Honey, if pure and not corrupted by refined sugar, or watered down, is a super food and medicine, and has  been used successfully in treating even gunshot wounds. But, although winter is about to end, and Spring will probably be here when you read this, keep in mind for next Winter that honey has been regarded as a better treatment for Winter coughs and colds than antibiotics. Yes, grand mum’s old recommendation, of honey with a hot lemon drink, then a warm bed and rest, you can’t beat it, so long as you are over one year of age (possible bugs dangerous to babes in the honey, but ok for older folk).
  https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/19/honey-better-treatment-for-coughs-and-colds-than-antibiotics-study-clams

“Honey may be better than conventional treatments for coughs, blocked noses and sore throats, researchers have said. The substance is cheap, readily available, and has virtually no side-effects. Doctors can recommend it as a suitable alternative to antibiotics, which are often prescribed for such infections, even though they are not effective, scientists from the University of Oxford said. Upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) affect the nose, throat, voice box and the large air passages (bronchi) that lead from the windpipe to the lungs. There is evidence for honey being used in children – although the NHS warns against giving it to the under-ones because of the danger of botulism – and it has long been used as a home remedy to treat coughs and colds. But the evidence for its effectiveness for a range of upper respiratory tract symptoms in adults has not been systematically reviewed. To address this, the scientists looked at research databases for relevant studies comparing honey and preparations that included it as an ingredient with usual care – mostly antihistamines, expectorants, cough suppressants and painkillers. They found 14 suitable clinical trials, involving 1,761 participants of varying ages. Data analysis of the studies indicated that honey was more effective than usual care for improving symptoms, especially the frequency and severity of coughing. Two of the studies showed that symptoms lasted one to two days less among those treated with honey. However, the researchers, Hibatullah Abuelgasim, of the Oxford University Medical School, and Charlotte Albury and Joseph Lee, of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, noted that honey is a complex substance and not a uniform product. They also pointed out that only two of the studies involved a placebo, saying more such studies need to be done before definitive conclusions can be reached. Writing in the journal BMJ Evidence Based Medicine, the authors said: “Upper respiratory tract infections are the most frequent reason for antibiotic prescription. Since the majority of URTIs are viral, antibiotic prescription is both ineffective and inappropriate.” The researchers suggest honey might therefore provide an alternative when doctors want to prescribe something to safely treat upper respiratory tract symptoms. They conclude: “Honey is a frequently used lay remedy that is well known to patients. It is also cheap, easy to access, and has limited harms. When clinicians wish to prescribe for URTI, we would recommend honey as an alternative to antibiotics. “Honey is more effective and less harmful than usual care alternatives and avoids causing harm through antimicrobial resistance.”

     Articles come and go, disappearing like the morning dew on a Spring day. I found this of interest about embracing the black pill, the negativities and pessimism. You know, our brief is to always be optimistic, even if like in that episode of Monty Python “It’s Just a Flesh Wound” scene:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6VTci1Bunk 
  https://affirmativeright.blogspot.com/2020/08/embrace-black-pill.html

     I read the above again and wondered why I noted it first as supporting my argument, since the essay, as I now read it is all over the place, much like me. Anyway, my point is that nothing guarantees victory in saving this world. From a Christian perspective, the Earth, while created with the rest of the universe as being “good,” was never intended to be eternal, it too will pass away, and was something of a testing ground for the spirit of man. The purpose of life was never about accumulating material things, affluence, plenty, but engaging in a spiritual struggle against evil. That epic quest seems to have been lost sight of in this age of consumerism, economicism and materialism.

     This was something I was only dimly aware of: vaccine-driven polio. But, say, don’t vaccines offer a magic bullet against disease?
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-08-27-polio-vaccinations-cause-polio.html

“Many people believe that if they get a vaccine against a certain disease, they won’t get that disease. After all, that is the point of vaccines, right? Unfortunately, that is not the case when it comes to polio in some countries. In fact, there has been a concerning surge in cases of vaccine-derived polio in Africa. Polio is highly infectious and is spread through contaminated food and water. It typically strikes children who are younger than 5, and 1 out of every 200 cases, on average, will result in paralysis. Some patients die when the disease cripples their breathing muscles. The oral polio vaccine, or OPV, has been used globally thanks to its easy administration and low cost. It contains weakened live polioviruses that match wild polioviruses, and they can actually cause the disease when they are “loose in the environment.” That means that in places where hygiene and sanitation practices are questionable, the viruses can get into water sources or be spread through contaminated foods and hands. The weakened virus replicates for a short period of time in children’s intestines and is then excreted through feces. According to researchers, OPV viruses can quickly regain strength when they start spreading on their own, developing mutations that make it nearly impossible to distinguish from the wild virus. It spreads just as easily as wild polio and is every bit as virulent. It is important to note, however, that the version of the vaccine used in Western countries is a more expensive, injectable vaccine that contains inactivated viruses that are not capable of causing polio – although that doesn’t mean it cannot cause vaccine injury.

