Fred Rogers once said that “There isn’t anyone you couldn’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story.” Similarly, there is rarely a situation that fails to make sense once you have all the information. Groupthink, conspiracy thinking, and misinformation are usually a product of inadequate information. The “Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot” seemed ludicrous on the face of it, but once you realize that it was planned, orchestrated, and moved forward at every junction by FBI agents and paid informants then it makes a lot more sense. The federal “justice” machine needs cases like the Whitmer kidnapping in order to justify its continual expansion. Does that mean that there are really “crisis actors” and “wind-up toys” out there? Maybe not — but it certainly explains why nearly every public tragedy turns out to involve someone who was already known to federal law enforcement but who was permitted to keep doin’ their thing regardless.
Let’s not even get into the whole Stephen Paddock incident, the current “understanding” of which wouldn’t pass muster as a Hollywood script due to all the plot holes, so to speak. (That being said, there is security footage of the man, contrary to what’s often said around the Internet.)
Salvador Ramos, unlike the 9/11 hijackers or the Whitmer informants or the Buffalo shooter, wasn’t known to law enforcement. Still, there are questions. This troubled young man, who was so poor that he is said to have shot his grandmother over a cellphone bill discrepancy, whose family was dirt poor, whose father was a low-wage worker who didn’t have any contact with him — this young man bought about six thousand dollars’ worth of weapons on his 18th birthday. He’d worked at Wendy’s for a while before losing his job, and was paid about ten dollars an hour before tax. So that’s what? Eleven hundred hours of work, at a part-time job? Plus whatever it actually cost him to fuel his truck, pay his cellphone bill, and who knows what else? The “conspiracy theory” is that he was given money to buy the guns. Who knows. The shooting coincides perfectly with the Biden Administration’s attempt to get the proverbial jackbooted thug into the head slot at the BATF. But without meaningless coincidences, no one would ever believe a horoscope.
Both halves of the Uniparty benefit by pushing the unlikely theories and half-baked stories. The “red” side furthers mistrust in the government by doing so. And the “blue” side? Why, they use the red focus on conspiracy theories to distract from the well-researched, legitimate, and perfectly plain concerns that don’t fit the agenda. When it comes to the Uvalde shooting, however, the blue side has some work to do.
Texas Monthly has been doing some stellar work in the past week. This timeline of the exceptionally fluid official story regarding police response should be required reading for everyone who wants to discuss this subject in public. I’m more interested, however, in this story about Border Patrol activities in Uvalde. It’s hard to read it and not immediately consider the USA a completely failed state.
Here’s the tl;dr plus brief additional analysis: CBP (Customs and Border Protection) is allowed to serve in an official all-purpose police capacity within 100 miles of the Mexican border. Since Mr. Biden’s ascension to the Presidency, policy changes by his Administration have allowed about three million (maybe more) undocumented/illegal/?? immigrants to cross the border. Thousands of them are then caught by CBP in the hundred-mile zone. “Caught” is a strong word, because in many cases they are literally given a smartphone (with limited capabilities) and told to come back for a trial. Compliance with this directive is about what you’d expect, by the way.
According to Texas Monthly, Uvalde is believed to contain significant numbers of undocumented migrants. Therefore, nearly every interaction with police has a potential immigration component. It does not help matters that the city is about eighty percent Hispanic on a border where illegal immigration is almost entirely Hispanic. Only one of the victims does not have a traditionally Hispanic name. Early reports from the shooting suggested that the “Bortac” team was prevented from going into the school because the Uvalde cops were more worried about mass deportation of children who would be temporarily detained afterwards than they were about the shooter. On the other hand, Texas Monthly notes that CBP has a deliberate internal policy not to perform border protection or immigration duties when they are serving as “regular police”, which is the most bizarre fact I’ve learned since I first heard the word “Uvalde”. It would be like a DEA agent responding to a school shooting, finding six tons of cocaine in the high school gym, and afterwards saying, “Oh, the hell with it, let that coke get out to the streets, that’s not what we are here for.” But that doublethink is official CBP policy.
