From WHYY:
High property taxes, high prices — and still buyers: What New Jersey’s housing market looks like right now
New Jersey’s property taxes and home values are among the highest in the nation. Nevertheless, data released in January shows demand for housing held steady in 2025, and many real estate experts expect demand to increase this year.
Jeff Otteau, chief economist for Otteau Group, Inc., said interest rates are expected to continue to drift lower, which will make it easier for people to buy homes. He said lower interest rates will also increase the number of homes being sold.
“Because the average interest rate for homeowners is around 4%, with interest rates that had risen as high as 7.8%, those existing homeowners, even though they wanted very much to sell their house and move on to whatever was next, they didn’t want to give up the advantage of that low interest rate on the home that they’re in now,” he said.
According to a report released by New Jersey Realtors, the median sales price across all property types rose by 5.4% last year to $525,000.
…
Beverly Brown Ruggia, the financial justice program director at New Jersey Citizen Action, said the Garden State’s home affordability crisis is significant.
“The gap between what is available and what people can afford is astronomical. We don’t have enough affordable homes for people to rent or purchase,” Ruggia said.
For many New Jerseyans there is no rational relationship between what they earn and what they have to pay for housing, she said.
Ohhhhh look wut you made me do!!
we wan’t em all
Recent reports indicate that the DOJ has only released a fraction of the Epstein files, potentially holding onto upward of 50 terabytes that the agency has not yet disclosed. The recent releases, which include millions of pages of documents, amount to roughly 300 gigabytes, or 2 percent of the estimated total.
Goebbels is smiling at this:
A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors
Then last January, he had an idea for a new bit: He’d set up a fake tip line that people could use to report anyone they thought was an undocumented immigrant. It was darker than his other stunts, but it felt topical, the kind of challenge he wanted to try. At the very least, he thought, he might get a few calls he could talk about at his next show.
Instead, his website has received nearly 100 submissions from across the country: people reporting their neighbors, ex-lovers, Uber drivers, strangers they saw at the grocery store. One tip came from a teacher reporting the parents of a kindergarten student at her school.
“I mean, they seem like nice people or whatever,” the woman told Palmer on the call. “But if they’re taking up resources from our county, I’m not into illegal people being here.”
The prison camps are for Americans…
I’ve walked Birkenau.
It just looks like rows of warehouses surrounded by some fences and barbed wire.
Could easily be confused with a commercial property right off of Rt 46 in Morris County.
Boomer:
*party of Family Values before/ now defender of Pedos
*against bailing out college debt/in favor of bailing out Argentina
*No to masks / Yes to masks
*2nd amendment fundamentalist / now against carry
*hates big government/ now loves big govt kidnapping and mureder
*anti-communist / for communist universal healthcare for 65 and older
*pro-trade all their lives / suddenly pro-tariffs for no
Similarities with Iran:
*Lead by a cult religious leader
*Limited civil liberties
*Constant state threat against anyone who speaks against the Ayatollah
*Protection to Pedos
What a joke.gov
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/
Sorry, folks. We dun run out of pilots. I means our f’n job is to fly people, but hey, pilots are expensive. Any of you kids type rated on an A319?
“My understanding is that the flight was canceled due to the lack of a pilot,” Eagen said.
Dozens of Long Island marching band students were left stranded at JFK Airport for hours after their long-awaited flight to Disney World was canceled.
The Kings Park High School marching band, color guard, and kick line arrived at JFK shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, for a scheduled Delta flight to Orlando only to be informed the flight had been canceled, Kings Park Superintendent Timothy Eagen told Daily Voice.
The trip, which occurs only once every four years, represents a milestone for participating students. Many spent months fundraising and hours rehearsing for the opportunity to perform in a Disney parade and take part in backstage workshops.
“This trip represented four years of marching band commitment for our students,” Eagen said in a statement.
So far, that deployment to the middle east cost roughly 2 billion AMERICAN WORKER’S tax dollars. To fight someone who can’t even attack us. Gonna be even more when it starts, and it will, cause you don’t spend that money if you ain’t gonna fight.
To put the scale in perspective, if you spent $10,000 every single day, it would take roughly 548 years to spend $2 billion.
Wouldn’t that money be better spent on nursing homes, schools, bridge and tunnel repair, job retraining, fixing potholes, or just paying down debt?
What kind of woman votes for a guy who grabs them by the pussy?
When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threw his support behind Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign for the White House, his corps of health conscious, mostly female, followers embraced the president, who pledged to address Americans’ concerns about “toxins in our environments and pesticides in our food.”
Some of the women, who call themselves the MAHA Moms after Mr. Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement, abandoned the Democratic Party to vote for Mr. Trump.
But the executive order Mr. Trump issued Wednesday to increase domestic production of glyphosate — a widely used weedkiller and possible carcinogen that has been the target of thousands of lawsuits, including one brought by Mr. Kennedy — stunned and infuriated the activists.
It now threatens to turn the brief MAHA-Trump marriage into a divorce.
“Women feel like they were lied to, that MAHA movement is a sham,” said Alex Clark, a health and wellness podcaster for the conservative group Turning Point U.S.A., which is closely allied with the president. “How am I supposed to rally these women to vote red in the midterms? How can we win their trust back? I am unsure if we can.”
Across the country on Thursday, many women who identified with the movement expressed similar feelings of betrayal from the president.
8:10 – My kid’s marching band trip to Indiana was cancelled a week before in 2020. I remember all the families gathering in the cafeteria for an important announcement – something about a virus that may take a few weeks to pass, and some folks did not want to take any risks. The disappointment was so intense some kids cried. They were preparing for this competition multiple years and it was supposed to be the highlight of their high school years.
I hope Delta does something to make up.
Expected 2.9 to a downgrade of 1.4% growth is bad. But we knew it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-gdp-growth-disappoints-to-cap-2025-trump-blames-government-shutdown-133942251.html
Dark: Woodrow Wilson the Democrat had people spying on each other during WW. There was large opposition to American involvement in WW 1. Wilson was an enthusiastic supporter, Neighborhood groups were established to drum up support for the war. Some opponents of the war were imprisoned and held until after the war ended, and some even longer. There was a patriotic government newspaper (Pravda) to provide propaganda to the American people in support of the war.
Wilson also did not like the American system of government. He wanted a strong Presidency and a British type parliamentary system. He was a huge Anglophile.
3b , interesting, I never really read up on him. I’ll have to find a book. Less screen time is good for the mind. He was an interesting ( mis informed?) character with some of his genetic beliefs from what I understand. As a side note there was a whole culture of blood purity going on at that time, lots of folks in the states were trying to find past relatives from Europe ( england) and it led to genealogy clubs springing up. Many had lost touch with family over the generations. That unfortunately led to some ideas of : these types of people are better because of their ancestry.
