Bombing

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

The Usurper says people cannot Resist without Eagles and Fat Men.

One chick with a cardboard sign – in the right place at the right time – can cause utter chaos costing millions of dollars of damage. And she didn’t even have a ‘ghost gun.’

Imagine what 80 million insurrectionists can do.

Joe Doakes

Leaving aside for a moment that the United States was founded in an insurrection against, proportionally, the greatest, most powerful empire the world has ever known? Tending to indicate the Harris administration isn’t very literate about history, to say nothing of mass movement?

Bidens jeep was not the first time some “progressive“ has tried that line. “What, you’re going to go after a tank with an AR 15?“

They forget that The American military is exceedingly disproportionately drawn from the same parts of society that “gun culture“ exist soon. An 18-year-old kid from East Texas is 32 times as likely to join the military as an 18-year-old in New York City (and even that kid is most likely a Puerto Rican from the Bronx, or someone from Staten Island, not the children of Manhattan hedge fund trash).

So the battle is not going to be between the putative “Fat, angry white man“ and a tank. It’s most likely to be between that guy, and his son with his tank, and his niece with her drone, against a bunch of non-profiteers with pre-printed protest signs and pink knit “pussy“ hats.

Which is, I expect, why the administration is putting so much effort into trying to “wokify” the military.

6 thoughts on “Bombing

  1. They forget that The American military is exceedingly disproportionately drawn from the same parts of society that “gun culture“ exist soon.
    More importantly, our military is structurally designed to fight foreign armies, not suppress rebbellious local populations (how did Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan work out for ya?).
    The Lefties are trying to change that, but they are stupid, so it won’t go well.

  2. So the battle is not going to be between the putative “Fat, angry white man“ and a tank. It’s most likely to be between that guy, and his son with his tank, and his niece with her drone, against a bunch of non-profiteers with pre-printed protest signs and pink knit “pussy“ hats.

    Riiiiiiiiight.

    Which is why the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB and the military that backed them up were all staffed by the scions of the ruling elite.

    Think of the Turkish Janissary, Europe’s first standing army, which was made up, almost exclusively of the sons of the people who the Turks were brutally repressing.

    The thinking on the part of the Turks was that the oppressed populous would be hesitant to take up arms against their own children, (uh-huh, the logic works in reverse too) – but apparently the children had no compunction about slaughtering their parents, brothers and sisters.

    The model for a potential American conflict would look more like the dirty war in Argentina, the French Revolution and Mexican Revolution or the English and Spanish Civil wars.

    In other words, a total cluster with an emphasis on mindless, random and utterly insane violence.

    Even the American revolution was a hell of a lot messier than most people like to admit.

    While highly romanticized depictions like The Patriot like to portray it as hardy locals against uniformed redcoats, the reality at least in many parts of the country, especially the south was the locals from East Bunsuck against the locals from West Wakadoodle with whole lot of personal vendettas thrown in to stir the cauldron.

    Keep in mind, the result of most revolutions is not a safer, saner world, but one dominated by the players who always win jump-ball……the brutal bastards who focus exclusively on their own personal power.

  3. “We’ll fight our parents out in the streets to find who’s right and who’s wrong – B-B-Biden and the Jets.”

    and

    “And those who spurred us on, sit in judgment of all wrongs. They decide, and the shotgun sings its song.”

  4. After the civil war, the Union ruled the defeated confederated states as though they were occupying a foreign and hostile power. They managed it for about a decade until the system collapsed in on itself.
    I have an idea that Nineteen Eighty-Four style totalitarian states can not be stable because, despite automation, at some point people have to be involved in the totalitarian structure, and the places where people have to be involved are the weakest point, that is, the point where rules-based automation can’t do the job.
    People will always be venal, dishonest, and corrupt, and that is an innefficiency that limits the tyrannical system. People in key positions will, for example, spare friends and relatives while persecuting personal enemies, and will divert state resources to further their own schemes. In capitalism this is called the “principal agent problem,” and capitalism has not found a solution for it. It is a problem that can be managed, but not eliminated.
    North Korea is probably the oldest totalitarian state in existence, and no one would could call it a success. It only exists because it is subsidized by other nations.

  5. ” . . . as though they were occupying a foreign and hostile power.”

    Well, yes, because they were. The conquered nation was the Confederate States of America, a separate nation with its own Congress, President, and flag.

    But invading an adjacent nation is completely different from fighting each other in your own streets. The wives and families of the Union soldiers were largely safe at home. Congressmen were far from battle. The wives and families of the National Guard troops dispatched to put down rebellion in America will enjoy no such security. The politicians will either abandon their constituents to bunker down behind razor wire in Washington DC, or they’ll be targets in their own districts.

    That civil war was nothing like this one will be. This one will be more like Fallujah, an insurgent battle fought door-to-door against a heavily armed populace, which is why The Usurper’s comments about F-15’s are so worthy of ridicule.

  6. The populace will be fought by the government using whom, exactly?
    The few vets I know (children of friends and acquaintances) are also the only people I know who are into building ghost guns.
    And no, they ain’t all white. Not even mostly.

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