If you’re drinking coffee as you’re perusing this little epistle, might want to use caution. No, it’s not that it’s a real knee slapper, if more that I’m concerned when your jaw goes slack you’ll dribble onto your keyboard.
But this is all just background refresher for those that don’t remember the players in the incident.
So now that you know who Mark McCloskey is, I’d like to introduce Lucas Kunce, he’s a Demoncrat running against popular Missouri Senator Josh Hawley in this election cycle. This is a post from Lucas Kunce following the McCloskey’s horrifying ordeal. Missouri’s junior Senator Eric Schmitt, besides being brilliantly brave fighting the Covid tyranny, appears to have a fabulous memory. From his Twitter (or X) account.
Lucas Kunce on gun safety
Now why would I be dinging the obviously so helpful Lucas Kunce, well, he’s a Demoncrat and he’s talking about guns, so that’s enough to be starting with, but yes, there’s more.
Apparently Kunce gave one of the Marine led “gun safety” classes to his bestie Adam Kinzinger…yes, the lying crying twerp from the J6 committee, during a campaign event. Apparently “some” of his 13 year experience in the Marines left his head as he is, as I’ve pointed out, a demoncrat.
Here’s a picture from the “range”.
Lucas Kunce and Adam Kinzinger just doing the best buds thing.
I guess when you shoot at steel targets from 10 feet away, you get something called “shrapnel”. Said shrapnel can fly off to hit remote and uninvolved targets, like the reporter there covering the event. Which it did. The reporter sustained a wound to his arm which Kunce bandaged.
Here is a better picture of the event.
A good explanation of a Kunce safety class in a photo
“Great day at the range today with my friend [Adam Kinzinger]. We got to hang out with some union workers while exercising our freedom. Always have your first aid kit handy. Shrapnel can always fly when you hit a target like today, and you’ve got to be ready to go,”
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“We had four first aid kits, so we were able to take care of the situation, and I’m glad Ryan is okay and was able to continue reporting,”
And since Twitter/X has been unmuzzled by Elon, there was indeed a response.
“‘Great day at the range’? Bro, you literally shot someone,” one X user said mockingly in response.
“Why are you using a scope when you are 10 feet away?” another wondered.
But as that well respected (in comparison to the NY Slimes, Washington (Com) Post and the like) the Babylon Bee rightly points out, it’s time for “Common Sense Democrat Control”.
Gun owners across the nation were appalled at the photographs from the scene of the latest incident, lambasting the dangers of letting Democrats near guns. “It’s like giving a big, very dumb baby a rifle,” said Hartfield. “I take that back. Unlike these bozos, a baby wouldn’t put tannerite explosives on the table in front of them, right in the shrapnel zone where it could ignite and kill everyone. Look, you won’t find anyone more pro-gun than me, but this is like giving a drunk puppy a hand grenade.”
Oh yes, there was tannerite…
Why is it, that demoncrats running for office attempt to deceive voters by using their military service to claim they are pro-gun, and have extensive firearms experience with “weapons of war” and then attempt to convince people that they used a semi-automatic sporting rifle in a combat zone? They then try to parlay this “experience” into calling for restrictions on the rights of law abiding gun owners? Tim Walz, Lucas Kunce, the crap just flows all the way down doesn’t it?
So, I would like to put forth two modest proposals. In a slight addition to the Babylon Bee’s most excellent suggestion, I would propose “No demoncrat is ever again to be allowed to vote on any kind of weapons legislation” Guns, knives, bows, any and all of it is off the voting table for a demoncrat. My second suggestion will help recover some of the taxpayer money demoncrats have squandered under the Biden-Harris crime junta. No taxpayer funded for security for any demoncrat politician. They are just fine with legislating a state of defenselessness for their constituents, so it’s obviously fine for them as well. If in their view, its fine for the people that pay their salary to be legislated out of rights, then it should be fine for them. Simple, cheap and saves us money. I would add one small bit to that last part. Any Republican that votes for “citizen control” which is what gun control is, no taxpayer funded security for them either. It’s only fair.
Maybe next time Lucas Kunce and Adam Kinzinger can get go get a nice pedicure instead. Safer for everyone all around that way.
Regulars readers probably already know about this. Prior to Hurricane Helene, Okeechobee Police Chief Donald Hagan declared an emergency and banned the sale of firearms and ammunition, and the public carry of firearms by non-law enforcement.
Since Florida has state preemption of firearms regulation, sane people found this… problematical.
Now the chief and town are scrambling to cover their posteriors. That little error could cost those involved $5,000 apiece, and not out of taxpayers’ pockets.
