Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Father of the Year and alleged President Joe Biden is busy trying to rile up his base of weirdos, adjunct professors, gender studies grads, government timeservers, sexually unsatisfied wine women and their sexually unsatisfying life partners. That’s why Dork Brandon pulled one of my favorites out of his Big Duffel Bag O’ Hack Cliches, the old “Your puny guns are no match against the awesome power of the US military which I will use to kill you for dissenting!” narrative.
Okay, fine. Let’s go over this again for the knuckleheads who think that they prevail if they step outside the “use your words” paradigm they grew up with in their sissy private schools. You lose if you idiots provoke a real civil conflict – not the kind of low-intensity urban conflict of the Seventies where you cheered on the Weathermen and Cinque’s SLA, and not the kind where a bunch of mutants riot under the protection of leftist municipal governments in leftist municipalities, but a real one. One where the people you want to crush under your Birkenstocks fight back. With AR-15s.
I discuss this in great detail in my new non-fiction book We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America, and not from the perspective of half-wit daughter-showering goofs but from the real down and dirty of how this terrible course of events would actually unspool. And it would go poorly for a largely unarmed, untrained, urban-centered population of smug geebos whose primary weapon system is a snarky tweet.
The doddering moron shared his tactical insights with his audience at a rally in Pennsylvania for Heart Attack Shrek. He said, thinking he was super-clever, “For those brave right-wing Americans… if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15. You need something little more than a gun.”
Hmmmm, but do they? Really?
Grandpa Badfinger’s premise is that all you tens of millions of semi-fascists out there with your AR-15s would have no shot stopping the woke military, which would eagerly crush you with their potent force package of F-15s and esoteric pronouns. It is a flawed premise on more grounds than one column can cover (hence my book), but we need to focus and that means we will need to overlook some important questions. These important questions include:
– Why do you imagine your sorry band of socialist creeps who treat the Constitution like Jerry Nadler treats his boxers constitutes “the country?”
– The useless senior officer corps aside, why do you believe the normals who make up the vast majority of America’s combat forces will gleefully butcher their friends and family for the amusement of a bunch of Chardonnay-swilling blue checks?
– Have you ever heard of Afghanistan?
Let’s focus on his key sound bite. Gun vs. Jets…who ya got?
I’m putting my money on the guns. You dumb progressives can go for the jets and the points.
Now, let’s start raising the kind of facts that tend to undermine the soundbite that launched a thousand MSNBCgasms.
First up, what does a gun do? What does a fighter-bomber do?
Well, a gun gives an individual soldier – and that’s what civilian freedom fighters would be – the ability to dominate the space on the ground around them out to a couple hundred meters of open territory (let’s not argue about maximum effective ranges, or the fact that civilians have a lot of weapons that outrange the 5.56mm weapons systems currently used by the military – a weapon system whose bullets Mr. 10% Off The Top thinks fly “five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun”). In other words, a gun controls space on the ground. Coincidentally, the ground happens to be where people live.
A jet fighter dominates air space and keeps other planes away. Few people actually live in the air. Now, a jet fighter bomber like the F-15 can drop bombs on the enemy – which is, according to Crusty, us freedom-loving American citizens. Of course, this kind of tactical employment works to support guys on the ground dominating terrain with guns. Planes don’t hold territory; they help soldiers hold territory. So, it’s an apples and oranges thing at the threshold, which is appropriate since the whole discussion Slow Joe began is pretty much Fruit Loops.
Biden assumes he’s got soldiers to support with his jets. How many? Who knows? Some. But lots of colonels and generals, the kind who add (he/him) or (zip/zap) to their official signature blocks – would salute and carry out order to kill other Americans. Hey, maybe they can win this war and finally get one in the “Win” column after three decades! They’re due!
But the problem for them is quantity. There are tens of millions of American patriots with guns, AR-15s being only one color in the rainbow of freedom-defending firearms. Real diversity is 5.56mm alongside 7.62mm and .30-06 and 12 gauge and .45 and others, all firing together for a brighter tomorrow. So, there better be a lot of airplanes to balance out millions of patriots.
