• I’m not a huge fan of hash, to be honest. However, I am a BIG fan of using up leftovers. The other day when it was hot, I used our Westinghouse to cook up a whole turkey (it was small, only 15 lbs or so). I’ve been using it in sandwiches and salads since last week, which has saved us turning the stove on during hot weather. As with Thanksgiving turkey, after a while you tend to run out of the usual leftover turkey dishes. I was looking for something different but yummy, and this was the recipe I found. This is my take on one by DownShiftOlogy. It was so delicious that we’ve decided to make it again, and soon! This dish serves two people.

    Ingredients:

    • 1 medium or a couple of small red potatoes
    • olive oil
    • 1 small yellow or red onion, in half circles
    • 2 green onions, sliced
    • 2 garlic cloves, minced
    • 1 cup cooked turkey, diced finely
    • ½ cup thick sliced mushrooms (optional)
    • ½ cup rough diced bell peppers (optional)
    • 1-½ tsp finely chopped fresh thyme (or ½ teaspoon dried thyme)
    • salt and pepper to taste
    • 4 eggs

    Cook your potatoes until they are barely soft. I did mine in the microwave, but you can easily use leftover potatoes, or even frozen hash browns for this. Dice the potatoes into small pieces, about a half inch square. I like the skin; your mileage may vary. Feel free to discard it if you wish.

    Oil a large cast iron (or other) pan and add in the onions and potatoes, and cook until the onions begin to soften. Add in the mushrooms and bell pepper, if you will be using them. Continue to cook until the mushrooms are soft and cooked. You want to leave the contents of the pan in a single layer, as much as possible, and don’t touch them for about four to five minutes. This lets the bottom get crispy and golden.

    Add in the green onion and garlic, and gently stir. Cook for another minute or two. Add in the turkey and spices. Saute for another five to ten minutes, or until everything is thoroughly warmed.

    In another non-stick pan, cook two eggs per person. These can be fried or poached, as you wish. Keep the yolks soft, unless you have picky eaters who simply can’t tolerate it.

    Serve up on a plate with half of the hash and the two eggs on top. There’s no need for toast, with this meal, but it’s a welcome addition if you have some.

    Notes:

    If you like spicy, sprinkle the entire plate with a good quality sriracha. This adds both color and flavor, as well as a dash of heat.

    This hash is lightly based off an African dish called shakshuka. You can find it here, if you’d like to check it out!

            

  • In —Trump, President of The United States, et all., v. CASA, Inc., et al., 2025 606 U.S., the Supreme Court found, in a 6-3 decision, that universal injunctions are not constitutional. This is great news. It puts a stop to most of the lawfare going on against the Trump Administration.

    Unfortunately, it leaves open another method of getting the equivalent, class action suits.

    To have a class action suit, the class must first be certified. This is done via Rule 23 —Rules For Appellate Procedure (U.S.) (I’m hoping that is the correct citation). It is such a complex procedure that there are lawyers (and law offices) that do nothing but class action certification attempts.

    For the Trump Administration, this complexity is a good thing. It means that it is more difficult to get these universal injunctions.

    In reality, we are going to see suits filed as class actions. The anti-American groups will still go judge/court shopping, in an attempt to get a judge, favorable to their cause.

    —J.G.G. v. TRUMP, No. 1:25-cv-00766 (D.D.C.) is such an example. They are attempting to get a class certified. They didn’t push hard because the rogue inferior court judge granted them a universal injunction. I suspect they will now go back to the well with a demand for a class certification.

    This will not stop rogue judges in inferior courts doing bad things, it will make it more costly at the first step, to the plaintiffs (bad guys)

    But what happens when a Democrat issues an EO banning guns?

    It doesn’t really change anything. There are people claiming it will, but that is not really the case.

    In the past 5 decades, have you read of a single universal injunction granted to The People in a Second Amendment case? Yeah, that is correct. There is none.

    The closest we’ve gotten is courts issuing injunctive relief to all members of a group, such as GOA or FPC.

    Since we aren’t getting nor will we get universal injunctions, there is no need to be concerned that others won’t be able to get universal injunctions.

    If that scary EO comes down in the future, FPC and GOA and the NRA and … will show up in Texas and file suit on behalf of a few individuals. Those individuals will be members of those groups. The groups will then become a party to the suit.

    This means that when a Texas district judge issues an injunction, TRO or preliminary, it will protect a large section of the firearm community.

    The state will appeal for a stay, pending appeal. The fifth will deny that stay. The case will continue through the merits panel. The state will lose. The state will request an en banc panel. They will lose or their motion for an en banc hearing will be denied.

    The state will then either appeal to the Supreme Court, where cert is likely to be granted, remember, this is the scary EO that bans everything. The Supreme Court gets to issue another great opinion on the Second Amendment.

    The state could choose to take the L in Texas. Which isn’t a big deal because the plaintiffs will have also filed suit in California, Maryland, Florida, and Illinois.

    Florida will go the same way as Texas.

    The standard rogue, inferior courts will find for the state and against The People.

    This will create a circuit split, which pushes the Supreme Court to take the case.

    This sort of thing is at least 8 years in the future.

    Meanwhile, the Supreme Court seems to be actively looking for the “right” Second Amendment case to take next.

    Oh, take a look at Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic where The Court wrote:

    On remand, the court of appeals reaffirmed its earlier decision. 95 F. 4th, at 153. And, once more, Judge Richardson wrote separately. Even after Talevski, he said, lower courts “continue[d] to lack the guidance” they need from this Court to determine when a federal spending-power statute creates a right that private parties can enforce under §1983. 95 F. 4th, at 170 (opinion concurring in judgment). Other circuit judges have expressed similar concerns. See, e.g., Saint Anthony Hospital v. Whitehorn, 132 F. 4th 962, 971 (CA7 2025) (en banc); id., at 982 (Hamilton, J., dissenting); New York State Citizens’ Coalition for Children v. Poole, 935 F. 3d 56, 60 (CA2 2019) (Livingston, J., dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc).
    — Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, 606 U.S. ____ (2025)

    The short of that is that the Supreme Court is getting tired of rogue inferior court judges playing dump when it advances their agenda.

            

  • June 27, 2025

    Supreme Court Issues Big Decision on Birthright Citizenship Case
    https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-supreme-court-issues-big-decision-birthright-citizenship-case
    In the first of several monumental decisions expected, SCOTUS handed President Donald Trump a critical win in his quest to rein in birthright citizenship.
    In a 6-3 ruling on Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court voted to narrow nationwide injunctions that had previously hampered Trump on a number of issues…Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion, explaining “that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions,”…“Nothing we say today resolves the distinct question whether the Administrative Procedure Act authorizes federal courts to vacate federal agency action,” (in actuality they kicked it back to lower courts,  – jlr)

    Justice Amy Coney Barrett humiliates Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson over her apparent ignorance of American law
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/justice-amy-coney-barrett-humiliates-justice-jackson-over-her-apparent-ignorance-of-american-law
    …Not only did Jackson not get her way, her apparent ignorance and judicial freewheeling was exposed for all to see in CASA, where she noted in a dissenting opinion that the majority’s decision not only “diverges from first principles” but is “profoundly dangerous, since it gives the Executive the go-ahead to sometimes wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the Founders crafted our Constitution to eradicate.”…Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who delivered the opinion of the court in CASA, noted that Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent focused on “conventional legal terrain, like the Judiciary Act of 1789 and our cases on equity.” Jackson, on the other hand, chooses a startling line of attack that is tethered neither to these sources nor, frankly, to any doctrine whatsoever. Waving away attention to the limits on judicial power as a ‘mind-numbingly technical query’ … she offers a vision of the judicial role that would make even the most ardent defender of judicial supremacy blush. Barrett noted that her untethered colleague apparently believes both that “the fundamental role of courts is to ‘order everyone (including the Executive) to follow the law — full stop,’” and that “if courts lack the power to ‘require the Executive to adhere to law universally’ … courts will leave a ‘gash in the basic tenets of our founding charter that could turn out to be a mortal wound.’”…”In her law-declaring vision of the judicial function, a district court’s opinion is not just persuasive, but has the legal force of a judgment,” wrote Barrett. “Once a single district court deems executive conduct unlawful, it has stated what the law requires. And the Executive must conform to that view, ceasing its enforcement of the law against anyone, anywhere.”…Barrett nevertheless pointed out that the liberal justice “decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”

    ‘Monumental victory’: Trump applauds Supreme Court for disabling Democrats’ biggest weapon
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/monumental-victory-supreme-court-ruling

    Supreme Court upholds ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/supreme-court-planned-parenthood-medicaid
    The Supreme Court upheld South Carolina’s decision to bar Planned Parenthood from accessing federal Medicaid funding for non-abortion-related services…The decision allows other states to implement similar policies that would prevent reimbursements for services not related to abortions, such as screenings or acquiring contraceptives…Federal law has prohibited using federal Medicaid for abortion services for decades, except in the cases of rape, incest, and life-threatening complications.

