By Roger L. Simon
Literally within minutes of the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump, his opponents took to the streets declaring themselves “The Resistance.”Some of us, myself included, considered that an act of what the “woke” like to call “cultural appropriation,” indeed an extreme—I would even say obscene—one.CA is a term, many will recall, applied to those insensitive souls who allegedly steal from another group for their own gain or amusement, as in fraternity boys donning sombreros and drinking margaritas for Cinco de Mayo.
What was appropriated back in 2016 was something quite serious—“La Résistance”—the clandestine and highly-dangerous underground movement to subvert Nazi Germany’s control of France during the Second World War.
Although an astonishing number of younger Americans have little or no knowledge of the Holocaust, I would imagine most readers of this outlet realize that Germany’s takeover with the Vichy government’s compliance resulted in such events as the notorious July 1942 night time roundup in suburban Paris of 7000 Jews, including 4000 children, before they were shipped off for extermination.
Comparing that to the election of Donald Trump really is obscene, and also wildly anti-Semitic, unless, of course, you think saying nasty things about your opponents on Twitter is the equivalent of Auschwitz.
Many of our supposedly “progressive” friends evidently did, overwhelmed by a delusional case of moral narcissism all out of proportion to reality, allowing them to “act out” in the most self-aggrandizing manner, identifying with the true heroes of “La Résistance” when there was no discernible threat to them whatsoever.
Indeed, what actually happened to the daily lives of our liberal friends during the Trump administration was next to nothing.Until COVID came along, they got to enjoy the lowest unemployment virtually ever, including minorities, with actual wages going up for the lower classes for the first time in years, a booming stock market, lower gas prices through energy independence, peace in the Middle East and peace in general.
They weren’t censored in any way and maintained control of most of the media, entertainment, and the schools throughout.
Yet still they raged.
But to continue with the French analogy, what’s going on today is “toute autre chose,” entirely different.
The now victorious left is attempting to erase the right, to drive it out of existence forever.
We see signs of this everywhere, from the clearly fascistic actions of Big Tech in destroying upstart Parler on grounds of hosting some violent posts (something they themselves have been doing for years) to ridiculous virtue signaling like Macaulay Culkin signing on for having Donald Trump’s cameo removed from “Home Alone 2.”
Communist Chinese-style “social credit” controls are being instituted across our economy with the likes of Master Card, PayPal and Stripe canceling conservative groups that protested the election and automated business email systems doing the same.
In many ways this is more effective and dangerous than the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution because we are so reliant on technology now and because it is so sub rosa. No need for prancing around in dunce caps. An individuals’ access to his or her daily needs can be turned off with the click of an invisible mouse.
American versions of “Good Germans” are coming out of the woodwork as many are beginning to live in fear of what this could do to their lives. Others have been asked to recant or soon will be.
The traditional Republican Party politicians have been of little help, disconnected, as many, maybe most, are from their rank-and-file.
So is this time for a new, and more justified, “Resistance”?
Possibly.
Yeah, it was comical to see a bunch of butthurt crybabies throwing a temper tantrum for reasons they didn’t even know comparing themselves to the French resistance. No, they have no idea what that was, just like they don’t know what fascism is.
By any measure, we should be doing the same right now and continuously, but we are simply too intelligent and adult.
Low unemployment? They were employed by Soros to pretend to care. They have no idea what a job is. They were as impressed with low unemployment and an economy that had a much more widespread benefit to citizens than ever before as I would be to hear there is a big sale on “Audacity of Hope”.
When at PJM Roger said he was friends with Horowitz., and they both knew that liberals have been attempting to erase America for over 60 years!
Now it seems he has unfriended Dave. ” ..now victorious left is trying to erase…”
NOW is wrong. FOREVER would be more accurate.
@Deplorable Me:
“By any measure, we should be doing the same right now and continuously, but we are simply too intelligent and adult.”
That’s right. Trumpers stage an insurrection instead and beat the crap out of cops. Very intelligent. Very adult.
@Don Williamson:
I highly recommend you look up the definition of Insurrection.
