Yes, faithful readers, your eyes are not deceiving you: you are reading my fifth consecutive daily column.
I know: a five-column week is an impressive achievement. It’s like shooting under 60 in one round of a golf tournament, or throwing back-to-back no-hitters in the MLB. Or the Bears drafting a quarterback who doesn’t rip the hearts out of Bears fans and stomp on them with inexplicably sharp cleats by the time Halloween rolls around and we’re eliminated from the playoffs.
Would I be able to do this if I weren’t semi-retired? No.
Would I be able to do it without your faithful readership, which I might even describe as verging on adoration, if my instinctive modesty didn’t restrain me? No.
Would I be able to do it if I didn’t have the strength of ten men, because my heart is pure? No way.
Okay, enough of that. It’s Friday, baby, so where my narwhals at?
Today I’m focusing on some escalating bad behavior from mainstream Dems in the congress and the MSM that is not going to end well for them. I’m talking about their increasingly unhinged and violent rhetoric aimed at ICE agents who are just doing their jobs and enforcing our immigration laws.
The Dems are in such an impenetrable bubble that they really do seem to think that the public is on their side, and that the Cuddly Kilmar doll is going to be a big seller this Christmas. (You pull a string on his back, and he says, “MS-13 forever, homes!” and “My old lady had that beating coming, your honor.”) (Unregistered car filled with illegals he was caught trafficking sold separately.)
Many Democrats are in the throes of anger, and convinced that it’s the righteous kind. Axios interviewed a dozen Democrat House members who anonymously reported that their voters are getting more and more heated. One said that, “our own base is telling us that there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.”
Another reported that his constituents are saying that “civility isn’t working” and to prepare for “violence…to fight to protect our democracy.” A third said that “people online have sent me crazy sh*t, told me to storm the White House and stuff like that.”
(Because insurrection is (D)ifferent when they do it.)
Of course, this is the predictable result of Democrat elites ramping up hatred on their side in recent years. By last November, their supporters didn’t think Trump could ever win, or that if he did, it would be through some illegitimate trickery. So when he swept the swing states, won the popular vote, and beat Que Mala in the electoral college like Kilmar tuning up his wife because she looked at him wrong, they didn’t know what to do.
The same boneheads telling them to “fight for democracy” – until democracy worked, and swept Trump into a second presidential term – have now gone back to the Extremist Handbook of Inflammatory Slogans and recycled “Conservatives are Nazis and ICE is the Gestapo!”
They have no idea that they’re racing down F**k-Around Street with the pedal to the metal, and they’re fast approaching Find-Out Avenue. And that intersection is strewn with spike strips and Jersey barriers, and both sides of the cross street are lined with empty prison buses. The seat belts in those buses come with complementary handcuffs, and in front of each bus is a squad of Homan’s Heroes®. And those guys are there to do calligraphy and jail rioters.
And they’re all out of fountain pens.
Okay, that got a little weird at the end. Annnndddd…I’m pushing away the glass of Knob Creek 9 until I finish this column.
Anyway, the lefty activists have been asking for trouble, and now they’re starting to get it. More and more stories are coming out about imbeciles interfering with ICE and getting arrested or worse.
On Tuesday four morons were caught after they put out devices that spiked the tires of ICE vehicles. Their mugshots send the clear, non-verbal message we’ve all come to expect in these situations: “My prospects for ever having sexual congress with a decent woman are slim and none, and slim has left the building.”
A day earlier, at a Border Patrol station in McAllen, TX, an idiot armed himself and dressed up in tactical gear and attacked border patrol agents and local police. He managed to wound one of them before they shot him a lot, and he quickly took the pavement temperature challenge. Because: Texas.
Or, as a Breitbart story put it, “Cops Neutralize Attacker.”
I love the use of the term “neutralized” here. You almost never hear it outside of thriller novels or movies, or IDF after-action reports, which regular readers know are my favorites. “We neutralized that Hezbollah leader’s eyes and hands in our pager attack three weeks ago. And we just neutralized the rest of him with a missile strike on a goat pen where he was having a conjugal visit. Shalom, and thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Ten radical freaks ambushed an ICE facility on the Fourth of July, wounding one agent before escaping, frustratingly un-shot. But they were soon arrested, and their chances of being home in time to find a Cuddly Kilmar under their Christmas tree are not good.
Just yesterday a Texas Constable arrested a 22-year-old Mensa member named Serio Olivares (tragically, an American citizen), whose dad owns a business where ICE agents arrested some illegals. As the agents were about to leave, Serio arrived and confronted them, damaging one of their cars. When they left, he pursued them, driving recklessly, until they stopped and arrested him.
The local “liberal Democrat district attorney’s office” would not press any more serious charges than misdemeanor traffic violations, so the constable is contacting the Feds to bring more serious interference with federal agents charges.
My favorite part of the story is that Serio is a serial offender. Unexpectedly!
Because last November, he was charged with interfering with an officer’s public duties – sound familiar? – but that charge was later dismissed, in a deal in which he pled to one felony charge. In March he was given diversion after cocaine possession and unlawful carrying of a gun – C’mon, Texas! You’re letting me down here – on the condition that he not commit another crime within one year.
Right now Serio is staring intently at a calendar, trying to do some basic calculations. I’d love to be there when he figures out that from March to July is four months. And I’d REALLY love to be there 10 minutes later, when he realizes that four months is less than one year.
Which means that he can still serve two years on the earlier coke charge, in addition to whatever sentence the Feds are going to give him for his latest stunt.
To paraphrase the Captain in Cool Hand Luke, “What we’ve got here is a failure to cogitate.”
If the Dems keep this up, one of their unstable foot-soldiers is eventually going to kill an ICE agent, and they are not going to enjoy what comes next.
In the meantime, I’m praying for our cops, border patrol and ICE agents, and bracing for more winning, and the lefty activist tantrums that come with it.
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 