Vichy Conservatives
Collaborators with the Biden Junta in the Café Américain.
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“Country club Republicans” was once the description of choice for those conservatives more concerned with their own pedigree and status than implementing policies that benefit the people. RINOs, “Republicans in name only,” is now more common but a new term from Paul du Quenoy at American Greatness is far more accurate.
“Vichycons” – Vichy conservatives – applies to those soi-disant conservatives comfortable with conditions under the Biden Junta, what Angelo Codevilla calls an oligarchy – after serious election irregularities that Conrad Black helpfully outlines. The Vichy reference goes back to the 1940s and the 1942 film Casablanca dramatizes the parallels.
Paris has fallen to the German National Socialist invaders, and their puppet Gen. Pétain governs from Vichy. From Nazi-occupied countries across Europe, people flee to French-controlled Morocco, where a measure of liberty still prevails. Still, the gendarmes demand to see papers, criminals lurk on every hand, and life is cheap. That may sound familiar to Americans in 2021, but there’s more to it.
In Casablanca, police captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) entertains the Nazi delegation headed by Major Heinrich Strasser (Conrad Veidt). Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) has shown up in Casablanca, and Strasser demands that Laszlo not escape to America via Lisbon. Captain Renault duly collaborates.
American Rick Blaine (Bogart) operates the Café Américain, a thriving nightclub and casino. One night Major Strasser and his squad commandeer the piano and croon a German fight song. Victor Laszlo counters by having the house band strike up “La Marseillaise.” The French patrons join in with gusto, the Germans give up, and the tearful Yvonne (Madeleine LeBeau) shouts “Vive la France!”
In 2021 America, the addled Biden is the figurehead for leftist squads who despise the “Star Spangled Banner” and hate the nation it represents. Like the Vichycons du Quenoy exposes, Joe Biden supports efforts to teach American children they are all racists. Biden also allows U.S. embassies to fly Black Lives Matter flags and banners, a move that traces back to the Communist Party USA, which held that blacks were a separate nation and not Americans.
According to the “1619 Project” now colonizing schools, the United States was established for the sole purpose of perpetuating slavery. In these dismal conditions, singing the “Star Spangled Banner,” flying the Stars and Stripes, and chanting “USA! USA!” become acts of bold resistance.
As Victor Lazlo recalls, Rick Blaine has some experience fighting in Spain and running guns to Ethiopia. Trouble is, Rick is now the only cause that interests Rick, who sticks out his neck for nobody. Rick begins to change when Major Strasser shuts down the Café Américain. Under the Vichy regime, things just aren’t going to be the same, so Rick must make a plan.
Instead of using the coveted “letters of transit” for himself, Rick gives them to Victor Laszlo and his wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman). Before they board the plane to Lisbon, Victor tells Rick, “Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.” Victor was right, but in 2021 America things aren’t so clear.
“We’ll always have Paris,” Rick tells Ilsa, and one night they got some of it back. In 2021 it’s not clear that Americans will get back the free and prosperous nation they once knew. Americans can flee to Florida and Texas, but there’s really no place to run and hide. In these conditions, the choices are clear.
Americans can be Vichycons and collaborate with Joe Biden, the menacing Gen. Mark Milley, and Comeytose FBI boss Christopher Wray. They can bow down to white coat supremacist duce Anthony Fauci, who now claims that to criticize him is to criticize science itself.
The more difficult choice is to take a stand for freedom, clean elections, the rule of law and constitutional rights. The hour is late and the correlation of forces unfavorable, but maybe our side can win. To adapt what Rick told Ilsa at the airport, if Americans don’t join the fight they will regret it. “Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.”
Meanwhile, du Quenoy’s Vichycon of choice is David French but he mentions David Frum, the Hillary Clinton voter who wants people to trust the media because of its mistakes. Du Quenoy might have included George Will, who confirms that collaboration started with the composite character president David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.
He cast Islamic terrorism at Ford Hood as “workplace violence,” passed off a murderous attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi as a protest over a video, and on his watch the economy barely had a pulse. After all that, and much more, George Will hailed “Barack Obama’s studied elegance,” a contrast to Donald Trump’s “visceral vulgarity.”
Once hailed as the best writer on any subject, George Will now compares January 6, 2021 with September 11, 2001, causing his friend Conrad Black to wonder if Will had “taken complete leave of his senses.” That’s a common condition among Vichycons loyal to the Biden Junta.
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Welcome to the Perpetual Covid-1984 War on Decent People Everywhere ...
Good analysis Lloyd.
... Frankly Rick and Renault are both better men than the ignorant cowards pretending to be Vichycons.
Today's Vichycons are idiots who believe in Covid, hate Americans, and desperately want to believe the Lefty Demokkkrats are not the criminals and traitors we know they are.
Rick and Renault were not stupid and they were not cowards.
*** G-d bless.
Sadly, Covid is all too real. Why is it so difficult to accept the idea of biological warfare? Too scary maybe? Resisting totalitarian social control does not require denying that there is a sometimes deadly contagious disease. Unless you don’t mind what Cuomo did?
Who told you "Covid" is "real?" What do those terms mean? Who defined them? How do you know 'cases' of 'Covid' are the Wuhan bio-weapon and not some other disease?
What makes you accuse me of denying anything? How do you "know" or think you "know" that the only deadly contagious disease out there is the Covid-1984? What happened to Influenza? Pneumonia? All the other rhinoviruses and other coronaviruses? Why did they just disappear?
As for what Cuomo did ... Was that not back when the original 'novel' Coronavirus was hitting it's peak infection rates? Was that also not when we were explaining that it had to be bioengineered? Had to be released from the Wuhan lab? Had an R/O of about 6 and a death rate of 0.3% - mostly of the elderly with underlying conditions?
And were we not also explaining that there were safe therapeutic treatments such as HCQ/Z-Pac and others such as Ivermectin available? Were our real concerns not dismissed then, just as our real concerns are being dismissed now?
And what about Farr's law? When did a disease appear and never fade? When did people start dying of the common cold in the middle of August?
Is it so hard to believe that the lab testing is a joke? Is it hard to believe the folks who are sick now and jamming our hospitals really have other diseases that are contagious and deadly - such as influenza or pneumonia? And is it hard to believe all this suffering is because they are going untreated or worse - mistreated - because the testing comes back and identifies 'Covid' for everything regardless of symptoms or circumstances?
... Or is all that too scary?
I'm always amazed at how we (that is all of us humans) just believe what we are told to believe if someone tells us to believe it. It's also interesting that we have difficulty understanding that something - such as the Sars-cov-2 virus - could cause serious and significant impact in an event - such as a pandemic in the spring of 2020, but then fade out and be replaced by nothing more than lab testing. Testing btw that does not even follow the known protocols for valid testing - speaking of the RT-PCR test. And then these results, which are invalid, are then interpreted according to an unbelievable set of guidance that essentially allows the 'Covid' designation to be applied to anything.
Why in the world should we believe that? Especially since it was ordered up by the same type of screwballs who created the bio-weapon of Sars-cov-2 and who denied the efficacy of existing therapeutic medications when the disease should have been active. They also contradicted themselves and were forced to censor their own research to make it difficult to who was lying about what and when.
Sorry about the rant. I know you mean well, and you're responding to those who think - without cause - that the whole plandemic was a hoax from the beginning.
And now we have good reason to believe the bio-weapon has been in development for years - some genome strings going back to the 90s (for components used to do recombinant RNA research) - and that the Chinese may have been planning some sort of bio-weapon release in the fall of 2019.
Although unconfirmed, there's plenty of evidence to suggest the actual Sars-cov-2 was deliberately created and was used as a bio-weapon by the Chinese regardless of whether they intended to "leak" the virus or not. However, that said, we still have no way of knowing if the current case-load or infection load in our hospitals right now have anything to do with Sars-cov-2.
Right here in our little rural ex-urb county, the two little county hospitals are jammed with patients allegedly due to the Sars-cov-2.
But ... our nurses and even my brother's doctor admitted that they are not treating any of these patients. No HcQ. No Ivermectin. And they have not questioned the lab people or the diagnosis. A 'Covid' diagnosis means that you get no treatment at all.
That should scare you. It scares me. If I go to the hospital, they won't treat me, and they will 'Cuomo' me by exposing me to others who are infected with only G-d knows what.
This means that if I get pneumonia, and I go to the hospital, I will not be treated for pneumonia at our local hospitals. And I will be in a ward with people with unknown diseases. It also means our Quota Quacks are not competent enough to recognize the distinction between the actual cause of a disease manifestation and a spurious lab result based on poor guidance.
