Amazon’s Jack Ryan is CIA Propaganda

Amazon has a new series out, just released, entitled Jack Ryan, starring John Krasinski of The Office. At only eight episodes, the show can be watched easily over the course of a week, or in a day if you have that kind of time. It has some things to recommend it. Perhaps it’s my conspiratorial mind, but I do not think Amazon produced this purely for purposes of entertainment.

According to this article from the Chicago Tribune, the series has been in the works for four years. While there is no reason to doubt this, the direction of the show was undoubtedly formulated later. I would suspect that solid planks were not laid until election season. I think this because of their choice to cast Krasinski as the eponymous main character. Krasinski is best known as Jim from The Office, a lanky, snarky, modern-man sort. Not quite a soy boy, but not a man’s man either. He first showed his ability to work in action movies and in 13 Hours, which was not released until 2016. Preparation for his role in 13 Hours also toned his physique and gave him visual appeal to women and gay guys as well. His most recent big screen appearance in A Quiet Place, which he also wrote and directed, moved him solidly into the A-list. Given that Krasinski was not a natural choice before 2016, it seems that the decision on who would play Jack Ryan was recent, and most likely post-election.

Why does this matter? A lot of reasons. While the show has a lot of strengths, the overarching theme is about how great the CIA is and how well they work with the FBI, who are also, according to the show, great. Every episode is peppered with lots of annoying Intelligence community /D.C. insider bullshit jargon. While it is increasingly common for people outside of said bubble to understand it, it is largely included to give the CIA’s work greater mystique. At times, it seems the goal is not to advance the plot or build character depth, but to glorify the CIA.

Tom Clancy has been dead since 2013, so it is not like he is cashing in personally from this show. It is based on his characters and stories, but is not an adaptation of any of his books (clearly, there were elements from several, especially The Sum of All Fears). Considering how much influence the CIA has in and over Hollywood (see here, here, and here), I suspect that Jack Ryan is a bit of propaganda meant to improve the CIA’s image, which has never been great and has taken a beating since Trump foiled their plans to install Her Drunkenness, Queen Cankles I in the White House.

Worth noting is that little mention is made of the NSA and military intelligence. The show features a side story about an Air Force drone pilot which had abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with the overall plot. It was completely pointless as far as the storyline went. However, it did give the writers a chance to take a shot at military intelligence.  The drone pilots discuss how someone in S-2 (military intelligence shop) screwed up, resulting in a one of them killing the wrong target, an “innocent” Syrian civilian. See how that works? CIA stops terrorists, military intel kills civilians with bad intel and drones. This does make me think that the theory that military intelligence sided with Trump and helped him unrig the election is true. But that is not the most stunning propaganda in this series, by a long shot.

While tracking a high-value asset through Turkey, Jack Ryan and his boss enlist the aid of a guy involved in human trafficking and prostitution (and the intersection of the two). Ryan is deeply distressed by this, and his boss and another CIA officer tell him he needs to come to grips with reality; they need the help of guys like this to accomplish their goals, which always means American security, of course. Am I crazy, or are they trying to get the audience to say that sometimes letting human traffickers do their thing is okay? It is almost as if they expect the CIA to be caught working with traffickers, and they have to make it look like they only do it over there, never over here. That is the firewall. They will try to cover up CIA tie to trafficking that affects Americans in America.

The series ends with Ryan’s boss (a black guy) getting transferred to Moscow (I’m sure he will fit right in with the locals). He leaves a note for Ryan, inviting him along. I read somewhere that season two was filmed, at least in part, in Columbia, but it appears to me that the Russians are going to be the bad guys in season two. Color me shocked. Of course, the only options for villains besides Russians are White South Africans, and considering the recent goings-on there, libtards probably do not want people thinking about the Boers lest we get really pissed off and call bullshit on the whole operation.

Considering what we now know about the CIA, the idea that they have American safety and American interests at heart is laughable. Jack Ryan is aimed at older, beltway conservative types and young white guys, exactly the demographics the CIA needs to keep calm when their nefarious actions are exposed. If you decide to watch this series, do it with a suspicious eye.

Behold the Fruits of Feminism and Boomer Value Degradation

I know it’s been a while and I should probably address one of the several really important issues in the news of late, but Jesus holy shit Christ! You have to read this shit! Apparently some daft cunt broke off her engagement and essentially ditched all of her friends when they refused to crowd fund her $60,000 dream wedding. You cannot make up this shit. Via Fox News:

“A woman’s long-winded tirade blaming her friends and family for canceling her dream $60,000 wedding has gone viral on social media.”

