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.

Rainy Monday April in New Jersey...

...Still beats the hell out of living in NYC.

Good morning William Stroock dot BlogSpot dot com. Now let's write about some Limeys getting ready to blow crap up in the USSR.

We did the treadmill on Saturday and the machines on Sunday. Neighbors are asking if we've lost weight. We feel good. We look good too. We know this because on Saturday a beautiful young lady decked out in flashy tights got on the treadmill next to us and actually blushed. [You people know he makes stuff up for a living, right? Ed]

We aren't following the show-trial in Minnesota that closely. We do love how the likes of Ben Shapiro keep talking about 'evidence' and the prosecution failing to make it's case and just wait till... [donk-donk] suckers. The jury will do whatever it damn well pleases. We expect Chauvin to hang. The Z Blog makes a good point: 'Like people, societies make their own luck. This is a terrible case to use for a remake of To Kill A Mockingbird. Floyd is not a sympathetic character. The world is better place without him. On the other hand, Chauvin is not a good guy either. The cops everywhere are out of control and people are increasingly sick of it. The prosecutors are incompetent, and the defense thus far is not much better. The way to bet here is the jury will turn out to be just as bad as everything else with this case.'

The International Criminal Court is investigating Israel. Israel tells the International Criminal Court to go suck on some gefilta fish: 'Israel does not recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and will not cooperate with its investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians, senior government officials decided at the end of a Thursday meeting.' This is how you play the game.

Ladies and gentlemen, the once and future Prime Minister: 'Yamina leader Naftali Bennett says his party supports the formation of a right-wing government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud.“I told Netanyahu and I will say it here, too — Likud can count on the votes of the Yamina party in favor of forming a right-wing government,” says Bennett in a public statement.' One more coalition member to go. Oley, oley, oley, oley....Bibi...Bibi....

Instapundit reports that the chances of getting the Wuhan Virus from Wuhan China from a surface are approximately nil. Next year they will tell us that they think masks don't really do anything. Never, ever doubt us.

Monday Metal. Yesterday was the 33rd anniversary of Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Below, the best song off the album. Listen for those transitions:

On Doing Even Less Than Nothing

We're as frustrated as you are, reader(s). Surly, angry, pissed off, Like we wanna wear a MAGA hat through a liberal town and dare someone to do something about it. Heck, we have warn a MAGA hat through a liberal town and dared someone to do something about it.

As they say the Revolution always eats it's own. That process has begun. Jimmy Fallon* and Jimmy Kimmel** are both on hiatus and on the verge of cancellation. That's nowhere good enough, but it's a start. Whose next? Here in New Jersey they're renaming buildings named after Woodrow Wilson. Make them do FDR next. 

And it will go too far. They're already coming for Washington and Jefferson***. Fake African American Shaun**** King says paintings, stained glass windows, etc etc that depict Jesus being white need to come down.. Without looking we're sure Mr. White Man there thinks Jesus was Black*****. Jesus was a Jew so...he probably looked more or less like our dad.

Conservatives on Twitter have started a hilarious campaign against Yale, as the school is named after a slave trader. They're coming after more schools.   There will be more of this. Just wait till the 4-Chan people pick a target.

*Too bad we, actually like Fallon and think he's non partisan.

**Screw him. Decorum prevents us from writing what we really think of that smug BLEEP who couldn't BLEEP a BLEEP if he had BLEEP and BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP.  To hell with him.

*** We proposed to Mrs. Stroock at the Jefferson Memorial, or Big T's as we called it back in the day.

****The only proper spelling of that name is SEAN.

*****Actually, we do think it should be capitalized, so what if the AP are a bunch of communist degenerates?

MSNBC's Chris Hayes is a Menstruating Moron

Via Hotair MSNBC's Rachel Maddow wonders why the authorities didn't tear gas and disperse anti-lockdown protestors.

[Dude, that's Chris Hayes-Ed]

Noooo...

[Yes-Ed]

Are you sure that's not Maddow, that's a Lesbian haircut if I ever saw one.

[Put your glasses on-Ed]

Ohhhh....Anyway:

Ed has already written about the riots in Minneapolis last night. However, there’s another angle on this which seems to be making the rounds at MSNBC. Here’s Chris Hayes arguing on this show last night that the police treatment of right-wing protesters has been vastly different from the response to protests over the death of George Floyd.

That's becuase conservative protests are vociferous, but peaceful, polite and respectful even with - especially with - armed citizens.

We know.

Back in the day we attended some Tea Party rallies in nearby Flemington. The atmosphere was patriotic, fun, carnival like. We brought our six month old and people made space so she could get some shade. And the press called us racist. 

We're holding the Bunker Hill flag, far left.

Mayor Jacob Frey to Minneapolis Police: Let it Burn

Breitbart has the story of Minneapolis' rage. Riots, looters and government indifference. The police abandoned the 3rd District Headquarters and it burned. This is unthinkable.

When the press asked Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey where the police and National Guard where, he replied, "This is one of the most difficult situations that our city has been through. I'm not going to stand up here and tell you that there are easy answers to it because there are not."

Just like Baltimore 'space to destroy', the Dems are letting a city burn for political points. This blog urges the president to Federalize the MN National Guard and restore order.

Minneapolis is Democrat city. George Floyd's was a Democrat murder. These are Democrat riots. These are the Democrats.

Whither Minneapolis

We haven't said anything about the shooting of Ahmed Arbery becuase we're waiting for all the facts. Nobody knows anything.

There's no such need for the George Floyd case. Watch the video (YouTube is making it hard to find). That cop's a murderer. Personally we're angrier at his partner who smugly stood by. 

I don't get it.

That pair endangered cops all over the country. Because bystanders watching their friends and loved one's getting restrained and arrested are going to be scared and...well, someone's going to take matters into their own hands.

We woke up this morning to news of riots in Minneapolis. Breitbart has the report. Minneapolis is a liberal city run by liberal Dems and Greens. The mayor is a Democrat. That's the Dem's murder, that's the Dem's police brutality. You're not pinning this on us. Own it. Eric Garner died becuase he sold lose cigarettes. George Floyd died becuase he might have passed off a forged $20. You wanted big government, Dems. You got it.

You know what, let's stop thinking about bad cops, police brutality and riots. Let's end in the light. Here's a compilation video of good cops, cool cops. Becuase that's most of them: