Politics

[CJW]

I don't think Britain will be able to recover and is now circling the drain with finality. Why so pessimistic? It is one thing to have corrupt, idiotic polticians, everyone has those. It's a very different thing to have law enforcement that will act on those laws.

That's why the USA has hope and the UK does not. Our law enforcement at the State and Local level would largely ignore stupid laws or unfruitful accusations.

Sure there are occasional travesties, but this is generally an American truth. I trust my cops a lot more than I trust my bureaucrats. My English cousins cannot say that any longer which is a travesty.

The UK is screwed. We've seen time and time again that cops in the UK and Australia specifically will enforce these stupid laws yet if a muslim in Hyde park doesn't like someone calling muhammad a pedophile, they can threaten that person's life and get off scott free.

 

[rookhawk]

The UK is screwed. We've seen time and time again that cops in the UK and Australia specifically will enforce these stupid laws yet if a muslim in Hyde park doesn't like someone calling muhammad a pedophile, they can threaten that person's life and get off scott free.

I really wish my British friends had 400 million privately held firearms about now. The irrational overreach cannot be checked by the helpless citizenry.

 

[Altitude sickness]

^^^^ The French citizens pulled it off July 14, 1789 with crude weapons. So there is still hope.

 

[Mark A Ouellette]

I really wish my British friends had 400 million privately held firearms about now. The irrational overreach cannot be checked by the helpless citizenry.

Agreed!

Yes, we Americans have guns, many guns! Other countries have dictators or politicians very close to them.

 

[deewayne2003]

I really wish my British friends had 400 million privately held firearms about now. The irrational overreach cannot be checked by the helpless citizenry.

Firearms.... Hell their banning knives now- Hence the dreaded "Zombie Knife" collection and compensation scheme.

Zombie-style knives banned

From this week, zombie-style knives and machetes are now illegal to possess or sell as part of new measures introduced to halve knife crime in a decade.

www.gov.uk

You are more likely to be a homicide victim in London than you are in NYC.... You'll just get stabbed to death instead of shot.

I hear they are now trying to make it law that you must have a permit to own a sword; and there was an attempt to ban pointed knives....

One gutless twat was quoted: "I mean really, does a kitchen knife need a point?"

Why stopping knife crime needs to start in the kitchen

Phasing out pointed-tip kitchen knives in favour of round-tip knives is a natural extension of the UK’s progress on weapons control.

theconversation.com

 

[CJW]

I really wish my British friends had 400 million privately held firearms about now. The irrational overreach cannot be checked by the helpless citizenry.

The term 'sitting ducks' comes to mind.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Helping someone who has been stabbed with first aid

Anyone who's been stabbed needs immediate help - their life could be at risk. British Red Cross first aid experts explain what to do.

www.redcross.org.uk

This is a real UK ad.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

 

[CJW]

Reporting over 700 illegals crossed the channel today.

'A disaster for Labour!' Migrant crossings hit RECORD HIGH for 2025 in damning update for Starmer

GB News provisional figures show around 700 migrants arrived in UK waters today

www.gbnews.com

 

[deewayne2003]

Agreed!

Yes, we Americans have guns, many guns! Other countries have dictators or politicians very close to them.

Agreed!.... I wonder what COVID would have looked like in Australia pre 1996?

 

[HookMeUpII]

I really wish my British friends had 400 million privately held firearms about now. The irrational overreach cannot be checked by the helpless citizenry.

And on that note, the reason we have so many privately owned firearms and the 2nd amendment is because of their tyranny, pre-1776.

It's sadly ironic that they were once the great colonizer of the world are now finding themselves colonized.

 

[Brent in Az]

DOGE lawmaker demanding the IRS sell off its massive stockpile of weapons & ammo

 

[mdwest]

Washington Post:

A leaked document indicate that Trump will cut all finance to NATO and the UN and half the budget of DOS..?

Signed by Douglas Pitkin and Pete Marocco..

Half of DOS would be nearly impossible. Much of what DOS does intertwines money and personnel from other agencies… DOJ, DHS, DOD, CIA, NSA, and many others are deeply invested in a variety of DOS things, both foreign and domestic..

I also doubt a US - NATO relationship will end…

Although I’d love to see the US defund about 90% of what it does with the bretton woods agencies (UN, IMF, World Bank)…

Complete waste of time and money for the US.. and without US funding all three of those agencies would lose almost all of their global influence (which is largely opposed to US culture and values)..

 

[mdwest]

DOGE lawmaker demanding the IRS sell off its massive stockpile of weapons & ammo

The IRS armory and ammo stocks are actually pretty small.

