Weary Wednesday With Will

Aw dang it. We wrote an opening paragraph for this space but thought about it and decided...na. Not in this day and age when anodyne and harmless statements can call down the thunder. It just ain't worth it for a blog post that maybe a hundred people will read. It was good stuff too. Oh well.

A leopard cannot change its stripes and we can't stop paying attention to elections. We spent the 10 o'clock hour composing everything in this post except this paragraph and went to bed with about 85% of the GA runoff vote reported and the GOPs in the lead. We wake up and see....Of course. Really, was there any stopping the Dem's Will to Power? To foretell of doom or urge heads to cool. Which is the cliché? 

Honestly we're far more interested in the Trump protests today and expect/hope to see more on Inauguration Day.  Looks like things are off to a good start. As Kate McMillian at Small Dead Animals says, 'Not rioting is a failed conservative policy'. Easy for us to say, we know. We're not sure if we'll be able to fly a Back the Blue flag any longer. We'll have to think about it.

The author must be as disciplined as a kabuki. But the author must sometimes follow the buzz, the ju-ju. So we intended to do a ton of work on The Great Nuclear War of 1975 and write a scene a day of World War 1990: The Final Storm. Instead we're doing the opposite. Our Japanese scene allows us to talk about Vladivostok. We can fortify our Soviet rebellion theme there. Flying the Aussie F-111's into Sakhalin gives us an opening to show things down in Canberra and even Nixon moderating talks between the ANZACs and the Vietnamese in Honk Kong.  So you know, either way.

National Review's Kevin Williamson has an interesting article about the Hillary Baldwin 'scandal' and the urge, desire, quest to be someone else. Hey, we're a 47 year old man with chronic foot issues, so we get it. Who or what would we be at this stage? As a teenager we dreamed of being a fireball throwing right handed closer with a nickname like 'Iceman' or 'The Terminator'.  Also, secret agent/pornstar. In our 20s we wanted to be a Washington staffer, either on The Hill or in the Federal government. Honestly we're glad it never panned out. Today? Who the hell knows? We look decent (fuck that we draw mom-gaze at the pool), we have most of our hair, we got a fulfilling job we like that's going great. The family is healthy and happy. Why mess with a good thing? Yeah we have that other thing. So what? We're doing what we can. We are doing what a man must do. It could, and has, been a hell of a lot worse.

Sure we have a schtick here at William Stroock dot BlogSpot dot com. We're a middle aged loser whoe spends the afternoon ferrying his daughters (who don't listen to a goddamn thing he says) from one dance class to another. But that's kinda who we are. We ain't puttin' on airs here or nuthin'. You're reading middle aged Wesley-Will whose kicked back, had a few drinks and is saying what is on his mind, but carefully because he's within earshot of Mrs. Stroock. Middle aged Wesley Will doesn't want to get in trouble.

The First Saturday Update of 2021

Mrs. Stroock's winter purge continues apace. She went through  the kitchen drawers yesterday like the citizens of a Soviet ag commune wielding rapiers upon fields of grain to meet the harvest quota. We saw some superglue lying on the counter, took it and said, 'We'll just put this over with the other glue in the craft bureau,' to which she replied, 'Do not interfere with my process.' That glare. After 22 years of marriage we should have known better. Rookie mistake, men. What were we thinking?

We're flying the Union Jack to celebrate Brexit and ran up and down the street waving it like a sloshed football hooligan. A dear friend, the Jersey shore boy who got us into flying flags in the mid-90s, suggested we do that with a Klingon flag and bring glory to our neighborhood. And so we shall.

Powerline has some 2021 predictions. So does Legal Insurrection. We think this talk of Joe getting the 25th Amendment treatment is overblown. The Delaware Dunce is nothing more than a vessel, and they'll keep him upright. Speaking of being upright, or not, President Harris would be too risky. She has a mind of her own. Mr. Harris better watch out if Willie Brown is brought onboard.*

We agree the Georgia races are 50/50. That's probably at best. A win will give the party of Jew hater Raphael Warnock the big cheese. But this blog wouldn't hit the panic button. Politics being what it is, the pendulum will swing, and as happened to the incumbent party in '94, '06, '10, and '14, the party of Jeff Davis will be annihilated.** That gives the party of anti-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar two years.  

During his first two years, Barry Soetoro and the Dems passed the porkulous and Obamacare. So there's your benchmark. It's hard to get things done even when you control everything. Ask Newt and the 104th Congress. We were there, interning for Senator William V. Roth of Delaware. Oh, the intraparty gridlock. Newt came to loath the freshman firebrands who insisted they live up to their promises. Heh, and Dole hated Newt and the House GOPs.

Across the pond, Boris is back in our good graces for now. It's hard not to be pleased with the deal. We'd give it a B, a B+ even. It seems to this blog that Britain retains some of the economic connections with the EU, but does so as an independent nation. Which means the relationship can always be revised. The political severance is total. The cord is cut, and that is what matters in the long run. We think Brexit could hasten Irish unification and even Scottish independence. Remember Will's phrase for 2021, first slowly than all at once. 

