With this news, Salt Lake City is now a Zone 2 city- authorities have ceded some measure of lawful control to Antifa.
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Good
It seems that liberals are buying guns. Good. More gun owners= more freedom. Of course, the linked article shows they still know nothing about guns, viewing them as a magic talisman more than a tool for freedom. For example:
He grew up and became a doctor, and these days, he heads to a shooting range in Maryland each week for target practice with his Smith & Wesson .380.
Charles, who is Black, says he bought the handgun after the Trump administration did things that scared him, including arresting a foreign student who criticized her university’s policy on Israel and handcuffing a U.S. senator who was forcibly removed from a Homeland Security news conference.
“What I’m talking about is protecting myself from a situation where there may be some kind of civil unrest,” says Charles.
So a Senator being arrested by the police is going to be stopped by a .380? He goes on:
Charles says he worries that some of President Trump’s supporters may feel emboldened someday to target minorities like him and his family.
“He could dispatch citizens or the government,” Charles says. “I’m not saying that’s what’s going to happen. What I’m saying is none of this is out of the question any longer.”
It’s never been out of the question, that the government would abuse its power and come after you. An armed society is a polite one. I applaud you taking the first step.
But many liberals who spoke for this story say it’s the other way around. They say the president dehumanizes others with his rhetoric. For instance, Trump has said undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” The president has also called his political opponents, “radical left thugs that live like vermin.”
In the past 6 years, I have been called Nazi, racist, and deplorable. I have been deplatformed, threatened, and had someone try to destroy my professional life. I had government officials threaten to toss me in a reeducation camp, and worse. Don’t even go there.
Still, welcome to the gun culture. Once you realize that an armed society is a more free one than that of unarmed sheep, you have taken the first step towards rejecting despotism and embracing freedom and liberty.
Welcome to the party.
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The March
The statistic is 40% of rent controlled housing is occupied by illegals. This limits supply and raises the cost of housing.
Pew research estimates that there are more than 14 million illegals in the nation. The Biden years saw an unprecedented number of illegal entries, aided by the administration’s active participation. My guess is that 14 million is low, perhaps by 15-20 percent, putting the real number at around 16 million. One in every 20 people in the US here illegally, and the other 19 people pay for it.
Now comes news that our judiciary is divided along political lines, with Democrat appointed judges nearly all siding with leftist policies instead of the Constitution.
There is no coming back from this. Trump is a speed bump. All the left needs to do is stall for three more years before continuing their march to communism.
How’s that for a Christmas season cheery thought?
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Getting Hotter
Someone deliberately targeted national guardsmen near the Whitehouse, critically wounding two of them. He was shot in the process.
No word on a motive in this, but it seems like the left is looking to kick off CW2.
EDITED TO ADD:
The shooter is a 29 year old Afghani national who last lived in Bellingham, Washington.
Military
Regime Change
President Donald Trump has activated hundreds of Texas National Guard troops and federalized 300 Illinois National Guard troops for duty in Illinois despite the governor’s objections. The left is bitching because they have suddenly rediscovered states’ rights.
Once again, they are deploying our troops into a combat zone with no strategy, no clear definition of what a victory would look like, and worse yet no exit plan. All to yet again just to prop up another failed regime that will never become a true democracy…………
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Getting Hotter
From a comment on yesterday’s post:
I just heard the audio from Chicago PD ordering officers to stand down and not assist the federal agents. Sure seems like Civil War 2 is kicking off, doesn’t it?
It sure looks like it. One thing seems certain, in the last few months, the left appears to have ramped up both violent rhetoric and actual violence.
In June, DHS noted that there were increasing examples of agents and their families being doxxed and threatened online.
In July, there were dozens of arrests made of individuals who either threatened or attempted to carry out violent acts against Federal Law Enforcement. Armed attacks in Alvaredo and McAllister Texas. The attack in Alvaredo was evidence of coordinated leftist attacks. Several people wearing black clothing where attackers drew ICE officers out of the facility by first setting off fireworks and spray painting “traitor” and “ICE pig” on cars and a guard post at the facility.
