The Trump indictment in Florida is only the warm-up act. Next the “special counsel” will indict Trump over J6:

As my friend @julie_kelly2 is warning everyone, you’re mad about the baby charges Trump is facing in Florida next week when you should really be concerned about the big boy felonies they’re gonna charge him with in D.C. next month. That’s the coup de grâce.

Scary times.

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) June 9, 2023

I told you all of this back in April:

Perhaps the worst take I’ve seen on the Bragg indictment was on this site: Alvin Bragg Just Elected Donald Trump. Take off the rose-colored glasses and look around you … half the voters in this country, the Blue half, want their political opponents put in jail.

The Bragg indictment is just the beginning. Georgia is going to indict Trump … you know the grand jury headed by that woke forewoman who told the regime-media that she fantasizes about personally serving a subpoena on Trump … on bogus charges too.

And the Biden-regime’s totally corrupt DOJ is going to indict Trump on bogus charges too.

And if somehow Trump … despite all these political prosecutions, and despite elections in the crucial swing-States: AZ, GA, NV, PA being rigged … manages to win the general election, the Left will ASSASSINATE him. They will kill him rather than allow him to become President again.

But this post is not to say “I told you so” (although I just did) … it’s to note how disgustingly and pathetically shortsighted and self-serving certain “GOP” are in giving this latest salvo of mud from the USDOJ any legitimacy whatsoever. They are also deluded if they believe that the political prosecutions will stop with Trump. Indeed, the delusion is such that they probably also have convinced themselves that “there’s a lot of good stuff” in the disastrous excuse for a budget just passed by the supposedly GOP-majority NH-legislature.

 

 

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Under a post over at LifeHacker is this title: The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What is ‘Bed Rotting’?

I’ve heard of the young Chinese doing “laying flat” (rebelling against the notion that they MUST STRIVE to do their best to help The State!). I have heard about “quit quitting” by the young (as opposed to “retiring in place” by those close to that age in merely “going through the motions”) that they only do the least amount necessary to keep from getting fired – never striving to do their best.

And the subtitle to the post just made me angry: It’s a little like “wasting away,” but as a self-care strategy.

Sure thing, you twits for children – that’s just plain lazy. But notice the self-justification of trying to call it something else to make themselves feel better. This is the Self-Esteem and Participation (or is it NON-participation?) Trophy movements meant for children but now employed by the Twenty/Thirty-something twits?

Emphasis mine, reformatted:

This week, all children and young people are rotting in their beds, but it’s not due to illness, disgust, or unemployment. It’s the “new” trend of just not wanting to do anything because that takes effort. (Relatable.)

Bed rotting, JOMO, and the rise of cosy [sic]
I may be a crusty old bastard, but I feel a kinship with Generation Z when it comes to “bed rotting.” These young people are making doing nothing into a lifestyle and I am fully onboard. Bed rotting is big on TikTok and the practice is part of a larger movement that includes JOMO (joy of missing out) and an appreciation for all things cozy.

Bed rotting differs from “hiding from the world” or “suffering from overwhelming depression” in the intentional way it’s practiced. When you’re bed rotting, it’s not that you’re unable to face the world; you’ve chosen not to. It’s about happily saying “f*** all that” to the outside world and instead, choosing to lay down, eat your favorite food, binge a TV show, and pet your cat instead. Whether it’s done for a few hours after work or school, or for days at a time, bed rotting is not being lazy. It’s practicing self-care.

NOTHING in that explanation makes much sense to me other than we are now seeing a bunch of over-aged entitled adults believing that they can do nothing for themselves.  And I bet there’s a host of “enablers” behind them, patting them on the head like 4 year olds going “There, there, dears, you keep staring at the ceiling and thinking that you are the greatest in the world”.

Not being lazy?  It is the EPITOME of laziness!!!    Self-care?  No, self-delusion. It’s feeling sorry for your lazy A$$ for probably not much more than “Hey, Life’s is not what I thought it should be”. Welcome to the real world, you lay-a-bout.

Absolute rubbish and if it were my son or daughter, I’d be marching them down to Parris Island (US Marine Corp Boot Camp) in quick step, throwing them over the wire with a scream of “Rot, this! You lazy son of a sun-basking lizard. Do you think you’ve had a hard life?  Look at that Drill Instructor Sgt staring at you with a gleaming eye thinking to himself “THIS is gonna be fun!”.

In a way, bed-rotting is an aspect of JOMO, or “joy of missing out” in which one experiences fulfillment from consciously rejecting the demands and expectations of the outside world. The quietness of Gen-Z is also seen in the rise of coziness. Gamers are making best-sellers out of “cozy video games” like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing , and online spaces like Reddit’s “CozyPlaces” board are full of people fetishizing the coziest and most comfortable places on earth. Who wouldn’t want to bed rot here, am I right?

Yep, the young(er) parents that decided that being their kids “friends” are at fault for this instead of instilling into their child that most of the successes in life are motivation and willingness to forego instant gratification. Work Ethic?  What’s that (Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame must be fuming over this). Just the fact that the word “adulting” is a thing should drive the rest of us that know better absolutely livid.

Look, I get it – everyone needs a vacation once in a while but this is next level stupidity as it engenders an attitude of “Meh?  Who cares – nothing else is more important than what I’m feeling about myself” that eventually takes over for good

We first saw this rise up during the Obama era when unemployment became “funcation”. The Pandemic had Government become everybody’s sugar daddy and paid everyone to stay home and do nothing. This is just yet the next extension of that absolute soul-rotting nonsense.

And they haven’t realized that ramification yet.

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Apparently, former President (and current GOP presidential candidate) Donald Trump said that his poll (and fundraising) numbers have increased as a result of his being indicted for various supposed crimes.

