I can’t understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand

Back in the ’80s the term “virtue signalling” hadn’t been invented yet. But I was in college at the time with a bunch of virtue signalling leftists who only held the opinions and political positions they held to demonstrate how much better they were than “those people” who didn’t. “Those people” Hillary Clinton would later consign to her “basket of deplorables.”

One thing I learned about leftists is that they lie a lot. For instance, as Depeche Mode put it, nice leftists simply don’t know what it is to feel hate. They need us evil deplorables to help them understand how it’s possible to hate anyone. And of course they will never learn. Because of course if they were capable of learning then they wouldn’t keep proposing/voting for the same cruel, destructive policies that can only keep resulting in the same cruel, destructive outcomes.

They insist that they be judged on their intentions, not results. For some reason no matter how many times they inflict harm on other people they insist we play the “but their hearts are in the right place” game. “Good people” want “generous” welfare benefits that the “good people” insist will help poor people. When their policy preferences never help people out of poverty but instead create more poverty, well, their hearts were in the right place, dammit. Then they double down.

There hearts aren’t in the right place. Only evil people can perform acts of evil over and over and over again, not caring about the harm they do.

At about the same time “People are People” was climbing the charts The Cosby Show was really popular. The “good people” were saying things like “When I watch The Cosby Show I don’t see a black family. I just see a family.” I grew up in Oakland. Supposedly it’s racist of me to point out that I dated a lot of black girls and had a lot of black friends. Oakland was (or at least seemed) about 50% black. If I couldn’t get along with black people I’m giving the cold shoulder to something like 50% of the population and there’s something wrong with me. My black friends and I would listen to leftists say stupid things like that and our reaction was, “WTF is wrong with your eyes? The Huxtables are a black family.”

It turns out leftists are the racists we always suspected. They’re just more open about it now. The reason they couldn’t admit they saw a black family when they watched The Cosby Show is because they (not conservatives) have a lot of prejudices against blacks. Since they think and expect the worst from blacks, they pretended not to see them back then. It’s a classic case of projection. “Oh, YOU see a black family do you? Klansman!” In the 1920s racist Dems laughed at the idea of blacks going to college because, they said then, blacks are too lazy and stupid. Now racist Dems insist blacks get extra points for anything because to actually enforce standards would be racist. The “good people” know that the poor dears can’t do the work because of “systemic racism” and “white supremacism.” It’s racist to expect blacks to score as high on the SAT or ACT as whites and Asians (for some reason the same crowd of American citizens Democrat hero FDR interred during WWII as disloyal and potential traitors have been reinvented as a primary beneficiary of our white supremacist system) because, of course, plus reasons. So black students still get in to top tier universities if they score 400 points lower on the SAT than some Chinese guy; scoring somewhere in the triple digits is a really good score! For a black person, natch. It’s racist to expect blacks (Hispanics, too) to speak and write standard. You can look it up; actually assessing a student’s writing ability when they turn in a writing assignment perpetuates or racist system of “white language supremacy.” Seriously, this is a social justice thing. Instead of ability the SJWs insist that students are scored on the “effort” they put into an assignment. And they have to presume white and Asian students didn’t put any effort into their assignments because of our “white supremacist” system, but blacks and Hispanics had to put four times as much effort into the assignment to produce something 1/4 as good. Not because they’re stupid. No, that’s what racist Dems would have said in the 1920s. C’mon man! It’s the 2020s. Expect less from black and brown people for different racist reasons.

Even better; “academic justice” requires that teachers and professors give exemplary grads to BIPOC (look it up) students who don’t turn in their assignments. And extra “woke” points if they don’t show up at all for class. Not because they’re lazy, racist! Because they’re too emotional; they’re traumatized by the systemic injustice in this nation that was founded in 1619 on the institution of slavery and only declared independence because the racist slave holders were worried Great Britain was about to abolish slavery, according to the scholars at the NYT magazine (never mind that racists said the same racist things about minorities being ruled by their emotions back unlike calm, rational white people in the 1920s).

For years I simply thought that leftists were incorrigible liars. But then I learned about the antisocial personality disorders of sociopathy and psychopathy. All normal human beings feel hatred. Just like they feel fear, or jealousy. There is considerable overlap between a sociopath and a psychopath. The difference is sociopaths have a conscience and psychopaths don’t. A sociopath’s conscience is very weak, and it won’t stop them from treating others as objects to be used to get what they want. They will demonstrate the same pattern of aggression, manipulation, deceit, and lack of empathy for others as a psychopath. But when a sociopath does all that the sociopath feels a weak, tiny twinge of guilt. Again, not enough to stop them. A psychopath doesn’t feel any such emotions at all.

