@raphjd The downside to dunking on libs is, they're driven away.
Seen it many times. They'll come thinking to teach conservatives a few things. Then are surprised, appalled, humiliated to find themselves easily dunked on - easily exposed as lame & ignorant.
A few continue to lurk & learn. But most run away saying "That awful place" - the place where their ego needs were not met because, for once, they had to justify themselves (& couldn't).
2022 crackdown caused murder rate to plunge: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-01-03/el-salvador-murders-plummet-by-over-half-in-2022-amid-gang-crackdown
Murders spiked recently, so new crackdown to put gangs in a huge new prison: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/thousands-moved-to-el-salvador-mega-prison/ar-AA17V1RK
Relevant to USA situation because MS-13 gangs in USA are from El Salvador.
A few years back: Trump called MS-13 gangs "animals", then got widely denounced, with media & Dems quoting him way out of context (alter meaning).
That was when I saw: USA media & Dems work for MS-13.
A bit encouraging, to me. First, I'd like to see a single 18 age limit to everything: voting, military service, booze, consent to sex with over-18, transing and the rest.
Also, to me the measure seems - If it's applied equally, a very big If - like a potential step toward cultural unity or Westernizing the UK's most backward immigrants who shall remain nameless.
Also I forgot Tony Blair ever did a thing against pedos. Good to see.
@raphjd Money changes everything.
@raphjd Transing of kids clearly for $$ - and so much is, here in Clown World 2023 - so no great surprise - but even if it's not a great surprise, it's still almost too disgusting & creepy for words.
@frostycab Both comments stigmatize people's supposed "bad" voting. Only wondering how wide a net you cast.
As to MTG: Exaggerating to be funny or maybe just to widen the Overton window. You needn't worry.
Behar prob doing the same. What makes Behar's a little worse is, she does wish illness & death on people (calling it deserved).
MTG's underlying point seems real: clueless libs wreck their communities & states - by voting in lib wack jobs - then go "Oh look it's wrecked - how sad - we must escape to a better place", then get to work wrecking those. Sux for the rest of us.
@nix54 You're in good company - news recently that Angela Davis' ancestors came over on the Mayflower.
Yes, that Angela Davis, commie America-hater & black racist.
Article gets a bit editorial but basically, a group of women-friends wanted to gang up on Manson and invented their accusations.
Nooooo..... That could never happen........ could it?
@raphjd Wait - aren't words violence?
(of course not - you get the ref)
@frostycab Glad you're freaked out.
Maybe you libs care about the Constitution a tiny bit, after all?
If yes - nice to see.
You also caught Joy Behar saying, the other day, that the Trump voters of East Palestine, OH deserves their toxic disaster w/ future cancers. Right?
@nix54 Loans, to those nonwhite individuals who can repay, are great.
Loan DENIALS, to those white individuals who can't repay, are also great.
Obviously.
The problem would be: loans to nonwhite individuals who can't repay.
"Giving a fair crack at life" is NOT giving someone a million dollar loan.
It's giving them reading, writing, arithmetic & the Bill of Rights (e.g., free speech & due process).
If you understand that, great.
And in the event you don't understand that: newsflash, you were part of the problem. (But that's a hypothetical, I am not trying to say here.)
@nix54 said in US Housing Market Posts $2.3 Trillion Drop, Biggest Since 2008:
I expect people (and banks) have generally been more conservative in their borrowing (lending) since the 2007/8
You expect wrongly. It was true for a few years. But USA's current (now paused or starting to deflate) housing bubble bigger than 2008.
Which is why the drops are & will be bigger. The real meaning of "$3 trillion drop" - and it's only the beginning, of course - is "Yikes it got that big?"
USA even has places where banks lend on the basis of race ie. deliberately turning away good risks if they are white, taking bad risks if they are nonwhite.
@raphjd With the woman herself saying "Oh that's mine"? cool 
As for Brinton: His look, his unique "smile", makes me think, wow demons are real.
NYT column admits mask mandates did nothing: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-work.html
If you don't like NYT paywall: https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-divided-after-new-york-times-column-concedes-mask-mandates-did-nothing-conservative-a-hat
Note:
It's only 1 column - except NYT known for its censorship & oppressive single viewpoint, so ya this matters
Actually, mask mandates did something: "They harmed kids, eroded public trust, and psychologically damaged millions of people to the point where they’re still afraid to breathe in public" someone responded.
@Apothos yes I've thought so myself. But today I'm less sure.
Bigmouth is Trump's way of getting through to people. & given a choice between that & nuclear war, I'd prefer bigmouth.
@frostycab Aesop's fables. Fox & the grapes.
HAHAHAHAHahahaha
I do LOVE these people who play innocent "I'm just poking fun" - then flip out, when two play.
@frostycab Ooh someone's testy! Will dish out the "making light"..... can't take the return.
LOLOLOLOLOlololol
btw @frostycab I know you love forum rules. Guess what you broke?
By your own admission, "My post didn't address any of the things you've mentioned"
you broke this one: "If you can't or won't further the discussion, then ignore this section."
I mean, Idgaf.
But as Mr. Rules, you should.
Ooh he used to make sense, so what happened to him? Highlights from 10 years ago - different guy:
