No, Course Correcting Is Not Enough

One of my greatest frustrations is watching people commit heinous acts and facing no consequences for their actions.  

People who commit petty crimes can often wind up in jail or face other serious punishments, but we all know that the doctors and activists who are working mightily to sterilize and mutilate children will enrich themselves now and skate when the fad eventually dies an ignominious death. 

There will be no apologies, no fines, no jail time, no…anything. It will be as if it never happened. We saw that with the financial collapse in 2008, the serial hoaxes over the past decade, and the pandemic totalitarianism. Randi Weingarten is still out there ruining education, Anthony Fauci still gets accolades, and the researchers who pushed fraudulent papers are still spending their grant money. 

We don’t even get an apology. And if we did, it would hardly be enough. 

The Trump administration beat an apology out of Penn for its Lia Thomas insanity–insincere, no doubt–but what good is that for the young women they humiliated?

The school, Penn, that allowed this travesty has to apologize to the ladies. It has to define women as females. It has to strip Lia Thomas of medals and give them back to the girls. YAY!!

Now what about damages for what heII they put these women through? PAY UP!! pic.twitter.com/VWfcKABjzq

— Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 (@babybeginner) July 2, 2025

An apology is better than nothing, but it is hardly enough. 

For decades, British politicians and policemen covered up the violent sexual abuse of young women. Punishing the perpetrators would require confronting uncomfortable facts about unlimited immigration and demographic facts about the propensity to commit crimes, so they practiced a form of human sacrifice instead. 

Everybody in government knew it. Keir Starmer knew about it years ago and helped cover it up. 

He is the Prime Minister now. 

ESPN has yet to apologize for its role in the attempted erasure of women’s sports.

ESPN PROMOTED Lia Thomas’ takeover of women’s swimming by making her a featured athlete during Women’s History Month.

The women whose titles and records were taken away deserve an apology. pic.twitter.com/h0PsPTebmL

— OutKick (@Outkick) July 2, 2025

It would be one thing if what we were talking about were people making mistakes, even terrible mistakes. We all do, and even in serious cases, apologies may be the best you can reasonably expect. People do things in a rush, a panic, or out of a mistaken sense of what is likely to address a real problem. 

Disqualified Lia Thomas Asks If He Can Still Just Hang Out Naked In The Olympic Women’s Locker Rooms https://t.co/LAwsOIFD3e pic.twitter.com/6iFeYwBZKT

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 2, 2025

That’s why I don’t blame people for the initial response to COVID. Fourteen days to slow the spread? A bad idea, but understandable and easily excusable. It’s like taking a deep breath to gather your bearings. 

But after that? Nope. No excuses, at least not for the “experts.” They utterly failed at their jobs and worse. The “Proximal Origins” paper was outright fraud, as were almost every measure taken to contain COVID. 

As we delete the stats of the man we called Lia Thomas, we should remember that the media played right along and also deserve deletion pic.twitter.com/ajxBZkEF4b

— Tom Shattuck (@tomshattuck) July 1, 2025

The same is true with alphabet ideology, transgender “medicine,” educational dysfunction, and media malfeasance. It’s all about the elite self-dealing at our expense, not genuine mistakes. In many cases, there will be an eventual course correction, but no apologies, and especially no consequences. The elite will skate or even fail upwards. 

🚨JUST ANNOUNCED: University of Pennsylvania UPenn just STRIPPED transgender swimmer William Lia Thomas of all records and titles, signing an agreement with the DOE that will keep men out of women’s sports.

Thanks President Trump! PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT! We won! pic.twitter.com/4ytZ0k8jYe

— AJ Huber (@Huberton) July 1, 2025

21st-century populism is the public’s response to the betrayal of the elites. Trump is the bringer of consequences to those who have been profiting off making us miserable. But it is taking the full might of the federal government, likely millions of dollars of expense, and years of public outcry to even wring out an apology for the most egregious errors of judgment. 

No matter how much he accomplishes, it will not be enough. Many of these people should be tarred and feathered; the best that may happen–and it won’t happen in many cases–is wringing out an apology or loss of a job. 

And then? An MSNBC gig for far too many.