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Bird Lawyer
@realjoenathan.bsky.social
Native Scrantonian. Sloth advocate. Washington and Villanova Alum. Actual lawyer. Probably chaotic good.
Your mom is the Beatles?
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Bosses who let you cook are the best! Congrats!
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Your mom's not even good.
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Just seeing this - glad it went well and you're recovering!
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Yep. Rates would typically be 2-4 points higher without the GSEs' improving liquidity.
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Man, MAGA should really tone down the divisive rhetoric that's causing this.
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Yeah... I've gotta say though, on the domestic front he did about as good a job as one could have unfucking the disaster that was the first Trump admin.
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Yes, but the pee tapes.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Because they are
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The good news is that Vance is not especially well-liked even among MAGA, and abaolutely reviled among the rest of the country.
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
But as of right now, they're under direct government control.
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
They're a lot less private now than they used to be. Ever since 2009, they've been under direct government control, first directly to Congress, then under FHFA. There's been sporadic talk of spinning them off into private ownership again (which has gained some steam in the past year or two)...
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Small quibble: it's not an implicit guaranty. It's explicit and it's the primary mechanism for the core purpose of the GSEs: to increase the rate of home ownership.
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The degenerate son of an opioid addict from Ohio turned out to be a raging racist??

I'm shocked. Shocked, I say!
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM