Those towns/cities? One has around a 54% Hispanic/Latino population; the others have over-60% Hispanic/Latino populations.

Plenty of raw material for those Kavanaugh Stops, eh, compadres?

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot ... .

Rudyard Kipling, Tommy

"Republican" and "values"

"Was that contempt I saw on the face of the leader of China?"

Bigly.

Bill's posting persona reminds me of Al, a former near neighbor. Al had opinions. Lots of opinions. He knew a lot, as he would often remind folks. But he was getting old, and not just in years. Like Bill and Trump, AL was that guy who always has vacant stools around his mumble corner at the bar. Asked if he was considering retiring, Al would reply in the negative. Because he was, he claimed, "indispensable."

He has since been dispensed with, of course.

So it goes in the Don-Al-Bill mumble corner.

t's hard, or it lands on deaf ears, for a Californian to blame Republicans for anything that's happening in our State.
#123 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Maybe for those with short memories.

Did Trump, his butler, caddie, and Natalie arrive in their cute catering cart?

Your inability to deal with the topic at hand duly noted.

That goes hand in hand with your acknowledgment that illegal border crossings are lower under Trump.
I mean....right?
#65 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

"Acknowledgment"? What the actual --- are you yipping about? Seriously, are you well, Bill?

I'm not trying to build a "case"
#58 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

That's good, Bill, because you failed to make it.

NYT headline for the news is a good summary:

Mortgage Rates Hit 7% as Iran War Fallout Crushes a Weak Housing Market

#35
Bill -
Blowing off the numbers you've used to buttress your "case" - e.g., #28, #33, #35 - is just plain odd.

Bill - You appear to be okay with that data, but I find it questionable - much like the government's claims about having intercepted x or x percent of illegal drugs. Problem is, the basic number cannot be known, whether it's how many people cross or how many tons of junk are brought in. Estimates, sure? But actual numbers? No.

From the article:

High mortgage rates contributed to a 2% decline in existing home sales in August from the previous month, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The median sale for an existing home was about $429,000. At that price, a single percentage point increase in the mortgage rate can cost buyers hundreds of additional dollars a month and tens of thousands over the life of the loan.

Bill not Bull

#28
Figures, Bull, from where and based on what? Gracias.

Indeed.

Hmmmm ... No, sorry: checkmate.

Urban environment with rats and fleas? Oh, horrors, Flora, how we gonna keep em down on the farm?

Rule by Fuhrerprinzip.

Make sure you thank a Republican.

It's what they wanted for us.

And, boy, did we get it

Please let me know when the oil tanker navigation situation at the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab revert to late-February 2025 antebellum conditions.

Those goatherders checkmated the US.

The answer is Soylent Green.
#86 | POSTED BY NIXON

About that 330,000 tons of Trump Mystery Meat ...