JASON: The irony here is just too good not to mention. That is, a federal judge (When was it?) a week ago, struck down California\u2019s three-decade-old ban on so-called assault weapons, saying there\u2019s no such thing as assault weapons. AR-15 does not stand for “assault rifle.” It\u2019s ArmaLite, and you people basically in the gun control community don\u2019t know what the hell you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n
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So get this. Shortly after he issued his ruling basically confirming the Supreme Court precedent in Heller and McDonald, and Justice Thomas\u2019 admonition that the Second Amendment is not a constitutional orphan — as soon as the judge struck down gun control laws in California — he was getting threatening texts and threatening emails and threats on his life. Now, what\u2019s ironic about this? People are mad because he\u2019s not gun control, so they threaten him!<\/p>\n
Well, if that isn\u2019t typical of the liberal left.<\/p>\n
That is good news because I will tell you, get to these places like downtown St. Paul, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, LA, New York, Buckhead, Atlanta, Miami, and the only defense you\u2019ve got is your God-given right to self-defense. And they want to take that away. The same people making your community — I\u2019m gonna go out here and say it \u2019cause you know it\u2019s true: deliberately making your community — less safe, the same media outlets cheerleading this are the same ones who want to take away your God-given right to self-defense.<\/p>\n
The Second Amendment does not have an exception to it. If you believe that there is a Bill of Rights incorporated unto the states via the 14th Amendment, as most liberals do, it doesn\u2019t make distinctions. There\u2019s no such thing as selective incorporation. That was a total concoction of activist judges. You either incorporate the Bill of Rights to apply to states or you don\u2019t. They have, and the Second Amendment is not an orphan. It applies.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t take away my right to defend myself, my family, and my property, even if you are defunding the police. I need it all the more so. These people want you to be less safe. They want chaos. This is how revolutions start. They want that. They\u2019ve substituted race and ethnicity for class. They are Marxists, and they have taken control of all of the institutions. The medical authorities, your doctor\u2019s office, you name it.<\/p>\n
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Everywhere you go is now political to the point of being oppressive, lecturing you on masks and vaccines while you can\u2019t get in to get a different cancer screening. Big Business. What did the BlackRock and Engine No.1 do to ExxonMobil? “You\u2019re not woke enough! You\u2019re not green enough!” Well, let me see here. In the five-year average return on capital, ExxonMobil led the way at almost 8%. Chevron, ConocoPhillips, EOG, Occidental Petroleum, they\u2019re all down below that, and yet, “Well, you could get more money if you went green.”<\/p>\n
Hogwash. The private equity crowd has gone green too. They don\u2019t care about your return on investment or return on capital. They care about going green. They\u2019ve been co-opted. Sports have been co-opted. Business, medicine, media, education. Everywhere you go, the institutional corruption and the lies are omnipresent, and so many of them — so many of them — started with climate change and the lie that it is.<\/p>\n
Well, I shouldn\u2019t say that, to be fair.<\/p>\n
The climate always changes. The lie that it is a catastrophic emergency is something that physicist Steven Koonin — who was an Obama administration official, as I recall — basically disabuses in his book called Unsettled. Everybody ought to read it. Now the word “denier” is being used everywhere to silence people. It started with this, and no one was more on top of it than El Rushbo.<\/a> He had this to say a few years back.<\/p>\n RUSH: This has been a signature issue on this program for 25 years. Well, actually, it\u2019s been a signature issue for over 30, because it was a signature issue when I was in Sacramento. Back then, you know, climate change had a predecessor. It was the spotted owl and animal rights, and it was all tied to climate change, but it was in the mid-eighties that I first actually heard of this. Five years earlier it was the world\u2019s gonna freeze, that \u201979 Newsweek cover<\/a>. And she\u2019s exactly right. The forecasts have said 10 years, 20 years. None of the forecasts have come true.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Global warming, it stopped warming, so they changed it to climate change. Since they can\u2019t really illustrate massive changes in climate, they modified things and started referring to anything, any weather extreme, as evidence of climate change, be it a flood, which had been happening since Genesis. Talk to Noah about that. Torrential rain. These things are now cited as examples of climate change.<\/p>\n