Notes from the Resistance
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut ruled that banning large capacity magazines and requiring a permit to purchase a gun falls in line with “the nation’s history and tradition of regulating uniquely dangerous features of weapons and firearms to protect public safety”… [More]
Thanks, Donald Trump and Senate Republicans!
[Via bondmen]
Today, after lengthy delays due to technical issues that shut down state websites, the House Republicans folded up and provided the quorum the Democrats needed to pass House Bills 2002 and 2005. [More]
The reality is, since we will not disarm regardless of what diktats are forced through, stupid and gutless Vichycons don’t realize they need us more than we need them.
With this being SOP for the GOP, it’s no wonder lesser luminaries like Fitzpatrick and Kean feel like they can do anything they want, and “lesser of two evils” gun voters won’t have a choice but to keep rewarding them with power. [More]
If the turncoats will betray gun owners on something as clear-cut as this, what won’t they betray them on?
GOP Squish Caucus Saves Evil Adam Schiff From Being Censured [More]
They really are doing their damnedest to douse and fire in bellies for ’24. And would it be too much to name them and save the rest of us the time?
Anyway, it’s consistent with what we’ve come to expect.
[Via Michael G]
UPDATE
I gotta say, the Yeas and Nays confuse me, as do some of the names I see. So if they voted “Yea” they were against the resolution?
Is Thomas Massie right? What’s that assessment based on, speech or debate?
Whether any of the Vichycon Republicans are actually gutless and dumb enough to believe that the prudent play is to listen to the commies and betray their base remains to be seen. While the urge to believe they won’t be is strong, we’ve seen “moderates” snatch defeat from the jaws of victory before. While they might not cave on everything, their baffling propensity to give up “something” and showcase an aptitude for “bipartisan compromise” is a factor that can’t be ignored. [More]
They only need five turncoats in the House, and those aren’t that hard to find.
Following the “pledge card” practice means that a relatively small number of often nominal Republicans can elect a speaker by allying with the Democrat minority, which understandably would prefer to have a Speaker who is not a GOP stalwart . . . especially if that Speaker also gives Democrat members control of certain committees as a sweetener. [More]
So basically, between the speaker and the lieutenant governor, we’re talking a drunk and a poltroon…
[Via Michael G]
Texas-Related UPDATE
Governor Abbott Signs Key Pro-Second Amendment Bills into Law… House Bill 2837 … prohibits financial institutions and credit card companies from requiring licensed dealers to use a firearms-specific merchant category code (MCC) to categorize retail gun purchases [and] House Bill 3137 … expands the state firearms preemption law… [More]
Our rights are now dependent on ignorant neuroses ginned up by professional fear mongers…? [More]
Like the song goes, “Feelings, nothing more than feelings…”
Well the bad news is we were right. Tim Knopp is making deals to throw gun owners under the bus. The “deal” will be to let the Democrats ban personally made firearms, a scheme courts have already determined to be unconstitutional. [More]
What? They won’t stop with that?
Leave it to gutless idiot f*****g Republicans. Fold on anything and that’s one less obstacle they need to overcome on their way to everything.
Anyone who doesn’t realize we’re dealing with lying devils who want it all is willfully deluded. Anyone who does realize it and “compromises” anyway is ultimately on their side.
White House threatens to veto GOP resolution against its pistol brace ban [More]
Was there ever any doubt that it was anything but symbolic, with no chance of going anywhere?
Let’s see what the Republicans do if they keep the House and regain the Senate and the White House, that is, if they don’t blow it.
[Via Jess]
“Eight years ago, you were entertained,” he said. “I forgive you.” [More]
28 years ago you said this. And you lied about saying this two years earlier:
“‘The issue which has energized me to get into this race is the recent attempt by certain Republican legislators to repeal New Jersey’s ban on
assault weapons,’ Christie said in a statement released (on April 14, 1993). ”In today’s society, no one needs a semi-automatic assault weapon.'”
The dark-money effort is called No Labels, and they’ve committed an eye-popping $70 million to put a third-party presidential candidate on the ballot in 2024. On Fox News on Sunday, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin wouldn’t rule out running for president on the No Labels ticket. The very real risk is that Sen. Manchin—or another Republican-funded candidate—would peel away enough votes from the Democratic candidate to hand victory to the Republican candidate… [More]
I’m on MoveOn’s email list to keep apprised of what they’re up to.
