TZP Column: Democracy Through Superior Fire Power

Given recent proclivities by the feds to arrest those they view as dissidents, I should probably start asking for expected bail money, after this one. Or just paying the Internet bill would be nice.


DEMOCRACY THROUGH SUPERIOR FIRE POWER?
Dimocrats keep warning us that “democracy is in danger” if they get voted out. Clearly they’ve confused the Democrat Party with democracy. Or, specifically in America, the version of democracy known as a constitutional representative republic.

But democracy is in danger, when “democracy” means the guy in charge threatens half the country with an attack with F-15 fighters. And it’s hardly the first time he did that.
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Speaking of lawful channels, does anyone else remember the time the mainstream media mistook an All-American day at the range for a full-scale attack by a NATO nation on a Syrian town? Makes you wonder what a real assault by Americans who don’t take to Biden’s “attack America with F-15s” version of “democracy” might look like.

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Ignorance Kills

First off, this was not a “freak accident.” It was probably inevitable.

REPORT: Freak accident leaves 1 dead, 2 injured on college campus
A masonry column with three hammocks attached to it collapsed at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon on Monday, killing one student and injuring two others on the first day of classes, officials said.

Today’s lesson in engineering: Brick columns are designed for vertical compressive loading. They suck for lateral loads.

Compressive loading: great. That’s why brick columns hold up heavy buildings. But bricks stacked on each other more or less held in place with mortar? Apply enough lateral — sideways — load, and they the slide; the column collapses.

Apply a few hundred pounds — three hammocks with six young idiots presumed adults — and the column will collapse. Now figure the dynamic loading of six almost adults undoubtedly bouncing and wiggling around. Loading probably went into the thousands of pounds.

I’ve seen at least one tree knocked over that way (guy did not heed my advice to find a bigger one), and trees are far better at later loads — think wind — than brick columns.

I’m guessing that 1) none of these idiots were engineering students, and 2) alcohol was involved.

Guess #1 apparently is definite. I don’t see any engineering majors or minors listed at that “liberal arts” college. But I guess they graduate a lot of baristas (among survivors).

 

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People Like Adam Kotsko…

…are why we have a Constitution.

With a Second Amendment.

Backed by the most heavily armed civilian population in the world.

My ideal land use distribution (based heavily on KSR): all agricultural land is collectively owned and scientifically managed to balance quantity, quality, and variety of food against sustainability and ethical practices. No single-family or corporate for-profit farms.

Oh, boy. Because communist/collectivist farms run without even the possibility of gain have always out-produced capitalist farming. Just ask the old Soviet Union why they needed US grain.

But Kotsko has a way to keep farm costs down.

Young adults have to do a period of public service, and one option would be a “tour of duty” as a farm worker for a few years. Everyone would at least know someone who knows firsthand what goes into food production.

Slave labor. On plantations. I’ve heard of this somewhere before.

The overwhelming majority of people live in a handful of ultradense urban cores, connected by high-speed rail. No car-based suburban communities exist. A handful of people stay in rural areas full-time to manage the work brigades or run wilderness retreats or whatever.

What happens to those ultradense urban cores (doesn’t that sound pleasant) when the farmers say, “Hey, why should we ship this this food to the hive-dwellers for nothing?”

A few days ago, this megalomaniacal psychopath was tweeting along similar lines.

“In discussions of reducing car dependency, one often hears, “What about people in remote rural areas?” And my gut instinct is — people shouldn’t be living there in the first place. The solution is to give them generous grants to relocate among other humans.”

“‘But what if they like living in remote rural areas?’ Sorry, you can’t always get what you want. A lot of people would like to live in dense, transit-rich settings but can’t — either because they can’t afford it or it simply doesn’t exist where they are.”

I asked him, “Once you’ve forcibly relocated everyone to your urban hellhole (Spent too much time in Chicago; never going back), who is going to grow the food and maintain the rest of the infrastructure that keeps your cities alive?”

He never replied to me, but I see that he hit on forced slave labor as the solution. Even CNN could figure out how this goes

In 1975, the Khmer Rouge ordered people out of Phnom Penh, the capital, and other cities in Cambodia to work in the countryside.

It is said to be responsible for about 1.7 million deaths, roughly a quarter of the population at the time. Its stated aim was to create a Communist utopia, but instead the regime forced Cambodians into what has been described as a living hell.

City-dwellers were marched into the countryside and forced to work as farm laborers. Those already living in rural Cambodia were expected to produce enough food for the country while teaching farming to those who had never done it before. Currency was abolished, and anyone with an education was considered a threat. No one was allowed modern medicine, and the country isolated itself in an effort to become completely self-sufficient.

The results were disastrous: People died of starvation and disease as soldiers tortured and killed anyone suspected of being disloyal.

Added: My sister’s sarcastic comment on “Pol Pot” Kotscko’s plan:

Hey, maybe we could have a decent cotton industry again.

