From Newsweek:
US housing market gets three bleak signs in first month of 2026
After a year marked by elevated mortgage rates, multifaceted affordability issues and resultingly weak buyer demand, the opening weeks of 2026 have already offered several concerning signals regarding the health of the U.S. housing market.
Experts who spoke with Newsweek say they are cautiously optimistic that conditions could improve compared to 2025, but believe fragility will remain the watchword as broader economic issues continue to weigh on the sector.
According to a report released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the number of homes going under contract unexpectedly plummeted in December—the pending home sales index falling by 9.3 percent compared to a forecast drop of just 0.3 percent.
Some analysts even anticipated a slight gain last month, but the drop to a five-month low marks the steepest slide since April 2020 at the outset of the Covid pandemic. Pending sales declined in all four regions—South, Midwest, Northeast and West—month-over-month, and were down 3 percent nationwide on an annual basis.
“The housing sector is not out of the woods yet,” wrote NAR’s chief economist Lawrence Yun. “After several months of encouraging signs in pending contracts and closed sales, the December new contract figures have dampened the short-term outlook.”
…
A new analysis from the real estate brokerage Redfin has revealed that there were over 600,000 more sellers than buyers in the U.S. housing market in December, a 47 percent disparity, which marks an all-time high in records going back to 2013.
The gap increased 7.1 percent from November, and was largest in Austin, Texas, as well as in several Florida metros. While providing more leverage to buyers, as Redfin notes, this creates serious difficulty for those now competing to sell their properties to an increasingly shallow pool of prospective homeowners.
Redfin also revealed that the total number of buyers fell 5.9 percent in December to around 1.3 million—the steepest drop since early 2023 and reaching the lowest level since 2013.
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Many experts have diagnosed the issues with America’s housing market as largely inventory-linked. Despite weak buyer demand and a surplus of sellers, years of sluggish construction and homeowners “locking in” at lower rates have kept prices elevated and pushed supply at least as low demand across much of the U.S.
And recent data reveals that housing inventory growth has slowed dramatically from the summer. According to HousingWire, inventory growth sank to 10 percent on an annual basis in December, down from 33 percent in mid-2025.
“More supply means less price growth and better affordability,” wrote Logan Mohtashami, lead analyst at HousingWire, which also found that inventory declined in the opening days of 2026.
“The inventory recovery has slowed meaningfully,” Jones told Newsweek, pointing to data from Realtor.com showing a similar slowdown in growth to just 9.5 percent year over year—the weakest annual gain in nearly two years.
“Limited inventory continues to constrain buyer choice and transaction volume, even as demand remains uneven,” she said.
5x – 3 = 2
A new analysis from the real estate brokerage Redfin has revealed that there were over 600,000 more sellers than buyers in the U.S. housing market in December, a 47 percent disparity, which marks an all-time high in records going back to 2013.
Not in the northeast. All time record going back to 2013? What about 2008? Regardless, it’ll be years before it’s a buyers market in the NJ/NY/CT area.
1st pass on driveway done this morning. I plan on clearing it every few hours to make life easier on my back…
Fast,
Prob as low as it gets here. Esp if rates go down.
Well, you get another dip buy based off the negative headlines (govt shutdown threat…blah blah…Canadian tariffs blah blah). All meaningless chit MM’s use to drive price down in the short term in the name of risk adjustment…blah blah.
Blah blah aka you know this all noise that just provides an easy dip buy. You either fight the MM’s and lose, or you use their strategy of shaking the tree and buy. Work with them, not against them.
the names behind this are interesting…
Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people.
There was a Checkpoint Charlie
He didn’t crack a smile
But it’s no laughing party
When you’ve been on the murder mile
Only takes one itchy trigger
One more widow, one less white
2bd/1bth, is that all you get for your money?
https://www.trulia.com/home/344-maplewood-ave-clifton-nj-07013-39723134
I’m convinced NJ and the other blue states have replaced fluoride in their water systems, with estrogen. The number of males on this site alone who are clearly screwballs with absolutely no desire (or capacity any longer) to think rationally or logically, is astounding. Think about it, VAG, PantLoad, hughey, Lib, Grim, LACKS, Flab are all males who:
– don’t know that ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement
– don’t know (or care) that ICE is explicitly responsible for arresting and removing individuals who violate immigration laws
– think that it is OK for people to interfere with ICE officers as they arrest and remove individuals who violate immigration laws
– think that it is OK for people to carry loaded guns while they interfere with ICE officers as they arrest and remove individuals who violate immigration laws
– think that it is OK to riot in a church if they don’t like the pastor
– think that it is OK for Dem politicians to encourage people to riot, and to interfere with ICE officers as they arrest and remove individuals who violate immigration laws
– think that it is OK for Dem politicians to put illegal alien criminals back on the streets instead of turning them over to ICE, the federal agency that is explicitly tasked with arresting and removing individuals who violate immigration laws
Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s possible to fix toxically-feminized screwballs like you guys, so please just stay in your blue states. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
$1.1 million? Nah.
https://www.trulia.com/home/28-charles-st-clifton-nj-07013-39728959
BILL MAHER: “Dems seem to be having this debate whether Mamdani is a socialist or a democratic socialist. Let me settle it. He’s a straight-up COMMUNIST. How do I know this? Well, I’m reading between the lines when one of his major advisors says, ‘ELECT MORE COMMUNISTS!'”
“If liberals deny it, like he’s just going through a goth phase, they’re going to lose more elections!”
“This is not a communist country.”
Arc/ Vag/ Whatever: The people coming for the Jews will be the leftists/ progressives, we have seen it in Europe, and we have of course seen it here with all the camps protests. All those young democratic socialists complaining about the Jews owning wall
Street, and all the real estate
Fast: You shouldn’t be over confident like that with real estate in NYC metro area. We are extending vulnerable to a major downturn for a number of reasons.
Not everybody who supported Trump and MAGA was a bad person at the start. But MAGA is a jealous god. It demands its supporters descend a path of degeneration to utter moral ruin. Police death squads today; who knows what tomorrow.
-David Frum
Schrödinger’s Second Amendment:
– Guns are a mandatory prerequisite for the government to respect your rights.
– Guns immediately invalidate your rights and the government can execute you on the spot if you have one.
” think that it is OK to riot in a church if they don’t like the pastor”
But not only is it OK to riot in the US Capital Building if you don’t like the election results, but it is encouraged.
Blow it out your ass.
You wouldn’t understand the concept of privilege if you still had slaves.
3b,
When the leftists come for me, I’ll show them that I’m a registered Republican.
Lib, when Leftists come for you, they don’t care who you are
https://x.com/haileyywest/status/2015090151093837960
Get out there and start shoveling at 3pm.
Once the sleet and freezing rain starts, you are screwed unless you own an ice breaker.
I started the huge Troy-Bilt snowblower which has not been used since 2022. Put a little ethanol free 94 octane in. Started in two seconds. Maintain your ICE engines and they will work forever. I think this Spring is an oil change year. Will have to do it in my two snowblowers, generator, pressure washer and lawnmower. Easiest thing in the world to do. Yet so few actually do it.
When I finally move out of this place, I am going to have a yard sale where I put all of my crazy old, but reliable, appliances on sale. I can’t wait to see which lucky owner gets my late 70’s weedwacker. I have a ton of wood working equipment too. Chop saws, table saws, portable jigsaws, routers, etc.
Not worrying about sleet or freezing rain by me.
warmest tonight will be 25 degrees.
snow is like dust.
here’s some more peaceful demonstrators
https://x.com/ChuckCallesto/status/2015286591674073127
Or you might just crap out and have a heart attack. No sale necessary.
No one knows how they are going to go.
too much brisket ain’t good for the ol’ ticker.
When I finally move out of this place, I am going to have a yard sale where I put all of my crazy old, but reliable, appliances on sale. I can’t wait to see which lucky owner gets my late 70’s weedwacker. I have a ton of wood working equipment too. Chop saws, table saws, portable jigsaws, routers, etc.
‘murica
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1qmm50t/theres_this_guy_in_front_of_my_house_who_cant/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
If ya’ got a valve stem sticking out where your belly button should be, some lettering that says inflate to 35 psi, and you can’t see your weiner, it might be in your best interest to eat some salad and get on a treadmill.
BRT – Outside the legal issues with following and even stalking people like that and then actually stopping them and demanding to see their identification, it’s a recipe for disaster. As we know Minnesota gun laws ain’t like New Jersey…everybody there wants to pack can pack a handgun at 18 years old permit grants you purchase and carry rights for five years. It’s only a matter of time where people start blasting each other, there is somewhere around 400,000 handgun permits…allot of people carry and keep them in their cars too.
10:42
That guy is known bs artist.
Lib: You can be dismissive all you want, but a lot of Leftists/Progressives don’t like Jews. The problem is Jews have a hard time accepting that.
BRt – Those are competitor Kick/Twitch streamers who are at there just looking for trouble.
I doubt any of them actually care about the immigrants being arrested and deported.
https://x.com/search?q=Waxiest&src=typeahead_click
Just finished removing wallpaper in the kitchen next door. The walls are in very good condition, but I need to fill in three vertical cracks from the house settling. I can start painting in the next couple of days. I ordered roll vinyl flooring in a stone grey color to be installed in a few weeks. It will go over the original 1930s era linoleum. We‘ll start looking for a white L shaped kitchen soon. The room is a bit smaller than 3×4 meters.
The US is getting a taste of what State sponsored terrorism feels like.
It’s a 2026 version of a witch hunt. Following random people accusing them of being federal agents. You see how all the other people on the street come up, you’d expect them to act rational and calm the situation down, no, they double down and make the situation 10 times worse.
Here’s some food for thought, the woman they are harassing is a mother bro! Oh wait, this is ok.
I doubt any of them actually care about the immigrants being arrested and deported.
99% of protesters for BLM, Gaza, ab0rtion, ICE and anything else in the last decade was not for the cause in question, it was the hatred for Trump and the left’s failures.
But ask yourself why the right doesn’t display this type of behavior? Why do those that lean center and center-right hardly ever create random chaos?
3b – The communists were out at Union Square park in Manhattan protesting ICE this week along with the usual democrat organizers the Union workers @ SEIU etc. History Rhymes. These people worship some of most dangerous people in history, Maoist Communists Union in NYC… look them up….
The feel emboldened now with Mandami being elected and they don’t really care about the immigrants. They want more members and well more power.
Regardless of what one believes about immigration policy, it is not a good idea to interfer in immigration enforcement legally conducted by federal agents. It is a doubly bad idea to bring a weapon with you while harassing agents carrying out their duty. Protesting is fine but putting yourself in the middle of a situation is stupid and dangerous. Maybe bad weather will allow cooler heads to preval. If course there are individuals who want violence to happen and are encouraging it.
If course there are individuals who want violence to happen and are encouraging it.
like the president?
Dark Phoenix,
Not sure about the President. I was thinking more along the lines of certain Antifa cells, anti capitalist groups, certain foreign governments, and some far Left politicians. Then there are also some individuals with an agenda who hire protesters and agitators.
“Here’s some food for thought, the woman they are harassing is a mother bro! Oh wait, this is ok.”
BRT,
You are not fooling anyone here by stepping into an escalation halfway through to make appeals to emotion and slinging that theatrical link. Come on, that shit may work on fat US Gary, but he’s already jackin it under the table watching clips of his short king Bovino. You are behind a keyboard in NJ and not on the ground in Minny, where emotions are running high on all sides.
“History Rhymes. These people worship some of most dangerous people in history,”
Juice,
So, on this topic what of you Bovino cosplaying in a copy of a German M40 overcoat, previously worn by Kriegsmarine officers?
“Then there are also some individuals with an agenda who hire protesters and agitators.”
Yes, this happens in the EU, Asia, and the Americas, and spans political affiliations. Thus, your statement is hardly dispositive.
