The Euros talk about disengaging from the USA as though it were some sort of threat. We have enough shiftless third-world types, insane Muslims, grasping Sub-Continent folks, and Chinese birth-vacation people of our own, with the Euro version tacked onto the current burden. Yes, the US is a nation of immigrants, but whether we’re speaking of the Chinese who built the railroad or the Europeans who pushed across the landmass, most of them worked and tried to forge something greater, with the Constitutional blueprint of limited government and States’ Rights (10th Amendment, etc.) The current batch of elitist grifters, the worst of which seem to gravitate to universities, which charge $60K a year for what? Students are gulled into massive debt for an education that will not pay back the loan within a normal human lifespan.
The ‘establishment’ who rode the gravy train are unhappy with President Trump but look longingly at what could have been with another puppet whore in the White House – another four-year grift. President Trump is trying to Make America Great Again, and he’s doing what he can with what he has. Very few in Congress are people you’d want your grandchildren to grow up to be.
The Greenland Rant
Denmark’s Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, repeats it like a mantra. Greenland is part of the Kingdom; sovereignty remains intact. Formally, that’s true. But she’s leaving out the rest. According to the White House, the US now has veto power over strategic investments in Greenland from countries it considers adversaries (principally Red China and Russia). A senior US official adds that the US can build new bases as needed.
Copenhagen and Nuuk insist sovereignty is intact. But sovereignty is about who makes the decisions. When another country can veto who invests in your land and build bases without asking first, you no longer decide alone. The keys are hanging somewhere else now.
Why doesn’t Mette Frederiksen say it out loud? Because she can’t. The entire Danish political class spent months whipping up a mood. Trump was cast as the enemy, the US as the threat, and the fear was milked for everything it was worth in the run-up to the election. The media played along, and large parts of the population followed like puppets without asking a single question. Emotion beat reason again.
The Danes (people ruled by their feelings) missed it. The White House never intended to invade an ally. The tariff threats, the talk of force, the offers to buy Greenland were leverage. Trump wrote the book on this decades ago, and anyone who looks for patterns instead of headlines could see where it was heading. You open with maximum pressure, you let the other side panic, and you close on the terms you wanted from the start. Look at what Washington walked away with: permanent basing rights, the freedom to build more, and a veto over who invests in the island. That was the goal all along.
There’s a reason for the hard hand. This administration is working to pull the West out of woke hell and away from the ideologues who spent decades hollowing out its foundations. You don’t win that fight with kid gloves. You play the game it takes to win. Now the same prime minister has to explain that she signed off on what she called unacceptable. So she talks about sovereignty and hopes nobody reads the fine print.
To everyone outside Denmark: don’t be fooled by the sudden love for Greenland. Denmark hasn’t given a flying f*ck about Greenlanders for generations. They were only mentioned when the topic was drinking and social problems. In the ’60s and ’70s, thousands of Greenlandic girls and women had IUDs inserted without consent. Children were taken from their families to be turned into little Danes. This year’s sudden concern was ownership. Greenlanders themselves were an afterthought. Greenland is still Denmark’s on paper. That’s the only place Denmark ever cared about it.
Denmark has one play: a close, loving relationship with the United States. Allying itself with Europe on paper is a sop to the woke. None of its Euro Allies would come to save it if it were attacked (see WW2). No other nuclear shield keeps it tucked warmly into bed at night. Denmark is a wonderful land with a rich history. Many Danes immigrated to the United States and helped to forge that Northern European work ethic that built the USA. But it can’t survive as an Islamic Caliphate, as it has learned the hard way, and nobody else has the muscle to preserve their sovereignty in the real world. Denmark makes a good partner. As an adversary, it would be absorbed by its Euro-Friends.
Bullet Points:
** Matt Walsh is peddling his history series online. From what I’ve heard, he’s on point. I’m not a shill for Walsh. I am a shill for my own historical fiction series set in that timeframe. He writes: 600,000 Americans died in this war (The War of Northern Aggression/War of Southern Secession, War of the Second Rebellion – whatever), and we can’t even have an honest conversation about why. Instead, we got a fake history to fit whatever political narrative the left needs. Amen, Matt.
The Duelist Series is historical fiction set during the War Between the States and beyond. It begins with The Confederate Cipher, which winds around the British Government’s role in American politics leading up to the war. The series follows Henry L. Hudson, a young man who nearly caused trouble for his wealthy family and was sent to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to keep him away from a brewing scandal. The Confederacy and the British secret establishments work to entice Hudson into their orbits through The Confederate Cipher and Hudson’s Scouts, the second book in the series. Young Henry cuts his military teeth at First Manassas and the Early Peninsula Campaign, later at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, where he gains credibility as a part of the fledgling Union Office of the Inspector General. In the third book of the series, The Crow Creek Expedition, Henry Hudson is sent west with his scouts and encounters the Sioux and Dakota nations, and uncovers more British meddling and smuggling guns to the hostiles as well as to the Confederacy. Vengeance and Retribution takes you in a slightly different direction and down the International Banking rabbit hole. The fifth book, currently in progress, Interventions, Hud and Wolf working as a team, takes the reader to British Canada, where they come to terms with the Fenians who arrive from the US to force regime change, and to Mexico, where the US enforces the Monroe Doctrine with a threatened invasion of French-dominated Mexico. Emperor Maximilian (a puppet ruler) leads the Mexican Empire with a French occupation force and now faces 50,000 US troops hardened by combat during the recently ended Civil War under Major General Sheridan. American History, not often told.
Thank you to all who reviewed Vengeance and Retribution so kindly. Thanks for being kind.
** The math behind Starlink V3’s rollout is surprisingly realistic. Elon Musk noted that SpaceX needs roughly 1,000 V3 satellites in orbit before they start moving the needle on subscriber growth (expected around Q2 2027). Here is how the launch math breaks down: Flight 14: Carries the first 26 satellites to test orbital deployment. Future flights scale up to ~60 V3 satellites per Starship. 17 more flights to deploy the remaining 974 satellites. The launch rate: ~18 flights over ~9 months = roughly 1.9 launches per month. For any legacy rocket, flying twice a month is unthinkable. For Starbase’s dual pads and automated production line, it’s well within reach.
** Beans – out for the weekend frivolity.
** The reality of a European vacation in 2026. Brussels? Thanks, but no thanks. Belgium was a nice place before they allowed the caliphate to establish itself. I’ve been to Baghdad and Erbil (Iraq) recently. I’d rather go there. And while I’m on a rant, will the day come when there are more German flags flying over Germany than Turkish flags? Asking for a friend.
** If you’re going ashore, make sure that your excursion is covered by cannon loaded with grapeshot. Just saying. Or they’ll eat you.
** Season 3 of Lioness is in the bag. The Arab chick wants to scissor Cruz and has an inexhaustible supply of cash. Will she get her way? Wait 12 months for Season 4, and you may find out how it works out.
** Crypto – When Palmer Luckey’s Erebor Bank launched earlier this year, it made a simple promise to crypto customers: convert stablecoins to cash for free. That offer helped make Erebor stand out in a market where many banks have been hesitant to serve crypto companies. But as we reported this week, Erebor’s sweet stablecoin deal backfired, creating an opening for sophisticated trading firms to profit by buying stablecoins at a slight discount and redeeming them with Erebor at full face value. ooops.
Map Of 3,554 Shipwrecks Around Ireland Going Back To 1530
Not all voyages were successful.
Cultural Appropriation
3-view line drawing of the Piper PA-23-250 Aztec
Parting Shot
h/t Frank
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“Sovereignty” say a colony of a monarch, and the prime minister of the same monarch,
all ruled by unelected ministers of the EU. It’s spin, all the way down. As you say,
Trump got everything he wants.
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Duellist – I’m running behind, but Crow Creek is in my book pile for sometime in the
next fortnight or so. Love the series so far.
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Houthi & the Blowfish – reminds me of Procul Harum murdering Christians in Nigeria.
– Kle.
Thanks, Kle.
procol harum!
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modern conquistadors indeed
Juan
H/T for Trumpsplaining Denmark.
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Shipwrecks; If Greenland can be resourced, can treasures still be found on the sea floor? I grew up watching Jaques Cousteau.
Anything maritime is very expensive. So return on investment must be significant. Greenland has a lot of mineral wealth under the ice…Musk and the boring company?
Denmark (you knew I’d lead with that): Mette Frederiksen is not a stupid person nor a sllouch, she told the Muzzies to assimilate or leave, and gave a time frame with a plane voucher.
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PDJT needed to step into this fray to protect both countries best interests, and even Denmark understands this but needed to be the little brother asserting their independence while fully knowing they can’t defend themselves very well from some outside force while also understanding at some point they would look to the big brother for help. Denmark is not Israel…and despite asserting their perceived strength, within the global political landscape, they are the little guy and know it. The Danes like America, they know they need America, and would rather live life as ‘don’t worry, be happy’ than get involved in some geopolitical fray they have little control.
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MrsPaulM’s uncle worked in Greenland in the 60’s, his paycheck was from America…this ‘strategic mess cleanup’ by PDJT is [somewhat] resetting the board pieces back to where they were before past Presidents/Congress goofballs decided Greenland wasn’t strategically important. They were wrong of course. And yes, it is obvious to anyone honest and owning a pair of eyeballs that PDJT knows exactly what he is doing, the MSM and ‘others’ are subversives to be ignored (besides everything they spout is a damnable lie).
Watch what Frederiksen does next…that’ll be the tell.
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Musk: Wait for it….this week the Media CL’s (Chicken Littles) will get wind of the Starlink launch and scream ‘EVERYBODY PANIC! and he’s taking over the world and should be stopped because his AI tech will kill us all! Same thing as that cretin Sanders did with Data Centers (what is with that guy, are his supporters that galactically stupid? Apparently.)
