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Keep on Truckin', Working Class Rebels
Towhall.com ^ | January 31, 2022 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 01/31/2022 3:34:44 AM PST by Kaslin

The line of polite big-rig drivers crossing Canada in protest over the maple leaf mandate Marxism imposed by the ridiculous Justin Trudeau is a welcome sign of the workin’ class revolt to come. The courteous Canadians outside of its noxious elite, a caste that rivals our own useless elite in terms of unearned self-satisfaction, have discovered something. They make their country happen. It’s not diversity enforcers who feed the Great White North. It’s not regime journalists who fuel it. And it’s certainly not genderqueer-affirming professors who defend it.

The working class is getting sick of this Schiff, and it is starting to push back. And this will happened here in America too. How it ends is unclear, but my money is on the guys who can do push-ups.

Understand that “Democracy” means, to our garbage ruling class, rule by the ruling class with no annoying input from the people who actually make America work. The Democrat Party, once the party of the workin’ man, is now the party of tech zillionaires, college professors, welfare cheats, and sexually unsatisfied liberal wine women. The workin’ class was not merely abandoned by the Dems. It was thrown out of the party. Their love of family and country was both embarrassing to our overlords as uncouth and as humiliating as well. The workin’ class believes in traditional manhood – they can do the aforementioned push-ups – while our elite rejects the concept of traditional manhood in favor of a neutered weakness masquerading as gender enlightenment. Real men are scary and none will ever get pregnant. Eek! Why, those brutes even have guns!

When you see the moistened likes of David French mewling about how today’s conservatives – now the home of the workin’ man – are big hairy meanies who mock libs for being sissies, understand that this whining is because the libs know that they are sissies. They won’t admit it, but they are – properly – ashamed. And so are their wives, who drown their sorrows over being trapped with weak pseudo-men in goblets of screw-top Trader Joe’s chardonnay and by reading the books by Ibram X. Kendi and whoever wrote that Fifty Shades crap.

“But Kurt, you’re a noted LA trial lawyer who refuses to go anywhere where there’s not someone ready to serve you a glass of bespoke cabernet and hardly one of the mavens of the wrench turning set! Many of you con blue checks cheering on the workin’ class don’t break a sweat when you work!”

An interesting and superficially intriguing point, which misses the bigger one. Leaving aside that my first job was slopping out toilets in a Carl’s, Jr., restaurant, followed by one slopping out toilets in a basic training barracks, support for the workin’ class is not limited to those who turn wrenches. It’s not actually about wrenches at all. It is about something bigger. The main workin’ class concern today is no longer jobs and economic benefits. It is our culture, and you don’t have to sweat for a living for that to be your number one priority. The elite has put our families and our country at profound risk. Today, you need not be a card-carrying member of the workin’ class to sympathize. All of us share the fight against globalist elitist smiley-face dictatorship.

If you object to the name, you just can call us patriots.

But the real problem for the elite is that the actual workin’-class folks, who are usually busy workin’, are getting activated by the myriad assaults upon them made by our elite. It takes a lot to activate them politically. Look at those Canadian truckers. They would rather be trucking. Taking time off for protests – usually the province of parent-supported brats – costs them money they need. But now they have no choice but to stop earning and start making clear that they are done with the petty and not-so-petty oppressions of an elite that despises them.

The template of the elite response has been drearily predictable. First, it was studiously ignored by the regime media. That didn’t work, because there are now rebel media outlets that publish unapproved information (are you shocked about the pro-censorship movement to suppress “misinformation”?). Next, it tried to mock the revolt. Those truckers are just hicks, and rubes, and even racists. It’s always racists, of course. And when that hasn’t worked, when gleeful Canucks lined the off-ramps and overpasses to cheer on the truckers, the regime tried to ban public shows of support. Then its gimp media moved to issuing urgent warnings that the pleasant pedal-pushers were about to get violent.

Just remember this flex – and every flex over the last two years in Kangarooland – when they tell you to turn in your guns.

The idea is, of course, to get the protestors to go away and stop interfering in their own country’s politics. That is the idea here too. Our government has just gone farther. The whole post-January 6th festival of liberal onanism was designed to demonstrate to the masses that they have no role to play in their own governance, that any effort to do so is illegitimate, even (gasp) insurrectionist.

That will work. Uh huh. Yeah, our elite’s track record of success shows that it is full of smart people who are competent and make good decisions. They’ll get this right. Sure thing.

The workin’ class is getting tired of this. And it is activating.

It, adorably, once believed the hype and participated in the political process by electing Donald Trump. After all, back before CRT, when schools taught civics, they were taught that every American has the right to make his views known and to elect the leader of his choice. It is so cute how they believed that. They registered their displeasure by electing Trump, and the elite said “No.”

Trump was ham-strung by an elite enraged that its control was challenged, and the rigged election of 2020 – rigged in part by traditional fraud, in a larger part by improper voting rule changes, and most of all by an institutional conspiracy to install the drooling cucumber who currently wanders aimlessly through the Oval Office muttering nonsense – ensured the workin’ class’ choice was suppressed.

