From Reuters:
New Jersey sues RealPage, says collusion with landlords drives up rents
New Jersey sued the property management software company RealPage, accusing it and 10 of the state’s largest landlords of conspiring to drive up residential rents, violating federal and state antitrust laws and New Jersey consumer fraud laws.
The complaint filed on Wednesday by state Attorney General Matthew Platkin said the defendants, including AvalonBay Communities, illegally used RealPage’s revenue management software and algorithms to inflate rents for apartments in multifamily properties.
New Jersey said the defendants also quietly exchanged non-public data such as lease prices, amenities, concessions offered, property values and housing inventory, in order to align pricing and avoid competition to lower rents.
The state said the collusion has inflated rents for hundreds of thousands of residents, with half of low-income renters paying more than 30% of their gross incomes toward rent. Many real estate and financial experts recommend a 30% limit.
“This lawsuit is about putting a stop to corporate greed at its worst,” said Jeremy Hollander, acting director of New Jersey’s division of consumer affairs. “The housing market in New Jersey is already stacked in favor of landlords but the defendants wanted more.”
…
A spokeswoman, Jennifer Bowcock, added that the software is designed to comply with housing laws.
“The claims brought by the New Jersey attorney general are devoid of merit and will do nothing to make housing more affordable,” Bowcock said in an email. “New Jersey should stop scapegoating pro-competitive technology.”
First
Boomers rush to dump second homes by the sea in mad scramble for cash after huge stock market losses.
The shift is especially striking in a state that once topped the nation for vacation ownership — nearly 1 in 5 homes in Maine were second residences as of 2019.
Local realtors say it’s mostly Baby Boomers dumping their properties after their stock market portfolios took a hit during the recent tariff crash.
‘People tell me, “I’m really concerned about what’s going to happen over the next year or two with my retirement, Social Security, and my money,”‘
‘People’s funds are way down, and they have this other asset — they want the cash.’
Listings have tripled rom just over 1,000 in February to more than 3,000 in March — most of them vacation homes.
‘Maybe they don’t use it as much anymore and they can take advantage of the value having gone way up,’ Landry said.
‘But what is really driving it is a collective anxiety — they lived through the 2008 crash, and now they’re thinking, “I have to get out now.”‘
Grrrrr
CNBC Daily Open: Trump blinks first in trade war he started
PUBLISHED THU, APR 24 2025 2:35 AM EDT
U.S. President Donald Trump called the first shots in his trade crusade, but he also blinked first in his tariff war.
Trump late Tuesday said that the current 145% tariff on Chinese imports is “very high, and it won’t be that high. … No, it won’t be anywhere near that high. It’ll come down substantially. But it won’t be zero.” The president’s softer tone towards China, despite no formal talks, was in stark contrast to his more combative rhetoric earlier in April.
Plotkin must has missed the memo last year, or is just trying to make a name before the door hit him in the ass on his way out when Govenor Murphy’s term ends in about 9 months.
DOJ and several other states are already suing Realpage.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters
Juice: pretty much sounds like collusion to me.
Juice,
Maybe, just maybe,
NJ is slower at collecting the data it needed for a lawsuit.
Wouldn’t surprise me. But here will be the end result, it’s so predictable.
Lawsuit commences. Settlement reached.
Landlords make 10 billion extra profit.
State wins 2 billion judgement.
State comes out 2 billion ahead.
Landlord comes out 7 billion ahead (after lawyer’s fees)
Renters lose.
‘murican legal system.
Send the landlords to El Salvador.
Now that would be entertaining.
Procter & Gamble cuts earnings outlook in part due to tariffs, as CEO says price hikes are ‘likely’
PUBLISHED THU, APR 24 2025
P&G already makes many of the products sold domestically in the U.S., but President Donald Trump’s tariffs will likely raise some of its costs.
“There will likely be pricing — tariffs are inherently inflationary
I thought Tesla drivers were assumed to he good save the earth Democrats. Now, since they are acting like ass holes they must be Republicans, just like that we can change the narrative. I agree I have encouraged ass hole Tesla drivers , but that was long before Trump was re elected. Also BMW drivers, another group of ass hole drivers. We shall now assume they are Republicans too.
Dark: The article says since the second home has increased so much , Boomers are selling to take advantage of that. Well, if the Boomers no longer want them, who else can afford to buy them at the increased price?
Lib: Re Chitpole , I did not know that those other two chains you mention are big in Mexico. As for burritos I thought they were more of a northern Mexico thing, and not as common in the rest of Mexico.
3b
Wait and see. They are selling, question is are there going to be buyers.
Leverage is the key to what you can afford. There is always a dolt willing to borrow if there is a bank willing to lend.
Sometimes these dolts do quite well. Time will tell.
*AMERICAN AIR WITHDRAWING FULL YEAR GUIDANCE AT THIS TIME
I love watching the AHOle drivers go speeding past me. I think the entertainment is worth the risk that one of them might possibly clip me.
I’ll just keep doing my chill driving as I have before, hoping to catch a big one on a dash cam.
Nothing I can do about it anyway, so I might as well enjoy it as a form of entertainment.
God give me the serenity….
Southwest to cut flights this year, pulls guidance, citing ‘macroeconomic uncertainty’
PUBLISHED WED, APR 23 2025 4:38 PM EDT
UPDATED WED, APR 23 2025 5:56 PM EDT
2005: Buy now or be priced out forever.
Susan researches it…
2025: You’re priced out forever.
4 plain Chipotle chicken burritos is $43.50 with tax around here. I don’t think they can afford that price in Mexico.
What will it cost?
I don’t think it’s that far fetched. Everyone, even couples in their late 30s in my neighborhood saw their stock portfolio and went and bought a 2nd home at the shore. I wouldn’t be surprised if owning that 2nd home became a lot less feasible over the next few years. Then someone like Murph can always come in and hike their property taxes another $5k
Dark: That is my point, who will the buyers be? If the younger generations are strong to buy a primary home, who is going to buy these second/ vacation homes?
