Welcome to Day 507 of the President Sponge Brain Cr*pped Pants* occupation! Lighter than normal post this week, just in terms of no commentary on the links. I did a lot of writing this week, and if you missed them links will be at the end.
6/2 – PETA Triggered Due To Legos’s Farm Sets And Toys
6/3 – Pizza Hut Features Book About “Drag Kids” Aimed at Children in Pre-Kindergarten
6/3 – Masks Are “a Matter of Principle of Where the Authority Lies”
6/4 – A SENSIBLE POSITION ON CRIME AND GUNS
6/5 – World Economic Forum Urges People To Eat Seaweed, Algae, Cacti To Save The Planet
6/6 – South Africa: Warmism creates blackouts
6/7 – Shocking New Video Released – Raw Footage of Cops Beating Lifeless Roseanne
6/7 – Rethinking the Second Amendment
6/9 – Active Shooters in France Kill 648 Men, Women and Children
6/10 – The three phases of transgender ‘progressivism’
ICYMI – I published a four part series this week. It’s probably the heaviest material I’ve written in my years of blogging, and if you haven’t already seen it check it out. Any shareing would be greatly appreciated:
America Has Fallen – How Did This Happen (2 of 4)
If We Want to Restore America We Have to Get Real (3 of 4)
So How Do We Restore America? (4 of 4)
Have a great weekend!
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 4, 2022
Disarm the populace so that the only weapons are owned by the government that made overly broad restrictions, arrested dissenters, and forced you to stay in your home and off beaches and parks, and out of church on Easter.
— Razor (@hale_razor) May 29, 2022
— Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) June 4, 2022
Brother Bob is no longer on Facebook (although you can see his archives there), and is back on Twitter again, but is ramping up on Minds and Gab, as well as Parler and GETTR, and has his biggest presence on MeWe.
Cross posted from Brother Bob’s Blog
damn this “email address is invalid” message!
There is a nifty trick for that
If there is, I’m not aware of it.
So here is what you do
When you go to post and you get the invalid message, copy your content as best you can. Then erase it and replace it with something simple like “test” or what ever you want. Then post and go into the edit function. Erase test or what ever and paste your content and then save.
Has worked for me every time
It seems like there is something in the software that blocks some sites
That is when I have noticed it
Hope it helps
I have also emailed Curt and he has done some behind the scenes work on my ISP also
Yeah, that worked. I think I saw you do that yesterday. Amazing.
THANKS! I’m sure Greg and Michael will appreciate it!
You bet cha
Are we SURE they aren’t just pranking us?
Damnit, and I like their thin-crust pepperoni.
I still see people wearing their stupid face-thong. By themselves. Outside.
If it’s sensible (and it is; it actually addresses the PROBLEMS with pinpoint accuracy) Democrats will have nothing to do with it.
Was there a bug and leaf buffet at the WEF?
It actually seems all those who push the transition from useful sources of energy to “clean” energy is having something or someone to blame for the eventual failure. What if Putin suddenly dies?
Further evidence that the left LOVES violence, as long as they are who are meting it out.
Funny how all it takes for some to change their minds about a topic (racism, gays, gun rights, etc) is to meet a real person with a different point of view. I don’t see a troubling uptick in crime where I live, but the worrisome aspect of that is that it is random and illogical. So, I go armed everywhere I possibly can, and I am working to increase the level of firepower I carry. This is due solely to the left, who have utterly destroyed civil discourse, law enforcement, personal responsibility and regard for life or anyone else’s rights. For the good of society, after Uvalde, I took my AR-15 out and flogged it so it would know to never go out and commit a mass shooting.
If they really wanted to do something positive, they would listen to the NRA, above, and also promote gun safety in schools. But, as we have seen, they NEED the constant supply of gun tragedies to enhance their power and oppression. But, one non-NRA thing that could be done: allow prosecutors and judges that sign the paperwork to free dangerous criminals that go on to commit more crimes to be SUED by the victims. They want to eliminate qualified immunity for cops; lets eliminate it for the actual problem AND make them responsible for the settlements, NOT the taxpayer.
I have recounted before how, back in the 80’s, a friend of mine and I had a discussion about gun registration. I couldn’t see the harm in it; after all, he and I weren’t criminals. That was stupid and naïve and since then, I’ve gotten better. While I couldn’t imagine, then, that the US government… MY government would ever abuse my rights, but I have since witnessed the left trample rights and abuse power. No, NO gun registration and I am very suspicious of any “red flag” laws that Democrats have any hand in or access to.
