We have them but do we fight back?

 Trump: If Iranian Civilians Had Guns, "I'm Convinced" They Would Fight Back

Y'all can't handle honesty

The Left Is in Thrall to Political Violence

John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist

 

The Left's Embrace of Political Violence

Washington Examiner

  

Is America in a Politically Violent Age?

Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times

 

We Need To Have an Honest Discussion About Political Violence

John Lott, RCP

 

 

Trump's government murdered two American citizens in Minneapolis just this year.

 

Bill Clinton's government murdered the Branch Davidians in WACO in 1993.

 

George H. W. Bush's government murdered Randy Weaver's wife and son at Ruby Ridge in 1992.

 

Abroad, presidents have been routinely killing civilians since the advent of the drone era.

 

George W. Bush conducted at least 57 strikes, killing over one hundred civilians.

 

Barack H. Obama ramped up the strikes to over 500, killing many hundreds. 

 

Trump I conducted so much killing from the air he stopped reporting the numbers, leaving others to estimate thousands of killings from an unknown number of drone strikes.

 

Joe Biden radically curtailed the use of drones, but still killed dozens of civilians, including in an infamous incident during the ignominious U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

 

Trump II is murdering non-combatants in speed boats in the Caribbean, and school girls in Iran. 

 

The high criminal violence is completely bi-partisan and impeachable, but it reflects the country rather than leads it.

 

Americans of all stripes have been quite content quietly to enjoy life year in and year out while pretending that some of their fellow citizens have not been busy killing tens of millions of the unborn. Abortions don't make a loud noise and leave a puff of smoke, but the outcome is the same.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totalitarian DHS wants total information awareness about you, and got it illegally 42,695 times from the IRS

How many violent criminals and terrorists do you think file tax returns, vote, and collect welfare? 

 Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data

 ... DHS officials have defended the data-sharing agreement as necessary to crack down on illegal immigration. “Information sharing across agencies is essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety and terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, and identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense,” DHS said in a prior statement. ...

Just wait until Democrats run this operation against gun owners and see how you like it. 

Gee, I thought the GOP controlled all three branches of the federal government, how could this be happening?

 

Left Making Huge Progress Toward Letting Illegals Stay

Byron York, DC Examiner

 

Byron York presents a fair statement of the current immigration situation, but never questions the wisdom of the current policy.

 

Yes indeed, Americans want illegals deported, and Trump is spending billions upon billions trying to do just that, but even apart from the resistance being encountered in Democrat-controlled cities, the numbers just don't add up in all the places York says Trump is succeeding.

 

Byron says there are nine million new illegals because of Joe Biden. Trump has deported 600,000 so far, and is likely to be lucky to wind up deporting just 2.4 million. The vast majority of them will still be here when Trump is long gone.

 

Clearly the policy is ineffective, on top of being brutal, unjust, murderous, and a huge waste of money.

 

Trump is ominously expanding the federal infrastructure of a tyrannical police state which a future president might find all too tempting to use to impose gun confiscation, for example. He keeps demanding local cooperation with federal enforcement, which the courts have said violates the Bill of Rights. This impulse is authoritarian, not American. 

 

Trump should have spent what little political capital he won in 2024 by pushing a legislative solution to immigration which placed severe penalties and jail time on persons and companies who hire illegal aliens, and by imposing strict federal regulation against social spending on, and social privileges like drivers licenses for, illegal aliens.

 

Mitt Romney was right that we have to turn off the magnets which attract illegal immigration. Rounding them up one by one is a fool's errand.

 

Give a man a fish and he'll be back tomorrow with his family for five. 

Kash Patel is incompetent and he needs to go, too

 

WH Corrects FBI: Law-Abiding 'Have Right To Bear Arms'

Philip Wegmann, RCP

 

Lying New York Post reporter with a BA in English says Pretti's crime against the state was attempting to separate the ICE agents from the demonstrators (!) using a firearm (!)

 

 ... Protester Alex Jeffrey Pretti was part of the street-side struggle, according to video, and became the center of a scrum of roughly six officers who tackled the 37-year-old after he attempted to separate ICE agents from demonstrators. ... Bovino claimed Pretti approached officers with the weapon and “violently resisted” agents when they attempted to wrestle the gun from him, he said in a news conference.

More. 

You just knew this would be the response in Australia

 Australia to tighten gun laws after Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre

The Muslim father and son alleged shooters reportedly owned six firearms legally under the already severely restricted laws since 1996 which have reduced firearm ownership in Australia to 25% of households.

The shooters' rampage went on for many minutes before police arrived to engage and stop them, in widely shared video on the site formerly known as Twitter.

AI says about 813k Muslims live in Australia, where over four million legal, registered firearms are owned by civilians in the country of 27.5 million. 

Australia plans tougher gun laws after police say father and son killed 15 at Bondi Beach

 ... The incident has raised questions whether Australia’s gun laws, among the toughest in the world, need overhaul, with police saying the older suspect had held a firearms license since 2015, along with six registered weapons. ... 

Two flags of militant group Islamic State were found in the gunmen’s vehicle, ABC News said, without citing a source. ...

Jews number about 150,000 of Australia’s population of 27 million, with about a third estimated to live in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, including Bondi.

 

In December 2015 FBI Director James Comey assumed a firearm purchased over the internet would be shipped directly to your address instead of to an FFL holder, so yeah he might not know the worst meaning of 86

 My dictionary doesn't have the worst meaning either.

Trump is overreacting.

It's so simple even she can understand it

 

Sotomayor Challenges Trump On Universal Injunctions: So If A President Seized Everyone's Guns, One Court Ruling Couldn't Stop It?

Week over week US Treasury yields in the aggregate popped 5.8% on net to an average 4.335% after declining for months from 4.5 to 4.0 and everybody's freaking out like this hasn't happened, what, six times now in the current era

Most of the pissing and moaning is from investors who pulled the bond trigger too soon, plowed into fixed income, and got burned badly because interest rates reasserted themselves.

The press this weekend is instead full of apocalyptic language about the Treasury market and the implications for America on a grand scale. It's complete rot and I'm ignoring it. It's all designed to pressure the Fed to lower their rate again.

The last time the Fed embarked on rate cuts is instructive. It was late September 2024. The average of the aggregate of the curve had fallen to just north of 4. Inflation rates seemed to be trending down. So the Fed cut, and voila! Treasury rates hilariously shot upward!

The burn was real.  

$TLT investors, who were down 4.76% in 2021, 31.41% in 2022, up 2.96% in 2023, went down again, 7.84% in 2024 as a result. Ouch.

They are back, itching again for a policy reversal like they have a flea infestation, so bad they are bleeding.

As things stand year to date, long term investment grade investors in VWESX, for example, are down 1.43%. It wasn't supposed to be this way, not again.

So everyone hates the bond vigilantes with the heat of 1,000 suns, and urges more imprudence.

Meanwhile in "cash" you go on making 4.3% or so, and in gold you have made a killing, while stocks reel under Trump's stupid tariff shotgun blasts which are wounding everyone in the field, including himself.

If the Fed had done a proper job against inflation by jacking up the Fed Funds Rate to meaningfully combat the core pce inflation rate of its average 5.35% in 2022 instead of going only where it did, which was 1.69% on an average basis, maybe we wouldn't still have this lingering inflation for the bond vigilantes to demand payment against. Core pce inflation hasn't moved materially off 2.8% in a year now, still much too high.

The bond market is "she who must be obeyed". She doesn't tell you everything you need to know, but she does tell you the most important thing.

But what the hell do I know. I'm just some punk keyboard warrior blogging in his underwear in the basement to the money men. So yippee-ki-yay, you earned it. Especially you Donald Trump, you complete ignoramus.

 

Like many "patriots", Elon Musk confidently repeats a myth about the First and Second Amendments

 

Joe Biden more than once pledged not to pardon his son Hunter Biden, but today he did

 The period covered by the pardon goes all the way back to January 1, 2014 for any and all crimes Hunter may have committed, too. You know, like tax crimes. The statute of limitations for tax crimes is ten years.

This wasn't just about the gun crimes.

Meanwhile, 363 people were convicted of tax fraud in 2023, and 63% went to prison. 

It's great to be a Democrat.

 

Tim Walz took his trap gun on a pheasant hunt, with which he struggled

 The female accompanying Walz brought the correct gun, a break action.

Very embarrassing.

The New York Times is Vice

 

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It's the foolishness of youth which chooses to throw away its vote in protest when there will be truckloads of fraud

But there are signs of maturity emerging.

 

Stephen L. Miller doesn't have the faintest idea about how Republicanism lost its way

 

Guy who says Mitt Romney was decent man says get fucked you fuckers

Decent man says Paris Olympics opening ceremony mocking Christianity was great!

Decent man says government mandates, fines, and taxes are not worth getting angry about

Decent man says let autoworkers eat rust

Decent man was NeverTrump because he is NeverFight

Decent man inflames rioters and looters who go on to cause $2 billion in damage

Decent man says Antifa "No USA at all" is morally superior to Robert E. Lee admirers

Decent man says sodomy must be mainstreamed in America

Decent man can't define "assault weapons" but says they have to go

Senator Warnock of Georgia confirms Kamala Harris still advocates for gun confiscation, just as he does

 

CBS News lies about heat deaths, now AP Obama blatantly lies about what JD Vance said

It's almost like you can't trust the news 😏 .

 

 

Kamala Harris is nothing but an authoritarian, a cop, whose first instinct is to use federal power to ban things she doesn't like, such as grocery prices, guns, and hate speech

David French knew she was an authoritarian already in 2019, but he's voting for her in 2024.

Like Democrats generally Kamala Harris wants to ban assault weapons, even though they can't define them, ignoring that most weapons crimes are committed with handguns

Meanwhile, conservatives want children to read age-appropriate books.

There are no banned books in America, unless you are a commie librarian, but I repeat myself, who won't stock conservative books demanded by the public.

Like guns, we have to go buy our own.