination. As CNN’s
@jeffzeleny told me on @InsidePolitics
, “The reality here is, it is virtually impossible, politically speaking, to withstand the opposition particularly if you are up for reelection.”
https://x.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1886843614426181785
Left,
D’s brother is kicking ass taking names in UF. Halfway through and his GPA is a 3.92. He’s already got two semesters of research work under his belt and has a full time job as a RBT lined up for all Summer and Winter breaks. I’m taking him on a cruise for Spring Break on a Virgin Voyage cruise. He’ll be legal to gamble and drink so it’s going to be a week long party.
Hope all is well with you. By the way, I keep telling myself it doesn’t matter too. But I fear that this time, it really might. Mainly due to complicity. Nonetheless, figuring out a way to profit off the chaos as usual.
Toodles.
DEI is a real issue for a lot of people. Especially white people.
Senator Bill Cassidy is a doctor. He knows better. Not a cult.
Doe has zero influence on schools teachers or students. It’s a political patronage pit masquerading as an important organization
Doe has zero influence on schools teachers or students. It’s a political patronage pit masquerading as an important organization
That may be true. If so, Trump should ask Mike Johnson to write a bill to eliminate it, and congress should vote on it.
That’s the legal way.
That may be true. If so, Trump should ask Mike Johnson to write a bill to eliminate it, and congress should vote on it.
That’s the legal way.
BREAKING: White House prepares executive order to DISMANTLE the Dept. of Education, per WSJ.
“The officials have discussed an executive order that would shut down all functions of the agency that aren’t written explicitly into statute or move certain functions to other departments. The order would call for developing a legislative proposal to abolish the department.”
Trump taking a strong stand in Gaza. Daaayyyyyamn
The Dems will still fight and we have a great new generation of leaders.
https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1886917622412828773
Again, fighting for what? More raiding the till in the name of democracy? More fake crisis’ to mask the slight of hand? More transgender comic books for Peru? A DEI musical in the UK? Did anyone know what the USAID stood for and how much they pilfered? I didn’t. I do now. It’s in the BILLIONS for what amounts to money laundering.
Democrats were going wild… WILD… in the street in Washington today, vowing to start a war and fight back. Fight for what? They were taking a manufactured outrage and embellishing on it. Then they pivoted, pedal to the floor and went with the “Constitutional Crisis.” The dems hate that they’re being exposed.
How about a few million to support LGBTQ awareness in the Balkans. DEI scholarships for Burma? Yes, we need to stage a war for that. Once again, it’s a multi billion dollar laundering operation around the globe and at home to feed the grifters. We’re being fucked from every angle.
BREAKING: White House prepares executive order to DISMANTLE the Dept. of Education, per WSJ.
“The officials have discussed an executive order that would shut down all functions of the agency that aren’t written explicitly into statute or move certain functions to other departments. The order would call for developing a legislative proposal to abolish the department.”
Go for it!
BTW, I have no opinion on whether the DOE should be abolished or not.
But until it is abolished, it should be doing the things and spending the money that congess has approved.
How about a few million to support LGBTQ awareness in the Balkans. DEI scholarships for Burma?
Yeah, if gays in the Balkans or women in Burma are being persecuted or discriminated against, that’s their problem- they should have picked better countries to be born in!
That’s the problem, it grew into a multi-hundred-billion dollar behemoth that adopts whatever functions it wants, just like every other government agency. It seems they are going the legal route and acting right away by eliminating any functions that violate the initial legislation
Yeah, all 50 billion went to gender and DEI initiatives, just like every immigrant is a rapist. Rinse and repeat. Sure, some of that shit was sleazy. But just wait until the lobbyists get their paws on the flea market reps in the Capital Building. Oh the corruption you’ll see.
No talk about the US taking over GAZA?
Lib,
one thing at a time. We haven’t invaded Greenland yet.
I don’t know how you don’t get annoyed with large sums of money being stolen. Or is it we just get mad when specific people are the ones stealing?
Personally, I don’t like to see money stolen.
Just need to know exactly what money and who’s stealing it.
Agreed. The whole thing is really unseemly. Not even sure why RFKJ would want the job except to grift.
Fabius Maximus says:
February 4, 2025 at 6:43 pm
Your GOP.
Senator Bill Cassidy was the deciding vote to advance RFK Jr.’s nomination. As CNN’s
@jeffzeleny told me on @InsidePolitics
, “The reality here is, it is virtually impossible, politically speaking, to withstand the opposition particularly if you are up for reelection.”
Lib 10:16, check 5:58
Jewish vote was 79% for Harris in 2024.
The Muslim vote was 23% for Harris.
Voting in anger and hate instead of a rational mind has consequences.
He certainly likes beachfront. Greenland, Panama, Gaza.
Next, would be California which he will try to depose Newsom himself. This will re-energize Newsom though. In the meantime cold war started with China. I am amazed so many buffoons fell for him as a peace guy.
https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1886680071320080749?s=46&t=JBEIpyGkpFlKn3zp8fw5tQ
Apparently, Trump decided to take Gaza, after seeing Free Palestine posters.
Water Front property in Gaza!!! Not on my Bingo card.
We don’t no education.
We don’t need no birth control.
Hey, Teacher, leave those kids alone.
Trump