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“They’re losing their minds, ” said Argyle shaking his head. He pulled away from the telescope. “I think the internet is making them a bit crazy. ”
“You’re probably right about that,” Merle replied. “We went through the same thing in the fourth century, but a little differently. Somehow we went straight to organic computing.”
Argyle gulped his Mung blood, going back to place his eye on the telescope.
“Uh-oh. Guess what, they’re coming here!”
“To Mars?”
“Yup. What will we do?”
“What we always do. Hide.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/faa-greenlights-5x-more-starship-launches-mars-mission-looms
“–And their currencies are suffering from logarithmic decay,” said Merle.
“Indeed. Isn’t it incredible how obvious it is for us on Mars to see it, yet the vast majority on Earth cannot get their minds around it.”
“To be fair,” said Merle, “normalcy bias is very powerful. Why kind of animal is so alert to the gradual effects of logarithmic decay that they are actually willing to act on what amounts to an intuitive response?”
“Half a percent. Maybe up to one percent,” said Argyle.
“How do you arrive at that number?”
“That is the percentage of the American population holding physical precious metals.”
“Only?” replied Merle, surprised. He took a long haul on his cigar then washed it down with Mung blood. “Extraordinary how the population was brainwashed to choose printed paper over metal. But…a hundred years is hard to shake off.”
“In the defense of Earthlings,” said Argyle, “hindsight is ALWAYS twenty-twenty. It is so easy to understand reading history books about a one-hundred year timeline condensed to three pages.”
“Right. So what you’re saying is the musical chairs have begun. –Elites steal fiat, convert to hard assets as quickly as possible while knowing the remaining ninety-nine percent of the population get to eat cake.”
“Yup.” Argyle sat back and poured himself another glass of Mung blood.
https://youtu.be/eO7aGj6CXO4?si=bj-NnDxWXEn5q06S
A national 1.2 billion class-action lawsuit against Monsanto (now Bayer) makers of the widely used herbicide Roundup has officially been certified by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The case, which was originally filed in 2019, alleges that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and similar herbicides, is linked to a rare form of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The lawsuit also claims that the companies failed to adequately warn users about potential risks and misrepresented the safety of their glyphosate-based products.
Dr. Roger Hodkinson will keep his medical license after the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta hit him with only minor sanctions over his outspoken criticism of Covid-19 policies.
He told the truth.
Pharma stocks tumbled the day Peter Marks, director of the agency within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration responsible for authorizing vaccines, resigned under pressure from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Shares of Moderna, BioNTech, Novavax and Pfizer declined 11%, 7%, 6%, and 2% respectively.
Oh goody, there is a new boss of the World Economic Forum, well temporary new boss. This new head of the disconnected clown show is Peter Brabeck-Letmathe. He believes water is a privilege.
I think his being water boarded is his right.
“I Touch Whoever I Want Motherf*cker!” BREAKING: ICE Bodycam Footage Shows Dem Rep LaMonica McIver Verbally and Physically Assaulting Federal Agents (VIDEO)
by Cristina Laila May. 10, 2025 11:00 am434 Comments
Lock her up and expel her from Congress!
ICE bodycam footage showed Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver verbally abusing and physically assaulting federal agents at a detention facility in Newark.
Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver (woman in the red jacket) physically attacked ICE agents at Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, on Friday.
Democrat members of Congress and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka went to ‘inspect’ the Delaney Hall detention facility in New Jersey when a violent altercation broke out amid a breach.
In February, ICE announced it was expanding detention capacity with the Delaney Hall facility.
“This detention center is the first to open under the new administration,” said acting ICE Director Caleb Vitello in February. “The location near an international airport streamlines logistics, and helps facilitate the timely processing of individuals in our custody as we pursue President Trump’s mandate to arrest, detain and remove illegal aliens from our communities.”
Angry over the Trump Administration’s efforts to lock up illegals, the Democrats began shouting at ICE agents as they stormed the facility.
click through to read the rest and see the video
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/i-touch-whoever-i-want-motherfcker-ice-bodycam/
BREAKING: President Trump Announces FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE Between India and Pakistan After U.S.-Led Talks
by Jim H?ft May. 10, 2025 11:20 am32 Comments
President Donald Trump announced today that India and Pakistan have agreed to a “full and immediate ceasefire,” concluding a period of intense cross-border hostilities that had escalated to the most severe confrontation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors in decades.
The ceasefire agreement was reached following overnight negotiations mediated by the United States, with key involvement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.