    SCOTUS sides with parents; Alito nukes LGBT indoctrination campaign
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/massive-victory-supreme-court-sides-with-parents-alito-nukes-lgbt-indoctrination-campaign
    The woke district was initially willing to let parents opt their kids out of lessons incorporating the non-straight agitprop and to provide notice when radical works celebrating sex changes, Pride parades, and reality-defying pronouns such as “Pride Puppy,” “Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope,” and “My Rainbow” were read…the district determined that the opt-outs required by state law for sex education units of health classes did not apply, as the LGBT propaganda was introduced as part of the English curriculum… the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the parents are entitled to a preliminary injunction that would permit them to have their kids excused from instruction related to the LGBT propaganda while their lawsuit proceeds. The high court reversed a lesser court’s judgment and noted that the parents “are likely to succeed on their claim that the Board’s policies unconstitutionally burden their religious exercise.”

    Code Pink threatens DataRepublican with lawsuit — so she releases damaging evidence on social media
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/datarepublican-code-pink-china-funding
    The database kernel engineer, whose real name is Jennica Pounds, said Wednesday on social media that the group sent her a message accusing her of libel. “We are writing to formally address and correct the false and defamatory statements made in your recent social media posts regarding CODEPINK,” the group reportedly wrote. “These claims — which falsely allege that our organization is funded by China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or any foreign government or entity — are entirely baseless and constitute libel.”…She posted images from a Code Pink campaign called “China Is Not Our Enemy” and pointed out that the group was funded by a significant contribution from a businessman and social activist named Neville Singham. The billionaire is under congressional investigation for possibly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act by possibly acting on behalf of the Chinese government…propaganda pushed by the group served to promote “pro-China messaging, including denial of the Uyghur genocide, an atrocity affirmed by the U.S. Department of State.”…posted an interview with Jodie Evans, the wife of Singham and co-founder of Code Pink, where she allegedly said that Uyghurs were terrorists, in order to justify their oppression by the Chinese government. Code Pink has also opposed the U.S. attacks on the Houthi terrorist group…DataRepublican had worked anonymously to uncover fraud and abuse in the government, but she revealed her identity in order to thwart the efforts of those who wanted to scare her into hiding. “I have been doxxed. Rather than let others control the narrative, I am addressing this directly,”

    Radical Democrat lets truth slip about abortion in effort to protect illegal alien accused of homicide
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/radical-democrat-lets-truth-slip-about-abortion-in-effort-to-protect-illegal-alien-accused-of-homicide

    Pete Hegseth Calls Out Fox News Reporter to Her Face: ‘You’ve Been About the Worst’
    https://www.westernjournal.com/pete-hegseth-calls-fox-news-reporter-face-worst/
    “Do you have certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Fordow mountain or some of it, because there were satellite photos that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance? Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved?” Griffin asked Hegseth…“Jennifer, you’ve been about the worst. The one who misrepresents the most intentionally,”…Hegseth said a preliminary assessment minimizing the damage of the attack was “leaked because someone had an agenda to try and muddy the waters and make it look like this historic strike wasn’t successful.”…“You cheer against Trump so hard, in your DNA and in your blood, cheer against Trump because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes,”

    Brit Hume to the rescue after Hegseth ‘attacks’ Fox News Jennifer Griffin
    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/27/brit-hume-to-the-rescue-after-hegseth-attacks-fox-news-jennifer-griffin-1554496/
    “I want to say a word, if I may, about Jennifer Griffin, who was attacked by the defense secretary today. An attack I think she did not deserve,” Hume said during a live hit. “Her knowledge and experience at the Pentagon is unmatched, and I have had and still have the greatest regard for her. The attack on her was unfair.”

    Abrego Garcia’s attorneys throw last-minute Hail Mary to save him from deportation
    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/27/abrego-garcias-attorneys-throw-last-minute-hail-mary-to-save-him-from-deportation-1554619/
    In an emergency motion filed Friday, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys requested a federal magistrate judge in Tennessee delay his release from criminal custody until a July 16 hearing, according to court documents. This maneuver, his attorneys claimed, would prevent the Trump administration from quickly deporting him and provide the government more time to explain its intentions with the suspected human smuggler…The attorneys acknowledged the “irony” of their request, noting in their motion that Abrego Garcia had spent the last two weeks contesting his detention in Tennessee and federal prosecutors had previously requested he remain detained before his trial. The Salvadoran man could possibly be released from custody as early as Friday, unless the judge grants a delay.

    SCOTUS still has to decide these six major cases
    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/26/scotus-still-has-to-decide-these-six-major-cases-1554402/
    Birthright Citizenship Executive Order – Affordable Care Act Preventive Services – Louisiana’s Congressional Map – LGBTQ Storybook Opt-Outs – Porn Age Verification Laws – Federal Internet Access Program

    TEXAS
    Pentagon establishing 250-mile military buffer zone along southern border
    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/26/pentagon-establishing-250-mile-military-buffer-zone-along-southern-border-1554406
    cretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the creation of a new military buffer zone — formally known as a National Defense Area — covering roughly 250 miles along the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo and Cameron Counties,…new buffer zone will be considered an extension of Joint Base San Antonio, according to the Air Force. The land was previously administered by the International Boundary and Water Commission…“Their responsibilities include enhanced detection and monitoring through stationary positions and mobile patrols, temporarily detaining trespassers until they are transferred to the appropriate law enforcement authorities, and supporting the installation of temporary barriers, and signage to secure the area,”…The Pentagon already designated a 170-mile military buffer zone in New Mexico in April and a 63-mile zone in West Texas the following month…

    LEFT WING INSANITY – YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID
    Left-Wingers Enter New Depths of Rage Over Supreme Court’s Nationwide Injunction Ruling
    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/06/27/msnbc-bluesky-others-lose-their-ever-loving-minds-over-nationwide-injunction-ruling-n2190981
    …the Trump administration scored a major victory on Friday after the Supreme Court ruled that district court-level nationwide injunctions exceeded judicial authority. That will throw a wrench into the left-wing strategy of seeking universal relief in a select few left-wing jurisdictions across the country and hopefully return some actual balance to the separation of powers within the U.S. government…MSNBC, Melissa Murray melted down, claiming the Supreme Court had “dealt a death blow to the rule of law.”… the purpose of a district court judge is not to “stop this administration” when she and other liberals get upset. Rather, it is to rule on the merits of the cases before them, with respect for established law, within the confines of their jurisdictions. As Justice Amy Coney Barrett noted in her blistering rebuke of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, checks and balances apply to the judicial branch, too. A single district court judge is not the supreme authority over the executive branch…ou’d think that someone like Jamelle Bouie, who writes for The New York Times, would have a basic understanding of that which he opines. You’d think that, but you’d be wrong. To be clear, the Supreme Court did not even consider the question of birthright citizenship in its ruling. As for the rest of the posts there, they are the typical left-wing tripe we’ve heard for years now. I especially love the idea that you can’t even critique Justice Jackson without it being an overt act of racism

    LA Times reporter coaches LA elite on how to protect nannies from ICE
    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/27/la-times-reporter-coaches-la-elite-on-how-to-protect-nannies-from-ice-1554636/
    “An LA Times reporter has posted a video in which she coaches LA moms who hire illegal immigrant nannies on how to protect them from ICE and ‘limit risk’ of an ICE encounter, including suggestions to give them ‘paid leave’, walk them to a bus stop, or call them a taxi to avoid public exposure,”…Presumably, hiring illegal immigrants is a common trait among the affluent in Southern California. It’s also a contributing factor to low wages for American citizens…

    The Morning Briefing: I Need a New Bingo Card Now That Racism Causes Diabetes
    https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/06/27/the-morning-briefing-i-need-a-new-bingo-card-now-that-racism-causes-diabetes-n4941199/
    …former congressman Jamaal “Fire Alarm” Bowman…Every time he gets in front of a camera, he manages to say something that makes him sound even dumber than the last time he was in the spotlight…“We are not dealing with America’s original sin and its disease of hate and racism towards black and brown people, and sexism towards women, and anti-LGBTQ sentiment,” the deranged former congressman began. “We are not dealing with that. Your colleagues in the Republican Party do not hold each other accountable when it comes to the racism that comes from the party on a consistent basis.”…“Listen to what I’m saying. The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day.