Ps. Greenland: All I hear is Led Zeppelin’s ‘Immigrant song’ in my head…
Ah
Ah
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
How soft your fields so green
Can whisper tales of gore
Of how we calmed the tides of war
We are your overlords
My daughter has a friend who grew up in Greenland. They first met when the friend was working for the Danish government at their mission in Brussels. I understand now, nine or so years later, that she represents Greenland to the EU (or some such thing). It’ll be interesting to hear what reports trickle my way about this agreement.
If Greenland has autonomy, and the citizens are not as stupid as too many in the United States, they have a huge family member to keep them safe. I think they will welcome the commerce,
reject the garbage offered by Europe, and in the end, become a needed ally close to the madness of the “old countries”.
Piper PA-23-250 Aztec
Looking forward to reports. While never flew in one, memories of an Apache on a 90° day in Grand Junction remain a lesson learned. That, and make wise choices with the PIC you aviate with.
The coldest I have ever been was in Thule in April during a C130 refuel and crew rest period. I was underground minutes after we unloaded. They did things differently there.
Firstus, the video. There’s a few problems with it. Duh.
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That barrier fence? That’s the List. Horses go on either side of it during later period jousts in order to keep chowderheads from ramming their horses into other chowderheads’ horses. (side note: The thing you hang the contestants’ devices on to signify who’s up, who’s on deck and who’s in the hole is called a List Tree.)
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As a pointed aside to the supposed historical validity of the SCA, no, the field isn’t a Lyst Field. It’s a Tourney Field. You have tourneys on the tourney field. You put your list (barrier) up on the tourney field. It’s a Tourney Field, you lazy left-coast slackjawed twatwaffles.
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Back to the video. Swords are pert near useless against plate. So don’t attack the plate. You attack the joints, shoulder, elbow, wrist, knees as those are places you can’t armor very well, to a point. Or you whack the bastard in the helm, repeatedly, in order to induce concussion (which is actually pretty hard to do as the padding in the helmet and on the wearer’s head was designed to spread the blow and cushion the shock.
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And the helmet. Any faceplate that extends forward, like on a pig-faced bascinet or armet, is a rather dangerous thing to be wearing in a muddy field as said snout, quite excellent for warding off blows and reducing shock, will get stuck in the mud. Badly stuck. I knew one guy who was wearing a pig-faced bascinet and fell face-forward into the mud in the woods at Pennsic (a war between SCA kingdoms where the loser ‘got’ Pittsburg. Long story on that one.) The book “Murder at the War” is an excellent murder mystery centering around a Pennsic War.
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And for those screaming “Stab Him!!!!,” well, stabbing is a pretty reliable way to pierce even plate armor and cause serious injury and death. Which, if you’re trying to train for war, kind of sucks. So pretty early on most tourneys banned points. And then banned sharpened edges for the same reason. To the point that if you showed up with only a sharp edged sword they’d cut the sharp hard steel/iron off and hand it to you. This was called making a rebated sword. And where we get the phrase ‘rebate’ from.
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They also, pretty early on, banned sharp points on lances in tournaments as the sharp points were, duh, designed to penetrate armor and dig in and do deadly damage. So either just blunted lances or rounded tips, sometimes in the shape of a fist, were used.
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There are always exceptions to the rules. Judicial duals were often very deadly. Some tourneys allowed full edges and points. Some people cheated and used sharp points hidden under fake blunt tips or designed their shafts to shatter into really friggin sharp splinters. This is what happened to Henry the Jouster.
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As stupid as the non-fight scenes are in “A Knight’s Tale,” there’s nothing wrong at all with the fighting or the armor or anything else about the actual physical set up of the tourney field and the list barrier and such. That line where one guy goes “He (Heath Ledger’s character) must be either brave or stupid” is a perfect example. Later period jousting helms were designed to be seen through by tilting your head forward, and right before contact you tip your head back to keep annoying splinters from being jammed into your brain (See Henry the Jouster.)
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And now I’ve got a movie to rewatch for tomorrow.
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Side question, Larry. Are you purposefully trolling garbage like this in front of me to provoke me into offering a proof of life dissertation on what’s wrong and right in the thing you’re trolling me over? If so, good job. If not, well, it worked anyways.
You got me, Beans.
Me too…as I was thinking of A Knights Tale and those ‘We Will Rock You’ scenes. Cool nonetheless, albeit a bit insane…like a bunch of suthin’ boyz saying ‘Hey, watch this! as they roar off on their ATV’s.
The more I think of the shipwrecks around Ireland, the more I think how England caused the sinking and deaths of the Lusitania. Fastest ship of her time, she gets to Ireland waters and is told to slow and circle waiting for escorts which showed up after she was sunk. She was also carrying war materials, raw metals and ammunition, along with gold, for England’s war efforts. The Germans told the world they were going to sink it. warned the passengers, warned the Liner company, warned the Americans, warned the English and yet she sailed full of materials and suspiciously set the stage for an act of political theater that should have been tried as a war crime, against England (and Woodrow Wilson, hwack-sptoooie.)