Interesting Times
There is a possibly apocryphal story stating there’s an ancient Chinese curse that hopes you “live in interesting times, come to the attention of those in high places, and have your fondest wish granted.” I’m looking for the bastard that so cursed me.
. You know where the liquids are, grab something. Please don’t forget the tip jar where we collect for the mess, and I thank those that have thrown a few bucks in the jar.
We’ll start with the national and international, then descend to the personal:
I’ll start with this group of mental midgets that cooked up a plot to blow up shit at the White House, shoot up a bunch of people, then “storm the gates” bringing about the “glorious revolution” against Trump and his Nazis, during the “UFC Freedom 250” fights.
Look, this is strictly amateur hour. Yes, there were at least nineteen people involved, and they did have some of the equipment, as well as the basic knowledge of how to carry on such an attack. Yes, they were theoretically capable of pushing the attack through.
No they would not have succeeded in anything except dying and maybe killing a few people on their way to the realm of Hela, where they would suffer the fate of traitors and oath breakers. (that’s assuming that this wasn’t some sort of a false-flag operation, a highly unlikely, but admittedly possible thing.) Look, even if this neck beard nineteen year old’s mommy hadn’t blown the whistle, these clowns were strictly CoD (Call of Duty) commandos.
The alleged leader of the crew “Shepard” seems to be the only one who even might have had some Real-World experience at this sort of thing, and based on what I’ve read, he’s been using some of the pages from Hamas in the organization of the attack. I suspect that was the best model he could find, which says something about his knowledge of insurgency and COIN.
I’ve seen better.
All that said, we keep seeing this sort of thing, always aimed at various Republicans (even though these guys were framed as “Ultra-right wing Cristians” by the press, they were targeting strictly Republican office holders and conservative figures. That sure doesn’t sound right wing to me!)
They only have to get lucky once, we have to win each time.
So, let’s say that neckbeard and his crew manage to use some drones laden with explosives, and actually kill a few people. Hell, let’s say they get lucky and kill the President, and the VP.
That gives us Mike Johnson as the new president. Johnson is a Trump man to the core, but even if he weren’t it wouldn’t matter. There could be only two results from an attack on the Whitehouse killing the President and the Vice President. Martial law would be declared immediately, or Civil War would break out immediately, as various right-wing citizens decided that the neighborhood needed an “Uplift Association” and broke out the hemp neckties to do the uplifting.
Just in case that is too vague for you, I’m saying that there would be a hell of a lot of Leftists hanging from lamp posts come morning.
Yes, Lefties have guns too. Neck beard and his buddies had guns. This has been yet another example of why that doesn’t matter.
Guns are not some magic talisman that you can wave like Harry Potter’s wand while saying “Expelimous I have a gun-us” and magically your opponents will do what you want them to do. You actually have to be trained in how to use them, and capable of doing so in a competent manner. The Left has yet to exhibit that trait. Without the training and competence, you’re just a mobile training target, single use.
All of which brings us back to the fact that the only thing this will do is create a lot of confusion, a bunch of dead Americans and pseudo-Americans, and push the nation into something that will end up looking a lot more like a military dictatorship and a lot less like the America of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. It will, however, keep us focused internally, and unlikely to respond to international adventurism and empire building for a bit.
It continues to beg the question “Cui Bono?” Figure out who benefits, and you will identify who is behind this shit. It’s at least possible that this is a strictly internally funded set of operations, but if it is, they’re the naivest bastards on the face of the planet. They would have to believe that they could actually win the resultant civil war. Even AOC hasn’t been drinking the cool aide that hard. No, my money is on international involvement. The PRC wouldn’t need to care “who won” the Third American Civil War (we call the first one “the Revolution” because we won.) The only goal China needs to care about is “can we keep those fuckers busy long enough for us to gobble up Taiwan, and the rest of the “First Island Chain.”
Dear Leftists, quit being useful idiots.
Let’s go on to California. California may be the worst shitshow in America, but it could get worse.
How you ask?
Well, a study that a bunch of the most intelligent geologists and volcanologists in the world just published states that not just San Andreas, but the San Jacinto fault systems are cocked to the highest level of energy that has been seen in a thousand years.
In case Earthquake theory isn’t your bag, let’s review a little bit of it, so you can understand the gravity of this thing. Earthquakes are caused by tectonic plates or sections of them that are moving past each other. In a perfect world those plates would just slide past each other like two lubed bearing surfaces… Minimal friction, greased plate gliding against greased plate.
