Biden Bends the Constitution Against Landlords

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Last week, Zhou Bai Den via the CDC issued a new eviction moratorium after the federal ban lapsed.

In Sean Reynolds' latest Summit Properties NW video asked:  Since when does the CDC have the authority to ban anything?

While the Harris-Biden Administration plays Marxist games...

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...the eviction's moratorium 2.0 squeezes small-time landlords.

Crooked Joe even admitted he's just "...buying time...to keep this going..." in order to keep bucking the Supreme Court's July 31st deadline.

In a sane world, China Joe's actions would ignite a firestorm for his impeachment.

But we live in Clownworld.

I chose this topic because, pardon the pun, it hits home with me.

Up until March I rented-out a house I bought back in 2011 after my divorce from my second ex-wife.  In the spring of 2013, I remarried, moved out, hired a property management company, and began renting my house that fall.

In 2015, the property management company was under new ownership and my third tenant moved in.  She was an elderly woman and was receiving funds from Washington State's Section 8 Housing Program for low income & disabled renters.

When I signed my initial landlord contract, I specifically stated I did not want any Section 8 renters.  However, the elderly woman was a friend of the new owner--and she didn't review any of the contracts of her newly acquired business.

Receiving monthly rental checks was nice, but my anxiety increased with each passing year.  The tenant had custody of her grand kids and great grand kids.  Her kids had a sketchy reputation and I'd often see a few never-do-wells hanging out at the house.  Meanwhile, the property manager was getting flakier and flakier, making it harder to schedule any routine maintenance.  (The office assistant confided in me that she was worried her boss had fallen off the wagon).  

Then my rental checks started arriving in an erratic manner, and one month I didn't receive a check at all.  The property manager was "at a loss" as to why I didn't receive that payment. 

But having a tenant under Section 8 turned out to be a blessing in disguise.  While other landlords were hung out to dry, I was still receiving rent money via the county government.

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Two weeks after the 2020 Election, my tenant called me directly to ask if I'd talked to the property manager.  Apparently she was withholding my tenant's security deposit, and ducking her phone calls because my tenant moved out.

My wife and I acted fast.  My wife called a realtor she knew, a young lady that grew up next door to my wife.  Two days later I met with my realtor, and signed the contract.  Within a week the interior was repainted, damaged appliances and carpeting were replaced.  A week later the house was put on the marked and I had a buyer within a few days.

Then things slowed to "glacial speed," and I was anxious to get the deal closed before Inauguration Day.

First, my perspective buyer got laid off, which halted the home loan application until she could prove she had 30 days of continuous work experience.  

This delayed the sale until mid-January, but shortly after Biden was sworn in--interest rates went up, so the buyer had to renegotiate her home loan and asked if I'd give her a $3000 credit to the closing costs.

She had to move out of her apartment by 1 February, so my realtor suggested to have the buyer and her husband move-in and rent my house on a week-by-week basis until the deal was closed.

By mid-March my rental house was officially sold.

Talk about dodging the bullet.

I'm so happy to be out of the Landlord Business with only one missed monthly check.

I was afraid I'd end up like this guy:

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Even though there are alternatives landlords can pursue they all sound like bureaucratic hassles to me.

Best wishes to all you landlords out there, you have my sympathy. 

Mask Mandate 2.0

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This past Friday, the DC Swamp reimposed mask mandates even for those vaccinated against the Kung Flu.

Kung Flu Fauci “respectfully disagrees” that masks are “a choice.”.

Well being “respectful” doesn’t help American citizens cope with Mask Mandate 2.0.

So does this mean Zhou Bai Den lied about the possibility of locking-down America for a second time?

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Because Fauci and the CDC (as in Center for Doubt and Confusion) have been so confused or outright lied to us clear and transparent with their proclamations… 

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GOP members demanded data from a CDC “sowing doubt and confusion” on mask mandates. 

Shortly after the DC Swamp masked-up, the governor of “the other Washington” imposed his own mask-up mandate.

Basically, it’s Masks Forever and woketards claiming a right to “not to get sick.”

Welcome to Covidistan.

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I like Senator “Nick Fury’s” advice to American citizens on the mask mandates (ignore it).

Particularly since there’s at least one report of COVID-positive illegal aliens were released by US Border Patrol into La Joya, TX.

What’s more, is the infected illegals were put up in hotels without informing local authorities. 

Most of us like-minded folks think this is the tip of the Kung-Flu Infected Iceburg.

