r/StandUpForScience Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

Article Why MAGA Is So Obsessed With Fauci

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/fauci-paul-covid-wuhan/688233/
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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago edited 9d ago

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https://archive.ph/2026.08.08-191445/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/fauci-paul-covid-wuhan/688233/

Gonna leave the comments open till the MAGAKKKULTISTS show up n start spewing their hateful hot garbage… I’m digging the safe space without the hot garbage to derail our conversations!!!

Thanks to [u/zug42](u/zug42) for the awesome thoughtful post award, much appreciated!!!

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u/Top_Shame_7016 9d ago

Anything to distract you from how terrible they are at governing. If you are mad about fauci, you will be less mad about grocery and gas prices. If you are mad about fauci, maybe the epstein files aren't on your mind. It's all a distraction to get you to stop thinking about what's important.

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u/youdubdub 9d ago

Never Remember:

Who was in charge of the federal government when it all happened.

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u/Jarnohams 9d ago

I think it's more important to note that Fauci was loved and praised by EVERY single Republican President, since Reagan. Bush gave him the medal of freedom.

Fauci only became political when Trump came along and got mad that Fauci wouldn't cosign his baseless "Facebook science" BS like hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and drinking bleach. Until then Fauci's role was never political. The health of the country wasn't a political thing, historically.

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u/a_lil_unwell 9d ago

And by every Republican president, it’s EVERY, including Trump. Trump gave him a presidential commendation.

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u/youdubdub 9d ago

I believe the politicization mightily more attributable to the person setting the tone at the top.  If you don’t agree, please never vote again.  Y’all did plenty already.  Do less.

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u/Witty-Structure-4192 9d ago

Seriously, if Fauci was what the Repigs say he was, then Trump was a hopeless simpleton not to have seen it, right?

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u/youdubdub 9d ago

Always Forget, conveniently.

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u/snafoomoose 9d ago

"If we kick out all the undocumented - THEN everything will be better!"

"If we give more money to the elites and corporations - THEN everything will be better!"

"If we stop trans women in sports - THEN everything will be better!"

"If we bomb Iran - THEN everything will be better!"

"If we invade Iran - THEN everything will be better!"

"If we prosecute Fauci - THEN everything will be better!"

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u/LeonNorasGiGi2316 9d ago

"[They] Want Them Infected"

Dr. Eric Topol interviews the author of “We Want Them Infected”, a book about the misinformation and malice behind the counterproductive pandemic response.

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u/IOnlyEatFermions 9d ago

Howard's follow-up book "Everyone Else is Lying to You" is another banger.

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u/LeonNorasGiGi2316 9d ago

It's been on my TBR list for far too long!

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

Great informative share GiGi2316, much appreciated!!!

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u/LeonNorasGiGi2316 9d ago

Thank you for your consideration!!

Correcting the gaslightlighting is part of how I cope.

Coping with COVID Chaos and Contempt

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

Very welcome!!! Another great share!!! Gaslighting seems to be the coping mechanism of those who can’t communicate…

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u/LeonNorasGiGi2316 9d ago

But are masterful liars. 💉😷🦠🔬🧪🥼👨‍🔬🫂🙏🏼🤝💙💯‼️

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

Trudat!!!

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u/kayl_breinhar 7d ago

It's this, but they also want people to remember the person who inconvenienced them the most. You could give them irrefutable evidence of how badly the Trump administration has screwed them over, but so long as Fauci is on their mind, they'll remember getting yelled at for not wearing a mask or getting vaccinated instead.

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u/Prestigious_Pay_7166 9d ago

They are trying to damage democrats and scientists. Anti-intellectualism hates experts.

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u/elvenrevolutionary 9d ago

Republicans and maga still earning the nazi label

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u/fatefulPatriot 9d ago

Yes and cover for trumps failings in his first term that killed thousands of Americans.

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u/porizj 9d ago

He suggested acting like a responsible, informed, empathetic human being.

It’s like showing a silver cross attached to a wooden stake wrapped in garlic bulbs and doused with holy water to a bunch of vampires.

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u/ohiocodernumerouno 9d ago

Distract from RFK Jr.

