NJ Transit Fire Sale?

From the Ridgewood blog:

NJ Transit Eyes Multi-Million Dollar Real Estate Sales to Boost Revenue and Spur Development

Ridgewood NJ, NJ Transit is preparing to transform parking lots and underused land into revenue-generating developments — with the potential to reshape communities across New Jersey.

NJ Transit owns more than 8,000 acres of valuable real estate across the state, and agency officials are now assessing which properties should be sold, leased, or redeveloped. The initiative, led by President and CEO Kris Kolluri, aims to identify the “highest and best use” for NJ Transit-owned land while balancing future rail and bus expansion needs.

“Not every property can be monetized,” Kolluri explained. “But where it makes sense, we need to transition from park-and-ride lots to live-and-ride communities that bring long-term value.”

So far, one sale has been approved — a $14.4 million parking lot in Lyndhurst — while seven other properties are being considered for sale to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA). These include:

  • Linden (Union County): 2.07-acre parking lot near Linden Station
  • Old Bridge (Middlesex County): 5.7-acre lot along Route 9
  • Hamilton (Mercer County): 14-acre parking lot near train and bus hubs
  • Cherry Hill (Camden County): 3.3-acre lot near Atlantic City Rail Line
  • Edison (Middlesex County): Two parcels totaling 4.1 acres
  • Long Branch (Monmouth County): 4.85 acres near train station
  • Matawan (Monmouth County): 6.65 acres near Aberdeen-Matawan Station

The long-term vision is transit-oriented development (TOD) — mixed-use buildings with housing, retail, and offices located directly next to transit hubs. Supporters argue this shift would boost ridership, generate steady revenue, and encourage smart growth.

Other transit agencies across the U.S. have followed similar paths. In San Jose, for example, parking lots were converted into thousands of housing units and retail spaces. Experts say New Jersey could see similar benefits if municipalities support rezoning and redevelopment plans.

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99 Responses to NJ Transit Fire Sale?

  1. Fast Eddie says:

    fRist.

  2. Fast Eddie says:

    The long-term vision is transit-oriented development (TOD)

    More PODs and more people = more pensions and higher salaries.

  3. grim says:

    How many of these get sold to “friends and family”?

    This is the NJ way…

  4. Dark Phoenix says:

    Release the Epstein files

  5. Dark Phoenix says:

    They should just sell the all of the track as well since it takes longer to get somewhere by train in NJ than it would if you took a stagecoach.

  6. Fast Eddie says:

    Cracker Barrel back peddles fast. And the naysayers who claim CB is just another corporate, fake image better say the same about any other legacy brand. You want to call CB fake then the any other brand you purchase or indulge in is fake as well. Don’t fuck with your core audience. You want to modernize? Find a path that doesn’t alienate your core while working your way back to the front. Slapping a generic tag on a product in hope to appeasing all is a sign of laziness. Let’s see if CB didn’t ‘Bud Light’ themselves into oblivion.

  7. Dark Phoenix says:

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    ‘We are committed to keeping DC safe and beautiful,’ the unidentified official told the outlet.

  8. Ex says:

    “Bud lite” is a shitty beer for people who don’t like beer.
    It’s not even an American company anymore. It was bought
    by a Belgium conglomerate.

    Cracker Barrel is a shitty restaurant for people in places where decent restaurants are few and far between. Their core audience are hayseeds.

  9. Dark Phoenix says:

    Never mess with the boomers. They have lots of spending cash, they all vote, and they love filling their gullets with cheese and cholesterol laden foods. Don’t fuck with that core menu. They feel at home in Cracker Barrel’s fake old store decor, reminds them of the house they left grandma to die alone in, then sold for a tidy profit

    Cracker Barrel back peddles fast. And the naysayers who claim CB is just another corporate, fake image better say the same about any other legacy brand (this is true). You want to call CB fake then the any other brand you purchase or indulge in is fake as well. Don’t fuck with boomers. You want to attract the youth? Find a path that doesn’t alienate your boomers while working your way back to the front. Slapping a generic tag on a product in hope to appeasing all is a sign of laziness. Let’s see if CB didn’t ‘Bud Light’ themselves into oblivion.

