She’ll turn 37 in a couple months. If she got pregnant now, it would technically be a geriatric pregnancy. Instead she’s freezing her eggs. This desire to start having children late in life is completely baffling to me. I’ll have kids in theirs 20s by the time I turn 50. AOC apparently wants to have a toddler at that age. Totally backwards and ridiculous.
@AmiriKing No hotel chain operator is going to tell these guys out of the blue that they don't feel safe because they're black. Huge piece missing from this story. AS USUAL.
Let's lay out the math:
You own an NYC apartment that's been occupied by the same tenant for 30 years. It's rent-stabilized, so the tenant is paying substantially under market rate.
The tenant moves out / passes away, and legally, you're required to invest $100k into lead abatement, wiring, asbestos, etc., to bring the unit to code before you re-lease it to the next tenant.
But because of a 2019 law called the HSTPA (Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act), you can't raise the rent enough to cover the renovation costs.
You go to the bank to ask for a renovation loan. They say, "Can you pay it back?" You say, honestly, "No." They say "Denied," as they should.
Your only other option would be to pay cash out-of-pocket if you happen to have that kind of money laying around.
Your financial advisor says, "Why wouldn't you just put that money into T-bills, or TIPS, or long-term Treasuries? Or heck, even a high-yield savings account? Or a CD?"
You run the math and realize all of the above would pay a higher return.
So it doesn't make sense to pay cash. You can't get approved for a loan. And you can't legally rent out the apartment without doing this renovation work.
So you leave the apartment vacant.
There are 57,421 rent-stabilized vacant units in NYC, according to the latest data, which was released in June 2026.
That's about a 16.18% increase over the previous year, when NYC had 49,426 vacant units.
That trend line is worrying. And it's about to get worse.
Karen Bass is that old school union-owned politician. It's less incompetence, more just she doesn't care. A dash of corruption + DGAF.
Nithya is bafflingly incompetent. She can barely speak. Has to read from paper notes any time she gives a speech. Zero leadership capacity.
Dumb and Dumber.
It’s interesting that el Sayed could afford to become a non-practicing physician and yet somehow he reported $700k in income last year even though his wife is in a low paying specialty and he’s a ‘public health official.’
Did we ever figure out where his money comes from?
I guess you just have to resign yourself to the fact that we’re going to have all of these inscrutable elites with foreign financial connections populating our politics. We’re not going to know how they support themselves or have a full accounting of their social connections. Leftist politics in particular seems friendly to political aspirants who operate with this extra layer of opacity.
In case you foolish feminists are wondering why your parents' and grandparents' marriages actually lasted - this is why.
It was two poor, hard-working people who understood duty. The man broke his back in a coal mine 12 hours a day to keep a roof over their heads, and the woman held down the home with cooking, cleaning, and raising the kids. They were a TEAM.
You think a coal miner coming home covered in black dust, coughing his lungs out to feed his family, wants to hear his wife say cooking and cleaning is "slavery" and "oppression"?
They didn't have time for your feminist victim games. They had real problems. They stuck together because they needed each other.
That's why their marriages lasted 50 years and yours can't last 50 days.
This is the perfect poster boy for communism. Fat, lazy, disheveled, disgusting Mr Potato Head body, complete loser: seduced by the prospect of wielding state power to crush the people who are more successful than him, because their success reveals what a loser he is.
He's been brainwashed by Hasan Piker to have a completely ignorant view of communism. Listen to how he describes it..."it hands the power to the people"? How dumb do you have to be to not know that communism = authoritarian dictatorship? Do you think a weak Mr Potato Head like him would have ANY place in communist society? This disgusting weirdo would literally be the first up against the wall after the revolution. WAKE UP! These communist freaks are the biggest threat to society right now.
1955, Jonesborough, Tennessee.
Emory Harrison, his wife Thelma, and their 12 sons , every single one a boy, lined up smallest to tallest in overalls. Officially the largest all-male family in the United States.
No luxury. Just hard work, a full house, and each other.
Seventy years later, this photo still stops you. ❤️🇺🇸
Cop Who Was Jailed Over The Arrest of George Floyd Believes He Was Set Up To Be MURDERED In Prison Attack to SILENCE Him
Tou Thao says if he lied, he would have been spared prison and maybe even been made police chief.
He chose to speak the truth because of his Christian faith.
“There’s people in government who want us dead. If we die, the truth dies.”
“I could have taken the easy way out and sided with the woke mob… if I would’ve went that way, who knows, I probably could’ve been the Chief of Minneapolis.”
How do I adequately explain Charlotte government to you?
Imagine the most corrupt Democrat political machine since the old days of Chicago, but run almost completely by black Democrats. I'm talking the mayor, city manager, the sheriff, the city council and county commission, the DA, magistrates, judges, police chief, school superintendent and on and on it goes. They are all paid exorbitant salaries and there are backroom payoffs and hiring friends at exorbitant salaries, all at taxpayer expense. As a matter of fact, they've raised our property taxes three years in a row to pay for all of this.
The schools are failing, and even now the superintendent is suspended pending the results of an investigation into her mismanagement of funds.
We regularly make national news because of the horrible crime committed on a daily basis because the DA, judges and magistrates refuse to lock up violent criminals and the mentally unstable. The sheriff doesn't want criminals in the jails - he said as much just yesterday. We are short close to 300 police officers because they can't get people to apply - why would they when the city does not back them up and the system just releases the criminals they arrest.
Charlotte used to be a really nice town. I've lived here all my life. My children were born here. I work in this city. I've seen it all and I can tell you that the decline started with a long succession of Democrat mayors and city council members. I don't want to move, but I have no choice. I can no longer afford to live here, both financially and from a safety standpoint. Democrats have ruined this city and it's only a matter of time before the banks will no longer be able to get their employees to come here to work and businesses stop relocating here. It may take 10-20 years, but at some point we will be another Chicago or Detroit.
What is the solution?
I wish I knew. Most conservatives fled the city for other counties years ago. Republicans don't even bother to run for many offices anymore because it's a waste of time. The voters here never seem to learn. I don't have any faith that they will ever change. The only thing I can do is leave like the rest did.
Unprovoked black attacks like this happened to me many times.
Standing up for myself resulted in fighting a swarm instead of just one. Blacks come out of the woodwork to help the attacker.
When I told my friends, they called me racist. Unforgettably dark experience.
You are held hostage by the bottom 1% of society infinitely more than the top 1%.
Elon Musk is not the reason the store shelves are locked up, and cities are setting up Flock cameras on every street corner.
If we didn't have a violent and impulsive lumpenproletariat underclass destroying everything around them, there would be no argument for treating the rest of society like potential criminals when they're out in public.