To finish the thought with the purely speculative part, I kind of suspect, but certainly can't prove, that Markey is trying to de-Antifa the left, especially now that pro-Hamas groups are showing up at the homes of Democratic Party elected officials. It's a law that criminalizes organization leading to violence. Mao sent the Red Guards to collective farms; the Democrats are preparing to criminalize organized gathering that includes any form of training or weapons.
As a former resident of Massachusetts who has listened to him speak on various topics over the years, I can confirm he’s an idiot.
The MA Democratic Party loves to promote dumb, unlikeable hacks to progressively more influential offices. It’s a result of a one party state “it’s their turn” mentality and I’m guessing some kind of humiliation ritual aimed at voters.
That's far more likely. He's been there doing nothing since I was a kid...and I'm no kid now. He's pushed the term "useless" to a new plateau. He was all over "net neutrality" back when it was the most important thing, and then it wasn't. Just like him.
I think that's entirely plausible. I also suspect that Markey and his crowd are coming to the belated realization that they aren't terribly popular outside their relatively small geographic preserve, and that a full generation of their political opposition have spent 20 years fighting real-deal insurgency. Even a normie now has a better understanding of the placement and use of things like IEDs, rockets, and drones than many professionals would have in 2002. The potential dissemination of first hand knowledge of how to fight an insurgency should make them very nervous.
I guess a silver lining of the US open border policy could be that Afghani hillbillies get to come to the US and share notes with Appalachian hillbillies...
“Even a normie now has a better understanding of the placement and use of things like IEDs…”
One of the ironies of McVeigh’s & Nichols’ OKC bombing (beyond killing 168 people and accomplishing nothing) is that they caused the complete restriction of access to explosives that will greatly hinder the achievement of “…these united [States] are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the [Federal government of the United States], and that all political connection between them and the [Federal government of the United States] is and ought to be totally dissolved.”
Hopefully they will screw up and forget to include 5.0 in allowed groups to be affected by this proposed idiocy (something of which they have zero legal authority to do.
I’m at the point where when anyone doesn’t immediately relays a story that doesn’t end with something along the lines of get wood of what they’re trying o do now, I wonder f the person is on some serious drugs. Even people I know who have a 180 degree different political ideology to mine are already in the middle stages of redpilling themselves.
Certainly possible. But the tiger that is Antifa (and all radicals like the BLM mostly peaceful group, etc) will not willingly go back into the cage now that they’ve tasted blood.
The adage “Be careful what you wish for” comes to mind. These fools have learned nothing from history. The angry mobs they create eventually turn on their own.
Would someone inform Ed Markey if Democrats would stop shooting each other gun violence would drop by 90%!
That's fact based. I hope he's ready to have THE CONVERSATION soon....ya know....the one that's been incessantly asked for but verboten to broach for over 30 years.
When we gonna have that "conversation" O'bama? He peeled the scab off of what GenX pretty much put to bed. This is the end result imo.
In a 2008 Gallup survey, 70% of whites and 61% of blacks rated race relations as “good” or “very good.” In 2016, those numbers fell to 55% and 49%, respectively. In 2018, the numbers were 54% and 40%. The black view of race relations declined 21 percentage points in 10 yrs despite having achieved the lowest black unemployment in U.S. history.
But black people can't be in militias because militias are bad mmmkay and black people can never be bad because of PoWEr ImBALancEs.
Because of PoWEr ImBALancEs only white militas could ever be bad whereas militias of colour are actually ResIStAnCE fiGHteRs. And whatever they do is a legitimate response to PoWEr ImBALancEs, and is actually everyone else's fault.
I'll have my social science PHD with gold and blue trim thanks.
The great Wakandan intellectual class can’t be bothered to produce their own intellectual property. The very idea is a relic of (your choice):systemic racism, white supremacy and patriarchy, reduced education for wakandans, some other pinko gibberish that I’m not including.
Gangsters become militias when they enforce order. During the 2020 summer riots, the Latin Kings set up checkpoints in Chicago, and the Bloods and Crips walked around in Los Angeles, to tell people to fuck off and stop burning their neighborhoods.
Gangsters are a product of a white supremacist society, which exerts it's PoWEr ImBALancEs through systemic racism. So they are every white persons fault as well as Asians, obviously.
Keep up man, at this rate you won't even get your Masters of social science.
Although I am happy to be counted as an ally, I understand this will grant me even more privilege and I must paradoxically work harder after attaining my degree.
You make a good point – while PhD dissertations have typically taken from 1 to 10 years to research & write, that time frame in the social sciences needs to be compressed to about 3 months. That’s about how long the Overton Window on a social subject lasts. Beyond that, what was an “interesting phenomenon” before is decreed as racist, and its exploration becomes an apologia for 3 million years of racism.
