A Quiet Summer

Posted on by hollyfrostgoldportpress

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.

57 thoughts on “A Quiet Summer”

    3. 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.

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply

      1. 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.

        Liked by 1 person

        Reply

      2. ” 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.

        Like

        Reply

        1. There have been times when I’ve been between my car and the hospital (I have to get my prothrombin–clotting–time tested every few weeks) when I realize that sufficiently sharp eyes might notice, er, something. OTOH, walking is less fun than normal, and I refrain from returning to the car. On the gripping hand, I have a tendency to forget said something is in the glove compartment when I’ve been a good boy. That and I really don’t want to put it in the glovebox when I could be spotted.

          I won’t say the ER is a calm place (I’ve seen staff beat feet for a disturbance on at least one occasion), but where I have to go is pretty quiet & peaceful. It’s still a hospital, but I’ve been in worse.

          Liked by 1 person

          Reply

          1. My son works for Securitas, and they have a contract for a hospital in Alameda County; he had the misfortune to be assigned there. That’s the kind of place where they have a Sheriff’s station on the property, and the patients often get an alias, as frequently members of competing economic associations are known to come to the hospital for an exciting visit.

            Site management there was awful; he got a new gig at a safer location, and now has moved up to OR to be near me.

            CG is a nice small town (~10K), where the cops can stop and play basketball, and they deal with lost dogs; I suspect not all the kids are above average, but many of the teens are actually polite. So far as I can recall, 1 murder and maybe 2 shooting incidents in the 7 years I have been here; the police post their activity logs about every 2 weeks.

            I’m just too old to get complacent about that.

            Like

            Reply

        2. Mrs. TRX had a heart valve replacement last week. The hospital still had the (no legal standing now that we’re Constitutional Carry) gun ban signs up, but both the metal detectors and security guards are now gone.

          Like

          Reply

          1. Sounds like your hospital was more committed. My hospitals have never had the metal detectors, and the private security is unarmed.

            If they were serious, they wouldn’t leave entrance security to the Hospital Auxiliary ladies. If they don’t set up a checkpoint like a courthouse, they’re not serious. And if they’re not going to be serious, why bother?

            You may correctly conclude I am not a fan of Security Theater.

            Like

            Reply

            1. Thing is, that’s about where I am: you want me to go unarmed? Then provide your own guys at the door with guns and x-rays to make sure no one can just ignore your sign and go open season inside.

              I can see this argument for prisons, courthouses, asylums, possibly the spicy hospital environment above, planes, certain military installations, factories for flammables…

              Once interviewed at a gun factory where this was SOP. Not that they weren’t very pro 2A, they just had a lot of guns around, and kept very strict track to prevent accidents.

              Like

              Reply

            2. She went to a different hospital last year. The ER entry had metal detector blades, an armed security guard, and a deputy sheriff.

              Or you could walk around the corner of the building and go in the front door, where there was no “security” at all.

              To top it off, it was quicker to get to ER from the front door than via the “official” entrance.

              Like

              Reply

          2. Tell Mrs. TRX “welcome to the club”.

            How is she doing? Tell her to hug that pillow. Coughing a pain. Sneezing is worse.

            Which valve? Did she have to go mechanical or one of bovine/swine to avoid warfarin?

            Make sure she can put her feet up when sitting up in a chair. The water setting in your feet is no joke.

            I am 4 weeks out. Finally the baby steps are adding up. Have not gotten out of the house for a walk, yet. Part of the problem is getting my shoes on. Heck, haven’t had my first cardio rehab outside the walks in the cardio unit after ICU. Did have my first post op visit with a member of the surgery team. Pleased with progress.

            Like

            Reply

            1. Atrial, I think. According to the doc, they basically did an oversize heart cath, with the new valve all folded up like origami at the end. Then they punched through the old valve and ejected the new one, which expanded in place, pushing the bits of the old valve aside.

              An hour for the surgery and she went home the next day. But she is refusing to eat, drink, or get up off the bed, and it looks like I’m going to have to call for an ambulance, because I can’t wrestle her down the steps and into the truck by myself.

              Like

              Reply

              1. “But she is refusing to eat, drink, or get up off the bed, and it looks like I’m going to have to call for an ambulance, because I can’t wrestle her down the steps and into the truck by myself.“

                –

                Dang. Sorry. Even for the TVAR (transversal, via arteries) that is a fast release. My valve did not qualify for TVAR method (too small).

                I too had a problem eating and drinking anything other than water my first days. OTOH, I was in the ICU for eight of them. I had not only the nurses (gently) pushing me to eat. I had husband, son, and they even had mom nagging me …

                I hope it gets better for her.

                Like

                Reply

          3. Tell Mrs. TRX “welcome to the club”.

            How is she doing? Tell her to hug that pillow. Coughing a pain. Sneezing is worse.

            Which valve? Did she have to go mechanical or one of bovine/swine to avoid warfarin?

            Make sure she can put her feet up when sitting up in a chair. The water setting in your feet is no joke.

            I am 4 weeks out. Finally the baby steps are adding up. Have not gotten out of the house for a walk, yet. Part of the problem is getting my shoes on. Heck, haven’t had my first cardio rehab outside the walks in the cardio unit after ICU. Did have my first post op visit with a member of the surgery team. Pleased with progress.

            Like

            Reply

  2. 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.

    Like

    Reply

    1. 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.)

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply

      1. 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.

        Liked by 1 person

        Reply

    1. Put in the link, WPDE!

      Julie Kelley on X

      In a stunning political move, the chief judge of the Minneapolis federal bench disclosed the behind the scenes collaboration between all judges to thwart legal proceedings related to immigration cases this year.

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply

  5. 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.

    Like

    Reply

  6. 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.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    2. 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.

      Liked by 2 people

      Reply

      1. 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.

        Like

        Reply

  7. 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.

    Liked by 3 people

    Reply

  8. 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.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

      1. 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.

        Liked by 1 person

        Reply

      2. I used to work with a couple of Mexican guys who went through all the time, hassle, and expense to get green cards. Dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s. On their own, not via Democratic gimmees.

        Their attitude toward illegals would likely have made hardcore Klansmen step back and say, “Whoa!”

        Liked by 1 person

        Reply

  9. 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.

    Like

    Reply

  11. 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.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  12. 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.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    1. 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.”

      Liked by 2 people

      Reply

  13. “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.

    Like

    Reply

    1. 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).

      Liked by 3 people

      Reply

      1. 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.

        Liked by 1 person

        Reply

        2. Since the word “Treaty” is nowhere to be seen, it’s not just the Danes who can change their minds. And does ANYONE think Thune is the guy to even try to get it through the Senate?

          Like

          Reply

Leave a comment