A bipartisan feat
A very rare thing happened in congress recently. Both Republicans and democrats worked for and agreed to legislation to make housing more available and hopefully cheaper. It is called "the 21st Century Road to Housing Act." It sets federal guidelines which make it easier and cheaper for developers to break ground and build units, and illegal for large investors to snap up single-family homes. The legislation passed both houses of congress last month, but President Trump who happens to be in favor of the legislation vowed not to sign it or any other Bill until congress passes his voter ID Bill.
As it stands now the Bill is on his desk, where it has been for about 10 days. The President has three options: He can sign it into law, or veto it, or do nothing, in which case it will become law at midnight tonight. If he allows it to become law, it will be a win for the people he represents. For some reason there has been a minimum of coverage of this story by our activist media.
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Good morning and welcome to the Vic Eldred Cast.
I bring a bit of good news from the middle east:
"Growing oil production, alternative export routes and new shipping patterns suggest Iran's ability to weaponize the Strait of Hormuz may be steadily weakening — even if it can still trigger short-term price shocks."
Iran's biggest weapon against the US may be slipping away, experts say
An the US "may be" developing teleportation technology to teleport the ships from inside to outside the strait.
Iran's neighbors are rapidly building pipelines that avoid the strait entirely.
How many years will that take with the war still going on?
So far, we had about 4 weeks of war and 4 months of "negotiation."
I say the regime has made their own destruction inevitable. It will likely come after the midterms.
You do not recognize the incompetence of Trump?
This fool thought he could bomb Iran and cause a regime change. This idiot said that he will only accept unconditional surrender from Iran. Now he shrugs and claims he does not really care.
There is no clearer proof of gross incompetence.
You are obviously watching the wrong channels.
I for one am tired of his excuses and imaginary reasons for not signing it which are presented almost daily.
It's a win, win and he's just being vapid.
It certainly is unusual and good for a change to see something beneficial for the American people generally to actuallly be passed, instead of something obviously beneficial for lawmakers themselves towards their reelection or their party's policies or just plain bowing to Trump. Quite unusual, I would say. Now, how about pulling the homeless out of poverty? It's not impossible, as I have seen.
That is a trick that even the Great Santini couldn't pull off. LBJ invested $Millions. It seems to have made things worse. The problem is that most of the homeless are drug addicts or mentally ill.
Obviously not in the USA, but it HAS been done by a government that actually CARES about its population..
Why should a BI-PARTISAN (you know what that means right?) bill becoming law, where Republicans joined Democrats to support this housing bill authored by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) along with Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.), be seen as "a win" for Trump and the people he represents? He refused to sign the bill holding a bi-partisan piece of legislation, that was widely supported by both sides, hostage to get his slimy attempt to attack our elections passed, and Democrats refused to budge. Now that bi-partisan legislation Democrats wanted gets passed without them giving in to Trumps tantrum.
The only way to call this a win for Trump is to be looking at it from a very different angle.
Because he represents working people.
You know, historic tax relief, business investment etc.
BULLSHIT! He represents himself. The fact that his dumb fuck sycophants haven't figured that out yet is just really sad to watch in real time.
You lack anything substantive.
Trump got that Big Beautiful Bill passed for working people.
And you say?
Please provide a few specific examples of Trump policies that benefit working people MORE than it benefits the wealthy.
I just did.
Not sure what DP says, but I also got a good chuckle out "he represents working people"???
Do you even realize what a paradoxical statmeant for the deceived who received his LIES know matter how perceived from the liar who conceived this administration that is worthy of castration and should have been planned better at parents wearing hoods, cause abort his no goods tarriffed till burnt woulds be US.
The BBB is B y B ullshit B etrayed, and how you can interrept it any other weigh bears knots in tongue tied plots, where buried is billions by Trump and his lot (s) of NO good griftin oligarch enemies' of the state, so state I WILL, cause pretty damn sick of my view, of his Constitutional drill with not a dull bit, asz the 'man' is so full of shit, a walking constipated semi-colon grabbed it, or was ittit, either way 47 is completely full of shit that will forever stain US All, but Mexico is still gonna pay for that wall, the Ball room on our chins taken for a half BILLION or so, while in Iran we drop over a BILLION a day, as Trump manipulates markets and minions, and not just from the left opinions, asz he attempts to use the DOJ in a can't investigate me or mine way stripped of morals and ethics, cause Trump is a Democracy death mix, n match, be careful young girls, he'll grab and Epstein Eplain you asz he does snatch, your privates and inn brigadier generals too, cause it's all ways bout him, never about me or you, N sorry, butt oh so damn TRUE
Historic tax relief for the top 1%? Business investment has also gone done since Trump was elected.
I say that's another perfect example for how Trump really only cares about himself.
Sometimes it feels like I'm trying to have a debate about what the variable 'A' may represent in a basic algebra equation with people who think 2+2= banana.
Wow,,,really? LMFAO!!!!!
Oh, I don't want to forget this story:
The quote of the day:
I prefer:
That has been proven so many times.
Yes, that was a great line.
You mean that throwing more money at a problem is not the answer? S/
Especially when it goes to the Teacher's Union with much of it then being used to contribute to democrat candidates.
It was funny that there was so much screaming when Trump wanted to make changes to the department of education but the detractors could not show many (if any) of the successes for the departments 150 billion + spending.
The amnesty was part of a deal with democrats. Three million got amnesty (and only those 3 million) and the democrats would in turn help secure the border.
