President Joe Biden - Kamala Harris Administration

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Orangeburst said:
just who rents all these AirBNBs? There are only so many town visitors
Are the investment firms just sitting on them expecting higher prices? that is scary.
I do get you can make more than a mortgage value with renting as long as they are occupied.
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Where I live now people that I know that make those kinds of investments are happy with them if they are booked 20 days out of the month. The problem that they're facing now is that everything is going up in cost, making them come in in most cases around the price of a hotel- with none of the perks and service.

The ones in Southwest Virginia that keep getting eaten up are usually out of town (Richmond, NOVA, etc.) real estate investment firms that rent them all out, jacking up the prices. For example, the townhouse my wife lived in while we were dating was around $600/month for a 2 bedroom from 2014-2017. Rent in that same complex now is over $1,600- the majority have been bought by non-locals who can sit on certain percentages of vacancies because their money is spread out all over the state/region. The issue I really take is that they don't do any of the maintenance on them anymore that the old local owners used to do. EDIT: I forgot to note that asking prices for those to buy was right around $95K-$100K; those same real estate investment firms are usually making $185K cash offers on $150K asking prices for units in the complex.

To me, this is an example of somewhere where some market restrictions make sense. I'm not sure what. But we've essentially allowed these big companies to run rampant over the country, and we've basically got a concentration of investments and corporate ownership that flows up to two big investment firms. Even the companies that look local have loans and financial agreements that eventually- in a matter of less than three degrees- tie up into those firms. It's terrifying.

PS: the companies are heavily invested in politicians like Pelosi, Biden, Romney...the people you'd expect that enable this crap to happen.
 
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Where I live now people that I know that make those kinds of investments are happy with them if they are booked 20 days out of the month. The problem that they're facing now is that everything is going up in cost, making them come in in most cases around the price of a hotel- with none of the perks and service.

The ones in Southwest Virginia that keep getting eaten up are usually out of town (Richmond, NOVA, etc.) real estate investment firms that rent them all out, jacking up the prices. For example, the townhouse my wife lived in while we were dating was around $600/month for a 2 bedroom from 2014-2017. Rent in that same complex now is over $1,600- the majority have been bought by non-locals who can sit on certain percentages of vacancies because their money is spread out all over the state/region. The issue I really take is that they don't do any of the maintenance on them anymore that the old local owners used to do.

To me, this is an example of somewhere where some market restrictions make sense. I'm not sure what. But we've essentially allowed these big companies to run rampant over the country, and we've basically got a concentration of investments and corporate ownership that flows up to two big investment firms. Even the companies that look local have loans and financial agreements that eventually- in a matter of less than three degrees- tie up into those firms. It's terrifying.

PS: the companies are heavily invested in politicians like Pelosi, Biden, Romney...the people you'd expect that enable this crap to happen.
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I looked at some rentals in Atlanta a few years ago and you could get a lot better home with AirBNB for a similar price, but they were always sporadically future booked. Not sure what an AirBNB owner would think about a long term residency. I was looking at rental townhomes and they were $2K range and seemed everyone of them was nasty and ugly and of questionable neighborhoods, of course that is Atlanta metro area. Got some stories from there I would rather not ssh, but I hate that place. Even looked all the way up to Dawsonville for rentals and it is crazy priced. I thought paying around 2k would keep the riff raff away..but that wasn’t true.

Edit more like $1500 just to clarify but that was a few years ago
 
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Orangeburst said:
nypost.com

Biden repeats same story word-for-word just minutes apart, raising fresh concerns about age, fitness for office

President Biden repeated statements at a Manhattan campaign reception about the 2017 Charlottesville riot and his decision to run for president in 2020 minutes apart and nearly word-for-word.
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Vol423 said:
Watching Biden in these interviews, I'm starting to feel like I'm watching a 3-year old trying to string together a coherent sentence. It's seriously getting painful to watch. The man has full-blown dementia, and has had it for at least the the last 18 to 24 months. That's why the Democrats rolled out the Weekend at Bernies campaign last year.
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K-town Vol Fan said:
Have you ever known anyone with actual dementia?
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Vol423 said:
Yes...two grandparents in addition to other relatives. I also have a good friend that was the executive administrator at a memory care facility. She agrees with me that it is very obvious. I admit my use of the term "full blown" was hyperbole. However, he most definitely has dementia, and he's declining rapidly. If you can't see that, then you have no clue what dementia looks like. There is a reason that Biden's staff is SEVERELY limiting his time with the press and is pre-scripting all of his answers. With more exposure to him talking, you would see even more mental lapses and he would be repeating stories.
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@K-town Vol Fan, what do you have to say about old Dementia Joe now?
 
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@K-town Vol Fan, what do you have to say about old Dementia Joe now?
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He's old. So I'm not surprised. I have been with my wife for over 10 years, and my 86 yo grandmother couldn't remember her name the other day. She still drives, does not have dementia. I refuse to believe a sitting US president actually has dementia. Do I wish there was a better candidate? Yes. He is too old to be POTUS.
 