Fumero’s boss, Okeechobee Mayor Dowling R. Watford, Jr. and police spokesman Detective Jarret Romanello, gave numerous interviews to local media claiming city officials were reviewing the entire incident to determine how the “mistake” occurred.
Automatic emergency measures.—Whenever the public official declares that a state of emergency exists, pursuant to s. 870.043, the following acts shall be prohibited during the period of said emergency throughout the jurisdiction:
(1) The sale of, or offer to sell, with or without consideration, any ammunition or gun or other firearm of any size or description.
(2) The intentional display, after the emergency is declared, by or in any store or shop of any ammunition or gun or other firearm of any size or description.
(3) The intentional possession in a public place of a firearm by any person, except a duly authorized law enforcement official or person in military service acting in the official performance of her or his duty.
He took the ban language straight from that statute. And if that’s all you look at, you might think — as the idiot obviously did — that 870.044 gave him that authority. A declared emergency, right?
But he missed that little “pursuant to s. 870.043”. Sure, there was a weather related emergency; but what sort of emergency does 870.043 cover?
Declaration of emergency.—Whenever the sheriff or designated city official determines that there has been an act of violence or a flagrant and substantial defiance of, or resistance to, a lawful exercise of public authority and that, on account thereof, there is reason to believe that there exists a clear and present danger of a riot or other general public disorder, widespread disobedience of the law, and substantial injury to persons or to property, all of which constitute an imminent threat to public peace or order and to the general welfare of the jurisdiction affected or a part or parts thereof, he or she may declare that a state of emergency exists within that jurisdiction or any part or parts thereof.
Riots, civil disorder, mass violence. Nothing in there about tropical cyclones. Oopsie, chief.
No, actually I don’t mean Helene, although that has been horrific, and continues to be. No I mean the devastation caused by Kamala. Not only has it affected those that were in the path of Helene, but the whole country. But the federal governments response to the hurricane as put into action the old Ronald Reagan saying “I’m from the government and I’m hear to help you”. Truly terrifying words.
Let’s just examine a few of the government actions you may or not be aware of.
Yet, Elon Musk’s space internet company could’ve supplied residents with Starlink terminals over the years through a rural federal program. However, the Biden administration’s weaponization of the FCC blocked nearly 20,000 terminals for the state that would’ve been crucial communication links for residents that have been cut off from the world.
Yes, this would be the same FCC that is fast tracking George Soros’s takeover of 200 radio stations in the U.S. Many of those carry conservative talk shows. Yes, that FCC.
“Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We’ve deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives.
“The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough.”
So what else is FEMA interfering with? Rescue efforts.
He’s not the only one that ran into trouble with FEMA over doing rescues. Anyone remember Tim Kennedy from the docu-drama “Hunting Hitler”? Former army ranger, involved with Saving Our Allies and currently involved in rescue efforts from the hurricane and DEI hire Deanne Criswell’s FEMA. FEMA is leaving no room for survivors. As they did in Lahania, they take up all the hotel rooms and then do nothing to help.
You have to love on the ground citizens that are in the right place at the right time to overhear interesting things. One rescue worker was in an airport to pick up pediatric supplies and they were sitting in a private area where there were a bunch of Army and Navy pilots. A private jet came in carry FOUR whole FEMA workers. However did they get that many onto a private jet? But I digress, a private hospital in Ashville has been told they are going to be the morgue, for body recovery. All the Chinooks there are doing body recovery. FEMA said in this conversation in a private area that they are too tied up at the border to send anymore representatives. They are not sending refrigerated trucks for the bodies. A private hospital, and the army are doing body recovery. They said however many you hear on the death count? Add a couple of zeros to it for a more accurate body count. They said private pilots are citizens are the ones bringing in all the supplies. When they went to pick up their supplies there were piles of supplies awaiting the Cajun Navy, ASPCA and several other citizen groups. They’re the ones doing the work.
But this makes sense, because Kamala wants disaster relief to be based on race. So apparently there are too many whites in this area to rank higher than the border.
Yes, black and gay press secretary KJP said disaster relief wasn’t being funneled to illegal invaders…this year, not what she said very proudly a couple of years ago.
DEI hire Deanne Criswell of FEMA is showing the same sense of responsibility for the safety of her employees as disgraced former secret service director DEI hire Kimberly Cheadle. Citing “road closed” signs apparently FEMA can’t make it into some areas, reminiscent of the secret service’s inability to cope with “sloped roof” dangers. Just curious, if Jill Biden got Kim Cheadle her job, who recommended DEI hire Deanne Criswell? Hunter Biden?