We know that the Uniparty wants one billion Americans, and that in general it will always act to increase the number of immigrants from certain areas. The Blue Tribe says that it’s an act of love; the Red Tribe thinks that the Blue Tribe is setting itself up to be the lily-white ruling class of 900,000 dirt-poor mixed-race people in a model stolen directly from modern Brazil. There are people on all sides, from the Dalai Lama to Patrick Buchanan, who have argued for the integrity of the current American state. But the Blue Tribe wants the votes and the Red Tribe is massively influenced by corporations who want the cheap labor and extra consumers.
I believe that when all is said and done, we will find that immigration plays a major role in the Uvalde shooting and the police response. As a father of a thirteen-year-old boy, I find the stories and photographs of the victims to be absolutely heartbreaking. The Uniparty has suggested a few Approved Targets For Grief And Anger: the gun maker, the NRA, the Republicans, white people in general. Many of my friends have taken those suggestions to heart and then some; even John Mayer suggested donations to “Everytown”, the Bloomberg-funded gun confiscation organization that has vastly more money, and more lobbying power, than the NRA it was formed to defeat in court.
If the answers ever come, they will be vastly more complex and upsetting than “Daniel Defense did this” or “SSRIs did this” or “immigrants did this”. And if we had all the information, it would all make sense, from the high-priced guns to the somnolent police response. But I don’t think the answers will ever come. We have become a country of The Current Thing.
Every month or so the media trots out a new cause and explains the appropriate response. The “Ukraine crisis” was The Current Thing exactly as long as it took for Joe Biden to get $40 billion dollars for an undeclared proxy war with a nuclear-capable antagonist. Now it’s Uvalde, which will probably last long enough for the new BATF director to be confirmed. It’s not so much that The Current Things are generated by a Uniparty, but rather that the focus on them is directed by a Uniparty. The Current Thing changes so often that I was rather surprised to find out this morning that Roe v. Wade hasn’t actually been reversed yet; the infamous “draft opinion” that galvanized opinion and has been used as a tactic to get people excited about the midterm votes reflects a court opinion that has yet to be actually released. In a sane world we wouldn’t even know about the court’s decision yet. Wouldn’t even know it was coming.
Therefore, you can rest assured that if all the facts ever come out about Uvalde, you won’t hear about it. It will no longer be The Current Thing. Maybe that is what makes me angriest about the whole situation. Children were murdered, and the only thing the System wants to do about it is use the incident to increase its power. Meanwhile, 276 children have been shot in Chicago since last year, but those kids are even less consequential to the System than are the victims of Uvalde. Because Chicago is already a place where the State has near-total power. The death of those kids in Chicago isn’t a lever for additional governmental power. So those dead kids basically don’t exist.
As for me, I made a decision a few years ago. I considered my personal experience over the course of ten years in schools both public and private. (Most kids go to school for thirteen years, but I skipped a bit.) I looked at what percentage of my son’s time was spent learning in school rather than merely spending time in school. And I decided that there was no longer any reason for him to get on a bus. Nowadays he completes the whole state curriculum from home, in about sixty to ninety minutes a day. The rest of the time he can ride his bike, read a book, watch YouTube, play CounterStrike, or stare at the ceiling; any and all of these activities are more useful than sitting in a room full of 90-130-IQ kids who need to have everything explained to them more than once. So I’m not worried about him being harmed at school by some jumped-up headcase filled to the brim with psychotropic medication and Internet polarization. There’s a war going on in American schools. Ideological, political, sometimes literal. It’s not entirely clear who’s fighting, or why, or what the purposes are. I don’t really care. My son and I are officially dodging the draft for that war. That’s my story. I don’t know whether or not Mr. Rogers would find it to be lovable.
For Hagerty, I wrote about how Benz wants to get its groove back.
That the police didn’t go in when there were wounded children in need of potentially-lifesaving medical attention is enough to know that people should lose their jobs as they await criminal and civil consequences.
Vox linked to this timeline: https://canncon.substack.com/p/what-really-happened-in-uvalde?s=r
The most generous explanation for his ingress is that someone on a smoke break panicked and left the door open, but still. Now he’s also pitching another theory about a military flight to the area tracked on a public site at the time of the shooting.
The Buffalo shooter was active on Discord, a platform known to log everything and be quick to dox for naughty words and memes, yet nothing from them or on those he was communicating with. He also had expensive kit, and drove a long distance.
If the powers that be are trying to actively foster conspiracy theories, they are doing a great job. The timing with the pending NYSRPA decision is….convenient.
I’ve formed a postulate of sorts: people who don’t want the best for their children send them to public schools. We have four kids and have done turns at home schooling and private schools.
Everyone deserves to have their kids taught what they themselves believe. The state teaches more and more nonsense masquerading as science. Screw them…..
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
And the guy who wrote that and Angel Dust died at 62, a crack addict.
Probably unrelated but the NYT edited out the shooter’s use of cannabis from their reporting yesterday.
George Soros wants every American stoned, so bad news about marijuana use is no news at all. TV shows and movies where the smart heroes indulge in smoking weed are as common as TV shows and movies where the villain is a middle aged straight white man.
My first reading of your comment conjured visions of Soros wanting every American put to death by stoning; this may also be true when conservatives are factored in, but “death by stoning” makes no sense given the remainder of your comment. I have no idea why my mind made that connection.
I’m to the point where its just not even worth paying attention to whatever the Current Thing anymore. For the most part, I can pretty much predict what everyone is going to say and do in reaction. The Red Tribe, who I theoretically still align with, is just as reactionary, predictable, and ultimately useless as the Blue Tribe. It’s all noise that doesn’t meaningfully impact my life - at least not in any way I have control over.
If the cops didn’t go into that school because they were worried they might have to deport somebody, then we really are finished as a society. That $40 billion we just shipped to Ukraine with no scrutiny whatsoever could have gone a long way towards dealing with crazy people before they commit mass murders - instead we’ll just have a couple weeks of virtue signaling (in both directions) about guns before moving on to the next Thing.
Good on you for homeschooling your kid. Public schools are hell and private schools aren’t much better. I used to be against homeschooling, despite my own lousy school experiences, but the world has changed. And, really, is there a more midwit concept than trusting anybody else, let alone the government, to protect and “educate” your child all day?
I’ve taken as my icon on some posting systems The Frog with the words “I don’t support the current thing”.
I’m going to propose an alternative theory, one that’s not complicated involving schemes and plots… in fact, it’s a very simple explanation of what happened in Uvalde.
But first, you have to completely alter your view of the United States. Don’t think of it as the US you knew, the one you grew up in. Think of it more as a poor, lawless African nation… or a failed state in South America. In these countries, you’re not shocked when inflation is crippling, when the government is brutal and authoritarian, when the police are incompetent and corrupt, when basic supplies and functions are broken and non-existent. You EXPECT these things to happen. Do you think “nationwide shortage of baby formula” makes headlines in Venezuela or Burkina Faso?
Framed this way, Uvalde makes much more sense. There is no coordinated plot to serve political agendas. There is no deep state covert operation. Yes, these evil, self-interested “institutions” exploit America’s tragedies… but they do not orchestrate them.
The police acted the way they did because the police are exactly like every sector in government, education, media, and business in 2020’s America: they are wholly incompetent. They are unable and unwilling to do anything outside the scope of their bureaucracy’s interests. They don’t exist to serve public interest or some “greater good”… they exist because we pay them to exist. Like any bureaucracy, the employees exist to get paid and the bureaucracy’s purpose is to perpetuate.
Law enforcement in Uvalde are like any police force in any Third World nation…Officers went to the school to get their own children first? Of course they did… this is exactly what you would expect the police to do in the Third World. The entire “rescue” ground to a halt because no one could find the keys to the classroom the gunman had locked himself in? Of course. Third World. The “school resource officer” wasn’t at the school, and then blundered past the gunman? Of course… Third World. The “authorities” can’t accurately piece together the timeline of events? Third World.
There is no conspiracy. We’re just a Third World country where nothing works. It’s as simple as that.
Spot on NJ. The Third World is a few rich people, a small middle class to keep it “running”, and a bunch of poor people. Our hellhole cities are the best example, with my old home town of Chicago leading the way. It’s amazing how far it’s fallen in just a few years under the current destructors. They’re in the process of hollowing out the middle and upper middle class now that the thugs have made formerly safe neighborhoods their hunting grounds.
