Mother of Mayhem: The Battleground of Freedom

Good evening, PBN Family. We are here for another episode of the Mother of Mayhem, The Mother of Mayhem. I'm starting to wonder what will end first, this series or me hosting this series. We'll just have to see how things go in Virginia. You may have a stand in host here one day, who knows. But we are blessed. Tonight, PBAN Family, we got our man, Keith back with us. Let's get the hosts and on the front page here the Common Sense Practical Prepper podcast. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts. It's a great one. It's a great one from a guy with way more experience in things like law enforcement and law than I do, you know what I mean? And uh, he's living through it here in Virginia with me. We're watching the state turn into a radical hell hole. And tonight we're gonna talk a little bit about the battleground of freedom that I think Virginia is about to become. We may. I don't know if it'll be momentously historic, Keith, but it does feel like some things are happening around the same you know time, well, the same topic, the same you know stuff that there'd be some battles to be fought. Now, I'm doing all right. I appreciate you having me back on. Yeah, it's it's some crazy times we're living in. I mean, if you want, if you want to be right in the middle of and right in the thick of it and all the stuff that's going on. First, Second Amendment, Central Virginia, Richmond, Virginia is the place. To be, definitely, And funny that, you know, we we talk a lot about and I don't think this is I don't think we're en route to a civil war by any stretch. But funny that all the talk about civil war and that Richmond, Virginia and surrounding areas could become such a hot area in the country as we see this divide you know in many in many categories that divide. But one of the biggest, of course, is you're right to keep a firearm. Which is number two on the list. I feel like that one we should probably shore up and get it squared away, right Number two, Well. I mean it, you know, it is the capital of the Confederacy. So I mean, what other place or a better place could you can you think of to kick off a civil war? But yeah, the Second Amendment, I mean, it's you know, if you're an American, you're a patriot. I mean, it's it's near and dear to everybody's heart. It but keeps you know, us the first the Second Amendment keeps us separate and keeps it we're different from any other country in the world. And you know that's just been ingrained, you know, in our DNA of our country since the very start. So it's it's it's a tough one. And then to watch these laws all over the country, different you know, ars, and and all sorts of restrictions and how many mags and how much rounds and you can't have one in the chamber, and it's just it's mind boggling, how how bastardized. I guess the courts have made the Second Amendment, but you know, it is what it is. And for those of you who aren't keeping up, maybe you're in a relatively sane state. We've got salt weapons large capacity magazine Ban two bills HB two seventeen, SB seven forty nine. We got a beautiful new industry liability standard that's gonna hurt. It's just it's just taking a guy running a gun shop on the up and up running a gun range on the up and up and just stabbing him in the back for no reason. That's SB twenty seven mandatory storage rules, age twenty one, purchase limits handguns and assault firearms, ghost gun restrictions. And you know what I didn't realize, Keith, is that we can't even be in possession of milled out eighty pre set lower ar fifteen lowers. Oh, I didn't even know that one. Yeah, that's that's part of the ghost gun thing, right. So yeah, that's all I want to say about that on a recording. But suffice it to say they're attacking this thing from you know, it's taking them a long time, these crazy liberals. It's taken them a long time to sort of figure out how the best attack the Second Amendment. And I'd say Virginia's given one hell of a showing abby the mother of Mayhem, ask. Didn't some of these same laws come up to Younkin's desk and he just shit canned him right away, and he's like get out sure, yeah, and so now yeah, and so now they've got you know, they've got the I guess the majority in both chambers of the legislature here and then it's they're just they're just running wild with it all sorts of stuff. And what's crazy about that is your veto all those gun control bills. And where's the market to increase in gun violence in Virginia? You know what I mean? Oh you could? You look at Chicago, you look at California, you look at New York, some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. And it's really easy to say. And I when I hear when I hear the word o common sense gun laws or common sense immigration laws, common sense to me is just a dog whistle for everything I say after the word common sense is just a bunch of bologna. But you look at you look at some of these major cities. Chicago has some of the most restrictive firearm laws in the country. And that place is the wild West. It doesn't you know the old addage, you know, you know the criminals don't care about the gun laws, and you go on and on, But that's exactly how it is. So have you noticed anything in sort of Keith's day to day life. It's early on, so it might not might be a better question to asked till July first that as has affected you outside of I guess probably the gas price, which we can't blame on Abigail of course, you know, since the new administration jumped in. No, no, we can't. We can't blame that on her. The Middle East is on fire, figuratively and literally. We were talking a few minutes ago. I went to the gun show Sunday. That's a big one. Yeah. Yeah, they have it every every three months or it's the whatever gun show. And I go there and just to walk around, and I'll tell you what, you could barely get in the place. It was just elbowed elbow and you know, the people two and three deep on these tables of somebody's different firearm companies, and they were just as fast as they could fill out the firearm forms. I mean, they were just flying right on the door. Yeah. See now that that's a perfect segue, because there's a part of me that thinks, you know, you look at a situation like this, and as fun