“…During his Saturday campaign event in Waco, Texas, on Saturday, Trump argued that DeSantis had little chance of becoming Florida’s governor without the former president’s endorsement, with Trump breaking into an impersonation of DeSantis allegedly begging him for his support in the state’s 2018 Republican primary. “So, he came, and he really wanted [my endorsement]. I said, ‘You can’t win, can you? How do you – can [you] win?'” Trump said, recalling the allegedconversation with DeSantis. “‘Sir, if you endorse me, I’ll win. Please, please, sir, endorse me,'” Trump continuedas he acted out a crying, begging voice.
While similar jabs against political opponents have been a hit with Trump’s crowds during past rallies, those in attendance werenoticeably more silentas Trump took aim at DeSantis. Though some in the crowd could be heard laughing or clapping as Trump continued to be critical of DeSantis, the reaction of the crowd was much more silentthan when Trump went after other targets, such as the mainstream media…”
“An employee of an Arizona Family Dollar store has been charged with murder after police say he fired 10 shots at a shoplifter who punched him. Kevin Salas Madrid, 24, confronted the serial shoplifter and told him to leave the store at which point the shoplifter punched him in the face which knocked off Madrid’s eyeglasses, FOX 10 Phoenix reported.
Madrid then allegedly pulled out a gun and shot the shoplifter at least 10 times, including several times when the shoplifter was on the ground. “Kevin stated he had made the worst decision of his life,” police said in his probable cause statement.“Kevin explained he was struck and decided to shoot but looking back, he realized it was egregious.”
One employee in the store said that Madrid fired as many as 15 shots and admitted after the shooting that he could not control his anger, Arizona’s Family reported…”
This is the inevitable result of Progressive approaches to and policies impacting crime at every level. Consider shoplifting as the base level, the broken window of criminal activity as it were. When shoplifters were granted the “right” to steal with impunity and retailers burdened with the liability for any injury caused by store employees attempting to intervene, criminals were emboldened to begin inflicting bodily harm on anyone who refused to recognize their newfound freedom to commit felonies.
Anyone in law enforcement will tell you Mr. Madrid’s odds of being shot, stabbed or beat within an inch of his life after being punched were about 50/50. And while continuing to shoot after his assailant had fallen to the ground may look bad on camera, as is demonstrated at the 2:39 point in this video…
…it’s a basic tenet of defensive firearm tactics: You shoot until the threat is neutralized. We haven’t seen surveillance footage showing what happened in the Family Dollar, and if Madrid was able, he first course of action should have been to put space between himself and his attacker. But having lost his glasses after being struck in the face by an unprovoked attack, we can’t say what he was seeing, let alone feeling and thinking.
Here’s the juice: There was one person in complete control of events up until the time Kevin Madrid pulled his piece, and that was the serial thief, who curiously remains unidentified and undescribed. To us, this is a question of what law abiding citizens should be able to do in defending themselves against unprovoked attack; At some point, proportionality has to give way to exigent circumstances, circumstances created by the criminal. Again, the first course of action should have been…if possible…to put space between himself and his attacker. But we weren’t there, hadn’t had our glasses knocked off by a sucker punch to the head and weren’t Mr. Madrid’s shoes. But regardless of what went down, there’s no way in our mind a murder charge sticks in this case.
Then there’s four short video clips we thought well worth your time:
(i). Were all graduates of Hudson High the equal of Wesley Hunt…
…we might be forced to reassess our opinion of West Pointers.
(ii). Tucker Carlson highlights the lengths to which transgendered whackos will go to hide the anything which casts a shadow on the purported purity of this mental illness and perversion:
(iii). Here are two clips which demonstrate Dimocrats’ standard tactic when confronted with uncomfortable truths: either refuse to discuss them…
…or deny irrefutable facts:
(iv). Then there’s this from the Secretary of the Treasury, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve…
…which fairly SCREAMS the question…
And in today’s edition of the EnvironMental Moment, FOX informs us…
“President Biden announced this week that he is committed to working with lawmakers who have backed tearing down four hydropower dams in Washington to protect salmon species.
Biden remarked during a conservation event Tuesday that he would work with tribes, Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, to “bring healthy and abundant salmon runs back” to the Columbia River system. The president didn’t say he would work with lawmakers or industry groups that have adamantly opposed breaching the dams.
Over the last several years — amid declining salmon populations in the lower Snake River which winds through Idaho and southwestern Washington before feeding into the Columbia River which, in turn, feeds into the Pacific Ocean — Murray and Cantwell have opened the door to proposals breaching four federally managed dams in the river system. And Simpson has gone further, crafting a $33.5 billion framework endorsed by tribes to breach the dams.
There are several major problems with glibly saying, ‘We’re going to destroy the dams,'” said Todd Myers, the environmental director for the free market think tank Washington Policy Center. “The first is that it is contrary to the science. The Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA Fisheries and others did the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the dams ever a few years ago. And it concluded very clearly that we should keep the dams and that salmon can recover with the dams.” “The Biden administration is going against the most comprehensive scientific assessment done by the federal government itself,” Myers continued.
Myers — who is also a member of the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Council, a state agency created to study and inform government efforts to restore dwindling salmon — added that breaching the four lower Snake River dams would be a “remarkable waste” of tens of billions of dollars considering the relatively minor impact such a project would have on the species. “I think you’re getting a sense of how this is really more about ideology and a romance of open, undammed rivers than it is about environmental benefits,” Myers told Fox News Digital.
