If this applies to you.  If not, I’m glad FPC is out there doing this.

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— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) December 18, 2020

From Wes Rhinier.

I got to hear him read it for the first time last Saturday.

Paul answers his critics.  I dream of an America where pests don’t badger Paul with idiotic comments and make him spend time addressing stupid things.  But his breakdown of Biden’s shotgun advice is priceless.

Then there is this from Mountain Guerrilla.

“Since it evokes commentary in every class I do……I lubricate my rifles with copious amounts of whatever motor oil happens to be on sale at the gas station when I’m enroute to the class, and I’m pretty sure I haven’t cleaned any of our primary rifles in at least five months…..somewhere in the vicinity of 7000-8000 rounds per weapon….and they still run flawlessly……motor oil is designed to do what? Protect and lubricate high-velocity, reciprocating pistons in a machine (your car)….what is your bolt carrier group? A high-velocity, reciprocating piston …”

2020 Election Fraud.

1. Our model explains 96% of county-level variance in Trump’s two-party vote share with four demographic variables (non-college white, college-educated white, black and hispanic) and one historical variable (the average of county-level GOP two-party presidential vote share, 2004-2016). All five variables are highly significant. This reinforces the conclusion that the model is generally a very strong predictor of vote shares, and so deviations from it should be considered surprising.

2. Under conservative assumptions, regression analysis shows Trump ought to have won AZ, GA, NV, PA, WI.

3. Every one of the contested states shows a larger predicted vote share for Trump than what he actually received. This is surprising, because in any set of observations, random chance might expect some predictions to favor Biden, but none do. In Georgia and Arizona, the model does not predict a narrow race, but a decisive Trump victory; the size of the anomaly is (much) larger than the reported margin of victory.

4. The model also performs well in battleground states that have not been contested, and thus where the election was presumably clean. Every one of these is correctly predicted, including both battleground states that voted for Trump (e.g. Ohio, Florida) and those that voted for Biden (e.g. New Hampshire). Indeed, there are no states that Trump won which the model predicts should have been won by Biden. Meanwhile, the errors in the model are constructed to average to zero, so the model cannot favor one candidate over the other. Instead, it reveals the places where actual outcomes differ the most from our predictions.

5. The model is robust to alternative specifications of the regression formula and weighting.

6. The model places the burden of proof on fraud skeptics to explain why nearly all the states where fraud has been alleged, and only those states, have results inconsistent with statistical trends in the rest of the country. 

7. Our model highlights the importance of a systematic comparison of all counties in the US when trying to understand whether the contested states are actually unusual. Simply picking isolated comparison cities, or one-off comparisons to past elections, is a very inferior way of doing the comparison. This model takes this base intuition (which is actually good), but greatly improves it by making the comparison systematic. The fact that the contested states are mostly predicted to have been won by Trump using simple but powerful demographic models further adds weight to the existing evidence that these outcomes may have been altered by fraud.

Data and full analysis at the link.  Joe Biden is a fraud.  The constitution is a dead document.  The federal government is completely illegitimate, front to back, side to side, top to bottom.  You do not live in a republic.  The USA should be referred to as the former USA, or FUSA.

Fox News.

Today marks 8 years since 20 first-graders and 6 educators were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

To honor the lives lost in this terrible tragedy, it’s past time we implement common-sense gun safety reforms to keep our children safe. pic.twitter.com/YmsIWM6dDG

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 14, 2020

But then there’s this.

The state of the GOP today.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Democrat Joe Biden as president-elect on Tuesday, saying the Electoral College “has spoken.”

The Republican leader’s statement, delivered in a speech on the Senate floor, ends weeks of silence over President Donald Trump’s defeat. It came a day after electors met Monday and affirmed Biden’s election win.

“I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden,” McConnell said.

“Many of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result,” he said. “But our system of government has the processes to determine who will be sworn in on Jan. 20. The Electoral College has spoken.”

McConnell called Biden someone “who has devoted himself to public service for many years.” He also congratulated Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, saying “all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first time.”

Sun Tzu said that “All war is deception.”  McConnell is saying that this isn’t politics any more – this is war.

Okay.  I think I’ve got it.  The GOP is at war with the American people too.

It appears that Trump has finally let Barr go.  Too bad he ever hired him in the first place.  I said back when Barr was hired that he was deep state and couldn’t be trusted except to do everything in his power to undermine the administration.

Barr will (rightly) always be remembered for his role in Ruby Ridge and the AWB.

Barr was in charge of the Justice Department during Ruby Ridge, and he knew what was going on.

Barr stated, under oath, that his chief gun priority would be the Ruby Ridge-like gun confiscation orders (sugar-coated as “red flag laws”).

You may remember that Barr’s federal agents descended on Randy Weaver’s Idaho compound in August, 1992, and (1) shot weaver in the back; (2) shot Weaver’s wife Vicki to death, while she was holding her infant son; (3) shot Weaver’s 14 year-old son to death; and (4) shot Weaver’s dog.

Courts subsequently largely exonerated Weaver, while excoriating the FBI and the Department of Justice. And, although then-Attorney General William Barr claimed to know nothing about the Ruby Ridge fiasco, a 1995 Washington Post article reported that there were 20 high-level DOJ calls about Weaver in the 24 hours preceding the murder of his wife — and two of them directly involved Barr.

After that, Barr spent huge amounts of pro bono time trying to get exoneration for the FBI sniper who shot Vicki Weaver to death. He pushed for immunity from prosecution, organized letters on his behalf, and framed arguments before the trial and appeals courts.

But long before Ruby Ridge, Barr’s hatred for the Second Amendment was clear.

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, Barr pushed the gun control “grand bargain” which, two years later under Clinton, was to become the biggest blow to the Second Amendment since the passage of the 1968 Gun Control Act.

Said Barr: “On the assault weapon front, the proposal before us is the DeConcini amendment. And I think … I would support both the Brady Bill waiting period and the DeConcini [semi-auto ban] amendment, provided that they were parts of a broader and more comprehensive crime bill that included … very tough provisions on the use of firearms in crimes and illegal purchase and trading in firearms…”

In addition to endorsing the Brady Bill and the semi-auto ban, Barr went on to support the magazine ban by saying: “I would prefer a limitation on the clip [sic] size.”

[ … ]

Sadly, Barr, under oath, committed that his chief gun objective would be the most insidious aspect of the Bloomberg agenda: gun confiscation orders.

Said Barr: “I also think we need to push along the ERPO’s [Gun Confiscation Orders], so we have red flag laws to supplement the use of the background check…This is the single most important think I think we can do in the gun control area to stop these massacres from happening in the first place.”

If anyone doesn’t know what Bloomberg’s gun confiscation orders involve, police or an angry “ex” can go to a “secret court” [ex parte proceeding] to obtain an order to strip a gun owner of his Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

There is more.

In the early 1990s, federal agencies targeted Randy Weaver, an outspoken white separatist living on a mountaintop in northern Idaho.  After Weaver was entrapped by an undercover Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agent, U.S. marshals trespassed on Weaver’s land and killed his 14-year-old son, Sammy. The following day, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi killed his wife as she was standing in the cabin doorway holding her 10-month-old baby. Horiuchi had previously shot Randy Weaver in the back after he stepped out of the cabin.  The suspects were never given a warning or a chance to surrender and had taken no action against FBI agents.

FBI officials recognized that Mrs. Weaver had been killed but, during the subsequent siege, assured the media that they were “proceeding with extreme care, mindful that Weaver’s wife, Vicki, and three remaining children were also in the cabin,” Reuters reported. An internal FBI report completed shortly after the confrontation justified the killing of Mrs. Weaver by asserting that she had put herself in harm’s way, the New York Times reported in 1993. Yet Bo Gritz, the former Vietnam War hero who helped the feds negotiate Randy Weaver’s surrender after the death of his wife, declared that the government’s profile of the Weaver family recommended killing Weaver’s wife: “I believe Vicki was shot purposely by the sniper as a priority target…. The profile said, if you get a chance, take Vicki Weaver out.” As Mrs. Weaver’s corpse remained in the besieged cabin, “The FBI used microphones to taunt the family. ‘Good morning, Mrs. Weaver. We had pancakes for breakfast. What did you have?’ asked the agents in at least one exchange,” the Washington Times reported.

The names of William Barr and Lon Horiuchi should always be spoken together.  But even that’s not all.  George Webb notes his time studying these things, and if you’ll advance to the 12:45 mark of this video, you hear that Barr recommended that Clinton run for president, and managed to cover up the Clinton drug dealing from Arkansas, as well as Enron and many other scandals.  He was (and is) a cover-up artist.

