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Carolyn Aijian's avatar

I’m glad to see this being explained for all to see. Paul and I followed and understood, having the advantage of medical education and old school skepticism. We cheered Sen Rand Paul as he bravely stood up to identify Anthony Fauchi for who he really was. This was going on for years. Vote this crew out today, let’s clean up the mess.

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Barbara's avatar

Your quote "They're beginning to wall people into their apartments" - I heard him say 'weld' not 'wall'. Thank you Jim for your continued articles on Sen Paul's presentation.

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SB Native's avatar

How many "patients" have been disenfranchised from the (traditional) medical system at large thanks to Covid? How many parents of school children have been wised up to extremist curriculum since Covid? As for me, I'll never "trust" doctors anymore (when they push vaccines or drugs) and I say that with medical professionals in my family. It's a damn shame and if we don't vote it out, we go down with the plebes. Could Trump have listened to Dr. Scott Atlas instead of Fauci/Birx et al? WE WISH!!! And if Trump doesn't appoint the right people when he becomes president again (like DeSantis would have), we will hound him to his grave. We won't survive another "shutdown."

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J. Livingston's avatar

Toss out your governor. That is who sets public health policy. Gavin Newsom held on to his "covid emergency powers" longer than any other governor. Best to direct your ire where it can do the most good; rather than straw dogs.

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SB Native's avatar

Respectfully, have you read Dr. Atlas book? "A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America." I never expected Trump to be good at everything and this was a horrifying first in my lifetime. But I do expect Trump to do WAY BETTER if something like this threatens us again. And I expect him to admit he could have done better, he should have fired Fauci, etc. If he has done that, I missed it. LOL.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Yes I read Scott Atlas's book - an excellent insight into the way sausages do get made in Wash DC. Sorry you let "covid" scare you so much. Point fingers also at the media, and point fingers especially at the craven political exploitation of "covid" during the election year 2020.

Point fingers at the money thrown around by Big Pharm and the truly vicious censorship they were able to inflict on the entire topic even down to the level of the local blog edhat. Curious you insist we have an "imperial presidency" who is some how supposed to shoulder the entire blame for "covid". Rethink that and maybe even re-read A Plague Upon Our House.

Harridan "Scarf Lady" Birx making everyone at the table cower was an object lesson on sausage making of the first rank. One "mean mommy" can bring down an entire room of experts? Whose fault was that. Firing Fauci would have not been worth the political price -ginned up by Democrats and the Media who were exploiting "covid" for their own purposes. Not sure why you can't see this. Blaming Trump for "covid" is a fools errand. Trump at least marginalized and had little use for Fauci., as the book reported The media had elevated him to Saint Hood. Election year 2020.

Why the world was ready to go barking dog mad at that particular time and allow everything in their world to be turned upside down, is the story that has yet to be told. "Covid" did not exist in a vacuum. It had many hand-maidens. Keep digging.

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SB Native's avatar

I'm not blaming Trump for Covid. Nor do I think he should shoulder the entire blame. Not sure why you say that. But we MUST do a better job in the future now that we have hindsight to inform us. Lighten up. We CAN ask more of our leaders while acknowledging no one person is or can be expected to be perfect. I won't be voting for the opposition. LOL.

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Brad Scott's avatar

Fucking democrats. Horrible people

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Mad's avatar

I am a nurse and received initial 3 doses of vaccine not because I was afraid of getting sick but because I did not want to leave my patients behind.

For 2 years now, I didn't take flu vaccine. And anymore COVID-19 vaccines. If they will make it mandatory again, I will refused. This is just one of the Cabal's agenda of depopulation..

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sommer's avatar

I admire Senator Rand Paul for a variety of reasons, and this well thought out and researched explanation of how SARS Covid-19 came to be seems to be only the beginning of a series of books uncovering the real culprits in this gruesome drama. Truthers get killed though, so we probably will only find out who paid Dr. Fauci to do the water carrying, but not the very top dogs. If it wasn't so sick (and so real) it would be a great murder mystery.

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Topeka's avatar

Lot more can be said, but at least Sen. Paul takes the issue seriously.

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Andy rosenberger's avatar

Interesting. However, your endorsement of Trump ignores the fact that, however Covid came to be and who knew what, Trump so badly managed the crisis that he got the “hapless” Joe Biden elected. If the commander in chief needs ANY skill it’s crisis management. No vote for Trump here, and his record of malfeasance alone ought to seal the deal.

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J. Livingston's avatar

As a federal officer, Trump had no role to play. Public health policy is reserved to the states. And the states alone.

Trump did not manage anything about "covid" other than respond to requests from state governors. Biden, when he took over could only mandate experimental injections for federal level employees, which is where the real "covid" mismanagement took place under the name of a sitting President. Anything else, you need to blame your state governors.

Blaming Trump for "covid" management or mismanagement is disengenuous. Which is why federal level NIH Director Fauci gets to face no accountability -his federal level department offered only "guidance"; not directions nor mandates. That is the whole point having this discussion now- the post mortem any decedent needs for review.

You are not going to clean up deep state dysfunction, electing more Democrats at any level of our government: federal; state county, municipal, school board or special districts.

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Paul Aijian MD's avatar

The only Democrat whose election cheered me yesterday was Roy Lee defeating Das Williams

Otherwise Democrat policy is based on multiple evils and fallacious thinking

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J. Livingston's avatar

Be cheered by the almost sweep of new blood into the Santa Barbara Republican Central Committee - District One. What is far more appalling after a few decades of Democrat "election reform" is the very low voter turn out.

The now well-stablished and highly leaky features of our current state election systems were sold to us to "increase voter turn out". Just the opposite happened.

To wit: Term limits, universal mail-in ballots, motor voter registrations, jungle primaries, complicated registration switching options, electronic tabulations, loss of local election day polling places, long counts, long voting periods, CVRA districting requirements, etc ..........

In fact two decades Democrat and special interests driven "election reform" led to voter turn-off. SBRCC-District One new blood shows grass roots efforts can still be viable in this town. Which is how things are supposed to work.

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Paul Aijian MD's avatar

Is Bobby still in charge?

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J. Livingston's avatar

Politics: the art of compromise. If 1:3 is still being in charge.

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Andy rosenberger's avatar

He said repeatedly that it would just go away. He downplayed it repeatedly. I view his response as a failure of leadership,,as did the voters.

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J. Livingston's avatar

It did just go away. Covid hysteria on the other hand was quite tenacious. Still is. That was well outside of anything Trump could do as even nominal "leader", when there were so many Orangmanbad exploiters who were simply not going to let go of any political gain "covid" could offer. I am sensing a bit of deja vu here.

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Andy rosenberger's avatar

Yeah, well,I think part of his job is to be a cheerleader and someone to look up to. He’s not that guy. With all of his failings, morally, professionally and just as a person, I can’t vote for him. His mocking the disabled, the veterans, his phone call looking for votes…..my former party really needs to look at itself and do some reforming. I voted for my first Republican by absentee ballot in Vietnam, and for years after that. Not recently though…

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Jim Buckley's avatar

Andy: To allow this "hapless" president to serve another term because you're not inspired by the former president is depressing. Not voting for Trump is obviously a vote for a continuation of Biden's ruinous left-wing Democrat agenda. I don't understand how a "Republican" could do such a thing. Are you saying you look up to and are inspired by Biden? Really?

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Andy rosenberger's avatar

I’m inspired by neither. I’m less, much less, inspired by Mr. Trump. Unfortunately this election comes down to not a vote for a candidate, but a vote against his opponent. That says a lot about both parties.

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