Someone Needs To Tackle Trump - Seriously

h/t WRSA

Apologies for leaving it so long, but we've been laboriously explaining to anyone with the wits to think it through in comments elsewhere why Ukraine is far less about Ukraine, and far more about two things: US credibility internationally, and the survival of nuclear non-proliferation as a central national and international policy.

We haven't posted that opus here (yet) due to some personal issues, but before the week has ended, POTUS has just validated both our reasons, and underlined them with a scarlet red highlighter, and then lit off skyrockets in case anyone wasn't paying attention.

We'll get to why last week's debacle in the Oval Office with Zelensky wasn't the win for Trump and Vance the people on the left half of the IQ bell curve think it was, but the above screenshot from Vox, courtesy of WRSA, has just made all our arguments for us.

For Common Core grads, we protect Japan militarily because

A) we get bases there that make responding to problems in Korea easier, as well as for making overflights of anywhere in a fan from Siberia to Southeast Asia far more logistically simple, and

B) because the last time Japan was fully in charge of its own military, it took 14 years of war culminating in the only two planned releases of SPF 30,000 Canned Sunshine in world history, to date, to bring it to a close.

B) is the rather more important reason, and the most germane one starting in late 1945.

Y'see, there were a wee few nations who had seen what the Japanese could accomplish when they coupled zen-like concentration behind unstoppable industrialization, in service of a militaristic code of conduct that made the Spartans look like pussies.

The following nation-states might have a wee objection or two to Japan's military urges unbridled, purely on the basis of first-hand experience with them the last time around:

Russia

China (including - or also - Taiwan)

Mongolia

Korea (both halves)

The Philippines

Australia

New Zealand

Britain

France

India

Singapore

Vietnam

Indonesia

Brunei

Burma

uncounted (I'm frankly too damned lazy at the moment) South Pacific island-nations

Oh, and of course, US. Which handily means the U.S.

IOW, every nation in that hemisphere, a number not in it any longer, and no less than (counts fingers) seven nuclear powers. Which is every one there is except Israel and Pakistan. (So far.)

And hey, Japan doesn't depend on imports anymore, especially oil, like they did before 1940. O wait, that hasn't changed. And Japan isn't xenophobic, regarding other countries' citizenry as lesser mortals. O wait, that hasn't changed. And the Japanese have forgiven us for Hiroshima, and don't hold a grudge, having fully embraced the atrocities they committed and vowing to never, ever want to do anything like that again. O wait, that hasn't happened either, and they still suffer from the Japanese version of Waldheimer Syndrome, where they can't remember anything that happened before 1945. And consequently, Korea (both halves), China, and the Philippines' population doesn't hate Japan and anything Japanese. Except for their living pulsing guts. (Remarkably like Ukrainians feel about Russians, and for just about the exact same reasons, btw.)

 

So yeah, Mr. President, you go on and make Japan totally responsible for defending itself. Get them to throw us out of those bases, and then take the 0.2 seconds it'll take them to decide to change their national constitution, withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and then spend about 15 minutes that it'll take them to start building nuclear weapons.

China's getting frisky, Russia still hasn't settled a century-old dispute about islands to the north of Japan, and Crazy Kim keeps launching nuclear-capable missiles over their way, so they'd be crazy not to build nukes. And with their national ability, resources, and the will to do it, it'll take them probably until about lunchtime next Wednesday before they test one that works. (Maybe over Pyongyang, if they have a sense of humor.)

So now South Korea's going to want some too.

So is Taiwan.

And Singapore.

And Oz and the Kiwis will do some soul-searching. Odds are, Oz says yes, and the Kiwis wet their pants and start teaching Japanese in primary school, but I could be wrong there.

And all of them could probably accomplish a nuclear arsenal within the year.

Less if they find a willing seller.

The Philippines and Indonesia will want some too. Pakistan would be too glad to help them out, in exchange for the southern Philippines going Muslim separatist. (You can tell where worldwide Catholicism and Muslim expansion met by looking at the religion demographics of the various Philippine Islands. Hint: Our first clash with militant Islam was the Barbary pirates just after the dawn of the 1800s. The second was when we inherited the Philippine Islands from Spain after 1898.)

And, what the hell, what could go wrong with six new nuclear powers - seven, counting Japan - in the eastern Pacific, including two more nuclear Muslim or Muslim-leaning countries? Muslim countries always get along with everyone, amirite??

Sweetness and light, in exchange for Trump saving the US another $50 or so.