They own a total of 4200 firearms… and most of those are issued to police officers that secure their facilities and campuses. And about 6m rounds of ammo for all of their various weapons systems…

Comparatively the FBI owns more than 60,000 firearms.. and one unit in the FBI, the HRT will shoot a little more than 2M rounds this year alone…

The better question is… why does the IRS employ 3100 law enforcement officers? And are they needed? Or could they be absorbed into another agency? Does it really need its own police agency and criminal investigations unit? Or is that something the FBI or USMS could do and we could kill off all of the administrative costs associated with yet another federal government entity managing its own police capability?

 

[Brent in Az]

Something I read on Truth Social by a legitimate source, but I don't know the validity of it.

In 2019, Trumps Feds seized a massive electrical transformer that was built by China. This transformer allegedly has a built in back door switch that can be remotely operated.
Trump signed an EO banning these transformers from China.
Joe Biden rescinded that EO on his first day in office.
There are now 492 of these transformers in use within the USA. Quite possibly putting large sections of electrical grids in jeopardy.

 

[Brent in Az]

The IRS armory and ammo stocks are actually pretty small.

They own a total of 4200 firearms… and most of those are issued to police officers that secure their facilities and campuses. And about 6m rounds of ammo for all of their various weapons systems…

Comparatively the FBI owns more than 60,000 firearms.. and one unit in the FBI, the HRT will shoot a little more than 2M rounds this year alone…

The better question is… why does the IRS employ 3100 law enforcement officers? And are they needed? Or could they be absorbed into another agency? Does it really need its own police agency and criminal investigations unit? Or is that something the FBI or USMS could do and we could kill off all of the administrative costs associated with yet another federal government entity managing its own police capability?

I heard approx 4500 firearms, including some automatic weapons, and 10 million rounds of ammo and growing
Not an insignificant amount for a tax collection agency

 

[John Wasmuth]

NY AG Letitia James has been criminally referred to the DOJ for committing “Morgage Fraud”…….. the ones that scream the loudest have always got something to hide….

Big Development: Is Letitia James Guilty of Mortgage Fraud? | Lou Dobbs

Letitia James Guest post by Joel Gilbert, with minor editorial adjustments for clarity and formatting. For over two decades, Letitia James repeatedly claimed her Brooklyn apartment building was a four-unit property on mortgage applications—despite official records proving it had five. This may...

loudobbs.com

Exposing a Decade of Letitia James' Financial Misreporting

Investigating Letitia James' financial discrepancies and hidden mortgages, revealing a decade of troubling transparency issues.

whitecollarfraud.com

 

[WAB]

I don't think Britain will be able to recover and is now circling the drain with finality. Why so pessimistic? It is one thing to have corrupt, idiotic polticians, everyone has those. It's a very different thing to have law enforcement that will act on those laws.

That's why the USA has hope and the UK does not. Our law enforcement at the State and Local level would largely ignore stupid laws or unfruitful accusations.

Sure there are occasional travesties, but this is generally an American truth. I trust my cops a lot more than I trust my bureaucrats. My English cousins cannot say that any longer which is a travesty.

I don’t disagree. I am in the UK frequently and it just seems to get worse every time. I was told I had to leave a hotel because it had been let out to asylum seekers in the middle of my stay. They moved a couple hundred middle eastern men into a hotel with 70ish rooms. A few months ago one of the men raped and murdered a local woman at the adjacent train station. Who could have seen that coming!

On the upside, all of the nonsense has created a real buying opportunity on very fine British guns. I am in the process of importing an absolutely fantastic Westley Richards droplock. Prices are a fraction of what they were a few years ago, and done properly, import costs are ridiculously cheap. I actually helped a friend bring in a shipment of ten fine guns for his shop.

 

[wesheltonj]

NY AG Letitia James has been criminally referred to the DOJ for committing “Morgage Fraud”…….. the ones that scream the loudest have always got something to hide….

Big Development: Is Letitia James Guilty of Mortgage Fraud? | Lou Dobbs

Letitia James Guest post by Joel Gilbert, with minor editorial adjustments for clarity and formatting. For over two decades, Letitia James repeatedly claimed her Brooklyn apartment building was a four-unit property on mortgage applications—despite official records proving it had five. This may...

loudobbs.com

Exposing a Decade of Letitia James' Financial Misreporting

Investigating Letitia James' financial discrepancies and hidden mortgages, revealing a decade of troubling transparency issues.

whitecollarfraud.com

What a surprise. Rules for thee, but not for me.

 

[Aaron N]

Something I read on Truth Social by a legitimate source, but I don't know the validity of it.

In 2019, Trumps Feds seized a massive electrical transformer that was built by China. This transformer allegedly has a built in back door switch that can be remotely operated.
Trump signed an EO banning these transformers from China.
Joe Biden rescinded that EO on his first day in office.
There are now 492 of these transformers in use within the USA. Quite possibly putting large sections of electrical grids in jeopardy.

This sounds a bit dubious. The last thing you’d want to do is to introduce any sort of arc inside an oil filled transformer, that’s why online tap changers are make before break contacts. China could do something like this much easier with electronics for protection and controls as opposed to this transformer plan.