You’d Better Get Tough and Get Used to It
BY Herschel Smith
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Hey just so you know, leftists are going to riot for the entire time that a Republican is president for the rest of your life
So you better get tough and get used to it
— James Klüg (@realJamesKlug) January 27, 2026
What’s happening at the moment in Minnesota isn’t organic. It is sponsored by the CCP and billionaires who live there (Neville Roy Singham, as well as other bad actors who don’t live in the U.S.).
For proof see this thread and this thread. This is not in the category of protests – this is an insurgency run out of international offices, mainly the CCP, whom I predict we will be in a shooting war with inside of five years.
It is well rehearsed, well planned, well organized, and very effective. They are following the playbook written in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters,…
— Eric Schwalm (@Schwalm5132) January 25, 2026
I would never claim that some misguided soul who wishes to protect and defend himself and his loved ones doesn’t have a right to carry arms. If he is a citizen, then he is covered under the U.S. constitution, the covenant that binds us. The second amendment is the guarantor of the right of amelioration of tyranny. I would never advocate a philosophical test to own arms. But what the constitution doesn’t grant is the right to overthrow the government and impose an even worse tyranny.
Unfettered immigration is tyranny because it is population replacement – a complete revision of culture, identity, and religious background and commitments – along with the theft of the wealth hard working men have earned through their lives to protect, defend and provide for their loved ones.
As to the notion of getting tough and getting used to it, that is the furthest thing from American minds right now. The Texas putz Ted Cruz wants to tone down the rhetoric.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said on his podcast that the Trump administration could improve “the tone with which they’re describing this.”
“Escalating the rhetoric doesn’t help, and it actually loses credibility,” Cruz said on Monday’s episode of “Verdict with Ted Cruz.” “And so I would encourage the administration to be more measured, to recognize the tragedy and to say, we don’t want anyone, anyone’s lives, to be lost, and the politicians who are pouring gasoline on this fire, they need to stop.”
Trump seems within a hair of firing the head of the DHS, Shawn Hannity wants ICE to stop targeting Home Depot.
America is soft, weak, ignorant, lazy, gullible and coddled, and when anything becomes hard or violent or difficult, it shies away from the hard things. America may have voted for this, but it thought it could happen without toughness. The first time America saw what it’s going to take to rid ourselves of this blight, it shrunk into the closet and cried for mommy.
America wants to watch its football games and halftime shows, buy jerseys of its favorite players, and eat chips and popcorn while it watches other men play at silly games.
We are at war, and those who can’t see it for what it is will get run over. In my estimation, America is finished. America had one chance. It blew it.
On January 27, 2026 at 9:58 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Re: “America is soft, weak, ignorant, lazy, gullible and coddled, and when anything becomes hard or violent or difficult, it shies away from the hard things. America may have voted for this, but it thought it could happen without toughness.”
Regrettably, you may be right. Wars are fought in the physical, mental and moral realms, but they are won and lost in the mind. Wars are not just contests of physical toughness, they are contests of mental toughness. And right now, most Americans are not mentally prepared for fighting a war against a tough, determined enemy.
Seventy-five years of almost unbroken affluence, peace and prosperity has resulted in a population of people who are – on the whole – corrupt, decadent and weak. Obviously, there are exceptions, but the population at large is in sad shape.
Recent surveys of 18-25 year olds show that a startling number of members of that age cohort, the ones most-likely to be called upon to fight a major war, are physically, mentally and emotionally unfit to serve in the armed forces.
And they aren’t the only ones manifestly unprepared for such a circumstance.
Ken Royce, the firearms trainer and author otherwise known to the public as “Boston Tea Party,” the pseudonym under which he wrote “Boston’s Gun Bible” and many other titles, has said that in 1776, our ancestors had the courage and fortitude to fight a war, but lacked the tools with which to do it, such as adequate numbers of small arms and other weapons. But today, Royce muses, the circumstances are reversed: We are awash in the tools with which to resist, but lack the courage and fortitude our ancestors had.
