Yet another school shooting – this one they are having a little trouble with as the school is Christian and the shooter is Trans – one line they’re tying out – and I think they’ll settle on – is that this was provoked by GOP efforts to “ban transgender people”. Which, of course, is nothing of the sort. We GOPers are the most overly-tolerant people in the world. Vastly more so than any of those Left of center. We’re just kinda hung up on that whole mutilate minors with surgery and hormones thing. Sticks in the craw a bit.
But that is the Left: sheer evil. In response to one of their own who went off on shooting spree based on lies about us, they’re going to demand that we give up our guns and allow 12 year olds to have permanent, life-altering surgery. Nothing doing: fortunately, I’ve seen a lot of backbones today of people not sitting still for this drivel. But I also perceive that we’re still not pushing back all the way.
We need to start really calling these people out – Congresswoman Jayapal yesterday was on the House floor to condemn “MAGA extremist” attacks on LGBTQ youth. I Tweeted on top of that the fact that we’re not attacking LGBTQ youth: we’re attacking Jayapal and her sick and disgusting desire to mutilate minors and have perverts twerk in front of them. To pat myself on the back, that is the sort of line we have to start taking. These people aren’t merely wrong. They aren’t making mistakes. They aren’t doing good with unintended consequences: they are evil. They are bad. They are doing wrong things because they like wrong things and they get off on ruining lives.
We’ve talked for decades now about school shootings and it all comes back to the same thing: we allow lunatics free range. But now we must take it the next step back: the reason we have so many lunatics is because we have allowed the Left to deliberately and maliciously create an insane society…and they created this insane society by destroying morality. As I’ve said many times before – 80 years ago you could buy a machine gun by mail. Also back then you couldn’t even form the concept of “drag queen story time”. Fast forward to today and you have to jump though hoops to buy a semi-automatic weapon but we have drag queen story time. There is a connection, folks. We’re getting what the Left wanted – increasing restrictions on liberty along with government-subsidized license.
To nutshell it: don’t call them mistaken. Call them evil. They are wicked people trying to destroy. We push back on it that way and every time one of these horrors emerge, they’ll eventually be placed on the defensive…and then we can destroy them.
Fox News cut away to Pudding Brain expecting to see some comment about the school shooting and got some bizarre, senile ramble about ice cream. Now, he did eventually get around to spending a few seconds talking about the shooting, but then was back to yucking it up. The man is flat out senile and they clearly didn’t get his meds right today. The destiny of our nation is the feeble hands of a man who has gone gaga.
DeSantis is taking advantage of the fact that he holds executive power and has signed universal school choice in Florida. This will be a problem for Trump in the primary…all Trump can do is talk about doing things. RDS can do them.
One of Rand Paul’s staffers was brutally attacked in DC – no word yet on whether it was political or just Democrat City Life. Horrible all the same.
Matt Taibbi – the center-left journalist Musk has been allowing to write up the Twitter Files – got a sudden visit by IRS agents when he testified in Congress about the government orchestrated censorship and propaganda under the old Twitter ownership. Pardon me, guys: have you ever heard of an IRS agent making a visit? Senator Jordan wants some answers about it: spoiler, he won’t get them. This is bizarre and extremely frightening…and shows that Democrats have polling which shows this is something which could be turned on them devastatingly during an election year.
The Population Bomb didn’t go off – even far Left environmentalist whackos are now admitting the population will peak around 8.8 billion at midcentury and then rapidly decline. My bet – it’ll peak lower than that and decline much more rapidly than expected. My guesstimate is that it peaks around 2040 at a little over 8.5 billion. Birth rates are dropping like rocks everywhere…with the exception being among Mormons, ultra-Orthodox Jews and a few traditionalist Christian groups (which can range from Catholic to Protestant). So the really funny thing will be a new civilization arising starting around 2100 when, turns out, the only people alive at the time are believers because their parents decided to have kids.
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Firearms are at the leading cause of death for children in the United States. I’m not suggesting we bet rid of guns, but we need to make it more difficult for monsters to get guns and make sure guns are stored safely in people’s homes.
Guns ARE INANIMATE OBJECTS. They DO NOTHING.
People. People do things.
People used to be able to buy fully automatic .45 machine guns BY MAIL and they didn’t shoot up schools.
WTF is wrong with you that you can’t see the problem ISN’T THE F***ING GUNS?
Own it, Casper: you and all the other Progressives. This is your society. You built it. You got what you wanted.
Now: how does it taste?
People like me warned people like you 50-60 years ago what would happen. You were told. It wasn’t a guess. It was an absolute assurance. You tear down morality and end public decency and this is what you get: insane savagery.
We did everything you asked us to do. We went with birth control and abortion. We allowed unlimited divorce. We removed all stigma from out of wedlock birth. We allowed casual sex. We allowed increasing violence and sex in popular culture. We legalized pornography. We started being ok with people dressing like slobs in public. We let the lunatics out on the streets. We de-stigmatized drug use. We starting passing out welfare no questions asked.
All of this – every last bit of it – was demanded by you Progressives. You promised everyone it would not just be ok, but that it would be glorious. A new birth of freedom and civilization. You laughed at and mocked all the old fogies who said you can’t do that – that you would create an insane, hedonistic society of narcissists.
This is what your side wanted.
And now you want to come to a sane, hardworking, legal gun owner who WILL NEVER COMMIT A CRIME and tell him that he has to have further restrictions placed on him? Burden him with background checks. Place requirements for insurance and storage on him? Enact red flag laws to be used on a whim against him? That is your solution? F***ing lunatics are sh**ting in the streets and your plan is gun control????
