Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
The progressives are cranking things up to 11 on the Stupid/Psycho Scale, which is good for us in the short term – some of us Normals were growing complacent and the midterms are coming. But we also need to open our eyes and accept the bitter reality we face. We can’t just pretend the truth is not the truth because we wish it were otherwise. The left’s dropping of its mask has demonstrated once again the undeniable fact. The left hates you.
Just give them a listen. Those carefully selected moppet puppets are out there on TV telling Normals “We are going to outlive you.” When leftists tell you that you are going to die first, you should believe they mean it. They have a track record of making that happen.
And then there is the new meme, that the NRA is a “terrorist” organization. This means you are a “terrorist” simply by advocating for your political views. Think about that. Labeling your political opponents as “terrorists” – gee, that can’t end badly. Violence against and suppression of terrorists is okay, isn’t it? And when this ploy works with guns, it will happen with the next right the left wants to take from us.
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How’s that blood on your hands? Sure, you were thousands of miles away, and your AR-15 – like the 14,999,999 other AR-15s out there – never shot up a school, but just believing in the Second Amendment makes you a non-human. Those of us who know something about history know that the people leftists regard as non-human always tend to end up non-living.
Oh, they want to have a conversation, all right. It’s a conversation about how you are going to be disarmed, disempowered, and at their mercy.
Crazy talk? No. Don’t be gaslighted. They will tell you exactly what they want for you if you give them long enough. The beauty of social media is these creeps just can’t help themselves; you just have to have the strength to listen and accept the truth no matter how unpleasant it is. Many of them want you dead – again, they will tell you outright. Others will be satisfied with you just being serfs, unable to participate in your own governance, obedient, working hard to fuel the liberal redistribution machine that pays off Democrat constituencies. To the fields, flyover drones! Grow our kale, drive the trucks carrying our cucumber-infused pale ale! We are to be the silent stagehands in the urban hipster play that is their lives.
Understand that the left doesn’t hate the NRA. The NRA stuff is a distraction. Leftists are dumb, but they understand the power of the NRA is really the power of millions of Normal Americans coming together to defend their right to protect themselves, their families, their communities and their Constitution. That’s why they fear it. That’s why they can’t abide it. They want your voices silenced.
And the left doesn’t hate guns either. In fact, the progressives fully intend to be the only group left with any guns. That should turn out great for us.
At best, the government that they promise will protect us will make excuses why they can’t see red flags waving and why they can’t be expected to actually protect us. Liberals have just come out foursquare in favor of police cowardice; their argument is you don’t need guns to protect yourself, and you certainly can’t expect a Democrat-run law enforcement agency like the Broward Sheriff’s Office to protect you because that would be scary to the poor government workers. Where does that leave you? You can’t protect yourself, and in return, no one from the government will protect you either. That whole outliving talk looks more and more sinister every day.
And at worst? There are 100 million reasons never to be disarmed and at the mercy of leftists.
Your life means nothing to them, just as the lost lives in Chicago mean nothing to them. There are several Parklands a month in the Windy City, but the Democrats who run it don’t care. They know where the bad guys are. They won’t act. Instead, they feign concern over the children because faking outrage will help them do what they really want done. That’s why you had them arguing that the idea of a cop actually doing his job was crazy.
They want you disarmed and disempowered, not the nuts, not the criminals, not the terrorist, not the illegal aliens. You. Why?
Because they hate you.
They hate that you won’t submit.
They hate that you won’t obey.
And they hate that you refuse to give up your only means of protecting yourself and preserving your rights.
They hate you.
So what do you do?
You understand and accept the truth, which many allegedly on our side refuse to do because the truth is too harsh and painful. America is divided not between groups with differing political views held in good faith, but between Normals and a left that hates us. That’s not a pleasant notion, but to pretend that this is business as usual, that we are just friends with a slight disagreement, or that there is some reasonable compromise to be had, is delusional.
Ask them. They hate you. And we must act accordingly.
The first step is the political battle. Wake up – the midterms are coming and we need to ensure that these people do not gain the power to undercut our rights. At CPAC, President Trump demonstrated that his competitive nature is in full effect – he intends on winning. We need to do the same. Volunteer. Donate. Activate. Yeah, it’s a hassle. We’d all like a pause to this constant cold warfare. That is not happening.
