Soft men make hard times.

If you want to know what sort of hard times are coming, you need to understand the softness of this Administration.

Allow me to introduce Dylan Mulvaney.

Dylan is all the rage right now.

He is a TikTok star and content creator (that this is a career that makes people rich is a prime example of the softness that we’re in).

He has decided he want to become a girl.

He has documented his transition on TikTok as “days of girlhood.”  This video is a compilation of his first 15 days.

The way he has done that is so shallow that if you told me that this was a parody in which a boy pretended to be a vapid high school girl, I would find it more believable.

But society is not allowed to call this what it is: an egregiously offensive LARPing of superficial girl behavior.

So instead, this gets celebrated and rewarded.

Ulta Beauty promoted his to talk about girlhood, something he has never experienced.

Trans 👏 Girls 👏 Can 👏 Do 👏It 👏 All! Tune into the latest episode of The Beauty Of… where host @DavidLopezzz sits down with guest Dylan Mulvaney to chat all things girlhood 💝 Watch now: https://t.co/tCRfEryYkZ pic.twitter.com/uaXJqEBQI9

— Ulta Beauty (@ultabeauty) October 13, 2022

But if corporate America promoting this wasn’t grotesque enough, the White House took this bullshit seriously.

Biden welcomes trans TikToker to Oval Office after she sparked controversy for saying she WILL be a mom one day

A viral TikTok star and transgender activist visited President Joe Biden in the Oval Office to discuss her transition and transgender issues in the US.

Dylan Mulvaney, who documents on the app her ‘firsts’ as a woman in a series she calls ‘days of girlhood,’ revealed that she and members of NowThis News were visiting the White House for an interview that will be made public on Sunday.

This is the TikTok video in which Dylan announced his big news.

@dylanmulvaney

Day 222- talking to the president at the White House with @nowthis (interview goes live on Sunday Night!) #trans #whitehouse #nowthisnews

♬ Presidential Honors (Entrance of The President) – USMMA Band

He’s been LARPing as a girl for less than eight months and is now talking to the President of the United States about transgender issues.

We are in the worst inflation cycle in half a century.

We have record high food prices.

Were closer to nuclear war than any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at record lows.

The housing market if about to take a dive that will make tye 2008 Crisis look like a hiccup.

And yet the priority of the White House is to put a TikTok star in front of the President and play-act like a stupid teenage girl.

At least Nero could play the fiddle.

Our nation will not survive the hard times that will be created by people so soft.

I saw Miguel’s post Let’s sit back and enjoy the Canadian Experiment and thought how relevant that is to the post I was working on.

From The Trace:

Guns Recovered by Mexico’s Military Come Mostly From U.S. Makers

In the wake of a judge’s decision to throw out the Mexican government’s lawsuit against the gun industry, data shows American companies produce the weapons driving cartel violence.

On September 30, a federal judge dismissed a groundbreaking legal challenge to the gun industry filed by the government of Mexico. The suit laid out an argument that major U.S. gunmakers have knowingly facilitated more than a decade of deadly cartel violence across the southern border. They have done this, Mexico argued, by marketing weapons in a way that attracts criminals and turning a blind eye to those weapons’ diversion into trafficking routes. The judge dismissed the claim on account of a special legal shield enjoyed by the gun industry.

Mexico’s government is one of the most corrupt in the world.  Its ability, or lack there of, to fight the cartels has nothing to do with American gun manufacturers and everything to do with them.

Suing American gun manufacturers because they can’t keep their own people in line is a farce.

To date, data underlying Mexico’s dramatic pronouncements — that as much as 90 percent of all guns recovered on Mexican soil originated in the U.S.; that as many as 597,000 weapons slip over the border each year, most from American gun manufacturers — has only been shared in aggregate form by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

U.S. gun manufacturers make up seven out of the top 10 companies whose guns are most frequently seized by the Mexican military. Colt Manufacturing, based in Hartford, Connecticut, led the list, with more than 8,500 firearms — 6.8 percent of all guns recovered in Mexico over the 10-year span. Winchester Repeating Arms, based in New Haven, Connecticut, followed in second place with over 4,000 weapons recovered. Major gunmakers including Smith & Wesson, Remington, Ruger, and Browning, also appear in the top 10.

Unless the cartels hit a shipment of Colts I can’t believe that those were civilian guns bought from gun stores.  So I’m dubious of that.

Regardless…

This is being used to justify more restrictions on American gun manufacturers and law abiding American citizens.

The more direct solution is to seal the border.

Call me whatever name you want, but I fundamentally believe that US Constitutional rights expressly and exclusively belong to US citizens.

When such a situation like this arises, before we take the tiniest step in restricting the rights of Americans we should exhaust every option in the restrictions on non-citizens.

I’d rather turn the US/Mexico border into an impassable no man’s land of barbed wire, landmines, and intersecting fields of machine gun fire than impose gun control on Americans to protect the government of Mexico.

But the Left will open the border land and shut down the gun industry to protect the corrupt government of Mexico.

We have seen this movie before and know how’s going to end.

We banned over 1,500 types of assault-style firearms – and it’s now illegal to buy, sell, and transfer handguns in Canada.

