Category Archives: Quote of the Day

Quote of the day—Stephen P. Halbrook

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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]

Quote of the day—Ragin’ Dave

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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]

Quote of the day—Ann Coulter

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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]

Quote of the day—Jane Ginsburg

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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]

Quote of the day—Roger T. Benitez

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The result is that any law-abiding citizen may lose his liberty, and (not ironically) his Second Amendment rights, as a result of exercising his constitutional right to keep and bear arms if the arm falls within the complicated legal definition of an “assault weapon.” If ever the existence of a state statute had a chilling effect on the exercise of a constitutional right, this is it.

Roger T. Benitez
United States District Judge
September 23, 2020
James Miller, et al., v. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, et al.
[Chilling effect!!

This is awesome! It’s an infringement upon a specific enumerated right if it causes a “chilling effect” upon the exercise of that right. This has long been the case for First Amendment infringement law but it wasn’t until 2018 in Illinois that I saw it applied to a Second Amendment case.

This is paving the highway to throwing out most of the stupid gun laws in this nation. Licensing, gun and gun owner registration, and even background checks could get eventually thrown out if we approach this incrementally.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Gerry

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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]

Quote of the day—Reza Aslan @rezaaslan

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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]

Quote of the day—MTHead

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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]

Quote of the day—Joe Biden

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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]

Quote of the day—F Riehl

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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]

Quote of the day—Jaime Huffman

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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]

Quote of the day—David Harsanyi

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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]

Quote of the day—Larry Correia

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You guys know why Europeans have such ridiculous ideas about what America is like? It’s because we don’t have an American news media. We have a New York City news media, with some affiliates in LA and DC.

The people who present our image to the world are the most vapid, sheltered, narcissistic, pseudo-intellectual, snoots in the entire country. They seldom venture outside of their neighborhoods and their entire understanding of the rest of their nation is nothing but a big bag or stereotypes and projected neuroses.

Of course other countries have dumb ideas about what America is like. The Americans telling them about America don’t know what America is like either.

Larry Correia
September 15, 2020
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[Another contributing factor is that, at least from my personal observation, those who picked a career in journalism are far from the sharpest knives in the drawer.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Mollie @MZHemingway

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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]

Quote of the day—Juan Vidal

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You may have seen the phrase “decolonize your bookshelf” floating around. In essence, it is about actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative, storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for so long.

If you are white, take a moment to examine your bookshelf. What do you see? What books and authors have you allowed to influence your worldview, and how you process the issues of racism and prejudice toward the disenfranchised? Have you considered that, if you identify as white and read only the work of white authors, you are in some ways listening to an extension of your own voice on repeat? While the details and depth of experience may differ, white voices have dominated what has been considered canon for eons.

Juan Vidal
June 6, 2020
Your Bookshelf May Be Part Of The Problem
[I think nearly all of “the problem” is that too many people see issues in terms of skin color, ethnic origin, or some other “tribal identity”. Issues should be addressed at an individual level.

For example, if the police are illegally using lethal force then prosecute them on the basis of each individual illegal act. If (and I’m not conceding the truth or falsity of this) the evidence says the police do have a bias toward using the illegal use of lethal force against a particular skin color, it just doesn’t matter. Treat each case on it’s merits. The law is color/”tribal identity” blind and the application of it should, nay, must be blind as well.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Benjamin Crump

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But when a young white supremacist shot and killed two peaceful protestors, local law enforcement and National Guardsmen allowed him to walk down the street with his assault weapon.

Benjamin Crump
Attorney for Jacob Blake
August 27, 2020
‘Jacob Blake didn’t pose any threat:’ Attorney releases statement after DOJ said knife found after shooting
[How many lies can you find in just this one sentence? With so much evidence of an untruthful character packed into just one sentence how could anyone believe anything else he said?

Also, it would appear, Kyle Rittenhouse has the opportunity for another libel suit here.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays

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What is the plan for eliminating Antifa once our elected leaders give up? We should have a backup plan for the ground game.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
Tweeted on September 6, 2020
[There are lots of suggestions in response.

