Twitchy has noticed a brouhaha over Curt Schillings tweet about a guy wearing a shirt that was… anti-media.

Off the bat, I am not advocating for lynching journalists, and there was quite a bit of backlash on Twitter against that sentiment.

But, this T-shirt is reflective of what poling has been telling us, that trust in the media is at an all time, single digits, low.

It is not difficult to see why.

Rolling Stone’s article A rape on campus was found by a jury to be so filled with obvious and malicious distortions of the truth, that it defamed University of Virginia administrator Nicole Eramo.

We found out recently that Donna Brazile was leaking debate questions to Hillary Clinton from her position at CNN, and that Wolf Blitzer asked Trump questions during an interview, written by the DNC.  In fact, CNN was in collusion with the Hillary Campaign.

There was all the ad hominem attacks on Trump as a racist and a homophobe.

Before all this, there was the Killian Documents controversy, in which Dan Rather showed knowingly fake documents on the air to turn people against GW Bush.  When Rather got caught, the NY Times defended him by saying the documents were “fake but accurate.”  No…. if they are fake, they are by definition not accurate.

All of this is just the tip of a very large iceberg of dishonesty.

I believe in the First Amendment.  A free press is critical for a functioning representative democracy.  The work of great journalists like Edward R. Murrow, doing important things like taking on Joseph McCarthy, helps an informed electorate make good choices.

Those times are dead.

What happens when the media drops even the pretense of objectivity and picks sides?  What happens when the difference between reporting and an OpEd is blurred?

As much as America loves freedom of the press, this nation oversaw the trials at Nuremberg, where Nazi propagandists were executed.  Propagandists Julius Streicher was executed for war crimes.    William Joyce was executed by the British for treason for publishing pro-Nazi propaganda.  The free speech loving Allied countries decided that propagandists were morally culpable for the horrors committed by the people inspired by their work.

So, in light of the overwhelming media bias, lies, and demagoguery over objectivity, it is an important question to ask: what separates a journalist from a propagandists?

Let’s play a hypothetical:

Election 2024, Democrat vs. Republican.  It is October, past the filing date for a new candidate.  The GOP candidate is neck-and-neck, or even leading in the polls.  Leading media personalities, in a JournoList like conspiracy, decide to completely fabricate evidence that the GOP candidate is child molester.  Fake victims are interviewed.  Fake documents held up as evidence.  The nation recoils in horror at the allegations and the GOP candidate suffers a Goldwater-esque defeat.

The election is over, the truth comes out.  Perhaps several of the ranking media members are successfully sued by the disgraced ex candidate.  But the real damage is done.  An election has been influenced.  Libel and slander are torts, so no criminal liability is attached.

Is this within the bounds of a free press?  Is this what our Founding Fathers envisioned the role of the of Fourth Estate to be?  Or was this a crime against humanity?

Given the tidal wave of lies and distortions of reality that we’ve seen in the last two election cycles, is the aforementioned hypothetical really that extreme a scenario?

Maybe right now, calling for the lynching of journalists is little beyond the pale.  But perhaps that we are seeing this sentiment voiced is public means that we have some serious discussion to have about the future of journalism in this country.

Everybody daydreams.  What would you do if you had $1,000,000.  Stuff like that.

For people who like and think about politics, we occasionally daydream about politics.  What would I do if I were president.  How would I answer the political question du jour.

When I fantasize about my ideal political world, it is fairly simple.  We have a strong military, and when Iranian speedboats buzz our ships, we sink them.  Everybody pays the same, marginal, income tax rate.  Being a productive member of society feels like something to be proud of and not a suckers game.

For the most part, my daydreams are about being left the hell alone.  I don’t want to rule over anybody else.  I don’t want to be ruled over either.  I have no interest in regulating what other people do with their lives.  I’m very straight forward, be honest, don’t cheat, earn your keep.

