#dr. fauci

[thedepressedjuggalette]

Marjorie Traitor Green's idiotic temper tantrums are starting to exhaust her fellow Cultists. This is the GOP that hasn't done SHIT and the worst one in history. They've done nothing but chase conspiracy theories because of this idiot. They can't pass a single law or uphold our laws. I've seen middle schoolers be more mature than this idiot. Vote her out. Vote blue.

[time4hemp]

Please share this - this political cartoonist is GREAT!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

At-Large Marge. http://Newsday.com/matt :: Matt Davies

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The lesson of Covid

June 4, 2024

ROBERT B. HUBBELL

The United States suffered more deaths from Covid than any other nation in the world (1.13 million) and the highest death rate (341 per 100,000) of any large, high-income country. Those shocking facts suggest that a congressional inquiry is urgently needed to understand why the US fared so poorly compared to other industrialized nations.

On Monday, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing ostensibly designed to understand why the US response to Covid paled in comparison to the responses and outcomes by countries like the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Australia, Canada, and Netherlands.

You will not be surprised to learn that the hearing did not devote time to understanding what the US could do better in response to the next pandemic. Instead, Republicans converted the hearing into an evidence-free attack on Dr. Fauci’s selfless, expert guidance through a pandemic that killed approximately 1 out of every 300 Americans. See, e.g., Newsweek, Dr. Fauci Testifies: Unvaccinated Americans Caused Additional "200-300k Deaths".

Led by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan, Republicans peddled baseless conspiracy theories that will kill tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans in the next pandemic—just as vaccine hesitancy and disinformation killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in the last epidemic.

Convicted Felon Donald Trump broke the Republican Party when he elevated loyalty to him above belief in the truth. The disgraceful conduct by Republicans in today’s Select Committee hearing is the direct product of Trump's assault on the truth.

A nation cannot govern itself if it creates policy and passes legislation based on fever dreams and mass delusion. Truth matters. Lies matter. That may be the most important lesson of the coronavirus pandemic. It came at a dear cost: The deaths of 1.1 million Americans. We should never forget that lesson or the losses suffered by tens of millions of family members—or we may be condemned to repeat the tragedy in the next pandemic.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[motherfuckingamerica]

[nomoremaybe]

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

He lied

Charge his ass

[lookingjoligood]

Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow: Freddie Mercury and the Stigma of HIV/AIDS

Studying population public health has opened my eyes to the overwhelming impact that infectious diseases have on individuals and society. As I’m reading Anthony Fauci’s On Call, I find myself deeply moved by the part he played in the relentless battle against HIV/AIDS and the advocacy that shaped public health responses. This story isn’t just about statistics and policies—it’s about the people…

[anorganizedstreet]

[alaturkaamerika]

Biden, Trump Yönetimi'nin Hedef Alabileceği İsimler İçin Önden Af Verme Olasılığını Değerlendiriyor

Biden, Trump yönetimi öncesi hedef alınabilecek isimler için önden af seçeneğini değerlendiriyor. Dr. Fauci ve Hunter Biden gibi isimler öne çıkıyor. Başkan Joe Biden, Trump’ın yeniden iktidara gelmesi durumunda hedef alınabilecek isimler için önleyici af (preemptif af) seçeneğini değerlendiriyor. Bu strateji, Trump’ın olası “intikamcı” politikalarına karşı bir önlem olarak öne çıkıyor. Afların…

[thedepressedjuggalette]

Marjorie Taylor Green doesn't know what science and context are. I don't know how this woman hasn't been kicked out of office.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

June 3, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JUN 04, 2024

The fallout from the New York jury’s conviction of Donald Trump on 34 felony counts last Thursday, May 30, continues. Trump’s team continues to insist that the guilty verdict will help him, but that’s nonsensical on its face: if guilty verdicts are so helpful, why has he moved heaven and earth to keep the many other cases against him from going to trial? And why are he and House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) calling for the Supreme Court to overturn the convictions? 

