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* Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the neediest man in Illinois…
On November 8th, I'm voting for Trump.
On November 9th, if Trump loses, I'm grabbing my musket.
You in?
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) October 26, 2016
* Maybe somebody ought to remind Joe about the state’s FOID card revocation law…
430 ILCS 65/8) (from Ch. 38, par. 83-8)
Sec. 8. Grounds for denial and revocation. The Department of State Police has authority to deny an application for or to revoke and seize a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card previously issued under this Act only if the Department finds that the applicant or the person to whom such card was issued is or was at the time of issuance…A person whose mental condition is of such a nature that it poses a clear and present danger to the applicant, any other person or persons or the community
In other words, maybe the state cops should grab Walsh’s musket.
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:38 pm
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A throwback to yesterday.
Rauner:Sanguinetti vs Hardiman:Walsh
Birds of a feather……
Comment by train111 Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:40 pm
I’ve seen a disturbing number of comments about Trump supporters expecting him to not only win, but win in a landslide. If he loses, it is proof positive of massive and widespread fraud or rigging on a scale never before seen.
So, honest question, what happens if and when he loses? Riots?
Honestly, how did we get here?
Comment by illini97 Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:43 pm
he’s only packing a musket? did he have to pawn his modern day guns to pay child support?
Comment by hisgirlfriday Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:43 pm
It’s not worth it. He can grab his musket and his 5 followers. They’d spen hours arguing over who’s in charge, couldn’t come up with a strategy, and then they would all shoot each other.
Comment by Indochine Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:44 pm
I remember when Walsh was a candidate for Congress in the 9th Congressional District and, later, when he ran for the Illinois General Assembly. He had precincts in North Evanston, Wilmette, etc. At that time, he presented himself as a liberal Republican.
When he relocated to the 8th Congressional District, he reinvented himself as the second coming of Ted Nugent.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:46 pm
A disturbing thing from Trump supporters is the number of polls showing him winning by a landslide on social media. They have 50 or 60 thousand respondents, so that is used to show how these ‘polls’ are more valid than say Fox News who interviews 900 to 1000 voters. It would behoove these people to actually take a basic statistics course and have some understanding of how polling actually works.
Comment by train111 Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:46 pm
===Riots?===
lol
Calm down. Fat old men don’t last long on the front lines. Take it from one.
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:47 pm
Nothing says patriotism like treason.
Comment by AlfondoGonz Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:48 pm
Nearly 400 people gave it a ‘heart’. Sad, embarrassing, aggravating, disappointing and many other thoughts…
Comment by Ugh Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:48 pm
=== It would behoove these people to actually take a basic statistics course===
Yeah. That’ll happen.
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:48 pm
I’d suggest to Mr. Walsh that he reach out to Tony Peraica. I heard he has a whole warehouse of pitchforks and grosses and grosses of torches, “slightly” used…
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:51 pm
UGH. When will this carnival-barker go away? Joe Walsh is the worst kind of worst.
Comment by Big Muddy Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:51 pm
Let’s, for the sake of comedy, take his words literally. Does he even have powder and balls? Does he know how to load it? Does he know how to shoot it? Does he realize muskets are notoriously inaccurate? Does he realize that the military that will oppose him now has advanced weaponry post 1783? I can’t stop laughing.
Comment by Steve Rogers Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:54 pm
Clown Strike…yep.
Riots? Whaddaya think this is 1968 or something?
Polls - (see Wikileaks) yep, over sampled and misleading…maybe.
On a serious note, there is a distinct separate reality going on with many people on both camps…ultra partisans and those whom disregard facts from just about ANY source, again regardless of party affiliation. November 8th will be a very interesting day, and I’ll be judging throughout the whole thing in my precinct.
Comment by Captain Illini Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:55 pm
You mean “musket” isn’t a euphemism for something else?
Comment by Earnest Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:56 pm
Well it is good to see Walsh abidin’ by the original intent of the 2nd amendment - muskets for everyone!!!
