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Leftist actor Tim Robbins appeared on British comedian Russell Brand's podcast this week to retroactively denounce the politicization of health policies during the pandemic and to express remorse about his uncritical acceptance of the media's COVID-19 narrative.

In the Dec. 18 episode of Brand's podcast, Robbins, an Academy Award-winning actor, explained his journey from strict compliance with government edicts early in the pandemic to one of doubt about the inerrancy of so-called health experts and the official narrative constructed around COVID-19, vaccination, lockdowns, and masking.

Despite having initially "bought into it" and "adhering to the requests" made of him, Robbins explained that his real-life encounters were ultimately at odds with what he had otherwise been told about the pandemic, anti-lockdown protesters, and the unvaccinated. This generated a sense of cognitive dissonance, prompting him to doubt the official narrative.

What are the details?

Robbins said he was living in Los Angeles when the pandemic first struck.

Schools, bars, gyms, churches, and campgrounds were blocked off or shut down. Residents were confined to their homes. Mask-wearing was made mandatory. The state's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom likened the unvaccinated to drunk drivers. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told the unvaccinated to prepare to lose their jobs.

"I bought into it. ... I was masking everywhere. I was keeping my social distance. I was adhering to the requests made of me, and I felt angry at people that didn't do that," Robbins told Brand.

Although he saw thriving areas that were not strictly following statist health protocols when he drove across the U.S., it was not until he visited the United Kingdom that Robbins acknowledged the possibility that he may have been wrong to unquestioningly accept the official pandemic narrative.

In Britain, he "noticed a lot of people were not adhering again to these requests made by their government. I thought, well, they're going to have a hard day coming up, that there will be some serious death here."

"When I saw that there wasn't a huge death rate [in Britain], after I witnessed personally what was happening, I started to wonder more and more about what we were being told and whether it was true or not."

The catastrophe of and for the unvaccinated that Robbins and others were guaranteed by the Western governments and the media hadn't come to be. He began to wonder what else wasn't so.

The actor recalled navigating through an anti-lockdown protest in London. Robbins hadn't joined because he supported the protest, but rather because he was curious.

\u201cMassive protest march in London today. Thousands and thousands arriving in Trafalgar Square. #NoVaccinePassports #NoVaccineMandates\u201d
— Tim Robbins (@Tim Robbins) 1642862430

"I saw the way that they were being described in the press, and it wasn't true," he said. "These were not, you know, National Front Nazis. These were liberals and lefties and people who believed in personal freedom."

Politicizing the pandemic

Robbins suggested that the pandemic was particularly politicized in the United States.

Brand concurred, suggesting that "there is a lot more political ideology at play than is perhaps wise, prudent, or even honest when the claim that is being made is that we are following science."

Robbins admitted, "At first, if you were a Democrat, when Trump was president, well, you weren't going to take that vaccine because it was Trump's vaccine, and then that seemed to somehow change. It was kind of Orwellian. It was like we are no longer at war with East Asia."

However, after the political winds shifted and Democrats assumed power during the pandemic, Robbins noted, "If you didn't take the vaccine, you were a Republican."

The end result, according to Robbins: "We turned into tribal, angry, vengeful people."

\u201cThis is such a powerful commentary by actor Tim Robbins (in discussion with Russell Brand) on the horrendous demonisation of those who questioned the response to Covid. \n\n@TimRobbins1\n@rustyrockets\u201d
— James Melville (@James Melville) 1671451301

Robbins previously told investigative reporter Matt Taibbi, "I think we lost a lot of ourselves during this time."

"I heard people saying [during the pandemic], 'If you didn’t take the vaccine and you get sick, you don’t have a right to a hospital bed.' It made me think about returning to a society where we care about each other. Your neighbor would be sick, and you’d bring over some soup. It didn’t matter what their politics were, you’re their f---ing neighbor," said Robbins.

The actor suggested to Taibbi that those who dehumanize and divide others "often think they're being virtuous."

Robbins accepts that he too was swept up into the ranks of the socially destructive.

"You go from someone that is inclusive, altruistic, generous, empathetic, to a monster. Where you want to freeze people’s bank accounts because they disagree with you," he said. "That’s a dangerous thing. That’s a dangerous world that we’ve created. And I say 'we,' because I was part of that. I bought into that whole idea early on."

While Robbins and others have admitted guilt, others would prefer to gloss over their dehumanization of those treated as pariahs for standing up to coercive pandemic protocols.

TheBlaze previously reported that Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University, demanded a "Pandemic Amnesty" in the pages of the Atlantic.

Unlike Robbins, Oster suggested that blind compliance to health edicts and demonization of dissenters "wasn't a moral failing" and that "we need to learn from our mistakes and then let them go. We need to forgive the attacks, too."

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Horowitz: Why I’m now in favor of abolishing the police



The KKK would be proud. Their version of street justice and terrorizing jurors with threats worked splendidly in the Chauvin trial. Now that we only have mob rule, why even have police, who can only be used against We the People but not to defend us?

The standard of evidence in our post-constitutional mob rule is not "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt," but ensuring that Black Lives Matter doesn't come to the juror's house and lynch his family. That is essentially the message to America. If the political system, the media, and the street mobs want a conviction, they will get a conviction regardless of the evidence. However, this will reverberate far beyond the defendant himself.

Famed Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz is correct in asserting that what was done during this trial is akin to what the KKK did during the Jim Crow era. "It's borrowed precisely from the Ku Klux Klan of the 1930s and 1920s when the Klan would march outside of courthouses and threatened all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person," Dershowitz said in an interview with Newsmax.