  10. Dark Phoenix says:

    Want something American made? Go buy a My Pillow and cry yourself to sleep.

    Never owned one, and I never saw a pillow break under normal use, but if one did, it was probably made in America on a Friday with workers drinking Bud Lite at the liquid lunch.

    August 27, 2025 at 6:50 am
    “Bud lite” is a shitty beer for people who don’t like beer.
    It’s not even an American company anymore. It was bought
    by a Belgium conglomerate

  11. Dark Phoenix says:

    Today’s headline:
    Librarians helped us test nine AI search tools. One beat ChatGPT.

    Tomorrow’s headline:
    ChatGpt helped us rate and eliminate nine librarians. One kept their job.

  12. grim says:

    Tip my hat to the good old days of fine American cuisine…

    Steak and Ale

    Kenny Rogers Roasters

    Ground Round

    Bennigans

    Beefsteak Charlies

  13. Fast Eddie says:

    Remove branding from everything. Use nondescript, beige backgrounds and generic font. Nike looks the same as Husqvarna, no difference. Here’s hoping you don’t chain saw your foot off mistaking it for an Air J0rdan sneaker.

  14. Dark Phoenix says:

    Trump passes Executive Order to have loudspeakers mounted on all telephone poles in America, blaring this playlist from 6 am till 8am.

    “The Star-Spangled Banner”: by Francis Scott Key
    “America the Beautiful”: by Ray Charles and others
    “God Bless America”: by Irving Berlin
    “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”
    “This Land Is Your Land”: by Woody Guthrie
    “You’re a Grand Old Flag”

  15. grim says:

    God damn, Casey O’Tooles!

  16. grim says:

    It’s not cultural appropriation (bastardization) when you take it from the Irish I guess…

    What the hell was it with that fake chain Irish pub theme that was so prevalent in the late 80s and early 90s.

    Pretty sure it’s enshrined in the constitution that there always be at least one shitty Irish themed chain restaurant in rotation in the US.

    https://tiltedkilt.com/locations

  17. Dark Phoenix says:

    Eddie,

    You are late to the party:

    Stealth wealth brands focus on high quality and craftsmanship over logos and overt displays of wealth, appealing to a clientele who value discretion and timeless style. Popular examples include Loro Piana, Brunello Cucinelli, The Row, Kiton, and Hermès. These brands are characterized by their use of premium materials, classic designs, subtle details, and the absence of prominent branding, creating a sophisticated “quiet luxury” aesthetic

  18. Fabius Maximus says:

    Good advice on the laptop. I think I posted before if it’s a dell you can download the factory restore image. That will include the windows license of whoever owned it previously. It will also do the Win 11 upgrade. At that point just buy an external disk holder for the old ssd and drag and drop.

    Off to the city today for Redhat event in midtown. Will be able to go up and visit my kid. They moved into dorms. Kids in a triple room on the 17th floor with a view of the river. I want to live there.

    Funny part is the dad of one of the roommates is a Chi equivalent out of Scottsdale AZ and he’s already reached out to me with the start of the soft pitch for business.

  19. Fast Eddie says:

    In fact, y’all should stop posting from your Lenovo desktops, too. You’re demonstrating your weakness for being a slob to the corporate structure. And shred your Levi’s and Nautilus brand clothing. Most of all, don’t ever discuss your stock-picking prowess ever again.

  20. Dark Phoenix says:

    Advice on the laptop- Good luck if you are forced in using something with Windows spyware that constantly reloads its annoying features you removed before at every update.

    Linux is good if you aren’t mainstream, but if you are Apple is the way to go even though it is invasive as well.

  21. Hughesrep says:

    The Tilted Kilt only existed for married men to eat lunch alone and as a place to hold your fantasy football drafts.

  22. grim says:

    Love my Lenovo p920, it’s a god damn monster of an AI machine now.

    2x Xeon 6252 gold (48 total cores)
    768gb ram (12x 64gb ddr4 2933mhz)
    2x Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUS (96gb total vram)

    Looking to upgrade this to 2x RTX Pro 8000 Max Q’s to bump to 192gb vram.

