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It Looks Like Lots Of People And Businesses Are Voting Early — With Their Feet

A weekend topic starting with the Wall Street Journal. “Protesters frustrated that marches on the streets haven’t resulted in more dramatic police reforms have found a new stage: the homes of big city mayors. In San Jose, Calif., a group of about 100 people spray-painted an obscenity on the front door of Mayor Sam Liccardo on Aug. 28, threw eggs and burned an American flag as they demanded that he defund the Police Department.”

“In Portland, Ore., protesters threw burning material into the lobby of the apartment building where Mayor Ted Wheeler lives. In Seattle, they marched to the home of Mayor Jenny Durkan, who as a former federal prosecutor later expressed alarm that her previously undisclosed address had been made public. In Chicago, activists descended on the home of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, prompting the city to begin enforcing a statute banning protests in residential neighborhoods.”

“Mr. Liccardo initially called the protesters who came to his home ‘menacing thugs’ in a tweet he later deleted. In an interview, he said these kinds of actions go too far. ‘When people start committing acts of vandalism, it’s just not right—especially when you’re talking about a residence,’ said the mayor, who has championed a slate of police reforms that don’t include funding reductions.”

“‘Vandalism is a consequence of the collapse of the social contract. That contract is violated when those entrusted with serving and protecting the community continuously murder unarmed people of color with impunity, not when someone spray paints a house to protest those murders,’ Kiana Simmons, president and founder of HERO Tent, a social-justice group based in the San Francisco Bay Area, said in an email.”

“Oakland, Calif., Mayor Libby Schaaf ran upstairs to check on her children when activists shot fireworks and paintball guns and covered her property with graffiti after she approved a 5% reduction in police spending, rather than the 50% some protesters had demanded.”

“Three decades ago, after graduating law school, Ms. Schaaf served as a legal observer to protect street protesters from potential police abuse. ‘It feels a little Twilight Zoney that many of us got into public service because we wanted to fight the man,’ she said. ‘Now we are deemed as the man.'”

From The Hill. “While the election isn’t until November 3, it looks like lots of people and businesses are, in a sense, ‘voting’ early — with their feet. In pre-pandemic January, I wrote here about the blue-state exodus in which thousands of blue-state residents, fed up with high taxes, heavy regulations and ‘woker-than-thou’ policies, are fleeing the sinking blue ships and moving to red states. Now it appears we are seeing a blue-city exodus as well.”

“World Population Review lists the 20 most liberal U.S. cities, with San Francisco leading the way, followed by Washington, DC, Seattle, Oakland, Boston, Minneapolis, Detroit and New York City. Chicago comes in at 11 and Portland at 12. According to the Review, liberal cities tend to place ‘greater value on social justice, ensuring access to healthcare, regulating economic activity, and social equality.’ And, of course, higher taxes.”

“Noticeably absent among liberal-city priorities is peace, safety, order and respect for private property. The result is that businesses, especially those located in or near the riot zones, are looking to move. Greg Goodman, co-president of Portland’s Downtown Development Group, recently sent Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler a letter — or should I say a warning?”

“Goodman goes on to tell the mayor and the city council: ‘You are doing an excellent of enabling people who don’t know or care about George Floyd to ransack our city at the expense of the people you are trying to help. Think how many jobs have been lost by people of color in our city, not through protest, but from vandalism.'”

“‘Enabling’ may be an understatement. Mayor Wheeler, like so many woke Democrats, has been out encouraging and participating in the riots — though he apparently has begun to walk back his support now that protesters are showing up at his home.”

“Housing markets are also reflecting the growing blue-city dissatisfaction. Zillow CEO Richard Barton recently told CNBC that online shopping traffic for homes for sale is up 50 percent year over year. ‘What we’re seeing is a lot of dissatisfaction with where people are living right now.’ Most of the searches are for single-family homes, outside of the downtown areas.”

“Rex Real Estate, a website that allows people to buy and sell homes, told the Wall Street Journal in June, ‘buyer interest in small metro areas is outpacing large metro areas by 52%. It has also seen a 173% increase in New York buyers considering homes in Orlando compared to this time in 2019.’ In addition, the Big Apple’s apartment vacancy rate hit a 14-year high, and increased by 50 percent in San Francisco.”

From Realtor.com. “As renters have begun emptying out of the nation’s most expensive cities due to the one-two punch of the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing recession, monthly rental prices in those areas are nosediving. Rents for September have plummeted the most in ultrapricey San Francisco compared with a year ago, according to Zumper. Median prices dropped by 14.1% in San Francisco, to a still very high $3,040 for one-bedroom apartments on the market.”

“Other exorbitantly priced cities experienced similar double-digit declines. Median rents fell 11.5% year over year in San Jose, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley, to $2,750 for a one-bedroom unit in September and decreased 10.9% in New York City, to a median $2,700. Rental prices also fell substantially in Salt Lake City, by 10.7%, to $1,000 a month; Denver, by 10.6%, to $1,430; and Washington, DC, by 10.5%, to $2,050. Median rents dropped 15.8% in the college town of Syracuse, NY, about four hours northwest of New York City, to $800.”

