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Skittles

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12. I'm calling BS

Reply to PeaceWave (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2026, 10:36 PM

Jan 7

like with all his other grandstanding, the devil is in the details

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When he does something like this, neither Dems or his own party will oppose him. Repubs would scream if a Dem did this. LonePirate Jan 7 #1

I have a feeling Democrats will try and block this. pcdb Thursday #33

How many "institutional investors" are buying single family homes ? JI7 Jan 7 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jan 7 #3

A LOT---- many things I have read about the problem of the rising cost of housing Jack Valentino Jan 7 #19

I think it's individuals looking to get extra money renting them out JI7 Thursday #21

Welp, certainly that 'happens' but these are not mutually exclusive things AZJonnie Thursday #23

I'm sure it's happening but I think you underestimate the individuals JI7 Thursday #25

In Chicago, they are also buying up apartment buildings, LuvLoogie Thursday #27

Dems had bills to ban hedge funds from single housing market in 2023. blm Jan 7 #4

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MSM didn't cover much of ANYTHING Biden championed. blm Jan 7 #8

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There wasn't mass media coverage but there was some. blm Jan 7 #15

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Biden would have signed the Dem bill. blm Jan 7 #20

If you set rent controls, you dissuade the institutional investors from buying up all the homes AZJonnie Thursday #24

He's NOT doing it. It's bullshit that the MAGATS will eat up. nt Blasphemer Jan 7 #6

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The grifter says things like this... Chemical Bill Jan 7 #7

How much longer, DU? Prairie Gates Jan 7 #11

No kidding. So obvious. n/t demmiblue Thursday #30

I'm calling BS Skittles Jan 7 #12

He has never and will never Johonny Jan 7 #13

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They should require full and immediate divestiture, JMCKUSICK Jan 7 #16

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You mean values would come back to earth some? JMCKUSICK Thursday #22

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Right, I knew that, I was more commenting on what's happened to housing prices since covid. JMCKUSICK Thursday #32

Trump does this as co-optation - buying off our young people, defusing the issue bucolic_frolic Thursday #26

it has to be trumps idea or it will not be done. rampartd Thursday #28

I don't think he has the authority to make it happen. Who defines them? sinkingfeeling Thursday #29