From the Daily Mail:
Panic as home values plummet in half of the biggest US cities
Nearly half of America’s biggest cities are now seeing home prices fall — a sign that cracks are spreading through the once-booming housing market.
Across the US, the cost of a single-family home rose just 1.5 percent in August compared with a year earlier, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller index.
That marks a slowdown from July’s 1.7 percent increase — and the weakest annual growth since 2023, when soaring mortgage rates and poor affordability briefly sent prices into reverse.
Of the 20 major metros tracked by Case-Shiller, nine recorded outright price declines, while 13 rose more slowly than the national average.
‘August’s data shows US home prices continuing to slow,’ Nicholas Godec, head of fixed income tradables and commodities at S&P Dow Jones Indices, told Realtor.com.
‘For the fourth straight month, home values have lost ground to inflation, meaning homeowners are seeing their real wealth decline even as nominal prices inch higher.’
Florida and Texas were hit hardest. Tampa saw the steepest drop — down 3.3 percent year-on-year — and has now notched 10 straight months of falling prices.
The city, along with others across Florida, is now officially a buyer’s markets.
…
‘Regionally, markets in the Northeast and Midwest continue to perform relatively better, supported by tighter resale supply and steadier demand,’ said Smith.
Should I sell my house before the real estate crash happens? The one you’ve been predicting for 14 years
Me?
Pretty sure I was calling bottom, and said to buy 14 years ago.
First.
Not fake first. But first.
At least someone takes a hit from “Epstein”, the files that never seem to go away. Virginia’s book is flying off the shelves. Too bad she is dead, it’s horrible what happened to her and all the others on Epstein Island, and that both Repukes and Democraps are covering themselves from.
King Charles last night sensationally stripped Andrew of his Prince title and is throwing him from home of decades – but a royal biographer has warned this is not the end of the humiliation for the disgraced ex-Duke.
Billie Eilish.
Making America Great Again, gives away 20% of her net worth. Right in front of Zuckerturd.
Then there is this:
McKenzie Scott just quietly donated $300 million.
Damn.
Princess Taylor, well, not so much.
Billie Eilish is donating $11.5 million to support food equity and climate crisis. In her speech, she made a general point about billionaires not doing enough and how obscene it is for individuals to hoard that much wealth. And ofc Swifties are losing their minds “she’s shading Taylor!!”
They can’t handle the fact that the shoe fits. Taylor is a billionaire. And not the “self-made girlboss” fairytale they spin, she built her fortune through endless merch drops, 38485 variants, overpriced concert tickets, etc. That’s not empowerment, it’s capitalism doing what capitalism does.
They know deep down it’s messed up, but defending her wealth feels easier than acknowledging she’s part of the same exploitative system they pretend she’s above.
What happened to kind and caring. This one is packing heat:
Too much money becomes an ilness all it’s own.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1ojbjov/filming_your_own_felonies/
It appears rich boys are now wearing pearls. Clint Eastwood never wore pearls, and never tried to kill cops while driving his daddy purchased expensive German farfegneugen style automobile.
Pearl-wearing son of top lawyer ‘rammed cops in Mercedes G-Wagon’… read the full shocking allegations now set to sully his family’s name
Will the “Mamdami Effect” effect this?
https://na.rdcpix.com/7af811b092e5eed1615a830d7c2ad8aaw-c1676843991srd-w925_q80.avif
Taking a page out of the ” Kristi Noem” playbook..
A Utah man allegedly flung six puppies out of a car window while driving down a highway because he thought ‘it would be easier to get rid of them.’
Memphis Lor, 25, was arrested on seven counts of torturing a companion animal after witnesses said they found a number of abused puppies on US-89 in Davis County, Utah, on October 22.
According to the Davis County Sheriff’s Office, Lor was driving at highway speeds when he allegedly threw six puppies out of his window.
Panic as home values plummet…
When houses increase 50% in four years and slide 3%, I wouldn’t call it panic. When sellers need to offer s3xual favors in order to sell their house, then you can call it panic.
Me?
No. 3b of course
When sellers need to offer s3xual favors in order to sell their house.
Not correct.
Sellers today are demanding s3xual favors if the buyer wants their house.
Wanna wear a red hat and pack heat for a low price? Here is your dream home.
Don’t hang out in a nasty Blue state where you are taxed to death and you despise everyone.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3214-10th-St-SW-Lehigh-Acres-FL-33976/81871020_zpid/?utm_campaign=zillowwebmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
Worn, dated, overgrown, completely out of style, lacking warmth, bland and sterile:
https://www.trulia.com/home/52-chopin-dr-wayne-nj-07470-39799761
Can’t buy a cape in a blue state for less than 500, hell, you can buy 3 of them in the red state called Florida.
Low taxes, free alligator shoes, and Baby Marco as your fearless leader.
Why does anyone want to live in a democrap state with 22k taxes. It’s brutal.
Who designed this joint?
https://www.trulia.com/home/1086-valley-rd-wayne-nj-07470-39791557
I never understood why red people would want to live in a blue state and constantly try to change it’s color. Same for the other way around.
Just hang out with the people that like you, in the states they hang out instead of trying to change people’s minds, play dirty tricks, etc.
Red should hang with red, blue with blue.
It’s all good.
Ooof.
Yeah, what bubble?
Cash sale only, fire damage:
https://www.trulia.com/home/58-van-duyne-ave-wayne-nj-07470-39784588
179k
Live in a beautiful red state. Super low taxes. You can keep all of your money, you don’t have to share one dime with those creepy blue people.
