From MSN:
America’s first-time homebuyers are disappearing. That’s bad news for real estate.
By the time she turned 40, Suzie Payne had resigned herself to the fact that she would never be able to buy a home.
While her friends spent their 30s checking off that prized milestone — often with help from their parents — Payne struggled to save money while raising a daughter on her own. Home prices in Portland, Oregon, where she lived, felt out of reach long before the pandemic hit. Then Payne lost her job. When mortgage rates plummeted in the summer of 2020, she was more worried about meeting her basic needs than spending her Saturdays staking out open houses.
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Things have been headed in this direction for a few years now — older, deep-pocketed buyers are better equipped to handle the double whammy of higher borrowing rates and costlier homes. Gen Xers and baby boomers remain active in the real estate market, while the share of purchases by first-time buyers has dwindled. But never before has the divide appeared so stark. This delayed timeline could have lifelong consequences for today’s young people: years of missed wealth-building opportunities, fewer moves, even a reevaluation of what constitutes a “starter home.” Welcome to the age of the geriatric homebuyer.
The typical first-time homebuyer was just 29 when the NAR began tracking the median age in 1981. The metric edged slightly higher in the four decades that followed, never ticking past 33. Then, between mid-2021 and mid-2022, it spiked to 36. There was a bit of cope around the sudden jump. Maybe it was just elder millennials — long labeled as laggards since graduating into the Great Recession — finally catching up. But even that cohort felt squeezed. Mortgage rates had more than doubled, homes were more expensive, and new construction after the Great Recession had failed to keep pace with the surge of young buyers. I talked to one millennial back then who framed the scenario in bleak terms: “We’re royally screwed.”
Things have only gotten worse. First-time buyers accounted for a record-low 21% of home purchases last year, NAR data shows — roughly half of the historical average. The entry-level buyer has been effectively “removed from this housing market,” Jessica Lautz, the NAR’s deputy chief economist, tells me.
“We have a very large young-adult population who are really just seeing the door shut on them for homeownership,” Lautz says. “I think it speaks to the gridlock that we’ve seen in the housing market.”
First
500k more voters this Tuesday in NJ. More than any other. All democrats of course
Yup amazing what happens when your EBT card has no money on it.
“ six counties that saw increases of over 30% in their vote totals. Hudson, Essex, Union — New Jersey’s three densest counties — all backed Sherrill by over 30-point margins and saw the largest turnout increases in the state. Within these counties, voters in places like Jersey City, Newark and Union City backed her in large numbers”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mikie-sherrill-landslide-new-jersey-high-turnout-analysis/
Or you watch your family and friends get rounded up.
hughesrep,
Unfortunately for the people being “rounded” up they entered the U.S. illegally. They knew there would be a day of reckoning. But it is the same in the EU. Without the correct visa you can’t do anything and once caught you have to leave.
On top of this, if I ain’t getting paid this is the time I’m calling out sick.
I’m sure these guys are thinking the same thing, you cannot work for free.
Fill up your gas tanks, cause flying is gonna get real tough
Airports serving the largest cities in the US were slated to have thousands of flights canceled daily in a looming holiday travel nightmare sparked by the government shutdown.
The Federal Aviation Administration said a total of 40 airports across the country would be affected starting Friday as staffing shortages among air traffic controllers created an ‘unholy mess.’
The cutback stands to impact thousands of flights nationwide because the FAA directs more than 44,000 flights daily.
‘I’m not going to lie, it’s going to be an unholy mess for the next few days if these cuts go through,’ airline industry analyst Henry Harteveldt said.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford announced the 10 percent slowdown Wednesday, with Bedford admitting the airline industry could be headed for uncharted territory.
‘We’re in new territory in terms of government shutdowns,’ Bedford said. ‘I’m not aware in my 35-year history in the aviation market where we’ve had a situation where we’re taking these kinds of measures.’
rounded up? Trump has rookie numbers so far. Obama still holds the title of Deporter in Chief.
Juice Box says:
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 am
Yup amazing what happens when your EBT card has no money on it.
You have a problem with people on EBT cards?
I was a kid that grew up on food stamps.
Haven’t taken a government handout since.
Paid for plenty others who have to.
Still was able to make a good life with hard work, and still work hard.
Is everyone on here so broke? Seems like no matter how many millions you have in the bank you still cry poverty.
Lots of buyers remorse all around.
Some thought it funny to vote against their self interest and have learned a lesson
Blue wave for midterms
hughesrep says:
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 am
Or you watch your family and friends get rounded up.
I see German Gary but where’s American Gary
Is he dead yet?
Does the administration really think the US population are blaming democrats for this?
Saw a work colleague that I’m connected to on Facebook, posting last night about how NYC was going to fall apart. He’s from Omaha, Nebraska. So maybe I answered my own question.
EBT
1. Income Requirements
• You must have low household income.
• Most households must meet both:
• Gross income limit: Usually ≤ 130% of the federal poverty level (FPL).
• Net income limit: Usually ≤ 100% of the FPL after deductions (like rent, utilities, and child care).
• Some households with elderly (60+) or disabled members only need to meet the net income test.
2. Household Resources
• You must have limited assets (e.g., savings, property other than your home).
• Generally:
• ≤ $2,750 in countable resources, or
• ≤ $4,250 if someone in the household is elderly or disabled.
3. Citizenship & Residency
• You must be a U.S. citizen or a qualified noncitizen (certain legal immigrants).
• You must live in the state where you’re applying.
“If 1 million New Yorkers move to Miami after Mamdani is elected, it will raise the average IQ of both cities”
Dark Phoenix,
The human condition is that you always need more. Although most here aren’t broke they could be tomorrow. I know this old guy in Scotland. Makes money hand over fist, but asking how business is and he’ll say, “Hard times my boy. I hope I can make it.”
You wanna get people off food stamps?
Bring back no fault divorce. It would stop all of that monkey branching, moving on, colliecting from the next guy, and broken families that make it harder on children.
Charlie Kirk stated that publically.
My wife and I have been married for four years. We have two amazing kids so far. We’re happier than we’ve ever been.
Yes, monogamy produces better civilizational outcomes. Yes, there’s a reason why the most successful societies around the world were and are monogamous. But that’s just a byproduct of following God’s design for marriage. The Bible says that it’s not good for man to be alone, that men should be the “husband of one wife,” and there’s a prohibition against adultery listed in the Ten Commandments. God’s design matches our spirtual, emotional, and physical needs. Maybe not all of our wants all the time — but our needs. Many of our wants and appetites need to be brought under the authority of Christ. That’s called maturity.
No-fault divorce and radical feminism are abominations, and many critiques of modern family law and norms are valid, but God’s design is holy and good. We should not attack God’s design because modern laws and cultural rot have tarnished them. We should work to restore the sanctity of marriage.