What all this means is that ... nothing will stop the plandemic because it's a political weapon now.
Hopefully that will help.
*** You and yours have a wonderful week, Catkid!
My very substitute (and very rude) doc wouldn't treat sinusitis symptoms when she found out I wasn't jabbed. She made me get a test (which didn't thankfully go through my cranium) before prescribing amoxicillin. Stay healthy folks, stay healthy and stay away from vaxxed people.
No question that covid is biological warfare. Trump was an existential threat to china. They tried everything to draw him into a military conflict to hurt his chances of reelection. He was too smart for them. As a hail mary they tried releasing the virus. It worked better than they could ever have dreamed.
When it comes to the lexicon for describing so-called "Republicans" who gleefully serve as servile, obsequious factotums for their Dhimmi-crat masters, I prefer the inimitable moniker "cuckservative." The word possesses a certain aptness.
Vichy-ites and Petain-ists were Frenchmen who's spirit had been crushed by the speed of the German victory in 1940 but part of that collapse was the divisions in French society between Left and right that were magnified by the German invasion
Here in Britain we have our very own Vichy-ite in Boris Johnson ; a so called Conservative who abandoned conservative principles and jumped on the Eco-Creep bandwagon and then embraced the soft tyranny of Nanny State ..he glibly lies every time he comes on TV and has an increasingly porcine look about him just like the bipedal pig, Snowball, in Orwell's Animal Farm
Vichy-ites were both cowards and appeasers and these Nanny Staters cannot even protect our borders from hundreds of migrants coming across the English Channel in small boats , so they have no chance of standing up to the rise of China or the quasi medieval barbarity of radical Islam
You nailed it.
Wise women know the limitations of their fellow women ; the EU Nanny State is where great nations go to die and it was inevitable with the empowerment of women YOUTUBE THE ELOI, DAMN THEM (3mins)
TaliBiden is a senile moron. He has always been a moron, but has not aged well
Excellent read!
Retired Air Force general Hayden likens Trump supporters to the Taliban. Disgraceful man.
I will add Vichycon to my vocabulary along with Baizuo to describe the left.
This is probably the best article I've read on this topic.
Few writers put things into the proper perspective. This was "spot on" as they say across the pond.
Ironically, Pétain was one of the heroes of WW1.
Trump had it right. Too many Republican good losers. It's not a good thing to rush and shake your opponent's hand after they won the right to kill you and your family. And don't kid yourself. When it comes to power, criticism is the start of someone else trying to take you over, no matter how good it sounds. This isn't middle school social studies. Kasich, Christie, Romney, McCain, both Bushes and Dole. Way too many leaders in a row who laid down and let their people get killed in exchange for a TV show.
If you want a name, call them bidens, as in, "things are good, as long as a bunch of bidens don't come along and biden this up."
But wasn’t the “highly esteemed” Codevilla suffering publicly and stupidly from his own version of “Trump derangement syndrome” ( as if there was a VichyCon alternative, with a better pedigree than President Trump, waiting in the wings to take over instead of the current insane Marxist-Islamist, race-baiting, America-hating cabal of totalitarian criminals?!?!)
Vichycons is a good description but I prefer RINOcrats.
In 2022, Republican voters will again see Mitch McConnell & Crew scheme mightily to insure that only RINOs get nominated. Voters, think!
Someone ought to document the history of Vichy-like tendencies within the Republican elites, as opposed to the rank-and-file. This is a piece of the puzzle: http://www.nazinexus.com/
Perhaps most those Of The Left today could utter the words of Bogie when asked why he came to Casablanca, why I came for the waters, he replied, what waters, we are in the Desert, suggested the Police Officer.... I was misinformed said Bogie... I was misinformed... cries The Left... Ive seen that movie so many times Ive lost count, and though I am not French I tear up when they start singing the French National Anthem.
The followers of Vichy loved France. The Dhimmies and neo-cons hate America.
Actually, I believe that the author is way too pessimistic. Here in America we have something the French never had! We have a Federal Republic of Sovereign Free(Red) States with a weak national establishment in Washington D.C. This status is guaranteed by the 10th Amendment to our nations constitution And further backed up by the Posse Comitatus Act. So far the Red States have been passive waiting to see how things are developing politically. In my opinion,we are reaching the point where the gloves will need to come off soon in the Red States & things may need to be settled more forcefully. At that point it will be a chaotic & violent mess,but we will win!