This one definitely needs to be preserved…- Jack
On Rocket Man’s site I wrote: Assassination attempt on one candidate. Coup on the other a week later, leaving a puppet with dementia under the control of a shadowy cabal who really runs the government… If I put this in a thriller novel you guys would get mad at me for being too cliche.
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Somebody asked “If we’re going purely by cliches, then what comes next?”
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Oh boy, good question… Okay, professional writer hat on (and yes, I’ve got a trilogy of thrillers) after the assassination attempt and coup, here is how I would write this election story if I was going as ham fisted cheese as possible. Let’s see what actually comes true-
While Dementia Potato is being kept in the closet, heavily medicated while the government is run by a shadowy cabal (the Harvard prom committee), THROATUS locks up the nomination at the Democratic National Coup, err… I mean Convention. In a shocking turn of events, her running mate is a another woman. So that way if you’re against it you’re an extra misogynist. Also, it’ll be a white woman, because of the How Dare You Factor of bringing up all the DEI stuff. It’ll be a senator/congresswoman from a swing state.
But what’s more important than voting for the first All Female Power Team? Voting to REELECT the first female president! That’s right. A little while after the coupvention the news cycle will have tired of endless BJ jokes and will need to mix things up. So Dementia Potato has to go.
And by go, in a kind world it would be “retired due to health issues to spend time with his family”. But since I’m writing a ham fisted thriller, that’s not good enough. They’re gonna call the guy who snuck into Epstein’s cell and request something “dignified and tasteful”. A state funeral and National Time Of Mourning would be way better than skulking off into retirement. And also, that way if the old man is dead, then it would be So Rude to bring up pesky stuff like his actual record of total and complete failure. And instead he would be remembered as a Great Statesman Unifier, and not a corrupt child sniffing goober.
So now you aren’t just voting against a woman, but you are voting against First Female President and all the historical melodrama which accompanies this. The stage is set. The media goes 110% on the gas lighting. NOW the left is super worried about having a really old man running for president. Trump slept with hookers. Kamala is a basically sainted Mother Theresa and SUPER SMART.
Now if I’m writing an action thriller, this is where there’s another attempt on Trump, though probably way more subtle with fewer chances for positive optics. If you’re trying to destroy a guy have him go absolute gangster rap fist pump defiance in front of a waving flag and screaming bald eagle isn’t the way to go (In the book I’d even have a member of the shadowy cabal insisting that they use an AR-15 the first time because it helps their gun control initiatives).
In my book the PoV would either be the last honest non-DEI hire at the Secret Service who gets a couple bad ass fight scenes before the action finale set piece. But since this particular book is clearly being written by a dork who burned out his brain with too much cocaine who now struggles with writing good characters and satisfying conclusions, like Stephen King, then it’ll probably be something lame. Like a fake heart attack, food poisoning, autoerotic asphyxiation, or hell… give him Covid. Lol. If we’re going absolute ham fist, the left would love that storyline. It has come FULL CIRCLE.
If I’m writing this, the good guys would win, and the left would slink off in defeat… for now. (that way I could write the sequel) But in Stephen’s version Kamala will turn out to be the most popular candidate in history and get 94 million totally honest votes at 2 AM, but like I said, we all know he’s shit at endings.
Hell, I’m gonna bookmark this cliché thriller story outline to see how much of it comes true.
You have a gift for thinking the unthinkable.
But in Stephen’s version Kamala will turn out to be the most popular candidate in history and get 94 million totally honest votes at 2 AM, but like I said, we all know he’s shit at endings.
Only 94 million? Nah, it’ll be 111 million, easy. But not “eleventy-one” million, because that’s a Lord of the Rings reference, and since Trump’s VP pick is a fan, Tolkien and LotR are now racist.
Well, orcs are portrayed so .. negatively.
Dang, if this was posted before Sunday, it looks like that with only the intro Larry’s already successfully predicted the outline for the first few chapters.
Can’t wait to see if the Veep reveal is spot on or not.