Um, how many fighter-bombers do we have anyway?
Well, let’s give America’s Greatest Matlock Superfan the benefit of the doubt and include all types of fighter-bombers – F-25s, F-16s, F-18s, F-35s and even A-10s. Let’s see – there are about 1750 planes for the Air Force, about 1100 planes for the Navy, and maybe 300 for the Marines, so call it 3150 aircraft. Okay, where are they? You have to have them here in America if you want to kill Americans for refusing to obey, so how many are in the continental United States and available for Hunter’s Dad’s open season on dissidents?
Call it two-thirds. We have lots of planes forward deployed – Europe, Asia, on ships. He’s got about 2000 aircraft to use to kill other Americans – that’s what he was saying, so we’ll take him at his slurred, semi-coherent word. Add maybe another 400 combat drones in the USA.
Now, there’s a thing called the OR Rate – operational readiness. That’s the percentage of planes that are ready to go at a given time. Planes need maintenance. They break, and even routine use requires massive upkeep efforts. And parts can be hard to get, especially when you are spending all your money on woke nonsense. What’s the real OR Rate? I don’t know – it’s probably classified and, as we know, today exposing classified material is bad and we can’t wait for it to go back to being A-OK when Hillary does it again, or when someone leaks something classified to the NYT or WaPo and they publish it. Let’s assume 75% – that loud laughing you just heard is military aviation professionals scoffing at a consistent 75% OR Rate.
This means President Gumby has 1500 planes and 300 drones to suppress those millions of dissenters. Hey, that’s 36 aircraft a state!
That’s still a lot of platforms and they can still do a lot of damage – assuming there are enough bombs stored in our bunkers (The Hellfire missile stocks would vanish quickly and aren’t those made in Florida? Awkward!). Can that fleet of aircraft do enough damage to deter and defeat a few million red rebels? How does one say “I am unconvinced” in Pashto?
To get a better result in America than in Afghanistan, The Great Unifier would have to dramatically increase the firepower used – again, on Americans on American soil. You can bet the rules of engagement on Republicans would be a lot looser than the ones on the jihadis. But he forgets that the guys with the AR-15s get a say regarding those F-15s.
Wait, how does an AR-15 defeat an F-15? You can’t really shoot it down. No, but you can shoot it up on the ground. And you can ambush its logistics. And the pilots – well, the old Irish Republican Army (not the later, communist one) a century ago was getting clobbered by a bunch of Scotland Yard detectives in Dublin sent over from London, so they surveilled the coppers and one morning launched a coordinated operation to assassinate the whole lot of them. Remember, pilots (including drone jockeys) do not grow on trees. It’s no secret, except to dumb people, that the weak point in a military machine is the meat-sack in the driver’s seat. And don’t imagine the people having bombs dropped on them are going to be nice to the guys dropping the bombs on them and their families – or to Biden’s pilots’ families. When you okay dropping JDAMs on civilians, you don’t get to dictate payback.
The enemy always gets a vote – and Biden just announced that his enemy is tens of millions of us patriotic citizens. So, in the great AR-15 vs. F-15 hypothetical – and pray it stays hypothetical despite the stupidity of our ruling caste – the smart money is on the numbers. But the truly smart course of action is to not to even go down this road, to re-embrace our Constitution and to stop trying to be butch in order to get some Twitter love from the pinkos. Maybe this ridiculous stooge masquerading as our president should stop running his fool mouth threatening to slaughter other Americans.
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Shall not be infringed means that the cat is already out of the bag. Has anyone ever tried herding cats?
Imagine ten million lone wolves, just itching to break anything tyrannical. Ouch
Imagine 10 million mechanics, maintenance workers, refinery workers, etc. just itching to put a monkey wrench in Uncle Stasi’s gearbox
Indeed. When enough good people come to the realization that it’s all gone too far, they’ll dedicate themselves to the proposition that this has to end. One way or another.