I’m inclined to believe him.  I don’t really want Trump to be president — I don’t really want anyone to be president, with the possible exceptions of Ron Paul or John Valera– but the way all these career politicians and bureaucrats are losing their minds at the very possibility of his being elected makes him by far the most interesting candidate out there.

The more he’s indicted on obviously political charges, the more I feel like voting for him.  And if he’s convicted, that will probably clinch it.

My dream scenario is that Trump campaigns from prison in an orange jumpsuit with a campaign slogan like ‘If they can get me, they can get you.’  Then he wins and immediately pardons himself while still in prison.  And then sets about dismantling the federal agencies that helped land him there.

 

 

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Dear Friends –

As you may know, service and sacrifice for our nation is something that’s deeply personal to me. It is more than just wearing a uniform. Our nation’s Purple Heart recipients are a community of heroes bound together by the scars, both physical and emotional they carry as a result of their service.

We want to thank Don Bolduc for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Their stories need to be told and they deserve to know America remembers their sacrifice.

Today, I’m writing to ask for your support for a special program that pays tribute to their contribution to American freedom.

 

Later this year, the National Purple Heart Honor Mission, a fantastic nonprofit organization devoted to paying tribute to our Purple Heart recipients, will be hosting their 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project Mission. This unique event brings together Purple Heart honorees from across the nation for an all-expenses-paid trip to visit the historic birthplace of the Purple Heart, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the deeply moving National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, and other historic sites associated with the Purple Heart.

We want to thank Don Bolduc for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
you would like us to consider, please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

These emotional Patriot Project missions provide a unique opportunity for our Purple Heart heroes to connect with each other, share their stories, create new bonds and experience the appreciation of a grateful nation. Honorees have called it “a trip of a lifetime,” and “the homecoming we never had.”

Each Patriot Project mission costs about $250,000. That’s why I’m asking you to join me in helping make this happen for our Purple Heart heroes by CLICKING HERE and donating today.

My words cannot truly reflect the profound impact these events have on our heroes.  Click here to see for yourself  how these missions impact our Purple Heart recipients and hear first-hand the stories of valor they share on these missions.  I need your help to ensure this mission is funded.

For more than 25 years the National Purple Heart Honor Mission has been dedicated to paying tribute to our nation’s combat wounded through special outreach and educational programs. The organization was the driving force behind the establishment and later the expansion of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, it played a significant role in the creation of the Purple Heart Forever stamp and in 2020, they led the effort to pass through Congress the creation of the nation’s first U.S. Minted coins honoring our Purple Heart heroes.

They need your help today. Please give our heroes an incredible salute to their service and sacrifice. Donate today to support the 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project by visiting www.PurpleHeartMission.org.

Sincerely,
Brigadier General Donald C. Bolduc (USA Ret.)

SUPPORT OUR HEROES TODAY >>

The National Purple Heart Honor Mission is an approved 501(c)3 charity. All contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.

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Larry Fink is the CEO of Blackrock, the world’s largest “asset manager,” owning as of December, 2022 approximately $9 TRILLION of “assets,” e.g. STOCKS, which in plain English means Blackrock effectively controls  corporate-America. Here is Larry Fink, in 2017, talking about “FORCING” corporate-America to go WOKE:

It's all a conspiracy, they said. No one is trying to socially engineer corporate America, they said.

BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink: "You have to force behaviors…If [firms] don't force behaviors, whether it's gender or race…you're going to be impacted." pic.twitter.com/RDqtKOjQeM

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 5, 2023

What does what Blackrock … and firms like Blackrock … forcing ESG down consumers’ throats have to do with capitalism? Where’s the “private ownership of the means of production” where Fink and his ilk have the power to handpick who runs any corporation. How can we claim to have a free-market economy when the economy is actually controlled by a handful of people … the Finks, if you will.

This is oligarchy. America is an oligarchy.

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You’ll have heard the “news.” Hyperbolic predictions for another El Nina summer. My past reporting, and I’m no expert, suggests there’s no discernable pattern for temperature or precipitation even as that itty-bitty trace gas, CO2, has claimed a few parts per million.

Related: There’s No Evidence Connecting CO2 and Drought (Or NOAA and Predictions)

A degree of minutia not fully understood by the masses that look like this.

 

 

Everything weather, including NOAAs politicized interpretation, is based on 3% of the 0.04% despite no evidence of a correlation. With that in mind, let’s make fun of NOAA (again), which can “predict” the Earth’s climate 30-80 years into the future but has it rough when it comes to the next few months.

After blowing the 2022 hurricane season prediction, then missing winter for the entire west and left coast (they didn’t get ours right, but they were closer), NOAA dropped their summer of El Nina forecast last month. The Northeast is expected to have above-average temps, and precipitation was a tossup.

 

 

 

 

It is early, but they have missed both so far. It has been cooler and wetter around here, not warmer and drier. The forecast for the next ten days has a lot of rain and temps in the upper 60s to lower 70s with nighttime temps in the mid-50s. That’s not an alarming difference, but it is at or below average, not at or above. The advertised hotter-than-typical weather has yet to show its face beyond two days, followed by a week of wet, cold weather.

July and August get hot around here. As for rain, we are 15% above the one-hundred-year mean for annual precipitation through May.

So, to generalize the predictive nature of the Cult, the forecast is drought, with an increased chance of flooding, and high heat, except when it’s cool. Your emissions of a trace gas (a trace amount of that trace amount) in the vast and complex system that is Earth’s atmosphere are to blame.

And even though NOAA, nor any other expert, can guess anything with certainty, we must give up modernity to appease the future they’ve predicted that we all know is junk science and hogwash.

 

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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday.

 

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You Must Have Three Children!

 

 

I wish I could have more.

