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This is the single best takedown of anything I have ever heard.

This via David Codrea.

It really does boggle the imagination how the senate and house can be so stolid, unresponsive, stupid, and lazy. They should have removed suppressors from the NFA long ago.

As for that matter, where is OSHA in all of this? Suppressors are about hearing protection. Given the popularity of hunting and the shooting sports, as well as the former military members who have come home with damaged hearing, you’d think if they cared anything about their profession or the people they’re supposed to serve and protect, they would have already been screaming to congress. As for that matter, the ATF should have already been in front of congress pleading to remove suppressors from the NFA.

Only if they cared …

Two amicus briefs came in today on Sanchez v. Bonta, our case challenging California's total ban on suppressors. The first is from National Association for Gun Rights, and the second is from a group of amici including Silencer Shop, Palmetto State Armory, and others. We… pic.twitter.com/kFU44oYqHt

— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) April 4, 2025

Fractional reserve banking also happens when a bank loans money to another bank, and that bank loans it out in smaller chunks, and so on, until a given amount of money is loaned out so many times that it can’t be covered if it defaults. More money has been loaned out than exists in the bank, or the collective banks who have loaned it. To be specific, 10% is cash reserve, or it used to be.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

James Wesley Rawles at Survival Blog has a very good discussion on fractional reserve banking and how it came to America. It’s worth you time to read it.

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In the first decision of its kind in Nevada, a judge ruled last week that state law enforcement can’t evade stricter requirements for seizing cash and property by partnering with the federal government.

The plaintiff in that lawsuit, a Marine veteran named Stephen Lara, had nearly $90,000 in cash seized from him in 2021 by two Nevada Highway Patrol officers. The cops admitted to Lara that there was nothing illegal about carrying large amounts of cash. But they decided that Lara’s money was likely drug proceeds, and they coordinated with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to forfeit it through a process called civil asset forfeiture.

The Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, sued the NHP and DEA on Lara’s behalf in 2021, arguing not only that should Lara get his money back—the DEA agreed to return it shortly after the suit was filed—but that the NHP exceeded its legal authority to hand the case over to the feds rather than following Nevada’s stricter asset forfeiture laws.

This was the first time Nevada courts had considered police participation in the Justice Department’s Equitable Sharing Program, in which federal law enforcement “adopts” civil forfeiture cases from local police. The local department gets up to 80 percent of the forfeiture proceeds, and the rest goes into a Justice Department pool that is doled out to other participating departments around the country.

Nevada Second Judicial District Judge Connie J. Steinheimer held that forfeiture laws are required to be strictly interpreted, and that there was no way to do that while allowing the NHP to unilaterally undercut them.

“Without a clear dictate from the Nevada Legislature,” she wrote, “NHP cannot undermine this bedrock policy and effectively circumvent Nevada’s civil asset forfeiture statutes by electing to participate in the federal equitable sharing program.”

Steinheimer ruled that just because the federal government has the authority to adopt forfeiture cases doesn’t mean state police have the authority to accept the offer.

In a press release, Ben Field, an Institute for Justice attorney, called the ruling “a big step toward ending the abuse of civil forfeiture nationwide.”

Civil asset forfeiture laws are unconstitutional on their face, whether federal or state statutes. It’s highway robbery, and if I was the judge I would have put the cops who did this in prison, as well as any FedGov agents who participated in this obscene sin.

Furthermore, the biblical penalty for theft is to work in servitude to the offended party to pay the debt back three-fold. That would have been on my menu of penalties.

Then again, I’m not a judge and never will be believing things like this. The government doesn’t want justice. It wants control and money.

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Former FBI officials have warned that Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next FBI director, Kash Patel, could have limitless power at the bureau as they confront the likelihood that he will be confirmed next year after locking down support from key Republicans and the current director’s intention to resign.

