"A Brief Service Message To The American Left"

 

The Red/Green Alliance is an alliance of convenience with one goal of destroying the West, the Red part of the alliance is more noisier but the Green part of the alliance is the more hardcore in my opinion and for that reason, they will win if it became a struggle between the 2 groups.  I saw a microcosm of this in New york when a pride parade and a islamic parade met somewhere downtown, after a few minutes, the pride flags went away, and the islamist went about their way.

I’m not speaking to the right.

I want my trolls, the progressives who sneak-read my essays, and the literal freakaziods who are drunk on their own piss, to stop being brain-damaged for just long enough to see if what follows reverberates at all in that vast echo chamber you call a skull.

First, let’s talk a little bit about Iran because there is a lesson there.

Not today’s Iran, but Iran back in the late 70’s.

Iran under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, particularly between the early 1960s and the Islamic Revolution of 1979, was a fascinating contradiction. It was a modernizing, increasingly secular, Western-oriented society governed by an authoritarian hereditary monarch. Its citizens enjoyed certain social and economic freedoms that were remarkable by Middle Eastern standards, particularly women, but they had considerably fewer political freedoms than citizens of Western democracies.

It was nominally a constitutional monarchy, with a parliament, elections, a prime minister, and a written constitution. In practice, however, the Shah exercised overwhelming political authority. The best description I can use would be to call it an authoritarian constitutional monarchy pursuing Western-style modernization without Western-style political liberty.

Most of today’s TikTok Kommie Kiddies making videos today have no idea how the 1979 “revolution” came to be. They hear the word “revolution” and all the blood in their bodies rush from their brain to their genitals.

The political left played a significant, if ultimately self-defeating, role in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Marxists, communists, socialists, and secular intellectuals joined forces with Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamist movement to overthrow the Shah, united by their opposition to the monarchy, capitalism, and Western influence. Organizations such as the communist Tudeh Party and the Marxist Fedayeen helped foment revolutionary opposition, while leftist students and intellectuals provided much of its ideological energy. Many believed the Islamic revolution was merely the first stage of a broader socialist transformation, foolishly assuming they could eventually displace the religious leadership and establish their own political order. Khomeini, however, had other plans.

Once the Shah was removed, the Islamists consolidated power, suppressed their former allies, and systematically imprisoned, executed, or exiled many of the very leftists who had helped bring them to power. The Iranian Revolution remains a remarkable example of ideological movements becoming so consumed with destroying a common enemy that they fail to recognize the danger posed by their supposed allies. The communists imagined they were using the Islamists to advance socialism. Khomeini understood that they were helping him establish a theocracy that the Islamic zealots could never accomplish on their own, and when the usefulness of the communists expired, so did his tolerance for them.

I’m sure the young communist ideologues were surprised to find themselves persecuted, imprisoned, executed, or driven into exile by the Islamic government they had helped bring to power.

As surprised as I’m sure most of you fellow travelers and useful idiots are going to be when it happens to you – and it will.

In your Red-Green, Communist and Islamist alliance, it won’t matter which side wins control, in the same way it happened in Iran, the other side has to go. Either the Marxists will remain or the Islamists will, but either way, some of you will find yourselves on the outside looking in, if you survive.

The communists in America are led by people who are literally on the wrong side of every argument, every debate and every principle and value that has sustained our civilization for over 3,000 years - because the way they “win” is to redefine every single event, action, belief, and state of being – literally redefining reality – to fit their positions.

Just look at what you are being told is real, the lies you are being told you must believe. Just take a heartbeat and take stock of the path you are on because none of what you believe people like me are doing to “oppress” you is real, none of it is true, none of it can exist outside theory, and none of your “logic” will save you.

You are not fighting me; you are fighting the reality of Nature and Nature’s God, but you would rather kill me (like you did Charlie Kirk) than listen to and consider an opposing point.

How do I know?

Because everything you claim to want for society already exists – except you can’t accept it because you don’t really want to solve problems, you just want the power to punish.

And you are being constantly lied to and in turn, are lying to yourself about it. All of it.

That’s why so many of you are borderline insane (or if social media is representative, have already crossed the border into Crazytown).

Insanity is a state of severe mental disturbance in which a person’s ability to think rationally, perceive reality, or exercise sound judgment is substantially impaired.

There is only so much contradiction a mind can contain before it starts to rebel, and a growing percentage of you are crossing that line.

Your Stepstool Abdul Elf Sayed, Jew hating buddies in the mosques and madrassas aren’t going to save you. You think you are the scorpion, but you are really just the frog. You are the transport, not the package.

They are using you just like the Mad Mullahs used the commies in Iran back in the 70’s. Look at what they believe and what you believe. I won’t run down the list for you, but suffice it to say Pride Month, Transgender Days of Visibility, and Queers for Palestine are not things that exist in Iran. The only thing you have in common is that you want to bring down the United States.

Their view of you is this: if you are willing to overthrow your own elected government that has weathered every storm for 250 years while preserving your freedoms, how can we trust you not to try to overthrow us when you realize you woke up and the clocks have been set ahead from FA to FO time?

The only reason they are Democrats now is that they currently find your political access and power useful, a means to an end - but that usefulness has an expiration date stamped on it.

All of this is to fight a right wing that really doesn’t care what you do as long as we are not forced to participate and become cheerleaders for it. For example, drag shows have been a thing for decades. We never cared until you wanted access to our kids. We never cared that you want to gender swap until you wanted to transition our 6 year-olds without our knowledge or consent. You even could accomplish what you claimed to want in same-sex relationships with civil unions, but you had to have marriage to poke a sharp stick in the eye of Christians.

Newsflash – the image of us you have been taught to believe is not us. We’re all like Howard Roark from The Fountianhead: we don’t think of you - unless you make us.

The worst you will get is us trying to tell you that we believe what you are doing is wrong.

You won’t get that kind of tolerance from your new friends and “allies”.

Monday Music "Dreamtime" From Daryl Hall

 

  This song was from Darryl Hall, the half of Hall and Oates, the singing duo that has been singing since the 70's.
I heard this song for the first time in 1986 when I was stationed at Fort Devens in Mass going through AIT.  I thought it was a good song and it did make the MTV playlist that we would watch in the break room before we marched to class.   Later on in 1987

                         Not this car, but one like it, LOL(Wish I still had it.)

 I was listening to American top 40 with Casey Kasim and somebody called in a dedication to his girl that ran off to the big city and disappeared.  For some reason I remembered this while driving down the autobahn near Trier.  Funny what you remember from the past.  And I do miss 1986, and I am one of those people that associate music with times in my life.

Dreamtime is a single from singer/songwriter Daryl Hall (part of pop-rock duo Hall & Oates). Co-written by John Beeby, it was issued prior to the release of his second solo album, Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine.
It was his biggest hit as a solo performer, climbing the Billboard Hot 100 to peak at number 5 in October 1986 and reached #3 on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop Airplay chart on September 9, 1986 for one week and remained on the chart for twelve weeks. The hit helped drive its parent album up the charts to peak at number 29.

The album's lead single, "Dreamtime", was the most successful song of the album. It reached #5 on the Hot 100 on October 4, 1986, staying there for a week and remaining on the chart for 15 weeks; consequently it was an airplay hit, peaking at #3 on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop Airplay chart. The song went to number 11 on the Mainstream Rock Songs on August 16, 1986 to stay on the chart for 10 weeks. It was also a club hit, the remix version peaked at #36 on the Dance Club Songs chart on October 15, 1986 and remaining on it for five weeks. The single peaked at #24 on the Adult Contemporary chart as well. The song was ranked as the 53th most successful song of 1986 across contemporary hit radio in the United States by Radio & Records.

The original recording is 4:45 in length. The music video extends the track length to 5:12 Aside from some ad-libs near the video version's fade-out, there is little difference between the album version and the video.

"A Field Guide FOr Killing Monsters"

I got a chuckle from this, I am part of the "Monster Hunter Nation" on Farcebook, I am a fan of the ILOH A.K.A. "Larry Correia" I didn't link Wiki like I normally would, Wiki don't like Larry, he tends to give serious heartburn to the people on the left side of the aisle and they do "wiki" edits.

