@3
Word

"Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the fourth-place finisher, is trying to re-energize his campaign."

Thee best place for grandpappy uncle Joe's flock to be Re-energized'd be a visit to one of Bernie's Campaign get-togethers; the Energy level is palpable and highly-contagious. Joe could lead them all in push-ups and then hugging, after. Did he cuss anybody else out, today?

But Tearing up Senator Sanders' Healthcare ideas was beneath even him.
Fuck Biden.

"I Iike to think that if we went under* [what, to Hades?]
the Slog commenters would visit our grave daily
to continue fighting with each other."

A urinal might come in handy.
But. Nah.

Pocket nukes
n' drones.

Go Spaceforce.

*Belly-up?

@1 - it won't be that big an increase, but there will surely be one. The bigger effect will probably be that landlords are less willing to rent at the low end of the market. That is where you are way more likely to run into people who can't/won't pay the rent. Getting into a higher $$ demographic is a great way to protect yourself from this kind of law. If I owned some cheap apartments, I'd be remodeling like mad and trying to get them into shape to rent at a higher rate. That of course would not work all the time, but in this market, if you had a kind of crappy 1 bedroom that rented for, say, $900, you could probably modernize and start asking more like $1100 or $1200 provided that the neighborhood was not terrible. This will make it even harder for the poor to find housing.

@5: Yes, we know you're for Bernie. But not everyone else is or should be.

@9. Yes.
They Should be.

Garb Garblar is a garbled version of kristofarian who can handle three syllable words, but not paragraphs.

If you vote for Bernie Sanders, then Trump will win. Don't want Trump to win? Don't vote for Bernie Sanders.

@18 -- Thought you said it was Biden or Bust
§Does this mean it's Over?
§That should save us some Time... .
§Thanks!
§§§Honorable mention to @16!§§§

'Parsley brain'?
gonna make 'em Boastful,
Garbby.
Well played.

@17: Paragraph breaks are common courtesy if you expect readers to parse your babble.

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@18 -- and here's how trumpfy's gonna do it:

From tomorrow's NYT: "Trump’s $4.8 Trillion Budget Plan
Cuts Safety Net Programs and Increases Defense

President Trump’s proposal includes cuts to affordable housing programs, food stamps and Medicaid. Student loan assistance would also be reduced."

He's gonna Starve the Electorate.
Brilliant. And all the Haters can Rejoice.

I see the propertarian lobby is out in full force with its bullshit and hyperbole again.

Like ventriloquists' dummies, they'll say anything their puppeteers put in their mouths.

Come to think of it- since we're on the topic, Buttigeig actually looks rather spookily like a ventriloquists dummy. He really does.

Joe Biden should have been dumped as VP as is the tradition: a freshman president like FDR or JFK picks a veteran machinist like Jack Garner or LBJ to get things in hand in the first term, then spends the second term grooming an up-and-comer as a successor (albeit Henry Wallace turned out to be too radical and JFK was killed just as he was considering replacing LBJ with RFK.) Biden's time was passed after 1988, when he was among Gary Hart, Dick Gephardt, Mike Dukakis and all the others with the same blow-dried JFK hairdos. Now he's just embarrassing himself while alienating the pony soldier vote.

Garb and kristofarian
plugging for Bernie
we will get free health care now

@27 - The right-dominate brained will find out for themselves in due time. However, I'm sure they'll never be able to trace back the effect to its true cause.

Wait @1 don't rental costs adhere to the laws of supply and demand? Have Seattle's landlords as a group really held back on taking their full profits to the extent they'll be able to raise rents on average 33%? I'm not down with the blanket eviction ban, but sorry, I don't buy that bullshit for second.

@30 "right-dominate brained" as a catch-all for a certain general cognitive preference/training right? You are aware that theories about hemispheric dominance are debunked bad science/pop science horseshit? ...

@23 You only get one crack at a witty comeback.

@11 -- "then we might be able to use tech in like some Andrew Yang transcendent way with MATH ..."

Why do people just assume that Yang made his money on tech or his somehow exceptional at math? Oh yeah, he's Asian. Fucking racists. How hard is it to read Wikipedia, idiots.

@35 - your analysis is spot-on. The First-in-Time and no criminal record check laws are already huge incentives to raise your qualifying standards (including credit scores) and this is an even better reason. Everything the Council is doing will hurt poor tenants.

And to our Oh-So-Clever name calling @27 - how about i tell your boss that you can't legally quit if he/she decides not to pay you through the difficult Jan-April runup to tax filing time?

@35 My father was a small time landlord who got screwed ONCE. He was a nice guy and let some woman with a couple of kids and a sketchy background move in... she paid one month rent, then the BF moved in and it went to drugs. He spent months trying to get rid of her until a friend told him to give her $500 cash if she'd just leave. She was gone almost overnight. (Oh, and he called DCFS on her way out, yes.) He turned really really picky on who moved in and doubtless turned down many good people who lacked good credit reports, etc.

Sad about the Bonsais, but they need DAILY care? DAILY?