Antifa says it’s time for them to begin attacking small towns because they don’t have many cops and only volunteer fire departments. I wonder how that will work out.
War on the Right
Insurrection
For the past 18 months, we have had to listen to a neverending chorus telling us that defying the Constitutional administration is insurrection and bars you from elected office.
So all of the politicians who are claiming that they will ignore today’s SCOTUS ruling should be charged with insurrection and barred from elected office.
Crime
Doesn’t Count
This guy slashed his wife’s throat, put her in the bathtub, and then held her hand as the life poured from her body. He didn’t use a gun, so her death didn’t count as a gun death. That makes Democrats sad.
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It Isn’t Yours
Ford dealers have a clause in their sales agreements saying that purchasers of F150s can’t sell them within a year of purchase, or they owe any profits to the dealer.
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Bitch Slapping
I promise you that Clarence Thomas has been sitting at home thinking about all of the attacks that his wife has had to endure, the threats of impeachment, and the disgraceful attacks on justices. Now that the decisions are rolling out, he is having the last laugh as he metaphorically bitch slaps the left like Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.
Get my wife’s name out of your f*ckin’ mouth.
Criminals
Government Beat Down
An Atlanta Patient Advocate at the VA (a government employee) brutally beat a 73 year old veteran. He still has a job there.
If this is how they treat citizens now, think of how things will be if the citizens are disarmed. You will also note that it is a black man beating the shit out of a white man, but not one of the articles on this event make a single mention of race. If it were reversed, how would the stories read?
Antigun
Breaking SCOTUS Decision
SCOTUS releases decision in NY pistol case, ruling that New York’s means test is unconstitutional. The decision can be found here (pdf alert). A couple of money quotes:
Indeed, the Court recognized in Heller at least one way in which the Second Amendment’s historically fixed meaning applies to new circumstances: Its reference to “arms” does not apply “only [to] those arms in existence in the 18th century.”
Here is another gem where SCOTUS declares that we have a right to bear arms outside of the home:
The Court has little difficulty concluding also that the plain text of the Second Amendment protects Koch’s and Nash’s proposed course of conduct—carrying handguns publicly for self-defense. Nothing in the Second Amendment’s text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms, and the definition of “bear” naturally encompasses public carry.
There are also some phrases that may come back to haunt gun owners because they discuss historical restrictions that form the basis of what the court would find constitutional. For example:
the common-law offenses of “affray” or going armed “to the terror
of the people” continued to impose some limits on firearm carry in the
antebellum period.
It seems like the court is saying that either concealed or open carry must at a minimum be permitted:
In the early to mid-19th century, some States began enacting laws that proscribed the concealed carry of pistols and other small weapons. But the antebellum state-court decisions upholding them evince a consensus view that States could not altogether prohibit the public carry of arms protected by the Second Amendment or state analogues.
or this one that I can see as the foundation for a challenge to “assault weapons”:
The statutes essentially prohibited bearing arms in a way that spread “fear” or “terror” among the people, including by carrying of “dangerous and unusual weapons.”
There is a lot here, and a further review by someone more knowledgeable than I is needed. One thing is for sure: the lower courts will be visiting this topic for years, but at least we have a win for gun rights.
climate change
German Green Energy
This is how Germany went green by becoming woke. It’s a model that we are going to follow. Step one, close half of your nuclear plants:
Step two, replace them with Solar and Wind:
Step 3, go woke by refusing all Russian natural gas:
Step 4: Now that you are going broke, switch to coal
Yeah! Way to fight the fight.
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Sinking Ship
As I do here from time to time, I want to talk about the general economic state of the USA. We as a nation are currently in debt to the tune of $30.448 trillion. Despite the fact that the entire budget deficit for FY2022 was supposed to be $1.0 trillion, we have far surpassed that. At the beginning of the fiscal year, we were $28.428 trillion in debt. The beginning of the fiscal year was two trillion dollars ago, and we still have 2 3 months left in the fiscal year. Not to mention that interest rates have skyrocketed.
The interest on our national debt is skyrocketing, and the CBO is underestimating the costs IMO. For the month of May, interest on that debt was nearly $25 billion. Still, we keep borrowing.
We have to. The only way to fix this disaster is to cut everything. The majority of government spending goes to so-called ‘mandatory spending’ and interest on the money that we have already borrowed. Mandatory spending includes entitlements like Medicare, Social Security, VA benefits, etc. which are REQUIRED by law to be paid. Interest on the debt must also be paid. The money that must be paid totals about $5.2 trillion a year (ten years ago, it was $2.5 trillion). You get that? Social Security, interest on the debt, Medicare, and the like already total more than we take in through taxes.
So the only answer to the debt problem is to cut it all by 50 percent: Defense, Social Security, the VA, all of it. The problem is that is not politically possible. Any politician that advocates cutting Social Security in half can measure the remaining time in his career in milliseconds. Same with any other program.
Nope. We are riding this debt train all the way to the bottom.