By Holly the Assistant
A Quiet Summer
No, really. In spite of all the crazy wildfires, I haven’t heard any news of riots. Not like 2020. Even the cities deliberately hit by arson attacks stayed calm.
Maybe the rioters couldn’t afford gas to get to the preferred rioting locations?
Maybe the rioters were working for pay in previous years, and the funding spigot dried up with the crackdown on government spending through NGOs? (Now there’s a misnomer: if your funding comes from government grants you are NOT a non-governmental organization.)
Certainly there were attempts with the anti-ICE activities to gin up a few riots, but those fizzled pretty early on. Turned out that there was no natural rioting support for illegals. I think some of the anti-Flock efforts are also aimed at gathering angry crowds together, from the social media posts, and that doesn’t seem to be gaining any traction, either. People don’t love surveillance cameras, but they do love criminals getting arrested, so it’s a mixed bag, and no one seems to be really interested in having themselves a riot over it.
The hysterias du jour seem to be getting shorter and shorter, and the people flipping out over renaming one of the great lakes seem to have gone on to other topics now.
There’s some interesting stuff over on the White House website about hunting and fishing, and I urge our sportsmen to go read those. I think it might get considerably easier to get access to federal lands for hunting. The fishing one is for saltwater fishing, and I’m a creek fisher by . . . sheer laziness I suppose, it’s my backyard, after all. Everyone in the Chesapeake Bay watershed should look over that EO and see if they need to beat on their local municipalities for charging no longer justifiable fees.
I haven’t heard anything in the media about the tit for tat with Canada over trade, particularly federal procurement. That’s very interesting, especially here in the run-up to Alberta’s secession vote. Has anyone seen that anywhere? How about those of you on the other side of the boarder, is that hitting your news at all?
Gas prices seem to be what’s left for midterm drama, unless they can get some excitement going for other stuff between now and then, and I don’t know about you all, but we haven’t-quite-reached Obama level highs here yet. It’s pretty hard to get a bunch of excitement up about that for anyone who was an adult back then. (That’s before inflation adjustment, by the way, in my mind, but after per the official records. I distinctly remember prices higher than what’s reported, but I didn’t take pictures of the pumps back then.)
I think I’m more concerned about bad candidates depressing the turnout than anything else other than fraud at this point. Some of us have some real stinkers on the ballot. However, a lot of us have rather nasty propositions on the ballot, so maybe that will help get people out. Do encourage your friends to exercise their franchise, as much as is reasonably in your power to do so.
According To Hoyt 
Does a quiet summer mean a noisy fall/winter?
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we
shall
see
(IOW LOL I dunno)
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If it’s any character portrayed by Summer Glau, quiet means watch out.
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I have a short medical trip west of the Cascades in ten days, in close proximity to the People’s Republic of Ashland (OR). So far, no signs of anything getting sporty, so I’ll limit myself to the ordinary hotel room loadout.
The local medical center is self proclaimed as a <strike>free fire</strike> weapon free zone, and I try to honor that. Was surprised (and annoyed) to find my 3″ pocket knife had to be sequestered the last I spent quality time in the ER. (I was feeling too wiped out to remember to deny. At least I wasn’t carrying the 9mm….) Misquoting the nurse: “We know it’s a tool, not a weapon, but the administration thinks otherwise, so just humor them.”
Got the knife back–basic pocket knife, not a collector item, but still.
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Heck. What few riots, er, demonstrations Eugene has had, have been point and laugh. I think the biggest was the 6th & Jefferson “rally”. It was visible only because that corridor is always busy during Eugene rush hour. It is one of 3 routes across the Willamette; all three routes the access inch along.
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” Misquoting the nurse: “We know it’s a tool, not a weapon, but the administration thinks otherwise, so just humor them.” “
Seldom bump into sensible people, I’m sorry to say.
I can’t afford for my doctor’s employer to ‘fire’ me, so I, too, leave the Little Boomstick at home. But I unclip my Spyderco and shove it deep into my pocket, and so far that goes unremarked.
Did have an ER visit last year; son drove me, so he was able to take it and stick it in the car to Make People Happy.
OTOH, took my wife to a number of her cancer doctor appointments; I wasn’t the patient, nobody looked at me, so maintained normal carry items.
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Insufficient information for a valid prediction, especially considering how old the information is. Things could have changed.
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Just got off phone with local elections guy, solidified my poll volunteer status for November. I find it fun, plus I get to be The Marshall and not very inconspicuously dress the Western Part. ‘Cept can’t wear my sidearms. I don’t like working Gun Free zones. And for the record I have never CCW in one ever.
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I’m scheduled for training this Sunday.
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As RAH said, always vote. There might not be anything worth voting for, but there are certain to be candidates and policies you want to vote against. Keep that in mind and you will rarely go wrong.
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For once, the California proposition slate has some worth voting *for* rather than universally defaulting to “no.” Interesting to see that a lot of the Usual Suspects are against the “billionaire” tax, because even they have seen how stupid a wealth tax is. (Especially one retroactive enough to have already caused moves out of state.)
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Also there is apparently reporting, unknown whether officially publicly available, which lists voters who did not vote, and that info has mysteriously appeared in the hands of the vote fabrication folks working the various bum encampments perpetrating fake registration-and-vote crimes. Less chance of getting noticed crossing up a real vote if you use dormant voter names.
So don’t be dormant.
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Who needs rioters in the street when you have judges in the courtroom?
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Put in the link, WPDE!
Julie Kelley on X
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Doomy doom doomed.
If I do not have time or emotional energy for handwringing, must the end of the world.
/jest
I don’t know anything.
I am busy.
I doubt I am productively busy. But that is perhaps purely fatigue levels from the intensity of the busy.
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We’re cutting the Left’s funding arms, one by one. We’re slowly exposing their legal espionage network, their immigration sabotage agents, and their voting fraud mafia. But clearing it will be the work of a generation or more.
At least we’ve begun to fight. But the Left won’t go down easily. We can hope that some of the good people they’ve deluded will break away, but they’ve indoctrinated too many of us, and enough of them actually believe in the mixture of evil (envy, scapegoating, …) and folly (confusing merit with bigotry, etc.) to be beyond easy recovery.
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I think this has a lot to do with it. Bereft of USAID-laundered funding, there’s no one to buy and drop off pallets of bricks in strategic locations, set up bail factories, pay leadership, etc.
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Or bus rioters from city to city.
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Or pay them…
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Correlation is not causation, but the USAID money laundering pipeline being cut and the absence of annual riot season is really, really correlative.
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“Correlation does not equal causation. But it does wink suggestively and mouth ‘Look over here!’.”
Can’t remember where I saw that one.
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I’m getting a kick on how fast the “AI Scary. It will kill us all,” is being compared to Climate Change, Covid, CO2, etc., screaming already. Did not take a month.
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Apparently it’s the only thing the donks tested that focus-grouped as remotely scary enough.
I wonder if they showed them Terminator movies in the waiting rooms.
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The Democrats are trying to impose ‘Rule by whoever can drum up the biggest and most violent mobs’
Wasn’t that how they started, with lynch mobs back in the 1850’s?
Now, if some laws are against them, they destroy all the laws. When some provisions of the Constitution are against them, they destroy the Constitution.
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I suspect part of the reason for the lack of immigration riots is the Dems shooting themselves in the foot. The biggest natural supporters for that sort of thing are the La Raza types, who think the Western US should be given back to Mexico. But Dem propaganda has convinced a lot of them that ICE is indiscriminately grabbing everyone with an Hispanic surname and kicking them out without bothering to check whether the person is in the country legally (or a citizen). So I’ll bet a lot of the would-be “protestors” are afraid to show up at a public event that’s sure to draw Federal scrutiny.
Ibstapundit’s reporting an anti-AI protest in SF, though. So there might be attempts going on now to see if that will provide a fertile enough field to cover for riots.
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Note most Hispanic Americans, whether recent or here for generations, think the La Raza people are loons.
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Maybe, but they’re heavily focused around here, and are the natural foot soldier for this sort of thing. So any attempt to riot over this needs them. But they also appear to genuinely believe the Dem’s scare prooaganda.
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Oh, will be voting alright. I don’t know about other allegedly blue states (a big city or two, really…) but where I am just might be in for a(n overdue) preference cascade. I can hope. And I can nudge, even if only ever so slightly.
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Vote early. Vote often!!
(but only once per election) 😁
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it’s difficult to get too excited about any polls/editorials given their spectacular failures over the last few years (hello, President Harris – a sure thing according to the media and the great and good).
I can’t vote, not that it would matter much in my area, but i have my fingers crossed. It would really suck to spend the next two years reading about pointless and irritating impeachment proceedings. If they couldn’t impeach Clinton for lying in court, sorry I mean committing improprieties in office, I don’t see how anyone is ever impeached successfully.
it reminds my of the j6 proceedings, to which i was forced to listen, each day there was “exciting, bombshell testimony” for the following day. Oddly, the bombshell never seemed to arrive. Now, of course, we know that much was made up and that, possibly, once the consequences of perjury was explained, the witnesses might have withdrawn testimony.
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No funding, no really “catchy” causes, lots of people are not opposed to kicking out people with rap sheets as long as my arm, and the “No Moar K!ngz” only attracted professional protestors or the, ahem, mature types. Too, the flop of the great causes espoused by the Left has not encouraged excitement among the Usual Suspects.
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Not helping that MEMEs mock everything they are doing these days. It is hard to riot when getting laughed at. The “No Kings” protests in particular. Falls rather flat when your opposition is agreeing “Yes. We kicked out the last king 250 years ago.”
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Do not make me laugh. It makes me cough, still, it hurts.
(I hugged my heart pillow.)
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“The hysterias du jour seem to be getting shorter and shorter, and the people flipping out over renaming one of the great lakes seem to have gone on to other topics now.”
I haven’t heard anything about Lake America since #CarkMarney decided Canaduh would become part of Europe. Vast outrage, but short duration.
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Need more helicopters for all the liberal democrat politicians and their helicopter tours.
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Any list for Leftists to buy from is one we can use to never buy from.
https://notthebee.com/article/democrats-have-created-an-online-database-so-consumers-can-boycott-maga-farmers-?utm_source=Not+The+Bee+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=09182026
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On the positive side, #TheDonald annonced a couple hours ago that CNN, MSNBC, I believe Politico and a couple more are henceforth banned from the White House press corps.
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He also announced that Denmark has granted the US veto power over non-NATO bases in Greenland, and pretty much any foreign investment in the country. So while Denmark still owns Greenland, we’ve got it firmly locked down from potential Chinese infiltration (such as the Chinese airport that would have “just happened” to have been right next to our air base there that Danish government had to nix after the Greenland government approved it).
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Which is a big chunk of what we needed from Greenland. Subject to a future Danish administration changing their minds, so not a permanent solution, but good enough for the immediate future. Glad to hear this.
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Go #Donnie go!
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