Kapitan Ahabski Demands: "Get.That. Whale!"

 

We have a banana republic fraudulent selectee who shits his pants and babbles incoherently.

Russia has a psychotic megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur. (Cue the anonymous butthurt poo-flinging monkeys in comments.)

Now he's trying the 800 lb. Gorilla Bluff, to buy his way out of the most epic politico-military miscalculation of modern history. Perhaps by the kiloton.

He blames the West for rattling the nuclear saber, when he himself has done it first, times beyond counting since December.

He's scapegoating his own forces' manifest total incompetence, and inability to prosecute what should have been a week-long occupation, onto NATO Nazis directly making war on his drunken bumpkins. He's forgotten that the only people in Russia who fought actual Nazis are 95 years or more old, or dead. Mostly dead.

And he thinks he can bluster this into a "democratic" solution amidst the war he initiated by annexing the Sudentenland and Alsace after a fake election or three, in which he'll win 137% of the votes. Yeah, everyone will fall for that.

He fiddles faster, while Rome burns. And his alliances of convenience with China and India are getting shakier by the day, right before his eyes. His own "allies" aren't buying the bullshit anymore.

Greatest probabilities? This ends one of two ways:

1) This asshole has no choice but to go all-in on his busted straight, and he starts a global thermonuclear war. (Because just what you want to do when your best troops can't handle a neighbor fighting at 1/10th your strength, is to get more countries wanting to take you on.)

2) He has a 9mm stroke through the earhole, his brains are scattered all over the desktop opposite him, the general with the smoking gun throws in the cards, and there's a sudden change in leadership in Russia.

There is no likely third way out that's anything but a distant hope.

At any rate, these are exactly the actions of a desperate man, losing his war soundly, not someone waging 47D chess against a puny upstart. Even those gargling his junk have to see that, and admit the obvious.

(BTW, the Ukrainian offensive, north and south, hasn't halted, merely slowed, and Russian forces are continuing to get their asses handed to them and/or retreat faster than they can stabilize their lines. How sad.)

And your entire future on this planet comes down to the sanity and circumspection of his senior military and political staff. The fate of the world now hangs on the wisdom and sobriety of senior Russian generals.

Oh, Greeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaat. What could possibly go wrong?

Got bunker?

This guy is Hitler in the bunker, ordering counterattacks by divisions that no longer exist, as the rubble sifts from the ceiling onto his maps.

Cue the rant meme videos. They'll be absolutely accurate.

And best be working on some underground habitat.

No, REALLY.

Putin has forgotten the obvious: No one negotiates with terrorists.

If he expects a diplomatic solution, Step One is to march all his dipshits back into actual Russia, and return to the status quo ante. Which, at this point, would probably include returning Crimea to Ukraine too, before any further discussions.

No? GFY. Enjoy the Grad Soufflé with Shrapnel Sauce.

R.I.H.: Gorby >spit!<

If you can't figure out why he should R.I.H., you're either too young, too historically ignorant, or both, for further discussion. Being the Diet Coke of Evil is still evil, and being only fractionally less of a despot doesn't equate to being a good guy.

But in his favor, he's now finally become a Good Communist. Good riddance.

Paranoia Will Destroy Ya

 

1) Moving nukes closer is bluster. All they do is change the flight time - for the tactical nukes - from 4 minutes to 3 minutes. Big whoop.

2) When the entire rest of the continent, and most of the world is convinced you're dangerously batshit crazy, waving a loaded gun around and megalo-maniacally threatening them with it isn't likely to calm them down. It is likely to confirm all their worst fears about you, down to their marrow. And Russian military and territorial aggression, coupled with manifest military ineptitude, (which wasn't the case in 1950, or even 1980), is making that decision an easy one to make

3) When threatening your neighbors is your go-to response for everything you don't like, they're going to devote every waking moment to doing the opposite of what you want, and the first chance they get, they're going to throw a net over you, disarm you for good, forever, and lock you in a lunatic asylum until you die. True for people, true for nations.

4) Russia's less-than-proficient military performance is liable to let everyone in on that secret, and make generals everywhere think that attacking Russia to depose Putin is a lemon worth the squeezing.

5) Defending those additional borders saps more military resources Russia doesn't have to spare even now. Go Vlad, go! Shoot your other foot: it's got bells on.

Putin's ambitions to re-establish the "glory" of Russia under International Socialism is blowing up in his face. Figuratively today, and literally tomorrow. The sooner someone in Russia shoots the sonofabitch in the head and unloads the entire magazine there, the safer the world gets for the next 50 years. And if the Russians won't do it, the West is inevitably going to step up to the plate, and they're going to hedge him in with a fence of swords and spears against which he cannot prevail, and so formidable he'll never dare try. Russia is going to become the Carthage of the 21st century, and it's all because of Putin. China is going to dine on Russia's entrails, from Siberia halfway to Moscow. And Moscow's future? To become Mariupol.

Mining the Cornucopia of Fail is something Putin can continue to do for some good amount of time. But not without consequence. And not forever.

Virginia etc.

 

Today's several elections will determine not only the results of their respective races, but whether we do and will have democratic elections in this republic at all, anywhere, or whether all such attempts are hopelessly corrupted forever, going forward, by malign and specific intent.

Per all expectations in VA, McAuliffe is going to get his ass handed to him. If he pulls this out on the strength of fortuitous dumps of photocopied mail-in ballots by the bushel at 2 A.M., you can stick a fork in the republic, beyond further dispute.

The country has already seen the presidency and the senate stolen by these means, and it's unlikely the Leftards will stop using a cheat they've mastered so well, just to preserve the simulacrum of voter choice.

Either way, it's good. Heads we win, tails they lose.

Our warmest best wishes go to the people of Virginia and New Jersey, and hope against sober expectation that they regain control of their states from the cabal of statists. (NYFC can basically suck it, and live with what they've wrought, because we loves us some epicaricacy. Mayor Sliwa would be comedy gold, were it within possibility. Staten Island should rebel, and declare themselves an independent municipality. NYFC annexing the rest of Long Island in response would be a better outcome all around, and let the Libtards there live under the home rules they've created.)

But if that is yet again seen as impossible from the outset, by yet more ham-fistedly obvious shenanigans, we hope it serves to wake up a bigger swath of clueless Normies, happily watching sportsball and thinking everything is just fine.

Either way, it's bad for the enemies of civilization, and that's good for us.

Thanks For Being Up Front With Us

 

"And don't forget, Big Pharma: That's 10% to the Big Guy."

Other related news:

Leftard Whiplash  (h/t Kenny)

OzCom, Fifteen Seconds Ago

OzCom Prime Minister Quisling Announces New Policy

OzCom Is Now Run By Full-Bore OzHoles

h/t Peter , John , and Mike

OzCom unveils new national flag.

RTWT, and weep.

It's really that bad there, and if anything, all four of us have understated it.

They have moved from parliamentary democratic republic to full-bore Orwellian Communist dictatorship in about 0.2 seconds. Even Russia and China didn't fall to communism this fast.

And this response is nominally to a virus, in a country of some 26M souls, which has killed fewer people there total than have died to date from it in just our own District of Criminals hereabouts (1,032 dead in Oz, total). Using COVID as a beard for this draconian over-reach is weak sauce: this is pure unquenched lust for totalitarian control, and nothing else.

As BCE memed on another topic,

Their former government has now forfeited once and for all time, any further claim to legitimacy in anyone's eyes, anywhere.

Commensurately, any former social contract between the government and the governed there, or any former allies, is irreparably broken.

Any action against that government is therefore entirely within bounds, not least of which for every member of same, from dog catchers to prime minister, and necessarily includes stringing them up by the neck, or putting same up against a wall and summarily executing them, or any lesser included response.

Open season, screw the bag limits.

That means wherever and whenever found, short of open and public renunciation of said government by any former members, and joining active resistance with the people of the Commonwealth of Australia to depose that government forthwith.

And lest ye forget, write this lesson on your palm with indelible marker:

WHEN ANY GOVERNMENT DEMANDS YOUR GUNS, ALWAYS TURN THEM IN BULLETS FIRST, TO EACH AND EVERY OFFICIAL OF THAT GOVERNMENT YOU MEET.

God may have mercy on the sons of bitches now running the People's Republic of Australia (henceforth known as OzCom).

No one else should, but arranging the meeting is now entirely within the bounds of civilized behavior.

When a government flips so completely, and so rapidly, the deep rot was into the very bones of that republic, and moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no longer any virtue.

In short, in and for Oz,

IT'S OFFICIALLY TIME TO START SHOOTING THE BASTARDS IN THE FACE.

Sleep tight, America. That's OzCom, not here.

IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE,...RIGHT?!?

O, if only someone had warned them about this.