Yeah; I’m just imagining the reaction of some young, urban Black to getting his draft notification to go work a cotton plantation in Georgia.

 

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Facebook Censorship of Biden Laptop Story

This headline is a bit over the top, and not quite accurate from what I see.

MAJOR UPDATE: Missouri AG Schmitt’s Lawsuit FORCES Zuckerberg to ADMIT the FBI TOLD FACEBOOK TO CENSOR THE BIDEN LAPTOP During the 2020 Election
Yesterday, Joe Rogan interviewed Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. During the interview, Zuckerberg casually admitted that Facebook algorithmically censored the Hunter Biden Laptop Story for 7 days following a request from the FBI to censor election “misinformation.”

A request “Censor election misinformation” is not quite the same thing as the feds telling Facebook to censor a specific story. But…

But why would Zuckerberg admit this? Because he’s being forced to turn over documents in the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, and the efforts of the Missouri and Louisiana Attorneys General.

He and his pathetic PR team are trying to get ahead of the news cycle on this. But he has failed.

It isn’t the news scycle they’re trying to get ahead of; it’s the court ruling.

I have no doubt that the feds worked with FB to kill the laptop story. What I think Lizard-boy is doing is an attempt to dodge liability: Gee, guys. We were warned there would be misinformation. Our civicly responsible algorithms simply innocently and accidentally caught the true laptop report in a accidentally-too-wide net. Our bad, but no evil intent. We didn’t mean to.

And it was pure coincidence that Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Google, et al “accidentally” killed the laptop story at the same time.

Any of y’all still using those platforms are doing so why?

 

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TZP Column: Yet Another Gun Owner Licensing Bill

You’d think they’d get tired of this.


H.R. CATCH-22 RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP LICENSING ACT
New Jersey Dimwit Andy Kim has entered a bill — actually H.R. 8534 — to require a federal license to “acquire or receive firearms.” As is almost always the case with these federal licensing bills, a license is impossible to lawfully acquire.
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Automatic Weapons?

Toledo, Ohio is planning a gun “buyback” for September 10, 2022.

They’ll be accepting handguns, shotguns, rifles, and…

Automatic weapons?

I don’t know how many machineguns they’ll get, but at $200 a pop, start putting together some plumbing slam-fire shotguns.

 

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Stay In California To Avoid Mass Shootings?

Sure. If y’all say so.

Billboards in L.A. and San Francisco Invoke Uvalde Massacre, Warn Residents ‘Don’t Move to Texas’

Really?

California only has about a 50% larger population than Texas, but almost twice as many mass shootings. If that’s your concern, get out of California.

But leave the leftist/socialist policies behind, please. That’s what screwed up California.

I’m guessing Newsom paid for those billboards.

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TZP Column: New Firearm Definition Rule

The only question regarding the blatantly unconstitutional rule’s fate, is whether there are sufficient remaining honest courts.


ATF RULE REDEFINING FIREARMS
The rule redefining “firearm,” frame, and “receiver,” about which TZP has been warning for some time, is now in effect. The lawsuits should be spectacular.
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Someone Probably Isn’t As Smart As They Think

I learned a little more about the swatting of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. It seems the swatter got cute and wasn’t calling 911 his/her/itself. The person called suicide hotlines with the “I killed ’em, and I’m gonna kill myself” claims, and got the hotlines to call 911 for him.

I suspect this was someone who knew that E911 can let the call center trace calls. So they thought using the suicide hotlines as a cut-out to avoid being traced was a good idea. Meh; sorta, sorta not.

If this person believed the hotline safely cut him out the of trace, he was more likely to have used his own phone.

And that means he can be traced.

I haven’t done call traces for years, but given a rough time frame and the destination phone number, back in the day I could do that trace in about 60 seconds (mostly determining which switch to start in and manually typing the command). I could do that days or weeks after the fact.

That stuff you weirdly still see in TV and movies about “keep him on the line long enough to trace” was back in the days of rotary relay can switches. Then you had to chase physical connection before the relay contacts broke. Now it’s just a computer database record of the switches connections made, and those records are backed up. The last switch I worked on was low traffic volume, so we ran a tape for about a week, and kept 90 days of tapes.

I suspect that asshole is screwed.

The good news is that apparently everyone involved figured this for swatting from the start.

The dispatcher from the chat site began by expressing concerns that “this many be a swatting situation.”

 

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TZP Column: Loophole In New York

Oops.


THE RIFLE PLATE LOOPHOLE
A few people noted that New York state Dims’ Senate Bill S9407B had a small problem. I was patiently waiting to see if they would address it with an amendment after it was publicly pointed out.

S9407B is a ban on the sale or possession of a “BODY VEST, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 270.20.” The problem with the bill is that none of the sponsors appeared to have read 270.20.
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