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I don't think Trump is broke, but it's just pleasing to the eye to read tweets like these. I'll take my small victories where I can.

 

I suspect, given the usual amount of lawyerese in correspondence, that she was a lot closer to "asking" for more time than "begging."

But no one can resist the urge to use the most spicy word, accuracy be dammed.

If she wrote, "I beseech you . . . " I'll stand corrected.

 

goin' great!

 

Navy demoted Ronny Jackson after probe into White House behavior

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ckson-demotion-white-house-medical-unit-navy/

 

moving to the suburbs

 

I still think former Ohio governor and congressman John Kasich would have been a decent president. Wrote his name in on Election Day 2016.

 

At this moment, it's much more of a mental health/drug abuse issue than a housing issue. Many - not all, but many - homeless are in a lifestyle that favors not being housed. Many of them, at one point or another, have had housing, if temporarily, and either lost it through breaking basic behavioral rules or found it, after whatever stipend or discount runs out, unpreferable to life on the street.

You know how some people flourish quite well in a renting situation but make shitty homeowners? I've known some, including friends who felt pressured into owning a home when it was clear to them, if not me, that they liked not having to do the many things that come with home ownership. For whatever reason - lifestyle, focus, whatever - they're better (over)paying someone else to handle things they don't want to handle, and not building equity in the process.

There can be a similar gap between unhoused and apartment life. 99% of unhoused people are better off in housing eventually - but, for a decent percentage, that would not be true in their current moment. You can furnish 2 BR 1 bath, and that would not go well for them. They need a lot of treatment, and then also something to gainfully do, and then perhaps group housing, then micro housing. It is a long process, with many detours in the road.

On a larger scale, we gotta get a lot of drugs out of our culture. We do. Too many people - including functioning people - are on too many substances - some of them prescribed - and things are not going well in our culture. The rampant number of CBD, vape and weed shops are a tell; we have never been a nation so hooked on one thing or another.

And, I know, ever was thus, and all that. It's different. Talk to people in adult mental health nonprofit. It's worse. And it's not Republicans' fault. Drugs aren't helping.

 

He's not broke, but he's over extended and cash poor. He also has a troubling track record regarding paying his bills. He can probably get the money, but it will be very costly. Any lender who might do it knows what a tight he's in and will take advantage.

 

The condescension in this post is astounding. One hundred percent of unhoused people would be better off in housing today. Full stop.

Yes, we need to build support structures for the chronically unhoused that include mental health care, addiction services and a host of other things to help with the transition. People become conditioned to life on the street. Deconditioning is difficult.

And the notion that once you get people housed they need something "to gainfully do" fails to recognize that many of these people are not capable of gainful employment. Some are. Some can do limited things. Many cannot.

 

That's John "Freedom" Kennedy