Oh boy!! It’s a fucking mystery?? A spooky scary mystery!! Better get fucking Sherlock Holmes on this one! It’s a big fucking mystery, with no obvious answer!
This is not a Sherlock Holmes mystery. This is a Scooby-Doo mystery, where the villain is an old white guy pulling a real estate / inheritance scam.
Look, it’s simple. If a person has to actively work to make money, they’re not “the rich” and they’re not the problem. A surgeon making $200k a year still stops making money if they stop showing up to do surgery, because they’re still selling their labor. The radical discrepancies in how we value different skills are certainly a problem, but the guy who makes money when he doesn’t even get out of bed is the one making money on the value of other people’s labor.
really tempted to post to r/landlord to ask what we should do about a really problematic and destructive tenant
they don’t pay any rent or utilities. it’s actually a perk of their employment with me, but there’s an agreement that they can’t make any significant structural changes to the property without permission. recently they told me they were thinking of making some cosmetic updates which would have been allowed, but I checked in on the property recently and they literally hired a full on demolition team.
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what the fuck do I do about the damage my tenant caused?? he didn’t even have to pay a security deposit and he definitely didn’t pass background checks either. he’s also broke. fml
wait what happened?????
// Genuine explanation of the joke, with context:
The White House is the official residence and office of the President of the United States for as long as they are in office. The White House is therefore owned by United States citizens and is stewarded by the U.S. National Parks Service.
The central portico (which includes the residential area) is the oldest section, which is a reconstruction post 1814 fire. It was completed with two expansions by 1829. Later, it gained two additional wings. The West Wing is the home of the actual work office for the president, and was completed in 1901. The East Wing is supposed to include the office of the first lady, the White House social secretary, correspondence office, and the official calligraphers. It’s the social wing. It was completed in 1902.
The White House used to look like this:
Donald Trump mentioned wanting to update and renovate the East Wing with a new ballroom. It’s very normal for interior redecoration to happen from president to president, and even for renovations for upkeeping the integrity of the building have happened before (with lots of documented evidence of the process! Cf. The Truman renovation).
However, this week, he actually had the entire 123 year old East Wing demolished.
I mean it straight up was fucking levelled.
It doesn’t fucking exist anymore.
The American people are the owners of the White House. Americans are Donald Trump’s landlord. The home is ON LOAN for the duration of his service as a perk of the job. He doesn’t pay rent for it. And he just bulldozed our fucking property. We didn’t even get a security deposit out of this idiot.
please behold the 24 Hours of Lemons race, in which you can only spend $500 total on a car to cross country race for 24 hours
named after the legendary 24 hour Le Mans race, Lemons rallies barely legal cars in an endurance race across America. had the privilege of sharing the freeway with this race and seeing the absolute art od this event
This is so American I could CRY
oh this is nothing. some of my favorite lemons entries are:
an airplane stuck on a toyota minivan
this miata built by rocket scientists
the mr2 boat
the nyan cat bmw that i think actually played the song at all times
the homer simpson car built by uranium workers
this limo whose brakes caught on fire
the dumbest corolla and supra wearing funny hats
and so much more. 24 hours of lemons my beloved
The absolute metaphorical snarl that is a Limo modeled after the titanic called “unstoppable”, whose breaks caught fire, is just, absolutely sending me
My parents’ neighbor was harvesting the last bit of his garden and asked if they wanted some jalapeños. My parents are like ‘we don’t use those, but RB does she’ll be happy to take them’.
