My friends, did you catch Aaron Rodgers on Pat McAfee's show yesterday? If you haven't seen it, go find it — because for a few minutes, a guy who spent years getting hammered in the media for asking questions about COVID mandates got to say out loud what a lot of us have been saying since 2020.

Dr. Fauci sat in front of Rand Paul's committee and pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times. One hundred and eleven. This is a man who received a sweeping, preemptive pardon covering anything he might have done wrong during COVID — a pardon signed, controversially, by President Bribery’s autopen.

Fauci doesn't face criminal exposure for that testimony. The Supreme Court has already ruled that when you can't be prosecuted, you can be compelled to testify. And still, 111 times, silence.

Rodgers's line cut right through it: "That absolute coward ... You got a pardon in front of you, and you pleaded over a hundred times. What are you scared of, Tony? I thought you were the science."

Ouch.

Here's why I want to slow down on this instead of just laughing at a good sports-radio clip. It's easy, five years out, to forget how tyrannical l the pressure campaign actually was. People lost businesses. People couldn't hold a dying parent's hand. We were told masking, social distancing, and getting vaccinated even after natural infection all mattered — often by the same people who'd said the opposite before COVID. And if you asked a question, you weren't treated as a skeptic. You were treated as a threat.

I want to be fair here: plenty of people who got vaccinated, who masked, who followed the rules in good conscience were never part of that mob. This isn't about them. It's about the machine that decided dissent was dangerous, then spent years making sure you paid for it — socially, professionally, financially, reputationally.

What Fauci's silence tells us now is what a lot of us suspected then: the confidence at that podium was never matched by science — no matter how much he and his cronies want you to believe it did.

This is what I hope we take away from this: a courage that never cowers to the threats, bravado, intimidation, tyranny, nonsense. Ask the question. Every time. Even when — especially when — everyone at the podium is telling you not to.

Conservative, not bitter.
Todd

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There's a difference between a journalist and a commentator. A journalist is supposed to report facts without inserting opinion. I'm a commentator — I tell you upfront I'm arguing a point of view, so you can weigh it accordingly.

During COVID, virtually all of the American media collapsed that distinction and pretended it hadn't. Of course, this was how they had been operating previously, but they used the circumstances to blur the lines between reporting and commentary even more.

Anchors, actors, athletes, and government officials all took turns telling you the unvaccinated should be denied treatment, shamed, cut out of society altogether. One governor went as far as framing vaccination as listening to God. This was absolutely a coordinated pressure campaign dressed up as public health service.

But the the leader of COVID tyranny, none other than Dr. Fauci himself, doesn’t think he owes you an answer for any of it.

Fauci pleading the Fifth 111 times isn't just about Fauci — it's about an entire media apparatus that amplified his certainty and tyranny without asking a single hard question, then went quiet the moment the narrative collapsed.

The answer to that isn't matching their contempt with our own. It's what this newsletter tries to do every single day: tell the full, true story, calmly and consistently, until it's the one people remember, understand, and believe.

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