Biden’s Economic Case For Nuclear War

“Two hundred years have passed since the nuclear war raged to an end and the computers took over what was left of the world – sealed it off from the outside – and made it perfect. Now, in the Domed City in this year 2319, living is unending joy.” – Logan’s Run

After a nuclear war in the Middle East, there will only be one country and the Persian Gulf left.  Just Kuwait and sea.

When we lived in Fairbanks, my hobby in the summer was getting firewood.  I was the Bubba (from Forrest Gump) of firewood:  “There’s lots of ways to have birch.  There’s split birch, there’s dry birch, there’s stacked birch, there’s birch that the bark fell off of, there’s birch that still has bark, there’s wet birch, there’s birch logs . . .” you get the idea.  Now imagine that James Spader was saying it.  That will become important later.

As such, we spent a lot of time in the (mostly Gump-free) forest.  The Mrs. would generally keep an eye on the (then four-year-old) The Boy.  Outside of moose and grizzly bear, the forest was safe.  Oh, did I mention the wasps?  Yeah.  Fairbanks was infested with them.  So, one day while I was knocking down trees and sawing them up, The Boy was playing near a tree.

What’s Gump’s password?  1FORREST1. (meme as found)

Then The Boy started screaming.  If you noticed the clear foreshadowing, it certainly wasn’t a bear or a moose, but rather The Boy had been jumping up and down (unknowingly) on a subterranean wasp nest.

Wasps have a sense of humor.  Oh, no, they don’t.  They’re hatred wrapped up in spite with a side order of malice and animosity.  So, they did the only thing their stupid malignant minds can comprehend:  they stung The Boy.  Repeatedly.

Fast forward a few months.  We had abandoned all of that sweet, sweet birch that we were going to combust in order to liberate the carbon back into the atmosphere and move from Fairbanks to Houston.  Ugh.  In the backyard, though, a beautiful butterfly came fluttering by bouncing from flower to flower.

I could see the wonder and amazement in The Boy’s eyes as he tracked it across the backyard.  He moved close.

“Be careful,” I said, “they bite!”

He ran screaming into the house, and now I had a four-year-old son that was deathly afraid of butterflies and also the problem of explaining to The Mrs. how I was really just kidding and not intentionally emotionally scarring our child.

Good times.

I sleep on a cushion made of butterfly larva.  It’s a caterpillow.

“What,” you might ask, “does that story have to do with nuclear war?  I can read the title, John Wilder, and I didn’t come here for twisted tales of how you made a child cry by telling him that butterflies sting.”

Well, bear with me.

What if . . . nuclear war is not so bad?  What if nuclear war is Joe Biden’s cunning plan to revive our economy?

I mean, giving trillions of dollars just seemed to work for a while, and now everyone’s tired of having all that free money.  Giving billions to the vaxx companies so that they could, um, prevent oops, lessen the likelihood the vaxxed got COVID oops, lessen the impact of COVID oops, make billions of dollars in profits.

The Mrs. says that Jack Daniels® keeps her healthy.  She calls it Liver Cross-Fit®.

The next best idea that Biden had, besides eating crayons and attempting to have sex with his desk was just more of the “print trillions of dollars” idea.  That didn’t go as well once people figured out they weren’t the ones getting the money, and they had to trade internal organs for a tank of gasoline.

Giving billions of dollars to Ukraine seemed safe, but outside of asking for more money, Zelinsky’s prime impact on the war effort in Ukraine appears to be walking around sweaty in an olive drab t-shirt while looking for escorts with Hunter Biden.

Huh.  That doesn’t seem to be working.

So, how about provoking a nuclear war?  I can just imagine the conversation with the cabinet . . . .

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (SECDEF):  “Are you sure, Mr. President?  Don’t you think that giving Ukraine, and I quote, ‘a whole bejeebus load of guns and stuff’ might provoke the Russians?”

Vice President Kamala Harris (VP):  (unintelligible giggling, possibly drunk)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken (STATE):  “I’d like to remind you, Mr. President, there are a lot of Ukrainians that we’ve got left.  I mean, the Russians have to run out of artillery shells at some point.”

Joseph R. Biden (BRANDON):  “But, hey, man, have you thought this through?  If we bomb the Russians, and they bomb us, we can (long pause) you know the thing.  Build better boobies.” (waves hands while looking uncomprehendingly at imaginary people behind him)

Vice President Kamala Harris (VP):  (giggling)  “You said boobies!  Check out this rack!” (lifts blouse)

Monica Lewinsky is 48!  It seems just like yesterday that she was crawling all over the White House.

Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen (TREAS):  (ignoring VP)  “He has a point.  Think of all the industrial activity we would get if a nuclear war hit the United States.  Look at (checks notes) Japan.  We nuked them twice, and look how their economy skyrocketed!”

Joseph R. Biden (BRANDON):  “Yeah, man, he has a good point.  Is it a good point?  Who has the good point?”

Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen (TREAS):  “You, sir.”

Vice President Kamala Harris (VP):  (giggling)  “So, it’s settled!  Margaritas for everyone!  This has been a long, hard day, if you know what I mean.” (winking at Yellen)

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (SECDEF):  “Sounds great!  I’m in.  Just one more thing to do before I call it a day!”  (picks up phone to call NORAD)  “Brandon has authorized Operation McChicken™, repeat, Brandon has authorized Operation McChicken©, authorization code “PEZ BRAVO JOHNNY DEPP.”  (hangs up phone)  “Now where’s that margarita?”

So, if it appears that that the Biden Administration is being run by people who have all of the competence of Bulgarian mall lawyers attempting to fix a seventeen-year-old copier by poking and prodding it with whatever pens and paperclips their greasy fingers can find hoping against hope that their random actions will fix whatever “ERROR 031” is?

No.  The Bulgarian mall lawyers, though only dimly aware that their random actions are little more effective than hitting the machine with a hammer while chanting Sheryl Crow songs in the nude, at least were bright enough to not vote for Biden.

So, perhaps like that butterfly, nuclear war won’t be so bad?  Despite how good Biden makes it sound, I’ll take my chances without having a nuclear war, thank you.

As found.

I’d love to write more, but I’m watching a movie with James Spader and it requires all of my attention because he might be Jack the Ripper.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

43 thoughts on “Biden’s Economic Case For Nuclear War”

  1. Forget Kremlin propagandists. Even Muratov, the Russian who (co-)won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, is warning us that the Russians are, er, dead bang serious about going nuclear.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10781083/Putin-soon-no-way-nuclear-war-claims-Kremlin-TV-propagandist.html

    Of course, even Muratov is provoking Putin by selling his Nobel Prize gold medal (175 grams of 18K gold – worth about $8000) to buy the Ukranians a couple of boxes of AK-47 cartridges.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10640997/Russian-Nobel-Prize-winner-says-sell-medal-raise-funds-Ukrainian-refugees.html

    So, ironically, it will not be Biden’s 100,000+ artillery shells to Ukraine but in fact Muratov’s paltry contribution that will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and causes Putin to push The Big Red Button. When you see that bright flash and billowing mushroom cloud on the horizon and think to yourself “Man, I need a drink”, remember, you just had a Muratov cocktail.

    2. Coming soon…an NRO editorial titled “The Conservative Case for Nuclear War”…

  3. John, as a general fear the fact that Our Political And Social Betters (OPASB) are discussing nuclear war with such nonchalance is concerning. July 1914 concerning.

    And yes, I am certain there are people that see open war as nothing more than an opportunity to restart the economy and reaise approval ratings.

    1. It is, especially from a group that brought us the strategic victory in Afghanistan . . . .

  4. “Now where’s that margarita?”

    Throw the goofy rhyming chick into these Doofuses of The Round Table discussion while you’re at it. The Apple Dumpling Gang were Einsteins compared to that coterie.

  5. To comment on a Monday comment about geopolitics – “Arthur: Kiev was never all that critical to the Russian plan, but the corridor to Crimea and the Black Sea? That was the prize. John: I think they’d like Odessa, too”…

    Putin’s plan was/still is not just to crush Mariopol to link Donbas with Crimea on the Sea of Azov, or even just to push further west to Odessa on the Black Sea and landlock Ukraine. They’ve had 1500 Russian troops in Transnistria, the strip of Moldavia that is west of Odessa, since before the invasion. Transnistria is to Moldavia as Donbas is to Ukraine – the area populated by transplanted Russians in Moldavia that speak Russian. Putin wants Transnistria, too, and originally planed to take it by pushing southward from Kiev. Now he wants to take it by pushing west from Odessa. Unfortunately, Russia has been unable to take the Odessa waypoint any more than the Kiev one. The only major city the Russians have conquered intact (the gravel pit of Mariupol doesn’t count) is Kherson, where they are imposing use of rubles and organizing an “independence” referendum in time for the May 9 Victory Day deadline.

    So if we’re very lucky, the Ukranians will retake Kherson, Odessa will remain safe (with a little help from US Navy, see
    https://theaviationgeekclub.com/us-navy-p-8-poseidon-maritime-patrol-aircraft-reportedly-assisted-ukrainians-in-hitting-russian-navys-black-sea-flagship-rts-moskva-121/) and most importantly Transnistria / Moldavia will stay out of this fight. Otherwise we will have Russian combat front lines in Moldavia within 50 miles of NATO member Romania. That would NOT be a Good Thing.

