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The Coma Before the Storm
Townhall.com ^ | June 14, 2021 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 06/14/2021 2:55:45 AM PDT by Kaslin

It’s beyond any reasonable dispute that the slack-jawed old pervert staggering through this punchline presidency is getting more senile by the day. All the while, his cackling understudy is biding her time everywhere but at the border, getting huffy at being questioned, and generally failing at a job historically assigned to morons as a role where they could do little damage. The only people who dig their hep jive – yeah, go on and believe the 79% approval numbers among people now paying $5 a gallon for unleaded – are the talking tubers of cable news. But even the tater thots of Brian Stelter, who is a potato, can’t dispel the growing sense of unease that watching these incompetent weirdos brings.

This epoch is the interregnum, a caretaker presidency presided over by a human asterisk who cares only about his post-lid bowl of mush and being wrapped in a shawl, set in front of the tee-vee, and allowed to watch his stories. The only thing moving less expeditiously than his bowels is his ridiculous legislative agenda, and all the prunes in the world aren’t going to help clear out that particular constipation, not with Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema refusing to commit ritual political suicide on the altar of coastal leftist dreams.

The progs were so close, just a vote or two away, to the unrestrained power they thought they could flex and thereby secure their control forever. But * is no Franklin Roosevelt. Nor is he Teddy Roosevelt. Nor Eleanor Roosevelt, though he could be if he really, really wanted to be. He’s not even Melvin Roosevelt. Instead, Grandpa Badfinger is a rickety joke, bumping elbows with his younger fellow-incompetents at the G7, wandering about mindlessly chasing moths until his ridiculous wife, with her ridiculous “Dr.”, wrangles him back into the hapless pack. You look at this sorry set of leaders of the formerly-free world and the vibe you get is “exhaustion.” There’s no energy, no drive, no hope. Boris Johnson, formerly a man, explained to a bored UK that that “nations coming out of the pandemic need to ‘build back better’ in a ‘greener,’ ‘more gender neutral and perhaps a more feminine way.’” Hack clichés are their solution, but these relics have nothing else. They are weak and stupid and they represent a spent elite that cares about nothing except just a little more time holding fast to their uncertain sinecures.

You can feel the tension beneath the surface, the sense that something is coming, a great changing. Oh, the elite at Davos fantasizes about a “Great Reset,” but they mean it literally – they want to reset the world back to how it was set when they were young and had energy and people hadn’t yet noticed that their venality and incompetence was matched only by their insanely inflated sense of their own abilities. But why would they be any better at pulling that off than they are at anything else? When the shattering disruption comes, they are the ones who will be disrupted, they and the whole post-War establishment our betters thought would last a thousand years and that won’t make it past 80. The elite aren’t, not even close, and we all know it now and we all sense that their Jenga tower o’ power can’t keep from toppling over even as they pull more and more blocks out of it, shredding norms (just this once – it’s always “just this once”) to keep their grip.

But what comes next? Something big, but the question is “What?” The only thing for certain is that the people running things now won’t like it. It’s been said here many times that Donald Trump was not our last chance, but theirs, our final fair warning to our failed elite from back when, at some level, we still thought the ruling caste acknowledged that we normals had at least some theoretical right to participate in our own government. But such illusions, to the extent they had endured, got shattered last November. We heard for four years how the 2016 election had been hacked, stolen, whatever the hyperbole du jour was, and the minute they could proclaim His Asteriskness president questioning elections became treason. But we saw the cheating, and we saw the judicial and executive sleight-of-hand that changed the rules in ways a real Supreme Court would have objected to, and we saw the informal rigging of the election through the lies and covering-up of the professional, licensed, and registered janitors of narrative journalism.

Now it’s all about holding onto power no matter what the cost. The corrupt feds toss trespassers into solitary while letting Antifa/BLM scumbags walk. Their tech buddies desperately try to play whack-a-mole with the unapproved ideas that keep popping up. The garbage media celebrates noted onanists while it ignores the Snortunate Son’s latest entry on his CV of shame – he’s added racial epithets to his remarkable and remarkably unremarked-upon record of tapping the tills of Slavic oligarchs, tapping rando strippers, and re-imagining the classic 80s novel of coke-fueled excess as Bright Lights, Big Guy (who gets his 10%).

It can’t last. Maybe if these puffy clowns were pros they could keep their boots on our throats forever, but they don’t own boots – too cis – and their Guccis and Birkenstocks just don’t have the same heft. They are weak, and stupid, and they are not even cunning enough to ensure that the cops and military, who would be expected to provide their final protective fire when accountability comes to overrun them, are prepared to do their dirty work. They need a savage Praetorian Guard – who doubts they would turn the razor-sharp gladii of their legionnaires on the people if that’s what it took to keep power? – but instead they’ve driven the best LEOs out via defunding and persecution and they’ve turned the Army into a camo-clad Ivy League faculty lounge that, over the last couple decades, has won precisely the same number of military victories as an Ivy League faculty lounge.