Phoenix – I have nothing against people in need. They came out in droves on Election Day because their EBT cards weren’t filled with money on Saturday. There was a massive disruption in their lives, the immediate loss of the availability of food which caused primal stress and anxiety, which then triggered an innate biological response. In this case the fight response which meant get out and vote in person on Election Day because they sure as heck did not vote early.
That is my theory and I am sticking with it.
If you have $0, you get welfare.
If you have $50 million, you get a bailout.
If you have $2,300 in savings, you qualify to fund the whole system and get lectured to budget better.
Ayn Rand
accepted Medicare and Social Security benefits, despite her philosophical opposition to them. After being diagnosed with lung cancer in 1974 and retiring from her newsletter in 1976, her attorneys helped her enroll in these government programs. She received benefits until her death in 1982, a decision some critics consider hypocritical given her long-held beliefs.
Chad Powers says:
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 am
Dark Phoenix,
The human condition is that you always need more. Although most here aren’t broke they could be tomorrow.
The ‘Human condition” in America is that most people go broke here over healthcare issues.
America is sending billions of dollars in freebies to other countries-gifts they give-while ignoring the plight of it’s own citizens, its UN-AMERICAN to do that.
How many proxy wars have we been in? Weapons of mass distruction that didn’t exist. Could have built 20 high speed trains from California to NYC with all of that cash.
But the Chinese and Russians are our problems.
Always has to be a “boogeyman.”
While Boomer Americans were making money off the cheap labor in China they saw an opportunity to improve their education of everyone, and our kids can’t count change.
Looks like they are better at “pulling up their bootstraps” then Americans are.
In America, it’s “elite” to go to a fancy college, it’s for the wealthy. The rest of you best get a job, and don’t dare you ask for food or an EBT card.
Every category of Americans from different wealth classes are thieves.
The rich steal
The poor steal.
They just do it in different ways.
But one group absolutely, positively never needs the money.
The other group sometimes does it for greed, but sometimes just to eat, survive, or buy the drugs to keep them from realizing just how fucked they are in life and that they have no chance of climbing out of it. America doesn’t have safety nets.
One group can steal very big, and then afford lawyers to avoid jail if getting caught. If they are bigger than that, they can even get a pardon from the two criminals Trump and Biden.
Lady stealing food to feed her kid, well, she ain’t getting a pardon from those two old goats.
Yeah I suspect it isn’t happening at any higher of a rate than any other time in history.
There’s just better brainwashing.
Juice Box says:
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 am
rounded up? Trump has rookie numbers so far. Obama still holds the title of Deporter in Chief.
Yeah I honestly wish everyone would STFU about NYC. Especially Republicans. It ain’t moving the needle…and he likely won’t do most of the krap he promised anyway
grim says:
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 am
Saw a work colleague that I’m connected to on Facebook, posting last night about how NYC was going to fall apart. He’s from Omaha, Nebraska. So maybe I answered my own question.
VSG,
If I am to trust AI, your statement rings true.
Yes, Ayn Rand accepted Social Security and Medicare benefits late in her life, after her 1974 lung cancer diagnosis and subsequent retirement. She enrolled in and claimed these government benefits with the help of a social worker, despite her lifelong philosophical opposition to such programs. Critics often point to this as hypocritical, while others, including the Ayn Rand Institute, argue that she was entitled to the benefits she had paid into and that accepting them was a form of restitution, notes Quora and The Ayn Rand Institute.
This may be true, but I don’t ever remember under Obama guys ramming brand new Jeep Wagoneers, an 80k vehicle, into the side of a MB 320, a 60k vehicle, and dragging a 30 year old American citizen who happens to be latino out of her car, finding out she was actually a citizen, then lying and claiming she rammed her car into them that without a video from a bystander would have sent her to prison.
Or 5 cop cars with guys wearing masks dragging a 15 year old girl out onto a suburban lawn, putting their knees on her neck, who was also an American citizen.
Obama murdered plenty of innocents, he called them “collateral damage”
That man was evil, snarky, and slippery.
D-FENS says:
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 am
Yeah I suspect it isn’t happening at any higher of a rate than any other time in history.
There’s just better brainwashing.
Juice Box says:
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 am
rounded up? Trump has rookie numbers so far. Obama still holds the title of Deporter in Chief.
Don’t worry, I use copilot to verify ChatGPT
all AI approved
Dark Phoenix says:
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 am
VSG,
If I am to trust AI, your statement rings true.
Obama still holds the title of Deporter in Chief.
And yet he managed to do it without having hordes of masked and heavily armed federal agents terrorizing immigrant neighborhoods.
What is the D fens to this?
How do you D fend this type of treatment of a US Citizen?
Do you think she should salute the American flag?
Did she have “Liberty, and Justice, for all?”
CHICAGO — Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street.
People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization.
As Figueroa tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Chicago Tribune show.
Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away.
Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.
The Department of Homeland Security later released a statement claiming that Figueroa was at fault, saying “she crashed into an unmarked government vehicle and violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers.”
Figueroa was released the same day a few hours later without charges.
Figueroa’s arrest highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. Federal enforcement actions in Chicago have increasingly drawn scrutiny amid reports of aggressive tactics and blurred lines between immigration enforcement and public safety, including incidents involving deploying tear gas in residential areas and arrests of bystanders filming agents or for following the unmarked vehicles.
some people miss the 1960’s Lynchings. this is as close as they can get
Dark Phoenix says:
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 am
This may be true, but I don’t ever remember under Obama guys ramming brand new Jeep Wagoneers, an 80k vehicle, into the side of a MB 320, a 60k vehicle, and dragging a 30 year old American citizen who happens to be latino out of her car, finding out she was actually a citizen, then lying and claiming she rammed her car into them that without a video from a bystander would have sent her to
I do have to say I applaud Trumps use of Jeeps and other crappy Stellantis vehicles built in America to be smashed.
Better they die that way than have some unsuspecting American hardworking citizen buy one only to have their bank accounts drained when the limp soft camshaft melts away, burns a valve, and costs the owner a fortune to fix.
Quote from a Jeep forum.
Give me freedom to buy a BYD. It’s a free country, isn’t it?
UPDATE: called FCA support today about the 3.6 camshaft being on back order with no ability to even place an order to get in the back order list. Long and short of the useless 6 minute conversation with the person on the line is that there is nothing they can do to help me with my 2021 jeep grand Cherokee L that is 6k miles out of warranty with internal engine issues. What an absolute joke. Nothing like a 4 year old vehicle that can’t be driven. Any one else have better luck calling someone at FCA or jeep?
I’m sure similar events happened…it just wasn’t in the news. That’s the point.
Dark Phoenix says:
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 am
This may be true, but I don’t ever remember under Obama guys ramming brand new Jeep Wagoneers, an 80k vehicle, into the side of a MB 320, a 60k vehicle, and dragging a 30 year old American citizen who happens to be latino out of her car, finding out she was actually a citizen, then lying and claiming she rammed her car into them that without a video from a bystander would have sent her to prison.
