Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Oh, Mike Pence, you soft, naive little man. Oh, Tim Scott, you kindly and friendly gentleman. I like you both. I really do. I would love you to be my neighbors. If I ran short of sugar or charcoal, you’d square me away. Not so much bourbon, but whatever. If I asked you to help me move or give me a ride to the airport, you suckers would be all in because you are nice guys. And that’s your problem and the problem of Republicans like you. You are nice guys in a time that calls for ruthless killers who want to destroy our enemies and leave them on their backs, figuratively cockroaching on the floor.
We want vengeance and victory. You want hugs. I guess that’s nice. Hugworld would be pleasant, but it’s the hardcore bomb throwers who get us to that stage by pummeling our enemies into submission. You find that unsavory, disconcerting, unseemly. You would prefer a world of comity, collegiality, and unicorns. And that ain’t happening until we warrior cons have broken our enemy – yeah, I used the “E” word – and exacted our payback and thereby ensured that their pain is so great that they will not dare even dream of repeating this nonsense again for a generation for fear of our righteous wrath.
Your problem is that you live on forever in a world that no longer exists, if it ever did. You live in a world where there are norms. You live in a world of rules and guardrails, where the institutions are at least nominally neutral and where we all share some basic premises that provide common ground. But we don’t. They hate America. They hate believing Christians and Jews. They hate the idea of free speech, freedom of religion, the right to due process, and not killing babies three seconds before they poke their heads out. They think kids should be mutilated to conform to gender delusions. They want us normals disarmed, disenfranchised, and, more often than you softies will admit, deceased.
You both want to run in 2024, but you think it’s still 2005, and you both talk like a pre-failure Weekly Standard article about “empowerment” and “opportunity.” Buzzwords like that are worse than meaningless in an environment where our basic liberties are under constant assault by these communist bastards. There’s a war on and you people want to sing Kumbaya. That’s why you cannot be allowed anywhere near the levers of power in 2024.
You just can’t accept what time it is. The FBI, Crusty Joe’s personal Stasi, invades President Trump’s home – they rifle through his wife’s panty drawer – and Tim Scott tells CBS News that we need to wait for all the facts. All the facts? Like the FBI hasn’t spent the last six years trying to frame our president and everyone around him? “Sure, they made up a lot of things in the past to imprison Trump and his staff, but this time it might be totally true – let’s give them the benefit of the doubt!”
Mike Pence then tells us we need to go easy on the Bureau flunkies who did the deed because, after all, the institution is full of good apples. Yeah, good apples. Where are these good apples? Who’s the guy who quit because he refused to be part of the Democrats’ political hit squad? What’s his name? Jim Jordan says 14 whistleblowers have come forward. Awesome – 14 out of 35,000. That’s a good apple tart, not even a good apple pie, much less a good apple barrel.
You always want to give the benefit of the doubt to the institutions because to not do so pushes you outside of your comfort zone. You desperately want the system to work. But so do we hardcores. The difference is that our response to the manifest proof that the system is totally broken to the point where only drastic reforms under a ruthless leader like a Trump 2.0 or Ron DeSantis 1.0 can save our country is to accept the harsh reality. We have made peace with the fact that there is nothing left to conserve, that we must loot and pillage and fight to rebuild upon the ruins.
But you softies, you cannot get your heads around the truth of the situation because to do so would require you to go hard, and going hard is not in your wheelhouse. It’s not your brand. So you simply ignore reality and pretend that it is 20 years ago and that if you are only a good person, good things will happen.
Ned Beatty in “Deliverance” was a good person too.
It’s time to accept reality and embrace the suck. The suck is that we are in a fight. It’s not going to be over when we pass a few laws or overturn some terrible precedents; those are necessary but far from sufficient actions. No, we are in a long and brutal political struggle where the stakes are our liberty, and while you want to figuratively clutch your pearls and worry about whether this is who we are, we know who we are. And we are the guys and gals who want to figuratively don our plate armor, sharpen our broadswords, and get some, Knight Templar-style.
Mike Pence, Tim Scott, I like you. And I would love to live in your world. But that world exists only in your imagination, and I and the rest of us in the base are stuck here on Planet Earth. You guys can’t be president because you are not wartime consiglieres. You are both Tom Hagan, reliable and soft Tom Hagan, when we are Michael and we need a Sonny to go after the Barzinis and Tartaglias of the left.
It’s sad that your dreams of the presidency in 2024 must die, but you don’t get it, and you can’t fake it. This was a test, and you failed. If you are still imagining that there might be some set of facts awaiting public disclosure that makes it okay to send guys with guns to invade the domicile of your primo political opponent, if you still can’t bring yourself to demand that the disgraced FBI be defunded and dismantled so it can never try to frame another GOP politician, then you are not up to the job. You don’t get to be president because you don’t know what time it is.
Sorry about your shattered dreams, but this is our liberty, and to preserve that, we can live with you being disappointed. Maybe someday, after those of us who are based destroy the enemy’s ability to make war upon us, you can have your shot and preside over an era of good feelings. But that will only come after someone else does the dirty work you are incapable of. So step aside, and let the warriors do their thing. In the meantime, I need a ride to LAX – pick me up at 5:30 am.
