Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Donald Trump is a lot of things, but stupid is not one of them. Like all of us, he is understandably horrified by the murder sprees of that progressive environmental eugenics weirdo and that member of Big Chief Warren’s tribe.* But Trump is also keenly aware that any betrayal of his supporters on a literally life or death issue like guns – if you’ve been listening to the left you have a good idea what miserable fate awaits you if you get disarmed and they take power – will result in his wholesale abandonment by his supporters.
No, his base probably won’t go vote for the furry, or Doxxy Castro’s brother, or Gaffe-y McOldenheimer. His base will just stay home. Trump will lose, the GOP will lose the Senate, and the left will take over. And bad things will happen to the liberal elite’s enemies, not least of all to Trump and his family.
Trump understands this. And he understands that the media is trying to get him to alienate his own supporters. But so far, he has never stuck us in the back even after the garbage media eagerly reports on his conciliatory talk on subjects near and dear to us in the hopes that it means a betrayal is incoming. It never has been in the past. There’s no reason to believe he would sell us out now.
We would not forgive him. To go left on guns would be, at a minimum, political suicide.
Look, it’s right to be suspicious of all politicians, including Donald Trump. After all, we conservatives have been betrayed by our alleged leaders so often that Felonia Milhous von Pantsuits feels sorry for us over how often we’ve been cheated on by GOP pols cavorting with the Dems.
For years, our so-called champions rolled-over, gave-in and backstabbed us so consistently that, in deep desperation, we picked a New York reality TV star as the last, best hope for conservatism. And he’s delivered – most of those cruise-shilling hacks who lied to us for so long are either out of office, pretending to conform for fear of our vengeance, or are writing for whatever unread cheesy blog replaced the Weekly Standard.
Trump has always come through in the end, but on the way, his unique tactics can make us nervous. We worried that Trump was going to let them pull the amnesty wool over his eyes to get some kind of deal. That did not happen. People fretted that he would give away the farm to the pudgy Korean dictator. Trump has not. Trump’s style is to talk in a conciliatory manner and to speak nicely of his opponents during negotiations, but not to take a crummy deal.
The same is likely true now on guns. Trump is talking in a conciliatory way as a prelude to negotiations. But Trump has not said he would embrace a ban on so-called “assault weapons” – he understands that if he does so he might as well call a moving van. Nor did Cocaine Mitch – the Murder Turtle (his enemies bestow the greatest nicknames upon him) only observed that it would be “front and center” in the debate because that’s where the Democrats seeking to disarm us would put it. McConnell knows a sellout on guns makes him the minority leader; he’s not going to let those socialist creeps take our AR-15s.
Trump did mention improved background checks, and frankly, there is room for improvement. How many times have government incompetence let some leftist freak* who should have been barred by a conviction or mental instability buy a gun? Way too many. As for “red flag” laws, the idea of a process where a guy announcing his intent to go on a murder spree to, say, promote the Bernie Sanders agenda by attacking a baseball field full of Republicans,* is sensible in theory. But in practice, the due process considerations are essential – I mean serious due process guarantees, with teeth. Leftists have already promised to abuse these laws, so massive penalties for misuse of them to persecute political opponents must be part of the mix.
But any move toward the Democrat position that our basic gun rights are negotiable or that we can be disarmed in any way would be utterly unacceptable. And Trump knows this – he knows what we will and will not tolerate. He’s certainly not like the Fredocon GOP goofs who get MSNBC hits because they are eager to submit to the media’s narrative. He’s too smart to do exactly what the Democrats are using this furor to try to trick him into doing – create a rift between him and his base so one of the 272 pinko morons running for the Donkey nom can sneak in and win an election that right now is Trump’s to lose.
And Trump knows he had better not lose because of his fate and the fate of his family are at stake. You have heard the leftists – they want him and his family jailed, literally. They’ve said it, again and again, and when people say they wish you harm you should probably believe them. Do you think, in light of the RUSSIA TREASON COLLUSION EMOULUMENTS nonsense we’ve endured for three years, that something like the lack of any actual crimes would stop them from prosecuting Donald, Don. Jr., Ivanka, Eric and probably Barron if they had control of the DoJ once again? My pet unicorn Chet does, but no one else buys that jive. And remember what New York tried to do to Paul Manafort. If he wasn’t dead, you could ask Jeffrey Epstein how being in prison while also being a threat to the liberal elite turns out.
Trump needs to stand firm in the face of a bogus panic initiated by the acts of leftist monsters.* And he almost certainly will. He’s literally got everything to lose.
* At the request of the left, the stupid liberal new rule that assigns the blame for the acts of criminal freaks to opposing politicians based upon a cursory and bad faith comparison of their politics is, unfortunately, in effect. I prefer the old rule, where a criminal is responsible for his own actions, but liberals feel differently and so the new rules are the new rules and the liberals can choke on them.
For a look at what happens if Trump allows himself to get rolled and loses the election by sucking up to his enemies, check out my action-packed yet hilarious novels about the United States’ split into red and blue countries, People’s Republic, Indian Country and Wildfire. These liberal-infuriating books have been called “Appalling” and have earned the hatred of leftists geebos and their vinyl-clad fake con minions who sank the Weekly Standard. There is no better blurb!
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Trump has already said fuck the laws, take the guns and worry about laws later.
I take people at their word when it comes to this stuff. I am funny that way.
2-28-2019
The day of Second Amendment Infamy
He also said he’s the least racist person in the world. I don’t take people at their word.
I have heard supposedly intelligent people declare that AOC and the rest of the commies “are batshit crazy and we should simply ignore them”. Nothing could be further from the truth. They are deadly serious when they say that they will take our guns, ammo and even our lives. Signing a Red Flag law will be the end of Trump and I still don’t believe he will do it. Unless, of course, he doesn’t want 4 more years as C in C.
Trump has enough ego to think that his base will forgive him signing ‘red flags’ into law. Trump will sign that law, pontificate and then act all butt hurt when his base deserts him in droves.
Wait until after he is re-installed…
Trump will probably kick the can down the road, but Mr. “I don’t like silencers” is no friend of gun owners. What is the alternative in 2020? There are NONE, dummies. The consensus in DC is private firearm ownership is archaic at best and intolerably dangerous to The State at worst. They will come for the guns. THEY WILL COME FOR YOU! The only question left is, when YOUR time comes, what will you do? It’s fun to pound on a keyboard, but how will you react with the Regional Red Flag Raid Squad battering your door and realizing you’ve got maybe 10 minutes to live if you resist? Your decision at that moment will shape the future. Watch the first minutes of “We Were Soldiers”, listen to what Giap says about the French soldiers. You CAN NOT vote your way out of this. Read some Solzhynetsin too.
The big dogs here at TBP, like the Trio in American Pie, have smiled and walked away.
‘Cept the one down under. No memo.
They’ve been replaced by the Dirty Harriets who will not brook dissension in the ranks
I’m looking down, emiliano. I suspect most paying attention are watching their own step carefully.
Oh boy, you big baby….get called out ONE TIME for being a bully and now you’re eternally butthurt? Time to put on your big boy pants and quit whining.
As to the big dogs? They’ve commented on other posts of a similar vein. No one in favor of such draconian measures.
If confiscation became the norm, communities hopefully will set up QRFs (quick reaction forces). The bad guys are swiftly outnumbered/flanked. Cars block roads in the area so reinforcements can’t assist the bad guys. The bad guys are allowed to leave the area in their underwear only. Thanks for the ammo and guns, bad guys.
Have you noticed the drones overhead? What do you think they are watching?
Ed, you’re right. We should just roll over, belly up and pee our pants like nervous puppies. My bad.
Haven’t seen a drone yet that I couldn’t take out.
The predators you dont see nor hear and will take u out
Bullshit on any Regional Red Flag squads. I say THEY need to hear it: “Kill all they send until they send no more.” Appalachia and quite a few other places would become the American “Street Without Joy.” FWIW it was Chu Huy Man, not Giap at Ia Drang. Not sure who was in command when they wiped out Groupe Mobile 101 in ’54. In the film it was the same guy, whether or not that is accurate. Poetic license and all.
