I just back upstairs from letting TMEW know that the BLM/Antifa riots have just gone “hot.” Sure, I’ve been watching the videos of when Antifa meet up with the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer in Portland or Seattle for a couple of years now.
Related: Talking-Head Worried That Riots are Bad … Because They Hurt Democrat Polling
“You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw.”
Fists and feet, add in helmets and bear spray, batons, and skateboards. It always seemed that every encounter ratcheted up the violence. Not only between the usual combatants. It has started to include just ordinary people who happened to be on the wrong side of the street or made a wrong turn in the car and ended up on the wrong end of Chaos.
And then it spread, over and over again to Democrat city after Democrat city.
It seemed that the death of George Floyd only served as an excuse for George Soros’s money to flow in the Chaos “opportunity” that was the Black Lives Matter movement. Does one honor Floyd’s death by breaking into stores and looting them? Is his memory held high when those same buildings are set on fire? WWGS (What would George say) as person after person is assaulted to glorify Black Lives Matter?
And in letting it happen, what are the Democrat leaders who are siding with the rioting “protesters” (either by remaining quiet or actively assisting, like the Soros funded District Attorneys who are setting the rioters free because they won’t prosecute them) thinking? Certainly, it can’t be the old joke, “I only have to outrun you when the bear comes.” And BLM/Antifa are perfectly happy to “visit” the homes of these useful idiot mayors who are confused because they were “supporting” the protesters. Creating more Chaos.
Many of us on the Right kept wondering when it was going to stop. Frankly, I’m not sure it is going to stop and now I’m beginning to wonder how fast the tipping point may come before it CAN’T be stopped. Is this the harbinger of what a lot of preppers have called TEOTWAWKI (“The End Of The World As We Know It)? Sure, we saw the prequel in 1968 but with elected leaders now joining.
And now it has gone “hot”.
In a very disturbing series of videos, guns are now in play. Via Pete Ingemi (DaTechGuy):
LET ME REPEAT – if you have a weak stomach for the violence that is now happening, or a disposition that it isn’t happening, or an outlook that still says “This is America – this only happens in other places”, hide your eyes. It IS coming.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298501182382473216
EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: @Julio_Rosas11 recorded up-close footage of one of the men who tried to attack a man who was on the ground but armed with a semi-auto rifle. Half of his upper arm was blown off. #KenoshaRiots https://t.co/81bFbBl7Dw
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) August 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298529196549869568
And I remembered that I had saved this from The Corner (emphasis mine, reformatted):
…This episode put me in mind of an old quotation from Lenin that he used to describe the Bolsheviks’ revolutionary strategy.
You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw.
This has been the tactic of every revolutionary movement in modern history. Armed with the sharp end of their weapons (both physical and philosophical), they search for the soft underbelly of the existing order, the place at once most vulnerable and least likely to offer concerted resistance. When this point is discovered, Lenin instructs his followers to attack it with all their might.
The more interesting part of the quotation, however, is the second sentence: “If you find steel, you withdraw.” This line testifies to Lenin’s tactical genius as a violent revolutionary. He knew then in the early years of the last century what every historian worth their salt knows today: The decisive factor determining the success or failure of any revolution is not the zeal or the firepower of the rebels, it’s the willpower and self-confidence of the establishment they are attempting to overthrow. When regimes fall, it is inevitably because the elites presiding over its continued existence lose faith in what they’re defending or have not the intestinal fortitude to defend with all the manic fervor and devotion of the mob. Revolutions succeed largely by sapping the ancient regime of their morale, their self-image, and their stomach for the fight.
Make no mistake – this is happening here and it is happening now. That old canard that many have held onto “But that would NEVER happen here in the US” is only right until it isn’t anymore. Just look back Cuba – it never would fall to Castro – until it did (just for one example).
How many will stand up to this? According to Steve’s White Silence is Violence post, not many are willing to stand up to the mob of Progressives willing to force you to believe in something you otherwise wouldn’t.
Raising your hand in obedience, even if against your will just to make them leave you alone, just means it’s just a matter of time.
But there is a silver lining, if:
However, when those powers are animated by unwavering moral clarity and fierce devotion to that which is under attack, they rarely succumb to insurgents.
For all of the size of our Government, we still are a decentralized Society. As we saw in Fort Collins CO, residents decided that they had had enough of these Antifa brownshirts and beat the ever-living crap out of them.
What it looks like; what may happen?
Old: You will be made to care
New: You will be made to surrender. Or Fight
Mush or Steel – you WILL be made to choose. And the costs and the results couldn’t be higher.
If conservatives will not stand up to the mob and insist upon the rule of American law within American borders, then every aspect of this country that falls short of progressive paradise will be destroyed in successive rounds of violence and civil strife. It’s time to meet the bayonets with steel.