The dems lied & cheated on that too.
Then Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA) and updated that.
Oh, there's a shocker!!!! /s
So what? He signed off on it. And you can go on ignoring everything else Reagan said.
Nobody's talking about Clinton, so stop with the whataboutisms......
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it's not a "newly constructed" building but a building that is undergoing renovations. It was the headquarters of Pfizer and was constructed in the 70's. Current renovations were underway to convert it to apartments when the buckling happened.
I kind of knew I was making a mistake as I wrote it.
Thanks for the clarification.
It's not a big deal (at least to me). I thought it was new construction as well.
THAT is going to trigger so many people. Time for the popcorn.
I can imagine liberals doing everything they can to not say "Donald Trump airport". Most of the would probably fly into an airport hours away from their destination just to avoid that.
... like miami or ft. lauderdale?
Just to drive that extra 2 or 3 hours back to Donald Trump airport for their stupid ass "no kings" protests.
So Tennessee renamed a bridge on I40 after President Trump the same day Palm Springs did the Airport.
It would be hilarious to watch all the Trump supporters' heads metaphorically explode if this were Obama slapping his name on everything while he was President. But when their dear Leader does it, it's "Nothing to see here!".
Since it's not Trump putting his name on everything, your "outrage" is all for naught.
Oh, pardon me, I should have said "Trumps boot licking sycophants putting his name on everything". It was silly of me forgetting about those spineless cucks.
Then take it up with them and stop the whining on here
In Conclusion:
The Housing Bill will become law which is a win for both the congress and the President, but congressional Republican will not get the signing ceremony televised to the nation that they wanted because the President didn't get his voting Bill passed.
For now, the President killed two birds with one stone.
That's some seriously delusional shit right there. Just on the face of it, it's total horse shit. Only a deluded desperate sycophant would ever try those kinds of mental contortions.
Even as he blatantly violates another campaign promise in a hope to try to truly rig elections, you find some bizarre twist of reasoning to praise this abysmal human being.
You see TiG, rigging is where you make it hard to verify who is voting, kind of like when the bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III concluded that mail-in-voting opens the door to fraud. On the other hand, positively identifying a voter eliminates fraud.
It is called COMMON SENSE.
The idea that there are tens of thousands of people illegally voting in dozens of states is laughably bizarre..
It is called conspiracy theory.
Empirically the level of voter fraud in the USA is negligible. So if you want to apply common sense, here is a fine adage for you: 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Trump is not trying to fix a problem; he is trying to fix the election. How is it possible that you do not see this?
PROVE IT!
Prove that voter fraud didnt get Trump elected both times.
Every single investigation into widespread voter fraud has shown the specter of widespread voter fraud is just that, nothing but a ghost. Only simple minded poorly educated deluded rightwing conservatives believe widespread voter fraud exists regardless of the lack of evidence for it.
But I get it, stupid people who believe stupid things they can't prove will almost always stupidly demand others disprove their beliefs even though they can't prove their stupid theories. How do you prove something doesn't exist when there is no evidence of it? You can't! Just like belief in God, no one can prove God doesn't exist even though there is ZERO actual empirical evidence that one does. So, believers have to take it on "faith", which is exactly like their belief in widespread voter fraud. Clearly, widespread voter fraud has become just another false religion for some, and we can see the poorly educated low IQ simps praying for proof of it just like they pray for their Gods return and yet day after day, nada, zilch, zip, nothing.
But I guess that's what mind-numbingly stupid people do. They make shit up and then smugly demand others disprove it. Why? Because those who believe in widespread voter fraud are fucking useless simps that are easy targets for conmen. They're partisan morons who have a vested interest in believing the bullshit they're being fed by liars, accused pedophiles and convicted felons. And when they lie on behalf of their convicted felon and accused pedophile, they prove themselves no better.
To paraphrase a frequent comment from the left around another Constitutional Right,
"If it prevents one illegal vote, isn't it worth it?"
Not if thousands of eligible voters are unfairly disenfranchised!
It's hard enough to mobilize the eligible voters to participate in elections yet these deluded dip shits claim they're only losing because of millions of undocumented immigrants voting of which, so far, they've been able to produce a handful out of nearly 200 million votes. You really can't get more transparent than these scum bag Republicans pushing voter ID laws they KNOW, because they studied the data, disenfranchise eligible American voters who, also according to their data, tend to vote Democrat. It's that simple, there's really no two ways about it. Republican leadership does it intentionally and then lies to their stupid constituents who come out screaming, red in the face, claiming it's ALL about not letting illegals vote, of which they have no evidence. Fucking simps.
Pay attention to the statistics. Before declaring a problem, rational thinkers first consider persuasive evidence.
You claim we have a problem so show us your evidence.
You can't prove that voter fraud is negligible and we both know why.
When states like California turn over their voter rolls, we will have the answer.
Vic, all the statistics that I have seen indicate that voter fraud is negligible. So unless you can provide persuasive evidence that there is a problem, your claims are just conspiratorial bullshit.
Deliver the evidence!
Why do you accept whatever Trump claims and then repeat his lies? What purpose does this serve? I suspect most everyone can see what you are doing so what is the point of carrying Trump's putrid water?
Oh, so only you and MAGA conservatives know how to count?
There is already very competent bi-partisan checking and double checking of vote counts in California and the claims of undocumented immigrants voting in any sort of large numbers is simply not true, but you know that, you're not stupid, right?