WHO was behind the China virus, actually?
The now-part-time governor: locked down in his own duplicitous playbook
Proverbs 26:27 [New Catholic Bible:]
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,
and the stone comes back on the one who rolls it.
“It’s the economy, stupid” … this very basic insight into what motivates people to go voting and choose one candidate over another, from the campaign war room of Bill Clinton … yes, that IS long ago … presumably still is true, especially with Biden’s inflation eating away at working people’s wages, savings and retirement funds.
Further back, Ronald Reagan convinced many voters in his favor when he asked them whether they felt they were “better off” at the time under lackluster President Jimmy Carter compared to 4 years earlier (with Republican Gerald Ford in charge).
Obviously, times and politics have changed dramatically since then. Nobody would have imagined America might become such a mess, and through the wrongdoings of the country’s very own “elites”. (Although, a certain real estate celebrity did ask public questions decades ago about why the nation’s political leaders would allow worldwide competitors to rip the US off so shamelessly.)
It’s not just the economy teetering on the brink of collapse. The whole country and its constitutional framework are being torn apart, and there doesn’t even seem to be a guarantee any longer that the citizens can rescue it by voting for different politics and office holders … partly because there’s no real choice in the first place (Uniparty!), partly because …
America in many regards resembles a Banana republic, with a totally corrupt power structure, including a weaponized “justice” system and intelligence agencies, censorship and intimidation all over the place in collusion with “Big Tech” and corporate media. The amount of election interference, manipulation and rigging is breathtaking, and the establishment isn’t even willing to deal with it.
(The left tried to smear Trump with the “fake news” label. He turned it back on them, fittingly. Same should happen with “election denialism”. It’s what they are doing themselves: Deny what has become obvious and is seen by a majority of the people, despite the regime’s best propaganda and gaslighting efforts.)
Add illegal mass immigration through a virtually non-enforced Southern border, with all the social plight and crime coming with the influx, and another stupid war now in Ukraine costing hundreds of billions already, after a humiliating surrender in Afghanistan, and the WH normalizing the usage of nuclear weapons.
Smart and stupid all at once?
And still the most ferociously pushed topic from the campaign of the FL governor is “covid” and how #45 supposedly did everything wrong from the start while his opponent would have “fired Fauci” and spared the country so much of the ordeal it has been enduring under the heavy hands of the Biden administration and from the governments of blue states.
The re-writing of history in that regard is preposterous; nobody with barely better brain business than the sitting puppet in the Oval can really have such a selective memory as to believe that narrative. Luckily, the internet doesn’t forget.
There is ample evidence of the FL governor using his executive powers and public communication in favor of strict controls in spring of 2020, showing him nicely wearing the silly mask publicly when nobody is near him, or proudly bragging about just how effectively he was making sure everybody could be injected with the “vaccine” coming out of “operation warp speed” …
Now their fix-it-in-hindsight-story goes roughly like “yes, at the start the governor just trusted then-President Trump with the measures and the vaccines and everything … but quite soon he noticed that somehow, things were going the wrong way, and then he turned the state ship around 180 and made FL the shining beacon of freedom” … or something.
This story doesn’t hold much water though, if any. First of all, because a number of other states were apparently much more on the side of freedom and self-government of its citizenry even during the “pandemic”, at least earlier than FL.
Equally, there are these embarrassing pieces of evidence e.g. when the governor demanded the WH ought to stop inter-state flight travel, which Trump denied, and FL put a 14-day-quarantine for visitors from outside in place. Or locked up … of all places … beaches in the Sunshine State. Just like California.
But the really pathetic point is of course the pretense that somehow, poor little Ron got kind of deceived into something by the big bad President. Either you are the smartest person alive and therefor entitled to become anointed leader of the party OR you can get easily fooled into something totally stupid with a totally important topic.
When (hypothetically) you were fooled by a stumbling inarticulate tool of 2nd-rate administration apparatchiks … that’s how the governor’s entourage is painting the picture in rather broad strokes … than maybe, just maybe, you might be fooled into all kinds of things by all types of bad actors with other topics once you’re in office yourself.
Trump in good bad company jab-wise
The picture of Trump naively trusting Fauci and his company contradicts reality anyway. Here’s just a couple of obvious points from the top of my head:
Trump shut off flights from mainland China against Fauci’s will.
