@Amanda Matthews

Of course it is just as corrupt as the duopoly it serves.

There are only a couple people over there that didn’t sound certifiable. I see old MB still hasn’t figured out where he left his ethics and any dignity he may have once had (which AFAIC was during the healthcare coverage debacle).

I have always wondered what that dump was like on the day of and the day after the election. I didn’t go look because I HATE giving them clicks, especially since they’re still slip-sliding their way to irrelevance. But I would like to go back and see all the heartbreak and outrage.

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But good on you Ed. But I’m afraid no matter how hard you try that place is always going to be an intellectual and ethical wasteland.

@Amanda Matthews
Plus this in front of your graph above.

There are only a couple people over there that didn’t sound certifiable. I see old MB still hasn’t figured out where he left his ethics and any dignity he may have once had (which AFAIC was during the healthcare coverage debacle).

I have always wondered what that dump was like on the day of and the day after the election. I didn’t go look because I HATE giving them clicks, especially since they’re still slip-sliding their way to irrelevance. But I would like to go back and see all the heartbreak and outrage.

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But good on you Ed. But I’m afraid no matter how hard you try that place is always going to be an intellectual and ethical wasteland.

@Nastarana

The Israel angle is interesting. I totally agree with you on this.

BTW, we could bring down housing prices AND welcome immigrants IF we had rent controls across the country, not just NYC and Berkley, AND permitted no absentee, especially no foreign, ownership of American real estate.

Gjohnsit had an essay that showed how many empty houses there are in this country and I think it's close to 100,000. I've read articles on how financial institutions bought up hundreds if not thousands of foreclosed homes and they are renting them out for high prices and have become absent slumlords. If something breaks in a rental, people can't find anyone to call about getting it fixed. This also took so many homes off the market and young people are not able to buy their first homes.

Trump just raised tariffs on solar panels and the two biggest companies that make them here are foreign owned. A lot of foreigners are buying second and third homes here, but they stay empty most of the time. I like your ideas.

Wall Street and Israel. (Yes, I went there, so sue me). One or both of the two doesn't want a shutdown. WS wants cheap labor and upward pressure on housing prices. That is not an anti-immigrants remark, BTW, we could bring down housing prices AND welcome immigrants IF we had rent controls across the country, not just NYC and Berkley, AND permitted no absentee, especially no foreign, ownership of American real estate.