Anti American left

Citizens vs. Subjects

One of the things that a dictator does, is ban those it intends to rule from having or using weapons. That’s been true for centuries. For example, Great Britain had the 18th century disarming acts. Scottish citizens had laws passed against weapons in 1715, 1716, 1725, and 1746.

  • Disarming Act of 1715 (Highlands Services Act): Enacted after the 1715 Jacobite Rising, this act of Parliament aimed to disarm Jacobite clans in the Scottish Highlands.
  • Disarming Act of 1716: Officially titled “An act for the more effectual securing the peace of the highlands in Scotland,” it outlawed specific weapons like broadswords, pistols, and guns in designated parts of Scotland.
  • Disarming Act of 1725: This act was passed to more effectively enforce the previous disarming efforts, with Major-General George Wade leading efforts to confiscate weapons.
  • Act of Proscription 1746: Passed after the 1745 Jacobite Rising, this act further strengthened the disarming efforts and also included the famous ban on Highland dress, such as kilts and tartans, as a way to suppress Highland culture.

In 1776, the Great Britain outlawed weapons in Massachusetts. That is why the Second Amendment exists. Technology changes, but people and despots do not. The founders were well aware of that.

By Divemedic, ago

Propaganda

Here is my answer, too long for Twitter’s format:

When I graduated from high school, the school I graduated from was one of two in the entire county. Everyone from the east side went to one school, everyone from the west side of the county went to the other. We all attended the same classes, taught by the same teachers. I can’t see how there is any difference.

After high school, I joined the military and did six years there. When I got out, I was broke, but willing to work. I tried making it for a couple of years as a business owner, but we were soon technically homeless. My family and I lived in the storeroom of my business and we bathed in a 48 quart ice chest.

I took what little money we managed to scrape together and used it to rent a UHaul, then moved back to Florida. When I got there, I took a job in residential construction that paid $7.45 an hour. I spent 8 hours a day in the Florida summer heat, running electrical wire through roughed-out houses, taking home $950 a month to support a family of four. Our rent was $350 a month. The government told us that we wouldn’t qualify for public assistance as long as we were still married, so we got none.

Over the next 5 years, I moved jobs every time there was an opportunity to make more money: I worked at the airport repairing ground support equipment, at Disney repairing the electronic control systems on dancing chickens, at Sherwin Williams on paint manufacturing equipment, and at a stainless steel mill repairing stainless steel pipe manufacturing equipment. There were ups and downs. A few times, they hired me as a maintenance worker because they had a lot of broken equipment and then fired me as soon as I fixed everything that was broken. Still, I didn’t give up.

Each time I changed jobs, it was for more money. Over that 5 year period, I went from $7.50 an hour to $12 an hour, and finally to a salary of $30,000 a year. Then Bill Clinton signed a “most favored nation” treaty with China, flooding the market with cheap stainless steel, making it cheaper to import stainless steel products than it was to manufacture them, which put my employer out of business.

Finally tired of being laid off, and decided to take my volunteer firefighting occupation full time. I went to school, by working odd jobs during the day, and going to school at night. I graduated the fire academy and got hired. While I was in school, my wife and I got a divorce. Divorce is financially devastating, and the child support added up to about two thirds of my take home pay.

This was the poorest time in my life. I lost my car in the divorce, so I was running to work for a month before I could save enough for a bicycle. I lost 40 pounds that summer. After six more months of saving, I managed to buy a car at a buy here/pay here place. Now that I had a car, I was able to get a second job as a janitor, and then a third job as a lifeguard, to make ends meet.

I got a 4 year degree while I was at the fire department. I bought a house and got married for the second time. Then the mortgage failures of 2009 hit and I was soon filing bankruptcy.

Then my second wife filed for divorce. I left firefighting and became a teacher. Then I left teaching because it sucked and went back to a “bridge” program to leverage my paramedic skills into nursing. I got another Bachelor’s degree, and now I am about to finish a Masters.

But hey, none of that was due to hard work and perseverance. It was all luck and ‘white privilege’ that got me here.

By Divemedic, ago

The Hate is Strong with Them

If a teacher put the following quote on their wall, would you think it was a problem?

Never underestimate the power of your voice and the impact you can have on the world when you speak up for what you believe in.

That seems inspirational, right? The kind of thing a teacher would have on their wall. A teacher in Orange County was banned from having that quote on their wall, because of who said it.

So who was this evil person that has had their inspirational quote banned? Charlie Kirk.

Why was this done? The Orange County administration has turned a memo from the state Department of Education on its head as their reasoning. The memo speaks about educators not saying hateful things that would make children feel uncomfortable. It was specifically targeted at the pro-murder teachers who were gleefully celebrating Kirk’s murder, and demanding that they conduct themselves in a professional manner. The school district has turned it around, using typical leftist loony logic, and is claiming “since Kirk was a hateful racist, some people are uncomfortable with what he had to say, therefore we can ban anything he ever said.” I will let you read the memo from the state yourself:

It wasn’t enough that the left had to murder Kirk to silence him- they also have to cancel him in death. Need I remind all of you that Orange County is one of Florida’s blue counties?

The left is the party of hate. They hate so many things and work so hard to eliminate them. It’s always the left that loves so much that they have to eliminate.

There are 67 counties in Florida, and 61 of them voted for Trump. The blue counties areGadsen and Leon (Tallahassee) counties in the north, Alachua county (location of University of Florida) in north central Florida, Orange County (Orlando) in central Florida, and Palm Beach and Broward in south Florida.

