Oh, boy, it’s gonna be fun driving a high-profile vehicle on the I-5 in California today as the 155mm artillery rounds from Camp Pendleton sail overhead.
The good news is, it should be awful quiet at the National Nuclear Security Administration come Monday. Or so we may hope, anyway.
Some people voted for this shit. I sure hope they like the taste.
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’
Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall
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After a full year of listening to and watching 105, 155, and 175 mm artillery fire live rounds of all types, I have had enough. They could use blanks for this ceremony. There is absolutely no reason to fire projectiles, even inert ones, over an interstate highway. None except intimidation of Californians.
Beyond stupid, expensive, and unnecessary. Can’t afford to pay the workers they haven’t laid off or fired yet, but the gummint has money for this bullshit and Emperor Oranganticus’s feast for his ballroom donors, when anyone who glances at those baggy pee-stained slacks of his can see he’s already got all the ballroom he needs and then some.
Beyond doubt the most insane stunt yet by the Feds. Everyone can see right through the timing and the message they are trying to send. But there were plenty of strong messages sent back on signs and chants today at our No Kings event. Even I blushed at some. Grandmas were dropping f-bombs all over the place so the level of “pissed-off” is far advanced from a few months ago.
And do ya think that all those in what was sure to be snail speed traffic jams on the I-5 detours will be dropping some f-bombs too? So…much….winning…..
Right you are Herb ole buddy. I commented on Patrick’s No Kings post about our event here, but in summary we are a town of 44,000 and had over a 1000 at the No Kings event with not a counter protester in sight. It was really nice to meet some parents who had brought their kids to, in their words, see the right to free speech being exercised. Gives me a little hope.
Señores, we had a stout turnout in our fair city, on The Mother Road downtown. The local blat claims “thousands,” based on what I have no idea, but I’ma go with it. Herself and I were in attendance with a likeminded friend and neighbor. More later.
Had about a thousand here in my little town of 27,000 if I include all the three main intersections the crowds were covering. There was a lot of energy there. I didn’t stay long since the work schedule had me doing something other than protesting.
That darned work schedule! The Man will keep you a-hoppin’. Or so I remember from my own dark days of long hours at short pay.
Had a real loser Trumper park his pickup next to the speakers stand where he tried to use his on board PA to drown out the speakers. Dude was totally nuts and just babbling like well…you know who. We surrounded his truck and sealed it off with our signs and muffled his yammering. Peacefully I might add. He rolled his window down to croak “help police…I’m being attacked”. Cop came by, told him no one was touching his vehicle and maybe a good idea to shove off. Which he eventually did to huge cheers/jeers. Not a scratch on his hillbilly carcass but I’m sure Fox News would have provided him with fake blood, bandages and a blond bimbo to air his report.
Good job corraling that jackass. We heard something similar from a jerk in a pick-’em-up using the sound system to exchange compliments with some other folks en route to the march. The topic of abortion came up and one of the protesters offered to abort the speaker. Hey, it is The Duck! City. …
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I see there was a bit of Steel Rain on I5. Now how could that have happened?
Oopsie. You’d need your Moots titanium umbrella for that sort of precip’. Windshield wipers sure won’t handle it. Bad day for a convertible or a motorcycle.