Moderators: LawBeefaroni, $iljanus
I assume that was when generations all lived together because fuck a mortgage. If I can't pay cash, then I'm not leaving home unless rents are super cheap, which somehow I doubt they were.
I remember glazing over when I saw that disclosure -- we had borrowed $125k so it was even higher. But of course we refinanced multiple times.
We're still at the low range on a 62 year chart. We just got whipsawed by pandemic stimmy.
So true…all those races that you used to either skip or pick at random, now you can get a cuppa and put your feet up and take 10 minutes to see what’s what. I’m voting smarter now that I can do it at my leisure.LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 11:54 am And my goodness, talk about something they should have done forever ago. Even if it was just send out ballots and make people hand deliver them on election day. So much of a more leisurely and informed decision from the comfort of my home, where I can see what's on the ballot and do my diligence. (That would be even more meaningful if the GOP hadn't spent the last 16 years turning me against them with an ever hastening pace)
Ballots will be sent out October 6 in California. Saw a video where some A-hole mayor was caught stealing a ballot drop box. What a timeline.
It was a staged stunt by the asshole mayor.. Doesn’t make it right. Just means the asshole was hoping to give Trump an erection when he read about it.
Wait--He was really sitting on the Crimson Tide side??
“And for a long time, I was like, ‘Man, I really want to find a politician that represents all of the things that I want and I want to see in a presidential candidate.’ And this year, I found Bobby Kennedy, and I thought, ‘Man, this guy is it. He’s the real deal.’ And in a perfect world, whatever that would look like, perhaps I would have voted for Bobby. But we don’t live in a perfect world. In fact, we live in a very broken one, we live in a country that has been hijacked by a lot of people who want to take this place way off the cliff. And we want to stop that, right?”
Levi continued, “We’re here to make sure that we are going to take back this country, we are going to make it great again, we are going to make it healthy again. And so, I stand with Bobby, and I stand with Tulsi, and I stand with everyone else who is standing with President Trump. Because I do believe, of the two choices that we have, and we only have two, Donald Trump, President Trump is the man that can get us there. And he’s gonna get us there because he’s gonna have the backing and the support and the wisdom and the knowledge and the fight that exists in Robert Kennedy Jr. and former representative Tulsi Gabbard.”
You know that’s not true, right?
Yeah, this is what it was. I'm 209% sure.
In Ohio 95% of the GOP ads are fear mongering with racist and bigoted roots (both skin color based and sex based). I have seen literally 1 GOP ad for Bernie Moreno and 0 Trump ads that didn't contain any of those elements. Perhaps the worst of them all is a new Trump ad that ends by saying Trump is against They/Them and for "us", whoever "us" is.LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 8:11 pm OMG while waiting for football to start, TV is 100% political ads and they run forever. It feels like 5 minutes of programming and 15 minutes of political ads. And preponderance of them are horrible. Linear TV is the absolute worst. Can we stop thinking about 2024 now? I mean, my ballot is done, and your shit wasn't going to influence me anyway. Don't worry about all the old people you are trying to reach. They've already made up their minds too.
If it matters, most of the ads are GOP ads. 100% of the GOP as are negative, except for claims they will protect our borders, if playing on fear can be considered a positive. At least the most of the Democrat ads are (you know the people with no plans) about positive things and goals for their candidacy.
I hope this goes over like the mudslinging and "democrats proposals are just too confusing" did in 2022. I fear it won't but I hope it will and that memories aren't short. The Supreme Court that drove 2022 elections are still this Supreme Court and GOP, as much as they scream at the top of their lungs the last 4 years have been controlled by the democrats, have had split government that whole time.
PLEASE, let these ads end soon. I need my old TiVo to work OTA so I can just record the game and start watching it an hour late, skipping the commercials (which is what I used to do)
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I take it back. There are apparently a sea of deplorables willing to travel to Butler PA
In his largest ad buy to date, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz attacks U.S. Rep. Colin Allred for his support of the Equality Act. It would have prohibited gender discrimination in public places.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee unveiled its first Texas ad of the general election on Tuesday, accusing U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, of pushing “sex changes for kids.” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also unveiled Tuesday his campaign’s biggest ad buy yet for two ads accusing challenger U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, of supporting legislation that allows men to use women’s restrooms and not knowing “the difference between boys and girls.”
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Polling by the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs showed that a majority of Texans responded unfavorably toward allowing transgender people to choose which bathroom to use, participate in women’s sports and receive gender affirming care under 18. But a large majority of Texans — over 70% — support general protections for LGBTQ+ people from discrimination, according to the Public Religion Research Institute.
