From USA Today:
It’s not a seller’s housing market anymore. Some sellers don’t agree.
After a stretch of several years in which the housing market has felt anything but normal, buyers, sellers and real estate agents are now adjusting to a frustrating new reality.
It’s not quite a buyer’s market, as most buyers would be quick to agree. But neither is it a seller’s market. The only problem is, most sellers haven’t gotten the memo.
“I think there’s a backlog of homeowners who saw their neighbors getting, you know, 5 or 10 or 20% over asking price, selling in a weekend, having 40 showings a day, and they want that for themselves, but we’re never going to see that again,” said Maura Neill, a real estate agent with RE/MAX Around Atlanta.
Unfortunately, many of those somewhat unrealistic sellers have no trouble finding agents who can’t – or won’t – break the bad news to them.
“I think that some of my colleagues are willing, whether through inexperience or fear, to overprice to get the listing with the hopes that either an offer will miraculously come or that the seller will see the light and do a big price reduction,” Neill said.
Real estate agents around the country describe similar patterns.
“I’ve described it as a standoff market where sellers still feel that it should be a seller’s market, and buyers feel that it should be a buyer’s market. In consequence, it’s nobody’s market,” said Joan Rogers, an associate principal broker with Windermere Realty Trust in Portland, Oregon. “We’re just all staring at each other over a barbed wire fence, and that accomplishes nothing.”
Frist
Fucking YES!
Where is everyone?
Sorry, on the west coast.
Best coast
The Portable Mortgage proposal…
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/homes/portable-mortgages-what-to-know
How do portable mortgages work?
A portable mortgage allows a borrower to transfer their existing mortgage and mortgage rate to a new property when they move, instead of taking out a brand-new loan.
For instance, imagine a homeowner selling their house for $400,000 with half of that paid off on a 3% mortgage. With a portable mortgage, they could sell their home and transfer the $200,000 left on the loan to the new house, keeping the 3% rate.
US President Donald Trump scrambled as his aides and allies failed to stop a bipartisan push to force House disclosure of Jeffrey Epstein files, leaving the President publicly rebuked and privately exposed.
The President and senior White House officials spent the day urging House Republicans to withdraw support for a discharge petition that suddenly reached the 218 signatures needed to force a floor vote.
529’s for housing funds for children is another idea being floated.
New data from ATTOM shows more homeowners falling behind on their mortgages amid job losses and soaring living costs.
In October alone, there were 36,766 foreclosure filings — the first step in the process, when a lender warns a borrower they’re in default. That’s up three percent from September and 19 percent from a year ago.
‘Foreclosure activity continued its steady upward trend in October — the eighth straight month of year-over-year increases,’ said ATTOM CEO Rob Barber.
The rise is stirring uncomfortable memories of 2008, when a wave of foreclosures triggered the worst housing crash in modern US history.
Back then, millions of Americans had adjustable-rate subprime mortgages that borrowers could not afford to pay. The fallout wiped out trillions in household wealth and pushed major banks to the brink, tipping the global economy into recession.
Today’s homeowners have safer loans, but experts warn that high borrowing costs, soaring insurance premiums, and dwindling savings could again push struggling families into default
Today’s homeowners have safer loans, but experts warn that high borrowing costs, soaring insurance premiums, and dwindling savings could again push struggling families into default.
Un zat’s zie plan.
Tick tick tick.
What’s that? DJT with an 11 handle? You might not believe the polls, but the stock price, supported by MAGA continues to drop. Remember, it opened at $78 per share. Now how is it that a SPAC which raised well over quarter of a billion dollars with around 60% of the shares owned by Donald himself, could perform so poorly. So much winning in the White House, yet so much losing in the corporate world. Then there is Trump’s newer SPAC, MCGA released in August to purchase Crypto. This one is down 7% while the S&P has returned 16% over the same time period.
But fear not. Like father, like son, and after so much SPAC winning, Trump Jr. filed for an initial public offering. The Palm Beach, Florida-based company plans to offer 26 million shares priced at $10 each and is seeking to raise $260 million.
This is what YOU voted for Smalls. A bionic grifting machine who makes Pelosi look like a pauper.