Wake the f*** up. Its way past time.
I like Mark On Fire.
I’m thinking one of the casualties of Progressive “education” is the loss of ability to connect the dots. So the Left encourages mental illness and validates delusions by saying sure, you can be a different gender. Then the drugs come in, and anyone who denies that hormones affect emotions and even mental capacity is lying. So we have the delusional person adding to the emotional and mental instability with massive hormone doses and probably other drugs as well, as gender dysphoria is often accompanied by other mental illnesses such as depression.
Then the Left starts pumping up this artificial “community” by screeching at them that they are being abused, “denied rights”, targeted for violence, etc.. working up rage and paranoia, and actually starts promoting overt violence against the Invented Other they have created.
Parallel to this is the increasing viciousness of attacks on Christianity, and on people of faith. Linked to this is the fact, often stressed, that people on the Right ae often Christians, and of course people on the Right are inherently evil, should be put in camps or even eliminated.
Then this witches’ brew of hate, insanity and callous emotional manipulation leads to a mentally ill, hormone-manipulated, delusional person actually engaging in the encouraged war on Christians and what do we get from the Left?
crickets
Oh, and mewling about guns.
We can connect the dots. We can see the progression of hate, insanity and violence crafted by the Left, and we can see the inevitable outcome. But the stunningly dense and oblivious meat puppets of the Left are lining up to be led to the next crazed conclusions of their masters.
Love this attitude
Own it, Casper: you and all the other Progressives. This is your society. You built it. You got what you wanted.
Now: how does it taste?
Exactly how we should treat ALL OF THEM
But they won’t admit this, or they don’t see it, because to them the things we identify as problems they see as success stories.
I’ve owned guns for over forty five years. I’ve gone through hunter safety classes and background checks. I’ve never shot anyone and never will. Asking gun owners to go through a background check to keep guns out of the hands of monsters doesn’t seem like a bad trade off.
“We’ve talked for decades now about school shootings and it all comes back to the same thing: we allow lunatics free range.”
We’ve talked for decades now about school shootings and it all comes back to the same thing: Easy access to AR-15s. Uvalde. Buffalo. Boulder. Orlando. Parkland. Las Vegas. Sandy Hook. San Bernardino. Midland/Odessa. Colorado Springs. Poway Synagogue. Sutherland Springs. Tree of Life Synagogue.
And by the way, it’s Matt Taibbi, not Tabibi.
What I said to Casper applies to you, Spellcheck.
We had EASIER ACCESS TO GUNS 100 years ago. Why no school shootings?
You answer that f***ing question. Have some damned guts. Don’t hide from it. Don’t dodge it. Don’t try to bring up some other issue: why 100 years ago were schools not shot up when guns were more readily accessible?
Damn I’m sick of you Progressives on this. Always dodging. Always seeking to punish the innocent for the acts of the guilty…and the guilty being people living the way you told them to live.
And have you noticed how few shootings take place in areas where gun ownership is common? When kids had rifle racks in their pickups and took guns to school so they could go hunting afterward, they didn’t shoot people. (And this is not so uncommon—-up until a very few years ago this was an everyday sight at rural and semi-rural schools.)
Farmers and ranchers routinely carry guns, both long guns and handguns, in their daily lives, and they don’t shoot people. Military and law enforcement, two heavily armed demographics, don’t have a record of mass shootings. Concealed carry permit owners haven’t gone on shooting sprees. NRA members haven’t.
But it’s easier, and more politically motivated, to blame guns for problems instead of an increasingly licentious, hedonistic, irresponsible and self-indulgent society which has been carefully crafted by the Left in its pursuit of destabilizing our society and culture to make it more vulnerable to Leftist incursion.
When kids had rifle racks in their pickups and took guns to school so they could go hunting afterward, they didn’t shoot people. (And this is not so uncommon—-up until a very few years ago this was an everyday sight at rural and semi-rural schools.)
And no one broke into the vehicles and stole the firearms. Today criminals shoot people and take their vehicle. Cars have been in common use for a century, but carjacking only became common in the late 80s and early 90s. Again, a societal rot problem.
“We had EASIER ACCESS TO GUNS 100 years ago. Why no school shootings?”
They didn’t have access to the kinds of guns available today. And not near as many people owned guns. Guns were expensive and used pretty much for hunting. My first gun (which I still have) was a double barreled 20 ga. Not a gun for committing mass murder.
AS for myself, I have a gun safe and I’ve passed background checks back when they were required. I got the gun safe after I had children and Grandchildren, figuring that a little inconvenience is worth keeping them safe.
Thompson: .45 ACP
AR-15: .223 Remington
Thompson: 700-800 rounds per minute
AR-15: Tops 60 rounds per minute; aimed somewhat less
You could get the Thomspon for as little as $135.00 with many accessories included. Adjusted for inflation, that is probably comparable to the AR-15 though I suspect the AR will come in a little cheaper given modern materials and manufacturing (weapons in the 1920’s did require some hand finishing).
The bottom line is that you could, BY MAIL, get a far more deadly weapon in 1923 for not too much more cost than a weapon today.
AND NOBODY SHOT UP SCHOOLS.
Not even once.
So, you f***ing tell me – what changed? What turned our society from a place where a school massacre was unimaginable into one where it is common? Answer the f***ing question.
I’m going to suggest, as one component, the growing promotion of entitlement. When you feel entitled to this, entitled to that, when your entire life revolves around what you are entitled to have, do or say, if you’ve got a screw loose it’s not that big a leap to feel entitled to “express yourself” by shooting a few people.
