From The Diplomad:
“The controversy over the Betsy Ross flag. What utter rubbish! I did what I always do in such cases: I went out and bought two Betsy Ross flags, one in a frame for inside the house, and another to hang out front — I also bought another handgun.”
When the socialists get outraged, increase those activities that outrage them.
Doesn’t get more American than that.
A whole bunch of people have been getting worried about this development:
Liberals are notoriously loath to take their own side in a fight. But their reticence may well be changing in an age of vigilante, white nationalist terror—openly condoned and supported by an incumbent president who has suggested that his armed devotees won’t stand for his removal from office. Increasingly, the antifa left is arguing—and training—in response. They are worried not only about an armed reckoning following a contested election, but also about rising violence from the paramilitaries loyal to President Donald Trump.
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Such paranoid fantasies may be familiar to heavy consumers of YouTube and Reddit, but watching them transposed on to the structures of governance is a novelty. As a result, many leftists and even some liberals are beginning to reconsider their feelings about firearms, joining a loose amalgamation of gun groups, from John Brown Gun Clubs (which take their name from the abolitionist) to the Pink Pistols (an LGBTQ group), Liberal Gun Club, and Socialist Rifle Association. Some of these organizations are moderate and traditionalist, others radical and revolutionary. But all share one implicit goal: to normalize firearms ownership and training among liberals. Some of their members hope such efforts will at least make Republicans think twice before attempting a massacre.
LOL. They must be thinking about Spanish Republicans circa 1937 (who, by the way were Communists) and not our flabby Murkin Republicans, who couldn’t massacre the syrup at a pancake breakfast.
Seriously: do these tools honestly think that conservatives are going to launch a massacre of Lefties in this country? Given the de-platforming of conservative voices, attacks on people simply for wearing MAGA hats and throwing Republican civil servants out of restaurants — not to mention the Pantifa attacks on peaceful protest marches in Portland and D.C. — I would suggest that it’s the Left who are far more likely to trigger civil violence.
Then we have this kind of picture, which some find alarming:
Yup; he sure looks like he means business.
To my mind, though, this doesn’t make for nervousness — it makes the whole thing interesting.
Go on, Pantifa Boys: show us what you’ve got. Let’s see how it works out for you.
Oh, and one last thought: if all this “preparation” by the Left means they’re waiting for conservatives / Trump supporters to begin the shooting, they’re going to end up being a lot older than the graybeard in the pic above before they get to put all that training into play. In the meatime, we have crap like this:
The climate of vigilante violence on the right has elevated racist attacks, hate crimes, and terrorism in our political culture.
What “vigilante violence”? Fucking shitbrains are starting to believe their own lies.
Over at CTD, I see this article:
II have to confess that I’ve owned several “Bisley-gripped” revolvers, and I was never able to shoot any of them for shit. Something about that upright grip angle made me shoot high — not the first shot, but by the third trigger-pull I’d be missing way high. The Bisley grip never felt quite comfortable in my hand, and so over time I got rid of all of them because there’s no point in keeping a gun you can’t shoot accurately, is there? (Especially when someone else absolutely loves shooting my old Ruger revolvers and has never stopped thanking me for swapping them with him. )
As a matter of fact, I shoot the “regular” Ruger grips a lot more comfortably (and hence more accurately), and ditto the Smith & Wesson’s. Here’s my GP100:
…and my Model 65 (sob):
I have the same issue with the Luger-style (which is raked too much in the other direction) and the 1911:
The Luger doesn’t work for me, and the 1911 does.
It’s strange how just a couple degrees’ difference of rake in the grip can make such a difference. Then again, I seldom shoot “hot” loads (as Roberts does, apparently). The hottest handgun round I’m prepared to shoot is the “regular” 240-gr .44 Magnum (in the right-sized revolver, i.e. Blackhawk/Redhawk). Forget that .500 S&W nonsense:
Yeah, I’m a recoil wussy. Sue me.
I need to issue a Light Posting Alert for the rest of this week. Because where I was once one and now we are two, we’re moving from my modest accommodation:
… to more palatial digs just across the road, so to speak:
Fortunately, we have few household belongings, relatively speaking. Ye Olde Ammoe Locquer, however…
Wish me luck.
*Note: this post may contain just a wee bit of exaggeration.
Cue the violins:
So Mrs. Clooney / Julia Roberts-lookalike Amal Clooney gets all whiny about The Donald putting the boot into the Jackals Of The Press:
Amal Clooney said President Trump ‘vilifies the media’ and makes journalists ‘all over the world vulnerable to abuse’ among other jabs during a multi-day conference in London.
The human rights lawyer was speaking along with British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday when she made her first remark.
Without mentioning Trump by name, she said: ‘The country of James Madison has a leader today who vilifies the media, making honest journalists all over the world more vulnerable to abuse.’
Abuse, my suffering African-American asshole: 1) there’s no such thing as an “honest journalist” nowadays, and 2) never mind Twatter abuse, modern journalists should get daily ball-kickings or scourgings to get them pointed in the right direction. Trump lets them off lightly, given their boorishness and naked partisan behavior.
And referring to my earlier comment: ever wonder why Amal Clooney and Julia Roberts have never been seen together in the same room?
Face it: if the lawyer looked like (say) Maxine Waters and was married to Wallace Shawn, the Press wouldn’t be able to pick her out of a lineup.
I can see why Clooneywife is so sensitive about the media: without their fawning and uncritical support over the years, she’d still be signing property transfer contracts in Kabul, let alone married to Mr. Hollywood and splitting her time between an estate on the Thames and a villa on Lake Como.
I am often accused of being an old-fashioned man. This, despite the fact that I’m using a keyboard to enter my thoughts into a digital medium via a thing called the Internet. And hey, I prefer brass cartridges over muzzle-loading, so I’m not that old-fashioned (unlike some of my Readers, who believe that this brass thing is just a passing fad).
If you want to know what gets me going, however, consider the following pics, and guess why I tend to prefer tradition over modernity. We’ll open with the modern ones:
Interior design:
Cars: 
Handguns:
Women:
Men’s appearance:
Foods:
And you all know about my preferences in architecture: 
So yeah, I guess I am old-fashioned. Feel free to envy me.