D-Day: 76 years ago today

Completely forgotten in all of the US politically-correct, virtue-signaling insanity is what “white people” did on this day — not just for the United States, but for the entire planet. They stepped up. Some had choices. Most didn’t. Some accounted well of themselves. Some cried like babies and, yes, called for their mommies while they died bleeding, missing a leg, an arm, part of their jaw, bits of their brain on the beach covered by the lapping tide. But they still stepped up.

I mention color only because color means everything to Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots these days. Some people require “reminding” about color.

D-Day was the beginning of the end for the Germans in World War II.

Seventy-six years ago today.

Named Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, and was also known as D-Day.

What did D-Day mean?

D for Day, H for Hour means the undetermined (or secret) day and hour for the start of a military operation. Their use permits the entire timetable for the operation to be scheduled in detail and its various steps prepared by subordinate commanders long before a definite day and time for the attack have been set. When the day and time are fixed, subordinates are so informed.

So far as the U.S. Army can determine, the first use of D for Day, H for Hour was in Field Order No. 8, of the First Army, A.E.F., issued on Sept. 7, 1918, which read: “The First Army will attack at H–Hour on D-Day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel salient.”

More than 160,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast, by Germany, of France’s Normandy region.

Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower speaks to the troops.

The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in the history of the planet, and required heretofore unthinkable planning. How to coordinate something this large? Amongst numerous nations? Whilst trying to calculate weather and hundreds of other factors?

Churchill and Montgomery calculate the UK portion of D-Day.

Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. And that is true.

Landscape

Go or no go? That was all up to one man. The Supreme Allied Commander, four-star General Dwight D Eisenhower. At the age of 54, he held the freedom, the fate of the entire planet, in his hands.

As an aside, Eisenhower received his fifth star as General of the Army of December 20th of 1944.

How many 5-star generals have there been in the history of the United States?

That would be five Army and four Navy officers:

  • George C. Marshall,
  • Douglas MacArthur,
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower,
  • Henry H. (Hap) Arnold,
  • Omar Bradley,

And then Admirals:

  • William D. Leahy,
  • Ernest J. King,
  • Chester Nimitz, and
  • William F. Halsey.

Omar Bradley was the last officer to receive the rank, in 1950. The rank has remained dormant ever since.

According to military regulations governing rank, only two US Army officers have ever achieved superior rank to that of five stars, even though they never got that many. They were George Washington and John J. Pershing.

And here is General Eisenhower’s D-Day message.

As per normal, fanciful flights of ephemera shape history and, instead of June 5th, Eisenhower determined to wait a day. That timing — and location of the landings — surprised the Germans, and they failed to reinforce the beachheads.

Upon that, and more, is history built.

Conjecture. Fleet. Fancy. Whimsy. Or just plain hope backed with a modicum of planning.

Do I stay or do I go?

4,414 soldiers died on D-Day. Most perished on those meat-grinding beaches.

That was the beginning. Of the end.

Of the Germans and the European Theater.

Japan was next.

You want courage, sacrifice and discipline?

Everything we’re facing now pales in comparison to that.

Everything.

BZ

 

 

American Factory

Watch AMERICAN FACTORY on Netflix and then take a few hours to digest its meaning. There’s a ton of material to consider.
 
China is one of the most ethnocentric (translated: racist) countries on the planet. They call Americans “donkeys” in the show and tout their superiority to us. Racial superiority. Work superiority. Whilst disregarding working conditions and most importantly: safety. Leftists, Demorats and American Media Maggots — you SURE you REALLY want to work under Communist rule? Because here’s one perfect illustration.
 
Performing the same mind-numbing job for 12 hours per day with few if any breaks, to perfection, mandatory overtime with no concomitant overtime pay, a minimum of six days a week, in perpetuity, under a rigorous and faux-“invigorated” regimen in which no one is happy and everyone is subject to job loss on a whim.
 
Then consider: regarding China and tariffs, let’s recall one very important thing. What is China’s most vast and valuable resource? Yes, megatons of people. That resource makes labor cheap and drives down wages. Tough to compete.
 
So: what does China NEVER want to see, that will minimize its importance and slaughter its power? Automation and roboticization.
 
The Chinese in AMERICAN FACTORY don’t mind automating as many work stations as possible to eliminate American jobs.
 
But what happens when you automate and roboticize jobs around the planet to the point where China no longer has the “cheap labor” advantage?
 
CHINA cannot automate or they create an unemployed workforce of millions — perhaps billions — of people that will then do what, having experienced employment and wealth? Demand some form of welfare or workfare. How does China handle a population that has been provided a “taste” of capitalism?
 
Poorly. And with devastating consequences. Loss of control. Loss of power.
 
Bloomberg writes:
 
“If US manufacturing is high-end, then China’s manufacturing, overall, is still about medium and low-end assembling.”
 
Automation can’t be the solution, Liu added, asking “if the US and Germany boost automation, why would anyone come from far away to invest in China?”
 
Because if you’re a company from another nation with boosted automation, why would you piss away cash for added energy costs and vast and extensive transportation costs from afar?
 
Do the math. Them take a breath and calm down. Namaste. Snatch the grasshopper.
 
If we play LONG BALL like President Trump is trying to do for the first time in our nation’s history, then China is no longer in the catbird seat. Their debt is high, just like ours. That is why they are rattling military sabers.
 
It’s time to use SUN TZU against CHINA.
Translated: China needs us more than we need them.
 
Start listening to and reading more of GORDON CHANG.

