I came across this yesterday. It is time indeed past time to label the NRA for what it is, a hate group. They should be put on a watch list. We have tolerated them and their methods for too long. Enough is enough! Call this what you will but I call it incitement.
Here is a thought line – Mueller and others indict the SFB mob/cult members while he is playing dictator wannabe in Vietnam. Someone with some brains gets him to agree to resign as a way of reducing the charges on the mob/cult members and himself. He declares the Korean War over and does resign. Pence takes over and is indicted too. He resigns and Speaker Pelosi becomes president by the end of March.
It’s time that i.e.d. fans began to target the nra and gun shows.
Support your right to keep and bear 120mm (rifled) guns & shells, SAM launchers, AP grenades, anthrax spores, poison umbrellas, & stuff.
Applying Henry II’s words to wayne lapierre, “Who will rid us of this troublous priest ?”
usatoday:
Judge says ban on rapid-fire ‘bump stocks’ can go forward, rejects challenge to new rules
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The decision by U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich in Washington rejected challenges to the ban on the rapid-fire attachment known as bump stocks weeks before it was scheduled to go into effect.
Friedrich rejected arguments that the rule was rushed through the administrative process, or that it was improperly issued by then acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker. She wrote that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was within its right to redefine ambiguous terms that the government had previously concluded constrained them to allow the devices.
“That this decision marked a reversal of ATF’s previous interpretation is not a basis for invalidating the rule because ATF’s current interpretation is lawful and ATF adequately explained the change in interpretation,” Dabney wrote in her 64-page ruling.
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The case was one of at least five federal lawsuits challenging the rule issued by the Justice Department in December after a year of weighing public comment submitted to the ATF.
Friedrich also rejected an argument that the ban was unlawful because it had been approved by former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, whose appointment last year was met with criticism because he had not been approved for the job by the Senate. She ruled that Trump had the power to appoint Whitaker.
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excerpt from ny times preview of cohen show on Wednesday:
from reuters:
The NRA is beyond reproach according to the republicans in Congress and their incredibly stupid or dishonest (or both) supporters and members, who care only about their own self interest and the lies they are fed by the NRA lobbyists and leaders. In fact they are beyond despicable.
and
vanity fair: “Earth-Shattering”: In Testimony Against Trump, Michael Cohen Preparing to Shock Lawmakers with Disclosures
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Now, Cohen plans to air the president’s dirty laundry during three days of congressional hearings—a final act of allocution before he reports to prison in May. According to people familiar with his testimony, Cohen’s testimony will include allegations of racism, lies, infidelity, and criminal misconduct while in office. Cohen has been preparing for this very public moment every day for the last several weeks, according to people familiar with the situation, as he tries to square his wrongdoings in the face of great skepticism. In intense, daily meetings, his new attorneys, Michael Monico and Barry Spevack, have been probing his memory of his time with Trump, according to these people, including his professional tasks, and the inner workings of his life as a loyal employee to a man for whom he once told me he would “take a bullet.” “Some things that are earth-shattering are right in front of your nose, and the reason you don’t know that they’re earth-shattering is because they’re right in front of you,” one person told me.
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also from vanity fair:
Mueller Appears After Something Really Big: Reading Between the Lines in Advance of the Special Counsel’s Report
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As the White House has pointed out following each of Mueller’s indictments, neither the president nor his deputies have been charged with taking part in a foreign conspiracy to illegally influence the 2016 election. At least not yet. Trump himself is almost certainly immune to prosecution while he is president, according to long-standing Justice Department guidelines. But that doesn’t mean Mueller isn’t building a case that he can effectively turn over to Congress, which has the power to impeach Trump. As Asha Rangappa, a former F.B.I. counter-intelligence agent who worked under Mueller, explained to me last year, “Collusion does not necessarily have to be criminal.” The definition of collusion, she continued, could be as simple as “secretly conspiring or working with a foreign power to help them in their covert operation.”
Trump’s lawyers have recognized this. For months, the official position of the Trump White House was that there was “no collusion.” More recently, however, the president’s lawyers have shifted the goalposts. “If Roger Stone gave anybody a heads-up about WikiLeaks’ leaks, that’s not a crime,” Rudy Giuliani told ABC News in December, several weeks before Mueller’s indictment against Stone revealed that the longtime Trump confidant had communicated with campaign officials about WikiLeaks’ plans. “The crime is conspiracy to hack. Collusion is not a crime; it doesn’t exist.”
In the realm of impeachment, collusion is indeed a political question. But whether Trump, his campaign, or his associates conspired with the Russians to sabotage Clinton and subvert the American electoral process is a legal one. When analyzing the public body of Mueller’s work, the litany of speaking indictments and other court documents suggest that Mueller is building toward something big. As Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor who worked closely with Mueller, posited to me last year, “It wouldn’t be a surprise if he returned a large conspiracy indictment for basically a conspiracy to defraud the United States by interfering in our elections.”
