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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday during a Senate hearing on COVID-19 invoked his constitutional right not to answer questions. "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the constitution," Fauci repeatedly said to questions posed by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul. Paul, a doctor and Kentucky Republican, continued undeterred, continuing to ask Fauci such questions about so-called gain-of-function research, which helps scientists learn about the direction of a pathogen but also brings a high risk of it becoming widespread.

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Under the current administration, Fauci has a reason to do so.

Fauci's attorneys probably have more sense than Dr. Sen. Rand Paul's lawyers. Let's not forget Sen. Paul's own history with scientific credibility.

www.cbsnews.com

FTA: "First some background: Paul's claim that he is a 'board-certified' ophthalmologist is tied to his certification by the National Board of Ophthalmology. Yet that's a group that Paul himself founded in 1999; he also serves as its head."

#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-29 09:46 AM | Reply

FTA: "First some background: Paul's claim that he is a 'board-certified' ophthalmologist is tied to his certification by the National Board of Ophthalmology. Yet that's a group that Paul himself founded in 1999; he also serves as its head."

#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-29 09:46 AM | Reply | Flag:

Has nothing to do with why Fauci is pleading the 5th. But I do agree that his lawyers are smart in not letting him talk.

Didn't Fauci receive a pre-emptive pardon from Biden?

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-29 09:55 AM | Reply

Didn't Fauci receive a pre-emptive pardon from Biden?

#2 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Yes.

We're seeing why in real time.

Rand Paul---I can see why he got beaten up.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 10:01 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Didn't Fauci receive a pre-emptive pardon from Biden?

#2 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Is Dr Fauci on the Presidents enemies list?

Then he is wise to take the 5th.

Everything he says can and WILL be used against him.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 10:01 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I don't really know what to think of Fauci overall. There is a lot of negative ---- on him out there.

But......I don't think him taking the 5th is any evidence that he's hiding anything considering the hostility of the people coming after him.

#5 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-29 10:04 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#2 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Are you listening to Paul threatening Fauci with punishment for using his Constitutional rights?

Think about that.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 10:06 AM | Reply

My favorite Covid song.

Wuhan Flu Song
Sacha Baron Cohen

Obama was a traitor
America, he hate her
He belong inside the jails

Obama, what we gonna do?
Inject him with the Wuhan flu
Inject him with the Wuhan flu

Hillary Clinton, what we gonna do?
Lock her up like we used to do
Lock her up like we used to do

Fauci dunno his head from his ass
He must be smoking grass
He got locked up by a flu

I ain't lying, it ain't no jokes
Corona is a liberal hoax
Corona is a liberal hoax

Dr. Fauci, what we gonna do?
Inject him with the Wuhan flu
Inject him with the Wuhan flu

WHO, what we gonna do?
Chop 'em up like the Saudis do
Chop 'em up like the Saudis do

USA is the best
We don't need no COVID test
You're not gonna take my rights away

I don't care about your race
Take that mask off your commie face
Take that mask off your commie face

Liberals, what we gonna do?
Inject them with the Wuhan flu
Inject them with the Wuhan flu

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 10:25 AM | Reply

Fauci and his little bitch JPW deserve the gallows.

#8 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-07-29 10:31 AM | Reply

#8 | POSTED BY FORTFISHER

What's happening today is just another post hoc attempt to prove that Donald Trump was less than an eff up with COVID.

It's also an attempt to feed red meat to that already dying religion, MAGA.

Fauci came out looking better than Trump after COVID. There's no way in hell Trump can let that stand.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 10:37 AM | Reply

The only people that give a damn about confirmation that Fauci is a narcissistic ----- piece of ---- already knew that Fauci was a narcissistic ----- piece of ----.

#10 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-07-29 10:40 AM | Reply

#9 How does Fauci look now, after his diary has been published?

#11 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-07-29 10:42 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

#9 you're a fool STFU!

#12 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-07-29 10:43 AM | Reply

Fauci is a narcissistic ----- piece of ----

#10 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

And Donald Trump is a........

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 10:45 AM | Reply

How does Fauci look now, after his diary has been published?

#11 | POSTED BY VISITOR

What's the bad thing? I haven't read it so I'm relying on you. Unless you also haven't read it.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 10:47 AM | Reply

When Fauci declared that he was "Mr Science" he didn't even bother to set up his own board to certify it.

#15 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-07-29 10:48 AM | Reply

Since the thread link is a nothingburger joke, here's an actual article on topic:

"Paul has an "unhinged obsession with me," and his motive for the hearing is to "get me to say something " anything " that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, behind bars, unquote," Fauci said.

"Although it pains me to do so ... under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions," Fauci said.

"Paul also ordered Fauci's lawyer removed from the committee room for trying to speak.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said the hearing is part of a "campaign against science" that "has made this country less safe."

"If there are valid scientific questions about the origins of this pandemic ... they should certainly be addressed, but not in a show trial, not as part of a continuing vendetta against a single individual," Blumenthal said."

Excerpts, more on the far right Conspiracy Theory witch hunt at the link

www.axios.com

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-29 10:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#14 Gaslighter lite.

#17 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-07-29 10:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

How does Fauci look now, after his diary has been published?

#11 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Congratulations!

Looks like you have found another perfectly imperfect human.

And you only had to steal and publish another personal dairy to do it.

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 10:50 AM | Reply

When Fauci declared that he was "Mr Science" he didn't even bother to set up his own board to certify it.

#15 | POSTED BY VISITOR

Oh, my. That's terrifying.

What else you got?

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 10:51 AM | Reply

"This funding sparked a fierce political and legal battle over whether the experiments technically qualified as "gain-of-function".

Senator Rand Paul has aggressively campaigned against former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, accusing him of funding dangerous "supervirus" engineering and trying to cover up a lab leak.

Dr. Fauci has consistently maintained that the NIH-funded research did not meet the strict regulatory definition of dangerous GoF enhancement, making a pandemic strain molecularly impossible to emerge from those specific trials."

more

www.google.com

Dopey OP.

#20 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-29 10:51 AM | Reply

Fauci aka "Mr. Science". The nation's "leading expert" in COVID contracted COVID 3 times after being vaccinated and boosted 6 times. He had a pulmonary embolism 6 months after his second Moderna shot. This was, of course, not publicized.

#21 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-07-29 10:56 AM | Reply

#21 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Is your point that COVID shots kept Fauci from dying of COVID?

#22 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 11:01 AM | Reply

1 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Is taking COVID shots the Very Bad Thing that Fauci did?

