As Illegals Flee LA, Rent Prices Fall to a Four Year Low

The LA Times doesn't make this connection, of course.

It just so happens that the biggest deportation drive since Eisenhower's poorly-named "Operation Wetback" coincides with the first fall in LA rental costs since, well, forever.

There's "increased housing supply," they say. No word about decreased housing demand.

"Finally, a renter's market": L.A. rent prices drop to four-year low
L.A. metro area rent prices dropped to a four-year low in December, with the median rent falling to $2,167.
Increased housing supply -- 15,095 apartments completed in 2025 -- combined with decreased demand is shifting power back toward renters for the first time in years.
Sandra Gomez braced for impact as she opened the lease renewal offer for her East L.A. apartment in September. She paid $2,000 for the last 12 months, but since the unit wasn't covered by L.A.'s Rent Stabilization Ordinance, her landlord could jack up the price for the next lease.
The new price? $1,950.
"I thought it was a mistake," Gomez said. "Since when does rent get cheaper in L.A.?"
For years, L.A. has been one of the costliest cities in the country for renters. Annual price hikes seemed inevitable, and finding the perfect apartment felt more like a competitive sport.
But data suggest that the market could be ever so slightly shifting.
The median rent in the L.A. metro area dropped to $2,167 in December -- the lowest price in four years, according to data from Apartment List that analyze new leases for one- and two-bedroom apartments in a given month. The median rent for L.A. County also dropped to a four-year low of $2,035.
The last time L.A. rents were that low was January 2022, in the wake of a furious pandemic home-buying market that saw a wave of renters buy homes for the first time, leaving apartments empty and bringing prices down.

I wonder if this drop-off mirrors a national trend.

The drop-off mirrors a national trend, as the U.S. median rent dropped to a similar four-year low in December. But within Southern California, the downturn is unique to L.A. Over the same stretch, rents rose or remained steady in Orange, Ventura and San Bernardino counties and in California as a whole.

I guess national rents are also affected by LA's supposed "increase in housing supply."

Opinions also vary on the cause, but the clearest explanation seems to be a simple case of supply and demand.

Tell me more about the demand, LA Times.

No? Don't want to talk about that?

Although L.A. has generally lagged in housing construction compared with cities such as San Diego, 2025 was a big year for new apartments hitting the market, despite several hundred multifamily buildings burning in the Palisades and Eaton fires.
...
Renters are starting to notice that the landlord-tenant balance of power is shifting, ever so slightly, toward tenants. On a Reddit post discussing the drop in rental prices, one user wrote that they pay $3,200 for a two-bedroom apartment in Koreatown, but now, the building has six vacant units listed for about $2,800.
Another user wrote that they secured a lease for $1,000 less than the previous tenant paid after noticing the unit had sat on the market with multiple price cuts.
Anthony Moore has lived in his North Hollywood apartment complex for two years, paying $2,700 for a two-bedroom unit. In the fall, he noticed similar units in the same complex listed for $2,500.
"I pay month to month, so I wasn't tied to my lease," he said. "I called my landlord and told him I wanted to pay what the other units were listing for or I would move out."
He now pays $2,500.

The article literally never mentions the country's first year of net-outwards migration in history.

It's amazing -- the media screams incessantly that deporting illegal workers will cause a labor crisis, but they absolutely refuse to mention the fact that a net-negative immigration rate will naturally cause housing prices (and all other prices) to fall.

🇺🇸Dr. Oz exposes $3.5 Billion Hospice Fraud Ring in Los Angeles Tied to Russian-Armenian Mafia

On the ground in Van Nuys, Los Angeles: in a single four-block radius, there are 42 hospices, many with Cyrillic signage, boarded up windows, and no visible patients or staff… pic.twitter.com/G6gEHX0XXm
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 28, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 06:00 PM

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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2026 06:01 PM (W2Pud)

2 How many willowed comments from the previous thread are gonna show up here?

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:02 PM (77rzZ)

3 Somewhere, TJM is smiling.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (ULPxl)

4 And when Oz pointed this out they called him racist

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (VE6XX)

5 But what has Trump done about the affordability crisis?!

Posted by: TJM's phone at January 30, 2026 06:03 PM (GBKbO)

6 Hopefully he smiles somewhere Prometheus free.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at January 30, 2026 06:04 PM (EkDIl)

7 ‘ No word about decreased housing demand.’

Actually, the LAT do specifically mention this. They don’t tie the decrease to the obvious reasons tho.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 30, 2026 06:04 PM (r0S8E)

8 "I thought it was a mistake," Gomez said. "Since when does rent get cheaper in L.A.?"

Gavin! Get another fire going!

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (TylIK)

9
Beef prices are too high! What's Trump gonna do about it, huh?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (tgvbd)

10 Imagine how good it would be if we could actually deport them all...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (VE6XX)

11 I had trouble calling up the thread.
Is Pixy drunk again?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (2WIwB)

12 Unexpectedly!!!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (ULPxl)

13 Trumps's ICE has killed so many people that housing has become plentiful. Cemetery plot are fetching a premium though.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (vFG9F)

14 Doctor Oz better watch his cornhole !

Posted by: Zardoz at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (NtVYv)

15 There is no correlation! We have no idea why these bad things happen.

Posted by: LA City Council at January 30, 2026 06:06 PM (qFwJc)

16 The Rent's Too High Guy will be pleased.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (vFG9F)

17 What bugs me - this thievery is OBVIOUS. Anyone can see it. You can drive around town and see it. Nobody hides it. These are not master criminals here.

And nobody said or did anything, for YEARS. All our government officials...did nothing. Didn't even try.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (vOtXJ)

18 11 No, but the hamsters are. It’s Friday evening y’know.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (77rzZ)

19 Immigrants leaving, yes.

Also leftoid locusts leaving California to go enshittify other places? Yes.

Posted by: ballistic at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (5aZAZ)

20 >>> 9
Beef prices are too high! What's Trump gonna do about it, huh?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (tgvbd)

I... I don't think he can get my heifer pregnant.

I need to schedule a vet appointment for her to get AI. No, not ChatGPT you Morons.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (ULPxl)

21 I can not imagine a rent low enough that would make me want to live in LA.

Let alone walk in LA.

Which nobody does.

Posted by: Missing Persons at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM (jtM2q)

22 The article literally never mentions the country's first year of net-outwards migration in history.
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There is no way that can have any beneficial effect. It is pure calamity. Millions will die horribly.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:08 PM (AlhUl)

23 $2,500? I’d expect pool a maid and butler for that kind of money.

Posted by: Eromero at January 30, 2026 06:08 PM (yw3eV)

24 Hey those landlords can't give all of those *donations* to democrats if they can't increase rental rates every year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 30, 2026 06:09 PM (0N4FZ)

25 CA could have elected Larry Elder as governor during the recall, and could have elected a builder as the LA mayor. Instead they chose to reelect Newsom and they chose Bass. They chose poorly.

Rumors that Mel Gibson might run for Governor have any legs? If Passion of the Christ 2: Disciples Boogaloo does well, a lot of his sins might be forgiven by hollywood. Money forgives a lot in that town. Drunken antisemitic rants are child's play in our modern era.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:09 PM (gWBY1)

26
One operation stole $16 million; the ringleader served just two years.

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Brilliant.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:09 PM (hxCZf)

27 Opinions also vary on the cause, but the clearest explanation seems to be a simple case of supply and demand.
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Holy crap! The journalism industry might some day in the not-too-distant future discover....economics!

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 06:09 PM (TN0g+)

28 So, let's see, if we deport illegals we will have:

Less crime
Less identity theft
Cheaper housing
Lower welfare costs
Balanced budgets

But in exchange:
Rich people might have to pay more for their nanny's and gardeners.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (vOtXJ)

29 "$2,500? I’d expect pool a maid and butler for that kind of money.
Posted by: Eromero"

It's like that in Atlanta too. More than double what my mortgage payment was for 20 years.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (vFG9F)

30 the clearest explanation seems to be a simple case of supply and demand.
Tell me more about the demand, LA Times.

Not deportees... people bailing out of California!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (qo38o)

31 I can do exactly what Oz is doing here. I can find some crime being committed (perhaps some guy on the corner selling drugs) point and say...."That there is a crime."

I hate PT Barnum Politicians. And, that includes those in the Trump Administration. If you want to get your mug on camera and enlighten us on the criminal situation, then indentify it, charge it, prosecute it and convict it....THEN, you can put your mug in front of camera and say..."Hey, look what I just did."

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (dIske)

32 9
Beef prices are too high! What's Trump gonna do about it, huh?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:05 PM (tgvbd)

Dude, don’t have a cow!

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (pSzdp)

33 I can not imagine a rent low enough that would make me want to live in LA.

Let alone walk in LA.

Which nobody does.
Posted by: Missing Persons
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Eh, what are words for?

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2026 06:10 PM (TN0g+)

34 Damn. I thought Hospice was the best run section of the Medicare system. I guess it has no oversight.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 06:11 PM (cwGMH)

35 deporting illegal workers will cause a labor crisis"

"Learing Crisis"

Posted by: man at January 30, 2026 06:11 PM (XuXeR)

36 It just so happens that the biggest deportation drive since Eisenhower's poorly-named "Operation Wetback" coincides with the first fall in LA rental costs since, well, forever.
-ace

I think you meant to say 'accurately named'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

37 >>> It's amazing -- the media screams incessantly that deporting illegal workers will cause a labor crisis

The media is also failing to report that when businesses like the meat plants are cleaned out of illegal workers, and the plant posts new job openings, those jobs are filled fast by Americans, with a line out the door of people wanting to get hired.

Americans WILL do the jobs illegals do...as long as they aren't paid illegal slave wages.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:11 PM (gWBY1)

38 There are rentals available in L.A. is the same thing as when the nasty, crusty Port-O-Potty's door is unlocked and says "vacant".

Hey, if you gotta go, you gotta go.

Posted by: Pot-O-Gold Septic Service at January 30, 2026 06:12 PM (pbej3)

39
It just so happens that the biggest deportation drive since Eisenhower's poorly-named "Operation Wetback" coincides with the first fall in LA rental costs since, well, forever.

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I think Wetback is a great name.

This is the age of "Had Enough of This Shit."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 30, 2026 06:13 PM (hA/c/)

40 When his name comes up I always ask if he's given up his Turkish citizenship yet?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 30, 2026 06:13 PM (cwGMH)

41 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:13 PM (SRRAx)

42 Sister in law in Long Beach has lost her housekeeper. Employed her for years. Obvious illegal. SIL is a big time lefty. I feel so sorry for her predicament… Oh, wait, no I don’t.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:14 PM (pSzdp)

43 Increased housing supply is a real thing. Many projects got delayed during COVID and are only now coming online. It takes at least 5 years to plans and build any sizeable housing development.

