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The Libertarian VP candidate spouted something last week that is just frankly beyond the pale.

Bill Weld Just Compared AR-15s to “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” & Said Pistols Were Even Worse!

“The five-shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle; the problem is if you attach a clip to it so it can fire more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon, and those are independent criminal offenses,” Weld said. “That is when they become, essentially, a weapon of mass destruction. The problem with handguns probably is even worse than the problem of the AR15.”

This is just mind-numbing asshattery.  First of all, it shows he knows absolutely zip about what an AR-15 actually is.  Secondly, it shows that he knows absolutely zip about guns.  (Clips?  Attaching clips?  Seriously?  That’s a dumbass mistake I made when I was a teenager and didn’t know any better.)  Thirdly, and as the article graphically pointed out, the phrase “weapon of mass destruction” has a very specific meaning — and this ain’t it.

Both Weld and Gary Johnson have made some highly-suspect comments about guns and gun control in this campaign season.  I more or less expect it out of Weld — after all, he was a RINO governor of a liberal east-coast state — but I’d expect better of the guy Libertarians have heading their ticket and think ought to be president.

I have espoused Trump hatred and flown the #NeverTrump flag on this blog for quite some time.  My choice for the GOP would have been Cruz.  But as Deroy Murdock points out at National Review, to remain solidly #NeverTrump in the face of our current electoral disaster is little more than a sure win guarantee for Hillary Clinton.

Sooner or later, conservatives are going to have to hold their noses YET AGAIN and vote for the lesser of two weevils.  I’m done with my dalliance with the Libertarians, even if Trump is a sure thing in Indiana — and with Evan Fuckass Bayh running for the Senate now that the hapless Baron Hill has dropped out, and the likelihood that the Moustache will be our next Governor now that Trump has co-opted Mike Pence, I really think Indiana is in play — and I don’t think we ought to hand it to Hillary on a silver platter.

Gotta go down fighting even if our general is an asshole.  Vote Trump, even if he’s an olfactory disaster.  You may regret it, but you’d regret a Hillary presidency even more.  If you are a conservative and you sit this election out because you get nauseous just thinking about the dregs we’ve dredged out of the bottom of the barrel politic to run this cycle, you’re a damn fool idiot and we can’t be friends.  (I can still understand someone voting Libertarian, but for the reasons I’ve pointed out above, I can’t respect you for it anymore.  That’s different from not voting at all, though.)

Always questioning authority experience.  Fuck them all.  I’ve dealt with two of them today already.

Note that I had originally typed “authority”, meaning it in the older sense of “I know what I’m talking about” as opposed to the modern sense of “Because I’m your boss/superior and I said so”, so I changed it to “experience” before I published because that’s what I mean.*  When you’ve been there and done that and got the T-shirt, upstarts coming at you arguing that they know better than you, when in fact you DO know better than they do, don’t sit well.  I’m not looking for obsequious “What were things like when you were starting in this business, Grandfather?” BS, I’m just looking for some respect for the fact that maybe I’ve been around longer that they have and my opinions on the subject at hand may have merit.

Bottom line, I’m not ready to set 25 years of Alpha Leader experience aside for some kid who didn’t even know what our product was three months ago when we hired him.  Fuck that noise.  I’ll do that when I retire, not before.  Note that I’m also not arguing that none of the young kid’s arguments ever have any chance of being meritorious, because sometimes they do — but in the two cases I’ve run up against so far today, they did not.

The world is going to hell in a handcart, and look who is going to be running it after I retire.  Jesus wept.

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* FWIW, I have never had much respect for people who came off all “YOU WILL RESPEK MY AUTHORITAH!”, and I don’t intend to be one of them myself.

When 7PM CDT rolls around tonight, the first Cubs night game at Wrigley will have been half my lifetime ago.*

Now that’s scary 🙂

 

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* Well, roughly; I was actually 28 the previous November.

I wish Gary Johnson would shut the hell up.

Every time he opens his mouth, I consider voting for Trump, just out of spite.

SMOD ’16.  Please deliver us from these idiots.

but I suspect my Dad would be a Trump supporter.  Oh, not a vocal one, he’d never say so and he’d never hint around about it.  But I can just hear him saying something like, “That Trump guy is quite a character, couldn’t imagine him as president, but he sure did stick it to Hillary over those emails.”

And he’d say it deadpan…but with a twinkle in his eye.

Man, I miss him.

Chris Muir had a tough day yesterday, and if he’s anything like me back in 2002, when I lost my dad, he’ll continue to have tough days going forward.

They live in our hearts.  Always.

That’s one of the headlines in my dead-tree copy, this morning.  The online site has it as, somewhat more toned down, “Donald Trump Celebrates With Victory Lap, but Feud Festers”.

And this is why Donald Trump is not going to win.

The convention’s over, Mr. Trump.  It’s time to focus on your real opponent, the sleazebag crook whom the Democrats are going to nominate next week.  The one who says that the GOP convention was “mean-spirited”, again according to the caption on a picture of her on the front page of the dead-tree WSJ.

You keep failing that Rorschach test, Mr. Trump.  So why on earth would any real conservative vote for you in November?  You simply haven’t made your case, yet, mostly because every time you do, you torpedo it with your next move.

So far I see nothing to keep me from either scratching the presidential contest altogether, or casting a “what the hell” vote for the Libertarians.  And that’s not a vote for Hillary, that’s a vote for America.  Call it a cry in the darkness.

None of the above is acceptable.

I feel sorry for the individual Germans (and their families) who have been shot and wounded/killed in today’s very special German edition of “Their motives were unclear”.

But only sorry to a certain extent.  Because you fuckers did vote in your government, which is all for letting Syrian RIFs migrate into your country, pretty much without any kind of vetting.

You reap what you sow.  If I were you, I’d start carrying…oh, wait.  You can’t.  Sucks to be you.

I agree with everything Ted Cruz said last night.  Vote your conscience; vote for candidates who will uphold the Constitution.

And fuck anyone who says I’m voting for Hildabeest.  That’s not what it’s about.  If we’re not voting for the Constitution, and voting our conscience, we’re no longer the nation the Founders thought we were.

Here’s a hint:  We’re not.  And we’re certainly no better than they were.  My read?  They’d be pissed as hell that we squandered their legacy, but they’d completely and totally understand how it happened.

And they’d probably be up in arms about it.  I don’t mean figuratively, either.

Uncanny how things are shaping up to look a lot like Ringo’s The Last Centurion.  All we need is the flu.

With thundering applause, apparently.

Not that Crooked Hillary will be any better.

I’d ask, “God, what did we do to deserve such bottom-of-the-barrel candidates?”, but we all know what we did to deserve them.

Well, like the man said, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.”  Maybe we need to get back to the roots that made this country great — God, guns, guts, and the Constitution.

Do I sound a little too John Birchy for your taste?  Too fucking bad.  Go read another blog if you want smarmy, toe-the-party-line faux conservatism.  The title of this blog should have been fair warning.

Plus, get the fuck off my lawn.