Another factor might be the emphasis placed on fame, and the lack of awareness of the difference between fame and notoriety. In a society which places no value on merit or accomplishment but so much on having millions of people know who you are, to a certain kind of mental illness the prospect of becoming a household name must be alluring.
That is a great point – it isn’t accomplishment, but “clicks”, as it were…if people are looking at you, you did something good, regardless of the actual deed. It is a sickness.
The AR-15 has been around as a civilian weapon since 1964. The first time one was used in a mass-shooting was Sandy Hook in 2012, nearly a half century later. What happened during that half century?
And back in the 50s and 60s young kids owned guns and no one shot up his or her school. I got my first BB gun when I was 8 and my first .22 rifle when I was 10. One of my favorite pastimes, along with a couple of friends, was to go down to the dump and shoot rats, something that the owners of the dump wholeheartedly supported. It never crossed our minds that if we got mad at someone we’d just go shoot them along with any innocent bystanders who might get in the way.
Oh, FFS – do you realize what background checks and red flags are for? They aren’t to keep guns out of criminal hands…they are designed solely to harass the law-abiding and allow the Feds to trip them up with process crimes. And as I’ve said, it isn’t the gun. That is an inanimate object: it is the human who does the thing.
The particular shooter yesterday was an increasingly typical product of our society – not set on a path of work, marriage and children and so drifted around the cyberworld until, of course, trans because that is what is fashionable at the moment…and in that position, fed a lot of bullsh** about how we on the right are going to genocide trans people…so, this loser decided to act out on that. You Progressives are building these people every day – you’re placing the dynamite and plugging in the wires…and then back in the DC Think Tank and the MSM conference room, you’re working out your talking points in advance just waiting for one of your social bombs to go off…because you Progressives know they will. It is what is desired.
We are sick of it, Casper. That is quite enough: enough dead bodies. Enough ruined lives. I am thrilled at the amount of anger being directed against the Left right now…how nobody but a few losers are doing other than excoriating the Left for their primary, deliberate and malicious role in yesterday’s events. It is, I hope, the start of the full awakening and the eventual removal of all Progressives from power.
You failed, Casper: you promised the world peace, justice, prosperity and joy…what you’ve given us is a bum sh***ing on the street as some “non-binary” weirdo walks by, plots of mass murder growing in his head. This will be brought to an end. Sanity will be restored.
But…but…but the mewling weaklings who need to be assured there is a shortcut to the Higher Moral Ground will still fawn over the lies and fantasies of the Left.
Worse, they steadfastly deny that they ARE enabling and supporting the true Left. Their attitude is “OK, so Dems are a little left of center, but what’s wrong with that? It’s not as if we are supporting a system that strips people of their freedom, destroys the economy and leads to increasing tyranny”—-as they meekly take dangerous experimental drugs because the government has said if they don’t they will lose their jobs, as they see empty shelves in stores and can’t afford to buy eggs or meat, as they see their fellow Democrats advocating for denying freedom of speech and assembly and even for the imprisonment of people for having the “wrong” political beliefs, when they see the Orwellian word “misinformation” becoming part of their party’s arsenal of control of others. To them being a Democrat just means not liking Trump or guns. Their denial of their complicity in the destruction of our society is unforgivable.
And don’t think we haven’t noticed your chickensh** refusal to answer the question: absolutely no chance someone will shoot up a school in 1923, while here in 2023 we’re just waiting for the next one absolutely certain it will happen.
When will you answer the question about what changed? What happened in our society to go from “no chance” to “just wait a minute” on school shootings?
And not near as many people owned guns.
That’s a lie.
Guns were expensive.
That’s also a lie. My first nice rifle that I bought myself was a Marlin model 99 .22LR with a Weaver scope that I bought with my allowance when I was 14 in 1959. It cost about $35.00. Marlin replaced the 99 a year later with the model 60 that was still made until a couple of years ago when Ruger bought out Marlin. Today a used model 60 runs anywhere from $150 to $400.
I’ve had an Indiana license to carry a firearm since 1973. (it’s not a concealed carry permit in Indiana) The first handgun that I carried from the mid-70s until 1991 was a used Browning Hi-Power 9mm that had a 13 round double stack magazine. The one I owned then sold new for around $250, and I paid $150 for a used one that was manufactured in 1967. Browning stopped manufacturing the Hi-Power several years ago, and used ones go today for around $2,000.
I have a neighbor who still has his original .22 revolver that he bought from the Sears & Roebuck catalog back in the 50s for $12. A similar revolver today is $269.00 The cheapest handguns today are 10 times the price of Saturday Night Specials of the 60’s and 70s.
AS for myself, I have a gun safe
One of the best things that’s happened in terms of gun safety in the last few years is the single gun biometric safe that operates off your fingerprint. I keep my carry gun in a Sentry biometric safe on the nightstand next to our bed, and I can access it in a couple of seconds, but it’s safe from my 9-year-old great granddaughter and her friends when they’re at our house.
and I’ve passed background checks back when they were required.
Therein lies a major part of the problem from a control standpoint. Almost no prohibited person is prosecuted for trying to purchase a firearm illegally.
Everything is Orwellian these days. A common narrative now on the Left is that straight men who refuse to date “women with penis’s” are bigots. We have to stop validating mental illness. And STOP using the language of the Left. These are not trans people, these are people with serious mental issues who need therapy.
I’m usually skeptical of The Guardian, but out of curiosity I googled the definition of “populist” as it is such a popular pejorative used against Trump, and I found a very good article with only a few quibbles for a couple of its references.