People demand children be kept safe in schools, yet the only threat they see is the exceedingly rare instance of a crazed lunatic with a gun getting in and killing children. There ARE other ways to “die” than being shot.
“I am very suspicious of any ‘red flag’ laws that Democrats have any hand in or access to.”
So gun aficionados say that it’s a problem with mental health, but you don’t really want anyone to do anything about that, either.
I have a problem… a BIG problem with leftists that don’t care about safety but only want political power making rules that affect my life. Those, like yourself, that believe threatening a Supreme Court Justice with assassination (or even the actual assassination) in order to force a decision that violates the Constitution should not be making rules that affects me.
I don’t have a problem with red flags that would prevent anyone involved in violent illegal activity from purchasing a gun but the left has a tendency to use laws to punish political opponents or those who do not subscribe to their ideology. For instance, many a leftist expressed a desire to imprison those who voted for Trump; people that vindictive and stupid don’t respect the law and shouldn’t be MAKING law. So, see, THAT’S a problem with making progress on this issue.
Two nights ago idiot biden said Republicans should be locked up
How big is that “Gun Free Zone” sign in your front yard?
I agree. Red flag laws are a Pandora’s box, a slippery slope. I do not trust the government with any oversight of my 2nd amendment rights.
You feel that all the dead kids are an acceptable price to pay.
Reel in your line, no bite
Unfortunate.
Source
That’s a false conclusion, and one concocted and propagandized by tyrannical political party standing on the backs of dead children to realize their dream of disarming a population that doesn’t see them as legitimate.
Perhaps your drag queen story hour class has some fault to shoulder, as well?
Government is you god. That’s not how America works, so leave and enjoy your hell elsewhere.
Michael the dumbfuck failed at baiting me into a useless discussion
Of course it is a false conclusion. There is no empirical evidence to support the assertion. Declaring locations to be gun free zones contributes more to gun violence than would instituting red flag laws.
Can you imagine the abuse that would occur in our present climate of political weaponization?
Why yes I can. That is why the red flags laws are opposed and will continue to be opposed.
Right. The dead people are, in your estimation, an acceptable cost. That’s what I’m saying. If they weren’t an acceptable cost, you’d back some kind of activity.
The main killer of kids used to be traffic accidents. That wasn’t an acceptable cost, so there has been some attempt over the years to mitigate that with seatbelt and car seat laws (which I’m willing to bet you complained about, as well).
Gibberish
Apparently, it is YOU that gets such a kick out of seeing kids slain because you, your party and your false idol Obama are primarily to blame, when it comes to “red flags”.
Obama instituted a law that prohibits minority kids from being disciplined in schools and from their records of violent behavior from becoming a part of their record. So, when most critical, red flags… no good. Then we have the failure of the federal government to even enter the information they have to serve as red flags. Dylan Roof and the Sutherland church shooters are two recent examples. So, not only is the left nefarious in their efforts, they are also incompetent. So, unless you have a suggestion to rectify that, NO RED FLAG LAWS.
You want more red flags dealt with, yet you want no red flag laws.
No, I don’t want people like YOU making the laws or enforcing them. You think judicial assassination is OK. That’s not a stable mind.
You really, really wish I’d done that, don’t you?
What am I to think, though? For TrumpWon, even red-flag laws are going to far.
“You feel that all the dead kids are an acceptable price to pay.”
No, the school and the police felt that way. I live in a small county with little money and even less violence. If I visit a school here, all doors are locked and I am under observation from inside by an unseen person who decides whether to unlock the only allowed entry door. That person has a panic button to the Sheriff’s dept and the local police, and our depts will show up and take action. Your comment is beyond weak, it is ludicrous.
You’re referring to one single event. Firearms are now the leading cause of death for young people—even more deadly than auto accidents.
Firearms can’t “cause” anything, they are inanimate objects.
Lame deflection. That’s easier than dealing with the idea of all the dead kids, though, I suppose. Go back to your snuff films.
Ooh, you must be losing, down to insults. “Firearms are now the leading cause of death for young people—even more deadly than auto accidents.” You don’t have stats from “now”, 2020 are the latest stats. Which guns are you blaming, the famous AR15s? Rifles of All types only killed 545 people in 2020, the last year we have records for. That includes legal police shootings and accidents. 662 were killed by “hands and feet”, and 1,739 were killed by knives and cutting instruments”. Now, parrot another media lie for us.
And where does fentanyl land on that list? Dear leader biden has made a deal with the cartels at the border. Remember, 10% for the big guy.
That’s an incredible bit of mental gymnastics you’re doing there.