“FEMA called me and told me they wanted to inspect my house, then called me back to say they couldn’t drive around the ‘road closed’ sign. They weren’t allowed,” she told The Post.
“You can drive it by car for sure, it’s not that bad, you just have to drive around the ‘road closed’ sign. I explained that to them. They said they couldn’t.”
About that $750 disaster relief Kamala bragged about? Well, you have to go online to get that….online..without power…I heard one interview of a lady who said the people that have been able to apply have been turned down. No one was approved. And just FYI? It’s a loan. It has to be paid back. Unlike of course the illegal invaders getting free gift cards, plane flights, food and hotel rooms. They don’t need to repay their loans. Oh no, the people of North Carolina are paying for them.
In accordance, FEMA implemented operational changes that favor certain demographics based on race, sexuality, and gender identity.
FEMA defines these “marginalized” groups that ought to receive priority treatment as “People of color,” “Tribal Nations,” “The LGBTQ+ community,” “Migrant laborers,” and “Those with limited English proficiency,” according to a 144-page guide on “Achieving Equitable Recovery” that the agency issued in November 2023.
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FEMA does not list disaster readiness among the top two objectives of the emergency services bureau, whose stated goals on its official website focus first on “Instill[ing] equity as a foundation of emergency management” and “Lead[ing] whole of community in climate resilience” second. “Promote and sustain a ready FEMA and prepared nation” ranks last on the agency’s list of primary concerns.
This one is also covers the history of FEMA failures under DEI hire Deanne Criswell, except if you’re a leftist, they aren’t exactly failures, they’re equity.
Goal 1 of FEMA’s Strategic Plan was to “instill equity as a foundation of emergency management”. FEMA’s Objective 1.1 was also not disaster management, it’s to “cultivate a FEMA that prioritizes and harnesses a diverse workforce”.
FEMA’s leadership was required to make its priority “integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in delivering the agency’s mission.”
Leading the way in implementing FEMA’s new ideological disaster management was Vice President Kamala Harris who claimed that she had started one of the “first environmental justice units of any DA’s office” when she helped turn San Francisco into a crime zone, and claimed that it’s “communities of color that are most impacted by” weather and natural disasters.
Kamala then argued that “we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity” so that minorities would be first in line for aid regardless of who has the greater need.
DEI hire Deanne Criswell says people need to stop saying bad things about FEMA workers, it’s dangerous and it’s hurting their feelings and moral. Wow, just wow.
But FEMA is starting to get it in gear, to an extent. One on the ground person reported FEMA has showed up with pallets and pallets of chainsaws!! YAY!! They are all electric chainsaws….for an area with no electricity and who knows when it will be restored. DEI hire…
priorities people!
Kamala is so concerned about equity, she’s sending a huge chunk of change to Hezbollah. Oh yeah, she lies and says “Lebanon”, but just like Hamass stealing aid in the Gaza strip and then selling it to the arabs in Gaza to get money to buy more rockets and other weapons, Hezbollah will steal it and sell it to the Lebanese and buy more rockets. But Kamala is very worried about their citizens. Her own, meh, not so much.
Oh the poor suffering citizens…of Lebanon.
But along with spreading racial equity, federal dollars and “joy”, Kamala also likes to make space for her family. Namely her outstanding example of modern “masculinity” <per leftist standards> Doug Emhoff, with or without the Nanny, he cheated with. See, Doug has a crystal ball when it comes to investments. And he’s invested in Albemarle Corporation, who is involved in Lithium mining. You know like for EV car batteries, like the kinds of things the Biden-Harris junta are trying to mandate. Guess who signs off on the permits to mine? Yep, if appointed as President, Kamala.
Twin Falls, Idaho police have an interesting way to “catch criminals faster.”
Both shops say TFPD is trying to force them to use a program called “LeadsOnline.” They claim the program not only acts as a de facto “gun registration program” because it requires personal information about the customer selling the gun as well as information about the firearm being sold.
The gun store owners maintain that this is a form of backdoor gun/owner registration because, unlike typical pawn shops — where the make model, serial number (and often caliber) of a pawned firearm is reported, and only if it comes back stolen do the police request (maybe with a warrant) the identity of the pawning customer — TFPD is demanding names, addresses, phone numbers of every single seller. In advance; preemptively, so to speak.
Note also that per Joshua Van Dyke of Homestead Tactical, none of these shops are pawnbrokers. That’s going to be important.
