This guy is relieved....
Posted on 06/13/2022 3:35:32 PM PDT by DFG
Establishment Republicans are a middling lot who have attained and retained their side of the Capitol Hill power dynamic by ostensibly doing the least amount of work to further the agenda of the right while acting like a sieve against the unrelenting pressure of their progressive opposition.
So, as the RINOs of the party slide toward the left courtesy of the Overton Window, it only seems appropriate that, where Democrats so often have their own past statements raised to dispute their current posturing, Republican leaders would get slammed for straying from conservative values by a gun-grabbing ideologue.
In 2019, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) had his eyes on a 2020 presidential bid and chose to stand out from the pack by declaring himself “the only candidate proposing that we ban and buy back every single assault weapon in this nation.” Later that same year he touted the need for the kind of red flag laws that 10 Republican lawmakers just agreed to help fund, and defenders of the Second Amendment are making certain to slam those senators for their obvious betrayal.
“Did you see this promise from a leading Democrat that he would use ‘red flag’ laws to silence conservative opponents?” Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter asked, tagging Republican Sens. John Cornyn (Texas) and Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) while retweeting Swalwell’s post from 2019 where he called The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro a lunatic for supporting the right to self-defense.
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There is no reason for red flag laws because all 50 states have legal processes to remove forearms from individuals deemed to be a threat to themselves or others.
Firearms not forearms.
Uhhh, yeah. That’s kind of a Saudi thing, ain’t it?
Don’t give the left any ideas!!
“n 2019, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) had his eyes on a 2020 presidential bid”
And I bet Fan Fang aka Bang Bang was to be his VP.
This guy is relieved....
-PJ
When they outlaw forearms only outlaws will have forearms!
Spell checks a peach. /s
It was however, terribly apparent that was what you meant. Never hurts to totally clear it up for the Rio Linda crowd. I suppose.
One of the top five biggest scum bags in Congress
shooting arm i presume...
Ask supporters of Red Flag laws to site one instance where they’ve been effective in disarming a true threat.
Joseph Story, the youngest SCOTUS, appointed by James Madison, wrote that there are 3 main reasons for the 2nd amendment.
1. Protect our borders (Japan, during WWII, considered physically attacking out west coast but decided we were too well armed.
2. Protect ourselves and our property (Remember the armed Koreans store owners on their rooftops during the Rodney King riots)
3. Protect ourselves from the government. (ie. Eric Swalwell et al. - if they could get their way)
Shapiro says he doesn’t have a problem with red flag laws “in principle”.
Time to jettison that clown.
hahahahahahahaha
The Founders created a system that would always align itself into just two parties. There could be a third party and sometimes that third party might become one of the two main parties when other major parties failed and dissolved. There are third parties today, but they are disguised for political reasons. There are “Democratic Socialists” who “caucus” with the Democrats but are not really Democrats. It can be confusing. But here’s the thing. The People (in caps) as in all of us, do not divide along two clean groups. We The People (caps) are a huge diversity of political thought. Some conservatives are homosexuals. Some liberals are strong on national defense. In the twenties Republicans were the party of big government, recall Prohibition? Yep, Republicans. Democrats were for small government. Then, along came FDR and turned everything on its head.
Think of Republicans and Democrats as a stadium full of people, half of which are covered with a red blanket and half with a blue blanket. Under the blankets people move in all directions per their own will. From above the red and blue blankets appear to move one way or another. But the position of the blankets does not represent the thoughts and wishes of the people underneath. Therefore, those people will always hate the ones they’ve elected to lead them. Because there’s nothing simple about the politics of the individuals. It doesn’t cleanly divide into left or right, conservative or liberal, gay or straight. Worse, the people we elect will always do what is in THEIR best interest.
And to further muddy the water, everything is evolving over time. My parents were Democrats in the sixties, both became Republicans when Carter was elected. My father said, “I didn’t move away from the Democratic party, it moved away from me.” Further when I was in college, we had some fun debates between what were then Democrats and Republicans, and nobody got mad or threw a punch. Try having a conversation today with a Democrat.
We’re changing socially too. I reflected that my mother, who lived to be a 102, dying in 2018 had never heard of “trans.” I don’t think I had either, so it’s really new. But it seems to be a huge deal that blew up from nowhere.
Our political system was designed so that no one would ever be happy. Probably that’s for the best. Only time will tell.
Thank you, thank you.
I’m here all week.
Try the veal...
I would love to a debate between Shapiro and Swalwell. Shapiro would mop the floor with him.
But could he withstand Swallwells withering farts? That being said Shapiro would be having a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
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