Johannes Hulk, 1855-1913, Ducks Swimming

 

After action report. This is where I disagree with Trump. He asks us to put ill will behind us and work together for the good of the country. He says we're all in this together. No, we're not. Sure they're our fellow Americans, but so are Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson. We're all in this together in the sense we coexist with termites. Here's part of Trump's victory speech:

Now, it's time for America to bind the wounds of division, we have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say, it is time for us to come together as one united people. I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans, and this is so important to me.

and,

For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I'm reaching out to you. For your guidance and your help, so that we can work together and unify our great country.

The leftists aren't merely wrong, they're dishonest and malevolent. They still hold us, our values and our heritage in contempt. They still mean to destroy the reputations and careers of dissenters. They still adore illegal aliens, jihadists, dindu thugs and the perverts du jour. They still insult and demean us and teach our kids to despise America, us and themselves. They still mean to trash what remains of the Constitution.

The internet is full of their abuse and threats of bloodshed. The violence in the streets backs it up. What do they offer by way of reconciliation? Where is the middle ground in Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's address:

Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans. Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try. If Trump wants to roll back the tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately.

Winners don't demand a truce, losers do. For guidance in this, see Patton, Puller, Nimitz, et al. Winners dictate terms and keep pummeling 'em until they're accepted. Concessions in return for nothing is what put the "cuck" in cuckservative. Trump needn't reassure those who oppose him, he needs to reassure his supporters by keeping his promises. Pay attention to what he does, not what he says. Keep in mind, much of what he'll say will be calculated blather however alarming it seems.

The beltway progressives are paralyzed with fear, confused and riven with self reproach, reeling in shock. They doubt their abilities, each other and their leadership. Are we to believe there will be a better time? Consider the old military maxim: "if you find yourself in a fair fight, someone didn't do their job". Stomp on 'em and keep stomping on 'em until they give you good reason to stop. Or ... or was it all talk?

For the first time in eighty-eight years Republicans will control the White House, the Senate and the House. Will Trump press his overwhelming advantage quickly and decisively or will he devote himself to "healing"? The difference is what separates a movement from a detonation. We've had enough weepy, unwarranted magnanimity. He didn't promise us the Peaceable Kingdom. His book is entitled The Art Of The Deal. Will he remember some things are not his to trade away? Or will he, like Reagan, make concessions relying on promises they'll repudiate later?

The news media. Jeff Jarvis at the City University of New York says , “I fear that journalism is irredeemably broken, a failure. My profession failed to inform the public about the fascist they are electing.” This is how journalists see journalism, corrupt but not corrupt enough. You knew this was coming too, the well-worn 'white backlash against Obama' thing. Jamelle Bouie, a Person Of Colour Womyn and writer for Slate says , “I didn't quite understand how much white people hated us, or could at least live with that hate. Now I do.” Actually, she understands no such thing.

The news media's post-election chorus of endlessly expressed inexpressible shock reveals journalism as it actually is. One needn't wonder why the press made an embarrassing spectacle of itself. Once again they constructed an alternate reality on an underfit foundation and praised it in gushing detail while dismissing doubters as hopeless rubes . Once again they repeated and enlarged talking points handed them by the designated winners, or supplied them outright when a need went unfulfilled.

Once again news media celebrities populated the talk shows and nodded and agreed and traded memorable zingers. When on tevee they represented themselves as experts and insiders, elsewhere they claimed to be unbiased seekers of fact. They used ordinary people as props for whatever story they wish to sell, but when the occasion called for thoughtful insights they interviewed each other.

Once again their polls were jiggered to comply with the canonical narrative. They say no one could have seen this coming. We say you can't find what you're not looking for. Nor did they underestimate this or mis-analyze that. They agreed on a result, adjusted the input to suit, then scienced it up with numbers and jazzy charts. In other words, the polls were an exercise in goal seeking .

