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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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To: Kaslin

ping


41 posted on 06/22/2020 5:24:45 AM PDT by Bratch (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: datura

Without police, it’s each for himself. This is gonna get messy.


42 posted on 06/22/2020 5:32:54 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Black FATHERS Matter)
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To: SanchoP

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43 posted on 06/22/2020 5:34:41 AM PDT by LouAvul (Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Psalms 9:20)
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To: Kaslin

Schleichter bump!


44 posted on 06/22/2020 5:34:52 AM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: Psalm 73

“So why would the Dems let it all ride on Joe Biden? “

If elected, Biden will either sit up there and do exactly what he is told to do by the power brokers or he will be replaced by the un-electable far left socialist veep he “picks.”


45 posted on 06/22/2020 5:39:35 AM PDT by Clay Moore (Mega prayers, Rush)
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To: Gene Eric

Corporate Marxism = Textbook Fascism.


46 posted on 06/22/2020 5:42:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: datura

Really, go ahead. I’ve watched enough westerns to know what it’s like when there is only one US Marshall to cover 1,000 sq. mi. Ok, make my day.


47 posted on 06/22/2020 5:44:13 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SaveFerris

Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder.


48 posted on 06/22/2020 5:46:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Jim Noble

The Republic died at Appomattox Va inside a small farm house.


49 posted on 06/22/2020 5:48:09 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

If the elites went back in time it would be to the French Pompadour aristocrats and the Conservatives would go back to the American 1950s. The elites are really the Bourgeois who don’t want to be though of as Bourgeois — they are deceiving themselves and it is so romantic to deceive oneself. Don’t you think? Yes, it’s an act to be elites who fashion themselves with expensive peasants’ dress, jargon and music. Bad Pitt pays over a $1000 dollars to have pants that look like they came from the bin in Walmart. He’s the man for all times, all places. But many of them are really conservative — they have a family, pay taxes, get married, have kids, own a house, go on vacation, send kids to expensive schools, etc. You won’t see them cutting cane with their ideological brothers (well, maybe Sean Penn for a day... but that’s it). No cultivating their ideology on the banana plantations. That’s the elites in a nutshell. They are religious morons but extremely devote to their secular religion... mainly themselves.


50 posted on 06/22/2020 5:56:17 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: Clay Moore
"If elected,"

I fully understand what Biden is, the question is WHY would the Dems seem unfazed by running him - on his own merits he gets crushed, and they know that - they may be nuts but they're not stupid.

Unless they already KNOW Biden wins the election, one way or the other.

51 posted on 06/22/2020 6:06:06 AM PDT by Psalm 73
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To: snarkytart
They are no longer even pretending to seek the consent of the governed.

Imagine the voter fraud that there will be.

Who'll stop the BLM mob committing voter fraud in Philly, Detroit, Milwaukee, and in certain locations in NC. Or perhaps all they'll need is mail-in voting to do it.

52 posted on 06/22/2020 6:35:14 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Psalm 73
Why else would they all be so unconcerned?

They lie to themselves, all the time.

53 posted on 06/22/2020 7:40:16 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Mark17

IF I’m right about what I fear is coming after DJT wins on 03NOV20 (PLEASE God, let it not be as bad as I fear.), we will NEED every retired NCO, WO & Commissioned officer AND every servicemember (whether AD, reserve or NG, as well as active/reserve/retired civilian peace officers) as leaders/cadre/members for MANY small groups of DEFENDERS of our US Constitution, “- - - - against all enemies, foreign & domestic”.

May I remind every single person, “who took the OATH” willingly that none of us were ever released from that oath to defend our Republic & the Constitution??
(IF the elders of the Navaho Nation are correct as I believe that they are, NOBODY can EVER release us of our obligation, as the oath is not only to our brothers/sisters in arms, to the USA & to Almighty God, by whatever name that we call HIM & for as long as we may draw breath.)

Yours, TMN78247
USA,Retired


54 posted on 06/22/2020 8:46:01 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: fortes fortuna juvat

I believe you are exactly right. Many are waiting for the right time.


55 posted on 06/22/2020 8:46:47 AM PDT by MichiganCheese (The darker the culture, the brighter your light can shine.)
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To: Psalm 73
Unless they already KNOW Biden wins the election,P>I think Biden has a >50% chance of winning the election, fair and square.
56 posted on 06/22/2020 9:25:40 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: Jim Noble

>>>When a Democrat regains the Presidency, it is the end of the Republic<<<
>>>The Republic died a long time ago<<<

How about “the final nail in the Coffin”?


57 posted on 06/22/2020 9:28:42 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kaslin

Yes that is what it is. The elite are revolting. They are coming at us from every direction. BLM is not black, and they don’t care about life, black or otherwise. They are a terrorist group masquerading as a black group. The elites don’t care about a virus. They care about one thing. Trump! They are willing to tear apart everything else to take back the country. They had it and then it was taken from them.

But here is the interesting part. They, the elites, are in at least three camps. And you see it with Joe Biden, BLM and the riots. Joe Biden represents the Swamp and globalists. They are the same, for the most part. They are big government often green climate change type people. Then there are the American African Americans. BLM is not controlled by African Americans. Its just a front for the communists which is the third group. These people will all vote for Joe Biden thinking that they are in charge. But they aren’t. Joe Biden is a straw man for someone else. A globalist probably. But Joe Biden is a vote for people to take over without our control. His Chief of Staff will be the real power. And we have no idea who that will be.


58 posted on 06/22/2020 10:01:03 AM PDT by poinq
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To: poinq
But Joe Biden is a vote for people to take over without our control. His Chief of Staff will be the real power. And we have no idea who that will be.


59 posted on 06/22/2020 7:59:04 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Jaysin
I bet the soon to be defunding will certainly not reduce spending by these out of control democrat cesspools, but redirect money to “community groups” that eventually become armed and will replace the current police departments.

Sharia law?

60 posted on 06/23/2020 4:03:06 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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