It is very rare indeed that one gets to witness a completely naked individual walk up to a large hornet’s nest and begin striking it with a stick after handcuffing himself to the tree the nest is in.
I’m reminded of that line from the movie, “I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me.”
Predator
December 1, 2020
[I’m not so sure it’s as clear cut as that. But, still, we certainly do live in interesting times.—Joe]
You can’t talk about education, and you can’t talk about black issues, and LGBT issues, and exclude them as if they’re some individual issue; you need to be looking at this using intersectionality.
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It means recognizing that there is one common enemy: the white man. The systems that they use are capitalism, patriarchy, and fascism. They were created and perpetuated by white men, for white men, in the interests of white men.
And once we realize that we are all fighting the same fight, it just strengthens the army. A problem shared is a problem halved. Imagine if we all realized and came together and grouped together?
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All of these groups of people, the issues they face, it all comes from the same people: white men. So we need to get rid of them.
BLM Activist
July 19, 2020
Exclusive Video: BLM Activist Says White Men Are ‘The Common Enemy’, ‘We Need to Get Rid of Them’
[Lesson learned from the 20th Century: If someone says they want to kill an entire class of people… Believe them! Then respond appropriately.—Joe]
if/when Trump’s legal remedies do not prevail over the Reds’ efforts, the America of your youth has been conquered in full by the Communists.
Concerned American
November 24, 2020
The Crisis Is Here
[While I understand the concern, I’m not in complete agreement it’s game over.—Joe]
Guns have no place in shopping malls or other places in which crowds of people gather. Mayfair has a strict no-gun policy. If the shooter had complied with that policy, no one would have been hurt yesterday.
Dennis McBride
Mayor of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
November 21, 2020
Wauwatosa Mayor: “Guns have no place in shopping malls”
[It’s as if he believes the gun caused the shooting while the human pulling the trigger was an unwilling participant.
Via Tom Greshm @Guntalk who had this to say:
New Leader in “Dumbest Statement By Elected Official” category. GFZ fail.
Yup. Incredibly dumb. At first I thought it had to be some live response to a question or something. I could see someone saying something like that while under some stress in a live situation. But no. This was a written statement released from the Mayor’s office.
The stupid, or perhaps chutzpah, really runs deep in these people.—Joe]
Generally speaking, I believe re-education camps are a good thing. But we don’t need to send 75 million people there.
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I simply propose we abolish private prisons, abolish the military industrial complex, and use the existing infrastructure to re-educate the capitalist class members who won’t relinquish their position of ownership.
long-legged socialist @goodchillhunti1
Tweeted on November 19 and November 20, 2020
[What is the Greek for “Come and take me” (to your re-education camp)?—Joe]
From a comment to a private post on Facebook (slightly edited):
I just don’t understand the antis: The USSR created and started cranking out the PPS-42 in a city under active seige, with krauts within shooting distance of the machinists.
They then took those submachineguns and skulldragged said krauts all 1,086 miles back to Berlin.
What are the antis trying to say? That they’ll be more jackbooted and effective than the Nazis?
Is that what they’re saying? Because that’s not a good look.
Interesting point.
I suspect the antis think gun owners will comply with any law passed or regulation written.
I feel like our society has separated into two groups.
The one group that says “leave me and alone and I’ll leave you alone,” and the group that says “obey me or else.”
President-Elect Brandon Morse @TheBrandonMorse
Tweeted on November 18, 2020
[Truth.
This probably could be extended with:
Leave me alone or else.
We live in interesting times.—Joe]
We currently have over a year’s worth of orders for ammunition in excess of $1 billion. With demand far outstripping supply and inventory levels in the channel at all-time lows, we see strong demand continuing, and this metric informs our viewpoint of what a recovery or normalization could look like.
Chris Metz
CEO of Vista Outdoor Inc.
November 5, 2020
Vista Outdoors reports ammunition backlog of over $1B
[We live in interesting times.—Joe]
This is about a principle. Donald Trump is the elected head of state, and he is being denied a platform to address the people he represents by the faceless servants of corporate media oligarchs.
This is a terrible, terrifyingly awful precedent to set.
The owners of Comcast or Warner Bros or Disney or Facebook or Twitter are not elected officials. They have no legal authority, and thus no accountability. Yet they are claiming the right to determine what elected officials can and cannot say to the people who elected them.
There is a strain of thought that this kind of censorship is justified. “Spreading disinformation puts lives at risk”, they say. “If the media stopped people lying we wouldn’t be in this mess” or “the news should only broadcast the truth!”.
The argument goes that “allowing Donald Trump to “publicly undermine our democratic institutions will erode the public trust and could lead to violence.”
But I would argue that empowering billionaires to hold a monopoly on “the truth” is far more dangerous to democracy than anything Trump could ever say.
To people inclined to disagree, I leave these five questions. Answer them, if you can:
Kit Knightly
November 8, 2020
Censoring Donald Trump is more “dangerous to democracy” than anything he could ever say
[The main stream media and social media platforms don’t seem to have a problem publishing things about gun ownership that’s fractally wrong. Hence, this isn’t about truth or falsity. This is about deliberate suppression of political opposition.—Joe]
In an earlier case both the State Department and several states involved in the action conceded there is nothing inherently illegal about the computer files at issue. We say so in the complaint. Yet, here we are again, arguing about the publication of digital firearms information, with Grewal in the center of things because of his continued censorship efforts against SAF and Defense Distributed. His conduct could irreparably harm both entities. This has got to stop.
Alan M. Gottlieb
SAF founder and Executive Vice President
November 11, 2020
SAF, DEFENSE DISTRIBUTED SUE STATE DEPT., NEW JERSEY AG OVER 3D ISSUE
[Yes. This has got to stop. Maybe a court ruling will do it. If not, I think they should be arrested and prosecuted.
I, and my employer through matching donations, donate thousands of dollars to SAF each year.—Joe]
It was almost 13 years ago I said I wanted this:
A friend with a laser engraver made the above samples for me.
In some respects it would be better if the message were engraved on the ogive of the bullet rather than the base. You could then see the message after the bullet is loaded.
Of course the acquaintances of the bullet recipient would be less likely to get the message than if the message were on the base. It all depends on your end goal. Either is possible. And in production the message would be far better centered.
My friend is contemplating engraving messages on bullets as a service. Is there any interest out there?
Because of the number of bullet manufactures, styles, calibers, and weights you would select and purchase your bullets from your usual supplier, then pay for shipping in both directions as well as a fee for engraving.
From Newsweek:
the man was serving as a safety officer in a United States Practical Shooting Association competition when he was struck by “accidental discharge from a competitor’s firearm.”
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The shooting comes just two months after a separate incident involving firearms in New York State, which left two people dead and 14 others injured.
The September 19 incident, a mass shooting, took place in the city of Rochester and saw a man and a woman killed in what was described as a “tragedy of epic proportions” by then-acting police chief Mark Simmons.
I find it quite telling they conflate an accidental shooting with a criminal mass shooting.
When the pandemic hit and I walked down my local shopping street for an evening constitutional, I saw lines stretching around the block for the gun stores. I was just flabbergasted, and aghast. Clearly these guys don’t think they’re such great marksmen that they’re going to shoot the virus particles, right? So what are the guns for? The gun is to shoot their neighbors. That’s the only thing you would buy a gun for in a pandemic, the only thing a gun is good for in a pandemic.
Cory Doctorow
November 2, 2020
Cory Doctorow on his drive to inspire positive futures
[This is what they think of you. The only thing you buy a gun for in a pandemic is to shoot your neighbors.
Apparently Doctorow is severely lacking in imagination compared to the average U.S. citizen and/or he is deliberately putting a negative spin on the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms.
Here are just the first two reasons that came to me when I think about reasons to buy a gun in response to a pandemic:
The most generous conclusion which I can come up as to the justification for Doctorow’s claim is that he has crap for brains.—Joe]
On dealing with firearms. It is irrational, with all due respect to the Governor of Texas, it is irrational what they are doing. On the very day you see a mass shooting… we are talking about loosening of access to have guns. To be able to take them into places of worship, store them in schools. I’m mean it’s absolutely irrational. It’s totally irrational.
And it’s all about special interests and it has to stop. It has to stop.
The idea that we don’t have elimination of assault type weapons, magazines that can hold multiple bullets bullets in them, is absolutely mindless. It is no violation of the Second Amendment. It’s just a bow to the special interests, the gun manufacturers, the NRA.
It’s gotta stop.
Joe Biden
September 2, 2019
[Eliminating magazines that have multiple bullets in them is not a violation of the Second Amendment? Guns for self-defense is irrational?
It’s Joe Biden that has to be stopped.
Take appropriate action.—Joe]
Money doesn’t vote – people vote.
Richard Feldman
May 14, 2016
Revered or reviled, NRA’s power is at the polls
[Note the date. The year Donald Trump surprised most of the country.
Make your intentions clear. Vote.—Joe]
Because I’m the only one who ever got it done nationally. I beat the N.R.A. Twice. I got assault weapons banned. I got magazines that could not hold more than 10 rounds in them. I got them eliminated. Except we had a thing called an election with hanging chads in Florida and it was not reauthorized.
In addition to that, I passed the Brady Bill with waiting periods. I led that fight. But my friend to my right and others have, in fact, also given the gun manufacturers absolute immunity. Imagine if I stood here and said we would give immunity to drug companies. We would give immunity to tobacco companies.
That has caused carnage on our streets. 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability. More than all the wars, including Vietnam, from that point on. Carnage on our streets.
And I want to tell you, if I’m elected: N.R.A., I’m coming for you, and gun manufacturers, I’m going to take you on, and I’m going to beat you. I’m the only one who has done it.
Joe Biden
February 25, 2020
Bernie Sanders, Confronted on Immunity for Gun Manufacturers, Says That Was a ‘Bad Vote’
[Is, “I got magazines that could not hold more than 10 rounds in them. I got them eliminated” a big enough lie? Maybe not.
How about “…given the gun manufacturers absolute immunity”? Is that a big enough lie? Probably. But Biden can do better.
Biden takes a another swing at the biggest lie with, “150 million people have been killed since 2007”.
Last night I attended a Zoom meeting with the “2nd Amendment First Responders” group from SAF.
The main message was to get all 2nd Amendment supporting people to vote. And it’s not just about the Presidential election. It’s the representatives in the House. It’s Senators. It’s the governors. It the state legislatures. It’s all important.
Use your social media contacts. Use your phone contacts list. Use your email contacts. Do your best to encourage and enable those eligible to vote and is likely to support candidates friendly to gun owners.
The task is two-fold: the terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and then he, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs, and Sean Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Gullianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus.
Keith Olbermann
October 8, 2020
KEITH OLBERMANN: TRUMP SUPPORTERS ‘MUST BE PROSECUTED AND CONVICTED AND REMOVED FROM OUR SOCIETY
[Ahhh, yes, the party of tolerance and unity.
And the lies and projection are awesome! We have leftist terrorists burning and looting and this guy calls Trump the terrorist. It’s straight out of the book.
See also, Too many Democrats are creepily suggesting Trump voters should be jailed.
These aren’t just random trolls or Russian bots*. These are mainstream media prime-time hosts and writers.
We live in interesting times. Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
.* Well, at least that is technically true even if a good case could be made for it.
Louder With Crowder has the TOP 5 LIBERAL MELTDOWNS OVER AMY CONEY BARRETT’S CONFIRMATION TO THE SUPREME COURT
I particularly like this one:
‘..everyone except white men’ pic.twitter.com/GNdy8AHDHB
— EnterYourName (@tr00puRR) October 27, 2020
When I see liberals breaking down over their fear of being more free I have two reactions.
Liberals Tears is now also available as bacon scented gun oil, hand sanitizer and coffee.
* If you don’t care for this technically incorrect use of the word ‘liberal’ please replace it with ‘progressive’, ‘socialist’, ‘communist’, or other more accurate word describing these pathetic people.
I believe it is a whole new ball game….
David Hardy
October 27, 2020
Thinking Justice Barrett over….
[Yup.
And it’s GAME ON!—Joe]