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This Breit Bart Article makes me wonder how many 2024 era Americans...
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When Hillary used to be a Democrat Centrist in 2008.
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Simply giving a portion of Ukraine back to Russia without anything in return is probably not a good idea. My minimal understanding of what Russia wants is there are two regions of Ukraine Russia desires.
If Russia gets one of the areas, then Ukraine will be allowed to join NATO. If Russia wants 2 regions of Ukraine, then Ukraine is allowed into NATO and is also allowed to have nuclear weapons again.
If Russia agrees to completely withdraw from Ukraine, then Ukraine does not join NATO and continues to not have nuclear weapons.
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When Nancy Pelosi and elected California Democrat Super Majority Politicians led an impeachment crusade during Donald Trump's first term in Office, the first impeachment vote was altered from a NO 191-186 vote, to a yes Impeachment Vote because of California's Super Majority legislators vote.
The rest of the country VOTED NO to Donald Trump's Impeachment. It was California's vote that turned the impeachment vote from No, to Yes.
Without the Pelosi led California Vote to impeach Trump, there would have been no Trump impeachment. The Trump Impeachment vote created a perpetual shaming crusade heaped squarely on Donald Trump's shoulders while his Washington approved Cabinet did virtually nothing to back Trump. Without California's super majority hostility toward President Trump during his first term in office, Trump's reputation would have been more favorably looked upon by Democrats.
Since California is publicly doubling down on their disgust for Trump before Trump has even been sworn in for his second term, I think it is only fair that Donald Trump declare the State of California as a hostile State, and act accordingly.
California's dysfunctional present day actions most likely have their roots from the Reagan era of California Governance.
California's last gasp to curtail rising taxation was the passing of Proposition 13 in the late 70's, which limited the increase in property taxes to a survivable level.
80's and 90's California Democrat Politicians enlisted the aid of as many State financed unions by promising unrealistic pension plans that spanned decades into the future.
The Democrat approved pension plans were unsustainable, and the Unions probably knew it, so they doubled down and made sure they tipped the ballot box in favor of Democrat Policies that have included never ending tax increases that help fund policies that include the unrealistic pension promises.
2024, there is still a built in ballot box lead on any tax increase proposal because of the past promises Democrat Politicians have made to their Unions.
California Democrat Politicians rely on cramming more and more impoverished into less and less space so they can then hire social justice warriors to feed the biased California press with empathy inducing story lines caused by overpopulation that they falsely claim is created by racist, fascist, selfish Americans. This is the California Democrat Socialist Party Of America Plan, and it requires shoveling billions of dollars into the California Homeless Industrial Complex so that hundreds of six figure jobs serve as the cornerstone for keeping California Democrats, who blindly follow their leaders, to then donate back to the Democrat Party.
If you are skeptical, California cannot account for over 50 billion dollars of homeless and unemployed payouts, and the figure may actually be much closer to 100 billion dollars.
Donald Trump's re-election has so awoken California Politicians, California will do whatever they can politically to ensure Donald Trump's second term is filled with as much animus as they unfairly created during Trump's first term, and thus, Donald Trump should declare California Legislatures as hostile towards the goals of a unified country that cares for its taxpayers first.
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November 17, 2024
See item 2 -Council file 21-1230-S5. (There are additional agenda Items 3, 4, and 10) to be heard related to the Housing Element but the CHIP program is covered under Item 2 /Council File 21-1230-S5.)
We strongly encourage community members to submit written comments to the Council File for PLUM's Consideration.
Support Draft #3 of the Housing Element CHIP program that preserves R1 communities, and OPPOSE Exhibit D options to upzone R1 neighborhoods.
There will be heavy lobbying by Abundant Housing supporters and related organizations to ELIMINATE single family neighborhoods citywide via the Housing Element.
We must lobby the PLUM Committee and submit comments to support DRAFT VERSION # 3 of the Housing Element / CHIP Ordinance which preserves R1 SINGLE FAMILY ZONING -- without adoption of the Exhibit D options included in the Planning Dept. report.
The CHIP program (DRAFT VERSION 3) as approved by the City Planning Commission includes language that preserves R1 SINGLE FAMILY zoning. We support adoption of the City Planning Commission action taken which did not include Exhibit D options.
