Joe Biden 2023: The Dark Brandon Rises

[StassneyHorn 6,642]

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4 hours ago, Bullneck said:

Apparently some in Dallas are not enamored of Dark Brandon.

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This a photo of Clarence Thomas driving his RV.

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,900]

4 hours ago, Bullneck said:

Apparently some in Dallas are not enamored of Dark Brandon.

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This a photo of Clarence Thomas driving his RV.

Wonder who is bankrolling this. Went to the site (in incognito mode. lol) and there's no about page. The whois shows a proxy buyer, so no telling who is behind this. any guesses who thinks they're "America's Senator"? I have a guess

[jimmyjazz 46,186]

30 minutes ago, Captainant said:

EaDo is pretty much the only cheap place left in Houston. There's not much affordable left in Midtown or Montrose - the shit box efficiency my wife rented in her 1L year has gone from $800/mo back in 2017 to $1450/mo. For a 750sqft efficiency that still has dog shit coin-op washing machines. Hell, the 2/1 we were renting in midtown before we bought our house has gone from $1650/mo to nearly $2500/mo. 

So those are 7% - 10.5% increase per year, much of that time during the biggest housing price boom in Texas history.  I'm not particularly shocked.

[Captainant 27,796]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

So those are 7% - 10.5% increase per year, much of that time during the biggest housing price boom in Texas history.  I'm not particularly shocked.

I think you are ignoring that the price increases have been driven by PE investment moving the housing market to be more expensive, at a rate far faster then inflation

[jimmyjazz 46,186]

15 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I think you are ignoring that the price increases have been driven by PE investment moving the housing market to be more expensive, at a rate far faster then inflation

I get it.

[elfenix 34,334]

2 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

I don’t know what the single burger costs or the meme your referencing, but with coke and fries is about 11-12$. Same as whataburger. Same as chick fila.   Username yada yada but I get stuck in some small towns for work and unfortunately sometimes McD is their “best option”, which is some sad, sad shit. 

i made a quadruple quarter pounder /w cheese  and it came to $15.58 supersized, $16.97 w/ tax. 

crazy that tiktok users don't say 'wtf' and check the mcdonalds app - if you use the $1 large fries that is always available a big mac with large fry/drink is $7.88 (don't order the combo that's for sucker)

[fattyflattie 4,638]

2 hours ago, Captainant said:

but the longer version is that its not profitable to sell decent food in those areas, so they don't. 

Correct.  If they want to support their local restaurant they will. If they don’t/can’t, we’ll, it goes away. There’s typically one nicer diner but still. Part of the game to give up Michelin stars if you want to live in the country I suppose. 

[Captainant 27,796]

27 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Correct.  If they want to support their local restaurant they will. If they don’t/can’t, we’ll, it goes away. There’s typically one nicer diner but still. Part of the game to give up Michelin stars if you want to live in the country I suppose. 

Grocery stores and food deserts aren't really the same convo as restaurants and service oriented food. But enjoy lying to yourself

[fattyflattie 4,638]

7 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Grocery stores and food deserts aren't really the same convo as restaurants and service oriented food. But enjoy lying to yourself

Well, as you noted that wasn’t the conversation we were having. Sorry I couldn’t speak to the conversation we weren’t having but you wish we were?

[Captainant 27,796]

29 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Well, as you noted that wasn’t the conversation we were having. Sorry I couldn’t speak to the conversation we weren’t having but you wish we were?

The lack of grocery stores and places to buy fresh produce is absolutely part of the problem and what drives people to buy fast food as a primary option. Your act of playing okeydoke stupid oilfield man is old

[fattyflattie 4,638]

31 minutes ago, Captainant said:

The lack of grocery stores and places to buy fresh produce is absolutely part of the problem and what drives people to buy fast food as a primary option. Your act of playing okeydoke stupid oilfield man is old

How about don’t really give af guy?  As someone who has lived >5 years in a town of ~700 residents, and grew 17 years in a town of less than 3000, I would bet having actually lived it, I have a pretty good idea on small town restaurant and grocery options.   Don’t know how you pit lived experiences against what you’ve recently learned on tiktok, but you know, I feel pretty qualified to speak to it.   
 

LOL at an IT guy throwing shade at my industry while while parroting talking points from TikTok and the communist caller, then thinking anyone would give a fuck what you just learned. Gouging!! Hey y’all, don’t know if you’ve heard, we’ve got investors buying real estate!!1!!   Fucking stock buy backs and private equity and executive compensation, oh my. Just scares you to death.  

Edited December 17, 2023 by fattyflattie

[jimmyjazz 46,186]

28 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

How about don’t really give af guy?  As someone who has lived >5 years in a town of ~700 residents, and grew 17 years in a town of less than 3000, I would bet having actually lived it, I have a pretty good idea on small town restaurant and grocery options.   Don’t know how you pit lived experiences against what you’ve recently learned on tiktok, but you know, I feel pretty qualified to speak to it.   
 

LOL at an IT guy throwing shade at my industry while while parroting talking points from TikTok and the communist caller, then thinking anyone would give a fuck what you just learned. Gouging!! Hey y’all, don’t know if you’ve heard, we’ve got investors buying real estate!!1!!   Fucking stock buy backs and private equity and executive compensation, oh my. Just scares you to death.  

Well, he's right.  Good luck on the yacht.

[Willfully Horn 8,050]

26 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

How about don’t really give af guy?  As someone who has lived >5 years in a town of ~700 residents, and grew 17 years in a town of less than 3000, I would bet having actually lived it, I have a pretty good idea on small town restaurant and grocery options.   Don’t know how you pit lived experiences against what you’ve recently learned on tiktok, but you know, I feel pretty qualified to speak to it.   
 

LOL at an IT guy throwing shade at my industry while while parroting talking points from TikTok and the communist caller, then thinking anyone would give a fuck what you just learned. Gouging!! Hey y’all, don’t know if you’ve heard, we’ve got investors buying real estate!!1!!   Fucking stock buy backs and private equity and executive compensation, oh my. Just scares you to death.  

Grew up in Argyle, back when the population was less than a thousand. It was fairly affluent, in the 70s and early 80s, and we had grocery stores. Not all small towns are the same, psycho. Food deserts occur in poor towns just as they occur in poor areas of large towns. You don’t care? Fine. Stick your thumb in your ass, then suck it like a popsicle.

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I wonder why 

[Biff Tannen 45,744]

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Your act of playing okeydoke stupid oilfield man is old

It's all he can do though.

[Captainant 27,796]

49 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

How about don’t really give af guy?  As someone who has lived >5 years in a town of ~700 residents, and grew 17 years in a town of less than 3000, I would bet having actually lived it, I have a pretty good idea on small town restaurant and grocery options.   Don’t know how you pit lived experiences against what you’ve recently learned on tiktok, but you know, I feel pretty qualified to speak to it.   
 

LOL at an IT guy throwing shade at my industry while while parroting talking points from TikTok and the communist caller, then thinking anyone would give a fuck what you just learned. Gouging!! Hey y’all, don’t know if you’ve heard, we’ve got investors buying real estate!!1!!   Fucking stock buy backs and private equity and executive compensation, oh my. Just scares you to death.  

Your fixation on something I've never done - directly source and cite my information from social media - really undercuts your point. Please, tell me what talking point I'm parroting, if they're so obvious. Or is this just you doing another "people are saying" bit?

I can appreciate some actual factual shit talking, but you're simply lying through your teeth and acting like you're righteous. Incredibly aggy. 

[fattyflattie 4,638]

33 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, he's right.  Good luck on the yacht.

About what?  And thank you.  

[fattyflattie 4,638]

39 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Grew up in Argyle, back when the population was less than a thousand. It was fairly affluent, in the 70s and early 80s, and we had grocery stores. Not all small towns are the same, psycho. Food deserts occur in poor towns just as they occur in poor areas of large towns. You don’t care? Fine. Stick your thumb in your ass, then suck it like a popsicle.

