"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." - William Blum, former U.S. State Department employee
As a gun toting redneck, several of these entries jump out at me.
Academy/Bass Pro - sell guns and ammo, but mostly sell general hunting/sporting equipment
Dillon Precision - No guns, small amounts of ammo, mostly sell ammo reloading supplies (no disgruntled postal worker is reloading their own ammo)
Numrich/Gunpartscorp - no ammo or (I think) serialized parts, AKA no actual guns, only sell used gun parts for repair purpose.
So either this list was made by somebody who has no idea what they're doing, or the whole "preventing shootings" explanation is a cover for trying to kill an industry.
Sweet Jesus. I had to explain to my 17 year-old daughter yesterday why dad is actually not a conspiracy theory guy, but just someone who has awakened to this bastard censorship and government overreach. The five eyes are on us and I want them off. These buggers are wrecking our freedom and democracy.
The EU Vassals & the Empire of Lies speaks often about China's 'Social Credit System; & its various Horrors... yet what they themselves do to the common citizen these days is infinitely worse.
This is a classic 'pointing to the Mote in the eye of another whilst having a Beam in your own!'
I used to think that if censorship, financial black listing or similar practices became known then public opinion would force the perpetrators to back down. But it seems that a big and very influential segment of US society embraces authoritarianism as necessary to combat the ignorance and suggestibility of MAGA voters. The MSNBC/NPR crowd would probably support 1984-style Ingsoc if Big Brother identified as a Democrat.
This is going to drive an underground black market where guns are sold back and forth to individuals with cash. We can certainly do that where I live, no problem. This new surveillance is really scary and looks more like some communist-type government. I appreciate Jim Jordan, but when can this be forever stopped? Also, real, consistent criminals rarely buy guns at the sporting good store.
We can fix much of this with two tracks of reform. It gets back to the corruption of the media and tech.
1. Underway - destroy the economic opportunity of Theory-based indoctrinated campus clones by laying them off like Musk started, and not hiring them based on simple open-ended interview questions where they will not be able to resist demonstrating their fealty to the woke cult. This will cause the business of higher learning to clean up their act for financial reasons as parents stop sending their little green-haired monsters in the making to these expensive institutions of learning that end up damaging, rather than helping, economic outcomes.
2. Needed - update anti trust rules to count cross-ownership of corporations (Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street together own controlling interest in the four mega media corporations and all big tech instead of Twitter/X) and also update to prevent corporate mergers that damage competition from smalls.
The goal here is to get the press back to independence where it isn’t just Matt and a few others doing the hero work to call out the rats and their power abuse behavior. When you distill everything down to the source of these tyrannical changes it is the failure of the mainstream corporate media to stay independent and hold these politicians and government officials responsible. Private business is only trying to comply with government so government does not abuse power to harm the private business. Lawfare happens because the media does not soundly condemn the government abuses of power. There is no higher power than government except the real journalists that will call them out.
"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." - William Blum, former U.S. State Department employee
I Imagine I'm on some government shit list because I subscribe to Matt, Glen Greenwald, and several other independent journalists.
As I sit here and work in my income tax returns, it occurs that I'm paying for this. Unbelievable.
Is the world crazy by accident or design?
The tsunami of madness suggests the latter.
It's like we're trapped in some hideous MKUltra experiment.
As a gun toting redneck, several of these entries jump out at me.
Academy/Bass Pro - sell guns and ammo, but mostly sell general hunting/sporting equipment
Dillon Precision - No guns, small amounts of ammo, mostly sell ammo reloading supplies (no disgruntled postal worker is reloading their own ammo)
Numrich/Gunpartscorp - no ammo or (I think) serialized parts, AKA no actual guns, only sell used gun parts for repair purpose.
So either this list was made by somebody who has no idea what they're doing, or the whole "preventing shootings" explanation is a cover for trying to kill an industry.
Sweet Jesus. I had to explain to my 17 year-old daughter yesterday why dad is actually not a conspiracy theory guy, but just someone who has awakened to this bastard censorship and government overreach. The five eyes are on us and I want them off. These buggers are wrecking our freedom and democracy.
The EU Vassals & the Empire of Lies speaks often about China's 'Social Credit System; & its various Horrors... yet what they themselves do to the common citizen these days is infinitely worse.
This is a classic 'pointing to the Mote in the eye of another whilst having a Beam in your own!'
You've been one of the only other voices consistently on this type of story, which I firmly believe is one of the most important of our day.
I used to think that if censorship, financial black listing or similar practices became known then public opinion would force the perpetrators to back down. But it seems that a big and very influential segment of US society embraces authoritarianism as necessary to combat the ignorance and suggestibility of MAGA voters. The MSNBC/NPR crowd would probably support 1984-style Ingsoc if Big Brother identified as a Democrat.
Chase debanked me a year ago for “suspicious activity.” I belong to a private gun range and made purchases at a gun store.
Go back and read or reread “1984” and see how prophetic Orwell was. What was once considered fiction is now reality.
ESG x CBDC = CCP social credit score system. Calculate your ESG score here to see if you are virtuous enough to avoid the gulags: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-raise-your-esg-score
I have never been afraid of my own government until these last few years. I no longer recognize my own country.
This is going to drive an underground black market where guns are sold back and forth to individuals with cash. We can certainly do that where I live, no problem. This new surveillance is really scary and looks more like some communist-type government. I appreciate Jim Jordan, but when can this be forever stopped? Also, real, consistent criminals rarely buy guns at the sporting good store.
We can fix much of this with two tracks of reform. It gets back to the corruption of the media and tech.
1. Underway - destroy the economic opportunity of Theory-based indoctrinated campus clones by laying them off like Musk started, and not hiring them based on simple open-ended interview questions where they will not be able to resist demonstrating their fealty to the woke cult. This will cause the business of higher learning to clean up their act for financial reasons as parents stop sending their little green-haired monsters in the making to these expensive institutions of learning that end up damaging, rather than helping, economic outcomes.
2. Needed - update anti trust rules to count cross-ownership of corporations (Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street together own controlling interest in the four mega media corporations and all big tech instead of Twitter/X) and also update to prevent corporate mergers that damage competition from smalls.
The goal here is to get the press back to independence where it isn’t just Matt and a few others doing the hero work to call out the rats and their power abuse behavior. When you distill everything down to the source of these tyrannical changes it is the failure of the mainstream corporate media to stay independent and hold these politicians and government officials responsible. Private business is only trying to comply with government so government does not abuse power to harm the private business. Lawfare happens because the media does not soundly condemn the government abuses of power. There is no higher power than government except the real journalists that will call them out.
We now have evidence of two manifestos of mass shooters who are trans or have some other mental disease. Any comments?