PepsiCo cuts earnings forecast as it predicts ‘uncertainty’ in tariffs, consumer spending
PUBLISHED THU, APR 24 2025 6:15 AM EDT
UPDATED 3 MIN AGO
BRT: I don’t know why people would want to burden themselves with a second home, to maybe use a couple of months of the year. I would rather travel. I love the Jersey Shore, and we go fairly often in the summer, but it is so over priced. Going to a family thing in early August studying in Spring Lake ( Ocean House) ,$800.00 ( with breakfast) for 2 days.
Whirlpool Corp. will lay off 651 workers at its Amana, Iowa, manufacturing plant this summer to align with current market conditions driven by consumer demand.
“4 plain Chipotle chicken burritos is $43.50 with tax around here. I don’t think they can afford that price in Mexico.
What will it cost?”
It will be way cheaper in Mexico than in the United States.
When I lived in SoCal, we had a friend who had a place about an hour south of the border between Ensenada and Rosarita. We would go down there every few months. We were always amazed by how much cheaper American products sold in Mexico were compared with their U.S. pricing. I remember Dannon yogurts especially. They were 2 for a dollar up here, but three for a dollar down there. Keep in mind, they were imported. Nearly everything priced about 25 to 50% less down there. Even fast food. This speaks loudly to the huge profit margin these places make off of us. We would literally do as much of our grocery shopping down there as possible.
Stu: one day your frugality will show its dark side
You can get a great meal in Mexico for like five bucks. The only saving grace might be they will see Chipotle as American food like McDonald’s (366 restaurants in Mexico), Burger King (420 stores in Mexico) or Starbucks (753 stores in Mexico).
Chipolte has 3,371 restaurants in the USA. Even three hundred or so Chipotles in Mexico won’t make much of a difference in their bottom line especially if the food is 50% or more less expensive.
“Stu: one day your frugality will show its dark side”
There is no dark side to frugality. Matter of fact, it’s all dark. Bwahahahahahahaha.
Seriously. I will spend money when it’s something where quality matters. For example, I have handmade wool slippers that are hand made in Germany. They last forever and because they are wool, you don’t sweat in them. They are Haflingers. Or our TravelPro luggage. Which we got at a Samsonite price. Heck, I overpaid by 10K for our last auto purchase.
Did I mention those slipper were handmade?
• Smallest Businesses Cut Jobs: Small businesses employing less than 10 people cut 43,100 jobs in 2024.
• More Part-Time Jobs: During the Biden-Harris Administration, 1.7 million more Americans have had to take multiple jobs. In August, 2024 alone, 264,000 more Americans took on part-time work for economic reasons.
• More Bureaucrats: Under the Biden-Harris Administration, 30 percent of new jobs have come from hiring for government salaries. In August 2024, government agencies added 24,000 to taxpayer-funded payrolls.
• No “Manufacturing Boom”: In August 2024, manufacturers cut another 24,000 jobs and the United States has shed 94,000 manufacturing jobs in 2024.
• Everything Costs More: Prices have increased 20.3 percent under the Biden-Harris Administration.
• Americans Making Less: Real wages and benefits have fallen 3.9 percent under the Biden-Harris Administration.
• Inflation Above Fed’s Target: For 41 straight months under the Biden-Harris Administration, inflation was above the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target.
• Inflation Higher Than Wages: Inflation outpaced wages for 26 straight months under the Biden-Harris Administration.
• Historic Interest Rates: Under the Biden-Harris Administration, interest rates hit their highest levels in 23 years.
• Mortgage Costs 89% Higher: The monthly mortgage payment for a median priced new home has increased by $1,005 and is 89 percent higher than when President Biden and Vice President Harris took office in January 2021.
• $1 Trillion+ Credit Card Debt: Credit card interest rates are at the highest level in more than three decades, while consumer credit debt has exceeded $1 trillion for five calendar quarters and the number of Americans struggling to pay credit card bills has increased to the highest level since March 2012. Nearly 14 percent of credit card balances are more than 90 days past due.
• Shrinking Savings: Thanks to higher prices, families have spent the entirety of their pandemic savings by 2024, and they are able to save less of their income. At 3.3 percent, the personal savings rate is near its historic lows.
• Families Falling Behind on Bills: Over one-third of families (37 percent) paid a late fee in the past year.
• Washington Has A Spending Problem: After the Trump tax cuts, federal revenue as a share of GDP averaged 17.2 percent, near the average since FY2000. Under the Biden-Harris Administration, federal spending as a share of GDP has exploded to 26.5 percent, more than 6 percentage points higher than the average from FY2000 to the pandemic.
They arrested a guy for starting the wildfires in south Jersey. A 19 year old, who started an unattended bonfire.
March home sales fall by 5.9 percent; biggest drop since 2022.
How about those sanctions? Put 20 billion more on them. After a while you get tired of threats and abuse. 24 hours? F you and your sanctions/tariffs,/ control tactics.
Go Russia go.
Russia bombards Kyiv, provoking rare rebuke from Trump as peace talks stall
“Vladimir, STOP!” the U.S. president wrote on Truth Social, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The attack killed at least eight people and wounded more than 60, according to authorities, in one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in nearly a year.
“We don’t want to give our land away, and he wants us to give our land away and give up,” Gribanov said of Trump.
“It’s easier to put a victim under pressure than an aggressor,” Krizhanovskiy said, adding that Trump was “an imbecile.”
Victim of alcohol.
3b says:
April 24, 2025 at 10:06 am
They arrested a guy for starting the wildfires in south Jersey. A 19 year old, who started an unattended bonfire.
Dark Libturd.
Hehe.
There’s definitely collusion. My daughter’s trying to find an apartment near the Rutgers campus, and the terms, conditions and prices are way out of line. A 1 BR if you don’t share costs $1800/mo. If you share a multi room apartment, the cheapest you can get for any dump is around $1200/month.
There is only competition among students – and zero competition between apartments. I am not sure of the technical details of what constitutes collusion – but there’s certainly some algorithm based pricing going on.
My other kid was smarter – he commuted from home when not living in the dorms, even though I offered to pay for an apartment.
Dark Libturd says:
April 24, 2025 at 9:54 am
Did I mention those slipper were handmade?
How old was she?
Kiev is guarded by some of the most advanced anti-missile air defense. US Patriot, Norwegian NASAMS, and German IRIS-T.. The ballistic missiles fired at Kyiv yesterday were shot down. The damage was caused by the debris falling from the rockets. This is per Vitali Klitschko the mayor of Kyiv.
3b – bonfire? That guy set wooden pallets onfire in the woods. Arson…
One of the professors who recently divorced and lost his house, bought one of the newer highly priced Pulte apartments next to Rutgers (like this one):
https://www.pulte.com/homes/new-jersey/central-jersey/new-brunswick/scarlet-place-211150/bowery-696379#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=50e11ef1-c455-4bf7-9c15-168b47880000
He was expecting to have other grown ups around given how much more expensive it is, and he’s now complaining that all his neighbors are loud partying rich kids. Hehehe
RL,
Americans are thieves by nature. They killed the Indians, stole the land, pilfered all of the IP and technology from Europe. Your president extorts, so think of those rent payments as a sanction or tariff.
Heyyyy, is this article about China or the USA?
The Spies Who Launched America’s Industrial Revolution
From water-powered textile mills, to mechanical looms, much of the machinery that powered America’s early industrial success was “borrowed” from Europe.
Long before the United States began accusing other countries of stealing ideas, the U.S. government encouraged intellectual piracy to catch up with England’s technological advances. According to historian Doron Ben-Atar, in his book, Trade Secrets, “the United States emerged as the world’s industrial leader by illicitly appropriating mechanical and scientific innovations from Europe.”
Among those sniffing out innovations across the Atlantic was Harvard graduate and Boston merchant, Francis Cabot Lowell. As the War of 1812 raged on, Lowell set sail from Great Britain in possession of the enemy’s most precious commercial secret. He carried with him pirated plans for Edmund Cartwright’s power loom, which had made Great Britain the world’s leading industrial power.
Founding Fathers Encouraged Intellectual Piracy
Lowell was hardly the first American to pilfer British intellectual property. The Founding Fathers not only tolerated intellectual piracy, they actively encouraged it. Many agreed with Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who believed that the development of a strong manufacturing base was vital to the survival of the largely agrarian country. Months before taking the oath of office as the first president in 1789, George Washington wrote to Thomas Jefferson that “the introduction of the late improved machines to abridge labor, must be of almost infinite consequence to America.”
He was expecting to have other grown ups around given how much more expensive it is, and he’s now complaining that all his neighbors are loud partying rich kids. Hehehe
Should have given them some easy grades, might have been able to party with some of them now. It’s always for sale.
Watched a vid on Chicago Transit Authority.
Amazing how none of the women wanted nothing to do with them, but when they became famous, all of the groupie women wanted to shack up with them.
Great documentary btw.
I wouldn’t go that far to say America stole from Britain. It’s like OpenAI complaining Darkseek stole from it, when OpenAI itself stole from authors.
AI #1
“When I’m back in the White House, the war in Ukraine? Over. Done. It’ll be the quickest peace deal in history — believe me. I know Putin, I know Zelensky. We’re going to sit down, make a deal, and stop the killing. No more endless wars under weak leadership. Only strong, smart deals — the best deals — and peace through strength!”
AI#2
“Folks, I’m telling you — ending the war in Ukraine? So easy. I make one phone call — just one. I say, ‘Vlad, Volodymyr — let’s wrap it up, okay?’ Boom. War’s over by lunchtime. Maybe brunch. Nobody ends wars like I do. I even thought about doing it on Truth Social — save the travel. And NATO? They’ll be so confused, they’ll have to Google ‘peace.’ Total win. Tremendous peace. Everybody’s happy. Except maybe CNN.”
“Vlad, stop. Stop Vlad”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/24/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-kyiv.html
This headline reads like a fake rape p0rn subtitle.
RentL0rd says:
April 24, 2025 at 11:00 am
I wouldn’t go that far to say America stole from Britain.
How far would you go to say Americans stole America from Indians?
What makes them any better than Russians?
Came on a boat from a land that wasn’t theirs and took it.
Took Africans from a place they were living in, shackled them up, and put them to work on plantations, much of that money made still in the hands of the families that started slavery.
Founding fathers were just a bunch of criminals.
AI answer:
Violence Against Indigenous Peoples
Yes — many of the Founding Fathers were complicit in or directly involved with policies that harmed Native Americans:
Land seizure was a core part of westward expansion.
They saw Indigenous nations as obstacles to their vision of a growing republic.
Even in the early years of the U.S., there were wars, forced removals, and treaties broken.
So while not all were personally responsible for atrocities, they helped lay the foundations for policies that were.
Ooooh Vlad stoppppp!
Think we finally got the female president the feminists wanted after all.
While true that the U.S. has a long way to go, but compared to a lot of other countries that colonized and enslaved people, it’s actually done more to address the damage—like civil rights laws, tribal sovereignty, and ongoing reparations talks. Still messy, but at least there’s been some effort to right the wrongs. Most colonizers just moved on like nothing happened. Of course, Orange turd is reversing all this progress.
For you day drinkers, add some booze you are all ready to go for summer:
https://slickdeals.net/f/18134989-ninja-slushi-88oz-pro-with-100-costco-shop-card-349-99
RentL0rd says:
April 24, 2025 at 11:22 am
While true that the U.S. has a long way to go, but compared to a lot of other countries that colonized and enslaved people.
Well, it sure looks like the Boomers are colonizing and enslaving the youth of America.
One rent check at a time.
Doesn’t boomer have enough, are all of them just MiniTrumps?
I realize there’s no filter there, but Trump is coming across very limp dicked lately negotiating against himself on twitter and in interviews.
“Vladimir, STOP!” and
“very high, and it won’t be that high. … No, it won’t be anywhere near that high. It’ll come down substantially. But it won’t be zero.”
Really? What kind of cuck sh!t is this? Come on…
President-elect Donald Trump has the power of older voters to thank for his victory in Tuesday’s election.