No shit. Tell that to captain antifa. Why would I pull my thumb out your girls ass to put it in mine?

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SO wait, if they aren't legit food deserts, where the fuck we supposed to be lootin'?

Every fucking time, y'all make my ass commute long ways to do some green grocer stealin'.  Or not.  Either way.  Dammit, Kramer and I had something for this.  Fruit's a gamble, I know that going in...

[Willfully Horn 8,050]

3 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

No shit. Tell that to captain antifa. Why would I pull my thumb out your girls ass to put it in mine?

Fuck if I know. Your ma says it’s a family thing, passed down from pa to potato head.

[Captainant 27,796]

4 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

No shit. Tell that to captain antifa

Lulz whatever you say, fattyfascist

[TwiceHorn 31,539]

42 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

Not to explicitly ask if it's the chicken or the egg, but I remember reading about food desserts years ago and how Dollar Generals/Family Dollars dominate in poor areas, and read about how larger chains and healthier options can't survive in poor areas because poor people don't value and buy the same foodstuffs (fresh foods, etc.) at the volume, rate and margins as other economic demographic areas do.

So, do healthy/good options not exist in those areas because they need to be subsidized?

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2019/12/the-case-for-grocery-stores-in-dallas-many-food-deserts/ The City of Dallas gave a $3M subsidy, but the store failed and then reopened recently.

Robert Wilonsky of the Dallas Morning News once wrote that “an H-E-B spokesperson told me in 2017 there just weren’t enough residents in targeted areas to support a big store. And, those who live there, south of the Trinity River, didn’t have enough money to make such operations sustainable.”

Data from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) retailer data shows that more than 82 percent of all SNAP benefits were spent at supermarkets or supercenters, even though they only make up 14 percent of the locations that accept SNAP and are rarely located in the food deserts where residents are more likely to use the benefits.

Edited December 18, 2023 by TwiceHorn

[Willfully Horn 8,050]

55 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

Argyle is pretty nice now, right? Seems kinda country and out there, but the sprawl is catching up to it for the most part. I went to a game at Liberty Christian Academy in Argyle this past fall and thought it was rather nice.

It is citified. 
 

It’s been thirty years since the hayfields became subdivisions, and the thousand became a golf course which recreated famous holes on famous courses.

[Willfully Horn 8,050]

1 hour ago, BeardIP said:

Not to explicitly ask if it's the chicken or the egg, but I remember reading about food desserts years ago and how Dollar Generals/Family Dollars dominate in poor areas, and read about how larger chains and healthier options can't survive in poor areas because poor people don't value and buy the same foodstuffs (fresh foods, etc.) at the volume, rate and margins as other economic demographic areas do.

So, do healthy/good options not exist in those areas because they need to be subsidized?

A recent John Oliver main story focused on Dollar stores.

Depressing af. 
 

Twice’s post suggests folks on assistance do spend at grocery outlets when available.

[jimmyjazz 46,186]

People are creatures of habit.  There has to be a desire to eat healthier food, AND when we're talking about poor people, the "cost per calorie" can't be higher, even if that food is suddenly available.  This isn't hard to understand.  These people are trying to keep the lights on, so they're not gonna suddenly buy more kale just because it's on the shelf.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,523]

On 12/16/2023 at 9:17 PM, TexasEd said:

Stock market has been on a tear this year but the 20s are probably not benefiting from it 

No they’re not but that is how it is and will always be. Your 20s-40s is about putting money into your retirement or brokerage accounts, and hopefully in your 40s-60s is about large growth. Obviously the younger people experience growth or losses and the older people still contribute funds but the material growth only occurs when your account gets to be a certain size, relative to your income/expenses.

But in the flip side, the young are protected against falling market in that the actual amount lost is low and they don’t need their retirement income for a long time. From that perspective, they should view it as an opportunity.

[Captainant 27,796]

1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

But in the flip side, the young are protected against falling market in that the actual amount lost is low and they don’t need their retirement income for a long time. From that perspective, they should view it as an opportunity.