Current 2022 Chicago stats on kids 17 and under shot are 18 killed and 68 wounded. The 2021 stats show 66 killed and 381 wounded. The source is heyjackass.com, the go-to site now that the city doesn’t issue accurate numbers. As noted, this is no longer news, nothing to exploit.
I can remember when just about everything in America was B+ quality or better. Now, when I see the exposed rebar in the deteriorating concrete of the curb and sidewalk of the I-696 overpass near my house, I have to wonder about how well the contractor formulated the concrete on the structural part of the overpass.
As good as the specs laid out by the state. Not a lot different than buying Chinese. Everything has a price, how much you willing to pay?
Some companies have standards and won’t go below a certain level of quality. Others think “Not my problem, that’s what you wanted”.
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy in action.
Good analysis, and more insightful than our hosts quite frankly.
all of these activities are more useful than sitting in a room full of 90-130-IQ kids who need to have everything explained to them more than once.
I think your perspective is skewed by your 4+SD status. I test out somewhere between you and those 130 IQ kids and it seems to me that the vast majority of people in general regard those 130 IQ kids as pretty smart. They likely make up the bulk of students in AP classes.
Someone with an IQ of 130 likely does not need “everything” explained to them more than once. Perhaps physics or anything that involves advanced math, but not everything. Someone with an IQ of 115 is smart enough to complete graduate school with a B average.
A while back I read an essay by a math professor, a former child prodigy, and he makes the argument that most of the good things we have in the modern world are not the result of geniuses because there are simply too few true geniuses to achieve all of that work. Instead, the argument goes, most productive creative work is done by people who are indeed smart but don’t have super high IQs.
Also, there is the issue of practicality. The joke here in Michigan is what do graduates of the University of Michigan (one of a handful of elite public universities) call graduates of Michigan State University (one of the original “land grant” agricultural colleges, still sometimes mocked as “Moo U”)? “Boss”.
The hilarious part of all that is that an education from UofM is borderline useless given that anyone there would end up having been taught by communists or worse. Ann Arbor has long been the absolute worst part of my drive to my hometown (I live in the UP and went to high school “Where Michigan Begins”) and nearly every person I’ve met who graduated from there is so steeped in Marxist so-called “learning” they might as well be 80-IQ helmet wearers. My view of this may come from being born in Ohio but I hate hate HATE everything about that wretched place and I’m completely irrational about it and it’s probably the only thing where no amount of evidence will change my mind. UofM is a joke.
I’m sure that Michigan State and Ohio State are just as woke. Outside of Hillsdale are there any American colleges who primary focus is on actually educating (as opposed to indoctrinating) their students?
maybe st. John’s (santa fe and annapolis) and possibly university of Chicago. I suspect your hard-core tech schools just barely go through the motions of cultural Marxism. Give it a couple years and there will be a seminar course at cak tech on the hidden white supremacy of materials science.
Leftists have infiltrated STEM via the activists in so-called disciplines like “math education” and “engineering education”, which are almost proof of the old saying that those who can do, and those who can’t teach.
A lot of the tech schools are going woke. RPI started while I was there…they brought in a highly papered person who checked off a couple of the quota boxes and she’s been there for 2 decades now, turning it into their own little utopia. I was on-campus a couple of months ago and they were still requiring masks, vacc’s, boosters, and weekly testing of all students and employees. And you could see all the good little hamsters lining up at the campus “health centers” for them. I thought back to my time there, and my libertarian friends I used to hang out with, and I know what our reaction would be to all this nonsense. Hell, I knew one guy who flat refused to give his SSN to the school.
Different times.
It’s been a while, but admittedly, the UofM Marxists were less fearful of disagreement, and they would listen to “Ron Paul arguments” of an anti-war Paleo. I told a grad school professor that he was wrong on several occasions, and I still walked out of his class with a 9. At beloved Moo U (may the Dairy Store never close! may meat lab always keep its windows open!), I did encounter professors who graded entirely by whether they agreed with your politics.
