Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Would'a, Could'a, Should'a

State constitutions can go farther than federal in protecting liberty [More]
So why don't they?

[Via Michael G]

Another Way of Trolling

I insist comments stay on topic here where I can control things.

Where I can't, I'm seeing an increase of comment posters throwing out something completely unrelated to the topic being offered for discussion resulting in no shortage of the distracted chasing after it. Seeing the same people doing it time and again makes me wonder if infiltration, disruption, and redirection are the real reasons some of them are there.

Game On

2AGaming™ is an outreach program by the Second Amendment Foundation. [More]
As I've confessed before, this whole phenomenon pretty much passed me by after Pong. That said, if you're newer to the planet than I am, give it a look. If you think the graphics and scenarios are compelling enough to draw in gamers, spread the word through your sphere of influence.

You're going to have to be the ones to write reviews and, importantly, to monitor "mainstream" reviews to ensure criticisms are fair as opposed to agenda-driven.

What They Said

'It speaks to an absolute ignorance of expert opinion and defiance of common sense' [More]
If that isn't just about the most accurate description of "Progressivism" I've ever seen...

[Via Michael G]

Bigger Fish to Fry

China Rejects Demands for Outside Investigation into Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak [More]
Hey, per Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler, we've got more important things to do anyway.

[Via Michael G]

She Was Appointed for a Reason

I’m fully prepared to believe that she is eminently qualified to sit as a justice of the Washington State Supreme Court, based upon her experience, qualifications and temperament, and that she will be a brilliant and fair jurist. [More]
I'm not.

[Via Michael G]

Eye in the Sky

‘THIS IS CRAZY!’: Chinese-Made Drones Are Monitoring Streets In 20 States To Enforce Social Distancing. U.S. Officials Are Concerned About Spying. [More]
Replace "concerned" with "enthusiastic" and I'd call that closer to the mark.

[Via Jess]

So Is He Going to Get His 5 Years Back?

Citing the "Stand Your Ground" law, the 5th District Court of Appeal  dismissed the longstanding charges against a Port St. John man accused of shooting Brevard County Sheriff’s Deputy John "Casey" Smith during a botched arrest in front of his home in 2015. [More]
You show up out of uniform and your first instinct is to grab a girl and people are going to react.

UPDATE: And it looks like at least two more showed up "out of uniform." (Thanks, Ed)

He Did It! He Missed the Barn!

If the Democrats win in November, we know their priorities: national health insurance, carbon taxes, the Green New Deal, open borders, amnesty, reparations and wealth redistribution to reduce social and economic inequality – an agenda costing trillions of dollars. [More]
You forgot something, Pat.

The Race Card Default


[More]
This idiot again. And more corroboration that Trump is an avatar.

She won't acknowledge this because she can't, but I won't be surprised to see some sadists and psychopaths show up.

Masking His Activities

"We are for actually solving a major, major problem — not only for the state but potentially a template for the country." [More]
Oh, he's talking about masks...

Stoking Stay-at-Home Hysteria Another Way to Discourage Gun Ownership


They learned long ago that announcing their true intentions impedes manipulation of the uninformed, and that nothing works better on the cud-chewers than “For the children.” Keeping children ignorant actually puts them in more danger, but that won't be acknowledged because safety isn’t what power-hungry frauds pulling useful idiot strings to bring about a “monopoly of violence” are really after. [More]
Guess who doesn't practice "social distancing," and whose interests are served by home invasion victims not being able to get to a functioning gun in time?

Monday, April 20, 2020

What Took Him So Long?

Trudeau promises swift action on gun control following Nova Scotia shooting [More]
If expanding on what hasn't worked isn't a "progressive" idea, I don't know what is.

[Via Roger J]

Looks Like a Good Way to Get Malware to Me...

Find david codrea and mike vanderboegh book free download [More]
I know there's no book by us, and if there's a book about us it's news to me and certainly not authorized or the result of any collaboration.

This says the site itself is not suspicious, but just from that description, I'm suspicious as hell, and not inclined to download whatever that "book" is...

Statement of Earnings

Groups this low deserve to be called out loudly, aggressively, passionately.  [More]
Don't get me started on what they deserve.

