Day of the Hammer, 70th of Autumn, 525 M.E. (Aldebaran): Fifty five years ago, the Doors released the Morrison Hotel LP, which among many other verses, included the lines,  

Blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles

Blood in the streets, it's up to my knees

Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago

Blood on the rise, it's following me.

Prophetic words. Today, armed Texas National Guard troops are patrolling the streets of Chicago, over the protests of the Chicago mayor and the Governor of Illinois. Other troops are in Portland and Memphis. Probably coming soon to a city near you. 

Does anyone think this is going to end well? For anybody? The troops appear to be deliberately provoking a confrontation, as if they're hoping for violent resistance so that the Stable Genius has an excuse to unleash a crackdown using the full military power of the Armed Forces against the American people. The Stable Genius hates the American people. The Stable Genius hates America. Just listen to what he says about us.

That Doors song is titled Peace Frog, which seems particularly prophetic when one sees news footage of protestors in Portland trying to not take the bait and initiate a full-blown law-and-order police riot. They're dressing up in inflatable frog costumes and peacefully dancing in front of lines of troops in a surrealist protest reminiscent of the infamous Tiananmen Square confrontation of a tank and one brave protester.

No, I'm not looking forward to it nor am I calling for violence, but I fear this is all going to lead to bloodshed. The Stable Genius is intent on proving his military might and on taking this country into fascism. We're too polarized and there's too much irreconcilable hatred between the opposing poles of the political spectrum. The left is incompatible with the right, and the right with the left.  And there's way too many guns in America. What's the point of having all these guns if you're not going to pop a cap in the ass of a commie? Or a Nazi?