By Firelight

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Are you surprised?

Well, I am. I’m surprised the bullshit in Los Angeles isn’t all over the country by now.

I’m not surprised at the bullshit itself. It’s a hot combo of the left having entered the last, desperate point of their ghost dance, their having imported a lot of military age men that they think would be a reliable army, and their wanting to recreate the “success” of BLM and the 2020 Summer of love.

Oh, and the fact we are a nation so great we pay people to riot against us.

I am however surprised that it’s pretty much confined in Los Angeles, and even NYC was saner than that.

I suspect I wasn’t the only one surprised. On Saturday night I was in a medium large town, at a public attraction near an immigrant area. Keep in mind we’d been driving and hanging out with friends, so we weren’t really in touch with the news.

We did however notice the helicopter circling and circling over the crowd and wondered. Husband thought it was the news doing a feature. But something looked wrong.

It wasn’t till we got home and I saw the mess in Los Angeles that it clicked in place.

Look, over the next week, they might — or not — manage to get spicy going elsewhere in the country.

The truth is I’m still in shock we don’t have one of these going in every big city as we did in 2020. Why?

Because they have imported a lot of people. A LOT OF THEM. And a lot of these people are obviously not good people. In fact, they are the opposite of good people. Further, they have the cartels, which right about now are pretty pissed at our making their operations more difficult, and the unions which are, by and large, a cauldron of corruption and have been feeding off illegal immigration.

So– We have a minor and puzzling miracle going here.

And several conclusions can be taken.

1- For whatever reason they can’t count on all of the goblins they thought they could count on. Is it fear? Or the pay isn’t enough? Or they’ve been losing more people through self-deportation than they want to admit.

2- I’m not seeing the type of of interest in these riots that I saw in BLM even early on. I mean, the sentiment just isn’t the same, okay. Most people seem to look at these riots and go “Wait, why aren’t these people already on their way to the border, pursued by bears?”

That could be because race relations are complex, but most Americans view black people as their fellow Americans and have a measure of concern/interest in them. While most Americans view illegals as at best sad sacks and at worst invaders. As sad sacks, we don’t necessarily hate them and we kind of feel sorry for them. But not sorry enough to put up with riots and burning on their behalf.

Underlying all this in the national psyche there is a very strong (and sane) feeling of “Buddy, you’ve got problems but you’re not my problem, and there’s no reason I should take it on.”

Part of it I think is the sheer enervation and immiseration of the Brandon years. We know what they did to us, and we’re not particularly interested in helping people who were used to beat us down.

And part is that we’re getting really tired of the left cosplaying and bullshit.

3- People, not just me, are starting to predict what they’ll do and say. Which, I must say, is about time. they’re running the exact same script with the same beats as Kent State about a half century ago, and every other Communist operation since. (And before too.)

4- Things are about to get more dangerous and complicated. Because when things don’t go according to plan, the left always finds the next crazy thing to grab onto. And their crazy is both not very imaginative and dangerously crazy since it started with stuff wholly constructed in unreality like the Communist Manifesto and Gramsci’s tripe theories and was then fed on a never end of movies that share their assumptions and build in “victories” that could never happen in real life.

Now, I’m glad Trump called the National Guard — among other things, I find it hilarious that the left is complaining about this, while they treated DC as occupied land for months — but I’m also worried it’s not decisive or strong enough.

Because without a big stomp some of the rest of that clueless imported army might decide it’s worth a go and jump in.

And then the bacon will be in the fire and no mistake.

I just wish I weren’t going to spend pretty much all the rest of the month traveling. (Not solid, but lots of excursions/family stuff planned.)

But is what is.

You: Be not afraid, neither do you give up.

I’m reminded of what a then 80 year old friend of mine told me during the election in 2004: “You can tell the left is losing. They always get loudest when they’re losing.”

Well, they sure are loud.

Keep your head on a swivel. Don’t take unnecessary risks. And if you’re in Los Angeles stay the heck out of that area, or take a vacation somewhere sane. But don’t let this trouble you unduly.

Be not afraid. In the end we win, they lose. And I don’t think the end is nigh, but they’re sure acting like it is.

287 thoughts on “By Firelight”

  1. I’m hoping that the instigators and active participants in anti-ICE riots get treated EXACTLY how the J-6 protesters were treated over the last five years.

    Oh, yes – and confiscation of their funds, to pay for the damage.

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    1. Go after the NGOs and the professional “Color Revolution” donors, CCP minons, etc…

      If the Left continues to cross the Rubicon into Marxist Revolution, flip the switch and start dismatling the mess across the board.

      I’ve got Marxist fatigue…

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        1. Earlier this year #OrangeManBad did exactly that. Could be that the previously flush with US-AID cash #Pantifa is running on empty and can only afford to do LA.

          Because, do they riot if they’re not paid? Given how they operate, I doubt it. The number of useful idiots willing to go to jail For Realz is probably fairly small.

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          1. Listen to the Pantifa folks and it’s pretty clear that either a) they have no jobs, B) they are employed in the DEI grievance machine (often the Alphabet soup portions). The A types were either living off Mom and Dad (who were ex SDS or similar) or were getting money from Some NGO (directly or indirectly) or some combination thereof. Mom and Dad will feed and house you but are loathe to send you around the country on the money they intend to use for seeing the sights. As DEI has been being rolled up the B types are less flush.

            I think the Pantifa types are also focusing on where ICE is. There were protests in Worcester and Boston Recently as ICE was cleaning up messes in those regions. ICE was hammering LA recently so Pantifa followed them.

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            1. Remember “antifa” is a communist insurgency. Many so-called “anarchists” are of the “marx/Mao/theGnomes promise a Communist government eventually fades away, so !Anarchy!, so we support that very authoritarian government as anarchist useful idiots, er what? What do you mean by ‘face the wall, useful idiot tool.’?” Others simply use “anarchist” to avoid the more pejorative “communist” label. Some are simply batsh!t crazy. Some are decidedly not, and sociopathically cunning to the extreme.

              Yeah. seriously stupid people get sucked in. It takes “intellectuals” to be that dumb.

              Often College kiddies, not yet cut off by Mom/Dad who may also harbor similar if less radical views. Others were cut off and thus radicalized in retaliation. (Many of the chicks/wannabees on the fringe of this crap have serious Daddy issues.)

              They go where they can get away with violent stuff, and where their cadre can support them. Los Angeles is the current permissive/supplied area, so off they go to cosplay Revolution. The Bad Boys also tend to get laid by Daddy-issue-chicks that dig Bad Boys, so there is that. The Cadre ain’t stupid. they bus the willing chicks around, because the Bad Boys want the tail, and its all in LA this weekend.

              Note: I have had family and friends in this culture. It is worse than I describe.

              …

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              1. Given the pictures I’ve seen those Bad Boys aren’t into Chicks (at least not of legal age), and the Chicks with Daddy issues have the issue they want to be Daddy. They are some seriously screwed up folks, if they weren’t so dangerous and such a pain in the posterior extremity one could almost feel sad for them…

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            2. why did the Antifa member set fire to the Starbucks?

              So they didn’t have to go to work on Monday.

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              1. That’s amusing. Unfortunately, most of these antifa types are so dysfunctional Starbucks wouldn’t employ them for more than the training period (if that).

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          2. i think it may be also that totally-not-soros is trying to pay Occupy rates or 2020 rates and doesn’t realize there’s been a little inflation since then, especially in LA

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            1. I wonder if Soros (or his agents) are trying to keep the money track clean/hidden and the removal of government aid (I.e. USAID) has made funds harder to get for the NGOs as Soros is fearing being tracked.

              Though certainly someone is supplying junk. Masks, Cement blocks etc. Seems to meit MIGHT be worth trying to use that most hated of tools RICO to get folks charged as accessories before the fact for interfering with law enforcement (i.e. ICE)

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              1. Soros better not be leaving a footprint that could be defined as support of / financing of “terrorism”, because Obama set that precedent bar rather low for droning terror-adjacent folks overseas. And the courts can only say “don’t do that again” after the fact.

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    3. I saw a clip of a bunch of ‘protesters’ passing out weapons, vests and face shields from a shiny new-looking pickup truck.

      Confiscate such vehicles. They are being used for criminal purposes.

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    4. I don’t. I want every crime committed to the smallest degree prosecuted fully under the law quickly and legally.

      No jaywalking grandmas, even if they are waving Mexican flags, should be tortured in prison, instead of getting charged with Jaywalking and issued a fine.

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  2. Good observations and advice, Sarah. We have to realize, this is not disgruntled Americans, it’s an invading army with American traitors encouraging their attacks.

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  3. If the protesters want to free the illegals so bad, then fine. For every “hardworking family man” illegal that is allowed to remain in the country, ten protesters are immediately put on a flight to the Bukele Hotel in El Salvador, regardless of citizenship status. We get to keep the “hardworking” illegals and we get rid of the scum. Win win.

    I’m not kidding, btw. I’m done with these people. They’re the kind of people that turn normal introvert depressives like me into Duerte or Bukele supporters.

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    1. They did have the money to fly a large number of “community organizers” from across the county into DC, first class, multiple times. Also ordered pallets of bricks for multiple cities. And had professional level color revelution agents with military operator grade comms for a few key riots…

      All paid for by your tax dollars…

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        1. As long as the CA state gov’t funds such “NGOs”* as CHIRLA** to the tune of $34M per year (increased by $12M from last year), and those “NGOs” organize the riots, the money isn’t “dried up”.

          *I put “NGO” in quotes because if it’s primarily funded by a government it’s certainly not a Non-Governmental Organization, any more than the CIA or NSA is.

          **Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights” (apparently the “LA” refers to the city currently in armed rebellion)

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          1. IIRC, according to DataRepublican, roughly 77% of CHIRLA’s funding was coming from the Feds (with the claimed intent being to help feed and house immigrants).

            The rest of it is apparently coming from private organizations or individuals that choose to remain anonymous.

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            1. Contradictory info (my source says the Feds managed to claw back ~$100k of ~$200k), but the bottom line is that government, whether Fed or CA, is funding insurrection.

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          2. CHIRLA is what the British call a quango – a ‘quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization’. Basically, a body that does part of the government’s job using taxpayers’ money, but it’s not accountable to the legislature and the people working there aren’t counted as government employees.

            Which means, in effect, that the government’s own sock puppet has grown teeth and is biting the government on the ankle.

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  5. “Wait, why aren’t these people already on their way to the border, pursued by bears?”

    Yes. Precisely this.

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        1. ”Bears! What’s The Matter With Bears Today?…”, sung to “Kids” from Bye Bye Birdie, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams.

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            1. American bison are also lean, tasty, and good for you. You should raise more of them.

              Have a Pamplona-style ‘running of the bison‘ every year, but with illegal aliens instead of volunteer idiots, and stampede the bison in the direction of the nearest port of exit (or ICE bus if none is within stampeding distance).

              The surviving runners get a free ride out of the country. The surviving bison get to be guests of honour at a whacking big barbecue.

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      5. Because it is Summer, and the bears are enjoying beer and grilled brats in the back yard.

        Don’t poke the bears.

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    2. I sold my stock in Ringling Brothers; I no longer contribute to the Jane Goodall Primate Center.

      Keeping my head down out in the boonies.

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    3. Bears learn quickly. A bear chased one down and bit him. Two days later, the bear was still licking his own behind trying to get the taste out of his mouth.

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  6. We didn’t start the fire, but I am pleasantly surprised that it is the ninth of June, and that I don’t know about things being worse.

    National Guard makes sense.

    I want to rave some about the legalities, but I am scrambled ish, and I have two more productive comments for here drafted and unfinished from last week. Those would probably be better for me to finish.

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  7. Caveat, I have my head under a rock.

    Fairly deliberately.

    The ordinary baseline stuff, I was getting really angry over, nad I’ve been figuring for about a year that I was disordered in my handling of thought, and I probably needed Jesus.

    I’m doing a lot better, but it does not really make sense for me to dive into the interesting stories.

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    1. None of this sh1t is worthy of your attention, or mine. Commies gonna commie, right?

      Save it for the dorks if they show up in your driveway. Otherwise, set to ignore and write science fiction.

      It’s pretty fun writing scenes where #Pantifa has to deal with railgun spiders and cranky Valkyries. That’s my cope, for what it’s worth. And when I’m done, I can sell it. ~:D

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      1. How about if they have to deal with an elite soldier from a civilization thousands of years more advanced than ours? With super-science weapons embedded in her bones, threaded through her muscles and nerves? That’s what I’m working toward.

        Suddenly, a ‘protester’ darted out of the mob behind her and hit her in the head with a bottle. It was a big, heavy wine bottle, more than sufficient to cave in a normal human skull, and it shattered most impressively. Unfazed, she whipped around, unleashing a roundhouse punch that drove the bottle neck and the hand still holding it into her assailant’s face, smashing all three.

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        1. Nice. That’s the type of thing that makes for a fun adventure story.

          I find in my stories it can be difficult to arrange, because your super-soldier is going to have super situational awareness. Therefore they are not going to be there, where #Pantifa is throwing bottles. They’ll see it coming hours ahead.

          Like, they’ll notice when the Stone Fairies leave pallets of paving stones on random sidewalks. Then they’ll hack social media, find out who bought the concrete and go visit that guy’s house. Super soldiers of the future ought to be able to do stuff like that, most of their fighting would be electronic warfare.

          My characters laugh at me all the time. “Would they really catch me like that?” is something I hear often. Then I have to sit for a while and consider what that character has done in the past, their capabilities, and what it would require for them to be stuck in a firefight.

          For example, from Secret Empire (shameless plug!) the setup for a Valkyrie fistfight with the cops:

          “We all made out like bandits,” said George, “except you. You’re stuck with me, the delinquent. Excuse me, I’m getting a brain phone call.” He blinked, then frowned. “Well, that’s annoying. The stupid **** who tried to arrest us all at the movies last night is doubling down. We’ve got cop cars incoming at the store, Jimmy’s house, the coffee shop, and Brun says there’s some even coming here to the park. Our bunch has an MRAP armored vehicle.”

          “We should send them a video of you acing all those zombies up north,” said Ginny crossly. “Plasma beam, zap! Then see if they’re brave enough to screw with us. What’s your great plan, Fearless Leader?”

          “We go get coffee,” said George. “They want to screw around, they can do it in front of witnesses.”

          Ginny cracked her knuckles. “Any chance I get to beat some of them up?”

          “No beating up unless they ask for it,” said George. “We are going to be passively uncooperative, and Charlotte is going to ask inconvenient questions about police procedures and legal stuff. She just downloaded the whole Canadian legal system into her brain, so this should be good.”

          “Why no beating up?” asked Ginny. “This arrest is bullshit, and everybody knows it. Especially the cops.”

          “Brunhilde ran some models. If we beat them up, we have to take over the country in the next couple of years. That’s a losing proposition. If we go along with the gag and make them look like idiots, then we win.” He shook his head in irritation. “It’s a propaganda thing. Video of them looking like tools trying to arrest Spike is what we want. Video of Nammu cutting them down like wheat, that we don’t want. Everybody is either a robot or they’re fully armored. We can afford to let the cops go nuts. If they shoot at us, we get extra bonus points.”

          “Propaganda. Barf!” she said. “I thought having all this power and technology meant we can do what we want.”

          “Sadly, no,” sighed George as he rose to leave. “On the bright side, it does mean we will get what we want, and pretty soon too. Just play along, try not to lose your temper if they push you around, and don’t take your armor off. When they tell you to take it off, you are allowed to laugh in their faces and tell them no. Creativity will earn even more bonus points.”

          “I’m not giving up my gun,” said Ginny, rising as well. “It’s my favorite one, and they’re not getting their grubby digits on it.”

          “Hey, this could be fun Gin,” said George. “After all, powered armor and fighting sticks means you don’t have to do what they tell you. I’m interested to see what they get to move dragon-me while social-me goes all limp in the cop car.”

          “Fine. I guess I didn’t have anything else planned for tonight anyway,” she surrendered with an ill grace. “I suppose this wrecks Elizabeth’s Barbie extravaganza, though.”

          “Nope. Still on,” laughed George. “She’s on her way down to the coffee shop in my truck with Sandra, and her ninja sisters are bouncing around in the back. They’re stopping off at the toy store for more dolls.”

          And then it makes sense when robot girlfriend Charlotte breaks a guy’s fist with her forehead. ~:D Valkyrie Persephone gets to uncork a sneaky Bruce Lee side kick too. (It helps to be old sometimes, I remember discussing Bruce Lee and his half-step side kick with my Tai Chi friends back in the day. It looked like he was stepping backward when he was in fact stepping forward.)

          Or there was the time in Angels Incorporated when George ate a reporter on nationwide TV… now available in audiobook, read by the sexy British AI voice lady, shameless plug squared!

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          1. Not so easy to avoid when they’re waiting for her outside the courthouse. Where she had to appear after defending herself from a previous attack, while already under a court order not to use her ‘infernal devices’ in self-defense after an even earlier attack. 5 of the 6 are dead and she has now been ordered not to kill assailants with her bare hands, either. Even if they’re armed with rocks, bottles and knives. 0bama judge, Soros prosecutor.

            Guns she doesn’t have to worry about. Her force shield switches on in a microsecond and reflects the bullets back where they came from. Anybody shooting at her winds up shooting themselves.

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          2. If your characters can spot the mayhem pallets ahead of time, you can leave all sorts of interesting things in/near the pile.

            “What is that buzzing noise?” (grabs stone, gets bit) “AAAIIIEEEEEE!!! SNAAAAKE!”

            …

            or if of a less vicious mind, the “money” color dye things banks give to robbers. Think of it as street art.

            BOOMphhh! “ack! Iam orange! … no dont!’ BOOMphhhh!

            …

            A trailer full of Feds/Troops at the “arm up” point can be amusing. “Hi there! Step inside. Ring the bell and grab a donut.”

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      2. *Click* as a light goes on…

        Hmmm…Canadian; SF writer; railgun spiders and Valkyries…🤔🤔

        Is it safe to assume your real (or maybe authorial) initials are E.T., and the references are to a rather large dude named McIntyre with a whole slew of interesting companions?😎

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        1. Correct. No secret; he’s been posting snippets from his stories from time to time. Also, the E.T. name is a pseudonym; living where he does, he’s very careful not to let any clues to his real identity leak.

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          2. That’s fair, Robin. I am pretty careful, honestly.

            Not because I think I’m preserving my privacy from officials. More because of the freelance idiots who infest the Interwebz.

            The likes of flopping camel and Mike the Chinese Bot Farmer scrape this blog and MGC every single day looking for outrage to keep their morons supplied with red meat.

            I don’t want to find some fruitbat useful idiot like #Bonn1eMcDan1el standing on the edge of my moat at Chez Phantom some morning, shrieking imprecations, making a fuss.

            She’d give the alligators indigestion. Zippers, you know. Hard on the stomach.

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          1. It sort of leaped out at me, since I’m about halfway through the third book and the characters are somewhat…ummm…memorable.😉

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  8. I think they don’t have the funds for rentamob outside of Ca. In Ca, the state (per Datarepublican & co) seems to have been funding the immigrant rights orgs who (probably) paid for the rentamobs and deployed the bricks etc.

    Outside Ca I suspect the money to pay for rioters isn’t quite there. Though I am a bit surprised we haven’t seen anything in Portland and Seattle.

    Along with, I strongly suspect, a feeling by the potential rioters that the general public in those areas won’t be even slightly on their side. It is notable that hispanics – the purported “racial group” most targeted by ICE turns out to be strongly anti-illegal immigrant and swing heavily pro MAGA. So outside of literal gang controlled barrios , protestors against ICE raids are likely to find their neighbors shopping them

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    1. “…strongly anti-illegal immigrant and swing heavily pro MAGA.”

      The number I saw this morning was 63% in that direction. FWIW, every Hispanic US citizen I’ve talked to over the past almost 20 years in the Phoenix area has made pretty clear how they feel about illegals; I’d say 63% is a lowball.

      And I’d bet the leftists either don’t believe it, or haven’t the faintest clue why it’s that way. But then, a group that thinks that their pick for getting the frat boys to vote Dem, a “mega-plus-sized” hardcore feminist, is a probable “win”, isn’t a cluster of the brightest bulbs on the tree…

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      1. FWIW, every Hispanic US citizen I’ve talked to over the past almost 20 years in the Phoenix area has made pretty clear how they feel about illegals; I’d say 63% is a lowball.

        Similar numbers here in TX.

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        1. The opinion split isn’t even necessarily legal vs. illegals – the Hispanic legal immigrant community certainly does have a low opinion of illegals, and there’s also regional things like the Mexican-origin people very much looking down on the ones from elsewhere in Central and South America. But that entire community hates the criminals with a white hot flame, who they see as giving them all a bad name. All things considered the community is pretty much law and order aligned, especially here where “law” is not driven by mordida.

          And the general consensus view is that the massive wave that flooded in during the Autopen Administration included a huge fraction of criminals, by intent of bad actors from the Venezuelan government to the cartels and gangs doing market expansion, and so there’s fairly wide support for any criminal illegals being auto-deported as soon as they are identified and apprehended.

          And I have heard exactly zero negative comments about what has been accomplished down in El Salvador by cracking down on the gangs.

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          1. Echos of the original/established Cubanos of Florida dealing with the Marielito dookieheads of the Carter fiasco.

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        2. They have a legitimate reason for saying to the illegals, “You’re making the rest of us look bad!”

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          1. That’s been the gist of what most of them have said to me or in my hearing, whether US-born or naturalized, or even in the process of going through naturalization. They really don’t like line-breakers.

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            1. The idiots think (or claim to think) that Hispanic, Jewish, Islamic, and every other possible way to divide people are “races”, while claiming that it’s impossible for anyone other than “whites” to be racist, having tried to modify the definition to suit Duh Narrative. Did I mention that they’re idiots? Malicious idiots, since fostering division is the only way they have to keep power?

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    2. That high level of support by “Hispanic” identifying Americans is why the left is trying oh-so-very-hard to draw fire on Hispanics. If they do not break that trend, their whole “import the winning team” plan falls apart.

      Its not “Latinos” rioting.

      Its not “Hispanics” rioting.

      It is Communists/ANTIFA, usually quite pale, who are doing the damage. They are mixed in with the dummies who think pridefully waving flags helps themselves, somehow..

      -Never- forget who is the enemy. Its the Communists who are manipulating all this crap. Ask them in the right way and they boast of it. They want -you- to drive their Revolutionary recruiting by targeting Latinos/Hispanics for abuse. Don’t be a sucker.

      In that novel you are writing, make sure the fed up good folk target the effin Commies pulling the strings. Target their infrastructure, funding, and their apologists. Avoid the sheepcrowds. Look for the goats egging them on, smashing windows with skateboards while masked/wrapped up so you cant see the honkey. Giving orders while handing out waterbottles or “journalist-ing”. Sure. Some are tinted. They are as Pink/white as other Commies. Its a culture not genetics. And they get really, really annoyed when called “oreo”, “apple”, “twinkie”, “coconut” and such. (Greens fall under the generic “watermelon”) In that novel you are writing…

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      1. “In that novel you are writing, make sure the fed up good folk target the effin Commies pulling the strings.”

        Like the time Valkyries pretended to be super villains and targeted a hidden bigwig in his own living room? AC-130 gunship works great at breaking into an armored penthouse…

        Just because you have super-science handy doesn’t mean you can’t still go with the classics. ~:D

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        1. I know someone who ran off a burglar with a Wakizashi, pursuing him down the street for several blocks while screaming like a banshee.

          Old-school indeed.

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          1. I have a snippet! From “The Crossroads and The Oni.”

            Seeing the samurai’s eyes flicking around the room, the ugly old woman smiled. “Your swords are behind you, on the other side of the futon. Fair warning, if you knock over my stew trying to cut me, I’ll kick your ass. Eat first, then we can fight after.”

            “I beg your pardon, honored elder,” said Katahito, making a polite bow. Then he reached his remaining hand back and got hold of his wakizashi, pulled it into his lap and thumbed it loose in the scabbard. Not enough to show the blade (which would be rude), just enough that he could flick the scabbard off at need.

            “You chose the short sword,” she noted with approval. “Most young men of your class would be waving that katana around right now.”

            “My sensei always said that it never hurts to be polite,” said Katahito and bowed again. “He also said the katana is too long for indoors.”

            “He is a wise man. You feel better with steel in your hand, boy?” asked the weird old lady, eyeing him with an air of judgement.

            “A little, but less than I had hoped,” he answered honestly. “You are very frightening, grandma. I feel you might eat me, even now.”

            “Too tough, too boney” she laughed and waved the comment away, her judgement apparently made. “Give me a fat rice merchant, much better!”

            “I am concerned you may not be joking,” said Katahito. “If you’ve been eating passers-by, it is my duty to kill you.” When she laughed louder, he added, “Or die bravely, trying to kill you. That seems more likely at this point.”

            “Ha ha, if you only knew!” she chuckled. “Poor thing, you have fallen into the den of a dragon. There’s more to me than what you see here. The very gods themselves would have trouble killing me, I am nothing if not resilient. You can attack me after we dine, if you like.”

            “What’s in the stew?” he asked pointedly.

            The old hag laughed uproariously and slapped her knee in enjoyment. “Your noble leader, much reduced from his former position? You own hand, suitably poached and seasoned? HA! That’s a good one!” At his impatient look, she picked a little bone out with the stirring spoon and showed him. “Doves, dear. See? Don’t worry, old Sakiko will look after you. I swear upon my honor; I have never eaten a fat rice merchant. Nor a boney samurai.”

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  9. I follow this sort of thing, and the only place I’m seeing / hearing anything is NYC, and Mayor Adams is handling it.

    When you can’t gen up a riot in Chicago? Yeah…..

    Here in the DFW area, not a peep. Of course, they used up a lot of outrage on Gov Abbott over the last several years.

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    1. I’m keeping an eye on Houston, but that is such an ethnic and cultural mix that a whole lotta people might be glaring at the activists and growling, “Don’t start none, won’t be none.” Nothing like a common enemy to get otherwise-unfriendly groups to form temporary alliances.

      Not a peep up here, yet. We’ll see what happens once the rodeo winds down. (Literal rodeo).

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      1. I think part of what is going on in LA is the police know they’ll be hunted if they harm one of the rent-a-goons.

        In Texas, that would be Paxton’s office. Somehow I don’t think he’s going to be all up in that.

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    2. There was an anti-ICE rally in downtown San Antonio yesterday – my daughter says that from the pictures, it looks like about 100 participants, with pre-printed signs. But the SAPD were standing by, and there was no violence.

      Supposed to be another anti-ICE rally later on this week. The trouble for the anti-ICEers is that the illegal Spanish-speaking low-lives settle in among the long-time Hispanic residents, and generally make life miserable, what with criminal behavior, overcrowding schools and hospital ERs, undercutting paid work, if they bother to work at all. The illegals are about as popular as a case of genital warts among the ordinary folks that they settle among. We also had a couple of low-rent apartment complexes busted in the last months for hosting TdA gangsters.

      And this is Texas. I’ve said for years that if you tossed my own neighborhood for weapons, you’d have enough to outfit the army of a small to medium-sized European army.

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        1. There are a bunch of reasonably civilized Leftroids that are now convinced they now need guns to defend themselves against orange Man’s coming SturmTruppen. (seriously) These sorts are often shocked silly by the warm reception at gun ranges. “Welcome to sanity and gun ownership. Your politics are bunk, but folks is folks and folks have 2A rights. You need to work on your trigger press…” “But, but, but, you rightwingnuts aint all inbred monsters. Wow.”

          The radical Leftroids finally are starting to listen to our side “We have all the guns” and are gunning up and stocking up. Quite openly and organized. Example:

          https://newrepublic.com/article/147689/confessions-former-left-wing-gun-nut

          Note, author is highly likely lying about selling his Kalashnikov. And if he did actually sell -that- AK, he didn’t sell something else. Probably several somethings else. Because Mao spoke obvious truth about political power flowing from the barrel of a gun.

          Do not, do not, not, not, assume the Left is unarmed, nor unskilled at arms, nor unwilling to use arms.

