I loaded up the trailer and rolled to the fairgrounds for the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife Show.  My friend Jack, there to help, runs over and warns me not to unload.

It seems they were waiting for word on whether or not the show would go on. They'd been calling the fairgrounds all week, and told things were fine. Then, suddenly, there's debate. After we all arrive, but not after we start setup at least. And I'm local (well, under 50 miles), so there's that.

We hang around waiting, along with the Flower and Patio Show people, and I understand why the governor had pause. Who wants 10,000 Angry Karens calling your office to complain?

Ultimately, he even stayed late to ponder this matter, because the notification of closure came down at 1626.

Show is cancelled.  At least it's early spring, not the Comic Con, the race, or GenCon.

Since I'm not a morally bankrupt, mentally retarded, intellectually corrupt, pathetic pussy, I'm not blaming the President for this.

There's a good chance in a month it will all be a bunch of nothing. If so, it's because action like this mitigated the threat, not because the threat didn't exist.

Meantime, I have lots of stuff to sell online. I have wares if you have coin.

It's hilarious when Demorrhoids and complete shitheads (But I repeat myself) attempt to claim that libertarians (Which I'm not) are somehow magically fascist or Nazi, which they claim are the same thing, while totally not being the same as their own fetishized version of a totalitarian police state.

A like-minded fellow vet and I were kicking around what we'd do if ever elected president (I'm an immigrant, so I'd have to be Benevolent Dictator).

Day 1:  Vacation of federal sentences with full pardons:

Anyone in jail on a drug charge that doesn't involve selling to minors.  Your sentence is vacated. You are pardoned.  Go engage in free market economics. This also applies to bootleggers, distillers, and anyone with a liquor license violation.

Anyone in jail on a non-violent firearm charge.  Your sentence is vacated. You are pardoned.  

Anyone in jail for a crime involving consenting adults (strippers, prostitutes, etc).  Your sentence is vacated. You are pardoned.  

Anyone who accepted a plea deal in lieu of a bunch of intimidating bullshit by the government's official jack-booted death squad and its legal apparatus:  Pardoned for the pled crime. If the Feds, State or Locals want to try again on an actual charge they think they can prove, that's up to them. Though if it's a drug or firearm charge, they may want to save their time and money.  

Tax evaders:  Sentences commuted.  IRS can hire collection agents like every other debt.

Every government agency will be instructed to continue Trump's policy of removing two regulations for every new regulation. In addition, they will be ordered to commence an immediate 10% reduction in personnel via attrition--retirement, dismissal, resignation, etc. If they need to fire additional drones to make it happen, fine. Last hired, first fired. If this means some department heads have to move back into customer service and deal with actual people, good. Oh, that's 10% per year. I want them 2/3 their current size within four years. That puts them at 43% in 8 years. Though I'd consider upping the rate to 20% for a second term. DoD and the Judiciary can petition for exceptions on a case by case basis. We would probably say no.

Only three federal agencies get to be armed:  FBI, ICE, and the Marshals.  Any agency that believes it needs armed force can call the ever-decreasing number of Marshals and request to be on the waiting list.  ICE actually needs armed guards at the border.  The FBI can arm agents who actually deal with actual criminals--terrorists, kidnappers, traffickers.

The Civilian Marksmanship Program would be immediately budgeted and instructed to update from M-1 Garands and sell AR-15s at cost to the American public.  Some of the money saved elsewhere would be used to expand shooting range access in every county. Congress would be instructed to repeal the NFA if they know what's good for them.

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I'm sure some "liberal" will be along momentarily to tardsplain how this is actually racist and fascist and I should be hanged from a gas station for dismantling the bureaucracy that makes us free.

Which is why I pretty much stopped bothering listening to anything from the American left.

If I actually express my personal opinion of the below person, his fellow travelers, who have already had several of my social media accounts silenced, attempted to ban my books and attempted to SWAT me will probably threaten my kids again.  So I'll be as moderate as I can.

 

https://twitter.com/walshfreedom/status/1231392007135907840?s=21
Joe Walsh

@WalshFreedom

I would vote for socialism over authoritarianism.

 

~

Imagine being so fucking pighead stupid that you donΓÇÖt realize itΓÇÖs the same thing.

As noted by these commenters:

Carmine Sabia

@CarmineSabia

Feb 22

Replying to

@WalshFreedom

Socialism is totalitarianism. You are not even you anymore. This is the worst case of grifting I have ever seen.

 

 

In Pursuit of Truth

@IPOT1776

┬╖

20h

Replying to

@WalshFreedom

We know. Which is why things have turned out for you the way they have.

 

Yuri Pavlov

@yuri_pavlov74

┬╖

19h

The funny thing is socialism is a euphemism for communism which is a euphemism for authoritarianism. ThatΓÇÖs ironic-ism.

