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The left changed the rules, it’s time we win the game then change them back. Rush used to opine that if you think the left is crazy now, wait till they are out of power. Well, I don’t think they’ve ever been out of real power in my life, certainly not like now. They’ve lost both houses for the foreseeable future, the press is emasculated & the right’s messaging is getting out though channels the left can’t control, the universities are trying to hide in the shade unnoticed, the NGO’s that were funding all the bullshit are being shuttered. Even in 1968 they weren’t this cut off from support. Expect more violence.

@ebeth360 #minionshappyhour #MinionsHappyHour cheers from London. Hope everyone is having a great week!

@theficouple Why would they need to take out a loan?

Baby boomers aren't selling their homes & why would they? They paid $120,000 for a home 25+ years ago, owe $0 & have $550k+ of equity. "Downsizing" means they'd need to buy something for $450k + take on a 6.5% loan. ...Many won't move & this will keep inventory low.

@brianschatz Your boss says differently.

We are enthusiastically willing to pay TSA workers today, and we will keep trying, but the sticking point is that Republicans want to attach ICE funding to it. We are not in agreement about ICE, but I don’t think workers and travelers should have to wait for an ICE deal.

@ChrisMurphyCT x.com/ianonpatriot/s…

This is the only thing you need to know. Democrats want to open TSA. Republicans are refusing because they want to attach ICE funding. That’s why there are long lines. ICE.

@wsbtv He keeps voting against clean funding extensions……I used to trust WSB, sad what you’ve become.

Sen. Ossoff calls for funding TSA; Republicans signal openness to compromise wsbtv.com/news/local/sen…

@TarnishedRivian @MelindaBChu1 @aakashgupta So you want to do away with zoning laws and home inspections?

@PolybiusChamp @MelindaBChu1 @aakashgupta It is 25% ish and can go much higher lol

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

The proposed community notes and comments from Dems on this are ridiculous but instructive. The claim is that all the money is being tracked by DOT, and they point to the DOT website or DOT spreadsheets. The problem is that none of the spreadsheets add up to $2 trillion. So where is the rest of the money? Now, $800 million of that is from @SecDuffy’s research, which he explains on the Shawn Ryan show. I trust Duffy, but if you don’t, you still need to explain where the $1.2 trillion went…. Because neither side argues that Mayor Pete was authorized to do that. The DOT spreadsheet most often linked to shows just under half of that money spent on projects across the nation. So where’s the other half? The most charitable, unproven explanation for that is that the money is still in the Treasury. So the most charitable defense of @PeteButtigieg I can find is that Congress gave him a mandate to fix our infrastructure, and he did a half-ass job. If we are being extremely kind, he still should be arrested. People are dying on those broken roads, and he was criminally negligent… too busy breaking the Hatch Act on late-night TV to spend our money effectively. But being that charitable makes a lot of assumptions. You see, those DOT spreadsheets tracking all the money tell us which projects got cash but not how that cash was spent. They tell us Pete spent billions writing checks. Did those checks end up in the hands of labor unions, the mafia, or corrupt government officials? IDK, and I don’t want to speculate, but we all know that infrastructure spending is a magnet for organized crime and labor unions. This is well documented. The question is what oversight did Pete provide? So the fact that Pete wrote checks and that’s marked on a spreadsheet in DOT tells us nothing. And this is the problem with the left. They think just because the trillions of dollars are marked in a book somewhere, it counts as being legitimately spent. It’s all gaslighting because if you drive almost anywhere in this nation, you can see with your own eyes that the infrastructure is no better than when Pete was given the cash 5 years ago… and in many cases, worse. And the situation is WAY worse on the roads I drive on that have signs saying “This was paid for with Bipartisan Infrastructure Act Funds” because those roads have been under construction for YEARS. You don’t need to be a forensic accountant to know that a construction project contains fraud… the fact that a road or bridge upgrade is taking more time than it took this nation to win the entire Second World War is all the proof you need to know it contains fraud. Community Notes or no Community Notes, IDC, Mayor Pete should be arrested regardless!

@AndrewStilesUSA @jtLOL He just wants to be left alone!

Pete Buttigieg is laying low, keeping his head down, putting in work, going off grid, under the radar, all for the love of the game, he tells the Politico reporter following him around for this exclusive profile.

