Old School Revolver Use

Speedloader use in the Indiana Highway Patrol:

Note that he has two speedloaders, so he's carrying a total of eighteen rounds to do the needful. That's a far cry from today's bullet-hoses.

JD Vance Admits That He Tells Lies

In a stunning admission, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, said he was willing “to create stories” on the campaign trail while defending his spreading false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in a town in his home state of Ohio.

Vance’s remarks came during an appearance on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, where he said he felt the need “to create stories so that the … media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people”.

Asked by the CNN host Dana Bash whether the false rumors centering on Springfield, Ohio, were “a story that you created”, Vance replied, “Yes!”

So there we have it: Vance lies and he admits to lying. You can't believe a word he says about anything, which makes him a perfect running mate for Felon^34.

Pete Buttigieg has the right of it:

Remarkable confession by JD Vance this morning when he said he will “create stories” (that is, lie) to redirect the media.

All this to change the subject away from abortion rights, manufacturing jobs, taxation of the rich, and the other things clearly at stake in this election.

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) September 15, 2024

Sick as it sounds, the COFF and the Sofaphile would rather us talk about their fake stories than things like abortion, voting rights and so on. They'd rather we talk about whether or not Cadet Bone Spurs is cheating, again, on his wife.

Leave it to the Perfidious French

A French company is allegedly supplying military avionics to a Kazakh company, which then installs them in Russian warplanes.

"Perfidious French" is almost a redundancy.

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

The original Lockheed Electra.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

Mig-15s:

So.... Much..... Material!!

Never Interrupt Your Opponent While He's Making a Mistake

Some enterprising reporter asked the Harris campaign what they had to say about Felonious Don hanging with Laura Loomer:

The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment on Loomer’s association with Trump.

No shit, why even say anything?

More normal Republicans, even the Space Laser Lady, think Loomer's toxic. But she flatters the FOFF no end and that makes him feel special. Because he has the fragile ego of a tweener. So he'll put up with the risk of palling around with someone who is about as racist and bigoted as your average Klan member since, besides the flattery, his views align with hers rather perfectly.

But maybe he thinks that if people are yammering about Loomer, they're not focusing on the fact that he was president for four years, tried to repeal ObamaCare dozens of times and he still has no clue as to what he would replace it with. Eight, nine years of screaming about the ACA, how bad it is, and he only has a "concept of a plan" to replace it.

If he didn't have his buddies writing Project 2025, he'd have no plans at all, other than to try and stay out of prison.

Also, his debate performance dropped his net worth by half-a-billion clams.

Caturday

Store cat.

Four Years Ago

This is what I remember:

• Gas was cheap because nobody was driving anywhere.  The economy in the last year of Dolt-45s term was so bad that the oil producers were effectively giving crude oil away.
• The economy was in such peril that the Trump Administration was handing out large loans to businesses under Covid programs, loans that did not have to be paid back.  (Many of the GOP politicians who today carp about forgiving student loans took six figures or better in such free money.)
• The economy seemed to be in such peril that the Trump Administration was handing out thousands of dollars to every taxpayer, regardless of whether or not they were well employed or not.
• All that extra money that was shoveled out so people could go on spending sprees, resulted in supply-chain shortages and inflation.  (So yes, the inflation of the last few years can be laid at his tiny feet.)
• The airlines, which had thought they were profitable without end, had billions of dollars given to them to keep them from evaporating.
• Trump prioritized what states got Covid relief based on how nice the governors were to him.
• Trump's rallies became superspreader events, killing some of his supporters (including Herman Cain).  Hell, almost every event he had, large and small, was better known for sickening people.
• Trump’s mishandling if the pandemic, his half-measures, his delayed actions and promotion of medical and pseudo-pharmacological quackery cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
• Because of the foregoing, the death toll in areas where his supporters were a higher percentage of the population had needlessly higher death rates.
• And, lets not forget, the death toll in some cities from the Trump Flu was so high that refrigerated trailers had to be lined up to hold the bodies.

But Felon^34 keeps saying that things were so great and there is no shortage of people who believe him.

GOP Targets Stupid Muslims, plus MAGA Terrorism

A group seemingly aligned with the Republican party is targeting areas in Michigan that are home to large Arab American and Muslim communities with digital ads purporting to “celebrate” the Jewish faith of Kamala Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff.

Right, ads that support the guy who tried to ban all Muslims from entering the country and who pals around with a lunatic who thinks that merican Muslim women celebrate terrorism and who refuses to get into a rideshare car driven by a Muslim.

These are ratfuck ads that require that the viewers be as dumb as the average attendee at a Trump rally.

Speaking of stupid Trump supporters..

Bomb threats on Friday forced the evacuation and closure of public schools and municipal buildings for a second consecutive day, as the city continues to deal with sudden national attention due to false claims involving its Haitian population.

