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Things Are Getting Really, Really Creepy…
I had to fly to Boston this weekend to help my sister fix up her new house. I almost didn’t make it back to work on Monday, because my flight was canceled at the last minute, and I had to buy another ticket on another airline, which was canceled, and so on. I made it home eventually, and was less than amused to hear Pete Buttigieg’s statement about the rash of flight cancellations. He said that if the airlines couldn’t fix this problem quickly, then government would be forced to step in.
Ok, so let’s see here. So the government said that a pilot would not be allowed to work unless he had the COVID vaccine. Many pilots chose not to do so, and were fired. Which was fine, as long as nobody was traveling. But once people started to travel again, the airlines couldn’t handle the passenger load because they had fewer pilots available. Because they had fired them last year. Because the government told them to. And now, the government blames the airlines.
What’s most distressing about this is that it’s not even remarkable. This is how leftism works. Take a private industry that works. Destroy it with regulations & taxes & accusations of improper behavior. Then point out to the people that the government will take over this industry because, sadly, it doesn’t work for the people, the way our government does. Joe Biden is doing that to the oil industry now:
The president also said that the U.S. has a chance to transition into using electric vehicles and renewable energy. He said his team would be sitting down with the CEOs of oil companies this week to find out “how they justify making $35 billion in the first quarter.”
Biden and Buttigieg are very openly saying to the oil and airline industries, “Gosh, that’s a nice business you got there. It’d sure be a shame if something were to happen to it.” And then the leftists who accused Trump of being a tyrant read about what Biden is doing and they yell, “Go get ’em, Joe! Yeah!!!”
Meanwhile, the FBI just arrested a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan. And searched his home. Very publicly.
Meanwhile, a show trial is being broadcast by all the major networks, to help Democrats right before the mid-terms.
Meanwhile, even suspicion that one might not support Democrats can get people fined or fired from their jobs. Even football coaches.
Meanwhile, questioning a very questionable election can get one removed from social media platforms. The limits to free speech are growing rapidly, although only in one direction.
Meanwhile, government agencies that used to have very specific jobs, like the FBI and the CDC, are now clearly simply leftist organizations tasked with promoting the Democrat party. But they’re still officially government agencies.
Meanwhile, our news media has completely abandoned any pretense of objectivity, saying “Fairness is over-rated“. Our news media now openly acknowledges that their job is to destroy the Republican Party and to promote the policies of the Democrat party.
Add all this up. Read all that again, if you can stand it. Think of it all together, for just a moment. You don’t have to connect the dots. The dots connect themselves.
This is getting creepy. Really, really creepy.
Holy crap.
Leftists tend to gain power through subtle attacks on society. Once they have power, they tend to abandon subtlety. I suspect that Leon Trotsky would suggest that we take these open threats as, well, as threats.
I’m really trying not to panic here. But things are getting really, really creepy.
Holy crap…
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Regulating magazine size is foolish, too, and serves no purpose other than to make many guns unusable since existing handgun mags would be illegal. They would then regulate all new ones which wouldn’t be around until manufacturers could redesign and retool to make functional legal ones. That would not be a good investment because the banners would deter that with the promise of lawsuits. Since size is irrelevant for offensive purposes and mags can be swapped in 2-3 seconds, and since this doesn’t impact how many rounds a killer could carry, and since the government would still field whatever size it wants, they only address mag size for nefarious reasons.
For every banner I engage in debate, there are at least ten I block. Rarely do I find one interested in facts.I believe most are the sock-puppets of Everytown radicals.
Layer upon layer of incompetence and malevolence.
That’s what I meant. Anybody is going to be able to get anything they want. It’s going to be like the hamster wheel of enforcing hard drug laws.
Holy Crap about sums it up for me too…………………..sigh………
Yep, we’ve become Stalinist . . .
That is why I am content to tolerate high energy costs and bare shelves for a while. They will only change their thinking by feeling results in the economics lab, not by reading economics theory. If they never learn then your next idea will happen.👇
It would be a nasty mess that none should want as the solution. But if suffering continues, people would be more inclined to do so, and more bitter towards the other side. The thought scares me. I do not want it but what Democrats promise scares me, too.
Jan 6 was a missed opportunity to warn them that they had crossed the red line the last five years and better moderate their intentions. The protesters were a milder form of Democrat kinetic tactics, a language they understood. Sadly, the only message the Democrats received was do whatever you want and our only acceptable response will be to condemn those who push back. Breaking into the capitol on live TV shocked us, but we should be more shocked at what has happened since. As individuals, we can do nothing and we will be destroyed by the federal government. As united states, led by a strong governor, we can push back. DeSantis has shown us the peaceful way to push back. We need that model in every red state. However, he would be neutered by the deep state DC cesspool as President. We saw under Trump that winning the White House really does nothing lasting.
I agree. My point is there is only a bad reason to address mags since reducing size doesn’t achieve their stated goal, which isn’t their real goal
Democrats have been invading capitols since at least Scott Walker was governor of Wisconsin in 2011, turning it into a game. I guess it’s different now. They also destroy cities and neighborhoods.
Yes, and praising those doing so.
I am 100% convinced of what I have put in bold.
Don’t be naïve about gun policy. Republicans that are naïve about gun policy are a menace. They just need to resource the laws we have. The only place that gun control can work is New York City, and if the management of the city isn’t motivated to do it right, that is not going to work.
No, we need to get the ratchet going the opposite way. We need to repeal the NFA and the GCA.
Actually no. Pete is close to Zuckerberg and folks like that.
He is more than clever enough.
Yet the co-pilot in that crash, who was flying the plane, mentioned in almost her last words that she had never flown in such a storm before.
“22:12:05.0 HOT-2 I’ve never seen icing conditions. I’ve never deiced. I’ve never seen any-I’ve never experienced any of that. I don’t want to have to experience that and make those kinds of calls. you know I’dve freaked out. I’dve have like seen this much ice and thought oh my gosh we were going to crash.”
She did not need more flight time. She needed more simulator time in ice storms. https://tailstrike.com/database/12-february-2009-colgan-air-3407/
What would the Founders do…… seriously – Is there something written to address this ? Is this a throw the tea in the harbor moment? July 4th is coming –
I am not trying to be overly optimistic, but there are democrats and there are Democrats.
I know a number of people in their 20s, a significant percent are Hispanic, who voted for Biden and the Democrats. Gas prices, inflation ect have them willing to vote Republican. These are the soft democrats, just read some headlines and get that Democrats are good and Republicans are evil racists. Now they are seeing that Democrats are not good for them.
Not sure how many would just reflexively vote for anyone with R behind their name, candidate quality still matters but there are people who vote democrat, without being fully knowlegible about Democrat goals/policies, that may vote Republican next or at least stay home.
We have seen this before. The government causes problems through over-regulation and then points at the businesses and says, “See free markets don’t work.”
Let me gaslight
https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/20/justice-for-j16/
I assumed this was just Alex’s member recruitment process. But yeah, it’s weird that they join up and post with guns ablazing.
Should I go looking for them? Are any worth reading?
Yes and no. There are newbies (maybe student subscriptions) and old resubscribers. The newbies seem to have something to say, the resubscribers not so much in my view. But it’s a matter of taste, I guess.
A number of resubscribers say they’ve only reactivated their memberships as a charitable act for the financially encumbered company.
TPTB claim they don’t want charity, so they should cancel those memberships and issue refunds.
That’s my experience – even the ones with buyer’s remorse over Biden. I have a friend with generally reasonable views on most topics who still believes that Trump was worse in every way than Hillary could possibly be and that even though Pres. Brandon is a disaster, it’s because the wrong people are in charge. And it doesn’t matter because – at least he’s not Trump. He sees the Jan 6 TV show as justification for his attitude. His idea is fixed in concrete and no possible alternate view is acceptable. So we skip discussing politics…
It hasn’t escaped me that my attitude towards Hillary vs Trump was a virtual mirror image of his but of course I felt that her record as a crook made her far worse in my mind. My friend believes that Trump was even more crooked as a businessman.
For me, my vote for Trump was a combination of hope and a needed cauterization against the malevolent corruption of the Clintons. I think many others were similarly motivated and somewhat pleasantly surprised by the good things that occurred during his four years, despite him fighting massive political tsunami winds hurled at him by the Dems. I didn’t like everything he said or did. I hoped the office would moderate his presentation into something more statesmanlike. That was probably a foolish hope.
Our system was designed to require many compromises to govern but one of the weaknesses of this design is that they likely expected the “middle” around which those compromises bounced, to be closer to the traditional Western Christian traditions and morals of the time. If the GOP promotes someone perceived as “in the middle” today, will it feel like a betrayal to many in conservatives who see the current “middle” as too far left by a long shot?? Probably. I agree that the key is having a Newt Gingrich-style Contract – a plan that both the conservatives and the middle independents can embrace. The GOP can’t just run on “heh – we’re more competent that the current Dems.” There must be a concrete plan to which they can be held accountable. IMHO…. :-)
Jager: “I know a number of people in their 20s, a significant percent are Hispanic, who voted for Biden and the Democrats. Gas prices, inflation ect have them willing to vote Republican. These are the soft democrats, just read some headlines and get that Democrats are good and Republicans are evil racists. Now they are seeing that Democrats are not good for them.”
IF there is anything good happening in the world right now it is that the approval ratings for Biden among Hispanics and Young Twentysomethings are now down in the mid-twenty percent range.
White ,Upper Class Democrats and Never Trumpers will never vote for a good Constitutionalist Conservative, no matter how bad things get, but the turning of Hispanics and the Young could destroy the Democratic Party as we know it. Hispanics and the Young, hammered so much recently by the Commie Democrats, now no longer see the world through the brainwashed, narrative only framed glasses of the Dems, but we cannot say unfortunately the same thing for old Dems and the Never Trumpers, who seemingly will readily betray their country for their precious Commie Dem Party without a second thought.
Well thank the Summer Solstice that the liberals always over play their hand. That always jiggles the lemmings in the middle into swaying into a different direction. Midterms are coming….
I’m not a pianist but I think the Jaws theme goes middle C – A – C – A. You were in Boston, It was filmed a short boat ride away at the Vinyard.
And it seems both the school board and DA recalls in San Fran were led by non-whites; the white leftists in their gated enclaves wanted to keep both the woke school board and the woke DA, Chesa Boudin.
The Jan 6 Show is probably doing some damage. But I wonder, if this were a paid political program any slander could be litigated. But since it’s done from the (so I am led to believe) floor of the House, aren’t at least all the politicians’ libel immune from libel suits?
However, if the networks that air it have commentators that are prone to libelous statements, . . . well, . . . I’d be watching them very closely.
It should be considered a campaign contribution to the DNC and every individual involved.
Case in point:
Gee, I wonder why our gas prices are so high? It’s obviously not the state legislature’s fault, and clearly it’s not the Biden Administration’s fault, so who can we blame? I know, let’s pin it on greedy corporations!
No, they are not.