If you were a teenager in the mid-1990’s you might remember a TV show called Party of Five.

It was about five siblings who were orphaned when their parents were killed in a car crash, and the eldest, a 24-year-old college dropout had to man up and raise the rest of the kids.

Now, 19 years after the original show ended, it is getting a “relevant” reboot.

When the world forces them apart, they must fight to stay together.
__________@FreeformTV’s new series, #PartyOfFive, premieres Wednesday, January 8th. https://t.co/LfSE6Z0pqx

— Party of Five (@PartyofFiveTV) November 26, 2019

So instead of the parents dying, they are deported for being illegals.

I just want to check some facts we can see from the trailer.

For the eldest brother to get legal custody of his siblings, he has to be at least 18 years old, and if they stick with the format of the original show, he’s in his early 20’s.

They apparently live in a decent middle-class house, so they have some money.

The kids are not being deported, so they must be either US citizens or DREAMers.

So… mom and dad have been in the country illegally for 18-24 years and have been financially successful enough to achieve middle-class status, but never went about the process of becoming legal immigrants?

And I’m supposed to have sympathy for them?

No.  Sorry, but no.

You don’t get to skirt the law for two decades and then act like victims when you get caught.

The good news is: this looks like very Woke TV, so it will go broke fast.

If you did not follow the news on Black Friday, there was another terrorist knife attack in London, on the London Bridge.

I guess the Islamists are not taking advantage of the knife disposal bins.

If you were playing “Progressives enabling Terrorism bingo” you would have won.

From CNBC:

London Bridge attacker had previous conviction for terrorism offenses

The London Bridge attacker who killed two people on Friday has been named as 28-year-old Usman Khan who was known to authorities and had been convicted in 2012 for terrorism offenses.

The BBC reported that Usman Khan was sentenced to “indeterminate detention” in 2012 with a minimum jail term of eight years, adding that it would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond that minimum term. The prosecution at the time said the plotters, including Khan, had discussed attacking the London Stock Exchange as well as pubs in the English city of Stoke.

In 2013, the U.K.’s Court of Appeal quashed that sentence and replaced it with a 16-year-fixed term with half of it being spent in jail.

From CNN:

This is what we know about London Bridge stabbing suspect Usman Khan

Khan, 28, was identified as the suspect in Friday’s central London attack that left two people dead and three others injured, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.

He was released from jail in December 2018 on an ankle monitor after he plead guilty to terrorism charges in 2012.

In 2010, Khan and eight others were arrested in London as part of a major counterterrorism operation. Some of the men were accused of terror charges over an “al Qaeda-inspired plot” to bomb the London Stock Exchange, UK police said at the time.

Authorities said Khan’s family land already had a mosque on it and those involved in the plot were looking to infuse the group with cash to “establish and operate a terrorist military training facility,” according to a sentencing document.

Khan and another suspect in the case were accused of planning to train people at the facility with the goal of making them “more serious and effective terrorists,” the documents said.

So, a Pakistani Muslim goes to the UK to raise money to train a terrorist cell, attempts to bomb the London Stock Exchange, is convicted, his sentence is reduced, he is let out of jail early with an ankle monitor, he goes to London Bridge and stabs two people to death and wounds three more.

You would think that when the UK Police arrest a man for trying to bomb the Stock Exchange, they’d throw him in jail forever, or deport him after his sentence is over.  But that sort of conventional thinking is how now Progressives do things, so he was released early and allowed to carry out another successful terrorist attack.

Remember earlier this year when a bunch of activists blocked a gang rapist from being deported out of the UK?  They claimed that deportation was cruel.  I figured that getting stabbed to death by a convicted terrorist is crueler than deporting a convicted terrorist back to his home country, but I’m not a Progressive.

The police eventually shot Khan because he was wearing a fake suicide vest.

But before that, his stabbing spree was cut short by two civilian heroes.

What makes this notable is not just that two UK citizens rushed in to help, but how they armed themselves against a knife-wielding terrorist.

https://twitter.com/DarrenPlymouth/status/1200682547660906498

A narwhal tusk.  You read that correctly.

https://twitter.com/theamycoop/status/1200513388889223169

According to The Mirror UK, the tusk-wielding man is a Polish immigrant, which explains a lot.  The Pols, unlike the British, have not taken well to Progressivism and have stood up to Islamic terrorism.  I’m actually kind of surprised that the UK Police even allowed him to import his balls into England, considering they have taken them away from nearly all British men.

The tusk appeared to be an effective weapon.  In melee combat, range is your friend.  If your enemy has a 10-inch knife, a five-foot pike is superior.

Improvise, adapt, and overcome.

This is the second terrorist stabbing on the London Bridge.

When Israel had to deal with terrorist stabbings during the Knife Intifada, they liberalized handgun carry for Israeli citizens and the Knife Intifada ended as quickly as it began.

In Texas, the two terrorists who tried to shoot up the Draw Muhammad competition didn’t make it out of the parking lot.

As long as Londoners won’t defend themselves and lack the ability to, this will happen more and more.

Vox is a Leftist new site which is written by people so stupid that they thought Bonnie and Clyde were fictional people.

They are the Captain Peter Peachfuzz of political analysis.  If they think something is good, don’t do it, if they think something is bad, go with it 100%.

Vox published an article on Wednesday:

“A terrible idea”: Experts blast Trump’s plan to label Mexican drug cartels “terrorists”

Absolutely, let’s do it then.

President Donald Trump may be on the verge of opening a whole new front in America’s war on terror that would hit much closer to home: Mexico.

You mean that cartels butchering Americans, shooting people, cutting off heads and lighting people on fire, all funded with drug money, displacing the legitimate government of a nation and becoming the de facto ruling force in areas of the country by way of terror, making them not that much difference from Al Qaeda means that we shouldn’t consider them terrorist organizations?

In a Tuesday interview with conservative radio host Bill O’Reilly, Trump said his administration will soon give Mexican drug cartels the same distinction as al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Boko Haram: designating them as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

If the shoe fits…

That label would make it illegal for anyone in the US to knowingly provide support to the drug cartels. It would also allow the US government to sanction anyone who funds them, deport their members from America, and bar any affiliate from entering the US.

Good.

Better: people associated with the cartels get deported at 15,000 feet without a parachute.

“I will be designating the cartels,” the president told O’Reilly. “We are losing 100,000 people a year to what is happening and what is coming through from Mexico,” he continued without citing where he got that statistic, adding, “they have unlimited money, the people, the cartels, because they have a lot of money, because it is drug money and human trafficking money.”

It’s therefore that possible Trump’s move could see US drug dealers labeled and treated as terrorist supporters. What most worries critics about Trump’s comments, though, is that the designation opens up the possibility that Trump could authorize US military force against the cartels without Mexico’s permission.

We need to do it.  It’s not the first time the US has had to use the Army to shoot Mexican outlaws that have come across the border to cause havoc in the US.

“It’s a terrible idea in part because it will reduce Mexican cooperation as many in Mexico fear it’s a first step toward some kind of military intervention, which Trump keeps mentioning when he talks to Mexican presidents,” Roberta Jacobson, the US ambassador to Mexico from June 2016 to May 2018, told me.

The Mexican government cooperates with us?  When did that happen?

The Mexican government that takes money from the cartels is fighting the cartels?

This is the same Mexican government that encourages its poor to enter the US illegally so it doesn’t have to spend money on education, welfare programs, rural infrastructure, or anything other than lining the pockets of government officials and their cronies.

The Mexican government sees the US as its trashcan where it can throw away the bottom of their economic classes.

I really don’t care what those corrupt fuckers think about us.

Trump is obsessed with fighting drug cartels

Trump has long focused on Mexico, making his plan to build a border wall to keep drug smugglers and undocumented immigrants out of the US a pillar of his presidency.

“Trump wants to stop the flow of sex slaves, exploited children, and lethal narcotics which caused the deaths of 70,000 Americans last year into this country, and that makes him a bad Orange Man.”

What a fucking sentiment that is.

But his renewed focus on the cartels came after six children and three mothers — all Mormon US-Mexico dual citizens — were killed by gunmen on November 5. That same day, Trump tweeted it was “time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.”

