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Jack Sotallaro's avatar

The information you publish is invaluable for those who "know something's wrong" but can't decipher what or why. What you call (correctly) a non sequitur I call BS (also correct, but which doesn't explain why).

I really enjoy your work. Thanks.

Michael Smith's avatar

Thank you...and you are not wrong, I just didn't know the Latin term for bullshit!

KEVIN HALL's avatar

The best way to make AOC and those like her go away, is to prove them wrong, time and time again. So here goes - AOC wants tighter gun control...The following is from FBI data.

#1 and #2 causes of gun violence/death come from Suicide and Gangs. Suicide is almost 71% and Gangs contribute another almost 18% - total almost 90%. If the LIBS want to control gun deaths - get better treatment for those wanting to commit suicide and stops the drugs that lead to issues of suicide. Again FBI data not mine.

Now the top folks committing suicide are those protecting us: Veterans, first responders - police, firefighters, EMT's, along with doctors, lawyers, and so on. We can and Should do something about this.

Gangs can also be dealt with and again should be - but of course certain govt officials do not want it to be dealt with.

FBI data - 1.5 million crimes prevented or thwarted by a good guy with a gun. In fact, the FBI state that the number may actually be twice that due to non-reporting of these type instances.

Our GOVT officials know these numbers - then why are they not doing anything about it? Great question - and I think we all might know why.

Lastly - accidental gun deaths are about the same amount as accidental drownings. Now do we also ban backyard pool, swimming in lakes, etc.?

My 2 cents.

Fred Richmond's avatar

A really good article, but for one thing: mentioning the slimy, loathsome, worthy of the dustbin of history failed candidate for governor of Virginia, who richly deserves to be forgotten.

Tom Nelson's avatar

The vilification of Sydney Sweeney's jeans ad was just a predictable squirt of venom from the Hate Lobby. It's time we recognized the Hate Lobby and studied it as an, albeit disgusting and stomach-turning movement, but as a real political movement. Their tactic is to spit hatred at everything that's American or that occurs in America. Their objective is the demoralization of Americans and reduction of the will to keep life free and livable in America.

Death to the Hate Lobby!

sean anderson's avatar

The Smithsonian exhibit decrying respect for authority, doing things on time, and the work ethic as signs of “whiteness” (and therefore racist) is itself also an example of a “reductio ad absurdum:” Some higher up ordered the creation of this exhibit to be completed by no doubt dutiful and responsive according to some set deadline. Therefore setting up this exhibit was itself a “deplorable” exercise in whiteness! It would be all the more ironic if the Smithsonian authority who ordered this was a “person of color.” The absurdity: it takes whiteness in order to deplore whiteness!