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[Argentina just revived its housing and real estate markets by eliminating rent controls.  Most people with a 3-digit IQ know that govt control of rents totally mangles the housing market, constricting supply and reducing the quality of properties already rented.  Yet both our federal and several state governments are proposing rent controls in order "to make housing more affordable" for the financially disadvantaged.  It, of course, does nothing of the sort.  So my question to all of you astute observers of the nation's political goings on is 'Where on the evil-to-butt stupid spectrum do most main street Democrats reside?' gjr]

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  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    Yay democracy!

    “In doing so, Democratic elites threw 14 million Democratic primary votes right in the garbage after knowingly concealing Biden’s condition to prevent the exact scenario we now find ourselves in.
    Remember when we were given a constant civics lesson about the 25th Amendment to remove a president if he was deemed incapable of handling the duties of the Oval Office?
    Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the corporate mass media couldn’t stop talking about invoking the 25th when Donald Trump was president but are trying to gaslight the American people that Joe Biden can manage things for the next four months.
    The vast majority of Americans no longer trust that Joe Biden can represent us on the world stage – he can’t even represent his party on a debate stage – but the Democratic donor class can’t afford to officially remove Biden and leave Kamala holding the bag on Biden-Harris administration policies she’s trying to run away from.
    The fact that Donald Trump and Republican voters should be outraged goes without saying. The 2024 election terms were torn apart, like Nancy Pelosi did to her copy of Trump’s State of the Union.
    But Democratic voters should also be outraged. Their party elites rigged the primary, so they had no choice other than Joe Biden, only to throw out their votes in favor of someone no one wanted, who’s now picked as her running mate another far-left politician no one knows.
    Even the corporate media should be outraged. They’re expected to carry water for a presidential candidate who is trying to waltz into the highest office in the land without holding live press briefings to face their questions.
    Just who is making decisions on a day-to-day basis that affect Americans’ ability to buy groceries, put gas in their car, or keep their family safe from illegal immigrant criminals taking over whole communities?
    Americans need to remember the colossal dishonesty of the Democratic party to the voting public when they go to the polls, which are now open in some states.”

    Pretty good rant…..except about the media….they’re such useless whores they’ll do whatever they are told to do!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-happened-25th-amendment

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    Todays most important headline…..

    Hezbollah Reaches Out To U.S. For Advice On How To Govern With A Dead Leader

    https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1840787663701369215

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Screw you guys they get it first –
    Biden admin’s FEMA ‘equity’ plan faces backlash amid historic hurricane damage: ‘What an embarrassment’
    FEMA states on their website that ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion cannot be optional’
    😉

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  4. Scott O Avatar

    Here’s one for Paul and all the Green Weenies out there. OK – so they ended up harming the earth, but their intentions were good so their lived truth was that they helped the earth:
    “How Schleswig-Holstein sold their reliable diesel ferry for a song, spent 3.3 million Euro for a new emissions-free solar ferry that doesn’t work, & increased carbon emissions on top of it all”
    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/how-schleswig-holstein-sold-their
    Say – hows that solar powered choo-choo coming along? Anyone care to add up the carbon footprint so far in building it with diesel powered equipment? Yeah – I didn’t think so. But – the intentions are good and the Dem party in CA get millions of tax dollars, so the goobers get to FEEL better and “Our Democracy” lives to scam another day!

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here’s a new one:
    Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jason Miller says that under a second Trump presidency, “it’s ‘going to be up to the states’ whether or not they set up regimes to monitor women’s pregnancies so they can prosecute them for getting out of state abortions.”
    During a Wednesday Newsmax interview, the conservative interviewer asked if , “[Trump] would support monitoring pregnancies if a state decided to do that?
    Miller responded that , “Well, he’s made it very clear that he’s not gonna go and weigh in and try to push various states in how they want to go and set up their particular rules and restrictions. That’s gonna be up to the states.”
    So Trump would offer no opposition if States decided to do that.
    alking Points Memo founder John Marshall commented: “Trump kingpin Jason Miller gives the thumbs up to states that want to set up full menstrual surveillance departments”
    Marshall also added, “JD Vance is a major Menstrual Surveillance proponent. But the Trump camp has been fairly good and at avoiding the issue. This explicit green light from Miller changes that.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-adviser-green-lights-states-that-want-to-set-up-full-menstrual-surveillance-departments/ar-AA1rhD4Y

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Weez Emery | 30 September 2024 at 05:44 PM
    It’s cool Weez….you’re past your childbearing years.

