From Kiplinger:
Kiplinger Housing Outlook: Monthly Home Price Growth Falls for First Time Since 2023
Home prices continue to push higher, but at a slower pace. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index, which measures the price of existing homes across the nation, rose 3.4% in March from a year earlier, down from a 4% annual gain in the previous month. On a month-over-month, seasonally adjusted basis, home prices fell 0.3%. While low house affordability continues to weigh on demand, a limited supply of homes for sale is supporting continued price growth. New York reported the strongest gains over the year, followed by Chicago and Cleveland. Homes prices in Tampa fell 2.2% over the year, the weakest return in the 20 cities covered by the index.
The rebound in housing starts in April is likely to be short-lived. Total housing starts rose 1.6%, to 1.36 million annualized units, in April. The gain was the result of a jump in multifamily construction, which was more than enough to offset a slip in single-family starts. Regionally, total starts rose in the Northeast, Midwest and West and fell the South. Single-family starts dropped 2.1%, while multifamily starts, which are very volatile on a monthly basis, rose 10.7% during the month. Single-family permits fell 5.1%, while multifamily permits decreased 3.7%. The decline in building permits indicates that demand remains volatile amid trade policy and overall financial uncertainty. As mortgage rates remain elevated, builders have stepped up their use of mortgage rate buy-downs and other incentives to soften the impact of higher rates. That said, builders are also becoming more cautious on account of rising uncertainty due to the impact of tariffs on the industry.
New home sales rose sharply in April, up 10.9%, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 743,000 units. The new home market continues to benefit from a tight supply of existing homes for sale and builder incentives that help make new homes more affordable for buyers. The median price of a new home now stands at $407,200, higher than a month ago but 2% lower than a year ago. While the new-home market has been less sensitive to changes in mortgage rates thanks to the incentives offered by builders, rates staying above 6% will likely continue to discourage some buyers in the months ahead. The inventory of new homes has risen 8.6% over the past 12 months. At the current sales pace, that inventory would last 8.1 months.
Existing home sales fell despite a temporary drop in mortgage rates. Sales of previously owned homes slipped 0.5%, to 4.0 million annualized units, in April. Existing home sales continue to run at a slow pace as buyers contend with elevated financing costs, high home prices and limited inventory. Mortgage applications, which lead sales by a month or two, rose in May, which leaves them just shy of where they were in January and very low by historical standards. The total inventory of existing homes on the market rose 9% from a year ago. This translates to 4.4 months of supply at the current sales pace, up from 4 months in March.
Boooooing
President Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests have erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Trump in a social media posting called on ICE officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History
The suspected assassin who ambushed a Minnesota state senator and lawmaker in a deadly attack was a “strong” supporter of President Donald Trump, his roommate revealed.
Home prices continue to push higher, but at a slower pace.
In other words, we’ll kill you slowly.
New York reported the strongest gains over the year…
More broadly, the NY/NJ/CT sphere. I use my house as a reference point in price estimation to get a pulse on the direction. It isn’t going south around here nor will it.
Ten 442. Been remarkably steady for awhile.
House two blocks over listed at $795k, 3br/2.5ba split, 1/3 acre, first open house this weekend, plenty of traffic. Nice place, some decent updates, pool in back, but on a busier thru-street. The other house on my block for sale (same price, 4/3, but lacking the updates) went under contract in a day or two after listing, based on the traffic I’m sure this one will too.
Both feeling pricey, can’t complain as both are good comps for my place.
Both feeling pricey…
It’s the standard for our haughty and prestigious environs, my friend. Bask in the equity but know if you think about making a move, it will depend on where you’re fixin’ to go.
For those that missed the ride a few years ago, it’s painful.
6:31-
Trump also told ICE to stop going after labor at farms, hotels, and restaurants because the owners are his supporters.
Law for thee but not for me.
You don’t like the government’s policy of enforcing immigration laws now?
Where were you the last few years? ICE arrested 113,000 people in 2024 and 170,000 in 2023 and 142,750 in 2022.
Spare us the crocodile tears, the real reason why you even care now is because orange man bad…..
Trump is having to buy the votes of Senators of Big AG states in order to pass his big beautiful bill
Hughesrep says:
June 16, 2025 at 7:48 am
6:31-
Trump also told ICE to stop going after labor at farms, hotels, and restaurants because the owners are his supporters.
Law for thee but not for
Sounds like Israel is close to taking the skies over Iran. If that’s the case, end-game for them. Ideally, Israel obliterates their nuclear and ballistic capabilities as quickly as possible, even Bushehr and Makran power plants. Iran is running out of missiles, not only that but launch capabilities. I don’t imagine fixed launch sites will stand for more than a day, and mobile launch vehicles are likely very, very high on the priority list now. Next on that list probably their aircraft, don’t imagine that would take very long once they bomb the runways.
Fast: Don’t be so sure prices won’t go south here. Don’t be smug about it. A few houses moving in haughty towns, but not a deep market that’s for sure
Iran only has limited anti-aircraft weapons. Chinese anti-aircraft guns and old Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. Allot of that was taken out last October. They were relying on the deterrence of thousands of ballistic missiles, because they knew they could not defeat our modern integrated weapons like the F-35 and the AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missile, which Obama first gave them in 2013.
BTW we have B-2 Spirit stealth bombers and B-52s that are both capable of carrying GBU-57 bunker busters at Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean. Flight times would be 4 or 5 hours to Iran if Trump decides to join in on the fray.
3b,
But, it’s warranted. It’s different here. We have unicorns. What would West Haughtyville be without unreachable prices? 600K is the entry point to be part of our illustrious community. That’ll get you a dated and soiled 3/2 split on a 75 x 100 parcel.
Don’t be smug about it.
Ah, the Smugglies! Those are the “Pride flag/BLM/MeToo/NoKings/SaveDemocracy” folks in Ridgewood and Tenafly. I was spotted flying an American Flag from my front steps so they cancelled me. It’s amusing to think they’d think I’d want to sign up for their club anyway. Snort… snicker…
Trump announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone
PUBLISHED MON, JUN 16 2025
8:31 AM EDT
Kevin Breuninger
Fast: Don’t ever lose your sense of humor!!
the grifting and swindling never ends.
it’s really something
The comp catty cornered to my abode fell out of contract and has been rotting for months. This house is located just over the border in Montclair.
House is super turnkey. Owned by a major developer.
Trump Mobile, eh? Tacky af.
Juice, you getting in line for your gold laser etched phone?
maga phone comes with Truth Social and spyware pre-installed
Juice: Israel controls the skies over Iran, so they have the upper hand. It’s just a matter of days I would think until Israel finishes the job.
Russia won’t come to Iran s aid. First of all too busy with Ukraine, and Putin and Israel have good relations. While Putin also has good relations with Iran, there is absolutely no upside for Putin to have Russia back Iran.
This: https://tinyurl.com/575xj63z
vs.
This: https://tinyurl.com/bdf4xbfk
Any questions?
You need that to protect this and without this, there would be no that. Not that that matters, as this and that would still be this and that without that but that is necessary to make sure this and that can be… this and that. You got that?
So there’s that.
3b – re: “Israel finishes the job”. They cannot get one of the nuke facilities, it’s buried over 250 ft down under rock.
It’s where the heavier uranium is being made 60% purity, closer to the 90% needed to make a real nuke weapon.
Netanyahu has been asking Trump to join in for days now. Trump may just scratch that itch with our largest convention weapon, weighing 30,000 lbs. It well would make a big beautiful boom and perhaps collapse those facilities.
DJT approaching record low. I suppose, everybody doesn’t love a parade.
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
Approval ratings.
Sabotage might be more effective than bunker busters.
Though, either way is going to make a radioactive mess that makes restarting very difficult.
Wonder what the international atomic community thinks about this.
I think Trump fired them.
Juice: WSJ is reporting that Iran wants to end hostilities, and restart nuclear talks. Is this so Israel will stop trying to get that underground nuke facility? Perhaps they are afraid the Iranians might turn against the regime, or both.
IAEA run by the UN always said don’t strike nuclear
Facilities. I believe they convinced Russia to leave the Ukrainian nuclear
Power plants alone.
But their latest report says Iran is now close to building a nuke weapon, that is why we now need to get involved and launch our bombers with bunker busters which were infact designed just for this scenario.
Per the IAEA report…
“ Iran can convert its current stock of 60 percent enriched uranium into 233 kg of WGU in three weeks at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), enough for 9 nuclear weapons, taken as 25 kg of weapon-grade uranium (WGU) per weapon.”