“Expensive cities that saw steep, but single-digit, price drops included Boston, where rental prices fell 8%, to a median $2,300 a month; Los Angeles, by 8.4%, to $2,040; and Seattle, by 9.6%, to $1,700.”

From KIRO 7 in Washington. “Landlords are suing over the tight restrictions in the Seattle and state of Washington eviction bans. Their suit claims, ‘… the blanket eviction ban puts landlords at the mercy of tenants who do not pay rent or violate other lease terms, whether they face financial hardship or not.’ One plaintiff said they can’t even evict tenants after their lease has expired. ‘Our clients want to actually repossess that property for their own purposes and occupy it, but they can’t because of the eviction ban in place,’ said plaintiffs’ attorney Ethan Blevins.”

“Tenant advocates estimate renters owed $300 million in back rent in July — but there were only $100 million in state rental assistance. ‘The governor needs to work to cancel this rent debt for tenants and cancel the mortgages of like landlords, um, and put the loss where it should be situation, which is the lenders and the banks are most capable of, like, absorbing this impact,’ said Dinah Braccio, an advocate with the Washington Tenants Union.”

The Orange County Register. “National Public Radio’s interview last month with Vicky Osterweil, author of a new book called ‘In Defense of Looting,’ generated so much pushback that the network had to add a clarification providing more ‘context’ to help readers ‘fully assess’ her ‘controversial’ views. But there isn’t anything that NPR’s editors could do to contextualize Osterweil’s dangerous message.”

“In technical terms, her argument – that the American system of property rights is oppressive and looting and mayhem will bring about positive social change – is nuts. The interview contains myriad quotations that read like a parody from The Babylon Bee. I’m not unhappy that NPR published it, as it’s important to know what such people think. But why didn’t the interviewer ask any tough questions?”

“NPR asked Osterweil to talk about rioting as a tactic, in the way a lifestyle reporter might ask a celebrity to talk a little about a new movie. As the author explains, rioting accomplishes ‘important things.’ For starters, ‘It gets people what they need for free immediately, which means that they are capable of living and reproducing their lives without having to rely on jobs or a wage. … That’s looting’s most basic tactical power as a political mode of action.'”

“Got that? People steal stuff because they then don’t have to pay for it and, well, that means they don’t have to work to earn money to pay for those things. I’m not sure how theft becomes a ‘political mode of action,”’ but Osterweil assured readers that breaking store windows and grabbing consumer goods is more important now than ever – given that ‘during COVID times’ jobs are unreliable, unavailable or sometimes dangerous.”

“As an aside, many official coronavirus-related policies strike me as glorified looting, even though lawmakers don’t use bricks and Molotov cocktails. The governor, and even the president, can declare that people may live rent-free in other people’s buildings. Congress can run up debt to send us stimulus checks. Governors can arbitrarily force businesses to shut their doors, thus destroying what entrepreneurs have spent their lives creating.”

“Fortunately, the author explains traditional looting isn’t simply about stealing. It has a deeper and more uplifting purpose. ‘It also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed,’ Osterweil added. ‘It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things …. It points to the way in which that’s unjust.’ Who knew?”

“When my oldest daughter was very young, she asked why we have to pay for things. ‘Why can’t everything be free?’ I explained that if everything were free, no one would work or produce anything or invest in factories and stores. In almost no time, we’d be staring down vast shortages – and people would go hungry. Violent thugs would rob and pillage. Society would collapse. That was a great question from a 6-year-old, but Osterweil is an adult.”

“Unfortunately, many American adults seem to share this childish view of the world. After my column explaining what rent control does to small landlords was posted in a left-leaning social-media group, I was taken aback by the vicious ad hominem responses. As a building owner, I’m apparently a greedy oppressor – and never mind the investments, renovations and hard work that goes into providing quality housing for others at an agreed-upon price. One poster even called me a member of the ‘petty bourgeoisie.’ Good grief.”

“Modern-day leftists have no understanding about how a society builds wealth and prosperity. They revile those who create it, even as they post photos to the Internet from their iPhones. Do they believe such wonderful innovations fell from the sky? Didn’t any of their professors teach them about the violence, starvation and misery that took place in Soviet Russia – and every other society that attacked the idea of private property?”

“People who defend rioting defend the destruction of the very things that make us human. They are the ones being unjust. I’m a strong defender of peaceful protests against police abuse, and have been writing about the need for reform for years. But it’s one thing to peacefully march against injustice, and quite another to burn down what others built up. It’s a warning sign for our society when it doesn’t occur to a major news outlet that a defense of looting deserves more scrutiny than a puff interview.”

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  1. ‘The governor needs to work to cancel this rent debt for tenants and cancel the mortgages of like landlords, um, and put the loss where it should be situation, which is the lenders and the banks are most capable of, like, absorbing this impact’

    Dinah is an, um, idiot.

