There are times when you wish you were wrong about the extreme lust for power within leftist political officials… Alas, some things are also too predictable.
Boston authorities are now contemplating the confiscation of private property under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation or “public health”, because they need to house/detain people in socially distant venues. The COVID provides a reason to confiscate private domicile.
Massachusetts – […] Could the city commandeer vacant private properties to help supplement supply?
Leo Beletsky, a law and health sciences professor at Northeastern University, presented the controversial move to city officials during a virtual hearing last week, according to the news station.
“When you commandeer a property, there is no preliminary process. The government just comes in and takes over private property,” Beletsky told the outlet.
“There’s a long tradition of doing that in the United States,” he added. “This is not some radical idea.”
While Beletsky’s proposal was met with swift opposition, he said the practice could quickly remedy a solution to the pressing problem.
“Lives certainly take precedence over private property interests, especially when private property owners will be compensated,” Beletsky said. “This could also apply to all the hotels that are sitting empty.” (read more)
“FUNDAMENTAL CHAINS” – What they are planning to do is weaponize COVID-19 to attain ideological objectives. This is why they hyped the fear within it for almost a year. Nothing within their plan requires the approval or consent of any representative body in Washington DC. COVID is the tool to “fundamentally change” the way the United States exists.
Think about the federal government using mandates for enforced national COVID-19 compliance rules. Think about USDA (Dept of Agriculture) and OSHA federal inspections for social distancing (etc) in all businesses, not just restaurants.
Think about the COVID-19 regulatory and compliance system and what political beneficiaries stand to gain.
Think about the Dept of Education using COVID to restructure the way education is taught and the downstream regulations on charter schools and non-compliant educational systems that do not meet the ideological objectives of the master control plan.
Think about how the Dept. of Labor (complaint division) can be weaponized against political opposition based on arbitrary inspections under the guise of employee health and safety…. using federal COVID compliance rules.
Think about Housing and Urban Development (HUD) having new rules about dwellings and complexes for housing grants. Population density; the need to move into the suburbs and the confiscation of private property to “ensure the common safety” of the citizens. (read more)
Who owns hotels? The TRUMP family.
Shutting down hospitality was always about hurting their hard earned family fortune.
Good observation, although I believe the illustrious IL Gov. Prickster’s family are major hotel moguls as well. Perhaps it’s just as simple as ruining the economy and travel industry in general.
“Lives certainly take precedence over private property interests, especially when private property owners will be compensated,” Beletsky said. “This could also apply to all the hotels that are sitting empty.”
Would that keep the hotels out of bankruptcy or just be like selling it outright?
Who says they’ll be compensating or buying out the owners? These totalitarians will blatantly violate the 3rd Amendment and laugh at you when you protest.
They have already done this in Germany and Italy for “refugees” and owners have been compensated. Whether it is fair market value seems to be unlikely as the very presence of migrants decreases property values in general.
Over in that “dear little emerald isle” the Marxists have been commandeering hotels in small towns and putting in hundreds of “guests” for a long time.
It’s the same in Scotland even putting “guests” in remote Hebredian islands (much to their dismay)
In Lisdoonvarna County Clare in Ireland, the population nearly doubled overnight.
I believe the owners do get compensated, and the locals get culturally “enriched”
Marc, I believe it’s the 5th that they’re violating. And it’s pretty unequivocal: “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation”.
Maybe chisel the words into a piece of granite then stuff it down that martinet’s throat?
Marc. Boston is full of dems so the property could be dem owned so they would give them money to cover the inflated expenses
Yes they are, pj. The pritzkers own all the Hyatt’s
The slide into fascism is all too easy. Increasingly, America is coming to resemble a 3rd world backwater run by thugs.
I concur and applaud your use of the word fascism. We need to “adjust” the narrative now in order to get the truth of what these alleged people actually are. Fascists.
And, let’s not forget that they have complete rino cooperation in their sick and evil endeavors to destroy what’s left of the now divided states of America.
BTW, has anyone donated to the election defense fund? I hear that it’s pretty important to help ensure four more years of our VSG’s Presidency. Just sayn.
What are VSGs?
Very Stable Genius
(President Trump)
Thanks!
That tends to happen when you import tens of millions of third world migrants. The third world is the third world because third world people live there.
They have already essentially confiscated property with covid restrictions without any restitution. If your business is shut down for “public health”, then your business should be compensated for your contribution to keeping the public safe. Since you are providing public service, the public should pay.
I don’t know why lawyers are not all over this.
It probably has something to do with the Bar Association. While others are losing their businesses, these lawyers don’t want to lose their license to practice law.
Yes, it apparently has come to such things as this.
Unless there is pushback with a financial cost, the government will keep pushing. Enough already.
Weissmann says prosecute Trump now. Trump has no way out but win this thing. We have no way out.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/mueller-lackey-andrew-weissmann-calls-for-biden-doj-to-prosecute-trump/
For what?
Because lawfare.
Man, imo these human scum have a serious reckoning coming their way, either way.
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Everything they do is to hurt our president and his supporters. They want to punish him for daring to go against their sick agenda and want to punish his supporters to show others to never veer from their plan.
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1331334327746129922
https://twitter.com/YoDatElefant/status/1331150435038576640
Redistribution to farmers on the basis of PC priorities brings this back to mind:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/06/pigford_the_unexamined_obama_administration_scandal.html
“The underreported scandal referenced is generally identified as “Pigford.” Pigford’s germination occurred in 1997 as a lawsuit (Pigford vs. Glickman) alleging that 91 African-American farmers were unfairly denied loans by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) due to racial discrimination which prevented the complainants from farming. In 1999, the black farmers won their case.
Pigford has the distinction of being an out-of-control waste of taxpayer funds and/or a cynical attempt by the Obama administration to curry favor with certain minority groups to which neither President Obama nor Attorney General Eric Holder can plead ignorance of involvement. Both have had knowledge since the court ruled on the Pigford lawsuit; in 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama supported and voted for the funding of the initial settlement. Since then, Eric Holder (and Obama) have been involved in overseeing and managing the Pigford “judgment fund”.”
