Historic House Sit-In Is Historic
Deep, deep, deep, deep in the tank https://t.co/VcjP6E0p7n
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) June 22, 2016
In a gaggle of 30 reporters, every reporter asked about how "historic" the sit in was.
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) June 22, 2016
The Democrats are conducting a historic sit-in which is historic. They are trying to take guns from Americans without due process, and so this is a civil rights issue, you see. (I have already discussed how Republicans have their own bills that address the concerns raised by Democrats, but in a more responsible way that does not step on due process. If the government has you on a list, it should know why it put you there — and it should not take long to explain those reasons to a judge.) The ACLU opposes the Democrat proposals. But all you’ll hear from Big Media is that John Lewis is involved, and it’s historic. Historic, I say!
What’s it really about? Fundraising.
Squirrel! Don’t look at Islam, look at those scary squirrels armed with assault weapons of war. Save lives – vote down the 2nd amendment, abandon the concept of due process.
The Islamic terrorist you save may live to behead your children.
ropelight (596f46) — 6/23/2016 @ 7:39 amSquirrel!
Don’t look at all those Black Americans shot to death in the inner cities!
Patricia (5fc097) — 6/23/2016 @ 7:45 amQuit using the House for your telethon. PBS can’t survive the competition.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 7:49 amBlack people should not have guns.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:01 amPatricia, are you suggesting blacks are not responsible enough to have the right to own firearms? Racist, I denounce you!
Rev. Hoagie® (734193) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:02 amWe have officially “transitioned” into a banana republic.
orcadrvr (3cc3b1) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:05 amDemocrat members of the institution formed by the founding fathers to provide a forum for debate and deliberation have abandoned any hope of appealing to reason and logic, and instead have decided to endorse a species of mob rule.
Why are leftists so enamored with tactics reeking of force and coercion?
For the same reason the scorpion stung the frog.
Rev. Hoagie® (734193) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:08 amWhen leftists illegally take over federal property they are praised and lauded. When citizens try the same they are arrested and killed.
njrob (c4a768) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:27 amOh, I wish the decent people of Chicago could own guns! Maybe then they would stop the mass gang killing in the Democrat gulags!
Patricia (5fc097) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:31 amsquirrels for sure should not have guns
happyfeet (a037ad) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:43 amInstilling the idea of being persecuted inspires solidarity and loyalty among group members. It’s group paranoia and there’s a lot of it going around these days.
DRJ (15874d) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:44 amThat wouldn’t have prevented Omar Mateen from buying his guns, since he was off the list, so the Democratic
proposal is that anyone who ever was on the No-Fly list (at first it was who was on the list within the last five years) should be barred from purchasing guns.
If you gave only a limited amount of time to the government to go before a judge, the whole thing wouldn’t work, because the government, since it took him off the list, wouldn’t have sufficient grounds to do anything. They’d have to investigate and see if they could come up with a reason.
Sammy Finkelman (7a22e4) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:50 amBut when the Republicans hold up government, its just terrible, terrible.
Patrick Henry, the 2nd (ddead1) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:54 amYou know something, by making a show of fighting for legislation that they know cannot pass into law, the Democrats are imitating Ted Cruz. Except that Ted Cruz didn’t actualy disrupt the working of the Senate.
Sammy Finkelman (7a22e4) — 6/23/2016 @ 9:04 amThat’s a nice thought, Patricia but there are no “decent people” left in Chicago. They’re either leftist democrat operatives or leftist democrat enablers. The “decent people” moved out long ago.
Rev. Hoagie® (734193) — 6/23/2016 @ 9:14 amDidn’t all those people doing the sit-in against handguns actually stand up in favor of Iran’s nuclear program?
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 6/23/2016 @ 9:17 amI find it ironic these people are democrats when five decades ago a Republican named Martin Luther Kung Jr. carried a gun and was on the FBI watch list.
Rev. Hoagie® (734193) — 6/23/2016 @ 9:42 amYou can own all the guns you want in Chicago if you are not a felon, a spouse abuser, an addict, or mentally ill; and keep them in your home, land, or fixed place of business. No registration, no permit, just the Illinois Firearm Owner’s Identification card which is issued to anyone without the above disabilities who can pay $5.00. If you want to carry concealed in public, you can get a concealed carry permit. That’s a little more involved and more expensive.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 9:43 amhttps://www.pinterest.com/pin/541769030144080765/
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 6/23/2016 @ 9:46 amThis is the same-old same-old. Remember when they walked with arms linked across the maul through throngs of Tea Partyers on the day that they rammed through ObamaCare? They figured someone in the crowd would be rude enough to turn this into a domestic Abu Ghraib that would allow them divert attention from their own behavior. And the media bought their reports that they had been subjected to racial slurs, etc., at least until Breitbart offered $100K for anyone who could provide a recording supporting their lies. But by that time it was “old news”, meaning the LHMFM could ignore the real story.
If 50% of the country finds this transparently manipulative behavior commendable, we’re screwed.
We’re screwed.
BobStewartatHome (404986) — 6/23/2016 @ 9:47 am16. Most of them, probably, but not every last one of them, I would guess. Bit the Iran deal was sold as preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Sammy Finkelman (7a22e4) — 6/23/2016 @ 9:55 amIn New York City, somebody recently was indicted for paying off police to approve gun licenses in two months instead of the usual year, including some who wouldn’t have gotten one at all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/nyregion/brooklyn-man-accused-of-improperly-obtaining-handgun-licenses.html?_r=0
Sammy Finkelman (7a22e4) — 6/23/2016 @ 10:00 amBlack people should not have guns.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 8:01 am
That’s racist.
What would have made it better? Talent contest. Republican Representatives armed with nerf guns as the judges. (YouTube)
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 10:00 amThe group with the most guns per capita is ISIS.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 6/23/2016 @ 10:02 amIf only Democrats would do a middle-of-the-night sit-in to protest ISIS running around with guns.
Gun control is racist. There is a direct correlation — a very strong, direct correlation — between stringent gun control laws and having dark people around. The fewer the dark people, the fewer the restrictions on firearms. As exemplified by Vermont which has never had dark people to speak of and no gun control.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 10:45 amI actually tried to look up the origin and evolution of gun rights and gun laws in America, nk. It became so convoluted by mid 1800’s racist drivel and a bunch of lawyerspeak© I finally surrendered in disgust. But yeah, it seems to have a lot to do with the democrats wanting blacks unarmed.
Rev. Hoagie® (734193) — 6/23/2016 @ 10:55 amhttp://lawnewz.com/high-profile/anti-gun-ex-state-senator-sentenced-for-what-else-gun-trafficking/
Leland Lee.
Never forget.
Steve57 (ecac13) — 6/23/2016 @ 11:32 amYes but keep in mind Yee’s (correct spelling) indictment was payback for switching his vote and joining a bloc of Asian-American assemblymen and state senators to vote against more affirmative action set-asides
http://www.mintpressnews.com/bid-to-revive-affirmative-action-in-calif-roils-asian-americans/189978/
see section after “Temporary Hiccup” – if the source publication is lefty drivel, pardon the source, I beg thee.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 6/23/2016 @ 11:39 amThank you for the spelling correction. And I mean that, sincerely, I’m not being sarcastic.
But regarding Leland whatshisname, it was a Baptists and Bootleggers arrangement.
Steve57 (ecac13) — 6/23/2016 @ 11:44 amNot saying that Yee wasn’t willing to sell his vote for all sorts of reasons.
Steve57 (ecac13) — 6/23/2016 @ 11:48 amAlso known as a Ralph Reed casino gambling arrangement (RR was hired by neighboring states with existing casinos to help casino gaming opponents in Georgia)
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 6/23/2016 @ 12:16 pmFrom a comment at althouse
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-democrats-are-boldly-fighting-for.html
This erson adds didn;’t he ay attention to the Act 10 protests in Wisconsin?
Sammy Finkelman (7a22e4) — 6/23/2016 @ 12:47 pmThe Democrats would not have done this if they did not know that Ryan is a weak sister who would not turn off the House cameras, not expel the reporters, and not have the Sergeant-at-arms evict the sitters. They had plenty of time to take his measure and they know his spine is the consistency of a boiled noodle. A genuine, dyed-in-the-wool, Republican, in other words.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 3:35 pmAnd I have no clue why my comment at 3:35 went into moderation.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 3:37 pmA yuuge step for mankind when traitor Ryan is not re-elected.
mg (31009b) — 6/23/2016 @ 4:03 pmGreetings:
Where’s Bull Connor when you need him ???
11B40 (6abb5c) — 6/23/2016 @ 4:07 pmGreetings:
I think that it’s time that all those Democratic-ruled cities that denied American citizens their Second Amendment rights for generations be sued for appropriate reparations.
11B40 (6abb5c) — 6/23/2016 @ 4:10 pmIt does not help when 47 Republicans agree that a no-fly list should be the basis for a gun ban, trying to fool the people with a “due process” lipstick on the pig. The no-fly list is already a violation of due process. Thanks, Shrub.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 4:16 pmThis is a copy and paste of my previous comment which went into moderation:
The Democrats would not have done this if they did not know that Ryan is a weak sister who would not turn off the House cameras, not expel the reporters, and not have the Sergeant-at-arms evict the sitters. They had plenty of time to take his measure and they know his spine is the consistency of a boiled noodle. A genuine, dyed-in-the-wool, Republican, in other words.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 4:17 pmI never would have thought crying J.Boehner had one more nut than the nutless Ryan.
mg (31009b) — 6/23/2016 @ 4:26 pmI read at hot air that they did turn off the House cameras. The video is/was from one of the representative’s cell phones, patched through CSPAN.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 4:38 pmHe did turn off the cameras from my understanding, and the filming of it was from someone’s cell phone feed being picked up by CSPAN.
I recently read somewhere a number of quotes from the time of the Constitution about gun ownership that were clear in saying that the “militia” was meant to be everyone who could responsibly handle a firearm.
And I believe a major early effort of the NRA was to help African Americans learn to defend themselves against lynch mobs.
But facts don’t mean what they used to.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 6/23/2016 @ 4:38 pmhttps://www.google.com/#q=brexit
The Brexit vote is highly volatile. Four lead changes since the opening of tabulations.
RIGHT now, with 2.6% reporting it’s
48.6%
287,727 to stay
51.4%
304,913 to leave the European Union
Do we care about this? Just an amusement? Britain as a fully actualized country, or as a member state in the United States of Europe? (I think they started the EU with the goal of being the USofE so as they could complain of our using “U.S.”)
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 5:41 pmevents on that end of the atlantic, do tend to echo over here, the ukip/tory is the trump/ryan
narciso (732bc0) — 6/23/2016 @ 5:44 pmanalogue,
actually cameron is more like the medici/mittens.
narciso (732bc0) — 6/23/2016 @ 5:47 pmThe history of the British Empire is the British searching the world for something decent to eat. If they can’t freely travel to Europe anymore, they’ll have to import a lot more French, German, Italian and Greek chefs and subsidize their restaurants.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 5:52 pm(I think they started the EU with the goal of being the USofE so as they could complain of our using “U.S.”)
The Mexicans, whose country is officially United States of Mexico, have been doing that for a long while.
kishnevi (c2a547) — 6/23/2016 @ 5:52 pmthat’s what walter raleigh was on about, snorfle,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/23/2016 @ 5:55 pmShould I cool it or should I blow?
If I stay there will be trouble. If I go there will be double.
I think I’d like it more if the bulk of the EU could vote member states off the island as it were.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 5:59 pmCan the United States vote to expel Massachusetts?
Okay, I was really talking about California. Massachusetts was just the beard.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:04 pmher stinky pig is even more historic than this sit-in
happyfeet (28a91b) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:10 pmHow about this. Can the several states vote as states to expel a state government?
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:11 pmForce say California for example to dismiss state government and reconstitute the state with a new charter?
well the uk is more like texas, in that it was an independent republic, before it was a state, but brussels wants to keep its claws in brittania,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:13 pmYes – Leave It (Official Music Video)
Dedicated to our UK cousins.
Leave it – has expanded it’s lead.
