Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Okay, you have every right to expect that, by now, anyone purporting to be a conservative thought leader – ugh, what a lame term – will be conservative woke, sometimes known as “based,” by now. There’s no excuse for still living in a Mitt Romney/Candy Crowley gimp cellar of crippling principles and principled failure. If you presume to lead us, you need to understand that we are in a life-or-death struggle to preserve our lives and liberty against a Marxist offensive unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before, and that we need to fight back and win or go down in defeat. We’ve lost patience with the softcons, the surrendercons, and the sissycons who demonstrate that they do not. Just ask Kristi Noem, who waffled and lost her shot forever.
This is all coming to a head again with the DeSantis-Disney war and the fight in conservatism over tactics and strategy. Let’s be clear before we proceed – we absolutely have to have a real debate about the new aggression that the vast majority of us believe is absolutely necessary to win this cultural war and preserve our liberty. What the combative mode people like me propose has potential downsides and there is a risk of abuse. We are conservatives, not libs, and we can have a debate – thanks to Elon Musk, we can have it in public on Twitter. Everyone who says “Let’s think this through” is not necessarily a simpering Jeb!-like wuss begging people who laugh at him for some claps. We have some good faith critics, and we need not fear an argument. But then, there are also a bunch of losers who never met a liberal they didn’t yearn to surrender to. The entire Bulwark staff and the other cruise ship cons are all deep in the libs’ trick bag, shaking their (former) conservative credentials on MSNBCNN and hoping credulous normies will take them home for the night.
But the good faith critics need to get on the trolley after we pick a path forward. There’s no room for perpetual nags getting in the way of the infantry as we attack. Debates are fine, but debates must end up with a decision, and we expect the guys who lose the debate to fall in and pick up their weapon rather than go AWOL and show up on a panel with noted intern and monogamy aficionado Joe Scarborough explaining how masculine conservatism “is not who we are.”
Well, fighting back hard is not who they are, that’s for sure. And we’re not having them purport to lead us anymore.
After decades of incoming fire by an aggressive left that wants to convert us into impoverished, gender-baffled serfs with no ability to participate in our own governance, we have a right to demand that the people wanting to lead the fight actually understand that we are in a fight. And we are now demanding that. You better not waver, you better not waffle, not if you want a future in this GOP.
Kristi Noem was weighed and found wanting. She sided with the Chamber of Commercecons against a law protecting girls’ sports and then lectured us that we were too dumb to understand how her total surrender was actually a massive victory. That’s when she lost her mojo – the based base was done with her. She’s toast – and if Trump or DeSantis or anyone else thinks about naming her VP (her anticipated presidential campaign is deader than CNN+), he’ll hear about it loud and clear.
You can’t betray us anymore and survive. W did. Mitt did. McCain did. The cons have one thing in common with Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit – they’ve been cheated on a zillion times, but unlike that lumpy harpy (who recently, and utterly predictably, came out foursquare in favor of censorship, as losers often do) modern conservatives are refusing to tolerate adultery, in our case of an ideological nature.
The guys at National Review – some of whom have always been pretty squared away – lost a ton of support by being soft on Trump and, more importantly, the populist Republican project that is now the mainstream of the GOP. Insiders say that the donations bottomed out as people got sick of a mostly united front on its masthead lecturing us on our moral obligation to let ourselves be runover by the leftist freight train. But look at how they, and how other formerly mellow cons, are reacting to Ron DeSantis’s glorious counter attack against woke corporations. Yes, there are still some writers on NR advocating surrender – they don’t call it that, but they are calling for us to keep doing what we’ve been doing for the last decade and we know that leads to defeat, so it is reasonable to extrapolate that they are willing to accept defeat before they dirty their dainty hands with the figurative blood of our enemies. But if you look closer, there are several writers who are not advocating rolling over. That’s good, because there’s no room in the new conservatism for perpetual critics who want to pesters us into the gulag.
We need to debate the issue of how to fight back, but then we need to make a decision. And we all need to get on board once the decision is made. Passive aggression, much less aggressive aggression, of the kind Conservative, Inc., has been practicing ever since we fired them and hired Trump, is a NO-GO at this station.
It’s time to unify and bring it in for the big win.
“Oh my gosh, Kurt is demanding conformity from conservatives!” they will cry.
Well, first of all it is not just me, and second, we are not demanding conformity. We are demanding that the folks on our side not give aid and comfort to an enemy that seeks to disarm, disenfranchise, and destroy us – and that wants to do worse to our kids. And if you can’t get with the program of fighting back against the massive cultural and political assault on us, no, you can’t be one of us.
You get one chance. Blow it, and you’re gone. Choose wisely.
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Kurt Schlichter knows what has to be done if we are to survive.
The question I have is this. Is it even remotely possible to achieve so long as Congressman or Senator can be a career choice? Other than the 535 positions in D.C. where are jobs where you can go in with little or no experience, do little or nothing, decide your own work schedule, give yourselves raises, and get unlimited inside stock tips plus bribes and not be imprisoned, much less continued in your position for 40 years or more? We are only going to continue to decline until we have term limits for congress.
Kurt’s righteous indignation, his blasting of my enemies, his unwavering faith that The Good Guys win, this time …. is giving me a day-long woody!
In hindsite, drumf was used primarily to get actual hard numbers of who stood where. ‘Mission accomplished’ for the would be Masters of the Universe. Anyone who thinks, at this point, That he was ever anything but a fraud on multiple levels… (A) Refuses to accept the mountains of empirical (based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic:) Evidence. (B) Suffers from cognitive dissonance. (look it up yourself, it will mean more).