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          1. We have had armed Antifa show up to Trans events in North Texas, so we don’t assume anyone is unarmed nor does the Right have all the firearms.

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    3. The local Dallas and Denton peeps are staying quiet, except for whining on Reddit. Everyone is tired of their crap and most people are too busy staying afloat to care about criminals and others stealing their stuff and jobs.

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    4. Mayor Adams came down against illegal immigration when Biden was in office, to the point that it’s believed the Biden administration’s decision to go after him for corruption was politically motivated. So it’s no surprise to me that he would shut down any potentials riots as quickly as possible. He’s hitched his wagon to the Trump immigration policies.

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    5. I had been thinking that it was only a matter of time before this crap hit Chicago but it could be that Da Mare and JB the Hutt have seen the writing on the wall and decided to stand down.

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  11. I’m pleasantly surprised, too. We’ll see.

    There was also the incident of the protester standing in front of the moving car…and the car kept moving. In the past, the driver would stop. But now, the driver seems to know if the stops the best he can hope for is having his car damaged or destroyed. Worst case, he’s dragged out and and beaten at least half to death. So he keeps going.

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    1. I didn’t see what actually happened to the protester. But if you dropped fast enough and were skinny enough, the van would go over you without doing much damage, as long as the wheels were avoided.

      I don’t know if the protester was skinny enough, though. All that body armor and vest cosplay has its dangers.

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    3. Protesters and cars… Queue up Ludacris “Move B####, Get out da way” on the stereo and put the transmission in “low”.

      In that novel being written…

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  12. My beloved was feeling mildly black-pilled, thinking we’ll see four years of riots, so that when the Ds get back in people will be relieved to return to massive corruption, and no violence.

    I told him that one, people are paying more attention now. But two, your latest generation of red diaper kids are getting restive…and the mobs might not stop just because “their” party is in power.

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    1. They don’t have the money for 4 years of riots, now that the federal government isn’t literally paying them to riot. And all those crooked DAs don’t have #LetsGoBrandon covering them.

      Could be worse. You could be living in Canada. ~:D

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  13. Watch out for June 14th.

    My favorite conspiracy website pointed out that somebody (group called “nokings”, at nokings.org) is pushing widespread (so they plan/hope) “peaceful” protests across the country come Flag Day. There’s a map at the nokings website that shows cities and places for the protests riots to be held, with places to assemble. A lot of cities. Whether or not actual events occur at these places remains to be seen, but if you have/need/desire to go to town on Saturday, I’d recommend checking the map for places to avoid.

    I’m fairly amused to not see Flyover Falls get a proposed event. That might possibly have had to do with the Summer 2020 St. George of Fentanyl demonstration being quite peaceful, enforced by a large amount of locals with firearms. (I followed the best advice for demonstrations and was 40 miles away. The reaction by the Westside newsdroids to People With Guns was priceless.)

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  14. WPDE, got moderated. One stinking link.

    Watch out for June 14th.

    A group called nokings (at nokings dot org) is pushing protests/riots) at a large number of cities over the country. There’s a map at their webside showing the cities, and clicking will show where the festivities are supposed to kick off.

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    1. Thanks – I checked it out, and those buggers have set a protest for Boerne, Texas, on the same day as I have a book event there. It’s also the same weekend as Boerne Market Days, so there will be a large number of people there on Main Street.

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      1. Boerne? As in home of former YouTuber Matt “Demolition Ranch” Carriker Boerne? As in so small-town Texas it’s practically a stereotype? That’s about the LAST place I’d expect a Commie protest. Watching Matt’s various channels always made me want to visit that part of the Hill Country, to be honest. It looks pretty awesome.

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        1. During the height of the BLM riots, they posted a push on the shopping center in my suburb.

          Only a few made the trip. And they turned right around when they saw the police, and more importantly, the armed volunteers, waiting to greet them.

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          1. Ours decided to walk from the mall to the town police station.

            It’s a pretty long walk. Miles. Most of the out of towners were not prepared. They sorta dribbled back to where their cars were parked. Their expensive cars, driven by college kids dressed expensively.

            The ones who did make it were the ones who were actually concerned about the cause du jour that had happened here, and they basically submitted a petition and left.

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        2. Yep, THAT Boerne – but hardly a stereotypical small Texas town any more. It’s attracted a large concentration of yuppies, and some strangely upmarket retail venues.

          There may be enough bored Karens with delusions of relevancy, or they just may bus in some professional protest types from San Antonio. It’s only about half an hour drive, on IH-10.

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          1. Boerne has some decent trees. So, I guess you could just bring a rope, an easily kickable soapbox, and some friends to “Hold the pig steady”.

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    2. …they’re claiming they’ve got stuff in Perry.

      Freaking Perry?

      Are they maybe hoping the questionably-legal folks who were at the Tyson plant will join in?

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      1. Looking at their map, it’s hard to tell if they have massive, way-more-than-BLM funding, or if it’s just wishful thinking.

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        1. Well, you can submit an event you organized on your own, so there’s probably some true believers…and some predators who want to lure folks to attack.

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    3. They have several protests in my area, but they’re all staggered by time. They claim that X protest will last one hour and Y protest will last two or three, but clearly the organizers plan to get the paid protesters into a bus or van and send them on their way to the next scheduled protest.

      It’s too tight a schedule. They’re bound to run into traffic, and some of those places have construction. Idiots.

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        1. You mean like somebody in front of them going the speed limit in a no passing zone? Such a shame.

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            2. Our side doesn’t even have to set it on fire. Just slap a couple of trump support magnets on it (so if caught it’s not vandalism. Removable.) And let their own addled minions do the job.

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      2. Noticed the staggered times as well.

        But Frisco, Flower Mound and Sanger?

        This is probably being organized by the red baby idiots in Denton split into two groups. Probably the same BLM/Antifa/Trans rights crew that shows for this stuff along with a few students on summer break.

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        1. A lot of the ones local to me in the wilds of far suburban Charlotte are “this location is private, please contact us to get it.” Somebody already publicized the location of the Concord one on Nextdoor (the Chick-fil-A), also Salisbury, and even Charlotte itself doesn’t have a location listed, just an RSVP button. They are doing one in Albemarle which surprises me because Salisbury and Albemarle are both under 50,000 population and neither one is a hotbed of political activity.

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          1. :checks the 14th is not Sunday:

            They’re probably counting on it to get the police to haul them out of the way for blocking traffic.

            Seriously, CfA is horribly crowded, and they’ll even be able to assault the workers without getting hit back, most likely.

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            1. I think it may be more that if it’s the CfA I’m thinking of, it’s on the major drag in the area (Concord Parkway, aka US 29), and it’s actually got shared parking behind it with several other businesses, I think a Chipotle, a Panera, couple other stores too. So if nothing else it’s convenient, right on a main road off the Interstate, and they can get food. It’s a weird spot, but I guess they don’t want to deal with the lack of space in downtown Concord, and they’ll get more eyeballs on their little tantrum this way.

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            2. But it’s Flag Day, US Army birthday (?), and OrangeManBad’s birthday, so expect maximum effort.

              They’ve been foaming at the mouth for a couple of months claiming that Trump was having a military parade just for his birthday. 🙄🙄🙄🤡🤡🤡

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              3. Current foaming is that the parade is cover for a military takeover, with apparently no concept of why CinC DJT would need to take anything over from himself.

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          2. Small towns have fewer cops, and less “riot control” training and gear.

            Downside, rednecks. (grin)

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    4. Yeah, those dweebs are doing a protest one town over from me. Best part is, they’re apparently doing it in the parking lot of…a Chick-fil-A. Because Communist protest and God’s Chicken go hand-in-hand!

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    5. Yeeaaahhhh… they show an “event” in Harrison, Arkansas.

      Which is the home of one of the larger KKK groups, such as are left. They probably have enough members to counter a bunch of paid outsiders and useful idiots bused in from elsewhere, though.

      The modern Kluckers are generally pretty laid-back compared to the days when they were the Democratic Party’s shock troops, but punking them in one of their home towns might… be highly entertaining, if the percentages of Boone County and City of Harrison police and judiciary being Klansmen are even approximately true.

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    6. I checked my locality. There’s one, at an odd location – that has a major, potentially vulnerable infrastructure node. The protest is supposed to be multi-hour. I’m going to avoid that area, and be ready for trouble even so.

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    7. Here in Mordor West, (AKA San Jose), only 3 outside Palo Alto (Stanford) in Santa Clara county. Will steer clear of the San Jose park on Saturday, thanks for the warning.

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      1. I only see one in San Jose proper, in St. James Park, apparently to annoy the bums that congregate there. They do appear to want to shut down El Camino Real up in Palo Alto for some indeterminate distance, doable with Stanford right there full of mush-filled minds.

        SJPD was pretty much on the ball back in the prior Summer of Burnin’ Love, so I expect they will be again.

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        1. If they were serious, they would be doing it at Valleyfair, Intersection of 280 & 17. Winchester and Steven’s Creek. Two possible freeways to block. Downtown San Jose has nothing going on. The new San Jose mayor is not a “progressive”. So nothing like LA, in the largest bay city

          The park sounds like they are not expecting much support. More guys at the Home Depot. Don’t care about Palo Alto.

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          1. That location was brutal on a weekday in 2001, with HP/Agilent letting out. Serious gridlock on Steven’s Creek and Winchester, as well as SC and Bascom. I assume it’s still bad, and SIL reported lots-o-homeless camping out on Lawrence Expressway. (She got talked into executor duties for her and $SPOUSE’s brother. Had to drive over the Sierras too many times.)

