Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
It’s always fun when progressive jerks try to leverage their bizarre perceptions of our beliefs to get us to do what they want. It can be some smug Twitter blue check informing us that “Actually Jesus was a socialist who would want us to cancel student debt for spoiled rich kids who got degrees in Transgender Visual Arts” or, more recently, some newly-minted Milton Friedman acolyte goofsplaining that we must submit to the skeevy whims of California corporations and accept the imposition of grooming mandates because, after all, they are private businesses. And sometimes it works, even on alleged conservatives – David French has made whatever passes for his C-list career out of striving to twist conservatism to conform to his lib masters’ version of it.
But this cheesy ploy is not working anymore, at least not on the rest of us.
Ron DeSantis, the Scourge of Odd sitting on his growing throne o’ skulls in Tallahassee, is fresh from laughing off the howls of broken libs enraged that he gerrymandered them in Florida like they gerrymandered us in New York and Illinois. Ron is not one for accepting two sets of rules, one for the ruling caste and another, crappier one for us peasants. He identifies the applicable rule, and applies it good and hard. It’s about time the left learns that norm-breaking has consequences. And one consequence is frequent broken-norm suppositories.
Disney found out the hard way for the same reason as other woke corporations will. These CEOs, who appear to be ruthless robber barons in business, encounter a bunch of their own blue-haired, pierced subordinates who think a penis is irrelevant to determining their gender and suddenly these executives roll-over and give it up so cravenly that even Mitt Romney would look at them and mutter “Get a spine!”
And in the case of Disney, it was so objectively insane that you had to wonder about the thought process, but only for a moment until you realize that this is 2022 and everything is utterly stupid. Disney got welcomed into America’s homes and hearts by purveying safe and wholesome kiddie fare to American families and has decided, to please a pack of mutant employees, to administer a coup de grace to that rep by leaping into the arena to fight against a law that all normal people agree is so manifestly proper that it really should not have to be a law at all – that pervs can’t talk to little kids about sex in schools. But no, Disney had to weigh-in on the side of groomers because the consensus in the rarified circles its leadership circulates in and among the weirdo contingent on its staff is that the world must be made safe for bizarre sexuality.
Oh, and it did not help that a bunch of Disney employees recently got swept up in a child porn sting, and that the strange-os in its bureaucracy decided to brag on leaked Zoom calls about how they were injecting their freak show gender nonsense into its once sacrosanct movies and shows. You know what Buzz Lightyear was missing? Some not-hot girl-on-girl action. We are one revision away from changing the title of “The Lion King” to “The Otherkin Non-Binary Member of the Royalty.” “Hakuna matata” is supposed to mean “No worries,” not “It’s okay to lop off your junk if you’re not feeling like a boy today.”
So DeSantis decided that Disney needed some discipline, and that stepping to him (and, therefore, us) cried out for a response. Some folks worry that this is an attack on the First Amendment, but this was not just because Disney chose to weigh in on an issue (though it’s unclear why you are obligated to continue providing juicy tax breaks to political opponents – the Founders would have tossed you in a madhouse for arguing that). No, Disney has launched a broad offensive against normal people using political, cultural and economic power to change our society without our permission. This is not just about Disney expressing an opinion, though its groomer-tolerant opinion is creepy and gross.
DeSantis’s response was to strip away the special giveaway that Disney got for its overpriced hellscape in Orlando. The left responded by telling Disney it should pick up Disney World and move it to, say, Buffalo. Disney, on the other hand, realized it has stepped in a steaming San Francisco sidewalk sundae and is desperately trying to turn down the temperature.
Disney thought it was going to win, because, you know, Republicans like big companies and defer to them and, well, no. That’s not us anymore. After years of big companies leveraging their power to screw us over, from the NFL to Delta to Coke, now we’re over it. They are free to use their power – a potent cocktail of cultural, economic, and political power – as they see fit. And so are we. We have freed ourselves of the arbitrary rules that formerly prevented us from responding with our own brand of power – which is a little bit economic but mostly political – to fight back.
And a lot of conservatives have mixed feelings. Some part of that is legit – using political power to crush enemies can go too far. Hell, that’s essentially how Chicago works. But our new way of responding to our enemies – who, remember, chose to break the norm of businesses staying out of social issues – is not designed to shake them down but to shake them up. We are not twisting arms for cash tributes. We are trying to keep perverts away from our kids. It’s very clear – you corporations go make money and run your business and we’re not going to hassle you. But if you use your power to pursue the agenda of our enemies, you are now our enemy, and we will gleefully and without apology use all our power to harm you right back.
The fretting conservatives, some in good faith and others because they are worthless and weak, claim to worry that this is some grand violation of our principles. It is certainly not a violation of my principles, starting with this one: If you hit me, I will hit you back twice as hard and then kick your quivering body. One problem with so much of blue check conservative Twitter is that so many of those who would presume to lead us into battle have never been in a fistfight. I have no use for anyone who has never gotten in a brawl and lost – and I prefer ones who have experience winning too.