With the two-year anniversary of Mueller’s appointment this spring, some of the juiciest—and arguably most consequential—questions about Russian election interference and the Trump campaign remain unanswered. But every bizarre detail or curious omission from Mueller to date could be a bread crumb leading to what the special counsel is preparing next. The investigation’s known unknowns are an investigative road map.
Ya know when you express every outrage with 24+ type and capital letters, people quit paying attention. So the NRA is “Targeting” Pelosi, yeah, they are. This whole thing (not you Jace) comes across as false outrage,
We are inundated with gun equivalences in our everyday, I just threw away a list passed out at our latest crime prevention strategy meeting. Just think of the number of aim, shoot , target phrases there are around you. Most never even applying to violence. The problem with false outrage is it drives off the very people you need to have on your side. They just look at the 24+ type, in capital letters and scroll on past.
Jack
jack, would it be alright to utter at least a “tsk tsk” when they put crosshairs on politicians’ foreheads?
btw, isn’t it curious the targeting symbols of late only seem to be placed on pictures of women?
old lady congress about to give the nasty orange purse-snatcher what for today
Here you go, Jack:
https://www.npr.org/2013/03/19/174767346/gun-metaphors-deeply-embedded-in-english-language
Dang, i heard that 6 years ago? Tempus fugit?
Guns are for cowards. Print it.
Real men use flame throwers.
I’ve stated my position on guns here over and over again. But there’s been a lot of talk here lately about certain Democrats leaning too far left. Wanting background checks is fine. Having age limits on who can shoot a gun is fine. Not allowing anyone with mental health issues or past violent issues to buy or own a gun is fine. You know I love you Bink… but to suggest that anyone who owns a gun is a coward is acting like a Democrat leaning too far left, IMO.
Maybe the difference is where we reside. City people hear the word gun and think gun violence. Country people hear the word gun and think hunting. I know lots of people who own hunting rifles… and some of them are Democrats.
Nah… i see these cowards strutting around acting like they’re tough shit because they have a gun. They’re all huge ******s, to a person. Weak and scared of the world. That’s why they bought the gun.
…and you’re a shitty hunter if you need a gun to take your prey.
Love you, too, btw.
Here- watch two fat cowards murder an actual tough guy:
https://youtu.be/7Vp1mZPUsjU
Warning: this is a video of a gun-murder. Graphic content.
Are all these ruined lives worth the deer you’re hunting because you’re bored? Get the fuck outta here.
Ok, pardon me.
Mr Bink, I’m commuting your sentence. No pardon, though. In addition, I’ll Huber you, so you can slave at a low-paying mind-killing job and pay taxes. Just don’t rape and kill anybody while you’re out, and embarrass me at election time. I soooooo hate being willie hortoned.
I’m not anti-gun, either, Ms Renee. And, I want background checks done before firearms and ammunition are transferred from one person to the next. People who are mentally or emotionally ill mustn’t be able to access firearms or ammo.
If we’re going to have a robust 2d Amendment, we must make sure that the well-regulated militia clause rules.
I also prefer open carry to concealed carry.
If we’re giving our wish list, liability insurance specific to gun ownership should be required if a person wants to own a gun or guns. Premiums go towards the medical costs for gunshot victims. If you have to have insurance when you own a car, the least we can do is require insurance if you own a gun.
Flatus, I know that you are more interested in South Carolina women’s basketball, but you are by chance watching the South Carolina – Alabama men’s game are you?
Brilliant idea, heddy.
Heddy, what Bink said. (Goddam autocorrect)
Heddy, if I didn’t think your idea is brilliant, I’d make a joke about your plan shoveling money to the Insurance Oligarchs. However,
It is so brilliant that I’d like to steal it and take all the credit for it.
Bink, Pogo, xrepublican: I can’t take credit for the idea on my own. It’s something that came out of a brainstorming session of a local OFA (Organizing for America) chapter. As much as I dislike the insurance industry, it was responsible for the organization of fire companies (eg, Philadelphia in the 1700s), building standards, etc. Makes sense … whose profits suffer? That’s why insurance companies should be natural allies when it comes to climate change, gun violence, etc. Another idea from those brainstorming sessions: BURY THE DAMN UTILITY LINES WHEREVER POSSIBLE! How many times do utilities have to restring lines due to hurricanes, ice storms/blizzards, wildfires before we get our heads out of our collective tooshies?
Heddy, they only go down here when the wind blows. ??♂️
Add earthquakes, slumps, & sinkholes. Right u r again, Ms Heddy.
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