thewhyteboar Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 It's fitting, since all those groups are just welfare for mediocre* conservative writers. *Yes, I know "mediocre conservative writers" is a tautology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said: It's fitting, since all those groups are just welfare for mediocre* conservative writers. *Yes, I know "mediocre conservative writers" is a tautology. You sure they weren't just made up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Fucking tragic, and wholly preventable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Perhaps Congress should do oversight and not go on recess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Was on a call today where I heard that two mid size theater circuits in the north east were closing permanently. About 40 locations and 400 screens between them. Regal, AMC, and Cinemark will at minimum not be reopening 140 locations and 1000 screens. Just a stunning situation given what a ridiculously strong year 2019 was for the industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 16 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Fucking tragic, and wholly preventable. 12 minutes ago, Jason said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: It was above the new content line. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 14 hours ago, sblfilms said: Was on a call today where I heard that two mid size theater circuits in the north east were closing permanently. About 40 locations and 400 screens between them. Regal, AMC, and Cinemark will at minimum not be reopening 140 locations and 1000 screens. Just a stunning situation given what a ridiculously strong year 2019 was for the industry. Would you say smaller theaters are more capable of weathering this storm than large and mid-size ones? Due to lower overhead costs or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 15 hours ago, sblfilms said: Was on a call today where I heard that two mid size theater circuits in the north east were closing permanently. About 40 locations and 400 screens between them. Regal, AMC, and Cinemark will at minimum not be reopening 140 locations and 1000 screens. Just a stunning situation given what a ridiculously strong year 2019 was for the industry. Don’t theaters operate with pretty tight margins, with the studios taking most of the box office revenue? since most of a theater’s revenue is from advertising and concessions, wouldn’t that make these long closures pretty hard to weather? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I look forward to visiting my local Disney theater to watch the next marvel movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Oh...oh dear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 8, 2020 Author Share Posted July 8, 2020 Can't get evicted from your bootstraps doe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rc0101 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 44 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Our past due 1-4 family mortgages went from .75% to 2%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iculus Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 44 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: my car is paid off. suck it bitches! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Trudeau said (basically) that the government took on debt (by giving emergency benefits to people) so that citizens wouldn't have to...and conservatives are attacking him, saying things like "citizens have to pay that debt!" They key thing about Trudeau's statement? Interest on government debt is less than 0.5%, where CC debt for a person is greater than 18% at a minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 21 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Trudeau said (basically) that the government took on debt (by giving emergency benefits to people) so that citizens wouldn't have to...and conservatives are attacking him, saying things like "citizens have to pay that debt!" They key thing about Trudeau's statement? Interest on government debt is less than 0.5%, where CC debt for a person is greater than 18% at a minimum. Debt the government owes to itself (rather than other countries) that's denominated in its own sovereign currency (rather than another country's) just shouldn't be likened to private debt, period. They really are two different beasts, with their own set of dynamics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S., expert says Quote CNBC: How does the eviction crisis brought on by the pandemic compare with the 2008 housing crisis? EB: We have never seen this extent of eviction in such a truncated amount of time in our history. We can expect this to increase dramatically in the coming weeks and months, especially as the limited support and intervention measures that are in place start to expire. About 10 million people, over a period of years, were displaced from their homes following the foreclosure crisis in 2008. We’re looking at 20 million to 28 million people in this moment, between now and September, facing eviction. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentWorld Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 holy shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 We’re #1 (3[rd world])! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 8 minutes ago, Uaarkson said: We’re #1 (3[rd world])! About 14 million children in the US are not getting enough to eat (Brookings Institution) Quote Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, food insecurity has remained persistently elevated at record levels. Though food insecurity among households with children decreased from April to June, it is still far above its Great Recession peak. In fact, new data show that an unprecedented number of children in the United States are experiencing food insecurity and did not have sufficient food as of late June. Since the first week in June, the US Census Bureau has asked households that reported having insufficient food whether it was often, sometimes, or never true that in the last 7 days the children (under 18 years old) living in your household “were not eating enough because we just couldn’t afford enough food.” 16.5 percent of households with children reported that it was sometimes or often the case that the children were not eating enough due to a lack of resources during the week of June 18-23 2020, 5.5 times the 2018 rate of 3 percent (the most recent annual data from the Current Population Survey). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 A looming crisis and we're doing nothing. ...again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 37 minutes ago, Emperor Diocletian II said: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S., expert says How does this square up with this? There's approximately 128 million households in the US. 32% of that is >41 million. I assume some of these people get hired back in "reopening"/PPP loans. But then if/when we lock back down or demand drops off again due to rising deaths/cases, we're gonna be right back where we started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 7 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: A looming crisis and we're doing nothing. ...again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 18 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: A looming crisis and we're doing nothing. ...again Nah, they're not doing nothing. They're throwing dried logs and more tinder to make sure it's the biggest fire possible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: How does this square up with this? There's approximately 128 million households in the US. 32% of that is >41 million. I assume some of these people get hired back in "reopening"/PPP loans. But then if/when we lock back down or demand drops off again due to rising deaths/cases, we're gonna be right back where we started. This is a permanent problem for people unless there's a stimulus check on the way that's large enough to cover the multiple months of rent people owe since we opted to put a moratorium on evictions and not rent/mortgage payments. After which we'll we'll have landlords that will legally keep security deposits to make up for the lost rent, leaving renters on the hook for new homes they may or likely do not have security deposits for. Also, good luck on getting accepted to new rentals if their credit took a hit while they were out of work and coming off a fresh eviction. Washington will pass some legislation to force banks to forgive late mortgage payments and do nothing for renters. Renters problems are, very likely, permanent. Any scratching renters have done over the past years to get ahead in life is probably lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 3 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said: This is a permanent problem for people unless there's a stimulus check on the way that's large enough to cover the multiple months of rent people owe since we opted to put a moratorium on evictions and not rent/mortgage payments. After which we'll we'll have landlords that will legally keep security deposits to make up for the lost rent, leaving renters on the hook for new homes they may or likely do not have security deposits for. Also, good luck on getting accepted to new rentals if their credit took a hit while they were out of work and coming off a fresh eviction. Washington will pass some legislation to force banks to forgive late mortgage payments and do nothing for renters. Renters problems are, very likely, permanent. Any scratching renters have done over the past years to get ahead in life is probably lost. http://eyeonhousing.org/2019/03/homeownership-rates-by-race-and-ethnicity/ Hmm wonder why they'll help homeowners and not renters hmmmmmm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazatron Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Tesla hits $1795 a share, market cap $320B+, Musk passes Buffet on wealthiest list (> $75B)... Oh, and the markets keep going up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 lol classic GOP: best way to help people is...capital gains holiday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: lol classic GOP: best way to help people is...capital gains holiday! If aliens invaded, Repubulicans would find a way to slip tax cuts into the Bill Pullman Independance Day speech. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 We're gonna spend many multiple of $ as a % of GDP for worse results in terms of covid suppression/case counts and economic recovery. The wealthy will make out like bandits though. The American way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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