    FIREARMS NEWS
    DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/doge-enters-atf-with-mandate-to-slash-gun-regulations/ar-AA1HwMZk
    …ATF and DOGE staffers are now poised to exceed that goal, with upward of 50 changes planned…The revisions are part of a seismic shift unfolding at ATF as the Trump administration proposes slashing the law enforcement agency’s budget and dramatically reducing the number of inspectors who ensure that gun sellers are in compliance with federal laws. Some Republicans in Congress have called for abolishing the agency altogether, and Attorney General Pam Bondi has said she wants to merge ATF with the Drug Enforcement Administration…The exact scope and details of the potential changes are still being determined. ATF has hundreds of regulations, and revisions could include changing the responsibilities of certain ATF positions, updating what types of firearms can be imported, and making licensing fees refundable…

    Only police should have guns because they are trained.
    https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/only-police-should-have-guns-because
    Campos placed his hands out of the window and was arrested without being hit by gunfire…”By my count, the sergeant shot 28 rounds at the suspect.”…
    Fresno Cop Shoots at Armed Man Who Rammed Ex-Girlfriend’s Car With Child Inside
    video – oo:05:01 – https://youtu.be/zJHb2hUUXKk
    (OY VEH! 28 rounds fired (I slo-mo counted the rounds) and completely missed the perp, but shot the hell out of the rear door – jlr)

    IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
    Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (357th Edition)
    https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/truth-bomb-central-memes-that-expose-090

    June 28th, 2025

    Democrats Are Just Making Stuff Up to Manufacture a Trump Scandal
    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/28/democrats-are-trying-to-create-a-fake-trump-iran-crisis-n4941255
    (It is who they really are and what they do, on a daily/weekly/monthly/bi-annual/quadannual basis – nothing to see here – move along – move along – jlr)

    SCOTUS punts on birthright citizenship question, delivers bad news to meddlesome courts
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/breaking-scotus-punts-on-birthright-citizenship-question-delivers-bad-news-to-meddlesome-courts
    …While the court punted on whether Trump’s order was constitutional, it ruled 6-3 that the universal injunctions that U.S. district courts in each case hit the administration with, blocking implementation, “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts.”

    Liberal justices melt down over ending district court judge power grab, warn of ‘our collective demise’
    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/27/liberal-justices-melt-down-over-ending-district-court-judge-power-grab-warn-of-our-collective-demise-1554690/

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    DHS Warns of Possible Domestic Terror Attacks
    https://www.threatjournal.com/archive/tj06282025.html
    As evidence of the level of concern of the federal government over the threat posed by Iranian and proxy sleeper cells, this week, Immigration and Customs enforcement arrested more than 130 Iranian nationals in the country illegally. Among them was Ribvar Karimi, a former Iranian army sniper arrested in Alabama, who entered the US in 2024 on a fiancé visa and never adjusted his immigration status. Agents found him with an Iranian military ID. Another interesting pickup was Mehran Makari Saheli, a former IRGC member who admitted ties to Hezbollah and had a prior felony conviction.

    YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID
    Deranged Feminist vs. Mating Ducks in Epic Public Meltdown
    https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/video-deranged-feminist-vs-mating
    the video below captures a middle-aged white lady lib in her natural habitat, harassing mating ducks to “stop it!” because the rough sex they enjoy appears non-consensual on the part of the female…Someone ought to explain to this disturbed individual that her own ideology forbids white women such as her from engaging in such activities, as intervening to prevent ducks in your local park from mating exactly as they have successfully for eons betrays a pathology called the “white savior complex.”…refers to those who work from the assumption that they know best what BIPOC folks need.
    viseo – 00:01:14 – https://x.com/i/status/1938595647881720221

    Her son wears dresses, her daughter’s a ‘boy,’ and it’s all for status
    https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/her-son-wears-dresses-her-daughters-a-boy-and-its-all-for-status
    The gluten craze didn’t leave scars. This social contagion will — especially for the children being raised in its wake by delusional adults like ‘Marsha.’…The transgender fad will fade away. But unlike the gluten fad, innocents are being disfigured for life and denied the pleasures of a normal adulthood — all in service to a runaway social experiment…Elite academic and scientific institutions, now fully aligned with the political left, refuse to entertain any discussion of “rapid onset gender dysphoria” or its potential as a social contagion…When studies present data showing that “transitioning” may harm children’s health, the scientific establishment doesn’t engage with the findings. It demands retractions…Many describe the transgender craze as a “woke mind virus” for good reason. It targets people like Marsha — white, straight, and desperate for meaning in a culture that elevates victimhood…Unlike gluten hysteria, the transgender fad won’t end with harmless dietary quirks. It leaves children scarred, sterilized, and denied the ordinary joys of adulthood. Marsha may see herself as a kind of brave victim. But she’s a willing carrier of a destructive social contagion — and her children will suffer the lasting damage.

    Wrong country, stupid: Harebrained anti-Israel loons wreck military gear headed for Ukraine
    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/28/wrong-country-stupid-harebrained-anti-israel-loons-wreck-military-gear-headed-for-ukraine-1554765/
    A group of around 150 harebrained anti-Israel protesters accidentally wrecked a cache of military equipment headed for Ukraine. Wearing white overalls and masks, the protesters, members of a group called “Stop Arming Israel,” barged into a Belgian storage facility on Monday thinking the facility contained military equipment for Israel…The problem, of course, was that OIP Land Systems wasn’t one of these companies. In fact, the company had NOTHING to do with Israel and everything to do with Ukraine.

    Victor Shi Laments ‘Only In America’ Would SCOTUS Limit Its Own Power
    https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/06/28/hes-just-that-dumb-folks-victor-shi-laments-only-in-america-would-scotus-limit-its-own-power-n2414877
    Victor Shi, one of the left’s favorite ‘Gen Z influencers,’ along with Harry Sisson, Chris Mowrey, and Maxwell Frost. Yesterday, Shi was, of course, OUTRAGED at SCOTUS decisions, and chose to express his displeasure in perhaps the stupidest, most Constitutionally ignorant way possible. “Victor Shi, one of the left’s favorite ‘Gen Z influencers,’ along with Harry Sisson, Chris Mowrey, and Maxwell Frost. Yesterday, Shi was, of course, OUTRAGED at SCOTUS decisions, and chose to express his displeasure in perhaps the stupidest, most Constitutionally ignorant way possible.”…“In essence, the Court has now shoved lower court judges out of the way in cases where executive action is challenged, and has gifted the Executive with the prerogative of sometimes disregarding the law.”…“As a result, the judiciary-the one institution that is solely responsible for ensuring our Republic endures as a Nation of laws—has put both our legal system, and our system of gov-ernment, in grave jeopardy.”……….

    WAIT FOR IT?! Childish Dissent From Justice Jackson Shows Us WHY Coney Barrett Nuked Her From Orbit
    https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/06/28/jackson-dissent-wait-for-it-n2414869
    And this tidbit is more evidence supporting that…First time I’ve seen the phrase, “Wait for it” in a SCOTUS ruling. What is she writing, a judicial dissent, or an article for MSNBC”…Joe Biden himself said qualifications didn’t matter, he was appointing a black woman to the Supreme Court. This was the inevitable outcome.

    Zohran Mamdani’s Surprise NYC Mayoral Nom Has AOC Telling Establishment Dems to Pay Attention and Learn
    https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/06/28/aoc-goes-after-democrat-establishment-says-need-to-learn-lessons-from-mamdanis-electoral-performance-n2414862
    Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is firing shots at veteran Democrat lawmakers on Capitol Hill. She says they need to learn from socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning Democrat mayoral primary victory in New York City.
    video – 00:00:42 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1938601027080732740

    TEXAS
    Texas the latest state with a law banning foreign adversaries from buying real estate
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-latest-state-law-banning-foreign-adversaries-from-buying-real-estate
    Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 17 into law over the weekend, prohibiting countries identified as security threats in the intelligence community’s 2025 Annual Threat Assessment, from acquiring “real property” in the state. The countries include China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, and the bill identified “real property” as agricultural land, commercial or industrial properties, residential properties and land used for mining or water use.
    another view
    Israel’s drone strikes in Iran show why US must halt China’s land grab here
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/israels-drone-strikes-iran-show-why-us-must-halt-chinas-land-grab-here-experts
    Security analysts point to an Israeli drone base inside Iran as blueprint for potential CCP sabotage operations on American soil…National security and China experts are warning that Israel’s attack on Iran is an example of why Beijing’s efforts to purchase land and other assets within the United States need to be stopped immediately…”Look at the ways Israel penetrated Iran for sabotage operations. Now look at the Chinese companies and assets permeating the US power grid (solar converters), local law enforcement (DJI drones), and social media (TikTok),” China policy expert Michael Sobolik wrote in a post on X. “The CCP is preparing to paralyze us in a crisis.”…the recent Ukrainian drone strike that decimated a significant portion of Russia’s air fleet. The attack reportedly involved drones smuggled into Russia and released near airfields…”After Ukraine’s drone operation in Russia and Israel’s operation in Iran, it is obvious that America’s enemies will try to replicate that playbook on our soil,” Noronha said. “It is increasingly dangerous to allow Chinese companies and individuals to own land – especially near our military bases and critical infrastructure. Left unchecked, we are opening our land to host clandestine Chinese military bases to launch all sorts of attacks and cripple our nation in wartime.”…Officials in the United States have been sounding the alarm for years now about China’s efforts to purchase land near military bases, and other strategic assets that could help them sabotage the country…”CCP land ownership is bad but it’s tip of the iceberg,” Lucci said. “Their industrial property holdings are worse, as is their port access. Perhaps worst of all is their deep penetration of critical infrastructure and govt systems.”…”I now understand the potential problem of the Chinese government owning land in America,”

    How Was It Not 9-0? SCOTUS Split on Whether Adult Sites Should Have Age Verification
    https://www.westernjournal.com/not-9-0-scotus-split-whether-adult-sites-age-verification/
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday approved a lower court ruling that said states can require that porn sites have a procedure in place to verify the age of people who visit their sites. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion for the 6-3 court. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett concurred. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

    FIREARMS NEWS
    Save those Braces and Hearing Protection (Part 2)
    https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/save-those-braces-and-hearing-protection-732

    U.S. Senate Adds Pro-Gun Tax Relief Language Back into Reconciliation Bill
    https://www.nraila.org/email/alerts/2025/us-senate-adds-pro-gun-tax-relief-language-back-into-reconciliation-bill/
    …While this new provision is not as expansive as the language we advocated for which would have removed suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBR), short-barreled shotguns (SBS), and “any other weapons” (AOW) from the National Firearms Act (NFA), it does remove the $200 dollar unconstitutional and punitive tax on these items.

    IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
    Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (358th Edition)
    https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/truth-bomb-central-memes-that-expose-c9e

    More from states that NYC dwellers are looking to flee to (but really don’t want your attitudes and behavior)
    For New Yorkers Looking to Flee, a Cautionary Warning: Florida Is Not the Paradise You May Envision
    https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/06/28/for-new-yorkers-looking-to-flee-a-cautionary-warning-florida-is-not-the-paradise-you-may-envision-n2191005
    …as a lifelong resident of this dysfunctional peninsula, allow me to list off a number of reasons that you should think four times, or more, about relocating to this spit of land parked in the temperate south. You need to be made of a certain character to thrive here, and the comforts you have taken to heart in your area simply do not exist here in the psych ward waiting room that is Florida…The Weather…Commuting, yes, the traffic…The Scenery…Natural Threats…The Pizza and Bagels Suck…Florida Man, the infamous antics of the natives here have become legendary, and allow me to state that they are, in fact, real. Perhaps the quintessential Florida Man story (sure to be topped in one week) is the man who got into a fight with an employee at Wendy’s while getting fast food. This is a common enough occurrence, but this guy took his anger out by tossing an alligator at the worker in the drive-through window.

    June 29, 2025

    Senate Clears Key Procedural Vote on Trump Reconciliation Bill Outright
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/06/28/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-finally-clears-key-procedural-hurdle-in-the-senate-n2659592
    …The motion passed 51-49. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Rand Paul (R-KY) voted against advancing what will be Trump’s signature domestic legislation…The problem is, Lord knows what was hashed out behind closed doors to make that happen. Additionally, as planned, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) objected to unanimous consent, which is why he remained seated in the chamber throughout this time. The clerk will now read the whole BBB, which will take hours.

    Trump v. CASA, Inc 606 U.S. ____(2025) No. 24A884
    https://vineofliberty.com/2025/06/28/trump-v-casa-inc-606-u-s-____2025-no-24a884/
    “Well, bless your heart.” “Even the gun nuts want assault weapons bans, they keep telling me ‘come and take it’” “May you live in interesting times.” All of these sound polite yet are not. They have meaning that is decades or even centuries old. “Bless your heart” is a southern way of politely saying, “you can go F yourself.” “Come and take it.” is a reference to Mexico attempting to take a cannon from a small Texas town. They didn’t. It means that we will not go quietly into the dark. “May you live in interesting times” is a translation of a Chinese curse. “My estimated colleague” is a term of phrase used in congress to mean, “That MFing AH.” Or similar words. “My friend” in oral arguments means, “That stupid ass that is arguing with me.” In the Supreme Court, the majority opinion refers to “the principal dissent” or “JUSTICE KAGAN’s dissent”. If there is only one dissent, they will refer to it as “the dissent.” They do not call each other out by name. It isn’t polite, it isn’t respectful……………..

    After Major Cuts to Waste and Fraud, Social Security Payments Show Largest Single Monthly Drop in History
    https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/after-major-cuts-to-waste-and-fraud-social-security-payments-show-largest-single-monthly-drop-in-history.html/
    The Social Security Administration’s new identity verification policy is already delivering results. By requiring in-person or online verification, they’re cutting off fraudulent claims at the source—no more phantom beneficiaries draining the system. This isn’t about slashing legitimate payouts; it’s about torching the $2.9B in waste we saw with contracts like the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s sketchy “Influx Care Facility” deals. Real security means protecting taxpayers AND ensuring every dollar reaches Americans who earned it. The historic drop proves bureaucrats were rubber-stamping fraud for years.

    Socialist NYC Mayoral Zohran Mamdani Wants to Raise Taxes on White Neighborhoods
    https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/racist-socialist-nyc-mayoral-zohran-mamdani-wants-to-raise-taxes-on-white-neighborhoods.html/
    Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to hike property taxes for “richer and whiter neighborhoods” in an eyebrow-raising proposal that aims to ease the burden on homeowners in the outer boroughs. The soak-the-rich proposal is buried in Mamdani’s campaign platform that calls to fix the city’s notoriously skewed property tax system, in which ritzy brownstones are hit at lower rates than homes and rentals in lower-income neighborhoods. “Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods,”

    Trump Urges Passage of “No Tax Dollars for Riots” Act
    https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/trump-urges-passage-of-no-tax-dollars-for-riots-act.html/
    CONGRESSMAN KEVIN Kiley’s “NO TAX DOLLARS FOR RIOTS” legislation should be passed immediately. I am hereby instructing my Administration not to pay ANY money to these radicalized groups, regardless of the legislation. They get paid to incite riots, burn down or destroy a city, then come back to the trough to get money to help rebuild it. NO MORE MONEY!!! Let’s see what the spineless, gutless GOP Congress does with this

    Hegseth Goes Up Against the Cultural Revolutionaries
    https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/hegseth-goes-up-against-the-cultural-revolutionaries.html/
    The facts of the matter are straightforward. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is striking back against the Obama/Biden cultural revolution by, among other actions, renaming the USNS Harvey Milk, a Navy oil tanker, after Medal of Honor recipient Oscar V. Peterson. The reactions from leftists, however, are as predictable as they are revealing. The left’s rage over the renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk reflects their shock and horror at the fact that their victory is not inevitable. The “progressives” confidently tell one another, and the world at large, that “history” is on their side and is moving inexorably in the direction of causes they favor. In such a scenario, setbacks have no place. The left is supposed to be moving society confidently ahead into pure socialism, and we are constantly told that we can “never go back.” Well, thanks to Pete Hegseth, we just did. We went back to honoring valor, courage, and self-sacrifice. We went back to removing the military from the realm of pushing social agendas.

    Military War College Professors Still Show Their Left-Wing Stripes
    https://redstate.com/chase-spears/2025/06/29/military-war-college-professors-still-show-their-left-wing-stripes-n2191030
    It’s a reality that many military officers—especially faculty at military colleges—tend to lean left of center. Still, this comment from the CGSC professor caught me by surprise. Two issues immediately came to mind. First, the post reflected an ignorance of the president’s authority as commander-in-chief. Many experts have clarified that the president has the legal authority to order limited military engagements without prior congressional authorization. I won’t belabor that point here. But I do question how someone who has spent his entire adult life in the military—as both an officer and now a civilian instructor teaching mid-career officers—can appear unfamiliar with such basic knowledge of the craft. This is the kind of misunderstanding we expect from social media pundits, not seasoned professionals within the military education system.

    GOP Rep Files Impeachment Articles Against Judge Who Blocked Trump’s National Guard Order
    It seems like some judges have forgotten their job. They wear black robes, but they act like they have crowns on their heads. They sit in courtrooms but think they are ruling from a throne. These powerful, unelected officials often stop common-sense policies that were put in place by the leaders we actually voted for…Rep. Randy Fine, R-La., is filing a resolution to remove U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer from the bench on Friday. “The goal is to get judges to do their jobs. If we’re not going to try to hold accountable the ones that aren’t, then they have no incentive to stop,”

    Cattle Herd Rebuild Begins Just As Consumers Get Slaughtered By Record Beef Prices
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/major-turning-point-american-ranchers-herd-rebuild-underway
    The path to rebuilding starts with reviving regional microprocessing plants across the country—creating a more resilient, decentralized food supply chain that’s less vulnerable to disruptions. Just as important, Americans need to rethink how they buy beef: skip the globalist mega-supermarkets and instead support local ranchers directly.

    YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID
    Joy Reid Outdoes the Leftists Who Like to Call Trump Hitler
    https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/06/29/joy-reid-outdoes-the-leftists-who-like-to-call-trump-hitler-n4941278
    The latest example of this comes from deposed (and, of course, bitterly resentful) MSNBC host Joy Reid, who went on an extended rant Tuesday targeting Secretary of State Marco Rubio as well as Trump. It was an extension of her 2019 claim that Trump was the focus of a “racial and religious cult of personality” and that white evangelical Christians took Orange Man Bad to be the “chosen one of God,” but this time Reid zeroed in on Rubio and sailed far beyond her earlier charges and directly into straight-up lunatic territory.

