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I’m thinking about the Dem voter base.

It seems that it’s going to be hard to keep urban, well-heeled and educated Jewish voters in the same tent with rabid anti-Semites who are openly saying that they want to kill them. They’re not being ironic, they mean it. Something about that appears to waking a few people up.

The Dems are trying to thread the needle, but it’s not going to be easy for them.

And just wait for the DNC convention in August. These campus protests are just a warm up.

The very same.

One interesting factor that gets missed is that this woman was one of the early voices of sanity, and was initially attacked and vilified for publicly stating that “unless you’re 65 or 70, this (the CCP Coronavirus) isn’t going to be a big problem for you.” And she kept on making sense as a heterodox voice in the academy in a lot of ways, opposing masks, school closures, “lockdowns” etc. The media (and the kooks) focused on this claim and have been studiously ignoring the rest for the past three years.

Why is that? It looks a lot like a classic red herring. Yeah, this off-the-wall catastrophism is easy to mock and makes her look ridiculous, so this is what the media focus on. And they can always count on the tin-foil hat brigade to signal boost the least credible claims, all of which has the effect of undermining the more reasonable criticisms of the covid dissidents.

It’s kind of like the Pizzagate foolishness. The media wanted to pretend that the alarm bells being sounded about exploitation and corruption in DC was all about the basement of one pizza joint that didn’t have a basement. Of course, they had to step over the likes of Barney Frank who got caught way back in the 80’s running a prostitution ring out of his DC apartment while a sitting member of congress. That stuff never ended, and it deserved (and still deserves) to be exposed and dealt with, but the easily fooled lemmings couldn’t help themselves, and followed the pizzagate scam right off of the cliff, taking the issue out of the news.

Almost like it’s being done on purpose.

It’s the end of women’s sport and everyone knows it.

The politics of this could favor the right though, which makes it frustrating that it’s not getting more traction.

The Democrat coalition can’t survive without the suburban “soccer moms”; and none of them can be comfortable with their daughters getting hurt playing sports with boys on girls teams. Brave and articulate young women like Riley Gains are slowly moving the Overton window to a place where it will OK for those soccer moms to publicly object to this, and that’s a huge problem for the Democrats.

In desperation the Dem strategists are leaning in to the abortion issue at the state level, but with even a minimally competent opposition party, this “boys in girls sports” madness would at minimum seriously conflict a portion of that key voting demographic.

But political malpractice is very on-brand for the GOP, so I’m not holding my breath.

 Wasn’t this being claimed a couple of years ago?

Yes.  Three years ago.  This blog is just re-warming the hysteria from 2021, though they have the good manners to admit this in the piece:

"However, while the comments are already stomach-churning, Cahill issued this warning in 2021.However, while the comments are already stomach-churning, Cahill issued this warning in 2021."

 Our local chicken littles were all a-twitter over this here at the time.

This has exposed an important fracture in the Democrat coalition.

Will the GOP have the wit, and the spine, to exploit it?

Chris Rufo has the best plan, IMHO.

 

Give these filthy communist anti-Semites as much media exposure as possible, and don't lift a finger to help out the Blue state cesspools. They got themselves into this mess, and they can darn well get themselves out. Florida and Texas aren't having it. Let Columbia and Portland State burn themselves to the ground.

 

Stick with Brave.

Robert Barnes (former Trump lawyer and loyalist) can be a little over the top, but he's been making a pretty good case for the past several months that the constitutional requirement to prosecute a Preside for anything he does in office has to be contingent on his impeachment by the house and removal from office by the senate.

Never would have bought that argument myself before all of these Trump cases, but we're seeing multiple actual examples of the chaos that results without it.  Rogue AG's, and even county level DA's with political agendas are conducting open warfare against their political enemies, including the current presumptive GOP nominee on the flimsiest of novel charges.  They're not only willing to use the courts to destroy Trump, they're willing to destroy the credibility of judicial system as a whole.

How else can this be stopped than by moving these political decisions currently being made by corrupt blue-state and blue-city prosecutors back onto the national political stage?

