Swim out Past the Breakers...

Watch the world die...

People in the Biden transition team say free speech has been 'weaponized'.* Lefties at the CDC don't want to give the vax to white people. One of the Dem senate candidates in Georgia openly hates Jews.** We all have to pretend that Elliot Page is a man.*** The press tells us BLM and Antifa riots are 'mostly peaceful' and even if they aren't, they're right anyway. We're all going to get cancelled sooner than reader(s) realize. This blog suspects the first step will be citizen Trump getting banned from Twitter. It will happen slowly then all at once. We don't know where, when or how this stops anymore.

We don't know what to do anymore. Elections are useless. Anyone who thinks different should take a look at the little goodies McConnell slipped into the Covid relief bill. We don't think the culture war is worth fighting. The TV networks fired Rosanne and cancelled Tim Allen despite they're ratings. The critics slam Hillbilly Elegy for being sympathetic to poor white people. The elites at the cultural levers would rather be Woke.

At this point we think the best thing to do is pour a glass of whiskey, light up an Arturo Fuente Short Story, and watch it burn. Sorry, but that's the best we can do.

*Look, we've already lost the rhetorical battle.

**We've blogged on this phenomenon before and mean to do so again.

*** We mean to blog on this issue too. So, you're a man eh? No, not a dude. If she wants to be called Elliot we'll call her Elliot, this blog doesn't care.

Daily Rundown: People are Complicated Edition

A decent first day of virtual school. We may not invoice the bastards.

The thing about gout is it leaves residual damage, so after it's gone, the muscles still need to heal and one is still limping and left not thinking as one normally would. Also one's mood is well...After seeing one of those big-pharma ads listing 'fatal brain bleeding' as a possible side effect we looked into the side effects of our own arsenal of drugs. We're not pleased. Many of the medications are actively working against one another. One pill leads to insomnia. The pill we take for the insomnia raises cholesterol. Another makes it hard to lose weight...Reader(s) will get the idea.

About the biggest shock we had after the cardio-guy roto-rootered our artery and told us we had to make some changes came when we said, 'So no eggs, red meat, that sort of thing.' He replied, 'Oh no, red meat is not problem.' That's a direct quote. 'Excuse me?' We replied. We got him to admit it's pretty much genetics.

Nobody knows fuck-all about anything.

A chill wind blows through the land as Angkor promises violence, legal shenanigans and electoral intrigue when Trump wins in November. What October surprise looms before then? Overall how bad will it get? We don't know. Also given that Angkor's plans are now conventional wisdom, doesn't that negate Angkor's plans? Maybe. After all these people are never right. Buy guns and ammo, as Colonel Schlichter would say.

We gotta read less about politics and more about The War Between the States. Huh, the sesesh actually did recruit a few black companies here or there and there were freedman who were loyal Confederates. Don't take my word for it, read Jay Winik's April 1865. He ain't no sesesh.

Lots of great work yesterday on the Managua front. Set up scenes written. Now, what is Granma doing? Also, how do we show Flavio and his merry band of Cuban rebels? Blowing up something is too easy, right? This sets the scene for World War 1990: The Managua Campaign. We'll need a chapter that sets things up for World War 1990: Esercito Italiano.

Also, we wrote a Fredericksburg scene for The Great Nuclear War o 1975. We gotta do a scene where Rockefeller's staff talks about the need to find the man some....female companionship. Lemme put it this way, Clinton, Rockefeller....we'd hate to live off the difference. Of course Rockefeller never flew Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express plane to Pedo island and Bill did. Also, Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.

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 Self Defense and Writing Update for 8/27/20

By now you all know two rioters were shot and killed and a third wounded by a young man in Kenosha. He ran away, shot one, then ran away again. They chased him down. He opened fire in self defense. It's almost as if Antifa and BLM don't think we're serious. A cop friend says it's a clear case of self defense and they'll never make the charges stick. There was rioting in Kenosha (mostly peaceful- according to CNN), Portland of course, and now Minneapolis. The cities' wimp mayor is begging the state and Feds for help.

We won't recap Pence's speech, much. We thought it was just perfect, solid, workmanlike. We're glad our 13 year old watched so she can see what normal politics look like. Once again we are amazed at the innate toughness of this campaign and it's willingness to hammer Biden and the Dems again and again. No GOP has been willing to do that since nineteen freakin' eighty-eight, which is probably what this election will look like.

Pence 2024.

One of those political modeler types thinks Trump will win 362 Electoral Votes. That would require New York State. We don't think that will happen. But we admit Trump could go in there and run against Killer Cuomo and Bolshevik De Blasio. Possible? OK. But still unlikely. As noted before, Don Jr should run for Mayor of NYC.

We've gone through the first 25 pages or so of The Great Nuclear War of 1975. We're just not where we want to be yet. We're adding lots of detail, but we're also having an intellectual problem with the government gathering in Casper, with the lights on, while the rest of the country is in darkness. We have officials having informal meetings in hotel bars and such. See what we mean? 