The only thing to understand here is that, while humorous, your point conveys a larger truth. Were Ed Markey (Malarkey) to go after militias in general, someone might notice many of them are black, and well, he'd be called a racist. So he goes after "white nationalist" militias, forgetting to mention that not all militias are white, and all the right people nod along, and the camel gets its nose under the tent flap, And by the time these bobbleheads realize what they've done, they're on the chopping block.
You get your toe in the door with the group no one likes, and then you go after anyone who "inconveniences" you. It's such an old play that it should be obvious by now. That it's not is what makes me really sad.
I'm just waiting for all the pro-Palestine Substack refugees to discover why a free speech policy is a good idea, and why rules designed to silence "hate speech" will inevitably be applied to any controversial or inconvenient political statement.
The irony is not lost on me that a lot of people have rapidly and recently changed their mind on "free speech." Those on the left who thought censorship was okay if not necessary now are screaming about how they're being silenced and those on the right who supposedly were "free speech" warriors have found out they kind of like silencing people who disagree with them.
Welp, because malarcky would have to travel out of state, and pretty much head south about 1000 miles, where men start to develop balls, to find a white militia, I’m guessing he’s just blowing smoke. There are no men in maskachusetts
Like most laws related to weapons the enforcement will be highly arbitrary and mostly turn on your relationship to the ruling party. I like to camp and hike with the same group of guys, often there's shooting too. Are we a militia? Depends on how we voted last time around, right?
What's that line from Red Dawn? "An elite paramilitary organization, the Eagle Scouts"
According to Markey, "“(9) PRIVATE PARAMILITARY ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘private paramilitary organization’ means any group of 3 or more persons associating under a command structure for the purpose of functioning in public or training to function in public as a combat, combat support, law enforcement, or security services unit."
Yeah, so me and my two neighbors wouldn't be allowed to prepare for and coordinate our actions to ensure our mutual safety, regardless of the occasion. These people who think they know what is best for everyone really must go away before they cause a whole lot of harm.
Lake County, Oregon: 8,358 square miles, 8,276 people. Sheriff's department doesn't patrol at night, but if you call 911 they'll wake the duty deputy and get him started your way, with a 911 response time of maybe a couple hours, depending on where you are in the county.
He routinely takes the kids, (my four great-grandsons, youngest is six - doesn't have his own .22 - yet), and his bride, out on weekends for firearms safety training, and to practice killing varmints.
My local mall has good parking and a varied food court, but private paramilitary organizations patrol with fervor; many times I've had to wait for a column or two-- of two-- to goose step on by before I can gain access to Footlocker to buy the new Jordan Retros, IIIs are my fave.
Just fill the lawbooks with vaguely worded easily skewed laws. Then the government criminals can use said law anyway they see fit to imprison anyone that gets in there way. Oh, you own 3 rifles and 2 handguns, and you voted for trump, and you liked tweets by MAGA extremists, you must be in some sort of militia. You are dangerous and must be removed from the discussion.
C’mon man…Anyone who aligns with someone who threatens half the population with F-15s and nukes, implicitly believes “Our guns good. Your guns bad.”
Apparently the Left is unaware that when the British troops returned to Boston after Lexington & Concord, one of the first decrees by Gen. Thomas Gage was for all civilian guns in Boston to be surrendered for “temporary safekeeping.” (Their descendants are still waiting for their return…) This, and other arms seizures, were a driving force behind the Revolution.
It’s sadly ironic that it’s a Massachusetts senator proposing this measure. If Sam Adams were to encounter Ed Markey, he’d very likely strike him about the head & shoulders with his walking stick for being a Tory.
Striking someone about the head and shoulders with a walking stick or cane is an under appreciated and underutilized technique of rebuke. Should it fail to bring the miscreant to correction a well delivered backhand or glove slap followed by a demand for satisfaction on the field of honor is the logical next step.
I was a big fan of Trump the first time around but his endorsement of red flag laws and the bump stock ban in addition to operation warp speed and failing to pardon the J6 political prisoners makes it impossible to support him this time around. If he was to address those issues and convince me he would act on them I would vote for him. But he won’t so despite the good things he did I’ll be voting for Alice Cooper. Because our votes don’t matter anyway, the whole thing is a charade and the democrats will cheat again anyway. I do enjoy him making heads explode though, and he’s got an impressive propaganda machine.
I understand your disappointments, but “failing to pardon the J6 political prisoners” is one criticism I don’t share: Trump left office 14 days after the riot. Had he issued a blanket pardon and it turned out there had been truly violent felonies, he would have unleashed a real legal & political shitstorm. At the time, there was no evidence this was in fact the “Whitmer kidnapping” writ large. I strongly believe it was unfortunate that there wasn’t enough time to investigate and pardon all the nonviolent participants.
I understand the concern about a shit storm but when did he ever back away from something because of that potential? He could say the sky is blue and it would cause a shit storm. And to revisit my previous post him and those around him had to know that gun owners were a large part of his constituency and he set off two of those storms amongst us. It’s doubtful he would have been elected without the support of 2A defenders.
