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So what I’m doing from now until Monday is building a sort of focus group. Basically I’m looking normal people from the kinds of places our message isn’t penetrating that I can talk to about politics… and test our messaging on.
Fucking Facebook blah.
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@olink are you free those times? I’m thinking Monday at 2pm EST should work for everyone if it works for you.
Yeah, cool.
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Alright everyone, lock it in for 2pm EST Monday!
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what are you guys gonna call it? The Left-Punching Project? Hope y’all fail <3
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Maybe you should read the thread before being an ass. After the GA runoff, the plan is to attack the Dem establishment and support primary challengers from the left.
But maybe you prefer that McConnell keeps the Senate so you’re just pissed we’re planning on helping eDems in the primary?
I’ve had an idea for an Association of sorts but I have no idea how viable it would be.
The Basic Premise is to make some sort of National Renters Coalition.
You’d serve two main purposes:
-Offer renters free legal services in disputes with landlords
-Represent the interests of renters at community meetings, zoning decisions, lobbying city councils, etc
The basic premise is that renters in big cities represent a huge portion of the population but they have no organizing force or political pull, so homeowners often have their views heard and represented way more despite being a minority and this feels like a huge force behind urban NIMBY politics.
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Something like this?
Yeah those are going to get way bigger because of the fight between tenants and landlords over who pays for the rent during COVID. It’s going to get ugly, but the landlords are going to lose most places. It’s very hard to get rent from people whose rent was already set at the theoretical maximum they could afford before the world fell apart for them. They haven’t got it. They aren’t going to get it. Get fucked.
The landlords are going to win, but be unable to immediately collect. People will spend as long as it takes paying it off. It’ll do economic damage because they won’t be spending it elsewhere and will need to downgrade their living conditions or otherwise reduce their spending.
It’s worth noting that a lot of them put themselves in this situation and helped the landlords blow up the rents beyond what was reasonable but being willing to spend every dollar available on rent instead of leaving some room to save.
I rented a room from a dude who was a year older than me, so 34 at the time. He owned his house, but twice asked me to pay the rent early so he could afford his mortgage payment. My rent for one room in a 3 bedroom covered about 60% of his mortgage payment and I paid half the cable/internet/utils. He was single and made about 80K a year. He drove an Audi and had two motorcycles.
He had no business being paycheck to paycheck even without a tenant. To be paycheck to paycheck with one was insanity. I’m sure a lot of renters put themselves in that spot voluntarily. Plenty more were forced into it by a scummy marketplace, I feel bad for them. I don’t feel bad for the ones who chose that path and played a role in driving up rents for everyone.
I think it’s going to be spectacularly hard to collect. They’ve got a better shot at a bailout than they do to get paid 8 months of back rent from someone they evicted in January 2020.
I mean it could take years or wage garnishment but I wouldn’t bet against the landlords. I don’t think most tenants will file for bankruptcy.
Or maybe we just bail out all the landlords because they’re good little capitalists who don’t deserve the consequences of… free markets. Yay bailouts yay free market capitalism!
I mean this really is the crux of so much of our system right now. We don’t have free market capitalism, we have socialism for the oligarchs who are too big to fail. I guess the question is whether the landlords count in that category or not.
Some do some don’t. The little ones are probably going busto long before their tenants are solvent.
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By the way this also probably goes a long way to describing the bubble in the stock market. The risk of most companies in the S&P 500 going to zero is negligible no matter what. As a result they can put all their cash to work and ignore any cushion, generating more profit AND the value goes up because the risk of ruin that must be factored in goes down.
Socialism works!
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Right, then we bail out the lenders and the REITs buy up the distressed properties the little landlords lost.
There you go. You’re all the way there.
In Austin right now houses are disappearing off the market almost as fast as they get posted. The PE firms are paying cash and turning them into rentals.
I thought prices were going to go down… but nah. I’m sure the crash will happen right after my wife and I close on a house.
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Ad Idea, narrated by scary voice guy:
Dominion Voting Systems stole the election from Donald Trump. But the web runs deep into Georgia. Dominion is owned by global investment firm Staple Street Capital Management, headquartered in NEW YORK, where the NEW YORK Stock Exchange is run by Jeffrey Specher, whose wife is Kelly Loeffler. How do you think she beat Doug Collins in the election??? Hmm???
Why do they use different last names, if not to hide their dubious connections to private equity firms in liberal NEW YORK???
Kelly Loeffler wants a rigged election. Kelly Loeffler: not worth your vote.
Leave out “ Kelly Loeffler: not worth your vote,” let the clever boy figure out what to do about it on his own. Not voting is the least of his initial concerns when faced with this diabolical plot.
I realize many of them are half joking, but lot of the “liberal pretending to be a MAGA” posts I see on Twitter spoil themselves by explicitly ending with exactly what a liberal would want the MAGA to do.
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