There is always the disturbin’ trend of “No one I know supports Hillary, so obviously Trump will win.”
NCLB and Common Core killed off teachin’ stats for pollin’.
Comment by Dr X Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:57 pm
Trying to imagine Walsh’s accomplishments that would make him an authority on this. I can’t, because his manhood is so diminished it’d be like watching a corn kernel roll down a storm drain.
Comment by Stark Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:57 pm
I promise to miss former Representative Walsh if he will go away.
Comment by thunderspirit Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:57 pm
“Have fun storming the castle” - says no one to Walsh.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:57 pm
What concerns me is that they can only seize his FOID card and not his musket. Is someone planning to overthrow the government going to be deterred by not having a government issued permit?
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:59 pm
Musket? Is that what he calls it?
Walsh has been grabbing-his-musket in the public arena from Jump Street.
Comment by wordslinger Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:59 pm
Meh, he’ll probably just then go change his identity and reapply
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:59 pm
Joe Walsh is a loser, total loser, believe me. He loses bigly. Walsh doesn’t win anymore. He didn’t write The Art of the Deal. We need someone who wrote The Art of the Deal and it isn’t Walsh. Did I say he doesn’t win anymore? Believe me, that guy is a loser. All talk, no action. He’s such a nasty guy. He doesn’t respect women. I love women. I have more respect for women than anybody else, believe me. I love their spirit. I love them. You know who I don’t love? ISIS. They’re killing us. They’re flowing through our borders by the thousands every single day. We need borders. If we don’t have borders, we don’t have a country. I will build the wall. We’ll have borders once we have a wall. It will be a big, beautiful wall with a big, beautiful door. And I’ll make Mexico pay for it, believe me. Mexico is killing us with trade. Absolutely killing us. We don’t have borders anymore. We need borders so we can finally have a country again. Where was I? Oh yea, Joe Walsh. Total loser.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/09/17/trumpfaces.gif
Comment by Chairman McBroom Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 3:59 pm
C’mon Joe, how can we miss you if you won’t go away?
Signed, nearly all Illinoians.
Comment by Jake From Elwood Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:00 pm
The Russians and Trump have both worked to make this election seem illegitimate. Walsh is an articulate fool who is throwing gasoline on the fire. Maybe he hopes to increase his ratings.
I do fear an uptick in domestic terrorism similar to Oklahoma City. Walsh and his musket are not my worry. It does not take much training or knowledge to be much more dangerous than a man with a musket.
Comment by Last Bull Moose Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:01 pm
His former wife should have grabbed a musket and made him pay his child support.
Comment by LincolnLounger Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:01 pm
I was talking to a random lady in the Laundromat last weekend (more like she was talking to me) and I had to explain why Trump was not going to get all the votes in IL this election. It’s out there. But I suspect most of it is harmless, and if anything does start brewing, Trump himself will likely act to quell it lest his business interests start to be threatened.
Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:02 pm
===they can only seize his FOID card and not his musket===
Um, no. When they take your card, you gotta give up the muskets pronto.
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:04 pm
Trump and his followers definitely seem to enjoy grabbing.
Comment by AC Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:04 pm
I find it interesting that if you take the word “reason,” meaning “the power of the mind to think, understand and form judgments by a process of logic,” and add a “t” to the front of it, you get a whole new meaning.
Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:04 pm
Felons can’t own a flintlock because of 911 in Illinois
Comment by Rabid Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:05 pm
When I look at the Trump campaign I can’t help but think, this is what an Andy Martin campaign would have looked like if he’d ever won a primary.
Comment by Gruntled University Employee Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:05 pm
This guy is a loser with a capital L.
Comment by Rocky Rosi Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:08 pm
Nobody is with you, Joe. That’s because you’re an idiot.
Comment by Terry Salad Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:08 pm
Walsh is an idiot. Trump is losing because he’s a garbage Human being. No reason for any rigging.
As for the FOID i’m not sure muskets are covered. They aren’t under federal statute. Does the FOID apply to them?
