David Hogg demonstrated the mental acumen that makes him a Harvard man.

It shouldn’t be easier to get a gun than an affordable therapist.

— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) August 21, 2019

It should, should it?

Pray tell how do you do that?

First of all, what background checks are necessary to see a therapist?  Are felons prohibited from getting therapy?  Can you not see a therapist across state lines?

Maybe I’m focusing on the wrong part that sentence.  Maybe I should focus more on the “affordable” part.  Maybe his issue is that therapy can be expensive for those without insurance or those with limited coverage, while you can buy an AR-15 for less than $400.

A few days ago I broke down the price-fixing fantasies of Beto O’Rourke on guns and insulin.

At least the insulin and guns comparison were both mass-manufactured consumer goods.

A therapist is an educated and licensed professional.  The affordability of therapists is driven by supply and demand.  There may be a great demand, but the supply of people with the intellect, drive, personality, and resources to go to college then grad school for 10 years or more for a Ph.D. or Psy.D. is limited.  Even earning a masters to become a licensed therapist is more intensive than most people are able to do, considering that across the board only 13% of the population has more than a college education.  That doesn’t include passing the board certification exams.

That restriction means that unlike guns or even insulin, you can’t just scale up equipment to make more.

You could reduce some of the barriers to entry, but lowering standards just means that the “affordable therapists” are also not good at their jobs.

So while this sounds like a nice platitude, it’s economically ridiculous.  The things he likes should be cheap and the things he doesn’t like should be expensive because of feelings.

I’d like to know what else he’s like to price-fix to make him happy.

Not just will David Hogg destroy gun rights, he’ll destroy the economy too.  Then again, that usually goes hand in hand.

Effing Borepatch owes me a new keyboard.  😀

Damn you all with a smile and heartfelt cheer to all of you who sent me the link. I was trying by bets not to write about it because it is getting hard not asking for an oil-soaked 2×4 perm to the head some people for sheer stupidity.

The recent trip to Venezuela by a group calling itself a Chicago Teachers Union delegation has upset some union members and expats who question the point of the tour and take issue with the group’s praise of the country’s disputed government.
The four travelers, who crowdfunded the July trip under the banner of the CTU, met with Venezuelan government officials and educators, visited a commune and were featured in local media.
They wrote online about wanting to connect with Venezuelan teachers, students and unionists, criticized U.S. economic sanctions against the South American nation and wrote admiringly of its socialism, its communes and high literacy rates.

CTU also retweeted another post by teacher Sarah Chambers, one of the travelers and a member of the CTU executive board, which read: “While staying in #Venezuela, we didn’t see a single homeless person. USA is the richest country in the world; yet, there are homeless people everywhere. Over 17k CPS students are homeless… This is why @CTULocal1 is fighting for fair housing #CTUAgainstVezIntervention.”

Chicago Teachers Union group’s trip to Venezuela, praise of socialist leader slammed as ‘propaganda tour’

If you go to Venezuela, indeed you will find locales that look like a travel agency brochure and stores plentiful of delicacies for the most distinguished palates and all very plentiful. And I bet they were even take to a school that would shame most schools around the world for its cleanliness and modern teaching implements.  And I know that is what te good Socialists Teachers of Chicago saw. But they also chose to ride the Dog and Pony show and not step away from their minders to see how the rest of the country lives. ,

In the latest post, one member of the group wrote that she’d wanted to observe a method for teaching reading that combines numeracy and literacy skills. She was also curious about if and how educators incorporated the country’s social movements into their curriculum, she wrote.
They visited a commune and talked to educators involved with Misión Robinson, a social welfare program to improve literacy started under former President Hugo Chavez.

Here is the thing: Plan Robinson claimed that something 98.9% of Venezuelans were able to read and write thanks to the program. Unfortunately for them, Plan Robinson did not do squat since literacy levels in Venezuela were already running that high prior to Chavez taking over and thanks to several programs that had close to 30 years running already.

What has been the impact of Socialism in education? Here is a short answer:

(Original in Spanish)
‎School dropout rate rebounds in 2018 to 60%. More than half of students are dropping out at all levels. But in the teachers guild the matter is worse, about 70% of the teachers of the universities are resigning to emigrate.‎

‎In Venezuela students defect, the priority is to eat‎

Meals are not provided to school kids in Venezuela unless they are in a very special Dog and Pony Show school. Parents choose to keep the kids at home where they burn less calories, rather that have them trek to the local house of learning and hope they have a teacher that day.  Because at the end of the day, who gives a shit who liberated the Gran Colombia if you cannot pay attention due to hunger pains.

