Notes from the Resistance
On Facebook, Hodgkinson had featured a post that said, “[President Donald] Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” Hodgkinson was also a member of Facebook groups “Terminate the Republican Party” and “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans.” [More]
And by “Trump & Co.” and “Republicans,” they mean not just you, but ultimately, anyone who isn’t a fellow Bolshevik.
Oh, look: After two assassination attempts, self-appointed Terminators and the Pavers are still there!
Unlike me, they violated no “community standards.”
Blue state GOP rep forced to remove 2A sticker from laptop: ‘Offensive’ [More]
“Forced to” means he had no choice.
“Well rules” notwithstanding, if he did it’s because he pussed out.
Why has the Republican-held Congress (i.e., House and Senate) not already passed a Joint Resolution limiting the power of the judicially activists judges …?[More]
Minnesota Sen. Justin Eichorn was arrested on March 17, accused of soliciting a 17-year-old girl for prostitution in Bloomington. [More]
Of course, Democrats are having a field day with emotionally charged words like “looking to have sex with someone’s child” and “No one who solicits children belongs anywhere near public office or the State Capitol,” but the fact remains, the age of consent in Minnesota is 16.
But I agree, such behavior in a political leader is not only twisted but leaves him vulnerable to blackmail compromise, and he’s going to lose more than his seat: How about his wife, and the respect of his four children, not to mention his freedom…?
And on top of that he hurt every constituent who believed in the principles he espoused but did not live by, and gave the Democrats a weaponized sound bite to use against them.
Gun owners are already distancing themselves.
This isn’t aging well:
I hope somebody is telling him he’s already devastated his family enough and if he doesn’t want to have his memory be the stuff of nighmares for the rest of their lives, he won’t even think of trying to get out of this by eating a gun.
THE REPUBLICANS CAN STOP THIS [More]
If they don’t it’s because they don’t want to, meaning Oregon gun owners must look to the Republican feds, who don’t seem to want to, either.
Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance… Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the change “underscores our deep concern with the significant risk to the U.S. financial system of the cartels, drug traffickers, and other criminal actors along the Southwest border.” [More]
Maybe they can get some more of those “Always Think Forfeiture” Leathermans made up…
So, yet again, government creates problems it uses as an excuse to crack down on those of us paying for it. And this time, it’s “law and order Republicans.”
Speaker Dustin Burrows confirmed on Monday that the newly adopted Texas House rules, which grant increased power to Democrats, were authored by Democrat lawyer Hugh Brady. [More]
How do Texas Republicans allow this to happen?
[Via Sweet Babboo]
Johnson aide discouraged Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers’ ‘sexual texts’ – The move was intended in part to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent Cassidy Hutchinson. [More]
We want the truth no matter who is exposed.
What kind of fool would even think to do that? Blackmailable Republicans can be a bigger liability than Democrats. We shouldn’t have to worry about people who have been entrusted in positions of responsibility and power being filthy, sneaky swine.
[Via bondmen]
I watched it. [More]
Did you?
Guess what no Republican asked her about.
Two anti-gun Democrats did, and I’ll be writing that exchange up for Firearms News.
Multiple Republicans voted for gun confiscations without due process in HB-4144 [More]
Until gun owners let the GOP know they cannot betray us and win, this will continue. They need uncompromising gun owners more than uncompromising gun owners need them.
So does that mean I’d rather let a really, really anti-gun Democrat win the seat instead?
Does that mean you’d surrender your guns if they did?
Trump hails Florida Dem’s decision to ditch party, join GOP [More]
I’m trying to figure out how including this cow who has pledged to “stand up to the NRA and fight for a ban on military style assault rifles and the high capacity ammunition that make them so lethal” will help…
Anybody else getting a Professor Harold Hill of politics vibe…?
[Via Andy M]
Biden vetoes bipartisan bill that would have let Trump appoint more judges [More]
Right after getting his own gaggle of Nazgûl confirmed.
