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Equality of Poverty and Misery is More Desirable than a Range of Prosperity and Happiness

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I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if — the ones that leave, like, bye.

Katie Wilson
Seattle Mayor
May 1, 2026

That comment and laugh, combined with the applause and cheers from the crowd is going to increase the number of wealthy people leaving the state by a significant margin. Barb and I are far short of a million dollar/year income, and it pisses me off.

See also: Seattle mayor’s ‘bye’ to millionaires who leave state over taxes is no laughing matter to some in tech

It is also interesting that she goes on to say that Seattle has the ability to create an even more “progressive tax” than Washington state and King County. And that it’s not good for the Seattle business environment to have a higher cost of doing business that neighboring Bellevue (where we live) and she encourages Bellevue to increase taxes to match Seattle. She appears oblivious Bellevue is a much nicer town than Seattle. Here is a comparison by Copilot:

Crime Rates

Bellevue consistently reports much lower crime than Seattle across all major categories.

  • Violent Crime: Seattle 32.3 vs. Bellevue 9.6 (index; lower is safer).
  • Property Crime: Seattle 76.9 vs. Bellevue 45.6.
  • Crime Index (Numbeo): Bellevue 28.31 vs. Seattle 55.36.
  • Safety Walking at Night: Bellevue “High” (65.91) vs. Seattle “Low” (38.44).

Takeaway: Bellevue’s crime levels are less than half of Seattle’s in most categories, making it one of the safest cities in the region.

School Quality

Bellevue is widely regarded as having one of the best public school systems in Washington, while Seattle’s school quality varies heavily by neighborhood.

  • Bellevue School District is ranked #1 in Washington.
  • Seattle’s school quality is variable, with strong pockets but inconsistent performance across the city.

Takeaway: If school quality is a priority, Bellevue is the clear winner.

Other Quality‑of‑Life Measures

Cost of Living & Housing

  • Bellevue is 10–20% more expensive for rent and has a median home price around $1.3M–$1.6M, compared to Seattle’s $850K–$900K.
  • Bellevue homes tend to be newer, with larger lots and more modern construction. Seattle offers more historic homes and diverse neighborhoods.

Stability & Growth

  • Bellevue’s housing market is more stable and predictable, with stronger appreciation since COVID.
  • Seattle’s market shows higher volatility but strong recovery cycles.

And queried about companies which have left Seattle for Bellevue:

multiple major companies have been shifting workers and office space from Seattle to Bellevue, driven by concerns about safety, taxes, and business climate, while Bellevue’s cleaner environment, stronger schools, and rapid office development have made it increasingly attractive.

Why Businesses Are Moving: Key Drivers

1. Safety, Cleanliness, and Worker Experience

A recurring theme in reporting is that downtown Seattle’s rising crime and disorder have pushed companies to look east.

  • The Wall Street Journal highlighted that companies are choosing Bellevue because of its cleaner streets, lower crime, and better schools.
  • Executives explicitly cite safety as a deciding factor: “Clean and safe is everything and Seattle is not that.”

This aligns with the broader trend of companies wanting environments where employees feel secure returning to the office.

2. Tax and Regulatory Environment

Seattle’s business climate has become more contentious:

  • Amazon began shifting thousands of jobs to Bellevue after Seattle attempted a $275-per-employee head tax in 2018.
  • Analysts describe Seattle’s environment as “hostile to business”, citing high taxation, B&O tax burdens, and new service taxes.

Bellevue, by contrast, is perceived as more predictable and business‑friendly.

3. Office Space and Development Boom

Bellevue has been aggressively building modern office space:

  • Since 2021, Bellevue added ~3.9M sq. ft. of office space vs. Seattle’s ~2.6M sq. ft.
  • Vacancy in Seattle’s top-tier office space is near 34.6%, signaling a struggling downtown.
  • Bellevue’s office rents have surpassed Seattle’s ($64/sq ft vs. $51), showing companies are willing to pay more for the Bellevue environment.

This is a strong market signal: demand is shifting east.

Which Companies Are Moving or Expanding in Bellevue?

Amazon

  • Grew from “almost nothing” to 14,000 employees in Bellevue, with plans for 25,000.
  • Shift accelerated after political clashes with Seattle’s City Council.

