Eerie Silence

Has anyone noticed that this summer — traditionally the season of Antifa etc. riots — has been rather quiet in the streets?  I mean, we had the token anti-ICE silliness in Minnesota and a couple other places earlier in the year, but after the necessary roughness, the desire for such activity seems to have dissipated somewhat.  Also, it was kinda cold for outdoor bedwetting.

Since then, though, not much activity among the common gripes of the Perpetually Aggrieved Set — climate, racism, capitalism and all the rest — and I have two theories for reasons why this is the case.

Firstly, there are elections coming up, and maybe — just maybe — the stringpullers and astroturf layers have got the word out for their crowd of Useful Idiots to hold off for a while.  (I know, that’s maybe a little far-fetched, because the Aggrieved are always on a hair-trigger, and I’m not sure how any kind of chiding would work on them.)

Which means that my second theory is probably the correct one:  there’s no money for rent-a-crowd transportation, no money for those pre-printed signs with their dreary slogans, no money for vans to deliver bricks, Molotov cocktails and other necessities for a decent Lefty riot, and no money to incentivize the lamestream media to fan the flames.

Of course, there’s the fact that the Soros crowd and fellow criminal organizations (e.g. ActBlue, CAIR and the SPLC) are being investigated by the Treasury Department for their funding of illegal activities, so they’re hiding out (for a while, one suspects).  As Scott Bessent has stated:

“When you see these protesters, someone is financing them,” Bessent explained. “There are safe houses. When you see the 300 people with the same laser that they’re using to blind DHS agents in courthouses in Portland, someone bought those lasers.  So these groups that are engaging in this — we have the authority, and we are examining them.”

Then:

“What we do is follow the money — just like we followed it with the mafia. We’ll find out who’s done this.”

Yeah… perhaps using non-profit orgs to channel the money into these activities was only going to work with the Three Blind Mice of the Biden era.  So this would be the time to shut them down, permanently, with perp walks and orange jumpsuits much in evidence.

The treason- and criminal trials and public hangings can follow soon after.

Alternative Tool

I guess this answers the age-old question, “If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?” — this time in Sweden:

An 18-year-old man armed with a sword unleashed his violent rampage at the Brinell School in Fagersta, northwest of Stockholm on Friday, just days after the school had resumed from its summer break. 

‘The person killed in this incident is a young 17-year-old female. Her family has been informed,’ police said on their website without giving any other identity details.

Minnea, a Brinell student who went to the school to honour the victims on Saturday, told the SVT broadcaster: ‘It’s terrible to think that someone you sat at the same table with, someone you talked to, is suddenly dead.’ 

Two boys, a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old, were seriously injured, with one requiring emergency surgery. 

A third person was also wounded, but police did not give any details on them. 

Police said the suspect had been arrested after being shot at by officers, and that the case was being investigated as murder and attempted murder. 

The alleged perpetrator was not injured during his arrest.

…which means that the Swedish fuzz need to spend a little more time at the range. methinks.

Here was an earlier such event, only in Britishland, so of course the cops there weren’t carrying guns — probably because all the ARMED POLICE! in the area were busy taking down people who had been posting Bad Things on Teh Intarwebz.

What’s also disturbing is the apparent random nature of all these things — I mean, as opposed to Muslim assholes going crazy on the infidels they encounter in their “adopted” countries.  It seems as though these psycho swordsmen could pop up just about anywhere for a little gladiatorial practice.

So it’s one more reminder for us here in Murka to carry our guns every time we walk out the front door.  (But I’m preaching to the choir here, aren’t I?)

Wait, What?

Okay, this one got my blood boiling:

A Texas man with a prior murder conviction is accused of running a “full-service drug operation” near several schools where authorities say surveillance showed what appeared to be teenagers purchasing narcotics and fentanyl pills disguised to look like ecstasy.

A convicted murderer was out free on the streets?  IN TEXAS?  How the fuck did that come about?  Why hadn’t he been executed, or at least still be behind bars for the rest of his worthless fucking life?

Also relevant:  whose signature is on the petition for release, and whose signature is on the release authorization?  (Yeah, we’ll probably never know that, because if we did, it could easily come about that the signatories would be dragged out of their house and beaten with iron bars and chains.  In any just society, that is.)

Read the whole thing to get the full horror of it.

Range time.

Common Thread

Three separate places in the U.S. were rocked by mass shootings over the past few days:

In Kentucky, five people were shot, one fatally, when gunshots rang out in a park near a packed downtown bar district Saturday evening. At least 13 shots sent revelers running for cover.  The shooting took place at roughly 6.45pm at Charles Young Park. 

Next:

Meanwhile, a mass shooting was unfolding in Chicago, at around 7.15.pm. It left four injured, two critically, after a car pulled up beside a group walking along a sidewalk in the city’s Gresham neighborhood.  The victims were all injured after multiple occupants fired shots out of the windows before driving off.

And lastly:

A 19-year-old suspect was arrested Saturday evening, though, for a shooting that occurred at Virginia State University outside Richmond early Saturday and injured five, including a student.  Suspected gunman Camron Harris is not a student and is from Virginia, Chesterfield County Police said in a statement shortly after making the arrest. Neither were four of the people injured.

There’s one commonality that’s curiously been omitted from the press coverage of these admittedly-tragic events.  Let’s just examine one particular circumstance of each.

The performing act in that concert at Charles Young Park in Lexington was a group called Benny J & Friends, who according to their website are a “funk, R&B and soul” band.  Charles Young Park is located in a predominantly-Black neighborhood.

The drive-by shooting took place in Gresham, which is a working-class, predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.

Virginia State University has a predominantly-Black student body, but as only one student was injured, that’s probably not important.  What is important is that the shooter and four of the victims weren’t students.

Now before anyone of the Woke Generation gets onto me about this, let me say very firmly that what I’m commenting on is not the probable race (Black) of the events, victims or shooters.

What I am curious about is that not a single press report picked up on that commonality between the three mass shootings.

It took me about fifteen minutes to do that research myself, and to write this post.

But of course, the overall takeaway from the press reportage is how all these terrible mass shootings are so frequent an occurrence, and as KYGov Beshear was quick to pounce on, mere minutes after the shooting at Charles Young Park:  “To stop mass shootings, we have got to elect Democrats that will actually do something about it.”

Pro tip:  They’re not going to “do something about it” other than try to pass more stupid gun control laws that will not — ever — prevent mass shootings like the above from occurring.  Nor will they — ever — try to improve the tragic set of circumstances that lead to Black kids killing each other, routinely and often.

What they will do is defund their police forces, refuse to prosecute violent criminals, make plea deals that result in less jail time, and release convicted violent criminals from jail prematurely:  all of which will only exacerbate the problem.

But Trump / MAGA / Republicans are the evil ones.

Shine A Little Light

Here’s an interesting story.  A journalist has been plagued by a troll who has followed all her writings and articles, and infested the comments section with mean and nasty little snarks.  So the journo decided to find out exactly who this person was, and she actually went to the troll’s house (lair!) to confront her;  but the troll wasn’t home.  Go and read the details.  (I couldn’t post an excerpt because the article has been preserved as a screen save rather than as text, but the link should be good.)

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