Reader’s Links for June 13th, 2024

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36 Replies to “Reader’s Links for June 13th, 2024”

  2. The known unknowns are the lies we haven’t yet found out. Here, Chairman Powell admits last Friday’s Jobs report was a lie, as has seemingly been every jobs report for some time now. The Biden administration pressures the Federal Reserve to lie for political purposes.

    “…we were shocked when none other than the Fed chair admitted today that the Biden admin was rigging jobs data.

    In response to a question from a Bloomberg journalist during the post-FOMC presser, asking the Fed chair to comment on the state of the labor market, the Fed Chair said that two years ago the labor market was “overheated” and has since gotten back to “normal”, largely thanks to “supply from to immigration” – translation: illegal aliens have been the main reasons for the increase in employment and the drop in wages and thus, overall inflation, which as we discussed recently, is the narrative that is being pushed out to mitigate demands by most Americans to halt illegal immigration…”

    The problem is that these statistical fabrications distort markets and cost investors billions of dollars in the process. These investors are people like you and I just trying to deploy our modest capital to survive. These distortions cause massive capital destruction.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-chair-powell-admits-biden-admin-overstating-jobs

    • We all know the left hates the Middle Class, they are working hard to destroy that section of our economies.

    • IF one took the time to look at the VARES numbers after the first week of injecting innocent, fear filled people, they may have changed their minds. What a terrible tragedy the MSM, POLITICIANS, many so called doctors were allowed / paid to promote the jabs.

      One of Canada’s leading newspapers ran an ongoing tally of all the people who were DYING of Covid. Their opinion column misfits were allowed to curse anyone who did not fall in line and get the jab. They never mentioned the VARES Report numbers. Just FEAR, FEAR, FEAR. Stay home, stay safe, GET THE JAB.

      Canada’s head clown kept yelping about the unvaccinated, the uncaring, self centered, misogynistic………”Should we tolerate them”?

      Four years later I can not help but think of the lines in the song Old Man River “He must know sumpin. But don’t say nothin. He just keeps rollin (bullshitting) along”.

    • Love that he used the words out breaking…..sorta like a pandemic that started in China, you know the pandemic that was discussed at Event 201 way back on October 18, 2019.

      Methinks peoplekind are FINALLY figuring out it is not a good situation when the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the “Environment Minister, the PM’s advisor, Mark Carney, and many, many more clowns in the Canadian government show allegiance to the WEFFY peoplekind who say we will own nothing, eat bugs and be happy.

      Where I live
      All the conifers are brown
      And the sky is grey
      Geeez Bo’s collaborators
      Keep spraying
      Killing more (of us)
      Everyday

      Population replace clowns worldwide

  8. An MS-13 gang leader whom authorities have been hunting for more than three years was arrested on Sunday in Houston, Texas.

    Authorities with the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations took Cesar Humberto Lopez-Larios into custody at George Bush Intercontinental Airport and slapped him with several charges, KHOU reported Thursday.

    An image shows the suspect, who is a high-ranking leader of the violent gang:

    https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/06/13/officials-ms-13-gang-leader-who-was-among-twelve-apostles-of-the-devil-nabbed-in-houston/

  11. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday that his country will withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Russia-dominated security bloc that includes the former Soviet territories in Central Asia.

    Armenia is furious with Russia because it allowed majority-Muslim Azerbaijan to commit ethnic cleansing against the Armenian Christian residents of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

    Nagorno-Karabakh, which Armenian residents referred to as the “Republic of Artsakh,” is an autonomous region in the mountainous border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. When the Soviet Union fell, Artsakh wound up on the Azeri side of the border, even though Armenians had lived there for hundreds of years.

    https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/06/13/armenia-dumps-russia-security-bloc-after-christian-genocide/

  13. Women’s sports activist Riley Gaines calls for the NCAA to strip transgender swimmer Lia Thomas of his titles in the wake of his failure to get international swimming to let him apply for the U.S. Women’s Olympics swimming team.

