Category: General Blog

Money Well Spent?

Social Media ‘Influencers’ Paid Up to $10,000 for Scripted Anti-Trump Videos [More]

Yeah, but does anyone watch them whose “mind” isn’t already made up?

Still, I wonder what the FEC reportable campaign expenditures position is on this — that, and it would be nice to expose them as paid whores.

[Via Michael G]

What Pre-Election Pandering?

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Jim Risch (R-ID) and U.S. Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA-48), and six colleagues introduced the Freedom from Unfair Gun Taxes Act to prohibit states from implementing excise taxes on firearms and ammunition to fund gun control programs. [More]

I don’t see anything on GovTrack yet.

Who wants to bet against me that it has more than a 1% chance of passing?

About what I expect from ol’ Hopalong…

[Via Jess]

Invaders Repelled Again

A U.S. federal judge in Massachusetts again dismissed a $10 billion Mexican government lawsuit against six U.S. gun manufacturers on Wednesday. [More]

Did I miss a story about the companies countersuing, or is that somehow not legally or economically advisable? Why?

If the companies won’t do it, would a stockholder have standing?

Anybody hear a plan on if Trump wins what he will do to put a stop to this?

Speaking of the Best Citizen Disarmament Money Can Buy…

An investigation by the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project reveals how a former Enron trader and his wife are quietly paying millions of dollars every year to colleges, universities, think tanks and other groups for biased anti-gun research, which is then cited as gospel by the corporate media and used as propaganda by anyone who wants to infringe upon law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment rights. [More]

Tell us more about how John Arnold invoked the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination over 30 times against queries about market manipulation…

The Best Citizen Disarmament Money Can Buy

Everytown on Wednesday announced a $45 million plan to fund voter outreach in the next few months to get 10 million like-minded voters to the polls this November. The group says their effort is aimed to “help elect gun sense candidates and defeat gun extremists up and down the ballot in key swing districts and states.” [More]

Add $15M from Giffords…

The rich elites really don’t want you armed.

So, who was “campaing finance reform” meant to stifle?

[Via Jess]

Battle Cry

As one studio executive succinctly sums up Hollywood’s new battle cry, “Fuck these Trump-loving techies.” [More]

I prefer Skip Coolzip’s slogan myself…

But the public doesn’t follow Hollywood producers– it’s the actors who influence fan cultists. As far as I’m concerned, they can’t replace those subversive lottery winners with CGI fast enough.

McCarthy tried to warn us. Now they’ve taken over.

Not that $elf-intere$ted $ilicon Vally “Republican$” of convenience share other MAGA values…

Marxist-Raised Raskin Proposes Starting Civil War by Denying Trump Election Eligibility

While he’s the one bemoaning civil war if he succeeds in denying half the country its choice for president, he dismisses the Second Amendment being an ultimate check against tyranny as “a constitutional joke”. [More]

Red Jamie says turn in your guns. And no, you don’t get to vote on it.

We’re the Only Ones Porcine Enough

Looks like he’s no longer so Only…

[Via WiscoDave]

Suicide Squad

Cori Bush becomes second ‘Squad’ member to lose 2024 primary as Democrats split over Israel [More]

As The Wolf advised in Pulp Fiction (NSFW!!!)…

[Via Jess]

Changing with the Times

The Plot to Queer Evangelical Churches [More]

Take over the institutions and control expectations of normalcy. Hey, just like the “Living Constitution,” right?

Is it really unfair to question what is behind it?

Before condemning me as a hater, I’m not holding anyone to any standards I don’t hold myself to: I don’t get to impose my beliefs on any religion to force it to conform. I either adhere to its teachings or call the dogma I adhere to something else.

[Via Matt L]