We note FTR that we specifically warned where things in OzCom were headed on this blog back on August 18th, but were assured in Comments by trusted local sources Down Under that we were over-reacting to internet hokum and hyperbole.

Those rules are written in blood.

And shall be underlined the same way.

The Science Is Irrefutable

 

But this stopped being about science and medicine over a year ago.

PSA: Tap Codes

 h/t Matt Bracken, WRSA, and over two thousand Vietnam POWs

Many reports put the K with J, rather than C.
Either approach works.

This is the famous Tap Code, introduced by Col. Carlyle Harris, at such garden spots as the Hanoi Hilton, Alcatraz, the Briar Patch, and numerous other Vietnam luxury accommodations for American POWs, where they were treated to rotten pumpkin soup with bugs and worms, with a bit of spoiled rat meat on holidays, like Lenin's and Ho Chi Minh's Birthday, in between having their shoulders and hips dislocated with bamboo poles, while having the soles of their feet beaten with strips of old tires, for the sport and occasional intel gathering of the Soviet Union, Red China, and North Vietnam.

They were kept in solitary confinement for their entire stays, some for up to 9+ years, until the last couple of weeks before B-52s blowing hell out of Hanoi convinced NVN that giving them back, and laying off South Vietnam was in their best interest, unless they wanted a rubble pile for a country.

North Vietnam still got off too lightly, and we should have nuked them on general principles.

Their extra-curricular activities undoubtedly broke, maimed, and disfigured most of the POWs they held for life, which was why they only released the prettiest and least-disfigured fraction (596) of the men we knew (estimates up to 2500+) they were holding. (FTR, they released the last 13 French POWs from Dien Bien Phu, from 1954, sixteen years later, long after that debacle and the subsequent French withdrawal.) The US POWs they undoubtedly shipped onwards to the Soviet Union and China - senior SAC and B-52 guys with loads of valuable intel in their heads during the Cold War - or held themselves for further torture and amusement, either died in captivity, most after 1973, or they were simply executed at some point, to a metaphysical certainty - when the commie bastards running Vietnam to this day and still holding them prisoner got tired of feeding them and playing with them because they'd run out of things to do to them. Anyone alive now would be in their 70s or 80s, extremely unlikely given that sort of treatment. They're almost certainly dead at this point in time. They're not forgotten, and what they left us includes the Tap Code.

But I digress.

The key to using the Tap Code, is understanding how to use the box, above, info that was somewhat glossed over in the links above.

It is properly used by going down, and then right, for each letter.

As noted in the exemplar at WRSA and by MB, abbreviations can be, and were, used.

"Gob Bless You" became "GBU".

Most of you already know what BFYTW stands for.

Using tap code, that would become:

One tap, two taps

Two taps, one tap

Five taps, four taps

Four taps, four taps

Five taps, two taps

Numbers are simply numbers, 1-9. (Z or O can be substituted for zero.)

Here's a bit more explanation from the originator:

That, plus memory, allowed guys in a 5'x5' darkened cell to know the names of everyone in their cell block, everyone in their prison, every name of every POW captured, and trade Bible passages, song lyrics, personal stories and details, and anything else, and keep it in their heads indefinitely.

Pray to a merciful deity this remains wartime arcana from before you were born, and doesn't become day-to-day useful. Because commies do what commies do. Every. Single. Time.

"When We Hang The Capitalists, They Will Sell Us The Rope..."

 

Government Spending We'd Like

We read that the DemoCommunists want to fund a Civilian Climate Corps to combat globull warmism.

Yet all is not lost.

Provided the program proposes to collect up 50,000-100,000 of the most strident of the deluded Chicken Little kooks still preaching that unmasked con-job, and send them with buckets of water to the Sun via rocket ship, we state for the record that we will sign their petition, purchase their newsletter, and march in their parade the day the first hundred or so are duly launched into space for a rendezvous with the morning sun. Will further pledge to add a 10% sweetener to our stipend for the program provided they live-televise the crews' arrival at Sol to begin work to combat rising planetary temperatures at the source. The planetary IQ hereabouts would go up 5 points a shipment, indefinitely.

We also wouldn't mind if they referred to it as the Civilian Climate Corps Program, officially.

The acronym CCCP is manifestly appropriate for anything to do with such Leftarded hogwash.

What Are Ya Gonna Do, Shave My Head And Send Me To 'Nam?

 

Nothing To See Here Dept.