Genius.

Then Japan realizes that in many cases, their interests don't really align with US interests.

So now we've got China and Japan looking to challenge the U.S. geopolitically in the Eastern Pacific. Greaaaaaaaaaaaaat. BRILLIANT!

It's not like we ever fought a war with Japan over that sort of thing, right?

And then maybe those other nations decide we're probably going to drop them like a hot potato the minute it's expedient, just like we're looking to do with Ukraine now.

U.S.: "O No! Not you (South Korea/Taiwan/Philippines/Australia/New Zealand)! We'd never backstab you like we just did Ukraine! You're our special friends."

Them: "Sh'yeah, right, you lying sacks of American shit. Pull the other one; it's got bells on it. Go fuck yourselves, and get the hell out of our country while you're up."

Fucking Brilliant!!!!

We'll re-fight WWII in the Pacific with mostly the same players, because territorial and imperial ambitions haven't gone away, and neither have centuries-old squabbles, only this time, Oprah-like, "You get a nuke, You get a nuke...EVERYONE gets nukes!!!" Except this time, pretty much no one else is on our side, and all that trade Trump thinks will be happening will be divided amongst other nations, with other currencies, and we'll be hoping for table scraps. Imagine how much we'll save on a navy when we can't find willing buyers for anything we've got to sell anywhere beyond Honolulu.

Cue the Happy Dance!

Look what we'll save ourselves into.

That'll be so much cheaper in the long run than sucking it up, shutting up, and keeping Japan out of the militarism and nuclear weapon business.

Pretty much for the same reason we waited until an entire generation died in Germany to breed the urge to invade France out of those @$$holes.

And, while we're up, word to your mother: All the hardware we sold to Japan, the front-line stuff? Their versions aren't sales, they're made by Japan, under license.

What does that mean?

Well, please list the Japanese products - hardware and software - they didn't get from us, improve, turn around, and kick our asses with.

We'll wait.

Tell us whether Toyota or Chrysler makes better cars these days.

Tell us how many TVs we make here anymore (Common Core grads: that would be zero). Or video players. Or computers.

Hell, if it wasn't for Hollywood making the actual product, the entire movie business would be Japanese right now. With China bootlegging the content, and Japan, Korea, and Vietnam making the hardware, it's barely ours anymore anyhow.

So let's, by all means, do for the military in Japan what we've done for the electronics and automobile industries. What could possibly go wrong?

So for the love of Christ, somebody, ANYBODY, kindly tackle POTUS, sit him down in the Situation Room, and explain to him, with lots of pictures and a 2x4 if necessary, that not every government expenditure is better if we cut it completely, and that there are reasons for doing some of the things he never learned about before this week.

You want to talk about trimming US expenditures, and getting Japan to pony up a bit more, just like we wish NATO would do?

Okay, fine.

Just think long and hard about what happens if they say "Fuck you. You need us more than we need you."

Like they will.

And for those of you waaaaaay over on the left end of the IQ curve, who are still sounding out some of what we wrote, write this lesson on your hands with a Sharpie:

Nations do NOT have "friends".

They have INTERESTS.

Then, in the file folder marked "No Shit, Sherlock", put in an index card that notes that a friendly, allied, minimally militarized and totally non-nuclear armed Japan is in OURS.

If you need audio-visual aids, because reading is hard, or because everything that happened before you were born is lumped in with trench warfare, dinosaurs, and the Crusades, we can recommend a couple of dozen absolutely spiffy explanations to explain the finer points to you, courtesy of Warner Brothers, Universal, Columbia, Fox, Republic, and Paramount, etc. until the penny finally drops for you, or you can manage history books without pictures:

Flying Tigers

Tora! Tora! Tora!

They Were Expendable

Bataan

Wake Island

Destination Tokyo

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Flying Leathernecks

PT 109

Midway

Objective, Burma!

Back to Bataan

The Frogmen

The Great Raid

The Bridge On The River Kwai

Run Silent, Run Deep

Operation Pacific

Windtalkers

Sands of Iwo Jima

Battle Cry

Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima

Hacksaw Ridge

The Pacific

Above and Beyond

Then imagine doing it all over x10, except suddenly it all looks like the horror section of The Day After, playing on an endless loop.

Meet "Italian" Gillligan: Diversity Is Our Strength



Not his actual truck. Just his actual attitude.

This is part of why Kung Flu has shut Italy down.
No, really.

