goblin
Noble
Wait - that's not your Twitter?
I am not trying to be funny, I am authentically confused.
It must be hard coming up with inventive ways to beg for money after all these years.The new "Crisis update!" is here:
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Sadly not much new about it. Looks like he cut and paste together lines from the last week or so of messages.
It must be hard coming up with inventive ways to beg for money after all these years.
I still don’t get the rebuilding of the Paracast thing. How does he think that will bring more money in? The damn website is on life support as it is. (I just looked, 8 of the past 10 posts are by Murphy or Steinberg.)
The new "Crisis update!" is here:
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Sadly not much new about it. Looks like he cut and paste together lines from the last week or so of messages.
agree this is the only one that made me laugh hard, i found all the others boring or offesive, lets hope he doesn't make one of mine!I did PMSL over this one though
That grin, he knows what home movies they are talking about................
"...where the landlord is willing to overlook our previous troubles."
Troubles. Nice euphemism for their history of skipping out on rent. Troubles - somehow scans to me like some unavoidable things happened to the Steinbergs, rather than bad outcomes for themselves AND their landlords, that the Steinbergs brought on repeatedly through their own irresponsible behavior.
You were evicted, what, 4 times in 18 months, something like that? What you are doing is not working. No landlord should overlook your history. Landlords aren't a charity or public service. If your own family won't take you in why should they?
Steinberg's story about his stay at the motel and saving up money for another apattment is so convoluted. If he truly has money set aside for an apartment, why not use it to pay his motel stay.
It seems as if the funds he gets from begging must be diminishing. Most of those posts come across as someone who is desperate, more than in the past. God only knows what he is blowing his money on. He should be able to get by on Social Security and Paracast money.Exactly but the same also applies to him being evicted from his apartments. He keeps saying he needs money from others to pay his apartment rent, yet somehow when he gets evicted he ends up in motels for weeks which would cost more.
None of what he says makes sense.
The only firm conclusion one can draw is that he is lying and he uses the imminent threat of eviction as a way to squeeze money and sympathy out of people.
One possibility is that when he is living in an apartment where you pay monthly, he wastes his money (all $2700 SS + Paracast income) on garbage he doesn't need (expensive luxuries, gambling, drugs, - there are many possibilities) leaving him with no money to pay the rent.
On the other hand when he is in a motel he has to pay upfront and so can't spend the money on other things - there is simply no opportunity because he would be straight out on the street.
This would also explain why he seems even more desperate to get handouts when he is in the motel (the begging frequency has gone up a lot)- he desperately wants more money to do whatever he does with it - be it spending on unnecessary items, gambling or drugs.
There definitely seems to be a compulsive element to it even if addiction is not involved.
Either way anyone who sends donations to him is merely enabling this kind of behaviour. They are not helping him and the situation will never change if he keeps getting "rescued".
Can you imagine trying to survive at this late date? It truly sucks to be him!
Yeah I just can't help it - the thought of anyone living in fear of losing their shelter just chills me to the bone; especially someone at that age.I almost feel sorry for him,almost.If at some point in the past he had admitted his folly and asked for forgiveness he may have gained sympathy and support.However,due to his pathological behaviour and his refusal to countenance criticism he has ended up on a self made collision course towards disaster.
Yeah I just can't help it - the thought of anyone living in fear of losing their shelter just chills me to the bone; especially someone at that age.
I'm not condoning any of his behavior or lifestyle choices. But I've seen the homeless population skyrocketing over the last 20 years around here, while the rents in my neighborhood have quadrupled, and wages have been flat for like 20-30 years. So watching this play itself out feels like seeing a microcosm of the economic shitstorm that millions of people are struggling with here in the Corporate States of America.
Nobody should have to live in fear for shelter, food, or healthcare, no matter who they are, imo.
And honestly, in this case, it looks to me like some kind of psychological disorder. Yet another thing that millions of people suffer from, and can't afford to get treated.
I mean, I honestly don't think anyone, and I mean anyone, who's been following this debacle honestly WANTS him and his family on the street. I certainly don't.
I mean, I honestly don't think anyone, and I mean anyone, who's been following this debacle honestly WANTS him and his family on the street. I certainly don't.
None of us want him (or anyone to be in that situation) but I think we need to keep something in mind. He's been claiming to be hours away from being on the street for a decade, yet somehow he always ends up in a new apartment.
We also need to remember that if this is a psychological issue, then Gene can't be helped unless he admits to it and owns up to it. This is not on the level of something like schizophrenia where you can detain someone for their own safety.
You can't force an alcoholic or gambler into hospital for treatment. They have to come to the realisation themselves and ask for help.
If they stay in denial nothing can be done to help them, sometimes it takes a big shock - actually hitting "rock bottom" - in order for the denial to clear.
For some people even that is not enough.
That's why I keep saying anyone who legitimises what Gene is doing or bails him out is not actually helping him - they are just reinforcing the negative behaviours.
That is also likely the reason why close family like his son have distanced themselves from him - they realise that whatever they do just makes it worse.
I mean, I honestly don't think anyone, and I mean anyone, who's been following this debacle honestly WANTS him and his family on the street. I certainly don't.
I can see someone who really couldn't afford the loss, that believed his lies and "lent" him money which has never been repaid wishing him homeless.