From Fox News:

Senate Dems deliver stunning warning to Supreme Court: ‘Heal’ or face restructuring

Several high-profile Senate Democrats warned the Supreme Court in pointed terms this week that it could face a fundamental restructuring if justices do not take steps to “heal” the court in the near future.

The ominous and unusual warning was delivered as part of a brief filed Monday in a case related to a New York City gun law. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., referenced rulings by the court’s conservative majority in claiming it is suffering from some sort of affliction which must be remedied.

The case is New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York.

The Democrats are desperate to keep the Supreme Court from expanding gun rights in any way, shape, or form.

“The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it,” the brief said. “Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be ‘restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.'” 

This is the most self-oblivious statement I have ever read.  Senate Democrats say that the court is too political, so if the court refuses to bow to Democrat political pressure, the Democrats will punish the court.

To any reasonable person, that is twisting the court’s arm to be more… what’s the word… political.

This has always been a tactic for the Democrats.  When the Left marches in lockstep, they are never accused of putting party over country.  When the Right holds fast to principle instead of doing what the Left wants, they are told they are putting party over country.  So it is with the Supreme Court.  When SCOTUS legislates from the bench for the Left, that is good law.  When SCOTUS affirms a right the Right likes (e.g. Heller and McDonald), that is the court engaging in bad partisan politics.

The Democratic senators’ brief was filed in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York, which dealt with legal limitations on where gun owners could transport their licensed, locked, and unloaded firearms. They are urging the court to stay out of the case brought by the NRA-backed group, claiming that because the city recently changed the law to ease restrictions, the push to the Supreme Court is part of an “industrial-strength influence campaign” to get the conservative majority to rule in favor of gun owners.

So regardless of how unconstitutional NYC’s law may be, if the Supreme Court decides in favor of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, which is supported by the NRA, Senate Democrats are going to enact revenge against the Court.

This is a more aggressive step taken by the Left than ever before.  If they can bully the Supreme Court on this case, they can do it on any other case.  The Democrats only need file a brief that says “this is how we want you to decide and if you don’t we’ll pack the court or move you to lower courts and replace you with Justices we like.”

If this is allowed to happen, the Supreme Court will no longer be a check and balance on the Legislature.  It will be a panel of Judges to rubber-stamp the Constitutionality of anything the Democrats want.

If the Left manages to pull this off, the ballot box may no longer be the right box to protect us anymore.

I have to agree with the comment in this Tweet:

Disturbing video taken in #Shenzhen just across the boarder with #HongKong. Something extraordinarily bad is about happen. #China #HongKongProtests #Democracy #SaveHongKong pic.twitter.com/Gad5R5HVZL

— Alexandre Krauss (@AlexandreKrausz) August 12, 2019

This looks bad:

Another clear capture of a Chinese military column entering the #Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre, pinpointing this location as a potential military operation HQ, just 25km from #HongKong. #China #HongKongProtests #Democracy pic.twitter.com/34hODVgwbq

— Alexandre Krauss (@AlexandreKrausz) August 12, 2019

It appears as though the Chinese military is about to siege Hong Kong with ground forces.

The Chinese military, believing in the intel and these videos, have set in place a comprehensive military operation targeting the situation in #HongKong. #HongKongProtests #China #Democracy pic.twitter.com/QWFM11XYKC

— Alexandre Krauss (@AlexandreKrausz) August 12, 2019

If the Chinese military mounts a full operation to pacify Hong Kong, I cannot imagine what the death toll will be.

You want to know why our Founding Fathers enshrined in the Constitution the Right to Keep and Bear Arms?

This is why.

Translation: In Venezuela the only full fridge is that of the morgue.

This evil sumbitches making money out of a company they created and manage with 2.2 million employees! How dare they become successful?

By the way, Walmart pays every year $640 Billion in Corporate taxes alone.

• $ 175,342,465 a day.
• $ 7,305, 936 an hour.
• $ 121,765 a minute.

Let’s make it more approachable to the masses: Every ticking minute, Walmart pays in corporate taxes the equivalent of a Porsche 911 Cabriolet $121,000)

Every hour, Walmart pays in corporate taxes the equivalent of a 120 foot yacht.

Every day, Walmart pays in corporate taxes the equivalent of a spanking new Boeing 747.

That is money that the government is taking, not producing, not creating 2.2 million jobs and Lord knows how many indirectly and all of those employed are paying taxes themselves.