Hoist the American flag out front. Pack as much heat as you want, the gun shop is right next door to the liquor store for your convenience. Get a nice big pickup, enjoy it year round, no snow to deal with.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6166-SW-100th-Loop-Ocala-FL-34476/45890582_zpid/?utm_campaign=zillowwebmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
NJ pretty consistently flip flops between republican and democratic governorship.
The longest stretch of being blue in NJ history was 1954-1970 (the heart of American Greatness).
Outside of that, flip flop flip flop.
That’s the singular reason in the back of my mind that Mikie may lose, because it’s time for the regular flip-flop.
If she wins, she breaks the flip flop pattern..
Oh boy! It’s by Captain Kilroy Park! Hurry! This charmer won’t last! And they recommend tearing down walls! Why did they increase the price on this shit bi-level by $80,000?
https://www.trulia.com/home/11-kimberly-pl-wayne-nj-07470-39791348
Amazing what people are willing to pay in order to hang with Blue people.
500k, traffic, Murphy’s chompers, and Menendez’s gold bar fiascos.
Fast Eddie says:
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 am
Cash sale only, fire damage:
https://www.trulia.com/home/58-van-duyne-ave-wayne-nj-07470-39784588
Used to run call centers in Ocala. That was literally the trashiest of trashy in Florida. Dirt cheap labor. Nowheresville.
That’s the singular reason in the back of my mind that Mikie may lose
Mikey may loose because she’s the white version of Kumella.
That was literally the trashiest of trashy in Florida.
Trashy White Girls… I feel a hardcore blues/fusion song bubbling… I’m plugging the Telecaster in shortly. Raw and hard is the theme for the song.
Irrelevant in NJ politics.
No, sorry, Daisy Duke doesn’t exist in Ocala. Not even close. We’d need to hire 3 people to get a full set of teeth.
grim says:
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 am
No, sorry, Daisy Duke doesn’t exist in Ocala. Not even close. We’d need to hire 3 people to get a full set of teeth.
Repubs don’t believe in dental care? It’s been red since 52.
And who needs teeth to work in a call center? Do those poor schleps even get a lunch break?
Was the cutest combination of crack use, gambling addiction, and diabetes.
True
grim says:
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 am
NJ pretty consistently flip flops between republican and democratic governorship.
The longest stretch of being blue in NJ history was 1954-1970 (the heart of American Greatness).
Outside of that, flip flop flip flop.
That’s the singular reason in the back of my mind that Mikie may lose, because it’s time for the regular flip-flop.
If she wins, she breaks the flip flop pattern..
Why is NJ or Florida the only choices for the rightwingers?
What about Alabama, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Tennessee, 100% maga, pure heaven!
Dark Phoenix says:
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 am
Can’t buy a cape in a blue state for less than 500, hell, you can buy 3 of them in the red state called Florida.
Low taxes, free alligator shoes, and Baby Marco as your fearless leader.
Why does anyone want to live in a democrap state with 22k taxes. It’s brutal.
Brits still have rule of the law.
All Republicans voted to cover up e pstein file
Dark Phoenix says:
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 am
At least someone takes a hit from “Epstein”, the files that never seem to go away. Virginia’s book is flying off the shelves. Too bad she is dead, it’s horrible what happened to her and all the others on Epstein Island, and that both Repukes and Democraps are covering themselves from.
King Charles last night sensationally stripped Andrew of his Prince title and is throwing him from home of decades – but a royal biographer has warned this is not the end of the humiliation for the disgraced ex-Duke.
grim says:
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 am
“Daisy Duke doesn’t exist in Ocala…”
Actually worked with an attractive woman — in NYC — from Ocala. In any case, Ocala is just a stone’s throw from the Villages, which I understand is loaded with ready-and-willing 70 year-old broads.
You a dentures in or out kind of guy?
yesterday that pic of Sweeney was on fire.
today is the pic of the passionate hug between the vp with the widow running her fingers through his hair
In the summer Ocala is also typically one of the hottest places in FL. Scrub oak and sand, not palm trees. But there are a lot of horses in the area, and money with the horses. It’s also not that far from Gainesville and U of F.
I think over all I’d rather be in Ocala than Newark or Camden.
VAG,
Go down to one of those Southern States and mock those rebel boys to their face. When and if you come out of the coma, you’ll be picking your teeth out of the back of your head.
Maybe Erika is a closet Depeche Mode fan, she really loves men wearing eyeliner. Vancy’s a dreamboat (swoon), and it’s time for an upgrade anyway.
I mean, Americans want to live with people that look like them, and Vance wishes Usha was Christian. Just swap em out, no biggie.
Oh I’m sure Ocala is great now. I mean, it was a big attraction for us at the time, because there were like 6 prisons within bus distance, ensuring an ample supply of $4 an hour labor.
Flo Rida.
Where Repub Trickle down dollars flow into dentist’s coffers.
It’s heartwarming to know how much they care about the teeth of the children who live there.
New polls out have Mikie’s lead gaining:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/new-jersey-governor-election-polls-2025.html
60 years to break the pattern.
Go down to one of those Southern States and mock those rebel boys to their face. When and if you come out of the coma, you’ll be picking your teeth out of the back of your head.
No different up here man, it’s just that it’s going to be in Paterson and not Princeton where it’ll happen.
grim says:
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 am
Oh I’m sure Ocala is great now. I mean, it was a big attraction for us at the time, because there were like 6 prisons within bus distance, ensuring an ample supply of $4 an hour labor.
