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Joe Biden Will Never Be My President. Never.
I happened upon this most incisive piece by Newt Gingrich and it so clearly and vividly described how I believe so many of us are feeling right now I decided to bring it to your attention.
It is entitled, most aptly for me, at least, and I have a strong sense that it is so for many American citizens in that number of about 74 Million (who knows, really?) who voted for a second term for one of the most productive Presidents in our history “Why I will not accept Joe Biden as president“, and can be found here.
The passage which really struck me, as it so concisely describes my state of mind since I decided I had seen enough evidence (emphasis added in view of the numerous howls from the Loonocracy that there is none) to know that there was credible, provable evidence of deep and widespread fraud, follows:
As I thought about it, I realized my anger and fear were not narrowly focused on votes. My unwillingness to relax and accept that the election grew out of a level of outrage and alienation unlike anything I had experienced in more than 60 years involvement in public affairs.
The challenge is that I — and other conservatives — are not disagreeing with the left within a commonly understood world. We live in alternative worlds.
That phrase is, to put it mildly, as heavily freighted and chilling as one may use in what we all thought was our Constitutional Republic… think about those words: “We live in alternative worlds.” Although Mr. Gingrich did not specifically reference it in his article, I came away from reading it haunted by Mr. Lincoln’s words of eternal wisdom and wondering, as I have many times in the last five years but especially in the last two months, if those words are the perpetual truths many assume they are, how we can possibly stand as a Nation with this jagged tear right down the middle of our sacred fabric?
Another national treasure, Rush Limbaugh, who has our prayers every single day, made a statement recently which struck me as hard as this one did, although it simply put in words what many of us have been feeling for some time: What do we have in common with them? He cited past national emergencies when we Americans all pulled together for a common cause, with a dedication fueled by our common love for the land that we love. As Rush noted, that critical component: love, both for and dedication to America and the idea of America simply no longer exists with a large segment of the electorate who voted for Joe Biden, a man described recently as “a sleazy, corrupt-to-the-bone-marrow lifelong politician, who has accomplished absolutely nothing in his 78 years on Planet Earth.” Speaking for myself, which I fervently hope I may continue to be free to do after January 20, 2021, I cannot understand the thinking of an American citizen who would vote for such a person of proven – time and time and time again, dishonesty and corruption or, as I suspect the case actually was for many, who would be so driven by such a white-hot hatred of a person that he or she would vote against President Trump even if the only choice was to vote for such a dangerously sleazy and corrupt person.
Speaker Gingrich sets the stage:
The left’s world is mostly the established world of the forces who have been dominant for most of my life.
My world is the populist rebellion which believes we are being destroyed, our liberties are being cancelled and our religions are under assault. (Note the new Human Rights Campaign to decertify any religious school which does not accept secular sexual values — and that many Democrat governors have kept casinos open while closing churches though the COVID-19 pandemic.) We also believe other Democrat-led COVID-19 policies have enriched the wealthy while crushing middle class small business owners (some 160,000 restaurants may close).
The rest of the piece, which I highly recommend be read in its entirety, continues to enumerate the many ways the world of the far-left is probably by now irreparably irreconcilable with ours and why we are truly living in two different worlds, separated by oceans of distrust, corrosive venality, dishonesty, corruption, amorality, condescension, hubris, arrogance and utter disdain for our Founding Documents, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, upon which our beloved Nation was built.
Thus I return to the question put by Rush Limbaugh and apply it to myself, as I cannot and do not pretend to speak for others, while noting I know to a certainty that many share these views and I also know to a certainty that if there are any factual errors in any of these statements my colleagues here on Ricochet will quickly bring them to the fore.
What do I have in common with those elites in entertainment, academia, and the media who spent the last four years savagely attacking not only our duly elected President, calling him every name in the book such as Hitler and Mussolini, parading around with a mock-up of his severed, bloody and gory head, and, as their designated “President” “elect” and his communications director did recently, calling us, his loyal supporters names such as “chumps” and “f (C of C)s”?
What do I have in common with those mega-rich tech oligarchs (other than the obvious, as “oligarch” I am definitely not) who think their astonishing wealth gives them the power to not only censor the extremely significant news that both Biden and his son were on the take from China and received at least $5 million from an entity controlled by our most dangerous adversary but who also think they have the power, so far totally unchecked by our less than stellar Congress, to censor the President of the United States, an act of hubris never before seen in the history of our Republic.
What do I have in common with members of the media and the far-left loon wing of the Democrat Party and some members of the Republican Party, aka Never Trumpers, who sit on the sidelines as piles of evidence are being accumulated of out-and-out election fraud in the form of affidavits sworn under penalty of perjury and other forms of documentary evidence and repeat the mantra “but there is no widespread evidence of election fraud” and cheer as Judge after spineless Judge refuses to even hear the evidence, including, most sadly, our brand new, great, good for the next half-century, “conservative” majority on the Supreme Court?
What do I have in common with those intrepid members of the media who go out to do on the scene reports while standing in front of the blazing St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington and state, on camera, for all the world to see, with a straight face, that the scene behind him is a “mostly peaceful” demonstration? As our friend and colleague, Susan Quinn, recently observed in her excellent post “Will there be justice?”, how do these people sleep at night? How do they explain to their children why they must be so blatantly fraudulent just to make a living?
What do I, admittedly not the most devout or regular churchgoer, have in common with a person millions voted to occupy the most powerful office in the world who holds himself out to be a devout, Rosary praying, Roman Catholic, but who now, as phrased in a recent article, “supports abortion up until college graduation, if the mother finds the child inconvenient.”?