I always remember the genealogy stat of 80 percent of Australians population was derived from criminals, yet in the 1950s 90 percent stated they had no criminal ancestry in their family.
In keeping with my theme of buy the hardware all these companies use as tech play, worked out great on Semis in general. But what I missed were the companies like Western Digital or Sandisk. The theme appears to be the same….regardless of what these AI companies do or don’t do….are they even useful, can they make money? The hardware gets bought either way and appears to be more profitable based on the results anyway.
Moving to Europe is a good option if your dream is purity of European blood, yes?
German Gary did move there
Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaims the Gospel.
“Christ is King. He died for our sins. We are forgiven. He will come again in glory. Amen.”
Three marriages, multiple affairs, got wife #3 pregnant while married to wife #2, and paid $50k in a sexual assault settlement.
He takes the wine thing seriously though.
The cost of human nature. It’s sickening to think about to be frank. How much money we must spend on defending and attacking each other….imagine if all humans could work together, but human nature gets in the way….
We could do so much better if we all worked together, but that’s simply impossible due to greed.
Dark Phoenix says:
February 20, 2026 at 8:15 am
So far, that deployment to the middle east cost roughly 2 billion AMERICAN WORKER’S tax dollars. To fight someone who can’t even attack us. Gonna be even more when it starts, and it will, cause you don’t spend that money if you ain’t gonna fight.
To put the scale in perspective, if you spent $10,000 every single day, it would take roughly 548 years to spend $2 billion.
Wouldn’t that money be better spent on nursing homes, schools, bridge and tunnel repair, job retraining, fixing potholes, or just paying down debt?
Supreme court finds Trump Tariffs illegal, rules that you can’t make up emergencies to make the president a permanent emergency dictator.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-decision-29c26fa2?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_1
Delta flight cancelled due to no pilot?
It’s probably the new software where the math doesn’t math. Error Error Error! everyone auto accepted the flight…and phone calls need to be made the old fashioned way.
“Delta moved trip coverage (at premium pay) from manual scheduler phone calls to an automated crew-staffing app which let Delta contact pilots in groups instead of one at a time, which created nuisance calls (pilots awakened to respond even though only one would actually get the trip, assigned based on union seniority).
In response, pilots negotiated an “auto-accept” option (in their contract) that provides a 12-minute window to contact the company and acknowledge the trip. Eventually, the airline and union allowed everyone to be called at once, which increased nuisance calls and further increased auto-accept usage. The app was expanded to also cover standard last-minute pickups, not just premium pay trips.”
With more auto-accept and fewer crew scheduling staff, Delta had trouble covering flights, so it relied on a contract provision called 23M7 that skips the app process and awards a trip to anyone they can reach by phone.
Delta pays 2x to the pilot who flies the trip, but must also identify a “harmed” pilot who was skipped and give them regular pay for not flying (3x total cost).
But to be eligible to get paid for not flying (to be ‘harmed’) a pilot must have auto-accept enabled, signaling they were available. So even more pilots started using auto-accept.
Here’s where things break down. If a trip opens 12 hours before departure and 200 pilots have auto-accept on, giving each 12 minutes successively makes timely coverage impossible. It’s a contractual catch-22. There’s just not enough people calling and not enough time to make it through everyone that needs to be called.
A sequence of contract and software changes created incentives that ballooned auto-accept usage and pushed Delta toward a manual, expensive bypass (“23M7”) for last-minute coverage. That bypass then further increased use of auto-accept, worsening the underlying timing and staffing problem. And that’s created operational fragility that shows up as cancellations when disruptions create open pilot trips.”
https://viewfromthewing.com/delta-cancelled-689-flights-in-three-days-the-union-contract-catch-22-that-left-planes-without-pilots/
markets sending…
Trump tariffs were struck down by the supreme court.
Trump uses the defense production act to increase production of Roundup.
Awesome.
Totally the intent of the defense production act. Not a give away to big business in the US at all.
Follow the money.
Walking:Blood purity was a big thing back then, that in turn helped lead to Hitler, but it was certainly not the only thing.
As for Wilson he was an absolute racist, but in all fairness no different than his contemporaries. I don’t like Wilson for a lot of reasons including involving us in WW 1.
As for Australians and criminal ancestry, it did not take much crime to be sent to Australia. The British sent thousands of Irish people to Australia during the famine for crimes as minor as stealing bread. They also sent thousands of orphaned Irish girls to Australia too.
History is important, but most Americans don ‘t believe it is. I think it shows with many of our elected leaders, and those that want to be elected.
Trump is pissed!!
Art, was trying to just understand the times better and what led to the outcomes. You read some of the text from the dark ages and fast forward to today and it’s the same ahit different century.
One outcome was the mormon religion having the world’s largest genealogy database stored in a mountain out west. But thats a whole different story of how that came to be
Roundup and vaccinations are not why people are screwed up. RFK Jr hates both. Wrong on both.
Yup.
No One says:
February 20, 2026 at 10:20 am
Roundup and vaccinations are not why people are screwed up. RFK Jr hates both. Wrong on both.
Following the money for y’all:
The Primary Beneficiary: Bayer AG (BAYRN.DE / BAYRY)
Bayer, through its subsidiary Monsanto, is the only domestic producer of glyphosate in the U.S. Bayer mines phosphorus in Soda Springs, Idaho, formulates glyphosate production in Muscatine, Iowa, and finishes the formulation and production in Luling, Louisiana. AgWeb This means Bayer is literally the sole company referenced — albeit unnamed — throughout the executive order.
The EO benefits Bayer in several powerful, layered ways:
1. Legal Immunity Shield
This is arguably the most valuable provision. Bayer faces tens of billions in Roundup/glyphosate cancer litigation (the company has set aside over $16 billion in litigation reserves). The EO grants immunity under Section 707 of the Defense Production Act to domestic producers complying with the order. While the precise scope of immunity as applied to existing tort claims is legally untested, it provides a significant new argument for Bayer’s legal defense and signals political support for shielding the company.
2. “Corporate Viability” Protection
The order explicitly directs the USDA Secretary to ensure that no rule or regulation “place the corporate viability of any domestic producer of elemental phosphorus or glyphosate-based herbicides at risk.” Trump ordered Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to ensure no orders, rules, or regulations place “the corporate viability of any domestic producer of elemental phosphorus or glyphosate-based herbicides at risk.” Central Oregon Daily This is extraordinary — essentially a federal backstop for Bayer’s entire domestic operation. It could be invoked to block EPA regulatory actions, state-level bans, or other restrictions.
