Too Busy Mocking Obama To Enjoy The Joke

Obama ran his mouth in Brazil recently, spouting nonsense about gun laws in the US:

"Some of you may be aware our gun laws in the United States don't make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon any time. Without much, if any, regulation, they can buy it over the Internet, they can buy machine guns," Obama told the audience.

Machine guns?!? Yeah, yeah, nonsense. 

But here's the kicker, and let's go to the videotape! Come in at the 40 second mark. What does the crowd do after Obama says "Anybody can buy any weapon any time"? They go nuts! What, did Brazil score a goal in the World Cup?

Not really. It turns out Brazil has very restrictive gun laws and very corrupt police. The upshot proves the old adage that when you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Their gun homicide rate is roughly five times that of the US.

The public is not happy. Back in 2006 they rejected by referendum an attempt to further limit civilian access to weapons. And their current President, a former paratrooper and law-and-order candidate, ran on a "Suns out, guns out" message:

Bolsonaro won the presidency by running on a far-right, law-and-order platform, and often delighted supporters at campaign stops with his signature “guns up” hand gesture. His maverick presidential run energized a base of rural landowners, Christian conservatives and free-market hawks who yearned for a tougher response to years of rising violence and political graft.

The temporary decree, which will expire in 120 days unless ratified by Congress, is likely to thrill his supporters, but many others fear it will only worsen violence in Brazil. The country suffered a record 64,000 murders in 2017, the most in the world. Nearly 45,000 of those homicides involved firearms.

A former paratrooper who took office on Jan. 1, Bolsonaro eventually wants to overturn a 2003 law that effectively banned the civilian purchase of guns.

“To guarantee citizens their legitimate right to defense, I, as president, will use this weapon,” Bolsonaro said, holding up the pen he used to sign the decree.

That was January. Bolsonaro issued another decree in May, which went to the courts.

In any case, Obama may have thought he was addressing yet another typical Dem fundraiser Upper West Side audience desperate for gun control. He chose poorly.

Comments

[Another Bob]

First?

[Another Bob]

I did say that Brazilians would see that as a feature not a bug.

[henry]

Gee, if restrictive guns laws an corruption lead to World Cup goals, why does Chicago suck at soccer?

(I have never lost to a Chicago area team in my entire soccer career.).

[henry]

Don Jr re Comey:

The worst FBI Director of all time, who is going down as the most disgraced law enforcement official in American history, was a founding member of the cabal that brought you the Collusion Delusion, and would now like to lecture you on conspiracies 🤔🤣
What a clown.

https://twitter.com/donaldjtrumpjr/status/1134950423054430209?s=21

[Captain Hate]

Among the worst things that Gaylord did during his eight years of embarrassing the country was never doing any preparation when any foreign dignitaries officially visited the country to show anything above an elementary school level of insight about what was going on in their country. That obviously hasn't changed plus he makes a witless fool out of himself trying to slam us.

[Another Bob]

Strobe Talbott picks up a shovel and starts trying to dig Obama/Clinton out from under the Spygate revelations to come.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/13/trump-russia-collusion-putin-223973

[MissMarple2]

Bernie Sanders
‏Verified account @BernieSanders

900 people were held at a border facility with a maximum capacity of 125, according to the DHS Inspector General.

This is inhumane. It must stop NOW.

We must end the dehumanization of immigrants and develop a humane policy for those at the border who seek asylum.
===================================

The Pirate Rep responds:

Dan Crenshaw
‏Verified account @DanCrenshawTX
22h22 hours ago

Maybe you could start by supporting POTUS request for $4.5 B in humanitarian aid, to include more facilities?

Maybe you could support @LindseyGrahamSC bill to reform asylum process?

Maybe you won’t support actual solutions because you prefer to virtue signal about the crisis?

[henry]

Strobe Talbots thinks the first rule of holes is “grab moar shovels.”

[Captain Hate]

Bernie has multiple houses, no?

[Captain Hate]

Strobe loved those sellout Bushes.

[Another Bob]

Talbott was also reported to be a source to Russian intelligence.

[henry]

Gee, no shortage of those on the D side of the uniparty.

[Threadkiller]

Don Jr is now bashing his dad's other lifelong friend?

Team FBI takes another shot to the nads.

[Narciso79]

He owed his job to victor Louis kgb fixer who arranged to have him translate kruschevs memoirs, the late tretyakov laughed how easy it was to trick him into supporting russiam policy.

[henry]

TK, did you see the request for help re lawn mower not restarting when hot? Asking in case my advice was harmful rather than helpful. Also because the right answer might come in handy, I don’t live in a place where landscaping is included.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/sunday-supper-the-american-tradition-that-cuts-across-cultures

Salena Zito article.

[Captain Hate]

And GWB provided gainful employment for his acolyte, Condoleeza.

[MissMarple2]

Bloomberg
‏Verified account @business

Get ready to pay more for Mexican avocados
===========

Escaped from LA without Zombies
‏ @stucknLAwzmbies
10h10 hours ago

Wow, if only I'd realized the cost of protecting my country and my child's future from invaders was more expensive avocados. I'd have... Not given a fuck and built the wall.

[MissMarple2]

Thank you so much, Franklin! https://t.co/LK7sHUGrZ7

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 1, 2019

Link goes to tweet by Franklin Graham.

[Narciso79]

I thought that was Madeline Albright father, of course if you read his dispatches in time magazine, well its like similar stories by Simon Schuster about trump.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to another tweet about this.

.@Franklin_Graham will be joining me LIVE on Financial Issues to talk about the nationwide movement, Special Day of Prayer. Tune in at 11:15AM ET on https://t.co/h36zzOW1yV https://t.co/jIekzZeMe2

— Dan Celia (@financialissues) May 31, 2019

[Narciso79]

Remember it's his brother in laws kin cody Shearer's involved with the second dossier.

[henry]

Go Blues... moar beer. Lakefront’s Fixed Gear.

On cable, which is not available in this rural zone. Unlike beer. Which is made out here.

[Pinandpuller]

TIL John Mill was the Steig Larson of 1707:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mill_(theologian)

[Jack is Back!]

I once had a copy of Victor Luis' "A Motorists' Guide to e Soviet Union" which I had bought in a used bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA. It was in Russian, so therefore unreadable by me but was cheap, 25 cents, IIRC.

[Buckeye]

Bill Bennett is on Levin and was talking about education not really covering the history of the founding and before.

I think he is right, but I also appreciate what JiB said about a dwindling percentage of Americans that have a multi-generational family history here.

We have way too many people who are citizens, but are resisting becoming an American.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Franklin Graham
‏Verified account @Franklin_Graham
May 30

I want to remind everyone of the importance of praying for @POTUS @realDonaldTrump this Sun., June 2. We need to pray for him as he carries out his duties, that God will give him wisdom in every decision he makes & protect him from his enemies who would like to see him fall. 1/3

Franklin Graham
‏Verified account @Franklin_Graham
May 30

Thank you to the thousands of people who have already let me know that you'll be praying this Sunday. If you’d like to add your name to others who are signing up to show their support & that they are committing to pray for @POTUS click here to sign on: https://billygraham.org/story/praying-for-our-president/?fbclid=IwAR1epDJ3932QuxpHn06zcJkNgmzX5Gwd56U2AT51TUxCAuBALMgZVIzxeao … 2/3

Franklin Graham
‏Verified account @Franklin_Graham
May 30

I also hope thousands of pastors across the nation will take a moment in their service this Sunday to pray for the President with their congregations. The Bible tells us, “The prayer of a righteous person has great power …” (James 5:16). I believe there is power in prayer! 3/3

[Extraneus]

Why refute anyone still fomenting about the 4D theory? There was a time when it was reasonable to consider as a possibility, but it's now at the level of the black knight. Is it still worth debating?

[Narciso79]

And did vicious was another Soviet dupe, along with friedmam who is more a middle east dope Brandeis wasnt turning put their best.

[Jack is Back!]

I wonder how OL is doing in prep for the wedding in Nantucket because here in Southampton, we can't get up to beyond 70F. It is now in the mid 60's sitting out on the front portico listening to the evening bird calls for food.

[MissMarple2]

The President has a lot more retweets about the Day of Prayer tomorrow. I am not going to post all of them, but here is the link to his Twitter page so that you can see them:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

I think he is sincerely touched by this and considers it important.

I will be participating tomorrow, and I hope you guys will, too.

[James D.]

Strobe Talbott

Speaking of people who ought to face a firing squad...

[Pinandpuller]

That makes John Stuart Mill the Michael J Fox of the 19th Century.

[henry]

James D, it seems he is named after a lighting fixture... used on the porno set at his conception? Maybe I need more beers. Hockey soon.

[Jack is Back!]

Strobe Talbot? Talk about Russian collusion. Wouldn't surprise me that he is up to his bald head in Spygate from the very beginning plus Uranium One.

A truly specious individual.

[Captain Hate]

The loon prosecutor wishes that every call DJT ever made was recorded and available. Does anyone doubt he'd run roughshod over the rights of the accused if whichever organ grinder is running the show unleashed that monkey on a high profile case?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7094615/Tony-Sopranos-North-Caldwell-New-Jersey-mansion-goes-sale-3-4million.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

[Jack is Back!]

CH,

I wonder why Mueller didn't hire Patterico? He seems to fit the team's profile. Maybe he was too unbalanced compared to the Mueller crew.

[GUS]

Ilhan Omar, Muzz-MN blames NRA for black government employee slaughtering 11 people in Virginia Beach.
Btw, it's pretty apparent what her families scam was....https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/funny_how_no_one_wants_to_talk_about_that_report_that_omar_married_her_brother.html
If this piece of shit doesn't like our WRITTEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, she is welcome to shut the fuck up and stop using her rights.

[MJW]

Tom R: You are using different words to make the same point I made.

You can blame Mueller for not providing oversight of his staff’s actions and signing his name to a report with major legal faults in it but the primary blame for being corrupt and dishonest and omitting the exculpatory evidence is squarely on Weissman’s shoulders.

That wasn't my point at all. My point is that Mueller is fully, absolutely, completely to blame for the everything in the report.

It isn't as though Weissman and the others could slip it past him. It's right there, loud and proud, in the report bearing Mueller's name. Unless you suppose -- as I can't -- that he didn't bother to read the report that will define his career, he approved every legal argument presented in volume II, and is therefore as responsible for it as the actual author.

[Buckeye]

Peter Strzok strikes me as being pretty unbalanced:)

[D]

On the Cape last week we got up to about 75 degrees.
It was lovely.

[Jane]

Gus, please go back to the last thread and read my posts to you, because I don’t want to have to say that stuff for the 3rd or 4th time. Thanks.

[Pinandpuller]

GUS

I once attended a company Christmas party at Outback where I ordered rack of lamb rare. Let me tell you, that meat was chastely kissed on the cheek goodnight by the flames. It was so dark in the place I didn’t notice until I got home with the leftovers. I think I will hold off on raw meat till I’m shipwrecked.

[Threadkiller]

I saw the question, henry.

Tom R is the one person here I have no desire to help. I will maintain my distance from him.

I don't mean to sound too harsh, but that is how I feel about him anymore.

[Jane]

Anyone watching Bill Bennett with Mark Levin. I’ve never understood the Trump hatred, but he has some insight.

[Jack is Back!]

Puck drops in one minute.

[Narciso79]

I don't get the thing about meat prepared rare, is it the seasoning that makes the difference?

[henry]

Half an hour JiB. St Louis radio here:

https://player.radio.com/listen/station/newsradio-1120-kmox

[Captain Hate]

JiB,

Too small time. Whether or not that dunce realizes it, on his blog he reveals why he'll never be more than a low level civil servant. Just a small cog on a minuscule gear in a very large machine.

Weissmann and his ilk were smart enough to make themselves major players. It's a malignantly evil mindset and not at all admirable, but they would never settle for being small timers.

[Another Bob]

OANN is reporting that Obama people have been advising Iran on how to defeat US policy.

[D]

Buckeye:
Agree about Strzok.
He has that zealot look in his eyes.

[GUS]

Gotcha Jane.
Pin, that is scary. Wasn't the meat "bleating" on your plate?

[Jack is Back!]

Well, I guess I am off by a few minutes. First, it's Doc time.

[MissMarple2]

Growing up around livestock, I will not eat rare meat. Period.

I know iti's considered to be a delicacy, but I can't do it.

[Narciso79]

You notice how in the spaghetti westerns most of the villains are union officers except for eli wallach tuco. Well that's what muellers gang is like.

[D]

AB:
Obama is in violation of the Logan Act.
He needs to be prosecuted.

[Captain Hate]

LOL Miss Marple; you sound just like Mrs Medium Well Hate.

When I was in France I had steak tartare and was in heaven.

[Narciso79]

Or a whole host of character through the first seasons of blindspot,

[Buckeye]

Jane

I watched most of Levin and Bennett tonight.

I have come to enjoy Levin more and more.

He knows how to ask good questions and then shut up and let his guests talk.

[Captain Hate]

Was Life Liberty and Levin on tonight? I don't remember him saying anything about a time change on the podcast. Or is he now having two shows a weekend?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/01/british-veterans-honour-american-airmen-who-supported-d-day-landings/

Please read this article, which is very good.

I need to remember my disgust with the British elite does not extend to the regular people, who truly appreciate us.

[Jack is Back!]

MM,

Mrs. JiB will tell you that my cuisine mission in life is to to find the best Steak Tartare in the world. Wherever I travel, if the restaurant has it on the menu I order it. I love it and to this day, I am still alive:) So far I have found that there a lot of great versions. Here in Southampton, Le Charlot, is the best as is Pierre's in Bridgehampton.

[D]

Pin:
I order all meat medium well done.My dad got sick on undercooked chicken.
Never ate it again.

[Narciso79]

Well the elite treat the servicemen from Cyprus to Iraq with contempt like that veteran at aldershot.

