Yep, well said and correct. And many of us watched on in complete disbelief that people were actually eager to give up their rights and so short-sided as to think they would be returned as easily as they were taken. As a life long democrat, 2020 was the year I took a hard right turn and I’m never looking back.
Trump should NEVER have gone along with any plan to curtail the rights of American citizens and should have brought down the full weight of the federal government on all governors who did. The should never have happened. I don't give a damn if it were the Bubonic Plague; it was never justified in a free society.
Don't forget that Trump inexplicably strongly condemned Georgia Governor Brian Kemp in April when Kemp boldly reopened Georgia and ended the lock down. Trump's response to Georgia's reopening was indistinguishable from Dr. Fauci's response.
That's true. I honestly don't think Trump knew what to do. He condemned "herd immunity" and then discovered there was no better alternative. He bounced between CYA and optimistic cheerleading.
He needed one smart, strong figure he could trust. Moving Ben Carson over to lead the task force might have been a good idea. Pence inspired some confidence, but was always going to defer to the "experts." And really the task force did a lot of great work, but in the middle of it Fauci/Birx unleashed the narrative that doomed the administration.
Fauci, for what it's worth, was trying to convince us all that HIV could be spread through casual contact, well after it was generally established that this wasn't true. He needs everyone to follow him with fear and devotion.
>Fauci, for what it's worth, was trying to convince us all that HIV could be spread through casual contact
Hey, Matt. It must be fun to write whatever you want to, and just make stuff up as you go along. Here is a press report on Fauci's position on Aids from the NYT.
>U.S. COUNTERS PUBLIC FEARS OF AIDS
By Philip M. Boffey, Special To the New York Times
Sept. 20, 1985
'AIDS Is Not Easy to Catch'
''I can say with assurance that AIDS is not easy to catch,'' he (Dr James O Mason) said. ''It is an extremely difficult disease to catch.''
Dr. Mason was flanked at the news briefing here by Dr. Walter R. Dowdle, director of the center for infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control, and *Dr. Anthony Fauci*, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, in Bethesda, Md.<
What you're writing about was more than 2 years later. You should probably read more about the history if you're unfamiliar with it. AIDS was written about in 1981 as a disease affecting gay men, and by 1982 was known as the 4H disease ... you can read about that too. In 1983 you'd be hard pressed to find doctors or researchers who, like Fauci, were trying to suggest it could pass via casual contact. But then, Fauci may have had more financial motivation than the average Jolene.
What you wrote about from 2 years later wasn't even a direct quote from Fauci. He stood in the background, and for all I know, he may have been opposed to the characterization. He certainly would have been in 1983, as he told us himself.
You asked for more "fibs" by which I assume you mean you're open to more truths with which you are uncomfortable or unaware. Try these on:
- Jan 26, Fauci says the virus, "isn't something the American public needs to worry about."
- Feb 3, Fauci predicts "a dampening down" of cases in the U.S., crediting travel restrictions.
- Feb 10, Fauci tells WaPo that outside China, there is "very little" human-human transmission.
- Feb 10, Fauci also says, “[S]hould we do anything different from what we’re already doing? No. Should we all be wearing a mask? Absolutely not.”
Everyone can be forgiven for not having a crystal ball. But it's a special kind of person who pretends he always knew the truth, but doesn't have to tell us if it's not for our own good. I think it's a little silly to call him the nations top disease infection expert -- I work for a major defense contractor, and nobody would call my CEO one of the top engineers, even in the county where he lives. He's a top CEO, that's for sure, and Fauci's pretty high up in the bureaucracy, but when you want your defense equipment to work, call me. Call my CEO if you'd like to propose a merger. Likewise, I think if you want to know how to get your budget increased, Fauci's the right call to make. For the latest honest take on a virus, maybe not so much.
Fauci on Aids first. He has been on top of the Aids situation for at least 36 years. I do apologise for not realising that your criticism was based on the period from 1980-1983, before the HIV virus was identified, but I still think that he is now ok on this one. As people say,
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?
Remember that Trump has only been a Republican (for the second time) since 2008. Remind him, Donald, of this:
>Donald was absolutely right when he told Wolf Blitzer in 2004: “I’ve been around for a long time and it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.”<
and you would just get a blank stare. If you can absolve Donald after just 13 years, then Fauci is surely ok after more than 36.
Now we come to Fauci's early efforts on the virus. Weak, yes, but he had incomplete data, and he was anxious to reserve the then scarce PPE for the emergency workers. As the situation was clarified, we, with our 20/20 hindsight, can see that he was the equal first in the WH orbit to see the truth.