Groupe Mobile 100, not 101.
What the fuck kind of gun control shit did Trump float on 2-28-19 you fucking ass paper dispenser?
Who gives a fuck if Trump continues to pretend he is here to protect and deliver us from the leftist mobs and south of the border invaders?
Any Trumptard who hasn’t figured things out yet is “ordnance grade stupid” and represents a threat to himself and everyone around him on the American political battlefield.
The “socialist creeps” will at some point legislate gun laws in direct opposition to 2A but like the New Jersey magazine laws, none will comply. Virtually nobody in NJ turned in magazines of 20-30 rounds after the 10 round magazine law went into effect in 2016-17(?)
Nobody will be so stupid as to turn in any “outlawed” weapons….Molon Labe
It’s all a dangerous game now, The writer of this article is very much at home and on target for all of his comments that cause the snowflakes to cower and the deplorables to high five, but the hands of time move on and are vastly approaching the end game.
It seems like a lifetime ago, when there was laughter at the thought of disarming us, but that was then and this is now. Today, the non thinking “conservatives” can be swayed with an argument concerning red flags, just look at the republicans are doing now. And if your not clear yet, another massacre can be scheduled until you are clear how desperately we need the red flag laws.
Don’t worry about the fact we are called crazy on every day that ends with “Y”, I’m sure they won’t make any adjustments to make it easier to get you committed; or will they?
‘Twas a lifetime ago.
FYI, the last few weeks TBP has been crashing every 5 minutes and as it takes me 6 minutes to write a post I have to start over. Urrgh!
Anyway, I’ve been typing a short post in a few minutes and editing over the next 30 minutes to finish my thoughts; is it just me?
I haven’t had any problems. I am using the BRAVE browser and like it a lot. You might try writing in whatever word processor you prefer and then pasting it in.
I’ve been using Brave for about a month or so now and I like it too. It works much like Chrome but, at least supposedly, much “safer”.
No…
no problems here other than TBP used to show up in the “primary” mailbox and now frequently in the “social” mailboxes.
Not just you… same here.
All a Helgelian Bernays process……they have been doing it since the 1950’s. It takes 30-70 years and then it allows society to do the last bit, the turning. The newest generations overpower the older with their brainwashed thinkspeak.
As I see no voting/demonstrating/other peaceful means out of this whole mess that has become the US perhaps while enough still around better to say have a harris/warren/burnie win,if inevitable lets get going and hopefully leave the country a better place for future generations.As annoying as I find my friends lids and,well…….,children in genral feel we have had a decent ride in life for most part and owe it to them to give them the same chance.
Sucks to even think this way but really do not see better alternatives,anyone has some pleae chime in.
Lids?!,sigh….,meant kids,more coffee stat!
James they will corrupt the minds of the masses where any independent or opposite thoughts are shunned so badly it will end your career. Just as trump voters cannot express their opinion or even wear a baseball cap for fear of being called a racist, killed or maimed. So they shut up and don’t wear a hat. Eventually someone will leak/release in mass bulk how people voted and will be fired, doxxed or worse. And then after being so ridiculed where they couldn’t wear a hat or speak freely now they wont vote. Then someone will leak the non voters and then there will be peace when everyone votes for the one tyrannical dictator. Then you say good now maybe they will leave us alone. Then the killing starts. Slowly at first and with seemingly reasonable cause. Then in mass, as history repeats. And your slingshot is useless as a fork. And like so many lives wasted in vain as in history you ask why? When did this happen? How did this happen? It happened because we saw it and said nothing. It happened when we let them do it to us time and again and our response was nothing. Not a goddamned thing we did. And then we wonder what action we could have done and when should we have. But we were too scared of losing the slave position (job/career) that allowed them to steal 65% of our earnings anyways. We were not wanting to give up that little bit of freedom we had and we pay the price of now having zero freedoms. And we shall all get exactly what we deserve because we allowed them to swap some privacy and freedoms for a temporary false sense of security until their next false flag the. They asked for more and we gave it to them til we have nothing left to give but the final ultimate gift. Many of us will willingly give up our lives because we got brainwashed our farts and even our breath is sooo bad for the environment and our carbon footprint makes us feel soooo bad we end our lives. Thats is where this is going. Self genocide. Because we are in and of ourselves a carbon footprint, it makes some heavily brainwashed feel such self hate they commit Arkancide all by themselves.
