Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Okay, my Trump-shy friends, it’s time to put aside your fussy principles about how icky Donald Trump is. This is serious, and we need all hands on deck to throw Biden overboard before he gets a whole lot more Americans killed. I get that you don’t like Trump. Let’s agree that he’s icky for the purposes of this discussion. Let’s agree that his tweets are mean, that he’s not a conservative ideologue, that he says dumb things and gets into useless fights, and that he does many other unseemly and annoying things. Let’s agree that this is all true. Let’s concede that in normal times, one might want to forgo supporting a guy like that. But these aren’t normal times.
This is getting real. This is life and death. Not just for cops and soldiers, but maybe even for you and your family.
Now, this column isn’t directed towards the professional Never Trumper dorks, the treacherous weirdos who make a living off of going on MSNBC and selling out their former allies. This is for the Republicans who have thought about it and have a real problem with Donald Trump. I get it, even if I don’t agree. I would not particularly like voting for somebody who I don’t like. However, I like Donald Trump and will eagerly support him following his victory over my primary candidate, Ron DeSantis. But sometimes you need to do things you would rather not do. You have to let go of the anger. Even the governor got on board and endorsed the president once the primary results became clear.
So, this is for you guys who are having difficulty making that leap and backing Trump 2.0. I’m assuming that you are susceptible to reason. Some of you might not be. Let’s face it: A little bit of ego is involved here. There’s a performative aspect to not backing Donald Trump. You dug in against him, and digging yourself out and publicly changing your mind is tough. I get it. But when facts change, choices need to change. And boy, have the facts changed.
Let’s look at where our country is right now. It’s in a hole, and our alleged president is still digging. We have a wide open border. Fentanyl is killing tens of thousands a year. Ten million illegal aliens have streamed across. We know many of them are criminals. They’re raping and murdering Americans right now. We can be relatively sure that a significant number of Chinese military infiltrators are among them. That will end badly unless we have a president who will do something about it, which Biden certainly never will. We can also surmise that a large number are active terrorists who, at some point, will launch a killing spree of the sort I wrote about in my new book, The Attack.
If Donald Trump is not elected president in November, this will continue for another four years. That is a lot of dead Americans. And you’ve got to ask yourself if protesting mean tweets worth those lives. Because that’s the choice you’re making. Even if you sit out the election, you’re effectively supporting Joe Biden by not actively supporting Donald Trump. Yes, I know you’re upset because there is a binary choice, and I know all the clichés about not wanting to choose the lesser of two evils but guess what? You’re faced with the choice between the lesser of two evils. That’s just the choice that exists. It might not be fair. You might not like it, but that’s what it is. And you’ve got to choose. Not choosing is choosing. Not choosing is choosing Joe Biden. And if you choose Joe Biden, you’re choosing a lot of deaths just because of his border betrayal.
What else are you choosing? Well, you’re choosing to abandon Israel to Hamas. That’s what Joe Biden is doing. You’re choosing to throw the Jewish state to the mercy of those psychopaths. And you’re doing it because you don’t like Donald Trump. Come on.
I’m not asking you to like Trump. I’m asking you to actively support him. Not to reward him. Not to high-five him. I’m asking you to actively support him for the sake of your country and your people. There are a lot of American soldiers out there in the line of fire who shouldn’t be but are because Joe Biden put a big target on their backs with his weakness, incompetence, and appeasement. He’s going to get even more of our troops killed. You can say what you want about Donald Trump, and you do, but he took care of our soldiers. He didn’t get them into useless fights. When he had to fight, he won – ask ISIS in Iraq. Joe Biden, on the other hand, invites attacks on our troops and refuses to retaliate when they happen properly. You have seen the pictures of those three dead soldiers that he recently killed in Jordan. You have seen photos of the 13 troops he got killed in Kabul and the Afghanistan retreat. You’ll see more if you choose to support Joe Biden by choosing not to support Donald Trump.
Yeah, I know that’s pretty harsh, growing down the dead troops card. But dead troops is the hand we’ve been dealt. You’re an adult. You’ve got to make a choice. No choice is choosing Biden. Understand what choosing not to support Trump means. It means dead Americans.
Now, one of the criticisms of this practical and utilitarian approach to politics – that is, treated reality is real – is that the Republican Party will never learn its lesson about nominating guys like Donald Trump unless Donald Trump loses. Well, maybe you’re some special genius who has discovered a way to lose your way to victory, but the traditional way to win is by winning. You’re not teaching the Republicans a lesson by rejecting Donald Trump. The base’s embrace of Donald Trump should be a lesson to the establishment, which created Donald Trump by its refusal to address the problems that mattered to actual voters as opposed to the problems that mattered to actual politicians. If you think you will somehow convince people to go back to the Romney era, that will not happen. Maybe Donald Trump Trump’s not your conservative, but he’s the kind of conservative who isn’t Joe Biden, and dammit, that should be enough.
It’s time to get serious and abandon the posturing. You need to support Donald Trump actively and enthusiastically. A lot is riding on it, and your pride is the least important thing riding on it.
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Kurt Schlichter: “…blah..blah…blah…vote for icky Donald Trump….yada…yada…yada…because people are dying and the nation is at stake.”
Yeah, keep writing your weekly articles for Townhall and collect your paycheck for writing this drivel for 1st level thinking plebes who still believe Orange Man can save the nation. He’ll mean tweet even harder this time around!
Oh, yeah…BIG MOUTH Marjorie Taylor Greene voted for the FISA bill. Let’s see if Bannon still let’s her on his show to bloviate on how great Big Daddy Operation Warp Speed is.
This has all gotten so pathetic its nauseating.
Trump’s newest spiel is we must allow the killing of babies to get him re-elected … Warp speed, bruh…..build that wall….reeeee
Using God’s name in vain is not going to go well for Trump of the Synagogue of Satan. Pray for repentance for him, but please do not vote for him.
Yes vote democrat it is the only way. To hell, that is.
What do you think of this satire, my triple jabbed brothers went ballistic.
That’s not satire.
And they say Blondes are dumb.
It is nauseating…..the pathetic part shows in the fact of 11 downvotes!
Sheeple are stoopid!
Trump isn’t really different from all the other bosses, except in his rhetoric. He says one thing and does another like claiming to MAGA but making the government Leviathan bigger with things like “Space Farce”. So this isn’t really about “mean tweets”.
That said, if Brandon is actually abandoning Israeli, maybe he’s my candidate?
Brandon is not abandoning Israel. Just some words so he doesn’t lose Michigan. The arms shipments will flow unabated. Additional complications with Lebanon, Syria and Iran are likely to arise before the presidential election, so we’ll see what Biden does.
My guess is that Trump is less likely to engage the US military in any large action – like sending troops to assist Israel against Hezbollah. That’s just a guess, though.
It seems like Trump is wrong on Israel/Gaza but right on extracting ourselves from Ukraine. Biden is wrong on both.
You had us until the last sentence. Brandon just doubled down to defend the false Israel against just retribution from Iran, risking all life on Earth to defend evil.
Omg another one by Kurt pushing the puppet president bullshit. Obviously Kurt is paid to misinform. Trump, Biden, whatever. The same agenda marches forward regardless of whatever puppet is in the white house. What an absolute idiot stop posting this shit.
So your argument is to vote for the supposed lesser of two evils to keep the status quo and to vote harder.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. You get what you wish for.
There may be another choice in the works, if we care to look into the possibility.
No shit.
As a child I could see the error of “voting for the lesser evil”, but none of the baby boomers over me could see it. How I loathe that generation (present company excluded(mostly)).
Never vote for anyone who supports Israel. Israel is the biggest danger to America, and American Citizens. Israel is pure fucking evil….
Write in Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib. Or Thomas Massie.
a man after my own heart. trump is a jewfuck.
Ol’ Kurt the Squirt never gives up, do he?
Lemme tell YOU something, Kurt. I’ve done little else BUT rethink ALL this shit for the last 11 years, and I’m not where I once was. I started off with the ambivalence of open-mindedness and expectation. Almost got to the point of liking the man’s performance in Office. Then came Covid, his thoughts on due process, and fucking Warp Speed “big, beautiful vaccines”, no border wall…and I’ve settled on my final answer:
Fuck Donald Trump.
Fuck ALL of them ! Every last one.
Term limits, age limits and none of them can own or sell stocks and their children get mandatory National Guard duty and when they get out no more of this lifetime pension and Platinum Level health insurance for free, bullshit.
What other job can you have for four years and you can be a complete fuck-up and basically do nothing but flap your gums and get benefits like they have?
Rope and lamp posts, go back to english only, then start from scratch or go back to the beginning of how this started, maybe get it right this time without all the mistakes.
Awww…fuck it….it’s too late.
Vigilante Justice, the ignorant and stupid among us will think that we are the criminals. They prefer being ruled by pedophiles and baby eaters. That’s some level of SICK to think that you are righteous for obeying the most depraved slop among us.
Kill them first, along with the lawyers!
It’s never too late to do the right thing. When enough people SEE that it is the right thing, that’s when shit gets real. Don’t give up. Worse is coming…and not just for us!
National Guard? That’s like sending them to a resort. No — put them Active Duty and on the front lines. Rope and lamp posts — love your line of thought Karen’s mother.
FJB
FJT
FDT
Africans built this nation and Wakanda is real!
Africans, of course did NOT build the US, but they did a HELL of a job remodeling Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, and South Chicago.
The main contribution of Africans to the growth of the US was the same as THIS, only not nearly as efficiently.
Enjoy the country going completely over the edge, if you Trump Haters get your wish. Let the arrogant comments rip.
It’s cute how you don’t realize you’ve already jumped off that particular cliff! It would appear that you’ve got farther to fall than the rest of us. Glad you had a head start…wouldn’t want you landing on ME!
You really don’t get it do you? The Israel run deep state is giving you 2 choices, the fast road to hell, or the slow road to hell, both roads lead to the same place. .
Jesus offers a 3rd choice. Too bad you’ve consistently avoided it. Enjoy!
Yes…… “Believe in me or burn in Hell for eternity”.
That’s some choice your benevolent, merciful god offers.
Righteous, good people who don’t believe can just fuck off and enjoy the heat.
Those are your choices. Don’t like it? Fuck off! Become your own god, you little fuck. See how THAT works out!
Spoken like a TRUE CHRISTIAN ! Jesus must be proud. Where is the love? The forgiveness? The mercy?
You people crack me up.
You have to accept His mercy. The Lord Jesus does not condemn you. You choose to be separated from Him. The one you follow promises you will be ‘like gods’, but he is a liar and seeks to destroy your soul. You can choose to be with the evil one, thinking somehow it makes you free, but he will enslave you. The pain of your separation from the love of God is what will cause you to to wail and grind your teeth. Sirach 15: 16-17
He has put fire and water before you;
you can stretch out your hand
for whichever you choose.
17 Life and death are in front
of human beings;
and they will be granted
whichever they please,
I “can choose to be with the evil one?”
WTF are you talking about? You have no fucking clue what I believe happens after I die and you assume it’s evil?
The arrogance!
Just stop already with the quotes, save them for somebody else.
Have a nice day.
believe what I believe or else, now read my jewish quotations!
I don’t read Olde English or whatever the script is, but I stand by the wisdom of Sirach. You have before you fire or water, choose one.
To be clear, I’m not talking about the Trump discussion, but the Jesus discussion just above my comment.
I hope you also have a nice day. It is beautiful, sunny and green outside my window and now that my work day is done, I’m going to enjoy it.
Wisdom of Sirach is the greatest apocryphal work in the canon, IMO. I think it is a shame that modern protestant Bibles have removed it.
jfc, how can you not read that and yet claim to care about any of this
peasants should have never been taught to read
they certainly never figured out sarcasm
edit: oops, nice day not good day
I’ve sunk to your level
“The last book of the Apocrypha is known by many names. Some commentaries refer to it as “Sira,” which is the Hebrew family name of the author. In Greek, the family name is “Sirach.” Other scholars add “The Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach” or “Wisdom of Ben (son of) Sirach.” Finally, “Ecclesiasticus” comes from the Latin translation and is commonly used in English. Scholars think it might mean “church book” or “belonging to the church,” but it is to be distinguished from the canonical wisdom book of Ecclesiastes. His text is regarded as canonical by Catholics and Orthodox Christians.