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  7. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Really, Paul? Really???
    Punch, 544p if I were you I’d keep my knees together and don’t buy any more of your tampons in the boy’s restrooms.

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    George Bush called to say you can have his katrina failed photo op on the flyover. At least he did not go to bahgdad by the bay to beg for cash and the stop in vegas! LOL –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/30/kamala-harris-panned-fake-photo-responding-hurricane-helene/
    😉

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    So you have no problem with States setting up software to monitor a womens pregnancy. Under states rights do you believe thats ok?

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I think the entire thing is BS, Punch. Bravo!

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  11. Scott O Avatar

    Paul brings such a high level of left-wing conversation to this blog. It really does demonstrate the voting bloc the Dems are aiming for in the election.

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  12. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Paul. This is dumb. Such a law likely violates the privileges and immunities clause. Further, the federal government is out if the abortion business. Don’t worry though. In California, you can still become a trans woman, rename yourself Paulina, and then get a taxpayer funded abortion at 40 weeks if it becomes necessary.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Barry Pruett | 30 September 2024 at 07:28 PM
    Dammit Barry….high dudgeon is the only cardio that Weez gets….!
    Let him spin a bit!

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Barry
    Trump said he would not oppose state government tracking women’s pregnancies to insure they didn’t seek an abortion in another state. This is your guy Barry.
    More accurately stated, Trump told Time that, as president, he would not prevent states from passing and enforcing laws that establish systems for monitoring womans pregnancies.
    check this out:
    https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    Paul – Maybe stop hyperventilating for a bit and actually use your brain (what’s left of it).
    If a state passes a law that some one thinks is unconstitutional, then the issue ends up with the Supreme Court, not the president.
    The president doesn’t get a say in the matter one way or another.
    Good grief.

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  16. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    As a California resident, why do you give a fuck what happens in Alabama? California’s problems are enough to keep you busy enough. All y’all on the left are like little Nazis telling everyone what to do all the time. Just mind your own business. 🤣

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  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    Biden World…..

    CNBC: What are you hearing will happen if dockworkers strike and it goes longer than a week?
    Harris-Biden Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo: “I have not been very focused on that.”

    How is this even possible?
    https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1840745338589638945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1840745338589638945%7Ctwgr%5Ebf5942953322ba5ed8caf8ae2a11e58bbca4992b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F675330%2F

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  18. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Like Paul, Gina is more interested in “eliminating” Trump than actually helping the American people. TDS hurts Americans.
    https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/bidens-commerce-chief-says-lets-extinguish-trump-for-good/

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  19. Scott O Avatar

    “I have not been very focused on that.”
    That was probably the first time she had even heard of it. Wait til Harris is POTUS:
    “Putin declared war on the US? I’ve not been very focused on that – you know I was raised in a middle class neighborhood… yuk yuk yuk….”.

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 01 October 2024 at 07:52 AM

    “I have not been very focused on that.”

    With all this menstruation talk I guess Gina is as preoccupied with her vagina as Weez is with his…..

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  21. showmekid Avatar
    showmekid

    Why wasn’t the crack newsman from Nevada City on this????

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “So you have no problem with States setting up software to monitor a womens
    pregnancy.” – Punchy 644p
    Paul made that up, after I refused to get riled up over his latest rantings.
    That’s another slander, Punch.

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Weez nowhere to be found when democrat politicians lie…..

