President Donald Trump
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
Montreal, the 30y avg mortgage rate was... The same the day before the election.
So, for now, Trump and congress didn't change anything from what was the case under Biden.
From your own link.
Because, imagine that, it tracks 10 and 30,y yields almost exactly.
Didn’t you say it was the same as in 2016 ?
because that is the whole point of the play book of trump that baham keep praising …
Cut taxes
Makes more debt
Increased interest rates
Bottom 70% are stuck with the bill and pay more .
Play book from trump since 2016 ….
And he does it again + adding tarrrifs now.
At least three times today I've seen him say things like:
Trump: "We caught Hillary Clinton. We caught Barack Hussein Obama ... you ought take a look at that and stop talking about nonsense."
The latest (and most direct): https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/pos...
Could you make it any more obvious that he's trying to stop everyone talking about Epstein? Will the base eat it up - I'm sure tales about Obama and Schiff being corrupt will make them erect like Epstein's girls made Trump.
This is so funny
https://x.com/ReedReports/status/1947709...
Nathaniel Reed
@ReedReports
Buried in amendments to the Interior Dept. Gov funding bill, is a stipulation that the Kennedy Center Opera House must be renamed the 'First Lady Melania Trump Opera House' in order to receive federal funds.
The Appropriations Committee adopted that amendment by a vote of 33-25.
I move to rename that place the 'Ozzy Coldplay Hawk Tuah Opera House'.
At least three times today I've seen him say things like:Trump: "We caught Hillary Clinton. We caught Barack Hussein Obama ... you ought take a look at that and stop talking about nonsense."The latest (and most direct): https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/pos...Could you make it any more obvious that he's trying to stop everyone talking about Epstein? Will the base
Whether this specific tactic is working or not people have indeed already largely given up on Epstein
Whether this specific tactic is working or not people have indeed already largely given up on Epstein
This seems entirely untrue considering Johnson adjourned Congress cuz they can’t escape massie
I agree for the most part MAGA has moved on cuz Daddy knows best but there’s enough of a percentage who hasn’t coupled with the primaried folk with an axe to grind that means the Republican majority can’t just put this to rest for a while
Congress is passing it not Trump.And congress always had the power to name facilities to which it donates money to, so there is no "grab", it is a power that always existed and which has always been exercised.How do you think the center came to be called after Kennedy to begin with?Congress decided to name it after JFK after the assassination in 1964 and Johnson signed that law
“They named it after the assassination” in the same post as “they are naming it after a sitting presidents immigrant wife” is certainly a chasm I’m not going to cross
You just sound like a moron
“They named it after the assassination” in the same post as “they are naming it after a sitting presidents immigrant wife” is certainly a chasm I’m not going to cross
You just sound like a moron
He comes from turbo legalistic Italy, he doesn’t understand norms or basic human dignity. Since his country is so corrupt he thinks that if it’s not written down we shouldn’t treat it as normative.
Congress is passing it not Trump.And congress always had the power to name facilities to which it donates money to, so there is no "grab", it is a power that always existed and which has always been exercised.How do you think the center came to be called after Kennedy to begin with?Congress decided to name it after JFK after the assassination in 1964 and Johnson signed that law
it's insane that you would defend this
can you imagine if the biden admin did similar stuff - you'd need a fainting couch
it's insane that you would defend this
can you imagine if the biden admin did similar stuff - you'd need a fainting couch
they did? Biden renamed Fort Bragg and other places.
they also renamed 650 geographical spots because of "racist and derogatory" names
https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/biden-dept...!
and pls read again: I am not defending the merits of the decision.
I am forcefully saying that using well established powers of Congress and the executive to change the legal name of stuff is not being power hungry.
you can dislike the choice because of it's merits without claiming it's an abuse or excess of power
This seems entirely untrue considering Johnson adjourned Congress cuz they can’t escape massie
I agree for the most part MAGA has moved on cuz Daddy knows best but there’s enough of a percentage who hasn’t coupled with the primaried folk with an axe to grind that means the Republican majority can’t just put this to rest for a while
yes it's the first time Trump is badly losing on the narrative side and doesn't seem able to just swipe the topic away after a few news cycles at most.
they are now hoping people will move on in September but it's not a given.
and they are certainly trying to deflect in various ways including the treason charges against Obama and many other attempts at changing the conversation. but it's failing (for now)
He comes from turbo legalistic Italy, he doesn’t understand norms or basic human dignity. Since his country is so corrupt he thinks that if it’s not written down we shouldn’t treat it as normative.
you can have bad or good reasons to do something, but unless you only criticize that something, as something that shouldn't be done full stop, then you can't use that to define someone as "power hungry" which is what cordie did.
renaming stuff to trigger the libs isn't being power hungry. it's just keeping up with similar efforts on the other side, who did a lot of recent renaming for their own reasons.
pretty sure conservatives would like it , if it was legally impossible for the government to ever change the names of anything.
there would be nothing bad in saying "this choice by trump is disgusting because there is no need to damage the memory of JFK".
but... that's not what cordie said.
you can have bad or good reasons to do something, but unless you only criticize that something, as something that shouldn't be done full stop, then you can't use that to define someone as "power hungry" which is what cordie did.renaming stuff to trigger the libs isn't being power hungry. it's just keeping up with similar efforts on the other side, who did a lot of recent renami
I think he’s psychologizing Trump admiring dictators, liking military parades, just being generally self-aggrandizing. He posted an ai generated video of building a Trump Hotel in Gaza. It’s obvious what he identifies himself as.