I’d also like to see home buying has fared during this time. My best guesstimate is that buying was soft the last few years because of Biden’s insane interest rates, but has now picked up. That would mean some renters are now buyers.

But surely, kicking out hordes of illegals certainly decreased demand. I’d like to see the rental rates broken down by cost. I’d assume the illegals were renting at the low end and this jacking up prices there.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 30, 2026 06:14 PM (r0S8E)

44 Foreigners are raping Americans both literally and financially.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (Vh9CX)

45 Here in Utah, Democrats are attacking Republican signature gatherers and tearing up gathered signatures.

The Democrats convinced a state judge to throw out the Utah congressional map and instead substitute one drawn by far leftists, guaranteeing the creation of a far left stalinist house district. State GOP is trying to get the law the judge relied on overturned. And now Democrats are attacking the signature gatherers.

Direct, naked violence to prevent Democracy. https://www.deseret.com/politics/2026/01/29/ utah-republican-signature-gatherers-assaulted-as- national-activist-groups-aim-to-repeal-redistricting-law/

Take out the spaces.

Posted by: Sam MacGee. at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (/ZkOF)

46 41 Hello, Horde! 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:13 PM (SRRAx)

Hello, beautiful. I did, indeed, buy the yarn.😁

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (pSzdp)

47 "The median rent in the L.A. metro area dropped to $2,167 in December "

In New Orleans (a different LA) I paid $400/mo for a two bedroom in a nice neighborhood, two blocks from the lake. Of course that was the 1990s, but still, I can't imagine paying $2k for rent.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (vbXSk)

48 This kind of phenomena can easily happen when you open the borders and you let a third-world shithole empty out their prisons and asylums and subsidize the inmates' journey to America.

Welcome to the Melting Pot.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:16 PM (oT7pT)

49
And when Oz pointed this out they called him racist
Posted by: It's me donna

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Now it's the Armenians who are mightily offended that someone notes that a mess of fraudsters are Armenian.

We are plagued with this tribalist bullshit. People leave their shitty old countries because they can't get ahead thanks to nepotism, tribalism, caste systems, other types of favoritism and all that garbage -- and then they replicate it in America.

I don't know how many generations it takes for these identity-obsessed immigrants to get the hell over themselves; seems some take longer than others.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (hxCZf)

50 I’d also like to see home buying has fared during this time.
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Numbers we discussed this morning included total sales of around 6 million homes during 2021 (crazy cash and rates in the 2's), the number dropped to just over 5 million in 2022 when rates began to rise, and that the number for 2025 looks to be just over 3.9 million homes.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (TN0g+)

51 Illegals could pay exorbitant rent prices because they lived 10 to a two bedroom apartment.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (0KSrI)

52 Willowed, from Sam McGee:

>>> So here's some awful stuff going down in Utah. Violence against Republican signature gatherers. https://www.deseret.com/politics/2026/01/29/ utah-republican-signature-gatherers-assaulted-as- national-activist-groups-aim-to-repeal-redistricting-law/

Background: Utah has 4 Congressional districts, all gerrymandered to give moderate GOP advantage. Leftists hate that. So they got a state judge to throw out our congressional maps and instead use a map designed by some far left group in Virginia, guaranteeing them a seat that would make Stalin look conservative. The state GOP is gathering signatures to repeal the law the judge used. And now leftists are attacking the signature gatherers and destroying the gathered signatures. The comments to that article are all about "The GOP is trying to protect Trump so it's ok to hurt the gatherers!!! REEEE!"

I hope Ace or some blogger sees this. Just open, in your face violence now from leftists.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:18 PM (gWBY1)

53 Who's having bananas and rice tonight? They say if you do, you'll get rich.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:18 PM (AlhUl)

54 I was reliably informed by my friends' ex-wife's PhD lefty bitch mother that the homeless problem in L.A. was due to insufficient housing. If I could stand that midwit retard I might follow up and see if the homeless problem has disappeared as well.

Posted by: Croaker at January 30, 2026 06:19 PM (AUB4U)

55 Illegals are killing Americans. Woman's 22 year old daughter severely disabled after an illegal ran into her and fled the scene:

https://tinyurl.com/2f6erxpz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2026 06:19 PM (Bw1/o)

56 Friend at work said his gardener disappeared recently

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 06:19 PM (NtVYv)

57 The median rent in the L.A. metro area dropped to $2,167 in December "

That’s cheap! Median rent in NYC is $4000. In Manhattan? $5000.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 30, 2026 06:20 PM (r0S8E)

58 56 Friend at work said his gardener disappeared recently
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 06:19 PM (NtVYv)
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Do any Haitians live nearby?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:20 PM (AlhUl)

59
I don't know how many generations it takes for these identity-obsessed immigrants to get the hell over themselves; seems some take longer than others.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (hxCZf)

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Some of us never have.

Posted by: The Irish at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (tgvbd)

60 Sam McGee, you'd think Utah lefties would realize, after the shooting of Charlie Kirk, that political violence in Utah is a bad look. But I bet the MN lawlessness has emboldened them.

Turning one of Utah's districts blue would be huge, and once done it will be almost impossible to undo. I get why they are so desperate to make it happen. I just hate that when the left is having victories on gerrymandering, making other blue states bright blue, Utah might have a big loss.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (gWBY1)

61
I think the general public not on the take/grift are the minority. It seems everywhere you look people are stealing from the governments.