Of course, when this was called-out by FOX News, (and no other major network), the White House’s Second-String Press Secretary 

dodged the question of why vaccinated Americans still have to wear masks.

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Why indeed?

Especially in light of the latest news from one disease expert:  Most masks don’t work against the Wuhan Flu. 

Meanwhile, Big Brother Tech certainly didn’t let a “good crisis go to waste.”  YouTube suspended SkyNews Australia for the propagating “misinformation.”

But we know the real reason for Forever Mask Mandates and censorship:  

To maintain power & control over us. 

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Woke-Flavored Ice Cream

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Now that we're in the middle summer one often thinks about having a cool and refreshing scoop or three of ice cream.

 However, to leftists, everything's political.  

Sports, movies, comic books, TV shows--and now ice cream--are merely tools for woketards to bludgeon everyone else into "getting woke."

Actually, the owners of Ben & Jerry's have always been leftists.

But recently, the wokey pair announced they will no longer sell their ice cream in the "Occupied Palestinian Territory." 

Of course, this virtue-signal/publicity stunt is the latest in a long list of failed boycotts against Israel. 

I've never had any of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, so I can't ritualistically purge my freezer of any of their whacky flavors, nor can I solemnly swear I'll never buy their stuff again. 

But I can at least continue to avoid buying into their wokeness and enjoy the rest of the summer--with another brand of ice cream.

Cuban Protests Confound Amerikan Commies

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 While our home-grown Marxists want to plunge America into the Pit of Communism, Cubans are trying to crawl out of it.

This has typical juxtaposition of ideas of limousine liberals vs. anyone who's actually lived under any of the horrid Communist dictatorships. 

This past Sunday, Cubans took to the streets to protest against their Communist overlords.  Naturally, the Cuban dictatorship cracked down on the protesters, and blacked out internet access.  

There’s even some videos of police and government troops firing on protesters.

Despite the typical tyrannical crackdown Communist regimes employ, protestors vow their resolve will not be shaken—the spark has been lit. 

Demonstrations in support of the Cuban protests broke out in Miami, as Republicans pledged their support for the protesters.

Even Florida boat owners are offering to help by attempting to run supplies to Cuba.

Meanwhile, the Cuban uprising has confounded the libtards.

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And not just our home-grown Marxists either.  The Cuban Freedom Rebellion has shaken Cuban, Chinese and American Socialist elites.

It certainly makes things awkward for our garbage elite.

The Left’s failure to condemn Cuba’s communist dictatorship is a disgrace.

What’s also disgraceful is that after months of illegal aliens flooding across our Southern Border, Zhou Bei Den’s DHS announced anti-Communist refugees/potential Republican voters are not welcome in the US.  

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Ben Shapiro finds it interesting that the Biden Administration seems to be more troubled by Cuban refugees, than with refugees from anywhere else. 

And it’s not just libtard politicians who’re chummy with Communism.  BLMs’ response to Cuba proves it’s a garbage organization.

This summer could be a bummer for socialists in denial. 

The lefty love fest over Communist Cuba isn’t really a surprise.  Useful idiots have been useful to tyrants for over a hundred years.

It’s still shocking and dismaying to see leftists practice the Definition of Insanity—doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results.

Hence the term “libtard.”

At least leftist equivocating has provided the rest of us with some entertainment by leaving them open to ridicule, (courtesy of The Babylonbee):

Maybe BLM should change it’s name to Black and Brown Lives Matter Unless They’r Being Oppressed by Communists—BABLMUTABOBC.

Democrat governors are afraid Cubans’ desire for freedom could spread to the US.

“You just don’t understand socialism like I do,” says college freshman to a man who escaped socialism on a raft.

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Let’s hope Cubans gain their freedom, and we can continue to ridicule libtards and their bad ideas. 

Artistic Access to "The Big Guy" in the White House

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 In banana republics, relatives of el presidente are more often than not involved in some sort of money laundering, or bribery scheme to increase the presidential slush fund.

Welcome to the Banana Republic of Amerika.

Hunter Biden, crackhead-turned-"artist," is planning on selling Hunter Originals to anonymous buyers via an art gallery sometime this fall.

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To us normal folks this scheme raises red flags and ethical concerns.

Or more accurately--more red flags and ethical concerns about Creepy Joe Biden's son Hunter Crackhead--like the recent unearthing of emails revealing how Cokehead introduced a Ukrainian business man to "The Big Guy" VP. 

Even Barry Obama's ethic chief thinks selling art at obviously inflated prices to mystery buyers feels "grifty."