I Clipped this from "Art OF Manliness"

Monsters have plagued our imaginations since the dawn of humanity, and over time we’ve developed some fairly specific ideas about how to deal with them. A wooden stake for a vampire, a silver bullet for a werewolf, a well-aimed blow to a zombie’s head. But where did these rules come from? Some have roots in centuries-old folklore, while others have been popularized by the decisions of authors and depictions in pop culture. 

You never know when the dead might rise, the full moon might bring trouble, or something lurks above in an empty attic. Consider this your field guide to dispatching the supernatural.

Werewolf. The idea of humans transforming into wolves goes back to ancient mythology, but the silver bullet is a more recent convention. European werewolf lore offered various ways to identify or defeat a wolf-man; for example, according to retellings of the story of the Beast of Gévaudan — a wolf-like creature that killed dozens of people in 18th-century France — it was brought down by a hunter using silver bullets. The idea of silver being a werewolf slayer was incorporated into 1941’s The Wolf Man, whose screenwriter, Curt Siodmak, made up much of the werewolf lore we take for granted today.

Vampire. Centuries ago in parts of Eastern Europe, people feared that the dead would return to feed on the blood of the living. Driving wooden stakes into their corpses would prevent them from rising again as vampires. It has become the go-to method for killing Drac in popular vampire stories, with sunlight later added as a method (that rule started with Nosferatu in 1922) and garlic and crosses becoming part of the toolkit for keeping them at bay. The exact rules vary, so it pays to come prepared.

Mummy. Sadly, ancient Egyptians didn’t leave any instructions in their Books of the Dead on how to battle a mummy that has reanimated. But most modern depictions of monster mummies agree that burning them with fire probably works. Those suckers should burn pretty easy since the wrap is dry and resin-covered. Bonus points for using an Indiana Jones torch.

Zombie. While zombies have existed in Haitian mythology for centuries, the zombie as we know it in popular culture originated with George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968). From that classic horror flick, we learned that destroying the zombie’s brain is the clutch method of dispatching the undead.

Ghost. Ghosts are trickier to deal with because they’re not made from physical matter. An ethereal spirit is a slippery thing; you can’t drive a stake through it or light it on fire or shoot it with a silver bullet. So whaddaya do? In most traditions, the solution to dispatching a ghost is to discover why the dead spirit remains among the living and help it resolve that issue. That might mean addressing an injustice that occurred when the spirit was living or reconciling with a mortal loved one. If you can help the shade find peace, it may finally move on. If that doesn’t work, I think you know who ya gonna call.

"WHat was some surprising insight from an 1970's wargaming simulation of "Operation Sealion" The German Invasion of England in WWII

 

I pulled this off Quora, I saw it taking a "Microbreak" at work surfing the phone. so I shamelessly clipped it.

In 1974, surviving WWII commanders wargamed Hitler's invasion of Britain and made a darkly comedic discovery: the Royal Navy wouldn't even need to fire its guns to sink the German fleet.

The highly detailed simulation of Operation Sea Lion was held at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and featured actual combat veterans making the decisions, including Luftwaffe General Adolf Galland and Kriegsmarine Admiral Friedrich Ruge.

The wargame yielded several unexpected insights, starting with the initial assault. Most historical assumptions suggest the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy would have crushed the invasion fleet before it ever reached the beaches. Instead, the Sandhurst simulation showed that the Germans would have successfully landed around 90,000 troops in Kent and Sussex. Because the British Army had abandoned most of its heavy equipment during the evacuation of Dunkirk just months earlier, the coastal defenses were too weak and disorganized to stop the initial beachhead. The German army quickly pushed inland, capturing their early objectives.

But the success was short-lived, largely due to the fatal flaw in German logistics. The Kriegsmarine lacked purpose-built landing craft, forcing them to commandeer hundreds of flat-bottomed river barges from the Rhine to transport men and supplies across the English Channel.

Once the British realized a full-scale invasion was underway, the Royal Navy unleashed the Home Fleet from Scapa Flow. When the British cruisers and destroyers arrived in the Channel, they found that they did not need to rely on their main guns to destroy the German supply lines. Simply steaming through the invasion flotilla at high speed would generate enough wake to swamp and capsize the flimsy, unseaworthy river barges.