            Saturday, it’s be medium bad, or at least was, but not gridlock. St. James Park? Pretty lame unless downtown SJ changed a lot. Valley Fair and Santana Row? That could hurt.

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    8. Well, just found out why they had folks at Perry.

      Husband and I were running errands, and about 1:30 we saw a minivan on I-80 East.

      Big NO KINGS writing across the back of the window.

      We were startled… then got close enough to notice why they were all the way over there… plate indicates they’re from the same county as University of Iowa.

      They probably picked Perry because of the anti-gun angle as well as the astroturf angle.

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      1. There was a nokings protest advertised for Boerne, Texas yesterday – on Main St. in front of the town hall. It worked out to three discouraged-looking people, a single sign, and hardly anyone paying any attention at all. Yesterday was also the monthly market on Town Plaza, and a parade on Main street celebrating an anniversary of the town founding, I’d guess than in most locations for nokings protests, it was more of a pro-forma, handful of protestors showing up so whoever is funding nokings can make a big noise about ‘massive protests across the nation-eleventy!!!’

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        1. According to the radio, there was a No Kings at the Capitol Building in Des Moines, too.

          Which means, at some point after noon on Monday, they set up that protest. Because it wasn’t on the website. (Possibly, they told the folks at the Perry protest to go to the Capitol.)

          And it was scheduled to be over by one on Saturday, because it wasn’t on the website when I got home and went to look to see if they might be headed out to one or something.

          Radio said that they did the protest, then went to the road, lined up and cheered as cars with American flags went by… and Palestinian…. and Mexican… and Guatemalan….

          Oh yes this sound totally organic and not at all astroturfed.

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          1. I was amused by all the flags with creases and fold marks on them in the national TV broadcasts and media coverage. Straight from the box, eh? Very “organic” and “spontaneous.”

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  15. Not sure it’s related, but… on the money thing, they just filed charges on three different companies that had between zero and twenty-ish percent match between names and social security numbers. Chosen because they used the same social multiple times with different names, it looks like. Investigated, and arrested the illegals working under those records, and now are fining the companies, too.

    That would both trigger a salida and cut into funding.

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      1. I’m starting to realize that WP(DE) has a keyword filter for putting stuff in moderation. Noticed it when I was referring to a certain aviator who was the first to fly across the Atlantic. Mention his name, boom. Not sure what triggered it for my first no-kings post, but I guess that’s how certain comments get clobbered.

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        1. It seems to come and go with WP.

          I haven’t heard anything about the real-time censorship of texts on Android and Apple phones lately. They were pretty in-your-face about it when they rolled it out, and then there was a sudden lack of further news about it, even on the tech-oriented sites.

          And, of course, all the “social media” censors.

          The more-disturbing thing is that if they’re willing to delete or alter messages to start with, it’s just a small step from “edit for ideological conformance” to “putting words in someone’s mouth.” Which is how you’d wind up with the SS kicking in your door over assassination threats you never made, and were shadowbanned from seeing.

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          1. Ah, and now WP is no longer automatically emailing responses to my comments. No email was the situation when I first started commenting here, then email got turned on, and now it’s off. Sigh, it’s WordPress.

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        2. I found a weird one like that a while ago, and Sarah confirmed it was not something she could either see or change. WPDE.

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      2. CHIRLA, huh? Now I want to make an anti-Leftist NGO and call it CHANCLA. Just need to come up with the wording. Their symbol is an abuela chasing a pantifa down the street whacking him over the head with a chancla with one hand and waving Old Glory with the other.

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              1. Now laughing loudly, imagining our Hostess chasing some auntie-fools down the street, whacking them furiously with a sandal.

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      1. It would match up with some of the folks I know who suddenly got hit with an audit because they have a large number of jobs with max deduction on withholding, and don’t have the claims to back it up.

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        1. Tax payer: “There’s no way I could be working in Vermont, California and Texas! This is obvious fraud!”

          IRS: “Then it’s up to you to prove you’re not working in those places.”

          Tax payer: “Then give me the employers’ information so I can prove it!”

          IRS: “Sorry, can’t do that. That’s private information.”

          Taxpayer: “If you can’t give me the information because it’s private, you already know it’s fraud.”

          IRS: “It’s attached to your SS number. Pay up.”

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          2. Ah, but you see, even that is a fake-out– because they can’t know if the “tax payer” is actually the person in question.

            And it’s amazing how few of the news stories of this variety go with something other than “this is what their lawyer said.”

            Sadly, there’s a lot of cases where the outraged party is the parent who sold the kids’ information for a decade and change by that point.

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            1. Well, when 89 year old Alice McDougal is working on a construction site in Wyoming, and working in a hospital in Oregon, and retired on SS in Florida…

              It begins to look more like collusion than collection. They could figure it out. But it’s far easier to go after the person with a stable job, a credit history, and a house in the suburbs, that the nomad. It’s far easier to collect from the citizen than the individuals who will walk away and use false ID to get a job elsewhere.

              They could figure it out, if they wanted to.

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              1. Remember the DOGE thing with inaccurate birthdates?

                It’s COMMON for them to have screwed up birthdays, and you don’t particularly WANT them having a list of all that data easily available because…basically, anything that’s useful against identity theft is going to be useful to commit identity theft.

                There’s several folks just on this blog who’ve had to fight to prove to various birth-name-social security number groups that they are not their relative who may or may not have been alive in the last 30 years.

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          3. The cases I know of where kids’ information was stolen at the hospital– often with mom’s– the big pain in the tuckus was proving that they were them.

            Of course, none of the cases where everyone involved acted like sane adults got in the news.

            Odd, that.

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          4. Real life example (not fraud):

            IRS: 22 year deduction schedule is “unreasonable” for your (60 year old) rental house that you lived in before turning it into a rental.

            Us: What is the correct schedule? (Because isn’t in code!)

            IRS: Loan length – length lived in the house (so 24 years). Yes, for 2 years the agent was a PIA. So about $300 actual over deduction (over 3 years by audit) + fines + interest.

            IRS: Oh blanket denial of deductions added for all 3 years (because we’d forgot them and if we’re getting audited anyway …)

            Us: On denials – Why?

            IRS: Here. (No explanation. Just list of numbers.)

            Us: (Goes over numbers. Wait? What?) Um. Your numbers are wrong. (Gives spreadsheet with highlights.)

            Us: On schedule. So if we had a 15 year mortgage, and lived in the house 6 years, we could have depreciated it over 9 years. (FYI, per the agent: “No! That is unreasonable!!!!!” Quite rude about it.) And no, that went over like you’d expect; NOT.

            FYI, all through our accountant.

            Goes on for a year. IRS “closes” the audit, and demands payment.

            Us: Takes all the paper (about 2″ worth of dot matrix, hey ’80s) down to new local congressperson – Defasio.

            Referred to a new IRS agent. We, the agent, me and *newborn, met at IRS office.

            Took 10 minutes. Walked in gave IRS agent a list:

            Me: “Sold the rental. Two options. Refile on correct schedule, on sold status and expenses. Here are the numbers. We’ll come out ahead (we made < $0 on selling the **house). Or we can leave it as it is. Here is the missed deductions list.”

            One of the “missed deductions denied” (we’d actually filed on it, just miss labeled it, okay fine). Everything else accepted.

            They paid us money ….

            (*) Just like judges, apparently having an infant with you at the IRS office is a way to get things agreed to in hurry.

            (**) It was a rental because of PNW ’08 type housing crash mid-late-’80s. $300k houses down the street were going for $150k. No way our older $68k house was selling, at all, even with an oversize lot. Things turned around ’88/’89. Sold it spring ’89.

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  16. Yeah, the “No Kings!” crap disgusts me. They’re trying to portray themselves as patriots fighting a tyrannical ruler, just like the Founders. Blech.

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  17. In the interests of making you all smile, I’ve been poking around the English Placenames Survey. (The search feature doesn’t work on all devices. It should show up inside the name banner; the big SEARCH is an explanatory link.)

    There’s a village named Ormsby. Ormr was probably a Norse farmer. But his name means Dragon.

    So the two parishes are Ormsby St. Margaret and Ormsby St. Michael.

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      1. And if St. Margaret of Antioch, she’s usually shown stomping on a dragon (aside from my favorite, from Rostok, where she’s strangling a little dragon and looks bored.)

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        1. A fair number are delusional. Remember that the blue voters tend to pack and crack themselves — a lot congregate in places where 80 or 90 % vote like them — and the rest spread over the area. I suspect the likely suspects are in the first group.

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    2. You just took me back to my university course on the history of English. An Augustinian monk named Orrm (or Orrmin) is an important figure in that study. He wrote a collection of bad homilies called the Ormulum, part of which survives in manuscript. It is of neither literary nor theological interest, but is much studied because (unlike any other author of his time) he devised a spelling system to show exactly how the words of his Middle English dialect should be pronounced.

      Parts of Orrm’s orthography actually caught on. He seems to have invented the practice of using a double consonant to indicate that the preceding vowel is short: bonny vs. bony.

      We now return you to your regularly scheduled combox.

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  18. I think some of the monies dried up from DOGE, and the tightening of the border has made the Cartel money harder to get where they want it. So they’re limited a bit as to expansion.
    I’ve had a few other thoughts, but too much going on and they fell out of my head before I could respond here.

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  19. So… I look at the no kings site and the map of planned events and my very first reaction was to laugh/snort as it’s ridiculous just on scale. Then I looked at a couple of locations – They have Washington Iowa down and I don’t think that’s going to be anything. I’ve been there many times and for the locals the big concerns are rainfall, cattle prices, grain prices and the local high school football or basketball team. Conclusion: gaslighting to the max.

