Over half of jurisdictions that reported data had issued permits for zero units in the Very Low-Income category (below 50 percent of the median income of the area), and 72 percent had met less than 10 percent of the goal in that category.

We get a lot of affluent Caucasian individuals who are willing to pay those monthly fees for equinox and soul cycle and rumble, we have doctor’s, celebrities, the list goes on.

I think anti-Trump turnout as a factor was as strong (if not stronger) than it will be in 2020 and O’Rourke still didn’t win.

Another thing to consider here is that in 2020 Texas likely won’t be that close again. O’Rourke definitely got a boost from both general Trump/party in power midterm malaise and the fact that Texas Republicans don’t like Ted Cruz. Both of those boosts will shrink in 2020, and I think the odds that Cornyn would lose,…

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because 2 of 3 voters want either a single-payer or public-option system

That’s true, though he was also in total invasion mode at that point, so the value of a fort would have been questionable at best.

(Even though it’s not quite the same to compare an actual accounting of events to an actual offensive term, because you said it, I’m going to roll with it.)

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I mean, what sort of moron risks losing the endorsement of the Oberlin Social Justice Institute right out of the gate?

For it to have happened that fast it makes me think that their franchise agreement has an explicit prohibition on paying tipped wages.

You can but I don’t think most people do, which is why I don’t think any Sonic franchisees (besides this idiot) pay tipped wages. Even if most fast food franchisees are miserly shitheels, they also want employees to keep showing up to work every day.

You’ve got it backwards. urban communities that “revitalize” empty spaces inevitably attract residents from outside. Which means that if you want to avoid the primary damage of gentrification, which is increased housing prices, you have to dramatically expanding housing supply.

Naw, don’t do Cruise dirty like that. Cruise is crazy, but he’s an intense kind of crazy, he’s actually good at what he does and everyone who works with him likes working with him because he’s so professional. That’s basically the total opposite of Trump the Businessman. I feel like it would need to be someone like…

Her platform included fighting gentrification, supporting public schools, and reviving the empty storefronts in the Rogers Park neighborhood.

You don’t aspire to specific policy results given with a deadline. Those are things you try to do by the deadline. A lot of GND pom-pom waivers are trying to compare this to JFK’s goal of getting to the moon. This is of course, embarrassing and laughable and confirms that their understanding of history probably stems…

But it is risky. Drugs don’t always pan out. Other companies come along and find a way to do the same thing with a better drug.

I mean, I tend to believe that this is mostly about name recognition too, but I do think Biden could easily play spoiler in some states that various more serious contenders like Sanders, Warren & Harris, may all be counting on.  

I think the 2016 Republican primary desensitized me to just how wheels off the field is looking like it will wind up being. I feel like you have to go back to 2004 to find a more fun Democratic field and it still doesn’t come close to the shitshow of the 2016 Republican primary.

I guess. Trump will talk tough, but if Bush didn’t intervene in Venezuela, I don’t think Trump will.