It's not just Fauci

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I’m more than a little sick of talking about Anthony Fauci. The little dude who was so full of himself that he tried to argue every attack on him was an attack on science itself is only sitting free because of a pardon of questionable legality, at least in my opinion.

And I find everything we’ve learned about him to be morally disgusting, and the latest revelation is nothing new.

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It seems that he was personally enriching himself through his position , and I don’t mean that he managed his ridiculously large paycheck well.

Fauci previously praised his own ‘personal ethics’ in explaining why he doesn’t practice Catholicism anymore

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s requests for federal grant recipients to nominate him for cash prizes is both “unlawful” and “unethical,” according to a Rutgers University expert.

New documents released by Senator Rand Paul detail Fauci’s “side hustle,” which include winning millions of dollars in cash prizes. Fauci would solicit his allies who also received federal funding from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases to nominate him for prizes.

Some of the solicitations occurred during the nationwide COVID lockdowns that were created at the prompting of Fauci.

He also instructed federal staffers to work for him to find prizes and manage the application process, including one that netted him $900,000.

Sen. Paul highlighted how Fauci asked Dr. Barton Haynes, director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, about a nomination for the Shaw Prize. Haynes responded to Fauci’s request writing “You bet!!! Let’s do it.”

The revelations drew criticism from Rutgers biologist Richard Ebright.

“Fauci used his position in the federal bureaucracy to operate an apparent unethical and unlawful pay-to-play scheme,” Ebright wrote in an email to The College Fix .

Yes, it’s unethical, and this is the man who said his personal ethics caused him to no longer practice his faith, which was taken at the time to be a condemnation of Catholicism.

Now, I think it was probably because he didn’t want to be lectured about what an awful person he is.

It’s incredibly unethical to solicit people who depend on you for funding to nominate you for prizes with financial rewards. The power dynamics make it so that there’s no way anyone can trust that the “You bet!!!” was heartfelt or faked for the sake of protecting research funding.

And no one who surrounded Fauci thought anything of it.

Then again, why would they? He was The Science (TM). He was the representative of what is good and right and true, and anyone who criticized him needed to be shunned as barbaric cave people.

The problem is that the government is full of people like this. They use their official connections to land lucrative jobs later on, or engage in shady and illegal bribery under the guise of things like book deals or through congressional insider trading.

I’ve never been much of a conspiracy theory guy. My rationale for that wasn’t that I thought the government was somehow above selling us out to the New World Order. It was that I thought they were too incompetent to get away with it.

After all, they couldn’t roll out the Obamacare website without massive problems, and that was simple. How in the hell could they pull off something massive like this?

The events of 2020 started the process of shattering even that cynical illusion. The repeated psyops about COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and the election raised too many questions for me to suddenly dismiss the concerns.

Then we learned about the conspiracy to hide the origins of the virus, to blame nature rather than virology. We keep on seeing strange surges in vote totals at the last minute that uniformly benefit the most leftist candidate in the race, never the other way around—something that defies the laws of probability. We see anyone who refuses to drink the Kool-Aid on any of the sacred narratives ostracized in their own fields until data that contradicts those narratives gets shelved forever, despite the benefits to mankind.

It’s not just Fauci who is the problem. It’s damn near everyone involved in the system itself.

Of all the things I’d like to preserve in this world, the feeling that our government might not always be competent, but it wasn’t truly evil—something I’m not sure was ever actually true, mind you—is at the top of the list.

But like taking the red pill from Morpheus, once you start going down the rabbit hole, there’s no going back.

I’m not saying that there is, in fact, a New World Order in the works or that all of the nefarious groups are really up to the shady things claimed by some, even beyond the things they’ve said. Bohemian Grove, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the World Economic Forum, among others, are troubling, but I’m not saying every accusation is true.

What I’m saying is that I can no longer dismiss the wildest of claims out of hand, because what I’ve seen from the federal government over the last six and a half years has made it clear that if those things aren’t happening, it’s not because those accused are too moral and too just to be mixed up in things like that.

It’s simply because no one has bothered to ask them, and I absolutely hate that this is where we are.

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What Fauci is accused of doing is evil, and it wasn’t even about learning what was possible like the Tuskegee Experiment or MKUltra were. Those were evil, but I can see the justification for the evil.

What Fauci did was just evil for the sake of protecting his bank account, and a lot more people died in either of those two actual conspiracies.

What’s more, the reaction to DOGE last year made it very clear that we’re not going to vote our way out of whatever the hell is going on. The powers that be are too entrenched.

By all means, we should continue to use the soapbox and the ballot box. I’m just saying, make sure you’ve got that third box handy.

You know…just in case.

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