He recommended using e.g. normal shawls as some kind of “mask” in crowded environments early on when Fauci insisted it wasn’t necessary for normal people.
He recommended Hydroxy-Chloroquine and other alternative treatments totally against what Fauci was going for with his single-minded focus on “vaccines”.
Trump pushed for rapid re-opening of the country and argued that the “cure” (meaning all kinds of political measures) must not be worse than the disease.
Trump said from the start the China virus came from the Wuhan lab, which Fauci and his gang tried to obfuscate for a long time, with criminal energy.
But yeah, Trump was totally under Fauci’s control and did his bidding.
Yes, Trump stood behind “operation warp speed” and saw it as a good way to really open up the whole country again, since everybody would have the chance to protect themselves against the China virus.
In that regard, one would expect someone like Ben Shapiro to support #45, because little Ben was all in favor of the “vaccine” and publicly dismissed anyone not taking it as a complete idiot (and you have to hear that in his typical condescendingly arrogant tone and see his smug facial expression).
The kind of statement nobody ever heard out of the mouth of Donald Trump,
who also never advocated for mandates and has unequivocally ruled out
any kinds of mandates nationwide under his leadership.
While e.g. militant anti-populist Jordan Peterson took the jabs and appeared at venues for his famous lecturing adventures that would only admit compliant folks as an audience.
While it took Dave Rubin, one of the most prominent and vigorous mouthpieces for the FL governor, roughly until early 2022 (!) to at last publicly commit to not having taken the jabs. These types are all SO BRAVE.
Then there is Dr. Robert Malone, who invented much of the technology behind the mRNA jabs and was among the highest-ranking and most knowledgeable insiders of the whole public health and Pharma game and took the jabs, too … before he became such a supreme, indeed courageous fighter against Big Pharma.
Similarly the outstanding British podcaster Dr. John Campbell went along with the official narrative for a long time before he became an increasingly outspoken skeptic and critic.
Yet we are supposed to blame Donald Trump for the “vaccines” … instead of the entities actually behind the scheme (we’ll come to that in a minute) … and to support the FL (now only part-time, that’s how much he fights for his citizens) governor because he … well, actually did what? In terms of real action, there isn’t really that much to brag about. Many PR stunts and much showboating, but on substance?
Blue states are no good measure stick
On one hand, the man and his team need to make him look better and smarter than the big guy. For this purpose, to identify #45 with the “vaccine” and its increasingly conspicuous dangerous potential … as identified not least by Dr. Naomi Wolf and her huge volunteer team, now also by (economic) data analyst Ed Dowd … seems inviting, especially since Trump has for quite some time stuck with his conviction that “operation warp speed” was a huge success, in terms of making things happen effectively against a usually slow-moving hyper-complex stalling administration and agency apparatus.
More broadly though and crucially, it has to be understood that the whole core concept of the FL governor being the natural upcoming new supreme leader of free America is entirely based on his supposedly outstanding record in terms of pandemic politics. Partly this role-playing opportunity practically fell into his lap without any effort of his own, partly it was carefully crafted and molded into the leading motif for his (long, long shadow) campaign.
Since the blue states, like Michigan or California as extreme examples, feverishly took advantage of the situation and rushed to put petty systems of tyrannical control on their citizens, any state resisting that kind of despotic temptation would look like a bastion of freedom in comparison. From a conservative small government perspective, that contest is about as easy to win as a weight-lifting tournament for a heavy 6-foot-man against women.
Also, Florida is a big state to begin with, and with lots of sunshine and beaches. Surely more attractive as a place to move to than South Dakota, for instance. Mount Rushmore may be nice to visit, but other than that, the state cannot easily compete as the most attractive new place to live when you come from California or New York.
The FL governor didn’t need to do much more than show some basic common sense and not lag entirely behind other red states in terms of normalizing public life. The rest is clever PR and constant propping up by a bunch of never-Trumpers who needed to find a seeming Ersatz for MAGA leader and future GOP nominee.
The generously propagated “free state of Florida” moniker … childishly combined with a nice little alligator in pundits’ Twitter handles … made the governor into some kind of supernatural fighter and the state into some kind of supposed paradise, a model for the nation. But it all works only if you have the backdrop of moronically despotic blue states and if you elevate details within the topic of “how to deal with a pandemic” on the highest pedestal.
Can we “move on” from the pandemic, please?
