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It’s Quite A Big Leap To Consider That Now You May Not Get Back What You Paid For From Your Beloved Home

It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “For frontline workers and others struggling during this pandemic, University of San Diego professor Norm Miller said a lot of foreclosures are coming with mortgage and rent relief running out. ‘I think we’re going to have the bottom say 20% of the housing tier on price see a fair amount of distress, probably triple what we have right now in terms of foreclosure sales,’ Miller said. ‘There will be some people, who won’t survive this without losing their homes.'”

“A Times Square Alliance study found foot traffic in the neighborhood’s busiest block on 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues was down 70% from the previous year. The lack of visitors has coincided with the permanent closure of hotels. ‘We’ve definitely seen in the residential market, rents have dropped 10-15% this year in Manhattan,’ said Douglas Hercher, managing director at a private real estate investment bank. ‘That’s probably a little bit of the canary in the coal mine.'”

“In Austin, the condo market is currently in a pandemic-related lull. ‘Condos are a good buy right now in comparison to the rest of the market, I know people who are considering buying them as investments, because we do expect that market to go back up,’ said Dara Allen, a Compass agent based in Austin. ‘That was a huge part of the Austin market for a while, and after Covid hit, [condos] went down. There are some great purchases because there is a lot of inventory in the downtown market, and more to come.'”

“Hundreds of landlords are needed in order to match housing insecure families with the 19,000 vacant properties in New Orleans. ‘It is really unbelievable that we got people who can’t find landlords who are willing to rent to them,’ Andreanecia Morris the Executive Director of Housing NOLA said.”

“There are a few prevailing theories as to why many of Canada’s urban condo markets have struggled during the pandemic. All of these theories revolve around the ways COVID-19 has changed life in cities. The collapse of the short-term rental market is one likely culprit. ‘People had these investment properties that they were renting out as ghost hotels on Airbnb,’ says Scott Ingram, a Toronto real estate agent. ‘And then all of sudden the pandemic happens and their revenue goes to zero. Then you get a flood of long-term rentals.'”

“Estate agents across Sevenoaks say it has been a bumpy year for the district’s housing market and they expect more of the same in 2021. Associate partner Jemima Goodson said like much else it ‘had been a very odd year’ for the housing market in the town. ‘As we came out of lockdown in the spring it was very quiet but then we saw some manic times in between that and the autumn,’ she said. ‘Prices were going crazy but then as we got to the end of the year prices started coming down again and achieved the levels they were earlier in the year before they became inflated.'”

“Fellow Sevenoaks estate agent, Christian Bigwood of Hamptons said demand had been ‘unprecedented’ at times throughout 2020 and some overvalued individual homes may have seen their asking price drop once it became clear they would not sell.”

“The value of many residential properties in the city of Lahti are stagnant or dwindling and the situation has signalled to homeowners that their investments will not pay off like they have in the past. The value of houses and apartments located in the remote areas and small towns of Finland have been falling for some time in general, according to Raija Paananen-Laine, the director of regional bank OP Päijät-Häme.”

“‘It was once thought that owning your own home is sensible and a good investment. It’s quite a big leap to consider that [now] you may not get back what you paid for from your beloved home,’ she said. ‘If you bought a flat five or ten years ago, it was not at all clear that its value would rise, nor even be able to get the price you paid for it.'”

“Hong Kong looks likely to record its first annual drop in home prices for 12 years. ‘When people are cautious about the general economic outlook, and investment demand is weak, the luxury market’s residential prices and volumes are likely to be more affected and see higher volatility in the near term,’ said Stephanie Lau, senior analyst of Moody’s Investors Service. ‘Wider discounts are already observed.'”

“Another hospitality outfit hit hard by the lockdown was Rukus Café and Catering in Newport, with its co-owner Shaun Pereira revealing it had lost $40,000 worth of cancelled events.With the lockdown also being implemented with little warning on December 19, Mr Pereira said he also lost around $4000 worth of food that he had been preparing to use at a wedding the next day. ‘I have credit cards maxed out and loans from family just to survive the year we had. Something as small as a two-week lockdown means we have missed our busy season and have no chance of catching up.'”

“Roz Ingram, who owns the Gym Factory in Warriewood along with her husband, said she fears the business won’t survive as it lost $300,000 in the lockdown earlier in the year. All their savings have been exhausted and the couple were also forced to sell their cars, she added.”

“‘The 12 weeks we were out of operation from March — we are still trying to get out of that one as people still haven’t come back to the gym or cancelled their memberships as they don’t feel so comfortable,’ she told news.com.au. ‘This could be the knock-out round, unfortunately. We aren’t a franchise. We are a family-owned gym trying to get by. I don’t want to lose my house because of this. I feel like my hands are tied and it feels like I’m drowning. I don’t know if I can take any more mentally.’

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    1. The Mechanics Behind the Electronic Vote Steal Operation

      https://www.bitchute.com/video/OJrljwQFcIvc/

      https://twitter.com/tom2badcat/status/1325126091460268032

      https://archive.vn/KPwUa

      https://everylegalvote.com/country

      https://hereistheevidence.com/

      “Dominion-izing the Vote”

      https://www.bitchute.com/video/qlEUbPLvW98w/

      Eric Coomer Explains How To Alter Votes In The Dominion Voting System

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtB3tLaXLJE

      Eric Coomer, Dominion’s head of product and strategy, has disappeared.

