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Month: May 2017

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The war is on

May 2, 2017 J. Kb 2 comments

Late Sunday night I wrote the post And the War is Begun about the actions of Antifa shutting down the Portland 82nd annual Avenue of Roses Parade.

It posted this morning May 1st.

It didn’t occur to me that today was May Day, also known as the International Workers Day.  A day in which people who are historically illiterate and have shit in their souls whitewash and celebrate the murder of 100 million people in the pursuit of taking away their freedom.

Every single one of them should spend May Day in Caracas.

Well, Antifa in Portland, which is anti-capitalist and aligned with the anarchist-socialists, decided to have a protest, which turned into a riot.

Police attempted to control the crowd, but things got out of hand.  Fires were set and rocks and Pepsi cans were thrown at police.

You can see the gallery of destruction and live updates here.

It shouldn’t have gotten this bad in the first place.  Antifa should never have thought that they had the room to pull this off.

Give these people an inch and they will riot for a mile.

They know that they are winning against milquetoast police departments and are planning more and more violence accordingly.

Be safe.  Stay the hell away from these people.

 

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UT Austin Stabbing and the Narrative UPDATE

May 1, 2017 J. Kb 5 comments

A mass stabbing occurred today on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

According to the latest reports, one student is dead, three more have been injured, and the attacker has been taken into custody.

The attacker was stopped and taken into custody when a member of Cocks Not Glocks, founded at UT Austin,  defended fellow students with a large, double ended dildo.

No, wait, that last part didn’t happen.

The attack ended when a UT Austin student with a CCW permit drew his firearm causing the suspect to flee.

All the big rubber cocks and fake body armor hoodies didn’t do anything to stop people from being hurt.

A CCW permit holder with a gun did.

I guess the carrying dildos is appropriate for these students.  They let everyone know who in a crisis is just a useless dick.

UPDATE: The report of the CCW stopping the stabbing is unconfirmed.  I’m not taking the post down, but I will wait for further details.

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4Chan strikes again: OK Sign is now a White Supremacist indicator.

May 1, 2017 Miguel.GFZ 0 comments

Two conservative journalists have sparked outcry on social media by making what some have interpreted as a white supremacist hand symbol at a recent visit to the White House.

Source: Two members of alt-right accused of making white supremacist hand signs in White House after receiving press passes | The Independent

Leave it to the weaponized autistics of 4Chan to come up an absurd meme and for the Media to swallow it whole. Check the date of conception:

And a well deserved celebration:

 

So now you know, if you see somebody doing the OK sign, he is a White Supremacist/Nazi Scum.

 

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And the war is begun

May 1, 2017 J. Kb 1 comment

Saturday, April 29th, was supposed to be the 82nd annual Avenue of Roses Parade in Portland, Oregon.

It was canceled.

Why?

Organizers of the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade announced Tuesday that the event will be canceled, for fear that the east Portland parade could be disrupted by “the type of riots which happen in downtown Portland.”

Threats by Antifa ended the Rose Parade.

Why would Antfa go after a parade about flowers?

This year’s parade was once again set to feature the Multnomah County Republican Party as one of the many groups slated to march, but that inclusion drew ire from some of the city’s left-leaning protest groups.

The county Republican Party was going to be the 67th float in the parade, which probably puts them somewhere behind the Boy Scouts, 4H, and the local roller derby team; but that was just still too much representation for Antifa to tolerate.

The email explicitly mentioned that at least 200 protesters were ready to “rush into the parade into the middle and drag and push [the Republican marchers] out.”

Antifa threatened to attack Republicans at the Rose Parade.  Their justification for the threat of attack was:

“We will not give one inch to groups who espouse hatred toward LGBT, immigrants, people of color or others.”

It really doesn’t matter the personal beliefs of the individuals being attacked.  This is collective punishment against Republicans because of what Antifa believes the Straw Man of the GOP they created believes.

Why did Antifa think they could get away with attacking the Rose Parade?

Because history told them they could.

“You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely,” the anonymous email said, referring to the violent riots that hit Portland after the 2016 presidential election, reported the Oregonian. “This is nonnegotiable.”