    2. I have a few buckets of cold water for that “US Navy P-8 helped” codswallop:

      https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2022/04/yet-again-nope.html
      https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2022/04/for-slow-learners.html
      https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2022/04/and-another-thing.html

      It’s far more likely they got help from any 87 other sources, none of which require the USN to so much as lift a finger.
      Frankly, it’s likelier that Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster told them where to find their target than that the Navy did.
      The original source trying to marry our Navy intel to Zelinskyy’s military was exactly one Brit tabloid long on wishful thinking and fairytales, and short of anything factual or even substantial.

      They literally pulled the idea out of their own underpants, and printed it as if it were so.

      1. Rule of thumb: If the Honkerati are pronouncing something in the media-? It’s fake. You still don’t know what’s true, but that one bit? Fake.

      2. I’ve read your blog articles – very interesting. I agree the DM story is a LOT of extrapolation with a lot of missing pieces. But I personally believe that US Posideon P-8 aircraft did not go into the Black Sea with the intent of “racetrack searching” a huge area of water to “find” the Moskva. This wan’t the Battle of Midway. Instead, I think it went in on a straigh path knowing EXACTLY what (relatively small) area to scan and obtain the final targeting data on the Moskva for the Ukranian Neptune missile shot. I think the P8 got that “precise” search zone from a SAR (synthetic aperature radar) satellite photo just before or maybe just after it left the runway. Such SAR satellite photos have the advantage of seeing through clouds and night darkness.

        The SAR satellite photo you mention in your blog locating the position of the burning Moskva (https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/04/satellite-image-pinpoints-russian-cruiser-moskva-as-she-burned/) was taken post-attack by Sentinel-1 which is an experimental satellite run by the European Space Agency. It is very low resolution (it has four modes and its best produces 16X16 foot pixels) and has a sister satellite, Sentinel-2, that runs ahead / behind it by 45 minutes or so. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel-1.

        Who knows what classified Space Force SAR satellites the US has at its disposal but the P-8 certainly did not rely on Sentinel-1 data to get up close and personal with the Moskva. A more likely source for its precision flight plan was photos from the constellation of Whitney-class SAR satellites run by Capella Space (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capella_Space ). The US National Reconaissance Office spy agency has had a contract with Capella since 2019 to use this data. There are six Whitneys in orbit so far with one more to come later this year. A Whitney SAR photo is stunning with pixel resolution better than 0.5m, taken AT NIGHT AND THROUGH CLOUDS. Check out incredible examples here: https://www.capellaspace.com/gallery/ The Moskva would show up on a Whitney photo as a 40X370 pixel area on the image with exact GPS coordinates to within 30 feet. All the P-8 had to do was map out how far Moskva had traveled since the SAR satellite overpass. She could run, but she couldn’t hide.

        We’ll never know all the details, but I’ll betcha there was a SAR satellite pass involved that kicked off the whole mission.

        1. The SAR satellite intel makes using a P-8 for that same intel, and risking an S-300 up the tailpipe, a total waste of time, and utterly stupid.

          Not that such is beyond the stupidity level of the current administration or DoD, but the guys flying the plane, and the guys who own the guys flying the plane, aren’t generally given to suicide missions.

          You’ve now shown the 88th reason why anything to do with the P-8 for real-time intel – doing nothing but expected normal surveillance on an ongoing war with a potential future adversary – was wholly unnecessary, besides the fact that it was largely not possible. You don’t use 737s to track combatants in a war zone unless you want to lose them.

          Brit tabloid idiots should stick to stories about what they know – which ain’t much.

          2. As for the Moskva vs. a US Posideon P-8 patrol jet, I would by far rather be on the US jet.

            A S-300 missile launched from the Moskva would have had a max range of 150 km or 80 nautical miles (nm) – see https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22652131 . The P-8 has a AN/APY-10 radar that can scan out to 200 nm for surface targets – see https://militaryanalizer.com/radar-an-apy-10/ . So the P-8 could have scanned the Moskva well out of its air defense attack range.

            Plus, even if a S-300 were launched at the P-8, the guts of the ALE-55 decoy system (see https://www.baesystems.com/en/product/anale55-fiberoptic-towed-decoy ) have been stuffed into a P-8 wing pod and certified for use over a year ago (see https://www.naval-technology.com/news/us-navy-completes-airworthiness-test-of-rfcm-prototype-for-p-8a/). A P-8 is far from defenseless – otherwise it would be pretty useless for military / naval use.

