If he and those 3000 patriots persevered to secure our nation, then you guys can fucking survive the occasional non-descript seemingly-tough twitter developments that seem momentarily difficult for more than 5 fucking minutes.
That is all. Toughen the fuck up.
Cant find it for the life of me - but it was a tweet saying "Trump sure knows how to close a rally" with a compilation of him dancing to YMCA.
Pedes, please help me find it!
EDIT: FOUND https://fb.watch/1whieLQML4/
Since we're almost certainly going to crash our new home, I'd love to absolutely decimate every /r/redacted thread with the most relentless, bad faith, over-the-top, and unforgiving influx of "GET FUCKED YOU FILTHY COMMIES" comments.
I don't just want the landslide victory. I want to ruin every corner they turn to for copium. I want the mods to be unable to delete our comments fast enough, the progression of users whining about the raid, and the inevitable locking of every thread.
Let's make their only way out to turn off their phones, be alone with their thoughts, and cry at the fact their reality has melted before their eyes.
Hey all, I made a post a few weeks ago about how I made my first weapon purchase. I'm a lazy sonofabitch and it wasn't that interesting, so if you're interested then you're welcome to check my history.
I finally picked it up from my FFL. Great guy. Retired cop working out of his basement. Just a classic crazy uncle type who made me feel comfortable as hell with transferring it over.
I scooped a S&W M&P Sport II rifle. It wasn't as cheap as it would've been a year ago, but it was affordable. I wanted a reliable and well-made gun that had a solid reputation, and I settled on the Sport II for precisely that reason.
For anyone here who may have been an anti-gun smooth brain before, changed their tune, and have been back and forth on owning one themselves, I wanted to share something that I noticed.
I expected to feel different when I got it back home. I mean, why wouldn't I? One moment i would have nothing more than a chef's knife for self defense, and now I've got a machine capable of sending 30 rounds of 5.56 ammunition at whatever it points at. That's a massive difference, right? I'll be treating it like a fragile orb that, if dropped, will open the gates to Hell. It'll feel like a monstrous responsibility that will weigh on me every time I look at it. How could that not force a shift in my perspective?
But that's not the case. Sure, I understand the responsibility of this thing fully. But it doesn't feel like anything. I just recognize that that's the case. It's like a lighter or a match book. You know that fire can spread from a tiny match to engulfing your entire home. But it stops there. You don't tremble with a lit match in your hand. You don't stay up at night hoping the match doesn't go wrong some day. You simply know the risk while it's lit intuitively, and you don't behave like an idiot when you hold one.
It doesn't feel strange to hold. It doesn't feel foreign. These things are made ergonomically to our bodies. Maybe you'll look awkward while getting used to it, but 5 minutes later and it feels natural. They're pretty damn simple, too. The machining is impressive and finely tuned, but it works much the same way that any other gun has ever worked. It's just more efficient and streamlined.
It doesn't feel different. I feel secure in that if the worst case scenario were to occur, I wouldn't be at the mercy of whoever may be in my home. I'm safe. My fiancé is safe. That is the only difference I feel.
There's obviously a world of responsibility with this thing. I don't mean to minimize that. I haven't even placed a bullet in a magazine yet, but I still check to be sure multiple times. It's hard not to. Being responsible with it is almost hard to not overdo.
It won't point at anything other than when I'm zeroing the sight with my bore lazer round. Even then, ill be in the basement pointing at stone. Even then, I'm checking the chamber, checking the magazine, making sure there's 0% chance for error.
If anything, it's a relief. I'm a pretty nervous person by nature. I overthink things, worry about mistakes, and fear the worst in many ways. It made me delay getting a gun. I was worried I'd be the asshole who ends up on the news because he shot a neighbor while cleaning his gun or something. But I don't feel that way now. I'll still take every precaution to ensure that's never the case because neglecting to recognize that possibility is exactly what leads to those accidents, but it's not being processed as anxiety. Simply a sense of responsibility.
Apologies for the rant, but I just wanted to share for anyone else who may be hesitant to pull the proverbial trigger. If you feel that fear and anxiety over the possibility of owning one, then you're probably exactly who should be exercising your second ammendment rights. If thats who you are by nature, you will almost certainly be an example of a good gun owner. You'll be incredibly safe with your firearm. You'll be careful and err on the side of safety.
If that's you, then go for it. Please. The only difference I feel is a slight sigh of relief that I no longer run the risk of being unprepared. It feels like I've never had locks in my doors and just installed a state of the art security system.
Thanks again to those of you who have graciously offered advice, tips, and general encouragement for others to exercise their 2nd ammendment rights. I hope to pass on the favor and encourage others to do the same.
I don't know if this has been discussed, but hear me out. I think this is fucking massive.
You know the lefty talking point about how Biden was ahead of Trump on the pandemic? The evidence they use can be found in this tweet from exactly a year ago (mirror screen grab) and an op-ed from January (link here - I'm unable to archive the link unfortunately.. screen grab of headline here until I can work that out and update.
Pretty weird, right? Covid was hardly breaking in the news as anything other than something being strictly China's problem at the time. The potential dangers of it coming to the US were almost exclusively dismissed as a non-issue by every major news organization. Yet Joe Biden is over here tweeting about pandemics, as if they're a concern that any voter had at the time?
Know what the headlines are from that time? Go search on Google News for "China" with the date range set between 10/20/19 to 10/29/19. You can look for yourself, but the topics include:
- Hong Kong protests
- NBA siding with CCP
- China makes a trade offer of $20b
- TikTok feeling the heat for being owned by China
- "US and China are close to finalizing some sections of trade deal"
- "PHASE ONE OF TRADE DEAL COMING TO AN AGREEMENT"
- China upset that their diplomats must report meetings in the US
- Chinese industry profits taking damage
- Speculation that Chinese economic growth may be below 6%
The list goes on.
So what gives? Pretty good timing on Biden's end, huh? How smart he must be, tweeting about a pandemic being a threat just when China is losing the trade war, and then releasing an op ed when everyone and their mother are hardly concerned about the virus.
It's because China told him to. They instructed him to publish that op ed. They told him to push that tweet.
China was feeling the heat. Their chance at becoming the world super power was disappearing before their eyes. They were right there, and Trump had stopped them. So they played their last-resort card. They called up Joe, reminded him of the lovely photos they got of Hunter, asked him if SinoHawk was doing well, and instructed him to make his mark.
It explains his reaction to Trump closing the border as well. Why would someone with such impressive foresight, someone who literally wrote that "diseases don't stop at borders or walls" suddenly preaching that we shouldn't shut ours down?
I'm getting ranty - so I'll wrap it up.
- China gave Biden the heads up to start talking about a pandemic and how Trump is unprepared for the possibility. This would've seemed like too much before tonight, but the blackmail they have on him makes it a no brainer.
- Biden tweets general statement about pandemics, so when it hits as hard as China knows it will, he can play the role of having foretold the prophecy.
- China tells Biden in January to release the op ed. Concern is growing, it's in the US, and they know it's about to explode.
- Trump closes the borders. China sees this as dampening the impact of the virus. They want people dying en masse. They want that 2 million dead. They tell Biden to speak against it. They want to start as many points of contact as they can.
- Biden follows instructions because his son's meat snake has been lookin' pretty for the camera
I know it might sound insane, but I've always wondered why Biden had an arguably accurate take so early on. This can literally be the only reason.
Fiancé and I are gonna sit down and I get to make my case. She's pretty disengaged from the process and politics aren't her thing, so her only exposure is whatever she sees go viral on social media, what co workers say, etc.
Because I'm an insane person and mind-dump a fragmented summary of what happens every few weeks or so, along with the fact that we used to listen to Bongino on commutes, she's absolutely open to the idea of being brought on board. Her instinct is that she just doesn't like Trump (which is understandable given her surface level exposure) because he's a bit too aggressive for her liking as some context.
My goal is to give a "what's happened, whats next" type of case that emphasizes separating personality from policy. Laying out the case against Biden will be easy enough, but we've had such a wild ride with the attacks against Trump/the narratives that have stuck that I'd appreciate anything and everything to keep me on track.
Ideally, something that would allow for me to put something together that addresses common critiques with no basis, lies that have survived over the last 4 years, positive changes he's made that are spun/under reported, etc.
I know enough off the top of my head that I think I can make a solid case, but I tend to hyperfocus on certain topics and completely forget about others, so anything that can keep my monkey brain from fucking up would be a massive help.
Just revealed on Bannon's show: https://youtu.be/5YIPmJa9xj8
Cooney was moved from a low security prison to another to be placed in solitary confinement.
that not one of you have called for breaking up Reddit's complete takeover of the salt industry.
Just wanted to share the excitement I feel to have finally.. pulled the trigger (I'm so sorry) on ordering my first ever firearm.
It's been a slow burn for me since 2015. I was a Bernie-obsessed progressive who believed all of the nonsensical progressive positions. I thought guns were a mistake to protect as a right. I wanted free shit. I had no appreciation for what freedom really meant.
Then, one day, I realized I wasn't actually knowledgeable on guns. I didn't know the first thing about them. All I knew was that they were scary "death machines" that "made us a joke" on the world stage.
Cue visiting one of the gun subreddits. I reached out, explained my ideology, what my position was, and said that I was open to changing my mind if anyone felt compelled to engage with me.
Cue a front page post filled to the brim with users, starting with the skeptics who were helpful, but weary as far as my sincerity was concerned. Once it was clear I was discussing in good faith, comments and DM's flowed in faster than I could keep up. Not only were they incredibly kind and written in a way that they clearly wanted to clarify misconceptions I had, but they were incredibly well argued.
I left that thread having flipped entirely. I was a pro gun lefty.
But even then I was in a slave state that's tough to get a beef gun, let alone anything capable of defending yourself with. On top of that I was having some issues with depression and felt that, while I might like to in the future, it wasn't responsible for me to bring a gun into the picture until I dealt with my demons.
Since then, that day of realizing that I didn't know shit is what put me on the path to conservatism. I read about the constitution. I read about our founders. I came to appreciate every word of the constitution, and eventually became a full blown conservative. It wasn't an outfit change based on talking points, but a genuine philosophy that naturally came to fruition as I based my positions on arguments instead of "its the system, man!"
That lead me to you guys on Reddit, which lead me to weekly Sunday Gundays. Weekly Sunday gundays made a firearm seem less novel, and more like a tool. My personal life improved massively and I havent been depressed for years. I have a good and steady job, a home, and live in a much freer state than before.
And now, I've got a new baby looking for her forever home on the way. A Smith & Wesson MP15 Sport II, 2 30 round 5.56 mags, and 400 rounds of 5.56 ammo to supplement (because God damn, ammo is expensive as a mother fucker right now).
I dont believe I'll make the next Sunday Gunday, but I'm excited to show her to the world during the following one.
Thank you all for making this community so great. I can't wait to have the comfort of a rittenhouse-special being available to protect my home and family, and you guys played an integral role in chipping away at the hesitancy I felt toward making the move.