Hillary Clinton was wrong, in that she underestimated the depravity of the kind of Trump supporters who think it's fun to call in bomb threats to schools.

Here's hoping that the FBI and the Ohio cops spare no resources in finding the trolls who did this and bring them to justice.

So Much Gold

Interesting....

The gamblers, aka people who think about this shit, are calling Vice President Harris to be a 2-1 favorite.

I'm not sure what the value of that is, but we shall see.

Meanwhile:

Because It's Friday

German streamlined steam:

There is narration, but not speaking German, it all sounds like deployment orders to the 7th Panzer Division.

Good Question, Indeed.

From here.

Good question, Herr Rove.

Vance Advocates Surrendering to Putin in Order to Have Peace in Our Time

Make no mistake: His self-styled peace plan is nothing more than a surrender. His idea is what Russia keeps what it has taken and Ukraine is left on its own to whither. it's a plan Putin can love and it's based on the usual lies about how the Europeans have not been doing their part to support Ukraine. And it's a plan that likely sounds even harsher in its original Russian.

This is nothing more than an appeasement plan. But other than the USSR, it has been Republican ideology for generations that dictators are to be admired and appeased. Because they have a deep-seated hatred of democracy.

And anybody who doesn't think that Vance's appeasement plan won't lead to more aggression by Russia is pretty fucking ignorant.

Shorter Trump: Sieg Heil!

Twice this past summer, Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J. has featured speeches from a rioter convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, who has a well-documented history of extreme antisemitic and racist rants.

One of those events — a fundraiser for a controversial nonprofit group that supports Capitol riot defendants — was personally endorsed by Trump himself in a video message that was played for the room.

“All of the people there, you’re amazing patriots,” Trump said in the video. “Have a great time at Bedminster.”

As part of his criminal case over Jan. 6, federal prosecutors described the rioter, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, as a “white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer,” who told his coworkers at a naval weapons station that “Hitler should have finished the job” and “babies born with any deformities or disabilities should be shot in the forehead.”

This is worse than the "good people on both sides" stupidity. The COFF's people knew, or should have known, the ramifications of having an admitted Nazi speak, twice, at his golf club.

But I believe that he knew and he didn't care. That can be shown by the fact that he seems to love hanging out with racists and lunatics like Laura Loomer.

No one can keep former President Donald Trump away from Laura Loomer.

Throughout his third presidential campaign, aides and advisers have done their best to shield him from Loomer, a far-right social media influencer, and similar figures who stroke his ego and stoke his basest political instincts.

They lost that battle this week, as Loomer traveled on Trump’s jet to his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday and to Sept. 11 memorial services Wednesday. Her presence at the latter infuriated some Democrats and Republicans because one of the many conspiracy theories she has promoted is the false notion that the terrorist assault on the U.S. was an “inside job.” It wasn’t.

Loomer’s return to Trump’s side is pitting key figures in his coalition against one another, testing the strength of a campaign already reeling from his subpar debate performance Tuesday and Democrats’ resurgence in the wake of their July candidate switch. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., major Trump allies in Congress who represent opposite ends of the Republican ideological spectrum, are publicly pressing him to ditch her. Loomer fired back Thursday with a string of invective about Graham.

Loomer's been spewing racist shit, which is one of the reason why Trump likes her so much. She says what he wants to say and flatters his ego in the process. Remember, the reason he gave for choosing that Hillbilly Trainwreck of a running-mate was because "he likes me the best." Yet she is so far out there that even the Jewish Space Laser Lady can't stomach her hate.

Anyone who obsequieously flatters Don Snoreleone has the key to his heart. Loomer knows that.

Debate Recap

In Song & Dance

Paywall-free. Enjoy.

Truth

"Do you have a plan?"

"I have concepts of a plan."

If Biden answered a question like this, the entire media would be talking about it for the next 48 hours.

— Destiny (@TheOmniLiberal) September 11, 2024

He's been running for the last nine years, he was in office for four, he tried to repeal ObamaCare about fifty times and yet he still has no plan for what he would do if he managed to repeal it? A competent politician would have had a plan ready eight years ago, so he could have said "we want to repeal ObamaCare and this is what we're going to replace it with."

You'd think he know that. After all, when he divorced his first two wives, he had the replacements ready. Hell, he had a child by #2 before finalizing the divorce of #1.

The other point is that the media is pretty much ignoring that the FOFF doesn't have a plan while if Biden had said that, it indeed would have been the leading story for days. I believe that this is the case because the owners of the papers want their tax breaks and will happily see the country burned to the ground as long as they get money from it.

Stealing These Down, Here

Fine Dining

Scratch a Hell's Angel, Find an Iranian Agent

The Iranians are outsourcing murders to criminal gangs, including the Hell's Angels.

So they're not just criminals, they are traitors.

