WHAT?

Ooh, cherry picking from a Heller lawyer, I’m sure that’s unbiased.

edit: I liked the part where he mentions the first draft of the Virginia state constitution but not the final draft, but then omits the first draft of the US constitution. Delicious cherries.

Another one: The use of “bear arms” in an 18th century context almost always meant “in military service.” Scalia even acknowledges this, but says only when used in “bear arms against.”

But it doesn’t matter. Halbrook points out that the Pennsylvania declaration of independence says: “That the people have a right to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State.” Ok. Why is “in defense of themselves” a specifically enumerated right? Because the term “bear arms” doesn’t apply to self-defense otherwise.

And self-defense was not the point of the second amendment, the security of a free state was.

I guess it makes a lot of sense when you just ignore all counterfactual evidence.

It’s simple. For 220 years, this was not an individual, unlimited right. Then Scalia hand waved away two centuries of precedent and decided the text magically aligned with his activist agenda.

Where’s the link to the actual court filing?

That’s an interesting assertion - especially given the lack of actual criticism of his ruling and its arguments.

Really. He decides to reclassify a accessories as arms, and that’s not a valid criticism. He’s legislating from the bench.

You might want to revisit his provided statement on the matter - it wasn’t very ambiguous.

And you might want to link it. I just guessed.

Who wrote that, Benitez?

He’s making shit up and he knows it.

I’m sure you guys won’t complain if every magazine, optic and accessory is required to ship to an FFL for paperwork before getting to the customer. 'Cause they’re “arms” now, right?

Perhaps you’re not an American? Perhaps you don’t know the history of your own country?

From Jefferson and Madison banning guns on campus to gun control being commonplace in the old west to the 1934 NFA that outlawed sawed off shotguns to the 1986 NFA that banned full-autos, it has never been unlimited.

Former chief justice Warren Burger called this out in 1991. That’s what conservatism used to look like. What you’re parroting is NRA propaganda. It’s unprecedented and it’s insane.

A piece of plastic is not an arm.

Doesn’t matter if it’s a 30 round magazine or a bump stock.

This idea that somehow the second amendment is unlimited is unprecedented and insane.

States rights!

Wait, no not like that.

PS6, PS7 and maybe PS8.

The question is what do you do with the waste warm water.

There are A/C systems that use groundwater to cool the coils and then discharge into a pond. But obviously that only works in a place where you have ample free water and a place to dispose of it.

Whoa, hang on guys. This doesn’t mean Truth Social is over, it just means the SPAC deal that was going to take it public might fall through.

If this fails, then they’ll need some venture capital to keep running, and if that fails, then it’ll be time to shut down.

He’s probably running for a cabinet position.

Worked for Buttigeg, Ben Carson and Rick Perry.

Except that it’s already been used to keep Jan 6ers off the ballot.

It’s got teeth. How much? I dunno. But Trump doesn’t necessarily need to be disqualified for the party to step in and nominate someone else.

I think a lot of Republicans would welcome the excuse.

This dumb motherfucker has never heard of an Ethernet cable.

I can’t imagine the EU is going to accept a return without some concessions.

I’d be curious to see what those numbers look like if you throw in abolishing the pound and integration of the UK into Schengen.

And that still doesn’t create food deserts. You don’t understand what a food desert is.

Food deserts are created when Walmart sets up shop and undercuts a dozen smaller groceries sending them out of business, meaning that anyone who wants groceries now needs a car to get across the giant government mandated parking lot.

Theft has nothing to do with it and your attempts to link the two are pathetic.

I don’t think stealing from Nordstrom at the mall is displacing local grocery stores, but you go ahead.

It kind of makes sense.

Hear me out.

He knows he’s screwed. He’s got 78 counts against him.

At this point, the only thing that will make the federal charges go away is to win the presidency. The time to play it safe is over.

The best bet right now might be to rally the base and get the GOP nomination. You might get clobbered in the general election, but that’s a 2024 problem.

Then you have the constitutional crisis of a sitting president with a state prison sentence, but he doesn’t really care about the well-being of the country, so that’s moot to a raging narcissist.

There’s a supply shortage.

You can’t sprawl your way out of this problem, despite Texas’ best efforts. All you do there is create traffic.

The answer is simple. Legalize housing. More triplexes, more quadplexes, more ADUs, 5 over 1s, more of everything. Developers want to fill this demand. They can’t. They’re hamstrung by city ordnances and state laws that often only allow apartments or single family housing. Not everyone wants or needs a separate house. Make rent boring again and the corporations will lose interest.

The same reason General Popov was dismissed then attacked by state media. The same reason Prigozhin encountered minor resistance on his march to Moscow.

Morale is low, stockpiles are depleted and industry is decimated, partially by sanctions and partially by mobilization.

Russia is using WWII tactics with cold war era equipment. Thousands of artillery pieces don’t mean a whole lot if you can’t put counter-battery fire on a HIMARS. Thousands of mobiks aren’t going to be effective if they don’t have modern training and equipment. Russia wasted hundreds of guided missiles on residential targets with no strategic value in the middle of a war.

The war is already lost. The only question now is how many more Russians have to die on Ukrainian soil before Putin starts to care.