            Bottom line, it is entirely possible that a P-8 flew over the Black Sea in support of an attack on the Moskva, with or without a prior SAR satellite overpass, and the only one on a “suicide mission” was the Moskva.

          3. One more thought – maybe the Ukranians DID make the Neptune missile shot using ONLY a quickly relayed Whitby SAR satellite photo. It’s entirely possible that the P-8 went in ONLY to watch the show they knew was coming and make some radar recordings for later review out in spookland. We’re kinda worried these days about China sinking a US Navy ships with anti-ship missiles, it would be good to know from actual experience just what patrol aircraft sensors can actually see in such a scenario…

  6. Given where we are with this clown, maybe it’s time to cue up “Wag the Dog” for movie night. I’m still channeling the previous post…

  7. Short of taking out a couple of layers of leadership in the process of ‘mediating’ this war, I can see no reason to get into it. And, I mean take out some of the Elites on BOTH sides – not just political, but financial.
    So, as we are separated by an ocean, I suggest we detach. Mind OUR business, and let others mind theirs.
    Inform ‘activists’ that, if they leave this country to agitate in another, they will not be welcomed back – no matter where they were born or whether they were naturalized. Whatever they do from that point on, they will not have the coverage of an American passport. And, yes, that also includes the “religious” missions that try to bring about societal change in the form of Leftism.
    That leaves only:
    (1) Informing Canada that the border will be open to them if they follow their responsibility of not letting every refugee on the planet to become Canadian citizens. If they refuse, start deporting Canadians without legal residency (we generally ignore it, as not being all that important).
    (2) Having a sit-down with Mexico, and laying down the terms:
    – We’re good with them, as long as they work with us to stop the narco-criminals and people-transporters from crossing the border.
    – We’re happy to assist them in rooting out the bastards that have destroyed the border communities. We’ve done it before, and will work with the FEDERAL government in that effort. The local governments are either corrupt, or dead.
    – ALL those invaders with tats will be imprisoned, and deported upon release. If they return, it’s a death sentence. Mexico has to accept them back – what they do with them at that point is their problem.
    – The families will be given ONE chance to return home and stay there. That includes any family that came here on “family reunification”. Only exception is those who have been here more than 10 years, who support themselves, and have committed NO crimes. IF they can be vetted (NOT by partisans, but by independents), they MAY, conditionally, qualify for continued residency – but NOT citizenship – EVER. No more importatation of family, EVER.
    – Continuation of foreign aid is heavily dependent on playing ball with us, as is the continuation of traffic, personal or commercial.
    (4) Start rooting out the illegals. Imprison those that cover for them (employers, NGOs, nice church ladies). Take DNA from all of them. Use it BEFORE they leave to check it in the criminal databases to make sure that they aren’t wanted for commission of one or more crimes. I’d expect the familial matches to also turn up some interesting results.
    Jail time for any employer who hires an illegal alien (and hasn’t done due diligence – E-Verify, documents on record, etc.). Also, BIG fines. If a multinational corporation, ALL their products have a surcharge slapped on them for at least one year.
    Raid the tech firms. They are highly vulnerable, as many of them actively work to employ non-Americans, and vastly underpay them. If you find violations, 10% of their visas are disqualified. Stop – now – use of visas to hire students/recent grads who are not citizens. A certain percentage of them are stealing us blind on technology secrets.
    Any firm wanting to get a government contract cannot employ foreign nationals. Those that employ citizens with relatives living in foreign lands should be signaled out for special scrutiny. The Chinese government, for example, pressures people to spy by threatening their families, still living under Chinese rule. I’m sorry for the citizen, but we have to stop the bleeding losses.
    But, first:
    NO WARS. Unless they invade or attack any of the states/possessions. Then all bets are off.
    But, verify first. Those pro-war pukes are sneaky.

    1. Any, that prison for the South of the Border illegals?
      Put it in Alaska – WAY in the interior. Freeze their B&&&& off.

    2. Love the ideas. Not being snarky: They’re solid. But enacting and enforcing them is in the hands of the fellahs that put a dad playing in an empty park with his kid in jail for covidian lockdown violations while letting the Bidenreich’s Freicorps burn down City Hall and half the downtown businesses.

      Might as well wish for a Scroll of Annihilation.

  8. I like The X-Files. Do you like The X-Files, Leonard?
    Mulder had a big poster in his office, showing an alien abduction in progress, with the legend I WANT TO BELIEVE.
    Right now, I am in serious need of that poster, on a t-shirt, or a doily. Perhaps a bath mat.

    I want to believe that people of good will outnumber, by substantial margin, the retards that behave as if there was a sale on brains but they went to the wrong store.