 

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Top of the fold:

10 Things You Should Do To Stop The Government From Tracking You – Ask a Prepper

Good list, but in practice it’s very difficult to do.  And, yes:

Doing the things I’ve mentioned in this article are likely to have unintended consequences. That is, they’re likely to make you look suspicious to anyone investigating you.

From the same site:

How To Become Untraceable When SHTF – Ask a Prepper

I’d reword: harder to trace, not totally untraceable.  Unless you go off-grid, completely, you can be traced with enough work / resources.  Related:

5 Things You Can Do If People Find Out You’re A Prepper – Ask a Prepper

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

A good ax and hatchet.

 

 

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SITREP sites:

I used to do a SITREP post as a separate, stand-alone.  I can’t afford that time any more.  Here are some “starter places” for sites that I routinely go to get info about what’s happening.  And then spend hours following rabbit holes.

The sidebar of my old blog, with links to other places.   redpilljew

Gates of Vienna

Doug Ross @ Journal (directorblue.blogspot.com)

The Other McCain

TheBlaze

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

Don’t Do This – Ask a Prepper

Good list.  From the same site:

Deinfluencing You: 14 Items You Should Stop Stockpiling Right Now – Ask a Prepper

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Bayou Renaissance Man: A few more thoughts on emergency preparedness

Potpourri of good ideas.

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

Spare Gun Parts All Preppers Should Have

 

 

A few other videos (links only):

A SURVIVAL GAME-CHANGER Most Preppers Don’t Even Think Of – YouTube

How Bad Will A Grid-Down Collapse Be For The Unprepared? (Podcast 440) – YouTube

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Related to Bushcraft specifically:

 

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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Selling fresh produce is NOT allowed!

 

 

More from Richard Vobes:

Have we become little children? – YouTube

The worries of Electric and Magnetic Fields – YouTube

We got rid of a 20-minute neighbourhood! – YouTube

Is universal basic income really a good idea? – YouTube

 

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I have a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

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Foraging: One-up articles

Quick-hit style:

A beginner’s guide to summer foraging | Live Better | The Guardian

9 Summer Herbs To Forage This Year – Herbal Academy (theherbalacademy.com)

FIND YOUR FOOD | Foraging can be a fun way to get outdoors and put good eats on the table | Wisconsin DNR

5 Wild Foods To Forage In Wisconsin This Summer | Wisconsin Public Radio (wpr.org)

Essential Foraging Guide – Wild Food Month by Month – Woodland Trust

Summer Forage: Wild Edible Fruits and Vegetables – Prepper’s Will (prepperswill.com)

Foraging walk near Chicago beach teaches residents about edible plants they didn’t know grew in the heart of the city – LimaOhio.com

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Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

WEF Accelerates Plan To Engineer Global Famine: 13 Nations Agree To Abolish Farming – The People’s Voice (thepeoplesvoice.tv)

They will starve us to death as the mindless sheeple cheer that they’re saving us from the dreaded climate change of dooooooooom.  On that:

America Signs Global Climate Agreement to Crack Down on Farming

Beef Company CEO: “The Climate Change Argument Against Cows Is Garbage and We Will Not Comply” | The Gateway Pundit | by Promoted Post | 90

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Soft on crime DA’s and judges will destroy this country as we’ve known it. Shoplifting – always a problem – is now out of control…

What happens when they decide that a digital ID is what’s needed to open the cases?

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Bayou Renaissance Man: The food shortages continue…

And they’ll get worse.  But it will be slowly… slowly… so as to not alarm the sheeple until they wake up with a start at the absences that have finally become apparent.

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Why global elites now are targeting agriculture and OUR FOOD

 

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:

 

 

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If You Have Been Storing Meat This Way, Stop Doing It Immediately – Ask a Prepper

And this is one reason why I haven’t invested in lots of frozen meat.  If things really hit the fan, my frozen meat stash goes bye bye quickly.

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6 Reasons Ducks are Better Than Chickens on a Homestead

 

 

Other poultry-related videos (links only):

Amish WARNING about Chickens and Eggs! – YouTube

Everything You Need to Get Started with DUCKS – YouTube

8 Things To Know Before Getting Ducks – YouTube

The CUTE and the UGLY About Keeping Ducks – YouTube

Why Ducks are Better than Chickens for a Backyard Homestead – YouTube

3 Game-Changing Tips for Raising Happier, Healthier Chickens – YouTube

Raising Ducks and Geese – Nutritional Requirements & Treats – YouTube

Watch This BEFORE You Keep Chickens – YouTube

10 Things I’ve Learned Raising Geese – YouTube

Everything I Know About Raising Geese – YouTube

I love my Guard Goose. His name is Larry. – YouTube

Duckling & Gosling Care Supplement Feeding – YouTube

In particular, geese are – from what I’ve read – excellent early warning systems.

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Garden-related videos (links only):

5 Tasks You Should Do EVERY DAY in the Veggie Garden – YouTube

5 TIPS For BEGINNER Food Gardeners to Grow Veggies at Home – YouTube

5 Watering Mistakes You’re Probably Making – YouTube

10 Ways to Water Your Garden Better – YouTube

12 Perfect Vegetables To Grow in a Shady Garden Space – YouTube

Turn ONE Sweet Potato Into 100 LBS Of Sweet Potatoes By Growing SWEET POTATO SLIPS! [Complete Guide] – YouTube

4 Mistakes That Are KILLING Your Tomato Production! – YouTube

This Pepper Fertilizing Technique Will DOUBLE Your Pepper Harvest! – YouTube

5 Veggies That Grow FASTER Than GRASS! – YouTube

Don’t Make These 5 Food Gardening Mistakes! – YouTube

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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad)

Yes, the Founding Fathers knew repeating firearms existed – Bearing Arms

 

And while Stephen Crowder is out of favor, I do like this video:

 

The 2nd Amendment : For Muskets Only?!

 

 

 

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Hunting & Fishing:

Nothing found this week.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

Knock Knock! It’s FEMA, We Need Your Stockpile – Ask a Prepper

And this is the danger of having stockpiles.  Not that I think it’s a bad idea… but understand that the government does have a way of saying NOW IT’S MINE.  And usually at the point of a gun.

So, damned either way.  If you have stockpiles at home, almost certainly – even if only from random searches – they’ll find it.  If you have it offsite, it’s hard to get to assuming that is not found.

 

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How to build a GET-HOME BAG (2 Levels)

 

 

Just as important as a bug-out bag.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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Blackrock/Chase/Biden … whoops! so, so sorry! meant “Ukraine” … kicked off its “counteroffensive” against Russia by blowing up a dam to flood the Russian frontline defenses, which also flooded civilians. But flooding these civilians is okay with Blackrock/Chase/Biden because these particular citizens are predominantly Russians.

Joe Biden … although he is merely a figurehead … still deserves to go down in history as a war criminal. A figurehead war criminal, to be sure, but nonetheless a war criminal.

This is, by the way, an egregious violation of the Geneva Convention.

Article 56 of the 1949 Additional Protocols bans flooding civilians *even if dams are legitimate military targets.*

Because this attack was blatantly illegal, the U.S. will pretend it was Russia's work. pic.twitter.com/JfVYMEJROo

— Clint Ehrlich (@ClintEhrlich) June 6, 2023

 

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California’s governor has proposed amending the federal constitution to

• raise the federal minimum age to buy a firearm to 21 from 18;
• mandate universal background checks;
• institute a ‘reasonable’ waiting period for all gun purchases; and
• ban assault rifles nationally;

while ‘leaving the Second Amendment unchanged.’  That’s the bad news.

The good news is that the likelihood of getting this to happen is close to zero.

But the even better news is that, finally, progressives seem to grasp that it’s necessary to amend the Constitution before passing laws restricting the right to keep and bear arms.

That realization has been a long time coming.

And it changes the game considerably.  Now, instead of just bloviating about ‘common sense’ and ‘public safety’ as justifications for infringing on a fundamental right, it’s necessary to discuss why the Second Amendment is in the Bill of Rights in the first place; whether the need for citizens to be able to resist arbitrary overreach by their own government has decreased since 1791; and whether it makes any sense at all to cede control over what arms you can have to a government that you might someday have to fight.

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Stories about Canada abound this week, and the hits have not stopped. At the same time, everyone is wondering what natural phenomenon results in hundreds of forest fires starting almost simultaneously, another story that deserves our attention has risen above the media bilgewater.

While total actual numbers are still low, the year-over-year change is startling. In Quebec, the land of mysterious simultaneous burns, Medically assisted deaths rose 51%.

 

Image Credit UK Daily Mail

 

Nationwide the trend is up 35%, and there’s no reason to believe those increases will stop because Canadian Public Health is invested in convincing people to die.

 

Canada has one of the world’s most permissive assisted suicide programs. Critics say it’s on a perilous road to mass euthanasia and ever-more pressure on the sick, disabled and poor to end their lives prematurely.

Alex Schadenberg, director of the coalition, said euthanasia rates were ‘skyrocketing’ because a ‘heavy promotion of MAiD within our medical system’ had ‘normalized’ lethal injections.

‘Every major healthcare institution has a MAiD team which will literally approach everyone who may qualify for MAiD and ask them if they want to die,’ Schadenberg told DailyMail.com.

 

This is the slippery slope we’ve been talking about for years. It is one that Vermont, to my geographic and political to my left, has embraced. And we’ve no reason to believe they will not fall willingly and legislatively down the same bunny hole as Canada. They are no less ‘progressive,’ and death therapy is common in increasingly socialist “states.”

It starts with those in chronic pain, which has to annoy Big Pharma just a bit. Offing their addicts cuts into the bottom line, and maybe that’s why they went wide with other revenue silos like the COVID thing. We’ll be killing people; sorry, we meant convincing people to die, but we don’t want that to impact your donations to our campaigns. How about we create a replacement revenue stream?

That would sound far-fetched but after the whole COVID thing, not so much. And they share an intimate connection. The same people who might think that way would also use your objection to their chemical mandates as an excuse to declare you mentally unfit, which inevitably becomes another condition for which public health experts suggest Medically assisted death.

None of this is beyond the realm of possibility. Leftists are two things: Eugenicist social engineers and complete economic incompetents. The former becomes a public good when the bill for the latter comes due. And organ donations skyrocket, which is good news for the ruling class—no more waiting for other people to die.

 

 

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Although I admit, Steve’s post about biology trumping silly sexuality identity propaganda came close (yes, I’ve had that tabbed to put up – GREAT fun!): Men vs. Women: The Boys From Wrexham Wrecked ‘Em! – I think this edges it out, even if in a tweet:

“Gender-affirming care” is to health as “Elizabeth Warren” is to Indian.

 

https://twitter.com/xenophonrocks/status/1666470495271755776

Yep, that 1/2024th of an Indian was just GREAT in taking an old, rich, white Progressive to the heights of Harvard Law (otherwise known as “affirmative action hire” and onward to a self-righteous Senatorial campaign that allows her to thrust her ideology (“You didn’t build that” meaning you’re just stupid to do anything without Government) onto the rest of us. Translation – nothing to do with Warren at all. TMEW is orders of magnitude more Indian than Warren.

Euphemism – the Left would blink out of existence faster than a proton meeting up with an anti-proton if they didn’t have euphemisms to call and change a horribleness like voluntary human mutilation by Parents of their children by slicing off perfectly good body parts for the sake of being part of the “cool kids” they missed out on being part of in Jr. High School (yes, I am of that age and so is Warren. Older, she is, truth be told).

That’s all that “gender-affirmative” means in this case – and now the studies are starting to show that it is all for naught – WORSE outcomes, mentally, than before being drugged and knifed into some simulacrum of attempting to be the other sex that you can never be.

Even the concept of doing so completely wrecks the illusion that gender is a spectrum item – if you’re a guy, you’re trying to get fixed (like a dog being neutered) to be a girl.  Isn’t that demonstrating that sex is binary – you know, real life and real biology without the idiocy of attempting to redefine what “gender” means simply to fulfill a political agenda???

One last point before I leave. Before “transgender” became a thing, there used to be another word that described a guy wearing girls’ clothes (and visa-versa):

Transvestite

Glad to see that word is coming back into use as it more correct in describing what is now happening. No child-body mutilation can result in a boy/girl becoming a girl/boy.  Clothes do NOT make the man. Or girl.

 

(H/T; Instapundit)

 

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Listening to the White House talk about jobs would lead you to think everything is rosy in the economy. Yes, there is a lot of hiring going on. Sure people are going back to work now that we are officially past the pandemic. Some part of the hiring is still rehiring as opposed to new job creation.

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But there is a deeper issue.

Productivity growth is down. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting the productivity of American workers decreased by a revised 2.1% annual rate in Q1 2023 versus Q4 2022. Productivity was down 0.8% in the first quarter from a year earlier.

The important point here is: This marked the fifth consecutive quarter of negative year-over-year productivity growth. That is the longest streak of declining productivity since records began in 1948. And why do you care?

In the US, GDP per hour worked is set to fall −0.7% in 2023 after declining −1.1% last year. Declining productivity means we are putting out a smaller amount of goods and services per hour worked. Putting out a smaller amount of goods and services per hour worked means the price of those goods and services will rise.

Now, add to declining productivity the effects of increasing the number of dollars in the money supply. The money supply is up about 650% since 2008. Can you feel the pressure from the rise in inflation?

According to Statistica, U.S. GDP was $14.4742 trillion in 2007 and $25.4613 trillion in 2022. If the money supply went up 650% and GDP, the goods and services in the economy, went up 75%: Where did the rest of the money go?

The White House wants you to think all is well, but somebody is playing with the numbers.

 

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This story is a trifecta of progressive outrage. An Obama insider is erecting a sea-level compound in a heavily-native-Hawiann community. The developer needs an old seawall repaired to protect their investment, but such projects are banned – just not for them.

 

The shoreline permit, issued by Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting on Monday, clears the way for the controversial multimillion-dollar renovation of a century-old seawall in the heavily Native Hawaiian community of Waimanalo.

Under state and county laws, such projects are typically banned. Scientists and environmental experts say seawalls are the primary cause of beach loss throughout the state, and officials expect older ones to fall into obsolescence.

But the property owners, including Marty Nesbitt, chair of the Obama Foundation, argued they needed an exemption to protect the sprawling compound they are building in eastern Oahu.

While the 100-year mean rise in sea level for Oahu is listed at 3.11 mm/year, the sea level trend for the past fifty years has been flat except for a bump that has since become a downward trend.

 

 

Wait. I know. You have to protect it from your narrative.

After Barry and Shelly bought the multi-million-dollar Martha’s Vineyard manse, the credibility of the rising seas scare has been a harder sell. Gotta get that sea wall rebuilt, even if it means calling in a favor from His Excellency, Barack I, to get the local government to ignore native land interests, the “primary policy of the city to protect and preserve the natural shoreline, especially sandy beaches,” and their local prohibitions.

Friend of Barack I, so, proceed.

Oh, and seawalls in Hawaii are directly connected to beach erosion (it’s not your SUV) and limiting public access to the shoreline.

 

The consequences are stark. Oahu has already lost about a quarter of its beaches to seawalls, which essentially cause beaches to drown. Future projections are more dire, with scientists warning that most of Hawaii’s beaches could be lost if hundreds of homes, condos, hotels and roads that line the coasts aren’t moved inland.

 

One of the developers is Barry’s buddy, and Barry is like a son of Hawaii, so that’s that. Screw the locals and the environment.

I’m not surprised by any of it but will anyone center left see this for what it is? This is how the Left will rule if they ever achieve their one-party state. All that garbage about protecting the planet or the people disappears once they don’t need you anymore.

 

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With his finger pointed at the questioner for effect, Joe Biden said: I have never, never had a conversation with the Justice Department about the investigations into Donald Trump. I am Honest! I am sorry, Joe, but you can point both fingers and yell you are honest from the top of a mountain, and nobody with a modicum of common sense will believe you. You are a crooked, corrupt individual and the head of an American Crime Family. If that disrespects the Presidency, so be it, as you have destroyed the respect of the United States President.

On Thursday night, Joe Biden’s Justice Department announced the indictment of Former President Donald Trump. Trump is now the first former President to be charged with Federal law violations. Joe Biden has now used the power of the United States legal system to impact a national election by having his administration levy bogus charges against his rival, who is beating Biden in every poll. This weaponization of the Justice Department and the FBI goes unnoticed by the mainstream media, as they are cheerleading the President’s effort.

The response from the Left and the media is not worth reporting or discussing. They sing in unison that Trump is guilty and getting his just due. Comments from the Right are mixed. Most in the GOP are disgusted by the weaponization of the Government against Trump in an effort not only to impact an election but to destroy a former and potential future President. Candidates Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy both condemned the duplicity of the indictments. Nikki Haley called it vindictive Justice. Asa Hutchinson may have killed his campaign by prematurely stating that Trump should end his campaign.