I know Markey is leading a manufactured moral crisis, and obviously, you know that. Unfortunately, those on the left and many of the low-information Normies will take this as the truth.
The AWFLs I see with profiles on dating apps still have "NO TRUMPERS" prominently displayed (yes, in all caps), but they have recently added "NO REPUBLICANS AND NO CONSERVATIVES." Shouting at potential dating partners is their idea of a good time. But, the large majority of dating profiles I see make these statements. It is disconcerting that such a significant majority of women are not only belligerently liberal but incapable of even associating with someone conservative.
All of the rhetoric on the left is ramping up to levels beyond what we saw in 2016. The polarization has only gotten worse.
Trump, Me-Too, and COVID broke the AWFL brain. They are currently at Whole Foods, masked, and questioning if maybe they are actually lesbian...because not a single man that has responded to their profile can do a single pull-up and all smell like soy.
Oh Brian! How right you are. Well I imagine you are right because I don't know or associate with any of the AWFUL people. I have no questions as to why there is a plethora of AWFL's on dating sites - no reasonable, manly man would have them.
I wonder if there might be something about AWFLs that causes them to return to the dating sites over & over & over… I wonder if there’s some personal attribute of theirs that makes 100% of candidates utter failures in their eyes…. Perhaps it’s the AWFLs scintillating personalities and radiance of human warmth?
In my experience and observations, there are a few things preventing AWFLs (and other perpetual dating app users) from ever matching. First, men out number women on dating apps 2-1 or 3-1, depending on the statistics you believe. The volume of men that are "simping" for women online must be staggering. There is always another guy popping up in their inbox. Second the way many women write their profiles conveys a level of disgust for men in general. Any guy with anything going on would be crazy to engage a woman that shows so much hatred and misunderstanding of men. Third, it seems most of these women are not interested in the guys that might be a good match. Instead, they seem focused on the top 10%. Again, depending on the reporting you believe, the estimates show that the majority of women are chasing a very small number of "high value" men, and in turn, sharing those men unwittingly. I believe the guys many of these women chase are in such high demand that they don't need to commit to any one woman. Then, the theory that all men are jerks becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Over time, the AWFL becomes increasingly bitter, until her anger spills out into her dating profile filled with rows of ALL CAP DEMANDS. Of course, especially for a reasonably attractive woman, they have been told their entire life how beautiful, smart, and amazing they are. They have been told to never settle. Many of them have advanced degrees and have had a lot of success in their careers. They are just not wired to ever look critically at their own actions. Women surveyed consistently say they want a man to earn twice what they earn. Unfortunately for them, most men making mid six figure incomes are able to date younger women that are not as jaded. Add it all up, and the chance of success is extremely low.
Go to www.igotstandardsbro.com and mess around with the "Female Delusion Calculator." Using the parameters "makes 100k, at least 6' tall, not married or obese, 35-60 years old, any race" you'll find the percentage of men that meet the criteria is .75%. This is statistical, government data. If your idea of the right man comprises less than 1% of the population, it makes sense you would be bitter and disappointed.
I’m glad I fail on 4 of those 5 criteria. The idea of inadvertently attracting one of those witches is chilling. The combination of a) needing external validation, b) aggressive sense of entitlement and c) intolerance of other views makes me think of “The Walking Dead.”
I bet if I were on a dating site I would respond to you. Some years ago, after my marriage of 36 years reached its sell-by-date, I joined a dating site for older people. My profile was cringe, and you probably wouldn't have considered even taking a chance on me. I was too ignorant to understand that coming across as Ms Independent, just looking for fun and companionship and presenting myself as Sexy Sally was not going to get the attention from the kind of man I was looking for. And boy, it didn't! Now, I'm pretty content just to be with myself and I, but it would be good to have a nice man friend to enjoy traveling and other social activities.
I was going to post a comment to the effect that 'at least they had, finally, been of some use - But then it occurred to me that some might consider that to be in poor taste.
I'm not an anarchist. In fact, the older I get, the more I see the need for well-written law.
Still, I'd be happier if all governments, city to federal, took the next 3-4 legislative cycles to reduce the number of laws by 85-90%.
This new effort by Markey is nothing new.
In fact, when someone says, "There oughta be a law..." you know they are the mask-wearing, vaccine-mandating, Trump-hating, liberty despising, brown-shirt wearing tyrant who voted Biden -- but is too afraid to look at one's own behavior to hold others accountable.
In the state of Washington, some AWFL representative is trying her damndest to outlaw...wait for it...gas-powered lawn equipment.
The entire battery-operated toy fad has got to stop.
Outlawing militias or outlawing gas-stoves/gas weed-eaters--they all come from the same place. A place of intolerant hatred of anyone who disagrees with them. These laws are pointed at you because they hate you.
Well done and well written. I read “chasing the scream” by Johann Hari back in 2016ish.
All about the Warren drugs, and the egregious crimes our “good guys” committed in enforcing the law. Makes me sick to my stomach. I was a total pot smoker as a kid, and never understood why alcohol was legal, but weed was illegal.
This would be a fascinating podcast topic. I was all in for decriminalization and legalization of most drugs just recently.
I think an argument could be made that we legalized drug use without corresponding “recovery” infrastructure in our communities. We knew drug use would increase, which would mean the number of addicts would also increase.
Instead of helping our drug users, we are allowing them to destroy their lives through homelessness and fentanyl use.
The premise of the article goes well beyond drugs, and is on point.
I believe that our lords and masters have amended the article of faith that formerly decreed "all guns are bad". It now reads, "Your guns bad. Bad guns! Bad! My guns necessary to 'maintain order'. My order! My guns good."
Good luck with that, Senator Malarkey. This will never become a law.
This proposed law is of course a redundancy insofar as it's already illegal to destroy property, assault, batter, injure or kill people deliberately, disturb the peace, discharge a firearm within the city limits, brandish a firearm, etc.
This is a huge power grab and would be used to persecute anybody in opposition to whoever is in power. I mean, they are rounding up people for being in Washington, DC on January 6, and not even going to the Capitol. They hardly need new laws. They selectively stretch and contort existing statues into prosecutions that have never before been attempted.
Every totalitarian government seeks to disarm its populace ASAP. It's Dictator 101. If things keep heading downhill, nobody is going to care if self defense in groups is against the law. Imagine 50 groups of 200 people each decide to train for mutual defense because they feel the government isn't doing its job to protect the country? They already have their hardware. Who's going to arrest them? Good luck with that. This would very quickly get out of hand at a national level. Yeah , I know, there is no way that the citizenry could ever win against a formidable military with state of the art weaponry. If you say so.
A better solution might be for the government to do its job. Protect the borders. Defend the states and the citizens against invasions ,criminals, riots and looting, enemies foreign and domestic, instead of giving it all the Commie-Democrat seal of approval. Then virtually nobody would want to think about being in a militia and surviving Thunderdome. Crazy idea, right? Very right wing extremist and racist.
These f-rs live in lala land. Never has a country so powerful been run by such dumbasses.
To finish the thought with the purely speculative part, I kind of suspect, but certainly can't prove, that Markey is trying to de-Antifa the left, especially now that pro-Hamas groups are showing up at the homes of Democratic Party elected officials. It's a law that criminalizes organization leading to violence. Mao sent the Red Guards to collective farms; the Democrats are preparing to criminalize organized gathering that includes any form of training or weapons.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/john-brown-gun-club-armed-anti-fascist-1234733200/
The simpler explanation, however, would be that Ed Markey is an idiot who has no idea what he's doing.
As a former resident of Massachusetts who has listened to him speak on various topics over the years, I can confirm he’s an idiot.
The MA Democratic Party loves to promote dumb, unlikeable hacks to progressively more influential offices. It’s a result of a one party state “it’s their turn” mentality and I’m guessing some kind of humiliation ritual aimed at voters.
It feels like a political soccer flop to me.
Hahaha YES!
We are totally making this a thing.
I’ll take door number 2 Monty.
That's far more likely. He's been there doing nothing since I was a kid...and I'm no kid now. He's pushed the term "useless" to a new plateau. He was all over "net neutrality" back when it was the most important thing, and then it wasn't. Just like him.
You're right here, too.
Danny
Magic 8 Ball says, “It is decidedly so.”
A useful idiot to the communist revolutionary.
I think that's entirely plausible. I also suspect that Markey and his crowd are coming to the belated realization that they aren't terribly popular outside their relatively small geographic preserve, and that a full generation of their political opposition have spent 20 years fighting real-deal insurgency. Even a normie now has a better understanding of the placement and use of things like IEDs, rockets, and drones than many professionals would have in 2002. The potential dissemination of first hand knowledge of how to fight an insurgency should make them very nervous.
I guess a silver lining of the US open border policy could be that Afghani hillbillies get to come to the US and share notes with Appalachian hillbillies...
Regrettably, us Appalachian hillbillies don’t have access to Iranian & Chinese munitions, so the Afghanis’ advice would be of limited benefit.
“Even a normie now has a better understanding of the placement and use of things like IEDs…”
One of the ironies of McVeigh’s & Nichols’ OKC bombing (beyond killing 168 people and accomplishing nothing) is that they caused the complete restriction of access to explosives that will greatly hinder the achievement of “…these united [States] are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the [Federal government of the United States], and that all political connection between them and the [Federal government of the United States] is and ought to be totally dissolved.”
LMAO
All these BTW are Harbingers of the much anticipated “collapse”.
Far more important is the utterly comical ineffective response.
This may sound like Idaho is bright red, but it's "red by a thread." The forces of kowtow and communism are strong, even in the redder North Idaho.
Do not compromise with evil. Say no and mean it. Do what you need to do and let the sheep try what they will.
Ask Ted Wheeler how well controlling the Red Guard works out.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/835478/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-moving-out-of-condo-after-repeated-protests-at-building/
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler moving out of condo after repeated protests at building
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced that he will be abandoning his condo in favor of a new home following protests outside his Oregon residence.
Probably best to stay out of Florida then, and don’t think you’re bringing your Lilly white fat ass down here because “ cold”.
Hopefully they will screw up and forget to include 5.0 in allowed groups to be affected by this proposed idiocy (something of which they have zero legal authority to do.
I’m at the point where when anyone doesn’t immediately relays a story that doesn’t end with something along the lines of get wood of what they’re trying o do now, I wonder f the person is on some serious drugs. Even people I know who have a 180 degree different political ideology to mine are already in the middle stages of redpilling themselves.
Certainly possible. But the tiger that is Antifa (and all radicals like the BLM mostly peaceful group, etc) will not willingly go back into the cage now that they’ve tasted blood.
The adage “Be careful what you wish for” comes to mind. These fools have learned nothing from history. The angry mobs they create eventually turn on their own.
Would someone inform Ed Markey if Democrats would stop shooting each other gun violence would drop by 90%!
That's fact based. I hope he's ready to have THE CONVERSATION soon....ya know....the one that's been incessantly asked for but verboten to broach for over 30 years.
When we gonna have that "conversation" O'bama? He peeled the scab off of what GenX pretty much put to bed. This is the end result imo.
Biggest race hustler of all time!
In a 2008 Gallup survey, 70% of whites and 61% of blacks rated race relations as “good” or “very good.” In 2016, those numbers fell to 55% and 49%, respectively. In 2018, the numbers were 54% and 40%. The black view of race relations declined 21 percentage points in 10 yrs despite having achieved the lowest black unemployment in U.S. history.
Thanks Obama…
It really is vile if you think about it.
Now he's lecturering us about GCC from his 30k sq.ft home in Hawaii where he got a variance to remove a 100 year old seawall.
I remain willfully ignorant of most things Obama. Better for the blood pressure.
But black people can't be in militias because militias are bad mmmkay and black people can never be bad because of PoWEr ImBALancEs.
Because of PoWEr ImBALancEs only white militas could ever be bad whereas militias of colour are actually ResIStAnCE fiGHteRs. And whatever they do is a legitimate response to PoWEr ImBALancEs, and is actually everyone else's fault.
I'll have my social science PHD with gold and blue trim thanks.
Stop cutting corners -- you have to plagiarize first.
classic!
The great Wakandan intellectual class can’t be bothered to produce their own intellectual property. The very idea is a relic of (your choice):systemic racism, white supremacy and patriarchy, reduced education for wakandans, some other pinko gibberish that I’m not including.
Lol
Are gangsters militias?
Or do they get a pass as “NGOS”?
Gangsters become militias when they enforce order. During the 2020 summer riots, the Latin Kings set up checkpoints in Chicago, and the Bloods and Crips walked around in Los Angeles, to tell people to fuck off and stop burning their neighborhoods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8G3-BZdWw
So they were just good wholesome street gangs until they crossed the line.
It’s amazing what a little organization and a command structure can do.
If only our leadership was that gangster, we said as we watched training day
Gangsters are a product of a white supremacist society, which exerts it's PoWEr ImBALancEs through systemic racism. So they are every white persons fault as well as Asians, obviously.
Keep up man, at this rate you won't even get your Masters of social science.
If anything, there should be MORE resources dedicated to coddling gangbangers, who are the real victims!
I see you are well on your way to your Bachelor of social science.
Although I am happy to be counted as an ally, I understand this will grant me even more privilege and I must paradoxically work harder after attaining my degree.
As Chris said, don't forget to plagiarise!
It really shows you "get it".
Gotta include Asians since they are white adjacent.
You make a good point – while PhD dissertations have typically taken from 1 to 10 years to research & write, that time frame in the social sciences needs to be compressed to about 3 months. That’s about how long the Overton Window on a social subject lasts. Beyond that, what was an “interesting phenomenon” before is decreed as racist, and its exploration becomes an apologia for 3 million years of racism.
You make an actual interesting point.
My point was that it's mostly formulaic garbage that any halfwit can manage, which is hardly original. But hopefully, at least slightly amusing.
You gotta laugh, otherwise you'll end up strangling people.
The only thing to understand here is that, while humorous, your point conveys a larger truth. Were Ed Markey (Malarkey) to go after militias in general, someone might notice many of them are black, and well, he'd be called a racist. So he goes after "white nationalist" militias, forgetting to mention that not all militias are white, and all the right people nod along, and the camel gets its nose under the tent flap, And by the time these bobbleheads realize what they've done, they're on the chopping block.
