There have been explosions in Poland that killed two people. Unnamed US intelligence sources are claiming that it was Russian missiles, but Pentagon Press Secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder says that the US has no confirmation of that information.
If true, the Biden administration now has all of the justification that it needs to begin world war 3.
Imagine if you will, some faceless government bureaucrat sees that you made a comment that was unflattering to his daughter. With the click of a button, you are made penniless.
Or perhaps they are just keeping an eye on you. So they log into the central dollar database to see where you are spending your money, and what you are buying.
A system like a social credit score could allow the government to control everything you do and say, upon penalty of being made a financial pariah.
It’s easy when the US has an all digital currency, which the US Federal reserve and some major banks just began testing.
A guy wearing a motorcycle helmet in a WalMart is approached from behind by the manager and told to take off the helmet or leave. Since he was listening to music on earbuds, the man never heard the manger. The manager calls the cops.
Now the encounter could have gone two ways:
My answer at that point would be, “I know about the First Amendment. Spare me your roid rage bullshit. Go fuck yourself, and I am not saying another fucking thing until you get me a fucking lawyer, douchebag.” Then I would go to jail and be the state’s next winner of the “sue the cops” lottery.
Instead, he followed the cop’s instruction to stop talking, and they arrested him for not talking.
The manager lied. The cops violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights, and possibly others. I would be a money making individual. As he will hopefully be. He wound up suing them for malicious prosecution, illegal search, and illegal arrest. Mr. Pfaendler offered to settle with the city and department for $250,000 but the offer was rejected. The case, Pfaendler v. Sahuarita, Town of (4:20-cv-00188-JCH) has been running through the courts for more than two and a half years.
Cops like this are douchebags. When they are harassing compliant, law abiding citizens, firing beanbag rounds in random drive by shootings, tossing flashbangs into baby cribs, or using armored vehicles to clear people out of a bar during COVID, they are total bad asses. When it comes time to stop a mass shooter from killing a bunch of third graders, they stand around outside, texting people on cell phones that are emblazoned with Punisher logos, or take cover behind cars filled with children and soccer moms.
I swear that cops like this make all of you look bad. Either you cops need to clean up your ranks, or if there are so many of these meatheads that you can’t accomplish that, then walk away. I also don’t think that a WalMart in Arizona can trespass you from WalMarts in Maine. He may be mistaken there, but I would have to check.
Apparently, the left is pissed that you voted for DeSantis. Prepare to be reprogrammed in the camps.
Yesterday was shotguns. Continuing the series on defensive firearms, we explore carbines. I’m going to use this definition for carbines as opposed to rifles: A carbine is a a compact, short-barreled rifle that has a barrel length of less than 20 inches.
Most self defense shootings happen at a range of less than 7 yards. For that reason, it’s my opinion that rifles are not effective as self defense weapons, because they are too long to be wielded in close quarters. However, if you were to tell me that I could only pick one firearm to own for all purposes for the remainder of my life, I would go with a carbine. They are the Swiss Army knives of firearms.
Carbines have rifle-level muzzle energy, good accuracy out to a hundred meters or more, and can be effectively used inside of a building or from inside of a vehicle. The most popular of all of these in the US today (by a fair margin) is the AR patterned carbine- the M4gery. Parts and accessories are widely available. You can still even roll your own with an 80 percent lower, and they are relatively easy to repair and maintain. Lightweight, low recoil versions in .223 or 5.56mm are handled well by both women and children. Ammunition is light enough that a large amount can be carried.
I build my ARs with a 1:8 twist rate. That way, the rifling is optimized for bullet weights of 55, 62, or 77 grains, giving me a fair amount of latitude on ammunition selection. If I am planning on using the AR mostly in close quarters, I mount a holographic sight on it, like an EOTech. Those are good sights out to 100 yards or so and are fast to use. If I am anticipating medium to long range work, then there are other options like an LPVO or ACOGs.
Another mention is what I referred to as my “skirmish rifle.” Using the definition of carbine from above, the rifle that I built to this spec is a carbine. It’s on an AR10 receiver and chambered for .308 with an 18 inch barrel. Weighing in at only 7.65 pounds without a scope, it is lighter than many of my AR15’s. It shoots like a dream with a LPVO scope on it, I am getting 3 inch groups at 100 yards. Not bad from an 18 inch barrel. The bonus is that, being .308, it will defeat most body armor, especially at close range.
I once owned an M-1 carbine. I am sorry I got rid of it, because it was fun to shoot.
I am going to also include my Scorpion EVO in this category, even though the ATF says it’s a pistol. Mostly because it shares with carbines the disadvantage of being too large to conceal. Pistol caliber carbines, even though they are less powerful than their rifle caliber brethren, share many of the attributes of other carbines. I regularly mount a suppressor on mine, and when firing it with subsonic ammunition like 147grain hollowpoints, it’s report is about as loud as dropping a large book on the floor. Sure, there is less power at those muzzle velocities, but I have the 32 round magazines for it, so I plan on making up for that with fast, accurate follow on hits. Three or four headshots with 147grain 9mm hollowpoints will do a number on a home invader.
Of course, the disadvantage to any long gun in a self defense situation is that it cannot be concealed and is difficult to carry everywhere. Still, if I had to be in a gunfight, I would not feel undergunned with a carbine and a couple of magazines.
These posts are not intended to be a complete discussion of all of the merits, but are intended to be food for thought. There aren’t enough pixels on the Internet to completely discuss every facet of every type of defensive firearm.
The rules are now equitable. That means you need to keep a few things in mind:
There are some great articles from this weekend that explain what happened to recent elections.
There is the Conservative Treehouse, explaining how ballot submission assistance is being used to rig elections.
Sara Hoyt has a great post up, explaining that yes, there WAS fraud in this past election. A quote:
Unless you can say with a straight face the following sentences: “Joe Biden had the most votes of any president ever elected, and the smallest loss of any midterm first term president ever. I guess he’s the most popular and charismatic president in America and all this time it was Barrack Obama holding him down” it was fraud.
Cheating takes money. John over at Wilder, Wealthy, and Wise details how it was financed. Hint: The war in Ukraine was actually a money laundering operation. I will leave you with a summary photo from the same blog.
Where a sitting US Senator threatens an American citizen for speaking his mind:
I have three points that I would like to make about this:
Remember how Biden called Musk a threat to national security? The communists taking over our nation mean to silence anyone that opposes them. This is right in line with the CIA insurgency manual (pdf alert), which they continue to follow, nearly to the letter.
The United Nations says that we should just listen to them and not believe all of these dangerous conspiracy theories. You know, the UN, whose members include Russia, North Korea, and China. The Director General of UNESCO, the department spearheading the campaign, is a card carrying member of the Socialist party.
You getting this yet?