Jews: Russian and otherwise, also East Germans

Greetings from a rainy New Jersey. Mrs. Stroock is back dealing with family issues, so it's just the six of us, me, the girls and the cats.

We're getting a new microwave today, step two in updating our kitchen. The old microwave konked out last week and a generation of Stroocks is learning how to reheat food in an oven. Yesterday we threw a burger, some potatoes and an egg in a pan and fried them up.

The Times of Israel reports they finally did it. You know, the thing about Bibi is that he pissed off all the right people, the Clintons, Barry Soetoro, the International Set, The Washington Post. Powerline writes about the nature of the Israeli unity government and a Postman holding up said unity government as an example to America. Typical.

Look, we say this all the time here. But the coalition is basically right, right, right, center, Labour and Meretz + an Islamist party that's interested in Bedouin rights in the Negev. Personally, we think inviting an Arab party into the government, a first, could be a step toward reconciliation within Israel.

There's a million Russian immigrants in Israel. They're Jews, but they're still Russian which means they look at the Gaza problem the same way Putin looked at the Chechen problem. Crush problem beneath tread of tanks. Target nine, no comrade, ten Katyusha batteries at city...There's a couple of million young people in Israel who know nothing of 'peace' and the 'peace process'. Israel will not have peace. Israel will have victory.

Mossad: It's NEVER an accident. So yesterday Iran's largest warship Jewishly caught fire and sank. Then a massive oil refinery fire broke out in Tehran. The Imams are right, the Jew is clever. This is almost comic. Remember, this is just the stuff we know about.

Journalist Andy Ngo writes a harrowing, no horrifying account of Antifa trying to kill him in Portland last week. Read the whole thing, as Professor Reynolds says. This is the left. This is America in 2021.

We did a lot of reading on Soviet forces in East Germany (GSFG) yesterday, freshening up, as it were. Forty + Soviet divisions + 6 standing East German divisions. These, it seems, would have been attached to existing Soviet armies. There will be a major East German role in World War 1990: The Weser. We're not sure at what level, though. The East Germans require more research.

Kicking off the Week

We've likened gout to a crazy ex-girlfriend. Gout isn't your crazy ex-girlfriend, gout is your crazy ex-girlfriend and all of her friends getting together, stalking you on line, spreading rumors, using a Ouija board, casting a hex. We're getting pins and needles now. We have an appointment today. We are wondering if this isn't the early onset of something doctors have been warning us about for 25 years.

[People, he goes from fuck doctors, what do they know? to, I'm gonna die, really easily. This is drama and fatalism. Don't fall for it -Ed].

When William was in Egypt's land...let my William go....

[See?-Ed]

Relief here in Casa de Stroock as Oracle has purchased Tik Tok.

Andy Ngo reports on riots in Lancaster, PA, which is uncomfortably close to us. He shows us some very satisfying moments*, we suggest clicking through. Antifa and BLM are in Portland, Minneapolis, Kenosha, Lancaster....Antifa and BLM are everywhere. There will be mass violence when Trump is reelected. Angkor plans. Prepare accordingly.

We saw a Biden ad on TV last night. It was...okaaaaaay? By the Many Faced God, we swear to reader(s) we haven't seen a Biden flag, sign, hat....not so much as a Biden bumper sticker. Here. In New Jersey. There were big Trump rallies in New Jersey over the weekend. Enthusiasm Gap much? We love that the governor of Nevada cancelled Trump's rallies and Trump said, Mmmmmmm-no, I'm coming anyway.

We'll finally get our Word Docs from our dead computer today. We'd like to spend the rest of the month reading through The Great Nuclear War of 1975 and determining what must be done the rest of the year. Immediate post-strike vignettes come to mind. We'll need a scene, maybe in 1980, showing surviving areas growing into very important cities. These include Bethlehem, Chattanooga, Evansville...ideas welcome. Maybe a chapter where various governments discuss sending and organizing help?

*Rubber bullet to the nuts. More please.

Your Broken Laptop Political Post for 9/6/20

We'll do some creative stuff in another post.

Andy Ngo chronicles Antifa's 100 day celebration through residential Portland last night. Antifa wants Ngo dead, and has stated so publicly. One day, how he gets out there night after night to cover the story will be a great story. Slowly the riots spread. Eugene, Rochester, NYC, Seattle...As Walt Kowalski would say, it's gonna get real fuckin' ugly. Angkor counted on controlling the riots. Angkor counted wrong.

Nancy Pelosi, what can we say? Blow this, you denture chomping hag.