As he said in an interview:
“When it became clear that we could get the infection could be spread by asymptomatic carriers who don’t know they’re infected, that made it very clear that we had to strongly recommend masks,” he said.
“And also, it soon became clear that we had enough protective equipment and that cloth masks and homemade masks were as good as masks that you would buy from surgical supply stores,” Fauci added. “So in the context of when we were not strongly recommending it, it was the correct thing.”
>But it's a special kind of person who pretends he always knew the truth, but doesn't have to tell us if it's not for our own good<
Whom are we speaking of here? Well, it is obvious, at least to me-
‘Maybe I have a natural ability’: Trump plays medical expert on coronavirus by second-guessing the professionals
And Trump has gone on from there. His rallies are characterised by no masks, no distancing, and the virus being spread. Trump went out of his way to ridicule people who wore masks. It did not fit his agenda.
People have died because they accepted his advice. When Fauci had sorted himself out on the situation, Trump looked to freeze him out because he did not want the talk of masks and distancing.
Trump caught the virus, but Walter Read gives good medical care. His similarly afflicted followers were not all so lucky.
As for : But then, Fauci may have had more financial motivation than the average Jolene.
Oh, matt, an unsubstantiated slur as you exit. How fashionable it is to make unsubstantiated allegations. And how demeaning to the author. You can do better.
PS - Your post suggests that your career has not progressed as you would have liked. Join the club.
Alas, there are not very many jobs where you can play golf whenever you like, and nobody ever criticises your inactivity at work. It was a stoke of genius for Trump to call his idle hours 'Executive Time'. If it were anyone else, it would have been called 'goofing off' or 'watching TV' .
This is just nonsense. My point of Fauci stands. He promotes whatever "truth" suits his agenda at the time. It started with AIDS, which had already been known as the 4H disease when he played the casual contact fear card. Why? For budget. That's not a slur, that's a simple, and really obvious observation. You'll disagree -- so what. It's a comment section, and that's my comment.
Fauci's agenda this spin has been varied. PPE was one. Not looking like a helpless bureaucrat was another. I'm sick of idiots saying that the U.S. case load has anything at all to do with anything Trump said. That's just foolish -- but again, you'll disagree, it's a comment section, so whatever.
The nations most comparable to us in terms of mobility, climate, and demographics (France, Italy, Spain, UK, Germany) are, with the exception of Germany, between 1,056 and 1,330 deaths/1M, a pretty tight bundling, with the U.S. in the middle at 1185. If you take out Cuomo's murderous disaster of a response, we'd be doing significantly better. But you'll find other facts that you think are more important. So what? It's a comment section!
Trump mocked *some* mask wearing, and some of it deserves to be mocked. People stopping just short of coming out on stage, putting a mask on, walking out, then taking it off -- that deserves to be mocked. Wearing a mask on the pitching mound deserves to be mocked. You'll disagree, but so what? It's a comment section.
I've studied all the available data on masks. The study that is more definitive than any other is the recent Danish mask study, because it's an RCT and it's coronavirus-specific. Too little benefit or detriment to reach statistical significance, and in fact the people who were least likely to contract the virus were the subgroup who were told to wear one, but did not comply. Prior to the Danish study, RCTs were similarly inconclusive on respiratory illnesses. Those "studies" that show masks work are modeling-based. I do modeling and statistical analysis for a living, and obviously if you build into your model that they work, then the output of the model will show you that they work. Wow!!!
A properly fitting N-95 mask on a clean shaven face, worn for a short period of time, might well be effective. That's no how they're usually worn, and that's not going to change.
But whether you're a health official, a politician, or even a talking head, you have to be able to point to an answer, even when there isn't one. Masks work PERFECTLY for that. You can always find someone not wearing a mask, so it's all their fault. Now ... you can find more people like that in Florida, than in CA, but FL is below the national average in terms of cases per capita, and CA is above average. That's accumulated cases, not just cases today.
Of course, you'll have your own set of facts that you'll find more meaningful. So what? It's a comment section.
As for my career, I've never aimed for C-suite, that's not where my talents are. I do modeling and analysis, and write software as well. On that track, I'm pretty close to the top in a field that pays very well. It's not a Fortune 500 C-suite salary, but that was probably never in the cards for me. So don't count me in the disappointed club. But whatever, it's a comment section.
This is exactly what happened. If you don't believe it, you haven't been paying attention. He listened to his cabinet. Who in reality, hated him. He trusted Pence. Pence set him up. And the rest is history.
