Experts say that, while on the phone with a Ukrainian, Drumpf may have had inappropriate thoughts–such as delaying or reducing the amount of wages confiscated from American citizens to fund corrupt foreign governments. IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE!!!!!!
But not everybody was being so hateful. Joe Biden, in a heroic act of squeaky-clean totally uncorrupt statesmanship, threatened to withhold foreign aid to the same corrupt foreign government unless a prosecutor was fired before he could bring charges against Biden’s corrupt son. Yeah! What a stud!
For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim.
The American system is Rule by Law, not Rule by Men. However, city and state-level petty tyrants are having people arrested, jailed, and fined–not for breaking actual laws (real lawbreakers are being let loose on society); but for violating the emperial edicts of professional politicians.
Under Rule of Law, our public servants, whatever office they hold, are not exempt from the law themselves. They must not only uphold the law, but also obey it just like the barber or restaurant owner on Main Street, USA. These professional politicians (who have been caught breaking their own “rules” that citizens get arrested for) have no authority to issue these decrees that violate your rights (as protected by actual law); no citizen is obligated to obey them; and no court is obligated to enforce them, even though they have “the color of law.”
That some courts are enforcing these illegal orders tells you, quite blatantly, that they are not operating according to the Constitution (which they swear to uphold and which is the law of the land). Their allegiance is actually to something other than the law of our country, and they are operating according to that, instead.
They get away with it because most of the people living here let them. They obediently bend over and drop their pants.
But there is a growing minority who will not bend over, and they are armed. This is why the Cold Civil War might turn hot.
UPDATE: On a California beach, of all places, some people stood up for their right to peaceably assemble (1st Amendment). It would be nice to see patriots unite for the right to go to Church (also 1st Amendment) or conduct business, but maybe this is a start.
The swamp had to give back one of its scalps, and isn’t happy about it. Evidence of the framing/railroading of Mike Flynn is finally coming to light.
The Democrats’ response is to double down and rely on the brute force of their media dominance to peddle a lie that, if repeated often enough, will be accepted as truth. As the OSS (the CIA’s predecessor in WW II) described Hitler’s use of the Big Lie Strategy:
… “Never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”
For true justice to occur, those who threatened, lied, blackmailed, perjured, entrapped, and financially ruined an innocent man would have to face the music, now. Unlikely, but we’ll see.
As we discovered during the Obama Regime, the solution to bankruptcy is to borrow even more money.
“All these blue state governors who don’t want to open their state, now they’re clamoring for federal money to bail them out because no state revenue is coming in. We don’t have any money.” – Rand Paul
You know what else will help? Giving more millions to Communist China in foreign aid, then borrowing it back from them at interest, while letting ChiComs raid our patent office, steal our intellectual property; and continue strangling American businesses with more taxes and regulations so they can’t possibly produce or compete.
At this rate, they won’t have to fire a shot to destroy us.
The virus breaks out in Wuhan, China–a city of about 11 million people (bigger than the most populated city in the USA). There are two virology labs in Wuhan, which study, experiment on, and modify viruses. For years, scientists have been warning that the sloppy security at one of these labs (the one which develops weapons-grade viruses, and sits at the epicenter of the outbreak), plus the dietary practices of the local population, was a ticking time bomb.
Early whistleblowers warning of the breakout are arrested by Chinese police. Many are never seen or heard from again. One doctor, after being arrested, later was reported dead–allegedly because of the virus. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which controls all human activity in China (and a lot of the MSM and Hollywood messaging you’re inundated with every day), lies about every aspect of the outbreak, including the number of infected and dead. They claim that the virus originated in a “wet market” which doesn’t sell the species of bat the virus supposedly came from, and is located 400 miles from the nearest habitat of those bats. A third of the first victims had no connection, direct or indirect, to the wet market.
“President” (dictator) Xi locks down Wuhan and other cities in China. No travel is permitted from Wuhan to other parts of China, but travel from Wuhan to the rest of the world is allowed to continue unchecked. The virus begins spreading to other countries.
A Chinese traveler brings the virus to the USA. The first American is diagnosed with the Wuhan Virus.
President Trump restricts travel from China. In following days, he restricts travel from other countries. Predictably, the Democrat/Media Machine says he’s overreacting and calls him racist.
Another Chi-Com puppet, the World Health Organization (WHO), regurgitates Chinese propaganda downplaying the seriousness of the outbreak. They also rename it “COVID-19” in a lame attempt to disassociate the virus from the Communist regime it came from.
Leftist judges overrule the travel restrictions, allowing more infected carriers into the USA. Leftist mayors and governors, still upholding the “racist overreaction” narrative, encourage people to attend parades and other mass gatherings like nothing is out of the ordinary.
