Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
I do not want you to do what you might think I am telling you to do. I do not want you to support or oppose any candidate because you think I support or oppose him/her/xir. For too long, too many pundits have thought it was their place to tell you what to think and what to do, and you are as sick of it as I am. So, you can agree with me, partially agree with me, or totally disagree with me when I tell you what I think. But you need to make up your own mind about who to support in 2024. That’s how we conservatives should do it.
Let’s have a tough primary. Just remember that we are all in the same fight.
This primary has already been mildly ugly and it will likely get uglier. That’s okay – the primary should be a crucible that tests and toughens the candidates. We need to nominate the best fighter for the general election, and right now the polls seem to indicate that Donald Trump is the guy most Republicans are supporting. I think he needs to earn the nomination, and I expect Ron DeSantis to enter the race and give him a run for his money. I think either one could win. I think, for various reasons, that the one more likely to win in the general is DeSantis, though that is not a sure thing. You may disagree. Good. We’re not conformists. I do note that you count out Trump at your peril. But you should decide for yourself who you support. I just want to make sure the primary winner is not presiding over rubble.
So, when you are deciding whom you support, and when you are participating in the primary, whether as an activist, or a social media participant, or an observing voter, you should keep something in mind. Someone is getting the crown at the Republican convention, and we all need to be ready to back the winner 100% in the general. My guy was Cruz in ’16. He lost, fair and square, and I supported the nominee, Trump. And Trump went on to earn my active support and respect not merely because he won as an underdog but because he kept his word about so many things that I, frankly, expected him to bail on. Most other pols would have. And he did it in the face of the most concentrated campaign of lies and corruption we have ever seen.
I will vote for the primary winner in the general. Period. If you play the game, you need to accept the outcome. I get frustrated with people who tell me they will never vote for Trump in the general. Not voting for Trump in the general is voting for Biden. I will work for and vote for Trump in the general. I also get frustrated with people who tell me they will only vote for Trump in the general. Not voting for a nominee who is not Trump in the general is also voting for Biden. It’s binary, Commie or Not Commie. I will vote for whoever wins the primary – Trump, DeSantis, Nikki Haley, or even Asa Hutchinson if my party decides it wants to nominate a squish with the name and vibe of a grizzled old prospector who travels forward in time from 2005.
We Republicans need to fight it out for the next eight months until Iowa and beyond, and while doing so we need to remember that we all want to get rid of that crusty pervert who allegedly won last time. So maybe we should not totally burn bridges. Hey, I punch back hard at those who punch at me, and I do not hesitate to point out when I think a pol is doing something foolish. And I have thought some things Trump has done lately are foolish. Some people take offense. Oh well. Some call me disloyal, as if I owe a politician anything and not vice versa. Whatever. Pundits pund, and I am going to say what I think and if you don’t like it, ignore me. Or tell me why I’m wrong.
But I do get impatient with some of the bickering. I confess – perhaps I could be more…gentle when face-to-face with what I consider nonsense. It’s not the critiques of, primarily, DeSantis – who the wily ex-president correctly assesses as his only real competition – that offend. It is the lame critiques, like that DeSantis is a Soros-backed Jeb! lover who is a neocon globalist buzzword buzzword buzzword. I object aesthetically to dumb things, and these objectively false accusations mean either the person asserting them is dumb or he thinks I am. That is annoying. And I don’t think it convinces anyone who doesn’t already have a Trump tattoo. If I was advising Trump, I would tell him to talk about nothing but how great the country during the pre-COVID part of his term and how we can have that again, but you see the problem, right? No one can advise Donald Trump. Many of his problems stem from him following his gut. As do his successes. That is the Trump Conundrum, same as it ever was.
Take it for what it is worth – and some of the comments below will no doubt find it worthless – but I think Trump faces huge obstacles to winning the primary and, even more so, the general. A lot of people hate him, irrationally and unreasonably but really – as in really, really hating him. He threaded the needle to a miracle win in 2016 and failed to pull it off when more favorably positioned in 2020. But there is a case for him winning – I’ve made it. I also have very close friends who are 100% convinced Trump will win the nomination and the general. They are smart, savvy people, and if they think something you should pay attention.
And I like the people who like Trump – at least the ones who are not calling me RINO one minute, then announcing “I am a Trump voter, not a Republican!” the next. They truly think Donald Trump is the best choice in 2024. They are patriots and want to save our country, and they deserve respect. We’ve all got to be ready to work together to win this thing next fall. We need to win this or our country is screwed.
So, think for yourself and don’t listen to me – except for maybe one thing. Be ready to put aside the primary once the winner wins. We have a country to take back.
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Fix rigged voting
Abolish the state.
Forget begging masters to do our bidding.
