From the Miami Herald:

Biden is struggling to win Miami Latinos, new poll finds. Will it cost him Florida? 

Four years after getting trounced in Miami-Dade County by Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump has increased his odds of victory in his must-win home state on Nov. 3 by improving his standing in Florida’s most populous county, according to a poll by Bendixen & Amandi International and the Miami Herald.

The poll of 500 likely Miami-Dade voters, released Tuesday, found Trump far behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden 38% to 55% in Miami-Dade, where Democrats typically need to run up the score in order to compete in statewide races.

But the poll found the former vice president splitting Hispanic voters with Trump, with Trump at 47% and Biden at 46%. Those numbers — based on smaller polling subsets with larger margins of error — are driven by Trump’s increased support among conservative leaning Cuban-Americans, who supported Trump over Biden in the poll by a crushing 38 points. Just eight years ago, those voters roughly split their votes between Republican nominee Mitt Romney and former President Barack Obama.

“Democrats are potentially leaving Cuban votes on the table that they won in the past, which could very well make a difference in a state as tight as Florida,” said Amandi, whose firm produced Spanish-language ads for the 2012 Obama campaign.

Again, let me spell this out for the Democrats/Liberals/Progressives/Leftist:

“Latino” is a bullshit category.  Assuming people have homogenous political views because of the color of their skin is racist.

Hispanic people in Miami come from lots of different national backgrounds which affects their political outlook.

Biden and Harris have excused supported BLM and excused Antifa.  They siding with open Marxists using Marxist tactics.

Cubans in Miami, who floated 90 miles across shark-infested waters on a raft made out of garbage to escape a Communist country are not likely to support a candidate who supports a fund to bail rioting Communists out of jail.

I can’t wait for Biden to shake hands with some rioter in a Che shirt thinking that’s a good idea.  Miami Cubans will go after Biden activists with machetes.

I any street of the US, a woman who pepper sprays a man who took off his clothes in broad daylight and is approaching her would be celebrated as a strong female who was able to take care of herself from male aggression and staving off a possible sexual attack. The man would be deserving of a thoroughly beating or in nicer climates, arrest and prosecution for sexual crimes.

But if he is battling for Antifa/BLM, he is a hero of the revolution and a martyr to the cause.

By now we know that Antifa/BLM is plagued by less-than nobler characters and that they will increase the level of the crimes they commit.  That means women can be expected to be sexually assaulted for the Revolution and will have to take it… at least according to Antifa/BLM standards.

Our standards? Shoot them in the dick.

I read Miguel’s post We are trained for the wrong fight, and the post at The Silicon Graybeard and what was copied from American Partisan.

I must be very careful with how I address my conclusions.

First of all, to be fair to our community, we trained for the wrong fight because I don’t think any one of us could have predicted the situation we are in now, it is somewhat unique in history.

We in the gun-owing, concealed carry, and Second Amendment enthusiast community saw basically two threats:

Primarily, the threat was from criminals.  These people were muggers, home invaders, armed robbers, maybe rapists, who would do us harm for personal gain or pleasure.  They were individuals or maybe a handful of people at a time.  We knew that some minimum level of competency would be sufficient to substantially increase our chance of victory in a violent encounter.

We were bolstered by the fact that most of us lived in areas with castle doctrine and/or stand your ground.  Despite the circus that was the Treyvon Martin trial, there was a certain amount of assurance that if someone kicked in our door at 2:00 am with a knife, and one of us was forced to shoot the intruder, such a cut-and-dry case was not one we had an overabundance of fear for legal repercussions.

Politically, our biggest fear was politicians who banned guns and the police would carry out the confiscation order.

While there was a political element to riots (i.e., the motivation for the riot being something political) the looting and violence within the riots we had seen in the past was criminal chaos.  The defense of Koreatown by Korean store owners was our worst-case scenario.  The police in LA eventually cracked down on the Rodney King rioters, the National Guard was brought in, and the politicians in charge (even the Democrats) understood that they had to maintain order.

What we are seeing now is very different.

This is CW1.5, only one side is a war.  The riots are not criminal chaos.  The other side is employing irregular guerilla forces.  Antifa is a militia that has been battle-hardened over the last 100 days of continuous combat in Portland.  Veterans of Portland have traveled to other cities to train and equip local guerrillas in other cities.

That has done this with the tacit or explicit support of local Leftist politicians.

They have, very, very carefully tuned the violence dimmer switch on their side and are holding it at exactly the right spot for the which puts us at our weakest.

That is the reason I said this is CW1.5.  They are clearly engaged in guerilla combat against us.  But, they have held back on the worst violence enough to maintain a facade of still functioning civil society.  They are using our own law abidance against us.

