“The Whole Rotten Train Is Going Off The Rails”?

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Excerpt: It turns out, actually, that at least half the troops inside were not students at all, but rather semi-pro activists paid up to $7,000 each by George Soros’s Open Society Institute and other overtly insurrection-themed orgs, so you’d think that the troops could afford to load-up their ever-ready backpacks with Cliff bars and bottles of Smart Water. The order-in food and beverage gambit suggests we should understand that this is not so much politics as the acting out of a game — which is exactly what you might expect of people who spend more time on video screens than in the real world — in which something like a half-time intermission for refreshments is de rigueur…

It has been observed that a clear majority of the pro-Hamas activists are young women — which makes sense considering that they are the largest demographic evincing mental illness on America’s social landscape these days. Thus, they are marching in support of a sect that specializes in the rape, mutilation, and murder of young women like themselves, or at least treats them as chattels, hidden under black bag-like garments. The group psychology on display has more occult angles than any movie by the Wachowski sisters.

Among the marching Columbia students who are not paid outside activists, a few are apparently Jewish, such as spokesperson Johanna King-Slutzky (actual name, hat-tip Alex Berenson, who ID’d her), the winsome creature who complained about the lack of order-in meals at Hamilton Hall…

I’m not at all sanguine that the society we are becoming will need this vast infrastructure for babysitting young adults who could otherwise make themselves useful and productive on-the-ground in lines of work that actually keep civilized life going. This is too self-evident now to belabor, though there is an awful lot of confusion about what kind of society we might become.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whole-rotten-train-going-rails

And some of the reactions–

Wilde: Only Israel is pro-hamas…

C’mon ZH, Watson, Rogan, Kunstler…write some more hateful and sneering articles about your fellow Americans and your women… The ease with which you are pushed into hating each other is interesting to watch. More please!

Rabbi: George Soros’ son has visited the White House at least 17 times since Biden took office, records show.

fly: good managers always are on the work floor.

Adir: I’ll take the Hamas zealots ver the Zionist zealots. Hamas zealots cost Soros millions. Zionist zealots cost me billions.

Rabbi: Sorry, pal … being anti-genocide is pro-life not pro-hamas.

fly: In judaism, only jeews are human and alive.  everything else in the entire universe exists solely to serve them, and is evil if it doesn’t.

that’s what they teach their kids.  that’s what they live as adults.

Gil: Wrong. You have chosen your side.

trembo: Yes. The side of individual rights and dignity for all people not collective punishment, or biases based on my religion.

ted: even if there was no genocide, would it be smart for a country to be providing military and financial support to someone who is being accused of committing one? wouldn’t the smarter thing to do, politically, be to distance yourself from them as much as possible so that no one can accuse you of having some involvement? is it really smart to be out publicly supporting them when your power has been diminished to nearly nothing, as the rest of the world has finally become aware of what has been going on for decades?

received: Being pro-Hamas is certainly not being anti-genocide.  They may yet completely destroy any lingering hope for a thriving Palestinian society.

Rabbi: Hey, go-yim … look over here at the woke mob (that we created)  … and not at the 35,000 women and children (we) just slaughtered in Gaza.

Paid: Hey look another article by (((Kuntsler))) to bitch about some social ill that his tribe created, and deflect blame to muh Democrats.

chunga: He’s not talking to us. He’s talking at us.

Like he’s above all of us, and all criticism directed at the group he belongs to is a either a childish tantrum or a sneaky plot stemming from random “anti-semitism”.

I haven’t seen any stories aimed at AIPAC. Or Victoria Nudelman. Or Albert Bourla, Rochelle Welensky, so on and so forth. The world is becoming intolerant to this behavior and that IS GOOD.

trembo: I tend to like Jordan Peterson… shame to see he’s conflating anti-genocide with being pro-Hamas. You CAN think Hamas sucks and Israel sucks without hating ****. 

crypto: Peterson is a confused drug-addled crybaby that is struggling to repair his career. You took the bait of “both sides suck” because that allows you to not take a side. Fence sitting in this case is not what you want.

trembo: Actually it is. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship. Entangling alliances with none. I don’t give a **** about either group. I don’t want to fund either side. 
 

Get your *** over there and join the fight if fence sitting isn’t allowed. Not contesting your right to do that. I’ll even buy your plane ticket. 

Doctor: Most Israelis are probably like most Americans —

They want a peaceful life, and a good life for their children.

We shouldn’t equate the average Israeli with the Genocidal Israeli government,

any more than I hope people around the world don’t equate the average American with their War-Mongering Hegamonic government.

Thebig: No 

Most of them want exterminate not just the Palestinians

But the whole of all the Arabs too

And that’s just for starters. 

