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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
Here’s a little fun math.
There are about 60 miles of coast line from Santa Monica to Newport Beach. Population density for urban areas with high rise condos can reach 40,000 people per square mile. So, if high rises were allowed within a mile of the beach, that corridor would accommodate 2.4 million people. There are currently 3.8 million in the city of LA and 12 million in the metro area, including outlying areas like Riverside and San Bernardino.
So, it wouldn’t just be the upper 1% affected if this fantasy project of mine ever went through. It might even make LA livable for the masses.
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
What if Trump were still President ?
https://babylonbee.com/news/if-only-here-are-the-headlines-that-would-be-in-the-news-right-now-if-trump-were-still-president
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) said on a conference call with reporters Thursday that President Joe Biden rejected an invitation from oil and gas leaders to tour successful fossil fuel operations across the United States. Instead, Biden is heading to Saudi Arabia to seek more oil from OPEC.
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2 years ago
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Papi_ChuloMiami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
Ivana Trump has died. Care to guess how the party of compassion and love responded ?
https://notthebee.com/article/heres-how-classy-lefties-responded-to-the-passing-of-trumps-ex-wife
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2 years ago
Walk out, quickly.
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2 years ago
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Papi_ChuloMiami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
^ Straight out of the leftist playbook
- Lie about what others have said
- Claim that anyone who opposes you is racist
- Assert your moral superiority and pure motives
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
Here’s a specific example. Unlike south Florida, there are almost no high rise condos allowed near the beaches in LA and Orange County. I can only think of a handful in Santa Monica and Marina Del Rey.
Now, imagine that zoning was changed to allow high rise, multi-family buildings within walking distance of the beach from Santa Monica to Newport Beach. That would result in millions of new housing units in the most desirable areas. With the rise in supply, prices would come down. Millions of people would see their lifestyle improve. Tax revenue would pour in. New roads could be built.
The only people who would suffer are the wealthy who want to keep the beach communities for themselves.
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
The cost of government is not just in the taxes it imposed, it’s also on the debt it takes in our name and in the regulations it imposes that increase the cost of everything we buy. For example, if government allowed new homes to be built without government constraint, home prices would be 30%-40% lower in places like California.
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
If I was King of America, I would scale the power of the federal government back to where it was before FDR. Find the least painful way to get out of the redistribution of wealth business. Close most federal agencies. Leave things like welfare and pollution up to the states. End income tax and rely on tariffs.
There would be a renaissance of wealth and freedom that would last 100 years.
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
The total global debt is $300 Trillion. That’s $35,000 for every man, woman, and child in the world. That may not sound too bad for someone in the US, but the average includes places like Haiti, Nicaragua, and Ghana.
This debt resulted from propping up the world economy over the last 20 years. We had a hell of a party. Now, the bill has come due.
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
Recession should kill inflation, but there are two problems we haven’t experienced in the past
1. Government policy is preventing energy producers from producing more. Energy affects the price of everything.
2. Higher interest rates will raise the federal deficit MASSIVELY. The deficit will increase by trillions, forcing the Fed to print more money, destroying the purchasing power of the dollar ( also known as inflation ).
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
Despite the bad news, I think the stock market is near the bottom. The 40% of companies that weren’t making a profit have already fallen. The 60% of profitable companies in solid industries are adjusting to the new economic reality. Energy and food companies will raise prices, as will all providers of essential goods and services. Companies in non-essential areas will cut staff, sell assets, and position themselves for when the recession ends.
Personally, I’m staying invested in broad index funds, dabbling in bounce back stocks like Amazon, and staying out of debt.
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
Published inflation numbers lag reality by a month or two. In the 3 major categories of living cost
- Housing is beginning to correct, soon to crash, but CPI hasn’t reflected that
- Energy seems to have peaked but that could just be a pause
- Food is still going up and shortages appear to be coming
Within a few months, I expect inflation will still be here but at rates closer to 5% than 9%. Food shortages will appear and scare the shit out of people. Housing prices will plunge, wiping out the net worth of millions of families. The Fed will be forced to keep short term interest rates around 4% even as we enter a serious recession.
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2 years ago
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Papi_ChuloMiami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
“Dr” Jill Biden said yesterday that Republican Rep. Mayra Flores (TX), and other GOP Latina candidates are “not the real deal.”
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2 years ago
BMW is now selling a monthly subscription service for heated seats in your car.
• Monthly fee: $18
• Annual fee: $180
The car will come with all the necessary components, but payment is needed to remove a software block.
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2 years ago
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Papi_ChuloMiami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
A lot of the societal dysfunction of today can be traced back to the political disruption of the Vietnam war and the draft.
Voluntary service is good. Mandatory service, where the government decides to put your children’s lives at risk for a political goal, not so much.
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2 years ago
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Papi_ChuloMiami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
“Kind of like how extremist leftist are viewed as the majority of left thinking.“
In an era of social media, the loudest, most extreme viewpoints have the most influence. I don’t view the extremist left as the majority but I do view it as having the greatest, controlling influence on the Democrat party. Politicians like AOC and Ilhan Omar don’t represent the majority but it is their views that shape the direction of Democrat legislation and policy.
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2 years ago
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Papi_ChuloMiami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
Most blacks have escaped the redneck culture and are leading positive, productive lives just as most whites have escaped the racist attitudes of southern redneck culture.
But, liberals want to maintain the myth that the true black culture is one that embraces redneck ideals and that all whites still maintain the racist views of their ancestors 100 years ago.
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2 years ago
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Papi_ChuloMiami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
A little more information on Thomas Sowell’s book Black Rednecks And White Liberals.
“This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral. This pattern was repeated by blacks with whom they shared a subculture in the South. Over the last half century poor whites and most blacks have moved up in class and affluence, but the ghetto remains filled with black rednecks. Their attempt to escape, Sowell shows, is hampered by their white liberal friends who turn dysfunctional black redneck culture into a sacrosanct symbol of racial identity.”
In other words, it’s a dysfunctional culture that raises children such as those seen in the video. But, white liberals defend this culture as being the true black culture. Anyone who criticizes this behavior is shamed as being racist. It’s actually the liberals who prevent poor urban blacks from ascending from this culture who are racist.
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2 years ago
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Papi_ChuloMiami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
“confirmation bias to say "see! all black people act like this".
The rate of violent crime, including murders, is up in Minneapolis. What caused this ? Could it be climate change ? Or, maybe it’s white extremists. Or maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with defunding the police and children being taught to disrespect the police.
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2 years ago
One of the great mysteries coming out of Covid was the millions of people who dropped out of the workforce and never came back. I don’t think anyone has really figured this out.
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2 years ago
Remember when 51 ( Democrat ) former heads of Intel agencies signed a joint letter guaranteeing that Hunters laptop was Russian disinformation ? This was a lie and they surely knew it. Will any of them face consequences ?
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2 years ago
In parts of Germany, electricity now costs 7x what it did a year ago. The government closed its coal and nuclear plants, chose to rely entirely in natural gas imported from Russia, and is now scrambling to find an alternative.
In Ghana, the government told farmers they had to use organic fertilizer. The same thing happened in Sri Lanka. The people in both countries are now starving.
In many other countries, like Argentina, riots have broken out over inflation caused by the same overspending and printing of money we had in the US.
Our governments are filled with arrogant “experts” who have less common sense than the average working man. Billions of people are becoming aware of this.
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2 years ago
The interesting thing happening is that the opposition to the failed policies of the woke elite is breaking out all over the world. But, the media isn’t covering it.
For example, it’s approaching a full uprising in the Netherlands as farmers block roads in reaction to the government confiscating their land.
Country after country, right now, is experiencing similar protests and uprisings.
But, according to the media, it’s just a handful of misinformed Trump supporters causing problems.
No, what’s really happening is a great awakening from the working class. The game is up for the “experts” who have lied to us and destroyed our economies.
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2 years ago
ICEE, like all lefties, refuses to read any source not in the pocket of the Democrat party. Then, he claims any fact he doesn’t recognize from this handful of biased sources must be a lie since he has never read about it. Circular logic.