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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Good time to step up and be a good NATO member. Or generally just a good nation in general. Imagine Putin landing in Turkey and when he steps off the plane. “Welcome to Turkey, you’re under arrest.”

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Good time to arrest him and turn him over for a trial.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

We did too. Bought for less than $100k. We have fixed rate ATM on our mortgage. But as soon as it is ready to renew we hope things have settled down. We never want to live above our means. We got lucky.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

We had to sell a piece of dream property this year because rates made payments go up so much that we could barely do minimum payments. We had planned to build on it eventually. Inflation and interest rates made it impossible. Now the dream is a memory. We just hope we can hold on to our current house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

We’re having the same issue in Canada. Conservatives are wanting to go back and not look forward. It wasn’t always that way.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (34 children)

What’s happening in the US isn’s even considered conservatism anymore. It’s the MAGA cult. I am definitely left, but conservatives don’t always need to be bad. It just so happens that the Republican Party has filled itself with people serving themselves and not the people who voted for them. Fingers crossed things go well this November.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tax the wealthy. If we want to fix this problem money has to come from somewhere. The middle class any poor have nothing left to give. I don’t know why it’s so difficult for our government to have the spine to do it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

My guess is not too well. He’d crumble into a tiny ball and wait for it to be over. Man just when you think someone in the US can’t make things look any worse than they already are…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I guess the only hope now is to try and bankrupt him…again

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (17 children)

It would be amazing if the jury said jail time would be more effective than another monetary settlement. Fingers crossed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You get to offset gas for your car with less expensive electricity. We save about $100 or more a month in gas. Electric baseboard heating would definitely be expensive. Our oil bill was getting crazy bad, and with the recent inflation it would have been that much worse. Our heat pump keeps things comfortable at home in the winter and summer. If it gets too chilly we can use a space heater as we need. Overall per year we are still saving hundreds going electric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
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