-It's almost like you get it.

you mean "agree with me", right?

-it's how politicized it became because Trump immediately called it a democratic hoax.

Yeah, that politicized the ---- out of it.

People are used to it, though.

how much do we politicize school shootings, guns in general?

We tolerate that from our politicians. Trump just did what politicians do. It's not an excuse....I'm saying Americans have been watching this soap opera for a long long time.

We tolerate the sale of alcohol, tobacco, horrible foods, guns, prescription drugs at an alarming rate, we allow people to drive above 55 MPH....and ALL of that generates a lot of preventable deaths a year. What's missing? drugs/narcotics.....and there is a faction of people arguing to legalize those as well.

Not being all judgy about it....just seeing it for what it is. This country has a strong tolerance for preventable deaths, and that obviously included COVID.

Here we are 6 years later.......and where are we? In exactly the same place. Nobody has moved an inch on this issue. Trump's approval numbers might be dropping but COVID has nothing to do with it.

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To you, everyone in the world is an idiot who can't agree with you.

You're a child. Period.

-Eberly, you chose your side.

I make my choices on election day.

You can play dodgeball with your friends at recess and hope they pick you for their team.

That's all you do here. Beg for friends by being a total -------.

Me? I'll do a better job of debating issues and ignore morons like you than I did here.

-I personally think it's all theater.

You're right.

I wonder how many leading democrats will ultimately one day (long after Trump is gone) admit to something they can't admit to today.

That back in 2020 when COVID hit.....they were glad Hillary lost.

If Hillary had won, how bad would the political environment have been for her on the part of the republicans over ANY death from COVID?

They would have outright crucified her for everything. It would have been a bloodbath for democrats at that time.

"Heart disease
obesity
prescription meds"

you left off allowing speeds above 55 MPH, booze, and of course......cigarettes......all things allowed by law.

Now, none of that is a defense for Trump's administration's handling of COVID.

But it's why people have quickly moved on. Fauci's testimony resurrected it for a couple days....but it's fizzle out pretty soon.

-I think taxpayers are more concerned with their grand children owing 36+ Trillion dollars

Taxpayers might say they are concerned about that.

But they're not.

-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 ------ 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......

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.

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How many times have you been raped?

How are we any closer to the truth? How are we going to get closer?

Fauci is the only witness called. Are there any others?

Can an argument be made Fauci's silence is the last word (LOL) on the matter?

What "truth" does this committee plan to produce? If they aren't going to call any other witnesses (and Fauci knew this which is actually why it might have been easier to plead the 5th) then what truth is going to emerge?

As Senator Blumenthal said....."they(questions) should be addressed"

The committee had to know Fauci wasn't going to give them anything.

They can vote on contempt but then what??

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.

-Because Republicans only care about debt and deficits when a Democrat is in the White House.

which is perhaps why nobody else worries about it.

the obvious hypocrisy on the issue is likely why even democratic party voters aren't worried about it.

It's ceased to be a wedge issue if it ever really was.

When Clinton accomplished what he did with regards to our debt and deficit spending......did voters really appreciate it?

Well.....Clinton's VP couldn't manage to keep the WH so there's a clue. Did the average voter feel different after Clinton righted the ship? Was there some sense of relief, some pain removed? Not....nobody felt any different. It was as if Clinton did nothing of substance. As if the debt was irrelevant.

What the GOP is doing is taking advantage of the fact the American voters don't understand government debt, how budgets are developed and approved.

And if/when a democrat takes the helm, works with congress to steer the ship is a better direction......the GOP will claim they did it for being the fiscal conservatives they are.

LOL

-Translation: a sizable number of Paxton voters don't want to admit it publicly.

IOW, people lie in polls? You don't say....

They should have tazed his ass......