[Via Mack H]

A Higher Calling

This reasonable reader cannot see how those 70 militiamen, with guns suicidally drawn against a vastly larger force of professional soldiers, were advancing their economic self-interest, suppressing class tensions, claiming land out West, promoting commerce, or defending slavery. [More]
They were there for a much more basic purpose.

[Via Mack H]

Harmful Misinformation

I guess that's whatever he says it is... [More]

You know, stuff like this...

[Via Michael G]

The Quality of Mercy

“I think it’s unconscionable just on a human level that folks were shown mercy and this is what some of them have done,” the mayor said during his morning briefing Monday... [More]
Yeah, what do you think they do? Why do you think they had to be locked up like animals in the first damn place, moron?

You oughta see what they'd do to you, your wife and your children if you didn't have taxpayer-funded bodyguards and were dependent on their "mercy," which makes your demands for citizen disarmament all the more hypocritically evil.

[Via Michael G]

Points/Counterpoints

"Sweden’s Chief Epidemiologist: Our Open Approach To Virus Seems To Be Working" [More]
and
‘There’s no direct evidence that the lockdowns are working’ [More]
So what does Fauci know that they don't?

I had a thought today when out for a walk and watching a plumbing truck pass by -- Is anyone keeping track of new case rates for those "essential" workers whose jobs require them to come into contact with different people in their home environments on a daily basis? It would seem they'd be dropping like flies...

[Via Mack H]

UPDATE: Yeah, the experts aren't sorcerers or priests.

[Via Michael G]

What Have We Learned?

First-Time Buyers Explain Why Coronavirus Drove Them to Gun Stores in Record Numbers [More]
We've all read these stories. Now do something new and have them explain how they've voted in the past and if that will affect how they vote in the future.

[Via Mack H]

Rules are for Little People

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally was asked to explain why – despite repeatedly accusing President Trump of "underplaying" the coronavirus threat – she was in San Francisco's crowded Chinatown in late February encouraging people to come join her. [More]
So will Bay Area people issued citations for not following social distancing mandates be able to challenge them on equal protection grounds? 

Is it too late to call the snitch line?

Staying Power?

The virtual closure of national borders from Central America to the United States because of the Chinese Virus might end the migration of Central America’s poverty-stricken hordes to the United States, but only if the controls stay in place long enough to become settled policy. Mass apprehensions at the border have dropped by more than half. Helping, of course, is the knowledge, even among illegal aliens, that one might contract the deadly microbe on the trip north, but the border controls are what counts. The virus will pass. Stopping a return to the status quo ante depends on President Trump’s surviving the social and economic upheaval the Asian pathogen has caused, which means Trump—The Sequel must begin on January 20. [More]
Meaning desperation to execute an agenda makes this a very dangerous time...

Toxic Non-Masculinity

'I crawled in bed and cried': CNN face has meltdown - 'Tears that had been waiting a month to escape' [More]
Whatever.

A Targeted Response

WHO Advisory Committee Member Retweets (Then Deletes) Michael Moore Clip Endorsing Anti-Trump Violence [More]
And never forget that Trump is an avatar.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Running Down Enough

Atlanta police supervisor accused of attacking, attempting to run over fellow officer... Police said the off-duty officer tried get Steed out of the car and she resisted, ultimately biting the officer’s hand [More]
I guess that's the difference a trained professional brings to the scene. Bring but an amateur, none of those options would have even occurred to me in this situation.

Of course when "civilians" try bumping their cars into "Only Ones," the results are usually pretty definitive and immediate.

[Via bondmen]

The Hack List

Yes, a gun manufacturer is on a list that includes kidnappers, murderers, and traitors for the crime of making guns... [More]
And they missed an opportunity to portray him as a racist...? The writers must be slipping.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Alpha and Omega Enough

“Each of us took an oath to uphold and defend the Michigan Constitution, as well as the US Constitution, and to ensure that your God given rights are not violated,” the sheriffs said. “We believe that we are the last line of defense in protecting your civil liberties.” [More]
Would that you were.  But I can't show certain "unpermitted" guns to any of you, can I?

Guess what: You're typically not the "first responders," either.

[Via bondmen]

Teach Your Children Well

Yet Elizabeth Bartholet, Wasserstein public interest professor of law and faculty director of the Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, sees risks for children—and society—in homeschooling, and recommends a presumptive ban on the practice. Homeschooling, she says, not only violates children’s right to a “meaningful education” and their right to be protected from potential child abuse, but may keep them from contributing positively to a democratic society.” [More]
A ban on parents teaching their children...