Exhibit D presents different OPTIONS to upzone R1 neighborhoods citywide at increasing levels of density. We request and suggest that Exhibit D NOT be considered for adoption by PLUM or the City Council. There are many reasons why it is inappropriate and bad public policy to upzone R1 properties via the Housing Element. (Detailed additional information is attached fyi.)
Comments are to be submitted to the Council File 21-1230-S5.
You may also wish to copy your comment and email it directly to the email of the PLUM Committee members:
Chair John Lee - councilmember.lee@lacity.org
CM Kevin DeLeon -councilmember.deleon@lacity.org
CM Heather Hutt-councilmember.hutt@lacity.org
CM Ismelda Padilla -councilmember.padilla@lacity.org
CM Katy Yaroslavsky-councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org _________________________________________________________
WHY YOUR VOICE AND WRITTEN INPUT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT - Hearing Tuesday
There has been a great deal of misleading information about zoning and efforts to link LA's housing and homelessness challenges to the existence of R1 neighborhoods. The public has been incorrectly led to believe that adequate housing fails to be built because of the amount of R1 zoned land in LA -- often quoted at 70+% of LA's land. Note that it is not 70+% of ALL land, it is 70+% of all RESIDENTIALLY zoned land.
Most importantly, what that figure also fails to acknowledge is that a large portion of that R1 zoned land CANNOT be developed for more dense uses. It is the land in the high fire severity zones of the SM Mountains and other ranges and high fire severity zones throughout the City. It includes the land in the high tide zones at the coast and areas adjacent to sensitive biological resources.
The City quietly acknowledges that 35% of R1 zoned land cannot be developed for higher uses -- which means that less than 45% of LA's developable residential land is zoned R1. That is a very different picture from a reference nearing 3/4 of all land as reported in the media. And, it is hoped that all agree that it is bad policy to seek to increase density where public safety is placed at risk.
The City has clearly demonstrated that it can meet and exceed the housing goals assigned to it by the State in the current Regional Housing needs Assessment (RHNA ) planning cycle withoutupzoning single family neighborhoods.
The City Planning Commission adopted the Planning Dept's recommendations to approve the Housing Element CHIP program draft #3 which preserves R1 neighborhoods without upzoning. However, Exhibit D remains in the PLUM packet and housing advocates continue to lobby for it and the upzoning of R1 areas.
If in the future, the City were to need to add new zoning capacity and desired to make zoning changes to R1 areas, that effort would be more appropriately done via the Community Planning process with transparency and public participation to identify the best places for such upzoning where infrastructure can best meet the needs of a growing population and negative impacts reduced or eliminated.
Blanket upzoning via the Housing Element would allow for developers and speculators to cherry pick any R1 property for multi-family construction without regard to adjacent homes, neighborhood integrity, infrastructure availability, etc. This would essentially permit developers to become our City's planners based upon their incentive to generate profit -- not to plan for sustainable, livable communities.
The City cannot abandon its duty to plan for a livable Los Angeles for all Angelenos -- families, the young and old. Its responsibility is to oversee thriving, balanced communities -- not merely to incentivize the construction of housing units.
ADDITIONAL INFO (perhaps more than one might ever want) is attached for your info.
WRITE NOW:
Submit your comment in support of the Housing Element CHIP Draft #3 that preserves R1 neighborhoods and prohibits the upzoning options presented in Exhibit D. Oppose Exhibit D. Support CHIP Draft # 3
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I waited until 8:57 pm Eastern to release my prediction. As a Trump Supporter, I have had a fear that Trump wins the Popular Vote by 1 to 2%, but barely loses the Electoral College Vote.
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Seeing Kamala Harris promise to fix inflation caused by Biden Presidency giveaways, by promising more inflation causing Government giveaways if she is elected, makes DailyPUMA wonder why there were no Trump commercials from Homeowners who have benefited from the Trump era low mortgage interest rates.
Here's a quote that would have been the truth..."I survived the Biden inflationary economy because of the 500 dollar monthly mortgage refinance reduction during the Trump Presidency".
Or, "Donald Trump's low mortgage rates saved me more money every month than any future alleged tax cut Kamala Harris is promising."