They're still digging for Patient Zero there (good luck with that), but this is one potential Typhoid Mary there among several possibilities, at last reports.

Because some people in any crowd are this stupid.

Now, look around your neighborhood, your office, your kids' school, etc., and find the Special Bright Light geniuses.
Make your self-quarantine plans accordingly.


Maybe it's just me, but if someone so much as coughs uncovered in a store, I want to reach for a heavy bludgeon, to teach them current etiquette.
And yes, within a week or two, you'll have to assume it's everywhere.
Sincere best wishes after that point, especially if you do anything involving customer contact. I think you'll be getting some time off, without pay, in short order.

Red Herring

h/t Weasel Zippers

That's it, man. Keep playing with that grenade until it goes off in your face.

This Is What Happens When Your Party Has No Sane Nor Adult Supervision

 

 

Here's to hoping the endless coup attempt retires Nancy Alzheimer's as Speaker for good, come November. Nice to know they couldn't see any other way out of the electoral pickle they got themselves in - like, y'know, running a candidate that had actual voter appeal and a brain, not to mention a personal body count under 100 - when they rejected the election results, and announced this plan within hours of realizing Shrillary was toast in 2016.

 

The trail of broken careers in the wake of those who've gone head-on with POTUS since 2017 bodes poorly for the whole Dumbocrat clowncar.

 

The trial in the Senate should also be good for 10-20 indictments once it all rolls out.

Epstein didn't kill himself.

 

And when Leftards lose their mind next November - like they will - you'd all best be ready for Spicy Time.

Not in a metaphorical way, either.

This Penny Is Going To Drop For You. Get Busy.

h/t Fran Porretto



Don't wait until the last minute to get busy. It might be too late.

This word of wisdom from Ned Ryun at American Greatness:

"So if you’re wondering how all of this stops, how we return to normal, I will tell you what a friend  told me: 'There is no normal. There is only Clausewitz.' There is only absolute and total political war on this axis we face until we beat them into an unconditional surrender. The Left wants it that way because they think they can win. They want no holds barred total political war. Since we can’t escape it, I say we give it to them measure for measure."

RTWT.

For the Common Core grads out there, what is referred to is von Clausewitz' classical maxim:

"War is the continuation of politics, by other means."

 

We note in passing that though von Clausewitz never said so, the reverse is also true:

 

Politics is the continuation of war, by other means.

 

The left has been waging war on this presidency since 11/9/2016.

It doesn't matter that they've been firing blanks for going on 3 years, what matters is that they keep reloading and shooting.

 

We're getting to the point where that's going to have to be answered decisively, and not just with mere ridicule, or a strongly worded rebuke.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Politics is war, and they want to throw out any rules, and go for victory by any means necessary. (In their own innate twisted moral calculus.)
That always leads to real war.

 

Every. Single. Time.

 

The Left is continually playing in the streets. (Where, nota bene, you oughtn't play.)

 

Let them. Nothing happens there of note or import, by and large.

But as has been noted times without counting at WRSA and other sites, if they don't stop their nonsense (and they show no signs of any outbreak of common sense, and in fact are more unhinged now than three years ago, if such is possible) the day is going to come when you're going to have to Rooftop Korean.

Not metaphorically.

Not rhetorically.

As Churchill wryly observed, people who won't change their minds, and won't change the subject, are fanatics.

They suffer from deranged lunacy. It progresses to violence, inevitably, and already has.

Every time they've moved to seize power, in every country, for a hundred years and more.

And if they oppose your vote in the polling booth with their votes on the street, you're going to have to vote from the rooftops, and deal with rabid dogs in the time-honored way.

 

 

 

Wrap your head around that. You may be in for the long haul, or you may be One Shot Paddy, but the day is going to come.

 

Save Oklahoma, there isn't a single state in the republic that was all red in 2016. There are probably no precincts that are, anywhere, from coast to coast. You're not fighting NYFC, Hollyweird, or the DC swamp, nor will you be. They're just logistics and air support. Jam their signal and monkeywrench their efforts, and they no longer get any vote.

 

The people you're going to have to sort out, down and dirty, all live within five to twenty miles of where you're sitting, reading this, right now. Bobby O'Rourke, and the witches on The Spew won't be knocking on your door to take your guns, coerce your support, or haul you to the boxcars, come the day. The people who will are already in place nearby, whether you or they know it now. So you may as well face that fact.