@Don Williamson:
It’s yet to be proven that any “Trump supporter” beat any cops. Since that is a common left wing BLM/ANTIFA tactic and characteristic, it would be wise to withhold judgement until you have some actual evidence. Particularly since the left has a nasty habit of INVENTING false conclusions to jump to. For instance, why was a BLM violent thug leading the riot?
@Deplorable Me:
There was a leader? Ha! And you’re aware of his political affiliation? Maybe he was just looking for his next good-time riot – and the guys waving the Trump flags gave him one.
You mean all the guys beating a cop near the doorway while waving Trump flags weren’t Trump supporters?
@retire05:
My dictionary defines insurrection as an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government.
The Trump riot was indeed the Trump insurrection.
Thanks for the recommendation.
@Don Williamson: Well, being right next to Ashli Babbitt who was shot, he was in front of the entire mob. So, he was leading it. And, yes, being a BLM thug, arrested numerous times for inciting violence (sound somewhat familiar?) and released to commit more violence. Let’s be honest enough to admit he probably wasn’t a card-carrying Republican, shall we?
Then what would you call the June riots where left wing mobs attacked the White House, burned businesses, attacked police and tried to burn down an historic church?
It wasn’t Trump’s riot. It was a culmination of months of violence that was allowed to continue unabated without Democrats trying to stop the violence or condemn those actually committing the violence. Democrats have made political violence an acceptable tool for enacting political change. Blame yourself; you supported it all the way.
@Don Williamson:
It is being reported that there are upwards of 30,000 National Guard, in full battle gear, in D.C. That is more military than we have in Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany combined. Why? Does the Communist Democrat Party (formerly known simply as the Democrat Party) think that radical, violent Trump supporters are going to attend Beijing Biden’s inauguration?
Now, all the left wing press is calling the people in D.C. on the 6th as “white supremacists”. Never mind that there were people of color, all colors, there. Hispanics, blacks, Asians. But now, it seems the left has finally decided to be color blind even claiming that Asians are “white supremacists.”
The left WILL overstep their bounds. But they may get the war they have been itching for for four years. Then what?
@Deplorable Me:
Sullivan is an over the top violent activist – period. Nobody stormed the front door of the White House. Biden has condemned violence many times. You should stop making things up.
Because some of Trump’s followers have already demonstrated that they’ll resort to deadly violence when they don’t get their way, and they’re not going to get it.
@Don Williamson: I didn’t say anyone “stormed the front door of the White House”, did I? But, they attacked it. Since it was in the middle of an ongoing BLM/ANTIFA left wing RIOT, the officers were already there and prevented the fences around the White House from being breached.
If you are looking for something to call an insurrection, there you go. Leftists, supported by Democrats in Congress, attacking the President of the United States. What was their purpose? Do you doubt if they got to him they would have killed him? They’ve dreamed of it, spoken of it, acted it out, posed it for 4 years. The left… YOU… have been nothing but violence. No civility, no reason, no respect for law enforcement or the Constitution. Just fascist violence.
@Greg: Because half the nation believes (rightly) that the CCP asset idiot Biden is only at the inauguration through fraud. The far left is already beginning to believe he screwed them; we’ve seen what they do when they don’t get what they want. You and your Democrats are the source of the tension and violence. And now you’re losing control of it.
You better keep all those operatives involved in the fraud happy.
@Greg:
Are you saying that all those rioters who burned down Kenosha, Portland, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. were Trump supporters? Really? Are you really to try to lay that lie out there?
@retire05: I think we’ve been warning if the left kept put their violence and terrorism it would come to this. Either Democrats weren’t smart enough to understand it or this is what they wanted. Either way, they brought it.
@retire05, #13:
No, I said exactly what you quoted:
That’s the reason the National Guard is presently necessary in Washington DC. They are there because some of Trump’s followers have already demonstrated they will turn violent when they don’t get their way, and will turn that violence on our elected public officials. They have clearly demonstrated that by actually doing so.
We’d already seen armed right-wing idiots in the Michigan Statehouse last April, remember? This bullshit must cease.
@Greg: They were necessary in June when the Democrat’s terrorists were burning the city down, but Democrats wouldn’t call them. They WANTED the violence; they WANTED their terrorists to attack the White House. Now, they don’t know what their terrorists will do. They like violence and Biden is ignoring them and the promises they made.
Leftists led the mob into the Capital. It wouldn’t have happened without them. The violence is a Democrat product.
@Greg:
So it takes 30,000 troops to protect dementia addled Beijing Biden and that decrepit old hag, Palsi Piglosi?
Odd, since Piglosi didn’t want Trump to call in the Guard when the White House was being threatened.
No surprise you don’t want to discuss “the summer of love” that showed us how the Democrat Party storm troopers excel at burning, looting and murdering.
Maybe you’d rather talk about how the co-founder of your beloved Lincoln Project is a sexual predator?
It only takes a few armed lunatics as angry and crazy as you appear to be to make that unfortunate measure necessary.
@Greg: So you dont want to talk about the russia linked perverts of the Lincoln project? They want to go all nazi making lists to destroy peoples lives.
They even want to punish those representatives we duly elected wanting proof of a Biden win.
Sure are behaving like there is something to hide, just like they did after 2016.
@kitt: Democrats don’t want anyone asking questions about anything. That’s how they get caught in their corrupt games. They don’t want anyone asking questions about how dead people get a ballot and vote. How do underage people turn an election? “Nuh-uh” is not an explanation.
If those in the Lincoln Project were scumbag pedophiles, they wouldn’t be aligned with the Democrats.
Do realize that all of the pedophile b.s. originated with QAnon? They’re the right’s unappreciated wellspring of viral craziness and conspiracy theory.
@Greg: No, it originated with Epstein and his Democrat customers. Then there were videos of Grampa Grope handling children. Then there was Hunter’s lap top with his photos of underage girls, his PornHub account and the letters about his child abuse and some of Joe’s sickening predilections. Of course, Joe liked to abuse a rape full growed women, too, and you Democrats are fine with that as well.
@Don Williamson:
You are obviously new here. It’s the core function of the Trump cultists to make stuff up, even when they have no idea they are doing so.
@Ronald J. Ward: Looks like he’s a graduate of the AJ School of Lying and Running Away From Questions.
It was Mr. Sockpuppet Miller. Wasn’t able to get on much yesterday so he was able to post his moronic comments. Some people replied so I kept them up.
@Curt: Again, lying only reveals how weak they realize they really are.
You think Miller had to take a cut in pay when he got kicked off?
@Deplorable Me, #22:
That would explain the photos and video of Mr. Grab ‘Em hanging out and partying with Jeffrey and his procurer, wouldn’t it?
@Greg:
Clinton was on the flight manifests. Trump was not.
But hey, you support sexual predators.
I support the man who will be sworn in as President of the United States on Wednesday.
@Greg:
That’s what I said; you support sexual predators.
As if no one would ever have seen that reply coming…
@Greg:
If Beijing Biden had fondled my daughter, or granddaughter, like he did little girls and even grown women, he would have been picking himself up off the floor as others rushed in to wipe up the blood coming from his nose.
No grown adult male acts like that unless they are sick in the head.
Like I said; you support sexual predators.
Addiction to anger and hatred is like a dog chasing its own tail.
@Greg: #21 No The pedo stuff began with the Podesta emails from wikileaks, but shows what you know about anything. Why are no less than 3 CNN talking heads on Jeffys flight logs? ABC suppressing Slicks and Prince Andrews trips, why would they ruin the blackmail opportunities?
The perv co-founder of your lincoln project pals resigned they are such twisted characters they didnt boot him.
Yup you are all or some really sick elites. The declassification of late shows the DNCs KGB was nothing but a bunch of political hack men with unlimited government assets to prosecute democrat rivals.
I don’t have a head full of daft QAnon conspiracy theories and other assorted nonsense, the list of which has become absurdly long.
Republicans have actually elected two QAnon supporters to Congress.
@Greg: So you admit you know nothing about Q but will repeat the MFM ignorant and misguided disinformation about Q and Q fans. That behavior is typical of you and your pal Ward.