With the Channel completely severed by the Royal Navy and the RAF, the 90,000 German troops who had successfully landed were suddenly trapped. Cut off from food, medical supplies, and artillery shells, their advance ground to a halt. The Luftwaffe suffered massive losses attempting an improvised aerial resupply. Facing a fully mobilized British defense and completely out of ammunition, the entire German invasion force was compelled to surrender within six days, proving that without absolute naval and air supremacy, Sea Lion was a guaranteed trap for the German army.

German invasion barges, many of them commandeered river vessels, waiting at Boulogne Harbour in France during the Battle of Britain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

"Ori-Gun-I" The ZEV Technologies FDP Carbine"

 

I was reading my "American Rifleman magazine, and saw this and was thinking *wow*, If you wanted something that you could stick into a regular backpack or a briefcase and not really draw attention to yourself, this would do it.  Most of the Normies would have no idea what it is and it would allow you to take it to places that wouldn't draw attention to yourself and give you options on defending yourself incase the people with bad intentions show up in places where they are not supposed to be.   The possibilities are intriguing. 

   I with absolutely no shame clipped it from "American Rifleman"

Photos by Forrest MacCormack

How do I even begin this article? On the one hand, a straight-up history of various folding firearms would be a place to start, given that “FDP” stands for Folding Defensive Platform. We could start with some of the flintlock and percussion-cap pistols of the 18th and 19th centuries that had folding triggers. There’s the Burgess folding shotgun of the late 1800s (a design we’re seeing coming back around in the Pak 12 introduced at SHOT Show 2026). There’s also the Russian PP-90 or the Ares FMG, and even more recently, the KelTec SUB2000, folding Glock G19 and Smith & Wesson FPC. Guns that fold are really not all that novel or new.

What about discreet firearms? There’s the Heckler & Koch MP5K Operational Briefcase or the Military Armament Corporation MAC 10 and 11 briefcase designs. The Lifecard looks like an oversize credit card until it is folded out to a single-shot pistol. We could even toss the belt-buckle-riding North American Arms mini-revolver in the mix if we use the “hiding in plain sight” method of (non)concealment. These options are fewer and farther between than straight-up folding guns simply because of Any Other Weapon (AOW) considerations; basically, if a firearm doesn’t look like a firearm when it is capable of firing, it is considered an AOW and therefore falls under NFA regulations. Even some wallet-style pocket holsters can run afoul of this burdensome regulation if they allow the holstered gun to fire when in the holster itself (in addition to not being exactly safe for carry).

In its folded configuration, the FDP certainly doesn’t look like a traditional firearm • Even in the open position, the FDP has an unconventional profile • The trigger also folds as part of the mechanism, and it includes an automatic firing-pin safety • The position of the extractor serves as a loaded-chamber indicator • Its unconventional appearance extends to the muzzle due to the polymer enclosure • Standard 17-round Glock magazines will fit flush in the grip, while the included 21-round magazines are slightly extended.

It’s the rare confluence of folding design and discreet nature that make the FDP so interesting. Looking at the folded firearm, it looks like—well, it looks like a tool kit you’d see on “Star Trek” or something. It doesn’t look like a firearm, which was the original intention behind the predecessor to the FDP, the FMG-9.

Drake Clark, Magpul’s sales and business development manager, walked the floor of SHOT Show with a folded FMG-9 stuck in his back pocket (with the carry handle removed), taking time to show it to folks he knew who would be interested (which should be everyone, because it’s just that darn cool). Per Clark, as a matter of fact, “Really what we wanted was the Russian folding gun, the PP-90, but that wasn’t happening. You can’t easily get your hands on an Ares folding gun like in Robocop [2] either. If we can’t get the cool thing we want, we build it. We like cool s**t and we like tinkering, key ingredients of the Magpul recipe.”

The funny part, though, is that the FMG-9 wasn’t even Magpul’s first foray into firearm prototyping. Two years before the FMG-9 caused a stir at SHOT Show, Magpul had unveiled the PDR, a futuristic bullpup that looked like the love child of a PS90 and an M4. Around the same time as the FMG-9, the Masada—the rifle that would turn into the Bushmaster/Remington ACR— was also revealed, aiming at the piston-driven market dominated by FN’s SCAR and LWRCI’s M6. Magpul reiterated with the FMG-9 that, while not a firearm company, it could certainly produce cool prototypes.

