Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Lacey

The housing market crisis is far more complicated than, "jOE BiDEn iS ThE RooT oF aLL EvIl!" It's pretty funny that you lecture anyone on being an economic illiterate when you misunderstand the problem as only a partisan issue.

You completely ignored several factors including institutional investment in single-family homes. In Texas, over the last few years, up to 1/3 of all home sales were to institutional buyers. In my county, it was 1 in every 2 houses sold. They then turn the homes into a rental property and completely remove them from the market driving supply lower. It is a huge factor in unaffordable housing in Texas and nationwide.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Institutional buyers are the single biggest cause of higher housing prices in Texas, and especially so in my county. It's anathema to the "American Dream," to let this happen, but here we are, on the verge of another financial crisis driven by a lack of regulation.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Well, Texas is now off your list of migratory choices. Due to our housing prices increasing 80% since 2018, and our failing "deregulated"  power grid, I wouldn't recommend it.

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Say Hi to Rod for me.

A new thing I just got on AM was logging in to AM and it "detected a new IP address" I was using. It sent my email a verification code, which worked. This is one of the same systems I've used for some time.

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Hi guys, my support expired and I just re-upped, but remember seeing the thing about the IP the day my account lapsed. Been away at a star party but logged in today, paid my $16, and have no problems except I can't see how many replies to a thread, just the number of views.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Oh if you're worried about the corrupt guy You voted for not winning in 2024, the same guy who has sold out the United States of America to our enemies and then lied through his teeth about it, for the last several decades, then THIS just HAS to sting! 

https://bongino.com/byron-donalds-exposes-damning-hunter-biden-texts-democrats-dont-want-you-to-see?fbclid=IwAR2BsLVimi35CL9ZuWI-5dlK9LifHAn7WVrJ2Snl7ifiF81kT6HqYF8AcJc

Watch the video in that link, and I'm thinking you'll truly enjoy it when you see the evidence stacking up that Joe Biden was Knee deep in doing business with the communist Chinese Gov't and lied about knowing Anything about his son's business dealings.  Nah, Joe was clueless.

Now the question that any thinking individual would ask is why James Biden and Hunter Biden would be sending emails to each other saying they needed to cover up "Dad's" involvement.

Oh wait, let me guess your answer.  There is NO evidence correct?  All this circumstantial evidence that is just piling up sky high indicating that they were Trying to HIDE Joe Biden's involvement in the access selling/business dealings of his son Hunter and his brother James, is  just a BIG coincidence, right?

I mean we all know that You and the RINO from Colorado continuously wear Your Joe Biden Blinders 24/7 but that has to hit you 2 like a ton of bricks.  

Not to worry though, because we all know that if it were ON video showing Joe Biden opening up suitcases full of 100's of thousands of US Dollars, you both would still deny his involvement and his corruption and You 2 would STILL vote for him for President of the United States.

Oh hold the phone, what is this information that just came in? You mean to say that a Check for $250,000 was uncovered that was addressed directly to Joe Biden's resident and it was sent by the Communist Chinese??  

Huh, what the heck were the communist Chinese doing sending money directly to Joe Biden's residence??

That's sure as heck shocking.  

Can either of you 2 Einsteins explain that one away??  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

And btw, why the deflection about the site/the messenger?? 

Is it that you don't want to address the video evidence there showing that James Biden and Hunter Biden were sending emails back and forth making sure they covered for Joe Biden, and as they wrote were "PROTECTING DAD"?

Is that why you chose deflection instead of commenting on the evidence showing Joe Biden's corruption?  

Yeah, its gotta' suck for you leftist/communist Dems to have to have to try and explain away all the corruption and the 10s of millions of US Dollars that Joe Biden was getting to sell out this country to our enemies.

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

This is what the judge actually said:

"This morning one of the defendants posted on social media account a disparaging untrue and personally identifying post about a member of my staff. Although I have since ordered the post deleted and apparently it was, it was also emailed out to millions of other recipients," the judge said in court.

"Personal attacks of any member of my court staff are unacceptable, inappropriate and I will not tolerate them," the judge said.

The judge then said all parties must not speak publicly about any members of the court staff.

"Consider this statement an order forbidding all parties from posting emailing or speaking publicly about any members of my staff,” Engoron said. “Failure to abide by this .. will result in serious sanctions."

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

I get that some folks will look past Trump's "problems" and support him, but I can't understand how a party that is supposedly pro military can not have a problem with what Trump has uttered in the past about the military. Most of the damning reporting came from an 2020 article previously published in the Atlantic, but now confirmed my former Trump WH Chief of Staff John Kelly.

This will probably be ignored by the righties on the forum, but what else is new?

From the CNN interview:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/02/politics/john-kelly-donald-trump-us-service-members-veterans/index.html

"Kelly set the record straight with on-the-record confirmation of a number of damning stories about statements Trump made behind closed doors attacking US service members and veterans, listing a number of objectionable comments Kelly witnessed Trump make firsthand.

“What can I add that has not already been said?” Kelly said, when asked if he wanted to weigh in on his former boss in light of recent comments made by other former Trump officials. 

“A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ 

A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ 

A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family – for all Gold Star families – on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.'

“A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women,” 

Kelly continued. “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. 

A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. 

A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. 

A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.

“There is nothing more that can be said,” Kelly concluded. “God help us.”

In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”

Those details also include Trump’s inability to understand why the American public respects former prisoners of war and those shot down in combat. Then-candidate Trump of course said in front of a crowd in 2015 that former Vietnam POW Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, was “not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” But behind closed doors, sources told Goldberg, this lack of understanding went on to cause Trump to repeatedly call McCain a “loser” and to refer to former President George H. W. Bush, who was also shot down as a Navy pilot in World War II, as a “loser.”

Originally Posted by James Lacey

The attack on McCain likely cost him AZ in 2020 as well. There was also the story about how his staff requested the US Navy to "hide" the USS McCain during a visit by Trump to Japan. At the time it seemed too bizarre to believe, but Mick Mulvaney all but confirmed it was true. I certainly do not doubt the veracity of the story now, or how petty and immature Trump is.