From Real Estate NJ:
Looking back: Fulop, outgoing Jersey City mayor, reflects on policies behind historic development boom, affordability push
By his own admission, Steve Fulop was skeptical of the development community when he joined the Jersey City Council in 2005.
His view today, as he winds down his third term as mayor, is indisputably different.
“In 2013, I started to think more about the fact that a healthy city is a growing city,” Fulop said, alluding to his first year as mayor, after having built relationships on the council, in the private sector and elsewhere as part of a “good, on-the-ground education” on how cities grow.
“We wanted to be recognized as a world class city with arts, culture and nightlife — and development was key to that.”
The shift was pivotal for a municipality that, since Fulop took office, has become even more firmly entrenched as the epicenter of commercial real estate investment in New Jersey, most notably in the multifamily space. Developers in Jersey City have completed more than 45,000 units of market-rate and affordable housing in the last 10 years, according to the mayor’s office, while the city has tens of thousands of additional units under construction or approved for future projects.
Fulop, who leaves office on Jan. 14, has famously leveraged that demand to expand development beyond the city’s downtown and waterfront neighborhoods. He’s also taken major steps to boost access to affordable housing, as his team notes, while spearheading high-profile, public-sector investments that supported major social, cultural and quality-of-life initiatives.
The decisions weren’t universally popular. Fulop knows that well, but his conviction is as strong as ever that Jersey City is better off after 12 years of pro-growth policies.
“I realized that even those loud voices on social media don’t reflect the larger community,” he said, especially after winning three mayor elections. “If you were to look at the Facebook crowd during those campaigns, you’d think I was going to lose by huge numbers.
“And I say that because you’ve got to keep perspective that it’s a complicated city, a big city, and most people appreciate growth.”
He also acknowledged that the city, like the rest of the region, still faces a significant housing shortage. That continues to put pressure on rents, he said, especially given the lack of development in New York City over the past decade. It also speaks to the top campaign issue for Councilman James Solomon, who will succeed Fulop as mayor after winning a runoff election against former Gov. Jim McGreevey.
“I feel like we’ve done a lot, and I feel like you could always do more,” said Fulop, who did not seek a fourth term as mayor amid an unsuccessful run for governor. “I think there’s definitely an affordability crisis throughout New Jersey — there’s no question about that. There’s an affordability crisis in this entire region. And it’s not only about housing. Wages haven’t been increased at the same rate as costs. That’s at the core of the problem.”
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Trumps really sick:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DS4_IKlkePP/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
“The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations,” Mr. Mamdani said. “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously.”
He promised to lead unapologetically both as a left-wing Democrat — “I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist,” he said — and as a mayor for all New Yorkers, including those who did not support him.
No NJ and no NYC right winger will ever move to Mississippi, Oklahoma or Tennessee
He also acknowledged that the city, like the rest of the region, still faces a significant housing shortage.
Yet, wherever I turn, pods are stacking up like mad and people are having fewer kids. Are people from Indiana moving here? Are they coming up from Toms River? Does everyone need to live on the same street?
Did anyone catch the inauguration yesterday?
I’d encourage any fans of late 80’s/early 90’s New York hip-hop to listen to the invocation given by Imam Khalid Latif. It was as if he was channeling the social consciousness of Chuck D and KRS-1, and he delivers it with a staccato cadence reminiscent of Big L/Jay Z and with the high strung angst of Eminem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8c_C9wZd8E
This part was especially good:
“On this day of transition and responsibility
We ask you to bless this moment of leadership
And all who are entrusted with the weight of public service.
Grant wisdom to Mayor Zohran Mamdani
And remind him that leadership is not about power
But about proximity
To the people who struggle
To the voices too often ignored
To the lives behind the statistics.”
MAYOR MAMDANI: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
For those interested, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged both dwell on the question of individualism vs collectivism.
Wages vs. cost… the age old problem. Bob Cratchit was feeding a family on 15 shillings per week. Did he own that joint? I can’t recall.
The warmth of collectivism…. sounds like a romance novel by Karl Marx.
You thought Europe was overrun by the Middle East? You thought Minnesota was ripe for theft and grift? NYC just said, “Hold my beer.”
Hey VAG, no reason to change your name. Your message is as flimsy as an anorexic transsexual with a terminal disease so go ahead and post as usual.
No One,
Every political ideology has its pitfalls.
I think if the merits of capitalism and rugged individualism weren’t being corrupted in the most blatant and shameless manners imaginable, there wouldn’t be such an outcry for socialism. I do suspect that many who haven’t experienced the pitfalls of collectivism may be in for a rude awakening, but I think for now people are happy to settle for a bit of hope in acknowledging that the current system is broken.
Bob
Nicely written.
And in other news, here is an eyewitness. I believe him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThujo-QIrg
Fast: The warmth of collectivism , yeah history shows all the warm blood shed by those collectivists that murdered those that refused to go along with the new regime. Mamdani, the child of wealth and privilege who never held a job except as an Assembly man for 1. 5 years and whose attendance record was poor, will now govern the city of New York, He knows better than you or I, he knows best.
Fast: Bernie Sanders the socialist is 84 years old, just him and his wife, Why does he need 3 houses, while others go homeless or have to live in a pod? What about his carbon foot print?
Momdammi’s theme song for NYC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS1bRgzTajI
Condo prices have posted their biggest price declines since 2012. WSJ.
Americans brace to start New Year without healthcare.
Article Information
Author, Ana Faguy
1 January 2026
The 47-year-old Texas mother had to make a difficult choice when she found out her monthly healthcare premium was increasing in 2026 from what she described as a manageable $630 to an unaffordable $2,400
Her husband depends on an IV medication to treat a blood-clotting disease that costs $70,000 a month without insurance. Knowing their benefits would expire, the family stockpiled the drug to survive the first few months of the year.