As political consultant Stuart Stevens put it: “I worked in five presidential races and helped elect Republican governors or Senators in over half the country. I have never heard anything more transparently desperate than a party trying to spin that there is some non-MAGA pool of voters who can't wait to vote for a convicted felon.”

On Friday, Morning Consult conducted a poll to gauge how voters were reacting to the guilty verdict. It showed that 54% of registered voters approved of it, while only 34% disapproved. Perhaps worse for Trump was that 49% of Independents and 15% of Republicans thought he should end his campaign. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 10% of registered Republican voters and 25% of Independents said that his conviction made it less likely that they would vote for him for president. 

Then, on Saturday, there was what Danny Westneat of the Seattle Times called a plot twist. It turns out the state of Washington has a law on the books that prevents felons from running for office. But because a candidate has to be certified to be on a ballot before they can be challenged, the issue can’t be resolved until Trump officially becomes the Republican Party’s presidential nominee at the July convention. Westneat asked, “Republicans: You sure you want to go down this road?”

On Sunday, Trump appeared on Fox and Friends for his first interview since his conviction. The interview was heavily edited, suggesting his comments were problematic in some way, but what was there was still bad enough. He repeated his plans to fire generals who refuse to do his bidding and to deport immigrants by using local police to round them up. Notably, considering his own looming sentencing, he claimed he never said “lock her up” about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a claim that reporters on social media promptly shredded with video clips of him doing exactly that. 

Media figures are puncturing Trump’s image. The verdict buried a story by The Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt, who is now free of a nondisclosure agreement, explaining how he and others created an illusion that Trump was a successful businessman and alleging that Trump used the n-word on set. On Saturday, an image circulated on social media of Trump leaving Trump Tower and waving as if to a crowd, but there was no one there.

Also on Saturday, top sports talk host Colin Cowherd pushed back on the idea that the trial was rigged, telling his listeners: “If everybody in your circle is a felon, maybe it’s not rigged. Maybe the world isn’t against you.” “Donald Trump is now a felon,” Cowherd said. “His campaign chairman was a felon. So is his deputy campaign manager, his personal lawyer, his chief strategist, his National Security Adviser, his Trade Advisor, his Foreign Policy Adviser, his campaign fixer, and his company CFO. They’re all felons. Judged by the company you keep. It’s a cabal of convicts.”

Cowherd went on: “[Trump’s] trying to sell me an America that doesn’t exist.” “Stop trying to sell me on ‘everything’s rigged, the country’s falling into the sea, the economy’s terrible,’” he continued. “The America that I live in is imperfect. But compared to the rest of the world, I think we’re doing okay.”

This morning, Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott, and Alex Mierjeski of ProPublica reported that Trump’s businesses and campaign committees have funneled significant financial benefits to at least nine witnesses in the criminal campaigns against Trump, often at crucial moments in the legal proceedings. The pay of one campaign aide doubled; another got a $2 million severance package that barred him from cooperating with law enforcement. The daughter of one of the campaign’s top officials was hired onto the staff and is now the fourth-highest-paid employee, with a salary of $222,000. Payments to the companies of certain witnesses dramatically increased.

Faturechi, Elliott, and Mierjeski note that it is not uncommon for bosses to find themselves defendants, complicating their relationship with employees who might have witnessed alleged crimes. In such cases, lawyers advise the defendant not to provide any unusual benefits or penalties, to avoid the appearance of witness tampering.

Trump’s attorney, David Warrington, sent ProPublica a cease-and-desist letter saying that if the outlet and its reporters “continue their reckless campaign of defamation, President Trump will evaluate all legal remedies.” He demanded that ProPublica kill the article, keeping it from publication.

