@sl00011101@Owennfa Every bank crisis always starts with the same thing -- banks loaning money to people who should be getting loans (most often with the 'encouragement' of the government).
@daviexbt Some people don't want to have to deal with yard work and maintenance. When the weekend comes, they want to be out at the lake or going to a ballgame. There are lots of additional costs involved with owning a home along with responsibilities that suck up your time.
@SnarkAvenue@Roger_Negan You do realize that ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, yes? Finding and taking down terrorist sleeper cells isn't their job. Finding and deporting people who entered the country illegally IS their job.
It's not even "overzealous policing". People have lost their friggin' minds over deporting illegal aliens. They are driving cars (legally a 'deadly weapon') into law enforcement officers. It's the same derangement we saw when seemingly normal people were vandalizing their neighbor's car because it was a Tesla.
All those social workers they were supposed to have hired to replace police... they need to send them to help the ICE protestors get a grip.
They've absolutely lost it.
@daviexbt You need to tell the government to STOP PRINTING MONEY!!
And, while they're at it, QUIT IMPORTING MILLIONS OF LOW-SKILL WORKERS FROM THE POOREST COUNTRIES ON EARTH!!
@Ballistic_frag@Leonajardinho It's always been 'best' for some people to destroy, pillage, and steal. We have an entire history of humankind where one group kills and steals the goods of another people.
Then, we became civilized...
@oidonhagouda Some parts of the country have gone feral. Whatever law enforcement that may be around in that area is just there to document events... or not (if they don't want the crime in their statistical record).
@Leonajardinho You're right. We can't unprint money. So, we do what we CAN do to live our best lives. For me, one such thing was getting really good at turning raw stuff into tasty stuff.
Thirty years ago was our 'fat, drunk, and stupid' era. We hadn't lost all our manufacturing to China, yet. The Internet just started its boom when AOL went flat rate. Companies were dumping billions of dollars into buying new software and hardware to avoid a Y2K catastrophe. Health insurance was cheap (for my younger self). Car insurance was cheap. We lived like there wasn't a care in the world.
We were coming to the end of a great run that started under Reagan and lasted through Clinton.
@the_transit_guy Is it possible that a passionate artist can find adequate training at the public library, free Internet resources, and local classes at the community college WITHOUT taking on tens of thousands in debt?
It's too late to implement SAVE now for November. But, it needs to get passed. It is common sense for every voter to prove they are eligible to vote (American citizenship) when registering and it is common sense for every registered voter to prove their identity at the polls.
We need to make our elections bulletproof. It's not enough to just say "You can't PROVE fraud." Americans want to be able to PROVE there was NO FRAUD in their elections.
The SAVE Act achieves this purpose.
@BennieGThompson Wasn't Renee Good that woman who, when asked by a LEO to 'get out of the car", punched the gas and drove that car into the LEO?
Every Black man in America knows that intentionally hitting a cop with a car is suicide.
Are you talking about the 'bi-partisan' immigration bill of 2024? That bill would allow a lenient Biden Border Group to permit 5000 migrants per day across the border. Any more than that and they'd have to turn people away.
That bill was nothing more than a legal mechanism to allow another 1.8 million migrants per year into the country. The Biden WH had no desire to limit migration over the border.
How do we know this? AFTER the Dems lost the election and migrants were no longer a campaign issue, they released a new version of their CBP app that allowed migrants to enter with NO HUMAN INTERACTION.
Even after LOSING THE ELECTION because of poor immigration control, the Biden WH did all they could to get every single migrant over and into the interior before leaving office.
@MHTruthUltra Tell that to Oprah and Taylor Swift. While I may or may not agree with all their opinions, I've heard very good things about both of them in terms of generosity and appreciation of others. That's hardly sociopathic.