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Economics / NYC and LA Are Bad, But Seattle Is Actually Worse
« Last post by Ptarmigan on May 10, 2026, 10:16:18 PM »
NYC and LA Are Bad, But Seattle Is Actually Worse
https://economiccollapse.report/nyc-and-la-are-bad-but-seattle-is-actually-worse/

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Seattle is becoming a case study in what happens when a city decides that wealth is something to be punished rather than cultivated. The for-sale signs are multiplying. Office towers sit half-empty. Iconic homegrown employers are quietly relocating jobs to states that still treat employers as something other than the enemy. And the political class running the city seems to think the cure for an exodus is more of whatever caused it.

The Northwest Multiple Listing Service reported active Washington listings surged 29.3 percent year over year in March, climbing to more than 15,000 homes, while closed sales rose just 0.2 percent. Median prices slipped 1.5 percent to $640,000, and the upper end of the market is bleeding far worse. Snohomish County inventory jumped 51.8 percent. San Juan County, where the median sale price hovers above $1 million, is now stacked with listings the wealthy buyers who used to absorb them are no longer interested in buying.

The much-publicized outflow of businesses and residents from Los Angeles and New York City is high, but Seattle’s numbers are worse. That gap between supply and demand is not a temporary blip caused by mortgage rates. It is a structural problem with a political signature, and the politicians responsible are still bragging about their handiwork.

It is clearly self-inflicted. Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York City are trying to out socialist each other.
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Economics / Honda Cancels EV Plant in Canada – Despite Prior Deal for Billions in Subsidies
« Last post by Ptarmigan on May 10, 2026, 10:15:09 PM »
Honda Cancels EV Plant in Canada – Despite Prior Deal for Billions in Subsidies
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/05/honda-cancels-ev-plant-in-canada-despite-prior-deal-for-billions-in-subsidies/

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Previously, Toyota Inc informed the Canadian trade delegation that if the USMCA (CUSMA) was dissolved, the most important auto manufacturing operation they have in the country would end.  Toyota was being respectful and brutally honest with the Canadians.

Last year, at almost the same time as Toyota made their position clear, Honda put a pause on the plan to build EVs in Ontario [2025 Notice] pending additional review.  Today, according to Nikkei, Honda has now completed that review and cancelled the plan.  Honda will not build EVs in Canada.

Asahi Kasei, the Japanese material supplier that makes battery separators, a core component used in lithium-ion batteries, will likely make a similar announcement soon.  The decision is in response to declining EV sales in combination with current U.S-Canada trade friction.  Without guaranteed access to the U.S. market, it makes no sense to invest in Canada.

EVs were a failure. Little demand for them.
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General Discussion / It's Not Mental Illness, They Just Want You Dead
« Last post by Ptarmigan on May 10, 2026, 10:03:10 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8SHxxNUZA

Leftists are not mentally ill. They are dangerous and evil.
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General Discussion / ABC Reporter Fabricated Trump Call, Made Himself The Focus After Assassination A
« Last post by Ptarmigan on May 10, 2026, 10:01:06 PM »
ABC Reporter Fabricated Trump Call, Made Himself The Focus After Assassination Attempt
https://modernity.news/2026/05/06/abc-reporter-fabricated-trump-call-made-himself-the-focus-after-assassination-attempt/

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President Trump has slammed ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl for what he calls outright dishonest reporting after Karl inserted himself into the story of the latest assassination attempt on the president.

Karl appeared on ABC’s This Week shortly afterward and claimed Trump had reached out to him personally. “My phone rang shortly after 7 a.m., my landline, George actually. A number that few people call and it was President Trump calling,” Karl told host George Stephanopoulos.

Karl further claimed that Trump “said at first he was calling to see if I was okay with what happened last night. ‘Are you OK?’ And then he reiterated many of the things he said in his press conference last night emphasizing the unity that he felt in that moment that he felt at the dinner before the shooting and certainly after with people who reached out to him… And he was quite firm about this: That dinner must be rescheduled.”