As we expected, Angkor's bit of cemetery fan-fic is backfiring. This is just an excuse for Trump to roll out all the vets who support him. This scheme is exactly like the Access Hollywood tapes four years ago, and we're astonished Angkor is trying it again. Do they learn nothing?

Meanwhile, Powerline has the latest Trump ad. That's a full on arclight strike for which Hidin' Joe Biden has no response. Just imagine what October will look like. No GOP has been this relentlessly brutal since 1988, and that's what this election will look like. Mr. We could use a man like Lee Atwater again...

Here in NJ07, Tom Kean Jr is finally running attack ads against Tom Malinowski. They're good, can't find a link. We may yet vote for the former governor's son. Malinowski is running these, 'We don't always agree but you'll always know where I stand,' ads, so we guess is internal poll numbers aren't looking good. We can't help but like the man.

Your Combined Writing and Riot Update for 8/25/20

An absolutely pitch-perfect night at the RNC. PJM has the liveblog.

[You said you weren't going to watch-Ed]

We caught some clips after the Flyers game.

[Yikes-Ed]

That's what Mrs. Stroock said.

A night of promise and hope. Don Jr. should run for Mayor of NYC. He can't do worse. 

Meanwhile, they rioted in Kenosha. More clips here. Another town turned over to the mob by a Democrat mayor and a Democrat governor. The Democrat Party loves riots and hates you. Remember that. Decorum and common decency, something these people lack,  prevents us from writing what we think should happen. Sooner or later someone is going to open fire in defense of their business and then the public will have to make a choice. We know where we'll stand.

Work continues on multiple fronts. We've done lots of good reading about government continuity plans and what not. Lots of plans had they, but we're not sure how realistic they were. There was plenty of infrastructure for sheltering VIPs, though one wonders how much of it the Soviets knew about. Did they know about the Greenbrier? There was also Raven Rock, Mount Weather, a slew of comm relay bunkers dug deep into the ground...Right now our vision is the president lands in Casper and is more or less on his own as various parts of the government are tracked down and reactivated. As to who and how much survives, it really depends on how much warning there was. At this moment there's a hint that the crisis has been brewing for a few days. There's no long lead up.

Your Combined Writing and Riot Update for 8/24/20

Good news out of Kenosha , WI. Andy Ngo reports BLM is now in the streets with semi-automatic rifles. Another step towards insurrection and Weimer style private armies is taken. And there were riots in Portland, of course. Also Denver.

We've ordered some books about US Government Cold War era post-apocalypse planning. Interesting stuff, and will add some nice details to The Great Nuclear War of 1975. We're learning lots about The Greenbrier, Ravenrock, etc, etc. So far we can't tell if this new info helps or hurts our general concept. In any case it's making for a better book. 

True fact about Rockefeller. The man was a compulsive womanizer, were talking Bill Clinton level here, sans the rape and Pedo island trips. Just look up how Rocky died. Heh. Were humanizing the man with the loss of his family, we think a daughter survives and becomes first lady, not to mention the loss of his estates, his art collection (he loved art as only a rich person with time and mean cans). Just imagine, two days after the war, Air Force One touches down in Casper, the man finally has a moment to himself. His family and fortune are gone, and he's in charge of a shattered nation.

So far what we've read of The Great Nuclear War of 1975 looks pretty good. There's our man waiting to see about his family half a continent away, government plans, government continuity and scenes of nuclear horror of course.

One week (we think) till the release of Seven Stories. First Story, Tye Dye Warrior, a marine leads an ARVN unit in a riverine battle.

No, we won't be watching the GOP convention.

As it happens yesterday was our 22nd Wedding anniversary. Mrs. Stroock and I celebrated by taking the kids to Polar Cub for ice cream. No, we have no advice. Ok, fine, You love 'em in blue and you love 'em in red, but mostly you love 'em in blue. If you get that reference, well, your kung fu is strong.

Bridgewater is safe, Monday. Don't Panic.

We have returned to the land of Murderous Murphy. Our leg hurts, we're tired and we remain convinced the Somerset County Education Association is going to screw us. Get ready for your invoice, bitches. We weren't in town for the Bedminster air space violation, but some neighbors saw it. You could really hear those jets, we're told. We're also told we have new neighbors. Looking forward to meeting them. Three kids, intel says.

Don't look now but Trump has all but annihilated Jim Crow Joe's lead. We have no idea what to make of the reported sample other than it means CNN is hiding the real result. Trump is ahead, don't ever doubt that; and that's after Biden's people told him they selected Kamala Harris.* Remember, after election night all the white-elite-bicoastal pundits said data died. And they've forgotten already. When 'data' is at odds with reality, reality wins. 

Andy Ngo has more depressing, enraging, demoralizing footage from Portland, also Seattle. It can't happen here, they say.

We have lots of good ideas for both The Final Storm and The Great Nuclear War of 1975. Speaking of the latter, we're wondering if we should change the title to After the Great Nuclear War of 1975, since the novel is about what happens after. Otherwise there's gonna be a lot of reader(s) looking for detailed descriptions of Minot** launching it's Minutemen, and tense arguments aboard Air Force One, 'Mr. President, you've got to give the order now.'

In Palmerston's War, the big climatic battle will be for Washington DC.  We think the DC battle would happen at the same time as the Mississippi campaign. We think both efforts might be potentially suicidal for the Brits. Reporter John Frederick Hart will return and report about something. Maybe Hart will just be on the scene in Washington or.....Richmond! We should also have a Prussian character running around somewhere, observing for Moltke. 

Then there's the little matter of which WW1990 novel to write in 2021. The Weser? But only if we think we can crank that one out fast. 

*We're mispronouncing it.

**People will want their 'Turn your key!' moment.

Colluding with Russia, Getting Info - Babes and Will's Good Idea for the Week of 8/16/20

We are annoyed that our Inforos article, Chaos in the Blue Cities has gained a bit of traction in the media, but has anyone contacted us? Nyet, no one, nobody. Here's a twitter search (just scroll a bit). This pisses us off a writer, since not contacting us is journalistic malpractice. Also, we're missing an opportunity to talk about ourselves...

[There it is-Ed]

At some point there will be some more investigation into Inforos, and sooner or later some young female reporter...

[Oh my god...please say he's not going there-Ed]

...is going to do a google search and think, 'Oh, my...He's cute in a later stage Hemingway sort of way. I bet he likes history, just like my dad. I wonder if he needs an editorial assistant?'

Brunette's (preferably of Mediterranean heritage) and redheads only, please. 

[Really, you're not specifying Middle Eastern?-Ed]

We're flexible, and she better be too.

[Knobhead-Ed]

You know how I love it when you call me that.

[Just so you know, people. He's set the 'read aloud' voice to English (United Kingdom). Bloody Weirdo-Ed]

When Fox News finally calls we're going to tell them, 'I go on with Tucker only. No Tucker, no Will.' And CNN can get fucked. 

Below a file photo of some of our dirty, Kremlin money:

Anyway....As reader(s) may have noticed, our Good Idea for the Week of 8/16 is Palmerston's War. That's where the juju is right now. Also it's marketable as hell, we'd probably spread a thousand or so of ad money around for this one in various Civil War magazines. Who knows where the juju will be next month. As far as the next WW1990 novel to write, we're torn between the obvious marketing advantages of Esercito Italiano, and The Weser, which has some major juju. We think we could crank out the rough in three months.

Andy Ngo has some interesting footage from last night's Portland Antifa riot, in which the soi bring wooden shields and form a wall. It looks impressive but breaks as soon as the cops slam into it. Haven't these guys ever see 300? They may look tough, but Antifa doesn't have what it takes to go mano-a-soi with the cops, or Red State Americans. This is going to happen sooner or later, and it's gonna get real fucking ugly.

Wars Civil: 1864, 2020

Our own governor, Murderous Phil Murphy, who shoved geezer Covid patients into nursing homes Cuomo style, and gave New Jersey the worst per-million Covid death rate in the world, says schools will be able to start the year with virtual only classes. Bastard. We're screwed. We'll be invoicing the school district and the teacher's union (motherfuckers). Not kidding.

Our Inforos column on the junior senator from California will be out later today, but we'll share a few thoughts now. There's nothing brave or interesting about this pick. Harris is boringly conventional, the choice of the over-educated bi-coastal white liberal elite. She makes them feel comfortable. So she's pretty much the female Obama. Harris is eminently mockable, and the Trump campaign is doing so with great vigor and glee. They're having a good time with this. Hey W, McCain, Romney and other GOP-e acolytes of civility and deeds not words, see how that works?  Were Biden to win, Harris would be the de-facto president. Harris is a bad candidate and a bad person, just like Hillary!

Obviously.

Antifa was back in downtown Portland last night. Despite the nightly violence, the sitzpinkler DA wont prosecute those arrested by the police. Bad causes attract band people, as Robert Stacey McCain says, and to see what he means, one should checkout Andy Ngo's twitter feed to get a look at the freaks and weirdos who show up at these riots. One finds oneself constantly saying, 'She seems nice.' They're rioting in Seattle and Chicago too. This is a preview of our November, people. Stock up on guns and ammo accordingly. 