Top 10 Countries with the Highest Average IQ - Ulster Institute 2019:*
Japan - 106.49
Taiwan - 106.47
Singapore - 105.89
Hong Kong (China) - 105.37
China - 104.10
South Korea - 102.35
Belarus - 101.60
Finland - 101.20
Liechtenstein - 101.07
Netherlands & Germany (tie) - 100.74
The US? 97.4
Just read some highlights of a Finnish Company that came up with IQ by country. They had Taiwan at 116.
I’m not so sure there’s validity in this because many of these countries aren’t that innovative. I suppose IQ is also based on school ability more than genuine intelligence. I’m a horrible test taker, but high IQ
Interesting that even with all the diversity of HK,(fFlipinos) and Singapore, (Malayans and Hindus) they scored higher than China itself. Score two for the legacy of British good governance, now mostly lost in Britain itself. Interesting also the absence of Israel on the list. The lack of good governance regarding their large minority showing itself?
Israel - 92.43
You may be correct.
All this is coming from
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country
Nepal 42.99
I find that hard to believe. Some of these tests these days are culturally biased. If you are being asked questions about things that you normally don’t interact with, you will look bad. If you are dirt poor and you day consists of sleep, work, sleep chances are you aren’t going to do that well.
I wouldn’t expect Israel to be that high on the list. The Jewish population is split about 50/50 between Ashkenazi and Sephardim. Sephardim don’t show the 15 point IQ bump found among Ashkenazim. Also, twenty percent of Israel’s citizens are Arabs. so less than half of Israelis are Ashkenazi. Charles Murray has an interesting theory as to the origins of that well documented bump - that Sephardim living among Muslims had great economic freedom and opportunity than Ashkenazim living among Christians. In Europe, Jews couldn’t own land and couldn’t join the trade guilds, restricting them to being merchants, tenant farmers, and money lenders. Those are all margin businesses. If you operate a margin business and you’re picking a husband for your daughter, you just might pick a young man who has a head for numbers. Fortunately, about 2,000 years ago, a High Priest named Yehoshua ben Gamla mandated standards based elementary education for Jewish boys, and later the secondary yeshivas and rabbinical seminaries made identifying the smart boys a practicality. There was social mobility because a poor boy who did well in school just might end up married to a wealthy family’s daughter. Having a scholar as a son-in-law was a status symbol, and being a scholar was no impediment to being a businessman. Many of the rabbis of the Talmud are identified by their professions, e.g. R’ Yossi haSandlar, a sandal maker.The preeminent Jewish biblical commentator, Rashi (R’ Shlomo Yitzchaki) was a vintner.
All the persecution of Jews may have also boosted their IQ because the smarter were more likely to survive and/or reproduce.
Ronnie, supporting your point, remember that the PSAT used to be admissible as an IQ test, so that if you were a National Merit Scholar, that meant you had an IQ of at least 130. That was what American honors colleges targeted.
Best I ever did was the National Honor Society. Funny thing, the teacher adviser for the NHS, flunked me out his science class. He told me, “Don’t sweat it. It’s not your thing”.
I didn’t help that I was paired with a drug addict that would come to class with eyes completely pink and would nod off when doing experiments. Quaaludes. If he showed up at all.
I tapped out a bit higher than 130. It’s “Nice” but IQ doesn’t make or break what kind of person you are inside. Also, I’ve never been super ambitious. Assuming that the higher IQ means anything other than there’s potential up stairs to accomplish “Great” things is silly. Nothing says you “WILL”, but you have a chance that you “MIGHT”.
Here’s a dirty little secret nobody wants to talk about. Whether or not there has been an increase in school shootings the fact remains that child murder is a thing, and always has been. People sacrificed their children, liteally, to Moloch. The worst school massacre in U.S. history took place in Bath, Michigan in 1927, when a guy blew up a school (after torching his own farm and killing his wife) and killed 38 kids and 6 adults.
Passover was a few weeks ago. During the Seder, after the meal, the front door is opened and some verses derived from Psalm 79 are recited. Some historians relate the history of that tradition to the medieval “blood libel” wherein Jews were falsely accused of ritually using the blood of Christian children to make matzos for Passover. According to that theory, the opening of the door was to make sure nobody dumped a child’s body. While the blood libel was a lie, somebody was indeed killing children.
MD Streeter, look up the parody video titled Parody of Pure Michigan University of Michigan, you will enjoy it, the same artist did one on MSU which is equally funny. 🙂
Those are wonderful videos. They remind me of that Cleveland travel advertisement where they stated Cleveland’s main export is crippling depression. Good stuff here is the rusty Midwest.
It’s hilarious that the otherwise laudable fact that the vast plurality of astronauts come from Ohio has been morphed into a meme that people will do just about anything to get away from Ohio.
To be fair, I’m from Toledo but I chose to come way up here to live, so it’s not there isn’t any truth to that meme.
There was a woman who graduated from Michigan State who purposely got a UM vanity license plate just so she could spell out MORONS using the big blue “M” on those plates.
That was one of my favorite random internet pictures when I saw it some 10 or so years ago.
I always liked the Florida plate “A55 RGY.”
You’re absolutely right, of course, and I agree with you completely. That doesn’t make me any less irrational, though!
Is anyone familiar with that song “Destroyer” by the Kinks?
That’s a good song.
Fittingly from the album “Give the People What They Want”.
I have that great record somewhere in my house.
The line where the doctor tells him he isn’t going crazy seems particularly apropos.
On the the three million…those are encounters. That means CBP has physically encountered 3 million individuals. The general thinking is that for every time cbp encounters somebody 3bsluo by.
We started schooling our kids at home pre-Wuhan-coff; though I was reluctant at the time (being a product and proponent of private, religious-based schools), in retrospect it was a very good decision. We plan to continue. There is a strong and thriving homeschooling movement out there; currently my life partner has the kids at a gathering of other H/S children, out playing in a stream and getting muddy and learning about nature and such. Tomorrow they’ll hit the books indoors. My 5 year old son is already multiplying figures (if I have 4 wheels with 5 studs at each corner of the car, how many lug nuts do I need?) and my 8 year old daughter blows through chapter books faster than most adults. At her birthday party last weekend she received a ~200 page hardcover book and had already read about half of it on the drive home yesterday.
I hope your home school journey is an outstanding one; from what I’ve read so far I’m sure your son will excel.
i think home schooling might work for you but for me a big part of it is the peer socialization which you can’t get at home. having just survived having my daughter home for 1 1/2 years of remote learning, i am very happy to have her back in school. she’s always been in magnet schools which may be why i’m still in favor of public education.
Here is something for commentators to think about that suppliments Jacks hypothesis. This weekend in Charleston WV a group of 30 to 40 elementary students were having a party outside at a large apartment complex in Charleston WV. An individual was speeding though the parking lot and driving recklessly. One of the chaperones asked the indivual to leave the area because of all the young children running around. The individual left but in a few minutes returned and approached the group of children with an automatic rifle. One of the women that was chaperoning the event saw the man appoaching and pulled her pistol from her purse and nuturalized the threat. The local sheriff said that there could have been a tragedy if the chaperone had not quickly thought to pull out her pistol and act.
Now how this applies to one of Jack’s hypothesis, I learned about this event from a newscast on a local independent TV station that serves as a training station for young aspiring TV reporters. I watch it occasionally to see the 22-24 year olds trying to be the next David Brinkley and for all the locally produced commercials which are really entertaining sometimes. Anyway, I have Googled searched for anywhere that this story was picked up and can not find anything. So you would think at the very least the network local stations would be interested in this story but nothing. So have the local network stations picked up on this story or is the powers that be not letting it appear in search results. Now not to borrow Jack’s tinfoil hat. But I can not think of a situation where a citizen stops what could have been a mass shooting event and it does not appear in the news anywhere except an off the radar local low power Appalachian independant TV station. Go figure. Now Jack here is your hat back… 🙂
I wonder if that woman who “neutralized the threat” will simply disappear or be sued into destitution by the family of the “threat.” It could happen if you’re in the wrong county when self-defense is required!
It isn’t news if the shooter and gun toting ‘victim’ are the same color. As sgeffe notes if the gun toting ‘victim’ was a POC and the hero shooter white (or white Hispanic or white Asian) then you could be sure the media would offer 24/7 coverage of the ‘racist’ motivated murder and the local DA would have her in jail on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree murder charges and the Biden DOJ would be filing hate and civil rights charges against her as BLM and antifa protesters peacefully tried to burn down the local police station and courthouse in the name of social justice.