@TarnishedRivian @MelindaBChu1 @aakashgupta It’s where I live. If I lived more rural I’d build something for a different client. But 1/3 of the cost is the land wherever you are.

@PolybiusChamp @MelindaBChu1 @aakashgupta When you are build specifically for luxury to cater to the wealthy... Duh

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The GOP in Congress shut down a bill to fund the TSA a mere days ago.

@3YearLetterman @BurtMacklin_FBI @BarneyFrank @NYRangerFanclub @DrDisrespect @EllisIslandNPS @PaulyShore @joekent16jan19 @TulsiPress @LindseyGrahamSC @lgbtqnation @Whitesnake He was so good in Roadhouse. RIP Chuck!

🚨 🚨 BRAKING 🚨 🚨 This one is tough to even type out. Oscar-winning actor Chuck Norris has past away. The most important and talented actor in world history, Chuck’s movies grossed more than those starring non-American actors combined He is an American icon, and his record for Oscars will likely never be broken We miss you, sir

@anonmonk123 @MorlockP Who maintains the locks and other infrastructure for them?

@MorlockP But to be fair neither Panama nor the Suez were built by the respective countries running them. Damn colonialism.

wow that's crazy that people who built and maintain artificial locks and canals charge for using them, but countries who signed the UN treaty on the Law of the Sea that prohibits tolls beyond the contiguous zone don't enforce tolls beyond the contiguous zone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Na… what could explain this

@lorddrey You aren’t the dumbest person in the world, but you better hope they don’t get sick.

Iran has kept the Straight of Hormuz toll-free for decades despite being vilified, sanctioned, and Isolated. Egypt charges $300,000 – $700,000+ per transit through the Suez Canal. Ultra-large container ships or tankers can exceed $1 million. Panama charges $150,000 – $450,000 per transit. Large Neopanamax ships cost up to $500,000+ to pass the Panama Canal. Turkey charges fees for the Bosporus Strait. Canada charges fees for the St Lawrence Seaway. The United States charges for the St Lawrence Seaway. But Iran is a bad country.

@neoavatara Killing them all is acceptable.

I said from the beginning... Many people are completely misunderstanding the extremist Muslim culture. They are never going to surrender to Trump. They'll make this as painful as possible until the war ends, or they are dead. There is no happy peaceful solution.

I build the odd house here and there. The regulations that impact you are mostly zoning. But sure the electrical system needs to meet updated building codes etc and that does result in higher costs, but not 25% higher. And I’m not too sure too many people are gonna want to see building codes relaxed. I do sometimes have to pay impact fees that are passed along to buyers - so maybe $10K on a 1M home. Labor, absolutely huge. Probably a 30% increase in the last 5 years alone. Don’t know how you fix that.

@PolybiusChamp @MelindaBChu1 @aakashgupta 25% of the cost of a new home generally is regulation. Next comes the lack of skilled workers in the field. Last comes demand. Solve the first 2 problems it will help with the third.

@TarnishedRivian @MelindaBChu1 @aakashgupta This is one of 3 lots created by tearing down an older ranch home that was on 1.5ish acres. The finished house here will run over $2M and probably be loser to $3M.

Well, in an urban area that’s not much of a solution. When I bought my 9,000 sq/ft lot it was developed (utilities at the street created when 4 older homes were removed) it was $200K 10 years ago. If a similar lot came on the market today it would be close to $350K. Typically a finished house is 3X the lot price at retail. 1/2 acre lot near me would push $500-700K depending on elevation.

@TarnishedRivian @MelindaBChu1 @aakashgupta For an oak tree you can’t drive equipment in an area 1/3 larger than the width of the canopy. So a mature oak on a small lot, unless it’s out back and near a corner, is nearly impossible to work around.

@PolybiusChamp @MelindaBChu1 @aakashgupta And if there is a tree in the way you are either going to have to move the tree or change the line

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Which four filmmakers are on your Mount Rushmore?

@ShreveportMaven @TarnishedRivian @MelindaBChu1 @aakashgupta They are terrible!

@PolybiusChamp @TarnishedRivian @MelindaBChu1 @aakashgupta The problem is developers in places like Texas largely plants Bartlett Pear trees, which are the most useless trees in the world.