“It would be like paying two mortgage payments,” she said of the new monthly price for healthcare. “We can’t pay $30,000 for insurance a year.”
Well, If a law was passed disallowing this, then he would have to comply as well. Sounds like a plan.
3b says:
January 2, 2026 at 9:13 am
Fast: Bernie Sanders the socialist is 84 years old, just him and his wife, Why does he need 3 houses, while others go homeless or have to live in a pod? What about his carbon foot print?
“I am pissed for the American people,” New York Congressman Mike Lawler, a Republican who pushed to save the subsidies, said. “Everybody has a responsibility to serve their district, to their constituents. You know what is funny? Three-quarters of people on Obamacare are in states Donald Trump won.”
Her husband depends on an IV medication to treat a blood-clotting disease that costs $70,000 a month without insurance.
This is what unrestrained capitalism looks like. Can’t afford it, then die.
Don’t worry, as you are dying, think about all of the wonderful military bases, the money you sent to other countries, the wars you engaged in at the behest of others. Think about how that money spent on healthcare could have extended your time with your children.
Dark; No, laws like that are for the masses. Bernie needs 3 houses, he needs the change of scenery to come up with all his wonderful ideas to help the little people, just like Mamdani needs to move into Gracie Mansion, it will now be closed to the public. Just like Castro died a multi millionaire, and Chavez in Venezuela, and now Maduro.
Art/VSG: If you have changed your name for 2026, at least announce it to the board, otherwise you look silly.
Art/VSG: Mississippi has a higher GDP than France or Italy. Just saying.
America: Guy pays 1300 dollars to fix heater in car, still not fixed, has to drive car 500 miles to have battery replaced which was the problem all along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HCz6csBftM&t=1s
China does this for fun. Tired of all of the winning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpaSXwpKzGk
release the e pstein files
Nope, don’t agree.
Pass the law, make him comply.
Never gonna happen. So let him and Mamdani do their thing as well. Repubs are in power, here is their chance to fix it. They don’t, it’s on them.
ACA is a giveaway to the insurance companies and providers. The Federal money the subsidy for the insurance policy was paid directly to the subscribers insurance company monthly, which reduced the subscribers premium bill immediately.
Did the insurance companies do anything different? Did the providers do anything different? NOPE.. Our provider costs are double what they are in other modem economies. Insurance companies now are getting into the provider business themselves and buying them up.
ACA failed to make health care affordable and instead led to skyrocketing premiums and out of pocket costs. We pay more now for heathcare than ever. have premiums doubled and out of pocket increased? The actual cost for individual services, like doctor visits or hospital stays, is significantly higher in the U.S today..adding in a giveaway of taxpayer dollars to the insurance companies does not change that equation one bit.
Heck even the private sector has failed at making healthcare more affordable. Look at the now failed startup “Haven”. It was mean to be a disruptor in the heathcare system a new private cheaper streamlined system.
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase announced the formation of Haven to provide low-cost and high quality healthcare for their more than a million worldwide employees.
It crashed and burned after a few short years as the task of market disruption of the American health care system was too great..
Raising wages “for everyone” would just lead to less affordability, no? Obviously, too many people want to live here. That’s the issue. You build supply, and more just come. It never ends.
“There’s an affordability crisis in this entire region. And it’s not only about housing. Wages haven’t been increased at the same rate as costs. That’s at the core of the problem.”
Mandami is going to try an intervene in the Pinnacle Group Bankruptcy in NYC.
Scheduled January 8th Chapter 11 auction of 5,100 rent controlled units in NYC.
Should be interesting to see….how the Judge reacts.
There is a deal on the table from Summit Properties LLC for $451 million.
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/mayor-mamdani-signs-eo-to-revitalize-mayor-s-office-to-protect-t#:~:text=With%20rent%20due%20on%20Jan,landlords%2C%20and%20build%20more%20homes
And what’s the answer? You are the reason for high health insurance. Everyone else paying for you. Almost a million dollars a year to keep you alive at the expense of everyone else….it is right, not taking a position, just describing the issue at hand.
“Her husband depends on an IV medication to treat a blood-clotting disease that costs $70,000 a month without insurance.”
“So many people are going to choose to be uninsured because it’s cheaper to pay a penalty for being uninsured than it is to have healthcare,” she said.
For Ms Bannister’s family, the increased cost of healthcare means putting off other spending: “We were saving for a home, and saving money for that is going to take way longer if we have to spend $11,000 a year on healthcare that we barely use.”
Crypto is ready to rip. Opposite of this.
“The market is priced to perfection. Cracks in Crypto are worsening by the day. Three times in December, the overnight repo had to be tapped for 20-50 billion to keep our currency flowing. Car and college loans are defaulting at increasingly higher rates. Unemployment is worsening. And Inflation in everything but oil and rent is through the roof.”
Working class voting against their self interest is not funny
Art says:
January 2, 2026 at 9:28 am
“I am pissed for the American people,” New York Congressman Mike Lawler, a Republican who pushed to save the subsidies, said. “Everybody has a responsibility to serve their district, to their constituents. You know what is funny? Three-quarters of people on Obamacare are in states Donald Trump won.”
Ain’t she sweet
https://x.com/WorldDarkWeb/status/2006817474373890109?s=20
Juice: What does Mamdani know about any of this, or anything for that matter? What wealth of experience can he draw from? Nothing.
What did Biden know, or Trump.
Mamdami was voted in by the people. He will do his thing.
