Tom Bombadil

An enigma in love with Goldberry

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Keep them coming

[Jon Caldara @JonCaldara]

We are finally getting a clearer picture of what happened during COVID. Not because the people who locked us up, masked our faces and forced unproven chemicals into our bodies have suddenly become transparent, but because Anthony Fauci’s COVID-era diary is coming into public view. #copolitics

This long document makes one thing painfully clear: the people who forced us to surrender our lives to their expertise did not have the expertise they claimed.

At best, they were guessing.

And when their guesses failed, they did not retreat. They didn’t come clean. They doubled down.

Arrogance unbridled
Our health, our freedoms, our bodies, our economy, our children’s education were all less important than their unchallenged status as the infallible elite.

Yes, Fauci’s diary shows his arrogance. Yes, he seems incapable of admitting error. Yes, he was willing to make “majestic leaps” ahead of the evidence while insisting the rest of us follow his orders.

But Fauci is merely a symptom of something more dangerous.

Government is at its most powerful and dictatorial precisely when it knows the least.

An unknown crisis arrives — and crisis always involves the unknown — and politicians panic. Bureaucrats come up with “answers.” They tell us foundational rules — individual liberty, open debate, fiscal restraint, bodily autonomy and just plain sense — must be suspended.

Then they spend money they do not have to keep the whole madness alive.

And with the media as cheerleader, they scare the hell out of people to make sure nobody asks uncomfortable questions.

Colorado piles on
Colorado did not merely watch this happen from the sidelines. We did it to ourselves.

Gov. Jared Polis and our local governments put you under house arrest. They closed businesses. They restricted worship. They suspended your right to peaceably assemble. They turned neighbors into hall monitors. They treated people trying to earn a living as dangers to society.

With the press as their enforcers, they canceled people who refused to mask or take their jab as “murderers,” costing many their livelihoods and personal relationships.

Workers were told their jobs were nonessential. You are nonessential!

Families were separated as they had to view their loved ones behind glass windows outside nursing homes.

Kids were told their smiles, their speech and their ability to see other people were somehow less important than obeying unseen adults in centers of governmental power who did not know what they were doing.

And in the cruelest act of all, they robbed children of school.

As the Fauci diaries prove, they knew young people were the least at risk of COVID, yet they injured our young the most.

“Remote learning” was no learning. It was cruel isolation.

For special-needs children like my son who has Down syndrome, it was punishment for a crime they didn’t commit. This crime wasn’t done by Fauci, but by feckless Colorado leaders.

These kids who learn through personal contact, social interaction, speech therapy, occupational therapy and the daily structure of being around other human beings were abandoned.

That lost time cannot be made back in a government program. This theft compounds over a lifetime.

The people who shut down our schools, our world, will say they were following the science. Fauci’s diary ought to make us ask: What science? Whose science?

Media enablers
Why isn’t the press doing with COVID what they did to Nixon after Watergate, ruthlessly asking what did you know and when did you know it?

Because this wasn’t just a mass injustice of government. It was a mass failure of the Fourth Estate.

If the nation’s top COVID bureaucrat was privately acknowledging uncertainty, failure and a lack of meaningful evidence, why did Colorado officials act as if disagreement itself was immoral?

They also used money we did not have.

The Colorado COVID response exploded government spending and pushed more people into government dependence. Medicaid enrollment in Colorado skyrocketed, and now the state faces the bill.

The inflation that followed the federal printing of money was not an act of God. The budget crisis coming to Colorado is not a mystery.

The next unknown crisis will come. And when it does, politicians will again tell us fear requires obedience.

They will again promise safety in exchange for freedom.

They will again insist there is no time for debate, evidence or restraint.

Colorado must remember what happened when we believed them.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[The Independent with Scott Atlas @ScottAtlas_IT]

“No one was more opposed to what Fauci was saying, based on the data, than I was... A lot of it is because of Fauci. But at some point, you knew, [and people should have realized] these things were against common sense.”

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Good point

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

She loved escaping the NY lockdowns (that she supported) to relax in free Florida (which she criticized)!

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Harold Ford Jr: "It’s hard for me to wrap my arms around how you can be for no police, no borders, no prisons, supporting Hamas, no president, no Senate — and say somehow or another you're for America."

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This new tactic of AOC and her allies -- to giggle away their past "crazy" ideas -- should not be tolerated.

"Woke" wasn't just some harmless, zany moment. It was a sinister movement that destroyed careers and reputations for the smallest thought crimes. It needs a reckoning.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

Some may see the Faucis’ current misery as a form of justice, but compared with the suffering they caused, including the wife’s role as head of “bioethics,” it is nowhere near enough. The entire origins cover up operation must be exposed, every lie must be laid bare, and Fauci’s reputation must be stripped of every remaining fiction until he is permanently disgraced and ostracized.

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJc]

Fauci’s wife flipping off reporters proves the contempt runs in the family.

Public servants who only ever served themselves.

America betrayed by greed and power!

The swamp doesn’t hide anymore. It just flips us off.

MAHA

[Tom Bombadil @Tom_BombLOTR]

@waitmaya 31

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Those of us who questioned “the science,” the origins of COVID, and the unnecessary vaccines were called conspiracy theorists, murderers, and told we didn’t care about our family, friends, or neighbors.

Like so many of us, @AaronRodgers12 was vindicated.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Fauci should be held in contempt. He received a blanket pardon and had no basis to invoke the Fifth.

[Alan Colon @PilotAlan1]

I worked in pandemic planning for 20 years. I was in the HHS command center for the first month of the pandemic.
We did everything wrong, against all our plans, the CDC/Fauci/Birx are responsible for it.
The path to dealing with pandemics has been known for millennia:
Protect the vulnerable (seniors in this case),
isolate the sick,
quarantine the exposed,
build herd immunity among the low risk population.

We instead isolated those at lowest risk, ignored post-infection immunity, prevented herd immunity, packed the most vulnerable into congregate living spaces with those currently ill (i.e., seniors), and made no attempt to determine the level of asymptomatic infection and natural immunity in the population.

I watched infighting between CDC and ASPR, with CDC refusing to share transmissibility or secondary attack rate information within HHS. I saw NIH, ASPR, CDC, and OASH folks fight over turf, instead of focusing on the disease.
I saw "the professionals" discard decades of preparedness and planning, and simply make stuff up as they went.

I saw public health officials at the local and state level play "hide the ball" with data and information, refusing to share it with policymakers, and refusing to justify their declarations and restrictions.
No discussions about the negative impact of their decisions. We know that hundreds of thousands have died from delayed cancer, cardiac, and other screenings of treatments.

The entire public health infrastructure, from local to national, failed miserably, with health "leaders" more interested in protecting their new-found authority than in protecting the public.
They have utterly destroyed their credibility, and millions have died and will die from that loss of trust.
And I grieve, because it didn't have to be this way.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

There will be more and more people like this blaming “new evidence” for their sudden change of position. There is no new evidence. The evidence was there from day one. “New evidence” is just an excuse for having ignored the evidence, dismissed the evidence, or helped cover it up.

[The Independent with Scott Atlas @ScottAtlas_IT]

In the Task Force meetings in the Situation Room that I attended (during August - November 2020), I don't recall even once hearing anyone ask about the origin of the virus. FYI, since truth matters.

[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

July 2020. Steps of the Supreme Court. America’s Frontline Doctors stood in white coats and told the American people the truth the regime did not want spoken:

COVID was treatable.

Early treatment worked.

Nobody needed to die.

Lockdowns were never necessary.

We were censored within hours. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube erased the video. Careers were destroyed. Doctors were threatened. Patients were denied the medicine that could have saved them.

They called us dangerous.

They were the danger.

History has already rendered its verdict. We were right. They lied. And the people paid the price in lives, liberty, and lost years.

Watch it. Share it. Bookmark it.

Never let them memory-hole what they did.

The truth was never the threat.

Their power was.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Remember, they are not defending Fauci for lying they are defending themselves for lying

[Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf]

Big heart emoji to @SecKennedy for this. Well said and long overdue.

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I know you're flustered now, and it is…”

CNN’s Dana Bash: “I'm not flustered at all.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Do you see your job as ending vaccine hesitancy, or do you see your job as telling the truth to the American people?”

Dana Bash: “I see my job as telling the truth. And the truth is that there is study after study after study. It's one of the most studied things out there in science.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “You're repeating it like a parrot. You're repeating it like a parrot.”

“I have actually read the science.”

“Let's you and I come back here and debate the science.”

Dana Bash: “I'm not debating this with you.”

Robert F. Kennedy: “Of course you won't. All you know how to do is repeat things that people told you and say, trust the experts.”

“That's what you did during COVID. Now we know that Anthony Fauci, who was the expert, was lying about everything, about masks, about the social distancing, about natural immunity, about the transmission from the vaccine, about the source of COVID.”

“[Fauci] was lying, and you were punishing people for not trusting the experts. And now you're rolling out the experts again to talk about something that you have no personal knowledge of.”

“Your job is to tell the truth to the American public.”