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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says that gun background checks will look to see if people are “espousing philosophies that indicate they have been radicalized” “I’ve called upon and am working closely with our Attorney General to identify what’s going on in social media. And those questions are now part of our background checks. Just like in the old days you could talk to someone’s neighbor, now you can talk to their neighbors online to find whether or not this person has been espousing philosophies that indicate they have been radicalized.” AWR Hawkins, “Kathy Hochul: Talking to Your ‘Neighbors Online’ Now Part of Firearm Background Check,” Breitbart, August 24, 2022. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says that gun background checks will look to see if people are “espousing philosophies that indicate they have been radicalized” (crimeresearch.org)

Try telling your leftist friends all they have to do is pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, rather than constantly thinking the taxpayers are required to bail them out. The only pain I experience is from stupid people who vote for Democrats, trying to tell me they are morally superior. But that is being handled now by telling them to keep away from me or they will be feeling pain.

There was a time when Demos bought votes with a pint of cheap whiskey. This ain't one of those times.

"The frame for virtually any discussion of American politics at the moment advanced by the hair-on-fire segment of our media elite is that democracy itself is under attack. ... How quietly these same voices become when the White House itself engages in actual threats to the rule of law and up-end representative government in order to engage in policy steps that are aggressively at odds with that little old thing called the Constitution." —Ben Domenech on Biden's student loan giveaway "It would represent a middle finger to the Constitution, which vests legislative power in Congress, not the president. It would represent a middle finger to Congress, which has not given the executive branch the authority to give $10,000 each to millions of college students. It would represent a middle finger to the Department of Education, which found last year that it 'does not have statutory authority to provide blanket or mass cancellation, compromise, discharge or forgiveness of student loan principal balances, and/or to materially modify the repayment amounts or terms thereof.' Nancy Pelosi confirmed last summer that 'the president can't do it — so that's not even a discussion.' She said, 'Not everybody realizes that, but the president can only postpone, delay but not forgive.' Biden's response? A middle finger." —Charles C.W. Cooke "Biden's decision to waive student loan debt will increase inflation and is another gift to the rich. Tennesseans should not be forced to pay for coastal elites to get their PhD in gender studies." —Senator Marsha Blackburn "Student loan debt relief is spending that raises demand and increases inflation. It consumes resources that could be better used helping those who did not, for whatever reason, have the chance to attend college. It will also tend to be inflationary by raising tuitions." —economist Larry Summers, Obama's senior economic advisor

After Republicans objected, the standard White House Twitter response followed this formula: "Congressman X had $X in PPP loans forgiven." Lather, rinse, repeat for any business owner who took advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program loans that were forgiven during the COVID pandemic. Some folks will also buy that "logic," but it's total nonsense. Whether or not you agree with the government giving and then forgiving business loans, the reason for that program was that the government shut down the economy and millions of people were losing their jobs. That the government (albeit with taxpayer money) paid for damage done by the government is at least an understandable argument. Government stepping into the middle of a private contract between a student and a lender for totally voluntary decisions is an entirely different matter. Phony accusations of hypocritical cruelty while insisting that all this "free" money is totally paid for — what else would you expect from a White House team with virtually no experience in the private sector?

Why is "Pain" the norm whenever Democrats control the country?

For several decades now, the over-under has been the double-barrel for us to carry. In fact, O/Us are so popular that until about a decade ago, new, affordable side-by-sides ceased to be sold in the United States. Today, a few are around; but compared to over-unders, the total numbers hardly matter. In the grouse woods, on skeet fields, and across sporting-clay courses, if you’re shooting a double, you’re shooting an O/U. As one gunmaker told me in 2019, “the side-by-side is dead.” How the Over and Under Shotgun Became and American Standard (projectupland.com)

When the government forces expenses on you, it should pay for them. When you force expenses on yourself, you should pay for them. Anyone who doesn't understand that, is willfully ignorant.

Says the people who need to read that letter and question their answers. Get a brain.