Dess: The endless stream of Zionist propaganda articles trying to tie protests to Israeli genocide in Gaza to communist and professional protesters. Israel has lost the Info War and clubbing protesters to Israeli genocide won’t change the reality of the evil that is Zionism and Israel.

Zionism and Israel need to be destroyed for a peaceful Middle East.

judgment: I am REALLY losing a lot of respect for certain “conservative” or “libertarian” commentators who are suddenly showing their dirty colors and lining up with zionist criminals.

**** off, Jordan Peterson.  **** off, Kunt sler.  **** off Joe Rogan.

You sellout bitches.

Rabbi: They also claim to support free speech … unless its about zionists or israel.

Toxic: We are seeing a master class by our “betters” (I will not name them as we KNOW who they are) on how to steer the narrative and deflect attention away from them- the true perpetrators and controllers of this Satanic Culture. This is their MO- pit groups against each other while they hide in the shadows pulling the strings and reaping the benefits. Kuntler is a foot soldier in their Satanic march to enslaving the Western world.

herb: Israel and dual citizens suck so much they make Islamic hardliners seem ok.  Let that sink in

August: In the late 60s I encountered my first “feminist” who was a freshman at Yale, and I didn’t know exactly what to make of her:  she seemed so articulate and yet retarded at the same time.

On a lark, I recently searched for her name online, and found that she was a tenured professor in Gender Studies somewhere deep in the bowels of the U California system.  I even found some of her academic writing online, too;  her published discourse had not changed one iota from her spoken words of 55 years ago.  Now that’s intellectual growth, baby.

You may have had an otherwise pointless career, Anna, but at least you passed the torch of mental vacuity to countless young Bay Area women.

Toxic: There’s only 1 WHITE NON-JEWISH MALE in an important cabinet position- Jake Sullivan NSA. Ponder that for a second and you see how complete the infiltration is.

Andy: This is barely the tip of the spear…the banks, corporations and billionaires behind them are all jewish, and they have minions at all levels and in all sectors…

The US is one big kibbutz…

Monos: Protesting the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is one thing, demanding a socialist uprising in America is another.

Comeon: An entire article about the student protests against what the Israelis are doing to the civilians of the Gaza Strip, and it never once utters the words “Israel” or “IDF”.

Bravo, dude. Bravo.

Cracking Down On Free Speech

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Excerpt: The Antisemitism Awareness Act has been approved in a 320-91 vote and will now head to the Senate. But the central question is: how and by what measure will federal authorities crack down on speech deemed “antisemitic”?

Will criticism of the government of Israel be deemed antisemitic? Will highlighting alleged war crimes or human rights abuses by the IDF be considered so? Will involvement in the BDS movement be deemed anti-Jewish? Will slogans such as “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” be illegal according to federal law? Will criticizing the US $3+ billion in annual foreign aid be considered anti-Jewish?…

By this measure, even theoretical historical discussions or interpretation could be considered illegal (such has long been the case in some European countries)…

Currently and historically, pro-Israel hawks who advocate for sending billions in American taxpayer dollars to Israel each year tend to accuse any and all opponents of such policies of being antisemitic. Some independent journalists say they’ve struggled to find blatant examples of people being targeted in antisemitic attacks on campuses for the sole reason of being Jewish.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-approves-antisemitism-bill-aimed-cracking-down-campus-protests

And a few of the comments–

Bfree: It’s been my experience for many years that most folks who espouse ‘Antisemitism’ can’t even define what a Semite actually is.

Eatapeach: If anybody ever wanted to know who all Epstein and Maxwell (Mossad) got sex dirt on, just look at the yea votes on this bill.

Boing: Nothing like a group of people whom originate from the Caucuses claiming they’re Semite, screaming Antisemitism at any opposition to their ethnic cleansing of Semites.

Caucasians killing Semites is Pro-Semitic…..huhhhhrgh??

Rust: Israel is guilty of genocide. 

If criticism of that genocide is breaking a US law, then this is no longer a republic. 

amad: If not a Republic what is it? Oligarchy? Dictatorship? Fascist? It is also not a Democracy. 

Luke: Closer and closer to thought crimes.

natx: Any narrative that is protected by law has proven itself to be false simply for the fact that it needed a law to protect it.

end: Amazing how fast the uniparty moves on this. I always knew that AIPAC and Israel threw a lot of money around DC but witnessing it in real time is breath taking. US sovereignty is dead ******* meat.

Oxygen: Now, maybe you’ll understand why they hate Putin so much.

He banned dual citizenship from having upper functions in the government, and in the security apparatus…

The Uniparty of Israel moves really fast when approving the necessary laws to protect itself. 

youare: This is the single most anti 1st Amendment bill ever passed in American history. **** these people, and the Israeli Nazi genocide.

