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Tim Scott announces his engagement. His fiancee is white. Maybe that's why this was such a secret for so long. I dunno, I assumed he was gay.

Lots of stuff from last week, but still relevant.

Commercial real estate is imploding as workers desert the unsafe, barbaric shithole cities.

Commercial real estate implosion: Blackstone is desperately trying to shift Manhattan office tower at HALF price after 26-storey building's value tumbled from $605MILLION to $150MILLION
World's biggest private equity fund takes a $450million hit on prestigious New York landmark amid a collapse in the commercial property market
Comes as landlords across the country write down their portfolios in the wake of high interest rates and an exodus of office workers
The price of office space has fallen 35 percent since 2022 leaving US banks vulnerable to billions of dollars in shaky loans
By Dominic Yeatman For Dailymail.Com
The world's biggest private equity fund has become the latest victim of America's hollowed out office culture after it marketed its landmark New York building for a quarter of what it paid.
Blackstone paid around $600 million for the 26-storey tower at 1740 Broadway in 2014 but is now offering it to anyone willing to pay the $150million left on the mortgage.
It comes just a week after Shorenstein put the 62-storey Aon Center in Los Angeles on the market for $153.5 million, down from the $269 million it paid ten years ago.
Persistent high mortgage rates and the millions of Americans still working from home have been blamed for the collapse in prices and an office vacancy rate reaching a record 19.6 percent in major cities earlier this month.
'I think this is an existential moment,' said RXR real estate boss Scott Rechler.
'This post-COVID world of higher interest rates, the changing nature of how people work and live, we're not going back to where we were, and it's going to be turbulent.'
The collapse has been pronounced in the biggest cities with DC facing a 21.1 percent vacancy rate and San Francisco's 34 percent.
It has led to a 35 percent fall in office prices from their peak in early 2022 and left banks vulnerable to billions of dollars in shaky loans.
About $117 billion worth is expected to be due this year and needs to be repaid or refinanced, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

117 billion here, 117 billion there, and suddenly you're talking real money.

Also from last week, but better late than never: A UK civil servant blew the whistle on the actual pro-terrorist extremism that civil servants are being taught in the name of... "counter-terrorism."

And of course -- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

A former civil servant has written about her experience of a civil-service counter-terrorism course at King's College London. It makes for disturbing reading.
Writing in Fathom earlier this month, Anna Stanley recalls an academic expert on extremism telling attendees that author and journalist Douglas Murray and comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan were examples of 'far right' extremists. The lecturer then told attendees that society needed to find 'ways to suppress' such figures. He complained that just de-platforming them 'would cause issues', because 'they have millions of followers'.
It gets worse. While this extremism specialist was only too happy to call for tough action against the likes of Joe Rogan, who is not 'far right' in the slightest, other lecturers on the course were restrained and even sympathetic towards Islamist extremists. Though the course took place before the atrocities of 7 October, it is still shocking to read of extremism experts encouraging civil servants to consider Hamas as 'freedom fighters'. After all, Hamas is a proscribed terrorist group under UK law. Yet lecturers were warning civil servants of the risks of making 'moral judgements' about Islamist terrorists.
Stanley's experience of the King's College course illustrates the double standards at work in our elites' approach to terrorism and extremism. As William Shawcross explained in the UK government's review of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy last year, there tends to be an 'expansive approach to the extreme right-wing', capturing a variety of influences 'so broad it has included mildly controversial or provocative forms of mainstream, right-wing-leaning commentary that have no meaningful connection to terrorism or radicalisation'. At the same time, wrote Shawcross, there tends to be a much narrower approach to Islamism, 'centred around proscribed organisations, ignoring the contribution of non-violent Islamist narratives and networks to terrorism'.

Yes, and it all started with Obama, who restructured American "counter-terrorism" efforts away from looking to stop Muslim terrorism and to focusing nigh-exclusively on normal patriotic Americans, redefined by Obama and his foreign friends as "potential terrorists."

Again from last week -- but with a New Salience due to the newest round of media layoffs -- the coming apocalypse in employment for alleged "mind workers."

Who are largely just stupider, lazier organic-analogs of AI anyway.

In "The True Believer," Eric Hoffer wrote, "Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status."
We're about to find out just how right he was.
From the 1970s to roughly now, offshoring and automation gobbled up blue-collar factory-type jobs.
....
This went on for decades in industry after industry, with everything from textiles to semiconductor manufacturing closing or moving offshore.
White-collar types were notably unsympathetic, for the most part.
Berkeley professor and Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich declared the future belonged to the "symbolic analysts" -- people who, in the words of a Steve Earle song, use their brains and not their hands.
Laid-off coal miners in the last decade were contemptuously told to "learn to code."
But the worm has turned. Google is looking at laying off 30,000 people it expects to replace with artificial intelligence.
The Wall Street Journal reports that large corporations across the board are planning to lay off white-collar workers.
Investor Brian Wang notes ChatGPT is already causing white-collar job loss.
In fact, ChatGPT can even code.
Sometimes its code is quite good. Sometimes it's not so good.
(Though God knows, the latter is true of much human-generated software code too.)
It can write press releases, ad copy, catalog descriptions, news stories and essays, speeches, encyclopedia entries, customer-inquiry responses and more.
It can generate art on demand that's suitable for book covers, advertisements and magazine illustrations.
Again, sometimes these items are quite good, and sometimes they're not, but there's a lot of less-than-stellar human work in those categories too.
Learning to code is bad advice now.
And the kicker is, AI is getting better all the time.
...
People losing their jobs to AI is just the tip of the iceberg.
In the next decade, lots more people -- possibly (gulp) including professors like me -- will be facing potential replacement by machines.
It turns out that using your brain and not your hands isn't as good a move as it may have once seemed.
People who work with their hands have some advantages.
If you want something done in the material world, you still need people.
...
Unlike blue-collar workers, who got little sympathy, these laid off white-collar workers will have more clout.
Expect them to create much more of a stink than those laid-off steelworkers managed to back in 1977.

Quoted by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, leftwing hack and Nepo Baby Matthew Yglesias frets that having a media packed stem-to-stern with crusading puritanical progressives isn't an unmitigated good for the left.

The people who produce the news are primarily young college graduates living in big cities, a demographic that skews way to the left of the electorate. And the audience for this news, though less ideologically skewed than the producers, is still significantly to the left of center.
That dynamic is a powerful force multiplier for platforming and disseminating new left-wing ideas, including ideas that go from edgy to dominant -- like "gay couples should be allowed to get married" -- as well as ideas that provoke massive backlash the minute they get any purchase -- "maybe cities don't need police departments." It's a major structural feature of the media landscape that helps explain why the general policy trajectory over the past generation has been toward the left.

Making lemonade 🍋 from watermelons 🍉 pic.twitter.com/lM0CvA52q6
— (((noa tishby))) (@noatishby) January 22, 2024

A CNN Oompa Loompa slobbered over Kamala Harris, and wondered, almost tearfully, how anyone could possibly dislike Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris said that it must be because of sexism and/or White Men Failing to Position Her For Success.

CNN reporter Laura Coates fights back tears while fawning over VP Harris:

"I'm struck just being in your presence. I was watching you on stage. Looking at you in the eye with your passion."

She then asks Kamala how anyone can be skeptical of her. VP blames sexism. pic.twitter.com/f8iJbRzsVw
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 23, 2024

Adam Schiff gets called out during the CA Senate debate by Republican Steve Garvey for lying about Russian collusion:

Garvey: "I believe you were censured for lying."

Schiff: "I was censured for standing up to a corrupt president"

Garvey: "Sir, you lied to 300 million people� pic.twitter.com/tqv4YD2kZZ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 23, 2024

Middle Aged Hairy Potter has thoughts:

Rachel @Maddow describing Trump's dictator-worshiping pitch to voters: "If you pick me, that'll be the end of politics, and you won't have to deal with politics anymore. You won't have to deal with contested elections, you won't have to deal with contests or divisions when it� pic.twitter.com/DuJxENLOJJ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 23, 2024

David Harsanyi
@davidharsanyi
Scary. If he's elected he might start throwing candidates off ballots, pressure tech companies to censor the opposition, and ignore the Supreme Court.

Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
You could teach a psychology class just based on this insane clip.
1. When she says a Trump win would mean "domesticating the judiciary and Congress" -- what she means is that it won't be stacked with far left nut jobs and common sense will be represented.
2. You have to be absolutely insane to say Trump winning means the end of contested elections when Biden and the Democrats have literally fixed the Dem primary to ensure there is no contested election against him.
3. She doesn't realize the argument she's making is boxing her and her nutty friends in. If they're going to spend the entire election saying that it's an election that will decide whether Americans want a strongman dictator then don't whine when he wins and finally uses power the way Democrats have because I guess America chose that and you respect America's choice, right?
These people are broken beyond repair.

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1 well look at this nice shiny post just sitting here all alone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2024 06:23 PM (i9ffA)

2 Hi

Posted by: browndog laughs at these layoffs at January 23, 2024 06:23 PM (TTAGa)

3 Ah, Tim Scott is leasing a beard

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 23, 2024 06:23 PM (xcxpd)

4 Grace Randolph is in the sidebar saying some more dumb shit

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2024 06:23 PM (KRtlO)

5 2nd

And I even read the content of the post

Posted by: browndog channeling Evelyn Wood at January 23, 2024 06:24 PM (TTAGa)

6 SpaceX Starlink 7-11 Launch
Launch time: January 23rd at 4:35 p.m. PST
(7:35 p.m. EST, 0035 UTC)

http://tinyurl.com/2s4e6a9w

Live in about 1 hour

Posted by: Ciampino - Space has lots of empty space at January 23, 2024 06:24 PM (qfLjt)

7 thanks ciampino

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2024 06:25 PM (KRtlO)

8 "In the next decade, lots more people -- possibly (gulp) including professors like me -- will be facing potential replacement by machines."

