Look at what $136,000 gets you in San Antonio:
This is what runaway inflation does to us. That works out to more than $226 per square foot.
Gaming the Courts
Let’s See Them Enforce It
The Supreme Court in June of this year ruled that the President doesn’t have the authority to forgive student loans, only Congress, with COTUS stating that all spending bills originate in the house, does.
Yesterday, another 813,000 people got letters in the mail, telling them that their student loans have been forgiven. To date, 3.6 million borrowers will have had $127 billion in student loan debt wiped out since Biden took office. The government isn’t even ensuring that the people borrowing the money are being truthful on their applications.
This President is simply ignoring the Supreme Court while his supporters are calling those supporting his opponents “fascists.” So what is fascism? The communists on the left have redefined it to mean a mass political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of both the nation and the single, powerful leader over the individual citizen.
However, the guy who invented fascism, Benito Mussolini, had this to say:
Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (l926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.”
Consider some of the components of fascist economics: central planning, heavy state subsidies, protectionism (high tariffs), steep levels of nationalization, rampant cronyism, large deficits, high government spending, bank and industry bailouts, overlapping bureaucracy, massive social welfare programs, crushing national debt, bouts of inflation and “a highly regulated, multiclass, integrated national economic structure.”
Tell me if this doesn’t describe the Democrat platform…
But instead, the left claims that they are a liberal democracy that supports individual rights, competitive elections, and political dissent, even while they cheat at elections, suppress dissent by deplatforming anyone who disagrees with them, and tosses their political opponents in prison.
The left claims that Trump and his supporters are fascists because they advocate for the overthrow of the existing system of government and the persecution of political enemies, even as they openly advocate for the same.
But now we have an Executive that simply ignores rulings of the Supreme Court when he finds it convenient to do so, and he is doing it because a Harvard Professor told him to back in June:
The central tenet of the solution that we recommend—Popular Constitutionalism—is that courts do not exercise exclusive authority over constitutional meaning. In practice, a President who disagrees with a court’s interpretation of the Constitution should offer and then follow an alternative interpretation. If voters disagree with the President’s interpretation, they can express their views at the ballot box.
How can they express their feelings at the ballot box, when the ballot box is no longer a representation of the will of the people?
Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism 1914-1945, Madison: Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, p. 7.
Anti American left
Sell Outs
Another dancing monkey, Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and Nirvana fame, proves that if it weren’t for double standards, the left would have no standards at all. Grohl used to attend concerts at “Rock Against Reagan” in the 1980’s, he was a staunch critic of Donald Trump, and has frequently complained and protested against Conservatives for being religious zealots, often in a profane and obnoxious manner.
He called the J6 protest “the craziest fucking shit I’ve ever seen in my life.” A classic Fudd, Grohl is an advocate for gun control. Shortly after the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks, he stated in an interview that the attacks were “an indication of the direction the country’s heading in if we don’t get tougher with gun laws… People need to realize that our country has to get tougher on gun laws, it just does, and I grew up in suburban Virginia going hunting in season. I grew up with a firearm myself. But I’d be willing to give it up, if everyone else would.”
Proving that most anti-gun celebrities are criminals, he famously admits to using weed and LSD. He was also a huge supporter of Barak Obama and of Biden, even playing at his 2021 inauguration.
He has also famously protested the right, calling them religious fanatics.
It’s easy to stand up to the man when you live in the US. What happens when you go to countries that don’t have the freedoms we do here? You bend the knee, of course. Here is this asshat playing in Abu Dhabi:
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New Account in 3, 2, 1…
After this, I am probably going to need a new Twitter account…
climate change
To The UN: Get Bent
The UN is set to demand that Americans stop eating meat because of Global Warming. I want to point out to you that the average American eats more than 260 pounds of meat per year. That’s three quarters of a pound of meat per day, every day. For every person, and that doesn’t even account for the 8 percent of Americans who claim to be either vegan or vegetarian.
If you want to see a US population that’s ready to start using Sky Blue helmets as target practice, tell them that they can’t have BBQ or a nice steak. I just ate a nice bowl of beef based chili. Last night, I had meatloaf. For Christmas dinner, we are going to buy a nice rib roast and let it cook in the smoker so we can have some Prime Rib. So the UN can kiss my American meat-eating ass.
People
A response to Scotty
In comments, reader Scotty is of the opinion that the HOA has absolute power to regulate the behavior of children. I won’t quote the comment in this post because it is too long. You can read it here. His opinion essentially boils down to “the HOA can enforce whatever rules they wish” and is incredibly incorrect.
