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Road Blocking

I want to show you this post, then tell you what recently happened to me.

I was driving when a group on bikes did this exact move. They turned in front of me, and one of the bikers decided to try and block traffic. I don’t play that game. I slowed, honked my horn, and kept going. One of them tried chasing me down. I didn’t react like this guy.

The tactic is called “road blocking” and motorcyclists consider this to be a valid way to keep their little circle jerk together without having to be worried about being broken up by pesky things like traffic lights or other drivers. This is a bad idea. It is unlawful to “willfully obstruct the free, convenient, and normal use of any public street, highway, or road”. It can also be considered a “street takeover.”

Let me explain:

If 10 or more vehicles block a road through the use or threat of force, it is a felony- a forcible felony at that. You see where I am going with this? Some idiots trying to keep me from driving through the threat of force have just made a grave error.

Bikes, cars, pedestrians, or motorcycles, I don’t care- don’t block the road. Also, don’t try to come after me like some kind of law enforcement officer and demand anything. As one guy recently discovered, I don’t play your games.

By Divemedic, ago

Tyranny in Europe

The Right to Bear Arms that is protected by the Second Amendment is the safeguard, the one right that protects all of the others. Once a people have been disarmed, they no longer have rights. What they are permitted to do is only at the pleasure of whatever government official wants to get his dictatorship on. I am quite sure that the regular readers of this blog are aware of this.

Gun ownership has been severely restricted in the EU. It’s nearly impossible for a subject of the EU to own a firearm, and the noose has been getting tightened to the point of a near ban.

Now it should come as no surprise that the EU has just created a law permitting the arrest of any journalist, if government officials deem it to be in the public interest to do so. Odd that the left is screaming about Trump being the Fascist, isn’t it?

By Divemedic, ago

Politics of Caving

For decades, the way things have worked in Washington politics is for the Democrats to demand something, then offer a quid pro quo in order to make a “compromise.” Wash, rinse, repeat. It’s how we incrementally get more and more gun control, taxes, you name it. You give me a billion in funds for my district, and I will give you something that you want. The law then becomes a behemoth of special interests, graft, and corruption.

In the latest version of this, Chuck Schumer is holding Trump’s cabinet nominees hostage in exchange for Trump caving in and giving the Democrats $1 billion in cash for their favorite charities, which thanks do DOGE we now know will be funneled to provide funding for leftist NGOs, leftist movements, and ultimately into the pockets of Democrats themselves.

Schumer reportedly asked the White House to unfreeze about $1 billion of foreign aid and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in exchange for allowing the confirmation process for additional Trump nominees to move faster.

Schumer had this to say about Trump’s nominees:

Trump “attempted to steamroll the Senate to put in place his historically unqualified nominees, but Senate Democrats wouldn’t let him.”

Then Schumer also said:

Democrats have been “working all week to try and find a reasonable path to allow bipartisan Senate consideration, provided the White House and Senate Republicans met our demands.”

If Trump’s nominees are unqualified, then how will giving the left $1 billion make them more qualified than they are now? This is a shakedown, no more, no less.

Trump isn’t part of that Washington inside circle, so he refuses to play that game. He told Chuckie to get lost. So now they are in a Mexican standoff. It will be interesting to see how things shake out.

Trump tried taking the advice of “bipartisan” appointees and tried playing by the business as usual rules, and look what it got him. Years of impeachments, accusations, leaks, several assassination attempts, and most of his loyal insiders indicted and financially destroyed. So now he isn’t playing their game.

By Divemedic, ago

Every Damned Year

Every year, we get a tourist family that comes to Florida with a small child, doesn’t supervise that child, the child gets hurt or killed, then the tourist blames someone else for the fact that they weren’t watching their child. Like this woman who is blaming the resort after she let her 5 year autistic child wander off before he drowned in a pond.

Tourists die when they drown in a pond, lake, or ocean. Sometimes it’s because of rip currents. They are killed when crossing the road in traffic without being in the crosswalk. They catch rattlesnakes barehanded and get bit. They get attacked by alligators while swimming in a lake that is plainly posted with no swimming signs, then sue the property owner for not putting up a fence.

People come here thinking that the entire state is a theme park where they do not have to take any common sense measures to ensure their own safety, instead blaming others for not looking out for them.

Don’t come here, especially if you are stupid and irresponsible. Stupidity should hurt, and it does. In fact, stupidity is oftentimes a capital offense against nature, for which the penalty is death.

I make my living through the stupid decisions of others. Just last week, I had a patient pick up a rattlesnake by the tail just before it flipped around and sunk its fangs into his arm. Dumbass. Maybe there should be a sign that says “Don’t play with snakes”

By Divemedic, ago