In the wake of November, Republicans are still letting the Democrats eat our lunch…? It’s hard to believe that’s not intentional.
[Via Jess]
Rep. Rich Lascelles (R-Litchfield), who we’ve trusted to stand with us, has co-sponsored this bill. Imagine the shock and betrayal – a representative who should be our advocate in the legislature is instead supporting legislation that could lead to the unjust confiscation of firearms from law-abiding citizens. This isn’t just about policy; it’s about the very principles of freedom and justice our nation was built upon. [More]
He doesn’t seem to be on X.com or Facebook to ratio his idiotic treachery, so if you want to tell him what you think about this, you’ll need to mail, email, or call him.
UPDATE: Looks like he pulled it before I posted this. Somebody talk to this guy and explain how things work.
“Led by Dustin Burrows, these representatives are now negotiating with Democrats to install a Speaker who would undermine the conservative agenda. This is an unacceptable betrayal of our party and our values.” [More]
He appears to be a lip service Republican on 2A.
[Via Sweet Babboo]
Republican Coronavirus Report:
AFTER ACTION REVIEW OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward
Partisan Probes Over Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness – Select Subcommittee Republicans Spent the 118th Congress Putting Politics Over People and Public Health
Nope. Haven’t learned a thing.
[Via Antigone]
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.
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.
There are only two things that are certain in Oregon in 2025. Taxes and Republican surrender. [More]
Most would be like that everywhere if that’s what it took.
Don’t look for things to change in the Beaver State as long as the RNC and national “conservative” groups and PACs view principled primary challengers to be liabilities to seats the Party still has, and with the great fundraising hope being a traitorous gun-grabber.
What would it take to start changing that?
Maybe have a gun owners “strike” and sit out those races with Quisling candidates, and let the GOP know if they want a seat at the table, it needs to support us — if not out of principle, then desperation works, too.
Give up even those seats to the Dems? Why not? How much worse could it get?
Besides, we’ve got Bruen and a Supreme Court that’s poised to grow in our favor.
If you have a better plan, let’s hear it.
Last week, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn lost his bid to be the chamber’s majority leader. The next day, he announced his intention to seek reelection to the Senate in 2026. We asked readers if they would support him if the Texas GOP primary election were held today. Here is a sampling of the comments we received from our readers after they voted in the survey. [More]
By all accounts he should be finished. If he’s not, it’s on Texas Republican voters.
[Via Sweet Babboo]
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 12, 2024
BREAKING: Sen. Ron Johnson announces he will push for a delay in the Senate Leader vote as Trump set to visit Capitol Hill tomorrow:
"It's grotesque. McConnell figured he has whoever he wants to grease the skids… If nobody else proposes a delay, I will." pic.twitter.com/d1Mw1S4cq4
If they’re Republican, have your senators seen this?
[This is a repost of a 2018 Oath Keepers piece, resurrected here as an addendum to my AmmoLand article about Senate Majority Leader “choices,” or lack thereof. As such, links may not work but have been left to document that they once did.]
“Hundreds of gun owners in Florida have been ordered to give up their guns under a new law that took effect after the deadly Parkland shooting in February, according to a report published Monday,” Fox News reports. “Every petition filed under the order in Pinellas County has so far been granted by the judge…
“In addition to confiscating guns, the law also raised the age to buy a rifle to 21 and established a three-day waiting period on gun purchases,” the report notes. What it does not address is the level of due process afforded citizens who have not been charged with, let alone convicted of any crimes of violence; how government can justify ignoring the right to keep and bear arms of citizens old enough to vote, marry, form legal contracts and to fight and die for their country; and how a prior restraint delay on the “law-abiding” will have any impact whatsoever on the lawless.
This was all passed only with the support of supposedly “pro-gun” Republican legislators, and signed into law by a supposedly “pro-gun” Republican governor.