But as breathless op-eds and thinktank reports about the populist menace keep piling up, they have provoked a sceptical backlash from critics who wonder aloud if populism even exists. It is now relatively common to encounter the idea that, just as there were no real witches in Salem, there are no real populists in politics – just people, attitudes and movements that the political centre misunderstands and fears, and wants you, reader, to fear too, although without the burden of having to explain exactly why. Populism, in this framing, is a bogeyman: a nonentity invoked for the purpose of stirring up fear. This argument has even made its way to the centrist mainstream. “Let’s do away with the word ‘populist,’” wrote the New York Times columnist Roger Cohen in July. “It’s become sloppy to the point of meaninglessness, an overused epithet for multiple manifestations of political anger. Worse, it’s freighted with contempt, applied to all voters who have decided that mainstream political parties have done nothing for their static incomes or disappearing jobs or sense of national decline these past two decades.”
If this doesn’t describe the bizzare rabbit hole we’ve gone down as a society, I don’t know what does.
And never use pronouns for yourself or for anyone else, or even accept them as anything proper or legitimate. We have to start living truths again, not fantasies.
I repeat: Trump’s handling of Covid and his ongoing insistence on being praised for pushing the development of what is now known to be not just an ineffective drug but a dangerous drug is a huge time bomb set to blow up in his face. I believe that a candidate could come out of nowhere and lay out a devastating attack on both Biden and Trump for the vaccine disaster—and if he wanted to, DeSantis would be the ideal guy to do this. The lockdowns, the mask mandates, and of course the vaxx mandates, have all led to economic misery and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, not to mention the damages from the experimental drugs Trump brags about and Biden continues to push.
Remember this?
Trump went on to tell Kemp that hair salons and bowling alleys and tattoo parlors weren’t essential businesses. Kemp argued that those business owners were his (Trump’s) voters and Kemp’s voters, too. They would lose everything if they had to remain closed. Then, Kemp said, the next day Trump went on television during the daily press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic and trashed Kemp’s decision to protect business owners.
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Kemp is being talked about as a potential candidate for senator in 2026 as a GOP challenger to Democrat Senator Jon Ossoff. Even though it isn’t until 2026, Trump is already stirring the pot against Kemp. He is encouraging Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to run for the seat. She is currently following Trump around like a puppy dog, likely hoping to be considered as his vice presidential choice if he is the GOP nominee.
Can you imagine a more divisive and emotion-driven ticket than Trump/Greene?
Not ALL reporters are trash, but…
We are constantly being told that Fox News is nothing but a propaganda machine but that you can count on the more mainstream news organizations to play it straight. And, perhaps in their own mind, they are. It is quite possible that these ideological shock troops actually believe their own BS and genuinely believe that anybody who disagrees with them is an evil troll in need of a good stint in a reeducation camp.
But this is the result of the ideological grooming they have all gotten in their own reeducation camps, called the public schools and American higher education institutions. They are in fact the moral equivalents of Mao’s followers during the Cultural Revolution.
They hound everyone with whom they disagree, slander with abandon, and have the logical abilities of toddlers.
They need to be treated with the contempt they so richly deserve. Whether their ideological ardor is genuine or merely the result of a desire to rise in the communist regime being built is irrelevant.
They are the enemies of civilization, and should be treated with the respect they deserve: none.
I am so fucking tired of an inanimate object being blamed for peoples failures. This is peak insanity. And Forty, Fielding and Casper mindlessly bleat out the ruling class narrative. The solution is simple. Protect the children in the same manner we protect politicians, federal buildings, and all the buildings the Media occupy. Secured entires during school hours … it’s really fucking simple.
Look how many schools bent the knee to Leftist demands to remove police protection. And now some are going back to having law enforcement on campus.
It takes a special kind of stupid to fail to understand that with no mechanism for enforcing a law—whether it is shoplifting or shooting kids in schools—that law will be broken with impunity.
But the Left will always go to any extreme to avoid having its own defects blamed for the problems they create., They have to, because their defects create so many problems. And when it comes to guns, it’s even more important to demonize the tool rather than the person using it, because that tool poses the greatest obstacle to total takeover of the nation by the Left. It is imperative for the Left to disarm Americans.
It is imperative for the Left to disarm Americans.
Worth noting, though, that Progressives are not flocking to volunteer to be the tip of the spear.
You’re still advocating a political non solution rather than an effective, common sense solution, because that’s who you are. You’re a ruling class tool. The ban on guns will be as effective as your ban on drugs. And that’s not going real well if you haven’t noticed. From now on, we don’t need your “solutions” ok?
So reading comprehension is not a strength of yours, I see. I’ll say it again, and pay attention, or as best as you can
Protect Children in the same manner we protect politicians. Problem solved. There hasn’t been one mass shooting in the Halls of Congress or even in the MSNBC building. Do you know why honey?? Can you figure that one out?
And I’m not interested in being civil with you … I want to completely eliminate people like you. And if you haven’t noticed, that’s where we are headed.
I’m not blaming guns. I just want to keep them out of the hands of the monsters who are doing this.
It’s not the guns, it’s the monsters. And instead of being on constant defense trying to keep the monsters from getting guns, what we need to do is stop creating monsters.
We’ve gone over the societal foundations of the kinds of mental illness that leads to mass shootings and you just ignore them and focus on the guns. It’s not a gun problem, it’s a societal problem.
It looks like guns saved a lot of lives at a different prospective target:
Nashville Shooter did a threat assessment of another school but decided against an attack due to too much security.
How’s that gun-free zone thing working out for you? Everybody happier now that they don’t have to see cops in the schools?
BTW the Casper Star Tribune, an AP rag, just ran a short story on the shooting which was quite an exercise in how to write about someone without ever using a pronoun. The subject was tragic but the pretzeling of the AP was hysterical.
Interesting collection of data on over a half century of mass shootings. One thing that stood out is this:
Yep – the “known wolf”. All part of what I’ve talked about: we deliberately created this mess. Well, Progressives deliberately created it: destroying all standards so that when the lunatic starts to emerge, it is almost certain that nothing will be done about it…we don’t want to judge, right?
I couldn’t sleep at night if I had advance knowledge of someone’s intention to engage in a mass shooting and didn’t say something to someone in law enforcement. And it isn’t about not wanting to be judgmental, it’s about preventing a tragedy.
No, because now being “judgmental” is a bad thing, akin to “intolerance”. That’s why we can’t put mentally ill people in institutions—that implies a judgment on their condition, not an effort to protect them as well as society. We can’t separate troubled youth because that is too much like “judging” them and this is just not acceptable. We can’t establish standards because that would mean “judging” based on meeting those standards
These days we can’t even have basic educational standards for things like medical school because to fail to pass a test to get in might hurt the feelz of the guy who couldn’t be bothered to study, or who refused to learn proper English because that would be “acting white”.
You used the term “when the lunatic starts to emerge”….how can we tell he is a lunatic if we don’t have a way to measure lunacy? We can’t even identify behaviors as bad, or wrong, because that is “judgmental”. There are no more deviants, because there is no such as deviant. There are still people referring to the Tennessee killer as “he”.
This is all the purposeful creation of the Left in its determination to destabilize our society to make it more vulnerable to takeover. The Left has never succeeded in any society that was stable and secure, so they have been methodically undermining any sense of cultural security.
Reports are now that the mentally challenged woman shooter, purchased her gun legally WHILE she was under going treatment for mental illness. So those laws worked well didn’t they? And Democrats response is to …. put in more laws. That’s how FUCKING stupid they are.
Have we all noticed that there is no news coming out of Ukraine?? What happened to saving democracy? Did Putin win?? Where’s our $113 billion??
I think much of the $113 billion went here.
Latest I’ve seen is a report that a Ukrainian luxury car dealer cleared some liens on Pudding Brain’s Florida house…which recently sold for 1.3 million and just how in hell did Grandpa Badfinger afford that in addition to his Delaware manse? I mean, not like the Big Guy was getting 10%…they told us that was Russian disinformation.
Good to know, though, that 19 years olds are butchering each other in the Donbas so Joe can clear some debts.
When I looked up “Biden Florida house” I got a link to the sale of a house by Jim and Sara Biden, back in 2018, for $1.3 million. I can see why Jim needs graft to get by. He paid $2.5 million for it, put more than a million into fixing it up, tried to get $5.9 million for it and the story is that it finally sold for $1.3 million. I am known to buy high and sell low, but even I couldn’t do that badly.
I didn’t find anything on a house owned by Joe, though the article did say he had visited when he was VP.
Biden family, then.
Same difference. The money all comes from the same place.
“out of the closet” has a whole new meaning now. Now it means not even pretending to care about the problem of sexualizing young children. Now it means openly advocating for this.
Madonna has announced a new stop on her “The Celebration Tour” in Tennessee, with the intention of raising funds for LGBT organizations in response to anti-grooming legislation recently passed in the state.
More on the Left advocating violence
Aw yes, the illegitimate Gov. of AZ. I was at the TPC golf tournament in Scottsdale in February when Hobbs was announced as being in the crowd. The thunder of boos was deafening. Not many people here in AZ consider her to be a legitimate Gov., nor do they even like her.
Has she made a statement decrying the message that the only time guns are good are when they are trained on the opposition?
Just curious—isn’t this an incitement to violence? Advocacy for murder?
And what “rights” are being endangered? There is a right to life, a right of free speech and assembly, a right to religious belief and worship, a right to bear arms, etc. But what “rights” do these people think are being denied to them?
They have the right to pretend they are what they are not.. They have the right to act out fantasies and wishful thinking. They do not have the right to impose these on other people, in competitions or restroom use or trying to indoctrinate children. They have the right to be treated respectfully as human beings, but do not have the right to demand that others accept their delusions as reality.
And they for darned sure don’t have the right to kill people who do not participate in their delusions.
This is just another example of the one-way street of Leftist “tolerance”.
Nope. And in fact, we never hear from her. She hides most days. And strangely enough, she denied all of her supporters of celebrating her “swearing in ceremony”, choosing to hold that ceremony in privacy. Doesn’t sound like the move of a popularly elected Gov. does it?
My bet is that the young person (I don’t want to be accused of misgendering) in the picture hasn’t really thought through the “or else” part.
That is a very generous interpretation of the intent. But someone put a lot of effort into finding different gun silhouettes and coloring them in rainbow colors, which implies a certain amount of thought and motive
Read all the way down. You may not agree with what he says, but he will give you an insight on how he and many like think.
Particularly what he says about President Trump.
I tried, I really did. But I’m a grown-up lady who got tired of the chaotic cartoonish unserious BS. I got tired of trying to figure out what this guy was trying to say, and then realized I didn’t care because he sounds like a loon. My “insight into how he thinks” is that (1) He’s a nut, and (2) I don’t care
And the anti-DeSantis rage feels exactly like the anti-Trump propaganda when he first came on the scene. Sorry, but I’m one of those boring people who just looks at facts, cares about the underlying structure of a political model to determine if it is the best way to govern the nation, rejects Identity Politics and doesn’t really have time for overheated hyperemotional rhetoric.
If there happens to be anything of value buried in all that gobbeldygook and argy-bargy, then the guy should dig it out, clean up, and write it up like an adult.
This is extraordinary …
‘It’s a dangerous race that no one can predict or control’: Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and 1,000 other tech leaders call for pause on AI development
The dangers AI poses to society can not be understated so I am glad to see these people raise the alarm … they know.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11914149/Musk-experts-urge-pause-training-AI-systems-outperform-GPT-4.html
Two reports on government funded AI speech monitoring software were released last week — one from the higher education news site, College Fix, and the other from political news outlet The Federalist.
The College Fix report focused on about $6 million in grants the National Science Foundation gave out to a group of five professors from several universities to develop an AI fact-checking tool called “course correct.”
The system would use machine learning and natural language processing to crawl social media and identify people or groups who might be “at risk” of believing or spreading so-called “misinformation.” Then it would, according to them, “combat [their] skepticism” by targeting them with “facts” and information that would encourage their trust in government institutions.
The Federalist’s reporting covered a similar development among communication tech firms.
Remember: Communication tech firms can track consumer habits for retailers — Amazon knows you clicked on a lawn equipment site and will suggest lawn mowers to you.
Since 2020, the Department of Defense has awarded 500 contracts to some of these companies to develop programs to use their monitoring and tracking technology to combat what they call “misinformation.”
According to The Federalist’s report, with the aid of AI and machine learning, this technology would be able to identify the source of mis or disinformation as it’s published. Then it would isolate and de-amplify it before it could spread.
Meaning… It could squelch news from disfavored outlets before the public had an opportunity to read or hear it and judge for themselves how sound it is.
This report just blithely acknowledges that the purpose is to convince people that the government is the only source of acceptable information. Then it would, according to them, “combat [their] skepticism” by targeting them with “facts” and information that would encourage their trust in government institutions.
And that’s not dangerous?
Jeff Childers has an excellent analysis of James O’Keefe’s latest endeavor following his exit from Project Veritas.
I was reading this too this morning, and it really comes as no surprise right? I also can guarantee you that a good chunk of the $113 billion sent to Ukraine will be used in the 2024 campaign.
America has a communist problem. And it’s the Democrat Party.
The best communists money can buy.
I am less worried about the final landing place of the money sent to Ukraine than I am the multi–billions funneled to the drug companies for the “vaccines”. At least money to Ukraine is up-front graft. But the complex Covid scam is not only more complicated, it is intricately tied in with destruction of the American economy, the subjugation of hundreds of millions of Americans to outright tyranny, and the deaths of who knows how many tens of thousands, not to mention ongoing health issues from the experimental drugs people were either forced to take or took because the government lied to them.
Think about it: The government knew the drugs didn’t work, the government knew the drugs were dangerous, so why did the government make them mandatory? Why did the government (1) force people to take them as conditions of keeping their jobs, remaining in the military, or even traveling, and (2) provide legal protection for the drug companies by allowing them to continue under Emergency Use Authority?
Could this possibly be related to the fact that the “crisis” allowed the government to funnel billions and billions of dollars to those drug companies, where they apparently just disappeared? Do ya think? Are we really supposed to believe that massive flow of taxpayer money only went one way?
A new report estimates that COVID-19 vaccine damages in the United States in 2022 led to over 26 million people being injured at a cost of nearly $150 billion to the economy.
The stark figures come in a report from Phinance Technologies, a global macro investment firm co-founded by former BlackRock portfolio manager Edward Dowd.
“Numbers conservative,” Dowd said in a tweet, adding that the economic damage estimates exclude knock-on effects like lost productivity due to people being present at their jobs but working at reduced capacity.
Also not captured in the projection is the impact of burnout on workers taking up the slack from vaccine-injured employees, nor any effects on supply chains related to harmful vaccine side effects on workers.
Called the Vaccine Damage Project, the study sought to gauge both the economic impact and human cost of COVID-19 vaccine damage.
Data used to estimate the economic and human impacts came from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations, and studies, including a scientific peer-reviewed paper on serious adverse events following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, per the project’s website.
Thanks for sharing this. I got the Childers email but didn’t take the time to read it, so I appreciate the heads-up.
It really looks like this country only has half a dozen real journalists, and the rest are just apparatchiks of the State
It was after Gore picked up the sack of cash from the Monks that the Democrats had to rethink this whole thing…long term, that was the genesis of Act Blue. And Matt and I saw this as we wrote Caucus of Corruption way back when but we didn’t have the means to prove it…all sorts of donations coming through in weird amounts: who donates $27.56 to a campaign? I’ll tell you who: a foreigner donating foreign currency which is then converted into US dollars, that’s who. I’m confident that Act Blue does get a lot of genuine donations…and the legit ones seem to end up being burned by Democrats in hopeless races…but that all works out just fine: it gets the GOP to waste money on sure-things and the amount of transactions makes it easy to hide other, less legit money, flooding into the races which matter…like Governor of Arizona or Senator of Pennsylvania.
Yes, I remember all those Chinese busboys—and nuns!!—donating all that money to Clinton. Remember Charlie Trie? Johnny Huang? Even the NYT finally had to admit there was foreign money coming into the DNC.
With dispassionate thoroughness, an F.B.I. agent named Jerome Campane yesterday gave the Senate committee investigating campaign spending abuses the most detailed and easily the most arresting description so far of how foreign money was laundered into the 1994 elections and Bill Clinton’s re-election campaign. This startling mosaic, involving an Asian developer named Ng Lap Seng and his industrious American agent, Yah Lin (Charlie) Trie, did not prove Senator Fred Thompson’s suspicions that the Chinese Government sought to influence the American political system. But it did nothing to erase those suspicions, meanwhile showing how vulnerable that system is to manipulation.