Or..."I used a low interest Home Equity Line of Credit during the Trump economy to pay off my credit cards and am grateful I did now that Credit Card Interest rates are the highest they have ever been".
Instead, all I see are Harris commercials of Trump chumming around with wealthy people and then lying and saying Trump won't help the middle class, when Trump did help the middle class with low Mortgage and HELOC interest rates, and low inflation.
Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, 2:40am update. The same Suburban women who are not voting for Trump, are the same
Suburban women who benefited from low mortgage re-finance rates during
the Trump administration, Trump Ads should have reminded them of just how they got through the Biden years.
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Donald Trump has just cause to go after the Lawfare he was subjected to. However, the image the Progressive Party has falsely painted is Trump rounding every one up who participated in Lawfare and leaking to the Press for their own financial gain.
I wish Donald Trump had offered some type of leniency program to anyone from the Swamp that came forward with evidence of wrong doing during the campaign, as a way to quell the anti Trump swamp squeal we have all been subjected to for the past 8 years.
The audacity to continue to attack Trump after all he has been subjected to tends to make DailyPUMA believe there is a there, there regarding illegal, insurrection activity against Donald Trump.
If Trump is elected and no one comes forward in exchange for whistleblower leniency, maybe there were no indictable crimes, if people come forward, then the nation can have clarity and focus going forward.
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Next Door Dot com seems to be on a mission to quash Trump Supporters, and perhaps what is worse, quash Neighbors from posting videos anonymously when they see dangerous people in their community doing dangerous things.
The Mainstream Media is holding out and refusing to cover stories on U.S. Gang infiltration directly caused by Biden / Harris Undocumented policies over the past 3 and 3/4 years.
Next Door dot com insidiously requires each neighborhood member post their own real name ID when posting videos of dangerous people doing dangerous things in their own Next Door dot com community.
Many local news stories nascently begin as Next Door dot com videos. However, if there are a group of individuals who belong to known cartels occupying one apartment among a hundred apartments, Next Door dot com will not allow any videos to be posted anonymously about possible illegal behavior, unless the Next Door dot com member posts their first name and last name's first letter initial. More than enough information for those who break the law to track down their neighbor who posted a video about their activity.
I have twice been deactivated by Next Door dot com after being intentionally blindsided with 3 alleged violations all at the same time, while Next Door only allowed enough space to respond to one of the 3 simultaneously concocted violations. Each time a suspended member is allowed back on the Next Door platform, they must agree they violated rules, and each ensuing suspension is for a longer period of time, with a warning that eventually, the suspension will be permanent.
One of my alleged violations was for running a Pro Trump group as a group, which is ALLOWED according to Next Door rules. I had the violation overturned Next Door Support, only to be reversed by a mysterious person, perhaps a higher up at Next Door?
Yes, I hope Trump wins, and I hope the Trump administrations offers a method so those of us who have been suspended without justifiable cause, can report and have our cases investigated.
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Early on during COVID, Donald Trump was roasted over his Ivermectin comments. The irony of the attack against Trump; which may have been orchestrated by Big Pharma, by way of the late night Talk Show Hosts, is WHY Big Pharma may have initiated the attack against Trump mentioning Ivermectin.
Kamala talks tough about Big Pharma and "Snatch a Patent"
Kamala talks tough about Big Pharma and "Snatch a Patent"
The sad reality is no matter what drug Big Pharma creates, the Patent life is very short. Once the Patent ends, other manufactures can make generics, shutting out the Big Pharma company from their own invention.
The reason shutting out Big Pharma when their patent ends is bad, Big Pharma has to then compete with their own drug inventions! It's patently unfair (yes, pun intended).
I have suggested for years that when a Big Pharma patent ends, the company that that invented the patent would get a 1 dollar per prescription residual on every generic that comes from a Big Pharma Company invention.
The 1 dollar per generic prescription solution would allow Big Pharma to have residual income that is not based on constantly having to come up with new drugs that they then force down the consumer's throat, literally.
Take a moment and watch this 2 minute Aesop's Fable about the Lion and the Mouse. Yes, the Lion is Big Pharma, and the Mouse is Kamala, or us. The point being, even a Big Pharma lion, needs a helping hand.