You can see the signs and hear rumblings out there. You can feel the growing anger. We are flocking to Ron DeSantis and others who pick and poke at the status quo, while rejecting the Nikki!s and Asa!s and Kristi!s who still take the Chamber of Commerce’s calls. Change is coming, not just here but throughout the West. The smart set refused to see the signs or hear the rumblings. Part of the fun will be seeing the surprise on their smug, perpetually-masked faces.

And now the elite has reached peak zombie with President * literally stumbling through his tenure as the tongue-bath media not only praises the Emperor’s new clothes (and literally praises Dr. Empress’s tacky duds) but marvels at his ability to feed himself. Look for a 99% approval rating to come down the pike even as we’re told that the biggest threat to Our Democracy is those wicked insurrectionists and their insurrectiony ideas about normal people having a say in their own governance.

Tick tock.

It’s not clear what’s going to happen, but this mess is unsustainable and what happens next may get ugly. They aren’t just going to shrug and give up power any more than we’ll shrug and submit to the serfdom they have planned for us. So, enjoy this coma before the storm, because the storm is coming.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; joebiden; kurtschlichter; media; powergrab; regime; revolution; schlichter
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1 posted on 06/14/2021 2:55:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The Biden regime is a national embarrassment.


2 posted on 06/14/2021 2:59:06 AM PDT by afchief
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To: Kaslin

Waiting for the storming to make landfall.


3 posted on 06/14/2021 3:05:35 AM PDT by tatown
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To: Kaslin

There’s a reckoning coming for Big Media too

All the lying to the public s finally catching up to them ... not just about Trump & his supporters, but all the COVID lies are catching up to them too ... about time

Big Media has no cred anymore


4 posted on 06/14/2021 3:08:31 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: tatown

Even the zombies who supported the Deepstate Duo feel the weird electricity in the air.
They’re not even reacting like you’d think they should be.
Trapped in a strange, befuddling limbo, even they sense something is terribly amiss.

It’s like the alarming tingle in the air before lightning strikes too close by.

/by the pricking of my thumbs, something shocking, this way comes


5 posted on 06/14/2021 3:15:53 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: canuck_conservative

I hope it goes Full Conan for the whole bloody lying lot of them.


6 posted on 06/14/2021 3:17:15 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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7 posted on 06/14/2021 3:21:50 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

I wish I could write like that.


8 posted on 06/14/2021 3:50:20 AM PDT by ClaytonForester
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To: ClaytonForester

So do I.


9 posted on 06/14/2021 4:00:37 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: afchief

You can say that again.


10 posted on 06/14/2021 4:01:40 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Kaslin

“The storm is coming”....said supposedly by Q, Swallwell and now Col. Kurt!!


11 posted on 06/14/2021 4:05:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Salamander
/by the pricking of my thumbs, something shocking, this way comes

Wait! There's a signpost up ahead! Next stop: The Twilight Zone!

Regards,

12 posted on 06/14/2021 4:27:28 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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It may be uglier and bloodier than anyone can imagine.

We look at riots for food in foreign countries and see how the police and armies can control the "unarmed" mob.

It could be coming here, with one great exception.

13 posted on 06/14/2021 4:28:19 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: alexander_busek

I think we passed that sign a year ago.

/c’mon, Rip!


14 posted on 06/14/2021 4:38:16 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Travis McGee; Kaslin

Wow! I know we will see Kurt Schlichter when we arrive at the camps!


15 posted on 06/14/2021 4:42:57 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Kaslin

I find it interesting that the incompetence of Harris is becoming so well known.

You can squeeze Biden out because of the dementia, but then Harris is elevated. Will they pretend that she also has a 70% approval rating?

The endgame to all of this really is going to be ugly.


16 posted on 06/14/2021 4:52:45 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Kaslin

That is an extremely well written article.


17 posted on 06/14/2021 5:01:14 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: USS Alaska
"It may be uglier and bloodier than anyone can imagine. We look at riots for food in foreign countries and see how the police and armies can control the "unarmed" mob. It could be coming here, with one great exception."

Yes, but only if we are willing to use that exception before they squeeze it away with a thousand restrictions and so destroy us economically that we lose the ability to resist and starve too.

18 posted on 06/14/2021 5:01:25 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: USS Alaska

Here in the USA, the police have been beaten down to the point they will let looters loot with impunity. Just look at the $100,000 grab the other day in Palo Alto, CA. When the locusts get hungry, do you think the grocery stores won’t be stripped bare in a matter of minutes by the same urban trash?

What’s to keep this from happening when these same people decide to raid homes looking for food? The 2nd amendment is the only protection left. The ballot box is useless, big tech has destroyed freedom of speech.

It’s time governors reinstate militias because the cops just won’t do their jobs. It will be that or fiefdoms will spring up because the common citizen will be too timid and gutless to act.


19 posted on 06/14/2021 5:04:26 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Bob Ireland

20 posted on 06/14/2021 5:04:46 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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