All that does is make a sociopath easier to spot than a psychopath. They feel the little twinge of guilt but they don’t care. More importantly they don’t care if others see them for the angry, aggressive, manipulative liars that they are. Whereas psychopaths are more calculating. They don’t have human emotions; they don’t hate, they don’t fear, they don’t love. When a sociopath becomes a serial killer they want to tell the world about it. They’ll write letters to the cops and the media to brag. A true sociopath observes others and learns how to blend in; how to fake normal human emotions.

“Most experts believe psychopaths and sociopaths share a similar set of traits. People like this have a poor inner sense of right and wrong. They also can’t seem to understand or share another person’s feelings. But there are some differences, too.

Do They Have a Conscience?
A key difference between a psychopath and a sociopath is whether he has a conscience, the little voice inside that lets us know when we’re doing something wrong, says L. Michael Tompkins, EdD. He’s a psychologist at the Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center.

A psychopath doesn’t have a conscience. If he lies to you so he can steal your money, he won’t feel any moral qualms, though he may pretend to. He may observe others and then act the way they do so he’s not “found out,” Tompkins says.

A sociopath typically has a conscience, but it’s weak. He may know that taking your money is wrong, and he might feel some guilt or remorse, but that won’t stop his behavior…

‘Cold-Hearted Psychopath, Hot-Headed Sociopath’
It’s not easy to spot a psychopath. They can be intelligent, charming, and good at mimicking emotions. They may pretend to be interested in you, but in reality, they probably don’t care.

“They’re skilled actors whose sole mission is to manipulate people for personal gain,” Tompkins says.

Sociopaths are less able to play along. They make it plain that they’re not interested in anyone but themselves. They often blame others and have excuses for their behavior.

Some experts see sociopaths as “hot-headed.” They act without thinking how others will be affected.

Psychopaths are more “cold-hearted” and calculating. They carefully plot their moves, and use aggression in a planned-out way to get what they want. If they’re after more money or status in the office, for example, they’ll make a plan to take out any barriers that stand in the way, even if it’s another person’s job or reputation.”

Maybe not all leftists are simply liars. Maybe when the say they don’t understand normal emotions, when they hold political opinions and espouse policies only because they have been indoctrinated that all of the “good people” have those opinions and espouse those policies and they don’t care how many people they hurt, it’s because they’re psychopaths who lack empathy.

For the record, I don’t believe Dementia Joe is a psychopath. No, it’s more likely he’s a sociopath. He’s lied, plagiarized (he plagiarized his way through law school and then as a politician he didn’t just plagiarize one of British Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s speeches, Biden stole Kinnock’s entire life story; how insane is that?), manipulated, deceived, and used others his entire life. And when you challenge him on it he flies into a rage. “You’re a lyin’ dog faced pony soldier” he said to a student in New Hampshire, “You’re a damned liar” he told an 84 y.o. retired farmer in Iowa (and I believe it was that farmer he called “fat” but it may have been someone else he called fat), he’ll poke you in the chest and tell you he doesn’t want your vote, he’ll tell you you’re not black if you don’t want to vote for him, or he’ll just challenge you to a push-up contest or to go outside and fight. He said for years his first wife and his daughter were killed by a drunk driver. Even though he knew, and at times he admitted he knew, the truck driver wasn’t drunk. And then after admitting the truth he goes right back to lying about it. He also knows law enforcement authorities who investigated the accident actually thought his wife was at fault for pulling out in front of the truck which couldn’t avoid the accident at that point. But sociopaths get angry and blame others. Joe Biden gets angry and blames others.

Like a true sociopath, he doesn’t care about hiding it. If he were a psychopath he’d be better at hiding. He has the added benefit of being a leftist Democrat. The media cleans up his messes. It certainly looks to me that dementia or senility isn’t Sundown Joe’s first mental disorder.

