Here we go…

The last President to seriously try court packing was the same one who locked up American families in internment camps due to their ethnicity. So bear that in mind when considering the outcome of this idea.

The UK seems fun:

“You failed to quarantine. So we’re going to bust in your door and drag you out.”

VICE takes the modern left-leaning medias adoration of communism to a whole new level by photoshopping smiles onto the faces of photos of Khmer Rouge democide victims. Because… reasons? Making communism *fun* I guess?

Cambodia Outraged After Vice Publishes Manipulated Photos of Khmer Rouge Genocide Victims

Matt Loughrey in Vice is not colourising S21 photographs. He is falsifying history: pic.twitter.com/z6J99J7BOE

— John Vink (@vinkjohn) April 10, 2021

More smiles by Matt Loughrey… What were he AND Vice thinking? I guess nothing. (With thanks to Jean-Sien Kin for the research) pic.twitter.com/pBJqpTKonU

— John Vink (@vinkjohn) April 10, 2021

Project Veritas got some *really* interesting video from one on the CNN directors laying out their propaganda strategies:

Snerk.

David Hogg Quits Good Pillow Project Designed to Rival Mike Lindell’s MyPillow

Well, he’s probably made a good deal of money from all the donations. Now that the hard work of actually making a successful company is at hand… time to move on to something else, I guess.

Extra awesomeness:

Trump-Supporting Attorney Says He Trademarked ‘Good Pillow’ Before David Hogg, William LeGate

It seems the super-geniuses behind “Good Pillow” announced their venture before securing the rights to the name. Whoopsie! The guy who actually filed the trademark on the name “Good Pillow” says he wants to actually produce pillows… with a pro-gun message. Seems to me the best way to accomplish that would be to go into business with MyPillow, simply have them make a separate line of pillows printed with images of AR-16 Scary Black Rifles With Shoulder Things That Go Up.

Oh, and an update on just how lucrative the Socialism and Race Hustling grifts can be:

BLM co-founder spent $3.2 million on four homes since 2016

For a Marxist, she’s a pretty savvy capitalist investor. Two of the properties she bought for $1.1 million are now worth $1.52 million. 400 grand ain’t chump change. If she was a good Marxist, she’d turn over her various compounds to the local poor people.

French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights

If your flight within France could be covered by a train in 2.5 hours or less, the French government apparently just banned it (some wanted to ban flights that trains could cover in 4 hours). The purpose of this is to reduce carbon emissions. I suspect one obvious result of this will be an increase in *private* flights… corporate jets, air taxis, that sort of thing. If this *really* messes with flights, then that will drive up both road traffic (increasing CO2) and increasing demand for trains, perhaps driving up construction of train lines (increasing CO2 as well as messing with public and private property along the routes).

From this news article it’s unclear if that 2.5 hours is what the route *actually* takes, or what the theoretical is. Those could differ wildly. And from the article it’s not clear how precisely the “routes” are defined, since airplanes and trains don’t launch out of the same stations. I could easily see a lot of legal wrangling over the details… City A and City B might both have train stations and airports, but the airlines could argue that “the trains don’t stop at the airport, therefore it’s a different route.”

If the airlines are serious about keeping their shorter routes, there is an obvious solution: screw with the trains. Slow them down, either through mechanical tinkering or software manipulation/hacking. Illegal? Sure. But so should be Green New Deal-style regulations.

The current President babbled out some nonsensical prattle about some proposed executive actions to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms. included in this are his desire to ban pistol braces as well as “ghost guns,” the scare-term used to describe incomplete gun “kits” that people can buy legally without registration (because they are not actually guns at that point) and then finish into guns.. Right now these generally revolve around what are called “80% lowers:” generally a block of aluminum in the shape of a lower receiver (typically of an AR-15) that can be finished with some drilling and milling by a competent machinist. If he somehow succeeds in making 80% lowers illegal, people will just start selling 75% lowers, or 49% lowers, or even just rectangular billets of aluminum. Currently the receiver is the only part of a firearm that is regulated; you can buy all the barrels and trigger assemblies you like without having to file paperwork. Sniffer Joe might want to change that, however.

Turning a billet into a finished receiver is becoming easier and easier with modern CNC mills; witness the “Ghost Gunner.”

Ghost Gunner 3

Ghost Gunner is a general purpose CNC mill that gives you the ability to finish a growing library of mil-spec 80 percent lowers to completion. With simple tools and point and click software, the machine automatically finds and aligns to your 80% lower to get to work. No prior CNC knowledge or experience is required to manufacture from design files. Legally manufacture unserialized rifles and pistols in the comfort and privacy of home.

AR-15
AR-308
AR-9
AR-45
Polymer80
1911
Engraving
Serialization

The Ghost Gunner 3 pre-orders for $500 (deposit, as was pointed out in the comments. total price is about two grand). This is the approximate price of a modest AR-15 or a decent 1911… but it should allow you to make an indeterminate number of receivers. Right now it seems to need “80% lowers,” rather than just rectangular blocks of aluminum… but some future iteration of the Ghost Gunner no doubt will be able to achieve that. Hell, soon enough you’ll be able to melt down a bunch of aluminum cans, pour the molten aluminum into a sand or plaster mold, shove the crappy casting into the GG#X and it’ll bang out a serviceable receiver.

Of course, most people are not even aware of the option they have of making their own firearm. Most people only think of firearms procurement in terms of buying one from a gun store. So what has been the result of Temporary President Bidens mumblings about executive actions? Let’s got to the tape:

It’s beginning to look like Biden will be a better firearm salesman that Obama ever dreamed of being. At the same time that the far Left is openly talking about locking up millions of Americans in Federal prison, more and more Americans are lining up to be the targets of the Lefts pogroms.

That said, Biden did make an interesting point:

Biden on the Second Amendment: ‘No amendment is absolute’

And this is true. It is now time for the press to confront Biden about the lack of absoluteness with regards to, say, voting rights.

There are lots of people fairly far apart on a number of important issues. It is wisest, when trying to figure out what to do about The Other Side, to have an *actual* understanding of The Other Side. When your understanding of them is limited not only to bumper sticker statements, but strawman bumper stickers, you will not only fail to truly understand The Other Side, you will come off as an idiot not only to The Other Side but also to potential allies who actually understand The Other Side. Anyone on the right who has listened to lefties bloviating about right wingers being “Nazis” or “Fascists” or “racists” will know this. Any non-religious person who has listened to a preacher or an imam or just some idjit going on about how non-believers *really* *do* actually believe in some god or other, they just pretend not to so they can behave immorally, will know this. Anyone who knows by not just education but experience that the Earth is spherical-ish and has listened to Flat Earthers blather on about a conspiracy to keep the Truth hidden, will know this. Anyone who owns and respects firearms and has heard idiots going on about how the only purpose of an AR-15 is to murder people will know this.

Communism died three decades ago. Or at least it should have when the Soviet Union went down, dragged into the abyss by the weight of the chains that socialism forged and draped around its neck. But thirty years later… here we are, still having to contend with the most destructive economic ideology of the last millenium. Why? What could actually appeal to people about an economic system that revolves around slavery, theft and the stifling of the human spirit? Is it because those touting it are crazy, or stupid, or just young and naive? Sure, all possible. But… why not ask? Someone did, and the answers are so balls-to-the-wall bizarre that it’s clear that at least some such people, and some of us other people, will *never* see eye to eye. Hell, even agreeing to disagree might be a challenge. But it’s best to see where they come from. Behold:

What do communists want?

Alexander Finnegan, J.D. Law, Marxist Leninist

“People don’t want to cooperate. You will have to use violence to stop those who resist having their riches nationalized. You will have to fill up the prisons with people who refuse to pay their taxes,” I hear. If a bunch of insulin manufacturing executives take up arms to prevent the people from nationalizing the industry and saving lives by bringing down the cost of insulin, then if violence is used to resist their violence, why is this a moral problem for me? I would enjoy smashing them. It would mean justice is done. Same thing with putting those who don’t pay taxes in jail. Why is this controversial? How is it different anywhere else? And yes, Marxist classes would be required, so the people can learn to be more prosocial and less selfish. China has them and they are a great idea.