Except for whenever markets fall, it's used as an excuse for layoffs which make it hard to justify saving up to reach that critical mass. Boomers and olds had the benefit of market and employment norms that provided significantly more stability and opportunity to take risks than current 20-40yo bracket. 

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Lmao retirement

[Biff Tannen 45,744]

8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

People are creatures of habit.  There has to be a desire to eat healthier food, AND when we're talking about poor people, the "cost per calorie" can't be higher, even if that food is suddenly available.  This isn't hard to understand.  These people are trying to keep the lights on, so they're not gonna suddenly buy more kale just because it's on the shelf.

Another part of this is simply people being ignorant of basic nutrition and why it is important.  Seriously, my wife dealt with a lot of poor people in Dallas when she was doing her rotations in med school and it was just astonishing how many of them just had ZERO clue about basic nutrition.  I'm talking not knowing what vitamins were and why vegetables were better than potato chips.

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13 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Another part of this is simply people being ignorant of basic nutrition and why it is important.  Seriously, my wife dealt with a lot of poor people in Dallas when she was doing her rotations in med school and it was just astonishing how many of them just had ZERO clue about basic nutrition.  I'm talking not knowing what vitamins were and why vegetables were better than potato chips.

When I was in cardiac rehab, there was a dude there that said he lived on disability so he had to eat cheap.  He drank a 2-liter of sugar soda daily and lived on hot dogs and Doritos.  It's like, dude, you had a heart attack, it might be time to google some basic nutrition guidelines and figure out some healthy cheap eats instead of just sitting on World of Warcraft all day waiting for your gubment check to arrive.  

 

Edited December 18, 2023 by CooterBrown

[elfenix 34,334]

26 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

When I was in cardiac rehab, there was a dude there that said he lived on disability so he had to eat cheap.  He drank a 2-liter of sugar soda daily and lived on hot dogs and Doritos.  It's like, dude, you had a heart attack, it might be time to google some basic nutrition guidelines and figure out some healthy cheap eats instead of just sitting on World of Warcraft all day waiting for your gubment check to arrive.  

 

[wildcat09 29,409]

Hasn't TurkeyChew bragged before about being pretty well off? Now he's acting like he's a middle income millennial. I think the chatbot is broken again.

[Captainant 27,796]

4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Hasn't TurkeyChew bragged before about being pretty well off? Now he's acting like he's a middle income millennial. I think the chatbot is broken again.

is beardIP chrispy? It feels like he's using totally different rhetorical styles and arguments - I thought beard was a different poster

[HornOnTheBayou 8,947]

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

is beardIP chrispy? It feels like he's using totally different rhetorical styles and arguments - I thought beard was a different poster

@BeardIP is definitely AnimalTobacco. The exact same, "Aw shucks, just asking questions" bullshit.

Edited December 18, 2023 by HornOnTheBayou

[StassneyHorn 6,642]

I was thinking it was the same person as well, glad I wasn’t the only one.

[StassneyHorn 6,642]

Yea him acknowledging the whole animal + tobacco thing checks out from a previously shitcanned account.

Bear + dip

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,523]

2 hours ago, Captainant said:

Except for whenever markets fall, it's used as an excuse for layoffs which make it hard to justify saving up to reach that critical mass. Boomers and olds had the benefit of market and employment norms that provided significantly more stability and opportunity to take risks than current 20-40yo bracket. 

It's always been the case that when markets fall or there is an economic downturn, layoffs occur and no one hires. I graduated in the early 90s recession and I had one job offer out of college. It was a professional job for less than $10 per hour. Young people do not get the same economic security that older people get. But younger people also have a broader grouping of jobs to get within their experience level and salary needs. Get laid off in your early 60s and you wish you had the opportunities that a 25-35 year old has.

[TexasEd 8,077]

21 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

It's always been the case that when markets fall or there is an economic downturn, layoffs occur and no one hires. I graduated in the early 90s recession and I had one job offer out of college. It was a professional job for less than $10 per hour. Young people do not get the same economic security that older people get. But younger people also have a broader grouping of jobs to get within their experience level and salary needs. Get laid off in your early 60s and you wish you had the opportunities that a 25-35 year old has.

And the game, wood, energy, etc.  Sure you can revive some of that medically but not the same.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,523]

I fear stories like this one about black voters in GA, where they're becoming apathetic to Biden, at best.

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“Bad as things were, people say they felt money was circulating with Trump in office, those stimulus checks,” he said. “Now there is no money circulating. Prices are up. The cost of food is up.”

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“I think he should stay out of other people’s business [Ukraine, Israel] and focus more on problems here at home,” said Kameron White, a 33-year-old forklift operator. “We need help here. We need better education, more jobs. There’s drugs. There’s gang violence. There’s very few grocery stores. I want to see more change at home.”

We've fallen into a trap where many look to the President to solve problems but we give the President very little credit when something is going well. Prices are up, it's Joe's fault. I got a COLA raise at work, that's due to my hard work and not my employer doing well. I can understand many, especially lower income and/or poor are not seeing any impact of a red hot stock market.

Trump was smart politically when he highlighted that HE was giving stimulus checks to people. Didn't he include a letter, and have his signature on physical checks that went out?

Finally this is a bad paragraph for Biden.

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In national polls, Black voters appear to be moving away from Mr. Biden and the Democratic Party while expressing growing support for Mr. Trump. In one October poll, just 71 percent of Black voters in battleground states said they would vote for Mr. Biden, compared with the 87 percent who voted for him nationwide in 2020. Nearly a third of Black men said they supported Mr. Trump, while 17 percent of Black women did. In another poll, one in five Black voters said they wanted someone other than Mr. Trump or Mr. Biden.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/us-production-oil-reserves-crude/index.html
 

Joe Biden is the King of Oil Production.

[elfenix 34,334]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/us-production-oil-reserves-crude/index.html
 
Joe Biden is the King of Oil Production.

Also king of housing

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/12/19/housing-construction-was-expected-to-fall-in-november-instead-it-surged/

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,900]

19 minutes ago, elfenix said:

Also king of housing

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/12/19/housing-construction-was-expected-to-fall-in-november-instead-it-surged/

this makes me tingly in the pantalones

[Chuckie Finster 22,746]

5 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I fear stories like this one about black voters in GA, where they're becoming apathetic to Biden, at best.

We've fallen into a trap where many look to the President to solve problems but we give the President very little credit when something is going well. Prices are up, it's Joe's fault. I got a COLA raise at work, that's due to my hard work and not my employer doing well. I can understand many, especially lower income and/or poor are not seeing any impact of a red hot stock market.

Trump was smart politically when he highlighted that HE was giving stimulus checks to people. Didn't he include a letter, and have his signature on physical checks that went out?

Finally this is a bad paragraph for Biden.

 

We are the dumbest fucking country and deserve every bad thing that happens to us.

[StassneyHorn 6,642]

Where’s the jobs?
 

All 14 million of em

[Goofyboy 3,297]

Joe and the department of education also got rid of legacy admittance for colleges.

[David Dennison 18,948]

3 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

We are the dumbest fucking country and deserve every bad thing that happens to us.

That's where I am. There's not much I can do if Donald Trump wins next November.

I'm going to vote for Joe Biden not only because he's going to be the Democratic nominee, but also because he's a good president.

[StassneyHorn 6,642]

Most kids losing Medicaid come from just nine states all led by Republicans

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/19/children-health-insurance-medicaid-unwinding

Sixty percent of kids who have lost Medicaid coverage this year came from just nine states, all of which are Republican-led, according to new data from the Biden administration.

Driving the news: And the 10 states refusing the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults have disenrolled more kids than all of the expansion states combined, the administration also reported.

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Just like I can't believe I used to be a Republican, I can't believe I used to like Dukes of Hazzard.

Hunter, publicly hung?