After a night of bashing Trump, the music industry wants to make sure Trump allows them to profit off their craft. 

Of course only Hollywood and the music industry can profit, the rest of us are just greedy.

I think if I were Trump right now, I’d suspend copyright laws on music and video recordings.  Decriminalize piracy and see what happens.

So the Grammys were hyper political.  Who didn’t see that coming.

Busta Rhymes and Katy Perry decided to go off the rails about Trump’s “muslim ban.” 

Just a touch of history for these people:

In 1982, the band The Clash released a song called Rock the Casbah.

It’s sort of catchy as a song, but listen to the lyrics.

The song is a protest song about the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran in which the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini banned Western Music – pretty much everything that wasn’t the call to prayer.

In the words of the Ayatollah:

“Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious. …” (Political thought and legacy of Khomeini, Wikipedia, 20 November 2010)

Iran is one of the nations on Trump’s “ban.”

So…

One of the top musical performances as the Grammys was in objection to a temporary travel ban from a nation that is the world’s leading sponsor of terror, which banned western music, and would force Katy Perry to cover up or be flogged.

Seems legit to me…

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio decided that he and his city were going to stand in defense of the residents of NYC who are here illegally.

I guess Mayor de Blasio is no longer trying to hide the fact that he is a petty tyrant that believes the rule of man is greater than the rule of law.

But what goes around comes around.

Maybe if we knuckle draggers from flyover country go to NYC for some reason, we should bring with us some undocumented immigrants from Prescott, AZ, Huntsville, AL, Smyrna, GA, Exeter, NH or Springfield MA, with us, smuggled in our waistbands.  Not to mention any number of undocumented passengers  greater than sever, that come along for the ride.

If he can disobey the laws he doesn’t like, why can’t we?

I guess that means I can have an undocumented NFA migrant as well, since his people will protect me from the ATF?

It’s an act of peaceful civil disobedience to not obey a law or politician I disagree with.  Isn’t that what the left has been saying since November?

Another day since November 8, another protest.  I can’t really tell one from the next at this point.

CNN explains why this protest is happening.  Illegal immigrant Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, was deported to Mexico after being here in the US for 21 years.  And it’s all Trump’s fault.

OK, so why is she being deported now?  Anybody want to clue me in?

CNN finally tosses out one tiny detail that is key to understanding this:

She was arrested in 2008 during a workplace raid and convicted one year later of felony criminal impersonation.

That’s right.  Ms. Garcia de Rayos was guilty of identity theft, using a fraudulent Social Security Number.

Now not just am I glad they deported her, I hope they deported her to Nogales with a catapult, and I hope ICE gives each and every one of those protesters some stick time.

I was the victim of identity theft.  I went into the hospital for surgery when I was still in grad school.  Of course the hospital takes all your information when you sign in.  I found out sometime way later, that a disgruntled hospital employee stole the surgery center’s patient records and sold all the personal information on the black market.

Let me tell you how that fucked up my life for years afterwards.

My credit score went to hell.  I didn’t know until one day my credit card was canceled because my credit score was too low for me to qualify for the card.  People had racked up over a quarter of a million dollars of debt in my name.  For three years, I didn’t get a tax return because someone else claimed it in my name.  I had to go to the IRS with my long form birth certificate to get enrolled in their PIN system to get a unique number to file for my taxes.

I tried to buy a house when I graduated.  I should be beatified for the patience I showed with the mortgage company trying to figure out which debts were mine and which were fraudulent.

People tried to empty by bank account TWICE.

I have to have redundant passwords on everything.

People committed crimes in my name and I had to go to the local Sheriffs department in South Dakota to prove I was not the person arrested in California on a felony charge.  Yes, that person was an illegal with a fraudulent ID obtained with my SSN.

It took me about five years to get my records straightened out and my credit score back to where it was.

I came away from that experience with the firm belief that identity theft should be a capital offense.

So boo hoo hoo that this woman is being deported and taken away from her kids.

I believe 100% that using fraudulent information should be grounds for immediate deportation.

It is not a victimless crime.   There are literally tens of millions of people whose entire personal financial future is at stake because of identity theft.

This woman is getting no sympathy from me.

I saw this article from Vox, Why disabilities rights activists like me sided with the NRA on an Obama gun control rule, and it blew my mind.

At first, I thought is was going to be typical Vox.

As a liberal disability rights activist who worked closely with the Clinton campaign and continues to fight Trump, I tend to be on the side of those condemning actions by the congressional GOP. But this time, I and my disability rights colleagues found myself in an unusual position: siding with the Republicans and, yes, the National Rifle Association.

Here we go, an admitted liberal talking about working with the GOP and NRA like she attended a clan rally.  I feel so bad for her being exposed to so many terrible people with their Nazi ideas.

But then…

Because while congressional Democrats have been admirable allies to the disability community on the vast majority of issues, when it comes to gun violence, both parties use people with mental illness as props — in ways that don’t help public safety, and that put vulnerable people at risk. In this case, it was the Democrats that got the issue wrong.

Her lockstep seems to be faltering.

Predictably, in the run-up to the debate, gun-control groups and gun-rights groups lined up on opposite sides of the issue. But disability rights groups and civil rights organizations were also concerned that the rule lacked a solid connection to public safety and might serve to restrict the rights of people with mental disabilities in other areas.

The light begins to dawn.  A liberal understand the argument of a slippery slope of lost rights.  First they figure out how to take your gun rights without due process and the next thing you know you can be imprisoned without trial, can’t vote, or can’t practice any of your other Constitutionally protected rights.

Around the same time, a coalition of 11 major disability rights groups issued a similar warning, expressing concern that such a measure might set a dangerous precedent going well beyond the issue of gun violence.

Just like the how the “No Fly List” was not the same thing as the Terror Watch List, having a representative payee is not the same thing as being adjudicated mentally ill or defective.

But far from implying an individual is permanently incapacitated, a representative payee is often used as a less restrictive alternative to a court declaration that an individual is incompetent to manage his or her own affairs. Representative payees are used in a broad variety of circumstances, from an aging grandmother delegating finances to a child to an autistic young adult, or a middle-aged man with an anxiety disorder, choosing a representative payee to help them make sure their rent and utility bills get consistently paid on time.

Grandpa has a hard time remembering to pay his bills on time and forgets where he puts his car keys.  That doesn’t mean that Grandpa can’t take the Grandkids out with the Cricket Rifle to teach them to shoot.

During my time at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, I heard from a number of autistic adults who were concerned that their use of a representative payee would prevent them from taking part in hunting and other aspects of rural culture involving firearms.

Wow, people want to enjoy their rights and hobbies even if they have a mental condition that make it hard for them to be fully functioning adults but is not a threat to their safety or the safety of others.  Who’d of thunk it?

Still, despite that, the primary reason I and other disability advocates opposed the Rep Payee rule is less about guns than it is about the precedent the rule might set for other kinds of rights.

Disability advocates are concerned with setting the precedent that needing help with financial matters implies a lack of capacity to exercise other rights. These concerns are rooted in discrimination people with mental disabilities face in other areas of life, such as parenting and voting rights. On these issues, people with mental disabilities often face an assumption of incapacity, forcing disability and civil rights advocates and attorneys to fight to overturn assumptions that a diagnosis or determination of support need in one area should lead to a loss of rights in an unrelated area.

Slippery slope.

I read this and almost had  stroke.  It is such a logical and reasonable argument that I’m surprised that Vox published it.  I think it was an accident.

The San Francisco Bay Area has become Germani circa 1934.  Conservatives and Republicans have to meet in secret using fake names  to avoid harassment, violence, or reprocussions from tolerant San Francisco liberals.

I give it another two years before an we will see the first anti Republican pogrom in the Bay Area, in which Republicans are outed and attacked.

It’s just too bad for them that they have been disarmed.  But that is how the liberal mob wants it.  When the Jews Conservatives shoot back, it’s hard to bash them.

Fusion Comedy bills itself as a comedy outlet.  It is not.  It is a radical Social Justice network that presents its particular line of hateful bullshit with what people who are allergic to humor think is comedy, as opposed to the typical SJW hysterical bullying.  Sort of like getting beaten up by a clown.

They’ve done two anti-gun videos, perhaps more, but this was all I could stomach.

Ah yes, starting with the “ammosexual” implication, because gun owners love their guns in an erotic way because we are all sick people.  Cliche old hat.