But I guess the government wants to upgrade the Porsche for an Aston Martin because it is fair.

Fecking Socialists.

From the Huffington Post:

Elizabeth Warren Wants To Raise Taxes On Guns And Ammunition
The Democratic senator and 2020 presidential candidate released a plan aimed at reducing gun deaths by 80%.

Oh great, she wants to take the tax the Chicago and Seattle have implemented at the Federal level and cranked up to 11.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants to sharply increase taxes on guns and ammunition as part of a comprehensive new plan to reduce gun deaths in the United States by 80%.

Warren, who is set to appear along with most of the other 20-plus Democratic presidential candidates at a gun control forum in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, is also proposing universal background checks, federal gun licensing, a one-week waiting period on all gun purchases to limit impulsive violence, a ban on assault weapons and a newly empowered Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, among a host of other suggestions.

A host of suggestions that won’t curb mass shootings and are most likely Unconstitutional.  I don’t remember any other Constitutional right requiring a Federal license.  I don’t need a permit to operate this blog.

The one week waiting period won’t do squat considering that in every mass shooting I can think of where the shooter bought his gun or guns, they were purchased and stockpiled for weeks or months in advance.

Warren chose the 80% mark for gun violence death reductions in order to echo the 80% reduction in driving deaths since 1965, when Congress decided the number of people dying in automobile accidents was unacceptable.

So she has no proof that her plan will reduce gun deaths by that much.  She just picked it because it sounded good.  It’s bullshit.

“We’ll start by implementing solutions that we believe will work,” she wrote. “We’ll continue by constantly revisiting and updating those solutions based on new public health research. And we’ll make structural changes to end the ability of corrupt extremists to block our government from defending the lives of our people.”

Two things set Warren’s plan apart: the taxes and her emphasis on eliminating the influence of the National Rifle Association.

the Democrats have never met a tax they didn’t want to implement or something they didn’t want to tax.

For a century, the federal government has imposed an excise tax on manufacturers and importers of guns and ammunition. Handguns are taxed at 10%, while all other guns and ammunition are taxed at 11%. Warren would raise the tax on guns to 30% and the tax on ammunition to 50%.

Holy shit, a 30% gun tax and 50% ammo tax.  That’s a lot.

She has made it crystal clear that the purpose of her tax is to reduce the access to a Constitutional Right by making it prohibitively more expensive.

This is the very definition of a poll tax.  When Democrats could no longer block Blacks from voting, they charged a fee that many Blacks couldn’t afford.

Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections was a Supreme Court case from 1966 that decided that poll taxes were a 14th Amendment violation.  A prohibitively expensive gun tax will have the same result.  Denying lower-income people, especially minorities, equal access to a Civil Right by making it too expensive to exercise.  This may go double for a Federal gun license, depending on the cost of the license.   Remember that Illinois tried to raise the cost of a FOID by 1000% to $100 to reduce the number of people that would get it.

Speaking of Illinois.  The Chicago gun tax did nothing to curb gun crime.  Criminals who steal guns or sell them illegally on the streets don’t pay taxes.

All this would do is reduce participation in shooting sports and harm law-abiding gun owners.  But that’s the point and she knows it.

Democrats have been using taxes to deny undesirable people their Civil Rights since the Republicans took away their slaves.  Elizabeth Warren wants to do that again.

And as Sarah Hoyt pointed out, no Portuguese or Spanish vampires either.

I our culinary cultures, it is faster to learn what dishes do not have garlic on them.

This is rich in irony.

BREAKING: CNN’s Chris Cuomo threatens to throw Trump Supporter down a flight of stairs

Cuomo: “You’re going to have a problem”

Man: “What are you going to do about it?”

Cuomo: “I’ll fuckin ruin your shit. I’ll fucking throw you down these stairs”pic.twitter.com/qW3c3Y5OCf

— Saving America (@SavingAmerica4U) August 13, 2019

“Aren’t you Italian? It is a fucking insult to our people.”

Because acting like a third tier character in the Sopranos is accolades and pride to the Italian-American community, right?

The bad news? I cannot longer think of him without the name “Fredo” attached to his and I have the suspicion I won’t be the only one.

UPDATE: Are we seeing the beginnings of News Wresssling?  Hey, from Fake News to Fake Fights is not too far.