Can he take Musk and Branson with him?

Oh no a drought! Who could have foreseen such a thing? Thank god Las Vegas is outlawing grass...in 2027. And not in fucking useless golf courses.

Fuck us humans. Too bad we’re taking all the more deserving species with us.

If Weiner’s NFT shows how fucking ztupid nft’s are and we no longer have to hear about some useless shit in an nft, i’m there for it. Sell that crotch shot, tony. Get, like, $.05 for it.

How about instead of going to space Bezos pay some goddamn federal taxes, pay his warehouse workers real wages and cut their injury rate to ZERO?! I mean seriously, fuck this insanity.

@5 they have a right to sell their property.

I'm sure most on this blog are cheering at these ordinances and few could care less about the small landlords (after all they'll sell at a high point in the market) and that is fair. This may hurt some landlords in the near term, until they can sell, but ultimately it will hurt tenets as rental properties dwindle particularly outside the downtown core.

The school bill is particularly onerous as it applies not just to students and their families but to everyone associated with the school system from teachers to janitors to school bus drivers who now can only be evicted basically in July and August. This bill is much broader than the San Francisco ordinance it claims to mimic. The net result will be a further reduction in rental inventory but that of course is what Sawant and her ilk want. Soon enough the only solution to "affordable housing" will be government built and owned units.

You know, it's too bad about Weiner. He was a wonderfully abrasive advocate for the right side of many issues (an aggressive Democrat!). I don't begrudge him for wanting to show his dick to people online. There are several in Congress who probably do that and more. There are some REAL perverts in DC! But Weiner's problem was he'd show it to young'uns. And that is so very not cool. I guess he's having a hard time of it after serving his sentence in a Federal prison. And he's seeking help for his peccadillos - although they say pedophilia is hard-wired and all one can really do is avoid temptation. Sad. Now that he's paid his debt to society and as long as he stays out of trouble, I hope he has an easier time of it.

I can't get excited about any company that sells beef products (sorry, I like cattle), but hooray Burger King.

PinkGlases tour: Randy Rainbow will be in Seattle 9/23!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=271f5VererM

@5 in a Just World
landlords'd be made
Whole as well but we
have Capitalism cum
Billionairism as our Prime
Directive/shareholder Value
trumpfs the only known Habitable Plaent
in the Entire fucking UNIVERSE's so-callled Rights.

so sorry Natty
but it's always
Trillionaire.*

less you want a little
Jefferey Jolt -- right from Heaven!

ole Zeus he'll Insist
we call him so Remember
he's prolly Never that far away.

*getchyur Anti-Bezos
Reflecto-suits NOW
whilst supplies last!

Interesting that the LCB has lightened up enough to use the word "joint" rather than "pre-rolled marijuana cigarette."

give 'em time M-X they'll
monetize the Lingo
soon enough

it'll be ''Return to the Seventies!'' and
the Backlash'll set mary jane
Legislation back 50 years &
Texas'll Legalize! one week
& then Execute the Pot
Heads! the next.

@6

What about the War on Christmas? That one's my favorite.

The eviction moratorium has been a lifesaver no doubt, but real estate people are very crafty at working their way around the edges of legality. And unfortunately, it seems money always wins. I know they have a lot more of it than I do. The new wave here in Los Angeles is landlords selling their buildings for full or partial demolition to make room for more luxury condos. According to California and city laws, when you do that to people, you have to give them sizeable relocation assistance (in thousands of dollars) and at least four months to vacate after demolition plans have been government-approved which can take up to a year. Watch, though, how they'll wiggle out of that one.

Would a cobra do that?

@13: Next should be bongs instead of water pipes.

You went from #Herogasm to Weiner's crotch, and now I feel both dirty and nauseous.

@18 - so anytime a landlord wants to take control of his property he's "wiggling out of something?" You might feel better if the law makes it more expensive to turn apartments in to condos, but the end result will still be fewer rental units which in turn will lead to higher rents and/or tenants not being able to find housing. And the current crop of new laws will only increase landlords' incentives to make those conversions.

@2 - the real question is, why would anyone want to be in the less-expensive rental business anymore? Things like the eviction moratorium are mostly irrelevant if you own high-rent properties. The reason for the moratorium (tenants losing their jobs in the pandemic), and the number of tenants who are not paying rent and would be eviction candidates, is heavily concentrated at the low end of the market. Most of the headaches and losses that will be caused by the new laws can be avoided simply by not offering cheap housing. If I owned cheap apartments, I'd either be selling them, tearing them down to build something more profitable, or upgrading like cray to reach a more upscale, and less troublesome, clientele.

