COLUMN: Why Men Should Read Fiction

14 Friday Mar 2025

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Why Men Should Read Fiction

Vox Day did a very good job, over at Sigma Game, lately explaining why (American/Western) men don’t read much these days. Few real men want anything to do with loony witches, fembots, and caustic blue-haired harpies. Yet those types, along with some other usual suspects, constitute the majority of Western book authors, publishers, distributors, buyers, editors, gatekeepers, and agents. If one reads Vox’s article, then one will gain a decent understanding of the astroturfing of what passes, at least in the eyes of too many postmodern women, for best-selling literature. Add to this tragedy the decline of general intelligence, burgeoning post-literacy or illiteracy, and the shunning of men from traditional male ideas, systems, endeavors, and spaces, and one has a recipe for a rolling disaster.

Patrick Lawrence wrote the other day about part of that unfolding disaster as it pertains to the peculiar case of Yankee Attorney General Pam Blondie’s circus sideshow release of files regarding the criminal activities of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. If one has just arrived from another galaxy, then know that Epstein was the poster boy for an international child sex trafficking ring and likely intel asset. Evidently, the only good thing the man ever did was die. Blondie hyped her file release, then crawfished when the event underwhelmed. She now claims she has better information and will release it once certain redactions are made. Lawrence honed right in on one given reason for some of the redactions: “national security”.

Let us consider: What issues of “national security” would require redaction in regard to a deceased sex-trafficker or his underage victims, unless our government or close allies had been involved in said sex-trafficking ring?

The Yankee empire, its agents, friends, and allies, have a long and wicked history of involvement in related matters. Way back in 2019, I wrote a few bits about the quiet release of another batch of previously classified data, the FBI’s “Finders Files”. Those files concerned a series of 1980s cases of child sexual abuse at daycare centers that became popularly known as the “Satanic Panic”. After the children’s allegations were “investigated”, we were informed the kids made it all up, nothing happened, and don’t you dare suspect anything similar going forward. Thirty years later, we learned that everything the kids said was true, the government knew about it at the time, and there was a cover-up. A few august members of the retarderati responded to my articles by telling me I was a fool for rehashing long-debunked cOnSpIrAcY ThEoRiEs. And, yes, I had linked to the same set of files back then in the articles, but again, the not reading angle.

What does any of this have to do with fiction? Well, I included the Finders and a fictional version of Epstein, the notorious Geoffrey Steinberg, in my 2019 novel, The Substitute (2023 revision from Green Altar Books). Oddly enough, when he found out I was writing my first major work of fiction, the late, great Thomas Moore said, “That’s great, and you should! Just remember, though, that half the people are illiterate and the other half don’t read.” He was, of course, being jovial, though as we know he was onto something. Those who have read my book enjoyed a narrative telling of the foregoing criminal atrocities and more as seen through the eyes of a former CIA killer. In chapter sixteen, page 191, Tom Ironsides even warns a young FBI agent specifically about the Finders. Agent Pennington was at Tom’s house after the hero inadvertently busted up an Epstein-esque operation within the public school system(s). On the next page, Tom’s former employer thanks him for his help while promising the DOJ will relieve him of the burden of testifying out of deference to … national security. And Tom knows what Lawrence suspects: there is always Yankee government involvement in such filth.

By the way, I noted a long history of such evil. This involvement is as old as, in fact, older than America itself. If one has access to that newfangled internet thing, then please search for the strange case of all the little skeletons found under Benjamin Franklin’s old house on the apply-named Craven Street in London. Yeah.

One beauty of writing fiction is that the author can provide satisfaction for certain unpleasant matters in ways simply impossible for the average man to affect in real life. For instance, in chapter twenty-one of The Substitute, in the subsection “Justice Delivered,” Tom learns that Mr. Steinberg, his tropical island liar, and several dastardly associates are eliminated one evening by a massive thermobaric explosion. (Secret reveal: the blast is caused by a drone cargo 747 loaded with the mythical “C-12” ultra-high explosive [a non-RDX, post-nitroamine agent]. Why? Because.) As a bonus, the reader also witnesses Tom’s fond memories from the time it was his honor to assassinate a chief associate of Steinberg in Sicily. That extrajudicial hit, by the way, will be explicated in my forthcoming novella AURELIUS.

Remember, all men and women, that fiction has the stirring ability to connect the reader to assorted subjects by creating a personal link between those subjects and the reader’s thoughts and emotions—a powerful and sometimes fun force.

In conclusion, I recommend a few random novels for the esteemed consideration of my readers here. First, there’s the self-serving mention, again, of The Substitute. Then there’s Counterparts by the late Gonzalo Lira. Next, we have The Ways of the Dead by Neely Tucker. After that, I am currently enjoying the heck out of The Lightkeeper by Sherry Shenoda, a fantastic Christian fictional tale possessed of a keen and unusual literary quality. Finally, and again of self-serving interest, there’s the soon-to-be-published Judging Athena, Christian fiction unlike any other and utterly unlike my ordinary fare.

(Green Altar Books, forthcoming.)