President Trump shared the announcement on his social media platform, Truth Social, stating:
“After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE. Congratulations to both Countries on using Common Sense and Great Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Click through and read the rest
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-president-trump-announces-full-immediate-ceasefire-between/
Former D.C. Attorney with International Ties Arrested on Tax Evasion, Fraud Charges After Returning to U.S.
by Jim H?ft May. 10, 2025 10:30 am80 Comments
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/former-d-c-attorney-international-ties-arrested-tax/
Why Semi-Auto Bans Are Unconstitutional
By Tom Knighton | 12:30 PM | May 10, 2025
AP Photo/Michael Conroy
So, the short answer to the question of why semi-auto bans are unconstitutional is pretty simple. “What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ is unclear?”
But the truth of the matter is that a lot of people who don’t read pro-Second Amendment media aren’t likely to accept that argument, unfortunately. Life would be simpler if they did, but alas.
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Yet the truth of the matter is that semi-auto bans, such as those currently being attempted in Illinois, are unconstitutional, and there’s an argument beyond just quoting the Second Amendment.
In fact, if you look at the jurisprudence, it’s pretty damn clear.
On April 30, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California) introduced the so-called “Assault Weapons Ban of 2025.” Picking up where his predecessor Dianne Feinstein left off, Schiff’s legislation would ban commonly owned semi-automatic firearms, such as the AR-15.
A week earlier, Illinois state Sen. Celina Villanueva, also a Democrat, filed SB2652, the so-called “Responsible Gun Manufacturing Act.” A companion House bill, HB4045 was filed a few days later. These bills would ban the ubiquitous Glock semi-automatic handguns.
Semi-automatic gun bans are bad policy, as demonstrated for all during the 1994-2004 Clinton “assault weapons” ban. However, these recent gun ban efforts are notable because they are directly athwart U.S. Supreme Court precedent on the Second Amendment.
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), opinion author Justice Antonin Scalia made clear that the types of firearms protected by the Second Amendment include those “in common use at the time” for “lawful purposes like self-defense.”
If after Heller there was any remaining doubt as to what Justice Scalia meant in his opinion, as it pertained to semi-automatic rifles, the justice settled it in 2015. That year, Justice Scalia joined Justice Clarence Thomas in a dissent from the denial of certiorari in Friedman v. Highland Park, a case concerning a local ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms.
In the dissent, Justice Thomas lamented that despite the Supreme Court’s holdings in Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, “several Courts of Appeals … have upheld categorical bans on firearms that millions of Americans commonly own for lawful purposes,” which he made clear was “noncompliance with our Second Amendment precedents.”
Justice Thomas went on to explain:
Roughly five million Americans own AR-style semiautomatic rifles. The overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for lawful purposes, including self-defense and target shooting. Under our precedents, that is all that is needed for citizens to have a right under the Second Amendment to keep such weapons.
Further, in the 1994 case Staples v. United States, the Supreme Court determined that semi-automatic rifles were common. The case concerned the mens rea requirement for a conviction for possession of an unregistered machine gun. The subject of the case had argued that he was unaware that the AR-15 in his possession had been modified for automatic fire and was not simply a legal semi-automatic AR-15.
In the majority opinion, Justice Thomas made clear that the mere possession of a converted AR-15 is not enough to infer a mens rea sufficient for conviction, as some firearms are, “so commonplace and generally available that we would not consider them to alert individuals to the likelihood of strict regulation.” Justice Thomas went on to write that most categories of guns, including semi-automatic rifles, “traditionally have been widely accepted as lawful possessions.” Justices David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg signed onto Thomas’s opinion.
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Now, I’m not a huge fan of the “commonly owned” argument, in part because that’s not remotely defined in any firm and concrete way, which means there will be a debate over every gun on the planet as to whether it’s commonly owned enough to qualify.
Plus, if some new gun technology comes out that changes everything, Congress can theoretically ban it before it’s completely rolled out to the public, thus preventing there being any chance of it becoming commonly owned. That’s part of the reason we’re unlikely to have a lot of arms that would be beneficial in the case of a foreign invasion, such as rocket launchers. They’re not commonly owned, so we can’t own them, which just sounds like an idiotic, circular argument.
Yet for semi-autos, these have already been looked at by the Supreme Court. We already know they’re considered commonly owned firearms. Glocks, while not expressly defined by the Court as such, will also meet this criterion simply because it’s the most popular handgun model in the country.
Under existing jurisprudence, it’s pretty clear that no semi-auto ban is going to pass constitutional muster, even without Bruen.
Throw Bruen into the mix, and now the waters become even less murky.