However, where Dershowitz is wrong is that he thinks this conviction will be overturned on appeal. Show me the judge who will be willing to have his life destroyed by the new KKK mob justice. This will now happen with any white defendant — a cop or civilian — who has an altercation with someone who is black. Like the black defendants in the Jim Crow South, white defendants can no longer get a fair trial in America's major cities when the media and the elites turn it into a proxy for a race war.

We no longer have individual justice in America. We have mob rule incited by "the system" in pursuit of a transformational political agenda. The defendant in any case that is considered transformational — whether it's the case of George Floyd or of the Jan. 6 Capitol protesters — will be a human sacrifice for the greater cause. When the system makes a call for what it wants, that outcome will never be in doubt. The system gets what the system demands.

No serious person can believe that any sane juror would have placed principle over his own life and judged the evidence in this case properly. With the media, the president, and every state official gunning for a guilty verdict under the threat of doxing individual jurors, the outcome here was never in doubt. That should disturb us all, because this is not just about cops. It's about being on the wrong side of our two-tiered mob justice system.

It's the same reason why violent criminals are released without bail, while Jan. 6 protesters who didn't even commit a violent felony are held without bail. It's the same reason why every cop who shoots a citizen has his name released immediately except for the cop who shot Ashli Babbitt. It's the same reason why BLM is able to shut down streets with impunity and never get prosecuted, as it did yesterday, surrounding a truck:

Minneapolis: #BLM protesters surround and hit a truck stuck on the road that has been shut down by them.… https://t.co/kuE6bLT3aP
— Andy Ngô (@Andy Ngô)1618957665.0

In fact, the mob lynching of motorists at the hands of BLM is emblematic of why this is about so much more than the cops. Henceforth, the cops will sit back passively and not respond to volatile situations. That will precipitate a cascading cause and effect of violent criminals remaining on the streets even longer and becoming more emboldened to commit violence. Now, rather than the police being the first ones to interact with those criminals, guess who will do the heavy lifting? The civilians.

Now guess what happens when a white civilian is confronted by a black criminal and is forced to shoot him? You got it. Mob justice.

Which is why I have a novel idea going forward: Let's indeed abolish the police.

Believe me, I have no interest in anarchy. I want ordered liberty. But if the only option on the menu is anarchy for one side of the justice system, then by all means let's have complete anarchy for everyone, not anarcho-tyranny. Once the cops and the justice system will no longer punish and deter violent criminals and accept BLM as the rulers of our streets, then the only remaining function the police will serve is to arrest us when we are forced into a self-defense situation against BLM.

If we are going to be alone on the streets without proper police deterrent — which is essentially the current reality anyway — then yes, leave us alone. If the only purpose of the police is now to enforce COVID fascism or arrest someone who defends himself or does something the system views as criminal, then why have police? Remember, these two-bit dictator governors and mayors rely on the police to enforce their illegal and immoral edicts. Without a police force, they are nothing but a bunch of raving lunatics.

The reality is that they don't want the police abolished; they want police repurposed to enforce their own tyranny. Let's call their bluff and abolish them completely so that they can't be used against us, especially the big city police departments.

Moreover, we need to focus our attention away from defending the police to fortifying our own self-defense. State legislatures in red states need to tighten up self-defense laws so that mob justice can't do to civilians what it has already done to the police.

Let's completely abolish the city police departments and leave only the sheriff's departments in outlying areas. What you will see in America is that police have nothing to do with what ails our cities. It will bring the fight directly to the people without the police as the punching bags. Perhaps that is the only way to awaken the people from their slumber and force them to confront this corrupt system.

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The death of grace

We are watching the death of grace.

Not transcendent grace, of course, for that is God’s dominion, and mankind cannot take that which is His alone. But here on this mortal coil, we are most certainly watching grace die.

The signs of that demise are all over the Kavanaugh circus. While we have here a man who, I am confident, spent much of his youth being a jackass of various sorts, as many of us have in the post-counter culture era, I am just as confident there are a lot of grown-up jackasses who are lying about him right now to far greater cost.

Because it pleases them. Because it makes them feel good. Because it validates the titillation they pass off to themselves as a sick brand of justice. It is simply fun now to hang your fellow man’s reputation in broad daylight if he or she isn’t part of the same tribe as you — or even if he is in the same tribe but simply isn’t tribe-y enough.

A culture rich in grace, or unmerited favor, would not allow that. It would cut people some slack. It would attempt to trade in empathy. More specifically, the humanity of the other, its dignity and its worth, would prevent accusations of sexual assault from escalating into accusations of gang rape. Then, when failing there, pivoting into accusations of simple drunkenness followed by even lesser accusations of throwing ice at a bar once and being too emotional to be on the Supreme Court. Any guilt will do.

So what’s next? He’s a bad tipper or wore black shoes with a brown belt? May as well go with that, because this was never about defending Dr. Ford’s honor in the first place.

The more absurd and desperate that each accusations appears, the more obvious it is that grace has disappeared. Whereas there was once some gravity to the initial accusations against Kavanaugh, accusations that it was not unreasonable to investigate, now we have a mere show trial, where you are guilty until never, ever, ever being proven innocent.

And no one pauses to ask themselves if they are in fact doing unto others as they would have it done to them. Are we truly interested in truth here? Or do we just want blood?

When the answer is blood, turns out any blood will do for the progressive appetite. A political cartoon depicted Kavanaugh’s 10-year-old daughter kneeling in prayer and saying, "Dear God, please forgive my angry, lying, alcoholic father for sexually assaulting Dr. Ford."

The presence of grace would make such a statement beyond the reach of the sane. But we are not sane. We are not good. We are not reasonable. The devil is at play and we are his puppets.

We are lost.

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