“Murder, arson, terror, I’ll agree to anything that gives us power. Power! And we can’t have power if we compromise. Even though it takes years, terror and power.” – Nicholas and Alexandria
Hmmm, ever notice that people started worrying about Global Warming® when the Soviets collapsed? I guess they missed the Cold War.
We’re in the middle of the biggest changes that we’ve seen in the country since World War II or the Great Depression. After WWII, the cities filled up. Coming back from the war, soldiers found that far fewer farmers were needed. Dorito® farmers were also impacted, even if they had a cool ranch.
The centralization of the cities offered the chance to work at huge manufacturing facilities. This was driven as United States took the industry developed to build Sherman tanks and other weapons of mass destruction and converted them to building cars and washing machines. Clarification – they didn’t convert the Sherman tanks into washing machines. But I kinda wished they had – the spin cycle would have been cool, and it probably would only have taken 150 gallons of gasoline per load.
Sure, there were lots of small manufacturing plants scattered across small towns everywhere – there are a few still operating in Modern Mayberry – but the big job creation was in the big cities. As factories have been offshored and closed down, many of the jobs that pulled people into cities have gone away. Cities in many cases (but not all) are now anchored by office jobs – things like finance, insurance, real estate and professional services. Which is nice, because they’ll need insurance after this year.
I’m going to protest the next riot by going out and buying a television.
As I predicted in past posts, we’re seeing the Fall of the Cities as people look around and ask themselves, “Why am I buying a 1,000 square foot two-bedroom house that costs a million dollars to live here?” It was a question I was asking even before the Wu-Flu©. But COVID-19 was the gasoline on the, er, bonfire of the cities that finally got the people living there to ask it, too.
- First, it showed how cities are hotspots for spreading disease. Except during peaceful protests.
- Second, work from home showed how few jobs needed to go in to the office every day to keep the large companies going. Why do you need to be in New York City working in a cubicle when you could do the same job from the middle of Missouri with a phone connection? One business I’ve heard of dropped its use of offices from five skyscraper floors down to two. And they don’t anticipate ever using those spare three floors again.
- Third, it created economic chaos, unemployment, and uncertainty. This creates fear in the lives of people doing their work on a day to day basis. How will they pay for PEZ®? How will they get a job when millions are unemployed, and companies are failing?
My friend Dante was involved in PETA protests, but stopped. Dante’s in fur now.
- Fourth, it separated people from each other in their daily lives. Even the masks, which (whatever their efficacy) are preventing normal human interaction in most cities. Some states have mandated that anyone outside of their house has to wear a mask. Not when within six feet of one another – just anyone who is outside. Additionally, people need to see each other’s faces – that’s how we bond and interact. People need people. Even the most introverted person needs human contact at some interval.
- Fifth, the result of this was a moment in time that could be made into a crisis of crime and destruction. This allowed BLM® and Antifa™ an opportunity. And that opportunity wouldn’t be wasted.
Antifa® isn’t new – it’s been around since the 1930’s. It started in Germany under the name Antifaschistische Aktion, and was set up (surprise!) as part of the Stalinist wing of the German commies. Today in the United States, they use the exact same symbol, and exact same name, Antifaschistische Aktion.
I knew there were problems with Antifa™ in this black and white photo, but I couldn’t see the red flags.
The original organization started even before there was fascism in Germany of any significance. Fascism was defined by the commies as capitalist society in general. So, unless you’re a communist (and if you’re a regular reader of this site, you’re not) this means you. Antifa© puts the world into two buckets:
- Good: Antifa© members.
- Bad: Everyone else. And, honestly, they’re not so sure that some of the communists might not need some quality time in Spokane Gulag.
Antifa© has led riots across the country. They are systematically attempting to destroy the United States, and they’ve decided to start in the cities. And people are starting to move out. The patterns are varied. One YouTuber® I watch occasionally said he’s done with San Francisco. His wife had a successful business. Had. Now it’s folding up. He cited the figure that 1400 of 2500 street-level businesses in San Francisco were just gone.
What’s the difference between a gender studies degree and being homeless? About five years.
Now he and his wife are gone. They haven’t decided which “red state” they’re moving to but they’ve already left San Francisco. He did directly promise to leave his Blue State ways behind him. He has the recognition that it wasn’t an accident that San Francisco is a mess, rather it was the result of decades of bad decisions. Given that his job can be done anywhere he has an Internet connection, nearly every place in the United States is an option.
The same thing is happening in New York City. People are leapfrogging out of the cities to the suburbs. People in the suburbs are moving rural. They’ve seen what’s happening, and have decided they’ll take whatever real estate gains they can get, and go.