3b – one of the reasons we are here now is because China’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of centrifuges have been supplying Iran with equipment. If we d not blow up the existing stockpiles of uranium they will just get more centrifuges from china to continue. Iran has been playing this nuclear game for about 45 years now when the first started mining uranium domestically. They have no nuclear power plants, it’s always been a weapons program.
What does the international atomic community think of Iran?
Probably similar to what Hans Blix thought about N. Korea, that bureaucratic monitors and stern letters are the key to peace.
The South Park guys did a nice piece on the International Atomic Community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIPSvIz9NDs
IAEA meeting notes from today..radiological contamination.
Don’t inhale the air at the Iranian nuclear facilities that were bombed.
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/multimedia/videos/iaea-director-generals-statement-on-the-situation-in-iran-16-june-2025
“They have no nuclear power plants, it’s always been a weapons program.”
Iran produces 4 million barrels of oil a day. It also produces enough natural gas to maintain the electricity needs of it’s own residents plus many of it’s neighbors, including old war rivals, Iraq and imports no fossil fuels whatsoever. So tell me again, why is Iran so focused on building nuclear power plants? Perhaps they are worried about global warming more than global destruction?
Interesting Iranian TV offline? Here is their TV anchor at the moment of the bomb strike on their TV studio?
https://x.com/MOSSADil
And those who are anti-Israel, can again thank the Mossad who certainly have agents who work in the Iranian nuclear program and let home know whenever things are getting close.
Lib: Israel is doing what has to be done. And yet there are those who say Israel is the bully. Scratch lightly below the anti Israel stance, and often times you will find the anti Jewish stance.
Lib – correction they have one plant making electricity on the Persian Gulf known as Bushehr. It’s a German design built in the 1970s and then bombed by Iraq. Russia came in rebuilt it and fired it up later in 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushehr_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Sorry. My mistake. I’m sure it is there to defend their weapons grade nuclear power (nuclear enrichment) program.
Meant uranium.
I didn’t see the parade (like most of America), but I read that different military regiments were sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Coinbase, UFC, Scott’s Miracle Grow, and PALANTIR! Total amateur hour.
This is MAGA!
Ladies and gentlemen. Please direct your attention to the Coinbase Marines. The few. The proud. The ones increasing economic freedom in the world through legalized money laundering. Remember. The best military base is funded through Coinbase. And if you buy the Trump phone during parade hours, Donald will throw in a free digital copy Project 2025.
(music slowly builds – Proud to Be an American by Lee Greenwald)
AI has entered the chat…soldiers are not human anymore.
Post HumN armies
I remember when they did the STUNEXT virus to destroy the enrichment. It attacked Siemens industrial programs, which were running centrifuges in Iran and destroyed 1000 centrifuges. 15 years ago now but was actually devised futher back by the NSA under President George W. Bush and executed under President Barack Obama.
Microsoft must have had a phone call between Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Barack Obama as the U.S. government was indeed behind the worm and it used a circumvention of Microsoft’s encryption that should have created some tension between Microsoft and its largest customer the US Government.
Major embarrassment for Iran seeking an end to hostilities with Israel. The revolutionary guards must be furious.
Netanyahu on ABC News: We are not ruling out the elimination of Khamenei. His elimination would end and not escalate the conflict between Israel and Iran.
Anyone wearing a turban in Iran right now might be considering a career change.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/netanyahu-tells-abc-ruling-taking-irans-supreme-leader/story?id=122868515
Now, back here at home, where Americans should be focused, where is the government to do anything about this? So, so busy around the world meddling where they don’t belong, then have the courts give the injured taxpayers ” free credit monitoring.”
What they should do is give the CEO’s of the company the “North Korea” treatment, never to be found.
Wouldn’t take long before they would secure those databases.
A massive data leak has compromised the healthcare records of more than eight million Americans.
Cybersecurity researchers found the information was exposed in an unprotected dental marketing database, allowing anyone to see the details online.
The dataset included roughly 2.7 million patient profiles and 8.8 million appointment records. It included names, dates of birth, addresses, contact details, and sensitive healthcare metadata enough to form a detailed profile of each patient.
3b – They are defenseless with just machine gun fire. The revolutionary guards cannot shoot down an aircraft that can drop a smart guided bomb from 17 miles away. It’s bombing sorties galore now. The Israelis are going to fly their jets until the wings fall off.
Juice,
The only thing Iran could do would be to fill their missiles with radioactive dust that when are shot down, would pollute the hell out of everything.
Other than that, since they ain’t built a bomb yet, they are sitting ducks.
Juice: I was thinking more along the lines of the revolutionary guards taking out the old men in bed sheets, or looking to take out any opponents to the Islamic regime, although they are probably lying low. These revolutionary guards must feel emasculated by Israel destroying their military capabilities, after recently destroying Hezbollah and much of Hamas.
Juice,
I just wish I could buy the Toyota trucks the Arabs always get as opposed to the ones we get here in Freedom Amerikkka.
D4D works well in them. Can’t get a Hilux powered with one here.
FReeeDom!
3b – Led by who? They killed off the top leaders already, over 20 senior Iranian commanders in their army are dead. The guys in green uniforms along with the guys wearing robes and turbans are probably already changing into civilian clothes.
From a forum. We get the junk, the rest of the world gets this. Maybe Trump could fix this, but no, he is too busy at Ulta Beauty lathering on Orange foundation.
When I was looking a year ago for a diesel I did a fair bit of research.
The Toyota 3.0 D4D and Pajero 3.2 DiD were probably the best 2nd hand diesel engines available. They have exceptional reputations. As far as diesel engines go – they are a little behind the latest diesel engines in terms of torque/power output BUT they are very reliable.
As with any diesel engine, you need to do your homework. An abused diesel engine will cause big problems – engine/turbo/diesel pump etc. But a well driven – well looked after – D4D diesel will give you 500 000km!
Find out what you need to look for in a used diesel engine. If those boxes are ticked then 150 000-200 000km on the D4D is no problem at all. It is a fantastic and tried and tested engine. My 5c worth…
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Juice Box says:
June 16, 2025 at 1:08 pm
3b – Led by who? They killed off the top leaders already, over 20 senior Iranian commanders in their army are dead.
I guess if we normalize killing leaders, then I guess wacking a few politicians here in Amerikkka is going to become commonplace.
I guess the days of honorable warfare are over, for better or for worse.
The futures so bright, I gotta wear shades. 😂
“The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible. It’s supposedly made in the US, cheap, and coming this fall. I doubt it all.”
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/687492/trump-mobile-phone-t1
The TACO T-Mobile phone. Sounds as exciting as a Chevy Vega or Ford Pinto, and just as reliable.
Your bank routing numbers will be exposed on the first voice or text message. And for no extra charge, they will include a truck load of paper that has the written disclosure on this electronic turd.
Libturd says:
June 16, 2025 at 1:18 pm
“The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible. It’s supposedly made in the US, cheap, and coming this fall. I doubt it all.”
Juice: Ok. Well then maybe they run around the streets of Tehran and Tabriz, and make sure the women are all wearing their head scarves. Priories you know.
Trump is going to bring jobs back to Amerikkka. Maybe even to make his own silly phones. Who is going to make them?
The workers in Amerikkka? They seem a bit too stressed out:
Workplace Burnout Hits Highest Mark In Decade
As staffing levels shrink and workloads grow, a troubling trend is taking shape in the American workplace.
A new report shows burnout among US workers has reached its highest level in 10 years, with sharp drops in employee satisfaction and growing concerns about senior leadership.
The research, conducted by Glassdoor, reveals that employee reviews mentioning “burnout” jumped by 32 percent year-over-year in Q1 2025.
It’s the highest share since the company began tracking the data in 2016, and 50 percent higher than pre-pandemic levels in late 2019.
Glassdoor’s findings show that workers reporting burnout give their employers an average rating of just 2.68 on a five-point scale — 26 percent lower than reviews that don’t mention burnout.
Work-life balance suffers the most, with satisfaction levels 34 percent lower among those who cite burnout. But frustrations go beyond the grind, according to the report.
Ratings for senior management drop 29 percent in burnout-related reviews, with many workers pointing to poor planning, prioritization, and resourcing as key causes.
I met one of those “scarved” women at the LA protest.
F’n hot I’ll tell ya’
I don’t think anyone should be forced to wear what they don’t want, but modesty in a woman is a real turn on now that most of them today dress like streetwakers.
Yeah, they aren’t doing it for the men, they are doing it for themselves. No wonder the syphilis rates in Amerikkka are at peak levels.
