The nasty truth that no one wanta to speak is that when you look at the literacy and numeracy rate, defined as having a standard "12th grade education proficiency" the rates of success for both are around 20-25% for every cohort currently breathing.
Education's been fucked and it's been fucked since the 1950's.
I should note that with regards to #4 the Dems also are pretty open in encouraging people who they know are going to retire at the end of a session to run for re-election the next session and then retire so that the party can pick their replacement.
People who have any further aspirations in politics, NGOs or any of that do well to play ball with that request.
That's a complicated question to answer. It's a mix of a lot of things so I'll hit the wavetops of what I think are the top four.
1. The Democrats had a bunch of very rich people who organized an effort to takeover the elected offices of the state back in the early to mid 2000's and were successful by 2004. The current governor was one of the "Gang of Four" that both masterminded and bankrolled that takeover. This effort was so effective that it became the blueprint for Obama's first run in 2008, which is why there's a book about it with the title The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado(and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care) which I will link below.
The "plan" has to do with decentralized organizations which coordinate with each other and share data. The data is a big key here, the whole thing is driven by high-end data analytics and enormous databases of voter information gleaned by actually going out and talking to people and which they purchase from databrokers. This is used for micro targeting but that's another topic.
This has had the knock-on effect since ~2006 of allowing the Dems to create their own "Deep State" at the state level by using filling .gov administrative positions with their preferred people. This means that it's not just elected officials but also the bureaucratic organizations and the regulatory agencies that have been taken over. Obviously they can assist each other.
[This model has been exported, by the way. It put Obama in office in 2008. It's the reason Iowa, Wisconsin, Georgia and other formerly reliably red states are now unreliable. It's also the reason Florida seems to *randomly* have progressive policy in odd areas which has to be smacked down on a regular basis. Ultimately, you can see the results of this exporting to on the order of 18 states. It's partly the reason that Texas has very, very strange behavior in some regards, such as Houston Methodist being ground zero for the testing of a jab mandate.]
2. The CoGOP is effectively worthless. They attempted to run the Dems playbook back at them in 2010 but didn't understand why the Dems had decentralized everything. Instead, they centralized their attempt at this with something called The Trailhead Group which was immediately lawfared into being entirely useless by the Dems who's decentralized apparatus simply filed dozens and dozens of the same basic lawsuit brought by different organizations in the Democrat constellation. IIRC, the guy who ran Trailhead said that it wasn't uncommon for him to receive notice of half a dozen lawsuits a day, five days a week. Most of those lawsuits were withdrawn and the orgs that filed them, most of which also folded shop as soon as Trailhead's potential to effect the state electoral process were no longer a threat. IOW, they were organizations created for the purpose of filing that lawsuit. Once the election was over, the lawsuit and the org disappeared.
After this defeat the CoGOP, frankly, gave up in a lot of regards. They're not a serious party with Colorado if we're honest. They do little to no outreach, they have no ground game... they exist but they don't do much.
Further, the GOP doesn't understand "ground game" at all. Since I've lived in Colorado I've had 26 or 27 political doorknockers. One was remotely Conservative. The rest were frothing at the mouth shitlibs collecting the data I mentioned in #1. Or, said another way, CoGOP outreach to the public basically doesn't exist.
3. The demographics of Colorado have shifted enormously in the 20 years since the Dems started really trying to take over and most of that is due to the Dems taking over and encouraging people to move here, mostly undesirable people. Denver is a mecca for the homeless for example. I've met homeless people in Columbus, Ohio who's dream was to move to Denver.
This is also partly because of Federal workers which something a lot of people don't talk about much. Boulder, for example, owes a large percentage of its population to the Federal government and Federal workers are not exactly known for being stalwart conservatives.
Now add in illegals and people from California moving to the state and things have shifted enormously in terms of a voter base.
4. Colorado has an oddball way of dealing with people who resign from the legislature or otherwise leave (die or something). They allow the party to select a replacement. This is gamed by the Dems. Say a State Senate member is retiring or dies in office. The Dems will replace them with the most liberal person they can from the State House and then select an activist to replace the State House member, effectively selecting two seats.
This is why it's not uncommon for 10-25% of the legislature to have never been elected.
Currently more Californians are leaving Colorado than are entering Colorado from Cali.
Where are they going? Your state(s).
As I and many other people have pointed out for a long time, fleeing liberals are not going to learn, they're locusts. They move, fuck up where they move to and move on again. Rinse and repeat.
I don't really see the issue with RobinHood. You can get straight up gambling apps for sportsbetting and all sorts of of other shit or Hookup apps that will likely have you seeing a doc about the new growths on your dick but the author's mad about a trading app?