Desert: Around half of all U.S. states have laws making it crime to oppose Israel.  Ron Desantis went to Israel to sign a bill making “anti-semitism” a crime in the state of Florida.  Do you think these politicians actually represent you?

chub: Congress needs to get out of the business of regulating speech, period. Same goes with the “hate” speech nonsense as well. 

Brand: Ridiculous on its face. What is going on in Gaza is REAL genocide; at the very least, it is wanton mass murder.

I’m not giving anyone a pass here, that includes Hamas, but what Israel is doing in Gaza is a war crime (against humanity).

Is it not so because the perpetrators are Israeli and therefore justified in their indiscriminate killing of innocents because perhaps some of their ancestors died in workcamps during WWII?

That would be tantamount to two wrongs making a right, wouldn’t it? 

It never ceases to amaze me how Jewish intellectuals and apologists (sophists in the worst sense of the word) tie themselves into “Talmudian” knots to justify the slaughter of innocents, under their “reasoned” pretexts, but condemn anyone who points out their hypocrisy, cruelty and psychopathic behavior. 

No one is above criticism or  having their motives challenged.

Rabbi: Antisemitism is basically anything **** don’t like.

As Rabbi Barclay proved in the Candace Owens interview … antisemitism is whatever they say it is.

And that definition can change on a daily basis depending on how it suits the needs of the ****.

The zionist response to the revulsion caused by their slaughter of 35,000+ palestinians is to make that revulsion illegal.

Only a country controlled by **** could pass an Antisemitism Awareness Act in record time.

Terre: It amazes me how many folks confuse anti-zionism with anti-semitism.

Somewhere along the way the rudder was lost and the boat is adrift. 

Bob: If you don’t think that is by design, you aren’t paying attention.

Unin: Attacking the Bill of Rights on behalf of a murderous foreign entity while sending them billions to continue their genocidal rampage. Yet another act of treason. They don’t even bother trying to hide their contempt for you.

str: I’m pro First Amendment but this speech, which I don’t like, is dangerous to our Democracy. That’s why I supported legislation to prevent hate speech on campus! Thank you, and I look forward to your support in the upcoming election. Remember, vote [party]!

Swan: Anybody who has been to Israel and seen the way they treat not just the Palestinians but all people, knows they are the scum of the earth, followed closely by their partners in genocide, the Americans.

william: Who is paying for the protests ?

Same people writing the blank check emergency legislation ?

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Wanting the Human Race to Reproduce?

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Excerpt: Leftists are so obsessed with identity politics, they’re arguing that human reproduction, and being in favour of people having babies is now right wing.

The article focuses on a recent natal convention , and states that “The far right is so obsessed with making babies, they just held a whole conference about it.”

Apparently it’s no longer just a fact that the reproduction of human life is an important objective of being human. After all, if there is no reproduction of human life, there is no being human to be had…

“In recent years, various factions of the old and the new right have coalesced around the idea that babies might be the cure for everything that’s wrong with society,” Del Valle writes, going on to intimate that really these ‘natalists’ are just bigoted and anti-immigration, and that immigration is really the way to solve the decline in birth rates.

She then throw in some “white supremacy” stuff for no reason other than to disingenuously conflate it with people who think having babies is a good thing.

The piece then insinuates that problems such as microplastics contributing to declining sperm counts, endocrine disruptors being present in water and birth control pills having detrimental effects on women’s fertility are all just conspiracy theories because they’re amplified by people who have X accounts… or something.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/if-you-want-people-have-babies-youre-now-far-right

And some of the reactions–

Glass: In 🤡 🌎,  women are supposed to be men, and men are supposed to be women.. an outright abomination to God and his creation to make men masculine, and women feminine.

Ayn: Anti-natalism is a self-correcting problem.

Give it a couple generations. The anti-natalists will not have grandchildren to bother the grandchildren of those of us, who reproduced.

mr: This has always been my question to the anti-abortion fanatics: Why would you want someone who hates their own child so much that they would murder it in the womb to be forced to have that child? The world is already overloaded with ******-up children in adult form.

brightside: Exactly. The only good thing about Lefties is that they avoid reproduction and promote abortion.

I say let them abort all they want and keep down the population of spiteful mutants.

It drives them nuts that religious people marry and have kids.

Lots of kids.

Nar: Both the upper echelons and rank and file of all of our cultural institutions are saturated with these self-assured idiots. Things are going to get much worse before they get any better. 

Think about it… things are going to have to get so bad, that these people are purged from positions and their ideologies are no longer allowed at the levers of power. What do you think it’s going to take to get that bad?

True: The great replacement isn’t a conspiracy theory, it isn’t delusional fantasy; it is very real and it is very in your face.

