left twitter: VOTE BIDEN OR THE RUSSKI KLANSMEN WILL MAKE YOU A HANDMAID AND SHOOT YOU WITH ASSAULT COVID BULLETS
right twitter: VOTE TRUMP OR THE CHINESE ANTIFAS WILL BURN YOUR CHILDREN ALIVE IN DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR CAMPS
me: oh boy I’m guaranteed 4 years of material
David Burge @iowahawkblog
Tweeted on October 28, 2020
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
On dealing with firearms. It is irrational, with all due respect to the Governor of Texas, it is irrational what they are doing. On the very day you see a mass shooting… we are talking about loosening of access to have guns. To be able to take them into places of worship, store them in schools. I’m mean it’s absolutely irrational. It’s totally irrational.
And it’s all about special interests and it has to stop. It has to stop.
The idea that we don’t have elimination of assault type weapons, magazines that can hold multiple bullets bullets in them, is absolutely mindless. It is no violation of the Second Amendment. It’s just a bow to the special interests, the gun manufacturers, the NRA.
It’s gotta stop.
Joe Biden
September 2, 2019
[Eliminating magazines that have multiple bullets in them is not a violation of the Second Amendment? Guns for self-defense is irrational?
It’s Joe Biden that has to be stopped.
Take appropriate action.—Joe]
Money doesn’t vote – people vote.
Richard Feldman
May 14, 2016
Revered or reviled, NRA’s power is at the polls
[Note the date. The year Donald Trump surprised most of the country.
Make your intentions clear. Vote.—Joe]
Because I’m the only one who ever got it done nationally. I beat the N.R.A. Twice. I got assault weapons banned. I got magazines that could not hold more than 10 rounds in them. I got them eliminated. Except we had a thing called an election with hanging chads in Florida and it was not reauthorized.
In addition to that, I passed the Brady Bill with waiting periods. I led that fight. But my friend to my right and others have, in fact, also given the gun manufacturers absolute immunity. Imagine if I stood here and said we would give immunity to drug companies. We would give immunity to tobacco companies.
That has caused carnage on our streets. 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability. More than all the wars, including Vietnam, from that point on. Carnage on our streets.
And I want to tell you, if I’m elected: N.R.A., I’m coming for you, and gun manufacturers, I’m going to take you on, and I’m going to beat you. I’m the only one who has done it.
Joe Biden
February 25, 2020
Bernie Sanders, Confronted on Immunity for Gun Manufacturers, Says That Was a ‘Bad Vote’
[Is, “I got magazines that could not hold more than 10 rounds in them. I got them eliminated” a big enough lie? Maybe not.
How about “…given the gun manufacturers absolute immunity”? Is that a big enough lie? Probably. But Biden can do better.
Biden takes a another swing at the biggest lie with, “150 million people have been killed since 2007”.
American media is gripped in a polarized culture war that is forcing journalism to conform to tribal, groupthink narratives that are often divorced from the truth and cater to perspectives that are not reflective of the broader public but instead a minority of hyper-partisan elites. The need to conform to highly restrictive, artificial cultural narratives and partisan identities has created a repressive and illiberal environment in which vast swaths of news and reporting either do not happen or are presented through the most skewed and reality-detached lens.
With nearly all major media institutions captured to some degree by this dynamic, a deep need exists for media that is untethered and free to transgress the boundaries of this polarized culture war and address a demand from a public that is starved for media that doesn’t play for a side but instead pursues lines of reporting, thought, and inquiry wherever they lead, without fear of violating cultural pieties or elite orthodoxies.
Glenn Greenwald
October 29, 2020
My Resignation From The Intercept
[We are in the midst of a mass delusion about the political reality of our country. When those suffering from this delusion are confronted with the evidence their delusion they attempt to suppress that evidence and those that present it.
Greenwald is taking a courageous but difficult path. Correctly perceiving reality is an extremely tough problem yet it appears Greenwald knows the path to the truth. He is going down that path even though those suffering from the mass delusion are putting formidable obstacles in his way.
Even though the path is difficult we should remember that no matter how many people insist on the validity of a falsehood, reality always triumphs in the end.—Joe]
The task is two-fold: the terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and then he, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs, and Sean Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Gullianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus.
