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What You Should Do This Weekend

Posted on | May 27, 2022 | Comments Off on What You Should Do This Weekend

Very simple plan:

1. Download the Fox Nation app.
2. Watch America’s Top Ranger.

Three hour-long episodes. Keep an eye out for Team 41.

Happy Memorial Day!




 

Category: Family, Military

In The Mailbox: 05.27.22

Posted on | May 27, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Talk about mixed emotions – the friends I was going to hang out with this afternoon got summoned to emergency babysitting duty in Baltimore, so now I have time to do this post…
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Today on Twitter…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Red Light Cameras & Corruption
EBL: The Lincoln Lawyer, also, If You Don’t Learn From History
Twitchy: Blue-Check Journo Claims He Bought The Same Gun As The Uvalde Shooter Online And It Was “Just Like Buying Groceries”, Gets Schooled
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk Challenges Occasional Cortex On Twitter, And She’s Not Going To Like The Results
Vox Popoli: Unrestricted War On Russia, also, The New Berlin Wall
According To Hoyt: A Poxy, Diseased Lot, also, As Good As It Gets
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S2E21 – Pitching & Acquisition

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINESQuo
American Conservative: Biden’s New Boondoggle
American Greatness: Stolen Elections – A Tale Of Two DC Courtrooms
American Power: The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control
American Thinker: The Best Way To Prevent Another Uvalde
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Energy Reality Friday
Babalu Blog: Colombia Thinks It Won’t Be Like Venezuela, Just Like Venezuela Thought It Wouldn’t Be Like Cuba
Behind The Black: NASA Blesses Starliner As Ready For Manned Missions, Update On Relativity’s Operations & First Launch Attempt, and Part 2 Of Elon Musk’s Most Recent Starbase Tour
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: OF COURSE The Cops Didn’t Rush In – We’ve Taught Them Not To
Don Surber: How To End The Slaughter, Columbine Should Have Ended Gun Control, and FBI Linked To Buffalo Massacre
Gates Of Vienna: Multinational Multicultural Honor Killing, Making A Monkey Out Of Us, and The New Normal Begins To Bite
The Geller Report: Uvalde Shooter Previously Arrested For Threatening To Shoot Up School, also, Jihadis Slaughter 50 Civilians In Burkina Faso
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, How High The Moon?
Hollywood In Toto: Why Is The Star Wars Movie Franchise On Life Support?
The Lid: Discovering Proof The Temple Mount Is Jewish
Legal Insurrection: Duke School Of Medicine Prof Under Fire For Refusing To Attend “Maoist” Diversity Training, US Diesel Supplies Running On Fumes As Inventories Hit Record Lows, and Boston U Blames Inflation For Tuition Increase
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Vandy Coach Calls Tennessee Baseball “Best I’ve Seen In 20 Years”, Budweiser Models Behind Oilers Bench Fail In Their Mission To Destroy Connor McDavid, and Jeff Bagwell Calls Moneyball A Farce
Power Line: Memorial Day Weekend With Keith & Ilhan
Shark Tank: Demings Calls For Gun Control Measures
Shot In The Dark: Horrible If True, Our Idiot Elite, and Tienanmen Dean Speaks Out
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – In Defense Of Policy
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Assistant Prof Believes Property Is Racist, and First Trailer For Devotion Released
Victory Girls: The Unbearable Derp Of Occasional Cortex
Volokh Conspiracy: The Volokh Conspiracy Merch You’ve Always Wanted
Watts Up With That: Kentucky AG Legal Opinion – ESG Investing Is A Breach Of Investment Advisor’s Fiduciary Duty, also, The World Bank’s Impractical Electric Car Claptrap
Weasel Zippers: Sen. Markey (D-MA) Calls SCOTUS “Illegitimate” And A “Threat”, also, Majority Of Americans Polled Say Biden’s Unfit For Office
The Federalist: How The Biden Administration Caused The Worsening Baby Formula Shortages, Why The Jury Should Convict Michael Sussmann Of Lying To The FBI (But Probably Won’t), and Wisc. Voters Sue Democrat Cities Over Illegal 2020 Election Drop Boxes
Mark Steyn: Tomorrow Belongs To Them, also, It’s All About Control

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In The Mailbox: 05.26.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 26, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

