Will's Upside Down Post for the Week

It's cute the way conservative analysts thought facts matter more than feels. We're looking at you, Ben Shapiro. Also Andy McCarthy.

We've heard all the arguments but we just can't get past the feeling that something was wrong. There's something almost Soviet about the way Chauvin knelt upon the Gentle Giant. 'Da Comrade, this is the system.' 

This blog admits to two contradictory impulses. The police are over armed and over-aggressive. Also, the police should unleash a hail of bullets upon Antifa/BLM rioters. Of course the former is true while they won't do the latter. We want you on that wall, we need you on that wall. There we said it. Be nice if you were on the wall thought, and not hassling the law abiding. 

We don't have much to ad except this: it's only the beginning. There are new protests in Columbus as police shot a black girl as she was attempting to stab another black girl. Expect the anti-white pogrom to intensify. 

Let's get onto more positive stuff. 

Or not. We're still tearing our hair out over The Final Storm even as things are coming together. We're going to take a hard look at things at the end of the month. 

On a whim we cracked open The Great Salvation of 1976 and began reading. Instantly the good feelings returned. We like what we see, generally, the first cabinet meeting, Matt walking down the west bank of the Hudson, a Coast Guard Cutter cruising the Mississippi. We'll continue reading, if for no other reason than to feel like we're making some progress, doings something useful. It's 62,000 words. As The Great Nuclear War of 1975 is 75,000 words, we feel we need to ad. We'll see.

We had a literary plan for 2021. God laughed. We have 10,000 words about an Arab kingdom facing an Isis style revolt. It used to be a British colony. Think Dogs of War meets The Wild Geese. Worried meeting at Whitehall (check). Getting the crew back together montage (check). A novel that has a lot of ass kicking women characters but a misogynistic base.  It's not like anything we've done before. We broke it out yesterday and liked what we saw. Maybe that will be our sneak in this summer?

[Jesus, you're a mess-Ed]

The verdict stopped nothing here. The weather was warm in the afternoon and blissfully cool in the evening. The girls played outside. Oldest Daughter went on a long walk with her BFF. We barbequed and had a beer. We've been meaning to drink more.

No gym yesterday. We'll lift today and run tomorrow.

Policing on

A rough treadmill session yesterday. Still, there's nothing like pushing through a run and finishing when your body doesn't want to. Another hour in the books.

We came up with a new scene and character arc for The Final Storm. This should help tie together the Soviet side of things. We've got the Politburo, the guy who commands their rocket forces, Denisovo at Northern Fleet, a bomber squadron, a silo crew and now the area air defence commander in the Kola. 'Sir, there's a lot of Tomahawks on the radar...' 

Well, a jury has the Fenatyl Floyd case. Don't ask this blog how things will go. We think they'll convict Chauvin on something but not everything. Who knows? Who cares? Either way there will be riots.

As we've joked in other places, having one's license registration and proof of insurance ready and cooperating when the police pull you over is always a sound strategy. 

We slammed the police yesterday. We stand by that, the usual disclaimers apply. This is something we've discussed before. As a refresher, here's Mark Steyn on the police in America vs the police in the rest of the world. Do click his links as well. Especially this one.

Sorry fellas, during the last year this blog has watched way too many videos of cops closing down churches and bashing in the doors of the non-Covid compliant. It profits a man nothing to sell his soul for the whole world, but for a police-pension? See 'goodwill' in your community relations handbook.

As Mike Cernovich noted, America's latest most famous black motorist wasn't pulled over because the police found their man, he was pulled over because of an expired tag. In that last link Steyn talks about what cops are thinking when they're pulling you over for doing seventy-one in a sixty-five. Jesus. There's a very simple solution to an officer being at risk during a routine traffic stop. Stop making routine traffic stops. We all know these patrols exist so municipalities can collect fines. Please, motorists keep themselves safe.

We could probably make 'your daily police outrage' a thing. Here's one, wrestling a 73 year old woman to the ground. At least they didn't tase her.

Meanwhile BLM/Antifa can do whatever it wants. Fight back and the cops will arrest you. 

Monday Metal and various, also collusion

In New Jersey spring is a stubborn bitch and a tease. Temperatures will climb to nearly 70 and then plummet to the 40s (that's Fahrenheit, we don't recognize fru-fru Eurotrash Celsius numbers). Post dinner evenings can be quite pleasant.   In 2018 we had two snowstorms in April.  

This blog hasn't followed the Fentanyl Floyd trial to closely. Powerline has as they're in Minnesota, and they think the persecution did a great job. Ben Shapiro thinks the defense wrecked the persecution's case. Ben's cute the way he thinks facts matter more than feelings in 2021. Sometimes we think he should have been a rabbi. We shrug. To be clear, we're not rooting for Chauvin. Conservatives 'backing the blue' in 2021 should reconsider how they view the world.* We're not rooting for anyone. The only question remaining is whether or not the riots will be condemnatory or celebratory. 