Athena is an exposition and championing of the beauty of marriage and the salvation-fostering benefits thereof. Believe it or not, even though it’s my work, there’s zero cursing, lust, or jaded polemics in it. There is a modicum of turbulent action, partly of a nature related to those instances noted above. However, when those very few scenes come along, they will be welcomed by the reader, and they unfold, divinely inspired, in a different direction than my usual compulsion. The love story itself, as compelling as it is innocent, is a superb singularity. Soon, my friends.

Deo vindice.

COLUMN: A Look At The Bright Side

16 Friday Aug 2024

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A Look At The Bright Side

Even martial madness may manifest miracles. Always avoid alliteration. And always try to find some way to give thanks regardless of the circumstances. “Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing. In all things give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you all. Extinguish not the Spirit. Despise not prophecies.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-20.

Sometimes it’s difficult to follow Saint Paul’s sound wisdom. Particularly regarding rejoicing and giving thanks, dark times may occlude understanding the meaning of the epistle, let alone implementing it. Then again, darkness is all the more reason to follow as best one can. We were not promised a rose garden, not at all times. Yet proof of evil leads to proof of Light, proof of God—a cause in itself for celebration. So, let’s briefly probe into several otherwise dreary late events and find a few silver linings.

The NATO Nazis recently revived their 1943 Wehrmacht playbook and attacked Russia’s Kursk Oblast. While not a pleasant affair, the incursion did highlight certain deficiencies in Russia’s active defensive strategies, thus allowing their correction. It also galvanized the resolve of all Russians, from local bus drivers to the Federation’s President. Looking forward, the Blinken-Zelensky gamble will be every bit as successful as Hitler’s.

Speaking of NATO Nazis! They’re madly, wildly attempting coups everywhere they can, from Venezuela to Serbia to the UK. It appears that Keir Starmer enacted his own color revolution, a feat possibly unheard of in the annals of insanity. The good news is many of these attempts fail, and, where they succeed, people at least catch on in real time.

Some of my readers may recall the go-go days of the former Freedom Prepper news podcast. We had a blast back in the 2020-21 timeframe, earning blocks, deletions, and bans from mainstream tech platforms for honestly discussing such topics as central banking, fake elections, fake pandemics, and lethal poison fake vaccines. Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of one mainstream tech racket, who may or may not have banned the old FP over mention of a certain clot-inducing, cancer-accelerating, gene therapy poison, may or may not have been killed by said poison. Now she can never admit she was wrong. She was.

While most of the world waits for (additional) hot kinetic action in the West Asian front of World War Three, action which may or may not be imminent, it is very likely that certain leaders, say in Iran and Iraq, have read and taken to heart the PLA’s 1999 book Unrestricted Warfare. If so, then regardless of all else, at least someone outside China read the insightful, poetic book. And took it to heart. And action.

The Zionists occupying Palestine strain the known limits of violence and hate with virtually everything they do. When they’re not assassinating diplomats, they turn men, women, and children into hamburger meat. When they’re not using sodomy as an ordinary, official torture tactic, they’re murdering four-day-old twin babies and their mother while their father is out obtaining birth certificates. All of this, and more, is simply remarkable as measured in terms of callous inhuman evil. But they’ve managed something else remarkable. And remarkably wonderful. As others have lately noticed and mentioned, for perhaps the first time in fourteen centuries, the Talmudists have united Shia and Sunni Muslims. While some traditional, cultural, and theological differences surely remain, the union is real.

In a similar vein, and on a greater scale, the constant wickedness unleashed by global satantry is uniting Christians and Muslims in a common, brotherly cause. Iran was just as quick as Russia in condemning the late Parisian sporting blasphemy and in defending Jesus. In Moscow, Mufti Anar Ramazanov said earlier this year, “Russian Muslims and Christians are now fighting together against the forces of Satan.” They are. And the Russian brothers are not fighting alone.

The men of America finally rose up, dispensed with idiotic political playacting, and began forcefully reclaiming their civilization from the devil’s minions! Okay, that one never happened. Laughter is good medicine. And remember not to despise prophecies.

Remember that, and keep rejoicing and giving thanks. It’s okay to be alarmed and angered by evil. In fact, it’s very good to be righteously angered by evil, a force hated by Almighty God. It’s good to resist evil. One means of resistance is finding cause for celebration, even in the otherwise miserable. It is difficult. That’s where prayer comes in. Pray without ceasing, because,

Deo vindice!

COLUMN: An Interview With Dr. Thomas H. Ironsides, II, Ph.D.

01 Wednesday Mar 2023

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An Interview With Dr. Thomas H. Ironsides, II, Ph.D.

*Author-Interviewer’s Note: For an exciting change this week, I drove up to North Carolina for a sit down with America’s foremost authority on geostrategic issues and Roman comparative analysis. In scenic Cherokee, over a late breakfast at Peter’s Pancakes and Waffles, I piqued the mind of the man who has seen and done it all.

