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You guys were lied to for 4 years. Everything from Russian collusion, to a reason to impeach, to social justice, racial justice, police brutality and Biden not being a sexual predator. You all ate it up without any credibility to any of it. Americans are not as gullible as leftists.

Let's see it? What don't you see in the OP, or didn't you read it? The evidence is plainly exposed in that article. Hoping Biden will do anything different than his records shows he has always done is wishful thinking. Right now, he sees an opportunity to force all of his leftist dreams upon all of us, now that his party has seen to it he is in office. It was a coup d'etat, without question. Too bad our corrupt government refuses to admit it. BTW, when is the #MeToo movement going to investigate Tara Reade's allegations of Biden's sexual assault?

From The Outdoor Wire 1/12/21 Before the holidays, both firearm and ammunition makers told anyone who would listen that they were doing all they could to keep up with burgeoning demand. One ammo CEO said “If I had an extra plant hiding around here somewhere I might get caught up.” Jason Hornady of Hornady Manufacturing was equally succinct when he released a video that said “if we make it today, it ships tomorrow.” Ammo makers aren’t sitting on product. Neither are gunmakers. But the capacities of both are still being strained by demand. For the past few days, we’ve been running one of our decidedly unscientific surveys of independent gun dealers around the country. Here’s the gist of what we’ve found: their supplies aren’t exhausted, they’re decidedly limited. For some frustrated customers, not having what they want means they don’t have anything. That’s not the case in any of the locations surveyed. In Birmingham, Alabama, one independent store owner noted a record day on Saturday -$85,000 worth of sales. That’s a lot of sales, even for a large independent store. But he’s not the exception. Up the street, Mark’s Outdoor Sports customers crowded the aisles throughout the store. It’s peak deer season, so hunters were prowling for all manner of supplies. But customers again congregated most heavily in two areas: firearms and accessories, and ammunition. Both stores had new guns on hand, although with far more limited than normal selections. Both shops were similar in the absence of two things: ammunition in “common” calibers and used guns. Marks had “some” 2.23/.308 and pistol ammo -in limited quantities and selections, but quantities of ammo for less “common” calibers (think 6.8 PRC and big-bore, dangerous-game calibers). Traditional hunting calibers were either severely limited or out. Across town, a third retailer had a “regular customer” come in while our shopper was there. He handed the manager some money and the manager went into the back and got a small box. He handed it to the beaming customer who promptly turned on his heel and left. What was in the box? Ammo. More specifically, .270 caliber premium hunting ammo. It had gotten so scarce in Birmingham that with Alabama’s deer season peaking, this gun shop was holding premium hunting ammunition for their best customers. Prices didn’t appear to have been increased much on ammo in any of the three locations, despite the high demand. But all three stores enjoy longstanding reputations for treating customers fairly. That’s decidedly not the case with all gun shops across the country. Across the midwest, we’re getting frequent complaints from readers that hunting ammo either isn’t readily available, or is available at prices significantly higher than only a few months ago. Unfortunately, some price increases are inevitable. Raw material prices have remained fairly stable, but shipping is one little-discussed cost that has risen during the pandemic. Manufacturers are approaching the point where those costs are more than they’re willing - or able- to absorb. We’ve already received (but have yet to confirm) an informational sheet from one ammo manufacturer notifying distributors and retailers that increased costs will mean their ammo prices will be go up next month. Those increases ranged from 5-12 percent, depending on the raw material used in the ammunition. In a time when manufacturers are working to obtain as much raw material as is available, it’s not unreasonable to expect some price increases. The shrinking supply of used firearms, however, is more puzzling. From the conversations we’ve had with retailers, there may be two possible explanations. First, a significant number of buyers aren’t looking to “trade up” for newer models or different variants of their preferred brands. Instead, they’re adding new models and hanging onto their old ones. A second possibility, although less common, seems to be holding true across the country. Some looking to sell or trade guns have unreasonable expectations for their trade-in value. As one dealer told me, “the fact I don’t have a case full of a certain model pistol doesn’t mean I’m willing to pay a premium for a used one. They’re in demand, but they’re still available.” Today is a high-demand marketplace, not a panicked one. Prices rise to unreasonable levels when consumers fear they won’t be able to buy anything. Thankfully, we’re not to that point- yet. But we’re all nervous about the future. We’ll keep you posted. — Jim Shepherd

