Last one for today; court papers indicate that one defendant in the sweep-up after the Capitol riot drove there from Colorado (a 25-hour drive, apparently), and was apprehended with;
Assault-style rifle
Glock firearm with high-capacity magazines, and ...
2,500 rounds of ammo.
Ponder that for a minute. 2,500 rounds.
I'm going to HAVE to go do some research on how much ammo for a Glock actually costs, now ....
how much ammo for a Glock actually costs....
I'm going to HAVE to go do some research on how much ammo for a Glock actually costs, now ....
Give a man a Glock and some ammo, and he can feed his family indefinitely...Probably cheaper than food I bet.
A very good (and rather worrying) article in today's Financial Times:
https://www.ft.com/content/cabfd2bc-54d9-4a9e-8cd2-d8e1e19351d1
Title:
Why the Republican party will be hard to rescue
Moderates must undo decades of paranoid politics, not just five years of it
An excerpt:
It was a Republican, vice-president Mike Pence, who most exercised the crowd in the US Capitol last week. It was another, Senator Lindsey Graham, who found himself encircled and jeered in a local airport. Neither man’s unctuous service to Donald Trump over four years counted for much once they chose to uphold his presidential election loss of last November. For that lapse in purity they will now be hounded, to quote one marcher, “forever”.
A feature of extremism is the relish with which it attacks its own side. The doubter and the schismatic incur more wrath than the outright non-believer. And so mainstream Republicans are in for a vicious and open-ended struggle with the wilder edges of their own movement. If only the Grand Old Party were at stake, the nation could leave them to it. But no democracy can prosper long without two responsible parties. It is of existential import to the US (and to the world it helps to anchor) that Republican moderates prevail. How tragic, then, that they probably won’t. Their first problem is the depth and age of the internal rot. Republicans have to undo decades of flirtation with paranoid elements, not just five years’ worth. Whether we date it to the congressional midterm election of 1994, or Barry Goldwater’s White House bid in 1964, or the McCarthyite 1950s, the party has not policed its right flank for a long time.
WHO KILLED [insert deplorable enabler of choice here]? ...BASTARDS!Just heard someone describe it as having Eric Cartman as President for the past four years. Sounds about right!
Good - I sincerely hope the GOP tears itself apart over the next couple of years so that the Dems can cement control in the mid-terms. It would be so richly deserved. However I'm cautious, because one thing the GOP has been very good at over the past 30 years is keeping its eye on the prize (control of the Supreme Court, disenfranchising ordinary people, and creating rule by corporation).
I think the wealthy and corporations who bankroll the GOP will also be very well aware of the danger and will rally around to contain the far right. The far right are their "useful idiots" who help them to con ordinary folk into voting for financial self immolation, but they will be thrown under the campaign bus as soon as they become a liability.
Last one for today; court papers indicate that one defendant in the sweep-up after the Capitol riot drove there from Colorado (a 25-hour drive, apparently), and was apprehended with;
Assault-style rifle
Glock firearm with high-capacity magazines, and ...
2,500 rounds of ammo.
Ponder that for a minute. 2,500 rounds.
I'm going to HAVE to go do some research on how much ammo for a Glock actually costs, now ....
PS Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Obvs.
Should Biden wish he can increase the number of judges on the Supreme Court, he could add a few less extreme members such that key acts like Roe v Wade cannot be reversed and other more enlightened practices could be introduced to the USA.