Life goes on.
3b says:
January 2, 2026 at 11:12 am
Juice: What does Mamdani know about any of this, or anything for that matter? What wealth of experience can he draw from? Nothing.
A NJ story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA68rsqKZvw
ACA failed to make health care affordable and instead led to skyrocketing premiums and out of pocket costs.
Here’s a chart of “U.S. national health expenditure as percent of GDP from 1960 to 2023”
https://www.statista.com/statistics/184968/us-health-expenditure-as-percent-of-gdp-since-1960/
Health care expenditures rose from 1960 till 2010. From 2010 on (the year the ACA was passed), it stayed flat.
Was the ACA responsible for those years of flatlining health care expenditures?
Maybe, maybe not.
But if you look at that chart it’s very hard to argue that the ACA did the opposite and increased health care costs.
And as for the ACA being “a giveaway to the insurance companies”, the profit margins for health insurance companies are only about 4%, which is not excessive compared to other industries.
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/united-states/health-insurance-industry-financial-snapshots/health-insurance-profit-margin
Juice, it has and it hasn’t. Urgent care facilities have opened up everywhere for basic treatments and they take cash and are affordable. But if you need to go to an actual specialist, it’s time to pay the piper.
DARK , The swiss story is tragic. Placing sparklers on champagne bottles in a basement bar with wood beams (probably older than 5 of us here) is a recipe for disaster. To top it off the bar tender hoisted the waitress on his shoulders to deliver the sparking bottles to the customers in the low ceiling bar, suicidal. But hey it’s for the insta . Tragic.
Glad I survived NJITs basement frat parties now that I think about it.
BRT says:
January 2, 2026 at 11:39 am
Juice, it has and it hasn’t. Urgent care facilities have opened up everywhere for basic treatments and they take cash and are affordable.
Define affordable.
Well mabye if someone is using the NJ state health insurance plan.
Blue, cash seems to be the way to go with healthcare. Some doc are even setting up costco type annual fee memberships. On the other hand Getting reimbursed $35 from United for a patient visit and hoping the patient coughs up the deductible is the reason most doc s are struggling on their own. Add in the fact that united pays with a credit card or through a fee based 3rd party clearinghouse that they own , because hey electronic funds transfer was free so let’s find a way to take another cut and the whole system sucks.
Sorry for the rant
The insanity you would have to go through to collect a $10 co pay was mind numbing. Remember a cop arguing for 30 minutes over $10 , giving himself a heart attack over his wife’s treatment. C’mon your pulling in a nj cop salary and you can’t figure out what your new co pay is ? Sorry for the rant
OC1- The current system multi-payer system and Federal and State Government oversight on everyone has created a carve out on that GDP number you posted. Estimates are almost 30% of healthcare spending is all administrative overhead non-clinical activities like billing, coding, insurance processing, regulatory compliance, and general management…..
It needs to all be torn down and rebuilt. ACA did nothing to fix the issue and only made it worse.
Here is the abstract on it. 1 Trillion in Healthcare spending is non-clinical admin work.
This is all ripe for AI….It needs to be fixed.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10986268/
while True:
# 1) Have the government increasingly distort the Health Care industry
government.regulate(healthcare, more=True)
government.spend(healthcare, more=True)
distortions = healthcare.measure_distortions()
# 2) Blame the shrinking remnants of market forces for those distortions
market_forces = healthcare.remaining_market_forces()
narrative.assign_blame(target=market_forces, for_effect=distortions)
# 3) Demand more government involvement in the Health Care industry
policy.propose(expand_government_role=True, sector=healthcare)
# feedback loop: the new policy becomes the next round of regulation/spending
government.implement(policy.latest())
Juice-
There are plenty of problems with the US healthcare system- no doubt about that.
But the ACA’s main purpose was to enable most people to afford health insurance (especially those with pre-existing conditions) and it largely succeeded at that.
But some people want to blame EVERYTHING that’s wrong with our healthcare system on the ACA, and that’s clearly not the case.
Fixing healthcare is hard. As one of our leaders once said “who knew fixing healthcare could be so complicated”?
I’d say the US has nationalized its military industrial complex in a way that ensures in such a way as to leverage private sector expertise while still positioning us as #1 in the world. No reason the same could not be accomplished in health care, except there are too many entities with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo who will not go down without a fight.
Juice,
Agreed. Ai is ripe to go to work in that industry.
OC1 – you agree with Trump then it’s the insurance companies fault?
I say all road lead to Washington DC’s it all their fault. None of this would exist without the myriad laws that compounded the heath care problem over the last 40 years.
Cumon – BRT you are better than that. Your regular doctor isn’t available for same day appointments or after hours and nobody wants to go into the emergency room for a fever, flu, or minor infection. Anything more severe and you are sent the the emergency room from Urgent care anyway.
That’s why I said it has and it hasn’t. As far as “define affordable”, I’ve been telling you guys for years. Ask them what the cash price is. You do it for the plumber. What’s stopping you here?
No One,
I hope I’m wrong. I want to be wrong. Could the private sector satisfy all without government subsidies, loan guarantees, tax abatements, eminent domain and other powers? I’m looking for examples of large scale projects that didn’t include any of the above.
I‘m in Rheinland Pflaz until Sunday. Took a drive into France today to go grocery shopping at Carrefour in Forbach, just over the border. Parts of that town have definitely seen better days. NYC will probably look like that within a year. The Germans were checking IDs of those in cars returning to Germany despite the snow coming down.
OC1 – you agree with Trump then it’s the insurance companies fault?
Of course not.
Insurance co’s have a lot of bargaining power when negotiating with health care providers over how much they will pay for various procedures- certainly more bargaining power than me!