Ya think?  

It's grifty all right.  It's selling access through amateurish scam art.

Of course, The Ministry of Truth fails to see the poor ethics of Cokehead's newfound art career. 

Nothing to see here Citizen, move along.

And "The Big Guy's" big handlers at the White House signed off on this shady art enterprise.

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At least the corrupt leaders of banana republics try to cover their fraud with a veneer of plausible deniability.

The Dimtards in general, and Zhou Bei Den's regime in particular, aren't even bothering with the masquerade. 

Gaslighting--Blaming the GOP for Defunding Police & Rise in Crime

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Before the month of June came to a close, Circleback Psaki dropped a Big Lie bombshell at a White House press conference:  

That Republicans are the "Defund the Police" party.

Talk about gaslighting on an epic scale along with memory holing all the riots of 2020.

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But I guess  this is to be expected by Dimtard politicians and their libtard media lackeys who claimed last year's violence and destruction were "mostly peaceful protests."

Nor was Circleback Psaki the only one attempting to turn up the gaslight.  Commissar Cortez brushed-off concern about the nation's crime spike as "hysteria."

As Independence Day approached Zhou Bie Den's mouthpiece doubled down on her absurd claim.

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Apparently she, and the rest of the Dimtard Party, think you're dumb enough to believe it, while at the same time, two of the Harris-Biden Administration's DOJ picks are all-in for defunding the police.

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The Dimtards couldn't get away with such mass gaslighting "...without a compliant media and the apparent disappearance of Trump-Era fact-checkers..."

Those so-called fact-checker would come in handy especially since polls show Americans reject defunding the police. 

Dimtards claim they're tough on crime.

Which I'm sure to a Dimtard, "crime" means two or more MAGA hat-wearing Trump supporters are gathered in public and are less than 6 feet apart from each other. 

But to Sleepy Joe Biden, Trump supporters aren't the only boogie man:  "rogue gun dealers" are.

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Such a "zero tolerance" policy is unlikely to stop violent crime when we know its the super-progressive agenda that's making cities unsafe.

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So as criminals run-rampant in our streets the Dimtards will continue to paraphrase a popular office meme:  

The gaslighting will continue until everyone believes the Party Line.

Death of Women Sports & Politicizing the Olympics

 

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The day after Inauguration Day 2021, Zhou Bei Den brought “equality” to women’s sports.

And natural-born women are being left in the dust ever since.

This was a problem I’ve blogged about before, but now Creepy Uncle Joe officially empowered biological males to defeat female athletes at their own games. 

We’re witnessing the slow, suffocating death of women’s sports.  

There’ll be at least one trans athlete who will destroy female competitors at 2020 Tokyo Olympics. 

Laura Rosen Cohen asks the following on her “Weight Grifting”article:   

What kind of loser male athlete pretends to be a woman in order to break out of his regular loser status?  How much do you have to hate women and women’s sports to do such a thing, and why should anyone celebrate such despicable madness?

Why indeed.

Here’s a Twitter thread highlighting some of the “sudden” and “stunning” victories by biological male athletes competing in women’s sports.

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But it doesn't take a man LARPsing (Live Action Role Playing) as a woman to ruin sports for everyone.

US Olympian & hammer-thrower, Gwen Berry, turned her back during the National Anthem at last weekend's Olympic Trials. 

So if she hates America so much, why is she even competing?. 

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The third-place sore winner copped a backlash for her podium activist antics. 

But of course, Berry--and the White House--are defending her actions. 

This was just the latest in her long line of political stunts. 

As many of us are getting ready to celebrate Independence Day, we shouldn't have to remind our fellow citizens that, yes, it is ungrateful to turn your back on the National Anthem. 

While The White House is all-in for Gwen's latest selfish publicity stunt, Congressman "Nick Fury" Crenshaw called for her to be removed from the team. 

All this are just another couple reasons for "taking a knee" to sports.

Gov'mint's Got Nukes (and F-15s)

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Before the weekend, Zhou Bei Den delivered a speech seen as a threat to use military force against dissidents.  Or as the Harris-Biden Administration would call them:  “Domestic Terrorists.”

You know, the same “domestic terrorists” that “nearly overthrew” the government during the “insurrection” on 6 January—by a pack of MAGA hat wearers without a single F-15 flying a close air support mission, or a nuke being launched.

And despite Sleepy Joe’s long time in corrupt politics public service...
 

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...he got everything else wrong during his mumbled monologue. 

Kurt Schlichter asks several questions woketard activists journalists are afraid to ask regarding nuking insurrectionists, or something.

It may be easy to shrug-off Sleepy Joe’s mumbling and assume the US military would “stack arms” and refuse to fight their fellow Americans—civilians who hold similar values to those in the military.

Or most of them anyway.  

Unfortunately, a lot of our generals are now woke, to include General Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

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...who thinks Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a thing.  

This puts our confidence in the military supporting and defending the Constitution into doubt.

Nor has wokeness infected those close to the DC Swamp.  CRT now permeates the military and is even being taught at West Point.

Tucker Carlson calls-out CRT as the latest form of “scientific racism.”

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I hope we can abolish CRT in all its forms, from K-12 schools to government agencies and private businesses—and maintain our 2nd Amendment Rights even when this racist Big Lie is eradicated. 

Heat Wave in Washington State

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 I haven't blogged about the weather here in WA State for a long time.  

But now we're facing a Heat Wave with today's temperatures peaking near 90 degrees.

Then tomorrow through Monday (26-28 June), temperatures are forecast to be between 101-112 degrees.

Seattle hasn't seen temperatures like this since 2009...

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...in fact, I did a quick post about--lost now, somewhere in the Station's archive. 

(Jeez!  Have I been blogging for THIS long!?).

Anyway, the National Weather Service issued an Excessive Heat Warning for all of Washington State.

People from just about everywhere else in America make fun of us for being unable to "take the heat."

But out here in the Pacific Northwest, fewer homes are airconditioned, but there's a a lot more than there use to be.

No matter where you are in the US this summer--stay cool & hydrated.

Witch Hunt for "White Supremacists"

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Ever since Zhou Bai Den was declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election, the Dimtards, Ministry of Truth and just about every libtard activist group has been spreading The Big Lie that the gravest threat to America is "White Supremacy/Domestic Terrorists."

Translation:  The biggest threat to Dimtard power is Conservatives, Caucasians, Trump supporters, etc.

The Biden-Harris Regime wants us to watch out for white guys--not Antifa. 

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Last year, libtards redefined riots as "mostly peaceful protests."  Now, "racism" means anything woketards don't like.

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I'm concerned this "soft purge" will "grow harder," especially when the Biden-Harris Administration becomes more of a Harris-Biden one.

Basically, Dimtards want to destroy democracy in order to save it.

Dems & Media "Waking Up" to Wuhan Lab "Conspiracy"

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The Zhou Bai Den Regime is now engaged in a "90 Day Sprint" to understand the origins of the Wuhan Flu.

The Dimtards and their media minions are now frantically updating their lies and considering that maybe--just maybe--the Kung Flu was hatched and escaped from the Wuhan Bio Lab.

This is an issue most (all?) of us right-leaning folks suspected right from the get-go, but was branded a conspiracy theory--until now.

Talk about 14 Months Late and a Yuan Short.

During the last year of The Era of OrangeManBad, the media, Dimtards and "fact checkers" were so deranged and Hell-bent on preventing Our Grand Nagus from winning the 2020 Presidential Election that they were willing to sacrifice investigating the truth, along with the lives and livelihoods of American citizens to ensure Dementia Joe was dragged across the finish line. 

Up until Inauguration Day 2021, the Usual Woketard Suspects were singing the PRC's tune.

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Zhou Bai Den's "New Order" isn't quite standing up tough to China now. 

But they're at least willing to begin investigating the possibility of the Kung Flu being man-made--because the outcome won't have an impact on last year's election.   

In response to the "Biden-Harris" Administration's lukewarm push to investigate the Wuhan Flu's origin, the PRC is pushing back with it's conspiracy theory that the pandemic originated at a US Army post. 

Now that the Facebook Branch of the Ministry of Truth ended the ban asserting the Wuhan Flu was man-made, it's safe to discuss it on America's Social Credit System Lite.

Nor is the reaction to this "sudden" turn around limited to America.  None of the Folks Down Under in the Sky News Australia video Comments Section are enthused about Facebook lifting it's censorship power--for now.

Normally, I'd cheer-on true bi-partisan support.  

However, the unanimous vote in the Senate to declassify information on how the Wuhan Flu started rings hollow to me.

This should have been started over a year ago--well within the actual "...2-4 weeks to flatten the curve..." along with other measures to minimize the impact of both the virus and lockdowns.

But stealing the 2020 Presidential Election was a priority for them at the time. 

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