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Virginia Gun Rights Demonstration Totally Peaceful - Fake News Hardest Hit

The big story yesterday was the thing that didn't happen.

Gov. Klansman Blackface of Virginia, demanded extraordinary measures to contain the alleged white nationalists who were sure to descend on Richmond, bringing looting and violence.

You know, like leftist mobs do, only worse.

He even declared a pre-emptive state of emergency.

Alas, it was all for naught.  Around 20,000 citizens gathered peacefully, waved signs, posed for photos and then went home.

This of course reinforces the truth that law-abiding citizens pose zero threat to the public order.  Mountains of research prove this.  The notion that less guns = less crime has been refuted in every culture and every continent.  There is not a single example of gun control curtailing violence.

Why then do people push it?  The answer is partly that it's an emotional response, but increasingly it is yet another aspect of the authoritarian progressivism that deems to control the Democrat Party.

Their policies are increasing about punishing perceived enemies rather than improving the quality of life of the whole.

This is increasingly clear to normal Americans who are luke-warm at best on Donald Trump.  I suspect that will heavily influence voting come November.

Iran at bay

All last week the Democrats and their media allies did everything short of opening fire on the White House in their desperation to see Iran succeed.

Indeed, it was fascinating to see the two Dem candidates with military experience openly blaming Trump for Iran's clumsy and inept air defense system. 

The double standard is amazing.  If a US anti-aircraft battery shot down one of our airliners by mistake, there would be no attempt by the left to blame anyone but the leadership, including the president.  But when Iran does it, it's still Trump's fault.

Trump has apparently set the record for most likes for a Farsi-language post declaring his support for the people of Iran against their corrupt and murderous leaders.  This of course puts the Dems in the positions of backing a theocracy, no doubt in the name of "stability."

Weird how they channel Realpolitik whenever our enemies benefit.

I've seen accounts that the Iranians have detained the British ambassador, which would be yet another act of war.  This is a regime that is lashing out in desperation.  Trump has ended the charade that we aren't at war with the Mullahs, leaving them forced to take overt actions - which in turn invite overt responses.

Once again Trump is acting as a massive disrupter, shattering the corrupt status quo.

House Leader Nancy Pelosi has said that impeachment will forever taint Trump's term in office.  I think she has it exactly backwards.

If Trump succeeds in toppling the mullahs, bringing troops home from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, it is the Democrats who will be excoriated in history.

The Soleimani Fan Club

It's getting hard for the Deep State to surprise, but their Democrat minions is giving it the old college try this week.

How else to explain the growing number of "foreign policy/national security experts" positively gushing over one of America's greatest enemies?

No wonder this guy was arrogant enough to openly flaunt his presence wherever he want.  The US officials tasked with protecting us from him were actually his fan boys!

Donald Trump's decision to grease this terrorist is not going to start World War III, as the Dem-dominated media now hopes.  Instead, it's sending a shock wave from Tehran to Pyongyang, reminding them that the US is no longer run by weaklings dedicated to cutting America down to size.

While our Quisling Experts are busy pumping up Iran's ability to escalate, in fact there is little the Mad Mullahs can do.  The US has just declared open season on their operatives and in the short run, all their people are going to be too busy scurrying for cover to do anything else.

This also signals that the Israelis have greater freedom of action.  The same applies to the Saudis.

In short, Trump changed the rules of the game.

The old model of US troops and installations serving as passive targets while terrorists romp with impunity has been rightly discarded.  Here as with trade and immigration, Trump is throwing away one-sided rules that weaken America.

The great irony here is that far from starting World War III, he's likely preventing it by showing adversaries like China and North Korea that the US will strike back in unexpected and irresistible ways.

IMPEACH HIM AGAIN!  I do think the Dems pulling their chins about the legality of this is rich, given the Obama Administration's death by drone fetish.  Of course the House can impeach him a second time, but given they can't work up the energy to send the first impeachment to the Senate, that dog is unlikely to hunt.

2020 Starts with a Bang in Baghdad

Overnight, Iran tried to gin up a propaganda victory by attacking the US embassy compound in Iraq.  Local security forces stood down so that Iranian-controlled militias could do their dirty work.

As the news broke, the anti-American left and the Quisling Never Trumper (but I repeat myself) exalted that Donald Trump now had a Benghazi of his own.

Except that he didn't.  Trump responded quickly and resolutely.  Reinforcements have already arrived and others are on standby.

What was telling about this was not just the gloating over the potential deaths of fellow American soldiers and diplomats, but the fact that nominally pro-veteran individuals and organizations joined in.

Vote Vets is an astroturf sock-puppet organization created to serve as a club against George W. Bush.  Nominally non-partisan, its Twitter account openly expressed the hope that sufficient American corpses could be laid at Trump's feet to overshadow Obama's 2012 failure in Libya.

These people are sick.

Noted incompetent Ben Rhodes also tried to make hay over the incident, only to be slapped down when people properly pointed out that Iran's current activities were largely funded by the Obama administration's pallets of cash.