#23 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 11:03 AM | Reply

#21

Speaking of lame conspiracy theorists...


"There is no public or medical record showing that Dr. Anthony Fauci suffered a pulmonary embolism, and claims stating otherwise are unsubstantiated rumors.

The unverified claim regarding a pulmonary embolism appears to misinterpret or falsely connect unrelated historical news coverage, such as the federal pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in April 2021 due to extremely rare clotting events

.No credible or official documentation supports the assertion that Dr. Fauci experienced this specific medical event." per CBS news

www.google.com

There's a lot more proof that Trumpers will buh-lieve any idiotic thing their rwing media tells them... right, --------?

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-29 11:03 AM | Reply

This was, of course, not publicized.

#21 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Why should he share his personal private health issues with the public if it has nothing to do with public health?

It had nothing to do with his getting a vaccine in spite of your obvious attempt to associate it with the Covid vaccine.

#25 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 11:05 AM | Reply

The nation's "leading expert" in COVID contracted COVID 3 times after being vaccinated and boosted 6 times.

Did he get hospitalized? Did he die on a ventilator?

His job obviously brought him into contact with the disease multiple times and yet the vaccine appears to have worked as advertised for him. It kept him out of the hospital and off a ventilator.

#26 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 11:09 AM | Reply

#24 It's in his diary.

I want to know how reality distortion works when there is something on a page that conflicts with your closely held but unsubstantiated views. Like something negative about Fauci, do you see the words and your brain won't let you comprehend or does the page appear blank to your eyes? Does your brain alter the text and you see something completely different?

#27 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-07-29 11:15 AM | Reply

#27 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Smoking gun?

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 11:19 AM | Reply

27 | POSTED BY VISITOR

Smoke?

#29 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 11:23 AM | Reply

#24 It's in his diary.

"I want to know how reality distortion works.."

You know exactly how it works.

Taking personal musings from diaries and attempting to distort reality with them seems to be a hobby of yours.

#30 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 11:25 AM | Reply

27 | POSTED BY VISITOR

I'm looking at the behavior of the MAGA Congressmen. They're frothing because Fauci won't let them burn him at the stake.

I can only congratulate Dr. Fauci for handling them in the only way they could be handled.

#31 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 11:29 AM | Reply

And Donald Trump is a........

Liar
Traitor
Fascist
Dictator
Cheater
Philanderer
Convicted felon
Adjudicated rapist
Named more times in the Trumpstein files than Epstein
Business failure
Failed reality tv personality
Fraud
Narcissist
Sociopath
Sexual predator

Take your pick

#32 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-07-29 11:31 AM | Reply

The nation's "leading expert" in COVID contracted COVID 3 times after being vaccinated and boosted 6 times.

The COVID vaccine is effective at reducing the effects of COVID. It does not prevent you from getting it, it reduces the severity of the infection.

But idiots believe what they want irrespective of reality.

#33 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-07-29 11:34 AM | Reply

Visitor from Planet Trump, rofl!

It's a Facts Optional planet.

#34 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-29 11:39 AM | Reply

This is all because Fauci made a face when trump said something stupid.

#35 | Posted by alexandrite at 2026-07-29 11:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Like something negative about Fauci, do you see the words and your brain won't let you comprehend or does the page appear blank to your eyes? Does your brain alter the text and you see something completely different?"

LOL

Like I said upthread, a lot of negative stuff on Fauci out there. A lot

But most of it is crap. What's relevant is a needle in a haystack almost nobody is interested in finding.

It's just this whole dynamic. Attack, defend, attack, defend, as if there is an obligation to do so.

Not my fight. Fauci is wisely taking the 5th but he'll get crucified for it in many circles.

#36 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-29 11:44 AM | Reply

there is something on a page
#27 | Posted by visitor_

What is on the page?

Anyone know which Deplorable conspiracy theory Visitor_ is huffing today?

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-29 11:45 AM | Reply

Republicans can lie with impunity while IN Congress but if Dr Fauci had misspoke or gotten a date or time or minor fact wrong when speaking to Congress he would have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law for it.

Isn't that interesting?

The Republicans were obviously not interested in getting any actual answers. I sure wouldn't have answered a single question under those conditions either. They were only there to spread more propaganda and misinformation.

How did anything they did today Glorify the Lord?

#38 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 11:47 AM | Reply

Fauci is wisely taking the 5th but he'll get crucified for it in many circles.

#36 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Like Dr Fauci really cares.

He is 85 years old and sitting on $12 million dollars.

#39 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 11:50 AM | Reply

Not my fight. Fauci is wisely taking the 5th but he'll get crucified for it in many circles.
#36 | Posted by eberly

It's a Republican fight, so yes. But anyway, the only circles Fauci is getting crucified in is the same ones he's already been crucified in several times.

This is just a rerun.

Televising reruns is what Republicans are doing instead of ending a pointless war that is lowering GDP by one percent or stopping ICE disrupting sending people to camps disrupting the workforce and lowering GDP by a percent.

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-29 11:51 AM | Reply

Fauci invokes the 5th.

Good.

Rand Paul is a one trick performance monkey pretending to be some sort of medical expert. His state is one of the poorest, less educated and unhealty states in America and he does NOTHING to help them. Calling Randy a doctor is an insult to doctors everywhere.

Dr's I'd trust more than Rand Paul...

Dr. Fauci.
Dr. Vinny Boombatz.
Dr. Demento
Dr. Pepper
Dr. No
Dr. Nick Riviera
Dr. Kevorkian

#41 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-07-29 12:03 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

I would trust Dr Who for medical advice over Rand Paul.

#42 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 12:06 PM | Reply

Dr. Detroit. Don't forget him. Nothing can destroy the doctor.

#43 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-07-29 12:22 PM | Reply

I think Dr Demento always had good advice.

Stay demented!

#44 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 12:25 PM | Reply

This is all because Fauci made a face when trump said something stupid.

#35 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

Yep.

#45 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 12:25 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

Donald Trump does not forget slights, neither does he forgive them. Nothing's too small to be grist for his mill, and he isn't happy until he's avenged it.

But then he's still unhappy, because he is mentally ill.

#46 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 12:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Fauci is proof of why we should not be governed by bureaucrat "experts".

#47 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-07-29 01:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Patricide Jeff claimed horse paste was a game changer.

#48 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-07-29 01:17 PM | Reply

Dr. Fauci followed Scientific Protocols.

He tried to help Americans, at a time in life when most people are Retired.