There was a ring of massive bunkers in the mountains of VA, MD and PA and WV. The question is, just how much of this did the Soviets know about? We'll put it this way. Everything was up and running at Weather Mountain when the Feds learned someone was trying to buy an old mansion a few miles down the road. Turns out it was the Soviet Embassy looking for a staff 'mountain retreat'.  The Feds had big plans for government evacuation. Big plans. You know how god feels about plans.

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.

Burn, Portland, Burn

After pre-emptively declaring he'd refuse to meet w/federal officials, Mayor Wheeler has suddenly reversed course & is now demanding a meeting w/@DHS_Wolf to discuss a "cease-fire." Even Wheeler seems to recognize that his city has insurgents who have declared war on US gov. https://t.co/TWuVKFXnwH pic.twitter.com/AqRzq1Ueq5

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 28, 2020

If reader(s) want to know what's happening in Portland, Andy Ngo is your man. Ngo is a real journalist who puts himself on the line to cover the story. He's been assaulted by Antifa several times. Ngo's over at The Post Millennial now.

That's Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler popping up from the metaphorical trench, waving the metaphorical white flag, and walking toward enemy lines over piles of metaphorical bodies left by two months of Antifa metaphorical suicide charges into the Fed's metaphorical machinegun nests. It's a metaphorical Somme.

We are at a loss as to why the Democrats think attaching themselves to and defending these (mostly peaceful) riots was a good idea. You know who don't like riots? Normal people. People who go to work, take care of their lawns, do stuff with their kids. These people don't have the time to riot. Maybe they should find time. The Dems and the media would take note of that. Honestly, these Portland riots look like a thrill. Beats falling asleep on the couch during Survivorman reruns. 

Anyway, we guess the Dem's thought Orange Man Bad! and anything Trump was for (in this case not torching Federal buildings) they must be against. There's also the little matter of the party needing to keep the LARPing revolutionaries in their ranks happy.  They don't want a repeat of 1968. But we do. 

It always comes as a shock to lefty Boomers, but when the police beat the hell out of the hippies at the Chicago Democrat Convention, vast swaths of American society watching, clenched their fists and said 'Beat 'em harder! Give 'em more of the nightstick! Work the upper body!' Same goes for the Hard Hat Riots of 1970.*

This is bad news for Dems. Real bad news.

Remember, in the 1980's Margaret Thatcher did a lot of unpopular things. Thatcher had a base, but she was not necessarily beloved by the rest of the public. The problem for Labour is that they were a lot of unelectable socialist kooks, a freak show, the cantina scene in Star Wars.

And that's where the Dems are today. Unelectable.

*Heh our dad covered those for NBC News, 'I can still see swarms of construction workers pushing their way down the street.' When city hall lowered the flag to half mast to protest the four rioters killed at Kent State, the Hard Hats made them raise it to full mast.

Wheeled to War

We talked to friends on FB yesterday about Portland, and some of our thinking on the matter can be found in the below linked Inforos article. Right here, Ya'll.

We ask, is Portland turning into Fort Sumter? Historical analogies can be dangerous of course, but they often work. Is 9/11 not akin to December 7th? Is the Iraq War not eerily similar to the Philippine Insurrection? Actually my author friend James thinks Portland is more akin to Harper's Ferry. He's a smart man that James.

Another friend of ours made a great point, and it's relatable to today and 1860. He said, 'We're not voting our way out of this.' The Election of 1860 more or less settled the issue of slavery. The GOP was going to isolate the south and let 'em know it. When they one, the South's fate was sealed, leaving with only one option.

We've said since 2017 there is a 100% chance Trump has to send Federal troops to some blue municipality (check) and there's a 1 in 3 chance of civil war. We stand by that. When Trump wins this fall, what other choice will the Dems have? As our friend said, we're not voting out way out of this. 

Russian Riot

In which we tried to explain to confused Russians why there are riots in the streets:

Progressive cities like Minneapolis (ground zero of the George Floyd riots), Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York are defunding the police with predictable results. In all of these cities, police morale is plummeting while retirement applications are soaring. In Chicago, 63 people were shot and 12 were killed last weekend. Then, on Tuesday, 15 people were shot in a Chicago area funeral home. In Denver, police were ordered to stand down as Antifa descended upon a Back the Blue rally. In Bill de Blasio’s New York City, he and the council have slashed a billion dollars from the New York Police Department’s budget. The NYPD has released crime statistics for June and they are not pretty. On the streets, the NYPD has backed off. So far, police have made 40,000 fewer arrests this year compared to 2019. At the same time, murders increased by 30% over June of last year. June also saw a 51% increase in auto-thefts and a 118% increase in burglaries. Over the course of nine days, 112 people were shot in Bill De Blasio’s New York. And so, a young generation of New Yorkers, who grew up in the city of Giuliani and Bloomberg’s aggressive Stop and Frisk policing and have zero street smarts, must adapt to life in high-crime urban areas.

Click on over. 

A Thought on the Coming Civil War

The video linked here at the FB group Name the Bastards shows a protest and public brawl between Antifa and Patriot forces.