Jordan, Sharine & MrLanders: Excellent commentary (well written) and exactly right. I believe all these events are meant to wake us up to to the importance of what is going on right in front of us, as well as many unsavory things behind the scenes that have now been revealed, including who people really are and what lengths they are willing to go to hide the truth or destroy individuals and institutions. These aren’t just the fringes, but now at the core of our society.
My whole life, I’ve naively believed in our institutions and fellow Americans, thinking everyone is desiring a better America, though they may have different ideas about the best way to get there. However, after the past 10 months with Covid and the election, and 4 yrs with Trump exposing so much, those illusions are shattered. I question everything, everyone and especially every motive.
Like you, I believe connecting with the Creator is the only way to navigate the future. As a Christian, warnings about the “End Times” being near never seemed relevant to me because it seemed so far in the future and I never believed I would experience it. But after doing some research in just the past few weeks, I was shocked at how wrong I was. It’s here! We’re in it, where everything seems upside down, where evil is praised and goodness is mocked and reviled.
We just have to figure out, as you say, how to navigate it all and protect ourselves, our loved ones and those like-minded. It occurred to me that this is what the Apostles faced after the death of Christ. Though publicly reviled and isolated for their beliefs, they still fulfilled their missions by preaching throughout the world, while being hunted and persecuted.
My solace when I’m fearful about the coming years, is that there are many indications that exciting things will be happening, too. Several well-reasoned timelines indicate 2024 as the end of tribulations and the Second Coming soon after. That may be incorrect, but it’s helping me make better use of my time rather than feeling depressed or demoralized, though I still have those times. It’s hard not to. I believe things will get even harder—-how could they not with the forces now in power—-so we better get prepared for the many battles ahead.
LJF: Thank you for your insights! I, too, held great confidence in our public institutions throughout my life until the last 18 months, and so I know it is possible for others to open their eyes to the truth. We DO INDEED face a monumental battle to first acknowledge the evil forces—and the people through whom they work—before reclaiming our Divinity, our sovereignty, and our paradise.
I think you raise an important perspective, that of looking at this battle as "exciting," for it is the grand opportunity to embody the essence of Christ, the warrior of truth, love, and freedom. That was His purpose in manifesting on Earth before; this time, I feel it is incumbent on each of us to become Christ-ed individuals. I hope that makes sense to you and is not an affront to your beliefs, as I mean to empower us, as He did also, in this final battle for the very soul of Man (and Woman)!
One only need look at the trans-humanist agenda to see how these wanna-be controllers plan to achieve their dream of crushing humanity, turning us into the machines that they already treat us as, through, for example, allopathic medicine (pills, vaxxes, and surgeries), like we are tractors or refrigerators to be tinkered with and "patched up." The good news is that we can use the technology that they have so advanced (and so easily persuaded us to rely on) against them, just as people are using the internet to find aspects of their agenda. In order to remain here on Earth, they have to put their plan in plain sight (e.g., World Economic Forum), and once we realize that, the game is UP and we can begin to prepare for battle. Find your tribe now!
I don't believe I've seen this summed up any more articulately and precisely than this. And I also concur with Sharine Borslien's reaction below. We are in a world of hurt as a people. It's strange to see hundreds of millions of human beings each individually feeling so alone and helpless. Every single institution and founding document we thought we could rely on for strength has been neutered. I can only hope that in the coming days, the much-heralded Biblical "Kraken" will emerge that will blow the Fauci-Birx-PENCE doctrine into oblivion. This, for me, is no longer about a particular President. They didn't just steal his momentum and election, they stole our shared American soul.
Fraud that was enabled by massive mail-in ballot campaigns and other last minute election law changes that were enabled by lockdowns that were enabled by the task force's recommendations. So I think the author has a pretty valid point.
With 20 20 hindsight I agree that Mike Pence was the wrong choice for vice president. One of the most important outcomes of a Trump presidency was that it exposed the globalist agenda and those that support it. It is important that the states reform election laws. Voter id needs to be part of that reformation. Most importantly the candidates for elected office should be vetted. Each sitting lawmaker that sided with Pence such as Lindsey Graham should be primaried even to the point of voting for a democrat to pry them out.
Primaried?? The guy just won 6 more years. No offense intended, but people had better get better plans than the laughingly vindictive “we’ll primary them in 5 years”! We need to find a better way to fight back than that, because the state Republican chairs (Almost always establishment) manage to get who they want.