But that would keep the Bad Red People from starving and freezing in the dark!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Mask Wearing Leads To Death
EBL: Ray Liotta, RIP
Twitchy: Newly Obtained Memo Shows John F. Kerry* Was Conducting Secret Meetings With Iran During The Trump Administration
Louder With Crowder: After Elon Musk Made Her Look Silly On Twitter, Occasional Cortex Wants To Sell Her Tesla
Vox Popoli: The End Of Globalization, Feminism, Transgenderism, & The Devil, and You Can’t Stop The Smart Boy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Political Life Is Not Just The Vote
American Conservative: Do We Really Know Who’s Winning In Ukraine?
American Greatness: Uvalde Police Criticized Over Response To School Shooting
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Placeholder Totty
Babalu Blog: Over 100 Freedom Advocates Sign Open Letter Warning Colombia Against Extremist Leftist Takeover
BattleSwarm: Russo-Ukrainian War Tank Video Update
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Another Grand Galaxy Imaged By Hubble, and Astronomers Demand Satellite Companies Shut Down So They Don’t Have To Adapt
Cafe Hayek: COVID Tyranny Isn’t Rooted In True Liberalism
CDR Salamander: Navy Missiles For All My Friends
Da Tech Guy: State Farm, Like A Creepy Neighbor (also 1970 League Opening Week Updates), also, As Long As Schools Remain Undefended School Shootings Will Continue
Don Surber: Gun Owners Outnumber Democrats, Kimmel Whines About Being Censored, and Twitter Is More Evil Than We Imagined
First Street Journal: Lies, Damned Lies, & Statistics, also, Black Lives Don’t Matter, At Least Not To Credentialed Media
Gates Of Vienna: What Happened To All Those Syrian Doctors, Scientists, & Engineers?, Orban Declares A State Of Emergency In Hungary, and The End Of The Azovstal Siege
The Geller Report: Black Christian Leader Rips Ilhan Omar
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Military Base Renaming
Hollywood In Toto: Is Jurassic World Dominion The Next Woke Blockbuster?
The Lid: Anniversary Of The First European Blood Libel
Legal Insurrection: Combo Of Fentanyl-Laced Pills & Social Media Proving Toxic To American Teens, CBO Says Inflation Will Continue Into 2023, and Politifact Runs Interference For Stacey Abrams After Revisiting Issue Of MLB Pulling All-Star Game
Outkick: Curt Schilling – Only The Orioles Organization Can Stop Adley Rutschman, MLB Ignores Voter Surge After Citing Voter Suppression For Moving All-Star Game, and History Shows Mike Florio Is A Fake Kaepernick Supporter
Power Line: Biden Shooting Blanks (Again)
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Calls Chuck U. Schumer “Liar And A Hack” For Blocking Gun Safety Legislation
Shot In The Dark: There Is A Lot Of Ruin In A Country, 
STUMP: Summer Season Warning – Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
The Political Hat: Killing To Kill – Killing The Poor, Killing The Elderly, Killing The Nurse
This Ain’t Hell: No Need To Panic, Folks
Victory Girls: Obama Thinks George Floyd Is More Important Than Slain Uvalde Children
Volokh Conspiracy: Va. Judge Finds Probable Cause That Court Of Mist & Fury and Gender Queer Are Obscene For Minors
Watts Up With That: What Energy Price Spike? Aussie Greens Call For Coal Ban
Weasel Zippers: Democrat Ruben Gallego -“F*** Your Prayers”, also, FBI Agent Under Investigation For Withholding Exculpatory Evidence In Trump Collusion Probe
The Federalist: The Real Horror Of Doctor Strange 2, Mass Shootings Not So Interesting For Dems When They Can’t Blame A White Supremacist, and Records Show Sen. Murkowski’s Funding Comes From Lower 48 Donors Despite Her Criticism Of Outside Influence
Mark Steyn: Hillary Happened, also, Klaus Encounters Of The Third Kind

* “Who, by the way, served in Vietnam.” – R. Limbaugh

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The ‘Gun Lobby,’ ‘Assault Weapons,’ ‘Common Sense Gun Laws’ and Other Things Joe Biden Keeps Lying About