Voters 50-plus put their weight behind Republican Trump over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. These voters favored Trump over Harris, 52 to 47 percent, according to AP VoteCast.
India and Pakistan flaring up. Suspended water treaty from 1960 and now suspended trade.
No shit Dark Phoenix.
America has become the country of Karens, greedy old boomers, the ungrateful, the lazy, the entitled, influencer female run country.
Anyone out here trying to do the right thing is just deciding to give up because why bother?
Hard work just means more taxes for you, more responsibility, and for you to pay for the slakers and incompetents. Oh, and to pay for Boomer debt, while boomer azz rapes you for his f’n piss house with it’s jacked up tax bill due to Boomer non Payment for years and Boomer Pensions.
It’s full of the ungrateful, China and others supplied you, for pennies, with nice things they made working their azzes off while you sucked down big gulps and fast food making you so fat even Ozempic can’t save you. Your grannies are nasty old witches that scream at young kids working in fast food restaurants asking for the manager every time they don’t get an extra pickle.
F’n sinking ship. Greed will get you every time.
Bring SLoJOe back. He can give trillions of pre manufactured taxpayer dollars to them for weapons.
Hey the Youth of America would love for you to put a few more tons of debt in their school backpacks. Thanks, boomer.
Juice Box says:
April 24, 2025 at 11:31 am
India and Pakistan flaring up. Suspended water treaty from 1960 and now suspended trade.
Boom Boom soon? Pakistan closed it’s airspace use and land border with India, and says any attempt to divert the waters of the Indus River will be an “act of war”.
I see a slew of older democrats are throwing in the towel. They can’t relate to multi-gendered, overweight tat and muffin tops and thus, don’t want their legacy to be tied to the nonsense. Guys like Durbin and eventually Schumer want no part of the tranny fluid misfits and are ready to skip town. What’s left are ghetto Karens and angry hermaphrodites to fill the voids.
If more of the AOC and Jizm Crockett types rise to the top, I may have to knock on doors and help to displace the older dems with this line-up. Progressive lunatics vs. a mainstream American candidate? Is a steel worker going to go for a tri-sexual progressive hawking tampons for all?
You gotta be someone special to create an adversary like this.
Every part of America is coming unglued. And to think Bin Laden did this with a budget of 20k, some box cutters, and a few of our planes.
Man, that guy was a true strategist.
Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against Trump
The proposed NATO-like alliance for the 18 schools would allow them to share resources in case the president targets one of their members.
At least we know where it comes from. Now imagine if we give those Bonobos social media:
When a male bonobo oversteps his bounds — say, by hopping into a tree and shaking the branches while others are trying to feed — females in the troop tend to act fast.
They kick him, they chase him, they scream at him — getting so loud, according to behavioral ecologist Barbara Fruth, “you have to block your ears.”
Male bonobos are decidedly bigger than females. Yet unlike in so many other species with large differences in size between the sexes, when it comes to deciding when to mate and who gets first dibs at food, female bonobos tend to be the ones in charge.
For decades, it has been a mystery why females in this species of great apes, one of humanity’s closest living relatives, are perched so high in the hierarchy.
Now, scientists say they’ve found the secret to this paradox: Female bonobos maintain power by forming alliances to suppress male aggression.
“Male dominance is not evolutionarily inevitable,” said Harvard behavioral ecologist Martin Surbeck, who worked with Fruth on a study published Thursday in the journal Communications Biology.
Juice 11:31, Modi needs any excuse possible to fire up the far right in India. And he keeps pushing the boundaries in Kashmir – literally and figuratively against the original inhabitants. And the stupid Islamic militants just give it to him on a platter.
All because Britain left a mess of unresolved matters in Kashmir.
India and Pakistan should tie up together to launch missiles at UK for the mess they created. Just saying.
I work with some Indian dudes.
They ain’t as backward as most MAGA people think.
Just like all Chinese aren’t peasants like JD Vance thinks.
Some of the Indian guys I work with are both smart and excellent people.
America’s arrogance and racism is going to backfire hard on this country. Trust me.
Rent,
I guess Britain has their own version of Victoria Neuland as well, huh?
There’s a new form of environmentalism. It’s called ‘Make America Healthy Again.’
How a group of moms wary of food additives and vaccines is changing the conversation on chemical risks.
Hey maybe get a job making some Iphones and Nike sneakers.
Gonna need them soon. Oh, and get those kids making some dresses and heels. Got to fill those giant closets you demanded to have. Your President has spoken and put all of the Chinese kids out of work. Now it’s your kid’s time to shine at the sewing machine table.
Crunchy Moms. Hehe. These moms haven’t even seen chemicals, nor have their kids. You wanna see kids with chemicals, now those Chinese kids they know them some chemicals. The viruses are afraid of the chemicals the Chinese kids use to make mommies in America the dresses and shoes she wears one time in order to feel good about herself or get her a new man to monkey branch with.
But these aren’t traditional, left-wing environmentalists. They are the moms in the “Make America Healthy Again,” or MAHA, movement: They lean conservative, distrust vaccines and support Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And they are changing what it means to be an environmentalist in the United States — and generating growing momentum to change the country’s food system.
Many self-proclaimed crunchy moms started voicing concern about the downturn in children’s health, linking obesity to ultra-processed foods and food additives, and blaming the rise in documented autism cases on vaccines.
Okkkkaaaay D.P. Step away from the keyboard
Phoenix, The smart Indians are mostly all far-right modi supporters. Any one leaning left has no standing in India’s business world – Modi has shiftly taken total control over the media, the business empires (like the Ambanis). The military class – which is mostly the Sikhs are generally against Modi – but Modi still has control of the army. Muslims, Christians and all the other minorities like Dalits have very little power in India. Trump dreams of control like that – except that he is not as smart as Modi.
Inspite of all this, India is still a better democracy than the US – in terms of getting the popular (which is not always the right thing) agenda executed. There’s a lot to learn from India when it comes to Politics.
I’ve been working with Indian dudes my entire tech career – from tech support days up through my project management roles, I’ve worked with them through the whole development life cycle. I went to events with them, work trips, a zillion meetings, collaborations, the whole gamut. They’ve always been hard-working, accommodating and responsive.
Boobie mental problems? Sounds like a rich lady who now complains about her illness after installing fake TaTas. Why does someone NEED fake TaTas? And if you get them and have a malfunction, do you ever question why you wanted them in the first place? Is it vanity that is the real problem, or the fake TaTas?
Now that is the question.
April LoConti, a hair salon owner, real estate agent and mother of two, spent most of her life trusting scientists and the medical system. Her children were vaccinated on the typical schedule, and she believed in Western medicine. But after a breast implant surgery, she began to have migraines and vertigo every day, for months. Doctors were baffled, and she was shuffled from one expert to the next.
“I was trying to find out what was wrong with me, and I went down rabbit hole after rabbit hole,” she said. “I’m begging people to help me.”
LoConti now thinks her illness was mostly environmental, due to heavy metals in her breast implants
I felt my arms are too long. It didn’t sit well with me. I didn’t like the way they looked so when the tree guy down the street wasn’t looking ,I stuck my hand into the stump grinder.
I feel miserable now. Can’t pick up anything, I’ve gone from doctor to doctor, no one seems to be able to help. I used to trust in Western medicine, but now I don’t trust doctors anymore cause they aren’t helping me pick up things with my stumps.
“Vlad, stop. Stop Vlad”
I’m sure a strongly worded post on Truthsocial will intimidate Putin.
12:44 – Indians (generalizing here) will be super nice to you (white guy). Pakistanis will also be super nice to you. But get them on a phone call (or social media) and they will see the meanest cuss words flying. Get them in a room and they will be best friends.
Just when I thought talking about race is a bit uncomfortable –
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/23/trump-eeoc-barnard-columbia-texts-jewish/
“Please select all that apply,” said the second question in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, survey.
The choices followed: “I am Jewish”; “I am Israeli”; “I have shared Jewish/Israeli ancestry”; “I practice Judaism”; and “Other.”
Is this real?
why is maga destroying us? Why
Dark Phoenix says:
April 24, 2025 at 12:18 pm
Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against Trump
The proposed NATO-like alliance for the 18 schools would allow them to share resources in case the president targets one of their members.
because MAGA is woke and despises racists. they are destroying the racism
Members of the University of Michigan Faculty Senate voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution to establish a mutual defense compact with other universities in the Big Ten Academic Alliance according to results posted on Monday.
U of M faculty greenlight resolution to establish mutual defense compact among Big Ten schools
BY: KYLE DAVIDSON – APRIL 21, 2025 4:36 PM
The faculty Senate voted 92.8% in favor of the resolution, which was introduced at its meeting last Thursday, and was voted on by faculty members through the weekend. It calls on university President Santa J. Ono to propose and help establish a mutual academic defense compact among all members of the Big Ten as President Donald Trump cracks down on American Universities, pulling funding from research and threatening further cuts against institutions that do not comply with the administration’s orders.
Dark: Trump getting grief on Ukraine, he definitely it, should have never said his nonsense about ending the war in 24 hours. And he has no understanding of either Russia or Ukraine.
That all said, what is the solution? Do we keep providing aid along with the Europeans , as Russia slowly grinds the Ukrainians down? The fact remains that Ukraine does not have enough troops to win back the territory occupied by Russia, and Crimea right or wrong was lost 10 plus years ago. The Ukrainian Military Police are riding around the country side looking for the young men who are hiding out and don’t want to fight. So, again, what is the solution?
Fast: Durbin was vilified by the Progressives for not voting to shut the government down. He had to go. Some ( although it’s still too early) are saying AOC will be the Democratically nominee for President in 2028. What a shit show all around.
3b, stop sending them weapons. That would force Zelensky’s hand to make concessions. This facade that there is a path to victory needs to stop. Reality is important here. They lost. It’s over.
Drone swarms
3b says:
April 24, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Dark: Trump getting grief on Ukraine, he definitely it, should have never said his nonsense about ending the war in 24 hours. And he has no understanding of either Russia or Ukraine.
That all said, what is the solution? Do we keep providing aid along with the Europeans , as Russia slowly grinds the Ukrainians down? The fact remains that Ukraine does not have enough troops to win back the territory occupied by Russia, and Crimea right or wrong was lost 10 plus years ago. The Ukrainian Military Police are riding around the country side looking for the young men who are hiding out and don’t want to fight. So, again, what is the solution?
BRT: It’s sad, but it’s the truth. It seems some are using Trumps ( poor handling ) of the Ukraine situation as another reason to bash Trump. If people believe we along with Europe, should commit troops to fight against Russia, and start WW 3, then they should come out and say that.
Juice: That’s what the NJ.com article called it, unattended bon fire.
I would support it. As long as it was unilateral.
D Fens: That won’t be enough to push the Russians out in my view.
Lib: Unilateral? The US or EU?
So, again, what is the solution?
Increase arms shipments to Ukraine.
State plainly and clearly that Russia is the aggressor, and the US and NATO are prepared to support Ukraine.
Bargain from a position of strength, not weakness.
Support Ukraine for as long as it takes.
Ohio State faculty will vote this week to determine if they will join the Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC), a coalition of schools in the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The movement is led by university faculty responding to “legal, financial and political” attacks on academic freedoms and individual universities.
Support it with boomer assets. Don’t use their income, they will claim they are broke. Sell their second homes to buy 80k missiles
OC1 says:
April 24, 2025 at 3:15 pm
Support Ukraine for as long as it takes.
OC1 says
I like spending other’s money on things I want.
Ukraine is just the beginning. When do we stop Russia?
Or do we go back and ask for more and then say “Stoppp Vlad. Please stop”?
Your parents who fought in the war are real proud of you boys!
OC1
Hey you should get together with people like you and all chip in your cash and assets for the Ukrainians.
Stop demanding I use mine.
And if you are over the age of the draft, maybe go play shuffleboard and stay out of suggesting something that can get our kids killed, but feel free to fly your azz over there suit up, and be a hero.
