Month: October 2018

The South strikes back at New York on behalf of gun owners

New York City is its own Kingdom when it comes to gun laws.

New York State concealed carry permits, as rare as they are, are not valid in New York City.  To carry in New York City, you have to have an act of god get a NYC Pistol Permit.

I must clarify that for people who are not retired law enforcement, what I mean by concealed carry in New York City is not like concealed carry anywhere else in the country.

New York City issues five different types of permits and each has their own restrictions.

Premises Licenses are the most common and only allow specified people to have a gun on a business premises.  An example would be a store manager can have a handgun in the back office.

Limited Carry Business Licenses lets the licencee carry under the special restrictions of the license.  An example would be a business owner being allowed to carry during business hours when transporting inventory from a warehouse to a store front.  These kinds of licenses are often issued to jewelers, art dealers, business that deal with large amounts of cash, etc.

Carry Guard Licenses are just for security guards and only apply while on duty and during shift hours.

A permit that allows a civilian to just strap on a gun and take a stroll in the park in the evening doesn’t exist.

The restrictions on Premise Licenses are high.  A gun cannot be removed from the premises except for hunting or to go to a shooting range in New York City.

There are very few gun ranges in the city and the are almost exclusively private clubs with exceptionally high membership fees or open only to police.  If you want to take your gun to a range up state or take it with you when you leave the state, you can’t.  Considering all the work it takes to buy a gun in New York City, the result is that the gun is anchored to one spot and most people don’t want to or can’t get a second gun for other purposes.

So now the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, backed by a whole bunch of states, including yours truly’s, are suing New York City for having unconstitutionally tight permitting restrictions.

With federal court decisions impacting Louisiana people, regardless of where the lawsuits originate, Attorney General Jeff Landry is leading a 17-state coalition against a New York City gun restriction which threatens Second Amendment protections.

In an amicus brief filed today, General Landry’s coalition asks the United States Supreme Court to consider the permitting scheme’s burden on Second Amendment rights, the full extent of those rights, and the applicability of those rights to self-defense outside the home.

“The restrictive policies memorialized in New York City’s ‘premises permit’ scheme unduly burdens the Second Amendment rights held by all Americans,” said General Landry. “Criminalizing travel with a securely stored firearm creates an imbalance in our federal system that weighs against lawful exercise of the Second Amendment inside and outside of New York City.”

The terms of New York City’s pricey permit prohibit removing any firearm from the home with two exceptions, practicing at a range in the city or hunting in the state – and hunting requires authorization from the city’s police department. To remove a firearm from the home for any other purpose requires a separate, yet similarly expensive “carry” permit that is very difficult to obtain.

In their legal brief, General Landry and his counterparts argue that New York City did not show sufficient cause to burden citizens’ gun rights in their pursuit of crime prevention and public safety, both of which are frustrated by restricting licensed and trained gun owners from carrying outside their homes. This restriction has the practical implication of leaving thousands of firearms in unoccupied homes, where they are of no use to their lawful owners when faced with dangerous situations.

“The need for self-defense is not limited to the home and the right to possess a firearm should not be either,” said General Landry. “From self-defense to hunting, the lawful exercise of our Second Amendment rights should be fully supported.”

New York City’s regulation not only offends the Second Amendment and other constitutional protections, but it also poses a serious economic burden. “New York’s regulatory scheme discriminates against interstate commerce because it ‘deprives out-of-state businesses of access to a local market’ by forbidding its citizens from hunting and patronizing ranges outside the State with their own guns,” wrote General Landry and the others.

The 16 states joining Louisiana in the brief are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin through their Attorney Generals and Mississippi and Kentucky through their Governors. The case is New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. et al. v. City of New York et al.

Fucking glorious!!!

Read the Amici brief.  It quotes everything from Heller to Moore v. Madigan.

