OPINION:
Twitter CEO Elon Musk went there.
In a tweet, he wrote of the retiring director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief COVID-19 adviser to President Joe Biden: “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.”
And Twitter quickly made the tweet go viral. Predictably, leftists went nuts.
Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar, for instance, tweeted this to Musk, The Hill noted: “I’m a big fan of Dr. Fauci and how he’s calmly guided our country through crisis. Re Musk Tweet? Courting vaccine-deniers doesn’t seem like a smart business strategy, but the issue is this: could you just leave a good man alone in your seemingly endless quest for attention?”
And John Brennan, former director of the CIA, for example, tweeted to Musk, “Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness & many contributions to public health. Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling public hate & divisions. You may have money, but you have no class.”
That’s just a drop in the left’s Musk-hating bucket.
As Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch chief, tweeted in reply to the swirl of condemnation against Musk: “The Left’s hysterical response to @ElonMusk’s criticism of Fauci (along with slight mockery of transgender extremism) is something else. That they have so much invested in Fauci’s authoritarian approach to public policy speaks volumes.”
Fauci, voice of coronavirus policy for going on three years, has enjoyed widespread fawning from a media that portrayed his COVID-19-tied caveats and advisements as infallible. He played political hammer for the globalists and Democrats and leftists who wanted to lock down the world and usher in a Great Reset of global economies; all the while, he claimed an above-the-political-fray approach to his COVID decision-making and guidance.
I am science, he said.
Those who disagree with my COVID-19 recommendations are actually disagreeing with science, he said.
If one mask is good, two masks are better, he said.
Except for me, he said — in response to condemnations for his face-mask-less face at a ballpark, enjoying a baseball game amid lockdowns and quarantines and forced closures of businesses.
If anyone needs to account for the utter collapse of civil society and constitutional rights due to government mandates based on medical bureaucratic advisements, it’s Fauci.
“Truth resonates,” Musk tweeted, on the thread he opened with his “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci” tweet.
And he hinted at more to come.
“Will this b explained in a new Twitter Files part?” asked @heydave7.
“Yes,” Musk replied.
It’s a new day at Twitter, and for those who love freedom and cherish free speech, the sun is certainly shining brightly.
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