No elections have ever been more consistently rigged than primaries/caucuses. There are no legal requirement for oversight or fairness of them. They are “political party matters”.
definition of insanity
Elections are pointless now. TPTB have got the fraud down so well that the latest “elections” in 2022, with an administration that is overwhelming in disfavor, they somehow managed to increase their numbers in the Senate. And House seats in historically R districts went blue. Plus the debacles in NV and AZ.
And from legacy media? Not a fookin’ peep. All according to plan. Pre election, here in WA, Patty Murphy was in a real fight, neck & neck, but come counting night? 17 points…yeah, tell me again that this state, while MAYBE slightly blue, is a 17 point blue state. But it is a 100% mail in state. So much for the Red Tsunami.
The numerous ways that the vote counting is bastardized has been refined to such a point that it’s seamless. Now whomever it’s been decided needs to “win” that office is given just enough votes to win but not garner a recount.
Anyone that thinks an R has a chance in 2024 for the presidency is delusional.
Not so fast. Who knows how the “votes” will be calculated and I’m positive the Republicans have never counted a dead vote. (ok /s)
It will depend on the propaganda and how deep in shit creek without a paddle people are as a result of the Democrats. It will all be lies and nothing new.
What a blank mess.
Pestilence “lockdowns” and Big Beautiful Vaxxines should preclude Donald Trunp from doing anything but serving time for being accessory to the greatest psyop plus economic; legal; medical; and social experiments in all of recorded human history.
But you go right on ahead, Kurt, and support a bought-and-paid-for, corrupt from the get-go politician from the very same political organisms that got the USSA to this inflection point of Tyranny in the first place.
and remember to voat harder.
tRump, he’s our
chameleonman to save muika. No wait, vote desantas cause he’s less evil… but then RFK junya could be the ticket to bring the two sides together and save murika.Screw it, the Republic is a corpse, beyond saving. Let the communist burn it to the ground. Maybe use the ashes as fertilizer and build a new nation after the last of the communists have been mopped up.
US Boder Patrol “catches” around 200,000 invaders per month. The ones they catch.
I grew up in towns of 1,500, 3,000, 15,000, and 35,000. It took 20 years for my little town of 3,000 to hit 12,000 as farms were turned into homes.
The dead horse of demographics still needs beating. All of my former towns could vote 10x for Orange Man or whoever is the next conservative savior and still not eclipse the de facto residency, path to entitlements – including birthright citizenship, and effect of economic, social, and political influence by means of identity and tribal group interest of one single month of “migrants”.
As a lifelong republican, let me say this. I will never ever vote for djt. If he wins the nomination, I will abstain. If he is the best that we can come up with, we’re all in deep trouble.
Serious question. Why do you think voting anyone, will change anything??
Nobody seems to want to answer that question. Especially tRump fan boiz
Maybe someone could make that the QOFD. Probably tank because its to hard to confront?
I would be voting for a “front man”, someone to represent the US on the world stage. I do not want my front man to be a buffoon or a dementia patient. At some point, in a time of extreme crisis, which is likely coming soon with the climax of the fourth turning, it will matter who is in the white house.
anon , someone is going to punch you one of these days if you ever say tRump in public. kidding
Or hey, around here with the tRump lunacy I would not rule out burning down the house. That’s why I cannot leave the house.
Tex – Just calling tRump the dumbass he is. If someone takes offense at that, thats their problem. Don’t care in the slightest.
Chester – Your front man you are voting for is one of the ones destroying your own country. WHY, given whats known about the rigging, would you even think your ‘vote’ will accomplish anything?? The choosing of the ‘lesser’ evil to not only rule over you but to also ‘represent’ you is beyond the pale in dumb.
Everything about it is painfully obvious that giving legitimacy to an utterly corrupt system is not only futile but the very definition of insanity. But, keep voting, press harder and squint your eyes. it all helps in ensuring your vote counts.
Messing with you. But I’ve never seen people get so jacked out of shape over tRump.
All’s good in the world of realization as my neighbor that has not spoken to me since I said “tRump” now says he could “care less about Trump”.
“Thank you for your service sir”.
Futile…You should vote for Trump, who will be our sacrificial victim in an election where the populace finally realizes that elections are a hoax…
Excellent points Kurt. Sometimes it appears there are only two types of traditional populists – MAGA voters, those that have drunk the entire 42 gallon barrel of Trump Kool-Aid and those that won’t touch a drop. However, the majority recognize the battle isn’t about Trump, he’s a means to an end and a long, long way from the end of this struggle. This is distinction Trump and his rabid supporters will never acknowledge let alone recognize. If Trump is the Republican nominee he should have the full support of all Republican even the Never Trumpers. The battle will continue long after the MAGA hats have worn out and Trump is a distant memory.
VOTING
DOES NOT
MATTER
Someone said the hats are on sale in Monroe.
Made in China?
Probably Taiwan.
Wrong! This election can be used to prove to everyone that our whole government is a fraud…Vote early and often!
At least you know the difference between a barrel and a drum.
“We” who, Kolonel Keyboard Kommando? Exactly what “opposition” party are you party to?
VOTE HARDERER!
mega-facepalm.
Fuck you, Kurt. My deeply held beliefs aren’t open to amendment by popular fucking vote!
Vote on that, bitch!
Trump is not a godhead. He is not the solution but, maybe, an important part of the solution. I kind of like the orange skinned shit magnet, he drives the progressive fascists crazy. Useful. I will support him. Let’s just not view him as the knight on a white horse here to save us. He’s not.
He’s our sacrificial victim…and he probably knows it, give him credit…
Trump is the fucking Gilbert Godfrey of politics. Just – fucking – annoying – beyond – endurance.
On second thought, maybe people are stupid enough to fall for this shit.
After the primary has been our Achilles heal for decades. Republicans and conservatives have a knockdown drag out fight throughout the primary and then let it carry over throughout the general election; dragging the primary winner down to many a losses. Conversely, the democrats grit their teeth and coalesce around the democrat primary winner and snatch win after win against the republican challenger who is usually being beaten harder by his or her own primary challengers than their democrat opponent. This has to stop. Between democrats cheating at the ballot box and republican infighting, WE don’t have a chance for victory. It has to stop. Otherwise, the voices calling out for us to simply give up and avoid voting altogether will be right. We can’t fight one voting issue if we’re too busy fighting each other.
First, for those who whine that voting does not matter, that shit got us Biden and he (and the ring of traitors around him) is purposefully destroying the country. He has done far more damage in two years than Obama did in eight. The traitors are going for broke.
Yeah, I know all about the rigged voting, they are all the same, blah, blah, blah. See what it has gotten us? You think Trump is a fraud? Yes, he is an ego maniac, a conman, and fumbled his first chance, but you think the enemy sees him that way? No. They see him as a mortal threat, as they do DeSantis.
I know the voting is rigged, especially in certain states, but massive voter turnouts will at least destroy what shreds of legitimacy the Establishment has left, and that is vital. Before this rotten system can be torn down, the majority has to completely lose respect and loyalty to it. It has to be seen as illegitimate, as Crown authority was in Ireland after the Easter Rebellion, and its servants must be seen as unclean.
Second point. Unity is not an important thing, it is the only thing. In Colombia, the FARC Communist terrorists lasted for 60 years without a single split in their ranks of consequence. Only when the government managed to get its head out of its ass and starting killing off their leaders and isolating the guerrilla fronts from each other did the FARC fall apart and negotiate a peace.
I do not know if there is any hope left. Looking at the degraded, degenerate population it is hard to have courage and faith. But if we have a chance, it will come only with total unity of purpose and command, ruthless and pitiless treatment of RINO’s, and demanding that every American view the Leftists as what they are, an alien presence on our soil.
Not one more word about “civility”, “reaching across the aisle”, or, make me laugh, “national unity”.
I have no intention of ever tolerating the presence of these Morlocks in my country. It should be crystal clear that we intend to not just oust them from power, but to drive them out of the country if they refuse to get their minds right. Ugly, yeah. Extreme, yeah. But there is no other way. The Leftists are NOT Americans. They are later day Huns and Vandals and we can’t deal with them.
Just ask the Romans.
It’s the ‘dog and pony show’ season.
The clown car rolls up and the candidates pour out.
All dressed up for their Kabuki Theatre performances. (Applause)
Choose sides. Watch the childish debates. Pick your favorite.
Listen to them twist their words like pretzels.
Cheer for ‘your guy or gal’.
Watch them character assassinate each other like children to ‘prove’ they are better than the others.
Here we go again.
It’s time to believe again, like an abused spouse.
It’s the ‘dog and pony show’ season.
At this point, anyone pretending that a voting system awash in mail-in ballots is legitimate is simply a status quo supporting grifter or moron. No sale Mr. Schlichter!
I’ll be sure to be on the look out for that rarest of creatures…the unicorn known as a fair election.
Blackrock pays Fox, Fox pays Dominion, Dominion pays ______. [ help me out here ].
. . . the U.S. parliament of whores?
We are all in the same fight! That is criminal stupidity. Desantis is being pushed by the billionaires to “tamp down that populism” and is no different than Chris Christie. They are controlled opposition and won’t ever fight for us. I know, maybe Nicky Halley will be the brave Republican that finally cares about us more than money and kiddy sex! Um-hmm, sure.
Total bullshit.
The ONLY thing I have to thank Trump for is convincing me to NEVER, EVER VOTE AGAIN as long as I fucking live.
Shove Trump just a little deeper up your ass…”brother”.
So…ZERO FUCKING INTEREST in “working together” PRIOR to the primaries?
Again…FU,
cunt, Curt.Garbage. Don’t support the “winner” if it’s rigged. Don’t support any deep state plant. Don’t consent to being ruled by criminals.
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I’m a moron. Fool me three or more times consecutively, and I’m a voter.” ~ Jarod Kintz