    1. Dinah Braccio, Tenant Education Coordinator: Dinah grew up in the sleepy town* of Carmel Valley, California. She attended college at the University of California, San Diego earning a degree in Environmental Systems. After journeying up the west coast to settle in Seattle she developed her intersectional understanding of poverty and marginalization through her involvement with Gender Justice League. Several months after receiving counseling at the TU’s drop in Walk In Clinic she is excited to join the Tenants Union and help
      preserve the regions affordable housing, a goal that becomes more pressing with each passing month. In her spare time Dinah enjoys being pedantic, helping her partner in the garden, and spending time with friends. Oh, and eating, she really likes eating. *Despite having a post office and 4,400 residents Carmel Valley remains unincorporated Monterey County land.

      TU Staff & Board | Tenants Union
      https://tenantsunion.org/about/tenants-union-staff-board

      1. Prinicipals Of Unity

        (snip)

        7. We believe that housing exists to meet a basic human need, and that when conflict arises between tenants’ needs and owners’ profits, the basic need for affordable decent housing must take priority over the economic interests of the landowners.

  2. Cue the tiny violin dude for the poor mayors. Those durn protestors/rioters aren’t sticking to the script!

  4. “As an aside, many official coronavirus-related policies strike me as glorified looting, even though lawmakers don’t use bricks and Molotov cocktails. The governor, and even the president, can declare that people may live rent-free in other people’s buildings. Congress can run up debt to send us stimulus checks. Governors can arbitrarily force businesses to shut their doors, thus destroying what entrepreneurs have spent their lives creating.”

    ^ This is what makes it difficult to unequivocally condemn the views of Ostweiler and other leftist looters. TPTB have been looting the country and the majority of its citizens for years. Seems like the end result of each type of looting will be the same.

  5. Median rents fell 11.5% year over year in San Jose, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley, to $2,750 for a one-bedroom unit in September and decreased 10.9% in New York City, to a median $2,700. Rental prices also fell substantially in Salt Lake City, by 10.7%, to $1,000 a month; Denver, by 10.6%, to $1,430; and Washington, DC, by 10.5%, to $2,050. Median rents dropped 15.8% in the college town of Syracuse, NY, about four hours northwest of New York City, to $800.”

    Is that a lot?

  6. ‘Our clients want to actually repossess that property for their own purposes and occupy it, but they can’t because of the eviction ban in place,’ said plaintiffs’ attorney Ethan Blevins.”

    Time to launch an “Occupy Landlord” movement!

    1. “…Our clients want to actually repossess that property for their own purposes and occupy it…”

      Hypothetical:

      Lets say a landlord monitored the comings and goings of a non paying tenant and decided (while tenant is away) to enter unit, change locks, remove all tenant possessions and set them on the sidewalk.

      What would actually happen when non-paying tenant returns?

      Would the police immediately force landlord (at gunpoint) to hand over new set of keys to non–paying tenant or ?

      2. Illegal Evictions Can Get You in Trouble for Landlord Harassment – FindLaw
        https://realestate.findlaw.com/landlord-tenant-law/illegal-evictions-can-get-you-in-trouble-for-landlord-harassment.html

        (snip)

        Don’t Use Self-Help to Evict a Tenant
        A self-help eviction occurs when a landlord retakes possession of a property without using the eviction process. The use of self-help may amount to landlord harassment. Nearly every state prohibits a landlord from using self-help to evict a tenant.

        A state’s legal eviction procedures apply regardless of what a tenant has done or how a tenant behaves. Even if the tenant has not paid rent, has destroyed property, or has violated a term in the lease or rental agreement, a landlord may only legally remove the tenant by following state eviction procedures.

        A landlord should avoid the following self-help methods:

        Getting utility companies to cut off service by failing to pay the bill
        Changing the locks
        Removing the tenant’s property from the rental unit
        Threatening or harassing the tenant
        Ordering the tenant to leave
        Liability for Evicting a Tenant Illegally
        Courts frown on self-help evictions, and may readily award a tenant damages for an illegal removal. If a property owner illegally evicts a tenant, the tenant may sue the landlord for a wide variety of things depending on the circumstances of the eviction:

        Trespass
        Wrongful eviction
        Assault
        Battery
        Slander
        Libel
        Intentional infliction of emotional distress.
        A tenant’s behavior will not shield a landlord from liability. Instead, a court may view the landlord’s unlawful actions as landlord harassment.

        The tenant is entitled to actual money damages for the expenses resulting from the illegal eviction. This may include compensation for:

        Temporary housing
        The food that spoiled when the electricity was shut off
        The property that disappeared when the tenant was locked out by the landlord
        Some states may also allow renters to recover monetary penalties such as two or three months rent or two to three times the actual damages. A tenant may also be able to remain on the premises, receive free occupancy, or vacate the premises and collect their security deposit from the landlord.

          1. You’ll have to be an absolute idiot to wan to do that. The ones who did, got into it many many years ago, when homes were very cheap. Most of them have long been payed for, and even a small rent helps, but I have to admit that with home prices going up, the exorbitant tax went up, too, and with all the repairs, you’ll have to be very careful who you are dealing with. It’s very tough business, and quite impossible for anyone to be profitable with this high prices and taxes, let alone all the covid.

      3. I’m sure a locksmith (paid for by the taxpayers) could unlock the door and let the deadbeats back in.

      4. When I owned property in Colorado, and tenants had stopped paying rent, I would take off the front door, back door and bathroom doors. I called it my piss-in-the-wind eviction. Did any former tenants take me to court? You bet. Did I lose? Hell no! Those were the good old days.