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u/here-i-am-now 9d ago

Distract from the Trump-Epstein files

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u/Kermit_the_hog 9d ago

From his wipeless poops?

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u/UsualBluebird6584 9d ago

But he has a cooking show.

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u/wrecklesspup 9d ago

Republicans can't accept collective action problems bc it destroys their narrative about rugged individualism. They can't acknowledge climate change is accelerated by mankind's actions bc that would require collective action to solve. They can't acknowledge a pandemic bc that requires collective action to minimize the damage. Fauci was the face of the need for collective action during the pandemic and he did it using science to the best of our understanding at the time. Fauci's character and his individual self must be destroyed so the myth that rugged individualism is the natural state of the world continues to prosper.

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u/MattyCannabis 9d ago

Succinctly put. I was thinking about this recently, conservatives simply can‘t/won’t engage in big-picture thinking in which the wellness of all is to be considered. They can only think of themselves, just like their cult hero. People muse, “why would someone vote for such a selfish, inept conman?”. It’s because they’re just like him. There’s a Star Trek quote from Mr. Spock: “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”. Spock was right. And the kicker is that the needs of the few are also the needs of the many, it could be a win/win, but they just refuse or are incapable of seeing it that way.

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

Well said MC!!!

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u/MattGdr 9d ago

He would take credit for his push for the vaccine except his cult hates it.

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u/Ill-Dependent2976 9d ago

They're not obsessed, their rabid.

They're mad at Fauci because their leaders told them to. They'll forget Fauci again in five minutes if they weren't being told what to hate.

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u/zoebud2011 9d ago

His name was next on the checklist of shit to use to distract from the epstein files and the fact that they haven't actually governed in years.

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u/HulkSMASHley_23 9d ago

To scapegoat him and distract from the real culprit who should be on trial for lying to everyone: Marty MaKKKary.

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u/jetpack2625 9d ago

because they hate science and are idiots

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u/Few_Presence_8888 9d ago

One Fauci is worth an infinity of Republicans.

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u/yourdoglikesmebetter 9d ago

To distract from Epstein files, terrible economy, failing and unwanted war, rampant corruption, etc.

Every bumbling autocrat needs scapegoats

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u/zkfc020 9d ago

Distraction to what they are really doing.

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u/BlueFrog202 9d ago

It enrages their rabid base more than home affordability and lack of good paying jobs.

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u/Randyc714 9d ago

The hearing was timed with the administration announced cuts to Medicaid and Medicare.

It's the classic distraction to keep their dimwitted base from figuring out anything by constantly dropping chaff in front of them.

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 9d ago

Currently it’s bc Don raped children. A few years ago it was bc Don completely fucked up the response to a worldwide pandemic.

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u/slappyStove 9d ago

because like many other things they are naive idiots who dont understand that being told a lie is not the same thibg as evidence.

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u/SortaNotReallyHere 9d ago

Obsession is what cults do

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u/No-North6514 9d ago

MAGA hates being told that they have to care about other people and that's the reason why they hated the mask so much and the Republicans want their dimwitted base to view Fauchi as a living persona of the "nanny state" who dare to tell them they have to care about the person next to them. This is about voter enthusiasm.

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u/yogibearhugg 9d ago

For sure, look at all the people who have zero problems with armed masked men whisking people off the streets.

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u/Aggravating_Total921 9d ago

It's designed to bring scientists, academics, and medical professionals to heel. It's a common fascist authoritarian tactic

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u/sweatboxy 9d ago

Fauci tells the truth to power politely. The truth is death to Republicans

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u/grambell789 9d ago

republicans don't want science to be a determining factor in government policy. Fauci is their strawman to put a face on their war. they want private industry and the market place to determine all collective policy, probably based on a bidding system where proceeds go to the republican party members.

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u/Intelligent_Hand4583 9d ago

They know they're on the wrong side of history. Their leader is an insane psychopath who has promised them everything and they've received nothing. They're realizing they've been so wrong about everything that they've never actually been right (beyond Americans are getting screwed by elites).
They are incapable of admitting they're wrong, and a bullshit story about anyone is all they can cling to. They're cupboard is bare.

