Thread by @GPIngersoll

Reading the Vanity Fair story and a bunch of things jump out at me just concerning the mythology of early 2020.

Many in establishment and corporate media have been blaming Trump for their own efforts to suppress lab leak hypothesis.

It’s odd. It reads like TDS.

Do your fucking brains shut off when Trump talks? Does the sound of his voice negate all ability to reason?

Trump’s “racism” in this case was just a reactionary response to wider media and elite institutions adopting Pro China postures and Chinese propaganda wholesale.

When every major institution is saying, you’re not allowed to say the virus came from China because it’s racist — within earshot of Chinese operatives saying the exact same thing — well obviously Donald Trump of all people is going to call it “China virus.”

The response here …

Should not ever literally be: Well we were just being reactionary because Trump was reactionary to us propagating Chinese talking points.

How obscene and bile inducing.

We were immature and irrational and incapable of higher brain thought because TRUMP … is the story?

It’s just sick. It’s a sickness. That first before treading in touchy areas you must render genuflection to the all god TDS, else find yourself put out of polite society.

Why in the world would the president saying the US has intel it came from a lab — which it did! — be “bomb throwing”?

Terrible that Asian people were under assault, I’m both not excusing that behavior and not excusing its use as a justification to annihilate open inquiry.

Let’s be perfectly honest: The media, elite & govt institutions did not want the inquiry because it would take focus off of Trump in an election yr

When China called it “racist,” they played all of you goddamn fools (You think China gives a fuck about “racism”? Holy shit, guys).

They also didn’t want it — as Vanity Fair and others have covered well since coming out of the TDS daze — because the trail led back to Dr. Fauci and Co!

The NIH, Dept of State, and other Americans and American institutions are implicated!

So, please, dear god … stop with this “racist Trump prevented us” nonsense. You had your reasons, China handed them to you, Trump reacted. There was no higher benevolence here. It was deliberate, stifling and oppressive and it cost us a ton of time.

This really is just the worst kind of elitist negging.

This guy asked a question — perhaps he wasn’t entirely accurate — but the thrust of his inquiry was literally A YEAR ahead of Vanity Fair.

How do they refer to that moment? In the most condescending way possible.

The reaction should rather be embarrassment and contrition. Not self righteousness. At the very least, if someone that far beneath your capacity was on the right trail a year before you, the least you’d demonstrate is a degree of humility.

1Meanwhile, as we’re yelling about imaginary reasons for why we failed as an industry to piece together publicly available information on the world’s most pressing mystery, we note something major for which Trump IS TO BLAME, but do so in such muted tones that it might go missed.

2. The WHO mission was in part — large part — a failure because Trump was too busy insisting he won an election that he did not win.

They literally cannot help themselves but to neg, condescend and insinuate racism for everything they don’t discover themselves. There is nothing “alt right” about the idea that the PLA might be weaponizing viruses. The DoD has run war games on that assumption.

*sigh* such a predictable equation

Guys, everyone who disagrees with your orthodoxy, whether its lab leak or economic policy … does not require implications that they are racist.

Glad to see China — the most racist country on earth that’s running literal concentration camps right now — escaped the kind of haughty insinuations rife throughout this piece in this tiny little nugget of blame they received from VF.

If you think everyone who was right before you is racist, maybe they were just right and you’re fucking brain damaged.

Mostly it's just sad that such a comprehensive piece has to be marred with cheap potshots. There have been a number of good in-depth pieces that also highlighted Trump's lightning rod role in the investigation, and none this shameless and self righteous.