My goal is not to fool people. It’s to get people to think rationally. What I see is that these people are delusional and insane.
Can you for clarity, define “these people” for me again?
HOLY SMOKES. Sec. Scott Bessent just EXPOSED Tim Walz after Fake News ABC tried goading him into attacking ICE
“I was out there two weeks ago, Governor Walz DECLINED to provide a security detail for me to go into the Minnesota Capitol with the state police! So he is FOMENTING CHAOS because there is substantial waste, fraud, and abuse!” 🔥🔥
“My job as Treasury Secretary is to investigate that. And I think that this chaos is going out there!”
“And again, I am sorry that this gentleman is dead, but he did bring a 9 millimeter semi-automatic weapon with two cartridges to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest.”
“I think that there are a lot of PAID agitators who are ginning things up, and the governor has not done a good job of tamping this down!”
Nailed it.
https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/2015450668916498625?s=46
Boomer Remover,
Well yes, but those individuals causing chaos in the US are trying to overthrow the US government.
Chode,
Isn’t this obviously true for agents of chaos everywhere and on both sides of the political spectrum? Be it in the US, Asia, Americas and the EU? It’s like you’re restating the obvious.
Boomer Remover,
Not sure what your on about. Getting your drink on tonight?
BRT,
I know you didn’t post it, and neither did pumps, because he’s only capable of spamming this board with copypasta, but I feel like you are the best person here to shed some light on this (based on your prior arguments and positions). I have you pegged as a somewhat rational champion of 2A.
I want you to read the below statement purportedly made by Bessent:
“And again, I am sorry that this gentleman is dead, but he did bring a 9 millimeter semi-automatic weapon with two cartridges to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest.”
How do you reconcile this position with what, I think, we all agree is that man’s (Alex) unalienable right to bear arms?
The MAGA crowd can’t have it both ways. 2A for me but not for thee? Geeeet the fk outta here.
Boomer – Take off your Nazi colored glasses already.
You do know it’s really really cold in Minnesota.
It’s a standard issue Border Patrol winter coat, even Pravda says so.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/style/gregory-bovino-ice-coat.html
Mid-20’s weed wacker
https://www.manscaped.com/products/lawn-mower-5?nbt=nb%3Aadwords%3Ax%3A17129376617%3A%3A&nb_adtype=&nb_kwd=&nb_ti=&nb_mi=&nb_pc=&nb_pi=&nb_ppi=&nb_placement=&nb_li_ms=&nb_lp_ms=&nb_fii=&nb_ap=&nb_mt=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21199299018&gbraid=0AAAAADOo6mCwOPCTyRELmf-LxtEHMNmzg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgNL_152nkgMVS0RHAR3YsxeEEAAYASAAEgLLVvD_BwE
says:
January 25, 2026 at 10:33 am
. I can’t wait to see which lucky owner gets my late 70’s weedwacker.
EXCLUSIVE: In secret recordings, Sen. Ted Cruz trashes Trump, Vance
“You’re going to lose the House, you’re going to lose the Senate, you’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.”
“ Republicans need to decide which position they actually hold. You can’t argue that people have a legal right to carry a gun anywhere, at any time, and then claim the government is justified in killing someone after they have been disarmed simply because they were previously legally armed.”
Juice,
Defending the murder of US citizens by deputized randos is truly disgusting. Full stop.
Fat Poor US Gary is a low IQ instigator, just a stump shill grinding away, so that is expected, but some of you more eloquent folks frankly scare the fucking shit out of me.
The fact that you are unwilling to come off of your position and just continue to spew crap is, at least to me, astonishing for a grown adult.
Lol, BRT once again falling again for fake videos literally the day after condescendingly calls other fools and that he doesn’t fall for spliced videos even though he has and will again!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT6xAnHDlI3/
Ignore the pussy hat vibes on this reddit thread, but when Bovino the Manlet puts his head on a pillow at night, there’s no fucking way that he’s not ruminating on these interactions:
h**ps://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qf03zi/woman_in_minnesota_confirms_greg_bovinos_height/
The hop was hilarious if not endearing.
Boomer,
You think this agent wanted to kill someone? Get real. He was doing his job, and now has to live with this for the rest of his life.
All because a “nurse” is out here playing hero to criminals. His job was to be a nurse, not to f’k with the law.
The law is the law. There is no grey area. It is black and white. If we don’t respect the law, we get chaos, which is what happens in the ghetto….and why normal people stay away from the ghetto. They know the people in the ghetto don’t follow the law and they are putting their life at risk. So they avoid going there…this nurse should have done the same with this protest. Stay away. All normal people know to stay away from these protests.
I do support the 2nd amendment. Do I own a firearm? No. Does he have a right to carry, I would say so. Does he have a right to impede law enforcement through physical means and wave a gun, no. This is outright idiotic behavior and if you did it to any law enforcement, you are likely to get hurt.
Back in the day on the Chris Rock show, he did a segment on how not to get your ass kicked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8
Sure, Boomer, these people from the “fake video” that’s “spliced”. What do you think of their behavior?
https://x.com/haileyywest/status/2015090151093837960
Boomer Remover,
You need to put the cork in the bottle or stop the cocaine use or whatever it is that your on. You’re coming across as incoherent and confused. Just like being licensed to drive a car doesn‘t give you permission to run someone over with it, neither does legally having the ability to concealed carry allow you to interfer with federal operations using a deadly weapon. Use your head?
The law is the law. There is no grey area. It is black and white.
The law is for thee, and not for me.
If the law told you to suck a dick, would you do it?
On second thought, don’t answer that question. Ever.
Fat Poor US Gary is a low IQ instigator, just a stump shill grinding away, so that is expected,
Gary may move slow, but it was only because Gary doesn’t have to move for anybody.
Boomer,
You think this agent wanted to kill someone? Get real. He was doing his job, and now has to live with this for the rest of his life.
Are you familiar with the Nuremberg trials?
Were they just doing their jobs?
Who’s Bovino?
2 white people shot.
One woman.
One man, a nurse, worked at the VA.
Y’all see how it looks. You heard the screams.
There is court, and there is court of public opinion.
It was legal to own slaves. So that tells you all you need to know about the law.
This ain’t gonna end well.
Just sayin’
Fast Eddie says:
January 25, 2026 at 1:13 pm
Who’s Bovino?
Bovine is a cow, cattle, buffalo, water buffalo.
A stumpy hairy animal.
The fact that you are unwilling to come off of your position and just continue to spew crap is, at least to me, astonishing for a grown adult.
Continue to be astonished.
Or, stick to reddit where similar folks as yourself can build the world a home, furnished with love… from a distance, of course… with other people’s money… of course.
ICE should be defunded. But will it?
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/25/minneapolis-shooting-government-shutdown.html
Jeez BRT you can scroll through the people’s timelines for a few seconds before posting stuff as truth so you dont beclown yourself. Scroll for 10 seconds and you see a James O’Keefe repost, “transgenderism is a mental illness”. Duh. You are doubling down on someone whos is obviously a far right MAGA “journalist” who was instigating for the clicks. And again the video is obviously “spliced” to sucker in others for reposts just like the other video you posted. Its also weird how you somehow always end up posting MAGA material. Hmmm.
Pumps,
Your position is so vague and crude it its construction that engaging you is to invite a ferocious browbeating of stupidity, and yet here we are…
“You think this agent wanted to kill someone?”
I think insufficient training left the “agent” ill-equipped to deal with this situation. In other words, a Minny police officer (or six) would never have shot this man given the same situational circumstances. Have you ever seen LEOs get startled, scurry after emptying ten shots into a perp, and just stare? Me neither.
“All normal people know to stay away from these protests.”
This incidentally is how I felt about J6 as it was happening. Are you saying this guy put his life at risk when he went to exercise his right to peaceful assembly *because* he had a permit to carry? or because he simply assembled?
“The law is the law.”
For clarification, what law are you referring to?
Also, what is the punishment for breaking said law?
Please note, here I ask for the punishment for breaking the law you referring to, and not punishment for any endangerment of LEOs, which is a separate conversation.
“There is no grey area. It is black and white.”
As I make my living advocating that the law, or more specifically the language used to encapsulate it, is anything but black and white, you couldn’t have a more naive take.
“They know the people in the ghetto don’t follow the law and they are putting their life at risk. So they avoid going there…”
Are you saying that a ghetto is a physical place or a mindset?
Weren’t they on some main street with nice storefronts? Clifton looks like a white decrepit ghetto in comparison.
One nice thing about being dead
You no longer have to protect your money.
Those sick cancer patients, all of that money, well, when it spreads to your spine and brain, you can count it, dream about it, look at your bank account, but it’s not going to make you happy, or content, or anything. You are going to die.
You lazy fks – looking at you PHX – need to start using quotes. I got lost in the exchange above.
Does he have a right to impede law enforcement through physical means and wave a gun, no.
You’re making things up- DHS has not said he “waved” a gun, or even that he drew his gun- only that he “approached border patrol officers with a hand gun”.
That wording is important. If he had approached the officers with his gun drawn, DHS would be screaming it to the rooftops!
EU Gary,
“Just like being licensed to drive a car doesn‘t give you permission to run someone over with it, neither does legally having the ability to concealed carry allow you to interfere with federal operations using a deadly weapon.”
Allow me to first correct the factual premises your analogy rests on. Your statement assumes a simple, lawful situation where a person lawfully carrying a weapon somehow unlawfully interfered with federal operations using that weapon, like a driver licensed to drive running someone over with a car.
However, in this case, the sequence of events and evidence is not analogous to intentional criminal conduct like running someone over with a car. Your position mistakenly relies on mainstream media characterizations rather than an independent assessment of the facts.
Show me a single video that shows him interfering in a federal investigation with the use of a deadly weapon. He shoved the ICE agent for harassing a woman, he then used his left hand to block the pepper spray and his right hand recording a video with his phone. The guy didn’t come into play until he was being wrestled to the ground. I could be wrong, if so please prove me wrong, but I understand Alex never unholstered the gun in question.
What you fail to understand is that LAWFUL POSESSION DOES NOT EQUATE TO MALICIOUS USE. Fuckattahere, back to your wallpaper pops.
I always thought that Dark was the angriest person here, but I think Bloomer may have taken that title. Take a walk, shovel some snow (sleet), go get a breath of fresh air; you’re un-hinged, mac.
Porcelain. It’s about the quietude of the porcelain, really. I recently curated a sensory installation where we just stared at the concept of porcelain until it felt like an apology. If one doesn’t possess the dialectical rigor to appreciate the silence of porcelain, can one truly claim to inhabit the 2026 zeitgeist? It’s not just minimalism, it’s a structural refusal of the ‘obvious’ in favor of a more nuanced, non-linear thought.
sorry boomer.
my keyboard fell, and has missing keys.
it’s hard to type with no shift keys.
didn’t mean to anger you.
how much money does steve jobs have now.
soon enough it will be all of you.
nature will eventually catch up to you. i promise. i know. i see.
so enjoy being greedy diccs. and hopefully the last thing you see as you pass into the darkness is a dollar sign fading into the distance before the rigor mortis gives you your final hard on.
Boomer Remover,
I never said it did. Now you‘re either making stuff up or getting confused again. I would suggest a little less use of the white powder and a slow withdral, followed up by a stint in rehab.
go enjoy yourself. make a new memory. hook up with a new chick today. let her pleasure you.
think about her when you pass, and not that dollar sign.
don’t let a good boner go to waste.
G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam, bullet in the head
Bobby OD’d on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine (two more friends that died)
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends and they died
Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a cell in The Tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others
And I salute you brother
1:58 you are sadly mistaken.
Someone correct me if I’m misstating fact. Pretti comes carrying a concealed weapon to a protest. Legal. However, carrying a firearm while committing a felony (impeding law enforcement) negates his right. Please correct if wrong.