Or 5 cop cars with guys wearing masks dragging a 15 year old girl out onto a suburban lawn, putting their knees on her neck, who was also an American citizen.
Obama murdered plenty of innocents, he called them “collateral damage”
That man was evil, snarky, and slippery.
D-FENS says:
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 am
I’m sure similar events happened…it just wasn’t in the news. That’s the point.
It didn’t happen this way, that’s why it wasn’t in the news. Obama, with all of his faults, his biggest letting off all of the criminal bankers and credit agencies, didn’t send armed men with masks to grab people off the street. As is his usual snarky flair, he did it in “stealth” mode, just like he killed many innocents when he dropped laser guided bombs on the wrong people. Obama wasn’t a “thug” type or a “mob” type, he was more of a silent assassin.
And none of this started in the news, as there is no real “news” anymore. No one is covering this up “in the news”.
The citizens are now the news. You will see things on Reddit way before some caked up reporter has time to put on enough foundation to go on camera. Gone are the real tough reporters that made America’s news what it was, incuding the Fairness doctrine that made news trustworthy.
We are told not to criticize leftist politicians, and engage in name calling but rather their policies. Of course many of us have done that for Harris, AOC, and Mamdani, but that’s just ignored. As well as criticizing their policies, we are also allowed ( at least for now) to criticize how they present themselves during press conferences, interviews etc. We have seen it multiple times with Harris while she was VP and we see it with AOC. I guess they may be nice people, but they are idiots. Mamdani is smarter he packaged himself well, during the campaign, but the facade came off during his victory speech. He is an angry wealthy child of privilege. He never worked a hard day in his life and yet claims to understand the struggles of hard working NY ers. He is a fraud and an idiot.
Looking at the Declaration of Independence, there are complaints to be made on both sides of the aisle:
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither…
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Dark: Fair enough on Obama and yes you are right the way ICE is conducting these raids is wrong and shameful in some of the cases. But, Obama still got a pass on all the innocents he killed, were it Trump or another Republican, there would have been outrage from the press.
Today’s Paul Krugman’s substack asks the question “Are Hispanics the new Jews?.
His point that being brown and speaking Spanish is now grounds for being targeted like wearing conservative Jewish garb and speaking gidish. Hispanic voted for the king thinking things will not be bad. But, like the Jews they have learned that supporting the right wing is iffy, because eventually the Not See adjacent views surface.
3b says:
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 am
We are told not to criticize leftist politicians.
Who is we?
Are you American? You do realize you have the right to free speech, well, not as much lately. But you still do.
Do you always do what you are told, or do you think for yourself?
I did what I was told when I was 9.
I’m a grown up now. I do what is right, not what I am told.
The “Fairness Doctrine” didn’t make news trustworthy.
Dark Cuckoo, imagine if in every nihilistic post you made, you had to provide an equal amount of space for an “opposing” view, but which you got to pick out the provider of, all supervised by “expert” bureaucrats.
For “fairness” here’s an alternative take on the fairness doctrine.
https://www.cato.org/blog/internet-regulation-fairness
But, Obama still got a pass on all the innocents he killed, were it Trump or another Republican, there would have been outrage from the press.
Not on the news I listened to.
But then again I am tuned into many sources, and I vet each carefully to eliminate bias.
I saw many that criticized what he was doing.
Finding the truth is going to get much harder in the future, and outright lying is increasing exponetially.
I don’t know if our future youth will ever have the ability to believe anything is real. It will be harder to trust your own senses as time goes on.
Here is your space for an “opposing” view.
Knock yourself out.
I have read many things about this topic, I still think the fairness doctrine was better than nothing even though your guiding beacon “Ayn Rand,” who collected welfare, is quoted in this article, that I had read years back.
Nothing, including the fairness doctrine, is going to make anything totally trustworthy.
No One says:
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 am
The “Fairness Doctrine” didn’t make news trustworthy.
Dark Cuckoo, imagine if in every nihilistic post you made, you had to provide an equal amount of space for an “opposing” view,
Ayn Rand says “time to eat breakfast.”
Ayn Rand says ” time to use the bathroom’
Ayn Rand says ” time to go to bed now”
Geez, I wonder what I would do without her telling me what to do.
I guess I could choose Obama, or Trump, or Tinkerbell instead.
Guess what Cuckoo,
After criticizing big government all my adult life, and after paying in millions of income, Social Security and Medicare taxes, I expect to enroll in Social Security and Medicare and receive my pittance of government benefits. Does that make me a hypocrite? Of course not.
It’s like saying that if a prisoner has been unjustly jailed but still eats the prison food slop, then he’s a hypocrite to say he deserves to be a free man and demands a way out of jail.
But what can I expect, if you were able to think more rationally and independently, you wouldn’t be a beaten, bitter dark cuckoo.
Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement. I bet you five bucks her golden stock picking ability is going to be greatly reduced.
After criticizing big government all my adult life, and after paying in millions of income, Social Security and Medicare taxes, I expect to enroll in Social Security and Medicare and receive my pittance of government benefits.
You paid it, enjoy it.
And thank you for your previous donations. They are appreciated.
Chad Powers says:
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 am
Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement. I bet you five bucks her golden stock picking ability is going to be greatly reduced.
She is connected. The cash will still flow in.
Too bad she isn’t in prison.
Dark Phoenix,
No matter what you might think about the current situation in the US it is important to remember one thing. The US system is the greatest in the world. No one is better at innovation, development and manufacturing than the good old USA. When Americans get behind an idea they can accomplish almost anything. We just happen to have some really bad leadership in Washington D.C. right now.
How drunk was he?
Ex says:
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 pm
That’s Steve Bannon on last night’s mayoral speech and victory.
I bought tix to fly to FL in two weeks. Quick weekend trip with the fam to the space center. Getting nervous about the likely outcomes at the airport.
Chad,
America has been riding a wave since WW2.
Germany was bombed into the ground. Sanctioned, defanged, dethroned.
Other countries were wiped out, Britain, Poland, England, Russia, etc.
America escaped unharmed for the most part, and made money every step of the way, from selling IBM computers to do the unthinkable, to making Russia pay them back for stopping the Nazi’s.
It was a huge advantage. I hope you are right and that with the correct leadership America can move forward. Get rid of all special interests and lobbyists would be a great start. Stop all foreign aid, put that money towards the deficit.
Germany and Japan were the quickest to emerge from the rubble and succeed over the following decades, likely a result of them not allowed to waste money on military spending and focus on actual economic growth.
No One,
they like the fact that you are forced to participate against your will, and then use it against you.
I have yet to see an actual Ice Agent in person my entire life. I did see 1 border patrol car when I was in Arizona a few years back.
Germany and Japan were the quickest to emerge from the rubble and succeed over the following decades.
It’s called the Marshall Plan. A win win for America, Germany, and Japan.