Comment by Mason born Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:09 pm
==Um, no. When they take your card, you gotta give up the muskets pronto.==
If the musket was manufactured before 1890ish, no you don’t.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:10 pm
The only response that won’t get me in jail or banned is:
WHAT is this goofball THINKING? OK. Maybe he just can’t. IF it looks like a threat; sounds like a threat, it is…..
Comment by sal-says Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:12 pm
Perhaps he has a Civil War recreation thing on the 9th….
Comment by OneMan Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:15 pm
Sounds like he wants to man the barricades like in Les Miserables. I say let him. I remember how that turned out for the guys with muskets behind it.
Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:15 pm
C’mon people, that’s just locker room talk.
Comment by Henry Francis Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:17 pm
I never liked his stuff with the Eagles.
Comment by Groucho Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:17 pm
== Um, no. When they take your card, you gotta give up the muskets pronto. ==
Well, maybe.
‘Someone stole all my guns; I just reported it no more than 5 minutes ago. Wanna see the police report?’
Lord have mercy.
Comment by sal-says Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:18 pm
I think Walsh would be better off if he grabbed his muzzle. I know the rest of us would.
Comment by Wensicia Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:21 pm
== The clown show strikes again ==
Maybe “A” clown show. We seem to have a number of these in IL.
Comment by sal-says Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:21 pm
At the age when other men joined the military, Joe Walsh went to acting school.
I suspect that on November 9 we will once again find Joe playing make-believe rather than doing anything that would risk personal discomfort.
– MrJM
Comment by @MisterJayEm Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:34 pm
–C’mon people, that’s just locker room talk.–
Bunker room talk.
Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:36 pm
==Honestly, how did we get here?==
Laughing off the people who’ve been saying and stoking this stuff for decades? A simplistic answer, sure, but it’s part of it. My conservative mom is gobsmacked at hearing this kind of stuff; she can’t believe it’s popularity, and that plenty of her friends are saying it. I’ve given up trying to point out to her that they’ve been here all along, and that her friends have always been saying inappropriate stuff in private.
Comment by Threepwood Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:39 pm
Joe and Krusty would be very simpatico:
Krusty the Clown: Hey yutz. Guns aren’t toys - - they’re for family protection, hunting dangerous and delicious animals, and keeping the king of England out your face.
Comment by paddyrollingstone Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:40 pm
Just a musket, Joe? No crossbow, broadsword, or catapult?
Comment by TinyDancer(FKASue) Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:54 pm
Literally, Melissa Bean was the first democrat I ever voted for. It was obvious from the beginning of his congressional campaign, he was a whack-and-a-half.
Comment by Ducky LaMoore Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 4:56 pm
Joe Waish has always had mental problems
Comment by Jimmy joe Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 5:14 pm
I like his being true to Scalia like originalism. Would all his 2d Amendment types were limited to muskets.
Comment by JackD Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 5:17 pm
If the musket is an antique, he does not need a FOID card.
Comment by My New Handle Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 5:25 pm
==The Russians and Trump have both worked to make this election seem illegitimate.==
The Russians? C’mon. Remember Hillary/DNC paid goons to incite violence at Trump’s Chicago event. It doesn’t get more illegitimate than that.
Comment by CrazyHorse Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 5:26 pm
“Remember Hillary/DNC paid goons to incite violence at Trump’s Chicago event.”
The Chicagoans who demonstrated at that event did not require payment. Any counter-demonstration violence did not require incitement.
– MrJM
Comment by @MisterJayEm Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 5:42 pm
Wow, it’s true. The satire impaired are always the last to know it.
Comment by Captain Obvious Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 5:52 pm
If there’s any reason to be thankful for gerrymandering, it is that gerrymandering ended Joe Walsh’s time as a congressman.
Comment by Precinct Captain Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 6:13 pm
Really. The only ones I know orchestrating violence were some HRC loyalists in Chicago when Trump was going to visit…..or did I dream that.