And these are actually facts. Not dreams, like the accomplishments you list. As for the Trump lie of the day, you can choose between the fake gold adornments or the $10K checks. Which will it be?
The plan, and who to eliminate.
Poor ✅
Lower Middle Class ✅
Middle Class: still working on it, there are too many of them, but we’ll get ’em.
Upper middle class: Think they are untuchable.
Rich. Want them all gone.
Darkie,
Thanks for the Walmart Credit Card tip.
Lib
U think it’s a good deal?
Portable mortgages.
So let me get this straight, you get to apply your current monthly payment to the new house… so that the person born after you can buy your old house at double the interest rate? And compete with others with low rates who are willing to pay more?
The only person this benefits is the person with the already low mortgage.
Sorry for the CNN link
“https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/homes/portable-mortgages-what-to-know”
Verizon cutting 15K.
Rail Freight down 5% Y/Y
Manufacturing (Trump promise) continues to decline
Consumer sentiment is in the Golden Toilet
So much winning.
And then there’s the tariffs that everyone KNEW would fail too.
You can’t blame it all on AI.
Another nice market day too I see.
I see it’s been posted. Still, only benefits the person who has already benefitted.
Yes, technically it will bring sales volume up, but to the benefit of a) realtors and b) the person holding the low mortgage. With existing prices ticking up as competition heats up over desirable properties from folks holding low notes.
Darkie,
Only if you spend about 10K a year or so there. Walmart+ is the real saver.
Watters:
“You weren’t ever on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet, were you?”
RFK Jr.:
“I was on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet two times… in 1993… with my family… but otherwise I was never on his jet alone… All of this information should be released.”
Portable mortgages won’t happen. Simply because too much interest is given up due to amortization tables which price in the high risk heavily in the initial years of the mortgage. In other words, the banks are not going to kill the golden goose. Currently, homeowners stay an average of 12 years in their current home. Back in 1995, that number was 6. I recall the old overall average number was 7 years. Think of the interest lost. The numbers are tremendous. the 50 year mortgage will definitely come first.
What the fuck with this Epstein guy. Is there ANY politician who wasn’t involved with this asshole?
Verizon is laying off 15,000 employees starting this week. This is the company’s largest layoff ever.
Lib: Maybe that’s why the Biden administration did not release the files. Perhaps too many prominent Democrats or wealthy contacts. There are probably a lot both Republicans and Democrats. But, the rich protect their own regardless of their politics, so perhaps that’s why Biden did not release them and Trump won’t release them. And, perhaps Trump himself was deeply involved in the Epstein depravity. Lots of speculation, and that’s why the Epstein files should be released.
Lib : Did not see you already posted the Verizon cuts.
Debt is the new Asset
Boomer Remover says:
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 am
Portable mortgages.
So let me get this straight, you get to apply your current monthly payment to the new house… so that the person born after you can buy your old house at double the interest rate? And compete with others with low rates who are willing to pay more?
The only person this benefits is the person with the already low mortgage.
BREAKING NEWS!
UPDATED THU, NOV 13 2025
12:18 PM EST
Dow pulls back from record, falls 400 points in broad market sell-off: Live updates
Sean Conlon
Pia Singh
Grim—> –>> A real game changer for local zoning..
Zoning powers of a municipality to be taken away if it’s a non-proift selling?
https://www.njherald.com/story/news/new-jersey/2025/11/13/nj-affordable-housing-bill-nonprofits-bypass-zoning-restrictions-churches/87211123007/
40 units per acre standard set for the land too.. That is mixed use..four story apartment buildings etc.
Libturd says:
You’ve driven off a cliff. Thelma and Louised it.
Kiss your wife. Visit your kid. Send out more job applications. Chronically masturbate.
Do anything else but for the love of everything dear please stop the incessant DJT obsession. You were one of the best posters. You are now unreadable and unbalanced. More unbalanced than DJT himself. It’s unhealthy.
You hate me, because deep inside, you know I am right about this as well. That’s cool. You’ll find out how damaging the Trump family is soon enough.
Tick, tick, tick,
I have about 30% left in the market. I am absolutely getting crushed today and I am diversified. How are the rest of you holding up. And BRT, nice call on the quantum bullshit.