    Sure, there may very well be some actual events that take place but I don’t think any of them will be noteworthy. “They” also seem to be spreading themselves way to thin in an effort to project approval and it just ain’t gonna work. My two cents anyway.

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    1. Oh, one other thing – I’m not dismissing the threat and like the motto from the old Woodpile Report, avoid crowds. I just don’t think there is enough ‘energy’ for the rabble rousers to tap into anymore and the overall population just doesn’t care about their issues. That said, LA is an example of agitation getting out of hand but it’s also noteworthy that it doesn’t seem to be tolerated this time. The officials (Bass/Newsome) trying to cover for it are not getting a pass from the public like they did before and the average person just isn’t buying it.

      Stay alert and be aware of local conditions however keep things in perspective is my council.

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      1. Based on what I’m seeing from my current project, they botched the handling of the LA fires so badly no one is putting up with their crap.

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      2. What I saw people talking about Friday evening on X was that the LAPD was denying anything of importance was happening, while the LASD was reporting lots of activity. Or in other words, the County Sheriff’s Department appears to have been doing its job, while the city Police Department was likely standing down due to orders from on high.

        A union high muckity-muck (with the SEIU, I think) was arrested by the Feds for interfering with law enforcement. A rally was held to get him freed, and KTLA (our local independent news channel) reported two thousand people in attendance. Assuming that the number was accurate, that’s *nothing* in Los Angeles. There was a march down the street as part of the rally, and from above the attendance didn’t look noteworthy at all. I’ve seen street marches in the past in LA that had solid ranks of people. This march looked nothing like that.

        (after a hearing before a Federal judge, the union guy was released on $50,000 bail)

        I think the smarter members of the Left are sensing that the violence isn’t playing well, so they’re trying to talk up how peaceful they are. They’re claiming that any violence is the fault of Trump, who shouldn’t have nationalized the California National Guard, and violence didn’t exist until he did that, and agitated people who were already on edge (ignoring that the violence was there pretty much right from the start). We’ll see whether the violence eases off tonight.

        I’m also seeing criticism of Newsome for basically standing back and making bold pronouncements, but not actually doing anything.

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          1. There was an earlier attempt to semi-resolve the flag issue without going full on US flags. Some of the footage I saw yesterday had a weird looking amalgamation of the US and Mexican flags. It basically took the Mexican flag. But the color panel next to the pole (the green one, I think) was replaced with the same section from the US flag. So at the top left, you had white stars on a blue field, and beneath that you had the alternating red and white stripes. But then to the right of that you had the Mexican eagle and snake on a white field, and finally the red vertical panel.

            It looked very strange…

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          2. Y’know, they do understand that those flags are synthetic, so when they start burning them they shouldn’t inhale the smoke, right? Our scouts haven’t been invited to help mass-retire American flags for several years now, due to the fact that they’re mostly synthetic these days. (The local American Legion has been looking into crematory rates, not even kidding.)

            Or maybe they’ve already been breathing the fumes for too long.

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            1. If your Scouts want to continue doing this needful service, a bit of Scout-engineering would help.

              Assuming you are using the typical small round open barbeque grill as the fire box, add a removable and take-apart 3/4 hood and chimney. Gets the smoke and fumes up higher where it can safely disperse.

              You might also check with the local pottery folks, because their Kilns would do quite well for flag cremations. You might even make a simple one in a Scout backyard for such purposes. Neat merit badge project, too.

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              1. They previously used burn barrels, which was a challenge in our fire-zone state. It usually happened once a year when there weren’t any bans, no restrictions on fires, and low winds.

                When you’re chugging through a year’s worth of flag donations, you have to go larger than a Weber.

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                1. Put a smaller sealed barrel or metal box in the fire pit or whatever. If sealed correctly, no oxygen gets in, no fumes get out, contents are reduced to ash by simple heat. Even a dutch oven can work.

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    2. Conclusion: gaslighting to the max.

      Somewhat related, there was a news story about court ordered integration being ended after 60 years.

      Beyond that it was supposedly needed because with it going for the entire lifespan of most of the country and not working, they had some descriptions of the schools.

      But no photographs.

      Well, you can find them on roadside view.

      …they are visually nearly identical, as one might expect of two sorta-small high schools in the same school district.

      It is definitely not one is bright and cheerful yellow (and the other’s not) and one has wire fencing (and the other not).

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  20. The end is nigh… for them. The left is on the verge of losing power for generations.

    They were betting on the 2030 census counting all the armies of illegals, and keeping the Electoral College tilted the way they want. And that’s going away. And they had no backup plan. And they’re losing the universities, and Hollywood, and they cannot hide their failures any more.

    Look at Newsom, trying to blame the riots on Trump. Ten years ago, had there been riots and he tried to blame them on Romney? It would have worked. Today?

    Let me put it this way. I know a little old lady in her nineties, retired schoolteacher, who is so far left she only gets her news from MSNBC. (She’s a sweetheart and a dear, but a lifelong schoolteacher and therefore a lefty, but quite honest about it.) And she was complaining about how boring and useless MSNBC has gotten. (This was a bit before the riots broke out.) She was tired of the 24/7 “GET TRUMP” narrative, and said they should “try reporting actual news”.

    The left is losing, even among their lifelong supporters.

    Thus the panic.

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    1. “betting on the 2030 census counting all the armies of illegals, and keeping the Electoral College tilted the way they want.“

      –

      They started losing that bet even with counting illegals as part of the population. Red-States gained more than Blue-States, like Oregon (gained 2), taken from Blue-States (California lost some). Blue-States have been bleeding more since. Don’t know if Oregon will keep it’s two, hard to say. Probably bleeding out as much as it is taking in from California. The obvious complaints for the destinations is “Will the citizen imports from other states vote the way their former homestead states went crappy? Or have they learned their lesson?” Oregon can only improve. Any republican Californian’s we get, converts or not, can only help the native Oregonian’s.

      I still want to have the Constitutional status on a Republic State enforced. i.e. Not winner take all the Electoral votes via straight democracy, but by winner take the county. One vote/county, or even allocated by state house and senate representative (still bad, given the disproportionate of Oregon house and senate status … Or why super majority is a really bad idea, but I digress). But what I want, is like whistling into the wind. (If wishes were horses, I’d have a lot of horses. I have no horses.)

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        1. Unfortunately not according to the Supreme Court. See Baker v Carr and Reynolds v Sims. According to the old supremes, it’s a republic for me but not for thee, puny states.

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          1. “see Baker vs Carr and Reynolds vs Sims”

            Those two SCOTUS decisions are IMO the #1 reason why repealing the 17th Amendment and reverting to state legislatures and not the public electing Senators — an idea I frequently see touted on right leaning blogs — is NOT going to have the effect some people think it will. All it will do is give Senate candidates a smaller group from which to buy their votes. Of course in many cases the same people who tout this also tout repealing the 19th Amendment, but that’s another story.

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            1. “1 reason why repealing the 17th Amendment and reverting to state legislatures and not the public electing Senators — an idea I frequently see touted on right leaning blogs — is NOT going to have the effect some people think it will.”

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              Bad idea. Bad. Bad. Bad.

              Looks at Oregon legislature.

              Horrible idea.

              I mean, the outcome is the same as now. But at least I can pretend my vote might mean something. A miracle could happen. Miracle meaning greater Portland and Salem could get a clue 2×4. But hey … It could happen. Really. (#sarcasm, JIC)

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      2. The token liberal in our neighborhood sold out and move back to California. The new neighbors are slowly but steadily moving from mid-state, but he’s retired LEO. Will help Flyover County’s demographics. He’s moving piecemeal, but expects to be done late this month.

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  21. “They’re running the exact same script with the same beats as Kent State about a half century ago, and every other Communist operation since.”

    It seems they’re not very good at it anymore. They used to have pictures of “napalm girl” and “Kent State girl” that they could wave around and even lie about to get sympathy. Now the best they can do is show some thug waving a Mexican flag and running circles around a car he set on fire. They used to be better at optics.

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      1. You can see why the professional rioters are so intent on blocking any press they detect – it is seldom they ever get the effect they are trying for from un-controlled coverage like those pics.

        Interestingly I saw an interview (I think it was on Adam Carolla’s YT) with a pro photographer who took one of those viral dude-with-the-Mexican-flag-on-a-vandalized-car shots, and he took that shot with an iPhone. He said he’s more agile with just a phone, and draws a lot less attention. He also reported the pro riot organizers have been circulating photos of known news photographers with orders to harass, block, and make them leave, and several of his fellows have been thus blacklisted by the rioters’ counterintel arm, so he likes the low profile.

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        1. He also reported the pro riot organizers have been circulating photos of known news photographers with orders to harass, block, and make them leave,

          And as Andy Ngo can attest, if they have to leave in an ambulance, the organizers are good with that.

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          1. Meanwhile, the Napalm Girl and Kent State Girl have met and remained friends with the photographers who took their famous pictures

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    2. The “napalm girl” (Phan Thi Kim Phuc) is alive (now 63 years old) and well and has been living in Canada since 1997. She suffered a lot of pain and scarring from her injuries and at one time considered suicide, but she became a Christian in the mid-1980s. Today she runs a foundation that provides medical and psychological assistance to child victims of war.

      In 1992 Phuc married a fellow Vietnamese student and were on their way to a honeymoon in Moscow when the plane made a refuleing stop in Gander, Newfoundland, and they both claimed political asylum in Canada. She told NPR in 2008, “Forgiveness made me free from hatred. I still have many scars on my body and severe pain most days but my heart is cleansed. Napalm is very powerful, but faith, forgiveness, and love are much more powerful.” 

