From the SOTU transcript (NYT): "All Democrats, every single one of them, voted against these really important and very necessary massive tax cuts. They wanted large-scale tax increases to hurt the people instead.... Countries that were ripping us off for decades are now paying us hundreds of billions of dollars.... Everybody knows it. Even Democrats know it. They just don’t want to say it.... As we speak, Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland Security. It’s all cut off — it’s all cut off.... They have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murderers.... We have no money because of the Democrats.... All voters must show proof of citizenship... and this should be an easy one and by the way it’s polling at 89 percent including Democrats, 89 percent.... Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy.... And the reason they don’t want to do it.... They want to cheat..... But surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents’ will.... These people are crazy, I’m telling you. They’re crazy.
Amazing. Terrible. Boy, oh boy.... Democrats are destroying our country.... Dangerous repeat offenders continue to be released by pro-crime Democrat politicians again and again...."

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inflatable frogs
tim mcbride wears flippin’ skirt
shithouse mouse effect
Well don't stop the man, he's on a roll! Of course the Bad Orange Man delivers home truths, wrapped in an unappealing rhetorical package. But that's what we've got. I watched Abigail Spanberger's response--she said Americans should ask themselves three questions about the current situation. She expected a "No" answer to those questions. In about 60% of American homes, the answer was "Yes". That has less to do with political approval of Trump than it has to do with economic reality.
repeat the truth often enough and people will start to believe it…
Enough truth, where a normal person can't reasonably say he's lying, and enough exaggeration, where the same person understands it's all performative.
Then when the critic speaks, they often react angrily to the exaggeration by calling it 'lying', thus devaluing their own credibility, in the eyes of the normal person.
I think this is part of the secret recipe. It's also why I don't react to Trump's words, don't listen to his speeches, but watch carefully what he actually does.
Ann’s morphed into DINKY DAU!!! Somebody save her!!!
I guess it could be okay. Hopefully she doesn’t start to post her picks for the exacta box in the 8th at Santa Anita…
He's not wrong on the whole, but his tax cuts are yet another vacuous shell game. If the majority wants generous entitlements, Republicans cannot end entitlements. (They certainly do want SS and Medicare, some Reps want ACA too.)
The voting public's overall views lie somewhere around 1990s Clinton "triangulation" on taxing and spending. Some Democrats might have gotten on board with that approach.
Dangerous repeat offenders continue to be released by pro-crime Democrat politicians again and again....
Well this certainly true. It was true in Fairfax County, Virginia, where I used to live, and I note that a Cal Tech astrophysicist was recently murdered by a repeat offender. Most egregiously, I note Gavin Newsom just pardoned a man convicted of attempted murder whose green card would have been revoked due to his crime, making him a candidate for deportation. The pardon means the perpetrator gets to stay. Would it be wrong of me to hope that, if the guy is more successful next time next time he attempts a murder, that the victim is a Newsom supporter?
“Ann’s morphed into DINKY DAU!!! Somebody save her!!!”
Those are Trump’s words, not Ann’s. That wasn't clear to you?
They wanted large-scale tax increases to hurt the people instead.…
This is certainly true in Abigail Spanberger’s Virginia. She was handed a budget surplus from her predecessor, Republican Glenn Youngkin, but her first action in office was to raise taxes.
AND?????? If the shoe fits....
Everything Trump said in the paragraph that AA showed us is true.
all true. Hey male islamists - we have no coast guard right now - thanks to your pals in the corruptocratic party.
It is crazy for the Dems to favor illegal aliens and criminal illegal aliens over American citizens. The first duty of an American politician is to America citizens.
Didn't the Dems remain seated when the young Black girl, Deliah, was recognized for her recovery from being hit by a truck driven by an illegal alien?
Didn't the Dems remain seated when the Ukrainian mom was crying her eyes out about the unwarranted loss of her daughter at the hands of lunatic who should have been in jail?
These Dems are evil and anti-American.
I don't care how much a person hates Trump, but they can't be in favor of what the Dems have done to decent Americans.
Can someone tell us what part of that is controversial or wrong? I'm open to changing my mind.
Tranzgenderizm will be the class action malpractice tort of the 21st century. Most already know this, and those that don't are uncomfortably starting to realize it.
Everlasting shame on these quacks.