HOA’s have legal restrictions on what the covenants and bylaws can contain. The behavior of children is not among them. The HOA doesn’t have plenipotentiary power to rule over whatever they wish. Let me explain the law to you:
The HOA can only take your house under very limited circumstances. Your children playing outside isn’t one of them. HOA set rules and bylaws are for the common areas only. They cannot control what happens on private property. That has to be done in covenants.
The covenants are rules that govern private property, but they can only be changed by a vote of all of the homeowners of a community, and even then it takes a 2/3 majority of all homeowners.
Scotty’s statement about satellite dishes proves my point. HOAs can’t regulate them because they don’t have the legal authority to do so. The DO have the authority through the covenants to regulate having swing sets in the front yard.
Even the covenants don’t confer power to the HOA to regulate the behavior of anyone with whom they disapprove. HOAs aren’t above the law. They should avoid transgressing local, state, and federal laws; otherwise, they may find themselves in a legal quagmire. For example, all HOAs are subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act. To refresh your memory, the Fair Housing Act bans discrimination in housing-related transactions on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability. “Familial status” has been interpreted by the courts to apply to rules governing families with children.
A great example of how this is applied is the case that involved the owner and management company of The Orchards at Cherry Creek Apartments in Centennial, Colo.. They had a rule that said:
All children must be supervised by an adult at all times while playing outside. No sports activities, skateboarding, roller-blading, or general extracurricular activities are to take place in our community. If we see anyone violating any of the above activities or see any unsupervised children they will be sent home immediately.
A set of parents filed a complaint with the local HUD office. The HUD director sued the management company, and the suit was eventually settled out of court. The settlement requires the owners to, among other things, build a $10,000 playground and train all employees in the requirements of the Fair Housing Act. HUD also made this statement when announcing the settlement:
A requirement of constant parental supervision of all minors, and even teenagers, is oppressive, unnecessary, and unfairly burdensome on families with children. The Fair Housing Act protects the rights of families with children to enjoy the same housing amenities that others do. In this case, there were a number of policies that singled out and targeted children for regulation in the property. Many of those rules and policies might be designed to protect health and safety, but they’re targeted at children.
Robert Galvin, a partner at Davis, Malm & D’Agostine PC in Boston who specializes in representing HOAs, condos, and co-ops had this to say:
The interesting thing is that these laws apply in areas most people wouldn’t think they apply in. In a lot of condos, there are rules that people under a certain age, say 16, can’t go into the pool at certain times. That’s the sort of thing that makes intuitive good sense to people, but it’s potentially illegal. You can have a rule or a bylaw that on its face may look innocuous but in actual practice has the effect of discouraging families with children, and that’s illegal.
Sarah Pratt, deputy assistant secretary for enforcement and programs at HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in Washington, D.C. had this to say on HOA rules aimed at children:
We’ve even seen a case where a property management company basically said children couldn’t play outdoors after 6 or 7 in the evening. That’s very restrictive and could be considered to be highly negative toward families with children. If you’re addressing a concrete, identified problem, make sure you identify that problem and address it for anyone, whether they’re children or adults who might be engaging in the practice. And make sure, if you have a group of policies, they don’t add up to sending a message that children aren’t welcome there, even if you address the problems to everybody.
That’s just for the Fair Housing Act. The family can issue a formal warning if an HOA acts harshly against a child. If the HOA ignores their warning, they can sue the board for discrimination and harassment. Such a lawsuit can tarnish the HOA’s reputation and result in millions of dollars in legal liability.
Failure of Education
Schools
Speaking of schools-
As I have said before- the only place that most Americans experience violence in their entire lives is while they attend public school. Why? It’s the only place where they are forced to spend time with blacks who are at the middle and left of the Bell curve.
Get your kids out of public schools, and avoid blacks as much as you can.
People
Who is wrong?
The woman is. She is the HOA president, so what? It isn’t the responsibility of the HOA to control the behavior of neighborhood kids. She says that she was patrolling the neighborhood? That isn’t her job, either.
If she (or anyone else in the neighborhood) has a problem with the behavior of children, you go there as a neighbor and complain to the parent. What you don’t do is go there talking about how you are the HOA president and trying to use that as some sort of show of authority to throw your weight around. The guy answering the door is a lot more polite than I would have been in that case.
