Joe Biden forgot Barack Obama was the ‘last President’
Joe Biden has always had a propensity for gaffes however recently his gift of the gaffe has become more troublesome because he is showing signs of sundowning and his handlers, realizing this, have tried to cut back on his evening schedule.
The latest gaffe comes right in my backyard when the former Vice-President seemed to forget there was a President in between Donald Trump and George W Bush, here is what he had to say while taking credit for the previous attack on the Second Amendment known as the assault weapons ban:
“I’m the only guy that’s beaten them [the NRA] twice. I got assault weapons banned for ten years, it had to be reauthorized because of hanging chads in Florida,” he said. “The last president said no, I’m not going to reauthorize it.”
Of course it did not have to be reauthorized due to hanging chads, that is a confused statement itself, and everybody except Joe Biden understands that George W Bush let the “assault weapons” ban expire and he was not the “last President.” You would think this would not be hard for him to remember seeing as he was the last President’s Vice-President.
You may be willing to cut him some slack on this one but considering all his recent gaffes I think this is part of a troublesome trend.
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Sunday, September 8th open thread: ‘Hold On’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Kamala Harris supports mandatory gun buyback program
“Nobody wants to take your guns away from you, we only want common sense gun laws. The NRA is simply trying to scare you by spreading this lie.”
This is what the gun control advocates tell us all the time whenever the issue comes up but this is in fact the lie. We all know that Democrats want to incrementally do away with the Second Amendment, they have always talked their way around the point because they were afraid to come right out and say it.
But the 2020 campaign has seen Democrats trying to out-left each other and they are no longer afraid to admit who they are or what they believe. (It would probably be more accurate to say the catalyst for swerving so far to the left in such a short period of time was the election on Donald Trump more so than the upcoming election.) Where once the terms socialist or socialism were considered taboo the Democrats have openly embraced them and the same is happening with gun control.
Robert O’Rourke became the first candidate to admit he supported the mandatory confiscation of some weapons and not to be outdone Kamala Harris became the second and I am sure more are to follow. Here is more:
Kamala Harris said Friday she supports a mandatory buyback of military-style assault weapons, taking a more aggressive position than her main rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I think it’s a good idea,” she told reporters after a campaign event in Londonderry, New Hampshire.
“We have to work out the details — there are a lot of details — but I do” support a forced buyback, Harris said when asked about the policy. “We have to take those guns off the streets.”
I take issue with a few things in the block quote above: First; in order to have rivals you have to be a serious contender, second; these are not “military style” weapons and there is no such thing as an “assault weapon” and third; the government cannot “buy back” something it did not sell in the first place. But let that go…
The bottom line here is that the Democrats are finally starting to come out of their shells and admit something they had always denied but that we had always known and that is that they are going to come after guns and we all know it will not stop with the so-called assault weapons.
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House set to begin formal impeachment probe
It is on! According to CNN the House is set to begin an official impeachment probe just as the 2020 election begins to heat up. Here is more:
The House Judiciary Committee is prepared to vote next week on a resolution laying out the procedures for its investigation now that it is actively considering moving to impeach President Donald Trump, a major step toward formalizing its sweeping probe, according to multiple sources familiar with the effort.
The vote, which is expected to occur on Wednesday, will lay out the ground rules for conducting hearings now that the committee has publicly announced it is considering recommending articles of impeachment against Trump. It is expected to follow the precedent set in 1974 over the committee’s procedures during then-President Richard Nixon’s impeachment proceedings.
Sources told CNN on Friday that the resolution is expected to spell out that Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, has the authority to call hearings at either the full committee or subcommittee level in connection with its impeachment deliberations.
The resolution, sources say, is expected to make clear that future House Judiciary hearings can be conducted in ways different from most congressional hearings since the panel is considering impeachment. For instance, the resolution is expected to authorize committee staff counsels to question witnesses, something that is typically not done at congressional hearings.