BZ

 

BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Tuesday, 7-2-19: “What does the USA mean to you?”

Featuring Right thinking from a left brain, doing the job the American Media Maggots won’t, embracing ubiquitous, sagacious perspicacity and broadcasting behind enemy lines in Occupied Fornicalia from the veritable Belly of the Beast, the Bill Mill in Sacramento, Fornicalia, I continue to proffer my thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to utilize their studio and hijack their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursday nights, thanks to my shameless contract — as well as appear on the Sack Heads: Against Tyranny Show every Wednesday night.

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Sadly, this is America 2019.

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Judges? Shhhh . . . Trump is “winning”

Something the American Media Maggots won’t tell you. Not shouted from the highest of rooftops, not plastered above the fold on page one.

“Above the fold.” Hell. I probably lost a good 60% of you with just that phrase.

Then this from, of all places, CNBC.com:

Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory

by Jake Novak

  • Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is giving President Trump yet another major victory on judicial nominations.

  • None of this would have been possible without Harry Reid’s decision to kill the filibuster.

  • The result is Trump will get to fill the most federal judiciary vacancies in 40 years.

Stop there just a moment.

Let’s say you hate Trump. Let’s say you’re an EstabliHack Republican. But I digress.

Do you laud Trump? Do you manage to praise this fact — not a rumor or a hint but a fact? Or does it so stick in your craw that you cannot recognize a win when it appears before your very gesicht? That you cannot for whatever reason realize Neil Gorsuch could potentially be the veritable “gift that keeps on giving”?

And that you need to replicate the win?

President Donald Trump should give special thanks to two U.S. Senators this Thanksgiving weekend. One is still serving in the Senate, the other recently retired. One is a Republican. The other a Democrat. And what should President Trump be thanking them for? Quite simply they have handed him one of the biggest victories any president could claim in the past 45 years.

It is not a small thing, these appointments. They are incredibly significant. They are the first courts to hear issues of conflict. Which is why the Demorats, Leftists and American Media Maggots conspire to tamp the story down.

That brings us first to naming the Republican gift giver: Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa. The longtime member of Congress has big time clout as the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And Grassley has just used that clout to eliminate one of the final hurdles in the already furious pace of Trump administration judicial appointments to the federal bench.

Oh, wait until you hear this one.

Late last week, Grassley decided not to honor a Senate tradition of holding up hearings for judicial nominees who aren’t cleared by their own home state senators. That tradition is known as the “blue slip courtesy” born out of time before nationwide communication technology when a given state’s senators had access to much more information about nominees than their colleagues from the rest of the country. Grassley correctly noted that Democrats were now trying to use the blue slips tradition to replace the filibuster, and he’s having none of that. As recently as last month, the Democrats and much of the news media’s punditry were expecting Grassley, who is no fan of the president, to keep the blue slip tradition in place. But Grassley gave Trump this very special gift instead.

Thanks Chuck. But wait, there’s more.

Didn’t we refer to a Demorat “gift giver”? We did indeed. The last person you’d conjure.

And that brings us to the Democrat who provided the initial generous source of President Trump’s solid triumph: Former Senate Majority Leader, and Democrat, Harry Reid. Reid is a major reason this good fortune has befallen President Trump because Reid was the one who killed the filibuster rule for judicial nominees in 2013. And when he killed it, it was gone for good.

“Watch out, you might get what you’re after.  .  .”

The consequences were entirely foreseeable but not in the fetid and knurled brain of Harry Mason Reid, he of the abject lie against then-Republican-presidential-candidate Mitt Romney.

But, of course, because he was a Demorat the issue was dropped. It wasn’t as if a camel turd was potentially aimed at the Bentley driven by Elon Musk. Elon Musk. Doesn’t that sound like a 70s bottled fragrance?

That long period of confirmation obstruction has given President Trump a huge number of seats to fill; twice as many as President Obama’s also large number of vacancies when he took office in 2009. The Christian Science Monitor reports this is likely the most vacancies for a president to fill in 40 years. And the Trump team hasn’t been wasting much time.

But wait, there’s more.

Consider that as of November 3rd, 13 Trump nominees to the courts have been confirmed this year. The big name is Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, but we also have eight new federal appeals court judges, and four new U.S. district court judges. President Trump has now already surpassed the last four presidents’ records for first-year judicial confirmations.

Wait. Read that again: “President Trump has now already surpassed the last four presidents’ records for first-year judicial confirmations.”

And he’s even tied President Ronald Reagan number of appeals court confirmations in year one.

Judges. The gift that keeps on giving? Grand News Pt I:

But this isn’t just about sheer numbers, it’s about ideology too. While President Trump and conservatives have diverged in matters of policy several times over the past year, the judicial nomination process is decidedly not one of them. The nominees sent to the Senate from the White House are more conservative and even younger than what we saw during President George W. Bush’s two terms in office.

Grand News Pt II:

In case the importance of making an impact on the courts is lost on anyone, just note the many setbacks the Trump administration has suffered this year alone thanks to the courts. Delays and changes to the White House-imposed travel and immigration bans have grabbed the most attention. But the administration is also dealing with judicial push back and other potential hurdles on everything from its opposition to the AT&T-Time Warner merger to its transgender military ban.

Now fast forward a couple of years where the Trump judicial appointment surge will have set in across the federal system. Just for this administration alone, that could make a huge difference. And for conservative causes and cases over time, it will be even more significant.

Shhh. Don’t tell anyone.

BZ