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No Forgiveness For Pandemic Sins Until The Guilty Repent
The Federalist ^ | JUNE 03, 2023 | JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON

Posted on 06/04/2023 5:49:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The people who abused their power and imposed tyranny during the pandemic will do it again if we don’t hold them accountable.

He doesn’t exactly say who sinned, just that “We got things wrong,” and “Some officials made mistakes in the early days.” Things happened. Mistakes were made. It’s time to move on. Miller’s argument is basically a warmed-over, lightly Christianized version of the essay Brown University economics professor Emily Oster wrote for The Atlantic last November, which argued for a “pandemic amnesty” on account of how “uncertain” and “complicated” things were in the face of a once-in-a-century pandemic like Covid. The ruling class did its best, OK? 

Oster’s piece elicited well-deserved scorn from many on the right, including our own Joy Pullmann, who noted that a genuine amnesty “requires an admission of guilt and a commitment to repairing the wrongs done.” The absence of such an admission and commitment to change, says Pullmann, is “an indication that you’re going to do it again,” and makes it impossible to rebuild trust.

Of course, the people responsible for shutting down the economy, closing schools and churches, destroying countless businesses, and condemning the elderly to die alone in their hospital rooms are not at all sorry about what they did. To this day, they don’t acknowledge any wrongdoing whatsoever. Certainly not Anthony Fauci, who in an April interview with The New York Times defiantly faulted ordinary Americans for failing to listen to him, the self-proclaimed embodiment of science.He doesn’t exactly say who sinned, just that “We got things wrong,” and “Some officials made mistakes in the early days...”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid; lockdowns; malpractice; masks; medicalmalpractice; tyranny
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To: Yo-Yo

my first thought! 2 weeks to flatten the curve! listen to Fauci!


21 posted on 06/04/2023 6:51:45 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

PS- this was one of the main reasons I opted to retire as early as possible and I was in a supervisory position with the potential to climb into the senior executive ranks had I chosen to go to DC.

I was so disgusted by the management in my organization, and mistreated for not playing along, that I wanted NOTHING to do with those @$$holes anymore.

They proved themselves as no more than knee crawlers, willing to do ANYTHING in order to be noticed and please those above them. I am 100% convinced that if there are given the order to collect all private firearms, they would do it. If they were given the order to load trains to Ausschwitz, they would do it and brag about how they are 99.9% effective!

They were proud of their accomplishment: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2021/11/federal-agencies-close-to-100-compliance-with-vaccine-mandate-as-enforcement-begins/ Of course compliance meant coercion, threats, and medical privacy violations. But no one wanted to hear that at the time.

It was under Biden where things became really bad. Flagrant illegal mandates with coercive measures and threats. Flagrant violations of my medical privacy. F-them, I wasn’t having it.


22 posted on 06/04/2023 7:09:22 PM PDT by Red6
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
F*ck every single person who either perpetrated the tyranny, or who stupidly, foolishly, ignorantly went along with or supported it, sideways, with a COVID-laden hickey stick.

I will NEVER forget, or forgive, any of them.

23 posted on 06/04/2023 7:10:23 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Yo-Yo

Trump didn’t force anyone to get the shot.


24 posted on 06/04/2023 7:11:06 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Another thing that Trump got right was Dr Atlas. But the press went after him with so many lies (just as they did Trump relentlessly) and got him to step away.
Trump NEVER mandated the vaccines, demanded to stop flights from China early on, was constantly lied to by Fauci and even Birx would not tell him the truth (she remained ‘silent’ when it came to speaking the truth.) I do not blame Trump so much as many others have.
I continue to hope that he demands a stop to the vaccines and masking let alone any ‘passports’ for proof of vaccination status.


25 posted on 06/04/2023 7:16:12 PM PDT by JCM
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Trump was fighting the entire DC administrative state Swamp the entire time he was in office.

I have no doubt he loves America and the American people.

That means a lot more to me than your petty “gotchas!””

Amen to that!


26 posted on 06/04/2023 7:45:36 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: Red6

100%!


27 posted on 06/04/2023 7:59:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: Macoozie
DO NOT FORGET what they’ve done to you.
Do not let their sudden realization they are in bad shape politically excuse the last two-plus years of abuses.
They shut down your job.
Called many of you “non-essential.”
Closed your kids’ schools.
Expected you to live off $1200 for months while they got richer and richer.
Denied you the ability to be with your dying loved ones.
Then denied you the ability to give those loved ones a proper funeral.
While they let George Floyd have three.
While they went on vacation.
Visited family.
The hair salon.
They arrested you for paddle boarding by yourself.
They shut down the parks and the playgrounds.
They called you a grandma killer if you questioned them.
Suspended you from social media if you didn’t obey the narrative.

They called you domestic terrorists when you demanded your kids get the education your tax dollars paid for.
They mocked you when you demanded a return to normalcy for children.
They sneer at your concern over empty shelves and exploding grocery and utility bills.
They messed with supply chains and emptied store shelves, while the elites partied on yachts and Martha’s Vineyard.
They queered women’s sports and the military, and made the citizenry pay for it.
They sexualized schoolchildren, and persecuted parents at school board meetings.
They denied you the chance to try alternative treatments for COVID.
Then they fired you for not getting the vaccine.
When you stand up for your freedom, they call you Nazis and bigots.

Do not forget what they have done.
Do not forgive them.
They are hoping that, by November, you have forgotten the nightmareof the last 2+ years.
YOU struggle to make ends meet and the best the Biden administration can do is free crack pipes for “racial equity.”
This is on top of the woke, cancel culture bull they shove down our throats, the 2020 riots, being accused of racism and bigotry because we oppose their agenda.
As the election draws closer, they’ll pretend they didn’t do any of this.
They’ll gaslight us.
Project.
Blame the GOP (like they tried to when defunding the police went south).

DO NOT give them power.
They haven’t learned a damn thing from this.
You re-elect them, and you can expect masks and lockdowns and nonsense in perpetuity.
Not just for COVID, but for whatever else they deem a “public health emergency” (guns, climate change).
(Remember, they are the very same people who ignore a pubic health emergency aka AIDS.)
They will trample your rights.
VOTE THEM OUT.

NEVER FORGET.

REMEMBER…..EVERY NOVEMBER!

28 posted on 06/04/2023 8:05:31 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I sorta agree with Sean Davis on this issue.


29 posted on 06/04/2023 8:13:12 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
And an act of contrition as proof, if I remember rightly.

Not that I ever read in Scripture.

God knows the heart and knows if the repentance is genuine or not. The proof will be in the changed life, not deeds done to *prove* anything to God.

30 posted on 06/04/2023 9:39:51 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: conservativeimage

31 posted on 06/04/2023 9:54:37 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Help Reassemble Civilian Government. Join Your State Assembly - tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trump was completely duped

That statement, right there, should disqualify him from being fit to be president again in the minds of millions of people. Sad thing is it won’t for most. In fact when he points at others and exclaims how he was “duped”, they’ll double down their support.

32 posted on 06/05/2023 2:03:16 AM PDT by Turbo Pig ('To close with and destroy the enemy")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

we cant even hold a low life criminal on the street accountable


33 posted on 06/05/2023 4:15:55 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Yo-Yo
Do we include President Trump as among the sinners?

Yup. Been saying for two years that if Trump wins the 2024 primary, the deep state/media in a fit of desperation will throw big Pharma under the bus and we'll be getting front page stories 24/7 about how deadly the untested "Trump Shots" are in order to derail his re-election.

34 posted on 06/05/2023 4:20:50 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Repent Hell! I want to see prosecutions!!!!!


35 posted on 06/05/2023 5:54:31 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Turbo Pig

Go vote for your Bush Crime Family Trojan Horse then.


36 posted on 06/05/2023 7:36:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Go vote for your Bush Crime Family Trojan Horse then.

How about we protest instead? How about we put our money where our mouths are a not cast a vote for the lesser of two evils for a change? We all know how well that's worked out for us. How about instead of waging passive aggresive attacks on each other like you just did, we come together and let the establishment know that we are no longer fooled, or do the consequences of taking a firm stand scare you?

37 posted on 06/05/2023 9:41:16 AM PDT by Turbo Pig ('To close with and destroy the enemy")
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To: Turbo Pig

I don’t bother reasoning with Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers.


38 posted on 06/05/2023 9:46:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I don’t bother reasoning with Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers.

Doubling down, I see. I don't hate Trump, voted for him twice. I just understand he's not the Messiah you think he is. Accusing me of TDS because I disagree with your choice of action puts you on par with the Marxists. Call me a Fascist, or Nazi so you can get the hat trick. Maybe you been fed political shit for so long by the establishment you can't taste the difference in it all?

39 posted on 06/05/2023 11:13:24 AM PDT by Turbo Pig ('To close with and destroy the enemy")
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To: Turbo Pig

I. DON’T. CARE.


40 posted on 06/05/2023 3:03:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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