Enforceable by men with guns...

It's the only thing those who would force their will on the rest of us understand.

And could there be a more "progressive" laboratory to measure results...?

[Via Michael G]

Food Riots and Looting in 3...2...1...

So why float the idea of closing off grocery stores to foot traffic? That's what CNN and its "experts" are doing. [More]
It's almost like some manipulators are trying to provoke widespread violence.

[Via Michael G]

Plan B?

China owned US pork producer, Smithfield Foods, shut down its operations in South Dakota recently due to the coronavirus. Actions like this lead to many wondering if China is attempting to undermine the US food supply. [More]
So does that mean Plan A didn't work?

Or is all this just my overactive imagination?

[Via Jess]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gulag

The key elements of both the Green New Deal and the Lockdown are reduced economic activity to stave off some crisis that is both unsubstantiated and unverifiable. It is the invisible threat that is relied upon to force people into economic devastation, thus relying heavily on government for their lives and when that cannot be accomplished (and they truly don't see the irony of it at all) a certain amount of people will have to die to save the rest. People are not ecologically sustainable in their model. [More]
Think of it as beta testing.

And that can be taken two ways.

From the #BelieveWomen Files...

A Manchester woman has been arrested for filing a false report to law enforcement after she claimed she was drugged during an off-campus fraternity event at the University of New Hampshire. [More]
Next thing you're going to be telling me most "hate crime" reports are hoaxes...

I found a social media account by someone with the same name I won't link to because I can't be sure it's the same person. I bring it up because it had a Women's March Global "Believe Women" post that struck me as ironic.

Funny, how that's so selective, isn't it?

[Via Michael G]

I Like to be in America. O.K. by Me in America


Everything free in America [More]

I've had people (who refuse to take my challenge) insist if "we" were welcoming, we'd win hearts and minds and live in RKBA harmony ever after.

Allow me to reiterate:

And as an aside for those who call for outreach, that’s a good idea and long overdue. It cannot be overstated that the right to keep and bear arms is a human right, not just an American one, and the big national and state groups should have been doing that all this time. But we also have to face the reality that resource-limited efforts they put forth are unlikely to result in any significant and timely attitude changes when pitted against generational cultural predispositions, 2A-hostile educational, political and media interests, and stepped-up marginalization/ostracism of “pro-gun” influencers by social media and search engine giants.

This latest example of what their media chooses to share with them would seem to validate that.

Down the Garden State Path

The New Jersey woman who helped organize and film a protest in the state capitol of Trenton against Governor Phil Murphy's stay-at-home orders was charged by the state police with violating the emergency decrees. The information comes to us via a press release from the state's attorney general, Gurbir S. Grewal and Colonel Patrick J. Callahan, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police. [More]
Grabber Grewal and his "essential" attack hog certainly make quite the authoritarian tag team, do they not?

When you're empowered to enforce Murphy's Law, you can get away with anything.

Most conditioned constituents will agree and continue to vote for their oppressors.

[Via Michael G]

Much Ado About Nothing

In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Virginia filed a federal lawsuit today challenging Virginia’s “witness requirement.” [More]
This whole thing is based on a lie and on the intent to enable voter fraud. It's not like anyone is actually totally without human contact. An old lady living alone still has someone making sure she's alive and fed, be it a neighbor, a fellow parishioner, a relative or social services. Any exception would be a rarity revealing an issue much more critical than absentee voting.

Hell, somebody picks up the absentee ballot.

I'd like to identify the protestors in the photograph for the purpose of proving none of them have been "disenfranchised" from voting, nor do they personally know anyone who has been.

But the politically exploitive impression of systemic racism has been made, and when dealing with useful idiots, that's all that matters.

[Via Mack H]

Biden Her Time

How the Obamas could easily win eight more years in the White House [More]
Like some of us have been saying...

And there's another birth certificate I'd like to see, but not for the same reason.

We're the Only Ones Criminally Negligent Enough

"We didn't go back at the time and look at people's criminal history," Chronister said Thursday... [More]
Why the f*** not?

So much for your "mission," Chad, which ought to make you liable for a fraud claim based on "legal duty" even without this latest bit of inexcusable incompetence.

