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George Rebane

Idiots on parade. ‘Court allows New York to ban guns in sensitive places’ (here)  None of these idiots understand that 1) mass shooters don’t care a crock about such prohibitions, 2) such prohibitions have never reduced the frequency of mass shootings, and 3) mass shooters take comfort in knowing where law abiding citizens must go unarmed.  Shouldn’t there be an IQ test or something similar for judges to pass before being allowed to sit on the bench?

New cohorts of ragheads are waiting in the wings for word from Iran to replace Hamas if Israel is ever successful in wiping out those low-life thugs.  We have to remember that it’s the entire Palestinian population that teaches its children to kill Jews and install terrorist organizations for their governance.  So what’s Plan B?

[10dec23 update]  The use of ‘some’.  Out of a cohort of a hundred people, a colleague reports that “some of them were wearing green sweaters.”  What does that communicate to you in terms of the range of the number of people wearing green sweaters – i.e. what is your max and min range for ‘some’?  After you determine your range, take a look at this link to see how the use of 'some' compares to your own sense of its meaning.

[17dec23 update]  A post-Singularity landscape is offered in this video that is sufficiently detailed to evoke interesting discussion.  The link was sent to me by a friend and RR reader who sometimes comments on these pages.  He asked for my thoughts, which I offered, and now I ask those interested for their assessment of the prognostications offered in the video (here).

[18dec23 update]  Donors From The Richest Zip Codes In America Are Throwing Their Support Behind Biden.  More proof that having money doesn’t make you smart, and that corporatism is now an indelible part of the state – companies that pay-to-play could not survive without the backing of the government gun to suppress their competition.

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62 responses to “Ruminations – 8dec23 (updated 18dec23)”

  1. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Wait….what’s this?

    Arizona’s Democrat Governor Demands $512 Million Reimbursement From Biden For Border Security ‘Failure’

    I’m just not sure Shotgun Joey has it to spare with all his other overseas commitments.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/arizonas-democrat-governor-demands-512-million-reimbursement-biden-border-security

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  2. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Just the sort of nonsense that you’d expect a Crazed Sex Poodle to spout….

    Al Gore Warns: People Having Access To Non-Mainstream Information “Threatens Democracy”

    In Gore like fashion he fucked things up again…..remember, it’s Our Democracy™.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/al-gore-warns-people-having-access-non-mainstream-information-threatens-democracy

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  3. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 1106am – Good find. As time goes by, more and more Democrats are demonstrating that fundamentally they are evil totalitarians waiting in the wings for the next opportunity to ratchet us toward a tyrannical form of governance. But first it requires knee-capping the Constitution, especially its first two amendments. Another recent example –
    https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/09/newly-proposed-bill-plots-novel-attack-americans-gun-rights/

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  4. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    California Facing Record $68 Billion Deficit, Potential ‘Fiscal Budget Emergency’: Legislative Analyst
    The campaign materials write themselves…..

    “Governor Newsom and Democrat lawmakers turned a $100 billion surplus into a $68 billion deficit in just 2 years…”

    “Let Gavin Newsom do for America what he’s done for California”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-facing-record-68-billion-deficit-potential-fiscal-budget-emergency-legislative

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  5. Scott O Avatar

    fishy 1:44 – It’s worse than that. See my post on 12/8 at 2:08 under George’s post “Ignorance vs Evil”.

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  6. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Posted by: Scott O | 10 December 2023 at 04:00 PM
    Regrettably I don’t have this option!

    “I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”

    May we live in “interesting” times!

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  7. Scott O Avatar

    George 12:13 – from one of the co-sponsors of the gun bill:
    “I know all too well the damage a firearm can do in the wrong hands.”
    So – what does this bill have to do with “the wrong hands”?
    What does this bill do to restrict “the wrong hands” from a whole host of things that can cause human carnage?
    Nothing.
    This is just another round of kabuki theater having to do with an elected official trying to put on a show of pretense to impress the uneducated idiots we unfortunately now have as a large (possibly a majority) of voters.
    BTW – for anyone out there still wondering how the mass shooter in Maine chose his locals for the murders…
    They were “gun free zones”!
    He knew there wouldn’t be anyone armed to confront him.

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You know its too far gone that you have to bring in cankels –
    ‘Deep, deep trouble’: Dems reportedly bringing in Hillary Clinton to help with Biden’s re-election
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/deep-deep-trouble-dems-reportedly-bringing-hillary-clinton-help-bidens-re-election
    😉

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya think that creepy grampa joe and the 0 retreads ass kissing and giving them jillions easing sanctions and not just the latest 6 bil let them finance all the chaos?
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/opinion-we-ignore-iran-s-growing-multi-dimensional-threat-at-our-own-peril/ar-AA1lhWwB?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=85b8a5eeb063476cabd5f03bf480a968&ei=220
    😉

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  10. Scott O Avatar

    DB 6:56 – “Dems reportedly bringing in Hillary Clinton to help with Biden’s re-election”
    Uh, “help” with the re-election? Ya mean with Trump’s re-election?

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  11. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    My minimum for ‘some’ = 10%, maximum = 30%. Above 30%, it becomes ‘many’; above 50% it’s ‘most’, up until around 80%, then it’s ‘nearly all’. Below 10%, it’s ‘few’. As in “Few folks are confident Joe Biden can do anything other than eat an ice cream cone.”
    Paywall on the WSJ link, so couldn’t see their take on it.

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  12. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    EFox, that sounds about right.
    “Some MAGAs think Trump is full of shit”

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  13. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    George,
    Nothing’s really new – see your Ruminations 09Nov 2014, 10Nov update. Describes the problems with liberals shutting down free speech on campuses.
    “…hostility toward unpopular ideas has become so irrational that many students, and some faculty members, now openly oppose freedom of speech.”
    “For this disorder there is no effective quarantine. A whole generation of students soon will have imbibed the warped notions of justice and entitlement now handed down as dogma in the universities.”
    One good thing – acceptance of free speech doesn’t seem to have gotten any worse; well, unless you substitute “most” for “many” and for “some” in the first sentence above.

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  14. George Rebane Avatar

    Efox 512am – Thanks for your complete answer. It so happens that my own thresholds for those descriptors closely match yours. I wonder how many more share those thresholds. At least you and I can use them to communicate 😉

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  15. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    From your 13 April 2010 musings:
    Another raising of the dead (words), from 2010. Ahead of his time??
    “I see irony in my support for asset (and consumption) based taxes because they are usually considered a conservative innovation, and I am labeled a liberal here. In general a tax structure that taxes assets (a person or family’s net worth) or consumption (a person or family’s spending) is fair. We would still need to deal with the question of minimum tax threshold.”
    Posted by: Steven Frisch | 14 April 2010 at 04:59 AM
    If this is an idea of fair, what does unfair look like? Total confiscation?

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  16. Scott O Avatar

    Zir Frisch is badly confused. Consumption taxes can be conservative depending on how it is structured and what other taxes the citizens face. Taxing some one’s net worth or unrealized gains is a proven fools errand. I’m sure the lawyers specializing in tax matters love the idea. Lower middle class folk living in a home for a long time that has appreciated can be totally screwed by asset taxing.
    I have never heard anyone but leftists advocating for asset taxation.
    Hunter Biden would be a great candidate for asset taxation – receive millions and blow it on hedonistic profligacy. Hey – no assets to tax! Cool!

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George, Scott and Gregory
    Here’s a direct quote from Trump of something he has repeated several times.
    “ I said I want to be a dictator for one day. You know why I wanted to be a dictator? Because I want a wall, and I want to drill, drill, drill,” Trump said during the club’s annual gala, according to multiple reports.
    Can any of you comment on the Constitutionality of declaring yourself a Dictator for a day as trump has said he wants to do.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/11/donald-trump-dictator-one-day-reelected/71880010007/

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It’s a meaningless term, Punchy. And a joke.

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory, are you serious??? A Presidential candidate stating he WILL be a dictator for any length of time is a dangerous and serious person that should be disqualified him from running for office. Is it not the responsibly of a President to uphold the Constitution?
    Once again you are supporting Trump by defending him in this situation. Trump can count on you. You always come through for him.

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  20. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It’s a joke, Punchy.

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You always support Trump no matter what Gregory. Here he passionately says he will become a dictator and you ignore him.

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I don’t believe him, Punch, and I don’t believe you, either.
    Biden has been more of a dictator than Trump ever was.

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Can you give me some examples of how Biden is a dictator?

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Can you give examples from Trump’s first time where he was?
    Biden has exceeded his authority on a number of occasions.

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    He has clearly stated several if re-elected President he will become a dictator for a day. that’s stating that he will break the law. What would happen to you or I if we were to state that on a certain day we would rob a bank?

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Exactly what law would be broken if Trump says he’s a dictator for the day?
    Until I rob a bank there is nothing to do. Sorry.

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    When in trouble
    When in doubt,
    Run in circles
    Scream and shout.
    That’s you, Punch.

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  28. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Since opinion writers that Punchy has strongly disapproved of in the recent past are okay again…..

    Not ‘Trump the Dictator’ Again

    https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/11/not-trump-the-dictator-again/ *
    * this is for Punchy’s legion of “our readers” out there lurking in the ether. Remember….just because he won’t read links doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t.

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  29. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Drugged Fish, VD is not wrong. Executive actions and pardons seem somewhat dictatorial in that they are unilateral and side step Congress – but we allow them.
    I blame smartphones
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-backpedals-says-he-was-joking-about-dictator-calls/ar-AA1llZCl

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    Paul, please give it up.

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Give up what George?

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  32. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, give it up.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Give up what Gregory. Sorry I’m making things difficult for you.

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  34. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    No, you’re not sorry.
    The difficulty isn’t about the words… it’s more about the aggravation akin to mosquitos. A blood sucking insect.

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Your allegiance to Trump is a profound example as to how an intelligent person can sucked in by as con man, which is what Trump is.

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    sp-by a con man

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  37. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Re:Idiots on Parade
    I would not want to spend the money, but it would be fun to be a fly on the wall at one of these Young Republican dinners.
    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/media-revolt-new-york-young-republican-gala

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  38. Scott O Avatar

    Lonely Juanita 3:44 Wow – Vanity Fair. Lots of Jr High tittle-tattle to keep the rubes amused.
    I’m sure the Peoples’ Young Democrat Cadets are more your speed. Lots of up-talk and endless virtue signaling.

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  39. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Give up what George?
    The only thing in this world that you truly care about…..the pursuit of your Orange Whale.

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  40. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    scotto, I know it’s not bannon’s war room podcast😂😂😂

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  41. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Hunter Biden did a good job this morning taking it to the MAGAt party.

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  42. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    It is sad that the Republican party is controlled by the Russian communist party.

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  43. Scott O Avatar

    “I know it’s not bannon’s war room podcast”
    Yawn – Didn’t know it existed.
    But if you enjoy that sort of thing – go for it.
    “It is sad that the Republican party is controlled by the Russian communist party.”
    And I had thought you claimed it was run by Trumpers – do try to get your story straight. Maybe your hero Hunter can inform you. He’s a real loser – just your type.

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  44. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “It is sad that the Republican party is controlled by the Russian communist party.”
    “I. Juan”
    The shame is that the extent of the control of the USA by the Chinese Communist Party is currently unknown, but the Russian control of the GOP is bupkis… But “I. Juan” certainly knows this.

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  45. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Democratic Comedy.
    https://imgur.com/a/Mjr07sB

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  46. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Stay tuned for yet another exciting chapter in the ongoing saga of “Coin Operated President”….

    James Biden’s dealmaking caught on FBI tapes in unrelated bribery probe

    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/james-biden-s-dealmaking-caught-on-fbi-tapes-in-18560018.php

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  47. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 333p a couple days ago
    “Your allegiance to Trump is a profound example as to how an intelligent person can sucked in by as con man, which is what Trump is.”
    Punch, your hate has blinded you. I’m not a Trump supporter… I am a Punchy debunker.

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  48. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Re: Post Singularity Landscape
    First off, I want to commend the video presenter on his space suit casual outfit.
    The Singularity should only apply to all Federal Government entities.
    We could have individual AI units replace the Congress and Senate members. The computers could argue with each other.
    We could eliminate so much waste it would be incredible.
    We might even be able for AI Hal to come up with a budget and stick with it.

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  49. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I. Juan previously stated
    “It is sad that the Republican party is controlled by the Russian communist party.”
    and, pointedly to me,
    “Are you racist and assume that all Chinese are untrustworthy?”
    Why?

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