According to Nathan Abrams, a Jewish professor at the University of Aberdeen, many Jewish pornographers identified as sexual revolutionary activists and were inspired by the antifascist praxis of Reich and Marcuse. And while students and Jewish anarchists were throwing Molotov cocktails at the police “to resist the fascism of whiteness” in the 1960s, Jewish activists also sought to liberate women from what Betty Friedan called the “‘comfortable concentration camp’ of the household” by enlisting them as actresses in hardcore porn films.[37] To Abrams, the overwhelming overrepresentation of Jews in the porn industry is clearly “a case of the traditional revolutionary/radical drive of immigrant Jews in America being channeled into sexual rather than Leftist politics.”[38] To drive this point home, the Jewish porn actress Nina Hartley described “herself as ‘the blonde Jew’ porn star from ‘a long line of radical Jews,’ who ‘wants everyone to have a piece — a piece of sex, a piece of the means of production, a piece of a warm communist community’ and ‘a piece of the promised Messianic Age.’”[39]

The Senate vote was 92 - 6.

Only 6 - six - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - Only 6 Republican senators voted against the ‘stimulus’ – Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee ; Rand Paul of Kentucky ; Rick Scott of Florida ; Ron Johnson of Wisconsin ; Mike Lee of Utah ; Ted Cruz of Texas.

$33 million. To Venezuela (a.k.a. directly in the pocket of Señor Maduro).

$15 billion. To the airlines. Why ? Because labor unions own most politicians.

$453 million. To The Ukraine…. and undoubtedly some of it will come back to the Uncle Kid Sniffer crime syndicate.

$700 million. To The Sudan…. because being oh-so peace-loving has it’s perks.

$1.4 billion. To “The Asia Reassurance Initiative Act”…. a.k.a., another attempt at appeasing China.

$40 million. To The Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts

$193 million. To Federal HIV/AIDS workers stationed abroad to buy new cars.

That’s just some of the abject boole sheet within the over 5,600 pages in the legislation.

There’s one more item though.

Better grab on to something.

Up to $1,800 each. Recipients: Illegal aliens.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Up to $1,800 each. Recipients: Illegal aliens.

YOU get $600.

There are “Black Lives Matter” protests that devolve into (some might say provide cover for) rioting and looting and mayhem.

In Kalispell, Montana, the BLM affair was closer to a neighborhood bake sale. The BLM organizers started off by singing the national anthem. Some of the pro-2A men in the Flathead Patriot Guard crowd said their daughters were involved in the protest. Both the BLM organizers and the Flathead Patriot Guard said they wanted to “come together and unify” and wished each other a happy afternoon. The Flathead Patriot Guard’s mission seemed to be to protect local statues and deter rioting and looting and mayhem. And it worked.

Wonder what was different here?

Some guy whose name has not been released by police shot up an Airbnb house party in the San Francisco bay area last week. This attack took place around 11pm.

California arguably has the most restrictive gun laws in these United States. But the anti-constitutionalists who represent the Democrat Party are calling for still more laws to disarm law-abiding California residents. One anti-constitutionalist politician calling himself Gavin Newsom wrote on Twitter that there must be more “commonsense gun reforms.”

The legal system lacks precognition. What “commonsense gun reform” would have prevented the Orinda shooting while simultaneously preserving the rights of law-abiding California residents to defend themselves from one? There is no answer. It is impossible.

Either the anti-constitutionalists are posturing or they want to ban the private ownership of all firearms (followed by a ban on pointy knives, then big sticks, then dangerous rocks). It’s unclear which it is. Though given the politics of the left, I’m betting they want forcible disarmament by SWAT teams willing to shoot first and ask questions later.

Oregon state law says you can’t ride your bike on the wrong side of the road. This college student did. The state trooper said repeatedly, for something like 25 minutes, that the student could leave with a warning if she showed ID. She refused. She got arrested.

Seems to me that we should ask Oregon state politicians to defend their decision to outlaw riding a bike on the wrong side of the street in the first place. Should there really be a law saying that errant bike riders need to be arrested if they don’t show ID?

Yale lawprof Stephen Carter is right: “Every new law requires enforcement; every act of enforcement includes the possibility of violence.”

The Berggruen Institute is named by Nicolas Berggruen, a Paris-born businessman who is reportedly a U.S.-German dual citizen. He moved to the U.S. after university. He is a successful real estate developer and investor who took his million-dollar trust fund (in today’s dollars) and turned it into a billion dollars.

For questions about regulations relating to real estate development, Mr. Berggruen would undoubtably have useful knowledge. But that is not his goal.

His goal is to influence U.S. and European law more broadly. That is why he is funding his Berggruen Institute. News articles have said one of his goals is to “fight climate change.” Another initiative, a collaboration with the Huffington Post and the Washington Post, which should tell you quite a bit, is called The WorldPost. It is predictably left. It publishes articles saying the President Trump “denigrates democratic allies,” that he is “robbing America of what makes it great,” and that another politician is “a relentless advocate of gun ownership.” The horror! Of course the Washington Post reprints them as news.

So why would Mr. Berggruen give Justice Ginsburg a $1M gift? He surely knows that Supreme Court rules prohibit the justice from accepting any cash gift, even $50.

The answer is twofold. First, he wants to be noticed. #MediaJackals will write gleefully about this gift. People who never heard of Nicolas Berggruen now know who he is. Second, it signals that if you are a prominent lefty jurist, you might get a $1M handout after you leave the bench. Supreme Court justices get a salary of about $250,000 a year. That’s not bad, but it doesn’t pay for your vacation home in Aspen. Retirement now looks more desirable.

As long as you continue to vote the way Nicolas Berggruen wants.

So it seems that two white guys (apparently UConn students) shouted what has come to be called the “N-word” while walking through a deserted off-campus parking lot. There was no violence, no confrontation, and nobody else involved, and without a video that someone took through a window overlooking the parking lot, that would have been the end of it.

There is no law against “hate speech” in this context. Under current First Amendment jurisprudence, the state law criminalizing “hate speech” would be unconstitutional.

But the left’s goal is to overturn Supreme Court precedents and get the courts to discover a new previously unsuspected constitutional right not to be offended, which would allow “hate speech” laws to be upheld as a-OK. (If it worked for abortion…)

Once this principle is established, “hate speech” laws will be invoked against white Christian deplorable gun-owning bitter clingers, mostly men.

They will not be invoked against the left’s political allies. NYT #MediaJackal Sarah Jeong’s anti-white tweets clearly violated this state “hate speech” law. Was Sarah Jeong arrested and prosecuted when she visited Connecticut this year? Of course not.

“Hate speech” laws are the First Amendment equivalent of “red flag” laws when it comes to the the Second Amendment. Both will be used against people the left hates.

Excerpt:

What really matters is the next game, the next movie, the next phone and the next crackdown. What matters is that you can buy governments, shut down protests and suppress the truth. What matters is that more people, in China and America, are realizing that what they want isn’t a sale: it’s freedom.

The linked article is a bit long and a bit rambling but I can’t disagree with it.

I would make a simpler point. The elites who are culturally dominant in these United States (and yearn to be politically dominant) want to repress BadThink, including support for traditional Christian values or gun rights or President Trump or even a view of human sexuality that was embraced by approximately 100% of the population at the time the previous president was elected.

An uncensored Internet and social media and movie/TV studios allows opponents of these leftist elites to communicate and exchange ideas and even (quelle horreur!) to organize to oppose the left. Therefore uncensored Internet and social media and movie/TV studios in these United States must not be permitted.

Similarly, the elites who are culturally and politically dominant in China want to repress their own version of BadThink. Therefore an uncensored Internet and social media and movie/TV studios in China must not be permitted.

These elites have a lot in common. The demands they make on lily-livered CEOs are not that different.

There are three approaches:

1. Anyone who was born male competes in male-only sports, and the same with girls and women. This is fair to women. “Trans” activists will claim it’s unfair to men who want to be women.

2. Anyone who identifies as any gender can play in any sport. This is obviously unfair to women. “Trans” activists will claim it’s fair to men who want to be women.

3. Anyone who identifies as any gender can play in any sport based on blood serum testosterone levels. This is not as obviously unfair to women. It is not obviously unfair to men who want to be women.

For all of human history, we took approach #1. Now we’re trying #3 in adult sports, with the linked article noting that dozens of states allow #2 for teen sports.

The question of whether #3 is fair is an empirical one. If blood serum testosterone levels by themselves create a level playing field, then the argument for #3 can be fairly strong (putting aside cultural issues and locker room issues).

But the evidence is coming in that a man can have low blood serum testosterone levels but still have an unfair advantage over women. Those include, per the linked article, bone size, bone density, an increase in muscle size and strength, an increase in the tensile strength of ligaments and connective tissue; an increase in red blood cells; lung capacity, and heart size.

So #3 seems like an unfair approach. Looks like USA Powerlifting got it right. How long will it take for other sports to follow?

Over 3 years old but still good:

https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=8227

Faceberg, of course, is run by howling lunatics, who ban people for any deviation from the orthodoxy. The media is slowly shutting down public comment in a rather deliberate effort to shut down dissent.