I want the Supreme Court to take this one and pound the shit out of New York on their carry permit schemes.  If the Confederacy of Gun Rights states manage to get SCOTUS to buy Moore v. Madigan, conceivably NYC could have shall issue concealed carry shoved down their throats.

If that happens, the death toll from the collective aneurysm had by hysterical New York progressives will reduce the State’s Congressional representation by half.

Then you know what happens next, right?

Court mandated California shall issue.  Or they secede, either way is fine by me.

I hope SCOTUS takes this one up, it is going to be good.

 

 

 

 

Crown Heights meets Kitty Genovese

Police: Livery driver beat man walking to synagogue in Brooklyn

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) — Police say a livery driver beat a 62-year-old man as he walked to synagogue on Sunday morning in Brooklyn.

Physically and emotionally scarred, Lipa Schwartz described the frightening moment he was attacked in broad daylight in the middle of the street in Borough Park.

“All of a sudden, ‘boom,'” he said. “I tried to protect myself, run away. I fell. He come again on me.”

Schwartz was on his way to service, which he attends every day, when he said the driver jumped out of his cab and started attacking him. The savage beating happened on 13th Avenue by 46th Street. The victim’s holy items were scattered on the ground.

Most mainstream news sites are reporting this as road rage, but the police have included hate crime charges.  The driver is from Pakistan and there is evidence that the motivation was anti-Semitism.

Schwartz was walking to synagogue when Afzal stopped his car, ran toward him and started to beat him, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Schwartz said that his attacker spoke another language, but he recognized “Allah” and “Israel,” NBC reported.

Here is cellphone video of the attack.

Look at all those tough New Yorkers just watching an elderly man get beaten in a city street while they sit in their cars and do nothing.

I bet every one of them has demonstrated how good of a person they are by Tweeting some activist hashtag.

And people wonder why I carry and don’t live in places where I can’t.

Post-Disaster Time and Human Management.

Callaway resident Victoria Smith told the News Herald that thieves came into her townhome while she and her four children were sleeping with the front door open to allow a breeze inside.
“I must’ve been so exhausted from everything in the past days I didn’t even hear them come in,” Smith said. “They just snatched my purse out of my hands and ran. … It was all we had.”

Powerless Victims of Hurricane Michael Now Suffer Looting

It is only natural that right after a major situation, our need to be aware and in control of things is exacerbated and we simply do not allow ourselves to rest. I pulled something like this back when I was younger and we had a little three-day social dislocation in Venezuela with generalized looting and killing. I survived three days with lots of coffee, cigarettes and the occasional 30 minute lap. The end result was me being a walking zombie on the fourth day and on the fourth day driving into a small military action because I was so asleep, I did not recognize that the lack of traffic meant something was going down rather than the original “Hey! I am lucky, there is nobody out here, the road is all mine!”

I have been blessed with a wife that smart and will take no crap from incoming looters. She understands the idea that we need to work shifts and that asleep must be enforced in more than just catnaps. That is the way it has worked since we moved to Florida and faced being out of power with the forced need to have our house wide open in order to cool off some. Our sleep cycles also help: She is an early night sleeper, I can’t sleep till very late. That means somebody is always awake and making our presence felt which helps dissuade some (not all ) individuals or groups with evil intentions in their hearts.

As for the “infamous” You Loot-We Shoot signs:

I agree with their use but ONLY if you have the means and the will to enforce the message. Do not think they are some magic wand that will ward you off from all evil. Some of the bastards looting went through our public educational system and that makes their reading comprehension skills suspicious and a big chance they ignore the sign. Other simply won’t give a damn and think you are bluffing so you better be ready to engage them with your “Royal Flush.”

If something shows at its best (or worst) the principle of partnership, is the immediate time after a disaster. It is amazing how easier things go hen you can rely on somebody who know what needs to be done and allows you to take a much-needed rest. Lone Wolves tend not fare well.

GOP defend yourselves!

Two Minnesota GOP candidates say they were attacked, punched

In a sign of how heated the fall campaign has become, two Minnesota Republicans say they were attacked and punched in separate incidents over the weekend.