      The “Kent State girl”, Mary Ann Vecchio, was not a student but a 14-year-old runaway from Florida who just happened to be there at the time. She led a rather turbulent life as a teenager but eventually got married and worked in Vegas casinos for 20 years. Around 2001 she moved back to Florida, earned her high school diploma at age 46 and trained to be a respiratory therapist. Today she’s retired and living near the Florida Everglades raising avocados and oranges. She’s been at several commemorations of the Kent State events.

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      1. Should add that she’s been a citizen of Canada since 1997, she was living there before that

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  22. A certain Liberal Lady has “fallen back” on “but they’re refugees”. [Sarcastic Grin]

    I really should send her a link about how the Democratic Party thought of the White South Africans who applied for asylum in the US. [Big Sarcastic Grin]

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  23. LA County didn’t really get involved in the BLM violence. That might be part of the reason why there’s so much more going on here than elsewhere in the country. The proximity to the border probably also adds to that. Finally, there’s the view among a tiny minority that California was stolen from Mexico, and in reality belongs to the country. I’m guessing La Raza effectively doesn’t exist in New Amster… I mean New York. All of these items might be reasons why there are riots here, and only here.

    Having said that, as I wrote last night the rioting is extremely localized. I live in LA County, and haven’t seen any sign of the rioting.

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      1. Um. What do you think is going to happen to those who riot and start fires in the wrong-initially-looks-okay location? Too easy to do in LA. I mean the 2024 fire damage hasn’t even started cleanup, in some areas, let alone rebuild. The evidence is there of the too possible consequences.

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    2. Also worth noting –

      A while back, the anti-inmigration enforcement protestors realized that waving foreign flags at their rallies didn’t play well with most Americans.

      Curiously, they seem to have forgotten that with the most recent riots.

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      1. I doubt if they forgot; it’s just another example of the “Bullwinkle Syndrome” the left applies to anything leftist even after multiple failures over a century or so: “This time for sure!”

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    3. In California the previous Summer of Burnin’ Love was vastly looting rather than rioting, save a couple rounds in a couple major traditionally riotish cities.

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  24. Note how often the actual rioters, doing the actual cop-provocative damage on behald of oppresses minorities of color, are rather pale folk: The Captain Whitebread forces of Blac Blok anarchists. They get other folk to show up to hoot and holler and wave, intending to draw fire into them, to make more Revolutionaries.

    Trump wrecked their funding, so the overall rioting is smaller scale, but they have also learned how to maximize effect. (example, pallets of larger stones, getting real reporters shot with rubber bullets. Avoiding the head-to-toe bac blok cosplay)

    Get the heck away from any such shenanigans. They can and will draft you to be today’s “innocent bystander shot” examples.

    I really, really want to get the anti-riot cops trained by Colonel Kratman and a bunch of his fellow vets of Panama riot training. The sheep/goat separation would be swift and effective.

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    1. I saw that the 2020 pallet of bricks turned into a pallet of concrete blocks, dropped off by the ICE headquarters.

      Saw the rather professional video of the guy throwing rocks at passing LEO vehicles. Was kind of hoping for a SWAT squad to do something, but that seemed to be when LAPD was declaring everything to be peaceful. I gather that Mayor bAss told the police chief to support those poor innocent rioters. (Not sure of the venue for the video, LA county SO seemed to be willing to control things, or at least try to do so.)

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      2. The vids of LAPD and CHP vehicles being heavily damaged and police being hit by rioters-on-overpasses throwing cinderblock chunks timestamps to about when the CA Governor and AG presser saying there is no insurrection, it’s all peaceful protest, and only calling up the the CANG is a problem (so they’re filing a lawsuit to ask an all-powerful Federal district judge to help them, as their only hope ).

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        1. Police tend to render vehicles very old, very fast.

          A common trick, when you know when and where a riot is likely, is to park all the dying ragged-out hulks in an riot-adjacent place, and then leave them “accidently unguarded”. (sometimes they will tow in deadlined vehicles to form barricades.) The rioters get their anti-cop chew toys, often avoiding more valuable targets. The cops get replacements that are new or nearly so. Presstitutes get dramatic pictures. Politicos can use the pictures for their own purposes. Car dealers get business. Cops often get to arrest the firebugs/vandals/car-tippers. The perps get street cred.

          Yes. This really happens.

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          1. R2 projecting a holo of Gavin in a white dress and the Alderaan side hair buns. Okay, someone who is AI-image-adjacent needs to go do that one.

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  25. I keep getting this urge to create “NoDipshits.Org” in rebuttal. Organize counter protests holding pics of Brandon and his handlers, hand out literature about all the actions of unelected elites in the shadows propping up the former POTatoUs and pushing a candidate who never won a single primary. Get plenty of patriotic audience members to line the streets holding flags. Go Away, you DipShits, there AREN’T any Kings around here!!

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    2. As I said over at Instapundit, Canada has some pretty good snipers who are no longer in the service due to Liberal defence cutbacks.

      Just sayin’.

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  27. When the police turn their backs on the Democrats, not talking about their leftist bosses but the patrolmen and sergeants, then they will stop this bullshit.
    “What’s that dispatch, Rioters at the Mayor’s house, ya, we’ll get there eventually right after we help this little kid find her cat” 1 Adam-12, out.

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    1. Well, since Mayor Bass was neck deep at her NGO organizing riots for the CIA across the color revolutions around the world, that instance would only become an issue if they lost control of their rentamobs.

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  28. One almost has to admire the absolute commitment of the media to The Narrative. Every single MSM source I’ve seen has called the riots “protests” no matter how many bricks are thrown and cars set ablaze. Almost.

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  30. Per Jon Turley today ” A Los Angeles City Council member, Eunisses Hernandez, reportedly urged anti-law enforcement protesters to “escalate” their tactics against ICE officers: “They know how quickly we mobilize, that’s why they’re changing tactics. Because community defense works and our resistance has slowed them down before… and if they’re escalating their tactics, then so are we. When they show up, we gotta show up even stronger.”

    Mayor Bass has outright stated that the riots are due to the Federal Government enforcing immigration laws in “their sanctuary city” while boasting of close coordination with the groups organizing the riots, while claiming that enforcement of federal law was an infringement on state rights and authority,. Apparently she is in accord with John C. Calhoun as to state nullification of federal authority (and the Constitution clearly establishes that the Feds, not individual states, makes policy on immigration).

    This is outright insurrection and rebellion against the United States and the enforcement of federal immigration law. Democrats openly calling for obstruction of enforcement of immigration law and declaring that such laws are void and unenforceable in places they run. In other words, Democrats are acting just like they did in the 1850s prior to the Civil War. They believe their gaslighting media arm will enable to get away with doing so.

    Newsom is suing in Federal Court in order to try to get a Judge to overrule the use of the national guard; no doubt he will find a Democratic Party hack who will issue a national injunction barring calling up the guard to restore order and put down insurrection riots. Democrats want a constitutional crisis and want civil strife and unrest precisely because they believe it is their path to perpetual power. They are wrong, but that has never stopped them before.

    I note that citizens participating in these riots, financing them, and organizing them, are doing so with the purpose of seeking to overthrow the republic, we know this because their brownshirts are chanting “no borders, no walls, no USA at all” and “burn the empire down” while rioting. They need to be treated as such.

    The non-citizens engaging in violence are nothing less than non-uniformed enemy combatants who are engaged in warfare against the United States, and should be treated as such.

    Meanwhile the Democrats are pushing claims that the 2024 election was not legitimate, because they will never accept any election result that results in their losing, in the same way leftists globally believe the only legitimate elections are ones the leftists win. It is clear they have gone all-in on trying to seize power “by any means necessary” and they will ratchet up the violence and rhetoric stoking violence until they succeed or are put down. The more polls show that people oppose their agenda, the more aggressive they will get, because they believe they are involved in a crusade t;o “save American democracy” and that doing so requires a dictatorship by the Democratic Party to be established.

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    1. Of course Mayor Bass is coordinating closely with them – after all, working for those exact same riot-organization groups was her entire pre-mayoral career, including her stint working for the groups organizing overseas riots to foment “color revolutions” as a CIA cutout fronts. Well, that and taking very frequent trips to Cuba over the past decades.

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  31. (Fangirl scream!)

    The Babylon Bee’s Not the Bee podcast interviewed Data Republican!!!

    And she’s so poised and gorgeous!!!

    Man, I can’t think of a single political novelist who would have DARED invent Data Republican.

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  32. I’m actually kind of impressed at how much the riots aren’t working this time. The Doomers aren’t dooming, the peaceful protest narrative never got off the ground, and the Dems have retreated all the way back to states’ rights. I don’t envy anyone caught up in that mess, least of all the cops, but so far it’s been a lot of effort for basically no political gain.

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  34. Apropos of this, Ma’am:

    ‘…their having imported a lot of military age men that they think would be a reliable army…’

    They may have imported them, but they did not train them, they did not arm them, they did not pay them to be soldiers (since you get welfare cheques only if you don’t show up for work), and they did not even make sure they all spoke a common language to receive their orders in.

    They have no conception of the difference between an army and a rabble. Sadly, I’ve encountered some ostensible right-wingers who don’t get it either. They think 10,000 randos on the streets are somehow magically equivalent to 10,000 Regular Army troops with solid C3, logistics, and air and artillery support. And they have no flipping idea how much damage the latter force could do if they were so minded.