Consider the quote:

Me and three of my buddies were in Portland this weekend, got attacked by Antifa. There’s a Twitter video with millions of views on it. They ended up on Hannity and Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro etc., of us getting beaten with bats and rocks the size of cantaloupes thrown at us, getting spit on etc. We were all carrying pistols as well. Opportunity, ability and jeopardy, we were in a deadly force situation and we could easily articulate the use of deadly force, but they had pepper sprayed us. They were using industrial strobe lights on us, etc. We couldn’t PID our target and what lied beyond it, They did a great job of taking our situational awareness away, it was fucking incredible.

Now later on the author says:

Bottom line, man, if you had ever given me a scenario like this and said hey, you’re sober, and you have a gun, and somebody is hitting you with a bat and throwing rocks at you that could kill you or put you in a coma, you try to get away but they cut you off with a convoy of vehicles and the assault starts again. They impede your movement and beat you with bats…
Would you shoot?

I’d be like, yeah what fucking planet are you from?

But in all the training that I’ve been through my life, I’ve never been in one where in the first five seconds of the scenario you’re blinded with a strobe light and sprayed with pepper spray…. That changes everything. They were throwing these rocks from 15 feet back in the crowd, you couldn’t see who the fuck through it, etc. things like that…. It’s just a good talking point for guys that carry concealed, but you need to think through all these different scenarios.

This guy is a combat veteran.  I can’t believe this is the worst scenario he’s been in while he’s armed.  The thing is, he is coming at this from the mindset of a guy carrying concealed, prepared to defend himself from a mugger, where every single round he puts down range he is accountable for.

He’s applying CCW ROE to a combat zone.

Had those been insurgents in Iraq, his ROE would have been different.  Lighting the street up with belt-fed covering fire until an A-10 can fuck the other side’s day up is totally acceptable.

That is why I suspect that so many of us are screaming inside our own heads with our skin crawling.

We know the other side is at war with us but we cannot be at war with them.  As long as local police still exist, George Soros funded Leftist prosecutors still have authority, and the courts are functioning, we can’t flip the switch to “kill fucking everything.”

They can hit people with bats, they can throw rocks, they can blind with lasers, and prosecutors will drop all charges against them.  We take one shot after getting hit in the head with a rock and kicked in the face, and we find ourselves being prosecuted for first-degree murder.

One line from Silicon Graybear’s post stood out at me:

I also know that in the last hundred years, regular armies have fared poorly against insurgencies like this; regular armies are built to fight regular armies, not guerilla armies on their home turf. 

That’s not entirely true.  Regular armies have done very well against insurgency, it just requires tactics that we civilized people find distasteful.  Ask the Germans how they dealt with insurgents.  There are whole cemeteries filled with civilians executed to root out one insurgent in a town.  We were doing well against the Viet Cong until Americans saw a picture of a little naked Vietnamese girl running down the street covered in Napalm and we stopped burning whole villages to the ground.  The Soviets were known for poisoning wells in rural Afghan villages.

I’d also add that there are many of us here that have read “What I saw at the coup.”  We have the ability to be an insurgent army on our own.  Unlike what happened in that piece of fiction, our government is still effectively functioning, and the judicial system in those areas is very much in enemy hands.  But again, they have not pushed the situation to the point where we can invoke Rule 308.  The tipping point in the story was the murder or disappearance of hundreds of our side.  So far there has only been one confirmed political casualty, the shooting of Aaron Danielson.  All the other homicides associated with this social unrest can be attributed to random criminal violence and not direct political violence.

Antifa has us right where they want us.  Applying enough force to make us fear for our lives, using tactics that compromise our ability to defend ourselves while being law-abiding concealed carriers, but not enough force to flip our switch to “it’s on.”

Right now it seems like they have the ability to hold us here in this uncomfortable position for as long as they’d like.  I truly don’t know how or when this will end.  I know it can’t go on forever.  What I do know is that never in a million years did any of us expect that we would be the victims of collusion between Leftist government and Leftist guerrillas.

Blacks making an honest living.

Black Lives Matter protesters assaulted a black store manager in Pittsburgh, PA after mobbing his McDonald’s. pic.twitter.com/tigzxJfsuW

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 7, 2020

This is the official text I am supposed to tell you:

Late last week we made the decision to move to a new hosting service.  Originally it was going to take place in the December time frame.  We’ve moved it up to ASAP.

Our new hosting provider is working with us in getting everything configured and working as well as possible.  As part of that process they have made sure our software is up-to-date and they have done a little analysis on the speed of the site.

We are currently following some of their recommendations to speed up the site.  This means that some of the pretties on the site are changing and some buttons that nobody was using have been removed.  So far this has resulted in a noticeable improvement in the load times.  In some tests as much as 33% faster.  Which is huge when you consider how slow the site was.