[D]

I like Levin as well.
He is s straight shooter and tells the truth.
That is a rare quality these days.
Besides, I like blunt people.
You always know where you stand with them.

[Narciso79]

He was meeses chief of staff, when they sent not one but two special prosecutors against him.

[MissMarple2]

Jack,

I am not afraid of getting sick. I can't stand the appearance, texture, or flavor.

Enjoy it all you want. I am not participating. LOL!

[Captain Hate]

Undercooked chicken is asking for big trouble. Like some poorly prepared Thanksgiving turkey disasters. Reverend Queasy should dine on that for the rest of his miserable life.

[Pinandpuller]

I like that fish dish that’s cooked endothermically.

Do you think they called it Acetic acid because it should be used sparingly?

[Captain Hate]

Yes, Ol' Yeller defended Meese in front of at least one special prosecutor. He is not a small timer.

[Narciso79]

Treat him to ouffer fish but dont tell him.

[Pinandpuller]

Mary Rose

Did you have any memorable restaurant outings on your holiday?

[Jack is Back!]

One guy on the Bruins is from Long Island, only American. How come Maroon, who is from St. Louis, isn't a starter? Would get the crowd up early.

[Narciso79]

Remember they gutted bolsanaro like a fish before the end of the campaign and he still survived. His party though is less resolute.

[D]

JIB:
How does it feel to be in Yankee country again?

[MissMarple2]

Just watched Andrew Yang on Watters World live stream.

If you ask me, this guy is the most dangerous dem candidate.

[henry]

And the puck drops

[D]

Pin:
Had a great lobster roll in York ,Maine.
Also hit the outlet stores in Kittery, Maine.
On the Cape, went to the beach at Racing Point in Provincetown.

[Captain Hate]

Ok I'm gonna sip this beast (being aged for almost a year and a half has knocked some of the prodigious heat down) and listen to music and read:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24300/334569/

BBL

[henry]

Power play Blues. :)

[Another Bob]

I’m with you MM. I like mine pink and warm, but cooked. That chewing gum texture grosses me out. Same deal with tuna. Most places sear it, and leave it raw and room temp in the centers. Yuck.

But oddly enough I’ve had sushi/sashimi meals in Japan and liked it just fine.

🤷‍♂️

[Narciso79]

I guess I split the difference:

https://www.thenation.com/article/how-did-russiagate-begin/

Seeing as Steele worked for at least one oligarch,

[lyle]

I love steak tartare. Also, tuna tartare. Yum. Both need to be consumed with champagne.

[Narciso79]

I've pointed out I had gator at a Mexican restaurant maybe it was overcooked because it tasted like meat gum.

[Jack is Back!]

D,

I am from Yankee land:) My home. Florida is a snow-free environment you crave when you reach a certain year of life.

[Jack is Back!]

CH,

Are these craft beers like the one you posted in cans instead of bottles?

[clarice]

Who knows Russia better than their flunky strobe.

[D]

Narciso;
You ate gator?
Now I am impressed.

[D]

Can’t eat sushi.
It is a texture thing.

[Manuel Transmission]

UFOs: I’m officially in the documented space like those Navy pilots. Buried in the LA Center tapes from 5 yrs and 3 weeks ago is my UAP report in the noon day sun with 4 witnesses. You can bribe me with Grey Goose for the details. :)

[Narciso79]

That former Russian translator who ventured into Balkan politics in the 90s and now regrets having pushed operations in kosovo, also wrote a biography of a favela kingpin, he made all sorts of excuses from private militias during the dictatorship 35 years ago to the cartel penetration for the hobbesian climate in brazil.

[Narciso79]

I tried it, and unlike with some seafood dishes did not get ill.

[D]

Watching Hallmark movies and taking a break from the political grind.
Why does the guy always fall for the mean girl pretending to be nice so he will marry her?
Why is the best friend who is a girl not considered as a possible fiancée?

[jimmyk]

maryrose, chicken isn’t the same as beef. It needs to be thoroughly cooked. I always have beef rare, except for hamburgers, which I concede to have medium rare because ground beef is more prone to contamination. Tried steak tartare once or twice. It’s good, but won’t get me away from a good grilled rare steak.

[Jane]

Buckeye,

Same with me. I’m a new fan.

[Captain Hate]

Yes, Jack, they've started canning craft beer a lot. I don't think some of the newer local breweries, like Platform or Masthead, even use bottles.

[Narciso79]

This guy

https://malwarwickonbooks.com/drug-trafficking/

[Pinandpuller]

I came on to that article trying to verify that the English word “horde” derived from the Mongol “ordu” which was a denominator of their army.

[MissMarple2]

Marlene,

Here's a nice story from Maine:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7094427/Entire-elementary-school-learns-sign-language-welcome-deaf-kindergartner.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus