Stephen Green ambushes Bill Whittle and Scott Ott with the top and bottom stories of the week to get their hottest takes. Topics include…
- Sen. Feinstein gets an award for her work in support of the Chinese Communist Party.
- President Biden — without a smidge of irony — says Ukraine must root out corruption before it can join NATO.
- Missouri blocks Biden attempt to stretch gun control laws beyond the U.S. Constitution.
- As consumers return to restaurants and air travel, other sectors of the economy start to suffer.
- North Korean defector compares Ivy League schools unfavorably with her former homeland. Right Angle is a production of our Members.
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25 replies on “Missouri Blocks Biden Attempts to Exceed Constitutional Boundaries to Disarm Citizens”
I’m in two minds about gun rights. I think the 2nd Amendment should be upheld unless and until the Constitution is amended. I also know Heller. But I didn’t grow up with guns and agree nobody needs a weapon which fires 20 or 30 rounds at a time to go hunting deer. I understand thin wedge end arguments, but it hit me hard when Nov 2020 came around and we saw in real time the election stolen right out in the open and the 2nd Amendment was no protection at all. Indeed, the 6 Jan protest in DC was spun as a nascent insurrection, even though the only shooting was of an unarmed woman by a still-anonymous DC cop. So can someone explain to me what the 2nd is good for? I am not suggesting anyone should take out Schumer or Pelosi or AOC or Tlaib or Pressley or [ed: please stop], but the days when one could legitimately use it for political purposes are long gone. It is a symbol, but of what I no longer know.
Steve is absolutely right! I come from Romania, nobody there believed the propaganda, they would just go through the necessary motions to survive (some, higher up party member, even to thrive, at least until the fall…).
So yes, I have been saying this for a while now, and I am glad to have it confirmed by someone so brilliant (great minds, and all) like Steve Green. We are in danger here, and things are nuts, because people believe the socialist/communist lies. They don’t have the experience, nor the intelligence to learn from other peoples’ experience.
Steve: Has your cloudy ice issues cleared up?
I will let myself out.
We forget that the third generation rejection of communism applies to its younger leaders too. I recently heard that Kim Jong Un was back talking about socialism but when I went looking for an untranslated copy of the speech. I could not find one. The only versions I could find were translations from people who oppose Kim Jong Un and oppose Trump because he even talked to him. Its an interesting problem.
There remains a possibility that with trump losing the White House Kim Jong Un may have lost some power and is forced to accept old guard leaders connected with his executed uncle in law, Jang Song-thaek.
Missouri has Lake of the Ozarks, Table Rock Lake, numerous other similar serpentine water bodies, plus the Missouri River and the Mississippi River to offer as receptacles for lost firearms. But the “Show Me” state may also have a smidgeon more numerous honest denizens than some other locales, especially those few who are woke, who would point out to the LEO’s that “he didn’t lose his guns, they’re hidden in …”
It is no secret that the navigability of the Mississippi and its major tributaries is part of why America is so well off, compared to say Africa where the rivers there are a lot less navigable (de Nile excepted). So Missouri was never truly land-locked.
I really like these Lighting Rounds of Steve’s …
Regarding Steve’s last item and assuming he’s correct about there being more communist true believers on an American college campus than in the capital of a communist country —
I’m starting to wonder if communism isn’t an evolution that human society has to pass through and reject on the other side like feudalism.
Today it would be virtually impossible to implement a feudal state. Or would it? There are similarities between feudalism and communism and they’re very pronounced.
In feudalism you have a ruling elite class composed of a monarch and a socially rigid but loosely interconnected hierarchy of lords, dukes, barons etc. — Who tell the peasants what to do.
In communism there is a Supreme Leader and lesser bureaucratic potentates who basically fill the same niche as lords, dukes, barons etc. — Who tell the peasants what to do.
Communism may just be a way for feudalism to gain control again. If you extrapolate the probable consequences of Neo-Marxism into the future you end up coming back full circle to feudalism. Different labels, different rationale for the “right to rule” but same basic result.
I’m not saying this is a good thing and I sure as heck hope it’s not inevitable. Obviously we need to resist that sort of thing to our maximum capacity.
I’m just wondering no matter how much we resist this new wave of feudal-like denial of personal liberty if it can be avoided. Rather than just endured until it runs its course and we come out on the other side with something akin to the Magna Carta and U.S. Constitution again.
