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In the meantime:
Sig Sauer, a manufacturer of WMD's, is releasing a new rifle that (from an article, which I don't want to link because I don't want to run the 0.001% chance that the FBI will target us as some looney organization fond of this insane machines):
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IG Sauer’s new MCX-SPEAR fires bullets with twice the kinetic energy of those from an AR-15. That means double the horrifying force that mangled the victims of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and left one youngster essentially decapitated.

“It’ll shoot through almost all of the bulletproof vests that are worn by law enforcement in the county right now,” said Ryan Busse, a former firearms company executive who is now a senior policy analyst with the Giffords Law Center and author of Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America.
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TWICE the kinetic energy of an AR-15. Because, who the (expletive) needs this for self protection?
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ponchi101 wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 9:48 pm In the meantime:
Sig Sauer, a manufacturer of WMD's, is releasing a new rifle that (from an article, which I don't want to link because I don't want to run the 0.001% chance that the FBI will target us as some looney organization fond of this insane machines):
Quote:
IG Sauer’s new MCX-SPEAR fires bullets with twice the kinetic energy of those from an AR-15. That means double the horrifying force that mangled the victims of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and left one youngster essentially decapitated.

“It’ll shoot through almost all of the bulletproof vests that are worn by law enforcement in the county right now,” said Ryan Busse, a former firearms company executive who is now a senior policy analyst with the Giffords Law Center and author of Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America.
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TWICE the kinetic energy of an AR-15. Because, who the (expletive) needs this for self protection?
Men with manhood issues?
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After Roe, Republicans Sharpen Attacks on Gay and Transgender Rights
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/us/p ... ights.html

Republicans are so hateful, yet they think have some kind of moral hold over everyone. The GOP is just a shallow breath away from being Nazis.
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Owendonovan wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 10:41 am After Roe, Republicans Sharpen Attacks on Gay and Transgender Rights
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/us/p ... ights.html

Republicans are so hateful, yet they think have some kind of moral hold over everyone. The GOP is just a shallow breath away from being Nazis.
They have a few traits:
1. The End ALWAYS justifies the Means. Any means.
2. If it does not affect them, it does not matter.
3. They are particularly solipsistic. THEIR rights are unquestionable: YOUR rights are questionable to the point of removal.
4. They are uncapable of following logical conclusions. The right for a person to own a WMD (an AR15) poses no danger to society. The right for two men to love each other in a private setting will lead to the destruction of said society. The logical fallacy escapes them.
5. And, ponchi101's favorite one: their religious zealous keeps them from introspection. So much of what they do is ordered from God himself. Their rights are god given, their policies follow a divine order, they are protecting their souls for a future life, this one not being important at all.

Sure, I can see them as close to Nazis. And other cults.
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Russian Man Recruited U.S. Groups from Florida, Georgia and California to ‘Sow Discord’ and Push Anti-U.S. ‘Agitprop’: DOJ
ADAM KLASFELD Jul 29th, 2022, 3:51 pm

A Russian man spent nearly a decade recruiting U.S. citizens and groups in Florida, Georgia and California to “sow discord” and push political “agitprop” against the United States and favoring the Kremlin, U.S. authorities said on Friday.

According to his 25-page indictment, Moscow resident Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov founded the Kremlin-funded Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia and worked under the “supervision” and with the “support” of Russian intelligence agents as far back as October 2013.

Together, prosecutors say, they recruited political groups within the United States and Ukraine, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Ireland to attend conferences in Russia. Ionov is charged with conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal agents of the Russian government.

“Brazen Influence Campaign”

The scope of the influence campaigns described in the indictment are startling in their aims and diversity, allegedly targeting U.S. elections, boosted a California succession movement, and recruiting groups on both poles of the political spectrum. Court papers also link Ionov to convicted Russian agent Maria Butina, whose ties to prominent Republicans came to light during investigations into the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

“As court documents show, Ionov allegedly orchestrated a brazen influence campaign, turning U.S. political groups and U.S. citizens into instruments of the Russian government,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division said in a statement.

Ionov allegedly worked behind the scenes to circulate a Change.org petition to charge the United States with genocide against African peoples, a campaign that gathered more than 113,000 signatures by press time.

Posted by the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based group International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement — a pan-African and socialist group — the petition allegedly began with an overture from Ionov to two unindicted co-conspirators.

On Aug. 13, 2015, Ionov emailed the alleged co-conspirators, who have not yet been identified, asking them to create the petition “ASAP” and sent it to the “UN office in New York and to the websites of the White House and change.org.”

Some 13 days later, prosecutors say, the petition came into being. Ionov allegedly sent an email to one of his unindicted co-conspirators shortly after stating that the petition had been translated into Russian and disseminate through that country’s outlets.

Tampa Bay-based CBS affiliate WTSP captured federal authorities raiding the Uhuru House, quoting defiant words of Akile Anai, the director of the African People’s Socialist Party’s Department of Agitation and Propaganda.

“What we know this to really be, one, is a propaganda war is being waged against Russia every single day throughout the news,” Anai told the station.

“There You Go”

Prosecutors also saw Ionov’s machinations behind the California secession movement, which went viral that year under the hashtag #Calexit.

In April 2017, CNN reported that the movement’s leader ditched the campaign to make his home in Russia shortly after former President Donald Trump’s election.

Ionov allegedly kept pushing the effort into the following year, emailing another unindicted co-conspirator in Russian to plan a demonstration outside the California Capitol in Sacramento that was ultimately held on Valentine’s Day of 2018.

Prosecutors say that emails show Ionov saying that he transferred $500 in support of the protest and paid for the posters.

After the demonstration, prosecutors say, Ionov passed on news articles to a Russian intelligence agent stating that he asked for “turmoil” and “there you go.”

The high-profile prosecution of Butina at the height of a Russia probe — though conducted by a different office — raised the spotlight on Ionov’s activities in early 2019, and a Russian intelligence officer allegedly warned Ionov about the possibility he would face sanctions.

Passing on an article printed on Aug. 20, 2019, the FSB officer told Ionov that the report identified him as a “patron of Butina, who admitted to interfering in the 2016 elections,” and warned that “sanctions would be imposed against him,” according to the indictment.

Federal prosecutors also accuse Ionov of machinations in a pair of local elections in St. Petersburg, Fla., in 2017 and 2019. Ionov continued to push the Kremlin’s line through his Florida contacts in the early stages of Russia’s war on Ukraine, falsely claiming “anybody who supported Ukraine was also supporting Naziism [sic] and white supremacy,” according to the indictment.

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A true patriot. The Russian guy.
All the others, true traitors.
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Jon Stewart has not let up on the fist bumping GOP'ers

Ah dearest Theodore. I do appreciate you and @JesseBWatters trying to rally the forces of misinformation to try and kill more vets…but not tonite sweetie. I’ll go slow cuz I know you only went to Princeton and Harvard…



Show everyone where in the Pact Act is this 400 billion dollars blank check or unrelated spending that was added/snuck in…OR show section 805 c of the actual bill that explicitly states what the Toxic Exposure Fund can be used for. Next

Show everyone what was added/snuck into the Pact Act that YOU voted for on June 16, that made you change to No in July. Be specific. Or were you for the bill before you were against it Senator Kerry…I mean Cruz. Next

No one is playing politics with the Pact Act but you, Toomey and your band of merry monsters. Stop (expletive) around and pass the bill you already had passed. Thank you for coming to my TedCruz talk.

This isn’t a game. Real people’s lives hang in the balance…people that fought for your life. The PACT act you voted for, then inexplicably shot down is the same one Senators Tester and Moran posted online in MAY. Which you read cuz yer shmart.


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And now.
Can the decent people of the USA turn out in November and hand the Congress and the Senate to the Dems, so something can be done, as opposed to stay home because "gas is at $4.50/Gal and I can't drive my Corvette"?
Before the SCOTUS decides that civil rights are not in the constitution?
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Who's gonna be the cut man because...

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Ok, what part a I missing?
My position about the Church is well known. But you cannot call yourself a catholic AND approve of abortion. The Catholic Church, and all churches, are not democracies; you don't get to be in disagreement with a church. You obey.
So, what were these people expecting? That the dioceses and archdioceses of any state or county were going yo vote FOR abortion rights? For them, this was money well spent; the catholic church is clear on this issue.
I am obviously in agreement of abortion; that is a woman's choice. But, again, if you are a catholic, please, make up your mind. It is one or another; you can't be both.
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There are many millions of Catholics who are for choice. They just tend to keep their mouths shut. Remember when the norm for Catholic families was double digit children? You don't see that any more and it's not because people have stopped having sex. This group is just saying the quiet part out loud and have been for awhile now.
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Yes, I know these catholics. They use contraception, and good for them.
But that is still contradictory of the official doctrine. Which was like reason number 15 of why I left organized religion (and disorganized religion too).
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