State Representative Sarah Anderson of Plymouth said she had confronted a man for kicking her campaign sign when he charged at her. First-time candidate Shane Mekeland of Becker said he suffered a concussion after a man punched him in the face at a Benton County restaurant.

Mekeland said he had stopped at a restaurant Friday to ask if he could hold a campaign event there. He was talking to a few people around a high-top table when a man in the group punched him “out of nowhere.”

Mekeland said he fell backward and blacked out when he hit the floor. He said he’d been discussing health care and taxes with the man, who at first seemed to agree with his positions.

“The last thing I heard is him say – I’ll keep out the colorful language – ‘You bleepin’ people don’t give a bleep about the middle class,’” Mekeland recalled.

Benton County Sheriff Troy Heck said he expected his office to take 7-10 days to do an investigation. Mekeland said police had already interviewed his assailant. He showed Fox 9 a medical document that confirmed his concussion diagnosis.

How many times on this blog have Miguel and I covered the fact that a single hard punch to the head can be lethal?  Especially a sucker punch or cold-cock where the victim doesn’t have time to brace.  This is more than assault, this is legitimately attempted murder.

Anderson said the man kicking her campaign sign Sunday afternoon said he was an anarchist and that Anderson should kill herself. She said she drove to a nearby gas station where she tried to get a photo of the man as he walked down the road.

That’s when Anderson said he charged and prevented her from shutting her car door.

“That’s when he just hauled off and punched me in the arm,” she said. “Then I put the car in reverse to just get out of there.”

It takes a real tough Liberal man to punch a woman.

Dem operative for Soros-funded group arrested for ‘battery’ against Nevada GOP candidate’s campaign manager

A Democratic operative for American Bridge 21st Century, a group founded by David Brock and funded by liberal billionaire George Soros, was arrested Tuesday after the female campaign manager for Nevada GOP gubernatorial nominee Adam Laxalt accused the operative of grabbing and yanking her arm and refusing to let go.

Kristin Davison and other officials for the Nevada attorney general’s campaign said the “battery” left her “terrified and traumatized” — and with bruises on her neck and arms.

Another Liberal He-Man who roughs up Republican women.

This is not Stark’s first arrest—earlier this year, the Democratic tracker was arrested for allegedly assaulting the female press secretary for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

He’s got a history of it.

Davison told Fox News when she, Laxalt and two other male staffers went into the private room and closed the door, it “burst open” moments later.

“Two male staffers were trying to hold him back. He was so aggressive, he looked like he was going to towards the candidate to physically harm him,” Davison said, adding that she was standing in the doorway.

“He grabbed my right arm, my leg was lodged between the door and the wall. He twisted my arm, and contorted it behind my back,” she explained. “I was scared. Every time I tried pulling away, he would grab tighter, and pull me closer into him.”

Davison said Stark pulled her head into his chest, bruising her neck, and held her there for several minutes. She said it “felt like an hour.”

That’s frighteningly aggressive.  This was more than just heat of the moment.  He went into a private room to assault somebody.

I was scared and screaming ‘stop—you’re hurting me,’” she explained.

Davison said Stark warned Laxalt, saying, “Adam, there’s only one way you can make this stop.”

“That really scared me,” she said.

I don’t know what Stark was thinking but I’m sure a .45 would have stopped it.

Stark also has a record of arrests while working for American Bridge. Stark was arrested on Oct. 28, 2017 for disorderly conduct at an event in Virginia while covering then-GOP gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie. He was found guilty of disorderly conduct in February of this year.

The incident with Zinke’s press secretary Heather Swift occurred in March at the Longworth House Office Building after a budget hearing before a House committee. Stark allegedly approached Zinke and reportedly “used his full body to push” Swift as she tried to leave the room. Swift, who called the incident “terrifying,” told police that she decided to press charges to help obtain a “stay-away order” against him.

