War Room Lounge v40: Mixed Feelings about Natural Disasters

[BAM]

Hey y'all help me out. I found my fucking DREAM apartment in the French Quarter. I got talked into helping my family with money so my savings suck, I'll be making about a grand a week the next few weeks and I start tour guiding the 26th.


https://neworleans.craigslist.org/apa/d/new-orleans-1-bedroom-1-bath-631-sqft/6869021943.html

Gorgeous right? And in the French Quarter for such a good price. Is there anyway I can word it to move in June 1st and not the 10th?

What should I do to talk them into renting to me?

in my experience in dealing with a competitive market, I'd suggest finding out what they are looking for as far as lease - fixed term, month to month, length of stay. Other than that they tend to make decisions based on:

• prior rental history
• how much income you have
• whether or not you will be bringing a pet
• how long you will be committed to the tenancy
• how quickly you can move in

Sometimes offering a pet bond or extra rent may secure the tenancy.

Best of luck

 

[AgonyandIrony]

Damn dude that’ll be gone quickkkk. I live by the Irish channel and I love it man

Yup. I'm getting the email ready now.

It's either the French Quarter or the Irish Channel for me. Did you know NOLA was 25% Irish at one time and the Channel was hated by the Creoles and Blacks because it was so violent?

Also it's close to the zoo and I have a pass so I get stoned and go there a lot. I'm going to the Zoo to Do next month. That swanky ass black tie gala.

Also errbody I'm working that shitty location today on Canal and Royal where that homeless lady pooped... She's back y'all.

 

[Trotsky]

Great post.

I think one real difference between Bernie fans and regular left-leaning folks who may or may not prefer Bernie is over the issue of his uniqueness, which is actually similar to a criticism that Krugman had of Obama as a candidate in 2008.

Part of the problem is that if someone's running for president, he needs to convince everyone that he's uniquely well-qualified to do the job, when the reality is that actually enacting policy requires a team of advisers and other employees who will be drawn from the same pool for all candidates in the same party and requires help from members of your party in Congress. In the general, you're really voting for a party rather than an individual. In the primary, you're voting for who can best get the votes in the general and coordinate the team, but few candidates can acknowledge that (JFK did that well in the Nixon debate, when he defended his lack of experience by pointing that out).

I'm not sure where I would fit in your dichotomy, but I think that, particularly for socialists, Sanders does offer something unique that no other current candidate does and which I have discussed here before: left-wing foreign policy. While I think that Elizabeth Warren, for instance, would have mostly similar domestic policies to Sanders, I don't trust her do things that really matter to me in the foreign policy arena: immediately remove all trade restrictions on Cuba (and compensate them generously if I had my way), end all sanctions on Venezuela and Iran, lessen or end sanctions on North Korea, put in place a system of punishment (or, if that is impossible, political opposition) to American businesses causing havoc in other countries (such as the ones that have partially caused and benefited from violence against environmental activists in Central America), take serious action in defense of Palestine (and he happens to have a little armor to do so since he's Jewish), etc. etc. etc. Sanders is the only person who has shown such leanings politically and is the only one with the history of consistency, commitment (Warren lacks, for instance, in those two areas), and responsiveness to left-wing pressures to earn that trust.

It's the same thing for Jeremy Corbyn (who is my actual favorite living political figure). There isn't a political figure in Labour that has his principle and boldness and that has spoken in defense of the oppressed again and again and again, even when it has exposed him to horrible and destructive smears (like being called an anti-Semite and a terrorist sympathizer for his comments on Palestine and the IRA).

 

[waiguoren]

NOLA place for less than 500$?

As I wrote, do a share if necessary. I've lived in more expensive cities for much less. Lived in Shanghai for years and paid <$100 in rent a month for six months at one point. I was sleeping on a wooden floor in a closet. The struggle is worth it.

 

[JDragon]

I never understood people getting so upset about their post getting deleted.

@Lead pls delete

 

[BarryDillon]

Did somebody tackle him just as he was getting into a tweet storm?

Somebody contact the secret service

Why is he undercutting the report that he himself claims totally exonerates him?

 

[curryjunkie]

I'm not sure where I would fit in your dichotomy, but I think that, particularly for socialists, Sanders does offer something unique that no other current candidate does and which I have discussed here before: left-wing foreign policy. While I think that Elizabeth Warren, for instance, would have mostly similar domestic policies to Sanders, I don't trust her do things that really matter to me in the foreign policy arena: immediately remove all trade restrictions on Cuba (and compensate them generously if I had my way), end all sanctions on Venezuela and Iran, lessen or end sanctions on North Korea, put in place a system of punishment (or, if that is impossible, political opposition) to American businesses causing havoc in other countries (such as the ones that have partially caused and benefited from violence against environmental activists in Central America), take serious action in defense of Palestine (and he happens to have a little armor to do so since he's Jewish), etc. etc. etc. Sanders is the only person who has shown such leanings politically and is the only one with the history of consistency, commitment (Warren lacks, for instance, in those two areas), and responsiveness to left-wing pressures to earn that trust.