The Wuhan Virus spreads through the USA. The WHO finally admits that this is a pandemic.
Overnight, the narrative changes: now President Trump didn’t react strongly enough. It’s all his fault. Because racism, somehow. “Black and brown people” are more at risk to the virus. Yeah–that’s it: racism.
Another Chinese Communist puppet, the NBA, suspends the rest of its season. Other sports leagues follow suit. Leftist governors begin illegally shutting down their states. (It’s not just politicians and bureaucrats at the Federal level who have been colluding with the CCP for years, but also governors of both political parties.)
De facto dictators of several states continue showing their true colors. They forbid church attendance and family gatherings, outlaw random items like paint or carpet, but keep “essential” businesses open–like liquor stores, marijuana shops, and state lottery kiosks. They have people arrested for going to church and synagogue, for playing with their kids in a park, sitting alone on a beach, or criticizing politicians for these illegal police state policies, while releasing convicted felons from prisons and onto the streets.
Gun sales are “non-essential,” of course, so law-abiding citizens are kept defenseless while chaos is being engineered all around them. Surgeries and other medical procedures are banned, but abortion clinics are declared “essential” and kept open.
The public is told that a collapse of our medical system is imminent and hospitals will be overrun with coronavirus patients; that there’s not enough ventilators, testers or masks, and it’s all Trump’s fault. Meanwhile hospitals are laying off staff and going bankrupt because most of what they do has been declared “non-essential.” Leftist Trump-haters are found to have been wasting or hoarding medical supplies, all while blaming the President for “shortages.”
In a matter of weeks, 30 million Americans lose their jobs–worse than any time ever in history–including the Great Depression. The President and some in Congress sponsor a stimulus bill that includes $1,200 checks for citizens and loans to sustain the small businesses which have been forced to furlough workers and close down.
The Democrats try to sneak in a pay raise for themselves, “aid” to foreign countries and illegal aliens, and more tax dollars to subsidize the abortion industry. They succeed in getting “refugee resettlement,” funding for the Kennedy Center, National Endowment for the Arts, and other pet pork projects, included in the bill. In fact, they refused to pass it until this “compromise” was reached. The Fed, by the way, is favoring “woke capital” with these loans, while dissing small businesses.
While the Democrat/Media Machine is busy hyping the danger of the virus, as justification for the totalitarian crackdown they’ve wanted for a long time (plus wrecking the economy just before an election, protecting their candidate from debates and scrutiny, justifying massive election fraud via mail-in-voting, etc.), they also launch a propaganda campaign against inexpensive, effective treatments for the virus.
Bill Gates, who is on record advocating world population reduction via vaccination (and whose vaccinations have already caused horrible death and suffering in Africa and India) waits in the wings with a vaccination that he hopes his allies in government will make mandatory.
Hospital personnel are pressured to inflate the numbers of coronavirus deaths, to reinforce the narrative that the pandemic is so dangerous that it justifies destroying millions of people’s lives. Citizens are forbidden to get fresh air and sunshine, and kept under “house arrest” in enclosed spaces where danger of infection is multiplied.
Tyrants in government use the opportunity presented by this crisis to spy on citizens with drones, track their smartphones, and get people to spy on their neighbors.
They refuse to take action regarding filth-ridden homeless populations massed together (a hotbed for the spread of viruses and disease), but arrest and fine people going about normal business.
This post is for all of you who are capable of pattern recognition.
I’m not calling it “the Martial Law Book Sale” because I’m trying desperately to be optimistic about the shutdown and what will happen afterwards.
While we’re waiting (and hoping) for this to blow over, don’t succumb to boredom. Kick back with a good book and enjoy the down time.
Mike has reduced the prices of all his e-novels, now. Also, I’ve slashed the prices of my shorter books and will add those links, too. Remember, you can click on the images or the text links to buy. And all these books are available not only on Amazon for the Kindle, but at Barnes & Noble for the Nook, Kobo, the Apple Store, and just about every other store where you can buy e-books, for whatever device.
-Hank
Fast Cars and Rock & Roll…that title tells you exactly what you’re in for in this 459 page high-testosterone tale of Deke Jones’ adventures with racing, rock music, and ravishing women.
Deke Jones is back for 612 pages of private detective work mixed with irreverent mayhem in Shadow Hand Blues, trying to solve a cold-case mystery after stumbling on a dead blues man’s electric guitar.
There are no elves, unicorns, or pixie ninjas in Gods & Proxies, but it’s about as epic a fantasy as you could possibly get in 316 pages. Or is it a fantasy at all?
