As far as Trump's complicity goes, yeah, I agree. But not without some ambivalence. Have you read Jeffrey Tucker's piece about "the small print that became the large print?"
Granted, it doesn't exonerate Trump, but it suggests that he was outfoxed by the real bastards, Fauci and Birx. And also, the fact that so much responsibility falls on Trump is a little ironic. It seems to me that Trump, unlike every other President since...um, Eisenhower?...really believed in allowing people to do what they wanted without unnecessary interference from gov't. In that perspective, I can't quite picture him taking a knee to the shut-everything-down crowd. Besides, he was a hotelier and saw the economy through that lens. Lockdowns would have been an anathema to him.
Brilliant! I should have refused to mask everywhere I went and made the establishments call the police and arrest me. If I had done that, I could now be swearing out complaints against the police, at the very least. We're not as helpless against this kind of authoritarian abuse as I thought we were. Thanks, Chris!
The masking crap is a bit more tricky, since they could claim that you need to be wearing shoes and a shirt and thus a mask rule is a similar "clothing" requirement. Even though the masks are useless. I also don't trust any left wing judge to uphold that federal law either.
I did refuse to mask here in AZ. I didn't go into that many businesses, but I did grocery shop every week maskless, and didn't get any crap until right before Doug Ducey said local tyrants can't enforce masking any more when a security guard gave me some crap. The stores were still saying that only jabbed people didn't have to wear masks after Ducey's change, but of course I was still not playing along.
If even 60% refuse to comply with whatever, there's nothing they could have done. There are not that many cops.
Good point about the masking.
As far as Trump's complicity goes, yeah, I agree. But not without some ambivalence. Have you read Jeffrey Tucker's piece about "the small print that became the large print?"
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fauci-birx-small-print-destroyed-america
Granted, it doesn't exonerate Trump, but it suggests that he was outfoxed by the real bastards, Fauci and Birx. And also, the fact that so much responsibility falls on Trump is a little ironic. It seems to me that Trump, unlike every other President since...um, Eisenhower?...really believed in allowing people to do what they wanted without unnecessary interference from gov't. In that perspective, I can't quite picture him taking a knee to the shut-everything-down crowd. Besides, he was a hotelier and saw the economy through that lens. Lockdowns would have been an anathema to him.
Problem is there was plenty of public evidence that little fascist Fauci was a Clinton loving stooge.
https://thenewamerican.com/why-did-fauci-praise-hillary-clinton-s-benghazi-testimony/
I can't get around that not being the final straw even if Trump hadn't heard about it years earlier.
Brilliant! I should have refused to mask everywhere I went and made the establishments call the police and arrest me. If I had done that, I could now be swearing out complaints against the police, at the very least. We're not as helpless against this kind of authoritarian abuse as I thought we were. Thanks, Chris!
The masking crap is a bit more tricky, since they could claim that you need to be wearing shoes and a shirt and thus a mask rule is a similar "clothing" requirement. Even though the masks are useless. I also don't trust any left wing judge to uphold that federal law either.
I did refuse to mask here in AZ. I didn't go into that many businesses, but I did grocery shop every week maskless, and didn't get any crap until right before Doug Ducey said local tyrants can't enforce masking any more when a security guard gave me some crap. The stores were still saying that only jabbed people didn't have to wear masks after Ducey's change, but of course I was still not playing along.
If even 60% refuse to comply with whatever, there's nothing they could have done. There are not that many cops.