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delicately calloused |
Words cannot describe how encouraging it is to read how unmoved by the pouty opposition this forming administration is. Full steam ahead. Ignore the static. That is what we should do too. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
One thing cannot be denied. President-elect Trump can't compete with Obama as a gun salesman: http://www.foxnews.com/politic...-gun-sales-boom.html President-elect Donald Trump is expected to push to relax gun laws when he takes office, but significant changes in the firearms industry began as soon as he was elected – and some put the law of unintended consequences squarely in the cross hairs. For instance, while Trump’s unapologetic pro-Second Amendment stance may be good for gun owners, it has already dealt a blow to manufacturers, who enjoyed record sales throughout President Obama’s eight years in office. Stocks in companies like Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co. plunged on Nov. 9, and experts say it is because Trump’s election erased fears that guns would become harder to get. “A lot of people were buying guns simply because they were worried Hillary Clinton’s regulations would make it more costly and more difficult to buy guns, and people are not going to feel quite the need to go out and buy guns now,” Crime Prevention Research Center President John Lott told FoxNews.com. “I think the stock market is a pretty good predictor of what’s going to happen, and the fact that you see drops in stock prices by almost 20 percentage points –I think that’s pretty significant.” While the government does not publish an official number of gun sales, background checks, a gauge of how many people try to buy guns, skyrocketed under President Obama. In 2008, 12.71 million background checks were conducted, a number on pace to double this year, to set an all-time record. The prospect of a pro-gun control administration of Hillary Clinton following Obama, together with a campaign that put gun rights in the spotlight, was the likely driver of the firearms boom, acknowledged Joshua Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. But he was skeptical that a rise in 2016 gun sales or an anticipated dip in the coming year will have a major effect on crime. “Gun violence is obviously a complicated issue and doesn’t just turn around because of a month or two of different sales,” Horwitz said. “There are so many guns in America that a blip in the sales rate is not going to change the death and injury rate in any meaningful fashion, and it’s just too early to tell.” The weekend following Trump’s election, arms vendors from all over the country set up their exhibits in Oklahoma for the semi-annual Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show, the largest gun and knife show in the world. Show founder Joe Wanenmacher told FoxNews.com sales were steady, but would’ve been through the roof if Clinton had won. “Had Secretary Clinton been elected, it would have been panic sales, because gun shows were in her sights to either be eliminated, or make it so difficult to sell that they wouldn’t be effective,” Wanenmacher said. “When there is complacency, there isn’t the motive to buy guns in anticipation of something bad happening.” One attendee agreed. “I think if Trump hadn’t won, it would have been chaos,” she said. “It was a relaxed atmosphere and everyone was upbeat.” Fear of new gun control laws was not the only sales driver in recent years, said National Shooting Sports Foundation spokesman Mike Bazinet. He said local crime also spurred people to buy guns, and does not expect that factor to diminish in the near future. “There is no question that the concern over political situations over the past several years, where people may have feared additional restrictions of access to firearms was a motivator, but it wasn’t the only one,” Bazinet said. “Our retailers tell us that a more important factor is local crime.” Trump has said he intends to work with state and local governments to repeal gun-free zones, do away with the special tax on silencers, encourage expansion of conceal carry laws and carry out a host of other pro-gun industry initiatives. Advocates of gun control say such measures will put more people at risk of becoming victims of gun violence, but Trump and other Second Amendment stalwarts disagree. “If you get rid of gun-free zones and make it easier for people to carry, you will deter criminals,” Lott told Fox News. “You will be able to reduce crime.” The irony is that an administration more sympathetic to the gun industry could hurt its bottom line. “There is no doubt that the firearms industry will not be treated as a social disease by the Trump Administration,” Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, told Fox News. “The president-elect will make the Second Amendment great again.” | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
If they confined themselves to doing what they were supposed to be doing, they could meet for ~90 days every two years and do all that was necessary, but since they feel like they need to poke their noses unto everyone else's business, it takes full time. I'm not sure having Congress in session more is a good idea, except for the bars and restaurants. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
I seem to recall something about "hope springs eternal". Don't know who said that, but whoever it was, was a real optimist. I do foresee some really good things coming, and Trump is not wasting time, either. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Donald Trump’s media summit was a ‘f—ing firing squad’ President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post. “It was like a f—ing firing squad,” said one source. “Trump started with Jeff Zucker and said I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed…. “The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down,” the source added. A second source confirmed the encounter. “The meeting took place in a big board room and there were about 30 or 40 people, including the big news anchors from all the networks…,” the source said. “Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong. He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was network of liars. “Trump didn’t say Katy Tur by name, but talked about an NBC female correspondent who got it wrong, then he referred to a horrible network correspondent who cried when Hillary lost who hosted a debate – which was Martha Raddatz who was also in the room. “Gayle did not stand up, but asked some question, ‘How do you propose we the media work with you?’ Chuck Todd asked some pretty pointed questions. David Muir asked how are you going to cope living in DC while your family is in NYC? It was a horrible meeting” The meeting was off the record, meaning the participants agreed not to talk about the substance of the conversations. The hour-long powwow included top execs from network and cable news channels. Among the attendees were NBC’s Deborah Turness, Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, ABC’s James Goldston, George Stephanopoulos, David Muir and Martha Raddatz, CBS’ Norah O’Donnell John Dickerson, Charlie Rose, Christopher Isham and Gayle King, Fox News’ Bill Shine, Jack Abernethy, Jay Wallace, Suzanne Scott, MSNBC’s Phil Griffin and CNN’s Jeff Zucker and Erin Burnett. LINK | |||