Capitalism says “cheap labor is good.” Prison labor is cheap too.
AI and Robots are cheaper still, especially since taxpayers will pay for the required upgraded electrical grid and rebuilt nuclear plants.
Mikie launched simultaneous pushes into Newark and Elizabeth, cutting off Jack’s last reliable reinforcements from Paterson. Her logistics corps reactivated commuter rail lines to move personnel and supplies efficiently, an unconventional but decisive move.
By the time Mikie’s units reached Jersey City, Jack’s command had fractured into isolated pockets. Attempts to regroup around Hoboken failed as Mikie’s teams secured the Hudson waterfront, effectively closing the operation.
Within seventy-two hours, Mikie held functional control of New Jersey’s major corridors—Atlantic City, Trenton, New Brunswick, Newark, and Jersey City.
Jack’s resistance was limited to rural holdouts and minor coastal outposts. The campaign became a textbook case of infrastructure-based warfare—winning cities not through destruction but through decisive control of movement, power, and morale.
You know what’s better than 4 dollar an hour labor?
One dollar an hour labor. You know what’s better than 1 dollar an hour labor?
Free labor.
And we are back to our roots here in America.
ATC needs to walk out during the holidays. Or at least have major sick outs.
Y’all can’t work for free.
You are some violent animal. Wish you the same buddy, hope one of this days someone gets you in a coma from which you never wake up
White Trash Eddie says:
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 am
VAG,
Go down to one of those Southern States and mock those rebel boys to their face. When and if you come out of the coma, you’ll be picking your teeth out of the back of your head.
Can’t unsee Sidney Sweeny’s sanpaku eyes.
Fab: No as expected. Your comment was just out of the blue. I don’t engage with you, because you are argumentative and disagreeable just for the sake of it. That of course is as expected.
Phoenix,
should it matter? I still have 3 or 4 friends from high school that I have no idea how they vote.
Someone: I don’t see why you felt the need to reference me. Sell your house, don’t sell your house, I don’t give a crap. Fast and I are just having a back and forth discussion on house prices. Fast believes they will never go down in this area, I believe AI is a game changer, and yes prices will go down in this area too. Away from that prices should have gone down further in the past but the Fed put a floor under the market. That of course is another story.
Fast: That joint in Wayne looks like a bad combination of a ranch and cape cod, making it an abomination.
today in Polymarket:
*Mandami 95%
*Sherrill 87%
Interesting article on the WSJ today about cities starting to use robots for various function, including firefighting, lawn mowing, guides and other functions.
How about governing?
One way to get out the vote.
“1.8 million New Yorkers and more than 800,000 New Jersey residents could lose their benefits this Saturday.”
3b- We have to replace the 570,000 bio-robots that were deported this year so far.
You really think Americans are going to do the manual labor?
Lib – re: “how about governing?”
Haven’t you heard of Diella?
She is pregnant too..
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/10/30/albanias-ai-minister-is-pregnant-with-83-digital-assistants-prime-minister-says
Juice: No need for low wage immigrants to do these jobs going forwards, all robots. This isn’t s now, not the future. The trades are not a safe harbor either.
Lib: There is no governing, it’s all posturing by both sides.
3b says:
October 31, 2025 at 10:11 am
“There is no governing, it’s all posturing by both sides.”
I’d argue there’s never been a clearer distinction between the two sides; take one example — immigration/border security…
– Dems literally opened our borders, allowed (enabled) criminal illegals to remain in the country and on the streets, handed out commercial drivers licenses to illegals who could not read English-language road signs, used Medicaid funds to provide health care (via the ER) to illegals, etc…
– Reps have completely secured the border, are aggressively detaining criminal illegals (do you pay any attention when the admin periodically releases lists of the guys that have been apprehended), are attempting to remove illegal (and extraordinarily dangerous) illegal truck drivers, and are trying to ensure that taxpayer funds are not used to provide health care for illegals
Mamdani is offering free jet skis when city buses are unavailable.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQdJ6Y5kcZG/?l=1
more AI slop…
VAG,
The percentage of people using food stamps in blue California and New York is greater than those in Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Health Care for illegal aliens while 48,000,000 Americans beg for food.
The new democrat party.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-states-rely-food-stamps-most-snap-funding-expires-10942866
Here you can explore percentage of population using SNAP.
It doesn’t exactly fit the Northeastern Liberal pseudo-intellectual imagination.
In reality, state participation has a lot to do with race.
But what in the heck is going on in Oregon.
This Al Jazeera wrote a fancy version of the un-self-aware “per capita is raciss”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/fact-checking-a-viral-chart-on-us-food-stamps-recipients-race-ethnicity
It must be true!! It’s from the White House:
FACT: Democrats’ proposal would once again allow those improperly granted asylum and parole under Biden’s open borders scheme to receive Medicaid.
FACT: Democrats’ proposal would require Medicaid to pay more for emergency care provided to illegal aliens than it does for American patients who are disabled, elderly, or children.
FACT: Democrats’ proposal would allow California to continue exploiting a loophole to fund Medicaid for illegal aliens.
FACT: Democrats’ proposal would reinstate a special Obamacare subsidy for non-citizens — for which low-income American citizens are not eligible.
FACT: Democrats’ proposal would repeal a generational $50 billion investment in rural healthcare.
FACT: Democrats’ proposal would take Health Savings Accounts away from ten million American citizens.
