The Real Resistance: Washington State Sheriffs Refuse To Enforce Unconstitutional Gun Laws
We are entering a period where the progressive politicians will go mad. The progressives thought they would elect Hillary and she would usher in a final political shift to a new progressive/socialist political reality. The Trump election was a shock. The result of this shock was to drive the progressives in the Clinton Archipelago to move rapidly to the progressive left. This move left triggered the progressive politicians in the progressive states to elect far left candidates and to rush to enact laws which with draconian punishments for even the most minor violations of the gun, ammunition, and other similar laws. The idea is to make it all but impossible for law-abiding individuals to own, purchase, store, or possess guns, ammunition, magazines, etc. The progressive left is authoritarian. They now understand that the progressive movement has faltered. As such, they need to limit the individual's ability to own or possess weapons, the right to self-defense, the right to speak freely, the right to associate freely, and many other long-accepted constitutional rights. If they do not, the progressive's will not be able to consolidate political control over us, and the progressive movement will fail. Expect states like Washington, Oregon, California, Illinois, New York, and many other states controlled by progressives to make a full court press to permanently erode the rights of their citizens. The results of these acts and the selection of far left political candidates will drive moderates, conservatives, libertarians, classical liberals and many others to vote against the progressives. While this pressure will primarily come from the Democratic Party progressives, it will also come from Republican Party progressives, and Congress is filled to the brim with Republican Party progressive politicians. I expect that we will see a sea change in Congress this next election. Progressive states will elect far leftists like Occasional-Cortex, while the rest of American will move towards more reasonable, non-progressive candidates. This means that the Senate is likely to remain Republican or even gain Republican seats while the House is likely to become far more partisan and rancorous. Non-progressive states are likely to move towards more individual liberty by enacting laws which protect civil liberties, while progressive states will attempt to curtail civil liberties and enact draconian punishments for even the most minor violation of the regulations surrounding Constitutionally protected rights. Expect even free speech, free press, and free expression to trigger regulations with draconian punishments. These are likely to be for fantasy ideas like "hate speech" which is a place holder for anything the progressives do not like. We will need to depend upon our Sheriffs, and other front line defenders of the Constitution to protect the rights of citizens in the face of unconstitutional progressive overreach. This problem will not abate after the 2020 election but will increase for at least two more Presidential election cycles, and perhaps three. After that, the Democrats will either have an epiphany and regain their senses or Americans will realize that the Dems are irreducible authoritarians out to destroy the American experiment in liberal republican democracy. If it is the latter, the Dems will become a permanent authoritarian rump party and will be replaced by a new party the way the Republican Party replaced the Whig Party in the 1850s. In any event, American Constitutional and civil liberties will be under unprecedented attack for the next 12-20 years. It is time to take a stand. The time of choosing is upon us, choose wisely.
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Frostbite In Minutes: Record Low -75 Wind Chills, -20 Real Temps Expected
The climate alarmist makes it seem like warm is worse than cold, but cold kills far more than warm. This cold snap will prove to be a very dangerous period even if short. Humans are not built to take the stress of this kind of cold. Even Sweden Abandoned Its Wealth Tax
If you are a middle-class American looking for a way to increase your tax rate to 60%, look no further, the Democratic Party offers dozens of ways to achieve this new lower standard of living in one quick, easy election! And you lower class types don't worry the same 60% tax rates are coming for you as well. There is no way to pay for these programs without also adopting the European 50-60% top income tax rates for all taxpayers. How cool is that? Then again if you are not stupid other candidates should show up, candidates who have a record of lowering tax rates and streamlining the tax code and regulations. The question is do you want growth and prosperity or do you want economic doldrums and a declining standard of living? Ocasio-Cortez: Billionaires Like Howard Schultz Should "Work Their Way Up"
Occasional-Cortex, village idiot! In one sense she gets it right, but her advice should cut the other direction. She should run a business with the stress of making payroll, and remaining solvent before she went into politics. Instead she, a woman of no accomplishments or experience now believes she has the right to offer advice to all comers. Oh, look, the village idiot speaks! Trump blasts intel chiefs as 'passive and naive'
A war which ended with the demise of the USSR back in the early days of the 1990s! They were out of touch for decades before that. It is long past time to reform our intelligence community with people and institutions which will address the world as it is not as it was decades ago. Chris Christie says he'd be a better president than Trump on a boozy Late Show with Stephen Colbert
He is a big guy for a lightweight! Record Cold Forces Rethink on Global Warming
Since 1998, the earth has plateaued and now appears to be cooling. For about 30 years before 1978, the Earth cooled. So over the past 70 years, the Earth only warmed for 20 years. The climate alarmists latched onto this warming trend with a death grip fabricating a climate catastrophe out of whole cloth. Get ready for some cold, it is coming with a vengeance. The Bifurcated City In the progressive city, the rich do well while the poor founder. "In recent years, a relatively small downtown population has done better, but surrounding areas have not. Philadelphia’s central core rebounded between 2000 and 2014, but for every district that gained in income, two suffered income declines. Research by urban analysts Joe Cortright and Dillon Mahmoudi shows that the number of high-poverty (more than 30 percent below the poverty line) neighborhoods in the U.S. has tripled in the last half-century, from 1,100 in 1970 to 3,100 in 2010." Progressive politicians have used gentrification to create rich seams of graft and corruption for the transit mafia, the development mafia, politicians and other favored groups. "At its best, gentrification is primarily an organic process, part of the narrative of urban improvement. Its contemporary urban version, however, has too often been driven by targeted policy interventions, such as tax-increment financing, subsidized arts districts, sports stadiums, or urban-renewal projects, as in Portland, which typically depend on the exercise of eminent domain. Policies such as these can crowd out scarce public funds that could be spent more wisely elsewhere and have something to do with the high costs of housing (among other goods) that make it so hard for middle-class families to afford living in urban cores." The same progressive politicians use transit to reward the wealthy with pretty baubles while limiting access to those who most need cheap transportation. "Bus service, critical to poor and working-class residents, has often been reduced, even as rail service, intended to serve more affluent riders, expands. (Some cities have invested in passenger rail lines in an effort to reduce auto use, but transit market share has either stagnated or declined, a fact that rarely gets mentioned in reportage.) Public infrastructure spending on rail or on urban-containment policies does succeed in driving up the price of land, increasing economic pressure on lower-income residents. Many cities have emphasized the construction of high-density housing, which is largely funded by foreign investors, who often don’t occupy their units, creating expensive housing that sits empty. Nationwide, as much as 80 percent to 90 percent of new housing product is luxury-oriented." The politicians are the new feudalists building the new American feudalism, and it was useful idiots like Richard Florida who helped them. What Florida saw was the youth in their natural state viewing the city as a post-university Rumspringa experience. They come looking for excitement, lights, fast living, and the ability to hide while they act out some of their most base instincts. For most, the city Rumspringa ends when they marry or perhaps when they decide to have children. The city is a short term experience, not a long term lifestyle. Failing to understand that is curious in a researcher but not unexpected. "Public investment and regulation geared toward attracting high-income professionals to urban cores was inspired by the groundbreaking work of the University of Toronto’s Richard Florida, heralding the rise of a “creative class” of young professionals who would come into cities for economic opportunity but choose to stay there, recreating the dynamic grassroots economy and thriving urban middle class of yesteryear. Yet today, Florida believes this phase of the urban revival is now over. In his latest book, The New Urban Crisis, he sees the emergence of an increasingly bifurcated city, “accompanied by rising inequality, deepening economic segregation, and increasingly unaffordable housing.” Florida’s most recent research suggests that “urban crisis” conditions—wage inequality, income inequality, economic segregation, and unaffordable housing—are most pronounced in prosperous cities such as Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, and Chicago." City politicians are not battling for the cities residents as they exist, they are battling to recreate the city in an image they desire. They want the city filled with people like them, single progressive, upper middle class, environmentalists. While they talk as if they care for the displaced poor, talk is cheap, actions, on the other hand, speak loudly. "Cities are battling for high-tech jobs, sometimes offering lavish inducements, but few poor inner-city residents are likely to work as coders for Amazon or Google. Little effort is being made to encourage the creation of sustainable middle-income jobs in industrial, warehouse, and business-service firms, which once sustained communities outside the urban “glamour zone.” A Brookings analysis found that, of the 30 U.S. metros that boosted their productivity, average wages, and living standard from 2010 to 2015, only 11 achieved inclusive economic outcomes. History shows that big income gaps and diminished opportunity can erode the civic order. Ancient Rome, industrial-era London, Manchester, St. Petersburg, and Shanghai, for example, all experienced revolts and, in some cases, revolutions led by the neglected classes. Tax breaks and subsidies for Amazon probably won’t help working-class residents of Queens or elsewhere." America cities may not have to become feudal enclaves of wealthy progressives surrounded by filthy serfs, but they are and will continue to do so as long as the electorate continues to elect progressives who seek to create new American feudalism. It is impossible for these people to change, they belong to the progressive cult. Cults and mass movement are created en masse but destroyed slowly when individual by individual they disintegrate. "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.” Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds The way out for the progressive cultist is not through reasoned and rational debate and joint action; it is via the same mechanism trod by Detroit, the collapse. And it does not appear Detroit is ready to throw in the towel on progressivism just yet. I suspect we have a lot more collapse before we see the white flag in any number of cities. I hope the progressives enjoy their creation. Omar of Minnesota Once Asked Judge for Leniency Toward Men Accused of Trying to Join ISIS
Nancy Pelosi Appoints Anti-Israel Radical Ilhan Omar to House Foreign Affairs Committee | Breitbart I don't think we should follow the Democrats WWII strategy and intern them, but appointing Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee is lunacy! Opinion | Another California Tax Grab
The problem in California is the high cost of living, the high taxes, and out of control housing costs. The cure is to cut taxes, significantly reduce regulations, and eliminate the urban growth boundaries and other regulations which drive up costs and reduce the supply of all housing. California is about to double down on fail, however. The state is dead set against doing the right thing and instead will focus on exacerbating the problem. These policies will eventually result in the death of the state's golden egg laying goose, tech. This is fine by me. But Californians should not be surprised when their pensions become valueless, along with their real estate, and other assets. Good luck with the progressivism. You might want to take a look at Detroit, Venezuela, Cuba, or some other progressive/socialist wonderland to see what is in your future! |
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