It's the same thing for Jeremy Corbyn (who is my actual favorite living political figure). There isn't a political figure in Labour that has his principle and boldness and that has spoken in defense of the oppressed again and again and again, even when it has exposed him to horrible and destructive smears (like being called an anti-Semite and a terrorist sympathizer for his comments on Palestine and the IRA).

Corbyn is constantly attacked from day 1 by blairites in his own party ,who have adopted many of the Tories old positions. Anthony Benn was a giant of the left , sadly passed away a few years ago, he would cut through the anti-Semitic accusations like a scyth, today's politicians are shadows of what they were.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

As I wrote, do a share if necessary. I've lived in more expensive cities for much less. Lived in Shanghai for years and paid <$100 in rent a month for six months at one point. I was sleeping on a wooden floor in a closet. The struggle is worth it.

You know what else is worth it? Paying extra for a place of my own and not sleeping in a closet. I already struggled for years as a starving artist, now I go to fancy black tie galas and have two rad jobs.

Although I don't believe in ghosts so doing haunted history tours isn't as exciting as rambling about New Orleans dueling culture in City Park but making $35 an hour minimum to tell spooky stories isn't so bad.

The LaLaurie Mansion story is pretty insane and they want me to learn the pub crawl and the 5 and 1 tour.

Now the 5 and 1 will be cool so I can talk about The Axeman and maybe my favorire prostitute that's not the mother of @Fawlty .

Check this out.

Mary Jane 'Bricktop' Jackson also legendarily roamed the streets of seedy New Orleans and in eight years killed four men. Along with a career in the dance-houses in New Orleans, she was reported to have a favorite knife she designed herself, "it had a heavy five-inch blade at each end, with a center grip handsomely mounted in German silver". Needless to say, she was a complete psychopath, who fittingly had an also-murderous-prostitute roommate, which only could have been the worst possible influence.

Anyway, so back to her knife: with her weapon, she could cut and slash in any direction "without changing the position of her hand," according to her. It's safe to assume that many men fell to her blade before the murder that inspired her disappearance.

In 1857, she moved into a house with Bridget Fury after having been banned from the dance-houses and became a prostitute out of necessity.

In 1861, she "brutalized" John Miller, a former boxer who, get this, lost his left arm in a fight and fastened AN IRON BALL AND CHAIN TO THE STUMP. He made his arm into a mace. You know that REAL men have died out once we live in a time where it doesn't seem reasonable/necessary to attach a medieval weapon to where one of your most important limbs used to be. Oh, the good old days.

As recorded in this book (The French Quarter, by Herbert Asbury), the way everything got started was that Miller (the guy with the Bond-villain arm) threatened Bricktop (the girl with the unsexiest prostitute name ever) with a whip and said she needed to be lashed (while probably wasted out of his mind, or just bored from busting in too many heads with his awesome cannonball-arm).

Bricktop stepped forward, snatched the whip defensively and beat him. He attacked with his iron ball, charging at her and she was able to actually take the ball and use it to drag him down to the floor. As a last resort, he tried to stab her, but she pushed him up against the wall and furiously knifed the beejesus out of him using her pride and joy.

She was sent to prison, released a year later and never heard from again.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Did somebody tackle him just as he was getting into a tweet storm?

Somebody contact the secret service

I suspect that Trump does this kind of thing (breaks message and thus makes fools of his already foolish-looking supporters) deliberately as a show of dominance. And his supporters willingly go along with it as a show of submissiveness.

 

[Jack V Savage]

I'm not sure where I would fit in your dichotomy, but I think that, particularly for socialists, Sanders does offer something unique that no other current candidate does and which I have discussed here before: left-wing foreign policy. While I think that Elizabeth Warren, for instance, would have mostly similar domestic policies to Sanders, I don't trust her do things that really matter to me in the foreign policy arena: immediately remove all trade restrictions on Cuba (and compensate them generously if I had my way), end all sanctions on Venezuela and Iran, lessen or end sanctions on North Korea, put in place a system of punishment (or, if that is impossible, political opposition) to American businesses causing havoc in other countries (such as the ones that have partially caused and benefited from violence against environmental activists in Central America), take serious action in defense of Palestine (and he happens to have a little armor to do so since he's Jewish), etc. etc. etc. Sanders is the only person who has shown such leanings politically and is the only one with the history of consistency, commitment (Warren lacks, for instance, in those two areas), and responsiveness to left-wing pressures to earn that trust.

OK. I don't see that as being very likely, but maybe we'll see.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

You know what else is worth it? Paying extra for a place of my own and not sleeping in a closet. I already struggled for years as a starving artist, now I go to fancy black tie galas and have two rad jobs.

Although I don't believe in ghosts so doing haunted history tours isn't as exciting as rambling about New Orleans dueling culture in City Park but making $35 an hour minimum to tell spooky stories isn't so bad.