What gives with this asshole? Trump won’t risk any “betrayal of his supporters”? What bullshit. Where’s E Verify? Where’s the executive order eliminating chain migration he could end in an hour? Where’s the fucking wall? He’s the dumfuk who said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose voters. BTW doesn’t that qualify as a ‘red flag’?
Vote, my ass
I’d consider voting for your ass. As it probably can’t operate a writing instrument, it’d do a far better job of preserving rights than any of those suited monkeys running around in Vichy DC these days.
Kurt Schlichter has been a HUGE Trump supporter since day one. I’m not sure he is a total Trump Train Trumpster but, he definitely is a huge fan.
Not since Day One by any means, and if you need proof, you can read this article from May 9, 2016, entitled “I Am Going To Vote For Trump Though It Makes Me Want To Projectile Vomit”. By one Kurt Schlichter. Look, Schlichter’s a good guy, and I’ve read all his books and I like his writing. But he was NOT a Trump supporter at the beginning, and I know because I was reading him along with the entire Conservative, Inc. meltdown through early 2016, and I remember. His support became warmer as election day approached, and by now he’s a Trump-can-do-no-wrong guy, but let’s not rewrite history here.
Wall? What wall? I don’t see no damn wall!!
They’ve been raiding and arresting for days straight now and all the employers of the people arrested who were not e-verified are being charged. It may have been hard to pick that gem out of the news since the reports are 99% hysterical commieass Dhimmicrats decrying the “attacks on families” blah blah blah. Anyway, it is happening, Trump has said fuck it I am doing it and it is happening all over the country. Let the America haters scream and bitch all they want because it is all going to be forgotten when the Deep Staters start being frog marched which I am sure you don’t believe will happen either.
Correct. In fact I think you have to be an asshole to think epstein actually committed suicide and the 1% is going to prison. BTW,I’m not an America hater. I’m a murican hater.
So, who’s got an alternative to TRUMP?
You can write in Tucker Carlson, as many are doing. Alternatively, there’s the Propertarian movement (though no candidate yet that I know of) or the American Freedom Party.
There is no alternatives because the system is rigged to make damn sure there is no alternatives.
You got that right, VH!
The system is rigged, there is no true Rule of Law, and your property and livelyhood is subject to confiscation by the State. Slow learners will be some of the last ones to catch on.
Voting isn’t a solution and no one is coming to bail your asses out. Prepare accordingly and stop wasting time.
It’s VOAT MOAR HARDER!
Trunp alternative: None of the above, the empty chair, nada, no one, who really needs the assholes in the federal government? Really. Government shutdown and no one notices. Government shutdown and life goes on and gets better. Who needs the nanny state? We’re fed this bullshit that we NEED those assclowns, and outside of taking our money, posting rules and regulations that enrich themselves and only themselves (Obamacare anyone?) what on earth do they do for us citizens?
Obamacare is co-sponsored by the Trump administration. You did know that didn’t you?
You evidently missed the point, Trump had nothing to do with Obamacare when it was passed and totally destroyed the pitiful vestiges of American healthcare.
Me. Follow me. Just Galt it. Stop the engine of the world that feeds these critters. Stop paying taxes. Stop buying. Slow down. Make it burn and watch it crumble. Re read Atlas Shrugged. That is the alternative.
Unarmed people are easier to control and they can only argue so much. The Jews(that folks love here on TBP) Found this out.
They found it out but with few exceptions, jews are vehemently pro gun control. They learned nothing! They are also pro just about everything that will destroy White America.
They certainly are pro gun control whenever and wherever they hold the keys to institutional power. The fact that they fear white Christians with AR-15s more than they fear the government with tanks and nukes is profoundly indicative.
Ragman is right !Jews are pro anything that will destroy white Americans . They are the money behind this gun control movement. They want us disarmed so eventually they get ” people’s of color ” to hurt and kill us. This is their plan.
We shall see Kurt, we shall see. But after being stabbed in the back repeatedly by Republicans for the last 25 years, I wouldn’t put it past them to do it again!!!!!! President Trump has caved on the Wall. He has caved on the Budget. He has tried to negotiate with our political enemies (The Democrats). This was a perfect time to stand up and explain why guns are not the problem, evil/sinful people are the problem but all I hear from the Republicans is crickets!!!
Exactly, it’s all phony, there is only a Uni party that pretends to work against each other, but secretly works together behind the scenes.
Yes, and, his darling daughter Ivanka has come out publicly on strict gun control measures. He defers to her a lot!
Trump can blow smoke up everyone’s ass about his supposed newfound moderation on gun control, while McConnell makes sure nothing passes. Crazed women outside his house yelling “stab him in the heart” probably don’t increase the odds of McConnell compromising with the left.
Whose advice did the Trump Administration just seek (after these recent shootings) regarding gun rights? Alan Gottlieb (IKAGO) founder of the Second Amendment Foundation.
Trump’s betrayal on gun rights will go down with his invasion of Syria, his invasion of Venezuela and bombing of Iran in the Things That Never Happened category.
Nailed it.
Holy shit!!! This is the biggest pile of stealthy “Stay The Course” bullshit I’ve ever read. A cocktail of Zoloft, Prozac, Ritlin and Oxy vote Republican even if you puke or we’ll give you to the Boogeyman bullshit.
Trump and his family will be endangered??? BEAM ME THE FUKK UP NOW SCOTTY!
Ivanka is now Mayor of New JewruSelum and Princess of Golan and her and Daddy are going to be endangered?
Meanwhile, Rome is burning.
Trump won’t renege on the second amendment until after you’ve already treated him to another 4 years in 2020. Then he will capitulate with the anti-gun forces in AmeriKa.
Is Trump anti-gun and anti-second amendment?? The facts may shock you!
Is it a strange coincidence that Trump wrote in his book that he wanted to ban all assault weapons and recently a federal court has ruled that assault weapons are not protected by the second amendment?
Read his book from 2000 where he says he wants to take away your assault rifles. He only changed his tune to get elected. Once elected, tune got changed back.
Now read the courts ruling. http://thefreethoughtproject.com/federal-court-quietly-rules-assault-rifles-not-protected-2nd-amendment/
There’s the overt Trump and there’s the covert Trump.
Media Silent as Trump Administration Gives Power Over Gun Control to Federal Agencies
While the media focuses on Trump’s lack of support for an increase in age requirements for gun owners, his support for a bill that would put every American’s Second Amendment rights in jeopardy has been ignored.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/media-silent-as-trump-administration-gives-power-over-gun-control-to-federal-agencies/
I agree 100%. The only way it can happen is if we allow it. And so many are brainwashed on the right they will believe trump when he says it was the authorities and the supreme court that did it not him. But he will allow it in his 2nd term. And then hell hath no fury like a scorned mother pucker. It will be our yellow vest moment but it wont be yellow vest people will be holding and marching and itching for a fight in the middle of the street. They will be hear one way or another. And if course the media will then say every gun owner is crazy and point to their riot as proof. What they will refuse to point out is that group. Was kick until almost dead before they fought back.
From the article: “And Trump knows this – he knows what we will and will not tolerate.”
Umm, Who’s this ‘we‘ you’re accusing me of being a part of? I won’t tolerate a goddamn thing from the commies on this issue and neither Trump nor anyone else has ANY authority to abridge one single goddamn letter of ANY of the rights enumerated – NOT granted – by either the Constitution or the Bill of Rights attached to it.
Fuck off with your red flags. I recognize one flag and one flag only, and it isn’t solid fucking red. Only communists and suicidal fucktards will march under a red banner. And they’ll march under a red banner exactly ONCE. Then they’ll do nothing ever again.