About half a dozen Patriots are up against three times their number. The Patriots are large, meat eating, beer swilling types who probably work with their hands. As boys, these men wrestled their friends for fun. Their idea of a good time was playing smear the queer. We bet that of their friends growing up, these men were the runts. We were.

The Antifa goons are almost all scrawny women, some females are there too. If they drink at all they most likely enjoy hipster microbrews. The males obviously pee sitting down, sitzpinklers.

Watch the Patriots toss Antifa around at will, with almost no effort. It's like watching the Spartans at the Hot Gates. Frankly these men acted with a lot of restraint. They really could have hurt these Antifa goons. We particularly enjoy how the Patriots spare not those braying, howling feminist wenches. No chivalry here. You wanted equality, you got it, bitches.

That's why the right will win the Civil War.

Not May Day

Usually I have a shtick I do for May Day. I put out my Soviet flag. On FB I put up a pic of myself in a black suit, white shirt and Soviet flag necktie. I go around wishing my Russian neighbors a Happy May Day. Ok I still did that last one.

But not this year.

People without the responsibilities I have are in the streets battling these anarcho-commie antifa thugs.

I know a few com-symps. You still can't get them to admit communism killed a hundred million people, or that socialism is a failure.

As the great Ed Driscoll noted, Venezuela is coming dangerously close to 'not real socialism' status.

So what's Detroit?

The Second Battle of Berkeley

Here's the best video we've found showing the Second Battle of Berkeley in its entirety.

Basically you have two rival forces gathering in Martin Luther King Park, here:

Based Stick Man, Proud Boys,  and other Patriot forces seem to be outnumbered by Antifa.

The action is taking place on the north side of the park on Center Street, where all the cars are parked in this photo. Below is the best comprehensive video:

There's a lot of shouting, a few scuffles, but generally things are pretty cool, at least for this kind of planned, control riot. Based Stickman and his people have shown up in force and ready for action. They wear an amusing assortment of batting helmets. motorcycle helmets, army helmets, sun glasses, football equipment, and it would seem any other protective gear that was hand. These are large, meat eating men, burly. The kind who loved wrestling and tackle football when they were kids.

One gets the sense that seeing this assemblage, Antifa understands that it has screwed up.

Gradually the two crowds move east toward the end of the park and the intersection of Center and St Milvia Street. At his point Antifa throws several smoke bombs into the crowd but this only blows back and them in two ways. The office building in the far right corner of the screen cap below, mars the initial point of contact.

Watch that video very closely. Based Stickman's Patriot forces are well organized and led. They present a solid line and are told 'Hold the Line'!. Then all hell breaks lose and Antifa is routed down Center Street.

We can see Patriot forces beating the hell out of at least half a dozen Antifa. Most observers concentrate on the drubbing Moldylocks took (you wanted equality, you got it, bitch), but watch Red Shirt Man. He's a terror. Others have the presence of mind to steal Antifa flags. There are men on scene shouting 'Enough! Enough!' and 'Kill!" as in 'Kill the fight'. Patriot forces know exactly how far to go.

Patriot forces then reform and push Antifa down to Shattuck Street, 250 yards from the original point of contact.

Based Victory

Yesterday's rally at Berkeley was a tremendous victory for free speech, even bigger than the right's victory at the Battle Of Berkeley two weeks before:

Nothing so dramatic happened yesterday.

This time Proud Boys, etc marched to the center of enemy territory and held their rally.

That's the first victory.

They forced Berkeley Police to come out and keep the peace.

That's the second victory.

Antifa did shit.

That's the third victory.

Just a huge day. Yuuge

Unraveling Further

This article by Kurt Schlichter, a few years old now, is one of the most important pieces I've ever read

Today in America, a despised minority that is really no minority is the target of an establishment that considers this minority unworthy of respect, unworthy of rights, and unworthy of having a say in the direction of this country. It’s an establishment that has one law for itself, and another for its enemies. It’s an establishment that inflicts an ever-increasing series of petty humiliations on its opponents and considers this all hilarious.
That’s a recipe for disaster. You cannot expect to change the status quo for yourself and then expect those you victimize not to play by the new rules you have created. You cannot expect to be able to discard the rule of law in favor of the rule of force and have those you target not respond in kind.

Mr. Schlichter goes on at some length pointing out the obvious. We'll get to that in a moment.

Much of what President Trump is going to do to the left and the government over the next few years is just fair play. Gorsuch is going to be confirmed, Obamacare will be repealed, whatever it takes.

Now over the last year or so we've seen leftist Black Block riots against Trump and Trump supporters. I expect that violence to get worse.

Here's the thing. These Black Block types are messing with the wrong people.

Here's a clip of Bikers beating the tar out of some anti-Trump protesters. Here's some bikers vs flag burners. Here's Gavin McInnes throwing some punches.

Even more remarkable are these clips of some pissed off ranchers standing down the Feds:

And here's a bunch of armed citizens doing same:

These Black Block so called Antifa protesters are mostly internet tough.  These people though, well....Let's just say it would be a quick fight.