Snowflake

  • Moved 700+ employees into a new 326,000 sq. ft. Bellevue office instead of relocating to downtown Seattle.

TikTok, OpenAI, Robinhood

  • All have taken significant Bellevue office space in recent years.

Other Tech Firms

  • Multiple reports describe a broader “tech exodus” from Seattle to Bellevue, driven by quality‑of‑life and business‑climate concerns.

Summary Table: Business Environment Comparison

FactorBellevueSeattle
Crime & SafetyLower crime; cleaner streetsHigher crime; downtown safety concerns
Business ClimatePredictable, business‑friendlyHigher taxes; regulatory friction
Office DevelopmentRapid growth; modern buildingsSlower growth; high vacancy
Corporate MigrationAmazon, TikTok, OpenAI expandingLosing square footage and headcount
Schools & Talent AppealHighly rated schools attract familiesMore variable school quality

Bottom Line

Bellevue has become the preferred hub for Big Tech expansion, while Seattle faces headwinds from safety issues, taxation, and downtown decline. Companies aren’t abandoning Seattle entirely, but the center of gravity has clearly shifted east.

Her solution to retain business is for Bellevue to become more like Seattle rather than Seattle to become more like the successful Bellevue. Since Wilson is an admitted socialist, this should not be a surprise. To socialists, near equality of poverty and misery is more desirable than a range of prosperity and happiness.

Worth at Least Two Carriers

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Just as I predicted yesterday…. MSM will falsely claim the Secretary of the Navy was fired because of Battleships.

And the NYTimes is actually worse than I thought. Let me explain….

The mainstream media will make this about the ships because the defense “experts” never want more hulls. They want money flowing into consulting fees, AI “solutions,” and think tank white papers. Steel produces nothing for the Beltway class. A flight deck you can launch F-35s off of does not generate PowerPoints.

But the NYTimes is running an even more sinister play.

Throughout the Biden administration, and later during DOGE’s audit work, I translated every major spending bill into a unit every American can actually visualize: one nuclear aircraft carrier.

Nuclear supercarrier cost: $15 billion.

Biden’s BEAD rural broadband program, which connected zero homes to the internet: $42.5 billion, or roughly three carriers.

Pete Buttigieg’s infrastructure package: $1.1 trillion, or seventy three carriers.

Total DOGE savings to date: $215 billion, or fourteen carriers.

Known Somali-linked fraud in Minnesota, per federal prosecutors: $18 billion, or one carrier plus an Arleigh Burke destroyer.

Why do I keep doing this?

Because for the past two decades the NYTimes has run the same story on loop: the military is the reason for America’s skyrocketing national debt.

That is a psyop. It conditions Americans to believe that steel and sailors, not social programs and grift, are what is bankrupting the country.

Human beings are not wired to understand $15 billion. The mind goes blank at that scale. But every American, left or right, understands the sheer weight and menace of a nuclear aircraft carrier. It is the most visible, most photogenic instrument of state power on earth.

John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad
Posted on X, April 24, 2026

As мαтту 🇺🇸 @OtherMatty said, in response to this post:

This post is worth at least 2 carriers.

How to Save Democracy

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The assertion is not wrong.

Substantive Discussion of Access to Weapons?

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 Listen, having covered too many of these shootings, you know, and a wide array of circumstances, schools and others, one thing we know is that there’ll be a lot of discussion afterwards about security measures, rhetoric perhaps as well. There won’t be any substantive discussion of access to weapons, right? There just won’t because it’s — I mean, we’ve been down this path so many times, right? That’s just a part of the discussion you don’t go to. 

Jim Sciutto
April 26, 2026
CNN.com – Transcripts

Archer had the best response to this sort of claim I have ever seen:

I’m always amused (in an ironic sense) after every high-profile mass shooting, when the Left comes out of the woodwork and says, “We need to have a national conversation on guns!”

Bruh, where have you been? We’ve all been HAVING a “national conversation on guns” since 1934. I joined it personally about two decades ago, give or take. It has never ended.