The alarm has come as Patel, who has called for shutting down FBI headquarters and drafted what critics call an ‘enemies list’ of Patel’s opponents, appears set to have his nomination supported unanimously by Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee.

The problem with Patel leading the FBI in the second Trump administration is that typical checks on the power of the FBI director would almost certainly be gone, according to former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi and other former officials familiar with the matter.

Patel is almost certain to install his own chief of staff and a new FBI general counsel to sign off on any campaign of retribution, while Pam Bondi, the Trump pick for attorney general, has previously echoed Patel’s aims to make the agency subservient to the White House.

“I don’t think people truly realize how powerful an FBI director can be, unrestrained,” Figliuzzi recently said on the Highly Conflicted podcast. “You want to open a case and call it a threat assessment or a preliminary investigation, you can do it.

“If the FBI director wants to get a press conference together, not tell the DoJ, and make pronouncements to the public about a case opening or a case closing or someone should be prosecuted, they can do it.

“And then going through files? I imagine on the first day in office, he’s going to say, ‘I need every file that has the word Trump in it,’” Figliuzzi said. “That should be a real concern, that Kash Patel is going through informant files and saying, ‘Look at that, this guy coughed it up on Trump.’”

These people are a piece of work, yes?

Logic isn’t the hobgoblin of small minds. It’s the stuff of life.

In this case, it occurs to most normal people who have to live life by the rules of logic – or die, or go to prison – that if any of this is true, then the previous administration and FBI officials were equally culpable to running the organization in such a way as they just described.

In my case, I hope that’s a very short list of the things he does, including declassify most of what he finds regarding a multitude of things. There is no better disinfectant than light. That’s what the FBI and former officials fear most.

I speculated that it was Pam Bondi. I was right.

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A connected source tells The Dossier that Chronister was vouched for through Pam Bondi, who will be overseeing the DEA and has a long working relationship with the Sheriff. Bondi, a longtime Florida politician and lobbyist, and later, a Trump world staple, is the latest Attorney General nominee following Matt Gaetz’s unilateral withdrawal from consideration.

Dumb bimbo.

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Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister has withdrawn his nomination from President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Drug Enforcement Agency, the sheriff announced on social media Tuesday evening.

He doesn’t say why. But good. As I said, he’s a punk.

Here’s more.

I am from Tampa Bay, Florida. I have followed Chad Chronister’s career and people are asking me why he is a bad pick to be head of DEA. Conservatives here do not support Chronister. Chronister is a woke and weak Democrat plant and will backstab President Trump. He cannot be… pic.twitter.com/AfGxiFXvIc

— Spence Rogers (@SpenceRogers) December 1, 2024

Support for BLM, belief in red flag laws, arresting a pastor for preaching during the Covid lockdown, and on and on the bad list goes. Read the whole post.

Now – on to who recommended this punk to be head of DEA. I suspect Pam Bondi (they are after all both Floridians). Pam, did you do this? Is this your handiwork? Inquiring minds want to know.

The clear-headed Stephen Stamboulieh assesses the potential fallout of the pardon of Hunter Biden.

While “The Big Guy” had done his deed with his son, I still think there’s more to this story than we’ve seen or has even been written about.

If the Hunter Biden cases continued, all sorts of things could have come out at trial, including collusion with the power brokers in Ukraine between both Bidens.

This is an attempt to keep this all under wraps, so the pardon not only protects his son, but him as well (at least insofar as obvious and public disclosure under the rules of the court).

Discovery is a bitch.

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Trump revealed Saturday in a statement that he will nominate Chronister to lead the DEA in his second administration, stating that the Florida sheriff will work with his attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, “to secure the Border, stop the flow of Fentanyl, and other Illegal Drugs, across the Southern Border.” While Chronister received praise from colleagues and others after the initial announcement, some Republicans have begun to fire back due to his actions during the COVID-19 lockdown.

