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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 3h

When did he get the line-item veto?

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 7h

(Actually, the joke is that of all the bad news we’re seeing on our Bluesky feed today this thing pops up.)

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 7h

Your ego.

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 7h

How do you confirm something like this?

Are you sure?

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 8h

Good. I don’t want sick people around me.

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 8h

Just once I want to hear one of these reporters ask Trump if people like Hamas — who are in no obligation to do so — really call him “sir.”

And then ask him why he always makes this up.

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 21h

Through the George Soros app.

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 21h

I’m so old that the headsets we had didn’t even have plugs!! The whole phone was hard wired into the wall.

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 21h

Yes —it was!!!!

Man I feel old.

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 1d

I’m starting to think so. Remember when young people were the cool informed ones?

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know … I’m starting to really hate young people and their complete ignorance of history. We were never like that.

Don’t they ever sit across from grandma and grandpa at the holiday table and chat? Or even just listen to the stories?

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, he definitely has a flair for narrative flow and making scenes work.

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 1d

The obvious result of a national culture that has become increasingly ignorant and subliterate over the last four or five decades.

Remember the days when weekly “womens magazines” would have lengthy pieces in them about some social issue or another? And have like 5 million circulation?

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 1d

And the press in the room keep laughing at his jokes.

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 1d

And then the “supply” re-dwindles.

And then the rents keep going up — without rent control.

I love how YIMBYs will never advocate for strong rent control measures. Gee, wonder why…

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure you YIMBYs can’t wait to move into your ugly 10-story fantasy mega-apts.

Few of you will —which makes your hypocrisy delicious.

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 1d

Lol that doesn’t happen.

Like where? Maybe in low demand areas. And the number of allotted “affordable” units is always ridiculously small.

Yeah. 2K a month for one bedroom is affordable.

This will be fun to watch. I love it when YIMBY libertarian fantasies crash and burn.

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t wait until this does little to alleviate both the housing supply and expense crisis in LA.

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 2d

Sure. Let’s screw up another environment.

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 2d

You get affordable rents where landlords can’t squeeze tenants in an inequitable relationship where one party — the tenant — can’t walk away from the deal.

I love how YIMBYs never advocate for rent control. Gee — wonder why.

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 2d

In popular areas the more the supply the more the demand.

People from elsewhere will flood into these areas the more apts get built. It’s not a static market.

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 2d

There’s plenty of room to expand housing in California without needing to Manhattanize the cities.

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jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 2d

Bigoted stereotypes. Boomers if anything did not buy those houses early on.

I love how young bigots confuse “boomers” with people a generation or two older.

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 2d

Prop 13 enriched the children too. And no one is against more apts.

Nice try.

jcar8mm.bsky.social @jcar8mm.bsky.social · 3d

That’s Bozeman. A much smaller and more intact market. Nothing like the reality in LA.

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