I saw this meme over at Sarah’s:
Think it may be far-fetched? Then read this piece by John Davidson:
The outlandish hit piece on Donald Trump published this week by Jeffery Goldberg at The Atlantic, which was immediately denied on the record by all the people who were in the room with Trump, isn’t just a shoddy smear that would never have passed muster in a newsroom 20 years ago.
It’s more than that. It’s part of a larger psy-op to justify mass post-election violence if Trump wins in November, to signal activists to reject the results of the election, to divide the military, and to coax an insurgency out of the radical left-wing base of the Democratic Party and unleash it on American cities.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ shocking remarks Wednesday on the steps of the Naval Observatory should be understood in this light. Citing comments quoted in The Atlantic from former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, Harris explicitly compared Trump to Hitler and claimed that if elected he will rule as a dictator and unleash the military on his domestic political opponents.
“He does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution, he wants a military that is loyal to him,” she said. “He wants a military that is loyal to him personally. One that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States.”
Harris went on to call Trump a fascist, claim he would be a dictator on day one, and repeat a line she’s been using often lately, that Trump will use the military to go after American citizens, using it as “his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas.” She closed by saying Trump is “increasing unhinged and unstable” and that he “wants unchecked power.”
This is not just the normal heated rhetoric that comes out in the final weeks of a close presidential election. This is something else. It is at least a tacit call for violent resistance, for insurrection, and even for a third assassination attempt against Trump.
It’s hard to overstate how reckless and dangerous this is two weeks before an election that Harris appears to be losing. Having staked out this rhetorical ground, what is she supposed to say if she loses the election? How is she supposed to concede? Will she come out and say, “Sorry everyone we tried hard to save America but now you must all live peacefully under the new Hitler?”
She’s not going to say that. She can’t now. She’s going to call for resistance. “Patriotic resistance,” she might call it, but it will be coded as a call for street violence or worse. After all, you don’t just accept a Hitler-like, fascist regime. You fight it any way you can.
So… should we buy into this? (By “we”, of course, I mean we conservatives.)
Here’s the thing. When the riots begin after Election Day, which is what Davidson says will be more than likely, but inevitable, what happens then?
Or if nothing happens — Harris probably doesn’t have the balls to call for patriotic resistance, or any other kind of resistance, and if there’s one thing we all know, it’s that the stupid bitch can’t do the right thing, even the right thing as defined by the extreme Left — if nothing happens and all we get is the usual angry marches and looting, BLM-style: well, we’ve been there, done that and yeah, whatever.
What I do worry about is that during the November-December interregnum the Left will go after Trump and Vance with actual hit squads (organized perhaps by organized, shadowy Antifa cadres) when the two of them will be most vulnerable. (Once Trump is sworn in, then he should get full Presidential protection — stop laughing — and the chances of him being actually assassinated will be reduced, although never eliminated.)
And even the Left are making that prophecy:
Americans should prepare for “unrest’ if former President Donald Trump completes the greatest political comeback in modern American politics, Democrats told the Wall Street Journal on Monday.
And if they do… what then?
Understand that if we conservatives try to do something about that violence, in our own peculiar disorganized fashion, the Left will use that as an excuse to say: “See? See? We told you these Rightwng Christian fascists are violent!”
Even worse is that after Trump’s inauguration, when the Left really does go apeshit and when Trump unleashes the National Guard or whatever, our cheers will be completely drowned out by the hysterical screams of the Left about HitlerFascistWeToldYouSo!.
I have to say, I don’t know the answer. Maybe I’ll just add a couple more mags to the car kit, and let the chips fall where they may.
I’ll be staying home as much as possible for the near future, much like I’ve done for a long time now.
Everything I need or want is here, why leave?
Staying home is a great idea, and I’ll be adding a couple of ready rifles to the homestead and the vehicle.
The Left always projecting what they want onto the other side.
“He does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution, he wants a military that is loyal to him,” she said. “He wants a military that is loyal to him personally. One that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States.”
“The Left always projecting what they want onto the other side.”
This. I’m beyond tired of their bullshit.
“May you live in interesting times” is a prophetic curse.
I’d like a decade or two of boring times so I can drink my coffee in the morning, take my dog for a walk in the woods, have some range time then share some laughs and meal or two with family and friends.
I’m surprised to find ammunition on the shelves
In some parts of the country, stocking up on ammo has been going on for some time and most people have all they think they’ll need.
Plus, if we win, we can use what our opponents won’t need any longer.
If we lose, what will it matter.
When they warn us to be wary of civil unrest, they falsely presume that we have been resting
It’s the cities, that always have been the preferred riot venues, that are inhabited and/or run by Dems. Why should anyone in West Stockbridge care?
….As long as they stay away from the Frick, the Morgan, and the Met.
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In truth I suspect the Left will do as they have done in the past. Burn down their own cities then wait for the cameras to show up so they can bitch and whine then demand more free stuff. I say let Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle burn. Hopefully Trump wil then tell them there is no Federal money to help them rebuild. Let ’em call Google and Meta for help.
In the meantime, stay out of the crossfire, brother.
Barbarian,
I think that sort of Urban renewal of the big cities would be well in order and long overdue.
After Katrina destroyed some poor area in New Orleans, I heard that the old property owners just took the insurance money and invested it elsewhere because there was no sense to rebuild in the poor wards and most of the people had left for new locations such as Houston. Now the poor ward sits empty. I dunno how true that is but that’s the evolution of a city
Color me skeptical. The podcast tour was a stroke of brilliance. The Rogan interview has been seen by nearly 40 million on youtube alone, who knows how many downloads on spotify & all the other platforms. Nobody who’s seen it – or even just excerpts – are buying the histrionics from the Karens bleeding from their whatevers; the fishy smell can no longer be covered up. Even the most sycophantic lefty sheep aren’t blind to what a half wit Kamalatoe is. She is the World Champion Worst Candidate Evah.
It’s 15 miles to the edge of town from my house. On the way I pass one Harris/Walz sign and too many Trump/Vance signs to count. I think we’ll be comfortably out of the combat zones.
But not out of the damage zones. Center cities have grown and endured partially because they are logistics and communication nodes. If many are made inoperable, we’ll all feel the pain. How hard would it be for a fraction of a Schleicher mob (10,000 folks organized a la his novel, The Attack) to destroy large transformers feeding many large cities and Bentonville, Arkansas? We’d all feel that for the entire second Trump term.
For me, it’s 6 miles to ground zero in this half-sized college town. There’s not a single Trump/Vance sign on any lawn. There’s plenty of Hairy/Balz signs however.
It’s a stark contrast to the county, where there is a more agrarian ethos. You get to see the occasional trump hat on the geriatric voters that come to Costco.
It will be meh no matter which side wins.
Employees of RulingParasites:
* antifa
* blm
* every bureaucrat
* o’bama and that ex-FirstSpouse person
* ClintonCrimeSyndicate
* and the trump/kamster co-joined twins.
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We can point at those evil juice and the juice bankers, but they are merely a different branch of the puppets.
Also in that slop of drones:
* anybody uttering the phrase ‘HumanResourcesDepartment®’.
We all know that the fix is in, the (literal) shiploads of fake ballots have been prepared and are already being stuffed in boxes to be delivered to the counting stations.
When conservatives say so on election day (and the weeks after it’ll take to “fortify the elections” they’ll be called sore losers, just like last time, with the courts refusing to hear cases and prosecutors refusing to investigate or lay charges.
Any who dare to make some signs and venture out into the streets will be arrested and disappeared, just like the 6 January crowd were.