The amount the NRA has given Sen. John McCain (R-Az) over the years, more than anyone else in Congress. McCain recently voted against a ban that would keep people on the federal No-Fly list from buying guns.
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The federal no fly list is not a list of people that are guilty of anything and is not just a list of foreign citizens ….. It is a list of people that can be added for any reason …. like you were on a flight and someone didn’t like the title of a book you were reading, thought it sounded subversive, called your name into the airline, etc ….. So not allowing people to buy guns based on a name being put on this list is absolutely absurd. If American citizens are added to this list, are not notified that they have even been added to the list and don’t know until they try to fly or try to buy a gun what you have just done is directly infringed on someone’s constitutionally protected rights without due process under the law and force them to get a lawyer and go through a long and expensive process just to be able to practice their rights …… so in that single act you’ve violated the second and 5th/15th amendment due process clauses of the constitution …… this law would never pass muster in it’s first go round in a real court.
Does anyone, seriously want our “big brother” government to have the authority to single out people that the government will not let buy or own guns, even though the person has no charges against? Maybe this would be OK in Russia. Not in my USA.
To hear Trump talk, he’s the only one
Who’s ever stood trial for crimes he’s done.
But instead of courtroom drama,
We get Trump in his pajamas,
That’s how he earned his new nickname: Don Snoreleone.
“I am not resigning. And it is, in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to do our jobs. It is not helpful to the cause, it is not helpful to the country, it does not help the House Republicans advance our agenda, which is in the best interest of the American people here — a secure border, sound governance – and it’s not helpful to the unity that we have in the body.”
— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the “resign or be fired” ultimatum from the GOP’s Freedom Caucus just 174 days into his tenure as sp[eaker, reported by Punchbowl News.
“Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head droops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.”
— Law360 reports from the second day of Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial.
“Functionally, Chris Sununu is as active a part of Trump’s campaign as Matt Gaetz or MTG, or any of the other MAGA freaks. And it seems not to bother him that these people would poleaxe him if given a second’s chance. It seems not to bother him that his political career is over. He’s not just willing to exit public life on his knees—he’s eager to do it. … In the end, it doesn’t matter if Sununu is a mountebank, a coward, or a fool. Those three characters are equally pernicious. … What matters is that the rest of us understand that it is the Chris Sununus of the world who make this ongoing authoritarian attempt possible.”
“He’s f**king crazy! The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”
— New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by the Associated Press two years ago. Sununu is now backing Trump for president.
“We have perverted the word love. We don’t understand the word love. We don’t understand what love really is. We think love is sunshine and rainbows, and put your arms around somebody saying ‘I love you, brother’ — certainly that’s a form of love. … But how many of y’all know when you hold your young’un by one arm and beat them in a circle, because they were bad — how many of you know that’s love too?”
— North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) described his loving approach to disciplining misbehaving children, WUNC reports.
New York Times: “Of the 96 possible jurors brought into the room, more than 50 raised their hands to say they couldn’t be fair. They were immediately excused.”
“Nationwide, homicides dropped around 20% in 133 cities from the beginning of the year through the end of March compared with the same period in 2023. … Homicides in American cities are falling at the fastest pace in decades, bringing them close to levels they were at before a pandemic-era jump,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
The Washington Post notes that supporters of Donald Trump “investing in Truth Social is less a business calculation than a statement of faith in the former president and the business traded under his initials, DJT. … Even the company’s plunging stock price — and the chance their investments could get mostly wiped out — doesn’t seem to have shaken that faith. The company has lost $3.5 billion in value since its public debut last month.”
“In the latest quarterly survey by The Wall Street Journal, business and academic economists lowered the chances of a recession within the next year to 29% from 39% in the January survey. That was the lowest probability since April 2022, when the chances of a recession were set at 28%.”… “Economists, in fact, don’t think the economy will get even close to a recession.”
Punchbowl News: “Congress approved more than $71 million in earmarks for lawmakers who voted against the most recent minibus spending bill, according to a Punchbowl News analysis. This is a prime example of what former Speaker Nancy Pelosi says: They voted no but took the dough. We have a simple spreadsheet of the lawmakers who landed projects and then voted against the $1.2 trillion spending package.”
The federal no fly list is not a list of people that are guilty of anything and is not just a list of foreign citizens ….. It is a list of people that can be added for any reason …. like you were on a flight and someone didn’t like the title of a book you were reading, thought it sounded subversive, called your name into the airline, etc ….. So not allowing people to buy guns based on a name being put on this list is absolutely absurd. If American citizens are added to this list, are not notified that they have even been added to the list and don’t know until they try to fly or try to buy a gun what you have just done is directly infringed on someone’s constitutionally protected rights without due process under the law and force them to get a lawyer and go through a long and expensive process just to be able to practice their rights …… so in that single act you’ve violated the second and 5th/15th amendment due process clauses of the constitution …… this law would never pass muster in it’s first go round in a real court.
Does anyone, seriously want our “big brother” government to have the authority to single out people that the government will not let buy or own guns, even though the person has no charges against? Maybe this would be OK in Russia. Not in my USA.