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Just happened to catch this at the end of a PBS broadcast. Story Corps is good with these animated shorts. I remember the night Robert Kennedy Sr. was killed while celebrating his victory in the 1968 California primary, but I forgot about the busboy who cradled his head. Touching story.

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The Busboy - StoryCorps

“I remember him shaking my hand and, as he let go, somebody shot him.” Juan Romero In a historic photograph captured on June 5, 1968, a teenager is seen kneeling on the floor, cradling Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s head moments after he was shot, in what turned out to be a successful assassination...
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Sardines said:
I'm not saying I'm for it, especially since it seems like it could contribute to home prices going up more than they already are.

I didn't read the whole thing but I imagine this is to make undocumented people eligible for a program that already exists.

I'd trend to be against it because it takes a lot of documentation to buy a home with a home loan not to mention a state backed home loan and if you can handle that documentation then maybe you should just go ahead and start with your immigration documentation.

All that said I don't find it outrageous. Immigrants contribute to the economy and if you allow them to buy stable housing all the better for them and all the economic activity homeowners tend to produce. This is a loan not a handout. If these immigrants were little corporations or sports franchises the state would be buying their house for them and giving them a pass on their taxes for the next 10 to 20 years.

Fun fact, immigrants (legal and illegal) don't drive down wages. They expand the economy in the areas where they exist. Large studies in areas heavily impacted by immigration have shown this.
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Thanks for yours and @LogGrad98 responses. I appreciate it.
 
Bucknutz said:
I would like for anyone here who would support this California policy to explain their position on it. Not going to argue or shame; I just want to understand their thinking and ideas on this.


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The program is to give the California government a piece of California’s real estate market. If you take that loan, California literally owns a fifth of the house. It is not like taking a loan from a bank which uses the house as collateral.

With a typical loan, if you borrow $100k to pay for a $500k house and in five years the house doubles in value then you still owe the bank $100k plus interest minus payments. With the California program, if you borrow $100k for a $500k house and it doubles in value then you owe California $200k. Whatever the value of the house is, California owns a fifth of it, and when you sell the house or even when you refinance it, the full amount of California’s share is payable in full immediately.

California doesn’t care if you are a citizen, an illegal alien, or a golden retriever. All they care about is that someone qualified for a loan at a bank to cover 80% of the cost of the house and they hope the debt can be serviced long enough for the property to appreciate in value.
 
fishonjazz said:
Of five false conspiracy theories that Kennedy has promoted all five generated far more agreement among Trump voters than among Harris voters: that COVID-19 vaccines are more harmful than the virus itself (55% vs. 8%); that climate change is being used as a pretext for imposing totalitarian controls on society (68% vs. 7%); that Prozac and other antidepressants have led to a rise in school shootings (35% vs. 12%); that vaccines cause autism (25% vs. 5%); and that chemicals in the water supply could turn children transgender (8% vs. 4%).

So it’s no surprise that when poll respondents are asked how they would vote both with and without Kennedy on the ballot, about 55% of Kennedy’s remaining voters break for Trump, on average, and about 45% break for Harris.
That split means Kennedy's exit probably won’t affect the election in a dramatic way. If Trump were to immediately gain 55% of Kennedy’s remaining voters, explains data journalist Nate Silver, Harris’s average national lead would shrink from 2.5% to 2.1%.

In reality, the effect might be even smaller. Disaffected by definition, Republican-leaning Kennedy voters have had ample opportunity to support Trump in the past; instead of swinging his way, they could back a different third-party candidate, like Libertarian Chase Oliver. Or they could stay home in November.

Still, small margins in key swing states have decided both of Trump’s previous presidential elections. That could happen again — and if it does, Kennedy’s decision this week could make a (minor) difference.
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Man he’s a weirdo.

I saw this the other day and got a good chuckle. Weirdos, all 3 of them.

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Red said:
RFK Jr. was one of America’s leading environmental activists. He destroyed that legacy when he decided to back Donald “drill, baby, drill” Trump. Not to mention more bizarre stories turning up.

www.vanityfair.com

RFK Jr. Whale-Beheading Story Gives RFK Jr. Bear-Murder Story a Run for Its Money

We’re one week away from learning Kennedy shot a donkey and wore its skin to breakfast, right?
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RFK was doing what people born into mega-rich dynasties do, anything that suits them. He went where the got the attention and the recognition, that's all that mattered. He probably had no idea what he was endorsing, just that it made him look good and got him what he wanted. As soon as he saw a bigger prize in the ultra-wealthy collection, maybe even the presidency, he went that way. They blow any way the wind of their whims carries them.
 
I’m sure it’s been talked about already but Zuckerberg admitting censoring information during the Biden/Harris administration by their lead was pretty damning. I don’t get into politics much but that was pretty shocking to see.
 
Elizah Huge said:
I’m sure it’s been talked about already but Zuckerberg admitting censoring information during the Biden/Harris administration by their lead was pretty damning. I don’t get into politics much but that was pretty shocking to see.
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What information was blocked? Or are we actually talking about misinformation?
 
Sardines said:
What information was blocked? Or are we actually talking about misinformation?
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Zuckerberg said it was a wide range of information. Most of left wing media is fixating on COVID-19 stuff as they can spin that into something arguably justifiable, but it wasn't limited to that, or even to information that was untrue. Hunter Biden's laptop is an example.
 
Elizah Huge said:
I’m sure it’s been talked about already but Zuckerberg admitting censoring information during the Biden/Harris administration by their lead was pretty damning. I don’t get into politics much but that was pretty shocking to see.
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LOL Oh bull****. Asking companies to add correction/addendums to Covid misinformation is not censoring.
 
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TheStormofWar said:
LOL Oh bull****. Asking companies to add corrections to Covid misinformation is not censoring.
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Most reputable sources now believe the lab leak theory, the supposed misinformation being suppressed, to be not only entirely credible but the mostly likely scenario. Zuck also specifically cited interference related to Burisma which too has been found to be factual.
 
Elizah Huge said:
Even on satire and joke posts? Should we have to do that on every post?
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Given the increasing retardation of the average American? Yes.

For context on this: this misinformation quite literally killed a family member that could not take care of themselves. The "sponsor" of this information is now at the top of my list of folks I wish burn in whatever Hell there may be.
 
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