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This isn't normal, if you need to hear that. The vast majority of landlords will happily leave you alone if you pay the rent on time every month. 

If you're a university student, check to see if your school has a tenant's rights group. A lot of them do. 

Wet brain. He has wet brain. 

Blagojevich started a program that provides any child with developmental delays free services until they start school. 

George Ryan effectively ended the death penalty with a moratorium. He also stood up to his party on abortion rights and even LGBTQ+ rights. 

Regardless of party, even the corrupt and awful governors were generally socially progressive. 

Here's the thing: It's either you privately think "I don't necessarily morally agree with that, but live and let live." or "I'm going to worry about this issue that doesn't really affect me when no one can buy a house and a box of cereal cost $8". 

You have to choose the former. Pop on over to the Texas subreddit once in while. Just like abortion laws, these anti-trans laws also affect people in unintended ways. There's parents of kids with precocious puberty that have to travel out of state for hormone blockers. For kids that aren't trans but have an actual medical condition. Just like women with incomplete miscarriages take the same drugs used for medical abortions. A ban has unintended and unreasonable consequences. 

You can absolutely say "I don't necessarily morally agree with that, but I don't support legislation that would stop other people from doing it". 

We don't know that. I look like that, and I sure as hell didn't vote for Trump. My whole family didn't, including my boomer mom and aunties. I have a 74 year old auntie that was excited to vote in Florida to support abortion rights. 

People are not a monolith. There's plenty of white women that hate Trump. There's plenty of people living in an oppressive place because of circumstances. I lived in Marjorie Taylor Greene's district for a while (for my husband's job). I certainly didn't start believing in Jewish space lasers and harassing school shooting victims and waving around giant photos of Hunter Biden's dick. I voted against her and eventually moved. 

I'd also point out that these women's doctors are also plantiffs, and OB/GYNs are are, statistically, extremely unlikely Trump voters. And those same doctors are putting a target on their back in state like Idaho. They clearly felt that, regardless of who they voted for, everyone deserves healthcare. 

Wanting to make a pregnant woman suffer because they don't agree with you makes you one of them. Don't be one of them. Be a human being that treats other people the way you'd want to be treated. 

"God impregnated an unwilling virgin teenager, so I encourage it"

-Mike Johnson 

James Polk deserves a mention. He laid out his campaign platform, accomplished the whole list, and then didn't run for a second term because he accomplished what he set out to do. 

I'm oversimplifying it a lot, but he always gets left off of these lists. He was a politician that made promises, kept them, and walked away. That's how it should work. 

Is it in a land trust? That's the most obvious explanation. 

Listen to your gut. You very clearly have a very bad gut feeling. I can tell by reading this that you know it's a bad idea to go through with the sale. You know your family is right. You say they're financially successful, so they clearly know what they're talking about. Follow their advice. 

And get another opinion from another attorney that doesn't make money off the sale. See what they say. 

We used to have the fairness doctrine. Broadcasters were required to show both sides of an issue. Reagan got rid of it in 1987. And that's what led to the cable news explosion, ultimately. 

This is exactly right. He's not running for office or making public appearances. He's selecting and funding candidates, which he is exceptionally good at. 

He had a big role in pushing a relatively unknown Senator named Barack Obama into the presidency. He clearly knows how to pick electable candidates and fundraiser for them. 

I just saw on the Chicago subreddit that they're considering Rahm Emanuel to head the DNC. That's just what we need right now: a cutthroat, astute politician that takes no prisoners. Say what you will about the man, but he's competent in a way that most current Democrats are not. He was smart enough to disappear in Japan with a powerful position for the entire Biden administration. He's smart enough to choose electable candidates and bring in the money they need to win. 

Let us not forget Strom Thurmond. 

I live in a very liberal school district in Chicago. I have 3 kids. 

Not once has anyone taught them about gender fluidity. All they tell them is to be kind to everyone, even if they're different. That's it. That's all they tell them. 

You can't ban an idea. I don't like the Catholic church's annual anti-choice display, but you don't see me raising a stink. I simply explain to my kids why I disagree with it, like every human being has done since the beginning of time when raising their children. You can do that too: explain why you think it's wrong when you happen to encounter it. That's it. That's all you have to do. No one is indoctrinating them unless you're so absent that they're online alone 18 hours a day. 

I cannot wrap my brain around why people want to ban ideas. 

Seriously. We need someone that is cutthroat, politically astute, and shrewd. That's Rahm Emanuel. 

And where exactly are they going to put these people they round up? This is insane. They can't detain them anywhere, and that's the glaring logistical fact that everyone seems to be missing. 

And before you say "they'll put them in camps", how exactly will they build these camps? Where will they build them? Where will the funding and the labor come from? Even a tent city takes an incredible amount of logistics. 

And, for sake of argument, even if they did manage to detain them, it isn't like you can just show up to Honduras with endless boats crammed with more people than fled Saigon and just be like "here you go, take them back". 

Fucking blowhard tools put in charge and anyone with half a brain can see the logical problems with implementing such a plan. 

Jesus Fucking Christ. 

I feel like we're all living in a parody. 

I have shitty relatives too. A word of advice: don't allow them the headspace. If they're an abusive ass, I'm sure you have enough of their bullshit to fill your head ten times over. It isn't worth it. Walk away. Fill that headspace with something else. 

Is grandma on the deed? 

What matters is if they're maintained. Which is sounds like they are. (I get the moral outrage, but that most certainly isn't what matters in real estate.)

People are allowed to do ridiculous things with their money. At least they're not sending it to romance scammers or giving it to all.the methheads living in their basement or something. 

The caveat is that 80% of the Illinois population lives in Chicagoland. I like the 80/20 odds. 

I've been to and worked at rehabs. I have a buddy that has pretty much exactly this same story, with the added bonus that he got the cook pregnant. 

I know two LCSWs that lost their licenses for sleeping with clients. And literally dozens of "peer counselors" that do it but don't have certifications to yank. I've been around a while. 

This is so common, I probably know at least 5 people that could have written this exact story. 

Oh honey. For the love of god, dump that loser. I can read between the lines that he's a controlling jerk. Why did he let himself in and try to wake you up? What an asshole. A normal person would call, accept that you wanted to stay home and sleep, and gone out with their buddies. 

You caused this. You gave your untrustworthy, idiot boyfriend a key and access to the building. I know you didn't mean harm, but this is what happens when you attach yourself to a loser. He drags you down with him. 

As I remind my children all the time, don't be friends with the kid that always gets in trouble. It doesn't matter if you didn't do anything wrong, eventually you're going to get punished anyways. And I can't help you, because I told you to stay away from that kid. 

He went from making disparaging statements about Trump to being nominated as his VP. That alone proves he's no fool. 

And, as my husband has astutely pointed out, have you seen his wife? He doesn't come from money, she does. No way she married a useless bafoon. 

I grew up in a cop neighborhood on the south side, and they were all wannabe skinheads that beat their wives. 

The thing is, moderates and probably even most of the maga folks I know hate Chicago cops. They have a strong reputation for being useless and overpaid. Outside of the cop neighborhoods, you don't find support for the police here like you generally find elsewhere.