That's okay, the students will be replaced by machines as well, so the universities will go on consuming billions of dollars to have things that pretend to teach interacting with things that pretend to learn, and all the real people will be out doing something useful.

And then someone will trip over the power cord and nothing of value will be lost.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 23, 2024 06:27 PM (ou9hh)

9 4 Grace Randolph is in the sidebar saying some more dumb shit
Posted by: ace at January 23, 2024 06:23 PM (KRtlO)

It would be shocking news if it wasn't dumb shit.

She's the stupider and uglier version of Fran Dresher.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 23, 2024 06:27 PM (xcxpd)

10 "I assumed he was gay."

I saw his fiancee. I still assume he's gay.

Posted by: Manhands at January 23, 2024 06:28 PM (qUkBO)

11 Sounds like a great space to stash all those illegals these cities are itching to welcome.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:29 PM (eoQWY)

12 Anyway, my pup Gabrielle is turning 1 year old.
It's been a very eventful 364 days, but also very good.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 23, 2024 06:29 PM (xcxpd)

13 The recruitment industry is in free fall right now. Tons and tons of layoffs from recruitment firms. Which is a preview of what’s to come in terms of layoffs in the broader economy this year. Recruiters are always the canary in the coal mine.

Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:29 PM (U42yt)

14 I thought SC had a breech loader limit of 1 senator.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 23, 2024 06:31 PM (WVAwc)

15 Looks like new definition of right-wing has evolved. Anyone expressing thoughts that are against the current NPC programming.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2024 06:31 PM (fs1hN)

16 holy moly where e'erbody at? I read the ENTIRE content and links

Posted by: DanMan at January 23, 2024 06:31 PM (8uzBS)

17 These people are broken beyond repair.

No. These people are evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 06:32 PM (di6C2)

18 This is a result of the Telecommuting/ Work from home craze. People don't understand how bad it is going to get. Just wait until it hits your suburb. I have a co-worker making her fat California salary and she lives in Montana. She was able to out-bid every local for a nice 20-acre property with a big house and barn. The locals can't compete with that. Where are they going to go to actually buy and own their own homes? Central America? Southeast Asia?

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at January 23, 2024 06:32 PM (AD14M)

19 10 "I assumed he was gay."

I saw his fiancee. I still assume he's gay.
Posted by: Manhands at January 23, 2024 06:28 PM (qUkBO)

She's... I am sure she is beautiful to him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 06:33 PM (di6C2)

20 16 holy moly where e'erbody at? I read the ENTIRE content and links
Posted by: DanMan at January 23, 2024 06:31 PM (8uzBS)

Did someone call nood on the last thread?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 06:34 PM (di6C2)

21 Yes, and it all started with Obama
_______

You know how we're always told that this election is "the most important EVER!"?

Well, I'm beginning to think that was 2008. And I cannot tell you how much it hurts to say that our most damaging loss was losing McCain. (^%$##)

Posted by: Eeyore at January 23, 2024 06:34 PM (1bNHn)

22 Matt Yglesias is a fucking swine who openly advocated that media should lie to promote preferred policy outcomes. So he helped produced this modern dystopian media. Fuck him with a rusty bayonet. I would not shit in that filthy cockport he calls a mouth because my shit is too good for the likes of him. Degenerate cocksucker.

Posted by: Yglesias should get no press from the right until his obituary at January 23, 2024 06:34 PM (L81HX)

23 Feather did.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 06:34 PM (di6C2)

24 Unlike blue-collar workers, who got little sympathy, these laid off white-collar workers will have more clout.

Expect them to create much more of a stink than those laid-off steelworkers managed to back in 1977.

***

Seems debatable

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 23, 2024 06:35 PM (V1Jl+)

25 If all those professors are made irrelevant then many fields of study will be shuttered. Enrollment at fancy institutes will necessarily plummet.

How will the university of Oklahoma then support its football program?

Posted by: Blutarski at January 23, 2024 06:35 PM (Fwuhb)

26 Tim Scott scored a white blonde. Black chicks hate that.
Bet he’s glad he’s out of the scrum

Posted by: Redenzo at January 23, 2024 06:35 PM (V/pbu)

27 true

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2024 06:35 PM (KRtlO)

28 Um...Noa Tishby is rather fetching...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 23, 2024 06:36 PM (gSZYf)

29 i meant "True" to the Matt Yglesias screed

Posted by: ace at January 23, 2024 06:36 PM (KRtlO)

30 The recruitment industry is in free fall right now. Tons and tons of layoffs from recruitment firms. Which is a preview of what’s to come in terms of layoffs in the broader economy this year. Recruiters are always the canary in the coal mine.
Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:29 PM (U42yt)

Combination of few jobs and recruiters not having anyone competent to fill the ones that do come up. College is poison these days.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:36 PM (eoQWY)

31 The BHF analysis also revealed heart disease killed 80 out of every 100,000 people in England in 2022 – the highest rate “in living memory.”

Heart fatalities in the under-75s have risen for three consecutive years.

FAFO

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2024 06:36 PM (lwOKI)

32 Commercial real estate implosion: Blackstone is desperately trying to shift Manhattan office tower at HALF price after 26-storey building's value tumbled from $605MILLION to $150MILLION

450 million here and 450 million there and before you know what you're talking some real money.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2024 06:36 PM (Kyvfn)

33 Well, I'm beginning to think that was 2008. And I cannot tell you how much it hurts to say that our most damaging loss was losing McCain. (^%$##)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 23, 2024 06:34 PM (1bNHn)

I think... probably 1960.

Although my favorite pet theory is not doing WWI. I think so many of the old ways were repudiated and or the proponents killed, that it left a lot of assholes to run off into the warm embrace of socialism.

It's a hard one to figure because it would change things on such a level as you would have no idea what would happen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 06:37 PM (di6C2)

34 I'll repost since it belongs here : " "Poll: 80% of American Voters Support Israel; 20% Support Hamas..The poll was conducted January 17-19 among 2,346 registered voters. A margin of error was not available"

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:37 PM (V13WU)

35 Was Steve Garvey this stiff when he played baseball? He spoke Truth to Schiff, but dang, I don't think he has a chance.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2024 06:37 PM (fs1hN)

36 28 Um...Noa Tishby is rather fetching...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 23, 2024 06:36 PM (gSZYf)

She is pretty cute.

Noa Tishby. She a Lutheran?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 06:38 PM (di6C2)

37 Where are they going to go to actually buy and own their own homes? Central America? Southeast Asia?
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at January 23, 2024 06:32 PM (AD14M)

That's what this "Passport Bros" is all about. Men with telecommuting jobs moving abroad and marrying local women since western women are such bad marriage prospects.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:38 PM (eoQWY)

38 “The collapse has been pronounced in the biggest cities with DC facing a 21.1 percent vacancy rate and San Francisco's 34 percent.”

Oh no!!
Anyway…

Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:39 PM (U42yt)

39 *Harvard-Harris poll

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:39 PM (V13WU)

40 "Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status."

I know. Theycould work on farms. After we kick out all the "needed" third world invaders so necessary for the US. They would finally be doing something truly progressive, as they work their ways down the rows of arugula and artisanal beans, weeding, cultivating, harvesting. And status. Heck, nothin' better than a shift boss, right? I would acknowledge that.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at January 23, 2024 06:39 PM (Rbu5d)

41 Blackstone paid around $600 million for the 26-storey tower at 1740 Broadway in 2014 but is now offering it to anyone willing to pay the $150million left on the mortgage.

It comes just a week after Shorenstein put the 62-storey Aon Center in Los Angeles on the market for $153.5 million, down from the $269 million it paid ten years ago.

What was that, that everyone was saying? If you can sell it, it's an asset, regardless if you lost your ass?

Sorry. I guess I'm too old school. I never counted losses as assets.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2024 06:39 PM (Kyvfn)

42 It does look like Kamala is fed up with the amount of slathering in the tongue bath the reporter is giving her. YMMV.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (fs1hN)

43 Mindy Noce- Scott's fiancée sure doesn't look unattractive to me, but I'm not a guy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (3rDLe)

44 I wonder why it's "diversity, equity and inclusion", and not "diversity, inclusion and equity". I suppose the acronym for the latter configuration would make the actual intent a little too obvious.

Posted by: Paco at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (njExo)

45 PDT could have helped them out. But, the PTB in NY say otherwise.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (tT6L1)

46 A lot of commercial real estate will be converted to residential. An office building can easily become a condo.

Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (U42yt)

47 Grace Randolph is in the sidebar saying some more dumb shit
Posted by: ace at January 23, 2024 06:23 PM (KRtlO)

Boots Randolph>>>Grace Randolph

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (tkR6S)

48 >>>These people are broken beyond repair.

