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Anti-maskers take over a pro-mask labor/religious rally that you can see in the back. That’s pudgy HB white supremacist Kim Sorgente in the middle with megaphone.
Terrorism, n.
the unlawful use of violence and intimidation,
especially against civilians,
in the pursuit of political aims.
It was fun making fun of these lunatics over the past month, but recently they’ve moved beyond being laughable and insane – they are actually affecting public health policy (their “political aim” of resisting facial coverings), and they have been using violence and intimidation to achieve that aim, from stalking county health officer Dr. Nichole Quick until she quit her job, to mobbing and coughing in the faces of pro-mask people last Tuesday. It’s time to call these people TERRORISTS, don’t you think?

One of their visits to the home of Dr. Quick and her children.
As more of us get a good look at these people, we recognize them from other protests or counterprotests – anti-gay actions, anti-Sanctuary state, anti-Muslim, pro-plastic bag / styrofoam, and always pro-Trump. In their minds, government, the media, and science are always conspiring somehow to take away their freedoms. In the picture at the top you see pudgy HB white supremacist Kim Sorgente, who’s always looking for a place to spout some bile. Here he is at a recent police brutality rally, suckerpunching a Black Lives Matter protestor:
Leigh Taylor Dundas, the “human rights attorney” from Costa Mesa who first publicized Dr. Quick’s address, comes to this faux-science from a history of fighting against vaccines. This crowd probably believes that school shootings like Sandy Hook were faked so that the government could take their guns – at least that’s a plausible motivation, though, but what sense does the “Plandemic” theory make? Why would our government want to tank its own economy? They’re obviously completely convinced of the nonsense they spout, but they need to stop being coddled.

Graffiti left this week on the car of a couple of 80-year-old Huntington Beach ladies.
Who’s coddling these terrorists? Number one I blame Supervisor Don Wagner. The nominal chair of the Board is wannabe Congresswoman Michelle Steel, who generally seems not to know what to think unless someone tells her, but she does know that she doesn’t like rude people who don’t follow rules, and that is this crowd in spades. So there’s been a couple times that she was on the verge of shutting them up and having them ejected… but then Wagner steps in and sticks up for them, and then Michelle remembers she’s against masks too!
Wagner’s small mind, as we previously reported, finds an impossible contradiction betwen the ideas of opening up the economy (“going forward”) and keeping masks and social-distancing (“going backward.”) I doubt I can explain to him that the two ideas go hand-in-hand, but I’ll think I’ll try on Tuesday.
Last week he claimed that one reason the anti-maskers prevailed in getting Dr. Chau to relax the mask orders was that we mask supporters have been “strangely silent for these ten weeks.” I don’t believe him. Supervisor Chaffee says that e-mails to the Board have been ten-to-one in favor of masks and social distancing – these clowns are a FRINGE. Maybe Wagner doesn’t read e-mails. Maybe people have to go down there and make a bunch of noise for Wagner to take any notice. But most of us don’t want to get anywhere near these zealots.
Steel does have her own moments of brilliance too though – this gem made it into a Harley Rouda campaign ad:
So NOW, as I’m sure you’ve heard, our governor, an adult, has made masks mandatory in public (whenever six feet or less from another person.) How these terrorists will wail and gnash their teeth now! Unfortunately it’s not clear who will enforce that order since we have a rogue tea-partying Sheriff who refuses to be “the mask police.” (Once again, thank you Lou Correa and Tom Daly for convincing a lot of Democrats to vote for Don Barnes when there was a perfectly decent Democrat running against him.)
I know one thing for sure – I’m not going to be staying home and watching online THIS Tuesday morning. And I’m gonna bring some Chlorox and disinfect that filthy microphone before I get close to it, and they’d better not subtract that from my speaking time.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors have shown a reckless disregard for public safety, and with the upswing of the covid-19 cases in Orange County and the deaths the Orange County Board of Supervisors and sheriff Don Barnes are complicit to murder.
I’m afraid they’re going to blame the upswing on our police brutality protests. And maybe they’ll even be right … although most of us do wear masks.
I’m changing the rating for highly educated CA-48 to “Safe Democratic.”
Species discrimination! I knew it. Brilliant.
I seem to remember, years ago, when he was on a CC district board, Wagner was affiliated with the Christian evangelical krew and was saying some pretty ludicrous stuff.
For a while, back when he was an assemblyman, some of us on this blog used to call Wagner “Spanky,” because he’d written a piece advocating a return to corporal punishment for kids.
I had fun reporting on a Tea Party in SJC ten years ago, where Wagner spoke and decried the illegals’ “encrosion” of our borders. It made sense! It was an impromptu portmanteau of “erosion” and “encroachment.” But still Gus Ayer dismissed it as “Teabonics.”
A few years later, the wild minuteman high-desert assemblyman Tim Donnelly thought he could pass a “papers please” Arizona-style bill in Sacramento. Exactly three other assemblypeople stood with him, all from the OC – Wagner, Diane Harkey and Allan Mansoor.
Now he’s our supervisor! And I have to admit he’s the most entertaining one, but I wish he had no impact on public policy.
My Wyoming neighbors (a couple from Oklahoma) seriously believe the COVID was a plot to get rid of Trump by destroying the economy – after impeachment failed. The husband is actually a lawyer. Of course I believe they are also pals of Scott Pruitt.
LOL I keep thinking about slightly changing Margaret Meade’s famous quote:
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtless, committed assholes can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Munchen, 1926.
Fortunately, cities within the county have the ability to write their own rules as is the case where I live in Fullerton.
Wearing masks and distancing are mandatory here.
I just want to float another possible term for these protesters: “Emaskulated.”
And I think that Sheriff Barnes should venture an opinion on whether we can mace them (or shoot them, if outside) if they deliberately cough on us, given that he’s abdicating any law enforcement role.
A Mr. St*nl*y Phi Allah writes in to say:
“I lived this since 1946 so I know what will happen to these Bolsheviks … a timeshare in gated community.”
Qualified representatives of opposing viewpoints are offered hereby an opportunity to reply.
*In other news: Did you hear the rumor that because The Trumpster didn’t have enough people show up in Tulsa, he will be buying Stormy Daniels Blow up dolls…to fill the seats
at the next event?