Thursday, November 7, 2024

Country Singer Mugged By More Than Reality Changes Views on Guns

Tom Knighton


. . .With all of that, it would be easy to look and think that he's probably anti-gun and he might well have been. Reality, however, has disabused him of that position if that were the case.

Country singer Jay Allen has reconsidered his stance on gun ownership after being the victim of an armed robbery at an East Nashville grocery store.

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But what really distressed him wasn't the loss of the money — it was the feeling of vulnerability and terror that stuck with him, even after the danger had passed.

"Even with having a muscular stature and being covered in tattoos, it didn't matter," Allen reflects. "He had a gun, and I didn't. I felt helpless, taken advantage of, and mad at myself more than anything."

In the wake of the incident, Allen says he made a big decision: To purchase a firearm for protection.

"It was a wise decision.

"Allen also got training from a friend who was also a veteran, so he didn't just buy a gun and figure he had all he needed, which also shows at least some wisdom. I'd love to see him take that basic level of knowledge and get some professional training--his veteran friend might be a competent trainer, but being a veteran doesn't make you an expert in teaching people how to shoot, much less how to do the other things needed to survive a gunfight.

"I'm sure a lot of people will take issue with his decision, arguing that gun control would have disarmed his attacker, but I'm willing to put down money that the attacker didn't have a firearm lawfully. In fact, based on what we know of how people like that get guns, it was probably a stolen firearm that he either stole himself or bought from someone who stole it. Gun control won't stop that.

"What will stop it, though, is meeting an armed citizen who isn't ready to just let himself be shot." . . .

Trump's 10-Part Plan to Dismantle the Deep State

 Sarah Arnold , Townhall 

. . ."And tenth, Trump promised to establish a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on Congress members." . . .  

"President-elect Donald Trump announced his plans to completely dismantle the Deep State and return the power to the American people. 

"Trump wasted no time between defeating failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris and getting to work on fulfilling his promises before he called for a crackdown on the district of corruption. 

"In arguably one of the most critical first announcements Trump has made as president-elect, he vowed to immediately reissue the 2020 executive order to restore the president’s authority to remove “rogue bureaucrats aggressively.” 

"Second, Trump said he would fire all of the corrupt individuals in the country’s national security and intelligence organization so that bureaucrats would no longer be able to target and persecute conservatives and Christians. 

“ 'The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled,” Trump declared. 

"Third, the incoming 47th president said he would reform FISA courts, and fourth, to expose the abuses of power done so by the left. Trump then announced he would form a Truth and Reconciliation committee to “declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and corruption.” 

"Trump also said he would crack down on government workers who collude with the left-wing media to create false narratives. He promised to press federal charges against them if necessary. 

"Sixth, he plans to make every Inspector General’s Office independent from the departments they oversee to ensure they do not become a part of the Deep State." . . .

Ilhan Omar rejected by Somali Republicans; still wins

US elections 2024: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar defeats pro-Israel Republican opponent    "US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar easily defeated her Republican opponent in her congressional race on Tuesday night, in a win that comes after facing an attempt by pro-Israel groups to unseat her in the primary election this past August.

"Omar, who represents Minnesota's fifth district, faced Republican challenger Dalia al-Aqidi, an Iraqi-born immigrant who describes herself as a "secular Muslim" and is pro-Israel, in contrast to Omar, who is a vocal proponent of Palestinian rights.

"Omar won 76.4 percent of the vote compared to Aqidi’s 23.6 percent, according to the Associated Press, which called the race with 87 percent of the votes counted.

"Prior to the November 2024 election, Omar faced an offensive by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), a pro-Israel lobbying group, during her August primary." . . .


. . ."Omar has been a vocal critic of Israeli government policies, particularly regarding their treatment of Palestinians and has faced harsh criticism for her views and allegedly “antisemitic” statements. One such statement had her equate Israel, Hamas, and the Taliban, though she later clarified that it was within the context of “accountability for specific incidents regarding … ICC cases.” More recently, while condemning antisemitism on college campuses, Omar implied that Jewish students who support Israel amid its war against Hamas are “pro-genocide.” . . .

Reactions to the new administration

 

Broc Smith

Kamala Harris shows her true colours after election loss  "Sky News host Paul Murray has claimed Kamala Harris revealed her true colours after she waited so long to concede the 2024 US presidential election. "Harris failed to address her supporters at the Democrat headquarters on election night, where she faced an election loss. " 'I think the true insight into her character was that despite being the fighter and the person who was there for joy, on election night, she left the tens of thousands of people who had desperately hoped that they were gonna watch some history who had broken hearts, but she just left them by the side of the road," Mr Murray said."

