Savage. I love it.

Yeah, it’s not exactly the call to action he imagined.

1 percent. There’s too much they would need to do in four years to not have an election and elections are done by the states not the federal government. So there will definitely be an election. As far as getting re-elected it would take draconian measures for the exact same reason. He’d need 270 electoral votes worth of states to blatantly go against the Constitution.

The only way he remains in office past January 20th 2029 is by refusing to leave and surrounding himself with loyalists. Thus the 1 percent chance. It could work if a million things go exactly right.

Did you read his manifestos? He was a few bolts short of a bucket.

I’m fine with either approach. As far as I’m concerned if services and groceries are an issue then the government just builds more.

It helps, I’m not denying that. But it can only ever slow down housing inflation and it can’t solve a housing shortage. As supply gets closer to demand their profits will start to drop. The only answer to that equation is the government paying them to keep building.

Yeah there’s a few ways to do it. I won’t complain about how it happens.

I’ve been saying it for years. We need to give HUD 500 million dollars (to start) and immunity from all but federal environmental laws. They drop apartment buildings in the highest cost markets with prices set to repay HUD over 50 years, cover maintenance, and two remodels in that time period. And the rent is of course nearly stabilized because it’s not seeking a profit. Then use the near guaranteed asset income to finance the next wave of buildings.

Just start dropping fucking anchors into the market.

They need to do the same thing for groceries too. Starting in food deserts, then monopoly areas, then high cost of living areas. Americans think they would hate it but in reality there would be literal fights to get those apartments.

Medicare Advantage took the house. Medicaid is the government run healthcare for poor people, and normal Medicare is the government run healthcare for old people. Medicare Advantage is the private plan for old people being paid for with a reverse mortgage. After they die the health insurance and the bank get to fight over the house.

Even the builder’s remedy isn’t going to solve homelessness or bring prices down much though. They still need to sell those properties, which means they need to have a price point that makes it profitable to build. So the law of supply and demand actually prevents them from building enough housing because if the price starts to go down they just stop building.

If your kids ever want to join the military you could probably just find some 2000-2010 era combat vets to talk to them. Apparently after adjusting for the systems screw up, we’re the next big recruiting problem. We told our kids not to follow us into the service.

Just smile, like genuinely, and wave or acknowledge her with your head when she looks. And if she turns away then stop, she’s not interested or she’s playing manipulation games. There’s no “right look”, that’s something Hollywood made up for romance movies. The only bad thing you could do is exactly what they do in those movies. Sitting across the room and trying to just use your eyes reads as creepy. So if you’re trying to catch her eye, you should also be trying to get to her, talk to her.

The only community I’ve been in where men constantly break eye contact is the military. And that’s because we were in Iraq and constantly checking out surroundings as we talked. Men are not gorillas. Eye contact is perceived as paying attention to the conversation.

Yeah everything I’ve read about Sweden, militarily, seems like they’ve spent the entire cold war making an invasion a nightmare for the invaders.

No, “Total Defense” translates well. And that’s an interesting system.

Iirc Sweden reinstated compulsory service in 2017?

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Except for Greece and Turkey. They’re both waiting for a cow to wander onto the wrong side of Cyprus. (I joke, but not by much)

My dude, the US doesn’t even have English as the official language and it doesn’t operate entirely in English either.

Because they aren’t competing in the way free market ideologists say they should. It generally takes a 200 level economics class less than a day to figure out a price cartel is far better for the companies involved. I’m sure the professionals have their back channels and third party price consultants already figured out.