Dell AI Commercial Shows Lack of Intelligence

This is the commercial:

So you have a high-speed passenger train, which runs on electrified track, and it may be blocked by a tree falling across a track that isn't electrified? That makes no sense whatsoever. Which is the same sort of garbage that one may exxpect from AI.

The Assholes Keep Getting Ground Up

A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested in Hawaii on charges that he repeatedly struck a police officer with a flagpole during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago, according to court records unsealed on Wednesday.

A felony conviction may lead to a Big Chicken Dinner or a Duck Dinner. The latter will mean no VA benefits.

(Bad-conduct discharge, dishonorable discharge.)

Family of Slain Boy Implores MAGA Republicans to Stop Using His Memory to Push Their Hate

The father of the 11-year-old boy killed last year when a minivan driver struck his school bus spoke at Tuesday’s Springfield City Commission meeting, again pleading with the community to stop using his son’s name as part of hateful statements toward Haitian immigrants.

Nathan Clark, Aiden Clark’s father, stood next to his wife Danielle at a packed City Commission meeting, urging people to cease using his son to further their political views.

“I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt, but if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone,” Clark told the city hall forum. “The last thing that we need is to have the worst day of our lives violently and constantly shoved in our faces, but even that’s not good enough for them. They take it one step further. They make it seem that our wonderful Aiden appreciates your hate, that we should follow their hate.”

Inconvenient truths for the MAGA bigots, including the Weird Hillbilly Sofaphile:

Aiden wasn't "murdered". He was killed in a motor vehicle crash. The driver of the other vehicle was a Haitian immigrant on legally protected status (so he's here legally) and he had valid Ohio ID. But those facts don't stop the MAGA racists and xenophobes from spewing their hate.

They are just despicable sacks of barely sentient goo.

National Shit-Yer-Pants Day

When I think of the aftermath of 9/11/2001, I think of all that we willingly threw away. We threw away our right to morally object to another nation's war of aggression when the Bush Administration invaded Iraq. We threw away many of our civil liberties with the abysmally-named "USA Patriot Act". That piece of excreable lesiglation, among many other things, authorized "sneak-and-peek" searches, where the cops could legally sneak into your home and look for things that might justify a formal search. Over 99% of the "sneak-and-peek" searches had nothing to do with terrorism.

We had the FBI doing what they do best: Ginning up terroism cases based solely on egging on someone with a loud mouth and few brain cells. The FBI concentrated on locking up Achmed the Blowhard while refusing to look into the neo-Nazis and their ilk who were actually killing people. But to be fair, the FBI and the DHS (a Soviet-style security apparatus if there ever was one) were hampered in looking into far-Right terrorism because the GOP, even pre-Trump, recognized them as being part of their base.

We commemmorate a day when the intelligence agencies failed without acknowledging that they had all the tools and information that they needed before the attacks without giving them more power to further harass us. We commemmorate a day which happened after then then-sitting president was more interested in getting back to his golf game than being briefed on the therat that was posed. We commemmorate a day which was used as an excuse to launch a war of aggression that destabilized a region and which we are still dealing with. We commemorate a day which resulted using torture to prove a crime.

We criticize other nations for overreacting to a terrorist attack without ever having done a single thing to hold those who overreacted here to account for their actions. History may not judge the Bush Admininstration for having a discussion in the White House about using torture, but it's clear that we won't.

As I see it, there is little today that is worth commemmorating. Mourning would be more appropriate.

No Range Report

I didn't accept this gun and so it's being sent back.

I've been buying guns online since the Aughts and this is the first one that I rejected. Too bad, because it really looked nice. But it was a broken POS. Which is why it is wise to only buy from those sellers who offer an inspection period and who take credit cards.

That's also the nice thing about FFLs: The gun's not yours until you sign the Form 4473. And good ones will give the gun a once-over, as well, to help you from taking home an expensive paperweight.

MO: Nice Try, Assholes

A measure undoing Missouri’s near-total abortion ban will appear on the ballot in November, the state’s high court ruled Tuesday, marking the latest victory in a nationwide fight to have voters weigh in on abortion laws since federal rights to the procedure ended in 2022.

If passed, the proposal would enshrine abortion rights in the constitution and is expected to broadly supplant the state’s near-total abortion ban. Judges ruled hours before the Tuesday deadline for changes to be made to the November ballot.

Supreme Court judges ordered Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft to put the measure back on the ballot. He had removed it Monday following a county circuit judge’s ruling Friday.

The order also directs Ashcroft, an abortion opponent, to “take all steps necessary to ensure that it is on said ballot.”

The asshole who is the governor of Missouri appointed Rush Limbaugh's cousin to the bench, who then promptly tried to kill the ballot measure. I'm surprised that the state supreme court bucked the Christian Taliban party on this, but they did.

Blarfengaring These Down, Here