Good news!
Via Stephen Gutowski we have this report:
A federal court ordered Los Angeles to hand over more than $100,000 to the National Rifle Association after ruling that the city had violated the gun-rights group’s First Amendment rights.
We have to take the offensive against these tyrants. It’s nice to have judges who enforce the constitution.
Pleased to announce that @ToddMcMurtry & @RonColeman will be joining my legal team in pursuing libel case for Kyle Rittenhouse against Joe Biden & his campaign. No need to turn up hearing aide, Joe. You can easily hear footsteps of army for justice coming to visit you.
Lin Wood @LLinWood
Tweeted on September 30, 2020
Regarding:
[Yes!!!
Also from Wood:
Biden, Facebook & Twitter. We may file lawsuits for Kyle Rittenhouse in alphabetical order.
Donations to the Biden campaign may actually end up being contributions to the Kyle Rittenhouse scholarship fund.—Joe]
My brain has left the building and all I have is the reactive mind
Vanessa Grigoriadis @vanessagrigor
Tweeted on September 22, 2020
[I wish more people were this self-aware and recused themselves from public debate and voting until they have recovered. The political climate would be dramatically different and far better.—Joe]
Via a private post on Facebook: On July 26, 2016 Obama was briefed on an intelligence report that Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against candidate Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the DNC:
This is not conclusive evidence that it actually happened. Just that the Russians probably believed it happened. But, assuming it is true and there is conclusive evidence…
Obama knew. It’s official.
The question in my mind is now, “What are the list of crimes these people committed by doing this?” Conspiracy to commit libel and slander look plausible. Surely there are more serious offenses, right?
The right to keep and bear arms could be found to be protected both by 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, according to standards set forth in Jones v. Mayer. The court remarked that “history leaves no doubt that, if we are to give [the law] the scope that its origins dictate, we must accord it a sweep as broad as its language. Further, the Thirteenth Amendment clothed “Congress with power to pass all laws necessary and proper for abolishing all badges and incidents of slavery in the United States.” The black code prohibitions on possession of firearms were a badge of slavery.
Stephen P. Halbrook
1998
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 page 194.
[“The black code prohibitions on possession of firearms were a badge of slavery.”
As are prohibitions against any person of legal age and sound mind regarding the possession of firearms.
Via a tweet from Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras.—Joe]
Do these people screaming for war understand that when that comes, the release felt by folks on the right is going to be damn near cathartic?
I’m guessing no, they don’t. But they’ll learn.
Ragin’ Dave
September 22, 2020
Jump if you’re feeling froggy…
[We live in “interesting” times.—Joe]
It’s official: You can’t protect yourself. Not even a blameless ex-Marine could defend himself from being choked to death. The D.A. will call in a “special” prosecutor to throw you to the wolves, and they’ll both be praised for railroading an innocent man in the Omaha World Herald, while the national media defame you.
Ann Coulter
Innocent Until Proven Trump Supporter
September 23, 2020
Via ParaLarry @ParaLarry
[These district attorneys as well as those attacking Rittenhouse, need to be prosecuted.—Joe]
Via Tamera @tacsgc:
I think that Mother, like many others, expected that Hillary Clinton would win the nomination and the presidency, and she wanted the first female president to name her successor,
Jane Ginsburg
Daughter of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September 20, 2020
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refused to Step Down
[That would explain it. But what a price she paid for symbolism.
I find that as I get older I’m less inclined to take risks. I’ll take an low risk incremental improvement over a high risk high gain option. Apparently RBG didn’t mature along the same path I did. She took a big risk for a small gain.—Joe]
Any candidate who says, ”I am coming to take your (FILL IN THE BLANK)” doesn’t deserve your vote.
The job does not entitle that person to confiscate wealth or property from anyone. Does not matter if it’s guns, books, land or someone’s business.
Gerry
September 18, 2020
Comment to Quote of the day—David Harsanyi
[More that that! They probably deserve prosecution.—Joe]
Via The Dailywire:
See also this article from yesterday.
There are only a few days left to sign the petition urging the White House to prosecute the district attorneys who charged Rittenhouse. I know it’s unlikely the DAs will prosecuted even if enough signatures are obtained. And I know 99,148 signatures in the remaining days is next to impossible. But, please, sign it anyway.
The more signatures we get the closer we are to normalizing the prosecution of those who use the power of government to implement a terrible injustice. These DAs are clearly attempting to cast a chilling effect upon the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms. They, and others like them, must face justice. Help normalize the prosecution of these criminals. Sign the petition.
Been a few days since I tweeted that if GOP try to jam a SCOTUS thru B4 election we burn the fucking thing down & since the death threats & Breitbart headlines about my tweet have now stopped let me just say that if GOP try to jam SCOTUS through we burn the fucking thing down.