    “Despite the Harris/Walz media avoidance strategy, we do know a number of things about the peculiar Tim Walz, Democrats’ Vice Presidential nominee. First, he’s a radical ideologue who has rammed through an extreme left-wing agenda as governor, despite razor-thin Democratic legislative majorities. Second, he lies habitually and serially about virtually everything. He’s lied and misled, knowingly and repeatedly, about his military service. He’s flagrantly lied about his extremely dangerous and reckless DUI. He’s lied about non-military elements of his military, embellishing and inventing ‘achievements’ that he hasn’t actually earned. He’s even lied about how his own children were conceived, in order to bolster a false IVF attack against Republicans. Third, we know that he has a strange fascination with China, including choosing to honeymoon there (in addition to his spouting various China-related falsehoods).”

    Makes me think he was lying about hating political figures who lie!
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/10/01/did-tim-walz-just-get-caught-in-yet-another-weird-lie-n2645535?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=db42ae29250b1d4ad4fdabb4149846d2d25b8fc647f3932c8edac5c1ac2c5382&lctg=21587707

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/no-toss-up/electoral-college
    Pennsylvania 6-5000 back in the GOP column.
    Someone hand Punchy some smelling salts.

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  25. Eulogized Hillbilly Avatar
    Eulogized Hillbilly

    Barry, just curious, who represented Tribble?
    Not seeing much in the way of corruption in your Oct1 855am post article. Tribble was unqualified, lost, paid Will $80k in legal fees, but Will spent more than that, so got reimbursed.

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Lets see what cnn thought about the debate tonight –
    CNN host Abby Phillip said Tuesday on her network’s coverage of the vice-presidential debate that Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) landed a lot of punches on Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) during the debate.
    Phillip said, “I think we shouldn’t lose track. I think even in the civility of the fact that JD Vance came to this debate to land a bunch of punches, and he did he landed a lot of punches in between all the niceties and all of that. And the thing that that’s really stood out to me was that Tim Walz did not seem prepared for it he didn’t respond to a lot of the criticisms and attacks that vance put on the table. He allowed some clear falsehoods to just go completely unanswered.”
    She continued, “He allowed JD Vance essentially to dodge on a whole host of issues on climate change, on on the issue of his flip flopping on Donald Trump. He allowed Vance initially to claim that Trump salvaged the Affordable Care Act. It took him several sentences to get to the part of his answer Walz’ answer, where he where he actually responded to that. I mean, I think there was a clear lack of preparation and execution here.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/10/01/cnns-abby-phillip-jd-vance-landed-a-lot-of-punches-on-walz/
    😉

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  27. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Rough to watch…I actually felt sorry for Walz.

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  28. Scott O Avatar

    This campaign is the first for Walz to be vetted by
    print and electronic media who will actually investigate and push back against his lies. In Minnesota it was basically the (Red) Star Tribune and local affiliates of ABC, NBC, PBS, NPR, etc. – who have covered for this far left socialist for quite a while.
    Over at Power Line (based in MN) they’ve been trying to point out how incompetent and dishonest he is for years. Suddenly Walz has to face something new. Accountability. Of course he ended up looking pathetic. Because he is.

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  29. Scott O Avatar

    California leads the way!
    “Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes coming to California after Newsom signs bill”
    Hilariious:
    “…there’s no doubt that cannabis cafes will bring massive economic, cultural and creative opportunities and benefits to our state.”
    Oh – no doubt! MASSIVE creative opportunities!
    Instead of the 3 martini lunch, workers can stumble back to work stoned and be really creative and productive.
    I seem to recall that legalizing pot in CA and elsewhere was supposed to bring in MASSIVE amounts of cash for the state. How’d that work out?
    https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/amsterdam-style-cannabis-cafes-coming-california-19808951.php

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  30. Scott O Avatar

    But, hold on…
    Will there be an age restriction at the pot lounges?
    Will you have to show ID?
    That would prevent blacks and poor people from entry.
    Unfair!
    “Newsom Outlaws Voter ID Rules In California”
    How can you have voter fraud when you have to show ID?
    The Dems in CA have fixed that. Why then should folks have to show ID for anything else?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/newsom-outlaws-voter-id-rules-california
    Because everyone knows only white folk have the IQ to obtain and present a photo ID, right?

