Posted on 06/30/2026 6:02:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Night of the Long Knives, redux.
It was this week back in 1934 that we experienced something called Night of the Long Knives:
In Germany, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future.
Hitler didn’t do primaries, but his purges were basically the same thing. Let’s get rid of those who may become potential enemies or will get in the way of our ambition. They are no longer convenient, so let’s push them over.
We hear that Hakeem Jeffries is next. He is no longer convenient, or maybe radical enough, to feed the derangement.
It reminds me of something that we have seen before when the mob turns on its own leaders because that’s what deranged mobs do. Let’s hear from Professor Turley:
‘You’re next!’
This chant, at the victory celebration of the Democratic Socialists this week, was a message not for the oligarchs or the billionaires, but for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and the Democratic establishment. They were threatening that Jeffries would be the next to lose his House seat to a socialist candidate.
It was a scene that has recurred throughout history, as establishment leaders are overtaken by the very mobs they sought to use for their own purposes.
For years, Jeffries has joined other Democrats in fueling the rage on the left in the hopes of becoming the next House Speaker. Whether calling for supporters to ‘fight in the streets,’ denouncing the Supreme Court as ‘illegitimate’ or posting an image of himself brandishing a baseball bat, Jeffries sought to portray himself as a class warrior worthy of the mob’s support.
Other Democratic leaders followed suit — especially Senate Minority Leader
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Turning on each other. Seems this has happened before. Who wants to play Trotsky?
It has been said the best thing about Communists is how many Communists get killed by Communists.
The night of the long knives occurred because Göring negotiated a deal with the industrialists to support Hitler in exchange for getting rid of the Socialist Strasserites (a side benefit was that the homosexuals were liquidated as well).
Hitler himself vacillated over killing Röhm and had to be talked into it.
What we are seeing in the Democrat party is that the Strasserites are trying to take out the folks that sold out to the industrialists (tech billionaires in the modern case).
The Nazi Revolt most never heard of
The Stennes Revolt (1931)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stennes_revolt
Members of the SA led by Berlin chief Walter Stennes, dissatisfied with the role and restrictions placed on them by Adolf Hitler, began to rebel against the Nazi Party leadership. Stennes issued a number of demands regarding the status of the SA and Nazi Party policy which were rejected by Hitler. Stennes ransacked the offices of the Berlin Gau twice as a show of force, which led to him and his supporters being expelled from the SA and the Nazi Party.
The Stennes revolt led to a temporary resumption of control of the SA by the Nazi Party leadership, and Hitler’s appointment of Ernst Röhm as SA Chief. Many of the issues within the SA that provoked the revolt were not resolved and contributed to the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. The revolt was one of the first major actions of the Schutzstaffel which earned them the confidence of Hitler. There is some evidence suggesting that Stennes was paid by the government of Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, with the intention of causing conflict within and destabilizing the Nazi movement.
History doesn’t repeat. But it does rhyme.
Unless all of the cellphone satellites are turned off and everyone’s screen goes dark, this time it’s going to get a lot nastier than anything that’s happened in the past.
An oldie but goodie:
Make Mine Freedom
Karma is an absolute and recalcitrant b!+c#, rises up and bites you in the @$$ every time.
Hakeem Jeffries, you might never see your dream of being Speaker of the House.
How many union pukes does L.L. Bean of Freeport, Maine have working for it? How about IDEXX Laboratories (your vet uses their services all the time)? Bath Ironworks (shipbuilding)? Are they all going to be fired for fomenting revolution? Don’t tell me they’re not unionized.
Time to switch to The Vermont Country Store if you ask me. A nice big boycott of every business that calls Maine home will get the message across and stop this crap in its tracks. AFL-CIO have always been thugs.
These people are democrat socialists, an organization, not a party. Here’s an idea:
What could we do to help establish them as a bonafide 3rd party, separate from the democrats? Imagine that. The only time we had that kinda luck was when Ralph Nader gummed up Florida in the Al Gore recount. Hire a bunch of ‘Manchurian’ republicans to lead the effort. Save the knockout punch for ‘28.
Yep.
Yup.
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Every 20-30 years, each party must purge and marginalize the crazies from itself. Failure to do so inevitably results in the crazies taking over.
The Dems made the mistake of thinking they could control their crazies. Now they have lunatics running the asylum.
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