Also please correct me if wrong.
Pretti brought a loaded weapon to a protest, but also brought two extra magazines.
So WTF is that? He brought two extra magazines in the instance that he felt the need to reload after completely discharging his weapon?
Boomer,
Go see a Doctor and let them know you are suffering from TDS.
You are obviously biased, and I assume you are an immigrant (illegal or legal), and are throwing your fear of ICE into the assessment. This is only natural based on human nature…,so I understand you are afraid and are speaking from a position of self fear.
some opinions for y’all to read.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1qmcd1y/real_police_officers_and_military_members_what_do/
At the end of the day, be a f’ing man. If you are here illegally and commit a crime, don’t f’ing cry when ICE shows up at your door. Should have thought about that before you committed the crime. You made your choice, own it, don’t blame ICE or Trump for enforcing the law.
Dude showed up at a „protest“ packing heat. Two mags? He was looking to turn this into a „mostly peaceful“ protest by aligning sights and then doing a reload. The FBI needs to investigate when this individual was radicalized and by whom.
2:41 dude. It’s a gangland execution. State sanctioned.
Nooooot a good look. Defund ICE
Remember some of the “committing a crime “ is ignoring a court order stating you need to GTFO of the USA because you are here illegally from the beginning, or you overstayed a visa or legal entry at some point.
The Great Pumpkin says:
January 25, 2026 at 2:44 pm
At the end of the day, be a f’ing man. If you are here illegally and commit a crime, don’t f’ing cry when ICE shows up at your door. Should have thought about that before you committed the crime. You made your choice, own it, don’t blame ICE or Trump for enforcing the law.
something a bit more uplifting, the blog needs this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=790i1ScPZ-A
is this dude anti vaccine or pro vaccine
or does he like to do experiments like mengele?
The West African nation of Guinea-Bissau has suspended a controversial U.S.-funded study of the hepatitis B vaccine in infants there after an outcry from public health researchers over the ethics of the work.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved a $1.6 million grant for the study last month, days after the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lifted the agency’s longstanding recommendation to give the vaccine to all infants at birth. Although the World Health Organization also recommends giving the shot at birth, Mr. Kennedy said more research was needed about the effects of a birth dose.
The study, which was to be carried out by Danish researchers, swiftly became the subject of furor in the public health world, with researchers in Africa and the United States saying that it violated key tenets of ethical science. A Trump administration health official said the study had been paused.
Juice: Socialist/ Communists are coming out of the woodwork now, social media full of these experts on just how great socialism is, and how inherently evil capitalism is. Some of them look like they have not showered in weeks. Mamdani has chosen a few way to the left nut jobs, pure communists , and the whole we know best attitude. I could see them running political reeducation camps, for the non believers.
Be silent or agree with me.
“However, carrying a firearm while committing a felony (impeding law enforcement) negates his right. ”
I dont know if you watched the videos but if you did his “impeding law enforcement” was him stepping in the way of a jacked up ice goon from going after a woman who he just shoved face first into the snow. If you think that raises to the level of a felony it seems to me that you are looking to rationalize what you saw as to not feel uncomfortable with the obvious fact that we have armed agents of the state terrorizing citizens and murdering them with impunity.
“two magazines”….Cant confirm can only see that this comes from DHS spokespeople and I gotta say if you are taking anything they say at face value at this stage of the game they are glad to see you comply like their MAGA bootlickers. They also said he was trying to assassinate officers which the usual MAGA bootlickers like Chad, Smalls and Eddie are already dutifully repeating for them. Dont be like them!
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
– President Barack Obama
VAG,
Not even Obammy’s wife respects him, beyond the fact that she inspires no one. But getting back to him:
“…that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.”
This is what makes me want to rake my finger nails down my face. Your side, time again, whips up bleeding heart bullshit eyewash that offers nothing, means nothing, says nothing, indicates nothing, defines nothing, provides nothing, assists no one, helps no one, supplies nothing, fulfills no one and does nothing.
Am I the only one shoveling snow today? The lazy leftists like VAG, Lib, Bloomer, LowT, and sCRAP must have their wives out shoveling; proof that LACKS isn’t the only useless cuck among that group.
Alex Pretti is to the Left, what Charlie Kirk is to the Right. Both murdered, but we know who was right and who was wrong.
Regarding 30,000 killed in Iran….
Trump has blood on his hands.
He asked Iranians to go to the streets, then blesses the Ayatollah to go ahead with his deeds.
You can tell Mamdani has never touched a shovel in his life lmaooo
https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/2015522891777925200?s=46
Someone correct me if I’m misstating fact. Pretti comes carrying a concealed weapon to a protest. Legal. However, carrying a firearm while committing a felony (impeding law enforcement) negates his right. Please correct if wrong.
I think you are wrong, but it’s a moot point.
Police can only shoot if there is an imminent threat to life.
Pretti’s gun was in his holster, and he had 4 or 5 border patrol agents on top of him- hard to see how that constitutes an imminent threat.
Holy chit! TDS is real. Of course you would blame 30,000 deaths in Iran on Trump. Why wouldn’t you. Seriously, take a step back and realize you suffer from a real disease…TDS.
Those 30,000 deaths are on Iranian govt. No one else. But you will never bitch about Islam.
RentL0rd says:
January 25, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Alex Pretti is to the Left, what Charlie Kirk is to the Right. Both murdered, but we know who was right and who was wrong.
Regarding 30,000 killed in Iran….
Trump has blood on his hands.
He asked Iranians to go to the streets, then blesses the Ayatollah to go ahead with his deeds.
So?
Then the officer will be tried in court for murder. Let the law do the work. Stop making this some cause about trump or ice. An individual pulled the trigger, nothing more, nothing less. Has nothing to do with trump or ice. So give it a rest and let the courts go to work.
“Pretti’s gun was in his holster, and he had 4 or 5 border patrol agents on top of him- hard to see how that constitutes an imminent threat.”
4:23 is in reply to Mamdani not good at shoveling.
As far as Iran deaths go..
Facts speak for themselves:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr57vmznmd9o
https://abcnews.go.com/International/iran-protests-2500-killed-activists-trump-us-act/story?id=129194150
4:27 – the last words of Alex Pretti were “Are you okay” to the woman he was trying to protect while being pepper sprayed.
Pumps, you are scum. You should have your immigrant dad come back and take his place.
Rent,
Why don’t you question this?
“Weird that ICE are operating in dozens of states, but it only gets violent in the one where we just uncovered a billion dollar fraud ring with probable links to the governor.”
“If you only invoke the Second Amendment after children are murdered in their schools, but defend the government when it claims someone deserved to be executed for being legally armed, then you do not believe in the Second Amendment”
Trump did not go into Iran as his military advisors said we don’t have the resources to guarantee the regime would collapse if we attacked.
Also concern that if the regime did collapse Iran would break apart. 50 percent of the population of Iran is non Iranian. Of course Trump should have kept his mouth shut until he got the reports from his military advisors.
I don’t doubt the Iranian government may have killed 30k or more. Trump says he may still attack Iran.
4:39 – you should question why Trump sent ICE to MN where there are far fewer immigrants than FL or TX? Maybe because he wants to stir trouble in Blue states?
Alex Pretti was murdered.
– Stephen King
Interesting to see how upset Dem stooges like PantLoad are when leftist assassins don’t get the job done. I haven’t seen VAG, Lib etc this worked up since since their soy boy Tom Crooks missed by an inch in Butler, PA. Pathetic losers!!!
This woman nails it while Legacy media ignores it.
“Did you guys hear about the illegal immigrant that was arrested in Georgia yesterday for brutally raping an 11-year-old girl at knifepoint and forcing her ten year old little sister to watch after breaking into their bedroom?
Hmm, probably not, because you dumbasses have been so stuck on the five year old that was supposedly detained by ICE that with a 30 second Google search, you would have figured out that his dad actually ran and abandoned him and ICE wasn’t going to leave a five-year-old by himself.
You guys are so clinically stupid it hurts.”
Thanks for the tip on sleet, Lib. Did 100 square yards (driveway) at 2PM. Finished right around when it was getting heavy and sleety.
If anyone cares to remember it was Biden (or whoever was actually running the government) who was running late night flights to distribute illegals throughout the US. This was to make it more difficult to locate them easily and deport them once an administration was elected that would enforce immigration law. Naturally numerous illegals would congregant in a state that has no interest enforcing the law and is also a prime location to commit fraud. They go to MN like flies attracted to a pile of shite.
Then the officer will be tried in court for murder. Let the law do the work.
DHS officials have already blamed the victim (before any investigation) and have blocked Minnesota law enforcement from investigating.
So far in this case, the law doesn’t seem to be working very well.
The January 25, 2026 at 4:39 pm post = the January 25, 2026 at 4:46 pm response are great! Here we can see the clash of the left and right conspiracy rumor mills.
Separately, OC1, the only time I’ve seen pileups like this turn to gunshots is when the bad guy reaches for his gun or the LEOs gun. Then it’s a quick retreat and pop, pop, pop… As you’ve pointed out, and as is obvious from the multiple videos and camera angles, the gun was not unholstered and he did not reach for the “agents” gun, thus no imminent threat to life which would justify the immediate use of deadly force.
EU Gary, please realize that it is no longer possible to push media narratives in a place like this as these encounters are filmed from multiple angles by multiple bystanders on location. The world has changed. So, when I make a valid point about your false analogy and you respond with ad hominem garbage without addressing a single point I made… (throws up arms to gesture confusion) I guess I’ll take that to mean that you are unable to continue arguing your point.
Do be do be do.
– Frank Sinatra
Chode,
The core claim that the Biden administration was organizing secret flights at night to spread undocumented immigrants across the U.S. in order to frustrate future deportation enforcement is not supported by credible evidence. Movements of migrants by air are either part of public parole and asylum programs or routine transfers of individuals in custody, and flights for these purposes are not unique to any one administration.
Just because you’re gullible enough to believe it doesn’t make it true.
Boomer Remover,
If you say so grandpa. Have a drink on me.
Got like 16-18” so far in Wayne. Maybe a bit higher in some spots, 20ish.
So MAGA is going to give up guns now, because kids are safer without them?
I shoveled a bit and realized it is going to be way more work than I expected – and I have a super busy week.. not to mention a partial working weekend ( when not getting outraged with the state of affairs). Called my lawn guy to clear out the snow.
Here’ Scott Galloway s take
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/profgalloway_his-first-and-second-amendment-rights-were-activity-7421301375407656960-SJH4
5:32 you sir are a credit to your race.
I said sf vs pats superbowl. Got one wrong, but picked pats to win it all. See what happens.
5:25 You comrade are a credit to my cause!
Lib,
Buy some BTC or ETH right now. You have powder. Def a great price.
What an idiotic line to close out on. Go sniff more wallpaper glue, you calcified stalactite. My handle is Boomer Remover. I have previously advocated for the tossing of elders off social security and into woodchippers. What part of how I conduct myself here makes you think I am older than forty?
ruh roh
Top Republican leaders have broken ranks with President Trump and criticized ICE and Border Patrol agents after a man was fatally shot on the streets in Minnesota.
Kentucky Republican Congressman James Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, went as far to say that federal agents should leave Minneapolis altogether because of the heated, fatal situations officers have encountered in the city.
Alex Pretti, a US citizen who was filming the agents on the street, was shot and killed on Saturday – just weeks after protester Renee Nicole Good was killed by ICE.
Comer told Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo: ‘If I were Trump, I would almost think…there’s a chance of losing more innocent lives, then maybe go to another city and let the people of Minneapolis decide.’
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy also chimed in – and called ICU nurse Alex Pretti’s death at the hands of Border Patrol ‘incredibly disturbing,’ on his X account.