    A Grand Ayatollah In Iran Just Issued A Fatwa That Designates Donald Trump As An “Enemy Of God”, And That Normally Results In Execution
    https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/a-grand-ayatollah-in-iran-just-issued
    One of the most important Shiite clerics in the entire world, Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi of the Iranian holy city of Qom, has just issued a fatwa which officially declares Donald Trump to be an “enemy of God”. In Iran, those that are designated to be “enemies of God” under Islamic law are normally executed. According to an Iranian news source, the reason why Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi has issued this fatwa is because Trump threatened Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and other top Iranian leaders…

    FIREARM NEWS
    They are fueled by fear so they do not dare boldness.
    https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/they-are-fueled-by-fear-so-they-do
    …Dear Republican Legislators: They will never like you. You will not be wooed and soothed by the herd of “The View” nor applauded by Rachel Maddow nor get an standing ovation at the DNC. Stop acting like an abused girlfriend. Punch them in the nuts and be bold, take a chance. We are done voting Blue even if it comes wrapped on GOP Red foil. You are afraid to lose Congress? Your cowardice is the reason that will happen.

    He Broke In And Pointed A Gun At Her, Then This Granny Went Full Charles Bronson
    https://threepercenternation.com/2025/06/21/he-broke-in-and-pointed-a-gun-at-her-then-this-granny-went-full-charles-bronson-video-7/
    Take, for instance, the tale of Texas grandmother Rebbie Roberson. She’s sitting at home one night, watching television and minding her own business. Sitting there, not bothering anyone. Out of nowhere,, a burglar appears in her home and is pointing a gun to her head…he wasted no time turning around and pointing the gun right in HIS face. In what might be the most logical move he’d made that day, he turned around and began running out of the house…She wasn’t content to let sleeping dogs lie. She began opening fire, missing him but leaving several sizable bullet holes in the walls of her house. I can only imagine the damage she would have done to this guy if one of the rounds had made contact.
    (LUCKY for her, she missed – You can NOT shoot a fleeing felon/suspect – period – full stop – jlr)(obviously this lady needs some serious range time – jlr)

    IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
    Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (359th Edition)
    https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/truth-bomb-central-memes-that-expose-ed3

    “Avoid crowds – Get Out of the Cities. – NOW.  A year too soon is better than a day too late” – John Wilder @  https://wilderwealthywise.com/

    “God created all men, but Samuel Colt made them equal.” – Unknown

    “A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could” – Greg Gutfeld 29 Jul 2017

    Don’t Do: stupid sh*t, with stupid people, in stupid places, at stupid times. – paraphrasing John Farnam, firearms instructor

    “An armed society is a polite society” – Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

    “People sleep peaceably in their bed at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – Eric Arthur Blair (AKA – George Orwell)

    “If your plan is to come to my house when things get bad, you need a better plan”- like being invited, having a useful skill, bringing food, or ammunition – jlr76380

    “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” – https://www.zerohedge.com/

            

  • Last year, I purchased a Sig P365 XMacro. This is the “large” version of the P365, longer barrel, and a 17 round mag.

    It turns out that my nephew wanted the same pistol, having looked at mine, he offered to buy it.

    Being a good uncle, I sold it to him at my cost, plus shipping to his local FFL.

    Because I was selling it so close to the time I had purchased the gun, we figured the safe thing to do was to send it to his local FFL for the 4473 BS.

    The day I shipped it, I knew I had made a mistake. I really wanted that pistol, it felt good in my hand. It pointed like my 1911s. It rang steel.

    One issue I have with it, is the magazines. This is a double stacked, single feed magazine. It holds 17 rounds, but the grip is narrow compared to most other double stacked pistols, my Glock and H&K for example.

    You cannot load this without a reloading tool. I could get maybe 12 rounds into it before it would become too difficult to do with just my thumb, I could not get 17 rounds into it with just my thumb.

    Even with the reloading tool, that final round is a bitch. I hold the magazine flat on the table, slap the tool hard to make room for that final round, then slip it under the feed lips. Without the tool, this is a 15 round magazine. Still better than regular 7 round 1911 mags, or 8 round extended 1911 mags.

    So I’m in the process of changing out my EDC pistol. The holster system is the same as I use for the 1911s, but because the Sig weighs less, there is less pulling that side of my pants low. I’ll be picking up a mag holder shortly.

    Currently, I’ve got an Alien Gear IWB Cloak Tuck. It has the same adjustments as the Shapeshifter system I use for my other pistols. The difference is in the retention system, the shell doesn’t move to other backers (OWB, Appendix, Shoulder, or paddle), it is only an IWB, and it is slightly slimmer than the Shapeshifter shells.

    It isn’t all that difficult to go from 8+1 and a mag to 17+1 with no quick access mags.

    Over the coming weeks I’ll do some range time to become comfortable drawing, presenting and hitting what I aim for.

    Exciting times.

            

  • “Well, bless your heart.”

    “Even the gun nuts want assault weapons bans, they keep telling me ‘come and take it’”

    “May you live in interesting times.”

    All of these sound polite yet are not. They have meaning that is decades or even centuries old.

    “Bless your heart” is a southern way of politely saying, “you can go F yourself.”

    “Come and take it.” is a reference to Mexico attempting to take a cannon from a small Texas town. They didn’t. It means that we will not go quietly into the dark.

    “May you live in interesting times” is a translation of a Chinese curse.

    “My estimated colleague” is a term of phrase used in congress to mean, “That MFing AH.” Or similar words.

    “My friend” in oral arguments means, “That stupid ass that is arguing with me.”

    In the Supreme Court, the majority opinion refers to “the principal dissent” or “JUSTICE KAGAN’s dissent”. If there is only one dissent, they will refer to it as “the dissent.”

    They do not call each other out by name. It isn’t polite, it isn’t respectful.

    Think about what this position means. If a judge in the District of Alaska holds that a criminal statute is unconstitutional, can the United States prosecute a defendant under that statute in the District of Maryland? Perhaps JUSTICE JACKSON would instinctively say yes; it is hard to imagine anyone saying no. But why, on JUSTICE JACKSON’s logic, does it not violate the rule of law for the Executive to initiate a prosecution elsewhere? See post, at 2 (dissenting opinion). Among its many problems, JUSTICE JACKSON’s view is at odds with our system of divided judicial authority. See, e.g., this Court’s Rule 10(a) (identifying conflict in the decisions of the courts of appeals as grounds for granting certiorari). It is also in considerable tension with the reality that district court opinions lack precedential force even vis-à-vis other judges in the same judicial district. See Camreta v. Greene, 563 U. S. 692, 709, n. 7 (2011).
    —Trump, President of The United States, et all., v. CASA, Inc., et al., 2025 606 U.S.

    Justice Barrett wrote this. And 5 other justices signed on to it. This is a public spanking of the least qualified justice on the Supreme Court. “…view is at odds…” is court speak for “is wrong.”

    The principal dissent focuses on conventional legal terrain, like the Judiciary Act of 1789 and our cases on equity. JUSTICE JACKSON, however, chooses a startling line of attack that is tethered neither to these sources nor, frankly, to any doctrine whatsoever. Waving away attention to the limits on judicial power as a “mind-numbingly technical query,” post, at 3 (dissenting opinion), she offers a vision of the judicial role that would make even the most ardent defender of judicial supremacy blush. In her telling, the fundamental role of courts is to “order everyone (including the Executive) to follow the law—full stop.” Post, at 2; see also post, at 10 (“[T]he function of the courts—both in theory and in practice—necessarily includes announcing what the law requires in … suits for the benefit of all who are protected by the Constitution, not merely doling out relief to injured private parties”); see also post, at 11, n. 3, 15. And, she warns, if courts lack the power to “require the Executive to adhere to law universally,” post, at 15, courts will leave a “gash in the basic tenets of our founding charter that could turn out to be a mortal wound,” post, at 12.
    —Rules For Appellate Procedure (U.S.)

    I can’t find the words to express how much of a slap in the face this language is. This is the Law Professor talking down to a C- student that didn’t bother to do their homework.

    Rhetoric aside, JUSTICE JACKSON’s position is difficult to pin down. She might be arguing that universal injunctions are appropriate—even required—whenever the defendant is part of the Executive Branch. See, e.g., post, at 3, 10–12, 16–18. If so, her position goes far beyond the mainstream defense of universal injunctions. See, e.g., Frost, 93 N. Y. U. L. Rev., at 1069 (“Nationwide injunctions come with significant costs and should never be the default remedy in cases challenging federal executive action”). As best we can tell, though, her argument is more extreme still, because its logic does not depend on the entry of a universal injunction: JUSTICE JACKSON appears to believe that the reasoning behind any court order demands “universal adherence,” at least where the Executive is concerned. Post, at 2 (dissenting opinion). In her law-declaring vision of the judicial function, a district court’s opinion is not just persuasive, but has the legal force of a judgment. But see Haaland v. Brackeen, 599 U. S. 255, 294 (2023) (“It is a federal court’s judgment, not its opinion, that remedies an injury”). Once a single district court deems executive conduct unlawful, it has stated what the law requires. And the Executive must conform to that view, ceasing its enforcement of the law against anyone, anywhere.
    —J.G.G. v. TRUMP, No. 1:25-cv-00766 (D.D.C.)

