All Forum Posts by: James Hamling

Than when done cleaning up a place, they come back out and do it all over again, so that you get that final report showing all is back within healthy normalized ranges. This report is also important.

Mold is serious, it can and does make people sick, it can make them really sick. And the rare really bad strains of mold, it can kill, no joke. So take it serious until you know it's not serious.

Clean-up is rather simple. Water is the #1 thing, no water = no way for mold to propagate.

Mold is literally everywhere, it's in the air all around us 24-7. The issue isn't mold being in a home, that's a misconception people have, the issue is it growing and the quantity of spores in the air.

And keep in mind your lungs are a great incubator for it too so wear a good quality respirator when cleaning it up. Full face mask with the pink filters, they got em at home depot.

Priority is getting place dried out. You can do that rather cheaply, and quickly so get on that STAT.

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I'll make it easy for you - there is no cash flow anywhere right now on LTRs.

I get where your coming from Nicholas but I'm gonna have to differ because I am doing it, and been doing it.

It's not easy, not by a long stretch.

And it's not crazy epic cash-flow day 1. But yeah, 1% deals do still exist, I know because I've done and am doing em.

Now those 1% deals, they sure ain't pretty. Your not getting AAA on those, heck no. Were talking solid D's. But it is what it is. If your with tunnel vision of cash-flow, your playing near the bottom of the barrel that's just how it is.

My A's, we never enter assuming cash-flow from the get-go but man-o-man I have gotten luck a whole lot of times and we've been hitting that mark consistently.

It's small yr1, very small, but a positive is a positive.

And our acquisition's from 3yrs ago people called "dumb"..... Yeah, nobody is calling em dumb anymore. There now doing very nice. Decent reasonable cash-flows and nice little pile of equity built up.

I actually had 1 client just this month on one we acquired just over 36mnths ago asking on Pyramiding because LTV is now about 50%. Remember how many people 3yrs ago were saying there's no deals to be had n just sit the sidelines?

The best day to buy is always yesterday. The second best is TODAY.

Personally I'd say it's a fools errand to hunt for some mythical cash-flow market. Energy is best spent picking the smart market for the long haul, and then find the deal in that market that works. Divorce, Estate, Retiring Landlord, Relocating for work, Exhausted Landlord, Failed Flip...... The opportunities are endless you just gotta get out there and DIG. They don't throw themselves on a silver platter and beg a person to take em.

Here, I will give out one of my "Secret Recipes" for FREE:

Pick your market of interest. Get property tax records, this varies area to area but I like to use a GIS top down map. I literally go house by house in an organized grid fashion street by street checking owner record of every property.

If it's an LLC, or where owners address for property tax is different than the subject property, I jot it down.

Make a list of the streets your doing, and make your list of "finds".

Next I go to "Professor Google". you'd be surprised how often contact info can be found that easily.

Or, there is a slew of cheap software out there to skip-trace. It can be cents per. Hey, it's not called investing for nothing, so yes, invest in your success, $100 will go a long way.

Then I call em. Yes, I cold call people. Yes, you will have to get comfortable striking up cold conversations if you want to succeed in this business. It's work, remember that, that's why we make $$$$ for doing it.

My pitch, it's really complex: "Hey, I'm so n so and I was just curious about the property _____, I came across it and that's a rental, right? (pause for an answer) Yeah, so I was just wondering, HOWS IT GOING? (pause and let them speak)

"What do you mean how's it going?"

Well, like I said I am a full time real estate professional, I specialize in investment property, I solve investment property problems. So I was just curious how it's going. Maybe life is great and you got the tiger by the tail, I hope so, but if not, I'd love to hear what you got going on. So how's it going????

And you let em talk. And 7:10 times, they will.

And you do this weird thing called have a human conversation with em.

No BS, no sly anything, just be real, be honest, give a dang about them and what they got going on, hear em out, me a shoulder to cry on because heck yeah your gonna get a bunch of "oh that fkn place, oh let me tell you about that dang ______".

And if you have a possible solution, something that may help solve there issues, tell em, ask if they'd be open to exploring if theres a way you could help em out.

No, don't try to "close" them, be a normal human being who solves problems for profit.

People aren't so dumb, if your genuine they will pick that up. If your disingenuous there gonna pick that up too. Just be real.

I guarantee if you talk to just 10 people a day 6 days a week you will get opportunities at deals every week. I did significant $$$$ from exactly this strategy. I still do, when I have time. I've made so many of these calls that now I get so many calls too me I don't have near the time I once did to do these outbound calls.

