…that Trump and his people might be smarter than their critics.
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Shot in the Dark
Cranking Open The Big Brass Nozzle Of Truth Since 2002
So far Trump has impressed me. A year and more ago, I commented at SITD comparing Trump to Ventura, and of course I did not vote for Trump.
I said somewhere else that I did not make predictions.
So now I will make two predictions. Actually two specualtions — I could very well be wrong.
-The Dems are focused on Trump, now. I predict that once Trump is sworn in, there will be a backlash against the Clintons.
-Obama wants to remain in DC and be an important Democrat party player. I predict that six months from now, it will be “Barack who?”
Speaking of “fake” news…
“Esteban Santiago’s initial destination may not have been Fort Lauderdale but New York City, where he had made a reservation to fly in on New Year’s Eve, authorities told ABC News. But for some unknown reason, he canceled the flight and a few days late…
http://abcnews.go.com/US/santiagos-terror-ticket-fort-lauderdale/story?id=44648391
“But after a brief hospitalization for a mental examination, Santiago was released and on Dec. 8 was allowed to collect his handgun, which law enforcement had confiscated.”
If only we had common-sense laws to prevent crazy people from having guns.
“Since the attack, investigators recovered his computer from a pawn shop, and the FBI is examining it to determine whether the alleged shooter created a jihadist identity for himself using the name Aashiq Hammad, according to officials familiar with the case.”
Philosophical question: How sane do you have to be, exactly, to be capable of committing an act of Islamic terror?
Adam Lanza did not own a single gun, Emery.
If the cops had not returned Santiago’s gun, do you think that would not have gone on a shooting spree?
Now to find out who is leaking this.
PM, I suppose he could have chosen to lawfully purchase one.
bikebubba on January 12, 2017 at 10:34 am said:
Now to find out who is leaking this.
My guess is McCain.
Really eTASS? You know for a fact Lanza would have been able to pass a background check? Or are you just putting up another strawman to bugger?
It is no surprise that you spout orc talking points and your turd filled brain cannot comprehend that it looks like popo screwed up in Santiago case and that laws already on the books should have prevented him from getting his firearm back.
Plus, what Wooly said. Not that you will answer his question.
Way off topic, but, if you assume that the gun is responsible for the crime, then, naturally, you believe no gun, no crime.
This is a mistake.
If you wanted to stop Santiago from killing people, you would have had to lock him up.
If you require some kind of doctor’s note to get gun, the government and the gun control forces will immediately issue mandatory ‘professional guidelines’ for physicians that will hold them responsible if the person they have permitted to own a firearm commits a gun crime.
The anti-gun people do not care about gun safety. What they care about is controlling people they don’t like. The people who commit gun crimes are overwhelmingly young, and Black or Hispanic. The anti-gun people are obsessed with taking guns away from middle aged white guys. That tells you all that you need to know.
He also used it for perfect timing to distract the media from having his AG and Sec State be dragged through the mud in confirmation hearings. The worst thing you can do in battle is to underestimate the intelligence of your opponent.
More on-topic: I do not know if Trump and his people are smarter than his Trump’s opponents, but Trump and his people are more nimble than Trump’s opponents. Trump’s opponents, inside the GOP and on the Left, are very restricted in how they can respond to Trump. The GOP will always support tax cuts and business deregulation. The Left will always support loony green projects, abortion on demand up to the moment the baby leaves the birth canal (and later), euthanasia, and openly racist groups like BLM. They are all sitting ducks for Trump. He can say whatever he wants to say. His opponents can’t.
“If only we had common-sense laws to prevent crazy people from having guns.”
We did. But civil rights lawyers convinced the United States Supreme Court that it was unconstitutional to deprive people of their rights unless they were a danger to themselves or others at the time of the hearing. Most kooks get picked up for acting weirdly and spend a weekend in the hospital being given meds, so by Monday morning’s hearing, they’re calm and lucid and apologetic. The judge has no choice but to let them go whereupon they promptly stop taking the meds and start acting weirdly again until they commit a serious enough crime to be warehoused in prison.
Read this book – written by a Second Amendment scholar whose work was cited with approval by Scalia – for a sobering explanation of how we got to this place, and how hard it will be to find our way back:
https://www.amazon.com/My-Brother-Ron-Personal-Deinstitutionalization-ebook/dp/B008E0LRQE
PM, I suppose he could have chosen to lawfully purchase one.
Actually, Lanza did try to purchase a gun: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/15/nation/la-na-nn-sandy-hook-gunman-tried-to-buy-rifile-days-before-20121215
He didn’t want to wait the 14-day waiting period. Didn’t deter him.
Regarding Lanza and Santiago, of course they would have been able to buy a gun if those in authority failed to get them adjudicated as mentally defective. The question is what, if anything, was missed, and that will likely make the difference between a death penalty or life in prison/life in a mental hospital for the latter.
He did pawn some of his possessions to get the plane ticket, so perhaps confiscation might have helped, but it’s too early to know, really.
We used to get upset when Bush 43 would not articulate his positions well or aggressively defend himself against attacks.
I watched a McCann-Obama debate and said to myself “has McCann never debated a lefty before? He is totally in over his head with an internet troll. I could clean up in this debate so easily”.