Do you think they are reimbursing providers too much, and that the ins co’s should negotiate better deals?
What healthcare providers charge for services, and how we pay those providers, are really two different (but not completely unrelated) issues.
IMO, the “original sin” in US healthcare goes back to WW2, when the IRS decided that company-provided health insurance is a non-taxable benefit. Today, that amounts to a massive subsidy for people who get insurance through their employers- with the biggest subsidies going to the people wo earn the most (and are are paying the highest marginal tax rates).
At best tangential to any discussion today but,
I’ve snowboarded in Cran Montana many times. It was my quiet mid-week go to when Verbier was too packed. I’m talking about ~50 people in the whole resort. You could ride for five minutes and not come across anyone. Hardly an upscale resort as framed, although the Hotel Chetzeron up by the glacier is on my bucket list.
Separately, in Poland has a relatively new tax scheme in place where 18 to 26 year-old citizens do not have to pay income tax on earnings up to a certain reasonable amount (IIRC ~$25K) and pay tax on amounts in excess. Earned under? No need to file a tax return. On a hourly wage of 35PLN (~9-10USD) they would previously keep 20-22PLN but now get to keep the full 35PLN wage. This has the effect of keeping the discretionary economy chugging and obvs inflating rent prices.
Every New Year, I return to: This Is Water. Not because it offers answers, David Foster Wallace is explicit that it doesn’t (and if you blow your own head off, it seems relevant that you don’t find your own thoughts exculpatory) but because it reminds me of the only thing that is capital-T true: we get to choose how we see the world. Not what happens, but the frame through which we understand them.
That choice is agency. And agency, once you recognize it, is all you really get.
So this year, my resolution is gratitude: not the soft, sentimental kind, but the disciplined kind. The kind that comes from choosing to see my life plainly and without false modesty.
I was born into a great nation at essentially its greatest moment, as the very type of citizen it was meant to enable: a straight white male descendant of men who, if nothing else, have been here a long time. The Barkhuff brothers were Hessian mercenaries, captured and then paroled into the apple orchards and hard winters of the Mohawk River valley. I inherited stability, institutions, rights, and assumptions of belonging that were paid for long before I arrived. I did nothing to earn that starting line. I simply showed up to it.
And then I was given more. Education and an above-average ability to learn multiplication, even if I don’t have a truly elite intellect. Opportunity. A voice people are inclined to listen to. I became a SEAL, which required nothing more than a few dozen hours of pullups and swimming in addition to being a Naval Academy midshipman. I became a doctor, which required nothing more than telling medical schools I was a SEAL and a few hundred hours studying the Loop of Henle on snowy days in Boston. Those titles carry authority not because they are glamorous, but because they signal service and sacrifice. They buy me credibility in rooms where others have to fight just to be heard. That is not something to apologize for, but it is something to account for.
I bet when I trot out my shit in a cold email to whomever, it gets a harder look than anyone this side of Jonny Kim.
Wallace warns us that the default setting is selfishness: that we will naturally interpret the world as arranged around us. Gratitude, then, is an act of resistance. It is choosing to see my comfort not as proof of virtue, but as evidence of fortune. And once you see it that way, obligation follows.
I learned that lesson long before I could articulate it, from my college track and field coach, the legendary Al Cantello. After a race, an 800 I was disappointed in, I fixated on the time. I thought I’d failed somehow. He waved it off and said, almost casually, “We’re all just running a relay race through eternity anyway.”
Profound point from a man who once told my teammate, “Adams, if it was raining pussy you’d get hit in the head with a big cock.”
Because that’s what this country is, at its best. Not a possession, it’s a relay. An inheritance you didn’t earn, a responsibility you didn’t ask for, and a duty not to drop the baton while it’s in your hands.
Here is the obligation I feel most clearly now: the duty to hope that what I enjoy should be available to everyone else. That hope itself is a privilege. It means I am safe enough, secure enough, and confident enough in this country to believe that expanding opportunity does not diminish me. It means I don’t need to hoard the promise of America: I trust it to survive being shared.
So let’s compete.
Let’s compete on whose vision of America actually delivers dignity, stability, and freedom to the most people: not on who can exclude more effectively or scare more convincingly.
We argue endlessly about what it means to be conservative or liberal, as if those words are exhausted by taxes and guns. I reject that framing. I consider myself a conservative in the oldest sense of the word because I believe, deeply, in the promise of America, and I want to conserve it. I want to pass it on intact, undiminished, and honest.
And if insisting that the gift be available to all who can understand it, rather than hoarded by those who already have it, makes me a liberal, so be it.
I am liberal because I believe American principles only survive if they are shared. I am conservative because I refuse to let them be hollowed out, weaponized, or reduced to tribal property. I believe in conserving the miracle of this country, not just for some, even if I happen to be among the some, but for everyone willing to shoulder its responsibilities.
And honestly, I’m baffled anyone would feel differently.
That is the water I choose to swim in: agency, gratitude, hope, and stewardship.
I did not choose this inheritance, but while the baton is in my hand, I intend to run hard and pass it on.
Resolve.
by Dan Barkhuff
I just want a job. Trump keeps telling me we are triumphant. Unemployment benefits run out for me next week. Applied for two perfect fit opportunities this morning. Let’s see if leaving dates off of my resume helps.
Good luck on your job search in 2026 Libturd!
Costco/Home Depot isn’t hiring?
Lib: Good luck on the job search in 2026. Has it really been almost 6 months since you were laid off?
4:19 bankruptcies are at a high last seen in 2017.
the only anti American assholes here at the dupes that voted for Trump.