Democrats are asking to reverse a cut in funding for federal reimbursement hospitals can get for treating undocumented immigrants with an emergency medical condition, which they are required to do by law. Hospitals can be reimbursed by Medicaid for this emergency care, but comprehensive Medicaid coverage is not available to undocumented immigrants. Furthermore, according to the health policy research nonprofit KFF, less than 1% of total Medicaid spending was allocated to emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants in fiscal year 2023.
Beyond this, Democrats are seemingly even more concerned about extending subsidies under The Affordable Care Act (ACA), as the government is receiving warnings that allowing ACA subsidies to expire at the end of the year could have immense ramifications, kicking millions of people off of their healthcare, skyrocketing out-of-pocket insurance premiums, and premiums across the health insurance market are to increase drastically.
In 2025, 24 million individuals obtained their insurance through the ACA marketplace, and nearly all (93%) of these individuals utilized subsidies to help cover costs, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. They estimate that if Congress does not extend these subsidies, approximately 4 million people will lose their marketplace coverage and become uninsured.
Democrat Response
Democratic leadership has been clear in calling out the false narrative being pushed about healthcare for immigrants without legal status. Earlier this month, two Democratic leaders, Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Sen. Patty Murray, put forth a budget proposal to extend ACA subsidies, a proposal that did not include free healthcare for undocumented immigrants.
“It’s a total, absolute, F-ing lie,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told MSNBC on Morning Joe. “They’re afraid of the truth. They know that what they’ve done to health care has decimated health care for so much of America — 10s, 20s, 20 million Americans. And so, they’re trying to hide the truth.”
Senator Ruben Gallago, a Democrat from Arizona, reiterated Schumer’s points, writing on X that Vance “hates” the ACA so much he would rather shut down the government and raise premiums of Americans.”
He continued, “ACA tax credits don’t go to illegal immigrants
What a sneaky woman…
Federal officials have charged Maryland state Sen. Dalya Attar with extortion in a plot that prosecutors say involved surreptitious recordings of a political foe in bed with a romantic partner.
Attar, a Democrat from Baltimore and the first Orthodox Jewish woman to serve in the state Senate, is charged with eight counts related to extortion and wiretapping that took place between 2020 and 2022, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Maryland.
Prosecutors allege that the three named defendants then planned over WhatsApp how to track the political consultant when she was in town from Israel and plant hidden cameras in smoke detectors at the Baltimore apartment where she was staying.
The group then saved recordings of her and the romantic partner engaged in intimate moments, according to court documents, eventually threatening to share them — if the political consultant spoke poorly of Attar — with “every Rabbi in town” and matchmakers in Israel poised to help her daughters get married.
Attar was charged alongside her brother, Joseph Attar, and Kalman Finkelstein, a politically connected police officer — all of whom were released by a federal magistrate judge Thursday. The judge restricted their travel; they surrendered their U.S. passports.
Except that one side controls
whitehouse,
congress,
senate and
supreme court
3b says:
October 31, 2025 at 10:11 am
Lib: There is no governing, it’s all posturing by both sides.
Democrats don’t just lack a message — they also lack a messenger.
While the focus is on the former, the latter is forgotten, as if somehow solving their message problem will automatically create the messenger to deliver it. In fact, the opposite is occurring; Democrats’ message problems are killing off their potential messengers.
Democrats’ message problems are much discussed… for good reason. They killed not one, but two Democratic 2024 presidential campaigns.
First, refusing to admit their message problems, Democrats turned on the messenger — and that turned out to be former President Joe Biden. But installing in Kamala Harris in his place didn’t change their messaging problems; instead, it confirmed them.
Harris was Biden’s polar opposite in every way except one — message. But that single continuity yielded the same comprehensive failure Biden had been facing.
Because November made it inescapable, there’s been an unrelenting focus on the Democrats’ message. Coming from opposite perspectives, James Carville and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have made the same point: Democrats’ message needs fixing. Countless others have added their voices.
Lost in this microscopic focus on message is the fact that Democrats also have no messengers. Biden, Harris and Walz were all swept from the national stage by Trump’s tsunami. Bernie Sanders is too old.
Nancy Pelosi is both too old and now discredited by Trump’s return. Pelosi started the concerted operations against Trump back in 2019 with House hearings, investigations, and impeachments. She was the mastermind behind Biden’s removal and Harris’s insertion. Her tearing-up of Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address ironically presaged her own fate.
Despite her disdain for Trump, she could pull every lever, but still not concoct a strategy for defeating him. Now he is back and stronger than ever; she is being primaried in 2026 by an acolyte of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
In the states, Governors Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul and JB Pritzker are all hamstrung by their failures in government. Each offers Republicans beaucoup campaign ad opportunities.
Governors from states like Pennsylvania (Josh Shapiro), North Carolina (Roy Cooper), and Kentucky (Andy Beshear) — places Democrats desperately need to win to rebound nationally — are all too moderate to win a Democratic nomination contest for president. This is probably why all were passed over as Harris’s running mate in 2024.
Leaders in Congress look even worse. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had his Michael Dukakis tank moment when he stood holding an avocado and a Corona at a press conference against Trump’s tariffs. House Minority Leader Hakeem “Street Fightin’ Man” Jeffries let slip a call to “fight it in the streets.” The nation’s scold, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)? No way.
Messengers matter. Donald Trump proves this daily, to Democrats’ dismay. Crafter and deliverer, message and messenger — in perfect synergy, each propels the other.
