As he should have for a while now. He became toxic and an example of believing the myth created around you. He Tony Montana himself.

That being said, he was not the hidden Anti-Gun evil fuck many on our side ended up saying he was. Greedy bastard? agree, but he stood alone facing hate and ridicule many a times when the rest of the leaders of other pro-gun groups never had the balls to do so.

I know YouTube used to have the video of this confrontation, but I can’t find it. About the only thing is an article from WaPo about LaPierre taking CNN head on and calling them a liars for this infamous video trying to prevent the AWB to sunset.

LAPIERRE: Kyra, let me say this to start: I’m glad you ran the story because apparently the only difference between The New York Times and CNN is that when a reporter for The New York Times fakes a story, he’s fired, and at CNN he’s not.
Your bureau chief, John Zarrella, deliberately faked the story yesterday and intending to show that the performance characteristics of banned firearms on the list are somehow different from the performance characteristics of firearms not on the banned list. He was — he was implying that these were machine guns or fully automatic guns. That’s not true.
PHILLIPS: Mr. LaPierre, I have to stop you there. No one fakes stories at CNN, and John Zarrella definitely did not fake a story at CNN. You’re very off base. I’m going to let you say your opinion, and let’s have a conversation, but don’t accuse our reporter of faking any stories, sir.

CNN responds to NRA attack – The Washington Post

Can the NRA be saved? No idea and what remains of the leadership cannot be trusted until the one question is explained with full details:

Who leaked the internal NRA financial documents to Michael Bloomberg and The Trace?

It seems after this many years, nobody wants to answer that. Hell, even Epstein’s Lists are out, but we can’t figure out who went fully to the enemy side.

So, with LaPierre gone only half the job of cleaning the NRA is done.

I guess the Big Gulp and the party size bag of Cheetos are off camera.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The downfall of Harvard’s president has elevated the threat of unearthing plagiarism, a cardinal sin in academia, as a possible new weapon in conservative attacks on higher education.

Claudine Gay’s resignation Tuesday followed weeks of mounting accusations that she lifted language from other scholars in her doctoral dissertation and journal articles. The allegations surfaced amid backlash over her congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus.

Harvard president quits: Claudine Gay resignation highlights new conservative weapon | AP News

In high school, I had a Literature teacher who made us do a book report which included the bio of the author, the historic time frame when the book was written, any background on why he/she wrote it and then analyzing the book itself plus our conclusions. It was to be 30% of our total grade and we had 6 months to write it. She gave us a long class on quotations including how to keep track of them and to religiously notate them. When she finished that particular class, she looked at us and said “Some of you will be tempted to plagiarize somebody, please don’t. I read a lot and I have better sources than you.”

My paper was about Orwell’s 1984 (What a surprise, huh?) and I sweated bullets trying to get any material in Spanish. The teacher was generous and shared some of her stuff, but dumped a bunch of other material in English which forced me to live with a frigging English/Spanish dictionary while working on the report. I also got and gave help to bookworm buddies when we did our research in libraries: If we bumped on a book or periodical about a book we knew somebody else was working on, we would write it down and pass it along. Dude date was about a month and a half before school year’s end, we turned it in, and we eventually forgot about it as kids do.

The last Lit class was dubbed Massacre Day.   The teacher arrived with the stack of reports and a somber demeaning. She divided the works in three sub-stacks and proceeded to call the individuals one by one to come pick up their report while announcing the grade. The big stack was mostly C’s and some D’s caused by what she said was lousy/lazy work (She was a great teacher but a heartless scorer, we knew that already.) Then came the “medium” pile and she starts to call some of the “best and brightest” of the class and announcing their collective grades: Big fat F for plagiarizing material.

At this time, I realized I had not been called and neither most of my bookworm friends. Ther was about seven of us left and she call the whole lot to stand in front of the class. I was sick to my stomach wondering how bad I fucked up to be called up and what was lower than an F.  All of the guys in front but one had scored A’s and one guy B because of misspellings (I did forget to mention, we had to turn in out paper typed, and typewriters did not come with spellcheckers.)

Her last words for us were about the dangers of plagiarism. It was intellectual theft, and you would be treated as an intellectual criminal and a dishonest human being.  That day ws probably one of my best memories of high school and a teaching moment I never forgot.

Now I am sad to see her proud standard that she branded in our spirits is nothing more than a small impediment in today’s academia.

But this is just a bit too pushy.

“Come have enchiladas while discussing payment options for the disposal of your remains” is not the most positive mood to start the year.

But I did get a chuckle when the other side got a taste.

A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just a day after she removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause.

She becomes the latest elected politician to become a target of swatting, which involves making a phone call to emergency services with the intent that a large first responder presence, including SWAT teams, will show up at a residence.

Officers Respond to Home of Maine Official Who Removed Trump from Ballot (westernjournal.com)

Oh well…

Last couple of weeks I have been fighting some crud (again) and I have no mental energy or any kind for that matter.

Stay safe and we begin this thing all over again tomorrow.

And as seen in Facebook: If I am awake at midnight, is because I had to get up to go pee.

British people aren’t real. pic.twitter.com/49IdyjnNFp

— 9mmSMG (@9mm_smg) December 28, 2023

Babylon Bee could not come up with this absurdity. I feel like we should kidnap those two and toss them inside a Knife show somewhere to see them scry and shrivel into a fetal position in the nearest corner.
And then we take the to a gun show.