Nothing to see here!

Fugitive Maine shooting suspect Robert Card lived in a ‘compound’ with his gun-fanatic family, according to a local who claimed neighbors tried to avoid the alleged killer. 

Liam Kent, who lives near Card’s home in Bowdoin, told The Messenger the community knew the suspect and his relatives as ‘gun-toting enthusiasts who lived in ‘basically a compound.’

‘They would shoot guns all the time, you could hear them every day after school. It was like clockwork,’ Kent claimed, adding that he once saw Card ‘covered in blood with a gun on his back [and] a giant grin on his face’ after going deer hunting. 

The spicy aroma of UD’s fall-blooming Osmanthus…

… is pretty overwhelming.

“[E]very country contains mentally ill and potentially violent people. Only America arms them.”

Crazed firearms expert with military training still on the loose, killing anything that moves in Lewiston, Maine. Just “discharged from a mental health facility,” but getting hold of high-powered assault-style rifle a piece of cake.

Maybe the genius who discharged him gave him a therapy gun as a goodbye gift.

Maine has “no independent background check system, no red flag law to identify those at extreme risk for gun violence, no requirement that convicted domestic abusers turn in their guns and no permit requirements for concealed weapons.”

Depraved US gunnie/state senator arrogantly carries his weaponry to the local airport (fails to get caught) and then to a country where they actually have gun laws. Bad things ensue.

[Jeff] Wilson faces his next court hearing in Hong Kong on October 30 …

Under Hong Kong’s strict gun control laws, no one is allowed to possess any arms or ammunition unless they have a license from the Commissioner of Police. Licenses are only given to police officers, armed security guard services and operators of exclusive shooting range clubs.

Gun violence is very rare in Hong Kong, unlike in the United States where firearms are now the No. 1 killer of children and teens.

In [Wilson’s] Washington state, open carry is allowed for both long guns and handguns without a license, which means individuals can carry a firearm in many public areas, although private property owners may prohibit firearms on their property.

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Hold the fucker a long time. Try him in a lengthy, televised, trial. Then put him in prison.

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The longer they hold him with their absurd laws, the more likely that Wilson becomes a swaggering NRA hero, defending his right to export blood-soaked America (Wow! 22 dead, 50-60 injured so far!!) and its ways to lucky countries all over the world. Hell, it weren’t loaded! Plum forgot it was in there! Deep state’s after him too! FREE JEFF WILSON

What Would Jesus Say?

[Jack] Smith’s investigators were keenly interested in questioning [Mark] Meadows about … whether Meadows actually believed some of the claims he included in a book he published after Trump left office — a book that promised to “correct the record” on Trump.

ABC News has identified several assertions in the book that appear to be contradicted by what Meadows allegedly told investigators behind closed doors.

According to Meadows’ book, the election was “stolen” and “rigged” with help from “allies in the liberal media,” who ignored “actual evidence of fraud, right there in plain sight for anyone to access and analyze.”

But, as described to ABC News, Meadows privately told Smith’s investigators that — to this day — he has yet to see any evidence of fraud that would have kept now-president Joe Biden from the White House, and he told them he agrees with a government assessment at the time that the 2020 presidential election was the most secure election in U.S. history.

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Why are you a big ol’ liar, Mark? What would Jesus say?

DEAR LEADER SAYS:

No.

“Do your worst. I’m not intimidated. I won’t back down. My mission is Truth, my God is the Lord Jesus Christ, and my client is the President of the United States.”

Jenna backs down.

My Jenna posts.

What a sweetie! A true ambassador for the American way of life.

[State Sen. Jeff] Wilson was arrested and charged with unlicensed possession of a firearm in Hong Kong on October 21, 2023, after being found with a revolver at the Hong Kong International Airport. The gun is legally licensed in Washington State, but not in Hong Kong. According to Wilson, he discovered the unloaded firearm in his luggage in his carry-on luggage mid-flight. He alerted airport authorities and was subsequently arrested. After his initial court hearing, Wilson and his family had verbal exchanges with reporters at the courthouse, leading to police mediation. Wilson was said to have verbally abused the reporters and asked them to delete any photos taken outside of the courthouse.  He was ordered to surrender his travel documents and not to leave Hong Kong until his next court date.

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Here’s hoping his next court date is some time in 2028.

‘Er liebt mich, er liebt mich nicht…

… But the dictator who loves me the most is… Orban of Turkey!

As if UD’s high school in Bethesda…

… is any exception.

Jest a little feller with a big AR…
Shot that motherfucker into one long line o' cars
Shot it at the Waffle House Decatur Alabam
Got pissed with his buddy and - bang bang bang shazam
Barely outta short pants but God Bless the USA
Packs a AR-15 when he goes out to play

View from UD’s open front door…

… in mid-October late afternoon sunlight.

Restaurant owner…

… aborts his own business.

Wow. I could see refusing to …

enter Taco Bell…

Mr UD, yesterday, Staunton Virginia, just after…

… it stopped raining and the sun came out.

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