      ‘Representatives from Dominion also did not attend a court hearing in Pennsylvania on November 19. Its US headquarters in Denver was also suddenly closed and moved away. Their employees deleted their names from LinkedIn.’

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oYQeeNCzZM

      https://www.theepochtimes.com/poll-watcher-describes-pennsylvania-election-irregularities-including-47-missing-usb-cards_3594549.html

      Here’s the testimony on video:

      “Baggies of USBs” – PA Witness Gives Explosive Testimony

      https://www.bitchute.com/video/AdaglXlcuqYt/

      Dem Ballot Inspector Says She Was Threatened with Violence for Speaking Up About Suspicious Activity

      “The majority inspector threatened to slap me in the face,” said Olivia Jane Winters, a registered Democrat and minority ballot inspector in Pennsylvania, testifying to Pennsylvania State Republicans Wednesday that she had been threatened and harassed by other election officials after she asked about suspicious activities during the 2020 election.’

      https://www.bitchute.com/video/_KrpyDlHTe8/

      Crowd Gasps after Finding out about Absurd Spike of Votes in Favor of Biden

      https://www.bitchute.com/video/jmNUAx8wQYdO/

      Sen. Doug Mastriano closing remarks PA state legislature meeting.

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

      https://censoredbyjack.com/channel/evidence-of-widespread-election-fraud

      https://www.deepcapture.com/2020/11/election-2020-was-rigged-the-evidence/

      ”We began to look and realized how easy it is to change votes.”

      ‘Election security expert @RussRamsland
      has performed many investigations on US election machines.’

      ‘The most *shocking* thing about this interview is it took place just days BEFORE the election. Watch’

      https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1327511568993701888

      Col Phil Waldron Confirms Experts Witnessed Dominion Communicating with Frankfurt on Election Day

      https://www.bitchute.com/video/n7j5lg9fYyzz/

      Dominion forensic report from Michigan (PDF):

      https://www.depernolaw.com/uploads/2/7/0/2/27029178/antrim_michigan_forensics_report_%5B121320%5D_v2_%5Bredacted%5D.pdf

      1. ‘KRAKEN is DOD cyber warfare program.’

        ‘They cheated & got caught!’

        Sidney Powell
        🇺🇸
        ‘Who knew?’

        https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1331435411286192128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1331435411286192128%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fheadlines360.news%2F2020%2F11%2F24%2Fsidney-powells-kraken-is-department-of-defense-cyber-warfare-program%2F

        I did some digging around and found this (WARNING) PDF:

        https://www.dacis.com/budget/budget_pdf/FY20/RDTE/F/1203110F_294.pdf

        It’s dated Feb. 2019. If you word search Kraken (‘respond’ category), you’ll find it twice on page 4. This unit 305 person is in the affidavits in Powells lawsuit.

        WARNING PDF with filing:

        https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.1.15.pdf

        Zuckerberg on page 15. Obammie on page 8.

        ‘Response: Yes, our “White Hat” hackers – they have that traffic and the packets.”

        https://twitter.com/themodalice/status/1333505965857984512

        ‘Ruby Freeman Makes Video of herself Showing MOUNTAINS of GA ABSENTEE BALLOTS With NO RETURN ADDRESS’

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYaxvxdfXY&feature=youtu.be

        Example

        Note the vote spike at the Atlanta treason:

        https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1334812236322381826/

        Corrupt Georgia Election Worker Seen Loading Same Ballots 3 Times into Machine

        Poll Worker Ruby Freeman Loads Up The Same Stack Of Ballots To Be Counted 3X

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiREC3Zy20E

        Ruby Freeman – “I need an attorney”

        “This is bigger than me. I need an attorney.” at 4:55.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsU-CXcJ4Lg

        Some videos worth watching:

        https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1341948764068704256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

        Rudy Giuliani Shuts Down Every Single Democrat And Troll In 6 Minutes

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUQqLNmap9c

        Sidney Powell On Her “Elevator Pitch” To The Supreme Court

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJg_E_u-2hM

        HERE IS YOUR PROOF!

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

          1. 3:15 – 3:35

            Ballots should only be on USB stick from that machine over to the tally machine?

            Geez forget the open Wi-Fi there is video of these “poll workers” passing, palming and sneaking out of rooms with those USB sticks.

  2. BTW, I’ll probably have a predictions thread tomorrow.

    ‘a lot of foreclosures are coming with mortgage and rent relief running out. ‘I think we’re going to have the bottom say 20% of the housing tier on price see a fair amount of distress, probably triple what we have right now in terms of foreclosure sales’

    OK, so if it’s the red-hotcakes, why couldn’t these FBs just sell and walk away with arm loads of sweet equity? Somebody has been a lion.

    1. I said predictions tomorrow, maybe. Any predictions will just get deleted today. Everything else you post too.

  3. ‘we saw some manic times in between that and the autumn…Prices were going crazy but then as we got to the end of the year prices started coming down again and achieved the levels they were earlier in the year before they became inflated’

    Golly Jemima, I hope no one overpaid during the manic times…

  4. ‘Hundreds of landlords are needed in order to match housing insecure families with the 19,000 vacant properties in New Orleans’

    NO isn’t really a very big city. Short term rentals strike again.