I personally don't Get the Vitriol against him.

Even if he was wrong on the facts which isn't clear by the way, he had no Intent to harm others.

This is Political Theater, Witchhunting, and bad faith Posturing.

Rand Paul is showing his ASS.

#49 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-29 01:22 PM | Reply

The morbidly obese geriatric peophile with the thin ego who is undergoing dementia treatment at WRAMC -- all paid for by the hardworking American taxpayer -- also never forgave PBS for lampooing him decades ago.

Dummkopf Trumpf is like a rabid, flea-infested camel that remembers slights many years later.

Revenge (or Wrath), one of the Seven Deadly Sins:

#50 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-29 01:28 PM | Reply

His diary entries reveal that he is a narcissist piece of ---- more interested in his media appearances than public health.

#51 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-07-29 01:36 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

In other news, the 300 lb sack of---------- still owes E Jean Carroll $83 million.

#52 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-07-29 01:40 PM | Reply

His diary entries reveal
#51 | Posted by visitor_

And this makes you a victim how exactly?

Is there any specific public health wrongdoing you'd like to call out from his diary, or are you just looking to file a Hurt Feelings Report?

#53 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-29 01:58 PM | Reply

His diary entries reveal that he is a narcissist piece of ---- more interested in his media appearances than public health.

#51 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

And Trump is....

#54 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 02:00 PM | Reply

His diary entries reveal that he is a narcissist piece of ---- more interested in his media appearances than public health.
#51 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

That's not a crime one goes before congress for.

#55 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-07-29 02:02 PM | Reply

Fauci is proof of why we should not be governed by bureaucrat "experts".

POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Blah blah blah ...

"Dr Fauci is why my corn flakes were too soggy!"

Dr Fauci did not "govern" anyone when Covid struck or after.

One guess as to who fumble bucked that fiasco.

#56 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 02:41 PM | Reply

His diary entries reveal that he is a narcissist piece of ---- more interested in his media appearances than public health.
#51 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

That's not a crime one goes before congress for.

#55 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

It's actually fully qualifies him to be President of the United States these days.

#57 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 02:43 PM | Reply

His diary entries reveal that he is a narcissist . . .

#51 | Posted by visitor_ at

Damn those people who write about themselves in their diaries. They might even have different impressions of themselves over time, based on learning different facts. Stop the presses.

#58 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-29 04:23 PM | Reply

His diary entries reveal that he is a narcissist piece of ---- more interested in his media appearances than public health.
#51 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

You talking about Trump? Oh wait...he doesn't keep a diary because he's functionally illiterate.

#59 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-07-29 05:04 PM | Reply

Dummkopf Trumpf's diary is either a shoebox full of Polaroids of minor girls or a crayon drawing book.

#60 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-29 05:13 PM | Reply

Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads the fifth? Though he had immunity?

"the science" is defending your reasoning, experiments, and outcomes.

AKA the scientific method.

Where are the ClimateChange people? why aren't they concerned Fauci isn't being "the science"?


You talking about Trump? Oh wait...he doesn't keep a diary because he's functionally illiterate.
#59 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE

Johnny Hotsauce is a special kind of stupid not the most stupid, because he can ask questions then answer his own questions in one post.

This is one level above the Gaslighter on the stupidity scale, which might make 4-5 posts from gaslighter to answer his/her own questions.

#61 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:44 PM | Reply

Dummkopf Trumpf's diary is either a shoebox full of Polaroids of minor girls or a crayon drawing book.

Whataboutism!!
~ CORKY

Where's Corky to keep this site pure....

#62 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:45 PM | Reply

Oh look - this thread has as many post as the top thread on the front page. Let's keep it buried!

#63 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-29 05:48 PM | Reply


Damn those people who write about themselves in their diaries.

idk about you R2D2 but I have never said "I closed down the world" in my diary.

DAMN. In early 2020, Fauci recorded in his diary how much he was able to make the stock market drop with his lie that covid was 10x more deadly than the flu.
At the same time, in the same diary, he wrote that covid wasn't any more deadly than the seasonal flu.

While he was going on TV saying the opposite to terrify the public into shutting down the economy.
x.com

lemme guess R2D2 every Lumper writes like that in their diary?

What was the point in all this two faced hogwash?

#64 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:48 PM | Reply


Oh look - this thread has as many post as the top thread on the front page. Let's keep it buried!

#63 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Look at Lftthirds, getting all Corylike.

#65 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:49 PM | Reply

Where's Corky to keep this site pure....

#62 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

He's paying JPW for services rendered.

#66 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-29 05:49 PM | Reply

Dr Fauci did not "govern" anyone when Covid struck or after.
~ DonorBot

LOL Thats not what Fauci thinks, he claimed in his diary he shut down CA and NY.

#67 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:51 PM | Reply


He's paying JPW for services rendered.

#66 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

You mean services in the rearended?

#68 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:52 PM | Reply

Look at Lftthirds, getting all Corylike.

#65 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

Fkkn -----

#69 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-29 05:52 PM | Reply


He is 85 years old and sitting on $12 million dollars.

#39 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY

Imagine working for the public since the 80s and being worth that much.

And thats not the worst of it DonorBot is fine with this, then the next thread complain about Trump robbing people blind..

#70 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:54 PM | Reply


Fkkn -----
#69 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

You & ClownShack to peas in a pod

#71 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:55 PM | Reply

You mean services in the rearended?

#68 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yes

#72 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-29 05:56 PM | Reply


That's not a crime one goes before congress for.
#55 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

It is when you've shut down the economy, and made people die alone. But I have noticed this trend in Lumpers, claiming that they care about people in the abstract, not the personal level.

Lumper care about the "illegal immigrant" in the abstract but not the young person killed by the illegal immigrant.

#73 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 05:59 PM | Reply


Yes
#72 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

This site is really making me a better employee. I can now almost talk like an American.

#74 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 06:00 PM | Reply

Fauci and COVID-19 are back in the news?

I guess Trump can't talk about the war, the economy, grocery prices, gas prices, any accomplishments, the Epstein files ... so he has to distract with news from six years ago.

It's weird that Republicans would bring up Covid considering Trumps mismanagement of it and the hundreds of thousands of Americans who died from it.

The ease with which Trump controls his MAGA followers is very impressive. Trump has control over the dumbest people in the country.

#75 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-29 06:06 PM | Reply

I can now almost talk like an American.

#74 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Great.

Now work on the values.

#76 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 06:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This site is really making me a better employee. I can now almost talk like an American.