 

Nobody landed at Normandy or Iwo Jima tasked with conquering everyone on the other side. They were simply told to take their 10 ft² of beachhead. And then move forward, and take another 10 ft². All the way to Berlin and Tokyo.

 

Your mission will be to locate, close with and destroy the enemy by maneuver, fire, and close combat. Just like everyone in every infantry back to bands of hominids fighting turf battles thousands of years before anyone thought to write it down.

 

They want the fight that's coming, because they can't out-argue it, they couldn't out-vote it (God Bless You, James Madison et al) and they think they're entitled to rule. Worse, they think they're going to win, by divine right, among other reasons, even if their only deity is their bellies, and whatever hive consciousness passes for their minds.

 

We've beaten fanatics like that, in living memory, but generally, you have to get their attention first.

 

Beware the wrath of patient men.

And then make them understand that the alternative to adopting a new worldview is a few facefuls of dirt. Dealer's choice.

 

Nothing less seems to do the trick.

 

If you're not buying a case of canned goods at the market and the sporting goods store every paycheck, you're doing this wrong.

 

And don't forget to spend the time to learn how to use them.
Tools without training are toys.
You don't need hobbies, you need habits.
Get busy.

J&J is Getting Railroaded By Morons, And Why You Care

If you were paying close attention yesterday, you might have heard that some inbred robed fuckwit (and his mental incapacity and jurisprudential shortcomings with that appellation should be considered an extremely light sentence) yesterday awarded plaintiffs against Johnson & Johnson some $572M in damages (out of the $17Billion they asked for), due to opiate overdose deaths in the state of OK.

TL;DR:
This is childish magical thinking and judicial bullshit that should get the judge impeached, disbarred, and stoned at the city gates immediately. Then they should go after his family, the plaintiffs, and plaintiff's shyster lawyers. And then their families.

And OK's state Attorney General and his combined staff of dipshits (who pushed this nonsense) should be lynched, and dragged naked by the heels behind horses over rocks, metal shards, and broken glass for about 200 miles. Then they should turn the horses around, and return those AG @$$holes to the point of origin the same way. After that, and only after that, I'm okay with a full pardon of whatever meatsacks remain.

If you live in OK, walk tall. You've officially surpassed CA and NFY for actual jackassery, by several orders of magnitude, as of right now. Which is saying something. They've really raised the fucktard bar with this one to heights normally only attainable with orbital rocketry.

The next 5000 attempts at this sort of horsesh*t should lead to mass roundups, and conga lines to the gas chambers. For the same group of idiots.

In detail, from Fox Business News on Yahoo:

An Oklahoma judge found Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies liable for stoking the opioid crisis in the state and said the company must pay $572 million, far less the $17 billion that the state was seeking.

Judge Thad Balkman, of Cleveland County District Court in Norman, Oklahoma, is the first judge to rule in the opioid cases brought to trial by thousands of state and local governments against opioid manufacturers and distributors. 

His precedent-setting ruling was being closely watched as 2,000 other pending suits await to be heard before a federal judge in Ohio in October. 

J&J said it plans to appeal Balkman's ruling and that the decision was "flawed."
“Janssen did not cause the opioid crisis in Oklahoma, and neither the facts nor the law support this outcome,” said Michael Ullmann, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Johnson & Johnson. 

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter brought the case to trial for seven weeks, arguing the pharmaceutical company executed an intensive marketing campaign that overwhelmed the market and mislead consumers about the addictive risks of the drug.
Hunter seeks $17 billion to cover all costs related to the state addressing the epidemic for the next 30 years, including treatment and prevention programs. 

Oklahoma lawyers dubbed J&J an opioid “kingpin” and alluded to its marketing tactics as a public health nuisance, under law. However, J&J absolves itself of any misconduct and presented research that said its painkillers, Duragesic and Nucynta, comprised a fraction of opioids prescribed in the state. 

Oklahoma escalated the trial after resolving claims against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP in March for $270 million and against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd in May for $85 million, with only J&J remaining as a defendant.

So, in short, OK  went looking for someone wholly uninvolved, with deep pockets.
And found a judge with an IQ on a par with potted plants (but let's be fair, judges come from lawyers, and the morons don't fall far from the tree there), who looked at the contrary facts and legal doctrine, and decided none of that mattered, then spun his Magic 8-Ball and concluded half a billion dollars of shakedown cash sounded like a good round number.

So first, a little background.