5.2% Reporting
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:19 pmVotes
Remain a member of the European Union
48.9%
661,694
Leave the European Union
51.1%
691,415
http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2016/06/23/7-photoshops-and-memes-of-the-democratic-sit-in-that-will-leave-you-in-stitches/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:20 pmif LEAVE wins they’ll just Paul Ryan it and make like a vote for leave doesn’t mean leave leave
happyfeet (28a91b) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:23 pmForce say California for example to dismiss state government and reconstitute the state with a new charter?
No, the several states could not. The United States could if it violated any of more than a few Constitutional provisions — from minting money in other than gold or silver to making war against Oregon, and lots of things in-between. Take a peek at the Constitution. The Civil Rights acts, too.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:24 pmSo Jerry Brown cutting bad checks is grounds for divorce?
I’m reasonably confident we could take Oregon in a pound for pound fight.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:33 pmFirst we’ll disable the gas station attendants, effectively immobilizing the populous.
Then it’s pretty much the devil’s playground, Grants Pass to the border.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:37 pmHold on. (Wilson Phillips)
Stay has mounted a rally.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:53 pmThere are still states in the South whose elections are under federal supervision. The NYPD is too.
nk (dbc370) — 6/23/2016 @ 6:54 pma corrective, to the travismockasham,
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/06/23/early-commentator-constitution-2a-palladium-liberty/
narciso (732bc0) — 6/23/2016 @ 9:25 pmThese thief’s stole the peoples money to become millionaires, and now sit in the most protected building in D.C. as a protest! AK-47 appears to be what that sit in for stupid needs.
mg (31009b) — 6/24/2016 @ 3:00 amNo one mentioned this above so I will. Trump supports the Democrats’ efforts to restrict gun rights and he even lobbied the NRA to support him a mere 10 days ago.
DRJ (15874d) — 6/24/2016 @ 6:22 amThe NRA did endorse him at its convention. Half the members there gave themselves a facepalm. But it is a single issue organization and Hillary truly is much worse on gun rights. Infinitely worse. She favors total gun confiscation. At least with Trump, people who max out their political contributions to the right politicians will be able to get gun permits.
nk (dbc370) — 6/24/2016 @ 6:29 amI think Trump will go for – Only property owners can vote.
mg (31009b) — 6/24/2016 @ 6:36 amMr. Trump will do good on the guns don’t you worry
but today is a brexciting day to enjoy and not do the squabble squabble
i got a pocket got a pocket full of brexit 🙂
happyfeet (28a91b) — 6/24/2016 @ 6:39 amdon’t think bluntman will save you,
http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/23/nice-guys-finish-third-gary-johnsons-awk
narciso (732bc0) — 6/24/2016 @ 6:43 amyou don’t have a problem with him breeding five wiggly little fetuses with his three brood sows?
nk (dbc370) — 6/24/2016 @ 6:44 amRIP – Mike Flynn
mg (31009b) — 6/24/2016 @ 6:45 ami’m nothing if not inconsistent Mr. nk
happyfeet (28a91b) — 6/24/2016 @ 6:47 amMeditation on this tweet would serve the Pattericon community well.
Take a minute.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/24/2016 @ 6:53 amWhat this (http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/15/no-fly-list-no-guns-trump-agrees-with-ob) says to me is Trump doesn’t know where to land on this issue.
I’m liking his choice of experts to consult with.
Also it says to me that Reason.com would benefit from a few minutes meditation on this tweet.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/24/2016 @ 6:58 amTrump is evolving? Unfortunately, he’s evolving to where he agrees with the political establishment that hates all us hicks and losers.
DRJ (15874d) — 6/24/2016 @ 7:29 amDonald Trump will never believe anyone but himself. Nor will you, for that matter.
DRJ (15874d) — 6/24/2016 @ 7:31 amThere was an ice skating rink, an iconic part of downtown New York I guess, closed in 1980 for an upgrade. Six years later Donald Trump takes over the project and fixes it in four months.
How did he do it? Trump doesn’t know ice rinks. So he calls the NHL to send an expert.
Trump knowing that he doesn’t know about ice rinks leads him to call people who do.
That’s whats happening at your link DRJ.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/24/2016 @ 7:53 amIt’s the short attention span what done it. If I’d just stop fidgeting. Ma had the self same complaint.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/24/2016 @ 7:59 am