Winning strategy right there...
[TownHall] Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is running for president. He’s one of many who are hopping into the 2020 clown car. No, he probably won’t win the nomination. And yes, he would certainly lose against President Donald J. Trump. He’s also running on an issue that is only popular with the most insane of Democrats: gun confiscation.
Swalwell has gone off the deep end with his absurd allegations that Donald Trump is an agent of the Kremlin. Yet, he’s been saying it for months. Even with the Mueller report torpedoing Democratic hopes of finding cause to impeach the president, the California liberal is part of the bitter clinger wing of his party on this front. Still, his views on gun control border on absurdity and for all the network’s faults, and there are many, CNN’s Jake Tapper did a good job cornering Swalwell into suggesting that he would jail gun owners should he become president of the United States. Tim Graham of Newsbusters clipped this piece of glory (via NewsBusters):
TAPPER: So, gun control is the central plank in your campaign.You wrote last year -- quote -- "We should ban possession of military- style semiautomatic assault weapons. We should buy back such weapons from all who choose to abide by the law. And we should criminally prosecute any who choose to defy it by keeping their weapons." Criminal prosecution for keeping assault weapons. What's the punishment for people who don't hand in their guns? Do they go to jail?
SWALWELL: Well, Jake, they would, but I also offer an alternative, which would be to keep them at a hunting club or a shooting range. And the reason I have proposed this is because these weapons are so devastating. I have seen this as a prosecutor in the cases that I've prosecuted. We have seen these in the school shootings, from Sandy Hook to Parkland. And I was just at Parkland earlier this week doing a town hall there.
But it's not just the violence that they have caused. It's the fear, the immeasurable fear, that our children live in, because they are still on our streets. I want to get rid of that fear. I want to do what Australia did and New Zealand just recently did. I think this issue just needs some bold leadership to do it.
Now, this is moderation. Swalwell considered nuking gun owners. Was he being facetious? No clue. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt, but it doesn't negate the fact that his positions are moronic and illiberal. They're unconstitutional and have zero chances of passing Congress. This is the equivalent of politicians promising to give everyone unicorns or something that is unattainable, maybe not even based in reality. That pretty much sums up this guy whose head is far, far into the clouds. Not only do a lot of gun owners identify as democrat, and this is a losing argument on the national stage, and most police refuse to do this... I can't see any problem with this plan!
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Is it just me or does it really seem that there have been fewer of these mass shooting events since Trump took office. Couldn't be that the FBI and ATF are doing their jobs to keep people safe now, could it?
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Pretty excited about setting up gulags. Bet he has a pretty name for them too, like 'Biomass Energy Substations'.
We'll need some re-education camps too, for those who had firearms and turned them in, just to make sure they are not a danger; how about 'Four Fingers Fun Camp and Safe Zone'.
They all seem like they will be tiny lords of 1984, yet ignore Caligula.
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Very few gun homicides are via military assault rifles but the fatalities are frequently white middle class types.
There are a lot of gun homicides that are via handguns and the fatalities are predominantly black and latino.
There is a question awaiting Rep Swalwell based on that.
Posted by: lord garth ||
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The true answer is the same reason Sanger pushed abortion so hard. It's all part of their ongoing Eugenics plan. They care nothing for any of the 'servant' class.
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This trembly lipped smug puke needs to have a negative poll number, just to wake up that he's detestable among real live Americans not in his head. I hope he runs early and often. His district (Livermore area) should be ashamed
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[LegalInsurrection] Elizabeth Warren is struggling in fundraising and in the polls (even in Massachusetts). While her campaign is not over, she is being left in the dust by the old school (Sanders, Biden) and the new school (Buttigieg, Beto, Harris).
Warren has been forced to resort to increasingly dramatic proposals while struggling to stay relevant.
If Warren’s campaign collapses, there will be many factors, including her lack of likability and her pre-programmed Hillary-like robotic campaign which included such contrived ploys as her livestreamed beer-drinking New Year’s Eve campaign launch.
Warren has an unlikely defender on her Native American problem--Bernie Sanders.
Bernie has launched an attack on the Center for American Progress (CAP), and it’s Think Progress website, which are perceived as connected to the Clintons and the liberal Democrat establishment that opposes Bernie. As the NY Times reported, Bernie wrote a letter to CAP accusing it and Think Progress of smearing progressive candidates:
"Senator Bernie Sanders, in a rare and forceful rebuke by a presidential candidate of an influential party ally, has accused a liberal think tank of undermining Democrats’ chances of taking back the White House in 2020 by "using its resources to smear" him and other contenders pushing progressive policies.
