One of the many things I detest about X/Twatter is that the response is posted above the initial Twat, so it requires eyeball gymnastics / Hebraic reading discipline to figure out what the hell everyone is talking about.
Here’s one stream, which I’ve edited so as to make it readable for people of reasonable intelligence:
…which brings me to my main point:
Adam Kinzinger is a total fuckhead.
And Ron DeSantis isn’t.
But you all knew that.
Here’s some (un)surprising news:
Republicans Are About to Get Caught With Their Pants Down in Virginia’s Elections
Ummm I hate to break it to you, but the Stupid Party’s pants are in a perpetual state of “down”, which is why the Socialists find it so easy to bend them over the desk, time after time.
Still, the details are awful, but in fact pretty predictable:
Virginia is one of the few states that holds its state-wide elections on off years, and the balance of its General Assembly there hangs in the balance. Gov. Glenn Youngkin has been working non-stop to secure a majority, both to deliver tangible conservative wins and to redefine the narrative surrounding more recent GOP losses.
Unfortunately, according to a new report, the Republican National Committee doesn’t seem to be interested in helping with that cause.
…because that might hinder the Stupid Party’s efforts to help the Socialists, you see.
And if you smell “Romney” all over this one, you would be correct.
The Republican Party is the NRA of conservatism.
Rule #1 when handling all loaded firearms, children?
Keep the booger-hook off the bang-switch!
Seems like this scrote didn’t get the memo:
A carjacker died after he accidentally blasted himself in the chest while trying to smash a window with the butt of his shotgun, an inquest has heard.
Officers investigating the death of Reece Ramsey-Johnson said they were satisfied there was ‘no third party involvement’ as they closed the probe into his killing.
Witnesses who saw the 22-year-old dying from gunshot wounds in the street outside a Lloyds bank in Sydenham on Sunday, September 8, said his own gun may have gone off when he used to to hit a car window.
Opening the inquest at Southwark Coroner’s Court on Thursday September 26, Dr Andrew Harris confirmed the police investigation had now ended.
He said: ‘The investigating officer is satisfied there is no third party involvement.
You may now do what I did when I first saw the report (and thanks to all who sent it to me):
Oh and by the way: criminals are not allowed to possess firearms in Britishland, so this report may be Russian disinformation. [/eyecross]
Here’s a win-win situation:
The Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) is demanding that the Fresno Unified School district set aside parking for homeless families, as a part of their larger list of demands – such as free laundry services – as the union prepares to go on strike.
Yes; nothing says “We Care About The Children!” more than putting a squatters’ camp right on school property.
Fortunately, the school district is showing just a little common sense:
The district has previously stated that it does not plan to bow to the union’s demand, with the district’s chief communications officer saying that, “We do not plan to open our parking lots,” since “education, not housing,” is the school district’s area of expertise.
The union has other demands: money for “security”, an end to Global Warming, banning tooth decay and some other equally-important stuff, but nemmind.
Here’s the win: the longer this bunch of malcontent Marxists can stay out of the classroom, the better-off the kids will be.
And here’s the other win: the longer the school district plays hardball, the sooner the striking schoolteachers will have to join the ranks of the homeless they seem to care so much about.
Of course, there’s another way to deal with these striking teachers:
…but no doubt someone’s going to have a problem with this.
I know, the title is somewhat redundant, but this beats them all (sent by Reader Tony M., thankee — I think):
After 123 years, the immortal Colt-Browning 1911 pistol has finally left U.S. military service.
The immortal 1911 really has no historical equal. It has been the longest-serving sidearm in U.S. military history. Almost every company in the business of manufacturing handguns today makes some variation of the 1911.
And yet, it’s no longer good enough for our troops? To continue:
While nothing lasts forever, and while it’s easy to see the logistical advantage in a sidearm that uses the NATO-standard 9x19mm cartridge, it’s a sad day for gun aficionados, especially those of us with a fondness for John Browning’s 1911.
For those of little historical learning, I should point out that the reason that the U.S. Army adopted the Colt 1911 .45 ACP in the first place was that their .38 cartridges (similar to the 9x19mm) just weren’t killing savages efficiently. But of course, people who make “logistical” choices are seldom the same ones who actually have to shoot people dead.
Never mind: let our troops use three rounds of 9mm Europellet fired from their German-designed peashooters to do the same job as the .45 Automatic Colt Pistol bullet can do with one.
I’ll just continue to carry my 1911 and be glad of it.
Bah.
Reader Mike L. sends me this little tale of bullshit:
Less than a week before Massachusetts observes Columbus Day, lawmakers and Native American advocates, some wearing traditional headdresses, asked a legislative committee to replace the holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day.
I’m getting so heartily sick of this nonsense, these attempts to rewrite history (at the expense of settled history, of course), and this glorification of what was essentially a bunch of savages.
Simply put: what did these glorious “indigenous” people ever do for us, for civilization and for the land which would become the United States? Where are their laws, their buildings and monuments, their written (as opposed to oral — i.e. invented) histories?
I’ll tell you where they are: nowhere, because they don’t exist.
So what’s to “honor”, other than to acknowledge that they once existed? Do we have “Neanderthal Day”? Of course we don’t — and do not for one minute think that I’m comparing “indigenous” American peoples to Neanderthals; although now that I think of it, I’m not exactly sure that the comparison isn’t apt, considering that the latter too left no laws, buildings, monuments or history pretty much for the same reasons. We don’t even know that the cave paintings scattered all over Europe and Asia were created by Neanderthals. Cave paintings weren’t much of a legacy, but they were something.
We commemorate achievements and actions precisely because what was done was (duh) memorable and had an effect on the world that followed. I have for example far less issue (in fact, no issue) with, say, Martin Luther King Day than President’s Day (which simply mashed all those wonderful presidents’ individual achievements into some amorphous reason for retail promotions and sales).
We don’t have to commemorate simple existence, we simply have to acknowledge it — for example, in written history (which they didn’t have) — and get on with life.
In terms of world history, what Christopher Columbus achieved was greater than anything achieved by all the Indigenous Peoples’ leaders and chiefs combined, ever. It is an absolute travesty to substitute his day of memory with some (once again) amorphous glorification of a group who collectively were nothing but inhabitants of this continent, whose originality was simply of greater vintage than people like Columbus, and whose legacy was… minimal, to be charitable.
Glorification of that is no more than a participation trophy, another artifact so beloved of the people who want to effect so insidious a change.
Fuck ’em. Fuck ’em all.