“Yeah, six Americans were murdered, including children, but fuck ’em because they were Mormons.  But if that was a school shooting, we’d demand every gun in America be confiscated and every NRA member get put to death.”

The problem, though, is that Mexico’s government strongly opposes any unauthorized American military intervention.

So the fuck what?  The Afghani leaders who were on the payroll of the Taliban were also opposed to US military intervention.

“There is no political will in Mexico to invite US troops in. It is both an issue of nationalistic pride and an understanding in Mexico that what fuels drug cartels are weapons sold to them in the United States and drugs consumed by Americans,” Jana Nelson, a Mexico expert at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington, DC, told me. “From the Mexican perspective, the root cause of violence is on the other side of the border.”

I do not care about the nationalistic pride of a corrupt narco-state.

I saw the video of the cartel gunmen attacking police after the arrest of El Chapo’s son.  What US gun store sold them the M2 50 cal mounted into pickup trucks?  Or sold the fully automatic rifles?

The weapons that the Mexican cartels have that come from the US come out of Mexican military arsenals by way of corrupt Military officers.

Trump’s comments, then, have clearly increased tensions between the two neighbors by touching on a very sensitive subject in Mexico — one that could lead to a fight over whether the US may soon engage in another war.

Mexico’s lack of security cost the lives of the majority of the 70,000 US citizens that OD’ed last year.  The overdoses are not coming from US pharmacies.  The overdoses are coming from addicted Americans buying pharmaceuticals made in China and smuggled in, primarily through Mexico.

They’ve waged a war of negligence on us.

AMLO still faces pressure to do something about the drug cartel problem in his nation. Last month, Mexican authorities severely botched an operation to arrest notorious Sinaloa drug cartel leader El Chapo’s son, Ovidio Guzmán López. Video released by the government showed security personnel arresting him in Culiacán on October 17, only to let him go after cartel members were shot and wounded in an ambush as part of a peace offering.

The Mexican government surrendered.

Now it’s time for the US to deal with the Sinaloa cartel with some B52s loaded with heavy ordinance.

It was a massive embarrassment for AMLO, who came to power promising to solve the scourge of violence with “hugs, not bullets.” He’s failed on that front, according to the Mexican government’s own numbers. There were 14,603 murders from January to June, compared to the 13,985 homicides tallied during the same period last year. That means Mexico could surpass the 29,111 total murders from 2018, which was an all-time high.

Seems to me like more evidence that the US needs to start killing cartels, it would help the Mexican people too.

The situation is so bad that even 2020 Democrats have spoken openly about sending US troops to Mexico. “There is a scenario where we could have security cooperation,” South Bend, IN, Mayor Pete Buttigieg told a Latino forum in Los Angeles two weeks ago. But he added a major caveat, “I’d only order American troops into conflict if American lives were on the line and if it was necessary to meet treaty obligations.”

How about some 70,000 OD’ed Americans?  Is that not enough?  How about the thousands of Americans killed by illegal immigrants from and through Mexico?  We’ve suffered casualties.  The Democrats just refuse to acknowledge them.

This means AMLO is trying to balance not getting too much US help with relying on a skeleton crew in his own government. Still, he’s the leader, and having Trump send troops would be an admission that he’s not up to the task and is permitting violations of Mexico’s sovereignty.

“Mexico will never accept any action that violates our national sovereignty,” Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s foreign minister, tweeted Tuesday night.

If Trump does designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists, then, you can expect US-Mexican relations to take a turn for the worse.

If (when) Trump wins a second term, this is what I think he should do:

Pull our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.  We should no longer prop up those Islamist shit holes.  They have been slitting each other’s throats over tribal reasons for thousands of years, we’re not going to make a bit of difference.

Then build the wall.  Not in the US, but in Mexico.  We take the first 500 yards of Mexico on the other side of the border as a buffer-zone.  Build the wall and mine the land in front of it.  Impose a shoot-to-kill order on the land.

It has worked for more than 50 years to keep the North Koreans contained.  It should be equally effective on the cartels.