Thomas Ironsides, “Tom” as he’s known to friends, is a classics professor at Saint Thomas of Aquino College in Blowing Rock, NC. There, he is also Head of the American Classical Education Center (aka, the “Ironsides Center”), a trivium homeschool supportive research initiative. Fluent in five languages, and moderately proficient in several others, he holds a Ph.D. in classics from Harvard and three Master’s degrees in classics, philosophy, and international affairs (the University of Virginia and Georgetown University). Over the past decade, he has held teaching or lecturing positions at Harvard, the American University of Paris, Matej Bel University in Slovakia, and one low-end, suburban US public “school” system. Before his academic career, he retired from a joint career, “sheep-dipped”, as he calls it, in the USMC, where he rose to the rank of Colonel, and the CIA, where he served as a Paramilitary Operations Officer and, ultimately, Acting Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service, Special Activities Division, primarily in charge of the Special Operations Group. He resides in Blowing Rock with his wife, semi-retired television actress Carmyn Larke. He reminds one and all he scored that game-winning touchdown for UVA, nigh on forty years ago.

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Perrin Lovett: Tom, it’s good to see you again. How have you been?

Tom Ironsides: Great. Exactly how I wanted to spend a work morning. And aren’t you forgetting to plug the book?

PL: Um— I’ll get to that at the end.

Tom Ironsides: Fair enough. What are we discussing today?

PL: In honor of your career, or careers, I thought we might begin with world affairs, and then work our way towards education. Some analysts, myself included, consider the third world war already in progress. Is that your characterization? And, if so, please give my audience your brief thoughts on the current front or fronts, along with any fronts you expect to open in the reasonably near future.

Tom Ironsides: Yes, absolutely, this is World War Three. Even the intelligent players and close observers, intelligent meaning those outside the United States, openly admit the global nature of the ongoing conflict. And it has been in progress for some time. This did not start last year in Ukraine. As for the exact nature of the overall hostility and its starting point in time, that is something for future historians to call. But, overall, it’s a fight between the ruling, foreign elites of the West, as represented by Washington, NATO, and little Zelensky, and the rest of the people of the planet, as popularly championed at this moment, by Russia and China. The preconditions for war have been in place for decades, and it’s very difficult to say, pointless almost when things started to get hot. The real war in Ukraine started no later than 2014 with a US-orchestrated coup. That was the continuation or exacerbation of conditions in effect several years earlier.

Russian counter-preparations earnestly began in, say, 2007 or 2008, though the Kremlin understood the scope and parameters of the challenges even earlier. The Chinese adopted a strategy they call Unrestricted Warfare possibly as early as 1999. That strategy was largely a growth-allowing, defensive blueprint. Today, as exemplified by the recent Chinese peace proposal for Ukraine, and their evolving dealings with the US and Japan in the Pacific, their artifice is shifting towards, if not an offensive posture, then, at least, towards a more aggressive form of defense. And – this is very important – almost all of the Sino-Russian measures were and are in response to the deception, lies, and murder unleashed by the faux Western neo-Trotskyites in the early 1990s. To say it’s all complicated is an understatement. I caution against paying too much attention to anyone, from any side, who offers a simple or simplistic explanation of these matters. Rather, one might as well view it as a contest between the darkest evil – which, unfortunately, the people of the West are trapped under and suffering because of – and a coalition of Christians, noble pagans or good non-Christians, and others who may as well be defined as anything except evil.

The big, bright theater is, of course, in Ukraine, though it has already widened beyond those, let’s be honest, artificial borders. NATO, to the best of my knowledge, is scheming to engulf Transnistria and possibly Moldova, if they can do so with relative ease and a measure of plausible deniability. They just, a few days ago, openly attacked Belarus. NATO has even attacked its own members – and this is the height of insanity – in Germany and Turkey. The ripples are spreading and intensifying. All of the Western moves, which are as much economic as military, are backfiring in real-time. It’s like whatever forces control Biden and company are playing drunken checkers to Vladimir Putin’s stone-sober chess. Things were bad, and dysfunctional when I was in. Now they keep spiraling further and faster than anything I could have imagined.

At some point, China will formally enter the fray, with, I think, military action, and certainly, by ramping up existing policies, without it. The checker players are watching Taiwan – which will remain or rejoin as part of China, regardless of what the neocons want – though I think there’s a much greater possibility out there. Probably several greater or, at least, concurrent possibilities. North Korea, I believe, has a harder part to play. As does Iran and a few other nations. The crazy thing and the determinative thing is that the nations of the Global South are quietly already realigned with the Russians and Chinese. Sixty-seven percent of the world’s population now lives in territory opposed to the West. That territory produces the bulk of food, fuel, munitions, technology, and, critically, real economic activity. That’s the formula for winning a modern war.

That was a ramble, off-the-cuff, but I hope it helps.

PL: It does indeed. Thank you. Germany, Turkey, and Belarus. You’re referring to the Nord Stream bombing, the CIA terror attack in Turkey and/or the earthquake, and the new drone attack on the Russian AWACs facility. Is that right? And do you know any names?

Tom Ironsides: Right, all counts, except maybe the earthquake. Yes, I still know several people who literally have fingers on triggers. And, no, the names stay with me. But, the officials, the known-to-the-world actors – they’re all but bragging about Nord Stream. That was a calculated move against Berlin and, really, against the whole Western block of the EU. They get to immediately start shipping in costly LNG while siphoning Continental industrial capacity to North America. I think and I even hope that this will fan the existing flames in Germany, France, etc., and that it hastens the end of NATO and the EU. It’s cold madness and a sign of utter desperation. The big rat caught in the trap is snapping angrily at the mice around her.