Long live the glorious revolution!

Sean does a great job taking down Hogg & Friends Gun Control plans, so I ask you to go read it.

https://www.ncgunblog.com/2019/08/21/the-greatest-gun-control-plan-of-our-lives/

I do want to go over two things mentioned on this plan:

• NRA investigations – the NRA is under serious
scrutiny from multiple local, state, and federal
entities for self-dealing and mismanagement.76
This should offend responsible NRA members and
gun owners alike. On Day One, the next President
must (1) direct the IRS to open an investigation
into the tax-exempt nonprofit status of the NRA
and (2) direct the FEC to open an investigation
into whether the NRA has violated campaign
finance laws.

If anybody thought that the NRA crisis was going to be left alone by Bloomberg and collaborating states and allow us to get it fixed, it is time you wake the hell up and smell the poison. If anything I predict they will increase efforts to take the NRA down with the help of Gun Owners. We are coming down to choosing if you are willing to hold your nose and survive or die clean and fresh-smelling. And no, there is not a third option as much as you would like.

Police violence – we cannot talk about gun
violence in communities without talking
about our national challenges with police
violence. Officer-involved shootings are now
a leading cause of death for young American
men. While police violence both contributes
to, and is influenced by, weak gun laws, we
also need structural reforms that directly
produce better policing.

They still do not like cops which I keep saying is to our advantage. They can come up with all the plans in the world and even pass all the laws they want, but if they do not have cops to enforce them, it is all a pile of salt 5 seconds before a wave comes by. We need URGENTLY to get more cops on our side even if it means for some of the more Chest Thumpers® among us to cut down or even better re-focus their issues with Law Enforcement. In other words, stop sounding like the Opposition and Black Lives Matter.

Nothing.

Seriously, there is nothing you can do although there are already people asking you to donate money to their foundations and organizations that are possibly somewhere very far from the fire and have no firefighting capabilities.

It is the Dry Season in the are where the fire is burning. There are very few paved rods, no modern or even old infrastructure and certainly no fire departments. It is a jungle, not a forest park full of bambis an winnies.

What caused the fire? Nobody knows. Some are speculating that local farmers did a slash & burn to clear space for planting and it got out of control. I also find funny that experts are discovering that slash and burn is used down there to clear a space for cultivation. It is done every year since the first settlers decided to try to eek a sustenance out of what is possible the worst soil in the world for agriculture short of the Sahara. And the reason that Slash and Burn is done every year is the same reason why I am not to worried about the fire: Everything will grow back again to the way it was, probably in a year or two.

We are in the downward side of the Dry Season. It is the Amazon and some rain will happen but don’t expect miracles. Rainy season south of the equator starts in October and ends in May and by then we will probably see a lot of the damage covered in new growth.

Back in the late 70s and early 80s, a shipping magnate by the name of Daniel K. Ludwig decided to build a paper pulp plant in Brazil. H ordered a plant built in Japan, brought it by ship all the way to the site and cleared acres of jungle that I recall NASA claimed you could see the  scar from space. After sinking  hundreds of millions in the project, Ludwig quit;

But after investing $845 million in the complex, Mr. Ludwig is calling it quits. He is turning over the grandiose jungle development plan and its acreage, as big as Connecticut, to an all-Brazilian consortium being formed by private businessmen.

The reason: Mr. Ludwig was unable to overcome the problems of Amazon development. The tropical rain forest that blankets the 2-million-square-mile Amazonia kept swallowing up his development.

The scary part? about a year later, you could not tell from space that they cleared anything at all. The plant is active now and producing pulp, but it took decades to bring it online and it has been a sinkhole of Brazilian money.

It is going to sound like spooky tales, but the Amazonian Jungle is a living entity on its own. There is no such thin as Old Growth Forests because the roots do not penetrate the ground much if at all. The Amazon creates its own “soil” and in fact it is the champion mulcher of the world.  Old vegetation becomes the soil where future trees and bushes will grow and EVERYTHING grows fast down there. People living in the jungle carry machetes everywhere because they must clear roads and pathway from vegetation every day or risk being swallowed and work three times as hard to clear it. That bring us back to how to clear a plot of land for farming: Slash and burn.