In addition, multiple government and private reports have determined that breaching the dams would have a dramatic impact on energy production, climate goals and transportation in Washington. Overall, hydropower accounted for 67% of Washington’s electricity generation in 2022, making the state by far the largest producer of hydropower. Electricity from the state’s hydropower alone represents 10% of the nation’s total renewable energy-generated electricity. “The environmental impact of such a drastic increase cannot be overstated – and I sincerely and fundamentally struggle to understand how our friends in the environmental community can hear this data and not be truly alarmed,” Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., who has opposed breaching the dams, one of which is located in his district, said in 2021.
In addition to the impacts on energy and climate ambitions, industry groups said removing the four dams would disrupt the economy and harm agriculture exports. “To suggest breaching the dams is to suggest jeopardizing that stability and the security we have in our economy,” Washington Farm Bureau President Rosella Mosby told Fox News Digital. “Moving agricultural products via barge utilizes the most carbon friendly means of transportation while also supporting critical infrastructure.” “Washington Farm Bureau would encourage the President to give these impacts thoughtful consideration before making decisions with real life consequences for farmers, ranchers, and the environment,” Mosby added. She noted that her group support policies ensuring an effective means of transporting agricultural goods, electrifying homes and conserving salmon runs. Dams, Mosby said, are the answer to ensuring the stability and success of all three.
Aided by the dams, barges traveling through the Columbia River system transport about 60% of Washington’s annual wheat exports. A staggering 40% of the nation’s total wheat production, valued at billions of dollars, travels through the river system…”
“President Joe Biden claims he wants America to lead in “clean energy” production, but he’s again blocking American producers from developing the critical, rare-earth minerals to make it happen. The federal government owns huge chunks of America’s West, home to critical minerals like lithium essential to technologies like electric-vehicle batteries — yet Biden blocks their development beneath federal lands. Biden banned access Tuesday to nearly 514,000 acres of public lands, including a new national park in Nevada, Avi Kwa Ame.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo says Biden failed to consult him before this designation, though the Silver State contains massive lithium deposits. This is particularly frustrating because Nevada is a whopping 80% federally owned — compare that to New York, less than 1%, Pennsylvania (home to robust shale drilling) 2.2%, South Dakota 5.4% and Texas only 2%. Blocking the critical mineral mining required to meet Biden’s “clean energy” goals denies reality — the mining infrastructure isn’t there…”
It’s as California’s Tom McClintock recently noted of his truly Dimocratic colleagues:
You have a better chance of winning two consecutive billion dollar lottery drawings than this green energy farce ever becoming effective, not to mention cost-effective.
Still, reality has never come between Progressives and their outrageous predictions of impending planetary catastrophe, as Becket Adams recounts. Such tediously similar prognostications of “10 more years to live” bring to mind an old Henny Youngman gag:
And remember when we were assured government plans to ban gas stoves were the stuff of right-wing fantasy…until they weren’t:
Oh, you meant a federal ban, not a state-by-state prohibition!
Moving on, we offer another sextet of selections specially chosen for inquiring Conservative minds:
(1). Watching a local Boston newscast regarding the lethal effects of the latest deadly drug cocktail, a mixture of fentanyl and xylazine, a large animal tranquilizer, we were struck by the following inescapable irony in the reporter’s closing statement:
Which begs the question, if all it takes to prevent illicit substances from entering the country is action by the FDA, why such action hasn’t been utilized to half the flow of fentanyl into the country.
(4). Jim Geraghty offers four quick reasons why Congress should ban TikTok.
(5). We hope you find this clip from Candace Owens as funny as she did:
(6). Watching this video clip of a Bowling Green’s Elissa Brett getting sucker-punched by Memphis guard Jamirah Shutes, we were “struck” not by nature of the assault, but by the dimensions of Bowling Green’s #35…
Absolutely hate to see this…Elissa Brett punched in the face after Bowling Green’s #WNIT victory over Memphis
She fell to the ground after being hit but fortunately was able to walk back to the locker room with some assistance. Hopefully she’s okay! pic.twitter.com/3UxtvJaUoV
“A Michigan man accused of killing his mother, stepfather and ex-girlfriend after being released from jail on bond has been charged with a fourth murder. Jonathan Welch, a Detroit resident, allegedly killed Natayla Morse, 24, prior to his original arrest in June, FOX Detroit reported. Morse was found dead on June 4, 2022.
Prosecutors said Welch killed Morse with blunt force trauma to the head, and then stole her car and set it on fire. In the weeks after the killing, he was charged with the other three murders…”
So tell us again how the legacy of chattel slavery, Jim Crow and POhlice OHppression are at the root of the problem of Black-on-Black crime!
Magoo
Video of the Day
Matt Gaetz grills another useless, lying DoD apparatchik.
Tales of The Darkside
All we can say is, “Wow…WOW!!!” Can you REALLY say it’s any different for the descendants of slaves in AMERICA?!?
On the Lighter Side
Watch and listen as Alexander Vindman’s civilian twin and congressional Dimocrats squirm as Wisconsin’s Tom Tiffany asks the question anyone with half an ounce of integrity wants answered.
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