This sounds promising!
A former GOP candidate in New Mexico has been indicted on federal charges in connection to a spate of shootings at Democratic officials’ homes after he lost his 2022 midterm election bid, court documents show. [More]
CNN is groping itself in ecstasy now that it’s finally got a Republican involved in “gun violence.”
With the guy’s prior record, you’d think Democrats who are all about felons voting wouldn’t have sued to keep him off the ballot. And the Stupid Party “leadership” failed, too: Instead of disavowing the creep, they played the “young Hispanic man, who turned his life around” card, as if Democrats still won’t paint them as a bunch of white supremacists.
[Via 1Gat]
Will you let politicians decide what rights you “need?” [More]
Tell NC Republicans the job won’t be done until freedom is achieved, we’re still a hell of a long way off from that, and now is no time for anyone who wants to be taken seriously to quit.
Scott argued he can unify the GOP with a positive, forward-looking message built around a compelling personal story and upbeat demeanor… [More]
I dunno… we’ve already seen some of the Swamp-protecting results of that “Wall Street backing”…
Never forget he picked Lisa Murkowski over Kelly Tshibaka. That and he’s a lying prior restraint/no real due process gun-grabber.
The fat cats want him because they think he’ll be able to diffuse accusations that they’re racists. If they think that’ll faze the Democrats one bit, they’re delusional.
The far left “OPB” was right. The Democrats, in their zeal for retribution, screwed up. They now have zero leverage. The Senate Republicans have demonstrated amazing courage and selflessness and now the Democrats are wetting themselves. [More]
If you’re an Oregon gun owner, thanking the senators for standing up for rights at no small risk to their own careers is the right thing to do.
And helping them do that this time out were the usual suspects from the Vichycon wing of the GOP, the useful idiot/self-serving swamp creatures who continually prove themselves adept at turning coats and stabbing backs. [More]
Nothing like seeing a “staunch supporter of the Second Amendment” carry the Democrats’ water for them…
FBI Ignored Alleged Clinton Campaign Election Meddling Plan After CIA Briefed Obama And Biden, Durham Report Says [More]
Why is it I expect the Republicans to respond like Billy Bob Thornton?
Tangentially Related UPDATE:
6 Freshly Documented Instances Of Systemic Pro-Democrat FBI Corruption [More]
Same question.
[Via bondmen]
They’re kind of presupposing Kevin McCarthy isn’t carrying on in the grand tradition of John Boehner and Paul Ryan.
[Via bondmen]
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert introduced the Shall Not Be Infringed Act to repeal the gun control provisions and every Second Amendment infringement passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law. [More]
With Democrats in control of the Senate and the White House, why is anybody expending energy on this now?
Let’s see how gung-ho pandering Republicans are if Red Wave 2.0 doesn’t get pushed back out to sea in ’24.
But, today, not a single Republican came to the floor to participate in the massive fraud that is this legislative session. [More]
Those who can still get elected don’t want to totally demoralize their base.
Tennessee governor schedules special session to address guns [More]
Made inevitable by “lesser of two evils” political desperation…
Take the short-term loss to avoid long-term certainty, because as we’ve seen yet once more over in Texas, counting on most “staunch defenders of the Second Amendment” not to be lying whores is a sucker’s game where the house generally wins.
If betrayers aren’t made public examples of, others will see they too can get away with it.
[Via Jess]
The House member’s cowardice does not help the efforts of the Senators who have taken a stand. Instead, they are posturing. [More]
It’s the difference between elephants and RINOs.
Missouri’s governor would play a major role in St. Louis policing and prosecution under a bill praised by Republicans as a way to fight crime and criticized by Democrats as an attempt to take away local control from the Black-led city. [More]
So the people trying to save black lives are the racists…?
[Via bondmen]
That leads to the logical question of why the politicians would be safe when outnumbered by gun owners on one side of an artificial property line, and wouldn’t be if those same gun owners took one step over it, where they would find themselves in violation of the law? [More]
So the right of the government to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed?
H.R. 2991: To eliminate the prohibition on training teachers with effective defensive tools, and for other purposes. [More]
And all we have to do is get Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats on board and then get Joe Biden to sign it!
And when Republicans have a majority in both chambers and the Oval Office…?
[Via Jess]