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    2. They may have imported them, but they did not train them, they did not arm them, they did not pay them to be soldiers (since you get welfare cheques only if you don’t show up for work), and they did not even make sure they all spoke a common language to receive their orders in.

      Your mistake is thinking they’re all one group and all answering to the same boss. 10,000 random Central Americans, or even 10000 cartel “troops” is a totally different kettle of fish than 10,000 Chinese military age males in terms of cohesion and common purpose.

      They think 10,000 randos on the streets are somehow magically equivalent to 10,000 Regular Army troops with solid C3, logistics, and air and artillery support. And they have no flipping idea how much damage the latter force could do if they were so minded.

      Leaving out your rando assumption, you’re about 3-5 years behind the times, maybe more. Start with considering that ALL the factors so many USAins have listed for why the government can’t confiscate guns. Sure, that 10,000 Regular Army can do a hellacious amount of damage…. of course, they will be doing it not only to their targets (10000 random 2A believers, who haven’t worked together, sounds like rabble to me) but everything in a mile radius. Who’s up for that level of “collateral damage” (spelled “you”)? And logistics is an interesting word, even before the age of drones.

      Now consider 10,000 Chinese, scattered across the country, who have acquired drones, made or acquired boom material, launching on the power grid, transportation, etc. when Xi is ready for Taiwanese food. Are we up to defending them against that sort of attack? Or dealing with the results? Which, again, is a major factor in “they’ll never take our guns” thinking.

      Does anyone have a counter-argument that doesn’t involve the words “black pilled”?

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      1. Yes, I have. An army requires supply and secure communications. Chinese men ‘scattered across the country’ haven’t got that. They can’t occupy territory, they can’t concentrate firepower; they are not an army. They may be able to conduct guerrilla operations, but they are grossly outnumbered by the local authorities (and military) in every place where they could attempt to operate. And they don’t have the support of the local populace anywhere, which is the first condition of a successful guerrilla.

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        1. They’re not an army; they’re a distraction, intended to give us something to deal with besides Taiwan. Supply? What would they need that they couldn’t buy here? And as far as enough population to blend into, leaving out “Chinatown” in several major metro areas, every major university and tech hub has quite a few. I know how many I see in DFW.

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          1. That’s precisely right: not an army but a distraction. It is important to remember that, and not scare oneself into hysterics by imagining that they are an army.

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            1. I would actually be less worried if they were; armies are bigger targets and a good bit more predictable.

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              1. I can certainly understand that.

                My issue is with the people who think a bunch of illegal aliens are suddenly going to put on Chinese uniforms and annex the United States from within. It seems to be a disturbingly common delusion.

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                1. A whole bunch of those folks are co-opted by our culture. They go native like our other immigrants. “Unavailable” at least. Actively “doubles” in some cases.

                  The hardcores trigger a counter-effect. Colonel Kratman writes extensively on the likelihood of a right-wing backlash, and just how awful it would wind up for the would-be hostiles. (I highly recommend his substacks.)

                  And as for the actions of the fedgov versus such foreign attackers, according to the laws and customs of war, and our UCMJ, out of uniform combatants can be summarily shot as spies. Settled law. We haven’t even begun to ramp up the nasty we can be using.

                  The Empire of Japan had plenty of spies here, but no real effective saboteur net.

                  The Third Reich had plenty of spies here, but no real effective saboteur net.

                  The Soviets/Chicoms had somewhat better luck 65-75, but that was the likely maximum. its been downhill, hard, ever since.

                  A 2025 version of prior effort might get interesting, but is highly unlikely to be anywhere near as effective. At least with the current admin. LOL.

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    3. I am unconvinced all the Asian clipped-haircut fit military aged males originating from the Middle Kingdom seen in the Autopen Administration Wave are thus untrained.

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      2. Even without special training, 10,000 hostile randos can set fires and break stuff. “Don’t let the Worst Possible be the enemy of the Bad Enough.”

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    4. Conservative randos have a high percentage of former military. Look how quickly the Carolinas organized after the Hurricane once it was clear they were on their own. From the interviews it was clear the local efforts were largely organized by retired Veterans.

      I recommend reading ‘The Righteous Mind’. Lefties don’t tend to understand the purpose of hierarchy or organization. They run their moral framework almost exclusively on empathy and everyone gets the same size slice of cake fair. (In contrast righties think everyone getting a box of cake mix is fair)

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  35. My current working conspiracy is that:

    CA just had all those fires that they thought Big Daddy was going to pay for all those fancy folks new houses after the burn. But, then the funds didn’t come through. (Also, in my grand previous conspiracy – that the fires were “arranged” to get money from Big Daddy, to keep running things, because CA is broke and not being bailed out the way it was before. (I wonder how much CA money went into GN’s presidential run bucket))

    So, with no money in the offing, a new plan was hatched to get the feds to cough up more funds – thus the riots. GN and the Mayor make their public statements, “we don’t approve!” so that they look good, and the feds have to step in anyway and spend the money to clean up the messes. And with all the fires and riots, they can declare “emergency!” and get more fed funds rolling in.

    But, I’m cynical like that.

    I think CA needs to be bankrupted and the state split up and “restructured” like any other failed corporation. But a gal can dream, right? Besides it would make an interesting story.

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      1. If there were an insurrection, there is a prior precedent for splitting up a state in rebellion. (VA > WV)

        NoCal, SoCal, Jefferson, CalHiCountry, …. and this small gerrymandered place of crazy Pinkos under Reconstruction. For about 200 years.

        Oh -please- Brer Red. Don thro us in -dat- dere briar patch! Oh noe!

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      2. Naw. Half right.

        N. California – Jefferson State
        E. Oregon – ? it’s own state.
        ?. California – ? other states

        Heck. Still would be bigger than some (most?) of the NE states.

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  36. Per data republican, once again- It’s important to understand that the LA riots and the upcoming No Kings protests have DIFFERENT backers and ideologies. LA Riots was funded by Neville Singham – a CCP activist who is vehemently anti-Western. True Marxists. No Kings is funded by pro-Western influences which include Soros. Left-wing globalists.

    If it were me, I’d be using the Israeli model of ‘taking care of business’, like they did on the Gaza border.

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    1. Old NFO I’m not sure which is worse the CCP folks who are straight up descendants of Mao and Stalin or Soros and his deluded lefties who are a mix of Nosy busybodies and Karens who think they know better and want to run things. Although the Soros types have slid way into the 1984 Upper Party model over time. And I suspect a lot of the Soros Fellow travelers are a mix of useful idiots and bought and paid for CCP fifth columnists.

      How in the name of Hades did we get into this mess? And Yes I know we lat the Soviets stick their nose in everywhere without proper response. What a mess. I’m going to go find some decent local BBQ for lunch and un black pill myself.

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      1. The sixties riots were much worse, and more widespread, and more persistent, with a -much- better caliber of Revolutionaries.

        They still lost, bigly.

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        1. True the 1968 riots were the worst. New Haven and Hartford in my home state had major riots with fires did major physical damage to the cities. The social damage was fatal. With the Interstates (89, 91 and 95) complete the Middle and upper classes fled New Haven and Hartford for the comfort of the suburbs. The tax base crashed and order in the schools and the cities went to hell in a handbasket. Ultimately over time the State of Connecticut lost much of its manufacturing, and started taxing the heck out of what remained. And in the mess caused by the Great Society programs and voila two failed cities of the Blue form.

          As for we won, well not so fast. The radical types mellowed a bit but they nurtured folks like Obama and really took over the universities which is a large part of our problems today. They’re like a vampire we forgot to stake out at midnight at the crossroads.

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  37. Two things:

    1. You can have a civilized society, or you can have mob rule. You can’t have both.
    2. You can’t restore a civilized society by appeasing the mobs.

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      1. Second-rank / follow-on riot cops should wield shield and Gladius, not shield and baton.

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      2. You have to take out the ringleaders. One way or another. If arresting them is not feasible, don’t be afraid to shoot them down like mad dogs. If they choose to behave like savages, we must treat them like savages for our own survival.

        They’re counting on us being unable to treat them like savages. They use our civilized restraint against us in their efforts to destroy civilization.

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        1. They are *highly* dependent on their cadre. You hould probably neutralize large amounts of their efforts by getting a dozen or so people out of play.

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        2. Imaginos1892 said

          They’re counting on us being unable to treat them like savages. They use our civilized restraint against us in their efforts to destroy civilization.

          Actually they’re counting on us to go very aggressive. The old trick is to put young innocent (and gullible) clearly pregnant women in the front lines so they get killed or injured. Luckily because most of Antifa is really Trantifa there aren’t a heck of a lot of pregnant women to be had for this duty. They WANT to make martyrs (I hate using the word that describes folk like the Apostles or Stephen) to rev up their base. To some degree lots of their base is done with these idiots and only their management types and media would note the martyrdom.

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          2. Which I think is why so many of this Saturday’s “events” are planned for small towns.

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            1. And with that we have reached the point where Monty Python’s Life of Brian scene in which Eric Idle’s character Stan states he wants to be a woman and be called Loretta and have babies is reaching for reality.

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        1. Hey, after 6 years of mob rule the French people welcomed Napoleon, grapeshot and all, because he promised to make it stop.

          They call Trump a dictator? They’re full of shit. What the rioting mobs are doing, that’s how you get an actual dictator.

          And we’ve improved on grapeshot. They’re called cluster and thermobaric munitions.

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          1. I enjoy pointing out to students that after [long conflict here] what the vast majority of people want is order, peace, and to be left sort of alone. The students tend not to think of things that way.

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