This thriller’s got the assassination and the massive fake votes ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9M6547B ), but the Biden coup and VP shenanigans are beyond cliche thriller believability, yet have/will come true. Kudos to Larry for the crystal ball cliches.
If you’ve not read John Ringo’s note in Substack about the conversation between the Faerie Queen and a Society stooge re: the assassination attempt, it’s worth the time.
It’s rude to say that and not provide a link. (Especially with how useless search engines have been getting.)
Dammit, stop giving them ideas!!!
I’ll be checking this post again on November 6th.
94 million is a small rounding error when you own all those ballot printing machines. By the way, someone mentioned not being able to get MHI stories written in Japanese. Are they selling too quickly over there?
I’m pretty sure Cliché Thriller Protagonist is insured by Stranger and Stranger
It is 1515 Arizona time, and I am about 98% convinced thar Joe Biden died or was murdered sometime in the last 5 days. Hear me out hete: first they tried to assassinate Trump two days before the GOP convention, which would have blown that up and led to voting on the floor, at which point “they” could gave put in their candidate if choice. Unfortunately for them, the attempt was a near miss. Instead, they attempt caused two things to happen. Firstly, it went a long way toward unifying the GOP, at least outwardly. Secondly, it caused Trump to pick a running mate who could actually rake over as President and do a solid job, most likely, as opposed to a pick to pander to one group or another.
With that plan screwed, they had to continue on with their plan to remove grandpa badfinger. He hasn’t been seen or heard from in going on a week now, but yesterday he releases a statement on his personal letterhead with no Presidential Seal, stating he is dropping out of the race. It was autosigned electronically. The state is now set to push Kamala into the Presidency when it is announced sometime in the next 48 hours or so that Biden has tragically passed away. Now, Kameltoe is their last choice of puppet, so something cataclysm needs to happen BEFORE she is officially nominated thar she will fail in historic fashion to meet. She has the IQ of backwash, so it’s a forgone conclusion thar she will fai epicly to respond to whatever happens, showing the country and world thar there is no way in hell she can be the Democrat nominee. It becomes an open convention where either Killary, Big Mike, Spaceman Kelly, or someone else wins the Democrar nomination. All of this is moot however, because I don’t think we actually have elections in November. Long story short, I hope Larry can get his next few books in to the printers ahead of schedule so I don’t have to spend the apocalypse wondering how the stories end…
Well, that explains why photos of Biden show different earlobes….
And why he’s roughly five inches taller than before he got sick, is positively sprinting up flights of stairs, and on and on…
As a surprise twist, how about the second female is a clone of the Hillarybeast with cosmetic surgery to appear feminine?
Anyone else gotten an email for a tracking number for the “special edition” of Warbound?
Nope, not yet. I just sent an email to Steve Diamond though. Thanks for the reminder.
Steve replied and said Warbound is being shipped for those who ordered them.
Got an email for him? I ordered the set way back when…
I recieved my Lettered and Numbered copies in the mail today. I would assume that everyone who has already ordered will get theirs soon. My shipping notice came on 7/27.
info@vaultbooks.pub
Thank goodness I save all my sent emails, even from YEARS past.
I did, too. It just arrived last night and it looks spectacular on my bookshelf with the other two. The yellow sticky on it was #199. I couldn’t be more pleased. I hope they do something like this for the Saga of The Forgotten Warrior series at some point. Or maybe something through a company like Easton Press. It would look incredible in leatherbound form with gold filigree and all that. It us definitely deserving, as it is the best fantasy series I have read in a long time.
I just got the email with a tracking number. Excited to get it. I ordered my set in mid-January 2017. I didn’t think it would take 6.5 years, but the first 2 books were lovely.
For true cliche status, you’d need to reveal that the whole shebang was funded by an aging Nazi collaborator / now billionaire who wrecks whole economies for fun and profit.
Oh, wait…
Hey! I enjoyed that book! LOL
I can’t think of many thriller ideas, but maybe a short story:
Once upon a time, a fella named Joe wished on a monkey’s paw to be president one day…
BWAH HA HA HA!!!!!!!