Their very swearing in requires mass mobilizations of troops from Democratic States, who perhaps consider these troops therefore Democratic militia. A mistake no democratic mayor makes about his police force.
Primaries? Fools, we move into preliminaries,
Do note who reached first for the military to get sworn in. A maneuver unlikely to work repeatedly.
To everyone claiming that the election was stolen.
This appeared on a post on Fox News as a rebuttal to the accusation.
Tes, we stole the election. And it was *so easy* for the Secret Cabal who really controls your country.
All they had to do was organise all the postal workers, poll workers and observers, the designers of the voting machines and the software engineers involved. Then came the potentially tricky bit - they had to get all the state Governors involved, both Republican and Democrat, on board, and finally square things with the new people on the Supreme Court.
Finally, they had to get Pencey on board. Mike Pence, who had stuck with Trump all the way. Ah, well. These people are GOOD.
In case you are wondering, Soros funded all this, and it was run on Hillary's server.
Best head for the hills immediately, before that China puppet, Biden, gets in.
An honest election wouldn’t require troops in the capitol, so many there is no lodging for them - worse, much worse there are tens of thousands of troops in the NCR/National Capitol Region. It appears they weren’t trusted, or the Generals said no. As indeed your faction cannot trust the Capitol police, nor the DC National Guard.
When you have to bring in the provincials to defend the Capitol its never good.
In America it never happened before.
And perhaps the provincial troops won’t care for the place if there too long. No familiarity breeds contempt as fast as DC.
Hi Sam. Congratulations! You win the internet idiot of the month award for claiming "381,480 US citizens have died this year". Without even backing up your preposterous conspiracy theories!
CDC FAQ: Question by Doctor: "Should I code as Covid death if no tests have been done". CDC Answer: "Yes. You should code the death as Covid if you suspect Covid caused or might have caused the death"
I ignore your "PCR tests don't work articles", sorry, because they are both irrelevant to my original post. We are not talking about testing, we are talking about the people who have died from the virus. There is a difference, as I hope that you can see.
As for your reference on whether or not the virus is being seen as the cause of death, then I do ask you to please read the article on excess mortality that I posted for Sunface. The conclusion there, was, and is
>If this difference is *less* that the recorded 2020 covid figures, then, as you allege, covid cases are being over reported. The victims might have had covid when they died, but it was not the virus that took them.
If the difference is *more* than the recorded covid figures, then the possibilities are that covid cases are being under reported, or, perhaps, that the virus makes some other illnesses more serious.
In all cases, the difference is more than the recorded covid figures. Here, "more than" means for each country, for each week, for each age group. Please do Google
"Excess mortality during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)"
In the interim, I leave you with your pleasant memories of your real, or perhaps imaginary, career as a rootin', tootin' pilot.
If only someone rational would have advised Trump at the beginning to never let public health officials be in charge of anything. If it were up to public health, we would all have been mandated to continuously wear masks in public to control illnesses 20, 30, or more years ago.
Great article! The covid will forever be remembered as being the main proponent of Trump losing the election. Fauci was too entrenched and Trump went along too far with these people. This is the gift that keeps on giving to the CCP. Trump could have won the war against the Media and Democrats but the 3rd front was a flanking attack that no defensive position could hold.
Absolutely. Trump should NEVER have gone along with these little trolls. The science and sense was up theAss from the beginning. But it was a set-up all along, so it would have been hard to avoid under any circumstances. Hard to win, when the game is rigged.
Yep, well said and correct. And many of us watched on in complete disbelief that people were actually eager to give up their rights and so short-sided as to think they would be returned as easily as they were taken. As a life long democrat, 2020 was the year I took a hard right turn and I’m never looking back.
Trump should NEVER have gone along with any plan to curtail the rights of American citizens and should have brought down the full weight of the federal government on all governors who did. The should never have happened. I don't give a damn if it were the Bubonic Plague; it was never justified in a free society.
Don't forget that Trump inexplicably strongly condemned Georgia Governor Brian Kemp in April when Kemp boldly reopened Georgia and ended the lock down. Trump's response to Georgia's reopening was indistinguishable from Dr. Fauci's response.
That's true. I honestly don't think Trump knew what to do. He condemned "herd immunity" and then discovered there was no better alternative. He bounced between CYA and optimistic cheerleading.
He needed one smart, strong figure he could trust. Moving Ben Carson over to lead the task force might have been a good idea. Pence inspired some confidence, but was always going to defer to the "experts." And really the task force did a lot of great work, but in the middle of it Fauci/Birx unleashed the narrative that doomed the administration.