The graph doesn’t make the distinction. It’s kids being killed by guns. I don’t understand how you don’t care about that.
Show us your “graph”.
So you’ve been fighting with me about the stats without having first seen the stats I’m referring to. I expect nothing less.
It’s posted up above, along with the link to the article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Side note: I assure you that it’s a graph—no scare quotes needed.
Every one of the shooters you talk about broke multiple laws in the commission of their acts. Exactly what law do you want to pass that will change that? By the way, a gun can’t break a law either.
No gun has ever killed anyone. How many guns are serving time for killing people?
The lamest of conceivable deflections. Your unwillingness to address the issue of all the dead kids is unfortunate.
Your silly shaming attempt is funny. Do more.
I’m beginning to think that you don’t have the capacity for shame.
I’ve done nothing to be ashamed of. Other than your “if you disagree with me you are a terrible person” silliness what is it you want done about these guns that keep running around killing people (according to you).?
A gun can’t kill without an operator. I want to stop the operator. And if you don’t agree with me you are the most shameless, horrible person in the world!!
Bwahahahaha!
The same number of cars that have killed people. Both are on death row.
No red-flag law has ever taken a gun away from anyone. Why are you against them? Red-flag laws can’t do anything to anyone.
No red-flag law has ever taken a gun away from anyone. Why are you against them? Red-flag laws can’t do anything to anyone.
Are you saying it is just another useless political bullshit law?
Then why even defend it?
Deflection? Do you know of some instances where guns got up and went out and shot some people? Do tell.
Democrat failure to support police, punish criminals and enforce laws is what has led to the spike in gun deaths. We now see open gang warfare on city streets and all the left does is impose new rules on those who obey laws and need the most security.
05/19/22 – Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States
You notice greggie that the CDC fails to make note of any criminal activity by those who died of gun shots. They also did not identify what is an adolescent is! How many criminal gang members who would be considered as an adolescent. Maybe the increase in deaths have something to do with wide open borders with no monitoring of criminals entering the US.
Or, a more accurate cause of what really kills children
If you look at the spike in drug overdose deaths, that is DIRECTLY on idiot Biden’s hair-plugged head with his anti-American open border policy.
From the link you provide. “In addition, drug overdose and poisoning increased by 83.6% from 2019 to 2020 among children and adolescents, becoming the third leading cause of death in that age group.”
With an open southern border, Biden invites this kind of increase as Fentanyl is flooding our country. It’s getting worse not better. This is fixable but Democrats don’t want to fix it. What good reason is there for an open border? We are sending huge sums of money so Ukraine and defend it’s borders from Russia. Yet ours are wide open. Would Biden do anything different if Russian’s were coming in through the southern US border? Would that get his attention?
Then again maybe we just need red flag laws on young Democrats.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-splc-poll-includes-shocking-finding-about-democrats-support-for-assassinations
Don’t tell me; tell the New England Journal of Medicine.
Michael, if you’re serious about ending gun violence you’ll focus on the real cause. You don’t want dead children, do you?
Yes lets see where these deaths occur my bet is on democrat run cities with very strict gun control laws and very loose crime control.
What is he, special or something? He should have just allowed himself to be killed with everyone else. Looks better in the headlines.
So a good guy with a gun is now a bad guy?
Its abortion by far.
One has nothing to do with the other. But, do you think the scores of children and adults killed every weekend in Democrat cities with strict gun control laws is an acceptable price to pay for liberal governance that does not punish crime and defunds police? I guess as long as it’s those “human weeds” that Planned Parenthood is intended to eliminate, it’s just A-OK, since you have no objection to the leftist-induced problems which makes life so dangerous. It’s all per the liberal plan.
That brings up a related matter.
Going with what gun aficionados have been saying for years and years, Chicago should be the safest city on Earth. There’s no way you can call it a “gun-free zone,” is there? And yet: deaths.
To reply to your question: My hope is that we can reduce all firearm deaths, whether they’re to innocent children or city-dwelling criminals. We don’t have to ignore one to deal with the other.
Chicago has the most restrictive gun laws in the US barring the Pentagon. There are also many federal gun laws that apply to criminals who use guns in the crimes they commit. The difficulty is that few laws are enforced. Gun laws are meaningless if not enforced since there are no penalties. Serious penalties that send criminals to federal facilities may minimize shootings. This requires policing, arrests, prosecution and realistic sentencing. If one looks at the locations where children and adults are mostly killed by guns, those cities are run by liberals who will not support policing, arrests, prosecution and realistic sentencing. In other words, liberals act like they want to minimize child deaths but are not willing to do what is necessary.
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But you guys are always telling me that the presence of guns will keep bad people from using guns. That doesn’t seem to be happening in the places you’re referring to.
That’s because your beloved gun laws only keeps the law abiding from having weapons for self defense. Only the bad guys have the guns because they don’t really concentrate on abiding by laws.
See? Kinda?
I see what you’re saying, but you’re addressing something different than I am.
My comment wasn’t about the laws; it was about the deterrent effect that the presence of guns is supposed to have. The Right’s position has been that the very presence of guns and willing users will deter gun violence. That’s the whole thing about “No-gun zone” signs, right? That shooters are encouraged by the fact that they know that there will be nobody there to oppose them.
Yet there’s no way that the urban criminals you guys keep referring to think that there will be no guns. They know that their adversaries will be armed and willing to return fire. That doesn’t seem to stop them.
Criminals who get into gun fights with police surely know that the police are armed, but that knowledge doesn’t deter them.
All of that seems to cut against the “more guns will solve the problem” argument.
Oh, I see. You have trouble understanding even the simplest of concepts. See, the idea is to deter criminals from assailing innocent, law abiding citizens. But, when the law abiding citizens have no guns and the criminals HAVE guns, the deterrent affect is greatly reduced.
In “gun-free zones”, it is all but guaranteed that no one within will possess a weapon for self defense. Even if a criminal can read, they aren’t deterred by signs.
The armed criminal does not seek out armed police; they try to evade them. However, when they are cornered by police and face prison (well… USED to) for possession of a weapon, they often make the decision to try to win a gun battle. If they KNEW they would be confronted by an armed cop, you think they would carry a weapon? So you think there is no deterrent effect to police or police being armed? Really?
Having armed police at Kavanaugh’s house caused the assassin Schumer sent to kill the Judge to change his plans. I’d say that was successful deterrence.
In big, Democrat cities where the leadership has no concern for the livelihood of the law abiding, taxpaying citizens, the criminal is almost assured to get away with illegally carrying a gun. Now, even if they get caught, there is little or no penalty. We see the evidence of that every weekend.
Good. We see eye to eye on that. Now, what do YOU think should be done to accomplish that?
Like anyone else, I have thoughts. Who knows whether they’d work unless we try? If they don’t work, we can try something else. Some ideas are long-term projects; others are more focused.
A long-term project would be cutting back on gun fetishization in our culture. Guns are dangerous, but our society normalizes them through movies, advertising, and so on. Even gun aficionados want guns to be frightening—that’s the whole point behind “if they know that people on campus are armed, they won’t try to shoot up a school.” But when they’re normalized, they lose that fear-inducing edge. Guns should be a big deal. People should be allowed to own guns, of course, but owning a gun should be something that makes gun owners thoughtful about and respectful of the power of the weapon.
Something more focused: we need to find a way to cut down on the fire rate. One person can quickly mow down many innocent people within just a couple of minutes. Would that be limits on magazine size? Maybe. And what do you do with the high-capacity magazines that are already out there? That’s more involved and becomes a long-term goal. Forcing everyone to own only muzzle-loading flintlocks would get the job done, but somehow I don’t think that I could raise a lot of support for the idea.
That last idea was a joke. If I don’t point that out, you’ll insist that I meant it seriously.
Finally, even though I know that people here are against red-flag laws and taking guns away from people who exhibit warning signs, but if the problem is about mental health—and many gun aficionados agree that it is—then we need to be willing to apply mental-health solutions to the problem.
Those are a few of the things I’ve thought about over the years. Trying to solve the problem would require years and buy-in from people on both sides of the issue, and both sides would need to be willing to compromise and change the plan when it looks like it’s not getting the job done.
One way to do that would be to allow NRA-style programs in schools to teach gun safety. Teaching victimhood should be ENDED, as this creates the false desire for revenge. An anecdote to your last sentence, a friend of mine that I worked with was one of the first people I knew to get a CHL. He came from a rough background, tough guy, no nonsense, not one to back down from a fight. But he told me when he was carrying his weapon, he felt different, like it was important to put things in perspective because, with a gun, people’s lives were at stake. He found himself reacting to provocations less. This is not a rare mentality among licensed carriers, something those who don’t understand gun ownership fail to understand or try to understand.
Guns have other purposes than mass murder. The AR-15, for instance, is an excellent home defense weapon for the reasons you cite as a drawback. The gun is not to blame; the perpetrator is. Identifying those people and preventing ownership or, as much as is possible, access is more the answer. Putting them in jail when they commit violent acts used to be the norm; now it’s a cause for sympathy. They need to be in jail for a long, long time.
