I, like Pepperidge Farm, also remember. That was such a massive shit show, I have no idea how the Administration Responsible for PPE Hijacking managed to get a second installment of the show going. That really should have been the end of them all.

The New England Patriots used their private plane to smuggle PPE into the country because the regime was stealing shipments off the runway.

IT happened in Maryland too. The took it right off the Tarmac.

I worked in a rural hospital in a blue state throughout the entire pandemic and do not remember this. Can someone add sources bc I'm not seeing much when I Google it. The hospital I worked for had serious problems with misappropriation of funds from government funding but we did have PPE.

To be fair, ICE agents do demonstrate a correlation between masks and brain damage. (The causality just happens to go the other way.)

Thank you for being there with our elders during such a horrifying time. If not for brave people like you they would have been alone.

I was delivering packages on Sundays during Covid, and retirement homes were always the scariest to deliver to because I was very conscientious of the fact I could be infected and I did not want to pass it through those doors. Fortunately most places had notes to drop packages at the front doors, but each of those deliveries was another chance to worry for the elderly inside. Thanks for working through that time, but also I’m sorry you did.

And ventilators, testing kits and actually useful medications (not bleach or horse dewormer)

Even just a decade ago.

Yep. It hit Japan hard too, anti mask anti vax fuckwits multiplied, oh and vaccines cause autism too didn't ya know

Carl Sagan demon haunted world

An example I learned of recently is Smedley Butler. Super decorated military careerist, but once he got out, he wrote War is a Racket and called out the corporate profiteers directly. The man basically singlehandedly foiled an attempt to coup the US government and prevented fascism from corporations like JP Morgan, City National Bank (Citibank), General Motors, Goodyear, Standard Oil, and more. Congress investigated and confirmed there was a coup planned and they would have acted. And since these companies don't exist anymore, we can see that they were prosecuted and held accountable.

Oh wait, that's right, they slandered Butler, called the whole thing a hoax and paid off the papers and members of congress to run the stories so that no one faced accountability.

Id love to send her some love and thanks — but that probably requires me joining a corrupt and toxic social network I’m purposely trying to avoid.

Weird part is that they say that politicians are lying and corrupt, and still somehow believe them.

We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education). If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.

-- Roger Adolf Freeman, economics professor at Stanford, advisor to President Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon

Once again, it leads back to Reagan. Not that he's a root cause, but he enacted the legislation that did the bidding of capitalists to fuck us all.

Dr. Fauci got called to a Senate committee that Rand Paul put together to question him on COVID-19 after publishing his personal diary. The Republicans tried to do anything to make Dr. Fauci look bad and publicly insulted him over and over to his face. It was all an attempt to get him to say something they could construe as perjury. So, because he's not some idiot, he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights over and over. Now, the Republicans want to hold him in contempt for...using his constitutionally protected rights. The same constitution, by the way, they swear to support and defend.

Republicans are dogpiling him right now because after appearing before congress like 20 times already to talk about covid, during the latest appearance he stopped giving AF and exercised his right to remain silent while basically calling Rand Paul an asshole lol.

So in typical conservative fashion, despite hundreds of hours of context leading up to this moment, all the headlines are like “SEE HE MUST BE A LIAR OTHERWISE HE WOULD TESTIFY”

They basically blame him directly for covid. And by covid they mean the social and economic harm of masking and social distancing, because the actual virus itself obviously isn’t real. And if it is real it was made in a lab. But despite being made in a lab it does absolutely nothing to you, total nothing virus, basically just a bad cold. Actually it’s the vaccines that caused all the deaths. The same vaccines that are Joe Biden’s fault despite them literally being produced and released under the direction of Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed”, all during his first term as president. Which isn’t true Trump would never do that. And if he did it’s because Fauci lied to him

Iirc the House is subpoenaing him again to try and blame him for all their failings

Partisan theater with no real purpose.