The news media, a public intelligence gathering operation at heart, is wholly and openly in service to the progressive cause and, as such, misled their paymasters as well as their customers. A classic error of totalitarian regimes is coming to believe their own propaganda. Possible but unlikely in this case. Not even their beloved USSR fell into that trap. More likely they substituted their paradigm for reality, as comically clunky a misrepresentation as it was. Trump won because he wouldn't believe the unbelievable. His supporters never had.

Once again the press has earned the contempt of the people, they value their own opinions more than the canned hectoring of the fawning, too clever, self-congratulatory cretins who occupy former newsrooms. When the election results were in, busloads of their most reliable customers took to the streets knowing it would be portrayed as uncontainable righteous outrage. It's okay, keep it up, there will be a backlash to the backlash too. Shall the press again be surprised we talk among ourselves? Deeper and deeper.

The bottom line. It's difficult to suppress a belly laugh when formerly smug-o-matic liberals are screeching incoherently like they've just been pushed out a window. Their pivotal mistake was driving the nice, polite Tea Party into the catacombs already occupied by the grizzly Right. It's here the alt-right was fully formed and became an open source insurgency. The left is correct in saying the alt-right enabled candidate Trump, only the degree is in question. Francis Marion at The Burning Platform puts it this way , "By pushing, badgering, harassing, marginalizing and insulting us on a regular basis you created something new. And it crushed you at the ballot box... we, the deplorables, are coming for you."

The election was a cart de visite, a proof of concept. The unknown unknowns will be their real epiphany. Kellyanne Conway warned them against allowing their tantrums to morph into significant, long term unpleasantness. Sound advice. Even after putting together a world class pratfall they don't understand how an uneventful transition would lend them some appearance of competence. Displays of mewling tragedy, aside from being comic, commends the stronger horse.

The Overton window has lurched from under them. They're out of their depth. And embarrassed. Worse, until now a predatory competitor existed only in their imagination. Their tools don't fit. Were they smart rather than deviously clever they'd notice the periscopes in every direction. They don't and they won't. Stay away from crowds.

Next item please.

The quote of the week comes from Andrew Bunting, admissions director at George Mason University, in a post-election Facebook rant about conservative organizations:

If you agree with them then that is your opinion. Just know that to the rest of us, you are a piece of worthless trash.

Next please.

We may never know who won the popular vote says Greg Phillips of the VoteFraud.org organization:

Virtually all of the votes cast by 3 million illegal immigrants are likely to have been for Hillary Clinton... Vote fraud using ballots cast in the name of dead people and illegal alien voters was a huge concern before the election. On the morning of the election there were 4 million dead people on U.S. voter rolls.

Next.

Woodpile Report country, a pitiable nest of uneducated, uninformed and irredeemably deplorable white working class riffraff. Also known as home. Mid-afternoon, Sunday the sixth of November was a gorgeous day to walk my north log roads, take a good look around before winter sets in. Snow, please understand, is an orphic term that translates to Familiar Of Beelzebub. Anyway, I have two log roads out this way, the one in these photos and one that goes up this same hill another way.

Both were easy climbs in times past, but rogue tectonic forces steepened them by degrees as I slept. What once was an unremarkable chore with the ol' tractor is now a harrowing adventure I leave to others. You know, immortal younger guys who don't yet fully appreciate the consequences of bumbling a shift when pointed severely down with a load of firewood shoving from behind.

Below. In this first photo we've nearly gained the top. The deadfall at bottom center is where I stopped to sit a while. The road ahead is a dead end, the main road is at right, curving out of the picture and continuing to the top of the hill. The dead-ender is typical of what passes for a shooting lane in these hills. You'll not find rifles suited for Camp Perry carried here in deer season.

Above. This is a south-facing slope natch, looking like a Hudson River School painting. Down below it's about to be transformed by shadow into Wyeth-like Hansel and Gretel country.

