Natsios works for the Bush school now, @ TAMU. I don't think he's the enemy some do, but certainly a problematic background to digest in lieu of the USAID corruption/missions we now now about.

Was an Army officer, practicing Greek Orthodox guy, pretty smart/well reasoned from what I have heard.

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Is it just me or where in the hell did the party's position come into question? Granted, i think i understand what shame means In the Chinese culture, but damn, this statement is not intended to put shame on people as much as ensure the position of the state.
Such rhetoric makes me wonder if they are indeed involved and a bio weapon got out.

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Bull**** from the CCP is easy to identify.

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You NEVER shut down the complete economy. The idea is absurd, and we've seen the consequences that we'll be dealing with for years.

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Covidians didn't understand they had signed up to pay for Covid on K-mart layaway for the rest of their lives.

Printed $8T overnight. People on here were Vince Vega'ing asking how tf that was gonna work, but nobody cared because of memaw.

And 5-years later people raging about egg prices and that Brayden can't buy a house. The same people wailing about Trump and Elon's desperate attempt to un-**** the situation.

Now the global economy is running on rector seal and JB weld and could go at anytime. The tech billionaires and others have come around to this fact as evidenced by their actions over the past 6- months.

Maybe the most unbelievable course of events in human history. Makes you wonder about the fermi parodox ... and the great filter ... maybe this is it. Civilizations get just smart enough to destroy themselves.

Interesting 🤨 https://t.co/IE6mt9QsLs

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2025

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At this point the ONLY hope Fauci (and others) has to keep his neck out of the gallows is that there is no proof (yet) that it was an intentional leak........


There's a chance that Covid in the wild was all an accident due to incompetence.

A lab tech could have caught it unknowingly and spread it in Wuhan as patient zero.

Unlikely, but possible.

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This is rather scary. At least China may be more likely to take the stringent measures possibly necessary to tamp something down.

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What makes it worse than the flu?

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Wow...Texags really does know stuff, first page back in 2020

NEW: Dr. Deborah Birx admits the COVID shots were pushed on the wrong people, saying the rollout on young people ignored the science.

Now, she tells us.

“The messenger RNA vaccine should have been rolled out for the people that were at risk for severe disease because that’s… pic.twitter.com/4tCnaDA7Bo

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) February 18, 2025

There is a special place in hell for Birx and Fauci. Nothing but lies from both of them.

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There is a special place in hell for Birx and Fauci. Nothing but lies from both of them.

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Fauci got a pardon but did Birx? IIRC, she did not.

Engineering bioweapons was and is a warcrime if not mistaken. Your stance makes sense.

No, I haven't seen where she got a pardon.

But she has such a nice collection of scarfs.....No way that woman could lie to the American public.

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BS. If I knew by February based on information from a friend, how does Abbott not have that same or better information when it's an hour from the capital? He knew, but loves power.

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Your take is absurd. The worldwide medical community (local, state, federal and the WHO) declared COVID was a pandemic and "lockdowns" were recommended. It was WAY too early for anyone, especially a non medically trained governor, to challenge St. Fauci and the MSM while they were gleefully counting the bodies and spreading panic.

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They were all in on it. As soon as they said we needed to shut down, it was obvious. You NEVER shut down the complete economy. The idea is absurd, and we've seen the consequences that we'll be dealing with for years. As I'm sure you'll recall, doctors were immediately censored and punished for sharing symptoms, treatments such as budesonide, etc. Those clues and more gave it away.

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I agree it was totally unnecessary and caused lasting harm. The entire economy was not shut down. I never missed a day of work and our business continued as normal. I completely disagree that it was a conspiratorial power grab. What power or benefit did Abbot gain from the partial lockdown?

I would argue Abbott and most public officials acted more out of fear than any thirst for power. They are beholden to public opinion and at the time most people were scared.

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Then why didn't he convene a special Session of the legislature to determine when to open rather than his personally elected team? He ruled by Executive Order for a year with no checks in place after unconstitutionally shutting down the state. He signed an EO mandating a shutdown with a penalty of jail before backtracking after a Democratic judge took him up on it. He closed churches with his EO, violating our 1st Amendment right to assemble and right to worship. He was wrong from the start and kept compounding it for nearly a year.

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You know in March 2020, Northern Italy was on fire with Covid, thousands died so yeah the world was spooked. It wasn;t until the late fall when people started questioning the medical establishment. That is everyone but you 4 years later with your big bad, I'm a bad-ass routine.

In March of 2020 I was shut out of my own business and down making deals in parking lots providing hardware and software so people could work remotely. not exactly my regular routine and business model. So I was invested in the situation.

Facts: Abbott was the third governor to open up in Feb 2021 after Kemp- GA, and DeSantis- Fla. Third ain't bad. Abbott like every governor depended on the Federal gov, ie Fauchi and the CDC for policy guidance.

I dont like it when the left rewrites history and I dont like it when the right does. You are looking pretty silly on this one. And I usually agree with your posting but not here.