August 30, 2020

ACCORDING TO the Centers for Disease Control, only six percent of the reported Covid-19 death toll of 161,392 people died of the virus alone; all others had other serious illnesses or problems, including “intentional or unintentional injury” (apparently some who committed suicide and tested positive are in the total), sepsis, cardiac arrest and the flu. More than half of the total involved those over 75 and most had two other serious health conditions.

See for yourself.

Comorbidities
Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death. The number of deaths with each condition or cause is shown for all deaths and by age groups.

Source Article:  https://www.thinkinghousewife.com/2020/08/cdc-only-9210-americans-have-died-of-covid-19-alone/

     The Good Sauce is a great Aussie Freedom journal with great writers and hard-hitting pieces, dealing with things like Australian crises, particularly Victoria, where the state of emergency is going to be extended forever. Here is an extract from Professor Zimmerman asking if history is repeating itself, and the answer is of course, “yes.”
  https://goodsauce.news/the-death-of-parliamentary-democracy-in-victoria/?mc_cid=32fc49e203&mc_eid=83a4250ada

“Victorians have watched their state government use a broad range of extraordinary powers to remove fundamental freedoms and control almost every single aspect of their personal lives. It did so by both declaring a state of emergency and a state of disaster, thus imposing draconian lock down measures after a surge in coronavirus infections. Imposed under the pretense of protecting the health of the people, the state of disaster came into effect in Victoria on August 2. Under the Emergency Management Act a state of disaster can be declared if the Premier is satisfied an emergency “constitutes or is likely to constitute a significant and widespread danger to life or property in Victoria”. But Victoria is also under a state of emergency, which came into effect on March 16. The declaration was made under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008, which allows health officials to detain people, search premises without a warrant, and force people or areas into lock down if it is deemed necessary to protect public health. And now the Victorian Premier expresses his desire to extend the state of emergency for an indefinite period. He is effectively repeating history by revealing his intention to extend his emergency powers indefinitely. The Premier is currently working with the State’s Solicitor General to enact another provision to extend the state of emergency for an indefinite period of time. He claims this is necessary because of ‘the authority and the effectiveness of all the measures that we’ve put in place’.

     Precious snowflakes are getting triggered by full stops. Ok, ban them, full stops like orange man, bad, racist, wah!
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8657089/Full-stop-intimidating-young-people-interpret-sign-anger-linguists-say.html

“Full stops intimidate young people when used in social media communication as they are interpreted as a sign of anger, according to linguistic experts. Teenagers and those in their early twenties, classified as Generation Z, have grown up with smartphones which they use to send short messages without full stops. And a study from Binghamton University in New York suggested that people who finish messages with full stops are perceived as insincere. Linguistic experts are now investigating why teens interpret a correctly-punctuated text as a signal of irritation. The debate was reignited after writer Rhiannon Cosslett tweeted: 'Older people – do you realise that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email/chat? Genuinely curious.' Several Twitter users expressed disbelief, and, despite her own use of a full stop, one even accused her of 'peak snowflakery'.” 

     Some jurisdictions have a good Samaritan law, where you must help someone in need. I think the last episode of Seinfeld dealt with this, where the crew ended up in prison for allowing someone to suffer while they watched. Generally good Samaritan laws protect people who do help from liability, rather than give a positive duty to help. Finland and Germany are exceptions:

“The Finnish Rescue Act explicitly stipulates a duty to rescue as a "general duty to act" and "engage in rescue activities according to [one's] abilities". The Finnish Rescue Act thus includes a principle of proportionality which requires professionals to extend immediate aid further than laypersons.

     Welcome to totalitarian tyranny under global capitalism.
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8647255/No-jab-no-job-Bosses-demand-right-sack-workers-refuse-coronavirus-vaccine.html?fbclid=IwAR3vXRJaYzeMZ6kLkSTOpODevczgBZQXqZGVrN4VYFtSNblXuUstb8TNYI4

“Small businesses are pushing for the right to sack staff members who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine when one becomes available in Australia. Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week announced the government had signed a memorandum of understanding with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Australia to secure the promising Oxford University vaccine candidate. The government hopes the coronavirus vaccine will reach Australia by early next year and wants 95 per cent of people to get the jab. Mr Morrison said he would like to make the vaccine 'as mandatory as possible' but does not have the power to make it compulsory. The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia has since proposed law changes that would give employers the power to sack workers who refuse the jab. 'If one of my staff members says, "no, I'm against it", then I'm going to have to say, I'm sorry then, you are a threat to my business',' Council CEO Peter Strong told 7News. 'If you don't sack them, you don't have a business, especially if you're in a high contact area where you've got a lot of customers. It's not discrimination, that's a business decision.' Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus said unions have yet to finalise their response, but are encouraging staff to do all they can to prevent the spread of COVID-19. 'Obviously that will include getting vaccinated when a vaccine becomes available,' she said. Meanwhile, Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt won't rule out stripping welfare payments from people who refuse coronavirus vaccines - and turning them away at the border. 'Our first goal is to encourage as many Australians as possible. I'm confident that a very, very large numbers of Australians will take it up,' Mr Hunt told the Seven Network on Thursday. 'But we reserve the right, subject to medical advice, to take steps that might assist.'”

     I have raised this question at this site many times, and at long last someone in the mainstream is seriously considering the principle of dual loyalties, or rather where does the loyalty lie:
  https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/warning-chinas-dictator-wants-our-12-million-chinese-to-help/news-story/d093800800f1a2a1865d954606d60671
  https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/why-we-cant-afford-to-dismiss-china-threat-as-racism/news-story/e8f14700a655492973b0fb477796a5a6

“China is at war with Australia, hitting us with cyber attacks and trade boycotts while recruiting dozens of academics to steal Australian-funded science. How many of our 1.2 million ethnic Chinese would help its dictatorship, asks Andrew Bolt. It’s the question multicultural Australia is too scared to ask: how many of our 1.2 million ethnic Chinese would help China’s dictatorship? In fact, how many already help China as its leader instructs its military to “prepare for war”? This is not an idle question. China is already at war with Australia, launching cyber attacks and punishing us with trade boycotts. Meanwhile, it is recruiting dozens of Australian academics — many ethnic Chinese — to steal their Australian-funded science under its secretive “Thousand Talents Plan”. China is also openly appealing to the patriotism of Chinese Australians — to their love of China, not Australia. As former prime minister John Howard observed in a panel discussion in London on national security: “One million (Australians) are of ethnic Chinese background, terrific citizens making an enormous contribution to our nation, but it remains the case that China is very interested in the capacity to use those people to further her power and her interests.” This danger is now too real to ignore. A paper in the Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies this week warns China’s military build-up will help create “a much higher threat environment” for us over the next two decades.”

     For years I have screamed in conservative ears that John Howard was a greater Asianiser than Keating. Asian immigration under Howard reached record highs - on the books 70% and rising - but for various back door reasons (e.g. New Zealand immigration) it was higher. Yet the "Howard illusion" was that he was still holding to his 1988 opposition to the pace of Asian immigration. Neither Professor Blainey, as I read him, nor the 1980s Howard, opposed the ultimate Asian takeover of Australia, primarily by the Chinese. Peter Wilkinson in The Howard Legacy (2007) has written the book that I wish I had. He shows that the Howard government's policy of selecting skilled Asian, predominately Chinese immigrants, has effectively selected Asians of higher cognitive ability and is changing the demographic nature of our elites, the professional and management classes. Chinese are in the majority in most of the important scientific and medical fields in the Australian education system and are an overall majority at the University of New South Wales. However, it is not just the best and brightest that get degrees. Many international students (= Asians) often are given degrees and passes when they should fail because failing these students affects financial viability. Conceded a pass, international students then get residency and jobs that Australian-Australian students could have got. Australian-Australians who passed stringent exams at that! The universities have become corrupted because government-funding policies have directed them this way. Readers who do not fear a Chinese takeover of Australia from within should ponder these words by Michael Backman in "Asian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia" (2001). Editor's comment: How many Australian-Australians watched with interest and alarm the highly organised 'invasion' of Canberra by the pro-Chinese Chinese, to ensure no disturbances of the Olympic torch run? Not too many concerns about the human rights of the Tibetan people here. And what about the Chinese ship waiting to deliver arms to Mugabe? Again human rights of others are not a priority for the Chinese. It is only the stupid, gullible westerner who allows his own traitorous elites to sell his people and his country out to foreigners.”