Deep night offers another aspect. We have what astronomers call "dark sky", water-clear and inky black, strewn thick with stars hanging low and bright. The rustling of leaves and thumps of falling acorns contrast more distinctly with perfect silence. Owls trade insults from hill to hill. And only long experience can correctly connect footfalls with their makers, a proficiency worth having. Campground caretakers say their urban customers fear woodlands at night. Odd, but perhaps useful to know.

 

Below. We're still at the spot in the photo above, this is the view directly across the log road. It's a place deer favor for lying up in daytime. I put up a pair on the way. Noisy, crashing, snorting. "Hey hey hey, keep the noise down, cantcha? I'm tryin' to have a reverie here," said me. No-class savages.

It's a nice mix of oak, maple, ash, cherry and beech with enough hemlock to hold a resident bird population. Meaning ruffed grouse, nature's gemlike refraction of all things Autumn. And they're delicious. It was a tradition, now lost, to present a grouse and an elderberry pie to my Dad at the first of hunting season.

Below. This last photo is from the same spot, but we've turned to look from whence we came. When the leaves are gone the view toward the sun is captivating, ranks of hills grading into ever more atmospheric effect, blending with the sky at last.

Down below at right is Woodpile Report HQ, like a marble in a bowl, hard by the "big" creek in the far interstice. It's not a hollow, the upper end of the actual hollow is straight ahead in this photo, perhaps three quarters of a mile distant and continuing far beyond. If yer a fan of left and right turns with no tangents, it's the place for you.

This is a bench. The grade rapidly steepens to the right and ends at the "little" creek a couple hundred yards distant which, incidentally, is spring fed. This hill is kind of fun if you lose your footing. When you hear a splash and yer all wet, you've reached bottom. In the winter yer an eight foot snowball. No country for old men. Oh wait.

So, there's some Woodpile Report country, where it's 1880 aside from a patchy but persistent contaminant of improvements. Here you'll find oddments such as Spencerian script, unschooled naturalists and other autodidacts, practitioners of the dulcimer and Yer Ol' Woodpile Report. Speaking of which, let's pull the string and look inside.

 

Remus's notebook

 

Post-election violence and Soros's Purple Revolution rent-a-mobs.

NY Post - Anti-Trump protesters take to the streets across America.

CNN - Anti-Trump protesters march for 3rd night; Portland police call it a 'riot' ... "extensive criminal and dangerous behavior"

Daily Mail - Protester is shot [by black man] during anti-Donald Trump demonstration in Portland. Includes video during the shooting itself and many photos

LA Times - Trump win sparks student walkouts and protests across the U.S.: 'I expected better'

Gateway Pundit - Anti-Trump Protesters Were Bussed in to Austin

Fox News - Trump protests intensify, as doubts swirl about spontaneity

and the dindu beatdowns

InfoWars - Black Mob Viciously Beats White Trump Voter [includes two videos]

Zero Hedge - [white] Chicago Man Beaten By Angry Black Mob For Voting Trump Speaks Out

Express - Horrific moment [white] teenage girl is attacked [by blacks] at school after posting support for Trump online

Daily Caller - [black] Student Charged With Battery After Punching [white] Boy Holding Trump Sign ... “When I see that white boy again, I'm going to punch him in his face,” the student declared

Thought Prison - The fundamental nature of Political Correctness [freetext excerpts of most of his book]

Market Ticker - Should You Let Bygones Be Bygones?

YouTube - Butt-Hurt Crying Hillary Voters Compilation. Video, 2m 41s. The definitive compilation.

This is why no one talks with them. Or listens to them. Or respects them.

Australian Network News - Australia Joins High-Budget Alien Hunt ... Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales joins Breakthrough Listen

Universe Today - Princeton Team Directly Observes Planets Around Nearby Stars [includes photo]

Radix - We the Vanguard Now

How the news media beclowns itself:

Man shot on Morrison Bridge during Portland anti-Trump protest

The Oregonian - Police described the shooter as being 5-foot-8 and in his late teens. He has a thin build and was wearing a dark hoodie and blue jeans.