Idaho has statewide preemption and a constitution that forbids registration. I suppose the police might claim that this isn’t gun owner registration because they’re collecting data on former owners who sold their firearms. Never mind that such sellers in a gun shop (versus a pawn shop) are often trading them in for newer, pricier guns. On the list you go!
But wait… it is not the police department collecting this data. They use a commercial third party, LeadsOnline. Yep, the reporting is online, and data stored online. Think on that.
The police cite city ordinance Chapter 4, Section 10 as their authority to require this reporting.
3-4-10: REPORTS TO POLICE DEPARTMENT:
The Police Department may, at its discretion, require a written monthly report of said business and during the business hours of every day may require a personal examination of the books or records of such pawnbroker, showing the articles or other property purchased, pledged, traded, consigned, or otherwise received. (Ord. 2591, 9-8-1998, eff. 10-1-1998)
Chapter 4 defines pawnbrokers/pawn shops and “secondhand dealers” as separate entities. Reporting is only mandated for pawnbrokers (as opposed to Section 3-4-11 3-4-11: CLOSING HOURS, which specifically addresses both “Every “pawnbroker” or “secondhand dealer.” See above; neither Quick Response nor Homestead Tactical are pawnbrokers; the requirement doesn’t apply.
Did the police simply decide that all parts of Chapter 4 apply to all pawn shops and secondhand shops?
Not really. Per Homestead Tactical’s Joshua, “[T]he PD is choosing to only enforce this against gunshops-the city ordinance, however, is not specifically limited to retail firearms shops only. In other words, the PD isn’t going after other businesses (small engine repair, used cars, etc.) that handle serialized items. They are being discriminatory in the application of the city ordinance.”
To my mind, that only firearms are being subjected to this snooping turns this into a 2A — and Article 1 Section 11 of the state constitution — issue. Preemption violation.
Twin Falls Police are collecting data — via an online third party of unknown computer network security capabilities — in violation of the state constitution and preemption.
Say; did TFPD vet LeadsOnline’s security to ensure innocent sellers’ data cannot be hacked? Does TFPD incur any liability if data they demanded gets stolen? Who knows? The police did not respond to my inquiry. At all. Not even an automated “out of office” message. Likewise, Idaho Dispatch’s Greg Pruett was unable to pry answers out of TFPD’s media contact, Lieutenant Craig Stotts. I tried Chief Kingsbury, too; -crickets-.
They are also — surprise! — violating Article 1, Section 17 of the state constitution.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue without probable cause shown by affidavit, particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized.
If that language seems oddly familiar, then you recognized that the police are also violating the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution by demanding warrantless access to the stores’ customer records.
And in this refreshing post-BRUEN environment, TFPD should be scrambling to find some old laws to show their scheme “is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
If the Twin Falls police are talking to anyone about this, for their sake, it had better be attorneys; good ones. What with exceeding their authority, preemption violations, and multiple violations of state and federal constitutions, they’re in trouble.
Added: Another Fourth Amendment aspect to this occurred to me, based on a recent Fifth Circuit case. In United States v. Smith, the Circuit Court found that geofencing — a sweeping identification of everyone in a specified area in a specified timeframe — violated the privacy rights of all those caught up in the net who were not suspects. There was a lack of probable cause to look up everyone.
And isn’t that exactly what the TFPD is doing? ID all your customers, just in case one might have committed a criminal act. We don’t need no steenkin’ probable cause.
The Fourth Circuit has upheld geofencing, so we now have a Circuit split, ripe for SCOTUS review. Perhaps this would be a good time to get the Ninth Circuit involved, potential leading to the Supreme Court.
Well boy howdy, do the Demoncrats ever have a task in front of them! Even tougher perhaps than building something that would actually serve America, you know, they country they claim to love, namely, a border wall. No no, that’s not needed or wanted according to the Demoncrat party. No instead they’ve chosen to build the Walz. A third rate politician enamored with the Chinese brand of Communism.
I’m sure we’ve all heard how brave #TamponTim carried weapons in war. Oh? The hashtag? One of his major accomplishments besides allowing his cities to burn during the George Floyd riots to enact social justice for a drug addicted thief who once pointed a gun at the stomach of a pregnant woman during a robbery was putting tampon dispensers in the boy’s bathroom in schools. Boy if nothing else screams poor judgment, one would think that would! But I’ll see if I can up the ante.
Since we’re on the topic of the George Floyd riots, lets look at how the people #TamponTim is closest to dealt with the riots that burned businesses to the ground and saw many attacked by the likes of Antifa and BLM.