The news comes as Democrats are broadening their impeachment probe to focus on a range of matters, including potential violations of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution and reports that the President dangled pardons to officials if they broke the law to carry out his immigration policies.
Does this mean that Nancy Pelosi is now on board with moving forward with impeachment? With impeachment going nowhere in the Senate this is obviously an attempt by the Democrats to appease the alt-left. It seems to me the same type of useless action the Republicans took on Obamacare over and over again when they knew it was going nowhere.
This will also help to further galvanize an already incredibly divided nation, but if the ultimate goal is to excite the Democratic voters this move could backfire. My guess is that there is more excitement for the 2020 election on the Democratic side of the aisle so this could actually motivate Republican voters to the polls, nothing spurs people to action like the belief an injustice is being done against them.
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Republicans to drop primaries in four states to protect Donald Trump
As you know there are a couple of people who have decided to primary Donald Trump in the 2020 campaign. Of course they have no chance of knocking off the President but the Republican party is still upset at this turn of events and now it is being reported that four states actually plan to cancel their primaries to impede those rogue Republicans. Here is more:
The Republican parties in Arizona, Kansas, Nevada, and South Carolina intend to cancel the 2020 presidential primaries in their states, according to three people familiar with their plans, a move aimed at depriving President Trump’s long-shot challengers of chances to build support.
The state parties have yet to formalize their decisions, but Trump’s challengers denounced the move. Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party congressman from Illinois who announced his candidacy last month, said he planned to fight the move both legally and by appealing directly to voters in those four states.
Personally I believe this is a stupid idea and it sounds like something the Democrats would do. We saw the way the 2016 Democratic primary was rigged with the super delegates to deny Bernie Sanders any chance of winning the nomination even though he had the momentum and in the end might have beaten Donald Trump, and this reeks of the same stench.
Donald Trump is in no danger of losing the nomination and as far as the other candidates taking support away from Donald Trump, that is not going to happen. His supporters are not going to abandon him (I reserve the right to change my mind if he signs gun control legislation) and those never-Trumpers in the Republican party are not going to vote for him anyway. There is no benefit to this other than to avoid potential embarrassment and I think this attempt is an embarrassment in and of itself.
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Devin Nunez files racketeering lawsuit against Fusion GPS
According to this story Devin Nunes is filing a racketeering lawsuit against Fusion GPS and the Campaign for Accountability for smearing him because he had the audacity to investigate their roles in the fake Russian dossier. Here is more:
Rep. Devin Nunes filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against opposition research firm Fusion GPS and the Campaign for Accountability, accusing the two of smearing him over his investigation into Fusion GPS’s and the Steele dossier.
The complaint, which the California Republican filed in federal court in Virginia, alleges that Fusion GPS and Campaign for Accountability (CfA) worked on a “joint and systematic effort to intimidate, harass, threaten, influence, interfere with, impede, and ultimately to derail” Nunes’ investigation of the dossier, which he directed as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).
In the lawsuit, Nunes draws a link between CfA payments to Fusion GPS and a string of ethics complaints that the watchdog group filed against him last year.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported Aug. 1 that CfA’s 2018 tax filings show the group paid Fusion GPS nearly $140,000 unspecified research activities.
The complaint basically claims that the Campaign for Accountability paid Fusion GPS to file ethics complaints against Devin Nunes, but that claim is naturally being denied. And of course Fusion GPS would never take money for such a devious reason as creating something out of thin air to use against a political opponent…
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Joe Biden wants to ban guns with magazines that hold ‘multiple bullets’
As I mentioned yesterday when Robert O’Rourke admitted he wanted to confiscate weapons from the American people, the Democrats claim they do not want to take guns away from the American people but are simply looking for “common sense” gun laws.
Now it is Joe Biden’s turn to admit he also apparently thinks the only gun anybody should be able to own is a blunderbuss, or maybe if he is feeling generous a shotgun because he is calling for a ban on all firearms which have magazines that hold multiple bullets. Here is what he said:
“Having assault weapons on the street and magazines carrying multiple bullets is irrational. There is no need for it, and your Second Amendment rights are in no way violated.”
Perhaps the former Vice President misspoke yet again but this is the man who once admitted telling his wife that if she ever heard an intruder she should grab a shotgun and fire it recklessly and blindly into the air so I would say the man is not capable or qualified to make any decisions on what types of firearms a person can own. And the same goes for anybody who does not understand what is so outrageous about banning weapons with magazines that hold multiple bullets; you are not even qualified to speak on the issue.
Joe Biden recently defended himself concerning his recent gaffes by claiming “the details are irrelevant in terms of decision-making” but when it comes to the Second Amendment I believe the details of his plan are very important.
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Beto O’Rourke admits he will implement mandatory gun buyback program
When Democrats talk about gun control they always defend their position by claiming nobody wants to take the people’s guns away, they claim they simply want “common sense” gun laws. (Of course nobody defines what the term “common sense” means…)
Apparently somebody forgot to tell Beto O’Rourke the message about sticking to that talking point because yesterday he admitted what we all know–yes, the Democrats do want to take guns away from the American people.
Here is more:
Notice he said you will have to sell them to the government, there is no option there but just in case his intention was not clear enough he said this also:
“And more importantly and politically difficult to say, buy those weapons of war back — mandate that — not voluntarily. Let’s be clear with our fellow Americans. No place for an AK-47 or an AR-15 on the streets of our communities,” Beto said during an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday.
There you have it, that is pretty clear. I had made up my mind that I was not going to bother writing anything about Beto O’Rourke or any of the other Democratic candidates running for President who do not have a shot at winning but I changed my mind on this because I believe this is how all of the Democrats who are running for President actually feel, he is just the first one to admit it.
Remember, there are several Democratic candidates who are now promising to follow the precedent Donald Trump set on border wall funding and are prepared to declare a national emergency to enact new gun control laws, you can rest assured a mandatory buyback (it seems silly calling it a buyback when you do not have an option) will be included.
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Many of you know how I feel about Donald Trump and the Second Amendment: The man had been a New York liberal for most of his life until he ran for President and I do not trust him on the Second Amendment.
For the most part he has stayed away from the Second Amendment but he has shown signs of cracking. Most people gave him a pass when he took his pen and his phone and banned bump stocks by Executive fiat in Obama-esque fashion, but now it looks like he is on board with so-called “red flag” gun laws.
As I have written about several times before the so-called “red flag” laws are themselves a red flag because the potential for abuse is great. But we know there are cases where people have stayed in an abusive relationship until it was too late simply because they either loved the person or were too fearful to ask for help.
Well, leave it to the government to come up with a solution for that. Most people have voluntarily added spying devices to their homes, we usually call them names like “Amazon Echo,” “Siri,” and the like, why not use them to record what is going on in your home and report you if it does not like what it hears and does not think you should own a gun?
According to this article Donald Trump likes this idea, here is more:
The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use Google, Amazon and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
The proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), which would be located inside the Health and Human Services Department, the report notes, citing sources inside the administration. The new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for appointing its director.
HARPA would take after Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which serves as the research arm for the Pentagon. The idea was first crafted in 2017 but has since gotten a renewed push after mass shootings killed 31 people in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in August.
HARPA would develop “breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,” according to a copy of the proposal. “A multi-modality solution, along with real-time data analytics, is needed to achieve such an accurate diagnosis.”
There you have it. The article goes on to say the program will be voluntary but let me ask a stupid question. How many people who are prone to committing domestic violence are voluntarily going to sign up for this? Exactly, which means eventually the program will not be voluntary.
It was only a matter of time before the government began abusing these devices so this is not surprising to many of us. This is how it always works with the government, once they get a foot in the door the government slowly takes more and more and now it looks like they are already looking to strengthen the “red flag” laws and they have not even passed yet. And we have not even mentioned that these devices are all owned by alt-left radicals who might just have an ulterior motive…
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Sunday, September 1st open thread: ‘No Bullets Spent’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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