[Breitbart] Just when I thought we were near the end of crazy
Repeat after us: Weaponizing womenhood against other women is white supremacist patriarchy at work. Making people believe there isn't enough space for trans women in sports is white supremacist patriarchy at work. https://t.co/SacFuIgpPd
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Do the feminists not realize that the white male patriarchy is taking away everything from them, with their help. Women of the year: men. Female athof the year : men. Etc.
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I have a landline phone, put in 2 years ago. Came with the fiber cable installation. I looked at my bill, and it was $20 a month. Called to see about removing it, and they told me my bill would go up $50. Reason? There's a govt sponsored program to get people to get landlines.
(So I unplugged the phone.)
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a communication device and a means of transportation ... bad comparison
[FoxNews] If you own a home and don't want to lose it, keep reading.
Homeowners who go on vacation or a business trip, even for just a week, are returning to find their house overtaken by trespassers who fraudulently claim a right to be there. It's happening to tens of thousands of homeowners from New York City to Atlanta and Los Angeles.
When owners call the police, they're told police can't help. It's a civil matter, and they have to file an eviction lawsuit, which can drag on for months or years because housing courts are backlogged.
Meanwhile, owners are out on the street while squatters are living free, destroying houses and even selling off owners' belongings.
If you found a stranger sitting in your car and called the police, they would immediately ask to see the registration and decide who owns it, explains Georgetown law professor Jonathan Turley. They wouldn't let the thief drive off. But the law is stacked against homeowners.
You can thank leftist lawmakers who have degraded property rights and tilted the law to favor criminals. The result is an epidemic of brazen squatting.
In New York state, a homeowner faced with a trespasser can expect eviction to take two years. Meanwhile, the owner is barred from turning off utilities, removing belongings or doing anything else to get the invaders out. It's crazy.
New York State Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz of Long Island introduced legislation saying a squatter is not a tenant and is not entitled to the same protections. Will it pass in Albany? Don't hold your breath.
But some states are acting quickly against this crime wave.
The Florida Legislature passed a bill to empower police to immediately remove anyone who can't produce a notarized lease. Georgia's statehouse passed the Squatter Reform Act, making squatting a crime – criminal trespass – to be handled by the police, not housing court. It's likely to pass the Senate shortly.
In blue states like California and New York, is there hope for homeowners to get protection against squatters? Not from Congress. Democrats in Congress are actually pushing a federal housing law that would bar landlords from learning whether potential tenants have criminal records, including past squatting offenses.
But there is a remedy – bringing a lawsuit in federal court against states like New York and California that fail to protect property rights.
The U.S. Constitution enshrines property rights as a fundamental guarantee. And recently, the justices have struck down state laws that allow trespassers to interfere with property rights.
In 2021, the Pacific Legal Foundation brought a suit on behalf of a property owner, and the court ruled in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid that "government-authorized invasions of property" amount to a taking just as if the government had taken the property directly.
Favoring intruders over owners constitutes a "taking" that violates the Fifth Amendment, which says government cannot impinge on your right to your property.
There's no time to waste in acting to protect homeowners.
Venezuelan TikTok influencer Leonel Moreno claims invading vacant homes is the only option for illegal migrants flooding into the United States. His now-deleted TikTok video explaining how to identify a home that is empty and ready for the taking reached 4 million views.
Surprised? Don't be. Criminals from south of the border are coming in droves to plunder the far wealthier United States. Some cross illegally and are recruited by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and El Salvador's MS-13.
Others are coming in on tourist visas. Law enforcement is reporting a surge in South American burglary gangs operating in at least half the states in the U.S.
Of course many migrants are honest and hardworking. But there's no denying a movement northward to "take what you can get" poses new danger to homeowners, including the risk of squatters.
Favoring intruders over owners constitutes a "taking" that violates the Fifth Amendment, which says government cannot impinge on your right to your property.
As Moreno says, "If a house is not inhabited, we can seize it."
Tell lawmakers to act now to protect homeowners. This is the United States. Here property rights are not up for debate. They're guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
You worked for it, you paid for it, it's yours. Period.
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A DIY approach might be to go down to Home Depot, buy some shovels and crow bars, and hire a half-dozen day labor guys to spend the afternoon inviting the squatters to leave.
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Article the other day talked about a service provided by someone who was a victim of squatting. He'll go to your house, move in, change the locks and file the necessary bullshit to have the original squatters evicted... OTOH a box of shells may be cheaper, but not the legal fee to defend yourself from the state gov'ts that enable this crap.
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I'm thinking, as long as the homeowner's insurance doesn't pay off they squatters when the house burns down.
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Serious question: What's to stop me and 5 of my biggest friends from reentering the premises, carrying the squatter's stuff to the curb and then inviting the squatters to leave my home at gun point?
[AmericanThinker] In "How the US and Israel can get back on the same page" (3/31/24), the Washington Post is a broken record in their editorial about how to end the Israel/Hamas war. The most obvious idea - which the Post refuses to offer -- is to put pressure on other actors in the region who could have influence but have been largely sidelined. Instead, the Post is arm-in-arm with the U.S. administration trying to pressure Israel, which was brutally attacked on Oct. 7 and is fighting to liberate the region from the terrorist threat of Hamas. Hamas remains an existential threat to Israel and promises to repeat Oct 7 again and again until it destroys Israel -- not to have a state alongside Israel, as the Post claims in its own delusional way. Despite internecine political struggles, all Israelis agree that Hamas must be defeated. I said it before: anybody who REALLY cares for "Palestinians" would be pressuring Arab countries to reabsorb them. As to "Palestinians cause trouble wherever they go" - don't concentrate them in camps and let UNWRA/PLO run these camps.
The Post refuses to demand that Qatar and other Arab countries put pressure on Hamas to surrender, release the hostages, and spare Gazan civilians from this devastating war that Hamas continues to fight. Qatar, which provides a safe haven for billionaire Hamas leaders, would be the logical source to spearhead the end to this conflict. But there is no mention of that in the Post’s solution.
Further, why is there no American demand to Egypt to temporarily house the Gazan civilians so Israel can more quickly finish the job of defeating Hamas? This would save Gazan lives, taking them out of harm’s way, removing the ability of Hamas to hide behind their civilians so Israel could defeat Hamas once and for all. And yes, the U.S. has influence over Egypt, giving them billions of dollars in exchange for basically nothing. According to a State Department report, "Since 1978, the United States has contributed more than $50 billion in military assistance."
...The editorial whitewashed this review of the relationship. Biden actually said that Israel was using "indiscriminate force" and its response was "over the top." Schumer acted as if Israel was a colony of America, stating that Israel needed new elections -- exactly the same election interference that Democrats have accused other nations of inflicting on us! Biden’s claim has been refuted analytically numerous times by John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point. Spencer also served for 25 years as an infantry soldier and participated in two tours in Iraq, according to Newsweek
Several recent Newsweek articles show that Israel "has created a new standard for urban warfare," that their force is unprecedented in how few casualties have occurred per combatant.
But facts don’t seem to matter to the administration and the Post fails to question their errors.
The Post is not alone in misrepresenting this conflict. It is no wonder Americans are misinformed on this topic. Thanks to the Post and the legacy media, most Americans don’t know what it means when the Palestinians and their supporters shout "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" at their rallies -- it means all of Israel will be destroyed. The river mentioned is the Jordan River, the sea, the Mediterranean Sea.
And most Americans don’t know that one of the borders with Gaza is Egypt. If they knew, they would ask the logical question: why isn’t Egypt doing anything? Why doesn’t Egypt take in the Gazans temporarily so they can get out of harm’s way? Why is all the onus on Israel that is fighting an existential threat with Hamas?
If the Post wasn’t writing article after article blaming Israel for their method of response to the greatest one-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, a response which top experts say is beyond humane, the newspaper would be severely shorter in pages. And then where would they put the advertisements, in an attempt to save their self-imploding paper?
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Leftists are always astonished at how misuse of US influence damages the value of that influence going forward.
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There is a certain naivete to this article. There is no, repeat no, Arab nation that welcomes Palestinians. They are especially despised in Egypt, and it began during the tenure of Yassir Arafat who spent many years in Egypt when young, and was denied permission to enter when old.
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^Yassir Arafat was born in Egypt. His family been Egyptian (from time immemorial 😀). His only connection to Falestine is his (Egyptian) uncle appointed Grand Mufti (future Nazi collaborator) by Perfidious Albion.
There is a certain naivete to this article.
It's a lot easier, and safer, to force Arabs to take in "Palestinians" than to force Israel to commit suicide.
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