BERTIE AT BAY is the third issue in the RIGHT HO, JEEVES series, which tells of the travails of the inimitable Bertie Wooster, summoned from the comforts of #3A Berkley Mansions, London to Brinkley Manor by his imperious Aunt Dahlia. Love is in the air and Wodehousian shenanigans are afoot, as Wooster’s well-meaning attempts to help out his friends sort out their romantic difficulties only leads to one hilarious disaster after another.
Adapted from the classic Wodehouse novel by comics legend Chuck Dixon and drawn by SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN illustrator Gary Kwapisz, BERTIE AT BAY is issue #3 of 6 in the RIGHT HO, JEEVES series.
A group of protesters congregated outside what they claimed was Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s home in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night to chant threatening messages.
Smash Racism D.C., a self-described “anti-fascist” group, posted a video of their members screaming obscenities at Carlson’s house and blaming his “policies” for the deaths of thousands of people.
“Tucker Carlson, we will fight!” the protesters chanted. “We know where you sleep at night!”
In the first video posted to Twitter, one protester can be seen ringing Carlson’s doorbell before running away.
“Racist scumbag, leave town!”
Every night you spread fear into our homes—fear of the other, fear of us, and fear of them. Each night you tell us we are not safe. Tonight you’re reminded that we have a voice. Tonight, we remind you that you are not safe either. #KnockKnockTucker
Someone affiliated with DC Antifa told The Gateway Pundit that the protest at Carlson’s home was “just the beginning.”
If they start it, we’ll end it. In the very unlikely event you haven’t already, it’s time to gun up. The expected civil unpleasantries have already begun. And while Tucker Carlson’s wife might not put three rounds of .357 in a home invader’s chest “because she feared for her life and the lives of her children” you can be damned sure that mine would not hesitate to do so.
Assuming, of course, that the Ridgebacks didn’t eat them first.
I highly recommend anyone right of center in the public eye to have at least two large security dogs. Then, if Antifa is dumb enough to set foot on your property, just open the door. Trust me, about the only thing more intimidating than a well-muscled adult Rhodesian Ridgeback unleashing its big bass “I WILL DEVOUR YOUR SOUL” bark from Hell at you is two of them doing it at the same time.
I’ve seen a grown man dive into the hatchback of his cars and slam it shut on himself rather than face a Ridgeback, and she was just wagging her tail and giving her friendly “HEY! HEY! HEY! NEW FRIEND! DO YOU WANT TO PLAY?” bark.
After several comments told me I was way off on Bono, given my personality, I had no other choice than to do a bunch of research on him and dedicate an entire episode to further prove my point that he is vile. Enjoy! The pope, harvey weinstein, bill clinton, ONE charity, tax evasion, hypocrisy, theft, fake environmentalism, weird album covers, and much much more!
It’s pretty bad. Bono is considerably weirder and more hypocritical than even those who instinctively dislike him tend to suspect. The fact that his charity ONE has given less than two percent of the money it has raised to anyone in need is merely the tip of what appears to be a deeply troubling iceberg of the usual evil. I even contributed in a very modest way to this video, as I sent the Big Bear my observations concerning some lyrics from the U2 song “One” that he noticed seemed a little strange in a previous video.
Love is a temple Love a higher law Love is a temple Love the higher law
Love is a temple = Ordo Templi Orientis, an occult order to which Aleister Crowley belonged. From Infogalactic: After spending time in Algeria, in 1912 Crowley was initiated into another esoteric order, the German-based Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), rising to become the leader of its British branch, which he reformulated in accordance with his Thelemite beliefs.
Love the higher law = The Book of the Law, the sacred text of Thelema, a pagan cult religion. From Infogalactic: The central sacred text of Thelema, written down from dictation mostly by Aleister Crowley. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.” The law of Thelema was developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley, an English writer and ceremonial magician.
Given that they are the enemy of the American people, CNN is fortunate that the God-Emperor has merely denied the media a press pass or two rather than ordering drone strikes:
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta accused the Trump administration Wednesday evening of trying to shut down critical press coverage by revoking his credentials.
In an interview with CNN colleague Anderson Cooper, Mr. Acosta denied assaulting a White House intern earlier in the day — the stated reason — saying he was merely “trying to hang onto the microphone” after President Trump had instructed the young woman to take the microphone to give it to another reporter.
“It’s unfortunate that the White House is saying this,” Mr. Acosta said, going on to accuse the White House of trying to intimidate the rest of the press corps.
“I do think this is a test for all of us,” he said after Mr. Cooper had shown several supportive tweets from other White House reporters.
“I think they’re trying to shut us down … send a message to our colleagues,” Mr. Acosta said.
When their coverage is 98 percent critical, why give them any access at all? What is the benefit to either the Trump administration or the American people in doing so?