The second step is the cultural battle. The left is intent on mobilizing the corporations that form the infrastructure of society against us. We need to respond with our own political power, and that means casting off the tired shackles of an ideology that assumes we are in a pure free market scenario. “Free market solutions” don’t apply where companies instead act based on political ideology when choosing to exercise political power; how, exactly, do we respond to a company that acts against us but decides it doesn’t care about the market consequences? Well, we can’t – unless we use our own political power. Georgia refusing to give Delta a tax break – which it should not have gotten in the first place – is the template. If they want to declare a cultural war on us, let’s give them one. It’s not how you or I want it to be, but it is how it is. Maybe pain will motivate them to re-adopt the old rules. Surrender sure won’t.
The third step is to create deterrent facts on the ground. Demonstrate your commitment to your rights by joining the NRA and, further, by buying guns and ammunition. Tyranny is not out of the question – hey, aren’t they always calling Trump Hitler? Tens, even hundreds of millions of armed American Normals provide a deterrent to the kind of insanity we’ve seen the left hinting at. Be prepared to protect the Constitution, and the chances of them getting violent will diminish exponentially. Remember, they don’t want to fight; they prefer we give up under a barrage of hectoring from CNN and vicious tweets about how we hate children.
Yes, it’s ugly.
Yes, perhaps it’s even frightening.
But it is how it is, with leftists who makes no bones about what they think of you. They hate you. And you need to act accordingly.
The NRA is a single entity. Peaceful gun owners number in the tens of millions, and whether they are NRA members, members of Gun Owners of America, the 2nd Amendment foundation, or are simply freedom-loving folks who want people to leave them and their guns alone, they are too numerous to disparage as a group.
There is a reason for “scapegoats.” They ensure that all the evils can be attributed to a single entity so that only that entity can be “sacrificed” to appease the “gods.”
Of course they hate all of us freedom lovers. But they dare not say so openly….because they know that WE HAVE ALL THE GUNS!!!!
Charles Hugh Smith yesterday wrote a good article about this reality in a different way.
The left is losing economically. Millions of them are graduating with worthless degrees and large student loan debt. The careers they imagined they’d have aren’t there. The US needs skilled tradesmen not intellectuals, journalists , bureaucrats and pop stars. A registered nurse or electrician might not get rich but they can earn a good living. An idiot with a guitar or an aspiring MSNBC talking head can’t.
As pension obligations and medical costs mount the ability of the US economy to absorb useless people declines. The left end of the leftist bell curve is feeling this and they don’t like it. They HATE the man in his pickup truck driving to his job or the medical technician driving to hers as they realize their position as an adjunct professor of ethnic studies ( if they are lucky) or as a substitute elementary school teacher is going nowhere.
The NRA convention is in Dallas the first week in May, attend if possible.
White people need to die. Now hand over all your guns.
That strategery looks like extinction. Just not for US.
The real role that the NRA fulfills is to act as a punchbag for the left. It gives them something to hit against, and then, it rolls over like a whipped dog.
Calling the NRA a terrorist organisation is slander* and defamation and shouldn’t be allowed.
*to s leftist, slander is one of the most heinous offences imaginable.
Is everyone talking about the same NRA that wouldn’t oppose or actively endorsed the NFA of ’34, the GCA of ’68, FOPA ’86, and GHWBush’s ’89 import ban?
And the same one who’s spokesman last week at CPAC openly bragged about getting the NICS system implemented?
Seems to me, they’re effective at misinterpretting “infringed”, raking in donations for their Glass Palace, and boiling all the frogs that don’t pay close attention.
The primary reason why I hang up on the NRA whenever they call looking for money or membership. I would only support an organization with principles.
If somebody says they hate you, Give them a dann good reason. Also If someone tries to kill you, you kill them right back.
They want us dead, no question about that…only problem is that we have to be disarmed first, and that isn’t happening.
“they don’t want to fight; they prefer we give up”. Can you define this group you call “they”?
For example, I am a registered Democrat, a gun owner, and an honorablly discharged veteran. Am I a member of “they”?
I’m not sure if you’re a “they”.
“Libtard dick”? Well, if the shoe fits …….
marsh,
if you’re a democrat who is also a gunowner,you’re either very gullible(which i don’t believe is the case),an arrogant hypocritical ahole who considers himself above us dirt people(based upon your comments i do not believe that’s you),or you’re a person who deep down knows that leftist,democratic positions are wrong but supports them because you’re in the habit of doing so or you just haven’t made the decision to be totally right–
go ahead & swallow the red pill–
after you’ve swallowed it,you won’t have to ask who “they” are–
No rabbit you’re just an ?.
“Just give them a listen. Those carefully selected moppet puppets are out there on TV telling Normals “We are going to outlive you.” When leftists tell you that you are going to die first, you should believe they mean it. They have a track record of making that happen.”
The anti-gun demonstrations like the women’s marches after Trump was elected were all planned before the Parkland school shootings and well funded by George Soros and other gangsters, using the power of the Jewish MSM, an assortment of Marxist organizations, an array of brainwashed useful idiots who receive a free trip to Washington, and international army of masked agitators. This is the same strategy that was used in the so-called Color Revolutions in the Ukraine, Middle East and Africa. High treason cannot be allowed to continue in the US and other western nations claiming to be free and sovereign nations.
The argument really doesnt hold much water.
“They hate that you won’t submit.
They hate that you won’t obey.”
But the guys shooting up the schools and the streets of chitcago dont submit either, nor do they obey, yet the left obviously doesnt hate them. The left wants more and more of them. So why wouldnt they want more 2nd amendment people too? It makes no sense at all. The left doesnt hate the right. The left is simply mentally damaged…. I guess “mentally destroyed” would be a more fitting term.
guys,
i haven’t followed the ft lauderdale shooting all that closely so this might not be news to you but here is a blurb that says cruz himself contacted the fbi to get help-have any of you heard this?
from theshootingwire.com
FEATURE
Around the Water Cooler, March 2
Commentary on the Parkland Incident: The fallout from the latest criminal atrocity continues to pile up like a late winter “plowable snow.” Among the bits of news, we found that the criminal actor himself called FBI to ask for help as he was losing control. He’d passed NICS a number of times as he bought a number of guns – though where he got the currency to accomplish this task is still a matter of speculation. The fact that he could have been stopped before the school shooting is widely reported, as shown here from the Miami Herald.
“And officials at Stoneman Douglas High, where Cruz killed 17 people on Valentine’s Day, knew that he was cutting himself, threatening students and taking pictures with guns and that he may have “ingested gasoline … in an attempt to commit suicide.””
In another article from the same source, it was speculated that the murderer’s rifle jammed and that he used 10-round magazines “because larger clips would not fit in his duffel bag . . .” The fact that he used “Clinton magazines” and he either couldn’t reload or reduce stoppages may, according to the story, have cut the loss of life.
The latest shoe to drop – at press time – is that there’s an allegation that deputies were ordered not to enter the school during the rampage. According to the Fox News story, “a commanding officer on scene apparently ordered some of the initial responders to “stage” and set up a “perimeter” outside” and not move to the interior to seek out and stop the killer. The media source showed a document purporting to be a “standard operating procedure” of the Broward Sheriff’s Office that said that a deputy or group of deputies may enter, seek out and engage an active killer without permission.
The bottom line: legislator-types are still beating the drums for restrictions on the ownership of firearms – even though the proximate cause of the calamity ranged from not reaching out to an at-risk youth, not taking criminal action or civil mental health action under existing laws, and, finally, by letting the killing go on until the murderer or his gun just quit.
The most recent piece of crazy circulating in liberal circles is that the NRA is a Russia-puppet program, and that the NRA are responsible for allowing the Russians into our voting booths where they hacked our election.
I wish I was making this up. The quote from Obama mocking Republicans for “russian boogeymen” is timeless. They worship Obama, and it really sets them off when they have to full force hold two realities at the same time in their noggin.
Of course it is.
NRA = Nasty Russian Atheists
Kurt, well played sir.