Dyssynergy can also occur, each spiraling the other downward. Look back to Kamala Harris this fall: Bad positions of the past dragged her down (support for illegal immigration and paying for convicts’ transgender surgeries), and her ineptitude in trying to explain these made the positions look worse.
This applies in spades to the Democrats. It is not that Democrats lack messages. They have them; it’s just that they are bad. Nor do Democrats lack messengers; it’s just that they are also bad.
Democrats’ messages turn off the voters they need to win, and none of Democrats’ messengers speak to these groups they do need to win. Rather, Democrats’ messages and messengers speak to groups they already have and candidly, could use some distance from.
Finally, Democrats’ messengers look overmatched — not just by Trump but by the very moment. Democrats are not one step away from resuscitating their political fortunes. They are at least two and perhaps, three.
They assuredly do not have winning messages. They also do not have someone who could deliver them if they had them. And they do not have someone their party will listen to who could craft one for them.
It is folly for Democrats to think a new message will magically produce itself, alongside someone to deliver it. To believe this is to put things backward. It is also to dismiss the evidence they want to deny, which is right before their eyes.
At its core, Democrats’ message-messenger conundrum is their policies. Pretending these policy failures can simply be communicated into successes is the real crux of Democrats’ predicament. If they could have, they would have done it in 2024, when Democrats had every conceivable advantage — incumbency, money, elite support, establishment media backing and an opponent with high negatives. All these advantages are diminishing by the day.
Democrats’ policy failures are killing any hope of a positive message. And their negative messages are taking Democrats’ potential messengers down with them.
J.T. Young is the author of the recent “Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left” from RealClear Publishing. He has over three decades’ experience working in Congress, the Department of Treasury, and the Office of Management, and Budget, and representing a Fortune 20 company.
“No one will ever replace Charlie….but I do see some similarities of my husband in JD…Vice President JD Vance”
~Says Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.
Erikka wants to be Future First Lady.
Amazing the amount of planning that goes on. Believe all women, sugar, spice, and everything nice?
In December 2021, just weeks after Attar filed for reelection to the House of Delegates, prosecutors allege that her brother, Joseph Attar, met with the political consultant’s romantic partner at a shopping center in Baltimore. During the meeting, he showed the man the footage of the two in bed together, according to the indictment, and threatened exposure if the man didn’t silence the consultant.
“I’ll share this video with everybody you know, everyone she knows, every Rabbi in town, your kids, your wife, her daughters,” Joseph Attar said, according to transcripts of the conversation included in the indictment.
He said he would undermine the marital prospects of the consultant’s daughters by sharing the videos with “every shadchan in Israel,” referring to Jewish professional matchmakers.
Grim,
Pretty sure I was calling bottom, and said to buy 14 years ago.
You are an absolute liar! [source: alternate facts from the frequent posters here /s]
You left out the best part.
Later that month, Attar’s brother Joseph, Baltimore cop Kalman Finkelstein and others involved in the plot allegedly placed a tracker on the consultant’s car and installed hidden cameras inside a smoke detector at an apartment the victim used to rendezvous with her married paramour.
“Damn, I wish I had [the man’s] stamina,” Finkelstein stated in a WhatsApp voice message after the cameras were installed on or around Jan. 16, 2020, according to the indictment.
Dark Phoenix says:
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 am
What a sneaky woman…
BREAKING NEWS!
JPMorgan Chase alerted Trump admin to over $1B in ‘suspicious’ transactions involving Epstein and prominent Wall Street figures: report
Over 4,700 transactions, including wire transfers to Russian banks raised red flags in 2019, new documents reveal
Harry Cockburn
Friday 31 October 2025
Just weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in jail in 2019, banking giant JPMorgan Chase alerted the Trump administration to more than $1 billion in potentially suspicious transactions involving several high-profile U.S. business figures, as well as wire transfers to Russian banks.
The report, which JPMorgan filed – and which was released this week among hundreds of pages of previously sealed court records – flagged over 4,700 transactions, amid concerns they could potentially be related to human trafficking operations involving Epstein.
VSG: The Dems shut the government down, and they acknowledge it’s the only leverage they have. Yet, you stil ignore it.
Boomer, democrats are only ones protecting your universal healthcare
3b says:
October 31, 2025 at 12:28 pm
VSG: The Dems shut the government down, and they acknowledge it’s the only leverage they have. Yet, you stil ignore it.
Some of us actually remember things…even far back. There was an article when grim bought in the NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/realestate/cautious-blogger-grim-buys-a-home-in-the-regionnew-jersey.html
Others have selective memory, especially when it’s convenient
VSG: That is not the reason they shut the government down.
Back when South Park was funny, here’s a piece on a stupid cop trying to entrap men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJXuXqwFxcU
Republicans are in control of whitehouse, congress, senate and supremecourt and responsible for shutting the federal government
3b says:
October 31, 2025 at 12:57 pm
VSG: That is not the reason they shut the government down.
I waited to upgrade my NJ house till early 2010, prices held on for years, then suddenly no one was buying in 2009, early 2010. I think my house had been listed for two year and they kept switching realtors and cutting 10% off the price each time, I think I bought at nearly 40% off their initial listing price. I don’t feel sorry for the seller at all, some fat leftist woman, wife of a lawyer, a fan of some of the ugliest modern art ever, apparently she admitted had never once stepped into her 3 acres of wooded back yard (where her son had buried many bags of beer cans and plastic cups to hide the evidence, I deduced).
VSG: Repeating it over and over does not make it true.
What’s not true?