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Just the facts – loved it, Thank you for telling it like it is.
Outstanding view of reality, the author nailed it.
Apparently Kurt has taken notice of usual responses to hi articles here at TBP, and decided to counter with his own comments (seconds apart and within minutes of admin posting the article).
Nice try.
Yup. Kurt your bullshit doesn’t work anymore, you need a new gig.
They want a permanent minority. The grift is better.
no, they want the majority to think it’s a minority – much more “grift”.
“Oh,
Mike PenceKurt, you soft, naive little man.”“Your problem is that you live on forever in a world that no longer exists, if it ever did.”
“It’s time to accept reality and embrace the suck.”
Bio. 58? Same as my little Sister. She doesn’t have A CLUE. Either.
STILL ask her if she has the life-sized cardboard cut-out of bushy, procured at a princely donation level.
VOTE. HARDER.
First sentence told me you don’t realize these men are not soft, they’re part of the system that wants you dead.
“these men are not soft, they’re part of the system that wants you dead”
do they know it?
The sad reality is that one can count, on less than two hands, the number of people in Congress who wish to preserve our republic, and it isn’t enough to move the needle. Every other lying, cheating, stealing megalomaniac, on both sides of the aisle, is a card carrying member of the uniparty. They may spew some useless rhetoric, yell at each other, and pound their fists on the desk, but at the end of the day, they all get together, dine on filet, drink single malts, smoke Cuban cigars, and pat each other on the back. They laugh at the naive and gullible sheeple who voted them in, as they plan the next stage of removing rights and erasing freedoms. Then they put in a call to their broker to make appropriate purchases in advance of a legislative sweetheart deal for some chosen company. A Trump or Desantis may kick the hornets nest, but there are far too many hornets to eradicate them all. The bloated, corrupt, self-serving malignancy that is our federal government has achieved a size and momentum which will only be stopped when the entire country is in ruins, and there is nothing left to govern. Ancient Rome lasted a thousand years before it decayed and fell due to its own apathy, largesse, and corruption. Our ever increasing speed toward oblivion guarantees we will be consigned to the dust bin of history long before that time frame has passed. Vote harder, indeed.
“The sad reality is that one can count, on less than two hands, the number of people in Congress who wish to preserve our republic, and it isn’t enough to move the needle.”
well to be fair, there’s not all that many citizens left either.
or “warrior-cons”.
He’s too soft on Pence.
Pence knows the score. He, along with Cheney and Romney and McConnell thought they could bury Trump and Republican voters would return to voting for the lesser of two evils.
Oh Kurt, you naive procurer of flummoxed political landscapes, you flail at the symptoms missing the real infection. The election system in local jurisdictions are gangrenous; these need burned by the cleansing fire. These putrescent organs of the body politic need labeled on an MRI scan displayed in 100X magnification. Focusing the national glare on the specific infectious mutants will have greater effect than washing puny cysts. Excising the dispersed metasizing local cancers will allow the system to purge benign growths such as Pence et al.
Try again and do some real research on the problem.
“Ned Beatty in “Deliverance” was a good person too.”
If you watch the movie, his character is actually very dislikable. Arrogant, smug and condescending.
Still, no need to have him squuuuueeeeeellllll like a pig!
Okay, Kurt. Here’s a few questions for you. Who selected Pence to be his vice president? So who would Trump 2.0 select for his vice president? Mitt Romney or Mitch McConnell?
Schlicter got the jab. Yep, big tough-talking, “Scourge of the Deep State” Schlicter got the jab. Nothing he says has any value whatsoever.
If Trump does get in again, he needs a Luca Brasi.
I don’t like the SOB’s. Not even a little. I’m sick of gutless POS.
I would view this in exactly the opposite fashion.
It is not the Chamber Pot of Commerce adherents who are living in a world that no longer actually exists, it’s those of us who either ignored or were blissfully unaware that Govt Inc (slight Malkin modification) was serving those private interests who had purchased the entire party platform.
I think that a troubleshooting effort would need to start off circa late 1970’s-ish, when we still had a two-party system that had not been totally yoked into the service of a formal slate of private owners. In most cases, the ‘representative’ who is seeking your vote today has had to gain the approval of party donors and private interests who are assured in advance that this person will serve their interests as a condition of being allowed to run. As would be expected, the priorities of these lobbies seldom if ever comport with the needs of the average voter (importing lots of cheap labor, funding war in Ukraine..)
The scheme that brought the US into its current dysfunction – the ‘Boomer bounty’ play – was a gameplan to endlessly deficit spend, while granting trans-nationals supra-national status, and to rely on the retired Boomer voter legions to return both parties to power. This notion of exporting the nations’ manufacturing was initially opposed by some traditional Dems, but eventually this dogma became the profitable mandate of both corrupted parties.
It is not the Chamber Pot of Commerce shills who wrongly think it is still 1977 –
it’s those of us who fail to recognize when this all went sideways.
“exporting the nations’ manufacturing was initially opposed by some traditional Dems”
in the 90’s perot ran an entire presidential campaign on this issue. he lost. and here we are.