Browncd81

Around Nov / December I was seeing cooked used everywhere.

If so, I’m glad this fad is cooked.

Watching these H1B debates on X. The right is making great points about lack of assimilation / nepotism, H1B abuse in hiring people into jobs like dog trainers, etc.

I'm seeing a lot of Indians and other minorities using the occasion to say things like 'this has been very revealing', 'this proves we're on our own', 'The GOP doesn't see us as Americans', etc.

What that tells me is they never saw themselves as Americans in the first place, and they're in search of a reason to not have to pretend. In their eyes, this debate gives them the casus belli to justify ingroup nepotism, hate natural born Americans, etc. I think they actually prefer to feel attacked so they don't have to pretend to try to assimilate.

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The US Government is a joke...Nothing is stopped or looked into..Not Chinese in the milatary, not balloons over military bases... not drones the size of small SUV's ...nothing.

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They investigate concerned parents speaking out in school board meetings against LGBT, DEI, and other nonsense being shoved down the students throats

Got this idea from the meme thread.

If Trump identifies as a woman, the press would have no choice but to recognize Trump the first ever female president. To not do so would be transphobic. I'd like to see them argue against Trump being the first female president, thus defeating their own existing viewpoints. Anything they say about this being a stunt, etc, can be weaponized against their views.

After all, their logic is that all it takes to be considered a woman is to declare you're a woman. You get to go in women's restrooms, get locked up in women's prisons, etc. They don't require that you commit to it and cut your pecker off.

Started a while back. Andrew Gillum leading Florida to be solid red

Lsuguy84

We believe the FBI is reporting bogus stats and the left doesn’t. There’s no way to win that argument.

But the other way to see this is to take the FBI out of the equation and instead observe reality. Why are so many big box stores locking up their items, posting more guards, closing down in big cities, etc if crime is declining? This is something the left cannot deny is happening.

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I didn't care when Minnesota burned and didn't care when Maui burned. Liberal hell holes aren't a concern of mine

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Noted

The other post on FEMA emergency fund being out of money gave me the idea to write this.

I live in Maui and responded to the disaster as I had just left my last job and was taking a brief break.

The response was a colossal mess. That’s well documented. I wrote about this then, can probably find in my post history if interested.

What few people outside of here probably realize is the money. It wasn’t a problem of not spending enough money. I see all the anecdotes on X… Hawaiians only got a few hundred bucks, etc. The real problem is too much money was spent. FEMA started offering to sign leases to people with homes to place Lahaina families. A 4 BR home fetched over $11k monthly, far above even the insane prices here. Why? Because they offered long term housing at the short term rate. The deal was out of this world. A family would be placed, you’d get a one year lease, then FEMA would fix anything that’s broken after the year is up (so basically, a risk free rental). In fact a guy that lives two houses down did that, and is now spending the year in West Virginia where he’s from.

As you’re probably guessing, this created a secondary housing crisis, where people not impacted by the fire were booted out of their rentals, not renewed, etc and then priced out of finding a new place. There was supposedly an eviction moratorium, but easy for a landlord to dial up being a pain in the renter’s rear end and driving them out.

There were a lot of pop up villages with local volunteer help, outside donor help, etc. Ie the modular homes that were donated from places like Hungary, etc. Since I had just quit my job and was financially well off enough to not have to look, I helped out church with a project. Permitting was a nightmare, it usually is out here, and little was done to streamline regulations. Because there was so little coordination at the local government level (infighting to worry about who gets the credit, etc), projects didn’t really tackle the need well. I advocated for ours that we forget the modular homes and build normal homes on foundation for our church project so that it addresses the housing shortage in general. Turned out this was the right move. There’s another project that stated earlier than ours and had massive funding, but it’s now sitting 85% finished with only a few residents in there and looks like complete garbage. Once FEMA started giving landlords these lucrative leases, the work on these pop up villages just stopped. Now they’re scattered in a few places on the island incomplete, money wasted and almost no one being assisted.

Were fortunate, we own our home. so didn’t have to deal with it.

Didn’t help the Hawaiians pushed messaging following the fires to discourage tourists. I don’t blame the tourists for now not wanting to come. Few here really realize how dependent we are on tourism (and military). They look at direct economic impact but fail to realize almost any other job, seemingly far removed from tourism, is made possible due to secondary and tertiary demand created by tourism first putting money in circulation.

Overall I still love it here, ended up in Hawaii due to the military and stuck around some. You’d be surprised how easy it is to find good churches, Trump fans, homeschool advocates, gun owners, etc. But, really questioning the viability of staying long term. I’m thinking about Sweet Home Alabama more and more now

And at that same time address criticisms they've been avoiding the media.

He could see if Brian Williams wanted to come out of retirement for a quick sit down interview to clear all this up