Posted on 05/27/2018 9:56:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
There's a great scene in the movie Witness where a bunch of bullies start picking on some Amish farmers, and then they pick on Harrison Ford, who is sporting Extreme Mennonite drag. They knock off his straw hat, laugh at him, and then he beats the crap out of them.
The bullies are shocked, stunned, and bewildered. Why, hes not supposed to fight back! Why, the Amish, theyre better than that! But Harrisons not. As his buddy says, hes from Ohio.
I am not better than that either. How about you?
Because today, being better than that means being willing to allow other people to control you by defining you, and the definition is always a pushover. Youre supposed to be conservative, our conservasuperiors tell us, and we must therefore rigidly adhere to their precious conservative principles. But these bear no resemblance to real principles, much less conservative ones.
Allow me to sum up these fake principles:
Dont ever fight.
Dont presume to exercise your own right of free expression.
Lose like a gentleman.
Yeah, no. Hard pass, Fredocons.
Last week, the NFL, broken by our informal boycott, took action against those kneeling jerks, and the elite including its True Conservative collaborators wet their collective panties all over the Internet about it. How horrible we flexed our muscles, stopped watching these pampered jerks antics, and the NFL caved. Were not supposed to do that. Were supposed to behold these goofs glorious free speech, which consists of waving middle fingers in our mugs, and just nod politely. We arent the ones who should be exercising our freedom of expression. We are the ones who are supposed to cave. We are always the ones who are supposed to cave.
I guess we missed the memo.
Oh, and how Task Force Pearl Clutcher lectured us for not adequately defending the First Amendment that a bunch of us were physically defending when the vast majority of them were back home getting their masters in 17th century philosophy and sipping Zimas. Worse, they shamefully took to the enemy microphone that is the New York Times op-ed page to scold us and spew out exactly what the liberals wanted to hear that we conservatives should never, ever take our own side in a fight.
Apparently, the going rate for professional conservatives is thirty pieces of silver and a byline in American Pravda.
Liberals never seem to have this blue falcon problem, because they understand power. But then, those of us less concerned with getting an invitation to talk to donors at the National Weekly Liberty Forum for Eagle Family Liberty Standard Coalition and Cruise than not having progressive Birkenstocks ground into our faces forever, understand power too. And, scandalously, now were using it.
The liberals were likewise beside themselves at the results of our push back, prompting them to go into one of their trademark sessions of coordinated but inept gaslighting. Why, how dare we Normals take offense at this peaceful protest of love!
Baloney.
This kneeling thing was mindless performance art designed by these leftist jerks, and enabled by the liberal elite and its slobbering media lapdogs, to insult us to our faces by committing an act of calculated disrespect to our country and to the Normal Americans who built it, feed it, and protect it.
It was a scam and a lie from the word hike. This dimwitted protest was always directed at us, and no one else. If it wasnt us, who was it? The America-loathing elite that was cheering them on?
These preening primadonnas did not have to choose the football game venue, one we attend to escape from things like politics and condescending lectures. They did not have to choose the National Anthem, a symbol of the country we love and serve. If these overpaid, pampered, posing fools wanted to protest whatever it is they are protesting, they could have done it differently, but then doing it differently wouldnt have freaked out the squares. That was the point, and now they are mad because we took their insult exactly as they intended it to be taken.
And they arent even man enough to admit it. Their new story is that this has nothing to do with us Normals, that it's not an insult. No, it's a heartfelt plea for something. I guess the pig-cop socks and Castro T-shirt were gestures of respect.
Lets get real. They wanted to rub our faces in their contempt, to laugh at us as we had to endure it, humiliated by our own powerlessness. We were supposed to just sit there and take it. We are never supposed to use our own power to fight back.
Oops. Look whos laughing now. Turns out we can throw a punch as well, and did, slugging the feckless NFL right in the wallet. You want to politicize everything? This is politicizing everything. Enjoy. Were playing by the New Rules too.
But gosh, we cant do that. Oh well, I never! How dare you Normal Americans get militant and actually fight back, whine the kneelers of Team Principles. Real conservatives dont fight back. See, thats not who we are.
No, thats not who they are.
We understand something the Conservative, Inc., goofs never seem to figure out. They howl that all we are about these days is owning the libs and winning, but heres the thing. Sometimes, you have to win. Sometimes, you have to stop yapping and start performing. Once in a while, you have to put points on the board. Otherwise, people stop listening to you. Its possible to spend your whole career inside Conservative, Inc., drifting from cheesy think tank sinecure to lame magazine scribbling gig, never actually winning anything. But out here, in America, we want to, and need to, prevail. Our rights and our dignity are merely theoretical constructs to the Fredocons, and are of no significance to them. But our rights and dignity matter to us. And we are acting and voting accordingly.
These cruise-shilling nags have delivered nothing but tiresome scoldings and a never-ending series of capitulations. No wonder they cant seem to sell out those two-twin bed deluxe cabins along the Lido Deck anymore.
No wonder Normal Americans turned to someone like Donald Trump when these pathetic losers were only offering us more defeat and more humiliation at the hands of our enemies in the culture war.
We reject the bizarre notion that we are somehow obligated to stoically take guff from people who despise us without responding because doing so is unconservative. We decline to be commanded by conscientious objectors.
