Did Trump “Win” in 2020

I did not watch the All-News-Channel (except for FNN) Show Trial on the January 6 riots. I don’t feel bad because Joe Biden didn’t watch this staged, partisan snooze-fest either. We were both too busy. I was too busy watching Tucker on Fox. Joe was probably too busy getting ready for bed.

But I did want to address one “factoid” that is being repeated from the event. They questioned over a 1000 witnesses and none of them said that Trump won in 2020! Wow. Two years later and you’re taking all this crafted, produced propaganda time to try to make that point?

Along with the fact that you can hardly find a reference anywhere to Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was rigged without a pejorative like “false” attached, that strikes me as more convincing evidence that they are definitely on the defensive about this election theft.

But did he “win”? No, he didn’t, and the fact that Joe Biden is stumbling around in the White House, killing our fossil fuel industries, promoting the economies of our foreign enemies and generally doing everything he can to destroy our country proves it.

Say my team, the Barnesville Hoot Owls, goes to the NFL football championship game (rhymes with blooper pole) and gets totally, obviously robbed. For instance:

  • The other team is allowed to send out 14 or 15 players on key plays and the officials do not call a penalty for too many men on the field.
  • The other team routinely jumps offside, crashes the line and knocks down the quarterback and the officials do not call a penalty.
  • One of the other team tackles our receiver in the end zone before the ball is even thrown, they make an interception, and the officials do not call pass interference.
  • And say that when the opposing team scores a touchdown they are awarded 10 points instead of 6, and when their extra point kick goes wide the officials call it good and give them 3 more points.

We scream, we cuss, we throw things at the TV, and the next day we demand that something be done. But our “false claims” that the game was stolen go ignored. The trophy is handed over, the “winning” team gets their rings and go down in Blooper Pole fame as the world champions.

Did my team win? No, they lost. Was the game stolen? Hell yes it was stolen. What needs to be done? The people who care about fair and honest football should see that everyone who participated in the theft is fired and banned from football. And then our team comes back next year and participates in a fairly-played game.

That is, of course, unless the cheaters don’t get fired and they succeed in rigging the entire season to make sure that the Hoot Owls never get close to the field on Blooper Pole day.

And that is what the January 6 Committee is all about.

Weapons of War

As noted in a previous post, this time it is different and it looks as if Democrats and other enemies of freedom will finally accomplish another infringement on the “shall not be infringed” right of the people to keep and bear arms. One measure that Joe Biden, the Democrats and even some back stabbing Republicans seem to favor is putting some kind of restrictions (or outright bans) on so-called “weapons of war” such as the ubiquitous AR-15 rifle platform. But I have a serious warning for every trap or target shooter, plinker, sportsman, hunter or self-defense gun owner.

Don’t think that because you don’t own or use an AR-15, AK-47 or other “weapon of war” this infringement does not affect you. If the government succeeds in banning “weapons of war” (by that or any other name) then private ownership of all firearms in America will be doomed.

Wild-eyed hyperbole? No it is not. In U.S. v. Miller (1939) the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment did protect the right of American citizens to be armed, but upheld the National Firearms Act of 1934 on the grounds that the weapons banned (in this case, a short-barreled shotgun) were not shown to be suitable for use by “the militia.”

Of course that is ridiculous, since short-barreled shotguns have always been used by military forces ever since there were shotguns, but no evidence was presented to the court that such was the case. The NRA did not involve itself, and not even the defendant (Miller) was present to argue on behalf of the Second Amendment. And so the first significant “infringement” on the right to keep and bear arms was allowed to remain law.

What does that have to do with your .22 target pistol or over-under shotgun? By the clear ruling of the Supreme Court in this case (which has not been overturned or repudiated) the Second Amendment does not protect the right of Americans to own any firearm other than those “suitable” for use by the militia, that is “weapons of war.” If weapons of war are banned all other firearms will follow.

This is a good time to remember that all of our fundamental rights were bestowed upon us by God, not granted by government. They cannot be withdrawn by the political process. They cannot be rescinded by executive order, act of Congress or decree of the Supreme Court. They cannot even be taken by a majority vote of our deluded fellow citizens. Our fundamental rights, including the right to be armed for the defense of all the others, can only be stripped from us by force, if we allow it.

And that is why God gave us the right to keep and bear arms and why our Founding Fathers so valued it. That is why “weapons of war” are exactly the kind of firearms that the Second Amendment is talking about.

“This time it is different!”

I expect that everyone who reads this blog (both of you) were probably surprised that I haven’t posted anything in the wake of the last two mass shootings and the attendant cries for more gun control. I am now, because this time it truly is different.

But first, what is not different about these and virtually all mass shootings. I am not going to differentiate in the circumstances because in every case these things are always the same:

  • Gun laws currently in effect did not prevent the shooting because (a) the shooter got his weapon illegally, (b) the shooter purchased his weapon legally and successfully negotiated the legal hurdles already in place, and (c) none of the measures now being proposed would have prevented the shooter from obtaining a weapon. In case you’re thinking about raising the minimum age to purchase an “assault weapon” to 21, please see (a) above.
  • “Balls were dropped” left and right that contributed to the shooting happening or made it much worse. For example, so-called “red flags” in the shooter’s social media history were unnoticed, ignored or unreported, or mistakes (incredible, unbelievable mistakes) were made during the immediate response to the shooting. These balls are never addressed by new proposed laws and almost never is anyone held accountable.
  • And always the same is the immediate knee-jerk reaction of the Democrats and other leftists who cannot even wait for the victims’ funerals before politicizing the act with their repeated cries to disarm the law-abiding American public.

What is different this time? Counting on a “Red Tsunami” in November that they did little to earn other than step back and allow the Democratic Party to lurch leftward into woke Socialism, some Republicans now feel that they can betray American gun-owners without fear of repercussions at the ballot box.

Oh, there is one other thing that is always the same: every infringement on the right to keep and bear arms ever accomplished was enacted with the participation of so-called “supporters of the Second Amendment.” Please make note of the Republicans who jump on this train. They are traitors to their oath of office and the American people, and should be “primaried” during their next election cycle. Whoever they are.