Though Donald Trump and his supporters do not want to admit it, this week, three years ago, American kids were forced out of schools and into their homes. The President of the United States had chosen to give Tony Fauci a big platform and advocated shutting everything down.
Yes! I agree, Erick. I remember very well how every afternoon Trump would come out with Fauci and Birx to give us pep talks about how great he was doing on Covid progress including shutting down everything including the economy. Fauci and Birx were given plenty of airtime to push their agendas onto the American people. Afterwards, Fauci rushed off to do interviews on CNN, MSNBC--the nearest camera--and said things directly in opposition to Trump. Yet, Trump continued to trot him out day after day. Now, Trump wants to accuse political rivals of a negligent Covid response. It would be entirely laughable if not such a serious matter!
No - Fauci when astray because he always had the hidden agenda and worked within his cabal of people wanting the same agenda when the opportunity looked ripe. Within the Twitter Files and other material it is clear that these people were all connected to the WEF Great Reset ideology of which woke and climate change ideology are all part of. The COVID pandemic might have been part of that plan as a response to BREXIT and then Trump... or it might have been a mistake that they were prepared to jump on because it gave them authoritarian power.
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that overcrowding in dwellings and places of human congregation (sports venues, bars, restaurants, beaches, airports), as well as human geographic movement, catalyzes disease spread.
Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues. In such a transformation we will need to prioritize changes in those human behaviors that constitute risks for the emergence of infectious diseases. Chief among them are reducing crowding at home, work, and in public places as well as minimizing environmental perturbations such as deforestation, intense urbanization, and intensive animal farming. Equally important are ending global poverty, improving sanitation and hygiene, and reducing unsafe exposure to animals, so that humans and potential human pathogens have limited opportunities for contact. It is a useful “thought experiment” to note that until recent decades and centuries, many deadly pandemic diseases either did not exist or were not significant problems. Cholera, for example, was not known in the West until the late 1700s and became pandemic only because of human crowding and international travel, which allowed new access of the bacteria in regional Asian ecosystems to the unsanitary water and sewer systems that characterized cities throughout the Western world. This realization leads us to suspect that some, and probably very many, of the living improvements achieved over recent centuries come at a high cost that we pay in deadly disease emergences. Since we cannot return to ancient times, can we at least use lessons from those times to bend modernity in a safer direction? These are questions to be answered by all societies and their leaders, philosophers, builders, and thinkers and those involved in appreciating and influencing the environmental determinants of human health."
Trump was/is not perfect...he, unfortunately, surrounded himself with too many swamp creatures...maybe he learned from those mistakes and would be a better second-term president as a result. Any other republican that might get elected will be a rookie and runs the same risk as rookie Trump did by consulting with the wrong crowd...which risk are you wiling to take?
Just like Trump surrounded himself with buffoons and grifters like Sidney Powell & Linn Wood, who weren't "swamp creatures." Trump wasn't smart enough to see through their agendas either because they told him what he wanted to hear and he likes to have his ego stroked.
You should retain some arrows in your quiver. Behind the scenes and apparently behind scenes with Fox, people were saying election wasn't stolen. With more whistle blowers stepping forward, many of you guys can participate in the coming Big Crow Eating Buffett. Even forensics are not over and the fat lady hasn't sung. You can guffaw, poo poo, and maw maw all day. But your education will be furthered. Selah
I try to forget the insanity of Spring 2020. The freakin’ Silver Comet Trail was physically blocked in Republican governed Cobb and Paulding Counties. One of the healthiest and safest from Covid activities one could do! We had to drive to Polk County to ride our bikes on the Silver Comet. My friend was - while jogging alone on the Trail in Cobb - chased down by a cop on a four wheeler and threatened with arrest. Insanity!
Hay, Trumpers, you are doing nothing more than employing the Democrat's latest favorite argumentitiive tactic when you deny actual recorded history, actual objective truth.... gaslighting.
But hay, you see them winning with it so, why not? Never mind it requires disdain for the person you are gaslighting. That's right, you have the same opinion of Democrats, and the Republicans and Independents, that may have voted for him, twice even.
I think the point of this post by Erick is Trump screwed up on Covid and rather than say Kemp and DeSantis and Noem were right about what they did Trump would like you to think that they were the ones that came up with the crazy rules and masking etc. etc. Trump has a hard time saying I was wrong they were right I’m sorry it’s never going to happen again. Know nobody trusts the experts whether it’s science media or government and most importantly the elected politicians. We can win in 2024 but not with DJT I liked his policies but he is not a likable politician when he make things up and starts he juvenile name calling about his political adversaries
Trump also stopped flights from China when everyone said not to. That was a smart thing. The shutdowns and PPP might be nasty things in hindsight but Trump was facing something unprecedented and he did not have a lot of good information to go on. Trump had to rely on the people in the government for information and he got it from those doctors while Fauci was covering his tracks WRT funding gain of function research at Wuhan. I doubt Trump knew that at that time.