Sadly for the Tallahassee guy the pandemic is really over. Strangely, the same folks who demand that “we have to move on”, instead of still debating the rigged 2020 Presidential election and how to make sure elections will be fair and trustworthy again, now want people to choose a candidate based on who potentially did what in a very special, non-recurring situation even before that same election.
But let’s even assume for the sake of argument that the governor’s claim that he “would have fired Fauci” was accurate (otherworldly though it is). So what? Or that he became overtly critical of some of the pandemic narratives and the “vaccines” at some point in 2021, just as a lot of public figures did … again, what’s so exciting about it?
It’s not really that interesting for the general public. But it is totally defining for his rise to national fame and his “free Florida” narrative. In his own understanding and that of his consultant/donor/propagandist entourage, it is his ticket for the race: to supposedly have shown the nation how a state and by extension the country ought to be governed, in the name of “freedom” and highly effective and super smart.
It is … and has been for roughly two years by now … their playbook, their recipe for gaining power. That’s why they stick to the topic so religiously. It is, in marketing terms, the “unique selling point” on which they bet everything.
Too bad when people find other things (even) more important. And when there are few if any other topics at all with which they might claim their guy is more competent than Donald Trump. (The rest of their contradiction-studded and amateurish campaign is obviously character assassination and fake outrage about “mean tweets” and stuff, as usual with guys who suffer severely from TDS.)
But since we are lovers of long format conversation … aren’t we? … we might just as well for another moment stick with the topic and assume it really is still important, and a substantive criterion for who should become the nominee (assuming it’s barely possible to overcome the huge lead of #45 in the primary polling).
It’s really about: globalist grifters in control
There’s no denying that the “pandemic” had immense impact on the lives of western nations and its citizens, damaged the economy and shifted power and control upwards to the “elites”. But it would clearly be absurd to stop analysis on the level of details of “operation warp speed” or “who opened up restaurants to full capacity first”.
If we do take this topic seriously, and we absolutely should, then we must acknowledge that the whole thing was a globalist machination, a conspiracy against the free Western world. The “public health / infectious diseases / vaccination” complex … alongside the “climate change / net zero” bundle of nonsensical ideology … is sitting right at the top & center of the agenda with which the self-appointed rulers of the world seek total control.
The powers and entities behind the whole pandemic are exactly the same who seek to dismantle the self-government of “we, the people” in America and of the peoples of other western nations worldwide.
The same usual suspects … China, the UN, the WHO, Big Pharma, Bill Gates, the WEF, global Big Tech all pushed it with all their might.
The current proposals coming from the WHO that would enshrine global rule of a small class of unelected functionaries demonstrate what is at stake. Yes indeed, the China virus … as #45 correctly calls it … set the stage for what those powerful entities want to make a permanent and unsurmountable framework.
And if there are no lockdowns for a virus, there will be for net zero. (In the UK, big cities are already kind of doing it.) Or they just take your car or make gas too expensive and it will have the same effect. So on this general level of analysis, quasi in bird’s eye perspective, there’s much reason to learn from the experience and make sure those types get stopped in their tracks.
Now if only there was a political leader who understands the threat and is ready to take those evil powers on, opposing the globalist fear mongers and control freaks.
Why China spread the virus, in favor of whom
Oh, wait. Donald Trump did that already. With his nationalist populist agenda. “America first”, if you ever heard the phrase. Don’t bow to Chinese communists or corrupt UN officials. Pull the US out of the WHO. Go to Davos to the WEF and tell the whole bunch they can shove it up their whatever body parts.
You ought to revisit and read the speech in its entirety. Here’s a crucial quote:
… we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortune-tellers — and I have them and you have them, and we all have them, and they want to see us do badly, but we don’t let that happen.
They predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the ’70s, and an end of oil in the 1990s. These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform, and control every aspect of our lives.
We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country,
or eradicate our liberty.
There’s a reason why China spread the virus all over the world, knowingly. Why they led the world to believe everybody had to be locked down at home as an unavoidable measure against a deadly pandemic. Why all of a sudden ubiquitous mail-in-ballots were needed to conduct the 2020 elections. Why the truly thriving economy of the US … which made everybody believe beyond doubt #45 would easily sail to re-election … got practically suffocated.