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To which this creature replied:

~Devon Welsh - Bernie Sanders 2020
@devonwelsh
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14h
Can you please read up on the terms "socialism" and "totalitarianism"? Even just the Wikipedia articles for each one would help you understand how different and even radically opposed those two ideas are.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism
 Yes, this says Socialists can be totalitarian, you lying, retarded, subhuman communist piece of shit.

It even provides a list. Most of them are socialist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_totalitarian_regimes

Gee. Even Wikipoo can't hide THAT truth in leftist weasel-wording.

~~

Round Two:

Anyone reading me regularly knows I've been quite critical of Trump. He's managed to be not as bad as Hillary Clinton, the actual National Socialist, but it's a low bar.

But the "authoritarian" line, while accurate, fails at all to be scaled.  If you have anarchist me at 0% government, Trump is around 35%, Bloomberg is around 65%, and the Demorrhoid Party is pretending it's not already around 80%, cheering itself on to slide to 146%

There's the utterly ridiculous comparison to Hitler, which has been bandied about regarding almost every recent president, but in actuality is only accurate regarding FDR, who near as I can tell wanted Adolph to swing by and fuck him across the bed in an orgy of mutual anti-semitism, race hatred and eugenics.

Some things Hitler did:

Price fixing

Sanctions against LGBTs

Sanctions against Jews

Death Camps

Nationalized single payer health care

Nationalized industry

Started a world war

Banned gun ownership along racial lines

Universal gun licensing for citizens

Colluded with Russia

Instituted a military draft

Allied with Arab militants

Developed a national secret police

Banned political dissent

Sent thugs around to smash dissenters and their businesses

 

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Donald Trump, for all his faults, has done none of these.

 

 

Though the Demorrhoid Party either has previously, has as its platform, or openly endorses:

Price fixing

Sanctions against Israel

Nationalized single payer health care

Started US involvement in two world wars

Banned gun ownership along racial lines

Universal gun licensing for citizens

Colluded with the USSR

Instituted AND re-instituted the draft

Openly courts Arab militants

Openly pushes for national secret police AND has de facto created them under the table

Uses its propaganda arm (the media) to stifle dissent.

Publicly endorses thugs who go around smashing dissenters and their businesses.


So, gee, which party has all the authoritarian trappings AND violence of both the Nazis and the Communists?

Yeah, the fucking Demorrhoid Party.

They are Literally Hitler, while accusing everyone else of being so.  (Including me. Apparently, actual anarchists who despise the existence of government secretly want A REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT!  Paid for by ABSOLUTELY NO TAXES!  With the power to DO NOTHING! Except repress people by inaction!)

I'll probably get pre-banned from another convention for this, because two things Demorrhoids can't stand are redpill truth and public dissent.


 

 

Brad Smith <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
8:05 PM (42 minutes ago)
to me

The only racists are those in the GOP and Libertarian Party who fight to honor a regime whose goals were to uphold white supremacists and oppress blacks.
Fuck off.

Mike Williamson
8:47 PM (0 minutes ago)
to Brad

Um...what is this about, and whom was it intended for? Because I have no idea who you are.

You're also wrong, since no such set of parameters and people exists.  But obviously, deductive reasoning is not your strong suit.

If it was intended at me, I note that you're anti-immigrant, but that's a common issue I deal with from "liberals."

~~~

Let's deconstruct his utter ignorance here:

Republicans and Libertarians are not the same group.  They're vastly different groups. Anyone lumping them together has to be so far from the mainstream that their only discernment is "us" and "them."

The US has never had a "Regime."

No one is "fighting" to "Honor" said regime, even using the loosest definition of same.

I think he may vaguely be referencing the Confederacy (Not a "Regime"), which is long gone, and was run very much by elitist democrats, who can be typified by Mike Bloomberg (D--Wall Street), who believes poor people should have their lives controlled because they're too stupid to manage them themselves, and by Demorrhoids who insist that voter ID is racist because blacks are too stupid to get ID (which almost everyone of every demographic already has, and by omitting the poverty-stricken whites, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans make it clear they think ONLY blacks have this problem, thus demonstrating exactly the point that THEY are the racists).

If so, the LP would have nothing to do with the Confederacy due to slavery, et al.  And I've never once heard a Republican insist we need to bring back slavery. But damned if the Demorrhoids don't do everything they can to have an impoverished underclass they can order around, especially if they can keep them without immigration papers and working for a pittance (See: Much of the Hollywood elite and scads of politicians).

So all I'm getting is that this guy is ignorant and angry that his own side's racism and elitism are so blatant.  But rather than try to fix them, he wants to project them onto normal people.