This, in my mind, was the money quote:

““We managed to save up nearly $15K for a wedding. Since our love was like a fairy tale, we wanted an extravagant blow out wedding, one where our son could be included,’ the woman wrote. ‘We started touring venues and were torn between two. A local psychic told us to go with the more expensive option, and we thought why the hell not?’”

Did you catch all that? Kid out of wedlock, and a psychic advising for the most expensive wedding possible. I have a feeling this loopy bitch has one of those cards you get hole punched every time you get a tarot card reading, and your tenth one is free. Pro tip: if a woman visits psychics, she is a total fucking whackjob, and any children sired with her will be in remedial English and math classes. Their poor little bastard is more or less doomed to watching his wackaloon mother have a bone-of-the-week cock parade through their trailer for the rest of his life, or until she is so burned out that she has a permanent felatio-induced back hump and plays soccer with her tits.

“The bride also explained she ‘made it CLEAR. If you couldn’t contribute, you weren’t invited to our exclusive wedding. It’s a once and a lifetime [sic] party.’”

Attendance at this intime soiree required one to pony up a mere $1,500.00. Yeah, most people do not have that to spend on something they like. For themselves. That’s important. They certainly don’t have to it to celebrate a doomed marriage for a woman high in the running for Cunt of the Year.

Read the whole thing, it’s classic. The bitch lost her mind when her now ex-fiance dared suggest they go to Vegas to cut costs, and was shocked when he did not apologize. She wrote off her best friend and maid of honor who backed out after initially pledging $5,000 for the wedding. If you ever had doubts about the value in preserving Western civilization, this is why. When I read this ridiculous story, I thought of our caveman ancestors, fighting cave lions with pointy sticks, and I felt immensely guilty for being part of our society. The ghost of Ug hangs his head in shame; his mighty bloodline has run thin.

This woman is the epitome of the overindulged bridezilla, the end result of three generations of women being given all the privileges normally reserved for women, as well as those in the past reserved for men, all the while not required to meet the responsibilities expected of either. Hopefully this dude realizes what a bullet he dodged by getting her to dump him. We’re talking a .50 caliber divorce kill shot in the making. As a general rule, the bigger the wedding, the shittier the relationship and the higher the likelihood of divorce. Recent studies (for whatever they are worth) prove it, but common sense should have made it obvious.

As Heartiste has pointed out more than once, a big wedding is not about starting a couple out with every advantage, nor is it about celebrating love. It is about everyone focusing on the bride, and the bride needs that attention because she is not happy with the attentions of the groom. You know who loved the shit out of her husband? The chick from Braveheart. She married him alone in the woods. Shit, legally that doesn’t even count these days because it lacks a witness. She did not need anyone else’s approval or attention. In fact, she avoided it, even that of her own family. William Wallace was enough.

Some days, I do not know what in the actual fuck goes on in this country.

Manafort: Some Thoughts

When considering Paul Manafort and his current legal predicament, it is important to look at this in context. Do you remember when he became Trump’s campaign manager? Here is a useful timeline. He was hired in late March, right after the whole dustup between Corey Lewandowski and Ben Shapiro over Shapiro’s girlfriend/Breitbart photographer. According to Lewandowski, Manafort had operational control as of April 7, and Lewandowski was out entirely on June 20. Manafort was released on August 19th, following allegations that he worked for the Russians.

Manafort was a Republican insider. The Hesperian blogosphere exploded with concerns that Trump had been effectively cucked, hiring a GOPe dipshit like Manafort. Everyone wanted him gone because he tried to reign in the Golden Don and make him a conventional Republican candidate. As I recall, there were rumblings of dissatisfaction well before any alleged Russian revelations, with Trump publicly rebuking him more than once. In fact, it seemed that the Russia stuff was the pretense Trump needed to boot Manafort despite establishment protests against it.

To me, in retrospect, it appears Manafort was an establishment plant, up to the same shenanigans as his orc pals the Podesta brothers. Well, maybe not all of their shenanigans. Manafort does not strike me as a kiddie diddler.

I do not know if we should be rooting for Paul Manafort or not giving a shit. Several possibilities exist. He could have been an establishment plant, there to either corrupt Trump or incriminate him, or both. I thought that, and on a hunch searched using DuckDuckGo for “Manafort John McCain.” I got several intriguing results. Like this, this, and this. [caution: last link is to HuffPo] At the same time, Trump might have turned him. He is under intense pressure from Mueller’s team. But for whom does Mueller work? Some say he is on Trump’s (and America’s) side, but I do not buy it. His own past is too filled with corruption and prosecutorial bullying to believe he is on the side of good. But if he is working for Trump, is he trying to pressure Manafort into spilling the beans on the Republicans who sent him in to sabotage the Trump campaign? Or is Manafort loyal to Trump and Mueller is trying to badger him into going through with the original plan or making up some dirt about Trump to override the results of the election?