I’m not being defeatist and I’m certainly not saying we should give up. I’m just saying that if you strip away all the rhetoric, posturing, posing and virtue signalling this post-modern Neo-Marxist Communist/Socialism stuff starts to look very, very historically familiar.
It is the natural tendency of tyrants to amalgamate and amass power until they either succeed or are stopped. I don’t see a lot of difference today between the stated goals of the Democrat Party and tyranny. Of course it’s “tyranny for your own good” but that’s always the excuse. That becomes clear if you just step back and look at the bigger picture.
The question then becomes — “Is there any way to avoid the cyclic progression of tyranny -> rebellion -> freedom -> decline -> tyranny when people seem to naturally follow that cycle no matter how much they are warned against it?”
Is there any warning that can be effective, or any course of action that has hope of success in breaking this cycle? Is it the doom of mankind due to a base, fallen nature to just keep screwing himself over because he cannot rise above the causes of this cycle?
A major component of the problem is that mankind always seems to take the easy path whenever possible. Just as so many employees are staying home now with their government largesse rather than going back to work for modest wages. Or as Bill often states, “It is easier to sell candy than vegetables.” So even though the veggies (liberty, responsibility, self-improvement) are better for you, too many of us love the candy and either can’t look down the road to our failing health or have no self-control.
I’ve said the following here more than once: the left wants feudalism with them as the elite at top, with the lesser serfs doing the work, only with high tech. (Of course, the elite get better tech.)
Biden wants Ukraine to root out corruption. While Biden sits in his office as a result of massive, widespread diffuse election corruption.
Good to see that Scott Ott was not done away with!!
But in the modern American communist state, we don’t even have to work and they’ll pretend to pay us.
W/O the 17th, it’s entirely possible that a liberal state like CA could end up w/ two right of center Senators.
17th delende est!
I don’t understand how you perceive that possibility. Given the Leftists in the current CA legislature, wouldn’t they end up providing two strong Leftist Senators, absent the 17th Amendment? Is there some factor about the possible future legislature that I am not appreciating (as I don’t live in CA)?
I believe some time in the recent past I also suggested in this venue (or elsewhere) an alternative to the existing 17th that combined popular and legislative selection of a state’s Senators for the national Congress. [But a quick scan of my past comments did not bring it to my attention.]
If Ukraine can’t be in NATO b/c of corruption, how does our FBI, DOJ, etc not exclude us?
Disappointment from the Bush family? Why is anyone surprised anymore?
Still better than the McCain family. Not much. But McCain was supposed to get the nod in 2000.
The sad part is that I remember being one of his McCainaanites back in 2000, even had a “Straight Talk Express” pin for the small contribution I made to his campain. Now I dodn’t know which presidential vote I regret more – the one I cast for him or my vote for Romney.
I don’t regret any vote against this millennium’s Democrats. Clinton was a horrible person but I was generally “meh” about his policies. And I think he was the last Dem President that actually liked the country*.
*Joe ain’t driving the bus.
I’ve been saying something similar for a while – Gore was the last Dem to run for president who didn’t hate America, at least until election day 2000…
this isn’t the college campii of old either. 60%+ and rising of college students are now female and it looks to me like they are the ones embracing communism, just as they embrace not paying their student loans (70% of student loan debt is held by females). don’t discuss THAT though. not good form. tally ho.
my chrysler union member neighbor blames the shortage of chips on trump’s china tariffs. does he have a point?
Tariffs affect price, but not availability.
you are right
One report I heard, more in regards to computer graphics chips, was that there are only 3 plants in the world that can make them (so not sure if this also applies to automotive and other microchips) and one had a maintenance closure, so we’re down in production a little bit. Since they are always in use, you have to schedule your production runs nearly a year in advance and some companies did not schedule as many as were actually needed.
So we have a supply shortage and a demand increase causing all sorts of chained issues.
Not really given the fact that both the election of DJT and the subsequent tariffs imposed upon China were a response to many previous years of bad behavior on behalf of China (i.e., flagrant theft of IP). If your “chrysler union member neighbor” is looking for a domestic scapegoat, then he would be wise to consider the current POTUS, since Creepy Joe has always supported an economically-strong China — even at the expense of the USA economy.
Cause and effect, Baby.