    I had to pull another dedicated 20 amp circuit into my office. She breaks 11 amps power draw at full inference. I may migrate all of this over to my Supermicro GPU servers, which have a bit more power headroom (2x 2kw power supplies, 240v), but the things sound like a 747 taking off.

  23. grim says:

    The Tilted Kilt only existed for married men to eat lunch alone and as a place to hold your fantasy football drafts.

    Hooters + Bennigans + Schoolgirl Porn

    Curious if that’s how the concept was born.

  24. Chad Powers says:

    Well if Cracker Barrel is going to change to „modern“ seating inside the restaurant then you might as well just go to a Denny‘s (are they still in business?).

  25. Dark Phoenix says:

    Mike Rowe says: “College isn’t for everyone. Bring back dirty jobs, now with a tax break on all tips.”

    What are Top 10 Highest Paying Cities for Tilted Kilt Jobs
    City Annual Salary Weekly Pay
    San Francisco, CA $98,709 $1,898
    Sunnyvale, CA $98,330 $1,890
    Livermore, CA $98,275 $1,889
    San Jose, CA $98,191 $1,888

  26. Dark Phoenix says:

    Cracker Barrel is woke. Knock it down and put an apartment complex in every Cracker Barrel location.

  27. Dark Phoenix says:

    “I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

    grim says:
    August 27, 2025 at 7:20 am
    Love my Lenovo p920, it’s a god damn monster of an AI machine now.

  28. grim says:

    Going to squeeze my fat ass into a kilt for $98k and tax free tips.

  29. grim says:

    The Declaration of Independence was signed in a Cracker Barrel.

    Little known fact.

  30. VSG says:

    US not eyeing stake in Nvidia, Treasury Secretary Bessent says

    Reuters
    Updated Wed, August 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM EDT 1 min read

  31. Very Stable Genius says:

    Radical rightwingers crying about a socialist candidate for Mayor in NYC have nothing to say about Federal Government nationalization of INTEL

    Che Guevara tariffs and Marxist control of the FED

  32. Fabius Maximus says:

    Grim, do you need to add a Turbo Button to allow you to run normal software.

  33. RentL0rd says:

    Fab, great to hear the kids are all passionate about OS – and not video creation. At a high school senior event for my daughter a couple of years ago, each kid who received an award was asked to say what they would like to major in college (nobody mentioned trade school btw), and I would say 80% said they wanted to major in CS. The rest – with the exception of a couple, said they wanted to major in Finance. The kid who said he wanted to join the military received the loudest applause. And this was not just asian kids.. across the board.

  34. RentL0rd says:

    50% tariffs on India kicks in.

    Pay more for clothing suckers!

    I was reading about India’s richest guy – Ambani. He left behind all the other industrialists in the country in wealth, from a simple trader to a conglomerate that that has the biggest oil refinery in India. His refineries can process 100 different types of crude from all over the world – including Iran and Russia. Across from this factory is a Russian refinery that is setup in India – pays more local tax than the Ambani’s, but they have some tie-up, to process just russian crude. They resell refined products all over the world not just for Indian consumption.

    I am not sure how India can even stop taking russian oil given such a huge dependence.

    Modi just needs to present a gold elephant god to the orange man, and things will resolved in a jiffy.

  35. RentL0rd says:

    Talking about WH bribes…

    Can someone tell me how the WH went from calling Intel’s CEO is useless and needs to go, to investing 10% stake?

    The party of smallgov is taking over private companies? Not very different from communist CCP if you ask me.

    Plus, nothing substantial was done with Intel.. just the stock certificates moved from Intel’s lockers to a separate locker. No restructuring, no new CEO, nothing..

    What’s next – force Apple to use only Intel chips?

    Wonder what AMD, the other american company is now thinking.

  36. MeBeMe says:

    grim says: Arguable that they both committed the same crime, fraudulent misrepresentation.
    ________________________________________________

    I’m sure you see the implication, unlike the asinine comment comparing Trump and Cook by the underemployed cucked stoner the other day.