Now an additional crisis has been created:
As such, we’re witnessing a great migration of people out of the cities, and out of Blue States. But that’s not enough, is it? The goal isn’t to own the cities, the goal is to eliminate fascists. Which is everyone who isn’t in Antifa®. How better to do that then to create yet another crisis. It looks like that’s exactly what someone has done.
The fires spreading across the West? At least some of the fires burning all over the West were intentionally set – see various stories at the bottom. It appears that places like Facebook® are banning stories where anyone says that Antifa© is lighting the fire. So, no matter how it looks like it’s something exactly like what Antifa™ would do, and in locations where Antifa™ hangs out, and done by people who look like they could be on an Antifa® recruiting poster, it surely can’t be Antifa©, right?
The fires have been devastating – at least 600,000 people in Oregon have been placed under an evacuation order. Large numbers of these fires were caused, on purpose.
Sounds like a weapon of mass destruction to me . . . .
Old pic ctsy: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P046279 / Weinrother, Carl / CC-BY-SA 3.0
OCD copy editor’s note: just after the “coin shortage” meme, in the bullet point starting with “Fourth,” is a sentence where something went wrong:
I’m guessing you meant to delete that introductory “People need.”
Now to more substantial matters: let’s stop using the enemy’s word (“antifa”). I think “Democrats in Practice” (DiP) is both more direct and more truthful.
Fixed. Thank you! This makes the second sentence that was prematurely truncated somehow. I caught the first. Again, thank you!!!
DiPs. I like that! If they have signs on poles, those could be DiP-sticks. And if they’re in Nancy’s driveway . . .
It is amusing to make fun of antifa for being soyboys, ugly chicks, freaks and weirdos and it is all true. But it is also true that these people are deadly serious and have no problem burning your house to the ground with you, your wife and kids in it because your kids might grow up to be “fascists”. All the tactical gear in the world won’t mean squat if you are vastly outnumbered and afraid to use deadly force because you will certainly be arrested and just as certainly won’t get a fair trial.
These are dangerous times unlike anything we have seen before. Sure we had commies in the 60s but the country was still 85% White. Now? The refuse of the Third World has been shipped into this country by the millions and fed a steady diet of hatred for the people who gave them shelter.
A hard heart is going to be more valuable than an upgraded trigger on your Glock in 2021.
“A hard heart is going to be more valuable than an upgraded trigger on your Glock in 2021.”
This is why I keep repeating the mantra of mountains of skulls and rivers of blood. It is coming. The only choice is whose skulls. There will be blood aplenty all around. Expect the death toll to exceed that of WWII. Not the US losses. The total losses for the entire world. And it’s only that low if we win relatively quickly.
We often forget the role the U.S. plays in keeping the world mostly peaceful. Without a stable U.S. to keep things in check? I expect small wars to spring up all over the place. The Korean peninsula, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, India and Pakistan.
@Arthur – Big fan of your blog so don’t take this the wrong way. The US hasn’t been the bastion of peace you think it has been. Throw in that the beefs between groups that haven’t been settled due to fear of US intervention haven’t gone away, they’re just waiting for an opportunity.
But the one you missed is India and China. Check it out if you’re interested. India has been shoring up support against China. Unfortunately the retards running my country have thrown our lot in with India. IF I had to choose between taking a poop in the street being normal, or eating bat soup? I dunno
Understood. I guess my point being that while we are endlessly causing little conflicts, nothing major has erupted out of fear of U.S. intervention. Once that threat is gone, they will be settling scores.
The Mrs. made that point in a conversation with me tonight. Expect things to get spicy everywhere.
Yup. And they are rapidly showing that they are learning to kill – the fires have killed several. They will add to the toll.
Some of the fires, at least, are acts of war against the United States.
“Nice little town you’ve got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.”
In retrospect, it was inevitable that the cities would explode in violence when the manufacture of washing machines was off-shored.
Think of it, all those home-grown agitators and no washing machines to put them in.
Oh, ERJ – that’s baaaaad.
Ha! I guess I was wrung-out when I was writing the washing machine jokes.
And now the Karens and their enablers are spreading out from the cities like cockroaches.
Nice small town you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
True. Modern Mayberry, however, has the virtue of being the most boring place on the continent. And it’s exceptionally well armed.
How dry is the grass in August?
Antifa/BLM… let’s just simplify to Democrats have been upping their arson for fun and
profitpower games.They have. But, again, we’re sooooo boring here.
Nice post on “fire”. Let me pivot for a sec to “water” – specifically starting at the 0:35 mark.
https://twitter.com/The_Real_Fly/status/1302801729617039360
First they came for the tea….
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists#:~:text=The%20Quotation,-Niem%C3%B6ller%20is%20perhaps&text=the%20quotation1%20%3A-,First%20they%20came%20for%20the%20socialists%2C%20and%20I%20did%20not,was%20not%20a%20trade%20unionist.
