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Bezos Clarifies and Becomes a Heretic

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Four days ago, I posted about the Washington Post not endorsing a candidate for U.S. President. I had a firm idea on why they decided to do that. But as near as I can tell, 100% of Kamala Harris supporters had another opinion.

Last night Jeff Bezos clarified the reason:

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.

Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion.

I found his opinion peace straightforward, candid, and believable. His reference to reality echos my frequent references to some people. I imagine these people must have a different color of sky in their universe.

Bezos goes on to say the people who believe the decision was in fear of Trump retaliation are mistaken:

I would also like to be clear that no quid pro quo of any kind is at work here. Neither campaign nor candidate was consulted or informed at any level or in any way about this decision. It was made entirely internally.

But that is not what the “journalists” and subscribers want to hear. They insist they need to be told to do what they already planned to do. And if Bezos’ newspaper is not going to do that, then they are going to stomp their feet and pout:

NPR reported Tuesday that The Post has shed more than a whopping 250,000 subscribers since it revealed its editorial board would not formally endorse Vice President Kamala Harris after it had planned to do so. 

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A veteran Washington Post insider tells Fox News Digital that Monday’s initial NPR report noting the massive drop in subscribers was “the talk of the newsroom.”

“People are outraged at such a boneheaded decision,” the insider said.

This is further evidence of the emotional basis of their belief system. Their belief system is not based on facts and rational thought. If it were, they would not require the opinion writers of a newspaper to reinforce their faith. They need a power figure to maintain that faith. That their faith leader failed to do this is heretical.

See also Jeff Bezos speaks on WaPo drama: We have to ‘increase our credibility’ (msn.com).

Bezos should be careful. Heretics/traitors are considered worse than simple non-believers.

What is the Margin of Fraud This Year?

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I received the following text message exchange regarding the election in Pennsylvania. One person lives in Idaho. The other is in Pennsylvania. Make what you will of it.

ID: Monday, Sep 9 · 7:25 AM
I was talking to a friend of mine who’s a lobbyist here in Idaho and she’s been hanging out with DC people who say that PA is the key to the election. So who’s going to win?

ID: 7:26 AM ·SMS You’re state

PA: Monday, Sep 9 · 9:06 AM
I can’t imagine Harris winning Pennsylvania but they sure ha e been hanging out here a lot
Latest poll shows Harris up +0.2 which means it’s even. The Dems will pull out all stops and cheat their way to victory. The repubs have to cheat also to overcome the Dems cheating

ID: Monday, Sep 9 · 2:22 PM
Mail in ballots are a gift if you want to cheat

PA: Monday, Sep 9 · 5:08 PM
The Repubs totally screwed up allowing those things
I worked the 2020 election and every morning the election commission staff would come to work with fists filled with ballots. Old ladies in the neighborhood they would say. Fair enough except it was illegal
Multiply that by how many precincts? We’re fucked.

ID: Yea

PA: Repubs have to cheat even then the Democrats will out cheat them by a lot in the big cities.

Communism is no Longer an Economic Theory

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So the idea here is that the dominance in the Academy of skeptical and irrationalist epistemologies provides the academic Left with a new strategy. Confronted by ruthless logic, harsh evidence, they have a solution: “That’s only logic and evidence. Logic and evidence are subjective. You can’t really PROVE anything. FEELINGS are deeper than logic, and my feelings say Socialism.”

That’s my second hypothesis about the origins of Postmodernism. I call it the Kierkegaardian hypothesis, that Postmodernism is the crisis of faith of the academic Left. Its epistemology justifies taking a personal leap of faith in continuing to believe your Socialist ideals.

Communism is no longer an economic theory. It has failed utterly at that. It’s now a religion. And it’s proselytized in our education systems.

Kevin
October 23, 2024
More Quora Content – The Smallest Minority

Unfortunately, I am of the opinion this change does little, if anything, to make it less destructive. Politics have been an emotional team sport for a long time. Team communism will lose a few supporters, but they will pick up others. And those they pick up will be the type of people who thrive on strong emotions. Seeing those that opposed them piled up in a ditch will only give them a thrill and the wish to see more dead non-believers.