1) Opiate deaths are overwhelmingly caused by heroin and carfentanil (street-cooked synthetic fentanyl, i.e. acetyl fentanyl), - typically the two in combination courtesy of street level pharmaceutical distributors - not by prescription opiates of any kind. I'd spitball it's at a ratio of about 99 to 1, but I may be low-balling the actual numbers for the true percentage of overdoses by street opiates (i.e. it may be 999 to 1 or 9999 to 1).

2) The LD50 of RX-grade fentanyl being unknown, using the Janssen-made Durgesic patches above would require you to slap eighty of them on full-strength, just to get to the highest dosage of Rx tablet. And even then, that still wouldn't kill you.

(We report anecdotally the dumbass we saw in the ER once for possible stroke, upon whom while changing into a gown we found twenty or so of his daily pain patches, each of which are supposed to be removed before putting the new one on the next day. He was wobbly, and seemed impaired/intoxicated, but was alert and with stable vital signs, and once we removed his old patches, his symptoms disappeared in about 15 minutes, and he was released home with no further intervention than a headslap and a serious Dumbass Education Lecture.) In short, Rx fentanyl is responsible for probably roughly zero overdose deaths ever, inclusive, since it was invented. Unless you tried to eat the box, whole, and choked. You'd have to be drinking the stuff in gallon jugs. It's potent but short-acting, and we routinely deliver IV doses 20x the strength of Duragesic patches for simple broken bones, and it wears off in less than an hour, providing nothing but relief of moderate to severe pain with minimal side effects. That's WHY it's used.

3) I don't care if J&J blanketed the airwaves and beamed their ads into your head from space, and gave away multiple truckloads of free samples to every MD in the Okie State, and sold every RX pill they ever got: They are marketing a legal product for legal usage, and the actions of others are not their fault, in reality, or morally, ethically, nor legally, since ever.

Blaming the makers of a legal product, in an excruciatingly highly-regulated trade, for the misdeeds of others using completely different items, whose only similarity is a chemical class, is simply utter horseshit. Such jurisprudence is the hallmark of mental retardation and absolute professional incapacity.

Why you give a fuck:

This case is the equivalent of a judge finding Oneida culpable for forks causing obesity.
It's finding Ticonderoga pencils responsible for causing mistakes on SATs.
And if I haven't made the point blisteringly clear yet,
It's finding Colt, Winchester, Remington, and Ruger guilty for murders and robberies.

It throws all moral agency and legal culpability since Hammurabi on its head, and undoes civilization itself with a penstroke. And Judge Fucktard thought (and I use that term loosely) that was okay.

His law school should revoke his degree tomorrow, and failing that, treating it like Carthage after the Third Punic War should be a baseline recompense for them, too.

If this sort of illegal horseshit is allowed to stand, it's the end of everything since fire and the wheel. I am not exaggerating.

It will start with J&J ceasing all opiate sales to Oklahoma, in perpetuity.
(Hint: they should institute that policy tomorrow. Then refer the howling from hundreds of thousands of agonized senior citizens to Judge Fucktard, and post his home phone number and that of the OK AG on the J&J website for complaints.)
Then every other drug company should follow suit, and will.

It will end with nobody producing anything anywhere, because someone might misuse it, and then sue the guy who made a legal product, just because they have money.

The only difference between this verdict and armed robbery, is that the jackass Judge Fucktard wasn't (as far as we know) wearing a ski mask and doing it with a pistol when he issued his retarded ruling. Otherwise, the difference between this and actual armed robbery is only that.

Judge Fucktard should literally be stripped of office, prosecuted for criminal fuckwittery of a civilizational level, and then taken out back of the courthouse and shot.

And the mentally retarded AG of OKiehoma and all his little fuckwit minions in that office, down to secretarial and janitorial staff, should be next to him, sharing the same fate.
Pour encourger les autres, dulce et decorum est.
Idiot AG Hunter has just highlighted that he needs to be kicked right the fuck out of office, and that the AG is an office the people of OK can do without, until further notice.

And failing this case getting reversed at some level, if and when jurisprudential sanity kicks in, I hope that's exactly what happens to them all.

When you out-Okie entire generations of all Sooner stupidity in one fell swoop, it should leave a mark, and serve as a cautionary tale told around campfire for centuries. If it unleashes pitchfork- and torch-wielding mobs hunting down lawyers for sport from coast to coast, it probably would not go too far, and would be instead a very good start.

Trump 1, Acosta 0: Oh, And You're Fired!

Video links: Everywhere! Here's SeeBSSnooze' version: the key interaction is from about 34:20-37:00.

