Gun Free Zone

There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

Perspectives on the Constitution: A Republic, If You Can Keep It

And yes, we are a Republic with a Democratic process included, but that is not what she is aiming at. She is after the Democracy I grew up with in which we did not elect representatives but and elected royalty. A Democracy in which the people voted itself clear of human rights and the ability not only to live in peace but to live free.  A democracy where the constitutions are re-written and interpreted as the Elected Royals see fit for their purpose because the people gave them absolute power via the democratic vote.  The people voted very democratically and elected their executioners.

The US has a very unique way of government: No matter how many votes you collect, our rights cannot be voted out of the Bill of Rights. This is something so very hard to understand in other countries. If the Many need something and a majority vote, the individual must endure for the good of the many.  The very traditional nd imbued American concept of saying “F*** you! It is my right”, flip two birds and walk away ignoring the wishes of the majority is unheard of outside the US where the diabolical “Vox Populi Vox Dei” (The voice of the people is the voice of God.) is what the puppeteers use to rule the people. Speak against this dictum from above and you are to b shunned and punished, ostracized as some sort of selfish evil creature who does not care for others.

Do you want to know something funny? I think I have voted more times as US Citizen than as a Venezuelan. I know I voted the first time in 1978 and my last was in 1988 for a total of three elections. After the soft coup which knocked down President Perez, I figured I should not bother anymore and quit giving the idiots more power.

I became an US Citizen in 1999 and voted for the first time in 2000 and in the middle of the hanging chads controversy. And I have voted in every election ever since. That also makes for three Presidents and all the other elections in between for Congress, so at least what? Five or six elections?

And yes, God willing I am voting next year because I care for the Republic and I want to keep it.

Just happened so I may get another stay at Twitter Gulag.

I made a comment to The Miami Herald post and somebody came waving the latest slogan.

But it was the back up who arrived just in time to provide me with comic relief.

You learn to enjoy the little things in life.

I bumped into this video in Twitter:

The guy is taking or pretending to take a dump in the garbage can of the NY Subway. I did a bit more research and apparently this is some sort of art thing from a guy named Zeeshan Ali who says he is half Filipino and half Pakistani living in the Big Apple.

I also found this video in YouTube:

OK, I “understand” that you want to be trendy and viral and the hog’s tits in the art community (Or what passes for it in that location.) But when you directly affect the income of a hard worker for cheap images, you deserve a nice re-injection of what you have expelled via both holes.

I doubt that even the jaded New Yorkers will stop to buy a hot dog from a cart that has a guy taking a shit next to it.

One last thing: YouTube thinks our shooting videos are disgusting and gun people channels disappear because “Guns are bad. ‘Mkay?” But Faux Artist exposing himself and defecating in public? No problem.

After I am done with the Ham Radio license study (going slower than I thought. Life and crap) I think I want to try some basic lock picking, There is this guy in YouTube, The LockpickingLawyer  who has a hundreds of videos picking all kinds of locks and showing their weakness. He is also a gun guy so gun locks are in his menu (not a big fan of the stuff out there). Lock picking requires finesse and a bit of patience to get good at it which happens to be a good thing because average criminal is not fine or patient. I say this because the ease which this guy open locks and points out the manufacturing sales will make you bobytrap your doors in order to go to sleep.

There are inexpensive pick sets with training locks in Amazon and I think I may get me one for my birthday.

And one thing I will do is NOT tell anybody I know how to pick locks. You know there will be one asshole who will try to pin some crap they did on you.

Stole it from a Facebook friend who lives in a city in the Midwest. It is at a Aldi store.

Right after Trayvon Martin ceased all criminal activities, he was immortalized by a younger picture of him wearing a hoodie making him look almost angelical. The picture was used and abused by all who could get their mittens on it for their cause.

Wearing a hoodie became  (or tried to become) a sign of support for the TV cause also known as Hate The Stand Your Ground Law and any rejection to it wa labeled racist. I know I was called for my post about it by some when I pointed out that it was the way you wear it that makes you suspicious, not the fact itself yu are wearing it.

Unfortunately for the Political Left, the hoodie finally has come to represent the garb of the criminal…

And their violent political offspring

I am sure the store did not come to its decision lightly, but they are forced to mitigate somewhat future lawsuits the next time they are robbed by armed thugs wearing hoodies to cover their faces for the cameras.

From Vice:

You Can Definitely Skip Dave Chappelle’s New Netflix Special ‘Sticks & Stones’
The comedian doubles down on misogyny and transphobia in both the special and the hidden bonus scene that follows.

So it’s super not-woke.  Count me in, that sounds great.

