Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Now that Governor Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the race and endorsed Donald Trump, I have a message for all my fellow Ron DeSantis supporters about how to move forward after a bruising primary campaign where we came up short.
Get over it.
Losing sucks. But there’s a maxim among trial lawyers that applies equally to people involved in politics over the long haul, and that’s if you’ve never lost a case, you never try cases. I am immensely proud to have supported Ron DeSantis. We gave it our best shot. We had a great candidate who has a great future, and we gave as good as we got. But we got it hard. That’s because it was a primary. You are supposed to get hit hard. Politics ain’t beanbag. Politics is tough, and people are in it to win it. But now the primaries are done. Our guy has endorsed Donald Trump. Time to rub some dirt on our wounds, getback in the game, and bring home the big win for America.
Yes, I know there were some stupid people out there who said some stupid things. Stop caring about what stupid people say. In the long run, this will make you much happier. Every campaign has some dingbats. Every campaign has some weirdos. Dingbats and weirdos say stupid and ugly things. But there’s a secret weapon that defeats them. It’s called “indifference.” I don’t care what @FatMAGADeadbeatDad69 or any other human cartoon character says. I don’t care if they tweet about my mother or my dogs or tell me that my books are terrible. My mom wouldn’t care, nor do my dogs, and my books are awesome and best sellers. Insults and lame memes don’t matter to me. Don’t let them matter to you. And certainly don’t let them keep you from doing what you need to do.
And what you need to do is get on board and fight for the guy who won fair and square. Yeah, fair and square. In primaries, you go out, you make your case, and part of that means cutting down the other guy. If you can’t get your head around that reality, you probably shouldn’t be involved in politics. This is a tough game. It’s not for the faint of heart. Donald Trump doesn’t take it personally. As soon as Chris Christie dropped out to take on his new role as spokesman for Golden Corral, Trump was saying nice things about him. And after Ron DeSantis dropped out and properly endorsed the President in one of the best and most gracious concession speeches I’ve ever seen, Trump said he was “honored” by the endorsement of Ron DeSantis. Why, after so much acrimony? Because it’s not personal, it’s just business.
Look, I will not start sugarcoating it for you now. I still believe Donald Trump has an uphill fight to win in November. He’s got a chance to win, probably a little higher than he did a year ago, but the advantage still lies with that desiccated zombie pervert because of the irrational hatred of Donald Trump of so many people. Republicans shouldn’t add to that challenge because they are ticked off. Maybe you don’t like Donald Trump‘s tweets. Maybe you don’t like his behavior. Maybe you have some rational critiques of his policies. Whatever. Get over it.
American elections are binary choices. If you don’t choose the Republican, you’re helping the Democrat. And look at what the Democrats want to do. This isn’t an election where we can shrug and wait four years for another shot. That’s another 10 million illegals, a couple of SCOTUS seats, and who knows how many wars. This is existential. Our garbage elite is not only evil but stupid, so stupid and arrogant that it is bound to do things to our country that can’t be undone. This is serious, and your choice matters. Donald Trump may not be perfect. Lord knows I’ve pointed out his imperfections and how I thought Ron DeSantis was a superior candidate. But you know, my party decided to stick with Donald Trump, and I’m going to stick with my party.
Don’t confuse being butthurt over some third-tier slanders by ridiculous fringies or the disappointment that comes with losing when you think you should’ve won with occupying the moral high ground. You’re not a better person if your actions help Joe Biden win. You’re mad. I get it. Let it go.
Want to know one key reason I am so intent on electing Donald Trump? There are a ton of issues that are important to me. Closing the border. The economy. Free speech. Foreign policy. But one that hits home for me is that Biden is getting our troops killed, and he will get more of them killed through its gross incompetence if he is reelected. They deserve a leader who will have their backs. I led American soldiers. I was there when an American soldier died overseas in the service of his country.
And I had the honor of representing, for a short time, one of the families of one of the troops killed in Kabul by the gross incompetence of this administration. I saw the consequences of the Biden administration personally. This is real. It is life and death. You choose Biden and you choose dead Americans. You can say what you want about Trump, but he took care of our men and women in uniform. He didn’t squander their lives. He didn’t look at his watch when their bodies were hauled off the back of a C-130. I can list dozens of reasons to support Donald Trump, but for me, it starts and stops with those young men and women.
That’s just me. That’s just my vote. I’m not presuming to tell you how to vote. I will give you my opinion on why you should vote for Donald Trump, but you’re free to disregard it. It’s a free country – at least until Biden is reelected.
I just hope you will think carefully about your choice if you are a DeSantis supporter who is still mad about the primary. Most of us are already backing the President. Governor DeSantis is supporting Donald Trump. And if you aren’t, you’re supporting Biden.