I love this!
I can see the power brokers of the party pushing the queen of corruption on Harris to “balance her out,”, publicly to have the all Female Ticket to go against the all white male Ticket of the GOP, the intersectional donks will eat it up, to help give President Harris some foreign policy assistance with Clinton’s experience in the foreign arena, she would be a vast asset. My opinion, the power brokers know that Harris is unelectable, and will sacrifice her rather than take a chance of pissing off the legion of female black voters that is a huge loyal voting block for the donks. Getting her creamed will take her off the board for 2028 where a fresh slate of donks will have a chance to go up against JD Vance who right now don’t have the star power of “the Donald”. Personally, if Harris wins, If I was her, I would hire a food taster if Hillary is my VEEP, she has a habit of “Arkancideing” her opponents.
Thriller twist, #LetsGoBrandon’s watch reads earlier than the “live” broadcast.
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/07/25/wtf-2601/
Going by appearances that clip may have been prerecorded at ~10 am, give or take. But then again it might have been prerecorded a few days ago at 10 am.
Or maybe it was all legit, and #Brandon’s watch is just wrong? POTUS is walking around with a watch set two-hours off?
The tweet isn’t loading for me so I can’t confirm, but if it’s the same image I saw on Instapundit, I believe the watch was upside down. Sometimes the best explanation is the simplest: an old man with dementia put his watch on upside down, and never noticed because he never makes his own decisions about where to go when: someone else tells him, “Mr. President, it’s time for your speech” and he goes where he’s told to go.
If the watch was upside down, the stem would be oriented up his arm, not toward the hand. It’s pointing the right way.
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Even a stopped watch is right twice a day. Which is more than can be said for the FICUS.
In other words, you support fascism, racism, and sexism, and you think that Trump would make a better POTUS than Harris or Biden.
Okay.
But Larry, in your work of fiction, if the evil shadowy power cabal bumps off President
Al Z. Heimers, then the VP is elevated to the throne. Since the VP, in your work of fiction,
is an empty headed DEI place holder, would
they not risk her fucking things up and blowing the election?
Seems like it would make more sense, from their point of view to keep him alive and in
office. He just rubber-stamps what he is told to do anyway. If he even has that much input
or awareness.
What you’re saying does make more sense. And is more accurately reflected in reality.
President L.G. Brandon is a puppet, sufficiently malleable that he’ll rubber stamp anything they put in front of him. The shadowy cabal’s interests are best served by keeping him alive and well (er… for some given definition of “well”) as long as possible.
Note: Prez Brandon has withdrawn his re-election bid, and the DNC has decided he’s unfit to run and is pulling all the shenanigans to replace him on the ticket, even in states where the primaries have already happened and people have chosen Joseph R. Biden and NOT Kamala Harris.
So ask yourself this: If Prez Brandon is unfit to run for re-election, how the hell is he still fit to sit in the Oval Office as Commander-in-Chief, with the “nuclear football” near at hand?
“THROATUS”
“the news cycle will have tired of endless BJ jokes and will need to mix things up.”
Gotta say, I forget how shitty a person you are sometimes. Wouldn’t it be great, simply stupendous, if you could focus on Harris being a bad candidate for actual policy reasons rather than the fact she’s a woman. After all, a woman can only get into power if she sucks dick to do it. /s
A woman can get into power using all the same levers and skills as a man. This woman in particular, used the carnal appetite of a powerful, elderly, married male politician to gain power. “Heels Up” was a nickname back when she was a Bay Area fluffer for the Assembly Speaker. Her policies are as bad as her character. Attack her on all her vulnerabilities.
It hasn’t been her life for a VERY long time, and that hasn’t been her methodology for a VERY long time.
It’s misogyny at its core and it’s lazy.
OTOH, it works. Whatever sticks is what you fling more of. #HeelsUp is her name forever more.
That’s all they do. We should tie both hands behind our backs to make it “fair”?
Besides, I’m down with a little misogyny for the likes of #HeelsUp. She’s done everything she can to earn it. And it has the great advantage of being 100% the truth.