        2. Colorado has probably the best rental laws in country for Landlords. Of course all this “no evictions” nonsense has messed with that but basically in normal times the landlord can boot you whenever they feel like it.

          1. Colorado has probably the best rental laws in country for Landlords. Of course all this “no evictions” nonsense has messed with that but basically in normal times the landlord can boot you whenever they feel like it.

            Considering that I’m assured daily here that CO has turned into a leftist s***hole, I find it hard to believe there isn’t now more protection for tenants.

          2. Colorado is a strange place. On one hand we were among the first to legalize MJ. But we also have TABOR, which keeps government spending in check.

            When the BLM protests began, I was surprised to see that Mayor Hancock had the rioters tear gassed. I was expecting downtown Denver to get burned to the ground like Minneapolis, but that didn’t happen.

            Also, it is my understanding that the statewide eviction moratorium has long since expired.

          3. “Colorado is a strange place.”

            I’ve read that 150-yrs ago, the hearty souls headed West via the Oregon Trail or the southern Gila Trail through the desert. The apprehensive called it quits in St Louis or New Orleans, and their offspring likely migrated to Cheyenne, Denver and Albuquerque when it was safe. Crossing the mountains has never been easy, and many pilots still lose their life over them.

  7. “Three decades ago, after graduating law school, Ms. Schaaf served as a legal observer to protect street protesters from potential police abuse. ‘It feels a little Twilight Zoney that many of us got into public service because we wanted to fight the man,’ she said. ‘Now we are deemed as the man.’”

    Spare me the self-righteous dreck, Ms. Schaaf. Former 60s radicals like Hillary Clinton – a devotee of Saul Alinksky, who dedicated his “Rules for Radicals” to Lucifer – borrowed into the system like termites into the foundation. Now they subvert from within, in the process becoming more corrupt and repressive than the “fascism” or “police state” they protested back in the 60s or 70s.

  8. “National Public Radio’s interview last month with Vicky Osterweil, author of a new book called ‘In Defense of Looting,’ generated so much pushback that the network had to add a clarification providing more ‘context’ to help readers ‘fully assess’ her ‘controversial’ views.

    Like looters actually read books or need any justification for stealing other people’s stuff. Meanwhile, the really big looters at the Fed aren’t writing any books to publicize their pillaging of the 99%.

    2. “Like looters actually read books…”

      Many years ago I dated a woman who to this day has likely never read anything longer than a kid’s cereal box message. Like some sort of passive Star Trek alien she was completely devoid of ambition, but she had these huge pillows given her petite frame, so she was able to glide through the population and economic strata, effortlessly. The advantage was wasted though as she produced three kids from three fathers, and like a playwright / conductor kept the angst simmering between them. I could envision her a BLM protestor today.

      2. I’ve seen it many times over the years. A pretty woman can open doors magically in her career. If she’s slender with “large pillows” she can get men to do backflips while those doors open. Mediocre smarts and a little personality helps a tad. Too bad it takes years of living for most guys to figure this fact out.
        Ask me how I know….

        2. Too bad it takes years of living for most guys to figure this fact out.

          Unless you’re raised with a bunch of them. Then you see right through it at a young age and don’t fall for the BS. You become a bit cynical and jaded as a result.

  9. Didn’t any of their professors teach them about the violence, starvation and misery that took place in Soviet Russia – and every other society that attacked the idea of private property?”

    I’m pretty sure the Cultural Marxists who have a stranglehold on our higher education system fully backed and glorified the mass murder and brutal torture inflicted on “enemies of the people.” It’s noteworthy that the Paris-educated Marxist intellectuals who formed Cambodia’s genocidal Khmer Rouge – who killed off a third of the population – were almost all former educators.

  10. “Fortunately, the author explains traditional looting isn’t simply about stealing. It has a deeper and more uplifting purpose. ‘It also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed,’ Osterweil added. ‘It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things …. It points to the way in which that’s unjust.’

    Is this lady the official Democrat Party ideologue? If not, Comrade Pelosi and the DNC need to sue her for plagiarism.

  11. But it’s one thing to peacefully march against injustice, and quite another to burn down what others built up. It’s a warning sign for our society when it doesn’t occur to a major news outlet that a defense of looting deserves more scrutiny than a puff interview.”

    A “warning sign”? Maybe the real red flag should be that the same globalist oligarchs who are bankrolling the Communist insurrection in our universities and streets also control every single media outlet of note in what used to be America.

  12. Ben Jones, America’s finest citizen journalist, once again delivers the goods on this thread.

    Published earlier today, Tim Pool, who is only 34 years old, discusses the details of the arrest warrant for Michael Reinoehl, with timestamped screenshot photos of him stalking his prey in cold blood:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXnWo0Ddtek

    See also Vice interview with Michael Reinoehl published 9/3/2020:

    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7g8vb/man-linked-to-killing-at-a-portland-protest-says-he-acted-in-self-defense

    Real Journalists, we don’t believe your lies anymore.