What do I have in common with a woman who used every means at her disposal to get ahead, no matter how unsavory or tawdry, and then proceeded to savagely, cruelly, immorally, attack a candidate for the High Court right in front of his wife and little daughters, and then gloated about it, and who also not only did not raise a single question about the Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters burning down American cities across the land but who also helped raise bail money to get them out of jail, almost certainly never to be seen again by the Court system? I well and truly pray I would never have a single thing in common with such a despicable person, even if she may possibly be (probably?) the President of the United States within the next four years.
What do I have in common with a large, muscular, strong ox of a man in a Law Enforcement uniform who wrestles with a young, small mother sitting in the stands watching her son play football — without, qeulle horreur!, a piece of cloth over her face– putting her in handcuffs in front of her fellow parents (including several large men who, disgracefully, did nothing to help her) and, perhaps more to the point, what do I have in common with despicable, power-mad “leaders” like Cuomo, Wolfe, Whitmer, Murphy, DeBlasio, and, sadly, many others who ordered this kind of barbaric behavior?
Would that I could have a more positive outlook as we move into a New Year, carrying so many good promises if for no other reason than not being named 2020, truly annus horribilis, but also bringing us the closest thing we have ever had to a Marxist administration. A year in which the person elected to occupy the Oval Office, the most powerful office in the world, is not in full possession of his cognitive faculties and, at times, simply does not know where he is. A year in which the Biden Administration, an oxymoronic phrase if ever there was one, will be staffed with so many Obamatons as to make it, in effect, Barack Hussein Obama’s third term, a thought which should frighten any citizen with a sentient mind.
Like so many of us, I spent the last four years on that roller coaster ride of watching in awe the boundless energy and creativity and drive and determination of one of the great Presidents in our history while almost simultaneously praying that someone would please, please shut down his Twitter account and take away his phone. I related in a post recently the one emotion one could never fully realize unless they attended one of his rallies– the pure, unadulterated outpouring of love this President’s supporters feel for him. It is a true phenomenon to see and experience for oneself.
Positive outlook? Thank you, but I think I’ll let that cup pass me by.
Sincerely, Jim
Published in General
Did they believe it was a white supremacist rallying cry when Jimmy Carter used it? How about when Bill Clinton used it? Or when Barack Obama used it?
Pauline Kael, actually a misquote.
Mindreading.
We still have it. It’s called “Black Live Matter”.
Many millions of people who voted against Trump in 2016 turned around and voted for Trump in 2020.
There are no MAGA displays where I live in Silicon Valley. And heck, I live in the town where the older fellow was famously attacked for wearing a MAGA hat. And where your car will be keyed if it has a Republican bumper sticker.
And this is true of most larger cities.
So what?
Many millions of people who didn’t vote at all in 2016 turned around and voted Biden this year.
Again, so what?
What’s your point with all this? Are you actually disputing what I’m saying about Biden voters in any way? Does this disprove what I’ve said time and again about their perceptions?
So what?
All that does is show that different people can utter the same words, and people will derive different intentions behind them depending on the person.
You do realize that none of this has any bearing on my points? That none of what you think or what you perceive has any bearing on what Biden voters believe, or why they voted for the guy?
It can also show that different people are often just full of crap.
Which can also show that different people are often just full of crap.
Enjoy the “winning” with that outlook.
Why should I have any more respect for someone who looks at the latest election and perceives it as fair, than for someone who looks at a male and perceives that it might be a female, or looks at 2 + 2 and perceives that it might be 5? Unless you’re a white bigoted racist homophobe or something.
Honestly not trying to provoke here, but what is your point? That people with pure motives voted against Trump because they didn’t want the drama anymore? Fair enough as far as it goes. Problem is it just like with Trump it is a package deal. With Trump we got a whole lot of policies I liked, a fair amount of goals I liked that were poorly executed, and a whole lot of drama I could do with out. If we are lucky and hold the senate next week with Biden we are going to get a whole lot of policies I hate, a fair amount of goals I hate and that are poorly executed, and a whole lot of drama that no one liked with Trump but now has a triumphalist spin which will probably (hopefully) turn off the people who voted for Biden to have the drama end. If we fail to hold the senate next week and the left and media do what they have promised then… I suspect the US will not survive to see 2022. You are right we live in a 48/52 country and that means big changes are not going to be well received. I do believe fraud had a a factor in this election but at the end of the day that can only change which way the 48/52 cuts. If the left tries to fundamentally change the system it will tear the country apart. If Joe Biden (or Kamela Harris) isn’t sworn in on January 20th it will also tear the country apart. The only question right now that remains is what happens if the left can’t fundamentally change the system and Joe Biden is sworn in. The naïve answer is things go back to normal; however, that really isn’t true because there is no normal for things to go back to.
Evidence of vote switching.
Their timing was off in Pennsylvania, since CNN actually showed the flip on at least one occasion in its reporting on the state total. Oops.
I thought Skip’s point was the people who fear and loathe Donald Trump are just like the people who feared and loathed Barack Obama and, therefore, unmovable in their decision to vote against Trump by anything we (and especially Donald Trump) might have to say on the matter.
My point is the Trump-haters are demonstrably wrong about the effect on the country of Trump’s presidency — except by the hater’s reaction to him leading them to burn down buildings and knock old ladies over in the streets and, oh yeah, unleash the hounds of bureaucratic hell on him via the IC. Trump’s policies were by and large beneficial to people’s daily lives — and Barack Obama’s policies were destructive here and abroad.
As others have noted, the left isn’t about the facts. They’re about the feels.