We have entered a dangerous new era in this country.

What awful, tendentious writing!

Well, it's Ian Milhiser, what else would should we expect from him? He's made a career of clownish hypocrisy and illogic, so he's perfectly on-brand here.

The poster you replied to is just accepting the ridiculous claims in the AG’s indictment (and the past 3 years of Democrat and media talking points) at face value.

There was no fraud, there was no attempted fraud, and all these people did was preserve the AZ GOP’s right to present a contingent set of electors in the middle of a contested (and obviously deeply flawed) election while the process laid out in the constitution was allowed to run its course.

No one ever mistook the contingent slate of electors for the slate certified by the governor and all of the claims to the contrary are so absurd and dishonest that they don’t even deserve a polite rebuttal.

This is an unprecedented, and incredibly dangerous political corruption of the judicial process and it’s a mistake to not take this seriously. The Democrats are playing with fire, and people are starting to sit up and take notice.

Won’t be boring, that’s for sure.

Bill Kristol, Laurence Trude, John Dean, George Conway, Andrew Weissmann, Jeffrey Toobin...

OK, I gotta admit, that’s hilarious. You couldn’t assemble a more retarded bunch of clowns if rounded up the first six bums living on grates in the Tenderloin.

Me too.

According to the internet, unlike all of the other items regulated by the NFA, suppressors do not require that you fill out DOJ form 5320.20 as long as you are traveling to a state where they are not prohibited (California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia).

But i’m not a lawyer, and don’t play one on the internet, so check with competent counsel before sending any coyotes to their eternal reward.

And yes, this is a violation of our God-given constitutional rights, imho.

Well, if you have wanted to buy a suppressor after 1934, you had to fill out a form 4.

My personal opinion is that the NFA violates the 2nd amendment, but the ATF doesn’t seem to care about my opinions.

The only thing that changed is that they’re processing them in a couple of days, rather than a couple of years with their new electronic system.

Which, overall, is movement in the right direction, imho.

On the off chance that you've missed the buzz around the ATF's suddenly discovered ability to process form 4's, this is a good summary, and makes a point that hasn't been widely discussed outside of the business side of the gun community.

Suppressors are going to become A LOT more common, and quickly. It'll be interesting to see if pressure forms in the blue states that have banned NFA firearms to at least allow their citizens to buy and use these these items when millions of their friends and family members start thinking of their suppressed rifles as the default?

Which one? You describe both of them to a ‘T’.

If ever there was a case of not having a dog in a fight, this is it. Just lean back with a cool drink and point and laugh!

Crackhead Barney

lol we live in the most ridiculous timeline

COVID taught us that there is no law so unjust that there will be no local policemen to enforce it

Another thing that we learned was that the people in charge have figured out how to exert influence without having to resort to overt police action. They were able to coerce private businesses into enforcing their preferred policies using their regulatory and licensing powers, and by creating new civil liabilities that got businesses large and small to enforce mask mandates and coerce vaccine uptake. They leveraged an army of self-righteous Karens to inform on "transgressors", and collaborated with the social, and legacy media to censor opposing voices. You can also bet that they were taking notes as Canada went even further, de-banking people for daring to have a different opinion than the narrative preferred by the Trudeau government. These less photographable measures were so effective that they only rarely had to resort to overt police action to enforce their rules.

The other thing about hydrogen is that it’s a giant PITA to transport and store, and has a super-low energy density compared to other conventional fuels. From a safety standpoint, it’s probably fine outdoors, but the NFPA hydrogen standard (NFPA 2) makes it clear that wide adoption of hydrogen fuel for cars would quickly run into some real challenges for things like parking structures. The hydrogen is so buoyant that concentrations of gas above the “LEL or lower explosive limit) can form pretty easily if the gas were ever to be released and get trapped.

California is pushing this hard for hydrogen fuels, but as a practical matter, there are a lot of challenges to overcome.

Texas and California team up to secede?

Seems an unlikely premise.