Perhaps surprisingly, both the New York Times and the Washington Post have now published articles on the Fauci diaries. Unsurprisingly, both are complete whitewashes. They sanitize his record and reduce the criticism to the suggestion that he may have been a little too narcissistic.
Neither outlet confronts the diaries’ central revelation, which is that Fauci repeatedly said one thing in private and another in public. That applies to the possibility of a laboratory origin, the supposed role of the Wuhan seafood market, the Wuhan lab’s extraordinarily dangerous gain-of-function research, the infection fatality rate, dissenting scientists such as Jay Bhattacharya, and much more.
This was their chance to admit that they were wrong to trust Fauci, that he was a charlatan, and that they had failed their readers by acting as establishment propaganda outlets rather than journalists. They could even have blamed Fauci and washed their own hands of the entire scandal.
But they cannot bring themselves to do even that.
This is absolutely true, but not for any religious reasons. The Bible is a foundational example of mythology (and a bit of history) and should be taught in a secular classroom because it is impossible to understand western civilization without grappling with its influence.
From the snippets of Fauci emails that I've seen, the thing that most infuriates me is that Fauci *knew* that "dissenters" like @DrJBhattacharya were honest actors making reasonable arguments but he coordinated attacks on them anyway.
Ah, it's the "zionists" who foment "Islamophobia," not followers of an ideology that spurs people to blow things up, randomly stab infidels, or drive cars into crowds, says the man who celebrates Hamas and Hezbollah and justifies 9/11.
Brian Williams lost his news hosting job for lying about being under fire on a media trip to Iraq. Jake Tapper secretly dining with Fauci while lecturing everyone they couldn’t have Thanksgiving dinner with their families, to me, is much worse.
Hey @jaketapper why were you having dinner with Dr. Fauci and telling him you believed President Trump was “totally nuts” while you were telling your TV audience it wasn’t safe for them to have Thanksgiving dinner with their families?
They literally overthrew the United States Government…
This ‘Dynamic Duo’ privately shred records, hyped death rates and chased cameras while the world burned.
ARREST THEM BOTH
They love this argument: If you can’t distinguish between various factions of far-leftism, then you’re automatically disqualified from having an opinion.
Up front, here are the definitions (plus bonus Leninism definition):
Communists = Strive for a classless society with common ownership of production.
Marxists = Communists who believe in a classless society as the end of history.
Leninists = Those who idolize the man who operationalized Marxism to its logical conclusion.
Socialists = Fake meaning (Berniebros): Kids who like free stuff. Real meaning (PSL, DSA): Communists who pretend to tolerate dissent.
And now here’s the reason why they’re all interchangeable and why it’s perfectly OK for everyone to use any one of those terms to refer to the others:
They all advocate to overthrow the American government via revolution. Every single faction I’ve researched has had links to foreign hostile governments in service of revolution. Rubio’s Cuba Report from last week did a good job of documenting far left ties to Cuba. But what’s not covered is their deep ties to Venezuela, Nicaragua, Iran, China, and more.
Far-leftists are fundamentally subversive to the core, with allegiances to foreign hostile governments. All of them. That’s what makes them interchangeable. Not whether they decide their party platform via Comintern vs. parliament.
They’re “populist” only insofar as their allegiance is to some arbitrary Communist utopia rather than NATO. Which, by the way, is why I’m going to call out any right-wing commentator who proposes forming alliances with so-called “left-wing populists.”
State governments must take the lead in banning far-leftists from voting in local elections or holding statewide office.