Sound: Young people are getting the full benefits of neoliberalism.
1)    Sky high housing costs have created generation rent
2)    Student loans
3)    Low wages and precarious part time jobs
4)    A minimum wage specified at an hourly rate that won’t pay a living wage in a part time job
5)    It’s all about investors, so people with money can make more money, and young people haven’t got any.

All the cards have been stacked against today’s young people.
They just can’t get anywhere in life.

I can readily compare what things were like for me, and what they are like for my daughter.
Superficially things are much better, but underneath its much worse.

She has just left University with a very good degree, but loaded up with debt.
This is where it starts getting difficult.
Getting a home and starting a family, I just can’t see how she is going to get there.

Wait a minute    …….
This is the demographics problem.

Personal experience has allowed me to understand our demographics problem.

dumpster: it’s not your job to be telling other people to have children.  doesnt matter if you are right or left. mind your own****ingbusiness.  

yer: As long as other people pay for their own damn creations then yes its no one’s business. 

An Anti-Work Anthem 

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Excerpt: The viral video, posted by TikTok user “tedymakesmusic,” has been viewed 1.4 million times and liked nearly a quarter million times.  

Here are the lyrics: 

I don’t want to contribute nothing to society.

I don’t struggle I don’t hustle.

If you want it, you can have it.

Sorry, I wasn’t born to Work. No, I wasn’t born to work. 

I’m too pretty to get dirty. Yeah, I said it. You can sue me. 

Don’t want to lift the finger. For the money. 

For those who don’t want to contribute to society and the economy, remember Goldman’s note from last year specifying that generative AI could displace hundreds of millions of jobs by the end of the decade. 

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/gen-zs-finds-anthem-tiktok-and-theyre-rockin-anti-work-song

And some of the reactions–

Westside: It’s so sad how pathetic lives have become to sit and watch garbage other idiots post

WiseOwl: Find the right people.  Find the right place.  Find the right partner. Why be a wage slave your entire life.  Earn just enough to sustain and survive the self sufficient lifestyle you describe.  Everything doesn’t have to be so complicated or such big industry enriching banks and corporations and gov as it operates. Have some kind of basic vocational skills / homesteading work. 

The consumerism / wage slave lifestyle is no good and I reckon most people don’t enjoy their livelihoods anyways.  It’s all debt bondage from womb to tomb. 

Oreo: Only self-absorbed, entitled children of completely failed parenting would identify with this song.

flykiller: well there’s a lot of ’em ….

AV: Im 43 and getting ready to move into a RV.

Not because I dont want to work… I work my *** off, and im getting tired of being so close to the edge that if I miss a day of work a bill will be in trouble of not getting paid.

Its cause the rent is too damn high.

Along with everything else.

And my experience so far is that **** aint comin back down. TPTB are hooked on inflated numbers, even of those numbers have ZERO value…

Ama: Plenty of boomers tried to warn us about the Bolshevik cancer that’s was lurking around this country for decades. But then again, plenty of boomers also were the ones that indoctrinated us with that very collectivist drivel. 

MrPeter: To be fair, I worked my *** off in a trade for for 30 years and after divorce and child support I should have just said **** it when I was 18 too

Monos: Millennials were saying the same damned thing ten years ago. Gen-X was saying the same damned thing in the nineties. Boomers were saying the same damned thing in the sixties. Every generation has to grapple with the existential realization that their circumstances are no different from the previous generations.

Yes, you’re going to have to work for a living. Yes, work is boring and unfulfilling. Yes, you’re probably not going to get rich. The faster you get over it, the faster you can get on with your life. 

Canadian: Millenials and Gen Z-er’s don’t want to work.

Yeah, tell me something I didn’t know already.

Average age at my company is 40’s.

Big: I’m really getting tired of hearing Gen Z whine. They act as if they’re the first generation that has ever had to work & the first generation ever to struggle, to have to sacrifice to make ends meet, to have to choose a MARKETABLE degree or skill or to have to move away from friends & family to find a decent job. Get over yourselves. Every generation before you has had to do the same. Life’s not fair 

Wellman: 4th Turning, Greatest Generation made, Boomers enjoyed it, Gen X struggled thru it… Millennials losing it, Gen Z totally screwing it up… 

Tough times make hard men

Hard men bring good times

Soft men bring hard times…

The American Nightmare: Renting for Life?

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Excerpt: Earlier today we reported that for at least 40% of Americans – up from 27% just two years ago – the American Dream is dead and buried and has been replaced with the American nightmare: renting for life

The median U.S. income earner ($74,755) with 10% down could only afford a home that costs $207,529 — 38% less than the current median-priced home.

A median-income family aiming to afford a median-priced home would need a hefty 45% down payment, or mortgage rates would need to drop from the current rate of 7.2% to 4% to make it work…

As it stands, 61% of Americans find themselves priced out of the market even with a 20% down payment.