“Pigford began innocently enough: as a lawsuit to redress a perceived wrong against a group of 91. But then the number climbed to 400….then 1,600…then… The number of black farmers has metastasized — nay, exploded — and the aggrieved group now includes not only blacks, but Hispanics, Native Americans, and females. In fact over 90,000 people have filed claims seeking a payment under the terms of the original Pigford court ruling. That decision, now referred to as Pigford #1, was anticipated to cost approximately $120 million, including legal fees.
“Pigford #2 is the appellation used to identify an expanded payment regime that funds more payments to African-Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and females. This regimen grew out of the fact that thousands of claimants missed the original Pigford #1 filing deadline of October 12, 1999. Interestingly, Native American potential claimants were estimated at 5,300, while plaintiff lawyers pegged the exposure at an estimated 19,000 Native Americans. The judgment fund announced by Agricultural Secretary Thomas Vilsack and Eric Holder in 2010 was expanded from just over $120 million to $1.25 billion, given the expectation of many more filers.
“However, the explosion of claimants has caused payouts to reach $4.4 billion and has swelled legal fees to over $130 million. More importantly, the claim’s process created a rush to get a share of the monies allocated to the judgment fund, even if no real claim existed. Essentially, the process encouraged people to lie and spawned a cottage industry. Claimants had only to file applications for a $50,000 payment by stating that they had “thought about” applying for loans to become a farmer. Proof of a claimant’s intent to farm also included a statement from that petitioner saying he or she had attempted to farm by planting a batch of tomatoes in his or her backyard and having that statement verified by a family member. In essence, the need to be a farmer at the time of the alleged discriminatory actions by the USDA was not a requirement to share in the financial redress.”
“Fraud was endemic to the claims process — for example, every apartment in a New York City building received a settlement of at least $50,000. Further, some families received checks of $50,000 for each family member (see the NYT’s fraud identification narrative of 4-26-13). These payments were dispensed by the judgment fund’s monitor, whose management and control fell to the Executive Branch and Justice Department. Due to the application vetting process, the payouts were criticized by both Representative Steve King (D-IA) and journalist Andrew Breitbart as payoffs to Obama’s/Democrats’ preferred groups to gain a favored political position with those entities.
“King and Breitbart had the courage to indelicately point out that some of payouts were ridiculous, fraudulent, and highly politicized. Both Congressman King and Breitbart were predictably charged with racism by many in the MSM; only because The New York Times printed their recent investigatory story have some MSM members begrudgingly ceded the veracity of King’s and Breitbart’s concerns.
“The combination of the racial criticism, the MSM’s silence regarding Pigford, and the quarantine on additional Pigford narratives subsequent to the NY Times’ article have emphasized the media’s concern for the damage an ongoing discussion of Pigford could cause the president. Potential stories may have included added evidence of rampant fraud and controversy:
“A review of the Shirley Sherrod incident/resignation that became an embarrassing chapter in the Obama administration and might have brought into question the fairness of the payout her family received from Pigford which was rumored to total in the millions. TIME magazine also reported that the Sherrods’ received compensation of approximately $330,000 for mental suffering after it was determined that Ms. Sherrod did not use racist tactics in dealing with white farmers, a charge that led to her resignation from the USDA.
“The NY Times’ article disclosing that in 16 ZIP codes in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and North Carolina, the number of successful Pigford claims exceeded the total number of farms that existed in 1997.
“The possible resurrection of a contentious conversation on the redistribution of wealth by whatever means to correct previous wrongs for certain minorities à la the Van Jones reparations argument.
The blatantly racially charged comments similar to those of Mr. Al Pires, a lead attorney for African-American Pigford farmers, who asserted that the USDA was “the biggest racist the world has ever seen.”“
Andrew Breitbart was obsessed with Pigford. I remember this story.This article closes with a Churchill quote which I think is spot on for this time in history.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2013/05/03/breitbart-on-pigford-never-never-neve-give-up/
“Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.”
Shirley Sherrod. Brings back memories. IIRC Glenn Beck was on Fox and this was covered on his show.
I heard that when Pigford first went live, the claim amount was the cost of a new Cadillac Escalade. 23 years later, they’re one hell of a lot more than a mere $50,000. I’m thinking $110,000 for today’s wannabe farmers? Could be way off, haven’t priced one in over ten years.
Can’t wait for some of these buffoons to get a taste of what they voted for. This is but the tip of the iceberg.
I can wait !
Till hell freezes over !
I hope you will be happily disappointed MAGADJT.
We’ve been baby sitting these immoral miscreants for 250 years.
That is what we do. We may have a piece of our soul, that pushes out a pebble of revenge amongst the boulders of grace and humble mercy, gifts from God. It is just a kidney stone we pass, so we can sleep at night.
We want a land where we can nurture our families and serve our lord, in peace and individual freedom.
We are human, we can grow secure, in our place to a point, when evil can have it’s way with us.
Not today!
maga…the really sad part of what these buffoons voted for will ultimately fall on all of our heads. Not a laughing matter by a long shot. I personally have a few democrat “friends” to whom I now have no use as they have brought this plague of Biden to our lives. Can’t imagine mingling with these people after they will have brought sorrow, despair and an empty future to my children, grand-children and those yet to come. Pathetic and unforgiveable.
Mister Sulu…Set a course for Spartacus.
Great now we will start watering the soybeans with Red Bull! It has electrolytes.
Running this scam again? Dem lawyers made millions during Obama admin with Holder DOJ complicit. Next we will see solyndra loan scams to many Dems.
Will this be like the program where Osama gave billions to imaginary black farmers or black men who dreamed of being farmers but white men wouldn’t let them ?
Or maybe it will be like South Africa where black thugs can slaughter white farmers in their sleep and claim they farm.
