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Home Front: Politix
American Uprising - 'Everything is about to change'
2016-11-10
[Front Page] Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.

It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.

They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the "unaccompanied minors" flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.

They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.

The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one by one. Ohio. Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.

They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.

They fought and they won.
Con't.
Posted by:Besoeker

#24  yes
Posted by: 746   2016-11-10 23:48  

#23   a disproportionate number of federal employees are overdue to pay their income tax.

Tsk, tsk. One way for Donald to look Presidential would be to insist everyone pay their fair share. Who could disagree with that?
Posted by: SteveS   2016-11-10 21:57  

#22  Incidentally, apparently a disproportionate number of federal employees are overdue to pay their income tax. In these troibled times, with so many calls on the public purse, that really won't do. Setting a good example and all that, donchaknow.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-11-10 18:49  

#21  I like this. Expand the Dept of the Interior, but only in climate studies, posts only servable in the Antarctic (it is warming, right? Then the problem will solve itself.)
Move 95% of the EPA, Dept of Ed, Dept of Ag, HS, HUD, etc, to this new sub-department.
And wait.
Make sure all the burrowers who skipped the required reviews participate.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2016-11-10 18:25  

#20  And the NY Post.
Posted by: Large Elmorong6288   2016-11-10 15:47  

#19  The first leftist site pushing for this are the feminazis running Yahoo.
Posted by: Threremble Stalin9682   2016-11-10 15:28  

#18  NOTE: December 19 the electoral college meets to formally cast the votes representative of the election. The DNC is now working overtime to get the reps to change their votes and MSM is pushing it as well.
Posted by: Threremble Stalin9682   2016-11-10 15:16  

#17  Since you can't fire public employees we should create a new department of Antarctica study and transfer folks there. If they don't like it they can quit.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-11-10 14:25  

#16  .....eliminate their drain on the debt and return these functions to the states.

1. Department of Education
2. Department of Agriculture
3. Department of Housing & Urban Development
4. Department of Homeland Security

Simply delete numbers 3 and 4 and transfer employees elsewhere.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-11-10 13:37  

#15  Grom - like you said earlier - a businessman brave enough to come in and declare bankruptcy on a few of these Agencies...admit that we go it wrong - eliminate their drain on the debt and return these functions to the states.
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-11-10 13:23  

#14  #12 Good luck, and I'm not being facetious, Tennessee. I'm just not very optimistic. I mean, short of bringing back the spoils system (h/t Jerry Pournelle), what can you do? Posted by g(r)omgoru We propose a reverse of the "patronage" system. We are hoping that this businessman will come in and have the guts to eliminate what he can on the Executive side and lead Congress to defund and eliminate others (our Department of Education is a good example). Trump's patronage should be to "the people" not a person or group. We know better at the state and local side what we need...not big government.
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-11-10 13:18  

#13  "They don't comprehend care about the price in lives and blood they will force everyone to pay."

FIFY
Posted by: Iblis   2016-11-10 11:47  

#12  Good luck, and I'm not being facetious, Tennessee. I'm just not very optimistic. I mean, short of bringing back the spoils system (h/t Jerry Pournelle), what can you do?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-10 11:14  

#11  #9 Tennessee, it's the Federal bureaucracy what runs the country. Posted by g(r)omgoru Yes sir, the liberal version. I hope Trump eliminates the Federal Agencies and Bureaucracies that have no authority under our Constitution - any function/power not specifically granted to the Feds within that document should be returned to the States. Stampeding = decentralization.
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-11-10 11:05  

#10  We bought time with Reagan and as soon as he was out of office they struck back. We've just bought some more with Trump but of course they will strike back again after he's gone. They always do.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-11-10 10:48  

#9  Tennessee, it's the Federal bureaucracy what runs the country.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-10 10:33  

#8  To hell with this talk of 'change' - how about improvement?
Posted by: Raj   2016-11-10 10:12  

#7  We dodged a bullet in this revolution.
Posted by: JohnQC 2016-11-10 08:07
I don't think we dodged a bullet...I think we gained fire superiority and imposed our will for our future. Now that we have the high ground we have to maintain the offensive and stampede them. We have the executive branch, the legislative, and maybe we will run the libs outta the Supreme Court.
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-11-10 08:59  

#6   No, you bought time. The Empire will strike back. They don't comprehend the price in lives and blood they will force everyone to pay. Like any addict, they're only in it for the high, aka power.
Posted by Procopius2k


Prescient by any measure.

Posted by: Besoeker   2016-11-10 08:48  

#5  Yea, but Darth, imagine all the happy cops who no longer have to look the other way while these people riot.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-10 08:39  

#4  This was a start, but it is far from over. There are already people on the other side calling for violence and death for the Trump supporters.

Keep that ammo handy. You are gonna need it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-11-10 08:34  

#3  No, you bought time. The Empire will strike back. They don't comprehend the price in lives and blood they will force everyone to pay. Like any addict, they're only in it for the high, aka power.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-11-10 08:27  

#2  Yup, that is correct g(r)omgoru. We dodged a bullet in this revolution.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-11-10 08:07  

#1  They fought and they won.

But only the first battle of the campaign.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-10 08:03  

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