The LaLaurie Mansion story is pretty insane and they want me to learn the pub crawl and the 5 and 1 tour.

Now the 5 and 1 will be cool so I can talk about The Axeman and maybe my favorire prostitute that's not the mother of @Fawlty .

Check this out.

We did one of those ghost tours that included LaLAurie's mansion.

The tour guide kept making this bad jokes attacking Nicholas Cage as an actor.

As huge Cage fan myself I found myself defending him and noted his amazing role in New Orleans Port of Call.

So she asked me if I liked that he got drunk and beat his wife at a bar a few blocks down to which I responded "Didn't see that one, straight to DVD?"

 

[Quipling]

@AgonyandIrony

Friend of mine is planning on going to New Orleans. Is summer a shitty time to be a tourist? Is there a good time for it?

 

[Trotsky]

OK. I don't see that as being very likely, but maybe we'll see.

I know it's kind of a difficult, and perhaps frivolous to you, quality to quantify, but "responsiveness" (as I term it) is a very heavy consideration for me. It was a particularly weak spot for Clinton. And, for instance, I consider it a strong spot for Cory Booker, which is why I rank him higher on my list of candidate that people would expect given his policy history.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

@AgonyandIrony

Friend of mine is planning on going to New Orleans. Is summer a shitty time to be a tourist? Is there a good time for it?

I was there in February and as a fat guy who sweats a lot and hates the heat that seemed to be a pretty good time to be down there. It was between 65-75 degrees.

I can't stand Florida or Texas in the Summer so I don't think I'd like NOLA either

 

[Trotsky]

Corbyn is constantly attacked from day 1 by blairites in his own party ,who have adopted many of the Tories old positions. Anthony Benn was a giant of the left , sadly passed away a few years ago, he would cut through the anti-Semitic accusations like a scyth, today's politicians are shadows of what they were.

I, of course, love Tony Benn, but Corbyn is just a fucking superstar. Just a man of incredible strength and principle.

A lot of posters here have disagreed with my impression that Bernie Sanders got a rough ride in the US media. But I don't think anyone can in remotely good faith disagree that Corbyn had a smear campaign ran against him in his first rise and then in his race against Owen Smith. I unfollowed The Guardian, which had been probably my favorite major outlet, over their constant, repeated smears and "Corbyn will make Labour unelectable!" bullshit.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

We did one of those ghost tours that included LaLAurie's mansion.

The tour guide kept making this bad jokes attacking Nicholas Cage as an actor.

As huge Cage fan myself I found myself defending him and noted his amazing role in New Orleans Port of Call.

So she asked me if I liked that he got drunk and beat his wife at a bar a few blocks down to which I responded "Didn't see that one, straight to DVD?"

Nicholas Cage isn't very well liked down here lol. His fucking pyramid tomb in St Louis #1 is absurd.

I'm a pretty great storyteller though. I think after a month I'll be good. The owner of the company sought me out.

@AgonyandIrony

Friend of mine is planning on going to New Orleans. Is summer a shitty time to be a tourist? Is there a good time for it?

Summer is a shitty time to be alive in New Orleans. Taking cold showers like I'm hiding a boner from God.

You get used to it but fuck dude. It's hot here.

 

[Gregolian]

@AgonyandIrony

Friend of mine is planning on going to New Orleans. Is summer a shitty time to be a tourist? Is there a good time for it?

Hiroshima is ABOUT the same latitude as NOLA is.... the summer months in Hiroshima suck sweaty donkey balls cause you take a shower and start sweating and get sticky from humidity as soon as you step out of the shower.

 

[Jack V Savage]

I know it's kind of a difficult, and perhaps frivolous to you, quality to quantify, but "responsiveness" (as I term it) is a very heavy consideration for me. It was a particularly weak spot for Clinton. And, for instance, I consider it a strong spot for Cory Booker, which is why I rank him higher on my list of candidate that people would expect given his policy history.

I think that's unpredictable. Couldn't you argue that the incredible amount of faith that Bernie's supporters have in him frees him from "responsiveness"? A more distrusted candidate would have to do more reassuring.

 

[Trotsky]

I think that's unpredictable. Couldn't you argue that the incredible amount of faith that Bernie's supporters have in him frees him from "responsiveness"? A more distrusted candidate would have to do more reassuring.

I mean, I guess you could, but that would prioritize theory over his actual history of holding himself responsible to the left when it comes to his past positions and rhetoric on things like Palestine and criminal justice (and his holding firm on pressure from the center left on issues like gun control).

Also, btw, because I'm just now remembering it, I don't recall it being generally represented that Hillary Clinton was a right-ward influence on Bill during his presidency. I'm not saying that no one said it, but I don't remember that ever being a thing. I don't think Bill ever needed a push to the right.

 

[waiguoren]

$500 a month in NOLA is what the bums pay for their box I thought?

Search engines. They work.

https://neworleans.craigslist.org/d/rooms-shares/search/roo