The banana trick drove the point home

No matter how things roll tomorrow, starting Wednesday we need to figure out how to shake the Florida Legislature up. Forget that, we need to figure out how do we scare some Constitution into the heads of our elected officials.

We need two things: A new generation of political throat-cutters and a war chest.  We are cursed with people living too far away from Tallahassee and we need to fill the halls of government with Gun People.  If we cannot have our Bloomberg, we gotta figure how to pay for stuff like buses, banners and T Shirts. Hell, maybe even an honest-to-God PR firm.

See you on the flip side.

Nothing political. Funny memes, videos (both funny and interesting) and I may even allow myself to copy/paste puns from Old NFO.

I may say something after 8:00 PM EST when the Florida polls are closed although I expect lawyer shit if the things are close. In that case, politics will resume Wednesday.

In the meantime, a nice picture of a plane.

One of the issues I have with Kindle is that I download books and then I forget about them. This is the case with “In the Name of Self-Defense: What it costs. When it’s worth it” by Marc McYoung.

I bought the book in 2016 and I discovered I had not read it till a couple of days ago while doing an obligatory pit stop in my porcelain palace.

GET THE FRIGGING BOOK NOW.

Just the first chapter alone contains the best advice in self-defense you can ever learn. And don’t rush it, read it at a controlled pace, make notes if needed, re-read as necessary. Just this first chapter titled “What are we going to cover in this book” will tech you some basics I learned the hard way through the years and several I was unaware off. And it is just a preview of coming attractions.

The book is $7.99 in Kindle and $23.99 in Dead Tree edition.  I don’t recommend books if I have not finished them, but I am making an exception with this one. That should tell you enough.

Stacey Abrams is running for Governor of Georgia and her platform includes severe gun control’.

It seems that the New Black Panther Party loves some Ms. Abrams and appears to is go pew-pew for her.

I have seen some in the gun side making fun of the BPs saying that they don’t get that id Abrams wins, they may end up having to give up the weapons they  display with so much pride.

Except they won’t be losing the guns.

There is a concept in with Latin American tyrants (elected or not) which is the keeping of irregular strike forces  of civilians they can officially deny they exist, but can do their violent bidding. In Panama under Manuel Noriega were known as the Batallones de la Dignidad (Dignity battalions) and in Venezuela under Chavez and Maduro are known as Los Colectivos (The Collectives) and their mission is the application of low-grade terrorist tactics on the opposition and citizens in general.

In Panama, the most well-known event was the mob attack on the opposition’s candidates which lower the little esteem Noriega had in Latin America and eventually led to the US having basically no political backlash at the Invasion of Panama.  But before that, the Battalions were  an effective force scaring the daylights out of civilians who may had something to say or protest against Pineapple Face.

In Venezuela, The Colectivos are still a very much viable and used when needed. Just a simple phone call or even a call from the President for “The people to hit the streets to defend the Revolution” and these packs will go and attack.

This was last year when Colectivos entered the National Assembly and attacked legislators from the opposition. Where was security? The military who is supposed to take care of things? Well, they are paid by the Executive so you do the math. Remember Baltimore’s Mayor ordering police to give rioters space? There you go, same principle.

These are from assorted days and attacks against the people of Venezuela who gladly voted for being a gun free country but they never thought it would not apply to the Colectivos and now they are subject to their whims. And if you are wonder where are they getting their guns, the answer is kind of obvious: The government.

There is also the criminal element that decides to protect themselves against possible Law Enforcement by declaring themselves a Colectivo and swear allegiance to the government.  Some gang have been so successful that they have created small separate states within Venezuela where cops do not dare enter and they even have their own markets,  medical care, dry good stores and even currency which has survived better the economy compared with the official one. Supposedly peaceful places, but then again there is only one penalty for infractions: Death.

Notice the masks? You may have seen  the before, right?

So if you are seeing Militant Left Wing groups with guns, they are not on the side of the Second Amendment or Freedom, they are just the are just announcing themselves as the future shock troops for the elected American Socialists.

And I ain’t crying wolf.

I do believe that no matter what the elections bring tomorrow, we will have to deal with an augmentation in violence.

Got this from The View From North Central Idaho.

Gun control is now a winning issue for US Democrats – in the key swing state of Florida it’s shaping up to be critical. Could it be the “Gunshine State” that helps end America’s love affair with firearms?
Matthew Knott
November 4, 2018
How gun control went from a vote loser to a vote winner these midterms

If you are a Floridian Gun Owner, you know this is not just because of this election year and certainly not because of Parkland. Gun Control has been working below the radar for several years now and probably pouring cash to the legislators. We simply never checked the asshats were being faithful and got taken to the woodshed for it.

I will even go as far as say that if we were to deeply investigate the finances of our legislators, we may find enough contributions to make their lives outside the political world happy, basically that if they were not to be reelected by term limits or election results, they did not need to care as they would be well provided.

We assumed being elected was a priority for our politicians and the Opposition changed that paradigm.  They probably made it straight about the money and a cozy future job or investment fund. We won’t know till it is too late.

And I am afraid we will continue to lose because simply don’t have the money and we won’t bribe the legislators. We no longer  have clout in politics to influence election because Gun Control more than likely found out a way to kill votes with cash.

Votes only work on election day, that is once every two years. Cash works 365 days, 24 hours a day.

We should start discussing other options ASAP.

PS: Don’t try to assign blame to this individual or this other group, there is plenty to go around and you would be admitting you did not do shit and thought somebody else would do it for you.

In fact, I am closing the comments on this one since I know some will get their undies all twisted up and not concentrate on how we all fucked up.