     True in 2008; true in 2020.

     It is getting hard to pick, but here is my choice of politically correct Leftist absurdity of the week.
  https://www.takimag.com/article/our-blm-jihadis/

“The Grampa Simpson “old man yells at cloud” meme is funny, to be sure. But leave it to black folks to go it one better by screaming at a lake. Last month, “Afro-Latinx” singer-actress Naya Rivera drowned while swimming in Lake Piru in Ventura County, Calif. Rivera had grown up in the area; the lake was not unfamiliar to her. It was an accident, and nothing more. Still, a black life was “taken,” so a petition was created to “cancel” Lake Piru.
“Lake Piru needs to go down. Now and forever. It’s taken too many lives,” brayed signatory Erin Jordan. “Naya Rivera and others deserve f**king justice. Nobody deserves to f**king drown or possibly be dead bc of this river,” bellowed Linnell Lilliston. Other comments: “Shut this sh*t down please.” “The lake shouldn’t have the right to be open anymore.” “Shut this place down!!!” “This lake is very dangerous and a threat to people. Not a single death more.” “This place should be drained.” “Use it for drinking water or drain it completely.” “Shut down Lake Piru for good.” Many of the 4,400 signatories simply chimed in with “justice NOW!” or “where’s the justice?” or “we need justice!” How one can extract “justice” from a lake is unclear. What is clear is that the notion of yelling at clouds seemed ludicrous until a bunch of low-IQ lunatics began doing it for real. A step up from demanding justice from a lake is demanding it from a tree. I mean, at least trees are living organisms. Robert Fuller was a crazy-ass black man in Palmdale, Calif. (well, to be fair, all of him was crazy, not just his ass). Beset by mental illness, the poor bastard hanged himself from a tree outside the Palmdale City Hall on June 10. Fuller had a history of auditory hallucinations, institutionalization, psychotic outbursts, and suicide attempts. He used his EBT card to buy the rope he employed in the hanging (from a Dollar Tree, noch).

     While the Victorian government controls virtually all our bodily functions now, including bowel movements, in some cases literally, a leading UK scientist has stated that the lockdowns were a scientific mistake:
  https://summit.news/2020/08/24/uk-government-scientist-admits-lockdown-was-a-monumental-mistake-on-a-global-scale/

“A scientific advisor to the UK government says the coronavirus lockdown was a “panic measure” and a “monumental mistake on a global scale.” Infectious diseases expert and University of Edinburgh professor Mark Woolhouse acknowledged that the decision to lockdown in March was a “crude measure” that was enacted because “we couldn’t think of anything better to do.” “Lockdown was a panic measure and I believe history will say trying to control Covid-19 through lockdown was a monumental mistake on a global scale, the cure was worse than the disease,” said Woolhouse, who is now calling on the government to unlock society before more damage is done. “I never want to see national lockdown again,” he added. “It was always a temporary measure that simply delayed the stage of the epidemic we see now. It was never going to change anything fundamentally.” The professor asserts that the impact of the response to coronavirus will be worse than the virus itself. “I believe the harm lockdown is doing to our education, health care access, and broader aspects of our economy and society will turn out to be at least as great as the harm done by COVID-19,” said Woolhouse. Richard Sullivan, professor of cancer at King’s College London, previously warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths over the next 5 years than the number of people who die from coronavirus in the UK due to the disruption caused by the coronavirus lockdown, which is preventing cancer victims from getting treatment. Figures also show that there were more excess deaths during the 2017-18 flu season (around 50,000) than the total number of people in the UK who have died from coronavirus (41,433). However, a survey conducted last month found that Brits thought around 7 per cent of the population, 5 million people, had been killed by COVID-19.”

