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jmowreader's JournalThree ways Trump may have fucked up regarding his gun purchase
1. Under the Gun Control Act of 1968, it is illegal not only for a person under indictment for a crime with at least a one-year maximum sentence (read: all 93 of Trump's indictments) to purchase a gun but for anyone to sell him one. The Fifth Circuit recently ruled that this is unconstitutional, but the Fifth also ruled that the law prohibiting drug users from buying guns was unconstitutional and they charged Hunter Biden with it after the ruling was handed down so...
2. Did Trump take delivery of the gun in the State of South Carolina? Trump is a former resident of the State of New York who is now a resident of the State of Florida. The same law states that no one can take delivery of a gun in any state but the one he currently resides in. To legally buy a gun in another state, you must do an FFL transfer: the Federal Firearms License holder in the state you bought the gun makes arrangements with an FFL holder in your own state; he ships the gun to the FFL holder; and you take delivery of the gun from the FFL holder in your own state.
3. Did one of Trump's supporters actually buy the gun for him? This is a straw purchase and those are also illegal.
A person under indictment signs a contract with the state as part of pretrial release. One of its clauses, in every jurisdiction, is that the defendant agrees to not commit any more crimes. Since Mr. Trump has violated that clause...will it be pepper steak or cabbage rolls?
Have you heard of the vaccine-free meat fad?
I didn't know about it until we picked up an advertiser who raises it.
Apparently the antivaxers have decided that the vaccines routinely given to beef cattle and other meat animals will vaccinate YOU if you eat their meat, so now there are small farms that raise meat animals and don't vaccinate them. Some of these guys are just claiming they don't use mRNA vaccines...but since there are no bovine mRNA vaccines in the first place that goes without saying. Others raise meat with no vaccines whatsoever.
Not sure if I should think of this as a "a fool and his money" situation or a potential threat to the food supply.
The tale of the Bronze Rat
It seems that one fine day a gentleman was browsing through an antiques store when he came upon a life-size sculpture of a rat made of bronze. He decided he must have this and took it to the counter.
"Ten dollars for the rat, and an additional $1000 if you'd like to hear its legend."
"The rat will be fine, thanks."
Shortly after leaving the store, he notices he is being followed by live rats. Eventually there are thousands of them back there. He got scared, ran to the river and threw in the bronze rat. The live ones followed it into the river and all drowned.
He returns to the store.
"Sir, have you returned to hear the legend?"
"No, I'm here to buy a bronze Republican."
Am I the only one who doesn't care what Fetterman wears on the Senate floor?
Right now we have an entire political party who wants to shut down the government to force the other political party to accept their fascist agenda, a not-insignificant percentage of the American people who want to put one of the most prolific career criminals in American history back in the White House so he can turn our free country into a fascist dictatorship, and the guy who got canned by Auburn for losing to Vanderbilt for the first time in fifty seasons is sitting on 300 high-ranking military officers' promotions because the Army doesn't think you should have to carry your rapist's baby to term.
And what are we talking about? What Senator Fetterman wears to work.
There are more important things to discuss.
Trump claims Biden will start World War II
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/18/trump-biden-age-election-2024https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/18/trump-biden-age-election-2024On Friday our twice-impeached, 91-times-indicted, bankrupt and brain-dead worst president in the history of our country gave a speech in Washington to the Family Research Council's Pray, Vote, Stand Summit. In this speech he claimed he beat Barack Obama in 2016, accused "Crooked Joe Biden" of being "totally corrupt and the worst president in the history of our country" and who will lead us into "World War Two very quickly."
The only possible explanation is he's going for an insanity defense.
I did a four-word Web search: "can you vape meth"
Several drug rehab facilities' websites indicate that meth can indeed be vaped by mixing it with e-juice.
Lauren Boebert's general disposition doesn't look like that of a marijuana smoker, but rather a meth smoker. Since she wears a lot of makeup she could easily be covering up the effects methamphetamine has on the skin, and the little "flapper" things beauty queens wear over their teeth could conceal any oral damage the drug is inflicting on her.
You do realize that it would be pretty funny if one of the leaders of the "lock Hunter Biden up, he lied about his drug usage when buying a firearm" brigade was buying guns while addicted to meth.
Idaho State Board of Education saves North Idaho school district from itself
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/state-board-of-education-rejects-branden-dursts-bid-for-emergency-certificate-leaving-west-bonner-schools-without-a-superintendent/277-d4a84cfb-b35a-42a6-801f-5051aeff90c6I've written about Branden Durst before. Mr. Durst was a Democrat until 2016. He served in the Idaho House from 2006 to 2010, and the Idaho Senate from 2012 to 2013. While in the House he helped create the Advanced Opportunities program, which helps high school students pay for dual credit courses and certification exams. Then he went extremely far to the right.
Fast forward to 2023. Brent Regan, who as a heavy in the Idaho Freedom Foundation and chair of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee is on a mission to destroy Idaho*, picked this right wing nutjob to be superintendent of the West Bonner County School District, which is in a small town named Priest River. Among his greatest hits as temporary superintendent was getting rid of the English curriculum and trying to merge the middle school and high school into the same building. He also asked for a pay package that's unreal - in addition to making a huge amount of money, he wanted a free car, housing allowance, immunity from lawsuits and free lunch. Not kidding: one of his demands was to be allowed to eat lunch for free in any cafeteria in the school district.
To be a superintendent in Idaho you must meet five requirements to get certified, one of them being having taught in a classroom in Idaho four years. The State Board of Education determined he didn't meet these requirements and denied an emergency certification.
Trump and the Alligator Shoes
Donald Trump was in Louisiana one day when he heard about shoes made of alligator leather. He decided such deluxe footwear were just what he needed, so he went to a very fancy shoe store that sold them.
"Sir, you have excellent taste. May I show you our finest alligator shoes, the most fitting accessory for a man of your class and sophistication?"
The clerk showed him some shoes.
"How much?"
"For shoes of this quality and elegance, a mere $5000."
"Are you shitting me?" screamed Trump. "For that kind of money I could buy a gun and get my own damn alligator shoes!" He turned on his heels and stomped out like a spoiled brat.
Three days later the clerk was driving home when he notices Trump standing in the middle of a swamp with a huge gun. There are twenty dead alligators on the edge of the swamp. He sees Trump raise the gun to his shoulder and fire off a round. Then he wades out into the swamp, grabs the alligator and drags it to shore.
And then he started yelling.
"What the fuck is going on here? NONE of these nasty things are wearing shoes!"
It's How Have You Made America Great Again time!
“In this great new game show, our five contestants will explain what they did to Make America Great Again! The winner receives $100,000 and a free all-expenses-paid trip around the world! Our first contestant will be Judge Timothy Kelly. So tell me, Tim, what did you do to Make America Great Again?”
“I threw Enrique Tarrio in prison for 22 years.”
“Dude! You do understand we sold a full year of this program to the network. How the hell is anyone supposed to compete with that?”
Very limited sample shows signs of Republican Fatigue in the hinterlands
St. Maries, ID, is a very hard-right village in an extremely hard-right county - in the 2020 election Trump took roughly 80 percent of the vote. I'm not sure there even is a county Democratic Party there.
It's also the place I grew up (before it went off the deep end - in the 1970s there was exactly one Republican elected official, the extremely moderate Sheriff Bob Baltz) and it's where I've spent the last two days photographing the town festival as the staff photographer for my paper and a stringer for the St. Maries Gazette-Record. It's pretty much the only Labor Day festival in the region.
I drove around town a little today before I left, and this is what I saw.
1. No Trump apparel on anyone. No Trump signs. The single most popular tee was one for the festival's saloon, the "Blue Ox Bar," which is advertised as "the biggest topless bar in Idaho." People who wouldn't drink alcohol at gunpoint buy them. The "top" they refer to is a roof - when I still lived in St. Maries the Blue Ox was made out of Army-surplus latrine screens, and now they use the tennis court in City Park. The Blue Ox has never had overhead cover. For the first 15 years of the festival's existence it was also the ONLY topless bar in Idaho because the kind of bar with half-dressed women working there was illegal in this state.
2. Absolutely no one was open-carrying a gun.
3. Exactly one Trump bumper sticker, a "don't blame me, I voted for Trump" model that was at least five years old.
4. At the festival auction someone donated a hoodie with "try that in a small town" written on it. Bidding started at $50. It sold for $10 and the auctioneer had to work hard to get it up that high.
5. There was a man who was running a booth selling ammunition. I asked him how business was going. He'd been running since Friday (it is Sunday now and the festival ends tomorrow, so he's got time) and hadn't sold anything.
6. The only cap I saw with a flag-and-camouflage motif on anyone's head was advertising the Friday-afternoon demolition derby.
7. There was one booth selling Trump swag - "Let's Go Brandon" banners, "Trump Won" flags, that sort of thing - that was completely free of customers. The booths to either side of him were doing a lot of business.
8. Only one person was wearing a T-shirt with a hard-right theme - it had a picture of an AR-15 and the inscription "I will defend my rights against all enemies foreign and Democrat" on it. People were giving him a very wide berth.
9. I was walking around with two huge pro-grade Nikons around my neck. I look absolutely nothing like a typical St. Maries resident, so some guy came up and asked me, "are you here just to take pictures of our children?" I held up my press credentials and told him I was working for a newspaper. All of a sudden the guy's face just totally changed and he wanted to know if he could get his kid in the paper. (I told him I wasn't going to put any pictures of children from this event in either my paper or the St. Maries paper, but we'd be putting lots of pictures of kids in the parade picture segment that we'll shoot tomorrow so...bring your child to the parade tomorrow and...maybe he'll get in. He said he'd bring him down.)
Oh, don't get me wrong: County Commissioner For Life Jack Buell will continue to be the only elected Democrat in the county - there's no way you'd dislodge that guy - but it appears that 91 has disheartened the people around there to the point they're not displaying their Republicanism as much as they used to.
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