Sometimes it works
Basic fact 1: When all "legal" means of self-defense have failed, people will try violence.
Basic fact 2: Sometimes violence works.
Back in '69 before I went to jail, I remember attending a campus speech by Dick Gregory. He was describing the '68 Detroit riots, which led to more jobs for blacks.
"The fire got too close to their Mustangs."
Clearly this is happening now. Minneapolis isn't physically close to Seattle, but it's politically and culturally close.
Portland is both physically and politically close. And
Seattle is very close to Seattle.
Holocauster Inslee, seeing the possibility that his holocaust might be answered by a defensive holocaust, has
suddenly provided a teensy-weensy micromicromicropermission for counties to move ever so slightly faster through the infinite maze of Phases and Plans and Petitions. Who knows, maybe the state will be fully free by the year 35485843534857857489375 instead of the end of the universe. We can look forward to freedom for our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-(infinite)-great-grandchildren, who won't exist anyway.
Later: In NY the trigger was a classic riot-starting move. Holocauster Cuomo had scheduled a major relaxation of tyranny for June 1. Yesterday he abruptly CANCELED the relaxation.
Dashed hope guarantees war.
I don't know if Holocauster Inslee is taking note; perhaps he should. Of course all governors and presidents SHOULD simply
abandon the whole monstrous EXPERIMENT and let the country try to regain its EQUIPOISE. Return to the distant prehistoric past as of December 2019. Even CDC has finally admitted that the "virus" is nothing special, so we could have continued doing what had ALWAYS WORKED BEFORE. But the governors and presidents won't back off. They followed CDC's genocidal fake "science" at the start because it gave them permission to slaughter the world. Now that they've tasted blood, they're feral and can't be re-domesticated. They will continue with microscopic relaxations and astronomical clampdowns, until everyone except Bezos and Soros is dead.
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Etymological footnote:
I started calling him Holocauster because in previous years he had used LITERAL PHYSICAL FIRE as his genocide weapon. He guaranteed that forest fires would expand exponentially
(the psychopath's favorite math function) and prohibited counties and landowners from defending themselves.
Stupid proofreader footnote: The Gregory quote doesn't seem right. I used it here several years ago, but must have deleted it because it's not in my archives. Presumably I was concerned about seeming to encourage violence. Now I don't give a fuck. This is war.
Back when I cited it before, I tried googling it but couldn't find any other refs. I have the vague sense that the original was alliterative, as in
The M???? got too close to their Mustangs. But I can't think of an M-word that would fit there, so it's still dubious.
Update: Ahem.
Sometimes it works. Michigan's tyrant governor suddenly lifted most of the siege. Maybe it works in Michigan but not elsewhere?
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