Just remember that it is Jesus who ends this war, not us. You can not steal victory from The Almighty. ..even if you’re on His side.
We will be tried…as iron is tried.
General Jesus! Fuck yeah!!!
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of Democracy, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff and Thy M16, they comfort me.”
“Yea, though I goatfuck through the Korengal Valley, I fear no pederast; for my Horse comforts me; and my warm AK 47.”
I’m going to disagree some… How far is to far??
An obviously stolen election, scamdemic lockdowns, destroyed lives and businesses, imprisonment for minor ‘crimes’ when communist antifa/blm and violent criminals are set free to continue chaos, allowing an invasion of foreigners thru open borders, squandering trillions of dollars in every other country but home, declaring political war on your opposition.
This barely even starts to list how far… and yet… they push farther… We had truckers occupying oootawa in winter with BBQ’s and bouncy castles to the scorn of many US citizens crowing about the myth of canukistaner’s not having guns. The Sri Lankans protested, no guns, and forced their parasitical politicals to flee the country, taking over the palace, etc… The dutch are doing their thing, Italy is doing their thing, Brazil is revolting, everywhere there are revolts growing… Everywhere but the US of A, the last bastion of freedom…
So far there has been virtually zero response in the US… except from the purple haired fat’n ugly. Armed to the teeth, with spares. A constitution that acknowledges the RIGHT to have arms and a duty to resist a tyrannical govt… yet… how far is to far??? serious question…
I suppose some of the answer depends on how the newly hired IRS agents behave.
Or how the next lockdown is pulled off.
So many variables.
Because Americans have dry powder where those countries you mention do not perhaps lends a sense of false security and puts off the inevitable.
Lots to digest in the coming months.
Perhaps we’re being goaded into exposing our might as Americans in these early days.
The might is not at the end of a barrel…
I’m willing to bet another lock down will do nothing, the new irs will start taking homes and that the 97% of the People will do nothing but arm chair threaten and less than 10% of the 3% will actually follow thu with principled stands.
So far there has been a LOT of talk and virtually no action. Articles and news broadcasts every freak’n day about how this is the end of this politicals career, the govt is going down, its all collapsing.
Then we see the very opposite happening. The communists get bolder and more brazen in their overt push to destroy a once prosperous country. The scumsuck’n globalists know that if they can take out the ideology of freedom and the west represents that ideology with the US being the head so to speak, narative,. Destroy that and you pretty much demoralize you enemy… we the People.
So how much farther??? Is this an excuse to inaction or fear?? I dunno… The hardship of winter is looming fast…
Too far is a relative position. Personally, it went too far for me when Bill Clinton was elected. Everything after that, I consider more of the same. So pile up the shame…until the world staggers under the weight of its own iniquity. An end will appear. I’ll be ready when it does.
For my first time ever online…you sir, are a moron…
It was indeed Jesus that told his desciples to sell their cloak and take up the sword. In other words you get what you pay/fight for.
I pulled my head from the papul arse years ago, but I still remember ‘my Jesus’…
It’s MORAN …. ya fucken dickweed.
Bugs?
Know where a government employee lives.
Gadsden Flag “Don’t Tread on Me” Translated for progressives ‘Don’t fuck with me’.
Know your enemy. Have a lot of general conversational litmus tests. You gotta know who the enemy is in your neighborhood.
Just the fact that Joe Biden makes such a ridiculous statement should tell all of us what he really thinks about the average American, we are serfs, low-life, deplorable s, workers to be cast aside when our bodies can no longer serve their needs. He and his fellow ‘elites’ control us with corrupt so-called law enforcement agencies, media hacks, and clueless followers…
Don’t discount the power of the Rangz of Diversity, bruh.
Agreed with some of the statements made. Our push button wars against a bunch of goat fucking mud hut living Muslims have been failing the last 50 years. Plus, I doubt that the American soldier, all which took an oath, will shoot on their own citizens, let alone bomb them with an F-15. The cops will I have no doubt about that, but not a soldier.
I would venture to say that a large majority of pilots would refuse to fire upon U S Citizens
Officers in the People Liberation Army Air Force are the most imbued with progressive ideology according to polling. That shouldn’t be a surprise considering the college educated are the most imbued.
I did several missions with pilots. I think that is accurate. Rotary wings doubly so.
The goal was not to win those wars, rather is was to prolong them for as long as possible. My point is I would not use our performance in wars not meant to be won as a gauge of our military capabilities.
The military actions suppressing the Iraqi military and Afghan rebels were relatively short, but the subsequent occupations to “stabilize” those two countries were little more than excuses to enrich the MIC for years through corporate contracts for defense companies and their political lackeys and minions.
I was involved in that from the late ’90’s up until 2010 for various companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Datapath, and ITT Systems. The locals in both countries were happy to take the US taxpayer’s money but not so eager to convert their thinking and customs into a US-style form of order, and we were stupid to think they’d readily accept Westernized forms of government and economics.
There are those who carry the misconception that the US way is the best-suited model for others to emulate. I was one of those misinformed people who gradually realized that mindset is incorrect, and this pervasive American attitude to remake the world in our image is not only a waste of time, but a serious mistake given how distorted American culture and values have become.
As a new Republic, the mindset of officials was geared toward avoiding entangling alliances and foreign wars. An imperialist America a couple centuries later is a far cry from that ideal.
This is true as is evidence by the disparity between units and how they would approach the occupation. Some were straight up bloodthirsty, others humanitarian. There was no real overall vision except to control optics.
that is precisely why they are building a ‘woke’ military, a military of occupation, not a military to defend us.
make no mistake: a woke military made of the likes we see daily will not hesitate to shoot fellow Americans because they have been raised to hate us all.
This is exactly why queers, transgenders, communists, and godless foreign customs are being tolerated in the US armed forces. They have none of the conservative social or religious values in common with the typical US demographic who want absolutely nothing to do with a politically correct indoctrination, or a leadership that promotes such garbage.
Still believe that the military is the last bulwark. Go look at the voter precincts in ‘Army towns.’ For instance Liberty County, Georgia (Ft. Stewart).
Let’s focus for just one moment on something other than the hardware required to either impose a political solution to a problem or liberate a people from the oppression of a system that is intolerable and that is- what the military has always referred to as boots on the ground. It was learned, not long after the introduction of air campaigns in modern warfare, that bombing alone was not enough to defeat an enemy. In the end what was required was a presence in theater, a complete and absolute dominance of the territorial objectives by men on the terrain.
Can immense damage be inflicted on a population without the presence of infantry? Absolutely. Is that enough to defeat and enemy? Absolutely not.
There is simply no way for the current political class in power to exercise full spectrum dominance over the landmass and inhabitants of North America. They cannot manage the cities they have full control of, nor can they maintain supply lines and infrastructure in a fashion associated with an complex society. Everywhere you look you will see the decay and dissolution of systems built long ago by another people. If anything there has been an acceleration of the systemic failure of some of the simplest and easiest maintenance issues required to support a population the size of ours, from water and waste management to basic infrastructure, like bridges and roads.
It is clear that the only thing that matters to those in power is maintaining complete and total control over the narrative. Almost all of their focus is on messaging and content of their propaganda organs and the silencing of dissent. They have lost control of the economy, the supply chains required for just in time delivery, foreign relations, borders, and the routine repairs and maintenance required to keep the wheels on the bus. To imply, as the President did last week, that F-15’s may come into play if people fail to comply with their political ends indicates a great weakness rather than strength. We are now at the threat stage of collapse, when all they have is brute force to impose their will, rather than voluntary and enthusiastic support for their programs and policies. Every single day they recruit for their own opposition with ridiculous demands that concern virtually no one, i.e. transgender child surgeries, pronoun usage, and submission to radical medical mandates to simple human conditions that have always existed.
As the collapse accelerates they will very likely continue with their tyrannical behavior and many people will have their lives ruined, businesses and livelihoods destroyed, homes seized, and friends and family imprisoned for nonsensical offenses against the State, but these actions will only neutralize whatever advantage they currently possess and actively encourage further resistance and even violent opposition along lines that they cannot maintain. It is one thing to wage a war against a foreign enemy where your population is blind to the suffering and destruction on the ground far away, and one where you must live cheek to jowl with your enemy.
What wins a war is who controls the ground- every inch of it- and the morale of the ones holding it. Without these no weapons system will make any difference whatsoever.
It’s like Vietnam taught these dinosaurs absolutely nothing.
It did make them rich, however.
Rich at someone else’s expense.
Don’t expect the children or relatives of the privileged classes to bleed.
The greatest thing about Iraq was that we could finally make the dinosaurs shut about about training to fight Viet Nam. I think at this point it is conventional wisdom that militaries always train to fight the last war.
Basic battle drills hold up, though. I think we used all but one.
You are an officer and a gentleman, Hardscrabble.
Military is very good at disrupting command and control of the adversary. They will always struggle with distributed small groups (individuals even) operating on their own. I don’t see any way you would ever have command and control of the general population.
Sure you can! You just have to get all parties to agree to it.
Bwahahahaha!
Can you just see it actually coming to this and patriotic, conservative pilots shooting down woke fellow American pilots who are bombing civilians? Methinks Resident Brandon doesn’t understand the situation.
conservative pilots shooting down woke fellow American pilots who are bombing civilians
That would give the conservative, America loving pilots the ability to go after the Command and Control of the armed forces. Once you eliminate the chairborne commandos in the pentagram and major bases around the country, the woke military has no one left to give them strategic targets or even marching orders.
Yes, kill them. Kill them ALL…
Kurt thinking it was an old fool making these decisions and running his mouth off, is funny… Yep, a complete dementia douchebag lying dog faced pedophile is threatening the People… He’s more concerned about getting his tapioca than what his remaining two drug addled brain cells are arguing about.
Brian,
they can’t make up their minds whether Biden is of more use to them as the focal point of hatred, or as the obvious meat puppet that dementia and Alzheimer’s has made of him.
This indicates a disjointed Republican approach to 2022 and 2024.
The bottom line is that no one actually knows who’s in charge of anything, much less their level of competency.
We’re ALL deep in the shit now, brother. The Age of Grace is ending.
A great thing for us; a horrible thing for the world.
Romans 8:18-23 KJB… “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
The translation of the church which is His body! May it happen this very day!
Kurt is a ridiculous stooge masquerading as a journalist.
Biden declares war and neotard sportsball fans nominate an imbecile. Vote harder , I sez.
Baby Daddy 2022
“What we can take from this speech, then, is that the inner party is seeing things in the coming midterm elections that worry them. The Republicans are working hard to throw the election, but maybe they are not doing enough, so this speech was intended to let them know they better lose harder. Given the history of the party, it is safe to assume they are up for the task. The Republicans were born to lose.
The next day, National Review, the flagship publication of Conservative Inc., had a main story denouncing Biden for not declaring war on Iran. The only mention of the speech was a meandering fantasy piece by Katherine Lopez. Otherwise, the conservative establishment was silent on the matter. The reason is they not only agree with Biden but have been calling for the same war since Trump came down the escalator.
The con men and carny barkers who compose conservatism have been at war with the MAGA crowd for more than six years. Here is the declaration of war on Trump voters, signed by a who’s who of conservative grandees. Some have slithered away from their position, like the dingbat Dana Loesch, but most have become more strident in their hatred of Trump voters.