And they call me because they remember I was the rare genuine guy. I pushed nothing, I was honest, I always try to help even if the help is something I don't make a nickel from.

Because that's legitimately what I do, I help people. My job as a real estate professional is to help people, full-stop.

The more I help, the better I help, the better I make. Focus on what truly matters, the work, not the $$$$. That's my secret to making $, ignore the $, focus on the work and being awesome at it. The $ will follow. Call it financial karma.

This stands true if your trying to be a Real Estate Pro like me, or wholesale, or arbitrage, or just find your own deals because while you may think developing those relationships and helping people doesn't matter, you'd be wrong, who you are matters and building that reputation matters a whole lot. Get known and you'll be known. Deals will then find you.

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Columbus, Ohio

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All over the world, record numbers of Americans have relocated. It is in the news. I am pleased to help enlighten you.

Do you have any links or sources to the 'record number of Americans' that have relocated?

Quotes from realtors:

Costa Rica: "This is like nothing we have ever seen. There will be no way we have enough housing for everyone."

France: "We've been able to sell homes that have been on the market for years!"

European Country popular with Americans, "RECORD number of Americans applying for citizenship". https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/02/10/record-surge-in-irish-...

"..26 per cent more than in 2023".

https://www.wealthbriefing.com/html/article.php/Americans-Ap...

Record numbers of wealthy Americans move overseas https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthy-americans-foreign-re...

Americans are headed for the exits. https://newrepublic.com/article/191421/trump-emigration-wave...

There have now been SO MANY incidents of innocent people, American Citizens OR visiting foreign folks, blocked at the border, arrested for no reason, business people trying to go to work kept in solitary isolation for no reason, withheld from their family, their lawyer and other horrific stories (on top of the baseline fear of being shot) that I don't think visitors are eager to come here and citizens are very eager to leave. Canadians are very successfully boycotting the U.S. and their actions are hurting a lot of biz's here.

The fact is: This circus tent is collapsing and everyone on earth can see it.

There is 0 point responding to you. Your so far off into the delusional land that it's like trying to deprogram a cult member.

Canadian exports to USA makes up 1/3rd of the entire Canadian economy.

USA exports too Canada are a drop in the bucket.

Canada can punch the us at cost of chopping off there own limb. Not complicated math to understand who comes out on top in any trade war there. All USA has to do is wait for Canada to burn it's economy to the ground, then Canadians swap out there gov over it and press to end the insanity, Canada capitulates and done.

The math is clear.

As for your lunatic narrative of people rampantly being nabbed up and held "for no reason" as try to enter USA...... You do realize your story then requires a statement that all the people working at border control are some form of gestapo......

Because as you say, they just randomly grab people "for no reason", throw em in solitary etc etc.. If you can't see how koo-koo-crazy a thing that is, your helpless.

1. I appreciate you stopping with the disrespectful and frankly, stupid, name calling. Thank you.

2. Here is just ONE sector of the economy, tourism, which obviously shows Canada to not only be a great and critical neighbor for OUR nation's safety but an important trade partner. More than 30% of the total is Canada. Turn off Fox, please. And study some math.

3. Lastly, people, MANY PEOPLE, have now been grabbed at the border trying to enter the U.S. for business, etc, WITH APPROPRIATE VISAS, and taken (without reason or explanation) directly to jail, held there with no explanation and one that I know of was put in solitary confinement.

The fact that you don't know anything about this tells me what lying and treasonous sources you use for your news. Here is a story about just ONE of many. They are doing this on purpose. This was harassment, using our laws to harass innocent citizens. I believe I saw that she was also held in solitary confinement for a time. https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=jasmine%20mooney

There are now many cases like this to the point that of all the travel sites I am a part of, it has become a major conversation issue. I would say a majority of people who are regular travelers are now avoiding the United States for safety. Rightfully so.

I have a lot of stories. Your denial of this disaster is breathtaking.

Your assumptions are amusing. Your "Looney Lefty" isms are annoying.

I don't really watch Fox, if I do it's by happenstance that it comes across my news aggregator.
I don't really watch much for US based news other than financial because it isn't news anymore, it's propaganda machines to drive there sheeple.

I tend to watch more BBC or Reuters than anything else for the news spectrum of things.
Are those now lefty-no-no's????

And I am an immigrant household.
As such, most of our circle is also immigrants.
And I have no idea what the fck your talking about.
Nobody I know, or have heard through the grape-vine has experienced any of what your saying is happening in mass.
And your accusations sound crazy. As in one should seek medical attention crazy.