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The bill grew from Sen. Warren’s Farm Plan. Coalition sent her a letter & “worked with…Warren’s policy team to develop a comprehensive policy plan to dismantle structural racism within [USDA], & to regenerate the African American agricultural land base.””
Yeah, the easy to grow weed. Know several people in Seattle that thought they won the lottery after successfully winning a license in the Washington state lotto. They invested huge amounts of $$ and all lost everything. It’s a very corrupt state run industry. The state became the King Maker and made a small percentage very wealthy and corrupt.
It’s more critical than ever, now, to resist–wherever, whenever, and however you can.
We need to leave a mark on some of the power hungry officials. I’m a peacemaker but I’m ready to jump into the fray even at the risk of my life.
They keep winding us up like a cheap watch.
Not one vote for any Republican ever again – they don’t deserve to get rich while colluding with our enemies
Not one penny to Hollywood
Not one penny to FOX, etc. (cancel your cable and streaming)
It goes without saying no money to sports teams
Not one penny to progressive companies (no Amazon, Walmart, GEICO, etc.) – shop local
Not one penny to the stock market (move your money out of the market and crash the economy)
Not one penny to Democrat family (cut off your lefty college kids, no inheritance for your liberal adult children, no wedding gifts etc. to nieces and nephews)
No aid to the enemy: Meaning no helping out your neighbors you know vote Democrat
Stop giving to charity as most are run by Democrats and mostly Democrats take charity
No money to your church if they are progressive
If you belong to civic organizations, quit. It’s always the responsible mostly Republican voters who do all the work to help out communities – stop doing it
Pull your kids out of public schools – if every Republican did this it would crash the indoctrination centers and remove the money and power of the teacher’s unions
Don’t send your kids to college
Don’t let your kids join the military (whose country are the defending if none of our votes count?)
Also, Biden foreign policy advisors are advocating for war in Syria – don’t send yourself or your kids to die or lose a limb to make treasonous generals and politicians rich
No Christmas shopping for adults (and limit kids as much as you can without ruining it for them) – crash the economy
These really are easy things we can all do – this is how we fight. That being said we won’t win in this life the United States and too many of its inhabitants are too far gone. But we don’t haven finance or participate in our own serfdom.
Stop wearing masks!
Oh, HELL NO!
It’s telling how the first instinct isn’t to reach out to the scores of commercial on office enterprises and come to a reasonable use agreement. No, the first thing is just setting a precedent of taking then making the owner settle for what the commissar dictates. (And I’m sure they’d be no sweetheart deal later on in which friends of officials might be able to get discounted properties and uses down the road when no one’s looking.)
Certain 20th century regimes certainly found this approach useful, especially when combined with the notion of settling scores or redistributing “justice“ etc. How many people stood on their “rights“ back then and got the full force of government back?
Ja wohl mein Fuhrer!
or…
Da, da gospodin komissar!
A very interesting comment TMonroe.
We might be reaching a point now where our political problems can not be solved legally.
I was thinking about America before the Civil War.
Owning and selling another human being was legal which is an amazing and astonishing thing to exist in a country that if founded on God given rights that no one can take away.
We can kind of understand that our Founding Fathers were in a hard spot trying to get the Colonies together to rebel against the King.
For the first 100 years or so of our countries existence we and people who believed it was fine and dandy to take away another humans basic right of Liberty.
In the years coming up to the to break out of the Civil War I can imagine how hard it must have been to try and talk to some of these people if you were on the side that humans had a right to live Free.
The chasm was just too wide and far.
A little like now with abortion on demand, people who think preborn children have no human rights are very very difficult to talk to, their minds are made up.
And so are ours.
I have been wondering if we are there yet, to the place where we were in 1860 when the legal solution to our countries problems were just not going to work.
I am not saying that we go out blasting away or divide up and shoot at each other yet.
Pres Trump has no choice to try and fight this legally in our countries courts ( check out the lawsuits involving slavery and seceding from the Union and the citizens and states reaction to them ) but I am not sure that our enemy will accept what the courts decide if it goes against them and I know we will not.
I really have no idea as to specifically where this is going and we and Pres Trump will not give in.
I am just wondering if there is going to be a great big fight of some kind.
They should first open the empty dormitories on college campuses! They’re all shut down, based on Covid rules.
You see, that would be logical. That would actually fit the supposed issue. However, that would intrude on their personal space.
Note that it’s someone else and not Northeastern facilities that this guy suggested off the top because even though as you point out, they figure to have vacant space that doesn’t have to be converted but exists for residential use! For some, everyone else has to give but those that are more equal than others.
WTF???? FULL BLOWN COMMIE!!! And they’re not even waiting to take power…they think they can do anything they want.
So far, they have been able to do what they want in certain places. Nobody stopped them. They will keep taking and doing whatever gets them the most power and dollars in their pockets until they are told they cannot and have some consequences if they insist on trying.
Truth!
Heard that as of a few days/weeks ago German authorities can enter ones home without a warrant.
Hey guys, it is coming to a town near you if the Democrats complete their steal
As of a few days ago – – in other words, after systematic erosion of the society, rights become optional no one willing and able to prioritize them
That will be us soon.
There’s no way that this is constitutional in Germany. What you probably mean is that some no-name judge rubber stamps it.
Trying to find it again… That is why all the protests.
It is really getting crazy over there with even a doctor arrested for helping the protestors.
So the site of the “tea party” that essentially helped trigger what became a colony-wide revolution to escape the chains of a monarchy will now return to the chains of a modern day monarchy being disguised as a supposedly elected government.
Recent events rightfully bring into question the validity of elections that placed people now exposing themselves as despots into power.
Nope
Maybe they need barracks for UN troops.
IIRC, this was tried, and really did not work out well for the invaders.
Yes, comrade, the quagmire war on Covidiocy overrides the 3rd Amendment. /s
Nay, the entire Constitution and common sense as well! No assembly ’cause covid, no worship ’cause covid, forced mail in voting ’cause covid, gun stores closed ’cause covid, no free commerce ’cause covid, et cetera ad nauseum.
Compare the ornaments that each side had back then versus what each side has now. Not even going that far, think about how many people are going to be willing to put their retirement and medical benefits in any risk whatsoever by resisting, or having to become mobile as many did throughout Europe and elsewhere in the world before the great conflicts last century.
Those retirement funds … might be a whole lot less than expected.
After Medicare-4-All kicks in, might not have much to lose.
Unless you have a government pension they plan to come for your retirement anyway. See Biden’s 401k plan and the many hearing over the last twenty years where they discussed confiscating private retirement accounts and promising you a government handout when you get old.
It interesting they are starting with supposedly vacant property. I fully expect them to pull folks out of their homes, or force them to take in people . ” The Counsel of Diversity Is Our Strength has decided you have too much square feet to yourselves, citizen ! Here are your new cohabitators! “
So it looks like I will finally have a starring role in an episode of SNAPPED!
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In Sweden back in 2014/15 they were kicking elderly people out of .gov apts. they’d lived in for decades to give their homes over to the new wave of “refugees”.
The Gov. paid the landlords “extra” to house the new tenants.
Maybe they’re still doing it. Finally stopped reading the Swedish News cuz it was so f*cking depressing .
Anyway, know people up there in Mass. who have 2nd homes away from the city. They all vote Dem. We’ll see if this spreads outward from Boston to other parts of Mass.
It always does!
Wonder how they will feel if they are told they can’t have a 2nd home where there is homeless. ?Dems don’t like getting what they voted in
They can start with 0bama’s seaside retreat.
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sunnydaze, I remember reading those “confiscation” stories some years back (when those “immigrants” arrived en masse in the EU) when I use to frequent the Daily Mail news site. BTW, those mobs were primarily comprised of young men – believe they left their wifey and kids back in their homelands in the M.E.- probably deserted them is more like it.
I think they’re going to have so much space in downtown office bldgs. throughout the U.S., in combination with empty hotels, that’s why they’re justifying opening the borders.
We just don’t have enough homeless, impoverished or illegals to occupy the now empty bldgs. that will, of course, have to be renovated for energy conservation, solar panels, new insulation & fewer windows.
Two problems come to mind: Where are we going to put all the junk, dust, materials, etc., from these “energy remodels,” especially in crowded cities?
Why does everyone in the East think we have enough water to meet the needs of huge influxes of population into the West? The Colorado River no longer meets the ocean. It hasn’t for yrs.
Are some of these reparation farmers going to be given land capable of being farmed in the West or land incapable of being farmed that we already gave to Native Americans?
I don’t think the” energy remodels” will happen much. That’s just blather. Mostly the druggy homeless will be put in abandoned hotels…..I’m thinking that’s the plan. If you can call it that?
In the 70’s Mexico decided to allocate measures of living space to homes that were “too large” despite them being occupied by their owners. It didn’t go over well.
paper…been saying this for years and people thought I was insane.
Barack Obama has a big, unneeded place that I hear is quite socially distanced out on Martha’s Vineyard.
Excellent suggestion!…and as an island, it is well suited for housing prisoners who the ‘rats plan to release. Kind of like a “halfway island” for them.
And Im sure that the other islands denizens will be welcoming to a few hundred homeless people in their hood.
John Kerry just bought a $13 million mansion w/ocean-front property at Martha’s Vineyard. Good thing Kerry married well. I’m sure he has no ties to China, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, etc, like DementiaJoe. /sarc
I guess you ain’t a Democrat if you don’t own at least one ocean-front mansion or your own jet. /sarc again
I wonder why he would buy ocean front property when he knows that climate change will soon put it under water ?
I guess I’m not so into making light of this topic.
Pretty sure we’re all aware that Obama’s Vineyard home would never be “taken over”. It will be GUARDED- ***heavily*** so the Plebes can’t get anywhere near it.
That IS what happens. Every. Single. Time.
Sorry, outhouse, this topic’s hitting a sore spot w/ me.
(nice name, BTW. LOL.)
sunny…agree! Bad time for making light of anything in Biden’s manifesto.
Stanley Kurtz at the NR summarized their plans for the destruction of suburbia perfectly in this article –
“Biden and Dems Are Set to Abolish the Suburbs”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-and-dems-are-set-to-abolish-the-suburbs/
President Trump had a great riff at his rally the other day in Phoenix. It was all about “abolish,” about how the Left wants to abolish the police, ICE, bail, even borders. Trump’s riff is effective because it is true. The Left has gone off the deep end, and they’re taking the Democrats with them.
Well, there’s another “abolish” the president can add to his list, and it just might be enough to tip the scales this November. Joe Biden and the Democrats want to abolish America’s suburbs. Biden and his party have embraced yet another dream of the radical Left: a federal takeover, transformation, and de facto urbanization of America’s suburbs. What’s more, Biden just might be able to pull off this “fundamental transformation.”
The suburbs are the swing constituency in our national elections. If suburban voters knew what the Democrats had in store for them, they’d run screaming in the other direction. Unfortunately, Republicans have been too clueless or timid to make an issue of the Democrats’ anti-suburban plans. It’s time to tell voters the truth.
I’ve been studying Joe Biden’s housing plans, and what I’ve seen is both surprising and frightening. I expected that a President Biden would enforce the Obama administration’s radical AFFH (Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing) regulation to the hilt. That is exactly what Biden promises to do. By itself, that would be more than enough to end America’s suburbs as we’ve known them, as I’ve explained repeatedly here at NRO.
What surprises me is that Biden has actually promised to go much further than AFFH. Biden has embraced Cory Booker’s strategy for ending single-family zoning in the suburbs and creating what you might call “little downtowns” in the suburbs. Combine the Obama-Biden administration’s radical AFFH regulation with Booker’s new strategy, and I don’t see how the suburbs can retain their ability to govern themselves. It will mean the end of local control, the end of a style of living that many people prefer to the city, and therefore the end of meaningful choice in how Americans can live. Shouldn’t voters know that this is what’s at stake in the election?