It's clear from that video that all personal contact was instigated by Acosta, including "chopping" the intern's arm away from him. In 50 states, four U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia, that constitutes misdemeanor battery on Acosta's part, BTW. As this was on federal property and the victim was a federal employee, Acosta should have been arrested by Secret Service uniformed police officers, and still ought to be, so he can explain himself and his actions to a judge and jury in federal court, after they watch the video. And CNN owes women nationwide a full apology for Acosta's casual battery. Gloria Allred gets a whiff of this case, and CNN just paid for that intern's entire graduate schooling, minimum.

When a paid shit-slinging shill for the DNC Communist Party-USA tries to stand toe-to-toe with POTUS, it's like the final battle in Highlander : "there can be only one".

Trump still comes and goes at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; Acosta has been kicked the f**k out of the building indefinitely. About damned time.

And if the gibbering baboon free-for-alls that have characterized daily press conferences don't turn around, he won't be the last one given the bum's rush to the gates. The next such incident is even odds for getting the Press Briefing Room moved permanently across the street to the OEOB, and getting the current room turned back into an indoor swimming pool.

(Personally, I'd do both, and start using the pool to drown reporters, but I'm sentimental like that. "Press Pool" would take on a whole new meaning in the lexicon, and return a healthy amount of decorum back to the monkey circus they've become.)

Important tip for low-IQ J-school grads (but I repeat myself): when POTUS comes around the podium in his house and nearly sorts out your rude assholery on national news, under the rules of Marcus from Queens rather than Marquess of Queensbury rules, you've stepped on your dick with golf cleats, and your next job will be far, far away from the bright lights of D.C. (Note Pres. Trump coming out from behind the podium at 36:07 on that CBS video, and how fast after that point Acosta lets go of the mic and sits his ass down.)

Acosta could prostrate himself on national TV and grovel, and he's still not getting back to the WH beat this side of 2025. 

McCaskill, Donnelly, Heitkamp, Sessions, and Acosta fired within 24 hours?
Pelosi, Waters, Cummings, Schiff, and rookie Guevara-Castro given national microphones 24/7/365 for the next two years?

This is like Christmas in November!

And thus openeth the political campaign to re-elect DJT in 2020.

Bitch-slapping CNN out of the starting gate jumps him to a commanding 20-point lead before the sun even went down on Day One.




{J-school Master's symposium: With a couple of one-liners and a wave of his hand, Pres. Trump flipped the news cycle from endless cock-a-doodle-dooing about the Communists flipping the House, to whether or not most of America thinks the media are a bunch of jackasses. No points for guessing where the crowd lines up on that question. Old School Jedi master at work, right there.}

LARPing Isn't Military Training

h/t Mike @ Cold Fury

This is not a squad. It is an enemy-funded resupply point
to level-up your unarmed teammates.

Antifa has finally crossed the line from thuggish to outright terrorist — and now, as a new bombshell report finds, members of the protest groups are actually crossing into Syria to receive training from ISIS terrorists.

The link for that bit of nonsense should be The Onion.
LARPing isn't "military" training. Neither is AirSoft, or paintball.

As Tom Hanks said in "Sully", "Can we get serious?"

I've told people, on these very pages, to get militarily basically trained (i.e. individual skills), and then go get their family/tribe/small group to actual live hands-on Small Unit Training (SUT in mil-speak) from the folks in the right column. That's for defending their community in the event of SHTF eventualities.

That might even go so far as rural patrolling to a range of a couple/few miles, or in town to the distance of a couple of blocks, depending on the environment in place at the time.

Just so we're clear, that is not conducting offensive operations on any level above maybe squad-size (about a dozen guys, for the uninitiated). If you think that's small, posit your imaginary platoon of 30-40, then tally up the logistical requirements to transport 30-40 men anywhere not including just their boots, feed them three squares a day indefinitely, supply them with everything they need for a notional 6 month campaign - beans, bullets, bandaids, POL, and everything else 40 or so guys need to operate competently for months on top of months, and come back to me with that number, in US$. (Food alone, at institutional cut-rate prices, let alone acquiring, storing, preparing, and transporting it, is $30K-$60K+, all by itself.) I can count the people who could do that, nationwide, out of their own pocket, who also have the will, inclination, numbers of people, and actual means to do that, on my fingers. Probably, on my thumbs.

