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Should be a wild four years.

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Ya see goy you just misunderstand the genius of 50 year mortgages, just pay the banks more money! Doesn't that sound like a good deal for you? Actually it isn't believe it or not, you are getting ripped off by banks even worse than you were before. This is going to become a major problem and giving banks more money isn't the solution I voted for. It's not a solution at all in fact.
I can't believe Trump thought that even floating this was a good idea. Possibly one of the biggest blunders he's had this term.

Economy is the biggest hurdle the right faces going into the midterms, and this buffoon throws out more infinite debt for the middle class. Absolute clown shit, I don't know what the fuck he was thinking.
 
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Looking like a full cave, with just promises to vote later to maintain Obummercare subsidies. Talk of some Tim Kaine bill to stop OMB from firing more people but again, just a vote call so far.

They waited 40 days for nothing.
Probably with assurances for after the 2026 midterms as well. The filibuster won't need to removed because they will have a more than enough votes to bypass a veto.
 
Its two million illegals already with another year of denied visa applications, and deportations to go. Average number of votes cast per house rep was 250,000 in the last midterms. There a lot of districts already decided by a few thousand, or even a few hundred votes. Then you have the chilling effect ICE being out and about will have on early voting and election day. This is well within the margin of enough to overcome the GOP's problem. Especially if the GOP doesn't lose a bunch of seats in otherwise safe areas.
I guess I'll make this belated reply to simply point out that it would be very abnormal, historically speaking, for the Dems to not gain enough seats to retake the House given the GOP's small majority in said House. That said, it's entirely possible that you're right here, I dunno, lol.

Either way, we'll know for certain next November.
 
You missed my point entirely. The point I'm making is, that this notion of nobly sacrificing your entire life just to afford a home eventually is just repackaged slave morality. If you have to choose between having kids and affording something, you can't afford it.
And you reject my notion that you do not have to sacrifice your entire life. That idea is doomer bullshit, plain and simple. I am a Millennial and all I had to do was work for my money, save, life frugally, and I got what I wanted. I know other people in my cohort who were able to do this with kids because they worked, saved, and lived frugally. Some of them moved to other states that were cheaper, and not surrounded by niggers. The idea that it's a binary choice is complete horseshit that you and others choose to eat.
Cool good for them. I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about the average (domestic born, White) American.
If you are going to reject everything I'm saying as anecdotal and irrelevant, then I can say the same about everything you're saying. I can even call you a retard, too!
Another sacrifice. Put off kids as long as possible, spend nothing on luxuries, and move away from all family and friends to a foreign state to become an atomized economic unit.

To be perfectly clear, I understand the practicality of what you're saying. I'm a penny pinching scrooge myself. I'm objecting to your attitude. The fact so many American are being priced out of their hometowns by boomers and foreigners should make you see red. You shouldn't dismiss it as just a matter of fact.
Your ancestors moved all the time, White Man. Your ancestors made sacrifices, White Man. What are you, a nigger incapable of moving? I wonder what's keeping you in your miserable state of being. Could it be... that you have a shitty attitude, and not everybody else? Food for thought.
I'm reading this thread laughing my ass off at people who are seething about having to sacrifice for a house and not going out to eat, not getting toys, etc.
It's amusing and sad. Mostly sad because these people basically want everything handed to them.
If you took a lefty, programmed them with the same exact rationale, and pitted them against the people making these arguments then suddenly these people will talk about how entitled these leftists are.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
 
The deal on the table is said to commit both parties to a December vote on the ACA subsidies. 60 votes would be required to pass. White House apparently supports it.

If the Dems actually agree to those terms and they come out of the shutdown with their principal demand still unmet and subject to a vote that is almost certainly DOA, it would be very hard to see this as anything but a humiliating defeat and a death sentence for Schumer's reelection prospects. Maybe we get a last-minute curveball, but if this is actually the deal, I'd love to know what the fuck Thune actually offered to make this viable.
 
Also if you do live in a nice area with semi affordable housing a bunch of remote working cocksuckers from LA or NY will come in and drive up rent 500%

It's happening in my neighborhood. Plus one of them bought their way onto the city council and is trying to get rid of anti homeless laws.
 
