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There are two Americas.  We do not speak a common language or have common values.  We are so different we even experience reality differently.

Take the case of the resignation of Congresswoman Katie Hill.

Go read the comments on this Tweet.

Today @KatieHill4CA will give her final floor speech. Democrats are shocked and saddened over what happened.

But there’s a clear generational divide over the surrounding circumstances of the scandal and if it’ll have a chilling effect.

W @sarahnferris https://t.co/NMNO4Z8Pc5

— Heather Caygle (@heatherscope) October 31, 2019

The fall into two camps.

Camp One: Hill had sex with a subordinate, she admitted to that, and was accused with evidence of having sex with another subordinate.  This is in clear violation of House Rules.  She resigned to avoid punishment and probably to keep other skeletons locked in her closet that might have come out during the Ethics investigation.

Camp Two: Hill is the victim of revenge porn.  Women are shamed for having the kind of sex men get high fives for.  Its sexism, the patriarchy, and anti bisexual bigotry that made Hill resign and she should rescind her resignation.

Camp Two is unable to acknowledge even the existence of the “don’t bang your subordinates” rule.

We can debate should a member of Congress step down in naked pictures from some college party get put online.  I will recognize that this will be more and more necessary in the future.  Also, leaking revenge porn should be a crime, I’d support that.

But if one side cant face the fact that Hill groomed an employee into sexual servitude and paid her off with campaign funds, we can’t have a rational conversation.

There is one America for who the laws and facts matter and another America for who only feelings and identity matter.

Those two Americas are incompatible.

The only way I imagine this came to happen

Scene: Inside a congressional office, late one Friday night. an opened pack of zigzag lays open on the desk, also a Bic lighter with image of Peter Tosh. Two men are across a desk inhaling from individual “artisan” cigarettes containing a controlled green substance: 

Josh: Brian, dude….I have an idea (Toketoketoke…cough)
Brian: What is it? Are we out of Pringles already? Oh man!
Josh: (exhaling) Listen, I have an idea for a anti terrorist bill.
Brian: ( Toketoketoke…hold…cough hard) What?
Josh: You know them raghead in France used a truck to kill a shitload of people?
Brian (munching on goldfish crackers) Don’t call him that, call him Towel-American (both giggle) Yeah I remember, like totally uncool.
Josh: I am thinking we do a Red Flag law so we don’t rent trucks to dangerous people and shit. No UHauls of death, dude! What do you think? ( Toketoketoke…hold…exhale), pass the fishies.
Brian: (tosses bag) That is totally awesome! You write that bitch and I co-sponsor!
Josh: Cool bro, thanks! You wanna go get som fish tacos?

https://pluralist.com/josh-gottheimer-terror-trucks-red-flag-law/

Hat Tip Eve’s Hubby

This Saturday, November 2, 2019, on the Capitol Lawn in Washington D.C. there will be a Second Amendment Rally with a long and distinguished like up of speakers.

If you are in the area or can make the trip, I urge you to go. This is a good and necessary thing.

PS: § 16.16. PROHIBITED ITEMS ON CAPITOL GROUNDS.
§16.16.10 Pursuant to 40 U.S.C. Section 5104(e)(1), firearms, dangerous weapons, explosives, or incendiary devices are prohibited on Capitol Grounds.

But I expect to see several of Florida’s Chest Thumpers ignore this and truly have the Rosa Park moment they keep saying they do. I mean, you guys are plainning on going, right? Ar 15 strapped to your chest as you walk the streets of DC?
Send video and pictures and video. I will gladly publish them.

Tucker Carlson has done segments on Tuesday and Wednesday extolling the virtues of concealed carry in the city of Detroit.

I invite you to watch:

The average police response time for a high priority 911 call is 14.5 minutes.  That is the average, in poor neighborhoods, some people can wait for more than an hour for the police to respond.

Without a way to defend themselves, these people have little to no chance of being helped by the police.

While Detroit has its problems and is often picked on, it’s conditions are not unique.  Other major Democrat cities have the same issues on the “bad side of town” and have the same impending budget shortfalls that have caused Detroit to have one third the police the city needs.

Detroit is simply a glimpse 10-20 years into the future for many deep Blue cities.  Los Angeles is one that is starting to catch up.

What is unique is the Detroit Chief of Police acknowledging the problems and encourage concealed carry for self-defense.  I doubt many if any other Blue cities will do the same as their descent into perdition accelerates.

Let us review:

Katie Hill was a United States Congresswoman from California.  She is openly bisexual and was married to a man.  Sometime around the start of her campaign, she began engaging in a sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer eight years her junior, which she described as a “trouple.”

She and her husband divorced.  During that time, she allegedly had sex with a male Congressional staffer who is on her official Congressional payroll.  Hill allegedly paid this staffer and her a bonus and paid additional funds to her female throuple staffer.