3b says:
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 pm
VSG: Repeating it over and over does not make it true.
TOP TRUMP OFFICIALS ARE MOVING ONTO MILITARY BASES
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
OCTOBER 30, 2025. – From The Atlantic
The former White House adviser Katie Miller—mother of three young children, and wife of the presidential right-hand man Stephen—walked out of her front door one Thursday morning last month and was confronted by a woman she did not know. When she told this story on Fox News, she described the encounter as a protest that crossed a line. The stranger had told Miller: “I’m watching you,” she said. This was the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It also wasn’t anything new.
For weeks before Kirk’s death, activists had been protesting the Millers’ presence in north Arlington, Virginia. Someone had put up wanted posters in their neighborhood with their home address, denouncing Stephen as a Nazi who had committed “crimes against humanity.” A group called Arlington Neighbors United for Humanity warned in an Instagram post: “Your efforts to dismantle our democracy and destroy our social safety net will not be tolerated here.” The local protest became a backdrop to the Trump administration’s response to Kirk’s killing. When Miller, the architect of that response who is known for his inflammatory political rhetoric, announced a legal crackdown on liberal groups, he singled out the tactics that had victimized his family—what he called “organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting peoples’ addresses.”
Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest. It is an ominous marker of the nation’s polarization, to which the Trump administration has itself contributed, that some of those top public servants have felt a need to separate themselves from the public. These civilian officials can now depend on the U.S. military to augment their personal security. But so many have made the move that they are now straining the availability of housing for the nation’s top uniformed officers.
Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, moved out of her D.C. apartment building and into the home designated for the Coast Guard commandant on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, across the river from the capital, after the Daily Mail described where she lived. Both Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live on “Generals’ Row” at Fort McNair, an Army enclave along the Anacostia River, according to officials from the State and Defense Departments. (Rubio spent one recent evening assembling furniture that had been delivered to the house that day.) Although most Cabinet-level officials live in private houses, there is precedent for senior national-security officials, including the defense secretary, to rent homes on bases for security or convenience. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, whose family is in Washington only part-time, now shares a home on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, a picturesque site next to Arlington National Cemetery. His roommate is another senior political appointee to the Army. (When Driscoll moved in, his washing machine wasn’t working, so for the first few weeks of his stay on base, he lugged his laundry over to the home of the Army chief of staff, General Randy George.)
Another senior White House official, whom The Atlantic is not naming because of security concerns related to a specific foreign threat, also vacated a private home for a military installation after Kirk’s murder. In that case, security officials urged the official to relocate to military housing, according to people briefed on the move, who like many others who spoke with us for this story were not authorized to do so publicly. So many senior officials have requested housing that some are now encountering a familiar D.C. problem: inadequate supply. When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s team inquired earlier in Donald Trump’s second term about her moving onto McNair, it didn’t work out for space reasons, a former official told us.
There are scattered examples from previous administrations of Cabinet members residing on bases. Both Robert Gates, defense secretary under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and Jim Mattis, Trump’s first Pentagon chief, lived in Navy housing at the Potomac Hill annex, a secure compound near the State Department. Mike Pompeo, CIA director and secretary of state during Trump’s first term, lived at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. The grand homes they occupied, some of which date back more than a century, offer officials an additional layer of security and ample space for official entertaining.
But there is no record of so many political appointees living on military installations. The shift adds to the blurring of traditional boundaries between the civilian and military worlds. Trump has made the military a far more visible element of domestic politics, deploying National Guard forces to Washington, Los Angeles, and other cities run by Democrats. He has decreed that those cities should be used as “training grounds” in the battle against the “enemy within.”
Adria Lawrence, an associate professor of international studies and political science at John Hopkins University, told us that housing political advisers on bases sends a problematic message. “In a robust democracy, what you want is the military to be for the defense of the country as a whole and not just one party,” Lawrence told us.
But the threat assessment has also changed in recent years. Trump has survived two attempted assassinations; Iran has stepped up its efforts to kill federal officials; and political violence—such as the June shooting of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers, the murder of Kirk in September, and the shooting at a Texas immigration facility two weeks later—is a real danger.
The result is straining the stock of homes typically allotted to senior uniformed officers on Washington-area bases. Some of those homes, designed for three- and four-star generals, lack sufficient bedrooms for families with young children. Many have lead-abatement issues and require significant repair. The Army notified Congress in January that it planned to spend more than $137,000 on repairs and upgrades to Hegseth’s McNair home before he moved in. Both Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, and Austin’s State Department counterpart, Antony Blinken, faced protesters at their northern-Virginia homes, which were not on bases. Gaza protesters who set up camp outside Blinken’s house, where he lived with his young children, spattered fake blood on cars as they passed by.
Robert Pape, a political-science professor at the University of Chicago, told us that the threat of political violence is real for figures in both major parties. He noted that Trump has revoked the security details for several of his critics and adversaries, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and John Bolton, the former national security adviser from Trump’s first term who has been the target of an Iranian assassination plot. “The correct balance would be: Trump should stop canceling the security detail of former Biden officials,” said Pape, who is also the director of the university’s Chicago Project on Security and Threats. “The issue is both sides are under heightened threat; therefore the threat to both should be taken seriously.”
In most cases, the civilian officials pay “fair market” rent for their base home, a formula determined by the military. Hegseth, in keeping with a 2008 law that aimed to make Gates’s Navy-owned housing arrangement more affordable, pays a rent equivalent to a general’s housing allowance plus 5 percent (in this case, totaling $4,655.70 a month). The moves, however, can also save the government money. In some cases, base living can reduce the cost of providing personal security to officials, one person familiar with the relocations told us, because protective teams do not need to rent a second location nearby as a staging area.