The working poor are the suckers. They work to pay for the grifters.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (IifOV)

62 51 Illegals could pay exorbitant rent prices because they lived 10 to a two bedroom apartment.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:17 PM (0KSrI)

That's here.. We live in an area with vineyards and a lot of winery workers.. Multiple people and cars at homes. Of course this is a sanctuary City, County, State so they are pretty much still here.. Average price for a small 3 bedroom is about 2500 dollars

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (VE6XX)

63 Where’s Fox Butterfield on this one?

Despite fleeing immigrants, rent prices become more affordable….

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:22 PM (Hkcdp)

64 Wow, who could have seen that coming...except all of us.
And don't look now, but wages will go up too, as the supply of cheap under-the-table labor dries up.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 30, 2026 06:22 PM (XMwZJ)

65 Friend at work said his gardener disappeared recently
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 06:19 PM (NtVYv)

Is his name Samwise Gamgee? Because I might know where he went.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 30, 2026 06:22 PM (0aYVJ)

66 My first rental... a one bedroom "junior" apartment in Alexandria, VA circa 1985 was $550/month.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2026 06:22 PM (jtM2q)

67 Yum yum shit
Yummy shit pebbles
In my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 30, 2026 06:23 PM (29YUm)

68 >>> Who's having bananas and rice tonight? They say if you do, you'll get rich.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:18 PM (AlhUl)

I did love that one Somali lady at a hearing, that was like we are so much more than the stereotype of bananas and rice! And then when she went on, the only example she had was...to bring up bananas and rice. Not sending their best.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:23 PM (gWBY1)

69
Lots of school districts seeing plunging enrollments as well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:23 PM (tgvbd)

70 Scott Pressler has been getting signatures in Utah.
He’s tireless!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Hkcdp)

71 Ohhh, supply and demand work after all

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)

72 Russian Armenian? I would not have thought that would be a mafia combo. Of course have heard of russian mafia and not surprised at Armenian mafia but the combo seems weird to me.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Sokdp)

73 46 41 Hello, Horde! 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:13 PM (SRRAx)

Hello, beautiful. I did, indeed, buy the yarn.😁
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:15 PM (pSzdp)

Hooray!

When we went on our Alaska cruise, I gave into temptation most grievously - her name was "Quviut", and I was powerless to resist her charms....

I felt kinda guilty about it, but one month later, I was diagnosed with this aggressive cancer, given less than a year to live, and hence my " catchphrase" was born.

To my credit, EVERYBODY got little Quviut scarves for Christmas that year (and so did a couple of lucky Texas MoMe attendees).

I don't think I have any of that yarn left, so I stopped feeling guilty about the money I spent 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (SRRAx)

74 Turning one of Utah's districts blue would be huge, and once done it will be almost impossible to undo. I get why they are so desperate to make it happen. I just hate that when the left is having victories on gerrymandering, making other blue states bright blue, Utah might have a big loss.
Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:21 PM (gWBY1)

They are doing to Utah what they did to Colorado. Glad we moved to Idaho, but I am seeing plenty of signs that the same thing is happening here. Outrunning the locusts is exhausting.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (0aYVJ)

75 AK prices for real estate are high. Everything is up here. My mortgage for two acres and a two bedroom with awesome garage and three useful outbuildings is about $2500, so a steal. But in Anchorage it would be twice that.

My son’s two bedroom condo is $1100 plus condo fees are $340. No land. In not the best part of town. Spenard has its charms but low rent ain’t one of them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (pSzdp)

76
Rumors that Mel Gibson might run for Governor have any legs? If Passion of the Christ 2: Disciples Boogaloo does well, a lot of his sins might be forgiven by hollywood. Money forgives a lot in that town. Drunken antisemitic rants are child's play in our modern era.
Posted by: LizLem

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I saw an X post where he was complaining about the state of California politics while a supertitle "Should I run for governor?" floated over his image.

And Jewish people are forbearing to a fault as we know. Not long after his antisemitic rant, I attended a conservative event in L.A. where a Jewish lawyer guest speaker said that Yes, he would speak to Mel Gibson. He wasn't being Mr. Squish, just Mr. I'm Willing To Listen and Forgive.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (hxCZf)

77 68 >>> Who's having bananas and rice tonight? They say if you do, you'll get rich.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:18 PM (AlhUl)

I did love that one Somali lady at a hearing, that was like we are so much more than the stereotype of bananas and rice! And then when she went on, the only example she had was...to bring up bananas and rice. Not sending their best.
Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:23 PM (gWBY1)
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My fear is that they ARE sending their best. She's as good as it gets.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (AlhUl)

78 I now want to chip the illegals. So when stuff happens and they scurry like cockroaches when the light hits them. Where do they go? Did the self deporters really deport for money? Or move to NJ.

If we had chips in them we could tell. In the event they are settling down to create more fraud and bambinos.

I don't want to be chipped, nor normal people as the sign of satan, but for illegals I am all for it. So it's not for all, just illegals when they are arrested and stupidly set free to murder and rape again in blue states.

For the first time I am liking Dr. Oz.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (WONhk)

79 Russian Armenian? I would not have thought that would be a mafia combo. Of course have heard of russian mafia and not surprised at Armenian mafia but the combo seems weird to me.
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An Armenian owned an Italian restaurant in OKC a decade or so ago. Great food, and nothing but Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin playing on the sound system.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at January 30, 2026 06:26 PM (TN0g+)

80 Like the fly-by-night truck companies that close up under one name and open up under a new one. Thoese "hospices" will do the same thing, unless the government gets qiae.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 30, 2026 06:26 PM (Xbquz)

81 LizLem, she was speaking because allegedly ICE mishandled her resulting in a concussion - hence, the bandaids.

Then she got arrested a few days ago for harassing ICE. She’s more than bananas and rice, she’s beating ICE, heh. Victim card revoked!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:26 PM (Hkcdp)

82 On Thursday evening, Newsom announced that his office was filing a civil rights complaint with HHS, accusing Oz of discrimination, The Associated Press reported. According to the complaint, Newsom’s office argued that Oz, in a video, “spewed baseless and racially charged allegations” that risked chilling participation in hospice and home care programs among the Armenian community.