This is terrorism.

Berkeley Antifa got Ann Coulter shut down twice.

The Black Bloc, which is the tactic used by Antifa, previously got Milo’s speech shut down.

The Berkeley police “hands off” approach to the riots made them worse.

Antifa has learned that on the Blue, Left Coast of America, they rule.  The police won’t try and stop them.  They hold the power and can shut down whatever venue they want for whatever reason they want.

The terrorist have won.

These Antifa victories, let’s not lie that’s what they are, are emboldening to use more intimidation tactics.

When Daily Wire and Times of Israel blogger Elliott Hamilton made fun of Boston Antifa on Twitter, they responded with threats.

This will not stop unless law enforcement stops it, and it seems that in some parts of America, the powers that be are letting Antifa get away with their actions because of #TheResistance.

When Progressives are attacking the ALCU online for defending free speech, you know that the standard for what counts as a “Nazi” is set too low.

Antifa is hearing loud and clear that it can target anyone for any reason and get away with threatening or using violence to silence undesired opinions.

At this point there is no telling what will set these hair-trigger Brown-Shirted-snowflakes off.  Even if you are not looking for a fight, they are ready to bring one.

Be careful and be armed.

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CNN and NRAAM

May 1, 2017 J. Kb 6 comments

Piers “Muskets” Morgan liked to shoot his stupid mouth off about the Second Amendment an America’s love of guns, much to the love the Progressives who watch CNN and much to the disdain of the rest of America.

The result of this was a decline in CNN viewership to the point where CNN had to let Morgan go.

I don’t understand it, but Progressives have this masochistic desire to have foreigners tell us how much they don’t understand and don’t like America’s gun culture.  Nothing gets a Progressive off more than having someone with an accent telling them how much America sucks.

So CNN sent an Indian reporter to NRAAM to tell us just how much we suck.

It was a predictable as imaginable.

Guns are not a part of the culture of my homeland, except perhaps for the occasional Bollywood movie in which the bad guy meets his demise staring down the wrong end of a barrel.

Really?  I would disagree with that.  India doesn’t have a law abiding gun culture like the US does.  It has a mass murdering, terrorist gun culture.  This goes along with the fact that India is 4th in the world for religious violence.

When a “gun-rights organization similar to the NRA” started expanding gun rights in India, Indians used their new guns to engage in ethnic and caste violence.

My childhood in India was steeped in ahimsa, the tenet of nonviolence toward all living things.

Except for all the persecution and terrorism committed BY HINDUS in India.

An American is 12 times more likely than an Indian to be killed by a firearm, according to a recent study.

I love these type of argument.   It conveniently overlooks the fact that India is one of the most violent crime ridden nations on the planet.   Sure, the may not shoot each other as much as we do, but damn, they stab each other so often, bystanders don’t even bother to notice anymore.

It’s no wonder then that every time I visit India, my friends and family want to know more about America’s “love affair” with guns.

I get the same questions when I visit my brother in Canada or on my business travels to other countries, where many people remain perplexed, maybe even downright mystified, by Americans’ defense of gun rights.
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I walk around with some trepidation, but I’m determined to strike up conversations. I begin with this question: “Why do you want to own an object that can kill another human being?”
The answers are varied, but they center on three main themes: freedom, self-defense and sport. The first type of response is rooted in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which allows for the ownership of more than 300 million guns in America. How many other countries have the right to bear arms written into their very foundation? It’s unique and because of that, foreigners often have trouble grasping it.
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I ask what the Second Amendment means to [Brickell “Brooke” Clark, otherwise known as the American Gun Chic].
 
“It means I can live my life without anyone overpowering me,” she says. “It makes me equal with everyone else.”
 
