Re: Severe and ruthless

On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:55:59 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 8/9/2026 9:38 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>> On Sun, 9 Aug 2026 18:16:52 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 8/9/2026 4:26 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 9 Aug 2026 15:32:31 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/8/2026 7:20 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 20:43:08 -0000 (UTC), Tara <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Aug 8, 2026 at 4:12:45?PM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 12:27:31 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 8/5/2026 2:21 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> NY Times,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> David Wallace-Wells
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "But for years Fauci has been bullied and harassed and intimidated
>>>>>>>>>> and, above all, vilified and scapegoated by bad faith critics mounting
>>>>>>>>>> contradictory attacks that allowed them to pin responsibility on one
>>>>>>>>>> man for everything they might not have liked about the experience of
>>>>>>>>>> living through a brutal pandemic. Yet that is exactly why Fauci should
>>>>>>>>>> have talked last week: to answer those critics, defend his approach
>>>>>>>>>> and those of his colleagues, and explain what lessons he?d learned and
>>>>>>>>>> might like the rest of us to learn. Evidently, he felt too boxed in to
>>>>>>>>>> try, even with Joe Biden?s blanket pardon in hand."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> My assessment is that there is no sense in trying to defend and
>>>>>>>>>> explain to people who are determined to show you no quarter.  Fauci
>>>>>>>>>> defended and explained in his book.  Read it if want to understand.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "This is what it would mean to actually learn from the experience,
>>>>>>>>>> rather than treating the pandemic as a simplistic blame game. Instead,
>>>>>>>>>> we got Senator Bernie Moreno asking Fauci who he thought he was,
>>>>>>>>>> punctuating the rhetorical question with an expletive and a
>>>>>>>>>> burn-book-style digest of the contents of Fauci?s just-released
>>>>>>>>>> diary."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Treating it as a simplistic blame game.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> This is the essence of modern politics.  It is the ultimate blame
>>>>>>>>>> game.  The blame must all be on the other side.  It must show them as
>>>>>>>>>> incompetent and unfit for office.  Severe and ruthless must be the
>>>>>>>>>> assignment of that blame.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Learn from experience.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> No David, any such lessons are beside the point which is only blame.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In conclusion, Daivd:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "The actual origin of the pandemic remains unknown, six years after
>>>>>>>>>> the country?s first confirmed case. Perhaps it always will be,
>>>>>>>>>> maddeningly enough, which may be one reason it?s so difficult to make
>>>>>>>>>> any collective and honest accounting of it. So much seems to hang on
>>>>>>>>>> the question of ultimate responsibility. But maybe if we can stop
>>>>>>>>>> trying to blame someone for Covid, we can actually learn something
>>>>>>>>>> from it."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> So here is the image:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> David trying to be reasonable and thoughtful and Sen Moreno casting
>>>>>>>>>> fire and brimstone.  Both sides essentially speaking to their
>>>>>>>>>> followers and nothing to each other, because there would be no point.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You failed to explain the case against Anthony Fauci. It's not just
>>>>>>>>> about the origin of the virus - it's all about the reaction to it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Ron Paul is critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci because he views him as a
>>>>>>>>> primary architect of authoritarian government overreach, medical
>>>>>>>>> mandates, and public deception during the COVID-19 pandemic.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> As a physician and libertarian, Paul believes Fauci used exaggerated
>>>>>>>>> health data to justify destroying personal liberties.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes it is clear which side you choose.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why does it have to be about sides? It should always be only about the truth.
>>>>>>> And the truth is often complicated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As soon as you have decided what it all means you have chosen a side.
>>>>>>
>>>>> When you are a trucker, teacher or a soldier and you are being forced to
>>>>> wear a mask and/or get injected, or lose your job - that is where I draw
>>>>> the line. YMMV.
>>>>
>>>> When you refuse to protect the people around you by getting
>>>> vaccinated, that is where I draw the line.
>>>>
>>> That's the problem. It's my body so nobody else gets to tell me what to
>>> do with it. It's a basic human right. That's where I draw the line. YMMV.
>> 
>> Solution:  All people who are uncaring towards other people should be
>> taken out and shot.
> >
>That's the point (pun intended) - you can't force people to take shots 
>(no pun intended) - that would be unlawful in the US.

Wrong kind of shot.  Not that I was serious.  But again, I don't have
patience with people who think I should risk my life so they can have
a right to be sick.  They can risk their lives if they wish, but not
mine.  

>If you forced a trucker to wear a mask and get a shot in order to work, 
>you would get a protest and start a riot - and taken out and shot.
>
>You try spreading that mandatory injections propaganda at a Truck Stop 
>down here in New Jersey and you've got a problem with the Teamsters 
>Union. Don't go there. You won't like it.
>
>Look what happened to Jimmy.

I don't think it was the union that put cement shoes on him.
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