Palpatine In Hell

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Feb 072021
 

So, what would be Hell for Emperor Palpatine? What would be an appropriate eternal torment for the evil galactic dictator who blew up planets on a whim?

Holdo.

Palpatine in Hell

In the final film, everyone straight up said that the “Holdo Maneuver” was so unlikely to succeed, it wasn’t even worth attempting. Why would Holdo try something that was basically impossible? Because she wasn’t. Holdo was trying to run away and leave everyone to die, and was so spectacularly incompetent at it, she inadvertently pulled off the most spectacular military maneuver in the history of the universe. If you need evidence that God hates us all, then look no further.

 

To properly understand what hell is like, imagine being forced to look at Holdo sneering at you like this… forever.

 Posted by at 10:13 am

Wow, Snopes…

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Feb 032021
 

Lots of people love Snopes. Lots of people hate it. I find it to be usually useful as a first check on something, when that somethign is a clear binary choice: did X say Y, soemthgin like that. but sometimes thigns are gray. And sometiems Snopes *decides* that things are gray when they’re really not. Attend:

Did a ‘Convicted Terrorist’ Sit on the Board of a BLM Funding Body?

That would seem to be a binary choice. Did a group have a convicted terrorist on their board or not? Simple to determine a yes or a no. But Snopes… they had some difficulty and decided that the claim is “mixture.” Why?

What’s True

Susan Rosenberg has served as vice chair of the board of directors for Thousand Currents, an organization that provides fundraising and fiscal sponsorship for the Black Lives Matter Global Movement. She was an active member of revolutionary left-wing movements whose illegal activities included bombing U.S. government buildings and committing armed robberies.

What’s Undetermined

In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of “terrorism,” it is a matter of subjective determination as to whether the actions for which Rosenberg was convicted and imprisoned — possession of weapons and hundreds of pounds of explosives — should be described as acts of “domestic terrorism.”

Holy doubletalk, Batperson! Someone who was an active member of a political extremist group that used bombings and armed assaults and who stockpiled and attempted to transfer a battle rifle, a submachine gun, a sawed-off shotgun, three pistols and *740* *pounds* of explosives (the merest fraction of this list would get a right winger labeled as the owner of an “arsenal”), all in the service of intimidating the public and forcing the government to change policies, would seem to be a textbook example of a terrorist.

Gotta wonder who Snopes thinks they’re fooling.

 Posted by at 5:49 pm

Another “Stupidest Congresscritter” challenger

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Feb 032021
 

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, who famously asked if a Mars rover was going to take a photo of the flag the Apollo astronauts left on the Moon, is clearly sub-par in the smarts department (witness her recent House bill 127, which calls for the destruction of 70 million American lives). But she is not alone. Consider this:

Where Bubbles Cortez relates her terrifying experience of being stalked by an assassination team during the Storming Of The Capitol.

Yeah, about that.

1: She wasn’t actually *in* the Capitol building at the time, but the Cannon office building, which is not part of the Capitol.

2: Her hallway in the Cannon office building was not invaded by protestors.

3: The “assassin” was actually a Capitol cop come to check on her.

Now, it could be that this false narrative isn’t due to Bubbles being stupid, but being crazy. Evidence backs up this hypothesis:

And it could also be that she’s both smart enough and sane enough to know that her story is utter BS… and she’s smart enough, sane enough and *evil* enough to not only know that much of the media will run with it uncritically, but that a whole lot of the public actually are dumb enough to believe her. Because if there’s one thing the Left worships, it’s victimhood points. Even when the victimhood is entirely imagined.

AOC Wasn’t Even in the Capitol Building During Her ‘Near Death’ Experience

 

Maybe she should have taken lessons from Hillary in the fine art of dodging sniper fire. I’m sure it would have served AOC as well as it did Hillary in Bosnia.

 

 

 Posted by at 5:35 pm

Another unConstitutional challenger rises

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Feb 032021
 

This bill does not yet have a number, or much in the way of text:

‘‘Closing the Loophole 2on Interstate Firearm Sales Act’’

https://crow.house.gov/sites/crow.house.gov/files/CROWCO_014_xml.pdf

To prohibit a Federal firearms licensee from transferring a long gun to a person who the licensee knows or has reasonable cause to believe does not reside in (or if the person is a corporation or other business entity, does not maintain a place of business in) the State in which the licensee’s place of business is located.

Translation: the Constitution will no longer cross state lines. Soon you will need special papers to leave your state if these jackholes get their way. The internet will be blocked from going from one state to another, never mind internationally.

There needs to be some form of legal sanction for congresscritters who propose laws that are this blatantly unConstitutional. Automatic ejection from the House and a permanent voting disenfranchisement would seem to be the bare minimum for totalitarian morons like these.

 Posted by at 2:59 pm

Unemployed coal miner? Work with land mines.

