Playing By the Rules Is for Suckers
Townhall,
by
Kurt Schlichter
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/24/2023 2:23:15 AM
Howdy suckers, and welcome to the failed state that is America 2023. This used to be a country where you succeeded by working hard and playing by the rules, but there are new rules now. Here are two: One, there are no rules. Two, if you think there are rules and play by them, you are a sucker. But the good news is this is all going to come crashing down.
In the meantime, welcome to the suck. Just look at yourself, all responsible and upstanding. You worked hard, and you played by the rules. You didn’t go out and commit felonies
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Luke21 4/24/2023 3:00:28 AM (No. 1454737)
Schlichter advocates taxing billionaires to give more power and money to the government. Real genius, this guy is.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Adam 4/24/2023 6:50:06 AM (No. 1454786)
The American experiment ended on November 3, 1998.
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Actually, poster #1, what he advocates for is getting rid of tax deductions which only benefit billionaires, or, to be more precise, primarily benefit billionaires.
I am all in favor of simplifying the tax code by eliminating most tax deductions.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/24/2023 8:02:08 AM (No. 1454832)
Schlichter is one of the best artists there is at tongue-in-cheek writing but this one is way too close to the truth. How did it come about that helpless, idealistic incompetents and perverts suddenly took charge of everything? Is it because governing the masses is such a simple and mundane job that even the lazy and the lame thought that they should do it because they have no other skills? It worked for Bernie Sanders, it worked for Pete Buttigieg and it's working superbly for the Biden Crime Family. The Obamas made themselves millions of dollars by fooling most of the world into thinking they were the new version of elites. Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein made themselves rich and bitchy by asserting themselves to be leaders of the sheep. At lower levels, people who became too comfortable with college life decided that becoming professors was much more desirable than getting real jobs and becoming productive. People in private corporations followed the path of the Peter Principle because it worked. They watched people around them not get promoted because they themselves were too valuable to leave their skilled position to become a manager. Marx was one of those people although we did not have the pleasure of knowing him. We can turn this around, all we need do is care about those like ourselves and don't feel sorry for those who are about to be knocked off their fragile pedestals. No, we don't need AR-15s or F-16s to defeat them, just good fists and maybe a stout axe handle. It's going to be fun.
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#1 He appears to be writing with tongue firmly planted in his cheek.
To the extent he is serious, he’s right about the fact the billionaire class and layabout upper middle have declared war on the productive and reasonable citizens. The new penalty imposed by Biden on people who save up a down payment and have good credit is one example.
Basically, if they want to declare war on us, we declare war on them. There is no logic to Biden’s proposed penalty against savers except they hate us and want to keep us down. Well, two can play.
The line that Democrats hate people who sweat for work is true. They only like people who sweat when engaged in molesting children.
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Yes Kurt. I agree. The time is coming when there will be blood in the streets. I’m too old to see it but I’ve taught my kids how to be tough enough to handle it, so their grandkids should survive.
I was talking to a person who works in public mental health and was amazed at their caseload. That’s another ticking bomb, the amount of mentally ill people nowadays. More than a healthy society can cope with for sure because no one is being taught how to be emotionally and spiritually strong. Every dam thing is a crisis and no one is being taught the skills to handle setbacks or disappointments. And don’t even get this person started on the trans people. Wow.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/24/2023 8:55:44 AM (No. 1454881)
Nothing wrong with playing by the rules. Just be aware when your opponent isn't and defend yourself appropriately. There is nothing more demoralizing than telling your opponent what you are going to do to them, and they realize they are powerless to stop it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
felixcat 4/24/2023 9:27:16 AM (No. 1454906)
How many people for simply walking into an opened Capitol are rotting away in the DC Gulag? How many borderline violent protests have there ben in state capitols the last few weeks over abortion, gun control, etc? And how many of those protestors are rotting away in jail. ZERO. Our side has got to stop playing by the rules that our enemies ignore. And they're not the opposition - they are our enemies. The next elected office holder who I hear say he/she is proud of their bi-partisan work on such-and-such bill - will never get my vote again.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
gop_guys 4/24/2023 9:46:46 AM (No. 1454923)
He’s absolutely right. If we don’t fix the envelope fraud (ballots) it will be very difficult for conservatives to win elections.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
walcb 4/24/2023 10:00:18 AM (No. 1454936)
I will go along with everything he said except the crooks ever being held accountable.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/24/2023 10:09:04 AM (No. 1454945)
FTA: "But the good news is this is all going to come crashing down."
Don't count on it, not without extreme measures. And by "extreme," I mean...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
weirdone 4/24/2023 10:16:47 AM (No. 1454952)
For all of my life I have considered myself to be a patriotic, taxpaying, American citizen; only to find in my 80's that I am a Xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, raciest, white supremacist. Is there still time for me to repent?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/24/2023 10:59:19 AM (No. 1454982)
Forget it, #12. You are doomed to being called a Patriot for the rest of your life.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Msquared112 4/24/2023 11:39:58 AM (No. 1455022)
Who is John Galt?
This kind of backwards communism does not fit America's blueprint and should be discarded immediately. If you knew half your paycheck would be confiscated to pay for some sloth, would you work? Or go off the grid? Would you fight for your economic freedom or wait for Congress to fix this outrageous plan?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 4/24/2023 12:15:58 PM (No. 1455074)
The American colonists finally stopped playing by the rules at Lexington green and the bridge at Concord.
Our time is coming. Be ready, have the skills and tools needed when the time comes. Get a copy of Schlichter's Indian Country for some thought provoking reading.
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"playing by the rules" like filing an income tax every year, a truthful one.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 4/24/2023 4:38:44 PM (No. 1455354)
Or like in "War Games" (and in Atlas Shrugged): The only way to win is to not play at all.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
columba 4/25/2023 2:38:49 PM (No. 1456004)
A nation that abandons the real God has no future. Don't wait.
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