They love to present just enough information to enrage the liberal to action, but not enough to create an informed person.

Yes, Vermont allows people 16 years or older to carry loaded handguns.  Teenagers still can’t violate Federal laws however and Vermont doesn’t issue CCW permits (it is Constitutional carry).  Laws like these are a lot less about letting a 16 year old pack IWB at the mall and a lot more about possession of firearms while hunting.  A number of states have various regulations that allow minors to be in possession of loaded firearms while hunting, hence the quip about the 30 states with no minimum age to have a long gun.

Oh no, in 17 states it is completely legal to store your CCW pistol in YOUR car while at work.  How terrible that your boss can’t tell you what you what YOU can’t have in YOUR car.  It’s almost as if Fusion thinks that when you park your car at work, your car becomes your employer’s property.  Holy Hell North Dakota, how dare you stand up for employee privacy.  Maybe an employer should be able to ask what books you have in your car, just in case they want to root out anybody they want to discriminate against for other reasons.

Holy shit Iowa, how dare you allow someone to retain their civil liberties despite a physical handicap.  Don’t you know the truly progressive thing to do is to affirm that only able bodies people enjoy the full gamut of Constitutionally protected civil rights?  Not being able to see well enough to drive doesn’t mean you are totally blind, but who cares, you are an unperson who deserves no rights.  Maybe this guy with no arms shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun either?

Carrying guns on public college campuses?  How horrifying.  Of course a public college should be allowed to suspend civil liberties of licences CCW permit holders.  It’s not like a group of radical leftists are training to beat up Nazis, a.k.a. Republicans, on college campuses.  Just vote lockstep Democrat and then you won’t be targeted for violence and you won’t need a gun to defend yourself.

So what’s next?

Oh great.  We have an immigrant from Egypt, one of the world’s grossest violators of human rights which is ranked No. 144 out of 159 on the Human Freedom Index, who is going to lecture us in the US about our rights.

Don’t get me wrong.  I love the freedom of speech.  But of you come to the US from a place where you can get thrown in prison or murdered for speaking out against your government and you decide that what you want to do is criticize and lecture us about how bad we are, go fuck yourself.  With a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.

He fully admits that in the Arab world, only dictators and their oppressive thugs, or terrorists have guns; yet somehow that is better.  They only throw rocks at each other, it’s harmless.  Unless you are a women accused of adultery, then 81% of Egyptians will want to throw rocks at you until you die.  But sure, Egypt has the moral high ground on this.

Because Fusion’s comedy is as inspired as a wet fart, how will Bassem ridicule Americans.  I know, how about dressing up like what a typical liberal thinks a gun owner looks like and going to a gun show – or as I like to call them “Freedom Festivals” – and bating people into saying something dumb and/or xenophobic.  That’s not played out.

Yeah, he found the one asshole at every gun show that shows up with the Nazi paraphernalia, and has to make a half-assed joke about “something for your anti-Semitic uncle.”  I’m glad that Bassem can hold the moral high ground again seeing as ONLY 94% of Egyptians hate Jews and want to drive them into the sea so badly that they will murder any Muslim leader that tries to strike a peace agreement with Israel.

Where I really started to lose it is when he as the audacity to lecture us about the Second Amendment.  Let’s not forget that in his homeland, it is punishable by death to become an apostate to Islam, or to preach any other religion to a Muslim, and that Coptic Christians are being persecuted to the point of genocide.  But sure, our inalienable right to bear arms and defend ourselves is silly.

Lastly, to compare America’s homicide rate to the Arab Spring is beyond the pale.  The Arab Spring killed directly 180,000 people, led to the rise of ISIS and reignited the war in Iraq.  Our gun rights are not butchering people alive, lighting people on fire in cages. throwing accused homosexuals off buildings, amputating the hands of children; but tell me again how we are so wrong.

This is infuriating.  Only among the radical Progressive left can someone who comes to the US as a refugee from complete barbarism be encouraged to openly criticize America in favor of the barbaric nations that the refugee fled from.  Fuck this guy, everybody at Fusion, and everybody who liked his video.

This stuff is pure evil.  It is the naked hatred of our civil rights and the people that enjoy them, mixed with the self ridiculousness of Social Justice.  It is intolerable.