    ‘‘People had these investment properties that they were renting out as ghost hotels on Airbnb…And then all of sudden the pandemic happens and their revenue goes to zero’

  5. ‘I have credit cards maxed out and loans from family just to survive the year we had’

    As I’ve mentioned, there’s a bunch of this going on and it can’t continue. What then?

  6. ‘It was once thought that owning your own home is sensible and a good investment’

    Mistake nuhmbah one!

    ‘It’s quite a big leap to consider that [now] you may not get back what you paid for from your beloved home’

    These people were gambling with borrowed money.

    2. It used to be that every generation people would learn that real estate wasn’t guaranteed to go up.

      But people are more smarter now, so now we get to learn that twice in 12 years.

      1. But people are more smarter now, so now we get to learn that twice in 12 years.

        On the contrary. This generation has now been trained to “know” that if you just HODL you’ll always get double plus rich.

  7. ‘People had these investment properties that they were renting out as ghost hotels on Airbnb,’ says Scott Ingram, a Toronto real estate agent. ‘And then all of sudden the pandemic happens and their revenue goes to zero.

    Die, speculator scum.

  8. We aren’t a franchise. We are a family-owned gym trying to get by. I don’t want to lose my house because of this.

    The central aim of the scamdemic is clear: the mass bankruptcy of family owned or independent businesses so the corporatocracy and the oligarchy can snap up their distressed assets at firesale prices.

    1. Orlando, FL Housing

      Orland joke

      Judge: So Mickey, you want a divorce from Minnie on the grounds of insanity?

      Mickey: I didn’t say she was crazy, I said she was fuc#ing Goofy.

    1. Vaccine update:

      The A-Z vaccine is a two-dose vaccine, easy to make, and only need refrigeration, and costs about $3 per dose. A-Z is doing this at cost, no profit. From the data, it appears that the first shot gives 60% immunity. But more importantly, the first dose appears to give 100% protection against severe illness and hospitalization. As a result, the UK has decided to give the doses 12 weeks apart instead of 3, so that the available doses can be spread over double the people while more doses are being manufactured, to take pressure from the hospitals.

      In contrast, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are American, give only a 90% reduction in hospitalization, cost $15-20 per dose, and much harder to ship and store. Pfizer and Moderna are profiting mightily.

      The UK approved the A-Z vaccine two days ago. Approval in India is imminent. The United States FDA is looking to consider and approve the AZ vaccine in … April of this year. 🤬

      For reference, if a government regulatory agency needs to approve (or deny) something, they can do it in a week or less. If it’s deemed an emergency and everybody is on the same page, government workers will work over weekends and holidays to do the review and get all the required signatures. I’ve seen it happen.

      There are a few reasons I can think of why the FDA is dragging its feet. First is that the FDA is owned by Pfizer and Moderna. Secondly, the delay is entirely to milk this pandemic for four months longer.

      1. More info I found on the WWW

        The Oxford-AstraZeneca uses different technology from the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that are approved for use in the U.S.

        While those two vaccines use the mRNA genetic code of the coronavirus to train the body’s defenses, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine uses a “viral vector,” introducing a harmless virus—in this case a virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees—modified with the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein to stimulate an immune response.

        Other COVID-19 vaccines in the pipeline also use the viral vector method—including one from Johnson & Johnson and Russia’s Sputnik V. This technique has already proved successful in the past, including with the Ebola vaccine. The mRNA vaccines, on the other hand, are the first using that approach to receive authorization.

        1. Yup. This is why I REALLY dislike when the news or blogs talk about “the” vaccine. There are multiple vaccines that fall into two general types. When people ask me, I tell them I will refuse the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine but take the Oxford Astra-Zeneca. That’s why I’m pretty steamed that FDA is delaying on the OAZ. It’s as if the FDA wants to give first dibs to the expensive, profitable, untested, and deeply frozen vaccine.

          1. The article went on to say the AstraZeneca was for the third world because it’s cheaper and easier to make ? India is going to crank it out. I’m in no hurry to get vaccinated I will let the legitimate , the rich and the hysterical go first.

          3. In this case, it appears the British will be going first, since they approved it and are cranking it out. If there are any issues, let’s hope the British press won’t hide it like the American press would.

          4. I will refuse the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine but take the Oxford Astra-Zeneca

            AFAIK, Pfizer’s vaccine will go to locations that can handle the storage requirements while Moderna’s vaccine will go to locations that can’t. Time will tell how they distribute AZ’s vaccine. It’s not coffee from a Starbucks menu.

          5. locations that can handle the storage requirements

            This would be any place in the world where they raise cattle. The storage requirements are similar to those of a veterinarian doing artificial insemination. It’s not rocket science.

          6. It’s not rocket science

            I would wager sperm are more stable than mRNA wrapped in lipid nanoparticles.

          7. My first dog was the result of induced ovulation. My second dog was the result of artificial insemination.

          8. more stable

            I’m not sure what you mean by that. They use a liquid nitrogen Dewar. Doesn’t that exceed the dry ice requirement of the vaccine?

