Let me see if I get this straight?

Hillary Clinton lost the election because 41% of Democrats are socialists, implying they didn’t come out and vote for her.

And I’m supposed to be upset that she and her “burden and tax the private sector to death” style of crony capitalism wasn’t sufficiently economy destroying for almost half of the Democrat Party?

If she thinks this is supposed to generate sympathy for her, my god if she off base.

I read the news about Venezuela and the UK and grew up with stories about what happened in Cuba.

If What Hillary said is true, than we need a national divorce. 

If I’m killing anything to keep my children from starving, I’m going start with Limousine Liberals and Campus Communists long before I move onto the family pets or errant farm animals.

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/991654320012713984

Dick’s CEO: “What is this?! We did everything the Leftists wanted.  We ended gun sales to people under 21.  We stopped selling assault weapons.   We Tweeted platitudes.   Our sales are down and revenue is falling.”

Dick’s BD dept: “Well sir.  It seems that Leftists don’t really buy sporting goods.  Counting on them to buy-cott enough enough soccer balls and yoga mats to make up for gun sales turned out to be a bad idea.”

CEO:  “So what’s the state of the business?”

BD: “Bass Pro and Cabela’s are eating our lunch.”

CEO: “Get legal on the phone, we’re hiring lobbyists.”

BD: “Why?”

CEO: “If we can’t sell guns we’ll make sure nobody else will either.”

CEO & BD: “BWAAH HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!”

(Over at YETI HQ)

YETI BD: “Sir, sales have dropped since we told the NRA to fuck themselves and the Volvo driving soccer mom demographic just isn’t making our pink ramblers fly off the shelves.  What do we do.”

YETI CEO: “Quick.  Hire some lobbyists.  We need to get congress to ban cheaper mugs and coolers as ‘Saturday night specials.’  Well make sure people can only buy our $500 coolers or they won’t be able to buy any coolers at all.”

BD: “That’s brilliant sir.”

CEO & BD: “BWAAH HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!”

This tweet was sent out by Virginia Congressional hopeful Dan Helmer.

https://twitter.com/HelmerVA10/status/991091769679937536

Everything about that is wrong.  Before we even get to the video, #VetsVsTheNRA is a fucking awful hashtag.  Helmer is a graduate of West Point.  Which along with that Commie Turd cadet makes me wonder what the fuck West Point teaches now days.

“I’m going to put my life on the line to defend the Constitution of the United States, but not all of it.  The parts I don’t like I will use my Veteran’s status to take away from people.”

So to the video.

He bought a gun within two miles of a school.  So what?  What does proximity to a school have to do with anything in a city?  It’s not like someone is going to a gun show on Saturday and then take a casual stroll two miles to go shoot up a school.

Manassas is in VA10, and here is a map of all the schools in the city with a scale bar of 2 mi.

Everywhere in the city is within two miles of a school.  So I guess what he is really saying is that nobody should be able to buy guns within city limits.

Then he goes to a table at a gun show.  Every gun show I’ve ever been to, the guys selling guns at tables were had an FFL.  You could sell your own stuff, but you couldn’t have a table.  That’s just anecdotal, but I’d be very skeptical that a table maned by three guys, with that many guns was not an FFL dealer.

Then he says “This is the same gun, same magazine I had in Afghanistan.  Thirty rounds, 5.56 mm.”

It’s not the same gun.  It might be the same mag, and again, so what?  That was nothing but a boilerplate soundbite for anti-gun voters.

Then he asks about registration and background checks.  Virginia doesn’t have gun registration.  If his default assumption is that it does, he’s a fucking idiot.  On the topic of the background check, I believe he’s lying.  For a 10 minute sale, there is less than two minutes of footage.

Having worked with an FFL before, if someone asked “there is no background check for this” I would have ended the sale right now.  Either that guy is a felon trying to get away with shit or he’s baiting you as either an anti-gun activist or as an ATF agent.  That’s one of those “red flags.”

In the conversation about the “no background checks” the seller says he doesn’t need his SSN.  That’s actually true.  You don’t need to use your SSN on a 4437, it is optional.  That’s not a crime.

Then the seller ask for Virginia ID while holding a tablet or iPad. That seems like a background check to me.  There is an all digital option now, no more paperwork.

The video than called out State Senator Wexton for supporting more expanded CCW rights and quotes Everytown for Gun Safety.

Now we know where this guy sits on gun rights, right next to Michael Bloomberg.  We also know that he’s willing to lie about everything to prove his point.

He closes the video talking about his AR is “functionally similar” to the rifle that he had in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Except it’s not.  That it is a “dangerous weapon of war,” which it is not.

But he just lied about buying a gun at a gun show without a background check so in compared to that, this is a minor lie.

So I went to this guy’s web page and this is what I found.

Dan is the son and grandson of immigrants.  His grandparents came to this country as Holocaust survivors and refugees. In America, they were welcomed and found prosperity, freedom, and peace. Dan believes that this, the American Dream, belongs to all of us – no matter our color, our religion, where we were born, or whom we love.

Oh Fuck.

First of all, that “son and grandson of immigrants” statement.  I know where it is going and fuck that guy.  Jewish survivors of the holocaust coming to America to because their entire way of life was wiped out in Europe is WAY FUCKING DIFFERENT than MS-13, illiterate illegals, or economic migrants sneaking over the boarder or former ISIS fighters claiming refugee status.

If you can’t tell the difference between what your grandparents went through and some illegal with multiple convictions getting sanctuary than your moral compass is broken.  I’ve written about this twice.  To see a Jew run for Congress on this is just fucking disgusting.

Second, another anti-gun Jew.  Not just another anti-gun Jew but the grandson of Holocaust survivors.  What they fuck?

God damned Nazis were marching in the streets less than 100 miles from where this guy lives and he wants to ban civilian ownership of guns.

If Nazis marched pretty much in my back yard I’d be stockpiling 30 round mags and 5.56 ammo.  Oh wait, I already do.

This guy is every wrong lesson and terrible progressive idea wrapped up into one awful cluster fuck.

“Hi, I’m the Jewish grandson of Holocaust survivors, in a state where Nazis and Communists had a street fight over who to kill for the betterment of politics,  explaining why I think civilians should be disarmed while using my status as a veteran to justify stripping away your civil liberties.”

Holy shit.  Fuck this guy.

Climate group raises money to carve Trump's face into glacier https://t.co/0yOWb4SfNP pic.twitter.com/rDRsW8LwMP

— The Hill (@thehill) May 1, 2018

More than anything else in my life I want this to get made.  Then I want a ship full of Greenpeace and Earth First  activists to hit it and sink like the Titanic.

That would be AWESOME!!!

Kevin Johnson just killed Starbucks.

Starbucks drops Jewish group from anti-bias training session: report.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) will no longer work on Starbucks’ anti-bias training sessions next month after the company faced backlash from activists, the company told Politico on Monday.

Jaime Riley, a spokeswoman for Starbucks, told the news outlet that the ADL, which works to combat anti-Semitism in the U.S., will be a part of the company’s extended anti-discrimination efforts. But the group will not play a role in developing the training on May 29.

Two weeks ago I wrote a post how the Louis Farrakhan supporting co-chair of The Woman’s March came out against Starbucks for working with the ADL among other groups.  It seems that Starbucks capitulated to their demands.

Why?

Activists criticized Starbucks for involving the ADL over the organization’s support for Israel and failure to endorse the Black Lives Matter movement. The group announced in 2016 that it would not fully endorse the movement over some leaders’ “anti-Israel — and at times anti-Semitic — positions.”

Tamika Mallory, an organizer of the Women’s March, posted on Twitter that the ADL is “constantly attacking black and brown people,” and criticized Starbucks as “tone deaf” for involving the group.

So the ADL called out BLM for its Antisemitism.  Deservedly so.  BLM has strongly supported the antisemitic and anti-Israel Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign while accusing Israel of genocide.  This is just another example of far Left wing groups supporting radical Islam.

But wait, there’s more!

Black Lives Matter D.C. accused the ADL of being “ultra pro-cop.”

We have reached the terminus of Progressivism.  Cops are anti-Black and Blacks are anti-cop.  To be pro-law and order is racist because… black people can’t obey the law…?

Somehow, every time I try to think about this, it just seems really, really racist.

Nevertheless, if you support the police you must be an anti-black racist.

So Starbucks has officially embraced anti-police, anti-Israel, and antisemitism as training policy in order to be obsequious to the group that attacked Starbucks for using the police to defend their property rights.

I guess there is never any reason to buy from Starbucks again.

This is BEFORE the details of the anti bias training have come out.  I’ve already heard plenty of calls by non-Progressives (both on the Right and non-radical Left) for baristas to secretly record the training and post it online.  Just to see if it is as bad as people suspect it will be.

I would have thought that shutting down every Starbucks in America for a day was going to be a bad financial idea.  Starbucks decided to double down on the dumb by going with a public statement to the effect of “fuck the Jews and police, we’re going to be subservient to the radical demands of a group that 57% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of.”

I guess Starbucks management got bit by the same “we don’t want to make any more money so let’s insult and alienate our major customer base” bug that Yeti management did.  It seems to be going around.

I wonder what former Starbucks CEO, and observant Jew, Howard Schultz has to say about this?

David Hogg tweeted this banal hoseshit.

Throughout history violence and war only creates more of itself for example WWI->WWII->Cold War ->Korean War->Vietnam and up to today. While nonviolent moments like Gandhi’s, the suffrage movement or Civil Rights movement lead to peace and long lasting change. Ours will too.

— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) April 30, 2018

Really?  Is he high?

Non violence is effective ONLY when your opposition is very, very civil.  That is because you are asking those oppressing you to stop, trying to appeal to their better nature or to defeat them with shame.

Gandhi accomplished what he did, only because the time was ripe for it.  Empires were no longer fashionable after WWII and too expensive to maintain.  The Germans and French were giving up their colonies in Africa.  France and Britain were pulling out of the Middle East.  Britain couldn’t rebuild itself after WWII and control nearly a billion people in India, so gave up India.

The British also knew that cracking down hard in India just after defeating the Nazis would not be a good image.

The American South was the same.  Yes, southern (Democrat) governors and sheriffs fought civil rights protesters with fire hoses and police dogs.  In the grand scale of history, that is pretty mild and civil.  In other countries, soldiers would have been mobilized to  open fire on the protesters with rifles.  Then how far would the civil rights movement have gotten?

History tells us the answer.  It looks like the treatment of the Armenians by the Turks, the Jews by the Nazis, the Ukrainians by the Soviets, the Great Leap Forward, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, Tutsis in Rwanda, the chopping off of hands in Sierra Leone, and the mass murder of white Farmers in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

That is what happens when the oppressor decided to be savage instead of civil.  All the pickets and protests mean fuck-all diddly-squat when the oppressor has a rifle or a machete and has no compunction against using it.

I am reminded of the quote from Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein:

“I was heaping scorn on an inexcusably silly idea — a practice I shall always follow. Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.”

I just find Hogg’s platitude to be ironic and self serving.

He had called for violence to be used against law abiding gun owners.  So I guess what he really wants is for us his side to be non-violent so we will be non-violent, at which point he can pull a rope-a-dope by becoming violent (or having violence done on his behalf by people tougher than he is).

The caravan of “refugees” made it to the US border.  Because these people are “refugees,” rather than claim asylum at a checkpoint, they hopped the fence.

“[T]he asylum seekers had travelled in school buses under police escort to a beachfront rally in Tijuana, where a steel fence juts out into the Pacific Ocean. They sang the Honduran national anthem, and supporters on the San Diego side of the fence waved a Honduran flag.”

This is what that looks like:

That looks like an invasion to me.  I know that sounds played out, but when people forcibly enter your country, singing their anthem, and waiving their flag, that is very different than asking a host nation for the mercy of sanctuary.

George Ramos of Univision said on Tucker Carlson that America needs to do this because American drug addicts are are responsible for the problems in South and Central America.

That is bullshit.  The history of much of South and Central America is that of juntas and revolutions.  The term Banana Republic dated back to 1901, long before the drug epidemic.  These nations got into drug production as a way for revolutionary forces to generate funding.  The factions decided that selling drugs was better and more lucrative than fighting a revolution and a narco state stalemate occurred.  MS-13 started as a El Salvadorian revolutionary force that became a drug cartel.  But why let history get in your way.

So people on the Left are fighting to welcome in people who hop the fence to waive the flag and sing the anthem of their homeland on US soil.

This is a cultural gulf that cannot be bridged.

I’m not sure what is going to break us first.  An attempt at gun confiscation or the welcoming in of a wave of “refugees” so large that it collapses the infrastructure of a US state.