Notes from the Resistance
Shouldn’t Trump Voters Be Viewed as Traitors? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether voters should be held accountable for their chosen candidate’s behavior. [More]
Kwame Anthony Appiah of The Newsraper of Record evidently wants Republicans tried and either imprisoned or executed as the tribunals see fit.
If we’re talking accountability, Bill Clinton’s Rules of Engagement seem a pretty good place to start.
[Via Michael G]
In the series of profane videos posted to Facebook, the suspect claimed that Trump kidnapped and sex-trafficked his kids, though it’s unclear whether Tamayo-Torres has children, according to the outlet. “[Y]ou’re gonna die,” he allegedly said in a video posted Thursday, referring to Trump. “[Y]our son’s gonna die. Your whole family is going to die … I’m going to put a hole in your face.” [More]
Hey, at least he’s not Smith & Wesson or Firearms News…
It’s kind of interesting, what complies with Facebook community standards and what doesn’t…
[Via bondmen]
Just About Everyone Outside Washington D.C. Supports Trump’s Plan To ‘Wreck’ The Bureaucracy [More]
It’s the type of exciting prospect that could make us giddy with expectations. But like with guns, there will be things he can do, things he can’t do, and plenty of room for missteps and circumstantial changes between the two.
[Via bondmen]
Today on Armed American Radio Mark continues the conversation started yesterday with David Codrea on Pam Bondi and her 2A chops or lack thereof. Is she right for gun owners as head of DOJ after her support for Florida’s post Parkland gun control bill? [Listen]
In case you missed it live and want to hear it.
And my elaborated thoughts on what Donald Trump’s election means for the Second Amendment are here.
Today on AAR Daily Defense, Mark chats with long-time AAR contributor, blogger, and citizen journalist, David Codrea. Topics include the makeup of the Trump cabinet from a gun rights perspective. Mark and David discuss bills likely to move quickly…or not…and then turn attention to Pam Bondi for AG. David is no fan and eloquently articulates the reasons why, including her past support for anti-gun measures in Florida as state AG. Mark counters with analogies and gives her the benefit of waiting out the hearings. She will no doubt be put on the spot during the confirmation process and allowed to articulate her 2A positions moving forward as AG. A lively discussion, so good in fact, that David returns on Wednesday to wrap up his legitimate concerns. [Listen]
My latest Firearms News piece, “Donald Trump and Republicans Owe Gun Owners, and It’s Time to Collect,” elaborates on my position.
Jay Bhattacharya, prominent physician and economist, nominated by Trump for NIH director [More]
The influential NIH is a big proponent of “A Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence,” a favorite tactic of rabid gun prohibitionists.
The (anti-gun) New England Journal of Medicine concludes “Handgun ownership is associated with a greatly elevated and enduring risk of suicide by firearm,” and in its end “Notes” thanks “Jay Bhattacharya, Philip Cook, John Donohue, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Daniel Ho, and Michelle Mello for helpful comments on an earlier draft of the manuscript.”
Is he the same Jay Bhattacharya, and if he is, will Senate advise and consent hearings find out what comments he provided and how they will affect/inform the policies and public advocacy he will direct if confirmed to this position?
Have Donald Trump and those who advanced his name considered it, and the implications/potential for this appointee exploiting the position in contradiction to campaign promises made to gun owners?
There’s much Donald Trump won’t be able to do, but a lot that he can if he means to keep his pledge to the gun owners he could not have won without. Rein in ATF, Mr. President. Do what you can with your bully pulpit to influence American citizens and your unique power to influence your party and the Congress. Make informed judicial appointments. Listen to gun rights leaders. And task the Justice Department with the Constitutional imperative to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” [More]
Now is not the time to rest on laurels and trust that everything is going to start going our way. If we don’t stay on top of him — and them — Pam Bondi won’t be the only disappointment.
The truth is, the Deep State cannot afford to allow President Trump to implement his plans to reform America. [More]
Got ammo?
Special Counsel Smith seeks to dismiss Jan. 6 charges against Trump [More]
Sounds like he’s getting in front of minimizing his own exposure…
Americans Can’t Trust Mike Rogers To Give The FBI The Reckoning It Needs [More]
This will be a good indicator of whether or not Trump has learned a thing since Chris Wray.
[Via bondmen]
MAGA world outraged after now-deleted tweet reveals Mitch McConnell’s secret plot to derail Trump’s agenda in the Senate [More]
Ask yourself what about his past actions and collusion would make him side with the freaked out DOJ…
[Via bondmen]
“Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you’re gonna have,” Stallone declared… [More]
What kind of phony stays out of the fight and then shows up to share in the glory of the win?
Except it’s not. In the complete version they end up killing Trump and playing celebratory music:
And remember what we know about those who wish him harm.
[Via Len Savage]
Because he spoke before he was inaugurated, giving him the power to act, Trump alerted the Deep State that he represented an existential threat to its survival. The bottom line is that the Deep State cannot afford for Trump to become president on January 20, 2025. [More]
You might want to play this in the background, just to set the mood for how insane it all is.
All that talk from Democrats about the peaceful transition of power and Joe Biden greeting him cordially is more than them just poking him for Jan. 6, it’s for plausible deniability. Add in domestic enemies embedded in the Secret Service, an assasination attempt where they left vulnerabilities anyone could exploit, and leaking his golf schedule for a second attempt, and there is nothing they won’t stop at.