    The highlighted phrase indicates that this is not just Justice Barrett with this opinion of Jackson, it is all the Justices that signed on to the majority opinion. There is no mistaking this for anything than what it is. The majority is calling out Jackson as being unqualified to sit on the court.

    We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.
    Missing citations for GBMYZRX9

    There are dozens of articles out there talking about how the end to Universal Injunctions is good for this country. This case will end most of the legal battles against the Trump Administration.

    The only reason these cases were being filed was to stop the Trump Administration from carrying out their actions. There have been no findings of merit in any of these cases. Merely inferior court judges saying they think the plaintiffs (bad guys) might win, and because it is so important, they are blocking the Administration.

    Under normal circumstances, this would be a 3 to 10 year block on the Administration.

    Now that the delay tactic is gone, there is no reason to file losing cases. The money will dry up, and these cases will just evaporate.

    Conclusion

    I have been disappointed that Amy hasn’t voted for cert in a number of Second Amendment cases. What I have noticed is that her arguments are clear and well-founded in our Nation’s history and traditions of regulations. She is doing the right thing, even if I don’t like the outcomes.

    This case is still another “plain text, history, and tradition” result. This court has been standing firm in that belief.

    When Kagan wrote the majority opinion in S&W v. Mexico, she referenced the plain text of the constitution, the plain text of the regulation, and the history and tradition of this Nation’s regulations.

    I’m looking forward to a great Second Amendment opinion in the 2025 Term, likely released in June, 2026.

            

  • So what I do, when I’m out and attending events, is I set up a historically inspired or historically accurate (depending on the event) encampment. I dress the part, I cook meals either inspired by or directly from recipes of the time period. While I’m not perfect, I try to be very aware of what’s modern and what’s not, so that I can explain to any interested onlookers.

    This lends itself well to gadget building. Not modern camping gadgets, though. While those are nice, they’re not replaceable. I can enjoy them, but only in moderation. I’m talking about the kind of gadgets you can build on site, for each event. Or they take so few resources that you can carry said resources with you. When looking into these types of items, I almost always turn to the Boy Scouts (mostly “of old” because the modern ones seem to have lost some of the sauce that made them special, but whatever). They have great publications, both on and offline.

    Laundresses at a Revolutionary Army camp, circa 1780. (Image: National Park Service)

    When you look at paintings and sketches and such of earlier time periods, you learn things. A lot of the images contain people doing normal human things. Laundry, cooking, writing home, lounging, and the like. It’s the details I look for, though. What do they have around the fire? Are their tools laying on the ground, or hanging, or what? Where are their towels? How do they hang their wet laundry? What do their tables look like?

    Chris is making some shelves for me, and probably a box that is both dry larder and a hide for my very modern cooler. It will look like a standard wooden chest, but will contain some build in shelves for canned and other dry goods, and a big section to slide my cooler into. When the lid is closed, it’ll be just like any other piece of camp furniture. And it will break down and flat-pack in the truck, which is a personal requirement I have of most items.

    Garbage bin

    But there are other, little gadgets that I need in my encampment, and I’m in the process of learning how to make them. The first and most important one for me is a garbage bag holder. I know it seems stupid, but I need to have a modern garbage bag on hand for my very modern garbage… but I don’t want it in plain view. I’m going to be using a “three stave” version (the pic to the right is a four stave style), with either twine or small branches going between the tops of the staves. My garbage bag will be inside a large cotton canvas bag, which will in turn be draped over the staves. Voila, something that doesn’t take away from the camp look, but allows me easy access to my rubbish bin.

    Pot holder

    The Boy Scouts have a bunch of cool gadget pages, but the best is the Scout Pioneering “camp gadgets” page. If you read through, there are literally hundreds of projects, some large and many small. The second gadget that I’ll be making is a pot holder. This one, like the garbage bin, doesn’t require any twine or tying. For each end of the two sticks, you drive a criss cross of pegs which can be made of any bits of wood laying around. Lay the rods or sticks on top, and now you have a place out of the dirt to put your washing to dry, or the lid off your dutch oven. I have a trivet that I’ve used previously, but this is a much better alternative and one I can install along the far side of my fire. It will have the added benefit of keeping patrons from walking into the fire pit (which is actually a larger problem than you might think).

    (more…)

            

  • Trump Wins, Again

    My hope is that in 10 years, my grandchildren can read about the 12-day war. Read how the man who did not want to be president became president and brought peace to the middle-east.

    President Trump played better than anyone could have expected. And it started on the 20th of January.

    When Trump took office in 2016, he was a businessman. He knew that even if it was a hostile takeover, you kept the top people. Everybody wanted things to work. They might hate your guts, but they wanted things to work so they could continue to take home a paycheck.

    The government is not like that. Trump was sabotaged before he even took office. People he trusted shouldn’t have been trusted. People he wanted in his team were forced out. The swamp creatures latched on, the media tried to destroy him.

    In some ways, losing to Biden is one of the best things that has ever happened to this country. Trump 2.0 is so much better.

    Trump started this term as if he were a Democrat. He fired everybody who wasn’t on his team. He is still working on that. And it worked.

    He got people in as directors and at cabinet level that believe in him and believe in his vision.

    There were no leaks about the bombing attack. None.

    D.C. has been a cauldron of leaked secrets since I was a child. Most of those leaks served Democrat interest.

    After the attack, there was a leak. A highly placed source, or a person with access to high-level intel, leaked part of a BDA. They seemed to have omitted the part where it was a preliminary BDA with low confidence.

    A day later, Trump declared a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. When both parties tried to “empty their tubes” he slapped them both down.

    As I write this, there does not seem to be any more exchanges between the two major parties.

    In The Supreme Court

    Trump keeps winning cases that get to the Court. Sotomayor, Brown, and Kegan keep writing dissents.

    It is important to note that the agenda-driven justices have not yet written a single thing about the merits of the cases that are being brought to The Court. It is all about waiting.

    As far as I can tell, everyone who is not a sheeple knows that the Trump Administration is going to win these cases.

    The leftists don’t care. For them, it is the cost to the Trump Administration and delay, delay, delay.

    If these cases were to proceed through the courts as the leftist want, Trump will be out of office before they are resolved.

    Consider Duncan, which was filed in 2016. The case went through the District Court, through the merits panel of the Ninth Circuit, through the en banc Ninth Circuit, through a motion for writ of certiorari, was granted certiorari, the Ninth Circuit’s opinion was vacated, the case was remanded to the Ninth, which remanded it to the district court, where another full finding of facts, post-Bruen, won, was appealed to the Ninth, was taken by the original en banc panel, against Ninth Circuit policies, the district opinion was vacated and remanded for final disposition, and is now seeking certiorari for the second time before the Supreme Court.

    Nine years! I could easily see rogue inferior courts dragging out cases for years and years.

    Regardless of the agenda-driven justices, the Supreme Court has handed out win after win to the Trump Administration.

    Truck Sounds

    Wednesday, I drove the truck 50 miles or so. It had this really weird sound.

    That sound was silence.

    It turns out that there really was a second bearing going bad, or which had gone bad.

    Because my dude is cool, I was able to observe the work done on my truck. Watching the mechanic use the same methods that I was questioning was nice. On the other hand, watching him do some things just blew my mind.

    Even when the metal does not rust, two metal parts in close contact will stick. The axle on the passenger side of the truck was seriously stuck to the hub. It took some heavy work with a 5 lb sledge and a punch to break the axle free.

    Jess picked up the air chisel, put a punch in it, walked over to the axle and triggered the air chisel. That axel backed out almost instantly.

    Doh, I have that tool. Never even occurred to me to use it.

    The cost of the hub for the driver’s side was $10 more than I would have paid at the local shop. With his profit built in, having him (shop owner) source the hub didn’t really cost extra.

    It turns out that the job I wasn’t willing to do, replacing the bad flex brake line in the left rear, was a simple job of unscrewing the hose from the two hard lines and replacing it.

    I saw that and was irritated that I didn’t do that work myself. Easy, right?

    That was, until I saw, as part of the miscellaneous shop items, two new lengths of hard line. Jess had to replace the hard line after they failed while replacing the flex line.

    The truck is good for a few thousand more miles.

    Stock Market

    On the first two days the stock market was open after the start of the 12-day war, my accounts dipped, hard. It was extremely scary.

    So I dropped another chunk of money into the market to make some purchases.

    As of last night, the market has recovered everything from that dip and a bit more. I expect to see it go up again today.

    Woodworking

    I’ve started making my workbench. Instead of pulling out the chop saw, I set up a pair of saw horses and used hand tools. I don’t think I’ve ever made cleaner cuts by hand. After 58 years of using handsaws, I might actually have learned how to do it.

    One end of the bench has been glued and screwed, and I’m working on the half lap braces. This is my first half lap.

    It is finished, the fit is good, as long as I don’t want the other end to touch the opposite leg. I’ll have to refine the joint tomorrow.

    Tools

    I haven’t been able to find one of my marking gauges. The one I did find didn’t work for me.

    The nice option was the 3/4 wide chisel I pulled off the wall. It was properly protected by a cap. It was properly sharpened and worked perfectly.