And we’ve invited the Left to engage. We’ve reached out. We’ve offered to discuss and find common ground. And we’ve been ignored at every stretch … until they can use a high-profile murder scene to claim that we obstinately refuse to discuss the issue.

They don’t just lie about guns, or gun owners, or the facts. They go so far as to lie about “the conversation” itself, as if we’ve all been refusing to have a conversation, when the reality is we’ve been having a conversation and invited them, but they refused to join.

When they can’t even be honest about the conversation they say they want to have, why should we trust them on anything else?

Why can’t they be honest? Because their culture is based on lies.

Anti-gun People Lie Because They Have To

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An honest argument for Prohibition would — at the VERY least — acknowledge the social good that privately-owned firearms provides, and then attempt to justify prohibiting them anyway. A FULLY honest argument would also acknowledge the potential second-order effects of banning guns, such as increased crime against citizens rendered defenseless by the ban. But that would be an uphill battle, so Prohibitionists choose instead to “lie by omission,” frame their arguments exclusively around the social negatives of crime and violence, and never mention that guns can also be defensive or how often defensive gun use happens.

Anti-gun people lie — a LOT — because they have to. If they were honest about their intentions or the real-world effects of their proposed laws/policies, they’d never succeed.

Archer
April 28, 2026
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It has been a part of their culture for decades and perhaps a century or more.

Brian Stelter Goes off Half-Cocked

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In an analysis, CNN’s Brian Stelter insinuated that nobody will consider tougher gun laws to prevent such an incident. He should have looked at the facts before going off half-cocked.

The suspect in this case is known to have purchased the shotgun and a handgun used in the attack from two different California gun stores. He had to pass two California background checks and endure two separate waiting periods. It is widely known California has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, and the suspect was able to complete his legal purchases. Just what more does Stelter think could be done?

Alan Gottlieb
CCRKBA Chairman
April 27, 2026
CCRKBA RIPS CNN COMMENTATOR’S CALL FOR GUN CONTROL AFTER ATTACK – CCRKBA

Obviously, the gun control we have does not work to prevent crime. Hence, we need ban guns completely just like we do with hard core recreational drugs. Then we won’t have to worry about getting shot while eating dinner at a fancy hotel. Duh!

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I always found it curious that politicians thought it necessary to pass a constitutional amendment to allow them to ban alcoholic drinks and create an income tax, but no constitutional change was required to ban arms. Grok gave me reasonable answer to that. I still think it is bogus, but I have a better understanding of how it happened.

The Most Volatile, Complex and Dangerous Threat Environment

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This is the most volatile, complex and dangerous threat environment I’ve experienced in the 42 plus years that I’ve been involved in law enforcement and Homeland Security.

We’re an angry, polarized nation. We have a growing number of people, particularly young males, who believe that violence is the only way to express their sense of grievance or their opposition to the current political conditions in this country. They are inspired and increasingly informed by content that they consume online. That’s placed there by terrorist groups, foreign intelligence services and others, specifically for the purposes of inspiring and inciting violence.

And increasingly, we’re seeing them turn to artificial intelligence to help them develop attack plans that allow them even an unsophisticated attacker, to engage in a violent attack. So the threat environment is significantly dangerous.

John Cohen
Former Acting DHS Undersecretary for Intelligence
April 26, 2026
‘This Week’ Transcript 4-26-26: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche – ABC News

And which political party is leading in the initiation of violence? The same as it has been for the last 100+ years in all countries. The political left. The communist revolutions in Eastern Europe and Asia, the national socialist workers party of Germany, the U.S. Democrats from the KKK, to the violent riots and bombings of the 1960s and early 1970s, the BLM, ANTIFA, and the most recent shootings of Republican political leaders, Charlie Kirk, and the multiple assassination attempts on Trump. Yes, there have been a few Democrats murdered who could be blamed on a Republican, but the Democrats are racking up points on the score board so fast that even if the Republicans and Libertarians were combined, they are not even in the game.

Why are liberals so violent? It is in their nature.

Just imagine what they would do if their political opponents were unarmed. If they come for your guns, just keep saying, “NO“ until you run out of ammo.

This Isn’t Politics. It’s a Clinical Disorder

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The Democrat Party’s entire 2026 strategy is a single, malignant sentence:

“Promise revenge, and the base will crawl over broken glass to hand us the keys again.”

They’re not even hiding it anymore.

Impeachment?

Not for “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” as the Constitution demands, but as a routine English-style vote of no confidence…exactly what Jonathan Turley just torched on Fox.

They’ve pathologized the impeachment clause into a weaponized tantrum, turning the solemn constitutional mechanism designed to protect the Republic from tyrants into a partisan guillotine for anyone who dares win an election they lost.

This isn’t politics.

It’s a clinical disorder:

revenge addiction dressed up as “accountability,” rage dopamine substituted for governance, and the slow, deliberate poisoning of the very guardrails the Founders welded into place to prevent exactly this kind of unhinged circus.

They believe the American people are stupid enough, or broken enough, to reward the party that openly campaigns on retribution.

That the spectacle of endless investigations, show trials, and ritual humiliations will somehow translate into ballots.

They’re betting the farm that their voters’ limbic systems…flooded with righteous fury and the sweet, sweet promise of payback…will override every warning light flashing in the constitutional machinery.

And if it works?

Watch the fuck out.

Because once you normalize impeachment as electoral therapy, once you teach an entire generation that losing an election is justification for destroying norms, you don’t get the Republic back.

You get the death spiral.

You get tit-for-tat purges, politicized prosecutions as standard operating procedure, and a body politic so septic with mutual hatred that the next “no confidence” vote ends with blood on the floor instead of talking points on cable.

This isn’t hyperbole.

It’s the terminal pathology of a party that has mistaken vengeance for vision and power for purpose.

They’re not trying to save democracy.

They’re trying to own it.

And if the country is dumb enough to let them, the Constitution won’t be the only thing that dies screaming.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

HGrey™️ @grey4626
Posted on X, April 20, 2026

I’ve become tired of the politically fighting. The Democrats are out of touch with reality and are stark raving, bat-shit, howling at the moon crazy. The Republicans have a better touch with reality but don’t seem to want to be the adults in the room and firmly tell the tantrum throwing toddlers to go to their rooms and stay there until they calm down. The recent news of DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud and the lawsuits against antigun states and cities are encouraging, but until I see large fines and people behind bars, I’m skeptical.

And if Democrats get political control of the country in the next election or two things are likely to get very spicy.

I’m glad my underground bunker in Idaho is ready for occupancy. *

* Physically, this is true. There are a few legal obstacles still in place by, shall we say, “an over enthusiastic government inspector.”

Welcome to the awakening. Enjoy your stay.

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This video is worth the watch. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

This is what single issue voters finally find out. Your vote should be about policy, not the person. Identity politics only goes so far before it all unravels.

Welcome to the awakening. Enjoy your stay.

Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84
Posted on X, April 20, 2026

Democrats do not have a monopoly on tribal loyalty over policy. Republicans talk a good talk about economic freedom and gun owner rights, but don’t really do much about it, they opposed gay marriage and grudgingly tolerate it now. And they are downright hostile to social freedoms such as freedom from religion, recreational drug use, social nudity, and sex work.

But freedom loving people cannot fight on all fronts at the same time. If we have the backing of Republicans and a chance to fix the wrongs of Democrat policies, then help them out. And when there is a chance to undo wrongheaded Republican policies, take advantage of that momentum too.

Wake up and align yourself against government overreach. The policy is important. The party and the people are not.

Reality Versus Hardwired Brains

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Via email from Blackwing1:

This probably first appeared on October 13th, 1965. But this mindset in U.S. politicians goes back to at least FDR. And internationally it goes much further. It is not quite so blatantly as Linus’s delivery here, but there is a probably at least a fragment of this mindset in nearly everyone. I strongly suspect the foundation of it had survival benefits from the time our ancestors first started roaming the savanna in tribes. Hence it is probably hardwired into our brains.

Just like believing the world is flat and the center of the universe, it takes a special type of brain to push aside the hardwiring and see reality. I really, really need to make that blog post about how to determine truth from falsity.

The Vibe Shift is Real

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Peaked in 2020 and has been in steady decline since then. It’s much better internally now. The vibe shift is real.

