12 December—Bitching about the Kellogg Company’s refusal to be brought down by striking cereal-making employees who told their own union negotiators where to go, good old Joe Biden is posturing to make it more difficult or even impossible for employers to permanently replace striking union workers with new ones, commonly called scabs, asserting that it’s “an existential attack on the union and its members’ jobs and livelihoods.” No surprise there, given Joe’s constituency and desperation.

Nor is it surprising that the flaky governor of the Flake State (a.k.a. Gavin Newsom of California) is proposing to take advantage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s apparent blessing of Texas’s recent unconstitutional anti-abortion law to further exacerbate his state’s unconstitutional ban on firearms, as confirmed by a federal judge in June. But that ban is sure to be reversed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before you know it.

So, following the rationale and novel legal strategy of Texas’s ludicrous trail-blazing bounty-hunter law that targets abortion providers by exploiting the innate venality and greed of human beings, flaky Newsom wants to allow private citizens to file lawsuits for at least $10,000 against anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells so-called assault rifles and/or ghost gun kits or parts.

Except for enacting the law and providing the courts for the litigation, the state keeps out of it. Brilliant. For better or for worse, that’s capitalism in action, greed being the sine qua non of capitalism.

Given the makeup of both houses of Congress, Biden isn’t likely to get very far with his silly anti-scab posturing. But given the makeup of virtually everyone and everything in the Flake State, count on Newsom’s worrisome proposal becoming law in some form . . .