Then I wake up from my day dream and read this:I’M VOTING FOR HILLARY BECAUSE I WANT TRUMP SUPPORTERS TO LOSE BADLY AND GO AND FUCKING DIE.

Oh, god damn it.

But this isn’t why I’m voting for her.

I’m voting for her because I do not want to live in an America where the type of people who’d fervently, dogmatically, and unconditionally support Trump — who exist so motivated by and permeated with hate and fear and loathing that they’d stand in formation behind Darth Cheeto — have a reason to be optimistic about their beliefs. I do not want these people to feel good or inspired. I do not want them to receive some type of collective psychic victory. I do not want them to experience any measure of positive reinforcement. No encouragement. No stir. No rousing. No influx of energy. No invigoration. No revitalization. No nothing besides confusion, shame, and, if the confusion and the shame isn’t enough to convince them to at least consider not hating me and people who look like me and people who don’t look like them, death.

Yes, you read that correctly. I want these motherfuckers to lose. And if losing what might be the last winnable election for them in a millennia isn’t enough for them to move into the 21st century, I wouldn’t terribly mind if they withered the fuck away and died.

In two paragraphs, Mr. Damon Young announces that he would like to see Trump supporters die for their beliefs, twice.  Twice.

The reason that Mr. Young supports Hillary is because he hates Trump supporters and wants them to die.

This is just another example of people – generally on the Far Left – daydreaming about oppressing and/or killing those who they disagree with.

This is how you ge a professor calling for a mass shooting at the NRA headquarters or a petition with 9,000+ signatures to declare the NRA a terrorist organization.  Who needs reasoned discourse when you can take those on the other side of an issue and send them off to a gulag Guantanamo.

I swear, when Progressives daydream about their ideal political world, it is a nation ruled by bureaucrats where there is a concentration camp in every city, and anybody who dares speak out against their nanny-state dictatorship is sent off to be reeducated or murdered.

I’ve seen that daydream before, it’s called Schindler’s List.  And they wonder why I own guns.

With the 2016 election coming up on Tuesday, and with the level of complete acrimony that each side has for the other, EVERYBODY seems to be talking about a potential second American Civil War.

Breitbart says Clinton is warning of one.

So are academics on talk shows, and talk show hosts themselves.

Trump supporters are afraid one will happen, while others say Trump supporters will start one.

the Chicago Tribune invokes Civil War imagry calling Trumps last big speech his Gettysburg Address.

Clinton may start one to get back at Trump supporters.

Of course, the Far Left things this Civil War will be just another race war.

Lastly, the Far Left media is going nuts about Trump and militia groups prepping for war against Hillary.

I don’t know if there will ever be a second American Civil War.  If there is, I doubt it will be the 2016 election that kicks it off.

That said, if there is one, I son’t think it will look anything like the last Civil War, or any of the other civil wars going on now in third world states.

We like our electricity and TV and buying food at the grocery stores just too much.  The damage to America’s economy and infrastructure from an actual civil war would be unpalatable for Americans.  Not to mention, the actual issues that Americans are fighting over won’t get fixed by a civil war.

If Hillary gets elected and starts going door to door confiscating guns, how will it solve anything for me to take up arms and march into a Blue State and occupy it?

I can see some localized riots and looting occurring if Trump went hard right and shut off welfare.  But we’ve already seen riots and looting in disaffected communities and that won’t organize itself into a army.

No.  I don’t fear another Blue vs. Gray, or even a Red vs. Blue.

The Alabama Air National Guard isn’t going to start bombing Illinois.  The Texas State Defense Force isn’t going to invade California.  I don’t want to go to war with the Liberals in Palm Beach County if they make Florida go for Hillary.  I doubt that even the most rabid Trump supporters do either.

If another civil war were to come to America, I think it would look a lot more like the French Revolution.  What there will be is a lot of volunteers to man the firing squads that get set up on the National Mall.