You zealots never grasp that ‘attacking’ one member of a group means nothing in regards to the rest of the group, but they good work on getting a head start on the whole criticizing kamala is evil and IST babble
Listening to your dribbling leftist bullshit is tiring. She hasn’t changed AT ALL. She is still the same retarded, low intelligence, legs-up caricature of a “StRoNg EmPoWeReD fEmAlE gIrLbOsS” who sucked her way to where she’s at she always been. When your throne is built on illegal convictions and sentence extensions of black men, being a side piece to the rich, famous, and powerful, and the epitome of genital- and color-based promotion over I don’t know, being intelligent and good at your job, nobody should be surprised when you are utterly mocked and scorned by people with a functioning brain in their head.
I’m not really paying attention to the Democrats bullshit maneuvering right now.
I’m too busy watching the DEI poster children of the Biden Administration try to railroad friends of mine into taking the blame for their incompetence.
I grew up and live in Butler, PA. I knew the man who was killed and I work with one of the guys who was wounded. I know both of the Police Officers who tried to get on to the roof just before the shooting. I’ve known the Sheriff since 10th grade and have known his Wife longer than that.
I was at the Rally. I was asked if I would handle the radio for the small airport that runs along one side of the Farm Show grounds. I did the same thing for the 2020 Rally at the County Airport. At the 2020 rally we had a security briefing the day before, we didn’t have one this time. Nobody’s answered one simple question. Why did the Governor of Pennsylvania fall all over himself to provide extra State Police for Jill Biden’s appearance in Pittsburgh that day, while denying the request for extra State Police to be at the Trump rally?
I like your idea of this from a writer’s perspective, but, I think that this is one case where the truth is going to be more unbelievable than fiction, if we ever find out what the truth actually is.
That is because the Truth will prove just how Vile and Vindictive the “Tolerant Left” is against folks who don’t kowtow to their Line of Bullshyte. The Unbellievablility Factor will be HIGH but it’s also Occam’s Razor Time… only in reverse. The MOST ludicrous answer and probability will be WHAT Happened VS what Could’ve Happened (And nearly did).
I am not a Trumpster, I can’t believe that a man who voted DEM nearly all his life in NYC suddenly became the GOP’s Messiah . . . but I also cannot support #HeelsUp Kamalalalala #HyneaLaughHarris or anyone the DEMs put up in her place.
I hate the idea but I suspect we — the USA — are heading into “Interesting Times” as Jefferson warned. The Tree Of Liberty may need to be pruned and watered…. sooner rather than later.
Also, it’ll be a white woman, because of the How Dare You Factor of bringing up all the DEI stuff. It’ll be a senator/congresswoman from a swing state.
The “How Dare You” part has already come true. Watch George Stephanopoulos’ interview with GOP Rep. Byron Donalds (FL).
According to Georgie, pointing out that Kamala was celebrated as America’s “First Indian-American Senator” — according to the AP’s own headlines in 2016 — and not a Black Senator, is a “slur”. And How Dare You keep bringing it up!?
(Rep. Donalds kept trying to move off the topic, reasoning that most Americans Do Not Care about the race stuff, but Georgie kept bringing it up trying to harangue him — and by extension, Trump — for “using the slur”, all the while accusing Rep. Donalds of continuing to bring it up.)
Yep, “Indian-American” is now a racist slur (but not when the AP said it in 2016).
You can’t make this stuff up!
Why does this imbecile still post here?
Hey folks,
This is not aging well fast, right? Just checking. 🙂
Well, maybe in the sense that reality is more outlandish than anything you could make up. Every time you think the Democrats have hit Peak Insanity, they crank it up even higher.
DEI
Just to make sure, ever heard of ESG BRIDGE and BlackRock?
Until now, not many seem to even have heard of WEF either, in spite of so many politicians and businessmen, OrangeMan included, going to shake hands with Klaus Schwab
Larry Fink and Klaus Schwab aren’t “celebrities” like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos