Roll, Beto Roll

Beto has re-booted his campaign and now I'm booting too:

The Daily 202: The newest purity test for Democrats is whether to mandate assault weapons buybacks

Oh, brother.

Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke unveiled a detailed gun-control proposal this morning that calls for a “mandatory buyback program for assault weapons and a voluntary buyback program for handguns.” Critics say this would amount to government confiscation of firearms that people have bought legally. O’Rourke proposes an increase in the excise tax on gun manufacturers and stiff fines on gun traffickers to enable the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to purchase all the assault weapons he wants to ban. Individuals who fail to sell their assault rifles would then face fines.

O’Rourke is taking this hard line as he restarts his campaign nearly two weeks after 22 people were massacred at a Walmart in his hometown of El Paso, the deadliest attack against the Latino community in American history. The former congressman’s plan also calls for creating a nationwide gun licensing system. “If at this moment we do not wake up to this threat, then we, as a country, will die in our sleep,” O’Rourke said in an emotional half-hour speech yesterday.

Oh, brother brother.

First, as a matter of rhetoric I hate his speechwriter's decision to go with 'If we don't wake up to this threat, we will die in our sleep from gun violence'. Sure, sleep, wake, got it. But its a clash of imagery - what, I'm going to get shot while I'm asleep? How? During a home invasion? Why would I agree to disarm after having that idea put in my head?

And anyway, dying in one's sleep is an aspiration! What's the old folk wisdom? "I want to die in my sleep like my uncle, not screaming like terror like the passengers in his car".

As to the politics, this proposal ranks up their with open borders and free health café for undocumented future Democrats. Do Beto, Liz Warren and others think they can win the Presidency (and hold the House) by boosting their support in California, New York and Massachusetts while cratering it in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin? Do they even remember the idea of "swing states" or are they moving left so fast they think they've already abolished the Electoral College?

The crazy is coming faster then ever in the Dem nominating process. And wait until a few of the moderates drop out and the rest (like Beto) reposition. Hang on!

Comments

[MissMarple3]

Old Lurker,

You make a good point there. I should have looked at my phrasing and reasoning more carefully.

However, There is lots of circumstantial evidence on these pedophile rings, and I am tired of being told that because I find things looking fishy, that I am some sort of wild-eyed loon.

[Captain Hate]

With this type of human garbage still infesting the DOJ, it remains a snake pit of corruption that neither Sessions nor Barr seem interested in quickly draining:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=382860

I know that it's a long term fumigation but until it happens every fucking thing they do is suspect.

[Jane]

Dave,

He will probably move down!

[Rocco]

clarice, I know a guy who'll take care of these naysayers, for a cigarette!

I can see a guy thrusting his body violently as he he struggled to breathe. When those lights were going out did he make one last thrust forward trying to break that noose but break bones instead? I think it's plausable!

[Jane]

"Plausible" is not definite. But as I am returning from Happy hour, I will defer for a while

[Captain Hate]

Porch "So why were the Hillary emails copied to the gmail account?"

Because they couldn't make it to China in one hop?

As irritating as you can be, that made me laugh.

[henry]

CH, note that was not a “7th Floor” DOJ employee. The leadership rot goes to the roots at DOJ/FBI.

[clarice]

Well, MM--that there are pedophile rings and sex slavery does not mean there was an ounce of verifiable data behind the Pizzagate fandango.

[Captain Hate]

Absolutely, henry. It is a rogue department.

[clarice]

As I've told people often enough, I know that Pizza Place. The sign was from a defunct dve in Adams Morgan, not a clue to nefarious gon. There is no basement there. The establishment across the street is not a sex trafficking adoption place--it's an Exxon station. The intemperate and ridiculous accusations caused one nutter to enter armed , threatening people there.
In the same manner, believing against any common sense that Trump colluded with Russia causing Hillary to lose requires one to ignore that Hillary was a rotten, obviously sick candidate with an awful record of malfeasance and incompetence . Since the charge was bruited about we know the only collusion with foreign powers was by Hillary and the droogs in the DOJ and FBI.

[clarice]

"gon" should be goings on--I blame autocucumber

[clarice]

Dr Baden, hired by Epstein's forces, observed the autopsy and doubtless saw whatever else the medical examiner based her finding on. I don't hear a peep of objection from him and he certainly is not press shy.

[henry]

TM tweet:

Godfather Week continues.
In tonight's episode Roger Stone objects to the US Attorney's plan to introduce footage from "The Godfather" to establish the context of exhortations from Stone to an associate.
If only Fast Freddy Cuomo was on air to cover this.

https://twitter.com/tom_maguire/status/1162481929289162752?s=21

[henry]

@michaeljohns

Time to speak some hard truths about Anthony Scaramucci:

1. He supported Hillary in '08 and went on to be a fundraising bundler for Obama;

2. His viewpoints are largely both left of center and ill-informed.

He was never (and is not now) a drain the swamp ally.

#Trump2020 #KAG

[Alex]

Miss Marple there will be a lot of census jobs available in the near future. Go to usajobs.gov to apply. No one is talking that the $20 billion budgeted for the census will goose up the employment figures pre-election 2020.

[anonamom]

I don't hear a peep of objection from him and he certainly is not press shy

You are an attorney--you know well that "Hearing not a peep of objection" does NOT mean that he agrees.

You have no more idea of what he thinks of the post mortem than I do.

[clarice]

I feel certain knowing Dr Baden's history that if he found the result unsupported he'd say so.

[Captain Hate]

Garçon, I'll have what a-mom's drinking.

[anonamom]

Based on what, exactly?

You have no idea whatsoever as to what the terms of his consultancy agreement with the Epstein heirs is, do you?

He is was not there as an independent agent.

[MissMarple3]

https://nypost.com/2019/08/16/child-sex-abuse-victim-advocates-want-to-know-why-cuomo-hasnt-signed-erins-law/

[clarice]

Baden was hired by Epstein's lawyers.

[clarice]

Baden said he's under a "gag order"https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-death-ruled-suicide-by-new-york-city-medical-examiner

[Jane]

Regardless of what side I was on, I would expect this result. But this is the beginning. We can wait to see how many people who disagree die, hmmm are - murdered in the coming months.

[Momto2]

We've come to doubt the very institutions and officeholders we once trusted (medical examiners, journalists, DOJ, FBI, etc.) and it's their own fault! Instead of accepting explanations when things occur, we are skeptical, doubtful, and questioning. Even more so when there are SO many *coincidences* surrounding an event.

[peter]

porchlight @ 4:44--too funny!

[Pinandpuller]

What’s going on in Florida? Did they over fluoridate the water?

Bill Mitchell has gone from Gun Grabber to, at best idolatry and at worst, blasphemy.

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1162368342784692226?s=21

[Pinandpuller]

It’s like watching Zoolander in real time.

[GUS]

Oh YEAH a CAT FIGHT!!!! MEOW!!!

[D]

The voice of reason is hard to listen to.
Conspiracy theories are so much more fun.
Facts will out in this case.
It was a calvalcade of misfortune and missteps.
Everything aligned to allow motive and opportunity to complete the suicide.
Epstein saw his chance and he took it.
If he sounded certain and sane to the psychiatrist, it was probably because he had already formulated his plan.
A certain peace of mind comes, when you know what you are going to do and how you will determine how your life will end.
Robin Williams comes to mind in terms of the method.

[D]

Does Anonamom know that Clarice is an excellent mud wrestler?

[anonamom]

Not a cat fight--and it's a dirty martini, CH--it's just what Momto2 is noting.
Maybe the Russians won, despite only spending 100K. I believe NO ONE any more, about anything.

And I absolutely canNOT believe clarice is asking us to!

I have no opinion as to whether he suicided or was murdered--and think anyone who thinks they have "facts" or "commonsense" to support their opinion, if they have one, is absolutely NUTS.

[anonamom]

I know who Baden is being paid by.
My point is he very well may NOT be at liberty to disclose his opinion.

