Biden Wants A Gun Buyback Scheme, Kamala Would Send Cops Around To Take Firearms

By William Teach August 6, 2019 – 7:54 am

So, obviously, we are at the point where Democrats are just proposing the confiscation and banning of firearms from law abiding citizens, rather than looking for real solutions. Of course, it is almost impossible to stop Bad Behavior. Drugs are illegal, right? Getting drunk and driving is illegal, right? Murder is illegal, right? Expanding background checks won’t do a darned thing if relevant information which could cause a background check to fail is not reported, such as with the Dayton killer. Who is definitely a leftist, hence the reason why the media is focusing on the El Paso wackjob.

You can’t tell me that all the shooters in places like Chicago and Baltimore are Trump voters, or emboldened by Trump’s words, since that has been going on since before the Era Of Trump. Heck, according to Liberal World, we should be blaming AOC for Dayton, right? Anyhow

Joe Biden pushes for federal gun buyback program, assault weapons ban in wake of mass shootings

Former vice president Joe Biden said Monday he would push for a federal gun buyback program to take more weapons off the streets, as one effort to contain the epidemic of mass shootings.

Biden also said that he would attempt to enhance background checks and reinstitute the assault weapons ban, which he helped push through in 1994 but was unable to reauthorize a decade later.

When asked about criticism that a future Biden administration would take away people’s guns, he responded, “Bingo! You’re right, if you have an assault weapon.”

He then realized that it was a gaffe, saying what he really meant, so

He went on to say that previously-owned guns would not be confiscated, but emphasized a national gun buyback program and a hope that some weapons could be banned.

So, taking away people’s legally purchased and Constitutionally approved firearms for the actions of people they’ve never met. Let’s also not forget that the assault weapons ban didn’t work, and, despite all the gun grabbing laws in California shootings, including mass ones, occur in California. Not to be outdone

Kamala Harris willing to send cops to people’s homes to confiscate banned firearms

California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris gave details about her gun control proposals in the wake of the deadly El Paso, Texas shooting after she addressed union members at the AFSCME forum at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Saturday.

When asked by the Washington Examiner if her plan would include legal gun owner databases or gun confiscation via law enforcement visits to residents who own banned firearms, she replied, “I’m actually prepared to take executive action to put in place rules that improve this situation.”

She continued, “I also have as part of my background and experience working on this issue, when I was attorney general [of California], and we put resources into allowing law enforcement to actually knock on the doors of people who were on two lists — a list where they had been found by a court to be a danger to themselves and others.

This is about the use of red flag laws. And the problem with red flag laws is the ability of gun grabbers to continuously expand exactly why people’s 2nd Amendment Right is infringed, and 4th Amendment protections are violated. Red flag laws would be fine IF they were truly meant to do what they say, but, we know they are just a death by a thousand paper cuts method to work towards making sure almost no one may have a firearm.

Other Democrats have said things, mostly about bannings and expanded background checks, really about taking people’s firearms away while they run around with armed protection.

Democrats do not want to solve the problem, they want to ban gun ownership by citizens. If they really want to do this, I dare them to attempt to get rid of the 2nd Amendment.

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Here’s A Handy Dandy Guide To Fighting ‘Climate Change’, Starting With Getting Pissed Off

By William Teach August 5, 2019 – 4:25 pm

I think this article is several years too late

A Step-by-Step Guide to Fighting Climate Change. Step One: Get Pissed Off

When people ask what they can do personally to fight climate change, the advice they get is normally not all that great. Riding your bike, avoiding drinking straws, eating less meat, boiling water more efficiently or undertaking any number of personal lifestyle actions is unlikely on its own to lead to the massive and immediate economic changes scientists calculate are required to avoid catastrophe.

Notice how climate cultists are always being told to not practice what they preach?

But it doesn’t mean you’re powerless. VICE recently spoke with organizers and strategists associated with Occupy Wall Street, the Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion, Indivisible and “The Squad”—comprised of congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley—who said you have more leverage and influence over our planet’s fate than you’re likely aware.

Here are five practical ways you can wield it.