Americans are frustrated by the unequal use of the law by our Government. In a matter of months, the FBI executed a pre-dawn search warrant on the home of Donald Trump, and the Justice Department has come down with Federal indictments that are reported to involve charges ranging from the mishandling of confidential documents to obstruction of justice by Trump not cooperating in the recovery of classified documents. On the flip side, the FBI has been investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings for five years, and there is no indication of the end of the investigation or the status of any charges. The FBI found classified documents in three of Biden’s homes around the same time as the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Still, there is no indication of any ongoing investigation, let alone legal ramifications for the President.

This legal conundrum with our leading candidates for Presidency is not a fair fight. Biden has the full support of the Justice Department, The FBI, and the mainstream media, while Donald Trump has FOX News and the conservative internet on his side. Trump has already been found guilty in the media, while most of the public is unaware of the potential crimes of Joe Biden and the Biden Cartel. But they do not have to be informed. Joe has told them he is honest. What else do they need?

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I’m trudging through a book on Marxism and Fascism. It’s a good read. I’ve just been doing a lot of other things. Picking at it. But what I’ve gleaned so far reinforces details from other sources. Fascism isn’t just anything to the right of Socialism, which is everything.

During Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Chinese Communists and their water carriers in the West adopted the idea that everything to the Right of Mao was fascism, including Soviet Communism. Who knew there was something further Left until Mao?

I’m still wading through the debate to see where it evolved from there, but put simply, any system that was not Mao’s was fascist, and Mao might not like where things went after him. His ideological ancestors have adopted profit-driven production with “Chinese Characteristics.” In other words, fascism.

But before that, when China was Mao and Mao was China, Russian Communists were bleeping fascists despite having no private property and total government control of the means of production. The whole lot of them were little Hitlers corrupted by the allure of capitalism. In fact, capitalism in any form is fascist, which, if you survey the 21st-century narrative battlefield, explains a lot (except the Chinese Characteristics).

Most of us knew that or suspected it. Antifa was born in Germany of socialists and nationalists to court leftists as far left as they. The breadcrumbs are not difficult to follow. But origin has often been a sticky point. Not Antifa’s, but the idea that Fascism is a right-wing construct which is only true if you think like Mao.

The American left has adopted the same notion. Everything that is not their thing is Fascism which is amusing because they are about as fascist a thing as one can be.

 

 

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The second biggest disaster of the George W. Bush presidency … after the Iraq War … was elevating John Roberts to the Supreme Court. Roberts is the equivalent of Daddy’s choice of Souter … a weak man, whose strongest conviction was to please his liberal friends like Tom Rath and Warren Rudman, and get pats on the head and attaboys from the New York Times.

Roberts’ latest assault on the Constitution is his ruling that the Voting Rights Act requires Alabama to create two “minority-majority” districts. Democrats are celebrating … as they should … because the ruling seems to require Louisiana, Georgia and North Carolina to also create “minority-majority” districts, which is a lovely euphemism for  a rigged map that guarantees Democrats seats. From Atlantic:

Many Democrats believe that the ruling will have a domino effect on other pending cases and ultimately force three southern states—not only Alabama but also Louisiana and Georgia—to each add a new majority-minority district before the congressional election, which would almost certainly flip seats currently held by Republicans. Texas might have to add as many as five majority-minority districts to its map. “

Justice Thomas, in dissent:

The question presented is whether §2 of the Act, as amended, requires the State of Alabama to intentionally redraw its longstanding congressional districts so that black voters can control a number of seats roughly proportional to the black share of the State’s population. Section 2 demands no such thing, and, if it did, the Constitution would not permit it.

… the plaintiffs here demand that Alabama carve up not two but three of its main urban centers on the basis of race, and that it configure those urban centers’ black neighborhoods with the outlying majority-black rural areas so that black voters can control not one but two of the State’s seven districts. The Federal Judiciary now upholds their demand—overriding the State’s undoubted interest in preserving the core of its existing districts, its plainly reasonable desire to maintain the Gulf Coast region as a cohesive political unit, and its persuasive arguments that a race-neutral districting process would not produce anything like the districts the plaintiffs seek.

 

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Last year some racist a**holes, while exercising their first amendment rights, were arrested and charged with violating 354-B:1 New Hampshire’s Civil Rights Act. A judge threw the case out, but the AG says his office will file a motion to reconsider.

 

Two members of the group, known as NSC-131 or the Nationalist Social Club, had asked the court to dismiss the trespass complaints. The judge agreed Monday, saying prosecutors’ interpretation of the state’s Civil Rights Act was unconstitutionally overbroad.

The New Hampshire attorney general’s office had said the two men were motivated by race and trespassed on public property when they draped the banners off the highway overpass in Portsmouth. …

New Hampshire prosecutors will be filing a motion for reconsideration within the 10-day deadline, said spokesperson Michael Garrity. “The Attorney General feels this is a critical case,” he said by email on Tuesday.

 

Critical how? Disregarding how offensive we may find white nationalists, neo-nazis, anti-semites, BLM, Antifa, or anyone else willing to use racism, intimidation, or violence to advance an agenda in the absence of incitement (an expression directing immediate acts of violence – a challenging standard to meet), there’s no there there.

You can’t have a civil rights law that infringes on the First Amendment, nor can you pretend it capable of such a thing when the legislature never intended it. What are you after, and why do you think you can get it? I’m opposed to anti-semitism and race-hating white purity movements but not at the expense of free speech.

Is this some veiled effort to get a shadow of a penumbra of a hate-speech ruling squeezed out of 354B:1, and if so, to what end?