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| Freethinker |
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in La-la Land anymore.” ► 6.4/93.6 “Most men … can seldom accept the simplest and most obvious truth if it … would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions … which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabrics of their lives.” — Leo Tolstoy | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Ha ha ha, love it! The corrupt assholes got it coming to them.  Q | |||
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Sounds like quite a meeting. This will test the bonds of "off the record." Oops. We already know. What if during his presidency Trump decided to reach voters through outlets different from the traditional press? The press needs to become relevant as a fair source or get out of the way. America needs to move forward. _______________________________ NRA Life Member NRA Certified Range Safety Officer | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
It sounds to me like he may already have this planned. With 50 contracted staff doing the leg work, and an active, well managed outreach via the web strategy, there is no need for the White House press pool. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Info Guru |
Message direct from Trump on the transition. Great stuff here. Uploaded just a few minutes ago. Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...aStFT8&feature=share Immediately withdraw from TPP on day one. It goes on - really good stuff. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Bad dog! |
This is like a dream come true for me! He gets them all together and you know they were thinking that he was looking to woo them, try (impossibly) to get them over to his side.... And then BAM! BAM! Both barrels! Just as Para said at the opening of this thread. They must have been shocked! Stunned! He called them a bunch of liars! Deceitful! Disgraceful! These stars! These celebrity darlings! Right to their faces, the future President of the United States of America handed them a yuge shit sandwich and made them eat it! What humiliation! What disgrace! What perfect JUSTICE!!  ______________________________________________________ "You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone." | |||
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crazy heart |
Awesome! President-Elect Trump is a man of action. Such a refreshing change from the slacker that's in the White House now. | |||
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| Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
That, boys and girls, is a 21st century "fireside chat." Reaching the people directly. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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This is the part I really like: The law was passed in 1996 during the administration of President Bill ClintonSanctuary cities and other jurisdictions will now have to choose between protecting illegal aliens and receiving federal law enforcement grants thanks to the work of a Texas congressman. Citing his committee’s power over the DOJ’s budget, Culberson stated in February: Any refusal by the Department to comply with these reasonable and timely requests will factor heavily in my consideration of their 2017 budget requests, and whether or not I will include language in the fiscal year 2017 CJS appropriations bill prohibiting the award of law enforcement grants to jurisdictions that harbor illegal aliens. I will include language in this year’s bill requiring the DOJ to amend the application process for Byrne JAG, COPS, and SCAAP grants so that grantees must certify under oath that they are in compliance with section 1373 of title 8 of the United States Code The law was passed in 1996 during the administration of President Bill Clinton to force local and state jurisdictions to cooperate with immigration officials or risk losing federal funding. Part of the process requires the federal agency’s office of inspector general to certify that a jurisdiction is not in compliance in order to block funding. “The law requires cooperation with immigration officials 100 percent of the time,” “The critical steps have already been taken,” Chairman Culberson stated. “President Trump and Attorney General Sessions will, on day one, be able to strip the funding from these sanctuary jurisdictions simply by enforcing existing law.” http://www.breitbart.com/texas...as-congressman-says/ | |||
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| delicately calloused |
He should starve them out. Go straight to the people by other means. Maybe through an app or streaming content the media cannot access first nor distort later. Bring in new blood to the press briefings and exclude the scoundrels publicly. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| Bad dog! |
From the great video: "I will provide more updates in the coming days...." Fuck the "media." He can talk directly to us. Let them lie and deceive as they always do. They have been exposed. As POTUS, he can make them as irrelevant as they deserve to be. ______________________________________________________ "You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone." | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Love it! ! Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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FBHO!!! DJT said more in that 2 minutes and 37 seconds than Onumb-nutz has said in 8+ years and MORE, considering his dismal years as a community organizer...errrm...excuse me..."senator". PROUD.....to be a deplorable!!
Totally agree! The "fourth estate". PFFFFFFT! The fourth estate just got castrated!!! LOVE IT!! "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| Never miss an opportunity to be Batman!  |
On the subject of sanctuary city not giving in when their federal funding is cut off; it is nothing but bluffing and not knowing where their fucking money really comes from. If these cities lost their federal funding, it would take about 2 hours to 2 days for them to capitulate......anything longer and the mobs will riot once their subsidized life style is cut off and they will riot, pillage, loot and of course burn it all down. | |||
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I've slept well at night for the past 13 days, and the man's not even been sworn in yet. | |||
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