The debate over property taxes continues. The left claims that property taxes are necessary for things like the fire department and schools, but it’s hard to make that case while local governments are using those taxes to help people break the law…
Criminals
Cop Is Right
Check this out. A woman is caught doing 104 miles per hour in a 65 zone, and the cop I thought was pretty professional here.
She is swerving through traffic, passing in every lane, including the emergency lane, and flashing her lights at people to get them to move out of her way, all while doing 40 miles per hour over the speed limit. She deserves to get arrested, because it is a crime in Florida to go over 100 miles per hour, especially when driving like that. I would go a step further and say driving like she was should get your car permanently impounded.
I have cut far too many dead bodies out of cars because of people like this. This is no different than standing in the middle of downtown with a firearm having target practice in the middle of the street. It’s reckless behavior and needs to be stopped.
Military
Bravado
As I said, too many morons like to talk about manpower. The thing is, manpower means exactly nothing when they don’t have supplies or transportation. The US military is quite good at using force multipliers. Once all of the infrastructure is blown up, those million troops on the other side of the ocean are useless, as are the 40 million unarmed civilians sitting less than 100 miles from the US border.
Most on the left know nothing about warfare or anything, really. That doesn’t mean all of them are clueless, but the vast majority are. They have no idea what such a war would mean.
Cops
Pull Them Out
Yet again, we have a case where the American public is told that cops don’t have to protect you. The school resource officer from the Uvalde school shooting was just found not guilty of all charges for standing outside of the school and hiding while the shooter massacred the students that the cop had a duty to protect.
It turns out, the cops don’t have a duty to do a damned thing except collect a pension. This echoes the case where the coward of Broward, Scot Peterson, was allowed to retire with his pension intact, even though he hid during the Parkland School Massacre and as the School’s Resource Officer, it was his job to protect the school’s students.
If police don’t have a duty to do anything, then why do we even have SROs in school in the first place? In shooting after shooting, we know that the police are cowardly pussies who will take cover while our children are slaughtered. That’s how we know that they aren’t about to go door to door to take shit.
Pull the cops out of the schools and cut police and school budgets by an appropriate amount. School resource officers are a horrendous waste of money.
Illegals
Replaced
So an apology when I am wrong. I posted a couple of months ago my estimate for the illegal immigrant population. I said that I believed it was 16 million. There were those in comments who claimed it was as many 30 million. All of us may have been low.
News came out this week, many of the non-domiciled (in other words out of state residents) CDLs are issued illegally to illegal immigrants. North Carolina has 53%, New York 52%, and California claiming 29%, but not allowing the Feds to check. In all, there are 100,000 KNOWN illegal immigrants with CDLs in the US.
One in five construction workers are illegals. As many as 4 million. Of course, the pro-illegal lobby says those illegals built 400,000 houses (non-hosted PDF alert). Unless they are all living 10 to a house, that’s a net loss.
During the third Obama term Biden administration, as many as 3 million people a year illegally entered the US, so there is another 12 million. In fact, 52 million people (1 in 6 of us) are not born in this nation, that we know of. Half of them have been here for over 10 years, a quarter of them more than 20.
Anecdotally, there are dozens of counties in this state where more than half of the residents do not speak English. Before anyone accuses me of having this opinion out of racism: I say the same shit when people move here from New York, so don’t go there. Your race card won’t work here.
The Center for Migrant Studies of New York, a liberal, pro-illegal immigration lobbying group, claims that there are 8.4 million illegal immigrant workers in the US. as of 2024. The data above suggests that the number is far, far higher. Looking at these numbers, 30 million illegals seems low. While there are no accurate counts, all evidence points to there being a much larger illegal immigrant population than anyone is estimating. There are perhaps as many as 45 million illegals at this point- one out of every 7 residents.
We have been overrun. There is no way the US can possibly get rid of the illegals at this point. They are entering at multiples of what can be deported, especially considering the resistance coming from the left.
Cops
FBI Reenters the Caliber Wars
Listen to the below video:
There are 9mm projectiles out there that are doing the same thing the forties are doing, but we can take the full power nines that are still less recoil impulse, high magazine capacity…
I own handguns in all of the major self defense calibers, including a few .40S&W and about three times as many 9 millimeters. I can’t tell you the last time I carried, or even shot, a forty caliber. When the FBI decided to use that caliber, they did so by neutering the 10mm. Why? Because female and limp wristed beta male Federal officers can’t handle the recoil of full power handguns.