So for everybody that keeps going on and on about a coming Civil War… shut up.  Despite all your goading, Americans are not going to start killing each other en masse.  We’re not going to start The Purge, at most, we’re just going to drain the swamp.

From Jacksonville local news: Jacksonville mother upset after child taught NRA-affiliated gun safety program at elementary school.

The headline just about says it all.  A 7 year old student was taught the NRA’s Eddie the Eagle gun safety program in school.  Normally, parents are given the ability to opt their children out of this program, but somehow this didn’t happen in this case.

The mom found out what happened with her son, when her son came home with the Eddie the Eagle pamphlet, and complained to the superintendent of schools.

“They’ve just undone seven years of parenting in one hour,” the mother, who didn’t want to be identified, said. She said she teaches her 7-year-old that all guns are bad.  She said her son came home with a pamphlet that said otherwise.  “’Mommy, you’re wrong. Toy guns are OK. See, guns are OK, mom. See? It says so right here,” the mother said her son told her.  The mother also doesn’t like that the gun lesson was designed by the NRA. She called it propaganda.

Let’s look at that again.

She said she teaches her 7-year-old that all guns are bad.

That is a totally normal and healthy thing to do, right?  Teach your child than an inanimate object is bad.  This, of course, instills no concept of personal responsibility or accountability.  Nope.  Guns are bad.

Then the kids comes home having learned not to hate and fear an object.

“’Mommy, you’re wrong. Toy guns are OK. See, guns are OK, mom. See? It says so right here.”

I’m pretty sure this boy just wants to play cops and robbers or whatever with his friends and anti-gun mommy won’t let him.  This is his excuse, in paper, to let him have fun with the neighbor kids running around with Super Soakers while he can’t because guns are bad.

I’m reminded of a Shakespearean tragedy I witnessed one day.  Mommy was of the “processed sugar is poison” camp.  The kids are playing, as kids are wont to do, and everybody takes a break for snack time.  One mommy shares cookies with the children, and Sugar Mom takes the cookie away from her child and gives him some veggie chips, chiding her progeny that “cookies have yucky sugar.”  The look of complete, soul crushing, sadness in that boy’s eyes when his chocolate chip cookie was replaced with a dehydrated carrot was heart breaking.

I have the feeling that “seven years of parenting” wasn’t sticking anyway if it could be undone in one hour.  Junior probably had the sneaking suspicion that toy guns aren’t bad from friends at school with their Nerf arsenals.  He just wanted to take part in the fun.

The mother also doesn’t like that the gun lesson was designed by the NRA. She called it propaganda.

Automatic hatred of anything the NRA gets close to.  Gun safety, that’s propaganda.  Telling a child that several ounces of plastic, or a couple of pounds of plastic and steel is the physical manifestation of evil is not.  That is a completely rational position to take.

“It sends a message that Duval is NRA-affiliated,” she said.

Now they are going to have to move out of Duval County, the NRA has gotten it’s evil tentacles into the school system.  Next thing you know, the school will be selling Uzis in the cafeteria next to the chocolate milk.

The real danger in all of this is the contradictory lesson the child learned.  The kid can’t separate real guns and toy guns in his mind.  A seven year old should be able to tell the difference.

These are toys,  NERF, Super Soaker, dart guns, etc.  These are safe to play with.

On the other hand, there are real guns, and those are dangerous.  If you see a real gun, OR if you don’t know it’s a real gun, don’t touch, leave the area, tell an adult.

This was the lesson that I learned from my dad.  It is the lesson that countless other kids learned.  This is how kids learn to play with toy swords and not get into duels with kitchen knives.  When you don’t differentiate between toy and real, the kid will play with the real like a toy.  There is actual evolutionary science here, the separation of rough and tumble play and real fighting.  The people that argue rough and tumble play teaches kids to be violent don’t know the actual science, and are emotionally stunting children.

This mom has emotionally stunted her child by filling his head with irrational ignorance.

