Cord cutting is going well. It’s been several weeks, and we haven’t missed CATV at all. Our first night without cable TV, we watched a movie: Where the Crawdads Sing. Great movie. We are saving more than $100 a month by not having TV.
economics
Shrinkflation
Another example of how inflation is getting us in ways we hardly notice. Just a year ago, Hostess Ding Dongs came 12 snack cakes to a box of 17 ounces, making them about 1.4 ounces per snack cake:
Now those same cakes are 10 to a box of 12.7 ounces, making each cake 1.27 ounces. The cakes are smaller, there are fewer of them, and now you pay more to get 25% less.
Crime
Not Smart
There are still people out there who are trying to turn Craig Robertson into a martyr. Let’s look at what got him a visit from the FBI. First, there was the threats:
This isn’t a direct threat, and probably won’t trigger an FBI visit. However, when it gets to this point:
Note how specific those were. Threatening to kill people, especially the President, will generally get you a visit from the Feds. This goes beyond protected speech. He said both how, when, and where. Kind of stupid, to be honest.
We know that he had been visited before:
So you have a guy that is issuing specific threats to kill the President this week in Utah. He has threatened multiple officials in the past, and you have gone to talk to him about it. Instead of cooling it a bit, he doubles down, and this time says if the FBI comes back, he is going to shoot at them.
So with the President coming to Utah, they decide to pay him a visit. Only this time, instead of a friendly chat, they decide to come by with a warrant and some felony charges. How would you go there, if you were in their shoes?
Look, in this case, you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. FAFO, however you want to put it. If you are going to issue specific threats to kill someone, you gotta expect them to take it seriously. That’s a crime, and this is entirely Mr Robertson’s fault for being a loudmouthed dumbass.
This isn’t Waco, it isn’t an FBI overreaction, and it isn’t anyone in the Feebs sending a message. It’s not protected speech. This guy isn’t Ashley Babbitt. This is a loudmouthed idiot who couldn’t stop his mouth from writing checks that his ass wasn’t ready to cash. I’m just not going to make this guy into a martyr.
Uncategorized
OK, Now It’s Personal
It’s been a couple of months since someone came on here to call me stupid. I guess I was due for one.
There was a nice discussion going on between myself, some other commenters, and Canadian Jim F Massey. Now I have a rule here about personal attacks, and this guy came here spouting stupid shit about how the police shouldn’t have to follow the law or the Constitution, if the person they were engaging with was accused of doing something like being a drug dealer, human trafficker, serial rapist, a child molester, or if there was a crackhouse in your neighbourhood. Especially if “some corrupt or overworked judge saw no reason to investigate or do anything about it.”
My response was that I don’t care about the integrity of the accused or what crime he is accused of, everyone’s Constitutional rights are to be respected. He replied that he was concerned that things would get personal. I replied that it wasn’t personal.
This is his response:
“I don’t care whether or not the man’s integrity is questionable….”
So that is your moral high ground, is it? If the man HAD been running a crack house, or a child sex op, or in the middle of his 14th serial murder – all of that should go down in the name of The Constitution, and the victims would have died for the good of society. Gotcha. Coincidentally, that is the exact mindset of our friends in Great Britain and here in Canada, where blatant killers hide behind the law instead of living in fear of it or being justly dealt with by it.
When the lynchings and vigilante justice starts – the Revolution is just around the corner.
I will leave this here, DM. You’re a good guy, and no doubt a patriot… but you don’t have the smarts for the discussion. No need for a reply, I will not be back this way again.
So NOW that you have engaged in personal attacks by calling me stupid, it’s personal.
Listen here, you fuckwit. How are rights working out for you assholes up in Canada? If all it takes for the police to be able to ignore your rights, is for them to claim you were doing something on the naughty list, how long will it take before everyone gets accused of running a crack house, then they come in and ignore everyone’s rights?
If the cops can just arrest people with no regards for their legal and Constitutional rights, how is that any different than a lynching?
This is one of the reasons why you can’t even protest in Canada without your bank accounts being frozen.
Let me remind everyone that there are rules for commenting here. Rules 2 and 3 are as follows:
- Deliberately posting statements that are aimed at insulting the blog owner (me) will get your comment tossed in the trash. Feel free to disagree with me, just don’t call names or impugn my character. If I wanted someone to purposely insult me, I don’t need to pay for a blog server, I can just go to my ex-wife’s house for free.
- Don’t deliberately insult others. No personal attacks. Feel free to attack ideas. Heap scorn on silly or illogical opinions, just don’t make it personal.
For that reason, I am banning him.
Police State
Catholics Are Enemies of the State
The FBI this year circulated a memo, stating that radical, traditional Catholics are part of a “far-right white nationalist movement.”
Anti American left
He’s Paying Attention
He isn’t totally wrong here. There ARE numerous well trained, retired, and active duty military with stockpiles of unregulated 3D printed firearms. Veterans and non-veterans, too. I don’t think the Nazism part is correct, but what is a leftist without an accusation of their opponents being NAZIs? Still, many of those in these circles ARE well connected, and they ARE arming and preparing for a civil war. Maybe he should reflect on that. He goes on:
Yep, the 2A movement IS filled with people who believe that they should be able to make as many untraceable, unregulated firearms as we want. At least you’ve been paying attention. Have we threatened those who oppose us with death? Yep, but that is only because those on his side of the aisle keep saying things like this:
You claim that it is by design that the size of the 2A movement is difficult to pinpoint. What SHOULD keep you up at night is this: it isn’t by design. The 2A movement isn’t designed, it isn’t Astroturf- the movement is organically difficult to pin down because it ISN’T designed or centrally planned. The core membership, designing, building, and stockpiling weapons, is currently in the millions. Perhaps tens of millions. We are engaged in what you call “digital anarchy,” but the rest of us know that as “free speech.”
Yes, there are segments of the same military that you despise while expecting them to kill for you that support the 2A movement. Most of all, we ARE a group that is imminently capable and willing to carry out stochastic violence that is ready, willing, and able to mobilize and carry out guerilla warfare if the situation in this country gets much worse.
Glad to see that you’ve been paying attention. Perhaps your kind should think about this before making things much worse.
Antifa
Mug Club Undercover
Tucker Carlson leaving FOX News and starting his own streaming show has started a new trend in online news. Many Americans, myself included, have cut the cord and moved away from cable television. This is beginning a new era of news that is uncontrolled by the MSM megacorporations.
Steve Crowder has launched a new channel on Rumble- Mug Club Undercover. Here is the first episode, an undercover story on ‘kid friendly’ drag shows that are being guarded by armed Antifa members.
Crime
Not It
I’ve read all of the angst about the guy in Utah that got smoked when the FBI paid him a visit. I’ve listened to those who claim this is a sign that its time to go dark. That it’s a sign that the Feds are picking on him.
It isn’t any of those things.
The guy has been issuing rather explicit death threats against specific politicians for years. Posting pictures of himself in a ghillie suit holding a rifle. He’s had multiple previous visits from the Feds. With all of that, he kept doing it. It’s always been illegal to issue death threats. This isn’t a sign of targeted assassination. It’s an armed dumbass who didn’t know when to keep his bloviating mouth shut. There is a line, and he crossed it.
If you want to off a politico, then keep your mouth shut and just do it. If you want to run your mouth, then know that there are things you can’t do, and threatening to kill people is one of them. When you ignore that advice, expect to be the target of some FBI investigations, and when they DO come over, it’s a bad idea to point guns at them. That’s been true since forever.
Crime
Teaching
From JKb over at gunfreezone, we read about this six year old kid that brought a gun to school and shot his teacher. Yeah, the young age of the kid is shocking, but what isn’t shocking is that a black student got away with multiple acts of violence. The kid is now staying with his grandmother, who blames the school and his teachers:
‘He’s progressing. He’s progressed more since he’s been at this school than all those crazy years he was in a Newport News public school system,’ he added. ‘And I guess basically what he needed was a stable environment. And he just needed to be in a loving environment.
The mother blames ADHD. The kid had a long list of violent outbursts.
When I was a teacher, one of my biggest complaints was that teachers trying to maintain control of their classrooms had to fight against the students, their administrators, and the parents. You would write a discipline referral, the kid would get a stern talking to, then sent back to class. Why? Because less discipline makes the school look better.
That’s why I was told that I would need to go to anger management after I got attacked by a student in my classroom. That’s why we teachers were told that because 30% of the student body was black, but 50% of referrals were written against black students meant that we were racists.