In March 2020, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released a press statement revealing that they had arrested local Tampa Bay church pastor Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne on two second-degree misdemeanors for unlawful assembly and violation of public health emergency rules. In a post on X from the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, the group called out Chronister’s decision to arrest Howard-Browne, leading Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie to respond as well.

“I’m going to call ‘em like I see ‘em. Trump’s nominee for head of DEA should be disqualified for ordering the arrest a pastor who defied COVID lockdowns,” Massie wrote on X.

So this guy Chad Chronister is a punk. His judgments are poor, his tendency and proclivity is to be a controller, and he apparently has no real scruples or fixed world and life view except for whatever he thinks at the time. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have put a pastor in jail for preaching.

Trump is already showing the signs of poor judgment, just like in his first administration. But then, we all knew we would be disappointed in him.

This is their antidote to the massive change in American politics.

Political commentator Anand Giridharadas said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Democrats needed a “feminist” version of  Joe Rogan’s podcast.

Giridharadas said, “You know when one person has a traumatic experience, we know what to do. we go to a counselor, a therapist, maybe they take some medication. When an entire country has a traumatic experience, it’s just called life. It’s just called history. We have an entire country and world that had a traumatic experience, whether it was my kindergartner wearing a mask to school, which I’m very glad we had masks, but also watching my kindergartner not being able to recognize the faces of their best friend because eyes are not enough at age 6 to recognize a face. And the enormous amount of mental health challenges that I don’t think we even fully realized were unleashed. The sense of defenselessness people felt economically. And you’re right that when you have that kind of traumatic event, it’s just in the blood in ways that historians may make sense of, sociologists may make sense of. I don’t think we right now are in a position to make sense of it.”

He added, “Particularly the media ecosystem, it is not it’s not a good one. It’s a negative one, it is a radicalization funnel. What they have done in the online media ecosystem is build a radicalization engine, the way militant groups do around the world. It takes people from low level annoyances with the world, ‘Why are eggs so expensive? Why are my kids learning things in school I didn’t learn? And then moves through You Tube videos, podcasts, moves them from the annoyance, to a full blown fascist politics. It’s an elaborate multibillion dollar infrastructure, and there is nothing like it on the pro-democracy side. We don’t have, when a man is lost and lonely and not yet radicalized, we don’t have the equivalent of Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson to move that man in a feminist direction.”

While understanding just a little bit about what happened, Scott Jennings end with “We have to figure out how to talk to …”

Scott Jennings masterclass on CNN last night.

Donald Trump now has a mandate.pic.twitter.com/LtjTkBOh05

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 6, 2024

Jen Psaki tells us how she feels and wanted a woman to be elected president.

Watch the moment Jen Psaki calls the race for President Trump on MSNBC before delivering one of most hyperbolic, unhinged descriptions of Donald Trump you’ll ever hear.

What an epic day!! pic.twitter.com/9MzPjR3CFt

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 6, 2024

You see, they still don’t get it. They think this is all about an influencer.

The party of “We don’t know the difference between a man and a woman” wants a woman to be elected president. It would be literally impossible to make this up if you hadn’t heard someone say it out loud.

The problem isn’t that leftists don’t know how to talk to more than half of America. The problem isn’t a lack of communication. The problem isn’t that they lack an influencer.

The problem is that their policy choices were all too clear: Gender confusion, DEI, inflation, more theft through taxation, more onerous control, whether gun control or wage and price controls, more wars of foreign adventure, more out-of-control deficit spending, more kowtowing to both the extremely wealthy on the one hand, having made deals behind closed doors for “special” deals for them, and the lay class on the other hand who wants to do the same thing as the elitists, i.e., fleece the middle class, more unfettered immigration – both hurting wages and increasing loss of income from taxes to pay for the medical care of immigrants (because the elitists won’t pay them medical care), and on and on the list could go.

They heard the message loud and clear. They rejected it, and soundly so.

The problem wasn’t a failure to communicate. They communicated all too well.

They still don’t get it. I hope they never do.