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[Low cost vs affordable housing is available in the re-introduction of ‘carriage houses’.  The folks in Noblesville, Indiana are discovering that “these units cost considerably less than single-family dwellings and create accessible points into and out of homeownership while preserving neighborhood character. They also have the potential to provide rental income to help property owners afford their mortgages.  Few cities and towns are immune from rising material costs and expensive land. But we control zoning and permitting. We should expand housing options without compromising community character.” gjr]

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  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Maxine Waters is in the house!! Right on!
    https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1931777862631104908

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well thats refreshing that the news bosses want reporters to report and not slant –
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/06/08/abc-suspends-terry-moran-after-post-calling-trump-adviser-stephen-miller-a-world-class-hater/
    😉

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    There’s something a little hypnotic watching Democrats do their thing.
    https://x.com/choeshow/status/1931833277410877539
    One of the great curses of our age is people waving cameras/phones around. The mob holds them like magic talismans.

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. There’s nothing more absurd than all these boomer ‘progressives’.
    When you argue with them, you are arguing with this.
    https://x.com/tyleraloevera/status/1931789888329805899

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 08 June 2025 at 04:00 PM

    Eh….whaddya going to do? They wind up against the wall first under the new “Peoples Regime” ….every single time!
    I can’t think of anything more appropriate.

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So Scenes our future economy depends on Trump NOT effectively enforcing the law as they define it.

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  7. Scott O Avatar

    Mad Max:
    “Why are they here with guns? Are they going to shoot some one?”
    Well they shot an unarmed white lady dead in DC and the Dems thought it was just dandy.
    I know they want another Summer Of Floyd but I think CA really doesn’t have the money to pay for the damages.

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  8. Scott O Avatar

    “…the law as they define it”
    They have orders of removal – same as Biden and Obama.

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  9. Scott O Avatar

    Here’s an interesting chart that even Paul might understand. Why are deportations suddenly an issue with the Dems and the left?
    Because TDS – that’s the only reason.
    https://infographicsite.com/infographic/deportations-under-us-presidents-statistics/

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Not so peaceful protests = federalization of the nat guard –
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/08/la-ice-protests-photos/84102637007/
    😉

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No surprise there. When they riot and hold foreign flags it really looks like an invasion to most of the country –
    A protest in San Antonio was attended by more than 300 people who were angry with the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) mass deportation enforcement actions. The rally was organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. This political party also organized and rallied leftist activists to resist the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce immigration law in Los Angeles.
    As tourists and motorists passed city hall, chants, some vulgar, were shouted that included “F- ICE”, “From Palestine to Mexico, all walls have to go,” and “Up, up with liberation, down, down with deportation.” Many attendees waved Mexican flags, Palestinian, and Trans flags to show their allegiance to multiple left-leaning causes. Signs carried were printed with profane messages directed at President Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
    Breitbart Texas noted the signs provided and carried by PSL members in San Antonio were identical to those held by PSL members in the Los Angeles demonstrations. The crowd dissipated after several hours and did not involve any acts of violence like those witnessed in Los Angeles. Although San Antonio Police officers were posted nearby, no significant interaction took place between officers and the protesters.
    https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/06/08/photos-anti-ice-protest-in-san-antonio-hosted-by-socialist-party-involved-in-los-angeles-anti-ice-actions/
    😉

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  12. Scott O Avatar

    ““To our media partners, demonstrators and others who may enter the area,” LAPD noted, “Burning lithium-ion batteries release toxic gases, including hydrogen fluoride, posing risks to responders and those nearby.””
    And there’s humor!
    “In addition, the cost of the Waymo destruction could be extremely high.
    According to a 2024 report by the Wall Street Journal, analysts estimated Waymo’s driverless cars cost between $150,000 and $200,000 a piece.”
    Boy – wait till those rioters get the bill!
    https://ktla.com/news/local-news/waymos-lit-on-fire-ktla-van-defaced-as-los-angeles-protests-spin-out-of-control/
    The Left and the Dems only destroy. It’s all they have.
    Enjoy!

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    scenes

    psul: “So Scenes our future economy depends on Trump NOT effectively enforcing the law as they define it.”
    I’m not sure what that means. Who is ‘they’?
    If typepad search worked, which it doesn’t being the world’s worst software, I’d bring up some of your old quotes on how immigration law should be enforced. But that was some time ago, no doubt everyone ‘evolves’.
    Reversing years (decades) of ignoring immigration law is bound to be a clumsy thing, and I’m fine with shocks to the system. By cramming in infinite people, few of whom are from US-adjacent cultures, all that eventually happens is Balkanization and collapse. Somalians have done nothing to make Minnesota a better place and H1B Indians are very rarely better (or the same) as the people they replace. Period. In the case of California, all that happens is that the border moves north.
    Trump is basically the immune system of Western Civilization kicking in, and I don’t expect perfection. This is not just reflected in the long-needed repatriation of people, but the ability to produce goods, for people to perform real work for a living, improvements in education, and the casting aside of DEI-obsessed baby boomers.
    The economy will be fine, and altered in ways that have nothing to do with mass immigration from the 3rd World. AI/robotics/automation will blow up everyone’s world soon enough. The problem is essentially one of social glue and assimilation.

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    scenes

    scotto: “Because TDS – that’s the only reason.”
    There’s scarcely anyone more boring than an anti-Trump specialist. They’re CNN-heavy and reasoning-lite.
    The damage is so deep that there’s really nothing to be done. At least Communists, etc. make an attempt to build a worldview from basic principles, even if wrong-headed. TDS is all feelz based all the time, a kind of continuous theater kid anxiety attack.

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    This guy has a POV of course, but there are a bunch of small clips of the mostly peaceful riots.
    https://x.com/camhigby
    To me, one takeaway is thinking about how much larger this whole thing would be the longer you wait, the more people enter the country. At some point it becomes seriously kinetic.

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  16. Scott O Avatar

    Good morning, campers! Let’s start the day with humor:
    “The leaders of the state Legislature have a message for voters: We know you’re frustrated with how expensive California is — and we’re going to fix it.”
    For starters, the leg just voted for increasing the fees for buying a used or new car from a dealer.
    I’m sure they’ll ‘fix’ the cost of living in CA just like Newsom ‘fixed’ the homeless problem.
    They’ll fix it no matter how much it costs!
    https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/12/california-legislature-rivas-mcguire-newsom/

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The reality on the ground is not in sync with the cnn party line, when tiny SF arrests more rioters than giant LA it outs the lame newscum, bass and the big mouth bass in a wig. –
    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-police-arrest-more-anti-ice-protesters-than-la-20368528.php
    😉

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Just news flashed that the Marines are deploying to LA to protect federal buildings.
    😉

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    scenes

    “It ain’t white people from the U. S. I am sorry, our track record on building new things in this country, it ain’t whites. It’s people from other countries.”
    – Minnesota Rep. Leigh Finke (D)
    lol. Get a load of this guy.
    https://victoryfund.org/news/leigh-finke-makes-history-as-the-first-trans-person-ever-elected-to-the-minnesota-state-legislature/
    Serious question. Are all Democrats crazy? or just most of them?

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  20. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Who is “they” Scenes? They are the ones that advocate the removal of virtually all illegal workers without a clue about who is going to replace them on the workforce. Where do you think replacements are going to come from?

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    So the country collapses if 12% of agriculture workers disappear in a puff of smoke? 5% of manufacturing workers?

    Too funny. What a hoot.

    “Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, revealed that the raids that sparked the violent LA riots were not for immigration purposes. Homan explained that the raids that took place in downtown Los Angeles on Friday were part of a criminal investigation into a money laundering scheme and cartel activity.’ It wasn’t an immigration raid. It was to service of three criminal warrants at locations based on a large criminal conspiracy that ICE is investigating,’ Homan on MSNBC.”
    – Tom Schweizer on X
    lol. Figures.
    The earlier, the better in terms of civic unrest. The longer they waited, the more this was going to turn into a bonafide civil war.