Comment by blue dog dem Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 6:18 pm
I agree with Rich’s analysis. There are a few other people that could stand having their heads examined by the FOID police as well.
Comment by Angry Chicagoan Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 6:21 pm
And this guy has 77,000 followers? It’s a movement, man!
Comment by zatoichi Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 6:27 pm
When you’re rich and famous, you can just walk up to them and grab them by the musket. They just let you do it!
Comment by DuPage Dave Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 6:43 pm
Where in the 2d Amendment does it say that mentally ill people cannot bear arms?
Comment by bunkered Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 6:45 pm
This guy is also trying to recruit poll watchers all over the state
Comment by titan Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 7:18 pm
I just saw this. Typical Walsh. He’s a loser politician who’s relegated himself to throwing waste from the sidelines.
Comment by Grandson of Man Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 7:22 pm
Why do all you lefties get hysterical?
Comment by Liberty Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 7:32 pm
and this guy was an IL congressman? please ISP make an example with this joker. kick him off the radio too. good grief.
Comment by baloneymous Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 7:36 pm
Walsh is the bravest patriot that never served his country not sacrificed anything.
He is a chicken hawk.
Comment by JS Mill Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 7:50 pm
All these antics, and still no ratings.
Comment by Michael Westen Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 7:51 pm
On November 8th I’m voting for HIllary Clinton.
On November 9th, if Hillary Clinton loses an Trump is our President. I will wake up and go to work just like I did yesterday and today. I may be unhappy or in disbelief, but this is our system.
It’s the worst system except for all the other ones?
Comment by hockey fan Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 9:33 pm
Walsh is an idiot. Always has been.
Comment by Ron Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 9:50 pm
@Ron Burgundy: “I find it interesting that if you take the word “reason,” meaning “the power of the mind to think, understand and form judgments by a process of logic,” and add a “t” to the front of it, you get a whole new meaning.”
It’s also interesting that if you take the word “rump,” and add a “T” to the front of it, the meaning doesn’t change at all.
Comment by X-prof Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:12 pm
==It’s not worth it. He can grab his musket and his 5 followers. They’d spen hours arguing over who’s in charge, couldn’t come up with a strategy, and then they would all shoot each other.
==
Sounds like its worth it to me.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:22 pm
Joe, go back to sleep on your air mattress.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:28 pm
–The only ones I know orchestrating violence were some HRC loyalists in Chicago when Trump was going to visit…..or did I dream that.–
I think “hallucinate” is more accurate than “dream.”
Trump will tell you himself that his rallies are the safest place in the world. Watch the whole thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004533191/unfiltered-voices-from-donald-trumps-crowds.html
Comment by wordslinger Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:40 pm
“Um, no. When they take your card, you gotta give up the muskets pronto.”
How will they know what guns you have? We don’t have gun registration. The FOID just says you are allowed to handle and own a gun. Having a FOID card doesn’t mean you own a gun.
So all he would have to do is lie about the guns he has. Again, I don’t think someone bent on overthrowing the government is going to have a problem lying to said government.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 26, 16 @ 10:43 pm
Is there any chance he meant to place the musket in his mouth? I could get behind that use of antique firearms, Walsh is the kind of troll who would encourage others to take to the barricades but would be among the missing himself.
Comment by oldgeezer Thursday, Oct 27, 16 @ 1:40 am
Walsh used to be my congressman. He was a racist dense brick them, and it seems nothing has changed…. Same old Joe. At least he is sticking to a musket when there are many more modern, effective weapons, such as the AR-15, which are routinely sold to those with mental health issues.
Comment by LakeCountyOG Thursday, Oct 27, 16 @ 2:34 am
Something tells me he grabs his musket a lot, if you know what I mean.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Oct 27, 16 @ 8:27 am
For years we’ve heard the shrill about how the Second Amendment meant to keep and bear muskets. Finally someone come along with a musket and all of the grabbers freak out again.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Oct 27, 16 @ 2:38 pm