I’d respect you then. If it’s your cause, go at it. Hard.
RentL0rd says:
April 24, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Ukraine is just the beginning. When do we stop Russia?
Who is going to stop America from taking over Greenland? How many of you are ready for an uprising in your own country?
It’s all so comical.
Y’all worried about Russia.
There are like 1.4 billion Chinese you just called peasants.
Their 8 year olds walk 10 miles a day, build Iphones, program computers, and can assemble 50 drones with bombs daily with ease.
This country better really be careful who it makes as it’s enemy. Right now I think the Canadians would just open the border for America’s enemies, Mexico as well.
Dark Phoenix-
In the late 1930’s, there were a lot of people in England, France… who had the same attitude as you. Convinced themselves that “if we just bend to Hitler on this thing” he will see the light.
They didn’t want their kids going to war either.
How did that work out for them?
It will if they’re all dead
The way I see it, Zelinsky is being a stubborn mule for one of the following reasons
-he knows if the war ends he’s finished as president…as they’ll immediately hold elections again
-he knows the capability of drone swarms is coming and can wipe out every Russian soldier in occupied Ukrainian territory
-he is just negotiating a peace deal and starting as far away from peace as possible
3b says:
April 24, 2025 at 3:11 pm
D Fens: That won’t be enough to push the Russians out in my view.
OC1: You did not address my point, Biden and the Europeans called Putin/Russia out, and he did not give a crap, and he does not now either. The fact remains that the only way for Ukraine to force the Russians out of the conquered territories in eastern Ukraine and Crimea is to commit US and European troops to the war. Are you in favor of that yes or no?
Trump is so great he actually got Ohio State and Michigan to agree on something. F@ck Michigan.
Although the daughter is making noise about going to the school up north. I suggested she look up the payback rates on paying off that loan.
D Fens: I don’t think drone swarms will be enough.
3b-
I oppose US troops fighting in Ukraine.
I would also prefer we not fight in Poland, Czech Republic, Romania… and the rest of the former Soviet block nations that are now members of NATO.
To end the war, text STOP to Vladmir
OC1: Ok. Then Zelensky is going to have to compromise painful as that is.
How did it work out for Russia, being treated like shit by Amerikkka after it lost 40 million people stopping Germany while American’s capitalist IBM and Ford corporations were making money during the war, and the whimps of America only stepped in at the end when they were attacked at Pearl Harbor.
America then walks away like a “hero” losing only 500k men for the whole war. Then proceeds to profit since everyone was decimated.
Yeah, not a good look.
OC1 says:
April 24, 2025 at 3:29 pm
Dark Phoenix-
In the late 1930’s, there were a lot of people in England, France… who had the same attitude as you. Convinced themselves that “if we just bend to Hitler on this thing” he will see the light.
They didn’t want their kids going to war either.
How did that work out for them?
All of those ChineseTariffed drones are being sold at discounted prices to Russia. China has underused production capability, so they will retool all of those shoe and dressmaking factories to build weapons against those who financially fuck them.
They gave me a nice Keurig coffeemaker for 35 bucks. My government wont let me have that anymore, so let them build drones and bombs.
Unlike Trump, most men gotta work and bring home the dough. Even a Chinese lady doesn’t want an unemployed guy.
Unemployed men don’t get any. Unemployed men not getting any angers them. It’s a downhill slide.
3b-
What’s the compromise for Russia?
Under the terms Trump has proposed ALL the compromising is left to Ukraine.
Hughesrep says:
April 24, 2025 at 3:35 pm
F@ck Michigan.
We already did. Had them drinking water from lead pipes for years. Obama that scum bag pretended to take a drink, what a loser. As if he had sucked down the whole glass it would have made him any more stupid than he actually is. Whitest black guy there was after Colin Powell. They didn’t/don’t care about people of their own race, just like Oprah.
We spent millions of “soft money” giving it to other countries while people in Michigan, real Americans, Real taxpayers, were drinking water from lead pipes.
America is nasty.
What part of Russia doesn’t need to compromise don’t you get?
They don’t need to.
They don’t want to.
They ain’t gonna.
They mean business.
You f’d around with them, now you find out.
You had your chance to keep your nose out of there, but you didn’t
You stole Russian gas, you conducted drills on the Russian border, you put weapons all over to surround them, you messed with them financially.
They overcame that and are really f’n mad. Madder than the Canadians and the Mexicans.
OC1 says:
April 24, 2025 at 3:53 pm
3b-
What’s the compromise for Russia?
OC1: That is a good question, and I don’t know, perhaps the fact that he does not get all of Ukraine. But, the reality is Zelensky has no leverage. Ukraine should have kept their nukes when the Soviet Union was dissolved. We are where we are now, Obama, Biden, and now Trump.
Obama taking a fake drink. Well it don’t look like he is going to be married much longer either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ZynkD3N_k
How did it work out for Russia
Russia was selling Germany oil to fuel the NAZI war machine right up to the day Germany invaded Russia. (They also made a deal to split Poland with Germany.)
Russia thought that would protect them from a German invasion.
Without Russia’s appeasement of Germany, WW2 might not have happened.
When WW3 starts, I’ll bet those LNG tankers and terminals blowing up will make a good show.
I’ll watch it on YouTube.
Dark: Lets not forget, Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Germany, whereby they split up Poland, and the Baltic countries were taken by Russia. Of course evil men have no problem tuning on each other. But, to your point, yes, ultimately it was the Russians and the Americans who defeated NAZI Germany, the British did their bit, why the French ever get any kind of recognition is beyond me. I guess Roosevelt needed to soothe De Gaulle’s ego.
As for the Russians vs the Chinese, I am more afraid of the Chinese, but am not convinced how effective they troops would be in a conventional war, the Chinese like their western comforts, I am also not sure about the quality of their military weapons.
A full on economic embargo along with our alli….. oh nevermind!