The median home is affordable for median earners in just four states (West Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, and Indiana).

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/first-time-buyers-must-earn-120000-afford-average-home

And a few of the comments–

MrPeters: Most people can’t come up with 1000 bucks.  This article isn’t even close to reality which is much much worse.   Is Ukraine winning yet?

eb: Like the stock market indices, housing is overpriced by 70%.

Reality is verboten in the New Rome.

MSM says everything is awesome!

Bacon: Show me where rent is cheaper than owning; certainly not around here.

Felix: I’m a millionaire, but given the prices of everything, I consider myself economically, middle-class.

My standard of living is good, but it is little more than what average citizens enjoyed say 20 or 30 years ago.

With some exception, the late 90s were peak America.

Tired: Thanks Boomers!  Thanks Fed!  Everyone will be SO ******* SHOCKED when nearly everyone under 45 votes for communists in the coming elections.  

Hard: My son is a contractor…. smaller jobs….. he has many young folks who are college professors, for his customers….. he feels so sad for them, as they have all these NEW homes that are falling apart….. things he is fixing should last 30 years at least….. or 50….. Give me an older house anytime…..

Bacons: Even the cement sucks. Pulled in a ~2 year old driveway today, the top layer is just crumbling away. 

If you ever get the chance, walk through 100+ year old train stations in the MidWest. Those things are over built 10x to today’s “standards”. One had 24″x24″ oak support columns with 2″ iron plates at the top…insane.

sad: The world’s once-greatest super power and innovator, has lost a war with itself…no shots fired. Sad.

J-Freak: As someone who lives in Ohio I can assure you that homes are not affordable here. Perhaps compared to other places, but my house would sell for $150k more than I paid for it ($220k) in 2020.

Tired: The real problem is “I’ve got mine” boomers who may actually enjoy the suffering of those younger than them.  As they envy youth.  A generation of vampires that sold this country down the river.  

Omega: College was the ticket (normally) to an upper class lifestyle.  I say WAS.  Now it is a marxist indoctrination camp, that leaves one hopelessly in debt (hmm, maybe the idea all along).

My son said straight up out of high school that he was sick of school.  Went to a trade school and came out a diesel tech.  No loans, no debt.  Has done that for several years.  Now he is looking into watchmaking and other intricate fabrication.  You do not need college to be successful.  Instead it requires initiative and perseverance.

40% Of Renters Think They’ll Never Own A Home

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Excerpt: The American dream of owning a home has become the American nightmare for almost half the US population.

As housing specialist Redfin reports, rising home prices and mortgage rates “are making it harder to believe in the American dream of homeownership. Lack of affordability is the most commonly cited reason renters don’t believe they’ll ever own a home.

Lack of affordability is the prevailing reason renters believe they’re unlikely to become homeowners. Nearly half (44%) of renters who don’t believe they’ll buy a home in the near future said it’s because available homes are too expensive. The next most common obstacles: Ability to save for a down payment (35%), ability to afford mortgage payments (33%) and high mortgage rates (32%). Roughly one in eight (14%) simply aren’t interested in owning a home…

First-time homebuyers must earn roughly $76,000 to afford the typical U.S. starter home, up 8% from a year ago and up nearly 100% from before the pandemic, according to a recent Redfin analysis. Home prices have skyrocketed more than 40% since 2019, due to the pandemic homebuying frenzy and a shortage of homes for sale…

Home prices have risen 7% in the last year alone, and monthly mortgage payments have risen more than 10%, which helps explain why renters today are more likely than they were last year to say they don’t see themselves owning a home anytime soon. 

Many renters can’t fathom homeownership because they’re already struggling to afford their monthly housing costs. Nearly one-quarter (24%) of renters say they regularly struggle to afford their housing payments, and an additional 45% say they sometimes struggle to do so…

Broken down by generation, Gen Z renters are by far the most likely to believe they will become homeowners (maybe it’s because they are also the dumbest). Just 8% of Gen Z renters believe they’ll never own a home, compared to 22% of millennials, 40% of Gen Xers and 81% of baby boomers.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bidens-america-40-renters-think-theyll-never-own-home-27-last-year

Here are a few of the comments–

judgment: **** off, renters!!!  **** you, Americans!  

More money for Israel!  More money for Keiv!  More money for the NSA!  

More migrants!  More shoplifting!  More gender mutilation!

backstabber: nobody will say what they have on Johnson but now magically he has democratic support for speaker

our fed govt is totally corrupt and out of control 

purposely driving us off cliff and into abyss 

Inner: I couldn’t even get a one bedroom apartment today for what I’m paying on the mortgage.  Now THAT’s insane!