That is the definition of an awful person.
John, my comment is hung up in your system. Both copies of it, you can delete one of them. Sigh.
Got it!
The Bolsheviks don’t have any plan after burning it all down. The useful idiots have visions of being the nomenklatura apparatchiks but history and Yuri Bezmenov laughs.
Destruction and revenge is their daily dope hit as people who can’t create anything can only destroy.
We run circles around flat footed distorted ideological lens statist utopian useful idiots and let’s keep that way.
But if everyone’s life is destroyed, that’s true equality! And we can even all starve together!
Eugene Oregon.
10am Sunday September 14th 2020.
*** NUCLEAR WINTER ***
For about ten days, visibility was less than three hundred yards… and sometimes less than a couple hundred yards.
This morning, visibility is about thirty yards.
The murk absorbs sound.
No traffic, no train whistles.
A decade ago, we ‘war-gamed’ us stopping a couple folks in a small aircraft dropping Molotov cocktails on forests during low passes.
How could we terminate the destruction of our national treasures?
Our conclusion — fire is a ‘force-multiplier’.
A few lone terrorists would be unstoppable; the devastation to buildings, roads, and infrastructure could approach ‘total’.
Accordingly, we wear our masks (aka ‘face-masks’) consisting of a double filter respirator designed to eliminate pretty much everything airborne.
While the American military is in BFE, our borders are porous, our national treasures are easily ruined.
Yesterday, TheCenters (aka The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention) proclaimed the paper or cloth masks (aka ‘face-masks’) edicted to protect wearers from invisible virus are woefully inadequate to protect from visible smoke.
A couple-three months ago, Oregon governess Kate ‘Moonbeam’ Brown edicted/proclaimed Oregon forests closed to campers and hikers… and witnesses.
Coincidence?
Break into small groups, discuss.
This is war. Wonder when someone will notice?
“Spokane Gulag”? I don’t know whether to be alarmed or honored.
The fires have turned it into Smoke-ane. The Air Quality Index only goes to 500. Yesterday it hit 493. If this continues, I’ll be chewing my air.
I think we need to start treating Antifa/BLM like the British treated pirates. String ’em up wherever you find ’em, preceded (or followed, just as good) by a quick trial led by the highest ranking person in attendance. I was once student body president of a large high school, so I think I’m qualified.
• Setting fires in rural settings.
• Chainsawing power poles so they fall in a wind and start a fire.
• Molotov cocktails and fireworks fired into the dry brush.
Frankly, I’ve had it, and their lovers and loser friends can wail and moan about the cruelty of summary execution, but I won’t shed a tear, and I’ll sleep the deep slumber of the innocent and wake up refreshed and ready for cornflakes.
I apologize for the homicidal tone to my response, but we’ve had arsonists before in this area of dense, dry forest and I know how quickly and explosively it can spread in these conditions. A reasonable person should interpret anyone setting a fire in this region as an imminent threat of grievous bodily harm and/or death to himself and those he loves, and act accordingly.
This must end. One way or another.
It is nothing less than attempted murder. And, yes, when I picked out the Gulag location I was hoping that you’d show up – since I still can’t bug you at your place!
John
Entertaining throughout. Thank you.
Please bear in mind as you’re working the CW2 updates that there is a large component of criminal involvement in insurrection. It was that way when I was in the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Criminals are quick to see and exploit opportunities for fun and profit anytime there is a power vacuum. Helping the revolutionaries is good for criminal business and it might just be fun too.
Not all violent revolutionaries are soy boys and pierced wymmn. Some are proficient violent criminals looking for easy prey and easy profit. Recent bail relaxation policies (catch and release) and politically motivated prosecutors who refuse to charge rioters are making this situation much worse than it otherwise might be. This factor might fit your assessment of CW2.
I assess that CW2 began with the first Floyd riot and continues to escalate in ferocity and expand geographically. Just like CW1, this one is starting slow and building momentum. Unlike CW1, it’s not geographically organized and there’s no command structure to target kinetically or legally. That’s by design. Don’t expect uniforms and military discipline. Contemporary insurrection will be more like post-Tito Yugoslavia than Union Vs Confederacy. It will end looking like Somalia or Detroit. Warlords running the show despite the veneer of legitimate government.
There are different types of insurrection. Separatist like CW1 wants a completely new state carved out of the territory and authority of the old nation. Reformist seeks structural changes to existing government procedures and policies. Subversive Insurrection seeks the overthrow of the old order; that’s what we’re seeing in the cities now.
Very well said. And, the body count rises.
Oh, there’s definitely a fixed command and control structure. They’re just not necessarily there on the front lines. They are enjoying a martini in their mansion.
Even the riots are very well organized, with defined roles, leaders, communications, scouts, enforcers, and counterintelligence.
McChuck
You’re right that a C2 structure exists. It’s well concealed and protected, thus not targetable by conventional kinetic or legal means.
Expanding on the notion a bit. The C2 and sustainment structure are hidden behind a anonymous donation and fundraising campaigns. There’s no ACORN to target directly with investigation and charges. No corporation to go after via detectives and lawyers.
They’re protected behind layers of organization shells that lead nowhere, so law fare can’t be used to crush them, as it was with say the KKK or NRA.
The leaders are also protected behind armed guards, gated communities, and the wide latitude given to sitting elected officials.
So, you’re right. I was a bit imprecise. I didn’t mean to imply that this was an amorphous and spontaneous Color Revolution. It’s very much organized and run from central hubs. The forces of good just gate directly address those C2 hubs under the current rules of engagement.
There are folks out there Organizing For America; a fundamentally transformed America. We’re seeing the fruits of those labors daily.
John
Entertaining throughout. Thank you.
Please bear in mind as you’re working the CW2 updates that there is a large component of criminal involvement in insurrection. It was that way when I was in the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Criminals are quick to see and exploit opportunities for fun and profit anytime there is a power vacuum. Helping the revolutionaries is good for criminal business and it might just be fun too.
Not all violent revolutionaries are soy boys and pierced wymmn. Some are proficient violent criminals looking for easy prey and easy profit. Recent bail relaxation policies (catch and release) and politically motivated prosecutors who refuse to charge rioters are making this situation much worse than it otherwise might be. This factor might fit your assessment of CW2.
I assess that CW2 began with the first Floyd riot and continues to escalate in ferocity and expand geographically. Just like CW1, this one is starting slow and building momentum. Unlike CW1, it’s not geographically organized and there’s no command structure to target kinetically or legally. That’s by design. Don’t expect uniforms and military discipline. Contemporary insurrection will be more like post-Tito Yugoslavia than Union Vs Confederacy. It will end looking like Somalia or Detroit. Warlords running the show despite the veneer of legitimate government.
There are different types of insurrection. Separatist like CW1 wants a completely new state carved out of the territory and authority of the old nation. Reformist seeks structural changes to existing government procedures and policies. Subversive seeks the overthrow of the old order; that’s what we’re dealing with now.
Speaking of organized domestic violence, I watched an old movie, “Matewan”, Friday night. Based on real events of 1920, it’s about striking coal miners in WV and the company “detectives” who come in to break up the union and get the mine working again. When you think about “CW2”, it might help your imagination to see how violence was used in a relatively modern time.
It includes an event known as The Matewan Massacre, in which 9 detectives, the mayor, and 3 miners were killed in a main street gun battle. (By modern standards of urban violence, it probably wouldn’t make the evening news in Chicago.) I think it’s relevant as an example of desperate people (on both sides) fighting over high stakes, yet while everyone seemed to have a gun, they were rarely fired and even more rarely effective.
The Matewan Massacre was followed in a few months by The Battle of Blair Mountain. According to Wikipedia, 10,000 miners went up against 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers for five days. Chemical weapons left over from WW-1 were used, and about a million rounds of ammunition were fired before the WV National Guard was brought in and restored order. Casualty figures vary; 50-100 miners were killed, and up to 30 from the company side. (Many more were wounded, of course.) Not to be too casual about killing, but I’m amazed at the waste of ammunition. If these guys had been out hunting for their dinners, I don’t think they’d have needed 10,000 shots per kill. I have to assume that people of conscience on both sides were aiming to scare, not to kill. (Then again, marksmanship is degraded by incoming fire.)
Immense amounts of ammo have been used in every war since Civil War 1.0.
And if the National Guard were called out in Portland, would it be to protect the protesters?
Our situation is quite the rhyme for the Russian Revolution.
I read chapter 4, “The Intelligentsia” in the book about the revolution by Richard Pipes written in 1990 and it is very much applicable today.
I loved the line “Ludwig von Mises thought that individuals gravitate to anti-capitalist philosophies ‘in order to render inaudible the inner voice that tells them that their failure is entirely their fault.'”
Also a couple decades before the French revolutionaries engaged in terror, they pursued a ‘terror in the republic of letters…its guillotine was defamation’. Hmmm… social media, MSM, doxxing anyone? The Russian model was similar.
Another excellent point regarding the Russian revolution and which resonates with me: “For what separates liberals from the extreme left is disagreement over the means employed, whereas they differ from the right in the fundamental perception of what man is and what society ought to be.”
Von Mises was a top mind. And he nailed the Leftist mind. Why else do they revel when they are injured? Why else do they lay in front of cars. They think they are unworthy, awful people.
And then they prove it.
Great quote to end with, as well.