“It’s shocking to me that anyone in this business, no matter which party or issue you’re working on, would keep someone on their payroll who has been consistently arrested for violence,” Davison told Fox News. “This is a terrifying incident.”

Are you kidding me.  Of course the radicals would want a guy like this on the payroll.  The Left has been championing this kind of violence for some time.

In a matter of a couple of days we have three separate incidents where Republicans were violently attacked and psychically hurt by Leftist thugs.

These are low level political positions.  The election is still a few weeks away and every day the news and polling makes it look like the GOP is going to gain seats.  The Democrats are beyond desperate at this moment and they are pulling out all the stops.

It’s time for Republicans to take their safety seriously.  This is well past condemning rhetoric.

Punches are serious.  Head trauma is no laughing matter.

We are into fight back territory.

 

 

Teen Vogue becomes Little Redbook

Teen Vogue sent out this Tweet:

Of course we all know that the worst poverty is seen in capitalist countries while the nations that abandon it soar into economic prosperity.

It’s places like Cuba, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe where teenagers all have the latest iPhones to see Tweets from Teen Vogue, while in the US kids are eating road kill and out of garbage cans.

Oh wait… that’s backwards.

What “Capitalism” Is and How It Affects People
What it is, how it works, and who is for and against it.

Capitalism is defined as an economic system in which a country’s trade, industry, and profits are controlled by private companies, instead of by the people whose time and labor powers those companies. 

The link embedded in “is defined as” (original in the article) goes to Miriam-Webster.  Their definition is:

An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.

That nonsense about “instead of by the people whose time and labor powers those companies” is not in the dictionary at all.

This is some serious Marxist bullshit.

The major problem with this kind of thinking is that is fixes people to a role – employee, laborer, owner, etc. – for life.

In this way of thinking, the owner of the company is just that, the owner.  He’s never himself been an employee.

That’s not the way it works by any means.  People move up and down, back and forth across this line all the time.  If you are a professional, a lawyer, accountant, architect, etc., your first job is as a junior associate.  You are an employee.  You work with the hope of one day making partner, at which point you become a partial owner.

Or you can quit and start your own firm, in which case you are the owner AND the employee.  Your work powers the firm AND your reap the rewards.

The great thing about this is that anybody can do it.  Can you fix toilets?  Buy a truck, get some tools, register an LLC and start your own plumbing company.  Trust me, an after hours emergency plumber can make $100 an hour in some places.

It also claims that the owner does no work to power the company.  He is just sort of a parasite that sucks off the work of everyone below him.  What about the work that the owner did to start the company, assuming that he did.

Then there is the issue of stock.  Employees in publicly traded companies can buy stock and become fractional owners.  Many private companies have ways that employees can buy shares or will be bonused shares as part of promotions.

The demarcation between owner and employee is not a fixed and immutable one.  But this makes capitalism more attractive.

Marxists want people to think “I’m being taken advantage of and used for my labor” and become resentful.

The lesson of capitalism is “work hard and one day you can be an owner too.”  That doesn’t breed resentment so the Marxists need to crush that idea.

The United States and many other nations around the world are capitalist countries, but capitalism is not the only economic system available; throughout history, other countries have embraced other systems, like socialism or communism, so it’s important to explore what capitalism actually is.

Those other nations failed and 100 million died because of it.

CNN recently reported that 66% of people between the ages of 21 and 32 have nothing saved for retirement. However, according to Salon, the reason many millennials haven’t been investing in mutual funds or building up their own financial nest eggs isn’t because they’re too broke, or that they lack personal responsibility — it’s because they think our current economic system, capitalism, will cease to exist by the time they are in their 60s.

66% of 21-32 year olds have been made stupid by Socialist ideologue professors who all have generous retirement packages as part of their tenure.