Posted on | May 26, 2022 | 1 Comment

“As a nation, we have to ask: When in God’s name
are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?
When in God’s name will we do what we all know
in our gut needs to be done? . . . [T]he gun
manufacturers have spent two decades aggressively
marketing assault weapons which make them
the most and largest profit. For God’s sake, we
have to have the courage to stand up to the industry.”
— Joe Biden, May 24, 2022

There are millions — literally millions — of AR-15-type rifles legally owned by law-abiding American citizens who have never shot another human being. The fact that Salvador Ramos owned two of them cannot be interpreted as signifying that everybody who owns an AR-15 is a menace to society, because if you want to engage in irresponsible generalization like that, I could think of some other generalizations relevant to violent crime that no sensible politician would dare invoke.

Biden’s rhetoric is dishonest, not only in its details, but in the larger sense of the false implication that it is a “lobby” or an “industry” that he desires to crush with regulations — no, it’s gun owners he’s after.

Those of us old enough to remember the dishonesty by which Democrats rammed the 1994 “assault weapons ban” through Congress know all of this. There was no actual crisis that demanded such onerous regulations which, in point of fact, did not “ban” any weapons (i.e., those guns that were already owned remained legal, but importation and domestic retail sales were prohibited), and made purely aesthetic distinctions between “banned” weapons and others that were functionally identical. By the way, these were semi-automatic rifles, not “assault weapons,” which are fully automatic, commonly referred to as “machine guns.”

Speaking of functionally identical weapons, the most common weapon used in homicides (including what are called “mass shootings”) are semi-automatic pistols, of which at least 5 million are sold annually. Last year alone, Americans bought more than 18 million guns of all types, and about 30% of those were first-time buyers alarmed by the startling rise in violent crime (a problem that Joe Biden and the Democrats aren’t doing anything to solve). Did you know, by the way, that more than half of firearms-related deaths are suicides? No, you didn’t know that, because the media isn’t going to tell you. How many homicides are committed with rifles? About 3%, according to the Department of Justice. So banning AR-15s wouldn’t make a meaningful dent in the overall violent crime problem, a fact that Joe Biden and the media won’t mention in the wake of an atrocity like Uvalde (or the Buffalo shooting) because this is all about ginning up fear among the so-called “soccer moms.”

A semi-automatic weapon is a semi-automatic weapon. I got my first one, a Winchester .22 rifle, for Christmas when I was 12 years old. Never killed anything other than maybe a couple of squirrels or birds. Fear-mongering nonsense about “assault weapons” from liberal politicians doesn’t do anything except confuse ignorant people (i.e., Democratic voters) who can’t be bothered to educate themselves about the actual facts of crime. If you get carjacked, chances are the perp is going to be wielding a semiautomatic 9-mm or .40-caliber pistol which is (a) a good bit cheaper than an AR-15 and (b) easier to conceal and use at short range. Rifles aren’t much use in a common robbery, because you can’t just hide a rifle in your pocket. Cops might notice somebody walking down the street with a rifle, even in the worst parts of Philadelphia, and as stupid as the criminals in Philly are, they aren’t that stupid.

What are the so-called “common sense gun laws” that Biden and other Democrats keep talking about? Jim Geraghty at National Review has gone through some of this stuff, pointing out for example why the demand for “tougher background checks” has nothing to do with what happened at Uvalde:

As far as we know, as of this writing, the Uvalde shooter had no criminal record. No one in law enforcement, his family, or his school ever filed a petition seeking to remove firearms from his possession because he posed a potential threat to himself or others. As far as we know, no one ever filed a restraining order against him. The shooter purchased his firearms legally.
In the coming days and weeks, you will hear a lot more calls for “tougher background checks,” but because there was no paper trail indicating that the Uvalde shooter was a threat, it is hard to see what kind of “background check” would have prevented this legal adult from purchasing a firearm. Federally licensed firearms dealers are not going to comb through the Instagram and social-media accounts of potential buyers.

Over and over again, in the wake of such incidents, Democrats will reach into their Gigantic Bag of Dishonest Bullshit (which they keep handy for such occasions) and start advocating measures which would not have prevented the incident that gave rise to the demand for “action.”

