Posted on 04/25/2022 4:29:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s always fun when progressive jerks try to leverage their bizarre perceptions of our beliefs to get us to do what they want. It can be some smug Twitter blue check informing us that “Actually Jesus was a socialist who would want us to cancel student debt for spoiled rich kids who got degrees in Transgender Visual Arts” or, more recently, some newly-minted Milton Friedman acolyte goofsplaining that we must submit to the skeevy whims of California corporations and accept the imposition of grooming mandates because, after all, they are private businesses. And sometimes it works, even on alleged conservatives – David French has made whatever passes for his C-list career out of striving to twist conservatism to conform to his lib masters’ version of it.
But this cheesy ploy is not working anymore, at least not on the rest of us.
Ron DeSantis, the Scourge of Odd sitting on his growing throne o’ skulls in Tallahassee, is fresh from laughing off the howls of broken libs enraged that he gerrymandered them in Florida like they gerrymandered us in New York and Illinois. Ron is not one for accepting two sets of rules, one for the ruling caste and another, crappier one for us peasants. He identifies the applicable rule, and applies it good and hard. It’s about time the left learns that norm-breaking has consequences. And one consequence is frequent broken-norm suppositories.
Disney found out the hard way for the same reason as other woke corporations will. These CEOs, who appear to be ruthless robber barons in business, encounter a bunch of their own blue-haired, pierced subordinates who think a penis is irrelevant to determining their gender and suddenly these executives roll-over and give it up so cravenly that even Mitt Romney would look at them and mutter “Get a spine!”
And in the case of Disney, it was so objectively insane that you had to wonder about the thought process, but only for a moment until you realize that this is 2022 and everything is utterly stupid. Disney got welcomed into America’s homes and hearts by purveying safe and wholesome kiddie fare to American families and has decided, to please a pack of mutant employees, to administer a coup de grace to that rep by leaping into the arena to fight against a law that all normal people agree is so manifestly proper that it really should not have to be a law at all – that pervs can’t talk to little kids about sex in schools. But no, Disney had to weigh-in on the side of groomers because the consensus in the rarified circles its leadership circulates in and among the weirdo contingent on its staff is that the world must be made safe for bizarre sexuality.
Oh, and it did not help that a bunch of Disney employees recently got swept up in a child porn sting, and that the strange-os in its bureaucracy decided to brag on leaked Zoom calls about how they were injecting their freak show gender nonsense into its once sacrosanct movies and shows. You know what Buzz Lightyear was missing? Some not-hot girl-on-girl action. We are one revision away from changing the title of “The Lion King” to “The Otherkin Non-Binary Member of the Royalty.” “Hakuna matata” is supposed to mean “No worries,” not “It’s okay to lop off your junk if you’re not feeling like a boy today.”
So DeSantis decided that Disney needed some discipline, and that stepping to him (and, therefore, us) cried out for a response. Some folks worry that this is an attack on the First Amendment, but this was not just because Disney chose to weigh in on an issue (though it’s unclear why you are obligated to continue providing juicy tax breaks to political opponents – the Founders would have tossed you in a madhouse for arguing that). No, Disney has launched a broad offensive against normal people using political, cultural and economic power to change our society without our permission. This is not just about Disney expressing an opinion, though its groomer-tolerant opinion is creepy and gross.
DeSantis’s response was to strip away the special giveaway that Disney got for its overpriced hellscape in Orlando. The left responded by telling Disney it should pick up Disney World and move it to, say, Buffalo. Disney, on the other hand, realized it has stepped in a steaming San Francisco sidewalk sundae and is desperately trying to turn down the temperature.
Disney thought it was going to win, because, you know, Republicans like big companies and defer to them and, well, no. That’s not us anymore. After years of big companies leveraging their power to screw us over, from the NFL to Delta to Coke, now we’re over it. They are free to use their power – a potent cocktail of cultural, economic, and political power – as they see fit. And so are we. We have freed ourselves of the arbitrary rules that formerly prevented us from responding with our own brand of power – which is a little bit economic but mostly political – to fight back.
And a lot of conservatives have mixed feelings. Some part of that is legit – using political power to crush enemies can go too far. Hell, that’s essentially how Chicago works. But our new way of responding to our enemies – who, remember, chose to break the norm of businesses staying out of social issues – is not designed to shake them down but to shake them up. We are not twisting arms for cash tributes. We are trying to keep perverts away from our kids. It’s very clear – you corporations go make money and run your business and we’re not going to hassle you. But if you use your power to pursue the agenda of our enemies, you are now our enemy, and we will gleefully and without apology use all our power to harm you right back.