Capn: That’s kinda the whole idea behind being a landlord, to make money. You get tenants that destroy everything, don’t pay their rent, have to be evicted, etc. then the normal maintenance. Price a new roof, repaint between tenants, new carpet and so on. The profit margin shrinks rapidly.

Dukeo: They are right, they are now part of the permanent underclass.

junction: The incidental costs of owning a house are getting higher in many areas.  In Florida and California, home insurance costs have gone through the roof.  The higher costs of electricity and real estate taxes have also hammered homeowners. And then there is the massive inflation in home repair costs. 

woot: The solution is to get the government out of houses entirely. That will bring about a deflationary down spiral with cascading defaults and foreclosures. The ones hurt the most will be the ones owning the homes with the biggest mortgages; not the renters. The government won’t do this voluntarily. But it may be forced on them by the rest of the world when the dollar is abandoned.

Christian: Us “owners” are also “renters” through a little device known as property taxes.  We are all “renters”, renting land from our local principalities.

Oh wow, good job, you paid off your mortgage!  Now, stop paying property taxes for 3 years and see what happens…

Fritz: So what?  100% of “homeowners” are renters.

northern: I still talk to a buddy from school 45 years ago. He owns rental houses and rented one to another friend from school. The renter is just one of those guys that could never get his **** together. My friend offered him the house, and lined up a bank to finance it a few years ago when homes were still cheap and rates were 2.5% The monthly payment, taxes and insurance was going to be less than the rent. 
The renter’s wife stopped it. She is about  65 IQ, and thought it was a scam. 

Conan: the renting class will tell you they don’t pay insurance, mortgage interest, or property taxes – all that’s a scam to the renting class.
I’ve heard it too many times. That’s exactly how they think.

Always: It’s interesting that Gen Zers and millennials don’t have money to buy houses..but seem to have unlimited budgets for frequent travel, the newest gadgets and eating out. I think they are just biding their time..waiting for their boomer parents to croak so they can inherit the house.  

Phill: Don’t forget the all-important budget for tattoos!

whisker: The fact that taxes aren’t mentioned anywhere in this article is mind blowing. I’m paying over $620 a month in property taxes alone. The bastards think the house is more valuable, so I need to keep paying more and more and more. Never mind that I’m earning less and less and less.  Whatever the cost of the mortgage, they have to add escrow on top. They never seem to mention that. 

Tole: First of all, the American dream is not buying a home, it’s upward mobility, leaving your children better off than you were. That’s why people risk everything, literally their own lives to come here. OK, lately most of the have been coming for free $hit, but you know what I mean. And second, most people really shouldn’t own a home to begin with. Even before 2020, around sixty-five percent of the population were living paycheck to paycheck, and with fifty percent of marriages ending in divorce, financial problems being the number one reason, these are not the statistics of a well-adjusted, intelligent society. I can afford the payment, is the mantra of people who usually have no money.

theodora: We own our home, but a fixed income and inflation are making things tight.  Insurance, property taxes, HOA fees, and materials cost for maintenance are skyrocketing.  Last week we replaced a reduced pressure zone backflow preventor (RPZ).  We did it ourselves and the materials cost was now 400$ versus a 200$ cost nine years ago.  We have aging appliances and an aging water heater and HVAC unit.

Goal To “Eradicate” Critics Of Gender Ideology?

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Excerpt: The “transphobia” statement describes the aim of “eradicating [transphobia] from our profession” by instructing members that they “must raise concerns about colleagues” if they think that the colleague’s “personal values, biases and beliefs” have led them to “discriminate” against others, with discrimination including “denying” someone’s “gender identity or refusing to accept it”…

The position statement attempts to define “transphobia” for the “safety of transgender members and transgender patients” and describes it as “complex” and stating: “There is no definitive list of transphobic behaviours, but it includes, for example, the questioning of a transgender person’s gender identity”…

While aiming to encourage “the development of safe spaces for education around transgender issues. Discussing discrimination can be challenging and people should feel safe to discuss how we address all forms of oppression … centred on the experience of those who are oppressed.”

The Position Statement includes reference to the new Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards of conduct which come into force in September 2024. The HCPC regulates registered physiotherapists who are members of the CSP. The provisions quoted include that members must “take action to ensure that your personal values, biases and beliefs do not lead you to discriminate against service users, careers or colleagues.” 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-physiotherapist-leaders-announce-goal-eradicate-critics-gender-ideology-profession

And a few of the reactions–

Bfree: Boomers: “I can’t believe I wore bell bottoms.”

GEN X: “I can’t believe I wore parachute pants.”

Millennials: “I can’t believe I wore skinny jeans.”

GEN Z: “I can’t believe I cut my **** off.”PeterPan: When serious medication has to be taken, it is often the case that dosage has to be modified depending on the patient’s sex, otherwise there could be serious side effects. I can almost guarantee you that these poor unfortunate creatures who proclaim themselves to be what they are not, will almost assuredly declare their birth sex rather than risk serious side effects for the purpose of taking medication.

Economic: Pretend women being supported by pretend medical professionals.

TheManagement: These “doctors” are simply protecting a VERY lucrative long term revenue stream in ****** up kids down the line…

Red: Never saw anyone kicked out of the Army faster than a queer.  Now they are generals.

ZeroHedge: Just like Nazi Germany, the fascist UK physiotherapist organization stifles dissent from the mob’s perverse viewpoint in an attempt to create fear and stop criticism!

66M: One look at the mental health train wreck the LGBTQIANSAA+++  community has become after 50 years of rainbow flag waving tells you where all this is heading, so can we just jump ahead ten or fifteen years to when the millions of confused children who were duped into becoming ghoulish Frankenstein experiments have become miserable, disfigured, enraged adults who just want to seek revenge on all those responsible??

Because I would really just like to get to the epic final result of this sick, twisted social experiment.

Red: Unfortunately, they will take it out on society.  Look at all the angry women who hate their daddy’s that have turned into women that hate men and the “patriarchy”.

Forn: BBC just had an article this morning about the increase in mental health problems of Brits between the ages of 16 and 24, in ten years they’ve gone from the least reporting category to the most reporting, I wonder why that is.

Axa: Interesting fact.  The “average” 25 yo male of today has 40% lower testosterone levels than his equivalent from 1985. 

quasi: And it shows.

ZeroHedge: A time is coming when the western countries will no longer be able to afford the indulgence of mental illness, and survival will be uppermost in peoples’ minds.

Don’t know when, but when it goes down, it could go quickly. And it won’t be pretty.

Pvt: Discrimination between right and wrong used to be sensible. Not anymore.

Colorado: The transgender pros of physiotherapy cannot make a living unless off of the backs of transgenders. It is all about more money for the physiotherapists.  They make more in providing repeat therapy services to transgenders than anything else so do not dare to deny them a lucrative income from the state who pays for these health services.  Health?  I think not. 

all: The main requirement to become a Physiotherapist – you must be insane.

Sky: I will never trust a profession that is built on screwing with your mind.

Stop Being So Upbeat?

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Excerpt: Linker suggests that in order to recover, Biden ‘stop being so upbeat’ – about the economy in particular, and stop making the election about how awful Trump is. Biden “should admit Washington has gotten a lot of things wrong over the past two decades and sound unhappy about and humbled by it.”

Further, Biden “could make the argument that all governments make mistakes because they are run by fallible human beings — but also point out that elected representatives in a democracy should be up front about error and resolve to learn from mistakes so that they avoid them in the future.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/heres-why-america-broken-and-people-are-worried

Here are some of the comments–

Kiteh: Try to start a business, promote it on social media, build a modest home on your own land, or any of the ten thousand other things it takes to get by as an actual human in the States and you will be breathing government stinkbreath so fast it isn’t funny. Until the budget is slashed 95% and all the law books are burned, you won’t ever know what freedom is ever again.

Federal: This country is a joke and loathes entrepreneurship. We would love nothing more than to run physical business providing tangible goods and services to our community, but the costs and .gov overreach simply make e-commerce and software products so much more attainable.

Shifter: Why struggle to see the nose on your face?

1. Economy

2. Illegal immigration

3. Mental illness becoming “vogue” and worse, forced on us

4. Incipient tyranny:  forced vaccinations; lockdowns; censorship; lawfare; abuse of power and process

5. Incompetence as we’ve not seen before

6. Failing infrastructure

7. Preference for other countries before America USA

8. Openly stolen election; effort to force communism down our throats

TheGhost: America is broken because Americans are far too tolerant of the enemy within.

El: A major problem with the left is that they lie about reality and then tell you what you believe even when you don’t believe it, and no matter what you say, they insist that they know what you believe better than you do.  They’re insufferable.  This is no different.  

Revision: They’re pathological. They believe their own ********. Social media has given a voice and a platform to the mentally deranged. They need to be put in their place and shunned like the good old days.

Cheap: A bad break of your ankle requiring surgery could bankrupt you these days. Health is not only piss poor in America these days (because most docs don’t care any more and most new ones are FMGs), it’s also deadly expensive.

