Guns only kill if someone uses them to do so. The gun isn’t the problem.
SHERIFF T.K. WATERS: "The story is always about guns — people are bad — this guy's a bad guy. If I could take my gun off right now, and I lay it on this counter, nothing will happen. It'll sit there — but as soon as wicked person grabs ahold of that handgun and starts shooting… pic.twitter.com/NNSziC4Vs5
“Well, we have to stop people that have bad intentions. Guns … the story’s always about guns. It’s … the people are bad. This guy’s a bad guy. If I could take my gun off right now and lay it on this counter, nothing will happen. It’ll sit there, but as soon as a wicked person grabs ahold of that handgun and starts shooting people with it, there’s the problem. The problem is the individual. Now, guns are a tool that people use to do horrible things, but it’s the individuals that wield these things. So we are working hard to try to stop that, but in this situation, in this case, there was nothing illegal about him owning the firearms.”
Amen…please let's stop placating and encouraging violent crime by diverting blame and avoiding punishment that serves society and as a deterrent. https://t.co/56bxWV6W6j
#BREAKING "I'm gonna take all of you out!" – Nevada Rangers ram through climate protest blockade, point a gun at an activists as they smash them onto the ground for arrest after group @7seven_circles shut down BURNING MAN
…This was reportedly while Archer was on the Burisma board. It adds yet another high-level contact with government officials. It is not clear what the purpose of the making was but it is another reason why it is up to the House to get these answers. https://t.co/ZFj1XQuaBJ
BREAKING: While he was Secretary of State, John Kerry met with Burisma board member and Hunter Biden partner Devin Archer at the State department just weeks before the prosecutor in Ukraine investigating Burisma was fired.
Mike Pence: "I remain confident, more confident after Wednesday night that the Republican nominee will not be the former President."
Why isn't Pence concerned about Biden politicizing the DOJ to go after the leading Republican Presidential Nominee, Donald Trump? pic.twitter.com/Q5BO59lX4s
“Some truths are so staggering in their ramifications that Americans simply shrug and tune them out as if strangers in a strange land.
Is their current bewilderment because modernist America is unrecognizable —a nonexistent border, downtown homeless juxtaposed to hipster professional elites, DEI racial essentialism, cities reverting to precivilizational wastelands, millions exiting blue states to red, an FBI and DOJ gone rogue, the normalization of violent theft and assault, biologically born men sandbagging women’s sports and their locker room privacy?
We are reaching the point where the once unbelievable has become the banal, as a single generation has done its best to undo the work of a prior 12 generations. Consider the following:
Three leftwing prosecutors are criminalizing politics with more than 90 simultaneous indictments of Donald Trump, the ex-president and currently the leading Republican primary candidate. While New York prosecutor Letitia James is hounding Trump with a $250 million state lawsuit against the Trump organization and family, on the pretense of supposedly Trump overvaluing his real estate and filing inaccurate financial statements.
Is there any Mafia don, mass murderer, or terrorist who has faced so many indictments or suits in so many jurisdictions at almost the same time?
The prosecutors’ immediate lawfare agendas seem transparent enough. They wish to bankrupt candidate Trump with endless legal costs, and humiliate him with his mugshot blasted over the Internet, and put endless Lilliputian legal ropes over a shackled candidate Gulliver, and inflate the ego and agendas of local prosecutors, and purportedly earn Trump empathy enough to win the nomination only to be hemorrhaged with still more indictments, gag orders, and court appearances to bleed him out in the general election.
Americans ask themselves questions whose answers are never given. Why are all these Trump prosecutors leftwing or with Democratic connections?
Would any of the 90 something indictments for “crimes” of years past have been lodged against a citizen Trump who had retired from politics?
Why are these indictments of alleged wrongdoing of years ago now in summer 2023 suddenly both being synchronized in leftwing jurisdictions of New York, Washington, Miami, and Atlanta with the beginning of the 2024 election cycle?
Are any of the indictments against Trump also applicable to others?
Alvin Bragg’s charge of campaign finance violations (Hillary Clinton, 2016)?
Jack Smith’s allegations of encouraging mass civil unrest (Kamala Harris, 2020)?
Illegally removing and possessing classified federal documents (Joe Biden 2009-2022)?
Fani Willis’s claim that Trump was seeking to sabotage the constitutional duties of state electors (Martin Sheen, and an array of B-list Hollywood actors, 2016) and colluding to interfere with an election (Fani Willis 2003-4)?
Will any losing Republican candidate in a contested election any longer question the integrity of questionable balloting—in the manner of Vice President Al Gore in 2000, Sen. Barbara Boxer and 32 Democratic congressional representatives in 2004, candidate Jill Stein or Hillary Clinton in 2016, or Stacey Abrams 2018—and thereby risk financially and career-crimpling indictments?
Will conservative district attorneys in places like Wyoming, Alabama, or West Virginia now seek to indict a Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or Gavin Newsom to earn notoriety, to weaken the opposing party, and to leapfrog to higher office in the manner that we should expect a Fani Willis or Alvin Bragg to be currently planning?
When Republicans retake the Congress and White House, will they begin indicting all the weaponized prosecutors who colluded to exempt a grifting Hunter Biden for five years? Will they try Joe Biden as a private citizen for his prior corruption over the last 15 years?
Why would Donald Trump believe the 2020 election was “rigged?” Was he cribbing that belief from liberal journalist Molly Ball’s braggadocious 2021 Time essay? After all, she outlined what she called a leftwing “cabal” and “conspiracy” to change voting laws, turn on/turn off the 2020 Antifa/BLM street protests, absorb the work of registrars, and suppress unwelcome social media news.
Was it more morally suspect to question the ethics surrounding the election year 2020 or for Mark Zuckerberg to infuse $419 million to absorb in asymmetrical fashion the work of the registrars in key swing precincts?”
—
“Mainstreaming Corruption
There have been a few corrupt presidents in our past, who (as in the case of Lyndon Johnson) left office far richer than when they entered or were surrounded by rogues (Grant and Harding) or were masters of leveraging and grifting long-term contracts and networks in their lame duck tenures to ensure their impending multimillionaire status the day they left office (the Clintons and Obamas).
But never in memory has an entire extended presidential family been involved in selling influence for millions of dollars in quid pro quo lucre—the vast majority of such ill-gotten gains likely untaxed, by being channeled through sham companies, foreign deposits, fake names and alias email accounts.
Never has a corrupt presidential family itself offered so much proof of its own guilt. Do the Democrats have any idea of the smelly Biden albatross hanging about their collective necks?
How much longer can they continue to dismiss the communications on the Hunter Biden laptop?
Or the testimonies of IRS whistleblowers?
Or the assertions of Biden family business associates?
Or the statements of relevant Ukrainian oligarchs?
Or the latest assertions of Viktor Shokin?
Or the extraordinary efforts of the Bidens to stonewall subpoenaed documents, use fake names and shadow email accounts, compromise federal prosecutors, appoint sham special counsels, and use media toadies to the point of embarrassment to hide the ugly truth?
In sum, what were the Bidens so afraid of that prompted them to corrupt the DOJ and FBI to stonewall any discussion of the huge cash infusions that came from abroad into their family coffers?
Americans have impeached or nearly impeached presidents before for abuse of power, lying under oath, or supposedly using government to pursue their own personal agendas or harass their enemies.
But never has a president been so clearly compromised by bribery from shady foreign government-related grandees in expectation of favorable treatment.
In other words, there is growing evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden, and likely Jim Biden as well, made millions of dollars on the hopes that then Vice President Biden, and perhaps one day a future president Biden, would alter or compromise U.S. foreign policy on the expectation of getting rich.
The State Department’s Ukraine team deemed Viktor Shokin making progress in rooting out corruption. So why did Joe Biden without consultation fire him? Did Biden put his own financial interests above the country’s—in a fashion that the Founders worried was impeachable “treason?”
If the current investigations are not halted or compromised, we may soon learn why the Constitution explicitly specified bribery and treason as an ironclad cause for impeachment.
Can Americans even comprehend that they have elected a dishonest man to the presidency who is protected by his own senility, his decades-long everyman construct of ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton, his usefulness as a prop to the radical leftwing agenda, and the defensive and offensive weaponization of the criminal justice system?
Can Americans digest that instead of campaigning against Donald Trump, outdebating him, outspending him, and outfoxing him, their government must unleash kindred prosecutors to destroy Trump by blowing up the entire tradition of blind American jurisprudence?
Are the media and left claiming that to save the rule of law from Trump, they must first destroy it?”
JUST IN: Judge sets March 4 trial date in Trump's federal election subversion case, one day before the Super Tuesday primaries in the 2024 presidential race. Follow live updates. https://t.co/6QksL6btYU
What makes this extra amusing is that the "Rangers" are Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police, and the backed up traffic is for Burning Man. Native American cops busting up a standoff between two tribes of white progressives is straight up comedy gold https://t.co/YQzvVmTuo2
I guess that’s true, if you refuse to look at the evidence….
Rep. @RoKhanna : There is "not a single shred of evidence that a single payment went to President Biden" from Hunter's business deals pic.twitter.com/28JFr7moL5
There is however evidence the Biden family setup dozens of shell companies in the names of various family members & routed bribes into those accounts https://t.co/Clz3XL8MTO
[Last] Wednesday, nearly 90 Democrats joined a letter to Biden asking him to use “additional tools” to “cancel student debt by early 2024.” Should the president do so, 13 signatories or their relatives who in 2022 held loans could reap a windfall.
That includes Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar, Bowman, Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Nikema Williams (D-GA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), and Greg Casar (D-TX). Separately, Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT) disclosed up to $250,000 in loans through the Education Department and didn’t sign the document.
Meng, who has posted on social media that “in order for our country to thrive, we must #cancelstudentdebt,” reported on her 2022 disclosure that her spouse owes up to $250,000.
Escobar similarly reported on her latest filing up to $250,000 worth in loans through her spouse and a joint trust, with Williams also listing up to $250,000 in debt. Bowman, who described last year how he “had to take out thousands in student loans” and called on Biden to “cancel student loan debt,” owes $250,000 in student loans, according to his 2022 disclosure.
Then there’s the other “Squad” members, who have reported student loan debts of up to $200,000 combined. Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, owes up to $50,000.
In June, the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s first attempt at bailing out student loan debt, which would’ve canceled up to $20k in loans for borrowers with federal loans. The Department of Education estimated that this plan would cost $379 billion, while a UPenn study put it closer to half a trillion dollars.
More importantly, Biden has expressed no interest in actually combating the root cause of the student debt crisis; skyrocketing college tuition. Even if Biden did get the original debt bailout he desired, national student loan debt would skyrocket past it’s pre-cancelation peak within only a few years.
Wandering Views 
Climate change lies from the lying media.
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Reality.
Guns only kill if someone uses them to do so. The gun isn’t the problem.
“Well, we have to stop people that have bad intentions. Guns … the story’s always about guns. It’s … the people are bad. This guy’s a bad guy. If I could take my gun off right now and lay it on this counter, nothing will happen. It’ll sit there, but as soon as a wicked person grabs ahold of that handgun and starts shooting people with it, there’s the problem. The problem is the individual. Now, guns are a tool that people use to do horrible things, but it’s the individuals that wield these things. So we are working hard to try to stop that, but in this situation, in this case, there was nothing illegal about him owning the firearms.”
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One story the press has grabbed and run with, it fits the narrative about evil white supremacists with guns they want to push.
These?
Buried by the same press, for obvious reasons.
Here’s another mass shooting, same day.
But a black shooter doesn’t fit their narrative, so poof, it’s gone, relegated to a “local news story” the national press will ignore.
https://people.com/4-dead-after-georgia-mass-shooting-7561677
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This is how you deal with the environuts.
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Remember this when they tell you that you need to start masking again.
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Everything old is new again.
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Hello?
Republicans?
#USELESS GOP
And remember, they impeached Trump for digging into this.
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I can answer this….
Because he’s useless.
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Truth.
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“We Have the Jacksonville Shooter’s Manifesto But Not the One Belonging to the Nashville School Shooter”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/we-have-the-jacksonville-shooters-manifesto-but-not-the-one-belonging-to-the-nashville-school-shooter/
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VDH nails it again.
“Save the Rule of Law By Destroying It?
We’re reaching the point where the once unbelievable has become the banal”
“Some truths are so staggering in their ramifications that Americans simply shrug and tune them out as if strangers in a strange land.
Is their current bewilderment because modernist America is unrecognizable —a nonexistent border, downtown homeless juxtaposed to hipster professional elites, DEI racial essentialism, cities reverting to precivilizational wastelands, millions exiting blue states to red, an FBI and DOJ gone rogue, the normalization of violent theft and assault, biologically born men sandbagging women’s sports and their locker room privacy?
We are reaching the point where the once unbelievable has become the banal, as a single generation has done its best to undo the work of a prior 12 generations. Consider the following:
Three leftwing prosecutors are criminalizing politics with more than 90 simultaneous indictments of Donald Trump, the ex-president and currently the leading Republican primary candidate. While New York prosecutor Letitia James is hounding Trump with a $250 million state lawsuit against the Trump organization and family, on the pretense of supposedly Trump overvaluing his real estate and filing inaccurate financial statements.
Is there any Mafia don, mass murderer, or terrorist who has faced so many indictments or suits in so many jurisdictions at almost the same time?
The prosecutors’ immediate lawfare agendas seem transparent enough. They wish to bankrupt candidate Trump with endless legal costs, and humiliate him with his mugshot blasted over the Internet, and put endless Lilliputian legal ropes over a shackled candidate Gulliver, and inflate the ego and agendas of local prosecutors, and purportedly earn Trump empathy enough to win the nomination only to be hemorrhaged with still more indictments, gag orders, and court appearances to bleed him out in the general election.
Americans ask themselves questions whose answers are never given. Why are all these Trump prosecutors leftwing or with Democratic connections?
Would any of the 90 something indictments for “crimes” of years past have been lodged against a citizen Trump who had retired from politics?
Why are these indictments of alleged wrongdoing of years ago now in summer 2023 suddenly both being synchronized in leftwing jurisdictions of New York, Washington, Miami, and Atlanta with the beginning of the 2024 election cycle?
Are any of the indictments against Trump also applicable to others?
Alvin Bragg’s charge of campaign finance violations (Hillary Clinton, 2016)?
Jack Smith’s allegations of encouraging mass civil unrest (Kamala Harris, 2020)?
Illegally removing and possessing classified federal documents (Joe Biden 2009-2022)?
Letitia James’s lawsuit alleging financial irregularities and fraud (Al Sharpton 2009-2014)?
Fani Willis’s claim that Trump was seeking to sabotage the constitutional duties of state electors (Martin Sheen, and an array of B-list Hollywood actors, 2016) and colluding to interfere with an election (Fani Willis 2003-4)?
Will any losing Republican candidate in a contested election any longer question the integrity of questionable balloting—in the manner of Vice President Al Gore in 2000, Sen. Barbara Boxer and 32 Democratic congressional representatives in 2004, candidate Jill Stein or Hillary Clinton in 2016, or Stacey Abrams 2018—and thereby risk financially and career-crimpling indictments?
Will conservative district attorneys in places like Wyoming, Alabama, or West Virginia now seek to indict a Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or Gavin Newsom to earn notoriety, to weaken the opposing party, and to leapfrog to higher office in the manner that we should expect a Fani Willis or Alvin Bragg to be currently planning?
When Republicans retake the Congress and White House, will they begin indicting all the weaponized prosecutors who colluded to exempt a grifting Hunter Biden for five years? Will they try Joe Biden as a private citizen for his prior corruption over the last 15 years?
Why would Donald Trump believe the 2020 election was “rigged?” Was he cribbing that belief from liberal journalist Molly Ball’s braggadocious 2021 Time essay? After all, she outlined what she called a leftwing “cabal” and “conspiracy” to change voting laws, turn on/turn off the 2020 Antifa/BLM street protests, absorb the work of registrars, and suppress unwelcome social media news.
Was it more morally suspect to question the ethics surrounding the election year 2020 or for Mark Zuckerberg to infuse $419 million to absorb in asymmetrical fashion the work of the registrars in key swing precincts?”
—
“Mainstreaming Corruption
There have been a few corrupt presidents in our past, who (as in the case of Lyndon Johnson) left office far richer than when they entered or were surrounded by rogues (Grant and Harding) or were masters of leveraging and grifting long-term contracts and networks in their lame duck tenures to ensure their impending multimillionaire status the day they left office (the Clintons and Obamas).
But never in memory has an entire extended presidential family been involved in selling influence for millions of dollars in quid pro quo lucre—the vast majority of such ill-gotten gains likely untaxed, by being channeled through sham companies, foreign deposits, fake names and alias email accounts.
Never has a corrupt presidential family itself offered so much proof of its own guilt. Do the Democrats have any idea of the smelly Biden albatross hanging about their collective necks?