The entire Retreads series is available for a song at Amazon. Well, I don’t think they actually make you sing. But the three E-Books will cost less than a cheeseburger from the drive-through.
And, of course, the books are for sale individually, too. Hell and Gone was the series premier, my first bestseller, and still the most popular of all my books.
Below are some shorter books that were priced lower than the full-length novels. Now they’re even cheaper! (Sale prices will be visible after clicking on the links.)
Long before mixed martial arts, men of the west displayed their violent prowess with fists only. Tomato Can Comeback is the tale of a young fighter’s quest for redemption…on the canvas.
Also available as an audiobook from Audible. Comment on this post to get a coupon code for a discount!
Radical Times is set during the aftermath of the Civil War, when a soldier returns to the girl he loved, but is caught in the middle between two factions that still want to fight.
Thus Spake the Bard tells the story of a troubador and his creative friend, who get on the wrong side of a sheriff from Nottingham.
The Greater Good is a satire, dropping snark bombs on the superhero genre and leftist groupthink.
There’s a lot of stuff going on right now. Some of the “solutions” to COVID-19/the Wuhan Coronavirus are wrong, infuriating, and scary. In the short term, a lot of us are worried about our jobs–will they even exist once this mess blows over?
People around the world are worried about putting food on the table. For those in that position, I urge you to be as wise as you can with what resources you have.
For those who have food and water covered, but are bored and need something to do, Virtual Pulp is cutting the prices on our E-Books. I’ve suddenly got a lot more time to read than normal, and it’s one positive side effect of this crisis. Below are text links and image links (yes–you can just click on the book cover image to buy one from Amazon) for reduced-price E-Books. They’re available in all electronic formats and pretty much every online book store except Google Play.
Stay safe and keep your powder dry.
Buy the whole series from Amazon.
The entire Retreads series is available for a song at Amazon. Well, I don’t think they actually make you sing. But the three E-Books will cost less than a cheeseburger from the drive-through.
And, of course, the books are for sale individually, too. Hell and Gone was the series premier, my first bestseller, and still the most popular of all my books.
Virtual Pulp contributor Paul Hair also has some work published you should look at. It is not on sale currently, but still worth a read. You can find his short stories in the Appalling Stories series.
You may remember that corrupt globalist Rahm Immanuel admitted that philosophy on television. But he didn’t come up with it on his own–the left has been using crises to manipulate the masses for generations. And their solutions always result in more power for them and less freedom for us…by sheer coincidence, of course.
You can bet that the would-be oligarchs infesting our government will try to use the COVID 19 outbreak to give us more of the same, good and hard. But this post isn’t about documenting more fundamental transformation (or “frog-boiling”) by those who hate America.
The big question I have is: are you ready to start pushing back? If so, then it’s time to take advantage of the enemy’s Hegelian tactic and turn it against them.
We have a rare window of opportunity right now, that will slam shut as soon as our overlords can cram the relevant facts down the memory hole. We need to strike while the window is open.
Even normies and left-leaning sheeple are suddenly questioning the wisdom of outsourcing all our industrial capability (including the production of medicine) to a totalitarian nation that hates us and assumes that war with the USA is inevitable.
This episode of Tucker Carlson is must-watch, if you haven’t seen it already. The COVID 19 scare is so profound that even the milquetoast talking heads on Cux News are questioning our suicidal economic and foreign policies. Which means that being sold out by our leaders to Communist China is at least grazing the awareness of average people.
If there ever was a time when our alleged representatives might listen to us and at least consider putting the interests of Americans first, this is it. Call them. Write them. Email them. Demand that they put an end to our carefully manufactured dependence on China for our supply infrastructure.
Who do they serve? Who do you serve?
After Pearl Harbor, when he was being congratulated for the wildly successful sneak attack that crippled the American Pacific Fleet, Admiral Yamamoto famously said:
“I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve.”
No doubt part of what Yamamoto was worried about was America’s manufacturing potential. The Great Depression had shut a lot of our factories down, but we ramped up in record time and our assembly lines pumped out the weapons that crushed the Axis under the weight of overwhelming numbers. The USA became the greatest industrial powerhouse the world had ever seen, outproducing Japan, Germany, and Italy combined. Outproducing the entire world, in fact.
But what if, prior to Pearl Harbor, we had outsourced all our manufacturing capability to Japan and Germany? What if we had let them gobble up our national resources? What if they had bought our factories, oil wells, coal mines, railroads, and harbors? What if succeeding Presidents had given them our best weapons technology and strategic secrets? What if our “leaders” had engineered a situation where our enemies could control the Panama Canal? What if our enemies were allowed to raid our Patent Office and universities and steal our intellectual property, then produce our inventions at slave labor prices and put American innovators out of business? What if we were in the habit of GIVING money to the Axis as foreign aid, then BORROWING it back from them at interest? What if the Axis Powers had de facto control over our media and entertainment industry, so that most Americans would only encounter ideas that the Axis approved of? What if anybody who protested such a massive sellout was dismissed as a crackpot or demonized as a racist?
