US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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So after paying out the ass for someone to redo the floor in your kitchen or whatever, which takes forever because they have that they're half-assing both their jobs, and oh what do you know, their girlfriend's ex-husband's kid needs to be picked up from basketball practice so they can't show up this week, they'll keep bugging you for more "work." Happened to a relative. Many times.
I mentioned Louis Rossman's shop as an example, I think it took six months for his job to not get finished before the contractors just bailed because they made a mistake they couldn't fix without more or less starting over. I want to say what he was trying to have done was, when you stepped into his shop from outside, you had to step down, the floor was at different levels depending on which room you were in. He just wanted the shop to have a level floor all the way through. Basically, just frame up the low floors with 2x6s, glue and screw some plywood on top of the framing, then some fresh flooring/carpet/whatever all through the shop.

I don't know how big his shop was but I've done the same thing to single rooms in two days, one day to frame it and get the plywood down, let everything settle to the house's climate and give the glue time to dry overnight, one more to lay some laminate flooring and install/paint some baseboard. The guys he hired screwed up the framing so that whenever you took a step the frame bounced off of the original floor and made terrible noises, and the plywood was bowing up because they only glued the edges which added to the noise, and for those unaware liquid nails is stronger than actual nails so pulling up the plywood after it's been glued just completely destroys it. I think it was also so out of level that his flow soldering machine was kicking out errors
 
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Currently live in nigger and jeet country and Ive been seeing a lot more hiring signs as well the last month or so and I got a job for the first time in months (practically hired on the spot which I thought didnt happen since the 90's). Gonna be :optimistic: and hope that the vacancies are from illegals being party v&'d due to the DHS leader change
Its almost like removing hundreds of thousands of people in a year and putting a 100k tax on jeets does something to the economy. People need to get out there and APPLY. Now is your chance!
The problem is people want to shop and eat, and many are still off weekends. If you as a business owner aren't open to take their money, someone else will be, and you don't make enough to cover expenses and close.

The real end will be the death of self service brick and mortar retail and restaurants, as everyone just orders more online and for delivery. People want to shop but nobody wants to work. Replace them with DoorDash and Clankers, simple as.

Maybe it's good, who wants to be a low level corporate drone. But on the other hand, what will people do for money, especially the low skilled?
People will still take those jobs. But employers need to give incentives to do those shitty shifts, because those shifts are fucking DOGSHIT. Hiring a jeet and being a traitor should be grounds for execution. Give incentives or lose your business.
 
Yeah it is. You can make more money at a white collar job in a city that isn't circling the drain. If you're netting 100k/yr in family income off rentals, you have probably 20 to 40 renters to deal with.

If that sounds like a great job and easy money, you're probably too young to use this website.


So why aren't you, personally harvesting all this risk-free income? Strangely, I haven't met a single person who thinks owning rental properties is easy money who also owns rental properties.
Although it's an okay scam, you can benefit the most from it when you have massive scale (risk pooling and higher operational efficiency) and if you can get in on it when rents are high. In that case you might as well buy shares of EQR or ESS at the right time instead, but in that case every other asshole is thinking the same thing and has already priced in that sweet guaranteed income. (I thought I saw a $100 bill sitting on a busy sidewalk once but that's impossible.)

Absent rent price collusion, which arguably is significant, the individual landlord gets squeezed by the big operators, who in turn are just generating dividends that are already priced in. That means that even if the REITs have 100% guaranteed profits, you can't get at them by buying the stock. No individual actor is guaranteed a profit at all.

A more reasonable perspective puts the blame for grievances about rent and landlords on the price collusion itself, the friction imposed by the cost and inconvenience of moving and shortages in the housing market, without which one could simply find a better, cheaper alternative (and the lack of a better cheaper alternative would functionally define "fair").
 
Is this supposed to be a gotcha? Ngl sounds pretty kino.
You'd think so but I've played crusader kings 3. If you start putting babies into everything that moves and the kids have heritable fertility traits before long they start putting babies into everything that moves and the game crashes when you try to look at your family tree. Also they start trying to kill each other and generally fuck your plans up.
 