If Trump killed 300,000 people like the media and politicians said, Biden killed three times as many. Warp Speed results could have come out a little sooner but the Pfizer guys did not want to help him before the election. Vaccines in my opinion have helped the older population but mandating them and forcing them on the younger people without pre-existing conditions was a mistake. Young kids do not need them either. My point being Biden and his group of cronies including Fauci hurt the military, hospital workers and the younger population with mandates.
All of this is a great exercise in placing blame but 1. We still need to learn the effects of these MRA vaccines because something is not right when they do not protect you from getting COVID like other vaccines, 2. Are the vaccines safe? and 3. What caused all of this? Even our government cannot agree on that.
Trump hate seems to be a virus like COVID. The infected are attracted to Erick's newsletter.
The psychology of it all is fascinating to me. I considered conservatives to be thicker-skinned and stronger critical thinkers and not prone to emotional capture from their media feeds... but obviously the snowflakiness crosses ideological lines.
The criticism of Trump is all about what he said, or the mistakes he made... and nothing, nothing at all about what he accomplished or attempted to accomplish. That is the sign that the TDS sufferers on this comment section are in a personal hate space and not really capable of objective reasoning related to Trump.
I believe a lot of people have been programmed to not like Trump through all the negative things said about him from everywhere. Heck some people tried to blame the train wreck in Ohio and that bank failing on Trump. I do not know of anyone who could put up with all the things he did and still get anything done while he was president. You are right about Trump doing a lot for the people of this country. That is why he has a lot of people who still support him.
I'm sure that you will get tons of excuses and " whatabouts" from the Trumpist apologists. Thanks Erick for bringing a dose of reality and a reminder, in a way, that the standard we hold others to is the standard to which we are held. No one would need to bring any of this up if DRT was not trying to change history and his place in it , stirring up populist passions divorced from reality. A simple , " I screwed up" or " If I knew then what I know now..." on his part would render the necessity of this reminder moot. But nooooooo. Perspective my friends, perspective.
Initially, that made good sense. You don't run out in a storm until you get a sense of where things are going and make your plans for the near future. Likewise, you can't hide under your bed forever and think things will soon be OK, and it seems many want to do this, and we are seeing the disruption within our society that this has led to.
You are beating a dead horse. Given what’s e knew at the time, I for one would not necessarily made different decisions than Trump. I’m not defending Trump. I’m saying I would have likely errored on the side of caution. At least until we gained some knowledge about the Covid bug. Can you say you would have done anything different? This is not a hill other Republican candidates should choose to die on. IMHO.
It was pretty clear after a month or so of data who was going to be hit hardest by the bug. You could also watch the news reports and see who ended up in the hospital, mostly morbidly obese people. Sure, there were exceptions but for the most part, people who were already unhealthy (unfortunately, a high percentage of Americans anyway). The fact that most of Europe and even Asia had their kids back in school in the spring of 2020 and ours were shut down, in some cases for more than two years, still irks me to this day. That, along with the vaccine mandates, the centralized and politicized response to doctors who tried to actually cure people with “non-approved” medications instead of just sending them home and telling them to go the emergency room if they couldn’t breathe and many other things that I will never forget (even though they want us to).
Read all the comments went through all the rhetoric.
Here’s the bottom line. Mickey Mouse is better than any liberal democrat.
When staring down an enemy is it bad to question who stands with you?
We allied with Stalin communists to bring down fascists.
Sometimes the weapon you have is what you had at the time. Trump was a means to end Hillary’s presidential aspirations.
While his usefulness has expired and I will vote for someone else in the primary should he get the nomination I would absolutely vote for him in the general.
That’s what people don’t get. It’s ok to dislike the person but don’t let that void your vision. Beating back the democrats is the main goal so this tit for tat back talk of something that happened in 2020 is ridiculous. So what?
It’s 2023 and soon to be 24.
Focus.
First priority is to pick a candidate for president that can win. If that’s not trump so be it.
Second is to secure the vote and make sure the dems don’t pull any funny business. But also we need to utilize any legal tactics we can to increase the vote.
Mail in ballots are here to stay. Use them.
That all being said this recursive obsession with trump is a bit stupid and I deplore you Erick for bringing it up no matter the intended point.
Look at your comment board. Everyone defending or attacking trump. Why? The dems are the enemy. Focus please.
"Mickey Mouse is better than any liberal democrat". Absolutely true. Liberal democrats are indoctrinated drones. Erick, at first reading I was surprised by this substack addition. Certainly don't 'deplore' you, and you are certainly not stupid, I'm sure ChazAtl wasn't saying that, but this edition does seem like beating a dead horse, as Jerry Porter said above. Most all of your readers/commenters have moved on from Trump. As ChazAtl said, he was useful at the time, but he seems unable to learn and get better. So, yes, let's focus on the real dangers to our democracy, liberal democrats who are 'citizens of the world' far above being Americans. But, keeping Trump from forming a third party if he loses the nomination is vital. If he or any Republican does that, in my mind it would be treasonous.
Unfortunately Trumps ego helped him make that mistake as most ego-maniac politicians and bureaucrats did, depending on the "expert" knowledge of Fauci and Birx. It was his ego that overrode the facts and neglect to research as DeSantis and Kemp did to understand the virus through other avenues (European countries and other scientists). What bothered me most about Trump was that he didn't look at history, specifically the 1918 Spanish flu and how procedures (exactly what Fauci and Birx did) were useless then and useless now. They didn't even bother to learn from it. And yes as far as the J6, he should have pardoned them ALL before leaving office and he didn't which is absolutely beyond despicable. As an independent, and who voted for Trump (over Hillary) I will not be supporting him this round. It's time for conservatives to grown and gain strength to save America from its corrupt government.
I liked a lot of Trump did. I was very surprised when he let Fauci control the whole country with the Covid policies. Each region had its own issues to deal with and having a blanket policy from one doctor was not a great idea.
DeSantis opening the drive up monoclonal antibody sites was extremely proactive. I respected both DeSantis and Kemp for their clear thinking through a difficult time.
Louder for the folks in the back please! I believe President Trump did his level best, with the information he had, for the American people. He navigated through a historical disaster. But Kemp and DeSantis did the same for the citizens in their states and the results speak for themselves. I voted for President Trump twice. It will be hard for me to do it again because of his inability to control himself. Character matters and I’m tired of having to choose between “the lesser of two evils.”
Yes! I agree, Erick. I remember very well how every afternoon Trump would come out with Fauci and Birx to give us pep talks about how great he was doing on Covid progress including shutting down everything including the economy. Fauci and Birx were given plenty of airtime to push their agendas onto the American people. Afterwards, Fauci rushed off to do interviews on CNN, MSNBC--the nearest camera--and said things directly in opposition to Trump. Yet, Trump continued to trot him out day after day. Now, Trump wants to accuse political rivals of a negligent Covid response. It would be entirely laughable if not such a serious matter!
No - Fauci when astray because he always had the hidden agenda and worked within his cabal of people wanting the same agenda when the opportunity looked ripe. Within the Twitter Files and other material it is clear that these people were all connected to the WEF Great Reset ideology of which woke and climate change ideology are all part of. The COVID pandemic might have been part of that plan as a response to BREXIT and then Trump... or it might have been a mistake that they were prepared to jump on because it gave them authoritarian power.
Read this. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420310126 Below is the evidence that Fauci was likely, and still is likely, supporting this agenda. These people are sick.
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that overcrowding in dwellings and places of human congregation (sports venues, bars, restaurants, beaches, airports), as well as human geographic movement, catalyzes disease spread.
Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues. In such a transformation we will need to prioritize changes in those human behaviors that constitute risks for the emergence of infectious diseases. Chief among them are reducing crowding at home, work, and in public places as well as minimizing environmental perturbations such as deforestation, intense urbanization, and intensive animal farming. Equally important are ending global poverty, improving sanitation and hygiene, and reducing unsafe exposure to animals, so that humans and potential human pathogens have limited opportunities for contact. It is a useful “thought experiment” to note that until recent decades and centuries, many deadly pandemic diseases either did not exist or were not significant problems. Cholera, for example, was not known in the West until the late 1700s and became pandemic only because of human crowding and international travel, which allowed new access of the bacteria in regional Asian ecosystems to the unsanitary water and sewer systems that characterized cities throughout the Western world. This realization leads us to suspect that some, and probably very many, of the living improvements achieved over recent centuries come at a high cost that we pay in deadly disease emergences. Since we cannot return to ancient times, can we at least use lessons from those times to bend modernity in a safer direction? These are questions to be answered by all societies and their leaders, philosophers, builders, and thinkers and those involved in appreciating and influencing the environmental determinants of human health."
Trump was/is not perfect...he, unfortunately, surrounded himself with too many swamp creatures...maybe he learned from those mistakes and would be a better second-term president as a result. Any other republican that might get elected will be a rookie and runs the same risk as rookie Trump did by consulting with the wrong crowd...which risk are you wiling to take?
Just like Trump surrounded himself with buffoons and grifters like Sidney Powell & Linn Wood, who weren't "swamp creatures." Trump wasn't smart enough to see through their agendas either because they told him what he wanted to hear and he likes to have his ego stroked.
You should retain some arrows in your quiver. Behind the scenes and apparently behind scenes with Fox, people were saying election wasn't stolen. With more whistle blowers stepping forward, many of you guys can participate in the coming Big Crow Eating Buffett. Even forensics are not over and the fat lady hasn't sung. You can guffaw, poo poo, and maw maw all day. But your education will be furthered. Selah
I try to forget the insanity of Spring 2020. The freakin’ Silver Comet Trail was physically blocked in Republican governed Cobb and Paulding Counties. One of the healthiest and safest from Covid activities one could do! We had to drive to Polk County to ride our bikes on the Silver Comet. My friend was - while jogging alone on the Trail in Cobb - chased down by a cop on a four wheeler and threatened with arrest. Insanity!
Hay, Trumpers, you are doing nothing more than employing the Democrat's latest favorite argumentitiive tactic when you deny actual recorded history, actual objective truth.... gaslighting.
But hay, you see them winning with it so, why not? Never mind it requires disdain for the person you are gaslighting. That's right, you have the same opinion of Democrats, and the Republicans and Independents, that may have voted for him, twice even.
I think the point of this post by Erick is Trump screwed up on Covid and rather than say Kemp and DeSantis and Noem were right about what they did Trump would like you to think that they were the ones that came up with the crazy rules and masking etc. etc. Trump has a hard time saying I was wrong they were right I’m sorry it’s never going to happen again. Know nobody trusts the experts whether it’s science media or government and most importantly the elected politicians. We can win in 2024 but not with DJT I liked his policies but he is not a likable politician when he make things up and starts he juvenile name calling about his political adversaries
Trump also stopped flights from China when everyone said not to. That was a smart thing. The shutdowns and PPP might be nasty things in hindsight but Trump was facing something unprecedented and he did not have a lot of good information to go on. Trump had to rely on the people in the government for information and he got it from those doctors while Fauci was covering his tracks WRT funding gain of function research at Wuhan. I doubt Trump knew that at that time.
If Trump killed 300,000 people like the media and politicians said, Biden killed three times as many. Warp Speed results could have come out a little sooner but the Pfizer guys did not want to help him before the election. Vaccines in my opinion have helped the older population but mandating them and forcing them on the younger people without pre-existing conditions was a mistake. Young kids do not need them either. My point being Biden and his group of cronies including Fauci hurt the military, hospital workers and the younger population with mandates.
All of this is a great exercise in placing blame but 1. We still need to learn the effects of these MRA vaccines because something is not right when they do not protect you from getting COVID like other vaccines, 2. Are the vaccines safe? and 3. What caused all of this? Even our government cannot agree on that.
Trump hate seems to be a virus like COVID. The infected are attracted to Erick's newsletter.
The psychology of it all is fascinating to me. I considered conservatives to be thicker-skinned and stronger critical thinkers and not prone to emotional capture from their media feeds... but obviously the snowflakiness crosses ideological lines.
The criticism of Trump is all about what he said, or the mistakes he made... and nothing, nothing at all about what he accomplished or attempted to accomplish. That is the sign that the TDS sufferers on this comment section are in a personal hate space and not really capable of objective reasoning related to Trump.
I believe a lot of people have been programmed to not like Trump through all the negative things said about him from everywhere. Heck some people tried to blame the train wreck in Ohio and that bank failing on Trump. I do not know of anyone who could put up with all the things he did and still get anything done while he was president. You are right about Trump doing a lot for the people of this country. That is why he has a lot of people who still support him.
I'm sure that you will get tons of excuses and " whatabouts" from the Trumpist apologists. Thanks Erick for bringing a dose of reality and a reminder, in a way, that the standard we hold others to is the standard to which we are held. No one would need to bring any of this up if DRT was not trying to change history and his place in it , stirring up populist passions divorced from reality. A simple , " I screwed up" or " If I knew then what I know now..." on his part would render the necessity of this reminder moot. But nooooooo. Perspective my friends, perspective.
Initially, that made good sense. You don't run out in a storm until you get a sense of where things are going and make your plans for the near future. Likewise, you can't hide under your bed forever and think things will soon be OK, and it seems many want to do this, and we are seeing the disruption within our society that this has led to.
You are beating a dead horse. Given what’s e knew at the time, I for one would not necessarily made different decisions than Trump. I’m not defending Trump. I’m saying I would have likely errored on the side of caution. At least until we gained some knowledge about the Covid bug. Can you say you would have done anything different? This is not a hill other Republican candidates should choose to die on. IMHO.
It was pretty clear after a month or so of data who was going to be hit hardest by the bug. You could also watch the news reports and see who ended up in the hospital, mostly morbidly obese people. Sure, there were exceptions but for the most part, people who were already unhealthy (unfortunately, a high percentage of Americans anyway). The fact that most of Europe and even Asia had their kids back in school in the spring of 2020 and ours were shut down, in some cases for more than two years, still irks me to this day. That, along with the vaccine mandates, the centralized and politicized response to doctors who tried to actually cure people with “non-approved” medications instead of just sending them home and telling them to go the emergency room if they couldn’t breathe and many other things that I will never forget (even though they want us to).
Read all the comments went through all the rhetoric.
Here’s the bottom line. Mickey Mouse is better than any liberal democrat.
When staring down an enemy is it bad to question who stands with you?
We allied with Stalin communists to bring down fascists.
Sometimes the weapon you have is what you had at the time. Trump was a means to end Hillary’s presidential aspirations.
While his usefulness has expired and I will vote for someone else in the primary should he get the nomination I would absolutely vote for him in the general.
That’s what people don’t get. It’s ok to dislike the person but don’t let that void your vision. Beating back the democrats is the main goal so this tit for tat back talk of something that happened in 2020 is ridiculous. So what?
It’s 2023 and soon to be 24.
Focus.
First priority is to pick a candidate for president that can win. If that’s not trump so be it.
Second is to secure the vote and make sure the dems don’t pull any funny business. But also we need to utilize any legal tactics we can to increase the vote.
Mail in ballots are here to stay. Use them.
That all being said this recursive obsession with trump is a bit stupid and I deplore you Erick for bringing it up no matter the intended point.
Look at your comment board. Everyone defending or attacking trump. Why? The dems are the enemy. Focus please.
"Mickey Mouse is better than any liberal democrat". Absolutely true. Liberal democrats are indoctrinated drones. Erick, at first reading I was surprised by this substack addition. Certainly don't 'deplore' you, and you are certainly not stupid, I'm sure ChazAtl wasn't saying that, but this edition does seem like beating a dead horse, as Jerry Porter said above. Most all of your readers/commenters have moved on from Trump. As ChazAtl said, he was useful at the time, but he seems unable to learn and get better. So, yes, let's focus on the real dangers to our democracy, liberal democrats who are 'citizens of the world' far above being Americans. But, keeping Trump from forming a third party if he loses the nomination is vital. If he or any Republican does that, in my mind it would be treasonous.
Unfortunately Trumps ego helped him make that mistake as most ego-maniac politicians and bureaucrats did, depending on the "expert" knowledge of Fauci and Birx. It was his ego that overrode the facts and neglect to research as DeSantis and Kemp did to understand the virus through other avenues (European countries and other scientists). What bothered me most about Trump was that he didn't look at history, specifically the 1918 Spanish flu and how procedures (exactly what Fauci and Birx did) were useless then and useless now. They didn't even bother to learn from it. And yes as far as the J6, he should have pardoned them ALL before leaving office and he didn't which is absolutely beyond despicable. As an independent, and who voted for Trump (over Hillary) I will not be supporting him this round. It's time for conservatives to grown and gain strength to save America from its corrupt government.
I liked a lot of Trump did. I was very surprised when he let Fauci control the whole country with the Covid policies. Each region had its own issues to deal with and having a blanket policy from one doctor was not a great idea.
DeSantis opening the drive up monoclonal antibody sites was extremely proactive. I respected both DeSantis and Kemp for their clear thinking through a difficult time.
Louder for the folks in the back please! I believe President Trump did his level best, with the information he had, for the American people. He navigated through a historical disaster. But Kemp and DeSantis did the same for the citizens in their states and the results speak for themselves. I voted for President Trump twice. It will be hard for me to do it again because of his inability to control himself. Character matters and I’m tired of having to choose between “the lesser of two evils.”
OUCH!!! That hurt. Truth can be painful. That was painful.