X, formerly known as "!Jones" wrote:

>Pointing to the origin of the dope and saying: "Make them stop
>shipping it!" won't work. We must quit buying it.

We need to start putting bullets into the heads of the dealers.

If you have a medical emergency, stop reading, log off, and dial 911!

>X, formerly known as "!Jones" wrote:
>
>>Pointing to the origin of the dope and saying: "Make them stop
>>shipping it!" won't work. We must quit buying it.
>
>We need to start putting bullets into the heads of the dealers.

I have heard that before... many times, actually. And, while I
understand why someone would suggest that, it won't work. First of
all, the low-end people (the ones you'd likely catch) are just
addicted junkies feeding their own habits. Therein, I have personal
knowledge.

If there is a market, someone will supply it.

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:19:01 -0500, "X, formerly known as \"!Jones\"" <x@y.com> wrote:

>If you have a medical emergency, stop reading, log off, and dial 911!
>
>>We need several things.
>>A. Candidates that are middle America and not extreme right nor left.
>>B. We need to stop spending like drunken sailors on shore leave.
>>C. We need to cut regulations as they hinder business development.
>>D. The tax system needs a complete rewrite. Especially loopholes for the rich.
>>E. The immigration system, for LEGALS, needs a complete rewrite. Why does it take 6 years for a
>>person looking to immigrate LEGALLY take 6 years?
>>F. We need to evaluate the immigrants who are here already, legally, under the DACA program and
>>they should be first in line.
>>
>>And while all this is going on we need to fully secure the border and return to no more catch and
>>release and enforce remain in Mexico and so forth until we can normalize the process.
>
>I'm on board with A..F. Other than an "iron curtain"-style approach,
>I don't think a "fully secured" border exists. You can't draw a line
>on a map where the standard of living on one side is *radically*
>different from the other. If the standards are comparable (e.g.:
>U.S./Canada and most European borders) they're easily "secured"
>because there isn't great incentive to cross. OTOH, when the
>disparity becomes great enough, it becomes impossible to prevent
>people from crossing... and, even if we *could*, walls work to keep
>people *in* just as well as out.

Social osmosis.

>The primary destabilizing forces to our south are the para-military
>groups feeding our national drug appetite. If we in the US would quit
>doping, the cartels would dry up over night; this might be like
>saying: "If it weren't for the sudden stop..."
>
>Pointing to the origin of the dope and saying: "Make them stop
>shipping it!" won't work. We must quit buying it. Compared to this
>task, building a wall is simplistic... and ineffective. Try telling a
>doper from either end of the political spectrum that they can't have
>their daily dose, and you'll have a fight on your hands.
>

#nevertrump

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:21:00 -0500, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>X, formerly known as "!Jones" wrote:
>
>>Pointing to the origin of the dope and saying: "Make them stop
>>shipping it!" won't work. We must quit buying it.
>
>We need to start putting bullets into the heads of the dealers.

Always looking for the simplistic solution whether it's legal or not, aren't you?

#nevertrump

On 13 Aug 2024, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> posted some
news:ggjnbjdjkj2a7crltbu3ir83lv8p3u3vb3@4ax.com:

> X, formerly known as "!Jones" wrote:
>
>>Pointing to the origin of the dope and saying: "Make them stop
>>shipping it!" won't work. We must quit buying it.
>
> We need to start putting bullets into the heads of the dealers.

Exactly. Just start rounding them up and putting them down. I've
personally favored giving them some of their own product instead of
wasting a bullet.

Practicing for the 3am check mark ballot box fraud again, and what
better place than communist Minnysota:

https://www.rightjournalism.com/screenshots-radical-squad-member-ilhan-omar-wins-her-primary-race-in-minnesota/

Screenshots: Radical Squad Member Ilhan Omar Wins Her Primary Race in
Minnesota – But It Seems She Received All of Her Votes in Less Than 20
Minutes

Rep. Ilhan Omar has secured victory in the Democrat primary for
Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. The Associated Press declared
her the winner, with Omar gaining an increase of 9,841 votes compared to
the previous election.

However, the election returns raised some eyebrows due to the rate and
speed at which the votes were counted. After polls closed at 8:00 PM, it
took nearly an hour and a half to reach just 5% counted, and then jumped
to 99.5% within 15 minutes, sparking debate and suspicion.

