Posted on 05/16/2019 3:56:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
The stupid Beltway GOP Establishment, but I repeat myself, is finally standing firm on something – unfortunately, what it is standing firm on is its failure to listen to its own base. The base is woke and the Establishment’s a joke. I speak to a lot of conservative groups of various types and flavors: hardcore tea partiers, patriotic vets, loyal radio listeners, besieged students, brass New Yorkers, even rich country club types who you would think were into Jeb! – you know, diversity. And lately, I’ve tended to start off my talks by posing this question:
“Okay, who here agrees with me that the left wants us enslaved or dead?”
Every hand goes up.
Every single one of them.
That’s our base.
Folks, our base is hella woke.
And they love Trump, because Trump has delivered the oven-fresh, piping hot conservatism they ordered.
Now, these were not all Trump fans from the get-go. The vast majority were initially like me – extremely suspicious and leery of the outrageous Manhattan tycoon. But, as I described in the first chapter of book Militant Normals, I came around because Trump delivered – something the GOP Establishment never did. Trump came through with the most conservative agenda of anyone since Reagan – maybe more conservative than even St. Ronnie – and he won me over. And he won the base over. They love him.
Love him.
He fights.
He wins.
The Establishment never does either.
So, we’re now two years into what we hope will be eight years of awesomeness. The GDP is exploding. We’re rebuilding our military yet avoiding more idiotic wars that the geniuses in DC thought were a great idea for us and our kids to get killed fighting with our hands tied behind our backs. We have scores of new judges and have rolled-back bushels of regulations. Unemployment – for every kind of American – is setting record lows not seen since Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit tried to rock a miniskirt. And the constitutional abomination that was the soft coup disguised as a scandal was finally blown out of the water by a gravely disappointed Robert Mueller.
It appears the situation might be resolved, but it never should have arisen. With the party unified and rising in the polls, and the fake RUSSIA! scandal finally behind us so we can move forward with the conservative agenda we were promised, what do the Fredocon jerks of the GOP Establishment do?
What they always do.
Screw everything up.
You probably don’t know Senator Richard Burr (R-Chamber of Commerce), because he’s utterly undistinguished in everything except his total commitment to doing the bidding of his corporate donor masters in service of reinforcing the Establishment’s grip on power. He allegedly represents North Carolina, but he is actually the Distinguished Gentlemen from Open Borders.
And he’s a sap.
He’s chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee – go ahead and insert your own oxymoron joke – and it was with him that Donald Trump, Jr., agreed to give 20+ hours of testimony about the whole bogus RUSSIA TREASON EMOLUMENTS TRAITOR COLLUSION lie on the condition that his testimony was once and done. In the end Mueller, who would have gleefully charged Don Jr. with anything he could have found or invented charged Don Jr. with nada. So, after Mueller reluctantly put a stake in the heart of this garbage scandal – because you know Mueller and his pack of Democrats was slobbering at the thought of a Trump scalp – what did Burr decide to do?
1.Celebrate the total exoneration of the President of the false charges made against him by Democrats and their lying mainstream media transcriptionists?
Or
2.Decide to play along with the Democrats’ craven and malicious effort to keep the lie alive by subpoenaing Don Jr. to testify again about claims made by Federal Convict #86626, aka Michael Cohen, currently a resident of the old stoney lonesome for lying to Congress, as part of an attempt to frame the President’s son for perjury?
“Well, gosh,” you might think, “Only a Democrat-collaborating hack, or slack-jawed idiot, or both, would choose Option Two,” but then you remember we’re talking about an Establishment bot like Richard Burr.
Of course, the usual cruise ship conservative crewmembers gathered on the Lido Deck to opine that this was all perfectly legit and just fine and gee, how could anyone imagine that what is manifestly a perjury trap designed to revitalize a failed bogus narrative could be a perjury trap designed to revitalize a failed bogus narrative? Why, we should defer to our wonderful institutions because the people who run our insitutions only want what’s best for us.