3b says:
June 16, 2025 at 1:35 pm
Juice: Ok. Well then maybe they run around the streets of Tehran and Tabriz, and make sure the women are all wearing their head scarves. Priories you know.
Interesting article about the one phone maker trying to qualify one of their phone models as made in America.
https://www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-in-the-usa-liberty-phone-phone-is-manufactured/#:~:text=But%20there%20is%20currently%20one,as%20American%2Dmade%20as%20possible.
Short answer, it’s tough and expensive and there are many components that for now just have to be bought from abroad.
Still waiting on those Epstein files.
Orange man, where are they?
Orange man, there are now 3 wars going on. You promised one would end in 24 hours, now you have three.
Orange man, My electric and gas bills are climing since you sent all of our gas to Europe. What are you going to do about it.
Orange man, you ran your campaign on cutting waste, but your Big Bullshite Bill actually does the opposite. What say you Orange Turd? You ain’t demented like the last guy are you? So what is your excuse, nerosyphilis?
Strength through Peace.
This is what we voted for.
Old man runs over 21 year old woman at a rally in Cali.
In a rush to pick up some Viagra?
Wife at home yelling at him you better bring me what I asked for in her nagging voice?
I guess since his time on earth here is limited being patient isn’t one of the old goat’s strong points. That ticker could give out any minute.
Maybe you were scared. Men today do get scared easily, just look how the PoPo is so scared they mistake cell phones for guns, or hide outisde elementary schools while children are getting blasted. And those are the big beefy buttcake Marine Men with all ot the testosterone. The others are playing in women’s sports.
Sorry kid, your life is trashed now. It’s okay to protest, but one must be careful when you are out in the real world. An old codger can flatten you at a protest, or in front of a CVS, then claim the gas pedal was stuck.
Feel free to edit. It’s open source:
He’s a real Orange man
Sitting in his racist land
Making all his master plans for family.
Doesn’t have a brain to use
Knows not what he’s gonna do
Isn’t he a bit like you and me? (Nope)
Orange man, please listen
You don’t know what you’re missing
Orange man
The world is at your command (you are President now)
He’s as blind as he can be
That’s why he grabs the pussy
Orange man, can you see me at all?
Orange man, don’t worry
Take your time, don’t hurry
Leave it all
‘Til somebody else lends you a hand
Doesn’t have a point of view
Knows not where he’s going to
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
Orange man, please listen
You don’t know what you’re missing
Orange man
The world is at your command
He’s a real Orange man
Sitting in his racist land
Making all his racst plans for nobody
Making all his racist plans for nobody
Making all his racist plans for nobody
Israel warns hundreds of thousands to evacuate the central part of the capitol Tehran..
“IDF spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said in a televised statement on Monday. He said Iran’s Quds Force, an elite arm of its Revolutionary Guard that conducts military and intelligence operations outside Iran, was the primary target, and that the strikes had destroyed “one-third of the surface-to-surface missile launchers possessed by the Iranian regime.”
Defrin also said Israel’s Air Force had established “full aerial superiority” over the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Monday that Tehran’s residents would “pay the price” for Iranian strikes on Israeli civilians, according to the French news agency AFP.”
I find one of the best precautions against being run over is to not stand in the middle of a road.
Did you miss that class in first grade, Dark Cuckoo?
Well, kids will be kids. You were young and dumb once. Now you are just old and arrogant. Probably the type that would get a hard on running over teenagers with your car.
I like that the geezer ran. No balls. Drove over a young girl. Tough guy. Ain’t too bright driving a Chevy Traverse, junk GM product. Not too smart as he is already doxxed. Maybe some Latin gang members will have some fun with him.
No One says:
June 16, 2025 at 2:25 pm
I find one of the best precautions against being run over is to not stand in the middle of a road.
Did you miss that class in first grade, Dark Cuckoo?
re: the woman getting run over in Riverside CA, during the No Kings protest.
Video of that incident shows the driver’s car being surrounded by protestors and attacked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4sdyZp6pK4
Juice, this one is for you:
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin’ for today
Ah
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Livin’ life in peace
You
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Dark: You need to take a break, or a vacation, or something. I mean that in all sincerity.
I was listening to an Israeli defense expert on a podcast yesterday – and while he is biased, here are 3 takeaways. I’m sure not everything below is new, but here goes –
1. Mossad has totally infiltrated the Iranian military and political apparatus for about a year now – since the killing of one of the top brass within a very private residence.
Israel strategically assassinated the military chain of command – instead of indiscriminate killings. This has totally left Iran without the ability to launch ballistic missiles, not because they cannot, but because there is no clear command to launch them or proper delegation of command.
In any other context by the way this is a clear start of war and against international laws (but the guy on podcast does not get into that of course).
2. Then they took out strategic ballistic missile launchers; and have the ability to refuel their planes without returning all the way back to Israel. With the many months in making, this operation has the ability to launch small devices from within Iran as well.
3. Iran was totally taken off guard because they were expecting the negotiations with the US t o continue through the weekend and did not expect Israel to launch an attack until this week at least. Rubio’s comments that US is not aware of it, is all BS… and, while I am not so sure, is a master class in deception from the trump admin.
Now, there’s no way to sugar coat this.. Israel launched the attack unprovoked and while this is against all international laws, this is where we are.
Israel is not the weak victim in the middle-east any more, it is the Goliath in david-vs-golliath and the aggressor.
And I’ll say this… as an Israeli ally, it is very very difficult to get objective information about this war. All news channels are slanted and biased towards Israel.
Juice,
You always talk non violence.
So did John Lennon.
Look where it got him.
Obviously Israel doesn’t believe being nice is enough.
MAGA doesn’t either.
Nor your local PoPo. They shoot first, ask questions, then use qualified immunity.
The “King” protest is actually quite mild compared to so, so many other things going on.
I notice you cry about law and order. Wanna convict grandma cause she stole a can of tuna fish, or the guy who is speeeding next to you.
Look around you. Those petty crimes you focus on, its like complaining that you are cold when you are about to drown.
The problems are much, much bigger and rapidly increasing.
Lawlessness is here to stay, cause it’s ingrainded in our rulers and our enforcers.
If daddy smokes, child smokes.
Was the shooting of Donald Trump Hollywood magic?
Could it have been faked. Faked gunshot? Perfect camera angles? No fear from the guy-what normal person reacts like that?
Hmmmmmmm.
Juice,
The fish rots from the head down.
Amerikka’sn leadership brain is infected with CJD.
Demented senior citizens running the show.
Juice,
I don’t care if someone trashes my car at a rally, a parade, or at work.
I ain’t leaving this planet killing some innocent young girl that just happens to be in the way of my car.
I hope that geezer sees her face every night when he tries to sleep.
I hope he believes in Hell, and takes a rollercoaster ride into the furnace.
Dark: I doubt Donald Trump has any friends in Hollywood.
Bullys don’t need friends to do favors
Beatles and John Lennon: First of all, very few on this blog are going to recognize “Nowhere Man” after reading the first line from the altered lyrics above. If you’re not older yourself with even older siblings, no one here would recognize it.
Secondly, John Lennon is nothing without Paul McCartney. Lennon isn’t very musical and his lyrics get waaaay too much credit. The guy was along for the ride. McCartney was the foundation of that band, an epic songwriter. Harrison was a worthy supplement. Lennon added a harmony vocal that gave the Beatles their sound. After the breakup, John was riding a reputation. If there wasn’t any Beatles, Lennon would be on par with the John Melloncamps and Eddie Moneys of the world.
A surprisingly balanced article from Pakistan news:
https://www.dawn.com/news/1917326/merchants-of-war-why-did-israel-attack-iran
Definitely more factually correct than most western media we are spoon fed.
I don’t know if I agree with your analysis.
I would say that McCartney was the pop specialist. Lennon brought the hippy, especially as the band aged into the Sgt. Peppers era. Without John, they may never have graduated past the doo-wop/jangly guitar rock that they started with. No doubt, Paul was the go-getter and the businessman. But John definitely brought the creativity. As solo artists, Paul sure had a lot of shitty hits. But not a one was terribly memorable. Maybe Jet. The rest was pop crap. Lennon put out some really amazing tunes in his short tenure of life after the Beatles. Woman. Imagine (obviously), Jealous Guy, Just Like Starting Over, Give Peace a Chance.
Maybe I’m Amazed was pretty good too. None come close to how amazing of a song Imagine was. Many people rank it as the best song ever written.
The crazyness of MAGA personified in Vance Boelter:
https://www.reddit.com/r/misc/s/KcXscOxvxD
This could be any one of the MAGA cult who pop in here daily.
