Fake Deployment

 

Readers: Oh noes, Trump's PanzerArmee of North Virginia is rolling across the Rappahannock...

Herr Generalblogberst: No it isn't, even Armeeabteilung Steiner at the Battle of Berlin wasn't that much of a delusion.

Readers: But if it's completely imaginary, why are 25,000 National Guard and 4,000 US Marshals and thousands of police needed to garrison Washington, and the FBI to sift out disloyal elements and all the Hitlers...

Blogistorian: I think this is known as Fake Deployment. I wonder if it counts as passive-aggressive, if so the biggest such force in world history. Look out for the First US Gaslight insignia and shoulder patches.

Over the Pond and Far Away

 

The officer nodded, as if a question had been answered.

"Are there any adults - any grownups with you?"

William Golding, Lord of the Flies, ch12, 1954

Mistaken Identity

Obviously a Warrior's bison* headdress, and sported by a d00d from Arizona as it happens, so why is Curtis Yarvin going on about a "Viking pillage of the Senate", "Harald Hardrada and his merry men" &c?

A waggish mis-waggery? Curtis is Contemptuous

To be brutally frank, this is one of the problems with cheap history. People think they have a sense of history, when the oldest book they’ve read is something published in 2017 that explains the Byzantine Empire in terms of “Game of Thrones.” Maybe we need to ban the History Channel, until we can figure out what’s going on.

so one must assume he knows what he doesn't know what he's talking about.

*a bison has a beard, a buffalo does not, as almost everybody has pointed out.

Anyhow and meanwhile, there's this fascist coup (no, not the one advertised) going down and nobody much seems to care. Smiling and waving and looking so fine...

Will the old clown be allowed even to survive Inauguration Day? State of OrangeManBad declared, Martial Lawlessness...

Onwards and Upwards

A happy and prosperous New Year to all my reader

Reader: not me, haven't looked in for yonks

Blogista: well, to ME then