[D]

President Trump has a great tweet about Tlaib just shown on Fox News.
Says the real winner is the grandmother who doesn’t have to see her now.

[Pinandpuller]

If we are in the deification stage of the emperor you should know that, if elected, the FVLL COMMIE will put a price on your head to seize your vineyard, hot bath or means of prodvction.

[Captain Hate]

Peter Fonda reached room temperature. Good riddance.

[bubarooni]

When I first heard that Epstein was dead my first thought was, 'They frickin' whacked him!'

I heard somewhere it's the first suicide in MCC in 40 years. Kinda odd. Camera system was down. Fishy at least. Guards asleep. A bit to convenient I'd say. A broken hyoid bone. WTF is that even!

I'd say there were a lot of things that aligned in a most unlikely fashion.

Nonetheless, Rocco has me thinking based on his experience JE coulda whacked himself.

After today's report, I'm gonna go ahead and go with that theory.

Barr's promising to get to the bottom of this colossal f'up and hold people accountable.

Unless other info surfaces, and it could during an investigation, I think it more likely he whacked himself than that Cabal of Nefarious Mandarins Who Rule Us All whacked him.

At least for the moment...

[Pinandpuller]

I’d like permission to treat Dr Baden as a hostile witness, seeing as how he’s like the Michael Avenatti of medical examiners.

[macthenaif]

Looks like the same person who periodically sockpuppets GUS is now sockpuppeting ananomom.

[Pinandpuller]

Jane

For the Clintons, plausible is always less important than deniability.

[anonamom]

Boy, if my husband sees this, we will NEVER be camping in Banff!
from Insty:

https://patch.com/new-jersey/longvalley/nj-family-attacked-wolf-something-out-horror-movie

[Narciso]

No that would be cyril wecht, its very convenient thats all.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

KJOM;
Shelby Lynne; Feelin' Kind of Lonely Tonight.

[Narciso]

Podeata waa plenty creepy, he waa a full commie in the 80s, then he atiffed the oligarchs spending the buy money on bad art, ans he didmr get a polonium cocktail.

[Pinandpuller]

Government incompetence certainly greased Epstein’s trapdoor.

[Narciso]

Scaramamucci tried to sell skybridge to hna the big holding company in china that owns the lioms share of deutsch bank, but only six months ago he had written a very protrump book.

[Manuel Transmission]

Well, unlikely Kevin Bacon time. After mentioning our friend Dick S. the retired Congresscritter from the Philly area this morning, I happen to see a pal at our Friday Young Republicans and Ammo Reloading Society lunch who lived in The Philly area a long time ago. So, I get the ping to ask him whether he knows Dick. His jaw drops. They’ve been buds for 40+ yrs!

That’s just nuts. :)

[Narciso]

Interestung i went to school with the soms of one the fellows mentiomed in that book, that miss maxwell supposedly read he flew ik the congo yet survived although many didnt in thar firgitten cold war skirmish

[anonamom]

Does Anonamom know that Clarice is an excellent mud wrestler?

I am banking on the 30 pounds of muscle, four inches of height (guessing here), and 15 less years I've got on her. ;-)

Not to mention being oldest of five--I grew up wrestling after dinner in the nursery, our very favorite past time!

[Narciso]

Mentioned in the, small world department.

[Buckeye]

Boy, if my husband sees this, we will NEVER be camping in Banff!

Wilderness camping without a Sig-Sauer under your pillow strikes me as a bad idea.

The 2 legged wolves are probably even a bigger threat.

[anonamom]

This will be in the NYT--oh, never.

He needs to get the five years and the fine:

https://nypost.com/2019/08/15/irs-staffer-pleads-guilty-to-giving-michael-cohens-confidential-info-to-avenatti/

[Jane]

3 of Epsrein’s Lawyers are challenging the autopsy results. Why?

[Buckeye]

So anonamom is a firstborn too!

Comes as no surprise. I suspect many here are.

[Narciso]

So you draw a straighline from greenland, as much as one can and one ends up in central russia, close to siberia.

[Captain Hate]

I hope that wolf wasn't rabid.

We've had an increasing coyote problem. Someone told me a pair of them killed a dog. Maybe that's why I've seen so many deer on the move. Time for the cops to send in the sharpshooters and nip this now.

[Captain Hate]

Anyone here been to Banff? I think DoT had.

[Captain Hate]

I'm the eldest.

[Jim Eagle]

I chronicled Ping Pong Pizza a few years back. It was all fictional satire but in every fiction there is a smidgen of fact.

I have no doubt that in the universe of DC politics and demographics those sickos exist including members of Congress and others in the Fed govt.

I am thinking about bringing back that chronicle to illustrate the Deep State in Epstein and Spygate (the unmaskings),

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--So anonamom is a firstborn too!

Comes as no surprise. I suspect many here are.--

Only the jerks.
Kidding. KIDDING!
Just thinking of my own "family".

[peter]

I suspect many here are. Not me! second out of four

[Narciso]

Just consider nxim and the epstein ring, which have overlaps,

[Buckeye]

Anyone here been to Banff?

Yes, but just for half a day. Made a side trip on the way from Edmonton to Calgary.

Spectacular, even just from the highway.

[Narciso]

The real life hellfire clubs, there os a nexus of secret societies which comprise powerbrokers in business media and politics.

[Captain Hate]

I used to wrestle with my brother after dinner as we worked off the minimal nutrition from our mother's horrible cooking. In retrospect I was kind of lucky I didn't give my brother the Steve Austin injury from pile driving him on something harder than the glorified trampoline they perform on; although I kind of worried about that and twisted off to the side so his empty melon stayed away from the floor.

[D]

I am the third child but the oldest girl.
I also wrestled and did activities with my older brothers like climbing fire escapes and roofs and treehouses and of course trees.
I was not a girly girl.
Played softball in playground and other leagues.

[Jim Eagle]

Been to Banff, not to be missed. Just fantastic. Up there with Gleneagles in Scotland. The finest upscale golf experience in the world. Trust me.

[Narciso]

Practically doubleplusungood:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/15/china-does-not-have-upper-hand-hong-kong-trump-does/?fbclid=IwAR1h7c50Xl-Ux1W2Wdr3sLPJDNWC7uOPgSEh_VPzw4zNJdEQ5-J1YSYXPd4

[peter]

I was inside MCC once, in the 1970s. I was a law student working for a big Wall Street law firm. The firm was doing pro bono work for prisoners. I suspect it was a write-off of first year associates' times plus good publicity. Anyway, I was asked to go the MCC and serve the warden with a subpoena in a prisoner's rights case. I went there in a business suit, showed the entrance guard the subpoena, and went inside. They stamped the back of my hand with that invisible ink that shows under a black light, like some night clubs did at the time. Once inside, no one could direct me to someone who would accept service of process of the subpoena. I wandered around inside for about 45 minutes, went to several different floors until I found someone who said they would accept the papers. It was a really low security place. I didn't see any bars-most of the walls were sheetrock. When I tried to leave, the guard at the entrance station had changed. The new guard asked me who I was. For a few seconds it occurred to me that I might not get out so easily. I told the guard why I was there and he let me out. It occurred to me that someone could have smuggled in a business suit and easily have talked his way out. The second guard never even asked to look at the stamp on my hand. MCC was also the place where now deceased leftist lawyer Lynne Stewart smuggled out materials and messages from the Blind Sheik. It is also the prison where one of the terrorist allies of the Blind Sheik used a comb to stab one of the guards in the eye.

[D]

Banff, I will put it on my bucket list.

[Another Bob]

Oldest here too.

[Narciso]

Wild and crazy place

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/former-reed-aide-used-city-funds-to-buy-2-machine-guns-investigation-reveals/976679358?fbclid=IwAR31GI5Z-Teve2LFavpL0lucVs_fs76S4Isvgz6f9cltmWRS7ufwKNEN-nE

[D]

Peter:
Interesting story.

[Buckeye]

The finest upscale golf experience in the world.

The Neurosurgeon cleared my to do cardio and strength workouts, but I am still not cleared to swing a club.

I see him again at the beginning of November and will likely get the "go-ahead".

Just in time for winter:)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

LOL, Cap'n.

My brother and I used to play chicken. He never learned his lesson because I'd launch myself shoulder first, Jack Tatum style, into the doofus, even though he outweighed me by 30 pounds at that point.
We stopped when he ended up with a substantial intramuscular hematoma by his collar bone that they had to relieve surgically.

[clarice]

That Banff story is just another case of toxic masculinity.

[D]

Buckeye:
Glad you are on the mend.

[Narciso]

In the part of thr wolf?

https://m.chron.com/news/article/A-federal-judge-in-D-C-hit-reply-all-and-now-14318968.php

[Another Bob]

Always pegged you for the “criminal element” here Ig. ;)

[Another Bob]

Younger brother and I were jumping on a bed. I gave him a shove. Mouth first into the doorknob. Lost teeth.

No more jumping on beds.

Brother ended up a Marine who could kick my ass with one arm.

[Buckeye]

Thanks Maryrose.

Having little, if any, aches and pains unless I push myself too hard.

All in all, consider myself fortunate.

[Jim Eagle]

Clarice,

Most of the female staff at Gleagles have Phd’s In Women Studies and Gender Studies. How they qualify for caddy duty.

[anonamom]

Always take care with the Reply All:

https://www.chron.com/news/article/A-federal-judge-in-D-C-hit-reply-all-and-now-14318968.php

[Jane]

Did Peter Fonda die?

[clarice]

You'll come out of it swinging, Buckeye.
Re Banff, I was referring to the dad who risked his life to save his family.

[GUS]

My cousins live in Perth Scotland (I llllllllllllllllllllllllove Perth). One of my cousins works at Gleneagles.

[Buckeye]

Re Banff, I was referring to the dad who risked his life to save his family.

I knew that Clarice:)

Good for him. Sometimes that toxic masculinity comes in handy.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That story anonomom linked is something. A judge says climate science is bunk and he gets replaced on climate cases.
A judge, the feckless blowhard Emmet Sullivan, who is always distressed by misconduct in his court but never enough to actually do anything about it, forwards an invitation for judges to go to some tree-hugger, ambulance-chaser climate seminar and that's just dandy.

[peter]

https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/16/peter-fonda-dead-dies/

[Pinandpuller]

ER DR weighs in on Epstein, Neck anatomy and physiology and hyoid fractures:
https://youtu.be/nNItvSfzDxI

[Jane]

Why do you hate Peter Fonda Capt?

[Narciso]

I never saw easy rider, that last projwct of his bit the dust didnt it.

[MissMarple3]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 2h2 hours ago

Israel was very respectful & nice to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, allowing her permission to visit her “grandmother.” As soon as she was granted permission, she grandstanded & loudly proclaimed she would not visit Israel. Could this possibly have been a setup? Israel acted appropriately!

[James D.]

the feckless blowhard Emmet Sullivan

That’s kinder than I would have put it.

[MissMarple3]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 2h2 hours ago

Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. The only real winner here is Tlaib’s grandmother. She doesn’t have to see her now!

[Captain Hate]

Why do you hate Peter Fonda Capt?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/peter-fonda-baron-trump-secret-service/index.html

[MissMarple3]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 2h2 hours ago

Like it or not, Tlaib and Omar are fast becoming the face of the Democrat Party. Cortez (AOC) is fuming, not happy about this!

[Jim Eagle]

After 7 years in the ME, I have yet to meet an honest Muzzie. Just saying in re Tlaib

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Now he's maneuvering the 4 stooges into a circular firing Squad. I love it.

[MissMarple3]

Retweeted by the President. Photo at the link.

American industry is soaring and factory floors across the country are coming back to life, thanks to President @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/UXmn6HYYqF pic.twitter.com/kvtNGJunuo

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 16, 2019

[Captain Hate]

Tlaib was too dumb to do taqiya right. No wonder everyone in the ME hates the palis.