The ABCs of Obfuscation

Ex-mayor who quit after criticizing Trump dies in crash [More]
Well now that that impression's been created, you have to drill seven paragraphs down to find:
Kirby gained notoriety last week after social media posts criticizing Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and comparing the president’s supporters to KKK members.
What can I say but "ABC News"?

And it's not just the avatar they hate.

Violent White Militia Extremists Fire on Commonsense Gun Safety Law Advocates with Weapons of War


The holiday was originally celebrated on April 19, the actual anniversary of the battles (fought in 1775). Since 1969, it has been observed on the third Monday in April in Massachusetts[16] and in Maine[17] (which until the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was part of Massachusetts). The Monday holiday creates a three-day long weekend. It is also the first day of a vacation week for public schools in both states and a school holiday for many local colleges and universities, both public and private. [More]
Gotta give another stay-at-home day to the nonessential people who abhor what is being commemorated the most.

To the rest of you, have a reflective Patriots' Day. 

And yeah, I see the misspelling.

Kneel Before Zod!

Democrat Governor Whitmer Bashes Protesters, Says Lockdown Could Be Extended Because Of ‘Irresponsible’ Behavior [More]
I'll show them who's boss!

Hey, I recognize that style of management...

But she's got armed enforcers.

[Via Jess]

We All Scream for Ice Cream

Pelosi Shows Off $25,000 Refrigerators and Tons of Ice Cream While Millions are Struggling [More]
Not that this will lose her one vote among the Vladimir Lemon crowd...

[Via Jess]

Snitch Nation

Proud mayor of California’s biggest sanctuary city urges residents to ‘report non-essential businesses that are operating illegally’ [More]
And he's got plenty of enforcement help.

I wonder if the new brownshirts get special dispensation...?

[Via Michael G]

Spaceballs

NASA to launch astronauts from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade with help from SpaceX [More]
You have to understand, they've been preoccupied with other priorities.

Speaking of Racist Lunatics

Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, who is described by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the "lead" member of the U.S. government team racing to find a coronavirus vaccine, has engaged with online theories calling the pandemic a black "genocide" and condemned what she called "systematic oppression" by white people... 
How does not just employing this creature but giving her a position of responsibility, serve any purpose articulated in the Preamble?

Fox News does not allow Blogger link access, so you'll need to paste this url in your browser bar: 
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-researcher-pandemic-genocide-blacks-nih ]

Coming Soon, to a Marxist Enclave Near You

CORONA RIOTS Riots and looting in Cape Town as Africa suffers 1,000 coronavirus deaths [More]
I sure wouldn't want to be a farmer there about now...

Speaking of Feces-Flinging Monkeys...

Michael Cohen Is Writing a Secret Tell-All to ‘Spill the Beans’ on Trump [More]
If attorney/client privilege is allowed to be discarded like this, none of us can ever safely seek counsel.

As a side note, seeing the "celebrity" involved recalls one of the few instances that I agree with Howard Stern:
(”(Tom Arnold’s) only talent appears to be getting it up for this fat slob (Roseanne)”).

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Obviously Not Restrictive Enough

Gunman disguised as a cop kills at least 16 people in Canada's worst mass-shooting including a mother-of-two Mountie in 12-hour rampage before being shot dead by police [More]
So much for licensing.

And so much for the Fauxnly Ones. As noted before, be aware of those stories-- you never know when you might have to prove you had reason to doubt authenticity...

Friday, April 17, 2020

Credit Where Due

[Photo by Oleg Volk]
Acknowledging the Earlier 'Shockwave' Developer: Len Savage, President of Historic Arms, LLC. [More]
An earlier article by another author necessitated clarifying the record of development.

I'm a bit of a stickler for such things.

And as long as I'm on the subject, I guess my request for the magazine to acknowledge Oleg in the photo credit got lost in nested emails. I've asked to have the web team make sure that gets fixed.

Your Feel-Good Story of the Evening

Doorbell Camera Captures Audio From Moment Alleged Home Intruder Was Shot in Neptune Beach [More]
I'm surprised that one idiot didn't trip on those pants.

Emergency Powers

But in an interview with The Associated Press Thursday, Attorney General Xavier Becerra said officials have broad authority to do what they think is necessary to slow the spread during the virus pandemic, even if that trumps normal fundamental freedoms. [More]
For instance, if we want to quarter troops in your home or subject you to cruel and unusual punishment, or even force you at swordpoint to convert to Islam, well, if you didn't want totalitarian government, you wouldn't have voted Democrat...

[Via Dave Licht]

The Right of the Rulers to Enforce a Monopoly of Violence Shall Not Be Infringed

Taking the absolute phrase into proper account, the amendment ensures that states could maintain armed militias. It did not comment on an individual’s right to keep any kind of gun in any place at any time. [More]
This again.

Don't tell me-- tell Tench Coxe.

Nor does the Constitution delegate to any branch of government the power to restrict individual gun ownership. But let's play. He gets the same challenge ACLU failed to answer.

And if we're really adamant about focusing on the first thirteen words, by all means, let's get serious. For too long, our "gun rights leaders" have ignored them.

[Via Sam Adams 1776]

And the Low-Hanging Fruit Award Goes To...

On Wednesday, federal agents arrested 36-year-old John Michael Rathbun for allegedly attempting to blow up a nursing home he thought was Jewish. [More]
Well if that self-incriminating moron isn't enough to tar you and me as racist terrorists, I don't know what is.

[Via Michael G]

Speaking of Cultural Appropriation...

Upcoming 1776 Revival to Feature Entirely Female, Nonbinary, Trans, Genderqueer Company [More]
There is nothing the cultural Marxists will not pervert.

And "performers" will do anything. Maybe if they make it "A-list" big we can hear their political views.

[Via Michael G]

Two (and More) Can Play That Game

Sooo some pro gun hero joined the March for our lives FB group as a spy, convinced the head Karen to make him an admin, and then he yeeted all of the Karen admins. So the March for our lives group is now ran by the 2A crowd. So epic..." [More]
Now there's a "feel good" story for ya! And it shows another advantage to networking up...

Well, I know who I'd nominate for the Mary Mcfate Award...

It's not like the grabbers don't spy on us -- and then use their far-reaching media contacts to spread falsehoods about it.

And even change sides if the price is right (although my bet is I was being baited)...

You Can't Stop the Signal

Galloway says the ATF has been tracking shipments of these devices from overseas but some are even being made right here in Southern California. [More]
But...but...but...

Somebody want to settle Luke down?


Landru, Guide Us!

In this strange new Corona-world, my neighbor seems to believe everything he is told without challenge. He weeps on command at pictures of coffins. He reports me to the police for failing to comply with his interpretation of Corona lockdown. He looks to the state for income and is perversely happy to be relieved of all work and responsibility. He sees lockdown as a state-funded vacation and hopes for more. He looks to humiliate others not complying as he thinks they should. He will not question. He will only comply. [More]
You're NOT of the body!!!

[Via Mack H]

J'Accuse…!

University official says COVID-19 may have originated in the United States [More]
Well, if we can't trust a vice president for minority affairs and diversity for an expert opinion, who can we trust?

[Via Michael G]

As If by Design

28 Million Mail-In Ballots Have Gone Missing [More]
They love it when a plan comes together.

[Via Mack H]

Mark Your Calendars

Join us for a live (online) event: Constitutional Rights in the Age of Government Overreach [More]
Thursday, April 23rd at 8 PM ET...

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Moderating Enough

Then, on March 27, a Marquette County Patrol Sergeant was dispatched to the Cohoon’s home to demand the Instagram posts be removed or face arrest for disorderly conduct. The Instagram posts were removed after the threat from law enforcement. [More]
It's what "Essential Heroes" do.

[Via Michael G]

Sacrificial Lambs

...the sacrifices Americans are making in that effort aren’t fueled by panic or cowardice, but by heroism. [More]
As WarOnGuns Correspondent Mack H notes:
See, I always thought 'sacrifices' were voluntary, like charity.
It's not the same as being sacrificed, where you have no choice. And ditto for Godless collectivists who try to pull a conflationary Christian charity guilt trip misdirection on those who decry government putting a gun to their heads to redistribute their earnings.

Catch and Release

Today I issued an Executive Order preventing the@release of dangerous criminals from prisons & jails.  [More]
If they're not dangerous, why were the taxpayers being bled to feed and house them in the first place? If they are, who but a sociopath or an enemy would inflict them on the citizenry until such time as they have proven beyond a reasonable doubt they can be trusted without a custodian?

