Vietnam Scenarios: Real and Speculative

Hahahahahahaha!...ahhhhhhhhahahahahaha! Conservatives expected relief from the courts! No standing for election fraud and the US Attorney for Southern New York gets Trump's tax returns. But judges, right Mitch? Excuse this blog while it hits the laugh track once again. Sorry, I can't stop. Because we're a naïve fool we'll just go ahead and assume the Dems won't steal everything in 2022. Reader(s) just go ahead and hit that laugh track button again. Anyway, if GOP candidates aren't promising to impeach Biden and prosecute Hunter, then we're not interested.

William Westmoreland was the Mitt Romney of generals. Outwardly impressive, and good at certain things, but not cut out for the top slot in the corporation.* That President Johnson left Westmoreland at MACV for four years is one of his great failings. Lewis Sorely suspects that Johnson kept him in there throughout '68 because he was worried Westmorland had political ambitions. This wouldn't be the first time that happened. President Polk cast a weary eye toward General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War. 

Anyway we're also a hundred pages into James S. Robins' This Time we Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive. This is an excellent revision of the Tet Offensive conventional wisdom. Two things we've learned. The American public was impatient and generally disapproved of the handling of the war even before Tet. A huge chunk of the public wanted to escalate and win**. Second, Hanoi was impatient, wanted to get on with things and felt that the war in the South was becoming a, what's the word, oh yes, quagmire.

The Confederate Contingent brings up nuking Hanoi in The Great Nuclear War of 1975. This is an interesting point. When hostilities break out it's only been a few months since the fall of Saigon and Pnohm Pehn. We make an oblique reference in the opening, but we can't pretend these events didn't happen and don't matter. Maybe the US decided hell with it? Nuking 'everything red' was in the Pentagon's DNA and was the plan till Kennedy told Air Force to come up with some other options. 

We read several Salvation '76 scenes yesterday and touched them up. Overall the first part of the chapter with the Americans getting pushed south moves very fast, which is not necessarily a bad thing. It might benefit from a few additional scenes, maybe one involving the air force. Overall we pronounce ourselves pleased, which just means today should be a bear [Oh my, the knobhead learns-Ed]. See, in anticipating the ironic wrath of the literary gods one can forestall them. [Idiot, don't say that outload!-Ed]. Ed's Never taunt the gods. [I am always right-Ed]

*If you don't know that's a reference you shouldn't be reading this blog. 

**Why don't we just nuke that bastards?

Tucker 7 Romney 0

Over the last few years various pundits and intellectuals have had their moment to shine - and cash in! 

2015 was the Milo Moment. 

2018 was the Jordan Peterson Moment.

It seems 2019 will be the Tucker Carlson moment. A few days ago he hammered Mitt Romney (Looser, Nowhere) over his anti-Trump op-ed. Here's the full video:

Tucker brutalizes Mittens over his time at Bain Capital. He said:

His piece throws a rare compliment to Trump for cutting the corporate rate a year ago.

That’s not surprising. Romney spent the bulk of his business career at a firm called Bain Capital. Bain Capital all but invented what is now a familiar business strategy: Take over an existing company for a short period of time, cut costs by firing employees, run up the debt, extract the wealth, and move on, sometimes leaving retirees without their earned pensions. Romney became fantastically rich doing this.

This is not normally how conservatives talk.

Like us, Tucker was a pretty standard post-Reagan conservative filled with policy ideas. In 2003 he supported the liberation of Iraq. Not anymore. He's happy we're getting out of Syria.

Now it seems he is an American Firster and an economic nationalist.

Tucker has talked widely about his intellectual transformation and we urge reader(s) to look him up on YouTube. His conversations with Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro are fascinating. 

Tucker Carlson seems to be the pundit who best channels Trump, or at least the Trump voter. 

Becuase Mitt would Know

Oh or fek sake:

The Trump presidency made a deep descent in December. The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president's thoughtless claim that America has long been a "sucker" in world affairs all defined his presidency down...

...Mitt Romney wrote in a scathing WaPo editorial.

We liked you here at William Stroock dot BlogSpot dot com, Mitt. We really did. We came to admire and respect you.

But we're going to be blunt. You blew it, Mitt. You choked. 

Now you're in the senate by virtue of running in the safest of safe states, a state so safe it's a safe space for you.

Who told you writing a furrowed brow op-ed approved by the jackals in the press and in perverts in the Democrat party was a good idea? 

This is why you are writing said op-ed and not your memoir of eight years in the White House.

Soy un pardidor, Mitt. Soy un pardidor.

Mitt's a Loser Baby....

...Soy un Romney .

Sorry Mitt Romney, you're a loser. Urgent Agenda tells us that:

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney ran into an obstacle Saturday in his bid to succeed Utah’s retiring U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch. At the state’s Republican Party convention in West Valley City, Romney finished second in votes from party delegates, behind state lawmaker Mike Kennedy. That means Kennedy, who captured 50.18 percent of the delegate vote, and Romney (49.12 percent) will face each other in a GOP primary election June 26.

The GOP gave this Senate seat to you, Mitt. The bastards handed it to you. They said, 'Here, Mitt. Be a senator from Utah', and still you fucked it up.

Mitt, you blew the senate race against Ted Kennedy in 1994, you lost the GOP nomination in 2008, and then flubbed what should have been a layup in 2012. You won indies by 5 points but Barry got every last vomit-breathed, Lena Dunham loving skank to vote for him. You and yours had no plan for an electorate with a D+6 advantage. You never thought it could happen.

[Neither did you, -Ed]

No, but I didn't spend hundreds of million of dollars either. Anyone else remember the so-called 'Ad Tsunami'?

Mitt, you're the man I want running my mutual fund, but not my campaign.

Go away.