Here's their source:

Portland Police Bureau - The suspect is described as an African American male, late teens, 5'8" tall, thin build, wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.

Poynter - New York Times publisher: We will cover President Trump fairly

NY Times Editor Sulzberger also threatened a renewed assault on the nation's deplorables, "We will look within and beyond Washington to explore the roots of the anger that has roiled red and blue America. If many Americans no longer seem to understand each other, let’s make it our job to interpret and explain." Get that? Even more interpreting and explaining. How are they going to manage it, the audience isn't big enough for two NPRs. Smaller typeface? Meanwhile, people who want their reporting uninterpreted and unexplained look elsewhere.

It was NY Times columnist Jim Rutenberg who announced Trump was too “abnormal and potentially dangerous a candidate” for unbiased, balanced reporting. Editor Dean Baquet gushed his agreement, saying it was their duty as Americans to destroy Trump. There's no way back from that. "We promise not to lie to you any more" isn't a compelling argument. There isn't enough lipstick in the world for this pig. They write it for themselves, they can read it themselves.

Credible reports say the NY Times is bleeding subscribers faster than before. Pfft. It's a Carlos Slim charity to begin with.

Daily Mail - Was the Hillary hiking in the woods photo staged? Woman in the picture first met Clinton at a fundraiser her family hosted for ex-candidate

Today I Found Out - Despite the many rumors and myths of Captain William Kidd’s missing treasure, it was actually found on Long Island in 1699 before Captain Kidd even died. The English tracked it down while Kidd rotted in jail and used it as evidence against him.

The Hill - Seething liberals vow revolution in Democratic Party.

Heat Street - Scions Snubbed: These Poor Rich Kids Won’t Get Jobs in a Hillary Clinton Administration

Seeker - Plants Have a Way of Seeing Underground ... roots act like a fiber-optic network

Blue Lives Matter - Another class act by new President-Elect Donald Trump. This time he’s feeding the officers who are forced to babysit protesters.

Prepare yourself if this is even close to true:

Canada Free Press - Obama wants protection. He wants guarantees from Trump that he will be shielded from something Trump already knows

State of the Nation - Pizzagate: The Scandal That Will Take Down the Clintons, the Democratic Party and the U.S. Federal Government

DC Clothesline - Australian 60 Minutes exposed the Worldwide Satanic Pedophile Network

 

1946. Beechcraft Bonanza magazine ad

 

The first of 7,000 Bonanzas, so far, appeared as 1947 models. Still built today is the Model 36, significantly longer but minus the signature V-tail. The rap on the Bonanza is it's too easy to fly, its integrated controls almost car-like, overconfidence is often blamed for crashes.

The most infamous crash, now known as "The Day the Music Died", killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper shortly after takeoff on a stormy 1959 night. The Bonanza has been a top selling plane in its class for almost 70 years, always an up to date, safe aircraft for the businessman and professional.

 

 

Stuff you may want to think about
Synopsis with links

 

Losers enabling losers, Slate - Every power-hungry young Democrat fresh out of law school, every rising lawmaker, every old friend of the Clintons wanted a piece of the action. This was their ride up the power chain. The whole edifice was hollow, built atop the same unearned sense of inevitability that surrounded Clinton in 2008, and it collapsed, just as it collapsed in 2008, only a little later in the calendar. The voters of the party got taken for a ride by the people who controlled it, the ones who promised they had everything figured out and sneeringly dismissed anyone who suggested otherwise. They promised that Hillary Clinton had a lock on the Electoral College. These people didn’t know what they were talking about, and too many of us in the media thought they did.