Keith Olbermann
October 8, 2020
KEITH OLBERMANN: TRUMP SUPPORTERS ‘MUST BE PROSECUTED AND CONVICTED AND REMOVED FROM OUR SOCIETY
[Ahhh, yes, the party of tolerance and unity.
And the lies and projection are awesome! We have leftist terrorists burning and looting and this guy calls Trump the terrorist. It’s straight out of the book.
See also, Too many Democrats are creepily suggesting Trump voters should be jailed.
These aren’t just random trolls or Russian bots*. These are mainstream media prime-time hosts and writers.
We live in interesting times. Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
.* Well, at least that is technically true even if a good case could be made for it.
I believe it is a whole new ball game….
David Hardy
October 27, 2020
Thinking Justice Barrett over….
[Yup.
And it’s GAME ON!—Joe]
The asymmetry of the two major parties is driven in part by information asymmetries that feed extremism. The decades-long project of Fox News and the conservative movement to destroy shared truth has paved the way. Regular imbibers of Fox News, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, occupy a climate more extreme than other Republicans, who tend to have more varied and less dishonest information sources.
…
the assault must be made. Breaking the hold of this collective delusion is a national imperative. If there is one thing America has learned in 2020, it is that defeating a virus — whether biological or informational — requires an honest and engaged president.
Francis Wilkinson
October 22, 2020
Biden’s First War Would Have to Be Against Propaganda
[Via email from Chet.
I “love’ the guy’s referenced expert, “the Public Religion Research Institute”. Who has heard of this organization before? And why a religion research institute? Why didn’t he link to the survey? And why can’t I find the survey on their website?
This looks like a combination of projection, delusion and lying.—Joe]
Isn’t originalism just the Rule of Law? The law means the same thing yesterday as it does today and as it will tomorrow.
It’s originalism or judges just make stuff up whenever they feel like. I’m not really sure what the middle position is.
Frank J.
October 21, 2020
Random Thoughts: Feminism and Court Packing
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Purchasing or legally making a firearms silencer is one of the most effective steps a Second Amendment support can take to undermine the National Firearms Act and incrementally restore Second Amendment rights. Second Amendment supporters are well on the way to removing the NFA through an unusual tool: Overwhelming compliance.
Dean Weingarten
October 16, 2020
80% Silencers, the Political Ramifications
[Make silencers “in common use” then SAF and SCOTUS will do the rest.—Joe]
How ’bout we just put ankle bracelet trackers on every attendee at Trump rallies?
Jack Lewis
October 20, 2020
Comment on Facebook
[Don’t forget the yellow Star of David or inverted red triangle badges!—Joe]
Race (and sex, etc.) is yet another set of excuses for transferring power to the ruling class. The oligarchy is no more concerned about race than it is about education, or environmentalism, or sex, or anything else. It is about yet more discretionary power in the hands of its members, for whom not all blacks (or women, or whatevers) are to be advantaged—only the ones who serve ruling class purposes. In education, employment, and personnel management, co-opting compatible, non-threatening colleagues is the objective. As Joseph Biden put it succinctly: if you don’t vote for him, “you ain’t black.” A ruling class of ever-decreasing quality is a result.
Angelo Codevilla
September 23, 2020
Revolution 2020
[Via Kevin.—Joe]
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was, in every meaningful sense, a Marxist revolution. A parallel state based on participatory workers’ organizations was led by a self-consciously revolutionary party to topple the existing state and erect a new one in its place. Indeed, Lenin acted on clear definitions from Marx about what constituted “the state”: “armed bodies of men,” that is to say, police, courts, prisons and the military. The Bolsheviks did not simply take the existing “armed bodies of men” and use them for their own purposes. Nor did the Communists of Eastern Europe. They destroyed existing institutions and replaced them with their own.
Sam Jacobs
October 2020
Cultural Marxism’s Origins: How the Disciples of an Obscure Italian Linguist Subverted America.
[“They destroyed existing institutions and replaced them with their own.”
Nazi Germany also developed their parallel “armed bodies of men”, the SS. The SS had several components:
The defunding of the police doesn’t look so incredibly stupid now, does it?
Respond appropriately.—Joe]
Even after we flush Trump, we have a difficult job to cleanse society of their diseased thinking.
