‘The gun was seized and he was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and issued a deportation order.’

Italian meanies! He’s only trying to share the American way of life.

‘Cambodia has been described by analysts as a de facto scam state that risks becoming a global pariah if it fails to act against the criminal networks within its borders.’

About sixty percent (!) of its GDP comes from cybercrime.

What makes it even prettier is that they traffic, imprison, and abuse the scammers.

‘The article also urged a return to values “rooted in blood, soil, language, and love of one’s own.’

Harvard’s conservative student magazine gets rather too excited.

Guncoming Season!

Bullets are in the air as our universities (most recently, Lincoln and Howard) do homecoming the American way.

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This guy thinks you should separate the warring factions. Ain’t gonna happen. Schools like LSU are very little other than football/tailgating/drinking/shooting. Folks aren’t gonna like it if you interfere.

‘Robeson [County, NC] had the highest overall crime rate and the highest violent crime rate in North Carolina in 2022, according to the State Bureau of Investigation.’

And it’s certainly keeping up the good work – Thirteen people were shot at an enormous party last night, with two dead and a bunch in critical condition. Concentrate enough drunk gunny dipshits in one place down south and this will tend to happen.

Abu Dhabi here we come!

It’s where all the rich scum go.

HONK IF YOU LOVE…

dying from a chest wound.

Big Yellow Mercedes

Federally allocated taxpayer money to feed hungry Missouri children! Twenty million dollars! So generous! SOOOO generous that the person allocating it figured she could take most of it herself – McMansions and a fluro yellow $200,000 Mercedes and lots more shit like that. She left a trickle for the kids.

‘Following his support for a burqa ban, [Robert] Jenrick has been condemned for espousing ‘anti-British’ values.  “That’s so anti-British. It goes against what our nation stands for,” noted Labour MP Sam Rushworth. Those condemning these laws appear to suggest that Britain stands for the Islamist erasure of women.’

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle, wrote Orwell, and while there are those who, without a struggle, can see the manifest meaning of the burqa, others, as blinded as women and children stashed behind mesh, simply will not perceive it. Countries all over the mideast and Europe have banned it; every week, a new country or province bans it. These places have eyes to see what is in front of their nose. Self-regarding ideologues, on the other hand, see only themselves. They blind themselves to radical misogyny and female enslavement staring at them – through a little eye-slit – smack in the face.

The Mayor’s too polite to say “Because it’s loud, violent, stinky, and above all trashy, and Myrtle Beach…

… is trashy enough.”

Whoops, there goes another one.

Suicidewise, nothing beats a gun range.

“[T]o normalize the sound of gun fire, that’s not good.”

Hell man, get with the program. Normalizing the sound of gunfire is America’s middle name.

Limerick
Ex-Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia
Appears to be rather a Nazia
Although not Trump's first
And far from his worst
For his loss we can only say grazia

Wow! Wyoming begins to intuit that there might be a connection between all them guns and the nation’s highest suicide rates.

Usually suicide reporting out of the Dead Cowboy State fails to mention guns AT ALL; but the local public radio station is at least willing to quote some guy on the subject.

Getting somewhere, Wyoming!

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But don’t get too excited.

‘Some [Chicago] politicians talk of killings as they might of the weather, an implacable force.’

[T]he city’s political leadership—which Democrats have dominated for nearly a century—has tolerated disorder for far too long… Trump doesn’t entirely miss the mark when he lambastes generations of political indifference to so much suffering. When he deployed the National Guard in Washington, D.C., crime fell.

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