As mentioned, the FDP started life as the FMG-9, introduced at SHOT Show 2008—yes, that’s right, if it were a human, it would be old enough to vote now. In 2021, the project transmogrified into the FDP, which is finally hitting store shelves some 18 years after the first prototype wowed us. It’s been a long road, but the Magpul (and Zev) folding pistol-caliber carbine has finally moved past the cryptid-like status of other firearms like the revitalized Bren Ten or the resurrected AutoMag.

But, it hasn’t really been in production purgatory for 18 years, mind you. When the FMG-9 was displayed at SHOT, it was fully intended to be a “look what we can do” sort of thing, not a “we are going to have this for sale.” After returning from a vacation abroad in late 2007, Mike Mayberry (the designer behind the PMag) took inspiration from the Ares FMG, sat down at his design table and whipped up what would become the FMG-9. Some late-night hustling with an early 3-D printer, and prototypes were ready for SHOT Show in January 2008.

Controls are centrally located—as expected—on the left side of the FDP, with the magazine release, thumb safety and slide release all accessible from a firing grip • Two 21-round Magpul PMags are included with the FDP.

Having the FMG-9’s likeness displayed in an extremely popular video game series in 2011 only intensified the mystique of Magpul’s folding carbine—but remember, it was never intended to go into production. Think of it like the fantastic concept cars that GM and Ford roll out to drum up interest, but are never going to make, like the Cadillac Sixteen revealed in the early 2000s with four-wheel steering and a 13.6 liter, V16 engine. The Sixteen was never produced, but the four-wheel steering made it into production vehicles.

What jump-started the project and turned the corner into reality was a partnership with Zev Technologies in the late 20-teens. Zev’s OZ9 pistol and its chassis concept became the basis for the FDP, the successor to the FMG. Magpul would make the polymer bits, the stock, mags and carry handle/sight array; Zev would make the barrel, slide and fire-control assembly. In 2021, the FMG-9 morphed into the semi-automatic FDP, and the folding firearm project was officially underway.

Yes, it took a little bit of time for the concept to become a reality. Zev Technologies president Taylor Goode explained, “Inno-vation doesn’t happen overnight. The FDP is literally a gun that folds. Not a chassis—a true folding gun. Getting it from concept to production took a lot of engineering, both on the “go-bang” internals and the folding shell from our friends at Magpul. We know folks waited a long time to see this one come to life, but we set out to create an entirely new platform that exceeds expectations, not a novelty. That requires a lot of due diligence. The result has been worth the wait.”

Opening the FDP involves holding it with the hinge pointed downward, depressing the charging handle slightly and letting gravity unfold it into position. Ensure the stock cover and grip levers are locked.

So, with all this information about the work that went into the design and eventual production of the FDP, what does it boil down to? It might be tempting to dismiss the FDP as a gimmick; after all, the party trick of the unfolding is pretty showy and attention-getting. To be fair, that’s not a bad thing; as Tamara Keel has made the case—repeatedly—in her “From the Counter” column in this very publication, that shooting is and should be fun. Bring the FDP to the range, and I guarantee you will raise the interest of your fellow shooters. It is most decidedly different; no question about that.

More importantly, it is not a one-trick pony. It offers a lot more than just the novelty of “hey, this toolkit-looking thing turns into a pistol-caliber carbine”—it’s actually a quality, capable firearm as well. Granted, when you see the names “Zev Technologies” and “Magpul” as the two companies behind the FDP, it’s tipping your hand as to how the gun can be expected to work. Neither company is any slouch in the excellence department; combined, the result should be spectacular.

And the FDP really is great. While recording some video for social media, we ran a number of magazines through the FDP quickly (slow-fire, when recorded in slow-motion, is about as much fun to watch as paint drying). Not only were there no malfunctions, but the accuracy (even with the … ahem … rudimentary sights) was top-notch. At 25 yards, I think maybe a half-dozen rounds left the C-zone of a standard IPSC target—and I was not taking my time with a solid shooting stance and focusing on the basics.

The folding component is definitely more than just an attention-getting device, too. The careful, clever engineering that goes into the FDP allows it to look rather innocuous—if you were to transport it in a messenger bag, should someone peek inside, they’d see a nondescript black case. It’s not like a large-format pistol that will immediately alert others to the presence of a firearm. Also, it takes standard Glock magazines, so if you carry a Glock-based 9 mm handgun, you’ve got the added convenience of double-dipping in your feeding devices.