Recent questionaire had a lot of reference to ‘Stupidity’. What is that exactly? Equally important, what is ‘intelligent’? Could spend years discussing the nuances, other than the extremes, which are themselves subjective to a degree.
Simplistically, it boils down to what you are willing to die defending. Very Short List. ‘We’ are Done, and it has been mostly been smoke and mirrors, aided and abetted by creative financing for a long, long, time.
The 10 commandments contain NO Moral Relativism.
Not my place to judge, But Voting is NOT going to fix…Anything. The cancer is terminal, timing the only unknown variable. Only the Father knows.
GOOD & LIGHT Vs. EVIL & DARKNESS
Black and White as you are ever going to get.
1) Pick a side. 2) Live and Act accordingly
Kristi Noem is a bad example for the author to use. How about Mitch McConnel, or McCarthy or any of a long list of surrender monkey Republicans who are happy to go along to get along as long as their net worth increases a good million or so a year??
Instead of signing on to a defenseless knee jerk reaction to transgenders in womens sports Kristi Noem told the South Dakota legislature to go back and craft a law that is defensible in court.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem recently signed a bill into law that bans transgender girls and women from playing on female high school and college sports teams. Noem said at a press conference, “This bill is about fairness… allowing biological females in their sex to compete fairly in a level playing field that gives them opportunities for success.”
So let’s not get caught up in the kind of meaningless virtue signaling that is the hallmark of the left’s mindless masses. Standing up for principled and defensible laws takes leadership and guts.
I personally want an inquisition. I want to see the traitors and insurrectionists in the Democratic party and a few Republicans tried, convicted, jailed and yes in many cases put to death for their transgressions against our Republic.
That is what we should be screaming at the top of our lungs, not for Republican virtue signaling.
Ok, Rube. Kristi Noem should be in prison.
The rule should be if you fuck up just once, you’re toast.
Or if your name is “David French”.
Prison for what, fool?
Kristi Noem is the perfect example for the author to use. She opposed the bill on banning ‘transgender women’ from participating in girls/women’s sports last year, but introduced an identical bill this year that the legislature passed.
And back in 2020, Kristi Noem lobbied the state legislature in favor of giving her (liberal Democrat) friend at the South Dakota Department of Health the power to shut down every single business in South Dakota. (Look it up.) She only pivoted to Miss No-mask after the state legislature rejected this idea.
Kristi Noem also engaged in nepotism by calling a meeting with the head of the state department responsible for issuing real estate appraiser licenses after her daughter failed to earn hers. Miraculously, her daughter was issued her license not long after that meeting.
Don’t believe the hype. Kristi Noem spent 8 years in the Swamp before being elected governor. She’s as Swampy as it gets.
Anyone else think that the picture of one of the biggest gasbags in DC(Oh MM but he’s our gasbag) next to the title of this piece is fucking incoherent?
Any faith placed in a politician, is faith misplaced . Trust me on this one, you ain’t got no politician on “our side”.
lol@ cuckservatives really meaning it this time.
Conservative hell!?!If your a Marxist/collectivist fascist communist,Fabian socialist or believe in “utopia”on Earth,I really don’t see how you call yourself an American!
I have never voted , in the 40 years I have been voting , for a “Leader” , and I never refer to those I voted for who were elected as my “Leader” . That reference pisses me off every time . Although, I have worked with/for many men who could in fact , lead .
“Elected Civil Servant” becoming “Government Leaders” is the type of language and thought perversion of the Bolshevik movement. But sheeple just accept whatever change is thrust at them because “change is good”.
Total normiecon fantasy BS. We are going to vote so hard this time that things will be different! (Insert picture of Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown.)
Schlichter is furiously fighting a rear guard action to prevent the total collapse of the Republican grift. He is scrambling for sacrificial victims to appease the howling base. Noem will do for a snack, but they will keep coming back for more, as they realize no politician represents them. This doesn’t end peacefully.
This is not a jab at DeSantis – who I quite like – but what did the Uniparty do when Disney terminated their American IT workforce and shipped in South Asian workers to replace them? Nothing, that I am aware of.
The few American workers who declined the confidentiality agreements and parting check – refusing to train their replacements – and went public to expose the arrangement, were left on their own. The Uniparty actually cheered these arrangements privately because they were paid to enable this treachery in the first place.
While I approve of DeSantis’ Disney clampdown, the reality is, anyone who chooses to do so can simply not patronize Disney, while Americans cant stop Uniparty treason that takes payoffs to replace them.
The Uniparty reality was best exemplified in the showcased priorities of RNC 2020, which was focused not on Americans, but on migrants, aliens and their benefactors. Jared was alleged to have once said “where else are they going to go”, which seems like a fairly accurate synopsis of RNC 2020 theme, and at the apparatchik level, nothing has really changed in my view.
Right now, we should be getting rock solid assurances that –
Fauci and company will face a grand jury,
that every domestic entity involved in pre-Covid mRNA research has been issued an order to preserve all records and will get hit by a clandestine lab team once the Dems are booted,
and the NIH / CDC / FDA will face at least a complete restructuring along with prosecution for injuries / deaths due to deliberate misdeeds by staff or advisory committees.
What I really have no interest in –
What Ukraine wants.
What Neocon media assets and functionaries insist upon.
What programming Disney attempts to sell.
Encouragement to fight dead end culture wars against those with no culture.
None of this is a hit against DeSantis or honorable guys like Rand Paul or Ron Johnson who have stood up against the embedded technocrats, but my trust in some greater ‘Conservative’ misdirection-resistant shield wall was dispensed with long ago..
The problem is not who runs the Federal Government. The problem is the Federal Government. The Federal Government has become the enemy of the States, and the American people. I am only interested in voting for people who are willing to dismantle and defund the Federal Government.