    I want to believe that my political betters (bettors? Hmm, there’s a joke in there somewhere) are not so distant from whatever remains of their senses that they seriously want a nuclear war, with the proviso that it can’t start until they are safely in their bunkers.

    I want to believe that what I heard on the radio in November of 1989, when the fall of the Berlin Wall was announced, continues to mean that we are past the point of engaging in atomic brinksmanship and have grown into seasoned adults since then.

    I want to believe that the latest crop of politicians, especially here in Canada, are in fact worth listening to and trusting, rather than not being worth the power it would take to blow them all to hell, like the previous crop has proven itself to be.

    There are a lot of things I would like to believe.

    But I can’t. Believing those things would make me an idiot, and I try very hard to not be one of those. It’s almost a thing, you know?
    Not being an idiot.
    Avoiding the label ‘imbecile’.
    Denying that one has become a dipstick.
    This seems important, a goal to be assiduously pursued.

    I digress.

    I find that my ability to believe is being seriously tested. My give-a-damn is busted, my Jedi mind powers are on the fritz, and my usually awe-inspiring empathy is at an all-time-low level. What this means for the future of my counselling business, I can’t even.

    Whatever is going on, is making Fallout 4 especially poignant.

  9. I used to be afraid that NYC, DC and LA would get nuked.
    Now I fear that they won’t be.

    A limited nuclear exchange, targeting America’s major leftist-infested cities, would do the rest of us a world of good.
    I nominate the above, plus Boston, Newark, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Tucson, Saint Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Memphis, Birmingham, Sacramento, San Jose, Oakland, Portland, and Seattle.

    1. You have noted an aspect to this situation that I suspect few will admit of… to paraphrase the cab driver of long ago, ‘What if nothing happens?’
      ‘Tis monstrous indeed to confront the idea that, by this point, the only solution is eradication, since negotiation and discussion have been demonstrably precluded.
      For all our sins, here we are. This is this.
      God help us.

    2. A few caveats – No Memphis, Birmingham &, sadly, no ATL. We can bring them to an “understanding”, if you get my slant. Once you nuke the Yankees, they’ll fall in place. Older daughter lives in Helena (AL) as well.

      And, Pittsburgh??? They’re mostly GOP these days. As is suburban DFW.

      Milwaukee? “Are you boys citizdens of the US?” Larry, “No, Milwaukee.” It was his best line that Curly should have delivered.

      1. I could grant leniency to Pittsburgh in exchange for Harrisburg. That’s probably a better target, come to think of it.

        As for DFW, I’m thinking a couple of low yield, carefully targeted MIRVs. Unlike NYfC, which for this purpose includes most of Long Island, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Maybe a stray for Albany. As a bonus, the prevailing winds would blow radioactive ash out to sea, and possibly even to our “allies” in Europe.

      1. Omelette, eggs… Fewer of us would die of fallout than in having to lay siege to the cities. It’s all about odds and raw numbers.

        We’re past the ability to be nice. “Nice” was conclusively precluded in November 2020, as shown by the ongoing unlawful detention of political prisoners in Washington, DC. “Nice” was precluded by the creation of MiniTru and the weaponization of banks. “Nice” was precluded by the lack of legal action against Leftist arsonists, looters and murderers.

        The 1A and 2A, like all other tools, only work when you use them.

  11. Joe Slovo Biden needs the WAR in order to cement the New Man utopia or West South Africa.
    No genocide of deplorable kulak untermenschen scum without it.
    These mediocrities really do believe that the state makes its own history and collateral damage in the millions makes them salivate.
    Plan accordingly.
    Russia is Let’s Go Brandon since the Obamski cookies and the neon sign of him eating a banana.
    They don’t fear the Long Marching faculty lounge useful idiots, that is only for Americans who tremble in fear of the worst bankster gerontocracy that money can buy.

  12. While we’re all busy frying our enemies, and a lot of our friends, I take old boomer pen in hand to offer some advise. Don’t concentrate so much on our demise, as on the lives of children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. Teach, train, and otherwise enrich their lives while you’re here, so that they have a better than fighting chance at afterwards. In spite of all our doom-mongering, some will survive, and wouldn’t that be a very grown up thing to aim for, the continuation of our progeny, and theirs? To ignore them and their upcoming needs (just remember when you struggled), would be the tragedy, not our epic turndown. We will pass, nonetheless, and if we weren’t here for them, what were we doing in the first place?

    1. Thanks, Sean. That is why I still work as a substitute teacher, even in my dotage.

    2. In many ways, this is now their world. We just make sure we hand it over to them in good shape.

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