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Jan 312021
 

WTF, Kamala.

Will this be the new “learn to code?” If your job has just gone away, taking decades of experience and expertise down the drain, just work on “reclaiming abandoned land mines.” Because, sure, digging coal out of the ground gives you the skill sets to dig generations-old explosive booby traps out of the ground on the far side of the planet.

Unless, of course, she’s planning on planting millions of land mines around government facilities to prevent those dirty, dirty “citizens” from getting too close, and she’ll need an army of depressed expendables to deal with them.

Your next President, people. All sales are final.

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House bill 127

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Jan 302021
 

This bill, the “Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act’’ would make illegal any ammunition .50 caliber or greater. This would mean that your .50 BMG rifle and your .50 Action Express pistol would now be a Federal crime. To own such ammunition would *mandate* a minimum 10 year prison sentence. (there does not seem to be an exception or 12 gauge deer slugs, nor for black powder musket balls) Also: the bill would require that *all* firearms be registered with the government within three months.

REQUIRED INFORMATION.—Under the firearm registration system, the owner of a firearm shall transmit to the Bureau— ‘‘(A) the make, model, and serial number of the firearm, the identity of the owner of the firearm, the date the firearm was acquired by the owner, and where the firearm is or will be stored;

This information – who you are, what guns you own, and where you store them – would be kept in a database. Which, interestingly… “The Attorney General shall make the contents of the database accessible to all members of the public, all Federal, State, and local law enforcement authorities, all branches of the United States Armed Forces, and all State and local governments, as defined by the Bureau. “

Huh. Well, looky here: a handy-dandy database of stealable firearms and where they’re stored, available to all criminals.

What’s more: in order to possess a firearm, you will need a license. In order to get a license, you will need to pass a background check, a psychological evaluation and a training course… all at your expense, of course, as well as having special insurance policies ($800). If your firearm is “military style,” the training course will be TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. If you are depressed by this, that’s considered a psychological condition that will preclude you from obtaining a license to keep your guns. it will be illegal for you to give a gun to a friend or family member… or even *ammunition,* unless you inform the Attorney General of that transfer. Failure to do so  leads to a $75,000 fine and 15 to 25 years in prison. Owning a standard capacity magazine will now be illegal, with fines of $50,000 to $100,000 and prison terms of 10 to 20 years.

Will this bill become law? Even with the current makeup of Congress and the White House, I have doubts. But the fact that such a bill can make it as far as it has speaks ill of the intentions of those behind it. The bills sponsor, Sheila Jackson-Lee, is one of the least honest and least intelligent people to have ever occupied a seat in the US House, and that’s really saying something.

You can track the progress of this blatantly unconstitutional bill here (there is a *CITATION* *NEEDED* estimate of 3% for this bill passing):

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr127

Lexington and Concord come to mind.

 Posted by at 2:56 pm

Why do people never learn?

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Jan 292021
 

California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum is awful. Rather than posting small snippets, just read this… and wonder just how long California has before it devolves into full scale race war.

California Is Cleansing Jews From History

It is full not only of all the racism and historical revisionism we’ve come to expect from the far left in recent years, but blatant anti-semitism and outright Marxism. No parent should allow their children to be subjected to this rubbish.

Of course California is not alone in using the educational system to twist and ruin the minds of children. Take a look at this monstrosity from Seattle:

SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework (20.08.2019)

It’s child abuse, plain and simple. Some people shriek that YouTube and Parler and Gab and such lead to radicalization. No, the schools do an adequate job of that.

 Posted by at 10:08 am

The war on SpaceX

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Jan 282021
 

SpaceX is politically troublesome for certain groups. You’ve got your SLS fans, terrified that Starship/Superheavy will make the SLS and all its pork go away. You’ve got people terrified of the idea of capitalism, American exceptionalism, western civilization spreading out to the planets. You’ve got your crackpots who dislike western science and engineering rigor, thinking that such things are tools of the cishet white patriarchy or some such foolishness. Take your pick of villains, they’re opposed to SpaceX. As evidence, behold:

Justice Department investigating Elon Musk’s SpaceX following complaint of hiring discrimination

Who are SpaceX being accused of discriminating against? Non-US citizens. A US company that makes rockets and launches Defense Department payloads would rather employ Americans? How is this even remotely controversial?

“The charge alleges that on or about March 10, 2020, during the Charging Party’s interview for the position of Technology Strategy Associate, SpaceX made inquiries about his citizenship status and ultimately failed to hire him for the position because he is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident,” DOJ attorney Lisa Sandoval wrote in a court document filed Thursday.

Ina  rational world, this would be laughable. How is it even possible that non-citizens can demand employment at *any* US company, much less one vital to the continued existence of the United States as a going concern?

UPDATE: Elon lays it out. Several years ago.

 

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