Seeing Tom Cotton and Donald Trump vindicated is not how I thought 2021 would go
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Who could have guessed in 2020 that the virus lab where they study the virus that caused the pandemic in the city where the pandemic started should not be immediately dismissed as a possible origin for the pandemic.
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To be far, isn’t Tom pretty much beyond the point now where he gets a durable claim to credibility?
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I mean, he’s been the boy calling wolf on every batshit issue for years.
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wasn't the trump/cotton theory "the chinese government deliberately created and released coronavirus as a bioweapon" rather than "chinese researchers accidentally infected themselves while studying naturally-occurring coronavirus"
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like the second version is a profound fuckup and it's both criminal and believable that the chinese gov't covered it up, but that's not at all what the dark hints from trump et al were about
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There's a big difference between "accidental leak from a lab" and "released on purpose by the gov't for reasons". (although from those screenshots it's unclear what exactly Cotton was saying)
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Imagine if we’d had a government and intelligence apparatus with more credibility. We could have… … Well, frankly I don’t know that we could have done anything different or better based on this theory. But it still would have been good.
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"becoming a leading theory" is doing a tremendous amount of work here
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Yes - what are you actually basing this on?
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Thought about that, too. But "without any evidence" was the difference I suppose. And that's always bad, even if it turns out right later...
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