Yet Pierre Poilievre wants to roll back our progress. Why would Conservative politicians want to put dangerous weapons back on our streets? pic.twitter.com/HM07SCDvL7

— Liberal Party (@liberal_party) October 21, 2022

And I am going to issue a prediction now: As crime rises even more in Canada, the blame will be put not in their failed anti-gun politics, but in the imaginary “iron pipeline from the United States that provides weapons to the Canadian criminals” and it will be used not as an excuse by Baby Fidel to explain his failures to curb violence, but it will be used by our Liberals to try to impose more gun control.

On Thursday 2022-10-20, federal judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. issued a TRO against the state of New York in regards to parts of the Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCI).

As part of the CCI NY state attempted to make so many different places within the state “sensitive places” that it would become nearly impossible for a CC holder to travel or go anyplace where they were not in violation of the law. Since the law states that violation of a sensitive place is a felony a person exercising their constitutional guaranteed right to keep and bear arms could become a prohibited person.

The courts have ruled numerous times that exercising your rights does not rise to the level of allowing the cops to have a “reasonable suspicion” that a crime is happening. I.e. the cops can’t arrest you for protesting in a public square or trespass you for filming when you enter a government building (exceptions for certain secured buildings).

In Hardaway, Jr v Nigrelli (First Deputy Superintendent NY State Police) the judge found that NY’s ban on firearms in churches (et all) is unconstitutional. He goes on to say that most of the CCI is unconstitutional but because Hardaway is only challenging the restriction in churches that is all the TRO covers.

They way this works is that the plaintiffs go to a judge and request an injunction. The court then schedules a hearing. The parties are allowed to file different pleadings. Often times the party that expects to loss will request delays. Thus it could take months or even years before the case is actually heard by the judge.

The plaintiffs can request a temporary restraining order (injunction). The TRO remains in effect until the case is heard. This can force the parties to move more rapidly to the actual hearing.

In order for the judge to grant a TRO the judge must believe that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of the case. In other words, the judge believes that the plaintiffs will win. In some cases the judge will grant parts of the request and deny other parts.

We saw this in the Antonyuk v. Hochul (Governor of the State of New York). This is the GOA case where they are suing the state of New York over the complete CCI.

Plaintiffs thus seek emergency injunctive relief, in the form of a temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction, halting enforcement and further implementation of this patently unconstitutional statute, until a decision on the merits can be reached.

In the second case the judge issued a TRO which blocked part of the CCI but allowed other parts to remain. He then held the TRO for 3 business days to allow the state to appeal the TRO, which they did. The appellate court blocked (held) the TRO. The judge is still likely to find the CCI unconstitutional when the case is finally heard but in the meantime the CCI stays in effect.

Except for the part about banning guns in churches. Hardaway, Jr v. Nigrelli has a TRO which does block that part of the CCI.

Another win for us.
Hardaway v. Nigrelli Decision and Order
GOA: COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF (v CCI)

Life in prison for man who kidnapped, sexually assaulted Lubbock teen

Thomas John Boukamp, 22, was sentenced to life in prison in federal prison Thursday for cyberstalking and kidnapping a 14-year-old Lubbock girl in 2020.

The minimum sentence Boukamp faced was 15 years, and the maximum was life.

During the trial, it was revealed that Boukamp began talking to the victim – identified only as Jane Doe – when she was 13. In November 2020, he took her to his house in Michigan.

Doe testified during trial that Boukamp sexually assaulted her several times a day in Michigan and forcibly removed her braces with pliers.

The 28th Amendment needs to undo the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment for pedophiles and child molesters, and instead mandate cruel and unusual punishment for them.

Anyone who sexually assaults a girl and rips her braces off with pliers needs to spend a lot of time on the receiving end of pliers (not to mention saws and drills as well).

From California:

FRUSTRATED SF RESIDENTS ARM THEMSELVES WITH BATS, TASERS AFTER OPENING OF DRUG SOBERING CENTER
Residents say they have seen an increased presence of drug use, violence and crime on the streets since SOMA Rise opened

Some residents in one San Francisco neighborhood have resorted to arming themselves with baseball bats and tasers after the opening of the city’s first pilot drug sobering center.

Adam Mesnik lives in the SOMA neighborhood and owns a business. He calls what he’s seeing on the streets as “a period of insanity.”

He’s referring to what he and others believe is an increased presence of drug use, violence and crime on the streets since SOMA Rise opened in June.

Ghis, who provided us only with her first name, is a 31-year resident of the neighborhood and says, “More troublemakers settling in, feeling comfortable doing their drugs, pissing and sh**ting in the street blocking the sidewalks.”

Mark Sackett is a longtime business owner and resident. He estimates the increase in drug use and debauchery has cost him more than $100,000 in lost business in the 2022 calendar year.

“They’re letting their clients come out here and get high, go inside and get sober and then get high again.”

Some even resorted to arming themselves against the belligerent or violent with baseball bats and tasers.

So the city of San Francisco opens up a government sponsored drug den… because California is hell.

That attracts the criminals, violent vagrants, riffraff, and dealers.

Crime and violence skyrockets.

People fear for their safety.

They are left to arm themselves with makeshift weapons.

This is why the enforcement of Bruen is so important.

People are entitled to be able to protect themselves and to have the proper tools to do that.

But Progressives love criminals far more than the tax paying, law abiding, working man.

So they will empower the criminals and disarm the law abiding taxpayer.

The next Republican President must enforce Bruen.  And city or state government that doesn’t come up with some reasonable concealed carry provisions should be prosecuted by the DOJ for defiance of the Supreme Court.