But by then America was a manufacturing powerhouse.
Be patient.
They may soon be making a visit to NYC with all of that election stuff.
If you live near there, you can go see the show.
BRT says:
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 am
I have yet to see an actual Ice Agent in person my entire life. I did see 1 border patrol car when I was in Arizona a few years back.
Same way I feel when my tax dollars are given to foreign countries instead of other Americans.
See how that works.
BRT says:
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 am
No One,
they like the fact that you are forced to participate against your will, and then use it against you.
40 billion American tax dollars given to Argentina.
they like the fact that you are forced to participate against your will, and then use it against you.
Lina Khan is co chairman of Mamdani s transition team. Another angry radical leftist.
Just received an email from United. They’re offering free cancellations/refunds to all ticket classes even if your flight wasn’t impacted. I think I’m going to take advantage of this and shelf the trip until this is resolved.
Under Obama it was way worse for immigrants. 75 percent of people removed under Obama did not even get their day in court to see a judge before being expelled from the U.S.
BR
Even if you can go, I have seen some videos where the TSA lines at some airports are insane, this is before the holiday rush.
It’s month 10 of President Trump’s second term, and layoffs are the highest they’ve been in more than 20 years.
A Thursday report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows job cuts last month increased by more than 153,000, up 175 percent from October of last year. In total, companies have announced more than one million job cuts in 2025, up 65 percent from the same time period last year. This was the worst October since 2003.
“This is the highest total for October in over 20 years, and the highest total for a single month in the fourth quarter since 2008. Like in 2003, a disruptive technology is changing the landscape,” the report said. “Technology continues to lead in private-sector job cuts as companies restructure amid AI integration, slower demand, and efficiency pressures.” Retail, warehousing, media, and nonprofits have also been impacted sectors.
These numbers come from an independent source as the Labor Department’s September and October jobs reports will remain unreleased in the midst of the ongoing government shutdown.
Yet while workers across the country deal with rising costs and struggle to find new work, President Trump and the GOP tout affordability and the return of the domestic economy.
and deficit budget obsessed Boomer said nothing
Dark Phoenix says:
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 am
40 billion American tax dollars given to Argentina.
Agreed
Fabius Maximus says:
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 pm
“if tariffs are found illegal by SCOTUS.”
I heard a fragment of the Oral arguments, Barret asking if there would be a mess if it was over turned and the admin had to return the money.
Should Barrets concern should be on the scope of the legality, rather that the impact implementation of the consequences
I know this sounds like hyperbole, but Krugman’s comment is incredibly anti-Semitic. To equate was is happening to Latinos to historically the treatment of Jews completely normalizes genocide.
RickyAndLucy LearnNotToVoteGOP says:
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 am
Today’s Paul Krugman’s substack asks the question “Are Hispanics the new Jews?.
His point that being brown and speaking Spanish is now grounds for being targeted like wearing conservative Jewish garb and speaking gidish. Hispanic voted for the king thinking things will not be bad. But, like the Jews they have learned that supporting the right wing is iffy, because eventually the Not See adjacent views surface.
Same way I feel when my tax dollars are given to foreign countries instead of other Americans.
See how that works.
umm, I hope you aren’t arguing that I support “foreign aid”. I’d like us to get down to $0 in that regard. But that being said, they don’t use it against you. Entitlement programs are entirely different issue than money laundering masquerading as foreign aid.
AOC & Harris are idiots. Mamdani is a limousine liberal (communist dictator in training).
BREAKING: Donald Trump freaks out behind closed doors on Republican senators for “getting killed” after the massive blue wave yesterday — rages that they will soon be a “dead party.”
He kicked reporters out of the room, but the story still leaked…
According to Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News, “multiple” Republican senators spilled the details of the private post-breakfast meeting. After ordering reporters out of the room, Trump said that the election results — which went overwhelmingly well for Democrats — prove that the ongoing government shutdown is “worse for us than for them.” He said that Republicans are “getting killed” and if they don’t nuke the filibuster they will end up a “dead party.”
Trump and Senator Lindsey Graham then got into a fight after Graham argued that they could still use the reconciliation process to pass legislation without any Democratic support. Trump “snapped” at him and said “Lindsey, you and I both know that there’s so much you can’t do with reconciliation…”
Unfortunately for Trump, Desiderio also reported that Senate Majority Leader John Thune poured cold water on the filibuster idea, saying: “I know where the votes are. The answer is, there aren’t the votes.”
Thune has long been opposed to removing the filibuster. Currently, 60 votes are required to pass legislation in the Senate. Without the filibuster, that number would drop to a simple majority vote. The downside for Republicans, of course, is that nuking the filibuster would make it much easier for Democrats to pass our legislation once we retake power. And after last night, it’s clear that a blue wave is coming in the midterm elections.
It turns out that Americans don’t take well to seeing their grocery prices skyrocket, masked fascist goons arresting and terrorizing innocent people, and blatant widespread corruption across the entire federal government. The MAGA era will soon end and then every single one of these crooks will be held accountable for what they’ve done. Don’t count America out just yet!
I don’t understand the fear and hate being directed at Mamdani. Particularly the accusations of him of not ever working hard or being a fraud. Anyone that has had to put together and deliver a high stakes presentation understands the work involved. Imagine having to craft and deliver one to live reporters day after day during a campaign where every financial resource benefiting from the status quo – not just in NYC but nationally and beyond – is looking to exploit any misstatement or weakness.
And what fraud has he committed? The current president has committed numerous actual frauds – whether it is lying to banks or the IRS or to judges. He campaigned to put America first and yet has made it a point to punish the neediest and hardest working among us. He campaigned on populist sentiment to “drain the swamp” but instead – to the surprise of no one – became the swamp personified. he publicly denied being influenced by the Project 2025 agenda while campaigning but has followed it to the letter.
He and Mamdani both successfully campaigned on the ongoing populist sentiment that the status quo is not working for most working people. I couldn’t care less about Mamdani’s pedigree or work history. He stepped up to give a voice to the fact that the benefits of capitalism that working and middle class people have bought into and supported are not being shared. And a part of that is because the institutions put in place to prevent capitalism from turning into a “winner take all” game of Monopoly – like the IRS, FTC, and SEC – have become ineffective. When there is no reward for playing by the rules, the rules end up getting broken or the game must come to an end.
As for some of his agenda, the MTA bus budget is what like $5b a year? So making that “free” would enable all the workers too poor to live near a subway, afford a car, or pay for an Uber to get to their jobs to feed the machine. It seems like a cost of doing business to me. And yes – maybe the public “gets something for nothing” by getting a free bus ride to the beach or a museum or a restaurant or family gathering on the weekends. I believe that is a fair trade off. Maybe the bus routes can be even named after our corporate overlords, like the QM5 bus could be called, “The Jamie Dimon Midtown Express”.
Just my two cents.