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hog88 said:
We've already been put on notice that our renewal is going to be brutal. Might have to start having the employees contribute.
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We switched to a catastrophic coverage only policy. Family coverage on a "normal" private plan with preventive services covered and co-pays was going up to around $3k/ month.

$36,000 a year -- healthy, no smokers, no maternity courage.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:

Biden pick is CONFIRMED as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Gen. Charles Brown - whose motto is 'accelerate change or lose' - replaces Gen. Mark Milley three years after he wore fatigues to walk Trump to church for photo-op amid BLM protest​

Joe Biden's pick for the new chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been confirmed as Air Force General Charles Q. Brown, who will replace General Mark Miley.

General Brown will seize command after reaching the 51 vote threshold needed at a vote on Wednesday. Only Sen. Ron Johnson and Sen. J.D. Vance voted no.

It is the first time in US history that both the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are African American.

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President Biden's pick for the new chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been confirmed as Air Force General Charles Q. Brown

The new chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff made headlines back in 2020 when he held the title of the commander of Pacific Air Forces, as he recorded an emotional video right after the police killing of George Floyd.

In full uniform, he got personal and was 'full of emotion' for 'the many African Americans that have suffered the same fate as George Floyd'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Biden's new pick for chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff is confirmed

President Biden's pick for the new chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been confirmed as Air Force General Charles Q. Brown, who will replace General Mark Miley.
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What could be more fitting with this DC disaster than Charlie Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
He's old. So I'm not surprised. I have been with my wife for over 10 years, and my 86 yo grandmother couldn't remember her name the other day. She still drives, does not have dementia. I refuse to believe a sitting US president actually has dementia. Do I wish there was a better candidate? Yes. He is too old to be POTUS.
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So he’s just a buffoon? A moron? And imbecile?
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
OLD
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This is not just “ old “ ..
You know the difference between people that are old and people that have traumatic brain injuries and suffering from the results of it .
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Presidential Success After a Brain Injury - Moody Neurorehabilitation

Read inspiring stories of presidential success after brain injuries at Moody Neurorehabilitation Institute. Learn how resilience and expert care can lead to remarkable recovery and achievements.
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K-town Vol Fan said:
He's old. So I'm not surprised. I have been with my wife for over 10 years, and my 86 yo grandmother couldn't remember her name the other day. She still drives, does not have dementia. I refuse to believe a sitting US president actually has dementia. Do I wish there was a better candidate? Yes. He is too old to be POTUS.
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Age affects people differently. Some people are quite active and vital at joe's age, and some are showing their age years earlier. Age may not be a state of mind, but judging a person's abilities solely by age is a very stupid concept. Joe isn't necessarily "too old" to be president but he's certainly too mentally and physically infirm to hold the job. What it all says to me is that joe is either too irresponsible or too cognitively impaired (or both) to have made the decision to run; he's simply not up to the job. Joe is basically one of those people who should have kept his mouth shut and been thought a fool than to have stepped into the limelight and proved it.

It works at both ends of the spectrum. I'm dead set against allowing people younger than 21 (and preferably older) to vote. However, the real determining factor really isn't age, rather it is life experience and having seen firsthand how government policies actually affect the people paying taxes and making their way in the world. We have a president who should never been elected, and he was put in office by people who should never have been allowed to vote. The common factor is that neither the candidate nor the voters who put him in office were cognitively fit to do their part in the blunder.
 
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And I think the young voter vote matters and you just want them tossed out because they are overwhelmingly anti-republican. Young people today went to school every day hoping not to get shot and then went through COVID. This generation coming up is really ****ed up and we only have ourselves to blame. Let them vote how they see fit.
 
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And I think the young voter vote matters and you just want them tossed out because they are overwhelmingly anti-republican. Young people today went to school every day hoping not to get shot and then went through COVID. This generation coming up is really ****ed up and we only have ourselves to blame. Let them vote how they see fit.
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Ever notice that the downhill skid in fed policies started about the time that the voting age was reduced?
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
And I think the young voter vote matters and you just want them tossed out because they are overwhelmingly anti-republican. Young people today went to school every day hoping not to get shot and then went through COVID. This generation coming up is really ****ed up and we only have ourselves to blame. Let them vote how they see fit.
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They have not gone to school hoping to not get shot. The vaaaaaaaaaaaast majority of them, on the vaaaaast majority of days, don't even think about that.
 
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Orangeburst said:
just who rents all these AirBNBs? There are only so many town visitors
Are the investment firms just sitting on them expecting higher prices? that is scary.
I do get you can make more than a mortgage value with renting as long as they are occupied.
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You have to understand a company that puts $1M into a house and can rent it for a nightly rate for 100 nights has a great return compared to many other investments especially knowing there’s a very low chance (historically) of the investment losing value……and there are way too many investors with cash that they have to do something with
 
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They have not gone to school hoping to not get shot. The vaaaaaaaaaaaast majority of them, on the vaaaaast majority of days, don't even think about that.
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Seems like our variations on a theme need supporting documentation that the original thought didn't. Fairly normal when you disagree with a party member.
 
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