I don’t understand your response. How does inquiring about whether the permitting system is still functioning imply any of that? They normally release a % of permits day of. We have a large ranger station nearby that’s typically staffed, and it was unclear whether it continued to be for advice I’ve never hiked in permitted areas without permits.
My narrow, personal concern is whether I should try to get a hiking permit for an area that’s permitted even for day use through October 15. A friend from Austin arrives tonight and I’d like to take him. Will anyone answer phones? Who’s mind minding the store? I hate dissing the docents. Should we just show up? Does permitting continue during anarchy?
I see it as somewhere between dry heaving improv performed by seriously addled, nihilistic humans, and performative WWE theatrics to shift the needle of where exactly reality resides, setting the stage for upsetting more quaint norms, like free elections.
I very much want it “solved” but don’t see how this alone gets us there unless 1 person managed the 4 girls by himself, carried both a 22 and 380, and successfully torched the place without having a history of arson.
In watching Oregon State vs Coogar High (I know), I was treated to an ICE recruiting commercial. Take the worst of the worst off the streets. $50,000 sign on bonus. Student loan forgiveness.
On top of the fact that ICE is a domestic army terrorizing people in the land of the free and home of the brave, its agents slither around hiding their names and faces from accountability. Yet this is so normalized like it was a benign ad for corn flakes. Holy shit. Our tvs are now convenient conduits for explicit propaganda in new ways.
The student loan forgiveness part is galling and hilarious at the same time. Tip of the hat to whatever sick fuck came up with that.
Another detestable distraction from burgeoning hegemony
Still, Comey strikes me as one who won’t blanche from the limelight. This may well end up being an unforced error by our group of otherwise untarnished super geniuses.