“We can count on Rick Scott to defend our Second Amendment rights!” NRA’s Political Victory Fund assured gun owners in its gushing endorsement for the politician they gave an “A+” rating to:
Rick Scott has an unmatched record of support for the Second Amendment in Florida … Rick has signed more pro-gun bills into law in one term than any other governor in Florida history. Law-abiding gun owners in Florida have a true friend in Rick Scott.
I don’t have any “true friends” that want to disarm me by force. You? But that was then. This is now. The fact of the matter is, when the political winds changed, so did Scott. And that leaves Florida’s voting gun owners with a dilemma.
That’s because Scott has decided to take on incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson for the Senate race in November. And Nelson has made no secret of his affinity for infringements, with his latest affront being a public hindquarters kissing of the Demanding Moms on a scheme to ban … knowledge.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=a_LKWnSSxnE%3Ffeature%3Doembed
Again, per NRA:
Who represents the greater danger to gun owner rights, Scott or Nelson? And is that the right question to ask?
“Politics is the art of the possible,” those who advocate “lesser of two evils” voting advise. “The perfect is the enemy of the good.”
That assumes the alternative actually is good, and that those who encourage “pragmatic compromise” and discourage pushing envelopes are the best judges of what is possible.
Years back, Republican strategist Lee Atwater was reputed to have asked “Who else are they going to vote for?” meaning the GOP could basically do whatever they wanted and desperate gun owners would let them get away with it.
How has that worked out for us? If we keep letting politicians betray us every time things require them being the principled leaders they promised us they’d be, what “or else” incentive does that give them to change?
I’ve used a couple analogies over the years, one being would you ally yourself with someone if his history demonstrated he’d switch sides and shoot you in the back when things heated up?
Would you accept that rate of betrayal from a spouse? What’s more important to you, a partner or a politician?
What’s more dangerous, the enemy at the gate or an opportunistic traitor inside?
What will be needed to teach the object lesson that betrayal will not be rewarded but will instead be punished — every time? Can it be done without forcing the gunquislings out?
Does it make more sense to take the hit now so that next time the Party won’t dare offer a dud, to make known beforehand you are doing it, to let everyone know afterward what you did and to make sure they know why? That is, if you’re serious about sending the right message and getting an acceptable candidate next time around…?
Yeah, but…
No doubt about it—Nelson will continue to be a threat if he retains his seat and the Senate needs all the help it can get to stay out of overt enemy hands. Same with the House. And it’s undeniable that we will never be presented with a perfect candidate.
Whatever decision gun owners make, I just hope the questions and concerns raised above are at least considered. Because the choices facing us now are easy compared to what will be confronting us after enough “friends in high places” cave.
Can we at least have some time for public input on something that can profoundly affect us all before sneaking this through? [More]
Republicans once more snatching defeat from the jaws of victory… will any gun owners object to all three being unsuitable “choices”?
Once again, we have seen that the biggest threat to committed, constitutional, Republican candidates is…the Oregon Republican Establishment. [More]
I normally don’t post on weekends but need this info for a possible article and am at a loss in searching for an answer.
Thune, Cornyn, and Scott are all part of the Swamp. How is it they’re the only ones up for vote consideration?
Is it just who declares themself to be a candidate and they were the only ones who did? And is it too late to publicly call for another name?
Links substantiating opinions will be appreciated.
We need to spread around the policies and beliefs Florida Senator Rick Scott holds as he runs for Senate GOP leader.
He is ULTRA-MAGA and deeply conservative. [More]
That’s funny.
I could have sworn he was part of The Swamp.
Dennis has been one of the most stalwart defenders of gun rights and liberty in general… So it would seem like a no brainer that Republican legislators would be all in for Dennis. Not so fast. House Rep Kim Wallan, Republican of Jackson County has now endorsed…Tobias Read. [More]
Letting Republicans continually get away with betrayals results in no incentive for them to stop. And you end up with this.