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Just as COVID pitted pro vax factions against anti vax factions, with both sides feeling their position was 100% correct, and the opposing viewpoint was 100% wrong, welcome to Joe Biden's Fluctuating pre-Dementia/Dementia, explained here, on DailyPuma, for the first time, anywhere on the planet.
When Joe Biden speaks in an amplified venue, several fortunate things occur. Amplification in a venue creates echo, the echo creates a delay as to how many words can be spoken per minute. The echo also has a soothing effect for those with pre-Dementia/Dementia as it mimics the act of singing and hearing the songs in one's head. This explains how Biden can appear in command and on point, when he is in an amplified venue.
When Biden debated Trump, there were assertions made that Biden may have been sick. Sickness will definitely affect the cognitive condition of a person with Dementia, or, pre-dementia. Undiagnosed urinary tract infections have probably led to unknown number of functioning Seniors being diagnosed by non Geriatric Doctors as time for institutionalization of some kind. Additionally, there was no amplification, leading to a somewhat disastrous performance.
The U.S. presently has around 3,500 practicing Geriatricians when the absolute minimum to provide every senior with reasonable access to a Geriatrician would between 50,000 to 60,000 practicing Geriatricians.
So throughout the rest of the 2024 campaign, you may see two Joe Biden's, the Biden that stumbles when his voice is not amplified and echoed at the same time, and the more dynamic Joe Biden who interacts with his own amplifed, echoed voice, and seems relatively normal.
This is my Mother when she had what I believe was cognitive/learning Dementia. Meaning she remembered what she knew, but being able to speak what she knew, in a correct sequence became more difficult if she was not singing it.
Mom was also tapping her hands as she sang a song she remembered from her childhood 70 years earlier. When the song ended, she began using visual cues and repeating my questions to keep the conversation going, at the end, she looks at the paper she is holding thinking she lost something, and wants to go find it.
I'm not implying Mr. Biden is in this condition; just that the brain, even if Dementia is present, can still work fantastically well when the brain is remembering certain events. My Mother's Dementia was most likely much farther along than Mr. Biden's pre-dementia/Dementia, yet Mom; would still have concern over my well being. Mom developed a saying I had previously never heard her say, "Adagio Viajo", which means slow down your trip, when she saw me rushing around, multi-tasking.
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The overhead recreation of the Dali Cargo Ship movement prior to hitting the Francis Scott Key Bridge reveals something that Daily Puma finds disturbing. At no point was the cargo ship trajectory perfectly aligned to go center straight through the Francis Scot Key Bridge underpass opening.
About 8 minutes before colliding with the Francis Scot Key Bridge the Dali Cargo Ship was headed off angle to the Underpass they were supposed to safely pass under. This is a game changer in evaluating what went wrong.
Rather than the power failure causing the collision, DailyPuma speculates it was the attempt to reverse engines that caused the power failure.
Now the why, Why was the Dali Cargo Ship following a trajectory that was off center to passing through the center of the underpass?
Just speculating, but will it turn out to be the crew was enjoying the coastline view, texting someone, distracted by some type of social media activity?
Cargo ships can weigh as much as 440,000 million pounds, DailyPuma cannot fathom why a cargo ship that weighs millions of pounds, perhaps hundreds of millions of pounds, would not want to be center aligned with the underpass well before reaching the bridge.
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Pelosi Impeaching Trump Violates Trump's Doctrine of Prior Restraint rights to investigate Ukraine. FBI sits on Biden documents investigation during Trump's entire Presidency, then charges Trump with same offense with Biden in Office.
Makes Watergate look like a 4pm Tea social.
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Obama's failed foreclosure policies need to be re-exposed now that the decision has been made by Obamians to obfuscate Obama's failed foreclosure policy by suing Trump for over 400 million for the loans Trump navigated during Obama's failed foreclosure policies. Obama's first term in office feature 4 years of 5,000 foreclosures A DAY! Obama's foreclosure policies were so restrictive that either 5,000 consumers faced foreclosure everyday, or they tried to create favorable loan terms which apparently was against the law. So for many, it was either be foreclosed upon, or "break the law" trying to get a fair loan. wow.