    Trump was convicted of fraud for misrepresenting financial facts underlying a real estate transaction for personal financial benefit. Civil and NY State, but convicted and upheld on appeal. It is fraud if you misrepresent, knowingly or not.

    Cook misrepresented financial facts underlying a real estate transaction for personal financial benefit.

    You are right grim. The two acts are entirely the same.

    Trump committed financial fraud.
    Cook committed financial fraud.

    Pretty easy. Even the brain dead liberals like the cucked stoner should be able to understand. There is no differentiation. Trying to show that Cook is being persecuted by echoing Trump marks you as a fool.

  37. VSG says:

    Live Updates:

    At Least 2 Killed and 17 Injured in Shooting at Minneapolis Catholic School
    Officials said an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old were killed in the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church. Two more children were in critical condition.

  38. VSG says:

    “This is no time for thoughts and prayers. These kids were literally praying when they were shot.”

    Mayor speaking on the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis this morning.

  39. Dark Phoenix says:

    VSG

    When seconds count the police are only minutes away.

  40. Dark Phoenix says:

    Another George Carlin comment that hit home predictably:

    “You know what I’m waiting for? Guns in church. That’s gonna be a lot of fun. And it’ll happen.
    You watch. Some nut will go fuckin’ apeshit in church, and they’ll refer to
    him as a “disgruntled worshipper.”

  41. Dark Phoenix says:

    The “fabric” of America has been exposed to way, way too much UV light:

    Swatting hoaxes on college campuses spark panic and an FBI probe
    Over the last few days, at least a dozen universities have received hoax “swatting” calls of an active shooter on campus, leaving many frustrated.

  42. Chicago says:

    Make the decision not to buy it.

    RentL0rd says:
    August 27, 2025 at 11:23 am
    I am not sure how India can even stop taking russian oil given such a huge dependence.

  43. Dark Phoenix says:

    Looks like they are making the decision to buy it. And so is Hungary because their economic survival is predicated on Russian fuel, they can’t afford the overpriced American stuff, and now thanks to Ukraine blowing up their pipline twice now, they are posturing that Ukraine never becomes part of NATO.

    Free trade and freedom is where you allow other free countries to do something innocent like fuel purchases. Economic wars turn into real wars real soon.

    In a comment on Sunday, Zelenskyy indicated that the future of the pipeline could depend on Hungary’s behaviour. Budapest said Kyiv harms its sovereignty, and Slovakia warned Ukraine might be left without fuel, if the attacks continue.

  44. Dark Phoenix says:

    Hungary’s politicians are looking out for their citizens.

    Germany, well, not so much. Germany’s politicians are giving their tax dollars, their retirement, and healthcare money away.

    It must be miserable to be an average German unemployed when your factory closes due to tariffs, you have no work in Switzerland either, your fuel prices are extorted by America, and Russian gas is so close and so cheap and could save you except for your politicians, who give away the priceless water that you need to drink.

    Germany reaffirms support for Ukraine, pledges $10.5 billion through 2026

  45. RentL0rd says:

    11:30


    You are right grim. The two acts are entirely the same.

    Trump committed financial fraud.
    Cook committed financial fraud.

    Do you have a dollar amount of the fraud?

    Orangeman benefitted over $7 Billion dollars in various fraudulent activities since being elected.

    Not the same by any stretch of the imagination- except the cults.

  46. RentL0rd says:

    1:10 – I think India is in a tough spot. They lose more by not buying russian oil than with the tariffs – which, end of the day is paid by the American consumer.

    The last bit – that we are the one paying for this taxes, seems to be lost in all the bravado of MAGA.

    In spirit I agree, that India should be punished for helping Russia.. but we are the ones getting punished.

  47. Dark Phoenix says:

    In spirit I agree, that India should be punished for helping Russia.

    Really?

    So if I help my friend and you don’t like them I should be punished?

    Sounds more like coercion and manipulation to me.

    You don’t like India, tarriff them all you want. Don’t buy anything from them.
    Go make your shirts and drugs yourself. No one is stopping you.

  48. SmallGovConservative says:

    History will not be kind to the modern Dem party and the woke era that was ushered in by Oblama. Our descendants will surely recognize that policies like open borders and DEI were insane, that climate scare-mongering was stupid, and that lawfare was horrible, but the thing that they’ll find most appalling is that the Dems and their radical left constituents attempted to normalize transgenderism.

  49. Dark Phoenix says:

    America had a textile industry, it “outsourced it” to India.
    America had a drug industry, it “outsourced it” to India.

    America’s boomers outsourced everything. Why are they complaining now? Too lazy to do the work themselves, wanted to profit off the labor of others.

    Has this experiment sudddenly gone sour?

  50. chicagofinance says:

    Ten 423

  51. Dark Phoenix says:

    The overall percentage of U.S. adults identifying as transgender is around 0.8%, with a slightly higher percentage of youth identifying as transgender.

    Yeah, this is the big American problem. This less than one percent of people that many have never met in person, but only read about on the internet.

    Nothing to see here, look away. Focus on that pimple, don’t look at the real crimes that are being committed.

    If one was using the analogy of taking a trip, transgenderism would be the equivalent of forgetting your non-prescription sunglasses when you have a plane with two engines on fire.

  52. chicagofinance says:

    Friend? Putin’s moral compass < Hamas moral compass

    Dark Phoenix says:
    August 27, 2025 at 3:46 pm
    So if I help my friend and you don’t like them I should be punished?

  53. Dark Phoenix says:

    I blame the Dems for even talking about it, and the Repubs for having mental seizures over it.

    It’s so blatant that it almost appears those two groups purposly use that topic to trigger fear in the brain dead population.

  54. Dark Phoenix says:

    hicagofinance says:
    August 27, 2025 at 3:59 pm
    Friend? Putin’s moral compass < Hamas moral compass

    Where does America's moral compass fit in this equation?

  55. Ex says:

    3:51 hahaha failure at every level. “History” already knows Trump is a disaster.

  56. Dark Phoenix says:

    President Donald Trump called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the shooting to offer his condolences to the people of Minnesota, and Walz thanked him for the support, according to a person aware of the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a private conversation.

    Trump did not reach out to Walz earlier this summer after a gunman killed a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband and wounded another legislator and his wife in a politically motivated attack. Trump asked at the time why he would call Walz and attacked the 2024 Democratic vice-presidential nominee.

  57. hughesrep says:

    SGC

    You spend a lot of time and energy on trannies and gays on here. Just saying.

    I probably could have worded that better, maybe not.

  58. Dark Phoenix says:

    My favorite tranny is the Allison 1000.

  59. Ex says:

    Yeah go have a Bud Lite, I’ll enjoy my bitburger

  60. Ex says:

    Melania looks more like a dude every day..,.just saying

  61. grim says:

    Talking about WH bribes…

    Can someone tell me how the WH went from calling Intel’s CEO is useless and needs to go, to investing 10% stake?

    Stock market manipulation to benefit his real constituents. It’s not insider trading after all.

  62. VSG says:

    BREAKING NEWS!

    LIVE
    Updated 6 mins ago
    Yahoo Finance
    Earnings live: Nvidia stock falls on data center revenue miss, Snowflake pops, CrowdStrike drops

  63. RentL0rd says:

    4:21 – there is ample evidence that people like SGC are themselves closet lgbtq+ . Never met a totally straight man – politicians aside, who are threatened by lgbtq+.

  64. Fast Eddie says:

    $Millions of LA fire relief money funneled to equity foundations to aid brown people in urban areas, for consultants to assess money management and to illegal alien aid. Meanwhile, those directly affected can’t get an answer. Listen, it’s all about compassion, that’s all we need to know.

  65. Fast Eddie says:

    Insider Advantage – Trump approval now at 54%.

    Trump’s legacy will establish him as one of the most influential presidents in history. Never has a transformational presence made such a positive impact on our nation.