I’m just going to say this: The 9mm has been a go to carry piece for me because of capacity and ease of concealment. If I were a Fed and could carry what I wanted without fear of printing or accidentally flashing, I would carry a full sized handgun.
He says it, but in a roundabout way:
I asked the guy at Hornady, why are we seeing huge gains in 9mm performance, but not in the other calibers? His answer was “you allowed us to increase velocity.”
This is a fundamentally misleading statement. The 10mm had plenty of velocity, but you forced the industry to slow it down and called it a .40. That’s why the “S&W” at the end is said to stand for “slow and weak.” The heart of the issue is at 12:45 (paraphrased just a bit):
10mm was fine for some agents, but you can’t hand that to a “Fleet” of 13,000 agents. The 180 grain bullet generates too much recoil, so let’s slow it down. Well, if you slow it down, you might as well go to a 40.
The other issue was the handgun chosen for the 10mm: The model 1076. He says half of the guns bought had to go back to the Performance center to be reworked because the gun didn’t function correctly. That’s a firearm, not a caliber problem. Still, recoil was and remains an issue.
All handguns are tradeoffs. Still, let’s be honest here- the FBI went back to the 9mm because women and soyboys are recoil sensitive, and the 1076 was just a crappy gun.
Cops
Assist
As a paramedic, I have opened dozens of cars for medical emergencies, pets, or even children locked in cars. A person who is in a car and isn’t responding is a medical emergency until proven otherwise. Our policy was to try and wake the person while knocking on the window. If no response, the person was showing signs of distress, or it was a child, we would then gain entry to the vehicle. If the temperature outside was less than 80 degrees Fahrenheit, we would take the time to open in without damaging the vehicle, if possible. We had tools for that, but they take a bit of time. If the temperature was more than 80 degrees, our policy was to immediately gain access using the fastest possible means.
The people commenting on this post have a problem with what the cops did. I don’t.
Military
This is so Last Week
I know this is from last week and the left has since moved on, but below is a great video on the EF-18 Growler.
When I was in the Navy, we still had the EA-6B Prowler, affectionally called the “Queer.” The Growler has the same job, it’s just been modernized. There were 2 squadrons of these in the Venezuela theater: one was carrier based, the other was located in Puerto Rico.
There was a legend going around when I was in the service about a Prowler that had turned its jamming equipment on over Washington state and shut down everything: radars, radio, television, all of it for almost 15 minutes. Don’t know if it is true, but it certainly is within this plane’s capabilities. The jamming pod these aircraft carries is the AN/ALQ-99, which can jam all RF signals between 64 MHz and 20GHz.
In the run up to the Venezuela attacks, those Growlers would have shut down all radio and radar. No missiles, no tracking or seeing aircraft, and no issuing of orders to anti-aircraft batteries. All command, control, and communications (C3) would have been shut down. All radars inoperable. Anything that tried to shoot or track anyhow would have been eliminated by the F-35s that were operating over the country.
An entire nation’s air defense, shut down in a couple of minutes.
Anti American left
It’s Coming
The left is ramping up their resistance of Trump, and now even local government officials and law enforcement are joining in the resistance.
The left is dumb, in that they are making this look more and more like an insurrection. Here is the insurrection act (pdf not hosted here at this site).
Trump will keep goading them, and they will stupidly continue their idiocy, until it reaches a level that permits him to use military force to suppress the insurrection.
tyranny
Connecting Some Dots
Hawaii has strict laws against the private ownership or possession of fireworks. This law was passed after some morons caused a fireworks explosion in 2023 that resulted in the death of six people, one of them a 3-year-old. The result is that the penalty for possession of fireworks is now punishable by 5 years in jail. It’s an island, so it should be pretty easy to stop private fireworks, right?
So I guess that means there were no fireworks in Hawaii on New Years’ Eve…
Now I want you to think about the fact that Hawaii has also made firearms illegal, with the same penalties for ignoring the law…
How do you think that’s going?
I get it, tragedies happen, but that is because some people are irresponsible and stupid. That is THEIR fault, and it can’t be fixed by banning objects.