Political Violence

I've been observing for a while.

One side is using violence.

The recent report that Dave Chappelle is pleased that Charlie Kirk was murdered made me think of something.

We don't don't say, "boo," to Muslims because they've a propensity to be violent.  They, also, tend to get their way.

The left is screaming about using more violence against the right.

They're missing something very critical.

What happens when The Right notices that violence works better than obeying those silly laws and cultural norms?

What happens when the right begins to murder right back?

It's called civil war.  Sometimes revolution.

It's rarely fun and rarely comes out how anyone wanted it to. 

I Know I'm Sick Of It

While I did vote party-line, I remain unhappy about it.

They ask what we want and resolutely do what they were planning on doing to do before asking.

My vote is essentially picking which party is going to ignore what I want.

I don't know why I should be happy with that.

I definitely agree with the philosophy that the government needs to be small enough that it doesn't matter if an idiot gets elected to run it.  This is government smaller than that required to not matter if the malicious get elected.

I am increasingly convinced that there be no laws regarding the safety of devices and let Darwin loose upon the unwary. 

I Have Exercised My Solemn Franchise

If you don't vote you don't really have a right complain about the outcome because what you chose was, "let someone else decide."

Elections go to the people who show up.

Don't like the candidates?  Did you vote in the primaries?

Lots of you didn't because something like 2% of the eligible voters where I live voted in the primaries.

Again, if you don't show up and have your vote counted, how will anything ever change to your liking? 

Voting Not Voting

Got a text from a pollster asking whom I was voting for in Florida's 16th Congressional District.

Um...

Nobody.

Not because I am not voting, but because I don't live in the 16th. 

Could Be A Twofer

The elections in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador and Honduras give me hope that our problem at the southern border might be self correcting as sane, non-socialist, policies take hold and allow business and commerce to thrive.

Improving the economic situation at home will make it less likely their citizens want to leave there for here.

That'd be great for all nations involved.

Now, if we could get Mexico on board... 

If Only She Knew

I am proud of myself.

I did not do what I normally do and join the argument offered me.

I guess I am not as complete a moron as I has assumed!

We were at the local brewery and talking with one of the owners about her Disney Princess® moment with some deer on a path behind her subdivision.

We cautioned that a doe can do some real damage if it decides to, and she was accepting of that.

I quipped that the white tail hoof rat is the most dangerous animal in the US.

Enter a third party.

She starts saying that Republican men are the most dangerous thing in America.

Huh?

If that's true she should be more careful around us, huh?

But I didn't even engage with her.

It's not worth it. 

Satire Site

The satire site that fooled me was able to do so because they are hewing close to the truth with regards to the attitudes and expressions of the local politicians they are satirizing.

They've another one about how the people of St Pete are demanding high-rise apartments on the water, green spaces, elimination of car access, blah blah blah with an interview of a "local person" who says they just want to be able to afford their rent.

This is because St Pete has been tone deaf over the issues of housing and traffic.

The best satire always has a kernel of truth to it! 

Favorable Mention In Parliment

I have long maintained that I'm not a very enthusiastic Republican.

The problem I have is that I am emphatically not a Democrat on so many issues.

Put another way, I have more in common with R than D.

That leads to holding my nose and voting the lesser evil and knowing that I am still getting evil at a slower pace.

The Republicans take this as a shining endorsement of the things I most disagree with them about, and I complain about that.

Democrats take it the same way.

They think my opposition to their candidate as wholehearted support of the Republican I helped elect.   Like their candidate had nothing to do with it...

So I end up giving the Devil a favorable mention because Hitler invaded Hell.

This was especially so when W was president.

My liberal friends kept missing that Slick Willie only pissed me off on about three things.  His swing to the center didn't offend me at all.

I do notice that if there's an (R) behind a candidate's name then things they do that someone with a (D) behind their name did, it's unconscionable.

All the example you need for this is all the anti-immigration statements that Democrats issued for decades. 

Relief

I was sitting here, being bummed, about friends that had left my life.

Abruptly from my perspective.

I realized that I am extremely happy they are gone because I remember the W. Bush years.

I don't think I'd have wanted to deal with them in the Trump era.

Bribing Me With My Own Money?

President Trump has offered the American people a bribe to vote for Republicans for Congress.

They take both houses, he vows to give all of us $5,000.

Yippie?

That's like $1.2 trillion bucks.

No way this massive cash distribution will, in any way, be inflationary...

Printer go brrrrrrrrrr, I guess because I'm pretty sure the gubmint ain't got no extra $1.2 trillion laying around while they deficit spend normally.

I generally like Trump, but shit like this ticks me off.

I'd much rather he vowed to get the government to spend $5,000 less for every adult.

That'd be some positive change that'd be a real benefit to everyone. 

About That 6-3 Ruling

Hey, blue states, you could have just opened up your voting rolls for inspection and proved that only eligible voters were voting.

Misrepresenting what's going on here seems to be the hallmark of the press.

I've long thought we make it too easy to get registered to vote and too easy to actually vote.

That sounds odd, doesn't it?

But what I mean by too easy is it encourages voting without considering what you're doing.

Voting is important.  Your vote matters.

If we required you to apply in person to register and only allowed you to vote in person, you'd at least have to take a moment to plan that action.

It's your sovereign franchise and you put less effort into it than deciding what you're going to watch on NetFlix.

That making it too easy also makes for casual fraud to occur is secondary to me, but the fraud is what's going to give me my druthers and make voting harder for everyone and still below my threshold. 

The Shoe Is On The Other Foot

Any Democrat that refuses to vote for Byron Donalds to be the governor of Florida is a racist. 

I Voted!

I made my choices in the primary today.

I was asked for and produced government issued photo ID.

Got my ballot.

Filled in the appropriate bubbles.

Got it scanned into the system.

Went home.

Less than 30 minutes from door to door. 

I Voted

Did my civic duty today and voted in the primary for the least evil candidates.

Distinct from the lesser evil I get to vote for come the election, because the least evil candidate never wins the primary.

I Can Think Of Several Finer Groups Of People

Pat Harrigan (R-NC) wants LEOSA style carry for current and former Special Forces personnel.

He says he can think no finer group of people...

First, fuck you Pat.

Second, I can think of a finer group who is far more deserving of national reciprocity.

Everyone.

I've been opposed every and all LEO sop law ever proposed or passed.

We don't need more "only ones" legislation.  We need more everyone's.

I especially love the quote, "If enacted, the law would represent a significant expansion of gun-carry rights for service members and veterans, creating a new nationwide benefit not currently available to most civilians."

Let me amend that:

If enacted, the law would represent a significant expansion of gun-carry rights for SOME service members and SOME veterans, creating a new nationwide benefit not currently available to most civilians. 

An infinitesimally small portion of service members and veterans, I might add. 

Should Have Kept It As It Was

The more DSA candidates win in the primaries, the more I think we shouldn't have let Germany reunite.

We should have kept East Germany as it was as a living history museum so that when anyone started to forget that every political party with socialism or socialist in the name was evil, we could point them at the Democratic Republic of Germany so they could marvel at it's success.

Of course, like all political groups with socialism in their name, the real goals are not the stated ones.

Sharia is the more apt 'S' in the DSA name.

You only get to use the D a limited number of times before they lock the gate behind themselves once they obtain enough power.

It creates the classic situation you can vote your way into and have to shoot your way out.  And they do love themselves some gun control, don't they?

I also notice that DSA shares a trait with another socialist in the name group.  They hate the Jews.  They have a lot of overlap on the political Venn diagram with "conservative" bigots there.

Dunno if we're going to dodge this civil war.  Our luck has to run out eventually. 

Jeff, You Cleared Up Any Doubt For Me

FOP is constantly on the wrong side of freedom and liberty in Florida and this scare tactic is bullshit since funding for fire, law enforcement and schools is guaranteed.

In other words, Jeff is lying through his teeth and he knows it.

Again.

I remember FOP and their position on conceal carry, open carry, campus carry, 18-21 year olds carrying, waiting periods, bump stocks, and anything NFA.

So, pardon me, if I just vote for my self interests and tell the help they can suck it up or find productive employment. 

If You Have Nothing To Hide You Have Nothing To Worry About

I do so love being able to toss this back in the faces of the Democrats.

They're busted and they know it and that's why they're scared of the SAVE America Act.

Their objections at state level attempts to clean up the voter rolls were not the reaction of a group that's innocent of the charge. 

Missed Opportunity

Babylon Bee is sleeping at the switch.

They should have had a headline, "Trump, taking inspiration from Mars Attacks 'addresses Congress'."

Area woman says, "he killed Congress!"

Film at 11. 

Ah

I found the section in the Take Care of America's Veterans act that has all the big names in a tizzy against it.

It's deunionizing the staff at VA hospitals.

It was never complaining about future veteran's care, it was all about lining the union pockets.

AFL-CIO and SEIU are against this bill.

My kneejerk is to be for it now.