As I mentioned in the comments a day or two back, someone in my neighborhood Facebook group organized some kind of “event” over George Floyd. This my debrief of my brief drive-by of the event: LAME. As in, loser-kids-in-high-school holding-a-car-wash-on-the-corner-to-raise-money-for-their-student-council-field-trip kind of lame. Seemed to be about the same crowd, too, with their loser parents.

LA-AME, YOU FUCKING LOSER

Bucket o’ Chuds on the corner

It made me feel better that I forgot my pistol at home in my haste to get out the door. (I may have been a little high, too, but I’m not sure… because I can’t remember.)

My wife mentioned to me that the post got something like 500 comments – and not all very supportive or positive. For perspective, our community’s Facebook page might get a dozen or two dozen comments on matters of interest, like the Fourth of July Fireworks at the two artificial lakes that the community surrounds or some fundraiser for the local high school football team.

Not a bad turnout of lemming.

Which brings me back to the whole vibe of this thing. I drove past and then turned into the Safeway parking lot, which is directly behind the intersection where this… whatever it was… was being held. It’s actually a good spot for it in that the corner of the intersection also has a big area of grass adjacent to it, providing plenty of room for the definitely-not-CrossFit-people declaring that they definitely are NOT racist! TOTALLY! And you shouldn’t be either… WHOO!!

Black Lives matter, doncha know?

WE’RE NOT RACISTS!! WE’RE NOT RACISTS!!

Some cars driving by would beep their horns and the people would all yell, as if it were a rivalry game. “Go WOLVES!!” Okay, maybe they didn’t actually yell “Go Wolves,” but instead just howled loudly, and I’m extrapolating from the “WHOO!!!!” I got so fired up I started chanting “Let the Brothers Go!! Let the Brothers Go!” like Paul Newman in “Fort Apache, the Bronx.” Interestingly, while trying to find that clip (I couldn’t) I did find this one, which seems oddly a propos, viz a viz the current situation in NYC.

There were some… I can’t call them counter-protesters, but a handful of guys on Harleys were watching the goings-on, and three Cop SUVs were at a pretty good distance away, all parked next to each other. I watched one patrol by the front of the grocery store and business went on virtually oblivious in the Safeway (where I took care of important business; buying some chocolate chip ice cream).

The area seemed busier than usual, but the majority of it seemed drivers-by, people like me who just wanted to see what was going on. My purpose was to make note if there were outside influences who might have decided to see if they could push things out to the ‘burbs, but it appeared to be entirely home-grown, Civil Rights LARPers.

Most seemed to be wearing their masks, given some folks’ obvious co-morbidities for the COVID, probably wise. Social distancing is obviously overridden, however, by more pressing matters, as those leaders in NY told us! In any event, it all felt like…a high school pep rally and it made me wonder, what does it portend? Specifically for the next election. While I, like many here, have mocked the “MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVAHHH!!!” crowd mercilessly, given what we’ve seen since the last one, I would say that this does feel like the most consequential election in my lifetime, even moreso than Reagan-Carter, which was cast in similarly apocalyptic terms on the Left. My parents, devout blue collar dems of the ’70s, were quite worried Reagan would get us into a nuclear war with Russia.

I can’t help but see the timing of this, and the Media coverage, as entirely driven by politics, especially on the heels of Biden’s “you ain’t black” massive public fuckup. The cops kill about 1000 citizens per annum, so there is never a lack of opportunity to find an egregious case to put public attention on. The way this whiplashed off of COVID, completely disregarded prior ABSOLUTELY VITAL LIFESAVING EMERGENCY MEASURES!!!! instantly has really thrown this whole thing into chaos. I don’t think it works in favor of the Dems; I really do not. If I’m wrong, then it doesn’t matter anyway and we’re purely in “stock up on (even more) ammo” mode. The Media all feels driven, unhinged even, careening from one MASS EMERGENCY!!! to the next, and it gives me the feeling that it’s borne of desperation. I don’t care what the “polls” say, either.

Given other matters coming to light, I wonder how long Progs think they can distract people from what’s coming out of the so-called “Obamagate” mess, including a decision from the DC Circuit in Flynn’s case. What next? I wonder if it is possible for the public to get numb to it all. I don’t think you can keep up this kind of “emergency news cycle” in perpetuity. People will simply go numb, but I guess we’ll see what the coming months brings us.

I’ll be working on my garden and my citrus trees and playing with the new pets we’ve gotten in the last few months, a dog and two kittens. (Poppy not pictured).

Pip (left) and Sir Winston Hobbes. Other kitten amok elsewhere.