Also, Mamdani projects warmth and empathy, but I think that is misinterpreted. Those features are characteristics of his manner. He is not those things. He is not unlike many people from the Middle East and South Asia that are not understood by Americans who project their social norms on these people.
This type of comments normalizes stupidity. Jewish genocide will never be normalized.
“To equate was is happening to Latinos to historically the treatment of Jews completely normalizes genocide.”
All that matters now is booking the capital gains. Look for a move to a zero tax state.
Chad Powers says:
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 am
Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement. I bet you five bucks her golden stock picking ability is going to be greatly reduced.
A 21 year old Montclair resident son of an Iranian American Poet who teaches at Queens College, was one of 2 NJ men’s who were arrested for planning to attack LGBTQ bars on Halloween night.
How do you rationalize Krugman? It’s abhorrent.
VSG says:
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 am
This type of comments normalizes stupidity. Jewish genocide will never be normalized.
“To equate was is happening to Latinos to historically the treatment of Jews completely normalizes genocide.”
“MAGAs in Kentucky were showing up to their polling stations to vote against Zohran Mamdani.
Kentucky ranks 48th in education by the way.”
BRT
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t you go into a public school knowing there was a union and then dislike paying union dues?
How is that extortion. There is a deal on the table, you took it, then wanted to change the rules after the game started.
I could be wrong about this. Clue me in. Maybe the union started later.
OMFG no way. Yikes! Speaks volumes.
3b says:
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 am
Lina Khan is co chairman of Mamdani s transition team. Another angry radical leftist.
Only Krugman I ever read about was a finance guy. Always mixed opinions on how good he was. Some said he was a guru, others said he was a hack.
Is it someone else, or is he branching into new territory?
Bob: He never worked any kind of real job. He is a child of wealth and privilege who has had everything handed to him. He claims that he can understand the struggles that NY ers are going through . He doesn’t. He is a fraud.
Chicago: Yes it does.
Chicago: You are not allowed to call them idiots.
Chgo: Mamdani s mask came off after his victory speech the other night. That is the real angry Mamdani.
Mamdani is like Santa Claus for those who think Government is like Santa’s Workshop, at least for the really low IQ or delusional people. But most people should know better than that.
This quote provides a good description of the mentality of those kind of people who vote for socialism:
“We didn’t do it just because we believed that the drippy old guff they spewed was good. We had another reason, but the guff helped us to hide it from our neighbors and from ourselves. The guff gave us a chance to pass off as virtue something that we’d be ashamed to admit otherwise. There wasn’t a man voting for it who didn’t think that under a setup of this kind he’d muscle in on the profits of the men abler than himself. There wasn’t a man rich and smart enough but that he didn’t think that somebody was richer and smarter, and this plan would give him a share of his better’s wealth and brain. But while he was thinking that he’d get unearned benefits from the men above, he forgot about the men below who’d get unearned benefits, too. He forgot about all his inferiors who’d rush to drain him just as he hoped to drain his superiors. The worker who liked the idea that his need entitled him to a limousine like his boss’s, forgot that every bum and beggar on earth would come howling that their need entitled them to an icebox like his own. That was our real motive when we voted — that was the truth of it — but we didn’t like to think it, so the less we liked it, the louder we yelled about our love for the common good.”
Bob – MTA has been a problem for years now, ridership and fares have not returned to pre-covid levels. The temporary aid from the federal government to cover the gap I posted about it yesterday is over.. They are hoping some leftover COVID money will help it survive until the end of this year. They are claming ” cleaning costs” due to covid for 2020 and 2021 and want $600 million from FEMA. Work that was supposedly done years ago..
Free means someone else has to pay for it. MTA has to cut services to balance it’s budget. Remove the meager fares they receive today from the bus? That is only $315 million. Sure pile on taxes instead…..
He won the election far and square and now he has to govern…Good luck with that.
Boomers have left NYC, NJ, and America deep in debt. The handlers are going to cut the last things, Medicare and Social Security off in the future.
Mamdani will never be able to deliver on his promises-not only does he have the headwind debt left to him by greedy boomers, he will not have support of the feds, it’s a downhill slide from there.
Just think how much money was made from the tunnels and bridges from work done a hundred years ago, and not one dime of that was saved towards building new tunnels.
Regarding the free buses. An analogy is having a co-pay for the doctor. The construct is that there is theoretically an unlimited demand for a free resource. Also, there are security concerns. Regardless, as is the case with almost everything with Mamdani, it’s been tried before with really bad outcomes. Those who ignore history…….
Bob says:
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 am
NY Subways are basically the same as they were when they were first built.
It’s like buying a used car that was a taxicab. Buy it, run the hell out of it, keep the profits, repair the minimum, save nothing to replace it.
“Telling people who can’t afford a house, can’t even afford a decent car, can’t afford groceries, can’t afford basic health care, and see little job growth that they are “living in a golden age” while you do Gatsby parties & fancy ball room renovations is NOT a winning message.”
that’s exactly the modern corporate model
Dark Phoenix says:
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 am
NY Subways are basically the same as they were when they were first built.
It’s like buying a used car that was a taxicab. Buy it, run the hell out of it, keep the profits, repair the minimum, save nothing to replace it.
The worker who liked the idea that his need entitled him to a limousine like his boss’s, forgot that every bum and beggar on earth would come howling that their need entitled them to an icebox like his own.
Or you can just be a lawyer, have your employees pay contributions to a corrupt politician, and suddenly you are an expert and in charge of one of the largest Fire Departments in the nation. Nice way to get a fat pension on the backs of real firefighters, right boss?
Tucker graduated from George Washington University and Pace University School of Law.[3] Following law school, Tucker worked as special assistant to the District Attorney in Queens County, Richard A. Brown.[4]
In 1999 Tucker became chairman and CEO of T&M Protection Resources, a company specializing in security, intelligence and investigations.[4][5] In 2007 Tucker restructured T&M as a limited liability company and sold a minority interest to Pegasus Capital Advisors as well as another private investor.[6]
In 2008 Tucker and Pegasus commenced a plan to invest jointly in acquisitions of security companies in Israel which has resulted in T&M’s subsidiary, T&M Holding Israel Ltd, becoming one of the largest security and janitorial service companies in the country with over 7,000 employees.[7]
Tucker was appointed FDNY fire commissioner by New York City Mayor Eric Adams on August 12, 2024. Six weeks before Tucker was appointed FDNY commissioner, eight employees of Tucker’s former business made political contributions to Adams on the same day.[8] Tucker has never been a firefighter or emergency response official. He is a self-described “fire buff” who cites his time as a young boy chasing fire engines as inspiration for his service.[9]
it’s still not too late to go defensive on your portfolio’s bros.
Fire commissioner should be a fireman first, not a lawyer.
Jobs like that should be a “move through the ranks” position.
Earn that career, not buy it.
And Adams, I hope they are combing every last bit of his finances.
Which comments in his speech were the ‘angriest’?