The millennials Salon spoke to expect to see a grand societal shift in their lifetime, either toward socialism — a political and economic system in which the means of production are collectively and equally owned by everyone — or toward a sort of dystopian Mad Max nightmare in which resources have dwindled, rich plutocrats own everything, and ordinary people need to band together in small, autonomous communities to survive.

I’m pretty sure that socialism turns nations into “a sort of dystopian Mad Max nightmare in which resources have dwindled, rich plutocrats own everything, and ordinary people need to band together in small, autonomous communities to survive.”

To conservatives’ dismay, the modern idea of socialism, which has roots in Greek philosopher Plato but emerged as a popular political idea in the early 19th century among German radicals like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, has become increasingly popular among young people in the past several years, following Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders’s underdog run for president and the authoritarian creep of the ultra-capitalist, anti-socialist Trump regime.

Socialism was a Platonic thought experiment that even he admitted wouldn’t work in practice.  The part about it being “a popular political idea” sounds nice, but popular isn’t always good.  The Klan was popular in the South and Nazism was Popular in Germany too.  Popular but not good.

In contrast, capitalism has become markedly less popular among the younger generations, with The Washington Post noting in April 2016 that in one survey, a majority of young adults ages 18 to 29 said they reject it outright.

You have probably heard the word “capitalist” floating around in the past couple of years — maybe in relation to the anti-fascist, anti-capitalist protests at the Trump inauguration. So, what is capitalism, and why are people so passionate about it, one way or the other?

Yes, young dumbasses with shit degrees and no job skills love socialism because they believe that it means everyone who works pays for them to sit around and wax philosophical.  The can’t imagine that it means that they are the ones forced to plant rice by hand in a field at gunpoint.

The origins of capitalism are complicated, and stretch back to the 16th century, when the British systems of power largely collapsed after the Black Death, which was a deadly plague that killed off up to 60% of Europe’s entire population.

Capitalism has always existed.  The first time one caveman who was good at knapping flint traded a spear he made to a hunter in exchange for some meat, capitalism was born.

But yes, the black death was the greatest thing to happen to Europe in 500 years.  All of a sudden, people who knew how to farm successfully were valuable and could move around to sell their skills to the highest paying lord.

A newly formed class of merchants began trade with foreign countries, and this newfound demand for exports hurt local economies and began to dictate overall production and pricing of goods. It also led to the spread of colonialism, slavery, and imperialism.

International trade hurt local economies?  We’re not talking about shipping jobs to Mexico.  Growing wheat in England wasn’t outsourced to China.

The death of feudalism — a hierarchical system often seen as oppressive that kept poor people bonded to their masters’ land, which they farmed in exchange for a place to live and military protection — also left rural British peasants with no homes and no work, which eventually funneled them away from the countryside and into urban centers. These former farm workers then had to sell their labor in a newly competitive work environment in order to survive, while the state worked in concert with the new capitalists to establish a maximum wage and “clamp down on beggars.”

THEY WEREN’T SLAVES TO A LORD ANYMORE!!!

This is the most insane Marxist statement I have ever read.  Workers actually had the freedom to move and try to make better lives for themselves instead of being indentured from birth to death.

By the 18th century, England had converted into an industrial nation, and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution saw an explosion of manufacturing overtake the island. It is within those smoky factories and flammable textile mills that our modern idea of capitalism — and the opposition to it — began to fully flourish. In 1776, Scottish economist Adam Smith published his treatise, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which is regarded as the bedrock upon which modern capitalism stands. Though some of his specific ideas about value and labor differ from those of modern economists, Smith is often called “the father of capitalism.”

I believe there are two kinds of economic theories: natural economics and ideological economics.

Natural economics is like natural science, it comes from observing how the world works.  Capitalism, supply and demand, those came from observing how people behave with money.

Ideological economics is like crystal healing, it starts with a narrative and then economic ideas are made up to fit that narrative.  Marx’s ideas are all based on his ideology.  Since the ideology isn’t based on natural behavior, implementing it always fails.