8:00 pm – Polls close.
8:15 pm – 0% counted.
8:30 pm – 0% counted.
8:45 pm – 0% counted.
9:00 pm – 0% counted.
9:22 pm – 5.0% counted.
9:37 pm – 99.5% counted.

There was something unusual about the reporting and tallying of the vote
totals in the Minnesota US House District 5 Democratic Primary election.

The Decision Desk only presented two batches of votes;

Batch 1: 5% of the vote just after 10 PM ET
Batch 2: The remaining 94% around 10:40 – 10:50 PM ET

The race was immediately called after the release of the second batch of
votes.

Just tuck it away in their college fund, odds are you'll spend it on a
casket after the clot shot does its damage.

The man is a genocidal freak!

https://thelibertydaily.com/remember-when-tampon-tim-bribed-minnesotans-sign-their/

In early January 2022, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who was just selected to
be Kamala Harris’ running mate, tried to bribe Minnesota families into
“vaccinating” their children with the latest shots for the Wuhan
coronavirus (COVID-19).

In a then-Twitter post, Walz offered families who jabbed their children
aged five through 11 a $200 reward, which he saw as a fitting amount to
forever ruin the immune systems of little ones throughout his state.

“That’s cash in your pocket for starting the year off right by
protecting your child from COVID,” Walz declared in the post, dated Jan.
11, 2022.

Dubbed “Kids Deserve a Shot,” the program from Walz was eventually ended
and the Twitter post in question removed. Perhaps Walz is embarrassed
now about what he did, or maybe it’s bad for he and Kamala Harris’
chances of getting elected this fall?

“Minnesota families who get their child 5-11 years old fully vaccinated
in January and February can get a $200 Visa gift card,” read the
official website for Kids Deserve a Shot.

“Parents / Guardians can register their 5- to 11-year-old once they have
completed their two-dose series.”

But wait...there's more:

Walz also created college scholarship lottery baiting young Minnesotans
into getting COVID jabbed
In addition to the $200 gift card scheme, Walz also set up a
taxpayer-funded lottery system offering five $100,000 scholarships to
five children aged five through 11 whose parents agreed to get them
injected for the Chinese virus.

“All Minnesotans 5-11 years old who completed their first and second
doses at any point in time will be eligible to be entered for a chance
to win a $100,000 college scholarship,” the website for that scheme
explained.

As all of this was happening, Walz also set up a snitching hotline for
Minnesota’s COVIDiots to rat out their non-compliant neighbors for
violating his stay-at-home orders.

“A hotline set up by Gov. Tim Walz’s administration to monitor
compliance with his 2020 stay-at-home order generated thousands of
reports from Minnesotans who snitched on their neighbors for things like
playing basketball in a park, walking their dogs, and throwing small
parties,” Alpha News reported.

Shane Trejo of Big League Politics says Walz deserved to be put behind
bars for his many crimes against humanity throughout the “pandemic.”

“Gov. Walz deserves to be behind bars with the likes of the American
Mengele Dr. Anthony Fauci for crimes against humanity for his COVID
policies,” Trejo wrote in a post on his Substack.

“Kamala Harris’ choice of Gov. Walz as her Vice President ought to be
interpreted as a declaration of war against the American public.”

Those pesky grandma's, eh Tampon Timmy?

I bet if she'd had pink hair this would never have happened.

https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/walz-covid-grandma-jail

Nearly every governor in this country woke up one day and decided that
working for a living was illegal unless you owned a “liquor store, strip
club, or big box store” like Target. However, given how insanely
tyrannical and evil this was, many state leaders eventually backtracked
and allowed people to start working again as if that was ever a power
that they were intended to have. Nonetheless, Tim Walz does not believe
Americans are smart enough to make decisions. Additionally, he was part
of that tyrannical Democratic bandwagon that desperately tried to hold
on to powers that were never his to have.

Walz is unique in that he was on the wrong side of history for every
major issue in 2020. So while he allowed Minneapolis to burn to the
ground, as he condoned the crimes of criminal losers, he jailed a
Minnesota grandma for daring to make a living at a time when she may or
may not have gotten an invisible virus that is so bad you have to be
tested to know if you even have it.