Even crypto had been holding up. Not anymore. Bitcoin back under 100. Hey Pumps. When you buying? Plug Power is real cheap too and DNA is back to an 8 handle.
Mortgage portability is completely incompatible with mortgage securitization.
Is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Real?
WSJ Op-Ed
Paywall, I’ll post later….or someone else in the meantime
Quantum down another 11% today. This was even easier than shorting ARK
Librurd
Holding up ok at 40 in stock rest in cash. Made some nice gains recently with mdgl.
Will see what December brings.
Look at NICE again. They seem to have turned the corner. The price beatdown was almost entirely the departure of their popular CEO who retired. Company still firing on all cylinders. Read today’s conference call.
The government is open and the market looks like day one of Liberation Day. So much winning.
I’m not bothered by Lib’s posts. They feed my soul a bit.
Don’t go changin’
I am perfectly fine and not unhinged at all. Been travelling and cruising and working on the home and absolutely timing my investments like a mofo, making any potential money problems null. Plus, I started getting my severance. I was able to delay it for a while which will benefit my taxes. I convinced the investment club to do some major trimming and tax loss harvesting YESTERDAY. I look like Nostradamus right now to them.
I might have another insane job opportunity as well. I know the manager of Raising Canes which is opening up on 46 in Fairfield where Houlihan’s was. I might take a swing at assistant manager. I love working with younger people and I know the fast-food industry pretty well. Plus what could be more fun? That place is going to be packed like a new Chick-Fil-E as it’s the only Northern location of the chain. It would be a nice change compared with my old grind. Chicken Fingers anyone?
BREAKING NEWS!
UPDATED THU, NOV 13 2025
1:56 PM EST
Wall Street sell-off worsens, Dow falls more than 600 points: Live updates
Sean Conlon
Pia Singh
1929 round the corner
Lib, good luck. I did an Amazon stint during COVID lockdown. It was a blast working with young kids again. Just get to see the world differently from there perspective. Plus the lockdowns made me nuts not interacting with others. I left having lost 25 pounds from working out lifting boxes. I would have continued but holding 2 jobs plus rental work and having kids was too much.
I hear ya.
Still, not a single call back and I did not lazy ass it. Spent two days on the resume and I spend about two hours on each cover letter. No one is hiring 55 year-old farts for a mid-management roles. I am not worried. Again, my investments have been fantastic and most of those gains are locked in.
This is not the end of the cycle. Not until we get a blowoff top, do I believe this cycle is over. Cycles don’t end when everyone is calling a top and calling for bubbles….that’s all I know. I would buy the crypto dip right now….and wait for the liquidity to come…and it’s coming.
Also, stock market has basically been dead except for AI related plays. A few companies driving entire s&p run up. They might pop, but the rest of the market will finally get going. Same with crypto, besides BTC, the market has been in a bear market since 2022. Exactly like the stock market…driven by a few where all the institutional money has been going.
Maybe I am wrong, and this will all crash like 1929, but I don’t think so at all. Still will run for years. After next run, that’s when I would get scared.
What you see today, is nothing more than manipulation off the headlines, trying to wash weak hands out and take their position on the cheap. This has been going on for a month already….they will switch directions soon enough. It’s time.
Lib, I’m up 2.6 percent on my account today. Short quantum, ethereum, Solana, gdx, mstr and a few hype stocks…cathiewood type crap.
BREAKING NEWS!
UPDATED THU, NOV 13 2025
2:58 PM EST
Wall Street sell-off worsens, Dow falls more than 700 points: Live updates
Sean Conlon
Pia Singh
dow is up 12% since trump became president
When the market cycle ends, it’s always a black swan that no one sees coming. This is not the end of the cycle….still inning 5…almost half a game left. When everyone (avg joe) is telling you how much money they made….and they are doing news stories on it….that’s the sell signal.
Mortgage portability? Absolutely, let’s just put it on the blockchain….DeFi of Die!!!
Did someone say Black Swan? But with Blockchain, would it really matter?