According to the rules of the House:

Rule XXIII – Code Of Official Conduct
There is hereby established by and for the House the following code of conduct, to be known as the “Code of Official Conduct”:

18. (a) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not engage in a sexual relationship with any employee of the House who works under the supervision of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, or who is an employee of a committee on which the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner serves. This paragraph does not apply with respect to any relationship between two people who are married to each other.

(b) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may not engage in unwelcome sexual advances or conduct towards another Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House.

(c) In this clause, the term ‘employee’ includes an applicant for employment, a paid or unpaid intern (including an applicant for an internship), a detailee, and an individual participating in a fellowship program.

By all accounts, Katie Hill broke the rules of the house which prompted an Ethics Committee investigation.

According to Red State and the reporter who broke the story, the photos that were released were done so to verify the allegations.  Red State claims that there were many more photos but they held them back as the purpose of the release was evidence not shaming.

RedState was also provided with intimate photographs of the women, which we have chosen not to publish.

What was published was censored.

These are the facts in evidence.

The Washington Post decided to ask the rhetorical question “what if Hill were a man?”  And decided that the patriarchy would let it slide.

Analysis: Revenge porn drove Katie Hill out of Congress. Would that have happened to a man? https://t.co/YVLDx4IYIZ

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 30, 2019

Noted legal and ethical scholar Alyssa Milano was asked on CNN by the runt of the Cuomo litter about Hill, and she came to the same conclusion.

Actress @Alyssa_Milano: “If Katie Hill were a man,” he wouldn’t have needed to resign for having an affair with a staffer in violation of House rules.

"I do wish that she would have fought a little harder. I would have fought by her side." pic.twitter.com/0ZdfEdYQxG

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 30, 2019

Did we need any more evidence that #MeToo was a load of horseshit?

Yes, the powerful men in Hollywood and the media who abused women for years needed to be run out of town on a rail and possibly sent to prison.  I’m not arguing against that.

That as soon as it turned into a movement with a hashtag, it morphed from legitimate into partisan activist bullshit.

Congresswoman Hill broke the rules of the House, possibly violated campaign finance law, and used her position of authority to sexually manipulate subordinates.

Yet, rather than treat her the way the #MeToo movement treated all those men, they rush to her defense and make her into the victim.

The only standard here is a double standard.

At time of publishing, there are 3 Pro Gun bills and 22 Gun Control bills in our Legislature.

I will make several posts doing my IANAL analysis of the bills soon.  Ladies and Gents, it does nt look good. It is time to put up or shut the hell up.

Cory Booker was on The View when Meghan McCain asked him how he was planning on enforcing his mandatory buyback and he twisted about like a fish on a line, waffled, and then started to cry.

Also, he got everything that he thought was a fact, wrong.

Sen. @CoryBooker shares his impassioned stance on gun control, and explains his support of mandatory buybacks.

“We can find the evidence-based way to accomplish this as a country, other countries have done it — we did it with machine guns.” https://t.co/f8u2wc159S pic.twitter.com/7bCRADdGXK

— The View (@TheView) October 30, 2019

“Machine guns we don’t have on the streets anymore because in the 1980s we banned them.”

No…

Machine guns were made NFA items in 1934 and in 1986 the law was changed to stop the transfer of new machine guns as per the NFA. The government stopped issuing tax stamps on new full-auto serial numbers.

There were never any legally owned machine guns “on our streets” and we didn’t ban them and get them off the streets in the 1980s.

Is it too much to ask that a United States Senator know the law, at least a little bit?

Then he says that people saying Beto will have the police will go to your house and get your gun is fear-mongering.  Except that Beto has said exactly that.

Australia and New Zealand had more restrictive gun laws than the US prior to the Port Arthur and Chistchurch shootings which made enforcement of the buyback possible.  Also, the populations of those countries are much lower than ours and they lack the gun culture that America has.

The idea that tens of millions of law-abiding gun owners, who bought their guns legally are just going to say “This gun I’ve owned and shot recreationally for years is illegal now, I guess I’m going to go down to the buyback and get my three hundred bucks for it” is (and I’m being technical here) fucking ridiculous.

Then, because he doesn’t have an answer for McCain’s continued aksing how he’s going to get some gun nut in the middle of Arizona (or Texas, or Alabama, or any Red state) to give up his AR-15, Booker starts to cry.

Listen to the tone of his voice, he sounds like he’s about to start sobbing.

He can be as emotional as he wants, that still doesn’t explain how his buyback will work.

Anybody who thinks that a crying vegan can take Americans’ guns away by passing a law has another thing coming.

Lastly, South Park got it right back in Season 6, not eating meat turns a person into a giant pussy.