Fauci, for what it's worth, was trying to convince us all that HIV could be spread through casual contact, well after it was generally established that this wasn't true. He needs everyone to follow him with fear and devotion.
>Fauci, for what it's worth, was trying to convince us all that HIV could be spread through casual contact
Hey, Matt. It must be fun to write whatever you want to, and just make stuff up as you go along. Here is a press report on Fauci's position on Aids from the NYT.
>U.S. COUNTERS PUBLIC FEARS OF AIDS
By Philip M. Boffey, Special To the New York Times
Sept. 20, 1985
'AIDS Is Not Easy to Catch'
''I can say with assurance that AIDS is not easy to catch,'' he (Dr James O Mason) said. ''It is an extremely difficult disease to catch.''
Dr. Mason was flanked at the news briefing here by Dr. Walter R. Dowdle, director of the center for infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control, and *Dr. Anthony Fauci*, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, in Bethesda, Md.<
Any other fibs?
You say I'm making stuff up, but here it is in black and white:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkDiNLcX0AE6dVr?format=jpg&name=900x900
What you're writing about was more than 2 years later. You should probably read more about the history if you're unfamiliar with it. AIDS was written about in 1981 as a disease affecting gay men, and by 1982 was known as the 4H disease ... you can read about that too. In 1983 you'd be hard pressed to find doctors or researchers who, like Fauci, were trying to suggest it could pass via casual contact. But then, Fauci may have had more financial motivation than the average Jolene.
What you wrote about from 2 years later wasn't even a direct quote from Fauci. He stood in the background, and for all I know, he may have been opposed to the characterization. He certainly would have been in 1983, as he told us himself.
You asked for more "fibs" by which I assume you mean you're open to more truths with which you are uncomfortable or unaware. Try these on:
- Jan 26, Fauci says the virus, "isn't something the American public needs to worry about."
- Feb 3, Fauci predicts "a dampening down" of cases in the U.S., crediting travel restrictions.
- Feb 10, Fauci tells WaPo that outside China, there is "very little" human-human transmission.
- Feb 10, Fauci also says, “[S]hould we do anything different from what we’re already doing? No. Should we all be wearing a mask? Absolutely not.”
Everyone can be forgiven for not having a crystal ball. But it's a special kind of person who pretends he always knew the truth, but doesn't have to tell us if it's not for our own good. I think it's a little silly to call him the nations top disease infection expert -- I work for a major defense contractor, and nobody would call my CEO one of the top engineers, even in the county where he lives. He's a top CEO, that's for sure, and Fauci's pretty high up in the bureaucracy, but when you want your defense equipment to work, call me. Call my CEO if you'd like to propose a merger. Likewise, I think if you want to know how to get your budget increased, Fauci's the right call to make. For the latest honest take on a virus, maybe not so much.
Hey, matt.
Fauci on Aids first. He has been on top of the Aids situation for at least 36 years. I do apologise for not realising that your criticism was based on the period from 1980-1983, before the HIV virus was identified, but I still think that he is now ok on this one. As people say,
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?
Remember that Trump has only been a Republican (for the second time) since 2008. Remind him, Donald, of this:
>Donald was absolutely right when he told Wolf Blitzer in 2004: “I’ve been around for a long time and it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.”<
and you would just get a blank stare. If you can absolve Donald after just 13 years, then Fauci is surely ok after more than 36.
Now we come to Fauci's early efforts on the virus. Weak, yes, but he had incomplete data, and he was anxious to reserve the then scarce PPE for the emergency workers. As the situation was clarified, we, with our 20/20 hindsight, can see that he was the equal first in the WH orbit to see the truth.
As he said in an interview:
“When it became clear that we could get the infection could be spread by asymptomatic carriers who don’t know they’re infected, that made it very clear that we had to strongly recommend masks,” he said.
“And also, it soon became clear that we had enough protective equipment and that cloth masks and homemade masks were as good as masks that you would buy from surgical supply stores,” Fauci added. “So in the context of when we were not strongly recommending it, it was the correct thing.”
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/fauci-doesnt-regret-advising-against-masks-early-in-pandemic-2020-7?r=US&IR=T
So - let's look at your allegation
>But it's a special kind of person who pretends he always knew the truth, but doesn't have to tell us if it's not for our own good<
Whom are we speaking of here? Well, it is obvious, at least to me-
‘Maybe I have a natural ability’: Trump plays medical expert on coronavirus by second-guessing the professionals
And Trump has gone on from there. His rallies are characterised by no masks, no distancing, and the virus being spread. Trump went out of his way to ridicule people who wore masks. It did not fit his agenda.