Disagree. Well, yes, they are broken, but on a moral plane. Intellectually, they couldn't care less how ridiculous and contradictory they sound; all they care about is whether or not their utterances help them hang onto power. So far, they have to be thinking yes.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (g0Y4p)

49 I'll repost since it belongs here : " "Poll: 80% of American Voters Support Israel; 20% Support Hamas..The poll was conducted January 17-19 among 2,346 registered voters. A margin of error was not available"
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:37 PM (V13WU)

I assume broken down by party its 50 50 or better Hamas. Which is why Biden and the Bidenettes do the ceasefire shuffle and wring their hands about the IDF playing hardball.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (eoQWY)

50 Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2024 06:39 PM (Kyvfn)

OT, but....do you have a light mounted on your USP?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (gSZYf)

51 As I keep saying, a Constitutional republic has nothing to fear from any dictator, tyrant or strongman.

But the Democrats have spent decades removing all safeguards against such.

I welcome a MAGA dictator because I'm already living under their dictatorship.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (C2U4G)

52 The covids lockdowns are killing blue state real-estate markets.Whodathunkit. Consequences, motherfuckers. Live it

Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2024 06:41 PM (S4B9L)

53 "maybe cities don't need police departments." It's a major structural feature of the media landscape that helps explain why the general policy trajectory over the past generation has been toward the left.

Notice the catch maybe.

They want to claim the ideas that will make things better. But once it trickles down (ha fuck you Reagan haters) then it was just and idea or they claim that it was a policy that would be tried in a small audience.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2024 06:41 PM (lwOKI)

54 This is the result of a depraved mind. Thought like this can be used to justify any human atrocity. Spoken with a German accent, of course.

http://tinyurl.com/p824jms9

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 23, 2024 06:41 PM (cGXBu)

55 A lot of commercial real estate will be converted to residential. An office building can easily become a condo.
Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (U42yt)

Like anyone wants to overpay to live in a crime infested warren and commute to the burbs.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:42 PM (eoQWY)

56 yep, broken beyond repair

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:42 PM (V13WU)

57 Poppy the Prairie Dog issues warning that the WEF wants to limit you to 2 or 3 cups of coffee per year before heading off to the kitchen to get coffee.

http://tinyurl.com/2hkc4ck7

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 23, 2024 06:42 PM (c2MGA)

58 "A lot of commercial real estate will be converted to residential. An office building can easily become a condo.
Posted by: Liberals "

I would love to take on that design challenge, no joke.

But it would be a challenge.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (ou9hh)

59 "Blackstone is desperately trying to shift Manhattan office tower at HALF price after 26-storey building's value tumbled from $605MILLION to $150MILLION".

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of jackbooted grifters. the decline of the company has been pretty dramatic: sort of Fascist and Furious.

Posted by: Paco at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (njExo)

60 How will the university of Oklahoma then support its football program?
Posted by: Blutarski

Door to door candy bar sales. Duh.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (IG4Id)

61 Although my favorite pet theory is not doing WWI. I think so many of the old ways were repudiated and or the proponents killed, that it left a lot of assholes to run off into the warm embrace of socialism.

It's a hard one to figure because it would change things on such a level as you would have no idea what would happen.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 06:37 PM (di6C2)

I've been working on an alternate history of the world without WWI.

First big realization is that nearly everything you can think of would probably be changed, so you can make things as similar or as different as you want.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (g0Y4p)

62 OT, but....do you have a light mounted on your USP?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I do on the full-size, but not the compact. I went with one of of the O Lights with the green laser built in.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (Kyvfn)

63 A lot of commercial real estate will be converted to residential. An office building can easily become a condo.
Posted by: Liberals
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House the houseless!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (XeU6L)

64 "Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status."

I know. Theycould work on farms. After we kick out all the "needed" third world invaders so necessary for the US. They would finally be doing something truly progressive, as they work their ways down the rows of arugula and artisanal beans, weeding, cultivating, harvesting. And status. Heck, nothin' better than a shift boss, right? I would acknowledge that.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at January 23, 2024 06:39 PM (Rbu5d)

Unlike the scribes that fomented the French and other revolutions, nobody reads what these idiots write, when they can be bothered to do so.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (eoQWY)

65 How will the university of Oklahoma then support its football program?
Posted by: Blutarski

Door to door candy bar sales. Duh.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (IG4Id)

Hoagies.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 23, 2024 06:44 PM (WVAwc)

66 I've been working on an alternate history of the world without WWI.

First big realization is that nearly everything you can think of would probably be changed, so you can make things as similar or as different as you want.
Posted by: Dr. T

Europe would not have wasted their best and brightest.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2024 06:44 PM (Kyvfn)

67 "How will the university of Oklahoma then support its football program?"

Cheerleader car wash.

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2024 06:45 PM (SYTee)

68 I hope every blue democrat shithole ends up looking like Los Angeles when Col. Neville was wandering around the empty city picking up a new car, smelling wimmen's panties, killing zombies and chasing down that black chick to be his booty call.

My God! It's almost dark! They'll be waking up soon!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 23, 2024 06:45 PM (R/m4+)

69 52 The covids lockdowns are killing blue state real-estate markets.Whodathunkit. Consequences, motherfuckers. Live it
Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2024 06:41 PM (S4B9L)

It is nothing compared to education.

They are not catching up. In other words, the second graders that should be ready for 5th grade are not. The eighth graders that should be seniors and ready for graduation and SAT/ACT are not there.
And what if the effort to help these kids hurts the next group trying to get a education at their level.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2024 06:45 PM (lwOKI)

70 Steve Earle is a socialist with a Central Park view. Fuck that guy.

Posted by: huerfano at January 23, 2024 06:46 PM (Q4KYm)

71 9
She's the stupider and uglier version of Fran Dresher.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 23, 2024 06:27 PM (xcxpd)
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Can that level actually be achieved ?

Posted by: Ciampino - Space has lots of void like between Lefty ears at January 23, 2024 06:46 PM (qfLjt)

72 Watching leftist behavior I have to believe that if Trump wins in November, the meltdown will make election 2016 look tame. And I do like the thought

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2024 06:47 PM (wJraq)

73 "Mindy Noce- Scott's fiancée sure doesn't look unattractive to me, but I'm not a guy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

She looks like she's about the same age as he is.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 23, 2024 06:47 PM (ou9hh)

74 I would love to take on that design challenge, no joke.

But it would be a challenge.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (ou9hh)

Just abandon the buildings, and let the hobos turn them into squats. Eventually, they will fall down.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2024 06:47 PM (tkR6S)

75 The left has rabies of the brain. It can’t be cured.

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2024 06:47 PM (Nq2KV)

76
"A lot of commercial real estate will be converted to residential. An office building can easily become a condo.
Posted by: Liberals "

I would love to take on that design challenge, no joke.

But it would be a challenge.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

It wouldn't be as easy as you think. Commercial real estate restrooms aren't set up. As widespread as condos would need. Along with kitchens. Plumbing would be a royal bitch.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2024 06:48 PM (Kyvfn)

77 The left is becoming a group of over educated crazy cat ladies, completely divorced from reality and living in their fantasies.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2024 06:48 PM (ZLI7S)

78 Old Blighty knows about the squat thing.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2024 06:48 PM (S4B9L)

79 Moar Brawndo!

Posted by: Democrat Suburban Wine Moms at January 23, 2024 06:49 PM (sZYxc)

80
Investor Brian Wang

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Hey, no offense, huh?

Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield at January 23, 2024 06:49 PM (qsezt)

81 33...Although my favorite pet theory is not doing WWI. I think so many of the old ways were repudiated and or the proponents killed, that it left a lot of assholes to run off into the warm embrace of socialism.

It's a hard one to figure because it would change things on such a level as you would have no idea what would happen.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 06:37 PM (di6C2)

Agreed.
WWI was the mortal injury of the West. The creme de la creme of the European men went to the front and were slaughtered. The best, the brightest. The coup de grace was WWII.

Since then it's just been the death throes. Now we're in the death rattle phase.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at January 23, 2024 06:49 PM (Rbu5d)

82 I have seen very many a commercial real estate building, offices, even landmarks turned into very popular condos.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:50 PM (V13WU)

83 Tim Scott announces his engagement. His fiancee is white. Maybe that's why this was such a secret for so long. I dunno, I assumed he was gay.

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I also assumed he was gay. She's a looker. I hope it works out well.

Now, if Miss Lindsey announces his engagement to her sister or mother, I'll start to get suspicious ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 23, 2024 06:50 PM (/z9fK)

84

Like anyone wants to overpay to live in a crime infested warren and commute to the burbs.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:42 PM (eoQWY)

Lots of people do want to live in cities. And nobody’s commuting anymore. That’s kind of the point.

Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:51 PM (U42yt)

85 Although my favorite pet theory is not doing WWI. I think so many of the old ways were repudiated and or the proponents killed, that it left a lot of assholes to run off into the warm embrace of socialism.

It's a hard one to figure because it would change things on such a level as you would have no idea what would happen.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 06:37 PM (di6C2)

I've been working on an alternate history of the world without WWI.

First big realization is that nearly everything you can think of would probably be changed, so you can make things as similar or as different as you want.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (g0Y4p)

There was an alt history series by Keith Laumer that was one of those worlds. There was some sort of joint crown of Sweden, Germany and England and it was very Victorian culturally despite having machines to explore alt timelines. Worlds of the Imperium. I don't think he gave a lot of details about it. He just had his main character meet Goering and Richtofen

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:51 PM (eoQWY)

86 "'The True Believer', by Eric Hoffer" Free on archive.org.
http://tinyurl.com/4xh5utzs

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 23, 2024 06:51 PM (MvF+J)

87 Also have seen landmark office building turned into landmark hotels.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:52 PM (V13WU)

88 I read the sidebar article about the proposed remake of A Christmas Carol. Sounds ghastly.

The woke crowd is planning on doing the same thing with The Wizard of Oz and It's A Wonderful Life.

http://tinyurl.com/ykyzemec

Why don't these artistes just write new stuff with new characters and plot lines? It's obscene the way they keep raiding the classics for parts.

Posted by: Paco at January 23, 2024 06:52 PM (njExo)

89 She's the stupider and uglier version of Fran Dresher.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 23, 2024 06:27 PM (xcxpd)
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Can that level actually be achieved ?
Posted by: Ciampino - Space has lots of void like between Lefty ears at January 23, 2024 06:46 PM (qfLjt)

She clears that hurdle with space to spare

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 23, 2024 06:52 PM (xcxpd)

90 An the kids fuck anything or anybody now.

28% of 15 to 25 are LBGTQRIAA!@#.

How will people that define their life based on some undefined (and undefinable) level of gender (ness) ever build a pair bond that gives them a chance at a stable family/social life?

You think 3 generation of fatherless blacks is bad.
Just sit back and watch a generation or 2 of white people that have ZERO idea of how to build a family.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2024 06:52 PM (lwOKI)

91 I have seen very many a commercial real estate building, offices, even landmarks turned into very popular condos.
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:50 PM (V13WU)

But there would a hell of a lot of hoops to jump through to make it meet code, and zoning regs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2024 06:52 PM (tkR6S)

92 Thinking on the Lake tape....

Why now?
I think it's to clear out certain party leaders, not just him.

Also, this confirms that AZ GOPe almost certainly gave Lake and Trump's internal polling and campaign strategy to the Democrats.

They were trying to buy her off because she got wise and had stopped sending them anything.....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (C2U4G)

93 66 I've been working on an alternate history of the world without WWI.
Posted by: Dr. T

Europe would not have wasted their best and brightest.
Posted by: rickb223

Sure, figuring out parabolic trajectories is trivial. What do you mean, I have to physically be there?

Posted by: French mathematicians at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (DsA2n)

94 I do commercial trim. We very often start the lower floors before the top is even framed let alone sheetrocked. Residential space is vastly different than open floor commercial.
First, throw everything into the garbage. Then, you rebuild the skeleton for residential. Two years for something midsize like. 30 floors.

Posted by: Jamaica at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (Eeb9P)

95 "A lot of commercial real estate will be converted to residential. An office building can easily become a condo.
Posted by: Liberals "

I would love to take on that design challenge, no joke.

But it would be a challenge.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

It wouldn't be as easy as you think. Commercial real estate restrooms aren't set up. As widespread as condos would need. Along with kitchens. Plumbing would be a royal bitch.
Posted by: rickb223

Advertise the lack of bathrooms and kitchens as Venuzalean Ready units.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (c2MGA)

96 "Plumbing would be a royal bitch."

I'm thinking the easiest fix for that is raised floors on each storey. Put your plumbing in the plenum, and take it down at a couple-three of central stacks.

Otherwise you've got to go through the floor and letting the downstairs neighbor have access to upstairs' plumbing (Or plumbing leaks!) via the drop ceiling is... suboptimal.

Of course that's based on each floor being a concrete slab...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (ou9hh)

97 72 Watching leftist behavior I have to believe that if Trump wins in November, the meltdown will make election 2016 look tame. And I do like the thought
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2024 06:47 PM (wJraq)

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I would expect assassination attempts.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (cMXNt)

98 Why don't these artistes just write new stuff with new characters and plot lines? It's obscene the way they keep raiding the classics for parts.
Posted by: Paco at January 23, 2024 06:52 PM (njExo)
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The destruction is the point.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (9XOwt)

99 Why don't these artistes just write new stuff with new characters and plot lines? It's obscene the way they keep raiding the classics for parts.
Posted by: Paco

There is an element missing. It is called creativity

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (BPHld)

100 I also ate a restaurant in Alexandria that in the 1800s used to be a house of ill repute !

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (V13WU)

101 >>Commercial real estate is imploding as workers desert the unsafe, barbaric shithole cities.

I started working from home in September of 2019, so I was actually ahead of the curve on this front.

Working from home has some pluses and minuses but what I didn't foresee was HR departments would actually become bigger and not smaller with all of these people working from home.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (XV/Pl)

102 >>It wouldn't be as easy as you think. Commercial real estate restrooms aren't set up. As widespread as condos would need. Along with kitchens. Plumbing would be a royal bitch.

I own a building in Newark NJ.
If you want to run a pipe from the sub-basement to the 3rd floor, it will cost you over 25k just for the holes in the floors. The building is 7 Stories.

Making it into residential space would be almost as impossible as demolishing it.

And I have looked into demolishing it. It can't be done. Not without taking out a large portion of the aqueduct that feeds the city its water.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2024 06:54 PM (mdhFC)

103
91 I have seen very many a commercial real estate building, offices, even landmarks turned into very popular condos.
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:50 PM (V13WU)

But there would a hell of a lot of hoops to jump through to make it meet code, and zoning regs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2024 06:52 PM (tkR6S)

Everyone’s talking about lack of housing. Well voila you just have thousands of potential housing units right there ready to be created. Seems like a good solution to high cost of living cities.

Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:54 PM (U42yt)

104 http://tinyurl.com/2mvnvmew
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Looks like a good one

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2024 06:54 PM (dK+81)

105 How will the university of Oklahoma then support its football program?
Posted by: Blutarski

Easy - AI football players.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2024 06:54 PM (YhzyV)

106 Tim Scott's sexuality, you say? Well, let me tell you a story...

Posted by: Will Folks at January 23, 2024 06:54 PM (zH1pp)

107 But there would a hell of a lot of hoops to jump through to make it meet code, and zoning regs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2024 06:52 PM (tkR6S)

The city fathers (and mothers) are incentivized to move things along.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:54 PM (V13WU)

108 It wouldn't be as easy as you think. Commercial real estate restrooms aren't set up. As widespread as condos would need. Along with kitchens. Plumbing would be a royal bitch.
Posted by: rickb223

I work in real property litigation. You ain't kidding.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 23, 2024 06:55 PM (KAi1n)

109 I have seen very many a commercial real estate building, offices, even landmarks turned into very popular condos.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:50 PM (V13WU)

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Wifey and I were just walking through the local zombie apocalypse mall last weekend (although the new owners are trying to bring in some interesting businesses) as they have a great gaming store (pool tables, card tables, slot machines, etc.) to look for some pool table supplies -- and wifey remarked: they should turn all this empty space into condos or other living spaces.

There is very little affordable housing here (small, retirement community full of may ex-Californians and ex-Phoenix Valley people who've driven up the prices of limited housing -- and we're land-locked by national forest on three sides.

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 23, 2024 06:55 PM (/z9fK)

110 Why don't these artistes just write new stuff with new characters and plot lines? It's obscene the way they keep raiding the classics for parts.
Posted by: Paco at January 23, 2024 06:52 PM (njExo)

It is destruction. They tear down.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2024 06:55 PM (lwOKI)

111
If all the mind-workers can be replaced by AI, maybe their audience can too. Maybe all the workers and managers and consumers displaced. All robots, all the time. The robots will burn us for fuel.

A tiny human elite will benefit -- or will they?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 23, 2024 06:55 PM (hZ1gu)

112 A lot of commercial real estate will be converted to residential. An office building can easily become a condo.
Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:40 PM (U42yt)

First ya gotta to rezone for residential. Then ya gonna need to bribe the Zoning Board to approve it. The ya gotta get permits to remodel everything to be handicap this, fire safety that and parking. Then ya gotta bribe the building department and fire department to approve what they already approved. Then ya gotta get sanitation paid off to provide dumpsters and recycling and bribe them to pretend they do both. Then ya gotta hope the contractors don't steal half over everything delivered to the property. Then ya gotta...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 23, 2024 06:55 PM (R/m4+)

113 Commercial real estate restrooms aren't set up. As widespread as condos would need. Along with kitchens. Plumbing would be a royal bitch.
Posted by: rickb223

It is where they will house the wetbacks. They are used to one bathroom for 50 people, and don't need showers.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 23, 2024 06:56 PM (BPHld)

114 *ate at a restaurant, I don't eat restaurants , that is not my thing

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:56 PM (V13WU)

115 82 I have seen very many a commercial real estate building, offices, even landmarks turned into very popular condos.
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Speaking of conversions. I was driving with my wife in SoCal Inland Empire... they are building these warehouses, lots of them, along the freeways. Some have a 15 foot wall surrounding them. I told my wife, "kinda look like a prison" .... wouldn't surprise me if they had an alternate use in mind for them... tin foil hat off

Posted by: ET at January 23, 2024 06:56 PM (XfVcE)

116 Why would plumbing be so hard? There are several bathrooms on every floor of an office building already. And usually a kitchen or two for a break room. Doesn’t sound like that much of an effort to turn 3 bathrooms into 5 or 6 for the condos that would be partitioned out of a floor.

Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:56 PM (U42yt)

117 Agreed.
WWI was the mortal injury of the West. The creme de la creme of the European men went to the front and were slaughtered. The best, the brightest. The coup de grace was WWII.

Since then it's just been the death throes. Now we're in the death rattle phase.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at January 23, 2024 06:49 PM (Rbu5d)

Germany, the "most advanced" nation introduces poison gas and losing the war, goes Nazi barbarism. Russia the fastest growing country in 1914 loses and falls to Communism. That's most of Europe gone by 1930.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:56 PM (eoQWY)

118 77 The left is becoming a group of over educated crazy cat ladies, completely divorced from reality and living in their fantasies.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2024 06:48 PM (ZLI7S)

I take issue with the word becoming, I believe that ship has sailed.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 23, 2024 06:57 PM (Br8mK)

119 There aren't any new stories to write. They've all been written.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 23, 2024 06:57 PM (MvF+J)

120 It is where they will house the wetbacks. They are used to one bathroom for 50 people, and don't need showers.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Those won't be paying customers.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2024 06:57 PM (Kyvfn)

121 @96

>>Of course that's based on each floor being a concrete slab...

The plumbing and water services coming into the building are where the main problem is going to lie.

The amount of work to convert office building to residential units is going to be orders of magnitude more expensive the California High Speed Rail.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2024 06:57 PM (XV/Pl)

122 The problem with turning anything from commercial real estate to residential is that the activists will be all over you screaming about the need for affordable housing. The renovation/conversion costs are high and that's why the rents are high. The government of cities being pushed by the activists force affordable apts into the bldg as a cost of approval. A lot of conversions then don't occur

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2024 06:57 PM (wJraq)

123 Why don't these artistes just write new stuff with new characters and plot lines? It's obscene the way they keep raiding the classics for parts.
Posted by: Paco at January 23, 2024 06:52 PM (njExo)

It is destruction. They tear down.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2024 06:55 PM (lwOKI)

They don't even steal well. Their religion requires them to preach no matter what the customer wants. So they lose money.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:59 PM (eoQWY)

124 Whoa. Is this something?

Naomi Rapace in "Constellation", an Apple TV series premiering in February, about an astronaut who returns to Erf and things are just a little . . . Off:

http://tinyurl.com/N-Rapace-Constellation

I love this trailer. Creepy, unsettling, and moody.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 23, 2024 06:59 PM (Os80Q)

125 Everyone’s talking about lack of housing. Well voila you just have thousands of potential housing units right there ready to be created. Seems like a good solution to high cost of living cities.
Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:54 PM (U42yt)

But if it's you or I own the building, the Donk City council will put roadblocks in our way until we give up, turn the building over to the bank that holds the paper, who then sells it to a connected Donk.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2024 06:59 PM (tkR6S)

126
Unlike blue-collar workers, who got little sympathy, these laid off white-collar workers will have more clout.

I doubt it. More than likely they'll have less clout because they'll be so shocked that someone dared to give them the boot.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2024 06:59 PM (xG4kz)

127 Office buildings converted to federal run tenements.

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2024 06:59 PM (SYTee)

128 I've seen warehouses turned into very popular condo-lofts. Pretty cool. Lots of space and air. They even added balconies to those things.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 06:59 PM (V13WU)

129 So the economy is going to sh#t. All I can say is welcome o Bidenomics.

Posted by: vic at January 23, 2024 06:59 PM (A5THL)

130 It does make those "factory/warehouse to Condo" conversion make more sense. You've got a pretty shell that you can build anything on the inside of.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 23, 2024 07:00 PM (ou9hh)

131 >>> Scary. If he's elected he might start throwing candidates off ballots, pressure tech companies to censor the opposition, and ignore the Supreme Court.

Biden Junta?

Didn't even have to vote all to get that.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 23, 2024 07:00 PM (cOq4q)

132 60 How will the university of Oklahoma then support its football program?
Posted by: Blutarski

Door to door candy bar sales. Duh.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (IG4Id)
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Is that like nose candy?

Posted by: Ciampino - The city has lots of Space at January 23, 2024 07:00 PM (qfLjt)

133 And I have looked into demolishing it. It can't be done. Not without taking out a large portion of the aqueduct that feeds the city its water.

garrett owns a very large weapon.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 23, 2024 07:00 PM (dZVON)

134 is where they will house the wetbacks. They are used to one bathroom for 50 people, and don't need showers.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Those won't be paying customers.
Posted by: rickb223

You and I will be paying it via taxation

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 23, 2024 07:00 PM (BPHld)

135 alas, it will all end up as housing for illegals

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:01 PM (V13WU)

136 More from Chad Felix Greene at Twitchy.

Is Chad his first name, or his title, because I understand that Chad has become a title.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 23, 2024 07:02 PM (a3Q+t)

137 "I also ate a restaurant in Alexandria that in the 1800s used to be a house of ill repute !"

Club Paris in Anchorage used to be a funeral home.
Best, uh....steaks in town.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at January 23, 2024 07:02 PM (VMFAF)

138 If you abandon the cities and find the real estate for apartments then you come in a build a new Federal City.

A city built by the fed in a Red State that is ran as a blue city. It is just a bunch of apartment and small houses built without city codes as it is in a county.

Next the Feds bring in the services and turn the city over to the people that all vote all D and the D time.

There are 30 million illegals that would take this deal in a heart beat.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2024 07:02 PM (lwOKI)

139 The amount of work to convert office building to residential units is going to be orders of magnitude more expensive the California High Speed Rail.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

With similar levels of bribery involved. Win-win.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 23, 2024 07:03 PM (BPHld)

140 Naomi Rapace in "Constellation", an Apple TV series premiering in February, about an astronaut who returns to Erf and things are just a little . . . Off:

http://tinyurl.com/N-Rapace-Constellation

I love this trailer. Creepy, unsettling, and moody.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 23, 2024 06:59 PM (Os80Q)

If its good, it will catch the eye of the bosses and drones in the administration of the studio, which will get involved and make it not good after that. So you might get 1 or 2 good seasons at best.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:03 PM (eoQWY)

141 the downfall of humanity and the looming crash of the commercial real estate market was brought about by The Big Bat

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:03 PM (V13WU)

142 A porta-potty in every hovel !!!

Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2024 07:03 PM (S4B9L)

143 I was informed by ABC News today the election is about "reproductive rights". AKA "abortion", which is now up the voters of each state. Like in NY where you have a "no excuses" health code section that says you can kill your baby up until 6 months. With the right excuse, right up until birth.

Maybe, just maybe, Republicans should learn to ask Democrats what a reasonable time to kill your baby is.

Posted by: Thor's Pimp Hand at January 23, 2024 07:03 PM (k2GA0)

144 city built by the fed in a Red State that is ran as a blue city. It is just a bunch of apartment and small houses built without city codes as it is in a county.

Next the Feds bring in the services and turn the city over to the people that all vote all D and the D time.

There are 30 million illegals that would take this deal in a heart beat.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I see you have studied the WEF 15 minute city plan.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 23, 2024 07:04 PM (BPHld)

145 "I also ate a restaurant in Alexandria that in the 1800s used to be a house of ill repute !"

Club Paris in Anchorage used to be a funeral home.
Best, uh....steaks in town.
Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at January 23, 2024 07:02 PM (VMFAF)

There was a pizza restaurant that was built in an old bank. Some of the seating was in the vault. "First Federal Frank and Crust"

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:04 PM (eoQWY)

146 As a chatGPT user, I tell people that you have to treat it as you would someone who is a very good and convincing bullshitter.

Posted by: profligatewate at January 23, 2024 07:05 PM (g5hrm)

147 If workers won't go to the cities to work why would anyone thing people will go there to live?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2024 07:06 PM (ZLI7S)

148 I would never eat in a restaurant that used to be a funeral home !!

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:06 PM (V13WU)

149
His fiancee is white. Maybe that's why this was such a secret for so long. I dunno, I assumed he was gay.

Maybe she is too?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2024 07:06 PM (63Dwl)

150 >>>Tim Scott announces his engagement. His fiancee is white. Maybe that's why this was such a secret for so long. I dunno, I assumed he was gay.

*cough* beard *cough*

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 23, 2024 07:06 PM (klJTj)

151 WTAF ?!

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:07 PM (V13WU)

152 I was informed by ABC News today the election is about "reproductive rights"

Boy, the Dems really are scared.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2024 07:07 PM (YhzyV)

153 There was a pizza restaurant that was built in an old bank. Some of the seating was in the vault. "First Federal Frank and Crust"
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:04 PM (eoQWY)

I took a picture last year of an ex pizza hut in Navasota, Texas, that is now a Funeral Home.

2 free pizzas with every burial. With 4 toppings!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2024 07:07 PM (i9ffA)

154 A pretty lady sings a beautiful song:

http://tinyurl.com/4th893ud

I wonder what the guys in the back are thinking. "Here that lady is singing with the voice of an angel and I am back here going ooooooohooooOOO."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 07:08 PM (di6C2)

155 147 If workers won't go to the cities to work why would anyone thing people will go there to live?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2024 07:06 PM (ZLI7S)

Because some people want to live in cities even if they work from home.

Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 07:08 PM (U42yt)

156 @143

>>Maybe, just maybe, Republicans should learn to ask Democrats what a reasonable time to kill your baby is.

I say bring the fight on, if the country is going to be lost because murdering babies trumps all other considerations, it's best to get it over with and let the chips fall where they may so that we can get to end-end stage America.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2024 07:09 PM (XV/Pl)

157 Toilets and tubs sit right on the concrete slab. All the soffits and bump outs are chases. Everything is mapped out to avoid the structural elements. The power hook up is way lower than residential.
They will convert the buildings because they said so.