Dumbest most anti-American imbeciles on the planet.
FWIW
France’s GDP is around $3.16 trillion (2024), making it the world’s 7th largest
Is it true that Mandonny signed an executive order requiring all New York City democrat males must wear a Hijab while getting pegged?
where did this turd come from?
Shlomo Kramer, the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Cato Networks, sparked outrage online after he urged Americans to “limit the First Amendment” — arguing that democratic nations must respond to emerging dangers by controlling online speech before it’s “too late.”
Who is Shlomo to tell me I can’t read fast Eddie’s post anymore? or ex’s dick pics.
GDP per capita as I said is higher for Mississippi than France. One would have to have an understanding of economics and what that means, but it is obvious some do not.
You cannot take my bunghole:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DREB0ADDPvh/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Dark: Shlomo is from the Cato institute, which claims to be libertarian, I don’t know about that . Controlling free speech is more of a leftist thing as has been seen. Either way the elites know best, they just send out their ill informed supporters to do battle on social media.
Ex,
France‘s debt is 110% of their GDP. The annual interest payments on this debt are extremely high. See any problems here for the EU and fiscal responsibility with the Euro?
Shlomo is not American he is from a military state. That military controls all speech directly. Last year their Military censored 2,240 “free press” articles. Imagine if US soldiers were responsible for reading new articles and censoring them. Think Robin William in Good Morning, Vietnam..
Dark Phoenix says:
January 2, 2026 at 5:42 pm
“Who is Shlomo…”
Who can forget Warner Wolf’s great line when rolling the video tape of a match involving the Israeli tennis star, Shlomo Glickstein…
“It’s Shlomo in slo-mo”
Chad: I love Europe, for so many reasons, but they are in serious trouble. This talk about letting Ukraine join is absolutely reckless , and unfair to the other EU states. France ‘ s economy is dead, and the country almost equally split between left and right, with the right continuing to gain.
Good luck with the search Lib.
There’s some potential good news for folks in the market
https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/goldman-sachs-research-ceos-layoffs-stock-price/
If you aren’t able to read the article above, the good news is that WallStreet appears to start punishing companies that are laying off people.
Meanwhile:
https://youtube.com/shorts/g8AmX9A_6lo?si=jt7hy-qevS0gHttx
4:19 – That was low. A new low… a fellow NJRE blogger soft threatening and doxing.
Grim, On behalf of Lib, I ask that you remove that comment. It isn’t fair.
The good thing to note is that Lib is no coward unlike small dick “big brother”.
Ex 7:00, As one commenter says, that’s her mating call.
What an embarrassment!
Talking about healthcare costs – A friend of mine who’s self-employed got a new quote for his insurance…. for $44k/year!
Trump tried everything to fuck up ACA.. and now that it’s gone blames it on Obama. That’s what small d1ck energy looks like.
*almost gone
Millions would rather go without insurance than sign up for ACA now.
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Hope you find a job you like Lib.
As an old man I can tell you it’s no country for old men.
It’s not easy to be a blog admin. Thank you boss.
You old men
I am not going to say it again..
Pivot..
Be older and bolder…
Nobody gives a fuck about what you did..
Spend some time speaking to the bathroom mirror about what you can and will now..
Be a Baller….
Reality is they need you.
And BTW – I agree with Pumpkin which means tear it all down..
Is there appetite? Nope…..
Holy f&vk…
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/venezuela-explosions-caracas-intl-hnk-01-03-26
“Mission Accomplished”
Trump gonna legalize the fentanyl trade now.
You buy from him now bitch.
Lol… Russia so funny.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has condemned what it called an “act of armed aggression against Venezuela” by the United States, calling any “excuses” given to justify such actions “untenable.”
“We reaffirm our solidarity with the Venezuelan people and our support for the Bolivarian leadership’s course of action aimed at protecting the country’s national interests and sovereignty,” a statement from the foreign ministry said.
The ministry added that Latin America must “remain a zone of peace.”
“In the current situation, it is important, first and foremost, to prevent further escalation and to focus on finding a way out of the situation through dialogue,” the statement said. “Venezuela must be guaranteed the right to determine its own destiny without any destructive, let alone military, interference from outside.”
The Russian Embassy in capital city Caracas is operating as usual, according to the ministry, which added: “At present, there is no information about any Russian citizens who have been affected.”
Chris Murphy when asked about possible military strikes on Venezuela: “It’s pretty clear it’s just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela … and by the way, it’s wildly illegal.”
Um, Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who had actually been convicted of drug trafficking charges. It’s not about the drugs.
Distract from the Epstein files…
LMAO!
It’s amazing what the United States is capable of doing with the right leadership in charge. Trump is schooling wannabe politicians.
Obammy care failures:
Rising Premiums: Despite the goal of lowering costs, average family coverage premiums increased by approximately 80% between 2010 and 2023. In 2017 alone, marketplace premiums grew by an average of 22%.
Higher Deductibles: Out-of-pocket costs for many Americans have surged, with deductibles for individual plans increasing by over 50% since the law’s full implementation.
Inefficient Spending: The cost to taxpayers per additional private insurance enrollee has been estimated at over $36,000—more than triple the original projections.
Budget Deficits: While originally promoted as deficit-neutral, critics argue the ACA added hundreds of billions to cumulative federal deficits and the national debt.
Broken “Keep Your Plan” Promise: An estimated 4.7 million Americans had their health plans canceled because they did not meet new ACA benefit mandates, contradicting the pledge that “if you like your plan, you can keep it”.
Lower-than-Expected Enrollment: Early projections for marketplace enrollment were far higher than reality; by 2016, actual enrollment was less than half of initial estimates as healthy, unsubsidized individuals found the plans to be a poor value.
Technical Failures: The initial launch of the Healthcare.gov portal was famously plagued by crashes and technical errors, making it nearly impossible for many users to sign up initially.
Narrow Networks: To control rising costs, many insurers reduced the number of covered doctors and hospitals, leading to “narrow networks” that restricted patient choice.
Insurer Exits: Many insurance companies, including major providers like Aetna and UnitedHealthcare, exited the exchanges after suffering significant losses, leaving many counties with only one insurance option.
Co-op Collapses: Most of the non-profit “CO-OP” insurance plans created by the ACA failed; of the original 23, only a small fraction survived, costing taxpayers over $1 billion in lost startup loans.
The Medicaid “Gap”: Because Medicaid expansion was made optional for states by the Supreme Court, millions of low-income adults in non-expansion states earn too much for traditional Medicaid but too little for marketplace subsidies.
Reduction in Work Hours: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected the law would reduce the total number of hours worked by the equivalent of roughly 2 million full-time jobs, as some workers reduced hours to maintain subsidy eligibility.
Small Business Burden: Many small business owners cite the cost of health insurance as a top challenge, with the percentage of small firms offering coverage dropping significantly since 2010.
So we sweep Maduro out of the country to stand trail on drug charges, but Trump
Pardo s the former Honduran president who was considered by the U.S. on drug charges. What is the rationale??
the sleazy guy who rapes little school kids because he can’t have a real woman.
Picks a vulnerable country/chic, and exploit for his pleasure.
Obammy: “Red Line”
O’biden: “Don’t”
LMAO!!
Wag the dog.
Nom whoever you are, I don’t think Trump should have attacked Venezuela, but Venezuela was not a vulnerable country. Maduro and Chavez who came before him, destroyed their country. They looted it for their own gain, with corruption from top to bottom.
Interesting article from The Telegraph about how Trump is the real leader in Europe. Although not much liked he is seen as a strong leader by European citizens. The elites in Europe are not viewed as well in comparison.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-enters-2026-real-143600692.html
Fast Eddie says:
January 3, 2026 at 8:41 am
It’s amazing what the United States is capable of doing with the right leadership in charge.
Justin Trudeau, your next.
Me likey Canada
You mean to say Venezuela is a bad school girl who needed to be raped?
Not saying it isn’t true, but it could be the writers biased opinion, couldn’t it?
Chad Powers says:
January 3, 2026 at 10:13 am
Interesting article from The Telegraph about how Trump is the real leader in Europe. Although not much liked he is seen as a strong leader by European citizens. The elites in Europe are not viewed as well in comparison.
Courtesy of chatgpt:
Kids vs. systems
Stranger Things portrays ordinary people—kids, families, small-town cops—fighting forces far larger than themselves.
Culturally, Epstein became shorthand for the idea that systems protect the powerful, while victims or outsiders struggle to be heard.
Trump symbolizes how a single figure can bend institutions through pressure, narrative, and loyalty, rather than secrecy alone.
Monsters aren’t always obvious
The show’s scariest threat isn’t just monsters—it’s what people choose to ignore.
In the real world, Epstein represents hidden corruption, while Trump represents corruption in plain sight, loud, polarizing, and normalized by repetition.
Trump: I’m a hero, abducted a President.
Average American: Hero shmiro. How is me not having healthcare making america great again?
Got a 1963 dime in my change today, boo yah.
What’s change?
Grim says:
January 3, 2026 at 10:41 am
Got a 1963 dime in my change today, boo yah.
Grim,
It’s worth around $4!
Nice find!
For Lib:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T__1QViXUxk
My daddy is Homeland Security. Please let me drive drunk. Good ol’ NJ
Some animals try to be more equal than others:
comment from video.
Anyway that Homeland security father of her knows damn well that the if the cops let her get away with that and someone found out he asked them to they could use it for blackmail material. That would be an immediate loss of his security clearance and therefore his job. He really should not be saying sit like that on camera. Smh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDx2qKZjRY
Dark Phoenix,
No doubt the writer has some bias, but the numbers he is using are from a 10,000 person poll conducted by Politico. Hardly a pro Trump organization. I think it just reflects the poor leadership in Europe, and that Trump is respected for being decisive even though he is disliked on the whole.
America isn’t Europe.
Do any of these rinky dink countries think they have the ability that a superpower like the usa has
their only power is if they can act like a team, but each one has it’s own agenda, so that will never work. too many chiefs, not enough indians.
not fixing my punctuation, dropped keyboard, no shift key anymore. oh well.
Trump can barely read index cards. Low energy, sad.
Maduro was the competition for former Honduran president.
Former Honduran president can now remain as the biggest drug lord in the world
3b says:
January 3, 2026 at 8:57 am
So we sweep Maduro out of the country to stand trail on drug charges, but Trump
Pardo s the former Honduran president who was considered by the U.S. on drug charges. What is the rationale??
Honduran will fund midterms.
reagan did same to fund El Salvador paramilitary with Olli North
USA! USA! USA!
Not sure what I enjoy more; bringing Venezuela’s narco-dictator to justice, or watching the Dem leftist losers whine about it.
Don’t
LOL
So it wasn’t about the drugs after all….
“They’re not going to do that again,” Trump told reporters. “We had a lot of oil there. As you know they threw our companies out, and we want it back.”
But U.S. companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven reserves of crude, and officials didn’t kick them out of the country.
“Trump’s claim that Venezuela has stolen oil and land from the U.S. is baseless,” said Francisco Rodríguez, a Venezuelan economist at the University of Denver.