So it seems I am no longer part of the Facebook page of Florida Carry. My ass got booted yesterday when I got tired of reading post from Chest Thumpers™ insinuating not so delicately that cops were the modern version of Red Coats and they were traitors. They were even accused of imposing taxes! I mean, I was misguided in the idea that taxes came from a legislature and signed by a governor, but I was unaware that it was cops that actually did that.  Then it came the expression “Land Pirates” and how the evil cops were harassing the good citizens on the roads and  highways of our nation to make money for themselves and the government using Gestapo tactics. MOAR TREASON!

Now, coming from a country where any encounter with  cop ran a 50-50 chance of you ending in a morgue slab, I find getting pulled over for speeding to being arrested by the SS and put in a wagon to a concentration camp a bit overblown and frankly very stupid.

I guess my tolerance for bullshit was lower than usual and I started to ask point blank when were they going to start killing cops. They suddenly started doing internet version of the moon walk and avoiding the issue. I mean, if cops are that much of a danger to our freedoms right this fucking minute  as they were saying, they should go ahead and take arms against them ASAP, right?

And suddenly I was no longer in the Facebook group. I am guessing they found my challenges to they Chest Thumping irritating or annoying or simply I was screwing with their flow. I said I guess because I have not been given a reason yet of the removal.

If the Facebook page of Florida Carry is representative of the rest of the organization, we pretty much are without a non-NRA Gun Group that is worth two shits in Florida. I am sure I am not the only one who is sick of these keyboard bravados and only take one infiltrated member of the opposition to have an early Christmas  screen-capping the many Chest Thumper™ anti cop comments and threats so they can be used at a later time to destroy whatever reputation Florida Carry has left.

On a previous post I said the Florida carry was being held hostage by the Chest Thumping/Open Carry Idiots clique and they needed to set some strong rules on how to use their name and image. Thinking about that later in light of how long this has been going, I thought maybe I was observing an organizational version of Stockholm syndrome. I am now dangerously close to believe Florida Carry no longer cares for sanity but figures that if Dudley Brown has made money taking by exaggerating and acting the chest-thumping fool catering to the idiots, so can they.

The last option would be worse: They are agreeing with the Chest Thumping Idiots.

Let me say it again: Dear Coli, you must suck so bad that even the Miami Dolphins didn’t even bothered to text you, much less call you.

As seen on Fox News:

Ken Cuccinelli, acting DHS deputy, forced to leave bar after being assailed by Martin O’Malley

Acting deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli was reportedly forced to leave an event on Thanksgiving eve after former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley blasted him for carrying out the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

O’Malley was doing what  Auntie Maxine of the Resistance told people to do to Trump officials:

The incident allegedly took place at the Dubliner, an Irish pub on Capitol Hill where Cuccinelli and O’Malley were said to be attending an event with fellow graduates of Gonzaga College High School, according to the Washington Post, which first reported the encounter.

“Martin O’Malley just drove Ken Cuccinelli out of the Dubliner in DC w/ a passion-laced and shame-invoking tirade on behalf of immigrant refugee children!!!” Siobhan Arnold, who’s identified as a Villanova University media relations associate and was reportedly at the bar, tweeted late Wednesday.

Speaking to the Post, Arnold said O’Malley used Cuccinelli’s grandparents in a bid to shame him, a remark which she said Cuccinelli barely responded to.

“O’Malley was shouting,” Arnold told the Post. “I don’t think Cuccinelli was responding. I think he’s like, ‘Time to go. Just got here and I’m leaving.’ He pretty much retreated.”

Here is that original Tweet:

https://twitter.com/siobhanphilly/status/1199838534573658113

Of course, people are cheering this on.  One particular reply stuck with me.

This is activism for the 2020s to which I can relate! And I like the Dubliner, although I preferred Irish Times just down the street. I am all for calling out Rs who enable Trump yet think they can still enjoy normal lives. These are not normal times.

— Paul Risley (@pauldrisley) November 28, 2019

Never mind the actual facts of what is going on at the border; the recycled and trafficked children being used as “get out of jail free” cards for deported criminals wanting re-entry, the inundation of our immigration system draining its resources, the drug smuggling over the border.