Comment: The AMISH put trump over the top....they experienced government over-reach when an Amish farmer had his farm shut down. The farm was eventually able to go back to business as usual but it was too late...the Amish saved the day. THAN YOU AMISH COMMUNITY!

MSNBC'S MORNING JOE Does BIZARRE 180 in Response to Trump Win! "Joe Scarborough is the most dishonest human I’ve ever seen on television. He just needs to go away and take his equally dishonest, histrionic wife with him. He is the insufferable man at the party that thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, and she is the wife that sits silent looking at him adoringly and nodding in agreement. Until he says something that actually makes sense. Super unappealing."

Oprah Winfrey's ‘stupid last gas[p] desperation’ at final Harris rally called out    "Newsweek senior editor at large Josh Hammer has called out Oprah Winfrey's “stupid last gas desperation” efforts at Kamala Harris's final rally in Philadelphia.
"It comes as Winfrey during the rally issued an ominous warning about a second Trump presidency to voters. " 'The left reader right now as we approach the final hours of this most monumental elections they have a certain cognitive dissonance,” Mr Hammer told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “ 'So it's just stupid last gas(sp) desperation from Oprah Winfrey that’s all this is.”

Peter Doocy: This was so awkward it never even aired Comment to this video: "Apparently going to keep that "no comment" theme going - she hasn't spoken since she lost the election yet either. Her supporters are insulted that she didn't even give them a thank you for their support, no concession speech, nothing...how classless."



Comments to this video: "I'm so excited about this administration! This is a once in a lifetime chance to make real change in our county!"
From Denmark Europe. "You have no idea how much I love you guys and the MAGA movement. Congratulations on winning the most important election in American history

Thank God! President Obama will not enjoy a fourth term in office.

 Phyllis Chesler  

. . ."And then there's this. Too much violence, too much looting, and mayhem in our major cities; too many illegal immigrants crossing the border; too much working-poor tax dollars going to feed, shelter, educate, and deliver health care, not to American citizens but to the wretched of the earth, some of whom are criminals, (drug lords, human traffickers), or jihadists." . . .


"Thank God! The more gracious of the two candidates has won.

"Presidential character was deemed a very important test of one's suitability for office.

"President Trump was defamed 24/7--none of his real and/or imaginary foibles or character failings were overlooked. Harris was praised 24/7 and none of her foibles ever made it into the mainstream media.

"And now, the American voter has spoken. President Trump has won a "landslide" victory.

"All Ye who despair; all those who are in shock, who are wearing black today, and are vowing to either leave the country or pick up guns and fight: Prithee pause for a moment.

"Please note how gracious President Trump was in his victory speech, how much he characterized his victory as "ours," as something that "we" accomplished. And then, please note that Vice President Harris was a disgraceful no-show at Howard University; she did not even come out to thank all her supporters who had been waiting for her. She plans to issue her concession speech today, either at 4pm or at 6pm, about 13-15 hours after the election was called.

"How can we explain Harris's silence? Was she too "emotional" to speak, too angry, too ashamed that she'd been beaten, or was she simply unable to speak extemporaneously? Was she still relying on her speechwriters and a teleprompter? With all due respect, imagine how Harris as POTUS might have handled the Iranian mullahs and their allies Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Erdogan, the Qatari Arabs, ISIS reconstituted, and the Pakistani and Afghani Taliban?

"Oh, not to worry. Obama would have been advising, if not controlling, the deep state.

"Really, what just happened? It's obvious.

"Democratic Party leftists have just taken it a league too far. The pendulum was bound to swing back. Our well-intentioned 1960s campaigns to divide people into oppressor and victim; the marxist and feminist belief that everything was socially created and therefore could be uncreated ("by any means necessary"); that anatomy is not destiny, in fact, that biology is not real; that racism and sexism are exclusively white America's gravest sins--no redemption possible; that Israel, our strongest and most endangered ally in the Middle East, was no longer a victim, but had morphed into a "Nazi apartheid" nation state which was allegedly perpetrating a "genocide" in Gaza; and that transboys and transwomen had an almost sacred right to defeat girls and women in sports, share locker rooms and women-only prisons, as well as the right to government funded transition care." . . .

Full Article here...