as it is to pick on democrats, I know my personally that there are democrats who own guns and light guns, and you know, and we have this big battle that is happening right now in the state over the redistricting which is clearly a weapon. They say it's temporary. I mean, I don't believe the government anyway when it ever it says temporary, But it's clearly a weapon that they want to wield for the primaries to get more you know, more blue into the primaries. The question I have is it seems kind of poultry on the like the outcome from the Democrats side. It seems like a lot of Republicans are coming out for this, and it makes sense that they'd be inspired to stop this thing, you know what I mean. You got the Democrats who already got there, they got control over everything already. What are they worried about redistricting for now? You take some Democrats who might have already been kind of like, yeah, maybe I'll go, maybe I won't, and you let them know, hey, mess around and you're gonna have fines in jail time and all brought to you by the mother of Mayhem. Right. I wonder if it will affect our redistricting vote. I wonder if it'll piss them down, Democrats off and they'll stay home. I guess we could only hope. What is it It's it's going to be ten to one? Is that the redistrict again, like Augusta County out in God's Country. They're carving a little blue section out of that. I mean it's I mean, I looked at the map. I mean it's a mess. I mean it looks like some of the gerrymandering. You know, you see in Illinois where a district from Chicago runs from Chicago all the ways down to like you know, the border with h whatever, whatever is it, Kansas, No Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri. And yeah, there's some crazy, crazy districts that are drawn out there. But I don't know. I saw an article that in the I guess the the folks that are voting early, that the Republicans are outpaking the Democrats by two to one or three to one. I don't believe that for a second. But you can't forget about you know, Fairfax Loudon County, Alexandria. They're going to vote for it, and and all the elections you with, these elections, regardless of the state election or national election, all the other precincts and districts pile in their votes pretty early. And Northern Virginia is the one that always hangs out to the very end and then just dumps them. So if there's a strong turnout up in Nova, this is gonna be a tough one. Oh yeah, if they can get their foot soldiers out up there, it will be a It will be a tough one. But maybe these people in the South and in the Western and Bolden and the people hiding amongst us, the resistance here in Richmond will come out. You know what I mean. I have to imagine that there are a lot of people who are kicking themselves in the ass right now that didn't come out to vote for the governor. You know that probably felt like, uh, you know, I. Know, I'm not sure why people don't. My dad would always tell me, you know, if you didn't vote in the election, you don't have the right to complain. That's the way I look at it. Yeah, if you voted and your candidate lost, you can bitch and moan all you want, because at least you went out and cast your vote. But if you sat home on your button didn't do anything, you don't get the right to complain about how good or how bad things are because you had a chance to have your voice heard and you chose not to. I think i'd add taxes to people. If I were president, I'd sign an executive order and we increase your taxes. If you don't vote, to the opposite of a poll tax, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, don't vote. You're gonna prey right, get your ads to the polls. You're in America, you know what I mean, Like you could be in North Korea. But yeah, I forget. I forget what percentage of Virginians actually vote. It was some crazy number, it was, I forget what it was. But once I heard it, I was absolutely amazed. I was thinking, maybe thirty or forty percent of the people come out and vote, and it's it's much less than that, which is very, very sad. I remember years ago it was a Colorado special, probably like pre Joe Rogan podcast, or like pre Joe Rogan podcast before people know knew about the Joe Rogan podcast, and he did a joke about it might be I mean, it might have been older than that, but he did a joke about football and trying to explain football to aliens, and it was a great segment, and it was talking about how more people watch football than vote for the president. Surprise, crazy way to look at it. But yeah, so the this thing has already gone. I didn't realize it, but this thing with the redistricting has already gone to the Supreme Court of Virginia, not the Scotus, but like, and that's how it wound up in the referendum. They basically said, let the voters decide. Yeah, so that's an interesting little wrinkle, which means it ain't going back, you know what I mean. They're not going to be like, oh, we changed our mind, let's roll on it again. So it really is. You know, on today's show, I was talking about how Virginians are voting for all of us, and that is what's happening right now. And it is happening right now, you know. I mean, so if you've got to are Virginian or if you've got Virginia relatives, what they do is going to affect the outcome of the primaries. I mean, this is on purpose, you know what I mean. It's a purposeful move by the Democrats for sure. Yeah, regardless of where you live in Virginia, just like you said, you're voting for the entire state. In a sense, what you vote for well dictate. You know. The congressional districts, districts for for an awfully long time. If they get attend to one like that. Yeah, yeah, it'll be ugly. It will be ugly. No doubt that we could be at the at the beginning of gun control. They could be pushing through mandatory buybacks, mandatory turn ins and all that. I kind of now, I don't want to go down the feet what if, because that can lead to a dark path. But you know, it is in the back of my mind. There's no doubt about it. Yeah, you know, correct. So they I don't have the I don't have the breakdown in front of me. I probably could get it in front of me. Let me see if I can bring it up. But I did want to talk about another wrinkle in sort of the Second Amendment, Virginia's base battle for freedom at this you know, United States level. Is this Court of Appeals decision out of Washington, d C. Today that. Basically went against the Court of Appeals, went against the band, the proposed ban of the same sort of magazine situation that we're in with Abigail, which is ten or more or is it ten or more or is it more than ten? It's ten or more? Right, Yeah, yeah, so yeah, the twenty round mags would be banned come July one, So correct. Okay, I'm gonna see if I can bring up the details on that one Washington Appeals Court denies. I think that should do it. That should do it. So what you know, there's a lot of states that would be effective by something like this if it winds up. What we're hoping is that this winds up making its way into the SCOTUS, right, the Supreme Court, the big the big time Supreme Court for the United States, and then they have to make a decision. And the beautiful thing about that is they're going to get pressure by a lot of states and a lot of different cases that are in this same sort of limbo. And then of course a bunch of you know, people who've suffered through this thing already that we're going through in states like Washington and the ones you mentioned at the beginning of the show. Yeah, if these laws passed, if all these laws passed, I think as far as overall restrictions, Virginia would be like have the eighth worst restrictions or the most restrictions. They'd be like eighth in line, California, New York, New Jersey. I know, if we're eight, i'd eight, you know, I shudder to think of what state's one and two Massachusetts, Connecticut. But yeah, they've got some they got some crazy restrictions. You know, mags, Like I said before, you know, you know, yes, no, no one. You can have a round in the chamber in smaller mags. And it's just it's it's such a minefield. I can. I can if I lived in California, something does. I could see myself getting in trouble just quite by accident, just because the laws as a convoluted and from state to state, you know, they can be different. Crazy. So the case is Benson versus the United States that was heard in d C. Tyree Benson has stopped with a handgun and a thirty round magazine. DC's outright ban on magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. This is the Court's ruling. Benson's convictions, magazine ban, undrests of firearm, unlicensed carry on LAWFULAMA possession. We're all reversed, which is a big deal. I judged Joshua Deal. The majority quoted magazines capable of holding this is now the Virginia's Supreme Court. I'm sorry, there's the DC Court of Appeals, not the not the you know, US Supreme Court. But he was quoted saying, magazine's capable of holding more than ten rounds of ammunition are ubiquitous in our country, numbering in the hundreds of millions. It's good to be American, accounting for about half of the magazines in the hands of our citizenry, and they come standard with most popular firearms sold in America today. So that's, you know, because these magazines are arms in common and ubiquitous used by law abiding citizens across the country, the district's outright ban on them violates the Second Amendment. That's that's exactly what we're looking. For, right, Yeah, no, no, that I mean, I think that's that's going to help when it gets fast tracked to the Supreme Court. Obviously, that'll be an argument, you know, for to you know, to have these laws overturned. I haven't declared unconstitutional, but then you know the a g wait, is the Virginia ag going to argue this in front of Scotis He's he's gonna have to farm this out to somebody else. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. Well, he only needed a couple of bullets to do what he wanted to do. He's gonna have to he's gonna have to tap somebody else, is gonna have to come. He's gon to tap somebody. Else in I don't that's this fell up here, guys, Lord Mercy j Jones. He's never I heard read a commercial during he never he's never tried a case. I don't know what that's. Yeah, it was one of those you know, Jay Jones blah blah blah text message this he's never tried a case. And maybe I don't know. I mean, some some ags don't. I mean, you don't see him in court every day. They're figurehead for the most part. But yeah, I don't not nothing personal against mister Jones, but careful, I'm just saying he made things very personally. I know. I hope he doesn't have to have my phone number, but he may have to farm this one out. And they do that from time to time. They'll they'll hire account and stuff. But you know, on behalf of the Virginia, you know, some other attorney will argument in front of the Supreme Court. But that'll be interesting. That'll be one of those where you know, you'd be listening on c SPAN and everybody else will be out in front of the steps of the Supreme Court, you know, Chuck Schumer probably threatening the justices and all that, like he's famously done before. Do you think it would be I mean, do you think this is a comparison that's out of line or not? Would it be? Obviously the cost would be extremely different. Yeah, the cost would be extremely different. But it's something akin to like for people who aren't gun owners, maybe this might help you understand. Like if the for climate change purposes, they all of a sudden said ten gallon tank of gas in under you know what I mean, something along those lines. That's a beautiful parallel. Exactly, Yeah, we're we're screwing up the environment. So exactly ten gallons. So you're you're f three f fifty. It's a ten gallon tank, you know, and it's going to get you from you know, you might get to work, but you may have to fill up before you get back. Now, I think that's an excellent that's an excellent parallel. And the and the reason I think is because vehicles come standard with tanks bigger than ten gallons, you know, and there's no outright threat to a guy with a twenty five gallon tank, you know what I mean driving down the street, right. But that's that's literally the shift that they're expecting the whole community of gun owners and gun sellers to make, which is, take these weapons that have been sold this way since creation. You know what I mean. You never run into no glock with a ten round bags, not that I know of, you know what I mean? And and yeah, and now that's a great parallel, that's yeah, for pe for folks who are not into firearms, Yeah, that would be that's how you would speak to them about it. Hey, look, you know your f one fifty or your big RV, you know, no more than a fifteen gallon tank. And you're you know, you're thirty five foot RV and you're thinking, well, that's not right. You're like, yeah, you are. Where do I even buy one of those? Right? You know? What do I do? How much is that gonna cost? I mean, this is legitimately like what what people who own any AR fifteen are thinking right now? Because I don't know, I mean, I guess you could probably I'm sure, there's some gun makers who cater to California and you could buy an AR fifty. Well, I don't even know if they are they allowed to have AR fifty to California. I can't imagine that they do. But yeah, so I guess the gun manufacturers and you know, and mag pulling all them all be making ten round bags or something for these ars or something like that. But yeah, I just doesn't. I just so you can have two ten round bags, but you can't have a twenty because. You know, because switch in the time it takes you to switch out a mag if you're an active shooter, three second to the death total. Yeah, yeah, I guess. No, No, it never makes any sense the arguments, regardless of the political what side of the political spectrum you're on, a lot of these these bands and infringement upon the First and second Amendment, that the arguments just don't hold water. If you really just look at it and think about it with a critical mind, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Yeah, let's hope that reason will run its course. But the big question for us is what do we have. We've got March eight, well, no, really, I've got April May June. We've got three months and you know, then the rubber meets the road. Yeah, she has to sign them by the thirteenth or fourth thirteenth, I believe. And someone also said if she doesn't sign them, there's a certain period of time and then they become like de facto law or something to that effect. If she decided. I'm not I'm not sure what that means. I mean, that's not really like, Oh, I'm really ash. I couldn't get around to it. Damn, it's law now, well, you know, I mean. See, that's what I'm wondering about her position, because she's either gonna hold some position of power post governor or run for president post governor in my estimation, unless, of course, she becomes so you know, all of her plans basically work and she becomes so radical that nobody's got the stomach for. And I feel like that could happen. But they really did screw up and having her have to sign these things by the thirteenth, because, like I said, the vote goes on till the twenty first, So anybody who gets pissed off that's a Democrat about their guns being taken away now has the ability to say, well, I'm just gonna sit on the couch and not go vote on the referendum since you took my weapons or you know, now I gotta I mean just to sheer. Like what they're asking the average gun owner to sit down and read and figure out is insane. You know, what other aspect of the average person's life outside of maybe taxes, maybe, but even the average person's taxes or you know, put the you two to work and you're done, right, Like, what other aspect of life does an American citizen have to sit down with these bills and figure out exactly how I have to do this to not become a criminal. How do I not become a criminal? Abbey? Like, what do I have to what kind of back bends do I gotta do? Well, I've said this before. So she she ran as a moderate, and everything she's done up to this point, it's not not any not close to even be a moderate. But I think that I don't know it, just let me articulate this articulated this way, I think with all these laws have come to her and she had really she had no say in it, so they were they were voted through on party lines, and she gets them. I think that she might have to kick a couple of these to the curb just to maybe try to get maybe back still left of center, to say, you know, look, Virginia, you know the both legislatures the house is what is it the House of I don't know, anyway, the two legislation legislation houses in Virginia, so they both voted. I think she's going to try to kick a couple to the curb and say that, you know, these came to me, I'm not in agreement with them, And I think she may use that to try to get herself a little bit closer to the center, because if she signs all of these, she's gone. I mean, she's way way far left. And there's already a bunch of buyer's remorse or voters remorse for those who voted for her thinking that she you know, she ran as a moderate. I didn't think she ran as a moderate if she. I didn't believe for a second she was a moderate. But you know, she's a politician, you know, left right center. I believe about half of what they say of that. Yeah, it's a good move, it's a good it's a good basis for sure. So what I've got here is the the. Because the session has already ended, Governor Spamberg as exactly third days from adjournment, which was March fourteenth, Okay, to act on every bill sent to her desk. The deadline is eleven fifty nine pm April thirteenth. You were right, here's our three choices. Sign the bill and obviously becomes law immediately or on its effective date, usually July. First. You've got the veto power, which, to your point, she may use because you can send bills back and say, let's take some guns off of this big list of assault weapons bans, or let's maybe reconsider this magazine ban now that things are looking crazy in DC. But yeah, then number three is and this is I don't like this at all. Do Absolutely nothing in the bill automatically becomes law without her signature. Does it give a timeframe? Is that? Like? That's all it says. It doesn't give like. If Spanberger wants to stop the magazine ban storage rules blah blah blahlah blah, she must actively veto them by the thirteenth. No, it doesn't say about when. Probably whatever the effective date on the bill is. It's what the last day of June. So maybe at midnight June whatever, thirtieth, whatever, and then it comes. If she doesn't sign it, then it becomes law. That's crazy. She just lets it, let's it set. I don't know why. I don't know why. Why is that pervision? I don't know why that provision is even in there. That is a weird one. I wonder where that originated. Maybe the the governor was incapacitated or they were I don't but there's all. There's a total political armor. That's all that is. Yeah, you could be like, oh, it snuck up on me. Damn. She probably will do something along those lines with some of those bills so that she can say I didn't pass that, I didn't sign that gun control. Why wouldn't you if you were her, I didn't sign those bills. Well they went into law. Well I didn't sign them. I'm not sure what's worth not signing him and saying that, or the people that would believe when she said, well, I like, well she said she did. I mean it's like it's snuck like somebody like shoved it under her desk under the hell. Yeah I didn't see that one. Yeah exactly. I could see her doing it. I could also see her sending some back for amendments. Maybe. I don't know, though, I don't know anymore, man, I don't know people anymore like I used to, especially not politicians. Politicians are ruthless now, oh yeah, they they just sit around and I guess they just sit around and say it's it's you know, by any means necessary, and that's it. Yeah, they don't. They don't listen to anybody. It's you know, again, both sides of the aisle that they no longer hide their agenda. Ye, come right out and tell you what they're gonna do and tell you to go pound sand. I mean, look at Thun and the Save Act and stuff. I mean, he's playing both sides of the fence, and you know, you could have the Save Act voted on, but he's like, oh, you know, so whoever he's getting his marching orders from, he's just gonna drag this thing out. Odds are it's not going to get pasted. Eighty percent of the country wants it. I don't understand that. What I feel like that is something that has to be built into our legislative process, particularly if we're gonna have if we're gonna have parties that are so pissed with each other, you know what I mean, Like so divided like never before. Then we need some kind of amendment or something to that effect, where like, yeah, if you have if it's forget about bipartisan in the Senate, if you've got bipartisan in the population eighty percent behind seventy six percent and seventy percent or high sixties and minorities, the people that you know, Chuck Schumer's out there like telling you it's Jim Crow version too. If you've got that kind of agreement, yeah, then pass it the Congress, you know what I mean. Like, yeah, I can't think of another anything in the past that has ever got that much traction from folks on the left and the right. It's always at the most maybe fifty to fifty sixty forty. But when eighty percent of the country says yes, we want this, and the politicians, the Republicans are for the most part, for the most part, ignoring them. I mean, the leadership is and the Democrats are just making stuff up. They're just you know, I can't find my birth certificate. I'll be They'll get to kick me off the voter roll. Which is not Mike Lee. There is even a provision if you cannot provide the ID, you just have to sign a piece of paper saying I swear under threat of perjury, I really am a US citizen, and you sign the waivering, you go on about the business. It's it's it's just silly. The arguments are just absolutely insane. Yeah, there's no there are no legitimate arguments. I mean, that is as far as I'm concerned. That's reason enough to roll out the voting machines or whatever and just do a national ballot in issue if just like you would have on the presidential election. You know what I mean, This is national security issue. It's not like a well, you know, should marijuana be legal or not? You know what I mean. It's a big deal, right, and this deadlock in Congress is at least three years going forward. You have people that are not going to comply to anything in Congress on both sides of the ball and that's going to be what life is going to be like under Trump because they hate that guy so much, you know what I mean that there's no way they're going to be like, let's work together, don now. You know, and if we lose the midterms, and it doesn't depending on what article you read, you know. I mean the Democrat they already had the articles of impeachment written up. They just put a signature on it. I mean, I'm sure they got about six or eight of them. And to think about it, think about it, is there's a lot of Republicans that don't like Trump. I mean, oh, yeah, he's an outsiders. Yeah, he's an outsider. He's messing things up. You know. They don't get all their their bribe and all the packs and all their lobbyists, and they're just like, oh, I just cannot wait till this guy's done. They lose the midterms and nothing gets passed, not that a lot's getting passed anyway, and then he gets tied up for the next two years or the twears following the midterms with impeachment after impeachment, and it's just, yeah, just bad news. I think he to be honest, I think we got about one more, one more big thing that he can do to I don't know, it's not necessarily piss the American people off, but make the American people uncomfortable in a way that they don't want to be uncomfortable before a primary, and I think we will lose pretty pretty handedly, you know what I mean. I think the Ice shootings were a big deal. I don't think I think a lot of people who are kind of on the fence are going to think about that. The gas prices in the war, it's a big deal that affects the average person, you know what I mean, because the average person is going to work and saying, what what is Why am I paying this much money for gas? Right now? You know, I never would have ran. Into the Ayatola ever, because they don't you know, they don't look into like what kind of missiles did they have and how close I'm talking the average American, how much in uranium were they enriching? They just think, god, man, I got bills, you know, So if we if we run it, and now you have the the TSA situation, which you know, it's it's stubbornness in Congress is what it is. You can look at it either the average American can look at it either way they want. They could say Trump would just bend a knee here at night, we could get people through TSA and get the people paid, And the same thing on the other side, if the Democrats would vote for a building just everybody wants, you know. So it all depends on how it goes. But I feel like one more big thing that affects people, you know at that day to day life, could could really be the end for the Republican in the fryarries. Yeah, particularly if it's close, you know, right, whatever we're doing in Iran with Israel, whatever whatever's going on that we need to wrap that up. Yes, six six American six soldiers dead, a couple dozen injured, whatever it is, under a billion more funding on the way. Yeah, just we need to wrap that up. As Americans, we have an attention span of about fifteen minutes. Yes, we wrap this up in about a week. Will be like Iran, Well, half America can't pick out or ran on a map if you gave them twenty choices, exactly, Just get that, get that, you know, memory, hold a get that out of the way, Get gas prices back down, you know. Come July August, you know, everybody's raw raw United States, and and you know, and then here comes the mid terms. We'll see what happens. It will be interesting. I don't like the amount of time we have g's short, real short, because I think we're going to go into Cuba, you know what I mean, We're going to do something in Cuba that's gonna be wacky, and I don't know how that's going to go over. And there's always the yell in of and and all this foreign stuff. You know, people don't like that either. Yeah, I don't know. Well with Cuba. I think all the folks that fled Cuba in the last like thirty years, all the ex pats from Cuba, I say, if anything happens in Cuba, we just allow them to jump on a plane and fly and just let them take care of it. Just let them, you know, get the government back at order. And I think a lot of those folks they still have a love for their home country. I think a lot of those folks would really be happy to go back and try to make Cuba you know what it was fifty yeah, fifty fifty some years aga of communism. Yeah, it was a beautiful country. I mean, just like Iran. I mean you've seen the whole movies, like in the early seventies, women walking through Tehran. You know, they had the big hair, they had the pants suits, the high hairds. It looked like, you know, it looked like the hippie days here in the US. I mean the flower printed shirts. I mean they were they were rocking it out, and then it did what all the hell. I'm sure a lot of Cubans would love to go back and try to get their country straight. Yeah, I don't feel like that's his plan. You know. I feel like Cuba's about to be the Bahamas for Americans. I feel like it's about to be the new bo It's the new Puerto Rico, you know what I mean. Yeah, that's what it feels like. And I don't know. We'll have to see, but you know, we've got enough problems here in this in this state to deal with over the next six months. I mean, well, I don't know. I don't even know how our turnout as a state will look like. You know what is that going to We won't know until we see what happens with the vote on the twenty first. That will be the tell ye, everybody's got to come out and vote. You've got to come out and vote, guys. I mean, it's and and you made a great point. You may read stories about how well things are going and that a lot of times can make you say, well, do I have to go vote? You know what I mean? The Republicans are doing great? That my vote? We got it. I read I read it on the internet. We're good. Yeah, that's like sy op one oh one. You know what I mean. You read the author's name is the names like Tommy Liberty or something. Uh, I think that guy might work in Abby's office. Yeah, So what else is? Uh? Well, we talked about all the taxes in previous shows. I'm just trying to think beyond the executive orders and the new bills past this legislative season. If there are any more surprises up the sleeve, you know what I mean, anymore kicks to the nuts that we could. Yeah, and I mean we've got enough. And like you said, well we'll see what happens with all these firearm restrictions and she signs them, kicks a few back vito'es, whatever, we'll see. But it's you know, the big one that'll be fast tracked to the Supreme Court. You know, there's several different you know, entities and you know the n RA and all these other different acronym people. You know, they've got the the the ink's not even going to be dry when she signs that that bill, and they'll they'll they'll file the next day. They'll be at the clerk's office at eight am just with a pile like this and just you know, they'll be injunctions and yeah, it'll just it'll just be a mess. And then the press will have a field day with it, and of course everybody will gets so confused. We don't we won't know which way is up now. It would be very interesting to see, you know, like old Dominion shooting range, and you know a bunch of the businesses here and close by that could be affected by it, you know, because yeah, I guess if you if if you're in a situation where you take your firearms to the range, like you know most gun owners do at some point, hopefully hopefully you don't have an AR fifteen sitting under your bed that you just leave there and hope it's going to work one day. But you know, suddenly you go on outside with that thing with a thirty round magazine, wanted to go do your run to the shooting range like you normally do. What oh, you know what I mean? If it if it gets moved from being a you can't buy it too, you can't own it. Yeah, let's yeah, and that's that was a good distinction you made, you know, everything before July one, it's it's grandfathered in. Yeah, we actually looked at you know, you can you can gift it to an immediate family member. You can put it in a will, but you know, if your neighbor passes away, you know, the nieces and nephew can't come to you. So well, you know, mister Smith Keith really wanted you to have this ar, even though we're like, no, no, don't. But yeah, that's the thing. I mean, it's if it's grandfathered in, you can take your ar, your twenty thirty round mags, go to the range, do all your stuff. But come July one, you know, no new ars, no large capacity mags, and you can't buy them in Tennessee and bring them into the Virginia because that's importing after July one. But yeah, they've they've got most of those bases covered. So yeah, the gift and the you know, having something in the will, you know, that's that's that's the way to do it, I guess. But yeah, I guess we can all go out and buy about ten or fifteen aar fifteen's and just just start handing them out to people. That's my friend, that's my cousin. But yeah, you can. What it sets up though, is instead of introducing, instead of introducing legislation that would be super radical and terrifying and incriminating, which would be now, which would be you go from no gun control on that end to all of a sudden, you can't own these weapons now come next legislative season. They just have a couple of sentences to change. Sure, and now the grandfathering goes away and it becomes it can't have them here. Yeah. So if the lossy signs gets fat and it gets upheld, so it actually becomes law, then why wouldn't that be the next step. And that's just that's just yeah exactly. So then it's you have until November first of what twenty eight, twenty twenty nine. Yeah, oh my gosh, can you imagine? I can't. We'll give you twenty bucks for it, don't worry, Oh yeah, like cash, give you a tax credit. Oh yeah, yeah, And I'm sure a bunch of people take advantage of that. Oh, twenty dollars off my taxes. But yeah, oh my gosh, if there was an outright band and you had until X amounted, like at midnight on whatever day to hand your stuff back in, lord have mercy, I certainly. Yeah. Well, funds a word I could talk about, you know, resisting. Yeah, you know, I'm sure there's a plenty of plenty of gun owners and plenty of good old plenty of good old boys out and stop with Virginia that are just like okay. Yeah, well that's when you start having those conversations with sheriffs, right, and that has happened in other places. Flues. Yes, who's going to enforce it? Yep? You know what's the enforcement going to look like? Well, there's always state police. It's a big question, you know. And we know how state a state police they you know, they would they would have to go along with the governor. I mean, that's just that's just how that works, state police. Hence the day. But yeah, that's just that's Yeah, that's a dark day. I hope you don't have to do that show in two years. I guess. The only other thing is, uh, have you given any thought to red lines for putting the UH for sale sign up? So I turned okay, Oh yeah, we didn't talk about. In appreciate this is something you and I did not talk about. So I'll be sixty in a month, and my whole plan was to retire at sixty two, take social Security early, okay, and build a cabin somewhere east Tennessee. Hell, I'll even go to Florida build a cabin. Not exactly, you know, not no mountain ranges in Fronda, but I'm looking at somewhere that won't tax my retirement, my pension sales tax, all that. So I'm looking at Tennessee, maybe Texas or or Florida. But you know, my timeline may have just sped up a little bit. It I mean, not wait many yeah, I mean, not wait till sixty two to betting on what happens. I mean, you know, it's it's unfortunate. And I was born and raised in Indiana. I've been here since eighty eight, so Indiana will always be my home, but Virginia's kind of my adopted home, I guess you could say. And I you know, I enjoyed here a lot of great people. You know, you got the mountains, you got the beach and all that good stuff. Punny stuff, great location, man, and you just but no, that's you know, if you're going to stand on principle and like you said, you draw the line in the sand, there has to be a point where you're like, you know what, I am not going to participate in this state and what's going on, and I'm just gonna leave. And maybe that's what the far left wants, like just get those red people out of here, so we don't worry about redistricting. We're just gonna be blue like California, you know, and you know, Republicans and moderates will be the very small minority. I mean, that's the whole plan. But if that's the plan, it's probably gonna work. It's so weird, man, because I'm not a military person. I don't even have you know, like there's none of that bred into me, build into me. I haven't studied very much of it. But there's just this thing in me, man. And it could be Philly. There is this thing about seeding territory that just oh god, I don't know, I don't know. Maybe it's a built in stubbornness or something like that. Yeah, or maybe you know, what it probably is is an ignorance to it probably is more of an ignorance to the outcomes, you know what I mean, having not physically been a fitted by like get hit with a wave of charges over your guns, wind up in jail, wind up, oh in the state thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, and then maybe you might say, damn, honey, we should have moved. Yeah, it's gonna it'll be very interesting to see what happens. But you're right, some some people that's that's gonna be their line in the saying. They're like, I'm not going to be a part of this, Yeah, and moved to a different state. And you know that may happen in my case. We'll see, you know, like my timeline may be sped up a little bit. I'd like to know how many people, you know, when this thing first started. Dave Jones was early early on, He's like, well we better sell you know, like when the day she was elected, you know what I mean, It was like that early on and I was like, oh man, is it going to be that crazy? And you know it might sure as hell here we sit, Yeah, you shall see. Yeah, a lot to consider for you Virginians out there, you know, maybe it's worth maybe it's worth putting together a group who can help quantify what that would look like, you know, because it wouldn't be hard to run a poll and to see, you know, okay, how many people are legitimately considering leaving the state because of these radical laws. Find some kind of average within the statistics that goes into you know, income and property ownership and taxes, you know, from that right, and then to look at you know, what is the real cost of these these laws? I mean, look at New York. I mean, oh yeah, their taxes are getting taxed and those people are out of that. What did the governor's treating people? She wants the millionaires to come back? Yeah, So I'm like, wait, what, no, come back. We just want to take more of your money, more of your money. No, I left New York for reason. Or folks leaving California to go into Texas or Tennessee or something like that. I hope they don't screw up Tennessee. But so much Nashville, Nashville is is blue. But you know the eastern Tennessee, you know out there, you know what east or what west of Knoxville or west eastern Knoxville. Beautiful country. I've got friends that live out there. They're like, come on, Smokies. Yeah, oh my gosh, beautiful, beautiful part of the country. Yeah, that's I mean. But that you know, how many times can you do that? I think that's what it is, you. Know what I mean. I'm forty now. I feel like I could, I could potentially be pushed through several states, you know what I mean? Like had I years ago when we were under northm during COVID, we were looking at moving and a bunch of people were like, dude, you should just come to Texas. A bunch of friends that lived there and all that kind of stuff. And if I had moved to Austin, Texas or something like that, or in the suburbs, then I'd be like, damn, I gotta leave again. Houston, Dallas, fort Worth, any of the major cities. Yeah, they're blue, yeah, deep deep blue. And that's kind of what what irks me about it is like, you know, I guess you know, we have the skill set and the and the experience to go live somewhere that never would be touched if we wanted to, you know what I mean. I even have some land in New Mexico. Even that's a even though that's a liberal kind of insane ward. But you know there are places like that where you could go. Live and. Yeah, disappear if that's your thing. The problem is, I don't know how you feel about it, Keith, But if I ever wind up in the sticks, like I'm fully embracing that, I'm not doing no podcasts and videos and like I'm disappearing, disappearing. No, one hundred percent. Now, that's that's my plan, and I'm not sure if it'll be. You know, I build my cabin and be completely off grid, you know, maybe a hybrid, maybe a little bit of grid tie, but definitely have a lot of off grid capacity. Yeah, and I just want to ride off into the sunset. And the only thing I want to hear is maybe a plane every once in a while. I don't want to hear neighbors, maybe you know, in the fall, some shotguns or rifles. I don't want traffic, just you know, I just just leave me alone, Just let me have my piece and quiet for however long I'm going to be around. After that, and it's you know, that's it. I'd create a pen name I do that and that'd be about it. That would that would be about it? Because yeah, that's once you push to that point, you have no choice but to disappear, right. Yeah, fire up to star Link once a week and check some email or something's on the world, maybe or maybe not. I'll tell your family, you know, every third Sunday from noon to one pm, I'll be online. That's the only way you're going to be able to reach me. That's that's how Yeah, that's the calm, so everybody gets you know, every third Sunday. We can talk to Dad every third Sunday for forty five minutes, and he goes dark for another month. Then we have the option of driving ten hours with the four by four to go find him. Yep, yeah, yep, yeah, get past all the booby traps and everything. Lse, I'll tell you the land mines are coming up the drive. Bring your metal detect that you're gonna need it. Yeah, man, you know, it's awful, It's awful, it really is, because this is this place is amazing. Richmond is an amazing place. I sure hope that the cooler heads prevail and the Supreme Court gets involved and you know, we see some legitimate protests. I wish I would have known about the protests in Richmond. I heard did you hear anything about it? I heard nothing about it. Oh the mag giveaway. I I was mad. I'm like, it wasn't on I didn't see it on X. Of course I don't watch you know, I don't watch you know, commercial TV or anything like that. But yeah, it wasn't across X. Hey come down and get a mag or I didn't see. I was like, oh, I was bummed. Yeah, I don't even care if they gave me a mag. I would have just liked to have been there, you know what I mean, and had the crowd be sizeable or bigger. Than it was, you know. Yeah, yeah, I had no idea what was happening. I mean, he had no idea. My dad calls me up, so he tells me about he saw it on the news. I'm like, what of all things, I'm hearing this from my dad? Yeah, okay, okay, that's strange, but you know that doesn't bode well. No, well, keep that. Appreciate you coming on. Oh, thanks for having me back. I appreciate it. I think we uh, I think we established the battleground of freedom and what's up, what's at stake here in the state of Virginia, and you know, for the state and for the country possibly, so PBI and family. Definitely keep your eyes on it, keep your eyes on this state, even if you're not you're not here in the commonwealth. And if you are in the Commonwealth, make sure you get out and vote and uh, you know, get active, participate any way you can, you know, voice your opinion. I haven't written, Abigail, it's it definitely feels like, you know, or my representatives in Richmond, We're so blue it's insane. They'll probably just you know, auto delete, right, but you know, do it. I mean, you know, at least you've you've said your piece and they may shit can it, But you know, at least you said your piece exactly. Yeah, and I think that's important. Save it. You never know when might come up. Emailed him. I told him I wasn't dealing that stuff all right. Well, guys, thanks so much for joinings for another episode of Mother Mayhem. Make sure you check out Keith's podcast, The Common Sense Practical Prepper. He is at prep Underscore podcast over at X. If you dare walk the dark alleys of X I don't know about you, but I go to X and I leave always depressed, always seeing way more violence than I thought I was going to just going to make a post, but yeah, thanks so much for joining. It's Keith, and stay tuned, guys. Our sponsor for tonight is inert mugs dot com. If you want to see the coolest ordnance fashioned tumblers that exist, go to inert mugs dot com and check them out. They got some great call few mugs over there. They're selling a really cool bluetooth speaker that's shaped like a claymore. Got get all kinds of trouble for posting that thing on where was it? YouTube? Got mad at me. You can't sell firearms on YouTube. 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