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Johnny Corvette🦆 retweeted
The perfect fiscal balance that musicians and gig workers enjoyed in Nashville died around 2017. The price of homes skyrocketed (literally almost doubled). With that came the migration of tens of thousands folks from out of state either looking for opportunities or looking for state income tax relief. ( me included) And all cash buyers. If you wanted to finance and not offer 25 percent over asking , just forget it. Now you have the over build that yeilded massive condo complexes with only 20 percent occupancy all with a 5/6 or 7 in the price tag and less takers than projected. The property tax increases which are based on the "new" math are crushing homeowners and low margin businesses like restaurants and bars all of which do some sort of live music experience. There's just not enough margin in a 29 dollar martini to cover the overhead anymore. The tourist now find the price of a vacation to Nashville virtually no different in costs to any major city or tropical destination with a beach. Hotel prices have doubled if not more. ( I put my whole band and crew up twice a year for rehearsals) The difference between 2015 and now is staggering. All of these factors have contributed to a place that was once America's fastest growing city to now being on the verge of a soft insolvency all the way around. Musicians can't afford to live there and businesses can't afford to support the musicians that make up the fabric of the Nashville experience. I really hope they figure it out and charging more for everything isn't the answer.. Joe B ( part time Nashville resident)
Opinion: Nashville fails the creatives who built the Music City brand | Opinion tennessean.com/story/opinion…
Johnny Corvette🦆 retweeted
Dems elected and immediately and radically escalate the War on Christmas.
BONES attributed to Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, kept since 1098 in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, were STOLEN from their reliquary inside the basilica, then DESTROYED.
The suspect, arrested at his home, admitted to SMASHING the display case protecting the reliquary, then stealing its contents, BURNING the bones and CRUSHING them out of a “desire to destroy.”
(Source: L'Est Républicain)
Johnny Corvette🦆 retweeted
I speak Spanish and can tell you this is a very malicious mistranslation.
He’s not advocating polluting rivers. He’s describing a scenario to demonstrate why a company can be incentivized to pollute a river because there is no immediate economic cost to doing so (this is what he means by “where is the harm?”—literally, how can the harm be located and measured).
He then explains how this changes if property rights for the river are clearly defined and free market pricing changes water from being priced at $0 to being treated like a scare resource.
He ends by describing a free market solution to polluting.
This “translation” is akin to you making an argument describing a hypothetical person’s incentives by saying: “A psychopath can act without guilt. ‘I live by my own rules’ because why not, he’s better than everyone” and some rando claims “Did you hear that? He said you shouldn’t feel guilty for committing murder because you’re better than everyone!”
Johnny Corvette🦆 retweeted
Can someone please honeypot the members of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and blackmail them into taking striped bass management seriously? Why is nobody sex-trapping people in the service of better fisheries management?
Johnny Corvette🦆 retweeted
Why do the climate people act like this?
I played no role in the DOE report
@DoctorVive is lying
Johnny Corvette🦆 retweeted
I know you're new to this, but facts matter. ICE was there to get medical treatment for a detainee who requested to see a doctor. I assume you support federal agents providing medical care to illegal immigrants in custody?
These agitators created a dangerous situation for the public and law enforcement. Law enforcement will never back down to thugs, so efforts to intimidate ICE will fail. They called for backup, controlled the scene, and arrested two individuals who assaulted federal agents.
As a public official, you should know the applicable laws. Agents are enforcing federal immigration laws passed by Congress. As mayor, you have no say in federal affairs. It's called the Supremacy Clause. I can send you a copy of the U.S. Constitution if you'd like to study up.
When you talk about immigrants, please distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants. I'm the son of legal immigrants. Our family followed the law, was welcomed with open arms, and is proud to be law-abiding Americans. The two are not the same.
Johnny Corvette🦆 retweeted
Western hypocrites (mostly Leftists) love the line "it's up to Iranians to determine their own future." But when we do determine our own fate and it's not the fate they've determined for us, they step in to patronize us and shove their version down our throats.
Der Freiheitspreis ehrt das iranische Volk, er sollte aber politisch neutral sein und nicht entscheiden, wer in dessen Namen sprechen darf.
Iran braucht nach einem Ende der Islamischen Republik zunächst keine neue nationale Führungspersönlichkeit und auch keine neue revolutionäre Avantgarde.
Iran braucht eine institutionelle Ordnung, die politische Legitimität bündelt, ohne selbst zum neuen Machtzentrum zu werden, und die den politischen Wettbewerb ermöglicht und zugleich verhindert, dass eine seiner Kräfte diesen Wettbewerb abschafft.
Denn die eigentliche demokratische Bewährungsprobe einer Revolution besteht nicht darin, eine alte Macht zu stürzen, sondern darin, die eigene Macht so zu begrenzen, dass auch die politischen Gegner dauerhaft eine Zukunft haben.
Erst darin verwirklicht sich die Freiheit, die der Preis würdigen will.
Johnny Corvette🦆 retweeted
"Musk has sharp elbows and prevented rivals from emerging"
Matt is just making stuff up. Musk famously wrote "All Our Patent Are Belong To You", in which he opened Tesla patents to his competitors in order to encourage competition and investment in the industry. SpaceX has done the same.
Johnny Corvette🦆 retweeted
Since Abdul El-Sayed’s election to the Senate, friends and colleagues have asked me the same question — partly because I’m a Muslim journalist and author, partly because I have been to Mecca.
It concerns a distinction he has drawn more than once, here in his words on NBC’s @MeetThePress: “I love and revere Judaism and the Jewish people. I believe they are a light unto the world… But they are not the same as AIPAC and Israel.”
Their question to me:
if someone said, “I love and revere Islam and the Muslim people, but they are not the same as Mecca and Medina,” would I accept it? I would not. Having been to Mecca, I cannot imagine my faith without the pilgrimage, the qibla, the Prophet’s city.
A fair comparison? He said “Israel,” a state, and I do not answer for what Riyadh does. Yet Islam’s holiest sites are on Saudi soil, and I would not accept hearing my faith is “not the same” as the ground beneath them.
So when he said Judaism and the Jewish people are “not the same” as Israel, what exactly did he mean?
Johnny Corvette🦆 retweeted
Explaining to woman from Israel why I go to Palestine protests and discussing October 7th attack