My favorite:

Simple. Unrestricted law enforcement. Let LEOs do their job, and force Prosecuters to mandate jail time. The legal system is a great deterrent when applied properly.

ruco @ruco_mon
Tweeted on September 6, 2020

My nomination for best troll:

Killer two part plan, Scott:

1. Get the cops to stop murdering unarmed people.
2. Get white supremacists to stop holding rallies.

I promise you, you would never get a whiff of antifa again.

a foog @FoogInc
Tweeted on September 6, 2020

My nomination for most innovative:

Marshall law, shutting down the democratic communist party, letting the military run former democratic cities and states whilst teaching their population what Democracy is. Just like they did very successfully in post war Germany and Japan.

Yonatan Yahav @YahavYonatan
Tweeted on September 6, 2020

My nomination for most impractical but made me laugh:

Wall them off, and record the aftermath via drones. Make it required study material for future generations.

Mark Zigzag Chapman @ZigzagChapman20
Tweeted on September 6, 2020

My nomination for best sound bite:

Hollow points win over talking points any day of the week.

Shemtov @Shemtov10
Tweeted on September 6, 2020

My nomination for most oxymoronic:

Extinction Rebellion and antifa losers that get arrested for minor crimes should be forced to volunteer in 3rd world countries like South Africa…

Christopher Gaska @ChristopherTodd
Tweeted on September 6, 2020

My nomination for the longest range:

LongrangeAntifaPlan

Make California Red Again ????  @6lackelonmusk
Tweeted on September 6, 2020

Any better ideas?—Joe]

Quote of the day—Samuel Crankshaw

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This kid clearly is a provocateur in training with no intention of learning. He exists only to troll intimidate and play victim.

Samuel Crankshaw
Communications Associate
ACLU Kentucky
Facebook post (now hidden or deleted) September 5, 2020
ACLU Staffer Attacks University for Accepting ‘Provocateur in Training’ Nick Sandmann
[Via email from Chet.

Sandmann, as you remember, is the opposite of what Crankshaw claims:

Sandmann sued multiple major news outlets for defamation after he and his Covington Catholic High School classmates were portrayed as racist aggressors who harassed Nathan Phillips, an elderly Native American man, near the Lincoln Memorial on January 18 of last year. Video of the incident shows Phillips loudly beating a drum while a smirking 16-year-old Sandmann stood inches away.

Though media reports said the students, who were attending the annual anti-abortion March for Life and wore “Make America Great Again” caps, initiated the confrontation, longer footage of the incident later revealed that Phillips approached Sandmann.

SJWs Always Lie and always project.

Crankshaw’s post appears to be libelous.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Rudyard Kipling

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Dane-Geld A.D. 980-1016

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —

“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”

Rudyard Kipling
[You would think the history lessons are numerous enough that people would not yield to the temptation. But now there are hundreds, if not thousands, of examples all around us paying the Dane-Geld to the domestic terrorists.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Renee G

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Dear confused liberal,

If you are a liberal who can’t stand Trump, and cannot possibly fathom why conservatives would ever vote for him let me finally fill you in.

…

If Donald Trump is reelected it will be because we are sick of your complete and utter nonsense and destruction. How does it feel to know that half of this country finds you FAR more despicable than Donald J. Trump, the man you consider to be the anti-Christ? Let that sink in. We consider you to be more despicable, more dangerous, more stupid, and more narcissistic than Donald Trump. Maybe allow yourself a few seconds of self-reflection to let that sink in. This election isn’t about Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden. This is about Donald Trump vs. YOU.

Renee G
August 24, 2020
‘It’s Not That We Love Donald Trump So Much. It’s That We Can’t Stand You.’
[Please note this is to the “confused ‘liberal’”. There are many Progressives/Marxists/Communists who are not confused about the ‘appeal’ of President Trump.—Joe]