We interrupt the regularly scheduled political screed for some spontaneous horn-tooting.
For some reason, my debut novel remains the most popular book I’ve written. At least it’s accumulated the most “social proof” of all my books. Here’s the latest review of Hell and Gone:
I hadn’t planned on writing a review but the end of Hell & Gone had a comment by the author, Henry Brown, that struck me. Military fiction is a genre that’s has been dearly underserved by mainstream publishing. While there may be a financial justification for this, and it is a niche genre, the real reason is that publishers simply don’t like it. It’s difficult to market, requires a knowledge base few editors possess and, yes, it’s considered “icky” by an industry that leans so far to the left that some publishers have trouble getting through doorways. It also happens to be MY industry, and I know all this from experience.
That being said, the genre suffers from another problem: A lot of the material written for it just isn’t that good. Creating a story is hard work, and doubly so when it’s easy to slide into stereotypes and cliches instead of crafting realistic characters with original and interesting motivations. Combat action, while essential to a story, can cease to be what moves a story along and instead threaten to overwhelm the plot. And lastly, God save us all from the author that simply doesn’t bother to do research and spits out jarring technical mistakes.
This book has none of those problems. The characters are interesting and as a reader you are motivated to care about them. The action is fast-paced, with colorful description, and it serves the purpose of the story instead of the other way around.
In short, this is a damn fine book. Read it and enjoy a real treat.
It’s available in Audible, too.
Of course, now I’m wondering what I said that inspired this person to post a review. Whatever it is, I need to duplicate it in my other work. In a business where some books are getting thousands of reviews on Amazon, this book just barely reached 84…and it’s been a bestseller in a few different categories.
Anyway, the reviewer claims to work in the industry. Perhaps that’s why he’s keeping his identity anonymous–probably a wise move in today’s climate. In any case, I’m very grateful he posted.
Paul Manafort sits in solitary confinement, facing 305 years in prison for alleged tax evasion in 2005 (for which he hasn’t been convicted as of this writing).
While this has been going on, a gang of Invaders have been training children to execute (more) false-flag school shootings, at a compound in New Mexico. At least one of the children was murdered at the compound.
Obviously the uselessness extends well beyond 2016.
The FBI has known about the group for a while, but of course did nothing. They had more important things to do, like trying to spy on, entrap, or frame American citizens, cover up their own crimes, and overturn the results of the 2016 election.
On Tuesday New Mexico Judge Sarah Backusreleased the five Islamist defendants, Siraj Wahhaj, Hujrah Wahhaj, Subhannah Wahhaj, Jany Leveille, and Lucas Morten, on a $20,000 “signature bond.”
In making her decision to release the extremists, Judge Backus accused prosecutors of anti-Muslim bias against the Islamic terror camp organizers.
And, much like at Waco, the FBI immediately sent bulldozers in to destroy the crime scene. They couldn’t be bothered to save the children (whom they are SOOOO concerned about in cases like Waco); but they wasted no time plowing over evidence after the cat got out of the bag.
Now I just wonder what could be their possible motive for this skewed set of priorities?
I ask again: Whose interests are being served in this country? Who and what do our public servants owe allegiance to? Is it We the People who pay their salaries and foot the bill for their weapons and equipment?
Kudos to Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys for pushing back against the racists of “Black Lives Matter” and the masked blackshirts of “Antifa” (anti-First Amendment), but the title of this post isn’t about clashing with Democrats on the streets where the police disarm the non-leftist groups but let the commie mobs attack with melee weapons. Like everything else on the political landscape today, that game is rigged. Trump supporters can’t peacefully assemble without being attacked by unhinged leftist mobs abetted by local government officials, then inevitably get blamed for the resulting riots by the Swamp Media. When they dare fight back, they are predictably tailgunned from concern trolls allegedly on their side, because of “bad optics” or the “we shouldn’t stoop to their level” mantra.
What I’m proposing is far more effective in the long run than dodging blows from bike locks swung by professors of ethics. It should be a no-brainer, but unfortunately it needs to be spelled out.
I don’t remember if Sun Tzu specifically warned against feeding and equipping your enemy. Probably not, because I’m sure it seemed a no-brainer for everyone in the world up until 20h Century US foreign policy experts came along.
Every time you pay to see a Commiewood movie; every time you use Google, Facebook, Apple or Twitter; every time you watch lapdog network news and/or buy something from their sponsors; every time you post a link to a Swamp Media website; every time you buy NFL or NBA merchandise, Kellogs products, Kraft Cheese, Tyson Foods or Sarah Lee desserts (to name just a few), you are supporting our domestic enemies.
If you really want to prevail against the enemy, you’ve got to quit contributing to their war chest.
On top of that, by patronizing their propaganda outlets, you’re also helping them poison the minds of yourself and countless others.
Quit using Google. Use yippy. Delete Chrome from your browser and install Brave, Pale Moon, or Opera.
Don’t use Youtube if you can help it–use Bitchute, Vidme, Pewtube…
Quit the echo chambers of idiocy called Facebook and Twitter (and all their spinoffs like Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, etc.). If you must participate in social media, there are much better options where you are allowed to exercise free speech and your info isn’t being peddled to spy agencies and corporations. Gab and Oneway are my favorites, but there are a lot of other alternatives, too.
Wanna read a book? Quit supporting the anti-American authors with your voting dollars. There are non-leftist independent authors (including ours here at VP) in pretty much every genre. We’ve interviewed some authors here, and I reviewed a lot of books back on the Two-Fisted Blog. That’s a couple places right there where you can figure out what books might be worth your time.
Same deal with news sources. You get the idea, I hope.
The enemy has rigged the system over the last century so that they have all the advantages. A lot of their institutions are propped up by our tax dollars. Others are backed by billionaire globalists. Why the hell are you adding your voting dollars to that advantage, when there are alternatives?
The enemy won’t admit it (because the enemy is a liar), but they have been waging a culture war against us for generations. We haven’t been fighting back until recently, partly because so many of us refused to accept reality.
You can’t win a war if you won’t fight. Especially if you give aid and comfort to the enemy at the same time.
A whole lot of people still insist on calling communists and fascists “liberals.” A whole lot of coincidence theorists still scoff at the idea of conspiracies. Facebook, Apple, Google, and Spotify (FAGS for short) and other social media Thought Cops coordinated to deplatform InfoWars this week–a textbook case of conspiracy, and about as opposite of “liberal” as you can get. Assuming that words still have meaning.
Surprisingly, Twitter has not yet permanently banned InfoWars as of the time of this writing.
You might think that means Twitter is the least totalitarian of all the major Internet platforms in their crackdown on free speech, and in efforts to financially ruin anyone who disputes the propaganda of the Swamp Media. You would be right.
But watch this video from Project Veritas to get an idea how fair, impartial, “liberal” and honest Twitter (the least corrupt of all these leftist cyber-despots) actually is.
The longer you continue to support Hollywood, Big Social (FAGS for short), the MSM, ad nauseum, the more weak-minded individuals they will continue to indoctrinate and brainwash to cancel out your vote at election time.
UPDATE:
Evidently, Twitter felt the heat and finally got on the Censor Alex Jones bandwagon.
…And a few of them probably do. But most of them will do what their masters tell them–lose by any means possible and continue helping the Democrats ruin the country while pretending (ineptly, of late) to oppose them.
There is no danger to national security by releasing the full, unredacted documents. But there is a danger to the Deep State and the Swamp Media if the American people are given a glimpse of the corruption and criminality of our highly-paid domestic enemies. Pay attention to what your congressmen do and say regarding this.
In the reality we inhabit, it’s difficult to imagine a world where Darwinism hasn’t been pushed by academia until it undergirds nearly every creative work, dominates every alleged discussion of science, and permeates the thinking of so many people (even those considered religious). But in the ancient world, it’s unlikely anyone promoted an idea that life originated, then evolved, by random accident–either according to the Big Bang process as conceptualized by atheists (“first there was nothing, then it exploded”); or via pan-spermia (“life originated in some far-away solar system according to Darwin’s model–therefore you can’t examine any evidence–then Earth was seeded by the resulting advanced life forms as an experiment”).
Whether or not humanity was entirely composed of superstitious simpletons, what evidence has survived suggests that supernatural creation was a mainstream concept and supernatural intervention was often expected.
Supernatural intervention is commonplace in the many surviving variations of the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths. Other mythologies are more difficult to research, but share most of the same themes. And, though it was rare for the Israelites to witness a physical manifestation of their God, they frequently begged His intervention, and often got it.
Initially (when Gods & Proxies was the first draft of a screenplay), I had characters with a 20th/21st Century attitude (agnostic, leaning toward atheist). It was an easy mistake to make, because you can’t go anywhere in the present day without encountering Darwinist worldviews, and assumptions based on the work of his zealous disciples. It’s only natural for a writer wanting to include life-like characters to craft them so that they wouldn’t seem out-of-place in the real world.
Which takes me back to my point: the real world now is perceived much differently than the real world was thousands of years ago.
It’s a major blunder to transpose modern values and attitudes into a period piece with no consideration for credibility. We see it in movies, TV shows, and books all the time. It’s a lazy and rather arrogant blunder. That’s why, when adapting the story into prose form, that anachronistic worldview had to go.
That said, human nature hasn’t changed, at all. Certainly the sophistication of deception has advanced considerably from ancient times, but not what deception is perpetrated to accomplish (abandonment of the Creator God, a hate for the truth and what is right, debauchery, and a love affair with lies).
There is no political correlation between what happens in our time and what happens in Gods & Proxies. Any flavor of social conflict you may find in the book is not inspired by current controversy, but by the clues from the ancient historical records, influenced by what the author understands about human nature.
Evidently, a lot of Democrats have finally decided that their party has jumped the shark. Their mass political exodus has a name and a hashtag: #WalkAway.
