Anti American left

Gun control

New Federal law being proposed. Let me explain:

The problem: There’s no requirement for a background check on ammunition sales.  So you can be someone who just stole a gun, illegally got your gun from some kind of trafficking, or were in possession of it and you are intending a crime. You can walk into any store and buy the bullets and nobody is going to check. If we extend background checks to ammunition, we immediately save lives

Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg

Fred Guttenberg is pushing for the proposed law, named Jaime’s law after the man’s daughter. Jaime was killed in the Parkland shooting in South Florida. Here is the thing: this law wouldn’t have done a single thing to prevent the shooting that killed his daughter. The killer in that particular case obtained his gun legally because authorities couldn’t be bothered to do their jobs.

If the law passes, it won’t fix a single one of the hypotheticals in the above quote. If a person steals a gun, buys one on the black market, or is intending to commit a crime, there is no way that such scenarios would result in failing a background check.

No, the real purpose of this law is to inconvenience shooters. It requires that ammunition can only be bought from licensed dealers. It also appears to require a permit to purchase ammunition at anywhere other than a shooting range where the ammunition will be fired on the premises. The law also states that there is no limit to the fee that can be charged for the background check.

Keep buying ammo, it may be needed very soon.

By Divemedic, ago

Let’s go HOA

All politics are local. That’s why I am on my HOA board. One of the residents of my neighborhood lives right at the entrance. His house is the first one you see. Attached to his fence facing the street is a flag with a caricature of the President and “let’s go Brandon” on it.

Here is a complaint the HOA got from another resident:

Are we allowed to have offensive flags hung on our fences? The first home on the right has had his Let’s go Brandon flag up off and on as he feels like it. I do not care about which political side. I care it implies a curse word and it’s the first thing people see entering into our neighborhood.

“Let’s Go Brandon” is a political slogan which has been widely used as a minced oath for “Fuck Joe Biden” in reference to Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States. Chants of “Fuck Joe Biden” were first heard at sporting events in early September 2021. Wikipedia

 That flag is offensive, not Freedom of Speech.LOL. That is why the HOA asked for someone to take down their Trump 2024 sign.  

Great so I am allowed to fly a flag that has a curse word on it? I had to explain to my child with Autism on it what it means. He knows the President’s face and name and was confused by the flag. I was forced to explain it. FUCK JOE BIDEN. Classy for our neighborhood welcome flag. I don’t care which Political party it is for or against. I care it implies an offensive word.  

At least everyone would not have to see it if it was moved to his garage or front. 

The first sign he had up said, “Fuck Joe Biden”. He replaced that with the flag. Since no sign rule.Either way my son got educated on both. He faces them towards the entrance.  

Profane rants that cross the line into direct face-to-face personal insults or fighting words are not protected by the First Amendment. … United States (1969) established that profanity spoken as part of a true threat does not receive constitutional protection.

We told her that there is no HOA rule covering flags, and was thus not an HOA issue. I also explained to her that this is not a “face to face insult” or “fighting words” to anyone except Joe Biden himself.

We then forwarded the complaint to the homeowner in question, who told her to come on over so he could explain it to her.

 

By Divemedic, ago

Video

A teen is walking down the street, not doing anything. An older man is following him after using racial epithets to threaten him. The teen turns and confronts his attacker. There is a short struggle. A shot rings out and one of them falls dead. Remember when the left claimed that the teen being followed should be allowed to attack the one following him?

Given the fact that Zimmerman confronted Trayvon the discussion should really be about Trayvon’s right to stand his ground during Mr. Zimmerman’s unprovoked attack against him. Trayvon was the one being pursued. Trayvon was the one who presumably feared for his life when confronted by Zimmerman who had admitted in the 911 call that he was following the teen. It was Trayvon who had a right to stand his ground and defend himself. Why has the discussion of the right to defend oneself focused on this issue from the perspective of Mr. Zimmerman instead of the innocent teen?

The Huffington Post

Now reverse the roles. The left is now saying that the teen should have run faster.

Those on the left just don’t like self defense.

By Divemedic, ago

Class warfare

For years, we have heard the communists on the left scream about the one percent. The one percent has been demonized for decades. Now that the left has fleeced that particular sheep for as much as they can get, it is time to lower the bar and come after the next target. They are calling it the “9.9 percent.”

Unlike one of the one percent, you probably know someone who is in the 9.9 percent. It takes surprisingly little income to get there, just $158,000 a year puts you into the top ten percent of wage earners in the United States. This is where you find all sorts of educated professionals: doctors, engineers, lawyers, and accountants, just to name a few.

This demographic has a fairly low net worth, too. This group has a new worth of as little as $1.2 million. If you own your own home, have a 401K, and don’t carry a lot of consumer debt, you are probably there.

So what does the left think of this demographic?

  • You are white or Asian.
  • You believe in the value of education
  • You had your children in a planned and responsible way (not at 16)
  • They think you have a “misguided belief that success depends on merit”
  • You claim to have a prejudiced free view of others, which is often a way of evading the economic privilege that is at the base of your success

This is pure class warfare with a racial spin. This is the basis of the communist belief system. They want people to believe that those who are successful did so because they had some kind of hidden advantage that is unavailable to those who are poor.

We have seen this time and again in history- those who would seize power would tell the public that it isn’t their fault they aren’t successful, it is the fault of those who are somehow cheating.

By Divemedic, ago

War on Smart Kids

As a follow up to the post last month about the NYC school system eliminating gifted programs: Since the science is showing that white and Asian kids are smarter than Hispanic and black kids, the science must be racist.

Why is this so? Because we know that everyone is the same. Equality, doncha know. This means that we should ignore any test results that do not agree with this basic premise. We can’t let the facts get in the way of our preconceived results.

Therefore, the only thing left to do is eliminate gifted and honors programs. There, we fixed the problem.

Let’s get one thing straight: After I was tested and found to have an IQ of 144, I was in a gifted program when I was a kid. I was always good at test taking. By the time I was in the sixth grade, standardized testing showed that I was reading at the same level as a college senior. I could read 300 words per minute with 85% comprehension.

A big deal was made of the fact that I was supposedly smarter than 98% of the population. It also sucked.

What all of that meant to me was that I was put into a class for gifted students one hour per day. It also meant that one of my other teachers, who happened to be black, led the class in making fun of me for being smart. I was constantly called out by the teacher with things like “I thought you were supposed to be gifted. You don’t seem smart to me.” The other kids would get in on it, and it made my sixth grade year hell.

I learned that the best defense was to act stupid. I began failing all of my classes, fighting, and getting in trouble. I got kicked out of school and wound up in a private school for a few years. I didn’t enjoy school again until I was in college.

As a result, when my own kids were in school, they were tested and found to also be intelligent. The school wanted to put them into gifted programs. I wouldn’t let them. They tried telling me that I was wrong, telling me that my kids would benefit from it. No, they wouldn’t.

To this day, I still wonder why a person who is talented at playing a sport is so revered, but a person who is talented at intellectual pursuits is so hated. I know what its like to be discriminated against, and putting a child in a gifted program shouldn’t be a punishment.

By Divemedic, ago

Still defending him?

To those of you who defended Baldwin, here is a quote directly from the actor:

“I do know an ongoing effort to limit the use of firearms on a set is something I’m extremely interested in.”

Alec Baldwin

He killed someone through his own negligence, and now he is using that incident to work towards banning all firearms in Hollywood movies.

Do you think that antigun lefties would kill someone on purpose, if they thought that more gun control would result from the killing?

By Divemedic, ago