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    In most of the country technology is replacing illegals but cali wont let the farmers use it to keep jobs for illegals. Why? illegal alien coddling like free medical for illegals. Screwing citizens again. It is a crime to hire illegals. –
    Farmers fuming over California’s ban on driverless tractors, other robots
    A robot revolution is expanding to farmlands all across America, but in California – where autonomous technology has largely been developed – farmers aren’t legally allowed to harness the tech’s full potential in their own agricultural equipment.
    https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/autonomous-farming-agriculture-equipment-california/3878319/#:~:text=A%20robot%20revolution%20is%20expanding%20to%20farmlands%20all,tech%27s%20full%20potential%20in%20their%20own%20agricultural%20equipment.
    😉

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  23. Scott O Avatar

    Total lack of self-awareness –
    Paul wants to know who “they” are and then in the same post says:
    “They are the ones that advocate the removal of virtually all illegal workers without a clue about who is going to replace them on the workforce.”
    Who is “they”, Paul?
    Is it “them”?

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya between the fire failures and now this have to agree the hair gel is on fire –
    “Gavin Newsom’s odds of clinching the 2028 presidential race are practically nonexistent,” X user Angela Belcamino posted Monday. “Across the country, Americans are eyeing California’s struggles under his watch, convinced he’d unleash the same chaos nationwide if he ever won the White House.”
    “Gavin Newsom’s handling of the LA riots should be considered an in-kind contribution to the @JDVance
    2028 presidential campaign. Newsom is providing a lot of ad material for free,” one social media account posted on Sunday.
    Many critics of the riots unfolding in Los Angeles argued that photos of the scene would live in infamy and dash any hopes Newsom may hold on running for president. Some users remarked that the photos depicting rioters surrounded by flames and smoke while waving a Mexican flag “will cost Newsom his 2028 presidential run,” and that the Trump administration “couldn’t have asked for better” representation of California politics captured in photos.
    “Gavin Newsom is refusing to help stop the riots AND denying their existence because he bows to open borders donors… hoping they’ll fund his 2028 Presidential run. Do not forget this!,” Club for Growth senior analyst Andrew Follett posted to X, accompanied by a photo showing a rioter with a Mexican flag on a motorbike as smoke billowed behind him.
    “Gavin Newsom 2028,” DC Draino, a popular conservative X account, posted accompanied by a photo of a pair of masked rioters standing on a destroyed car waving the Mexican flag.
    “Let’s evaluate this, Gav. First… devastating fires due to you and your state’s negligence. Second, riots… once again due to your love for illegals, sanctuary cities, etc. Your aspirations for 2028 have gone up in the flames you are responsible for
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsoms-political-future-practically-nonexistent-la-devolves-riots-social-media-critics-predict
    😉

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The California Luddite Commission work on farm equipment is interesting. Thanks. I’ll look into that some more.
    One of those items you’ll never see on the nightly news:
    “it’s so funny to contrast how Mexicans in the US are protesting against deportations while Mexicans in Mexico have been revolting against their own economic migrants and want them all deported.
    you can’t go anywhere in Mexico City without seeing posters like these”
    https://x.com/Slatzism/status/1932186558817321048

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I’d like to watch psul argue with this guy. We probably could sell tickets.
    https://x.com/MamulaGiorgi/status/1932291910552408441
    He was responding to this:
    “BREAKING—The FBI has identified the man who attacked ICE agents with rocks. Special Agents are presently raiding his home.”

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  27. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    This page lists the current ACIP group of CDC advisors that RFK has canned.
    Just wanted to get that out there before the site gets whitewashed and the new QAnon RFK advisory board is established.
    https://www.cdc.gov/acip/membership/roster.html

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  28. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Trump deploys Marines to LA in an effort to knock Elon, his big pork barrel bill problems, and the fact that Putin is murdering more and more civilians just like his buddy BB has been doing in Gaza off the front pages and minds off Americans.
    Funny, you don’t hear much about what kind of support we’re giving Ukraine these days.
    Trump really must love Putin, he keeps slow walking everything that Ukraine needs, just like Biden did. Where are the sanctions? when are Putin’s billions in overseas bank accounts being confiscated?

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  29. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    I wonder if a John McCain style hero will have the cojones to stand up to Trump and give his big beautiful pork barrel project the thumbs down?

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  30. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: RH@6:23AM
    That sounds like left-wing Alex Jones speak.
    The Marines deal, which happened before during the mostly peaceful Rodney King riots, is likely just someone being cautious. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
    My own fringe belief is that it’ll go like so. (1)Stick a bunch of federal forces in the city (2)Use them mostly/all for protecting federal buildings and agents. (3)Let the city burn. (4)Wait for the Governor or that idiot mayor to beg for help.
    In terms of Ukraine, Russia won’t allow itself to be defeated in the field, and running the whole thing at parity just implies more death. Dunno why US liberal baby boomers have so much invested in the situation, armchair generals one and all. It’s obvious where the border will end up, so just do it.

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Looks like Democratic voters are out and about. 100% off sale, as per usual.
    “Apple store in downtown LA being looted tonight”
    https://x.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1932378941463110022
    Investment advice: Go long on plexiglass shielding companies for all retail stores in (D) cities.

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Lardipated Jeffbelly | 10 June 2025 at 06:23 AM
    Bad news …..war is already over. A decent reporter would have known that.

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    An interesting problem. Dealing with Democrats is a complicated matter sometimes. I wonder what a self-driving car with passengers should do.
    “What else is this driver supposed to do?”
    https://x.com/MatthewNichol5/status/1932260110228762930

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    (side note, that’s from several years ago, but it’s the kind of thing we’ll see given modern political practices.)

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 10 June 2025 at 07:28 AM
    Looks like Democratic voters are out and about. 100% off sale, as per usual.

    There’s no shopping like urban shopping!

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Who would do these jobs?”
    That’s not my job. Or the job of anyone in the gubermint.
    An employer (hopefully not of the last resort) has a job to fill, and they will figure it out.

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  37. Scott O Avatar

    “What else is this driver supposed to do?”
    Obviously he needs to surrender to the mob and take his beating.
    Really – since when has blocking the roadway become acceptable in this country?
    Blocking the roadway is not “peaceful protesting”.

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Really – since when has blocking the roadway become acceptable in this country?”
    Given the failure of communities to enforce good behavior through peer pressure (thanks diversity!), I’d say it’s become the thing at about the rate as Democratic government officials have decided to make crimes into non-crimes.

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    From the Gavinator…..

    Have no doubt — Violent criminals who take advantage of Trump’s chaos WILL be held accountable.
    Our number one priority has been and will be keeping LA safe.
    If you’re protesting peacefully. Stay calm. Look out for one another.

    …and the reality –
    “Mark it: In 6 weeks, anyone charged in these riots will have all their charges dropped. That’s how the left works, they talk tough, then wait until people forget and are distracted by other things, then drop all the charges against their Brownshirts. Bet on it.”
    https://x.com/derekahunter/status/1932474966424834282

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scenes got it wrong on this
    It was Trump with his pardon of Jan 6 insurrectionists that definitely turned “crimes into non-crime”s. It’s ok according to Trump to smash windows and doors to overcome police to illegally enter the halls of congress and disrupt legal proceedings and break into private offices of Representatives and steal paperwork.

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “President Trump just announced he is RESTORING the names of military bases which received woke name changes
    Fort Pickett
    Fort Hood
    Fort Gordon
    Fort Polk
    Fort A.P. Hill
    Fort Robert E. Lee”
    – Nick Sortor on X
    There is nothing the Orange Man cannot do.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well thats new actual consequences for lying lamestream scum bags –
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/terry-moran-out-abc-news-following-x-post-attacking-trump-stephen-miller
    😉

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Do you consider “American Greatness” to be a credible news source?

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