My comments STAND. I am sorry for your "household."

Whow whow whow, stop right there, WTF do you mean "sorry for your household"????

Are you dumb enough to try slander me for being an immigrant household?
Or "pity" us......
Either way you can take that BS and shove it where the sun don't shine!

There is nothing, not 1 damn thing wrong with my household status. We have earned our visas and our citizenships!
EARNED.
Do you have any concept of that word, EARNED.

Don't you dare pity us like we are anything lessor or in need of your BS virtue signal pity.
It's degrading and denigrating.

Wr are PROUD of our family, what we've come through. PROUD!

And this is why your lunatics are loosing us in DROVES too the R side of things.
We all get the memo that were supposed to be D, now literally instructing us and insulting us if we don't comply.

And thank you for being so DUMB.
Your gonna come to people who have mustered the courage to leave there home land, everything they know, to cross the world to a new foreign land and strike out to build a life from nothing..... And your gonna try to push us around, lol. Treat us like we're meek, dump, cowardly.... To be pittied....

How dare you!
And thank you for making it so easy to see the true colors.

Ya know, since I flipped from D (yup, that's right) and engaged in the R community they have been AMAZING!
They respect how we are not in lock step with em, 0% pressure, ZERO.
We have experienced nothing of negativity. They are readily open minded and hear out ideas and opinions on direct conflict to there own.
They are welcoming of different opinions and believe difference is what makes strength.

Your actions are why your party has lost us, literally pushed us away.
And those actions of the so called "evil R's" is why your probably never going to win us back ever.

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Denver, Colorado

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thanks for the predictions! regardless of my political beliefs, i am of course still hopeful that the economy remains strong. even the cuts to foreign aid though i don't think will bring that much money back domestically... open to other perspectives on this but i don't see it.

i genuinely don't know what will happen with interest rates. i do think even if there is a slight decrease, it brings buyers back like you said.

one thing that doesn't get covered a lot is how many properties are owned free and clear - about 40% i believe. so, these owners are under a lot less pressure to sell than someone with a mortgage payment. and in my experience they'd rather leave a property vacant than sell for less than what their neighbor got.

Taking that money that was going overseas, and keeping it at home, has got to have a positive affect. I mean, we're talkin 100's of Billions....

The #1 positive effect it has, that I never hear any talk about, is it improves the US position in global economy and trade positioning.

How?

Think of it this way. The US has been providing all this "free security" to ___name_the_nations___ . So those nations don't have to spend the $ and manpower on doing it themself.

Instead, those nations can spend the $ on things improving there economies, there exports, there whatever that is COMPETING vs US exports or what-not.

FORCE the nations to pay for there own programs, to provide and fund there own security, forcing them to stand on there own 2 feet vs USING U.S. and U.S. $ to pay for and do the things they don't want to pay for or do..... Yes, those nations have less in other arenas to infill for what they USED the US to do.

It's like kicking a near 30-something adult child out of your basement.

Yup, they go kicking and screaming how there just gonna starve. But you know they are 100% capable of taking care of themself, they just don't want to because the free ride was so nice.

The US has been paying for it's own competition, just in a round about manner.

Think of it this way. If you own a Burger joint, and across the street is another burger joint, what would happen if you pay 15% of there rent for them?

What if you paid 15% of the rent for every restaurant on the block?

Yup, next thing ya know your the most expensive on the street and struggling to sell anything because you can't price it as cheap as they all do.

STOP paying there rents. When they have to cover there own bills, like magic your selling more, because they can't afford to undercut you anymore. The undercutting you paid for....

Exactly. It always bugged me about Canada. We basically provide for their national defense. Then they take the billions in savings and use it for their social programs and healthcare, which they brag about (it's actually pretty bad) I say make them pay for their own defense and we spend the money on us for once...

We're the strongest, wealthiest country on the planet even giving away all that dinero, imagine what a force we'd be if we kept it? And really it's better not to prop up these other countries, they'd be strobger if they had to provide for themselves...kinda like when you enable a person, it's really not good for them or you....

Yeah, Canada has been rather arrogant on that level of things.

Did you know the ENTIRE Canadian armed forces, all of it, every branch, every piece and part, EVERYTHING combined is LESS than just the USMC......

And USA did it to itself. I don't blame Canada, they were smart, they took advantage of a great deal, were the idiots who've done nothing about it forever.

But what really irks me is things like Saudi Arabia. What in the hell are we doing funding literally ANYTHING thing for the Kings of oil?????

Seriously. Why are we OPECS water patrol?

They are literally EPIC rich.

The MORONIC argument of "we have to. If we don't protect it we won't have any oil". Uhm, if they can't sell it there FKD! They need us buying oil 10X more than we need to buy it from em.

Europe is 1,000% capable of standing up it's own unified standing army to protect itself. They are not deficient in a single thing, not a 1. They simply lack the interest to do it because were dumb enough to do it for em still. That's 36,000+ standing active duty, 24-7, that we are paying for.

Imagine how much 36,000 active duty soldiers and their kit costs? It's many millions, per DAY. An aircraft carrier strike group costs $6.5million, per DAY! Just 1 CSG.

It makes me wonder what pathetic limp-rags did these negotiations for the USA.

Picture if we negotiated a home purchase they way they do these deals, lol. We'd be paying $500k for a $300k listed property, than selling it back to them a year later for $100k......

It sounds like you could use some geopolitical education. You have a lot of questions whose answers are readily available in books and texts on geopolitics of the 20th and 21st century. I recently looked it up for another "Google skills-deprived man" and there are literally scores of recent and fairly recent great books to choose from. I highly recommend you read some and if you are interested in some titles feel free to DM me, glad to help.

Your a fantastic point for why BP needs to bring back the ignore feature......

"You're a fantastic point for why BP needs to bring back the ignore feature....."

Click on their profile name. On the far right (lol) are 3 dots. Click on those and you can 'block user'. It's easy, and in some cases, well worth it just for the annoyance factor. She has to be trolling us, no way someone could believe that stuff seriously...

It's not working for me because I tried doing exactly that and, her it keeps going getting her trolling.

I do think she is being sincere, I think she does believe this crazy stuff. When I looked up she had years of posts like this, including videos, going even way more into crazy-land. I am talking stuff where even my most blue-D friends would cringe and say "that's just crazy".

So I think she's being true to self.

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Denver, Colorado

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All over the world, record numbers of Americans have relocated. It is in the news. I am pleased to help enlighten you.

Do you have any links or sources to the 'record number of Americans' that have relocated?

Quotes from realtors:

Costa Rica: "This is like nothing we have ever seen. There will be no way we have enough housing for everyone."

France: "We've been able to sell homes that have been on the market for years!"

European Country popular with Americans, "RECORD number of Americans applying for citizenship". https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/02/10/record-surge-in-irish-...

"..26 per cent more than in 2023".

https://www.wealthbriefing.com/html/article.php/Americans-Ap...

Record numbers of wealthy Americans move overseas https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthy-americans-foreign-re...

Americans are headed for the exits. https://newrepublic.com/article/191421/trump-emigration-wave...

The fact is: This circus tent is collapsing and everyone on earth can see it.

There is 0 point responding to you. Your so far off into the delusional land that it's like trying to deprogram a cult member.

Canadian exports to USA makes up 1/3rd of the entire Canadian economy.

USA exports too Canada are a drop in the bucket.

The math is clear.

Because as you say, they just randomly grab people "for no reason", throw em in solitary etc etc.. If you can't see how koo-koo-crazy a thing that is, your helpless.

1. I appreciate you stopping with the disrespectful and frankly, stupid, name calling. Thank you.

I have a lot of stories. Your denial of this disaster is breathtaking.

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Denver, Colorado

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I know that anytime Trump's name is mentioned, someone gets triggered. Either the post is too anti-Trump, or too Pro-Trump.

Let me be clear - I do not condemn Trump's policies or necessarily know whether they will be positive in the long-term future or not for real estate investors. Further, "Downward Pressure" may be "bad" for investors, but it may also be "good" for renters - his policies, if I am correct, may negatively impact housing prices and rents, to the detriment of investors and to the benefit of renters, in the near-term.

"Positive" or "Negative" impacts are relative. I write from the standpoint of a real estate investor, and I perceive Trump's actions to be threatening to near-term real estate investment returns, on the whole. I believe this because I think that on the whole, his first two weeks of actions are likely to:

- Have zero no impact on near-term supply (deliveries for single family and multifamily homes 2025 are a result of actions put into motion several years ago)

- Put upward pressure on interest rates: Trump's demand that the Fed lower rates will have absolutely no effect, other than providing a cheap source of easy social media clicks and engagement for real estate pundits. However, the implementation of tariffs, or just the threat of tariffs, is likely to influence rates, by impacting inflation numbers, and this influence may come quickly if prices for many common goods and services and raw materials rise in anticipation of tariffs, or in response to their implementation.

- Put downward pressure on demand: I personally believe it is unlikely that Trump actually deports millions of illegal immigrants who have settled in the United States. This, to me, seems impractical, and a PR nightmare. It's possible he carries it out, but I believe it unlikely. I believe it is far more likely, however, that the effect of his stance and actions materially lessens the flow of new illegal immigrants. This will slow new demand for rentals. In the event that any meaningful percentage of 10-15 million (estimates seem to vary widely depending on which news source you prefer) current illegal immigrants are deported, real estate investors will have a big problem as vacancies soar. It is likely that a huge percentage of that 10M-15M illegal immigrant population are renters. Regardless of whether investors currently rent to illegal immigrants, their competition in the market likely does.

- Put Upward pressure on real estate operating costs: Increased costs for raw materials and supplies, and the likely increased costs for labor involved in many real estate related CapEx and maintenance projects signal the risk of increase in costs for real estate operators.

If there is no impact on near-term supply, a modest slowing of inbound (illegal) migration, more reason to believe that the cost of many goods and services will increase, and real reason to believe that inflation triggered by something other than an increase in the money supply (namely the cost of specific goods and services that are NOT housing going up, which comprise the CPI) will force the Fed to raise rates, this, on the whole, is not good for real estate investment returns.

No, I do not think that there will be a housing crash or a massive drop, nationwide, in rents and prices. Yes, there will be offsets (do Tariffs and slowing illegal immigration increase wages for some workers - likely yes). But, I believe that the actions of the first two weeks should give investors, on the whole, reason to incrementally revise down their expectations for growth in prices or rent growth in 2025. There may also be incrementally better probability of deals, as investors who are dependent on rates coming down may find their hopes disappointed.

I think 2025 will be, by and large a buyer's market, and that the new administration's policies only, and again incrementally, make me more confident that this will be the case.

What do other investors think? Do you agree or disagree?

Keep in mind that most illegals are / were given free housing in hotels, group homes and many families living in the same space. They are not / were not instrumental in prices going up or responsible for the housing shortage.

Builders just haven't built enough houses to keep up with natural growth. A lot went out of business.

I think the Trumpster says what he means and means what he says. I can imagine there will be free transportation for any illegal that finds it in his best interest to head back to wherever.

It's only been two weeks, wait until the machine gets churning and things like dedicated passenger trains to the border are available & deporting more.

I think the most effective arguments Trump has, is that since many of the folks are very loyal family members, they will self-deport when grandma or grandpa are deported.

And, if they are told they can not reenter the country, for 20 years or so, if they don't self deport, with a permanent bar if they get deported. I believe that's an effective message.

And if the government removes the app that the illegals use to get food, shelter, money and legal advice, then it becomes a whole new ball game.

Regulations are slowing building down. And what I'm seeing is that many would be sellers think it's still 2022 when prices were higher. It will be a year or two before they emotionally catch up to reality and list at reasonable prices.

Your idea that the "illegals", as you call those humans, were the issue misses his point of the article, entirely. Around the world, I would say a majority of nations have "Do not travel" warnings about the United States due to potential violence, multiple innocent people being jailed at the border for no reason for WEEKS without notice to their family, etc, and the inability of even U.S. citizens to return to their own nation without onerous and fear inducing tactics by federal agents.

Travel to the U.S. has plummeted, particularly from Canada, U.K. and others. No one wants to be put in the path of this. Nations around the world are reforming trade agreements that eliminate the U.S.

It will impact rental numbers in a large way. Not to mention the many millions of top middle class folks leaving the country permanently.

Well there is that. He likely fixed the "tight housing" situation.

Last I looked, even under the Biden administration, coming into the country without proper permission was illegal. If someone will break that law, they will willing accept food stamps, free housing, voter ID, and on and on. Not spewing hate when you speak the facts. You just have a warped perspective on the situation.

Do you realize how violent coming to the border is for women and children? They pay the price and you encourage it.

How many of these people have you taken in and fed and clothed and protected from harm.

It's a very serous safety issue.

It is seriously jaw dropping that a) you think YOU are the authority on who should or should not be in our great nation, b) that you think it is possible this behavior could be a "positive for the economy"and further, c) trump said he has the right to arrest and jail anyone for any reason he wants to, without a trial, having never committed any crime. We have hundreds of innocent people now in a U.S. Concentration Camp, being tortured. Innocent people grabbed off of the streets. If you think that is going to improve real estate here, I highly recommend you speak to someone who lived in China during Mao Zedong and ask them how the economy worked, how agriculture worked, how housing worked there. Seriously.