There’s absolutely no way these measures should survive legal challenge. No way at all.
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Not, that is, if the courts do their jobs correctly.
Unfortunately, I’m just not that confident that they will.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/05/10/why-semi-auto-bans-are-unconstitutional-n1228550#google_vignette
The Frustration of Right and Wrong and Courts’ Willingness to Ignore Truth
By Tom Knighton | 8:30 AM | May 10, 2025
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli
When I read the Bruen decision, I rejoiced. It seemed pretty clear that there was a line in the sand and that most gun control laws were going to fall. There simply weren’t the historical parallels needed to justify them. Rahimi muddied the waters a fair bit, but I hoped that Bruen would be listened to and the world of gun control would change forever.
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And at first, it sure looked that way. It seemed that gun control laws were falling left and right.
Now, though, we have a problem. The Ninth Circuit, for example, recently upheld a magazine ban, and it represents a real problem.
Consider the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Duncan v. Bonta. The court decided in a 7-4 en banc decision that California’s ban on standard-capacity magazines did not violate the Constitution because it decided that magazines are not “arms” protected under the Second Amendment; they’re mere “accoutrements” despite being essential to the proper functioning of a semi-automatic firearm.
Judge Patrick Bumatay’s dissenting opinion noted that a correct application of the Bruen framework shows that because “the plain text of the Second Amendment protects the possession of magazines capable of feeding more than ten rounds, California’s ban is presumptively unconstitutional.” Likewise, he explained that California failed to overcome the presumption of unconstitutionality because it did not identify a historical analogue that was relevantly similar to California’s law, which “strictly bans the ownership, possession, and use of magazines in common use today.” Accordingly, he would hold that California’s magazine ban is unconstitutional.
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It’s not just an unwillingness to abide by established court precedents that frustrates the firearm industry when gun control advocates use the courts to advance policy agendas. It’s also some courts’ willingness to take novel approaches and engage in sophistry to arrive at their decisions. But the 9th Circuit majority acknowledged in the majority opinion that this approach won the day in Duncan.
“We readily conclude that a more nuanced approach is appropriate here. This case implicates both unprecedented societal concerns and dramatic technological changes,” wrote Judge Susan Graber for the Duncan v. Bonta majority opinion. She contended that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bruen decision called for such an approach. “But, because the Court did not flesh out how the ‘more nuanced approach’ operates — for instance, whether more recent analogies should be consulted — we have taken the most conservative path in our analysis by declining to apply the more nuanced approach.”
Judge Ryan Nelson, siding with the minority, disagreed with that tact in his own dissenting opinion.
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Obviously, I disagree as well, though as a layman, my opinion is meaningless to any court of law.
Still, it seems that when a court knows they’re in the wrong and they do it anyway, they’re not upholding the law like they’re supposed to. They’re simply engaging in mental gymnastics so they can advance their own political agenda through the courts.
The sophistry required to determine that magazines aren’t arms, but “accouterments” when semi-auto firearms don’t work without magazines is a prime example of the problem. They undoubtedly know this, as I have little doubt it wasn’t explained to them during arguments, but they made the decision anyway.
This is flat out wrong.
They know the law. They admit that there is a correct approach to the question they were considering. They admit that they opted not to take that correct approach. They know they’re not doing as directed by the Supreme Court. They’re just trying to twist things so that they can pretend to be in the right, and that’s the thing that infuriates me the most.
Recently, I rewatched the movie Silverado. It’s a great movie, and one line that sticks with me is when Mal, played by Danny Glover, says, “That ain’t right. I’ve had enough of what ain’t right.”
That’s where I am right now.
That’s where everyone should be with this crap.
The courts are supposed to follow the law, not manufacture excuses to ignore it.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/05/10/the-frustration-of-right-and-wrong-and-courts-willingness-to-ignore-truth-n1228553
The Courts are trying to block the entire Trump agenda.
Feds Want First Circuit to Deny 2A Rights to Illegal Immigrants
By Tom Knighton | 5:30 PM | May 09, 2025
AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File
The debate about whether an illegal immigrant has rights under the Constitution has been going on for a bit now. Usually, the news is filled with the words “due process,” which is kind of funny from the same people who tend to want red flag laws, but that kind of inconsistency is hardly unusual.
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However, there’s another case that involves constitutionally protected rights. It’s a Second Amendment case, which isn’t unusual in and of itself. There are probably a thousand of them somewhere in the judicial pipeline.
But this one deals with illegal immigrants. More specifically, do they have Second Amendment protections?