3b,
A 2nd home can be a good investment, but maybe those days are numbered with inflation and a weakened economy. The neighbor‘s house we bought is definitely a luxury to have I‘ll admit and it wasn‘t cheap. However we now have two guest rooms right next door and I‘m using the living room as my hobby room. To reduce costs I plan to rent out the larger bedroom to vendors attending conventions in town. The convention center is about 25 mintues away and if I offer it at a correct price I won’t have a problem renting it out. Another possibility we‘ve though of is how to use the house in our old age. Many older people in Germany will pay for a live in woman from Poland to cook meals and help out around the house. This gives us the option in our old age to use the house for a person to help out and not go into an old age home. We would also have some privacy since she wouldn‘t live in the same house.
Chinese kids study calculus, ‘murican kids do this :
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1k7263z/school_principal_jumped_by_mob_of_students_at_mlk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Wow – India has told every Pakistani in their country to get out within 48 hours.
If this is our “health” guy, we are in real f’n trouble. Try not to laugh.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1k6z0qe/united_states_secretary_of_health_everyone/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Chad: I can see how your investment can make sense, due to its location etc. I meant specifically for vacation homes in remote areas.
Judging by the video, that family lobotomized the wrong child.
Why didn’t Biden or Obama do a full on economic embargo?
Black: I would not have thought there are many Pakistanis living in India.
If we support the Ukraine, then it’s only fair that they help us fight the Canucks, the Mexicans and the Swedes.
THIS IS MAGA.
RentL0rd says:
April 23, 2025 at 9:25 pm
After a roller coaster, yet positive day, I feel the market will be hammered on Thursday. Any takes?
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Don’t get rid of your broker, you certainly miss the feelings of the market. Dow and Nasdaq both up 450 points.
___________________________________________________________RentL0rd says:
April 23, 2025 at 9:25 pm
It’s funny how y’ll are saying all the doom and gloom stuff is good for us. I want Sleepy Joe back.. I mean seriously. What a train wreck!
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Joe did so much damage , but you thought you were doing great because market was going up with 20% inflation, ignorance is bliss . Reread this (9:55 today), you were scammed and Democrats convinced you everything was fine. Politicians absolutely love sheep like you , but Rant Load will never admit when he is wrong.
Very Unstable Anus says:
April 24, 2025 at 9:55 am
Hey, the DOW is back to 40,000, where it was last August. Maybe by this August the DOW will get back to where it is now?
Lib: The Swedes?
Don’t they own Greenland? Shoot, the Danish. Yum, Danish.
And 3B, Europe and US (and whoever else will contribute) should stop the invasion of any aggressor. I think the world would have been willing to join us even moreso than during the Gulf War, which was more about WMD and not so much about Kuwait, who refused to stop pumping over their quota from the same reservoir shared with Iraq. On top of this, the US ambassador to Iraq told Saddam that the US would not get involved in territorial disputes days before Saddam’s invasion. More political lies.
“To get right to it, we want to let you know about a price update that’ll be happening next week. Due to general rising inputs like our feed, fuel, labor, and processing costs, we’ll be adjusting our prices by about $1–$2 per pound across all sizes.”
I just got this in an email from one of my meat suppliers. We are going to lose terribly due to these tariffs. Inflation is about to come roaring back and recession is most certainly occurring right now. Anecdotally, I needed to get my AC charged on my Mazda 6. It always kind of sucked, but the last Summer it was really useless except at highway speeds. My mechanic, who usually has a well delay to get work done told me to pull the car right into an open bay. Also noticed that there are a lot more cars on the road that need body work than ever recall seeing. Though anecdotal, unrepaired car bodies and blank billboards are usually the best predictor of recession. These two and empty commercial storefronts. I would be willing to bet that we entered recession April 1st. Any takers?
Lib: The U.S. and Europe are not going to commit troops ( if that’s what you mean, and that’s what’s needed) to stop aggression. Americans in general are tired of wars. Iraq ( twice), Afghanistan, and various other military engagements over the last 30 plus years. What is needed to restore Ukraines territorial integrity is more troops, they don’t have them. Officially 100,000 Ukrainian soliders have deserted most since 2024. The number in reality is estimated to be far higher. I can certainly understand to a certainty extent, these young men don’t want to die, and want a life for themselves. But, committing Americans and European to die for Ukraine? It won’t go over well. And rest assured if we did commit America troops to fight in Ukraine, there would be all sorts of anti America protests in various European cities. This is the reality.
Hey, the DOW is back to 40,000, where it was last August. Maybe by this August the DOW will get back to where it is now?
The DOW IS back to where it is now. I think what you mean is that you want to see it around 44K. Under the O’Biden regime, I’m curious to know if the 20% increase in the cost of living and nearly 10% inflation rate kept pace with the market. If the DOW was 55K and cost of living was 30% higher in four years, isn’t a false financial positive? If one trillion Zimbabwe dollars buys you two slices of bread, being a multi trillionaire doesn’t really mean much, does it? Sounds good but means nothing. Just as 44K on the DOW means nothing when everything else skyrockets. You (we) lost money under O’Biden.
Though anecdotal…
If one looks hard enough, one will see water in the desert.
Once again, the mind “sees” evidence to substantiate the cause. If it appears to prove my argument, I’ll frame it in such a way.
5:55 – So you are saying you saw a mirage and fell for it?
Impressive….
“Waymo, (google) its autonomous vehicle unit, is now delivering more than 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in the U.S.
That figure is up from 200,000 in February, before Waymo opened in Austin and expanded in the San Francisco Bay Area in March.”
Saw Waymo taxis in action in downtown Phoenix. It gives a little eerie feeling, the way they slowly creep around corners. May work great for small towns with orderly downtowns. Won’t last long in Jersey.
But they must be on to something if they got the ire of Musk.
Un with zum facial rekognition software zie robots vill know vehr you are at all zie time.
Velcome to China like surveilliance. Are your papers in order?
RentL0rd says:
April 24, 2025 at 8:32 pm
Saw Waymo taxis in action in downtown Phoenix. It gives a little eerie feeling, the way they slowly creep around corners. May work great for small towns with orderly downtowns. Won’t last long in Jersey.
But they must be on to something if they got the ire of Musk.