We've been doing some research on Nelson Rockefeller, newly sworn in president in The Great Nuclear War of 1975. We've gotten a feel for the man, at least how he conducts business. One trap we usually fall into in our books, and we've fallen into it here, is using the prez as a cipher through which readers learn lots of stuff. We've done so here, but it works. Rocky, as he was called, liked big challenges, big causes, but we think here he'll feel overwhelmed. He also liked committees, so that really works for how we like to do things.

We just finished a book about Grant's Overland Campaign of 1864. This may have been the first 'modern' campaign. The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor were really just one long battle in which the two armies never broke contact. After each battle Grant just kept sliding southeast till he hit Petersburg. The Overland Campaign had more in common with Normandy than Waterloo. It was a nihilistic nightmare of slaughter for both sides. By 19th century standards Grant lost, but by 20th century standards he won by using up the Army of Northern Virginia. While some see a general fighting a war of attrition, we're in the camp that see's Grant constantly looking for an advantage in a quest to destroy Lee. Of course we're a Yankee.

Riots (white), Urban Collapse, and Writing

The bilge just kept pumping and pumping until I opened up the engine compartment. 'Wow, that's a lot of water,' I said, 'you know, for a boat.'

Despite naming the boat for our grandmother's home town of Waterproof Louisiana, Hannah Marx Stroock really doesn't like it. That boat is just unlucky and there is no doubt, none whatsoever, that the Waterproof is unlucky becuase she haunts it. None. Never, ever displease a southern woman.

Eventually the bilge drained and we took the boat out. There was no problems, mechanical anyway. But you get three little girls on a boat, horse play, throw in a teenager who cannot put her phone down and a bee sting, it makes for good times.

Kurt Schlichter, who is always right, takes the measure of things, and predicts a big Trump win. We agree. Go ahead and doubt us if you want, but we were right in 2016 and the pollsters were wrong. We are right in 2020 too.

Andy Ngo chronicles another night of riots in Portland. Also riots in Seattle, Chicago. We expect to see a bad one in NYC soon. Seattle's police chief is resigning. This can't go on. Sometime this year the president will fulfill our prophecy of Federal troops being dispatched to a blue city to enforce the law. 

Speaking of, Kyle Smith chronicles the rapid decline of NYC. Yeah...the NYC of cynical, hard bitten, world weary tough guys is long, long gone. We can't wait for all those Williamsburg hipsters to experience an 'authentic' NYC sans street smarts. These people are doomed. We once again urge Governor Murphy to blow up the Hudson River crossings and deploy the National Guard to the west bank of the river with orders to sink on site any boat trying to make the crossing. Stay the hell out of New Jersey, New Yorkers. We don't want your kind here.

Trump is going to give his acceptance speech at the White House or  Gettysburg. Just brilliant. He should hold rallies at sacred sites all across the nation. Gettysburg, the Alamo, Punch Bowl National Cemetery (prettier and more tranquil than Arlington, we kid you not) Ellis Island, Willow Run, Valley Forge...Fuck it, Stone Mountain. Troll level: Trump.

The Biden campaign is falling apart before our eyes. They can't choose a veep and nobody of any talent wants the job anyway. Rumor has it Dixiecrat Joe is interviewing Mayor Pete. That's what it's come to. Willie Brown, Kamala Harris' sugar daddy, the smartest politician in Califronia (not kidding), urges her not to take the gig. We'll see if she's smart enough to take the advice. The Dems are going to get killed and they know it. Hence they're laying the groundwork for post-election chaos and doubt.

The Great Nuclear War of 1975 is coming along well. We wrote yet another scene on the Hudson River. Write what you know, we guess. We're aware that this could be overkill, but the Hudson just works for us. Imagine that two mile wide river frozen solid in deep winter. See? Our man is trekking. We know a lot about him. He's a math teacher, likes building models. Had a draft deferment. No urbanite wuss, but definitely not an ex-Marine or biker dude. Just your average man doing what he's gotta do.

More meetings for our presidential commission on Reconstruction. How do you reconstitute state governments? Just how do you hold an election? Who do you get to run against Rockefeller? Whose left? These are the questions that fascinate us. We're worried that there's too many men sitting around and talking, but you people say you like that sort of thing, soooo. We decided Milton Friedman is on the commission. 

We need to readthrough one more story in the short story compilation, reformat (this is easy) and then format the Kindle edition, which is also easy. September 1st, people. To be honest we're not optimistic about book sales for this one. Which is fine. Sometimes the point is to get stuff out there, nothing more. We'll see.