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  31. Eulogized Hillbilly Avatar
    Eulogized Hillbilly

    Scott0 –
    Are you frustrated you didn’t win the Taylor Swift-signed guitar at at auction recently😉

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  32. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Been waiting 30 years for this. Take the power back.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rMjjsjNBS_4

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Again….because it’s Biden his empty posturing pretty much guarantees the opposite outcome.

    Biden says he does not support attack on Iran’s nuclear sites

    ….and you dumbfucks thought Biden was an upgrade from the Tangerine Tornado?!
    But I totally get why Weez likes the brainstem!
    https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-823032#google_vignette

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  34. Scott O Avatar

    Euthanised Hillbilly 9:12
    Another typical retort by the Hillbilly – completely off from what I posted and factually wrong to boot.
    If you have no intelligent reply to what I posted, maybe just go back to reading the comics page.

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  35. Eulogized Hillbilly Avatar
    Eulogized Hillbilly

    Scott Zero,
    Your rants don’t require replies.

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    ….somewhere….in the Sierra Foothills, a failed musician masturbates furiously!

    JACK SMITH DROPS OCTOBER SURPRISE
    DETAILS TRUMP ‘CRIMES’

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/politics/jack-smith-donald-trump-filing/index.html

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  37. Scott O Avatar

    “Your rants don’t require replies.”
    And yet…
    Seems like you did.

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  38. Scott O Avatar

    fishy 1:26 – Boy, are the Dems lucky all this just now came out by itself right before the election!
    Pretty damning stuff:
    “Prosecutors describe an effort by Trump operatives to “create chaos” in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election when the voting looked to be going for Joe Biden.”
    Oh, so it was Trump “operatives”. Who is it that’s being investigated?

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    If he didnt raid the account for illegals there would still be money for the citizens in need –
    Mayorkas warns FEMA doesn’t have enough funding to last through hurricane season
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/mayorkas-warns-fema-doesnt-enough-223947234.html
    😉

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wow…..they are really “soft focusing” Heels Up in her media appearances. She’s starting to look like Maxine Waters in real life and we can’t have the voters see that!

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Exactly –
    All Americans should be ‘outraged’ over Mayorkas’ comments on lack of FEMA funds, says Florida AG Moody
    Top Biden official faces criticism over more than $1B previously spent on migrants
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/all-americans-outraged-mayorkas-comments-lack-fema-funds-florida-ag-moody
    😉

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The hyena and creepy grampa joe caught lying again and let the global warming nuts screw europe and benefit vlad. –
    The Biden-Harris administration may have based its decision to freeze certain liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects upon a major act of deception, according to a government watchdog group.
    The Department of Energy (DOE) announced the pause on new and pending approvals for certain LNG export terminals in January, stating that it must conduct a review of potential environmental, economic and security impacts of LNG exports to ensure that approving new capacity is still in the public interest. An ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) legal battle between the agency and an independent group called Government Accountability and Oversight (GAO) reveals that the administration may have actually conducted — or started to conduct — such a review in 2023 before effectively burying it because it may have been producing politically inconvenient conclusions, according to GAO.
    If GAO is correct, the Biden-Harris administration essentially deceived the public in an election year to institute a policy that undermines American geopolitical interests, chills investment in domestic energy projects and greatly pleases the well-funded environmentalist lobby which is spending big to help Democrats in this election cycle. The DOE did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/biden-harris-admin-accused-of-deceiving-america-on-its-way-to-freezing-gas-exports/ar-AA1rE86H?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=e33f81e5f2f2411fb788a4d4e710c8d6&ei=76
    😉

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Lost that demographic the hyena did –
    During the third day of strikes at a port in Newark, New Jersey, FOX Business’ Jeff Flock was met with silence when he asked the group of dockworkers if they supported Harris.
    “I have no hands,” Flock told “Mornings with Maria” on Thursday as he panned through the crowd.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/east-coast-port-strike-workers-silent-asked-support-kamala-harris
    😉

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Uh oh…..first the Teamsters now the Firefighters Union have refused to endorse Vice President/President Heels 👠 Up!
    Any word on the Second Hand Leonard Cohen Vendors Union yet……

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  45. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I hope some of you listened to the speech by Liz Cheney. It shows that there is hope for the future.

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