So save your pennies because they are not going to be used to fight fires but line the pockets of some environmentalists. To kill the Amazon Jungle I figure about a dozen Fission bombs may do the job, but even so I would not guarantee it would remain done for long.

Trump has an almost superhuman ability to say exactly the wrong thing on camera. It’s uncanny.

NEW: President Trump: “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat – I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge, or great disloyalty.” pic.twitter.com/E3jSpbxMH7

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 20, 2019

Holy-fucking-shit-balls, really?

I’m not a hypocrite, I stand by my principles.  I will admit that I agree with Trump.  Readers of this blog know of my seething hatred for Leftist Jews who give credence to the worst antisemites out of intersectional wokeness.

Every time some Lefty Jews stands next to a Palestinian activist and says “I think Israel is an apartheid state/Netanyahu is Hitler/Israel acts like Nazis/etc” what that are doing is giving Jewish support to Jewish genocide.  Because as we all learned from Antifa, is that if someone is a Nazi it’s okay to hurt them and all it takes to identify someone as a Nazi is to call them that.

As a Jew, you don’t have to like Israel.  You don’t have to go there.  You don’t have to agree with the Israeli government on anything.

What you shouldn’t do is legitimize the antisemitic conspiracy theories and accusations leveled at Israel or Jews in general by vicious Jew-haters who only want to destroy Israel and the Jewish people.

If you can’t do that and feel a compelling intersectional justification for Palestinian terrorism, you can very kindly go do an impression of someone who agreed to testify against the Clintons.  Because what you are doing is risking the lives of other Jews.

All that said, for Trump to use the word “disloyal” and all the antisemitic baggage that goes with it, was fucking stupid.

What that does is it allows people like Ilhan Omar, and all her of supporters and followers to say “Trump is the real antisemite, Ilhan is just an innocent victim.”

Oh my ??‍♀️ https://t.co/hChOjPAzHV

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) August 20, 2019

Yeah.

My honest to God opinion is this.

Trump is perhaps the most inelegant President to hold office since the invention of the live broadcast.

But I don’t think he is, deep down, and antisemite.  He says stupid shit because he fires off his mouth before he’s fully engaged his brain, but I don’t think he’s a real Jew-hater.

Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and the Woke Left are true, dyed in the wool, antisemites.  They hate Jews.  You can see it in the way that they manage to blame the Jews for everything.

But that distinction doesn’t matter for people whose deepest thoughts are about as deep as a puddle of piss on a men’s room floor.

Trump said it so now Omar and Tlaib are off the hook for everything they have ever said.

Some on the right might try and accuse the Left of hypocrisy but that is a pointless exercise.  Being a hypocrite means having principles and standards and holding others to them while going against those principles and standards yourself.  The Left is nothing but hypocrites with double standards because the only core principle they have is the acquisition of power.  Holding principles and standards is only useful in hobbling opponents by holding them to said principles.

What the end result of this is, is any headway that could have been made by pointing out the virulent antisemitism of the far Left is gone.  Wiped away.

This is, for most people, now just a way to dig at opponents, mainly on the Right.  Every Republican is going to be forced into a struggle session to denounce Trump over this and any mention of Omar and Tlaib, who are real threats to Jewish survival, will be dismissed at whataboutism.

We are now in a world where the Progressives can literally shove Jews into gas chambers and all they have to say is “but Trump said this” as a distraction.

This is a fucking shitnado and we’ll be lucky to survive it.

I’m going to buy more ammo.

By the accent of the woman (who is probably now included in the Secret Service investigation list) she must be Mexican.

Translation of what she is saying while stabbing Trump’s piñata:

“Fuck your mother, asshole.”
“Leave us alone, now. You understand nothing.”
“You don’t understand what Mexico is.”
“The people in the United States does not understand a thing” (Off camera voice)
“(Unintelligible) I take his heart out”
“Your whore daughter (Unintelligible)”
“(Unintelligible) witch that I hate”

A lot of the conversation is lost because of the laughter.  But that is pretty much the sentiment for the President and Americans in general outside the US. Yes, including the Socialists that want Open Borders they can take advantage of. No, they don’t see you as a good person but as a pendejo, a useful idiot.