{"id":18160,"date":"2021-05-21T07:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18160"},"modified":"2021-05-21T07:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:14:23","slug":"overnight-news-the-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18160\/overnight-news-the-purge\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: The Purge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_16586\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ya think it's easy?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cSometimes just a growl is just not\u00a0enough&#8230;\u201d<\/p><\/div>This is Marxism in one gerundive:<\/p>\n<p>Ants are to have been devoured by Grasshoppers.<\/p>\n<p>If you say, &#8220;Then what?&#8221; \u2013 you&#8217;re out of the club, but that doesn&#8217;t really matter: The goal is not their success but your failure.<\/p>\n<p>Civilization is created by Ants for Ants. What happens when civil order itself turns on the Ants?<\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;re seeing that now. Since last Summer, the law is all on the side of the Grasshoppers when it comes to petty offenses and property crimes, and it has been a year-long rent holiday in many places. Ants are now openly attacked in major cities, and the father of all anti-Ant agendas \u2013 anti-semitism \u2013 is now ubiquitous.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the pre-licensing stage for a purge? Seems like a good time to beef up the defenses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Housing Wire:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/mortgage-rates-rise-to-the-occasion-at-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mortgage rates rise to the occasion at 3%.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Redfin.com:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/housing-market-update-half-of-homes-sell-above-list-price\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Half of Homes Are Now Selling Above List Price.<\/a> And the other half&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Nolte:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/20\/nolte-out-of-control-shoplifting-in-democrat-run-san-francisco-closes-17-walgreens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Out of Control\u2019 Shoplifting in Democrat-Run San Francisco Closes 17 Walgreens.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Sexton:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2021\/05\/20\/shootings-and-chaos-in-portland-n391329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shootings and chaos in Portland.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Greenfield:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/05\/antisemitic-hate-wave-grows-los-angeles-daniel-greenfield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An Anti-Semitic Hate Wave Grows in Los Angeles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad Polumbo:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/rand-paul-warns-america-time-to-wake-up-to-profound-repercussions-of-biden-s-spending-binge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rand Paul Warns America: Time to \u2018Wake Up\u2019 to \u2018Profound Repercussions\u2019 of Biden\u2019s Spending Binge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Rufo:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/critical-race-theory-portland-public-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Child Soldiers of Portland: Public schools are training children to become race-conscious revolutionaries.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joanne Jacobs:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joannejacobs.com\/2021\/05\/testing-out-of-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Testing out of college.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Federalist:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/21\/even-when-teaching-in-person-it-was-still-a-horrible-school-year-for-my-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Even For Kids With In-Person Instruction, This Was The Worst Public School Year Ever.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSometimes just a growl is just not\u00a0enough&#8230;\u201dThis is Marxism in one gerundive: Ants are to have been devoured by Grasshoppers. If you say, &#8220;Then what?&#8221; \u2013 you&#8217;re out of the club, but that doesn&#8217;t really matter: The goal is not their success but your failure. Civilization is created by Ants for Ants. What happens when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17791,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17791\/overnight-news-for-now-there-are-predators-and-prey-heaven-to-be-neither-hell-to-be-both\/","url_meta":{"origin":18160,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: For now, there are predators and prey. 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Beginning with the Tea Party, all of Trumpism is a slave rebellion by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Group Therapy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Group Therapy","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/group-therapy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ya think it's easy?","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16746,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16746\/why-for-the-first-time-in-human-history-can-the-ants-so-easily-escape-the-grasshoppers-thats-easy-the-internet\/","url_meta":{"origin":18160,"position":1},"title":"Why, for the first time in human history, can the Ants so easily escape the Grasshoppers? That\u2019s easy: The Internet.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The metaphor is not mine. It's Aesop's. Uncle Willie borrowed it, just lately. Every true fable has a moral, and here's the moral to Willie's story: \u201cGrasshoppers need Ants, but Ants don\u2019t need Grasshoppers.\u201d Willie was working from a premise elucidated in today's New York Post, why taxpayer-hostile big cities\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/the-ants-and-the-grasshopper.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18047,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18047\/overnight-news-memo-to-fearful-ants-fleeing-predatory-grasshoppers-leave-the-idiotic-grasshopper-ideas-behind\/","url_meta":{"origin":18160,"position":2},"title":"Overnight News: Memo to fearful Ants fleeing predatory Grasshoppers: Leave the idiotic Grasshopper \u2018ideas\u2019\u00a0behind.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I hesitate to speculate on the long-run future of the Republic, but the future of America's big cities seems clear: As the Ant exodus continues, riot-friendly cities will become Grasshopper reservations: Except for tragically brick-\u2019n\u2019-mortar-bound Ants, only the Grasshoppers will remain. At that point, we become two countries, so it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Group Therapy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Group Therapy","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/group-therapy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ya think it's easy?","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18257,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18257\/overnight-news-ants-are-to-have-been-devoured-by-grasshoppers-no-ants-are-to-have-been-vaporized-by-nukes\/","url_meta":{"origin":18160,"position":3},"title":"Overnight News: Ants are to have been devoured by Grasshoppers? 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