    The other side of this was finding out that I seem to have let somebody borrow the 1″ chisel. How do I know? Because there are chips in the cutting edge. It looks more like a saw blade than a chisel.

    It is going to take a bit of work on the grinder to get that edge back. Thank goodness for slow speed 320 grit diamond wheels. Without a grinder, it would take hours to recover that edge.

    Oh, those bench chisels are the cheap box store chisels, they are Marple’s.

    I now have a “working” No.4 Stanley. I have one of unknown condition of the same general size, and one that seems to be junk. It is nice to have the tools I need.

    Question of The Week

    How concerned were you that we were about to get stuck in another war?

            

  • THE BREAKDOWN: Lower Income Overwhelmingly Voted for Cuomo, Majority of College Educated Vote For Jihadi Mamdani
    https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/the-breakdown-lower-income-overwhelmingly-voted-for-cuomo-majority-of-college-educated-vote-for-jihadi-mamdani.html/
    This election confirms what we already know—American universities have become Marxist indoctrination centers. The low income people in New York City voted en masse AGAINST the guy who promised to create government-run grocery stores and “freeze” the rent. American universities have systematically destroyed the minds of Americans.

    CUOMO CONCEDES: Jihadi Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary in Stunning Upset
    https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/cuomo-concedes-jihadi-zohran-mamdani-wins-nyc-democratic-mayoral-primary-in-stunning-upset.html/
    How does New York come back from this?
    via Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1937848923172782529
    Some of the things socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has previously called for: Abolish NYPD – Abolish prisons – Abolish medical bills – Abolish private health insurance – Ban all guns – Legalize sex work – Safe injection sites – End cash bail – Decriminalize drug possession – End sentencing enhancements – End all cooperation with ICE
    (Q: What will happen if Wall Street, the Jewish population, hospitals, the smart population who didn’t vote for a terrorist, and major business centers leave NYC? – jlr)
    (A: You will have a terrorist enclave in the NE USA – jlr)

    Alligator Alcatraz
    https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/alligator-alcatraz
    Everybody in the left are losing their minds about this place. From the “Human Rights” people claiming it is a constitutional violation to the Environmentalists saying it will destroy the Everglades.

    “Civil War Comes to the West” – Part 1
    https://grayzoneresearch.substack.com/p/civil-war-comes-to-the-west-part
    First, thank you to the handful followers who sent me David Betz’s fantastic essay entitled “Civil War Comes to the West.” Betz, a professor of war at King’s College London, concludes that the greatest threat to Western countries is not external, but internal. This means civil war is coming to Western countries. Here’s a summary of the high points of his essay:………………….
    (read this synopsis and see if you want to read the whole thing – jlr)
    https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west/
    https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west-part-ii-strategic-realities/
    (This is truely eye opening and disturbing – jlr)

    Supreme Court upholds ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/supreme-court-planned-parenthood-medicaid
    The Supreme Court upheld South Carolina’s decision to bar Planned Parenthood from accessing federal Medicaid funding for non-abortion-related services on Thursday.

    YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID
    Start buying lots of popcorn…and find the best NYC livestreams
    https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/start-buying-lots-of-popcorn
    Why I say buy popcorn? This video is all I need to explain.
    embeded video – 00:00:33

    THIS IS WHERE LIBERAL POLITICIANS, LIBERAL JUDGES, THE MSM, RAP MUSIC, AND NO CONSEQUENCES FOR ANYTHING BY ANYONE HAVE GOTTEN US TO!

    ‘Just end him’: 5th-grade girls allegedly plotted to stab boy to death at school and make it look like a suicide
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/5th-grade-murder-plot-girls
    A shocking plot from 10- and 11-year-old girls to murder a boy and then stage his death as a suicide was thwarted when another student overheard them, police say. Details of the plot from the group of girls at the Legacy Traditional School’s West Surprise campus in Surprise, Arizona, were released in a police report. Police said the four girls planned the plot during a lunch and recess on Oct. 1, 2024. The student who overheard them reported the conversation to school officials. The plot had a role for each of the girls. One was supposed to have forged the suicide note to make it appear that the boy had committed suicide. Another girl was tasked with bringing the knife to school. Another girl was supposed to act like a lookout while the last girl would commit the stabbing. The girl who overheard the plot said she heard one girl say, “Just end him.”. Police said the girls might have been motivated to kill the boy after an alleged breakup and cheating incident. The police report said two of the girls were aged 10 years old, while the other two were 11 years old. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office confirmed that the students had been charged as juveniles, and police had said they were suspended, pending expulsion. The Surprise Police Dept. said they did not plan to release any more details about the incident.

    2 teenagers accused of shooting homeless man to death took photos of themselves with a gun
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/nm-teens-shoot-kill-homeless
    A23-year-old homeless man found dead in his tent was shot to death by two teenagers, according to New Mexico police. Christopher Sturluson was living in an arroyo in Albuquerque before workers at the Albuquerque Community Safety Department found his body on the morning of May 1. Albuquerque Police Department officers responded after ShotSpotter alerts indicated that about 10 gunshots were fired around 9 p.m. April 30. Police talked to Sturluson, who told them that people had fired in his direction. Later that same night, the ShotSpotter picked up another six gunshots in the same area between 10:15 and 11:50 p.m. Police identified two suspects through surveillance video and later arrested 18-year-old Joshua Curtis as well as a 17-year-old. Police said they were able to recover bullet casings from the scene. Police also found photographs the pair allegedly had taken of themselves with a gun, according to a KOB-TV report. The 17-year-old suspect turned out to be on juvenile probation after he was caught with a gun at Sandia High School in 2022. He was expelled from that school. The 18-year-old suspect has a criminal history that includes a pending case for assault on an officer. Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman said the fatality is clear evidence that the system is broken. “We have two teenagers accused of killing a homeless person,” said Bregman. “The frustration level, quite frankly, is at a boiling point. This will be, I believe, the 47th juvenile that we’ve charged with murder in this office since I’ve been district attorney.” Bregman has been calling for greater consequences for juvenile criminals. “If we don’t start doing something, we will continue to see this kind of result. We’re not teaching our kids anything when we’re not giving them consequences,” Bregman added. Bregman also said that “if convicted, this juvenile is facing the rest of his life in prison. We didn’t do any justice for the poor homeless person that’s dead, and we certainly didn’t do any justice for the kid that’s now charged with murder because we didn’t teach him anything when we had the chance.

    10 people charged in connection with alleged murder of homeless man reportedly kidnapped from encampment in New York
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/ithaca-homeless-murder-kidnap-jungle
    Officials in upstate New York said 10 people were arrested in relation to the alleged kidnapping and murder of a homeless man who was living at an encampment in Ithaca. On May 20, 33-year-old Thomas Rath was forcibly abducted from an encampment called “the Jungle” located in a rustic area behind a Lowe’s home improvement store, according to investigators. About a hundred days later, his remains were discovered in a shallow grave on state land in the village of Candor in Tioga County, police said. Ithaca city police and New York State Police were alerted on May 26 about the suspicious circumstances surrounding Rath’s disappearance. After serving more than 40 search warrants in several locations as a part of the investigation, officials announced that nine of the 10 suspects were being charged with first-degree kidnapping while two suspects were being charged with second-degree murder. Officials also said more arrests were expected in the coming weeks. “[A]s this missing person case evolved, it revealed a particularly disturbing and heinous series of events which ultimately revealed the kidnapping and murder of Mr. Rath,” said New York State Police Troop C Commander Major Jeffery VanAuken at a media briefing Monday. Investigators were unwilling to reveal the victim’s cause of death in order to protect the ongoing investigation, but they did reveal that the victim had been “familiar” with the suspects and that it was not a random act of violence. “Some of these details will have to wait for court, unfortunately,” said investigator Captain Lucas Anthony. “It is an ongoing investigation, more arrests are coming. So some of that information is limited as to what we can release at this time.” Residents of Ithaca had been complaining about crime and drug abuse by homeless people who had camped at the Jungle.

