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[Hope everyone had a joyous and loving Christmas with their family and friends.]

The Bulletin
Scott Deshefy
Sun, December 26, 2021, 3:01 AM

One needn’t read Nietzsche, Hegel or sociologic discourse to conclude “God” and America share slabs in the morgue. Our gun-maniacal culture of violence fills judicial and legislative dockets with “leads that bleed.”

Mark Meadows, slapped with contempt of Congress charges, hasn’t given depositions before the Capitol Riot Committee. But, a 38-page PowerPoint and incriminating texts were leaked, including Fox News emails “directing” Donald Trump to stop the Jan. 6 incursion.

Outlined was the former administration’s plan to overturn President Biden’s election, a handbook for sedition that included fake declarations of national security emergencies, fabricated foreign interference and wholesale invalidation of electronically cast ballots. Cobbled from memos on overthrowing elections by law professor John Eastman (also subpoenaed), VP Pence was scripted to be a senatorial stopgap to Biden’s election confirmation. That impasse hinged on the lie China had somehow “gained control over our electronic election system,” distorting vote tallies.

Ironically, the Jan. 6 riot and Pence’s patriotism and integrity derailed things. Given how society’s so fact-averse, prejudicial and susceptible to right-wing conspiracy theories, many would have fallen for the scam.

We’re teetering on the edge of civil violence Northern Ireland once endured. Barton Gellman wrote a piece for The Atlantic recently in which he suggests “January 6 Was Practice,” and the GOP’s actively stacking decks, dictatorially, to decide the 2024 presidency.

Over the past year, Gellman explains, Trump and his allies have tested legal strategies to allow state legislatures with GOP majorities to challenge and dismiss bona-fide vote counts. Processes preventing Trump from stealing the 2020 election are methodically being jettisoned. Even Secretaries of State powers to certify accurate elections are summarily being stripped so ballots against Trump and other Republicans can be tossed.

Dangerously, a “politically-violent mass movement” has coalesced around the Big Lie that President Biden is somehow illegitimate. An estimated 21 million Americans (primarily underemployed, less-educated men) not only believe that fallacy, but consider violence justifiable in returning Trump to office. With an estimated 20% of our adult population detached from reality, coordinated acts of subversion, even a coup, are numerically possible.

Thankfully, justice prevailed in Georgia, where three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 were found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault with firearms and other hate crimes. Having essentially hunted down the 25-year old, they’ll be sentenced Jan. 7 for his fatal shooting.

Yet, nine years after Sandy Hook, Congress still hasn’t restricted firearms, even vacillating on a $170 billion a year reconciliation bill necessary to combat climate change, expand health and child care, and increase taxes on the rich and corporations to pay for it.

This year’s Defense Spending Bill ($770 billion ─ more than the next 11 top-spending nations combined) passed easily, however, despite costing us 160 million taxpayers about $5,000 each on average.

Johnny Cash wrote the song, “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town.” For open-carry states like Wisconsin, the “Baby Face” Rittenhouse acquittal (three shot, two fatally) has deadly implications beyond its “militia defense” absurdity. Private paramilitaries are illegal, white supremacist or not. So-called “minutemen,” defiant of curfews, strutting amidst roiling turmoil with assault weapons, are malevolent, brown-shirted mobs. Notoriously unreliable in battle (“broken staffs,” Washington called them), militias, like the Second Amendment supporting them, originally enforced slavery. Now, that thuggery recruits police/military cast-offs and misfits, many with PTSD.

Thanks to the Rittenhouse verdict, people with guns can defend shooting the unarmed, arguing any aggressive movement signaled the victim’s intent to use their own firearms against them. In Kenosha, even negligent homicide, aggravated assault; reckless endangerment didn’t stick. By wielding an AR-15, instigating Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber to physically respond (one brandishing a bag, the other a skateboard), Rittenhouse’s cop-wannabe vigilantism became a “license to kill.”

“Have Gun, Will Travel” is America’s business card now, without the intelligence and moral clarity of Richard Boone’s Paladin.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/view-left-politically-violent-mass-100115973.html

EmilyD

Scott Deshefy's opinion is full of holes. The "unarmed" will call themselves that until they take out a baseball bat or a skateboard and start clobbering people.

Cutting and pasting other people's opinions is pretty base, rumitoid. And it is very boring. Do you have any of your own???

Liberty Tree

Same old wornout ELWNJ opinion BS making a failed attempt to pose as fact.

jarlaxle Loc: Locked in Robert L Peter's basement... HELP

This is awesome non news.
The sooner it takes complete hold the sooner we are rid of your existence.

River Reb Loc: MS Delta

ho-hum

WEBCO

Totally lacking any logic, and factually incorrect. Typical left wing "news"

Dwight Logan

I have voted in every national vote since Ike. ran. When the English marched out of Yorktown, After being defeated by the upstarts, their band played "The world is turned upside down." With Biden's un leadership our country is in dangerous straits. I have written "Thr learning triangle to understand what we all need.

THE LEARNING TRIANGLE
The wheels of progress of education have been in retrogression because of: The media, liberals, communists, Hitler’s Youth, federal interference.

I created The Learning Triangle so we can again have education of the people, by the people, for the people.
If there were no learning (foundation) at all, then knowledge would be “0”. The foundation of all knowledge is the word of God.
Primitive learning would occur if the student taught only himself.
However, with the guidance of the parents and instruction by the teachers in conjunction with their boards of education, students would have greater access to learning. The input from all the these people working would achieve maximum benefit for the student.
Quoting Benjamin Franklin from 1785: “For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy., all for want of care about a horse-shoe-nail.
Dwight Logan

vernon

God and America don't share a slab in the morgue, not yet at least. This violence you speak of can be directly
placed at the feet of the left who doesn't enforce the laws.
As far as Mark Meadows the truth is being ignored, which is the committee leaked what they wanted out to the public. This proves the dishonesty of the committee and its so called leadership. They have proved they are liars and have perjured themselves once again. Where is the outrage toward this type of behavior.
The fed courts are famous for not getting involved in the politics of the vote. Trump wasn't given a fair hearing
on his evidence so that ended that. But I still believe Biden stole the election and they are working to steal this one in 22.
Here you are blabbering about violent mass movement. Just what do you think has been going on last summer
when not even the crooked politicians would do anything to stop the theft and violence from going on. I guess you are trying to convict Right wing people with this needless violence. there were antifa and blm involved in Jan 6th and if you investigate I'm sure pelosi was in it up to her ears.
Now here you are attacking Ritenhouse for his being attacked by three felons one a convicted child molester who was released that morning. He should have never been taken to court just a leftest who should have his license removed. Rumi you either open your eyes to the truth or quietly leave opp never to be heard from again.

manning5 Loc: Richmond, VA

Simply laughable! NWR

working dog

The people he killed were armed.

DaWg44

Rumi,

Your first paragraph, maybe you copied it too, is a bold faced lie. You do not want anyone to be happy.

You & your ilk, are most comfortable with misery & want everyone to share in it with you.

You should be the poster child for just skimming C S Lewis's work. You & your merry band have caused me to never recommend his work.

Not a single one of you have a clue about voting laws, too damn lazy to look them up.

None of you know Aubry's criminal record because it was not allowed in court. I'm not saying killing him was justified but he was no more a Saint than the thug in Minneapolis.

I don't think the Metro Atlanta ballots were rigged. I know they were, how it was done, & some of the key players, two of which I inherited by marriage, put their pictures on Facebook with backpacks at untended ballot boxes. They helped Stacy Abrams build her two vote stealing groups.

Rastenberger & Kemp did not even know the duties if Clerks of the Court in GA.

Facts don't matter to any of you. When the RNC, Trump Campaign, & my state Senators did not listen in January 2020, I decided to move, companies & family, which I did.

I seriously doubt you pay $5,000.00 in taxes/ year & even if you did, you nor anyone else can say where what money goes. If that was possible, I never would have paid a damn dime for Federal interference in education& a whole laundry list of others things including Planned Parenthood.

I have to be here until 1-10-22 to finish all the companies taxes.

I did not turn my back on this country, spent 30 years of my life bringing business back here, spent $ million on education, & my wife & I sold everything we had except our small house & farm to support our employees through the 2007-2010 fiasco. We were able to pay off debt in 2018, could not replace insurance.

I had the misfortune of having to deal with liberal/leftist/communist employees, spoiled punks until I nixed even interviewing any college graduates in the 90's.

If you give a damn about the poor, you might think about all the families making 30% above median income plus benefits, profit sharing, & non-contrbutory retirement we left w/o jobs.

Pick up our slack to support Salvation Army, each of our companies gave $250,000 & matched what employees donated. 5 plants & over 750 employees was a chunk of change for the SA & many governments.

Put your money where your mouth is.

If you have a terminal illness like you have inferred for years, I wish you no harm. I think your health would improve if you saw sunrises, sunsets, everyday for a month, had a cerebral data loss of liberal/leftist/bs & replaced the space with those daily masterpieces, you might find peace.

manning5 Loc: Richmond, VA

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Very good post!

manning5 Loc: Richmond, VA

Both armed and threatening!

bill22222002

good tv

martsiva

Checked out the 'Bulletin' and it is as left as your other BS sources!! The 'one brandishing a bag' admitted that 'bag' was a gun!! NO - people cannot shoot the unarmed since that is against the law!! What garbage!! 'Instigating Rosenbaum and Huber to respond'?? BS unless they were too stupid to just mind their own business!! Your 'bona-fide vote counts' were just counting the same illegal votes for the Democrats! 'Militias like the 2nd amendment supporting them originally enforced slavery' were the Democrats who owned plantations!! If you don`t like the 2nd amendment then get the hell out of this country!! Obviously this author does not have the intelligence to understand what 'Have gun will travel' meant in Paladin since it was about self defense!!