By Divemedic, ago

A Modest Proposal

I think it would be fun to propose and pass a law which states that transgenders, gays, and blacks are not permitted to own guns. The left will fight this tooth and nail. Then we can sit back and watch as the left argues in favor of the Second Amendment.

Within a year, the left will be pushing for a government program that issues guns to people.

Just sayin’.

By Divemedic, ago

Tampa Bay Times

The recent court decision striking down Florida’s open carry ban prompted Publix to issue a statement stating that it would not ban individuals who openly carry firearms from its stores. Even though other stores like Aldi issued statements saying that anyone seen open carrying in their stores would be asked to leave, Publix realized that such policies don’t reduce the number of firearms in their establishment, but only cause them to be concealed. Being that the left is all about emotion and not logic, this really pissed off the left.

In typical leftie fashion, the Tampa Bay Times immediately launched an op-ed that compares apples to bowling balls. See, Publix plainly states in their policy:

Publix follows all federal, state and local laws. In any instance where a customer creates a threatening, erratic or dangerous shopping experience — whether they are openly carrying a firearm or not — we will engage local law enforcement to protect our customers and associates.

But that isn’t good enough for the communists at the Times. So they immediately launched an imaginary Q&A, comparing various items against open carry. They compare bringing pets into the store (which is prohibited by health regulations), policies limiting the number of coupons you can redeem each day, and the Publix policy against cakes with any flag that isn’t the US Flag against cakes with the Mexican, Canadian, or the flag they really want- the Fag Flag against the policy of not prohibiting open carry.

They claim that the sight of guns bother some Publix customers, so Publix should ban open carry. Do you know what else bothers some Publix customers? Seeing men wearing dresses pulling their dicks out in the women’s restroom. I would bet that the Times wouldn’t like it if a business banned that.

I can’t wait for newspapers to eventually go the way of the telegram. They are nothing more than leftie propaganda. To quote Thomas Jefferson:

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth

However, as he rightly points out, newspapers are preferable to tyrannical government:

The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.

However, newspapers have indeed become the propaganda arm of the communists. It is Social Media, and to a lesser extent, blogs that are informing the American public. The days of newspaper editors telling us what to think is long past. That’s why the media’s influence has faded to nearly zero- most people know that it is nothing more than slanted propaganda.

By Divemedic, ago

No Kings

The left is gathering today to say “No Kings!”

Except when the government orders you to remain indoors.

No Kings! We oppose fascism!

Except when your business is ordered closed. Unless your business is a Megacorporation like WalMart, Target, or Starbucks. Then it’s fine, because you can get your PSL.

No Kings!

Except when the government arrests people for going to the beach. Or when the government forces people to wear cloth masks to prevent a viral infection, even while we know that the holes in the fabric are thousands of times larger than the virus.

No Kings!

Oh, but when your side protests, they are exempt from having to stay home OR wear masks, because protest is patriotism.

The governor is exempt from all of this as well, because he must dine with his ass-kissing friends. Because he isn’t a king.

No Kings!

Except when the government orders that you take an experimental drug while exempting the company that makes it from any legal liability in the event the drug turns out not to work and actually is dangerous.

Then people who protest in the same manner as the left are tossed in jail for years over minor criminal charges.

No Kings!

Unless we forcibly take your money under the guise of fair taxation, so we can give it to people we import into the nation so we can pay them slave wages to build our homes, tend our gardens, and do other work that we consider beneath us.

No kings!

It’s a shame that the left lacks a level of basic awareness, so they don’t even realize that they are supporting actual tyranny and despotism. Of course, the ones in charge know, but they also realize that they are in command of an army of drones who will do whatever the media and TikTok tells them to.

We should have realized how much trouble this would cause when so-called challenges on TikTok had teens eating laundry soap. Oh by the way, that trend was in 2018. The teens who were doing that are the same ones out protesting today.

By Divemedic, ago

Compromise

The Democrats are upset that Republicans won’t compromise.

I have two points:

1 When Republicans went to Obama and wanted to compromise on Obamacare, it was Obama who famously said, “Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.” Then refused to compromise and steamrolled the Republicans in passing

2 The left has been saying for years,

  • “Let’s pass gun bans.”
  • The right says no.
  • The left says “Why won’t you compromise? You’re being unreasonable.”
  • The right caves and allows a little gun control.
  • Then the left goes back to wanting another gun ban
  • repeat ad nauseum

We are done with the left’s version of compromising in order to move the Overton window. Any Republican who doesn’t have spine enough to use the power the voters have given them can just get the fuck out of the way.

By Divemedic, ago

Meltdown

Many on the right AND the left are melting down because the MSM is reporting that Trump is letting the Qatar government build an airbase in Idaho. This is pure, 3D level bullshit.

First, it isn’t an operational base. It’s a training facility located within the US Air Force Base in Mountain Home, Idaho. That base has been used for decades as a training facility for US allies to train their pilots to fly aircraft that they have purchased from the US. Singapore was there before Qatar as the 428th Fighter Squadron, flying the F-15.

Second, this deal was made as a part of a purchase agreement that was signed eight years ago as a part of a $12 billion deal where Qatar paid for 36 F-15 fighters, with the option to double that number to 72 aircraft. The deal included the aircraft, weapons, maintenance support, spare parts, ground support equipment, and TRAINING on all of the above. This facility is part of the training for this equipment.

Stop freaking out. The US has done this for DECADES. There is nothing nefarious going on. Good Lord, you would think people would know by now that the MSM is lying.

By Divemedic, ago