It’s the same thing in Turkey, but quieter. They need to coerce Ankara into staying on the plantation as long as possible for a number of reasons. Trust me that all intel agencies and the goons they report to understand who was behind the terror cell. The earthquake, I’m not so sure about. You’ve probably seen Mr. Weatherman’s video, which I can say is real. It’s real but not 100% proof positive for me. The HAARPers and DARPA nuts have been working on directed radar weapons for decades. They have them. They are operational. I’m just not sure – because I just don’t know – if they’re that capable. If they are, then nothing would surprise me. Neither would weather balloons, fake aliens, weaponized railroads in Ohio, wastewater in Texas, chemtrails, artificially-induced polar fronts, and the rest of it.

PL: All this from the people who brought us the one-two of Covid and the not-vaccine.

Tom Ironsides: Exactly. That was another example, possibly the worst in recorded history, of the wicked degenerates carefully targeting certain populations while simultaneously attacking the entire human race. Any rumor one ever hears about the depths of depravity in DC or London is probably true and probably only half the picture. I spent twenty-eight years helping them with one underhanded scheme after another. For that, I’ll be in Purgatory until the Sun burns out. Nothing is beyond these people. Nothing. Unspeakably evil.

You mentioned the A-50 outside of Minsk. They keep stupidly throwing out the two words “game changer,” but that incident might be the real deal. They can’t keep their plots and nexus straight. I saw one blurb on a Greek military site, and then nothing substantial as of this morning. They may have some concocted nonsense cover about Belarusian dissents or some other lie. It’s like the bridge bombing, the drone strikes, blowing up that sweet girl – it’s all terrorism. That’s the fake West’s main weapon now, and they’re wildly thrashing about, slinging terror tactics without even aiming. It boils down to tactical minutiae that don’t even matter. Minsk? Aside from the angles, whatever they really are, between Kiev, Poland, and Belarus, that attack offers two new possibilities for conflict growth. One, third-party bases, say in Poland, Germany, or even in the US, are now fair targets. Two, NATO is running constant AWAC and drone flights for Zelensky. All of those planes are now possible targets. As is the entire US-NATO satellite ISR complex. Every bit of it is within the range and capability of about six different Russian platforms. In addition to being evil, these are some of the dumbest people alive. To top it off, they live and breathe in a perpetual state of arrogance. Damn them!

PL: Is this all evidence of a failure at NATO’s strategic planning level?

Tom Ironsides: No. Far from it. It’s proof of its success. We – and I hate to lump you and me into we – don’t have any national or global strategic plans. We haven’t since 1945. And, really, outside of naval operations, the US has never had the best comprehensive continental abilities or understanding. Russia and China have centuries of experience with combined arms, full Clausewitzian warfare. China, for the last seventy years, hasn’t had the operational experience in modern conflict, but Russia has. It’s their specialty, and they usually win. Both countries have been planning their moves all century. We’re just now starting to see the beginnings of implementation. Chess, as played by grandmasters.

Our side plays, again, drunken checkers. My former employers loosely devised a permanent tactical or expeditionary approach to war which was primarily designed to suppress insurgencies among essentially unarmed populations. And generate chaos among them. Kill people, stir up hatred, generate refugees, and make money for bankers. We have never, in living memory, at least, faced a peer or peer-plus adversary in a real war. That’s why NATO is getting its ass kicked over Ukraine even without officially participating. And our non-strategy didn’t even work against the poor and the helpless. Go ask the Taliban! Hide and wait and the big idiots will tire out and leave. It is my theory that winning was never the objective. I think the rulers wanted to use America and NATO as a hammer to strike as much chaos into as many places as possible, all while burning out America and Western countries. As the dumbass chimp once said, “Mission accomplished.”

PL: Well, they are interesting times. We can move along a bit. Who wins this thing before we shift gears?

Tom Ironsides: The other side. The free world. It’s a mathematical certainty. Western countries would have a world of self-inflicted problems even if Russia and China didn’t exist. As-is, in America, the new global war is coinciding with the ongoing and permanent collapse of the economy and a civil conflict that should finish off whatever’s left of the old USA.

PL: Speaking of ‘Murica! Do you have any ideas about the 2024 presidential election? And, at this point, is there anything or anyone that could save some vestige of the good, old United States?

Tom Ironsides: No, and no. I’m not even sure there’s going to be an election. And if there is, who cares? We know it will be rigged. And regardless of how it turns out, or even if it does or doesn’t, nothing will or can change. The deep state, the elites, don’t need a president anymore. They don’t need any of the politicians or any open facade of government. All we have is the deep, dark state now. It itself is crumbling. Instead of caring one wit about any D or R, Americans should just get on with their lives. And try to position themselves so they can emerge from the fires and rebuild.

As for a savior, we simply don’t have one. If we did, then his time would have already come and gone. For whatever reason, lately, I’ve been thinking about Majorian. I’ve been trying to play-pretend him into life as a would-be final-stage US leader.

PL: Emperor Majorian? Of the Roman Empire?

Tom Ironsides: Right. Iulius Valerius Maiorianus, the last real chance the Western Empire had, around 460 AD. The last real emperor. In my estimation, the US, or even a rump state part of it, cries out for just such a leader. Like most plausibly effective reformers or rebels, he was of the aristocracy – though certainly not necessarily synchronized with their self-centered thinking. As you or your readers may know, he and his friend, Ricimer, forced Majorian’s way into power. Then, he did the almost unthinkable. Despite all odds, he started reuniting the previously lost territories. He quickly returned the competing ethnic groups, tribes, and kingdoms to their previous orders and places. At the point of spatha first, with magnanimity thereafter. He gave the people of Italy, Gaul, et cetera, pride in Rome again. Ricimer and the like aside, Majorian started to revive the ancient practice of enforcing Roman policies with actual Roman soldiers. At the same time, he started to positively stamp out corruption and rebuild the economy. He freed up literal tons of gold and silver. And – one can guess his fatal mistake – he started abolishing debt and usury.

Those later points were a step too far, too fast for the trash inhabiting the Senate and the lending houses. In their short-sighted, self-serving idiocy, they had Ricimer murder the only man capable of extending their prosperity. Barely a generation later, the fools lost it all. Shit. We are Rome! We just didn’t get the Majorian. The best we could do was a braggadocious real estate street barker who didn’t even try to cross the Rubicon when required. I know of no man willing or able to do what would have to be done. My hope is that we have a few of them in the making and that they’ll step in after the Balkanization starts.

We had a few candidates over the years. My former employer killed JFK for a couple of reasons, including monetary reform. History has seen more than a few good leaders whacked by bad bankers. Lord.

PL: You’re not excited about voting for Nikki Haley, some other foreign woman, or maybe just Ron DeSantis? Come on!

Tom Ironsides: Nimarata needs to be deported. Little Ronny is a war criminal. And both of them solidly if stupidly serve foreign masters. The dupes can believe whatever they want. Me? The last time I voted, I think I had to write in Pat Buchanan. Half a lifetime ago. Pointless.

PL: Any chance you’d ever step in, big guy? … Let the record reflect Dr. Ironsides is pointing at me with his middle fingers. Well. Anyway, let’s see. We’ll try to rapidly advance through a few more topics. You stepped into Parris Island a long time ago. Have you heard about the FBI down at your old stomping grounds?

Tom Ironsides: Forty years ago this summer. I wonder if the mosquitos would still remember me. Ha! But, yes, sadly I have read some reports and I’ve talked to a few people. What a disgrace!

PL: The rumors are true, then?

Tom Ironsides: True and then some. It’s all part of the insane desperation and the desire to set everything on fire. They’re at war with legitimate Catholics, and they’re looking for informants and agitators to serve, what did they call it? To serve “Team America”. Exact same thing with the Corps. Brandon’s blathering aside, they can’t find any real White terrorists, so they’re out to make a few. The hilarious thing is that once the genuine pushback starts, they’ll have no idea what to do about it. Pitiful. I am proud of that kid for telling them to shove it. He’s better out now anyway, regardless of whatever lies they typed on his 214. Part of me, formerly, would have counseled him to sue and demand they explain exactly what fraud he committed when enlisting. They can’t, of course, unless they describe all the crimes they commit, and that they won’t. It doesn’t matter. We should have stripped down all federal LEO and purged everyone above O6 back in the early 1990s. The whole bureaucracy should have been axed. But it’s too late now. Now, it will just fall apart. C’est la vie.

PL: You’ve had a few regrets about the time you spent helping the empire, no?

Tom Ironsides: More than a few. Without becoming a full-time vigilante, I have tried to make some private amends. I had a good multi-hour Confession. And I’ve rededicated my life to help young Americans and young families avoid our past mistakes and rekindle some sense of Christian civilization.

PL: That would get us to education and culture. I had wanted to conclude with education, maybe with that video from the Florida high school. But we’ve run a little long. I had the CDC report. Did you read about the Shigellosis outbreak?

Tom Ironsides: Monkeypox 2.0, yes. Never-ending degeneracy. I am impressed they operate so openly, trusting the blind, stupid people will never catch on. Queers are raping children, and the damned government is concerned about the well-being of the rapists. Let’s move along, please.

PL: Okay. Due to time and word constraints, wanna skip education for now?

Tom Ironsides: Sure. In a word, homeschool.

PL: That’s the word. Okay, how about we just wrap this up with a final question about something you mentioned today? About deception. Is there any reason for any American to trust anything the mainstream media says about the war, or about pretty much anything else?

Tom Ironsides: No. It’s as simple as that. If it’s corporate media or it’s on television, then it’s almost certainly a lie. There are far better sources out there, but most people refuse to utilize them. CNN or Fox is all they know. And I’d say Fox is the absolute worst. Right now they, and everyone else, are repeating this stupid nonsense about the so-called C-19 lab leak. The bug came from several labs – that’s true – but it did not leak. It was intentionally released by the US government. The retarded spin serves two purposes. First, it serves as a non-apology for the whole hoax, charade, and crime of aggression. Just move along, sheep. Second, the liars at Fox, and the other liars, are using it to pivot the gullible public into supporting a war with China. The people, who simply cannot think properly, and who can’t be bothered to ask real questions or do real research, would be much better off simply avoiding the news entirely.

PL: As Jack said, “They can’t handle the truth?”

Tom Ironsides: That, and many of them hate the truth.

PL: One last semi-related thing? You mentioned rebuilding and rump states. You now live in Dixie. Do you see any signs that Southerners, specifically, are ready to embrace the future?

Tom Ironsides: Yes and no. I’ve always been impressed with the sense of tradition and history found in the OCSA. My dear father-in-law embodies it. Right now, and for an age, they’ve been under attack. They know it. But many don’t appear to understand that the greater world or the condition of the American nation has changed around them. When the O of occupation is finally removed – soon, I think – I’m not sure people are ready to move on. The younger ones, some of them, perhaps. All of them will have to find a way to fit in or separate from the herd. That’s the challenge everyone in North America will be facing in a decade or so. Maybe sooner. There will be a tremendous amount of labor involved in the re-ordering, and people should start planning, loosely, for that right now. While retaining the grand sense of honor and tradition, it’s time to get practical. When the time comes, I have high hopes that all of us will act accordingly. We will have a rare chance to build a new civilization.

PL: That’s as inspiring as it is challenging. Thanks so much for answering my questions today, Tom. As always, it’s been a pleasure.

Tom Ironsides: You’re welcome, and thank you for asking. Now, please get back to work finishing AURELIUS. Make me look good.

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Tom Ironsides is the hero of THE SUBSTITUTE, a novel soon to be re-published by Shotwell. Later this year, he’ll be back in the all-action novella, AURELIUS.

© Shotwell / Perrin Lovett.

UPDATE: Dr. Ironsides emailed and advised there is a suggestion of fake news regarding the A-50 AWACs plane. https://ria.ru/20230301/vzryvy-1855237809.html. At this point, who knows?

COLUMN: A Few Current Events

25 Wednesday May 2022

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COLUMN: A Few Current Events

Hello, manly gents and gorgeous gals. I sincerely hope you all enjoyed last week’s multiple blasts from the past. I used my time wisely, pounding out more fiction and podcasts, dealing with gym injuries, and further developing the LEO ISR permanent radar/optical termination stuff. I noticed, just this morning, that things kept on moving. Let’s take a look-see.

A Monkeypox On All Your Bathhouses…

Rest assured that the Monkeypox hoax is every bit as serious and dangerous to the normal, healthy public as the C19 hoax was before it. Make your plans accordingly.

Begging For A Bombing.

Speaking of sodomites, National Review is so gay it makes The Advocate look masculine. It always has. I do not necessarily suspect Rich Lowry is cut from the same swishy cloth as Buckley and Bewkes. He is, however, about as stupid and disingenuous as neocons come. Lately, he’s been niggling Kongress not to niggard the Ukranazis out of their precious $40 Billion. Something, something about Russia, something Raytheon, etc. Whatever. Here’s how the Lend-Lease Budget will be spent, according to the CBO:

$ 13,333,333,333.33 (33%) kickbacks to Blackrock and Goldman Sachs

10,000,000,000.00 kickbacks to MIC

10,000,000,000.00 kickbacks to USG (90% to Kongress, 10% to the “Big Guy”)

6,000,000,000.00 kickbacks to CIA BB

600,000,000.00 kickbacks to Eye of Soros Foundation

66,000,000.00 to Azov Casket Memorial Fund

666,000.00 to Miami-Dade Tax Assessor (in re: Ze’s [Star Island?] house)

666 for You. Know. Who.

.67 for additional Kalibr targets

Take that, Vladolph Putler! In Lowry’s defense, I heard a rumor that Putin, Medvedev, and Lavrov are scared shitless about the new development at Ramstein AB, GER. I don’t really buy it, or the rumor that Lowry, Dan Crenshaw, and a hologram of Herr Zelenskyy will perform at the upcoming Fag Queen Pedo Hour, Ramstein Base Library, Thursday, June 2, 2022, 10:30 AM UTC+02. (Be there, or be straight). Enough rumors; here’s “the deal.”

Ukraine is finished as a nation-state. It’s done, and everyone in DC, London, and Brussels knows it. Your MSM liars won’t tell you. Instead, when they move on to something else (MONKEYPOX!!! EEK!), you’ll know they know. Eastern and Southern Ukiland are Russian territory and will remain so indefinitely. The central third of the land, around K-I-E-V, will likely be reconstituted as New Ukraine, by that or some other name, and it will be a very Russian-friendly kind of place. Hungary and Romania may (or may not) take little slivers of the Carpathians. The rest of Western Bander-Galacia will likely host a long guerilla war between the Polacks and the Nazis. All of this will start to coalesce sometime between now and the end of the summer and that day when the AFU just falls apart and Russia casually rolls over and into whatever territory they please – in spite of what lies Lowry, Brandon, Boris, and the rest of the lying dipshits will say.

It has been utterly retarded for the Werewest to interfere in any way, including the pitiful shipments of ~~weapons~~ targets into the 404. The idiots better make certain they stop the ineffective assistance in time. If anyone (looking at Lloyd Austin?) has any brains at all, then it would be beyond retarded to get caught shipping in ~~weapons~~ targets AFTER the nominal Russian victory. Heretofore, Moscow has cautiously concerned itself with liberating oppressed peoples, and eliminating Nazis, while trying hard not to damage civilian life and infrastructure and not exterminate all Ukrainian regulars. Beyond ISR jamming, armament depot destruction, mercenary liquefaction, that Canadian general, and laughing out loud, they’ve paid scant attention to the malevolence of NATO. If any Javelins, Harpoons, or Nerf guns come in, once they’re finally free to care and properly respond, I suspect the gloves will come off. Recall the MOD can operate worldwide. Rather than blow up shipments outside Lviv, they could destroy the transfer points in Western Europe, down ships or planes in the Atlantic, or simply take out the sources. One might not think a munitions factory in Tucson is in danger of a Zircon strike; then again, one probably doesn’t understand math, ballistics, or geography.

Leave the Sovereign World alone. Leave the children alone, too, you damnable freaks.

The Children. You Did Not Think About The Children.

Uvalde. You, even those of you under rocks, must have heard, seen, or read something. I will address this latest tragedy tomorrow on the PPN. Right now, as usual, all parties and sides are asking what the solution is to these never-ending atrocities. We hear the usual, dead-wrong nonsense about laws, money, and guns. Here’s the terrible thought of the week: what if these kinds of attacks are the solution? I mean “solution” as a quasi-synonym for “outcome.”

Moron Abbott* babbled something about parents dropping kids off at schools and expecting something. I can’t listen to fools. Anyone who expects anything short of horror from an American school is also foolish. Schools cause, among many other awful things, school shootings. But, that’s not the problem.

Good Ole MB sent me a wonderful article of his about the Georgia primaries this week. I clicked a link and read an empty BS statement by a womanly candidate. She promised to fight CRT and “call for legislation that mandates teaching our children American History and American values, not dividing us by skin color.” God divided us. He sent His Son to keep the division going. The CRT gangsters, on the contrary, and like all globohomo trash, want to unite us. In fear, pain, slavery, and death. That’s closer to the issue with the shootings and cultural devolution.

Recall that a short time ago, a Black radical shot up a subway station. Then, not long after, a White Amero-Bandera type shot up a supermarket. Even a Chinaman snapped and shot up a Taiwanese Church. Now in Texas, in a Hispanic town, a Hispanic teenager from a Hispanic high school has killed a score of Hispanic children at a Hispanic elementary school. Drop the Boomer division crap and notice the pattern: everyone behaves the same way. Why?

My theory is that Uvalde represents the intersection of the two greatest geopolitical problems confronting the US since WWII – the demographic transformation, and the debt apocalypse. We stupidly, blindly traded a sane, sober, high-IQ, homogenous, Christian Western European population, living under a British sub-culture, working real jobs, and with real money to spend … for the present predicament. We now suffer a great hodgepodge of duller, drugged-out, insane, violent masses who literally have nothing. And who have nothing to lose. As such, as Gerald Celente puts it, they lose it. Most of these monsters, weak-minded as they might be, know something is wrong. They know but they cannot put their fingers on it. Digits more often find the triggers.

In a sick, sad, perverse way, this is what the people have elected for themselves and for their posterity. The can was kicked until it sailed off a cliff, taking the kickers with it. Others may have made the horrible suggestions, but it was Americans themselves who acted on them. Tune in to the show tomorrow for more. Congratulations. Those mostly over the age of 30-ish have helped make a fine mess. This is the new normal. And it’s just getting started.

Cheery PS for the normies: No later than September 1st, I advise you to have enough food, heating fuel, water, and/or water-purifying capability to make it through the very end of winter, whenever winter ends where you live. Also, if you haven’t already, and if you still can, now is the time to gun up. And – very important – no later than 9/1/22, I strongly suggest you have on hand a year’s supply of any and all medications you either require to stay alive or which make your lives bearable. While the Sovereign World rolls and thrives, in Clown World, things are about to go from rough to B-A-D.

*UPDATE: Beta O’Rourke is also obviously an ass.

Decisions, Decisions…

21 Wednesday Apr 2021

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Decisions, Decisions…

an admittedly-second rate column…

*I submitted this one to TPC, both to see if they wanted it and if they’re back from the usual vacation. For this audience, the body has been slightly edited.

This week, in spite of a myriad of potential topics, I had extreme difficulty coming up with that one, golden subject crying out for attention. Please, if you will, stumble through a shortlist of the candidates with me. Maybe something will jump out at us.

The verdict is in! Twelve craven retards convicted Derek Chauvin of all three counts in his show trial over the narcotics overdose death of the violent felon, druggie, and small-time porn actor Big Floyd. The evidence was incontrovertible that Floyd died of cardio-pulmonary failure caused by extremely poor vascular health and a triple lethal dose of Fentanyl (among several other varieties of dope). But, what does evidence matter in this day and age? Faced with threats of insurrection by Mad Maxine and her legions of Burn, Loot, Murder thugs, and Antifa terrorists, the jury and the system did what everyone suspected they would. We could say that April 20th was the day justice died but that call would be years late. And, really, no one cares.

They’re bragging about it! Yesterday, it was a crazy conspiracy theory. Now, even the fake president boasts to the fake media about fake foreign meddling in the fake 2020 election. According to former Vice President Dusthead, Russia rigged the electoral process resulting in Dusthead’s selection. I know nobody cares, but this point leads me to the next possibility:

War! It’s not clear who, exactly, is calling the shots in DC, but whoever it is, they want a war with Russia really, really, really badly. That’s about how it would or will end too. Whoever it is – and it’s not Dusthead nor Willie B’s call girl – they are not one-note luciferians: they are also bound and determined to lose a war to China, Iran, and maybe some other countries. Big yawn, right?

What’s another one? Realize it or not, we’re already involved in multiple wars. From the outside, several factions, already warring with each other, are fighting over who gets to claim the prize of the gutted shell of Amerika. What a prize?! They have been waging unrestricted warfare against the US for at least a decade, with copious assistance from the inside. On top of that, we are already in the early, cooler stages of a civil war. But, as heavy munitions haven’t destroyed your house yet, you don’t mind, do you? I certainly do not.

The 2020 Census is inbound! No changes whatsoever, eh, Senator Kennedy? This one really isn’t that important as anyone with a triple-digit IQ can already see the shift and terminal decline.

In less than four months, Planned Parenthood has already murdered over 100,000 babies, roughly a third of the total killed this pitiful year. Hey! Better them than you, right, you gutless piece of excrement…

Part of the civil war is the Great Hoax that is now morphing into the greatest war crime ever! “Your” government has kindly admitted that there is not nor was there ever a “Coronavirus pandemic.” It really is nothing more than a rebranded cold, flu, and pneumonia season, and a milder one at that. Why worry about facts, when you have your beloved masks?

Masks are ineffective and dangerous. The literate and curious have been aware of this since around 1920. However, last fall a Hoax-specific study revealed how masks mess with the mind, deprive the brain of oxygen, make you look like a foolish slave, but at least they do nothing to slow down viral transmission! I know, I know, it’s part of your religion. Wear it. Don a Glad bag if you want to.

The fake vaccine is poison. The statistics (I know they’re “racist” like all other math) plainly show that, even before factoring in potential super-charged secondary infections or accelerated cancers, the experimental mRNA technology itself is more deadly to USians than firearms. Dusthead: common sense #PoisonControl? No…

The economy is completely disconnected from reality. Dogecoin was started as a joke. A jocular hoax, based on a meme, aimed at another crypto scam, all built off of a decimated fiat currency … now has a more valuable market capitalization than Ford Motor Company. We’re not in Clownworld. We’re in Clownworld’s version of Clownworld.

On top of all of that…

*I removed the TPC punchline as it isn’t necessary here. It was a struggle to come up with something. Soon, I feel the need for a little more fiction. Actually, I feel the need for a lot more fiction!

Salammbo and Virginia – from TPC

21 Tuesday Jan 2020

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Sparing Hannibal

According to romantic legend, besieged by war and famine the wise men of ancient Carthage naturally saw fit to sacrifice their children to Moloch.

Every time that a child was placed in them the priests of Moloch spread out their hands upon him to burden him with the crimes of the people, vociferating: “They are not men but oxen!” and the multitude round about repeated: “Oxen! oxen!” The devout exclaimed: “Lord! Eat!”

-Chapter Thirteen, “Moloch,” Salammbo, Gustave Flaubert (1862)

I mean, what else are you supposed to do? Wisest and noblest of all, Hamilcar, general and defender of the city, sent a slave’s child in place of his own son. The entire spectacle was said to horrify the barbarians.

In place of a gallant Hamilcar, America has Virginia Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam. He took the nickname “Coonman” back in his blackface days. More recently, he’s been offering up the Commonwealth’s children to Baal Cronus Virginem via infanticide. “Not men but oxen!” Coonman has also set his sights on disarming Virginians. Last week, he declared a state of emergency in Richmond and prohibited the carrying of guns at a pro-gun rally. Allegedly he had heard of a plot by “white nationalists” to celebrate the Second Amendment or something. “White nationalists” are obviously people who do things like mockingly wear blackface and sanction child murder. Right? In what appeared to be a setup of another Charlottesville, the government has raced around making some highly dubious advance arrests – including three in GA.

In reality, the rally, held Monday, was planned and organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League and was attended by average, ordinary NRA types – people, of all races, creeds, etc. who tire of state tyranny and who wished to demonstrate a reminder to the machinery of government that it is they, the people, who still hold power. This faction is generally thought of as leaning politically to the right. However, unsurprisingly, the right-wingers courted a few leftist allies. Forms of liberty being of at least nominal interest to more than one ideology, and with almost everyone (outside of the government) adopting the Second Amendment for what it is, Antifa joined the celebration, marching side-by-side with the NRA. Yes, Virginia, it is a weird world. Hey! I like to get these things in on a somewhat tenable schedule. Therefore, I’m wrapping this writing process up early on Monday afternoon. The rally appears to be peaceable, and that is excellent. Should anything develop, I’ll add a comment note – if needed – hopefully not. But still,

Watch Virginia

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