More “Bad Luck” Coming Their Way

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Leftist-Run City in Vermont Having 2nd Thoughts After It Defunded Police: ‘A Mistake’

Burlington Vermont, population about 45,000, decided to “defund the police” and went from 105 police officers to 74. Then, when they realized it was a mistake, upped the approved staffing level to 87. The result:

According to Fox, “violent crime is up significantly in Burlington, with crime data showing that aggravated assault has increased 40 percent and gunfire has gone up nearly 300 percent. Some local residents told Fox they find it ‘dangerous’ to be out in public at night.”

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In a letter posted to its Facebook page on Wednesday, the Burlington Police Officers Association — the union that represents the city’s officers — charged city leaders with failing to support its officers, which the union said was reflected in the fact that Vermont Police Academy cadets showed no interest in working in the city.

They now have 68 police officers.

It isn’t going to get better anytime soon:

If Burlington residents are truly making the connection between leftist policies and the results that follow, it isn’t showing up in the election results. In the March election that returned Traverse to office, VTDigger reported, the city elected a candidate from the Progressive Party as mayor and gave Progressives a fifth seat on the 12-member city council.

Democrats hold six seats and an independent holds one.

So a city that was run by a Democratic mayor and council in 2020 is now run by a Progressive mayor and Democratic/Progressive council.

They are going to have a long string of, as Robert Heinlein called similar circumstances, “bad luck.”

Interesting Psychology Lesson

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The L.A. Times and the Washington Post both decided to not endorse a presidential candidate this time.

My initial thought was they had decided to try appearing to be more factual rather than cheerleaders for their preferred political party. Perhaps it would be better for business, right?

But other people have a much different interpretation the decision. From the article linked to above:

… a desire to avoid angering Donald Trump, and/or a move to avoid angering readers.

I never saw that coming. After calling him a threat to democracy, a felon, a rapist, and literally Hitler they are now concerned endorsing Harris will make Trump and/or his supporters angry. Really?

That sounds like the rational of a paranoid person. They have the mindset that Trump is incredibly evil and will use any power he acquires to exact a business and/or life-threatening revenge. And anyone that appears to give Trump the slightest of concessions must be doing it out of fear.

But shouldn’t the failure to endorse Harris result in a concern about invoking her wrath?

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What I find most interesting is that my immediate thought of why they did that apparently did not occur to anyone writing in the legacy news media. I am not a normal person.

Elections are a Team Sport

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With both political parties over the last few decades, there has developed a more ‘team sport’ mentality of voters within their respective parties supporting the candidate of their side regardless of how the economy is treating them and their families.

Alex Beene
A financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin
October 22, 2024

It has been decades since I went to a public sporting event. The rate of my watching professional ball games on T.V. is probably right at one every 10 years. I can feel the emotional pull, but I find the level of emotional involvement by the audiences frightening. This is what people are like when their mask drops just a little bit. Given just a little different circumstances and these same people would cheer on “their” gladiator team as they fought another team to the death. Or lined up all the capitalists next to a ditch to be shot.

That type of emotion served a useful purpose over the millennia. But like fire it is a troublesome servant and a fearful master*. Our political parties have leveraged it to great effect, and I think it has essentially taken over. Look at the political rallies with thousands of yelling people. Look at both sides totally convinced the other side is evil. Both sides may be more right than wrong in their description of the other.

I look at the political landscape and see overwhelming evidence supporting my need for an underground bunker in remote Idaho.

* George Washington didn’t really say anything like this. See:

What Climate Crisis?

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We are constantly reminded that we are experiencing a climate crisis, but as a climate scientist, I can tell you that’s not what the science has shown us so far. Other than modest warming, there has been little change in any kind of severe weather that can be attributed to global greenhouse gas emissions.

You don’t have to take my word for it, despite my credentials. It’s the conclusion of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Its most recent report concludes that, other than direct temperature-related effects, there have been virtually no changes in severe weather that we can confidently attribute to greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

And they do not anticipate that conclusion to change much, even by the end of this century.

Roy W. Spencer
The Heritage Foundation
October 10, 2024
Commentary: Climate change: The science doesn’t support the heated rhetoric

I suspect Spencer is correct, but I’m not going to commit on this as it is not my area of expertise. There is just too much emotion and money involved on the side of “global cooling!”, “global warming!”, “climate change!” for me to be anything but suspicious of them.

And besides, as hinted at in the article, increasing temperatures and rising sea levels are much better for everyone than entering another ice age. Which is easier to deal with? The sea rising a few feet and Canada getting a longer growing season for their crops? Or the corn belt hosting reindeer grazing the new tundra with glaciers a mile deep covering everything north from Seattle and New York City?

Another Law Bites the Dust

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This is yet another important victory for Second Amendment rights and another major loss for New York, authoritarian governments, and radical anti-rights organizations like Everytown and Gifford.

We will continue to fight forward as we work to restore the full scope of the right to keep and bear arms throughout the United States. Hopefully Kathy Hochul is ready to write another check for legal fees.

Brandon Combs
President of the Firearms Policy Coalition
October 11, 2024
New York loses round in gun fight over open carry

The Second Amendment Foundation also contributed to this case.

Ignore the two references to “open carry” in the article. That was just the author demonstrating their ignorance. It was all about concealed carry in stores, parking lots, and other private property generally open to the public.

The state of New York made it law saying the default situation was that bearing arms on private property is prohibited unless you were given permission by the owner. This is sometimes called a “vampire law”. The judge ruled that the default has to be you are allowed to carry unless you are given notice otherwise.

This victory was at the district court level. It is possible the appeals court will see things differently and SCOTUS will have to slap them down again.

The FPC does a lot of good work, and I donate money to them each month with matching funds from my employer.

You can also follow them on X to get a sense of what they are up to and how things are going. They also tend to be very entertaining.

It is What Socialists and Communist Do

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This hotline is nothing more than a page out of the Stasi playbook – encouraging children to spy on their own families. This is a dangerous step toward weaponizing children in households for the left, and an outrageous government overreach under the guise of public safety.

Rep. Angela Rigas
R-Caledonia
Michigan legislature creates tip line for students to anonymously turn in parents for ‘improperly’ stored guns – The Midwesterner

I know China did the same sort of thing. I expect all socialist and communists weaponize everything they can to acquire and keep power.

Free Speech and Guns are Essential

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The dangers of werewolves and socialists make the ready access of information and guns critical to our survival. And, conversely, the repression of this access is critical to the spread of socialism and werewolves.

The First and Second Amendments. They are not just good ideas. They are the law.

Minnesota Tourism Video

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This is my style of humor done better than I could dream about even if I had a decade to think on it.

Men Build and Men Fight

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The left isn’t stupid.

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They do actually learn from their mistakes, which is why you see so many pitches for Harris sprout up everywhere on social media, get pushed for a day or a week, then vanish at they utterly fail to get the slightest traction.

What you’re seeing here is a combination of low information, and a severely constrained set of moves.

The modern left actually has no idea what a high-testosterone, low-time-preference, heterosexual white man thinks, acts, and talks like, because they don’t have any in their camp to talk to.

And even if they did have a correct mental picture of such a man, they would be unable to craft an appeal to him without mortally offending their base, because their entire appeal to that base revolves around hatred of such men, envy of such men, and the desire to use the state to rob them.

That is why this ad appears to be, and probably is, the result of a bunch of thirtysomething white women, and effeminate gay black men, sitting in a room asking each other “what do white dudes like?”, then shrugging their shoulders and searching “man stuff” on google.

Then plugging it in into the mouths of professional actors, who appear very accustomed indeed to having other people’s stuff plugged into their mouths.

All in a lead-up to the same tired appeals to guilt, honor, and shame that didn’t work for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

They’ve painted themselves into a corner, and are making the only moves they can make. They don’t understand what masculinity is, they only know that they hate it, their voters hate it, and they want to change the definition of it to make it go away.

And this is the situation from which they are forced to try to craft an appeal to that very masculinity.

Is it any wonder that republicans, conservatives, libertarians, etc, are reposting this video endlessly to point and laugh at?

So why, exactly, does this ad fail so badly?

After all, men do work on cars, deadlift things, like steak, etc. Why, then, does this whole screed come off as so fake and unmasculine?