It's an enterprise larger than most civilian police forces in the country, i.e. more than half of them are that small, or smaller. 8000-man brigades and 15,000-man division-level police forces take a Los Angeles-, Chicongo-, or NYFC-sized civil budget, in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, annually. And there are only a handful of those, a few dozen, tops, if we count every agency with more than 1000 officers. You, Joe Average, would have trouble just getting a Mayberry Sheriff's Dept.-sized unit, in 99.9999% of all cases.

And the Antifa-tards are worse off than that, and don't know what they don't know. Look what happens when they try to organize anything over a few hours, and what a Somalian hell-hole their group efforts resemble overnight for an urban campout with flush toilets and open Starbucks only yards away, in case after case after case. They lack the organizational skills to manage a successful Cub Scout weekend campout, FFS.

There's a reason Teddy Roosevelt was the last guy to raise a private Army regiment in U.S. history. It's simply no longer practical, by any standard.

The Left is receiving "military" training, but only if you extend that word to include the 0-forever Syrians. Even the Syrian Army has to stoop to ISIS to find someone incompetent enough that they can beat.

And they're getting their training from the current second-place winners in the Syrian Intramural Combat Games? Well-played, Antifa. I'm quaking in my boots. (And I have a several year supply of just those. How about you, leftist LARPers? Got logistics? No, of course you don't.)

It takes three months to make a Marine from scratch, and another month-plus afterwards to make him an apprentice junior infantryman. It can't be done in 6 hours of LARPing at a weekend fantasy combat course, and you can't download the curriculum and then "get" it. It also requires an institutional apparatus - like tens of thousands of conscientious and well-trained and experienced NCOs, just for openers - which adult supervision the Left is sorely and entirely lacking, along with a logistical foundation about which they're wholly ignorant.

The Left is training to go from being targets, to being armed enemy targets.

That's only "military" training if you aspire to be the redcoats on the march home from Concord Bridge.

Bullets fly, and this is what they'll look like, times everywhere:

















And once the shooting starts, they may discover to their new-found horror, that the other side won't respect the sovereign sanctity of mommy's basement, and may in fact follow them inside and continue to march, stomp a mudhole in their sunken chests, and then move to the next house.

Actually, "Yes, we can!" But go ahead and call that toss in the air.

They've only ever been tolerable and tolerated, as a peacetime "loyal" opposition.
If this goes hot, they're now a national luxury, and they'll be gone in short order. Partly by mass desertion and/or voluntary self-deportation and exile, and the rest of the way by mass extermination, in perpetuity.

And we've seen that exact response, time after time, going back to Moldylocks taking one good overhand right in the face for the team. She hasn't been to another protest since then.
(Word to the soi bois: this is what happens when you start believing your own PR, and think women = infantry. Major fail.)

Transitioning to an armed rebellion actual enemy combatant force will be an extinction level event for the entire Leftism Inc. cause, and the cleansing that follows is liable to go all the way to their NWO corporate sponsors right from the get-go. With some notable gusto, and there won't be any military or law enforcement response to save them should that bottle become uncorked.

We don't have a military that could take on 1/2 of 1% of the civilians in this country if they armed themselves, short of the unrestricted use of nuclear weapons.

The police are even worse off.

And both would suddenly be minus a safe homebase, were they foolish enough to enter that fray.

And they all both KNOW this, which is why if things go pear-shaped, they're out of the game until it's over. They'll either stand down, or start the chess game with all pawns, and no major pieces, from the outset. (Because it's tough to fight a war when your home is in occupied territory, your airfield is getting sniped before you take off, your perimeter is overrun, and your families are hostage before you even issue weapons at the armory. If you've very prudent, you lock yourselves inside the gates, and stay indoors on post until it's all over.)

As Casey Stengel used to tell people, "you could look it up".

Soros & Co. should consult the bio of Adolph Eichmann for how things end for them, kicking at the end of a rope. Rental security will be nowhere around when the mob arrives, and they're going to die hanging from trees in their front yards.

There is some precedent to how we deal with those who fuck with us, let alone on our home turf. Those unclear should consult no less an authority than Wikipedia, that bastion of historical precision, and see how the second-place side fared in open conflict.

Yorktown
New Orleans
San Jacinto
Chapultepec
San Juan Hill
Belleau Wood
Midway
Tarawa
Normandy
Bastogne
Dresden
Berlin
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Linebacker II

Antifa and the entire Lunatic left wouldn't make the patch on a jacket of the least-competent opponent in any of those contests. They'll barely make it worth the trouble to sharpen the bayonets.