Mr. Sanders’s criticism of the Center for American Progress, delivered on Saturday in a letter obtained by The New York Times, reflects a simmering ideological battle within the Democratic Party and threatens to reopen wounds from the 2016 primary between him and Hillary Clinton’s allies. The letter airs criticisms shared among his supporters: that the think tank, which has close ties to Mrs. Clinton and the Democratic Party establishment, is beholden to corporate donors and has worked to quash a leftward shift in the party led partly by Mr. Sanders."
In the letter, Sanders points to two columns at Think Progress about Warren’s Native American problem:
"Sadly, I’m not the only candidate in the 2020 field who has experienced personal attacks from your institution. My friend and colleague Elizabeth Warren was unfairly targeted by a November 2017 article on ThinkProgress that echoed Donald Trump’s bad faith claims that she was being a hypocrite about her ancestry. That attack that was linked on the Drudge Report and immediately immersed her into a rather unhelpful debate. Again in October 2018, you published an article stating that she was hurting Native American people."
Bernie doesn’t link the articles in question, but it’s clear from the description and dates he’s complaining about two articles by Rebecca Nagle, a left-leaning Cherokee author and speaker:
"Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning advocate and writer focused on advancing the rights of Native American nations and ending sexual violence. Nagle is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and a two spirit/ queer woman. In 2016, Nagle was named one of the National Center American Indian Enterprise Development’s Native American 40 Under 40 for her work to address violence against Native Women....
You can find her views on Native representation and tribal sovereignty in The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, ThinkProgress, The Baltimore Sun, Indian Country Today and more. Additionally her organizing and advocacy work has received national press including MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, NPR and more." Food fight among the Dems.
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In Bernie World truth is a lie, a lie is a truth, black is white, white is black, men are women, women are men, pale faces are indian, indian are ... indian ... for now because are they are the only ones still on the government reservations...
Except in certain precincts, Jewish votes as such are not significant enough to move the needle. But upwards of half of the donations to the Democratic party reportedly come from Jewish checkbooks, not to mention volunteers. Any hit to that is significant, even if not transferred to Republican coffers.
[NYPost] Jewish voters furious at Democrats’ defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw... say they’re done with the party that has held their support for generations.
"We felt we had a home there," said Mark Schwartz, the Democratic deputy mayor of solidly blue Teaneck, NJ. "And now we feel like we have to check our passports."
Jordan Manor of Manhattan, who calls himself a "gay Jewish Israeli-American," laments, "The party I thought cared about me seems to disregard me when it comes to my Jewish identity."
Mark Dunec, a consultant in Livingston, NJ who ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2014, says, "I’m physically afraid for myself and for my family," adding, "I see my own party contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States."
Omar, a freshman congresswoman from Minnesota, sparked the firestorm in February for using anti-Jewish tropes: saying that support for Israel was "all about the Benjamins" and accusing Jewish-American politicians of "dual loyalty."
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"We felt we had a home there," "...my own party..."
Seems like misplaced loyalties to me.
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Why else is America remaking the Middle East? War after war. America certainly doesn't benefit, but Israel certainly does. Taking out Saddam was a big help to them. Taking out Iran? The last big player in the region. I'm no socialist but damn American moves always seem to benefit Israel for some reason.
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In favor of invading Iran? I didn't realize we had neocons here.
So was invading Iraq a good idea? Same argument. What's it called when you try the same thing over and over again thinking you'll get a different result?
Posted by: Herb McCoy ||
04/17/2019 8:07 Comments ||
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The advantage with Iran over Iraq is they are a more cohesive state so if you bomb the crap out of military targets you might see the gov replaced but you probably won't see a collapse into anarchy and invasion by unfriendly neighbors trying to expand influence.
Also if the gov is replaced it is hard to imagine a worse government taking their spot.
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Battered Housewife Syndrome. Anecdotal grumblings. They will talk themselves back into voting "(D) for Dumb" by the 2020 elections because any other action would involve acknowledging that they had been foolish dupes their adult lives.
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In favor of invading Iran? I didn't realize we had neocons here.
"Taking out" is not the same as invading, occupying and nation building. As I understand it, "taking out" is more like bombing the hell out of it and letting the survivors figure out what to do with the rubble.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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just anecdotes
no reliable poll numbers yet on this
Posted by: lord garth ||
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"taking out" is more like bombing the hell out of it and letting the survivors figure out what to do with the rubble.
A nation without electricity is a nation without a nuclear weapons development program. Just saying...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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