I hope that Kurt is right…I’m not as confident.
Understand what that means; it means that Trump cares more about VOTES than he actually does about the right to bear arms.
This is why, ultimately, I believe Trump will never rise to being a great President … or even a “good” one. He has no absolute principles whatsoever. He will say and do whatever keeps him in power. If banning guns would get him reelected, you can bet your sweet ass he would do all he could to ban guns … Constitution be damned. It’s the way he rolls. Even his newfound “Christian beliefs” are a sham.
(Of course, all that makes him no different than 99% of all other politicians. Which is why many of us will vote for him again; —- “he may be an unprincipled cocksucker but, at least he is OUR unprincipled cocksucker!”) lmfao
I agree with that. Also, he drives people I hate crazier.
Spot on Stucky. His ego and small hands drive him….
There is no need for red flag laws. All the presumed reasons to confiscate guns, regardless of the checks and balances, is sufficient reason for arrest and/or mandatory confinement/treatment.
Leave me the fuck alone.
The fools who actually believe Gun Control is about mass shootings are idiots who believe mass propaganda…and they’re everywhere.
Everyone here knows it always has been about people control. How the hell do you get that out to the mooing, indoctrinated, dumbed down, brainwashed, propagandized, feminized, unarmed herd?
More FFs are coming, they will be relentless and gun control/confiscation will eventually lead to a war that will destroy this country…and I believe that is exactly what the Globalists will settle for if they can’t get their way politically.
I just can’t make up my mind if economic collapse will trigger Civil War 2 or vice versa? We are in-between the Bankster devils and the politically Deep Blue assholes.
At some point the useful idiots in the blue bubbles will unwittingly help the Globalists try and achieve a bridge too far, and they will end up writing a check none of them can cash. 700,000 killed in Civil War 1 was horrible…many, many more will die in Civil War 2 and the U.S. (what’s left of it) will no longer be a Superpower and standing in the way of the Globalist’s NWO.
That is a Win/Win for the Globalists. Masses of useless eaters on both sides will be eliminated and the Constitution out of the way or at least most of its supporters reduced to a couple of regional powers and off the international stage.
As the Democrats are obviously shifting from Gun Control to Gun Confiscation. What will the hard corps 25 to 30 million (seriously armed & I’m not talking just guns – but wills and intent) Americans do when eventually the Democrats get power back again…and come for their all of what is left of their freedom, not just their guns? The beginning of the end of the Disunited States will be in play and it really won’t matter who wins as far as the former Republic that is now a crumbling empire eating itself alive.
That’s probably why the U.S. can’t be found in prophecy. Our ongoing self-destruction accelerates.
Will a blog like TBP one day violate a future RED FLAG law the Globalists will eventually pass…you bet it will…at least in whatever region(s) you end in after the killing stops…for a while.
If/when the 2nd Amendment is gone all the others will soon disappear as well, and if you open your mouth like we do here…you will get a 4:00 am door smashing, flash grenade visit…and they will be a different type of census takers who already know everything about you…thats why they are there unannouced while you are sleeping.
Jeeeezzz…excuse me…I need to make a drink.
We decided to purchase land in the Redoubt. Cash will not be worth much for much longer, we think.
I truly feel this fourth turning will be done by 2030.
“he has never stuck us in the back even after the garbage media eagerly reports on his conciliatory talk on subjects near and dear to us in the hopes that it means a betrayal is incoming. ”
I call bullshit. He banned bump stocks with an executive order. A device that was not a gun and was rarely used much less heard of because of a false flag ops. He is calling for background checks, we already have these. It will lead into gun registry, id to buy bullets, and eventually some form of criteria, annually, for gun owners to prove their proficiency to own a gun. The bill of rights nor constitution doesn’t demand the same criteria of journalist for free speech or leftist for that matter. Since blunt objects like gold clubs kill more people annually than guns according to the FBI will everyone need a background check to use a knife or go golfing too?
Republicans Presidents have brought us some the most onerous gun laws. They desperately want to be accepted by the leftists,.