Taking down the FDP for cleaning follows the same procedure as most striker-fired handguns, with the added step of removing the top cover first • Integral to the carry handle are the black front and rear sights • The folding trigger guard and molded hand stop are visible underneath the FDP • The lever on the top of the stock and on the back of the grip need to be depressed to close the FDP.

There are some drawbacks, to be sure. If you, like me, prefer red-dot sights on your defensive carbine, while it’s certainly easy enough to add one to the FDP, you lose the element of surprise. It will still fold, of course; however, when it is in the folded configuration, the red-dot sight will be clearly visible, thereby diminishing the “hiding in plain sight” aspect of the folded FDP. It’s also an SBR, which in and of itself isn’t a huge issue with the tax reduced to zero thanks to the efforts of your NRA. However, there are certain rules currently in place with SBRs that make ownership less convenient than for suppressors—namely the requirement to alert ATF if you’re taking it to a different state. Efforts are underway to change this, but at present, it remains a consideration.

If you want to accessorize the FDP, it’s not as easy as a traditional carbine. There aren’t any M-Lok slots to add lights or lasers. There’s no section for accessories, nor any ARCA rail or sling swivel studs for a bipod mount. But again, that’s not why you’re buying the FDP. It’s the “foldy-boi” aspect, not the ability to trick it out, that gives the FDP its appeal.

Let’s talk about the folding part. It’s both ingenious and simple. To unfold the FDP, simply grasp the carry handle with the fold facing the ground. Depress the charging handle slightly, and the gun unfolds into its usable form. Make sure that both the pistol grip and the cover plate at the top of the buttstock are locked into position, then insert a loaded magazine and use the charging handle to load. To fold it up, make sure it’s unloaded (check twice, just to be safe) and close the slide. Push the lever on top of the stock cover plate as well as the lever on the grip to unlatch both, and then the FDP can be closed.

Operationally, it’s basically an overgrown handgun. The magazine inserts in the grip, the barrel tilts up during firing (which makes it look odd when shooting with a suppressor attached, but I digress) and the controls are where you would expect them to be on pretty much any polymer-frame, striker-fired handgun. The magazine catch is reversible, and the charging handle (which, of course, also folds) is mirrored on the right and left sides; the safety lever is right-hand only, as is the slide-release lever. There’s a vestigial loaded-chamber indicator built into the extractor that is flush with the slide when a round is inserted for additional peace of mind, too.

Since it uses a short-recoil-operated, locked-breech system rather than simple blowback, recoil is quite light, even for an already-gentle 9 mm SBR. The sights are functional and adjustable, and accuracy is about what you’d expect from such platforms. You’re not going to win bullseye competitions with the FDP, but it’s certainly accurate enough for home- and self-defense scenarios, even those at more extended distances. At close ranges, the type you’d see for typical self-defense engagements, it’s easy to put rounds right where you want them pretty much as quickly as you can pull the trigger.

More critical is reliability—I wanted to give the FDP a workout, so more than 500 rounds were fired (It’s also crazy fun on the range, so I might have run a few more magazines than usual). One single stovepipe was experienced, toward the end of testing when the FDP had gotten both rather hot and pretty dirty. I’m not terribly concerned, as it happened with a magazine of questionable vintage (a “pre-ban” Glock 33-round magazine I’ve owned for almost 30 years). One lone failure out of 500 rounds isn’t a dealbreaker in my opinion, especially if you clean and lubricate properly.

It’s hard not to love the FDP. Combining “cool factor” with a gun that actually functions well and can be used for defensive purposes is a fait accompli; there’s definitely cachet to having an eye-catching firearm that also serves a useful purpose. Even if the FDP wasn’t great for self-defense—and it is great for self-defense—it would still be an important addition to the firearm market; the engineering that goes into the folding characteristics will almost certainly be carried over into future projects.

Useful, cool and reliable? That’s a trifecta of awesome in my book. If you want it because it’s neat, it certainly is. But, if you want it because it’s neat and you can actually use it, that’s its true beauty, because it simply works and works well.