While some like George Soros and Cuck Tumor Chuck Shumer are upset that fellow Democrats have tipped their hand too early, before their constituents have been adequately conditioned to accept the Soviet-level lunacy their party wants for America, the Swamp Media is doubling down. The #WalkAway phenomenon is nothing but a hoax, they insist, employing a phantom army of Twitter bots created by…you guessed it: Russian hackers!
Some of the defectors are doxxing themselves on Youtube and other platforms, to prove they are not “bots” (and being harassed or shunned for their trouble) but I suspect most are wisely keeping it on the down-low to escape the attention of the left-wing lynch mobs.
There are some dangers inherent in this seemingly positive development, and I’ll point out a couple that worry me.
The first danger is that the Establishment will use accommodation of these defectors as another excuse to push the GOP even further to the left. For decades the NeoCons insisted that the only route to victory for Republicans was to become less of an alternative to the Democrats, but instead merge into a Uniparty that only disagrees over what trimester babies should be murdered in the womb, or how soon the Fed should shove us into hyperinflation. This deception was proven wrong every election cycle, then utterly wrecked by the election of President Trump. But droves of former Democrats flooding the electorate will no doubt inspire them to suggest that the dog should return to its vomit. Their excuses change over time, but their “solution” is always the same: keep shoving everything leftward.
The second danger is far more grave. What the #WalkAway crowd (and others) have noticed is that the Deep State and its Swamp Media is losing its collective mind. (Hive Mind, to be precise.) Gaping holes are cracking open in The Narrative, and many of their attempts to patch it up are too desperate and obvious even for some of their longtime loyalists. The meltdown is epic.
Traitors are accusing patriots of treason, while proclaiming themselves to be patriotic. Screaming “racist” has lost its magical power to shut down debate, so the Hive Mind Drones are calling everything and everybody to the right of Karl Marx “fascist,” “nazi” and “Hitler.” I guess their woke, genderfluid parents never read them The Boy Who Cried Wolf as children. It was probably too heteronormative, wolfophobic, and celebrated the patriarchy. Anyway, those epithets are also losing their power, the more ludicrous and constant their usage. What can they do now but screech the terms even more and louder, proving themselves less credible with every instance? They could try calling us pedophiles (and some do), but that is counterproductive since that is the next perversion they’re trying to normalize. (“Conservatives” might still be a decade away from overtly joining the left in accepting pedophilia as the status quo, so playing that card could easily backfire on the Hive Mind, anyway.)
To get an idea what their desperation will drive them to next, cast your gaze across the pond. Tommy Robinson dared to speak the truth about some consequences of the Muslim invasion of Britain, and he’s been locked in the Tower of London. No, not really. Actually, he’s been imprisoned in a facility where the Muslim majority inmates might murder him at any time, making him an example to anybody else who might dare to report on the gang rapes and other violent crimes committed by the protected classes invading the UK.
And, apparently, the criminals holding the reins of the British government have found enough leverage against the government of Ecuador, that an extradition is now being arranged so that something similar can be done to Julian Assange, for the crime of exposing various Deep State skeletons in London and Washington closets.
This is a portent of things to come. Leaks and whistleblowers have dealt the Deep State some painful setbacks in the last couple years. They can’t afford to allow dissidents to speak the truth anymore. They are going to do whatever it takes to shut down free speech. Bank on it. They will stop at nothing to reclaim their monopoly on the flow of information.
Expect an increased effort to regulate the Web–far beyond what the Thought Police in Silicon Valley are presently doing on social media platforms–that’s just the tip of the iceberg. They previously tried to quietly ram “Net Neutrality” down our throats, as the first step toward absolute censorship. They are probably brainstorming right now for a way to trigger sheeple’s emotions on such an epic level that the public will demand that our free speech be utterly crushed.
I would not be surprised if the next wave of false flag atrocities are framed in such a way as to blame the unregulated Internet equally alongside the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Maybe more, because in order to patch up The Narrative and maintain control of the Zeitgeist, alternative media must be crushed. People like me will have to be silenced. No ifs, buts, or maybes about it.
As skeptical as I am about the collective intelligence of the western world, and myths like “common sense,” I must admit, it’s hard to conceive an event huge enough to sell such a massive crackdown.
Then again, I guess the Fed could finally just strike the death blow to our economy. After millions starve to death and the survivors kill each other off in race wars, it will be much simpler to regain control of The Narrative–and everything else.
Razorfist gives us the skinny on this early pulp hero, as few others could.
I admit, aside from a few boxing pulps, Conan is pretty much the only Robert E. Howard property I’ve read much of. I credit this to early exposure to the Marvel Comics adaptations, more than the aborted film franchise from the 1980s. I wish I had time to correct that.
Red-Blooded American Men Examine Pop-Culture and the World
Anyway, those epithets are also losing their power, the more ludicrous and constant their usage. What can they do now but screech the terms even more and louder, proving themselves less credible with every instance? They could try calling us pedophiles (and some do), but that is counterproductive since that is the next perversion they’re trying to normalize. (“Conservatives” might still be a decade away from overtly joining the left in accepting pedophilia as the status quo, so playing that card could easily backfire on the Hive Mind, anyway.)