Even if Trump somehow miraculously won the 2024 election, it is obvious that globalists will unleash another "pandemic" on us. Pandemics are now the cheat code to globalist control.
It is clear that Trump will bow down to the "science" bureaucrats and he will sell us out to big pharma again because he refuses to admit he ever made any mistakes during this pandemic.
What does Trump have to do with lockdowns? It was the State Governors, who each declared a State of Emergency for their own States, and began issuing proclamations (or didn't) that allowed shutdowns. Which is awful, but it allowed the instrument of the United States to be played properly, at least.
In microcosm, the same thing happened with South Dakota. Governor Kristi Noem had a relatively light touch in her own State...which left the Mayors of the big cities of SD free to institute their own shutdowns, which they did.
It was a massive Federalism shit test that exposed what Governors and Mayors had black little hearts filled with aspiration to dictatorship. I find the results nightmarish. But we couldn't even have had the liberty to have that test without President Trump's peculiarly un-dictator-ish tendencies, which you should be goddamn thankful for. If Democrats had had their druthers, the United States would've 100% followed the Beijing model, and people in New Zealand would be looking at us saying "Holy shit, they need to dial it back a notch."
The thing is, most of this went on automatic, because the Government is not a single person, even the head of the Executive. The same as the States. Once the Democrats chose to take the position that Coof was legitimately a deadly pandemic, they mobilized their apparatus (100% of media, ~99% of Federal Government, ~95% of State administrations) and there was no standing in the Cathedral's way.
I don't remember Trump "propping up" Fauci except by way of introduction. They were openly clashing within a month of Fauci and Birx hitting the stage. I don't think that's a fair charge. Also, I don't think "legitimizing" is a valid charge either, because what exactly is that? That's murky progressive talk. If you want to say that Trump is to blame for declaring a national State of Emergency, okay, because he literally did that. That is entirely different from playing a voodoo blame game of "legitimizing," especially when in real history, President Trump was openly antagonistic to the people you're saying he lent his credibility to. Trump was giving fireside chats wherein he would often say the opposite of what Fauci and Birx were touting, until the media simply refused to keep airing his (massively popular) talks.
Beyond that, again, Government's not just one dude. The CDC was in the bag against the United States. Most State health agencies sided with the WHO (for murky and alarming reasons that really demand a great big series of investigations that will probably never happen). All Media and nearly all Politicos joined forces to promote the fake threat, and thereby gave themselves the justification for City Councilmen, First Selectmen, Mayors, City Managers, County Representatives, and Governors, everywhere, to declare themselves authorities unto themselves until such time as the State of Emergency was rescinded (which as it turns out, was also at the discretion of the Governor).
Once the SoE was declared, there was no process to walk back, only to escalate. Congress immediately took the opportunity to start writing checks, and they went completely bananas hog-wild with this. They had little ability, and definitely no incentive, to even try to walk anything back. At the State level, 9/11-era emergency provisions kicked State Congresses to irrelevance and elevated State Health administrations, until such time as each Congress managed to argue their authority in Court (except that most Courts were suspended).
This thing was a huge fucking mess, and there's a ton of blame to be passed out. I just think that in the end, surprisingly little of it should end up at the feet of Donald Trump, of all people. The entire bureaucratic and media class of the United States, including his (supposed) own Party, and the Executive Branch which he was nominally in charge of, went to Total War with him. There's not a person in the world who could've plausibly fought that and won.
Fauci and Birx deserve to be tried for crimes against humanity for the horrors they unleashed on the world.
Trump needs to accept reality and acknowledge that lockdowns were a terrible mistake.
Trump's inability to acknowledge this and learn from his mistakes is what made me realize that he does not deserve to be President ever again.
I believe in second chances whenever anyone shows they have truly learned from their mistakes and has changed.
Trump has not changed.
His snake son in law Kushner is still his main advisor.
Recently Trump blatantly lied and tried to gaslight us all by saying that he always did the opposite of what Fauci suggested.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1552053683764215808
Even if Trump somehow miraculously won the 2024 election, it is obvious that globalists will unleash another "pandemic" on us. Pandemics are now the cheat code to globalist control.
It is clear that Trump will bow down to the "science" bureaucrats and he will sell us out to big pharma again because he refuses to admit he ever made any mistakes during this pandemic.
What does Trump have to do with lockdowns? It was the State Governors, who each declared a State of Emergency for their own States, and began issuing proclamations (or didn't) that allowed shutdowns. Which is awful, but it allowed the instrument of the United States to be played properly, at least.
In microcosm, the same thing happened with South Dakota. Governor Kristi Noem had a relatively light touch in her own State...which left the Mayors of the big cities of SD free to institute their own shutdowns, which they did.
It was a massive Federalism shit test that exposed what Governors and Mayors had black little hearts filled with aspiration to dictatorship. I find the results nightmarish. But we couldn't even have had the liberty to have that test without President Trump's peculiarly un-dictator-ish tendencies, which you should be goddamn thankful for. If Democrats had had their druthers, the United States would've 100% followed the Beijing model, and people in New Zealand would be looking at us saying "Holy shit, they need to dial it back a notch."
The thing is, most of this went on automatic, because the Government is not a single person, even the head of the Executive. The same as the States. Once the Democrats chose to take the position that Coof was legitimately a deadly pandemic, they mobilized their apparatus (100% of media, ~99% of Federal Government, ~95% of State administrations) and there was no standing in the Cathedral's way.
I don't remember Trump "propping up" Fauci except by way of introduction. They were openly clashing within a month of Fauci and Birx hitting the stage. I don't think that's a fair charge. Also, I don't think "legitimizing" is a valid charge either, because what exactly is that? That's murky progressive talk. If you want to say that Trump is to blame for declaring a national State of Emergency, okay, because he literally did that. That is entirely different from playing a voodoo blame game of "legitimizing," especially when in real history, President Trump was openly antagonistic to the people you're saying he lent his credibility to. Trump was giving fireside chats wherein he would often say the opposite of what Fauci and Birx were touting, until the media simply refused to keep airing his (massively popular) talks.
Beyond that, again, Government's not just one dude. The CDC was in the bag against the United States. Most State health agencies sided with the WHO (for murky and alarming reasons that really demand a great big series of investigations that will probably never happen). All Media and nearly all Politicos joined forces to promote the fake threat, and thereby gave themselves the justification for City Councilmen, First Selectmen, Mayors, City Managers, County Representatives, and Governors, everywhere, to declare themselves authorities unto themselves until such time as the State of Emergency was rescinded (which as it turns out, was also at the discretion of the Governor).
Once the SoE was declared, there was no process to walk back, only to escalate. Congress immediately took the opportunity to start writing checks, and they went completely bananas hog-wild with this. They had little ability, and definitely no incentive, to even try to walk anything back. At the State level, 9/11-era emergency provisions kicked State Congresses to irrelevance and elevated State Health administrations, until such time as each Congress managed to argue their authority in Court (except that most Courts were suspended).
This thing was a huge fucking mess, and there's a ton of blame to be passed out. I just think that in the end, surprisingly little of it should end up at the feet of Donald Trump, of all people. The entire bureaucratic and media class of the United States, including his (supposed) own Party, and the Executive Branch which he was nominally in charge of, went to Total War with him. There's not a person in the world who could've plausibly fought that and won.