And then, this afternoon, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams, along with the U.S. Department of Labor and the State Department, unsealed an indictment charging Weidong Guan, also known as Bill Guan, the chief financial officer of the global news outlet The Epoch Times, with using the outlet to launder at least $67 million. The Epoch Times is affiliated with the ultraconservative Chinese anticommunist religious group Falun Gong and supports Donald Trump and other right-wing U.S. politicians with both press and cash. It was a major promoter of Dinesh D’Souza’s film 2000 Mules that claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen. A voter depicted in that film sued for defamation, and just last week the distributor settled with the plaintiff, issued an apology, and stopped distributing the film.

The allegation that The Epoch Times is a money-laundering operation comes on top of yesterday’s story by Joseph Menn in the Washington Post, reporting that the editor of another media site that pushes disinformation from both the far right and the far left, The Grayzone, has worked for Russia’s Sputnik as well as taken money from Iranian government-owned media. One of the people who retweets Grayzone stories is Senator Mike Lee (R-UT).

In the middle of all this bad news for MAGA Republicans, it felt like desperation today when the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic tried to resurrect Covid conspiracy theories against Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, serving under seven presidents. President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the U.S., for his work on combating the global AIDS epidemic. 

Fauci’s position as NIAID director put him at the center of U.S. attempts to grapple with Covid-19, and for his work on developing a vaccine, Trump awarded him a presidential commendation. But first QAnon and then MAGA Republicans centered him as a villain who either started or covered up the pandemic, or forced people to mask or to get vaccines they told their supporters were unnecessary or even dangerous. QAnon conspiracy theorist Ivan Raiklin and convicted January 6 rioter Brandon Fellows were seated behind Fauci today; Fellows made pouty faces when Fauci was describing the death threats he, his wife, and his daughters have endured. 

Video creator and political commentator Michael McWhorter noted that Raiklin has made dramatic threats of violence against those he considers members of “the Deep State” and that he should have been nowhere near Fauci. McWhorter also noted that the two men were likely invited to the hearing and that it would be useful to know who invited them.  

Committee member Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has skipped seven of the last ten hearings and who has expressed sympathy for QAnon in the past, attacked Fauci by saying he should be prosecuted: “You know what this committee should be doing? We should be writing a criminal referral because you should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity,” she said. “You belong in prison, Dr. Fauci.” For all the nastiness, the hearing turned up nothing.

Later, Greene told Manu Raju of CNN that Speaker Johnson should shut down the government over the Trump verdict and prosecutions. “We're literally a banana republic. So what does it matter funding the government? The American people don't give a sh*t.” 

While MAGA Republicans are insisting that a Manhattan jury’s conviction of Trump means that President Joe Biden has weaponized the Department of Justice and that they must take revenge, the trial of Biden’s son Hunter on federal gun charges, brought by a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney whom Biden kept on, started today. Former top Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann noted that Biden is “living the rule of law…in the most personal way. He is not telling DOJ to stand down…. He is not pardoning his son…. He is living what it means to have a rule of law in this country…. If you want to know if he believes it, you can actually see what is happening with his own son.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[kevinwikse]

The Black Alchemy of Zion: Vaccine/Gentile to Goyim.

The only distinction that will truly matter from now to eternity is Vaccinated or Unvaccinated. To be Vaccinated means you are no longer human. On the sooty and blood-stained altar of Moloch, thinly disguised as a medical table, you sacrificed not just your humanity, but the boundless potential of your children and, thereby, the future of our species.

COVID-19 was the last test the elites would give humanity—a final gauntlet thrown down to see if we would stand our ground against tyranny, protect our children, and fight tooth and nail for a future worth living. And with sickeningly smug looks, they smiled knowingly at each other. They had been right all along. Humanity was nothing but a herd of morally and spiritually bankrupt sheep, ready to be led to slaughter. Now, with the genetic and physical alterations brought on by the Vaccinated, their dark alchemy of turning man into beast would be complete.

In the dim, clinical glow of the so-called medical table, humanity's last stand played out like a scene from a dystopian nightmare. The altar of Moloch—masked as a place of healing—was nothing more than a slaughterhouse, where dignity and potential were obliterated by hollow promises and sterilized lies. The elites watched from their high towers, eyes glinting with the cold satisfaction of predators savoring the kill.