How much longer can they continue to dismiss the communications on the Hunter Biden laptop?
Or the testimonies of IRS whistleblowers?
Or the assertions of Biden family business associates?
Or the statements of relevant Ukrainian oligarchs?
Or the latest assertions of Viktor Shokin?
Or the extraordinary efforts of the Bidens to stonewall subpoenaed documents, use fake names and shadow email accounts, compromise federal prosecutors, appoint sham special counsels, and use media toadies to the point of embarrassment to hide the ugly truth?
In sum, what were the Bidens so afraid of that prompted them to corrupt the DOJ and FBI to stonewall any discussion of the huge cash infusions that came from abroad into their family coffers?
Americans have impeached or nearly impeached presidents before for abuse of power, lying under oath, or supposedly using government to pursue their own personal agendas or harass their enemies.
But never has a president been so clearly compromised by bribery from shady foreign government-related grandees in expectation of favorable treatment.
In other words, there is growing evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden, and likely Jim Biden as well, made millions of dollars on the hopes that then Vice President Biden, and perhaps one day a future president Biden, would alter or compromise U.S. foreign policy on the expectation of getting rich.
The State Department’s Ukraine team deemed Viktor Shokin making progress in rooting out corruption. So why did Joe Biden without consultation fire him? Did Biden put his own financial interests above the country’s—in a fashion that the Founders worried was impeachable “treason?”
If the current investigations are not halted or compromised, we may soon learn why the Constitution explicitly specified bribery and treason as an ironclad cause for impeachment.
Can Americans even comprehend that they have elected a dishonest man to the presidency who is protected by his own senility, his decades-long everyman construct of ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton, his usefulness as a prop to the radical leftwing agenda, and the defensive and offensive weaponization of the criminal justice system?
Can Americans digest that instead of campaigning against Donald Trump, outdebating him, outspending him, and outfoxing him, their government must unleash kindred prosecutors to destroy Trump by blowing up the entire tradition of blind American jurisprudence?
Are the media and left claiming that to save the rule of law from Trump, they must first destroy it?”
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Hypocritical idiots with a political agenda.
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This is what election interference looks like.
twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1696220024342725045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1696220024342725045%7Ctwgr%5Ec084cfbfe6477e6717d7f99444a382dbd0a92d95%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp%2F2023%2F08%2F28%2Fglenn-beck-asks-how-is-this-not-election-interference-n2386656
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Now that they have their trillion dollar payoff, it’s safe to admit the truth about it.
It was never about inflation reduction, which is why it didn’t decrease inflation. It’s a special interest payoff.
And when they go bankrupt in Solyndra fashion, remember, it’s a payoff, and designed to work that way…. after all the fed money is spent, of course….
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Election interference……
Trump will need all of his magical powers to pull this one off.
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I guess that’s true, if you refuse to look at the evidence….
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Conflict of interest anyone ????
[Last] Wednesday, nearly 90 Democrats joined a letter to Biden asking him to use “additional tools” to “cancel student debt by early 2024.” Should the president do so, 13 signatories or their relatives who in 2022 held loans could reap a windfall.
That includes Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar, Bowman, Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Nikema Williams (D-GA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), and Greg Casar (D-TX). Separately, Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT) disclosed up to $250,000 in loans through the Education Department and didn’t sign the document.
Meng, who has posted on social media that “in order for our country to thrive, we must #cancelstudentdebt,” reported on her 2022 disclosure that her spouse owes up to $250,000.
Escobar similarly reported on her latest filing up to $250,000 worth in loans through her spouse and a joint trust, with Williams also listing up to $250,000 in debt. Bowman, who described last year how he “had to take out thousands in student loans” and called on Biden to “cancel student loan debt,” owes $250,000 in student loans, according to his 2022 disclosure.
Then there’s the other “Squad” members, who have reported student loan debts of up to $200,000 combined. Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, owes up to $50,000.
In June, the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s first attempt at bailing out student loan debt, which would’ve canceled up to $20k in loans for borrowers with federal loans. The Department of Education estimated that this plan would cost $379 billion, while a UPenn study put it closer to half a trillion dollars.
More importantly, Biden has expressed no interest in actually combating the root cause of the student debt crisis; skyrocketing college tuition. Even if Biden did get the original debt bailout he desired, national student loan debt would skyrocket past it’s pre-cancelation peak within only a few years.
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