Then there’s the fact that leftists are incapable of learning. Because if they could learn from the horrible results their policies and opinions inflict on third parties they would have to change their minds. But they can’t because their coreligionists in the Church of Woke demand rigid lockstep compliance with the dogma of political correctness. I was reflecting on the fact that what Juan Williams insists on calling “stand your ground laws” are simply “no duty to retreat” laws. A duty to retreat never existed in the parliamentary or common law tradition we inherited from the British. It was a later, leftist invention. We went through a decades long spasm in the 20th century when leftists grafted on a requirement to retreat “when safe to do so.” I put those words in scare quotes since that’s something a leftist prosecutor will insist is always possible. Later. After hours, days, months of being able to recharacterize the actions of someone who only had seconds to respond under extreme stress. Because leftist prosecutors are “good people” who go to the same secular church all the “good people” attend. And good people know you shouldn’t have a gun, or any other deadly weapon, and it’s wrong for you to defend your life against a criminal or even call 911 when someone breaks into your house because that’s racist and that reaction comes from “a place of privilege.”

https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1269951088964370432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1269951088964370432%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3%2Ccontainerclick_0&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenewamerican.com%2Fminneapolis-city-councilor-calling-911-for-break-in-is-white-privilege%2F

Just like it may be a crime for a Muslim to behead you, like recently happened in Paris and like IS executioners loved to video. But it’s a worse crime if you allow a “racist,” “Islamophobic” thought to pass through your head while it’s still attached to your body.

“How dare you!” I say, channeling Greta Thunberg, “how dare you expect Muslims who are still traumatized by the Crusades, the Inquisition, and American foreign policy behave according to the white cultural imperialist standards we white supremacist colonizers imposed on the innocent BIPOC people we invaded and ‘otherized.'” If they want to throw widows on their husbands’ funeral pyres as the Hindu practice of Suttee demanded, or if they behead people for insulting their prophet as their prophet Muhammad decreed (Sunan Abu Daoud, vol. 40, “Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud),” Ch. 2, “The ruling regarding one who reviles the prophet (pbuh);” Spoiler alert; the punishment is death according to Shariah law) or for “making mischief in a Muslim land” as their Allah decreed (Surah 5:33), who are you old white people to judge? All cultures are equal; all civilizations are equal. Except for white culture and western civilization. Which is the spawn of the devil.

I hear from a couple of friends who are getting started training with their new firearms, that at least here in the greater Seattle area a lot of gun stores/ranges won’t rent you a gun to try out if you don’t already own a gun or if you’re not with a friend.

Apparently there have been suicides.

Tangentially, on that distinction between ‘kill’ and ‘murder,’ I notice after checking on it that this occurs in the Greek as well – I mean looking across the Greek Old and New Testaments. The Greek in “Thou shalt not kill” uses a different word than does a statement like “You seek to kill me” in the NT. I don’t have time at the moment to do a deep dive with a concordance and all that, but it’s food for thought for later, I guess. It might have to be looked into at some length to really understand it (and I’m sure has already been done elsewhere).

You’re better served with a shotgun than an AR-15? This is weapons-grade stupidity which has been triple-distilled to make it 100 proof weapons-grade stupidity. At least four times the stupidity content of any weapons-grade stupidity on the market. Remember, Hidin’ Biden was talking about a double barrel shotgun. I’d be the last one to suggest you’re not armed and dangerous with a double barrel shotgun. I love my Pedersoli 10 gauge side by side. And it’s a muzzle loader. But unlike muzzle loading rifles you don’t give up a much if at all to modern shotguns in terms of down range performance although typically the muzzle loader performs like the next gauge down. So my 10 ga. will match the performance of a 12 ga. You do not want to threaten my life when I’m holding my 10 ga. True I only have two shots, then I have to grab it by the ends of the barrels and club you to death with it if you’re still moving. Heaven help me if I’m dealing with more than two assailants.

What you give up is reloading speed (fortunately I’m never without a knife, and you don’t need to reload a knife).

Which is precisely what you give up using a double action shotgun compared to an autoloading rifle. The AR-15 chambers the next round for you. Sloe Joe Biden’s pheasant gun doesn’t. If it’s equipped with ejectors it will kick the empty shells out of the chambers (over your shoulder if properly timed) but if you have ejectors it simply pulls the shells partially out of the chambers so you can manually extract them. Then you have the problem of inserting fresh shells into the chambers.

Most people haven’t handled a double rifle. They’re a dream to reload because nearly all are chambered to use necked cartridges (and those that aren’t necked are tapered). So the neck of the cartridge is a lot smaller than the base of the shell. And the bullet is normally tapered. In other words since it essentially tapers to a fine or at least rounded point that is a lot smaller than the first part of the chamber you stick it in…

http://media.midwayusa.com/productimages/880×660/Primary/883/883419.jpg

it practically guides itself into the chamber (by design; .40 cal double rifles and above are nearly universally intended for dangerous game and therefore to be reloaded under stress). Shotgun shells don’t. They’re the same diameter from the base of the shell (the rim doesn’t count) for its entire length; the firing end of the shell is just a flat, perpendicular surface. ..

https://www.brownells.com/ammunition/shotgun-ammo/black-ammo-12-gauge-00-buckshot-prod98996.aspx

If you’re going to use a SxS (or O/U) shotgun to defend yourself you have to practice reloading it or else you’ll fumble it under stress.