Biden's Tweet an Attack on Gun Owners Joe Biden’s Twitter message to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords may read like a threat against one gun rights organization, but it is really an attack on every gun owner in the nation, the Second Amendment Foundation said today. Biden pledged to work with Giffords on her extremist gun control agenda, and promised to “defeat the NRA,” in the process, but SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb said that’s just cover for a bigger goal. “Joe Biden has labored relentlessly for decades to reduce the Second Amendment to rubble,” Gottlieb stated. “He may attack one group by name, but his goal is to crush the rights of every gun owner in our country. “By attacking the Second Amendment Rights of 100 million Americans,” Gottlieb continued, “Biden is not bringing us together but dividing us further. If people take to the streets in protest, if violence occurs it will be his fault and he should be impeached for violating our constitutional rights and inciting violence. Maybe it is time to ban him from Twitter and Facebook!” SAF is running a one-minute message 40 times this week, on several national networks, to educate millions of law-abiding gun owners about the gun rights battle. This message will appear on DirecTV, Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC, The Weather Channel, One America News Network, CNBC, HLN, Bloomberg and Dish TV. “Joe Biden isn’t fooling anybody,” Gottlieb observed. “He spent 47 years on Capitol Hill trying to turn the right to keep and bear arms into a regulated privilege. Now that he’s headed to the White House, he thinks he will be able to complete his mission. We’re working to to stop him.” “We didn’t start the fire, Biden did,” he said. The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is a group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.

An Abundance of Evidence There really was evidence, lots of it, that voter fraud and illegal electioneering took place on a massive scale in the November election. I’m not talking about exotic theories that voting machines controlled by communists in Venezuela and China switched millions of Trump votes to Biden (a convenient straw-man the corporate media constantly slays). I’m talking about old-fashioned, mundane stuff: people voting twice, dead people voting, cash-for-votes schemes, election workers ignoring state laws about the counting of absentee ballots, and courts changing the rules and deadlines for absentee ballots at the last minute. Much of it was perpetrated by Democratic political machines in places like Philadelphia and Detroit — cities infamous for corruption and election-rigging. We at The Federalist reported on it. We talked to poll challengers in Michigan who witnessed election workers counting ineligible absentee ballots and not allowing GOP observers to do their jobs. We talked to political insiders and volunteers in Philadelphia who described an election system thoroughly compromised by a corrupt Democratic machine. We chronicled an illegal scheme to bribe Native American voters on tribal lands in Nevada and Arizona with cash cards, electronics, and other “prizes” in exchange for votes. We reported on changes to mail-in voting in multiple battleground states, including Georgia, rammed through by state legislatures or issued by fiat from bureaucrats and judges, that made it easier to cheat with fraudulent or ineligible absentee ballots. Some of this was made possible by the often haphazard — and sometimes unlawful — expansion of absentee voting and extensions of absentee voting deadlines, all under the pretext that COVID-19 justified radical changes to how we vote (it didn’t). The result, in some states, was what amounted to a chaotic experiment in mass mail-in voting. Dozens of states made changes to absentee voting, some more drastic than others. Nine states along with Washington, D.C., took the extraordinary step of mailing actual ballots to every voter on the rolls. Others did away entirely with eligibility requirements for mail-in ballots, introducing “no-excuse” absentee voting. Still others introduced novel procedures for “curing” incomplete absentee ballots that would normally be thrown out. The corporate press ignored all of it, just as they ignored any story that might have hurt Biden during the campaign. Their goal was and is to get Democrats elected, period. They don’t care about being fair, or telling the truth, or keeping their readers informed about reality. If they did, they would have reported on this stuff instead of lumping it all together as so many conspiracy theories.

Communists always seek total control of all information. They don't want their leftist base to see anything that contradicts the propaganda they want them to swallow.

you must have a serious problem with reading comprehension if those statements seem disconnected and never cohere into a concrete position. Either that or your denial key is in full escape mode.

^^^^^ This! The political party that actually incited violence by promoting a lie, is the Leftist Democrat party! Actually they used many lies in 2020. Systemic racism, "Hands up, don't shoot", Racial Injustice, Russian Collusion, Trump calling Ukraine, when Biden did it, Trump's handling of the virus, and calling conservatives Nazis that are OK to punch, just to name a few. The left likes to use Nazis to vilify their opposition. But the fact of the matter is, Communists are far worse, killed far more people and destroyed far more countries than the Nazis, yet the left embraces many communist ideals and supports many tenets of Marxism. Much of what Democrats are demanding today is based on Marxist ideals. The attempts to silence the opposition, and punish those who oppose them, is a Marxist tactic. Yet no leftist here seems to be concerned about these tactics being employed by their party. They fear what their party tells them they should fear, without realizing their handlers are using them to gain power. Power that will eventually be turned against them when they're no longer "useful". Sadly, no matter how much evidence they're shown, or how much proof in history they see, they are blind to the obvious and hurl themselves headlong into the fire.

Yeah, it was equal to 9/11 with planes hitting the towers and the Pentagon and killing people in PA when one crashed. LOL!

Classic example of the government injecting itself into an issue that it has no Constitutional authority to mess with, and royally screwing it all up. (Except for getting mass mailed in ballot voting to steal a presidential election)

Leftists push the notion the fraudulent election claims are a lie. But the "racial justice" claims were debunked by data immediately, and no scientific analysis of law enforcement data or statistics ever backed it up. "Hands up, don't shoot" was a lie and the Ferguson cop was found not guilty of any wrong doing. The entire leftist racial justice movement is based on a PROVEN lie, so therefore, the riots, looting and burning were never moral or righteous. Never mind the fact that those who died in encounters with police were career criminals, drug addicts or dealers, wife abusers and worse, who failed to comply with lawful police orders and had to be restrained or shot to prevent them from killing a cop. But I'd never expect any indoctrinated, brainwashed, hateful leftist to ever agree with that.

The clear goal for the totalitarian Democrats and their Leftmedia cohorts is to consolidate power by creating the dubious notion that Trump and anyone who supported him, including the Republican Party and conservatives en masse, are dangerous pariahs who must be silenced. Nothing could be more anti-American or dangerous to our national discourse. Do Democrats want a civil war? The reason behind Big Tech's willingness to squelch free speech likely has as much to do with cronyism as it does ideology. Democrats have long blamed social media for allowing Trump's 2016 election, and they have repeatedly demanded that "misinformation" and "hate speech" be removed from these supposedly "open forum" platforms. Big Tech seeks to curry favor with Democrats, now in control of both houses of Congress and the executive branch, with the aim of getting the federal government to back off its trustbusting and regulatory efforts. Secondly, these tech giants have found a convenient excuse to underhandedly squelch marketplace competition. Finally, the hypocrisy of Big Tech would be funny if it wasn't such a dire threat to Liberty itself. In a classic example of a statement that didn't age well, back in 2015, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey insisted, "Twitter stands for freedom of expression. Twitter stands for speaking truth to power." Now Dorsey and his fellow fascist tech tycoons are using their near monopolistic powers to silence anyone attempting to say unapproved things. Meanwhile, Big Tech seems to have no problem with actual dictators like Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei using its platforms to call for violence against Israel and the U.S., or with hosting the Chinese-created TikTok app, which is notorious for stealing user data. Oh, and trending on Twitter over the weekend? "Hang Mike Pence."

Couldn't have said it any better. https://www.mrctv.org/blog/stuff-your-outrage-libs-leftists-have-been-violent-years-and-you-celebrated-it?fbclid=IwAR2cVbdydblBlmZICAmnzM60vqq0H3McDrXYsqUjoCfj1QbZSSkztSxOs6c

Biden isn't even in office yet and the purge has already begun.

They spelled TRAITOR wrong.

P.S. The tactics used in the riot last week resemble those used in riots that occurred in multiple cities throughout 2020. Law enforcement officers and buildings around the U.S. have been attacked with pipes, rocket-grade fireworks, and other dangerous weapons since May by Antifa and Black Lives Matter criminals. The difference is the 2020 riots occurred in the dark of night and most of the mainstream media showed little of the rioters’ violence, downplaying the attacks as “peaceful protests.” Slowly, information is coming forward that bad actors at prior riots were involved at the Capitol riot as well. Some rioters wore the typical black bloc garb and helmets, others donned Trump paraphernalia to blend in. At a minimum, Wednesday’s assault on the Capitol was fully informed by the lessons of previous actions. The rioters had watched the tactics and techniques of the Antifa criminals (which included violence, weapons, and destruction) and the nearly non-existent legal repercussions meted out by liberal city and state governments (the vast majority of criminals who were arrested were released without charges), as well as the validation the earlier rioters received (such as having streets named for them).

Welcome to the age of mob lawlessness, brought to you in 2020 by Leftists. What happened in DC is the direct result of a larger pattern of mob law that the left excused for an entire year in cities all around the US. Riots that destroyed cities and killed people and assaulted hundreds of police officers, while being excused away, and even encouraged, by leftist politicians and the main stream media. The riot in DC is a direct result of the changing values in America after 2020 made mob rule the new normal. The deadly storming of the Capitol building is the logical outcome of norms set by the left in 2020. By winking at and apologizing for BLM and Antifa riots, liberal elites telegraphed that political grievances ought to be resolved through violence. Those showing righteous indignation now only months or weeks ago argued that the riots were “mostly peaceful” and that vandalism and looting don’t count as violence. That’s the problem with political irresponsibility: Once the law grants quasi-authorization to hitherto-proscribed conduct, there’s no telling how events might spiral. The left owns this new attitude. But suddenly, because it comes from the opposition, they label it in the most inflammatory fashion to condemn the same tactics when employed by Trump supporters, though on a much less violent scale, while ignoring the anti government riots and lawlessness leftists continue to engage in. Hours after pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, Antifa tried to break into the Multnomah County Courthouse in downtown Portland. A mob of black-clad Antifa militants proceeded to smash businesses and public buildings using hammers. On one wall, they spray-painted an Antifa logo and the warning, “The state can no longer suppress us.” Protesters then confronted Mayor Wheeler at a restaurant and hit him. But by morning, no national media had reported on the anti-government violence in Portland — the third riot in the city since New Year’s Eve. Leftists are being played by the elites when they swallow it. Their hate is too strong and they are too manipulated to see it. BTW, ignorant doesn't mean very low IQ. It means having no idea what the reality of the situation is. I stand by that assessment.

Anyone who watched it and didn't see the hyperbole, inaccuracies, misinformation, false narratives and bias, isn't well versed in the truth of the matters he discusses.

You really are an ignorant stooge if that is the best retort you can offer to that post. You certainly don't show any capacity for intelligent understanding of the subject with replies like that.

So now it was an "insurrection" LOL!! Mind manipulation run rampant. I've never seen an insurrection where the people weren't armed, nor have I seen one where the people were not looking to incite violence. One female Air Force veteran was shot by a capital police officer in what looks like an unlawful killing they tried to say was a negligent discharge, one cop beaten and died, but the details of that case are being suppressed, the rest died from medical issues that they may have succumbed to if they were home. Now a cop commits suicide for who knows what reason and they try to say it had something to do with a protest. The media propaganda machine is in full attack mode. The leftist labels are being amped up to vilify the people in this country that want to bring attention to a government out of control and a lack of accountability for real issues that need to be addressed. The government is just telling everyone "Trust us and shut up, OR ELSE!" Welcome to the new totalitarian normal.

Wasn't it Obama who professed "fundamentally transforming America"? And nobody was encouraged to be critical about his statement? They should have been. He preached "Hope & Change", but nobody ever asked what he was hoping for or what he wanted to change. In hindsight, we now know we should have. Cuomo and a few other Democrat leftists said "America was never great". A lot of good points in your post but your aim is 180 degrees off. As far as masks go, its tantamount to helmets and seat belt laws. Does the government have the authority to impose such laws? That is the issue.