You get your toe in the door with the group no one likes, and then you go after anyone who "inconveniences" you. It's such an old play that it should be obvious by now. That it's not is what makes me really sad.
I'm just waiting for all the pro-Palestine Substack refugees to discover why a free speech policy is a good idea, and why rules designed to silence "hate speech" will inevitably be applied to any controversial or inconvenient political statement.
The irony is not lost on me that a lot of people have rapidly and recently changed their mind on "free speech." Those on the left who thought censorship was okay if not necessary now are screaming about how they're being silenced and those on the right who supposedly were "free speech" warriors have found out they kind of like silencing people who disagree with them.
Meanwhile, some of us were yelling "DON'T SUPPORT THIS, THEY'LL USE IT AGAINST YOU, TOO!"
And we get the consolation prize of being right.
As usual, I would rather be wrong.
Welp, because malarcky would have to travel out of state, and pretty much head south about 1000 miles, where men start to develop balls, to find a white militia, I’m guessing he’s just blowing smoke. There are no men in maskachusetts
Like most laws related to weapons the enforcement will be highly arbitrary and mostly turn on your relationship to the ruling party. I like to camp and hike with the same group of guys, often there's shooting too. Are we a militia? Depends on how we voted last time around, right?
What's that line from Red Dawn? "An elite paramilitary organization, the Eagle Scouts"
Well, that's an interesting quesFBI SEARCH WARRANT GET ON THE GROUND
According to Markey, "“(9) PRIVATE PARAMILITARY ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘private paramilitary organization’ means any group of 3 or more persons associating under a command structure for the purpose of functioning in public or training to function in public as a combat, combat support, law enforcement, or security services unit."
So three people with a disaster response plan that involves a security element could plausibly be in violation of this legislation. Nice.
Yeah, so me and my two neighbors wouldn't be allowed to prepare for and coordinate our actions to ensure our mutual safety, regardless of the occasion. These people who think they know what is best for everyone really must go away before they cause a whole lot of harm.
Lake County, Oregon: 8,358 square miles, 8,276 people. Sheriff's department doesn't patrol at night, but if you call 911 they'll wake the duty deputy and get him started your way, with a 911 response time of maybe a couple hours, depending on where you are in the county.
https://lakecountyor.org/government/sheriff.php
But definitely don't ever talk to your neighbors about helping each other in an emergency, 'cause that's being a paramilitary organization.
"must go away before they cause a whole lot of harm." I think I would use the word "because" instead of "before" in that sentence.
My oldest grandson could definitely in trouble.
He routinely takes the kids, (my four great-grandsons, youngest is six - doesn't have his own .22 - yet), and his bride, out on weekends for firearms safety training, and to practice killing varmints.
Damn lawbreakers!
My local mall has good parking and a varied food court, but private paramilitary organizations patrol with fervor; many times I've had to wait for a column or two-- of two-- to goose step on by before I can gain access to Footlocker to buy the new Jordan Retros, IIIs are my fave.
Just fill the lawbooks with vaguely worded easily skewed laws. Then the government criminals can use said law anyway they see fit to imprison anyone that gets in there way. Oh, you own 3 rifles and 2 handguns, and you voted for trump, and you liked tweets by MAGA extremists, you must be in some sort of militia. You are dangerous and must be removed from the discussion.
That sounds like the Canadian way al la Justin Turdeau.
Joe McCarthy would be PROUD that his methods are returning.
Last time they tried that, we killed them. In fact every time they’ve tried that, we killed them.
See also:
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807857021/the-deacons-for-defense/
C’mon man…Anyone who aligns with someone who threatens half the population with F-15s and nukes, implicitly believes “Our guns good. Your guns bad.”
Apparently the Left is unaware that when the British troops returned to Boston after Lexington & Concord, one of the first decrees by Gen. Thomas Gage was for all civilian guns in Boston to be surrendered for “temporary safekeeping.” (Their descendants are still waiting for their return…) This, and other arms seizures, were a driving force behind the Revolution.
It’s sadly ironic that it’s a Massachusetts senator proposing this measure. If Sam Adams were to encounter Ed Markey, he’d very likely strike him about the head & shoulders with his walking stick for being a Tory.
Striking someone about the head and shoulders with a walking stick or cane is an under appreciated and underutilized technique of rebuke. Should it fail to bring the miscreant to correction a well delivered backhand or glove slap followed by a demand for satisfaction on the field of honor is the logical next step.
Trump calling out Biden would be WONDERFUL. Not fair exactly, as Biden starts drooling into the barrel…
I was a big fan of Trump the first time around but his endorsement of red flag laws and the bump stock ban in addition to operation warp speed and failing to pardon the J6 political prisoners makes it impossible to support him this time around. If he was to address those issues and convince me he would act on them I would vote for him. But he won’t so despite the good things he did I’ll be voting for Alice Cooper. Because our votes don’t matter anyway, the whole thing is a charade and the democrats will cheat again anyway. I do enjoy him making heads explode though, and he’s got an impressive propaganda machine.
