The famed King of the Hammers off-road race held in Johnson Valley, California, just came and went. And based on the event's social media coverage, it was an utter shitshow. Not so much the race, as that's well-organized and has rules and regulations that racers tend to follow. But rather the ever-growing fan base turning the entire freakin' valley into their own personal drunken rager, which devolved into what amounted to a riot at a landfill.
And here's where I'm going to piss off a whole lot of freakin' snowflakes, and you are snowflakes, because you dipshits are going to get King of the Hammers closed forever. It's already teetering on its existence, but your freedom of expression isn't a license to act like an asshole while being free of consequences. But on those consequences, they aren't just doled out to you, the moron tossing full beers at folks in Chocolate Thunder or getting into a fist fight with another bro in a flat brim cap, but rather the entire off-roading community in the form of the closing of the whole valley to everyone.
And, folks, this type of behavior and lack of respect toward our public lands, as well as the prominence it garnered on social media, is exactly what the United States Marine Corps, as well as countless public lands haters, want you to keep doing. Why? Because it makes their jobs of seizing our public lands. There's no need for the public to have a voice when that same public cares so little about these spaces.