There would have been no sleeping giant to worry about–just a sleeping couch potato; the giant would have been dead.
The situation is much worse than what I described because, frankly, you wouldn’t have the patience to read through an exhaustive list of all the ways we have been sold out to the most murderous regime in recorded history. Pre-war Japan didn’t want war with America nearly as much as Red China does. But our public servants who built China into a superpower have also made us dependent on that Communist dictatorship.
What happens when they decide it’s finally time for a shooting war with us? Do you assume they’re going to keep supplying us medicine for our troops that they wound in the field, and spare parts for our military vehicles and electronic equipment? We sure as hell can’t make that stuff here anymore, unless a lot of policies change. And they have to change now (while COVID 19 is getting people’s attention by disrupting our hijacked supply chain) before the giant couch potato goes back to sleep.
I’ve blogged about Mr. Levinson a few times before. Some readers of action-adventure have called him a “trash genius”–an epithet that evidently pleases Len.
I really don’t like that label. I’ve read a lot of Len’s fiction and none of it was trash. It wasn’t Tolstoy, but it wasn’t meant to be. And here’s an important point: If Len wanted to write highbrow literary fiction, in my opinion he could easily craft a novel in a league with War and Peace.
I was fortunate enough to become an author years ago. All three of the novels (so far) in my Retreads series have been Amazon bestsellers. A pleasant surprise was a type of reaction those books got from readers: that they captured the fun and excitement of the pulp and paramilitary adventure fiction of yesteryear, but with a high caliber of prose that most of the classic men’s fiction never achieved. I was shooting for exactly that combination of excitement, realism (two attributes that seldom go together) and well-crafted writing. But the praise surprised me in that readers found it remarkable. I didn’t appreciate how rare it was, because I had read so much of Len’s work… which is action-packed, well-plotted, with realistic dialog and great characterization.
Len and I have different styles, different experiences, and different areas of interest, but anybody who likes my fiction should definitely read Len Levinson.
I am happy to share another insight into Len’s writing career, in his own words:
One day circa 1979 I was sitting in the East 50s office of paperback packager Jim Bryans. I just delivered a manuscript and we were speaking about various matters that I don’t remember. Then out of the blue he asked: “Have you ever written a World War Two novel?”
I replied that I had indeed written a World War Two novel called DOOM PLATOON by Richard Gallagher, set during the Battle of the Bulge, published by Belmont-Tower in 1978.
Jim said that a publisher contact of his was looking for someone to write a World War Two series, and asked me to bring him (Jim) a copy of DOOM PLATOON for submission to the publisher. I did so ASAP and a few weeks later Jim called to say the publisher wanted to meet me.
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The publisher was Walter Zacharius who together with Roberta Grossman owned Zebra Publishing, their offices on Park Avenue South around 32nd Street. I think Jim attended the meeting but Walter and I did most of the talking. Walter told me he’d liked DOOM PLATOON and wanted me to write something similar as a series. He also said that he’d been in the Quartermaster Corps during World War Two and rose to the rank of sergeant. I distinctly remember him saying that he had participated in the liberation of Paris.
In turn I mentioned that I enlisted in the Army in 1954, served three years in the Infantry and Corps of Engineers during the Cold War, was stationed in Alaska about half of my enlistment, therefore I knew basic military life up close and personal although I’d never been in a hot war. I also said that infantry weapons during my Army years were identical to those used during World War Two, or modified somewhat, and main principles of fire and maneuver also were pretty much the same. I assured Walter that I could write about World War Two with a high degree of authenticity although I’d never been there.
I agreed to Walter’s deal, probably signed the contract then and there, walked home to my broken-down pad in Hell’s Kitchen and tried to figure whether the series should focus on one person or on a unit like a platoon. Finally I decided on one person who would be a tough sergeant similar to Sergeant Mazursky in DOOM PLATOON.
Mazursky had been based loosely on a friend named Mike, a World War Two veteran and very tough guy seven years older than I. Mike had been been ready to rumble at any moment and seemed to have no fear or caution when any conflict arose. Occasionally he threw shocking temper tantrums in public and seemed ready to punch out people. Physical intimidation was perfectly okay with him but we usually got along well and he became one of my most significant mentors, for better or worse.