    P.S. donate money to the HBB.

    1. From the Vice article:

      “[Reinoehl] said at the time of the confrontation and the shooting, there were no police present to help. “There was definitely nobody in sight, no police officer, nobody at all that could intervene. It was a free-for-all. And the police were letting it happen”

      No police?

      That’s what you’ve been rioting for in Portland for over 100 days now. You got what you wanted, right, asshole?

      BED. MADE. LIE. And now you’re dead 🙁

    2. +1 for Tim Pool. Contrast his incisive, on-point commentaries to the dissembling and logical contortions by the Oligopoly shills and corporate hacks on CNN, MSNBC, etc.

    1. I don’t think the new “blame Trump for the riots” narrative is getting much traction. People, on some level, realize that this didn’t start the moment Trump took office. I guess you could assign any number of dates which marked the beginning of the American decline, but today I’ll go with ~1998. That’s about the start of the most recent credit bubble.

        1. If people didn’t borrow it would be difficult for savers to collect interest. It is when the government is lobbied to guarantee the financial industry’s business model that moral hazard and societal decay become an issue. Once that tipping point is crossed it appears there’s no turning back.

      2. I don’t think the new “blame Trump for the riots” narrative is getting much traction.

        One unintended consequence of the coronavirus is that millions of people on lock-down have increasingly turned to the Internet for real news and real truth. When some lying Real Journalist tells them protests are “mostly peaceful” while buildings are burning behind him, they can see with their own eyes that The Narrative is a lie. They also know that Trump has forcefully condemned the violence, while Biden and the DNC have taken a knee and Harris never misses a chance to justify the “protests.”

        It would be the supreme irony if the globalist oligarchs who have been funding the BLM-Antifa rent-a-mobs realize on election night that they handed the election to Trump.

        2. realize on election night that they handed the election to

          They are not stupid. What lays in wait will not be pleasant. Politicians are happier when they can throw stones vs having stones thrown at them.

      3. oxide,
        I pinpoint around 1997. This is when some major sell out by the Politicians took place, like when they got rid of the Glass-Steagle Act.
        Trade agreements sucked , and they had this Agenda 21 mandates that weren’t really voted.
        All this stuff was favorable for Globalism , and this One World Order Concept.
        The fact is they painstakingly came up with the Glass-Steagal Act in the 1930’s ,after holding many trials to determine why the stocked market crashed in 1929.
        That Bill served this Nation well for 70 years , until the Politicians sold out to the Money Changers. Within 7 years we got the crash of 2008. People have called to bring back the Act, but the Money people don’t want that because they like Ponzi Schemes and fake bubbles and false markets.
        Like a lot of sell outs that go on in Washington DC, the people weren’t watching what they were doing.
        The voting Public are to busy trying to make a living, so this trust in the Gov. to do the right thing was betrayed.
        Also, the Public didn’t know about the covert Agenda 21, or did they vote on it. It was a Sustainable Earth type program that involved control of populations, like trying to move them all to the Cities, and your basic Elites trying to control the populations .
        The Green New Deal looks like a version of Agenda 21, but its all about controlling people using bogus narratives to do so.

        1. People do love a mania, and apparently can easily be herded into one. You can make laws that support responsible banking, but when it’s mania time, they get trampled.

        2. The late 90s and early 2000s are also when illegals began flooding into the country, and when a lot of the semi-skilled jobs went overseas. Think call centers. An I was surprised to see just how much outsourcing went on during the Bush II Administration.

          2. Under the Bill Clinton Administration the biggest betrayals were made.
            When Bill Clinton was asked later why he signed on some of those Bills, he said in essence that he must of got some bad advise.
            But, both sides of the parties have been horrible.

          4. The past 20 years have been the worst ever in terms of the damage done not only to the US economy, but to the world. That coincided with the rise of the world’s billionaires. Follow the money.

    2. The Dem pandering to the extremists was appalling. But I also noticed the Prez was largely unable to stop the riots and looting that happened. Why would he be able to prevent or stop it in the future?

      1. But I also noticed the Prez was largely unable to stop the riots and looting that happened. Why would he be able to prevent or stop it in the future?

        What part of “get your troops out of my city” are you not understanding?

      2. Why Trump Doesn’t Just ‘Send In the Troops’

        We keep hearing about the National Guard, but few understand it. The Guard is a reserve force trained and equipped just like active duty troops and containing a large number of active duty veterans (I joined after serving in Desert Storm). It works for the state governor – the Democrat who hates Trump – unless it is “federalized,” in which case it becomes an active duty unit and Trump is its commander-in-chief. Now, federal troops are barred from enforcing civilian law by the Posse Comitatus Act, unless the president invokes the Insurrection Act. On state status, Posse Comitatus does not apply and Guard forces are not prohibited by federal law from enforcing civilian law.

        Got it? Seems complicated, huh? Yeah, because it’s a giant cluster fark that only gets more farked as we dive in to the details of implementing the idea of sending in soldiers.

        Bottom Line: All in all, sending military forces into a non-permissive environment in a blue city is a recipe for disaster.

