No Time for Phony Healing

That’s right. Biden stole the words from his old boss, Barack Obama, who used the same hollow line 10 years ago after the 2010 elections. Remember that? I do. After labeling “America First” adversaries of his open borders policies as “enemies” who deserve to be “punished,” Obama walked back the attack when the 2010 midterm Republican wave hit.

 Michelle Malkin  "We, the 71 million Americans who voted to reelect Donald J. Trump, do not forgive.

"We, the 71 million Americans who voted to reelect Donald J. Trump, do not forget.

"We, the 71 million Americans who voted to reelect Donald J. Trump, do not surrender.

"We, the 71 million Americans who voted to reelect Donald J. Trump, resoundingly reject the phony olive branches of former Vice President Joe Biden.

"After liberal media operatives prematurely declared Biden the winner of election 2020 this weekend, Biden’s handlers carefully trotted him out in front of the cameras to read a script that proclaimed: “It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, to lower the temperature, to see each other again, to listen to each other again.”

“ 'Listen”? Biden’s already hatching plans to crack down even harder to silence patriots and dissidents who share their ideas online. Twitter, which ran censorious interference for Biden throughout the campaign, allows thousands of tweets by users wishing to “assassinate Trump,” but deplatforms peaceful conservatives and independent investigators exposing voter fraud, COVID-19 hypocrisy and left-wing violence.

"“See each other again”? Biden and his Silicon Valley cronies want to wipe us all completely off the internet.

"“Lower the temperature”? Tell that to the flag-burning, window-breaking, traffic-obstructing lunatics shouting: “All cops are bastards!” “Shut it down!” “No borders; No walls; No USA at all!” Biden has never disavowed them, and for his running mate, Kamala Harris, has helped raise millions of dollars in bail money for them.

"Biden now says it’s “time to heal.” I call bullcrap. This corrupt career politician and his mob-coddling party seek to disarm us, debase us and destroy us.

"Biden’s celebrants marched onto the streets Saturday with President Trump’s bloody head on pikes. One Black Lives Matter bigmouth shrieked that asking them to be peaceful was “white supremacy.” They’ve torn down statues across the country, pillaged small businesses, invaded residential neighborhoods, and engineered assaults and assassinations of Trump supporters. They’ve slapped senior citizens and gunned down retired cops while deifying serial criminals, convicted sex offenders, and home invasion robbers. They’ve been threatening to burn down Washington all year." . . .

"Biden now declares, “To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy.”

The Democrats’ Guide to Losing Gracefully

Ann Coulter  "Here are the times Democrats have conceded a presidential election with grace and dignity:" ..........

"OK, now on to my column."

"I hope someone is recording the media’s demands that Trump supporters ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION! inasmuch as the Democrats refuse to accept the results of any presidential election they lose, unless it’s a landslide, and sometimes even then.

"After George W. Bush won the 2000 election — despite the media depressing Bush turnout in Florida by calling the state for Gore when polls were still open in the conservative panhandle — Gore contested the election until Dec. 13, the day after the Supreme Court called off the endless recounts (in only certain Florida counties) demanded by Gore.

"The night of the court’s ruling, Laurence Tribe, the Harvard law professor who’d argued one of Gore’s cases before the court, and Ed Rendell, general chairman of the Democratic National Committee, went on TV and said it was time for Gore to concede.

"Both were immediately attacked by their fellow Democrats and forced to retract their statements. Gore’s deputy campaign manager, Mark Fabiani, for example, told The New York Times that Rendell “seems to be more interested in getting his mug on TV than in loyalty.”

"The next day, Gore conceded, telling his supporters he had “congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States,” adding, “while I strongly disagree with the court’s decision, I accept it.”

"But that still wasn’t the end of it! Weeks later, the Congressional Black Caucus tried to prevent congressional certification of the Electoral College for Bush, raising objection after objection on the House floor.

"Over the course of the next year, the Florida ballots were painstakingly recounted by an independent investigative firm at a cost of nearly a million dollars, paid for by the same media outlets currently telling you to shut up and accept the results — including The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post and the Associated Press, along with several others." . . .

Does Anyone Care about the Truth Anymore?

 David Solway  . . . "Opponents of the Left are regularly denounced as belonging to the “far right.” But what is called the “far right” in the current political environment is a will o’ the wisp, a false construct serving the interests of the demagogic impulse associated with the left, for there is no temporizing with the left’s totalitarian basis no matter how moderate it may appear in some of its presumably acceptable forms.

"What is condemned as the “far right” is actually responsible conservatism struggling to preserve the philosophy and tradition of “classical liberalism” associated with resonant names like John Locke, Edmund Burke, Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill and Benjamin Disraeli, and today with Richard Weaver, James Burnham, Robert Bork, Russell Kirk and Roger Scruton.

"For those on the “soft left,” desire is the nub of the issue -- the appetite for outcomes in the absence of reasoned analysis and knowledge of history, justified by a faulty reading of the world. One recalls the philosophical debate that raged for centuries between Duns Scotus and his followers on the one side and the school of Saint Thomas Aquinas on the other. (The word “dunce” derives from “Duns.”) Scotus postulated that the will conditions the reason, in other words, desire seeks its goal first and the mind subsequently proceeds to vindicate its decision. Aquinas contended that reason commands the will, that is, the faculty of purified intellect posits the good, and desire afterwards strives to achieve it. The general run of leftists and liberals are, on this interpretation, earnest neo-Scotists, wanting something very badly -- feminist hegemony, climate purity, socialist equity, sexual license, abortion on demand -- and then abusing their mental powers to defend their error." . . .

One hopes this is more than a mere troll...

" Dear Mr. Biden,

Although I refused to listen to it, I understand that during your presidential acceptance speech, you were calling for the unity of Trump supporters. I remember four years ago President Trump also called for unity. I remember how Congressional members of your Democrat Party responded by boycotting his inauguration.

I remember how you and your Democrat party cheated and used the greatest law enforcement institution of this country to spy on President Trump’s campaign. I remember how you and your Democrat Party created a fake Russian dossier to try and impeach President Trump.

I remember how your speaker of the house ripped up President Trump’s beautiful State of the Union speech on National TV. I remember how you and your Democrat Party tried to impeach President Trump over a Ukraine phone call. You accused President Trump of pay to play. Come to find out Joe, it was really you and your son, Hunter.

I remember how you and your Democrat Party blamed President Trump over a pandemic that he had nothing to do with. I remember how you and your Democrat Party encouraged rioting and looting of my great United States of America. I remember how you and your Democrat Party used the media to spread lie after lie about President Trump. And I’ll remember how you and your Democrat Party stole the election from President Trump.

This Trump supporter remembers all of that, Joe, and will NOT be unifying with your Democrat Party. This Trump supporter will be giving you the same respect you gave President Trump.

 A Trump Supporter"

Hat tip to Cpl Robert Hope, California