Base living—in the unofficial Trump Green Zone—has also become something of a double-edged status symbol among Trump officials. No one wants to deal with threats; both the Millers and the unnamed senior official were not looking to leave their homes. But the secure housing does confer upon the recipient a certain sheen of importance that sets them apart from all of the other officials ferried about in armored black SUVs. Administration officials now find themselves vying for the largest houses, not unlike the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that has long played out among senior military officers.
The isolation of living on a military base, at least for civilians, has also created a deeper division between Trump’s advisers and the metropolitan area where they govern. Trump-administration officials, who regularly mock the nation’s capital as a crime-ridden hellscape, now find themselves in a protected bubble, even farther removed from the city’s daily rhythms. And they are even less likely to encounter a diverse mix of voters—in their neighborhoods, on their playgrounds, in their favorite date-night haunts.
After the Kirk assassination , the Trump administration designated antifa a domestic terrorist organization, even though there is no centralized antifa organization, no organizational ties have been established to Kirk’s alleged killer, and the category of domestic terrorist organization has no meaning in federal law. The identities of the activists behind the harassment campaign that helped persuade the Millers to leave their home have not been publicly disclosed.
Arlington Neighbors United for Humanity—ANUFH, pronounced, they say, enough—has organized protests near the homes of Miller and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. Its website calls for “strategic, nonviolent action,” and its efforts appear to have stopped short of making any explicit threats of violence. (A representative of the group declined to comment, as did the Millers.) But the protests were designed to make the Miller family take notice. Stephen Miller has been an architect of Trump’s deportation policy, invoking a centuries-old law to send migrants to a Salvadoran prison and urging immigration-enforcement officers to aggressively find and arrest as many immigrants as possible. He regularly derides Democrats with inflammatory language, calling judicial rulings against the administration a “legal insurrection” and calling the Democratic Party “a domestic extremist organization.”
Read: Stephen Miller has a plan
“Will we let him live in our community in peace while he TERRORIZES children and families? Not a chance,” ANUFH captioned one Instagram post in July that shows a photograph of the Millers and their children. (The Millers have both posted family photos online that show their children’s faces.) Weeks later, the group took credit for covering the sidewalk near the Miller home with chalk messages such as Miller is preying on families , although it said in a post that it had spoken with Stephen Miller’s security beforehand to make sure that the group wasn’t violating any laws. Katie Miller responded with an Instagram post of her own, a video of the chalked words STEPHEN MILLER IS DESTROYING DEMOCRACY! being washed away with a hose. She argued in a subsequent appearance on Fox News that although the protesters may not be violent themselves, they were inciting the kind of violence that killed Kirk. “We will not back down. We will not cower in fear. We will double down. Always, For Charlie,” Katie Miller wrote, echoing her husband’s rhetoric.
“WE ARE PEACEFULLY RESISTING TYRANNY,” ANUFH responded in a post. “GUNS KILL PEOPLE. CHALK SCARES FASCISTS.”
Earlier this month, the Millers put their six-bedroom north Arlington home on the market for $3.75 million. The listing promised “a rare blend of seclusion, sophistication, and striking design.”
Nancy A. Youssef and Vivian Salama contributed reporting.
Millions face ‘huge sticker shock’ when ACA open enrollment starts Nov. 1
Open enrollment for health insurance offered via the Affordable Care Act marketplace starts Nov. 1 in most states.
Prospective enrollees will likely see much higher premiums for health insurance.
That’s largely because enhanced subsidies that lower insurance premiums are still in limbo amid the government shutdown.
About 22 million of the 24 million ACA enrollees receive those enhanced premium tax credits.
1:43 PM,
Who the fuck would even try to read that un-formatted mess that you posted. My eyeballs are bleeding just scrolling past it.
Millions face ‘huge sticker shock’ when ACA open enrollment starts Nov. 1
The reason they face it was because it was a scam in the first place. Like everything your lying scumbag Dems create, it ultimately destroys and causes 10 problems for every one that it claims to fix.
Democrats: We need to use people as leverage. They’re not even denying it. They’re burning the fucking joint down and letting you know that’s their intentions.
These names…. Madoff and now Bankin…
An Indian-origin CEO is at the heart of a $500 million scam that targeted the world’s biggest investment group BlackRock’s private-credit investing arm and other lenders, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
According to the WSJ report, BlackRock’s private credit investment arm, HPS Investment Partners, are now trying to recover the money after falling victim to what it calls a ‘breathtaking’ fraud.
Bankim Brahmbhatt, the owner of US-based Broadband Telecom and Bridgevoice, has been accused of fabricating accounts receivable that were supposed to be used as loan collateral.
https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/bankim-brahmbhatt-indian-origin-ceo-under-blackrocks-radar-for-breathtaking-500-million-scam-who-is-he-11761907173700.html
Fat Eddie,
My posts are design to cure sufferers of TDS. You got a severe case of it.
Unfortunately, severe pain, bleeding, emesis and bowel issues can occur through out the body as the Cognitive Dissonance scrambles your brain.
Your eyes hurting is a small side effect. Small Con needs 5 rolls of Charmin Ultra-Strong and you know he only makes $3 per hand massage of other people’s private at that meth head corner he hangs out, so he can only afford the free napkins from McD’s.
