Monthly Archives: December 2020

Election Fraud Update for December 21, 2020

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Lawrence Person

At this point, I believe there’s less than a 1% chance that the election fraud is overturned and Donald Trump sworn into a second term on January 20. Still, I’m going to go ahead and do another Election Fraud Update … Continue reading →

Posted in Crime, Democrats, Elections, Supreme Court | Tagged 2020 Presidential Race, Antrim County, Arizona, Crime, Democrats, Elections, Georgia, Maricopa County, Media Watch, Michigan, Mollie Hemingway, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Peter Navarro, Phoenix, Supreme Court, voting fraud, Wisconsin | 5 Comments

Gun News Roundup for December 20, 2020

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Lawrence Person

Been a while since I did a gun news roundup, but a few items of interest caught my attention: About that ammo shortage: Demand actually was on the upswing before the year 2020 even began. Then the dumpster fire that … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Guns, Texas | Tagged 87th Texas Legislature, ammo, Donald Trump, Economics, Florida, Gun Owners of America, gun shows, Guns, Gurbir Grewal, Karl Rehn, Ken Paxton, New Jersey, Patrick Murphy (NJ), Smith & Wesson, Texas | 5 Comments

Colin Furze Tests His Trebuchet To Destruction

Posted on December 19, 2020 by Lawrence Person

In this follow-up to last Saturday’s post, Colin Furze chunks more stuff from his trebuchet: The bearings finally gave out, but he says he’s going to rebuild it so he can make it even more powerful…

Posted in Military, video | Tagged Colin Furze, Military, trebuchet, video | 1 Comment

LinkSwarm for December 18, 2020

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Lawrence Person

Greetings, and welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! On a personal note, I was just laid off from my Senior Technical Writer job, so if you have any leads in the department (for either Austin or remote work), drop me a … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Border Control, Crime, Democrats, Media Watch, Social Justice Warriors | Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Andrew Cuomo, Andy Ngo, antifa, Austin, Border Controls, Camille Paglia, Crescent Dunes, Crime, data security, dogs, education, Elissa Slotkin, Eric Swalwell, FireEye, Germany, Gina Raimondo, green subsidies, hacking, Jimmy Stewart, Joe Biden, Lindsey Boylan, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, Micah Isaiah Rhodes, movies, Nancy Pelosi, New York, NFL, Obituary, Portland, Regulation, Rhode Island, Russia, sex offender, Social Justice Warriors, SolarWinds, Tulsi Gabbard, Wirecard | 3 Comments

Everybody In California Is Moving to Texas

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Lawrence Person

Regular BattleSwarm readers already know about Tesla, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan moving from California to Texas. It looks like those were just the first pebbles of the avalanches of companies and people looking to get the hell out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Economics, Regulation, Texas | Tagged Antonio Neri, Austin, Ben Shapiro, California, Chuck DeVore, Democrats, Hewett Packard Enterprise, Houston, Oracle, Texas, Westlake (Metroplex) | 23 Comments

Jimmy Flannigan Goes Down In Flames

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Lawrence Person

A tiny glimmer of hope in Austin’s winter of discontent: Liberal city councilman Jimmy Flannigan was defeated by Mackenzie Kelly: Conservative challenger Mackenzie Kelly beat incumbent Jimmy Flannigan in the Austin City Council runoff election Tuesday, earning 677 more votes … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Democrats, Elections, Republicans | Tagged 2020 Election, Alison Alter, Austin, Austin City Council, Austin Police Department, Democrats, Elections, homeless, Jennifer Virden, Jimmy Flannigan, Mackenzie Kelly | 4 Comments

Remember Boko Haram?

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Lawrence Person

Hey, remember Boko Haram, the west African jihadist group notorious for eluding the Nigerian military and carrying out kidnapping and murder sprees? Well, they just kidnapped 300 boys: Boko Haram asserted responsibility Tuesday for laying siege to a secondary school … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad, Military | Tagged Abu Abdullah Idris ibn Umar al-Barnawi, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram, Bulama Bukarti, Foreign Policy, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, Katsina, Nigeria, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change | 4 Comments

.50 BMG vs. Heavy Metal

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Lawrence Person

In some of the previous .50 BMG vs X videos I’ve shared, they tended to demolish whatever they were shooting at. This time, I’ve got video of them shooting at thicker and heavier metal plates and blocks. First up: Going … Continue reading →

Posted in Guns, video | Tagged .50 BMG, Barrett .50, Bushmaster, Demolition Ranch, Going Ballistic, Guns, Machine Gun, MK211 Raufoss Round, Titanium, tungsten, video | 2 Comments

China’s Military: A Paper Tiger?

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Lawrence Person

Is China’s military a paper tiger that will fail miserably in real combat? So argues this video: The narrator claims that some of the formidable picture we have of the Chinese military is due to China’s successful propaganda machine. He … Continue reading →

Posted in Communism, Foreign Policy, Military, video | Tagged aircraft, Chengdu J-20, China, Communism, Foreign Policy, Ghatak, India, Military, People's Liberation Army, Russia, Shenyang FC-31, Su-33, Su-35, submarine, video | 5 Comments

Colin Furze Builds A Trebuchet

Posted on December 12, 2020 by Lawrence Person

Everyone’s favorite insane British inventor has constructed quite a large trebuchet and used it to fling heavy objects considerable distances. Here’s the build video: The trebuchet looks to be about 10 meters high, which seems to be a fairly common … Continue reading →

Posted in Military, video | Tagged Colin Furze, Military, trebuchet, video | 3 Comments