I asked my wife for a recommendation for today. She mentioned “Grand Old Flag” and I really wanted to put it here. Unfortunately all of the YouTube videos (and videos searches in general) kept popping up kids versions. Not what I wanted.

But in the midst of all that chaff there was a kernel.

My flag means so much to me.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
And to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

I’ve said these words all my life. I stand up when the flag goes past. I take my hat off and put my hand over my heart.

It isn’t the colorful fabric moving slowly up the street, carried by veterans or Boy Scouts, or the High School Marching Band, that pull on my emotions.

It is what that flag represents to me. It is a nation founded on natural rights. A nation with equality for all. A nation where there is justice for all, equally.

It is a country where the rule of law is always the goal.

There are times when I hate the people in power for the disrespect they show my country and myself.

There are times when I see somebody being disrespectful of the flag, because they know it shows disrespect for my country.

“My country, right or wrong.” and “I disagree with you but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” are phrases I grew up with.

I cried when I saw people burning the flag of my country. Of hating it so much. Of hating everything that I love about my country.

And this expresses it:

One of the things our side of the Gun Rights issue suffers is the silly idea that the other side will give up every time we get a big win like Bruen. Gun Control  activism is based in Socialis and Communism and you don’t see that “fad” slowing down anytime soon, do you?

This popped last night:

So I went and checked the Firearms policy – YouTube Help (google.com)

Pretty much any video presenting how to build anything gun related will be removed and the account earns a strike or gets killed outright. I can imagine that all Brownell and MidwayUSA videos will eventually disappear from the platform once they are snitched on by the butthurts and weaklings.

Again, the message is simple.

THEY.NEVER.QUIT.

Remember this idiocy:

He outdid himself:

Biden: "We have to retrain cops. Why should you always shoot with deadly force? The fact is if you need to use your weapon, you don't have to do that." pic.twitter.com/S5WaUHYhff

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 16, 2023

It started with this Tweet going viral:

At the University of Michigan, a call to murder Jews. pic.twitter.com/UoA0LUft1h

— Blake Flayton (@blakeflayton) January 13, 2023

Let’s not bullshit ourselves.

When someone uses the word “solution” in relation to Jews, we know exactly what you are referencing.  The term “final solution” is too well known and understood.  Dropping the “final” to play coy or give yourself plausible deniability is disingenuous.

We also know what Intifada means.  There have been three concentrated waves of terrorism carried out by Hamas, the PLO, and the PFLP.

The First Intifada was from 1987 to 1993.

The Second Intifada or Al-Aqsa Intifada was from 2000 to 2005 and was noted for bombings of busses, restaurants, and other public venues where Jews congregated.  The Second Intifada also saw wide spread homemade rocket attacks.

The third Intifada or Knife Intifada was from 2015 to 2016.  Due to security measures put in place after the Second Intifada, Palestinians had less ability to smuggle guns and explosives inside of Israel and took to buying kitchen knives and stabbing Jews.  Some Palestinians also tired to run Jews over if they had cars inside Israel.

So, again, we know what words mean.

Enter the Leftist antisemites and Palestinian apologists, including Leftist Yevsektsiya Jews.

Anybody watching the Left knows this play from the Leftist playbook: “that’s not happening and it’s good that it is.”

The majority of comments were to the effect of:

“Intifada means ‘shaking off’ it’s not a call to murder Jews.”

“The ‘solution’ is a two state solution, not a call for genocide.”

“This isn’t threat of violence.”

The it’s not happening part.  Followed by:

“Palestinians have the duty to rise up against Israeli oppression.”

“Israel is an apartheid state and deserves what it gets.”

The it’s good that it’s happening part.

These comments outnumbered everything else 10 to 1.

Downplaying the threat of then justifying antisemitic violence.

Just wait until this turns into actual violence.

We’ve seen how Jews are the overwhelming majority of religious motivated hate crimes and how that is ignored by the media and powers that be,  because the perpetrators are overwhelming not Right Wing white supremacists.

The Hanas has been calling for the globalization of the Intifada.  Attacking Jews around the world as a way of attacking the Jewish state.

This is that.  Right now it’s protests.

It will turn violent.

Then it will be ignored by the media or justified as pent up Palestinian anger.

Until some Jew fights back.  Then it will be a crisis, because the only thing Jews are allowed to do is die.

The level of naked antisemitism seen in public today from The Left is reaching heights not seen since WWII ended.

Jews, take note, we need to be prepared for what’s coming.

This woman is clearly a psychopath.

ADDENDUM:

AWA adding to Miguel’s post.

I was planning on doing an entire post regarding this.

The short version is that in 1934 Congress knew that the right to keep and bear arms could not be infringed. The only constitutional power they had was to tax. Thus the NFA is a revenue generating bill. It describes what should be taxed.

The intent was to make the weapons of crime to expensive to own. The targets were machine guns, sawed off shotguns, silencers, and pistols. Yep, pistols.

Considering that a Thompson machine gun between $170 and $200 in 1930 and that was considered a very expensive machine gun, a tax of $200 would double the cost of the Thompson.

A Colt 1911 would cost you around $22. So a nearly 10x tax on a top of the line pistol.

Somebody figured out that if they made pistols “taxable” under the NFA that people would just cut down rifles which were not going to be taxed. So instead of having a nice pocket pistol, you would have a cut down rifle in your pocket. So they added the concept of a short barreled rifle to the NFA.

The legislature got some feedback saying “don’t you dare ban/tax our pistols!” so removed pistols from the NFA. Nobody was concerned about the short barreled rifle clause so it was just left in.

Ian, in the linked video, talks about how the definition of a short barreled rifle changed over time. It is an interesting listen.

Words have meaning “House Democrats introduce measure to lower voting age to 16”

Hmmm, so not a bill. Just a measure.

The bill, House Resolution 16, would establish that “the right of citizens of the United States, who are sixteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.”

So which is it? Is it a “bill” or is it a “resolution”? This doesn’t make any sense.

The policy would repeal the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which establishes the national voting age as 18. 

What? This policy would repeal an amendment to the Constitution? Did they miss every Schoolhouse Rock episode?

H/T to Dive Medic