People have died because they accepted his advice. When Fauci had sorted himself out on the situation, Trump looked to freeze him out because he did not want the talk of masks and distancing.
Trump caught the virus, but Walter Read gives good medical care. His similarly afflicted followers were not all so lucky.
As for : But then, Fauci may have had more financial motivation than the average Jolene.
Oh, matt, an unsubstantiated slur as you exit. How fashionable it is to make unsubstantiated allegations. And how demeaning to the author. You can do better.
PS - Your post suggests that your career has not progressed as you would have liked. Join the club.
Alas, there are not very many jobs where you can play golf whenever you like, and nobody ever criticises your inactivity at work. It was a stoke of genius for Trump to call his idle hours 'Executive Time'. If it were anyone else, it would have been called 'goofing off' or 'watching TV' .
This is just nonsense. My point of Fauci stands. He promotes whatever "truth" suits his agenda at the time. It started with AIDS, which had already been known as the 4H disease when he played the casual contact fear card. Why? For budget. That's not a slur, that's a simple, and really obvious observation. You'll disagree -- so what. It's a comment section, and that's my comment.
Fauci's agenda this spin has been varied. PPE was one. Not looking like a helpless bureaucrat was another. I'm sick of idiots saying that the U.S. case load has anything at all to do with anything Trump said. That's just foolish -- but again, you'll disagree, it's a comment section, so whatever.
The nations most comparable to us in terms of mobility, climate, and demographics (France, Italy, Spain, UK, Germany) are, with the exception of Germany, between 1,056 and 1,330 deaths/1M, a pretty tight bundling, with the U.S. in the middle at 1185. If you take out Cuomo's murderous disaster of a response, we'd be doing significantly better. But you'll find other facts that you think are more important. So what? It's a comment section!
Trump mocked *some* mask wearing, and some of it deserves to be mocked. People stopping just short of coming out on stage, putting a mask on, walking out, then taking it off -- that deserves to be mocked. Wearing a mask on the pitching mound deserves to be mocked. You'll disagree, but so what? It's a comment section.
I've studied all the available data on masks. The study that is more definitive than any other is the recent Danish mask study, because it's an RCT and it's coronavirus-specific. Too little benefit or detriment to reach statistical significance, and in fact the people who were least likely to contract the virus were the subgroup who were told to wear one, but did not comply. Prior to the Danish study, RCTs were similarly inconclusive on respiratory illnesses. Those "studies" that show masks work are modeling-based. I do modeling and statistical analysis for a living, and obviously if you build into your model that they work, then the output of the model will show you that they work. Wow!!!
A properly fitting N-95 mask on a clean shaven face, worn for a short period of time, might well be effective. That's no how they're usually worn, and that's not going to change.
But whether you're a health official, a politician, or even a talking head, you have to be able to point to an answer, even when there isn't one. Masks work PERFECTLY for that. You can always find someone not wearing a mask, so it's all their fault. Now ... you can find more people like that in Florida, than in CA, but FL is below the national average in terms of cases per capita, and CA is above average. That's accumulated cases, not just cases today.
Of course, you'll have your own set of facts that you'll find more meaningful. So what? It's a comment section.
As for my career, I've never aimed for C-suite, that's not where my talents are. I do modeling and analysis, and write software as well. On that track, I'm pretty close to the top in a field that pays very well. It's not a Fortune 500 C-suite salary, but that was probably never in the cards for me. So don't count me in the disappointed club. But whatever, it's a comment section.
Correct Sir.
But from the standpoint of power - it worked.
As the burdens of ruin are borne by others and not the COVID task force, they don’t care.
They might care if a feedback snake assembles and bites them, and not until.
So is the fate of men.
This is exactly what happened. If you don't believe it, you haven't been paying attention. He listened to his cabinet. Who in reality, hated him. He trusted Pence. Pence set him up. And the rest is history.
Excellent. Thank you for succinctly describing the tragedy of Trump's otherwise great Presidency.
Concur. Totally.
Exactly.
Jordan, Sharine & MrLanders: Excellent commentary (well written) and exactly right. I believe all these events are meant to wake us up to to the importance of what is going on right in front of us, as well as many unsavory things behind the scenes that have now been revealed, including who people really are and what lengths they are willing to go to hide the truth or destroy individuals and institutions. These aren’t just the fringes, but now at the core of our society.