        Look, it’s perfectly understandable to be frustrated. But getting mad at Trump because he is not doing something that would turn into the cluster fark to end all cluster farks is doing exactly what the liberal elite and its media minions want. Let Portland and the rest of the blue cities trash themselves. Let the DOJ, which has already charged dozens of these degenerates with federal beefs, do its thing. And make sure you get out and vote straight Republican if you want any hope of this ever ending.

      3. I haven’t been following the news. Is there any word of more protests/riots in Kenosha? Or did Kyle stop the riots there more effectively than any politician?

        1. ‘It’s Almost as though They Don’t Want It to End’: Trump Contrasts Restoration of Order in Kenosha with Prolonged Rioting in Other Cities

          “The Kenosha riots were quelled by Thursday, after Trump and Wisconsin governor Tony Evers agreed to deploy over 1,000 National Guardsmen and 200 federal law enforcement officers to the city. Additionally, Senator Johnson said that sheriff’s departments from over 40 different counties in the state sent representatives to help maintain order.”

          Acting Department of Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf also touted the coordination of federal, state, and local authorities in the response to riots in Kenosha.

          “The decrease in violence that we’ve seen here in Kenosha over the last several days is really just a prime example of how federal, state, and local law enforcement can work together,” Wolf said. “It’s really a model that we can replicate elsewhere, in Portland and other cities across the country.”

          1. I was also impressed with the tactical chest sling, which prevented his rifle from being snatched away while he was on the ground. The tactical chest sling is usually depicted suspending the attached weapon while the wearer is using a crowbar, microphone or pistol.

          3. Kyle is still in jail and it looks like the left is going to railroad him like they did Flyn and many others. The people who are doing this should go to prison for a long, long time.

  14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgb3y5INHis
    It’s plunder everywhere. The government and the corporations have been looting and plundering the 99%s forever.
    People on the street want social revenge,a and they go after the small business owners(wrongly), because that’s the only area they have access to. Since they can’t take on the government and the big corporations, they do what they can…sadly!

    1. But you can take on the Government when they go awry. It’s called kicking the bums out by elections. Term limits would help also .

      1. That’s an optical illusion. As long as money buy votes and money talks, there will never be much change. Government is simply made out of a servant class working for the corporations, protecting corporate interests and cashing some bribes for it in the form of job security, pensions, an other benefits. You can replace some with some others, but they will always work for the 1%s

      2. Elections are a mixed bag. If you don’t want to lose your hard-earned money to cheese moochers and vote Republican, then you are stuck with the party that outsources jobs and give tax breaks to billionaires. If you want to join the moochers or perhaps mooch a little cheese yourself, then you vote Democratic are stuck with the party will either give more cheese to illegal immigrants or more moochers, and then cancel you as “racis” if so much as ask why.

        That’s why there are so many “moderates.” They are still searching for the party of the middle class. The last time anyone even bothered about the middle class was Obama in 2009-2010. Then I think someone gave him a good talking-to.

        1. One of the Parties has to morph into the party of the Working People. The middle class working stiff use to be the biggest voting block in this Nation.
          Trump as a outsider was talking a agenda for that voting block, that has been ignored and gutted and looted for years.
          My point is that all these anti Trump forces that came out ,called the Resistance ,don’t want any change to the power blocks. . That’s ignoring about half the Country.
          You have Republicans, that are Globalist, that would like to take Trump out also.
          Never seen a President have so many enemies, and that’s the very reason why he needs to be reelected, before the power blocks destroy and loot the Country, as well as usher in a Commie State.
          I mean do you want a fundamental transformation like that ass Biden talks about were Big Government controls your life, or do you want more of the America of the past.
          You can tell that these lefties want to get rid of the Constituion anyway they can, along with guns and free speech.

          2. LOL, what has the current Prez done for the middle class working stiff?

            He kept Crooked Hillary out of the White House and made butt-hurt liberals cry. That’s a start.

          3. Initiating trade “deals” with China, stopping IP theft, and keeping illegal immigrants and masses of H-1bs out is another good start.

          4. what has the current Prez done for the middle class working stiff?

            Debunk This: No, The Trump Tax Cuts Did Not All Go To “The Rich”

            “The Tax Policy Center found that more than 80 percent of taxpayers recieved[sic] a tax cut, with less than five percent receiving a tax increase. The five percent who saw increases were mostly wealthy people in coastal States who had their write-offs for mortgage interest and for state and local taxes capped. The average cut in taxes was $1,600. An analysis by the center-right Tax Policy Center in 2018 yielded almost identical results when it came to the share paid by earners; that the top 1 percent of income earners would glean 20.5% of the tax cut benefits.” (emphasis added)

      3. Term limits help the super-rich who can buy influence and visibility. It takes less wealthy people years to gain prominence.

  15. ‘When people start committing acts of vandalism, it’s just not right—especially when you’re talking about a residence,’ said the mayor”

    Oh so our businesses are fair game but your house is off limits?

    2. I could make a long list of things that Trump did for the working stiff, but it’s all been undermined by Covid-19.

      Is Trump the better guy for rebuilding, or is it Biden.

      1. ‘A missing girl was found inside a tractor-trailer at the U.S.-Mexico border near Texas in late August, officials said, adding that she might have been the victim of sex trafficking.’