Trump has little to no discernment, and surrounded himself with awful people for the complete four years of his administration.  This is why he will no longer be president.  I repeat myself, but a mechanic working at the FN Herstal plant in Columbia, S.C., could have done a better job at fighting the deep state – but certainly not at ensuring its survival, like William Barr did.

Ms. Susan Del Percio (Lincoln Project) wrote a commentary at NBC News that is worth reading if for no other reason to see how the other side thinks.

So what the heck has gotten into the Texas GOP? In the span of one week, the attorney general filed a seditious lawsuit with the Supreme Court and state GOP leaders are announcing they think it’s time Texas secedes from the nation.

Power — trying desperately to attain it or to hold on to it — often motivates morally and politically bizarre behavior. So does the fear of potentially going to jail. It seems even partisan PR stunts are bigger in the Lone Star State.

Last month, reports indicated that the FBI is investigating allegations that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton broke the law by using his office to serve the interests of a political donor. This would be a federal crime — a crime that President Donald Trump could pre-emptively pardon Paxton for, even though the attorney general hasn’t officially been charged with anything.

Let’s stop for a moment.  Ms. Del Percio, like many others, thinks that this is all about Trump, and I’ve heard that account about the desire for a pardon.

To most people who want honest and fair election, Trump is an irrelevant feature of this debacle.  As for the author of the lawsuit, it wouldn’t matter if it was Donald Duck.  But let’s continue.

Against the backdrop of these problems, Paxton filed a lawsuit last week asking the Supreme Court to overturn the election results in the four key battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. If these results were to be reversed, it would also reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s clear presidential win.

Clear, she says.  Let’s ignore what we all know to be true, the mountain of evidence that shows that the election was stolen, a fraud, a sham, and a hoax.  Let’s ignore the ongoing corruption in Michigan, Georgia, and elsewhere.  Let’s ignore the forensic report on the Dominion voting system results.  Biden won, and it’s clear, because the legacy media says so.

And Paxton isn’t the only Texan willing to sink to new political lows. Recently, Republican state Rep. Kyle Biedermann announced that he will introduce legislation to allow Texas to secede from the nation. His reason? “The federal government is out of control and does not represent the values of Texans.”

There is no chance that Texas will secede from the United States. Just as with Paxton’s Supreme Court ploy, the law is not on Texas’ side. Secession is simply not legal, and Biedermann should know that.

There is “no chance,” says she.  Well, I’d respond that there would be an old fashioned fight, to be sure.  The balance of Texas would have to throw-down with Dallas-Forth Worth, Austin and Houston.  But I would never say there is “no chance.”

Furthermore, the fact that someone says that it’s not legal is irrelevant, given that it will happen if a state (or compact of states) is willing to back it up with force.

Apparently wanting to hop on the secession bandwagon is Texas GOP Chairman Allen West, who suggested that “law-abiding states” should “form a Union” after the Supreme Court rejected the Texas election lawsuit.

Secession might have been an option a quarter of a century ago, but I’m less than sanguine about its possibility today.  The influx of Northerners to the South (bringing the same politics that fouled their Northern nests to the South with them) and the influx of Californians to Texas has made a peaceable solution (divorce) much less likely than a more bloody one.  Geographic boundaries are no longer conducive to such an outcome and wouldn’t support it.

But you get the main picture here.  Joe Biden won, it’s clear, everyone who wants to pursue legal avenues of appeal are engaging in sedition, and whether you want it or not, you’re going to get it good and hard when we’re in power, which is why you can’t leave home.  All your assets belong to us.

Folks, this is how the other side thinks.  This is why America is careening headlong into civil war.  She probably lives in Manhattan, and yet she isn’t worried about the ailing New York water supply system, in need to a complete rebuild, and nearing total collapse.  She isn’t worried about the fact that all of her food comes from the flyover country she so despises, and is transported into New York on vulnerable highways.

She isn’t worried about the fact that her political solutions destroy the GOP and forever leave the communists in charge (or maybe that’s her intent).  I would be investigating those sorts of vulnerabilities, as well as the vulnerability of the electrical power grid, right after I found a U-Haul and got out of Manhattan.

She wants to spend her time telling you that you are seditious, that she is smarter than you, and that you should just shut up and listen to her.  And oh, by the way, you don’t get out of this prison – that’s simply not legal.

Again, this commentary is good for understanding the gulf between you and the controllers.  You don’t think alike, you don’t see things the same way, there is no overlap or intersection of sets of what’s important to you and her, and you literally live in two different worlds.