Trump is correct. His delivery is what is ... well ...not for everyone.
@Inga, maybe you and Althouse should go and talk to the mother of Iryna Zarutska? Or is it because the two of you elderly biddies are jealous of a young, slender, attractive woman and figure she got what she deserved?
Yeah. and?
"Tranzgenderizm will be the class action malpractice tort of the 21st century."
It's not like they weren't warned by conservatives since it started. That's a theme during my lifetime: Conservatives warn of policy and cultural mistakes, and most of the time they eventually end up correct. Liberals warn too, and those things never happen, not even close. It's one of the reasons I went from a young liberal to a mature conservative. I want to get things right.
“@Inga, maybe you and Althouse should go and talk to the mother of Iryna Zarutska? Or is it because the two of you elderly biddies are jealous of a young, slender, attractive woman and figure she got what she deserved.”
You sound as crazy as Trump.
Where would this country be if that had been Kamala Harris delivering the SOTU?
Those who revel in criticizing Trump from the right should take a harder look at the only possible alternative and consider whether or not their nitpicking is helpful when the future of the country is hanging by a thread.
Many a batter has complained about a high, inside fastball that nevertheless was over the plate and called a strike.
What happened to Iryna Zarutska could happen to any of us, even those of us who are wary and armed. It was horrible, underserved, and totally preventable, just not by the potential victims. There should be extensive exposure and shaming of judges that repeatedly let crazy violent people out to prey on citizens. If you do that to us, you should hear from us.
Ah for us super old timers, it's the "Reader's Digest" super-condensed version of the speech. It transmits the gist of his feeling towards The Democrat Party but leaves out all the good news he sandwiched in between these expressions.
Ann’s morphed into DINKY DAU!!!
Have you seen them together in the same room?
I agree with Trump sentiments and glad he said it out loud. Personally, I wish DHS was never created, but the reasons Democrats want to defund it is not the same as mine. CBP existed before DHS and they perform a critical job this country needs. I was fine with what we had before but with more enforcement. Homeland Security always sounded Marxist to me.
DJT’s communications skill set has destroyed 70 years of fake news media indoctrination into insanenarratives designed to destroy us.That alone is an amazing accomplishment,
I've always thought three periods defined ellipses but I see Althouse prefers four. Now I'm wondering if there even is a standard.
He actually said that???? Wowzie
Johnson would say things that weren't true just to make his opponents deny it. Trump says things that are true knowing that his opponents will deny it.
Can you handle the truth?
@Inga, I’ll take that as a “yes.”
Of course I'm assuming that Althouse condensed the transcript not the NYT. Pretty sure their stylebook (back when I was too familiar with it) calls for 3 but maybe they've changed, like their view towards capitalization has changed.
Four periods if the ellipsis includes the end of a sentence. Three otherwise. CC, JSM
This is the line that summarizes the whole speech:
"Everybody knows it. Even Democrats know it. They just don’t want to say it."
"When quoted material is presented as multiple sentences, four dots should be used for omissions between two or more original sentences; three dots should be used for omissions within a single original sentence."
Althouse didn't write the rules on punctuation but she knows them. All of them.
Johnson would say things that weren't true just to make his opponents deny it. Trump says things that are true knowing that his opponents will deny it.
Yes I read an entire article about how rank and file democrats and their journo-stenographers refuse to believe the crazy things their party does when informed. The striking example referenced Trump's "She's for They/Them" commercials in the fall of 2024. Lefty writers immediately took to X to deny that Kamala ever said it or it was anyone's policy. It was 'written off" as Trump exaggeration, and even after video of Harris saying it exactly as presented, democrat voters refused to believe it was true of her.
This is why you hear democrats say things like "no one is for open borders" and "no democrats ever called Trump a Nazi."
Thank you Rabel and John. If I did know that, then I forgot it over the years. Interesting to word nerds like me.
rehajm said...Ann’s morphed into DINKY DAU!!! Somebody save her!!!
There's one way she's not like DINLKY DAU -- I read her posts.
@bagoh20, tranzgenderizm is an example of a Pre-Chesterton Fence, as in the support and justification for the fence's existence literally dates back thousands of years encompassing almost the whole corpus of human experience.
The history that liberals seem to know in advance so well is going to look very very unkindly on this fad.