On to the things. 

World War 1990: Nederland is selling great, just like Three Seas did, in fact. Overall December sales were up by a third over September, October and November, all of which were good months. Well done, we say. Well done indeed. That series is a winner, and we'll crank out novels in that universe once a year for as long as we have ideas. 

We sort of inadvertently did the Saturday update yesterday, so consider yourselves updated on The Great Nuclear War of 1975.

On The Final Storm front, we've found the novel's center, as it were, or two centers. Think, the Death Star trench attack. Derivative as hell, of course. But that's fine, the Death Star trench attack was based on The Dam Busters, sometimes shot for shot and beat for beat. As Lemy Kilmeister once said, it's all derivative. We plan on writing a scene per day while he tidy up TGNW75. Also, we've added some Ruski intrigue, 'I am sorry, Comrade Secretary, but I am unable to authentic these launch codes at this time.'

On a side note, we're trying something where we work on this blog and social media posts from the time we wake up till 9. Then we begin writing. We'll see.

*Make your jokes, people. Make your jokes. 

**Didn't happen in '98 and '02, so if you enjoy feelings of existential dread, there you go. You're welcome.

Notes on Various

In Israel, Netanyahu looks to be in trouble, so what else is new? There are two viable challengers on the right, Naftalli Bennett and Gideon Sa'ar, both getting 15-20 seats. It has been pointed out that Bibi has few friends left, so we don't know how he gets out of this one. He could go left, we suppose. But what's left of the Israeli left, and that amounts to maybe 25 seats in the 120 Knesset, hates his guts. There's the Arab Joint List, about 12 seats....sorry bad joke.

Meanwhile if Boris walks away from the Brexit talks that will begin his rehabilitation for us. Maybe there will be something in that cab after all. We don't believe the walk away talk, though. This is typical brinksmanship and we expect a resolution before Sunday's deadline.

Colonel Schlichter, who is always right, has a great column on the runoff elections in Georgia. Here's a great point for us pessimists out there: 'The Murder Turtle Mitch McConnell is already on the job. He knows what happened in November and his minions will be watching in January. His crew of cutthroats are flooding Georgia with lawyers and gathering poll watchers and count observers.' Read the whole thing, as Professor Reynolds likes to say. Cocaine Mitch confirms judges and wins senate elections, and he's all out of judges.

We don't talk much about the Kungflu on this blog because we like to stick with what we know. But it seems obvious to us that the Wuflu is back because flu and cold season is back. By the way, we took an antibody test out of curiosity. Youngest daughter had a raging flu in February, we had a rather odd cold in October and chatted with someone who tested positive two days later and....negative. Damnit. We admit to being profoundly disappointed. Governor Murphy is complaining about the extreme unresponsiveness of New Jersians to his (snitch) contact tracers and said it needs to stop. Lol, get fucked Murphy. We have to get cholesterol and triglyceride bloodwork next week, That should be, ahem, interesting.

Big tech is coming for you. YouTube announced it's censoring election-skeptical content. There are other options, Rumble for instance. We're on Parlor and Gab and have an account on MeWe. We're glad the DOJ is suing FB. Will Joe's DOJ kill the suit? Depends on what Beijing wants, doesn't it?

We're going to break our rules today and write a World War 1990: Saddam's War scene. Say hello General al-Majid, Saddam's fixer and pro-consul of Province 19. Reader(s) may know him by his nickname Chemical Ali. He's running the war on Kurdistan while making preparations in Province 19.

On The Great Nuclear War of 1975 front, Matt is walking, walking and walking. We finally figured out where he's from, Rhode Island. And he's heading to his family that went to visit the in-laws in Indiana. we'll talk more about it on the Saturday update, but we're really getting confident about having this 100,000 words clean and ready by 1 January. 

Notes on the 'Results'

This blog is tired of being optimistic and hopeful.

We are more or less resigned.

We are deeply skeptical of the courts helping Trump.

This was a red wave election except for one thing.

The GOP has lost Arizona.

The GOP is losing Georgia. Don't think that can happen? When we lived in Virginia 20 years ago, it was red.

Trump didn't even come close in Minnesota.

Ohio and Florida are now red states.

Texas was never really in question.

All eyes now to Georgia's two runoff senate elections. January 5th, people.

Robert Stacy McCain has some excellent observations about his home state. He would know better than we. 

Having stolen Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Wisconsin, does anyone really think the Dems won's steal the Georgia senate seats?

We expect the night to end with the GOPs in the lead but with hundreds of thousands of mail in 'votes' left to be counted. You people know what happens next.

In the GOP's favor: Mitch McConnell. Cocaine Mitch usually has things squared away.

If/when Biden wins that's it for us. We'll never vote again.