Now we have a Republican (at least he says he is) who may be a bit of a loose cannon, but at least he is aggressive promoting and defending his positions. He was number 17 out of 17 Republicans on my list a year ago, but so far I am impressed. This even seems to rub off on others during confirmation hearings. Al Franken was a bit overmatched with Sessions.
JPA: were you dropped in the delivery room and then accidentally kicked across the floor?
The question posed to me by MP:
“If the cops had not returned Santiago’s gun, do you think that [he] would not have gone on a shooting spree?”
Just when I thought dumb had reached it’s nadir, a new bottom is breached.
You are proving my point succinctly, eTASS. No answer from you. Must be because turds are backing up.
So Emery comes in with a threadjack, and then starts upbraiding other commenters for their behavior? All righty, then.
As for the point of Mitch’s post, I’m not convinced Le Grand Orange is any more book smart than his many detractors, but he’s far more shrewd in understanding what motivates people. And in the case of the leakers, what’s motivating them is preserving the ol’ rice bowl. Trump is a threat to the established order, so he must be destroyed before he gets any momentum.
D, sTrumpet definitely knows how to play the game. Elites have had a free ride with “when did you stop beating your wife” line of questioning for so long, they cannot fathom that somebody would call them out and beat them at their own game. If anything, I applaud sTrumpet’s effort to put MSM in their place.
On topic momentarily…. He really is the world’s greatest Twitter troll. Trump knows how to troll the media better than anyone.
On the bright side, Trump and his cabinet are not owned by anybody. It is hard to overstate how unusual that is these days.
On the other hand, nobody knows what Trump actually believes or will actually try to do. Biggest concerns are (a) conflicts of interest related to his personal wealth and (b) use of executive power to retaliate against personal enemies. I view the latter as the most serious because it is consistent with his personality and history as I understand them. That said, none of this is going to be clear for another year or two.
The Daily Fail is hot on the trail of John “Leaky” McCain:
Revealed: ‘Ordinary ‘citizen’ John McCain dispatched a trusted aide across the Atlantic to get dirty dossier from ex-spy after former British diplomat told him about blackmail tapes
http://dailym.ai/2jBMroM
Emery;
You mean like Obama used the IRS, EPA and AG against his enemies or the enemies of the party?
Or did you mean like Hillary used several departments against the woman that her predator raped?
Maybe you meant both?
JPA,
As far as I have been able to tell by researching Trump’s tweets, he never started any attacks. He only attacked back, which the wimps in the lame stream media, haven’t experienced since Reagan. Of course, Reagan was more diplomatic is his rebuttals, but he owned the media jackals because he didn’t let them get away with bullshit questions.
Trump definitely is smarter than Buxxfeed editor Ben Smith. Or maybe it’s just that Trump has a functional grasp of the term “irony’:
BuzzFeed editor-in-chief in year-end memo: ‘Fake news will become more sophisticated’ than ever in 2017
http://nordic.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-ben-smith-2017-fake-news-2016-12/
Trump should have named Bobby “The Brain” Heenan his press spokesman.
‘Fake news will become more sophisticated’ than ever in 2017
MSM strategy backfired. And it took just a couple of weeks. They coined the term and were hoping they could use it to bash sTrumpet and conservatives. But sTrumpet had turned the tables and (I believe) MSNBC is already trying to distance themselves from the term. Isn’t it ironic?
Trump should have named Bobby “The Brain” Heenan his press spokesman.
A welcome change from all the Baghdad Bobs 0bumbler had been employing
Trump should have named Bobby “The Brain” Heenan his press spokesman.
Perfect!
boss wrote: You mean like Obama used the IRS, EPA and AG against his enemies or the enemies of the party?
I think we can add to the list FBI, BATFE, Interior, on and on.
Trump is going to be doing some major house cleaning beginning 7 days from now. I think it’ll be wild and very fun to watch!
This is actually Issa’s idea, but it shows how you can make the system work for Americans, and not foreigners:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/17/01/13/2128218/congress-will-consider-proposal-to-raise-h-1b-minimum-wage-to-100000
The slashdotters are an almost uniformly Lefty group, yet somehow they seem to believe that cheaper imported labor lowers their wages. Incredible! This goes against all the laws of economics!
Oh, wait, I mean it agrees with all the laws of economics.
I’ve worked with H-1B visa holders. Even a decade ago, you had to have a masters or better, or highly specific OJT experience to get an H-1B. Getting renewal was almost impossible. The INS’s argument was that you (the employer) had three years to find an American who could do the job or train one up to it. These days they are handing out H-1B’s to web monkeys with freshly minted BS’s.
The UC sytem is now trying to outsource its IT to India — while they charge American students about $60k/year to learn how to be IT workers. It is insane.
Companies are reluctant to invest in educating workers who have the freedom to walk out the door as soon as they have learned new skills. Experience says that many will do so. The rights of workers to move to new employers at will is not a freedom that should be taken away lightly. So what is the solution?
The rights of workers to move to new employers at will is not a freedom that should be taken away lightly.
H-1B workers are not allowed to quit. The H-1B visa is tied to one employer.
This is one reason employers often prefer H-1B workers to American citizens.