Smith didn’t invent Capitalism.  He simply wrote some of the first texts in which he explained the why of what he observed.

Individual capitalists are typically wealthy people who have a large amount of capital (money or other financial assets) invested in business, and who benefit from the system of capitalism by making increased profits and thereby adding to their wealth. A capitalist nation is dominated by the free market, which is an economic system in which both prices and production are dictated by corporations and private companies in competition with one another, and places a heavy focus on private property, economic growth, freedom of choice, and limited government intervention.

Individual capitalists are people, any people, who invest to make money.  If you invest by paying tuition for an education that you use, you are capitalist and you are investing in yourself.  That’s called human capital.

I don’t have money to buy property for business.   I invest in my education and skills and one day I hope to be like my mentor and bill $500 an hour and have people calling me daily to hire me for my talents.

Why would they do that?  Because he is very good at helping companies solve production problems, so his clients invest $50,000 in him and get a million dollars in cost savings as a result.

Being a capitalist doesn’t have to be that fancy.  A guy with certificate from a trade school, a van, and some tools who owns his own plumbing company, or a guy with a truck, trailer, and mower and owns his own landscaping business is capitalist.  Over 80% of the US economy is small business not unlike that.  They are all capitalists.

Generally, those to the right of the political spectrum tend to be pro-capitalist; those on the left veer toward anti-capitalism.

This is the one unequivocally true statement in the entire article.

The kind of impact that capitalism has on your life depends on whether you’re a worker or a boss. For someone who owns a company and employs other workers, capitalism may make sense: The more profits your company brings in, the more resources you have to share with your workers, which theoretically improves everyone’s standard of living. It’s all based on the principle of supply and demand, and in capitalism, consumption is king. The problem is that many capitalist bosses aren’t great at sharing the wealth, which is why one of the major critiques of capitalism is that it is a huge driver of inequality, both social and economic.

Some bosses are dicks.

You know what the fix is? Find a better boss or BECOME YOUR OWN BOSS.

Capitalism takes the position that “greed is good,” which its supporters say is a positive thing — greed drives profits and profits drive innovation and product development, which means there are more choices available for those who can afford them. Its opponents say that capitalism is, by nature, exploitative, and leads to a brutally divided society that tramples the working classes in favor of fattening the rich’s wallets.

Pure Marxist class warfare.  There is no exploitation when you have the freedom to walk away and find a better job.

For an example in recent history, the Occupy Wall Street movement began as an anti-capitalist protest against “the 1%” — the richest of the rich of the capitalist class — and asked why they are allowed to grow fat and happy while 20% of all American children live in poverty.

This comes directly from the ultra-Right Wing Chicago Tribune.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, only 4 percent of poor children were hungry for even a single day in the prior year because the family could not afford food. The average consumption of protein, vitamins and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children, and in most cases is well above recommended norms. By his own report, the average poor person had sufficient funds to meet all essential needs and was able to obtain medical care for his family throughout the year whenever needed.

Of course, poor Americans do not live in the lap of luxury. Many of the poor struggle to make ends meet. But they are generally struggling to pay for cable TV, air conditioning and a car, while putting food on the table.

Poverty in America means having to decide between having Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime and not having all three plus HBO.

Poverty in Venezuela means that somebody tries to murder you for the loaf of bread you got after standing in line all day to buy your government allotted bread ration.

Also, life isn’t fair.  That’s lesson Number 1.

Capitalism’s supporters believe in several key points: Economic freedom leads to political freedom and having a state-owned means of production can lead to federal overreach and authoritarianism. They view it as the only sensible way to organize a society, insisting that alternatives like socialism, communism, or anarchism are doomed to fail. As former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, whose pro-capitalism stance is said to have devastated the British working classes, once said, “There is no alternative.”

There are alternatives, the only problem is that they end in famine and death.

When asked to consider capitalism’s negative impact on the environment and our shrinking natural resources, many say that those resources will only become more valuable and able to generate more capital as they continue to diminish.

