Divemedic

Listening to a Child

It’s the holidays, and holidays mean seeing family. One of the family members I managed to see was my niece. Talking to her is always instructive, as I think that it’s important to peer into the minds of young people. The niece I am talking about? The same one from this post, where we talked about economics.

This conversation involved her announcement that she is a lesbian. I asked her why she thought she was a lesbian. Her reply was that a lesbian is someone who likes girls more than boys, and since she likes girls and isn’t too fond of boys, that means she is a lesbian. I asked her if she had ever kissed a girl, and she replied that no, she hadn’t. See, there is the confusion. Adults in her life are telling her that she must be a lesbian because she doesn’t like boys.

I have news for those on the left- many children at that age don’t like the opposite sex. Girls and boys like different things at that age, and for the most part don’t have many common interests. As a preteen, I was playing baseball and roughhousing. The girls were boring because they played with dolls makeup. I remember at summer camp, we chanted “2, 4, 6, 8, all the girls evaporate.” That didn’t make us gay. We didn’t develop sexual interests for several more years. I wasn’t interested in girls until I was 14 or so.

The same thing happened with my 21 year old niece- she said she was a lesbian and a vegetarian, until she wasn’t. Now she lives with her boyfriend and eats meat. OK, not all meat. She doesn’t like red meat, but I see her eat seafood and chicken on the regular.

For all of these issues, I blame my sister. She is a moron, a welfare queen, and a Democrat. I think the one is a precondition for the other. First, she believed that they drill wells, and if they hit water, they build a house. If they hit oil, they build a gas station. This wasn’t when she was a kid, either. She believed that in her 30s. Anyhow, she was a waitress until her child support for her oldest daughter came to a halt. Her welfare benefits went way down at the same time, so she married a guy who actually makes decent money, so that made the welfare and food stamps go away. That was when she had to get a real job, so she became an elementary school teacher (third grade).

Earlier this year, she told me that she didn’t like Ron DeSantis because he was against teachers, pushed through the “don’t say gay” law, and wanted to outlaw women having abortions.

I pointed out to her that DeSantis pushed through large raises for teachers in 2019, again in 2020, again in 2021, and yet again in 2022. The so-called “don’t say gay law” says nothing of the sort and merely prevents teachers from discussing sex with 8 year old children, and asked her why abortions are so important to her, seeing as how she is in her 40s and isn’t likely to get pregnant anyhow.

Her reply was that her pay hadn’t gone up. I said well, isn’t that your school board and union’s fault? She said “Well, that isn’t what the union tells me.”

This is the voting base for the Democrats. Uninformed morons.

By Divemedic, ago

OK, I will play your silly game.

The ACLU claims that college students in California have a legal and constitutional right to be called the names and pronouns of their chosen gender identity. They claim that this right exists even if you have not legally changed your name. It isn’t just the ACLU in California- the organization’s national policy mirrors it. Interesting that they invent this “right” out of thin air while simultaneously ignoring the Second Amendment and SCOTUS on that issue.

In June 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States in Bostock v. Clayton County concluded that discrimination on the basis of sex encompasses both discrimination based on sexual orientation and discrimination based on gender identity.

In 2016, one college student made a game out of it and declared to his school that his pronoun was “His Majesty” and used official school policy to force staff members to use it. The left went apoplectic, claiming that he fundamentally doesn’t understand gender identity—or pronouns. I think that it is the left that doesn’t get it.

Total Frat Move wrote that gender-neutral pronouns just make “everyday a fun game of ‘let’s solve the puzzle in my pants,’” and that “when you inconvenience the entire world because you learned a hip new word you insist on being called, then you’re just an asshole.”

I agree, but in the spirit of this, we must acknowledge that the law requires that I be called whatever name or pronoun corresponds to my gender identity. If I ever find myself in an environment that insists I follow such a silly and arbitrary rule, I will find in necessary to prove just how silly and arbitrary it is. So let’s refer to the US Department of Labor to see how we can do this. Here are the definitions that they are using:

Names and Pronouns. Refer to each person by the name and the pronoun(s) by which the person wants to be referred. If you don’t know, ask in a tactful and respectful way. For example, you can say, “what pronouns do you use?” or you can introduce yourself with the pronouns you use, which may prompt someone to share the pronouns they use. Continued intentional misuse of a person’s name and pronouns – also known as misgendering – may breach the person’s privacy, may put them at risk of harm, and in some circumstances, may be considered harassment.

Gender identity: A person’s internal sense of being male, female, or something else such as agender, binary, gender fluid, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, or nonbinary. Since gender identity is internal, one’s gender identity is not necessarily visible to others. All people have a gender identity.

So let’s choose something to illustrate the absurdity of this, and then use the law to bludgeon them over the head with it. I choose to identify as Schrodegender. That is, I simultaneously exist in a quantum state of all genders, and only resolve into one specific gender once the observer makes an attempt to measure my specific gender. Each person will be required to look in my pants to observe whatever genitalia I am expressing at that moment before using that pronoun.

Or you can just call me “Assmaster,” either will be acceptable. To refuse to do so is to violate my constitutional rights.

By Divemedic, ago

They Want to Kill You

A Rhode Island School district is now claiming that using the wrong pronoun for a tranny is violence and people should “respond accordingly.” It seems to me that they are saying that the use of force should be authorized to stop someone from using the wrong pronouns.

“I absolutely believe in First Amendment speech protections, both as an elected official and an individual,” Lima added, “I do not believe that post suggests that using incorrect pronouns should be met with violence.”

The left claims that riots are “mostly peaceful,” that the J6 protest was an insurrection, and Kyle Rittenhouse deserved to be attacked because he shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Now they claim that a call to use the force of government to “investigate and discipline such occurrences in the same way as any other biased-based assault” is not violence.

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.

Fine. Bring it on. Let’s get this party started.

By Divemedic, ago

Twitter Still Doing It

Thanks to commenter GuardDuck, I took the following phrase and used it to respond to quite a few lefties on Twitter:

Our current voting process is based on trust. We trust that the process is open, honest, and fair. If people question that process, the victor must open the process to review so that the public can see it was fair. Not doing so violates that trust and is evidence of fraud.

On one occasion, that Tweet generated hundreds of likes.

It has since disappeared from Twitter. I cannot find it anywhere in my feed or history. I don’t care what Musk claims, his bullshit lefties are still censoring people.

By Divemedic, ago

An Open Letter to Credit Card Companies

I have a way that I save money. My wife and I have four different cashback credit cards that we use on a daily basis. Each one gives us great terms. One gives us 5% cashback on fuel and groceries. Another, 5% cashback on Amazon. A third is 5% on dining out, and the fourth is 5% on travel and hotel stays. There are other deals. All in all, we probably spend $50k a year on those cards. We pay the cards off every month. It’s like giving yourself a raise. I get money, the issuing bank for the credit card makes money, the processor makes money.

Why is this important? Because Giffords is pressuring banks to flag and prevent credit cards from being used to buy guns and ammunition. That kind of shit has been tried before. When Citibank did a similar thing back in 2018, I immediately canceled by credit card with them. The company that the card was for was Best Buy. I haven’t bought anything from them since, nor have I done any business with Citibank.

So here is my announcement: You aren’t going to stop me from buying guns and ammo. You are just going to stop yourself from making money on the deal. I won’t hesitate to cancel every credit card that I have with your company. Someone will make money on the deal, it just won’t be you, and I will still have my guns and ammo. So die on that hill, and see what happens.

I know that $50k a year doesn’t seem like a lot, but there are millions of people who buy guns every year. Now imagine that you not only lose the processing fees from those sales, but losing the fees from every purchase those people would have made. Now it’s billions of dollars in lost business. Every. Single. Year.

Go ahead, FAFO.

By Divemedic, ago

Grandson Update

A lot has happened with Rion since I last updated his story. He was moved from the ICU to the regular floor on Nov 9. He finally was able to start eating baby food the same day. On November 10, he was able to take a wheelchair ride and go outside for the first time in a month.

His physical therapy has been going well, and he has been making significant progress. Therapy began by putting a maraca on one ankle and jingle bells on the other, then had him laughing as he was able to “play music” with his feet. They eventually got him to the point where he was able to ride a large tricycle around the hallways of the hospital. Soon, he was walking up and down a small set of stairs with assistance. He was also able to use his hands to grip things. On the 15th, he did so well that he was able to use his wheelchair as a walker to walk from PT to his room. He doesn’t walk well, but he is getting stronger and better coordinated every day.