Sign: Most prosperous and successful nations rarely “collapse”. It is usually a decades or century’s long decline that turns the nation impotent and unrecognizable. Without a doubt, the US is undergoing this decline. Centuries from now when people are studying the rise and fall of the United States, who or what will be considered the leader or event that started the decline (and eventual failure)?

yer: Unfortunately Trump is not going to fix the US because he’s not thinking outside of the box enough to realize he needs to address EVERYTHING all at once. Shut DOWN all the wars and 90% of the foreign bases. CLOSE the border. THROW OUT the illegals and restructure LEGAL immigration to include temp worker efficient processing. REDUCE the federal employees by huge amounts since they’re there to service themselves. AND on and on to reduce all the overhead which is killing business. BUT it will not happen because they’re are too many parasites, RICH and POOR. People have been spoiled and they’ll not give it up easily. SO the US will simply go bankrupt and devalue the dollar to nothing and allow the common people’s standard of living to evaporate. 

With Little Hope of Escape

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Excerpt: In his recent book, “The Anxious Generation,” social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt writes: “At the turn of the millennium, technology companies created a set of world-changing products that transformed life not just for adults but for children, too. … Yet, the companies that developed them had done little or no research on the mental health effects. When faced with growing evidence that their products were harming young people, they mostly engaged in denial, obfuscation, and public relations campaigns.”

The result has placed our children in a virtual cage that has isolated them physically, socially, and emotionally—with little hope of escape.

Trapped in this virtual cage, girls suffer massive depression as they face pressure to conform to certain body images, become targeted by predators, and are mocked by their peers if they choose not to participate in an online game of one-upmanship based on looks.

Mr. Haidt states: “The more time a girl spends on social media, the more likely she is to be depressed or anxious. Girls who say they spend five or more hours each weekday on social media are three times as likely to be depressed as those who report no social media time.”

To free our children from the virtual cage that has entrapped them, he suggests four types of response: (1) no smartphones before 14 years of age; (2) no access to social media before the age of 16; (3) banning smartphones from schools; and (4) allow more unsupervised play and childhood independence.

But while all of these recommendations are good, they continue to put all of the onus on parents who find themselves standing alone against a tsunami of even more technological dangers, in particular, AI, coming their way.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/gen-z-trapped-virtual-cage

And a few of the reactions–

mtl4: You don’t cut them off from the world if you want resilient kids. Parents are there to help them understand and make good choices from what they do experience. 

coer: Then put them in contact with the real world

Not the virtual warped world we call “online”.

Aloha: Apparently there IS quite a lot wrong with the online world, because it is causing a mental health and suicide crisis far beyond anything the “real” world ever did.  I would argue that most of the peak stupid like gender dysphoria is also spread online.  And then of course the hostility, division and bullying online that we have all experienced.  There is a LOT wrong with the online world and any parent who thinks it’s fine for their kids to have open access is fooling themselves. 

mental: I have a gen-z kid.  But I cancelled cable TV in 2004.  No video games.  First cell phone was at age 18.  My kid has the same attitude and skills and her parents.  Not one single problem and I’m no stellar parent.   Just common sense, reasonable discipline and no brainwashing garbage from the media, phone apps or video games.  My kid now has a high paying great job with a secure future.   

Tiggr: Narcissistic personality disorder is a medical mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance.  Social media platforms promote the same for profit e.g. attract people that need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them, lack the ability to understand or care about the feelings of others, and behind a mask of extreme confidence, are not sure of their self-worth and are easily upset by the slightest criticism.

Yikes: The new tech is just a new way to push the old poison.

Women who spent too much time with women in the past were always made depressed and anxious by it.

Boys always stay playboys unless forced to take on responsibility.

New tech just speeds it up some.

Since the 1980s, marketing has expressly infantilized teenagers and young adults.

Because infantilized minds are extremely easy to manipulate and control.

Aussie: Why would anyone be surprised that boys are failing, leaning into red pill sites, ****, spending much of their time playing computer games and have such a derisory attitude towards woman. Young guys have zero role models in their lives, many are from solo mum families and yet for some mysterious reason Society thinks this will result in responsible men, expect ever more Peter Pan type soy boys.

You reap what you sow.

Inner: I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve gone to the restaurant and seen a family, or at least you would imagine they could have been one, gathered at the table all head down looking into their portable idiot boxes with nary a spoken word amongst themselves.  Or the lone kid with a tablet tapping away oblivious to the fools who masquerade as their parents.

Glen: Breaking addiction is difficult but not impossible. You just have to put it down and walk away.

Tech has its place, but when it takes over it’s the worst of addictions…there’s so much more out there than just looking at a device.

Staring at a phone 24/7 is not going to improve your life. Waiting for likes or what ever is not going to improve you life. If you want to be a perpetual slave just keep sleepwalking the way your are now.

The Eclipse Was Cool

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Perfectly clear skies… From 90% coverage land in West Central Illinois… Staring up at the sky with proper glasses… Stepped on the dog’s tail… And here was my song list for the 25 minute event…

Dancing around my parent’s driveway, staring up at the sky, listening to my eclipse song list… Good times… and did I mention I stepped on the dog’s tail?