3b says:
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 am
Chgo: Mamdani s mask came off after his victory speech the other night. That is the real angry Mamdani.
Government unionized employees voting maga against unionized government workers?
Dark Phoenix says:
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 am
Fire commissioner should be a fireman first, not a lawyer.
Jobs like that should be a “move through the ranks” position.
Earn that career, not buy it.
And Adams, I hope they are combing every last bit of his finances.
He never worked any kind of real job. He is a child of wealth and privilege who has had everything handed to him. He claims that he can understand the struggles that NY ers are going through . He doesn’t. He is a fraud.
Is this the mayor or the president?
Cuomo also
Someone: Go back and listen to it. If you can’t hear it then you choose not to, which of course would not be surprising.
Hughes: Both. But, NY ers are supposed to be smart, highly educated, savvy, and sophisticated. Whereas Trump voters we are told were all blue collar, white trash with only HS or GED diplomas who are racists too.
“The army of progressive activists who elected Mamdani are already strategizing. Winning power isn’t enough, they insist. They must wield it. “The top priority will be for us to build an outside movement that can create the pressure and power necessary to implement his agenda,” said Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the DSA’s New York City branch. “We need to prove that socialists can run the largest city in the country and make life better for working-class people in a tangible way.” “
Dark: The current police commissioner ( Tisch) was not a Cop, but is supposed to be a good Administrator. Mamdani has initially said he plans to keep her on.
Mamdani really triggers you old, suburban, white, conservative men. You are obsessed with the mayor of nyc and you dont even live there and probably never go in bc your lame and tremble at the sight of a homeless person.
You seem to not be using fraud in the literal sense. What was handed to him exactly? Certainly not the mayoralty.
And who says one needs to live specific struggles in order to understand them? Do you question his empathy? My doctor treats Crohn’s disease but he himself doesn’t have it. Does that make him a fraud in your thinking?
And has Mamdani claimed to have lived a hard life? And what exactly were his privileges? What does a four acre “compound” in Uganda go for? I’m guessing an order of magnitude less than a NYC apartment. I have no doubt his childhood was more culturally enriching than most, being the son of international academics and creatives. But I’m not sure how that means everything was handed to him. Are you equally upset by Trump’s upbringing and path to political office?
3b says:
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 am
Bob: He never worked any kind of real job. He is a child of wealth and privilege who has had everything handed to him. He claims that he can understand the struggles that NY ers are going through . He doesn’t. He is a fraud.
Hi “Scrappy” You are the old disgruntled mad at the world guy. And we know of course you don’t go into NYC , it wouldn’t be feasible. As for me, I was born and raised in NYC went to school there too, grammar all the way up to and including grad schilling. Spent many years riding the 4 , 5, and 6 trains, and I rode in the bad old days. I am in NYC all the time, Manhattan and Bronx specifically. I have both business interests there, and I have siblings and other family members that live there. And we are diverse. Not like the phony liberals in their leafy suburbs that just pay lip service to diversity.
Bob: How many grown men do you know that could dabble at trying to be a rap singer or any other kind of entertainer,only to have it go nowhere, and then say I will get into politics. Who supported him during that time? His parents. He can in no way relate to the hard working people of NYC . History shows his type wealthy children of privilege who have decided they and only they know whats best for working class/ poor people. As for Uganda it’s a 4 acre compound probably worth about $250,000. 00 . That is a lot of money in an impoverished country like Uganda.
How will security concerns change? Is the current unenforced $3 payment somehow a deterrent to bad actors? And when was free busing tried?
And personally I don’t foresee people taking needless bus trips all of a sudden. But if they did, it’d be great for all the people privileged enough to be able to take private transportation.
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 am
Regarding the free buses. An analogy is having a co-pay for the doctor. The construct is that there is theoretically an unlimited demand for a free resource. Also, there are security concerns. Regardless, as is the case with almost everything with Mamdani, it’s been
Scrap – “probably never go.”
Eh? I was in Brooklyn Monday night for the Nets game.
Bob: The MTA is losing millions from people now who don’t pay their fares. Where will the money come from to pay for completely free busing? And when was the last time you were in NYC.
Juice: The “ Scapster” and others like him, can’t handle it when you put it back to them. So typical.
Bob – My uncle drove an MTA bus up and down Broadway until he retired. He enforced the collection of fares, either pay or get off. In 2008 a bus driver was stabbed over a fare and it’s all been downhill since then, they no longer enforce fare collection, they have plexiglass partitions and never stop the bus anymore and tell people who neither pay the fare or are misbehaving to get off. It’s a broken social contract.
Mandami wants to create a force of “mental health workers” to patrol and respond on mass transit issues. No more police patrols. We shall see how that works.
Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt killed animals and practiced taxidermy in their youth. Arguably as privileged (and cringy) as trying to get internet famous as a rapper in their day.
They seem to be widely revered for their ability to govern.
But unlike Mamdani, they were the children of generationally wealthy, blue-blooded elites. So is the fact that he is not a blue-blood what causes you to label him a fraud?
3b says:
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 pm
Bob: How many grown men do you know that could dabble at trying to be a rap singer or any other kind of entertainer,only to have it go nowhere, and then say I will get into politics. Who supported him during that time? His parents. He can in no way relate to the hard working people of NYC . History shows his type wealthy children of privilege who have decided they and only they know whats best for working class/ poor people. As for Uganda it’s a 4 acre compound probably worth about $250,000. 00 . That is a lot of money in an impoverished country like Uganda.
Is this the speech we’re taking about?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript
“Remember how I told you a few months ago to stop sending us money? You can start again,” Mamdani said. “This transition requires staff, research, and an infrastructure that can meet this moment. And it will be made possible by the people who built and believe in this movement. So I hope you’ll make a donation.”
you will have free stuff if you pay him.
Bob: Are you listening to yourself? You are comparing Mamdani to Teddy Roosevelt and FDR, and then saying I don’t like Mamdani because he is not a blue blood? Your comment has to be one of the most weakest comments I have seen on this blog in some time.
3b likes womanizers and pedophiles
Not 3 b: You should get a job or a library card.
3B:I have lived continuously in NYC since the mid 90’s (save for a brief stint in DC).
I sit where I stand. When is the last time you rode a bus in the BX?
As for weakest comment, you have labeled a person a fraud for not having whatever pedigree you felt was necessary to run for and get elected to public office. I suspect the reason you fail to understand my logic is that you are consumed by emotion.
I am leaving the office…. I will be there in 90 minutes…
Scrap says:
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 pm
Mamdani really triggers you old, suburban, white, conservative men. You are obsessed with the mayor of nyc and you dont even live there and probably never go in bc your lame and tremble at the sight of a homeless person.
I’ve been slapped across the face by a homeless person on the subway unsolicited.
I have had the pants of a suit ripped open by a homeless person who attempted to grab my wallet.
My daughter stepped on a syringe on the street when she was 10 years old.