#74 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 06:00 PM | Reply | Flag

Don't tell Zed, he's a racist!

#77 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-29 06:10 PM | Reply

He hates Asians, especially if they lean conservative.

#78 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-29 06:11 PM | Reply

#78 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

There's nothing wrong with you that a decent education and bran new soul won't cure.

#79 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 06:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

i can't beleive this, IT WASN"T EVEN A DIARY,

Fauci put all that on GOVERNMENT computers while AT WORK ...

Hollly sheet....

It's weird that Republicans would bring up Covid considering Trumps mismanagement of it and the hundreds of thousands of Americans who died from it.

Blaming Trump classic misdirection and WHATABOUTISM?

Fauci was "the science", apparently he claimed ivermectin didn't work... when actually it has been favored in 100s of studies since.

How many people died because Fauci wanted to be famous?

#80 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 06:18 PM | Reply


Don't tell Zed, he's a racist!
#77 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS AT 2026-07-29 06:10 PM | FLAG:

Yeah he mentioned his racism to me ... since then Zed's Ded to me.

I haven't seen a post of his in months if not years. This site is better for it.


He hates Asians, especially if they lean conservative.
#78 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

So you're saying I gotta chance? LMAO

#81 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 06:20 PM | Reply

he claimed ivermectin didn't work... when actually it has been favored in 100s of studies since.

#80 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Put up or shut up.

Please make sure that the "studies" are created by real people in real peer-reviewed journals.

I always appreciate you getting me back in touch with why the sane world hates MAGA.

#82 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-29 06:21 PM | Reply

Fascinating saved lives. I don't know why you are going after him like you are. Besides the fact Biden pardoned him already. Just sayin.

#83 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-07-29 06:22 PM | Reply

Fauci saved lives. I don't know why you are going after him like you are. Besides the fact Biden pardoned him already. Just sayin.

#84 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-07-29 06:25 PM | Reply

Ivermectin doesn't do anything to COVID.

Get off of X while you still have a semi functioning brain, oneironaut.

#85 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-07-29 06:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Blaming Trump classic misdirection

The best Covid misdirection came from Trump.

It's a Democratic hoax.

It's only 15 cases and we'll soon be down to zero.

It'll disappear in warmer weather.

Ivermectin is a cure!

Hydroxychloroquine is a cure!

Injecting bleach is a cure!

Bright lights is a cure!

Masks won't do anything!

The Woodward interview really sunk him.

#86 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-29 06:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Fauci today....

#87 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 06:37 PM | Reply

Get off of X while you still have a semi functioning brain, oneironaut.
#85 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

Semi functional brain?

Too late.

#88 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-29 06:37 PM | Reply

Fauci is pleading the fifth?

Who does he think he is, Trump?

#89 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-29 06:38 PM | Reply

#86 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

This is an incredibly unscientific take.

As a scientist, you don't say something doesn't work if you don't know, you don't call it a dewormer for cows.

Someone here keeps claiming RightWingers are in a cult but the evidence is pointing clearly at the Lumpers.

"Ok Dr tell me about the wabbits again!!"
~ Clownshack

Tell you get the reference?

#90 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 06:41 PM | Reply


Who does he think he is, Trump?
#89 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Well they are both narcissists of biblical proportions.

#91 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-29 06:42 PM | Reply

I don't really know what to think of Fauci overall. There is a lot of negative ---- on him out there.

Serious question-like what?

Everything I've seen is misrepresented or misinterpreted by people who either don't know better or who have a narrative to spin.

#92 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 06:44 PM | Reply

#90 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

What you're not taking into consideration is Covid was a very active discussion on the DR 6 years ago and one one is buying your bullshht.

You should go back to X.com where you can impress Gen Z with your revisionist bullshht.

#93 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-29 06:44 PM | Reply

Fauci and his little bitch JPW deserve the gallows.

#8 | POSTED BY FORTFISHER

Ignorant, stupid pieces of s*%# usually lash out because they can't understand.

You're the kind of idiot that would be cheering at a medieval witch burning.

BTW go step in front of a bus. The world won't miss your miserable, piece of s*^% a&&.

#94 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 06:47 PM | Reply

How does Fauci look now, after his diary has been published?

#11 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

The snippets I've seen are nothing burgers on par with the Twitter Files.

Only idiots like you think it's meaningful.

#95 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 06:49 PM | Reply

-Serious question-like what?

Mostly covid conspiracy theory ---- from pro Trump people.

Just google "fauci pleads 5th". Or fauci lied

#96 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-29 06:58 PM | Reply

Only idiots like you think it's meaningful.

#95 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 06:49 PM | Reply | Flag

You suck frat dick, no one cares what you think. Even if you're moving to Eastern-Block Europe. We'd never do business with them - just a heads up.

#97 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-29 07:03 PM | Reply

The only reason why I think Republicans are going after Fauci is they attack " intellectuals. They feel frightened by things that they don't understand and they are lashing out. In other words. Fauci is smarter than they are.

#98 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-07-29 07:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The only reason why I think Republicans are going after Fauci is they attack " intellectuals. They feel frightened by things that they don't understand and they are lashing out. In other words. Fauci is smarter than they are.

#98 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-07-29 07:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

You sound like you've been taking heavy estrogen injections...

#99 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-29 07:08 PM | Reply

JPW has been taking heavy heavy sperm loads.

#100 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-29 07:09 PM | Reply

You sound like you've been taking heavy estrogen injections...
#99 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

JPW has been taking heavy heavy sperm loads.
#100 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

Keep swinging, Turds.

#101 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-29 07:15 PM | Reply

The nation's "leading expert" in COVID contracted COVID 3 times after being vaccinated and boosted 6 times. He had a pulmonary embolism 6 months after his second Moderna shot. This was, of course, not publicized.

#21 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Please tell me you don't see patients because you're dumb as f*^%.

#102 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:24 PM | Reply

Fauci was a major source of the misinformation, but Democrats and their allies helped spread and enforce it.

Social media was pressured to suppress information that did not fit the Democratic narrative. This very site fell directly in line.

Businesses were shuttered unnecessarily. Children were kept out of school far longer than necessary. People who questioned any of it were mocked, censored or accused of endangering others.

The list goes on.

The question is why did Democrats embrace and spread so much misinformation?

Some were undoubtedly frightened and simply believed what they were told. But I believe there may also have been a deeper motive perhaps not always fully conscious.

The shutdowns weakened the economy, increased dependence on government checks and expanded demand for government programs. That outcome fit perfectly with the political philosophy of those who believe government should play a much larger role in people's lives.

Why were so many Democrats determined to keep everything shut down for so long, even as the damage became increasingly obvious?

I am not claiming that every Democrat participated in some coordinated conspiracy. I am asking whether Democratic leaders recognized that the crisis created an opportunity to expand government dependence and then exploited that opportunity, despite the hardship it caused.

Conspiracy theories are not automatically true, but neither are they automatically false.

Read what I am actually saying, and not what you want to believe I am saying.

#103 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-29 07:24 PM | Reply

Fauci is proof of why we should not be governed by bureaucrat "experts".

#47 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You're proof of why stupid piles of s*^% shouldn't be allowed to vote.

#104 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:29 PM | Reply

His diary entries reveal that he is a narcissist piece of ---- more interested in his media appearances than public health.

#51 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

I always laugh at people like this s*^%bag.

Everyone else is always the arrogant one.

But never the ignorant murse who is pontificating on topics after watching a few YouTube videos.

#105 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:34 PM | Reply

Let's keep it buried!

#63 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Duhhhh ThE DeEpStAteZ!!!

STFU idiot. This is WELL beyond your pay grade.

#106 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:38 PM | Reply

In early 2020, Fauci recorded in his diary how much he was able to make the stock market drop with his lie that covid was 10x more deadly than the flu.

It wasn't a lie, s*^%bag. It was early data backed with low N results.

#107 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:40 PM | Reply

You mean services in the rearended?

#68 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Oh look, onelumpofs*^% is another closeted "c-c-conservative" cuck. Shocker.

#108 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:43 PM | Reply

Imagine working for the public since the 80s and being worth that much.

Imagine not knowing how the world works but still squealing like a little b*^%# like onelumpofs*^% does.

#109 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:46 PM | Reply

It is when you've shut down the economy, and made people die alone.

Hey worthless oil of s*^% dumbf*^%, Trump did that.

Now go play in traffic, idiot

#110 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:48 PM | Reply

Fauci was "the science", apparently he claimed ivermectin didn't work... when actually it has been favored in 100s of studies since.

How many people died because Fauci wanted to be famous?

#80 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Hey rcade, are you really going to let this piece of worthless, subhuman s^*% post blatant misinformation?

#111 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:52 PM | Reply

#97 usual stupid s*^% from lfthndpedo.

#112 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:55 PM | Reply

JPW has been taking heavy heavy sperm loads.

#100 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

You're so desperate for a discrete gay tryst it's sad.

#113 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:58 PM | Reply

Fauci was a major source of the misinformation, but Democrats and their allies helped spread and enforce it.

Horses**%.

STFU bill. Idiot.

#114 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 07:59 PM | Reply

One,

Read my long post.

Fauci was the source of so much misinformation but it was the Democrats who spread and enforced it.

A lot of studies are coming out now.

Masks were pretty well pointless.

So much is coming out showing Fauci gave a lot of bad advice.

But it was the Democrats who demanded people conform.

#115 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-29 07:59 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Read what I am actually saying, and not what you want to believe I am saying.

#103 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

lol your posts are equivalent to the South Park epidode where they s*^% out their mouths.

#116 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 08:02 PM | Reply

#115 you're a f*^%infg ------ who probably can't paraphrase the info.

Because you don't actually understand it.

#117 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 08:04 PM | Reply

Jpw,

"Because you don't actually understand it."

I'm married to someone who reads everything she finds and is a wealth of information.

#118 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-29 08:13 PM | Reply

Nobody believes anything you say

#119 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-29 08:14 PM | Reply

" Masks were pretty well pointless."

Anyone who actually believes that should watch hi-speed backlit film of a sneeze, with and without an N-95 mask.

Then answer a yes or no question: Are you aware a greater viral load means a greater chance of getting infected?

#120 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-07-29 08:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Read my long post.
Fauci was the source of so much misinformation but it was the Democrats who spread and enforced it.
A lot of studies are coming out now.
Masks were pretty well pointless.
So much is coming out showing Fauci gave a lot of bad advice.
But it was the Democrats who demanded people conform.
Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-29 07:59 PM | Reply

You again speak with forked tongue BillJohnson.

#121 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-07-29 08:19 PM | Reply

Jpw,

"#115 you're a f*^%infg ------ who probably can't paraphrase the info."

That's what I did.

I could provide some interesting trustworthy sources.

I could...but I won't.

It would be pathetic watching people try to discount it.

She's a research machine and smart.

She should be writing some of this stuff. But I do the paraphrasing and selecting what to say.

And I share my opinions.

#122 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-29 08:20 PM | Reply

"My wife is smart, she tells me what to think" is a cuck flex, bill.

#123 | Posted by alexandrite at 2026-07-29 08:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Dan,

"Anyone who actually believes that should watch hi-speed backlit film of a sneeze, with and without an N-95 mask."

I am referring to long term credible studies of people wearing different kinds of masks or no masks in different environments.

Overall, the difference in people getting COVID was minimal.

If you want to watch some slow motion videos that would freak you out, watch how much water from the toilet splashes out on the floor and onto everything near-by such as your toilet paper roll or tables or the bathtub or whatever, when the guy stands there taking a leak.

Or this one is a good one.

Watch a slow motion video when people blow out the candles on a birthday cake. Or the birthday girl and all of her friends. Yum...I want a piece of cake now.

Yet...somehow we all lived.

#124 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-29 08:33 PM | Reply

I'm married to someone who reads everything she finds and is a wealth of information.

#118 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Meaningless bulls*^%. If she lacks understanding, all the trading in the world won't matter.

It's LOL you thought that was worth posting.

#125 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 08:34 PM | Reply

I could...but I won't.

It would be pathetic watching people try to discount it.

She's a research machine and smart.

She should be writing some of this stuff. But I do the paraphrasing and selecting what to say.

And I share my opinions.

#122 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

You won't because you can't.

If your wife is the source of your opinions then she's an idiot.

#126 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 08:37 PM | Reply

Yet...somehow we all lived.
#124 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

This one line alone proves you're a f*^%ing moron.

#127 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 08:38 PM | Reply

Alex,

"My wife is smart, she tells me what to think" is a cuck flex, bill."

No...we live by Biblical standards.

I AM most definitely the man of the house.

She is my best friend, among other things. I am good to her.

And she is good to me.

We are equals.

I make many of the final decisions after fully discussing things.

And a lot of my decisions are what she wanted.

In a few years we'll have our golden anniversary.

