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The Elites Are Revolting
Townhall.com ^ | June 22, 2020 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 06/22/2020 12:25:45 AM PDT by Kaslin

Our Establishment is revolting – in fact, it stinks on ice. What you see out there is our alleged betters struggling mightily to hold onto the power that we Normal people dared to wrest away from them in 2016. One component of their campaign is the burning and looting information operation conducted by black-clad pawns. The other component is the soft power corporate/media/cultural conspiracy to silence dissent and enforce fearful conformity to their narrative. Usually, a revolution is conducted by the peasants to throw off a tyrannical ruling class. Here, the ruling class is waging a political and cultural war to retake and then tighten its grip on the masses. They are no longer even pretending to seek the consent of the governed. And once they retake power, that’s it – they will never give up power again. 

This is about casting off the “tyranny” of you having rights and interests that get in the way of the best and the brightest doing whatever the hell they want, a continuing theme in my new book The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and You!). And a key component of this cynical plot is systematically denying you the protection of norms and laws, all while subjecting you to them where it benefits the elite.

Let’s review.

Remember free speech? That was fun while it lasted. Oh, it still exists, to the extent that you may speak freely as long as your free speech conforms to the Establishment narrative. Do you feel like you can say whatever you think freely and without restraint? Or do you experience a twinge of fear of the consequences if you get online and state that no, you do not support the Marxist goals of Black Lives Matter? If so, their plan is working. You are supposed to be afraid and intimidated – and while the endless list of people cancelled, abused, and fired from jobs because they refused to kowtow to the mob serves to outrage us, it also serves to teach us that there is a fearsome price to be paid for failing to go along and cheer the Emperor’s new duds.

Remember the big lie that Trump is the great destroyer of norms? What about the norm of free speech? Not the First Amendment – that’s a constitutional guarantee. It’s the norm, the general consensus that people will not be punished for their views even outside the law, that’s dead, and not at the hand of The Donald.

Maybe you can appeal for support to the neutral truthtellers of the media, the brave firefighters who ensure the little guy gets a fair shake. Nah. Our garbage media is dedicated to reinforcing the status quo – instead of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, it afflicts the afflicted and sucks up to the comfortable.

Hey, maybe academia will stand up for truth, justice, and equality. And maybe you just took an enormous bong hit.

Ok then, the objective science people of science will tell us the truth because science is important and science is scientific and they surely would never get involved in politics. Except they lie about global warming, and about masks, and they give a free pass to woke protests while scolding those gnarly (and probably racist) Ozark proles about how their pool party will become an orgy of death. Never mind that a month on, there’s still no pile of pangolin flu corpses to point at.

Well, at least our military remains above the fray. Oops. In an era when our Navy ships can’t keep from running into other boats and turbaned banditos continue to roam freely through the Hindu Kush after two decades, we see the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs appear on video to apologize for appearing in public with the guy we elected his commander-in-chief. The military cannot be political, the guys who can’t win a war tell us, as they become super-political. The ChiComs, who have a serious military unlike our shamefully frivolous one, would be wise to time their inevitable devastating sneak attack for when our armed forces are on a three-day diversity training stand-down. If only our armed forces had a recent track record of victory to match its track record of wokeness.

How about our police? We’ve seen some signs of push-back, like in Atlanta, but if they won’t even protect their station house from the woke mobs, are they going to protect your house? And don’t think some are not eager to join in the petty oppression – how many cops obediently hassled mommies for letting their kids play outside during the pandemic panic?

And don’t think you can rely on constitutional guarantees. You can have guarantees all day long and they don’t mean a thing unless they are enforced by the courts. Do you see the courts enforcing your rights? Look at Chief Justice John Souter – I mean Roberts – and his antics. Yeah sure. DACA is one (preferred) president creating a law via decree that overrides an actual law – you know, one of those “I’m Just a Bill” laws – but it can’t be undone by a subsequent (non-preferred) president. Huh?

Oh, and remember your right to worship? You might think that a right to practice your religion means some bureaucrat can’t ban church while clapping like a trained seal as thousands of woke protestors mix n’ mingle, but no. According to Souter II, the First Amendment doesn’t make your silly Jesus hootenannys special, even though it expressly does. Why, your church can be treated just like a movie theater or bowling alley – that is, much worse than, say, massive political donor Walmart.

What are the chances that the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Grown-In-Office, would again construe the Second Amendment’s admonition that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed to mean the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed? We should be glad that the Supreme Court hasn’t taken up a gun case in a decade. 

And forget equal justice under criminal law. It’s dual justice. Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit commits crimes that would get you locked up but she gets a pass. McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, Comey and the rest lie and walk free, while Mike Flynn commits no crime and has to fight the power to even get a dismissal of a plea obtained by the rankest prosecutorial misconduct. Rioters and criminals get released with a wave and a smile; cops get threatened with death row for fighting back when a career criminal tries to taser them. It’s all a lie and a scam.

This is all part and parcel of a strategy to strip us of any kind of refuge or recourse from abuse. We cannot look to the marketplace of ideas to make our case because our case has been declared verboten. The institutions are arrayed against us. The law means nothing because it will not be enforced neutrally. So why again do we consider ourselves bound by the social contract the establishment has been using like Charmin?