@ Big Mike…
I’ve noticed that this past year or so you’ve become more antagonistic toward Althouse and accuse her of things that don’t seem to have a basis in reality. Sometimes dementia presents itself that way.
Leftist cultists live in denial. Their corrupt party is destroying our nation - and they dutifully buy lies from their hack media - and think it's all OK.
scary.
Those are Trump’s words, not Ann’s. That wasn't clear to you?
Yah hon, me/we got it. It was the formatting Ann chose to highlight what he said that was similar to DD…
Nurse ratchet is here to help.
@RideSpaceMountain, I never heard of the Chesterton Fence. Valuable concept and practice that's worth remembering. Thanks.
Can someone tell us what part of that is controversial or wrong? I'm open to changing my mind.
Oh, he's not wrong. But, there is enough crazy to go around. Going to war with Iran because we are Israel's puppet is crazy. Stealing private property in Wisconsin to give it to Taiwanese conmen is fucking crazy. None of this shit is "America first."
DJT is right. The Democrats hate you and want to destroy your way of life. And so does he.
“Yah hon, me/we got it. It was the formatting Ann chose to highlight what he said that was similar to DD…”
So? Because she chose to highlight that excerpt made HER sound like DD? Do you expect absolutely no attention should be given by bloggers like Althouse to Trump’s rantings? Only a good positive Trump take in all blogposts is allowed I suppose.
Shhhh, don’t talk about Trump talking like a demented old angry man.
"@Inga, maybe you and Althouse should go and talk to the mother of Iryna Zarutska?"
She's too busy writing AWFL bromantasy fanfict about her democrat nazi crush Graham Platner.
This is slur against big eyes. How dare i!
"The Trump Administration just reinstated 56 MEMBERS of the U.S. Coast Guard with full backpay in response to the Democrats kicking them out over refusing the COVID vaccine "
Now they will need back pay for Schumer's back-stabbing cancellation of coastguard funding.
He could've gone on for another hour or two, but we got the picture.
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
What a bizarre tactic, but I guess its the best you got when you are unconvincing on affordability and want to avoid telling the truth about Iran.
The hack soviet democrap media will not tell the truth about the corrupt democratic party making us all less safe. by defunding homeland security. ... including the coast guard.
These are the same a-holes who let in millions of illegals and defunded the police. and then lie non stop that they did so.
"Going to war with Iran because we are Israel's puppet is crazy"
Iran has been actively wishing Death to America and engaged in various acts of terrorism against us for 50 years. It's long overdue.
The creep who gave Kamala's campaign 50 million dollars - just...
“Well, I never saw this one coming. Bill Gates admits he had affairs with Russian women.”
He actually admitted it."
Russian collusion.
Its same old nonsense with the DHS funding bill. The D's are refusing to fund it unless they get their way. Incredible.
Under Biden the D's were in control and the R Senate did nothing to stop them. When the R's have all three branches, the D's are still in control because the R senate wont fight.
Maybe people can tell Thune and the R Senators that the D Senators are crazy, because all they don't seem to believe it. They seem to want to help the D Senators stop Trump and everything the American people want.
Thank goodness Trump will be our President on the 250th anniversary of the greatest nation in human history. Can you imagine the apology tour Kamala would have conducted if she were in office? And, as mentioned in an earlier thread, I can’t wait for the Dems to shit all over our country this summer - right before the midterms…
Presidents used to lay out their legislative agenda in the SOTU--it was most of the speech. Did that happen at all, or have the Repubs given up trying before the election?
Peachy Keenan
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"They really and truly do value non-citizen foreign nationals more than citizens. We are up against vicious third-world supremacists (who will absolutely trade snow balls for machetes when their numbers get a little bigger) and hordes of self-hating liberal (female) enablers desperate to ingratiate themselves with these people (who secretly hate them, too)."
Inga said...Because she chose to highlight that excerpt made HER sound like DD?
It was a joke. He was joking. Good for a chuckle. Just because it doesn't hold up well under analysis doesn't mean you have to analyze it.
The Democrats stand with their illegals. We all pay for them. and they don't even thank us.
pffffft
Hakeem Jeffries apparently told his animals that they should not heckle or scream during the SOTU, because it would make them look bad.
