ewsieg Posted March 25 Posted March 25 12 minutes ago, romad1 said: more to this story about Vance pocketing $170K https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/03/24/jd-vance-house-sale-government-contractor-lobbyist-trump/ "Despite the sale price being $170,000 over asking, Garcia did not appear to pay more than the market price for the home. The $1.9 million purchase price works out to $642 per square foot—below the $741 per square foot average of 10 comparable Alexandria homes sold in 2024, according to city data." Doesn't scream 'shady', and my guess is if you sell a home in Northern VA, probably 1/3 of those sales will go to people that work for the government. Quote
romad1 Posted March 25 Posted March 25 Just now, ewsieg said: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/03/24/jd-vance-house-sale-government-contractor-lobbyist-trump/ "Despite the sale price being $170,000 over asking, Garcia did not appear to pay more than the market price for the home. The $1.9 million purchase price works out to $642 per square foot—below the $741 per square foot average of 10 comparable Alexandria homes sold in 2024, according to city data." Doesn't scream 'shady', and my guess is if you sell a home in Northern VA, probably 1/3 of those sales will go to people that work for the government. But Quote A company registered in Nevada named 9 EDR LLC, with Christopher Garcia listed as its managing member, purchased Vance’s home in Alexandria, Virginia on March 14 for $1.9 million—about $170,000 over the asking price, according to government records and real estate listings. Garcia served as a political appointee in Trump’s Commerce Department from 2017 to 2018—The Washington Post reported at the time that he left after being denied a permanent security clearance, a report a spokesperson for Garcia told Forbes was “categorically false.” 1 Quote
Motown Bombers Posted March 25 Posted March 25 I assumed the house was in Ohio, and when I saw it sold for $1.9 million, thought that was a massive overpay. Quote
Sports_Freak Posted March 25 Posted March 25 And Hillary tweeted yesterday "you gotta be kidding me." Lmao Quote
gehringer_2 Posted March 25 Posted March 25 (edited) Quote Americans continue to sour on the US economic outlook as uncertainty around President Trump's policies and higher prices weigh on consumer sentiment. The latest consumer confidence index reading from the Conference Board was 92.9 in March, below the 100.1 seen in February and the lowest level in more than four years. The expectations index, which is based on consumers' short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions, ticked down to 65.2 from 72.9 and remained below the threshold of 80 — which typically signals recession ahead — for the second straight month. This marked a 12-year low for the expectations index, which was driven in part by consumers' expectations of their financial situation hitting its lowest level in more than two years. "One of the most significant developments that we have seen was a decline in financial situation expectations from consumers," Yelena Shulyatyeva, Conference Board senior US economist, told Yahoo Finance. "So that seems to suggest that all this uncertainty around economic outlook is really starting to weigh on consumers' assessment of how they will fare going forward." - josh schaffer, yahoo news later in the story he quotes J. Powell downplaying the connection between sentiment and the real economy. Could be something to that - but even if so it's still an indication that there is a lot of negative news for Trump's economy out there getting through to the public. Edited March 25 by gehringer_2 Quote
chasfh Posted March 25 Posted March 25 33 minutes ago, romad1 said: the Dems should be whitewatering the **** out of this. That sounds good on paper, but Whitewater worked because nothing bigger or more horrific happened to replace it. With this regime, something will happen within a week that will dwarf this and make us forget all about it. It seems unbelievable and even impossible, since this is an existential national security issue, but really, just wait and see. Quote
chasfh Posted March 25 Posted March 25 This isn't worth a whole thread, i don't think, but maybe we have a little fun and try to guess some of the outlandish executive orders Agent Orange is going to grace us with in the coming weeks or months? I have three off the top of my head: Rename Lake Ontario to "Lake New York", or better yet, "Lake America". Declare that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. Declare that Juneteenth is no longer a federal holiday, and threaten to withhold federal funds from any state that maintains its status as a state holiday. Replace it with Flag Day as a federal holiday. Two reasons: (1) it's his own birthday; (2) he's horny for the flag. Anyone else wanna play? The only request is that there has to be a puncher's chance that he would actually do it, which, as I think about it, opens it up to practically anything. Quote
oblong Posted March 25 Posted March 25 The last one is definitely something they are itching for. “They already have MLK day” Quote