We are social animals that look to one another for guidance and acceptance. Unleashing click farms to promote the Cloud People narrative, while demoting the critics, gets the herd moving in the right direction. It also keeps the people holding the megaphones in high spirits. By having only cheering crowds in their line of sight, they truly feel they are making a difference and therefore redouble their efforts for the cause. That’s the weird thing about propaganda. It’s often more effective on the sender than the receiver.

All of this is fine if your ideal society is one where the bulk of the people are treated like cattle.

For Facebook and it seems a lot of Silicon Valley, we are the cattle.

When you’ve lost the ACLU…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-expands-gun-seizure-law

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) opposed the bill, saying it “poses a significant threat to civil liberties” because a restraining order can be sought before a gun owner has an opportunity to dispute the request.

Additionally, those making a request under the new law may “lack the relationship or skills required to make an appropriate assessment,” the ACLU said.

Also: “We are speeding toward a situation when someone in one of these camps refuses to obey a major decree, arrest order, or court decision, at which point Americans will get to experience the joys of their political futures being decided by phone calls to generals and police chiefs.”

There are lots of ways this can accelerate. #1, an order is not obeyed (does anyone think the Deep State actually listens to the President?). #2, the president resists an unconstitutional court order that most Americans think is unconstitutional, maybe with backing from the military. #3 the president lawfully directs the military to stop an insurrection like Antifa in Portland, but meets resistance from local or state governments.

Under a Democrat president there’s: #4 a Democrat president orders AR-15 confiscation. Sanctuary counties resist. So eventually do sanctuary states.

Hi.

Over at our forum (TASG), I offered the following about the article:

Betcha heard about it when it happened.

Two ‘gunmen’ went into a Kansas City (Kansas) bar and opened fire, murdering 4, wounding 5.

Some of the typical Democrat presidential candidates were instantly all over it, demanding 2A be immediately revoked, full-by-force confiscation, etc.

Then, word started getting out on whoo dun ded eet, maing and guess what happened next…… Until the AP punched out this semi-buried article literally 15 minutes before my posting this [Ed. Note: Approx. 0920 Hours Eastern 7 October 2019), the latest mass-shooting to end all mass shootings simply disappeared from all but the local-to-it media.

—article text quoted here—

‘For some reason’, these kind of facts - prohibited persons with evil scary-looking toys that go bang - isn’t even remotely newsworthy to the typical Democrat agenda-pushers.

KLS

It’s been 10 years since the Court voted to hear a fundamental Second Amendment gun rights case. See Justice Thomas’ dissent from the denial of certiorari last year in Silvester v. Becerra:

If a lower court treated another right so cavalierly, I have little doubt that this Court would intervene. But as evidenced by our continued inaction in this area, the Second Amendment is a disfavored right in this Court…

Nearly eight years ago, this Court declared that the Second Amendment is not a “second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 780 (plurality opinion). By refusing to review decisions like the one below, we undermine that declaration. Because I still believe that the Second Amendment cannot be “singled out for special—and specially unfavorable—treatment,” id., at 778–779 (majority opinion), I respectfully dissent from the denial of certiorari.

One interpretation of the Court’s unwillingness during that nearly 10-year stretch is that Justice Kennedy believed that it would be politically unpopular among the howling classes of the #mediajackals and their lawprof allies to say “yes, the Second Amendment is a fundamental constitutional right, and we mean it.” So he voted against granting cert petitions. It takes 4 justices to vote to grant a cert petition.

Then Justice Kennedy stepped down. Justice Kavanaugh was confirmed in October 2018. Three months later the Court finally granted cert in this case. Better yet, the constitutionalist justices had enough votes to prevail against the anti-constitutionalists in the mootness skirmish last week; oral arguments remain set for December 2.

Thank you, President Trump.

Unfortunately the neocon must-have-endless-war brigade is out in full force, with the #MediaJackals gleefully baying that “conservatives are attacking the president” or some such nonsense. The obvious rejoinder is that these are warmongers, but not conservatives. And some of us expected better from Nikki Haley:

Neocon Bill Kristol: “With the betrayal of the Kurds and Trump’s full-on America First tweet storm this morning, is there a single principled internationalist, a single believer in American global leadership somewhere in the Trump Administration who will resign in protest?”

Nikki Haley: “We must always have the backs of our allies, if we expect them to have our back. The Kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against ISIS in Syria. Leaving them to die is a big mistake.”

Mitt Romney: “The President’s decision to abandon our Kurdish allies in Northern Syria in the face of an assault by Turkey is a betrayal that will have grave humanitarian and national security consequences.”