They did not listen. Deplorable, deportable foreign Islamofascist traitors Rashid Tlaib and Ilhan "Omar" Nur never stopped squawking and shrieking throughout the speech.
https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2026661915968122960
Even worse news for the Dems: Trump just received a rejection notice from art school.
Trump should have brought Maduro to the SOTU in chains.
Mark Penn, past advisor for Bill and Hillary Clinton say...
Mark Penn
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SOTU
How times have changed.
Trump gave an artful and moving speech illustrating his policies with a parade of hero Americans from all walks of life. Probably his best speech framing his domestic and foreign policies.
In contrast the Democrats were reduced to cat calls and slogans with curse words inappropriate for kids. They looked silly and small while Trump hit big, lofty goals and evoked emotion though the stories of real people.
https://x.com/Mark_Penn/status/2026535176830931180?s=20
The big one was where Trump said "stand if you agree the American government's first duty is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens" and the Democrats refused to stand up.
TDS is one hell of a drug, but Democrats, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for that 2026 & 2028 campaign commercial.
“The big one was where Trump said "stand if you agree the American government's first duty is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens" and the Democrats refused to stand up.”
The Democrats didn’t fall for Grandpa’s manipulation attempt that was very obvious except to the cultists.
“You sound as crazy as Trump.”
Consider that as you ponder the Mincing Inflatable Frogs and GiraffeMan of the Looney Left.
It wasn’t a State of the Union address, not really. It was a fascist rally peppered with flop-sweat one-liners, ring-led by a man who often sounded bored by his own teleprompted script. “The energy was through the floor, yes. And there was so much implicit begging for the American people not to hate him as much as they do that the elderly grandpa in a bright red tie standing on Capitol Hill might as well have been President Gil Gunderson, if that ‘Simpsons’ character were also an adulterous Falangist.”
Zeteo.com
The campaign ads almost write themselves as the wacky wackadoodle left continues their manic, masturbatory mincing.
Beasts: "Even worse news for the Dems: Trump just received a rejection notice from art school."
And while clearing out his old childhood photos, Trump suddenly noticed people in very modern clothes skulking in the background....CC, JSM
Inga: "adulterous Falangist"
"What up, mah notorious epithet!?"
"Same as it ever was, mah adulterous Falangist!"
I shall adopt both as my postnominal letters. CC, JSM, NE, AF
Inga said...The Democrats didn’t fall for Grandpa’s manipulation attempt that was very obvious except to the cultists.
What was the manipulation attempt? Was he manipulating the Democrats into putting Americans first, and they wisely resisted the pressure to betray their base of illegal aliens?
Seriously, what was the manipulation that was so obvious that only cultists couldn't see it? (And who are the cultists in this scenario?)
Igna has around 8 months before she takes this sad act on her cheesy “Turd on the Run” tour…
’It was a fascist rally peppered with flop-sweat one-liners…’
No amount of copium will minimize the lefty behavior last night.
Iman: "Consider that as you ponder the Mincing Inflatable Frogs"
I saw Mincing Inflatable Frogs at the Hammersmith Palais in '78. They opened for Ism. CC, JSM, NE, AF
’And while clearing out his old childhood photos, Trump suddenly noticed people in very modern clothes skulking in the background...’
Ha!
Beasts: "Can you imagine the apology tour Kamala would have conducted if she were in office?"
It would have been like Obama's Civil War 150 extravaganza. CC, JSM, NE, AF
The nurse in his maternity ward picture looks oddly like an elderly Chelsea Clinton....CC, JSM, NE, AF
Trump set up traps. And the Ds walked right into them. So many pictures of the sulking Ds, arms crossed, failing to celebrate America as America. Campaign ads for the Rs for this election.
’It would have been like Obama's Civil War 150 extravaganza.’
I deliberately missed his thoughts, re: said anniversary. lol
An affair that showed love of country of family of duty
Shes taken the full jabberjay juice
Inag is first in line to swallow the left's lies.
1:59 - Tim M.
right? she cannot answer with any honesty. she is a loyal cultist hack.
Like sideshow bob
I remember a nasty piece of filth semanticleo who called me a batistiano as if that was some kind of insult
He could have called you a Bastianich, which would probably be a compliment if you're proud of your cooking skills. CC, JSM
Warren Smith reveals Trump's use of pure genius to EXPOSE the left.
good stuff.