Introduction
Sirach is not only the longest book in the Apocrypha, but it is also the only book named for its author, Jesus Ben (which means “son of”) Sira. In his writings, Ben Sira manages to combine secular wisdom with biblical wisdom. Most of the book consists of short blocks of sayings on a variety of topics. The book was originally written in Hebrew, but it was translated into Greek by the author’s nephew in 117 BCE. The two versions are remarkably similar.”
https://biblewise.com/bible_study/apocrypha/sirach.php
I think confessional Lutherans are comfortable saying it as I did, but thank you for that except.
isn’t that speeeeeecial?? i don’t think he is getting a present from santa this year and you know what s-a-n-t-a spells?
Could not be any worse that your fucked up god who you believe is sanctioning the murder and starvation and genocide of innocent people so the most vile people on earth can steal their land.
Using the name of Jesus in this context demonstrates your falseness.
Jesus never existed. The definition of faith is belief in things that do not exist. Faith is also proof someone is irrational and not capable of dealing with reality… It does not matter if you believe in a magic man in the sky, or global warming, it is all the same insanity.
There is more proof that Jesus existed than all other people of the ancient world and your understanding of faith, at least in regards to Christianity, is flawed.
Still not tired of winning the buttsex wars …..reeeee
Well … hafta’ agree with you here.
I agree on one point you made …Dey definitely some god’s peoples….
The Haskalah movement in Russia
by Raisin, Jacob Salmon, 1877-1946
Publication date 1913
On November 6, 1884,
for the first time in history, a Jewish international
assembly was held at Kattowitz, near the Russian
frontier, where representatives from all classes
and different countries met and decided to colonize
Palestine with Jewish farmers. ”
https://archive.org/details/haskalahmovement00raisuoft/page/n7/mode/2up
The Iron Curtain over America
by John Beaty
“In the eighth or ninth century of our era, a khakan (or chagan,
roughly equivalent to tribal chief or primitive king) of the Khazars
wanted a religion for his pagan people. Partly, perhaps, because
of incipient tension between Christians and the adherents of the
new Mohammedan faith (Mohammed died in 632), and partly
because of fear of becoming subject to the power of the Byzantine
emperor or the Islamic caliph (Ancient Russia, p. 291), he adopted
a form of the Jewish religion at a date generally placed at c. 741
A.D., but believed by Vernadsky to be as late as 865. According
to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (Vol. VI, pp. 375-377), this
chieftain, probably Bulan, “called upon the representatives of
Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism to expound their
doctrines before him. This discussion convinced him that the
Jewish faith was the most preferable, and he decided to embrace
it. Thereupon he and about 4,000 Khazars were circumcised; it
was only by degrees that the Jewish teachings gained a foothold
among the population.”
https://archive.org/details/iron-curtain-over-america_202207/mode/2up?q=the+iron+curtain+over+America
Democrats are the problem, all of them.
Corporations are the problem. Our governments are incorporated, our churches are incorporated, non-profits (which must turn a profit btw) are incorporated, you and I have been incorporated…
Profit is the only thing that matters to a corporation.
Capitalism is every bit as dehumanizing as communism. No doubt some assclown will then assume I am a socialist.
All 545 of them.
Democrats and political parties are both symptoms.
This was a poor sales pitch.
Fear-based pleas is all they can resort to, given all of the problems and baggage Trump brings.
Trump the chump belongs in the garbage dump with all of the rest of his swamp-dwelling companions. It’s all theatre, it robs you of your energy, which could be used for more productive pursuits. Politics makes you fearful and angry ON PURPOSE.
Focus on truth instead of dwelling on the great deceptions, esp the big election deception. Get your spiritual house in order, war has already been declared on us. Don’t play their game, devise strategies that break up the power of the Beast system. Your time and attention are too valuable to waste on politics.
I predict an election that could be won by mere dozens of fake votes.
Well at least vote for Trump to add to the amount of cheat the commies have to come up with. That’s about all a vote is worth anymore, but it’s something.
:…However, I like Donald Trump and will eagerly support him following his victory over my primary candidate, Ron DeSantis.”
Kuck Sphincter
grift on you crazy diamond.
” Let’s agree that this is all true.” including the fact that trump is a mass murderer straight from satan’s asshole. he is pilgrim society treasonous cunt.