I Have Been Enjoying The Reconquista

In November 2020 I stayed up late watching a fairly solid Trump win. Around midnight, satisfied with what I’d seen, I went to bed. I woke up in a different world, which I called “The Bidenverse”. That sense of unease, that all was not well, never faded.

I was told that this was normal. This was never normal.

By the way, you can purchase that print.* I’ve considered buying it for myself. I want to remember what I really experienced. In time I’ll have a faded hazy memory with the jagged edges sanded down, and that won’t encapsulate what really happened.

In fact, the Bidenverse gifted us with much to remember. I say that in the most positive way I can. Before the Bidenverse, one could entertain certain pleasant beliefs that were nothing but comforting fictions. If you’ve paid attention the last several years you are a different person. You know things which are true; things which you might once have dismissed as “paranoid conspiracy theories”. After the Bidenverse never let the words “that can’t happen here” or “politician X can’t do that because it’s illegal” escape your lips. You officially and formally know better.

Take heart in that. Your growing understanding of human nature makes you a more complete human. The loss of naivete is painful, but necessary to wisdom. You know some things that will keep you attentive. If you ever had doubts, now you know what your neighborhood Karen would do given a chance. You are not immune to what Karen might inflict on you but you can never ever say “I didn’t know humans could act like that”.

I’m not trying to dump on anyone for their former naivety. Even myself, a person I thought most cynical, had limits. I honestly believed “this will all get aired out and sorted” when Epstein was put in jail. Can you believe it? What can I say? I was a dumbass!

Corruption of the sort we’ve recently seen is on a scale I hadn’t previously witnessed. I simply couldn’t imagine it. The Bidenverse was closer to Lady Macbeth or the late Roman Empire’s collapse than the nation in which I grew up.

Maybe you need to see everyone clam up after Epstein is gone to have a different understanding? Epstein conveniently vanished while Trump was floundering under a zillion lawsuits. Six months later the entire fuckin’ planet went spastic over a pathogen that it is only recently legally safe to say came from a research facility funded by America, operating in China. Think about that sentence; “pathogen released by American funded Chinese research station goes global”.

The man who expected Epstein’s shit to get sorted properly in a court of law wasn’t ready to type that sentence non-ironically. The one that’s typing right now shrugs and knows it to be so. A few years of lawfare deployed against Trump helps us truly appreciate rule of law and what goes away when you can no longer trust the courts.

Anyway, despite every form of corruption and degradation, the Bidenverse ended. Actually it wasn’t despite it, it was because of it. Evil carries the seed of it’s own demise.

That which started with concertina wire and political prisoners ended with the whole world ignoring Biden’s new Amendments. The dude’s last formal act was to pardon as many corrupt people as he could name, ending only on the day he trudged out of the limelight… having pardoned his family and a few select weasels like Fauchi. There is no glorious future for the Bidenworld, only an ugly end to a terrible time.

Soak everything in… especially how quickly the pendulum returns from wide swings.

This is where I draw a lot of faith. Evil may have been afoot but when it seemed strongest was when it was closest to collapse. Biden’s speech, the one with the hellish red hue where he declared that I (and possibly you) weren’t living up to his standards, was from September 1, 2022.

28 months. Only 28 months ago the rage and anger seemed so powerful. I was shocked that an angry embittered man flanked by red hued Marines could go on such a tirade. I’ve never heard a president shrieked that his patience with me had worn thin. His patience with me! The president insisted I must submit to his will and I just didn’t expect that! And such a personal thing too. The beneficence of a geriatric politician required a needle in my vein. Why not just bend me over and shove a broomstick up my ass?

I once thought it an affront that incandescent lightbulbs were outlawed. Remember that? The Bidenverse established a much different baseline didn’t it?

The Bidenverse peaked when a man I never met, who has never spoken with me, and who has never earned my trust… demanded my submission. Many of us said “no” and it collapsed. And it wasn’t a minor drift in popularity, it was a flat out complete faceplant to the lowest levels of universal loathing. He had defiled not America, but himself. I wouldn’t speak to a dog with the tone of voice Biden used against us. Then again Biden seems to have trouble with dogs as well.

A dark time indeed. It would certainly be understandable to lose hope. Many did. I started resolute and became more resolute by the minute, but others submitted. They now know what it’ll take to hammer them into shape. I suppose we all learned different things in the Bidenverse.

And what a week since! I’m not going to rehash what’s going on. You can see it for yourself. You should see it for yourself. It’s important to soak it all in.

Trump wouldn’t be moving so lighting fast if he hadn’t been taught (and yes the word is taught) that he must. He wouldn’t be so successful if the people weren’t happy with his plans (or at least most of them).

In a way, Trump (the version we have now) was made necessary by the Bidenverse. Maybe that’s another ray of hope to embrace and understand. We’d all have been (mostly) happy with squishy give and take if the corruption hadn’t made “draining the swamp” a matter of self preservation.

I still haven’t come up with a name for what follows the Bidenverse. But I’m reminded of the “Reconquista”. Since most of us are victims of American Education I’ll explain my reasoning. Starting in the year 711 the Umayyad Caliphate invaded and subjugated Spain and Portugal.

Europe failed badly. That part of Christendom collapsed fast, most of it in less than a decade. If you were there you might have been terrorized.

But, it did come back. Slowly, with fits and starts, the Iberian peninsula was “recaptured”. It took centuries, officially completed in 1492 (a year you might remember for other reasons). The point is, the Reconquista did return that part of Europe to it’s original society but also it didn’t. A lot of time passes. Something like post Roman Europe returned but it was more like mid-Renaissance. “Normalcy” returned in a new but still “normal-ish” state.

That’s what I think about Trump. Despite the left going apeshit, most of what he’s trying to do is “restore”, not “build anew”. When Trump said “there are just men and women and not 50 other flavors” that’s not new, it’s something that would be unquestioned even just a few years ago. The idea that the FBI should solve crimes instead of cover them up, that’s “restore” not “from way out in right field”. The idea that borders are borders isn’t particularly weird; the opposite is flat out nuts.

Trump is lightning fast compared to the grinding Reconquista but I haven’t come up with a better word. I think it’s because I’ve never seen anything like it. Evil is collapsing so completely and so utterly I can’t quite describe it. Maybe I need to talk with someone who was there when the Berlin Wall fell?

Anyway, I’m enjoying it and I hope you are too. It’s a rare thing we’re seeing. Observe carefully. Remember everything you can.

A.C.

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