In a few minutes, I am going to turn off my computer. I’ll take a shower and go buy a lottery ticket and some booze. I’ll try to turn the computer back on in time to send the Monday Alert newsletter.

I need a weekend without any more news.

We have calls for expanded background checks which will include scouring the Internet for signs of wrongthink, to decide who can be trusted to have a firearm. No doubt the decision will be made by types who believe that the desire to own a firearm is automatic indicator of disqualifying insanity.

Kamala Harris has vowed to officially reinstate COINTELPRO; legislatively if she can, by executive order if she can’t. The data will be used to implement “white nationalist” protective orders. “White” is anyone Corey Booker’s shade or lighter who doesn’t claim to be black. “Nationalist” is anyone who thinks just maybe it would be a good idea to screen Congolese “refugees” for Ebola (the latest version of which can incubate for as much as 40 days before showing any symptoms like a fever).

Our “pro-gun” president has endorsed every victim disarmament proposal pushed by his Dem rivals, and implemented some. Word is pistol-braced handguns are about to become NFA short-barrel rifles.

Warren has also seized on Trump’s precedent, declaring that she’ll redefine words to expand the meaning of “intimate partner” to include anyone who flirted. The Housed-passed VAWA, would make it a crime to check the Twitter feed of anyone with whom you flirted (I kid you not; read it).

The Republican party has followed Trump’s anti-rights lead on guns, competing to see who can screw you faster and worse. I called my Senators to voice my opposition to more gun control. One Senator’s number goes straight to voicemail. Senator Crickets’ staffer simply hung up on me. (I was reading from a brief script, so it was polite.)

My Representative? The last I heard, he still had that staffer running the apparent identity theft scam.

And that’s some of the less-foul news of the past week. On top of all that I’m getting anti-semitic slurs and rants, and death threats; mostly oblique, but one was direct enough to report.

And they wonder why I would want a gun.

Have a nice weekend.

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