From the Trump Administration:
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned against committing acts of vandalism or terrorism against Tesla products or other Elon Musk-owned properties.
Bondi said those committing those acts would face the full brunt of federal law enforcement without the possibility of plea agreements.
That thumping noise you hear is that of my heart, having burst right out of my ribcage, doing a
around the house.
We’ve all seen recently that acolytes of the Left have been vandalizing Tesla cars, destroying Tesla charging points and attempting to damage Tesla dealerships — all because they disapprove of what Tesla founder Elon Musk has been doing to bloated government, or soemthing.
POTUS Trump calls these activities “domestic terrorism” while several people at CNN label them “a protest“.
I just want to see if I’ve got this clear.
So according to CNN: if I were to, say, firebomb Michael Moore’s (empty) house because I strongly disagree with all the things he’s said, that would be just “a protest” ?
What about painting “Lefty Scum” on Chuck Schumer’s car? Also “a protest” ?
How about circulating a bumper sticker like this one?
Would this too be an example of First-Amendment-protected “protest” ?
I’m just trying to understand the ground rules, here.
So now we are faced with this line of bullshit:
…this, in addition to the attacks on Tesla dealerships all over the place.
I have two thoughts on this.
Firstly, I’d love someone to find out which organization, precisely, paid for these bumper stickers.
Secondly, there is a Tesla dealership in Plano — specifically, in the uber-trendy Legacy West strip — which, coincidentally, is literally less than a hundred yards from a Plano P.D. mini-station. I think I’ll swing by said cop-shop in the next few days to see if they’ve increased surveillance of the dealership — there are cameras a-plenty already installed in the area — because if they have, they’d be able to nab any “protesters” (vandals) pretty much in the act.
What I’d really like to do is sit across the road in my parked car late at night with some kind of anti-goblin accessory* at hand, e.g.
…but I doubt whether New Wife would let me, and the Plano fuzz would probably also disapprove thereof. Pity.
In general, it appears that as Trump and DOGE are becoming more and more successful in their attempts to MAGA, the Left are beginning to despair — which means that there’s an ever-increasing prospect of Antifa/anti-Israel/BLM/eco-terrorist-type violence in the offing.
In the above article, the author writes:
In a free country of hundreds of millions of people, bad and destructive ideas are bound to catch on among a few thousand lunatics. But we have a cure for anti-American and anti-Semitic criminal behavior: put the criminals who act unlawfully upon those ideas in prison, confiscate their funds, uproot their criminal networks, deter their would-be imitators, and give public spaces back to the decent Americans who deserve them.
He left out another kind of cure: a contrary populace who are just as angry as these anti-Western terrorist wannabes and have had it up to here with their bullshit. Just remember: they fucking started it, and they should not be surprised if there’s a visceral, bitter reaction to their little reindeer games.
Just sayin’.
*Of course, I don’t actually own anything evil like that — may I remind you of that Tragic Boating Accident On The Brazos all those years ago? — but you get my drift.
Last month I examined Christopher Rufo’s opinion on modern-day anarchism (although he calls it nihilism). Now I see that Freddie de Boer has a slightly different take on the matter:
I argue that there is a certain treacherous animal spirit stalking around in the WEIRD world, particularly among the young, a yearning for deliverance… and if they have to, they’ll take deliverance through violence. Our culture has erased transcendent meaning and left in its place short-form internet video, frothy pop music, limitless pornography, Adderall for the educated and fentanyl for the not, a ceaseless parade of minor amusements that distract but never satisfy. And people want to be satisfied; they want something durable. They want something to hold on to. They want to transcend the ordinary. And I’m afraid that, with God dead and the romantic ideal ironized into annihilation, the pure thrill of violence is one of the only outlets left to express the inexpressible, and committing violent acts is free.
It is an excellent study, and I recommend it greatly.
And while I’ll leave the solution thereof to the psychologists and therapists, I’m suggesting that now — more than ever — is the time when one should always be armed, less some disaffected young asshole takes it in his head to experience the “thrill of violence” at a place where you happen to be.
It’s bad enough that we should be armed against random robbers not to mention those of the BLM/Antifa persuasion, but now there might be some dreamy anarchists to deal with as well…
Christopher Rufo examines the modern Zeitgeist with respect to the murder of that healthcare company executive in Manhattan, summarizing it as “left-wing nihilism”. (It’s a long read, but a very good one. Moreover, the topic deserves more than bullet points and bumper sticker aphorisms, so I urge you all to go over there.)
The only issue I have is his description of the condition as “nihilism”. It isn’t; it’s anarchism.
And once you realize that, then the parallels between the late 19th century in both Europe and the United States will become immediately apparent. (For those who want to see that for themselves, I urge you — and not for the first time — to read Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower for an outstanding analysis of the anarchist movement of that period.)
Simply put, then, the growth of anarchic movements in the West was and is a manifestation of desperate social frustration by young people, and the assassination of politicians, public figures and (back then) royalty was, if you like, simply an inchoate and largely-indiscriminate striking out against authority. The reasons could be any of a number — hatred of the ruling class, hatred of big business, hatred of the police/army and so on — and just anyone in authority could be a target, whether “justified” or not.
The trap we need to avoid is that of accommodation and empathy towards such anarchists. Those all very well in dealing with small children, but when adults strike out with such viciousness and violence against society’s laws, they should be treated no differently from rabid animals, and destroyed. (Small wonder that the Manhattan murderer is going to face federal charges as well as state charges; New York state set aside the death penalty, you see, but the federal government hasn’t.)
And if they executed Timothy McVeigh for his murderous action, this little bastard Mangione deserves no less.
Paid ‘Professional Agitators’ Are Fomenting Violence on America’s Campuses
…leading to the question: so who is doing the paying? Silly rabbits:
George Soros-Connected Groups Paying for Antisemitic Campus Protests, Calling for Revolution
…which in turn leads to my question: Why hasn’t this old fucking Nazi’s U.S. citizenship been revoked yet?