The governor’s office noted Oz's claims had “already caused real-world harm” by reducing business at an Armenian bakery that is shown in the video.

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2026 06:27 PM (GITLP)

83 don't think I have any of that yarn left, so I stopped feeling guilty about the money I spent 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (SRR

Quiviut is a drug. So nice to work with and wear.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:27 PM (pSzdp)

84 What Utah had a law was that an "independent commission" would draw our congressional districts.

The net result is that we got a far left NGO drawing our districts, and all the leftists are screaming that it's fascist and illegal to want anything different, and now they are using force to try to prevent any changes.

Posted by: Sam MacGee. at January 30, 2026 06:29 PM (/ZkOF)

85 As expected.

@LeadingReport
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Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2026 06:29 PM (mlg/3)

86
Looking at $2500/mo for a student efficiency near the UC Berkeley campus.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 30, 2026 06:30 PM (hA/c/)

87 I remember getting into an argument with that bright spark John Podhoretz over email about the Passion. He insisted it was an antisemitic movie. My point is that Mr Gibson was saying ALL OF HUMANITY sucked ass (except Mary.) There was a reason Gibson used his own two hands on film to drive the nails. He is as guilty as any.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:30 PM (zZu0s)

88 85 As expected.

@LeadingReport
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Monday he has to be in a courtroom in MPLS.

Posted by: beckster at January 30, 2026 06:30 PM (I7J98)

89 Not sending their best.

she's as good as they got

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 06:31 PM (8uzBS)

90 22
'The article literally never mentions the country's first year of net-outwards migration in history.
There is no way that can have any beneficial effect. It is pure calamity. Millions will die horribly.'

Still worth it to have the illegals gone.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 30, 2026 06:31 PM (fd80v)

91
16 The Rent's Too High Guy will be pleased.
Posted by: fd at January 30, 2026 06:07 PM

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From Heaven.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 30, 2026 06:31 PM (hA/c/)

92 Missed previous thread: Anybody who believed that CIA Barbie and her merry band of marxists, were centrists, are either lying or retarded.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 30, 2026 06:32 PM (Iz+f5)

93 Scott is in Utah? Oh, I feel so much better about the signatures getting got in Utah, then. He is the best.

He's hinted at running for office. He would be AMAZING. But he is also irreplaceable at the moment for what he does. As we've learned from Charlie's death, some people truly are one of a kind. Scott is one of those. He needs to get replacements for his work in place, before he leaves it to run for office. People who are as dedicated, tireless, and ethical as he is. We can't afford to lose him just yet.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:32 PM (gWBY1)

94 BREAKING: Judge releases Don Lemon without bail.
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Just like J'6rs not

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

95 Speaking of L.A. Times - I was a long-term subscriber, long after most people stopped. About two years ago I finally cancelled once and for all. Then, just before this past Christmas it started up again on it's own. I went into my subscriber account and it still showed me as 'Cancelled'. I was going to call them but then - going thru the accumulated 'junk mail' - I found a card from them saying I was getting a 'free' subscription starting Dec until May.

I'm going to call them and tell them 'don't bother'. I only get the Sunday paper in print - but I don't want my neighbors to see it on my driveway.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:33 PM (QGaXH)

96 Every time I drop something it always hits the exact point on the dish/item to crack or break ??

HOW DOES IT KNOW ???????????????????

Posted by: Jackson at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (38587)

97 The governor’s office noted Oz's claims had “already caused real-world harm” by reducing business at an Armenian bakery that is shown in the video.
Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2026 06:27 PM (GITLP)

There's a hospice in an Armenian Bakery??

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (8avO+)

98 Two-tier justice system in the US.
Lemon has Very Important Work this weekend, you guys!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (Hkcdp)

99 I don’t believe that they grow much of either bananas or rice in Somalia. Rice requires a huge amount of moisture. Seems like bananas would, too.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (77rzZ)

100 BREAKING: Judge releases Don Lemon without bail.
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Just like J'6rs not
Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)
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Huh. Wonder what took so long...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (ESVrU)

101 I saw Bananas & Rice open for Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park in 1981.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:35 PM (oT7pT)

102 In my little slice of heaven here, rent for an average, 3 br, 2 ba cookie-cutter home on postage-stamp lot is running about 5K/month.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:35 PM (QGaXH)

103 Ace: " Eisenhower's poorly-named 'Operation Wetback'"

I think that was a great name. Trump should have used it for his deportation operation.

Posted by: Ralph at January 30, 2026 06:35 PM (8WZD4)

104 Drop is Turkish and he drew attention to Armenian fraud. Boohoo. Not racist.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:35 PM (Hkcdp)

105 Speaking of L.A. Times - I was a long-term subscriber, long after most people stopped. About two years ago I finally cancelled once and for all. Then, just before this past Christmas it started up again on it's own. I went into my subscriber account and it still showed me as 'Cancelled'. I was going to call them but then - going thru the accumulated 'junk mail' - I found a card from them saying I was getting a 'free' subscription starting Dec until May.