Josh Daws @JoshDaws
Posted on X, April 15, 2026

See also Disney down on DEI, says ex-staffer: ‘The vibe shift is real’ | Blaze Media.

This was in response to the question (about Disney):

How bad is the DEI there and can anything be done to change it’s course?

Other than the peak seeming to appear a couple of years later, as I have said before, the impression at my company tracks with his. It seems to have been a fad. And as the fab showed how toxic it was the population as a whole turned against it.

And my impression again, the Democrats found themselves painted into a corner and have nearly suffocated on the paint fumes. They lost the presidency to multiple “felony convicted” Donald Trump, of all people. The got slammed in the popular as well as the electoral college by more than the margin of fraud. And despite all the fraud they lost the House and the Senate, too. The majority of voters came to the conclusion all the cancel culture, all the DEI stuff, all the child transition stuff, all the illegal alien stuff, all the looting, rioting, all the fake racism (think Jussie Smollett), and the insistence of a January 6th “insurrection” was too much and it finally popped the bubble the Democrats had been riding on. The Democrats lost so much credibility that a single podcaster (Joe Rogan) gets about double the views of any of Democrat aligned TV host.

As has been said in various forms, for a very long time:

Show me the lyric of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws.

Damon of Athens
5th-century BCE Greek music theorist, philosopher, and political advisor, known for his influence on Pericles and his theories on the ethical and political effects of music.

See also:

It views politics as ‘downstream’ from culture” was written by Don Eberly in May 2000; “Public policy is downstream from culture” was said by Bruce Chapman, president of Discovery Institute, also in May 2000. Eberly possibly coined the saying because it also occurs frequently in his book Building a Healthy Culture: Strategies for an American Renaissance (2001). Conservative American publisher Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012) often used the saying.

This is why coming out of the closet as a gun owner is important. This is why taking a new shooter to the range and making them comfortable with gun culture is important. This is why, even if we were to get all we want in the courts, we must continue working toward the extermination of the Marxist culture.

The Most Progressive Income-Tax System in the Developed World

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This is the most repeated claim in American tax politics and one of the least supported by actual data. The top 1% of earners take in 22% of total income and pay 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% earn about half the nation’s income and pay 72% of its taxes. The bottom half of earners, collectively, pay roughly 3% of the tax revenue. The United States, in fact, has the most progressive income-tax system in the developed world.

Veronique de Rugy
April 16, 2026
Contributor: Debunking five myths of the American tax system

And since the U.S. current debt is over $39 trillion dollars, the future is not looking good.

I want my underground bunker in Idaho to be complete.

Stay Dangerous, Stay Good

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The Second Amendment is not about “gun culture.” It is not about hunting, sporting clays, or weekend range days.

It is the final, unbreakable firewall that keeps every other right from becoming a temporary privilege granted, or revoked, by those in power.

The Founders placed it second only to speech because they had just overthrown a government that tried to disarm them. They understood a brutal historical truth: an armed, trained citizenry is the one thing tyrants fear most. Without it, speech becomes punishable, assembly becomes rebellion, and due process becomes whatever the regime decides.

In 2026, some still call the 2A “outdated.” They ignore the clear, repeating pattern of history. When governments disarm their people, tragedy does not follow by accident, it follows by design. The right to keep and bear arms is the one right that ensures We the People remain the ultimate check on power, not the other way around.

Here is some examples of what happens when that line falls:

  • Ottoman Empire / Turkey – Gun registration and disarmament laws by 1911. Armenian Genocide (1915–1917): 1.5 million Armenians (plus hundreds of thousands of Assyrians and Greeks) systematically murdered in just 3 years.
  • Soviet Union – Gun control enacted 1929. Stalin’s regime (1929–1953): ~20 million dissidents, kulaks, and civilians killed through executions, engineered famines, Gulags, and deportations in 24 years.
  • Nazi Germany – Tightened gun laws and mass disarmament of Jews and political opponents (1938). Holocaust and related atrocities (1939–1945): ~13 million Jews and others exterminated in 6 years.
  • Communist China – Strict gun control inherited and enforced after 1949. Mao’s regime (1949–1976): 40–65 million dead from Great Leap Forward famine, Cultural Revolution purges, and mass executions in 27 years.
  • Cambodia (Khmer Rouge) – Full civilian disarmament upon seizing power 1975. Pol Pot’s regime (1975–1979): 1.5–2.8 million Cambodians (roughly 25% of the population) slaughtered or starved in just 4 years.

These are not isolated tragedies. They are the documented pattern: disarm the people first, then the atrocities become possible because resistance becomes impossible.

The Second Amendment was written precisely to prevent this from ever happening here. It is not a suggestion. It is not conditional. It is “shall not be infringed” for a reason that history proves in blood.

That is why we train without apology.

That is why we carry daily.

That is why we fight every single incremental step, because once the guns are gone, the graves fill quickly.

The 2A is not about guns.
It is about ensuring that liberty never becomes optional again.

We can not let that line fall.

Stay dangerous, stay good.

RedBeard @HargusJeremy
Posted on X, April 15, 2026

I wish I could write like that.

The Answer to Fermi’s Paradox

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What kills me is as I get older and find myself yelling at clouds more, I’ve come to a greater empathy for conservatives. Now my wife texts me from the grocery store and says “The full-grown adult in front of me is wearing a tail” and I just think “these fucking idiots. No way we survive this. The answer to Fermi’s paradox is that the high order civilizations destroy themselves….”

John Schussler
Via email April 13, 2026

I understand what he is talking about. But I’m an optimist and am not as fatalistic as John. But I have an underground bunker in Idaho. Also, last month ago I added another ~50,000 pounds of dirt on top of the bunker. Just in case.

You might think I’m joking (well, maybe I am a little bit).

This is the blend from the field to the north edge of the bunker:

This is the bucket loader I used to move the dirt. The ground was a little wetter than it should have been, but it got the job done:

If you attend Boomershoot this year, I’ll give you a tour of both the inside and outside. Friday evening at 6:00 PM.

Commie Racist

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With this attitude, things will not end well:

I have to wonder what the political left thinks of the blatant racism. Will they demand divestment like they did because of apartheid in South Africa 40 to 60 years ago? Or will they cheer the hatred, confiscation of property, and the murders?

The Stupidity of It

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Via email from Rolf:

All gun control is stupid as a means to reduce violent crime and unconstitutional. Banning 3D printed guns is extra stupid.

Never forget:

One thing that humbles me deeply is to see that human genius has its limits while human stupidity does not.

Alexandre Dumas
Circa 1865, Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe Siècle: Français, Historique, Géographique, Mythologique, Bibliographique, etcetera, Volume 2, Entry: Bêtise, Quote Page 650, Column 1, Published by Pierre Larousse, Paris. (Google Books Full View)

Second Amendment Civil Rights Division–Shall Not Be Infringed

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The Second Amendment protects the rights of law-abiding citizens to own and use AR-15 style semiautomatic rifles for lawful purposes.’ Just last year, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear in a unanimous opinion that the AR-15 is “both widely legal and bought by many ordinary consumers.” Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 605 U.S. 280, 297 (2025). See also Garland v. Cargill, 602 U.S. 406, 429-30 (2024) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting) (AR-15s are “commonly available, semiautomatic rifles.”). Unfortunately, Virginia appears poised to infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to enjoy and use AR-15 rifles for lawful purposes by making it a crime to purchase and sell them. This Civil Rights Division will seek to enjoin any attempt to infringe the right of law-abiding Virginians to acquire constitutionally protected arms that are possessed by literally tens of millions of Americans. See Snope v. Brown, 145 S. Ct. 1534 (2025) (Kavanaugh, J., statement respecting denial of certiorari).

In addition, laws that require constitutionally protected firearms owned by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes to be maintained in an inoperable state are unconstitutional. See D.C. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 630 (2008) (“[T]he District’s requirement … that firearms in the home be rendered and kept inoperable at all times … [is] unconstitutional.”). We are aware that the Virginia General Assembly has forwarded to you several bills that, if enacted as currently written, would mirror the unconstitutional restrictions struck down in Heller 18 years ago. There are also other provisions contained in those bills that otherwise prevent lawful use of constitutionally protected arms for self-defense.