How Obama blew a chance to put Americans back in homes after crash
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2019/11/17/housing-market-crash-foreclosures-enriching-real-estate-speculators/4195373002/
America's Housing Foreclosure Crisis Worsened Under President Obama - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/obamas-failure-to-mitigate-americas-foreclosure-crisis/510485/
Slow Response to Housing Crisis Now Weighs on Obama - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/business/economy/slow-response-to-housing-crisis-now-weighs-on-obama.html
How Obama Destroyed Black Wealth
https://jacobin.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-wealth-inequality
Obama Program to Screw Homeowners & Help Banks Is Dead
https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28/obama-program-hurt-homeowners-and-helped-big-banks-now-its-dead/
Foreclosed pdf
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Foreclosed.pdf
Our Guide to Obama’s Floundering Foreclosure Programs — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/our-guide-to-obamas-floundering-foreclosure-programs
The foreclosure crisis is over, for now; Obama's relief programs hurt more than they helped — bobsullivan.net
https://bobsullivan.net/redtapechronicles/the-foreclosure-crisis-is-over-for-now-obamas-relief-programs-hurt-more-than-they-helped/
Obama's foreclosure prevention program has helped far fewer homeowners than expected - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-obama-foreclosure-20161230-story.html
Michelle and Barack Obama's $11.7m Martha's Vineyard and $8.1m Washington homes are the American dream | HELLO!
https://www.hellomagazine.com/homes/500895/michelle-obama-barack-obama-property-portfolio-homes-photos/
PolitiFact | Did most Americans lose wealth, income under Barack Obama?
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/10/stanley-greenberg/did-most-americans-lose-wealth-income-under-barack/
Obama's Final Numbers - FactCheck.org
https://www.factcheck.org/2017/09/obamas-final-numbers/
How Obama Destroyed Black Wealth — Bunk
https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/how-obama-destroyed-black-wealth
Destruction Of Black Wealth During The Obama Presidency | Tipping Point North South
https://tippingpointnorthsouth.org/2017/12/13/destruction-of-black-wealth-during-the-obama-presidency/
Obama and the Beach House Loopholes — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/obama-and-the-beach-house-loopholes
Reflection: Obama accused of failing to mitigate the housing crash - The Real Daily
https://theamericangenius.com/housing/homeownership/obama-housing-crisis/
This is Obama’s biggest failure.
https://theweek.com/articles/624777/obamas-biggest-failure
President Barack Obama’s net worth as he leaves the White House | Life
https://www.reviewjournal.com/life/president-barack-obamas-net-worth-as-he-leaves-the-white-house/
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In a Parallel "Back to the Future" Universe, If Donald Trump and Barack Obama had switched order regarding when they were President, the same New York Attorney General who just sued Trump and "won" over 400 million dollars would instead be suing on behalf of all the business and real estate loan applicants that were charged much too high interest rates on their loans during the Trump era Presidency of 2008 to 2012.
Back to reality, if Donald Trump was able to get more favorable loan deals by allegedly supplying inaccurate loan related data, but still did not default on Obama era loans when Bank rules were changed and made entirely too strict and regressive; then that would mean Obama era banks were charging excessively high interest rates to all their "honest" loan applicants that were all the victims of Barack Obama era regressive bank loan policies after the Stock Market Crash of 2008.
Given a choice between helping all the honest business and real estate loan applicants who were either charged excessively high interest rates, and who were damaged when their loan applications were denied, the present day New York District Attorney instead chose to use the courts for Political gain. The New York Attorney has chosen to satiate their Trump Derangement Syndrome even though Trump never defaulted on a loan.
Meanwhile, all the victims of overly regressive banking policies from the Obama era Presidency were never made whole by the New York Attorney General, who instead went for the Trump sizzle rather than making whole deprived and damaged loan applicants, and that is the real crime.
The problem is it has been almost 15 years since the Obama era banking rules were implemented. Many seem to have forgotten the 5,000 to 7,000 foreclosures a day in the U.S. during Obama's first 2 years in office and how honest, law abiding loan applicants who had built up home equity that took decades to accrue, were treated like garbage if they were temporarily unemployed. Untold numbers were forced to sell their homes when being able to dip into some Home Equity, even if unemployed, would have softened the financial jolt they were suddenly feeling that instead led to the loss of their home.
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