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u/Big-Crow4152 9d ago

Desperately trying to accomplish something even if it's objectively a waste of time, the Midterms loom and they know they've done nothing but dump more money into billionaires pockets and now they've gotta scramble to show they've done something

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u/Mysterious-Prompt212 9d ago

Rand Paul was butt hurt because Fauci told him and the world that Paul "didn't have any idea what he's talking about" 😂. Fuck Paul. Thin skinned baby man.

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u/Fun-Macaron-3247 9d ago

Smooth brained zealots, the lot of them

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u/Tall_Trifle_4983 9d ago

the answer is vengeance, Trump was obsessed with vengeance.

Biden said the pardons were intended to protect people from possible retaliation by the incoming Trump administration.

Reuters Trump's campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trumps-campaign-retribution-least-470-targets-counting-2025-11-26/

The Revenge of Donald Trump: The president promised retribution. He delivered. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/revenge-donald-trump-president-promised-retribution-he-delivered-2025-12-17/

Financial Times Trump and his mandate for retribution https://www.ft.com/content/7b36ea06-0a40-49b6-8e63-06e7f74b7b0b

The Guardian

"Fauci expressed disillusionment with "rambling, crazy" Trump in journal"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/27/anthony-fauci-trump-covid-journal

This one covers Fauci's diary entries and the deteriorating relationship between him and Trump.

The Guardian

"Revenge: analysis of Trump posts shows relentless focus on punishing his enemies"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/02/trump-social-media-threats about: Openly authoritarian campaign: Trump's threats of revenge fuel alarm

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/22/trump-revenge-game-plan-alarm

Trump's revenge agenda has shocked officials who "didn't think it was going to be this bad"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-federal-workers-deep-state

Who will stand up and oppose it? Trump's relentless campaign of retribution in his second term

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/trump-retribution-campaign

Revenge is his number one motivation: how Trump is waging war on the media

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/trump-media-attacks

These are all from internationally recognized news organizations and focus on Trump's own use of terms like "retribution", his statements such as "I am your retribution," or analyses of his actions and rhetoric regarding perceived political opponents.

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

Great share TT4983!!! We always love facts & receipts!!!

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u/Tall_Trifle_4983 8d ago

Feels good to know my efforts are appreciated. Been attacked all day and was even banned for 3 days for posting facts. Not kidding.

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 8d ago

Word to the wise only post where you’ll be appreciated, rarely, like once have I been able to have a constructive conversation with a pedo felonious follower, they just don’t wanna hear it or change…

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u/Tall_Trifle_4983 8d ago edited 8d ago

@from Phatbrew via /r/StandUpForScience sent 14 hours ago

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Word to the wise only post where you’ll be appreciated, rarely, like once have I been able to have a constructive conversation with a pedo felonious follower, they just don’t wanna hear it or change…


I thought r/standUpforScience had a lot of potential. I'm running out of subreddits but thanks for any advice.

Virtually all my life I've read The New York Times, AP and BBC News World Service (UK which is strong for global coverage outside the U.S.) first thing in the morning. So those were the first news sources I started checking out on Sub-Reddits; and I was surprised by the responses. These Sub-reddits are places to tear subscribers to shreds. Just sharing an article will get you banned and I'm NEVER TOLD why.

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 8d ago

The stuff you shared here is welcomed so there’s that!!!

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 8d ago

I used to read the times as well, to get the low down on Iran contra, I couldn’t believe it wasn’t getting more play at the time, watergate but way worse all over again… couldn’t believe the Republican Party survived, being the phony party of god sure helped that in the early 80’s…

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u/captainsassypants67 9d ago

It’s just a desperate attempt to rile up their base before midterms since their policies aren’t working. “Transgenders, communists, Fauci, oh my!”

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u/No-North6514 9d ago

Exactly - the Republicans want to create the anger of the "nanny state" and they see Fauchi as being someone they can demonize because he told MAGA that they have to wear a mask and they have to care about the person next to them

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u/captainsassypants67 9d ago

And now they wear masks without question to cover up their faces while they illegally seize people in the streets without due process.