While what is left of the conservative movement was silent after Biden’s call for wide-scale violence against half the country, the sociopaths in the Trotsky cult known as neoconservatism were ecstatic. The bloodthirsty Jennifer Rubin all but called for the elimination of the kulaks while praising the speech. The Trotskyites say that the only way to defend democracy is to eliminate their enemies.”
https://www.takimag.com/article/biden-declares-war/
The conservative politicals, everywhere, prefer to be the ‘official opposition’.
Less work, same pay and they can blame the other party because… (enter reason here)
Yeah. The deviants are true believers that we’ll all settle into the new “normal”. They think they understand dedication to a cause, but their cause is inferior and twisted. They fail to see that they will never achieve 100% compliance as long as one Christian remains alive.
They also fail to acknowledge that true Christians are capable of insane levels of violence when the situation calls for it…WHILE they’re inciting those same Christians.
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
Multi-million dollar jet downed by ammo that costs $100.
We’d only need to put up as much resistance as the average Afghani goat herder and they’d leave us the F15’s.
Believe this clown at your own peril. The two sides of the narrative are leading you right into the glue factory.
Shut up fed
It is comical to hear people talk about picking up a gun when they will not even get off their fat asses and write their Congressman or Senator. A petition of 10% of the population with a vote of no confidence in FJB would be enough to force his resignation, but the same people who claim they will fight will not even start a petition.
Biden and your enemies in Washington know this, and that is why they do not fear you. They know you will not do shit.
Bingo. That is what I am seeing. I see left controlled shitholes, and I see right controlled areas waving flags, living in hovels, driving new financed for 6 years trucks with huge RVs out back. The red side ain’t done shit, and ain’t gonna do shit. They can’t waddle further than the front door of their crapholes to their oversized trucks, and sure as hell won’t be fighting anyone.
Seriously, what I see in the red area is fat, stupid, lazy, delusional types more interested in sports, beer, TV, showing off their trucks and RVs and stuffing their faces than in actually changing a damn thing. It is unbelievable, and the change has occurred at light speed.
One example – the US has always had the best restaurant service in the world. And it hasn’t been close. But now, you are lucky to get a hello, with the expectation of a 20% tip. So far, I have had to send back three plates of raw food. And all I get from the wait staff is a shrug. And the people in general have gotten rude and horrible to be around. That is not the American way, and it is new to me. I never would have believed it.
The US is on a fast track to shit hole status. And I am not kidding. You can only see it by being away and returning every two or three years. It stuns you. They are slow boiling a frog, so he doesn’t know he is being boiled. The US is being boiled. And the pot is simmering.
I tell you, places that I used to love for the quality of their people – country WA, Idaho, Montana, WY, ND, SD, etc. – are nearly fucked. Those great people have been deceived by bread and circuses.
I wrote an article some time back “If Not Now, When?”. I think it was too late, because from what I see in the red areas, there is no way that they will be able to stop the rot coming from the blue.
It is horrifically sad. Because, truly, I have always loved the American people. I am not sure where they have gone. I sure hope they are still out there, in large numbers, such as we see here on TBP. I am not seeing many in the places where they were once in overwhelming numbers. May God bless America, because it sure as hell needs all the help it can get.
I agree with all that you assert, except that May God bless America. God is done with America. Judgment is the itinerary.
…You see I’m a guy of simple tastes,
I enjoy dynamite, gunpowder, and gasoline…
And you know the thing they all have in common –
They’re cheap.
Everything burns.
Good for a mid to high intensity CW. Need something to fill the more likely low intensity conflict, something with the shield of legitimacy. Suggests local politicians, judges, and police be lobbied to not allow Feds to willy nilly begin to act against citizens if there is whiff of politics involved. No raids of homes by FEDS. Such actions will need to be squashed by court order that allows local law enforcement to execute enforcement actions after which local courts should keep any arrested citizens with in their jurisdiction and not surrender them to FEDS to be hauled away to unfriendly jurisdictions. The Feds can still prosecute their case but they need to do so locally.