Everytown posted this on their Facebook page:

It links over to this article from Vice: Tim Kaine, gun owner.

Oh no, Tim Kaine likes guns.  There goes all the evidence that the Clinton Administration is going to try and pass a whole bunch of new pieces of gun control legislation.

“The overwhelming majority of gun owners support the kinds of proposals that we’re pushing, like background record checks,” Kaine told VICE News Tonight. “And sadly, the NRA has switched from being a representative of gun owners to being representative of gun manufacturers.”

Seems that possible future VP Kaine has bought into the “gun owners are stupid sheeple that buy whatever the NRA tells them to buy from their gun maker overlords” conspiracy.

The “Gun Violence Prevention” section of HillaryClinton.com calls for laws expanding background checks on gun purchases, says “weapons of war have no place on our streets,” and promises to “take on the gun lobby.”

Well, there is Hillary’s call for a new assault weapon ban.  I guess she really is coming for our guns.  Understand this, when we say “coming for our guns” we don’t just mean the ones we have now.  We mean the ones we want to buy in the future.  There isn’t really any moral difference between taking away guns fro people now and preventing future gun owners from ever owning something in the first place.  You are just letting time and wear and tear do your confiscating for you.

“When you have somebody who has never held a gun before talk about ‘high-capacity clips’ — that drives gun guys crazy. It’s a magazine,” Kelly said. “To have people who own guns talking about this, I think it helps.”

He’s half right.  Listening to ignorant gun haters twattle on in nonsensical ways does drive us crazy.  Listening to a gun owner try to defend an AWB because he has his bolt action for deer and pump gun for ducks, is fucking INFURIATING.  It makes you no better than a Kapo, selling out gun owners for your political advancement.

Kaine will be the highest-ranking gun-owning white guy in America if Clinton wins. Kelly said Kaine’s addition to the ticket could make it easier to get new gun laws passed through a Congress where the NRA still exerts a lot of control.

Oh great, we’re going to have Vice President Jim Zumbo, forgive me if I don’t want a Fudd writing gun laws.

If Democrats are going to get new gun laws passed in a Clinton administration, they’ll need guys like Kaine to make their case.

We’re not going to listen to that traitor.  Hillary already made it clear what she wants, and no subservient VP is going to be the Judas goat that leads us to gun control.

We in the gun community learned our lesson years ago.  The Left calls for “compromise” than tells us that “compromise” means having our rights taken away and liking it.  There is no give with their take.  If universal background checks doesn’t come with universal concealed carry, were done talking.  They take our rights and we have to win them back in court.

These people do this with every right.  Oh how the liberals love free speech when it is their speech.  When it is not, they try to shut it down as hate speech, only to be reminded that the First Amendment protects that too.

I have no desire for the people who pass gun laws to be the same people who decided I should be sued for up to $250,000 if I don’t call some pan-gender tree-sexual by xzph’s desired unpronounceable pronoun.

That’s how you end up going to jail for owning something with a shoulder thing that goes up.

Tim Kaine’s deer rifle doesn’t make him an authority on guns that will convince us NRA members to lay down our arms.  Tim Kaine’s deer rifle makes him a hypocritical, self serving asshole, that will protect his hobby while taking away my rights.

I was over at the YouTube, trying to watch some stupid internet video, when the ad I got hit with was this:

Yes, that was an ad for a group that wants to legalize the word “vagina.”  Color me shocked, because I wasn’t aware that word was banned.  According to Slate, the FCC will allow you to say it on broadcast TV under most circumstances.

So what is this all about?  According to the group’s Facebook page – because everybody has Facebook but me – something, something, we should be saying vagina more, because reasons.  They claim they can’t say vagina even in medically appropriate situations, but this Osphena ad, shown on broadcast TV begs to differ.

But if these ladies want to talk about the word vagina for a minute, lets do so…

Dear liberal ladies, stop using the word vagina as a weapon.  I am an adult.  I have had my fair share of medical issues.  I can speak with a medical professional about my condition without shame or discomfort.  That is not what I am talking about.  I am talking about the PsyOps campaign being waged by the Left.

