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200 left-wing protesters are on the streets in Portland right now, with anti-Biden and anti-police messages.
“We are ungovernable,” one sign says. pic.twitter.com/WLTFpJrS03
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) January 20, 2021
And don’t forget, the new Administration will still be on their side.
From the NY Post:
If landlords don’t get paid, NYC housing is headed for disaster
The ban on evictions undoubtedly helped many struggling New Yorkers these last nine months. But the state’s failure to account for landlords’ needs risks disaster.
After a new survey, the Community Housing Improvement Program, a group of owners and operators overseeing more than 400,000 units of rent-regulated housing, estimates that arrears of rent-regulated tenants in the city total $1.14 billion.
CHIP finds that about 180,000 such tenants are more than two months in arrears. That’s a fifth of all rent-regulated tenants; pre-pandemic, in February 2000, it was about one in 20.
Over 50,000 tenants owe more than $15,000, or over 11 months of the average rent amount. Of all renters in arrears, the average rent debt is $6,173.21, or 4½ months.
This money will never get paid back. People who cannot make rent now are not going to be able to come up with this much back rent. It’s just a financial impossibility.
This lack of revenue means landlords don’t have working cash for repairs, causing buildings to go into disrepair.
Then there is this:
Meanwhile, property owners were already behind over $500 million in property taxes before another $13.7 billion was due in early January. Some landlords can’t keep up with maintenance costs.
The government always gets theirs.
You have buildings that are approaching the point where they are not fit to be lived in by housing standards. You have landlords way behind on property taxes.
What comes next?
Mass government seizures of property, with buildings or lots then being sold cheap to the few well connected property managers or banks that are buddy-buddy with politicians.
The landlords are destroyed and the property goes into the hands of cronies.
This is what happened in the Soviet Union, Maoist China, and North Vietnam.
It’s now coming to New York City.
Elect a Marxist mayor, get Marxist governance.
That city will be the Caracas of North America in five years.
I am going to steal from J. Kb’s post
Biden’s defense secretary pick pledges to ‘rid our ranks of racists and extremists’
Retired Army General Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday that he would work to rid “racists and extremists” from the ranks of the U.S. military, mend alliances and focus strategically on China if confirmed as President-elect Joe Biden’s defense secretary.
Austin would become America’s first Black defense secretary and has declared his intention to improve diversity within the U.S. military, which is diverse in the lower ranks but largely white and male at the top.
“If confirmed, I will fight hard to stamp out sexual assault, to rid our ranks of racists and extremists, and to create a climate where everyone fit and willing has the opportunity to serve this country with dignity,” Austin, 67, said at his confirmation hearing.
And now we go back in time to June 1941 and a little thing called Operation Barbarrosa, Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Now, Hitler and Stalin had signed an non-aggression pact not too long before, and history guesses Stalin thought along the lines of former (by then) British Prime Minister Chamberlain and thought himself covered with promises of peace.
Hitler being the cunning animal he was, figured out the Red Army was weakened enough to have Russia be an easy target and launched the attack. Why did Hitler think so? Because for 1937 to 1939 Stalin engaged in a great military purge which eliminated most of the best and brightest the Soviet Army had including Mikhail Tukhachevsky who had fought to bring the Soviet Armed forces to the behemoth they eventually became in WWII and beyond.
As a kid, I remember looking in a book a photo of a destroyed panzer just barely 20 miles outside Moscow. It was left there as a reminder how close the Nazis were of conquering the capital of the country, something that should never had happened, but did because the Red Army was by then purified from the alleged “enemies” of the Soviet Union. According to the Smithsonian “More than 800,000 Soviets (soldiers) had been killed, and an additional 6 million Soviet soldiers had been wounded or captured.” And that does not include the civilian population killed and the massive destruction of property and crops as the Soviets burned everything during their retreat as to deny the Germans anything they could use for supplies.
And all of that came about because the need to have a pure-thinking Red Army that conformed to the political needs of the Party. We still face enemies in the form of Terrorism and Countries but the incoming Administration already announces we are about to purge our like of Defense to make it look pretty and welcoming to all nice peoples.
Feeling better now?