It is generally ok to assess people’s behavior through inference as we don’t have epistemic access to their thoughts.
The reason Republicans are inserting that in there is to please their dear leader, and he set that precedent himself.
TIL that democrats are more gerontocratic than republicans (if anything, i would have thought the opposite), at least by going with how many over 70 people they have in the house.
It could still be the case median age is higher for republicans ( i can't find the data)
from @samoburja
I think he’s psychologizing Trump admiring dictators, liking military parades, just being generally self-aggrandizing. He posted an ai generated video of building a Trump Hotel in Gaza. It’s obvious what he identifies himself as.It is generally ok to assess people’s behavior through inference as we don’t have epistemic access to their thoughts.The reason Republicans are inserti
The reason republicans are inserting that in there is to dismantle wokeness, and trigger the libs. Both things that go way beyond appeasing Trump.
According to republicans the Kennedy center had became (like many other cultural and educational institutions) a fortress of radical cultural leftism. And as such it deserves to be dismantled, made a mockery of , and so on.
Unlike in other occasions, where they simply attempted to kill the institution (USAID, DoE, EPA), here they are trying a more old school "we take over from here" approach.
And then the name gets changed to trigger the libs
Your link is from 2010.
We are in 2025.
In 2019, 92% of existing mortgages were fixed rate
Is this somehow supposed to refute my post?
When interest rates are low use of adjustable rate mortgages declines. This should be obvious - what do I gain if I can get a fixed rate ate under 3%. When interest rates go up, so does the use of adjustable rates. Of course rates aren't the only factor. Economic uncertainty (or at least the perception of it) is also a major factor in choosing a fixed rate.
But to get back to your original point - "USA have fixed rate mortgages as the main (or almost exclusive) way to get a mortgage" is just not true over time.
Don't be brown
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/maske...
WASHINGTON — An Afghan who moved to the United States after working for the U.S. military in his home country was seized by armed, masked immigration agents, put in a van and taken out of state, attorneys and members of Congress said Tuesday.
He was in the United States legally and was arrested after an appointment in Connecticut related to his application for a green card under a program to protect people who worked for U.S. forces, according to human rights advocates, his attorney and members of Congress.
Cry me a river, Murkowski. The leopard ate your damn face....again.
Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she's worried the Trump administration's federal education funding freeze could mean "closing schools" in her home state.
Nothing to see here......
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice...
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday fired a federal prosecutor whom New Jersey's federal judges had named to replace the state's interim U.S. attorney, Alina Habba, a close ally of President Donald Trump.
Is this somehow supposed to refute my post?When interest rates are low use of adjustable rate mortgages declines. This should be obvious - what do I gain if I can get a fixed rate ate under 3%. When interest rates go up, so does the use of adjustable rates. Of course rates aren't the only factor. Economic uncertainty (or at least the perception of it) is also a major factor in
No my claim was : Most countries including the USA have etc.
And yes the main is fixed rates for the USA, the vast majority of years, fixed rates are the majority of originations (=main). Even according to your link (it was 2 years over 20 with >= ARM). Now it's 2 years over 35.
The (or almost exclusive) was because in SOME COUNTRIES it's like 80%+ fixed rates most years in the last 40+.
Btw this was the STOCK (not the originations in 2022, the total stock) of mortgages per country, fixed rate total. How can you say my claim that in the USA fixed rates are the main way to get a mortgage???
(btw the Canada number there considers "fixed" the 3 and 5y durations of fixed, but that's not actually fixed in american or italian terms)
you can dislike the choice because of it's merits without claiming it's an abuse or excess of power
fair
How can you say my claim that in the USA fixed rates are the main way to get a mortgage???
So, you are backing off the "(or almost exclusive) way to get a mortgage" part. Good.
It is not surprising that current mortgages are heavily towards fixed rate. People locked in over the past 20 years or so. Turnover has gone down since rates started going up (can't afford to move with rates going up), but the average length owning a home is still only about 12 years.
they did? Biden renamed Fort Bragg and other places.they also renamed 650 geographical spots because of "racist and derogatory" nameshttps://nypost.com/2022/09/08/biden-dept...!and pls read again: I am not defending the merits of the decision.I am forcefully saying that using well established powers of Congress and the executive to c
And it was right to do so. Allowing the confederacy to persist and be glorified is definitely a part of the problem.
But to compare "Fort Bragg", named after a confederate general that literally nobody knows who he was, vs renaming the ****ing kennedy center to your wifes name, is a pathetic abuse of power.
You have no decency or understanding of respect in these matters so you can blast off 15 line nonsense all you want but you just look like you always do. A ridiculous right winger doing whatever salsa you have to do to sashay into reasoning
And to consider another way, his wife was an illegal alien that got to abuse the system with money to become legitimate and that means something in todays political environment. So there are multiple reasons that its incredibly out of line
The reason republicans are inserting that in there is to dismantle wokeness, and trigger the libs. Both things that go way beyond appeasing Trump.According to republicans the Kennedy center had became (like many other cultural and educational institutions) a fortress of radical cultural leftism. And as such it deserves to be dismantled, made a mockery of , and so on.Unlike in o
I think being able to fit the entirety of Trump’s cock and balls in their mouths is at least a really nice benefit for them.
I think being able to fit the entirety of Trump’s cock and balls in their mouths is at least a really nice benefit for them.
It's small, so not that hard