Either way, Manafort is being fucked over royally in a way that is normally reserved for people who line up on the Right, and he is sticking to his guns. Whatever he is sitting on must be worth something to someone.

 

Fuck Sarah Jeong

One might think I am late to the party when it comes to the topic of Sarah Jeong. On the contrary, the fact that the New York Times (aka Slim’s Slimes) hired her, defends her, and continues to give voice to her means that she should be under fire at all times. In case you are not familiar with the controversy surrounding this hangul harpy, here are some of her Twatter Greatest Hits:

There has been plenty of excellent commentary on this, as well as the usual point and sputter by those of the right who refuse to face the reality of our current political situation. To this I would add that given the opportunity, one should bring up this topic with liberals and shiv the fuck out of them with their own logic.

While I am at it, liberals are no longer libtards or leftists. They are fucking orcs. They are vicious, twisted, wantonly cruel, and incapable of sustaining an advance civilization. Calling them orcs makes sense, particularly some of their key constituencies. According to orcthink, every member of the White race is responsible for every sin every committed by any other member of the White race, forward and backward through time. Orcs love that logic because it is a great justification for gibsmedat. Here is a perfect chance for a little Jew-jitsu (using one’s own argument against them).

If we apply that logic, Sarah Jeong is Korean, and the Koreans owe us beyond their ability to repay. Had it not been for the sacrifice of more than 50,000 American troops, they would be living in commie-managed mud huts. The whole of their prosperity is the result of American blood, American loans, American protection, and America’s shitty negotiating skills pre-Golden Don. It is not just that we created South Korea, it is that we continue to protect them from their aggressive countrymen, whose lives we have also saved countless times with gifts of food when their socialist economy does what socialist economies do, which is fuck up. This is an ongoing practice. So, Sarah, get down on your knees and thank White men the way your ancestors used to when our boys were on shore leave.

Another orc trope is cultural appropriation. As I pointed out on GAB, a Korean named Sarah should shut the fuck up about cultural appropriation. What did Koreans invent that we want to appropriate? On the contrary, the entire South Korean economy is based on cultural appropriation of White, Western technology and the use of Western loans and grants. What do you think will happen to South Korea’s economy when it becomes cheap enough to build android phones here, and American car prices come down relative to poor-quality Hyundais and Kias? Give the cultural appropriation talk a rest, Sarah. You are in debt as far as that goes, too.

Fred Reed once offered an incomplete list of things invented by White men, which I shall reproduce here:

“Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective geometry. Differential geometry. Calculus: Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration. Physical chemistry. Organic chemistry. Biochemistry. Classical mechanics. The indeterminacy principle. The wave equation. The Parthenon. The Anabasis. Air conditioning. Number theory. Romanesque architecture. Gothic architecture. Information theory. Entropy. Enthalpy. Every symphony ever written. Pierre Auguste Renoir. The twelve-tone scale. The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that. S-p hybrid bonding orbitals. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder. Single-sideband radio. All other radio. Dentistry. The internal-combustion engine. Turbojets. Turbofans. Doppler beam-sharpening. Penicillin. Airplanes. Surgery. The mammogram. The Pill. The condom. Polio vaccine. The integrated circuit. The computer. Football. Computational fluid dynamics. Tensors. The Constitution. Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod. Glass. Rubber. Nylon. Roads. Buildings. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, that’s nerve gas, and maybe we didn’t really need it.) Silicone. The automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes. The Bible. Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et cetera.”

It could go on. If you do not like living in a society dominated by White people, go to one dominated by Koreans. You have two options. In one, you can starve to death under oppressive rule. In the other, you can be constantly threatened with invasion from the former. Not your cup of tea? Then do yourself and everyone else a favor, Sarah Jeong, and shut the fuck UP.

Kill the Universities

For a guy with a master’s degree, I sure do hate the fuck out of colleges and universities. As an undergrad, my main courses of instruction were, beer bonging, advanced beer bonging, false date rape accusation avoidance for non-athletes, Play Station, cover charge avoidance and the influence of gender roles, and advanced term paper writing for alcohol-abusing procrastinators. I did not learn very much in my chosen major. I am not knocking the professors. I am mainly knocking the students who slowed down the learning and allowed me to get a 3.4 in my major based largely on what I learned in high school. The price tag for all this wasted time was pretty severe, and that was going to a state school.

