"Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day,” it reads. "That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color.”

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Good morning kids. Thursday and a couple of things are in the lead as we shamble and stumble our way into the ditch. First, the Junta, via the flapping tardive dyskinesiatic blow hole that is Joe Biden's bile-encrusted frothing maw, has announced the feared and anticipated attempt to completely erase what little is left of the Second Amendment and the ability of the American people - now collectively a population of internal exile political prisoners - to defend themselves from said illegitimate, tyrannical regime. 

In a statement, the [junta] outlined the following "initial actions" in his attack on gun rights: 

 - The Justice Department, within 30 days, will issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of "ghost guns."

 - The Justice Department, within 60 days, will issue a proposed rule to make clear when a device marketed as a stabilizing brace effectively turns a pistol into a short-barreled rifle subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act.

 - The Justice Department, within 60 days, will publish model "red flag" legislation for states... 

Finally, the [junta] announced they will nominate David Chipman to serve as Director of the ATF. Chipman worked at Giffords, which advocates for gun bans. CNN called Chipman a "fierce advocate for gun control." Chipman locked his Twitter account so people cannot see what he has stated publicly, however, a comparison of online archives to his current account appears to show that he has deleted well over 1,000 tweets...  

...The [junta] also again called for Congress to repeal gun manufacturers' immunity from liability, which pro-Second Amendment advocates say is a blatant attempt to bankrupt the gun industry.  

Aside from the figurative hobnailed, jackbooted kick in the groin and follow-on stomping on our face (the literal one is doubtless just around the corner), ordinarily these E.O.s in the mid- to long-term are meaningless. The Second Amendment is politically a third rail and after all the lawsuits start flying much of this would get tossed. Ordinarily. But these are anything but ordinary times. This is not America. Oh the streets may look the same, barring the smoking ruins of dozens of urban areas that have been "mostly peacefully" turned into Dresden '45 and much of Main Street turned into a boarded up ghost town courtesy of lockdown fever, and there are "Democrats" and "Republicans" going through the motions of debate, but it's all a mirage. An apparition. These criminals terrorized the populace with psychological warfare in the form of a nastier than usual virus portrayed as an extinction-level event and actual political terrorism culminating in the rigging of an election and the overthrow of the will of the people. Scores of innocent folks are still to be charged with insurrection for the crime of daring to open their mouths in protest. Millions more are cowered into silence or worse, forced either by threat of their livelihoods and blackballing to knuckle under and parrot a blood libel about themselves and their heritage that, side by side, would be difficult to distinguish if it was written by Ibram X. Kendi or Alfred Rosenberg. 

From Congress, to the courts to the agencies that are supposed to uphold our laws and protect the citizenry, By Any Means Necessary is not just a Marxist organization: it's the standard operating procedure of our "elected representatives." I mean all of them; the Democrats are there to cement and make permanent their stranglehold on power while the GOP, with very few exceptions, is there to fake outrage and protest, or else, as is the case with frauds like Asa Hutchinson and Kristi Noem, gaslight us into thinking that going along with our national suicide and enslavement is the height of Reaganite conservatism. 

Yet even with all of that, the real ability for their "will to triumph" so to speak may not come from the cops, the FBI, ATF or even the Armed Militant Wing of the Democrat Party BLaM-tifa. It will come from Google, Amazon, Facebook and the real robber barons of the cyber world in league with the C-Suite. "C" standing for "Control." If you're appalled at the actions of Coca Cola and Delta Airlines, do you think that the CEOs of Bank of America, JPM-Chase and Wells Fargo are thinking any differently? It's debatable whether any action that Zhou Bai-Din takes or any anti-constitutional edict passed in the Capitol Hill Robert B. Reichhhhh-stag would survive an ultimate challenge at SCOTUS (although now that place is a sewer thanks to Roberts and Trump's picks turned traitors). But what if a bank suddenly declares Smith & Wesson or Remington to be complicit in slavery, or worse, global warming? What's to stop them from refusing to do business with them, or refusing to do business with any ordinary citizen who owns a gun or is a member of the NRA, which if it doesn't go bankrupt first will be dissolved by Letitia James and friends? If you think vaccine passports are only about vaccines, you must wonder why the two-week period from the end of February to mid March 2020 is now going on 54 weeks and counting. Considering the power and almost infinite reach of Big Brother Tech, add the willingness and even eagerness of those around you to rat you out and make your life hell, if not destroy it, for wrong-think or wrong-speak, any attempt to actually organize a resistance to this can land your ass in Leavenworth for 20-year vacation. If a man who calls himself a woman must under penalty of law be referred to as such, then you too can be an insurrectionist without even trying. 

Oh, and in other news, we're paying off Iran again with pallets of cash in return for allowing them to build nukes. What a country!

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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
― Richard P. Feynman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
― Milton Friedman

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
― Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Asexuals (aces, for short) do not experience sexual attraction to other people in the way that non-ace folks do. Some people confuse this for abstinence or celibacy, or situations when people don't want sex because of some trauma they might have experienced. Though an ace person of course is not immune from negative experiences around sex, that's not at all the same as experiencing no attraction. And you can abstain from sex and still want to have it--so that's not ace either.

Basically, some people are wired to lust after their fellow humans, and aces probably are not.
[Hat Tip: redc1c4]

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The last post worked, so I guess I'll try to post another one like that.

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I don't know if any of these tweets will post. If not, then... open thread?

Saint George of the Holy Fentanyl says, "I ate too many drugs."

Bee joined journalist Dan Rather on his SiriusXM program and the left-wing veteran newsman asked, "Do you, or do you not, find yourself sometimes at least tempted to kind of pull your punches?"

"In other words, you, myself, and a lot of people, more or less free-swingers against President Trump," Rather continued. "But now that Biden is in, I don’t know, do you find yourself sometimes saying, ‘Oh boy, there’s a nasty comedy bit I can unload on Biden,’ but saying to yourself, ‘I approve of him so much I’m going to pull this punch?’"

"I can’t deny that that has happened, I think that’s probably true across the board," Bee said. "You’re like, ‘OK, well, we could be making jokes about the infrastructure plan,’ but in general, I’m like, ‘Wow, this is great.' Why would I purposefully undermine something that seems to be a great idea, pretty much across the board?"

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I don't know why but some threads just glitch out and refuse comments.

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