Here is a story from the future…
In 2045, the promise of the decentralized financial system, or DeFi, was supposed to democratize ownership and unshackle people from the archaic banking system. Elara, an ambitious young architect, believed in this future with a fervent, almost religious conviction. She was an early adopter of NexusHome, a platform that tokenized real estate, offering unprecedented liquidity and control. Her first home was a sleek, minimalist apartment in Neo-Kyoto, acquired with a “HouseToken” minted on the blockchain, the process so swift it felt like destiny rather than a loan. It was a digital paradise of efficiency, or so she thought.
A few years later, a career opportunity required her to move to the serene coastal town of Aethelgard. The beauty of the system, she was told, was “mortgage portability.” She listed her HouseToken on the NexusHome marketplace, and an investor, drawn by the transparency of her perfect payment history on the immutable ledger, purchased the token instantly. The capital was freed, and she secured a new property in Aethelgard, believing she had successfully navigated the future of finance.
The tragedy began with an unforeseen shift in the market, a “black swan event” that the smart contracts, designed for efficiency, were not programmed to handle. A major global power, in a sudden regulatory shift, declared all forms of non-sovereign digital assets illegal. The value of the underlying cryptocurrency used as collateral across the NexusHome platform plummeted almost overnight. The cascading liquidations began.
Elara was at a local cafe when her comm-link buzzed with a relentless stream of notifications. The value of her HouseToken was zero. The smart contracts, executing their immutable logic without mercy, identified her collateral as insufficient. There were no human intermediaries to plead with, no bank manager to call for an extension. The code was the law. Within minutes, the digital ownership of her Aethelgard home was automatically transferred to the platform’s liquidity pool.
She rushed back to the beautiful house, only to find a digital eviction notice on her door, a QR code that, when scanned, simply displayed the raw code of the smart contract that had dispossessed her. The dream of ownership, of a transparent and equitable system, was a cold, algorithmic nightmare. The “portability” she once celebrated meant her life could be disassembled and moved just as easily as a digital file.
Elara lost not only her home but her faith in the system. The transparency she had cherished became a public ledger of her ruin for the world to see. The promise of an open, decentralized future had delivered a brutal, instantaneous form of homelessness, all executed with the perfect, unfeeling efficiency of a machine. She was just a data point, an unfortunate variable in a system that had no capacity for human tragedy.
I call it a mid-cycle flush. Too much leverage, too little liquidity, and everyone positioned the same way. Liquidity is coming…that’s all that matters.
BREAKING NEWS!
UPDATED THU, NOV 13 2025
3:39 PM EST
Dow drops more than 800, heads for worst day in over a month: Live updates
Sean Conlon
Pia Singh
Almost crossed the 50-day moving average on the Nasdaq. Now we watch for the 200-day.
South Park yesterday showing JD and Trump having sex was gross. Good comedy takes underappreciated truths and exaggerates them to make them funny. I’m not seeing much of that this season in regard to the Trump character. South Park now seems to have a writing staff coming from the VSGs of the world. South Park of 25 years ago would be making fun of South Park writers of today. I wonder if at this point they are making fun of their own writers’ derangement, and hoping they can get cancelled while keeping their big money contract.
Grim—> –>> A real game changer for local zoning..
Zoning powers of a municipality to be taken away if it’s a non-profit selling?
https://www.njherald.com/story/news/new-jersey/2025/11/13/nj-affordable-housing-bill-nonprofits-bypass-zoning-restrictions-churches/87211123007/
Stocks drop: Relief over the opening of the government, gives way to concerns about economic data that has not been released. Additional market anxiety over whether or not the Fed cuts rates again in December. There are divisions in the Fed about further cuts. Slowing economy/job growth, vs consumer high inflation.
WTF? This sounds as if someone ate bad Taco Bell last night……
The Great Pumpkin says:
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 pm
I call it a mid-cycle flush. Too much leverage, too little liquidity, and everyone positioned the same way. Liquidity is coming…that’s all that matters.
WSJ Op-Ed
Is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Real?
No therapist would render such a derogatory and partisan diagnosis, but I’ve seen it in my practice.
By Jonathan Alpert
Is “Trump derangement syndrome” real? No serious mental-health professional would render such a partisan and derogatory diagnosis. Yet I’ve seen it in my own psychotherapy practice. Patients across the political spectrum have brought Donald Trump into therapy not to discuss policy but to process obsession, rage and dread. Their distress is symptomatic, not ideological.
Clinically, the presentation aligns with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders: persistent intrusive thoughts, emotional dysregulation and impaired functioning. Patients describe sleepless nights, compulsive news checking and physical agitation. Many confess they can’t stop thinking about Donald Trump even when they try. They interpret his every move as a threat to democracy and to their own safety and control.
Call it “obsessive political preoccupation”—an obsessive-compulsive spectrum presentation in which a political figure becomes the focal point for intrusive thoughts, heightened arousal and compulsive monitoring.
I initially viewed this as an ideological reaction, an understandable response to a polarizing figure. But over time the symptoms took on a more clinical shape. What once looked like outrage now presents as a fixation that distorts perception and consumes attention.
One patient told me she couldn’t enjoy a family vacation because “it felt wrong to relax while Trump was still out there.” Others report panic attacks or trouble sleeping after seeing him in the news. Their anxiety has outgrown politics and become a way of being.
At the group level, the pattern functions like a culture-bound syndrome, a condition shaped by shared social triggers within a specific context. From a diagnostic standpoint, it overlaps with obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and trauma-related syndromes. While not a formal diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it reflects the same symptom patterns and behavioral mechanisms used to define emerging conditions. By that measure, this presentation merits serious consideration.
The clinical importance of distinguishing this pattern lies in treatment. When it is coded simply as generalized anxiety or OCD, patients often receive reassurance or validation that briefly soothes them but ultimately reinforces the fixation. In this presentation, anxiety has fused with identity. The therapeutic work is to help patients regain psychological distance so they can separate internal fears from the political figure onto whom they have projected them. That requires limiting compulsive information seeking and disrupting the social feedback loops that sustain the preoccupation, rather than merely reducing anxiety. We make similar distinctions in conditions like body dysmorphic disorder and hoarding disorder: The meaning of the preoccupation determines how we treat it. The same principle applies here.
What makes obsessive political preoccupation distinct is its collective reinforcement: Social media, partisan news outlets and aspects of modern therapy have turned emotional validation into moral virtue. Each act of outrage delivers short-term relief that reinforces the cycle, maintaining the compulsion rather than resolving it. At its core, it isn’t much different from other OCD-like presentations I see in my practice.
The term “Trump derangement syndrome” emerged as a tongue-in-cheek partisan label. The joke obscured the psychological reality in which a political figure becomes a symbolic stand-in for threat and loss of control.
Mr. Trump himself isn’t the pathology; he is the trigger. For many, he functions as a psychological screen onto which unresolved fears and insecurities are projected. Political disagreement turns into perceived personal threat. A smaller group of Trump supporters have similar responses of opposite valence: They experience anger and feelings of persecution whenever Mr. Trump is criticized, as if an attack on him were an attack on them. In both cases, emotion replaces reason, and psychological distance collapses.
Therapy, once a space for cognitive restructuring, has in some quarters become an echo chamber for emotion. Rather than challenging distorted thoughts, many therapists affirm them, mistaking empathy for effectiveness. The language of trauma and safety has migrated into everyday discourse, pathologizing discomfort and politicizing distress. Political anxiety serves as moral performance instead of a cue for regulation.
For many Americans, what began as a stress response has become a chronic state of hyperarousal and vigilance. In 2016 the reaction was acute: disbelief, anger, panic. By 2020 it had hardened into identity. Now it has become a way of life. During the 2024 campaign and into 2025, many patients have spoken with fatalistic dread about Mr. Trump’s continuing presence at the center of national life. Even hearing his name can trigger a physiological response. They aren’t reacting to Mr. Trump the man but to Trump the symbol—the embodiment of chaos, threat and loss of control.
The clinical challenge is to engage without reinforcing the obsession. Helping patients limit information intake, identify cognitive distortions and tolerate uncertainty restores psychological flexibility, the capacity that obsession erodes. As with other anxiety disorders, exposure and cognitive reappraisal are more effective than reassurance. The goal is perspective, not persuasion.
Psychologically, the treatment is differentiation. Patients must learn to separate internal anxiety from external reality and to see Mr. Trump not as an emotional projection but as an external figure whose significance can be managed rather than magnified.