Dave Chappelle made a return to Netflix Monday with a new stand-up special, Sticks & Stones. Fans quickly realized that, if you watch until the very end, the special has a secret epilogue called “The Punchline,” where Chappelle answers questions from audience members who went to his separate Dave Chappelle on Broadway stand-up show last July. The special takes the comic’s anti-wokeness schtick to a new level, and the whole thing is repetitive and exhausting enough that it’s a slog to even make it to the Q&A.

Alright, I can’t wait to see it now.

Chapelle’s controversial 2017 Netflix specials, like The Age of Spin: Dave Chappelle Live at the Hollywood Palladium and Equanimity and the Bird Revelation, honed his voice as a comedian wary of progressive criticism.

Dave Chappelle wants none of Vice’s comedy destroying bullshit and that is driving them mad.  Chappelle is not letting them have the power over him that they want to have.

Chappelle also returned to his now-infamous obsession with making fun of trans people, saying, “[trans people] hate my fucking guts and I don’t blame them. […] I can’t stop writing jokes about these niggas.” This time, those jokes included asking the audience how funny it would be if he was actually a Chinese person stuck inside a Black man’s body, which (you guessed it) also included a racist impression of a Chinese person.

You can sense the triggering of the Vice writers like a disturbance in the force.

He also found time to defend fellow controversial comedians Kevin Hart and Louis C.K., painting them as victims of an overzealous callout culture.

Callout culture against comedians is pure Stalinist bullshit.

He says that a white woman left one of his practice sets for the special at The Punchline comedy club in San Francisco, telling him, “I’m sorry, I was raped.” Chappelle says he replied saying, “It’s not your fault you were raped. But it’s not my fault either. Ta-ta, bitch,” to which the audience laughs raucously, as though that were a real punchline.

It is.  That woman has no right to use her traumatic experience to shut down Chappelle’s standup routine and ruin the night for everyone else who paid good money to see Dave Chappelle.  Chappelle didn’t let this woman’s feelings override his act.

These people only have power over you if you let them have power over you, and Chappelle has made it clear that he won’t let them have power over him.

Chappelle has always been a daredevil comedian willing to take a controversial stance or downplay a serious controversy for laughs, including his early-2000s skits about R. Kelly’s court trials on Chappelle’s Show. But now he chooses to blatantly ignore the historic criticism against his style of comedy and new loud-and-clear criticism from the trans community. His approach comes off like a defiant rejection of change at any cost. As he keeps going down this path, drawing attention to the worst aspects of his important career, the biggest cost will be tarnishing his own legacy.

His legacy will be that he is probably the best stand up comedian of his generation.  He will rank up there with the likes of Richard Prior and (young) George Carlin.  Comedians who let themselves be browbeaten into woke blandness will be quickly forgotten.

Contrast that with this other article from Vice.

Comedians Explain Why Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Nanette’ Is So Groundbreaking

Pro-tip, if someone has to explain comedy, it wasn’t funny.

The special, if you haven’t seen it, starts out like most others. Gadsby delves into her personal life, and packs vulnerable material about coming out and being a lesbian with plenty of jokes, in order to do what all comics aim to do—lighten the mood. However, as her performance continues it gets more blunt. She comments on the nature of self-deprecating humor, stating that self-deprecation from someone who already exists in the margins is not humility, “It’s humiliation.”

Comedians don’t “lighten the mood” they make you laugh.  If she doesn’t make you laugh, she failed at comedy.

Gadsby proclaims multiple times that she feels she has to quit standup. In her eyes, things like abuse and discrimination should not be turned into jokes. She brilliantly points out how standup has been guilty of helping problematic men. During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Lewinsky was turned into a punchline, and her life was ruined. Gadsby asks comedians to think about their involvement in situations like this.

Gadsby wants to police comedy because she didn’t find other comedians’ jokes funny.  That tells you all you need to know about her level of woke.

Every comedian that they interviewed about Nanette looks exactly like what you would expect a woke, Progressive scold to look like.

So what was so groundbreaking about Nanette?

“NANETTE” AND WHY A NEW WAVE OF COMEDIANS DON’T WANT TO BE FUNNY

Yep, they are comedians who are not funny.

Vice is berating Dave Chappelle for being gut-bustingly funny with jokes Vice doesn’t approve of and elevates a comedian who doesn’t want to be funny and wants other comedians to not be funny either.

I am reminded of a quote by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini:

Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.

This is why Progressives love Islamists, they have the same fundamental beliefs.

The aim of life is for humankind to be put to the test through identifying oppression. A Progressive regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Progressivism. There is no humor in Progressivism. There is no fun in Progressivism. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.

Chapelle’s new set will be hilarious and he will make a whopping shit-load of money from it.  He will be remembered as a legend of comedy.

Vice doesn’t want you to watch him or laugh at his jokes because they offend the writers of Vice.