I'm going to call them and tell them 'don't bother'. I only get the Sunday paper in print - but I don't want my neighbors to see it on my driveway.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:33 PM (QGaXH)

I had that with the Tribune in Chicago. Cancelled, then hiccup and I was getting it without paying. I just tossed it and laughed at them. If they though giving me a free paper helped their business more than just lying about circulation numbers, fine. This was in the late 80s

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:36 PM (8avO+)

106 There’s lawmaking at Armenian bakeries - delicious!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:37 PM (Hkcdp)

107 Now see I can buy Russians and Armenians setting up a fraud ring to rake in easy money that the feds were handing out. Much harder for me to buy 100s of Somalians setting up all those various frauds w/o some helpful state bureaucrat walking them through the process in exchange for a cut.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 30, 2026 06:38 PM (Sokdp)

108
Missed previous thread: Anybody who believed that CIA Barbie and her merry band of marxists, were centrists, are either lying or retarded.
Posted by: Puddleglum

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I don't know who believed it, and I'm so jaded that I don't know who will care about it. I do hear energy prices are rising there, and QOL will probably fall in other ways. That might make a few people vote for a better Democrat when her term is up. And by "better," I mean someone who uses even more OPM than Spanberger does.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 30, 2026 06:38 PM (hxCZf)

109 42 Sister in law in Long Beach has lost her housekeeper. Employed her for years. Obvious illegal. SIL is a big time lefty. I feel so sorry for her predicament… Oh, wait, no I don’t.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 30, 2026 06:14 PM (pSzdp)

I mentioned here a few days ago - our gardener lost his helper. I didn't ask why, just thought 'one less box of See's Candy I have to spring for at Christmas....'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:38 PM (QGaXH)

110 Argh, autocorrect: “lahmajun “

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:38 PM (Hkcdp)

111 Rental Property prices falling in LA ????

GLOBAL WARMING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at January 30, 2026 06:38 PM (38587)

112 "Operation GTFO" > "Operation Wetback"

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:39 PM (0Eh0f)

113 Armenians were one of the few ethnic groups in the Russian Empire (along with the Baltic Germans) who didn’t mind being ruled by the Russians.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:39 PM (77rzZ)

114 >>> don't think I have any of that yarn left, so I stopped feeling guilty about the money I spent 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 30, 2026 06:25 PM (SRR

Glad you splurged!! No regrets.

My mother-in-law is a hooker herself (and has the mug to prove it!), and I keep wondering what crocheting doodads to buy her as gifts. She also has fibromyalgia, so has super sensitive skin, and gets cold easily. I will add Quiviut wool to the list! I bet she'd love it, and it sounds perfect for her. Much better than another Joanne's Fabric gift card.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (gWBY1)

115 OT: Fuck. Ed is on about the Beatles again...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

116 The last time L.A. rents were that low was January 2022, in the wake of a furious pandemic home-buying market that saw a wave of renters buy homes for the first time, leaving apartments empty and bringing prices down.

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How many trillions of dollars in Covid PsyOps Feral Gubmint fraud provided the funds to purchase all those homes by former renters?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:41 PM (0Eh0f)

117 There was a time ... granted, long ago ... when Democrats were the hawks on immigration because it lowered working wages and increased prices on the good and services the working class used the most.

I'd like to vote for that party. But it no longer exists.

Posted by: Nope at January 30, 2026 06:41 PM (Ddi7K)

118 Heh. Ewetub is featuring a video on the 'nationwide walk out' is solidarity with Minneapolis.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:41 PM (zZu0s)

119 My mother-in-law is a hooker herself (and has the mug to prove it!),
Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (gWBY1)
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Things I never thought I'd see on AoSHQ...This sentence is much funnier taken out of context.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (ESVrU)

120
To be fair, Lemon isn't much of a flight risk, and if he does, who cares?

Let him pay his own way back and forth to Minneapolis for court from any bolt hole he and his husband squat in.

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (Y8DZL)

121 When Iran is free California is going to see another exodus. Lots of Iranians are going to repatriate.
Same is going to happen with Cuba.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (0KSrI)

122 115 Wait, Ed Driscoll is my brother-in-law???

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (77rzZ)

123 >>> Speaking of L.A. Times - I was a long-term subscriber, long after most people stopped. About two years ago I finally cancelled once and for all.

They called Larry Elder "the black face of white supremacy" when he ran for governor. They are gutter trash. Glad you are well rid of them.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (gWBY1)

124 The article literally never mentions the country's first year of net-outwards migration in history.
There is no way that can have any beneficial effect. It is pure calamity. Millions will die horribly.'

Still worth it to have the illegals gone.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 30, 2026 06:31 PM (fd80v)

Net Neutrality smiles...

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (LSR8N)

125 OT: Fuck. Ed is on about the Beatles again...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

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Ed Sullivan?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (0Eh0f)

126 I'd like to vote for that party. But it no longer exists.
Posted by: Nope at January 30, 2026 06:41 PM (Ddi7K)

They weren't majority communists then.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (zZu0s)

127 Bad news, everyone [apologies if this has been posted already]

@InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC

Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (gKWVE)

128 Increased housing supply is a real thing. Many projects got delayed during COVID and are only now coming online. It takes at least 5 years to plans and build any sizeable housing development.

I’d also like to see home buying has fared during this time. My best guesstimate is that buying was soft the last few years because of Biden’s insane interest rates, but has now picked up. That would mean some renters are now buyers.

