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AF-Odin wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:40 am Sorry, but after my 30 years of active duty followed by 17 years working Civil Service for the Army, Captains DO NOT command thousands of Soldiers. At most, usually between 100-200 Soldiers and then usually only for 2 years or so.

Amen to that. To actually have thousands (plural) under command you'd be looking at least at a full-bird colonel, wouldn't you, commanding a brigade?

That sorta reminds me of the ads for Sri Preston Kulkarni that, up until around early October because I'm sure his campaign was finally called to task about it, kept blaring that Sam Houston was his great uncle. A great uncle is the brother to your grandparent. Sam Houston was born in March 1793. In order for Houston to be Kulkarni's great uncle, Kulkarni would have had to have been born sometime around 1860. Kulkarni wasn't lying...he was just omitting four or five generations.

Shoot, George Washington is my cousin through his grandfather's wife, Anne Pope. Maybe I should run for office...

Syntyr wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:25 am They are spending money over fist here in Fort Bend to prevent the election of Troy Nehls (previously Fort Bend County Sheriff) running for a Texas House seat.

Crossposted. But yeah; Everytown really hates Sheriff Nehls. I remember a couple of years back when Nehls gave a press conference about criminals coming into Ft. Bend via the Grand Parkway, committing violent crimes, and then fleeing back out of the county. Paraphrasing something Nehls said: "If you're thinking about coming to Fort Bend County to commit crimes, think twice. Our citizens are well-armed, and the results for the criminals will not be good."

Not a message near and dear to Michael Bloomerg's heart.

Bloomberg may still be willing to burn millions out of his own pocket, but this is tremendous news. Also from the article:

You may have also noticed that the attacks on the NRA by high-profile Democrats have definitely tapered off as well. The Democrats may be devious when it comes to abridging your Second Amendment rights, but they’re not stupid. They know that this particular message will not go over well this year, even with many of their typical supporters.

Just (mostly) shutting-up the anti-gunners this election has been pleasant, but shoving the issue to the background can hurt us, as well. We don't hear much in the media about gun control right now, but Biden (well...Biden's handlers) hasn't changed anything that I can see about his announced policy stance: https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/. I had a Biden supporter argue with me, telling me I was being paranoid, that Biden wasn't planning any new gun legislation. The only response when I got her to actually read Biden's platform was, "Oh." But of course then she wanted to argue with me that "assault weapons" should be banned and the many millions already owned be criminalized unless they were registered under the NFA.

If Biden gets elected, we're gonna be in a world of pain from executive orders and BATF policy interpretations (witness the Honey Badger event) alone, which won't reach SCOTUS without a lengthy series of lawsuits and appeals.

What I'm hoping is that the Defund Bloomberg Movement will have a meaningful effect on the state-level elections. I'm still seeing a bunch of ads funded by Everytown for Gun Safety opposing Troy Nehls, but I haven't noticed them recently buying adspace for anyone else here in the greater Houston area. The major metro areas in Texas seem to be getting deeper blue with each election, and we have to do everything we can to prevent a total takeover in Austin.