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2 hours agoOh, he definitely wasn’t neutral, no father could be, that’s why I say he was trying to avoid the APPEARANCE of not being neutral. ;)
Now that Trump has won and is talking crazy shit, there’s no need to maintain appearances.
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No, my version is retributive.
“Oh, Trump won? Fuck it, Hunter gets a pardon.”
Portland in general needs a large dose of common sense if we want to have a livable city.
Biden allowed the prosecution of Hunter to avoid the appearance of not being neutral.
Now that Trump has won and a) is openly talking about pardoning anyone and everyone and b) wanting to prosecute his enemies list, it 100% makes sense to beat him to the punch and pardon Hunter.
If Kamala had won, he would have let it all stand.
If Kamala had won, Hunter would not have been pardoned.
Biden pardoned him because of all the bullshit pardons Trump is talking about.
“You know what, fine, fuck it, Hunter gets a pardon.”
The gun indictment was revealed as part of his tax investigation.
Kinda like when they investigated Clinton for Whitewater and found out he lied about a blowjob.
In both cases, the crimes are rarely prosecuted. The only reason they were prosecuted was because Clinton is Clinton and Hunter is Hunter.
142·4 hours ago$1.5 billion in 15 weeks.
14,285,714.29 a day.
1,785,714.29 every hour of an 8 hour workday.
This goes to show, yet again, that money alone can’t buy an election.
^ THIS
“It insults the intelligence of the American people to compare misdemeanor tax charges to a scheme to steal Top Secret documents and obstruct justice when the government asked for them back,” he tweeted, comparing the charges against Hunter Biden to the recent federal indictment against former President Donald Trump. “If anything, Hunter Biden was treated harshly — those crimes are rarely charged.”
11·4 hours agoBecause right now, Housing First doesn’t demand treatment. That’s why it doesn’t work.
It doesn’t even demand you fill prescribed medication and take it on schedule, hell, it doesn’t even require you get evaluated for prescribed medication.
So you get stories like the above, a housed undiagnosed mental patient filling their home with garbage and living in terror from things that aren’t there.
2·8 hours agoAlready sold out. :(
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The book is worth reading too!
2·8 hours agoAlready sold out. :(
https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the-keep?variant=42233047711786
The book is worth reading too!
Stable being “no longer collecting garbage and seeing faces on the walls”.
In the case cited above, the guy had housing but was still in a mental health crisis. Housing First cannot and will not provide that stability, only professional mental health care can do that.
So was King(!)
This is simply the latest case, it’s not an edge case.
https://ciceroinstitute.org/research/housing-first-is-a-failure/
“We’ve built over 200,000 new PSH units for the homeless, as they’re known, and, since 2013, the federal government has mandated the Housing First strategy nationwide. Yet since that nationwide mandate has gone into effect, we’ve seen street homelessness increase by almost a fourth. While some advocates cite the overall decline in homelessness since the early 2000s, they ignore that the entire decline was the result of moving people from “transitional” government housing, which was counted as homeless, to “permanent” government housing, which was counted as not homeless. In effect, if one ignores this statistical smoke show, homelessness has gone up almost one-to-one with the increase in permanent housing.”
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2023/07/90060/
"Housing First forbids requiring beneficiaries, as a condition of receiving assistance, to attend drug rehabilitation programs, look for work, or even take their mental health medicines as directed by a doctor. They can accept services that might be—and often are—offered, but they are under no enforceable obligation to do so. If they take drugs, refuse work, or even are charged with crimes, housing is still available to them.
That’s like putting a bandage on an inflamed wound without also applying medicine to heal the underlying infection. As a result, many of the unhoused receiving Housing First benefits make no effort to turn their lives around, leaving them mired in dysfunction and dependence."
"In its worst iteration, Housing First is a no-strings-attached approach. Beneficiaries receive housing and don’t need to attend job training programs or agree to a sober lifestyle. It’s a well-intentioned approach, but it simply isn’t working.
Since 2019, California has spent $24 billion on homelessness programs, even mandating all state-funded programs to adopt the Housing First model. Homeless resource centers aren’t allowed to make housing conditional on participation in addiction recovery or job training programs. Yet chronic homelessness in the state keeps climbing.
In Utah, Housing First has been the de facto approach since 2005. Yet from 2017 to 2022, the number of chronically homeless skyrocketed 328%. "
31·8 hours agoNot necessarily… It takes food deserts and poverty.
If mom and dad can’t afford to go anywhere but McDonalds, it’s going to happen.
You put them in permanent medical care to treat their mental health and addiction, THEN, once they’re stable, you move them to housing.
If they are too mentally ill to become stable, you keep them in medical care.
32·12 hours agoReported as “tankie bullshit”.
Bias check shows strong Marxist-Leninist leanings, but no failed fact checks.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-peoples-dispatch-bias-and-credibility/
21·13 hours agoSteamdecks aren’t dependent on physical stores to sell hardware.
Would you prefer a local take? It’s the same story over and over again:
https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/06/07/a-28-million-low-income-apartment-complex-descends-into-chaos-in-just-two-and-a-half-years/
You bring a bunch of people with mental illness and addiction issues into one place, without mandating treatment, you are CONCENTRATING the problem, not solving it.