We must “do something,” Democrats demand, ignoring the fundamental problem that (a) criminals don’t obey laws, (b) Democrats are against putting criminals in jail anyway, (c) Americans own millions of guns and (d) many crimes are committed with stolen guns. So even if you passed some kind of “ban” on sales of AR-15s, this wouldn’t do anything about the millions of AR-15s already owned by Americans, besides which criminals prefer to use pistols, and even if they did want to use a rifle, all they’d have to do is steal one. And because they’re criminals, stealing is what they do anyway. One of the rhetorical tricks Democrats like to use is to say “we need to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people,” but for some reason, they keep letting “the wrong people” out of jail.

The mass shooting in Chicago last week was allegedly committed by a felon who got turned loose on a weapons charge and had been wanted on an outstanding warrant for six months. Let me give you a hint about the suspect’s identity: Probably not a Trump voter, IYKWIMAITYD.

There were about 20,000 homicides in the U.S. last year. Guess how many died of drug overdoses? More than 100,000, mostly from opioids like fentanyl. What is the Biden administration doing about the fentanyl problem? Are they locking up drug dealers? Closing down the U.S.-Mexico border? No, they’re turning a blind eye to the drug problem because the drug dealers — well, they’re probably not Trump voters, IYKWIMAITYD — and Democrats are totally in favor of chaos on the border, because they count every illegal immigrant as a future Democratic voter. What’s the point of having laws, if you’re not going to enforce the laws? Democrats are the anti-law enforcement party, and yet they demand that we pass new laws, even while they’re turning loose criminals who break the laws we’ve already got.

What kind of fool would believe a word Joe Biden says about guns? Probably the same kind of fools who voted for him — 81 million votes!




 

Category: Crime, Joe Biden, Texas

In The Mailbox: 05.26.22 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | May 26, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.26.22 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1728
EBL: The Anatomy Of A School Shooter, also, Ted F***ing Williams
Twitchy: Woman Begs For Help On NYC Subway As Onlookers Do Nothing
Louder With Crowder: Courageous Border Patrol Agent Rushes Into Uvalde School Alone, Kills Shooter
Vox Popoli: National Review Is Literally Gay, SFWA Devours Itself, and Soros Knows He Failed
Stoic Observations: Death Comes To Texas

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Putin Needed A Scowcroft
American Greatness: The Speech Of An Indecent Man
American Power: School Mask Mandates Coming Back?
American Thinker: Forget The Marxists, Here’s The Real Enemy Of America
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Placeholder Totty
Babalu Blog: Russia Proposes Sending Its Wounded Soldiers To Recover At Cuban Apartheid Beach Resorts
BattleSwarm: Texas Runoff Results
Behind The Black: Pushback – Navy Loses In Attempt To Fire Officer Who Refused The Jab, Starliner Successfully Lands In New Mexico, and Expert Calls For Red China To Find A Way To Destroy Starlink Constellation
Cafe Hayek: Beware Some Economic Commentary
CDR Salamander: How Do You Work With The Russians At The Negotiating Table & Post-Conflict?
Da Tech Guy: Van Morrison Continues His Attack On Lockdowns & Government Overreach, Reassessing Presidential Legacies, and Opening Day For The 1970 Draft League
Don Surber: Democrats Are Breaking America, Reaganauts For Ron? and Ten Other Companies Join State Farm In Dumping Groomers
First Street Journal: WuFlu & The Administration’s Theater, also, Sanctions Against Russia Go Up In Gas
Gates Of Vienna: Nothing To See Here, Just Another Lunatic, Singing, Cursing, Screaming, Smoking – But Not Teaching, and Honor Killing In Nacka
The Geller Report: Biden’s Anti-Policing Policy To Be Unveiled On Anniversary Of George Floyd’s Death
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Deranged Gringx Politician Beclowns Himself, and Opening Our Eyes Even Wider
Hollywood In Toto: GLAAD Calls Out Ricky Gervais But Ignored Jimmy Kimmel’s Homophobic Jokes, also, Bob’s Burgers Movie Brings Belcher Clan Back From Creative Abyss
The Lid: Biden Administration Revoked Mike Rowe’s Filming  Permit Over Politics
Legal Insurrection: Marjorie Taylor Greene Cruises To Victory In GA-14, Democrats Desperately Seeking An Alternative To Biden For 2024, and Baylor U. Establishes First LGBTWTFBBQ Student Group
Michelle Malkin: Sabotaging America’s Military From Within
Nebraska Energy Observer: Fatherhood, Biden, & Elections, also, Forewarned Is Forearmed
Outkick: Steve Kerr Is An Emotional Hypocrite, Will The Raiders Sign Kaepernick? and NFL Appeals Court’s Decision To Proceed With Gruden Lawsuit
Power Line: Bedtime For Beta, What To Do About School Shootings? and Greatest. Correction. Ever.
Shark Tank: Eskamani Fires Back At Fine Over Gun Comments
Shot In The Dark: All About Meeeee, I Rarely Spike The Football, and The Battle/s For The GOP
The Political Hat: Meanwhile In Philadelphia, Sexual Kinks For Kids
This Ain’t Hell: Researchers Think They’ve Found The Cause Of Gulf War Illness, Panel Unveils Nine Army Base Renaming Recommendations, and Another Russian General Dies In Ukraine
Victory Girls: Mental Health Issues Are Not “Bulls**t”, also, Mortgage Crisis Here We Come, Doo Dah, Doo Dah
Volokh Conspiracy: In Defense Of The LSAT
Watts Up With That: Major Aussie Energy Retailer Collapses, also, Biden – High Gasoline Prices Are “An Incredible Transition”
Weasel Zippers: Biden Advisor Doesn’t Rule Out Electricity Blackouts Across America This Summer, also, Gallup Poll – 83% Of Americans Think Country’s Headed In Wrong Direction
The Federalist: Administration Insists Schools Must Put Boys In Girls’ Restrooms To Get Federal Money, RNC Takes Legal Action To Stop Pennsylvania From Permanently Loosening Mail-In Ballot Rules, and Sandy Hook Proved The Need To Improve School Security, But Congress Armed Ukraine Instead
Mark Steyn: Release The Monkeypox! also, A Sacrificial Lamb