Except our institutions are garbage.
There’s our lesson from the last two years. The ruling class that runs them ran the institutions not for our benefit but for its own, to preserve its own power and position. The institutions and those running them are entirely responsible for our legitimate contempt – they deserve no respect, no deference and no obedience.
That’s the feeling of the GOP base, DC insiders. You might consider interacting with some DC outsiders sometime because you don’t seem to get it. The base is furious. And now this North Carolina nitwit decides to side with the Democrats against the base just as we were all finally coming together? Does anyone think the base will just shrug it off?
This kind of nonsense is just part and parcel of what Never Trump is. See, though Burr is apparently not running again in four years, he’s laboring under the delusion that by then America will come to its senses and welcome him and his gooey ilk back into unchallenged power. He’s counting on some sort of Establishment payback down the road – a nice job on K Street, an appointment as the token GOP Secretary of Mediocrity for President Creepy Joe, or maybe some CNN hits along with Ana Navarro. He’s burnishing his credentials as one of the Republicans the ruling class can always count on to submit and obey.
He’s Mitt Romney without the dog tormenting. BTW, Mitt was last seen voting against a federal judge nominee because of True Conservatism™ or something.
Never Trump is just another flavor of narcissism, and Burr’s selfishness will shaft the rest of his Senate colleagues most of all in 2020. He doesn’t care – and he expects the Senate collegiality he is ignoring as he hurts his team will protect him from the blistering criticism he deserves from other Republicans. Pity poor Thom Tillis, North Carolina’s other senator. Most of us already suspect he’s squishy. Tillis has to run in 2020 and now Burr’s brought this Schiff-storm down on him. Burr’s behavior was bad enough that Tillis offered tweets in protest, which is a big deal among senators. When Tillis loses, he can thank his good buddy Burr the Blue Falcon.
Other senators better tighten-up and turn on the pressure. Martha McSally faces a tough run next year – where is she on this? John Cornyn? Better surf the zeitgeist, and the zeitgeist is all about fighting back. I give Mitch McConnell (who Hugh Hewitt accurately assesses as the best GOP Senate majority leader in a century) a pass, since he has to wrangle a Senate caucus composed of both sissy weak-hearts and sturdy heroes, and he needs to fight this fight his way even if we don’t fully appreciate his moves right now. But you know Cocaine Mitch must be livid at Burr; down the road, that tool will be saying “Hello” to Mitch’s little friend.
We’re woke to the Burrs too, and sooner or later we are going to purge them all.
You can say that again.
When the 2nd A is all you have left, it’s all you have left. Personally, I don’t think we need to lift a finger to destroy the government of the USA. It’s doing nicely all on it’s own. Just get in position to catch a survivable chunk on the way down.
To hell with 'em all! All the RINOs--including the Bushes, the Romneys--all of 'em.
I can't believe that I once actually supported these people! NEVER AGAIN!
“why the President and his legal team would be permitting Don Jr. to walk into this obvious ‘rat trap.”
I don’t think that’s what’s going on. I think he’s going before the committee expecting to be treated like every other republican who goes before the committee. I predict that when they panel starts badgering him and giving speeches trying to incriminate him, he tells them to shove it and walks out. Jr. is outspoken. I think he wants the public forum to give THEM a piece of his mind.
President Trump loves America that much. How much? Look at what he has risked, what he has endured, the position in which he has place himself and his family--and all because of his love for America and faith in God and the United States and the American People.
If he succeeds--and he probably will--he will have been the greatest President in US history.
And, we were told that white rhinos were on the endangered species list.
(I feel a meme coming on...)
Please post and sell tickets for the guillotining of RINOmney when the GOP gets its balls back.
They’ll make billions and billions.