We, however, do not live in that world. Instead we live in the sort of world where there ain’t no grease. Where plate grabs against plate until the amount of energy that is built up overcomes the coefficient of friction, and, like a set of failed brakes, lets go with a series of pops, grating noises and slips. Those pops and slips are what we call earthquakes.
The two major places that plates are passing against each other, (called fault lines) in California cross each other at Cajon Pass. Both of them are now holding more energy against a slip than anyone has ever seen released in recorded history. And here’s where my frustration comes in.
Look, there have been proposed solutions to this for most of my life. We know what causes earthquakes, the only thing we don’t know, is how the mechanism ‘decides’ when to let go. That’s why we can’t predict the damn things with any degree of certainty. What we are petty sure though, is that we know how to get the plates to slide. Yes, I am talking about causing an earthquake intentionally. Why? Because releasing some of that energy when we know it’s going to happen, even if it only releases one of the two faults, is far to be preferred to releasing both of them when we have no warning. A series of “small” quakes, even if “small” means a 7, is preferable to one “large” one, and by large, I mean a 10. If you are not familiar with the Rictor scale, it’s logarithmic. 10 is not “three times” more than 7. It’s 31,600 times more powerful.
The problem is that no one wants to try. We know that there are several things we could do to the faults that would get them to slip a bit. But we don’t know how much it would slip at a time, and we know that some shit would get broken. Knowing Californians, people would also get killed. There’s bound to be some group of twits standing on the fault to protest the release, demanding that we do more to “Protect the lesser gopher tortoise from the earthquake” or some such bullshit. No one wants to be the guy that actually pulls the trigger on that.
Further, because it’s California, before the release could happen, the exercise would get tied up in injunctions, and lawsuits that would keep it from happening until well after Mother Nature gets fed up and decides to, “Let it go.”
So, because we lack the self-discipline and courage to allow some damage to occur under a controlled test, instead we will get something catastrophic. Let me be clear, when I say catastrophic, I mean mega-deaths, and the complete and total leveling of parts of LA, San Bernardino, Riverside, and the Coachella valley, with damage extending down to San Diego, and up to San Lois Obispo. Short of the cutting loose of Yellowstone, this is the biggest natural disaster we could possibly experience. We could at least attempt to moderate the damage… But we won’t.
I’ll touch on the Iran MOU briefly. I don’t think it’s a good deal. Let me be very clear on that, based on what I have seen, and I have NOT seen the actual text, I don’t think it’s a good deal. But Trump has earned enough leeway to carry it a ways, and see what his plan is. Honestly, he may be expecting the mad Mullahs to renege on it, which then allows us to say “look, we tried to deal with these clowns, but they just will not keep their word, so we’re going to have to just end them.”
I do note that France and the UK have said that they will join the fighting, once they’re assured that there’s no more, you know, FIGHTING.
While we’re talking about the UK, I suggest you go take a look at my friend Tom Knighton’s recent tomknighton.substack.com/p/to-suffer-the-slings-and-arrows-of-outrageous-governance It seems that MI6 has a special propaganda arm designed to make sure that you believe the government, and not your own lying eyes.
When you combine that with the absolute shitshow Ian over at the Bugscuffle Gazette talks about in you-know-in-certain-older-civilized-cultures you understand why I consider the UK to be a failed state. Ian talks about the recently released Government study “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” From MP Rupert Lowe.
The executive summary includes, “Organized networks of perpetrators built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men. These crimes have been committed for decades, since the 1950s by Pakistanis in particular, and have affected every region of our nation.” “It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma. The true number is probably higher.”
The cops ignored it and covered it up. The government officials and elected officers covered it up and sometimes joined in. The press vilified the victims and glorified the perpetrators.
The United Kingdom has fallen. There are no men left. For if there were, these actions would result in the sort of pogrom last seen in Spain, during the Reconquista. The actual report is located at the+Rape+Gang+Inquiry+Report.pdf
Let me be clear. It happened there, it could happen here. It requires nothing but that we pretend that criminals are something other than criminals. That we excuse their actions as “well it’s their culture” or “well, they were deprived, and they don’t know any better” or any of a vast number of other duck billed platitudes. If you behave like these individuals, (I will not call them men, or even people) you are an animal. Like an animal, you need to be put down.
So far, instead, we’ve given such beings titles, like “Violence Interrupter.” That’s the title that the Anti Gun group “CeaseFire” gives to professional criminals that they claim are now “rehabilitated” and capable of taking on the job that used to be performed by police officers before the ACAB (all cops are bastards) and “Defund the Police” movements took charge in Blue cities.
Places like Shitcago where the mayor was giving a photo op to a Violence Interrupter (VI) who was wanted in four states on active warrants, just before said dirtbag did a smash and grab and the victim was killed. Where three of these VIs were busted packing pistols while out on bond for (wait for it) Felony gun crimes, and working for the city to (wait again) reduce gun violence.
Places like Minneapolis, where two Vis were arrested for shooting a dude, while they were working for the city as a VI. In St. Louis MO, at least the VI didn’t pack heat, he strangled a mothafucka to death. In NYC where the “director” of one of these programs is currently awaiting trial along with his entire gang for running guns and drugs. In Baltimore they have one of the VI awaiting trial for attempted murder, and multiple firearms violations, but hey they might just interrupt the violence… by killin’ the dude that’s doing it. (oh, wait, isn’t that what they complain that the cops do?)
CeaseFire and other such organizations are now under federal investigation. That’s great if there’s some perp walks and some jail time, otherwise, it’s great sound and fury signifying diddly squat.
If you missed the note I posted, Bastiat’s Window posted an incredibly useful piece of information that I suggest you not only read, but save as a reference on how to make AI search engines work for YOU instead of the advertisers that are paying to get you to their sites. .50-ways-to-stop-using-google-like This is the good stuff folks, if you’re not a software geek, this is how to get results as if you were.
Along with that we have OldNFO’s post on Microsoft’s newest way to rob you blind,
which includes what to do about it.
Back when the Vietnam memorial was created, I thought that was the rock bottom that we could sink to for a war memorial. Silly me, what did I know? Go look at the design of the GWOT memorial proposed:
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/so-gwot-will-get-a-memorial.
The first time I saw this monstrosity I though it was a parody. Nope, they mean it. This thing is an insult to every troop that served in the last twenty years. The designers of this piece? First off, the dude and his company are Japanese. We’re letting foreigners create our war memorials now??? His book on design is “ Anti-Object: The Dissolution and Disintegration of Architecture” The guys that hired him, and he himself are on the list of people I’m looking for with a ball bat.
Finally, let me tell you a tale of my own struggles. As I have mentioned, when we moved to Tennessee, we bought land, and bought a modular house to be put on the land… Well, they finally got the house here a month or two ago, and started putting it together. The design is good, but the implementation, well… There’s issues.
A lot of issues. We were working through those issues with the “trim out” crew, contractors working for the company that we bought the house through, not the company that built the house. The company that we bought the house through was ALSO supposed to get the factory guys out to fix the legion of fuckups that the guys on the factory floor made.
And all of that was proceeding, albeit at a glacial pace, until the end of last week.
Our finance company called us up to ask about the “Punch List” a list we were supposed to generate of all the things wrong that need to be fixed before we will accept the house. As a result, we called the Trim-Out contractors to ask for copies of the pictures that they took to document things that were “factory problems” as opposed to “we gotta fix it” problems. On Tuesday, they said “we’re supposed to be getting the last parts we need tomorrow, and we’ll send you the pictures after that.” On Wednesday, they said “the parts didn’t come in, we’re supposed to get them tomorrow, and yeah we’ll send you the pictures.”
On Thursday we didn’t have the pictures, so we called them… And were told “we’re not talking to THOSE PEOPLE any more, and we can’t send you the pictures.”
“What??? What’s going on?”
“They locked their doors at 10 AM. They’ve shut down. And they owe us $20K for other work done. Fuck those guys.”
Now this is a four state (at least) company, with offices all over the place. So we do some checking online. Google, etc know nothing. So we try to call the company (name withheld because legal action is pending) and all we could get was robots.
So we called the finance company. They said, “What??? This is above my paygrade, I gotta bubble this up, my bosses will be in touch!” followed by “click.” Later we hear from “the bosses.” Seems we may have been the first ones to learn of this, but we are far from the only ones in this pinch, the company claims they’re still going to honor the contracts and commitments that are outstanding, but yes, they’ve ceased operations.
The bank did not know that there were contractors out there with debts owed. At this point no one knows how this goes forward, the house is on our land but we can’t move in, there’s issues that need fixed, and it’s not clear how that happens, a lot of work we paid for has not been performed, and I’ve got a ball bat that needs to be fed. I have no idea how this is going to end.
“Retire” they said, “it’ll reduce your stress,” they said.
QOTD: ““Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.”
General Norman Schwarzkopf
Yours in Service,
William Lehman