Any Republican who supports border security should be subjected to constant and endless torment and have their lives disrupted.

People can only take so much of that before they break.

The people who think they can win by driving the other half of America out of the public space are living in a very thick bubble.

Push it too hard and the other side will burst their bubble, hard.

I was going to tackle the Vox story about Bonnie and Clyde, but Miguel beat me to it.

That got me wandering around the Vox website, where I found a couple of articles that I had to take apart.  This is the first of them.

How queer and trans people are turning the internet into a safe holiday space
From turkey tips to transgiving, the internet is helping queer and trans people survive the holidays.

“Thanksdreading: when you’re trans and dreading Thanksgiving dinner bc you’re gonna be surrounded by a whole buncha family that don’t know [or] respect your preferred name and pronouns.”

For fuck’s sake.  Another story about how what is normal for the vast majority of Americans is really torture for an endlessly aggrieved fraction of a percent of society.

For many people, going home for the holidays is difficult: It can mean crossing ideological lines, entering into charged political conversations, or even worrying that your basic identity — your mere existence — might offend some of your relatives. This can be seen across the internet, as members of marginalized communities publicly grapple with the anxiety that surrounds holiday family gatherings on an annual basis.

But if the internet is a place where people feel able to articulate these fears, it’s also becoming a tool to combat them. Through social media, private chat platforms like Slack and Discord, and word-of-mouth internet spread, people are leveraging their online presence to help make Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the rest of the holiday season safer for more people. The result is that Thanksgiving in particular, with all its fraught origins and weighty history, might have become a more welcoming, more communal celebration than it was before.

It’s only that way for the always angry Lefties who have to use every opportunity to politicize everything.

When 87-year-old Grandma asks Suzie the lesbian “have you found a man yet” most people know to shake that shit off because Grandma loves Suzie and only wants what’s best for her and is just stuck in her ways.

Progressive Suize retreats to the internet about how Grandma is an agent of the cis-hetero-patriarchy and subjected her (Suzie) to a hate crime that erased her identity.

For the vast majority of people, that makes Suzie and not Grandma, the asshole.  Don’t be Suzie.

First things first: The traditional story associated with Thanksgiving is pretty much completely wrong. The reality surrounding the day is extremely dark, and fraught with a lot more conflict than the holiday celebration normally acknowledges. We like to teach one another that Thanksgiving is about a celebration of unity despite our differences, but in reality, Thanksgivings historically gave rise to more conflict and even violence committed against Native Americans by English colonizers.

First things first: Fuck everyone at Vox to death with the fury of a dying star.

This experience is often even rougher for marginalized groups like queer and trans people. They frequently have to deal with a lack of familial support while also feeling pressured to suck it up and be with their families during the holidays, regardless of how hard it might be. Tumblr, for example, is full of messages of support between queer people in particular who face difficult family interactions, as well as advice and encouragement for how to make the time less stressful. “My ask box is open if you need to vent, or have an audience for the gay jokes you can’t say in front of others, or want to be reminded you aren’t alone,” one such post reads.

Meier also told Vox he’d noticed the trend of “friendsgivings” and other alternate holiday practices on the rise. “I have heard people talk about friendsgivings more and more, especially this year,” he said. “Which I can only assume is because of queer communities, and found families. I think this will get more true as this younger generation of queer people grows up too. At least that’s what I hope! It’s nice to see queer people finding their families and celebrating with them!”

Indeed, for queer and genderqueer people in particular, the internet’s ability to facilitate alternate holiday celebrations is a vital and evolving tool.

I am reminded of the child spies from Orwell’s 1984.  Parents feared them and they became child heroes if they ratted out their parents to the state for disloyalty.

This was not entirely fiction.  Both Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union weaponized children against their families.

All of these articles, clearly aimed at younger, Woke Millenials has the same message: be more loyal to your political/gender/sexual/identity than to your family.

They want the kid home from college to antagonize and proselytize, and if or when that fails, to give up on their family all together and unite with other people of the same identity.

The Left has always hated the nuclear family.  The family is the enemy of total state power.  The point of every holiday for the Left is to send the children in to break up the family by starting some shit.

This is evil beyond measure.