But surely, kicking out hordes of illegals certainly decreased demand. I’d like to see the rental rates broken down by cost. I’d assume the illegals were renting at the low end and this jacking up prices there.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 30, 2026 06:14 PM (r0S8E)

For a while during COVID several big corps were buying up houses and holding them. I believe Trump blocked that kind of thing and they probably are divesting themselves. Like the Chicken/Egg issue, this probably was a Biden distortion in the market for infiltration of illegals.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (8avO+)

129 I mnew Lemon wasn't going to suffer a jailing

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (Ia/+0)

130
I'd be safe and warm,
if I was in L.A.

Posted by: zombie Mama Cass at January 30, 2026 06:44 PM (0sNs1)

131 The places rent has gone down are mostly the places no one wants to live because there are no jobs. The places people actually work, and thus need to be near, arent coming down at all.

This is not about tapped out renters deciding to not have a place to live. Multifamily construction has been at historic highs for several years.

Unless you’re getting paid in a foreign currency or performing a forex hedge your rent is not cheaper due to dollar devaluation lol. People need to learn the difference between the DXY and inflation

One of factors people miss is lot of rental properties are shifting from short rentals so that is causing an increase in inventory as well.

I can’t stand this economic fascism. Cheaper rents are destroying landlords ability to profit. The falling price of gasoline is causing more climate change. Trump is destroying the American way of life. I can’t handle this anymore. /s

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2026 06:44 PM (ycI94)

132 Bad news, everyone [apologies if this has been posted already]

@InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (gKWVE)

maybe UNICEF could collect pennies in the EU for ya.

Trump would be a God Emperor for life if he got the UN to move to Geneva or somewhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:45 PM (8avO+)

133 I'd be safe and warm,
if I was in L.A.
Posted by: zombie Mama Cass at January 30, 2026 06:44 PM (0sNs1)

it actually was cold and wet this last week.

better than firestorms, tho.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:45 PM (8avO+)

134 OT: Fuck. Ed is on about the Beatles again...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 30, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

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Ed Sullivan?
Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM

Mr. Ed?

Posted by: Wilbur at January 30, 2026 06:45 PM (0sNs1)

135 Trump should purchase the Turtle Bay property, lol!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:46 PM (Hkcdp)

136 Lewis Cass >>>> Mama Cass

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:46 PM (77rzZ)

137 >>> Speaking of L.A. Times - I was a long-term subscriber, long after most people stopped. About two years ago I finally cancelled once and for all.

They called Larry Elder "the black face of white supremacy" when he ran for governor. They are gutter trash. Glad you are well rid of them.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:42 PM (gWBY1)

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At least The Times is not owned by a Chinese South African Billionaire who got rich here and -- of course -- hates America.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:46 PM (0Eh0f)

138 I saw this in the L.A. suburbs in 2009. In the recession, jobs disappeared. So all of the sudden all the people pushing stolen grocery carts full of food down my street every day evaporated. The guy, probably an immigrant, that they hired to collect them in his truck disappeared.

The jobs left, so they left.

Posted by: Random PJ at January 30, 2026 06:47 PM (+jscL)

139 @InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (gKWVE)
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I imagine the graft and corruption that goes on in that building dwarfs anything a group of Somalis could get away with in Minnesota.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2026 06:47 PM (ESVrU)

140
For a while during COVID several big corps were buying up houses and holding them. I believe Trump blocked that kind of thing and they probably are divesting themselves. Like the Chicken/Egg issue, this probably was a Biden distortion in the market for infiltration of illegals.
Posted by: Oldcat
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The Biden Corporation changed up the housing market like I've never seen it. It wasn't good for buyers or sellers. It was dead in the water as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 06:47 PM (rarFa)

141 Isn't this like the third time Don 'Cheesedick' Lemon has been down the Rabbit Hole? He's a kept property.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:47 PM (oT7pT)

142 >>> 131 The places rent has gone down are mostly the places no one wants to live because there are no jobs. The places people actually work, and thus need to be near, arent coming down at all.

Because no one wants to live and work in LA...Nice try Reddit.

(And thanks for all the intercepted transmissons! It's one of my fave recurring things in the blog comments.)

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (gWBY1)

143 Hawaiian Judge orders all LA Landlords to raise rental prices to help the Democrats in the Mid Term elections...

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (38587)

144 FIFY

Good news, everyone [apologies if this has been posted already]
InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (Ia/+0)

145 Jim Kunstler’s latest piece is about our newest Bond villain in Shanghai.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (77rzZ)

146 I'd be safe and warm,
if I was in L.A.
Posted by: zombie Mama Cass at January 30, 2026 06:44 PM (0sNs1)

Those 2 fellas in The Mamas and Papas were humping the blonde chick but did either one hump ol' Mama Cass?

She was fat and ugly but come on, love the one your with!

Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Boomer at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (pbej3)

147 @InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (gKWVE)
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Make them pay their overdue NYC parking tickets as well. They probably total about the same as the GNP of some mid sized country by now.

Posted by: Orson at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (dIske)

148 69
Lots of school districts seeing plunging enrollments as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2026 06:23 PM (tgvbd)

plunging necklines > plunging enrollments

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (QGaXH)

149 139 @InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.

So................... What is your point ????

