{"id":47170,"date":"2023-11-06T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T23:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47170"},"modified":"2023-11-06T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T23:21:58","slug":"covid-authoritarians-want-forgiveness-heres-why-they-dont-deserve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47170","title":{"rendered":"COVID Authoritarians Want Forgiveness \u2013 Here&#8217;s Why They Don&#8217;t Deserve It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-47171\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tyrants_Favour_Suppression-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Tyrants Favour Suppression\" width=\"696\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tyrants_Favour_Suppression-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tyrants_Favour_Suppression.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do authoritarians deserve a chance to be treated with grace and forgiveness? The question is circulating regularly these days in the wake of the complete failure of covid pandemic response and the victory of the anti-mandate movement. The answer relies on a series of counter-questions based on logic and predictable outcomes. It\u2019s the kind of discussion that covid cultists don\u2019t want to have; they just want everyone to forget because they now have something to lose politically.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WhvYULRaqr\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2023\/11\/tyler-durden\/watch-covid-authoritarians-want-forgiveness-heres-why-they-dont-deserve-it\/\">Covid Authoritarians Want Forgiveness \u2013 Here&#8217;s Why They Don&#8217;t Deserve It<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Covid Authoritarians Want Forgiveness \u2013 Here&#8217;s Why They Don&#8217;t Deserve It&#8221; &#8212; LewRockwell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2023\/11\/tyler-durden\/watch-covid-authoritarians-want-forgiveness-heres-why-they-dont-deserve-it\/embed\/#?secret=xOfQgQyU7x#?secret=WhvYULRaqr\" data-secret=\"WhvYULRaqr\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do authoritarians deserve a chance to be treated with grace and forgiveness? The question is circulating regularly these days in the wake of the complete failure of covid pandemic response and the victory of the anti-mandate movement. The answer relies on a series of counter-questions based on logic and predictable outcomes. It\u2019s the kind of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47170\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COVID Authoritarians Want Forgiveness \u2013 Here&#8217;s Why They Don&#8217;t Deserve It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47172,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47170\/revisions\/47172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}