As officials engaged the group, someone standing in the nearby woods flashed a signal with a flashlight before shots were fired from the same direction.
A second assailant across the street mag dumped at the cops. An AR-style rifle and a flag emblazoned with the words, “resist fascism, fight oligarchy”, as well as flyers reading “Fight ICE terror with class war”, were found at the scene.
In August, a 36-year-old identified as Bratton Dean Wilkinson claimed he had a bomb detonator in his backpack at the Dallas ICE facility.
September saw the Charlie Kirk assassination, as well as shootings at the ICE office in Dallas. An ICE agent shot and killed an illegal immigrant who was trying to run him over.
This weekend, ICE agents were ambushed by at least 10 cars full of people, with at least one of them armed. An armed woman was shot.
The left is ramping up the violence in a way that displays coordination and control, as well as better tactics and logistics. They are getting all of their shit into one sock. It’s only a matter of time before the events begun by them begin drawing return fire.
Spicy times are a’comin.
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Trouble
ICE agents in Chicago shoot a lefty protester who was part of a group that rammed ICE vehicles.
Anti American left
No Peaceful Solution
Sometimes, there is just no peaceful way forward. Read this:
If you know and understand history, you know that the number of military coups that resulted in more democracy and freedom can be counted on the fingers of one foot.
People who think the military overthrow of civil government is democracy saved, simply because the election didnt go their way, cannot be reasoned with.
Civil War is inevitable.
EDITED TO ADD:
If you look closely at that “sniper” he is armed with a pepper ball gun.
This isn’t a military presence- it’s the police.
Also, the left didn’t care when it was the left using the military. I guess that it’s only fascism when the right uses them to enforce the law.
Self Defense
Pushing Back
When my son was young, he was small for his age. He came home from school one day, upset that while playing soccer, he accidentally kicked the ball through his own team’s goal. Because of this mistake, a 5th-grade kid had physically assaulted him. He told me that this kid had been hitting him and bullying him for the past several weeks, and was telling me that he no longer wanted to go to school. I called the school and was told: “Well, there are a lot of children out there for recess, so many that the teachers can’t watch everyone, all of the time.”
I told my son that the next time someone hit him, he should defend himself. He told me that he didn’t want to get in trouble. I responded by telling him to let me worry about that. I also pointed out to him that he had been playing Pop Warner football, and the kid who had hit him was no bigger than some of the other kids on his team.
A couple of days went by before he again came home from school, this time telling me that the kid had hit him, and he had done what I told him to and beat the snot out of the other kid. My son was upset, because he had a letter telling him that he was to be suspended for fighting.
I called the school and told them that I wanted a meeting immediately. I got one for the next day.
At this meeting, the answer that I got was that they had a “zero tolerance” policy for fighting, and the result of this was all kids who fight receive 3 days of out of school suspension. I pointed out that I had come to them just the previous week and was told they couldn’t watch everyone, so why now?
“Well, we saw the fight.” I told them that they have a legal duty to keep my child safe, and when they fail in that duty, even after being told that my child was being physically attacked, they were failing in that duty. To compound this by suspending my child when he defends himself from a physical attack is the height of irresponsible behavior.
I also told them, should this discipline stand, I would be back to the school the following day with an attorney, and we would see where that would take us. I had every intention of doing so- it wasn’t an idle threat.
The suspension was lifted, and the kid never touched my son again. The best part was that my son learned a couple of important lessons that day on how not to be pushed around by others.
You can’t let bullies, in this case a child and a lazy set of school staff, run roughshod over you. You exhaust your options for a peaceful solution, but once that has been seen to its completion, you have to go on to the next step. Unless you fight back, bullying behavior will always continue. The corollary to that was eloquently stated by Mike Tyson: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
That’s the lesson for today. I’m sure each of you understands where that line of thought leads.
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Escalating Violence
With news of another shooting by a sniper who wrote notes on his ammo, I think it is safe to say that hostilities are escalating. Take all appropriate steps to secure your families.