I understand your disappointments, but “failing to pardon the J6 political prisoners” is one criticism I don’t share: Trump left office 14 days after the riot. Had he issued a blanket pardon and it turned out there had been truly violent felonies, he would have unleashed a real legal & political shitstorm. At the time, there was no evidence this was in fact the “Whitmer kidnapping” writ large. I strongly believe it was unfortunate that there wasn’t enough time to investigate and pardon all the nonviolent participants.
I understand the concern about a shit storm but when did he ever back away from something because of that potential? He could say the sky is blue and it would cause a shit storm. And to revisit my previous post him and those around him had to know that gun owners were a large part of his constituency and he set off two of those storms amongst us. It’s doubtful he would have been elected without the support of 2A defenders.
I know Markey is leading a manufactured moral crisis, and obviously, you know that. Unfortunately, those on the left and many of the low-information Normies will take this as the truth.
The AWFLs I see with profiles on dating apps still have "NO TRUMPERS" prominently displayed (yes, in all caps), but they have recently added "NO REPUBLICANS AND NO CONSERVATIVES." Shouting at potential dating partners is their idea of a good time. But, the large majority of dating profiles I see make these statements. It is disconcerting that such a significant majority of women are not only belligerently liberal but incapable of even associating with someone conservative.
All of the rhetoric on the left is ramping up to levels beyond what we saw in 2016. The polarization has only gotten worse.
Trump, Me-Too, and COVID broke the AWFL brain. They are currently at Whole Foods, masked, and questioning if maybe they are actually lesbian...because not a single man that has responded to their profile can do a single pull-up and all smell like soy.
bsn
Oh Brian! How right you are. Well I imagine you are right because I don't know or associate with any of the AWFUL people. I have no questions as to why there is a plethora of AWFL's on dating sites - no reasonable, manly man would have them.
I wonder if there might be something about AWFLs that causes them to return to the dating sites over & over & over… I wonder if there’s some personal attribute of theirs that makes 100% of candidates utter failures in their eyes…. Perhaps it’s the AWFLs scintillating personalities and radiance of human warmth?
In my experience and observations, there are a few things preventing AWFLs (and other perpetual dating app users) from ever matching. First, men out number women on dating apps 2-1 or 3-1, depending on the statistics you believe. The volume of men that are "simping" for women online must be staggering. There is always another guy popping up in their inbox. Second the way many women write their profiles conveys a level of disgust for men in general. Any guy with anything going on would be crazy to engage a woman that shows so much hatred and misunderstanding of men. Third, it seems most of these women are not interested in the guys that might be a good match. Instead, they seem focused on the top 10%. Again, depending on the reporting you believe, the estimates show that the majority of women are chasing a very small number of "high value" men, and in turn, sharing those men unwittingly. I believe the guys many of these women chase are in such high demand that they don't need to commit to any one woman. Then, the theory that all men are jerks becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Over time, the AWFL becomes increasingly bitter, until her anger spills out into her dating profile filled with rows of ALL CAP DEMANDS. Of course, especially for a reasonably attractive woman, they have been told their entire life how beautiful, smart, and amazing they are. They have been told to never settle. Many of them have advanced degrees and have had a lot of success in their careers. They are just not wired to ever look critically at their own actions. Women surveyed consistently say they want a man to earn twice what they earn. Unfortunately for them, most men making mid six figure incomes are able to date younger women that are not as jaded. Add it all up, and the chance of success is extremely low.
Go to www.igotstandardsbro.com and mess around with the "Female Delusion Calculator." Using the parameters "makes 100k, at least 6' tall, not married or obese, 35-60 years old, any race" you'll find the percentage of men that meet the criteria is .75%. This is statistical, government data. If your idea of the right man comprises less than 1% of the population, it makes sense you would be bitter and disappointed.
I’m glad I fail on 4 of those 5 criteria. The idea of inadvertently attracting one of those witches is chilling. The combination of a) needing external validation, b) aggressive sense of entitlement and c) intolerance of other views makes me think of “The Walking Dead.”
I should have added:
“…men out number women on dating apps 2-1 or 3-1…”
But what’s the ratio of beta males to women? 🤣
It's all a mystery to me. I'm lucky if 5% of the messages I send get a response, and I rarely get messages unsolicited.
That’s because you’re not a beta.
I bet if I were on a dating site I would respond to you. Some years ago, after my marriage of 36 years reached its sell-by-date, I joined a dating site for older people. My profile was cringe, and you probably wouldn't have considered even taking a chance on me. I was too ignorant to understand that coming across as Ms Independent, just looking for fun and companionship and presenting myself as Sexy Sally was not going to get the attention from the kind of man I was looking for. And boy, it didn't! Now, I'm pretty content just to be with myself and I, but it would be good to have a nice man friend to enjoy traveling and other social activities.