Scrap says:
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 pm
tremble at the sight of a homeless person.
Bob: The only one consumed by emotion is you. And what you post as logic, is just deflection. As for the last time I was on a bus it was about a
Year ago. As for the subway last week. I have laid out for you all the reasons why Mamdani is a fraud. Are you really confident in handling over the reigns of the city to a young man who has virtually never had a job? Even as an Assembly member his attendance and voting record is dismal. The fraud can’t even be bothered to show up to the Assembly and perform his duties as an elected representative, and now you and others have voted this fraud in as Mayor.
https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/daily-news-article/zohran-mamdanis-free-buses-are-a-dangerous-mistake-weve-seen-how-they-fail/
Bob says:
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 pm
How will security concerns change? Is the current unenforced $3 payment somehow a deterrent to bad actors? And when was free busing tried?
And personally I don’t foresee people taking needless bus trips all of a sudden. But if they did, it’d be great for all the people privileged enough to be able to take private transportation.
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 am
Regarding the free buses. An analogy is having a co-pay for the doctor. The construct is that there is theoretically an unlimited demand for a free resource. Also, there are security concerns. Regardless, as is the case with almost everything with Mamdani, it’s been
That White House video RFK Jr’s response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
1:53 NYC has had many really lousy mayors. Just saying
Yes, and you all are oldsters now who live in lily white NJ suburbs who go into the city once in a while to catch a game, a Broadway show and dinner and whine about congestion pricing and then gtfo. Typical out of town elitists who explicitly are not NYC constituents that should be dictating policy. I know you all are so cool about it when Europeans bemoan the results of US elections, not very different at all.
Hear ye, hear ye!
Everyone keeps it real… while living in ex-urbs in some far fling corner of bumblefuck NJ.
“I know you all are so cool about it when Europeans bemoan the results of US elections, not very different at all.” hah well said!
Chicago finance: Thanks for the link. A few observations: (1) It would seem as though the increase in disturbances would strongly correlate to an increase in ridership. Would this relationship not be statistically expected? (2) Unlike KC, NYC’s homeless already have a de facto place to stay warm: the subway. (3) I don’t think the operators are a good proxy for the overall utility of the service being provided. Ergo, I’d probably prefer to chauffeur millionaires than the unwashed proletariat myself if I were a professional driver too.
Scrap: Oldsters like yourself , although you are never in NYC, and you of course in your lily white neighborhood, with a splash of Asian. You calling others elitists, you of all people now that’s rich. As I have noted , I am in NYC a lot and so yes, I can and will have an opinion on who the Mayor is and how he or she runs the place. Not to mention my family who live there unlike yourself of course. As for the Europeans , as much as I love them , many do have a problem with self awareness. They feel free to criticize and comment on American elections and politics in general, but get very defensive when informed Americans do the same on their elections and politics.
I make it to Riverdale/ Fieldstone in the Bronx in 25 minutes when the bridge cooperates.
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Panic Spreading Through GOP After DOJ Reveals E pstein Files Are More Damaging For Trump Than They Thought: Report
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Ford is considering scrapping its F150 electric pick up truck.
The surprising resilience of the US economy this year is masking underlying weakness among low- and middle-income households, as higher-income Americans continue to drive growth.
This dichotomy between the haves and have-nots isn’t new, but the economic strain is now bleeding from the lowest earners to the middle class, creating an even starker divide that some economists say makes the economy more susceptible to a downturn.
The richest 10% of households are fueling nearly half of total US spending, thanks to a stock market surge that has boosted wealth and in turn propelled economic output this year. Meanwhile, lower-income families are pulling back in the face of tight budgets, still-high living costs and a raft of corporate layoffs.
New Republic:
Rumors about Donald Trump’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein have gripped the Republican Party.
A few conservative representatives with ties to the FBI and the Justice Department have spilled that the true details of the Epstein files are “worse” for Trump than previously reported, according to journalist David Schuster.
Michael Wolff, a longtime chronicler of Trump’s White House who conducted extensive interviews with Epstein prior to his death, told The Daily Beast last month that Epstein had shown him photos of Trump with half-naked “young girls” in his lap.
These rumors have galvanized into a legitimate movement among Republicans, who are now, Schuster wrote on X Wednesday night, clamoring for the files’ full release.
For months, just four Republicans had penned their signatures on a discharge petition demanding transparency into the investigation of the pedophilic sex trafficker and his potential associates. Those conservative lawmakers include Representatives Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert.
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won the special election in Arizona in September, has also vowed to sign the bipartisan petition. She’s the last signature that the House needs to force a vote on the issue—and Speaker Mike Johnson has conveniently refused to swear her in for more than a month.
But the disturbing new rumor has dredged up far more support, with “more than 100 Republicans” planning to vote alongside Democrats in an effort to “get in front of what’s coming,” reported Schuster.
The Trump administration has failed at every turn to mitigate anxieties about the president’s longtime friendship with the child sex criminal. The typically bombastic Attorney General Pam Bondi was silent when asked about the photos during a Senate hearing last month, a choice that further “spooked” several GOP lawmakers, with many interpreting her nonresponse as a very vocal “yes.”
“The question is, did the FBI find those photographs that have been discussed publicly by a witness who claimed that Jeffrey Epstein showed them to him?” asked Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in early October.
But Bondi could only blink with her mouth agape.
“You don’t know anything about that?” Whitehouse said. “OK.”
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Also just a comment on taxes and funding before I go back to lurking-only mode.
The corporate income tax rate in NYC is less than 9%, whereas the typical effective income tax rate (federal, state, and local) for wage earning individuals is between 30 and 40%. So I think it is accurate to say that most working NYC residents are “paying their fair share”. A great deal of economics could be trickled down to the working class by increasing the corporate tax rate in NYC to match the 11.5% charged by the state of NJ.
What say the corporate simps? Will all the profitable companies pull up shop and relocate to North Carolina or Arkansas over relinquishing a couple more percent of their profits for the common good? I would wager that they won’t. Those new high rises in the Hudson Yards have some priceless views.
Challenger & Gray announces job cut announcements were the highest since 2008.
Already posted….
Ex says:
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 am
It’s month 10 of President Trump’s second term, and layoffs are the highest they’ve been in more than 20 years.
A Thursday report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows job cuts last month increased by more than 153,000, up 175 percent from October of last year. In total, companies have announced more than one million job cuts in 2025, up 65 percent from the same time period last year. This was the worst October since 2003.
“This is the highest total for October in over 20 years, and the highest total for a single month in the fourth quarter since 2008. Like in 2003, a disruptive technology is changing the landscape,” the report said. “Technology continues to lead in private-sector job cuts as companies restructure amid AI integration, slower demand, and efficiency pressures.” Retail, warehousing, media, and nonprofits have also been impacted sectors.
These numbers come from an independent source as the Labor Department’s September and October jobs reports will remain unreleased in the midst of the ongoing government shutdown.