However, had an adult or adults come to my door and politely complained about the kids harassing them, I would have asked the kids to tone it down. It’s all about presentation.
That’s the main reason why I am on the board of my own HOA. I am there to make sure that some authoritarian asshole doesn’t become a little dictator. I do everything that I can to tell the neighbors that the HOA can’t do (x) or (y) because that isn’t within their power.
Yes, I know that many of you will say that you won’t live in an HOA community, but that just isn’t how things are here. Half of all homes in Florida, and 85% of homes built within the last 20 years, are in communities that are controlled by an HOA. I would disband our HOA in a heartbeat if I could, but that won’t happen, so I do the next best thing. I make sure that they don’t become tyrants.
Education
Astroturfed Walkout for Whitewashing
This morning, I posted about the teachers and staffers at a Broward County high school that are being investigated for violations of state law for allowing a tranny to play girls’ volleyball. Now NBC news is reporting that “Students staged a walkout while some held signs in favor of trans rights, while others chanted “trans lives matter.” Watch this report on the supposed “student outrage.”
Bullshit. Let’s see what REALLY happened:
There are eight students and 5 school employees in this picture. The only person holding a sign is obviously NOT a high school student. Take a good look at that sign, because here is the SAME sign, this time being held by a student.
This so-called student staged walkout is nothing of the sort. It was led and organized by the teachers and staff. These sorts of walkouts usually are. The reassignment of the staffers was announced at the end of the day on Monday, and by noon on Tuesday, the walkout had been organized, complete with handmade signs, and was taking place. This wasn’t a grass roots student protest. This was obviously orchestrated by teachers and staff.
Back in 2018, Miguel over at Gunfreezone did a story about walkouts being staged in Marion County, Florida in support of gun control. A well placed anonymous source told him that teachers and county staffers had organized the walkout. Now that I am no longer a teacher and no longer employed by Marion county, I can tell you that I was that anonymous source. That tip that I made to his blog was how Miguel and I became friends IRL. I had read his blog for years and trusted his writing, and knew that I couldn’t post about my employer on my own blog, so he was kind enough to keep my name out of it.
Any teacher or staffer who organized, participated in, or encouraged students to leave class for this activity needs to be fired and have their Florida teaching credentials revoked. Any parent whose child is being subjected to this use of them as a political pawn should immediately sue the school district. The state department of education needs to immediately step in and investigate the entire county. If it is found that the Superintendent (who in FL is elected) was involved in the planning of this astroturfed walkout, that would be illegal and the Governor needs to remove him from office and appoint a replacement.
The left is claiming that the student was “outed” by adults who complained. Uh, a boy openly playing on a girls’ sports team is not closeted. This is total fake outrage and child grooming that is being staged by public employees who are doing this during their taxpayer funded workday. Public employees are prohibited by law from participating in political activism while “on the clock” and are also prohibited from grooming students for this kind of thing.
Anna Fusco, president of the Broward Teachers Union, suggested that the staffers being reassigned might not have known they were breaking the law by allowing the trans student to compete on the team.
“It’s getting harder and harder for our educators to really understand everything that’s happening,” she said. “Our teachers don’t always understand new laws that come out, old laws that have been out.”…
[The school district’s Superintendent] said it is unclear if the principal or staffers were aware they were breaking the law, which will be a part of their investigation.
This is also bullshit. If a gunowner gets arrested for having a braced pistol, will they be permitted to walk away because they didn’t know that their formerly legal pistol had been declared illegal by bureaucratic fiat? Of course not. As a teacher’s union president and the school superintendent, it is YOUR responsibility to inform your members and employees of any changes in the law that affect their employment. The law prohibiting trannies from playing girls’ sports isn’t a new law, it’s been in place for more than two years.
Public education has been nothing more than a leftist indoctrination center for decades. Schools are being used to groom children as sexual objects and future communists. Get your kids out of public schools, now. It is time that we as taxpayers demand that we stop funding the political action centers called public schools.
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Stop New Yorking Other States
People from liberal shitholes like New York are moving to other states and then voting for the same liberal policies that made them want to move- creating higher taxes, more restrictive controls, and other issues that turn their new homes into the same liberal shitholes that they came from.
For example, 1 in 12 people who live in Florida are originally from New York, 1 in 15 are from Puerto Rico.
Likewise, another 1 in 12 are illegal immigrants from South and Central America. I’m good with people moving here if they truly want to become part of our culture, but if they just want to come here from there to make here to be exactly like there, they why are they here in the first place?