    Every facet of the American way of life has been impacted for the greater good. Success on an individual basis has never been more in reach for those who seek it. The Libertarian/Conservative ideology has gone beyond words revealing tangible results. Ideas have become action and action has become success.

    It’s no wonder the left has turned to s0cialism, teetering on c0mmunism.. They couldn’t compete, their ideas failed, they have nothing left but the hope of burning it all down and gaslighting people just long enough to seize control and abuse power once again.

  66. VSG says:

    BREAKING NEWS!

    C.D.C. Director Departs After Just Weeks in the Job

    Susan Monarez appeared to have run afoul of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by objecting to his changes to the panel of experts who advise the agency on vaccine policy, people familiar with the matter said.

  67. RentL0rd says:

    Does anyone know a kid-friendly place to turn coins into bills? My daughters scraped together over $200 in loose change from around the house, sorted it like tiny accountants, and now they’re scandalized that Coinstar wants a 15% ‘convenience fee.’ It’s clearly highway robbery in the world of piggy banks.

  68. RentL0rd says:

    >> Every facet of the American way of life has been impacted for the greater good.

    define “good”.

    I stopped reading your comment there.

  69. Juice Box says:

    Rent – you can do Coinstar no fee if you chose an egiftcard.

    Check their website or at the kiosk.

  70. Fabius Maximus says:

    Rent

    I think TD bank have free coin counting for deposit

  71. Chad Powers says:

    Fast Eddie,
    I agree that Trump is probably the most influential president of the post WWII period. He is certainly having an impact on nearly all aspects of life in the US and numerous areas of life outside of the US. Because he is such a polarizing figure it will require quite some time to determine if his policies and focus were effective and truely in the best interests of the US. On the other hand it appears that the legacy of Joe Biden is now set in stone, and it isn‘t very pretty.

  72. Fast Eddie says:

    define “good”.

    Optimism has returned. The world revolves around us again, America. Leaders come to us, they need to deal with us. We’re talking about innovation on a grand scale again… from buggy whip to car to plane to an untapped dimension of intelligence we’ve never known before. We’re not afraid to demonstrate our strength instead of worrying what the world may think of us. We don’t need to acquiesce or get in line; we lead and do so with moxie. For those that don’t like it, try to knock us down. We speak and act with common sense again, not with some symbolic twaddle defined by liberal pessimists. We’re an asset and we know it, the left hates it and other countries dream of it.

    Any questions?

  73. Ex says:

    Why are you so stupid? What do you assume we’re idiots like you??

  74. Dark Phoenix says:

    Got a coin sorter with a crank handle a few years back for like 25 dollars.

    Still works great. One time investment.

  75. Fabius Maximus says:

    Bitburger is one of my top two beers the other is Labatts. My buddy and I keep the stores is this area stocked with it.

    For my 40th I had a party at the house with a roasted pig from a Filipino bakery in Jersey City and a 22 gallon keg of Bitburger. As the beer is pasteurized it took us about four weeks to finish it. That was a great summer.

  76. Dark Phoenix says:

    Fabius

    TD bank did away with that a long time ago.

    TD Bank no longer offers coin counting services, having retired its “Penny Arcade” coin-counting machines in 2016 due to inaccuracies and shortchanging customers, according to MyBankTracker and 6abc Philadelphia.

  77. Fabius Maximus says:

    Juice they used to do free Amazon cards but I think all deposits now have a surcharge.

  78. Ex says:

    6:13 that’s livin’ baby

  79. Dark Phoenix says:

    Chad,

    What’s the German sentiment on it’s government giving away another 10 billion euros of their hard earned cash?

  80. Fabius Maximus says:

    Dark, I’ll stand corrected. I haven’t been there in a while. Mrs Fab does some banking there and she told me that a while back.

  81. Chad Powers says:

    Dark Phoenix,
    Like in the US public opinion in Germany is divided over support for the war in the Ukraine. There seem to be quite a few Ukrainians here on the public dole and having very little motivation to learn German. This tends to turn some Germans against supporting the war effort. I think as inflation here edges up as well as unemployment support for the war is going to weaken even more.

  82. Dark Phoenix says:

    109% as an average. Not bad. Not even the mob extorted like this. No government oversight.

    Gets even bigger. You borrow 100 bucks with a repayment of tomorrow, a fee of 3.99, that’s an APR of 1,456%

    Nice profit. or extortion.

    Earned wage product use is increasing. Across the combined employer-partnered and direct-to-consumer earned wage product market, we estimate that in 2022, at least 5% of American workers utilized an earned wage product at least once. Our data indicates that employer-partnered earned wage product growth has accelerated throughout 2023.

    Our data shows that despite firms marketing these services as free for workers, in non-employer subsidized transactions, most workers paid at least one fee and nearly all workers opt to pay a fee for expedited access to their funds. Based on average usage and cost patterns in our data, an illustrative APR is 109.5%. Although earned wage products are typically marketed as a free or low-cost solution for immediate short-term liquidity constraints, a high percentage of fee revenue comes from expedited transfer fees and repeat use. With nearly 50% of earned wage product users taking funds more than once a month, costs may accumulate for workers who are frequently paid by the hour, have liquidity constraints, and receive public benefits.29

  83. OC1 says:

    The world revolves around us again, America. Leaders come to us, they need to deal with us. We’re not afraid to demonstrate our strength instead of worrying what the world may think of us. We don’t need to acquiesce or get in line; we lead and do so with moxie. For those that don’t like it, try to knock us down.

    This sounds like something you’d hear Putin saying on a Russian propaganda channel.

    And it will probably work out just as well for us as it has for Russia.

  84. Libturd says:

    And now for REAL POLL results:

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/27/president-trump-approval-rating-new-polls/85851490007/#

    Aggregations of recent approval polling from The New York Times and RealClearPolitics place Trump’s approval at 43% and 45.3%, respectively, with disapproval rates of 53% and 51.5%, as of Aug. 27. These averages include the four most recent polls national polls listed below.

  85. grim says:

    I thought bitburger was a crypto/blockchain-based burger joint.

  86. RentL0rd says:

    Yea, the TD near me removed the coin counters a while back. I said I would trade a homedepot egift card from coinstar and give cash in exchange to the kids. They asked me to show the money!

    On a different note, I needed to notarize a document, and the other party recommended notary . com for $25.

    I said no thanks and got it notarized for free in person. Just had to print the docs and drive 5 minutes.

  87. RentL0rd says:

    >> disapproval rates of 53% and 51.5%, as of Aug. 27

    It would be much higher if people are not so scared for retribution. In fact I would wager there would be a lot more liberal comments on this board if it isn’t for the open thug culture among MAGA.

  88. Ex says:

    Pam Bondi…..tight? Or not. Film at 11.

  89. Fast Eddie says:

    In fact I would wager there would be a lot more liberal comments on this board if it isn’t for the open thug culture among MAGA.

    Wrong. There’s no more liberal comments because you have nothing to defend. The money is drying up, there’s nothing to fight for, the rolls are diminishing and the left doesn’t have a message. You’re injured, searching, hoping for a rescue and lashing out. It’s a cry for help and tragically, no one coming to the rescue.

  90. Ex says:

    Where’s the money Lebowski???!!

  91. RentL0rd says:

    Just like Tony Soprano had his day, until he didn’t.

  92. No One says:

    Rentl0rd: “I’ve never met a totally straight man”

    Maybe you should try broadening your social circle beyond manning the glory hole at a peyronie’s disease convention and lefty social media groups.

  93. Dark Phoenix says:

    Release the Epstein Files.

    Oh, and that 24 hour deal thing, when is it gonna happen? Kiev got sacked again this morning and same with other cities.

    Want a Nobel Peace Prize, you have to create some peace, right??

  94. Dark Phoenix says:

    The kinder, fairer of the sexes:

    Tennis star Jelena Ostapenko was forced to deny being ‘racist’ after she told her black opponent Taylor Townsend she has ‘no education and no class’ in an extraordinary rant at the US Open.

    Ostapenko is notorious for her bad temper and she became embroiled in yet another post-match argument after losing in straight sets to the American in the second round.

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