His wife Gwen kept the windows open because she enjoyed the smell of the city burning to the ground.
The wife of Democrat VP-pick Tim Walz said during an interview in 2020 that she kept her windows open for as long as she could so she could smell the burning of tires rioters set on fire during the Minneapolis-area riots in response to the death of George Floyd.
During the 2020 riots, cities like Minneapolis burned, costing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Gov. Walz has been criticized for his slow response to the destruction and violence by the left-wing protesters.
“We had more sleepless nights during the riots,” Gwen Walz told an ABC News affiliate back in July 2020. “I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”
Well, perhaps his daughter is slightly less deranged than her parents? Nope.
On May 30, 2020, Walz’s daughter, now 23, reportedly reposted and responded to an account on X, formerly Twitter, that urged all protesters to “GET OUT NOW” because the National Guard and SWAT were allegedly on their way to the scene of the Minneapolis riots. In the post thread, she insisted to protesters that the National Guard “WILL NOT be present tonight.”
Her reported post stated that “there is a lot of misinformation that is further spreading fear and chaos at the scene of the protests..the guard can not be sent in within minutes. it takes time for them to deploy because they come from all over the state. to be clear, the national guard will not be present tonight. just because someone asked for something doesn’t mean it’s happening right away or even happening at all. i don’t know about swat but what i do know is the guard will not be present arresting people tonight.”
And how about the radical jihadi Walz is so crazy about? Illan Omar?
Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi, retweeted a list of supplies for “comrades” who are rioting in Minneapolis.
Isra Hirsi is the co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and her Twitter bio says she ‘hates capitalism.’
Isra Hirsi retweeted a post from Twin Cities DSA (Democratic Socialists of America): Want to help out your comrades protesting at the 3rd precinct (at Lake and Minnehaha?)
Here’s a good list of much needed supplies (except for milk! Water is always better for eyewashing than milk!! Please don’t bring milk!)
Golly gosh, gee whillikers! Just think of all the primo information his daughter would have to sell out the whole country instead of just a state full of innocent citizens if her dad is ever near the white house.
What did old Kamel-toe herself do during the riots? Did the former prosecutor and VP nominee strongly urge stiff sentences for those that rioted and burned the livelihood and hard work of innocent Americans to the ground? Did she object to the innocent people violently attacked? Naw, in true Demoncratic form, she sided with the criminals. Demoncrats are sometimes predictable.
Vice President Kamala Harris promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an organization that has since used donor contributions to bail out violent criminals, in a May 2020 blog post.
Harris encouraged her readers to help “the protestors on the front lines” of the riots following the death of George Floyd by donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund in the blog post, first reported by the Washington Examiner. The Minnesota Freedom Fund went on to bail out multiple convicted murderers and other violent criminals in the years following the riots, according to court records.
Now we’ll hit the big one, the “weapons of war” comment.
As I’m sure everyone knows, #TamponTim didn’t go to “war”, he went to Italy and then misrepresented his service and his rank.
The AR-15 is a semi-automatic firearm that bears some superficial similarities to those “weapons of war,” but does not work in the same manner. They’re not the same gun, and yet he stood there and said they were.
But it’s good to be a demoncrat if you’re dishonest, the media will lie for you. Like a rug and without a payoff.
Vice President Kamala Harris has already been an integral part of the most extreme anti-Second Amendment administrations in American history. But things will get even worse for responsible gun owners if Harris takes charge next January.
During her very first campaign rally in Wisconsin after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Harris pledged that her administration would “pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban” – three pillars of anti-Second Amendment activism. Prominent anti-gun groups have flocked to Harris and offered their enthusiastic endorsement, including Everytown, the Community Justice Action Fund, and the Newtown Action Alliance.
And perhaps one might wonder why would Old Kamel-toe and #TamponTim be so dead set on leaving ordinary Americans defenseless against the criminals they embrace?
Because they’re tyrants, or at least aspiring tyrants.
Let’s look at Kamel-toe first. Jessie Watters did a great breakdown of what the price controls she wants would bring. It’s a bad idea, and not even an original bad idea.
“The proletariat must rise!” Harris shouted in front of a backdrop of a large hammer and sickle flag with armed militants flanking her side. “In order to preserve the rights of the working class the government must seize the means of production and murder all capitalist pigs!”
Harris announced her new platform after pitching a few new economic policies this week that included price caps for food, centralizing economic power, condemning capitalism, and calling for the arrest of all bourgeoise scum.
Yeah, it’s the Bee but it’s not far off.
And #TamponTim? He had Minnesota national guard fire paintballs at innocent civilians standing on the own from porches during his draconian covid lockdown rules.
A major study at Oxford University which tracked equal numbers of vaccinated and unvaccinated kids shows that only the vaccinated kids are dying unexpectedly and experiencing myocarditis and pericarditis.
Expect health authorities to ignore this because otherwise it would make them look bad.
Horrible judgment!
Are American criminals the only ones Walz supports? Not on your Aunt Nelly!
It seems some of the former citizens of the UK have finally caught on to what their ruling betters are doing to them and they aren’t onboard with having their daughters and wives raped or their shops looted and have spoke out.
Pity for them, they’ve been electing leftists for too long now.
Sources within the British government said Prime Minister Keir Starmer remained committed to retaining power and keeping the people of the UK enslaved under his totalitarian regime.
At publishing time, Russia was rumored to also be in the early stages of making plans to liberate the United States in the event of a Kamala Harris presidency.
Perhaps one of the most, if not the most troubling aspect of this train wreck of a VP candidate is his close association with muslim jihadis in addition to Illan Omar.
A resurfaced video depicts vice presidential nominee and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz praising a Hitler-promoting Muslim cleric as a “master teacher,” after his campaign denied that they had a “personal” relationship.
Walz hosted the individual — Imam Asad Zaman — at an Islamic Center event in 2018, where he applauded his wisdom and expressed gratitude for the “lesson[s]” he taught him, according to an unearthed video obtained by The Washington Examiner and published on Tuesday. Zaman has publicly promoted claims that Hitler was a misunderstood hero and declared “[Palestine’s]… right to defend itself “the day Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7 and killed roughly 1,200 people.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, the Washington Examiner found.
The imam, Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, joined other Muslim leaders in May 2023 for a meeting about mosque security with Walz’s gubernatorial office in Minnesota. Zaman also spoke at a May 2020 event to call for peaceful protests with the governor during the riots in Minnesota sparked after George Floyd’s death. In April 2019, the cleric delivered an invocation before Walz’s state address — just months after Zaman called for an end to a government shutdown at a press conference with Walz in January 2019.
Zaman, moreover, attended a May 2019 event that Walz hosted for Ramadan, social media posts show.
Walz’s ties to Zaman could serve as problematic baggage for the Minnesota governor as he campaigns with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee. News of the ties also comes after a Washington Free Beacon report this week found Walz spoke at a 2019 event with an antisemitic scholar who has defended terrorism against Israel.
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In recent years, Zaman has also appeared to equate Hamas committing terrorism to Israel defending itself. State records reviewed by the Washington Examiner show Walz’s administration has awarded over $100,000 in funding to MAS Minnesota.
The Muslim American Society was once described by federal prosecutors as being “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,” court records show. The MAS, which the United Arab Emirates designated as a terrorist group in 2014, came under fire in 2019 after a video surfaced online of children at an event held by its Philadelphia chapter calling for the murder of Jews.
“We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque,” two young girls said at the event, according to the Times of Israel.
How much you might ask, does #TamponTim support hamass? A lot, $100,000 of taxpayer money worth.
Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz gave an extreme Muslim cleric’s group $100,000 of public funds and has hosted him at official events as governor of Minnesota, The Washington Examiner reported Friday.
Asad Zaman has been a mouthpiece for Hamas for many years, publicizing its propaganda on his social media.
On October 7th, the day the terrorist organization invaded Israel, massacring 1,200 people, including infants, and abducting some 250 to hold as hostages, the imam said that he “stands in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks.”
And this is the man that Kamel-toe chose over the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania, a state she needs, though she may get it anyway. But, I guess considering where she got her “JOY” campaign slogan, that could have been uncomfortable.
No wonder she picked Walz
I’ve heard people ask did Kamel-toe even vet this guy? Did she know how horrible he is? I think that’s naive at best. Of course she did. She picked exactly what she wanted. A Jew hating radical communist. Just like herself. Someone that has no problem using tyranny to rule over innocent defenseless subjects. One would think the fact he abandoned his 87 year old mother who had recently had heart surgery during covid would turn her off. Tim Walz Says During Covid He Isolated and Left His 87-Year-Old Mother, Post-Heart Surgery, Alone in Her Home to Fend For Herself. But I don’t think Kamala is too worried about families herself. She chose and got exactly what she wanted. And that should tell you everything you need to know about the dumpster fire that is the Demoncrat party.