It is true, discussions of an anatomical nature make conservatives somewhat uncomfortable.  Call it prudishness, or call it decorum, but it is a somewhat accurate stereotype.  It seems that the Left has decided to act like a bunch of children, and using this stereotype, to engage in outlandish behavior and try to make conservatives uncomfortable.  If they can’t beat us with logic, they will try an make us squirm.

This is the whole point of Cocks Not Glocks, which I have covered before.

So lets go into examples of this bit of vaginal psychological warfare.  There is Scary Mommy (a Left Wing parenting site) and HuffPo with Funny or Die telling ladies to “vote with your vagina.”  Which is more dehumanizing than empowering when you think about it.

There was Melissa Harris Perry’s wearing of tampon earnings on MSNBC to show solidarity with the women of Texas regarding abortion Bill 5.  The women protesting at the Statehouse had their hygiene products confiscated by security, which the media made a big deal about.  But everybody glossed over the threat that was made that women would throw said hygiene products from the Statehouse balcony in protest.  What displaying said hygiene products has to do with abortion access is not a connection I can make in my mind, but I have a feeling it was just another “lets make conservative men uncomfortable” tactic.

Speaking of hygiene products, there was the push in 2015 to end the “Tampon Tax” – which by the way doesn’t exist.  Again, facts seem to fall by the wayside in favor of causing linguistic discomfort.  In many states, feminine hygiene products are subject to the same sales tax as other goods.  Some states tax food, others clothing, others even tax prescription and OTC medication (I lived in one).  The argument that hygiene products, including feminine products, but also including bandages, soap, OTC medication,  antiseptics, dental hygiene products, etc., should all be exempt from sales tax, is a legitimate one to take.  But the Left had to go full Libtard on that one and focus on Tampons and pollute a good argument against taxation with identity politics.

You could have gotten tax hating conservatives on your side with that one, but you had to make it all about “taxing our periods*” and engage in protests that made us all uncomfortable.  By the way, nobody is taxing your period.  A consumer sales tax is not a direct tax on an act.

All of this tampon talk made both BuzzFeed and Time declare 2015 to be the “year of the period.”

Lastly, there is Code Pink’s intolerable running around in giant vagina costumes.  Protesting everything GOP from  the 2012 RNC to Trump rallies.

Heck, give a liberal woman any excuse and she’ll dress up like a giant vagina and head off to town.  They will even make Halloween Costumes out of innuendo to suit political goals.

And I’m sorry, but I just do not see men talking about, running around dressed as, or proudly claiming to vote with their penises.

As much of a dickhead as Chris Matthews is, I’ve never seen him wear a condom for a hat.

Perhaps I’d be more sympathetic to your cause of Legalizing V. if I didn’t feel like Liberal women were constantly screaming “VAGINA”  or something like it, as a rallying cry.

If you want to be adult about this, let’s be adult about this, and leave the vagina talk were it belongs.  In your doctor’s office, not a polling station.

Everytown is shilling for screening of the movie Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and The NRA, which “tells the stories of how guns, and the billions made off of them, affect the lives of everyday Americans.”

The movie is by the same director that made Koch Brothers Exposed.

That movie was advertised with this flyer:

That looks familiar.  Where have I seen that before…

Oh yeah, NAZI Germany.

If the director and producer of a movie are going to invoke NAZI imagery to push their movie, in a non-ironic way.  That is, seriously equating the Koch Brothers to the same level of conspiracy that the Nazis used to accuse the Jews of participating in, I think it is safe to say the movie is less truth than lies and propaganda.

Now that this Propagandaministerium director has set his sights on the NRA, I’m sure it is going to be about as honest at Der Ewige Jude.

Leave it to Everytown to channel the ghost of Goebbels for their political goals and not get why doing so is so terrible.