Another thing I learned as an undergrad (and had reinforced as a grad student) was what a bad idea college is for most people enrolled. I cannot begin to estimate how many people I knew from high school and classmates I met as a college freshman never made it to their sophomore year. For that one year of effort, they would have been in debt for at least ten grand. For what? Freshman level classes, even if passed, do not really help you get a job. Waste of time, waste of money.

Several of my friends never went to college. One went to work with his father; he now works in a position he got for himself making well into six figures. Another went into the military; he makes excellent money in the private sector with the training he received while in uniform. The third struck out on his own; he now makes very good money with a defense contractor, through sheer talent, charisma, and force of will. All of them do better than I do financially, and I do not do terribly. My point is that a degree does not guarantee a great financial future, and lack of one does not doom one to failure. You always see statistics about how much more college grads make than people without a degree, but remember, those statistics are inherently skewed. Some college grads go into lucrative professions that cannot be entered without a degree (IT, medicine, engineering, etc.). People without degrees includes a lot of delinquents and dumbasses. The truth is, people with a brain and a work ethic can usually make a decent living if they are willing to learn usable skills.

Financial realities aside, universities are bastions of liberal indoctrination, and they charge tens (sometimes hundreds) of thousands of dollars for the privilege. On top of that, heavy government regulation and funding has ensured that while inflation is usually 2-3%, college tuition typically rises by 7%. Victor Davis Hanson has several good pieces on the factors driving this ridiculous level of tuition inflation [warning: that last link goes to National Review, which does not deserve your traffic.] The American university system is a means of skimming vast amounts of wealth out of the system and into the hands of undeserving diversities, libtard toadies, and assorted commie front groups. It needs to be utterly destroyed. Not just destroyed. It needs to first be exposed for the useless shitpile it is, humiliated, flogged, and finally abandoned in rapid yet agonizing fashion, with lots of satellite campuses closing followed by flagship state schools cutting “studies” programs in a fashion similar to the print newspaper industry.

President Trump issued an executive order to the Department of Labor to remove restrictions on apprenticeship programs, which will undoubtedly have the same positive effects his killing of regulations in other areas has had on the economy. Quartz says President Trump has not added to the budget for these programs, but Fortune says he doubled it. Either way, his orders to fix problems in the system will probably stretch the allotted budget much farther.

Instead of kids entering the workforce with massive debt, no real-world experience and four years living in a fag-bubble, kids can leave high school, get a job that actually pays them decent money, and learn usable job skills from people whose only agenda is to train new workers, not convert people to a creepy cult. Additionally, classroom time will shift from universities to community colleges. Why does that matter? I have taken classes at universities and community colleges, and let me tell you, the instruction at the latter for entry level classes is often orders of magnitude better than at the former. At a minimum, the professors at community colleges often teach at four-year institutions, so the quality of instruction is the same. A lot of them teach purely for the joy it gives them, because the pay is not very good for associates professors at such places. Less indoctrination, lower costs, better instruction. The added bonus is that this deprives universities of the things they need to survive – revenue, purpose, and students.

If you have teenagers, tell them to look into apprenticeships or the military before they go off to college. It might be the best and most consequential decision they ever make. Remember too that college will always be there, and they might even do better if they wait and experience the real world first. Remember that you are not just helping their financial future, but their spiritual and social future as well.

P.S. Some might say “that’s too much government interference!” No, it isn’t. It’s Trump throwing everything he has at breaking the existing order, and it’s the government helping get working-class kids into well-paying professions that are equipped for the future. I am done with free market theory, to the limited degree I ever accepted it to begin with. It’s a bow tie crowd thing, and I hate that shit.

 

 

NPR Misses the Root of Housing Problems

You will be shocked, SHOCKED! to learn that NPR tried to explain current housing problems and missed by a country mile.

“We asked our audience to weigh in on their own searches for affordable homes. We heard from hundreds of people across the country who attested to hard times finding a house and prices that were rarely affordable. They wrote about being priced out of urban areas, and out of the neighborhoods in which they wanted to buy. Bidding wars were lost for homes in Michigan, Seattle and North Carolina. Student loan debt is making it impossible for a couple in New Orleans and a family in Portland to save for a down payment.”

I’ll give you some bullet points on what is causing the problems. You see if it  jives with your experience.

• Housing in areas with low minority populations and no bus routes is hard to find and expensive when you do because most White families know this is the gold standard in housing (if you did not, now you do).
• There is lots of housing in many parts of the country, just not where the jobs are being created. The Dakotas and Texas cannot keep up with demand. Cleveland? Probably lots, just nothing you want. See below.
• Hipsters with no kids and possibly dual incomes or the willingness to have roommates will pay way more for substandard urban homes than they should, provided they are in trendy areas. As a result, regular people cannot afford them (not that most of our type of people want to live in cities).
• Single people want homes in areas priced for families with two incomes. Cat ladies do not need nice houses, nor should they in any way be rewarded with them for failing to attract a man and have children.
• Nobody wants to live near black people. Section 8/Move to Opportunity nonsense is destroying neighborhoods and property values. If you pour a bottle of wine into the sewer, it’s still sewer water. If you put a drop of sewage into a bottle of fine wine, it’s undrinkable. Let the minorities move to an area, depress real estate values there, and stay put, let the contagion spread.
• Importing a million people a year is creating an artificial demand for housing that should not exist, with concomitant price increases.
• Libtard zoning laws, meant to protect rich libtard preferences (as in San Francisco) are bullshit. Stop pulling up the ladder on everyone else.
• Accurately, NPR points out Most of the new housing is either aimed at people in higher income brackets. Little is aimed at working people or people who wish to live frugally. The only housing being built for said people is “low income housing,” which tends to be in ghetto areas, and no White people want it.
• The one part about student loan debt cutting into one’s ability to get and afford a mortgage is probably accurate, which begs the question, was your degree worth the sticker price, and why is higher education so expensive?
• The piece notes that there is a shortage of workers, and that young people do not do trades anymore. Forty years of wage suppression and exclusion in favor of illegal aliens will do that. Perhaps if we stopped telling every kid they were a failure if they did not go to college and stopped importing cheap scab labor, we would not be in this situation.

The takeaway here is that Progressive dumbfuckery is largely to blame for the current housing problems. Stop moving criminal minorities into nice neighborhoods. Stop looking down on people who work for a living, and quit trying to cut them out of American life by importing their replacements. Stop shoehorning them into the University Industrial Complex, which serves almost no good for anyone except of libtard extortion artists. You do that, and not only will the housing problem subside, but so too will a lot of other problems.

As we know, all this shit is connected.

Eco-Bullshit: More Evidence the Left is Full of Shit

For years, libtards have whined about the giant trash patch out in the Pacific. Don’t get me wrong, I agree, this is a shitty situation. But when I say they whined, I mean they put it in virtually every eco-propaganda piece they created. I had to watch it in one of my undergrad classes. I think it even got a mention on an episode of The Sopranos. Al Gore has squawked about it too, as I recall. Sea birds with six-pack rings around their necks and sea turtles chomping on plastic bags. You know the drill. I remember as a 21-year-old wondering why they didn’t just clean it up; we’re talking about scooping shit out of the water. If we can haul out fish, we can haul out trash, no?

Enter a 24-year-old Dutch college dropout. He has a plan to get rid of this crap at a relatively low cost. Of course, the Left cannot allow any good deed to go unpunished. Cue a libtard government “expert.”

“Eben Schwartz, marine debris program manager for the California Coastal Commission, said he believes the organization has the “best intentions” but they’re only tackling a small percentage of overall plastic entering the oceans each year.”

“‘My biggest concern isn’t the project itself, it’s the messaging that’s coming out,’ Schwartz explained. “They’re cleaning only what’s on the surface. We see plastic throughout water columns, on the ocean floor, deposited in polar ice caps. The problem is much, much much larger than the messaging suggests.'”

“Instead of skimming the surface, Schwartz suggested tackling the root of the problem and educating the public about what they can do to help prevent trash from escaping into the environment.”

Here, we have a guy who works for a government agency that ostensibly tries to clean California’s water. The mission statement sounds a lot more like giving nanny-state orders and soaking up taxpayer funds to “educate” than to actually do a fucking thing about actually cleaning up. He of course has only criticism for a young go-getter who wants to actually address the problem with action. If the trash pile gets cleaned up, the Environmental Industrial Complex loses one of its big propaganda pieces. Even worse, the public might see how little environmental destruction America and the West cause and how much is caused by Orcs. Added bonus: we might learn how relatively easy it is to combat a great deal of pollution in ways that do not harm taxpayers. No, better to line the pockets of the “right-thinking scientists” than to actually fix anything. E

Besides, I hate to break it to these fucksticks, but they are educating the wrong people. The overwhelming majority of the trash floating in the Pacific comes from Asia. Of the ten rivers responsible for around 90% of the trash in the oceans, eight are in Asia (India and China). The other two are in Africa (Nile and Niger). Don’t hold your breath waiting for the U.N. to tell them to clean up their act (no pun intended).

I said this on GAB earlier and I will say it again here. Everything the Left does is a scheme for bilking people. EVERYTHING.