You can use RobinHood wisely or unwisely. Neither is a reflection on the underlying app. Daytrading is, mostly, for dipshits regardless of what platform you use to do it.
Congress won't touch the NFA in terms of repeal/removal of items.
And yes, it was in 1934. The bill was introduced originally in the 1920's and died in Congress.
It was resurrected after the attempted assassination of FDR in 1933 which ended up killing the Mayor of Chicago.
IIRC, that was done with an Iver Johnson .32. For that reason the re-introduced bill originally attempted to place all handguns on the NFA but that was stripped out as it was thought no court would uphold such a sweeping law.
Well, in most states there is no "registration". That's commonly pushed by TV but only actually exists in a few states, so in a lot of regards it's kind of a Hollywood media strawman.
With regards to the NFA, in terms of anything you can buy legally, it was registered for you decades ago in cases of machine guns or was registered at creation in the case of silencers AOWs etc. SBRs and SBS's can be made by you, but if you buy one off the rack it was likewise, registered for you beforehand by the manufacturer. If you want it and aren't interested in robbing a FFL, you're going to register it as part of the buying process.
And this is an area of law that, historically, has been enforced pretty aggressively. Getting popped with unregistered NFA items is 15 years per item, 5 for the NFA violation and 10 for the tax evasion (which creates an interesting situation in terms of the taxes post-BBB since you've now evaded a tax of $0.00).
Based on previous prosecutions, they will seek the max, they will get it and you will do 80% of that time before you're up for parole. That's if the ATF doesn't murder you "serving the warrant", which is a 50/50 shot.
I get the whole thing with it being unreasonable but this is kind of like me saying "taxes are theft". Yeah, in a way they are, dodging them on a grand scale however is unwise.
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For a while people used to write this a s/he.
Then with the rise of trans, they stopped and went back to He/she.
I'm guessing it's because s/he/it was too close to the truth, which might happen to be stated if you dropped the wrong vowel.
This has to be the strangest intellectual circlejerk of an article that I've ever read.
And given the academic lit I have to read, that's saying something.
Soon it will be time to issue letters of Marque against Euro shipping.
The nasty truth that no one wanta to speak is that when you look at the literacy and numeracy rate, defined as having a standard "12th grade education proficiency" the rates of success for both are around 20-25% for every cohort currently breathing.
Education's been fucked and it's been fucked since the 1950's.
By design.
Thanks.
I should note that with regards to #4 the Dems also are pretty open in encouraging people who they know are going to retire at the end of a session to run for re-election the next session and then retire so that the party can pick their replacement.
People who have any further aspirations in politics, NGOs or any of that do well to play ball with that request.
Colorado publishes them. I don't have the link handy but Big Timber Lodge over on YT has all the information on it, with full links.
That's a complicated question to answer. It's a mix of a lot of things so I'll hit the wavetops of what I think are the top four.
1. The Democrats had a bunch of very rich people who organized an effort to takeover the elected offices of the state back in the early to mid 2000's and were successful by 2004. The current governor was one of the "Gang of Four" that both masterminded and bankrolled that takeover. This effort was so effective that it became the blueprint for Obama's first run in 2008, which is why there's a book about it with the title The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care) which I will link below.
The "plan" has to do with decentralized organizations which coordinate with each other and share data. The data is a big key here, the whole thing is driven by high-end data analytics and enormous databases of voter information gleaned by actually going out and talking to people and which they purchase from databrokers. This is used for micro targeting but that's another topic.
This has had the knock-on effect since ~2006 of allowing the Dems to create their own "Deep State" at the state level by using filling .gov administrative positions with their preferred people. This means that it's not just elected officials but also the bureaucratic organizations and the regulatory agencies that have been taken over. Obviously they can assist each other.
[This model has been exported, by the way. It put Obama in office in 2008. It's the reason Iowa, Wisconsin, Georgia and other formerly reliably red states are now unreliable. It's also the reason Florida seems to *randomly* have progressive policy in odd areas which has to be smacked down on a regular basis. Ultimately, you can see the results of this exporting to on the order of 18 states. It's partly the reason that Texas has very, very strange behavior in some regards, such as Houston Methodist being ground zero for the testing of a jab mandate.]
2. The CoGOP is effectively worthless. They attempted to run the Dems playbook back at them in 2010 but didn't understand why the Dems had decentralized everything. Instead, they centralized their attempt at this with something called The Trailhead Group which was immediately lawfared into being entirely useless by the Dems who's decentralized apparatus simply filed dozens and dozens of the same basic lawsuit brought by different organizations in the Democrat constellation. IIRC, the guy who ran Trailhead said that it wasn't uncommon for him to receive notice of half a dozen lawsuits a day, five days a week. Most of those lawsuits were withdrawn and the orgs that filed them, most of which also folded shop as soon as Trailhead's potential to effect the state electoral process were no longer a threat. IOW, they were organizations created for the purpose of filing that lawsuit. Once the election was over, the lawsuit and the org disappeared.