    Boys, just 7 and 9 years old, wrestle for loaded gun — and 1 points it at deputies during tense standoff
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/boys-loaded-gun-armed-standoff-new-mexico-video
    Newly released video shows two young boys engaging New Mexico deputies in an armed standoff. The boys, ages 7 and 9, both handled a loaded handgun — and one of them even pointed it at Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Feb. 16. The two young boys, seen in the video dressed in “Minecraft” and “Star Wars”-themed pajamas, are standing next to an air-conditioning unit while handling a loaded handgun. During the nearly seven-minute video, the boys are seen struggling with each other to take control of the gun. A female voice is heard saying in the drone video, “Put it down, baby. Put it down, babe.” A deputy tells the children, “Just throw it on the ground, bud. Come talk to us. You’re not in trouble.” After more than five minutes into the standoff, police fired a warning shot — a non-lethal projectile — near the children, and the boy holding the gun immediately pointed it at officers. Deputies scream in unison, “Drop it! Drop it!” The boy who was not holding the gun put his hand up and hid behind the air-conditioning unit. Police fired another warning shot. As both boys took cover between the air conditioning unit and a house, a deputy rushed toward the children and wrestled the gun away from the boy, after which other deputies converged on the scene and took the pair into custody. The sheriff’s office said in a statement, “Utilizing BCSO’s drone program, deputies were able to monitor the situation in real-time, providing critical updates and enhancing situational awareness. This technology allowed deputies to secure the area swiftly and safely, ultimately preventing a potential deadly force encounter with the juveniles.” Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen stated, “I will tell, if it was not for our drone program, we would have probably went in there a little bit more blind and been into a deadly force confrontation pretty quick, and as you can imagine, it would have not gone well with us killing and shooting a 7- and 9-year-old.” Police said the drone program has been “instrumental in providing deputies with additional tools to manage diverse and high-risk situations.” Sheriff Allen said, “This case illustrates the complex intersection of juvenile crime, mental health, and public safety. We are taking important steps to close service gaps and expand our ability to work with juveniles involved in firearms or violent crimes.” Allen added that his department previously had been called to the home at least 50 times due to issues with the boys and their family, according to the Albuquerque Journal. BCSO Behavioral Health Unit Clinical Manager Michael Lucero said members of the unit immediately went to the boys’ home to assist the family with “numerous issues they’re experiencing” and conducted psychiatric evaluations of the children. Lucero said the unit is working on getting help for the children and the parent who reportedly has an extensive history of trauma. The family’s case agent, Danielle Smith, told KRQE-TV, “I don’t know how much I’m able to say, so I’m just gonna leave it very vague, but we know where the children learned the behavior from, and that is being addressed as well.” BCSO Deputy Deanna Aragon said the boys were not arrested, and no charges were filed against the children. She noted that the children have not been removed from the home. Law enforcement did not divulge where the boys got the gun but said the firearm was seized after the standoff. Sheriff Allen said the boys “were taught how to use the firearm.” Police said the case is still under investigation, and the parents could face charges. “We’re dealing with a 7- and 9-year-old, so now we’re looking at the adult side, how they had the firearm, are they gonna be charged with the Bennie Hargrove law, we’re looking into all of that,” Allen stated. The Bennie Hargrove law holds adults criminally liable for negligently allowing minors access to firearms. Allen also pushed back against critics who called for the arrest of the young boys. “Children are our future, and we know one side is going to say, ‘Lock them in jail.’ They’re 7 and 9 years old. I told you before, numerous times in numerous interviews, that I understand the frontal lobe,” Allen said, referring to children’s incomplete brain development. Allen added, “Arresting people isn’t the only way out of this crisis of juvenile crime. … You have to look at it from a bunch of different avenues and use the resources you have, and then criminal elements can come later.” Allen did note that if the boys were several years older, the department would “probably be speaking differently and doing it the reverse route.”
    (LOTS OF VIDEO HERE – jlr)

    IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
    Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (356th Edition)
    https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/truth-bomb-central-memes-that-expose-28b

    Dear New Yorkers: Texas Will Break You
    https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2025/06/26/dear-new-yorkers-dont-move-to-the-state-of-horror-and-pain-that-is-texas-n2190933
    …You really don’t want to move here. Texas is like Hell, only worse, because the living conditions here are so chaotic and difficult that the devil himself thinks it’s a bit much…………..

    Anxious New Yorkers: You Should Avoid Alaska at All Costs
    https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/06/26/anxious-new-yorkers-you-should-avoid-alaska-at-all-costs-n2190936
    if one is planning to bail on one place to head for greener pastures, and my good friend and colleague Brandon Morse has presented some cautions about New Yorkers thinking of coming to his home state of Texas; he makes some excellent arguments. But he ends with this sentence: Go to Alaska. They’ve got a ton of room up there.

    “Avoid crowds – Get Out of the Cities. – NOW. A year too soon is better than a day too late” – John Wilder @ https://wilderwealthywise.com/

    “God created all men, but Samuel Colt made them equal.” – Unknown

    “A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could” – Greg Gutfeld 29 Jul 2017

    Don’t Do: stupid sht, with stupid people, in stupid places, at stupid times. – paraphrasing John Farnam, firearms instructor

    “An armed society is a polite society” – Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

    “People sleep peaceably in their bed at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – Eric Arthur Blair (AKA – George Orwell)

    “If your plan is to come to my house when things get bad, you need a better plan”- like being invited, having a useful skill, bringing food, or ammunition – jlr76380

    “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” – https://www.zerohedge.com/

            

  • Considering my post from yesterday and the “Nazi salute” that prompted it, I thought this was germane to the moment. 😉

    https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16rizNSXqL/

            

  • There are people who blame their actions on “The ’tism’.

    I had not heard this term until recently. My oldest son is “on the spectrum.” He barely functions, not from emotional out bursts, but because he just isn’t mature enough.

    My youngest son is also “on the spectrum”, he is high function, going to collage, doing well. His issues tend to be socal in nature. In other words, he has not had much success in finding new friends.

    My youngest is also on the spectrum. She is very high functioning. You would not suspect she is autistic when interacting with her. She is social and she makes friends.

    I was born before the great “autism” hunt. I do not have an official diagnosis of autism. There are many indicators that I am autistic.

    A side effect of this was I was able to teach some of my coping methods to my children, to help them.

    What does this have to do with making friends?

    It means it is hard. It takes an effort.

    What you might consider to be a friend is unlikely to be a friend in my eyes.

    Just because we are co-workers, and we are friendly with each other, does not mean we are friends.

    Most people would have no difficulty in ticking off a dozen friends. Maybe even a dozen close friends.

    I’ve had 4 true friends in my lifetime. Two of them were good friends. I say “were” because one is dead, and I am out of contact with the other.

    Of the other two, one I have not seen since I left high school. The other is in prison because he is a kiddy diddler.

    One I thought was a friend decided that anybody who supported the Supreme Court’s Dobbs’ opinion was no longer a friend to her. And later went as far as to say that anybody who voted for Trump was not a friend and could just fuck off.

    Ally tells me that there are people attempting to be friends. I can almost see it, but I don’t feel it.

    In 2008, Obama was running for office. It is the moment when I felt my country start to fracture. Friends were starting to turn on each other in ways I had not seen before.

    I went to speak to a black co-worker. “Who are you voting for?” “Obama”, “Why?” “Because he’s black.”

    Anybody who expressed any hesitation or discomfort about voting for a one—term senator from Illinois, who’s most common vote was “Present” was a “racist”.

    It was that bad. Since I was working in a deep blue state at the time, I kept my mouth shut. I didn’t care who they were voting for. I wish they had better reasons than “He’s black.” It was their choice.

    Oh, it wasn’t just the black co-workers, it was all the lefties.

    How did I spot a lefty? Those were the ones openly talking politics, expressing their opinion about anyone who wasn’t voting for Obama.

    From that moment on, I have been called racist, for my beliefs, constantly.

    Look at Rep. Hunt. Now there is a black man. I like him. Why? Because he echos my beliefs. He stands up for America.

    Now compare him to the half white Obama.

    Obama’s mother was white, his father was black, he’s brown.

    He ran as a black man. So what?

    If every single person of color had voted for him and every single white voted against him, he would not have become the President of the United States. A majority of the people of the United States decided that he was a better man to be president than McCain.

    For the next 8 years, I wasn’t allowed to say a negative thing about my President. To do so was to “prove I was racist.”

    When Hillary ran for President, I suddenly became misogynistic. No change of my positions, just a different candidate by the Democrats.

    And every lefty screamed at me that I was a bad person if I didn’t support every belief they held.

    There was a TikTok sketch Ally showed to me. A woman says to her Republican friend that she is leaving the GOP.

    Her friend responds with, “I’m sorry you feel you need to leave. We’ve been friends all our lives. You will continue to be my friend and are welcome here, anytime.”

    The sketch then changes to a woman leaving the Democrat party. “I’m leaving the party. They just don’t match my core beliefs. You’ve been my friend all my life. You will still be my friend.”

    The remaining Democrat woman turns to the first and, with a sneer on her face, “I’m not friends with Nazis”

    That is what my life felt like during the Obama era. It was worse under Biden.

    Our friendships became defined by our beliefs.

    Going out in public, I would hear leftists yapping about how anybody who wasn’t like them was horrible, evil people. Nasty labels were everywhere.

    I’ve seen “DemocRAT” from time to time. I’m “MAGAot”, a “fascist”, a “racist”, a “white supremest”, and every other nasty label you can think of.

    Those people won’t speak with me. They can’t handle being asked for examples. They can’t handle being called on bullshit. They can’t be bothered to verify any of the narrative they spout with no evidence to back them.

    I’m sorry for Ally.

    She is a good person. We are good people. If you are in need, we will do our best to help you. When a “co-worker” had an emergency, she didn’t ask, “What are your politics? I only help good people.” No, she opened her pantry to them. She did it with no expectation of anything.

    When they tried to repay her, she said, “Pay it forward.”

    Well, they did pay it forward. Until they had to treat people by what they do instead of what they were told they do.

    Make sure you keep your friends close. Make sure they know you are friends.

    Stay strapped. Keep your head on a swivel. Don’t be in stupid places at stupid times.