That's most likely a cloudflare proxy.
Taking $900 a month from your friend just so the friend could have a roof over their head sounds harmless? And your defense of that action is "at least he's not taking $1400-$1500"?
How about you Venmo me $900 every month and in return if someone comes asking to Venmo them $1500 you can tell them you already got a better deal? Does that sound fair or do I need to own property to make it seem fair?
No. Here's what he could've done to not be a leech.
- sell the property
He no longer uses it so selling it to someone who would use it would be the best option. But maybe he's sentimental about the place or has some other reason to keep it. Then it's better if he "rents" it out.
- Get tenants but have them only pay for the utilities they use,no rent is paid.
He chose to keep the house, the mortgage on it is his responsibility not the tenants. Even if he just asked the tenants to cover the mortgage that is already leeching because you're not using your money to pay it off, you're using someone else's. Once the mortgage is paid off he has a property he didn't pay for while the people who paid got nothing. But let's say he can't afford to pay the mortgage but he still wants to keep the house?
- have the tenants pay thy mortgage as well, but nothing more.
Again, it's his property whatever patch work it requires it's his to cover. He's already offloaded his mortgage to the tenants, why demand even more from them? But let's say the tenants are scum of the earth and every day they tear the property apart, having the also pay to cover the repairs would reign them in.
- give back the money he took for repairs but he didn't use for repairs.
He's offloaded the mortgage on the tenants. He's offloaded the maintenance cost to the tenants. The least he could do is give back the maintenance money he didn't use. But he doesn't even do that.
And yet, according to you, we're supposed to think of it as him doing the tenants a favor because he's not ripping them off more? Do you think a wife beater not beating his wife every chance he gets is doing the wife a favor? Do you think the slave owner not whipping their slaves is doing them a favor? Absolutely asinine.
He could've given the rest money back to his friend after all the repairs were done. He chose to keep that money.
Hundred years ago it was normal to beat women of they were out of line. Millenia ago it was normal to own slaves. It's also "normal" for the US Healthcare to screw over people who need Healthcare. Just because something is "normal" doesn't mean it's somehow right. Slavery was normal but then different societies over time understood that slavery is not right and it stopped being normal. Beating women used to be normal but over time we learned that's also not right and it stopped being normal. I don't know about you but I don't think ripping people off is right. However ripping people off has been normalized for capital owners (including land lords).
Nobody should be wishing for his demise (compared to Blackrock and its kin, who I do think should cease to exist), but at the same time he shouldn't be padded on the back for not ripping off his friend as much as he could've. What he did shouldn't be normal.
Oh yeah, my bad. I was thinking about the past not the present.
I agree, but it seems there's no group of politicians willing to invoke article 7 when it comes to Hungary.
"You would be right if we did things the right way, but because we're doing things the wrong way you are also wrong."
I guess I can't argue that.
It's already a two step process with the first step requiring some kind of evidence that the country in question is breaching the founding values of the EU. If they are then the first step is about giving them a warning. If they can't show they're still in line with the founding values then you get to step 2 where the EU effectively unilaterally agree to revoke the rights.
I've already glossed over some nuances but I think it should already be evident that process is far from easy and it's definitely not fast. I also don't remember if the EU has ever even gotten to the first step. I think the closest they've gotten with Hungary is considering the possibility of proposing a breach of values, which is just a bunch of nothing.
Are you really trying to find some logic in what Trump says? I think it should already be obvious he has no fucking clue how the economy works.
If we want to be generous with his interpretation he means that if you uproot your entire business (including production) and bring it to the US then you don't need to pay tariffs because you're making it all inside the US. Except anyone with even the slightest understand of the entire production process knows that it's effectively impossible in the timeframe he has forced upon everyone. So we still end up with him having no fucking clue what he is doing.
Just because the electoral college is a stupid thing doesn't mean I'm not right. Had it been a popular vote those non-votes would've mattered.
You need to be more specific than "a child" considering he mentally already seems to be at the intellectual capacity of a 15-16 year old (except without any of the capacity to learn).