Here’s one that made me send an extra couple mags’ worth of ammo downrange yesterday:
President Trump has again threatened to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship, as she has moved to Ireland and is in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship to become a dual citizen.
“As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship. She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!” Trump posted.
And to think I once ridiculed Jimmeh Carter for getting involved in such minutiae as deciding White House parking privileges…
Dear POTUS: why the fuck are you bothering with this kind of silliness? Has the DOGE finished its job? Have you done with Putin? Are you going to make the Brits pay dearly for their anti-free speech activities? Have you even started to address the dire state of the national debt, not to mention next year’s budget? [200 more Presidential / CEO-type high-level issues deleted, for reasons of space]
Stop pissing around with the small stuff, and get serious about the important stuff.
And speaking of stupid shit… this one’s for AG Pam Blondie.
One of the several things that upsets me about the MAGA-Trump Administration is how they can forget that sometimes governmental action not only doesn’t work, but has been proven not to work in the past. Take this next bit of foolishness, for example:
The Department of Justice is actively exploring a ban on gun possession for transgender individuals in the wake of a mass shooting at a Catholic school by a transgender gunman, Breitbart News reported, citing “multiple sources familiar with the matter.”
The Office of Legal Council has reportedly organized multiple meetings to explore the possibility of denying transgender people access to firearms on grounds of mental illness.
Sigh.
Just a little reminder: gun bans don’t fucking work. (If they did, there would be zero gun-related deaths and crimes in Britishland, to take but one example.) Not only do they not work, but the cost of policing such bans is astronomical.
And just who, pray tell, is going to be the arbiter of “mental illness”? You? A panel of “experts”? The local school’s PTA?
Stop wasting your time with “multiple meetings” (because they too don’t work, and waste time withal).
Here’s something that has a far higher chance of success:
Order that all public schools maintain an armed and trained security force on the premises.
What we know for a fact is that even the psychos shy away from playing their little reindeer games when there’s a good chance they’ll be shot dead right before they take aim at someone, or right after they’ve fired their first shot / stabbed their first victim. (Feel free to check the stats on this: it will be a far better use of time than these multiple meetings, for starters.)
And to force the gun-fearing wussy school administrators (e.g. in California, New York and Illinois) to comply, make all federal funding dependent on the installation thereof. (I mean, the Education Department exists for just such a reason, as opposed to promoting the ghastly LGBTOSTFU agenda in said schools with taxpayer money.)
But no, by all means go with what doesn’t work. If nothing else, it will prove that government, whether conservative, MAGA or Screaming Commies, doesn’t have a fucking clue.
Not that we ever needed such proof.
If Trump is successful with revoking O’Donnell’s citizenship then the left will just move the process into high gear when they get back in power
While I agree that it’s too silly and a time suck for Trump to bother with Rosie, I also think that we as a nation should permanently END the practice of dual citizenship legally, thru Congress. Anyone currently holding dual citizenship will either need to renounce their other citizenship or have their USA citizenship revoked, by law. Along with a 1-way ticket across the border. Dual citizenship came into being thru the fucking courts, not Congress. It was never debated, never discussed, and here we are. Fuck it, you’re either all in or GTFO.
As for trannies and guns, I do believe that they are mentally ill and thus already banned from owning firearms. We just need to enforce that law. Who decides? Well, if anyone here thinks it’s normal to cut your dick off or zipper off your tits, raise your hand. Otherwise, yes, they are mentally ill.
On the gun ban thing, I really think that could be an attempt to make the Left’s instinctive “Orange Man Bad” reaction work in our favor. We’ll know for sure if we see Democrat leaders standing up and defending gun rights.
Unfortunately, the Republicans won’t use that reaction to pass anything like national carry laws, or to repeal any current gun bans.
Those who want to ban all private gun ownership have no logical reason not to start with forbidding trans people from possessing guns. The gun banners may want to start somewhere else but, if they are sincere, they will have to get to the trans people eventually.
Fortunately, I am not one of the prohibitionists and have always been leery of denying people the exercise of a right because of “mental illness”. The history of the 20th Century provides too many examples of how easy that idea is to abuse. For the democide minded the mentally ill or “defectives” are the low hanging fruit on the way through to their murderous agendas.
Undoubtedly there are people out there whose right to keep and bear arms (RKBA) should be restricted. The difficulty is in determining the boundary conditions. Diagnosing mental illness is not as easy as measuring the level of mupplesnarfiside in the blood or urine. Even if it was, most mentally ill persons are not dangerous to others. The RKBA of the crazy cat lady should not be restricted just because she is a crazy cat lady.
As a working principle, I would agree that if an individual is too dangerous to be out in public with a gun then he or she is too dangerous to be out in public without a guardian. That doesn’t eliminate the boundary problem but it does establish a clear reason for why a restriction would even be considered. It also, I think, acknowledges that RKBA is an adult right and why any restriction must be made while respecting all Constitutional protections and due process.
It would be worthwhile to let Blondie attempt (and “fail”) to ban transgender firearm ownership, just to get the gungrabbers on record supporting gun rights.
You’re spot on re: minutiae, but the thing that grinds my gears here is that no US citizen should ever have dual citizenship over the age of majority. If you emigrate here, you’re a citizen of The Olde Worlde until such time as you become a US Citizen and that should require a formal declaration to your former land that you renounce citizenship there. Likewise, obtaining citizenship in another country should immediately be a renouncement of US citizenship. No hard feelings to anyone in that situation, it is a matter of loyalties.
One thing that just blows my wife’s mind is when people ask her if she votes in Polish elections. When she says she is a US citizen, people think it is ok for her to vote back home; she says “No, I have interest in what’s going on there but no longer have a dog in their fight, my allegiance is to the US and has been for 30 years.” Equally mind blown she is when people suggest she bring her elderly parents to the US and get them signed up on Medicare and SSI, and she tells them her parents have Polish pensions from working in Poland all their lives, why should they get benefits from a country in which they never turned a wrench? She has had several Indian doctors say this to her, because that is exactly what they do. And legally, thanks to Jimmeh Carter ((P)alestine).