Yet while workers across the country deal with rising costs and struggle to find new work, President Trump and the GOP tout affordability and the return of the domestic economy
3b,
Sure I’m angry. Trump has turned our country into a police state. You should be angry too. This morning, I’m driving to a go-kart track to take my D and we all of a sudden have to slam on the breaks as an ICE van and two of these militarized police units almost pull directly into me on a small local road in Vegas.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/TpQVKMueLjeUezov9
Gator snapped the photo. This was the shit you used to see in Mexico. A bunch of cops out making believe they are GI Joe in a quiet Vegas suburb. It’s not just the shit Dark Phoenix is posting. It’s completely real and wholeheartedly unnecessary. I imagine the thirty or so heavily armed officers will cost 20 times what the one illegal will have cost the government. This is America today. Yippee Kay Yae Mother Fucker! Wolverines! But SNAP is unaffordable.
Oh. DJT 13.33. $TRUMP down 80% to $7.76.
damn Lib
Two movie references there
Die Hard
Dark Phoenix says:
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 pm
damn Lib
Two movie references there
Lib: I am angry, but it’s been for some years now. So it’s a cold anger. I wish I could be like you and others and say it was all great before Trump, and if only we had elected Harris the country would be in great shape. Well that is not true and you know it. Would it be better than having ICE running around terrorizing people? Yes. Is that all we are going to judge it on. I am angry that we have two political parties that suck, and no chance of ever having a real third party candidate. I am angry that the Republicans could only offer Trump again, and I am angry at the Biden administration and their lawfare efforts against Trump. They bought him back? Why? Because that’s all they have to offer. I am mad at the Democrats for ignoring Biden’s decline and pretending he was perfectly fine. Even you went along with that nonsense for awhile. And anyone that disagreed was suspect or a closet Trump supporter. And then they hoisted Harris on us and told us she would be a great President, and clearly any reasonable person would know that’s not true. And if we didn’t support her then we are racist or misogynistic. Or, there is the other rationale that it would have kept Trumps out of office, so now our votes are hostage. If you don’t vote for our incompetent fool, then you get the lunatic Trump. Sorry, I am not playing that game. You have people on this blog who voted for Harris and that is their right, and I respect their decision, but they don’t respect my decision, not to play this insidious game. I have had this position since I voted for Romney in 2012. And of course let’s not forget how the Left vilified Romney and made fun of his religion, including people on this blog. So of course be angry, and be angry at Trump by all means. But, I suggest you broaden your anger and be mad at both political parties, and the powerful vested interests, and the stupid people on both the left and the right who have destroyed this country.
VSG
And red Dawn
The funny thing is we are way more in agreement than you believe. I just believe the Dems are pretty bad, but Trump is an absolute planet destroyer. Little pisses me off as much as the corruption among the Dems. I argue all the time with Gator about it to the point where she gets really angry. For example, Pelosi. I can’t stand that she inside trades, because it’s the low road. Her actions roll out the red carpet for Trump to multiply the same type of behavior to the umpteenth degree. I’ve been arguing this since Clinton. Immorality is immoral regardless of the size of the transgression. It’s clear the Dems are still about identity politics and personal enrichment, so until this changes and either party shows care about citizens, rather than trying to just buy their vote, we should all remain angry. All of your points are correct. It blows. But the level of damage, IMO, that Trump is doing to a halfway decently functioning corrupt system is simply too much. Sure, he shoulda stepped down. Sure, Kamala blew (and possibly literally). Sure the Dems thought opening the borders would lead to future Dem voters much like their increases in freebies to the poorer (and off the books) people residing here. But as a society, I think all of this pales in comparison to turning the Supreme Court into a joke of its former self where we’ve turned a former democracy into an autocracy. I am relieved that it seems the pendulum is swinging once again back to a society that is corrupt but cares about laws and the constitution once again. Even MAGA is starting to realize how damaging Trump is. I read where there are talks behind doors to get the government open again. I hope it’s true. Though, what I really wish for, is for the Dems to take the high road for a change.
Correct on the movie counts.
This has absolutely nothing to do with trump. You must be kidding. Look into how many swat teams are in Bergen county nj alone.
Libturd says:
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 pm
3b,
Sure I’m angry. Trump has turned our country into a police state. You should be angry too. This morning, I’m driving to a go-kart track to take my D and we all of a sudden have to slam on the breaks as an ICE van and two of these militarized police units almost pull directly into me on a small local road in Vegas.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/TpQVKMueLjeUezov9
Gator snapped the photo. This was the shit you used to see in Mexico. A bunch of cops out making believe they are GI Joe in a quiet Vegas suburb. It’s not just the shit Dark Phoenix is posting. It’s completely real and wholeheartedly unnecessary. I imagine the thirty or so heavily armed officers will cost 20 times what the one illegal will have cost the government. This is America today. Yippee Kay Yae Mother Fucker! Wolverines! But SNAP is unaffordable
Sure it doesn’t.
In my life, I’ve never seen this type of an armed police force outside of the third world. Today, you can see one in your local neighborhood arresting a tailor.
Lib: Thank you for your comment. I agree with much that you note. But still put equal blame on the Democrats they don’t get off, and they are not the good guys. As for the Democrats taking the high road, it simply won’t happen.
Chicago says:
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 am
Agreed
Fabius Maximus says:
Sorry, did I miss hell just freezing over? Chi Agreeing with me.
I need to check with the wingnuts “Is the Rapture here? Did I miss the start?”
” As for me, I was born and raised in NYC went to school there too, grammar all the way up to and including grad”
And still left just like the students that voted for him that you are railing on, that will leave the city, just like you did .
Fab: As I said I normally don’t engage you. But, in this instance I will make an exception. I won’t be lectured from you of all people as to why I left my native city. You have absolutely no business commenting on that. Of course if you had any self awareness you would not have. You really do need to get yourself.
Tesla is an absolute buy.
Just happy this guy is American and not Chinese.
And buy the f’ing dip in crypto while you can.
https://x.com/stocksavvyshay/status/1986570052284583962?s=46
Some absolute truth in this….economic stimulus type policy.
It’s like education….single factor that could change everything….eliminating broken families. Stop making an incentive to break families up. Broken families are no good for efficiency or productivity in our data.
Common sense when looking at failing schools…the students predominantly made up of broken families, and if they are a nuclear family, they are probably on their way to broken. I don’t make the rules.
And when the wealthy get a divorce, they supplement the broken family environment for said child through tutoring and whatever that child needs.
Dark Phoenix says:
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 am
You wanna get people off food stamps?
Bring back no fault divorce. It would stop all of that monkey branching, moving on, colliecting from the next guy, and broken families that make it harder on children.
3B,
The world would have been so much better off if the Dems and the media hadn’t vilified the moderate and decent Romney to protect Obama. Republicans would have gone a totally different direction.