The testimony also provided further proof, if any were needed, that the Democratic National Committee casually collected money wherever it could.
They tried so hard to tone it down—-“did not prove ……………. that the Chinese Government sought to influence the American political system..”—–but it sure looked like it. A lot more than it looked like Russia tried to influence the American election for Trump, especially after Russia dumped so much money into Clinton coffers and a Russian agent helped the DNC cook up an anti-Trump smear campaign.
These days, though, it looks like the Chicoms are bypassing the DNC and going straight to the Bidens. Now that the DNC has learned how to take an election without bothering with votes, I guess there isn’t any reason to run money through them when it can go directly to the Big Guy with the desk and the pen (though he often forgets where they are).
Just a note to our resident communists … your President laughed at the deaths of Christian children yesterday. That’s who you voted for, and that’s who you are. Now you know why I will never be civil to any of you.
You have to remember, those who voted for Biden (those who actually did) only did so because he wasn’t Trump. That was all that mattered. That’s all that ever will matter. The fact that he represents a brutal and oppressive political model, and has only contempt for America, Americans and especially Christians is immaterial to them.
He’s not Trump. That is as far as these tiny closed minds can go. And they have absolutely no interest in the collateral damage of their decision.
They let him dictate to them that they wrap rags around their faces, stay inside, stop working, stop sending their children to school, and take dangerous drugs that haven’t even been subjected to full FDA testing and approval—because he’s not Trump.
They are fine with the carnage represented by the border crisis, ranging from sex slavery and trafficking of young women and children to enriching the drug cartels to make them even more massively powerful to the deaths of thousands because they have been enticed to try to get to our border to the flow of lethal drugs into the country to the inability to interdict terrorists strolling across the border—because it’s not Trump.
They are indifferent to the dangers of encouraging an alliance between China and Russia, as these countries expand their military might while ours withers, because it’s not Trump.
I don’t think stupidity excuses the malignance of the Left, but it does explain a lot of it.
‘Federal agents receive adulation and career advancement when they orchestrate plausible-looking attacks and then stop them at the last minute—a dangerous game that can obviously spin out of control quickly…’
There’s a part of me the thinks there’s a collusion between certain individuals within the FBI leadership and the democrat party that is intentionally using subversive methods to instigate & allow these shootings, especially in elementary schools, to create inflamed emotions to help pave the way for extreme gun control and confiscations. I hope I’m wrong but there are just too many “coincidences” that say otherwise. The FBI’s involvement with J6 and the “failed attempt” of a governor’s kidnapping & execution are just 2 examples. Almost every single element of enforced or proposed gun control laws & executive orders does little to deter actual criminal activity, only suppresses the freedoms of lawful citizens. Democrats know this but don’t really care. They still scream relentlessly hoping the squeaky wheel will cause enough fear and indignation that enough citizens play the dangerous game of useful idiots.
There must be a reckoning and hopefully the current house republicans do their job to investigate, and prosecute wherever the facts lead them. No doubt there will be stonewalling and cover-ups, so the investigating process needs to make any attempt to obfuscate the truth, toxic and damaging to any who participate at any level.
https://headlineusa.com/he-was-on-our-radar-new-research-details-fbis-prior-contacts-w-mass-shooters/?utm_source=HUSAemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail
I’ve thought the same thing for some time. I hope the dots can be connected.
Great points. Kind of a legal Munchausen’s situation—create a problem so you can solve it.
– In December 2013, Zaire Ebola hemorrhagic fever broke out in Guinea and over the next three years spread across West Africa, ultimately killing 11,323 people. It was the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in history.
– According to a paper published at the end of December 2014, the Ebola epidemic was traced back to a 2-year-old boy in Meliandou, Guinea.
– Supposedly, the boy had come in contact with an infected fruit bat in a hollowed-out tree. However, no Ebolavirus was ever detected in any of the bat samples collected from the area.
– The senior author on that 2014 paper was Fabian Leendertz, a renowned virus hunter with the Robert Koch Institute in Germany. Leendertz was also a member of the World Health Organization team that investigated the origin of COVID-19, concluding without evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was of zoonotic origin.
– In late October 2022, Sam Husseini and Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., published a new analysis, in which they highlighted the holes in the zoonotic origin narrative and laid out the evidence pointing to a lab leak.
– Curiously, many of the same individuals, companies and organizations involved in the Ebola epidemic have also been linked to the alleged creation of SARS-CoV-2.
Not too difficult to see the puzzle pieces coming together in this and a wide variety of other “disasters”. They look a lot like the sister version of Arkincide. The amount of absolute evil and corruption in the world is staggering. No idea how it will all play out but I’ve no doubt it will get worse before it gets better.
The Left has always had disdain for the proletariat, never seeing people as individual human beings but merely as components in different demographics (as we see them categorizing people in American politics) and as pawns to be moved and sacrificed to gain power.
The real trouble is that we have nobody to turn to – so many institutions have been corrupted that all of them are under a cloud…as are everyone who works for them, even the good ones because all too often we see those who know keeping their heads down to maintain their careers. We do know for certain – from research more than, say, 25 years old and thus more likely to be trustworthy, that viruses do jump from animals to people. But any particular outbreak in the last decade or so…who knows?
And it doesn’t have to be explicit evil behind it. It could very well be explained by incompetence – as ever more diversity hires are shoved through an education system already massively dumbed-down, we’re going to see increasing number of people with prestige credentials who haven’t the first clue what they’re doing. I keep in my mind going back to that German destroyer launched a few years back with a permanent list. Think about that – think about the number of German engineers who had to pass on that from drawing board to launch and the problem wasn’t discovered until the hull was in the water! German engineers! Descendants of people who designed the Bismarck so well that after an hour’s pounding by two British battleships, she only went under when the Krauts opened the sea cocks. Its getting like that everywhere…and don’t think the Chinese are really doing any better. The videos of their kids doing math equations are just that – videos of kids doing memorized math equations. They aren’t getting the fully rounded education which would allow them to apply mathematics to practical tasks…and this is why periodically you see a brand new building in China just topple over.
We’re about to experience a new Dark Age – led there by a bunch of people who will have Ivy League degrees.
The real trouble is that we have nobody to turn to When you don’t know who to trust, you trust no one.
And this is how institutions wither and die, when people don’t trust them and have to handle things themselves, or start their own little institutions. We are seeing that with schools, and I imagine it won’t be long before we see it with law enforcement.
You’ve pointed it out yourself—what will “they” do if we just say “no”?
And one thing to consider—conservatives don’t just have the guns, we have most of the skills, too, and the attitude of do it yourself.
Similar to “starting our own little institutions” only in this case acting like states.
This is from someone who identifies as a “senior political analyst”. Of course, it’s with CNN so…..
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
On so many fronts, the states w/unified Republican control of government (or veto proof legislative majorities as here) are building a nation w/in a nation. The breadth, degree, and pace, of separation by the red states is breathtaking.
“A nation within a nation”. In other words, a functioning state. And it takes Ron’s breath away.
This senior political analyst is fluttery because states are acting like states. As one of the comments pointed out, “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature”.
It’s called state sovereignty. It’s the foundational concept of our Constitution. It’s baked into the document, and then, just to make sure it is understood, in a belt-and-suspenders approach by the Founders it is restated in the 10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
And Left HATES this. It goes against everything Leftism stands for, which is consolidation of power in the hands of a few (the State) with little or no authority left to the states, or to the people. But you might think a SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST would at least know this, even if he doesn’t agree with it, instead of getting all frustrated and scared when he sees it in action.
We’re about to experience a new Dark Age – led there by a bunch of people who will have Ivy League degrees.
I may have to add that to my file of famous quotes.
We will not comply may become the four most common words in the English language.
That’s so much more elegant than “Nah, I don’t think so”.
Cluster, you’re a real estate guy in Arizona. What do you think of this? Heard of it?
I had not seen this so thanks for sharing and all I can say is … wow, but I’m not surprised at all. Going back to John McCain’s S&L crisis in the 80’s, Arizona has always been a politically dirty and corrupt state. And mortgage fraud in AZ is a past time sport for a lot of people, and knowing the depravity of the communist Democrat Party, this makes perfect sense.
Everyone I talk to, with few exceptions, know that Hobbs and Biden stole the election in AZ, and even more convincing of that fact, is that no elected official in AZ has ever tried to be transparent to the public about the 2020 election. And seeing how the AZ Courts are toying around with provable ballot fraud presented by Kari Lake, screams to me that they are in on it too. Hobbs is so unpopular, she rarely makes public appearances, and when she does, the reaction from the crowd is never good.
At some point in the very near future, God fearing Americans and patriots are going to have to accept the fact that the Democrat party is Godless, Communist, and Violent. They have turned their backs on American ideals. They are not our friends, and certainly not our “fellow citizens” anymore. They are straight up enemies and we are in a cold war now that will turn hot the second a few rounds go into the heads of Antifa agitators. And that day is coming.
Glenn Beck had a lengthy interview with Kari Lake on his radio show yesterday. She’s not going away.
Here is a recent note from Matt Walsh. We need to wake up to the fact that Democrats are violent communists … we need to become violent
Sadly I have to postpone my speech at Washington and Lee University. Due to threats against my family and other serious security concerns in Nashville this week, I cannot leave my family and fly to another state. I hate to push the event off but my wife and kids come first. I intend to continue my spring college tour as planned in the coming weeks. The event at Washington and Lee will be rescheduled as soon as possible.
The utter insanity continues … $5 million per ungrateful black person now is not enough
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11918251/Five-million-little-California-reparations-taskforce-told-black-residents-7-6m.html
The battles America faces today is no longer political. It’s spiritual. It’s good vs evil. Choose your side.
I refuse to believe that there are THAT many truly evil people in this world. Therefore, the fight is every bit as much about winning the hearts and minds of basically good people who might be gullible enough to be manipulated into doing evil things as it is about defeating the truly evil people. The successful strategy will be to do both. As a Christian I already know how the story ends, but there’s still going to be a fight.
I appreciate the sentiment, but IMHO, we are beyond winning hearts and minds. I saw a great meme entitled “The Slippery Slope” where years ago we were forced to accept gay marriage, and now we’re talking about men becoming women. It has devolved that quickly. I think America is at that turning point we have all talked about for the last 15 years. We are there. It’s either communism or civl war.
I agree, Spook. While the end result of enabling and supporting a brutal and corrupt system is the same no matter if the support is based on awareness and purposeful effort to advance the system or just the utter cluelessness of people whose support is, in their minds, actually support for something very different. I think there is a spectrum of complicity, and that up to a point on the spectrum people, if they can be reached, can change.
I think the hard part is the fact that these people are ON that spectrum in the first place because of the powerful lure of the Left’s message that to be there means acquiring the Higher Moral Ground. It’s really hard to objectively look at yourself and admit that not only has your political position done nothing to let you feel morally superior, in fact it has contributed to great evil and suffering. But I don’t think these people are actually evil, themselves, just on a path that is really a tunnel, with no sight lines to either side and departure lanes guarded by the Complicit Agenda Media.