With an estimated 2.5 million rounds of 5.56 ammo being distributed — along with 500,000 rounds of .50 caliber for the Stryker vehicles — Washington D.C. is being prepared for a nation state-scale attack, which indicates the DoD anticipates an invasion from China or some other foreign aggressor.
@kitt:
Rule 13 from Rules For Radicals:
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. ”
That’s the only thing Comrade Greggie knows.
@Curt: Guided tour insurrection!
@kitt:
And here we are, eleven days after the murder of Ashli Babbitt and still no release of the name of the Capital P.D. officer that shot her.
When a black man, hopped up on drugs and owner of a criminal record, was shot, the police officer’s name was released almost immediately. But a white woman, and a 14 year military veteran, was shot, and murdered, by a Capital police officer and all we get are crickets.
Odd how that works, isn’t it?
@retire05: Not at all 50 officers were assassinated this year
CNN wont show
@Greg: You mean like, 30 years ago when they were both real estate developers and before the island of Democrat’s most frequent visits? Before Trump found out about Epstein and kicked him out of his resorts?
I don’t. He’s a racist, an idiot, a liar, a criminal and a traitor to this nation, a CCP asset. He will NEVER be the legitimate president, having gotten there totally by fraud.
You’d know. You and everyone on the left would definitely know all about that.
Nah, just DNC, NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS conspiracy theories which have all been exposed as lies. Yet you keep clinging to them.
@kitt: Well, that’s just how much hardware it takes to make Asterisk Grampa Grope Quid Pro Quo Beijing Obiden feel safe. After all, they aren’t inaugurating him in his basement.
@retire05: I’m surprised they didn’t put a drop gun on her so they could claim she was armed. Even after Jacob Blake admitted he was armed, the lying media (Greg’s favorites) still call him an “unarmed black man”. The left can’t exploit and incite violence with Ashli’s death, so she’s unimportant to them.
@Curt: Is that why they need 25,000 troops?
@kitt:
It all looks just fine, if you ignore the scenes of violence and the dead girl’s blood on the hallway floor of the nation’s Capitol.
Off the Rails:
Episode 1: A premeditated lie lit the fire
Episode 2: Barbarians at the Oval
@Greg:
You mean like how you, and every dirt bag Democrat, ignored the violence this past summer committed by the DNC storm troopers, BLM and AntiFa, even as they watched David Dorn bleed out on a city street?
And that “girl” has a name; ASHLI BABBITT.
But Ashli Babbitt isn’t important to you and your dirt bad Democrats even though she gave 14 years of her life in our military. She is as important as David Dorn, who wasn’t important to dirt bag Democrats even though he was black. He was a cop, and your side hates cops unless they are Capital Police and are defending the worthless lives of the dirt bag Democrats.
How long have you had this special power to know what others are thinking?
That’s what’s known as projection. It’s coming from inside your own head.
@Greg:
Yours are pretty clear. You’ve expressed them expressly. If it’s bad for this country you and your derelict party are are for it. If it’s good for this country, you and your derelict party are against it and will use fraud and corruption to end it.
@Greg: Why are the so afraid? They even are terrified of their most loyal voters.
@Greg:
Prove me wrong. Show me the quotes from the dirt bag left Democrats demanding accountability for the left wing riots, the left wing looting and the left wing attacks on police officers. Show me the quotes of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer or any other left winger demanding David Dorn’s killer be found and prosecuted. Show me wrong.
Because you can’t.
You see, that’s because violence is the provenance of the left. BLM leaders admit that they use the policies and practices of the Weather Underground as a model for the BLM organization. But you will lie about it. You will continue to lie about it, because that is what you, another dirt bag, do.
It was a violent mob of Trump supporters incited by Donald Trump himself that recently invaded the Capitol Building—one more item now added to your denial list.
@Greg:
You need better handlers, Comrade Greggie. That response doesn’t even come close to cutting it. It is simply another one of your dodges.
Again, show me the quotes from the dirt bag left Democrats demanding accountability for the left wing riots, the left wing looting and the left wing attacks on police officers. Show me the quotes of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer or any other left winger demanding David Dorn’s killer be found and prosecuted.