Or they find alternatives.  John D. Rockefeller saved more whales than Greenpeace.

They also believe that the competition between companies benefits consumers by making products more affordable, and that capitalism’s dog-eat-dog atmosphere encourages people to work harder to achieve their dreams. They are likely to dismiss anti-capitalists’ concerns about inequality and oppression by saying that rich people are rich because they are more productive than their poorer counterparts.

That’s 100% true, but way to make being productive into a vice.

Placing central importance on the individual, rather than the collective, is a classic hallmark of capitalism and is at the heart of the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” narrative that capitalists find so compelling.

Damn that individual freedom.  Power to the lazy who can’t be bothered to be useful.

Anti-capitalists view capitalism as an inhuman, anti-democratic, unsustainable, deeply exploitative system that must be dismantled. They see it as inherently at odds with democracy because of how capitalist bosses hold power over workers in the workplace and the fact that, the more capital one accrues, the more power they have.

If you don’t like your boss, quit.  You have that power.  It’s socialist countries with goverment planed economies where you can’t quit because a bureaucrat will have you shot if you do.

One man, one vote.  That doesn’t change.  If Trump taught us anything, money doesn’t directly equal political power.

As German Communist philosopher and economist Karl Marx — perhaps the most famous opponent of capitalism in history, who ironically enough helped to popularize the term — wrote in his book Capital, Volume 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, “Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.”

Teen Vogue loves Marx, don’t they.

The essential anti-capitalist argument is that “the hallmark of capitalism is poverty in the midst of plenty.” They say the immense suffering and violence that has been forced upon the laboring classes, the ruthless emphasis on profits over people, the proliferation of wage slavery — in which people have no choice but to sell their labor, which we see in every industry from fast food to corporate office work — and the social alienation.

How horrible that the poor have to choose between Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime.  All those choices and they can only have one, while they sit on a couch in their air conditioned home, stuffing their faces with food.

And dear god, wage slavery?  How dare a society ask people to be productive.  There are billionaires out there, why shouldn’t they be the only ones who have to work while the rest of society engages in subsidized indolence?  This is the worst anti-capitalist argument.  “I shouldn’t have to work if I don’t want but I still demand all the benefits of work, like food, clothes, entertainment, and stuff.”

If a caveman didn’t want to hunt or gather but demanded that he be allowed to eat, the rest of his tribe would push him off a cliff or let him starve in wilderness.  Even the bible tells us that for the able bodied  “if a man will not work, he shall not eat.”

Marx also emphasized the system’s capacity to dehumanize workers, writing that capitalist methods of productivity “mutilate the labourer into a fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of an appendage of a machine, destroy every remnant of charm in his work and turn it into a hated toil.” As the looming threat of automation and erosion of public health care puts more pressure on the working class, its opponents worry that capitalism’s thirst for profit over everything else means that those who sell their labor will be worked to death.

But it’s the countries that followed Marx where people were worked to death at gunpoint and turned into fodder for the political machine.

As Martin Luther King, Jr. — a firm anti-capitalist — said in his final speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1967, “One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America?’…When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.”

MLK was wrong.  Yeah, I said it.

Capitalism and socialism are generally seen as polar opposites, and discussions of either system are often framed as in opposition to the other. There are many forms of socialism, but at its root, socialism is an economic system in which a whole community — not just bosses or private companies — control the means of production equally.

Right… because Stalin and the Politburo stood in bread lines and lived in cramped apartments.  Socialism has never resulted in equality, ever.

It assumes that people are naturally cooperative, instead of competitive. The goal of socialism is an egalitarian society run by democratically elected representatives for the benefit of all in accordance with a set of collectively determined parameters; unlike under capitalism, industry and production is run by the state, and the acquisition of private property is seen as counterproductive. Capitalist critics of socialism believe that the system slows economic growth, rewards worker laziness, and can stifle individual rights and free expression.