A lot of women are still single.
They will provide sustenance for their cats for days until their bodies are discovered by their neighbors.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/will-my-cat-eat-my-eyeballs-caitlin-doughty/1131110847
Yes, Caitlin, he will, proving there is a God and he has a good sense of humor.
At least they'll do one noble thing before they....well, after they die in this case.
I was going to post a comment to the effect that 'at least they had, finally, been of some use - But then it occurred to me that some might consider that to be in poor taste.
I'm sure some do -- but comedy trumps all ;)
Amen.
Well, they don’t want men. They want boys they can raise. So one that might think for himself is baddd.
More militias, more freedom.
A terrifying, infuriating, and predictable development. Hands off our Minutemen.
I think the most logical explanation after observing Ed Markey over his career is he is an asshole.
Im guessing even his mother thinks he’s an asshole.
I'm not an anarchist. In fact, the older I get, the more I see the need for well-written law.
Still, I'd be happier if all governments, city to federal, took the next 3-4 legislative cycles to reduce the number of laws by 85-90%.
This new effort by Markey is nothing new.
In fact, when someone says, "There oughta be a law..." you know they are the mask-wearing, vaccine-mandating, Trump-hating, liberty despising, brown-shirt wearing tyrant who voted Biden -- but is too afraid to look at one's own behavior to hold others accountable.
In the state of Washington, some AWFL representative is trying her damndest to outlaw...wait for it...gas-powered lawn equipment.
The entire battery-operated toy fad has got to stop.
Outlawing militias or outlawing gas-stoves/gas weed-eaters--they all come from the same place. A place of intolerant hatred of anyone who disagrees with them. These laws are pointed at you because they hate you.
bsn
You may enjoy this article from a couple years ago......
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/there-oughta-be-a-law
There Oughta be a Law.....
But it should be outlawing bad laws!
Well done and well written. I read “chasing the scream” by Johann Hari back in 2016ish.
All about the Warren drugs, and the egregious crimes our “good guys” committed in enforcing the law. Makes me sick to my stomach. I was a total pot smoker as a kid, and never understood why alcohol was legal, but weed was illegal.
This would be a fascinating podcast topic. I was all in for decriminalization and legalization of most drugs just recently.
I think an argument could be made that we legalized drug use without corresponding “recovery” infrastructure in our communities. We knew drug use would increase, which would mean the number of addicts would also increase.
Instead of helping our drug users, we are allowing them to destroy their lives through homelessness and fentanyl use.
The premise of the article goes well beyond drugs, and is on point.
Thank you.
bsn
Not to monopolize Mr. Bray's comment section, but I also wrote about that........
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/rethinking-how-we-rethink-the-war
Rethinking How We Rethink the War on Drugs
Bro, would love to exchange some thoughts. My best email is Brian at grit360 dot com.
bsn
King George also didn’t like militias. Also tried hard to disarm them.
I’m trying to remember how that turned out... have to look that up... back in a minute...
They submitted and obeyed, because guns are bad!
I believe that our lords and masters have amended the article of faith that formerly decreed "all guns are bad". It now reads, "Your guns bad. Bad guns! Bad! My guns necessary to 'maintain order'. My order! My guns good."
Look, some guns are just more equal than others.
So... they want to outlaw paintball?
Who can forget the senseless violence at Kent State?
This is why only government employees must be armed!
Or Ashley Babbitt.
Good luck with that, Senator Malarkey. This will never become a law.
This proposed law is of course a redundancy insofar as it's already illegal to destroy property, assault, batter, injure or kill people deliberately, disturb the peace, discharge a firearm within the city limits, brandish a firearm, etc.
This is a huge power grab and would be used to persecute anybody in opposition to whoever is in power. I mean, they are rounding up people for being in Washington, DC on January 6, and not even going to the Capitol. They hardly need new laws. They selectively stretch and contort existing statues into prosecutions that have never before been attempted.
Every totalitarian government seeks to disarm its populace ASAP. It's Dictator 101. If things keep heading downhill, nobody is going to care if self defense in groups is against the law. Imagine 50 groups of 200 people each decide to train for mutual defense because they feel the government isn't doing its job to protect the country? They already have their hardware. Who's going to arrest them? Good luck with that. This would very quickly get out of hand at a national level. Yeah , I know, there is no way that the citizenry could ever win against a formidable military with state of the art weaponry. If you say so.
A better solution might be for the government to do its job. Protect the borders. Defend the states and the citizens against invasions ,criminals, riots and looting, enemies foreign and domestic, instead of giving it all the Commie-Democrat seal of approval. Then virtually nobody would want to think about being in a militia and surviving Thunderdome. Crazy idea, right? Very right wing extremist and racist.
These f-rs live in lala land. Never has a country so powerful been run by such dumbasses.