No post yesterday as we were swamped with QAnon stuff. Not Qbi Wan, but one of his, shall we say, padawans. We talked about some interesting stuff. Let's just call it Jew Anon.

Speaking of Jew Anon stuff, here's a long article about how the IDF's Iron Dome has changed the strategic calculus in Israel. Nutgraph, as the J-school non journos say: 'Questions remain about what comes next. Iron Dome gave Israel strategic depth and breathing space and enables Netanyahu to avoid new wars in Gaza. That was particularly true in the fall of 2018 when defense minister Avigdor Liberman resigned over Israel’s unwillingness to go back into Gaza. Israel has to wonder how the system will stack up against a major war with Hezbollah or Iranian-backed proxies. It has yet to face this test.' Remember, Gaza is just the warm up. Mowing the Lawn, the Israeli's call the Gaza campaigns. 

In the long run it doesn't matter. The real threat is Hezbollah and Iran. When Bibi says 'we won't let Iran obtain nukes' he means we won't let Iran obtain nukes. Why do people not take the Jews seriously? As the late John McCain said, (Himself, Hell) the only thing worse than war with Iran is a nuclear Iran.

Our latest bit of collusion with the Soviets: 'Last week YouGov released a poll about the public image and rankings of the 50 American states plus Washington D.C. Respondents ranked their own state first 77% of the time, meaning larger states were at the top of the list and smaller states at the bottom. Washington D.C. finished dead. This is probably because of D.C.’s small population and Republicans loathing the District. Unsurprisingly Hawaii ranked first. This observer has been to the Aloha state. Honolulu is basically a midsized American city with great weather, beaches, and a lot of Japanese tourists. Signs leading to Pearl Harbor are printed in English and Japanese. Nevada is number 4; and people are probably thinking of Las Vegas.' Click on through.

Monday Metal...let's see, what are we listening to lately....Def Leppard's most underrated song. Stick with it till the end to hear those transitions. This song really clubs one over the head. Heck of an innovative video too:

*Sorry, this blog thinks the police exist to write tickets and we don't think we can count on them at 3 AM.

Monday Mess

On to The Great Salvation of 1976's last (written) chapter this week. This chapter deals with new hopes in the spring, infrastructure building and planning for elections in the fall. We're on page 110 of 135 (that's in MS Word). 

We should have a couple of articles out this week, one in 19FortyFive, maybe something in Moscow, and one on Substack. We'll be dumping our old War on Terror articles there all this month. A few pieces about Iraq, the Ethiopians in Somalia, etc etc. 

Over at the New York Post we see...a lot of stuff about Meghan Markle. On Behalf of the United States, this blog would like to apologize to HRH, the Royal Family and the British people. I guess this about settles things between our two nations [It settles nothing. You kept arriving late to the wars-Ed]. You know Charles isn't Harry's real dad, right? [Why you cheeky bastard-Ed]. What's Harry gonna do when Meghan has an affair with her yoga instructor?

Back to Killer Andy C. The Democrat Senate Majority leader says he should resign. The guv says he ain't going nowhere. Resignation seems farfetched, but this blog predicts he won't run for gov again in 2022. The great Robert Stacy McCain thinks this is all a conspiracy hatched by the Kamala Harris camp. A fellow North American said the same to us the other day. McCain is going off of Ace's speculation, and both Ace and RSM are always right...But Andy's best strategy is to bow out now, make his comeback in 2024 and run in the primaries against Harris. She'll have a couple of years in office by then, and a record to run against.

We know a lot of people who fear Willie Brown's girlfriend. But she had no support in the Dem primaries. None, zero, zilch, nada. There is no Harris cheering section within the Democrat party. When she takes office later this year her position will be analogous to that of Andrew Johnson in 1865.

Jury selection for the trial of Officer Derek Chauvin begins today. Powerline reports Minneapolis is 'bracing for the worst'. It doesn't matter. If Chauvin is acquitted there will be rage riots. If Chauvin is convicted there will be celebratory riots. Those interested in legal analysis can do no better than Powerline, as they're lawyers out of Minnesota. Last year we called Chauvin a murderer. Well, it's more complicated than that, isn't it? A manslaughterer? 

We were asked yesterday to reco a book on The Israel War of Independence. We really don't know one, as for our own writing we've relied upon military history compendiums. We do suggest  Benny Morris, who has written a book on the subject. Our own, Israel at War, goes into the '48 war as well. 

Those studying the Arab-Israeli Wars will return again and again to one salient fact: Arabs can't fight. The Egyptian army was incompetent. One can't help but shake one's head. In fact, after the '67 debacle STAVKA summoned their Egyptian counterparts to Moscow and read them the riot act. The Egyptians replied, 'You don't understand. We've studied the Red Army in WWII. We've lured the Jews into the Sinai. Now we wait for winter.' Don't forget to tip your waitresses, folks.

Actually the Six Day War is kind of dull. The Yom Kippur war has all the interesting action, tense cabinet meetings, tactical disasters, etc etc.