    On Wednesday, Thomas lost his case against World Aquatics, the international group that governs swimming competitions. Thomas hoped to force World Aquatics to repeal its strict rules for transgender inclusion that ban males who “transitioned” after puberty from competing in the women’s categories. But the court of arbitration for sport ruled that since Thomas was not a member of World Aquatics, he had no standing to bring the case, and it was thrown out, allowing the group’s transgender inclusion rules to stand.

    Thomas, who took several NCAA titles when he was swimming for UPenn’s women’s swimming team in 2022, wanted to try out for the U.S. women’s Olympic swim team, but World Aquatic rules prevented his entry.

    With all this swirling around swimming this week, former NCAA champion and save women’s sports activist Riley Gaines is urging the NCAA to take action.

    https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/06/13/riley-gaines-urges-ncaa-to-strip-lia-thomas-of-titles-after-world-aquatics-ruling/

  14. A ballot initiative to amend parts of Proposition 47, the 2014 “criminal justice reform” that many blame for a wave of crime and retail theft in California, has officially qualified for the November ballot, according to California officials.

    …

    The ballot initiative is officially called the “Homelessness, Drug Addiction & Theft Reduction Act.” It proposes:

    This measure will:

    A. Provide drug and mental health treatment for people who are addicted to hard drugs such
    as fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.

    B. Add fentanyl to existing laws that prohibit the possession of hard drugs while armed with
    a loaded firearm.

    C. Add fentanyl to existing laws that prohibit the trafficking of large quantities of hard
    drugs.

    D. Permit judges to use their discretion to _sentence drug dealers to state prison instead of
    county jail when they are convicted of trafficking hard drugs in large quantities or are
    armed with a firearm while engaging in drug trafficking.

    E. W am convicted hard drug dealers and manufacturers that they can be charged with
    murder if they continue to traffic in hard drugs and someone dies as a result.

    F. Reinstate penalties for hard drug dealers whose trafficking kills or seriously injures a
    drug user.

    G. Increase penalties for people who repeatedly engage in theft.

    H. Add new laws to address the increasing problem of “smash and grab” thefts that result in
    significant losses and damage, or that are committed by multiple thieves working
    together.

    An activist group, Californians for Safer Communities, has spearheaded the initiative. They had gathered enough signatures by late April, but only officially qualified for the ballot this week.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/13/referendum-to-amend-proposition-47-qualifies-for-california-ballot-despite-democrat-opposition/

  15. Pro-Palestinian students reportedly occupied an administration building for several hours on Wednesday evening, trapping staff inside and trashing the premises before leaving after midnight. There were apparently no arrests.

    https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/06/13/pro-palestinian-activists-trash-building-trap-staff-at-cal-state-la/

    Brent Bozell III’s son faced a charge of “terrorism enhancement” for going into the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Bozell said during an interview on Breitbart News discussing his son’s case.

    Bozell, who is the founder and president of the Media Research Center, has been silent up to his son’s sentencing, fearing that anything said publicly could be used against his son. He said his son is not overtly political but was among those who legitimately believed the election was stolen. He walked into the Capitol on January 6, breaking two windows in the process, and has admitted to that. However, he anticipated that the prosecution would hit him with another charge, especially if the obstruction charge was dropped.
    …
    “On the eve of sentencing, they hit him with the most incredible charge imaginable: Terrorism enhancement. They claim that what he did was an act of terrorism.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/13/exclusive-brent-bozell-they-tried-charge-my-son-terrorism-enhancement-january-6/

  16. An Afghan migrant in Germany is being investigated for attempted murder after a Ukrainian woman was stabbed in a Frankfurt park bench on Monday.

    According to a joint release from the Frankfurt Police and Prosecutor’s Office, a 19-year-old man from Afghanistan seriously injured a 41-year-old woman as she was sitting by the River Main on Monday.

    The police said that the Afghan migrant came upon the woman unnoticed from behind, grabbed her by the shoulders, and began to stab her neck and head with a boxcutter knife.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/06/13/germany-afghan-migrant-arrested-after-ukrainian-refugee-stabbed-in-park/

  17. A far-left organization in New York City that has been at the forefront of anti-Israel protests has vowed to “shut down DC” when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to speak before Congress.

    Netanyahu will be speaking before a joint meeting of Congress on July 24. The People’s Forum wrote in a post on X on Wednesday that the group would be shutting down Washington, DC, when Netanyahu arrives and would “issue a notice of a citizen’s arrest.”

    “The people charge Benjamin Netanyahu with genocide,” the group wrote. “When the car criminal comes to Washington DC on July 24, we will SHUT DOWN DC and issue a notice of a citizen’s arrest.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/12/radicals-plot-shutdown-dc-netanyahu-address-congress/

  20. American law enforcement agencies across the country are investigating at least 100 crimes perpetrated by suspected members of the vicious Venezuelan street gang named the Tren de Aragua.

    But most of these criminals are slipping into the U.S. because the Border Patrol is not stopping them ahead of time, and when they do stop them, by Biden’s orders they are simply releasing them within hours to go on their way into the U.S.

    https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/06/12/bidens-migration-crisis-has-imported-venezuelan-gang-tren-de-aragua-crime-wave/

  22. About a year ago, I received a phone call from John Eastman, the prominent constitutional scholar. He was facing disbarment proceedings for the advice he had given President Trump, had read my book (Debunked), and wanted me to testify on his behalf at the forthcoming California disbarment trial. Of course, I was eager to testify because I believed (and still believe) that the six key swing state elections in 2020 were not certifiable. The specific reasons are laid out in the book.

    Originally, I was one of seven “experts” selected by Eastman and his attorney, Randy Miller. As experts, we would be able to give our opinions regarding the integrity of the election. However, well financed attorneys for the California State Bar Association (SBA) immediately objected — to every witness. Most of the time, Judge Yvette Roland was eager to oblige the SBA.

    …

    In the final analysis, Her Honor disqualified most of the defense experts, including defendant John Eastman (arguably the nation’s foremost expert on constitutional issues); Michael Gableman (a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and the special counsel who conducted a comprehensive review of the 2020 Wisconsin election); and Garland Favorito, who has performed extensive election research for more than a decade and has testified as an expert in other courtrooms. We would be allowed to testify as fact witnesses. The testimony of some other experts was completely barred.

    …

    In the past, it was normal to hear a lawyer proclaim the innocence of his client. “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client did not kill his wife!” Later, when the jury decided that the client had, indeed, killed his wife, the attorney did not face disbarment for lying to the court. The lawyer who supported the views and legal options of her client was considered a good and dedicated defense attorney. Not anymore.

    But let’s get back to my testimony in the John Eastman trial. In the final analysis, I did not testify at all — even as a fact witness. That was extremely unfair to John Eastman, and to the standards of justice we used to cherish in America.

    …

    In the end, it was for nothing, and the judge would not let me testify. Why? Because I sounded more like an expert than a fact witness: “To testify about his analysis of this material and, to offer an opinion regarding it, falls within the role of an expert.”

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/my_testimony_at_the_eastman_disbarment_trial.html

  23. How the Obama-Biden Machine Intimidated Jews to Hate Trump
    By Leo Goldstein
    How did Democrats convince so many Jews that Trump is racist and antisemite in 2017?

    The Democrats have been calling Republicans racists and worse for decades, so mere propaganda could not have achieved that.