            I raised cattle. The guy/gal arrives in a dressed up pickup truck. I would guess your dog got a similar level of service.

          10. I would guess your dog got a similar level of service.

            Sample was fresh via turkey baster.

      2. If it’s deemed an emergency and everybody is on the same page, government workers will work over weekends and holidays to do the review and get all the required signatures. I’ve seen it happen. I rather doubt the FDA has done this so far. The other roadblock at the nursing home level is the necessity to get a required signature on the consent forms required since all the vaccines are being given under EUA by the FDA. That is hard to do at the nursing home level since many of the residents are incompetent to sign anything. Two holidays back to back basically means the vaccines sent to pharmacies on 12/23 are still sitting there and the consent forms have not even been distributed. I know that is exactly what has happened at my sister’s assisted living home.

  11. Foreign Election Interference #5: Consistent Concern In US Media Throughout 2018

    CDMedia has been releasing information from a well-placed White House source on foreign interference in the U.S. general election on Nov 3rd. This is the 5th article in that process.

    Election Foreign Interference #4: Eric Holder Gets Involved

    Foreign Election Interference #3: The Ownership Structure Behind Dominion…Linked To Smartmatic In Barbados

    Foreign Election Interference #2: Dominion Sent Information Election Night To 5 Countries, Frankfurt Saw 30% Spike Election Night

    BREAKING: White House Has Extensive Evidence Of Foreign Interference In Nov 3rd Election…Example 1: Nevada SoS Sent Voter Information To Pakistani Intelligence

    1. ‘Hotel Harrington in Washington, D.C., where the Proud Boys often stayed in the past few months, announced it would be closed during the pro-Trump demonstration planned for next week for the safety of visitors and employees. The hotel said in a statement posted on Facebook on Monday that the venue will be closed from Jan. 4–6 to all visitors except long-term dwellers.’

      ‘The hotel announced the closure one day after The Washington Post published a report on how the Proud Boys have assembled at the hotel in the past few months. The report said that several hundred Proud Boys stayed at the hotel for a protest on Dec.12. The Post labeled the Proud Boys as a “militant right-wing organization that vigorously supports President Trump” and said the group “has clashed in violent street battles with members of antifascist groups and others who oppose Trump.”

      ‘According to the Post, Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the group, said in an interview that members of the group have stayed at the hotel because it’s in downtown D.C. and close to the Trump hotel and the White House. Tarrio on Dec. 29 said in a Parler post that he never thought in his life that he would be talking to media about which hotel he had decided to stay in.’

      ‘He said the Post “for some reason believed that one of the many hotels we frequent was newsworthy.” The hotel, therefore, decided to close for 3 days, which has never happened in the history of the hotel since the 1920s. “They have fallen victim to the fake news. With @TheProudBoys you can see in real time the media machine do the globalists dirty work. The media is the ENEMY of the people,” the leader added.’

      https://www.theepochtimes.com/dc-hotel-where-proud-boys-often-stayed-will-be-closed-jan-4-to-6_3637065.html

      1. The media is the ENEMY of the people

        Jeff Bezos, owner of WaPo, should be first in line to be executed on live tv. He is anti-American scum.

        1. By the way, like 401, I vote with my wallet. Amazon and Jeff Bezos get ZERO dollars from me. I now cannot even remember the last time I used Amazon, and the goal is to never, ever buy anything from them again.

    2. I was wondering if Holder was going to come up in relation to Dominion, and it’s now obvious he led the institutionalization of election fraud. The tell was when that report from Tracy Beanz a few days ago indicated that Dominion and Smartmatic shared an address in Barbados. It isn’t a tax haven, but it is under the thumb of Holder, whose grandparents are from there. They even named a big prison there after him. Island is super corrupt and a haven for trafficking, which the government facilitates. It’s proximity to Venezuela probably served it as a meeting location between US deep state and Venezuela commies.

      1. The corruption is so wide and deep on both sides of the political aisle. It’s truly horrific.

          1. Worse, the corrupt project their crimes on innocent people who are then demonized in the media.

  12. Wonder how many depleted their savings thinking Covid would be short term and they could ride it out? If those now struggling financially, especially landlords knew back in the spring how long it would drag out would they of held on or just walked away? Rough getting bled dry only to have to soon hand the keys over anyway.

    1. Wonder how many depleted their savings thinking Covid would be short term and they could ride it out?

      In my extended family there’s been some willful self-delusion regarding the duration of the pandemic & related economic fallout, judging by how some of them blew their stimulus on expensive toys rather than squirreling it away for a rainy day. One nephew called me a couple of times with “updates” on his dire financial situation, which were thinly disguised pleas for money. Initially I played obtuse, but finally told him bluntly that I refuse to subsidize financial irresponsibility and he’s not getting a dime from me. Did I mention that he was a Biden supporter?

      1. judging by how some of them blew their stimulus on expensive toys rather than squirreling it away for a rainy day

        I’ll bet a lot of $1000+ iPhones were sold to those grasshoppers.

        1. I bought a new pair of backcountry skis, to replace a hand me down pair that are about 15 years old. I kept the bindings and boots from the old skis (both purchased new but of course, on markdown or with a coupon).