China just lost a supply of oil.
Keep pushing, America.
You forgot what you did to the Japanese didn’t you?
The US will now be “running” Venezuala, according to Trump.
Sounds good. What could possibly go wrong?
11:51 – the same cringe I felt when baby Bush attacked the wrong country.
Moduro is bad. But it’s now another vehicle for Trump to grift. Plus, Venezuelans will likely be just as poor… waiting for their next dictator.
Btw, how is your healthcare premium looking?
2020 DOD war games results showed that Venezuela turns into barely functioning unstable violent anarchic state.
It’s 20yrs plus since the Iraq mess. Maybe another generation needs to go into meat grinder for the next boots on ground need.
This could work out well , but those that would loose influence like with China, Russia, Iran and Cuba, you know they are going to fight it out for influence.
Hoping not, but Venezuela is a gigantic country with large tropical jungles and forest. Sharing a large border with Colombia which has been in some civil war mode since ~1947, as the big landowners’ private army, the different ideological rebel groups, the big drug cartels and the government fight it out. Hell, Castro was in Colombia for a time and learned to be a rebel.
Kushner resorts
Moduro is bad. But it’s now another vehicle for Trump to grift. Plus, Venezuelans will likely be just as poor… waiting for their next dictator.
12:23,
What’s your point? Your post is disjointed and fragmented. Write it again with more focus. The reader shouldn’t get a headache trying to figure out what you’re trying to say.
Kushner resorts
Let’s level Palestine first.
Cuba is next.
RentL0rd says:
January 3, 2026 at 12:16 pm
“another vehicle for Trump…”
Says one of the dopes that wishes Carmella and TamponTim were in the White House. Keep whining, weirdo.
The guy who supports a child rapist and wannabe dictator calling others weird. lol.
All this said, I really wish the best for Venezuelans. On new year’s eve I got on an Uber ride with a trans Venezuelan driver. He was transitioning to be a guy and his voice cracked as he spoke. As we were talking about how bad the situation was in Venezuela his phone rang. His Papi called to say Happy New Year from Venezuela. He apologized for the call – which I said was not necessary and within seconds he got another call. This time it was his mom from Peru.
He was just happy to be free and had a lot of gratitude for America. He didn’t care about politics.
Let’s just hope it doesn’t turn into another Iraq or Afghanistan.
90 percent of oil from Venezuela went to China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCrtttQgh1M
Go to two minutes in. This is an attack on China.
1:22 Ballsy. I’ll allow it.
Note: if you want an elite military you’ll keep them busy.
Dems the rules.
Ex says:
January 3, 2026 at 1:25 pm
1:22 Ballsy. I’ll allow it.
As if you have any say.
Hughes: Was Biden any better on the energy level, certainly not. He was terrible. Your side covered for that.
Small: How do you justify taking Maduro to stand trial, and then be Ok with Trump pardoning Hernandez the former Honduran President tried and convicted and sentenced in an American court?
So Trump says we are going to run Venezuela , until stable elections can be held. He says Machado who won the last election does not have the support of the people to run the country. So we are going to do it. Big mistake, so much for staying out of foreign countries. I see real possibility of guerrilla warfare, and loss of American life.
3b – Maduro has done allot of bad things besides the federal indightments since 2020. He has been a wanted man for years now.
A UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela and other human rights organizations have documented thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, cases of torture, and sexual violence carried out by state security forces.
3b says:
January 3, 2026 at 1:55 pm
So Trump says we are going to run Venezuela , until stable elections can be held.
Sounds exactly like Zelenskyy
The Monroe-Doktrin appears to be alive and well. Who knows, maybe Trump is a lot smarter than we all think. He is certainly smarter than RentBore, VAG and a few other people around here. Maybe Trump is playing 3d Chess in the company of very weak world leaders who can’t seem to agree to what a checker board even looks like.
Juice: I don’t think we should have done it, but I certainly have no sympathy for Maduro. The left here and in Europe are falling over themselves in outrage, about poor defenseless Venezuela and this American oppression and violation of Venezuela s right.
You really have to wonder just how naive or stupid the Left is.
I’m not in support of doing what we did here…but the outraged rhetoric following it is a complete 180 from what we’ve heard over the years on Venezuela. There are no easy answers here. It was obvious that the Venezuelan elections have been a farce and the Chavez/Maduro regime are guilty of travesties against their entire population. They’ve also created enough problems here trying to export drugs/gangs into the US.
What I find humorous is that we’ve watched the collectivists argue for the widespread importation and granting of asylum to the Venezuelan people. From what? Either way, the one thing I’m not seeing is outrage from actual Venezuelan people both over there and within the US.
Re: Venezuela
Rule #1
America does nothing out of altruism.
Rule #2 Refer to rule #1
Rule #3:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAwwTCosu-S/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
3b says:
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 pm
“Small: How do you justify taking Maduro to stand trial, and then be Ok with Trump pardoning Hernandez the former Honduran President…”
Unlike every prez before him — and certainly unlike the vegetable that we just got rid of — DJT makes a significant decision and/or takes meaningful action just about every single day. Because of that I long ago stopped analyzing each and every one of them. Also unlike previous guys, DJT took questions from reporters w/in hours of the Venezuela raid, and answered directly re: Hernandez; saying there was a political dimension to his prosecution and that it reminded him of his own. Is that valid? I have no idea, but after Bill Clinton pardoned a fugitive from justice and made a complete mockery of presidential pardons, I no longer pay attention to any of them.
So you’re going with “don’t ask, don’t tell?”
On new year’s eve I got on an Uber ride with a trans Venezuelan driver. He was transitioning to be a guy and his voice cracked as he spoke. As we were talking about how bad the situation was in Venezuela his phone rang.
And once again, the right person in the right place supporting the right situation at the right time for the right narrative fell into place. Every time you want to make a point, some anecdotal situation arises that is tailor-made. Remarkable.
As for justifying any move Trump makes, liberals can question it all they want. I don’t give a fuck. Why’d he do this, why’d he do that? Liberals don’t deserve an answer. Shut up and sit to the side, you don’t deserve an explanation for anything because your side doesn’t produce. It’s a lot of talk and gestures and nothing else. So… shut the fuck up.
Venezuela! Venezuela! Venezuela!
Btw, how is our track record for running a country? And I don’t mean this country – which is a kleptocracy under this administration.
I also only believe the UN when they say something I already agree with.
Juice Box says:
January 3, 2026 at 1:56 pm
3b – Maduro has done allot of bad things besides the federal indightments since 2020. He has been a wanted man for years now.
A UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela and other human rights organizations have documented thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, cases of torture, and sexual violence carried out by state security forces.
Midnight Hammer, Absolute Resolve… when this administration speaks, the world listens.
Article Information
Author, Nadine Yousif
2 December 2025
Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, has walked free after President Donald Trump pardoned him – a man once characterised as the key figure in a drug trafficking scheme that flooded America with over 400 tonnes of cocaine.
Trump has said that Hernández, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison by a US court, is a victim of political persecution and has been “treated very harshly and unfairly”.
I thought only young, inexperienced (ignorant) kids were keyboard warriors, but it looks like old farts are the same and just as stupid. People who would be too afraid or embarrassed to say some of their comments here in public.
I’m late to make a 2026 prediction, but I’ll do it anyway. A few select posters will make the same exact comments here day after day, sometimes multiple times a day and be completely oblivious to that fact. They and others will accuse certain posters of engaging in the same behavior that they do on a regular basis. Most political comments will selectively call out hypocrisy, and of course, use it to justify bad behavior… when convenient.
Some One: Making crap up again as you are prone to do. I don’t have any left or for the UN as a whole, but it doesn’t mean it can’t be right on some issues or occasionally. My point which of course went right over your head, is fact that the left including people here constantly point to the UN as a beacon of truth and justice, and yet the left will ignore what they have said in regards to Maduro. That’s how the left works, yourself included.
Someone: Sounds like exactly like you, but you forgot about how you make things up. As for myself, I am not embarrassed of anything I post, and stand by my comments.
I did find a Venezuelan who is upset with the events today.
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/2007547513243627712
5:55 Someone – Spot on!
Keep calling out the BS.
And as George Carlin says, “I love people”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyWsFfd9pqE
It’s time…
Remember, i had nerves of steel throughout that blood bath. Few!
The Great Pumpkin says:
January 2, 2026 at 11:04 am
Crypto is ready to rip. Opposite of this.
“The market is priced to perfection. Cracks in Crypto are worsening by the day. Three times in December, the overnight repo had to be tapped for 20-50 billion to keep our currency flowing. Car and college loans are defaulting at increasingly higher rates. Unemployment is worsening. And Inflation in everything but oil and rent is through the roof.”
Put your fucking glasses on. That was in response to Juice Box’s comment.
Some will understand:
https://imgur.com/gallery/7-000-rpms-ford-vs-ferrari-Jank3uF
You’re one of the people I’m talking about.
RentL0rd says:
January 3, 2026 at 7:24 pm
5:55 Someone – Spot on!
Keep calling out the BS.
From today’s major events:
Pump’s take. Bullish. Extremely bullish. Writing is obviously on the wall now. This nailed it shut. Roaring 20’s 2.0.
And remember who was telling you to buy crypto at the bottom. Lone wolf style. Few!
Trump saved America. Wild, but true at this point. Saved us from leadership that was asleep at the wheel. LFG!
Somehow, trump will be written in the history books as saving America. Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. LFG! MUSK more so, but trump will get all the credit.
Please let me know what I’ve made up. Is it like 8 seconds ago when you claimed you said GDP “per capita” when you didn’t? Or when you claimed you posted something but didn’t and then made fun of FabiusMaxius for pasting the prior link which proved you wrong? You’re not infallible, and neither am I. It shouldn’t take much effort from a grown adult to admit you made a mistake, a typo or just misremembered. Maybe try not visiting this website 500 times per day… might help with the memory.
3b says:
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 pm
Someone: Sounds like exactly like you, but you forgot about how you make things up. As for myself, I am not embarrassed of anything I post, and stand by my comments.
Someone, your comments read like a Chinese fortune cookie. Go on. We need entertainment these days.
US inflation dropped further today from 1.93% to 1.81%, driven by the dropping prices of natural gas, which drove utilities down:
Truflation US CPI: 1.81%
Truflation US PCE: 1.79%
Some One I most certain said it was GDP per capita Mississippi vs France that is simple common sense or it should be. I have an MBA from an Ivy League school and spent years at GS, and am I bragging yeah. And for your information I believe it was Ex lax and not Fab that made the comment. As for being here 500 times a day, you know nothing about me including my work life/ business activities, so how many times I am here should be of no relevance. And how do you know how many times I am here unless you are here a lot yourself, but mainly lurk, or go back at night and count. As for your original comment not being directed at me, than for that I am wrong and I apologize.
3b says:
January 2, 2026 at 9:42 am
Art/VSG: Mississippi has a higher GDP than France or Italy. Just saying.
Maduro brought to New York after capture.
Gee I hope the cameras are working in 1 Police Plaza.
You know, that place with a time warp door where Epstein disappeared into..
WWprivilege
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