TimHauck

Your link says prices were down for 1/3 of the items tracked in the consumer price index. That means prices for 2/3 of the items aren’t, and links to a different article confirming the 2.7% overall increase. Thanks for confirming prices aren’t down.

Here you can see protesters being peaceful and an intercom can be heard saying “please make a path for emergency vehicles or chemical munitions will be deployed.” So that’s probably what caused the teargas to be used initially. I know blocking roads is illegal, but does that give law enforcement legal right to teargas them? @Engorgeous George? https://x.com/OANN/status/1943464003805810925

I agreed with you. Prices aren’t down. Let me know when someone can pay their rent with a %. Hence, if the previous economy was the worst of their lifetime’s, then it still is.

Is there a longer video of the pot farm raid? I am curious if there is any truth to the claims that the protesters were being peaceful prior to being tear-gassed.

They’re not though.

Bump for @jonnyutah

I agree, which is why we must still consider the current economy the worst of the lower classes lifetime

There’s literally an article in the OP with the data

Are you acknowledging that the price impact would be felt primarily in specific areas most impacted?

Peefoam: “do you just pick and choose things that go up and down through time?” also peefoam: names only the 2 things that probably go up and down through time the most lol

Let’s forget about the makeup of the population for a second. Would it be fair to summarize your theory as: ”more people = higher housing prices” ?

Cool, do you eat gas? Maybe that would explain some things

Total population of Cook County down since 2020, housing prices way up. Thanks again for confirming illegal immigration isn’t a primary driver of housing price increases.

Prices are still going up. They would need to come down for it to not be “the worst” anymore. It’s not worse than during Biden (yet, hopefully it stays that way), but it’s not any better.

Link?

I agree, people saying to deport all Somalians have a low IQ

@RLLD confirms current economy is still the worst of the lower classes’ lifetime

Seems like semantics IMO, there were Mexican teams that assisted, just not “coordinated by the Mexican government and President”

Yay for free speech! Lots of people just coming out and saying things like this on x (I’m sure @iam90sbaby would appreciate these types of posts). If there was a question that x leans right these days, there isn’t anymore. https://x.com/bumbadum14/status/1944816319620374667

Disgusting https://x.com/loganclarkhall/status/1944800424977997865

@Horseman: “America needs to see this movie.” Also @Horseman: illegally streams it thus stealing from the creators who claim to be trying to raise funds to stop human trafficking lol

OK I just reread your earlier post and the article. So the -900K people stat is “since 1970.” lol that’s over 50 years. For one, this thread is specific to the last ~5 years. Besides, according to the article you linked, they weren’t even all replaced. Only ~600k immigrants moved in. In total, looks like the total Cook County population is down about 6% since 1970 (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ILCOOK1POP). Yet over that same time period home prices are probably up about 5x+ (4x vs 1987 which is the earliest data on FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CHXRSA) So thanks for confirming population trends aren’t always correlated with home price trends! I presume your rebuttal will be “yeah but prices would have went up less without the immigrants!” Well getting back to the original topic of the last ~5 years and the common theory (with no evidence) that the influx of illegals is driving up overall home prices, the population of Cook County is actually down about 2% (almost 100k people) from 2020 to 2024 alone. Yet home prices are up almost 50%.

@jonmx supports grooming

Saagar Enjeti (a conservative) told an interesting story on Breaking Points today. Forget the exact wording but he said someone told him in 2016 that Trump getting elected would be the worst thing to happen for people who have stopping illegal immigration as a top priority, because Trump would go “full retard” and cause normal people to turn against his policies. Took until the second term, but that might be what’s happening.