"It may interest you to know that certain Letters of Transit have come into my possession. These would be ... quite valuable."
Posted on 03/19/2021 5:12:46 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
The simple fact of the matter is that our nation will never return to anythings resembling a normal state so long as Anthony Fauci continues to be regarded as a credible “expert” by our brainwashed public. This, of course, is why the Democrats and their media toadies remain so desperate to continue propping him up and pretending that anything he has said has any basis in science or data.
In Fauci’s vision of America, we will all be wearing masks forever, long after any threat from COVID has disappeared. Because this is all an exercise in control at this point, not public health. Its ongoing efforts to continue defending the Fauci farce is just more proof why the utterly corrupt news media is a clear and present existential threat to our nation.
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We are living in a post apocalypse world, but real life never duplicates what’s in the movies.
Fact is, we are just not feeling the full weight of it yet, just as a family that has lost their income source is “doing fine” as they reach the end of their savings.
When the “savings” runs out, that’s when things are going to get interesting. Hence my tag line.
And agree or disagree with the democrats in power right now, the REAL problem with them being in control is that they are utterly incompetent. And our enemies know it.
I don’t disagree with the assessment of the tyrant Fauci. What I don’t understand is how Trump did not see through him and throw him under the bus.
"It may interest you to know that certain Letters of Transit have come into my possession. These would be ... quite valuable."
LOL.... watched that the other night.
Ever heard of Impeachment or the 25th Amendment?? I am betting there was someone reminding him of those 2 things almost daily, for almost every decision he was making.
Politics, media. Trump fired a lot of people, partly because he's a demanding guy, mostly because he had a hard time finding people who weren't Deep State players or sympathizers. The media was all over him about anything he did, and especially so with COVID.
Fauci was the reassuring, grandfatherly expert. Tossing him would have been a PR disaster. So, instead Trump slowly de-emphasized Fauci, featuring him less and less as THE expert standing next to him, as time passed and "Warp Speed" came closer and closer to delivering vaccines.
Trump’s initial mistake was to put Pence in charge of the “Covid response.” I think he did this because he wanted to depoliticize it and he knew that anything he, Trump, said would automatically be ignored if not ridiculed and rejected by the media, and thus would have no effect.
Pence was the one who in turn put Fauci in charge, and we all know what happened after that. The media, of course, loved Fauci, and Pence is a very unimaginative, “official narrative” type of person who never questioned any of Fauci’s obviously contradictory and unfounded pronouncements, simply because they came from the ‘official source.’
I think Trump was reluctant to challenge Fauci initially because it would have been seen as reflecting badly on Pence and perhaps indicating a rift. Of course, Fauci despised Trump and tried to undermine him at every step of the way, which must have been apparent to Trump. But Trump was slow to fight back, and by then it suddenly seemed as if Fauci was the real President and Trump had been marginalized.
From Celebrity Net Worth....
2919 - Fauci Salary: $417,608
2018 - $384,000. That’s up from around $200,000 in the 1990s.
Combine annual dividends, $400k salary and book royalties, Fauci earned over $1 million in 2019.
“What I don’t understand is how Trump did not see through him and throw him under the bus.”
For an executive and CEO Trump was extremely poor at finding, vetting and hiring high performing, competent, loyal, team players to staff key roles. Had he assembled an outstanding team of cabinet officers, department heads and advisors, while he was running for office, he could have sent his nominees over to the Senate immediately after election day and focused on getting himself, and his team up to speed. Instead the day after election he had no cabinet, no team, etc. Chris Christie, his transition advisor during the campaign (another key Trump appointee) had essentially done nothing.
As a result, Trump had to scramble after the election, a process that dragged on for months. Since he was under pressure he had to speed hire. Two spectacular failures - Mattis and Tillerson, he did not know personally and hired after spending an hour with them. Jeff Sessions, his achilles heel as Attorney General, he hired not for ability but because Sessions endorsed him early and campaigned with him.
Compare to Biden. He had a team ready to move in with him and start to work day 1 dismantling most of what Trump had accomplished. Arguably Biden’s team has been very successful in a short time achieving their first priority.
The poor judgement Trump displayed in hiring was astounding. Look first at his personal lawyer during the campaign - the corrupt Michael Cohen who later turned on Trump in a desperate effort to save himself from a prison term. Now look at the most critical positions any President selects. Trump appointed Reince Priebus, a political hack, as his first chief of staff. He appointed Jeff Session, a two bit US Senator from Alabama who was well known to be a dim bulb to be the Attorney General. Then Rex Tillerson, the CEO of an oil company, as Secretary of State. Tillerson might have been okay but Trump should have determined if he and Tillerson saw eye to eye on foreign policy (they didn’t ) before hiring him. Then James Mattis, a Pentagon and Washington insider, as Secretary of Defense. His first Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, another Washington insider, supported the Russia hoax. The list goes on.
It was reported that Jared Kushner and Ivanka were his key advisors in selecting his team. If so, given the quality and disloyalty of the picks, relying on Jared and Ivanka to vet the key players in his administration was also a major mistake.
Trump needed a strong, loyal, and committed team to fight the entrenched Washington bureaucrats (like Fauci) and the Congress allied with special interests and the bureaucrats. Without a strong team he was a one man show. An army needs soldiers to win a war, a general cannot win going into battle alone.
Look at Apple during the last 10 years of Steve Jobs life when arguably the company was in its most innovative era and was growing into a tech powerhouse. Jobs had the vision, Tim Cook and others executed the vision almost flawlessly. Jobs by himself would have failed, as he had in the early days of Apple when he did not understand the importance of building a leadership team of exceptional strength and talent.
Ben D. is the son-in-law of the late John McCain—and he is pushing the grotesque vaccine narrative (as of course, unfortunately, Trump still is too).
Never think the supposed GOP “opposition” is opposite of any of the larger global plans.
EyesOfTX wrote: “In Fauci’s vision of America, we will all be wearing masks forever, long after any threat from COVID has disappeared. Because this is all an exercise in control at this point, not public health.”
I disagree that Fauci is doing this for control. He’s doing it because his job as chief of the NIH, to minimize all health risks. Masks are just a part of that and, yes, he will try to keep us in masks as long as possible, but perpetuating this crisis is much more about preserving funding for NIH than about control.
The little emperor must be called out for nakedness already.
I can’t speak for those who live in the blue states, but here in Texas, once people are vaccinated, they’ll be through with masks (Fearbros included), regardless of what that idiot Fauchi has to say.
But, they may not have to throw him out. Fauci is perfectly capable of spinning like a top.
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