Musk Nazi Rocket about to blast off. Any chance it lands on Mar A Largo?
I need a good laugh.
I was a science judge for High School seniors. And there’s one predominantly chinese school in Mercer – PRISM (look it up!). One of the posters was this impeccable poster on understanding tourist behavior based on device locations and user identification – using neural networks (or something like that). I forget the exact title and details – it’s been a couple of years. The chinese student also delivered and answered all questions flawlessly… the other judges were ready to give him the first place (for that group), but I was just skeptical.
I asked him where he got the data from, how often he visited china for this project, etc. And he was like – my dad works in the research lab of the chinese govt and gave me all the details!!!
Another student had data from a nuclear facility in China – where his dad worked!
Meanwhile the only Black girl in the same cohort had a poster along the lines of detecting crime based on how far a drop of blood splashes – or some such! but real data using different viscosity of liquids and using readily reproducible data.
8:32 they’re everywhere in LA. Yeah. They’re Erie as hell.
Sooooo much winning:
“The S&P 500’s performance since Inauguration Day is now the worst for any president up to this point in data going back to 1928, according to Bespoke Investment Group.”
Since the Great Depression.
Gary, there is a link between inflation and the stock market. But it’s the inverse of your theory. If it were what you said, then the market would have gone down during ZIRP. Which it most certainly didn’t. It it’s another fine MAGA bullshit narrative.
“High inflation has historically correlated with lower returns on equities”
RentL0rd says:
April 24, 2025 at 10:37 pm
Iasked him where he got the data from, how often he visited china for this project, etc. And he was like – my dad works in the research lab of the chinese govt and gave me all the details!!!
Sounds like he had a good teacher. Taught him how the Chinese system collects data.
No one will tell you how it’s done here, they deny doing it at all.
You are free in Amerikkka.
You should see those kids as 19 & 20 high school seniors applying to Cornell. Way creepier than a Waymo in LA. Interviewing those kids was like a business transaction. Wearing several $1K’s of clothes. Salivating at the opportunity to steal IP and bring it back to the homeland to create government backed enterprises that are import protected. Criminal enterprise in plain sight.
RentL0rd says:
April 24, 2025 at 10:37 pm
I was a science judge for High School seniors. And there’s one predominantly chinese school in Mercer – PRISM (look it up!). One of the posters was this impeccable poster on understanding tourist behavior based on device locations and user identification – using neural networks (or something like that). I forget the exact title and details – it’s been a couple of years. The chinese student also delivered and answered all questions flawlessly… the other judges were ready to give him the first place (for that group), but I was just skeptical.
I asked him where he got the data from, how often he visited china for this project, etc. And he was like – my dad works in the research lab of the chinese govt and gave me all the details!!!
Another student had data from a nuclear facility in China – where his dad worked!
Meanwhile the only Black girl in the same cohort had a poster along the lines of detecting crime based on how far a drop of blood splashes – or some such! but real data using different viscosity of liquids and using readily reproducible data.
Do you understand how much plastic you are leeching into your body? It mimics estrogen. You will end up with bigger boobs than Stu.
Dark Phoenix says:
April 24, 2025 at 3:50 pm
They gave me a nice Keurig coffeemaker for 35 bucks.
Yeah, but when they turn 30, no woman will marry them.
Dark Phoenix says:
April 24, 2025 at 3:27 pm
Their 8 year olds walk 10 miles a day, build Iphones, program computers, and can assemble 50 drones with bombs daily with ease.
Monsanto’s Roundup will kill you before you get big boobs. I wish they banned it in NJ like in CA.
About 85-90% clot. Really of high quality.
Dark Phoenix says:
April 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
America has become the country of Karens, greedy old boomers, the ungrateful, the lazy, the entitled, influencer female run country.
Anyone out here trying to do the right thing is just deciding to give up because why bother?
Hard work just means more taxes for you, more responsibility, and for you to pay for the slakers and incompetents. Oh, and to pay for Boomer debt, while boomer azz rapes you for his f’n piss house with it’s jacked up tax bill due to Boomer non Payment for years and Boomer Pensions.
It’s full of the ungrateful, China and others supplied you, for pennies, with nice things they made working their azzes off while you sucked down big gulps and fast food making you so fat even Ozempic can’t save you. Your grannies are nasty old witches that scream at young kids working in fast food restaurants asking for the manager every time they don’t get an extra pickle.
F’n sinking ship. Greed will get you every time.
You teachers on here brag about being so good. Yeah well this guy really knows how to teach students a lesson.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/1k7avyh/what/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Chicago says:
April 24, 2025 at 11:27 pm
Yeah, but when they turn 30, no woman will marry them.
I don’t know about China, but in America that would be doing them a really, really big favor.
Pump and dump. Invest and save. You never know when that cute little Mogwoi creature you marry with the cute little eyes steps into a shower and turns into a nasty feral Gremlin.
Chinese kid is at Cornell
This is what American kids are doing. Don’t watch till the end unless you haven’t had breakfast yet:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1k68w4p/stupid_is_as_stupid_does/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Jim, you are the embodiment of the petty low-iq boomer that caught a wave at the right time.
No boomer, my father went bankrupt when I was in high school . Fortunately my mothers parents gave us food to survive and our house was signed over to them so the government could not take it away for not paying business taxes. I worked packing trucks and summers working in a pencil factory ( in High School).
My complete adult life I worked 2-3 jobs and businesses, renovating, contracting and investing. Absolutely never took anything without working for it. I am sure snowflake crybabies like you Boomer Remover had your college paid for, and life was nothing like I had.
So a big FU to you and your entitlements , because you earned them LOL. You have no idea what Boomers had to do to get where they are. I have no state pension, average SS and still have financial security. I also did not win big lawsuits like some self proclaimed millionaires on this board.
So while you criticize me you should look at yourself in a mirror, because it was far from easy to get where I am without hardship, working and investing.
Apparently, price transparency is a bad thing.
I feel sorry for the jet setters…
Private jet demand declines as tariffs spook would-be buyers
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/private-jet-demand-declines-as-tariffs-spook-would-be-buyers.html