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And you again fail to cite your source. You're wasting your breath making allegations that have no basis.

You mention, China. We aren't discussing China. I don't own real estate in China, you've never been to China, you have no idea how things in China are run.

Why are you bringing China into this? Very, very, strange.

Have you even been to another country?

Hey, to Kelly's credit; when she doubles down she DOUBLE DOWN, lol.

Now saying law enforcement is TORTURING people..... in "U.S. Concentration Camp".....

I find people and minds like this so interesting. I find it fascinating how one can become so brainwashed and fanatical that they just ignore all obvious common sense around them and cling to the wildest of extremism.

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Denver, Colorado

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I thought it was an "Onion" headline, but it turns out that our Cheeto-in-Chief wants to send $5000 dollar Stimi-checks again, ie direct M2 inflation like he did in 2020, this time to every American "household", about 130 million of those. But now under the guise of "returning the waste and fraud to the American people." This would be about 650 Billion dollars one time so far.

This could certainly potentially worsen inflation again, remember he caused the recent 2021-22 inflation by printing 3.4 Trillion no one needed, followed by grandpa Biden adding his own 2.3 Trillion or so, though he may not remember doing it. If we get a second inflation bump now with a weakening Europe and Asia, he may just bring on the next recession, and that won't be good for CRE at all.

Last week's CPI print was awesome. It showed a headline core CPI of just 3.3%, but as we all know it's housing component is 36% of the number and it uses an antiquated sampling system of owner equivalent rents O.E.R., that is 1 year old data and bad data due to methodology. If you instead put in actual current Rent data, which is much lower, the core CPI is currently 2%, which is the putative FED ie New Zealand target. As future monthly CPI reports print, wall-street and the US treasury market will then trade on this, thus continuing the fall of the 10 year yield, likely to upper to mid 3s, lowering mortgage rates/cap rates. Now the guy who "knows the best words and went to the best schools" is threatening all the pain that we have endured from the FEDs Rate-pocalypse in 2022.

I'm still hoping mainstream media picked up the story from the "Onion" and it's not true. Didn't he and Herr Musk tell us we needed to decrease the debt and deficit? Maybe use that 650 Billion to pay down our credit card balance which is rising at 1 Trillion every 95 days and perhaps then the Bond market would take our own country seriously.

Maybe Trump and Biden and their rich friends actually want to subject our middle class to a permanent state of Penury, by engineering inflation at every chance?

I have mixed feelings on this.....part of my brain says to take that money and pay down the debt, that's what I would do if t were my household finances...but then, what a brillant political move to send everyone (well they're saying only taxpayers) a check for a few grand. If I were going to be really sneaky, I would give everyone a little something, imagine the goodwill that would spread.....

It's hilarious.

If Trump RETURNS our tax payment's that were recaptured for whatever BS spending attempts, he's a bad guy.

Yet if he did all this and DIDNT return it, he'd be labeled a thief and bad guy for keeping it.

COVID happens and world is in panic, shuttering the entire economy per the demand and directive of ALL in government especially the D's...... And Trump is a bad guy for the $ sent to help get people by. Yet Biden is a savior for doing the same thing......

Trump bad on deportations, Obama great for deportations.......

There is literally NOTHING Trump or Elon can do right, NOTHING.

Do these lunatics think we are blind to this BS setup? Do they really think us so dumb that we can't see what's right in front of our faces?

Find corruption and insane waste in Gov spending, now your a bad guy....

How did we get here?

How did we get to this point where people literally don't care what's done, however good or bad, that the ONLY thing that matters is what club there a member of?

This isn't division, it's derangement.

Picture a person in court for charges of murder and the jury says "yeah yeah yeah, evidence schmevidence, but who did he vote for?".

That's the exact insanity people are using now. W-T-F....

M 7:2-3, M 7:12

1. Nobody voted for Elon, so he has no business mucking around, period, especially in our private data, nor in government systems.

2. As for Trump wanting to give money back to the people, you will find that the people he wants to give the money to aren't the same as the ones who sent the money in. Trump's tax cuts -- which he wants to extend -- are heavily biased towards the top 1 percent. Then there's the small matter of deficits increasing under Trump more than they did under Biden.

