Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
It’s a real headscratcher – are these people dumb, or do they think we’re dumb, or is it a little from Column A and a little from Column B?
Take Heidi Heitkamp – and you can take her since she’s not busy, the people of one of the Dakotas having fired her for being a crappy senator. This has-been was on with Bill Maher – his show is where C-list pols go to die – and they were talking about cancel culture and what happened next was illustrative. See, Heitkamp was supposed to be one of those moderate Dems from the Midwest, not some strange-o channeling the table talk in the faculty lounge at Gumbo State. And this alleged moderate then announced that Gina Carano is a Nazi.
Carano’s the MMA lady who was on that stupid kid’s space show playing a character named Puun Xeeeblefrok or some dumb thing. She got kicked off it by Disney because she would not genuflect to the various demigods of the pinko pantheon and probably fails to accept that men can menstruate. Now she’s working with Ben Shapiro’s outfit. I’m sure Ben will be shocked to know that he’s working with a Nazi; frankly, it seems off brand for both of them, but leftists are smart, right?
No. They are dumb, or they are liars who imagine we might fall for it. There’s not another option except some combo of the two. Just look at the Politico guy working hard to get us to buy, right before ignoring the latest leftist cop killer completely, the notion that Farrakhan is a Trump guy.
Is he stupid, or does he think we are?
Let’s explore the slander part further, but first let me explain why you can’t sue over this. Actually, you can – anyone can sue for anything with a printer and a filing fee – but you won’t win. To defame someone, you essentially have to assert factual allegations as opposed to mere opinion (let’s not even go down the New York Times v. Sullivan rathole of “actual malice” and “public figures”), and claims like “She’s a Nazi!” have been so degraded they are essentially meaningless. No one sane actually that Gina Carano is a member of the National Socialist Worker’s Party, or that she bears a swastika tramp stamp, or that she has the remotest shred of sympathy for actual Nazis.
So, no one, at least no one reasonable (which is the operative word), thinks it’s a factual statement. The same with Heitkamp’s backtrack – even Maher thought she was being ridiculous – to accusing Carano of merely cavorting with “white supremacists.” No one thinks that’s a statement of fact either – the left had defined these deviancies down into essential meaninglessness. When videos of black thugs beating up Asians get chalked up by SJWs to “white supremacy,” the term has lost all meaning.
And Heitkamp clearly knows it too, putting her in the “liar” camp. Watch her as she labels Carano a Nazi, then starts giggling like the world’s crustiest schoolgirl. She knows it’s all crap, but she gets off on the trained seals in the audience slapping their fins for her so she tosses them a fish.
But this phenomenon of labeling opponents with vile smears either because the smearers are stupid, or think we are, is more sinister than just another aging political bit player looking for props to remind her of what it was like back when she sort of mattered. This is a symptom of our gooey establishment totally rejecting the notion of reason and argument – because they can’t prevail using them – in favor of crude lies about the opposition. Unless they are stupid – which some are – they know it’s a lie, and some of their audience does too, and neither care.
The act of lying becomes a shared ritual of solidarity between them, substituting a perverted faith in their socialist dogma for facts and evidence. It’s a relief for them to abandon reason – after all, it’s hard work defending an ideology that butchered 100 million people over the last century.
But then there are the stupid people, the unreasonable ones who actually believe this bullSchiff. Some of the idiots are the tellers, other idiots are the told. Out there, somewhere, are people nodding their empty heads thinking, “Yes, Gina Carano is a Nazi because the cackling crone on the TV said so.” They believe it, because they are stupid. The law discounts that they believe it since believing it is so transcendently stupid – the law is always focused on what a “reasonable man” would think or do – so these mouth-breathers’ delusions do not render silly claims like this actionable under law.
Unfortunately, the stupid people who believe garbage like the trash talked by Heitkamp take action out on baseball diamonds. If you keep calling people who disagree with you politically “Nazis,” even if it’s with a wink, nod, and titter, to the good seats that it’s all performative baloney, some of the dullards in the cheap seats are going to buy it. And even the ones who know it’s crap are going to get dragged along with the twisted logic of it.
If your political opponents are not merely wrong but evil, and not merely evil but literally Hitler, then that sort of compels drastic measures. When your catspaws like Antifa or BLM attacks them and hurts them, well, they’re Nazis, right? And when they kill your opponents, well, too bad for the Nazis who are nothing of the sort.
But the problem is that the status quo cannot remain static – the idea that the victims of this gross slander and the resulting hatred, oppression, and violence will not react is absurd. And the thing is, the pampered clowns like Heitkamp are the least prepared to deal with a paradigm where violence supplants reason. It’s probably a bad idea to normalize hate when your forces consist of gender studies students, diversity consultants, and failed senators, plus maybe some blue falcon cops and soldiers who put pensions first. Meanwhile, the fuse the morons/liars lit burns down toward the powder.
But they keep it up anyway. This makes them both stupid and liars.
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
Both
Yes.
As long as people keep buying Coke products, flying Delta and watching Major League Baseball they will continue on unabated. When legitimate legislative efforts to ensure election integrity are met with woke corporate opposition, there’s no incentive to stop lying. Money decides things in this country. If people won’t stop giving left-affiliated businesses money, it will all continue.
People such as yourself and others here have been telling others to wake up and stop funding the enemy for a loooong time now. The problem is most like their cokes, nikes or whatever ‘comfort’. Few are willing to give up much because its to inconvenient, they may have to drive a few extra miles, or go without that new i72 phone. They’re ok with funding their own demise.