Lib,
Many people rank it as the best song ever written.
Listen to the beginning of “Hey Jude” and “Let It Be” and tell me John didn’t lift the cadence of both for “Imagine.” As it is, “Imagine” is in the key of ‘C’ Major which happens to be the most at palatable to the ear and is the same as “Let It Be.” Come on John, find a key that uses some black keys!
“Band on the Run, Live and Let Die, Listen to What the Man said, Jet, Maybe I’m Amazed, Junior’s Farm, My Love” are just some Wings songs that demonstrate a song writers strengths.
Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. See the exhibit.
https://youtu.be/niYtMuhvDU8?si=579fFQVr0Bjxv7FW&t=67
Grim says:
June 16, 2025 at 9:56 am
Sabotage might be more effective than bunker busters.
Though, either way is going to make a radioactive mess that makes restarting very difficult.
Wonder what the international atomic community thinks about this.
I think my Orange Man song is lyrically brilliant.
Well it would be, but I’m too tired to finish it.
You think those Iranians are toxic now, just wait till you see the zombies they become after you irradiate them.
🤣
With the fullest throated scream possible…….. go fuck yourself you simpleton!
RentL0rd says:
June 16, 2025 at 2:42 pm
And I’ll say this… as an Israeli ally, it is very very difficult to get objective information about this war. All news channels are slanted and biased towards Israel.
Rentlord
Did you raid Yo’s stash? How is that article balanced?
It conveniently fails to mention Iran was the weapons supplier and trainer for multiple terrorist groups and the previous Syrian regime.
And all the threats Iran has made to Israel and the US irans rulers and cult followers have made over the last 45 years.
“All news channels are slanted and biased towards Israel.”
As they should be. You think MAGA is bad with human rights? Go study these fundamentalist pricks. Ever wonder why the rest of the ARAB WORLD is SILENT whenever the terrible Israeli Infidels and their genocidal war machine do what’s necessary to protect all of the citizens of Israel? Not a peep. Go dye your hair blue and shave your beard and see how well this goes over in Tehran. God forbid your wife reveals her wrists or ankles? Please don’t defend religious fundamentalists. They have barely evolved passed the caveman stage. Perhaps this is why they are so against the teaching of evolution? Because they haven’t evolved much past the orangutan. Lord knows, they behave worse than them.
Juice,
It’s almost like Javert. Except it was a croissant for a child. And it was a gift paid for by another customer. And they attacked the woman and child.
The video is priceless. These are the comments, this store is now in trouble thanks to it’s violent employees.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/nugget-markets-vacaville-3?start=10
About this Middle East war, learn from this guy:
https://youtu.be/btmWWnQ-gAY?t=249
Gary,
Music (and politics) are both subjective (obviously). Paul writes nothing but love songs. John tried to change the world. Heck, even hey Jude was a song to help Julian get over his parent’s divorce. More fluff. Like Cardi B. :P
You only killed the bride’s father, you know.” “I didn’t mean to.” “Didn’t mean to? You put your sword right through his head.” “Oh, dear… is he all right?” “Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who.”
Please don’t defend religious fundamentalists.
Lib, these come in all flavors. Like ice cream.
“You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.”
George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
Sometimes you need to put a “ladies” perspective on things. Here is a cute musing from a very upset woman:
“This really grinds my gears
AOC made a comment about the musk-trump feud. She said, “the girls are fighting.” WTF. How does she think that’s appropriate? She is woman using the idea of womanhood as an insult. She’s also pushing the narrative that women are overly emotional, and that their emotions are silly, stupid, and always an overreaction. I’m tired of hearing this shit, and I’m especially tired of hearing it from other women. Those two aren’t acting like girls. They’re acting like typical men. Childish, impulsive, and unable to regulate their emotions. Engaging in pissing contests. They are not girls. They could never BE girls. They lack the emotional intelligence that we have. Nobody should be using “girl” or “woman” as an insult, and we definitely shouldn’t be bestowing that honor on those two.”
Dark: Except for the cult Hasidics doing their shady shit to rip off the government, we don’t have to worry about Jewish people, running around killing non- believers.
Like I said earlier lightly scratch the I am anti Israel comments, and you will find what it really is.
Fast: I get vilified for saying it, but I like Wings, and I think Mc Cartney did some nice work there. I saw an interview with him a few years ago. And he said after initially considering his work with Wings as lacking, over the years he came to appreciate what he did with Wings.
Christian’s are being slaughtered in the Congo now, no one says anything. When some Pakistani s get bored, they lock Christians in their churches and burn the church down. The Christian minority in Pakistan is tiny. Christian communities that are two thousand years old have been killed or forced out of the Middle East.
HMB 5:07
From the article –
As a result, Iran had to ideologically commit to confronting the US-led order and it did so by championing the Palestinian cause, arming armed groups directly, with few strings attached
Sure it is light on this, but it does not deny that they armed groups that rebel against the west.
My point is that you will never see this point of view in any of our media. If you like to believe we have a free media with different opinions – then instead of rage you should take a minute to look at this pov.
Dedicated to Dark Phoenix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91XUyg9iWM
Coffeezilla @coffeebreak_YT
>Justin Sun investigated by SEC
>Sun buys $75 million $WLFI launched by Trump family
>SEC pauses investigation into Sun
>Trump’s sons join advisory board of Dominari Holdings
>Sun becomes largest holder of $TRUMP
>USD1, Trump linked stablecoin gets put on TRON, Sun’s blockchain
>Dominari Holdings helps take TRON public on NYSE
>Eric Trump expected to take a leadership role at Tron Inc (FT reported, Eric has denied)
But as Fast said, how about Hunter? Rookie by the Trump grift standards.
You don’t like the government’s policy of enforcing immigration laws now? Where were you the last few years?
During Donnies first term railing about deporting families and putting kids in cages. But its interesting that you now have the likes of Joe Rogan now on the same side turning against Donnie and his policies.
https://x.com/elchicanomarine/status/1933809026149884101
Gary, yes I have questions. Where was all the violence predicted for the NoKings demos. Looks like it all went off very peacfully apart from some right wing agitators.
What was the turnout in Donnies parade. I hear 10,000
https://x.com/terry_truchan/status/1934244699411505644
5:49, do you have any actual evidence you moron? More christians are murdered in American classrooms than churches in Pakistan.
3b says:
June 16, 2025 at 5:37 pm
Dark: Except for the cult Hasidics doing their shady shit to rip off the government, we don’t have to worry about Jewish people, running around killing non- believers.
3b.
They would probably try to kill me too since I don’t believe.
A good reason to not visit Iraq.
Well besides the fact what do you do there? I’m sure someone is interestetd, just not me.
As far as the Hasidics, I don’t know much about them other than they walk the streets sometimes and make it harder to turn as I have to wait when they are on their walks. They don’t seem to talk or assosciate with anyone who doesnt look like them. That’s fine. Plenty of people I don’t want to talk to. When you clear the crosswalk, I will go.
A non issue for me. I don’t understand them, I only need to respect them as other people.
Aad I do. They have the right to believe and exist just as much as I have the right to not believe and exist. However, if they are here, just like the Mexicans everyone is saying should be holding American flags instead of Mexican flags, well, if you are going to make that statement about the Mexicans, then it should hold true for everyone.
I have a heritage too. My grandparents weren’t from here. Nor was my Mother.
But I would fight those other countries to protect my own. I have no allegance to any other place.
To be a true American, is to pick America who is number one.. Just like you have one wife or one husband.
You aren’t supposed to pit your one country against another. Or take from one country and give to another ( unless it’s your own hard earned cash)
Rump Lord: I thought we again had an unspoken agreement to ignore each other. But, I guess not, so once again I will respond. There have been multiple stories over the years NYT, BBC of Pakistani Muslims killing Christians. I didn’t say it happened today you idiot. And the American school children killed by school shooters are not being killed for being Christians, you dip shit.
As for your Pakistan Times article. Pakistan has one of the lowest rankings for press freedom in the world. Governments censorship, self censorship by journalists out of fears of harm etc, and a majority Muslim country. So yes, of course an excellent source to cite as a balanced analysis of the Iran / Israel conflict.
As I said you are as dumb and ignorant as, any MAGA supporter that you accuse of being dumb and stupid, and a couple of other things as well, but I will leave it there.
If the people where you came from are more important to you than the ones where you are, you don’t belong here, you belong there.
I met a Ukrainian guy. Young. Living here. While his fellow Ukraininns are dyaing. Guy looked like a linebacker.
Well if he ain’t helping his own people, why the fucc should I do it. Or spend a dime on it?