          With all the CCP Flu restrictions in place for the indefinite future, I’m done with resort, lift served skiing for a while. There are other places to go that don’t involve sitting in ski traffic on I-70. And skiing backcountry all it costs is the gas to get there.

          1. BTW this purchase made from a *new* business in South Denver less than a mile from home. Cripple Creek Backcountry already has three locations in different mountain towns around the state, their Denver location just opened in November.

            The South Broadway commercial corridor is hurting, badly. I voted with my wallet to support a new, local, independent, non-corporate business in my neighborhood.

          3. >>“Speaking of buying local, this caught my eye:”

            “The trend’s origin can be traced back nearly 40 years to the founding of titanium bike company Moots by Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee Kent Eriksen in 1981. It blossomed even more with the founding of Smartwool in 1994 by New England ski instructor transplants Peter and Patty Duke, who — realizing the advantages of New Zealand merino wool for ski apparel — began by selling merino ski socks adorned with penguins out of their basement.”

            Yep, Moots Ti bicycles!

          4. If someone is just getting started an old-school Moots TI bicycle (without disk brakes) can be had on eBay for a good price, relatively speaking. Focus on brand name parts like DT Swiss, Chris King, Shimano XTR, Brooks, etc., which are high quality, not your $180 bike from a big box store.

    2. It’s a form of defunding to destroy peoples means of making a living, with the market share getting swallowed up by the Big Corporations in the end.
      Typical monopoly type tatics to destroy competition.
      So, I hear some talking head suggest that Washington DC should be defunded by millions rebelling by refusing to send their Fed taxes in .
      I don’t know all the options people have , I just heard that one, which wouldn’t be legal to do actually. But I can see why people want to fight back against forces that are against them and this Country actually.

      1. ‘Hegelian dialectic…In more simplistic terms, one can consider it thus: problem → reaction → solution. Although this model is often named after Hegel, he never used that specific formulation. Hegel ascribed that terminology to Kant.[28] Carrying on Kant’s work, Fichte greatly elaborated on the synthesis model and popularized it.’

        ‘Marx explains dialectical materialism: In its rational form, it is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors, because it includes in its comprehension an affirmative recognition of the existing state of things, at the same time, also, the recognition of the negation of that state, of its inevitable breaking up; because it regards every historically developed social form as in fluid movement, and therefore takes into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence; because it lets nothing impose upon it, and is in its essence critical and revolutionary.’

        ‘According to Kant, however, the ancient Greeks used the word “dialectic” to signify the logic of false appearance or semblance. To the Ancients, “it was nothing but the logic of illusion. It was a sophistic art of giving to one’s ignorance, indeed even to one’s intentional tricks, the outward appearance of truth, by imitating the thorough, accurate method which logic always requires, and by using its topic as a cloak for every empty assertion.”

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic

    3. I got suckered initially by the covid videos coming out of China. But it soon dawned on me that this is more of an agenda than a pandemic. The central planners are not planning for things to ever go back to normal. No matter how long people where the masks, social distance, stay lock down in their homes…no matter how many vaccines we take…they are never going to willingly let us be free again.

      1. Here’s the thing: there aren’t very many of them. They couldn’t open a beer bottle with their bare hands. There’s a whole lot of us and we are armed to the teeth.

        1. I was going to replace the AR-15 I lost in my recent tragic boating accident, but now, thanks to my personal guiding light Alyssa Milano, I realize my KN-95 mask will suffice to protect me.

          Actress Alyssa Milano said that people who merely disagree with mask mandates or the efficacy of them are the same people who “think they need an AR-15 for ‘”protection.’”

          “Anti-maskers are the same people who think they need an AR-15 for “protection”. LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK: A MASK WILL PROTECT YOU *MORE* THAN AN AR-15 WILL,” Milano.

          1. : A MASK WILL PROTECT YOU *MORE* THAN AN AR-15 WILL
            My cousin Bill in Michigan has been self isolating for months as he is still recovering from cancer surgery. At Christmas he heard from his neighbors who were unwittingly exposed to possible COVID by some of their friends who had them over to their house despite knowing they had recently turned + for COVID. Then Bill got a call from an old friend of his, who wanted to drop by his house for a visit. (Bill can’t drive). Bill told his friend, “If you show up here I will personally take my deer rifle and shoot you dead in the driveway.” His friend replied “You have a way of getting your point across.” A deer rifle used properly will also protect one from COVID-19. 🙂

        2. Good point. I suspect the new government will be so weak, WOKE and clueless that certain state governments and other Strong powers will start taking over like what is happening in Mexico.

          I think the cartel owns Culiacan Mexico.

          1. I think the cartel owns Culiacan Mexico.

            They have owned it for decades, all of Sinaloa for that matter. It’s one of the reasons Mazatlan never became a big tourist destination.

          1. Our news couldn’t possibly be any more like China’s news. Both are propaganda mouthpieces whose purpose is to conceal and obfuscate the truth and exalt the criminal elites running the show.

      3. What worries me is that I see people growing to enjoy their roles in the new paradigm of servitude. Covid cop store clerks are getting bolder and ruder with customers for not having their masks on properly or wondering too far away from their social distancing floor marker. Its happened to me three times in the last week. It’s like the next level from when they hired an army of high school drop outs to feel up the leg of your pants at the airport. You can’t even buy food anymore without risking some minimum wage Stanford experiment prison guard wannabe harassing you.

        1. Circa 2004-2006, the Kensington Vons wouldn’t stop a non-white kid from shoplifting booze for fear of being fired.

    4. Considering the number of people who ran out to buy cars, houses and other big ticket items in the face of the worst spell of job losses in our history, I’d say the number of broke people with no savings is also at a record level.

      Before this current meltdown, the record for first time unemployment claims in a week was something like 650,000. We have averaged over a million a week for 9+ months!

  13. Another thing that drives me crazy is the idea that the welfare of the Majority rights has to be given up in favor of smaller groups.
    For example,
    (1) With Obamacare 300 million get gouging health care, because 20 million can’t afford health care, which could of been taken care of other ways.
    (2) Trans genders are a small percentage of population. Yet the language and the bathrooms have to be changed and the Majority is subjected to bathroom insecurity .
    Further, in female sports biological men get to win all the time against females because they say they are a female.
    (3) People who can’t pass the tests, they get the job, not the best qualified.
    (4), Majority population gets screwed because a small special interest group wants something.
    (5) Shut down the World because a small group of people need more protection against a virus ,being the elderly. So, vaccine the whole world instead of the small vulnerable group at risk .
    (6). Change the language because a smaller group of people are offended by words, especially words that are pro American traditions. So the majority not offended can only use words approved by a small offended group. Like the word “picnic” the other day they said was offensive.
    (7) A small monopoly controlling the news, which is craming fake narratives down our throats.
    (8) A small group of Globalist and Rich control freaks , who weren’t elected, wanting to control the Majority.
    (9) Commies in the minority still wanting to rule the majority.
    I could go on and on but my point is that these smaller groups want to mess up the majority . That somehow the Majority should give up to smaller groups of special interest like the Davos Group. The other thing about these groups that want to mess it up for the Majority is that they are bat shit crazy, power mongers, and destructive people If you look at their actions.

    1. I could go on and on but my point is that these smaller groups want to mess up the majority . That somehow the Majority should give up to smaller groups of special interest like the Davos Group.

      The majority is where the real wealth gets created. Everybody wants to find a way to corral them, break them, and ride them to riches. Maybe less total riches than would have been created if you left them alone, but if you get it all, who cares?

    1. It would be deeply satisfying to see this granny dragged up to a guillotine, crying with her makeup running down her face, to meet her maker.

  15. Got back from a few days in Arizona last night. My first time to anywhere in the state other than the small corner between Vegas and LA. The climb from Phoenix to Flagstaff was a workout for the generic Ford V10 gas motorhome, but it wasn’t too bad. The contrast between climates was cool. Northern AZ isn’t much different from Wyoming and Colorado. Ran the A/C in Phoenix and got snowed on for a while at the Grand Canyon. I liked that you can get Rudy’s BBQ in Phoenix. Beats CA for American food IMO.

    1. The first time I went to Flagstaff I parked my car and walked around for a while. About 20 minutes later I was totally winded and my nose started bleeding. Then I saw a sign saying the elevation of where I was. I think it was about 7000 ft.

      1. I grew up over 5000 so I don’t think much about it except for the effect on the weather. My ex would freak out every time we hit 10k on I70 in Colorado. I still don’t know if it was all in her head or if she really did feel like crap. She grew up in the Great Lakes.

        1. I still don’t know if it was all in her head or if she really did feel like crap. My sister, brother and I are all from the Great Lakes. Sis and I never had problems acclimating to places like Denver, ABQ and Flagstaff. In 1982 I drove my brother out to Yellowstone NP. There we learned that he just could not function above 6500 ft ASL. We stayed 10 days, camped lower, drove higher, he consistently got sick every time we crossed that elevation. I’m pretty sure that was his DNA talking.

      2. A girlfriend and I rode over Tioga Pass into Yosemite from the 395 on an old 74ci Harley Davidson, which barely ran despite being a long stroke thumper. We stopped near the summit, and I could hear someone breathing really hard but not exhausted, and soon appeared a “total stud” on a road bicycle.

        1. old 74ci Harley Davidson, which barely ran despite being a long stroke thumper

          Despite? I thought they all barely ran… 🙂

          1. It had great bottom-end acceleration while heavily loaded, but at freeway speed the vibration could loosen your teeth.

        2. Those old shovelheads are relics for sure. I used to ride a friend’s every once in a while. It would start scraping the exhaust on tight turns which was super sketchy. It also had ape-hangers which were horrifically uncomfortable, and in conjunction with the forward pegs was just an odd configuration. It was a custom rigid frame that had been lowered a few inches. Potholes were not your friend. And the exhaust was so loud it probably led to hearing loss for the rider.

  16. Happy New Year to Ben and everyone on the HBB. This blog has been a refuge of sanity, real news and informed debate in a year when all those things were badly needed. Wishing you all the best for 2021!

  17. Pelosi’s San Fran Estate Vandalized with Leftist Graffiti, Severed Pig Head: “CANCEL RENT… WE WANT EVERYTHING”

    by Adan Salazar
    January 1st 2021, 3:45 pm

    BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: @SpeakerPelosi’s house VANDALIZED with red paint, PIGS HEAD & spray-painted message “$2K (crossed out)… CANCEL RENT… WE WANT EVERYTHING”. City called to clean up at 3am & police attempting to stop photos of scene. Media SILENT.

    https://twitter.com/FogCityMidge/status/1345084099447328768

    Besides the messaging, another indication this was a leftist act is the severed pig’s head and fake blood left on the driveway, a favorite symbol of Antifa and other radical provocateurs that was seen at BLM protests last July.

    While some questioned whether the home was really Pelosi’s, photos from a YouTube stunt filmed at the residence last year showed the garage’s features match up with Vanderberghe’s photo, begging the question as to why the mainstream media is silent on the story.

    https://www.infowars.com/

    1. ‘begging the question as to why the mainstream media is silent on the story’

      Occam’s Razor says they would blame it on Trump supporters if they were asked.

    2. why the mainstream media is silent on the story Because it doesn’t make the Democrats and globalists look better, silly.

  18. Happy new year to the HBB crew.

    I’ll probably pretty scarce posting around here in Q1. I’ve cut back all my blogs, social media, etc to try to re-balance my time and avoid burnout as I move into the final months of a project. Not a complaint about the blog – would still love to have meetup some day.

    Wishing the best for everyone in 2021. Stay safe!

        1. Last night I went back fiddy years to 1971 with ME AND BOBBY McGEE –•– Janis Joplin

          Tonight I’m going back 40 to 1981, and while I considered posting…

          SHE’S A BAD MAMA JAMA (She’s Built, She’s Stacked) –•– Carl Carlton 🙂

          I opted for…

          Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – The Waiting

          https://youtu.be/uMyCa35_mOg

          1. My teenaged daughters love music from the 70s and 80s, which is such a huge contrast from most of what passes for music today.

          3. People like Cardi B are trying to maintain that tradition, but most of the population has become unshockable. Kind of like what Idiocracy predicted.

          4. People like Cardi B are trying to maintain that tradition

            I just listened to her on youtube. She’s vulgar, but I found her to be boring. I suppose that would be what the idiocracy crowd would like.

    3. People have the right to be secure in their own homes. That includes politicians. Not a fan of Senator Pelosi, but this kind of crap is way over the line and should be condemned regardless of where you are on the political spectrum.

      2. should be condemned regardless of where you are on the political spectrum

        As soon as they are ready to put a stop to it I’ll support them. But I’m not going to participate in it being used against me until then.

        1. should be condemned

          It’s a backfire and it’s ironic. May they come to regret their “any and all means” program. Good and hard.

    4. I was thinking, wouldn’t her residence be guarded by the Secret Service or at least some local cops?

        1. Now that you mention it that makes me wonder if it was done intentionally to give her an excuse to pivot toward law and order once Trump is gone.

    1. What is happening to these people? I remember maybe 15 years ago seeing Pelosi on a TV show fighting against raising the minimum age for Social Security. Her reasoning was that there were a lot of blue-collar manual labor workers whose bodies simply gave out at age 62 and they couldn’t wait until age 67. Say what you will, at the time at least she was fighting for The Working Man. And now she gone all bodysnatched.

      I remember in 2009, Obama establish and Task Force to help out the working class. His czar for the task force was none other than the Vice President. Not four years later Obama was all phone and pen and kill list. wtf?

      Seriously, what changed their minds? And I mean, they aren’t phoning it in, or sounding like someone forced into it. They really believe this crap. Can people really be changed by a couple visits to Davos? And these people are all multi-millionaries. Its not as if they need to believe this stuff to feed their families.

      2. I remember in 2009, Obama establish and Task Force to help out the working class.

        Sure, a bon vivant hand-picked by George Soros and Goldman Sachs was all about wanting to “help the working class.” That’s how he & Big Mike amassed a net worth in the tens of millions for their “public service.” Wealth inequality increased to obscene proportions during the Obama administration as he and his Fed confederates enriched the already super-wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

        1. tens of millions

          Lin Wood is claiming it’s in the billions from a Halliburton inheritance. Reminder, he specializes in defamation law.

        2. I don’t know who “big Mike” is, but I was referring to the Vice President in 2009.

          But again, that doesn’t answer my question why all these people flipped. I can’t believe it’s for millions. Most of them already had millions, especially Nancy. If they were greedy enough to need more millions when they had millions already, then why were they pretending to care about the middle class at all? Power, maybe? They were already high up in government. I’m still puzzled here.

      3. They really believe this crap.

        They believe in the money they get from Marxists. Destroying our traditional values is in the cookbook.

        1. Destroying our traditional values is in the cookbook.
          Those deplorable and fake “leaders” are slaves to greedy and insane oligarchs, who intend to win “by all means necessary”.

  24. The gulag just one a big step closer for anyone opposing government overreach and arbitrary, capacious orders by the Comrades of Proven Worth (D).