(sorry, no pics of low brass no. 6 shot 2 3/4″ shells, which is no doubt what Bwana Biden uses on his farm-raised pheasants and what Sgt. “Rambo” Biden recommends for home defense; C’mon man!) When I was in the Navy I qualified with the Mossberg M590 tactical pump gun. You can get the next round into the chamber PDQ if you take advantage of the recoil to rack the shell out of the chamber. If you wait to fully recover from recoil, which a lot of people will naturally do if they don’t have much experience, before racking the slide your reload will be slow.

There’s a reason why the USN and USMC decided to go with the Benelli M4 semiauto to replace the M590. It does the work for you.

Biden isn’t just a font of the worst firearms advice imaginable, he’s a font of bad legal advice. A firearm IS deadly force. Yet Biden is advising people to use firearms in a way that signal in bright, flashing neon lights that you aren’t justified using them since you’re not countering a deadly threat.

Warning shots from the balcony? Firing through the door since “you want to keep someone away from your house.” Shooting someone in the leg? I’m not even going to point out all the ways Biden demonstrates he has less tactical sense than an earthworm. But what are you telling the court when you pepper some innocent party with shot when shooting at no one in particular from your balcony. Shot, particularly bird shot, runs out of energy pretty quickly. That’s why shotguns are legal in fairly built up areas for deer hunting while rifles are not (some entire states like Rhode Island only allow shotguns for hunting). But while shot might not have enough energy to penetrate clothing or even skin past 150 yards it will still have enough energy to destroy an eye. Warning shots and shooting through the door “to keep someone away from your house?” Both of those acts advertise the fact that at that point you did not think your life was threatened. But a successful self-defense claim hinges on (among other factors) that you reasonably feared for your life or grievous bodily harm. Biden may not be able to hit the side of a barn even if he’s standing inside one, but he’s capable of blasting the hell out of a self-defense claim. And aiming for the leg? I can hear Biden testifying in his own defense; basically restating this insanity:

“‘you have to teach [the police] how to de-escalate circumstances,’ said Biden. ‘So instead of anybody coming at you and the first thing you do is shoot to kill, you shoot them in the leg.’”

What I hear Biden saying under cross examination is, “C’mon man! I wasn’t trying to kill the guy. I was trying to ‘de-escalate circumstances.’ So I aimed to shoot him in the leg.”

Whether he missed the guy entirely, hit the guy in the leg and only wounded him, hit him in the femoral artery and he bled out, or he missed the guy’s leg but hit him in the torso and inflicted fatal or life threatening wounds, he just told the court in his own words that he didn’t perceive an imminent threat. Biden just told the judge and jury there was still time to de-escalate the situation. If no reasonable person, or not even a terminally stupid person like Biden, thought there was an imminent threat but the defendant shot anyway, that defendant better hope he has friends and relatives who will put money in his/her prison commissary account. Because you’re going to prison. I’m not a lawyer, but please, lawyers, check my work. My understanding of the law is you’re not justified in pointing a gun at someone if you’re not justified in pulling the trigger, and you’re only justified in pulling the trigger if your only choice is to take the other person’s life or lose your own. Biden thinks you can randomly shoot at people or obstacles or just into the air whenever you have a vague sense of anxiety.

BTW, Giuliani is right. Joe Biden was the stupidest person in law school when he plagiarized his way through. And Hunter Biden was also the stupidest person in law school a couple of decades later, but at the moment I’m focusing on the elder imbecile.

Now we come to how Abortion Barbie Biden is laughably incapable of pulling off the, “C’mon, man! I’m a devout Catholic” act. If I were debating him I’d ask him to explain the principle of double effect, and insist he answer the question. And I don’t even consider myself Catholic anymore, not since the Church traded in the New Testament for Das Kapital as scripture and installed the Argentinian Marxist Jesuit as Pope. And decided that selling out Christians while they are are actively being viciously persecuted and in many cases killed en masse by CHICOMs and Muslims. Their precious interfaith dialogues haven’t saved a single life in the Islamic world, and Chinese Catholics are shell shocked by how easily the Vatican sold them out to their oppressors, but the virtue signaling Curia can happily cruise the bath houses and restrooms of the public parks of Rome dreaming of building bridges to nowhere (this is not a gratuitous comment).

From the Catholic catechism on lawful self-defense, which since no one in the church hierarchy believes in anymore just like that “Jesus stuff” I had to leave:

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a5.htm

“SECTION TWO
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

CHAPTER TWO
‘SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF’

…Legitimate defense

2263 The legitimate defense of persons and societies is not an exception to the prohibition against the murder of the innocent that constitutes intentional killing. ‘The act of self-defense can have a double effect: the preservation of one’s own life; and the killing of the aggressor. . . . The one is intended, the other is not.’ 65

2264 Love toward oneself remains a fundamental principle of morality. Therefore it is legitimate to insist on respect for one’s own right to life. Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow:

If a man in self-defense uses more than necessary violence, it will be unlawful: whereas if he repels force with moderation, his defense will be lawful. . . . Nor is it necessary for salvation that a man omit the act of moderate self-defense to avoid killing the other man, since one is bound to take more care of one’s own life than of another’s.66”

I doubt any of them could explain the principle of double effect without looking it up. Simply put you aren’t capable of fulfilling the second of what Jesus said were the two greatest commandments if you don’t love yourself, and therefore your own life. If you don’t love yourself, and your life, then you can’t love your neighbor. If your intent is to preserve life, even if the means by which you do so has the possible (even predictable) risk of taking life then you aren’t violating the commandment against murder (Hebrew like English differentiates between killing and murder but most English transliterations get it wrong). This is why if a mother’s life is at risk during pregnancy, such as an ectopic pregnancy, Catholic hospitals can perform certain procedures to save the mother’s life because they aren’t direct abortions. If the procedure is a direct or intentional abortion then those are prohibited, and anyone who has one, performs one, or helps procure one has committed a grave evil by intentionally taking an innocent life.

Cops shoot to stop. That means center of mass, as so many others have pointed out. Even lawful combatants in an all out war don’t necessarily intend to kill since the logic behind the laws of war that allow full metal jacketed bullets but not expanding hunting-type bullets is that if your intended target is only wounded then you’re taking out at least three combatants. The target and whomever has to haul his @$$ to the aid station or at least to cover (I’m not saying I find this argument all that convincing). Then there are all the resources you need to pour into treating the wounded and aiding their recover assuming you’re fighting an enemy that values their soldiers,’ etc., lives (which does NOT include the CHICOMs or the NORKs, among others).

I recommend everyone read “Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947” to get a sense of just how massive the effort would have been. MacArthur’s staff surgeon would have been in command of his own air force and navy just to haul whole blood and plasma from the U.S. to staging bases in the Philippines, get the whole blood (a fleet of refrigerated LSTs, a new innovation designed just for this purpose), plasma, and other medical supplies and personnel to the theater of combat, then recover the wounded and transport them to rear area hospitals and then back to the U.S.

The Navy’s great fear, after Iwo Jima and OKinawa, was that they hadn’t ordered enough Purple Heart medals to award all the wounded Sailors and Marines when it finally became clear just how massive the number of casualties they’d have on their hands if they actually had to invade the Japanese home islands; thank the Lord for atomic weapons.

Basically when we start peeling the onion of Joe Biden’s stupidity we find endless layers of it. And he like all leftists are incapable of learning. Ever watch Juan Williams try to explain “no duty to retreat” laws? For decades he’s been getting it wrong, no matter how many times more knowledgeable people explain, LOUDLY and SLOWLY using one syllable words whenever possible, that these are not “shoot to kill laws.” After at least two decades he still is convinced that “castle doctrine” laws and what he calls “stand your ground laws” permit people to execute innocents.

Biden is the same way. No wonder when Obama was wrestling with the decision to authorize the raid to capture or kill OBL in Abbottabod and Biden was the odd man out and said, “My suggestion is, don’t go” Obama decided to the obvious course of action was to give the thumbs up to the operation. As Neo pointed out, Obama isn’t stupid. He may have picked Biden because stupid people think Sundown Joe lent foreign policy “gravitas” to the ticket, but Obama knows Biden has a track record of being wrong on every single important issue for the past fifty years. No doubt Dr. Jill asks Joe for his opinion on which dress to wear on important occasions. Then wears the dress he didn’t pick.

On all matters great and small, especially on self-defense matters, it’s useful to get Dementia Joe’s opinion. Then doing the exact opposite.

He fumbled his humble and lost possession.

Democrats are fixing to persecute Trump. Persecute!

See this cnn piece:https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/trump-election-legal-reckoning/index.html

As to ammo, our stores are sold out. Brownell’s, the nation’s biggest retailer, is sold out. I have lots, always have had. If Antifa or BLM comes for me, I am not going down alone.