Joe Biden threatens to nuke gun-owning Americans, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Millie,

defends teaching critical race theory in the military, and Democrats reap the whirlwind as crime

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So, last night, we learned kind of what Joe Biden and the Democrats and his entire administration

think the military is for. And apparently it is for two things. One is nuking Americans.

And the second is critical race theory. I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to take away from the news cycle yesterday,

given the fact that the sitting presidents of the United States, and when I say sitting,

I mean that very literally. I mean, he is a house plan. He is just sitting there. He is not

mentally able. He is not with us. He's not been with us for quite some time. He was trying to make the case that the big spike in crime that we have seen over the course of the last year has nothing to do with lack of police and everything to do with guns. So as we'll discuss in a little bit, he's been making the pitch that we need to get rid of guns in American society to lower crime, which is kind of an amazing contention given the fact that we now have more guns in circulation than we've had any time in American history. And everything was gone pretty swimmingly up until the time the Democrats decided that it would be great to foment riots in America's major cities and undercut the police. But in any case, Joe Biden then made a sort of peculiar argument. So he was talking about people who believe in the Second Amendment

as a form of defense against the infringement of your rights by the government, which of course

was the original purpose of the Second Amendment. I mean, the Second Amendment's text says

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