Huh. He’s up front about wanting “re-education camps” and to use violence in order to take your stuff.

No, I don’t feel sorry for the kulaks. They killed many families during their riots. They slaughtered half the livestock used to farm the land. They hid grain to speculate on prices, knowing people were starving. They encouraged others to stop growing grain, which would have made the famine worse. They deserved it. In this photo Soviet workers found them hiding grain. The kulaks deserve what they got.

The kulaks, you may remember, were relatively small land owners and farmers. “Private owners of the means of production.” They resisted having their stuff stolen. They were slaughtered. This guy would seem to approve of doing the same to any American farmer who would resist having his home and livelihood stolen. By the standards of the early Soviet Union, a Kulak today would be someone who ran a *very* small home-based business.

If anything, under socialism people would work harder knowing their bosses aren’t getting rich from the unpaid value of their labor, while they survive on food stamps because they are getting ripped off so badly.

He actually seems to believe that people would work harder when they know that doing so would not only not earn them more, it wouldn’t even earn them the *chance* to earn more. People would just work harder… because.

Democracy stinks. Studies have shown there is no relationship between what the public wants and policy enactment. Zero. American style representative democracy is a farce. The rich own the politicians. At least in China they have a functional and well run government that plans the economy and is doing a good job.

That’s neat. If you like how the Chinese are genociding the Uighurs, you’ll love *this* guys vision of a proper government.

No, Joseph Stalin wasn’t a monster. No, he didn’t cause the Holomodor, he didn’t kill 60 million people, he didn’t become besties with Hitler, the kulaks deserved it, and the purges were not a cynical attempt by him to grab power. The people voted for the purges and wanted them.

Ayup.

If you have a bunch of time and a bunch of excess brain cells to kill, go and read the rest of it. Like many Communists, this guy goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. Like many Communists, his idea of dealing with people is to lecture them into oblivion (and if that doesn’t work, I guess lining them up against a wall might be ok too). But note that when he trots out horrific notions, it’s not a matter of accidentally saying the quiet part out loud. No, he’s open and clear that he wants to take your stuff and your land and your factory. He certainly seems ok with the idea of killing you to take them.

Following his screed, there are numerous other answers to the question “What do communists want?” from numerous other communists. They are generally pretty open about their desires. It is a mishmash of power fantasy and a stunning disregard for the basic human desire to own and control the products of your own mental and physical labor, to live as *you* wish, not as some government tells you to. As nightmarish as their desires are… there they are, for anyone to see.

Huh. Note the tone.

Capitol Suspect Struggled Before Attack, but Motive Remains Unclear

Poor little ragamuffin, he had him some hard times. I do wonder if the same authors cut the Atlanta massage parlor shooter the same slack. Or the Charlotteville car-attack guy.

Yeah, if you have a rough time, you may be due some sympathy. Seems maybe this guy might’ve had a bit of schizophrenia based on his paranoia. But the moment you murder someone, or join up with the likes of the NOIsies… sympathy deleted.

OK, granted, I didn’t really have a favorite preacher *before,* but this guy…

He demonstrates the proper method of dealing with officious bullies and government Karens: raise your voice, be more belligerent than they are, intimidate *them* but without becoming actually threatening or physical. Don’t give an inch. Don’t give them the opportunity to speak. Shout them down. Now people need to start doing this whenever the likes of AOC or Beto O’Rourke open their yaps. Since he’s in Canada, I guess he won’t be screaming much at Biden.

I suspect he and I would have theological differences. But I gotta respect his ability to drive away government officials who want to interfere with his right to practice his religion, pandemic or no. If the Worst People In America get their way and ban standard capacity magazines and incredibly common firearms, I have hopes that when government stooges and toadies go knocking on doors to intimidate citizens into enfeebling themselves, this is the response they’ll get.