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A Quick Post-Mortem
Steyn Online ^ | 9 Feb 2021 | Tal Bachman

Posted on 02/09/2021 8:02:54 PM PST by Rummyfan

It's been a tough few months for conservatives, but I figure it's time we try to get clarity on where we are, why we're here, and where we might go in the future. Yes, it will sting, but what's the alternative? Somehow or other, we must find a way at least to cope with, and at most to replace at some point, what is shaping up to become the most destructive presidential regime in American history.

That it seems to essentially be a foreign sort of thing is even more devastating. As nightmarish as it is to contemplate it, the Biden presidency appears to be the proxy regime of a high-speed Asian superpower right now transforming the United States into its vassal state. It's running the same play in other countries, too.

Now, don't get me wrong: If Planet Earth's rising Asian overlords knew how to govern with decency, deftness, respect for individuals, moderation, etc., maybe that would lessen the horror of all this.

But as it happens, the governing philosophy of these people amounts to a noxious stew of plutocracy, technocracy, totalitarianism, Orwellian pig-snobbery, oligarchy, racism, amorality, corruption, crony capitalism, feudalism/serfdom, "social credit", repression, imperialist dictatorship, fascism, communism, and probably three or four other lousy things I can't think of right now.

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1 posted on 02/09/2021 8:02:54 PM PST by Rummyfan
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Trump hired people he should never have hired, then didn't fire them when he should have. Sessions. Bolton. Nielsen. Barr. Tillerson. Mattis. Milley. Esper. Scaramucci. Omarosa. Haley. Pruitt. Wray. He even seriously considered hiring the soulless snake Mitt Romney as his secretary of state. On and on the list could go. Trump began by claiming he was only going to hire "the best people". In the end, it was Trump himself who concluded he only hired the worst people, since he so often went on social media to trash the very people he had hired.

That is quite a list of people who turned out to be duds.

2 posted on 02/09/2021 8:07:26 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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I waited 4 years for the country to reaffirm it’s support for Trump-didn’t happen. Now we have to wait 2 years to take back the congress. No guarantee it will happen. Weak leadership, no fight. The next group of republicans win or lose are going to have to fight. I’ll let Trump decide what his followers should do after November 2022.


3 posted on 02/09/2021 8:07:45 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Rummyfan

No thanks. It’s too soon for a post-mordem.

I have to hunt RINOs first.


4 posted on 02/09/2021 8:09:04 PM PST by beancounter13
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The Soviet Union was,40-50 years ago,surely a huge threat to world peace. Russia? Not so much...despite their huge nuclear arsenal.

China? Massive threat.

And the Butchers of Beijing own Plugs...lock,stock and barrel.

5 posted on 02/09/2021 8:09:18 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Rummyfan

In other words we are now China’s bitch.


6 posted on 02/09/2021 8:11:02 PM PST by far sider
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And now, the weird alliance of leftist rabble and plutocrats—foreign and domestic—runs everything. They don't just control the entire United States military, the White House, the Senate, and the House: They control the universities. They control the non-profits. They control big business. They control the public schools. They control Wall Street. They control the movie studios, most of mainstream media, the book publishing houses, and the cable companies. They control Big Tech and social media. They control the newspapers, the magazines, and the musicians. They control every, or nearly every, single institution of influence in the entire country.

And that scares the hell out of me.

7 posted on 02/09/2021 8:22:10 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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I pretty much agree with everything he says here.

We did see an election fraud tidal wave coming. I truly believed we were prepared. It was not a secret threat. But we weren’t prepared. I can’t understand that.

Trump can’t do everything. I think he expected the republican governors and sos’s and legislatures and courts to do their duty. They did not. Their unanimous perfidy was shocking.


8 posted on 02/09/2021 8:23:09 PM PST by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: Rummyfan

For the sake of perspective I would like to remind the author and audience that very little of life in the USA is effected by DC dictats. Hyperbole from left or right is neither comprehended nor absorbed on local levels, even in the big cities.

Fraud Biden could do his thing another 8 years and still not kill the desires and principles espoused and articulated by our forebears.


10 posted on 02/09/2021 8:24:08 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: Rummyfan

That just makes them Goliath, and you David. Does that frighten you? Fine. It does not frighten me.


11 posted on 02/09/2021 8:26:41 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: lightman

That one guy with no mask looks like he is wetting his finger up for a dip after swab guy pulls out....


12 posted on 02/09/2021 8:29:19 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Rummyfan

It’s not a technocracy. Although a handful of those plutocrat pretenders claim to be technically inclined, they are not at all. If truly technically inclined people were in charge, they would be more realistic and logical. And we would be far better off.


13 posted on 02/09/2021 8:29:24 PM PST by familyop
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That list of people shows that the perceived strength of being a non-governmental guy and a non-politician also carried a weakness for Trump as he took office. He had few experienced people of his own and had burnt many bridges in the primary. He had to take who he could get and keep people as he had no lieutenants.

I still remember when Reagan came into office. He had his core of guys from his California days. Trump had to turn his business over to his adult kids and still draft two into government. He had to use some reality show dingbats in WH administration for pity sake.

I love how he performed head and shoulders over my expectations but he not only lacked a bench, he took the court with no starters.


14 posted on 02/09/2021 8:31:19 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Rummyfan

Pretty much defines Babylon


15 posted on 02/09/2021 8:34:06 PM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: Rummyfan

The GOP must go the way of the Whigs.

They have served as blockers for the left for 30 years, blocking conservatives while pretending to represent them.


16 posted on 02/09/2021 8:36:33 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: KC Burke

Interesting,
We are so Screwed.


17 posted on 02/09/2021 8:37:27 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: Big Red Badger; Lazamataz

We are all Laz now


18 posted on 02/09/2021 8:41:15 PM PST by xp38
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To: Gay State Conservative

I wouldn’t be surprised if China has some compromising videos of pedoJoe sniffing the hair of a naked “comfort” girl smuggled in from North Korea. That would certainly have a lock on him.


19 posted on 02/09/2021 8:46:18 PM PST by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Rummyfan

“And now, the weird alliance of leftist rabble and plutocrats—foreign and domestic—runs everything. They don’t just control the entire United States military, the White House, the Senate, and the House: They control the universities. They control the non-profits. They control big business. They control the public schools. They control Wall Street. They control the movie studios, most of mainstream media, the book publishing houses, and the cable companies. They control Big Tech and social media. They control the newspapers, the magazines, and the musicians. They control every, or nearly every, single institution of influence in the entire country.”

All true. And from a secular view it is bleak for conservatives and freedom.

However, God has ways to be direct and forceful. He is going to change things.

What we don’t know is whether His intervention will be in four months or 40 years. Generations have labored in slavery gathering straw to make the required number of bricks for less egregious behavior than that of current Americans.

Arguably it will not take divine intervention to destroy the tower of babble being built by Democrats. Think of it: every policy the Democrats adopt screams disaster ahead.

It is all going to fall apart and I’m not looking forward to it. Fifty million dead children may be just a down payment.


20 posted on 02/09/2021 8:47:17 PM PST by jeffersondem
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