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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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To: Kaslin

Things are not going well, no matter what the fools in MEDIA are saying.


41 posted on 06/14/2021 7:05:58 AM PDT by King_Corey (Buy SILVER and GOLD to hedge against the coming market destruction of FIAT currency)
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To: DownInFlames

“It’s time governors reinstate militias because the cops just won’t do their jobs.”

Why wait? Come on down to South Carolina and join one of the state guard’s three battalions. Twenty-six other states have established state guard units, perhaps your state has a home guard.

And before people get all red in the face and scream that the president can nationalize the national guard, the state guard is not the national guard.


42 posted on 06/14/2021 7:13:55 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: canuck_conservative

“Big Media has no cred anymore”

Nor does Big Tech or the Federal Government, including department and agencies that the American people used to be able to trust (FBI, DOJ, SCOTUS NIH, EPA etc etc).


43 posted on 06/14/2021 7:14:49 AM PDT by falcon99 (qu)
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To: Travis McGee

Yes, and guess who the judge is that is allowing this — that corrupt black b-sturd Sullivan of Michael Flynn fame. He is not a judge but a political activist. Should long ago been removed from the bench (and in truth, put in jail for abuse of power)


44 posted on 06/14/2021 7:20:21 AM PDT by falcon99 (qu)
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To: sergeantdave; DownInFlames

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force#List_of_State_defense_forces


45 posted on 06/14/2021 7:32:47 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Kaslin
I agree with just about everything (He's wrong about Kristi Noem) KS has had to say since I first started reading his articles.

That said, I'm waiting for him to run for office so he can show us all how it's done.

46 posted on 06/14/2021 7:51:35 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: Travis McGee

This is a Travesty.


47 posted on 06/14/2021 8:02:54 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: Travis McGee

Remember when our DC politicians used to scold other countries for keeping political prisoners?


48 posted on 06/14/2021 8:09:02 AM PDT by Texas resident (Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
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To: Kaslin

I have a question. During the 2016 campaign, Hillary was passing out and physically collapsing, appearing to have seizures, etc., and now we never hear anything about that any more. Was it a ruse? Is Biden’s “senility” a ruse? What’s up?


49 posted on 06/14/2021 8:56:43 AM PDT by myerson (It ain't brain surgery.)
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To: Kaslin

Manchin and Sinema must be squeaky clean otherwise the hammer would have dropped by now...stay tuned


50 posted on 06/14/2021 11:55:28 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Kaslin
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.

I think of all the clowns in this clown car administration, Dr Jill Biden is the worst.

51 posted on 06/14/2021 3:24:49 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Kaslin
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.’”

How can we build back to a more feminine and gender neutral society at the same time?!

52 posted on 06/14/2021 3:25:59 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Kaslin
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.

True that.

53 posted on 06/14/2021 3:34:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Paleo Pete

Cannabalism,,,
Leg of Lib with
Refried Beans and
A Nice Salsa!
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Yummy


54 posted on 06/14/2021 7:44:11 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: Kaslin

Bkmk


55 posted on 06/14/2021 8:36:18 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: DownInFlames; USS Alaska
Just look at the $100,000 grab the other day in Palo Alto, CA.

They'll find out soon enough they can't eat a Louis Vuitton purse.

56 posted on 06/14/2021 9:47:25 PM PDT by thecodont
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