3. Assume the spending cuts are made and money saved -- pay down the debt. Better yet, let the tax cuts expire and use the extra revenue to pay down the debt and build productive infrastructure. You will find that that was Biden's plan. Trump wants to crate the economy and direct money to the rich.

This whole propaganda of "Nobody voted for Elon" is just obnoxious at this point.

Did anybody vote for your mail carrier?

The President is the flipping PRESIDENT, as in head of the dang government. This nauseating concept that the President is just a figure head who's supposed to actively run nothing and EVERY federal manager or advisor requires a National vote is REDICULOUS.

And every American not infected with derangement syndrome acknowledges this and keeps shaking there head at the "Karens" and there fake freak-out on this demanding everyone join in there temper tantrums.

Do you not notice how the vast majority of the nation is NOT with you on your karen-campaign?

Do you not notice the vast majority of the country saying "give it a rest and let them do there dang jobs"?

This wasn't some post election day switcheroo, Trump literally PROMISED us, the American people this, EXACTLY this. For month's telling everyone, campaigning on it. And the people spoke! They voted FOR THIS.

So what your doing is literally yelling at people saying "OMG, aren't you MAD, there doing exactly what they said they'd do and what you asked them to do! HOW DARE THEM!"....

When you buy a plan ticket to Dallas, and land in, Dallas, do you get out and yell at them "How dare you take me to Dallas!"....

As for Biden's plan..... you are aware it was Biden who extended these tax cuts.

You need to step out your propaganda bubble my friend. Stop regurgitating what some talking head is telling you to think things are and instead read some actual facts of stuff.

And when you can show me $ actually being sent to a 1%er and nothing to the rest, then I'll listen to this BS broken record. This is the exact same BS propaganda that's been said literally Trumps entirety ever in office of "OH NO he's gonna....." and it NEVER happens. NEVER!

Gonna make WWIII with N.korea.... never happened.

Gonna make a great depression.... never happened.

On and on and on and on.......

Were not listening to the BS anymore. We fell for it and got a geriatric bumbling moron and his cackling parrot that literally f'd off while unknowns ran the place and sold we the people down the river.

Everything literally EVERYTHING was worse. Except for that 1%.......

"This whole propaganda of "Nobody voted for Elon" is just obnoxious at this point. Did anybody vote for your mail carrier?"

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"And when you can show me $ actually being sent to a 1%er and nothing to the rest, then I'll listen to this BS broken record."

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My mail carrier had to go through a background check, pass a civil service exam, has limited duties, and isn't demanding access to complex computer systems that he doesn't understand and view sensitive, personal data.

BTW -- Biden didn't extend Trump's tax cuts.

Not even a nice try trying to move the goalposts -- Trump gave a pittance in tax cuts for the regular people, and the vast majority of the cuts went to the top 1 percent. -- Which is why you tried to change the goalposts.

Trickle down has never worked. Didn't work for Reagan, Didn't work for the Shrub. Didn't work for Trump even before Covid. Those cuts don't trickle down, and they don't pay for themselves.

The only one in a propaganda bubble is you, James. That's fine, but stop making stuff up and stop making false comparisons.

You can't seriously be that daft......

Elon Musk, founder of PAYPAL..... Dude, PAYPAL. P-A-Y-P-A-L..... Do I need to spell it out in crayola for you of what access he has forever had?

Not to mention SPACE-X.... Elon literally holds a Top Secret USG security clearance level. This is the guy the CIA calls when they need whatever sent into space.

But yeah, I'm sure you right that the guy who controlled PAYPAL and Space-X is not to be trusted with your address, because ya-know that's some super secret stuff nobody can get with a freakin google search......

So Biden didn't extend Trump I tax cuts..... What color is the sky in your world? Was Biden POTUS for 4 years? Are the Trump I tax cuts still in place? This isn't hard math here buddy....

If Johnny started with 1 apple, and still has 1 apples, how many apples did Johnny NOT eat?

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So Biden didn't extend Trump I tax cuts..... What color is the sky in your world? Was Biden POTUS for 4 years? Are the Trump I tax cuts still in place? This isn't hard math here buddy...."
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Trump's 2017 tax cuts were set to expire in 2025, the length of Biden's entire term.

Musk is accessing more than addresses, and you know it.

The sky here is blue. You need to learn how to read a calendar.

See this is the selective narrative that oh-so-many of us "normal" Americans are wide-awake noticing, and oh-so flippin exhausted of.