#128 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-29 08:39 PM | Reply

Jpw,

"If your wife is the source of your opinions then she's an idiot."

If you belief what you just wrote, you're an idiot.

You just don't know how people work together, do you?

#129 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-29 08:41 PM | Reply

No more....

#130 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-29 08:41 PM | Reply

Has nothing to do with "working together."

You're spewing unmitigated bulls^*%. Period.

If it's from her and her "reading," then she's the idiot and you're the fool repeating it.

#131 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 08:45 PM | Reply

So is it going to be contempt of congress because of his refusal to answer questions?

Because he is already pardoned? The 5th amendment isn't available to him? That's what Hawley said.

Any truth to that?

#132 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-29 08:45 PM | Reply

www.cnn.com

#133 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-29 08:46 PM | Reply

Hawkey is a worthless piece of s*^%.

Take from a former Missourian who lived under his theatrics.

#134 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-29 08:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Even if Fauci was Completely Wrong there was NO INTENT to harm Anyone.

This is a political Witch hunt like they did in the USSR.

Next they will be calling Fauci "Insane" and seeking Commitment to a Secure Facility for the rest of his Natural Life.

It's Disgusting.

#135 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-29 08:59 PM | Reply

Fauci's smart to plead the fifth. His only option.

There is nothing he could say that the scum wouldn't try and use against him. He had to plead the fifth to prevent being hung by these jackles for a made-up post pardon "crimes" or "perjury." The goal is no longer actual justice, or even conviction.

Not one of those Republicans came out good after today's --------.

#136 | Posted by YAV at 2026-07-29 09:08 PM | Reply

Lt. Turds, a traitor and stupid person, wants Fauci locked up for being smart and doing the right thing

#137 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-07-29 09:14 PM | Reply

Jeepers, I wish the US Senate was this hard-boiled about releasing the Epstein files and interrogating perpetrators and victims.

#138 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-29 09:48 PM | Reply

Any truth to that?

#132 | POSTED BY EBERLY

No. Any "crimes" he may have inadvertently committed after the pardon is still fair game.

I heard very little truth coming from the Republicans. As usual.

#139 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-29 09:49 PM | Reply

"In a few years we'll have our golden anniversary."

#128 | Posted by BillJohnson

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh my ------- god it's too hysterical.

Sure Billy Boy, your "wife" has been with your miserable self-hating loser of a so-called person for 5 decades.

Bet she looks like Anthony Hopkin's mom.

#140 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-29 10:27 PM | Reply

*** Good-for-nothing Florida AG Investigating Dr Fauci ***

"Vastly under-qualified political hack Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier brayed that he is launching a useless investigation into Anthony Fauci after the former public health official repeatedly declined to answer questions about the COVID-19 pandemic at a tense congressional hearing.

"Fauci's lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable," Uthmeier puled on X. "My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It's past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID."

~snip~

"Within months of Gov. Ron DeSatan handpicking him as Florida's new attorney general last winter, James Uthmeier landed a lucrative side gig: a $100,000-a-year teaching assignment at University of Florida's law school for just two hours of instruction per week."

Read more at: www.miamiherald.com

Link: www.washingtonexaminer.com

#141 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-30 12:12 AM | Reply

But it was the Democrats who demanded people conform.

#115 | Posted by BillJohnson

Declining to stick your hand down the garbage disposal is not conformity, BILL.

Hundreds of thousands of you independent minded MAGA refused the jab and died.

If you won't learn from a mass die-off then you're warped.

Stop blaming Fauci for your own bloody-minded stupidity.

Even if you succeed in putting him in jail, you're still the same unfathomable collection of idiots you were in 2020.

#142 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-30 07:00 AM | Reply

Once my lawyer was asked to leave I would have taken the 5th also.

#143 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-07-30 07:08 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If anyone should be dragged through the streets on a hurdle and exposed to hurled garbage it sure isn't Anthony Fauci.

No, I'd nominate the most fitting candidate: Donald Trump, whose ignorance and stupidity, panic and hysteria helped kill nobody knows how many people who made the fatal mistake of listening to his moronic babbling.

#144 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-30 07:11 AM | Reply

Once my lawyer was asked to leave I would have taken the 5th also.

#143 | POSTED BY FRESNO500 AT 2026-07-30 07:08 AM | REPLY | FLAG:

You mean public defender.

#145 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-30 08:32 AM | Reply

146 comments and we still can't make it to the front page. Lmao

#146 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-30 08:33 AM | Reply

-Hundreds of thousands of you independent minded MAGA refused the jab and died.
If you won't learn from a mass die-off then you're warped.

Funny. There was enough left to beat Kamala Harris

#147 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-30 08:36 AM | Reply

I am referring to long term credible studies of people wearing different kinds of masks or no masks in different environments.
Overall, the difference in people getting COVID was minimal.
#124 | Posted by BillJohnson

Without a link to these long term credible studies, nobody believes you.

There's also an important difference between the claim that wearing a mask didn't make much of a difference in the person wearing the mask getting COVID, vs the person wearing the mask spreading COVID.

But I suppose the idea of "wearing a mask in case you might be infected and don't want to infect others" is something you never thought about and still won't. Because that would demonstrate compassion for rank strangers, and you don't have that.

#148 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-30 08:43 AM | Reply

"A lot of studies are coming out now."
"I am referring to long term credible studies"

^
Funny how none of these studies can be shown to exist.

#149 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-30 08:45 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Funny how none of these studies can be shown to exist.

#149 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-30 08:45 AM | Reply | Flag:

Kinda like raetard Zed claiming a massive die-off of conservative voters.

#150 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-30 08:53 AM | Reply

Fauci is being threatened with contempt of congress and a vote will happen next week?

what would happen to him? He's 85.

Obviously this is theatre to help the GOP in the midterms.....not sure if it's going to be effective.

#151 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 09:11 AM | Reply

Kinda like raetard Zed claiming a massive die-off of conservative voters.
#150 | Posted by lfthndthrds

That's easy to show, you just have to look for it.
So whatever you do, make sure you don't click this link. Fight the urge to learn things. Learning isn't for you!
search.brave.com

#152 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-30 09:27 AM | Reply

Doc,

"Donald Trump, whose ignorance and stupidity, panic and hysteria helped kill nobody knows how many people"

Would you like to expand on that?

What was Trump ignorant about stirring up panic that killed people?

Please be specific.

#153 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-30 09:39 AM | Reply

What was Trump ignorant about stirring up panic that killed people?