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The easiest way to fix the job market right now is to ban dual citizenship with any country who's COL is half or less than the US. Its absurd that you can pay 2 people the same amount but one employee effectively gets double the amount of purchasing power because they can live like a king when they bring their couple thousand American dollars back to their shithole
 
If you're running a theme park or an ice cream stand, or even a retail shop or restaurant, and you can have to work every weekend yourself and get screamed at for not having enough help or hire jeets, what are you gonna do?
this used to be the reason for having families and running family businesses and having good relationships with the community, until boomers decided to stop having families and make every single relationship in life transactional. there's zero reason for teenagers to give reasonable terms to complete strangers in a business environment

the teenagers are fucked with their expectations with the workplace too, but this is a process a long time in the making
 
The problem is people want to shop and eat, and many are still off weekends. If you as a business owner aren't open to take their money, someone else will be, and you don't make enough to cover expenses and close.

The real end will be the death of self service brick and mortar retail and restaurants, as everyone just orders more online and for delivery. People want to shop but nobody wants to work. Replace them with DoorDash and Clankers, simple as.

Maybe it's good, who wants to be a low level corporate drone. But on the other hand, what will people do for money, especially the low skilled?
This is all bullshit. Chik-Fil-A is a good example. Japan went from a six-day workweek to a five-day workweek organically and their economy improved from it.

To add to this, America is an anomaly when it comes to Sunday shops. A lot of places around the world are closed down Sunday. I know some retail business owners. They consistently tell me that Sunday is still the worst day for them on average, despite most people having it off.
 
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Boomers made their kids work.
boomers mass aborted their kids and told them that blue collar and local industry work and anything else that didn't require a college degree was for losers, while at the same time breaking up their families for shits and giggles and never letting go of being a bunch of smelly teenage hippies
 
Some Trump dude at the ATF is trying to help as much as possible by amending the ATF rules:

1. ATF is proposing to allow “Non-Over-the-Counter” firearm sales by FFLs to residents of the same state. The update would modernize identification verification for these transactions, making compliance with the 1968 Gun Control Act and 1994 Brady Act more efficient while maintaining all required background checks and safeguards. This provides FFLs greater flexibility using today’s secure ID verification options.
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2. This is a pre-daft that is going around, but it looks like the DOJ/ATF is proposing a change to NFA paperwork that will allow you to copy your drivers license rather than having to get passport photos and changes the fingerprint card requirements.

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Doing the bit by bit approach which I can appreciate while still staying within the law.

Edit: If Im reading some of the comments right for #1.... an FFL in your state (depending on state law) could do an electronic identity verification and sell you a gun over a video call, and then ship it to your door steps. So we are inching more and more to going back to pre-80s mail order guns right to your doorstop.
 
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Boomers will tell you those jobs were never meant to pay your rent then talk about how they afforded a house, car, college, and nights out at a bar while working pizza delivery as a young adult.
Literally what is even the point of trying. This country hates me and there is nothing I can do about it. The future does not belong to us and if you are not a shitskin parasite you will die homeless and starving on the street.
 
Lol. They are only allowing 2 sites to be inspected which are the civilian Bushehr power plant and Tehran research reactor. None of the enrichment or nuclear sites that matter are being allowed inspection making the headline meaningless.
Goalpost shifting kike, I see you.

Last week it was no inspections, now it's the wrong sites being inspected. What's the next play for you? "oh Iran is moving the material"

I see you!

I think Mamdani is going to be a Congressman or senator unfortunately. He is very charismatic to the point where he can avoid pitfalls easily
He's a pretty skilled politician and he's speaking to real issues people have. People screaming (not you, btw) that he's a commie and he's some super sekret jihadi (again, not you) are fucking stupid.

The right way to counter someone like him, is address the issues people want addressed. Show he's a fucking liar, that works too.
 
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I think Mamdani is going to be a Congressman or senator unfortunately. He is very charismatic to the point where he can avoid pitfalls easily
Oh I'm 100% sure Mamdani can win a House or Senate seat if he wants one, given how insanely pozzed NY has proven itself to be. A House district based out of NYC should be piss easy for him to win in particular. It's if he has to ever try to pick up votes outside NY (or any other sapphire-blue state) that he's going to have massive fucking problems, which is why I'm significantly less concerned about him running for the presidency or even the vice-presidency (his being a Muslim jeet communist aside, the absolute state of NYC will also serve as a huge albatross around his neck, like how the absolute state of California will haunt any Newsom presidential campaign).
 
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