In all, the General Assembly has forwarded to you over 20 bills that restrict Second Amendment rights. I urge you to reconsider allowing any bill that would infringe on the lawful use of protected firearms by law-abiding citizens to become law. In an effort to avoid unnecessary litigation, the Second Amendment Section stands ready to meet and confer with attorneys in the Virginia Attorney General Office. Your counsel may contact Acting Chief Andrew Darlington at Andrew.Darlington@usdoj.gov. The Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens shall not be infringed.

Harmeet Dhillon
Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
Posted April 10, 2026 on X

It is thrilling to have a Second Amendment Section of the Civil Rights Division, let alone them writing, “shall not be infringed.” It is not an 18 USC 242 event, but it is still Enjoy Your Trial time.

See also the complete letter:

Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 1715

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Section 1715 of title 18, U.S. Code, is unconstitutional as applied to constitutionally protected firearms, including handguns, because it serves an illegitimate purpose and is inconsistent with the Nation’s tradition of firearm regulation. See N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111, 2129–30 (2022).

The Department of Justice may not, consistent with the Constitution, enforce section 1715 with respect to constitutionally protected firearms. The Postal Service should modify its regulations to conform with this opinion.

T. ELLIOT GAISER
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legal Counsel
January 15, 2026
Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 1715

I wonder why the legacy media has not been talking about this. Are they drowning their sorrows in cheap boxed wine? Have they finally decided gun laws are now a lost cause?

But as Copilot told me:

The OLC opinion is a quiet admission that the 1927 handgun‑mailing ban was never compatible with the Second Amendment — it simply took a century for the government to say it out loud.

Useful Idiots

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People on the right who have been mentally modelling the world since they were kids, constantly updating and revising their mental model so that it’s able to reliably anticipate basic functioning of the world around us, so we can navigate the world without being blindsided all the time; have trouble internalising this:

  • leftists don’t abide by the principle of non-contradiction
  • they do not understand the world through abstract or ideal first principles which they then apply universally, in a predictable and stable manner
  • like situations are therefore not alike
  • everything is its own thing & has no bearing on anything else
  • noticing patterns is racist hateful and evil so they stopped doing that a long time ago, pattern recognition is haram

Every position they hold is a unique stance that they imbibed from the media. They don’t start from an abstraction and think critically to rach their conclusion. They literally watched Colbert and had it drilled into their brain. They don’t have first principles or universal values. They do what they are told. Because it benefits their coalition to do so. That’s it.

That’s their whole worldview and it’s why they don’t flinch when they contradict themselves. They don’t have an “ideology” arrived at through abstract reasoning or critical thinking, they’re part of a cult that does everything humanly possible to prevent them from ever thinking about anything for any reason. They regurgitate the party line and experience affirmation and inclusion from their peers when they do. So they keep doing it. It’s that basic. They are Pavlov’s dog.

Aimee Terese @aimeeterese
Posted April 7, 2026 on X

I can see this being true for a high percentage of the people on the left. Those who are also known as “useful idiots”.

But there are also those who are rational, deliberate, and carefully choose their words and actions. These are the Lenins, Castros, Pol Pots, Mao Zedongs, Sanderses, Schumers, and Clintons of history — the folks who promise progress but somehow always end up needing more of your land, your money, and your compliance, all enforced under pain of death.

Taking up the Population Bomb Cause

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Researchers at Flinders University have concluded that the global human population surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity more than six decades ago, entering a prolonged period of ecological overshoot fueled by fossil energy and accelerating resource consumption. The peer-reviewed study, published in Environmental Research Letters, applied ecological growth models to more than 200 years of population records and found that a shift to a “negative demographic phase” began by 1962, roughly eight years before a measurable global biocapacity deficit emerged in 1970. The findings add quantitative weight to a growing body of evidence that civilization is operating well beyond the planet’s regenerative limits.

Everett Sloane
April 7, 2026
Study suggests humanity has exceeded Earth’s long-term carrying capacity

Now that Paul Ehrlich is gone and his book The Population Bomb has been proven dramatically wrong, of course someone else has to take up the cause. Genocidal tyrants everywhere can now use this as another excuse to murder tens of millions of people.