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I was driving home after my Monday midnight shift when I heard on sports talk radio about some situation at a college football program that a coach was getting grief over. During the time I had it on nobody mentioned what said coach had done. Now I find out that it’s because he wore an OAN shirt on a fishing trip. The next night every sports program was talking woke shit and I had enough, I put on a classical station and plan on leaving it there.

I simply don’t care if sports comes back anymore.

You know I half think that all of this looting and rioting and burning is all about bringing down property values so that someone can swoop in and make a killing. I would not be surprised if a rather wealthy fellow or two picked up some prime city spaces across the nation cheap

I find it interesting that there are protests in Germany over this, it’s very revealing when you consider the history or lack thereof here, but that would only matter if this was an actual protest about the state of black lives rather than a leftist grift conning the gullible into financing them.

Speaking of that I do see why the whole BLM business is about funneling money to the Biden campaign. I mean seriously who would knowingly invest money in that venture otherwise.

I think the NFL is reading it’s fanbase wrong again and I suspect people the reactions in the stadiums to the kneeling, particularly among ticker holders is not going to be pretty. But then again NFL players who have a short window to make their six and seven figures didn’t really want to local endorsement deals anyways did they?

That’s why I’m also mad at MLB. They had a chance to be the only sport in play and to revive interest in the greatest game ever invented, instead you have millionaires arguing with billionaires on how to divide up more cash then most fans will ever see. Someone needs to tell them that it isn’t 1968 anymore and they should stop acting like they’re oppressed.

Finally one of the reasons why I think Potus will let the blue cities commit suicide for now rather than jumping in to save them is he wants to see if the people there will decide they had enough and vote accordingly in local elections come November.

If they don’t elect responsible people who will take care of these issues I suspect that’s when POTUS will do it for them for the sake of the few sane people still living in these enclaves.

Mayor Perkins: …You all know the situation. There’s us here in Calendar. There’s Galena, where we gotta ship our gold. There’s the Danby ranch half way in between the two. The road even runs through their property.

Thomas Devery: All right fine then we build the road around their property.

Mayor Perkins: How? They own that whole valley.

Fred Johnson: Besides, if they don’t get their 20 per cent, they just hold up every stage that comes through and take all of it.

Thomas Devery: All right, but we’ve got to do something. Even if it means bringing troops in here.

Support your local Sheriff 1969

Henry Hill: Hundreds of guys depended on Paulie and he got a piece of everything they made. And it was tribute, just like in the old country, except they were doing it here in America. And all they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. And that’s what it’s all about. That’s what the FBI could never understand. That what Paulie and the organization does is offer protection for people who can’t go to the cops. That’s it. That’s all it is. They’re like the police department for wise guys.

Good Fellas 1990

The newest in my series of what society without or with defunded police will look like.

One of the things I mentioned in my last piece is how suddenly smaller shipments like UPS trucks would become targets as soon as it was clear that police would not be there or would be too busy to bother and I mentioned the increase int he cost of insurance. But there is another type of “Insurance” to be paid.

Once it becomes clear that there is good money and easy to be made from business’ that have no cops to call or can’t count on them bothering to show bigger factions will start to get involved, particularly in large cities. Organized crime, whether it’s mafia or drug gangs or ethnic games will quickly discover that they will be able to extract a toll from the local businesses and those who choose to enter their areas. And that toll is going to have to be paid, or else.

Henry Hill: [narrating] Now the guy’s got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy’s gotta come up with Paulie’s money every week, no matter what. Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fuck you, pay me.

Good fellas 1990

This however does come with compensations as was illustrated just last week in Chicago:

 In Chicago’s Hispanic neighborhoods, the Latin Kings and other street gangs are reportedly stepping up and doing what their elected officials and police departments have not been able to do: protecting their neighborhood businesses from arsonists and looters.

and one of the things about ethnic gangs is they not only don’t care about cancel culture or political correctness when dealing with things:

On Sunday afternoon, Little Village neighbors came together to protect 26th Street businesses after people looted shops. Ald. Michael Rodriguez (22nd) said as the night went on, a few Latino men became “antagonistic” and were indiscriminately targeting Black people driving through the neighborhood.

. . . .  In a Facebook Live video shot at 50th and Cermak in Cicero at 7 p.m. Monday, groups of people with bats and metal pipes were gathering near the intersection.

“Non-Black, Latinx gangs [are] armed with bats, machetes,” said Luz Chavez, who shot the video. “Any car that passes by with Black people in it, they are yelling at it and throwing s—,” she said.

Chavez, founder of online magazine Gozamos, urged Black people to “stay out of Cicero.”

The irony of course is that the business owners, seeing other completely wiped out and likely unable to get insurance might just decide that paying these guys for protection from everyone (except them of course) is worth it and if a few thugs end up dead instead of arrested, well they’ll figure it’s a powerful incentive not to do that anymore.

This is happening in Chicago, I suspect it will start happening in Seattle when people decide they don’t want to be ruled by ANTIFA and if this defend disband the police business continues

Closing note: On the June 3rd podcast I stated that if I was a Mafia down I’d be moving into cities, offering protection from the mob and cleaning up both on protection money & stealing from the thugs and get cheered for it. Who knew that a less than a week later it would actually start to happen?

Elizabeth Swann: Will, how many times must I ask you to call me Elizabeth?

Will Turner: At least once more, Miss Swann, as always.

Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl 2003

One of the things about Amazon Prime that I’ve noticed over the years is that the price of movies it offers is very flexible. As I’m into classic pictures I tended to check back now and again to see the prices of movies I want. When one drops to $5 before I buy it

Today Bringing up Baby with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn was $4.99 and I was about to pick it up when I remembered Jeff Bezos remark about not caring if he loses conservative customers.

Amazon is very convenient for me, and I have literally hundreds of dollars in points that I save for Christmas to buy gifts with but today at this moment while I would really like that classic screwball comedy it just isn’t worth giving Bezos that fiver. So I gave it a pass.

And while I suspect he will not notice or miss my five dollars I’m positive me keeping it will give me more satisfaction than he will get by not having his boodle uncontaminated by a Trump voter’s funds.

The real question is, how many times will that remark come to mind when I’m about to buy something from them? I suspect for a very long the answer is going to be: At least one more Mr. Bezos.

Oh a closing thought to all those who will laugh at this post. I’m old enough to remember when the internet WAS AOL & Internet Explorer…right up until the day it wasn’t