But if they really insist, they'll do, in a pinch, to suffice for "enemy".

And when we piss on your corpses, they'll be no Marquess of Queensbury showtrials afterwards to chide nor punish us for the contempt we'll golden-shower onto your remains, with deep-felt sincerity.

Best would be a sudden dawning of realization before that point, retreat to their videodromes, lick their wounds, and realize they haven't the requisite body parts for such a contest. This will not be David vs. Goliath. It will be Bambi vs. Godzilla.

And some folks on my side of the fence can't wait to get it over with, once and for all.

Antifa, hiding behind their masks, thinks that mobbing old guys and women, and taking pepper spray makes them tough customers. I don't think, deep down, they really want to try their hand at watching their own guts spill out in their hands, or cradling their dead friends with only half a head left.

This isn't a game, leftard jackasses. Dead is forever. For which we will give sincere thanks, and remember not a whit, nor mourn your blustering ex-buffoons for a single moment.
It will be as if you never existed, ever, for all the mark you'll leave behind afterward. We'll simply burn the corpses, hose off the pavement, and get on with our lives and society, suddenly lightened by the permanent removal from civilization of the metric fucktons of the former deadweight you represent.

But I'll give the last words on this to Mike:

"It’s only to be expected that largely comfortable, prosperous, stable people will be reluctant to go to war. As the Left’s provocations become ever more severe, though, that reluctance will likely evaporate. 

The upcoming election, along with 2020 (should we make it that far), might just be the last desperate chance at resolving this conflict peacefully. I have serious doubts about just how good a chance that really is."

The Shark Jump Yet To Come

In case you thought the recent shenanigans were Peak Crazy, we have bad news for you.
It could very well be that was all just a set-up for what happens next.

Later today, we may (or not) see Judge Kavanaugh confirmed to the vacant seat on SCOTUS.

Either way, in less than a month, the chickens from all the Dumbocrat mind-loosing will come home to roost, and may turn the electoral wave from blue to red. (Be still, my beating heart.)
HopeyDopey got the Left President Trump. The Kavanaugh Caper could get them slaughtered (metaphorically) in the mid-terms. And how pleasant that would be. Even more so if it turns into a two-fer.

And at any time after today on into November, or beyond, the Leftardian legions may finally unleash their unhinged end game, and go full retard. Not metaphorically.



Fran Porretto explains:

" ...the Left can get down to what it’s held in reserve ever since Donald Trump denied Hillary Clinton the presidency. Make no mistake: it’s coming:

     We are now learning that left-wing domestic terrorism groups are openly discussing “kill team” tactics on Twitter and Facebook, discussing methods of carrying SBRs (short-barreled rifles) under their clothing, blending in with crowds, then popping out of the crowds to assassinate prominent conservatives such as U.S. Senators, Supreme Court justices and prominent conservative radio personalities. All this was first reported by PJ Media."

Well, okay. None of that is beyond the realm of possibility, nor unexpected.

The only thing liable to be a surprise, once again for Team Stupid, if they mistake their fantasy-fuelled LARPing for how things are in Real Life, is that things like that won't work out the way they think they will.

Hugo Chavez Elected To Run Social Media

Ask the laughingstock government of Britistan how this approach worked out with Tommy Robinson.

We note directly the ham-fisted attempt to bludgeon contrary voices, in this case Alex Jones, into oblivion, by our would-be Communist Thought Police overlords.

A number of opinions have been expressed, and will continue to be.

1) This isn't the cake-baking argument.
You can play that card when anyone can bake a cake.
You cannot make it when you own all the ovens, flour, sugar, and eggs, in existence.
It's one thing for some schlub on Food Network to self-proclaim himself The Boss Of Cake.

You want the 2:40 timehack.

It's another thing entirely when, simply due to overall government reluctance to intervene, one attempts to declare one's corporation the arbiter of all political thought on the internet, simply because one can. Ask the late John Brown how that sort of attempt is taken by the actual PTB.

2) Besides the obvious marketplace backlash ($100B in stock market value loss later, Facebook is starting to get the hint, and when the stockowners and SEC get through, there's about to be a yuuuuuge change in corporate directorship there), this will become the worst of all possible worlds: the government will get the camel's nose into the tent and start regulating the Goolag monopoly as what it is, and break it up.

Alex Jones is merely the election of Hugo Chavez to venezuelanize social media. They're in the process of burning down their own house. Because they can.
{cf.: major Hollywood studios}

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