romad1 Posted March 25 Posted March 25 3 hours ago, chasfh said: That sounds good on paper, but Whitewater worked because nothing bigger or more horrific happened to replace it. With this regime, something will happen within a week that will dwarf this and make us forget all about it. It seems unbelievable and even impossible, since this is an existential national security issue, but really, just wait and see. They made a good effort today. Now, do it to Tulsi and Pete for 12 hours and have endless hearings. Quote
Motown Bombers Posted March 25 Posted March 25 44 minutes ago, chasfh said: This isn't worth a whole thread, i don't think, but maybe we have a little fun and try to guess some of the outlandish executive orders Agent Orange is going to grace us with in the coming weeks or months? I have three off the top of my head: Rename Lake Ontario to "Lake New York", or better yet, "Lake America". Declare that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. Declare that Juneteenth is no longer a federal holiday, and threaten to withhold federal funds from any state that maintains its status as a state holiday. Replace it with Flag Day as a federal holiday. Two reasons: (1) it's his own birthday; (2) he's horny for the flag. Anyone else wanna play? The only request is that there has to be a puncher's chance that he would actually do it, which, as I think about it, opens it up to practically anything. New Mexico will be renamed New America or else they won't receive any federal funds. Quote
LaceyLou Posted March 25 Posted March 25 Have they come up with the equivalent of the Horst Wessel song? Quote
ben9753 Posted March 25 Posted March 25 (edited) I would put money down on them removing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. "DEI" holiday? check. enacted by Biden? check. will trigger the libs? check. If I could bet on it I'd wager my house. Edited March 25 by ben9753 Quote
oblong Posted March 26 Posted March 26 Our company gave it as a holiday when it was enacted but then immediately incorporated floating holidays. Part of the reasoning is good, why have Good Friday off but not Yom Kippur or an Eid or some of the Hindu holidays? And we can move them to a Friday or Monday. Quote
Edman85 Posted March 26 Posted March 26 2 hours ago, ben9753 said: I would put money down on them removing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. "DEI" holiday? check. enacted by Biden? check. will trigger the libs? check. If I could bet on it I'd wager my house. Makes federal employees' lives a bit more miserable. Checkerino. Quote
mtutiger Posted March 26 Posted March 26 About 55% or so percent of a normal turnout in the district, but considering its Lancaster County (about as ancestrally GOP as it gets), wow... Quote
chasfh Posted March 26 Posted March 26 10 hours ago, mtutiger said: About 55% or so percent of a normal turnout in the district, but considering its Lancaster County (about as ancestrally GOP as it gets), wow... Well, Trump will put a stop to that all right … Obviously a bid to permanently calcify MAGA’s hold on electoral politics. Let’s say Tump succeeds in getting this done. If so, I’m a little torn on what I believe the effect will be. On the one hand, the obvious effect will be to keep people of color and others like them away from the polls by requiring documentation most of them probably don’t have, documentation they won’t have an opportunity to obtain because MAGA power will keep the places to get these IDs far far away from them. On the other hand, I would think a lot of the incel army and other transient red hat voters would also get caught up in a “law” like this, because they themselves are not loathe to make sure they have obtained the government’s latest device for identifying and tracking them. The wild card is how this will be implemented on the ground. If it’s left up to local officials, which it may very well be, than simpatico election workers will simply let in their red hat friends with the ID to vote while coming down hard requiring anyone they know or suspect are RINOs or dirty libs to pony up the ID. Another way MAGA power can shape implementation of this is to require some sort of electronic verification in certain districts that tend to swing toward Democrats, while being lax on enforcing this same requirement in solidly or even lean-Republican districts. Quote
HighOPS Posted March 26 Posted March 26 I expect "wear red for [something]" days so the cult can go out in public with their MAGA gear and only seem like assholes and not complete assholes. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted March 26 Posted March 26 Stock market bouncing up and down almost every day driven by the administration's tariff plan de jour. It they had done some of this in an orderly manner.... Quote
1984Echoes Posted March 26 Posted March 26 3 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said: This administration is defective. Starting at the top. 1 Quote
Tiger337 Posted March 26 Posted March 26 (edited) This story is frightning. Federal agents wearing masks ambushed a Turkish doctoral student outside her home because of her participation in a protest at Tufts University. She is now being detained. https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892 Edited March 26 by Tiger337 Quote
HighOPS Posted March 26 Posted March 26 Signal caused the empire to kill 50 civilians to get one leader in such a way as to create great risk to our pilots and equipment? It does sound defective. Quote
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