Mike’s military career had not exactly been illustrious. He went AWOL numerous times during World War Two in Europe, had broken out of a stockade, and instead of fighting for his country full time, had been wheeling and dealing in black markets of France and Germany.
After mustering out, Mike attended Columbia University for a year or two, then dropped out to sell marijuana and become something of a gigolo. He got arrested at the Mexican/Texas border for smuggling marijuana and served five years in a federal prison during which he wrote for and helped edit the prison newspaper. I met him shortly after he was released in 1961, the same year I arrived in New York City.
Mike was a very complicated guy. He could be vicious or extraordinarily gentle and kind. He could insult you savagely, then take you to dinner. He could cruelly put you down, then burst into laughter as if it was all a big joke. A deeply devoted party animal, he also was a heavy drinker and doper. Cocaine was his drug of choice. He did not believe in God, had Communist inclinations, was surprisingly well read and could talk like an educated man, which he was, or growl like a gangster, which he also was.
He also was amazingly successful with women although not exceptionally good-looking in my opinion. He vaguely resembled the actor Victor Mature combined with John Garfield, Rocky Marciano and Sylvester Stallone. He always had girlfriends even after he got married.
Once I asked him the secret of his success with women. He replied that women were attracted to confident men, but mainly just wanted to be loved. He certainly was very confident and actually seemed to love all the women with whom he was involved.
Another time he said to me: “You’re the craziest person I ever met in my life, but you SEEM normal.”
Mike was a first class conversationalist, raconteur and storyteller. I often listened to him spellbound, although his wife Maggie said he never let facts get in the way of a good story.
Mike introduced me to my first wife, a Cuban immigrant whom he called Chi-Chi. Our marriage was stormy and ended in divorce after four years because we simply weren’t compatible souls. During a period of post-divorce angst, I blamed Mike for my misery. “If it hadn’t been for you, I never would have met Chi-Chi.”
Mike replied with a winsome smile, “I only introduced you to Chi-Chi. I never told you to marry her.”
Of course he was right. My bad judgement was the cause of my unhappiness. I knew that Chi-Chi and I weren’t compatible but I was dazzled by her beauty and couldn’t think clearly, as happened often during my younger days.
Mike became the basis for my new central character Sergeant Mahoney and I decided to call the series THE SERGEANT by Gordon Davis. I was very excited about writing this series because I had been interested in war since childhood, and read many novels and historical works about war. Born in 1935, I literally grew up in the atmosphere of World War Two. I remember ration books, paper and metal drives, and regular reports of casualties. Victory was by no means certain, many setbacks were reported, and an atmosphere of desperation pervaded the land. Occasionally we schoolchildren did bombing drills where we sat with our back to walls and hoped no bombers would ever come.
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I thought my background growing up during World War Two, and three years in the Army, were ideal preparation for writing a World War Two land battle novel. My next big literary decision concerned when to start the action, but the answer seemed obvious. I should begin the novel with the D-Day landings in Normandy and then carry each novel forward chronologically.
What would the first plot be? I didn’t want to write about actual landings and the subsequent grinding fight for the beachhead because it had been done in movies numerous times, most notably THE LONGEST DAY. Instead I dreamed up a suspenseful commando style mission behind enemy lines to blow up a critical bridge that supported trains carrying German soldiers and equipment to the front.
I wrote in a state of deep intellectual and emotional involvement, and around six weeks later submitted the completed manuscript to Walter, certain that he’d love it. A short while later he invited me to his office, told me that in fact he did like the novel and would publish it BUT he pointed out that ordinary soldiers never went on commando missions behind enemy lines, and he wanted subsequent novels to be about ordinary soldiers engaged in standard World War Two front line battle action. I said okay and that’s what I gave him in the next eight novels in the series.
I loved the cover for the first SERGEANT. It really stood out on book store shelves. Subsequent SERGEANT covers were similar. Walter really understood marketing and that’s why Zebra was the most successful privately owned publishing company in America.
Looking back, I think THE SERGEANT series marked a turning point in my literary career. Somehow I gained a more comprehensive understanding of novel writing while working on its plots, subplots and characters. It was the second series that I created, the first being BUTLER for Belmont-Tower, but THE SERGEANT seemed of much higher quality than BUTLER. Many readers have praised THE SERGEANT in blogs and on Facebook, which has been most gratifying.
THE SERGEANT SERIES has been republished by Piccadilly as ebooks by Len Levinson and presently available from Amazon. He also wrote another gritty WWII series called The Ratbastards which I heartily recommend. In my previous post, you’ll find links to my other reviews (to date) of his Sergeant books.
Red-Blooded American Men Examine Pop-Culture and the World