For therapists, the task is to resist moral contagion, restore perspective and help patients regain cognitive distance. The goal isn’t to feel safe from Mr. Trump but to feel stable despite him. We can’t have a healthy democracy if half the country experiences the other half as a trauma trigger. The challenge, clinical and cultural, is to rebuild psychological distance—to see the difference between what we feel and what truly is. Only then can people engage politically without losing their mental balance.
Mr. Alpert is a psychotherapist practicing in New York and Washington and author of “Therapy Nation,” forthcoming in 2026.
Opinion
Unruly Republic
Why Schumer Had to Do It
Ordinary Democrats didn’t demand a shutdown. Left-wing nonprofits did.
By Barton Swaim
A government shutdown, as Clausewitz didn’t quite say, is the continuation of politics by other means. Or so we might conclude after the longest and most nakedly political shutdown in U.S. history.
In raw political terms, it’s conceivable that a majority of voters blame President Trump and the Republicans for the shutdown rather than the Democrats who literally precipitated it. Mr. Trump’s omnipresence in American public life makes anything wrong appear his fault, and the news media’s pastel-colored portrayal of Democratic motivations reinforces that narrative. Even so, it’s not exactly right to say Democrats charged into this idiotic controversy for political advantage.
A more accurate term to describe their aim: self-preservation.
Some Democratic voters no doubt believed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blocked the Republicans’ government-funding resolution because he didn’t want ObamaCare exchange premiums to soar. Count me skeptical. The likely premium increases without the subsidies are significant but not apocalyptic, and certainly not worth the political risk of a five-week shutdown. Are we seriously to believe that Mr. Schumer and his party felt so strongly about pandemic-year emergency funding that they were willing to crash the U.S. government to extend it? C’mon.
So why did the Democrats do it? From the beginning of the dispute, everyone seems to have understood that Mr. Schumer forced a shutdown because he needed to show his state’s progressive voters that he could take it to Mr. Trump and so avoid a primary challenge from the left, perhaps from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The Senate leader’s Democratic colleagues went along with the shutdown for a parallel reason. The whole stunt “was about Trump’s authoritarianism,” wrote Ezra Klein of the New York Times on Monday. “It was about showing their base—and themselves—that they could fight back.” Jack Blanchard of Politico observed similarly that “Democrats achieved their primary political objective—showing a furious base that they can actually work together effectively and are prepared to fight with every tool at their disposal.”
It was all for show, literally.
But what or who is that “base” to which Messrs. Klein and Blanchard refer? Poke around and you’ll find it consists mainly of cash-flush foundations, unions and activist groups. The American Civil Liberties Union; the Sunrise Movement and other environmental and climate groups; Planned Parenthood and other abortion-rights outfits; an array of immigrant-rights organizations, some of them so radical as to be almost insurrectionist; the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association; the Southern Poverty Law Center, Black Lives Matter and other racial-justice organizations; the Human Rights Campaign and assorted LGBTQ activist groups; scores of foreign-connected Palestinian-rights and otherwise “anti-Zionist” organizations; the George Soros-funded network known as the Open Society Foundations . . . and on and on.
This ganglion has no counterpart on the right. Republican officeholders frequently dance to the tunes of nut-job primary voters, and many have an unnatural fear of both online right-wing mobs and Mr. Trump—which is its own problem. But the Heritage Foundation, the Koch network and Turning Point USA have nothing like the influence over elected Republicans that left-wing nonprofits have over their Democratic colleagues. Harry Reid, when he led Senate Democrats in the 2010s, delivered many a diatribe about the Koch brothers’ supposed hold on the Republican Party, and in 2016 the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer published a fat book making the same allegation—even as the GOP drifted away from the Kochs’ libertarian doctrines.
The word for what Mr. Reid and Ms. Mayer engaged in is “projection.” The same sort of projection has led Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) to indulge in the delusion that the Federalist Society manipulates American society by some furtive scheme of money and influence. Why shouldn’t he think so? That’s the way things work in Mr. Whitehouse’s world. Otherwise smart liberals have for decades assumed that the “gun lobby” achieved its goals by big spending and covert bullying. In fact, gun groups—which, contrary to liberal myth, spent less on lobbying than some other industries—only had power because millions of Americans backed their cause.