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In The Mailbox: 05.25.22

Posted on | May 25, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.25.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Spent a lot of the day catching up on sleep and not getting a whole lot accomplished. Maybe I’ll get caught up tomorrow. Maybe I won’t. In case you missed it, yesterday was the 10th anniversary of BadBlue.com; thanks to Doug Ross for bringing that to my attention!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ricky Gervais On Trans Women
Twitchy: Politifact Lies About Stacey Abrams Again, also, Energy Secretary Granholm Trips All Over Biden While Denying This Admin Wants Higher Gas Prices
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk Offers One Word Response To Report Bill Gates Is Secretly Funding Opposition To Twitter Purchase
Vox Popoli: The Fed Can’t Do What It Must, Big Evangelical Must Die, and Checkmate Putin
The Truth About Guns: Nye County Commissioners Evict Anti-Gun Judges From County Building
Gab News: Go And Build – Digital & Physical Sovereignty

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: The Economic Doom Loop Has Begun
American Thinker: America Is Regressing Into A Tribal Society, also, Salena Zito’s Big Miss About The Pennsylvania Midterms
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Placeholder Totty
Babalu Blog: A Message From Historic Cuban Exiles To The Next Generation
BattleSwarm: Texas Runoff Post
Behind The Black: Pushback – Total Victory For The Federalist Against The NLRB, Finding Ways To Clean ISS & Future Interplanetary Spaceships, and Martian Ridge Sticking Up From A Lava Flood Plain
CDR Salamander: The Coming Burkopalypse, also, Yes, Taiwan Is An Island Worth Dying On
Chicago Boyz: Septoplasty Part 1
Da Tech Guy: Someone Explain This To Me, An Act Of Love In San Francisco, and Note For The Left – Water Doesn’t Come From Taps & Electricity Doesn’t Come From Plugs
Don Surber: To Drain The Swamp, Remove The Water, Media Dumps Hillary Under The Bus, and George Conway – Wife Abuser
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, also, The Field Negro & #BlackLivesMatter
Gates Of Vienna: We Are All Ukrainian Refugees Now!, One People One Reich One Currency, and Purging The Bible Of Homophobia
The Geller Report: Biden Takes WTC Bombing Mastermind’s Group Off Terror List, also, FBI Lied To Its Own Agents About Trump “Collusion”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, The Needle’s Eye, and Bush Dynasty RIP?
Hollywood In Toto: Gervais Laps Chappelle With Trans Jokes In SuperNature, also, Here’s What (Almost) Saves Jaws – The Revenge
The Lid: School Board Group Wanted Soldiers To Enforce Karl Marx Vision Of Parenting
Legal Insurrection: Students Disrupt TPUSA Meeting At Missouri High School, Gas Hits $6 In California, May Go Higher In Washington State, and Georgia Primary Results – It’s Walker vs. Warnock & Kemp vs. Abrams
Nebraska Energy Observer: The State Of The West, also, In Case
Outkick: Take That, Jimbo!, Have We Seen The End Of The Pro Bowl? and Shakeup Coming For SEC Football Scheduling?
Power Line: Top FBI Brass Were “Fired Up” About Destroying Trump, Brad Smith On Early Voting, and Whoopi Comes For The Archbishop
Shark Tank: Sen. Rubio Claims Google Is Censoring His Emails
Shot In The Dark: Game Day, Cloak Conceals Dagger, and Social Media Etiquette Part 6
The Political Hat: When Your Gender Is A Cake, also, Commonality Training
This Ain’t Hell: PINO Joe’s Incredible Confession
Transterrestrial Musings: Light Posting, also, Lori’s Book