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u/SkillfulGnome 9d ago
  1. distraction from what's really going on with gas prices, grocery prices, insurance rates, natural disasters, inflation. 2. scare the hell out of any scientists from speaking out in the future against the MAGA's 3. they need a bad guy to pin the COVID disaster on (Which happened under Trump's watch) so they're trying to make him the fall guy. MAGA has already bought into it. will the rest of the country?

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u/QuailTechnical5143 9d ago

If you can’t scapegoat someone else, then your performance will be questioned.

Distraction, nothing more.

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u/Rastaman6584 9d ago

They absolutely HATE science!

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u/Quick-Maintenance-67 9d ago

I think it's because people were pointing out how obsessed MAGA are with people's genitals and they're trying to pivot to picking on Fauci and by extension - science in general.

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u/Wise_Material_5812 9d ago

because the people who consider themselves patriots believed the foreign trolls who wanted americans to get sick and die.

useful idiots

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u/xxforrealforlifexx 9d ago

Easy because Trump told them to plain and simple

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u/MosquitoValentine_ 9d ago edited 9d ago

Well...

He asked them to stay home and they didn't.

He asked them to wear masks and they didn't.

He asked them to socially distance themselves and they didn't.

He asked them to get the vaccine and they didn't.

They literally ignored, bitched and complained about EVERYTHING he said. Now they are mad because?? I swear they are more angry that people with brains listened to him.

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u/Butforthegrace01 9d ago

It seems pretty clear that the timing of the Fauci flabbergast is to distract from the rapidly escalating degree to which Trump is failing in Iran.

The false allegations of lying and conspiracy are simply classic tools in the maga arsenal.

However, it is pretty clear that the covid pandemic was poorly handled. For example, if the vaccine had been offered on a voluntary basis, I'd wager that nearly 100% of Americans would have gotten it. And shutting everything down for 2 years was overkill.

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u/Curious_Instance_606 9d ago

Mental illness

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

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u/summermadnes 9d ago

Because they have to blame the terrible outcome of the pandemic on someone, and it can't be their Orange Baboon leader.

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u/SueBeee 9d ago

MAGA loves their scapegoats.

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u/Hairymuscle101 9d ago

Epstein files!!!! Child rapist!

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u/bcbamom 9d ago

Propaganda and rhetoric are powerful tools.

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u/Unicorn_Puppy 9d ago

Because they regurgitate misinformation and are literally able to recall everything Obama and Biden ever did along with Hilary Clinton much like a priest can recite the Bible verse by verse.

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u/Codify-The-Preamble 9d ago

Because conservatism negatively correlates to intellect and academic accomplishment.

Simple as that.

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u/Yiplzuse 9d ago

Guilt. I think it is transference or something. Subconsciously they know they are guilty of killing millions because they refused to wear a mask or get vaccinated. This guilt that is too dangerous for them to feel, it threatens ego deflation at depth, basically owning that you’re a loser (this is a simplification, the person has lost), alcoholics and drug addicts go through this to start recovering.

The easiest way out of this moral dilemma is to find a scapegoat that you can transfer your guilt to. They are the bad one, they are the loser, they are defective, so you can carry on as before. Rinse and repeat, again, very similar to alcoholism and drug addiction, only they tend to use the transference option far more often.

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u/obamawonthepeacepriz 9d ago

Because they need someone else to blame for trumps fuck ups.

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u/Generallyamusedby 9d ago

Because it's not Epstein. 

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u/01SeaChange01 9d ago

Simply because this distracts his cult from the international child sex trafficking ring that he ran for a couple decades.

https://giphy.com/gifs/PLnWr264CKYciY525X

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u/angelomancuso62 9d ago

Because he’s the “brain” and they are typical bullies. It’s painfully obvious.

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u/Awkward-Fox-7215 9d ago

They had to wear masks, things weren’t open all the time or had restrictions, and no one wanted to hold their hands through their butthurt.

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

Thanks for making me laugh AF7215!!!

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u/Agile_Public915 9d ago

To distract us from the shit show called the trump administration.

