From one of the Socialist Party’s prime gun-confiscators:
Translation: we can’t dig up any dirt on this chick, so there’s no point trying to hold up her nomination. Therefore, I’m just going to hold my breath till my face turns blue.
Tag: Evil Bastards
Quote Of The Day
From Angelo Codevilla:
Let there be no doubt: the ruling class’s focus on Donald Trump has been incidental. America’s potentates do not fear one pudgy orange-haired septuagenarian. They fear the millions of Americans whom they loathe, who voted for Trump, who gave his party control of House and Senate, and who will surely vote for folks these potentates really should fear.
Which is all the more reason for millions (upon millions) of Americans to vote for Trump in November, and for people who support his agenda.
Do not refuse to read Codevilla’s article because it’s “too long”. It isn’t, because his exposition can’t be fitted onto a bumper sticker, and the stakes are too important.
Lockdown Blues
Over a month ago I went to Trader Joe’s to buy a couple of things, but was told to go to the back of the (100-yard) queue because the store was only allowing a dozen or so customers at a time to go in. The outside temperature that day was August-In-Dallas (i.e. there were lizards frying gently on the sidewalks), so I said (quite loudly) to the officious little asshole at the door: “This is total and utter bullshit, and you guys are acting like hysterical children. I don’t need your stupid products that much,” and walked away.
A couple of people cheered and gave me the thumbs-up — and a few even nodded and walked away themselves. (Sometimes, it only takes one, and — this may come as a surprise to many — I’ve often been that one, in my lifetime.)
It’s bad enough when Nanny Government can’t stop telling you what to do: stay out of here, only six people allowed to be together there, family reunions or events are banned, can’t shop here but there is okay, this work is allowed but that isn’t and so on, but don’t forget to wear your face-condom everywhere or else you’ll be fined / arrested / publicly scolded / tossed out.
When stores start fucking with people’s lives, however, it’s probably too much. At least, it was too much for this wonderful woman, who after having been bullied by everyone in Government or a uniform for months, decided that being told to follow in-store one-way signs was a Nanny Too Far, and showed her displeasure:
Shopper becomes furious after Co-op staff in Lingfield, Surrey, ask her to observe social distancing rules and starts throwing items and knocking bottles of wine off the shelves. The video that was captured in CCTV shows the woman screaming at the shop’s workers, after being asked to use the one-way system.
And just to put this in perspective, here are a few pics of Lingfield:
Not exactly the kind of place where one might find agitators and troublemakers, is it?
If you follow no other link today, this would be the one.
Bravo, Madame.
Blowing Against The Wind
…or to be more precise, against a hurricane. First, we have this situation:
The trifecta of coronavirus fears, George Floyd protests, and the push to defund the police has resulted in surging gun sales in Minnesota.
…
The number of background checks conducted in Minnesota in March represented a 20-year high.
Then came the May 25 death of George Floyd and the subsequent riots, after which Frontiersman Sports owner Kory Krouse said the demand for guns went through the roof.
Krouse said, “People are really scared coming in here. We had a three, four hour wait just to get up to the counter during the height of … the rioting.”
As a result of the surge, gun store inventories are down and ammunition is scarce.
So one would think that a savvy politician would read the tea leaves (or, the actual statistics), and say, “Hmmm… this is probably not the right time to be pushing for gun control.”
Step forward, Minneso-duh! senator Tina Smith:
Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) is pushing an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and an expansion of background checks that would outlaw private gun sales.
According to her campaign website, Smith cosponsored the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2019,” which would have banned 205 commonly-owned semiautomatic firearms and all ammunition magazines holding more than ten rounds.
Smith also cosponsored the Background Check Expansion Act (BCEA). The BCEA was a push to expand retail background checks to private sales as well. In doing that, BCEA would have criminalized private sales, making it illegal for a neighbor to sell a five-shot revolver to a lifelong neighbor without first finding a Federal Firearms License holder and having a background check performed.
You have to be in the grip of a special kind of stupid to do this kind of thing in the current circumstances. But that’s the deal with doctrinaire Socialists: it’s all about the intentions, never about the outcomes and consequences. And never mind what the proles think: the Party is always right, comrades.
Even when they’re horribly, hopelessly wrong.
Quote Of The Day
From Sen. Lindsey Graham (v.2.0):
“Lastly, after the treatment of Justice Kavanaugh I now have a different view of the judicial-nomination process. Compare the treatment of Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh to that of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, and it’s clear that there is already one set of rules for a Republican president and one set of rules for a Democrat president.”
…although asking the Socialists to obey the rules of logic and fair play is like teaching your cat the virtues of veganism: pointless, and you’re just going to be ignored.
But yeah, Senator: give it to ’em good and hard, anyway.
All The Usual Crap
Oh, this is just too precious for words. From our favorite Commie politician comes this little zinger:
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) touted her intersectional oppression in a recent interview with the New York Times, lamenting that she constantly has to “deal with the hate of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-blackness, but also with sexism” in the United States.
I haven’t seen that many cards played since the last World Poker Championship.
I dunno, Omar; I have no idea what you are like as a person — although there seems to be mounting evidence that you are a fairly unpleasant and dishonest individual — but your religion, ancestry, skin color and gender have nothing to do with the reason people dislike you and attack you.
We conservatives dislike and attack all Communists, of which you are an examplar. Your policies and political positions are, to be honest, anti-American, and you are the worst kind of immigrant — one who arrives in a new country and then sets about trying to change it to resemble more their country of origin. Then, when people use their freedom of speech (a freedom not especially common in your homeland) to attack your politics, you cry foul and assume that it’s all because you’re a Black Muslim immigrant woman.
It isn’t. It’s because you’re a fucking seditious Communist, you rancid bitch.
Signed,
Another, but totally different, immigrant from Africa.