Splendid Isolation

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.