Then follow that up with their manufactured external existential threat.
These are the most dangerous times we’ve ever lived through — so far.
Maybe we’ll get a chance to see just how smart the Founders were with the Second Amendment.
[Via bondmen]
…Stallone has stayed pretty quiet about his personal politics over the years and admitted to not voting in the 2016 and 2020 elections [and] did not publicly endorse Trump during the 2024 election cycle… [More]
But now that he sees which way the wind is blowing, and instead of cancellation sees opportunity, he’s hopped on the train the rest of us boarded, stoked, and rode into the station…
I wonder if he still wants police to go door-to-door to confiscate all the guns while he headlines Brady fundraisers.
What a phony. He always has been.
AZ Judge Recuses Himself From ‘Fake Electors’ Case After Emails Surface Demanding Judges Defend Kamala [More]
The real scandal here is that emails had to “surface.”
I will say that bit about Kamala being “promiscuous with generals in the Situation Room” would probably make for a pretty lucrative porno movie.
[Via Michael G]
After years of feminizing the US military through DEI initiatives, a new executive order under consideration by the Trump transition team would establish a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel which would be granted the power to review three- and four-star officers and recommend any removals of those deemed unfit for leadership. [More]
Start with these “advisors.”
[Via bondmen]
Trump Shouldn’t Hire Kristi Noem, Or Anyone Else, To Run DHS. He Should Abolish It [More]
I didn’t know she screwed us with the Somalis.
Now comes the Herculean job of trying to rein him in.
I hope some of those inclined to ignore valid critiques by angrily demanding to know if we’d rather have Kamala will take a moment to understand there’s a real difference between supporting Trump and supporting the agenda we elected him to enact.
[Via bondmen]
Here are 12 things that have happened since Trump won the election. [More]
It seems the greatest threat has been Democrats all along.
[Via bondmen]
Top Leftist Online Pundits Are Reportedly Hemorrhaging Subscribers Following Kamala’s Decisive Defeat [More]
My favorite pompous dolt was YouGov’s Paul Smith, who smugly predicted:
We think Kamala Harris will firstly, uh, win the popular vote by millions, but more importantly, the Electoral College 0:… we think the most likely result is that she’ll win 292 Electoral College votes to 246 for Donald Trump.
If we really want to talk about a “Pollster’s Brave Call,” Mark Walters of Armed American Radio has made no bones about declaring and defending “312” and the popular vote for for Trump in the weeks leading up to the election.
[Via bondmen]
ANCHOR BABIES AWAY: SCOTUS can Fix Illegal Immigration [Watch]
I’d love for this to be the correct interpretation. I fear that the argument will be made that it doesn’t apply because the incursion is not military in nature, and will thus be narrowly defined, like “treason,” to require a beligerrent enemy with whom we are at war.
[Via Jess]
Trump’s election has also raised questions inside the Pentagon about what would happen if the president issued an unlawful order, particularly if his political appointees inside the department don’t push back. “Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” said another defense official. [More]
And here I thought a top priority was to purge Oath Keepers…
It is necessary to break the power of the old regime completely, not out of vengeance but a matter of realism. What is required is a clean-up operation comparable to Denazification, or Reconstruction. The nomenklatura cannot be allowed to remain in position. The ballot harvesting machine that subverted the 2020 election must be liquidated, and voting protocols cleaned up around the country. The mass migration machine must be destroyed and the illegal migrants it delivered to America deported. Antifa criminal networks, their financial backers, and their journalists and academic apologists should face RICO investigations. Universities should be purged of party activists, and activist disciplines abolished. Not only in the United States, but across the U.S. Empire, the regime’s political machine must be completely dismantled. [More]
Sorry, Rodney. We tried. They wouldn’t let us.
They still won’t.
[Via WiscoDave]
After Trump’s win, many despondent Americans research moving abroad [More]
And as an extra added bonus, look at all the “Hollywood stars“!
So the election will also result in fewer insufferable personalities in our midst…?
Don’t let the door hi… on second thought, go ahead and let it.
How can it be okay when Harris told us that her opponent is a fascist? She said a Trump victory would be “dangerous” and a “huge risk for America.” Harris claimed that Trump “wants to send the military after American citizens” and that “he is out for unchecked power.” She painted him as an existential threat to “democracy” itself. But now it’s “going to be okay?” [More]
I had a similar question.
[Via bondmen]
Trump “can unify the nation, he can unify communities, but these nasty, malicious people who abused our prosecutorial system, who abused their public office, who engaged in what amounted to extortion against Republicans and Trump supporters, they need to be held to account.” [More]
That’s why Democrats are getting ahead of it with internment camp gaslighting, so that when righteous prosecutions happen they can scream “Nazi!” and incite whatever chaos they need to escape justice.
Let’s hope Trump and Vance have a handle on their security details, because the powerful people they need to go after are desperate, and connected.
ON DAY ONE: President Trump Should Revoke the Security Clearances of the 51 Dishonorable Former Intel Officials Who Lied About Hunter Biden’s Laptop and Knew It Was a Lie All Along
[Via Michael G]