Things have not yet gotten bad enough, difficult enough, for the ordinary or “average” American, to shake him out of his lethargy.
Mark Steyn, who wrote “America Alone” about twenty years ago or so, stated not long ago that back then, he feared that there was going to be a revolt. Today, he says his worst fear is that there won’t be one.
On January 27, 2026 at 10:04 pm, X said:
Has anybody ever asked why it is that with the NSA and FBI and the CIA conducting massive electronic surveillance on you white people with guns, and all the effort they put into hunting down and arresting the J6er Boomers and morons, and with thousands of military operators and contractors who are supposedly experts in tracking “insurgents” in Afghanistan, somehow they cannot shut down Antifa and these well-organized communist insurgents?
They always manage to come up with some hapless retards or mental cases, entrap them, and make a propaganda arrest (like the Gretchen Whitmer kidnap hoax, or Jerry Drake Varnell) but none of these communist types or Antifa are ever busted.
Interesting, ain’t it?
The only plausible explanation is that they WANT these people in the streets…
On January 27, 2026 at 10:05 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
On events in Minneapolis-St. Paul, President Trump’s actions thus far have been remarkably restrained considering the full extent of the lawlessness, theft, and corruption involved, not to mention the tens of millions of illegals already in the country, across the U.S.
If our political leaders and the public can’t stomach video footage of a few illegals being taken into custody and perhaps deported, then how are they going to react to tens or hundreds of thousands of them receiving the same treatment, perhaps even millions?
Phrased metaphorically, the illness caused by massive illegal immigration into the United States over recent decades is so far advanced that major surgery is going to be required to save the “patient,” namely the republic itself. If the “patient” won’t consent to undergo the procedure, then his chances for survival are nil. At least if preserving the America of the Founders is in any way important to you.
On January 27, 2026 at 10:09 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@X
Re: “The only plausible explanation is that they WANT these people in the streets…”
More than once informed source has stated that the CIA textbook op for color revolutions is being used right here, right now, on U.S. soil.
False fronts, dupes, and controlled opposition are everywhere.
On January 28, 2026 at 12:14 am, RHT447 said:
The current generation is Lord of the Flies, at the speed of the internet. Full bellies and dry feet for too long. Convenience is going to kill us all.
On January 28, 2026 at 12:19 am, Chris said:
Claire Wolfe famously wrote “America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” I wonder if she has changed her mind now.
On January 28, 2026 at 8:30 am, William Ashbless said:
I agree with above that AntiFa is allowed to function because it serves a purpose to people that matter. The press doesn’t have any interest and spouts buzzwords like ‘loosely organized’, ‘local’, ‘grassroots’. The various alphabet agencies have a similar disinterest in these goons and dismiss the movement.
Anybody want to buy that bridge?
Remember the Ammon Bundy takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge? Fifty armed nut jobs took over federal property for some bizarre reason that made little sense.
And then, after a man was killed by authorities (who lied about the details) they were all arrested. Yet, only 13 were charged. What about the other, 30+(-) occupants? Who were they and why weren’t they charged? The media had no interest. Why? Were they feds? Wouldn’t it be funny if two thirds of the people involved were informing on and inciting the remaining one third.
Just how many agencies had assets inside the mob during J6? And, what was the scope of their involvement. Ray Epps comes to mind.
On January 28, 2026 at 10:41 am, george 1 said:
The powers that be want the Chaos. It diverts attention from things like the Epstein matter and other displeasing things they are involved in. Not the least of which is the fact that the administration is passing out Visas like candy, Student and H1Bs.
They are even granting Visas like this to people with “only fans” businesses, as if that is the type of skilled individual that we need to import. In many cases American workers can happily train their lower paid Indian replacements.
If the administration was serious about immigration control they would prosecute employers, landlords and financial institution CEOs who aid and abet illegal aliens in addition to targeting criminals in the streets. If they were serious Mayorkas would be serving a life sentence by now alongside many politicians who openly protect illegal aliens.
