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.Stargazer99 (3,547 posts)
I don't know about you but I am getting sick of the wealthy in this country
they whine about a tax cut and the common people are hurting. apparently the wealthy are suffering from "affluenzia," poor babies with the best medical care, homes, medicines, etc. I think the world would be better off without you, where no one has to suffer under your capitalistic failure system
and if we ever have an other country invasion I think giving them your bunker location might be interesting as you are the richest ones to plunder. Oh I see you think using the poor and middle class to fight and die for you will work. We know how important and "special" you are.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A federal grand jury in San Antonio returned an indictment charging a New Braunfels woman with the alleged arson attack, where she is accused of setting fire to the Comal County Republican Party Headquarters. According to the indictment, 22-year-old Grace Carol Brown is charged with actual and attempted malicious damage by fire to property involved in interstate or foreign commerce.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