I saw this on the BBC News main site a few days ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61615236. A single search turns up articles on ABC and NBC. Too bad none of the Uvalde police had the same thinking instead of letting the shooter do this thing for another 40+ minutes.
I haven’t followed gun control arguments until recently, but the general availability of AR-15s coupled with a lack of red-flag laws preventing their purchase by the mentally ill is what needs to be addressed.
Looking to US media for anything other than pharmaceutical advertising is mistake #1. FWIW, Zerohedge carried that WV story the next morning. The dailymail is not bad. NPR is full-on Pravda.
Historically, Communists would classify political dissidents as ‘mentally ill’ and send them off to the gulag for reprogramming. Our current ones have more than hinted at taking this approach again, often referring to Orange Man and his supporters as ‘mentally ill’. Needless to say, the field of mental health leans very, very left.
There is nothing special about the evil black rifle. It’s the Chevy smallblock of firearms in the US. As the closest available civilian equivalent to current military issue, it’s exactly what the musket armed framers intended be available to overthrow them if they did what they’ve been doing. In minecraft.
Was this it?
https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-police-shooting-victim-pulled-assault-rifle-on-party/
An interesting aspect of all the gun control advocation that always emerges after a shooting is that nobody ever explains how more laws will be effective when current gun laws are only rarely enforced. Just about any law will most often be violated by POC, which means it would be ‘racist’ to enforce them. It also remains unclear how we should expect people who are willing to violate laws against murder to follow new laws against gun use, but then again my IQ does not compare to slow Joe’s or cackling Kamala’s.
The result will be disarming law-abiding Americans, and that’s all they actually care about.
I’m no expert but I’d bet it’s a control thing. They don’t care about guys in the cities shooting each other, cause they’re no threat to the power structure. Some would say guys who were “boog meme” connoisseurs in 2019 or the 3 guys in the SRA who aren’t feds aren’t a threat either but at least they want to be a threat.
Or maybe it’s all political posturing. The dems have gotta do something or they’re gonna have a rough november. Gun control is something they can campaign on without having to do anything legit progressive. God forbid they help the working man instead of their donors.
No, they just want everyone to go along with the Leftist shit like good little sheep.
Can’t do that if there’s a few wolves clinging to their guns and their religion in the mix!
Exactly. The State isn’t afraid of criminals, because they’re cowards and thus not a problem.
The scariest guy in the room isn’t the Punk with nothing to lose, it’s the Man with everything to protect.
dang it. My other comment is awaiting moderation. Bet it would have posted right away if I hadn’t bought that made in china AGV K6 helmet last summer. Now our glorious leader is gonna airstrike my apartment with a neon green A10.
AGV is made in China now? I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am. I remember when Kenny Roberts wore AGV and, therefore, so did I. Fortuitously, they fit my large, oval shaped coconut. Mine were all Italian made back then.
I was surprised as well. Kinda pissed too cause it was a 500 dollar helmet. It’s a killer helmet though, fits my head way better than a shoei or arai and is crazy light.
My uncle has a killer old school poster of Kenny Roberts’ yamaha in his shop.
I wonder if there is any connection between K-12 Leftist indoctrination in school that all men are evil, all whites are privileged oppressors, and everyone else are helpless victims could have anything to do with the anger and mental illness behind school shootings? Which is another question that will never be considered by the media, politicians, or education establishment.
“CBP (Customs and Border Protection) is allowed to serve in an official all-purpose police capacity within 100 miles of the Mexican border.”
2 observations on that; Anywhere you go in Florida you are likely to run into CBP.
My business partner was pulled over by a county cop in central Ga a couple weeks ago. He said that less than 10 minutes after he was pulled over ( no legitimate reason given for the stop) CBP was on scene so that a warrant less search of his vehicle could be done.
What is the observation? Last I knew about geography neither Ga or Fl are within 100 miles of the Mexican border. They are a police force in pretty much any area they happen to be. And you have little to no recourse to refuse their demands.
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Yet instead of a God fearing family beyond repute, instead was a Southern, weed and wellfare soaked, no kid bunch of losers, for the Biden folks to find, and exploit. How sad, Be Best!
In the past few years I’ve started seeing CBP agents in Detroit but they’re usually downtown, because of the bridge and tunnel to Canada.
A while back for TTAC I wrote up the Woodward Dream Cruise related emergency vehicle show they put on in Ferndale every year. There were lots of active duty cops there, with cruisers from suburban agencies, not just Ferndale’s, participating in the Cruise on the taxpayers’ dime. As I was leaving, a CBP SUV pulled into a parking space at one end of the show and a bunch of tactically dressed CBP agents piled out of the car. I asked them what they were doing there and they answered, “PR.” When I wrote the article I mentioned them, explaining that Detroit is on an international border, and said something about them diligently protecting our border, miles away from it, at a car show. The local lefties at TTAC didn’t appreciate my lack of reverence to our government employee superiors.
Count me as one of the young suckers that Mercedes used their brand’s goodwill on. I was 21, fresh out of college, with a little bit of money and looking to buy my first new car. It was the summer of 2004 and the 2005 models had come out. With a budget of low 30s - a want of a manual transmission, and the idea that it should be “cool”. After testing a G35 coupe and Hyundai Tiburon, I decided on the C230…. although instead of the coupe it was the “Kompressor” sedan.
After less than two years I was in redesigned 2007 G35.
The C230, just wasn’t worth the money, or the Mercedes name. MB knew it and was banking on that. I grew up on car mags and old school MBs - as soon as I could get one I did, and I shouldn’t have. MB should have stayed up market - buyers should have spent more and the cars built to be deserving of the reputation.
I gave up on main stream, current magazine 20+ years ago. The stories have always mostly been about product pushing but ramped up to be over the top obvious in the mid to late 90s.
Now, I get the Hemmings Magazines + Collectible Automobiles. Old cars. Old cars are well, old. Writing about them today is writing about old cars. 10-20 years from now, the story about that old car will still be relevant. Much more than some story about a 2022 Hyundai Sonata or Chevy Equinox written for marketing purposes. Not sure if it was Jack in the TTAC days or not, but even though I knew that current cars were being written about for freebees, I had no idea that some authors owned no cars themselves, but “304’d themselves out for rides. Constantly jumping from one to another.
A 304 is if turned it upside down and squint a “Hoe”. Or a common garden tool.
I am not sure attacking the light, rwd, manual transmission, most resonably priced car was where I would have attacked the turn of the century Mercedes line. They were at the time also putting out new SUVs, not made in Germany, not available with manuals and designed to be driven by wives most interested in modeling a brand name while perfoming commuting, Over time these SUVs would displace many of their sedans to the point where the sedans continueance is in doubt.
After I got my PhD in 1997, I got a 318ti that was a lot of fun to drive, while also economical and reliable. Sure the interor was missing some features and drab and dark. It even used the old semi trailing arm rear suspension from the old cars. Still a good way to get into the line when compared to the jacked up Minis of today’s BMW .
Dr. John C. Might I ask in what field were you awarded a PhD, was it by any chance in Educational Leadership like Dr. Jill or as we use to say at Ole Miss a spiral notebook doctorate…. For those that a graduate degree in Physical Education was to academically challenging. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration. My dissertation was on employee compensation’s effect on job turnover at the entry level. Not a worthless feild of study, but Tucker Carlson reading my work on air would cause me a big case of nerves just like Dr. Jill.
Hopefully you can find something that your son will find enjoyable to read, amongst its litany of failures, schools seem determined to eviscerate any joy out of reading. Alas once one realizes the thee/thou element of governance, nothing is ever surprising. Now that the baby formula shortage has been shown to be a colossal failure by bureaucrats at the FDA, the news has disappeared. Not one GS16 responsible for the massive fuck up will be disciplined/fired, etc. And that is how it goes. Oh, I’m sure the taxpayers will pay out a whole bunch of money for the Uvalde system failure, but that’s it. Meanwhile, Hunter B., probably guilty of three separate firearm felonies will not even be charged. Nice to be the Nomenclatura.