     According to the liberal press there are now “peaceful clashes” in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with the radical Left turning to guns, with bodies everywhere. It is getting to be like Rambo: Last Blood. There is also ironic footage, maybe still up on the net of the Black Lives Matter lunatics setting church on fire and the church sign says “we support black lives matter” while the church and all the cars in the parking lot are burning. Way to go, liberals!
  https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298501182382473216?s=20
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC53_Eq3LME&t=30s
  https://www.amren.com/podcasts/2020/08/the-shooting-begins/
  https://www.takimag.com/article/the-social-construction-of-black-self-destruction/
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW-zgXOLLBc

“Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth refused to deputize citizens to prevent rioting and mayhem in the city, while police also ordered armed business owners to stop defending their own property. Three people were shot, two fatally, during a second night of chaos in Kenosha that also saw numerous buildings set on fire and properties trashed. The unrest is a reaction to the police shooting of wanted felon Jacob Blake, who fought with police, may have been carrying a knife and was also seen reaching into his vehicle before cops opened fire. With many armed citizens vowing to defend their safety and property from increasingly violent Black Lives Matter agitators, it appears they are not getting much support from authorities. The Journal-Sentinel also reported how “a group of armed men with long guns” were observed “standing guard at a dry cleaning business on Sheridan Road near 59th Street, some on the roof.” “Police told them to get off the roof and a person shouted back: “Officer, this is our business.” Police did not ultimately order them off the roof. Police did not ultimately make them get off the roof.”

     With a name like “Richwine,” you know that the writing must be good, as rich as wine, anyway. Here is his critique of BLM, which many have made, but this is concise and easy to pass on:
  https://amgreatness.com/2020/08/18/against-black-lives-matter/
  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/disavowed-blm-leader-defends-looting-rioting-because-us-steals-diamonds-oil

“Although they operate under the banner of social justice, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and its allies are a pernicious force. The false narratives, the toleration of lawlessness, and the punishment of dissenters have left our society in disarray. Americans of all races and political stripes should reject these tactics. The problems with BLM start with its false claim that white police and civilians are systematically killing black people. Allied media have promoted cases that seem to fit this narrative, such as the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, but the outrage is selective. In a country as large as the United States, reporters can find individual incidents to support just about any narrative they want. The statistics on race and crime tell a very different story than the one advanced by the anecdotes favored by the media. First, black Americans are far more likely than non-blacks to commit violent crime. Blacks accounted for 37 percent of all arrests for violent crime in 2018, including 53 percent of murder arrests, despite constituting only 13 percent of the population. It is this fundamental disparity in base rates of crime that generates so many encounters between blacks and police in the first place. Once we adjust for base rates, police are less likely to fatally shoot black suspects compared to white suspects—a fact that is entirely at odds with the BLM narrative.

31 August 2020

California leads the way to electricity blackouts, closely followed by South Australia. They both created this problem by taxing, banning, delaying or demolishing reliable coal, nuclear, gas or hydro generators while subsidising and promoting unreliable electricity from the sickly green twins - solar and wind. All supposed to solve a global warming crisis that exists only in academic computer models. Energy policy should be driven by proven reliability, efficiency and cost, not by green politics. Wind and solar will always be prone to blackouts for three reasons.

     This is baffling; stunning indeed:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8664033/Baffling-law-passed-rape-victims-thrown-JAIL-just-telling-stories.html?ito=push-notification&ci=30044&si=12817605

“Victorian sexual assault survivors could be jailed for up to four months or face fines exceeding $3000 for telling their stories using their real names. The Judicial Proceedings Reports Act was changed in February, prohibiting victims from identifying themselves publicly if their attacker has been found guilty. The new law applies retrospectively, meaning victims who have lawfully spoken out previously are now censored from speaking out publicly. Media outlets who defy the law can also be prosecuted and face fines of up to $8,000. The only way for victims to identify themselves and tell their stories is to obtain a court order - which is not only time consuming, but would cost more than $10,000 in legal fees. Dr Rachael Burgin, lecturer in the Swinburne Law School, described the change in the law as a 'major victory' for convicted paedophiles and rapists. She said thousands of survivors will now find they cannot tell their stories. Not only can victim's no longer use their real names, they cannot provide any identifying features such as photos in publications such as memoirs and autobiographies unless they get a court order. 'There is no way that I would just have $10,000 sitting around to pay to do this. (I’d) be taking money away from (my) family,' Maggie*, an adult survivor of child rape told news.com.au.”    

     First it was Trump supporters being hunted down, and now the film new class, the “flicker class,” are working on stirring up more racial trouble on the “Karen” theme, that being a white woman who expresses concern about a threat from diversity, even though FBI statistics indicates that she is justified in caution, and indeed burning cities would make anyone afraid and want to buy a gun or 50.
  https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/08/25/actress-taryn-manning-will-terrorize-black-lives-matter-supporting-neighbors-in-movie-karen/

“Producer Coke Daniels is reportedly prepping a thriller about a “southern white woman” who will “terrorize” her Black Lives Matter-supporting black neighbors, with Orange Is the New Black actress Taryn Manning set to star. According to The Wrap, Manning will play a character unsubtly named “Karen White” who will engage in a terroristic campaign to force her new black neighbors to move out and leave the neighborhood. With his Flixville USA production company, Daniels reportedly intends to expand on the “Karen” meme which is defined as a “rude, obnoxious and insufferable middle-aged white women” who calls the police on black people. The source called the upcoming film a social commentary with a “powerful message.” The film claims an expected  February 2021 debut but no distributor or studio has been announced for the project. Manning finished her seven season-long run as Tiffany Doggett in the woke Netflix prison drama Orange Is the New Black. Manning also had a recurring role in the recently concluded Hawaii Five-0 and a breakout role in 2005’s acclaimed drama Hustle and Flow. The actress most recently made news when she claimed her Instagram account was “hacked” after a message appeared accusing her Netflix show of “hurting humans.” “My account was so epically hacked,” Manning told her one million Instagram followers last July. “I am back in, and I am sorry.” The post that Manning claimed was someone hacking her account exclaimed that Orange Is the New Black had “hurt me more than anything has in my life .” “I have to speak out before anything happens to me. F**k fame! This show hurt humans. You will never truly know, but many were hurt!” the post continued. “I do not need to ever work again in this town. I’ve been dropped by everyone for having a backbone. I was dropped because a person terrorizes me daily and them too. So my team, they just turn away. Like a car accident. Rubber neck but don’t help. F**k show biz. A disgrace.”

     Some crazed Democrats, and I suppose your Left in OZ, like to get down and dirty and say that men who have guns, have small pies, no spell check, penises. Notice that no statistics are ever given, no actual metric or measure produced. What empirical investigation was conducted, via genital measurement, and where? I am sure many so-called “male” Democrats would like to perform such measurements, but I seriously doubt that any such clinical inquiry was conducted. And, what do they say about women who are going out and buying guns by the crate load, living in fear of the chaotic urban jungle that the Left has created. Women, ignoring the transgender issue, apparently don’t have penises, not that Democrat men would know.
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/25/democrat-congressman-blames-gun-ownership-small-genitals/

“Over the weekend Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) suggested militia service is the litmus test for gun ownership and noted that “having small genitals is not sufficient reason to own a gun.” Casten’s comments were captured by his challenger, West Point Graduate Jeanne Ives (R). Ives responded Casten’s comments: “Maybe [he] thinks overgrown frat boys are cool…[but]  on behalf of women everywhere: overgrown frat boys are not cool. They are pathetic, and they can’t be trusted to make sound decisions on other people’s lives. It is clear he is not the moderate we were sold in 2018. It’s well past time that Sean Casten answered for his deeply concerning rhetoric and radical policy positions.” It is a hallmark of the left to equate shackle the right to gun ownership with militia service.  But on February 1, 2018, Breitbart News noted that the Second Amendment’s mention of a “well regulated militia” is foundational to the individual right to keep and bear arms. For example, we must understand that the individual right to keep and bear arms is not in spite of the mention of a militia but because of it.  In other words, because the militia played a key role in the Founders’ minds, and is intended to play a key role even now, the right to possess arms, with which to gather in militia, “shall not be infringed.” If the people come together to fend off a tyranny, but lack arms, what shall they do, thrown stones? Consider the words of  Founding Father James Madison, who used Federalist 46 to explain that the American citizenry had within itself the authority to band together for purposes of repelling tyranny. He clearly stated that “ultimate authority … resides in the people alone.” And he explained that even a federal government fitted with a standing army will find itself unable to overcome the people, armed and banded together: “Extravagant as the supposition is, let it however be made. Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger.”

     Like someone out of a Gothic horror story, US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (Demon-Calif.) has just declared Republicans to be “enemies of the state” and “domestic enemies.” Joe Biden is mentally challenged, but harmless, a plucked  chook waiting to fall into the nursing home, but Pelosi seeks power by hook or by crook:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-08-25-pelosi-declares-republicans-to-be-enemies-of-the-state-treason.html

“Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (Demon-Calif.) has just declared Republicans to be “enemies of the state” and “domestic enemies,” further admitting her plan to seize the White House by force, followed by mass arrests of all GOP members and Trump supporters. During an MSNBC interview yesterday, she claimed, “the domestic enemies to our voting system and honoring our Constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with their allies in the Congress of the United States.” She then went on to call them, “Enemies of the state.”