{"id":112859,"date":"2021-04-23T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=112859"},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:01:17","slug":"sorry-no-do-overs-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112859","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, No Do-Overs Allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-81904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strawberries-2014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strawberries-2014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strawberries-2014-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strawberries-2014-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strawberries-2014-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why am I not surprised by this?\u00a0 Two reports show cracks in the current administration&#8217;s support from public groups.<\/p>\n<p>Evangelical Christians and Ecohippies now have voter\u2019s remorse over voting for Biden. They are speaking up, and in some cases, dumping cow dung outside the White House.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/mar\/10\/pro-life-evangelicals-for-biden-should-have-known-\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/mar\/10\/pro-life-evangelicals-for-biden-should-have-known-\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both groups preferred Biden over Trump, thought he was closer to their way of thinking, and now regret ever voting for him.<\/p>\n<p>From the linked article:\u00a0 Evangelical Christians, who once were content with staying out of earthly concerns, have grown into an influential subset of American politics. Not all who identify with this label vote in unison. They voted in large numbers in 1976 for Jimmy Carter, but reversed course in 1980 and went for Ronald Reagan. In subsequent elections, a majority has voted for Republican candidates.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2020 election, this subset created a new subset. They called themselves \u201cPro-life Evangelicals for Biden.\u201d Their members include Jerusha Duford, the granddaughter of the late Reverend Billy Graham \u2014 the evangelist who came to regret his involvement in politics and his troublesome association with Richard Nixon \u2014 and thousands of pastors and other influential Christian leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The group acknowledged that while Biden did not support their primary issue \u2014 that of protecting unborn human life \u2014 he was \u201cmore consistent with the biblically shaped ethic of life than Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After observing Biden for less than two months in office, the group issued a statement. It said evangelicals and Catholics \u201cfeel used and betrayed,\u201d especially as it relates to the president\u2019s recently stated opposition to the Hyde amendment (which Biden supported for years), which prevents taxpayer funding for abortions. \u2013 article<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps widening their viewpoint a bit might have helped them make a different\u00a0 choice, but again, I am not surprised at their regrets.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all: in searching for a source that does not demand that you sign up for something, I found that it isn&#8217;t just the Fundamentalists who are annoyed with Bite-me: it is also the Ecohippies, self-styled environmentalists, who are less and less impressed with his approach to &#8220;saving the planet&#8221; and &#8220;STOP GLOBULL WARMING&#8221; stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/apr\/22\/leftists-dump-cow-manure-outside-white-house-to-pr\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/apr\/22\/leftists-dump-cow-manure-outside-white-house-to-pr\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:\u00a0 Climate change activists dumped mounds of cow manure outside the White House Thursday morning to protest President Biden\u2019s plan to drastically cut carbon emissions, saying it doesn\u2019t go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media showed protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion D.C. marking Earth Day by taking turns dumping pink wheelbarrows full of cow manure outside the eastern entrance of the White House, where Mr. Biden is hosting 40 world leaders in a two-day virtual climate summit. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>The entire article is a hoot. In small groups and for varying reasons, The Faithful are turning on him.<\/p>\n<p>And to think that I was only looking for the extra key to the food locker, so that I could prove, with geometric logic, that Joe ate all the strawberries&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I not surprised by this?\u00a0 Two reports show cracks in the current administration&#8217;s support &hellip; <a title=\"Sorry, No Do-Overs Allowed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112859\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sorry, No Do-Overs Allowed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,430,518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-2020-election","category-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112860,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112859\/revisions\/112860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}