The Eighth Circuit has tossed the ATF’s pistol brace rule. The Court didn’t bother addressing the Administrative Procedures Act violations, because they found that another element of the challenge to the rule sufficed all by itself. The decision is thirty-three pages, but this one little excerpt pretty much summarizes it.
Thus, the Coalition is likely to succeed on the merits of its argument that this step is arbitrary and capricious; the ATF “has articulated no standard whatsoever for determining” when a stabilizing brace’s rear surface area would allow the shouldering of a weapon.
Huh; “arbitrary and capricious.” Where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah; in The Zelman Partisans’ original comment of the Notice of Proposed Rule-Making, more than three years ago.
This proposed rule is an incoherently expressed description of an arbitrary, capricious, and incoherent process of classifying firearms.
As no standards were given, a subjective examiner’s guesstimate of “rear surface area” could pass a brace, or put it right on the edge of alleged short-barreled rifle by itself. Will one examiner estimate the “rear surface area” of a cuff-type brace by the physical area of the rear EDGE of the cuff, while another goes by the area of the space ENCLOSED by the cuff?
We could have saved a lot of time and money if the ATF jackbooters had simply taken note of that at the time. But the ATF livesd for — and on — “arbitrary and capricious.” As backed up with Chevron deference, which the courts have also taken away from them.
Among other gadgets which the ATF-Troop unilaterally declared to be NFA items — machine guns, specifically — was the forced reset trigger and like items.
Having considered the above-referenced filings and applicable law, th4e Court concludes thatthe Defendants engaged in unlawful agency action taken in excess of their authority. Therefore, the Courts GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgement and DENIES Defendants’ Cross-Motion for Summary Judgement.
Note: The judge didn’t say the ATF exceeded its authority and leave it at that. He specifically and explicitly stated that they acted unlawfully; they broke the law. And he called out their BS on claiming FTRs turn semiautos into machine guns.
An FTR is a device that forcibly returns the trigger to its reset state. In the commercialized FRT designs at issue in this litigation, the trigger is forcibly reset by the hammer when the bolt carrier cycles to the rear. A “locking bar” mechanically locks the trigger in its reset state, preventing the user from moving the trigger rearward to function by releasing the hammer, until the bolt has returned to the in-battery position and the firearm is safe to fire.
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When firing multiple shots using an FRT, the trigger must still rest after each round is fired and must separately function to release the hammer by moving far enough to the rear in order to fire the next round.
TL;DR: It’s still firing semi-auto, idiots. And you don’t get to change the definition of machine gun to encompass whatever.
Plaintiffs’ cgun definition as applied to FRTs ontend that the ATF’s broadened view of the machinegun definition as applied to FRTs is an unlawful expansion of the agency’s authority.Plaintiffs are correct.
Interestingly, there seems to be no mention of CHEVRON deference to agency interpretations, or Loper Bright‘s reversal of such deference. The judge simply noted that both plaintiffs and defendants agreed of how FTRs work, but that the ATF improperly called semiautos machine guns.
Sheila has covered the Trump assassination attempt, so I’ll just say for now — pending new information — that I don’t think this will be the last attempt before November.
What I am here to talk about is charges against Alec Baldwin being dismissed with prejudice.
Some people see this as the exoneration of Baldwin.
We told you, and told you, and told you, and told you, and told you, and told you, and told you, and told you, and explained to all comers, in excruciating detail, how Baldwin was not legally responsible to any whit for the shooting on the set of Rust, explaining the safety rules and the chain of culpability using metric fucktons of pixels and internet bandwidth.
Sorry, Aesop; that isn’t what happened. Charges were dismissed for a deliberate Brady violation by prosecution: hiding evidence which defense seemed to believe to be exonerating. Defense had moved for this dismissal, and I find that odd.
Up to now, all the publicly available evidence and forensic reports indicated to me that Baldwin was guilty. Now, suddenly, new evidence appears. Two years after the shooting, a third party turned over some ammunition that he thought might be associated with the case. Without a trial with testimony, I don’t see how it is relevant. It might be, but I don’t know. The case against Baldwin was based on his own — multiple — safety violations; not on where the live ammunition came from. It wouldn’t matter where the live round came from if only Baldwin had followed just one of the four rules.
At opening statements Wednesday, prosecutors alleged Baldwin violated the “cardinal rules of firearm safety” by pointing the prop gun at Hutchins and pulling the trigger.
Assuming it is relevant, I would have thought defense would want to continue the trial and get the actual exonerating testimony on record, along with a formal acquittal. That would clear Baldwin’s name.