2. Directly confront the people in power (in person, if possible)

We are living through what movement advisor and former Occupy Wall Street organizer Jonathan Smucker calls “a crisis of legitimacy.” Our political and economic system is so obviously failing—to the point where it’s destabilizing the foundation for all human life and leading to inequality not seen since the Great Depression—that vast numbers of people are losing faith in it.

So, wait, this is essentially telling climate cultists to get violent. Because that’s what happens.

5. Commit an act of nonviolent civil disobedience

Actions like the above apply gradual but steady force on elected officials. But with time rapidly ticking down on our climate emergency, more pressure may need to be brought to bear.

Well, good luck with that. These are leftists, and they are anything but non-violent. Of course, those who do not get violent cause those around them to get pissed off and dismissive of the Cult when they’re days, and property, are ruined.

Committing nonviolent civil resistance shouldn’t be taken lightly. It can carry the risk of serious jail time. Hallam advises that anyone planning an action do so openly and publicly (which can lead to a more welcoming culture for participants) and be polite with the police to reduce the odds of an aggressive crackdown.

These are the same people who despise police, so, it won’t work out well.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 5, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded by Other People’s carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post noting that AOC is responsible for the Dayton shooting.

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NC Governor Bans Use Of State Money For Gay Conversion Therapy For Minors

By William Teach August 5, 2019 – 11:26 am

I’m not totally against this

North Carolina won’t fund conversion therapy, Gov. Roy Cooper says

North Carolina’s state health department is barred from allowing public funds to pay for conversion therapy for minors, a controversial practice aimed at changing young LGBT people’s sexual orientations, under an order signed Friday by Gov. Roy Cooper.

Advocacy groups praised the Democratic governor’s executive order as a pioneering step to restrict the therapy in the U.S. South.

Cooper’s order forbids funds controlled by executive branch agencies from paying for such therapy for minors. That includes state and federal money for the state’s Medicaid program and NC Health Choice insurance for children in low- and middle-income families.

Eighteen states have enacted laws banning or restricting the practice that’s opposed by the American Psychological Association, though none are in the South, according to advocacy groups that track the issue.

Similar legislation was introduced in both of North Carolina’s legislative chambers this year, but it hasn’t advanced since being referred to legislative committees in April.

OK, three points on this. First, is this executive over-reach with the order? No article on this states whether state law makes it permissible for state organizations to fund the conversion therapy, so, this EO may butt up against actual law. It doesn’t restrict conversion therapy, just the use of taxpayer money.

Second, I do agree with the order, because government should not be funding things like this. It is not the business of government to get involved with said money.

Third, will Cooper agree that the government should not be funding abortions? Because we are in the exact same realm. Things that government should not be funding. Along with a ton of other stuff. This is not the government’s business, but that of private citizens, and taxpayer money shouldn’t be spent on these things, be it conversion therapy or abortion. Abortion on demand supporters can’t have it both ways.

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NY Times Wonders What Comes Next After Progressive Activists Push Dems To The Left On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach August 5, 2019 – 7:47 am

Don’t forget, progressivism is known as “nice fascism”. It doesn’t mean they’re nice, it means that they’re doing this for your own good. Funny that they never realize that the bad parts will effect their own lives

Progressive Activists Have Pushed Democrats to the Left on Climate Issues. Now What?

In April, young activists with the Sunrise Movement, a liberal environmental group, held a rally here at Wayne State University to champion radical steps to curb climate change. Their aim: to get Democratic presidential candidates on record supporting the Green New Deal, which ties traditional goals, like reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with social ones, like ending income inequality and providing free health care.

Last week, those candidates were in Detroit for the second round of debates, and the Sunrise activists and other progressives were back, too, taking a victory lap. Since the spring rally, 16 of the 24 Democratic presidential hopefuls have signed onto Sunrise’s Green New Deal goals.

What once seemed like progressive moonshots on climate have now become a critical litmus test for moderates and liberal presidential candidates. The activists have helped shift the Democratic center of gravity further to the left on climate. And now they face the question that often comes to groups that rise swiftly in influence: What next?

Now what in the headline really means what’s next. And what’s next is a massive lurch to the left (which is really to the right on the political scale, into Authoritarianism)

The June and July debates have demonstrated this influence: Left-wing positions dominated discussion of issues like health care, immigration, free public college and reparations for black Americans, leaving many liberals rejoicing and plenty of centrist Democrats fretting. The proof that liberal activism is succeeding, the grass-roots leaders said, was that most candidates dared not dismiss their concerns.

See, they aren’t here to be nice

“Our job isn’t to be nice,” said Alexandra Rojas, the executive director of Justice Democrats, the progressive group that has roiled Washington by challenging more centrist congressional Democrats from the left.

What’s missing in the “what’s next?” is what happens when the general election comes around, and the Democrat candidates have moved way, way, way to the “left”. These people think Biden and Harris are too moderate. How will this play in said general election? When Trump is talking about good jobs, a great economy, loving America, they’ll be up there talking about why everything about America will have to change because America is bad. And, to bring the Green New Deal back in

Rhiana Gunn-Wright, the policy director of New Consensus, the think tank that helped write the Green New Deal resolution, said she wanted politicians to back the full-throated resolution, including its social goals.

“I think something that people miss about the Green New Deal,” Ms. Gunn-Wright said, “it’s about the survival of us as a species and a planet, but it’s also about our survival as a country, which we know that inequality and structural inequity is literally tearing apart our society.”

“We think that if we have a society, even if it’s green, if we have a country that’s just as stratified as it was before, it’s a failure,” she said.

Ms. Rojas added: “This can’t just be an economic or a climate plan. It’s got to be a just one and we have to talk about indigenous communities. We have to talk about black and brown communities that were historically left out of the original New Deal.”

Does anyone think this will move the needle for Independents and squishy Trump hating Republicans to vote for the Democrat? Might it cause moderate Democrats to just stay home? They might not vote for Trump, but, they won’t vote Democrat for President.

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Hot Take: Washington Post Suddenly Says There’s No Such Thing As Lone Wolves

By William Teach August 5, 2019 – 7:03 am

Yes, yes, I haven’t blogged anything on the two shootings, one in El Paso and one in Dayton, Ohio, as there’s too much information, too much Narrative, and too much coming out. And too little time in my day. But, this one written by Juliette Kayyem, who is a “former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and faculty chair of the homeland security program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government,” caught my eye based on things written on Twitter and other sites yesterday. Not mentioned is that she is very much a Democrat

There are no lone wolves

There are no lone wolves. A mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso on Saturday was allegedly perpetrated by a young, white male, according to police, who appears to have posted a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto online minutes before the attack, declaring the need to fight the “Hispanic invasion of Texas.” Such white-supremacist hatred isn’t just a poisonous belief held by isolated individuals. It is a group phenomenon that is, according to the FBI, the greatest terrorist threat to America. The El Paso shooting, which left 20 dead and more than two dozen wounded, was followed hours later by a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, that killed nine. The shooter also died, and on Sunday, police were still unsure of his motive.

If the El Paso massacre turns out to have been the hate crime that police suspect, it will be one more example why viewing what is happening in America today as anything short of an ideological conflict — with one side heavily armed, the other side shopping for school supplies at a Walmart — is to disengage each individual incident from the terrorist rhetoric that breeds it.

White-supremacist terror is rooted in a pack, a community. And its violent strand today is being fed by three distinct, but complementary, creeds. The community has essentially found a mission, kinship and acceptance.

Now, she goes on to describe the three creeds, and she isn’t necessarily wrong. But, what’s interesting is that Islamist terrorists are painted as lone wolves, that even big attacks by Islamist groups are painted as isolated incidents. Because they not only do not want to blame the whole of Islam (nor do most counter jihad folks, which is why we use the word Islamist), they do not even want to say it has anything to do with Islam at all, and work hard to divorce the root cause from Islam, the Koran, and Muhammed.

She talks about the 3 creeds being The Mission, The Kinship, and The Acceptance. Read the article for the details, but, this could be applied exactly to radicalized Muslims. And you can bet that everyone in the media will be throwing out the phrase “lone wolf” the next time there’s an Islamist attack

What Ms. Kayyem is attempting to do is shift focus to all white people, much like AOC and others, and to Trump and Republicans. That’s the real point

The similarities between Trump’s language about Hispanics, immigrants and African Americans marks them as the “other” and is mimicked by white supremacists. He fails to shame them. His rhetoric winks and nods, curries favor, embraces both sides and, while not promoting violence specifically, certainly does not condemn it (until after it occurs).

Public speech that may incite violence, even without that specific intent, has been given a name: stochastic terrorism, for a pattern that can’t be predicted precisely but can be analyzed statistically. It is the demonization of groups through mass media and other propaganda that can result in a violent act because listeners interpret it as promoting targeted violence — terrorism. And the language is vague enough that it leaves room for plausible deniability and outraged, how-could-you-say-that attacks on critics of the rhetoric.

Yup, it’s Blame Trump. But, um, did she, or the person who edited her opinion piece, read the Washington Post?

(Breitbart) The Washington Post reported Sunday: “Authorities believe … [the shooter] wrote the document, though they are still gathering evidence.” It also noted that the author “stresses that he has maintained his white supremacist ideology for many years, predating President Trump and his 2016 campaign, which he says did not influence his reasons for carrying out the attack.”

CNN added: “The writer wrote that their opinions on immigration predate President Trump, and the writer appears to have held these beliefs for years.

Huh. Further, what of the Dayton shooter? Notice that Ms. Kayyem never mentions him

Heavy.com reported: “Connor Betts, the Dayton, Ohio mass shooter, was a self-described ‘leftist,’ who wrote that he would happily vote for Democrat Elizabeth Warren, praised Satan, was upset about the 2016 presidential election results, and added, ‘I want socialism, and i’ll not wait for the idiots to finally come round to understanding.’”

So, is Betts a lone wolf, or did the public speech and creeds of Leftists incite him? Do we blame Elizabeth Warren? Hardcore socialism? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her concentration camp comments?

I wouldn’t. But, based on the Narrative, everyone should Blame them.

But, because Betts is a hardcore socialist, was a registered Democrat, his crime is being slowly downplayed, and the whole thing will soon move to gun grabbing.

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Climahypocrites Relax In Style At Google Hotcoldwetdry Summit

By William Teach August 4, 2019 – 5:24 pm

Most news outlets have avoided any mention of the massive hypocrisy from those attending the Google summit. A few haven’t. It’s nice to know the big-shots (with no climate degrees or any degrees in any science) are able to relax

From the link

They’re red hot over global warming but happily burned up the gas in Italy.

Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Bradley Cooper and Oprah looked relaxed and unconcerned Saturday while boating around Sicily during Google’s star-studded climate summit.

The foursome’s gas-guzzling visit to the tiny island of Panarea came amid controversy at the three-day Google Camp fest, where some 200 stars took 114 private jets and partied aboard $400 million mega yachts.

Page Six reported that the flights alone pumped 864 tons of carbon dioxide into the air.

Attendees also hogged the roads with Maseratis, Ferraris, Porches and high-end SUVs. (snip)

The exclusive and ultra-wasteful camp included a barefoot speech from Prince Harry, who made waves by announcing he and Megan Markle would only be having one more child (in addition to newborn son Archie) because of the worsening condition of the planet.

He apparently didn’t give the same consideration when it came to his travel.

The royal recycler flew on both a private jet and helicopter to get to the island greenfest, all paid for by Google, reports the Daily Mail.

It’s never wrong to keep pointing out climahypocrisy, especially when those same people want to force you to comply.

As a sidebar, the people who live in the local area and regular tourists were treated like garbage for the even

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 4, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a place totally flooded by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on a look into the Democratic Socialists Of America convention.

It’s lake week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 4, 2019 – 9:38 am

Patriotic Pinup Gil Elvgren

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in America. The sun is shining, the squirrels are scampering, and the Dodgers are still crushing it. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Roy Spencer uses actual science to show that July was not the warmist on record
  2. Climate Change Dispatch covers climate alarm as an excuse to ignore real problems
  3. Watts Up With That? discusses climate disaster confusion
  4. 357 Magnum notes that Apple only cares about your privacy when they get bad press
  5. American Elephants wonders if all the Democrats are crazy
  6. Blazing Cat Fur covers Meghan and Harry playing a dangerous game
  7. Brass Pills notes the cost of Gillette’s woke anti-man crusade
  8. Common Cents Blog has a feel good story on a fat Golden Retriever
  9. Creeping Sharia has a month of Islam in America
  10. Da Tech Guy’s Blog covers the price women have paid for 3rd wave feminism
  11. DC Clothesline features raw human sewage in California and the failure of liberalism
  12. Geller Reports notes Bill Maher wanting a recession to defeat Trump
  13. hogewash discusses a zombie star
  14. Legal Insurrection notes social justice vs real justice
  15. And last, but not least, Living Freedom has random thoughts on virtue and vice

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Oops: Insane Extinction Rebellion Apparently Not Very Good At Protecting Their Documents

By William Teach August 4, 2019 – 8:40 am

Remember how we were told this was a people’s movement? Huh

Delingpole: Exposed? Soros on List of Mega-Rich Extinction Rebellion Backers

An anonymous source claims to have extracted lots of documents from Extinction Rebellion’s computer database and has put them up online.

The documents, if genuine, seem to have been exposed through carelessness on the part of Extinction Rebellion, not a computer hack. Anyway, Paul Homewood has been filleting some of the best bits and here is what he has found.

If verified, this confirms Extinction Rebellion is disturbingly flush and well-funded: over £1 million raised this year, half of it still unspent, according to the documents.

Major donors are said to include — inevitably — George Soros; Vivienne Westwood’s son Joe Corre (the saucy underwear and dildo tycoon, worth $48 million); the European Climate Foundation (which funnels money from far-left American philanthropic foundations to European climate projects); Greenpeace; the far-left Tides Foundation; and a little known Swiss asset management company, called Furka Holdings, founded by a banker with Russian links, which gave £50,000.

So….not really a people’s movement? Delingpole notes some of the people negatively affected by the protests and the costs associated, before jumping into

If its view of the world sounds slightly unhinged that’s probably because it is unhinged.

There is little if any scientific evidence to support its deranged world view; yet its conviction that it is right, that indeed it has a monopoly on truth, is as strong as any doomsday cult’s.

It spells out what it believes very clearly in this private briefing document, which lists its aims and describes its philosophy:

  1. To show to radical people (and internationally) that it is possible to have an “impossible” plan and carry out a rebellion – however small (or large!) and thus increase the “overton window” of acceptable discourse on the ecological crisis.
  2. To create a national conversation about the ecological crisis and climate breakdown – including that our families/communities/society and state are facing existential threat. This includes to discuss our demands with the government/ political parties (see below). Also to support further uprisings to demand change off the back of the door we open.
  3. To build structure, community and test prototypes in preparation for the coming structural  collapse of the regimes of western “democracies” – now seen as inevitable due to stored up crisis. Thus preparing a foundation to transform society and resist fascism / other extremes. This includes creating Rising from the Wreckage- a Citizens Assembly based on sortition

Nutjobs. Loony tunes authoritarian nutjobs. Paul Homewood takes a deep dive into the documents (which were not hacked, just bad security), and notes, among the donors (one of which appears, again, to be George Soros and his Tides Foundation) is

Children’s Investment Fund Foundation – £121140

The CIFF like to give the impression that their purpose is to tackle ill health and malnutrition amongst the world’s poor. But they also give out millions each year for climate change projects.

It’s funders might be surprised that their money is going to an anarchist group, determined to send Britain back to the dark ages.

Huh again. Delingpole ends his piece with

Perhaps the rich people alleged to be funding these eco-fascists imagine that they will be exempt — that they will form part of some kind of privileged Nomenklatura who can carry on living their privileged lifestyle as before.

They do. Heck, most of the climate cultists think they will be exempt. I’m almost tempted to let them get their way and institute their polices, just to watch the shocked faces and caterwauling when they all, from the lowest to the biggest, realize that they’ve just owned themselves, hosed their own lives.

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