        ‘The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said agents in Laredo, Texas, were able to “locate a missing female juvenile concealed inside a tractor-truck at the [Interstate-35] checkpoint.” The missing girl was reported missing in Odessa, Texas, and the Webb County Sheriff’s Office took the juvenile and driver into custody, officials said.’

        ‘Also in Texas, a woman recently told officials she jumped from an 18-wheeler to get away from alleged kidnappers, Fox News reported. The woman, who was injured, said it occurred in Cisco, and added that she was taken to El Paso by three men.

        ‘Police in Cisco said last week that a “second female that was in the truck is safe and accounted for,” adding, “The alleged victim that jumped from the truck is safe.”

        ‘According to Human Trafficking Hotline, the state had more than 1,000 human trafficking cases reported last year, and more than 900 of them involved female victims.’

        https://www.theepochtimes.com/missing-girl-found-hidden-in-tractor-trailer-at-texas-border-crossing-officials_3489697.html

  17. ‘The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out hotel occupancy in urban areas, including the heart of New York City. Hilton is closing its 478-room hotel in Times Square effective Oct. 1, according to a document it filed with state regulators this week. Two hundred employees will lose their jobs, the filing says, due to “unforeseeable business circumstances prompted by COVID-19.”

    ‘The 44-story hotel at 234 West 42nd Street opened in 2000, according to its website.’

    ‘According to a report this week from the American Hotel and Lodging Association, an industry group, hotel occupancy in urban markets was 38% in August, well below the 50% it takes for most properties to break even.’

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/09/04/covid-19-and-new-york-tourism-hilton-times-square-hotel-closing-oct-1/5718021002/

    3. Hawaii is down 95%+ and I heard half a dozen big hotels on Oahu are in default with another half dozen or so on watch. A local radio host listed the layoffs from various businesses, they are numerous. Govt workers still getting paid and rarely have to even show up to work based on my contacts on that side.
      On the flip side, I got a generic email from a RE firm stating that people are buying in hawaii sight unseen, keen to escape the coming civil war I suppose. While the agent that wrote the article said she doesnt recommend it, she understands given the current quarantine that it is difficult to come here and they are doing more via video to help facilitate those suckers, er, buyers. I heard on another radio program that properties are being bid up 5-10% over ask, and these are on houses selling for ~800k. On that same program they were hawking some sort of delaware trust whereby if you needed to do a 1031 exchange and couldnt find a suitable property to exchange into you could invest in one of these trusts which is open only to accredited investors (i.e., people who have money to steal) and apparently pool money in 50 and 100 million chunks and invest in property classes like – what for it – student housing and storage unit facilities.
      What could possibly go wrong, in the year 2020?

      1. Thanks for boots on the ground update. Just curious, how do you envision things playing out in Hawaii if things get really bad? Will Hawaiians band together better than most other states you feel, or are you guys’ heading for Hunger Games too?

        1. Hawaii is pretty tight knit. Island forces that dynamic. That said, there’s plenty of nuts guys capable of anything (and more than a few titas 😉 ) so it’s hard to say. I would say a person is way better off here than near the big ghetto cities on the mainland, but you have to be able to afford it and that’s going to get increasingly difficult going forward IMO.

        2. Is Hawaii self-sufficient when it comes to food and other essentials? I doubt it. I know the population is only 1.4 million or so. But the islands are at the end of long supply lines. If things get THAT bad on the mainland, those supplies may be disrupted. Just thinking out loud here.

          1. Hawaii has excellent weather for growing a large variety of crops, so it’s not a place I would worry about when it comes to food.

          2. Hawaii has excellent weather for growing a large variety of crops They may have the opportunity for growing their own food, but they really grow very little. Bananas grow wild there, but Hawaii still imports them from Central America. It would take a while for them to develop local farms & infrastructure to feed themselves better.

          3. If you want to eat like a haole, no.

            If you like fish,mangos, passionfruit, guava, and avocados, you’re good.

  19. “Three decades ago, after graduating law school, Ms. Schaaf served as a legal observer to protect street protesters from potential police abuse. ‘It feels a little Twilight Zoney that many of us got into public service because we wanted to fight the man,’ she said. ‘Now we are deemed as the man.’”

    You aren’t fooling anyone, cupcake. You’re the mayor because you craved power. And now the kids are threatening you with violence, telling you to get the heck out of the way, because now they want the power.

    Having your own Red Guards is a kick, until they go Khmer Rouge on you.

    1. I don’t remember, but is this the training course where participants are “tested” afterward to see if they have been cured of their subconscious r*ism? And if they are not, they have to sign up and pay for more testing?

          1. Even in my section of government, I know of several instances of diversity hire and diversity promotion, for both POC and gender. I’m sure it’s the same everywhere. And it is sad to see this happen in STEM, where merit should be truly appreciated. I’m pretty sure that nuclear warheads do not care what color you are.

          2. For clarity: “Critical Race Theory recognizes that racism is engrained in the fabric and system of the American society. The individual racist need not exist to note that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture. This is the analytical lens that CRT uses in examining existing power structures. CRT identifies that these power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuates the marginalization of people of color.”