Seriously watch that. It's only 7 minutes . WORTH every second.
"The voting public's overall views"
You don't know their actual views because they've been told they can have their entitlements and not raise taxes.
This eventually will become a real question.
And political science shows that when voters see a price tag on policies they start to reject them.
I'll be here all week
Be sure to tip your waiter. I wouldn't order the fish.
Democrats are crazy. They nominated Hilary & Kamala.
My great-aunt was, when she was a dewy (and very wealthy) young thing, a bit of an "adulterous falangist". Before 1936 she was dating, among others, Jose Antonio Primo De Rivera, the founder of the Falange, and various right wing characters in Madrid, some of them married.
Being a wild child, in her day, she used to boast, in her old age, of going to parties dressed only in a "manton", the traditional Spanish shawl. It was a thing in that Weimar-period of Spain.
The irony was that her family was strongly Republican and her mother something of a communist.
I didn't watch the speech live. I only caught clips.
That bolden text has characteristics of someone attempting to elicit pity? When the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is, what is going on in our government is more like "The Sorrow and the Pity."
It was a fascist rally peppered with flop-sweat one-liners, ring-led by a man who often sounded bored by his own teleprompted script.
Which was it? Was he in a flop sweat or was he bored?
Peachy thanks that was good.
Recent Downtown "Class A" Chicago commercial property sales have had truly dismal results, will have HUGE impact on Chicago's tax-base. These are high-end high-rise office towers, formerly occupied by corporations and attendant professional-service firms:
250 S. Wacker Drive: 74% drop, $23.8M vs $90M in 2011
175 W. Jackson Blvd: 87% drop, $41M vs $306M in 2018
600 W. Chicago Ave: 82.5% drop, $89M vs $510M in 2018
311 S. Wacker Drive: 85% drop, $45M vs $302M in 2014
200 S. Wacker Drive: 68% drop, $68M vs $215M in 2013
401 S. State St: 94% drop, $4.2M vs $68.1M in 2016
70 W. Madison St: 77.5% drop, $85M vs $377M in 2014
300 W. Adams St: 92% drop, $4M vs $51M in 2012
100 N. Riverside Plaza: 87% drop, Boeing leasehold interest
$22M vs $165M in 2005.
It's Chicago's staunchly progressive-liberal AWFLs, the majority of north-side residential property owners, whose households will get hit with significantly higher property taxes, as downtown losses translate into significantly-lower commercial property tax-base revenues. And the AWFLs slacker adult-children who are the north-side renters, barely subsisting on their PT patchwork of gig-employment and financial handouts from their boomer parents, who will face the bigger yet jumps in north-side apartment rents. Is it financially sustainable? Probably not. Not for the boomer parents careening into retirement, their house their largest asset, their adult children still not financially independent, now reliant on their investments and 401k accounts to pay tax bills in $20,000-$30,000 range for single-family nice house. Not for City of Chicago, which already teeters on brink of bankruptcy and yet unable to rein in city spending on stupid stuff.
I assume there was a Dem rebuttal but I haven’t heard much about it. I hope Beelzebub did a good job for them…
The American public is shocked and disgusted that Trump, instead of using carefully constructed logical arguments, has engaged in political hyperbole.
Second what William50 said... That was a good encapsulation of the trap, Peach... thanks.
He has the mindstone
Gil gunderson thats joe biden
"adulterous falangist" brings back memories. Of a strait laced but inherently passionate time.
The Franco regime fully backed traditional, native musical forms, being as they were nationalists, that were however full of the "realities" of life. Thats why they promoted the works of Federico Garcia Lorca, after they had shot him.
They also promoted the often risqué "copla" form of the 19th-20th century music halls.
Those are Trump’s words, not Ann’s. That wasn't clear to you?
It's not the words, twit. It's the format.
“I saw Mincing Inflatable Frogs at the Hammersmith Palais in '78. They opened for Ism.”
I think I’ve got you beat on that, Mr.Mosby. I saw the original line-up in the summer of ‘76 @ Winterland, just 3 months before lead singer Sylvain “Toad” Rottingham OD’d on an extra large pizza he made personal.
Franco doesn’t get enough credit for forestalling the collapse of Spain.
Was there enough salt in that auditorium
Iman - ha! CC, JSM
clueless idea by the MAGA CHIEF
Tariffs replace income tax?
No — not in any realistic, mathematical, or economic sense.
The math doesn’t come close
The U.S. brings in roughly:
$2.2–2.5 trillion per year from individual income taxes
$300–400 billion per year from tariffs (depending on the year and policy)
Even if you doubled or tripled tariffs, you’re still nowhere near replacing income tax revenue.
To replace income tax with tariffs, you’d need:
Tariffs so high that imports would collapse
Which means the tariff revenue would collapse too
Tariffs are paid by importers → passed to consumers
People sometimes imagine tariffs as “foreign countries paying us.” like trump lies about and has no clue.
U.S. importers pay the tariff,they raise prices and consumers end up paying and eveyone pays more for what they buy. Of course the maga clapping seals at the SHOW last night, couldnt cheer loud enough.
Tariffs hit certain goods, not all goods Income tax is broad and tariffs only apply to imported items.
Prices on electronics, tools, appliances, clothing, cars, metals, etc. would skyrocket.
Domestic companies would raise prices too (because they could)
Inflation would explode.
It would be like a national sales tax on steroids.
Before 1913, tariffs were the main source of federal revenue but the economy was tiny,government was tiny.
There was no Social Security, Medicare, military of today’s size, highways, FAA, FDA, etc.
Modern America can’t run on 19th‑century revenue tools they cannot replace income tax without blowing up prices and shrinking the economy. trump would mesmerize his " I love the uneducated" small army with his magic wand. Pay attention ,stay off FOX entertainment center and no when that orange guy is lying when his lips are moving. Sorry do your homework.Don't fall for the Con by Don, you know it went up 600,800 1200 %
"often sounded bored by his own teleprompted script."
Trump is definitely bored by prepared speeches. That's why he riffs. You can usually tell when it's coming - when he just gets tired of the recitation and is about to freestyle.
He's the Coltrane of public speaking. CC, JSM
They obviously didnt read the speech
Inga said...
Me: “The big one was where Trump said "stand if you agree the American government's first duty is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens" and the Democrats refused to stand up.”
The Democrats didn’t fall for Grandpa’s manipulation attempt that was very obvious except to the cultists.
Oh, Inga, are you really that stupid?
The "manipulation attempt" was pushing the Democrats to tell the American people that Democrat politicians don't value them, and the Democrats fell for it.
The ads will be glorious:
"Democrats are for illegal aliens, Republicans are for you."
And the best part about it is, like the Harris ad, it's 100% true.
News flash: Only a moron lets his enemies decide what eh's for
"No — not in any realistic, mathematical, or economic sense.
The math doesn’t come close"
I know it's not what you people do, but what's the solution then, because as far as I can tell it seems the left wants the status quo, but bigger and harder.
William50 - thanks.
Boy Howdy! Did Trump ever get that right---nailing those crazy poseurs who pretend to give a flying flip about the American public.
ilhan omar and tahlib rhashid - shameful corrupt vile criminals.
Inga says that asking if Democrats support Americans is now fascist. No surprise.
The Democrats didn’t fall for Grandpa’s manipulation attempt that was very obvious except to the cultists.
Good lord. Know why it was obvious? Because everybody could see what he was trying to do ... force the Democrats to publicly take the side of illegal aliens over regular, American citizens.
And even then you dumbass leftists took the bait and did exactly what he wanted you to do.
You really suck at this politics thing.
Poor inag. Trump didn't trick the dems - he only revealed their corruption.
thanks, Lem!
LOL:
:via insty:
"Democratic Lawmaker: Trump’s Request To Stand For American Citizens ‘Racist.’ “Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump’s request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as ‘racist’ and said the moment made her ‘uncomfortable.'”
Liberals warn too, and those things never happen, not even close.
Look at the way the leftists squawked about "Dodge City" and shootouts in the streets after several Supreme Court decisions upholding the right to keep and bear arms.
We now have shall-issue concealed weapons permits nationwide, as well as a clear majority of the states going to constitutional carry with no permits, and there are more and better firearms in the hands of the public than ever before.
And what was some of the biggest news of the past week? The lowest murder rate ever recorded, since statistics started being kept. Adjusted for demographics, lower than equivalent populations in some European countries with exceptionally strict gun control.
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