Posted by: Jamaica at January 23, 2024 07:09 PM (Eeb9P)

158 She's very... tan. I'm just saying that 'white' might be a misnomer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 07:09 PM (di6C2)

159 I would never eat in a restaurant that used to be a funeral home !!
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:06 PM

Do not order the salmon mousse.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2024 07:09 PM (Wnv9h)

160 There is an old bank here that was converted into Apts. It was only 3 floors.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2024 07:09 PM (S4B9L)

161 was informed by ABC News today the election is about "reproductive rights"

==

since SCOTUS sent it back to the states, it has been a successful strategy for them. we will be seeing A LOT of this

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:09 PM (V13WU)

162 If workers won't go to the cities to work why would anyone think people will go there to live?
Posted by: JackStraw

Section 8 housing isn't for people who work.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 23, 2024 07:09 PM (BPHld)

163 152 I was informed by ABC News today the election is about "reproductive rights"

Boy, the Dems really are scared.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 23, 2024 07:07 PM (YhzyV)

Of what? Winning? lol.
In case you missed it running non stop on abortion was very successful for them in 2023 and 2022.

Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 07:09 PM (U42yt)

164 I've seen warehouses turned into very popular condo-lofts. Pretty cool. Lots of space and air. They even added balconies to those things.
Posted by: runner

I would think warehouses are much easier than office buildings. As someone said above, it's a shell.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 23, 2024 07:10 PM (JkCto)

165 Can't the DEI crowd fill up the pricy buildings with dreamers?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2024 07:10 PM (5xURv)

166 The woman reporter interviewing the anti-Israel protesters didn't need to put a postscript on her video telling us what idiots they are.

She should've just let their assininity speak for itself.

I'm not easily surprised by ignorance among leftwing protesters, but... this time I was. That was awesome!

"I really don't know what the sign means. I got it from somebody else." OKaaay!

Posted by: mnw at January 23, 2024 07:10 PM (NLIak)

167 These non-performing loans may well drive the next round of bank collapses and a stock market crash if these non-performing loans have been chopped up and sold off as "securities." We could have another crash far greater than the 2008 crash.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at January 23, 2024 07:10 PM (b5mAA)

168 95
Advertise the lack of bathrooms and kitchens as Venuzalean Ready units.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (c2MGA)
----
A case of Old Europe: pisspots under the bed and waste ditches at the curb. Lean out of the 17th floor window and just pour.

Posted by: Ciampino - The city has lots of waste at January 23, 2024 07:10 PM (qfLjt)

169 ' I dunno, I assumed he was gay.'

Nonsense. Scott's no more gay than I am.

Posted by: Sen. Cory Booker at January 23, 2024 07:10 PM (roH4R)

170 Because some people want to live in cities even if they work from home.
Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 07:08 PM (U42yt)
~~~~~

The only thing I miss is the ability to get a chocolate egg cream at 3:00am if I wanted one.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 23, 2024 07:11 PM (OqZFJ)

171
Naomi Rapace in "Constellation"

It's Noomi, I believe. She is Swedish.

The horror is that her "replacement" daughter is Greta Thunberg.

The horror! The horror!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2024 07:11 PM (xG4kz)

172 2 free pizzas with every burial. With 4 toppings!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2024 07:07 PM (i9ffA)

Judges would have accepted ovens. Ovens.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2024 07:11 PM (lwOKI)

173 There was a pizza restaurant that was built in an old bank. Some of the seating was in the vault. "First Federal Frank and Crust"
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:04 PM (eoQWY)

I took a picture last year of an ex pizza hut in Navasota, Texas, that is now a Funeral Home.

2 free pizzas with every burial. With 4 toppings!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2024 07:07 PM (i9ffA)

Someone is auctioning off two menus from the place, guess it was from my college days:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ first-federal-frank-crust-co-menu-1910966517

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (eoQWY)

174 These non-performing loans may well drive the next round of bank collapses and a stock market crash if these non-performing loans have been chopped up and sold off as "securities." We could have another crash far greater than the 2008 crash.
Posted by: WarEagle82

Sooner than you might think.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (BPHld)

175 >>These non-performing loans may well drive the next round of bank collapses and a stock market crash if these non-performing loans have been chopped up and sold off as "securities." We could have another crash far greater than the 2008 crash.

This bubble is going to take a lot out when it finally bursts.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (mdhFC)

176 >>Section 8 housing isn't for people who work.

$650 million high rises aren't for Section 8 housing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (ZLI7S)

177 Germany, the "most advanced" nation introduces poison gas and losing the war, goes Nazi barbarism. Russia the fastest growing country in 1914 loses and falls to Communism. That's most of Europe gone by 1930.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 06:56 PM (eoQWY)

Western Civilization reached a glorious peak at the turn of the 20th century, and promptly committed suicide. And although they did it in a way that they could pretend was Victory, England lost WW2 almost as badly as Germany did. Where is the British Empire now?

lAnd we all shudder to even mention France, Italy, and Spain.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (i9ffA)

178 You realize the Democrats are going to race-bait the shit out of Tim Scott now that the couple has announced their engagement and she is white.
Butty-gag will be so shocked he'll blow up another train...

Posted by: richard mcenroe at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (8fxF+)

179 @170

>>The only thing I miss is the ability to get a chocolate egg cream at 3:00am if I wanted one.

And a Knish.

F**k, I haven't had a proper Knish since I left Queens 15 years ago.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2024 07:13 PM (XV/Pl)

180 >>> “The collapse has been pronounced in the biggest cities with DC facing a 21.1 percent vacancy rate and San Francisco's 34 percent.”

Another look at 5-minute cities,
with walls,
and exit visas?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 23, 2024 07:13 PM (cOq4q)

181 Nikki Haley is gonna get reamed in NH

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2024 07:13 PM (5xURv)

182 An old Howard Johnson Inn and Restaurant in my AO was converted into rental condos by some Frenchmen.

Basically a small motel rooms which they had to get the stank of 50 years of blood, sex and tears of stupid tourists out of.

Took them about 4 years and lots of in and outs with the local Statsi and now they are stuck with a property full of half assed divorcees, cat ladies and the occasional mental patient in between stays at the County motel six.

Ain't worth it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 23, 2024 07:13 PM (R/m4+)

183 Polls have started closing in New Hampshire.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (CecP5)

184 179 @170

>>The only thing I miss is the ability to get a chocolate egg cream at 3:00am if I wanted one.

And a Knish.

F**k, I haven't had a proper Knish since I left Queens 15 years ago.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2024 07:13 PM (XV/Pl

And hookers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (5xURv)

185 I've seen warehouses turned into very popular condo-lofts. Pretty cool. Lots of space and air. They even added balconies to those things.
Posted by: runner

I would think warehouses are much easier than office buildings. As someone said above, it's a shell.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 23, 2024 07:10 PM (JkCto)

Sure you can raze the shell and start putting in real residential buildings.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

186 >>And a Knish.

>F**k, I haven't had a proper Knish since I left Queens 15 years ago.

My Mom is a sweet lady.

And, I would slap her for a Knish.

Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (mdhFC)

187 Quick Google search shows lots of office to residential conversion going on. DC was the #1 city in 2023 with 5800 units converted from previous commercial office space.

Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (U42yt)

188 The BHF analysis also revealed heart disease killed 80 out of every 100,000 people in England in 2022 – the highest rate “in living memory.”

Heart fatalities in the under-75s have risen for three consecutive years.

FAFO

Posted by: rhennigantx

Israel's premature death rate seems to have gone up somewhat...

FAFO.

Posted by: Chartist at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (Py4ZY)

189 Noomi Rapace, the original Lisbeth Salander

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (V13WU)

190
The woman reporter interviewing the anti-Israel protesters didn't need to put a postscript on her video telling us what idiots they are

The smug, but galacticly stupid dude in eyeglasses cries out for a throat punch. Many of them, in fact.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (xG4kz)

191 F**k, I haven't had a proper Knish since I left Queens 15 years ago.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2024 07:13 PM (XV/Pl

And hookers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (5xURv)

Probably can't get them now in Queens.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

192 "His fiancee is white."

Not seeing the neck in the photos...

Adam's apple or not?

Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (a5WUp)

193 I've been working on an alternate history of the world without WWI.

First big realization is that nearly everything you can think of would probably be changed, so you can make things as similar or as different as you want.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 23, 2024 06:43 PM (g0Y4p)

did you go to the idea of the German state collapsing into a confederacy of principates linked loosely from the Kiel canal to the black sea in Crimea? In short creating a disfunctional Mittel Europa because no one cared enough to say no?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2024 07:15 PM (D7oie)

194 @181

>>Nikki Haley is gonna get reamed in NH

Chicken Tikka Masala is going to get Tandoried in New Hampshire tonight.

And if she doesn't drop out, she's gonna get the Palak Paneer in South Carolina.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2024 07:15 PM (XV/Pl)

195 There's a lot more to commercial real estate than office buildings in the middle of big blue cities, btw.

Posted by: mnw at January 23, 2024 07:15 PM (NLIak)

196 There a really nice boutique hotel in Boston called the Liberty Hotel. It was original the Charles Street Jail. Irony.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2024 07:15 PM (ZLI7S)

197 Noomi from ... Prometheus!

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 23, 2024 07:15 PM (MvF+J)

198 $650 million high rises aren't for Section 8 housing.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (ZLI7S)
~~~~~

Not now they're not. Never say never!