The fretting conservatives, some in good faith and others because they are worthless and weak, claim to worry that this is some grand violation of our principles. It is certainly not a violation of my principles, starting with this one: If you hit me, I will hit you back twice as hard and then kick your quivering body. One problem with so much of blue check conservative Twitter is that so many of those who would presume to lead us into battle have never been in a fistfight. I have no use for anyone who has never gotten in a brawl and lost – and I prefer ones who have experience winning too.
We’re told that for some reason we are obliged not to use our most effective strength, our primary mode of power, in support of our interests. What we are never told is why that is true. Where we hold the government, we need to use it to deter corporate intervention – when did conservatism drop the concepts of deterrence and righteous retribution? We believe that for criminals who wrong us, and we need to apply them to others who do so as well, including companies. And there’s a track record of not using our power, manifesting in the current crisis. We have seen what not fighting back does, what substituting conservative cliches for conservative ass-kicking has got us. So, what’s the alternative they suggest? We tried doing nothing and that didn’t work. Maybe do nothing twice as hard?
No, we’re way past the phase where our opponents can appeal to our principles to neutralize our ability to resist. Our goal is a freer, more prosperous country where our kids are not the target of weirdos. You don’t get that by holding fire when the California commie contingent comes to make you into second class citizens. And do not think for a moment that making us into serfs is not their desired end state. From running down the idea of free speech to reimagining “democracy” into meaning that they have total control over the levers of cultural and political power to their manifest desire to turn our kids into gender-baffled sex objects for the Democrat pervert constituency, the future our enemies seek is unacceptable.
And we need to follow the principled lead of guys like Ron DeSantis and simply not accept it.
Excellent article.
Sodom & Gomorrah be all like, “Just damn!”
What I thought was encouraging was that, because of Disney, Exxon is seeing the handwriting on the wall and removing their homosexual flag and BLM flag. They know we’re as mad as hell and not taking it any more.
Hopefully, other companies will follow suit.
Well said!!!!
“I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!”
—Howard Beale, Network
Yes, these are the stupid years. Led by the Stupid-in-Chief Joe Biden.
“realized it has stepped in a steaming San Francisco sidewalk sundae”
The best line I have read in quite some time!
To that end, Georgia needs to punish Coke and Delta. The only thing Leftists appreciate is force.
One governor with a spine does not a “conservatives now fight back” make.
Let’s hear it for DeSantis, but c’mon man, we need a heck of a lot more than a single governor.
Where’s the fighters in Washington, DC?
Read later.
In your heart.. In your being... When they (or anyone), says you can’t.. Do you
settle for that?
When in a war with a determined enemy..
And you are the only one playing fair ...
You will lose!
They took the election
Put in a piece of old senile lying establishment
The other side didnt object
The other side sat in their chamber seats
And here we are!!!!
If ya dont fight against wrong... We will lose our country.
You will lose it all.
I laughed super hard on that line. Can’t wait to use that phrase.
The independent country of Disney World work(ed) quite differently from the rest of the USA. I was there a while back for a business conference in one wing of the park. While walking back to my hotel after a meeting I happened to be passed by a bicycle cart with two park visitors in it that overturned while rounding a corner on the boardwalk just ahead of me. The park driver simply rounded the corner too fast. One of the occupants was injured quite severely with what appeared to be a compound fracture of his hand.
An ambulance was there, literally in seconds (good for Disney). But after the visitors left in the ambulance, there was no police investigation or report of the circumstances surrounding the event, like you would see in any public community. Instead, a cleanup crew arrived with chemicals, mops, brooms and brushes. Within a minute, or two, there was no evidence whatsoever that anything happened there at all.
I assume it was likely that the visitors were well compensated for their problems. I also assume that there was no large damage suit, either. There was simply no evidence to prove it, or even indicate that it happened at all. As a witness, no one asked me anything. There was not even anyone to tell it to.
This is easy, I have spent 40 working to raise my children and wife in a nice life. So guess what? Now it is your turn to pay me in the lifestyle I want so I can Vlog my sailing around the world, surfing and smoking dope all on your dime! Have a great 40 years X Gen because I will on your dime!
Mr. Schlichter hits another one outta the park.
Kurt at his finest; thanks for posting.
DeSantis is what a real Catholic politician looks like.
Yes, I have been using that Bealism a lot myself lately. Spot on. (Faye Dunaway was very attractive in that movie)
True, but I believe that was a lesson learned.
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