Greg Banks
Island Country (Washington) prosecutor
Posted on Facebook September 30, 2020
[He has turned off his Facebook account, as he has several times in the past. At some time it probably will be turned back on.
More context is here.
Can you imagine being a Trump supporter in his county and your legally concealed firearm is briefly visible while reaching for an item on the top shelf at the grocery store and a Karen spots it?
I shudder to think about it. This is how we get reeducation camps and gulags.
And I was in his county for a few hours last Saturday.
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
Gotta feeling history will repeat itself
Evil Eye Of Seth Rollins @ThePunk1019
Tweeted on October 16, 2020
[If you replace “British” with one or more appropriate U.S. government organizations then it’s a plausible hypothesis.—Joe]
When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.
Robert Reich @RBReich
Tweeted on October 17, 2020
[This is where our country sits. It is on the precipice of a Stalinist and/or 1984 dystopia.
Reich is not some random troll or bot. This is a Berkeley professor (no surprise), who served in the administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. He is a former Secretary of Labor and was a member of President Obama’s economic transition advisory board. He has a million Twitter followers.
Via Adam Baldwin who gives us these as the “chaser”:
Coincidently, Windy Wilson has relevant commentary on our present situation as well.
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
… the vast majority of the American liberals quickly reverted to their prior anti2a positions and cheered on the proposed confiscation plans and helped ram anti2a legislation through every state they could as fast as they could.
They failed to realize that there were over 500 million firearms in the US and those they wished to disarm were those who were the most willing to have molon labe be their last words on this planet.
Piper Smith
Posted on Facebook October 17, 2020
[Interesting introduction to a short story or novel.—Joe]
Since reading this novel, I have read tens of thousands of pages of political thought, historical record and legal documents and have come to understand just where continued gun control is taking us…it is a place I do not wish to go. In the last four years, I have become a champion for the second amendment rights community, a holder of a federal firearms license , a collector with over 60 firearms, a hobby gunsmith and a lobbyist for the firearms community. All this from a person who voted for Clinton his first term! Get John Ross’ book, it will open your eyes.
Amazon
Unintended Consequences
[It is a very good book. I remember when it first came out some people on the Microsoft Gun Club email list referred to it as “The Bible”. That’s overstating it, but it is inspiring and prophetic.—Joe]
We hold that that I-976 violates article II, section 19 because it contains multiple subjects.
Washington State Supreme Court
October 15, 2020
GARFIELD COUNTY ) TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY; ) KING COUNTY; CITY OF ) SEATTLE; WASHINGTON STATE ) TRANSIT ASSOCIATION; ) ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON ) CITIES; PORT OF SEATTLE; ) INTERCITY TRANSIT; ) AMALGAMATED TRANSIT ) UNION LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ) OF WASHIINGTON; and ) MICHAEL ROGERS v. STATE OF WASHINGTON
[I-976 is primarily about reducing car license fees. It also required “Sound Transit’s bonds had to be retired early or refinanced”. The Washington State constitution specifically requires that all initiatives be limited to a single subject. That I-976 violated the constitutional requirement of a single subject resulted in a 9-0 ruling against it.
At first glance the average reader might wonder why this blog would have a particular interest in this case. Let me assure you this is EXTREMELY interesting to gun owners of this state.
I-1639 has so many different subjects that I won’t both to list them all. But here is a sample:
Wouldn’t a reasonable person conclude the above subjects constitute more than one subject? Or would the Washington Supreme Court, which probably has never seen a gun law it didn’t approve of, conclude, “It’s all about guns. This is is a single subject. Case closed.” I give it about a 75% chance the court would claim it’s a single subject.
In addition to the consistent hostility of the court toward gun owners there is another reason why civil rights groups may avoid this approach.
There is already a Federal lawsuit working it’s way through the courts challenging I-1639 on numerous other issues. If the Federal lawsuit succeeds then it has nationwide impact. If a lawsuit in state court succeeds before the Federal lawsuit is concluded then the Federal lawsuit would likely be declared moot and the impact of a victory over I-1639 would be limited to the State of Washington.—Joe]
We need to wrap this shit up. I’m hoping for a Trump victory mostly so that ammo prices will go back down.
Larry Correia
Facebook post on October 12, 2020
[Fair enough.
I would have said you should have stocked up when the prices were reasonable but who would have thought the prices would go this high for this long?—Joe]