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Did COVID Nearly Start a Revolution?
American Thinker ^ | 11 Mar, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 03/11/2025 5:05:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Let’s revisit the tumultuous second half of 2021. Dementia-addled President Joe Biden executed a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan in August that resulted in the killing of thirteen servicemembers. Having spectacularly failed America’s warfighters, he transitioned quickly to the ongoing “fight against COVID.”

No cost was too great or burden too onerous in the federal government’s war against microscopic organisms. Billions were funneled to pharmaceutical companies (aka Democrat Party donors) to pay for witch doctors’ experimental elixirs. Billions more were funneled to “news” platforms and “non-governmental” organizations (all on the USAID dole) to push the White House’s preferred COVID narratives and censor dissent.

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And just as the whole thing looked as if it were going to spiral out of control — when it seemed likely that “just-following-orders” medical doctors and troupes of dancing nurses would goose-step across the country with poison-dripping needles in their hands in search of the “noncompliant” — the COVID police state began crumbling. One moment Biden’s Antifa shock troops were doxxing dissenting scientists and terrorizing their families online, and the next moment the loony-leftist brownshirts all time-traveled back to Nazi Germany. One moment Democrats were erecting COVID concentration camps and threatening to separate un-“vaccinated” parents from their children, and the next moment the tyrants-in-training shelved those plans for a later date. One moment the Department of Labor was forcing Americans to choose between medical experimentation and unemployment, and the next moment the Biden administration was pretending that it would never bully Americans into becoming pharmaceutical pincushions against their will. It was as if the COVID clowns packed up their crazy circus and skedaddled out of town in the dead of night.

To be sure, the circus left a trail of destruction in its wake. Grocery store floors were still painted with arrows meant to direct human-cattle

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: authoritarianism; bigpharma; bigprofit; civilliberties; civilrights; coronavirus; covid; diedsuddenly; dugwaydork; itsgotelectrolytes; jbshurk; leftism; mandates; masks; policestate; safeandeffective; safelydefective; suddenly; totalitarianism; tyranny; unexpectedly
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To: MtnClimber

Well, so far the developers have failed. Or, at least been stalled.

DNC needed mailin ballots to steal 2020. fauci funneled $$ to the CCP WuhanLab. Why? ‘Cause the CCP wants to destroy the only capitalist hold out in the world. CDC/WHO and arseholes in DJT’s admin lied to him about vax effectiveness and violated his orders on what to do.

Like with tranny crappola, follow the money, folks.


21 posted on 03/11/2025 8:24:11 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: MtnClimber

COVID gave Americans their first taste of what it is like to live in a police state. Most of us were caught off guard with the three weeks to flatten the curve promise and willingly surrendered our freedom for what we thought would be the common good and temporary. Few of us expected this COVID “emergency” would drag on for years and result in strict government controls on the basic aspects of our lives. This attempt at fascist control lost traction in part because it became ridiculous. Wearing masks outdoors, closing churches and bowling alleys yet keeping big box stores open, watch our children suffer from social isolation yet rioters and looters could run loose in the streets were just a few of the ridiculous edicts that caused people realize they were being lied to and were needlessly surrendering their freedom.

We can hope Americans have learned their lesson and will revolt the next time they have their freedom revoked.


22 posted on 03/11/2025 8:28:36 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: The Great RJ

One aspect I don’t see mentioned much, is the local, state and federal courts seemed to prolong executive powers without much push back. As an example a state court judge in Illinois found that the state mask mandate was unconstitutional. It took a while for the case to get some legs at the circuit court level and then an appellate court agreed with the lower court after a bunch of time. By the time the state appealed to the Supreme Court of Illinois, the governor rescinded emergency powers. The state Supreme Court said the case was moot because emergency powers ended. There was no resolution if the mask mandate was unconstitutional as directed by the governor...


23 posted on 03/11/2025 2:12:14 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: MtnClimber

The turning point was all the social media posts from families whose kids had awful adverse reactions to the vaccine — with hundreds of thousands of comments under them saying, “Yeah, same here!”


24 posted on 03/11/2025 2:16:22 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Tench_Coxe
the “Freedom Convoy” ended on February 23, 2022. The War in Ukraine started the very next day." Interesting observation.

Remember the shock troops that all had Eastern European accents that were brought into crack down on Canadian truckers?

25 posted on 03/11/2025 2:16:29 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Sirius Lee

Yeah. It was either Viva Frei or someone else. They had no identification if I recall. Official statement was that they came from Quebec or Montreal.


26 posted on 03/11/2025 3:04:49 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

Bump


27 posted on 03/12/2025 12:19:00 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: hal ogen

Your post is personified ignorance.

If you were properly informed you would know that Covid wreaked havoc on Chinese cities to an unimaginable extent.


28 posted on 03/12/2025 5:17:47 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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