I can not forgive

 First up today is Petra North, at the American Thinker who tells us It Was Just Easier To Hate Trump. You know what? I didn't like his tweets either. He wasted, in my opinion, a lot of energy smacking at flys. But Trump did a lot of what Conservative Inc. claimed to want. As a movement conservative, I wanted a lot of that too. I can put up with a Trump who was constantly looking out for my interests, and I can overlook when he occasionally stepped on my toes. In contrast, Biden and whoever is pulling the strings are complete anathema to me. The Afghan debacle is just the latest disaster created by these people who desire to destroy the United States. But please, let Ms. North have a say.

An observation frequently attributed to Mark Twain, that “it is easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled,” is the most accurate explanation I can find of where we are today.

I will only add this one caveat: It is only easy to fool people when they willingly choose to be foolable, when they allow others to tell them what’s true and what’s not. Because it’s infinitely easier to do that.

It was easier to believe Trump was uncouth than to take the risk of being kicked out of the Cool Kids’ Group, the group that includes Hollywood stars, Jimmy Fallon, Rachel Maddow, and Washington cocktail parties.

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I would like to be the better person and forgive all of those who have come to regret voting for a mirage. But I just can’t. The information was out there. The “regretters” just didn’t want to take the time to look for it and take the risk of losing their place at the Cool Kids’ Table, at being laughed at themselves.

The situation we find ourselves in is what all of these regretters have wrought. Period. Although Boris Ephsteyn on Steve Bannon’s War Room expressed the same sentiment on Thursday’s War Room and thus beat me to the punch, here is my own similar message to them:

I and all of the other Trump supporters have been ridiculed, maligned, disrespected, physically attacked, stereotyped and criminally charged for the last five years. In stark contrast to the summer riots last year, we have for the most part endured this with the grace and respect the president himself modeled for us. We protested – sometimes loudly, and sometimes by really angry tweets – but we didn’t riot or pillage or vandalize.

I know, I know, to forgive is the Christian thing to do. I am sorry, but I am not ready yet. Especially while the same people are pushing Climate Change, mask mandates, bullying people to get vaccinated when vaccines have proven worthless. I am not ready yet to forgive the people who rigged the election and stole it. I'm not. So don't ask it of me.

So, if you voted for Biden or promoted him; if you hid or dismissed the facts about Hunter and the information on his laptop; if you voted to impeach Trump; if you acted in any way to make our election fraudulent; if you claimed you had no authority to honor states’ requests for time to make sure their electors were correct (that’s you, Mike Pence); if you sanctimoniously judged Trump supporters as yokels or laughed along with those who did; if you criticized and voiced shame for being an American; don’t waste your time looking to me for absolution. I don’t have the time or the energy to be glad or grateful you’ve joined the fight. I have my hands full just trying to take in all of the destruction you’ve caused and to figure out how to fight for my own family and all the people who won’t be prepared for what is coming.

To be clear, all of you – not just Joe Biden – own this.

Now, I want to switch gears. Brian Parsons, in Everything Is Not All Right lays out the theory that Biden himself is the front man for people who want to destroy the United States. Those people could actually be the Chinese.

In case you haven't noticed, the Biden Administration is a dumpster fire of seeming incompetence and dementia. I don't believe that is by accident, and I believe those calling the shots wish to do harm to the United States. A brief review of the Biden family's financial dealings in China begs the question of a compromised or even installed presidency. Even the staunchest of corporate media allies have at times brought themselves to question the mental health status of Joe Biden, which has led to the assertion that the lights are on but nobody's home. And given the projection on display during the Trump Administration, any recognition of the current state is met with a dose of leftist "whataboutism." Accusations of poor mental health or incompetence are chalked up to retaliation in the current political climate.

Surely there is a puppet master pulling these strings? Joe Biden didn't bother to campaign for office and yet raked in more votes than any candidate in history by a wide margin, after all. This is just one of the primary drivers of skepticism in the legitimacy of the Biden administration and for the aware conservative escapes rationale.

That puppet master, whoever it may be, may well have bought not just the evil Biden administration, but a good chunck of the Republican Party as well. How else to explain 19 Republican Senators going along with the so called "Infrastructure" bill, knowing that if it passed, the $3.5 Trillion monstrosity would come right after. Surely these people must understand what that does to our economy. Of course, the Afghanistan debacle is playing out on the world stage and, I think deliberately, makes us look weak. Is Biden trying to provoke a war? But too many people on both sides of the aisle are to blame for that. If Lara Logan is correct, the taxpayers were paying the enemy to fight our own boys! How many other conflicts have been like this? Where are the Republicans in all this?

In all of this insanity, where is the Republican Party? There seem to be two possible responses: Republicans either hope to stay silent and allow for the Biden Administration to self-implode by 2022, or they are complicit in allowing the rapid decline of the United States. There really is no middle ground. Famed Nixon economist Herbert Stein, the father of actor Ben Stein, theorized that if something cannot go on forever, it will stop. This has come to be known as Stein's Law. The question remains, which will cease first, the absurdities of the Biden Administration, or the United States itself? The time for normalcy bias has passed.

The emphasis is mine. We often read that there is a ruling class, sometimes referred to as the Uniparty. The Uniparty has the same goals and those goals are not the welfare of the American people. It is time for the Republicans to distinguish themselves from the Democrats or folks are likely to say "A pox on both your houses."