3. Regulatory and Political Protection
Due to legal liabilities over lawsuits related to allegations of glyphosate leading to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, last year Bayer CEO Bill Anderson said the company may stop producing the herbicide. AgWeb The EO effectively takes that option off the table while simultaneously insulating Bayer from the regulatory and political pressures that were driving that consideration.
4. Confirmed Compliance = Confirmed Monopoly
Bayer subsidiary Monsanto provided this statement: “President Trump’s executive order reinforces the critical need for U.S. farmers to have access to essential, domestically produced crop protection tools such as glyphosate. We will comply with this order to produce glyphosate and elemental phosphorus.” AgWeb By complying with the DPA order, Bayer locks in its status as the designated national producer, making it far harder for regulators or courts to act against it.
Secondary Beneficiaries
Mosaic Company (MOS) — Mosaic states the company is responsible for 74% of “concentrated phosphate crop nutrients” across North America. Farmers Advance While Mosaic doesn’t produce elemental phosphorus itself, the EO’s designation of phosphate as a critical mineral and the broader tailwind for domestic phosphorus supply chains benefits Mosaic’s long-term position.
Nutrien (NTR) — The other major player; combined with Mosaic, the two companies control more than 90% of phosphate fertilizer sales to U.S. farmers. Farmers Advance
Bottom Line for Investment Consideration
Bayer is by far the most direct beneficiary — essentially receiving a presidential decree guaranteeing its domestic operations, protecting its corporate viability by law, and providing potential legal immunity shields. The stock (BAYRY) has been deeply depressed by Roundup litigation overhang, so to the extent this EO materially changes the litigation risk calculus, the upside optionality is significant. That said, whether the DPA immunity actually translates to protection from existing tort claims is a live legal question worth monitoring. As always, this isn’t investment advice — just the analytical picture.
They should be using defense production act for rare earth mining and refining though.
Unless Trump is planning the biggest grift of all time, using his cover of being “Tough on China” to give his family the biggest payoff from China ever by “making a deal” with them. If they are willing to pay Elaine Gu’s $20m/yr for a few gold medals, imagine how much they’d pay Trump’s family for the US to lay down on Taiwan and other things.
Idiot in chief ignored the embargo on GDP data. You know UK arrests public figures when they leak secret data.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/trump-gdp-weak-powell-fed-interest-rates.html
3b , regarding the Australians yes I realize that a small crime could lead to being sent away. It was more of an interesting fact that people will cling to a belief even if statistically untrue. I did say 1950s. Different time, and a family could be shunned for such an allegation . Because today it’s cool or that we are more aware to say yeah my great uncle was sent here for stealing bread or better killing a man in a bar fight
As for the blood purity, yeah a lot of that thinking was from – farm animal stock improvements through breeding in the 1800s heck even now with race horses, and the country having several generations in america at that point and wanting to know their history, ie : daughters of the revolution clubs, mayflower clubs, eire clubs, tc
NO ONE- Old way to legally do tariffs was Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. A long investigation by a committee from the USTR. The USTR committee makes its determination within 12 months after an investigation begins.
Trump wanted a shortcut (no long investigation) and imposed them under IEPPA.
Congress is going to have to go back and change the law, it’s not 1974 anymore and the WTO is as toothless as the UN.
Otherwise goodbye economy. Good news they already ruled on Chinese made electric cars, under the older 1974 Trade Act the 100% tariff amount on Chinese made electric cars should remain.
Walking: Understood.
Whether you like Trump or not, think about tariffs this way. Other countries have imposed retaliator tariffs on the US, it is done so pretty much immediately.
We now lack the ability to do so, impose tariffs quickly. Again tariffs are legal it’s the process that must be different, and the law used. If China says tomorrow 100% tariffs on US made steel it’s done rather quickly. Our industries cannot wait for a year for the government bureaucrats to lounge around and debate, take their long weekends and vacations while our industries collapse.
Juice,
The US pays congress to do something, they can stop delegating everything to agencies and do some work themselves. Legislation is supposed to be a full-time job for them.
The COVID experience should have illustrated what a disaster emergency rule by expert agencies is. The only thing worse is emergency rule by an unrestrained president.
No One; Full time job?? Every other day they are on recess. It is no wonder that people that have no desire to work hard want to be a member of Congress or the Senate.
As for Australians and criminal ancestry, it did not take much crime to be sent to Australia. The British sent thousands of Irish people to Australia during the famine for crimes as minor as stealing bread. They also sent thousands of orphaned Irish girls to Australia too.
Kind of like sending people to El Salvador, Honduras or Uganda?
Does this mean we won’t get our Trump checks? How about the Trump phones?
re: “stop delegating everything”.
Dude they cannot even run a meeting without it going off the rails and devolving into partisan bickering.
Our two party system is the problem if there were three or more prominent parties they would actually have to work together rather than hoping every two years the house seats flip red or blue. It’s always going to be a winner-takes-all fight otherwise.
Hughes: No, not at all. Real stretch on your part.
10:45 – if trump follows the rule book and gets congressional approval for tariffs jnstead of thinking he is a goddamn king, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
$175 Billion mess.
Even when they are not on recess, some of them fail to show up to vote…especially those “representing” our state
BRT: Yep! It is a disgrace. Same with local government too. When Mamdani was an Assembly man for all of 4 years , he missed half the sessions.
It is also outrageous that you can run for another office while already holding a poririton, and if you are not elected you keep your old job. And while campaigning for the other position you still get paid from your current one. It is a disgraceful racket.
We cannot operate our country like it’s 1974 or 1962, the Trade Act and Trade Expansion Act are obsolete and need to be updated for the modern world.
The EU can react swiftly to external tariffs by using pre-approved, accelerated, or revived measures. In April 2025, for example, the EU approved retaliatory tariffs to start almost immediately in response to U.S. metal tariffs.
We have no such pre-approved process. EU and China for example do not wait for the WTO bureaucrats that is for sure and neither should we.
We cannot operate our country like it was a monarchy. Period.
Party of “fiscal responsibility” is destroying the economy of this country.
We wouldn’t be in this mess with Harris.
BREAKING NEWS!
Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs
This just in! Trump and Wexler both shared a penchant for lemon shaped cocks.
Film at eleven.
Maga Farmers, hard core Ann Ryan, will get to keep govt hand outs
hughesrep says:
February 20, 2026 at 11:11 am
Does this mean we won’t get our Trump checks? How about the Trump phones?
The Supreme Court just reminded us that the Constitution still works. Article I gives Congress the power to tax — not the president acting alone under emergency powers never designed for tariffs.
This isn’t about left or right. It’s about the rule of law and the separation of powers that has protected this country for 249 years.
The tariffs cost American families $1,700 a year, destroyed 108,000 manufacturing jobs, and produced a 1.4% GDP quarter. The economic evidence was overwhelming.
Now the hard work begins: unwinding $175 billion in refunds, rebuilding trade relationships, and restoring predictability for American businesses.
Leadership isn’t governing by impulse. It’s building durable policy within constitutional guardrails.
-Antony Scaramucci
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
President Trump’s global tariffs are illegal, the Supreme Court ruled, in a stinging repudiation of a signature White House initiative
Rent – Can it already….the closest we can to a monarchy was when Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, ordered spending without congressional approval and during the presidential election 1964 decided to ignore the voters in the southern states as no electoral votes were counted from any of the eleven southern states.
Nothing happens in Washington DC unless Congress approves it and the the spending required to do it. You know it too so can the monarchy histrionics and save it for your followers on Facebook. The government is working as designed…Three branches checks and balances as proved by the recent supreme court ruling on IEEPA tariffs.
Will the Democrats have give into majority rule and can their attempts to shut down the government and destroy the economy?
Nope they want to see it all burn down… I predict it’s going to be a hot burning summer.
Today’s 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court is a Victory for the American People and a Win for the Separation of Powers enshrined in the Constitution of the United States.
– Vice President Mike Pence
Founding Father quotes:
Ben Franklin: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
Samuel Adams: “A general Dissolution of Principles & Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole Force of the Common Enemy. While the People are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their Virtue they will be ready to surrender their Liberties to the first external or internal Invader.”
The Founding Fathers understood that human nature is flawed. Having lived through it, I no longer trust people the way I once did. In my twenties, I was a socialist who believed in the “greater good,” but experience has since stripped away that idealism. Humans aren’t capable of that level of goodness on their own…I’ve seen enough to know better.
No One says:
February 20, 2026 at 12:23 pm
Founding Father quotes:
Ben Franklin: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
Samuel Adams: “A general Dissolution of Principles & Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole Force of the Common Enemy. While the People are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their Virtue they will be ready to surrender their Liberties to the first external or internal Invader.”
*HUNDREDS OF TARIFF REFUND LAWSUITS PENDING IN US TRADE COURT
“We cannot operate our country like it’s 1974 or 1962, the Trade Act and Trade Expansion Act are obsolete and need to be updated for the modern world.”
So change the law, and stop with the dictatorship.
Seems to me, even the Supreme Court knows the King thing is ovah.
I’m somewhat surprised that the most conservative justices dissented.
I bet they wouldn’t have dissented if Kamala had imposed similar tariffs citing a “climate emergency”. And similarly I bet that the leftist judges wouldn’t have signed on to a ruling against a “climate emergency” based tariff from a Democrat president.
These tariffs were going to pay for 15 different things.
What’s the Trump going to do now? Can’t wait to see the deficit increase.
Everyone is turning on him.
By far, the worst POTUS ever. At least the Evangelicals still love him.
No One,
What is the emergency?
The economy was absolutely flying when Biden left it for him. All Trump has done is destroy it while grifting like no one ever.
Simplistic reasoning.
Trump speaking now. Barely coherent.’
Executive power gets abused all the time.
Habeas is just one example from olden times.
Obama with Syria
Clinton with Kosovo
Trump with Venezuela
Biden vaccine mandates
GW Bush signing statements
List goes on an on and congress abdicates it’s responsibilities. We did not vote to outlaw it etc.
Two party system is almost as bad as a one party system..
Now what happens to the $5 trillion of foreign direct investment pledges into the U.S. that were made this past year to avoid the Trump tariff threat? Isn’t that why the stock market learned to love tariffs?
– David Rosenberg
Again. Trump ignores the “how.”
Always did. Always will. The “how” and the “law” matters.
Tariff money got siphoned off to the handlers.
Average Americans will never see a dime. Possession is 9/10’s of the law.
the heist is over, but what is gone is gone.
otoh, the walls are closing in on the average american, you think the chinese are being controlled by their goverment, just wait till there is an american Uyghur like camp in new jersey.
think it can’t happen? you just don’t have the same vision as Musk, Thiel, Bezos or Zuckerschmuck.
oh , and for zuck, did you see what that turd did today?
walked with his buddies into an american courtroom wearing his meta glasses.
he has no respect for the american court/legal system.
you know what the judge called it? a misstep. f’n judges must be taught that term, that’s the same word they used when my ex wife did what she did to me. and you know what that means? nope, he won’t be punished.
america is a playground, where you can fucc with the courts, rape a child, do whatever you want. as long as you can pay to play in court, you are good. only the poor get convicted.
Juice: As much as Trump does hos disruption and chaos thing, the Dems and their leading lights are absolutely no better. In fact they are worse in some says, as they portray themselves as the party where the adults in charge. The rational level headed alternative to Trump and MAGA, as we have seen they are not. They engage in hysterics and performative politics. They offer nothing to the American people except they are not Trump. And if the radical progressive nut jobs in the Dem party ever take over, then its over. We will all be told how we should think. Dissent will not be tolerated.
Juice,
What was the emergency? He could have gotten this done the legal way. He’s an asshole. All of you who looked past his brazen narcissism can now admit that our Constitution does matter. Everything this fucktard does is not in the spirit of the law.
Short of an invasion, there’s no emergency that justifies tearing up the constitution, limited government, and granting unbridled arbitrary powers to anyone in government.
Of course there was no emergency, and even if there was, 10%+ tariffs on over 100 countries wouldn’t solve it.
A sustained long term solution to the China problem requires a real short and long term plan, involving legislature and both parties, not a president du jour picking random tariff numbers out of a hat, personally negotiating this or that ephemeral “deal”, and then abandoning the plan to get empty promises about buying US grains or beef for a couple of years. Trump imagining himself as The Great Helmsman, able to negotiate all deals political and commercial, able to perfectly set interest rates, set product prices, and shoot a 65 from the tips, is farcical.
“ trump wins gold in downhill presidency”
So 3b, since the Dems suck, then it’s okay for Trump to suck.
This has been your defense for years.
Seriously, do you realize how stupid this sounds?
“Juice: As much as Trump does hos disruption and chaos thing, the Dems and their leading lights are absolutely no better.”
Disruption and chaos is codeword for what? He is a dictator who wipes his ass with the Constitution. I am so glad he got his way overdue comeuppance today. And you defend his behavior.
And it’s only chaos because MAGA is clueless. Disruption? Yeah, of the our Constitution.
what is china problem?
you no like china. china attack you with low price coffee maker?
No One says:
February 20, 2026 at 1:38 pmA sustained long term solution to the China problem
Do not upset the Great and Wonderful General Tso!
you likey shlomo? is shlomo a problem like china problem? what no coffee maker?
No One says:
February 20, 2026 at 1:38 pm
Short of an invasion, there’s no emergency that justifies tearing up the constitution.
Billionaire Shlomo Kramer: “It’s time to limit America’s First Amendment. We need to control all the social platforms… And take control of what they are saying”
Doubtful he ever worked for Goldman
Maybe he was a DEI hire
Libturd says:
February 20, 2026 at 1:40 pm
So 3b, since the Dems suck, then it’s okay for Trump to suck.
This has been your defense for years.
Seriously, do you realize how stupid this sounds?
I am not attacking 3b. Just trying to provide him with a mirror.
The parallels between China today and 1930s Germany are so obvious that China has to hire propagandists to constantly write about how such comparisons, are naiive, lazy, and dangerous.
Yeah, he needs it
Libturd says:
February 20, 2026 at 1:46 pm
I am not attacking 3b. Just trying to provide him with a mirror.
Tariffs debacle also evidences lack of economic policy.
Governing is hard and they are embarrassingly bad at it
Lib – re: “What was the emergency”
Let’s be crystal clear here. The Supreme Court ruling only invalidated tariffs issued under IEEPA. Section 232: Tariffs on steel (50%), aluminum (50%), and automobiles (25%) for national security reasons. Section 301: Tariffs are more product-specific primarily targeting China for unfair trade practices., solar panels, electric cars etc.
What was covered under this Supreme Court Ruling on IEEPA?
Fentanyl Tariffs – (China, Canada, Mexico).
Reciprocal Tariffs – They tariff us we tariff back..(this power is missing for sure)
Venezuela Oil Tariffs – sanctions anyone?
Brazil Tariffs – (Brazil internet censorship, not a great use)
Russian Oil – sanctions being ignored trading oil in outside the sanctions in non- dollars
De Minimis – we are subsiding’s the cheap crap being flown in on US Postal service (this needs to end, I don’t care if you love Temu and Alibaba we should not be paying for the freight).
We can argue all we want about it but Congress now needs to step up and do the job themselves or delegate the power. We need the ability to tariff quickly and the old processes fatally flawed under Section 301 and Section 232.
There needs to be a new framework that can act quickly folks… Congress needs to get to work. I will be contacting them you should do the same call the phone number, this old fashioned way is actually the only way they pay attention to their constituents.
https://www.house.gov/representatives
Trump:
“I can embargo. I can do anything I want, but I can’t charge $1, because that’s not what it says. … I can do anything I want to do to them, but I can’t charge any money. So, I’m allowed to destroy the country, but I can’t charge them a little fee.”
It’s downright scary. It’s one of the things I give respect to Trump on….he woke our country up to the threat that China has become. He has acted on it, and I am grateful for it. We have to contain China’s power…. or freedom as we know it is dead. Hell, human progress as we know it will be dead if China controls the world. They have one objective, and that is total control. Aka say bye to freedom of choice.
No One says:
February 20, 2026 at 1:49 pm
The parallels between China today and 1930s Germany are so obvious that China has to hire propagandists to constantly write about how such comparisons, are naiive, lazy, and dangerous.
Dumbass….you do realize that he is doing these tariffs to help you….yes, to help America. How else are you going to compete with China? Do you think China doesn’t use tariffs? Try getting your business access to their market…good luck. Just because you hate trump, you want to hurt America in their competition to contain the growing power of China. Don’t cry when they eat your lunch.
Arc says:
February 20, 2026 at 2:03 pm
Trump:
“I can embargo. I can do anything I want, but I can’t charge $1, because that’s not what it says. … I can do anything I want to do to them, but I can’t charge any money. So, I’m allowed to destroy the country, but I can’t charge them a little fee.”
And I don’t know if tariffs are the answer here….but at least he is trying to do something about it. So if tariffs aren’t the answer, what are you going to do?
Here are the options:
Tariffs are one tool. Other strategies include:
Industrial policy (e.g., semiconductor subsidies)
Domestic investment in infrastructure & R&D
Export controls
Alliances and coordinated trade pressure with partners
For example, the CHIPS and Science Act focuses on boosting U.S. semiconductor manufacturing rather than taxing imports.
Many economists argue long-term competitiveness depends more on innovation, productivity, and supply chain resilience than tariffs alone.
1:59, so you are saying Congress needs to step up AND clear the mess the orange buffoon – who does not read, does not understand the constitution, is old, grifts, siphons money by the billions on a daily basis to his kids, is caught red handed in a pedo ring…………… created?
Is that what you are saying? Otherwise, we are doomed?
We have a rogue president.
He now wants to by-pass the Supreme Court and impose 10% across the board tariffs?
Dude is so litigious that he can’t even fix the East Wing without it getting stuck in limbo. Big talker, but can’t get any sh1t done to completion. He just destroys everything in his way.
Lib: I don’t think it sounds stupid at all, if you actually thought about what I said. But, since you a re blinded by emotion, you can no longer do that as you used to do in the past. As for doing it for years, you would be wrong on that.
As for you, you claim to criticize the Democrats too, but it is never stand alone criticism, you always end it with what about Trump. Like I have been saying for years, Trump did not happen in a vacuum, How did he make it back after the first 4 years of his chaos?? Could it be because of 4 years of Biden chaos? Could it be Biden’s VP who became the Presidential candidate? I guess we will never know.
Trump will be gone, what to the Democrats offer nothing. There is nothing stupid about my comment, but your comment on what I said is just pure emotion. You might want to take a look in that mirror yourself.
Art: I worked for GS, you should not be jealous, it is not a good look.
Vampire or squid?
3b – this is not the time to talk about democrats failings. If anything they are the only hope for this country now and every republican and democrat needs to get behind the party not in power.
2:46 Vampire Squid ‘ward
National Foundation for Credit Counseling reports that soon financial stress will be at an all time high among Americans this is due to the high level of consumer debt. The Fed recently reported that total household debt is over 18 trillion dollars. The foundation also reports cash flow issues with consumers making debt repayment an issue. (Marketwatch)
It most certainly is the time to talk about Democrat failings.They market themselves as the alternative to Trump. Well, that is simply not enough.
hughes: When I worked there, most people never heard of GS. It was a partnership in those days.
If you told people who did not work on the “street” you worked at GS, they thought is was a law firm or a jeweler.
It was a wonderful firm with excellent people back then. We worked hard and were handsomely rewarded.
And of course we have one of our “new” posters posting. Of course they are not new, but we will pretend they are. So childish, but true to form,
I couldn’t agree more. But there’s not a single titan of industry, master of the universe or other influential person that wants to “fix” it. These are not the most productive, entrepreneurial people building factories. They want to corner markets by conspiring and colluding, often with the government’s help, so they can be middle men toll takers… not innovators.
No One says:
February 20, 2026 at 1:38 pm
Short of an invasion, there’s no emergency that justifies tearing up the constitution, limited government, and granting unbridled arbitrary powers to anyone in government.
Of course there was no emergency, and even if there was, 10%+ tariffs on over 100 countries wouldn’t solve it.
A sustained long term solution to the China problem requires a real short and long term plan, involving legislature and both parties,
Dance First Think Later.
Lying religious people eat this shit up.
I prefer an athiest.
Arc says:
February 20, 2026 at 9:49 am
Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaims the Gospel.
“Christ is King. He died for our sins. We are forgiven. He will come again in glory. Amen.”
Tried to tell him the other day, you know, two wrongs don’t make a right.
Even when you tell him straight to his face both sides are bad, he skips back to this mode like a 45 with a deep scratch in the record.
Libturd says:
February 20, 2026 at 1:40 pm
So 3b, since the Dems suck, then it’s okay for Trump to suck.
This has been your defense for years.
Seriously, do you realize how stupid this sounds?
Sure we can. And your handlers are about to prove how it’s possible through technology.
RentL0rd says:
February 20, 2026 at 11:46 am
We cannot operate our country like it was a monarchy. Period.
😁
Hughesrep says:
February 20, 2026 at 9:51 am
He takes the wine thing seriously though.
Rent – I don’t believe Congress can do anything substantive anymore.
So yes DOOM!… I have placed my bets on doom…
TSA agents are again working without pay for a second time in as many months, since the fall shutdown do the resistance to majority rule the tantrum the Democrats now hold and keep holding in the Senate have caused a 43 days shutdown about 1100 TSA agents have quit. This time morale has to be way worse, many many more will quit.
For the Democrats to win politically and substantively they are willing to destroy the economy and the country. Their message shifts too it was health case subsides last time and now they want to burn every thing down over illegal immigrants. You really think Jeffries and Schumer and going to rally the party for a win in the Mid Terms? One is way too old and the other is completely inept and lacks any kind of charisma to lead.
Now we have talk of AOC, Bernie and heck even Kamala Harris leading the polls for their party….. Got news for you they are losers and will always be losers.
What is the Democratic message for the midterms? “Get Trump”
Who are the Democratic party leaders for the Midterms? “Newsom, Mondami, AOC, Bernie, Crockett, Schumer, Jeffries”
DOOM,DOOM and MORE DOOM!
Imma need y’all to calm down
1100 TSA agents have quit. This time morale has to be way worse, many many more will quit.
An Ayn Rand disciple would just just say replace them with Tesla Robots.
America is committing genocide in Cuba.
Dark: I never said two wrongs make a right, so I don’t get where you got that nonsense from. Perhaps, you can point to a post where I said that. I think you are annoyed because I called on your comment about whining. A look in the mirror by you is required after that comment. Or, is it ok to whine about some subjects but not others, Who makes that determination on approved whine subjects?
3:35
Again, all the Republicans have to do is present a bill that will peel off half a dozen senators while still holding their caucus together. However they’re not willing to do so. If they present something to get those 6 votes (Fetterman is a given since he lost his cognitive abilities) they’ll lose votes on the nut job R side in the house, so they won’t put it on the floor due to the Hastert Rule and Trump would veto it anyway.
Or they could do away with the filibuster if it’s that important. I’m guessing that’s coming in November if they lose the house, or McConnell dies, whichever comes first.
Totally the democrats fault. Why can’t they just get everything they want whenever they want it. But I want an oompaloompa now daddy!
Man typing on an iPhone has gone to hell.
Trump: “‘President, I’d love to kiss you’ — this is a very powerful man. I don’t want to be kissed my that man. But a very powerful, strong man … he said, ‘Sir, I want to kiss you so badly.’ And I said, ‘No thank you.'”
That sounds a little gay.
Hughes – We both know the House acted in good faith and passed a bipartisan, full-year funding bill. The vote was 341 to 88..
It’s the Senate Democrats.. Schumer in particular. That old codger is as bad as Trump.
His strategy is shutdown….that is all he’s got as he hangs onto power like that other old aging codger in the Senate McConnell, both should be living in a “independent living facility” by now.
On Epstein Island, or a church altar:
Here we are dear old friend
You and I drunk again
Laughs have been had and and tears have been shed
Maybe the whiskey’s gone to my head
But if I were gay
I would give you my heart
And if I were gay
You’d be my work of art
And if I were gay
We would swim in romance
But I’m not gay
So get your hand out of my pants
It’s not that I dont care – I do
I just don’t see myself in you
Another time, another scene
I’d be right behind you, if you know what I mean
Get rid of all the TSA agents.
Didn’t need them until that turd Bush created the chinese like spy system called Homeland Security. It wasn’t americans who took down the towers.
We didn’t need this. Nor ICE. But here we are.
Even OJ could run through the airport back then.
Times were good.
Cuba has kept its citizens imprisoned and poor for decades, became dependent on some of the world’s worst countries – USSR/China/Venezuela. They are living the anti-capitalist dream.
Tariffs are a tax on the consumer. I pay for them.
Ronald Reagan, a former Hollywood actor, said this:
You see, at first, when someone says, “Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,” it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works-but only for a short time. What eventually occurs is: First, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets. And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition. So, soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying. Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.
The Great Pumpkin says:
February 20, 2026 at 2:20 pm
Dumbass….you do realize that he is doing these tariffs to help you….yes, to help America. How else are you going to compete with China? Do you think China doesn’t use tariffs? Try getting your business access to their market…good luck. Just because you hate trump, you want to hurt America in their competition to contain the growing power of China. Don’t cry when they eat your lunch.
Arc says:
February 20, 2026 at 2:03 pm
Trump:
“I can embargo. I can do anything I want, but I can’t charge $1, because that’s not what it says. … I can do anything I want to do to them, but I can’t charge any money. So, I’m allowed to destroy the country, but I can’t charge them a little fee.”
But now America is committing genocide against them. They had something before, now America is starving them.
It’s one thing to feed your pets. Another to keep them in a cage with no food and water.
No One says:
February 20, 2026 at 4:13 pm
Cuba has kept its citizens imprisoned and poor for decades, became dependent on some of the world’s worst countries – USSR/China/Venezuela. They are living the anti-capitalist dream.
Republicans need Florida to win elections. The economic blockade on Cuba benefits them. Without blockade Cuba would be like the Dominican Republic
Remember that’s how W stole the election from Al Gore
Dark Phoenix says:
February 20, 2026 at 3:49 pm
America is committing genocide in Cuba.
Che Guevara gave Fidel Castro the idea for communist Universal Healthcare for elderly. That’s Medicare
In Cuba, people are struggling with frequent blackouts, shortages of gasoline and cooking gas and dwindling supplies of diesel that power the nation’s water pumps. Trash is piling up, food prices are soaring, schools are canceling classes and hospitals are suspending surgeries.
This is genocide.
TEmPer TAntruM TrumP
Trump announces new global tariff in astonishing attack on SCOTUS and threatens to END trade with nations
Donald Trump came out guns blazing against the conservative majority Supreme Court for striking down most of his tariffs.
He slammed the highest US court as a ‘disgrace to our nation’ in an emergency press conference called on Friday after the bombshell decision.
The President also launched a scathing accusation – that the justices who struck down his signature tariffs are being ‘swayed by foreign interests.’
In his seething condemnation, Trump said that some conservative justices are ‘not loyal’ like those appointed by Democratic presidents and accused them of going against the US Constitution.
He lamented that the decision is nonsensical, claiming that the Court admitted he can do anything he wants as president other than slap down tariffs.
‘I’m allowed to destroy the country, but I can’t charge them a little fee,’ Trump complained. ‘I can do anything I want to do to them, but I can’t charge any money.’
He then announced that he’s implementing a new 10 percent global tariff as a retaliatory move.
Trump said he’s exploring ‘powerful alternatives’ to his tariffs to ensure the US ‘takes in more money’ from foreign countries.
‘We have alternatives – great alternatives,’ he insisted. ‘Could be more money, we’ll take in more money, and we’ll be a lot stronger for it.’
‘We have alternatives – great alternatives,’ he insisted. ‘Could be more money, we’ll take in more money.
Trump sounds like that young girl tourist in Thailand.
Art – The Dominican Republic did not have nuclear weapons on it’s soil.
If you have the stones to visit Cuba to see you comrades make sure to stop by Morro Cabana military park too see the museum of Soviet missiles there. On the north side of the fort is an exabit of missiles from the Cuban Missile Crisis including the Soviet nuclear missile that almost ended the world.
Right name for the job.
Mihwa Bang, 55, of Flushing, NY, was charged with prostitution, a disorderly persons offense, according to Hardyston police. Won Youngok, 63, of Flushing, NY, was charged with promoting prostitution, a third-degree offense, and money laundering, a third-degree offense, police said.
Yeah, well, it’s okay for America to now have them pointed at everyone, right??
JFK wanted them gone. That got JFK aced.
Johnson was a rat.
Juice Box says:
February 20, 2026 at 4:44 pm
Art – The Dominican Republic did not have nuclear weapons on it’s soil.
If you have the stones to visit Cuba to see you comrades make sure to stop by Morro Cabana military park too see the museum of Soviet missiles there. On the north side of the fort is an exabit of missiles from the Cuban Missile Crisis including the Soviet nuclear missile that almost ended the world.
Juice: A friend of mine visited Cuba back when there was that brief period of detente between the USA and Cuba. He said it was fascinating. Havana frozen in time, and crumbling, cars from the 1950 s still being used.
Phoenix – Aroma Spa on Rt 23 in the sticks.. not far from Vernon Valley…
That place looks like a tough wank….
Google Maps —> https://tinyurl.com/3ynskzzd
4:11 – Get rid of TSA agents…
Back in the late 90s, I would wake up at 6 am in Atlanta and attend a 9am in Morristown, NJ. No such thing as flight delays or pat downs, until Bush Jr ruined it all.
Measles??? I voted for that !
“I can destroy the country!” – DJT, 2/20/2026
And no one is surprised.
Boob shaped ball
https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/s/8UdTaQVP2S
Ohh ohhhhh look wut you made me dooooo
Barton Swaim Columnist
On immigration, after the Biden presidency, a measure of unpopularity is inescapable. The Trump administration can’t do nothing about the millions of migrants who entered the U.S illegally. Neither can it seek to deport illegal aliens without raising public alarm and affording its political enemies opportunities to vilify it as “fascist” and the like. That doesn’t excuse the administration from willfully overstepping the limits of its mandate. But reasonable observers can admit that any sane policy will, to a greater or lesser degree, look ugly.
I have no sage counsel, other than to say this: If illegal migrants are performing lawful, remunerative labor, they are, at that moment, contributing to the welfare of mankind and ought to be left alone. Work is a sacred activity. Nabbing people as they wait for jobs as roofers or drywallers, or raiding hotels and farms as they do useful things and earn money for themselves and their families, offends natural sensibilities. A great many natural-born citizens won’t work. Many more won’t do their best while on the clock. To punish noncitizens for engaging in productive behavior is to persecute the righteous. No good will come of it.
how many illegals are there, and why do you need something 3x the size of an amazon warehouse to store them? why not just ship them home? Or are these the new concentration camps for americans?
https://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/ice-warehouse-georgia-detention-center-video-b2924960.html
Cause it’s all for show DP.
And yes 3b, the Dems suck too. But not nearly as much. It does not make them much more appealing. But Trump is an absolute dickhead and if populist MAGA had half a brain, they would take Trump to task on all of his lies. One by one, they are realizing it’s all show. Much like the Dem voters who didn’t come out for Kamala as they knew the pendulum of identity politics had swung to far. Though, I’d gladly take the construction of identity neutral bathrooms and drag queen book readings over the train wreck Trump and MAGA currently are.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-honor-of-eric-dane
At the time of his death, Dane’s reported net worth stood at $7 million, accumulated through his television roles and film work.
Rebecca Gayheart, Eric Dane’s wife, has a net worth of $5 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
If any of you have some spare change to help, please send payment above using the parasitic GoFuckMe app.
Don’t persecute anyone. Prosecute them, and you start with the employers.
Chi in the PRI says:
February 21, 2026 at 10:32 am
Barton Swaim Columnist
Or are these the new concentration camps for americans?
Yes. Because Trump very clearly stated, he can do anything he wants now.
Can’t pass a bill? Change the rules.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/us/politics/senate-republicans-talking-filibuster.html
here uncle jeff, have some classified files.
Obama Lawyer Shared Private White House Information With Epstein
Kathryn Ruemmler also referred to Jeffrey Epstein in emails as her “uncle.”
1944 the Greatest generation goes to Normandy to fight evil
2026 the Boomer generation physically assaults High School kids for protesting against ice
But no one from Epstein island arrested…
More footage of PA Police Chief attacking multiple teenage girls participating in an Anti-ICE school walkout protest (2/20/26)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pennsylvania/comments/1raxjxn/more_footage_of_pa_police_chief_attacking/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Lib: I have said in the past that the Report ultimately hurt themselves with Trump, and they have. The Dems can trot out anyone now, and they will probably win, and the Dems know it and don’t care. You would think they would with all their BS about how much they care about the American people, well they don’t care. And make no mistake there are leftists/ progressives that are just as ignorant and dumb as as any MAGA supporter. And so the country will continue to decline, and thousands, millions, whatever will continue not to vote for President, or for anyone, because it is just one big farce.
re: ” Trump very clearly stated, he can do anything he wants now.”