I’m not against them. In fact, we already have them, but the government does a poor job of entering them into the data base. What I oppose is giving partisan, ideological, anti-gun leftists ability to make such laws and implement them. Accept it or not, they do not act in good faith; they use such laws to punish political opponents.
Yes, correcting the problem will take a long time and those who view life so cheaply as to take them in order go attract attention, settle an argument or simply make a point are still out there. So are guns. What you, notably, did NOT mention is hardening schools and, really, any other facility were disarmed people may be. The difference between Uvalde, with ONE unlocked door and the Alabama elementary school where the intruder was killed trying to enter is stark. It is sad and disgusting that this is even a concept, but it is necessary to do while the politics is wrung out of the issue and real, lasting and effective solutions are enacted.
A “gun aficionado” is nothing more than someone exercising their 2nd Amendment right.
Michael, since 1966 the Democrats have held the majority in the House 19 times (counting 1966) for a total of 37 years. Out of those 37 years, they held the majority in Congress with the Senate for 30 years. But now, Chuck (the Schmuck) Schumer is screaming across the aisle to Republicans “DO SOMETHING.”
That leaves us with two options; either the Democrats did nothing in those 37 years or what they did didn’t work and was simply a waste of time and money. The system of “Well, we’ll do this and if it doesn’t work we’ll come up with something else” is not governing.
You want red flag laws. I want the laws passed by Democrats dealing with the mentally ill revoked. All those laws have done is harm people, including the mentally ill. I want laws that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have to live by and not skate because they have private security that every day Americans cannot afford. When Nancy Pelosi gives up her private security, we’ll talk about red flag laws.
Americans are currently being prosecuted, and persecuted, for their political beliefs by the Democrats and the Democrat led justice system. Do you really think I want them controlling my personal security considering that the laws they have already passed has not done one damn thing to stop any school shooter or any gang banger in Chicago with an illegal gun?
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
Now you’re trying to make the idea of someone caring about kids’ safety into something shameful and underhanded.
No, I’m not. I am trying to get you to admit that nothing the Democrats have done over the last 37 years has worked and yet, here you are, wanting them to pass more useless laws that criminals will never honor and that will only put law abiding citizens under the Democrat thumb even more than it already is.
Wake up; it’s not about the children, it’s about an inanimate object that never acted on its own. It’s about this:
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
Adolf Hitler.
Yep. Retire05 just quoted Adolf Hitler.
Approvingly.
Quoted Hitler expressing the very agenda you leftists subscribe to, using children as political pawns. I think that makes you Hitlerites.
For you, possibly, but I have spent over half my life working with children, so I see a lot of things through that lens.
Not unless you insist your school be properly secured, hardened and protected.
Now you’re telling me that I’m not thinking what I say I’m thinking, because I’m not thinking the same thoughts you are.
No, I’m telling you you aren’t doing what you may think you are doing unless you address the actual issues. Your good intentions are not going to protect anyone.
At work, it was described as “activity does not necessarily equal accomplishment.”
A good healthy start would be ridding all municipalities of any george soros elected official.
Red flag laws are an insidious way of gun control by a government that can not be trusted. Much like operation choke point, the demo party looks for methods outside of the boundaries of the 2nd amendment to coerce gun control.
Mike most likely has never fired a gun, that alone makes him an expert in firearm laws. You can see he quotes other firearm experts trotted out on TV.
You seem to believe yourself an expert on teaching, yet you’ve clearly never been a teacher.
All mothers are teachers, involved grandmas too.
You clearly hate your job the people in charge have made this paycheck source difficult to impossible, so you lash out at those that have a different opinion politically. Your position is immature but in your business who would notice.
You really dislike when you are bagged, you never shot a gun in your entire miserable life, but still want to control those that have never harmed anyone with their firearms.
over 600,000 hunters every year, in my state alone with high powered semi automatic weapons. Each one pays for the conservation of wildlife and wilderness in the state.
I don’t understand what this means.
Don’t worry; she didn’t mean “tea bagged”.
You see you just cant comprehend a thing.
Yes, you’re right: it takes a village to raise a child. Good point. Mothers and grandmothers are definitely teachers, just not in the same sense that classroom teachers are—that is to say, teaching classroom stuff. But you’re always telling me about how I’m supposed to do my classroom job.
Side note: I hope you’re not inadvertently teaching your grandchildren to be as hate-filled as you are. That would be sad.
THIS^^^