It is no exaggeration to say that progressive urbanists have long dreamed of abolishing the suburbs. (In fact, I’ve explained it all in a book.) Initially, these anti-suburban radicals wanted large cities to simply annex their surrounding suburbs, like cities did in the 19th century. That way a big city could fatten up its tax base. Once progressives discovered it had since become illegal for a city to annex its surrounding suburbs without voter consent, they cooked up a strategy that would amount to the same thing.
This de facto annexation strategy had three parts: (1) use a kind of quota system to force “economic integration” on the suburbs, pushing urban residents outside of the city; (2) close down suburban growth by regulating development, restricting automobile use, and limiting highway growth and repair, thus forcing would-be suburbanites back to the city; (3) use state and federal laws to force suburbs to redistribute tax revenue to poorer cities in their greater metropolitan region. If you force urbanites into suburbs, force suburbanites back into cities, and redistribute suburban tax revenue, then presto! You have effectively abolished the suburbs.
Obama’s radical AFFH regulation puts every part of progressives’ “abolish the suburbs” strategy into effect (as I explain in detail here). Once Biden starts to enforce AFFH the way Obama’s administration originally meant it to work, it will be as if America’s suburbs had been swallowed up by the cities they surround. They will lose control of their own zoning and development, they will be pressured into a kind of de facto regional-revenue redistribution, and they will even be forced to start building high-density low-income housing. The latter, of course, will require the elimination of single-family zoning. With that, the basic character of the suburbs will disappear. At the very moment when the pandemic has made people rethink the advantages of dense urban living, the choice of an alternative will be taken away.
That’s all bad enough. But on top of AFFH, Biden now plans to use Cory Booker’s strategy for attacking suburban zoning. AFFH works by holding HUD’s Community Development Block Grants hostage to federal-planning demands. Suburbs won’t be able to get the millions of dollars they’re used to in HUD grants unless they eliminate single-family zoning and densify their business districts. AFFH also forces HUD-grant recipients to sign pledges to “affirmatively further fair housing.” Those pledges could get suburbs sued by civil-rights groups, or by the feds, if they don’t get rid of single-family zoning. The only defense suburbs have against this two-pronged attack is to refuse HUD grants. True, that will effectively redistribute huge amounts of suburban money to cities, but if they give up their HUD grants at least the suburbs will be free of federal control.
The Booker approach — now endorsed by Biden — may block even this way out. Booker wants to hold suburban zoning hostage not only to HUD grants, but to the federal transportation grants used by states to build and repair highways. It may be next to impossible for suburbs to opt out of those state-run highway repairs. Otherwise, suburban roads will deteriorate and suburban access to major arteries will be blocked. AFFH plus the Booker plan will leave America’s suburbs with no alternative but to eliminate their single-family zoning and turn over their planning to the feds. Slowly but surely, suburbs will become helpless satellites of the cities they surround, exactly as progressive urbanists intend.
If America’s suburban voters understood that all this is what Biden and the Democrats have in store for them, it could easily swing the election. That means President Trump now has another “abolish” to add to his list: Joe Biden and the Dems want to abolish America’s suburbs.
There’s just one hitch. Incredibly, although AFFH is arguably Obama’s most radical initiative, Ben Carson’s HUD has still not gotten rid of it. Instead, Carson suspended enforcement of the rule early on and then tinkered around for three years trying to come up with a replacement. What Carson has developed so far is something you might call “AFFH lite.” While this possible replacement removes many of the regulation’s excesses, Carson has so far retained the most egregious feature of AFFH. He still wants to use HUD money to gut suburban single-family zoning. How Carson can even think about taking this stance in the face of President Trump’s explicit directive to reduce and remove excessive federal regulation is a mystery.
It will be very tough for President Trump to make a political issue out of Biden’s housing plans so long as his own cabinet secretary is talking about killing suburban single-family zoning with AFFH. I think Carson’s wobbling on AFFH explains a lot about why Democrats have become so bold with their plans to undo suburban zoning. If even the Trump administration goes along with federal attacks on suburban zoning, the Dems figure they’ve got political cover. Time was when Obama administration officials would turn somersaults to deny that they were going to control suburban-zoning decisions, even when it was obvious that this was their plan. Now, Biden and Booker are remarkably open about their desire to densify the suburbs and get rid of single-family zoning.
The Democrat war on the suburbs is a golden gift to President Trump, but he won’t be able to make use of it until he throws over Carson’s AFFH lite and completely guts Obama’s wildly radical regulation. Then Tump can go to town on Biden and the Dems for making war on the suburbs.
If there were ever proof that Biden has shed his centrism and been taken over by the Left, this is it. Biden got the nomination by declining to endorse the most radical plans of his rivals. But take a look at Biden’s housing plans and it’s clear that he is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Left. Progressive urbanists’ long-cherished dream of abolishing the suburbs is now within reach. With AFFH restored to its original form by a President Biden, enforced to the hilt, and turbo-charged by the Booker strategy, suburbs as we know them will pass from the scene.
With them will disappear the principle of local control that has been the key to American exceptionalism from the start. Since the Pilgrims first landed, our story has been of a people who chose how and where to live, and who governed themselves when they got there. Self-government in a layered federalist system allowing for local control right down to the township is what made America great. If Biden and the Democrats win, that key to our greatness could easily go by the boards.
And the soccer moms and dads who decried the president‘s tweets are likely to be saying “nobody told us about this“
POTUS has tweeted and spoken about this in his rallies. Remember him saying he saved the suburbs? I remember him talking about low income housing in the burbs and he mentioned the zoning once or twice. I wanted him to go into detail about the lefts plan for the burbs but I don’t think he did.
You raise a good point about the suburbs being the swing areas. It’s easy to parrot lefty talking points when you live in a low crime area with good schools etc.
They have been doing this in Europe, especially Italy, for years, to house the illegal savage migrants who are invading their countries.