Yeah but with the way modern medicine is now they should be able to keep you alive juuuust long enough to pay that house off.
This somewhat reminds me of an old Tales from the Darkside episode - "Lifebomb". It's about a CEO who has a heart condition and a man comes to him and shows him a company that makes this device called "lifebomb". If you have some kind of medical episode, it covers you in a cocoon, can provide CPR, stop bleeding, call for paramedics, etc. He thinks there's a catch but the man informs him that insurance covers it 100%, so the man has it installed.

He eventually has a heart attack and the lifebomb does its job and he recovers. Then he has another one and the lifebomb does its job again. The man becomes tired of this but then he gets the twist. He's informed that the reason the insurance covers it 100% is because it's cheaper to pay for the lifebomb than to pay out millions on a life insurance policy and so the man will never be allowed to die. Just suffer repeated heart attacks over and over.

What was considered a twilight zone-esque dystopian twist ending in the 80s is so completely plausible in 2025. Crazy times.

 
Also also also yesterday (all of these items were filed on a Saturday), plaintiffs notified the court that they have butted into the Rhode Island case and filed an amici curiae brief there.
Evidently, several states decided to immediately assume full SNAP benefits were coming and didn't take a second to think maybe the USDA would appeal the bullshit Rhode Island ruling...
Whoops. Anyway, in the words of the immortal Russell Greer, they demand the courts to undo the thing (stay) that was already done and get back to gimme dem gibs.

As a follow-up to the above, this just got filed in the 1st Circuit, where the Rhode Island SNAP case is still on appeal:
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Fucking hilarious. Note the pointed italics where they remind the states that they never said you could go ahead and start spending full SNAP bennies after the District Court's order, and you're fucking responsible for whatever shortfalls occurred as a result, fuckheads (slightly paraphrased). Hopefully the USDA files a copy of this letter in the Massachusetts case with all speed, where those states are demanding to be "held harmless" i.e. not to face any consequences for their fuckery in this regard.

ETA: I just got the notification it was also filed in the Massachusetts case. Good going, Rollins!
 

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How you know you're old is if you heard that actual sound in your head. I remember that shit. I remember a lot of shit. Straddling the Xer/Millennial line, I know exactly what been taken from the kids in these threads. Whenever some shitlib tries to tell you it was always like this, they're lying to you, laugh at them, call them a liar to their face. All this third world biomass doesn't care how bad they make America because it's still better than their shitholes, but it was better and the shitlibs and their useful idiots have taken that from you.
 
Also if you do live in a nice area with semi affordable housing a bunch of remote working cocksuckers from LA or NY will come in and drive up rent 500%

It's happening in my neighborhood. Plus one of them bought their way onto the city council and is trying to get rid of anti homeless laws.
Well, hold on to hope, bc companies are forcing requiring people to go back in-office and relocate to company hubs. But your property values (and local tax base) will plummet when they leave, so act accordingly. Could be opportunity, or it could be loss.

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You'd get back one of the three thin sheets with your receipt.
 
Dinesh Dizouza is continuing to crash out. After being the token conservative brown since Reagan, he's reverting to his Indian roots.
With the acknowledgement that people change over time, I do want to point out that D'Souza - during New Atheism - was this guy:

 
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Looking like a full cave, with just promises to vote later to maintain Obummercare subsidies. Talk of some Tim Kaine bill to stop OMB from firing more people but again, just a vote call so far.

They waited 40 days for nothing.
That is a rough deal if all they get is a promise from the Republicans to not filibuster the ACA emergency subsidy extension. Schumer might want to start looking at retirement.
 
lol your silly
You're (note the spelling) calling him silly? lol, lmao even. You're (note the spelling again) the cretin who posted that the concept of "credit" or "buying things on credit" was absolutely foreign to the American consumer up until the start of the 21st century. Diner's Club began issuing credit cards in the early 1950s; mortgages have existed in the US since the 1930s.
 
With the acknowledgement that people change over time, I do want to point out that D'Souza - during New Atheism - was this guy:
Christopher Hitchens And Mother Teresa - Dinesh D'Souza (360p, h264).mp4
Christopher Hitchens And The Salem Witch Trials - Dinesh D'Souza (360p, h264).mp4
The response to the Jeet Problem is acting as a filter for which Indians are the "Good Ones," and the ones that will place their worthless biomass over Americans. There are very few good ones, but remember that the Indians are some of the most ethnically narcissistic people on the planet and it shouldn't come as a shock. Up there with the Chinese. Even Africans can admit that Africa sucks.
 
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