You have Bilbo-Biden so quick with the pen to erase Trump I this that n the other, cheering executive power the whole way and decrying how everything/anything Trump is so bad. You declare the Trump I tax cuts as "$ for the rich" bady-bad-evil.... well, what happened, was the pen out of ink?

Oh-no, narrative flips and it's "well that was already in place so couldn't touch that".....

Oh.... But everything else that was in place, that's "different"....

We see you....

We see through the BS, distortion and spin.

Tell me, what is it your so terrified Musk will see in the data?

What is it Musk, a person with TS-Q level clearance or better, who is entrusted with national Security Secrets, can not be trusted with?

What is this info that countless millions haven't freely given Musk at PayPal?

Musk has held TS-Q+ security clearance for years, all the data at paypal, and not 1 single instance of any fraud or impropriety ever.... But NOW, all of a sudden he can't be trusted......

Hummmm, I wonder what changed between all those years and now all of a sudden? What changed in recent weeks/month's where Musk suddenly can't be trusted....... I wonder.....

There is people, literally thousands of people, with significantly lessor security clearance, lessor scrutiny, lessor oversight, who have all this data and have for years on end. What about them?

I mean, if Musk and TS-Q security clearance is not enough, ok, then what security clearance level is enough?

Are you going to also demand the literal thousands of other Gov workers who have significantly lessor security clearance be immediately barred access to this data?

So you want the SS department to literally close, now, today. I guarantee not a single one of them has TS-Q clearance.

Medicare and Medicaid, you want them stopped and shut down too.

They have this data, your name, SS#, income etc. and not a 1 of those federal workers has TS-Q clearance.

Should I go on?

The IRS, holly-cow, they IRS has ten's of thousands with this data and not a dang one has received Top Secret Q level clearance.......

I hit you with facts and you spin, lie and distort. Because the entire premise of your argument is a lie.

The true premise is you Hate Trump, you hate Elon because of his association to Trump, and thus you hate anything and everything they do. But you can't speak that truth because you know it won't sell. So you seek info to assist your pre-determined narrative that there dumb, bad, and doing wrong.

VS I who have no agenda other than the truth, dig for the truth, for facts, and wherever they take me. And the facts are NOT what your propagandize.

Elon is definitively the most secured person to ever be appointed a presidential advisor or a cabinet head (even though he technically isnt, even if he was point stands).

Elon has done/doing projects for/with the NRO. Do you even know what that means?

You even TALK like them. It's chilling to listen to low education, high verbal volume folks. Your points are incorrect and painful to listen to.

Wow.... I of course was able to identify the "Looney Lefty" but I had no idea your were full on full-throttle NUTTER until saw your cra-cra video on how COVID was caused by Trump.....

How Trump "did it" that not enough medical things.....

Wow..... That takes a whole other level of derangement.

Since you keep banging the drum how were all so uneducated, inferring your so superior.... I am curious how University of Oklahoma in the 80's lends one to an idea of throwing such stones?

What's your MD "educate" on economics?

I actually went to school for Business and economics. As well as Engineering. So education wise, yeah, I think I got a leg up. I'd never mention it or brag to such but since you keep banging that drum, there ya go.

I also received a Presidential commendation for being in top 2% of National test scores when I completed High School. So I think I'm doing ok on the intelligence side of things.

Extra credit if anyone can guess right which President it was..... (Please say Obama, please say Obama, lol)

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All over the world, record numbers of Americans have relocated. It is in the news. I am pleased to help enlighten you.

Do you have any links or sources to the 'record number of Americans' that have relocated?

Quotes from realtors:

Costa Rica: "This is like nothing we have ever seen. There will be no way we have enough housing for everyone."

France: "We've been able to sell homes that have been on the market for years!"

European Country popular with Americans, "RECORD number of Americans applying for citizenship". https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/02/10/record-surge-in-irish-...

"..26 per cent more than in 2023".

https://www.wealthbriefing.com/html/article.php/Americans-Ap...

Record numbers of wealthy Americans move overseas https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthy-americans-foreign-re...

Americans are headed for the exits. https://newrepublic.com/article/191421/trump-emigration-wave...

The fact is: This circus tent is collapsing and everyone on earth can see it.

There is 0 point responding to you. Your so far off into the delusional land that it's like trying to deprogram a cult member.

Canadian exports to USA makes up 1/3rd of the entire Canadian economy.

USA exports too Canada are a drop in the bucket.

The math is clear.

Because as you say, they just randomly grab people "for no reason", throw em in solitary etc etc.. If you can't see how koo-koo-crazy a thing that is, your helpless.

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