Get up, brush off the dirt, and get back in the game. Up and down the ballot, from top to bottom, we have got to win. It matters – it matters more than our disappointment and anger. The guy we supported sees that. And the Governor is right as usual. Let’s do this thing.
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Well said, Kurt. And for those of you in the “I ain’t voting” crowd, please think again. This is no game. We may not be able to save our country at this point, but we have to do EVERYTHING we can within the law before resorting to other means. Every vote against the Democrats makes it that much more difficult for them to hide their brazen treason. I know you hate Trump and we all know they will try to rig it – again – but hold your damn nose and vote.
I held my nose and voted for the orange man twice already. Since that time, we got the plandemic and the father of the vaxx and all the other BS that went with it. I’ve got some dead friends and several that will probably never be in good health again because they listed to him and took the jab.
Regarding Kurt, he never ever mentions the fact that elections in this country are no longer legitimate.
Not one thing has been done to eliminate all the fixes that are now in place to ensure a conservative never gets into higher office now. Kurt has about the same amount of hubris as The Donald.
Whatever, I’m tired of even talking about it. As much as I’d like to be wrong, there is no coming back from 3rd world banana republic with millions of illegals now within the walls.
Sorry you “voted” for Trump twice. /s
Should Trump land in the WH it will only be another rigged “election”.
At any rate, Trump and DeSantis kissed and made up so the feud between the two is over. lol What will the tabloids write about now?!
If Trump is allowed to “win”, it’d only amount to continuity of government; i.e., no change.
I live in a navy blue state. If you want me to vote for Trump can I stop along the way to get a ham sandwich so I have something to show for the effort?
At least have some horseradish mustard put on. Life is short. Make it an extraordinary errand, for tomorrow, we die.
You’re on your own, Bubba. They done got their last click out of old Junior.
The stoopid, it burns deep.
Its NOT about tRump hatred, its ALL about supporting an ENTIRELY corrupt system that is actively working against you. (((They))) won’t ‘try’ to rig the election, they WILL/IS rig the election. Holding your nose and ‘voting’ is the definition of insanity but apparently the vote tRump, or any political, is out of your grasp of comprehension of being scammed and futile.
You literally want others to vote to continue supporting these evil asswipes because you cannot understand the ramifications of their evil. You, glock and a few others can just have a grand time voting for shits and giggles, it’ll be so much more funnerer and entertaining helping to sustain the pain.
Having thought a bit more you’ve convinced me that a few more years of cpr on the corpse will bring it back to life. We just have to try harder.
I don’t up/down “vote” a tremendous amount. Really I don’t. Had to on this comment because Trump is just another one of “them”. He’s a different kind of blowhard and hard to imagine his head does not just blow up with self one of these days. Regardless, he’s still just another one of “them”.
It’s not so much that Don’s one of them, as that .gov is .gov. It’s never ours. When will people realize that?
anon do you post on the Craigslist politics section???
Craigslist still exists?
It was murdered by 2010 at the latest.
Mustang, I think that’s another anonyhole. /s
“Within the law”?? What are you smoking? Somebody put fox piss in your vape pen? The law is done, son, all bets are off. They will win at any cost and laws are only to protect THEM. Get a clue. It ain’t about Trump, but this has clearly buzzed over you head.
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Dumb.
For Sage and Sage only
No.
It’s for anyone who needs it.
When enough isolated magnetic iron atoms align as one magnet, this ends.
They don’t run us. We empower them. It is arithmetic.
The second movement (sonata) is most inspiring:
No
Honestly, Lysander Spooner’s ‘No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority’ is a book more people should read. The whole thing is a scam from top to bottom; it always has been. Voting harder-er is useless, as is protesting (please give me more freedom my master). The court route would be more fruitful if one was actually interested in pushing back, though this would require time and energy learning (complaint – answer – trial); I’ve been learning myself via Dr. Graves site: http://www.howtowinincourt.com
And if that’s not an option just start buying a bunch of lead and be prepared to use it.
Desantis has set a fine example with many measures in his home state. We will need strong, independent governors going forward.
If the majority believed you, Ron would be running first right now. Be my guest. Go ahead and “choose” which loser is going to wreck your fucking life THIS time. And let the consequences be upon your head.
Switch’s message is that Desantis is better off continuing to lead Florida. Same goes for Floridians and the rest of the country.
And my message is that it’s ALL SHIT. Nothing is going to get “better”. Most of you will be dead in another 5-10 years anyway.
People are…disappointing, to say the least.
I’m 70 and the thought has crossed my mind although I don’t think about it obsessively. Right now I’m feeling like Charles Atlas with several months of light weight “training” carrying that forward until I cannot. And the music at the “club”, they have changed from tunes I don’t relate , younger generation stuff, to some light oldies rock! It’s only fitting because the makeup of clientele looks to be about the same caliber as me.