There’s power, influence, and money to be had pushing pseudo-intellectual bullshit and political correctness. Anyone who doesn’t agree with the narrative is a threat to the agenda. They get bankrupted, fired, or stonewalled for not going along. The only thing to do is watch the whole institution implode from corruption, and when it does, throw gas on the fire to help it along.
People who love The Lie will eventually become victims. I hope to be around to watch them burn.
Well, we have someone here who posts as “literally Hitler”. I’m sure he IS a Nazi. So there’s that.
It always seemed to me that Christians should notice the blasphemy when the jews paint Hitler as the epitome of evil.
They are both, those are the creds needed to be a lefty.
I had a friend who a week ago told me that he is just trying to do his part in reopening by taking the jab. He is a Millenial who is testing negative for Covid. He tried to explain to me, in a delicate way that I, not doing my part will be responsible for not reopening, even though he supposedly understood that it’s all done for the sake of power, can be responsible for not opening.
Now 2 days ago he told me I’m a literal Hitler for not wanting the jab. I guess he figured out that he will change my mind by appealing to my patriotic duty of doing my part, earlier. When I did not, well the heavy guns came out. I don’t know what he was expecting? Not what I told him: well X, you see, I am a Western European, but the majority of my mutt genes are from Northern Europe so you may be right and I am genetically, a Nazi. And as you know being something, genetically, you can’t change it, so we finally agree. I am a Nazi. And you are a Jew.
Also, of course after his gasps I hung up.
I had a friend, not a smartest of friends maybe but not stupid
Now, because I’m genetically a Nazi I can’t be friends with a Jew, can I?
You should have asked him why he thinks 40% of health care professionals refuse the vaccination, and what they know that he doesn’t…..
“The more I debated with them the more familiar I became with their argumentative tactics. At the outset they counted upon the stupidity of their opponents, but when they got so entangled that they could not find a way out they played the trick of acting as innocent simpletons. Should they fail, in spite of their tricks of logic, they acted as if they could not understand the counter arguments and bolted away to another field of discussion. They would lay down truisms and platitudes; and, if you accepted these, then they were applied to other problems and matters of an essentially different nature from the original theme. If you faced them with this point they would escape again, and you could not bring them to make any precise statement. Whenever one tried to get a firm grip on any of these apostles one’s hand grasped only jelly and slime which slipped through the fingers and combined again into a solid mass a moment afterwards. If your adversary felt forced to give in to your argument, on account of the observers present, and if you then thought that at last you had gained ground, a surprise was in store for you on the following day. The Jew would be utterly oblivious to what had happened the day before, and he would start once again by repeating his former absurdities, as if nothing had happened. Should you become indignant and remind him of yesterday’s defeat, he pretended astonishment and could not remember anything, except that on the previous day he had proved that his statements were correct. Sometimes I was dumbfounded. I do not know what amazed me the more – the abundance of their verbiage or the artful way in which they dressed up their falsehoods. I gradually came to hate them.”
tl;dr don’t argue with jews
Imposter!!
Hitler actually used paragraph breaks.
Between none and 3 depending on which version I used. Not counting the abridged ones, or ones with commentary to ‘explain’ what he really meant.
Always need some jews to tell people what other people really meant. Preferably in black robes. Kritarchy.
That probably would have made his head explode.
I think I would have invited your ‘friend’ over to discuss things face to face over a beer. And an ass kicking.
That people think that they can speak to theirs in such a manner just goes to show there are not nearly enough ass kickings being administered. I think that is the root of all problems. Yes sir. If more ass kickings had been administered to those that deserved them, we would not be in this mess. I am sure of it.
My folks always used to say such people weren’t worth the powder and lead used to blow their asses off with. Bad grammar, I know, but a fun way to say such people aren’t worth the resources of a physical dispute or verbal argument.
Just be done with them and save the energy. Don’t bother with fools because they will drag you to their level and bury you with absurdities.
Mine did the same, so Stucky’s advice to me is simply not worth it.
Mine said: don’t bother with idiots or they will drag you to their level and beat you with experience. The same sentimemt.
If anyone needs their smug, condescending ass kicked, it’s you. I’m sure of it!
But I’m old and crumpled and my ‘Norris’ sidekick-backfist combo no longer reaches your chin.
It has happened before, and may well happen again. Those doing it though would forever think twice before deciding to administer said ass kicking to anyone else, lest they run into another like me. I fight dirty. And I do not apologize for it. Never left an encounter without the adversary either bleeding or with significant injury, or both.
I do not look for trouble in real life. Never have. But I do not run from it either. Being smug or condescending is really not enough to deserve an ass kicking in my opinion. If so, we would all be busy full time.
News Flash: One Sentence kicks ass of Two Paragraph Windbag!
“your forces consist of gender studies students”
Universities and the school systems are on board. The STEM students are getting the same propaganda, and usually bow to the same pressures.
” diversity consultants,”
Any place with an HR department
“failed senators”
Congress is full of traitors and state legislatures generally are too
“plus maybe some blue falcon cops and soldiers who put pensions first.”
That is essentially all cops and almost every soldier who hasn’t bailed out already. Plus layer after layer of federal and state agencies’ own law enforcement.
And don’t forget the banks and media are fully on their side as well.
Excellent analysis.
It depends on their status. The rich leftists know what they are preaching is bullshit, and that it is designed to deceive the poor stupid leftists who are so naive and gullible they will believe their bullshit.
Politics are kin to religion, in that people tend to believe what they want to, and ignore the inconvenient facts.
Gotta be careful in Oz. Here, it is easy to sue for defamation. And win. What that ex senator said might have cost her a mountain of cash over here.
It is the current year and there are still people who think Ben Shapiro is a conservative or an American.