vxbush 10/23/2025 5:40:25 AM

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They're willing to submit to military limitations on information, but only when Dems do it: Media outlets that rejected Trump Pentagon guidelines acceded to Obama-era censorship at Gitmo

This, of course, surprises no one....

vxbush 10/23/2025 5:42:25 AM

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The shutdown isn't doing enough. 

US national debt hits $38 trillion, just 2 months after reaching $37 trillion

JCM 10/23/2025 7:52:54 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

$38 Trillion.

Population of 350 million.

Out of that 62.3% are working. 218 million in the work force.

Out of that half are net taxpayers. 109 million.

$348,624 each.

JCM 10/23/2025 7:57:38 AM

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Seattle has a crime problem and business are leaving, most notably grocery stores.

The genius mayor has a plan. Re-zoning and a study group.

Everyone knows what the problem is. Except the City, the Clowncil and Mayor Failarrell.

Kosh's Shadow 10/23/2025 11:38:31 AM

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Reply to JCM in 4:

A town near me had the supermarket close when the local chain was bought by a national one; the store was too small.

The town worked with the franchise version of that chain, and the store re-opened, with a beer and wine license (hard for grocery stores to get in Massachusetts)

That is how to work things out.

Of course, the town is small and has a fairly low crime rate. Largely working class. I often shop there because they have a decent gluten free selection.

JCM 10/23/2025 12:49:40 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 5:

Grocery margins are small, 1% to 3%. It doesn't take much "leakage", the industry term to wipe out those margins. When a city won't enforce petty crime laws particularly shop lifting. The stores have to increase security on their own, additional cost. Then have high minimum wage laws, another added cost. Those margins vanish in a heartbeat.

Chains have the economy of scale to support less profitable locations. Not even that can protect the individual locations against the incompetence of a city like Seattle. 

Kosh's Shadow 10/23/2025 12:58:23 PM

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Reply to JCM in 6:

Like I said, this town has a low crime rate from what I can tell. And being a working-class town, insted of "educated" to craziness, actually will arrest and prosecute. Although the court system is based on county. Suffolk county, with Boston, is easier on criminals. This county is not. 

JCM 10/23/2025 1:23:18 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 7:

What really chaps my hide is Seattle the problem is well known to everyone.

But all they "do" have town halls and stupid proposals like above. There other genius gem is "Community CARE Team". Putting social workers out as first responders. Great send out unarmed untrained people into potentially volatile situations. Somebody is gonna' get hurt.

None of the "ideas" address the known causes.

It's at its best incompetence and negligence at worst intentional malfeasance.

Kosh's Shadow 10/23/2025 1:45:13 PM

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In #8 JCM said: Great send out unarmed untrained people into potentially volatile situations. Somebody is gonna' get hurt.

Mamdani also wants to do that

JCM 10/23/2025 1:51:56 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 9:

He's a damn stinkin' commie, we know he's maliciously anti-American as they come.

buzzsawmonkey 10/23/2025 2:15:19 PM

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In #8 JCM said: Putting social workers out as first responders.

Well, the "social workers" have done such a great job over the last 40 years in addressing the "problem of homelessness."

JCM 10/23/2025 2:29:41 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11:

The Homeless Industrial Complex is wholly vested in perpetuating the problem.

Many problems we have, especially those we've applied a government agency to solve perversely are incentivized to continue the problem so the budget, jobs etc... never go away.

buzzsawmonkey 10/23/2025 3:24:18 PM

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Reply to JCM in 12:

The Homeless Industrial Complex gives the Democrats not one, but two, captive voting blocs---the holders of otherwise-useless degrees who "minister to the homeless," and the "homeless" themselves.  

JCM 10/23/2025 3:28:57 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 13:

Add the welfare block, the education block, the health care block, the NGO block think USAID.

Throw in the illegals who get registered to vote via motor voter and you got a near lock on the majority.

And THAT is what scares them the most. Trump dismantling their building blocks.