And you are surprised the man with no filter said that?
When has that not been the case for US Presidents?
I can go on an on about internment camps, Gitmo, extra judicial killings of Americans, cancelling habeas corpus 4 times, seizing assets, land, and leaders of other countries. Simple things like perjury, obstruction, lying to congress, corruption, and henious war crimes, and heck bombing countries to smithereens because you know no boots on the ground!
Fact is superior strength has always dictated our justice and our policies. We have only two check against this power wielded by the executive and both those checks are wielded by Congress. They aren’t very successful at it that is for sure. Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump twice impeached. None of these presidents were convicted by the Senate or removed from office.
The other check Congress has is the term limits they imposed when they passed the 22nd amendment.. Two terms and you are out…. Lets see what happens in 2028…..
From Business Insider.
How high-earners are using real estate and a little-known rule to slash their tax bills
By Kathleen Elkins
Updated Feb 21, 2026, 10:45 AM GMT
There’s a little-known IRS designation called real estate professional status, or REPS.
It allows qualifying investors to use real estate losses to offset W-2 income.
If you or your spouse qualifies for REPS, it can reduce or even eliminate your tax liability.
For years, Dr. Jill Green watched a large chunk of her physician’s salary eaten up by taxes.
“I was paying a ton in taxes and still writing a check for a hefty five-figure amount every year,” she told Business Insider.
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When she and her husband started investing in real estate about six years ago to create an additional revenue stream, she learned about a little-known IRS designation called real estate professional status, or REPS.
It’s a strategy some tax experts have nicknamed the “marital loophole.”
The rule allows qualifying investors to use real estate losses to offset W-2 income, something most high earners can’t typically do.
Here’s how Green and other couples are using it to significantly shrink their tax bills while growing their rental portfolios.
Why rental losses usually don’t help high earners
Under normal IRS rules, rental real estate is considered a passive activity. That means rental losses can offset rental income, but they cannot offset W-2 income, such as a physician’s or accountant’s salary.
So if you’re a doctor earning $250,000 and your rental property shows a $150,000 loss on paper, you’re still taxed on the full $250,000.
There is one small exception: a $25,000 “special allowance” for long-term rental losses, but it phases out between $100,000 and $150,000 of income and disappears entirely above $150,000.
For high-income earners, that benefit isn’t an option. If you’re making over $150,000 and you want to use rental losses to offset W-2 income, either you have to be a real estate professional, or you have to be married to one.
That’s where the “marital loophole” comes in.
How REPS works
If one spouse qualifies as a “real estate professional,” rental losses are no longer treated as passive. They become active losses, meaning they can offset active income, including W-2 wages.
“You could continue to have your high W-2 income,” CPA and real estate investor Amanda Han said, “as long as your spouse is a real estate professional, then the rental losses can offset both of your incomes.”
Letizia Alto and Kenji Asakura, both physicians who later scaled back their hospital work after building a large rental portfolio, said they used this strategy to “zero out” their income taxes for seven years and accelerate their path to financial independence.
The strategy hinges on generating tax losses, not necessarily losing money.
It’s common in real estate to produce positive cash flow while showing a loss on your tax return. That’s largely because of depreciation, a non-cash deduction that allows owners to write off a portion of a building’s value each year, as well as deductible expenses like renovations.
The year Asakura qualified for REPS, the couple leaned into upgrades. On paper, those renovation costs — combined with depreciation — helped generate sizable losses. At the same time, the improvements increased the properties’ value and allowed them to raise rents. So, they were improving their portfolio and boosting cash flow while creating paper losses that could offset their physician income.
What it takes to qualify for REPS
You don’t apply for REPS. You qualify based on how you spend your time.
Two main requirements must be met:
You must spend more than 750 hours a year on real-estate activities
More than half of your working hours must be in real estate
“You can’t be an attorney working 80 hours a week and then claim REPS,” said Green. “That means you have to be working a minimum of 160 hours in real estate.”
She still works full time as a physician, while her husband, who builds custom closets and garages and manages their real estate portfolio, qualifies. “His work was already considered REPS hours,” she explained.
Documenting your hours is critical. CPA Kristel Espinosa warns that REPS can be closely scrutinized by the IRS.
“You can have other jobs, but you just have to be able to show that to the IRS if ever audited that the real-estate business really is your main thing,” she said.
Asakura logs his hours in a Google Calendar with detailed notes, everything from property visits to replacing an air conditioner.
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The short-term rental workaround
If neither spouse can qualify for REPS, or if you’re a single household that doesn’t qualify, there’s another strategy known as the “short-term rental tax loophole.”
The IRS treats short-term rentals (where the average guest stay is seven days or fewer) differently. If the owner materially participates in managing the property, losses may be used to offset W-2 income, even without REPS.
To qualify, investors must meet one of several material participation requirements. The most common are:
Spending at least 500 hours on the property
Spending at least 100 hours, and no one else spends more time
Spending more hours than everyone else combined
For example, if an investor spends 80 hours managing a short-term rental and cleaners and landscapers spend 50 hours total, the investor may still qualify under the “more than everyone else combined” test.
Han gives the example of someone earning $500,000 a year in W-2 income.
“If you invest in a long-term rental and you can’t use it to offset the tax, then maybe you’re paying 37% taxes on it,” she explained. However, if you turn that property into a short-term rental and generate a $200,000 tax loss, “that offsets your W-2, so maybe you’re saving $74,000 in taxes.”
Unlike the $25,000 long-term rental allowance, this strategy has no income cap.
“For people with lower income, it’s even more impactful,” Han said. “If you make $1 million and you save some tax, great. It’s not life-changing. But if you’re making $80,000 and you save a significant amount in taxes, that’s a lot more money to invest for that specific taxpayer.”
5:53 – that’s not exactly what he said.
Trump’s exact quote on Feb 20, 2026 is “ I can destroy the country!”
This is not a filter problem, this is a problem of intent.
A man with so low competence and such high ego should not be put in a place of responsibility.
Whew Rent I thought this was you!
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-secret-service-agents-killed-man-trying-to-unlawfully-enter-trumps-mar-a-lago-2026-02-22/
What a racist Mandami is asking for ID.
To register to shovel snow in Mamdani’s NYC you must present two forms of ID, plus a social security card.
https://x.com/jammles9/status/2025352377935516020/photo/1
Tax purposes?