Divemedic

Karma is Beautiful, But Sometimes Slow

In 2009, I posted about an Oklahoma cop who pulled over an ambulance that had a cardiac patient in the back because the cop believed that the driver of the ambulance had flipped him the bird. The paramedic in charge of the crew told the trooper that they had a patient in the back, asked the trooper to follow them to the hospital and told him they could handle the situation there. It was at this point that the trooper let his oversized ego take over, and instead of doing the sensible thing that would have best served the public that both the cop and paramedic are sworn to serve, decided to arrest and choke out the paramedic.

The reason why the cops were so hell bent on arresting this medic? The trooper was on the way to a call because another cop had been in an accident that was his fault. The trooper was rushing to the scene so he could do a blood draw on the driver that had been hit, hoping that it could be proven that the driver was drunk and thereby make it his fault, and not the cop’s. It seems that the police have some real corruption issues here.

In reviewing the case, the local prosecutor agreed that the cop was in the wrong and had likely committed an unlawful assault against the paramedic, but also stated that pursuing charges would not be in the best interest of the law and decided to give the cop a free pass. All he wound up receiving for punishment was a five day suspension.

I bring this case up because I really missed the ball on the conclusion of this case. Here is how the rest of the story went down.

The paramedic filed a lawsuit in the case, and the cops (as always) hid behind qualified immunity and wanted the case dismissed. While all of this was going on, the paramedic was arrested again by a small town Oklahoma cop as the medic was on the way to the courthouse to testify against another cop in an unrelated case.

The court refused to dismiss the medic’s lawsuit, setting the case for trial, and the cop appealed that ruling. The appeals court sided with the paramedic and the case moved forward. The paramedic wound up getting half a million dollars.

The trooper wound up being investigated again, this time for sexual allegations involving photos with accusations that the photos were of minors.

This is where karma finally decided to show up. The trooper had a heart attack in 2018 and needed an ambulance to take him to the hospital. He was sent to a rehab facility for treatment, where he had a second heart attack, got a second ambulance ride, and finally died. I am not above celebrating the death of someone who deserves it, and it seems that his death was the only way that he was ever going to pay for being a dictatorial asshole, so I am going to gloat over this one. The only way this could have turned out better is for the paramedic who he roughed up to be the one who took him to the hospital.

I will treat people to the best of my ability, no matter how badly they have treated me, because I swore an oath to do so, and my word is my bond. However, I never swore that I wouldn’t be happy that someone got what was coming to them. Karma, after all, is a bitch.

By Divemedic, ago

America’s Sheriff? Not mine.

Let’s not leave out that grandstanding, antigun asshole Grady Judd, who wants to find a way around Trump’s pardon of the J6 defendants.

“I understand the 30,000 foot view of what the President did, but there’s a granular level where they were attacking our police officers who were just doing their job. There was a better way to deal with that,” said Judd.

Nope. Those cops were supporting the theft of an election. That is indisputable. For that reason, “Just doing my job” is bullshit. Shooting an unarmed woman for trespassing isn’t “just doing your job,” nor is inviting people into a building, then showing up to their homes years later to toss them in prison. Torturing prisoners isn’t a job that needs to be done, nor is supporting the outright and obvious theft of an election. That excuse didn’t work for the concentration camp guards of Germany, nor does it work here.

By Divemedic, ago

Pardons Don’t Mean Shit

President Donald Trump ordered that the defendants from January 6 be pardoned. As the chief executive, the power to issue pardons is absolute. That doesn’t mean shit to the leftist enforcers. Although Olivia Pollock and Joseph Hutchinson III have been pardoned for their actions on January 6, the Feds still would not drop the counts of failure to appear in court from 2023. Why didn’t they appear in court?

After reading stories about the abuse suffered at the hands of police that are detaining J6 defendants for trial, knowing how cops will abuse and torture prisoners, and how they are transferring them to Supermax prisons, many J6 defendants began simply skipping out on their trials and sentencing hearings:

So Pollock and Hutchinson did what many would have done- they simply removed their ankle monitors and skipped town. Because of that, the Feds decided that Trump’s pardon didn’t excuse them from criminal charges.

The good news is that a Federal judge ordered that the charges be dismissed. The Federal employees are refusing to obey orders. This is being replayed all over the government- there are employees and former military members who still are loyal to the commies that are trying to overthrow our government. They need to be rooted out- every last one of them.

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By Divemedic, ago

Caetano v. Massachusetts

The next time some brain dead moron tries saying that the Second Amendment only applies to muskets, please refer them to Caetano v. Massachusetts 577 U.S. 411 (2016). In that case, the US Supreme court held 9-0 that the Second Amendment applies to all bearable arms, not just those that were in existence at the time that the Second Amendment was ratified.

In that case, the Massachusetts Supreme court had ruled that stun guns are not protected [by the Second Amendment] because they “were not in common use at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment,” that stun guns are “dangerous per se at common law and unusual,” and that “nothing in the record to suggest that [stun guns] are readily adaptable to use in the military.” 