As X says above, the FBI and DHS could easily take down the funding and organizational structure behind these rioters but they have not. When, not if, Trump backs down, that will effectively be the permanent end of any serious immigration enforcement. That could well be the ultimate goal here.
On January 28, 2026 at 10:57 am, Paul B said:
They have 20% of the audience on there side. No more. Any fair fight and we wipe the table with them.
The real problem is how far the rot has metastasized. With out a revolution we will not be rid of them or reduce their power. Not sure we can ever be rid of them as most people will take a free ride if offered.
So they will not fight fair. It is a given. We must have Voter ID. We must have only citizens voting. We need working insane asylums to put the nut in. We need public hangings again.
Sorry, Old and cranky.
On January 28, 2026 at 2:40 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ Paul B.
Re: “So they will not fight fair. It is a given. We must have Voter ID. We must have only citizens voting. We need working insane asylums to put the nut in. We need public hangings again.”
On the surface, Voter ID seems to make sense, but the trouble with that idea is that the powers-that-be will use that rationale to roll out digital IDs and CBDCs – Central Bank Digital Currencies – Social Credit Scores, and all the rest.
I’d love to be proven wrong, but Palantir has disturbingly close ties to the Vice-President….
On January 28, 2026 at 2:50 pm, X said:
“More than once informed source has stated that the CIA textbook op for color revolutions is being used right here, right now, on U.S. soil.”
Yes it is. And they used it in 2020 as well.
The CIA has DECADES of experience rigging elections and promoting coups, starting with Italy in 1948, Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954. The CIA was behind the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich in 2014 so that we could install puppets to fight a proxy war against Russia.
You’d have to be a fool to think they wouldn’t do it here.
On January 29, 2026 at 10:37 am, Frank Clarke said:
“But what the constitution doesn’t grant is the right to overthrow the government and impose an even worse tyranny.”
Actually, the Constitution doesn’t grant the people anything. It is We The People who grant… to the government… the power to do certain tasks that WTP have decided are most expeditiously handled at the federal level.
As to “overthrowing the government”, allow me to refer you to the Declaration of Independence, the cornerstone of our political philosophy, which reads in part:
“…That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. [snip] …it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
While I firmly oppose those who seem now to want to overthrow this government,let there be no mistake: they have a God-given right to try, just as we have a God-given right to hang them for their efforts.
On January 29, 2026 at 12:07 pm, Herschel Smith said:
I disagree. God doesn’t give them the right to impose tyranny. Nothing in Scripture can be construed to say that.
On January 29, 2026 at 2:33 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@X
Re: “The CIA has DECADES of experience rigging elections and promoting coups, starting with Italy in 1948, Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954. The CIA was behind the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich in 2014 so that we could install puppets to fight a proxy war against Russia.
You’d have to be a fool to think they wouldn’t do it here.”
Yep, all that practice overseas to bring their “road show” home to the USA. And remember, the CIA has no mandate or charter to operate on U.S. soil. None. Not that anyone is concerned with such formalities these days…
On January 29, 2026 at 4:43 pm, Frank Clarke said:
@HS: They don’t see it as tyranny. They see it as their patriotic duty.
Treason doth never prosper.
What’s the reason?
For if it prosper,
None dare call it treason.
One of the factions will hang for their actions. I intend that it won’t be THIS faction. I am confident that you share that intent and that we both have almost enough ammunition.
On January 29, 2026 at 4:53 pm, Herschel Smith said:
“They don’t see it as tyranny. They see it as their patriotic duty.”
The only thing that matters is the way God sees it. Truth isn’t relative or negotiable.
On February 1, 2026 at 3:13 pm, X said:
“The only thing that matters is the way God sees it. Truth isn’t relative or negotiable.”
As St. Augustine put it, “What are [nations] but great bands of robbers?”
On February 11, 2026 at 10:54 am, luke2236 said:
Hmmm… maybe we should just “get used to” putting bullets in the empty heads of leftists…