We’re told that for some reason we are obliged not to use our most effective strength, our primary mode of power, in support of our interests. What we are never told is why that is true. Where we hold the government, we need to use it to deter corporate intervention – when did conservatism drop the concepts of deterrence and righteous retribution? We believe that for criminals who wrong us, and we need to apply them to others who do so as well, including companies. And there’s a track record of not using our power, manifesting in the current crisis. We have seen what not fighting back does, what substituting conservative cliches for conservative ass-kicking has got us. So, what’s the alternative they suggest? We tried doing nothing and that didn’t work. Maybe do nothing twice as hard?
No, we’re way past the phase where our opponents can appeal to our principles to neutralize our ability to resist. Our goal is a freer, more prosperous country where our kids are not the target of weirdos. You don’t get that by holding fire when the California commie contingent comes to make you into second class citizens. And do not think for a moment that making us into serfs is not their desired end state. From running down the idea of free speech to reimagining “democracy” into meaning that they have total control over the levers of cultural and political power to their manifest desire to turn our kids into gender-baffled sex objects for the Democrat pervert constituency, the future our enemies seek is unacceptable.
And we need to follow the principled lead of guys like Ron DeSantis and simply not accept it.
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Yeah, they’re shaking in their boots.
” If you hit me, I will hit you back twice as hard and then kick your quivering body. ”
I learned to fight smart at a very young age because when you’re smaller than they are, you have to. They’re just fighting. You’re fighting for your life.
You bring a gun, I’m bringing something nastier and don’t ever make the mistake of thinking I’m bluffing because you only get one chance to back down.
When heterosexual white men would organize as white men with our natural allies from other cultural groups, the anti cultural forces would be shaking in their boots. Until then we are fragmented. This is a good start in Florida and Virginia.
And you’ve already lost.
Non-white ‘allies?’ Looks like you’ve been drinking the multikulti koolaid too long.
These multinational corporations are not liberal.
This is what liberalism becomes in its penultimate form.
The ULTIMATE form is extinction. It’s what they all really want.
Liberalism is a mask for jewish Bolshevism.
Nice sentiment, Kurt, but conservatives moved from their core value of not teaching kids about sexual perversions in the schools by allowing it in 4-12. The left NEVER concedes an inch, while cons are constantly moving towards them by compromising on core values.
When you compromise on a core value, it really is not a core value.
Fuckin’ A!
Not one fucking inch!
Right. Conservatives are freaking spineless.
They are subversives. Compromising core principles is their job.
It’s a good start. When secession inevitably begins perhaps DeSantis can be our new president. I don’t think the globohomo quakes over one company being brought to heel, unfortunately.
Secession?? LOL. Never gonna happen.
It just becomes a game of political extortion. R’s and D’s are marketable commodities and budgeted into the yearly corporate expenditures. You win, if your willing to “Play Ball”. I think they used to call corporate pimps carpet baggers in the early years of the Union. Its just a matter of Pay to Play, principles be damned. The only difference is, in the early days of the Union, a whore politicians could get tarred and feathered or even worse for betraying their constituents. It was called fear.
What most people don’t know is that “tarred and feathered” included setting the tar and feathers on fire.
When I was 5 years old, I went over to my friend and neighbor Danny’s house and there was a guy named (((Bruce Myers))) there that day. Well Bruce Myers decided to push me around and he pushed me down. Bruce Myers was 10 years old and more than twice my size. I had never been treated like that by anyone before. So I got up and went home crying.
Just as I was arriving at my house my Daddy was coming home from work for lunch.He asked me why are you crying? I told him how Bruce had pushed me down. He said no no no no no, you don’t come home crying when a bully pushes you down, you go back there and you push him down. I said but Daddy, he’s way way bigger than me and I held my hand up in the air. Daddy said, well then you march over there and along the way you pick up a big stick and you march right up to this Bruce Myers and you lay that stick right across his ear. Well my legs were like rubber bands I was scared but Daddy told me what to do and I felt inside myself that it was the correct thing to do, so I marched back over to Danny’s house and along the way I found the perfect stick that fit my little hands. It was about a 4 ft long and I picked it up and dragged it behind me and I marched right up to him with a resoluteness that he could see in my eyes and I could see in his eyes that he was getting more and more fearful the closer I came. Well, when I got close enough to Bruce I hauled back and swung that stick and smacked it right across his left ear. That ear turned bright red and Bruce Myers went home crying. I never saw Bruce again in my entire life. That was a very important life lesson that I learned at 5 years old.
I’ve met many bullies during my life, but none of them got away with pushing me down.
An important lesson to learn. Consequences can be a mighty deterrent, even if your opponent seems larger and stronger.
Daddy was right.
Same thing they tried to teach me when I was a little tater tot. But I was too introverted, too soft and too chicken shit. So it took a couple of whippings before I answered.
Then, when I finally responded in violent kind, I over did it to the point where everyone said: Something wrong with you, boy!!!
So defensive violence is an art form. Too little and it is ineffective. Too much and everyone thinks you’re psychotic!!!
“…a steaming San Francisco sidewalk sundae” gets my vote as today’s winner here at TBP. Anyone who can string together 5 words more potently and pungently than that will earn my undying respect.
Alliteration adds more punch!