@JesseKellyDC Is your position closer to “the critics are right and we have to do what’s right to win” or “the critics are joo-brained unwitting consumers of Pakistani & commie slop and there’s nothing we can do about it so adapt or die”?
I know everyone is focused on Nvidia, but the U.S. housing market is in a dramatic slump.
Home sales in October fell to the lowest since 2010
(This is sales of existing homes).
Home sales and home building are drying up as mortgage rates remain above 7% (and home prices remain 50% above 2020 levels). There's unlikely to be much relief anytime soon.
This is a big pain point for many young Americans. Spain is currently experiencing strikes and riots over housing unaffordability. It's a warning to the US.
Washington is one of the bluest states in America. On Nov. 3, its voters passed Initiative 638, 56% to 44%, carrying 36 of 39 counties, to keep biological males out of girls’ K-12 sports.
Six days later, Seattle’s school board voted 7-0 to authorize legal action to stop it, saying it violates state anti-discrimination laws. The next day, the city's self-described democratic socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, backed them. She cited “inclusive learning environments where every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential.”
Look at who’s missing from that sentence: girls.
Here’s what the left means by “inclusive” in practice. A boy who identifies as a girl gets the roster spot. A girl loses the race, the podium, and the scholarship.
When voters in a state this blue speak this clearly, and the political class’s first move is to find a way around them, you have to ask who is really defending democracy and who thinks they know better than the voters.
So much for tariffs paying the bills.
From May through September, Washington refunded $134 billion in tariffs and collected $119 billion. Net customs revenue: about NEGATIVE $15 billion.
That's what happens when the Supreme Court rules the IEEPA tariffs illegal. The money goes back to the importers who paid it.
For the full fiscal year, net customs revenue fell to about $173 billion, down from about $195 billion the year before.
But here's the part that doesn't get refunded: higher prices, canceled investment, and the uncertainty families and businesses ate along the way.
Tariffs are taxes on Americans. They were never going to fix a spending problem.
I wrote about this: https://t.co/3tTxHtNOBf
Let people prosper.
BREAKING: The Trump Administration is reportedly considering firing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over the China chip scandal.
This comes amid reports that Lutnick stalled curbing chip sales to China.
@Heminator It’s insane that it could take 3 years to realize something like that though, especially considering millions of people were screaming about it that entire time.
I was 26 when I contracted a terrible tropical disease that caused my hair and nails to fall out, and gangrenous worms to ooze from all my skin pores. My girlfriend stayed by my side faithfully through the long painful recovery. Now I question if her tits are big enough for me