 

Piers Morgan, Daily Mail - Love him or hate him, he was constantly speaking about things that Americans really worry about. He also positioned himself against the corrupt, self-interested, lobby group infested political system that these same Americans feel strongly has enriched itself at their expense. Hillary Clinton perfectly personified that system; a career politician who has repeatedly fleeced her positions of power to make millions of dollars for herself and her husband, and who carried with her a permanent smug sense of entitlement to be America’s first female president. I was struck by the sheer scale of cocky complacency which enveloped the Clinton camp in the past few weeks as Election Day approached. It smacked of precisely the same ‘there’s no way we can possibly lose to these ‘ignorant, racist, sexist Neanderthals’ establishment mentality that provoked Britain into Brexit in June.

 

Full of ... um, sadness, New Yorker Magazine - The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy. On January 20, 2017, we will bid farewell to the first African-American President—a man of integrity, dignity, and generous spirit—and witness the inauguration of a con who did little to spurn endorsement by forces of xenophobia and white supremacy. It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety.

 

1936. American River area, California. Migrant child.

 

 

More stuff you may want to think about
Synopsis with links

 

The Forgotten Man, City Journal - Residents of rural and exurban America are unable to escape the gravitational pull of Washington, New York, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. It's on their televisions. It's in their newspapers. It's at their local movie theater. There is no comparable transmission belt that conveys the mores of the Midwest, the South, or the Interior West to the coastal domiciles of American elites, whose working definition of their own cosmopolitanism often relies on which airports they've passed through in red states. Over the past eight years, the residents of those parts of the nation—the ones not overflowing with shared workspaces, corporate diversity officers, and mixologists—came to a dismaying conclusion: elite America didn't just disagree with them; it resented their existence.

 

Revenge of the Yahoos, Taki's Magazine - A majority of young whites voted for Trump. And despite the media’s ceaseless attempts to portray all Trump voters as uneducated—I’m still waiting for any mainstream outlet to use the term “non-college-educated black voters”—he was favored by a majority of educated whites. Rural whites have been the most openly despised and mocked racial, economic, and geographic group in America since at least the 1960s. But negative stereotypes of American “white trash” extend back centuries further. And nearly every culture on earth seems to have some sort of pejorative to describe ignorant, stupid, knuckle-dragging country folk. Now the joke is on the media. A large segment of America grew tired and angry about being aggressively shat upon for generations not only by government policy, but by a media-academia complex that views them as subhuman and by presidential candidates who dismiss them as “bitter clingers” and “deplorables.”

 

#WithHer press corps, CBS News - Journalists increasingly don’t even believe in the possibility of reasoned disagreement, and as such ascribe cynical motives to those who think about things a different way. We see this in the ongoing veneration of “facts,” the ones peddled by explainer websites and data journalists who believe themselves to be curiously post-ideological. That the explainers and data journalists so frequently get things hilariously wrong never invites the soul-searching you’d think it would. Instead, it all just somehow leads us to more smugness, more meanness, more certainty from the reporters and pundits. Faced with defeat, we retreat further into our bubble, assumptions left unchecked. No, it’s the voters who are wrong.

Gosh, Mr. Rahn, we'll always treasure your understanding. But, sorry, we coughed up the news media like fever phlegm long ago. We're not about to swallow it again. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

 

Gravity demoted, Phys Org - A new theory of gravity might explain the curious motions of stars in galaxies. Emergent gravity, as the new theory is called, predicts the exact same deviation of motions that is usually explained by invoking dark matter. Prof. Erik Verlinde published a new research paper today in which he expands his groundbreaking views on the nature of gravity. In 2010, he surprised the world with a completely new theory of gravity. According to Verlinde, gravity is not a fundamental force of nature, but an emergent phenomenon. In the same way that temperature arises from the movement of microscopic particles, gravity emerges from the changes of fundamental bits of information, stored in the very structure of spacetime. Extending his previous work and work done by others, Verlinde now shows how to understand the curious behaviour of stars in galaxies without adding the puzzling dark matter.

