Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
The sad truth is that some people in our party are stupid. Statistically, that is inevitable since the parties are about evenly split. When you have 50% of the population, you’re going to have a certain percentage of the idiots. Well, the Republican Party is undoubtedly statistically within the band of normal, because we sure have our share of nitwits. And I’m tired of them.
Look at the House of Representatives. However, some people aren’t willing to accept the reality. For a number of reasons, including stupid choices by our voters and dumb actions by party leaders and politicians, we have a mere five-seat majority in the House. We should’ve had a huge majority in the House, considering the historical trends and the political climate in 2022. Still, being the Stupid Party, the Republicans were stupid and only got five seats above even. It is what it is.
But some people in our party are too dumb to understand that it is what it is. They think it is what it isn’t. They think that because they believe really, really hard in their version of conservatism, their version of conservatism should prevail, even though their version of conservatism is not what the majority of the House believes. Keep in mind I share their beliefs. Their version of conservatism is my version of conservatism. I would love our version of conservatism to be ascendant.
I’ve worked for that for nearly 40 years. But right now, it’s not going to be, in large part, because of our own party’s failures. But some in our party don’t seem to understand that. They’re very mad that a minority of the House – Democrats plus RINOs – outvote conservatives. As a result, we conservatives cannot simply impose our will. Apparently, they didn’t watch Schoolhouse Rock. Apparently, they didn’t learn how to count. Apparently, they think that because they’re really, really, really upset, their upsetness matters more than reality.
The reality is that we somehow managed to get a Speaker last January and that Speaker was imperfect. Kevin McCarthy was not the guy I wanted for the job in the abstract. He was not doing everything I wanted him to do. But you know what he wasn’t doing? He wasn’t being a Democrat. He was being an obstacle to Biden’s unilateral control over two branches of the government. And when you fail to win elections – I can’t even deal with people who are going to insist that we really won even though we didn’t, which I know because of who’s in office and who isn’t – you don’t get everything you want.
This is why I prefer to win elections. Of course, winning elections requires that you do things that are consistent with winning elections. One of those is to not look like a bunch of clowns wrestling in Jell-O. The GOP can’t elect a Speaker because of a tiny minority of backbench tools, for a variety of stupid reasons, is working with the Democrats to ensure we can’t elect a new imperfect but adequate Speaker. How did this happen? Because a tiny minority led by Florida Beavis worked with the Democrats and tossed out our imperfect but adequate, Trump-endorsed Speaker. Why did they do that? Because of reasons and shut up and neocon and RINO and blah blah blah blah blah. Oh yeah, and “uniparty,” too.
You can tell dumb people by their promiscuous use of terms like “neocon,” “uniparty,” and “RINO.” Words actually have meaning. They’re more than an avatar that represents something that you dislike. “Neocon” has a specific meaning. It’s not just somebody who thinks we have enemies overseas that must be confronted and defeated. Now it seems to be anyone who doesn’t want to withdraw the American armed forces within Kansas’s borders. If you find yourself calling somebody who supports Israel over the seventh-century savages a “neocon,” you are choosing to be dumb.
How about “Uniparty”? That’s a cool, edgy term that stupid people use because they stole it from smart people who recognized the commonalities between Republicans and Democrats and how that conglomeration of creeps in Washington tended to work together across party lines to frustrate what the people actually wanted. It does not mean someone who wants a Republican body actually to function.
It does not mean that you think that the Republican majority should have a Speaker, nor does it mean someone who thinks that the Republican Party probably shouldn’t throw out a Speaker unless it has another viable Speaker waiting in the wings who can get 218 votes. I know you don’t like Kevin McCarthy. I don’t like Kevin McCarthy. But I like having a Speaker because, among other things, it demonstrates to the voters that maybe they should trust Republicans with control of the House. And having a Republican Speaker who can control things in the House is the closest thing that we have at the moment to an obstacle to the actual uniparty.
“BUT THEY CHANGED THINGS!”
Yes, for the worse. Getting rid of Kevin McCarthy is going to inevitably – assuming no miracle happens between the time I screamed/typed this and the time you read it, and the GOP gets its Schiff together – we’re going to have a bunch of soft Republicans from Biden districts hooking up with Hakeem Jeffries and installing a Democrat or Democrat-friendly Republican as Speaker, and that’s going to be a giant, pointy suppository for conservatism. Do you want to fight the uniparty? Maybe don’t help the Democrats and the RINOs work together to screw conservatives.
And that’s another abused noun, “RINO.” “RINO” has a specific meaning too. That meaning is not any Republican you just dislike this week. A RINO is a Republican in name only, a person with a Republican label who often runs in a purple district and would be a Democrat if not for the necessity of being a Republican to get elected. They tend to be liberal Republicans. But they are Republicans, and yes, they frustrate the hell out of me. But you know what? Our caucus includes about 15-20% RINOs. It just does. It does because the voters in their districts elected them. I’ve got no problem primarying them with candidates who can beat them – not lunatics who will lose big in a GOP-winnable district because they are convinced that the Kraken broke into the Dominion machines using psychic mind-control lasers.
Maybe I’m expecting a little too much because I’ve been a Republican for about 40 years, and I kinda know what I’m talking about. You don’t have to agree with me or me with you. Still, we should expect a certain baseline of experience and understanding of how things are supposed to work, how things actually do work, what the Constitution says, how a bill becomes a law, and so forth, from somebody weighing in. I just can’t stand the nitwits who never thought about politics until last week, when they suddenly got excited and jumped in and then glommed onto all these terms that actually mean something and started spewing them out in a spray of hack clichés.
These newcomers tend to be emotion-driven. Those who actually want to win rather than express their innermost feelings, like a bunch of teenage girls at a slumber party, tend to be objective. We look at the situation, evaluate how it really is, and take the course of action most likely to benefit us. Sometimes, that’s not much benefit at all because, as adults understand, sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. I prefer winning. You know, actual winning is where my guy takes office and is able to exercise power. I reject moral victories, where you lose gloriously and then whine about how the uniparty neocon RINOs are getting in the way of your faction exercising unrestrained power.
Grow the hell up.
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You know who’s stupid, Kurt? People who actually believe that there’s a difference between the Republicans and Democrats.
GLWT
Right. Which is just about everyone. Stupidity everywhere you look.
The human mind naturally accepts Dualities very readily since they typify life – me/not me, male/female, us/them.
The false binary is another one of their hacks they use as control. It’s nearly impossible for most to break out of.
He’s getting nervous. The projection is pozzitivley dripping. One of his more aggressive cringe-poasts.
The illusion is flickering, even for the normiecon. This reads like the sheepdog lecturing the “stupid” sheep about all the reasons why they should all stay in the paddock, for the good of the farm.
Dogs like him barking about those Democrats! “for nearly 40 years” can no longer spook the herd into shuffling around on the same ground for another year closer to slaughter.
He talks about some fence. The one with the big gate that opens and closes depending upon what the uniparty needs in that moment, partisan politik or non-partisan cooperation. Just don’t get all uppity and start poking around where it supposedly exists or noticing any patterns over the past 40 years.
Even worse for him is that the herd is slowly realizing he is awfully skinny under all that fluff. A lot like those democrats, actually.
I have to say, if it weren’t for Reagan’s “Big Tent” philosophy we wouldn’t have nearly the RINO problem we enjoy today. He threw open the doors to every deviant, miscreant, defective and subversive in the country. He sold the Republican Party’s soul for one fucking election win.
If there is truly no difference between parties, then that was the moment it became impossible to correct. That was the moment the cattle chute walls first came into view. Regional differences aside,all our choices have diminished since that time. With every passing day, our collective freedom is diminished further.
We’re approaching that dangerous moment when everyone is forced to admit reality. Blame will be assigned and revenge will be sought and highly valued. Personally, I do not believe this Government can survive that event…being top loaded with incompetent fools at present, and with no hope of improvement.
It will be interesting to see what form of government our conquerors will impose on the survivors.
Which survivors? Our farm lands are TERRIBLY depleted by growing farm commutards for the last 120 years….they have to be refurbed.
ronnie raygun was Actually the Star performer at the world wide equivalent of the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringling_Bros._and_Barnum_%26_Bailey_Circus
After the inhabitants of the former u.s.s.r. finally acknowledged, en masse, just WHAT was being perpetrated on them, and by WHOM?
Some Variant of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out became their modus operandi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_for_Bonzoronnie raygun put on a really big show for his masters, and everyone fell for it/played along.ronnie Got Rid of all the “Russian” Oligarchs. Too.
Gonna happen here soon in a BIG way, ALREADY started. Call it going Galt, whateva.
The people there said: “Fuck You. Fuck This. Fuck that. goin’ to get drunk/high, care NOT what happens.”
Of course, the big tent was what the GOP party bosses intended to usher everyone into so they could be cornholed at the leisure of those same party bosses. It pretty well worked as intended.
There is a difference between the parties: democrats want publicly funded “gender-affirming care” for children now. Republicans will want it in about 3-4 years.
And that we can actually change the nightmare setting we’re in by voting.
1. The perfect is the enemy of the good
2. When pushed too far, you have to take a stand
3. DC always gets what IT wants, in spite of what WE want.
4. Existential threats, I suspect, are rarely avoided through compromise.
Uniparty refers to how you are all bought and owned by corporations and blackmailers.
How about the hypocrite party? The pro war party? The pedo supporting party? The satanic freak party?
You sir are a joke, like all politicians.
Lets face reality, the vast majority of Repubs suck. This Speaker shitshow demonstrates that which IMHO is good. What’s great is they can’t pass any spending bills.
Bingo, and now everyone can clearly see who’s who in the zoo, the majority of them have finally crawled out from under their rock, and it ain’t pretty.
Nitwits are a dime a hundredweight. Here’s a nitwit statement: in races important to the deep state the vote counting is never molested in a way that can change the outcome. Here’s a corollary: the 2020 and 2022 elections are over, forget about them and get back to regular business as though there was no fraud of any consequence perpetrated by the party of the state.
Better a fire that consumes the whole of DC than regular order. Not nitwit, possibly very destructive but not nitwit as it expresses the depth of distress produced by the last forty years of regular go along get along from the Republican slush suckers in office.
Our wealth has been squandered and wasted by allowing the status quo to continue in the name of politeness, regular order, traditional behavior and reaching across the aisle to grasp the hands of people bent on the destruction of all the fundamentals on which our governing system is based.
From tea party to Trump to Gaetz we politely request change. Change away from the business as usual that has brought us, once again, to the point of bankruptcy and world war, with civil collapse tossed in for good measure.
Better nothing than what they’ve been doing for the last several decades.
You had me until you fucked up with Trump and Gaetz, two of the only people who are actually doing business a different way. You can’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
What I see is you throwing your own tantrum cuz we don’t see things exactly the way you do . “Oh no !!!! we have no speaker in the house of representatives !!!! The fucking sky is falling !!!!” Well I’ve got news for you the sky already was falling and, quite the opposite of your thinking on this, it was because of what government DID do , not because of what government was unable to do . The sky is going to fall and there is nothing that having a “functioning “congress will be able to do about it anyway because all of the solutions that emanated from that body over the last 40 yrs ( you seem to like that number ) are part of what precipitated it in the first damn instance . Dont even get me started on your predictable stance with regards to the fixed elections that you either still deny or just except as baked in to the cake and expect everyone else to think ” smart ” like you and just move on from . WRONG , wrong , wrong . You represent the thinking that created the problem and therefore is wholly inadequate to solving it , 40 years right ?
There’s my childish tantrum in response to your childish tantrum , “vote harder” as they say
Great comment. Republicans don’t win because they stand for nothing. Schlichter’s prescription is to stand for less than nothing. Who fucking cares if the government shuts down?
>>>Republicans don’t win because they stand for nothing.
Technically, the Republican Party stands for two things only:
1) maintaining the status quo, and
2) lining their pockets, and those of their friends and family.
If you actually like things as they have been in the recent past, it sort of makes sense to Vote Republican. For 95% of voters, it’s a pretty lame choice.
Well said Carpenter
40 years ?
Kinda popular Time Period something else I was reading. Can’t recall where for the Life of me.
See, 40 years is the modern version of the biblical 40 days and 40 nights. It stands for “nobody knows how long it was, but it was one fuck of a long time”.
It WAS 40!
Days. & Years. In The Bible of all places! Multiple occurrences/people/places/etc.
Really appreciated.
One man’s opinion, I guess. Opinions differ.
I guess I am dumb, but Kurt can go crawl back into the hole he came out of. I used to be a hardcore straight ticket Republican until I started paying six figure tax bills and seeing the corruption of the Uniparty in the Swamp. Actually surprised this was posted on TBP, but maybe just here to get the comments?!?!
Congratulations. You figured it out. You’ve been “negged”…and it worked.
The US gov’t IS going to allow a “legal” genocide of whites/Christians/Men. That’s WHY “dumb” is dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed AROUND us. harsh, but these are not “normal’ times from the “class of ’68”. (daley’s chicago machine)
Kurt there are times where I think you’re spot on and others (like now) where I have to question your motives. Did I really understand you to say that Biden won the election, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary? Or are you saying we lost because we were forced to accept the results of a fraudulent election? You also intimate that Kevin McCarthy was the lesser of two evils because he primarily voted with the GOP caucus. Conservative have been forced to deal with the lesser of two evils for the 40 years since Reagan, and Matt Gaetz drew a line and said no more. For that I applaud him loudly. Given the current make up of the House, should he have checked his numbers before sending us on this course? The answer is obviously YES! The problem with the small margin separating us from the Democrats is that it gives small factions tremendous power to exercise the nuclear option. Well we blew things up. Ukraine hasn’t gotten any money – Yay. The prosecution of the Biden crime family is stalled – Boo! The fact, according to you, that the rest of the world sees us as incompetent because we don’t have a Speaker is hooey! I’ve got news for you the world viewed us as incompetent when we allowed Dementia Joe to become President. I don’t doubt your conservative credentials but I’m tired of playing the game with go-along, get-along Republicans like McCarthy, Scalia, or the communist Emmer. I’m looking for someone who will kick ass and take names later.
THAT is the problem right there, There is NO one coming to save us. It is corrupted and rotten from top to bottom, unequivocally unredeemable. Wolves overwhelmingly outnumber the sheep in the pen and you think a super sheep will arise and do away with the wolves??
The Constitution states the sheople have the duty to throw off the wolves. Not some pseudo=shepherd.
Start looking in the mirror for that person to kick ass and take names later.
Fuck Kurt, he thinks the neocons, uniparty and RINO’s are just fine, and his proud 40 years a Republicon and business as usual are the way to go! I guess he’s just so fuckin’ smart he gets to tell us what to do.
He can kiss my ass!
Post of the day.
Kurt, Kurt, Kurt…SMH
You want a political solution involving elections to remedy our ills. Uh-huh. You, like other “I just want to govern” Republicans have acquiesced to the Democrats for those forty years you’ve been a member of the party. By discounting the effect of the in-your-face-cheating on the outcomes of the past two elections, you blithely expect something to be different this time. Will the same people be counting the votes? Yes! Will these same people stop counting in the middle of the night, run ballots through the machines over and over, the 2000 Mules delivering bags of ballots to be counted, US Mail trucks from NY to PA delivering filled in ballots to be counted, hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots sent out in names of dead and moved people to be counted, installing counting site window coverings…no. They won’t. It’ll happen again. This time in spades. The Republicans “won’t see’ any of it.
Good for Matt Gaetz throwing sand in the gears. Repubes have always been ok at winning elections when Democrats push the envelope too far. Matt Gaetz has not stopped their uninterrupted streak of being feeble and ineffective at governing. Here’s hoping you don’t get your pyrrhic victory.
My opinion of Schlichter was not good already but this article proves that he (Schlichter) is the dumb ass in the room. F U Kurt, the UNIPARTY is not difficult to see or understand for the critical thinkers. Who pays this guy….. I wonder?
Bea, I think he’s so stupid that he’s writing this shit for free.
It is not a matter of stupidity, it is a matter of corruption. The entire Congress is on the payroll of the MIC and anyone who stands up and tries to do something that is in the countries best interest, when that is contrary to the MIC’s best interest, has to be crushed.
This country is doomed, because the corruption has become so systemic, that even if the will to change was there, and it is not, we would not know how to. In the end, this will end with our defeat militarily, and possibly our destruction as a nation, as we saw in Europe in WW2. Possibly much worse. Live each day as if it is your last, because it just may be.