Remember, TDS is Trump Devotion Syndrome
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Leverage is great. Until the force on the lever exceeds it’s limits and f’n kills you like you deserve for not ignoring the signs and reading the spec sheet.
New hats today.
MAAA..
Make America Affordable Again.
Fast Eddie says:
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 pm
Millions face ‘huge sticker shock’ when ACA open enrollment starts Nov. 1
The reason they face it was because it was a scam in the first place. Like everything your lying scumbag Dems create, it ultimately destroys and causes 10 problems for every one that it claims to fix.
Yet our friends that we support around the world have free healthcare for all.
I guess if you are paying for them, with American tax dollars, which is nice, there isn’t enough money for Americans.
I don’t know who is harder to pin down on a position: Donald or Phoenix.
Argentinians just got free $40 billion
Dark Phoenix says:
October 31, 2025 at 3:29 pm
Fast Eddie says:
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 pm
Millions face ‘huge sticker shock’ when ACA open enrollment starts Nov. 1
The reason they face it was because it was a scam in the first place. Like everything your lying scumbag Dems create, it ultimately destroys and causes 10 problems for every one that it claims to fix.
Yet our friends that we support around the world have free healthcare for all.
I guess if you are paying for them, with American tax dollars, which is nice, there isn’t enough money for Americans.
Scammers vs scammers. All scum.
Always trying to find an edge, pilfering nickel after nickel from anyone they can.
While middle class Americans get into their shitty azz Ford products with exploding eco-boom engines, while trying to go to work, late in traffic due to greedy builders and corrupt politicans, just trying to make out a meek existence in, wait for it
THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
With more legalized corruption than actual corruption.
With voting that is the equivalent of choosing death by knife or firearm thanks to the fact that everyone you vote for has been comprimised in some sort of way. ( see above example of Dalya Attar)
Courts are worthless, both of the last two Presidents pardoned real criminals. No ethics from either, no morals, it’s like Alice in Wonderland Government- one exactly like the Tin man, the other exactly like the Scarecrow. No heart, no brains.
Too bad Toto wasn’t running for president.
Juice Box says:
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 pm
These names…. Madoff and now Bankin…
An Indian-origin CEO is at the heart of a $500 million scam that targeted the world’s biggest investment group BlackRock’s private-credit investing arm and other lenders, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
According to the WSJ report, BlackRock’s private credit investment arm, HPS Investment Partners, are now trying to recover the money after falling victim to what it calls a ‘breathtaking’ fraud.
Bankim Brahmbhatt, the owner of US-based Broadband Telecom and Bridgevoice, has been accused of fabricating accounts receivable that were supposed to be used as loan collateral.
https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/bankim-brahmbhatt-indian-origin-ceo-under-blackrocks-radar-for-breathtaking-500-million-scam-who-is-he-11761907173700.html
Weaponizing Hunger.
Two federal judges rejected the Trump administration’s argument that it must suspend food-aid benefits for tens of millions of Americans during the government shutdown, ruling the move to be likely unlawful. US officials must use contingency funding to at least partially keep the program operational, the courts said.
About 42 million Americans face the prospect of seeing their food assistance cut off under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, despite billions of dollars in alternative funding that appear to be set aside to maintain it during the budget impasse.
The shutdown, now among the longest ever, stems from Democratic demands that Republicans lift a deadline that will effectively cut off healthcare access for millions of Americans. The GOP insists a “clean” budget should be passed before any talk of deadlines. The Trump administration meanwhile has said the shutdown ties its hands with regard to SNAP, in that tapping the alternate funds would be illegal. This however contradicts its own pre-shutdown plans—since deleted from a government website—saying SNAP can continue.
Democrats contend the food assistance crisis is actually Trump using the threat of ending food aid for millions as leverage to force an end to the shutdown—without agreeing to their healthcare demands. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, accused the president of “weaponizing hunger.”
Like the housing crash you’ve been predicting for one reason or another for years. If you don’t remember, see a neurologist.
3b says:
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Repeating it over and over does not make it true.
And others can’t sense obvious sarcasm, even when it’s labeled as such.
BRT says:
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 pm
Some of us actually remember things…even far back. There was an article when grim bought in the NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/realestate/cautious-blogger-grim-buys-a-home-in-the-regionnew-jersey.html
Others have selective memory, especially when it’s convenient
Someone: You are a little cranky today. And, you are right it did not come, as the Fed put a floor under the housing market, and now we are where we are, and necessarily a good place. We can still get that crash of course, but for other reasons. Time will tell. Get some rest this weekend.
I already knew buddy when you tried calling out 3B. That It was more of a general statement about anything said on this board.
That’s why I didn’t quote your post btw.
My mistake, sorry. Obviously, I agree with you about people’s selective memories, awful memories, ignorance and stupidity.
Should have said we are where we are and not necessarily a good place.
Another way to get the vote out.
N.J. Gov. Murphy declares state of emergency to respond to loss of SNAP
Oh snap!!
On the real, snap will become the norm as AI replaces workers and takes out the most expensive parts of a product: labor and profit. Eventually, as ai evolves into superior intelligence, there will be no need for profit, but for maximum efficiency…profit gets in the way of that. But remember, in an abundant world, there is no need for profits. You have everything you want for dirt cheap….again, you took out the most expensive parts of making a product…profit and labor. This is coming quickly…
And that all hinges on superior intelligence….superior intelligence focused on maximum efficiency. Super brain trying to find efficiency in everything. Will drastically lower the price of everything.