“People that own their homes, we’re going to keep them wealthy. We’re gonna keep those prices up. We’re not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that someone who didn’t work very hard can buy a home.” – Delusional Donny, the Dumbass.

Everyone knows the cost of housing is too expensive. By now, we all know that the costs are inflated by Wall Street buying up single-family homes as quickly as they hit the market. The euphemism the news likes to use is “inventory shortage.” That’s a misdirect. They use it to support “build more houses,” which Wall Street with also buy as quickly as they hit the market.

You can file this under yet another promise made, promise broken. He promised he was going to lower the cost of housing, or try to. Now he’s saying, blatantly, that, no, he’s not interested in doing that. Instead, he’s going to make sure the Haves keep what they have and the Have-Nots remain empty handed.

The frustrating part is that I still have a functioning long-term memory. I remember that the housing prices have been artificially inflated since the housing bubble created by the derivative market starting in the late 1990s and exploding in the early 2000s. Nobody made any effort to restore realistic pricing after the crash of 2008. Too many people had bought too many homes at inflated prices by then.

In an effort to get the housing market moving again, Wall Street was allowed, for the first time, to buy single-family homes starting in 2011. They didn’t really start digging in until 2014 but once they did, they began consuming with abandon. Donny promised to address the problem. The fix is so simple, even he could actually get it done so when he said it, I kept an open mind.

All we have to do is return to the days when Wall Street was barred from buying single family homes and require them to divest their single family holdings in a fairly short time period. I recommend two to five years. The only bill I’ve heard of that covers the topic says ten years. I think that’s too long, but I’d take it over the current, “Screw you, it’s mine!” we have now…

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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” Ariel in ‘The Tempest,’ and, somehow, the most accurate description of our once beloved government. That Shakespeare guy was really pretty good…

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Hold on to your wallets. There goes the dollar. Donny has made his pick for the next Fed Chair: Kevin Warsh, a loyalist toady with no more knowledge of the economy than the Orange Moron himself. Actually, Warsh’s level of understanding won’t be relevant. Warsh’s job will be to do what Donny tells him to do without question or hesitation. It won’t MATTER if Warsh knows a choice trump has made is a bad move, he’ll do it because he’s ordered to do it.

That destabilizes the dollar. People are already fleeing the US dollar in droves and, if I may bastardize a Bachman-Turner Overdrive song, “B-b-b-baby, we just ain’t seen n-n-nothin’ yet.” Messing with the money is a common last straw for empires throughout history. I don’t care how special we see ourselves, it will be no different for us…

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Remember, every accusation from a con is an admission. Donny is claiming protestors in Minneapolis are being paid to be there. Donny is a known liar and hasn’t got one shred of evidence to prove his lie. He just says it. His source? One should see his lie as proof that Donny pays people to attend his rallies, protests, and insurrections. We KNOW his campaign paid to have some of the violent criminals present on J6, for example. We also know – nobody has to pay Americans to protest this regime…

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Holy Gods, we’ve been coming at this from entirely the wrong direction. It’s a much, much shorter list to ask, “Which rich and powerful men currently in, or coming into, the current regime do NOT appear in the Trump/Epstein Files? Because the more information comes out – as slowly as possible, and now we know why – the more it seems that if you ever hung around Donny socially, you raped kids.

That’s got to be hyperbole, right? But, Jeez, it sure seems like everyone surrounding him now, makes appearances in the Trump/Epstein files. It’s important to remember, there are names, lots of names in those files, of people Epstein was trying to schmooze or testing the waters of interest but didn’t do anything sexual with any minors. But now we know, there are plenty who did.

And, listen, just as a sidebar, aren’t you amazed – boggled might be a better word – at the sheer volume of files these guys have under their control? I would have been happy with just a list of the names on the DVDs Epstein recorded, apparently secretly. Those are the pervs I’m most interested in because those seem to be the DVDs Epstein used to blackmail people for having sex with minors. Um… allegedly.

But millions of files? At some point, we, the people have to ask how long so-called “important” people knew about this and did nothing – except, maybe, participate. Why did Epstein get a sweetheart deal the first time he got arrested and why wasn’t he arrested again sooner? Sadly, we all know the answer. Under normal circumstances, rich people get to rape poor people. Special rules for special people, you know. But I digress.

It’s the casual emails giving away the game right now. Elon wanted to know “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Howard Lutnick wanted to have a family vacation on the island. Okay, sure a family vacation doesn’t seem like anything nefarious, but kinky is kinky and we don’t know Lutnick or his family. Or, perhaps, the “family” was just the excuse. The emails seem to confirm at least one dinner Lutnick attended on Epstein’s island, with no mention of any family. There are more. Many more.

AFTER the publicity started damaging reputations, both Lutnick and Elon puked out the same story, “I didn’t know the guy and I never hung around with the guy.” But both Lutnick and Elon have email exchanges with Donny’s best friend from back when things were still private, working out times to get together and hang around.

I’ll tell you this: It’s just me, but I’m giving higher consideration to the emails written under the comfort of assumed privacy than the public disclaimers. That is to say, I think Elon and Lutnick are lying when they insist they didn’t know or interact with Jeffrey Epstein and/or Ghislaine Maxwell and now, because of their own lies, I suspect they DID have sex with minors…