Damn, that was nicely put. Now My wording: The dumbasses at HostGator literally broke my balls once again and I was about to call the whole blogging thing off when a reader who is into this webhosting thing offered to help with a superior deal and his expertise. The assholes of Host gator were pushing me to go to a higher priced plan and AnonymousWebHost Angel (AWA) is pretty much offering me the same stuff for the same price I am paying now for this inferior service plus his personal expertise which has been tested patiently the last couple of days. And to make it even better, he is charging me a pittance to what he usually charges his clients: $5 a month rather than his usual $40 fee.

Personally I don’t like that. Trust me guys, what AWA has done so far for preparations is worth his full price. So, here I go again:

I opened another fundraiser via GoFundMe and a number that I reckon should cover AWA’s fees for the year and full hosting, possibly two whenever HostGator refunds me what’s left of my account with them.

I’ll place a button/link on the right and I will pester you from time to time and if you don’t mind.

And thank you in advance for your help.

PS: There is also the option of PayPal and you can find it in the right column.

So after searching the webs, I found out that fox urine is supposed to be a good repellent for possum and other critters.  The instructions recommend to spread the powder where you don’t want the little animals to be, but you need to reapply after a rain.

It is summer in South Florida, we have daily rains in 8 hour cycles.

So I decided to put to good use these little containers the missus bought (I asked permission first), drilled a bunch of holes in them and the idea is to be like those aromatherapy containers that allow their smells to be released without having to be touched.

Following the warnings, I donned on gloves and went outside to work with the powder. I got ready and opened the can and removed the seal… Do you know the stories you see about the lady living alone in a house full of cats with one sandbox that has not been cleaned since the Obama administration? Worse.

I turned on the floor fan so the smell would flow away from me, spooned the Death-To-Nostrils granulated crap in the containers and sealed them. I ran like bunny to the preplanned locations, dropped a container in each and went back to the table to close the effing Devil’s ass breath can.  Sweet Lord that thing stinks.

Hopefully this will reroute the possum away from my backyard.  With my luck, the darned marsupial is gonna treat it like catnip.

Go read The Silicon Graybeard’s post and then come back.

Our training up to know has been CCW as related to violent crime inflicted upon us or our loved ones.  We never trained for organized mobs with legal  (upfront or tacit) government support.

Antifa/BLM can start fires, loot the a local mom & pop business ruining decades of labor, attack anybody who opposes them and at most they spend a few hours in jail, bail posted by celebrities and released by and accomplice judiciary. If we act in counterpoint, we not only are not afforded the same legal benefits, but the book is thrown deep and heavy our way. In almost any other state of the Union, Kyle Rittenhouse would be, at worse, under house arrest and under ankle bracelet till final determination is done.  But Wisconsin, even with the unsurmountable piles of evidence pointing out to a case of self-defense, decided to treat Kyle as a mass murderer. It is so unbalanced and so dangerous that even a Illinois judge put a 30 day delay on the extradition  process.

I fear that the solution is more long term than immediate. We cannot afford to allow “reformers” elected in November. If you think there is a law for the politically affiliated with the left and one for the rest of us, you are right and the assholes that promote it are in ballots around the country.  You need to vote for candidates you have researched and show they will not accept “Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others” as working guidelines.

…I’m sure you’ve heard this before: if you’re surrounded, make the closest one bleed and the rest will probably decide they need to be somewhere else.
As Michael Bane says in his podcast this week, the Kyle Rittenhouse incident says that’s just not true anymore.  Kyle was attacked by three separate guys over a period of time; it wasn’t three guys alongside each other that were all in one group; it was spread out in time and space.  The second guy, the guy with the skateboard, knew there was gunfire and he knew Kyle had defended himself.  Kyle is running away and is chased by this guy.  The third guy, the guy with the gun in his right hand until Kyle blew off his biceps, was even farther along in time and he definitely knew that Kyle had already shot the other two guys in self defense.  The fact he was using a rifle didn’t slow down any of these guys at all.

If you have been reading this blog for a long while, you know I learned this back in 1989 in Venezuela where a bunch of rioters were trying to loot a bodega and the owner dropped at least 4 or 5 and left several wounded in wave after wave of attacks till eventually he had to evacuate with his family and the mob finally “won.”  Not a single individual in the mob had any kind of weapon, but that did not stop them.  I also learned some other lessons, but we will save them for other day.

I am not a tactical trainer so my advice counts for crap, but the only solution I see is to accept you will be screwed by the “Law” in some jurisdictions, have a long gun as minimum and a bunch of loaded magazines or easy to reach buck and slugs.  Use cover and engage from a distance.

If you can think about how else to do and how to avoid bloodshed without giving up the Republic, I am all ears. Share in teh comments.

But I fear we are too late.