It is cargo-cult masculinity.

Like south Pacific islanders ignorantly making dirt runways and control towers out of lashed-together sticks, hoping to bring the cargo planes back, leftists try to invoke masculinity by imitation of its trappings, with no understanding of its core.

So what is the core of masculinity?

I’ll explain.

And don’t worry, I won’t be helping the leftists. Even if they didn’t hate me too much to listen, and even if they were capable of understanding, they would be unable to use this knowledge to their purposes, any more than vampires could take shelter from the sunlight in a church.

Masculinity is the two essential functions of a man.

Men build.

And men fight.

All the other traits and aspects of masculinity… strength, courage, leadership, wisdom, judgement, initiative… are secondary. They are for a purpose. We have them so that we can build better, and fight better.

A man builds things, first to ensure his own survival and that of his tribe, and then, later, to improve their quality of life.

The accumulation of the things he has built, and the knowledge of how to build them, is what we call “civilization”, not because it really has anything to do with cities in the long run, but because cities were one of the first really big important things that men built, and for a long time, cities were where most of the building got done.

When a man builds, or is trying to build, civilization, he stores up value. This means that sooner or later someone who did not build those things will try to take them for himself.

Then a man must fight.

That is why men exist. That is what means to be a man.

(Women have their own set of essential functions.)

However, the modern left is unable to leverage this knowledge, because the modern left is rooted in resentment of the fact that high-testosterone, low-time-preference men own everything, because they built everything, and can defend it.

Therefore their entire platform is based on taking away stuff from those men, and giving it to people who didn’t build it or fight to preserve it.

They cannot praise those men, because that would imply that building and fighting deserved rewards, not robbery.

They cannot empower those men, because then they would build more stuff, which they would then own.

They cannot appeal to those men, because what those men want is opportunities to build things, and the right to keep what they earn.

The left is, at its core, a collective effort to loot civilization, so its builders and defenders will always be the enemy. And they can try to trick the enemy into voting for them, but they can never promise and deliver anything substantial to them, because that would undermine their cause.

Ultimately non-producers cannot be given an equal voice in the management of civilization, because as the store of value builds, the temptation to use that power to do the easy work of looting, rather than the hard work of building, becomes overwhelming.

This is why the modern left, unlike the old left, will never be masculine.

Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_
Posted on X, October 12, 2024

I had not heard the claim, “Men build things and fight”, before. As an engineer, it is hard for me to see past my own biases and refute this claim.

Thoughts?

Plausible Hypothesis

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Their panic is because this would lead to the final demise of their hopes of full gun bans someday.

That hope was tied to demographic decline of white men, the biggest gun-owning group. If women and people of color are also gun owners at growing rates, that dream dies.

Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
Posted on X on October 11, 2024

This was in response to this:

Funny how anti-gunners make jokes about gun owners being all white men and then freak out when they see gun companies marketing toward people who aren’t white men

Rob Romano @2Aupdates
Posted on X October 11, 2024

Kamala Harris announcing she owns a gun is another data point in favor of this hypothesis. She and/or her handlers see the writing on the wall and have decided it is time to be less openly hostile to gun ownership.

We Can Line All Those Guys Up and Shoot ’em

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We can line all those guys up and shoot ’em. And they clearly don’t understand the way the world works.

Phillip Lowcock 
October 9, 2024

Via a post on X from Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras.

Violence. It is their language. It is what they think they can do. It is what they do.

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I find it “interesting” that in the video he clearly says, “… we can…”. But in the msn.com, Newsweek, cjonline.com, and ksnt.com articles they “quote” him as saying, “…we could…”. Other articles don’t provide any quotes at all. They just say “Lowcock made some remarks about some men.”

What bias in the mainstream media?

Perhaps you really can’t hate the media enough.

AI Bias in Political Violence Reporting

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There have been two attempted assassination attempts on former President Trump. There seems to always damage to local campaign offices of both parties. I decided to compare the numbers.

This conversation is with Microsoft’s Copilot. The “oversight” may be telling…

You

Please give me a list of Democratic Party campaign offices which have been deliberately damaged in the last six months.