Which is pointedly not true of the radical groups currently pushing around Democratic lawmakers. Ordinary Democratic voters weren’t clamoring for Mr. Schumer to shutter the government, just as they weren’t outraged when he chose to keep it open in March. And go further back. Rank-and-file Democrats didn’t tell the Biden administration to keep the southern border wide open for three years. They didn’t threaten to burn down the 2024 Democratic Convention because the president more or less took Israel’s side against Hamas. Nor did they require liberal politicians to give squishy nonanswers to questions about dudes playing in women’s sports.
These demands issued from progressive nonprofits led by ideologues and staffed by young busybodies.
Liberal politicos frequently accuse Republicans of slavishly catering to the whims of Mr. Trump. There is truth in the charge. But Mr. Trump will leave office in three years. Progressive nonprofits aren’t going anywhere.
Went and capped the day off buying a car, Honda Civic SI. Time to retire the existing Civic at 306k miles.
Nice! SI is a sweet ride.
Of course the shutdown was political. So was letting the Obama subsidies expire. As for TDS, I do know a few who suffer from it. They spend all day posting Trump’s faux pas and indecencies. That is not me.
I just focus on his lies.
The SI is kick ass, but so expensive right now. Did you assume a lease?
I paid cash. Gotta have manual transmission. I was going to wait longer for the market to get tougher on them but I wanted black and I had 2 get sold out under me in the past week. They are still moving quick. Drove to North Plainfield and got it done.
Car & Driver rates SI 10/10
https://www.caranddriver.com/honda/civic-si
Did you pay the 32K. I moved to Mazda once Honda stopped negotiating with customers. When I didn’t get the Fit EV I was promised (ended up being a blessing), it was the last straw. Very, very, very happy with my three Mazda’s reliability.
Nice BRT – That is a 6-speed manual transmission no CVT to worry about
Oooh ChiFi:
https://youtube.com/shorts/rl-Pwq5P2sQ?si=Kv4_HrYHna8U2cax
I just bought a mb eqe this weekend. It’s 2 years old so I was able to get it for under $36. Amazing car loaded up. Range is limited at 260 miles. But I have a 15 mile commute. Sticker was over $90k in 24. It’s crazy how bev’s drop in price. I was contemplating the fisker oceans for $16k. Those looked pretty cool as well.
From seeing the different prices 2 year old ev with under 15k miles are very well priced.
Good luck brt with the new ride after 300k you deserve it
Lib, hope the hotel management works out well — at least for the short-term.
Lib, all the dealership tack on a premium surcharge of $2k on top of the sticker for the SI and Type R because of rarity so the 32k price isn’t even real. I did have the woman at Princeton agreeing to $32.5k but I waited a day too long and it sold. I went to several dealerships in NJ and PA, all the same. Been monitoring it for a while. They get in 1 SI a month at best and it’s gone in about a week. That’s been slowing down lately as I’ve seen a few sit 2 to 3 weeks.
BRT,
Time to retire the existing Civic at 306k miles.
Impressive… Got a new Civic (Hybrid) for my freshman kid but I am driving it since she isn’t allowed to park her car on campus in first year. So far, 15k in about one year, so a long long way to 300k.
“I ‘ve met some very bad people, but none as bad as Trump” – Jeffrey Epstein
3b says:
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 pm
Lib : Did not see you already posted the Verizon cuts?
Can you hear me now ?
Someone, not just 300k, but the only thing that ever happened was the starter went at one point and needed to replaces hoses on the radiator. Zero issues beyond that. $1000 in repairs over a 14 year lifespan. Original clutch is still good as well.
Ex: if Phx would like a DM song, how about this super deep cut. Not sure the exact subject of this short 2 minute dirge, but I think it was either getting served with divorce papers or getting kicked out of the house.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=30H1sqHWfD0&list=PLNPGM2D7aODdMcWsbNsDHOZkhLBOD0bgv&index=17&pp=iAQB8AUB
Ex says:
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 pm
Oooh ChiFi:
https://youtube.com/shorts/rl-Pwq5P2sQ?si=Kv4_HrYHna8U2cax