          3. One can only speculate what the fans of this theory think should replace the existing, inherently evil power structures…

          4. CRT identifies that these power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuates the marginalization of people of color.”

            What a crock of shit.

          5. “…diversity hire and diversity promotion…”

            Isn’t race-based hiring and promotion explicitly illegal in fedgov personnel management?

            Unless the individual given a race-based preference is black, that is?

          6. I remember one first-line supervisor revealing to his group of ~10 people (8 white men, 1 Indian) that he was “getting killed on diversity.” They had to swap in a couple women from another group. Another well-qualified white guy left the government because he was passed over for a women (and someone leaked that it had been a gender thing.) Illegal? Try proving it. Whites have the burden of proof. Others, well …”we believe her/him.”

            And will this CRT apply to other races/ethnic groups? There are plenty of stories of other groups — especially in IT — hiring and promoting their own.

    2. My understanding is that the fedgov is supposed to remain politically neutral.

      Race training based on the premise that all white males are racist white supremacists hellbent on keeping people of color out of the federal workforce doesn’t strike me as politically neutral. In particular, I am 100% positive this training would become mandatory with Democrats in the WH.

    2. ” What a crock of shit.”

      A major crock. Doesn’t even have a basis in valid proof.
      Also, what they want to replace the systems with is worse and racist in itself.

      Very Commie playbook to use race to attack the culture. Also this Commie idea of equity has so many holes it’s like Swiss cheese.
      It’s all about creating a enemy and than claiming your a victim of that enemy.
      Not to be confused with when true acts resulting in victims take place.
      They say your racist and you don’t even know it . So, I say they are racist and they don’t even know it.
      There are a lot of reasons why different cultures are more successful than others, that isn’t explained by race.
      A lot of this nonsense is just the free cheese crowd playing victim.
      How do you explain why millions have been killed to bring in Commie Governments and it always has to be done by force.Most Commie Countries fail. Places like Cuba everyone is equally poor .Communist China is just using some capitalism methods to become number one power in the World.

  23. Woman dead 6 months receives letter saying she is COVID-19 positive

    Sandra Whittington died February 16 in hospice

    By: Jeff Tavss
    Sep 04, 2020

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A woman who has been dead six months received a letter this week from the health department saying she had tested positive for COVID-19.

    Sandra Whittington died of COPD on February 16, weeks before the virus was detected near her Shelby County (Tenn.) home. However, her son says the family recently received a notice saying Whittington had tested positive and that she should isolate herself from others.

    “I’m just having a hard time understanding how they can say someone has COVID-19 when they are not even alive,” Troy Whittington, Sandra’s son, told WATN.

    Whittingham says the health department claims his mother had taken a COVID-19 test on June 20, about five months after she had passed away and been cremated.

    https://www.fox13now.com/news/coronavirus/woman-dead-6-months-receives-letter-saying-she-is-covid-19-positive

    1. about five months after she had passed away and been cremated. I wonder how she’ll vote on Election Day.

  24. Middle class culture, any culture, can only stand if it is rewarded. In prior times the middle class was fundamentally supported by the upper classes, who invested in America, creating vast wealth.
    They modeled sobriety, hard-work, risk and reward. The working classes modeled the behavior through church and labor unions, standing together for each other and nation.
    The wealthy have abandoned America, and the working classes have abandoned religion, unions, and each other. Into that void steps cultural anarchy.
    Middle class culture requires hard-work, and discipline. It requires accountability, primarily of the wealthy. I tire of articles that lament the loss of culture without holding those accountable who have abandoned their responsibilities.

    1. Mega Mike,

      Your post is so spot on about the attack and demise of values. To me this was all done on purpose by Commies as well as division by racism and identity politics.
      The whole merit based, reward system is in ashambled and Science is even being attacked based on that it’s a White Man’s construct.
      Really, I marvel at how false and stupid all these assertions are, as well as the attempts to rewrite history.
      IT’S ALl SO COMMIE BS.

    2. @mega mike-

      >Middle class culture requires hard-work, and discipline.
      >It requires accountability, primarily of the wealthy. I tire
      >of articles that lament the loss of culture without holding
      >those accountable who have abandoned their
      >responsibilities.

      Well said!

  25. Ben posted this link earlier from a fed-up non-Democrat who was joining the mass exodus of the productive and successful out of yet another Democrat-malgoverned formerly great city turned cesspool. Well worth watching, especially since Biden and Harris will only accelerate the rot if the sheeple are stupid enough to elect them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijKpSJlPV8

  28. BLM shows its true colors – again. It’s all about extortion and forcible “redistribution of the wealth.” This time the vibrant cultural enrichment came to restaurants in Denver. Lots of virtue-signaling white libtards with BLM signs on their front lawns may have gotten their wake-up call last night, although they’ll still vote for BLM’s #1 fan, Joe Biden.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/denver-black-lives-matter-mobs-swarming-restaurants-harassing-diners-tantrums-video/

    1. I suggest protesters be shown red cards or possibly yellow flags could be thrown whenever it has been determined that someone has stepped out of bounds.

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