My whole life, I’ve naively believed in our institutions and fellow Americans, thinking everyone is desiring a better America, though they may have different ideas about the best way to get there. However, after the past 10 months with Covid and the election, and 4 yrs with Trump exposing so much, those illusions are shattered. I question everything, everyone and especially every motive.
Like you, I believe connecting with the Creator is the only way to navigate the future. As a Christian, warnings about the “End Times” being near never seemed relevant to me because it seemed so far in the future and I never believed I would experience it. But after doing some research in just the past few weeks, I was shocked at how wrong I was. It’s here! We’re in it, where everything seems upside down, where evil is praised and goodness is mocked and reviled.
We just have to figure out, as you say, how to navigate it all and protect ourselves, our loved ones and those like-minded. It occurred to me that this is what the Apostles faced after the death of Christ. Though publicly reviled and isolated for their beliefs, they still fulfilled their missions by preaching throughout the world, while being hunted and persecuted.
My solace when I’m fearful about the coming years, is that there are many indications that exciting things will be happening, too. Several well-reasoned timelines indicate 2024 as the end of tribulations and the Second Coming soon after. That may be incorrect, but it’s helping me make better use of my time rather than feeling depressed or demoralized, though I still have those times. It’s hard not to. I believe things will get even harder—-how could they not with the forces now in power—-so we better get prepared for the many battles ahead.
LJF: Thank you for your insights! I, too, held great confidence in our public institutions throughout my life until the last 18 months, and so I know it is possible for others to open their eyes to the truth. We DO INDEED face a monumental battle to first acknowledge the evil forces—and the people through whom they work—before reclaiming our Divinity, our sovereignty, and our paradise.
I think you raise an important perspective, that of looking at this battle as "exciting," for it is the grand opportunity to embody the essence of Christ, the warrior of truth, love, and freedom. That was His purpose in manifesting on Earth before; this time, I feel it is incumbent on each of us to become Christ-ed individuals. I hope that makes sense to you and is not an affront to your beliefs, as I mean to empower us, as He did also, in this final battle for the very soul of Man (and Woman)!
One only need look at the trans-humanist agenda to see how these wanna-be controllers plan to achieve their dream of crushing humanity, turning us into the machines that they already treat us as, through, for example, allopathic medicine (pills, vaxxes, and surgeries), like we are tractors or refrigerators to be tinkered with and "patched up." The good news is that we can use the technology that they have so advanced (and so easily persuaded us to rely on) against them, just as people are using the internet to find aspects of their agenda. In order to remain here on Earth, they have to put their plan in plain sight (e.g., World Economic Forum), and once we realize that, the game is UP and we can begin to prepare for battle. Find your tribe now!
I don't believe I've seen this summed up any more articulately and precisely than this. And I also concur with Sharine Borslien's reaction below. We are in a world of hurt as a people. It's strange to see hundreds of millions of human beings each individually feeling so alone and helpless. Every single institution and founding document we thought we could rely on for strength has been neutered. I can only hope that in the coming days, the much-heralded Biblical "Kraken" will emerge that will blow the Fauci-Birx-PENCE doctrine into oblivion. This, for me, is no longer about a particular President. They didn't just steal his momentum and election, they stole our shared American soul.
“He is not a threat to global capitalism, but the people who elected him president are. In order to teach these people a lesson, GloboCap needs to make an example of Trump.” https://consentfactory.org/2020/09/20/the-war-on-populism-the-final-act/
The lesson-teaching for us deplorables started with the lockdowns in March.
great analysis, I had the same conclusion! A leader should never allow for singular voices to take over the narrative in this type of situations.
No, election fraud ended the Trump presidency.
Fraud that was enabled by massive mail-in ballot campaigns and other last minute election law changes that were enabled by lockdowns that were enabled by the task force's recommendations. So I think the author has a pretty valid point.
Yeah, and Biden is in full possession of his mental faculties
With 20 20 hindsight I agree that Mike Pence was the wrong choice for vice president. One of the most important outcomes of a Trump presidency was that it exposed the globalist agenda and those that support it. It is important that the states reform election laws. Voter id needs to be part of that reformation. Most importantly the candidates for elected office should be vetted. Each sitting lawmaker that sided with Pence such as Lindsey Graham should be primaried even to the point of voting for a democrat to pry them out.
Primaried?? The guy just won 6 more years. No offense intended, but people had better get better plans than the laughingly vindictive “we’ll primary them in 5 years”! We need to find a better way to fight back than that, because the state Republican chairs (Almost always establishment) manage to get who they want.
Their very swearing in requires mass mobilizations of troops from Democratic States, who perhaps consider these troops therefore Democratic militia. A mistake no democratic mayor makes about his police force.
Primaries? Fools, we move into preliminaries,
Do note who reached first for the military to get sworn in. A maneuver unlikely to work repeatedly.
To everyone claiming that the election was stolen.
This appeared on a post on Fox News as a rebuttal to the accusation.
Tes, we stole the election. And it was *so easy* for the Secret Cabal who really controls your country.
All they had to do was organise all the postal workers, poll workers and observers, the designers of the voting machines and the software engineers involved. Then came the potentially tricky bit - they had to get all the state Governors involved, both Republican and Democrat, on board, and finally square things with the new people on the Supreme Court.
Finally, they had to get Pencey on board. Mike Pence, who had stuck with Trump all the way. Ah, well. These people are GOOD.
In case you are wondering, Soros funded all this, and it was run on Hillary's server.
Best head for the hills immediately, before that China puppet, Biden, gets in.
Troll- have you read one sworn affidavit?
The courts refused to, for a reason.
An honest election wouldn’t require troops in the capitol, so many there is no lodging for them - worse, much worse there are tens of thousands of troops in the NCR/National Capitol Region. It appears they weren’t trusted, or the Generals said no. As indeed your faction cannot trust the Capitol police, nor the DC National Guard.
When you have to bring in the provincials to defend the Capitol its never good.
In America it never happened before.
And perhaps the provincial troops won’t care for the place if there too long. No familiarity breeds contempt as fast as DC.
Hi Sam. Congratulations! You win the internet idiot of the month award for claiming "381,480 US citizens have died this year". Without even backing up your preposterous conspiracy theories!
Put the Kool Aid down and learn the truth:
CDC Mask Study: "masks don't work"
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
Fauci: "PCR tests don't work"
https://alethonews.com/2020/11/03/dr-fauci-admits-the-pcr-test-for-coronavirus-is-all-but-useless-as-it-is-administered-in-the-us/
WHO: "PCR tests run wrong from beginning...produced high amount false positives"
https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives/
PCR Test Inventor Dr. Kary Mullis: "PCR test can't determine active infections"
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wOSeTz57xrCF/
CDC FAQ: Question by Doctor: "Should I code as Covid death if no tests have been done". CDC Answer: "Yes. You should code the death as Covid if you suspect Covid caused or might have caused the death"
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf
Hey Fightin' Airborne
Thanks for your reply as well
I see your anti mask article, and I raise you this one from the Mayo Clinic
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449 Masks do have to be fitted properly, and are not all that useful when the wearer has them around their chin.
I ignore your "PCR tests don't work articles", sorry, because they are both irrelevant to my original post. We are not talking about testing, we are talking about the people who have died from the virus. There is a difference, as I hope that you can see.
As for your reference on whether or not the virus is being seen as the cause of death, then I do ask you to please read the article on excess mortality that I posted for Sunface. The conclusion there, was, and is
>If this difference is *less* that the recorded 2020 covid figures, then, as you allege, covid cases are being over reported. The victims might have had covid when they died, but it was not the virus that took them.
If the difference is *more* than the recorded covid figures, then the possibilities are that covid cases are being under reported, or, perhaps, that the virus makes some other illnesses more serious.
In all cases, the difference is more than the recorded covid figures. Here, "more than" means for each country, for each week, for each age group. Please do Google
"Excess mortality during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)"
In the interim, I leave you with your pleasant memories of your real, or perhaps imaginary, career as a rootin', tootin' pilot.
If only someone rational would have advised Trump at the beginning to never let public health officials be in charge of anything. If it were up to public health, we would all have been mandated to continuously wear masks in public to control illnesses 20, 30, or more years ago.
Great article! The covid will forever be remembered as being the main proponent of Trump losing the election. Fauci was too entrenched and Trump went along too far with these people. This is the gift that keeps on giving to the CCP. Trump could have won the war against the Media and Democrats but the 3rd front was a flanking attack that no defensive position could hold.
Steve Bannon would have never let this happen.
I was dismayed at the choice of Pence as vp at the time. The choice was rationalized by many pundits. What do they think now?
Absolutely. Trump should NEVER have gone along with these little trolls. The science and sense was up theAss from the beginning. But it was a set-up all along, so it would have been hard to avoid under any circumstances. Hard to win, when the game is rigged.