Nikki Haley is being set up to be the candidate when Trump is in prison or assassinated.
Auntie would like three issues reviewed before considering the Orange Man Bad, again:
1. Why did Donald Trump LOCK-FUCKING-DOWN the U.S.A. ?
2. Why did/does Donald Trump continue to endorse and celebrate the “Big, Beautiful Vaxxines?”
3. How does nepotism plus hiring the worst actors (i.e J0hn B0lt0n & dokter Falsi) help a nation drowning in corruption?
Bonus question: How does being “Israel’s best president ever” assist the citizens of the U.S.A.?
And don’t worry Kurt; Dominyon’s got this.
Seemed like a good idea at the time. Hindsight is 20/20.
Good questions, Aunt A. We all know they will never be answered.
As long as we are asking, how about another one.
Does Trump still support taking the guns and giving due process later?
Trump supports locking people up for questioning zionism.
DeSantis for VP.
Nobody for president. Abolish the state. I can tie my own shoes.
Nobody 2024 the gold lettering reads on my custom black hat MADE IN AMERICA not China or Taiwan like Mr. Trump’s “for sale” hats. Oh , and the FJB on the left side and FDT on the right in gold lettering. So far no one has tried to beat me up.
Why?!?
Because some shitheel loser TOLD you too?
BAAAH!!!
I smell another IQ test coming around the corner!
I also derive a great comfort, sense of purpose and belonging from not remembering the Before Times. Life is just easier that way. I won’t remember this one either. In fact, I don’t even remember typing this and I am still typ
My problem isn’t so much memory but….
What were we talking about….
Signed,
The masses
With regard to Trump and Desantis , two words……… WALL KISSERS.
Yes sir. And the joos is coming for yoos, yoos being anyone that speaks negatively about wall ass kissers. Keep the powder dry BL. I know you do. BL puts check in box on prepper list, “Keep the powder dry” ( for both radical left and radical right and wall ass kissers joo, I mean too)
I’m not quite sure about that , Tex. Care to explain yourself? Are you going Hasbara ?
If I ever come across a copy of the Hasbara Handbook I’ll burn it.
BL, I “think” you and I are on the same page?
Hasbara and the Control of Narrative as an Element of Strategy
Shaddup, Curtsey.
Babylon the Great is running the “participation” part of the great conning….again..and I am supposed to believe my involvement is crucial.
Why on earth, would I pretend this system is valid and play along?
They have never, to my memory, asked my opinion before firing a bullet, dropping a bomb or poking an infant’s arm.
By participating, you are saying “this us valid, I support this” to everything they are doing and will do.
Ya all sure you support this?
It is time to ditch that flag, because it is about to get hundreds of millions of Americans killed in their own homes.
Do you really think the open borders during multiple wars means anything other than uSA is lost?
Best get ready for your new bosses in a post uSA world.
Amen, Amen.
https://www.dailyfetched.com/confused-joe-biden-questions-trumps-mental-fitness/
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Politics is not the solution to politics.
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Since the WEF only lies, I know they are looking forward to Trump being installed again.
He spoke there in both 2018 and 2019 and had Jarvanka go in 2020 as official White House representatives. He praised WEF right up until he finally figured out that it was unpopular to do so.
Trump has been a shit eating weasel from the womb. He’s still a lesser evil than Biden et al, or even Haley for those still dumb enough to endorse that whole “voting” thing.
You said been a shit eating weasel from the womb. I’m sticking to that. Pull head out on “lesser”.
The recent news about WEF freaking out over a Trump election is a total smokescreen. WEF knows Trump is their puppet.
I understand folk’s reasons for saying they are done voting.
But considering the fact that the establishment will do their best to give these illegals
coming in full voting rights, anyone here doubt that, then why give up and let them win
without a fight?
Vote like your way of life depends on it.
Because it does.
Should an independent emerge, someone no one has ever heard of because the status quo way of things does not permit their names in the fake news but very little if that, I’ll possibly “hold my nose” and mildly participate in support of that person if my conscience will allow it. Then I can listen to knucklehead cry babies that are brain washed into the idea the vote was for Trump or Biden depending on which side of the brain washed “voting” myths one follows. Naturally if one did not vote Biden one voted Trump and naturally if one did not vote Trump one voted Biden. SMDH
No candidate is “independent” of the state, by definition.
So if I don’t vote independent, in reality which of the two morons did I actually vote?
You are NOT fighting by voting, quite the opposite. Your freedom, and possibly your life, instead depends on you waking the fuck up.
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response. To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.” ― Larken Rose
“When the people recognize and accept no master, they will have no master. Ultimately, their bondage, and the means to escape it, exists entirely inside their own minds.”