The U.S. Supreme Court, per curiam, vacated, reiterating that “the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding,” and that it has rejected the proposition “that only those weapons useful in warfare are protected.”

This line of argument will eventually be the one that kills both the NFA and the GCA.

By Divemedic, ago

I am the law!

Oklahoma Senator Regina Goodwin famously demanded that Trump be “locked up” because no one is above the law.

So it comes as no surprise that she refused to show her driver’s license when she was pulled over for running several stop signs, escalating the traffic stop into a shouting match, simultaneously proving that she believes herself to be above the law, and disproving the claim that all cops are just looking for a reason to shoot black people.

If it weren’t for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

By Divemedic, ago

Good, GTFO

Every winter, Florida gets overrun by rich assholes who flock to our state – people who own multiple homes and want to dodge the shitty cold weather from more northern climates. They bring with them their northern political opinions and attitudes. States like Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Ohio as well as the nation of Canada send us millions of old, rich assholes that force our cost of living higher, fill our hospitals, and make it impossible to get into a restaurant without waiting an hour or more for a table. The regale us with tales about how they “do things up north” and tell us how backwards we are down here for the way that we like to live our lives.

It seems that the Canadian Dollar weakening in relation to the US Dollar, and combined with increasing costs of living in Florida, this is causing Canadians to sell their property and go home. Good. GTFO and stop pushing Florida towards being the socialist shithole that Canada has become.

The asshole in this story, a man by the name of Jasmin Gosselin (what man is named after a Disney Princess?) is saying that the financial burdens of living in Florida has combined with Trump being an asshole is making him move back to Canada. Really? It’s Trump’s fault? Then why didn’t you leave in 2017?

“Trump doesn’t respect snowbirds who spend their money during four, five months in Florida. We feed their economy and he doesn’t respect us.” 

What’s really going on is now that Canada’s money isn’t doing as well, he can no longer afford to take advantage of Floridians and is now returning to his home. Good, GTFO. We don’t want you here. Our emergency room sees twice as many patients during the winter, and more than 80% of the excess patient load are people over the age of 70 who don’t live in Florida full time. You aren’t really helping the economy- you are taking advantage of it.

The story claims that he has been living each of the last 20 winters in Boynton Beach. Snowbirds are killing the economy there. The average cost of a new home in Boynton Beach is about $360k, but the average income there is only $66k. Even with the low salary, Boynton Beach is considered one of Florida’s most affluent zip codes. Why? Snowbirds buying up all of the beachfront property and causing housing prices to rise. While Florida’s cost of living is 3% lower than the national average, the cost of living in Boynton Beach is 10% more than the national average.

Snowbirds don’t help the local economy- they destroy it. Their throwing around money from outside of the state for 4 months of the year raises prices and puts a strain on local resources. Then they leave for the summer, but the high prices remain. The employees who are hired to work in the businesses that support the snowbirds need jobs for the other 8 months of the year, but the money to support them isn’t there.

No, GTFO and go back to where you came from. Interstate 95 runs north as well as south. Take your leftist politics, a friend or two, and your illegal immigrant housekeeper with you when you go.

By Divemedic, ago

Like A Business Deal

The left was celebrating a “Trump loss” when he tried to deport some illegals back to Columbia, and than nation refused to allow their citizens to reenter the country after initially agreeing to accept the flight. They were calling Trump every name in the book because the illegals were “handcuffed like criminals.”

They were handcuffed like criminals because they ARE criminals. So Trump notified the Columbian government that a 25% tariff would be placed on all Columbian imports, effective immediately. If Columbia didn’t begin allowing repatriation flights within a week, the tariffs would become 50%. The left went crazy, claiming that Trump was going to destroy the world because he was being unfair.

No, what is unfair is your co-called friends only liking you when you do the things that THEY want you to do. We are being taken advantage of like a 100 year old sugar daddy with his 20 year old supermodel girlfriend.

Instead, the Columbians, after some grumbling about how unfair it all is, decided to allow their citizens to be returned to them after all. Trump is both nicer and more effective than I would have been. I would have said, “Those citizens can’t be here. They are on a plane and won’t be returning. They can either be permitted to land in your country, or we are pushing them out the door, to land ON your country. You decide.”

As a businessman, Trump realizes that other nations NEED the US. More precisely, they need access to US markets. Well, the US needs things as well. Instead of just bending the knee and doing what they want to our own detriment, he works a deal: They get access to US markets, we get rid of their illegal emigrants. The man did write a book on the subject, after all.

That isn’t good enough for the left. The latest is that Trump is being a bully and is ruining our relationship with the world. I disagree- Trump is now refusing to be bullied by other nations who are simply taking advantage of the fact that the left likes borrowing money in order to buy gifts to make other people like them.

That has to end.

By Divemedic, ago