You’re right: Mediocrity is the secret curse of the Establishment. The Establishment consists of people of mediocrity: mediocre intellect, mediocre integrity, mediocre standards, mediocre morality. They are baffled by a man of genius, truth, excellence, and puissance, viz. President Donald Trump. They simply cannot understand him, and they are particularly confounded by the way he dances circles around them and the magnitude of support he receives from people of high intelligence, morality, and honesty, i.e. the basic American man and woman.
Apparently Utah is not done with RINOs.
Floriduh has two giant RINOs too.
Dany burned down King’s Landing because she realized it was a “deep state” swamp, filled with Varys and Littlefingers. Trump is by himself on Drogon and he will take many years. But it will take decades to clear out the stench that is DC.
The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by the German syndicalist sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties.The “iron law of oligarchy” states that all forms of organization, regardless of how democratic or autocratic they may be at the start, will eventually and inevitably develop oligarchic tendencies, thus making true democracy practically and theoretically impossible, especially in large groups and complex organizations. The relative structural fluidity in a small-scale democracy succumbs to “social viscosity” in a large-scale organization. According to the “iron law,” democracy and large-scale organization are incompatible.
“does anybody actually beleive we can get out country back through the “political process” because from where I am it appears that just ain’t Gonna be possible.”
Sadly I agree with you. We ain’t voting our way out of this.
See my tag line.
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Kurt Schlichter hit this one out of the park...
Kurt has it right. The DS ruling class is directly responsible for the last decade or so of the fiasco known to this country’s as the Obama tragedy. Congress’s unforgivable crime was to deliberately ignore and not timely represent the country’s interests by preventing the traitor from accessing the WH. Pelosi certified that he was presidentially qualified to run and our illustrious Congress didn’t say a peep about it during the joint session tabulating the electoral college votes. This session is sort of like the wedding ceremony where the presiding official asks everyone in attendance if he/she has any objection to the marriage. Not one of our ‘entrusted’ Congresspersons, among the 485 on deck, voiced a single objection to the usurper taking office. To add insult to misery, in this first go-around our illustrious VP Chaney was presiding. Now that is hard core DS. This same BS happened again in 2012. Treason I say.
Bush League Republicans MUST become extinct before the Republic does.
Burr does win the Blue Falcon award.
“With the party unified and rising in the polls, and the fake RUSSIA! scandal finally behind us so we can move forward with the conservative agenda we were promised, what do the Fredocon jerks of the GOP Establishment do?”
Kurt, it is past time that you drop the mask and let everyone know that you are running for President in 2024. And if you are not wearing that mask, it is time to put it on for just a few minutes and then immediately rip it off. In other words, run for President. I cannot stand the idea of a milquetoast like Mike Pence, as decent of a person as he is, being President or even the Republican nominee - because he is simply not a fighter. If he is the nominee, then we will have experienced a most enjoyable and entertaining, but only temporary, reprieve from business as usual in the District of Criminals. We simply cannot allow for Trump to be an aberration, his pro-American viewpoint on every issue must once again become the norm for our elected leaders.
Run, Kurt, run!
A good article, but.....
As most on this topic talk about the rino’s desperately trying to hold on to power ....
Power? To them power means money. The real fear of the rino’s is that they will be dragged away from the trough.
Hillary, Comey, Biden, obummer, Pelosi, Feinstein.... They are only the obvious.
DC is truly the city with streets paved with gold. Billions floating around with very poor accounting for where it is going.
Stories of he defense department losing billions with no record of where it went...Lobbyists/lobbiers, whatever handing out millions on every subject in which the government is involved.
Hillary shaking down both the buyer and the seller on the same deal to approve the purchase/sale of defense materials is a prime example.
I am all for people who create or produce getting rich, but our political system is filled with those who scam, steal bribe and corrupt others.
The swamp will never be drained until someone stops the graft. Like organized crime, if there is enough money to be stolen men/women will take any risk to get a piece of the money. Put one in jail, two pop up to take their place unless you get control of the money.
One major step would be to keep most of the money from going to DC.
We’re through being cool
We’re through being cool
Eliminate the ninnies and the twits
-DEVO
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