I sense that 2020 is going to see the trend of unmasking accelerate as the left burns through all of its artifices and strategms in a desperate attempt to remove Trump from office.  A second term - likely with pro-Trump majorities in both legislative chambers - is an extinction-level event for the Deep State.

We can only hope.

The Fake Impeachment Christmas

I've been posting less often these days simply because events are so pointless.

The Democrats have at last gone certifiably insane.  It is impossible to figure out their next move because logic, good policy and even self-interest are no longer factors in their decision-making.  I wonder if they're on  permanent cocaine binge.

The media is even worse, stomping all over its own narratives with wild abandon.  What was acceptable yesterday is now EEEEVIL today, but will be fine tomorrow, depending on what the new cycle demands.

For the last three years, President Trump has labored under the constant threat of impeachment.  We now know that his administration is the cleanest in American history.

We know this because the entire intelligence apparatus of the United States, working hand-in-hand with Australia and the United Kingdom, infiltrated and monitored every corner of it and continuing doing so until well after Trump was sworn into office.

Every communication, every device, every meeting, every action was meticulously recorded. 

No crimes could be found, not even misdemeanors.

In their desperation, the House Democrats are now demanding to breach attorney-client privilege, proving that they have zero respect for any legal principle.  They will stop at nothing to bring down Trump. 

To put it another way, an illegal immigrant has more rights in the US right now than the president.

The difficulty of course is that Trump's already been impeached.  The Senate will surely vote to acquit, leaving the House Dems out of ammunition.  Their new idea to impeach him again, perhaps monthly, until the election.

Surely this "unprecedented" action will move the American people to abandon him!

As I said: their actions have no logic or reason behind them.  The Dems would be better off electing a Magic Eight Ball as Speaker.

This is the time of year when I usually cut back on posting, and I will do so again, though given my current slacking, I don't expect the pace to change much.

My advice: turn off your devices and spend some quality time with real people talking about something besides politics.

Enjoy your Christmas Eve.

Gun control's brain-dead authoritarians - Virginia edition

A recurring theme of this blog is how the modern left has abandoned persuasion and now operates solely on the basis for intimidation.

They don't want you to fall in love, just fall in line.

Nowhere is this clearer than gun control.  This blog is old enough to have within its archives posts regarding intense academic debate on whether gun control achieves its stated objectives.

Since those days, the answer is clear: no, it doesn't.

Gun control cannot reduce violent crime in any measurable way and in fact is likely to increase it.  Barack Obama may lie through his teeth and say that public shootings are unique to the US, but incidents in Canada, the UK and Australia (to name but a few) prove otherwise.

It's increasingly clear that American gun control supporters have two objectives, both of which are entirely unrelated to public safety:

1. Punish demographics they dislike, and
2. Establish unquestioned state authority beyond any power of resistance.

When Congressman Eric Swalwell floated the possibility of using nuclear weapons on recalcitrant gun owners, he opened a window into the ugly contents of his petty authoritarian mind.  Swalwell obviously doesn't care about persuading anyone - he wants to bully them into  submission.

If they won't submit, he's willing to flirt with the thought of devastating those parts of the country he can't rule.  He's not alone on the left.

It is against this backdrop that the increasingly shrill threats coming from Virginia Democrats have to be analyzed.

Late last week, another idiot congresscritter hypothesized that in the event rural Virginia gun owners - and their local units of government - follow through with their pledges to resist state-ordained gun confiscation, the governor (Blackface and KKK costume enthusiast Ralph Northam) could simply call out the National Guard and arrest them all.

This in turn prompted the head of the Virginia National Guard to put out a statement to calm service members.

Apparently it didn't occur to any of the Dem blowhards that:

1. A number of Virginia National Guard armories are located in the same "sanctuary counties" they want to bring to heel, or that
2. A substantial amount of their soldiers and airmen own the firearms in question or have friends and family who do.

What makes this whole episode even more stupid is the fact that the laws in question don't even exist.  The new legislature has yet to be seated or do anything of note.

So this is all about bullying over hypothetical laws that may never be enacted.

Yet the Virginia Dems have managed to raise the specter of martial law over enforcing gun control.

Great job, guys.  Tell us again how "no one is going to come for your guns."

 

 

IG Horowitz's testimony was more powerful than I expected

After years of headlines predicting BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY, I have to admit I was surprised by the Inspector General's testimony before the Senate.

He did not hedge or prevaricate, and noted that he used cautious language regarding the motives of the wrong-doers only because he could not conclusively prove it.  That was for other investigators to do.

A number of details were teased out, and the one I found most damning was the fact that an FBI agent actually forged an email to provide support for the FISA warrent on Carter Page.  This may have been hinted before, but I was shocked at the blatant criminality of the enterprise.

Perhaps equally telling was the fact the "Steele Dossier" was the main piece of data used for the FISA warrants, despite years of leftist media assuring us that it wasn't so.

Indeed, perhaps the most telling element of the whole affair is how the amoral shills who pedaled this lie continue to repeat it, and show no shame or remorse for their actions.

Prominent among these low-lifes are the Quisling Never Trumpers, whose stubborn adherence to discredited lies can only be the result (in my opinion) of paycheck dependence.

They are whores, pure and simple.  Integrity is just a word they use to dupe the rubes.

Going forward, it will be interesting to see how impeachment plays out.  The two articles are expected to hit the House floor next week and they are absurd on their face.  No crimes, no actual offenses, just Orange Man Bad.

Some have compared this to the Obamacare vote, but that was a slam dunk.  The Senate had already had a majority waiting for the bill - and it was a majority that was of brief duration due to the Massachusetts special election.  Time was of the essence.

The situation here is very different.  The Senate will not vote to convict, rendering the whole exercise pointless.  The Majority Leader has said he will takes several weeks to hold the trial, which will be horribly damaging for the Dems as witness after witness testifies that the real crimes were committed by the FBI, not the White House.

Supposedly the goal is to smear Trump as having been impeached, but like a wrongful conviction, a bogus impeachment will actually strengthen his appeal, proving to otherwise neutral people that he really is dealing with a bunch of amoral partisan fanatics.

At any rate, I'm not crazy enough to put myself in Pelosi's head so I'll simply wait on events.

 

IG FISA Report: Whitewash or cover-up?

As is the rule these days, as soon as news happens, both sides try to spin it in their favor.

Thus, the GOP considers the long-awaited Inspector General report on FISA abuse to be packed with "bombshells" while the conspirators and their Democrat allies are claiming vindication.

The truth is far more sinister.  Apparently it's possible for the FBI to set up wiretaps and deploy agents on the say-so of a hired political operative and an unverified news story.

Not only can this establish a "'predicate" for secret warrants, it's also enough to keep renewing the wiretap month after month, even when the expected evidence doesn't turn up.  Indeed, but for Trump winning the presidency, the surveillance would still be going on today.

This is an outrage, and the fact that Democrats - who used to pretend to care about the right to privacy and civil rights - don't care about this speaks volumes.

Because it is an internal investigation, the Horowitz Report avoids the core question of whether the wholesale abolition of the right to due process is Constitutional, and instead concerns itself only with the FBI's own rules.  Essentially, the FBI Human Resources Handbook now supersedes the Bill of Rights.

Another aspect is that once again, the investigators profess themselves unable to gauge the intent of the rule-breakers.  Just as when a Islamic terrorist opens fire after posting manifestos and screaming slogans, the official line is that the motive is essentially unknowable.

Indeed, the only person whose motive can really be known is Donald Trump, because Orange Man Bad.

It remains to be seen if enough Congresscritters care about this wholesale destruction of privacy rights to do anything about it.  The FISA statute will expire in March.  I assume that any budget passed by the House will demand that this vital program of internal monitoring be continued for the good of the nation, or some such nonsense.

That these will in most cases be the same ones who railed against BusHitler and the Patriot Act will be completely ignored by the media.

Behold the Democrat front-runner!

We live in a parody world.

How else to describe a situation where the Democrat front-runner for president has a transparently corrupt son that the press and political establishment resolutely refuse to investigate?

Indeed, the House Democrats are actually preparing to impeach President Trump for daring to actually look into Hunter Biden's history of blatant bribery-by-proxy via his father.

Old and busted:  Paying off a politicians kids in return for favors is a major scandal.

New hotness:  Actually investigating this is a major scandal.

Joe Biden can only exist in an environment where the media's primary goal is to obscure rather than illuminate.  This year will see yet more layoffs in the media industry, and it's well deserved.

Biden has actually faced the wrong way during a stump speech, loses his train of thought, and most recently, started nibbling on his wife's finger while she was speaking like a bored child.

This is the man who needs to be trusted with nuclear weapons?

The scary thing is that Biden is the front runner.  The other candidates were even worse.  Does anyone consider being mayor of the fourth largest city in Indiana - which is a basket case, by the way - is in any way qualification for the presidency?  Funny, I remember Sarah Palin getting no end of grief for merely being a governor of the largest state in the union.  What has Alfred E. Newman actually accomplished?  Or Liz "Fauxcahantas" Warren? 

The truth is that the ruling class has deteriorated to something very much like that of late Imperial Rome.  They study grammar, write poems and scheme for status all the while studiously ignoring the barbarian armies roaming freely around them.  If the US falls in to chaos and anarchy, they can retire to Switzerland, or some other haven for the rich and useless.

Trump stands like one of the late generals, Flavius Aetius or perhaps (more optimistically) Aurelian.

For all the talk of him destroying norms, he's not the one who sucks on his wife's digits at campaign stops.

It speak volumes that the Quisling Never Trumpers continue to chirp away about civility while effectively advocating rule by paste-eaters.

Thanksgiving in the age of ingratitude

As always, we here at the Posse are thankful for Faith, Family and Freedom.

Sadly, too many people see the holiday as yet another opportunity to demonstrate their churlish ingratitude. 

This is the natural side-effect of prosperity combined with an entitlement mentality.  It's unlikely to change until things get much, much worse.

At any rate, enjoy the holiday and take a break from the madness of the internet.  Frequent visitors will notice that I'm following my own advice.