Heres how we roll. When the enemy deploys its power against us, whether its some football jerk dissing us via Old Glory or some tech titan deciding to not allow us access to social media, we will fight back using whatever power we have. Well bankrupt the NFL before we just sit there watching them flip us off. And well leverage our political power to regulate the Twittfacegrams into submission if they keep trying to exclude us from participation in our own culture. There is no conservative principle that requires you to not use your most effective weapon in your own self-defense. None.
But thats not conservative! the sissies whimper.
Thats true only if you adopt a definition of conservatism that presumptively surrenders whenever it meets resistance. The simple, undeniable fact is that punishment works. Retaliation works. If you want the Old Rules back in effect Id prefer that then you need to teach the enemy that it cant apply New Rules without feeling the same pain it inflicts. Thats a real conservative principle.
Unilateral disarmament doesnt work.
Remember, nothing in conservatism ever obligates you to accept an end-result where you must silently endure disrespect, where you are excluded from participation in your own governance, or where your rights are voided. None, though a bunch of allegedly conservative racketeers disenfranchised by the revolution that led to the election of Donald Trump are still trying to sell you on that idea.
Laugh at them and their fussy complaints about how you fail to conform your life to their labels. Fight back. Remember, militant Normal Americans arent from Washington. Theyre from Ohio.
There was enough national discontent with the kneelfests to press for their discontinuance. Still, one might be sad. Why is sports supposed to be the supreme expression of national identity? Seems to me this is about crowing at a success in shooting fish in a barrel.
Anyone who thinks something was won in the NFL flap when they are still going forward with handing a hundred million to hard left activist groups is not paying attention.
Nothing changed, and I won’t be returning to NFL football. The damage is done.
Trump has shown conservatives the need to fight. He has accomplished so much in spite of overwhelming adversity. Fight on!
We can thank Donald Trump for a lot, but near the top is that he pulled a lot of masks off and showed what our so called allies really are, fellow travelers and gracious losers. The “Washington Generals” of the Harlem Globetrotter league.
No need to get all upset how they want one behavior (decency) from us, but refuse to give it. Thats the plan.
Lets stop chattering like Rush Limbaughs interminable fake outrage at the media. Its too known now that the media = leftist propaganda. Stop taking from it and giving it legitimacy, even with outrage. We need to mock, Polarize, and diminish it. Start right now.
Good article.
Agreed. Never again.
Spot on. Grateful that he showed me how wrong I was about the Stupid Party.
real conservatives are warming up the helicopters
Yes, the NFL is dead to me. Dead, dead, dead. It needs to be razed. I love football. The NFL is not the sport of football.
Football will survive but in a different form. It is too popular and too huge a revenue stream to disappear all together.
The barrier to starting a new league is extremely high. That is why we need to keep the pressure on to lower that barrier.
Watch while the NFL continues to sink and a new league starts up. You may see some owners jump ship out of a need to survive.
The $100 million to the SJWs must not be funded.
And this should be a lesson to all business owners that this could happen to them if they cave to the SJWs.
The NFL is dead, long live football. Next is the LEFT MEDIA CARTEL.
To those who say conservatives dont do boycotts, I say this is free market principles. This is freedom.
I refuse to fund the LEFT. I refuse to pay for the rope the LEFT wants to hang us with.
Fight like your freedom depends on it because it absolutely does.
>> Why is sports supposed to be the supreme expression of national identity?
Assuming you’re referring to the United States alone, the major leagues were never supreme to patriotism. But the leagues were infected no less than any other aspect of American life.
The once wholesome playing field is now poisoned by Leftism and every facilitating corporation.
Players = just jocks w/o their straps. The only place balls are found is on the field.
With no protection, their antics will be seen by no one.
The jig is up.
RIP NFL your day in the sun has been eclipsed.
Too little, too late.
The other day, I was cleaning out my closet and found my Green Bay Packers sweatshirt that I used to love.
I happily tossed it in the garbage. I’m through with the NFL.
Its too known now that the media = leftist propaganda. Stop taking from it and giving it legitimacy, even with outrage.
We need to mock, Polarize, and diminish it.
Word
I am not a conservative. I am a nationalist. I am interested in the future of my children and grandchildren more than I am in “conservative principles”, and I will act to preserve the future of my kids, and my friends kids, by whatever means necessary.
Indeed, indeed, indeed.
Bush, McCain, Romney. Bah. Those asswipes and their ilk wasted my support.
Right on the mark. They have made some minor concessions to get back in our good graces. It's gonna take a lot more than that.
".... Heres how we roll. When the enemy deploys its power against us, whether its some football jerk dissing us via Old Glory or some tech titan deciding to not allow us access to social media, we will fight back using whatever power we have. Well bankrupt the NFL before we just sit there watching them flip us off. And well leverage our political power to regulate the Twittfacegrams into submission if they keep trying to exclude us from participation in our own culture. There is no conservative principle that requires you to not use your most effective weapon in your own self-defense. None..."
Very well written piece. Being conservative means you stand for something, and sometimes you have to do more than stand; you advance and fight for what you believe in. Always be prepared to fight because the opposition does every day.
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