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RU's avatar

It just seems like revisionist history when people blame Trump for this mess.

The only reason we had mask mandates was b/c Trump refused to wear them. It even got so petty as to be a requirement to not use neck gaiters, only sissy masks. It was designed to emasculate Trump supporters.

Same for lockdowns. He argued over and over that we should reopen, and every time he did everyone in the media and Twitter (which wasn't yet free) blasted him as a literal murderer.

And of course "Joe Biden" mandated the shots, not Trump.

Trump was also the sanest voice in terms of risk, saying IFR below 1% while Fauci was screeching it could be as high as 5% and "researchers" were saying 3.4%. (They were only off by a factor of 100.)

Trump was used as the PR man for an intelligence community psy-op against him. He thought he was doing something good to help people and might actually gain some respect.

Not the best look for Trump, but then again, everyone who wasn't in on it got played (aside from a tiny handful of Substacks, most of which took over a year to get it). IOW, he's human.

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Johnny-O's avatar

Dude, I got it very early on, and I'm not a scientist. I knew weeks into it that it was fabricated BS. That doesn't bode well for Trump, who is going to "drain the swamp." People are being played.

https://twitter.com/maxwellazoury/status/1679319970491031552

https://sagehana.substack.com/p/dear-donald-trumpcan-you-help-us

https://sagehana.substack.com/p/president-biden-in-his-own-speech

https://sagehana.substack.com/p/rochelle-pierre-jay-donald-and-joe

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TB's avatar

This isn't directed at you personally, but a lot of the people who "knew" right from the start that it was a scam (setting aside the ones who only "knew it" in hindsight) is that they're the same ones who easily see conspiracies everywhere... which has the advantage of being the first to identify real conspiracies, but the disadvantage of also identifying "conspiracies" that turn out not to be.

I tend to see Trump as less quick to draw that conclusion, so I doubt he would be one of the earlier ones to realize. If you add on top of that, the fact that he certainly didn't have time to do his own research, and was surrounded by people telling him what the "best solutions" were, I don't think it's fair to really fault him for accepting it at least in the beginning. (But as others have said, he's hurting himself by still not admitting he was played.)

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Johnny-O's avatar

Of course we all know he had evil people whispering in his ear, but he also had people who weren't deep state goons who were telling him to use caution and pointing out things like the cruise ship with low infection fatality rate, dangers of mRNA tech, etc.

I knew it was a hoax very early on because immediately everyone in media and politics were parroting the same line. You know something is up then.....

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RU's avatar

Who's your better option?

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