{"id":6476,"date":"2024-11-07T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2024-11-29T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T15:47:51","slug":"the-new-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-new-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am inclined to consolidate our Republican coalition. Our winning team should be solidified and replicated.<\/p>\n<p>I also do not want revenge upon our fellow countrymen merely for voting differently. Their rights are our rights.\u00a0 But there are a great many who did more than just vote or politic a different way &#8212; some of them joined in the hysteria to destroy our families and livelihoods over COVID mandates, and have colluded to mutilate and pervert our own children, with a malicious disregard for our rights or the children&#8217;s well-being.\u00a0 This cannot go unpunished, or it *will* continue.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there are a great many officials who have committed actual crimes in office, putting their partisan or other interests above their oaths to the Constitution. From Garland to Vindman, there must be a reckoning, and it must be breathtaking in severity. This is our only form of deterrence, and right now is our last chance to establish that deterrence.<\/p>\n<p>Trumps and Bidens will pardon each other, and God knows Obamas and Clintons will always walk scot-free. Meanwhile, an army of government employees and functionaries must be shown that the wages of oathbreaking is prison.\u00a0 Regardless of whether the top level always gets away, it&#8217;s the permanent civil service employees and appointed officials who must fear the law more than they desire to curry favor or forward an interest other than the Constitution itself.\u00a0 I am still working out the lines between warmly welcoming the new coalition and savagely defending the future of this country for our children. Expect bumps.<\/p>\n<p>With malice toward none, yet requiring justice to prevent calamity, Welcome to the New Thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6476\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6476\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am inclined to consolidate our Republican coalition. Our winning team should be solidified and replicated.<\/p>\n<p>I also do not want revenge upon our fellow countrymen merely for voting differently. Their rights are our rights.\u00a0 But there are a great many who did more than just vote or politic a different way &#8212; some of them joined in the hysteria to destroy our families and livelihoods over COVID mandates, and have colluded to mutilate and pervert our own children, with a malicious disregard for our rights or the children&#8217;s well-being.\u00a0 This cannot go unpunished, or it *will* continue.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there are a great many officials who have committed actual crimes in office, putting their partisan or other interests above their oaths to the Constitution. From Garland to Vindman, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-new-thing\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}