What we are seeing is the elite’s ruthless pursuit of the power we stripped them of back in 2016 when we made the Hillary fans cry. And since then, despite it all, we have made progress – some good judges, no more wars, trade realism with China. But this is intolerable to the leftist Establishment.

We the People must be overthrown. Now the question is whether We the People are going to let that happen.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antitrump; civilunrest; elitemedia; elitism; globalists; kurtschlichter; lawandorder; resistance; schlichter
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1 posted on 06/22/2020 12:25:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Corporate Marxism


2 posted on 06/22/2020 12:54:18 AM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: Kaslin

This “We the People” still says I’m gonna die on my feet rather than live on my knees. I trained and fought in too many places to watch these commie bastards take away what I have bled for.

F the Uniparty Establishment and their racist shock troops. Defund the police? I effing double dog dare them. That turns us loose.


3 posted on 06/22/2020 12:54:34 AM PDT by datura
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To: Kaslin

l8r


4 posted on 06/22/2020 12:54:35 AM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: Kaslin


the chinee virus hoax proved we no longer have any civil rights.

prove me wrong


5 posted on 06/22/2020 1:00:27 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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oops

the protected class do

my bad


6 posted on 06/22/2020 1:04:13 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: datura

>> rather than live on my knees

Pro sports have completely capitulated.

I’m dreading the impact on K-12 sports — children.

I’m thinking we’ve exhausted the vast reservoir of tolerance where any further losses are irreversible. And that amounts to permanent losses of property and liberties. And that means we’re in a corner. Not good.


7 posted on 06/22/2020 1:05:46 AM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: Kaslin
This is all part and parcel of a strategy to strip us of any kind of refuge or recourse from abuse.

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1821

ENOUGH!! No more Democrat/Republican kabuki theater from DC!

8 posted on 06/22/2020 1:08:52 AM PDT by SanchoP (We're passed the biological softening up and beginning the open warfare strategy. WAKE UP!!)
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To: Kaslin

Our Establishment is revolting – in fact, it stinks on ice. What you see out there is our alleged betters struggling mightily to hold onto the power that we Normal people dared to wrest away from them in 2016. One component of their campaign is the burning and looting information operation conducted by black-clad pawns. The other component is the soft power corporate/media/cultural conspiracy to silence dissent and enforce fearful conformity to their narrative. Usually, a revolution is conducted by the peasants to throw off a tyrannical ruling class. Here, the ruling class is waging a political and cultural war to retake and then tighten its grip on the masses. They are no longer even pretending to seek the consent of the governed. And once they retake power, that’s it – they will never give up power again.

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This is dead accurate and being discussed in another thread.


9 posted on 06/22/2020 1:10:24 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Kaslin

[Our Establishment is revolting – in fact, it stinks on ice. What you see out there is our alleged betters struggling mightily to hold onto the power that we Normal people dared to wrest away from them in 2016. One component of their campaign is the burning and looting information operation conducted by black-clad pawns. The other component is the soft power corporate/media/cultural conspiracy to silence dissent and enforce fearful conformity to their narrative.]

Yes, the pro-NWO forces hated it that American voters rejected the NWO that Hillary and Barack were selling.

When a Democrat regains the Presidency, it is the end of the Republic.


10 posted on 06/22/2020 1:14:37 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Kaslin

They certainly are...(my apology to Wizard of Id)


11 posted on 06/22/2020 1:21:02 AM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: Kaslin

For later.

L


12 posted on 06/22/2020 1:28:21 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: SaveFerris

>> When a Democrat regains the Presidency, it is the end of the Republic.

It’s definitely the beginning of the end of something.


13 posted on 06/22/2020 1:33:34 AM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: Hambone 1934

For those who don't remember Johnny Hart.

14 posted on 06/22/2020 1:34:45 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Gene Eric

The people are insane. Anarchy.

Dear Lord in Heaven...


15 posted on 06/22/2020 1:41:19 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Yup


16 posted on 06/22/2020 1:47:57 AM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: datura

WELCOME HOME, brother-in-arms.

You are 100% CORRECT, too.
(Even at my advanced age & as physically “beat up” as I am, I can still lead a team of 50+ guerrilla fighters to DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION from “all enemies foreign & domestic”. = Such a group will make the enemies of LIBERTY’s remaining life miserable, bloody & short.)

Yours, TMN78247
USA, Retired


17 posted on 06/22/2020 2:01:37 AM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, F'by 241836)
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To: Kaslin

Organized chaos is ungovernable and institutions are ripe
for crumbling. On the present course, the November election
seems meaningless as to the outcome.

Either way, sooner or later, there will be blood on the streets.


18 posted on 06/22/2020 2:07:28 AM PDT by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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To: TMN78247
Yours, TMN78247
USA, Retired

Let’s do it bro.
USAF, Retired

19 posted on 06/22/2020 2:10:05 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer, who graduated from Air Force pilot training, on 1 May 2020)
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To: Kaslin

I trust many people read this article. I agree with all Kurt says in it.

JoMa


20 posted on 06/22/2020 2:46:03 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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