Or, is he an Ameircan? Would he fight Ukraine if he had to? What side is he on? Where is his allegiance? If we were in battle would he kill me if I were about to shoot his brother in Ukraine? Could I trust him?
The John Paul George debate can always be answered with “Not Ringo”. Paul needed collaboration (Denny Laine), John and George needed production (Phil Spector) and a little Clapton.
Overall for me, George made the better music Post Beatles. John died early and after Wings and the 80s Pop, Paul has been volume, but nothing great.
Dark: I have no issue with whatever it is that Hasidics believe. I don’t like their shady activities for getting money from the government under the cover of religion, but they are not killing anyone.
As for the Mexicans and the flags, they can carry all the flags they want. But as I said when you are protesting against being deported, you should not be carrying the flag of the country you don’t want to be deported to. The optics are very bad. I have heard some of the arguments here defending carrying the Mexican flag ,at these protests including the idiotic comment that some people can only afford one flag. Well if that’s the case then you would think if you are protesting to be allowed to stay in the U. S you would carry an American flag, or no flag at all.
And the American school children killed by school shooters are not being killed for being Christians, you dip shit.
Are they? I thought they were being targeted because we blow up their familes with Preadator drones and stealth bombers, and meddle in their elections. Sure they may not like me cause they think I am a Christian, whatever the fucc that even means, but the bottom line is they probably hate me more cause one of their goat herding parents got killed and called “collateral damage.” How demeaning when it’s your family that happens to.
You want me to wanna kill you. Run over my kid and say “oopsie.”
You won’t have a place to hide. I will make it my life’s work. OTOH, if you accidentally run my kid over, that’s different.
America should not be flying drones over other nations and killing individuals there cause it doesn’t like them.
Does China do that? Nope, they make electric cars, cell phones, and computers.
Does Canada do that? Nope, they make Maple syrup, cars. and drill for oil.
Does India do that? Nope, they make clothing and pharmaceuticals.
Ya see, you can do something other than trying to control the whole world and blowing up people just to prove you can. After a while, people get tired of living in a cage you created for them. Americans are now getting a front row seat to what America has been doing to everyone else while they watched it and thought it was funny.
The landscape is shifting. Dramatically.
Bbb, stick to the points in the messages. Everyone knows that Pakistan is a shit hole. But more people are killed in classrooms here than christians in mosques iin pakistan – I called you out on your stupid commentary and you don’t like it. lol
3b says:
June 16, 2025 at 8:57 pm
Dark: I have no issue with whatever it is that Hasidics believe. I don’t like their shady activities for getting money from the government under the cover of religion, but they are not killing anyone.
This is an interesting statement. How does one get government money under the guise of religion?
As far as the flag, the comment is silly, but in reality if they are making such low wages so your fat ass wife (not your’s directly) doesn’t have to shop for her family, then has to pay rent to her family that she jacks up on him since they own the apartment complex, then maybe he cannot afford the seond flag. Or his “cell phone.”
Oh, and do you think for one minute if he was a Meixcan wearing an American flag shirt all day his American boss will respect him as he does the roofing on a hundred degree day? You think a MAGA type loves him if he paints his car red white and blue?
If only it were so simple.
Yeah, ain’t gonna happen. All that guy has is is heritage. Evryone else here uses him.
You wouldn’t have this issue if your government was functionong correctly. Seperaton of chuch and state. America first.
End of the day, it’s all class warfare. If always coms down to the Almighty Dollar.
Or whatever stupid Bitcoin the CrazyOrANGEUltaBeauty King decides the rest of us need.
When I was in Beverly Hills, I told my kid those people there, I could save their child with my skills and they still wouldn’t want me sitting at the same restaurant as them as am not good enough.
Then I proceeded to mock the way they walk down the street with their noses so high in the air as if they are the best thing that walks the earth. It’s kinda fun pretending to do that “runway” walk like the broad approaching me with a shirt that is a month’s salary of mine. Too bad she didn’t Tik-Tok it, I might have become famous. (not in a good way. 😂)
Dark: I don’t know where you are going with your last comment, but the school kids being shot and killed by shooters are American kids, not Islamic terrorists, so as I said don’t know what your point there is.
As for the Middle East we never should have invaded Iraq, but that was the fault of George Bush the younger, same with Afghanistan, two disastrous wars we got involved in. George Bush was one of the worst U.S. presidents ever in my opinion. As for us killing people in the mid east, yes we did , and we should not have. But, the sad fact is they kill each other just as easily over there, and often in the name of which Islamic flavor they follow. 500,000 to 700.000.00 Syrians killed in a brutal civil war, not a peep out of anyone.
Ameica is a fake country with fake people with all of their own agendas all pretending to be pro-American.
In reality each one would be willing to destroy the other for money. And they do.
It’s all fake honor, all fake loyalty. Salute the flag, then go watch the game from Pomona while the kid from East LA is getting blown up in Afghanistan fighting so you can charge more for your rent and diamonds.
Dark: I won’t be labor the flag issue with you. It really is as simple as I stated. I won’t get deep into the Hasidic issue and ripping off the government, but many do. Welfare fraud is a big one.
Rump Lord: I showed once again that you are an idiot , stop trying to deflect and ignore Once again I smear egg on your face, and you embarrass yourself here. You are as dumb and ignorant as any MAGA supporter you condemn. You should get yourself a subscription to the Pakistan Times. What a moron.
But, the sad fact is they kill each other just as easily over there, and often in the name of which Islamic flavor they follow. 500,000 to 700.000.00 Syrians killed in a brutal civil war, not a peep out of anyone.
First of all, not my problem.
Second of all, there are peeps. Always peeps. I know cause when a repuke does something, it gets broadcaseted, then the democraps say no peeps. Same thing happens when democraps do something, the repukes cry no peeps.
Confirmation bias, it’s a real thing. Pick your agenda, support it, ignore the rest.
But to say there are “no peeps.” Naaah, that’s bulshite. Now mind you we no longer have fair reporting, no more Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, all that type of news is long gone.
I misunderstood your other comment. Happens.
And as “optics being bad,” the only optics out there are focused on the fact that these people are poor, and using your healtcare system, and taking your jobs (like landscaping, dishwashing, picking our fruit! thanks Stephen Lynch for that one!)
Hate to tell most Americans, but when you get done deporting every Latin American you will still be paying 100k for a medication that in India costs 8 bucks. Cause your government is bought, paid for, and is contolled by a cabal. Voting doesn’t matter unless, just maybe, you go outside of those two engorged ticks known as repukes and democraps. Newsflash, THEY DISPISE the MIDDLE CLASS.
Oh, and their Fucking AI is aiming straight at you, your job, your house. They want everything. In fact, they want the whole world too. But China and Russia are pushing back. When will actual Americans see that they are just a commodity and that their whole lives are being recorded, their thoughts, where they go, where they park, what they eat, their sex habits, the brand of toothpaste they buy-it’s all on a database, all on a cookie, all on a plate reader, all on a server recording a Tesla car at a stoplight.
Freedom is done in America. Your masters own you, and you gave it to them just like you sold your farmland to the Chinese. Your only honor is to the US Dollar, and if the BRICS have their way, this shit is going to implode in a big way. It’s what you base your life on here. It’s your core.
Dark: I will leave you be with your thoughts.
3b,
I will leave you with this:
https://youtu.be/0skVXv-FVZw?t=299
For phoenix
https://www.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/comments/1lcu1h6/i_dont_even_know/
Where is it?
Republicans easily gave up on the Constitution in favor of the Ayatollah
Dark Phoenix says:
June 16, 2025 at 9:27 pm
Ameica is a fake country with fake people with all of their own agendas all pretending to be pro-American.
In reality each one would be willing to destroy the other for money. And they do.
It’s all fake honor, all fake loyalty. Salute the flag, then go watch the game from Pomona while the kid from East LA is getting blown up in Afghanistan fighting so you can charge more for your rent and diamonds.
Chicago
Don’t know. Saw that scrolling down on Reddit and instantly thought of our DP.
Chatter says a large chunk of our air force is headed overseas. Huge fleet of refueling tankers left yesterday.
I don’t think the Iranians are up for any kind of dog fighting, haven’t heard of their Air Force doing anything, in fact the Israelis have been picking off their aircraft parked on the ground. Video of them destroying the old Top Gun F-14s parked on runways. I guess Maverick won’t be stealing one to fly back to the carrier.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hegseth-orders-additional-capabilities-to-middle-east/ar-AA1GQ6sh
Wars don’t start on Trump’s watch.
This is why you needed to cut funding to surburban districts to send more to Abbotts. We have leaky roofs, no desktops, no software and broken ACs/Heating units. They are making it rain spending $225k on balloons because that’s what happens when you divert 1.3 billion away from your local suburbs and send it straight to Newark.
https://x.com/districtwatchnj/status/1934622262226715049
Speaking of innovative lyricists, Trey Parker’s music for South Park Bigger Longer Uncut was really good. Named one of the best musicals of our generation by Sondheim.
The academy nominated the wrong song, this one goes out to all the haters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaVqtG-NvzY
Lib: This Israel/ Iran conflict was coming with or without Trump. Of course it was easier for Israel to do it with Trump in office. Iran was just stalling with negotiations, and in the end always wanted the ability to enrich uranium, to ultimately make nuclear bombs.
Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map. That’s the difference.
I’m just pointing out one of Trump’s major accomplishments as 45. He said it and all of the parakeets here kept repeating it.
Remember. Biden caused both the Russia Ukraine war and the Israel Gaza war!
This is MAGA.
Did you all put your order in for the Trump watch? Trump ran an advert for it during the parade. What a fucking prick.
Phone is out soon. But Hunter.
Why there’s not going to be a $500 US made smartphone this year
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-t1-phone-components-features-2415c7cd?mod=hp_lista_pos2
Stephen Lynch:
“If I could be a superhero
I’d be immigration dude
I’d send the foreigners back to their homes
For eating up all of our food
And taking our welfare and best jobs to boot
Like landscaping, dishwashing, picking our fruit
I’d pass a lot of laws to get rid of their brood
‘Cause I’d be immigration dude”
For the longest time I’ve wondered why, for a country with so many guns in homes, we don’t have more political motivated assassinations. And now that it happened, it’s somehow more terrifying than I had imagined it to be.
Assassin shot the family dog.
You should check out this absolute palace that we all paid for next to Route 73 in South Jersey. Stunning. Especially the stadium with the football/track. Meanwhile my town has to consider cutting its busing routes.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/f8t51bS3HZkoF8Nb7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy
BRT says:
June 17, 2025 at 9:44 am
This is why you needed to cut funding to surburban districts to send more to Abbotts. We have leaky roofs, no desktops, no software and broken ACs/Heating units. They are making it rain spending $225k on balloons because that’s what happens when you divert 1.3 billion away from your local suburbs and send it straight to Newark.
https://x.com/districtwatchnj/status/1934622262226715049
booomer – ” now that it happened”
Are you suffering from selective short memory?
They tried to murder Tump twice in the last year. One came within an inch or so of taking him out.
Here are some more recent ones
July 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired shots at Trump and grazed his ear.
September 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh was sighted bearing a rifle in shrubs at the Trump International Golf Club
2017 Congressional baseball shooting. Representative Steve Scalise was shot.
2011 Tucson shooting representative Gabby Giffords shot in head.
There are probably other recent attempts on state and local politicians too….
My son had the privilege of using a total of 4 times, and only because he qualified through multiple rounds of playoffs. Some of the other sports use the RAC/Jersey Mike’s and Met Life. This thing is just a fucking high school.
https://www.garrisonarch.com/projects/pennsauken-high-school-rick-taylor-field-house/
armed population to make sure the Ayatollah isn’t removed
Boomer Remover says:
June 17, 2025 at 11:28 am
For the longest time I’ve wondered why, for a country with so many guns in homes, we don’t have more political motivated assassinations. And now that it happened, it’s somehow more terrifying than I had imagined it to be.
Actually looking at the photos from 5 years ago. I guess they had the budget to add even more to it since there are additional structures. Also the grass is immaculate. Golf course quality. Lush without a single weed or crabgrass. Fuck us all.
BRT – The construction of new schools performed by the State is a separate budget under the Schools Development Authority that was formed in 1998. Completely separate from Abbott district funding to run the schools.
Elizabeth needs several new schools for about 6,000 seats costing perhaps $3 Billion.
Newark is asking for another $2 Billion for just school repairs and maintenance.
Overall there is around $8 Billion in new construction projects proposed for the Abbott districts.
Right now they are taking money from an off budget account meant to reduce debt. There is no long-term solution for a revenue source for construction and maintenance of these schools. They will eventually come up with a new tax. Perhaps tax every time you breath in and every time you fart out. BIFO tax or something.
The Europeans somehow have a job to which they can return after taking off all of August.
Americans aren’t sure of being employed after a 45 minute lunch.
I can’t believe our déjà vu. NYC is going to get DeBlasio on steroids.
Sen. Bernie Sanders made an unprecedented endorsement in the New York City mayoral fight Tuesday — throwing his support behind socialist wannabe mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Wars are expensive.
Bring out the printer.
Juice: Why all this spending on new schools, nobody is having kids anymore.
Review the comparative chart in the following link for an assessment of long term innovation, productivity, ambition, and ultimately as a proxy for the general robustness of our economy and standard of living. Let’s also include opportunity for young people and immigrants the freedom to work to enhance their personal situation.
https://curvo.eu/backtest/en/compare-indexes/msci-world-vs-sp-500?currency=usd
VSG says:
June 17, 2025 at 12:10 pm
The Europeans somehow have a job to which they can return after taking off all of August.
Americans aren’t sure of being employed after a 45 minute lunch
NY will get the 13 time sex offender. He’s healed.
3b – Natural selection is at work. Those who reproduce the most are rewarded.
Opening scene to Idiocracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
Mike Judge is a true genius…
Juice,
The state aid formula has been “modified”. It went from these schools hogging 95% of the state aid to hogging 99% of it. Meanwhile, I get about $300 for equipment while they get marble floors in their new building. I have no software (no word, no excel, no math software). I always compensated by buying my own hardware, software licenses etc. I paid out $650 for an Igor Pro license. Now I can’t even connect to the network because it’s not a school issued computer and they’ll only issue chromebooks because we have a dirt poor budget in an uber rich town. You can look at how skewed the numbers are here:
https://www.nj.gov/education/stateaid/
BRT – NJ Supreme Court says it’s never enough. After all these Judges are experts on school budgets and costs.
They already told Murphy to pony up even more aid and he has been, even if he has to steal it from the highway funds….or other off budget slush funds.
11:47 YO, here’s the correction:
MAGA terrorist also shot the family dog
(And Trump does not want to talk to the governor because he sides with the terrorist)
Oh look, we’ve identified a potential Iran Nuclear site! Where do I remember this? Do we still have that bullsh1t Colin Powell press conference? Why can’t we just let Israel handle it then? NOPE! We must do it!
As far as corruption and overspending goes – it needs to first stop at the top.
As long as everyone is okay with the daily grift from potus and his inner circle, you can’t expect anything better at the local govt.
Just look at the BBB (big bad bill).. and all the school spending is peanuts.
BRT – This is a relatively new development and it’s not coming from Mossad or our CIA.
Their Fordow site started higher U-235 enrichment when Biden took office in January of 2021. They went unchallenged and took it up from 20% to 60% enrichment. They were near bomb grade in 2023. IAEA confirmed that 83.7% pure U-235 was being produced there back in January of 2023.
This is the UN run IAEA snap inspections, it’s in their reports.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/middleeast/iran-uranium-enrichment-iaea-intl/index.html
They have some bomb grade stuff…it should have never been allowed.
When the B-2’s and maybe even older B-52 come they will drop their 30,000 pound Moab bombs and bury that underground site forever.
It will be a Big Beautiful bomb day…
1:13 – We have all heard about WMDs before and how it goes.
The running joke in military circles is that Iran will be ready with a Nuke in a week – for the last 20 years.
If Israel is allowed a nuke – and they have shown how irresponsible they are with attacks, why should Iran not be allowed? All this war mongering has other motives that you suckers fall for.
School shootings have become routine – political assassinations are next
US trapped in a vortex of violence with little hope of escape
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/17/political-violence-school-shootings-us/
Rent – What about Bob?
We stopped them before with a computer virus STUNEXT 15 years ago..This time around, their Chinese centrifuges are buried deep underground and busy making kilograms of highly enriched uranium every week now.
Time is up….hand it all over or we send in the MOABs….
Israel does not want to wipe Iran off the face of the map. Iran wants to wipe Israel, or the little Satan as they call Israel.
The “No Kings” protests in every state may have been the biggest day of demonstrations in American history, a data analyst has suggested.
“Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don’t have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday,” independent data journalist G Elliott posted to X Sunday.
Rent,
Nothing personal. What has Israel done that you disagree with?
VSG, did you participate?
1:54 – Israel is one of the most progressive countries out there – except that, just like in the US if not more, the far right have taken over the narrative and policies of their govt.
The handling of Palestinians in Gaza was/is too heavy handed.
I am not sure where this new Iran war is heading. Iran has already been pretty crippled to begin with.
For all the talk about frugality with govt spending, we could be way better off if we did not give the billions to Israel and instead spent a small fraction of it for our schools and local development. Instead we cut everything here and give it to Israel – who have free healthcare and benefits for their own citizens.
None of this is personal to me – except of course when it comes to yours and mine pocket.
1:27 – how many WMDs did we find in Iraq?
How would we feel if a foreign nation asks us to evacuate Washington DC before we wipe it out?
I would be in support of evacuating DC. Permanently.
Plenty and we have the casualties to prove it.
SOME EXPOSURES DETAILED IN THIS ARTICLE
1 MAY 2004 Two soldiers exposed to sarin from a shell near Baghdad’s Yarmouk neighborhood. 2 SUMMER 2006 Over 2,400 nerve-agent rockets found at this former Republican Guard compound. 3 JULY 2008 Six Marines exposed to mustard agent from an artillery shell at an abandoned bunker. 4 AUGUST 2008 Five American soldiers exposed to mustard agent while destroying a weapons cache. 5 2010 OR EARLY 2011 Hundreds of mustard rounds discovered in a container at this Iraqi security compound.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150107220645/http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Banner&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1
The “No Kings” protests in every state may have been the biggest day of demonstrations in American history, a data analyst has suggested.
Congratulations! We still have no kings in the U.S.
How would we feel if a foreign nation asks us to evacuate Washington DC before we wipe it out?
Why are we wiping it out?
And if we do, then will move the center of power next to the center of money, New York City.
Let me know when you have another issue to resolve.
What about the Burger King? You Rule!
The NoKings protest was a hit. More people turned out in Princeton than expected – close to 5000. The Pride parade was adjacent to it but the rain hampered it a bit.
The signs were very clever and it was a bit too jovial. On the other hand, that is precisely why I thought it was a bit lame. There was no anger in the tone.. just harmless do-gooders carrying out a peaceful protest. When you compare that with MAGA rallies that are full of hate and vitriol and so ugly you cannot take your kids to it.
After the rally I had a gathering at my place.. and talking to one of the guys (who by the way is Jewish and ran a hedge fund before retiring) who agreed that the rally while great didn’t show the situation we are in with this potus. Similar to how Harris made the mistake of calling her campaign a campaign of joy.
It’s almost like good vs evil (except that it is) when you compare NoKings rally to a Trump rally.
Correction for Gary:
How would we feel if a foreign nation asks us to evacuate Washington DC before *THEY wipe it out?
The other issue is the $500 Trump mobile.. how do we handle that Gary? Should it come with TruthSocial built into it or as an add-on for a few more $TRUMP coin?
G0d, I know I should wish you liberals and progressives well but y’all are so easy to slam. Every day is a reach for a new aggression, I don’t know how you keep track. Randi Weingarten and Lee Saunders are the latest to leave what’s left of the shit party. Rahm Emanuel says the dems are toxic, weak and woke; Fetterman wants no part of the left; Joe Manchin says the same. What’s left? Who’s left? Young men? lol. They’re gone, too. Maybe the furries will support the shit party. lol.
The other issue is the $500 Trump mobile
Is that equipped with a gasoline combustion engine or electric engine?
2:20 – I counted 13 Americans who were harmed by Iraq’s WMDs – from your vast search of the internet. It’s called grasping for straws.
By the way, if you recall, Iran and Iraq were keeping each other in check.
2:37 it come with a pair of gold plated high top sneakers and a grndr account .
Perfect for the maga crowd.
2:36 the middle is where the action is chief.
I predict Trump gets fuuuucked like the fat pussy he is in the midterms.
You Guys get into power, start a shooting war, tank the economy, deport key workers, and propose more debt than humanely imaginable.
“The handling of Palestinians in Gaza was/is too heavy handed.”
First, a disclaimer. I am not a Zionist. I was raised Jewish, but the indoctrination (especially, the Zionism) was such a turnoff that I no longer practice the religion in any faithful way. I will participate in a Passover Seder if invited and personally, I know more about Judaism than even the average Conservative Jew. But I did choose not to Bar Mitzvah my kids nor do we celebrate any of the holidays at home nor do we belong to any cult, I meant congregation.
So did Israel overreact?
Hamas was democratically elected to be the government by the residents of Gaza and had high approval ratings by these residents of Gaza. On October 7th, Hamas attacked a music festival and community that overwhelmingly supported a two state solution and most who advocated for improving the relations between the Gazans and the Israelis. Hamas did not attack Orthodox or Hasidic, who are just as against Gaza’s existence as Gazan’s are about the state of Israel existing. Besides the indiscriminate killing of nearly every Israeli Hamas encountered during the attack, they intentionally took hundreds of hostages, some to be raped and others publicly dismembered. All to be driven around the streets of Hamas, in a disgusting display in complete disregard of the Geneva Protocols to war. Hamas was not provoked. Hamas decided that that raping and pillaging of innocent Israelis was fair and the taking of hostages would provide them a path to a better relationship with Israel. Or perhaps, they mistakenly thought their actions would be heralded by the greater Muslim community. Obviously, they miscalculated as until they offered a surrender, Israeli leadership has the right to decimate their territory to keep another miscalculation from occurring again. But worse yet, at nearly every point during the destruction of Gaza, Bibby offered Hamas the opportunity to lay down their arms and return the hostages. Again, Hamas miscalculated. They decided that it was better to keep the hostages and have Israel destroy their lands. This type of thinking is completely misunderstood by the peaceniks. They think a group like Hamas can be negotiated with. A group that sacrificed probably six digits worth of their own innocent countrymen to keep the hostages. Clearly, Israel had no choice. The only option was to completely eliminate Hamas at any cost. And now, as Israel tries to provide aid to the starving residents of Gaza, Hamas blows up the convoys as they want the food for themselves.
Now tell me again, how Israel was too heavy handed? The only group that was heavy handed was Hamas themselves. This all could have ended years ago. Hamas held the cards way too long (hostages).
Here’s the liberal theme for now up to 2028:
“Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You’re always
A day
Away!”
LOL!
Eh? re: ” start a shooting war”
Iran launched missile attacks against Israel on April 13 and October 1 of 2024 when sleepy Joe was at the helm and allowed Iran to have an unfettered Uranium enrichment program as well as bomb our allies.
re: “key workers”. Yes mission critical so they aren’t given healthcare or benefits and don’t pay payroll taxes, Medicare or Social Security or more importantly, NJ income taxes. They are disposable bio-robots according to the companies that hire them. They should be treated with dignity, given working papers and allowed to suffer paying taxes like the rest of us immigrants.
re: “Propose more debt”….Oh it’s imaginable by anyone down in Washington DC the current budget cycle and deficit is Joe Biden’s. Trump can take credit and blame for the deficit spending when his budget passes.
“Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Plunges With Republican Pollster”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls-2086533
Juice,
Yes, Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, in 2018.
Here’s why and what happened:
Reasons for Withdrawal:
Trump considered the JCPOA a “horrible one-sided deal”.
He claimed it failed to address Iran’s ballistic missile program and its regional influence.
He argued the sunset provisions (expiration dates for some restrictions) would enable Iran to pursue nuclear weapons in the future.
After the Withdrawal:
The US reimposed sanctions on Iran, targeting sectors like energy and finance.
Iran began to reduce its compliance with the deal a year later, increasing uranium enrichment and limiting international inspections.
Iran’s nuclear program has progressed, with reports of Iran enriching uranium to near weapons-grade levels.
Efforts to revive the deal have faced numerous challenges.
Juice,
Trump’s proposed budget is a disaster in the making too. I’m guessing, all of the revenue to balance future budgets will come from America’s great return to manufacturing. Just like last time around when all of the corporate tax cuts would be used by companies to grow jobs. Instead, all of the savings went to the rich in dividends and stock buy backs.
re: ” Approval Rating”
Dog wagging and Flag waving will fix that.
Lib 3:00 – this has always been a complex topic to even debate.
>> Hamas held the cards way too long (hostages).
I would argue the US waited too long to negotiate a 2-state solution. Now it is too late.
You can’t argue a two-state solution when one side is all or nothing. Guess which side that is?
Juice,
Trump is a big buffoon. One day, you will come to your senses.
ICE just arrested NY Mayoral candidate Brad Lander who is currently the city’s comptroller. Seems he was pulling some kind of stunt and latched onto a person ICE taking into custody. There no reason for him to be at the federal courthouse with all that press. I gather his team called the reporters to be there for his little stunt.
https://x.com/ArtCandee/status/1935024612108079369
Lib – I prefer Orange Clown..