Bye bye, Barack   "Maybe former President Obama got the message when he spoke to African Americans in Philadelphia. The thrill is gone. The racialist policies just don't work anymore. People are tired of hearing sermons from former presidents with mansions and First Ladies who sent their kids to expensive private schools. 

"We saw on Election Day the end of Obama as a candidate. His "emerging majority" did not emerge, as David Weigel pointed out:" . .Full article here

. . ."To be fair, maybe no one could have saved the Democrats from the failure of the Biden presidency. Maybe it was too much to expect that a former president would save a candidate trying to defend a candidate who couldn't answer a complex situation.

"Nevertheless, the Democrats need to look for new faces and different speakers at their next convention. The Obama coalition based on identity politics, green energy and taxing the rich is history. I have a feeling that Governor Josh Shapiro is not going to ask the Obamas or Clintons to speak on his behalf the next time around."

Drinking liberal tears

Don Surber  

"But blaming her sex and her race is easier than blaming her lack of intelligence, her lack of any leadership skills and her communist policies. Trump really is a sane genius who bypassed the media through podcasts."


"The presidential race in a nutshell: Trump’s secret weapon was a good presidency. We really were better off four years ago even in the midst of an overblown pandemic.

"Elections aren’t complicated. People vote for who is best for them. People who think they are smarter than everyone else overlook this simple fact.

"Which is why the day after Americans gave this mandate to President Trump, liberal tears gushed like an overflowing washer. Their Fountain of Uselessness was enjoyable. Their explanations of why the dumbest candidate for president imaginable lost were delicious.

"Maureen Dowd was so upset in her piece, “It’s This Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World,” that she laid this gem:

James Carville warned that Democrats needed to stop coming across as the party of preachy women. But then Barack and Michelle Obama tried to woo black men by scolding them.

"Barack Obama, preachy woman. I like that.

"Oblivious to her own sexism, Dowd blamed misogyny. How dare men not vote for a woman!

"She also wrote, “many of the suburban women that Harris thought she could get voted for Trump.” How dare women not vote for a woman!

"The lesser-known Jill Filipovic wrote, “Men Got Exactly What They Wanted.”

"Wow. We’ll have 110 million Corvettes, 110 million cases of non-Bud Light beer and 110 million new mancaves." . . .

No, no, no. Hold that order. That’s not all she said:" . . .

Musk trolls Trump-haters over victory with photo of himself in Oval office

 Kevin Haggerty; BPR  

"Optimism effused the messages from Musk as he harkened back to President Ronald Reagan when he posted, “It is morning in America again…” and spoke to what was on the horizon for the doers in the country when he wrote, “America is a nation of builders…Soon, you will be freed to build.”

. . ."During Trump’s victory speech, the president-elect brought up the visionary engineer with compliments to SpaceX’s successful booster catch and the deployment of Starlink throughout the areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene to help restore communication.

“ 'Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star. A star is born. Elon!” said the once and future GOP leader. “He’s an amazing guy.”

"Of course, beyond the endorsement spurred on by the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt and the active campaigning throughout the closing weeks of the election, many attributed the path to victory for Trump to Musk’s fight for free speech absolutism that saw him purchase Twitter, expose censorship efforts and remove corporate media’s stranglehold on narratives.

“ 'You are the media now,” asserted the billionaire amid the praise." . . .

Trump’s victory throws diplomatic bombshell into Israel's multi-front war - analysis

 The Jerusalem Post 

"The Trump win could push Hamas to prefer a deal under Biden, believing terms would be better given Trump’s pro-Israeli stances and Qatar ties."


"President-elect Donald Trump’s comeback victory Tuesday weakens diplomatic efforts to end Israel’s multifront wars in the short term and calls into question US long-term support for Israel’s military campaigns against Iran and its proxies.

"It’s the equivalent of a diplomatic bombshell, whose chilling effects will be felt almost immediately, and which already seems to freeze such ceasefire efforts.

"Trump’s policies on all issues relating to Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran will be diametrically different than his predecessor US President Joe Biden and he will chart a new course.

"That knowledge alone creates chaos in a war, in which the US had taken the diplomatic lead in ceasefire initiatives and backed Israel on the diplomatic stage. It has also headed a defensive military coalition that protects Israel from Iranian missile attacks and has supported Israel with military weaponry and supplies.

"The Biden administration’s role this week is already not what it was last week. The question now is what can happen in the next three months and what would happen after January 20.

"Theoretically, a Trump victory should be a celebratory event for right-wing Israelis and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular.

"Netanyahu was quick to congratulate Trump on X, writing, “Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.

“ 'This is a huge victory!” Netanyahu wrote, congratulating Trump who during his first term (2017-2021) was viewed by many Israelis as a true friend of Israel." . . .

Dr. David Barak-Gorodetsky; The liberal camp in the US must undertake a deep self-examination . . ."From the Jewish community’s perspective, the true test for Trump’s administration will be its stance on antisemitism. American Jews find themselves caught between traditional right-wing antisemitism and a new left-wing variant. Some pro-Trump voices within the Jewish American community, as well as in Israel, argue that the American right would demonstrate a stronger stance against antisemitism, particularly on college campuses.

"However, there are also legitimate concerns about Right-wing antisemtism, especially considering the antisemitic attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, where 11 worshipers were murdered by a right-wing supporter who blamed Jews for encouraging immigration. The burden of proof now rests on Trump and his supporters to ensure that right-wing antisemitism does not resurface." . . .



Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Black Girl Magic Beaten by White Male Competence

Ann Coulter

"The problem with liberals using intimidation tactics to bully people into staying quiet about the incompetence of DEI hires is that the only way they ever had to register an objection was in the privacy of a voting booth. And on Tuesday, boy, did they .…"  A.C.



"In retrospect, maybe running the DEI hire for president was not a good idea.
"On the other hand, President Joe Biden’s revenge plan worked perfectly. As reported by The New York Times, after his catastrophic debate, Biden’s White House staff kept presenting congressional Democrats with data proving he still had a much better chance of beating Trump than his vice president did.
"Then, the moment he was defenestrated, guess who Biden endorsed? Kamala Harris, the candidate he’d told them could not win. But she was a black lady, so … checkmate!
"Inasmuch as the sole motivating factor of the modern Democratic Party is identity politics, Democrats were forced to drop their plans for a stronger candidate, like Govs. Josh Shapiro or Andy Beshear. No Democrat would dare suggest that Kamala was not absolutely the most qualified person for the job. Just look at her — a woman AND a minority!
"Harris’ race and gender was how Biden got stuck with her in the first place — an amazing choice for VP, considering that she’d accused him of racism during the primary, and also that she hadn’t won a single vote.
"This is how Democrats ended up running a dingbat who’d cheered on the BLM riots, enthusiastically released violent criminals from prison, insisted on taxpayer-funded sex change operations for prisoners and illegal aliens, compared ICE agents to the Ku Klux Klan, completely believed Jussie Smollett’s hoax hate crime, supported defunding the police and said she wanted to decriminalize illegal immigration.
"Indeed, Harris was the lead player in the administration’s decision to defy federal law and fling open the border, sending millions of foreign criminals and mental patients to every corner of America.
"The Democrats’ obsession with dragging in the third world is itself part of the party’s DEI framework. Why do we have to admit tens of thousands of people from Haiti and the Congo? Because they’re black.
"When Biden and Harris came in, DEI was instantly made the priority of every government organ — the military, NASA, FEMA, the judiciary and on and on. An astonishing 66% of Biden’s judicial appointees have been nonwhite. Even Barack Obama only managed to get up to 37%. Biden’s one Supreme Court appointee was, of course, a black woman, despite the fact that only 2% of nation’s lawyers are black women. But he’d promised during the primaries to exclude 98% of lawyers from his consideration." . . .

In scene unimaginable 4 years ago, Michigan’s Arab Americans bask in aiding Trump win

 In Michigan, Israel’s expanding war could shape the election results : NPR



. . ."Asked why, despite this rhetoric, she believes Trump’s promise to end the war, Luqman says he’s more likely to do so than Harris.
“ 'Believe him or not, if there is a 99% chance that Trump is going to continue the genocide and I have to weigh it against 100% chance that it's going to continue under Harris, I'm going to take the 99% chance,” she said. “The fact that there is that slight hope means that I need to go with the best thing for my people.”
"And she’s not the only one making this calculation. This weekend, several prominent Arab and Muslim leaders endorsed Trump at a campaign rally in Michigan.
"Luqman’s children are half-Palestinian, and this year of watching kids being killed is intolerable, she said. She blames the Biden administration and Harris directly for these deaths.
“ 'It hurts a lot. That hurt has transformed into rage,” she said. “I will do everything in my power to ensure Harris loses. Whatever I can do. And, I’m still a Democrat.”
"She sees this as a path to building real political power for a community that has over 200,000 votes in Michigan. For context, Trump won this state by about 11,000 votes in 2016 and Biden won by over 150,000 in 2020." . . .
Muslim's necklace shows the land of Israel as "Palestinian"

In scene unimaginable 4 years ago, Michigan’s Arab Americans bask in aiding Trump win


. . ."Bahbah claimed that the president-elect could well impose an arms embargo on Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignores his call to quickly end the war in Gaza.

“ 'If he says to Netanyahu, ‘End the war by the time I enter office’ and Netanyahu fails to do so, there’s nothing stopping Trump from stopping the flow of arms to Israel,” Bahbah said.

"He asserted that Trump has much more influence over Netanyahu, compared to Democratic presidents whose counsel the Israeli premier has long ignored. Moreover, Bahbah maintained that the former president never really got over Netanyahu congratulating Biden on winning the 2020 election.

"Trump’s record as president — from moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, to cutting aid to the Palestinians, to steps legitimizing Israeli settlements in the West Bank — offers nothing to suggest that he would abandon the Jewish state in his second term." . . .

CNN anchor Jake Tapper is going viral for his stunned reaction early Wednesday when told that Vice President Kamala Harris had failed to outperform President Biden’s 2020 results in a single state.

 

Rich Terrell

Jake Tapper’s stunned reaction goes viral after Kamala Harris fails to outperform Biden in a single state   "CNN anchor Jake Tapper is going viral for his stunned reaction early Wednesday when told that Vice President Kamala Harris had failed to outperform President Biden’s 2020 results in a single state.

Tapper asked CNN chief national correspondent John King to pull up a graphic showing in which states Harris had gotten at least 3% more votes than Biden had in the last election — just to be presented with a gray map reflecting her failure even in that.

“ 'Holy smokes!” Tapper gasped. “Literally nothing?” . . .

‘Mystified’ liberal PBS news commentator loses it over Trump’s strong performance on election night . . ."Liberal PBS News commentator Jonathan Capehart was left aghast at the preliminary election results suggesting that former President Donald Trump is in a strong spot.

“There’s a shift right and then there’s a shift to Trump,” Capehart vented on the program. “I am mystified in some ways simply because we’re talking about a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, convicted-on-34-felony-counts former president.”

Narrative-killer: Young Latino men broke for Trump, helping to put him over the top

Watch How the Mainstream Media Freaked Out Over Trump's Victory

PJ Media


"They told us liberal women would deliver a Roe-vember. They told us there would be massive Puerto Rican backlash against Trump. They called Trump a fascist, Hitler, and a threat to democracy. In the end, the American people weren't buying it, and they sent Trump back to the White House.

"And it is glorious. 

"Trump not only won an Electoral College landslide (he's likely to get 312 Electoral College votes in the end) but he's also projected to win the popular vote. A true mandate if there ever was. 

"And the liberal media absolutely freaked out.

"Over at MSNBC, Joy Reid was absolutely unhinged:

CNN's Van Jones blamed sexism and racism, and cried a little"

Trump Victory Media Roundup: Establishment Goes Through the Stages of Grief 

"The classic stage of grief that follows anger is bargaining, but the leftist media blew by that one completely. These people, after all, are the ones who polarized and embittered American political discourse in the first place, painting Trump in such lurid terms that massive segments of the population are utterly terrified at the prospect of this neo-Hitler returning to the Oval Office. They’re not interested in compromise or any kind of bargaining; as always, they’re out for total control and the absolute destruction of those whom they consider their enemies."

Like Clockwork: Van Jones Blames Sexism and Racism for Why Kamala Lost

MSNBC, meanwhile, had massive sads over what Trump might do now, and the fact that there didn’t seem to be any way to stop him: “We can expect Trump will pardon the Jan. 6 rioters and summarily fire the prosecutors who tried to hold him accountable. Having been immunized by the Supreme Court, he may instruct the Department of Justice to go after his political opponents. He will likely abandon Ukraine and begin the process of weakening our alliances. A newly empowered Trump can, if he wishes, go about trying to gut or kill Obamacare outright, while also trying to impose massive new tariffs on the economy.” 


MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough called “the scope and scale” of Trump’s victory “sweeping.”


Comment to this post: Let's be honest. All of the rhetoric and lies about Trump were a deciding factor in the huge victory for Trump. People know their own situations better than these paid political hacks with an anti-Trump agenda. Their first clue should have been the huge voter registration from Democrat to Republican.