Every day it becomes more painfully obvious that the hope of the world rests with our President Trump. If the courts should be so foolish as to rule against us, they will only succeed in activating an army of 70 million angry Patriots, most of whom are armed.
Sweden, too. Disgusting.
I’d forgotten about Italy. Yes, it was bad there, also.
Again, from the Daily Mail…. they were arriving by the overly crowded boatloads!
Janie M and Sunnydaze,
It is not that “they” WERE arriving in overly crowded boatloads “they” ARE arriving every day
As I stated above “they” are then housed in hotels and guest houses in small towns and cities. The British coast guard provide a ferry service for those “stranded” in the English Channel on their way from France.
Some time ago a “guest” went berserk in a Glasgow hotel which housed a large number of his colleagues. He used his knife to try and murder several people because he was fed up with pasta which was not his native dish.
He had to be shot to stop him murdering more people.
Hotels in rural Ireland are used to house the large influx of “guests” In some cases doubling the population of the village’s.
The Marxists politicians over here are all in for our “cultural enrichment”
Patrick
If I might ask what part of Scotland are you in?
I visit Ayr every few years.
Have noticed more of the “colonial cousins” every time I visit Glasgow.
Lovely country Scotland.
Scepticalcooper,
Opposite side to Ayr – Carnoustie on East Coast. Golfing nut. Luckily good distance from Glasgow!
It was one of God’s gems – but now getting covered in windmills
The Trojan Horse of Covid-19 is inside the gate.
Think about the 2nd Amendment…
God Bless our Founders!! And I do not, unfortunately, own a 2nd Amendment instrument, living in the state of MD, SPIT!!!
Living in MD is your deterrent? Come on, man. Where there is a will, there is a way. If, indeed, you think it is unfortunate that you do not have an “arm” to bear, then I suggest you find one of those ways. Some of those ways might very well break laws in MD. So what? It seems all the “finest people” are breaking the law these days. How did that old bumper sticker go? Oh, yeah: “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”
You will need to become very inventive then and think about what it might take to “acquire” said instrument. Warning, do not target a patriots said instrument but befriending a few patriots might get you where you want to go.
Above all trust in the Lord. When this all gets started I suspect battlefield supply and resupply will be a feature that helps you out.
Hey guys:
Hunger Games was a preview of coming attractions.
If they win.
Which they won’t.
But it won’t SEEM like that.
But they lose.
They just don’t know it yet.
But it’s coming.
I’d like to see those bozos try this in Texas. Yes, the 2nd amendment comes to mind.
Aren’t they first planning on seizing all our guns?
I don’t even have one and it would be useless against a SWAT team but still…
Our constitution is about to be eradicated and that senile corrupt sellout will stand up there with a smile on his face, put his hand on a Bible, and swear to uphold it.
I’m praying for the lawyers, Sidney, Lin, Rudy, Jenna and all the others we don’t know about.
Go buy one.
I heard AZ was a good place to get one.
And ammo margarite, lots and lots of ammo.
Where are you finding ammo?
We already had a lot.
I hear it is not easy to get now.
Margarite1
A couple of quotes for you.
‘Banning guns is an idea whose time has come’
Senator Joe Biden AP 11/18/93.
‘We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true’
Senator Chuck Schumer NBC 11/30/93.
Thanks…
I worked with a guy from Brazil who told me that the criminals got gun laws passed so they were the only ones with guns. Then the criminals would literally walk into restaurants and demand, at gun point, that all the patrons give up their valuables. The guy’s sister still lives in Brazil and has enough money and won’t go out without bodyguards. Of course, he escaped – couldn’t live there anymore.
Well, all China has to say to Biden is “get Rid of 2nd amendment”, and Biden will get rid of 2nd amendment. China will run the show from now on. Biden will do whatever China wants. Bidens cell phone is from china, all cell phones are made in china.
Texas, sans Austin, is looking more promising all the time…..
How long before we are required to house the Covid-19 Compliance Soldiers in our governmentaly-approved newly confiscated homes?
LOL … They only THINK they have Covid-19 Compliance Soldiers, what they actually have are some soon-to-be-surprised like-minded Liberal Arts & Humanities graduates.
At least, that is my hope.
lol true!
It would take substantially longer if 80,000,000 voices suggested the experiment starts in the lawmakers households and all property they own. They try it out for a two year stretch and let us know how well it worked. And for the record, section 8 doesn’t reimburse for tenant caused damages. Ask me how I know?
They could save lives immediately by suspending all abortion services.
But, of course, they are not all that concerned about saving lives.
Their main concern is keeping strip clubs essential (open) and offering abortions to everyone with our tax dollars.
Interesting the Northeastern University professor suggests seizing hotel properties when there are thousands of empty college dorm rooms in the Boston area, including hundreds on his own campus.
FFS, none of the public schools are being used either. Put them in there if it’s such a concern.
But it’s really not. Looking at the Commonwealth’s data, it looks as if the current “second wave” peaked on November 17th, a week ago. The current “surge” represents a 1/4 of the number of cases back in May, and it’s much “flatter” than the first wave was.
I could go on, but from the on-the-ground view this a solution to a problem which does not exist.
When they open the US to the “migrations” it will exist.
President Trump has forced them all into the open, both sides of the two party illusion. National populism v globalism is where its at now. The horrifying reality is they have no choice but to move forward with their plans in plain sight, as the two party illusion has been exposed, and no one is buying the rigged system anymore.
burginthorn: Yours is a good description of the situation, in a nutshell. The globalist, uniparty agenda is, indeed, out in the open
Isn’t globalism really just communism, expanded to world rule, and augmented by extreme technical, informational, and medical control? We have never had that package before. What’s to be afraid of?
Yea, the Great Reset John Kerry and Justin Trudeau have openly touted lately. If you haven’t heard about it look it up! It is coming like a freight train if Biden gets in. And for all those folks talking about taking back the house in 2022 you are living in a dream world, they will cheat even more and have more liberal judges to back then up. No sir, it’s now or never, this is THE hill we cannot give up!!!
What drives me nuts is there still are not enough people that can see what is going on.
✅ the comrades made me do it
https://twitter.com/64tetrahedron/status/1331422645351370755
Take john Kerry’s beacon hill town house first. He wont be there. He should set an example & donate it to the city.
Photo:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/john-kerry-fined-50-failing-shovel-snow-home-article-1.2097657
he won’t get fined for not shoveling his sidewalk
Plenty of space for the homeless
He planning to monetize climate change in…China.
They will pay to be excluded.
He’ll take a large commission.
Bingo!
Covid has certainly unleashed their inner Hitler And Stalin.
Sure has.
At this rate, Boston will be the next big East Coast city that people of means flee from.
That is not a flaw sunnydaze, but a feature.
“How so?” you ask.
The Progressive fleeing from the crap-hole cities they spawned for themselves will migrate to well run locales to then screw those up too.
Hitler “Rise of the Nazis” is all they are showing on pbs in episodes.. more gaslighting.
I’ve noticed that. I’ve assumed they’ve doing it because of the “Trump supporters are NAZIs ” thing the DemMSM has been pushing, so haven’t watched even one half minute of it.
If they’re doing an honest portrayal, I’m sure much of their audience would notice the parallels between the Left and NAZIs, which would jettison half their audience.
I haven’t either.
If one were bring up the fact to these people that “Nazi” was an epithet for The National Socialist German Workers’ party, then the parallels could not be more striking.
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Doesn’t say anything about Wuflu contractors. Thank you 3rd amendment! /s
It was that “quartering” business that got the Bay Colony REALLY mad.
Far more than the tea tax.
I can’t wait until we get a fair election
So all the turds in the punch bowl get flushed away!
oldjunkfixer—-My daughter has had Crohn’s for 20 years now. Please don’t insult turds, assuming you mean all the Republicrats!! SPIT!!!
**** that ****!!
These fools trying to steal private property are going to cross the wrong cat one of these days and there will be a mess!
1776 baby.
Does anyone know how the votes will be counted for the GA runoff? i sure hope it isn’t Dominion!
How will the votes be counted?
Something like this –
GOOD ONE! LOL
I thought I was posting an Abbott and Costello routine (Do you have two tens for a five?) Now I am now seeing something on Canada. I don’t know what others are seeing.
And as usual he just tosses out this comment –
“There’s a long tradition of doing that in the United States,” he added. “This is not some radical idea.”
but offers no example to back it up.
Explore the history of “Redevelopment Agencies.”
That’s exactly what they do. It’s horrible.
If you are going to build internment camps, you may need some extra space…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngrHB3xlv6M
Sidney Powell Flag of United States⭐⭐⭐ Retweeted
To the gop grifters taking their payoffs from China & elsewhere. To those blackmailed & have chosen to play along
with this fraud….
Understand clearly
NOTHING CAN STOP WHAT IS COMING
nothing Flag of United States⚖
@SidneyPowell1
#WWG1WGA
https://twitter.com/michaelbeatty3/status/1330905253865086976
Richie—I do appreciate Sidney’s psycological(?) “warfare” is helping, and I sure hope and pray Sidney, especially, has THE BEST SECURITY!!!!! Pray folks!!! All this krap!!! is because we have lost our way from God. We MUST get back to Him—yesterday!!!!
Dr Zhivago could tell the people of Boston about sharing his home with communists!
“Dr. Zhivago” is usually one of those movies they show around the winter Holiday Season , isn’t it?
If this thing in Boston takes off soon, it’ll probably be Verbotten to show it this year. The Cable TV Cos.and Networks will see to that.
Chances are the authorities who have it in their power to ban it, have never seen it. “Dr Zhivago” is set around the time of the Russian Revolution and points out the hypocrisy of communism. I never noticed a correlation between “Dr Zhivago” and Christmas? Many romantic types adore the frozen house scenes. Even as a high schooler, I had a thing for brunettes and found Geraldine Chaplin infinitely more attractive than Julie Christie. Dr Zhivago had a foxy brunette wife at home who adored him but only had eyes for the blonde slut homewrecker!
I remember those scenes!
Our enemies have learned much about us this year using Covid as a weapon, a source of fear, a rationale to subvert or merely ignore the Constitution, a test bed to see how far totalitarianism can go given sufficient “fear” etc.
Largely, Americans have horribly failed this test and shown our putative masters that most will willingly (eagerly for some needing to virtue signal like they do in driving a Prius or having a friend who is a “person of color” or homosexual) surrender their freedoms (quite unique in the world now and in history and preserved with the lives and limbs of patriots in uniform) for false assurances of “safety” from the State.
Well done. Like an unexpected gut punch. The truth hurts!
Sure hope we, 80,000,000 choose to do something. Sydney Powell plans to release her own Kraken, hopefully tomorrow with the filing of her suit against Georgia. Praying there’s enough proof there to fire up the release of around 80,000,000 hungry little krakens.
I am fervently praying. I believe that unless God blesses us with a totally unmerited gracious miracle, we have little reason to be hopeful about our future.
jumpinjarhead—AMEN! Totally unmerited gracious miracle!
we have EVERY REASON to be hopeful.
that IS the entire point of being OCCUPIED BY THE BLOOD OF CRIST.
please get your house in order.
stay frosty
obey God.
my friend we need each other.
I love you
I am with you all the way—110%. Those who “are called by His name” need to be on their knees praying every day.
What if you own more than 1 vehicle? Lotta good my Harley will do once it snows. Spare bedroom? No you won’t install anyone in my house no matter how much “good” you think it’ll do. Hotels sitting empty. Weren’t they filled up with homeless people in CA? Probably still are. They hate private property cause you can tell them to leave. No trespassing! Pets worry me too. How will they be affected by this power grab?! I can’t think about that right now or I’ll lose my mind, I can’t go to that dark place.
As this goes on I see people’s positions hardening. My coworker was all set for a big family Thanksgiving at her house then last night her mom canceled. Mom didn’t ask, she just informed the family that she didn’t want to do the usual thing “just in case”. This could be her last Thanksgiving. My coworker is crushed but says if her mom is pushed she’ll only dig in her heels. This makes me so sad and angry.
My parents briefly considered not driving here from another state because “what if they see our license plate”. My mom floated this on the phone in a whisper. I blew my stack. My sister blew a fuse. My parents got in the car and stepped on the gas!!
Sounds like you have great parents that did it right raising their kids, Kudos to all of you!
Your fortunate, they don’t last forever…
Thanks. My parents are old school. We didn’t like their style sometimes when we were younger but it’s served us well as adults. Happy Thanksgiving!
I thank the Lord every day that these traitors and tyrants have been unmasked. There are many of them, but they no longer have the support of police or military, and the people are waking up to who they are and how they got “elected”. I expect they will do and say increasingly desperate things until they are dealt with, hopefully swiftly. All they have is lies, demoralization and fearmongering.
Seattle BLM protesters demand white people ‘give up’ their homes
https://nypost.com/2020/08/14/seattle-blm-protesters-demand-white-people-give-up-their-homes/
Even more than ruining the suburbs through mass housing, zoning restrictions, etc,, wait until the soccer mom finds out the Democommunists want little Liam’s and Olivia’s bedrooms to be redistributed to the deserving urban crackhoe victim of white supremacy. Where are we going to put the millions of refugees pouring over the border but your racist, patriarchal master bedroom.
Humbly suggest to the crackhoes to start out in Beverly Hills, Greenwich and Martha’s Vineyard. The views are better and the houses are bigger.
If the State mandates 50 square feet per person , then might as well take over a nice mansion – that can easily house 20 families and raid the refrigerator for the caviar and faux gras – until it is all gone. It will at least be a fun 24 hours … before reality sets in.
And don’t forget the gourmet ice cream.
rshanker—nice!
Five years I would’ve said good luck with that.
Today, I would think there are many Uber rich young techi dipshit believers of all this bullshit that might just do it. Take the tax right off and place themselves on the big pedestal, for all to see and preach down to us about their new found righteousness.
If they do, there’s a very good chance at some point they’ll be leaving a TV studio after another boring interview about how great they are and they’ll be carjacked and relieved of their righteously owned Tesla. Welcome to the shithole (formerly known as Seattle).
Lived there for 59 years. Missed living there – not one second….
There is no racism in this country anymore…..except
the BLM are the racists now.
The precedent for this would be forced billeting of English soldiers in, you guessed it, the City of Boston.
Didn’t turn out so well for the government, if I recall.
How about thinking about insurrection and domestic terrorism instead ?
All part of the Great Reset. Everyone who owns a home with a spare bedroom will have it taken and strangers moved in.
All part of the Great Reset. Everyone who owns a home with a spare bedroom will have it taken and strangers moved in.
And the Left calls Conservatives fascists and President Trump a dictator?! Gimmie a break! Frankly, I’m almost not surprised to hear these tyrants are pondering this. Deliver us, O Lord, from these snakes.
Communism is the virus. Covid is the carrier.
“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.”
— James Madison, National Gazette, March 1792
“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
— Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
I’ll wager a guess here. Keep in mind this has already been done in Italy, Germany and Sweden for the migrant invasion.
When the evictions skyrocket and we are looking at millions of American families facing living on the street, with the hospitality industry destroyed along with apartment buildings (bc w no one paying rent how can building owners pay their mortgages, taxes and upkeep?) we will see those properties bought up using eminent domain or leased under some kind of emergency act from then scamdemic and the newly homeless Americans moved in.
Then when we are completely flooded with illegal aliens who are already flooodinf the border in huge numbers in anticipation of a Biden presidency and amnesty, those “refugees” will also need housing.
This is what I’m guessing is being planned out behind closed doors. Massive wealth confiscation of private property in the guise of buy out bailouts and charitable housing.
These people will be easier to control when they are living in clusters and have no where else to go. Smart cities = prison cities = communist state.
Straight from the CDC
*Note: this was last revised in July 2020
What is the Shielding Approach1?
The shielding approach aims to reduce the number of severe COVID-19 cases by limiting contact between individuals at higher risk of developing severe disease (“high-risk”) and the general population (“low-risk”). High-risk individuals would be temporarily relocated to safe or “green zones” established at the household, neighborhood, camp/sector or community level depending on the context and setting.1,2 They would have minimal contact with family members and other low-risk residents.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/global-covid-19/shielding-approach-humanitarian.html?fbclid=IwAR2e6fHkHgEXNnJi6X-VWPyDVVf_5WqCvEZAej8ysg0Mhbe1HREqSIfHJW8
The CDC obviously needs to be taken care of. Isn’t that the domain of Faucci and his Chi-com/AMA buddies?
What I’m seeing here is this translation: The new Biden/Harris/globalist government can deem anyone they want as having the chi-virus…whether people have it or not. Being “deemed” as a carrier, the jackboots can “separate” anyone from their family, job, community and “isolate” them who-knows-where. It’s a way of rounding up political and religious dissidents as well as “useless eaters” (a globalist commie phrase) like elderly and disabled ( I can say that because I am in both categories). And we know that tyrannical governments can perform magic: they make people disappear.
However, I don’t think this will happen in America…I think that Pres Trump will be in for a second term.
God help us if he isn’t….. They , the “elites” have never stopped their pursuit of Project 2021 which evolved into project 2030 but i believe they are no longer going to slow roll a thing and 2021 is indeed their target for holy hell on earth.
The Uniform Commerccial Code is being put to death.
China is very happy with this.
Go to the CDC website and search for “shielding”.
You won’t believe what our government is thinking.
Massholeachusetts has the most pathetic govna in the country This baby killing republican will do anything to destroy American lives.