Congressman Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) reminded the country last week why the Second Amendment is so vital to the United States.
The former Long Beach mayor called on the Democratic Party to “bring actual weapons” in the “fight for democracy.”
So you’ll bring your “actual” weapons to fight for democracy — what you call democracy, at any rate.
Challenge accepted. Be White, and make the first move. We’ll see how this plays out.
Are they really this stupid?
Fact: she wasn’t an employee of USAID, as represented by 60 Minutes, but an employee of an outside contractor for USAID. A speechwriter, to be precise.
Yes, and while we’re there, let’s consider the plight of people affected by Biden’s ending of the Keystone pipeline project. Actual workers, not flunkies working in a tangential industry.
Fuck you. Fuck all of you.
I see that the U.S. Army’s new rifle is having some problems.
Okay, the XM7 per se isn’t having problems, but its bells-‘n-whistles sighting system is.
The fiscal 2024 report on the Army’s Next-Generation Squad Weapon program from the Pentagon’s Director, Operational Test and Evaluation published last week indicates that the XM157 Fire Control smart scope that’s intended to augment the program’s XM7 Next Generation Rifle and XM250 Next Generation Automatic Rifle received negative ratings from soldiers during testing last year.
“The XM7 with mounted XM157 demonstrated a low probability of completing one 72-hour wartime mission without incurring a critical failure.”
On the positive side, the XM7 rifle itself, and its new ammo (6.8x51mm) was very much liked. That’s good. But a rifle without sights is useless (except at very close range). But why isn’t the “Fire Control” system working? I mean:
A 1-8×30 variable magnification direct view optic built by Vortex Optics subsidiary Sheltered Wings, the XM157 incorporates advanced technologies such as a laser rangefinder, aiming lasers, environmental sensors, ballistic solver, compass and a digital display overlay, all of which are designed to “increase the probability of hit and decrease the time to engage”.
The XM157 also features wireless connectivity that will purportedly allow it to integrate with heads-up displays like the Army’s current Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular, or ENVG-B, and future Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS, do-it-all goggles, allowing soldiers to survey the battlefield from cover using a live video feed from their weapon optic.
I’m just amazed there isn’t a coffee-making capability included.
Ah yes, the old “advanced technologies” bugaboo. The more technologies involved, the greater the number of potential failure points.
Now I’m not suggesting that we go back to iron aperture sights (as good as they are), and by the way, I see that the XM7 has no provision for any kind of backup sights (which pleaseth me not).
I’m all for giving our boys the best gear possible to kill assholes I mean our country’s enemies. But the shit’s gotta work, FFS.
So what’s the Army doing about it?
Despite the documented issues detailed in the DOT&E report, the Army is still plowing ahead with the system’s development. Indeed, the service released a sources sought notice in late January for “novel technologies or ongoing research that would be beneficial for the XM157 system as a module and/or software that provides enhanced capability.”
Yeah, so instead of scaling back the complexity until we get something that works perfectly, and building it back up from that base, let’s make the system still more complicated than the (non-working) thing already is. That’s a proven recipe for success, of course.
We were always drilled that there are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Army way.
I’ll leave it to you to decide what’s happening here.
It appears that liberal harpies are more likely to be unhappy with their lives than their more feminine counterparts:
According to the 2024 American Family Survey, only 12% of liberal women surveyed said they were “completely satisfied” with their lives, compared to 37% of conservative women and 28% of moderate women between the ages of 18-40.
An analysis of the results showed that liberal women are “two to three times more likely” to indicate they are “not satisfied” with their lives when compared to women who identify as conservative.
Color me unsurprised. I have known many such harridans in my lifetime, and to a (wo)man they are sour, perpetually indignant and… miserable. This is only exacerbated if they are vegans or wiccans [some overlap], and if they have a university degree in a topic with “Studies” in the title, then look out.
By and large, they see themselves as victims — buying into the current Marxist trope that there are two classes in society (victimizers and victims) — and of course eeeevil men are the former group, which means by default they are the latter.
The fact that by and large they are middle-class White women (in number) who can afford to indulge themselves in such nonsense gives the lie to their hysteria and self-inflicted unhappiness.
Conservative women, in contrast, are too busy for this foolishness because they are involved in raising happy families and doing good works (like church-y stuff) rather than wailing about (mostly-imagined) injustices, and feeling put-upon.
You may disagree with me on this point, but you’d be wrong; and it would appear that I have the facts on my side withal.
Surrendering to an enemy is not always a bad thing. Sometimes, your position is hopeless, and continuing the struggle is not only pointless but perhaps ruinous — loss of life, loss of country, whatever.
But surrendering to an enemy when you have won? That, my friends, takes a lot of doing. Try this for an example of the latter:
Are you fucking kidding me? The murderous bitch was “upset”? Bloody hell, why not just put sunglasses on her to cover her eyes as well? Or why bother with a mugshot at all?
When she expressed her anguish at the facial mugshot, they should have re-shot the thing, thus:
Or even better, if she had the proper attributes:
That would have been much better treatment for her… but no, Milord Justice had to roll over like a little possum and accommodate her stupid religious custom, when she’s accused of trying to join ISIS to kill non-Muslim people.
Fuck ’em — not just the terrorists, but the spineless assholes who kowtow to them.
By the way: before the original and oh-so-objectionable mugshot is scrubbed from the Internet by the judge’s little cousins in wokedom, here it is.
Talk about welcome news:
Danish campaigners are proposing to buy California from the United States and turn it into a territory of Denmark in response to Donald Trump‘s bid to acquire Greenland.
The ‘Denmarkification’ campaign says it seeks to crowdfund $1trillion to purchase the US state, after which it plans to instill it with Danish values and make the most of its sunny weather and resources.
Good luck with instilling any values — let alone Danish ones — into that cauldron of assholes, guys. Hell, if you could clean up L.A. and San Francisco alone, you’d be doing the world a favor.
At least the new Danish “settlers” would be used to over-priced real estate, and the current crop of Californians would welcome your free healthcare and rampant socialism. And don’t forget to include the cost of a wall around the place — we’ve had more than enough Californians infest the rest of the country, thank you.
And you Danes might as well forget speaking that throat-clearing stuff you call a language and learn to speak Spanish. Although that need may disappear soon, if you get your way:
Denmark’s immigration approach has been influenced by Right-wing parties for more than 20 years, with Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister and leader of the centre-Left Social Democrats, pursuing a “zero refugee” policy since coming to power in 2019.
The country of around six million people received 2,300 asylum requests last year.
“Last year, authorities granted the smallest number of residency permits to asylum seekers that we have seen in recent years,” Kaare Dybvad Bek, the immigration minister, said, calling the figure “historic”.
If you can do that in California… see the title of this post.