An excerpt from POP KULT WARLORD, the second book in the Soda Pop Soldier series, by one of the best-selling authors in science fiction, Nick Cole!
The phone rings. It’s Irving Wong. My new e-sports agent. We met during the Razer party. He also represents the new Batman actor. So he must be big-time, sorta.
“Hey, PQ!” he says in his cigar-smoke-ravaged voice. I see his name in the caller ID.
“Mr. Wong.” My parents raised me to be polite. I’ve been thinking about them a lot as surreality has become a new reality. Like they’re some anchor I must hold on to, or otherwise go spinning off over the cliffs of insanity.
“PQ! Rock star! Baby!” Irv erupts at just after dawn, Havana time, as the multi-colored city surrenders to the full glare of an unrelenting tropical morning. I can see people in the streets below from the wide window of my top-floor suite. Still dancing. But many are streaming away to wherever it is they’re staying. It’s expected after almost twenty-four straight hours of nonstop Super Bowl partying.
“Call me Irv, PQ.”
I agree to.
Again. Politeness. I’m tired so I kick off my loafers and lay the suit jacket I had made in Rome across the emperor-sized bed. Maybe it’s time to go back. Have another one made. I liked Rome a lot.
“Okay, cutting to the chase, kid,” Irv begins. “I already got something for you. Something very hot. A booking that starts now-ish. You game?”
“Now-ish?” The thought of throwing myself into another e-sports combat game seems impossible at this moment. As in… triathlon impossible the day after you’ve quit your habit of smoking and eating three cheeseburgers a day.
I exhale, involuntarily. I’m not just suffering from game fatigue, or binge tiredness… I’ve got a serious case of game hangover. It’s been six months of straight matches every weekend, and we’ve been winning pretty consistently. You’d think winning makes it easier, but it doesn’t. It makes things much, much harder. Every match… every engagement… every bullet… develops some massive psychic weight of importance that must be constantly accounted for and dealt with. Gaming isn’t just fun at this level… it’s become a business.
And I’m beat tired.
I sit on the bed and feel its whispering invitation to sweet oblivion. Darkness. Just sweet silent no-monitor-or-flashing-smartphone-lights darkness. I could seriously do that.
“Ever heard of a game called Civ Craft?” barks Irv over the faraway phone in my hand. I have. It looks pretty awesome. But it’s team-based. And I already play for a team in WarWorld. “Well you know it’s got national teams, right?” asks Irv.
“Sure,” I mumble distantly. Giant bed is calling to me. Singing a song really. A lullaby just like the kind mermaids were supposed to lure sailors to their deaths with.
“Okay, so, follow me here, kid. You know that a lot of national entities field teams to compete within this Civ Craft world, right? They all work together to build living-world civilizations from the ground up. People actually go on virtual vacations in the top-tier one. That’s cray-cray,” says the old man using his old man lingo.
I’ve vaguely heard stuff like this. Again, I don’t really know much about the game. WarWorld and its military team combat are more my thing. Infantry operations especially.
“Sure.”
“Okay, well one of these entities is interested in recruiting you for their national team. And there’s some big money involved. Rich country, lots of oil reserves. They’re going to pay you, and me my fifteen percent of course, in gold to come down and fight for them. They’ve got a big thing going down and they want pro gamers who are willing to merc for cash. Except the cash is gold which is way better. So, they called about an hour ago and they really want the MVP of the Super Bowl to come help them out. Interested?”
I’m really too tired to go anywhere in the near future. I’m pretty sure a week in this bed turning back into a human being is all I’m capable of.
“It’s a one-month contract with an option for another. Five million in gold per month.”
I’m wide awake.
“Kid…” growls Irv low and conspiratorially like we’re spies, or mobsters. “This is…”
“I’m in,” I shout, hearing my voice bounce off the walls of the suite.
“Ha-cha!” erupts Irv triumphantly. Like he’s just won a hand of pinochle or got the high score on a Super Mario Bros. upright he found in the back of a liquor store that still takes vintage quarters when you can find ’em. Some old guy thing only old guys ever get excited about. “Knew you would be. Okay. Car’s waiting downstairs in front of the hotel to get you to Havana International directly. Private jet will take you over to LAX, and then I’ll deliver you to the client myself.”
No bed?
Nah, I think to myself. Five million in gold. I’ll get some coffee. Who needs bed?
I stand and feel vaguely drunk. And washed out. And dehydrated. And papery and thin. And I need a shave. I slip on my loafers and jacket and grab my Samurai Leather messenger bag containing my laptop.
I take one last look at Giant Bed.
It would’ve been real nice.
“Where am I going, Irv?”
“Calistan, kid. The Gold Coast of Calistan. Used to be called Southern California… before the Meltdown.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned under pressure Wednesday after more than a year of public criticism from his boss, President Donald Trump.
Trump’s press secretary Sarah Sanders said the White House received a resignation letter from Sessions, 71, earlier Wednesday and Trump accepted it.
Sessions, a former senator from Alabama, departs after the president repeatedly hammered him about his decision last year to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
Sessions’s public performance as Trump’s AG has been disappointing, especially given his early championing of the God-Emperor. Time will tell if there was anything to his performance out of the public eye or not, but his resignation now tends to indicate that there wasn’t much there.
This also casts some doubt on the veracity of Q. Trust Sessions… to do what? Resign?
Last night’s extended Darkstream on the 2018 midterms, complete with my failed call about the Republicans successfully holding the House. Everyone enjoyed the livestream at the time, although there is apparently an amount of subsequent irritation about my having been proved incorrect. All I can say is that I legitimately did think at that time that Republicans had done what they needed to do in the early key races, and that their success in the East would carry over to the Midwest and the West. Obviously that did not happen.
Lucius Cincinnatus asks why won’t Republicans go after the white vote? Because there are way too many civic nationalists in the Republican Party. They pride themselves on considering themselves color-blind, it’s integral to how they see themselves, and so it’s very, very difficult for them to separate the macro from the micro. It’s very difficult for them to think about the long-term implications of their position. Essentially you’re trying to force people to think about the future of their children rather than how they feel about themselves.
It’s very, very difficult for a civic nationalist to accept the reality of identity politics, especially when they have been taught for generations that such things are bad, and so you have to be very patient with civic nationalists and understand that it’s usually not coming from a place of hypocrisy, it’s not usually coming from a place of malice or anything, it’s coming from their good intentions and their preference for thinking highly of themselves for assuming the best of others.
People have a problem differentiating between individuals and groups? Well, some people do. The Chinese do not have that problem. The Jews do not have that problem. Most people don’t have that problem. Europeans have that problem because they tend to be the most individualistic people on the planet, and that was a big benefit 200 or 300 years ago, but now that travel is so much easier it is no longer a benefit of any kind. That’s where you see the the problem that Europeans have in competing with other peoples. You see this on the Right as well. Look at all the people on the Right who simply refuse to cooperate.
Look who came on the Darkstream the day that IndieGoGo cancelled Alt-Hero. You know who suddenly showed up, and was suddenly, “hey, we all have to stick together.” It was 2VS, old Two-Face Van Sciver, but look at what happened the moment that he called IndieGoGo and talked to them, and they reassured him that they weren’t going to treat him the way that they treated us. Now, I personally wouldn’t put any faith in people who behaved like that, but he’s dumb enough to do so. So people only join forces, you know individualistic people only join forces so long as they feel an active and imminent sense of threat.
Until most people of European descent feel that way, they will not change their behavior.
SC: David Hamilton-Williams’ Waterloo New Perspectives argues that one of the main influences for the modern understanding of the Battle of Waterloo is Captain William Siborne and his research conducted while building a topographical model of the battle field, all heavily influenced by interviews with British veterans while neglecting the role of minor Allies and, of course, the Prussians.
GN: One thing about published authors – Just because you find it in print doesn’t mean it’s correct. I found a book on Leipzig where the author gave an OB for Leipzig that had the 1st & 2nd Westphalian Hussars present at Leipzig, but both had deserted the French army in late August or early September 1813. This author simply assumed. He also listed Vandamme’s I Corps as still existing, but it was destroyed after the battle of Dresden at Teblitze
When I said that I found English literature on the Napoleonic wars unsatisfying, it was because English speakers are notoriously monoglots – reading only English and only repeat the mantra of “The English won the Napoleonic Wars because they were wonderful.” Let me ask you a rhetorical question: “How many English works go into any detail on Austrian, Russian, or Prussian actions on the battlefield?” I knew of very few.
Anyway, I’ve digressed. English-reading authors cite only English sources and you get the same stuff over and over again. When I buy a book on the Napoleonic era I look at the bibliography. If 50 percent or more is English, I figure the non-English citations are purely filler to flesh out the bibliography and it is purely a rehash of the same old Anglo-myopic stuff.
As for Siborne, he was an Englishman whose natural pro-English biases were accentuated by his desire to get subscriptions for his model, so he amplified the actions of those rich nobles he was soliciting for money. That said, he provides valuable information concerning the British (which must be evaluated for overstatement) and scanty details on the French. As for the Allies, they weren’t making donations to his model project, so they got left out.
SC: Do you have examples of common misconceptions amongst the English reading public?
GN: Yes, the idea that Wellington invented the two rank line. In fact, in the Dundas infantry regulation you will find it mandated WHEN the battalion did not have sufficient men to fill out the three rank formation. I did an analysis, which can be found in Imperial Bayonets, where the British Army in the peninsula was so under strength that it had no choice, but to be in two ranks as prescribed by the Dundas regulation.
SC: You were a professional wargamer playing OPFOR at the Battle Command Training Center in Fort Leavenworth. Could you describe the similarities and the differences between the war games employed in the Battle Command Training Program (BTCP) and any commercial wargames you have played?
GN: Dissimilarity – the Army actually knew something about war, where I have often found that wargamers frequently have no practical or personal experience in it. Though I was never in the Army, 25 years commissioned service in the Navy counts for something. In addition, I have experience in naval gunfire support off the coast of Vietnam. I also wear the combat action ribbon, for having been in combat, i.e. exchanging fire with the enemy.
Similarities – the generals frequently have ideas, and facts can be an annoyance to those fixed ideas. By this I do not intend to sound like I’m a know-it-all, and some of what I know is classified so I cannot discuss it, but let me relate one story. After the invasion of Iraq, I was writing scenarios for brigade-level exercises. I wrote one where I had the terrorists seize a water works and release the chlorine gas. The generals threw my scenario out saying that the terrorists would never do that. Within a year the terrorists were putting cylinders of chlorine with their IEDs. I rest my case.
There is one major difference between the BCTP games and any type of hobbyist wargame, and that is that the BCTP game had no “eye candy.” Visually it was very sterile. Commercial games have a necessity to make their games visually appealing.
I don’t often post links to them here, but rest assured that I never miss reading a Wargaming Wednesday post. They are reliably an excellent and informative read.
So, I called the House for the Republicans at 8:43 PM Eastern time. CNN was nearly in tears, Nate Silver had lowered the odds of Republicans holding the House from 1 in 15 to 1 in 2, and there had been an eight-point turnaround from the pre-election polls favoring the Democratic candidate for Florida governor. Of the two key early House races involving vulnerable Republican incumbents, the one in Virginia went Democrat, the one in Kentucky held.
Game over. Right? It looked like my scenario of the Republicans losing a few seats, but not their House majority had proven correct. So, I called it and turned in.
Then I wake up this morning to reports of +34 Democrats in the House, +3 Republicans in the Senate.
WHAT. THE. HELL?
Now, I don’t mind being wrong, which I obviously was, but I do like to know why. And this combination of being correct about a few things while getting the larger element wrong is puzzling. How could most of the early metrics I’d chosen as indicators favor the Republicans and still produce end results like this? My first stab at explaining the dichotomy:
Trump turned the most dangerous areas with his campaigning. Where did he campaign the most heavily? Indiana and Florida. Where did Republicans seriously outperform the polls from the day before, by as much as eight percent in the case of the Florida governer’s race? Indiana and Florida. I should have known to discount the Trump effect elsewhere.
The non-incumbency factor. 40 Republican incumbents retired and Democrats took 34 seats. Due to the nature of American politics, it’s always easier for an incumbent to hold his seat than for a newcomer to claim it, even in a favorable district. The numbers don’t match up perfectly, as some of the flipped seats were weakly held where new incumbents swept in on Trump’s 2016 coattails, but I doubt that synchronicity is entirely coincidental.
The strangest thing is the way that Republicans gained three seats in the Senate, which of course demonstrates that although the Democrats took the House, there was no Blue Wave of the sort long predicted by the media. And as a bonus, let me observe that the primary lesson of the election appears to be that identity trumps even economic self-interest for the diverse tribes of not-America.
I’ve always disliked the phrase “demography is destiny,” as it seems to minimize the capacity for deliberation and self-government, for reflection and choice. But looking at tonight’s results in detail, one has to say that today, in America, demography sure seems to be destiny.
It is becoming increasingly evident that there is no such thing as a non-white America any more than there is a Jewish Palestine. Whatever it is, whatever its benefits may be, whatever it may become, it simply will not be “America” as Americans have known it for 200 years.
UPDATE: The Senate is looking even better now at 55-45.
Discuss amongst yourselves, and feel free to report significant developments as they come in.
The Kentucky 6th District and the Virginia 10th District are supposed to be the first indicators.
I’m watching CNN because I have a cruel streak. Is it just me or are the anchors starting to look just a little perturbed only 29 minutes after the first polls have closed?
DRUDGE: EXIT POLLS SHOW DEM WAVE BUILDING
I suspect he’s just screwing with them, to be honest.
I’ll be starting a Darkstream a few minutes after 7 PM Eastern to discuss the midterm results as they come in.
8:43 PM Eastern: I call KY-06 for Barr. This means Republicans have held the House! All hail the God-Emperor! As anticipated, the much-ballyhooed Blue Wave talked up by the mainstream media did not appear.
