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Anthony Fauci’s Very Bad Week

Jeffrey A. Tucker September 7, 2023 Government, History, Public Health 8 minute read

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Despite Fauci’s wishes, the most extreme aspects of lockdowns gradually faded away in time, most anointed experts can pretend as if the vaccine ended the worst aspects of the pandemic (that’s why the mandates became necessary, if only to maximize uptake and confound the science), and Fauci keeps going on national television, despite his age and wealth, to dial back his responsibility for any aspect of it, including the lockdowns he is on record backing from February 26, 2020, onward.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds Scrubs Her Lockdown Record

Kathleen Sheridan September 2, 2023 Government, History 3 minute read

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It seems that everyone is running from the lockdowns they once supported, and that includes former presidents and governors, and probably mayors too. Apologies would be better so we can at least have an honest accounting rather than an attempt to rewrite the history that everyone knows.

J. Edgar Lysenko: A Suitable Name for Anthony Fauci

Thomas Buckley August 31, 2023 Government, History 11 minute read

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History is written by the winners and – at this moment in time – Fauci is on the side of the winners and his public image is unblemished, as is his civil and criminal record. His halo of kindly omnipotence remains largely intact. But as we move forward, the winners may change.

Is McKinsey & Company Part of the Deep State?

Toby Rogers August 30, 2023 Economics, Government 14 minute read

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The administrative state is horrible and it deserves to be called out. The next President can and should cut the administrative state in half (one could do so with no loss in services). But reading When McKinsey Comes to Town I realized that management consultants likely make up a larger share of the deep state than bureaucrats.

Are We Facing Lockdowns 2.0?

Jeffrey A. Tucker August 29, 2023 Government, Policy, Public Health 7 minute read

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Lockdowns were the most successful state/corporate policy in world history for convincing the population to give up volition, liberty, and money to the biomedical cartels and all its associated parts. Something that is this monstrously successful for them becomes a model for the future, which they try and try until the population gets utterly and completely sick of it, as they did with the religious wars of old.

How My Views on Government Have Changed

Aaron Hertzberg August 27, 2023 Government 8 minute read

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The government tried to dehumanize unvaccinated people, and largely succeeded according to polling showing that a significant percentage of people if not outright majorities held a variety of shocking views about unvaccinated people including that they are selfish; stupid; a danger to society; should be forcibly confined to their homes; have their children taken away; and be relocated to “quarantine facilities.” A considerable plurality of vaccinated people, in a word, overtly despised the unvaccinated.

Long Covid Is the New AIDS

Steve Templeton August 27, 2023 Government, Public Health 6 minute read

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If everything can be blamed on Long COVID, then nothing can be blamed on Long COVID. It’s all confirmation studies from here on out. But since the COVID pandemic has ended and HIV continues to threaten at-risk populations without access to medicine, the actual need for HIV research will remain greater, while concerns about Long COVID among the public will fade.

The Great Game of Let’s Pretend

Jeffrey A. Tucker August 25, 2023 Government, Media, Society 7 minute read

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It’s a very strange time in American political history, no doubt. We have one line of thinking sweeping through the population – which is based on mass incredulity and fury – and then another which is a veneer of normalcy that is slathered on top of our anger by all official institutions, which work hard to keep all these topics out of respectable conversations. Meanwhile, the whole of academic, mainstream social media, major mainstream media, and all of government seems to agree that all these obvious topics are too incendiary to be raised in polite company.

In New Interview, Fauci Defends Lockdowns and Forced Shots

Jordan Schachtel August 23, 2023 Government, Law, Policy 2 minute read

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Recently retired government bureaucrat Anthony Fauci just appeared at a university virtual event titled, “Pandemic Lessons and Role of Faculty in Pandemic Preparedness with Dr. Anthony Fauci.” During the conversation, Fauci, who is now affiliated with Georgetown University, made it clear that he still supports locking down society in the name of a virus, adding that lockdowns are a great tool to forcibly “vaccinate” people.

If I Interviewed Trump About Covid…

Debbie Lerman August 22, 2023 Government, History, Public Health 5 minute read

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Were you aware of the massive censorship and propaganda that were happening to make people accept the lockdowns and vaccines? Do you feel like you were part of that campaign to convince people? Or do you feel like you were somehow forced to participate in it?

The Questions Crying Out for Answers

Jeffrey A. Tucker August 22, 2023 Government, Media 12 minute read

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There are a whole host of questions about those fateful days leading to lockdowns. We are not getting answers because no one is asking the questions. All the people who are in a position to end the silence have a strong interest in perpetuating it for as long as possible, in hopes that mass amnesia takes hold and grants them all amnesty.

Anatomy of the Administrative State

Bruce Pardy August 21, 2023 Government, Law, Policy 10 minute read

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The COVID-19 train wreck unfolded before their eyes. One senseless government diktat followed another. Close your business. Keep your kids home from school. Stay out of the park. Wear a mask to go into the store. Take a vaccine to keep your job. These edicts destroyed lives. They caused vaccine injuries and deaths, cancelled jobs and education, and tore families apart. They eviscerated civil liberties. Society unravelled.