 

    354-B:1 Civil Rights Enforcement. –
I. All persons have the right to engage in lawful activities and to exercise and enjoy the rights secured by the United States and New Hampshire Constitutions and the laws of the United States and New Hampshire without being subject to actual or threatened physical force or violence against them or any other person or by actual or threatened damage to or trespass on property when such actual or threatened conduct is motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or disability. “Threatened physical force” and “threatened damage to or trespass on property” is a communication, by physical conduct or by declaration, of an intent to inflict harm on a person or a person’s property by some unlawful act with a purpose to terrorize or coerce.
II. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere or attempt to interfere with the rights secured by this chapter.

 354-B:2 Civil Action by Attorney General. –
I. Whenever the attorney general has probable cause to believe that any person has violated any provision of this chapter, the attorney general may bring a civil action for injunctive or other appropriate equitable relief.

Does anyone aside from me see the problem with this statute? It is the major flaw with the entire hate speech and hate crime agenda, and the AG’s critical concern is proof. Motivation based on “race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or disability” is irrelevant. This is the justice is blind version:

 

All persons have the right to engage in lawful activities and to exercise and enjoy the rights secured by the United States and New Hampshire Constitutions and the laws of the United States and New Hampshire without being subject to actual or threatened physical force or violence against them or any other person or by actual or threatened damage to or trespass on property.

 

The word “persons” defines everyone without regard to any other metric. We all have these rights because the Constitution is blind to every other detail. Anyone who tells you otherwise is injecting demographic division for some political perversion. It creates crevices into which government can chip away at fundamental liberties.

If the AG insists on proceeding with this “critical case,” he is violating the statute he claims justifies the prosecution. The assholes with the “Keep New England White” sign … have the right to engage in lawful activities and to exercise and enjoy the rights secured by the United States and New Hampshire Constitutions and the laws of the United States and New Hampshire without being subject to actual or threatened physical force or violence against them,” by the government.

And they know that. Why doesn’t the Granite State’s top cop know that? There’s no law limiting speech based on civility, nor should there be,

 

Given the inherent vagueness of the concept of “civility,” and the resulting discretion it vests in enforcing authorities, the enforcement will be at best arbitrary and unpredictable, and at worst discriminatory, targeting disfavored speakers or ideas. Consistent with historic patterns, authorities are likely to enforce any such discretionary standard in accordance with their own subjective values, or those of powerful interest groups. …

In today’s context, any civility code would no doubt be enforced against people who are protesting current government policies and actions, ranging from police practices to pandemic measures. Similarly, campus officials would likely enforce such codes against critics of their policies. On all sides of controversial issues, individuals with strong views are unlikely to confine their communications to those that other people, including officials, consider civil – nor should they be required to do so.

 

They could still be charged with trespass for hanging a sign without a permit, but when asked by the local PD, they willingly removed the offending sign without protest. It is thin gruel and a citation and fine at best. It’s a frikkin parking ticket. Trying to make something more of it reeks of political interference whose only objective can be fishing for a judicial interpretation that might be used to further harass the population at the whim of the AGs office or his boss, Governor Sununu.

Given that the Governor nor his AG can be trusted with that sort of latitude, we hope the court will remind the State again that they have erred in their interpretation and send them on their way.

 

 

 

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A bipartisan budget! We passed a bipartisan budget! And we speak about it in the language of the Communists … oh! so, so sorry! I mean “our friends” the Democrats. Check out the tweet from Senator “Jeb.” The word “spending” is so missing … there is no longer such a thing as “spending” in New Hampshire; there is only “investing,” “strengthening,” “safeguarding,” blah, blah, blah.

That’s because there is no Republican Party in New Hampshire. Not even a same-but-less Republican Party. It’s same-but-same … that is, it’s capitulation, surrender, etc., etc., etc.. Did you go to the polls in 2022 to elect “Republicans” to vote for a budget that garnered unanimous Democrat support?  And what’s the point of voting Republican for State Senate and State Rep in 2024?

Today the NH House joined the NH Senate with an overwhelming, bipartisan approval for the state's 2-year budget, HB1 & HB2!

Check out the highlights of our Family First Budget below!#nhpolitics #nhsenate #nhhouse #hb1 #hb2 #nh pic.twitter.com/6nN56eu8tx

— The NH Senate (@TheNHSenate) June 8, 2023

From @NHHouseofReps Majority Leader Osborne:
“We delivered a fiscally responsible spending plan that meets the needs of our state and addresses many of our top priorities, without raising taxes. We made reforms to the emergency powers statute, included a sunset for the Granite…

— NH Journal (@NewHampJournal) June 8, 2023

This budget is a win for kids, families, taxpayers, state employees, and the entire state of New Hampshire. I would like to thank @NHSpeaker, @Osborne4NH, @SenJeb @DonnaSoucy , and @RepWilhelm for working together to get this budget across the finish line.

— Chris Sununu (@GovChrisSununu) June 8, 2023

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Last October, dispensaries in Vermont opened their doors to allow any adult with the need, medical or otherwise, to buy marijuana. In the months since, State Police have responded to 60 DUI calls where cannabis was “involved.”

 

Cannabis sales are ahead of expectations in Vermont, but smoking weed behind the wheel continues to be a concern.

Unlike some other states, Vermont does not have a legal, quantifiable amount of cannabis in your body that permits you to drive or conversely guarantees you a DUI in the same way that there are BAC rules for alcohol.

 

Vermont has again put the cart before the horse, and it is filled with Twinkies, so a few points. There are states with blood test limits, but there is no practical roadside test for a level of influence. We also lack a scientific standard that accurately balances use with impairment. They don’t correlate, not precisely. If the goal is to keep compromised drivers off the road, blood tests might not be the droid you’re looking for.

Back in ancient internet history, circa 2016, the president of AAA noted that,

 

There is understandably a strong desire by both lawmakers and the public to create legal limits for marijuana impairment in the same manner we do alcohol. In the case of marijuana this approach is flawed and not supported by scientific research.