Posted by: Roosevelt Hotel, Midtown Manhattan at January 23, 2024 07:15 PM (OqZFJ)

199 Quick Google search shows lots of office to residential conversion going on. DC was the #1 city in 2023 with 5800 units converted from previous commercial office space.
Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 07:14 PM (U42yt)

Yeah and I remember the explosive growth before that of commercial buildings that never filled up and are mostly vacant now.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:16 PM (eoQWY)

200 $650 million high rises aren't for Section 8 housing.
Posted by: JackStraw

Come on, you taxpayers have plenty of money.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 23, 2024 07:16 PM (BPHld)

201 How will the university of Oklahoma then support its football program?
Posted by: Blutarski
---
Oklahoma football makes around $80 million a year for the University of Oklahoma.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 23, 2024 07:16 PM (woPEM)

202 Why are they called Hookers?

Did they used to work near fishing ports?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2024 07:16 PM (5xURv)

203 All those empty city buildings...all those illegals looking for a roof over their heads.

Suck it cities.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2024 07:16 PM (W/lyH)

204 AlaBAMA, I hope she gets reamed so bad her hemroids .will have hemroids

Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2024 07:16 PM (S4B9L)

205
Polls have started closing in New Hampshire.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president

Closing because of the tsunami of Nikki!

Right?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2024 07:16 PM (xG4kz)

206 This bubble is going to take a lot out when it finally bursts.
Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (mdhFC)

They will not be allowed to fail, they will be given suddenly created funds from the Fed Res Bank.

As was done in 2008.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 23, 2024 07:16 PM (xaFKb)

207 she was great BTW; Rapace was also in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:17 PM (V13WU)

208 204 AlaBAMA, I hope she gets reamed so bad her hemroids .will have hemroids

Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2024 07:16 PM (S4B9L

Thats pretty reamed.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2024 07:17 PM (5xURv)

209
It wouldn't be as easy as you think. Commercial real estate restrooms aren't set up. As widespread as condos would need. Along with kitchens. Plumbing would be a royal bitch.
Posted by: rickb223

Tear it down and start from scratch.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2024 07:17 PM (63Dwl)

210 F**k, I haven't had a proper Knish since I left Queens 15 years ago.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2024 07:13 PM (XV/Pl
~~~~~

Katz's Deli has mail order!

You're welcome.

Posted by: Roosevelt Hotel, Midtown Manhattan at January 23, 2024 07:17 PM (OqZFJ)

211 did you go to the idea of the German state collapsing into a confederacy of principates linked loosely from the Kiel canal to the black sea in Crimea? In short creating a disfunctional Mittel Europa because no one cared enough to say no?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2024 07:15 PM (D7oie)

That's just pre-Prussia real life Germany and Balkans, dominated by France. That's real history not alt.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:19 PM (eoQWY)

212 Trump's NYFC. Civil Trial Verdict comes in next week.

Want to bet the Democrats seize his Manhattan properties and immediately try to sell them into this disastrous real estate market? Thereby proving Trump was a lying liar that overvalued his property?

Yes, they will lose hundreds of millions, if not billions of value. They will absolutely trigger a Manhattan Real Estate Crash that spreads nationwide.

But they will "GET TRUMP!"

Posted by: rd at January 23, 2024 07:19 PM (Kpg4s)

213 the best use of an abandoned KMart I've seen was the installation of an indoor go kart track. The karts could hit 30-40 mph very quickly but it had turns galore that kept things down. Absolutely no alcohol allowed but the fun factor covered that easily.

Posted by: DanMan at January 23, 2024 07:19 PM (8uzBS)

214 What’s the word in NH?

Posted by: Montec at January 23, 2024 07:20 PM (U42yt)

215 "15 Looks like new definition of right-wing has evolved. Anyone expressing thoughts that are against the current NPC programming.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2024 06:31 PM (fs1hN)"

nothing new about it, that was the soviet party line since about 1919

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 23, 2024 07:21 PM (WsTvr)

216 This bubble is going to take a lot out when it finally bursts.
Posted by: garrett at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (mdhFC)

They will not be allowed to fail, they will be given suddenly created funds from the Fed Res Bank.

As was done in 2008.
Posted by: Romeo13

I think that plan was begun with the Fed choke in December. Problem is, inflation is not under control, so. Look out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 23, 2024 07:21 PM (BPHld)

217 Why are they called Hookers?

Did they used to work near fishing ports?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2024 07:16 PM (5xURv)

There is a report that the name came from General Joe Hooker in the Civil War when he was camped near DC and his staff liked to party.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:21 PM (eoQWY)

218 @212

>>Trump's NYFC. Civil Trial Verdict comes in next week.

What verdict?

The verdict was announced before the trial began, I'm not quite sure what you would call what's going on in court right now, but it's not a trial.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2024 07:21 PM (XV/Pl)

219 Changing sock now or I'll forget for a week.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 23, 2024 07:22 PM (OqZFJ)

220 Commercial real estate implosion: Blackstone is desperately

This outfit and its fellow travelors thought it was okay for its folks to work from home.. Pay the fiddler.

They are also the same people that think Biden and crew are okay and need support. Pay the fiddler.

Schadenfrued

Posted by: Sergeant Major at January 23, 2024 07:22 PM (hM+Ep)

221 It wouldn't be as easy as you think. Commercial real estate restrooms aren't set up. As widespread as condos would need. Along with kitchens. Plumbing would be a royal bitch.
Posted by: rickb223T

Plumbing?
Didn't have it before we came here. Don't need it now.

Posted by: Third Worlder now in your country at January 23, 2024 07:22 PM (W/lyH)

222 The destruction is the point.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 23, 2024 06:53 PM (9XOwt

they do reboots and sequels because they have nothing and know it is drek. If they had actual talent and a story they would just take old stories and file the serial numbers off it and put their own spin on it so they can get the full pay for the new idea
Instead they have cant and propaganda they have to sell somehow, so they wrap it in a skinsuit.

they know they are making garbage, but it is getting them paid. They will continue until it doesn't get them paid, and at 3.5% base rate that day is coming fast.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2024 07:22 PM (D7oie)

223 In case you missed it running non stop on abortion was very successful for them in 2023 and 2022.

No, it wasn't. What was very successful was vote counting. They are masters at counting votes, particularly ones that don't exist. The simple truth is that Newsome couldn't have beaten the recall vote in CA without cheating. Election Fraud is all they have going for them. No? Name a national election in your lifetime that the Democrats haven't massively cheated in. The vote in Chicago, Philly, Detroit etc. is always bogus.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 23, 2024 07:22 PM (CecP5)

224 And we all shudder to even mention France, Italy, and Spain.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (i9ffA)

Don't forget the Dutch and Belgians. Before WW2, weapons were tightly controlled in the colonies and the fuzzy wuzzies had none. After, the commies shipped weapons aplenty all over the globe and they are still in use in places like Africa, Indochina and Detroit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 23, 2024 07:23 PM (R/m4+)

225 Donald "Reardon" Trump. Ayn, you magnificent bitch, I read your book.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2024 07:23 PM (S4B9L)

226 Nikkimentum?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 07:23 PM (di6C2)

227 Katz's Deli has mail order!

You're welcome.
Posted by: Roosevelt Hotel, Midtown Manhattan at January 23, 2024 07:17 PM (OqZFJ)

Huh. Never have had a knish. I presume they don't get much better than Katz's?

*considers ordering $100 worth of Katz for free shipping

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 23, 2024 07:24 PM (OX9vb)

228 >>> I also ate a restaurant in Alexandria that in the 1800s used to be a house of ill repute !
Posted by: runner

A bakery?

Posted by: Frank Burns at January 23, 2024 07:24 PM (cOq4q)

229 did you go to the idea of the German state collapsing into a confederacy of principates linked loosely from the Kiel canal to the black sea in Crimea? In short creating a disfunctional Mittel Europa because no one cared enough to say no?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2024 07:15 PM (D7oie)

No, but let's put a pin in that....

Posted by: Dr. T at January 23, 2024 07:24 PM (g0Y4p)

230 Schiff is a punk. A chickenshit, lying little punk.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2024 07:24 PM (W/lyH)

231 Rachel @Maddow describing Trump's dictator-worshiping pitch to voters: "If you pick me, that'll be the end of politics, and you won't have to deal with politics anymore.

That, and the murder of my enemies. That's the best part.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 23, 2024 07:25 PM (aD39U)

232 Everyone’s talking about lack of housing. Well voila you just have thousands of potential housing units right there ready to be created. Seems like a good solution to high cost of living cities.
Posted by: Liberals at January 23, 2024 06:54 PM (U42yt)

You could call it "Peach Trees"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2024 07:25 PM (D7oie)

233 Huh. Never have had a knish. I presume they don't get much better than Katz's?
*considers ordering $100 worth of Katz for free shipping
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 23, 2024 07:24 PM (OX9vb)
~~~~~

If you're really going to order, you must get their pastrami. It's the best. Pricey, but really, really good.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 23, 2024 07:26 PM (OqZFJ)

234 Schiff is the one whose head looks like an olive on a toothpick, right?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 23, 2024 07:26 PM (aD39U)

235 did you go to the idea of the German state collapsing into a confederacy of principates linked loosely from the Kiel canal to the black sea in Crimea? In short creating a disfunctional Mittel Europa because no one cared enough to say no?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2024 07:15 PM (D7oie)

That's just pre-Prussia real life Germany and Balkans, dominated by France. That's real history not alt.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:19 PM (eoQWY)

What might do it is to have Prussia get spanked when Frederick the Great was a bit less great and Prussia gets humbled. Austria, one of the humblers trips and falls when the revolt of Hungary works and leaves them a rump state with no power. Hungary then breaks up into Balkan chunks. Russia never really gets into European troubles because who cares. Probably Crimea and the like are still in a large Russia as those were nailed down even earlier, and you probably need Russia to crush Prussia.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:26 PM (eoQWY)

236 The simple truth is that Newsome couldn't have beaten the recall vote in CA without cheating. Election Fraud is all they have going for them.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 23, 2024 07:22 PM (CecP5)

Yup... they have the signature verification TURNED OFF in Calif... and the sig is on the OUTSIDE of the envelope that holds your vote.

So... what happens with your mail in vote? They open it and stick it in a pile, with all the other no chain of custody or ability to verify, votes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 23, 2024 07:26 PM (xaFKb)

237 230 Schiff is a punk. A chickenshit, lying little punk.
---
I have minions, though. Lots of minions.

Posted by: Adam Schiff at January 23, 2024 07:26 PM (woPEM)

238 The simple truth is that Newsome couldn't have beaten the recall vote in CA without cheating.

You're kidding, right?

I was out there for a few days campaigning for him. *That's* what made the difference!

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren, back from CA where I won the recall for Hairgel at January 23, 2024 07:27 PM (a3Q+t)

239 Rachel @Maddow describing Trump's dictator-worshiping pitch to voters: "If you pick me, that'll be the end of politics, and you won't have to deal with politics anymore.

That, and the murder of my enemies. That's the best part.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 23, 2024 07:25 PM (aD39U)

The way politics are now, this doesn't sound bad to me or a lot of voters.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:27 PM (eoQWY)

240 I haven't seen real pastrami in about 30 years.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 23, 2024 07:28 PM (MvF+J)

241 Naomi Rapace in "Constellation",
___

I never heard her name pronounced , and I've been aware of her since 2009's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Is it "NOO-mee ra-PAYSE" ?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2024 07:28 PM (fs1hN)

242 I also ate a restaurant in Alexandria that in the 1800s used to be a house of ill repute !
Posted by: runner

I've been invited to a party on Friday at Murphy's Irish pub in Old Town Alexandria. Sadly I'm in Washington State.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2024 07:28 PM (W/lyH)

243 Donald "Reardon" Trump. Ayn, you magnificent bitch, I read your book.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2024 07:23 PM (S4B9L)

Reardon did put his last name on everything.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:28 PM (eoQWY)

244 Nicki Hailey pushing seniors' pensions to 75. At that point they might as well just take the whole thing in one lump and stroke out in Vegas, screw the next generation. They won't see it grow up.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at January 23, 2024 07:29 PM (8fxF+)

245 What’s the word in NH?
Posted by: Montec at January 23, 2024 07:20 PM

The bird.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 23, 2024 07:29 PM (Wnv9h)

246 The verdict was announced before the trial began, I'm not quite sure what you would call what's going on in court right now, but it's not a trial.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2024 07:21 PM (XV/Pl)

=====

The verdict is how badly they are going to rape Trump financially.

The $250 million in fines and dam damages Letitia James wanted is suddenly $371 million. Will they seize the government licenses that allow Trump to do business in NY State? Will they seize the "Overvalued" buildings?

Maybe it's technically not a verdict? But what else do you call it?

Posted by: rd at January 23, 2024 07:30 PM (5j6xf)

247 Schiff is a punk. A chickenshit, lying little punk.
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I have minions, though. Lots of minions.
Posted by: Adam Schiff at January 23, 2024 07:26 PM (woPEM)
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Minion or Dominion?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2024 07:30 PM (W/lyH)

248 Commercial real estate implosion: Blackstone is desperately

This outfit and its fellow travelors thought it was okay for its folks to work from home.. Pay the fiddler.

They are also the same people that think Biden and crew are okay and need support. Pay the fiddler.

Schadenfrued
Posted by: Sergeant Major at January 23, 2024 07:22 PM (hM+Ep)

Think they are the ones that also bought up all sorts of residental suburban properties assuming they could make a killing with rentals but prices crashed with the exit of Trump and they have tons and tons of vacant units.

They just so good at this1!

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:31 PM (eoQWY)

249 I've been invited to a party on Friday at Murphy's Irish pub in Old Town Alexandria. Sadly I'm in Washington State.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2024 07:28 PM (W/lyH)

could have sent airplane tickets, what kind of invitations is that ???

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:31 PM (V13WU)

250 Rachel @Maddow describing Trump's dictator-worshiping pitch to voters: "If you pick me, that'll be the end of politics, and you won't have to deal with politics anymore.

Remember the left always accuses you of doing what they plan to do.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 23, 2024 07:32 PM (CecP5)

251 Closing because of the tsunami of Nikki!

Are you saying Darling Nikki is a squirter?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 23, 2024 07:32 PM (dZVON)

252 could have sent airplane tickets, what kind of invitations is that ???
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:31 PM (V13WU)

I know, right!!??
Cheap bastards.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2024 07:32 PM (W/lyH)

253 Nicki Hailey pushing seniors' pensions to 75. At that point they might as well just take the whole thing in one lump and stroke out in Vegas, screw the next generation. They won't see it grow up.
Posted by: richard mcenroe at January 23, 2024 07:29 PM (8fxF+)

From my cold, dead, liver spots besotted hands...

Posted by: Earl Hardaway, President Grey Panther Party at January 23, 2024 07:32 PM (R/m4+)

254 241 The 'oo' is silent.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 23, 2024 07:33 PM (MvF+J)

255 You know what often gets converted to condos or lofts?
Abandoned churches.
I know one is now a bar and restaurant.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 23, 2024 07:33 PM (MeG8a)

256 I've been invited to a party on Friday at Murphy's Irish pub in Old Town Alexandria. Sadly I'm in Washington State.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2024 07:28 PM (W/lyH)

could have sent airplane tickets, what kind of invitations is that ???
Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:31 PM (V13WU)

Reserve the table, don't show up.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:33 PM (eoQWY)

257 You know what often gets converted to condos or lofts?
Abandoned churches.
I know one is now a bar and restaurant.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 23, 2024 07:33 PM (MeG8a)

Well they are used to serving bread and wine.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:34 PM (eoQWY)

258 nood

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 23, 2024 07:34 PM (MvF+J)

259 So NYC turns into a dystopia Disneyland. That’s what I call entertainment.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 23, 2024 07:35 PM (/UtnQ)

260 http://tinyurl.com/4th893ud

I wonder what the guys in the back are thinking. "Here that lady is singing with the voice of an angel and I am back here going ooooooohooooOOO."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2024 07:08 PM (di6C2)

Thank you for that - the Faure Requiem ranks up there with the best ever done.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2024 07:35 PM (i9ffA)

261 Reserve the table, don't show up.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:33 PM (eoQWY)

oh, you are one of those are you. bet you leave the table when out with your mates to " go make a phone call" (or to the john) and never come back !!

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:35 PM (V13WU)

262
They will not be allowed to fail, they will be given suddenly created funds from the Fed Res Bank.

They can spend it into existence.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2024 07:36 PM (63Dwl)

263 You know what often gets converted to condos or lofts?
Abandoned churches.
I know one is now a bar and restaurant.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 23, 2024 07:33 PM (MeG8a)

I've been to one !

Posted by: runner at January 23, 2024 07:37 PM (V13WU)

264 Maybe it's technically not a verdict? But what else do you call it?

Armed Robbery?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 23, 2024 07:38 PM (CecP5)

265 @225, LOL, BenHad! *fistbump* !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 23, 2024 07:39 PM (WsTvr)

266 Fani Willis Hired Firm To Monitor Her Media ‘Coverage Value’ Just Days Before Announcing Trump Probe

Daily caller http://tinyurl.com/5657c33v

Posted by: Ann at January 23, 2024 07:40 PM (4neFu)

267 And we all shudder to even mention France, Italy, and Spain.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2024 07:12 PM (i9ffA)

Spain sat it out having lost its shirt in the SpanAm war and collapsed politically and socially after that defeat.
All the European countries were looking down the barrel of their own socialist programs and money manipulations.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2024 07:40 PM (D7oie)

268 starlink is a fag and it's shit is all retarded

Posted by: steven at January 23, 2024 07:48 PM (SwBkm)

269 92 Thinking on the Lake tape....

Why now?
I think it's to clear out certain party leaders, not just him.
Also, this confirms that AZ GOPe almost certainly gave Lake and Trump's internal polling and campaign strategy to the Democrats.

...paging Blago

Posted by: Ex GOP at January 23, 2024 07:49 PM (qS8WV)

270 Probably Crimea and the like are still in a large Russia as those were nailed down even earlier, and you probably need Russia to crush Prussia.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 23, 2024 07:26 PM (eoQWY)

I can see Sweden and Russia getting into it over the Baltic states and partitioning Poland. And France coming in on the side of Sweden and the House of Bernadotte.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2024 07:53 PM (D7oie)

271 Yes, and it all started with Obama
Baloney. At the latest, it started with George Bush. He's the one that said something like "We're not at war with Islam, just with terrorism." Which is stupid, and obviates Islam's responsibility for the vast majority of terrorism.

Posted by: GWB at January 23, 2024 09:46 PM (32nmx)

272 BenHad!
Lovely to see you here in the evening!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 23, 2024 11:05 PM (eBWRN)

273 Well, im hungry...just don't feel like making anything....what's a girl to do?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 23, 2024 11:07 PM (eBWRN)

274 I guess I'll take a nap. Good night all....
Love youz...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 23, 2024 11:09 PM (eBWRN)

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