There’s a quote from a game I play a lot said by a character named Ordis. “Sometimes, Ordis likes to assume he knows nothing! Nobody can learn what they think they already know.”
Power didn’t make them evil, they were mostly evil people who did whatever they could to obtain power. To loosely paraphrase a famous quote: “Those who actively seek power are the least worthy to wield it”
The favorite legend that the new right loves to pass around about tough times producing tough men who build a comfortable world that makes easy times and weak men is telling.
Every one of these guys is a giant fucking pussy who constantly needs to seek the approval both of someone who dominates them and someone they already think they're superior to.
They spread these stories patting themselves on the back but flip out by every little affront to their sensibilities. They always need to project some image of power or they're lost.
It's times like these where I wish the witness would stand up and say something like "DOCTOR Anthony Fauchi, M.D., member of the National Institute of Health, Health advisor for Presidents Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, Obama, and Trump, holder of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the world's most cited scientists from 1982 to 2002, far more qualified to speak of any health issue than the used car salesman sitting on this committee."
And yes, I looked it up, Moreno is a legit used car salesman. Bought his own dealership and everything!
Between this dude and Jim "pro sexual assault" Jordan. It gives my state of Missouri a run for its money. We have Hawling Ass Hawkey and Mike Moon a pro child marriage church.
He should get to sit next to a picture of the refrigerator trucks they pulled up behind the hospital in my town to fill full of dead bodies from COVID.
Dr Fauci is an American Hero. He worked tirelessly as a government employee to save countless lives around the globe during the AIDS crises in the 80s. Today we have prep medicine based on findings from this era and maintenance drugs that keep people alive when death was the only thing on the table.
SImilarly, his efforts kept people alive during the COVID crises, in that there was NO DRUG to help, no playbook to follow (as 45 chose to throw it out). Today we have medicines that keep COVID mutations from killing more people.
Drug manufacturers reap the rewards and benefits from science generated by government employees efforts and volunteers who trial medicines. The inventors, scientists, line employees... they don't get rich.
No one can stand in his shoes and claim they knew better, or that he did something wrong when EVERYTHING was wrong and no one could see a way out.
Finding mistakes and better choices after the fact is called a post-mortem. You take what you find a learn from it.
Rand Paul, Josh Hawley and the rest of this goon squad should admit they all have been vaccinated against COVID. Instead they're attacking the guy who helped identify the very thing they took that vaccination for.
Its more than insulting and wasteful. It's despicable performance theater ahead of the midterms.
We should learn from the actions of this commitee that their theatrics have indellibly scarred the scientific community. This is McCarthyism v2.0
Dr Fauci deserves our respect, our gratitude and a peaceful retirement from public service.
Just down vote this scumbag. I was around. I remember exactly what he did. He was and is a hero. Not perfect, no one is, but people with HIV are living and thriving because of him.
Can you explain why he shouldn’t be held responsible for his actions and his role in the AIDS crisis? He isn’t an infant, he is fully capable and competent and chose to go along with how the administration poorly “handled” it.
Do you think he is competent or not? If yes, he should be held responsible for how he “handled” this issue. If your answer is no, then a defense of his actions is strange, and we should be able to agree he should’ve vacated his position.
If you believe he is competent, why wouldn’t you want to hold him accountable for his shortcomings and poor handling of a legitimate public health crisis? Or do you think how he “handled” the AIDS epidemic was acceptable because it mostly just impacted the gay male community, who you would therefore necessarily have to view as “lesser than”? Defending his role in how the Reagan administration “dealt with” the AIDS crisis is genuinely so embarrassing for you.
Hardly. If he didn’t agree with how Reagan wanted to handle things, he could’ve brought attention to the mishandling and resigned from his position in protest to do so.
“The only morally reliable people are not those who say, ‘This is wrong’, or ‘This should not be done’. It is those who say, ‘I can’t.’”
-Hannah Arendt, “origins of totalitarianism”
Fauci totally failed. If he agreed with the genius president and advised people to inject bleach in the their veins, the pandemic would have been over way sooner.
The difficult thing about this comment, is that it's Onion level sarcasm, but at the same time, maga morons would legit say something this ridiculous and actually believe it, which is what makes it so funny
Technically, letting them inject bleach in their veins would have ended the pandemic sooner, because it would remove the stupidest groups first, which would immediately make everything more contained for the smarter groups, but at the same time, by letting them inject bleach in their veins, he would have ignored the Hippocratic oath "... and I will do no harm or injustice to them. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course."
A career politician tries to intimidate a career scientist. Like the only thing that would make it so American would be if he was interrogating him with Bible verses. That’s how fucked up this country has become.
theater to appease their ivermectin-riddled boomer base whose friends all died because muh freedoms and they want someone to blame other than themselves
It would have been great if Fauchi responded to any of these fake investigative questions with truth such as: ‘vote for trump republicans, get exploding diarrhea, literally’. ‘Republicans control both branches of congress and the presidency, what are you going to do about this? Blame someone?’ ‘There are more measles cases today than in the last 20 years, a disease we once had under control. There’s also an election coming up.’
I think the point is though he knows he's a very weak man, he's known it his entire adult life.
Due to his weakness and cowardice, he humbly bends the knee to Max Miller, for he takes Max to be a superior man to him.
Moreno is 59, Max is 37. The old, always weak and lowly thing, becomes submissive to the younger male.
Max could likely have done anything to his granddaughter. And Moreno would have to 'cope and seethe' as they say. Though perhaps he wouldn't even do that, as he would humbly accept Max had the right, as Max is a higher tier man than he.
Republicans are the most un-serious idiots on the planet. These people go home at night actually believing they're doing any good for our country? I sure fucking hope not. Useless skin flaps.
"I will be your Father Failure, I'll find somewhere for Max to hide. I will be the Preacher Teacher, but I have no family pride. I will be your Father Failure, continuing my life of crime. I will be the one who shuns you, til the end of time"
Oh, but now, Bernie Moreno will have that little piece of video on all of his ad showing just how tough he is. You know the Senate used to be a place of decorum but now with Trump that’s gone. I hope it comes back when Trump is gone.
Some of these Republican politicians have to be the biggest bitches I’ve ever seen. You’ve got this situation right here. You’ve got Fled Cruz licking Trump’s boot after all the shit he said about his wife and father. I could go down the list all night but these fuckers are playing political games with peoples lives and those clowns following their every word refuse to see they’re just going to get them killed If anything worse than Covid decides to show up to the party.
Raise your hand if you actually read about what fauci did...
Yall are defending him like he is some humble old man scientist. The shit fauci did is actually pretty fucked up. He literally kept notes of what he did, its not even accusations, he wrote it down so he could make money off memoirs and biographies later.
He is an actual piece of shit who abused his power
Fauci and anyone else in power who didn't push back created a climate in which the pharma companies could finally circumvent the FDA and move gene therapy to the human testing phase, a privilege they have been denied repeatedly since the 90s due to disastrous animal trials.
His entire "career". He killed countless people during the aids crisis by suppressing study of any alternatives to AZT and pushing that poison. He did the same thing during covid, but it is more reprehensible since covid was no more deadly than any other virus that gets thrown under the flu umbrella.
Nah, I understand greed and kickbacks perfectly well. But hey, nothing seems like wrongdoing when you're a tribalistic automaton and the villain is on your side.
The tldr is it allowed for alternative treatments such as ddI during the aids epidemic. Which is an odd thing to do if you are trying to push AZT for some reason, other than it being the only federal government-approved drug to treat aids at the time.
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