Today in hypocrisy...

[Clark Griswold]

Rich climate hypocrites got a way to hide their jet travel

https://www.twz.com/news-features/congress-has-made-fully-obscuring-aircraft-ownership-information-a-reality
 

[HuggyU2]

The vast majority are not climate types. 
 

Glad to see aircraft owners can get the same protection as we do with our car license plates.  

[Day Man]

15 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

Rich climate hypocrites got a way to hide their jet travel

https://www.twz.com/news-features/congress-has-made-fully-obscuring-aircraft-ownership-information-a-reality
 

anyone who actually cares about this uses a trust anyways

[Clark Griswold]

I’m sure that it’s a minority of private jet users / owners but I despise hypocrites and preening, ungrateful, decadent ones in particular. A hypocrite is only a few feet away from a traitor in my warped opinion but ymmv…
Anything that they get that they can use to hide what they do that they tell others not to do I’m against

Rant - Complete (P, CP)


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[Clark Griswold]

Armed guards for me not for thee…

Armed Guards Protect Sonia Sotomayor Although She Rejected the People’s ‘Private Right of Armed Self-Defense’
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/07/09/armed-guards-protect-sonia-sotomayor-although-she-rejected-the-peoples-private-right-of-armed-self-defense/


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[Lord Ratner]

5 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

Armed guards for me not for thee…

Armed Guards Protect Sonia Sotomayor Although She Rejected the People’s ‘Private Right of Armed Self-Defense’
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/07/09/armed-guards-protect-sonia-sotomayor-although-she-rejected-the-peoples-private-right-of-armed-self-defense/


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What's remarkable is that a judge who's sole job is to interpret and apply the Constitution would not be familiar with the state constitutions that preceded the US Constitution. While Virginia is the most likely "original source" for the second amendment, the other states had versions that explicitly codified self-defense as a function of the right to bear arms.

[FourFans]

11 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

Armed guards for me not for thee…

Armed Guards Protect Sonia Sotomayor Although She Rejected the People’s ‘Private Right of Armed Self-Defense’
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/07/09/armed-guards-protect-sonia-sotomayor-although-she-rejected-the-peoples-private-right-of-armed-self-defense/

 

Can we talk about the most important part of this article for a second?

"18-year-old Kenneth Flowers allegedly pointed a gun at a U.S. Marshal assigned to protect the justice, and the Marshal opened fire, leaving Flowers with non-life-threatening wounds."

Seriously.  Either that Marshal has superhuman aim and self-control, or is a horrible shot.   Thoughts?

[ClearedHot]

20 minutes ago, FourFans said:

Can we talk about the most important part of this article for a second?

"18-year-old Kenneth Flowers allegedly pointed a gun at a U.S. Marshal assigned to protect the justice, and the Marshal opened fire, leaving Flowers with non-life-threatening wounds."

Seriously.  Either that Marshal has superhuman aim and self-control, or is a horrible shot.   Thoughts?

Ever been in a gunfight? 

When adrenaline starts flowing one of the first things to go is fine motor skill, one of the reasons I prefer a double stack magazine. 

[TreeA10]

Sitting in a car and getting surprised with a gunman at your window then shooting sideways from a seated position probably doesn't duplicate the typical range scenario.  I doubt he got the gunsights to eye level.  As a former FFDO, we did seated training like shooting around or over a seat and it ain't accurate like range work doing head shots.

[Clark Griswold]

He hit the carjacker in the mouth with a four shot burst, not bad reaction shooting IMHO.
That dude used 8 of his lives surviving that.


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[FourFans]

On 7/10/2024 at 8:23 AM, ClearedHot said:

Ever been in a gunfight? 

Depends on what you mean by gunfight.  Absolutely correct about the fine motor skills bit though. 

I was trying to make a joke.  I'll crank up the sarcasm next, and then I'll get off your lawn.

[FourFans]

1 hour ago, Clark Griswold said:

He hit the carjacker in the mouth with a four shot burst, not bad reaction shooting IMHO.

So it's the superhuman option.  Glad that guys is on our side!

