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jazz_music says

Let’s talk about the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia-linked figures. The two sides had at least 70 publicly reported contacts in 2016, and two Trump aides have pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about those communications. If there is an innocent explanation, what could it possibly be?

Sadly, the explanation is that politics and media got a bit carried away with their accusations and desires and wasted years of our time.

HEYYOU says

“Off-shoring” US industry jacked up corporate profits while it decimated working class livelihoods. In return, that large demographic got “bargain shopping” at Walmart, a life of ever-upward revolving debt, and dead downtowns.

That much is true.

And that's how Trump got elected.

Now the economy is booming under Trump. It doesn't show any signs of slowing down.

GDP needs to grow annually by at least 3%, its now around 2.6% albeit better than Obamas 8 years. A lot of the latest growth was due to increase in government spending.

Debt to GDP ratio has to start trending down from +100% levels. Its now 106% and its been above 100% since 2012.

I watch that channel!!!

50.3% poverty rate!

You know it's bad when you see the rats out in the daytime like that.
Normally I don't see them at all until after dark.

That rat looks homeless.

jazz_music says

The committee has obtained direct evidence that multiple high-level White House officials have been violating the Presidential Records Act by using personal email accounts,

LOCK HER UP!

Yeah but he was so much older then, he's younger than that now.

jazz_music says

Impeachment support has moved way past the people you'd expect

What high crime or misdemeanor did Trumo commit?

If leftists didn't harass Trump everywhere he goes, the security costs of his outing would be greatly reduced.

zzyzzx says

50.3% poverty rate!

That rat looks like part of the 50.3% that are in poverty, which is weird because he/she/"ze" has a huge pile of some of the richest garbage on earth in which to forage. Are the human inhabitants of that city doing any better?

Here's what I would like to see come out of the Russia witch hunt.
Since Nadler and Cummings has been obstructing Justice since the beginning. I would like to see them two get framed up for everything as the masterminds. Then I would also like to see all of the Commies working in the State Department we saw that made everything possible. Also go to jail, Strozk, Pencil Neck and Rosenstien.
We still expose The Obama's and Clinton's and all of the bad actors. Fire all of the Deep State and run the whole lot out of town on a poll. But the only people who go to jail would be Nadler, Cummings and the socialists, that did everyone's bidding. I would like to see Brennan have to take out Soros to avoid jail, and Clapper Testify how it was all Nadler and Cumming's fault.

So my friend Tim told me last night. The Nadler hearing was boring and nothing came out of it. I asked him if he saw it, he did not. I said Tim they want you to think it was boring and nothing came out of it. I had him play the Sheila Jackson Lee video, then Nadler reading tea leaves saying Trump is guilty of not being exonerated. Then YouTube did something on its own, I didn't have to do anything. The next 6 videos were the best Republican questioning Mueller. Tim was riveted. And for the first time, was not itching to turn it off because he didn't like what he was hearing. He realized what a sham the whole thing was.

During the Jackson Lee and Nadler questioning. Tim kept saying, he's not senile he's very Nervous, He does not want to answer these questions. As Jordon, Gaetz, Rattcliffe, Gohmert, and Meadows questioned him. Tim said, that's why he was nervous. He knows the Democrats were forcing him to Lie. Tim said that on his own, I was floored.

HonkpilledMaster says

Sums up the last couple of years of TDS.

HonkpilledMaster says

Why do you hate AFFORDABLE HOUSING?

jazz_music says

YOU NEED TO FEEL LIKE YOU ARE BETTER THAN SOMEBODY

Who are you better than?

jazz_music says

YOU NEED TO FEEL LIKE YOU ARE BETTER THAN SOMEBODY

Why the fuck are you screaming?

jazz_music says

Stormy Daniels is a sideshow. Let’s focus on the REAL Trump scandals.

Clearly you haven't seen Sexbots: Programmed for Pleasure.

Iranian_Oil_Burse says

Why the fuck are you screaming?

TDS, of course.

Love the new nick.

Slavery and Jim Crow were Democratic Programs.

Eliminating Paternalism created a huge jump in child abuse, child poverty, a near-freeze in upward mobility for poor kids. Since 3rd wave Feminism, Women are the most unhappy they've been.

POC is a racist term that deliberately excludes Whites and allows for anti-White Racism under the guise of Justice for shit that happened in the past, or shit that other White People had nothing to do with (ie Belgian Colonialism in the Congo or Britain in India has jack shit to do with the USA). It also implies that all POCs are allies, which the Kashmir Border or the Kurd-Turkish conflict or Korean-Japanese relations in history or Black Africans vs. Arabs/Persians should quickly inform that it's bullshit.

Anybody who uses POC is an open and Ignorant Brainwashed Racist

Bottomline is that unless the home is bought with cash, that a home is not affordable if the monthly total housing costs (principal+interest+taxes+insurance+hoa fees+emergency repairs) are 40% more than the household's gross monthly income. This applies to the "middle" class purchasing a home that is 3 to 5 times their annual household income.

https://www.spindices.com/index-family/real-estate/sp-corelogic-case-shiller

AD says

a home is not affordable if the monthly total housing costs (principal+interest+taxes+insurance+hoa fees+emergency repairs) are 40% more than the household's gross monthly income

Say what?

I'd be surprised if most of the "right wingers" here actually consume that much Fox news. Outside of a Chicago Bears game during the fall/winter, I cannot remember the last time I've watched any Fox station, local or national... and I'm not right wing.

Getting hung up on the news source for either side is getting pretty nauseating anyway. These networks have picked a path, they're going down that path to earn revenue and make money. It really has nothing to do with actual news. Hence why I don't watch much of it. None of it is balanced. Much of it is not accurate and is clickbait (viewer bait) and is not worth watching.

These legacy media companies are hanging on by a thread to the boomer demographic that 50% of can even retire in the foreseeable future. But it sells ads because this idea that they have the money. They literally don't and are trying to conserve every dollar now that their health is starting to go. Ratings will plummet for all these networks if they don't figure this out. I'd say that's a good thing as long as a google or facebook doesn't fill the void.

I would love a few "Sirius XM" style websites... offering Youtube/Podcasts for $10-20/month, with moderate ads and a portion of the take being distributed to the more popular hosts.

They would openly publish opaque rules, like "No porn" or "No F words" so content producers wouldn't be victimized by SFBA Tech Assholes.

Sargon, Styx, Crowder, and the rest could move over there.

That being said, it must be a hard transition for the Left to realize they're the oppressive Status Quo.

They really think one news channel whose average viewer is 62 or whatever, makes up for 90% of other media, from CNN to WaPo to NYT to MSNBC to CBS News, is responsible for Trump and the "Rise in White Supremacy" or "Toxic Masculinity" or whatever BS Fad Fearmongering Term they're using.

TDS is real folks.

If a household's gross monthly income is $5,000 then they should not buy a home or rent a home that costs more than $2,000 per month. That is what I was referring to as far as housing costs per month.

AD says

If a household's gross monthly income is $5,000 then they should not buy a home or rent a home that costs more than $2,000 per month. That is what I was referring to as far as housing costs per month.

You should go back and edit it then.

Iranian_Oil_Burse says

You should go back and edit it then.

"a home is not affordable if the monthly total housing costs (principal+interest+taxes+insurance+hoa fees+emergency repairs) are 40% more than the household's gross monthly income"

What is it wrong with the original statement above ?

AD says

Iranian_Oil_Burse says

You should go back and edit it then.

"a home is not affordable if the monthly total housing costs (principal+interest+taxes+insurance+hoa fees+emergency repairs) are 40% more than the household's gross monthly income"

What is it wrong with the original statement above ?

"Housing costs more than 40% than the households gross monthly income" literally means they are paying 140% of their gross monthly income. What you wanted to say is "housing costs more than 40% of the households gross monthly income".

If the fed had interest rates at 6% I guarantee there would be no housing crisis.

Okay, I apologize as it should have been written as "more than 40% of household gross monthly income".

RC2006 says

TDS is real folks.

It really is. Today at the office, my liberal coworker who sits next to me had a TDS bout. It was quiet, and we could hear another worker down the hall talking to someone else about the Mueller report, and how it was a big flop etc....

My libby coworker took a real deep breath and exhaled in a shaky, angry, breathe. Just overhearing someone else mention that "his side" failed made him almost lose it. haha

It's sad that he's still blinded, and still thinks russian collusion was real despite the obvious outcome.