So while no one was held accountable for the largest insurance claim in
American history under Walz’s watch, former coffee bistro owner Lisa
Hanson was sentenced to 90 days in prison because she dared to open her
business, as the powers that be deemed her to be unessential, so much so
that trying to make a living was a crime in their eyes.

According to The Post Millennial:

"He shut down a lot of the mom-and-pop shops, those folks that were just
trying to make a living and provide a great product and a great
service," Hanson told Fox News. "In contrast, he allowed big box stores,
etc. to stay open. Really incredible, an incredible use of tyranny
against the people."
Walz literally dedicated that year to destroying businesses, either by
turning a blind eye to riots or by forcing them to shut down, many for good.

How is he going to pretend he is all in it for middle America while only
being there for big corporations and leftist interests? He can’t and
that is why Harris and Walz are campaigning against their record, not on it.

"This is the story that America needs to hear, that Tim Walz is not some
cuddly, joyful coach, like all the things that the MSMs are calling
him," Hanson added. "That is not who this man is. This man would like to
take your rights away. He will take your rights away. Because what
happened to me could have happened to anybody. What happened to me will
happen to you."
He will undoubtedly take away rights, as he already has. This man
destroyed so many people's livelihoods and could care less, so much so
that it’s almost as if that is what he intended. How else can he justify
throwing a grandma in jail for opening her business, while also
bankrupting her, and not claim he wishes to crush your freedoms?

If he did the right thing during COVID, he would be campaigning on that
but he can’t because a tyrant never admits guilt.

"My family has paid a dear price. While I was in jail, I missed out on
Christmas with my family, I missed out on my wedding anniversary, and I
also missed out on the birth of one of my grandchildren," Hanson stated.
"I can never have that time back. That time was stolen from me. My
business was destroyed. My business is gone. After everything that
happened, Tim Walz and Keith Ellison destroyed my business. They wrecked
my life."
The Panny D is something Americans should never forget, as many
officials showed their true intent during that time, which is to make
your very existence a crime. And they will punish you for simply being
alive, as evidenced by the leftist call for a carbon tax, aka fining you
for breathing.

As Grandma Hanson said, Walz is not in it for anyone but himself, as he
has a record of jailing people who think they have rights under his watch.

All jobs are essential and anyone who claims otherwise should be barred
from ever being allowed to run for office. But this is not a serious
country and he might become the second most powerful person in the
world, even though that is the only thing worse than a Harris Vice
Presidency.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/08/13/report-tim-walz-praised-hitler-supporting-imam-as-master-teacher-contradicting-campaign/

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz praised radical Imam Asad Zaman, who had posted
content promoting Hitler, as a “master teacher” — contradicting claims
by the Kamala Harris campaign that Walz had no personal relationship
with him.

As Breitbart News noted last week, citing reporting by Gabe Kaminsky in
the Washington Examiner, Walz “appeared several times with a local
Muslim leader who has justified Hamas terrorist violence against Israel
and once shared a pro-Hitler film on social media.” Walz’s Muslim
American Society of Minnesota also received grants from the state.

Kaminsky noted:

As he campaigned to be Minnesota’s next governor, Tim Walz called a
Muslim cleric who promoted a pro-Adolf Hitler film a “master teacher”
who offered Walz lessons over the time they “spent together,” according
to footage at a 2018 event unearthed by the Washington Examiner.

…

“I would like to first of all say thank you to imam,” Walz said at the
unearthed 2018 event, which was hosted by Minnesota’s Muslim American
Society on Feb. 16, 2018, at the South Metro Islamic Center in
Rosemount, Minnesota. Standing next to Walz as he spoke was Peggy
Flanagan, now the lieutenant governor in the Gopher State.

…

In a Friday statement, the Anti-Defamation League said Zaman “has a
troubling history of playing into classic anti-Jewish themes and
justifying violence against Israel.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/deep_state_plutocrats_have_nowhere_to_hide.html

August 14, 2024
Deep State Plutocrats Have Nowhere to Hide
By J.B. Shurk
The worst mistake the Deep State ever made was to turn conservatives
against Big Business. Traditionally, fighting corporate power was the
purview of the political left. Conservatives have generally backed
“free markets” because they despise socialism’s predilection for
choosing economic winners and losers. Conservative voters have long
seen government regulation as more of a threat than Wall Street wheeling
and dealing.

This makes sense. American conservatives largely embrace the principles
of the Founding Fathers’ laissez-faire liberalism, and many share policy
preferences that overlap with today’s self-described libertarians. For
conservatives, the left’s “politics of envy” is unappealing. The left’s
desire to redistribute private property within some sort of Marxist
system is seen as a dangerous impulse toward legalized theft. The
left’s love for collectivism over individual freedom is regarded as
insidious. Voters who support limited government do not tend to care
how Sam Walton became a millionaire. They are much more likely to
applaud individual success as the product of hard work and innovation.

Times are changing, though. Over the last forty years, middle-class
Americans who put their faith in “free markets” have gotten smacked
upside the head by corporate interests time and again. The savings and
loan scandal, pension scams, derivatives-juiced market crashes, the
housing collapse, the offshoring of good jobs, tech bubbles, predatory
lending, reverse mortgages, and countless other corporate schemes have
left working-class Americans in dire straits. All of these various gut
punches have produced a kind of “awakening” among “live free or die”
Americans: “free markets” are an illusion, and the economic game is rigged.

To be clear, freedom-loving Americans of every generation have known
that powerful economic interests manipulate markets and take what is not
theirs. When private bankers conspired with corrupt congressmen to
establish the Federal Reserve over Christmas in 1913, many horrified
observers predicted how the ascending oligarchy would distort markets,
weaken the dollar, and instigate unnecessary economic crashes. Since
the early nineteenth century, rural Americans have fought agricultural
conglomerates committed to undercutting their family farms. Since the
early twentieth century, mom-and-pop retailers have struggled to compete
against business cartels, Big Box stores, and online behemoths.
Landowners have pushed back against railroads, oil companies,
speculators, developers, and industrial giants willing to take what they
want through intimidation or force. Freedom-loving Americans have
always understood that Big Business is a threat to freedom, too.

Still, more often than not, conservatives have found it easier to make
peace with large corporations than with larger-and-larger government.
At least in the sphere of private commerce, an ordinary citizen
exercises some nominal free will: Will I work for this company? Will I
buy from this company? Will I move as far away from this company as
humanly possible? When it comes to anything within the government’s
domain, however, what it wants is what it usually gets. Taxes, prisons,
conscription laws, property laws, and business licenses provide Big
Government with the tools to grab a citizen’s free will by the throat
and squeeze it until it stops kicking.

What’s changed over the last ten years is that the vestigial boundary
between private markets and government force has all but disappeared.
Strangely enough, the corporate embrace of woke-ism as a social
philosophy that should be imposed upon consumers has had the
serendipitous effect of shattering the imaginary wall once separating
Big Business from Big Government. Parents began asking why Target and
Disney were shoving transgenderism and child sex changes down their
throats. Moviegoers started resenting how Hollywood studios had
replaced entertainment with divisive re-education seminars on “white
supremacy,” “patriarchy,” and “global warming.” Voters were forced to
acknowledge that Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and corporate news shows
were censoring conservative speech and promoting far-left propaganda.
Consumers realized that banks were systematically punishing them for
their Second Amendment advocacy, religious affiliations, and political
beliefs. All of these corporate provocations fell like sledgehammer
blows upon conservatives’ heads, and Americans who once gave
corporations a quiet pass became increasingly loud and angry.

Now the veil that has long prevented many conservatives from
appreciating corporate tyranny has been removed from their eyes, and
more Americans than ever before look at Big Business with suspicion. To
be sure, some measure of suspicion has always existed. Conservatives
listened to President Eisenhower when he warned them about the
military-industrial complex. They experienced how NAFTA and other
so-called “free trade” agreements eliminated their jobs and destroyed
their once-vibrant manufacturing towns. Many rallied around Congressman
Ron Paul when he demanded that the American people “audit the Fed.” But
it wasn’t until formerly beloved companies began grooming their children
with explicit sex talks and drag queen story hours that a huge swath of
the conservative electorate finally had enough of corporate tyranny.

This “awakening” is significant. Conservatives have long understood
that the State is not their friend, but now they understand that
corporations are not their friends either. For financial elites who
prefer pulling the strings of government from the shadows, this change
in social consciousness is alarming. In the past, their emissaries in
academia could say a few words about the liberating influences of “free
markets,” and most conservatives could be counted upon to support Wall
Street’s position. Politicians could defend the offshoring of
blue-collar jobs by talking about “marginal costs” and “comparative
advantage,” and opponents of socialism would get in line, even as their
hometowns died. Now there is a new understanding taking hold: Big
Government and Big Business are two sides of the same coin. Whether
tyranny arises from the boardroom or the committee room, its impact is
the same.

All of this is bad news for the Deep State. Why? Because its existence
depends a great deal upon nobody quite knowing what it is. We talk
about “the powers that be” running things in D.C. We often say “they”
did this or that because it’s difficult to know who exactly did what,
where they did it, or when. Confusion is the key. Nobody with
long-term power really wants to be known. Presidencies last four to
eight years, but bankers and corporate heavyweights wield power their
whole lives. It’s much better for them if everyone is more concerned
with Kamala’s cackle than what all the BlackRock alums in the White
House are doing with trillions in discretionary spending. It’s much
easier for central bank gangsters to make money from “black swan” events
when their servants in Congress, the CDC, the Pentagon, the CIA, the
NSA, and the Oval Office are in the position to fabricate new “black
swans” whenever necessary. The same éminences grises who profit from
weapons of mass destruction and endless wars profit from mRNA “vaccines”
and endless health emergencies. The financial oligarchy rules over
Americans with ease when Americans bicker about unimportant things.

The Deep State is prima facie evidence that self-government no longer
exists. In its place, extremely wealthy people use the Federal Reserve
as their personal piggy bank, the Intelligence Community as their
personal spies, the DOJ and FBI as their personal police force, the
corporate press as their personal public relations team, and the U.S.
military as their personal resource acquisition division. The president
and Congress are nothing more than the organ grinder’s dancing monkey —
there to distract the public while doing the bidding of those with real
power. When their influence extends to international institutions such
as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the World
Bank, we call these Deep State shell games the “rules-based
international order.” It is all farce.

No wonder the plutocrats call President Trump an “authoritarian.” He
wants to be president, rather than play president. He’s a direct threat
to their unaccountable and unconstitutional Deep State. And now that
they’ve exposed themselves, there is nowhere left for them to hide.

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>
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>
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>
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i'll say it , i'm not afraid , i'll do it

Chips Loral <loralandclinton@invalid.co> wrote in
news:v9ih72$gej6$1@dont-email.me:

> Practicing for the 3am check mark ballot box fraud again, and what
> better place than communist Minnysota:
>
> https://www.rightjournalism.com/screenshots-radical-squad-member-ilhan-
> omar-wins-her-primary-race-in-minnesota/
>
> Screenshots: Radical Squad Member Ilhan Omar Wins Her Primary Race in
> Minnesota – But It Seems She Received All of Her Votes in Less Than
> 20 Minutes
>
> Rep. Ilhan Omar has secured victory in the Democrat primary for
> Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. The Associated Press
> declared her the winner, with Omar gaining an increase of 9,841 votes
> compared to the previous election.
>
>
>
> However, the election returns raised some eyebrows due to the rate and
> speed at which the votes were counted. After polls closed at 8:00 PM,
> it took nearly an hour and a half to reach just 5% counted, and then
> jumped to 99.5% within 15 minutes, sparking debate and suspicion.
>
> 8:00 pm – Polls close.
> 8:15 pm – 0% counted.
> 8:30 pm – 0% counted.
> 8:45 pm – 0% counted.
> 9:00 pm – 0% counted.
> 9:22 pm – 5.0% counted.
> 9:37 pm – 99.5% counted.
>
> There was something unusual about the reporting and tallying of the
> vote totals in the Minnesota US House District 5 Democratic Primary
> election.
>
> The Decision Desk only presented two batches of votes;
>
> Batch 1: 5% of the vote just after 10 PM ET
> Batch 2: The remaining 94% around 10:40 – 10:50 PM ET
>
> The race was immediately called after the release of the second batch
> of votes.
>

The machines do the counting. First the ballots have to be retrieved from
the polling places and prepped/organized - then fed into the machines.