[arg]

Except for Marthas Vinyard

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-governor-threatens-use-every-tool-fight-back-against-trump-era-deportations

[Clark Griswold]

Except for Marthas Vinyard
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-governor-threatens-use-every-tool-fight-back-against-trump-era-deportations

Let them know that if you run to Massachusetts that’s where we look last, I bet it’ll take two months for that policy to change


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[Clark Griswold]

This

MAGA has to tame the unelected bureaucrats and their groupies

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/02/12/scott-jennings-baits-cnn-analyst-into-make-a-damning-admission-n2185490

[Guest nsplayr]

2 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

This

MAGA has to tame the unelected bureaucrats and their groupies

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/02/12/scott-jennings-baits-cnn-analyst-into-make-a-damning-admission-n2185490

If you sincerely believe this point of view, do you support Elon and his DOGE interns?

In my view, an intellectually honestly and consistent way to argue is say look, the President is the unitary executive and his senate-confirmed agency heads are executing his policy goals. They should have a freer hand to make some of these staffing decisions. Maybe you implement Schedule F, maybe you do other things, etc. like were tried in the first Trump admin to loosen some of the potentially overbearing federal worker protections.

You could also get Congress (which happens to now be controlled by the President’s party) to pass appropriations more to the President’s liking. They could abolish Congressionally-created agencies or departments, reduce funding or end-strength levels, etc. They have seemed amenable to that.

What I think is happening now is unconstitutional impoundment of funds Congress has appropriated, and also just having “your team’s” unelected bureaucrat (Elon Musk) coming in to be a hatchet man to make otherwise illegal decisions. I’m not sure the best way to emphasize how much you hate unelected bureaucrats having too much power is to use one to unilaterally do a bunch of stuff, but just stuff you like better. It’s like Elon at Twitter - he’s not a “free speech absolutist” as he claims, he just wanted content moderation more to his liking. Now it’s just different things that are throttled and censored or “shadow banned.”

Just because you like the outcome shouldn’t make the process legal or correct - that’s the argument the right often makes, particularly members of Congress, when laws are passed but then the administration of the opposite party implements them in potentially unintended ways. Not that there’s not hypocrisy on the left, there is.

Open to your thoughts.

Edited February 12 by nsplayr

[Clark Griswold]

If you sincerely believe this point of view, do you support Elon and his DOGE interns?
In my view, an intellectually honestly and consistent way to argue is say look, the President is the unitary executive and his senate-confirmed agency heads are executing his policy goals. They should have a freer hand to make some of these staffing decisions. Maybe you implement Schedule F, maybe you do other things, etc. like were tried in the first Trump admin to loosen some of the potentially overbearing federal worker protections.
You could also get Congress (which happens to now be controlled by the President’s party) to pass appropriations more to the President’s liking. They could abolish Congressionally-created agencies or departments, reduce funding or end-strength levels, etc. They have seemed amenable to that.
What I think is happening now is unconstitutional impoundment of funds Congress has appropriated, and also just having “your team’s” unelected bureaucrat (Elon Musk) coming in to be a hatchet man to make otherwise illegal decisions. I’m not sure the best way to emphasize how much you hate unelected bureaucrats having too much power is to use one to unilaterally do a bunch of stuff, but just stuff you like better. It’s like Elon at Twitter - he’s not a “free speech absolutist” as he claims, he just wanted content moderation more to his liking. Now it’s just different things that are throttled and censored or “shadow banned.”
Just because you like the outcome shouldn’t make the process legal or correct - that’s the argument the right often makes, particularly members of Congress, when laws are passed but then the administration of the opposite party implements them in potentially unintended ways. Not that there’s not hypocrisy on the left, there is.
Open to your thoughts.

Honestly I think you and I are going to have to discuss this at the laymen’s level and we’d have to get into Art 1 and 2 of the constitution but fundamentally there is no Article 4, the bureaucracy is part of the part of the Executive Branch and when it ultimately comes down to it, if the Executive chooses to not execute those funds or to shape the departments, bureaus and agencies in a way NOT explicitly prohibited in statute then the Executive has primacy to act vs objections of the minority opposition party in Congress
If we interpret the Constitution as some are saying, the Executive is just a programmed robot of Congress that has no will but to execute as the bill when passed is written with no deviation
Now the Executive can’t go rogue, appropriate money, create programs beyond a certain scope, but I don’t think we’re there yet
You’ve got a point, they may need to recalibrate but ultimately I’m for these reform efforts as the Republic is sclerotic and failing
We overspend, we pass spending bills no human being reads in entirety, we don’t track where hundreds of billions of dollars are spent and it can not go on
Trump is probably a bit over his skis but I think it’s necessary


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