‘The credibility of ICE and DHS is at stake,’ Cassidy continued, before adding that ‘there must be a full joint federal and state investigation.’
Cassidy concluded his statement by noting that ‘we can trust the American people with the truth.’
Washington State Republican Congressman Michael Baumgartner also noted that he was ‘disturbed by what’ he saw in the ‘video from Minnesota.’
I have previously advocated for the tossing of elders off social security and into woodchippers.
Get off my lawn, you nose picker!
Pooper Remover,
You come off as a bitter old man, set in his ways and playing the victim card. Don‘t forget to take your Geritol.
Lmfao….guy is unbelievable.
P.S. he just tweeted to buy amazon. Wtf.
“Taking the under, snow, Kalshi.”
https://x.com/jimcramer/status/2014785016631324676?s=46
6:41 you’ll find out. Word has it Trump shits his pants daily.
It’s no joke. Smell ya laaater
Defund ICE
why Trump sent ICE to MN
Because he needs to control the vote.
https://www.newsweek.com/pam-bondi-ice-minnesota-shooting-tim-walz-letter-voter-files-11413859
This is one of those “Venezula – it was the oil dude” moments that many will not recognise.
He had only 2 clips, my 2A friends would be disappointed, they dont leave home without 4 .
Dude was executed, not justifiable. We can let the due process run. But dollars to doughnuts, that will be the end result. But will it actially get to a court
GRIM – I just sent you a mail that is wildly Ironic – enjoy.
The reason the 2nd Amendment exists. So that the citizens can stand against the Federal government. Lets me very clear that this kind of “demonstration” is a demonstration of their constitutional right.
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/01/24/community-members-with-rifles-stand-guard-in-minneapolis-where-armed-man-was-shot/
MagaT,
Wasn‘t that Biden on an official visit with the Pope who dropped a load in his pants? It was covered pretty well in the news.
BRT,
I appreciate your addressing my question honestly without resorting to name calling. Refreshing. In your response you wrote, “Does he have a right to impede law enforcement through physical means and wave a gun, no.”
I haven’t seen any evidence showing that he unholstered, or waived, his gun before or during the altercation. If you have it, please share it with me as I think it’s important to get on the same page to about the facts of the situation.
ICE are pussies.
7 ice gestapo couldn’t restrain a guy who wasn’t even resisting?
Sorry, let me correct that.
Cosplay pussies.
Grim says:
January 25, 2026 at 7:04 pm
“…this kind of “demonstration” is a demonstration…”
Grimsurrectionist!!!
Don’t tread on me.
I don’t know how you guys can see anything other than some guy getting between ICE and a woman they pushed. He is armed with a cellphone. Left hand was up blocking in anticipation of pepper spray and the right hand was holding a phone horizontally.
Some of you have claimed that he used his gun or waived it at ICE, which is how the administration framed it, but I am curious what your take is. As I have explained to EU Gary, you can’t just repeat propaganda when there are half a dozen people on the ground filming from every angle. Sorry, that doesn’t work where there is video journalism.
There is a complete lack of evidence to suggest he ever unholstered his weapon. How can I take any of you seriously when you make a claim with the expectation that the other side accept it at face value, and in spite of evidence to the contrary, only because you made it?
What?
7:07 Biden lives rent free in your head Jim.
How are the roads?
Its been obvious to me since Trump that the majority of 2A diehards who claim their arsenals are needed to defend against a tyrannical government were about 100x more likely to take arms up in defense of a tyrannical government. They state dont tread on me but they definitely want to tread on others. Now proud boys type goons, Jan 6ers and and every other pyschopathic cosplayer can do so by joining ICE.
Boomer – you are willfully ignorant. The Biden admin actually pressured airports to house the house migrants in terminals and hangars because they flew in over a 1/2 million immigrants from all over the place and had nowhere to keep and process them.
Here is the Senate report from November.
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/054BCDD9-FB3D-4316-B193-9001A9056C4D
On that note total missed immigration Hearings (2022-2024): Between FY 2022 and December 2024, immigration judges issued over 507,000 in absentia removal orders.
Total Missed Hearings (2022-2024): Between FY 2022 and December 2024, immigration judges issued over 507,000 in absentia removal orders aka deportation orders because the immigrants skipped their court date. 223,000 individuals failed to appear in FY 2024 the last year sleepy Joe was at the wheel.
What should be done with all these people that were released by the Biden Admin and did not show up in court? The judge issued a removal deportation order, it’s case closed go home and try again.
ICE has a tough job even Obama said so today. Many states including New Jersey have rules and laws prohibiting state and local law enforcement with locating these people especially the criminals. So now ICE has to go look for them sometimes door to door.
These shootings are due to people being misinformed by whomever is giving them advice. Friends family and their local leaders telling them to follow and disrupt and interfere with law enforcement. I don’t care if it’s the local town cops, the state police or ICE. If you mess with them you are in for a bad time.
What are they not told? Assemble on the sidewalk and blow whistles are you want. But confronting law enforcement in any situation can and usually will end badly for you.
Courts have ruled time and time again that law enforcement have the high ground, their lives are more important than yours, you cannot resist arrest or not follow orders and your only recourse is the courts. They always come heavily armed and in groups, only a fool would interfere with their lawful immigration sweeps or even a simple traffic stop. If the courts were to allow physical resistance it only encourages violence on both sides instead as the courts have ruled legal redress should be sought through the court system, not on the street.
People feel the may have some moral reason to assemble and protest but that does not allow anyone to legally cross over into interfering in any capacity. It’s a fools errand.
Like i said ….blah blah. This is all short term noise. Final pop for metals.
BREAKING: Silver surges above $106/oz for the first time in history, now up another +48% in 2026.
A likely government shutdown just added fuel to the fire for precious metals.
Or I should say…final squeeze.
Any time you see a chart go straight up, it’s being short squeezed. These are the games played that the avg investor has no clue is being played.
Anytime you see a chart going straight down, they are squeezing leveraged longs.
When you hear people say “blow off top.” It’s the highest gains in the shortest amount of time. Shorts keep piling in like degens gamblers….telling themselves this is the top…and keep getting liquidated up till they have no money left and then it crashes.
Valuable information right there..
and to anyone arguing about the gun and the 2nd amendment.
Show up anywhere in New Jersey with a gun and protest I dare ya.
sounds like something kristi noem would do
https://dailyvoice.com/nj/parsippany-troy-hills/nj-step-dad-shot-killed-her-baby-frenchie-while-she-was-at-bffs-wedding-owner-says/
20 sounds about right
PLEA DEAL offered to Jeffrey Lentz.
-Berkeley Township man accused of shooting and killing Ruby the French Bulldog.
-The dog is owned by his stepdaughter.
Terms of PLEA:
5 years —possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
3 years —Animal Cruelty.
(No contact with animals)
(Serve concurrently)
So far, Lentz has declined the offer which means the case will go to grand jury.
“The MAGA crowd can’t have it both ways. 2A for me but not for thee? Geeeet the fk outta here.”
First, MAGA can’t do no wrong.
With that out of the way, let’s frame up the show in MN…
First, where is ICE in red states. Nowhere to be found. Because it’s all a show.
In the Pretti murder, you have recently hired GI Joe wannabees who are clearly unliked by the rational protestors. It must completely suck serious balls to have to try to work in a location where everyone is running around with cameras and whistles who are trying to get in your way. But the salaries real good and they are doing God’s work (not necessarily Jesus work in this case) so they do what they are told to. But as time goes by, it becomes much more clear that they are not really there to arrest people who overstayed their visas or who do not have citizenship because Der Führer has decided that rather than spend money on judges to vet and accept these immigrants, it’s a much more popular show to spend the money on a gestapo where MAGA can flex their alpha white male muscle in a SHOW of state sponsored xenophibia. But let’s go over what happened.
Whistling protester with fun says something that clearly pisses off an ICE officer. Because he knows he’s there for the wrong reason I expressed above and because he is a rookie that recently responded to a help wanted add he saw on TV a month or two ago, he loses his cool and shoves the woman protester to the ground.
Pretti, also doing his best to protest ICE, who are clearly in MN for Trump retribution against Lefty, comes to the aid of the woman who is clearly hurt as she is struggling to stand up. That act of human kindness cost him his life. Wannabee GI Joe doesn’t like that Pretti just recorded him both pushing a woman to the floor and worse, helping her to her feet, which she clearly was having trouble doing herself. So he and his SIX other agency buddies throw him to the ground, one is continuously pistol whipping him in the head and the others look like they are woefully untrained in that they look like they are trying to subdue a greased pig, when Pretti isn’t even resisting arrest. One of them notice that Pretti is carrying, and that all it takes for the panic in the original agent to shoot him. All seven then back off, not because they were scared, but because they were clearly shocked by sheer magnitude of the mistake they just made. And four shots? THIS WASN’T EVEN SELF DEFENSE!
As was the case with Goode who clearly was trying to leave the scene and not run over an ICE officer, the SHOW now has nothing to do with immigration legal or not. It’s Trump vs. the Lefties. Always was. Always will be.
Enjoy the Melania film. Another SHOW.
Grim,
I went out on a little adventure in my kid’s car to get a snow blower or at least a bigger shovel from Home Depot. Coming back up the hill was a nightmare. Last 1/3 mile. Tried going back and got stuck at the lights at the highway.
Ended up borrowing a shovel from a gas station and chipping off ice from under the car for short bursts and getting back into the car. Eventually a bunch of latino guys and girls along with a couple of cops helped me get to the highway by the old fashioned push of the car — hope this harmony of people remains in NJ at least.
Still the problem of finding a place remained. Decided on a hotel nearby. Gave a last ditch effort and went behind a smaller snow plough going up hill. Speed went close to zero at the steepest place, but somehow managed to make it.
A long trip to HD… more than three hours in total, and nothing in the store. BTW, an a*hole snow plough large truck guy was very giggly about the whole scene (very loud that I was able to hear him clearly from opposite side of the highway).
Juice,
I know you won’t have a rational argument with me, but the root of the issue is and the place you are being “woefully ignorant (be careful with that word, ask 3b)” is what make one a “bad hombre.” You consider anyone who crossed the border looking for the American Dream a criminal. I, and nearly Lefties are cool with ICE arresting immigrants who broke the law, but there are very few of them have committed any crime besides seeking a better life.
Decades ago, I argued the solution, instead of the Great Wall of Mexico, was to hire more judges so we could properly process immigrants as we always have. And yes, the Left is guilty of this as well. But spending billions to round up border crossers is simply ludicrous. This is the SHOW! This is what Trump wants. And the MAGA lunatics love it. So stupid, regardless of political identity.
Boomer,
I don’t have the video evidence so I haven’t taken an official position on whether it was justified or not. I think it’s a tragedy and it probably didn’t have to happen. But what I do know is he got himself into that situation on his own accord. These aggressive actions towards law enforcement should not be encouraged by politicians or the general public. At what point do people realize, these aren’t games?
What was needed was a hero to yank off the mask and cap from that guy.
Flock camera. Not like China.
Target Camera, not like China.
Home Depot Camera, not like China.
Mongo say Freeeeedom!
Lib,
You can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into. While it is tempting to point out the futility of your effort, I am reminded of something from your book (tidbit: a Muslim guy told me about this quotation and story).
At first, I thought I could change them. Now I do it so that they will not change me.
— Genesis Rabbah
I still have faith that this guy will be found by the Internet Sleuths of America.
Probably beating his wife about now for not shoveling quick enough.
Serf
Or this Russian Proverb.
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and annoys the pig.
BRT,
I used to think like that. I remember two honor roll kids got shot in a drive bye one night in Newark. I would tell myself, well they deserved it for being outside at 2am in Newark.
Same thing about a girl who got raped for dressing scantily and then getting drunk. She was asking to be raped.
I would always justify the crime. Then I grew up. Time to grow up.
oooh, snap!
Then I grew up. Time to grow up.
Will ye stand in the band like a true Irish man,
And go and fight the forces of the crown?
Will ye march with O’Neill to an Irish battle field?
For tonight we go to free old Wexford town!
Lib: You should also be careful with overly simplistic solutions. Just hire more judges and process everyone who crosses the border and it will be all be fine is simplistic , unrealistic, and simply not sustainable going forward. I will leave it there, I am not looking to start an argument.
You shouldn’t even need to cross the border. Apply for citizenship. Get vetted. Be my neighbor.
Zero immigration is no sustainable either. You will see.
Lib: I never said it was. You appear to think it is. And no one crossing the border is never going to be your neighbor or mine. You know that.
Ever going to be your neighbor or mine.
Lib – re : “ hire more judges” For what did you bother to read wha5 I wrote about the deportation orders? Large amounts of these people don’t bother to show up in immigration court.
Congressional testimony in July says Immigration has identified 435,000 unauthorized immigrants with criminal convictions in the United States who were not in custody. Of those non-citizens, 13,099 were convicted of murder and 15,811 were convicted of sexual assault.
They are the priority, and yes other illegal immigrants who overstayed their visas and have crossed the southern border illegally are getting caught up in these immigration sweeps. If they don’t have a deportation order they can hire a lawyer and get their day in court. They can tell it to the judge.
A reasonable person isn’t ignorant of the laws and their consequences. I went to the No Kings protest by me, saw Bon Jovi there too, but I did not attempt to mess with all the police that were there. I will also from time to time phone my representatives in congress and voice my displeasure with the laws they wrote and the funding they approve to enforce those laws. It is the most effective way to change laws, a reasonable person knows what our congressional representative respond to.
What I won’t do is cross the line and interfere with law enforcement. It’s a fools errand, they aren’t stopping anyone from being deported. Only a judge or a change in the law can do that.
Lib,
I remember you posting something similar about Tamir Rice shooting (his parents being responsible). Given the 911 person’s miss on passing the details, settlement, etc., what is your stand now?
Juice,
Couple of things that are a bit odd that I noticed:
1. People that are getting arrested for showing up at the courts?
2. A bit of strong-armed presence (may be we can do with fewer than a dozen armed people to get one person arrested) at a Home Depot or a Court?
3. Executive orders to suddenly make normal people “illegal” (by labeling them as “those people that are eating your pet cats and dogs”)
Ping-Pong
Serf – are you taking about that Wisconsin judge who tried to prevent apprehension in court? Well Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was convicted in December of Federal obstruction charges. Again nobody should be trying to prevent ICE from doing their jobs, whether it’t picking up illegal immigrants in the courthouse or the local jail.
Re: strong-armed presence, yeah they are. Usually when an arrest warrant is executed there are several agents involved. I don’t think the should escalate like this either, and the local fools running their interference errands and local police NOT supporting them means they have to send in way way more than normal say like in othe4 states where maybe less are needed because the local officials and police actually assist ICE.
Trump with the eating dogs and cats thing and the Haitians. What executive order?
Several eyewitnesses posted about the crash on social media. They said that the jet lifted off right after another aircraft landed, but didn’t make it down the runway. It reportedly just lifted off the ground, started shuddering, rolled over onto its roof, and burst into flames.
ADS-B data showed that the aircraft had arrived from Houston and was attempting to depart at the time of the crash. It is registered as N10KJ and is owned by a Texas-based law firm – KTKJ Challenger LLC, which is located in Harris County. These details are yet to be confirmed by authorities.
Here’s another angle to add to the half a dozen videos taken on the scene:
h**ps://www.facebook.com/reel/1572419257359029
Still waiting for the long guns to come out and be aimed at ICE. It will happen! Over/under say March 25th, 2026?
Dark,
Temporary Protected Status for 350k Haitians is terminating on February 3, 2026, since it is deemed that on U.S. State Department’s “Level 4: Do Not Travel” advisory. These were the same Haitians accused of stealing and eating pets.
First?
Art, hangover?
Serf
not gonna be any easy answer to any of this.
atc audio from crashed jet, pilot on takeoff says : let there be light:
doesn’t seem god is around for anyone that needs he/she/they/them.
he must have bailed on the usa.
I used to think like that. I remember two honor roll kids got shot in a drive bye one night in Newark. I would tell myself, well they deserved it for being outside at 2am in Newark.
Same thing about a girl who got raped for dressing scantily and then getting drunk. She was asking to be raped.
I would always justify the crime. Then I grew up. Time to grow up.
That’s BS Lib and you know it. This individual was looking for trouble.
THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
The Trump administration is once again engaged in a perversion of justice.
The Trump administration owes Americans a thorough investigation and a truthful accounting of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the Times editorial board writes.
Instead, President Trump and his team are once again engaged in a perversion of justice and are willing to lie to serve their own interests. Congress therefore must step in.
Silver is for industrial demand, gold is for security, two entirely different animals. And both have very little to do as investment assets. Agree?
You have only one person – just one person, to thank for the desperate need for gold and world stability.
And it is not Sleepy Joe.
Boomer: Why that date?
That’s BS Lib and you know it. This individual was looking for trouble.
Why would you accuse lib of posting bs?
Do you not think he believes this/
Are you taking it personally and thinking he is doing it to annoy you/
What motive would he have to do it?
9:05,
I agree. Sleepy Joe and the democrats don’t have the stomach to get in the faces of our enemies and so-called allies. The democrats don’t want to disrupt the status quo as long as they can get their message out and make money in the guise of ‘progress’. A global shakeout is/was looooong overdue. Hope and change was a cute little meme but real change involves a sledge hammer, not a glass of Chardonnay.
“2013. Obama is asked why his administration is deporting so many people and separating families.
Obama: I’m the President, not the Emperor. I have to enforce the law even if it is tragic and heartbreaking.”
Donald Trump makes sex with children
Spanish guys showed up, plowed and cleaned my property. I have a guy for windows the gutters, landscaping, everything. The Latinos work their asses off, love them! I did all this back in the day, can’t wait to get back to my next career and do it again. I am a Mike Rowe disciple through and through.
9:36 you’re a little bitch “Gary”
As a young couple, with each working 60+ hours/ week, we had saved up $5k – after using up all our savings a year ago on the wedding. We took the savings and sat down with a Merill Lynch advisor. A couple of years later, watching thatbportfolio like a hawk, we saw it go down – don’t recall how much, and was so disappointed I didn’t want anything to do with the stock market. Then as I started making a buck, my wife started buying gold. A 10oz perth, an Aussie coin, etc. They just arrived in regular mail. And we – or should I say, she stashed. So we could give our kids some stability. It wasn’t many years and after the purchase of our second home (because of moves), that I got into the stock market.
Lets see what the Judge says today.
Minnesota’s argument is there is too much law enforcement……They are not arguing the merits of the immigration laws passed by congress.
“The hearing is set for Monday morning in federal court in Minneapolis. Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said he plans to personally attend.
They’re asking that U.S. District Judge Kathleen Menendez order federal law enforcement agencies to reduce the numbers of officers and agents in Minnesota to levels before the surge, while allowing them to continue to enforce immigration laws within a long list of proposed limits.”
https://6abc.com/post/minneapolis-shooting-judge-hear-arguments-minnesotas-immigration-crackdown/18476725/
Why that date? 3.25.26 is simply two months out from date of my post.
Imperial Law
After Caesar Augustus established the Roman Empire in 31 B.C., imperial officials and courts directly controlled by the emperor replaced the jury courts. The emperor also assumed the power to make and interpret the laws.
History rhymes.
Fast: You are too old to go back to that type of hard work, and you have had an office job for too long, and you might be out of shape. But, I do admire your work ethic.
Another liquidation hunt on leveraged longs…their pain is your gain. Buy the dip.
When will these lemmings learn to stop using leverage? Lol never. It’s who they are.
Liquidity hunt on low volume using the “tariffs” and “govt shutdown” headlines to do their thing. Since institutions run on algos, their positions are flushed out when they begin to liquidation hunt longs on leverage. This is why you see these steep fast dumps and pumps in crypto. Constant hunt of leverage longs and shorts.
Good chance this was the final flush and now breaks out of range as metals top.
1995 europe gdp compared to the world, 26%
today, 17%
tomorrow ?????
I’m a sucker for good advice. If someone says something to me and it resonates, it sticks. And recently, I got some good advice. It came calmly, almost generously, from an investor who has seen a lot of organizations succeed and fail. He said he looked for people who wanted to be heroes, and then he let them be heroes. He didn’t say this as manipulation. It was a recognition that people want meaning. They want a role that explains who they are and why they matter. The best leaders understand this. And so do the most dangerous ones.
That advice stuck with me because it explains something we are watching play out in real time. Donald Trump is extraordinarily good at identifying people who want to be heroes and handing them a script. You are the last line of defense. You are the ones doing what others are too weak to do. You are saving the country. When those messages are paired with uniforms, authority, and moral certainty, they become intoxicating. This is why telling people that working for ICE makes them heroes is so effective. Not because it’s nuanced or even accurate, but because it answers a hunger many of us, especially young men, possess.
Because I’m an MMA fan, my feeds are full of UFC, jujitsu, boxing highlights, and training clips. And tucked right in among them are ads that say: Join ICE. Rid your country of evil criminals. The targeting isn’t accidental. Young men who train, compete, and test themselves physically are already oriented toward struggle, hierarchy, and proving worth. They’re oriented towards violence.
It popped up in my feed, again
This is where MAGA has been brutally effective and Democrats have committed political malpractice with young men. Young men respond to messages that tell them they can become something when they currently feel they are not. Give them a name, a mission, a tribe, and a moral frame, and they will endure hardship to keep it. Once that identity is set (warrior this, savage that) it takes extraordinary moral courage to challenge the group from within, to resign, or to say, “something about this is wrong.” Tribes punish that kind of dissent far more harshly than they punish quiet cruelty, and even if they don’t, they rely on the perception that they do to keep the ball rolling.
What makes this especially corrosive is that tribal identity is being sold deliberately, and young men are buying. And when the response from the other side is to call them monsters, pigs, or C-students, it doesn’t weaken the tribe. It strengthens it. Insults don’t shame people out of an identity they’re willing to suffer for. They confirm the story they’ve already been told: they hate you because you’re strong; they mock you because they’re weak.
Wanna know what my SEAL platoon had, in Arabic, printed onto baseball hats to wear in Iraq?
“Infidel.”
We wanted to be scorned.
There is a particular mistake embedded in contempt. Calling someone a failure might make you feel superior, but it often makes them feel superior too. Superior in resilience. Superior in toughness. Superior in loyalty. You are arguing credentials while they are arguing meaning, and meaning wins every time.
Finding people who want to be heroes in the United States of America is not hard. It’s one of the easiest things in the world. The harder question, the relevant moral question, is who gets to define what a hero actually is. When one side says, explicitly or implicitly, you are anything but, it leaves the field open for someone else to say, well, anything.
The investor’s advice was brilliant. Letting people be heroes is powerful. But it is also dangerous if you are careless with the definition. The difference between leadership and manipulation is not whether you harness aspiration; it’s whether you tell the truth about the cost, the limits, and the moral boundaries of the role you’re offering.
If we want different outcomes, we don’t need fewer young men who want to be heroes. We need more leaders willing to say: Yes, you can be strong, and you can matter, and you matter more if you don’t outsource your conscience to a tribe. That is a harder sell. It always has been. But it is the only one that doesn’t end with people doing terrible things while sincerely believing they are the good guys.
china 2.3 in 1995, 16 now
america 24 now, 24 then.
one shrinking, one staying the same, one growing.
Fast: You are too old to go back to that type of hard work, and you have had an office job for too long, and you might be out of shape. But, I do admire your work ethic.
Despite being 375 lbs., I can rise from the chair rather quickly. I’ll be fine. ;)
Gary nobody gives a fuuuuuck
Gary
When the time comes, if i still exist, HMU when you need that hoyer lift. i got connections and can get you a good deal on one.
LMK if you prefer used or new.
The largest generational transfer of housing wealth in modern US history is underway with inherited homes changing family balance sheets, reshaping financial planning and swelling senior net worth totals.
But despite record-breaking property hand-offs, the long-anticipated wave of homes hitting the market (and easing the housing shortage) isn’t arriving, meaning hopeful homebuyers may find affordability remains constrained.
New research from Cotality shows inherited homes are reaching historic levels as more properties pass from aging owners to their heirs, with inherited houses accounting for a record share of all home transfers in the United States in the past year. At first glance, that sounds like fresh inventory for a starved housing market but the reality is different because most of these homes are staying off the open market.
Instead of selling inherited properties, many heirs are moving in themselves or holding onto them as long-term family assets. State tax structures reinforce that behavior as, in places like California, heirs can preserve lower property tax assessments if they occupy inherited homes as primary residences. That incentive encourages families to keep homes rather than list them, effectively removing potential supply from public sale.
Cotality’s analysis pushes back on the popular idea of a looming “Silver Tsunami” of housing inventory. Older Americans, the data suggests, are aging in place at high rates. When ownership finally transfers, heirs frequently choose to retain the property. The result: a massive wealth shift between generations without the broad release of homes that housing-market optimists once expected.
Financial industry analysts estimate trillions of dollars in real estate assets will pass to younger generations over the next decade, fundamentally reshaping investment portfolios and estate strategies. Advisors are already preparing for inherited property to become a central component of household wealth planning — even as housing affordability remains strained for new buyers.
Record home equity
At the same time, senior Americans are sitting on unprecedented levels of home equity. According to new data from the NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index, homeowners aged 62 and older held a record $14.66 trillion in housing wealth in the third quarter of 2025. Rising home values pushed the index to its highest level ever recorded, underscoring how much property wealth is concentrated among older households.
“At a time when inflation pressures and the fear of outliving one’s retirement savings remain top concerns for retirees, home equity stands out as a powerful — yet often underutilized — financial resource,” said NRMLA President Steve Irwin. “When incorporated responsibly into a broader retirement strategy, this wealth can help seniors offset rising costs, reduce income shortfalls, and gain greater peace of mind about their long-term financial security.”
That combination — seniors holding record equity and heirs retaining inherited homes — means housing stock is recycling within families more than it is re-entering the market. For first-time buyers and renters hoping demographic turnover would open doors to ownership, the math doesn’t work in their favor.
Policy discussions in Washington reflect growing awareness that supply constraints won’t resolve themselves. The administration has recently signaled interest in limiting institutional investors’ purchases of single-family homes, aiming to reduce competition for everyday buyers. At the same time, new tax proposals including floated ideas to extend home-depreciation tax benefits to individual homeowners.
However, even aggressive financial or tax reforms won’t change the basic structural challenge that too few homes are being built, and too few existing ones are reaching the open market. Inherited homes may represent a generational wealth engine, but they are not a supply engine.
US Gary,
You should link up with my nutritionist lady in NJ. Zoom based, takes insurance. You can be, oh I don’t know 60 lbs, lighter by August without leaving your office. And, if you heed the lessons taught, you’re unlikely to gain anything back.
Ahem
https://docs.proton.me/doc?mode=open-url&token=2GBDFXWQDW#J1iY2Z24Z1SP
What is happening in the Japanese bond market?
It’s grandma
I’m having a snow shoveling class at my house. kids, come here and learn how to shovel snow. free lessons, hot cocoa available at 2 dollars per cup.
i cant afford anything, give me a free tax break and free ozempic
At the same time, senior Americans are sitting on unprecedented levels of home equity. According to new data from the NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index, homeowners aged 62 and older held a record $14.66 trillion in housing wealth in the third quarter of 2025. Rising home values pushed the index to its highest level ever recorded, underscoring how much property wealth is concentrated among older households.
Ask Libturd how big I am. ;)
japan selling us bonds to keep itself afloat. that won’t end well.
ättestupa is a Norse myth that claims that elders were expected to off themselves to prevent from being a drain on their communities. They were said to go to the tallest cliff in the area and take a leap. We should bring this back.
Chi – Why bother? They won’t believe you that it’s organized, and may involve some government officials including possibly the Lt. Govenor in Minnesota who is now running for the open US Senate Seat.
Unlawful assembly and “people need to leave” is what the Police Chief of that city has been saying for weeks now. However his hands have been tied by the Mayor, the local police when called won’t show up and make arrests even though the “legal observers” have been trashing the hotels, businesses and rioting. The county Sherriff is now involved because the Mayor cannot control her she is an elected official. They are now patrolling the area near the federal building and preventing the protestors from blocking the road and rioting.
BTW she is a black woman not that is should matter.
Here is what she said recently.
Sheriff calls for unity
Speaking on the political landscape, the sheriff says she thinks leaders need to stop treating politics like a sports game.
“I’ve been in this profession for quite some time and never did I think that we would be in the position that we are,” said Sheriff Witt. “But what we need are people in leadership roles to come together, have those conversations. Let’s stop with the one side has to win all — that’s not where we’re at. It doesn’t matter — as far as political views — doesn’t matter which side of the fence you are on. What matters is, there are people when you took that oath, when I took that oath, when any elected official has taken that oath. We agree to represent everyone and even those that do not have the same train of thought or lived experiences or any of that. We took on the responsibility to make sure that we are here for everyone, and we need more people to come to the table and agree with that, and have a conversation so that we can keep our community safe.”
https://www.hennepinsheriff.org/
You can be, oh I don’t know 60 lbs, lighter by August without leaving your office.
If I lost 60 lbs, they’d be administering last rites. ;)
ättestupa is a Norse myth that claims that elders were expected to off themselves to prevent from being a drain on their communities. They were said to go to the tallest cliff in the area and take a leap. We should bring this back.
Not until I get my fulfillment of boomer indulgences. Check back in 20 years and I’ll let you know.
Anecdotal – We had our annual neighborhood holiday party Saturday night with an open bar and catered food and another room with dj and dance floor etc. Many many people are noticeable thinner, especially some of the moms who were quite chunky previously. I would estimate 30% are probably on some kind of GLP-1 as the hors d’oeuvres and the entrees were barely touched as well, just a ton of left over food…
There was also a neighbor I was speaking too said many were on gummies too..
Reminds me of this South Park…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLFvTg11kdQ
I have a coworker young man who is 32 and now is on GLP-1. He is down 45 lbs says his appetite is non-existent. Is not working out either just does not eat or snack.
“Chi – Why bother? They won’t believe you that it’s organized, and may involve some government officials including possibly the Lt. Govenor in Minnesota who is now running for the open US Senate Seat.”
Stop the bullshit, Juice. I never claimed there was no grassroots organization in Minny. Humans organize and I am sure there are multiple marauding gangs of pussyhat wearing libs preventing ICE from carrying out their investigation. The fact remains that people get arrested for impeding or resisting all the time in the US of A and are taken downtown to start due process.
Angry people trash hotels, more at eleven. I don’t understand, were you born yesterday?
No offense intended, but wife and I did this the hard way. Let’s see where everyone is in five years. We are at college weight, in amazing shape, and have a fundamentally different relationship with food. We are also fortunate not to have to make food choices based on price. Eschewing processed foods make a huge difference.
Silver is like a runaway train right now.
Juice,
You are of course correct. Numerous socialists, communists, anarchists, anti-capitalist groups, etc, that are stoking the flames in Minnesota. They want a few deaths. The problem is that the gullible Far Leftists who are very easily led are the ones unknowingly doing the bidding of these anti-American groups.
It snowed all night here and is still snowing. I don’t think I‘ve seen this much snow here before. Global warming damn you!
“That’s BS Lib and you know it. This individual was looking for trouble.”
I disagree wholeheartedly. That gun was for self defense. Watch the tape. He went to help the woman. He did not mess as at all with the agents. Read what I wrote yesterday. That is how it went down.
Enjoy the Melania film, another show, since she’s been the most absent first lady ever.
I know MN better than most here. I spent a lot of time up there as that’s where my company is headquartered. Lots and lots of men carry up there. They are all hunters and lake fishers. They all have handguns to go with their rifles. If you carry, you carry.
Your bias is simply getting the best of you.
And yes, Gary is in decent shape. We didn’t arm wrestle, but I probably have 150 pounds on him.
I’m also dieting pretty hard these days. My Ozempic experience sucked. I felt like I was going to puke all of the time. I’d rather try to do it the old way. Will power. Haven’t had an empty carb since Monday. Yeah, no bread, no pizza, no noodles, no rice, no sugar, etc.
I don’t mind eating this way, but the prep is a bitch.
This is exactly my point. If I were carrying, the last thing I would be doing is physically inserting myself into a scuffle.
Mistake #1 was being there to mess with him, which they have picture of him doing so prior to.
Mistake #2 inserting himself into a physical altercation with law enforcement while carrying a gun
Mistake #3 instead of just laying down, he scrambles and scuffles
I’m not really interested in arguing with you guys. I’ve given up ever trying to rationally change anyone’s mind once it’s been made. If you can’t admit these are all low IQ moves, more people are going to die for no reason.
In 2003, the police busted into my home in New Brunswick from the back door, ran through my home and came into my bedroom. It was total BS. What I didn’t do was escalate the situation.
This is the left wing demonstration equivalent of leaning over the cliff and Grand Canyon for that awesome selfie. Might look great on camera, and you might die doing it. I know plenty of people who carry in other states as well. One thing they don’t do is go up to the police and mess with them.
Low IQ moves aside, does the ICE agent who shot him in the back while kneeling get a pass? I hope not.
Based on the information and videos that have been released, isn’t it this simple:
-yes, he had right to protest, film, carry gun in this country
-no, he shouldn’t have interfered and should be arrested
-no, he shouldn’t have resisted and should be charged with more crimes
-no, he shouldn’t have been shot so the agent should be prosecuted
12:34 time to ship you off to Taiwan
GLP-1 s needs a lot of discipline. Probably more than doing it the old fashioned ‘hard way’. Protein, fiber, hydration, exercise.. all titrated like you are a lab animal along with the changing dosage . But from what I’m seeing amongst people- the results are amazing.
On a separate note – where are those Epstein files? Looks like Trump was successful in making us forget about last month’s hot topic.
Kristi Noem is such a cunt.
Citizen with conceal carry is killed. Right: “This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement,”
Kyle Rittenhouse arms self with assault rifle which he open carries to protests in town AND USES to shoot someone. Right: “He’s a just good boy exercising his 2A rights! Showing force to protect the neighborhood businesses.” Kid goes on to a publicity appearance circuit on the right.
You guys are a circle jerk of hypocrisy.
“GLP-1 s needs a lot of discipline. Probably more than doing it the old fashioned ‘hard way’.”
Rent,
LMAOOO. Bullshit.
Person in family did the jab. Lost 99 pounds if not more. Still eating the same shit, just less of it. This is after eating seemingly nothing for the first few months. Oh yeah, super hard to inject yourself with something that prevents hunger. FOH!
Meanwhile I’m out here counting cals, cooking from scratch, and taking in top shelf proteins.
Sounds like there’s a little lack of truth on this forum. Once someone lies to you, should you ever believe them?
Even the administration and supporters agree. I know this because any fact that casts a negative light is repeated over and over, some correctly and others exaggerated (to say the least). But when asked to respond regarding the facts that look really bad, the talking points shift to “there’s an investigation.”
I doubt that. There were stories that they are refusing to investigate the previous shooting.
I doubt the agent will be prosecuted. We will probably never know his name.
…casts a negative light on Alex Pretti*
BRT,
What’s your take on a J6 protester and their subsequent pardon? Honest question. Not looking to pick a fight. Just would like to hash this one out.
I had no issue with shooting myself. D gets a shot every night and has for five years now, which I administer.
My biggest issue was that every time I got behind the wheel, I felt nauseous. Try to work out when you feel sick. Forget about it.
I then gained all the weight back. Another reason not to do it the new way. In the end, I hate taking drugs. I am on a statin and a thyroid pill and have been for most of my life. It’s enough.
Lib – You and I both know pretty much every store and business there has a posted “No Guns” sign. His workplace as well. It may have been his day off but he decided to arm himself and go and protest, and dance on the thin line of with ICE agents who we all agree have a tough but legal immigration enforcement job to do. It was a fools errand.
I am not saying he does not have a right to carry. Bringing a gun to protest? There are folks that are far more radical probably bringing in more guns.
There are 25 states that do not allow your to bring a gun to a political protest. New Jersey is one of them. Minnesota is not one of them. Maybe it should be.
BRT,
In 2003, the police busted into my home in New Brunswick from the back door, ran through my home and came into my bedroom.
Where would you draw the line?
I absolutely agree with that. But you shouldn’t assume we all do because there are some crazy people out there. We can’t even all agree that he shouldn’t have been shot.
Juice Box says:
January 26, 2026 at 1:11 pm
… who we all agree have a tough but legal immigration enforcement job to do
Juice,
Talk to me about J6!
I can agree that woman and that man should not have been shot and killed. There are de-escalation procedures that weren’t followed.
I have an even more radical take our Police should be like the ones in England. Only 5% should carry firearms, and they are only called in as a last resort.
Dude was executed for carrying a legal handgun.
That’s what happened. It’s quite simple.
why is my Bitcoin stable and Gold going through the roof. PUMPS!!!!!!!
lib – J6?
Every fool that showed up there and crossed the police line and barriers should have been charged with a crime. I believe that number is around 1500. Some got long sentences…..and are now free. Why do Presidents and Governors pardon and commute sentences? Usually it’s is a politically driven choice and not a crime and punishment one. It’s a British monarch’s tradition and probably should be abolished by law and it is now abused whether it was J6 rioters or the president’s son.
A federal judge in Manhattan has denied DoorDash and Uber Eats’ plea to keep New York City from enacting new tipping legislation, aimed at putting more money in the pockets of tens of thousands of delivery workers.
The court decision comes days before new legislation takes effect Monday. It requires that users be given the option to tip delivery workers at checkout, instead of after placing their orders, and sets the default tip to at least 10%.
It bodes well for the city’s ongoing efforts to regulate wages and working conditions for delivery workers, including setting minimum wage requirements in recent years. Earlier this month, city regulators accused Uber and DoorDash of costing delivery workers more than $550 million after altering their apps’ interfaces in order to discourage users from tipping.
Uber and DoorDash had filed the joint lawsuit last month, arguing that the city would violate their constitutional rights to free speech by requiring “a government-mandated message in a prescribed manner and at a prescribed time.” The lawsuit called on the Southern District of New York to order an injunction on the law and monetary compensation for the tech giants.
But U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels denied the request, writing that the delivery apps “have not successfully demonstrated that the balance of equities weigh in their favor and that a preliminary injunction is in the public interest.”
re: “default tip to at least 10%”
Is this forcing people to tip now? What if I did not like the service? Tipping has always been voluntary, it might even be against the religion of some people.
Amazing that NY judges think they should force companies to prompt tip payment before service is even rendered. Trump-level overconfidence in their ability to make all the decisions for other people.
Looking up Judge George B. Daniels and his call for “balance of equities” (sic), yes, he’s just the sort of judge that I’d expect.
NATO Chief Rutte says keep dreaming if people think Europe can defend itself without the US.
USS Abraham Lincoln ha arrived in the Middle East. According to reports the US along with potential help from Israel now has enough resources in place to topple the Iranian regime.
I wonder what fills that Iran vacuum? More imperialism. I suppose the end justifies the illegal means as usual.
Pretti was not protesting. He was aware that ICE was going to that location. He went there to obstruct ICE operations with a high powered hand gun with two extra magazines. That said, the hand run was removed from its holster by an ICE agent, and another one executed him.
Pretti is another Useful Idiot.
Libturd says:
January 26, 2026 at 1:37 pm
Dude was executed for carrying a legal handgun.
That’s what happened. It’s quite simple.
I hear that the movie One Battle After Another which has secured 13 Academy Award nominations glorifies violent resistance against the US government. If anyone has watched it, can you verify?
Anyone think shows like this are encouraging Antifa and their allies to risk their lives for the purpose of adding to the chaos?
The courts can figure out the law on who gets punished for shooting people. Nobody who hears our opinions about it will be allowed on such a jury, btw.
I do think that people trying to protest against law enforcement in the middle of their activities, yelling, whistling, and getting physically in the way, are absolutely increasing the risk of physical violence happening. When law enforcement can’t see or hear what’s going on clearly, you get more screw-ups.
3B – I fail to see how indiscriminate bombing and even well guided bombs with GPS and laser targeting topples a regime.
It did not work in Iraq or Afghanistan…Only boots on the ground did and not for too long. We are more than two decades out and those too countries are still a mess.
Juice6. Thanks for your answer.
Fast: My apologies for suggesting you might he out of shape. I of course am at my college weight.
Clean eating and dedicated gym time, and it its not that hard; you just have to stay focused.
Lib – Are you going to join your kind and protest the new mandatory tipping ruling in NY?
We Irish are notorious non-tippers, and we now ask that our fellow non-tippers the descendants of Abraham join us down at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse on Perl Street to come and protest for our religious and cultural rights to not tip. Bring Whistles, and Signs.. No guns allowed it’s a peaceful protest. We will supply the whiskey..you can bring the bagels.
2:16 – so Alex Pretti has no 1A and 2A rights?
More importantly, why do you feel the need to defend the actions of an authoritarian regime? Is it because you fear that if you don’t your livelihood is at risk? Or is it that you took a position that proved to be wrong, but now can’t backtrack and doubling down?
And this applies to all the Maggots here.
It’s a legal term pertinent to preliminary injunctions.
No One says:
January 26, 2026 at 2:05 pm
Amazing that NY judges think they should force companies to prompt tip payment before service is even rendered. Trump-level overconfidence in their ability to make all the decisions for other people.
Looking up Judge George B. Daniels and his call for “balance of equities” (sic), yes, he’s just the sort of judge that I’d expect
2:32 very common among gays
Juice,
Talk to me about Kyle Rittenhouse!
Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two men and wounded a third with an assault rifle. Which he opens carried, with multiple magazines on his person. The right genuflected to his greatness and made him a spokesperson and media figure.
How does the right’s treatment of Rittenhouse reconcile with their villanization of Alex? Help me make sense of it.
2;57 You are the exception of course. Exercise instead of resentment.
I blame video games. No wait, I blame rock music. Hold on, which decade are we in?
No One says:
January 26, 2026 at 2:18 pm
I hear that the movie One Battle After Another which has secured 13 Academy Award nominations glorifies violent resistance against the US government. If anyone has watched it, can you verify?
Anyone think shows like this are encouraging Antifa and their allies to risk their lives for the purpose of adding to the chaos?
Rent – 2A check he has a permit. But was he acting unlawful in anyway?
It crosses over into an argument if people start bringing firearms, or they think they can bring firearms to protests, it’s becomes a need to protect the public in addition to protecting the safety of the agents. Remember those two women at the scene in the street approaching the agent who got out of his car well in the videos they were attempting to obstruct the Agents and were getting pepper sprayed and pushed back onto the sidewalk. Their actions is what led up to his killing.
And before you accuse me of being a maggot, I will be clear here again he should not have been shot and killed.
Juice: I agree. The thought is that the Iranians if the government is crippled by the attacks the Iranians will rise up and finish the job. I don t see it. even though the turnout was low in the 2024 election, multiple millions still voted for the ruling Islamic party. Maybe they get of the old religious guys in bed sheets but the revolutionary guards, and the Basij militia will still control the government.
We should stay out of Iran, and out of the Gaza thing too. Baby Bush broke Iraq, and it is still broke as you note.
Ohh now it’s a high powered handgun. You should really say “high powered semi automatic” hand gun. Don’t leave that part out of your hysteria.
He had ample opportunity to ambush and shoot several ICE agents; yet he didn’t.
He should be in jail right now (or bonded out)… as should the ICE agent. Both are to blame.
Boomer – He was charged and well the Jury did not agree and acquitted him. First-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety.
What more is there to say? Jury acquitted…System worked?
Look Biden’s DOJ could have brought federal charges. They had years to do it. I gather Merrick Garland is a maggot too.
Why do you refer to Rittenhouse by his last name but Pretti is “Alex”? So Rittenhouse is a stupid 18 year old dumbass with a low IQ. But Pretti is a middle aged adult. In fact, not just the middle-aged adult, but someone in the medical profession who should fully understand what weapons can do to the human body as I’m sure he’s seen the impact during his work. They both are problems, but that said I would have a much shorter leash on Pretti because he should goddamn know better. Did he deserve to die, no, but he’s a stupid asshole, nevertheless.
MBoomer_Remover says:
January 26, 2026 at 2:58 pm
Juice,
Talk to me about Kyle Rittenhouse!
Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two men and wounded a third with an assault rifle. Which he opens carried, with multiple magazines on his person. The right genuflected to his greatness and made him a spokesperson and media figure.
How does the right’s treatment of Rittenhouse reconcile with their villanization of Alex? Help me make sense of it.
Juice: I was really uncomfortable with what the Senate did with Merrick Garland. But after the fact, seeing his behavior during the Biden administration made me think that he would’ve been a serious asshole to have on the Supreme Court. What a sanctimonious hack.
Because I don’t know how to spell the new guy’s last name and didn’t want to switch windows to get the spelling, whereas the Rittenhouse thing – back before everyone lost their fucking collective mind – was a relatively big deal so I remember that last name.
You guys are too much…
just about the only thing the MAGA circle jerk committee on this board disagrees on is whether it feels better under or over handed.
What is the matter with you?
Chicago–Martin Gore would for sure flip you the bird.
Who knew you guys get this hard over authoritarian power, coercive institutions, and abuses carried out in the name of order.
Go press play on ‘Walking in My Shoes’ you boot licking poser.
Trump doubling down and sending in Homan to Minnesota.
Will the ICE protesters come and do their thing on the Immigrations and Customs hall at Newark airport?
The protesters think I should be able to walk through it without even an ID check, right?
Though after I got Global Entry, it’s become a lot faster.
I don’t like the way Trump is using ICE and scapegoating immigrants. I also don’t think there should be zero enforcement of immigration/naturalization law.
I’m really looking forward to a post-Trump America.
No One: I am too. But, not looking forward to what the Democrats will be offering ( Newsom probably), and while we may not have the chaos of now, it won’t be an overall positive for America. It will be Democratic more of the same. They believe they have a mandate for it.
You guys can ( )( ) =======D – e-a-t- – o- n-e—-💦💦
Welcome to the Jungle:
https://youtu.be/o1tj2zJ2Wvg?si=7c0hSMjgzeEBsRlG
Dude chill. Trump is going to be neutered by November at the latest. I will say one thing, and I appreciate the President as a catalyst. What happens when we see all of this playing out in the public sphere, we get to see who the enemies are because they come out front and show themselves. Probably one of the most dangerous times in the United States’ has story was the point that George W. Bush was inaugurated until September 11. We had no idea how dangerous things were and we were sitting just worried about our economy, and living in this mythical state of security.
Boomer_Remover says:
January 26, 2026 at 4:08 pm
Chicago–Martin Gore would for sure flip you the bird.
Who knew you guys get this hard over authoritarian power, coercive institutions, and abuses carried out in the name of order.
Go press play on ‘Walking in My Shoes’ you boot licking poser.
Trump curb stomps Tampoon Tim and the geeky mayor: You’re going to federal prison for not only inciting riots but for looting COVID money. So, you hand over the criminals and we’ll call off the dogs. Capisce?
…and abuses carried out in the name of order.
If the last administration did their job and protected the Constitution, this administration wouldn’t have to thump heads and reestablish law and order.
Oh yeah, no for sure, this administration reestablished the shit out of the first and second amendments alright!
I am grateful for Trump’s leadership. He saved this country and you guys are crying about it like little girls. Who gives a f’k who trump is as a person, he is a good leader. Why? He gets chit done. He saved nyc when they were going broke. You know how tough NYC is…how many people fighting for the pot….and he came in and saved them.
Point of all this….he did the same thing for our country. America has a culture and denying is selling out to immigrants for votes (dem party anyone?). Time to make america great again. Time for American workers to stop paying for all these programs for illegals ( you and I were paying to house them in nyc hotels…are you f’ing serious. And you support this bs by attacking trump. Get a life).
Crypto going to run any day now….tic tic tic
BREAKING: In one of its largest intra-day reversals in history, silver has completely erased its +14% gain and turned RED on the day.
Silver just erased -$900 BILLION of market cap in 90 minutes.
It’s impossible to time tops perfectly…but i told 5k gold is a danger zone. Be careful. See what happens.
Did Ashlii Babbitt fire the gun or just brandish it?
I can’t remember.
For now….5k gold is resistance. It breaks that…could see a big drop.
Pumps – re: gold… buy now before it hits $8,000
This is strategic stuff might be tough for you to understand. China thinks long term. They have been a moving to be the new reserve currency for cross-border trade settlements, digital currency development, global payments, trade invoicing, and central bank swap lines. This includes amassing gold reserves, China’s undisclosed holdings are far higher than officially reported possibly up to 10 times higher than officially stated. Everything they mine they keep in reserve 8,000 tons over the last 20 years.
The kind of moves we have seen in price are not retail driven.
Juice,
Look at the chart. What has happened every time Gold has moved like this. Bag holder till next cycle. No different than crypto. The few will sell now and the rest will bag hold.
This time is not different…my bet.
In a month, people will look back and say why didn’t i sell gold or silver at peak for 86k BTC or 2800 ETH.
What’s your take on a J6 protester and their subsequent pardon? Honest question. Not looking to pick a fight. Just would like to hash this one out.
Anyone vandalizing/committing assault deserved prosecution. The people that walked through on essentially guided tours when the doors were opened for them and ushered in, not so much.
What’s your thoughts on Ashley Babbitt being shot?
Where would you draw the line?
I had no idea what they were doing. Maybe they were chasing somebody. Turns out, they weren’t, they just thought that the place I was living in was a drug den and decided to take a gander by breaking and entering. I’ll tell you what didn’t go through my head….”hey maybe this is a good idea to try to get the sh1t kicked out of me for potential lawsuits or for what’s right”.
They created a massive bubble. Wouldn’t surprise me if Bessent set them up. They are f’ed if price falls….michael saylor of GOLD (china).
“China continues to stockpile gold behind the scenes:
China acquired +10 tonnes of gold in November, ~11 times more than officially reported by the central bank, according to Goldman Sachs estimates.
Similarly, in September, estimated purchases reached +15 tonnes, or 10 times more than officially reported.
Furthermore, China officially bought an additional 0.9 tonnes in December, pushing the total gold reserves to a record 2,306 tonnes.
This also marked the 14th consecutive monthly purchase.
In 2025, China’s total reported gold purchases reached +27 tonnes.
Assuming official purchases were 10% of what China is actually buying, this suggests China acquired +270 tonnes of physical gold in 2025.
China is stockpiling gold like we are in a major crisis.”
Exactly. They didn’t deserve to be shot in the back while kneeling on the ground.
BRT says:
January 26, 2026 at 7:21 pm
Anyone vandalizing/committing assault deserved prosecution.
“What’s your thoughts on Ashley Babbitt being shot?”
If I recall correctly and was corroborated by multiple independent accounts from persons on the scene, she received multiple verbal warnings before she breached the perimeter to a room full of VIP’s and was smoked.
No perimeter was established in the Pretti case and no verbal warnings were given, no deescalation procedures were followed. The agents crossed the street and went straight to work on this lib.
It would have been nice if the ICE guys would have given Pretti the same courtesy instead of proceeding to repeatedly beat him in the head with a can of mace.
Pumps I have been right about gold for 25 years. I am still right.
I am going to explain it again. The folks that print and lend money they are buying gold. It is not retail.
I had the cops come to my house. They came on my property opened the fence to my back yard and entered, all on ring camera looking around for trouble which did not exist.
Meanwhile the trouble the were looking for was next door, the young adults there were having a party and had a few trouble makers show up and they would not leave when asked so they called the cops to come and kick them out.
Quite funny when I look at the ring camera as my neighbors son came over and starting yelling over here over here…you are at the wrong house.
If I had gone out back with a gun chances are I would be dead, and they would be Scott free.. No offence to anyone but that is what the laws and supreme court have allowed.
As I said 5% should carry weapons only the smart ones that are called in as a last resort.
I mean just imagine 100% of your coworkers are allowed allowed to carry guns….
Ashley Babbitt -Babbitt’s family was paid $5 million in a settlement. You do not settle if you have the legal high ground.
Did that cop make a mistake? Should he go to jail? Well we have no accounting of who was there? Some say more than one or two elected officials but there is no accounting of who there and who was giving orders and which elected official was there. Speaker of the house for example is 3rd inline….
A coverup… but that does not happen right? I was say he was ordered to shoot by someone panicking..Will we ever know? Probably not.
“After a parabolic move in #Silver, small cap stocks in the Russell 2000 $IWM generally does pretty well for months to years.”
Pumps – I will tell you what. When the major central banks start buying Bitcoin I will go all in, both fists and leveraged up with my cash, 401k, IRA, 529 plans and every other account and access to money I have including Tony and the loan shark….everything I have to the hilt.
Wake me up when that happens.
Too late by then…
Pumps I am a person that used to run mining rigs. You are the person that is too late.
You are insane. You were just incredibly early. You are still absolutely early by market standards. I don’t make the rules…
Why fight making money. I am giving alpha…
And I am not in BTC except for tiny amount. Same with ETH. I am all in what I believe to be generational wealth opportunity. We will see if it works out. I don’t even want to share it, because I don’t want bad vibes from this blog. The stars on lining up. Now we hit play on “the danger zone,” strap in, and try to hold on.
There’s a conversation I’ve had with my son on numerous occasions. More recently, he wanted to cross out into the walkway even though the driver wasn’t paying attention. He’s supposed to yield. I get it. He wanted to jump in front of the car. I yanked him back and that was that. He insisted he was in the right. I said, great, you’ll be right, and also dead. I’d rather be wrong and alive.
This guy probably shouldn’t have been shot, but he was. Was it nefarious or a result of the chaos. I don’t know. But at the end of the day, this occurred because he inserted himself into the situation. Would I let my kid even be in that situation? No? Would you guys? If you stay home, your still going about your day. Even if you stay on the side of the street screaming like a child while carrying, you are still going about your day. If you decide to get into the scuffle, well…you might not. If you want to get into a scuffle while carrying well…the odds just went up you might not.
If you guys believe your own rhetoric about ICE/Border patrol, you’d be advising people to stay the heck away from them. If you insist on assaulted and interfering, there are going to be instances where people are unfortunately killed. But none of you are doing that. You and the politicians want them to keep fighting.
It’s no different than when Pumps was screaming about his road raging tendencies. Sorry, I don’t get into nonsense with people on the road. You all driving on the road mean absolutely nothing to me and I don’t care enough to even engage with you. I’ll stop and let you pass. If you want an argument, I will just ignore you. In my 12+ hours of commuting every week, there are at least 4 instances each week that I could easily escalate into an argument on the road. Sorry, I’d rather be alive.
Send it! Send it with f’ing haste! 🫡
I am expecting FEB to be epic…if not…then march. If not, then april. Prob all 3 months will be insane. Buckle up. If i am right…i made it to the promise land. Wish me luck instead of bad will.
Alpha or Alpo?
Didn’t you criticize people for not helping a lady who was being harassed on the subway?
BRT says:
January 26, 2026 at 9:52 pm
I don’t recall anyone here insisting on that. Did I miss it?
“If you insist on assaulted and interfering, there are going to be instances where people are unfortunately killed. But none of you are doing that. You and the politicians want them to keep fighting.“
They settled for the same reason corporations have settled with President Trump… politics.
Juice Box says:
January 26, 2026 at 9:08 pm
Ashley Babbitt -Babbitt’s family was paid $5 million in a settlement. You do not settle if you have the legal high ground
Pumps -You refuse to name the crypto..so what the fuck are you even taking about.
Look dude I am not here to ruin your life and let your wife know what you are doing with your money. Nobody here wants to meet you at the Alps diner on Rt 23 to discus your generational wealth opportunity.
Don’t be annoying…
Facts, not cool dude.
Terrible
Agreed.
“The most crazy thing will be looking metals charts in a year from now
And realizing there was no bubble, just rerating higher + secular shift
There will be corrections and consolidations, but I don’t think there’s gonna be a “crash” anytime this decade”
But zero upside here. Only pain if you buy metals now. Meaning missing upside while bag holders.
About 35 years ago, I was on the PATH going from JSQ to HOB at about 3AM.
A guy was wearing a hat that said “You Down With OPP?”
I walked onto the train buzzed and said “Yeah You Know Me”
The guy without flinching cold cocked me. My first thought was to rush him, but instead, I just stood up, looked at him and then act like nothing happened. My thought was anybody willing to do that is not somebody that I should be trying to make a point with. The problem is my friend from Trinidad. Refused to just let it be. He walked up to the guy and started saying what did you do that for? And I kinda had to grab my friend and push him into the next car and be like it’s not fucking worth it. We don’t know who we’re dealing with. That’s my mentality about this ICE stuff. It’s completely FAFO.
No one deserves to get beat up or killed, but at the same time if you’re asking for shit, you’re gonna get it
BRT says:
January 26, 2026 at 9:52 pm
There’s a conversation I’ve had with my son on numerous occasions. More recently, he wanted to cross out into the walkway even though the driver wasn’t paying attention. He’s supposed to yield. I get it. He wanted to jump in front of the car. I yanked him back and that was that. He insisted he was in the right. I said, great, you’ll be right, and also dead. I’d rather be wrong and alive.
This guy probably shouldn’t have been shot, but he was. Was it nefarious or a result of the chaos. I don’t know. But at the end of the day, this occurred because he inserted himself into the situation. Would I let my kid even be in that situation? No? Would you guys? If you stay home, your still going about your day. Even if you stay on the side of the street screaming like a child while carrying, you are still going about your day. If you decide to get into the scuffle, well…you might not. If you want to get into a scuffle while carrying well…the odds just went up you might not.
If you guys believe your own rhetoric about ICE/Border patrol, you’d be advising people to stay the heck away from them. If you insist on assaulted and interfering, there are going to be instances where people are unfortunately killed. But none of you are doing that. You and the politicians want them to keep fighting.
It’s no different than when Pumps was screaming about his road raging tendencies. Sorry, I don’t get into nonsense with people on the road. You all driving on the road mean absolutely nothing to me and I don’t care enough to even engage with you. I’ll stop and let you pass. If you want an argument, I will just ignore you. In my 12+ hours of commuting every week, there are at least 4 instances each week that I could easily escalate into an argument on the road. Sorry, I’d rather be alive.