Many say it doesn't matter where COVID-19 came from, but it does. The cover-up of its origin typifies institutional rot. Our leaders have been lying and persecuting whistleblowers. Such rampant abuses of power threaten our democracy and civilization.
Now, it’s up to Congress to demand answers from the intelligence community and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.
How long did they know?
And why did they keep it a secret?
In February of this year, the Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, told a reporter that “the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”
Why, then, didn’t he say something sooner?
The cover-up was vast and insidious.
Our sources were terrified to tell us what many had long suspected.
They only did so because they are as outraged as the American people should be and felt a moral obligation to speak out.
Not only did the highly infectious respiratory virus kill millions, but the response to it also shut down businesses and schools, upended societies, and caused enormous collateral damage.
Governments threw out their pandemic playbooks, which until COVID-19 had centered around voluntary measures and protecting high-risk groups — not long-term school and business lockdowns and mask mandates.
Why?
And, in the name of public safety and preventing “vaccine hesitancy,” governments declared war on free speech.
Facebook censored The New York Post’s accurate February 2020 op-ed pointing to a lab leak as the cause.
Twitter kicked journalists off its platform.
And the White House menacingly threatened Facebook and Twitter with extinction, in the form of revoking their license to operate, if they didn’t censor “often-true content,” including stories of vaccine side effects.
Why?
For the last six months, we have seen whistleblower after whistleblower come forward bravely, as the law allows, only to be punished.
FBI officials punished whistleblowers for exposing the agency’s targeting of innocent Americans for “domestic terrorism” and “violent extremism.”
China deserves plenty of blame for what happened.
The Wuhan lab had repeatedly failed to maintain proper safety levels.
And totalitarian societies, by punishing dissent, can’t self-correct in the way democracies can.
But powerful US officials enabled the disaster.
In 2014, President Barack Obama had banned the “gain of function” research that likely caused the pandemic.
Fauci and his collaborators violated the spirit if not the letter of the law by sending that research to China, and spinning it as something other than gain of function.
The abuse of power is pervasive in the federal government.
Congress must act now to create an independent and bipartisan commission on the origins of the COVID pandemic, and why US government officials participated in its cover-up.
Congress also must take immediate action to defund and dismantle the Censorship Industrial Complex, whereby contractors of the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation demand that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms censor disfavored… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And Congress must establish stronger oversight of its biomedical establishment.
The worshipful news media coverage of Fauci is particularly appalling in retrospect, now that we know that he personally sought to squelch the lab leak hypothesis for self-interested reasons.
The greatest change of all must be in the way Americans view their leaders and institutions.
We must be much more suspicious of the official narrative.
The people who cry “disinformation” are, often, trying to censor accurate but inconvenient truths.
And the people who accuse others of “spreading conspiracy theories,” are, as we have just seen, often conspiring to spread disinformation.
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Zelensky says he wants the war to end, but he’s not acting like it. Friday he dismissed the US ceasefire as unworkable. Saturday he had European leaders affirm his position. And now he says the end of the war is “very, very far away.” Feels like we’re being played.
If Zelensky’s strategy is to alienate the American people, and the president they just elected, one day before he addresses Congress, it’s working.
Even The Guardian now gets it:
“On Friday, in the Oval Office, Zelenskyy contested Trump’s stance. The Ukrainian president stated flatly: “We will never accept just [a] ceasefire. It will not work without security guarantees.” Zelenskyy maintained that strong security guarantees had to come from the US, not just Europe. A European military force, he said, would not work unless the US provided a significant backstop: ‘They need USA.’
“In short, Zelenskyy insisted he would not agree to a ceasefire, because Russia would not honor it, unless the US provided precisely what Trump had seemingly already ruled out.
Zelenskyy says he’s grateful for US support but he acts entitled to it. He still hasn’t apologized for his behavior. And now he’s demanding the US do more. Zelensky, like Europe, doesn’t respect us. And relationships without mutual respect can’t last.
People say The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances in 1994 provided security assurances, but it did not include a binding defense commitment. Even pro-war voices admit the US is not legally obligated to defend Ukraine militarily under the Budapest Memorandum.
To the people defending Zelenskyy: watch the full video. His behavior perfectly encapsulates the disrespect, dislike, and even contempt the majority of Europeans hold toward Americans.
Healthy relationships depend on mutual respect. Ukraine and Europe don't respect us; they look down on us. America never had any obligation to protect Ukraine. And now we're asking why we should continue to spend our money, and put our lives on the line, to protect Europe.
The elites who want to continue an endless war in Ukraine benefit directly from it and few of them care at all about the American people.
The behavior of Zelenskyy is typical of Europe as a whole. Entitled. In denial of reality. Narcissistic. Unconcerned with our need to deal with many massive internal problems. Such juvenile & entitled behavior makes us less not more desirous of helping Ukraine and Europe.
Do Europeans think we don’t know they disrespect us? Look down on us? Think they’re better for us? I love Europe, but it is run by snotty children. This kind of behavior makes us want to get us the hell out of NATO. Go defend yourself, Europe. We’re sick of you ingrates.
Oh look, European leaders are all rallying behind @ZelenskyyUa
Zelensky says he wants peace but he just rudely dismissed the Trump administration's diplomacy as pointless. That angered Trump and @JDVance and now Zelensky has fled the White House. This should be the wake-up call that global elites & Europe desperately need.
Trump to Zelenskyy: " I've empowered you to be a tough guy. And I don't think you'd be a tough guy without the United States. And your people are very brave. But you're either gonna make a deal, or we're out. And if we're out, you'll fight it out. I don't think it's going to be pretty, but you'll fight it out. But you don't have the cards. But once we sign that deal, you're in a much better position. But you're not acting at all thankful, and that's not a nice thing. I'll be honest, that's not a nice thing. Alright, uh, I think we've seen enough."
I love Europe. I care about Europe. As such, I feel an obligation to warn Europe that we Americans are tired. It's been 25 years of unnecessary Middle East wars and 80 years of playing global policeman. Things are changing fast. Get ready.
I thought the LA fires would wake California up. I was wrong. *Half* of LA fires are started by ~50k meth/fentanyl addicts/mentally ill homeless. LA has half the firefighters it needs. There's not enough hydrant water. And Gavin Newsom is focused like a laser on his podcast.
Everyone talks about the coming disastrous fires and "Big One" earthquake, so you'd think Gavin Newsom would be taking urgent action. He's not. Instead, he's attacking Trump and demanding $40 billion to pay for the LA fires that his leadership failures created.
Fire fighters and many others warned Gavin and LA's mayor that catastrophic fires were coming.
In response, they cut funding for fire prevention and fire fighters.
Why? Because they were focused on promoting DEI, transgenderism, and climate apocalypse