And the fact that the Scarfed Menace doesn't even think it's OK for people to MOVE BACK INTO THEIR OWN FUCKING HOUSES says an awful lot about her character. She doesn't give a fuck about people. Never did, and never will.

@20: Of course an owner may sell a building...at any time. The wiggling refers to trying to avoid relocation assistance.

When I was a kid I was visiting grandma in Nevada. I stepped in a shit while barefoot and my aunt got mad that we had to use the hose because of draught measures. And it was always hot as fuck.
What I'm saying is, why the fuck would anyone want to live in these places ESPECIALLY when you have to rely on the likes of other humans to ration water? Humans like ones in Arizona who think the election was a fraud. Probably think draughts are fake as well. "There is no draught! Biden is diverting water off the edge of the flat Earth and into space for the lizard people!1!! 1!!!"

I have had, on more than one occasion, landlords knock on my door asking about neighbors who have applied to rent their places. Only ever happened to me in Seattle and only within the past couple years.
This leads me to believe that the more restrictions you place on landlords and the more "protections" you place on renters that the less likely any landlord will rent to a person without a perfect application, high income, and apparently good reviews from their current neighbors. Best get to building them public housing projects. Put them in Karma Croissant's 'hood, mine has enough problems.

I expect the new tenant protections are going to have some unintended consequences the council isn't going to like. The last round really made it difficult to choose the tenant you want and limited the deposit you could collect. This becomes even more difficult as anyone with kids can now only be evicted a few months per year. A lot of turnover happens during the summer, so you might get someone in with no intention of paying the rent in August and get nothing other than first, last, and deposit until the following July. Oh, the last and deposit can be spread over the first six months, so really someone moves in with first and 1/6th of the deposit and last months rent which is all you're really guaranteed until the following summer. This would be a pretty extreme and rare case, but I would expect a lot more people will be a month or two behind with little motivation to prioritize rent over other bills until the following summer. Most people will of course want to pay their bills but catching up wouldn't be easy.

Landlords don't really pay for these things, they pass on these costs to their tenants, the ones who do pay their bills anyway. If it's a cost that is incurred by every landlord, within a few years, it'll make it's way into the rents. The cost for a larger landlord is basically going to be viewed as a risk that needs to be insured against. This will be done by having more responsible tenants paying higher rents to subsidize those who don't pay their rent. Smaller landlords will probably get some kind of insurance, after all, this represents a five figure risk that most couldn't easily absorb, which will be passed on to the tenants.

Then there is always something else to consider, what will the next round of tenant protections be? Nobody should think that the council is done here and that they're ever going to say "you know what guys, we might have gone a step too far."

@24 you're exactly right. The council knows they can not overtly implement rent control so they are going to keep adding layers of restrictions on until there is a de facto rent control in the city. Like a frog in the boiling pot. The courts will push back on them at some point but I don't think we're there yet. Of course when inevitably these things further reduce supply in the city they'll blame everyone but themselves. I can't even be mad at Sawant about this. She is very clear that she does not believe in private property rights but for the others on the council to follow along is beyond disappointing.

Currently stacking my first billion in dogecoin so I can join Bezos on the moon. Wish me luck

The only thing I can think of at the mention of Bezos in space is the closing scene of Austin Powers..."It's freaking cold in here Mr Bigglesworth!"

@27 show us on the doll where Jeff touched you

gosh Perfessor
have you not considered
a Life Insurance Policy on
Mister 'Glass Balls' Bezos?

you might (even)
make a Killing
(gawd forbid).

@25: "I can't even be mad at Sawant about this. She is very clear that she does not believe in private property rights but for the others on the council to follow along is beyond disappointing."

And they keep doing it, too, no matter we have a court system deeply dedicated to the defense of said rights -- and no matter what clear policy previous Councils have enacted. CM Sawant's whole demagogic, despotic attempt to "Save the Showbox!" was based on her disagreement with the very idea of private property rights existing, and with her utter disregard for a dozen years' of Council policy on that very parcel of land. Thus our collective civic ass got handed to us in court, along with a large bill: we paid ~$1M to a right right-winger to defend his private property rights, which very much did exist in our very real legal system. (It's worth noting that our Council passed her despotic ordinance without a dissenting voice, i.e. just as she believes every vote should always go.)

That legislators think so little of breaking laws should alone disqualify them from re-election. Hopefully the voters of District 3 will soon render the proper verdict on similar abuses of official powers.

Too bad Bezos' blastoff isn't one way.

Jesus--the only way Anthony could get any worse is if he opens a hotdog stand.

@7 xina for the WIN!