It is possible to think the Kurds are in the right and the Turks are in the wrong, yet oppose military intervention in the form of armed combat against Turkey. (There are probably a dozen current or recent military conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa where this principle equally applies.)

How many dead American soldiers is this fight worth? How about: “None!”

Interesting. The study says the authors obtained personally identifiable information on 79,678 California residents including names, date of birth, driver’s license number, sex, city, and zip code (and possibly more information as well–the description is not exhaustive):

79 678 individuals were followed up from their first handgun purchase in 2001 through 2013 … The study cohort was identified using the California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) Dealer’s Record of Sale (DROS) database, which retains information on all legal handgun transfers in the state.

The study participants were followed up from their 10th postpurchase day in 2001 until December 31, 2013, or a prior date when they could no longer be affirmatively identified as living California residents using public records. These records initially included the California Death Statistical Master File, California voter registration records, and DROS records. If a period of 3 years or more for an individual remained unaccounted for (53.0% of the study sample), we queried LexisNexis Public Records (see eAppendix 1 in the Supplement).

From the supplement:

Linking variables for the cohort of firearm purchasers were obtained from the Dealers Record of Sale (DROS) database. These included first name, middle name, last name, date of birth, California driver’s license number, sex, city, and zip code. RAP sheets were linked to cohort members using first name, middle name, last name, date of birth, and California driver’s license number. Sex, city, zip code, and county were used to verify matches.

To link to California voter registration data in 2002 and 2014, we used first name, middle name, last name, date of birth, city, zip code, and sex. Voter ID numbers were then used to follow people forward from 2002 and backward from 2014 to identify purchaser locations during interim time point

Who gave researcher Rose M. C. Kagawa–who works at the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis–access to this vast array of personally identifiable information? Can I go to the CA DOJ site and download all that information from Dealer’s Record of Sale (DROS) database myself?

Thanks for writing this. I’m amused by the gun-banning, magazine-banning, ammo-banning types who claim that All The Bad Guys will instantly bow to the new law and immediately dump all their standard/full capacity magazines on the front desk of the nearest police station.

There are probably over 50 million standard/full capacity AR-15 compatible magazines in private hands in the U.S. today. If the full power of the federal government hasn’t been able to get rid of illegal drugs–note the Feds have effectively given up on marijuana prohibition–what makes anyone think bent pieces of metal can be outlawed?

It was 6 years ago that Forbes was reporting: “Defense Distributed successfully 3D-printed and tested an ammunition magazine for an AR semi-automatic rifle, loading and firing 86 rounds from the 30-round clip.”

I am reliably informed that technology has advanced since then.

I’m reminded of this from L. Neil Smith, titled “AMERICANS HAVE OBEYED THEIR LAST GUN LAW”:

https://ncc-1776.org/cyberpamphlet-1.html

To the deep, almost physically painful chagrin of the people of her ilk, even if victim disarmament “worked”, and even after decades of anti-self-defense propaganda, the Productive Class doesn’t want it and doesn’t need it. Except for those those areas controlled by “progressives”, the inner city cores, this is the most peaceful, prosperous and, yes, truly progressive society in the history of the world.

It’s also heavily armed—750 million firearms, according to the industry, “of modern design, in good working order”—it’s pissed off about a number of issues, and better than ever before, it knows its rights. It knows that, even if the Second Amendment were repealed, the basic right to own and carry weapons doesn’t come from the Bill of Rights, The Second Amendment was written to protect a pre-existing organic right to own and carry weapons. In short, the tax-slaves are getting uppity, and that terrifies plantation staffers like this law professor.

You can read the text of the NFA here: https://www.atf.gov/file/58141/download

It includes:

The Secretary shall maintain a central registry of all firearms in the United States… A person possessing a firearm registered as required by this section shall retain proof of registration which shall be made available to the Secretary upon request.

Firearms without serial number. Any person who possesses a firearm… which does not bear the serial number… shall identify the firearm with a serial number assigned by the Secretary…

It shall be unlawful for any person… to receive or possess a firearm which is not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record; or to transfer a firearm in violation of the provisions of this chapter; or to make a firearm in violation of the provisions of this chapter… to receive or possess a firearm which is not identified by a serial number as required…

And the penalties:

Any person who violates or fails to comply with any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000, or be imprisoned not more than ten years, or both… Any firearm involved in any violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture…

Biden wants to aim this law at owners of AR-15s. If you merely “possess” an unregistered AR-15 or similar rifle under President Joe, you’ll be “imprisoned not more than ten years.”

This plan will surely reduce political tensions. Right?

The late Mike Vanderboegh had a lot to say about this. A deep stroll through the archives of http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/?m=1 is wise reading for anyone.