Journalists are unethical.
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General Discussion / Democrat bill would force you to give Big Tech your ID just to use your phone —
« Last post by Ptarmigan on May 10, 2026, 09:59:59 PM »
Democrat bill would force you to give Big Tech your ID just to use your phone — or the internet
https://www.theblaze.com/return/democrat-bill-would-force-you-to-give-big-tech-your-id-just-to-use-your-phone-or-the-internet

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Politicians are progressively pushing for harsher age verification legislation. Some lawmakers think certain apps should require an ID to sign in, while others want to limit the reach of AI chatbots under the guise of child protection.

Now, a new bill proposed by Democrat Rep. Josh Gottheimer (N.J.) would require operating system developers — including Apple, Google, and Microsoft — to verify the ages of their users when setting up a new device.

The Dems want to make everyone use an ID to sign into phone or Internet. Another word for government control.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/10
« Last post by DefiantSix on May 10, 2026, 04:02:56 PM »
Dim'Rats don't have anything constructive to run on.

If anything the Virginia Power Grab was a false start that demonstrates exactly the kind of shit hole government they intend to build when given power again.
It's not as if even most of their own mind numbed 'Boomer voters can be convinced to pull the lever for a one-party totalitarian dick-tastership just because the extreme leftists in their midst have had their power taken away from them for now.
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The DUmpster / Re: DUmmies and Their Priorities
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on May 10, 2026, 02:34:50 PM »
He really thinks human anatomy is like LEGO blocks.
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Breaking News / Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/10
« Last post by SVPete on May 10, 2026, 02:27:22 PM »
John Fetterman rips Democrats for running campaigns on 'f--- Trump' instead of constructive messaging

https://www.foxnews.com/media/fetterman-rips-democrats-running-campaigns-f-trump-instead-constructive-messaging

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Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman broke with fellow Democrats again Friday, criticizing what he called the party’s overreliance on anti-Trump messaging and urging a shift toward a more constructive approach.

"My colleagues, and people that are running, whether for the Senate or the House, they're literally running on f--- Trump," Fetterman said on the latest episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher"

"They have campaign commercials [with that message]. It's absurd..." he added.

"I refuse to engage in those extreme terms, and we have to find a better way forward, and now I've been punished [for] find[ing] value in certain views."

As some have posted here before, Fetterman has shown a surprising amount of sense among Dems' current hysterical craziness. I've said that he's the Dems' Cassandra, telling them truths they refuse to believe.
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Breaking News / Re: BREAKING: SCOVA Strikes Down Virginia Referendum, Spanberger 'Ten F'ing One' Map
« Last post by ADsOutburst on May 10, 2026, 02:12:30 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on May 10, 2026, 01:35:11 PM
BREAKING: National Democrats Want to Impeach and Replace Entire Virginia Supreme Court

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/10/national-democrats-want-to-impeach-and-replace-entire-virginia-supreme-court-n3814792

Why is court-packing such a familiar strategy proposal?

Beat me to it.

For all the accusation from Democrats that "Republicans cheat", surely even Democrats will start to wonder "Are we the bad guys?"

Right?

Right??
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Breaking News / Re: BREAKING: SCOVA Strikes Down Virginia Referendum, Spanberger 'Ten F'ing One' Map
« Last post by SVPete on May 10, 2026, 01:35:11 PM »
BREAKING: National Democrats Want to Impeach and Replace Entire Virginia Supreme Court

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/10/national-democrats-want-to-impeach-and-replace-entire-virginia-supreme-court-n3814792

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Democrats, who are openly talking about packing the United States Supreme Court to basically rewrite the Constitution of the United States, are so panicked by their failure to illegally redraw the Congressional map in Virginia that they are, according to The New York Times, contemplating a move to remove the current Supreme Court justices in Virginia with a new, less legally-minded group appointed by Abigail Spanberger.

Ah, norms. You gotta break a few norms and laws in order to make that progressive omelet.

This is not some fever dream cooked up by Alex Jones. The New York Times actually reported that Hakeem Jeffries and company held a panicked phone call discussing measures to override the Virginia Constitution through illegal or legally dubious means.

Why is court-packing such a familiar strategy proposal?
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