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25 Jan, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Fauci tells us what we already know: Trump was too stupid to understand the difference between science and pseudoscience. I don't fault Trump for this. He didn't elect himself president. I fault everything about our political system and culture that resulted in his presidency--
And everyone around him who watched this, every day, as the pandemic consumed the country; everyone who surely *was* intelligent enough to understand what Fauci was saying to him, but went along with this anyway.
Pence, Pompeo, the whole cabinet. How did Ben Carson, a highly-trained physician, think it was okay to keep working for him and keep quiet about his *inability* to understand the biggest emergency the US has faced since the Second World War?
What about Mnuchin? Surely he understood this. Why did he stay quiet instead of trying to save his fellow citizens?

Why did Bill Barr stay quiet?

Do they feel guilty, now?
As for Fauci: He says it never occurred to him to resign in protest. He (like so many) says he thought things would be even worse if he did and was replaced by a cult loyalist. Perhaps that's true. But wouldn't it have made an impression if he resigned and said exactly why?
Would it have saved lives? I don't know, but I suspect so.
Here's the link if anyone wants to read the full interview. nytimes.com/2021/01/24/hea…

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23 Jan
I don't agree. You are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Per the 1984 Bail Reform Act, pre-trial detention is admissible only where there's a demonstrable risk of flight or witness intimidation, or immediate danger to the public. That's the law.
We must follow the law. Judge Frensley determined Munchel wasn't a flight risk and posed no immediate threat to the public.

Pretrial detention is antithetical to the principles of our justice system (although it happens *far* to often--but two wrongs don't make a right.)
The guy is guilty as sin. But from the point of view of the law, he is innocent until proven guilty--which means either he pleads guilty or is declared guilty by a jury of his peers. The law must guide everything we do. Otherwise, what's the difference between us and him?
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23 Jan
By the way, the @cosmo_globalist isn't a monolith: We have editorial disagreements about the best strategy. I believe the vaccine should be mandatory; @is_OwenLewis, who wrote this article, disagrees.
(Though he believes governments should use every tool short of force to urge it on citizens.)

I don't find the libertarian perspective on this persuasive at all. This is a global emergency; the virus is murdering and immiserating the entire planet.
Thirty years of of progress in alleviating one of the worst evils in the world--poverty--is being wiped out. Between 119 and 124 million souls will be plunged into absolute poverty this year: blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updat…
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23 Jan
The @cosmo_globalist has launched a new series about Covid19. You can read the first article here: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/finish-off-c… The virus will continue to be a menace until it is eradicated. By this, we mean completely eradicated, gone, disappeared, extinguished:
And this means vaccinating the world. There's no alternative. Herd immunity absent vaccination is not only a failed policy, but a murderous one--and the danger is not limited to the countries that try it:
Mutations that make the disease more contagious—or more lethal, or both—are not an abstract possibility; they are happening already. More are inevitable if the disease continues to spread unchecked. Global vaccination is the only remedy, and time is of the essence.
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20 Jan
J'aimerais tout conseil que quelqu'un en France puisse me donner. Mon père de 80 ans, qui a deux comorbités importantes, court comme tout le monde en France le risque de devenir victime du déploiement catastrophique de la vaccination. Je suis inquiète au-delà des mots.
Impossible de prendre un rendez-vous de vaccination immédiat sur l'un des sites Web où cela devrait théoriquement être possible.

Comme tout le monde le sait, ils sont bloqués ou disent que tous les rendez-vous sont réservés.
Impossible d'accéder à l'une des hotlines. Si on réussit, on n'obtient qu'un enregistrement complètement inutile.

Je crains qu'au moment où ils règlent le problème, il ne restera plus de vaccins. Et je crains également qu’il ne soit trop tard pour lui.
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19 Jan
One day, students will pore over a volume of the most consequential oratory in US history. From Patrick Henry ("Give me liberty or give me death!") to Lincoln's second inaugural, to MLK's "I have a dream" ... and then they'll come across this one. aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/11…
And these kids will look at each other, in bewilderment.

They'll grasp immediately that the guy was psychotic. But they won't have the faintest clue how it came to pass that a psychotic guy had been the President for four full years.
They'll conclude it was just one of those weird things that happened in long-ago history. Like drawing and quartering. Or trials for witchcraft. But they shouldn't. This should be taught as a cautionary tale to every generation of students, everywhere, forever.
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19 Jan
Propublica's article (with an extensive video trove from Jan. 6) suggests they're shocked by the banality of the rioters:

"The radical fringe is a cause for concern. The thousands of regular people whipped into a murderous rage is the real nightmare."

propublica.org/article/inside…
It would be tidier, emotionally, if our radical fringe didn't look so much like ordinary Americans, wouldn't it? It would make them easier to drone.
This is the world Muslims have been living in for quite some time. Horrified by violent radicals among them, tarred by association with them, sick of being asked to denounce terrorism--
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