Victory Girls: Lukashenko Gets Nukes – There Goes The Neighborhood, also, Xinjiang Police Hack Reveals Horror Of Uyghur Camps
Volokh Conspiracy: Mothers’ Lawsuits Claiming U. Pittsburgh Medical Center Interfered With Parental Rights Can Go Forward
Watts Up With That: BS In The Sustainability & Transitions Literature – A Provocation
Weasel Zippers: Forensic Investigation Determines Hunter Biden Laptop 100% Authentic, also, Stacey Abrams – “Increased Turnout Has Nothing To Do With Suppression”
The Federalist: Elon Musk Is Right, Biden Celebrates Record High Gas Prices As “Incredible Transition”, and Bill Maher Is Not Your New Conservative BFF
Mark Steyn: Poker-Faced Poet, Easy To Love, and Jabber Jabber Jabber

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Deranged Lunatic Who Loudly Disrupted Public Meeting in Texas Turns Out to Be Fringe Candidate for Governor

Posted on | May 25, 2022 | Comments Off on Deranged Lunatic Who Loudly Disrupted Public Meeting in Texas Turns Out to Be Fringe Candidate for Governor

Maybe you’ve heard of this guy, who has a habit of losing elections:

Texas gubernatorial hopeful Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D) took the opportunity to inject himself during Governor Greg Abbott’s Wednesday press conference covering the Robb Elementary mass shooting in Uvalde.
Beto appears to wait until the governor’s remarks are complete before he stands in front of the stage to interrupt Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s presentation. Patrick attempts to shut down the Democratic Party candidate for Governor, saying, “Excuse me, you’re out of line and an embarrassment.”
O’Rourke continued to talk over the Lt. Governor to address Governor Abbott. “You’re doing nothing,” the failed presidential and senatorial candidate said.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin was most vocal in trying to shout down the interruption. Texas Senator Ted Cruz can also be heard trying to hush Beto.
“He needs to get his ass out of here,” the Uvalde mayor said regarding the disruptive candidate. “Sir, you’re out of line! Sir, you’re out of line! Please leave this auditorium.”
“I can’t believe… you’re a sick son of a bitch,” the mayor continued, “that would come to an event like this to make political issues.”
Law enforcement officers surrounded O’Rourke and attempted to move him out of the arena. O’Rourke stopped again and attempted to address the governor.
“It’s on you,” O’Rourke said pointing at Abbott. McLaughlin responded, “It’s on assholes like you. Why don’t you get out of here?”
Police finally escorted O’Rourke from the room where he carried out an impromptu press conference.
The twice-failed candidate received the Democratic Party of Texas’ nomination to face off against Governor Abbott in the 2022 General Election in November. He has a long history of contradicting his positions on the 2nd Amendment and gun control.
During a Democratic Party presidential candidate debate in September 2019, O’Rourke responded to a question about his support of gun confiscation. “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” the candidate stated. A few days later, he backtracked and told CNN he would not confiscate hunting rifles. When then-CNN show host Chris Cuomo asked O’Rourke, “Are you, in fact, in favor of gun confiscations?” The candidate replied, “Yes” and then added, “But when it comes to firearms used for hunting or self-defense the answer is ‘no.’ And I don’t want you or anyone else to get into the fear mongering, that some have fallen prey to, saying that the government is going to come and take all your guns.”

November is probably going to be one of the worst beatings the Democrats have ever experienced, and O’Rourke — who couldn’t win a statewide race in Texas even in the high-tide year of 2018 — is going to get smashed flatter than an armadillo trying to cross I-10 in rush hour.




 

Category: Democrats, Texas

Chicago Massacre Suspect Had Felony Record, Told Cops He ‘Had to Do It’

Posted on | May 24, 2022 | 2 Comments

Say hello to Jaylun Sanders, 21, and his alleged accomplice, Kameron Abram, 20. Sanders is charged in the murder of two people in last week’s shooting near a McDonald’s on Chicago’s northside that also left seven other people injured. WFLD-TV reports:

Cook County prosecutors released new information Sunday about charges against Jaylun Sanders, accused of a mass shooting on Chicago’s Near North Side that left two dead and seven wounded, including the claim that Sanders admitted the crime and said he “had to do it.”
Prosecutors said that about a half hour before the shooting on State near Chicago on Thursday, a fight occurred between a group of people including Sanders and another group. This fight was caught on surveillance video and witnessed by a Chicago police sergeant who arrived on scene and heard a gunshot.
The police sergeant said the groups took off, though a witness told the officer that someone had hidden a gun under a mailbox on Peterson Avenue, about a block away. That gun was recovered.
Prosecutors said that surveillance video from about 10:17 p.m. shows someone in a pink hat giving a gun to Sanders, who allegedly puts it in his waistband.
Later surveillance video allegedly shows Sanders and his group walking towards the CTA Red Line, while the group of victims are walking behind. When Sanders got to the CTA stairs, he allegedly turned around and fired 21 shots. Anthony Allen, 31, and Antonio Wade, 30, were killed.
Prosecutors said that Sanders and his friends took off down the escalator into the Red Line station, where Sanders allegedly handed the gun to codefendant Kameron Abram. Abram also gave Sanders his sweatshirt, prosecutors said.
They jumped onto the train tracks to get to the other side, and that’s when Sanders girlfriend was injured as she fell on to the electrified third rail.
Police chased them and captured Sanders and Abram. The gun was found in the CTA tunnel.
Prosecutors said that Sanders gave a statement (recorded on video) in which he first denied being the shooter, but later admitted that he got the Glock from a cousin via Indiana, and that the auto switch can be bought for about $20 on the street.
Sanders allegedly told police that the other group shot first, but then said that he thought they were going to shoot and that he “had to do it.”

More information from CWB Chicago:

A 21-year-old South Shore man who allegedly shot 9 people outside the Chicago Red Line station on Thursday night had a felony gun case pending at the time of the mass shooting, according to court records.
Jaylun Sanders, 21, is the 20th person charged with killing or shooting — or trying to shoot or kill — someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony. The alleged crimes involve at least 49 victims, 11 of whom died. . . .
[C]ourt records show Sanders has a pending felony unlawful use of a weapon case that began when police arrested him during a traffic stop on the 1000 block of West 95th Street on November 15, 2020.
Police said they found a loaded 9-millimeter in Sanders’ hoodie pocket during the stop. He told officers he found the gun three days earlier and it was the first day he had carried it in public, prosecutors said at the time.
Judge John Lyke allowed Sanders to go home upon posting of a $200 deposit toward his $2,000 bail, records show.
Sanders stopped showing up for his court dates last October and Judge Adrienne Davis issued a warrant for his arrest on November 29. That warrant was still active at the time of the mass shooting, according to court records.
Prosecutors said during Sanders’ November 2020 bail hearing that he had no “publishable” history. CPD and court records show he was charged with misdemeanor aggravated assault of a teacher or school employee on May 22, 2019. Four days earlier, he was arrested and charged with misdemeanor possession of 30 to 100 grams of cannabis.
Officials dropped both cases the next month.

What’s the point of even arresting criminals, if everything is just a misdemeanor, or charges are dropped, and where a suspect with an arrest warrant has no problem staying out on the streets for six months?




 

Category: Chicago, Crime
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