    What I found in searching for the answer might also explain how anti-Trump sentiment spread over society, rising to the level of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

    Start with the series of JCC threats.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/how_the_obama_biden_machine_intimidated_jews_to_hate_trump.html

  24. As the Shadow War Between Iran and Israel Continues, There’s More Talk About Nukes From the Islamic Regime
    by J.M. Phelps Jun. 13, 2024 11:00 am153 Comments

    With Israel in the crosshairs over threats to attack Iran’s nuclear sites, a senior foreign policy figure in Tehran suggests Iran might already have the nuclear capability to keep them at bay.

    Last month, Iran International reported Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani’s announcement concerning the possession of nuclear weapons by the Iranian regime. Re-elected to parliament in March, the insider politician said:

    “[Iran has] achieved nuclear weapons, but we do not announce it. It means our policy is to possess nuclear bombs, but our declared policy is currently within the framework of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). The reason is that when countries want to confront others, their capabilities must be compatible, and Iran’s compatibility with America and Israel means that Iran must have nuclear weapons.”

    The Gateway Pundit spoke to Clare Lopez about Ardestani’s remarks. Lopez, founder and president of Lopez Liberty, LLC, and long-time researcher of the Iranian nuclear threat, said, “Considering all the evidence, it’s very plausible.” She explained that Ardestani would not have been allowed to make his statements without, first, the approval of the regime.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/as-shadow-war-between-iran-israel-continues-theres/

  25. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn’s Los Angeles Home Burglarized Twice in Few Months, Now Require 24/7 Security
    by Ben Kew Jun. 13, 2024 9:45 am469 Comments

    California’s crime wave shows no sign of abating.

    According to actress Goldie Hawn, the Los Angeles home she shares with partner Kurt Russell was burglarized twice in the space of a few months.

    Speaking on an episode of Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast, Hawn said the “terrible” crime wave had forced them to relocate to Palm Desert, more than 100 miles outside of the city they used to live in.

    “I walked into my closet and I just lost it,” Hawn said of the first incident. “They had broken in from the balcony to our bedroom, our closets. And they completely knocked down my door, which is a safe door, so they’re very, very sophisticated, and they got a lot of my goodies.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/kurt-russell-goldie-hawns-los-angeles-home-burglarized/

    • They should move to the Muskokas north of Toronto where they have or had a cottage.

  26. SHOCK POLL: 66% of Voters Believe Outcome of 2024 Presidential Election Will Be Affected by Cheating
    by Jim Hoft Jun. 13, 2024 9:30 am306 Comments

    This may be the most honest polling numbers of the year.
    Fully two-thirds of Americans believe the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election will be affected by cheating.

    This comes from Rasmussen Reports and matches their previous record on the same question.

    Via Rasmussen.

    read the rest at

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/shock-poll-66-voters-believe-outcome-2024-presidential/

  27. Next month, Hungary takes over the EU presidency, which has a veto power. The rest of the EU is trying to activate ‘Article 7’ which would strip them of the veto right and perhaps restrict their voting rights. This video brief explores that.

  28. US Military Bases Unprepared for Rising Threats From Communist China
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/us-military-bases-unprepared-rising-threats-communist-china/
    Jun. 13, 2024 4:00 pm
    Commentary
    FBI Director Christopher Wray and National Security Agency Director Gen. Timothy Haugh have stated that the recent Chinese cyber assault on America’s critical infrastructure is preparation for conflict with the United States.
    In the face of these indicators and warnings, a wartime posture of dispersing forces across new and different sites, hardening facilities (with more guards and missile defenses), and actively camouflaging the dispersed and hardened locations would be prudent. By operating Department of Defense (DOD) facilities in a wartime manner, a strong message of readiness and deterrence would be communicated.
    However, the spirit of Army Lt. Gen. Walter Short and Navy Adm. Husband E. Kimmel seems to have prevailed so far.
    In February 1941, Short and Kimmel arrived in Hawaii to take over the Army and Navy forces. In what has been characterized in hindsight as a major strategic error of judgment, in the face of rising tensions with Japan, they dismissed a wartime posture of dispersing, hardening, and camouflaging military sites. Instead, they both chose to guard their forces by administratively grouping the ships and planes to guard them. This deadly mistake ensured the aircraft and ships of the Army and Navy were much easier to attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
    History seems to be repeating itself. Dealing with rising tensions with the Chinese regime, little if any DOD wartime posture actions have been communicated or detected that should have been triggered by Chinese spy balloons, suspicious foreign land purchases, a pervasive cyber assault on U.S. critical infrastructure, and military facilities experiencing a surge of active penetration attempts by foreign nationals, often from China—including a recent revelation of a Chinese national flying a drone to spy on U.S. submarine construction.
    Ominous ‘Dry Run’ Attempt to Enter a DOD Facility
    Two Jordanians made the most recent attempt to enter a DOD site, gaining entry into Quantico Marine Corps Base. The pair said they were “Amazon subcontractors” attempting to make a delivery. The two Jordanians were stopped after Marine gate guards deployed a vehicle denial barrier to block their path. The Jordanians were arrested and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They have been determined to be non-U.S. citizens, and one of them is reported to be on the terrorist watch list.
    Local reporter Kelly Sienkowski, who broke the original story, followed up with a story on May 16 titled “ICE confirms attack on Quantico; Ignores questions on terrorist threat.” Quantico has Marine training facilities, but it is also the home base to the Presidential Helicopter Squadron, Drug Enforcement Agency offices, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy, and the very important FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), which the agency refers to as “federal law enforcement’s only full-time counterterrorism unit.”
    The HRT is a very important asset in responding to domestic terrorist events, such as Chinese special operators carrying out attacks within the United States. One former Quantico staffer reportedly characterized the attempted breach at Quantico as a “dry run.”
    An Intent to Disrupt Space Launches, US Readiness?
    A focus of the Chinese efforts has been in Florida, where Chinese nationals have attempted to enter Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Key West Naval facilities.
    Cape Canaveral has two parts: the well-known Kennedy Space Center, which focuses on civil space activities, and the not-as-well-known Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which focuses on classified military and intelligence space activities. The Chinese were found scuba diving right off the launch pads on the facilities. From where they were caught, the scuba divers could have used sniper rifles or rockets to damage or destroy space launch activities.
    In Key West, Florida, three Chinese nationals were convicted in 2020 for attempting to enter the Navy facilities. The Navy facilities are about 90 miles north of the Chinese spy base in Lourdes, Cuba, revealed in 2023. The Chinese Key West operation could have assessed U.S. readiness to detect and respond to the stealth expansion of Chinese spy and military activities in Cuba and the Chinese influence operations in the Bahamas.
    Hardening Efforts Begin, but Force Dispersion, Camouflage Needed
    At the height of the Cold War, U.S. bases in Europe were greatly dispersed, hardened, and camouflaged to protect them from Soviet special forces raids or aircraft and missile strikes. Hardened and camouflaged facilities were everywhere, and repelling a Soviet Spetsnaz attack was a very real scenario that was taken very seriously.
    The “Pacific Pivot” was started in 2010. Thirteen years later, it is hard to see any manifestation of wartime readiness in the Pacific or anywhere in the DOD. Congress has finally noticed this and is forcing the DOD to explain why China has built 400 hardened aircraft shelters in the past 10 years while the DOD has built only 22. DOD press photos routinely show Air Force aircraft neatly lined up at Pacific bases, much like 1941 pre-attack Hawaii (although a number of these photos have been taken down).
    The DOD should ensure all of the airfields in the Pacific and even some in the continental United States have hardened shelters for all aircraft, fuel depots, ammunition storage, crew quarters, command centers, and other critical facilities. Facilities such as Anderson Air Force Base in Guam have a significant concentration of aircraft. Additional bases should be constructed. A new air base close to Tinian is being developed, but more are needed.
    In the continental United States, all of the Navy’s fighter/attack aircraft are in one location, Naval Air Station Lemoore, California—close to where the mysterious Chinese national-operated “bio-warfare” lab was discovered. This high concentration of aircraft should be sent to several new bases.
    Finally, like in World War II, when “faux” cities were built over aircraft factories, generous camouflaging should be deployed to make the hardened, dispersed bases more resilient and ready.
    All viewpoints are personal and do not reflect the viewpoints of any organization.

  29. (Richard: Johnny how do you like these apples?)

    Trump Drops Bombshell Proposal: Allegedly Suggests Eliminating Income Tax in Favor of High Import Tariffs During DC Republicans Meeting
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/trump-drops-bombshell-proposal-allegedly-suggests-eliminating-income/
    Jun. 13, 2024 4:40 pm
    Trump meets House GOP in Washington, DC

    President Donald Trump reportedly floated a bold proposal on Thursday to abolish income tax and implement an “all tariff policy,” the CNBC first reported.

    This bombshell proposal was made during a private meeting with Republican lawmakers at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C., to pitch his plan to Make America Great Again.

    CNBC reported that the meeting, held at a Business Roundtable event, included prominent business figures such as Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Carlyle Group CEO Harvey Schwartz, and AT&T CEO John Stankey, among others.

    The news outlet cited anonymous sources and reported that President Trump proposed abolishing income taxes and adopting an “all-tariff policy.”

    In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote, “Great meeting with Republican Representatives. Lots discussed, all positive, great poll numbers!”

    Trump’s strategy aims to empower the U.S. by cutting ties with traditional taxation methods that he claims stifle economic growth and personal prosperity.

    He sees high import tariffs as a means to level the international playing field and penalize “bad actors” on the global stage who have long taken advantage of more lenient U.S. trade policies.

    Beginning in 2018, Trump introduced tariffs of up to 25% on a range of Chinese goods. These tariffs were employed as a strategic tool in negotiations, designed to impact China’s economy and compel Beijing to negotiate a new trade agreement that would tackle issues like intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers.

    “For 10 months, China has been paying Tariffs to the USA of 25% on 50 Billion Dollars of High Tech, and 10% on 200 Billion Dollars of other goods. These payments are partially responsible for our great economic results. The 10% will go up to 25% on Friday. 325 Billions Dollars of additional goods sent to us by China remain untaxed, but will be shortly, at a rate of 25%. The Tariffs paid to the USA have had little impact on product cost, mostly borne by China. The Trade Deal with China continues, but too slowly, as they attempt to renegotiate. No!” Trump wrote in 2019.

    ….of additional goods sent to us by China remain untaxed, but will be shortly, at a rate of 25%. The Tariffs paid to the USA have had little impact on product cost, mostly borne by China. The Trade Deal with China continues, but too slowly, as they attempt to renegotiate. No!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2019

    Despite these tariffs, the prices of imported goods remained unaffected under Trump’s administration.

    READ:

    In Spite of Increasing Tariffs, US Import Costs DOWN in May — US Economic Numbers OUTSTANDING Overall!

    Sorry Democrats and Never-Trumpers… Import Prices are Down Despite Trump Tariffs!

    Historic Presidency: Trump’s China Tariffs Protected the US from Major Coronavirus Impact on US Economy (Video)

    Last week, during a rally in Las Vegas, President Trump also announced a groundbreaking proposal that resonates deeply with the working class: eliminating all taxes on tips for restaurants, hospitality workers, and others who receive tips.

    In his speech, Trump focused heavily on economic relief for working-class Americans, specifically targeting those in service industries who rely significantly on tips.

    “This is the first time I’ve said this,” Trump announced, “and for those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy. When I get back into office, we are going to eliminate taxes on tips. We’re going to do that right away, first thing in office.”

  30. Read more: https://www.nssf.org/articles/president-biden-threatens-war-on-u-s-citizens-repeats-gun-control-tropes/#ixzz8d4Vh08Tz
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    President Biden Threatens War On U.S. Citizens, Repeats Gun Control Lies
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on June 13, 2024 by F Riehl, Editor in Chief

    Opinion
    By Mark Oliva

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    Just hours after Hunter Biden was convicted on three counts of falsifying the background check form (ATF Form 4473) when he purchased a handgun, President Joe Biden, his father, delivered a speech demanding more gun control.

    President Biden spoke to Everytown for Gun Safety’s “Gun Sense University” in Washington, D.C., in a “rinse, lather, repeat,” performance of nearly every other gun control speech he’s delivered since he announced his candidacy for The White House. This time, he accentuated his threat to wage war on law-abiding gun owners who cherish their Second Amendment rights, pilloried those who value those rights as a hedge against a tyrannical government and vowed to defy the Second Amendment and U.S. Supreme Court by banning the most popular-selling centerfire rifle in America – the Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR).

    “How many have heard this phrase, the blood of liberty washes those… gimme a break,” President Biden said. “No, I mean it. Seriously. And by the way, if they want to think they want to take on government if we get out of line, which they’re talking again about, guess what, they need F-15s. They don’t need a rifle.”

    The president’s quote was off the mark. It’s actually, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” It comes from President Thomas Jefferson, in 1787 letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams.
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    This talk of an American president openly suggesting that he would use actual instruments of war against citizens of the United States is beyond callous. It is dangerous and must be rebuked. The people are not the president’s subjects. The president is beholden to the people – he serves the people. A threat of war on them by the government is the very reason the Second Amendment exists – to protect the people against a tyrannical government.

    This isn’t the first time President Biden’s rolled out this trope against law-abiding citizens who are also law-abiding gun owners. It is as repugnant now as it was then.
    Cannon Thunder

    There’s more he got wrong about history. He trotted out the tired line that nothing in the law says citizens could own cannons – this during the Civil War. Previously, he said that there was a cannon restriction during the Revolutionary War.

    “There’s never been a time that says you can own anything you want,” President Biden said. “You couldn’t own a cannon during the Civil War. No, I’m serious.”

    Once again, he’s wrong. There was no restriction on owning cannons during the Civil War. Or the Revolutionary War. Or now. It’s legal to own one. To be honest, I never really wanted to own a cannon until President Biden said I couldn’t – without proof of law that you can’t.

    Turns out, there are working cannons on sale now. Anyone with between $5,000 and $13,000 can do some shopping for Civil War-era cannons today. Just last week, Virginia’s Gov. Glenn Younkin was firing a cannon to dedicate the new Culpeper Battlefield State Park. Conservative commentator Katie Pavlich posted on X, “A fact check on Biden’s speech today, one I have done many times. You can own a cannon.” The photo accompanying is Pavlich leaning against a Civil War-era cannon.

    President Biden wasn’t done ignoring history to push his unconstitutional gun control agenda.
    Stop Me If You’ve Heard This Before

    “It’s time, once again, to do what I did when I was senator. Ban assault weapons,” President Biden said. “I mean it. Who, in God’s name, needs a magazine that can hold 200 shells. Nobody. That’s right. Think about it. They’re weapons of war.”

    First, as the president conveniently ignores, the Bill of Rights isn’t contingent upon what the government believes citizens need. It’s a right. Period. Full stop. The Second Amendment takes the choice away from the government.

    Second, the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, which even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted did nothing to reduce criminal misuse of firearms, would clearly be unconstitutional. The law expired in 2004 before the landmark Heller decision, that held the government cannot ban an entire class of firearms that are commonly-owned and commonly-used for lawful purposes. Seeing that there are over 28.1 million of these rifles – the most popular selling centerfire rifle in America and more common than Ford F-150s on the road today (the most popular selling pickup truck in America), the idea of banning these semiautomatic rifles doesn’t pass the sniff test, much less constitutional muster. Add to that the Court’s Bruen holdings, and it’s clear there is no history and tradition of banning entire classes of firearms. A sober look at the history and tradition at the time of the nation’s founding demonstrates the government encouraged citizens to own firearms that were suitable to for not just hunting but also national defense.

    The president’s truth-stretching continued. He scorned the bipartisan Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, claiming that its protections are solely unique to the firearm industry.

    “And by the way, this is the most important, the only industry in America that has immunity are gun dealers,” he said. “We gotta end it. End it now. No, I mean it.”

    Except, that’s not true either. The firearm industry is protected from frivolous lawsuits that attempt to saddle businesses with the blame for the criminal misuse of firearms by remote third parties that have no connection to the companies. In other words – criminals. Gun control advocates use this to attempt to bypass the legislative process to force policies through the courts.

    That protection isn’t unique. Other industries enjoy similar protections, including airlines, medical device makers, pharmaceuticals (including all the COVID vaccine makers) and big tech.

    There’s more but it’s more of President Biden consistently misrepresenting the facts. The problem is, facts don’t matter to the president when it comes to his gun control agenda. It turns out, he doesn’t give much thought to threatening war against citizens for demanding their rights either.

    That’s not just ignorance. That’s dangerous.

  31. RFK, Jr’s VP Pick Warns About Biden’s Gun Control Agenda
    By Tom Knighton | 2:29 PM | June 13, 2024
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. comes from Democratic royalty, but he’s running as an independent. Then again, he’s got some views that are so far out from the mainstream that Democrats wouldn’t touch him with a 10-foot pole.
    Yet some of his views show that he hasn’t completely broken away from his family roots. After all, he admits that an assault weapon ban won’t do much, but would still sign an assault weapon ban into law.
    So yeah, he’s far from an ideal alternative.
    I mean, he picked a vice presidential candidate that no one had ever heard of.
    Then again, she’s at least capable of talking sense.
    Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vice presidential nominee, Nicole Shanahan, affirmed her support for the Second Amendment as the Biden-Harris campaign continues to push for tougher gun control policies. 
    During a long-form podcast with YouTuber Ian Carroll, Shanahan said, “The Second Amendment is really important to preserve. And if the issue is gun shootings and mass shootings, which is a real issue, we need to get to the root of the issue.”
    “Taking away liberties while obfuscating the issue around mental health is not going to lead us to a better tomorrow,” Shanahan continued. “Maybe that makes me less liberal, but I actually think it makes me quite actually progressive in my thinking that we can’t strip people of their liberties — ever.” 
    That sounds like, well, me in a lot of ways. I’ve long been in favor of getting to the root of the problem rather than trying to attack something that’s peripheral to the issue, which is all gun control does. The issue is that people want to kill others in job lots and don’t really care about surviving the encounter.
    That’s a huge issue and taking away guns won’t make that problem go away. After all, it’s not like Oklahoma City was a mass shooting, yet it killed 168 people–that’s more than any two mass shootings in this country’s modern history.
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    So Shanahan is talking sense, which isn’t really what I expected. Then again, Shanahan was named as a complete unknown, someone who had fundraised for RFK but really had no other political credentials anyone could find.
    It’s just a shame that as an independent candidate, these comments will disappear into the ether. They won’t get picked up by any major news organization and publicized like they would if Kamala Harris said something, despite the fact that there’s clearly more intelligence behind these comments than anything the vice president might say.
    But maybe, just maybe, this idea that we should target the underlying issues is starting to catch on. Maybe we can start looking at why people become so filled with rage that they want to kill everyone and everything that crosses their path.
    If we can reach that point as a society, we might actually start to do something.
    Unfortunately, there are far too many people who genuinely believe that the problem is guns, that bombings, arson, stabbings, and other tools of mass murder are somehow more tolerable than someone misusing a tool that is used far more often to protect life than to take it.