[Via Mack H]

Essential Services

Birth tourism remaining open. For women from Red China. Rich women at that. [More]
That speaks to a much larger issue.

[Via Michael G]

New and Improved

We’ve improved our Gadsden flag! It’s bigger and better – and now it’s made in the USA! [More]
It wasn't before?

Where was it made?

We're the Only Ones Dysfunctional Enough

Dysfunction in Baltimore police homicide unit went unaddressed as killings hit historic levels [More]
Democrat rule: Check.

"Gun control": Check.

Gee, it's almost like this is a microcosm or something...

[Via Michael G]

Open Secret

EXCLUSIVE: AS WASHINGTON DC FACES CORONAVIRUS SPIKE, SECRET MILITARY TASK FORCE PREPARES TO SECURE THE CAPITAL [More]
That military task force is not much of a secret...

[Via Dave Licht]

Comedy Gold

MSNBC’s Ruhle: Biden should form ‘shadow government,’ give own coronavirus daily briefings [More]
Do it. It'd be like a nonstop nightly blooper reel.

[Via Michael G]

Let's See How Alinsky Rule 5 Works on Thugs in Hoodies

Crime Spike in Charlotte, NC Shows Why Paul Krugman’s Mockery of People ‘Panic Buying’ Guns Was So Stupid [More]
He has to, though. The alternative is to face the reality that he is a helpless and impotent little troll, and that those he ridicules don't share in his contemptible weakness.

[Via Michael G]

A Plan Comes Together

Seriously, at a time when Democratic state and city leaders are demanding that Americans shelter in place, these Democrats are insisting that illegals be free to walk about the country? And at a time when mass layoffs are taking place in restaurant, hotel, service, and other industries, the typical jobs illegals who work might take from Americans, these Democrats are proposing to flood those markets with a new wave of cheap foreign competition? [More]
Those are merely tactics to advance an overall strategy.

That's why they need our guns.

[Via Michael G]

A 'Progressive' Champion of You, the Little People

‘Ellen’ Crew Furious Over Poor Communication Regarding Pay, Non-Union Workers During Coronavirus Shutdown [More]
That's because she's mean. And that's because deep down she knows herself and it horrifies her, so she must lash out at others lest she self-destructs.

No wonder she even drives crazy women away.

Did I mention that she's anti-gun (for you)?  And has armed bodyguards?

For some reason, after seeing that $40M compound, Mark 8:36 comes to mind...

Oh, look, Ellen fans:


Deceptive VA Gun Grab Enabled by Deliberately Changed Demographics


But unmentioned is how Virginia got to the point where the majority has managed to turn the state Democrat and anti-gun.[More]
The enemy recognizes what the greatest threat is, and exploits it to full political advantage. Meanwhile, our ostensible "leaders" would rather pretend it doesn't exist.

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Just Like the Founders Tried to Tell Us

This is why a universal militia is required to produce rule of law - the power to deny power.  [More]
Good and needed words. A (very) few of us have been pleading with the bigger fish to embrace the first 13 words in their advocacy, their lobbying, and their legal actions.

Yes, the only link I have is to the quote is to a Facebook post. I recently had someone ask me if something important I had linked to appeared somewhere else because he didn't do Facebook.

Gee, that's too bad.

[Via Doug S]

Close Enough for Government Work

US Coronavirus Death Count To Include ‘Probable’ Causes, Could Add Thousands Who Never Tested Positive [More]
What they ought to do is add the number who were gun owners and give them dual classification as "gun deaths"!

[Via Mack H]

And Now, the Rest of the Story

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem accuses Washington Post of blatant disregard for facts surrounding the Smithfield Foods COVID-19 outbreak [More]
WaPo has credibility issues? Oh, go on.

[Via Mack H]

Smearers Gonna Smear

Militias and self-described "constitutionalist" factions, categorized by federal authorities as anti-government extremists... [More]
They can't be. They are constitutional to their core, and that includes demanding the Bill of Rights applies to all.

National socialists and due process-denying racists, by definition, don't qualify.

When is Trump going to can that fascist, Wray?

[Via Jess]

Victim-Free Zones

March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002 [More]
I knew it had to be an unoriginal talking point...

Do they realize asserting that when nobody's there nothing happens proves it's not the gun to blame?

[Via cydl]

Dropped Butter Side Down

Some critics have called the imagery racist. [More]
Of course they have.

What a shame the producers caved.

Then again, once they lost the knees and I could no longer indulge my inner juvenile, there was no reason to buy that brand over any other.

Gimme Shelter

“The guy actually opened the door, he motioned, do you have a mask? I held up my mask. I said I have one mask, I can put it on the child. He motioned no and shut the door,” said one woman as she tried to enter the shelter in Crossville. [More]
I'd out the bastard. I'd make sure everybody knew who he was.

I like to think I'd have blocked the door from closing and we'd have seen which one of us ended up on the outside, but the whole thing would have registered such disbelief it would have probably been secured before I had a chance to react. But I'd sure get him afterward.

About Those 'Stay at Home' Orders...

While you have been incarcerated at home, discouraged from traveling at all, the US government has flown 1,003 so-called Special Immigrant Visa holders into the US and distributed them around the country. [More]
Did they at least give them those tests there aren't enough of to give us?

No?

Rigorous...?

[Via WRSA]

Tales of the Unexpected

You’d expect newspaper editorial pages at least to be sounding the alarm about widespread infringement on civil liberties. [More]
No, I wouldn't.

What I expect is exactly what I'm seeing.

[Via Mack H]

I Want to Believe

Today, Facebook fact-checked as "false" a documentary that said it could be possible that coronavirus came from Wuhan lab. Who was the fact checker? A scientist who worked in the Wuhan lab, believe it or not. So who fact-checks Facebook's false fact-checks? @fbnewsroom @Facebook I wish I were making this up. Honestly, y'all. [More]
What? We can't rely on incentivized testimonials...?

[Via Michael G]


Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Any More

Protesters in MAGA hats and flying Confederate flags swarm Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah and Wyoming to demonstrate 'tyrannical' and 'unconstitutional' lockdown orders that are 'worse than the virus' [More]
I see comment posters are reacting with predictable delusions of intellectual superiority.

[Via Mack H]

UPDATE: Virginians say "We will not comply."

We're the Only Ones Essential Enough

New Jersey’s top cop: Second Amendment not essential! [More]
It's not like he was thinking of the Bill of Rights or anything.

Glock and Benelli, eh...?

[Via Felix B]

You Can't Stop the Signal

The world’s cheapest semi-automatic 9x19mm…[More]
Is this where I have to say "For educational purposes only"...?

[Via  An Hour of Wolves]

You Know What This Means

Harvard doesn't rule out closing campus until 2021 [More]
Looks like someone's gonna have a lot more time on their hands...

[Via Michael G]

Don't Ask Me, I Just Work Here

“That’s above my pay grade, Tucker,” Murphy said Wednesday on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “So, I wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this. [More]
That statement alone should be an impeachable offense.

[Via Michael G]

The Methods are the Same

State governments announce demands before releasing citizens from house arrest [More]
Let me guess: $10 million and a plane to Cuba...?

[Via Michael G]

If It Were Only That Simple

My interpretation of this is simple. It is unconstitutional for any state to block interstate commerce. Consequently, the President has the executive power to issue a binding order to open up commerce and the states cannot legally resist that order for keeping the economy locked down violates the Commerce Clause. [Download from here]
So after injunctions and years of wrangling through the courts later...

See, that's the problem, even if you're right.

[Via DvD]

If You Thought Folks Went Nuts Over Toilet Paper...

US: Republican Representative Massie Says Food Shortages Weeks Away [More]
What is with people with overactive imaginations?

[Via CDT]

Strangers on a Train

MIT study: Subways a ‘major disseminator’ of coronavirus in NYC [More]
So naturally, the Opposite Day "progressive" solution is to ban cars!

[Via Michael G]

His Royal Cuckness

Prince Harry 'will give up hunting because Meghan does not like it' [More]
These are the kinds of things you work out beforehand.

Why do I perceive if she hadn't snared this dolt her future would have been on Pornhub?

[Via Michael G]

An Opposite Day 'Progressive' Idea

Democrats Are Using The Wuhan Virus To Reframe Big Government Tyranny As Patriotism [More]
It's been done:



[Via Mack H]