 

1938. Cordele Georgia.

 

A Norman Rockwell scene in the heart of the deep South, Cordele, a town of about 11,000 in central Georgia. In 1938 the population was about 7,500. Cordele is still a railroady place, hosting fabled Heart of Georgia Railroad's Cordele Intermodal Services, giants CSX and Norfolk Southern, and NS's wholly owned Georgia Central Railroad.

 

Even more stuff you may want to think about
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Rain on the horizon, Virginia Freeman - Half the country was willing to elect a professional grifter at best and a felon at worst. A sizable number of them hate you on a visceral level and see you as the number one problem with the world. A generation of people who have grown up seeing the government as an economic vending machine are seething right now and we are foolish to think Newton’s Third Law is not applicable in politics. We didn’t poke the Leviathan, we kicked it squarely in the nuts and it’s insanity not to expect a more virulent, vile and violent version of statism to take root and begin planning for the future. Use this gift wisely and don’t fall back into complacency.

 

Gambling with the tipping point, Market Ticker - Urban centers consume roughly 90% of the energy and food in this country yet they comprise 5-10% of the land mass. What if the people who peacefully conceded the result of two elections over the last eight years despite vehemently opposing the outcome decide that if the "blue" folks can riot, loot, beat people who vote the "wrong way" and similar they will not accept any further election result that doesn't go their way, and instead of rioting or burning things they will simply shut off the flow of food and energy to said "blue" areas? After all, you don't value them at all—you consider them subhuman, racist, xenophobic, deplorable and irredeemable—all at once. If you keep it up, that at some point, given that you're utterly reliant on those you're abusing for the basics of life—the loaf of bread, the gallon of gasoline, the electricity that powers your lights—they decide they've had enough. That day your supply of cellophane-wrapped meat and plastic bag full of bread disappears.

 

Why we fight, American Thinker - Calling for vindictive retaliation against political opponents, whites, the wealthy, religious, those who hold other beliefs, cops, or an ordered society in general, all after getting everything you’ve wanted and more for eight years, helpfully affirms for normal citizens that these folks are largely what’s wrong. No matter what they get, it is never enough, because it never will be. In case you didn’t know who would rule society in a Clinton presidency, the radicals are rioting over the opportunity they lost. They fully intended to conquer us. Some have openly said that there will be bloodshed now, which they seem to desire as their own overt racism and bigotry, superimposed upon their enemies, is laid bare. What target of “progressive” hatred, being finally backed into a corner and forced to defend the right to think differently, and live free of the tyranny of frothing mental patients, would vote for that?

 

Trigger warning, Natural News - Ask any anthropologist or naturalist about the survival of any species in the real world of natural competition, a process by which the weaker, more fragile and less adaptive members of any species are killed off or denied reproductive partners. This weeds them out of the gene pool of the species, resulting in a stronger, more adaptive and more successful species that can survive a challenging, competitive world. Generation snowflake losers will very likely be eliminated from the human gene pool by Mother Nature herself at the next natural selection event; a global debt collapse, international war, a grid down terror attack on the power infrastructure, a massive coordinated cyber attack on the banking infrastructure, a domestic civil war, a deadly viral pandemic, a collapse of the global food supply, and so on. Only those who are competitive and adaptive are the most likely to survive and reproduce. Those who are weak, pathetic and stupid will find themselves obsolete and extinct.

 

1938 Pontiac interior.

 

If you've never driven a car of this era, several things stand out. The steering wheel is enormous, to provide enough leverage for non-power steering. The dash is painted metal, there are no seat belts and no a/c, the transmission is manual, and you look through a divided windshield and see the entire hood.

The all but silent Pontiac straight-eight engine provides an even hundred horsepower for good 'get up and go', the six comes in at an adequate eighty-five hp. Once underway the solid body-on-frame construction and boulevard suspension give it a bus-like feeling, smooth and unstoppable, but with more dip and wallow in turns than today's driver would expect. Photo here .

 

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