After this defeat the CoGOP, frankly, gave up in a lot of regards. They're not a serious party with Colorado if we're honest. They do little to no outreach, they have no ground game... they exist but they don't do much.
Further, the GOP doesn't understand "ground game" at all. Since I've lived in Colorado I've had 26 or 27 political doorknockers. One was remotely Conservative. The rest were frothing at the mouth shitlibs collecting the data I mentioned in #1. Or, said another way, CoGOP outreach to the public basically doesn't exist.
3. The demographics of Colorado have shifted enormously in the 20 years since the Dems started really trying to take over and most of that is due to the Dems taking over and encouraging people to move here, mostly undesirable people. Denver is a mecca for the homeless for example. I've met homeless people in Columbus, Ohio who's dream was to move to Denver.
This is also partly because of Federal workers which something a lot of people don't talk about much. Boulder, for example, owes a large percentage of its population to the Federal government and Federal workers are not exactly known for being stalwart conservatives.
Now add in illegals and people from California moving to the state and things have shifted enormously in terms of a voter base.
4. Colorado has an oddball way of dealing with people who resign from the legislature or otherwise leave (die or something). They allow the party to select a replacement. This is gamed by the Dems. Say a State Senate member is retiring or dies in office. The Dems will replace them with the most liberal person they can from the State House and then select an activist to replace the State House member, effectively selecting two seats.
This is why it's not uncommon for 10-25% of the legislature to have never been elected.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-blueprint-adam-schrager/1100111373?ean=9781936218004
Misplaced.
Currently more Californians are leaving Colorado than are entering Colorado from Cali.
Where are they going? Your state(s).
As I and many other people have pointed out for a long time, fleeing liberals are not going to learn, they're locusts. They move, fuck up where they move to and move on again. Rinse and repeat.
As a Colorado resident, I fully support any and all efforts to bend the state government of Colorado over and push its shit in, hard.
The lawsuits they filed have Denver in a tizzy already. This will just crank up the heat.
Plastic butter knife FTW.
I don't really see the issue with RobinHood. You can get straight up gambling apps for sportsbetting and all sorts of of other shit or Hookup apps that will likely have you seeing a doc about the new growths on your dick but the author's mad about a trading app?
You can use RobinHood wisely or unwisely. Neither is a reflection on the underlying app. Daytrading is, mostly, for dipshits regardless of what platform you use to do it.
The piece of equipment you envision is impossible.
It's a nice thought but what can't happen won't happen.
1. Interesting how he's lowkey shitting on minorities for not being better car thieves.
2. A lot of these pols would get smarter if their head got caught between a stump and an 8lb sledgehammer.
Even ZH doesn't have the article pinned.
It's almost like Mike Benz was right.
Congress won't touch the NFA in terms of repeal/removal of items.
And yes, it was in 1934. The bill was introduced originally in the 1920's and died in Congress.
It was resurrected after the attempted assassination of FDR in 1933 which ended up killing the Mayor of Chicago.
IIRC, that was done with an Iver Johnson .32. For that reason the re-introduced bill originally attempted to place all handguns on the NFA but that was stripped out as it was thought no court would uphold such a sweeping law.
Well, in most states there is no "registration". That's commonly pushed by TV but only actually exists in a few states, so in a lot of regards it's kind of a Hollywood media strawman.
With regards to the NFA, in terms of anything you can buy legally, it was registered for you decades ago in cases of machine guns or was registered at creation in the case of silencers AOWs etc. SBRs and SBS's can be made by you, but if you buy one off the rack it was likewise, registered for you beforehand by the manufacturer. If you want it and aren't interested in robbing a FFL, you're going to register it as part of the buying process.
And this is an area of law that, historically, has been enforced pretty aggressively. Getting popped with unregistered NFA items is 15 years per item, 5 for the NFA violation and 10 for the tax evasion (which creates an interesting situation in terms of the taxes post-BBB since you've now evaded a tax of $0.00).
Based on previous prosecutions, they will seek the max, they will get it and you will do 80% of that time before you're up for parole. That's if the ATF doesn't murder you "serving the warrant", which is a 50/50 shot.
I get the whole thing with it being unreasonable but this is kind of like me saying "taxes are theft". Yeah, in a way they are, dodging them on a grand scale however is unwise.
Are you asserting that the OP was shooting with illegals back in the day?
It's essentially impossible that people with NFA gear didn't worry about registration within your shooting lifetime unless you're pushing 100.