I mean, there *will* be protests across the country about this, right? Right?
Crawford sheriff dept Arkansas pic.twitter.com/KZAmwzwwmV
— Naomi Johnson (@NaomiRHelm) August 21, 2022
Maybe tear down some statues?
In a now-deleted tweet, Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov kinda lets the cat out of the bag regarding the Kremlins intentions towards the civilian population of Ukraine. In later tweets he claims he’s being taken out of context…. but the dude’s a PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMAT.
When a political actor who wants to hurt you SAYS they want to hurt you…. believe them when they blurt stuff out before they have a chance to really think over their wording.
A word for today:
adjective
Example:
Imagine “fireside chats” and “state of the Union” addresses like this.
“Quora” allows any goober to ask any goofball question, and anyone can respond. I have no idea when or why Quora decided to send me emails with some of the latest and greatest posts, but a couple times a day, there they are. Anyway, this one popped up today:
I support banning guns in the US. Can pro-gun people provide some reasons why gun control is bad?
There are a bunch of answers of varying levels of wisdom. But one line that jumped out:
So whenever anyone says “I don’t think you should have guns” or “I don’t trust you with guns”, I must ask in turn, what are you planning to do to me that you think I’d shoot you over?
The New York Times hits us with this dumbfounding newsflash:
Who could have seen that?
Yes, as technology advances and becomes more popular among the rich, it’ll get cheaper so the well-off can get it, then the comfortable, then the middle class, then the poor. That’s how it happened with computers and televisions and microwaves and such. But the problem with cars is that various governments are mandating that by such-and-such date, this new, expensive technology will be *mandatory.* Never mind whether the price has dropped enough for it to be affordable.
Bonus article:
The Feds are offering a tax credit of up to $7500. Great. But for a car to qualify, the battery must be Made In America. Also great. Problem: there really aren’t any, because the US allowed the Chinese to yoink all the tech and the manufacturing.
I’m a libertarian, but I’m also something of a nationalist. The US government should be doing things that support US-based businesses rather than funding foreign communists. But in order for a tax credit for a car to be meaningful, that kind of car has to actually *exist.* So maybe rather than demanding a conversion to EV’s, the US government should do like the NACA used to do, and hunker down on the research required to make it happen *and* pass regulations that support US manufacturing… *then* and only then, when electric cars are not only US-made but US-affordable and US-practical (they have a range of 300+ miles and can charge in under 10 minutes, say, while carrying a family of five and a full load of groceries and a couple days worth of range supplies)… *Then* start suggesting that people transition.
… for getting robbed, vandalized, destroyed.
San Francisco restaurant owner says he has to clean off graffiti every day only to find his business covered in graffiti again the next day. The city then fines him for having graffiti.
Welcome to California. pic.twitter.com/JcMJLPT0LO
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 21, 2022
Black teens destroy white man's store after he asked them if they need help. They assumed that he wanted to check on them if they were stealing.
The social backlash eventually, is going to be legendary. pic.twitter.com/siDPBvHqPE
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) July 19, 2022
Just another typical day in San Francisco pic.twitter.com/ac4dynZOQq
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 17, 2022
And while not directly related, the cognitive dissonance on display here is *astounding,* and says a lot about the current state of society.
UNREAL. A dad says he’s gonna read from graphic books available to children in school and gets shut down by @oneclayschools board before he even starts because it might be against the law to read from these books in front of children.
These books are in school libraries. pic.twitter.com/PCJSMCttq5
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 12, 2022
Here’s a link to H.R. 1808, a bill the Democrats are pushing that is *blatantly* unConstitutional. Anyone who signs it should be impeached, but here we are.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1808/text
To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
The important bits:
“(36) The term ‘semiautomatic assault weapon’ means any of the following, regardless of country of manufacture or caliber of ammunition accepted:
“(A) A semiautomatic rifle that—
“(i) has a magazine that is not a fixed magazine; and
“(ii) does have any 1 of the following:
“(I) A pistol grip.
“(II) A forward grip.
“(III) A folding, telescoping, or detachable stock, or is otherwise foldable or adjustable in a manner that operates to reduce the length, size, or any other dimension, or otherwise enhances the concealability, of the weapon.
“(IV) A grenade launcher.
“(V) A barrel shroud.
“(VI) A threaded barrel.
So, in short, an “assault weapon” is basically any semi-automatic rifle you are likely to come across.
And what do they want to do with these “assault weapons?”
It shall be unlawful for a person to import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, a semiautomatic assault weapon.
They want to imprison or kill – perhaps both – tens of *millions* of Americans.
The Democrats don;t have the votes to pull this scheme off by themselves. They’ll need a few backstabbing “Republicans” to get onboard as well. Keep an eye on them.
I’ll leave it to the student to assess which.
Pressley to Hawley: When an ectopic pregnancy ruptures what are the chances it can be carried safely to term? And you know what, just to make this clearer, I’m looking for a number between 0 and 100 pic.twitter.com/SqqGIPUw4b
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 13, 2022
Here’s a hint: the moron in this little display is in a position of political power.
An ectopic pregnancy cannot be carried to term, is not an abortion, and Pressley knows this. Planned Parenthood even admits this. pic.twitter.com/KxgJ8fPaQ9
— MrsNevermind (@Whatevermind2) July 14, 2022
At a time when gasoline is intensely expensive, selling gas to a foreign adversary seems a little weird. but then, there’s this “huh” detail…
Biden’s Energy Department in April announced the sale of 950,000 Strategic Petroleum Reserve barrels to Unipec, the trading arm of the China Petrochemical Corporation. That company, which is commonly known as Sinopec, is wholly owned by the Chinese government. … Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is tied to Sinopec. In 2015, a private equity firm he cofounded bought a $1.7 billion stake in Sinopec Marketing. Sinopec went on to enter negotiations to purchase Gazprom in March, one month after the Biden administration sanctioned the Russian gas giant.
Huh.
I kinda wonder who this would have gone over had it been Trumps kid…
The Federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. A hundred gallons of gas, about nine fillups in my bitty car, would save you less than twenty bucks. If four dollar a gallon gas was enough to stifle travel… taking 18 cents off the price of six dollar gas ain’t gonna do squadoo.