They pulled out his feeding tube and transferred him by ambulance to a children’s inpatient therapy center, where he will get more intense physical therapy than he was getting in the hospital.

He still cannot talk, but the progress that he has made in the past 17 days is truly remarkable. This morning, he actually was able to eat his first solid food since October 10. In case you are wondering, it was his favorite food- french fries.

I want to thank all of you for the prayers and well wishes, and want to thank everyone who donated to the GoFundMe page. All of it has been a huge help.

By Divemedic, ago

Antifa Photo Intel

Just in case you were wondering what Antifa is up to- here is a picture of them in Denton, TX, where the Antifa insurgents were providing armed protection for a drag show performance aimed at children. Note that the police and Antifa were working together at this event. At this point, residents of Denton, TX can assume that local LE are allied with Antifa. For this reason, Denton (a suburb on the NW side of Dallas) is now added to Zone 2.

The guy on the right is carrying an AR made from an 80 percent lower. His kit is rather sparse. No TQ, no FA kit, nothing but weapon, some ammo, and a radio. In fact, both of them look light on ammo. Less than 100 rounds tells me that they are there more for photo ops on social media and intimidation than they are for fighting, but then again, no one has really offered any fight, so I guess that doesn’t matter. I would also take careful notice that the guy on the right is wearing a body camera. So is the one behind him (mostly hidden by the Fag Flag) you can see the camera between the rainbow flag and the red one.

Looks like both have plates, but they don’t have helmets or pelvic coverage. I bet 62 grains moving at a couple of thousand feet per second through their pelvis would make them combat ineffective.

The idiot dressed like a cat is in the way of me getting a good look at the guy on the left, so we need to take a look at a different photo to see his kit a bit better.

Taking a look at his AR, it looks like an 80 percent lower as well. That bag marked as a FA kit doesn’t look large enough to be serious.

The third guy I want to take a look at may or may not be a skinny chick (on the left).

A couple of interesting things here. The boots are well worn. The only ammo carried is the mag that is loaded into the mag well of the (again) 80 percent AR. One odd thing is that the gas block has a plastic thread on it that looks like it secured the price tag to it at one point.

Another interesting thing about the ARs- they are all 80 percent lowers, but the similarity in parts ends there. That would seem to indicate that each of them made their own weapon. The thing is, every one of the ARs in these photos look like they are brand new. Not single flaw in the bluing. No wear, no scratches. Not anywhere. It’s like they have never been fired or even handled all that often. I am wondering if they have even been zeroed.

Anyway, if you see anything interesting in these photos, let me know in comments.

By Divemedic, ago

That’s What You Got From That?

The headline reads “Virginia man known as ‘Glockz’ convicted of possessing ‘ghost gun’” All they focus on is that he had a homemade firearm. Nevermind that he was dealing cocaine and Fentanyl. Nevermind that he rammed a police car with his Escalade. There was another gun in his possession at the time, but that doesn’t matter. He is a convicted felon. That is, a criminal.

Here is the gun, which appears to be a Polymer 80.

He was in possession of opiates and Promethazine, according to photos. That’s illegal without a prescription. The reason promethazine is important is that it potentiates the effects of opiates. That is, taken with an opiate, it greatly increases the effect that the opiate has.

What you will note is that there are pictures of the gun, pictures of drugs, but not a single picture of the criminal. That’s important. It shows that there is not a concern by the reporter for the person committing violent crimes. While the article mentions that he had been convicted of armed robbery, it doesn’t mention that he has been caught committing armed robbery on more than a few occasions.

The odd part? His instagram account has been scrubbed. After an exhaustive search, I couldn’t find a single picture of this man anywhere. There is no description of him or what he looks like to be found. It’s like they don’t want us to know what he looks like. I wonder why.

Criminals by definition do not follow laws. This one certainly didn’t. What matters is that he was a convicted violent criminal. He was caught breaking other laws, including using his vehicle as a weapon. So what difference does it make whether or not he had a ghost gun? The answer is of course, it doesn’t. Unless the real reason for the article was not to report on the criminal, but to report on the gun. The real reason of this article is to make the gun appear to be the danger here, and not the drug dealing violent black man who was using it to commit crimes.

By Divemedic, ago