― Larken Rose, The Most Dangerous Superstition
“Ironically, atheists are often quick to point out the destruction that has been committed throughout history in the name of religion, but fail to notice the gruesome results of the god they bow to: “government.”
― Larken Rose, The Most Dangerous Superstition
“Kids are taught to praise and adore tyrants, and taught to hate any who resist them. We make fun of it when other countries put their own spin on history. We’re stunned that anyone could still think that Josef Stalin or Chairman Mao was a good guy. But this country does the same thing, teaching our kids to adore tyrants like FDR and Lincoln.”
― Larken Rose, The Iron Web
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2978257.Larken_Rose?page=3#:~:text=Larken%20Rose%20Quotes&text=No%20political%20ritual%20can%20alter,%22government%22%20to%20do%20it.
“Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—”That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Nobody is coming… and you can’t vote your way out of communism.
You can’t vote your way out of arbitrary government, not just communism. Besides, it is totalitarianism, not communism, that threatens us. Communism is only one name of the same thing; absolute power. There is no “good” government.
The USG pure evil, enemy of the human race, and Trump knows and wants to be President, or doesn’t know and wants to be President….. put a fork in it.
You talk about Americans dying. Sure that hurts, but how about the 500,000 deaths in the Ukraine because of a stolen election?
Mostly young, productive men at the start of their lives. Sons, brothers, husbands, fiancées, fathers, friends.
Trump would have not let them die. Help get him back in office.
Mark Stefanelli MD
Hey Doc, how many of those “Big Beautiful Shots” have you given out? I’d feel a little safer with the father of the vaxx back in to run cover, I get it. Walls closing in buddy?
Yes. What BL asked.
It seems a lot of haters here have already forgotten how well they were doing when Trump was in office, before Biden was installed through fraud.
Scot- I know you are a troll, and I understand it’s hard nowdays and you need that job BUT……It’s a lie. If you ever put blood and sweat and your own capital or borrowed to build a small business and some politician actor wrecked it and ruined you, you would sing a different tune. Trump f’n killed 50% of ALL small business in America. CAN you even begin to Comprehend that you f’n moron?
I’m sure you failed to notice the dead and impaired Americans left in the wake of his vaxx campaign that is completely UNFUKKINFORGIVABLE. Do you have any heart for the lives ruined by that whole charade? Are you even a real person, or are you a bot? Where is your soul man?
^^^This.
WHERE IS THIS COMPANY THAT’S HIRING TROLLS? How much do they pay? Do they have dental and vision? Is there a retirement plan?
Yeah, Scot’s full of shit. If being full of shit makes you a troll then the whole fucking planet is 100% populated by trolls.
You should know, Scru.
I went to school with a fatass moron named Scot. Is that you?
Yeah, I forgot Trump’s stimulus checks were larger than Joe Blows. I think it had something to do with Trump’s autograph on the checks.
helicopter money. make it rain! lol!
All I hear is how people are living paycheck to paycheck under Joe Blow. Joe Blow sucks but peeps been “living paycheck to paycheck” since “forever”. During Reagan, no complaints, my wages afforded “living paycheck to paycheck” and mostly all my working career. I’m curious what criteria brings one out of “living paycheck to paycheck”? Is it, maybe a couple hundred bucks in the savings account or is it a brand new vehicle in the drive that in all likelihood is on the “payment plan”? That “debt” thing? Just what is it that brings one out of “living paycheck to paycheck”, Crony capitalism, fraud, theft…just curious.
Nothing anybody says is gonna get me to get the shot, and nothing anybody says is gonna get me to vote for Trump (or anyone else). I understand that the world will end for you, if I don’t listen to you. I’m okay with that.
Stand firm Bill. +100
Indeed.
It appears we have a quorum!
I’m with you!
Sorry Kurt, it won’t do any good. You see the Communist Demon-Crats will steal the 24 Election just like they stole the 20 & 22 Elections because the feckless, lazy, brain -dead, leaderless Republicans refuse to eliminate the massive Voter Fraud.
Damn, Kurt. Every day I read articles written by people who don’t know anything. Your articles reveal that you don’t even suspect anything.
Kurt had to look at his phone today to figure out exactly where he was. Sad…….
Kurt, it is OK for you to vote for him. But don’t go thinking you and your ‘kind’ should be getting hired!
That’s how I see it.
Schlichter is clearly deranged.
KENNEDY 24
I want to personally thank Caesar Donaldus Trumpus for encouraging millions of his subjects for taking his Operation Warp Speed Majick Covid Elixir.
It is all a script.
OMG! Why are they so mean to Donald? It’s not fair! Look at what they are doing to him!
And look at you all… swooning for the Donald.
Almost a beaver shot in there.