The great equalizer. I never thought of the Second Amendment in that way.  Self-protection, I discover, is a huge reason many Americans own firearms.
Well if America has a love affair with guns, India as a love affair with rape.  There are 92 reported raped a day in India, but it is the unreported ones that top the charts.  Gang rapes are common.  In America, women complain about manspreading on trains.  In India, women get gang raped on trains.   Corruption is so commonplace, that the soldiers who are supposed to keep women safe are the ones doing the gang raping.
Since people are not allowed to be armed to protect themselves, the only way for women being gang raped to stop the rape is claim they have AIDS.
Why do so few women in India report their rapes?  If they do, they get their faces melted off with battery acid.  India is the worst in the world for acid attacks on women.  If having acid thrown in their face isn’t bad enough, accuse a man of rape and he might make you drink acid, on a train, where bystanders do nothing.
When it comes to guns and self defense, you think that a woman from the rape and acid attack capital of the world would want to be able to defend herself.
Take Chloe Morris. She was born in Atlanta to Filipino parents; on this day, she’s brought her mother along to hear Trump, the first sitting President to speak at an NRA convention since Ronald Reagan.
Morris is 35, petite and soft-spoken, but she’s fierce about her opinions on guns. 
“I’m 5 feet tall and 100 pounds,” she tells me. “I cannot wait for a cop to come save me when I am threatened with rape or death.”
Like I said.
So what did she find at NRAAM.  The same thing that most Progressive SJWs find.
Few people here look like me. Most appear to be white and male.
Ah, yes.  The “there are a lot of white men here so it must be bad” argument.
Always effective and on point.
Many view the media, including my employer, with disdain — and they do not hesitate to let me know.
No shit, I wonder why?
I meet Chris Styskal at a booth set up by the NRA Wine Club. Yes, a wine club for the almost 5 million members of the organization.
She sounds surprised that NRA members like to be classier than drinking a case of Keystone Lite and smacking their wives around.
“George Washington’s army fought off the British with rifles,” he says. “They overthrew an oppressive government.”
His statement gives me pause. The gun laws in India stem from colonial rule, when the British aimed to quell their subjects by disarming them. Perhaps my Indian compatriots should consider the right to own guns from this perspective.
This is the first intelligent thing this woman says, and I think she was being sarcastic about it.
Styskal, 41, earned a degree in psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and tells me the prevailing belief that gun owners are not educated is simply wrong.
I have a PhD in engineering and work in the firearms industry.  My existence might actually make a CNN reporter shit themselves if they ever met me.
I hear gun proponents express a dislike for big government. They stress individual liberties over the collective. For people who live in more socialist countries, it’s another obstacle to understanding American gun culture.
Freedom, it’s a hell of a drug.  Once you get a taste of it, it’s hard to quit.
After interviewing a bunch of people who explain their love of guns comes from a love of freedom, she says this.
Rubeck’s words remind me of a friend from Iraq who wished she could own a gun during Saddam Hussein’s rule. After he was overthrown, she slept with an AK-47 under her pillow at the height of the insurgency. She has always spoken of her love-hate relationship with guns. She wants to protect her family, but she is tired of the eternal violence plaguing her land. She wishes now that every gun would disappear from Iraq.
Again, how guns are treated in America versus a non-Western shit-hole steeped in sectarian violence.
It’s not just gun rights.  It is a culture of peace and tolerance that makes gun rights possible.  The majority Americans own guns without the faintest desire to kill everybody of a different race, ethnicity, or religion as themselves.
She finally ends her “gorillas in the mist” foray into the NRA.
What I hear from speakers at the NRA convention, though, is that a peaceful world is a utopian fantasy — and that the need for guns will always exist.
Very, very true.
I leave the convention trying to reconcile what I’ve gathered on this day with the philosophy of nonviolence with which I was raised. I am not certain that vast cultural differences can be bridged in a few hours, but I am glad I got a glimpse into the world of guns. I have much to consider.
Maybe she’s learning.  Somehow, I doubt it.
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Atlanta: Even the local media rag poops on Moms’ numbers.

May 1, 2017 Miguel.GFZ 0 comments

You know it is bad when even the very supportive local media outlet accidentally calls you a failure:


And the NRA number of attendees expected  was only revealed at the end of the article:

More than 80,000 people were expected to attend the convention, which is the NRA’s showcase event for the year and also features hundreds of exhibitors.

Source: NRA convention: John Lewis joins Atlanta gun control protest

Fake News feeding on Fake Astroturf? Not a nice meal.