Finally, some evidence of right wing domestic terrorism

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Oct 082020
 

Recent months have seen a  lot of histrionics about “right wing domestic terrorism,” including tarring the Proud Boys as white supremacists, while kinda ignoring the fact that their leader is this guy:

Yeah, not exactly standard white supremacist leadership material, but, hey, what are facts doing trying to get in the way of a narrative?

So, after half a year of leftists doing billions in property damage, directly murdering dozens and indirectly murdering hundreds to thousands by:

  1. Tying up police and fire resources
  2. Advocating for the defunding of police, in many cases succeeding, leading to greatly reduced policing in many areas

… the media continues to enable leftist violence and mayhem and murder while screeching about nearly universally phantom right wing violence. Until today! Finally, something for them to crow about!

13 charged in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said:
“The individuals in (state) custody are suspected to have attempted to identify the home addresses of law enforcement officers in order to target them, made threats of violence intended to instigate a civil war, and engaged in planning and training for an operation to attack the capitol building of Michigan and to kidnap government officials, including the governor of Michigan.”
Yes, indeed, bad people planning bad things. But take the first two claims: targeting law enforcement officers and threatening violent insurrection. UMMMMMMM… hello, ALL THE REST OF 2020???
 Posted by at 5:27 pm

The Trump Train

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Sep 302020
 

I watched the debate last night. I sat there aghast the whole time thinking “This. This, right here… this is a ᛋᚺᛁᛏ show.” Now, it seemed to me that whoever was in charge of getting Gropey Joe his meds was on the ball; he didn’t have as many senior moments as I expected. But I think Trump… man, I dunno. He was a little too Trumpey, I thought. But what the hell do I know. I thought sure he was doomed to utter defeat in 2016, and instead Hillary is now a minor footnote in the annals of political corruption.

Trump is, in my opinion, a rather horrible person. Why? Because of his behavior. But Biden? He is also a horrible person… because of his politics, who he pals around with, who he enables and supports. As much of a clown as Trump is, his *policies* are pretty damn good. Gropey Joe certainly would not have given us the USSF. What he would give us is the Harris Administration, which is on course towards getting that Civil War II underway. So… if it’s the choice between a vulgarian boor with sensible policies and a Creepy Comrade, I’m’a voting for the clown.

And it’s clear that the performance enhancers that Biden was on that allowed him to more or less withstand Trump last night have faded off today:

 Posted by at 1:54 pm

Electrifying cars

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Sep 102020
 

As you’ll recall from the Disney flick “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,” one of the defensive features of the submarine Nautilus was the ability to electrify the outer surface. Thus when the sub was boarded by a bunch of cannibals while high-centered on a coral reef, Captain Nemo threw a switch and the invaders got electrozapped until they retreated off the boat.

Watching recent episodes of criminals in the street swarming cars and preventing them from proceeding, it occurs to me that the ability to flip a switch and electrify the outer panels of the vehicle might be a useful ability. Someone throws themselves onto your vehicle, you could gently persuade them with 50,000 volts of persuasion to get *off* your vehicle. Is this a practical possibility? Would it require so much modification so as to be essentially a whole new vehicle? I kinda think you’d have to have a non-conductive fiberglass skin with metal studs every few centimeters, each pair connected to a reduced-power version of a stun gun. Modern computer and sensor systems would allow the system to select which set of studs to electrify based on pressure; Tesla-level cameras and whatnot should allow the system to *see* where threats are and adjust the Dumbass Deflector accordingly. That seems like a whole lot of bother to go to, but as we start slipping deeper into the Cthulhu Era, this sort of thing might be more and more reasonable.

Alternatives to electrification:

  1. Skin panels that get real hot. 200F should probably do it. Energy intensive.
  2. Skin panels that vibrate unpleasantly. Probably noisy and heavy.
  3. Skin panels that “sweat.” Anything from simple water to skunk stank.
  4. Combine 1 and 4: skin panels that emit hot steam. This could be simplified with discrete emitters underneath or between panels. Especially around the front grill, which is where most of the problems lie anyway.
  5. Skin panels that project small, short points, like thumbtacks. Heavy again.
  6. Back to 3… but it sweats *glue.* If they’re going to plop themselves onto your car, making them stick there could prove entertaining, if probably illegal. But here’s the thing: if it’s illegal for *you* to detain them, why isn’t it illegal for them to detain *you*?
 Posted by at 11:53 pm

“Birds of Prey:” an incomplete review

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Sep 032020
 

A lot of people don’t like the DC “cinematic universe” movies like “Batman V Superman,” “Suicide Squad” and “Justice League.” I like them… ok. They have flaws, but for the most part I find them entertaining enough that in the Before Times I saw most of them in theaters. But I didn’t go to see “Birds of Prey,” largely because:

1: It just didn’t look good or interesting

2: There was a lot of woke rubbish about it.

It is now on HBO/Hulu. So a few days ago i fired it up while doing CAD work. If nothing else, I have the TV on as background noise; I can binge watch half a season of some show or other while working and, when I finally look up from my screen, realize that X hours have gone by and I’ve absorbed absolutely none of what transpired on the TV. So with that in mind, judge for yourself what it means that I got something like 30 or so minutes into “Birds of Prey” and intentionally turned it off. It’s badness was so overpowering that it blew right through my ramparts of inertia, inattention and indifference. That is, in a way, rather impressive.

 Posted by at 2:23 am

Boy, those lines collapse *fast*

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Sep 012020
 

Gee, when cops are actually allowed to do their jobs, those badasses in Antifa turn out to just be larping weenies.

Prepare yourself for the feel-good movie of the summer:

This whole summer of insanity could have been nipped in the bud if the mayors of Antifa-infested towns had simply allowed their police to police. Around here, the riots lasted… one night, maybe? The night it started, not only did the local cops show up to say “not just no, but hell no,” cops from nearby towns showed up. Cops from another state showed up. The police told the rioting morons that their nonsense would not be allowed and told them loudly enough and with sufficient backup. And what did the rioters do? Tucked tail and went home (after killing a few of their own, because of course they did). There have been threats and rumors since then, the odd door kicked in (one of the comic books shops near me got kicked in, as did the closest thing to a model kit-equipped hobby shop, because of course they did), but nothing like the nonsense in Portland or Chicago.

Watching this and other videos makes it clear that while Antifa and their ilk are certainly ready willing and able to carry out acts of violence and terrorism, they are themselves little more than cardboard cutouts. They truly are NPCs, programmed to make a loud noise and chuck the odd Molotov cocktail, but they largely seem ill prepared to stand up to even halfassed resistance from the good guys.

 Posted by at 6:35 pm

Moonbase

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Aug 252020
 

The Trump campaign published their second term agenda. It is pretty much a list of what you’d expect… generic reasonable aspirations and talking point, few of which are even remotely controversial. Behold:

Trump Campaign Announces President Trump’s 2nd Term Agenda: Fighting for You!

The agenda says this about the space program:

Launch Space Force, Establish Permanent Manned Presence on The Moon and Send the First Manned Mission to Mars

Which is frankly not a whole hell of a lot. Of course, this being 2020, “not even remotely controversial” results in “I’ll take that challenge” from the usual crowd. Behold an entire opinion piece written to decry those few words about the moon:

Trump Wants a Moonbase

In case you’re wondering about the quality of the piece and it’s author and don;t wish to give them clicks, here’s a summary:

Last night, Trump released his second term agenda, incredibly specific guidelines for xenophobic totalitarian rule sprinkled with pipe dreams. Among the former is the usual parade of fascistic talking points: “teach American exceptionalism,” prosecute the “violent extremist” group antifa, deport “non-citizen gang members,” hold China “accountable” for covid-19, eliminate sanctuary cities. The latter variety is contrasted with such gems as “return to normal in 2021” and establish a “permanent” “manned presence” on the moon.

A base. On the moon. A moonbase, if you will.

Uh-huh. Note what the author considers fascism: enforcing laws against rioting and arson and assault and murder and illegal immigration. More specific to determining the value of the author:

he somehow bloated the military with a Space Force, in spite of the total absence of warfare in space currently.

Huh. There’s no war in space *now,* so there’s no need to plan for it.

GENIUS!

But even more… are we sure there’s no war in space right now? Are we absolutely certain?

Bah. Journalism is dead.

 Posted by at 2:13 pm

Not a good year for Goodyear

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Aug 202020
 

So a photo came out claiming to show a slide at a “diversity” class at Goodyear, the manufacturer of tires. The slide showed what is, and is not, acceptable political sloganeering on employee clothes during work hours, and it’s kinda remarkable:

In short, according to this slide it is acceptable to show off left-wing slogans, but not right-wing or centrist slogans.

This, rather predictably, caused a bit of a kerfuffle, including a tweet by Trump suggesting that people buy their tires from someone other than Goodyear:

 

And so Goodyear’s PR people banged out a reply where they claim no ownership of the slide or the diversity “training” session:

And now audio has come out that supports the original story that Goodyear had a policy allowing leftist propaganda, but not centrist or right-wing:

And so now Goodyear has responded *again,* this time admitting that the slide was indeed from a diversity mind control session and that the slide was prepared by a Goodyear employee, but that it somehow does not reflect Goodyear’s positions. Further, they will now allow employees to show support for the police (but apparently not for the radical notion that all lives matter):

Goodyear is of course a private company and thus can crank out whatever rules they like.  But blatantly partisan rules such as these are bound to create strife. Especially when a simpler and far more equitable and fair solution – not to mention one less likely to result in employees beating the tar out of each other – is to simply ban all political expressions on company property. No signs, pins, shirts, hats. Zero, zip, nada. Quick and easy, perfectly legal, completely fair. But no, they wanted to appear woke and *specifically* allowed employees to display support for an organization, founded by Marxists, currently at the forefront of a wave of criminality and misery sweeping Americas cities. How did they think this would work out well for them?

Goodyear may have themselves a problem. But another issue is concerning, and not for the first time: that original image of the offending slide would have been simplicity itself for *anyone* to create with Powerpoint. Post a fake image online, and BOOM, a major corporation takes a shot to the nads. Now in this case, it’s looking more and more like it’s an accurate depiction of an actual Goodyear indoctrination session… but it would be easy to fake. People really should hold their fire for just a little bit just to make sure that they’re not being hoodwinked.

 Posted by at 5:49 pm

Fundraisers of note

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Aug 182020
 

Personally, I’d recommend spending every spare dollar on the APR Patreon or the Monthly Historical Documents Program, but if you have anything left, take a look at these:

Justice for Cannon

A fundraiser for the family of Cannon Hinnant, the five-year-old who was assassinated by his neighbor and ignored by the national press until pestered into a grudging acknowledgement. As of this writing, the goal of the fundraiser is $5,000, of which they have so far raised $798,024.

And…

Adam Haner fund

Haner is a guy who was set upon by Antifa/BLM “mostly peaceful protesters” a few nights ago and beaten into a hospital for the crime of driving a truck on a street. The fundraiser there is a more ambitious $120,000, of which $93,084 has been raised.

 

And remember, kids: it is just as good and proper to refer to them as “mostly peaceful protesters” as it is to refer to a spousal abuser who only one day out of four or five beats his wife black and blue as a “mostly peaceful loving husband.”

 

 Posted by at 10:03 pm

The League of Shadows is apparently winning

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Aug 162020
 

In the “Dark Knight” movies, the League of Shadows is busy trying to destroy Gotham City. Partly because Gotham is rotten and corrupt, but also because destroying things is just what the League of Shadows does. The League used means both subtle (economics) and gross (chemical weapons and bombs) to achieve this, but of course Batman was there to stop them and let Gotham keep limping along.

In the real world, New York City has no Batman. But it *does* seem to have its own League of Shadows in the form of Bill Deblasio, Fredo Cuomo, AOC, Antifa and the Democratic Party.

NYC IS DEAD FOREVER. HERE’S WHY

New York (city and state) and its terrible politicians are not at fault for the WuFlu; that would be the Chinese Communist Party. But they are responsible for some of what has happened as a result. Lockdowns were pretty much inevitable. But what wasn’t inevitable were two week quarantines for people visiting the state (which pretty much precludes non-New Yorkers from even contemplating vacationing there), along with checkpoints where the police Ask For Your Papers. And at the same time that these checkpoints are being set up, and domestic terror groups like Antifa are ramping up their criminality… New York City just ripped a billion dollars out of the NYPD’s budget. And New York is releasing prisoners in large numbers in order to empty out the prisons (as a Wu Flu measure) at the same time that the shooting rate is spiking nearly 300% from the same period a year ago, while pretty much all crime is way up.

People and businesses are realizing that a whole lot of jobs do not require you to be in an office every day; you can work from home quite effectively. As a result, there is less need to be in a big expensive city like NYC. And given that the local economy is collapsing due to Commie Cough issues and democratic Party shenanigans, a *lot* of New Yorkers are either fleeing the city or being driven out. As they go, they will take their income tax and property tax with them, meaning that more and more of the tax burden will fall on fewer and fewer people… who will thus be further incentivized to bail the frak out of NY C and S.

It’s unlikely that New York City will become a true ghost town; nor is it likely that it will get bulldozed and returned to a state of nature. but New York city might well turn into Detroit writ large. And the League of Shadows will have won.

But you kinda have to wonder why they want to ruin NYC.

 Posted by at 8:44 pm

“Where are all the gun nuts now?”

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Jul 252020
 

Ever since the feds actually started arresting a tiny fraction of the violent rioters tearing apart cities like Portland, the riot-enablers have started screeching that *this* is the fascist government that gun-nuts have been paranoid about, and that they should charge into the cities to stand side-by-side with the Marxists and black supremacists.  This view has even appeared on this blog in the comments section.

Here is a good response to that view, written a month and a half ago:

Where are all you gun owners now?

It’s a somewhat lengthy rant, but it boils down to:

Snort. ᚠᚢᚳk off. 😃

The two main points are:

1) The people whining about the lack of gun enthusiasts coming to their aid are the same ones who have spent their lives whining about the *existence* of gun enthusiasts.

2) Who started this? Wasn’t the gun enthusiasts, but the gun grabbers.

The rioters are using kinetic energy weapons, beam weapons and chemical combustion weapons in an effort to cause damage, injuries and death. A lot of this is aimed at local businesses and local government; the local governments should therefore send in the police and National Guard to quell the insurrections. But in some cases, such as Portland, they’re not. The reasons for this are utterly baffling given that the insurrection would happily behead the local government officials who are protecting and enabling them. But the same Marxist motherᚠᚢᚳkers are also using the same tactics and weapons against *Federal* sites. The United States has seen this before… an insurrection of criminals and villains trying to take down a Federal facility. One time that site was called “Fort Sumter,” and the end result wasn’t so good for the insurrectionists or their cause, and few rational people argue that the Feds were wrong to respond.

So, rather than an army of gun enthusiasts marching into Portland to stand should to shoulder with the same ill-bred, ill-educated ill-thinking morons who have spent generations mocking them, the gun enthusiasts should stand on the sidewalks and wave little American flags as todays General Sherman marches into Portland and lays a beatdown on the Rebs.

For todays average American “right winger,” “conservative,” “libertarian,” etc., privately owned firearms are there generally for the purpose of protecting against criminality. For the far left, though, firearms (and other weapons) are there for the purpose of *enabling* criminality. These are not compatible world views.

 Posted by at 10:40 am
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