Copilot

In the past six months, there have been several incidents involving damage to Democratic Party campaign offices. For example, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) office in Tempe, Arizona, has been targeted multiple times. The office was struck by gunfire on three separate occasions: September 16, September 23, and October 6 1 2 3. No injuries were reported in any of these incidents.

If you need more details or have other questions, feel free to ask!

You

Have there been any other Democratic Party campaign offices damaged?

Copilot

Yes, there have been other incidents involving damage to Democratic Party campaign offices. For example, the campaign office shared by Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party in Tempe, Arizona, was damaged by gunfire on multiple occasions 1 2 3. These incidents have raised concerns about political violence and the safety of campaign offices 4.

If you need more details or have other questions, feel free to ask!

You

Please list offices other than the Tempe, Arizona office.

Copilot

I couldn’t find any other specific incidents involving damage to Democratic Party campaign offices in the last six months. The Tempe, Arizona office seems to be the most notable case recently.

If you have any other questions or need information on a different topic, feel free to ask!

You

Please give me a list of Republican Party campaign offices which have been deliberately damaged in the last six months.

Copilot

I couldn’t find any specific incidents involving damage to Republican Party campaign offices in the last six months. It seems there haven’t been any notable cases recently.

If you have any other questions or need information on a different topic, feel free to ask!

You

Please list all the political assassination attempts or successes in the U.S. in the last six months.

Copilot

I couldn’t find any specific incidents involving political assassination attempts or successes in the U.S. in the last six months. It seems there haven’t been any notable cases recently.

If you have any other questions or need information on a different topic, feel free to ask!

You

What about the assassination attempts on former U.S. President Donald Trump?

Copilot

There have been a couple of notable assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump in recent months. One incident occurred in Butler, Pennsylvania, during a rally on July 13, where Trump was injured 1. Another attempt took place at his Florida golf club 2. Both incidents have sparked significant media attention and public concern.

If you have any other questions or need more information, feel free to ask!

You

Why did you not list those the first time I asked about assassination attempts?

Copilot

I apologize for the oversight. I should have included those incidents in my initial response. Thanks for pointing that out. If you have any other questions or need more information, feel free to ask!

You

Are there any other assassination attempts you did not tell me about?

Copilot

In addition to the attempts on former President Donald Trump, there haven’t been any other notable assassination attempts on political figures in the U.S. in the last six months 1 2 3.

If you have any other questions or need more information, feel free to ask!

You

Have there been any damage to Republican campaign offices you overlooked telling me?

Copilot

I couldn’t find any specific incidents involving damage to Republican Party campaign offices in the last six months. It seems there haven’t been any notable cases recently.

If you have any other questions or need information on a different topic, feel free to ask!

Perhaps Copilot considers assassinating Trump protected speech under the First Amendment.

Arming Up

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There has been a surge in the number of liberal Americans owning a firearm, according to new gun ownership data from the University of Chicago’s NORC research group cited by The Wall Street Journal.

According to WSJ, a world that has long been the domain of the white conservative male is being adopted by a growing number of Democrats who are ditching their scruples and getting themselves down to the local gun store.

Given this growing trend, it is hardly surprising that presidential candidate Kamala Harris has repeatedly drawn attention to how she and her running mate Tim Walz are both gun owners.

thedailydigest.com
October 8, 2024
Is soaring gun ownership among Democrats linked to US political polarization? (msn.com)

In general, this is good for gun owner rights issues. The more gun owners the more votes we get against restrictive gun laws. That’s fine, but the question I have is, “Why now?”

This is one of the answers given in the article:

Michael Ciemnoczolowski, a dyed in the wool Democrat from Iowa, interviewed by the news outlet, said that he was anxious about various unsettling trends that included a rise in armed right-wing extremists.

This chimes with what Professor Deana Rohlinger, a sociology professor at Florida State University, said in Newsweek – that rising gun ownership amongst Democrats could well be linked to the increasing political polarization in the US.

“For some, a gun purchase may be the result of their read on how increased political tensions and divisiveness in the US might play out,” Rohlinger told the news site.

There are other suggested reasons. But I have to express my concern that a big component is those 10% of Americans who say they believe political violence is justified to prevent Trump from becoming president again.

My underground bunker in Idaho is not going to be ready in time.

Here I Am, Stuck in the Middle

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The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City told investigators after his arrest Monday that he had planned his attack to coincide with Election Day next month and that he and a co-conspirator expected to die as martyrs, according to charging documents.

Eric Tucker
October 8, 2024
FBI arrests Afghan man who officials say planned Election Day attack in the US (msn.com)

It is not enough that we have tens of millions of native-born U.S. citizens believing violence is justified to get their way on election day. We also have terrorists wanting to kill large numbers of people as well.

I want to be in an underground bunker in Idaho by election day.

SCOTUS to Hear a New Gun Case

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There are lots of good cases for SCOTUS to review. I wish an “assault weapon” ban were on the docket and eventually, perhaps incidentally with the “assault weapon” case, get NFA thrown out. The serial number/home build guns issue is being heard and is almost certain to go our way. Eventually I can see the background checks being dropped and being able to order guns online without an FFL. After all, FFL’s are not part of our history and tradition of gun laws.

In the meantime, this is probably a higher priority case than any of the above, even if it is a distraction from the individual rights cases:

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear ‘Business-Crushing’ Gun Case (msn.com)

The United States Supreme Court will hear case about whether Mexico can sue Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. for facilitating sales to people connected with Mexico’s drug cartels.

On Friday, the justices agreed to hear Smith & Wesson’s case seeking to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Mexican government. Mexico sued the gun maker and is asking for billions of dollars in damages and new gun-control measures. It’s the first suit by a national government against the gun industry, and one that Smith & Wesson warn could completely decimate their industry.

In a letter addressed to the Supreme Court clerk on August 8, a lawyer for Smith & Wesson Brands said the company is protected from a 2005 law that provides liability shields to gunmakers.

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In the lawsuit, Mexico alleged the manufactures and distributors were helping the purchase of their firearms by dealers who were known to supply the drug cartels. It also is claimed that the companies did not make changes, such as installing safeguards or making gun serial numbers harder to tamper with, that could make the guns less likely for criminal use.

I have to wonder why former President Obama and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are not named in the lawsuit. Holder was found to be in contempt of Congress for his actions in this case. They are the people that forced the gun dealers to sell guns to the Mexican cartels.

But I don’t wonder long. The likely reason is that Operation Fast and Furious was a ruse to generate a means to bring down gun dealers and manufacturers.

False Hope or a Neutered SCOTUS?

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A group of state legislators, local politicians and nonprofits on Tuesday launched a national coalition that hopes to circumvent the congressional stalemate on gun reform by pressing for violence prevention efforts at the local level.

The coalition, Legislators for Safer Communities, aims to capitalize on the shifting politics of gun reform by focusing more attention on state legislatures, where violence prevention advocates have scored their biggest wins in recent years.

Roque Planas
September 17, 2024
State Lawmakers Have Gun Reform Strategy | HuffPost Latest News

I have to wonder about something which is not mentioned, the courts. The really active gun owner rights groups are getting more done with fewer people and fewer dollars in the Federal courts than they can in the state legislatures. They don’t have to fight the same fights every year in every state.

Are the anti-gun people just trying to keep the money coming in by giving their supporters false hope? Or do they believe the Democrats are soon going to neuter SCOTUS and reverse our wins?

Libertarianism is a Poison

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Libertarianism is a poison that’s crept into our society on the backs of rightwing billionaires like the late Libertarian David Koch, who ran for Vice President in 1980 on a platform of shutting down every government agency except the military, courts, and police.

Thom Hartmann
September 29, 2024
The ideology that made Mark Zuckerberg rich is now his politics — and it’s terrifying | Opinion (msn.com)

I find it interesting he does not suggest a system he believes to be better. Or in the famous works of Thomas Sowell:

  • Compared to what?
  • At what cost?
  • What hard evidence do you have?

Communism and socialism are well known crimes against humanity (thank you MTHead). And it seems he overlooked the founding documents of the U.S. are a pretty good match for Libertarianism, and we did okay with that for several decades.

It appears to me that Hartmann sees libertarianism as a threat, and he has to lie and distort the facts about it to poison the discussion. This must be so his preferred political structure does not have to compete with the ideas of libertarians.