#153 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Was there a panic in 2020? I saw hysteria, no panic. A straightforward health emergency was turned into a test of political and cultural loyalty by a bunch of people who proved to have the worldview of hillbillies.

Now, I come from a long line of hillbillies, so I know something about them. My grandmother told me that the astronauts would be sorry when the Moon turned to blood.

Other advanced nations held their COVID dead to a few tens of thousands, That should have been the USA. Yeah, we should blame Trump. His response to pandemic was to treat it as a personal public image problem; and to do what he could to make sure that it was the Blue state that suffered from it.

This is why people say you are in a cult, BILL. We all lived through this, but what do you remember? Only the Trump/MAGA mythology, which is a collection of easily checked and silly lies.

#154 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-30 09:55 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What was Trump ignorant about stirring up panic that killed people?
Please be specific.
#153 | Posted by BillJohnson

Here are your specifics.
Notice how we can provide specifics, and you can't do that for your claims?
Anyway.

There were a few people who OD'd on ivermectin.
Coronavirus: 2 deaths linked to ivermectin in New Mexico, officials say
www.kiro7.com

#155 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-30 10:47 AM | Reply

" You're proof of why stupid piles of s*^% shouldn't be allowed to vote.

#104 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-07-29 07:29 PM | FLAG: "

You are limply flailing throughout this entire thread and have no understanding of our civic processes. Get out of the middle stall and watch Schoolhouse rocks videos on YouTube. They were designed to educate children which is on par with your level of cognition.

#156 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-07-30 10:48 AM | Reply

Fauci is proof of why we should not be governed by bureaucrat "experts".
#47 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Proof.
Where's the proof?

#157 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-30 10:55 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"You are limply flailing throughout this entire thread and have no understanding of our civic processes"

Hey JeffJ:
Does our civic process allow for us to be governed by bureaucrat "experts?"

#158 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-30 10:56 AM | Reply

Zed,

What part of the COVID hysteria are you attributing to Trump?

There are so many parts of this, which are you referring to?

#159 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-30 10:57 AM | Reply

#159 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

To make this simpler, start with this:

What of the COVID threat did MAGA mishandle?

#160 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-30 11:03 AM | Reply

Does our civic process allow for us to be governed by bureaucrat "experts?"

Yes the US allows bureaucrats to govern, they don't even need to be "experts".

You clearly have never built anything of substance in America.

Where's the proof?
#157 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

You need to look up the definition of"governed".

One meaning, to exert a determining or guiding influence in or over

The whole point of the CDC is to govern via bureaucracy of experts.
Fauci strongly influenced actions of the government, that is how he governed.

Otherwise whats the point of the CDC or Fauci if not to govern.

#161 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-30 11:15 AM | Reply

What part of the COVID hysteria are you attributing to Trump?

#162 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-30 11:17 AM | Reply

"Yes the US allows bureaucrats to govern, they don't even need to be "experts"."

Civil servants enforce regulations, policy and rules. They do not "govern".

Just because you can't afford insurance or permits etc does not mean they are in charge of you.

If you don't like the rules there is a democratic process available to change them. Unlike your homeland.

You need to look up the definition of"governed".

One meaning, to exert a determining or guiding influence in or over

Less is more. The more you type the dumber you sound chinaman.

#163 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-30 11:35 AM | Reply

"One meaning, to exert a determining or guiding influence in or over"

So by that definition the lines painted on the roads and stop lights and signs "govern" me?

#164 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-30 11:41 AM | Reply

Zed,

"What of the COVID threat did MAGA mishandle?"

No....don't change my question and act like you're answering my question.

My question to Doc was,

"What part of the COVID hysteria are you attributing to Trump that killed so many people?" I am asking for specifics.

I am responding to Doc's comment of,

"Donald Trump, whose ignorance and stupidity, panic and hysteria helped kill nobody knows how many people who made the fatal mistake of listening to his moronic babbling."

Again...I am not looking at your question. I want to know what ignorance and stupidity created panic and hysteria which ultimately killed "nobody knows how many", per Doc.

Just a few specifics.

#165 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-30 11:46 AM | Reply

Again...I am not looking at your question. I want to know what ignorance and stupidity created panic and hysteria which ultimately killed "nobody knows how many", per Doc.

You don't remember? Is your Fake Plastic Brain broke?

I'll give you some examples that came quickly to mind.

He promoted Unverified Treatments on National TV: In April 2020, Trump publicly mused during a White House press briefing about injecting household disinfectants like bleach and using internal ultraviolet light as potential cures for the virus. These comments were swiftly condemned by the medical community, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and disinfectant manufacturers, who had to issue urgent warnings against ingestion. Poison control centers reported spikes in calls following the remarks.

Remember. This was the POTUS speaking to Americans during pandemic when we all just wanted answers as to what our government was as doing to help us.

He downplayed the Virus and Efficacy of Masks: Throughout the early stages of the pandemic, Trump publicly downplayed the severity and transmissibility of COVID-19"despite acknowledging its deadliness in private interviews"which critics argue discouraged the public from taking preventative measures. His administration frequently cast doubt on scientific consensus regarding mask-wearing and social distancing, leading to a heavy politicization of public health guidelines.

#166 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-30 12:02 PM | Reply

Zed,

And do better than mentioning the bleach comment.

You have to be pretty stupid already to actually ingest bleach.

I don't think there was a lot of people actually doing it.

So....what else is Doc referring to?

#167 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-30 12:02 PM | Reply

-I'll give you some examples that came quickly to mind.

They didn't come to mind. You obviously googled it.

and that's fine.

#168 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 12:07 PM | Reply

" What of the COVID threat did MAGA mishandle?

#160 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2026-07-30 11:03 AM | FLAG: "

As it pertains to Trump, quite a bit of it. I believe it's the primary reason he lost the 2020 election.

#169 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-07-30 12:07 PM | Reply

You have to be pretty stupid already to actually ingest bleach.

Are you calling maga maroons stupid?

They all voted for this crap. THEY were the ones ingesting bleach and fish tank cleaner and sticking UV lights in their orifices.

#170 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-30 12:08 PM | Reply

What was Trump ignorant about stirring up panic that killed people?
#153 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

My first reaction to the question was, you're kidding, of course.

But let's assume you aren't. So here's a specific: Trump stirred up and spread endless confusion during the epidemic with his idiotic televised performances from the WH. Herky-jerky, ignoramic stuff - horse paste, for chrissakes, light bulbs somewhere, somehow, maybe up the ass? Of course, when Trump contracted Covid, boy, did he get some care far out of the reach of those who were unfortunate enough to make the mistake of listening to him push medicine show "remedies."

