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f_townsend's JournalTrump has done more for anti-Semites than anyone in US history
Whenever Trump likes to say that "no one has done more for Israel (and Jews) than any President in history", remind the world of this (the word "invader" underlined by me):
The Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue mass shooter, on October 27, 2018: "claimed Jews were aiding members of Central American caravans moving toward the United States border and referred to those migrants as "invaders".[10] Shortly before the attack, he posted on Gab that "HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in."
Trump, before the massacre:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1056919064906469376
Trump, after the massacre:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1064227483187318784
Just about endless citations could be linked to of Trump referring to migrant "invasions" and how Jews don't "appreciate him".
Trump's role in the anti-Semitic attacks and the GOP's passive acceptance of them needs to made into a campaign issue .
Where Does Trump’s ‘Invasion’ Rhetoric Come From|Where does Trump's invasion rhetoric come from?
Washington Post quotes senior Western intelligence analyst: Prigozhin has so far failed in key goal
A senior Western intelligence official said that Prigozhin’s rebellion represents an irreparable breach with Putin, and that he must realize now that there is no return for him to the status and wealth he had accumulated over decades with backing from the Kremlin. There is “no way back” for Prigozhin, the official said. “He overplayed his hand.”
As a result, Prigozhin now faces a fight for his own life in the struggle to fend off Russian forces. “Someone will have to blink first,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the situation. “But you know well what must happen to those [Putin] calls traitors.”
The same official said that Putin’s invocation of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution signaled the seriousness with which he views the Prigozhin rupture. Putin, who fashions himself a learned historian, “would not invoke 1917 for no reason — it tells a lot how they perceive the stakes.”
The same official also said that “if Prigozhin intended to drive a wedge between the command of Russian Federation Armed Forces and the Kremlin, he failed already,” meaning that the rebellion so far does not appear to have triggered a broader rupture between Putin’s inner circle and the military leaders Prigozhin detests.
MAGAt fools too dumb to understand the 2A was meant to put down insurrectionists like themselves
as well as to put down domestic usurpers like Donald Trump (in addition to warding off foreign invaders).
Put down domestic insurrections, not perpetrate them. To squash domestic usurpers, not instill them to positions of power. To protect our elected government, not to overthrow it.
Supreme Court justice Joseph Story, commenting on the 2A in 1833:
§ 1890. The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.
The highlighted part echoes the actual (and only) purpose of the "well-regulated Militia" mentioned in the 2A, and earlier, in Article I, Section 8, Clauses 15/16 of the main body:
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; . . .
MAGAts don't know their American history.
What happened in 1787, pre-Constitution United States, when thousands of angry Massachusetts farmers and Revolutionary War veterans formed their own militia to overthrow the (somewhat tyrannical) MA state government? Did the Founding Fathers, who the right wing claims to venerate, approve of the attempt, which was called "Shay's Rebellion"?
Answer: NO. The Founders were almost all unanimous: put the rebels people down -- hard. Outrage and fear over Shay's Rebellion was what prompted Washington to leave retirement and return to public life and attend the Constitutional Convention, where he presided. In many ways, though there were many reasons for its existence, the Constitution came about and was ratified for the proximate reason of putting down domestic insurrectionists who wanted to overthrow a "tyrannical government".
And what happened in 1794, the United States seven years after the Constitution was ratified, when thousands of angry farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania formed their own militia to overthrow the (not tyrannical -- at least not to its own citizens) brand-new federal government and the "tyrant" President George Washington? Did the Founding Fathers, who the right wing claims to venerate, approve of the attempt, which was called the "Whiskey Rebellion"?
Answer: NOT at all! The Founders were almost all unanimous: put the rebels people down -- but...carefully (Washington's directive to Alexander Hamilton, who wanted to see heads roll). This was met with the complete approval of the American people.
Trump and his MAGAts are what the Founders warned us about -- and what the 2A, arming the well-regulated state militias, loyal to our elected government, was designed to put down.
Is the DNC funding TV/radio ads highlighting how the GOP is holding the economy hostage?
especially. regarding the debt ceiling, and how the Republicans have a shotgun pointed directly at Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid benefits? I haven't seen/heard any.
Why isn't this happening?
Is there one status quo apologist out there willing to come up with at least one bullshit rationale why this is not happening?
Maybe the person from Brooklyn?
Constitutional law prof: In 1880's Wild West, nobody believed that more guns reduced violence
If anything, people understood that more guns = MORE violence. Hence, the gun control provisions enforced by frontier towns. Only the gun lobby and the fools who follow it have promulgated the idea that "more guns = less crime".
The knowledge that the old West practiced gun control is also one of the reasons that Clarence Thomas, working closely with gun lobby attorneys, sinisterly crafted the Bruen ruling to limit judicial interpretation of gun control laws so that only history before ratification of the 14th amendment (i.e, before 1868) could be considered, thereby bypassing any examples of late 19th century gun control laws and ordinances which would ordinarily strengthen the argument in favor of today's existing gun control legislation.
Contrary to the popular imagination, bearing arms on the frontier was a heavily regulated business
Matt Jancer
February 5, 2018
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The “Old West” conjures up all sorts of imagery, but broadly, the term is used to evoke life among the crusty prospectors, threadbare gold panners, madams of brothels, and six-shooter-packing cowboys in small frontier towns – such as Tombstone, Deadwood, Dodge City, or Abilene, to name a few. One other thing these cities had in common: strict gun control laws.
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Frontier towns with and without gun legislation were violent places, more violent than family-friendly farming communities and Eastern cities of the time, but those without restrictions tended to have worse violence. “I've never seen any rhetoric from that time period saying that the only thing that's going to reduce violence is more people with guns,” says Winkler (Adam Winkler, UCLA professor of constitutional law). “It seems to be much more of a 20th-century attitude than one associated with the Wild West.”
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As (historian Robert) Dykstra wrote, frontier towns by and large prohibited the “carrying of dangerous weapons of any type, concealed or otherwise, by persons other than law enforcement officers.” Most established towns that restricted weapons had few, if any, killings in a given year.
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As the West developed, towns pushed this mythos of the West as their founding ideology. Lax gun laws were just a part of an individualistic streak that manifested itself with the explosion in popularity of concealed carry licenses and the broader acceptance of openly carrying firearms (open-carry laws) that require no permit.
“These Wild West towns, as they developed and became more civilized and larger, there was an effort to promote their Wild West heritage very aggressively, and that became the identity of the town,” says Winkler, “but that identity was based on a false understanding of what the past was like, and wasn't a real assessment of what places like Tombstone were like in the 1880s.”
The whistleblowers who would testify that MTG and Josh Hawley kill and eat children "are missing"
STOP: The latest I now hear is that a 9th witness is also mysteriously "missing".What happened to these witnesses? Who's behind this?
49-year old Xuan Kha Tran Pham of Fairfax, Virginia suspect in attack at Rep. Connolly's office
The suspect in the attack at Rep. Gerry Connolly's office.
https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-launches-joint-investigation-assault-congressional-staff-virginia
May 15, 2023 Press Release
The United States Capitol Police (USCP) and the Fairfax City Police Department are investigating an assault at the Fairfax, Virginia, District Office of Representative Gerry Connolly.
At approximately 10:49 a.m. on Monday, May 15, a man entered Representative Connolly’s District Office. Two Congressional staffers were assaulted with a metal bat and received non-life threatening injuries. Congressman Connolly was not in the office at the time of the assaults.
The Fairfax City Police Department responded and arrested the suspect. At this time, it is not clear what the suspect’s motivation may have been. Based on what we know right now, investigators do not have any information that the suspect was known to the USCP.
Special Agents with the United States Capitol Police Threat Assessment Section were dispatched to Fairfax, Virginia. The Department simultaneously coordinated with our partners at the Fairfax City Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Washington Field Office.
The suspect has been identified as 49-year old Xuan Kha Tran Pham of Fairfax, Virginia.
He is facing charges for one count of Aggravated Malicious Wounding and one count of Malicious Wounding.
Last month, United States Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger testified about the heightened threat climate across the country. “One of the biggest challenges we face today is dealing with the sheer increase in the number of threats against Members of Congress— approximately 400% over the past 6 years,” said Chief Manger. “Over the course of the last year, the world has continuously changed, becoming more violent and uncertain.”
Jack Teixeira: "Jews scam, n----rs rape, and I mag dump"
That is something Teixeira said to the camera while filming himself at a gun range.
MTG's next Democratic opponent for Congress would do well to remind the public that Teixeira is someone she has defended.
You know who else was fixated on 'race war'? Charles Manson.
Why not some large highway signs featuring both MTG and Charles Manson? What's good for the goose, right?
Alleged leaker fixated on guns and envisioned ‘race war’
Updated May 14, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. EDT|Published May 13, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
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Filmed from the shooter’s perspective, the first video shows a person identified by a Discord user as Teixeira firing an AR-style weapon into the forest. Another video shows the gunman firing a pistol into the woods behind Teixeira’s home, including two rapid volleys that suggest the weapon may have been modified. It isn’t clear what legal or illegal modifications Teixeira may have made, though devices like binary triggers and typically illegal auto sear accessories can make semiautomatic guns fire quicker than they are designed to shoot. A separate photograph shows an AK-style weapon resting on a table outside the family home next to a helmet with attached night-vision goggles.
For Teixeira, firearms practice seemed to be more than a hobby. “He used the term ‘race war’ quite a few times,” said a close friend who spent time with Teixeira in an online community on Discord, a platform popular with video game players, and had lengthy private phone and video calls with him over the course of several years.
“He did call himself racist, multiple times,” the friend said in an interview. “I would say he was proud of it.”
If Daniel Penny was not a white Marine veteran, do you think the RW would be championing him?
Not a chance. If Penny was, for instance, a black non-veteran, they wouldn't give a crap about the legal predicament facing him right now. DeSantis, for one, would be grifting for dollars and attention from something else.
The charge is about right -- unintentional killing of a human being. And with the video, he's facing an uphill challenge in court. At least one onlooker warned Penny that he was close to killing Neely with the chokehold before Neely went limp. But the jury will decide all that; Penny should be presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
Penny has been released from custody after posting bond. So here's another question: why isn't the RW screaming about how bail reform is letting criminals loose on the streets? Penny is charged with a violent crime -- the killing of a human being. Is the GOP a big fan of bail reform now?
13-year-old PA boy easily gets his dad's handgun, shoots and kills his 12-yr-old friend
Gun safe was hardly secure. What good did having the gun in the first place accomplish, after all was said and done?
Not the first time this kind of thing happened in tiny Red Lion, PA: In 2003, a 14-yr-old got ahold of his stepfather's handguns, and shot and killed his school principal and then himself.
13-year old charged with felony murder of Kain Heiland
by WHP StaffFri, May 5th 2023, 11:18 AM EDT
YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — A 13-year-old boy has been charged with third-degree murder in the death of 12-year-old Kain Heiland.
Nolan Grove fatally shot Heiland in the back on April 1, 2023, police said on Friday
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Pennsylvania State Police later executed a search warrant of Grove's father's home, where they located a hidden compartment firearm case in the living room. There was a magnet located on another firearm safe in the living room which could be used to open the compartment. Inside the case was a Kel-Tec P-3AT .380 firearm, which police determined to be functional.
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