 

I’m not sure how The American Automobile Association feels about that today, but it’s not a new problem, and increased access and use have made it more common. What is a legislature obsessed with either appearing to care about public safety or, more likely, one with a strong enough authoritarian tick to run with it as an excuse to impose more controls?

Mandate munchies or remote munchies.

I’d bet a bailout to Ukraine that many of these calls for impaired drivers are folks searching the wilds of modern America for convenience stores or grocery stores—quick story. Many years ago, I worked at a McDonald’s on a road that ran out of a city with a large concert venue. Depending on the attraction, people would show up craving food on certain nights—people who looked and smelled stoned. And there’s a test for that.

Have you heard of upselling? The old, would you like an apple pie with that? How about, would you like a 20-piece McNugget with that?

They’ll say yes to both and then some. Munchies are a powerful force. And while I’m joking, you’d go a long way toward your goal if you could find a way to get people to buy that crap while they were out buying their cannabis. And that’s not as easy as it sounds. While once stoned, some folks will eat anything, in many cases, there are specific cravings that cannot be appeased without a certain something.

In other words, there is almost nothing a legislature can do once it has decided to milk legal weed for revenue except what it should do. Nothing. You have laws for impaired and distracted driving. There are consequences for incidents and accidents. Invest a little in education and hope for the best.

And maybe, suggest to State Troopers that as a possible roadside test for the cannabis-impaired, they ask if they’d like some McNuggets.

 

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Because when The State is no longer going to protect the Right to Private Property, NO one can own anything at all.  And if you no longer own your property, there can be no private Freedom. In fact, no freedom at all as the linchpin of freedom is to both own, control, and protect one’s property.

This is one of the fallouts of the Left’s Critical Race Theory that is tearing our Society apart – this is both reparations at the micro-level and retribution against “The Oppressors” at the macro-level. And note the newest euphemism by the Left concerning your property (italicized below):

California Senate Passes Bill Preventing Employers from Requiring Staff to Stop Shoplifters

The California State Senate passed a bill last week that would prevent employers from requiring employees to intervene to stop shoplifting — a growing scourge in the state since the enactment of criminal justice reforms.

SB 553, introduced by Silicon Valley’s State Sen. Dave Cortese (D-Cupertino), is described as a bill to prevent and monitor “workplace violence.” But it also includes a provision that “every employer shall establish, implement, and maintain, at all times in all of the employer’s facilities, a workplace violence prevention plan for purposes of protecting employees and other personnel from aggressive and violent behavior at the workplace” that “shall include … [p]rovisions prohibiting the employer from maintaining policies that require employees to confront active shooters or suspected shoplifters.”

And another Right is the Right to Self-Defense. Look at how that redefinition is handled!  Just like how gun crime is now “gun violence”, your self-defense and defense of your property is now lumped under “workplace violence” in which YOU are the aggressor while the actual criminal is the “victim” simply because you want to keep your property to yourself (SELFISH of you to demand that they pay for it – evil capitalist!).

As San Francisco Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU reported, retail associations are furious, believing that the bill will tell potential thieves that they can steal goods at will:

[O]ver 50 organizations, including the California Retailers Association, (CRA) don’t support the bill.

“This bill goes way too far, number one, where I think it will open the doors even wider for people to come in and steal from our stores.”

…

The CRA says if SB 553 becomes law, it will need to apply to all industries and not just retail. They also say most retailers already prohibit regular employees from approaching anyone about stolen merchandise and have some employees who are trained in theft prevention.

“It says no employee can approach someone who is shoplifting. So even if someone is trained on how to deter someone from doing that, now they’re not allowed to approach someone. So, what does that mean? We are opening up the door to allow people to walk into stores, steal and walk out,” Michelin said.

Retail theft has caused a growing number of major retailers to leave downtown San Francisco, and pharmacies in Los Angeles and other cities have begun placing ordinary household goods, such as toiletries, behind locked glass doors.

Some store employees have successfully confronted shoplifters. However, such confrontations can be deadly: a Home Depot employee in the state was fatally shot while trying to stop a shoplifter in April.

Note that this applicable to ALL industries – basically any commercial place of business. Waltz in, put something under your arm, and off you go.  Electronics, furniture, tools, fixtures, supplies, vehicles – and how about doing a massive “squatting” effort? How can any economy withstand this stressor? This is legalizing lawlessness on a massive scale.

Once again, we see a lack of Civics as well as an inability (refusal to play?) to wargame out consequences of note. Why stick to a traditional norm of morality (“Thou shalt not steal”) when no one else abides to that same norm?  And the rational outcome of this irrational legislation?

Intentional Societal breakdown. WHO in their right is going to start a new business if a social media Flash Mob decides to wipe you out in an hour and you can’t stop them.  What happens, in a large city, when hundreds or thousands of these happen simultaneously?  Now lay into that equation the Progressive cities that fell for the “defund the police” stupidity and no longer have the means to stop this?

I’ll be honest – if they do this, I may well think “they deserved the results”. Even the normal folks because they put this yahoo, Dave Corese (D-Cupertino), into office.  The mush about “workplace violence” is a mere smoke screen – it is to define that anything is everyone’s. That is, isn’t it, the “equity” of Communism?

If one of our enemies (e.g., Russia, China, Iran, et al) wanted to vanquish the US without firing a shot, can you think of anything slicker than this?

And then the next step engages – the Rise of the Strong Man after a brief interlude of massive vigilantism vs armed gangs. Imaging the field day that Antifa, who has been honing its street tactics for years and now openly carry firearms, will unleash the rest of us.

And then the real violence will kick in.

And our enemies will just smile.

(H/T: Breitbart)

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