    New York Assembly Bill A416

    Relates to the removal of cases, contacts and carriers of communicable diseases who are potentially dangerous to the public health

    *

    UPON DETERMINING BY CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE THAT THE HEALTH OF OTHERS IS OR MAY BE ENDANGERED BY A CASE, CONTACT OR CARRIER, OR SUSPECTED CASE, CONTACT OR CARRIER OF A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE THAT, IN THE OPINION OF THE GOVERNOR, AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER, MAY POSE AN IMMINENT AND SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESULTING IN SEVERE MORBIDITY OR HIGH MORTALITY, THE GOVERNOR OR HIS OR HER DELE-
    GEE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE COMMISSIONER OR THE HEADS OF LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS, MAY ORDER THE REMOVAL AND/OR DETENTION OF SUCH A PERSON OR OF A GROUP OF SUCH PERSONS BY ISSUING A SINGLE ORDER, IDENTIFYING SUCH PERSONS EITHER BY NAME OR BY A REASONABLY SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION OF THE INDIVIDUALS OR GROUP BEING DETAINED. SUCH PERSON OR GROUP OF PERSONS SHALL BE DETAINED IN A MEDICAL FACILITY OR OTHER APPROPRIATE FACILITY OR PREMISES DESIGNATED BY THE GOVERNOR OR HIS OR HER DELEGEE AND COMPLYING WITH SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS SECTION.

      1. Is wrongthink one of these? Communication of forbidden ideas is a type of communicable disease for those whose cherished goals are impeded by said ideas.

    3. IIUC, this isn’t that far off from the Supreme Court rulings which allow contagious persons to be isolated. However, language like “suspected case” and “contact” gives the governor enough wiggle room to toss just about anybody into a camp.

      1. “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

        ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

        1. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward because we preferred to live as slaves or zeks rather than die resisting. Tough choice.

          1. I think when people are clear that it’s time to fight now or live forever as slaves they will usually choose to fight. So those who would enslave need to keep things as confusing as possible so that they can’t communicate with each other and can’t clearly determine when it’s time to fight. The goal is to get them disarmed and in shackles before they figure it out, which is where they found themselves in the quote above. It’s like breaking a horse…no cowboy wants to have a fair fight with a wild horse. You trick them one step at a time until eventually they find themselves gelded and spending all day every day working for you without ever actually having a big fight to the death about it.

          2. It’s different to have had a job that pays a living wage, and then losing it and everything else. There are lots of barrio, Indian reservations, ghetto and desert encampments that are basically open air prisons that now have a couple of generations that have never had anything to lose. They’re docile as long as the social help keeps coming.

          3. They’re docile as long as the social help keeps coming.

            That’s a good point. I don’t think it will work on the Scots-Irish and those of a similar mindset though. Maybe I overestimate them, but I’ve just got a feeling…

    3. The guy sitting there putting his glasses on and taking them off is working harder at not looking at the crime taking place than anyone I have ever seen in my life.

  27. They took Michel Savage off the radio after New Years Eve. He was on the air for 26 years. He was a Trump supporter, wanted closed borders, didn’t like liberal insanity, etc.
    Anyway Dr Savage was saying on his last radio show that he thinks that medications people are taking might make them more inclined to get a bad Covid case.
    If you think about all those Pharma ads when they list side effects it seems like immune system compromise side effects.

    In summary he also said that Mexico was flooding California hospitals with their sick as one of the reasons for the increase.

    So in California the big news was that mutant strain from England detected in California. Also, 40% of health care workers don’t want to take the vaccine according to mainstream TV News.
    So, they are going to close down this State for a long time no doubt.
    Also, Savage said that Native Indians have 175 cases out of 1000,Blacks have 150out of 1000,Whites 75out of a thousand, and Asians 53out of 1000. I’m just going from memory of what he said.
    So, Asians get the covid the least, and Native Americans have the most cases.
    So, why?

    1. So, Asians get the covid the least, and Native Americans have the most cases.

      That is interesting considering how susceptible the Chinese seemed to be compared to everyone else early on. But that’s when it was in China and the people living in the poorest conditions and getting exposed the most were Chinese. Still seems to correlate with whoever lives in the same building with people outside their immediate family. Although I don’t know many native Americans living in apartments buildings…maybe it’s more about the poor conditions.

      1. It could be that a lot of Native Americans have diabetes, I don’t know.
        Or, could the covid 19 be a bio weapon to target certain groups? Or could it be that people that take certain medications have a compromised immune function.
        Fat chance that Big Pharma would ever admit that their Meds weaken immune function.

    3. mutant strain from England detected in California has probably been spreading in the USA for weeks now. UK media has said that the UK has done a lot of work sequencing coronaviruses over the course of the pandemic, much more than the USA has been doing.

  28. https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/573514352.html

    My predictions for next year.

    1. The BLM and Antifa mobs will turn on the Democratic parties when they realized they were pandered too with no real intentions to implement free rents plus stuffs including tuitions cancellations, slavery reparations, and MMT.

    2. The stock markets will go higher as trillions more get printed. Tech bubble goes even higher as the services industry including travels, restaurants, personal cares, etc., get fu**ed up the *** by tyrant governments.

    3. The housing markets will in the cities continue to crater as WFH becomes more of a permanent and hybrid solutions. In the meantime, in the suburbs, median prices continue to go higher as the people who got fuc**ed in 2 cant afford to buy, so the lower end housing falls out of the sales numbers

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