How’s that for an explanation? Fits all too nicely to be just smugly discarded as a made-up conspiracy theory. But even if it was not all pre-planned (which it was in utter detail, as some Robert Kennedy jr. has thoroughly documented in his anti-Fauci book), at the very least it must be said that those evil forces did take full advantage of the virus and were thus able to chase #45 out of office, albeit with many more tools involved.
But no, beware. That’s not how we are supposed to see it. The regime and Uniparty voices still insist that everything was basically fine, only Trump couldn’t resist the mean tweets, thereby lost support of suburban women and Biden won legitimately. No rigged elections. No Chinese influence. No deep state rogue action.
See, that’s where the Covid topic pushers in favor of the FL governor are falling flat right on their noses down which they are talking to the people. They dangle the topic in front of your eyes incessantly and claim it’s the most important ever, but then again you’re not supposed to go too far with it either.
They need to not only control the debate focus in general, but they must also strictly control the scope of the topic and the levels of perception. That would be a tough challenge even for mighty talented PR fellows, let alone the 2nd rate narrative merchants transparently trying to maneuver this.
On closer inspection it turns out, the topic cannot be of utmost significance (which they need it to be or look like) AND really work in favor of them at the same time. They have basically trapped themselves into a strategic dilemma, smart-ass-wise.
Let’s briefly play it through, bottom-up:
If it was just a random public health problem, albeit a rather serious and unprecedented one, then it would be only about “who managed it with what level of competence”. In such terms, the efficacy of “operation warp speed” (not to mention hospital ships or procurement of ventilators or tens of millions of test sets, all done and provided for from within the WH) is pretty impressive, and the fact that Donald Trump always let states decide exactly where to go within the federal system of subsidiarity proves he is a true constitutionalist, too.
You can go one step further and bring up the “lockdown vs. individual freedom” topic, but it’s hard to argue that #45 and the FL governor were on opposing sides of this question, except if you start lying full throttle.
You can go further again and try blaming Donald Trump for what in hindsight looks like a nefarious scheme of Big Pharma and the Fauci / WHO etc. gang, in terms of a dangerous untested pseudo “vaccine” technology, but then why did it take the governor so long to become aware and how could a real estate guy know more or better earlier than leading public voices and experts from the medical field. (Not to mention again the extreme super smart know-it-all pundits like Ben Shapiro who ridiculed the skeptics and whose wife is a doctor anyway.)
Meet the team behind the “freedom fighter”
None of it can work, and then it also reeks of deception and dishonesty, which many people notice sooner or some later and will find off-putting.
But the crucial insight still is how the whole pandemic was a globalist scheme.
The question would then be whether or not team Tallahassee / Bush-Ryan Neocons / Wall Street / Pay Pal Billionaires club would be willing to use the power of the WH to really stand up against the globalist cabal. Or more precisely: would they do it even more intensely and more effectively than a re-elected Donald Trump.
But to even conceive of this question seems ridiculous. As in ROFLMAO.
#45 is THE fighter for the people, against the establishment, the corrupt regime powers, the globalist schemes. He has proved as much with all he has done since coming down the golden escalator. Is it exactly why the establishment is fighting him so brutally, breaking all the rules in the book.
(He has also consistently argued against the whole “climate change” scam, the other one of the two core topics for globalist control by an unelected world government. His energy policies have effectively destroyed the scheme during his time in office.)
To even suggest that the FL governor is ready to take on those same corrupt powers would be beyond absurd. He doesn’t even claim to be wanting to do it, and he’s claiming a lot all day long. Besides, his donors wouldn’t let him, or other powers pushing him currently.
Does anyone believe Rupert Murdoch is giving the man the luxury treatment with all of his media outlets because he is convinced that Ron in the WH would at last give the government back to the people, after taking it from the globalist overlords?
Exactly. How dumb would one have to be. But apparently, the governor’s shills seem to believe that most of the electorate are that dumb, and dumber. They keep pushing this narrative and the shallow duplicitous talking points attached to it. It will not be healthy for their campaign and their fake hero.
Do any of these elitist supporters ever drive around Florida? The thousands of ramshackle houses and trailer parks. The rundown neighborhoods, like Little Havana. The ridiculous home prices and rents. The overcrowded roadways and health care stretched to the brink. All lead by a governor who said incredibly stupid statements about the Ukrainian crisis. Even when his minions told him to walk back the “Territorial. Dispute” idiocy, he inadvertently made, by a large margin, even more stupid statements. Maybe the governor doesn’t realize Russia is not Disney.