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 30, 2026 06:48 PM (38587)

150 Someone said it best "get rid of the fraud and America's debt doesn't exist". Might be a bit of hyperbole, but not that much

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2026 06:49 PM (IDEQi)

151 Armenians were one of the few ethnic groups in the Russian Empire (along with the Baltic Germans) who didn’t mind being ruled by the Russians.
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:39 PM (77rzZ)

Too bad they let NATO run an op on them a year or so back cut ties with Russia. They first lost about a third of their land to a neighbor. And Turkey is looking at them with interest from another direction.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:49 PM (8avO+)

152 Cass Gilbert > Lewis Cass > Mama Cass >>>> Cass Sunstein

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:49 PM (0Eh0f)

153 >>> UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse

Will they leave NYC? Pretty please?

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (gWBY1)

154 148 Depends on the neckline.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (77rzZ)

155 UN should just close up shop for a few months until funds are secured

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (Ia/+0)

156 UN. The time for honoring yourselves has come to an end.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (0KSrI)

157 I mnew Lemon wasn't going to suffer a jailing
Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM (Ia/+0)

Now you sit in your luxury suite and think about what you did, young man!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 30, 2026 06:50 PM (0aYVJ)

158 34 Damn. I thought Hospice was the best run section of the Medicare system. I guess it has no oversight.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Hospice care is primarily covered by Medicare Part A for beneficiaries with a terminal illness (6 months or less to live), providing up to 100% coverage for comfort-focused care.

It is also covered by Medicaid in nearly all states, as well as by most private insurance plans.

The latter, under Medicaid and several Medicare advantage programs, seems to open the door to fraud.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (NFX2v)

159 147 @InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.

Price of NYC Hookers drops to all time low .....

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (38587)

160 Plunging enrollment = public school consolidation and teacher/administrator layoffs?

They’ve used immigrants to backfill the kids whose parents fled to private schools due to poor quality, violence, and indoctrination. Propped up with illegals’ kids no more!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (Hkcdp)

161 >>>BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.

So................... What is your point ????

Posted by: Jackson K.

>It's a prime time for the UN to plan to relocate to Cuba or Greenland.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (oT7pT)

162 Lemon no bail was a given. He is still charged and will be tried.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (0KSrI)

163 NOOD Week in Woke

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 30, 2026 06:52 PM (0Eh0f)

164 >It's a prime time for the UN to plan to relocate to Cuba or Greenland.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (oT7pT)

Outside of the Western...er Trumpian Hemisphere. Far Outside.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2026 06:52 PM (8avO+)

165 He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC

Have Mamdami raise the rent and dial it back to April

Posted by: DanMan at January 30, 2026 06:52 PM (8uzBS)

166 I see a judge took the death penalty off the table in the Mangione case. Dude shot an innocent, unarmed man in the back in broad daylight in cold blood. If we were a proper country he should have been hanged before the week was out.......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 06:53 PM (QGaXH)

167 136 Lewis Cass >>>> Mama Cass
Posted by: Bulg

Been to the site in Sault St Marie where he tore down the British flag and trampled on it. A great Michiganian.

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2026 06:53 PM (Y8DZL)

168 162 Lemon no bail was a given. He is still charged and will be tried.

Put him in a cell with Bubba from Backwoods WV that has not seen a woman in 10 years...

Ride'n Cowboy...

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 30, 2026 06:54 PM (38587)

169 It's a prime time for the UN to plan to relocate to Cuba or Greenland.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 30, 2026 06:51 PM (oT7pT)

Bangladesh. It's still a shithole 54 years later. Savages.

Posted by: Zombie George Harrison at January 30, 2026 06:54 PM (pbej3)

170 Medicare Advantage is fraud on the face of it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 06:54 PM (rarFa)

171 169 It's a prime time for the UN to plan to relocate to Cuba or Greenland.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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Not on my lawn.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2026 06:56 PM (rarFa)

172 The School District of Philadelphia is proposing to close 20 public schools, impacting nearly 5,000 students starting in the 2027-28 school year.

See, they've 'nudged' a great deal of their illegal population out to ring (or further) counties via corporation and non-profits, or to northeast and southwest Philly.

Suddenly, empty buildings that had needed lots of C19 $ to improve ventilation and remove asbestos for the 10th or so consecutive years.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 30, 2026 06:58 PM (NFX2v)

173 88 85 As expected.

@LeadingReport
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BREAKING: Judge releases Don Lemon without bail.
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Monday he has to be in a courtroom in MPLS.
Posted by: beckster at January 30, 2026 06:30 PM (I7J9

Would serve the judge right if Lemon skips to a non-extradition jurisdiction.....

Would serve Lemon right of the non-extradition jurisdiction is one of those places that gives gays free flying lessons off tall buildings.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 07:00 PM (QGaXH)

174 I'm makin' a list, and checkin' it twice, mouthbreathers.

Posted by: Kathy Griffin at January 30, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1)

175 BREAKING: Judge releases Don Lemon without bail.
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Just like J'6rs not
Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2026 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

Is his butthole sore ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 30, 2026 07:01 PM (NtVYv)

176
Good news, everyone [apologies if this has been posted already]
InsiderGeo
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse, citing unpaid member state contributions and budget constraints. He warned cash reserves could run out by July unless funding rules change.
Jan 30, 2026 · 2:56 PM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at January 30, 2026 06:43 PM

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After the incidents of chickenshit sabotage the last time Trump gave a speech there, I'm in favor of doing anything possible to ruin them faster. Clowns.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 30, 2026 07:02 PM (hA/c/)

177 96 Every time I drop something it always hits the exact point on the dish/item to crack or break ??

HOW DOES IT KNOW ???????????????????

Posted by: Jackson at January 30, 2026 06:34 PM (38587)

By the same magic your thermos knows to keep cold things cold and hot things hot...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 30, 2026 07:03 PM (QGaXH)

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