They had been right all along. The masses, stripped of their will and courage, proved to be nothing more than domesticated animals, led meekly to their doom. The vaccine wasn't just a medical procedure; it was the final betrayal, a ritual of control that cemented their power and transformed us into their obedient playthings.

With each injection, the genetic and physical transformations took root, twisting our essence into something unrecognizable, something subservient. The elites' victory is near complete, their dominion almost unchallenged, their black magic triumphant. They have turned man into beast, sealing our fate with a smug sense of finality.

Behold, ye wretched and Vaccinated! You have been transmogrified from Gentile to Goyim. You are now the slaves of the "Wise Men of Zion" forever, and you've doomed your offspring to a truly hellish fate.

In the searing light of their twisted machinations, you willingly stepped onto the sacrificial altar, eager to trade your birthright for a false sense of security. You’ve forsaken not only your humanity but the limitless potential of your progeny, shackling them to a future of unimaginable torment.

The Wise Men of Zion, those shadowy puppet masters, have always known the dark alchemy of control. They watched with cold, calculating eyes as you succumbed, their lips curling into a cruel smile. They knew that the final test would reveal the true nature of humanity. And with each injection, each compliance, their victory became inevitable.

Now, transformed from Gentile to Goyim, you wear the chains of your own making. You’ve become the servile creatures they always believed you to be, pawns in their grand design. The altar of Moloch has claimed another sacrifice, and in its unholy glow, the elites revel in their triumph.

This is not just a betrayal; it’s a metamorphosis into something less than human. You’ve sealed your fate and that of your children, condemning them to a world where freedom is a distant memory, and the future is a bleak, unending nightmare. The Wise Men of Zion have won, and their dark prophecy is fulfilled.

But even in the depths of this manufactured hell, a spark of defiance flickers. For those who dare to reject the chains and choose to remain unvaccinated, freedom over the needle at any cost, in us, the unvaccinated, there remains a glimmer of hope. The battle for humanity's soul is not over. The choice to fight, to reclaim what was lost, still lies within our reach!

-Kevin Wikse

www.kevinwikse.com

[davidblaska]

We don't trust the science

Do not take the politics out of politics! Let’s cut Anthony Fauci some slack. The good man was wrong about a lot of things — masking, six-feet separation, closing schools, and the Wuhan lab among them. But the infectious diseases czar was a hammer and hammers see only nails. Close it down, shut if off if it prevents one incidence of Covid 19. That was his job to so advocate. The fault, dear…

[sporadicarbiterearthquake-blog]

Deconstructing the Fauci Interview

Just saw the Fauci interview on CBS Sunday mornings. Of course he wanted to throw cold water on the lab leak origin of Covid. To do so he recited his contention that the viruses the NIH was working with were too genetically removed from Covid to have been responsible. Of course that still leaves every other research program at Wuhan, and as Fauci contended it would take 20 years to go there from here in terms of gain of function.

In this interview I gave to the Paranet Continuum in 1996, when asked about probable future calamities I mention, "a super flu" coming out of China. That was 24 years before Covid, more than the period of time it would Fauci said it would take to go from the NIH viruses to Covid.

To keep this in context China was not the only nation that was researching bioweapons. So were we and at least a dozen other nations. One insider once gave me the excuse that the US "had" to engage in genetically specific bioweapons research if we even suspected someone else was doing so. Yet because it was secret there was no widespread public outrage.

Covid was obviously not quite ready for prime time. That is why it had to be an accidental lab leak. It was far from an effective strategic bioweapon It also had some under-developed ethnically specific elements. It was not an intentional release as some contend. Nor is there any other probable explanation.

Surely, if the Chinese were to release Covid intentionally the release point would not have been Wuhan itself. The same argument destroys those who contend that it was anything other than an accidental lab leak.

In the end I felt sorry for Fauci. I would bet he has some sleepless nights. He might even have been spying on the Chinese bioweapons program.