That's because the people that downplay it - your coworker who didn't see a problem with what the govt did, your great aunt Erma who got all the boosters because Fauci told her too - are ok with communism.
They may not be communist at heart, but they'd be ok with it.
A close cousin of this talking-point was the idea that, even though essentially all states issued stay-at-home orders, restrictions on gatherings, and mask mandates, You Could Ignore All That If You Really Wanted To, It Wasn’t Really Enforced That Much
Just wonderful thanks! A state of affairs where one’s government issues sweeping edicts but, uh, might not enforce them, or maybe they will, it depends on where you are and how you do it, it’s just on you to figure that out and test the boundaries, don’t you know how to do that bro? is literally anarcho-tyranny, but thanks.
It’s also quite Soviet and post-communist. Like if you get robbed by a cop in some Eastern bloc country, instead of saying That’s terrible, people there will shrug and say you just should have known how to handle it better. Ask me how I know
So, that’s where we are I guess. That’s the mentality the Lockdown Downplayers (who, ironically, at all other times paint themselves as serious rule of law wanters & good-policy wonks) are indulging in with all this.
But hey it’s all worth it to Downplay the Lockdowns instead of just admitting they were idiotic, unprecedented, dictatorial, & socially harmful.
Just a reminder to the blackpillers:
Negative net migration for the first time in 100 years.
6 million illegal aliens gone.
Foreign-born population down by 3 million;
Laken Riley Act signed into law.
Catch-and-release ended.
Record-low border encounters;
Violent crime historic lows Nationwide.
Fentanyl trafficking crushed.
Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and other cartels dismantled;
Record U.S. energy production. and exports at all-time highs.
Job growth at record highs.
Real yearly earnings up ~$1,100.
Inflation down to 3% from 9% under Biden.
Tax cuts, No Tax on Tips, on overtime, expanded deductions for seniors, no tax on car loans for US built cars.
$5T+ in deregulation savings + $215 billion in government efficiency cuts.
$10 Trillion+ in domestic investments secured.
Trade deficit at lowest level since 2009. Stock market ar record highs;
Eight Wars ended including
Gaza ceasefire,
12-Day War ended,
Armenia-Azerbaijan,
India-Pakistan,
DRC-Rwanda,
Cambodia-Thailand,
Kosovo-Serbia,
Egypt-Ethiopia;
Iran’s nuclear capability destroyed;
NATO allies moving toward 5% GDP defense spending;
85+ detained Americans released.
Abraham Accords expanded.
Nicolás Maduro captured;
Record military recruitment goals met;
VA backlog reduced 60%; 3 million disability claims processed;
DEI eliminated across military and federal agencies;
DOGE-driven bureaucracy cuts.
100 000 federal workers resigned in a single day.
Smallest federal work force in America history;
MAHA reforms.
Withdrew from WHO.
Withdrew from International Criminal Court.
Withdrew from Paris Climate Accords.
Ended suicidal Iran nuclear deal;
Election integrity and citizenship verification measures expanded nationwide;
Energy dominance: US becomes net oil exporter for the first time in history.
Trump Accounts for newborns.
62,000+ missing migrant children rescued.
150,000 children rescued from child trafficking;
Bolton arrested and pleaded. Comey arrested. Brennan under investigation;
Secured rare earth minerals supply chain.
CAFE standards relaxed removing unreasonable auto mileage rules. Eliminated Electric Vehicle Mandates. Saved US Auto industry;
Axed the EPA endangerment finding which required extreme regulation of CO 2.
Reclaimed control of Panama canal from China.
Pardon for all J6 defendants.
USAID defunded.
USAID was a money laundering slush fund for massive long-standing brinery and corruption schemes, anti-American agitprop, social engineering, cultural Marxism, and astroturfed revolutions.
If not supporting this makes me “anti Trump” like some of you have commented on my posts, so be it. This is socialism dressed up like an ugly pig.
There are so many ways to make it easier for moms to stay home with their kids. They involve actually FIXING things though, so right before the midterms let’s throw out some more government tax payer funded subsidies. Sureeeee, Jan. I haven’t changed my conservative values. Some of you are not ACTUALLY conservative.
Holy. Hell.
NYT: Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The Trump administration is moving to allow married couples with a stay-at-home spouse to collect child care subsidies, a policy championed by Vice President JD Vance, using funds from a federal program intended to assist working parents, according to people familiar with the discussions.
https://t.co/7KxieGshWs
@MbarkCherguia The Rotor. Hersheypark had one, near the Sooper Sooper Looper. Gone now.
Heard someone throw up in it once. Turned around, and saw the spew explode out the top as everyone inside screamed.
The good news is we now have the smallest federal workforce since FDR at 2%. Of course it was even smaller before the Fed and Income tax.
The bad news is multiply by tens of millions at NGO's, contractors, and Learing Centers and 1 in 3 people in America are collecting a government paycheck.
Lorena Bobbitt was found not guilty by reason of insanity and got out five weeks later.
John Hinckley Jr. was found not guilty by reason of insanity and he’s free too.
Tyree Smith murdered and cannibalized a guy, found not guilty by reason of insanity and he’s free, too.
@BowTiedBroke Brother, if someone put their hands on my daughter and I had to post a bail selfie on the regular as result of how I responded, you better believe I'll be smiling.
Be proud.