The First Circuit Court of Appeals was asked Thursday to consider whether and to what extent immigrants lacking permanent legal status are considered part of “the people” who are constitutionally protected under the Second Amendment’s “right of the people to keep and bear Arms.”
On appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Moreno Vizcaíno-Peguero, a Dominican migrant living in Puerto Rico, claims the statute of his conviction under the Gun Control Act prohibiting noncitizen immigrants from possessing guns is “a complete and absolute ban on firearm possession without a particularized or individualized determination of dangerousness or untrustworthiness.”
Vizcaíno-Peguero argues his 2023 judgment of conviction for being a noncitizen in possession of a firearm and ammunition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) should be overturned because Second Amendment jurisprudence post-New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen requires the government to affirmatively prove that the firearm regulation is consistent with the historical tradition of firearm regulation in the country.
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“Membership within the group constitutionally denoted as ‘the people’ was primarily defined by physical presence within the jurisdiction at the time of the founding,” his lawyers wrote in an appellant brief. “Therefore, persons, or human beings, physically present in the United States were, and are, entitled to firearm possession.”
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It’s an interesting take.
The truth is that the right to keep and bear arms is a natural right, one that exists without laws or government. As such, Vizcaíno-Peguero does inherently have the right to have firearms.
But does he have that right within the borders of a nation he entered illegally? Vizcaíno-Peguero argues that yes, he does, because there were no period laws against it.
I don’t think he’s going to find that to be the winner he thinks it is, though.
There are laws from the appropriate periods that disarmed large swaths of the population who were deemed as dangerous, including free blacks, Catholics, and Native Americans. There’s no way that people believed every single member of these groups was dangerous, but they argued that there were many who were, and that was enough.
Likewise, we’ve seen plenty of violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants.
And let’s be real here, there’s more reason to do this with illegal immigrants than any of those groups from days gone by. Those folks were typically here within all bounds of the law. Illegal immigrants, by definition, aren’t.
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Still, this should be an interesting case to follow, even if just to see if I’m right or not.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/05/09/feds-want-first-circuit-to-deny-2a-rights-to-illegal-immigrants-n1228551
(Richard: Click through and watch the videos, in one the fat woman in the red coat (a setting member of Congress) is physically assaulting and ICE agent, with a little luck she is going to be arrested and charged.)
“Definitely on the Table” – DHS Spox Says Members of Congress May Soon Be Arrested For BODYSLAMMING Female ICE Agent (VIDEO)
by Cristina Laila May. 10, 2025 1:40 pm247 Comments
A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman on Saturday said that members of Congress bodyslammed a female ICE agent.
Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, appeared on CNN to discuss the violent confrontation between New Jersey Democrats and ICE Agents at the Delaney Hall detention facility.
Democrat members of Congress and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka stormed the ICE facility in Newark on Friday.
Democrat Reps. LaMonica McIver, Bob Menendez and Bonnie Watson Coleman were all fighting for the release of dangerous criminal aliens.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/definitely-table-dhs-spox-says-members-congress-may/
https://twitter.com/i/status/1921224863747891595
Senator Ted Cruz Calls Out “Crazy Town” Dems Who Defend Violent Illegals: “They have decided that they are the party of illegal immigrants and the party of gang members” (Video)
by Margaret Flavin May. 10, 2025 2:00 pm64 Comments
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mocked “crazy town” Democrats who care more about violent illegals than American citizens.
Cruz chided Democrats, like Chris Van Hollen, who traveled to El Salvador to advocate for alleged MS-13 gang member and Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia’s wife shared the shocking details of the violent behavior she experienced at his hands.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, and Maxine Dexter of Oregon also traveled to El Salvador to advocate for their new hero and a bonus luxury hotel stay.
Commenting on the Democrats championing Abrego Garcia despite his questionable background, Cruz remarked, “It is a very bizarre political decision that the Democrats have made.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/senator-ted-cruz-calls-crazy-town-dems-who/
300-Pound Black Bear Mauls Florida Man and His Dog in First Ursine Killing in the State
by Paul Serran – May 10, 2025
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/300-pound-black-bear-mauls-florida-man-his/
Authorities investigating first deadly bear attack in Florida
NBC News – May 6, 2025
Connecticut Bear Shooting Sparks Debate Over Legal and Legislative Changes
https://freedomherald.com/connecticut-bear-shooting-sparks-debate-over-legal-and-legislative-changes/
Dad arrested by environmental officials after fatally shooting black bear that came ‘within feet’
NY Pulse – April 22, 2025
Surprise!
They don’t use it as a pitch for gun control. Good for them!