BTW if you haven’t been keeping score on the budget the Senate is moving now to double down in reconciliation. Only in Washington is a smaller increase in funding considered a cut.
They are jettisoning the $40,000 SALT CAP increase and keeping the cap on deductions for state and local taxes at $10,000. They are also raising the debt ceiling by $5 trillion rather than the $4 trillion proposed by the House. What is after all another trillion between friends and countrymen?
Here is an AI summary from the Senate committee for mostly the tax changes if you don’t want to read the txt of the bill.
Standard Deduction: An increase of an additional $1,000 ($1,500 for Heads of Household and $2,000 for Married Filing Jointly) in the standard deduction, along with a $6,000 deduction for seniors.
Child Tax Credit: The Child Tax Credit would increase to $2,200 starting in the 2025 tax year and would be adjusted for inflation in subsequent years.
Qualified Business Income Deduction (IRC §199A): This deduction would be made permanent, retaining the current 20% deduction cap, and a minimum deduction would apply to small businesses.
“No Tax on Tips” and “No Tax on Overtime” Deductions:
The “No Tax on Tips” deduction would be capped at $25,000 per individual.
The “No Tax on Overtime” deduction would be capped at $12,500 ($25,000 for Married Filing Jointly).
Both deductions would begin to phase out at $150,000 ($300,000 for Married Filing Jointly) of income.
Business Tax Provisions:
100% bonus depreciation deduction, IRC §174 current expensing for domestic research activities, and decreased business interest limitations would be made permanent.
Retroactive provisions would apply for the IRC §174 current expense deduction for certain taxpayers.
Dependent Care Assistance and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit:
The dependent care assistance exclusion would increase from $5,000 to $7,500 starting in the 2026 tax year.
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit would increase from a maximum of 35% to 50%.
Charitable Deductions: Non-itemizers would be able to claim charitable deductions of up to $1,000 ($2,000 for Married Filing Jointly), subject to additional limits for individuals and corporations.
Health Savings Accounts: The Senate bill does not include many of the health savings account expansion provisions found in the House bill.
Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) Gain Exclusion: This exclusion would be revised.
Clean Vehicle and Clean Energy Credits/Deductions: Different repeal dates would apply to various clean vehicle and clean energy credits and deductions.
There is more in there too. Once it passes it’s off to the barganing table.
That would be so fun to see NYC run by a Ugandan socialist. At first it should help NJ real estate values as upper income folk flee, but long term hurt NJ real estate values after the companies that employ people also flee. But sounds like Cuomo will win.
Cuomo will win in a landslide. The Dems anointed candidate always does. Even sometimes when it looks like there is no way they can. Like in the 2016 and 2020 POTUS primaries. Wait, was there a primary in 2024?
Rent,
You good with Cuomo running again? Serious question.
He is more Newyorker than you NoOne. Lived in the city all his life, went to Bronx Science, and Bowdoin. Worked for the taxi drivers. Participated in the assembly. Didn’t inherit money or political sperm. Dad professor, Mom is a well known movie producer.
Lib, “Hamas was democratically elected to be the government”. That election was in 2009 for god’s sake. Everything is based on Oct 7 as if nothing before existed.
That said, I support Israel doing what scripture says. Lets go for it. Since 95, Bibi telling the same lies over and over again, and AIPAC and bought politicians use all American resources.
NJ,
I remember when Israel allowed Gazan’s free access to the rest of Israel. It sucks when you elect fools. Doesn’t it?
Lib: Thee were a number of instances over the last decades where Israel and the PLO cam close to a two- state solution, only to have the Arafat and his PLO scuttle it right near the finish line. Even if there was a 2 state solution, who will run it? Hamas overthrew the PLO in Gaza some years back. So, it will be a battle between the two. The PLO in the west bank is corrupt, and cant deliver for its people even the basics.
Hamas invade Israel back in Oct of 2023, because they did not want Israel and Saudi Arabia to sign a peace deal including Saudi Arabia recognizing Israel. Hamas raped and killed innocent people, and then in yet another cowardly act took hostages, some of which they still hold as well as the dead bodies of others. At any point Hamas could have released the hostages, and if they had, maybe things would not have gotten so bad in Gaza. But no, better to use your own people as cannon fodder.
As for Iran, they have been a destabilizing factor in the Middle East since the old men in bed sheets took over.One of their main goals was the destruction of Israel, and if they had achieved that, than the other Sunni Muslims like Saudi Arabia would be net.
These old men would rather kill Jews, and then Sunni’s and make sure women are covered, then actually provide a better life for their people. If Israel destroys Iran s nuke ambitions, the Saudi’s and the other Gulf States will breathe a sigh of relief.
If Cuomo wins for Mayor of NYC, then we will have a pussy grabber in the White House and as NYC Mayor, and one Democrat and one Republican so its fair.
Yup.
And yes, Israel liked Arafat. But, he was as corrupt as any western politician.
yeah, PLO was the culprit they say, then why did they kill Rabin? Who funded the Hamas to counter PLO?
Seriously not thinking there will be a lot of ground fighting. There is zero chance to succeed. All plan is to create a regime change plan run by Bibi, roleplayed by Orange. Cast is set, the newly bride’s father Reza. Rising lion symbolism is for the Pahlavi’s who has zero support in the country.
With this administration and this type of politics, we are faster to expire than Brits. So buckle up.
I don’t believe a link was ever proven. The right wing in Israel wants ALL of Israel. Rabin’s killer was far right. Definitely not a Gazan.
Right wing, Likud never accepted it and blocked it along with other sides’ ultras.
Epstein’s tapes must be very strong on him. Trump made a 180′ on the war, just in a day or two.
Who needs Epstein’s tapes?
https://youtu.be/RIpVREBKhAQ?si=r3wkXNl8QKGHe1aa
This is MAGA.
>> Israel allowed Gazan’s free access to the rest of Israel
???
Really? Did you just use the words Gaza’s and “Free” in the same sentence?
Israel is an apartheid state and I don’t have to tell you that the settlements have been pushing them further and further into a corner.
Again, the US completely lost control of bibi and thereby the whole Israel-Palestine situation.
According to Google Hamas has 500 million to one billion in assets. Iran was at one point Iran was providing 100 million dollars in aid and military equipment a year.
Considering Brad Lander is (so far) the only one of the mayoral candidates to have the balls to stand up to masked kidnappers, he is going to win. What credibility will Dems have if (re)elect bullies and rapists like Cuomo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_cT0GQln1w
Didn’t inherit money or political sperm.
My new punk band: Politikal Spurm
Why can’t ICE get a warrant?
Hamas attacked Israel to prevent a peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. To that extent Hamas has won to that extent, but at what cost? There were no Israeli settlements in Gaza, when Hamas invaded Israel in 2023. They had been removed from Gaza when they withdrew from Gaza in 2005/06.
got only 10-20 more years, as TV channels will dye pumping regime propagandas to boomers.
https://youtube.com/shorts/rpPHzmdc1t0?si=gKYOG8HsvcGWK_eT
Surely there must be a ventilation, reactor shaft, or exhaust port that would make for an easy drop point into the heart of that buried bunker.
“You’re all clear, kid, now let’s blow this thing and go home!”
Israel is like the best friend that was caught for murder. To support or not to support and how much to support will always weigh heavily on us – even more so to the Jewish population who had benefits from the friend.
And then there is that victim with no manners, spits around and hates your guts, but minding his own way.
It’s not all black and white.
Gold Leader recently died, have to have someone else show him the way.
Classic !
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFzYwGdIBQl/?igsh=czhiNHV3ZWluZmdl
Feel like the Death Star is an appropriate analogy.
Since everyone here is so cost conscious, here are some numbers – The US has provided $300 Billion (with a B) in aid to Israel, with about $220B of it for military aid alone.
I was told it was maintaining stability in the region. What a joke!
WMDs
https://apnews.com/article/gabbard-trump-intelligence-iran-nuclear-program-51c8d85d536f8628870c110ac05bb518
The Jewish vote is worth it.
“ That if we don’t fight for our own country and our own people then we will no longer have a country for our children and our grandchildren. And foreign wars/intervention/regime change put America last, kill innocent people, are making us broke, and will ultimately lead to our destruction. That’s not kooky. That’s what millions of Americans voted for. It’s what we believe is America First.”
– Marjorie Greene Taylor
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I will agree with MGT
I fight for no man only Jesus but he’s just been deported.