Instead, the defense effectively suppressed all the evidence — not just the new ammo evidence but everything else prosecution was prepared to present — themselves, at least so far as the public is concerned. No trial, no evidence presented. If defense actually thought the evidence was overwhelmingly exonerating, why move for dismissal for a Brady violation (something you might do before the trial starts) instead of moving for a directed verdict of acquittal (the normal thing, once a trial in in progress)?
Now Baldwin is going to have to live with having killed a woman, and having everyone look at him and think, You never were acquitted; you forced an end to the trial on a technicality. Why?
For that alone, I imagine a lot of actors and crew will be hesitant to work with Baldwin anywhere in the same county.
[best infommercial voice] But wait! There’s more! Baldwin’s defense:
“This was an unspeakable tragedy, but Alec Baldwin committed no crime. He was an actor, acting, playing the role of Harlan Rust,” attorney Alex Spiro said. “These ‘cardinal rules’ are not cardinal rules on a movie set.”
I also wouldn’t want to pay the insurance premiums for any film that includes Baldwin. Assuming any film with Baldwin can even get insurance coverage now.
We’ve long been hearing the violent left speak with impunity about attacking conservatives, including politicians. The feel they are entitled to threaten physical violence and joke openly about it.
I’m sure we all remember the political rallies of 2020 when President Trump’s supporters were attacked by unhinged leftist. Women alone were mobbed, reporter Andy Ngo was viciously attacked and sustained several injuries. During the “summer of love” when Soros funded Antifa and communist groups like BLM ruled the streets motorists were trapped by “mostly peaceful” riots, cars were broken into and 9-1-1 calls were ignored. Our inept, dishonest Vice President Kakela Harris urged people to donate to spring violent antifa members that had been arrested. Setting them free to attack more innocent people, free to burn more buildings. That should have made it clear who’s side she was on.
For years now the corrupt, lying, morally bankrupt media has been assuring everyone Donald Trump is literally hitler! Under no circumstances can he be allowed to regain the white house, I’ve even seen signs saying by any means necessary. Because that’s how democracy works in their brain dead little heads.
Today the fruition of all that was seen in Butler Pa. The Obiden administration decided to go full on banana republic and assassinate their political rival.
Today at a political rally there was an attempt on President Trump’s life. Thank G-d he survived. There are several pictures that have made it out of the rally.
The woundPhoto of the year?Trump Tough
As you can see that wound is a heart stopper. Mine, not his. Some are saying the second photo will be the photo of the year. Myself, I prefer the third photo. The man stood up, told the secret service he had to get his shoes back on and triumphantly pumped his fist in the air telling his supporters to fight, not to give in.
Reaction has been from the sarcastic to the unbelievably stupid. The first one is humor, the second one is an actual CNN aka #Fake News headline. Yep, it just didn’t happen, no one tried to kill President Trump, he “fell”. Dear lord these are very stupid people and or just that corrupt. Its no wonder cnn has like 12 viewers.
You know she’s thinking itTHIS is cnn, Fake News’
But why do I say the Obiden junta decided to go full on banana republic?
Because he’s called for violence and so have demoncratic staffers.
Joe Biden inciting violenceThis is who works with Congress. We pay this salary.
Because of interviews like this one done by the BBC
Because of citizen journalists asking questions like why wasn’t the Secret Service having people stationed on top of all the buildings around there?
No secret service on the roof
Because of podcasters like former Secret Service Dan Bongino who has pointed out Kim Cheatle has denied President Trump full package secret service protection. They have also denied Robert Kennedy Jr. secret service protection at all.
Dan worked in the Secret Service
And who is in charge of the Secret Service?
Oh, Mayorkas
Oh, Mayorkas…guess he’s worried if President Trump gets back in he may be called to account for the millions of illegal invaders he’s let in and flown in all over the country bypassing the border all together, so the numbers will be lower.
Take a look at that wound, one half inch to an inch over I’d be doing a very different column tonight.
Not only would we have a dead political candidate, we’d be fixin’ to see the start of the next civil war. I mean listen to those audiences as the demoncrat politicians are openly calling for violence against fellow citizens. Do they act horrified? No most cheer and applaud.
And that my friends is what we’re facing. Dirty filthy antifa and people like those in the audiences who will more than happily attack people. Because, you know, democracy or something.
As I understand it the assassin is dead, killed by the secret service who’s new motto is ”So secret it’ll be like we aren’t even here!”.
But I’ve heard reports there were actually two assassins. I’ve heard one was oriental looking.