Tell me more about the goal.  I can’t hear it over the deafening sound of its failure and the 100 million killed doing it and the hundreds of millions more that live in oppression.

In a capitalist country, the focus is on profits over anything else; in a socialist country, the public is seen to be more important, and social welfare is a major priority. The United States, the U.K., and Germany are examples of modern capitalist countries. In contrast, China, India, and Cuba are examples of modern socialistic, non-capitalist countries, as was the former Soviet Union.

And which countries on that list would the author prefer to live in?  One sentence undoes the entire article.

Many other countries like Norway, Sweden, Canada, and the Netherlands incorporate socialist ideas into their societies, as does the United States to some degree; for example, universal health care and Social Security are both socialistic concepts.

And compare their economies to ours.  When Socialists point to Socialism in the US, they love to point out Medicaid and Social Security which both suck and the latter is a bankrupt Ponzi scheme.  Even in the US, the little socialism we have, is a total failure.

Teen Vogue went totally Marxist.  It wasn’t even an attempt at being educational, it was propaganda.

I never thought they could publish an article that was worse than teaching pre-teens how to have anal sex, but they did.

I’m all for freedom of the press, but responsible parents should keep their kids away from Teen Vogue.

The life lessons it teaches will lead to nothing but anal fissures and economic ruin.

Another physical attack against a Republican. (Update)

It is The War on Women by the side who keeps accusing us of being women haters

LAS VEGAS — A man was arrested after pushing into a room, thrusting a camera forward, trying to question state Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt and grabbing the woman heading the Republican candidate’s bid for governor, a campaign official said Wednesday.
Wilfred Michael Stark, 50, was held on an unspecified charge at the Las Vegas City Jail following his Tuesday evening arrest by city marshals, jail records showed.

Activist arrested in assault on GOP candidate’s campaign manager

 

And from The Free Beacon:

“I could not move,” (Kristin) Davidson said in her statement to police, which was shared with the Free Beacon. “Stark grabbed my right arm, twisted it behind my back, squeezed it very hard, and every time I tried to pull away he pulled me closer and gripped my arm tighter.”

“I kept screaming help me, stop hurting me, you are hurting me,” she wrote. “Stark would not stop and grabbed my arm tighter and pulled me closer to him and the door. I was terrified and at that point saw multiple colleagues try to pull him off me but Stark held tighter.”

The campaign shared images of bruising on Davidson’s arm, adding that her neck, shoulder, and lower back were also injured in the attack. Davidson wrote in her report to police that the “right side of [her] head” was “throbbing and in pain” after the attack.

I am gonna have to start a blog pool from now till November 6 to guess when somebody is going to be killed by a Liberal for political bull-crap.

Carry every day: Gun, spare mags, tourniquet & blow out kit.


Update: This was not a one time isolated event for Wilfred Michael Stark. It seems he has been pushing himself to be an almost stalker for several months now. Here is a tweet from Republican Congressman Devin Nunez:

Best case scenario? They already have good information about patterns and behavior of Republicans so ambushes are not only possible but likely.

A modest proposal on immigration

Another caravan of people from Central America is making its way north to the United States.

The popular talking point I’ve seen as a rebuttal to Americans who oppose this flagrant violation of US law is (paraphrasing) “but huge numbers of Irish came to the US.”

Of course, the Left doesn’t know history so they seem to forget just how contentious that was.  You’d think they would know at least that because there was a Leo DiCaprio movie about it (Gangs of New York).  They might be shocked to know that the Irish were often greeted with mob violence.  Anti Immigrant brutality in New York City was just as bad – or worse – as any KKK action in the South.

But I digress….

So here is my modest proposal:

I am willing to go back to 1850’s immigration law IF we can also go back to 1850’s welfare and gun laws.

If 3,000 people can just walk into America because they want to, I should be able to order a pistol (or a machine gun) out of a catalog and have it shipped to my house because I want to.

Deal?