As POTUS, Trump had an obligation to spread the word about Covid, and not just any words.

Take it or leave it, Bill. For me, the man has blood on his hands and doesn't give a toss. Which marks him as something far worse than merely incompetent.

#171 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-30 12:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

They didn't come to mind. You obviously googled it.

They "came to mind" and then I asked my AI to verify my facts. Because that is the proper way to debate something. With actual verifiable facts.

Thanks for noticing!

#172 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-30 12:10 PM | Reply

"My first reaction to the question was, you're kidding, of course."

Same here.

#173 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-30 12:11 PM | Reply

Trump deserves the criticism he gets for the bleach, the masks, etc. all of it.

But I've always maintained that if Hillary had won, the same dopes who ignored the safety protocols that would have saved lives would have behaved the same way regardless.

those people wouldn't have listened to Hillary nor Fauci and would have followed dumb ass advice regardless because they were listening to what they wanted to hear.

Not a defense for the messaging from Trump.

#174 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 12:13 PM | Reply

Off the top and Paraphrasing..

"I told my people .. Stop with all the testing!"

"15 cases soon to be zero!"

"It will stop when it gets warm".

"It's a Democratic Hoax!"

And my AI found this:

The human toll of these actions has been extensively studied. Several analyses, including research published in The Lancet and by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, suggest that the administration's disjointed response, politicization of mitigation measures, and failures in testing and containment contributed to tens of thousands"and according to some estimates, hundreds of thousands"of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. alone.

#175 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-30 12:16 PM | Reply

But I've always maintained that if Hillary had won

Guess we will never know. America chose to FAFO instead. And sadly we DO know how that turned out.

#176 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-30 12:20 PM | Reply

You need to look up the definition of"governed".
One meaning, to exert a determining or guiding influence in or over
The whole point of the CDC is to govern via bureaucracy of experts.
#161 | Posted by oneironaut

Fauci isn't part of the CDC.

You're a very bad liar.

Furthermore, Trump took management of COVID away from CDC and gave it to HHS.
Which defeats the reason for having a CDC!
Because "The whole point of the CDC is to govern via bureaucracy of experts."
Your words.

You're a very, very bad liar.

#177 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-30 12:21 PM | Reply

History will never judge Trump well on COVID.

There is no changing that.

Unless you can make Fauci the madman who lied, concealed, and otherwise was incompetent with regards to his actions. This senate committee isn't getting that done.

Pleading the 5th isn't going make much of a dent into any of that.

A small minority of folks will continue to believe Fauci is the real villain here......but that's about it.

#178 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 12:24 PM | Reply

-You have to be pretty stupid already to actually ingest bleach.

You have to be pretty stupid already to follow medical advice given by any politician.

Including the politicians that are MDs.

#179 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 12:28 PM | Reply

Donner,

Look up the Cochrane review on masks.

Its conclusion was not that masks can never work. It found that, in randomized studies, encouraging people to wear masks produced little or no clearly detectable reduction in COVID or other respiratory infections.

The researchers compared medical masks, N95 respirators and no mask groups. When they looked at who actually became infected, the overall benefit was minimal and statistically uncertain.

That is quite different from the confident claim that widespread masking and mask mandates had been proven to substantially reduce transmission.

The debate over masks certainly came close to creating the very "panic and hysteria" Doc talked about. People were shamed, excluded and treated as dangerous for questioning claims that were far less certain than officials admitted.

In hindsight, much of it looks like theater and virtue signaling masquerading as settled science.

#180 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-30 12:28 PM | Reply

"Fauci saved lives"

and I thought Laura was delusional before.

#181 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-07-30 12:30 PM | Reply

"Its conclusion was not that masks can never work."

...because human nature is not to use them 100% properly, 100% of the time.

Al least be honest enough to tell the WHOLE part, rather than one cherry-picked part.

And I stand by my statement: anyone believing masks had NO benefit is a moron.

#182 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-07-30 12:32 PM | Reply

-Its conclusion was not that masks can never work

Masks or mask mandates expected to be followed by the general public?

-People were shamed, excluded and treated as dangerous for questioning claims that were far less certain than officials admitted.

I had a college student, a high school student and a grade school student when COVID hit....all of them home for those months when universities and schools were closed.

We were able to facilitate their learning and they could get something out of it but most of their classmates were fucked because their homes were not places to be during the day if you expect any learning to occur.

Not faulting anyone for those decisions.......but what I would hope is that we can be better positioned should this come up again.

IMO, this hearing yesterday didn't get us any closer. If anything, it pushed people to continue to not trust or even ignore warnings and suggestions......

#183 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-30 12:38 PM | Reply

The central point of Cochrane, according to AI:
The Cochrane review indicates that studies on masks often suffer from biases due to inconsistent mask use and inadequate measures of fit and filtration.

BillJojhnson is either gaslighting, or ignorant.

#184 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-07-30 12:44 PM | Reply

Regarding the shutdowns:

Trump initially supported the "15 Days to Slow the Spread" guidelines. Before those 15 days had ended, he was already warning about the economic damage and saying he hoped businesses could begin reopening by Easter.

He later abandoned the Easter target and extended the federal distancing guidelines through April 30.

But the federal government never imposed a single nationwide business shutdown. The actual orders closing businesses, schools and public spaces and the decisions about how long to keep them closed were generally made by governors under their own state authority.

The Trump administration issued guidance, but governors were not under federal orders requiring them to continue the shutdowns and mandates.

It was largely the governors who determined how severely and how long their individual states remained shut down.

This would be another major element of Doc's "panic and hysteria,".

The prolonged state shutdowns cannot fairly be laid primarily at Trump's feet.

#185 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-30 12:44 PM | Reply

"After completing his medical residency in 1968, Dr Anthony Fauci joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a clinical associate in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases's (NIAID) Laboratory of Clinical Investigation (LCI)." (Source: Wiki).

Dr. Fauci -- like US Army General Douglas MacArthur ("American Caesar") -- gained a half-century experience and expertise in their respective fields and used them for the benefit of the American people and the USG.

Dr Fauci -- who therefore avoided conscription for service during the height of the Vietnam War in 1968 -- now faces more peril and trauma from his fellow Americans than from what the NVA or the Viet Cong might have inflicted upon him in SE Asia.


Link: Dr Fauci forced to hire expensive private bodyguards

#186 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-30 12:46 PM | Reply

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