So what is the workin’ class’ outlet for its grievances now? The elite somehow got the idea into its pointy collective collectivist head that with no outlet, the workin’ class will shut its whiny trap and get back to making and delivering things to the elitists’ condos and mansions. Except history teaches that when you suppress legitimate gripes, the pressure builds instead of dissipates. Unfortunately for our garbage ruling caste, they don’t study history anymore. Too many dead white guys.

The workin’ class is going to revolt here in American, and I can’t wait. It’s a matter of both time and extent. In November, it will revolt at the ballot box again. But if that is stolen from them again, if the releases of protest and electoral impact are totally foreclosed to them, the revolt will manifest in other ways. The elite will deserve the whirlwind it reaps.

And reap it shall, because there’s nothing this collection of naggy shrews and fussy femboys can do to stop a real workin’-class revolt. Our rulers can’t feed themselves, they can’t fuel themselves, and they sure as hell can’t defend themselves. Our rulers rule only because the workin’ class allows them to. And it may get ugly when that permission is revoked.

It need not come to that, but our elite is so transcendently stupid that you would be a fool to bet that it would not provoke a real rebellion. One way or another, this is going to get resolved. After all, history always keeps on truckin’.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: canada; covid19; kurtschlichter; schlichter; truckdrivers

1 posted on 01/31/2022 3:34:44 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

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2 posted on 01/31/2022 3:39:07 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: GOP Poet; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

Excellent article. A must read.


3 posted on 01/31/2022 3:49:06 AM PST by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior Advisor))
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To: Kaslin

The truth is that most mainstream GOPers do not want the “working class” in their party


4 posted on 01/31/2022 4:06:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin
"The idea is, of course, to get the protestors to go away and stop interfering in their own country’s politics. That is the idea here too. Our government has just gone farther. The whole post-January 6th festival of liberal onanism was designed to demonstrate to the masses that they have no role to play in their own governance, that any effort to do so is illegitimate, even (gasp) insurrectionist."

The attitude Schlichter is talking about can be summed up by the Ottawa, Canada mayor's response to the truckers:

"You’ve been here, you’ve made your point, you’ve protested, you’ve disrupted a lot of communities - the ByWard Market, Centretown and so on in our city - it’s time for you to go back to your home,"

In other words, "we don't care, shut up, and go away. We'll do what we want."

Reading about Romania circa 1989, it sure seemed Ceaucescu had support, until he didn't. And the end of his reign seemed to happen fairly quickly.
No matter what the media is saying, Trudeau is hiding. Ardern seems hto be doing the same in New Zealand. I have no doubt the respective Deep State apparatus in various countries are working on their counter moves, but if you have a population that decides it will no longer support the system as it were, not sure what those deep state groups will really accomplish, especially if another front opens via school boards, district committees, et al.

5 posted on 01/31/2022 4:07:18 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Kaslin

This is not going to come from one person but from we the people in mass, get er done


6 posted on 01/31/2022 4:09:07 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: central_va

The truth is that the only reason two parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.

The letter after the name means jack anymore.

A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.

Most of our pols are Deep State.


7 posted on 01/31/2022 4:09:42 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

“And the end of his reign seemed to happen fairly quickly.”

And appropriately.

L


8 posted on 01/31/2022 4:28:53 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Yes


9 posted on 01/31/2022 5:20:19 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Tench_Coxe
The attitude Schlichter is talking about can be summed up by the Ottawa, Canada mayor's response to the truckers: "You’ve been here, you’ve made your point, you’ve protested, you’ve disrupted a lot of communities - the ByWard Market, Centretown and so on in our city - it’s time for you to go back to your home,"

What arrogance. It’s truly the hallmark of the left.

10 posted on 01/31/2022 5:28:11 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: central_va

RINOs. THE critical thing this year is not to stomp the Democrats. That’s a forgone conclusion. No. It is to hunt down and destroy as many RINOs as possible. To show them their treachery has been remembered and is getting its just desserts…..To show them who is in charge, and to terrify the ones we couldn’t boot this cycle into doing in office what they claimed they were going to do on the campaign trail……for a change.

The old country club, open borders, endless foreign wars corporate shills have no constituency. The days of holding our noses and voting for them are over. Toss them out at all costs.


11 posted on 01/31/2022 6:05:29 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Kaslin
Understand that “Democracy” means, to our garbage ruling class, rule by the ruling class with no annoying input from the people who actually make America work.

And that needs to change.

12 posted on 01/31/2022 7:40:54 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: FLT-bird

This! Thumbs up!


13 posted on 01/31/2022 8:25:55 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: flaglady47

A great read as usual from Kurt, but I must object on behalf of cucumbers. They don’t deserve to be likened to Joe Biden.


14 posted on 01/31/2022 8:42:42 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

When there is a trucker strike in the USA, many will be amazed at how much of their daily needs & wants are delivered BY TRUCK.


15 posted on 01/31/2022 9:08:56 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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