Reza Aslan @rezaaslan
Aslan is a tenured Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside and serves on the board of trustees for the Chicago Theological Seminary and The Yale Humanist Community.
Tweeted on September 21, 2020
[Just one more example of the inherent violent nature of the political left.
It is also very telling about their lack of respect for the constitution and rule of law.
He’s actually toned it down from last year.—Joe]
Attributed to various sources and it may be the true author will never been known:
You Trumpsters better pray that liberals never gain control of the WH again because we are going to pay you back so fucking hard for all of this shit. Planned Parenthoods on every damn corner. We’re going to repaint Air Force One, pussy hat pink and fly it over your beloved Bible Belt 6 days a week, tossing birth control pills, condoms, and atheist literature from the cockpit. We’re going to tax your mega churches so bad Joel Olsteen will need to get a job at Chik Fil A to pay his light bill. Speaking of Chik Fil A, we’re buying all those and giving them to any LGBTQ you sick cult leaders tortured with conversion therapy. Have fun with your new menu you bigoted fucks. Try the McPence. It’s a boiled, unseasoned chicken breast that you have to eat in the closet with your mother. ALL parks will be renamed Rosa Parks asap. We’re replacing Confederate statues with BLM leaders and Mexican immigrants. Every single public school will be renamed after a child that was kidnapped by this regime. And after we fumigate the WH, we’re repainting the whole thing rainbow. Fox News will be taken over and turned into a family refugee shelter. We’re turning Hannity’s office into a giant unisex bathroom with changing tables and free tampons. And every single time a Trumpster complains about any of the changes, we’re adding an openly gay character to a Disney movie.
It’s good to know the rules of the game as played by the enemy. The constitution is irrelevant.
Prepare accordingly.
Japan made the same mistake in thinking we could be bullied. They got nuked.
Truth be known. Were just waiting for our wife’s to tell us it’s OK.
MTHead
September 20, 2020
Comment to Quote of the day—Jaime Huffman
[I suspect it’s a little more complicated than that. At least it is for most people. Still, I can see that being a prerequisite. And I would change “wife” to “spouse” if not even broader.—Joe]
Does it really matter what Gibbering Joe says anymore? No one on either side is really listening to him for actual content.
I say, “Yes, it matters.” When someone says something to the effect of, “The Senate should wait for the new president.” It seems to me an effective counter to that is, “Joe Biden disagrees with you.”
But, I’m willing to not push the point. How about a bunch of democrats in addition to Joe Biden? Doesn’t that matter?
Via Donald Trump Jr.:
I made it absolutely clear, that I would go forward with the confirmation process as chairman. Even a few months before presidential election.
…
Just as the constitution requires.
Joe Biden
U.S. Vice President
2016
[Good to know both candidates are in agreement with this. So, this shouldn’t be an issue then.—Joe]
Hang on to your guns and ammo it is gonna be a wild ride.
F Riehl
September 18, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies, Just as President Trump Releases His List of SCOTUS Judges
[Agreed.—Joe]
Rip RBG. Just when we thought 2020 couldn’t get more politically charged.
Jaime Huffman
September 18, 2020
Via text message.
[This is how I found out RBG died.
A few minutes later she also sent me a screen shot of Mitch McConnell’s statement on the passing of Justice Ginsburg. Here is the text (emphasis added):
The Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life.
Justice Ginsburg overcame one personal challenge and professional barrier after another. She climbed from a modest Brooklyn upbringing to a seat on our nation’s highest court and into the pages of American history. Justice Ginsburg was thoroughly dedicated to the legal profession and to her 27 years of service on the Supreme Court. Her intelligence and determination earned her respect and admiration throughout the legal world, and indeed throughout the entire nation, which now grieves alongside her family, friends, and colleagues.
***
In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.
By contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise.
President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.
“Politically charged” is an understatement. I expect the police and fire departments will soon be earning overtime for the foreseeable future.
I wonder if the list of 20 names of potential Supreme Court nominees President Trump released nine days ago was based on insider knowledge of Justice Ginsburg’s health status.
All is in accordance with prophecy.—Joe]
It’s … authoritarian looking to a lot of people when you say “I’m going to come to your house and take your gun.”
David Harsanyi
Senior Writer, National Review
September 14, 2020
Confessions of a New Gun Owner (video starting at 4:08).
[Via email from Paul K.
It’s more than “authoritarian looking”. It’s authoritarian.—Joe]
The terrifying mob has moved to the book burning phase.
Mollie @MZHemingway
Tweeted on June 6, 2020
[This was in reference The “decolonize your bookshelf” stuff in the QOTD from yesterday.
Also related is the QOTD of Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
Read the previous link for more thoughts on why this conclusion is more than a coincidence.—Joe]