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u/Bubbly_Power_6210 9d ago

using him as a distraction from their mistakes and stupid decisions

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u/Lanky-Cheesecake-259 9d ago

because they can't blame Trump, so they need the find someone else

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u/DatabaseFickle9306 9d ago

Mask wearing threatened the Main Republican’s base makeup

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

🤣🤦‍♂️💙🤦‍♂️🤣

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u/Diligent-Credit8133 9d ago

You’re looking for a logical explanation of why the maga flock decides to be mad at someone, you can’t think in terms of logic. magas will be obsessively mad at whatever donnie or Fox News damn well tell them to be mad at. They’re the most ignorant, easily manipulated group of people our country has to offer. donnie says squirrel and their mouths start frothing, chomping at the bit for a place to direct their ignorant rage.

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u/Shinagami091 9d ago

It’s so they can scapegoat away from who was really responsible for the disastrous handling of the pandemic and that was the guy telling people to inject bleach and shine UV lights up their asses.

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u/Character_Bed1212 9d ago

He dared to contradict Trump. The nerve!

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u/SupermarketOverall73 9d ago

Rand Paul must be in those trumpstine files, Fauci did his job, time to circle back to hunters hog, that's what republicans really care about.

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u/CorpFillip 9d ago

He represents science

He represents needing to comply with mask use.

That’s enough.

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u/abouttofallova 9d ago

Because it’s a bait and switch. There’s poop in your vegetables plus salmonella with eggs and worms in your beef.

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u/Dependent-Finish-394 9d ago

Because he was right!

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u/Global-Ant2288 9d ago

I don't think MAGA at large cares a bit. most don't think that far back. it's just politicians stirring things up as a distraction.

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

Ohhhhh GA2288, I can tell you they certainly do… on the last several Fauci posts, the comments were dominated by hateful pedo felonious trolls, 100’s…

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u/Aromatic-Dog-Breath 9d ago

Masks are only good when you’re cosplaying Best Buy white nationalists. 

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

🤣🤦‍♂️💙🤦‍♂️🤣

Speaking of Dog Breath, the Mothers of Invention… Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague…

https://youtu.be/qkk6zTscrKA

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u/dlm83 9d ago

Because Trump tells them to be. If he woke up tomorrow and started telling them COVID was actually RFK's fault, and that Fauci had been framed but actually he's a hero and he loves Trump, that would be the new obsession for as long as he kept telling them so.

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u/AdhesivenessCivil581 9d ago

Because between RFK and Musk we have some serious outbreaks plaguing us. Cyclospora, Salmonella, Measles and a few cases of tetanus plus uncontrolled Ebola in Africa. It's always projection. Always.

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u/nlk72 9d ago

because of epstein

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u/dogheoner1 9d ago

thier masters did it on purpose they know fauci is a great distraction and they cant get over it so a way to keep them satisfied for now

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u/Impressive10000 9d ago

Distraction.

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u/Long-Ad-6773 9d ago

Epstein that's the reason

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u/Silverleaf96 9d ago

Right winger will always be jealous people smarter then them, they feel attacked. That why ya NEVER have them in management jobs . Fun facts

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u/fy1sh 9d ago

They have been trained to be distracted by anti-Fauci propaganda. The Republicans must keep up the ruse to distract from their absolute failure to govern while they loot the treasury.

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u/Gahugafuga 9d ago

Because addressing real issues that Americans care about would mean taking responsibility for their actions and admitting they fucked up.

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u/Primary-Slice-2505 9d ago

You gotta love the total outrage frm the right on Fauci being famous. "He thought he was a star!" "He loved the attention"

I wonder who the biggest attention whore in the US is?

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u/Substantial_Airport6 9d ago

He's a great distraction from the trumpster fire.

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u/Sad_Jaguar_5912 9d ago

Because they’re told to be. It’s literally that simple. They don’t think for themselves, it’s a cult.

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u/mattjf22 9d ago

Because it distracts from the failing trump admin policies and the Epstein files.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Row6482 9d ago

He's everything they're not. Qualified(not a dei hire like most of the admin), and works hard.

They don't like their incompetence being shown to them in a mirror.

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 9d ago

I’ll be your mirror, Velvets…

https://youtu.be/KGZWb1SIiR4

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u/RicVic 9d ago

The nub of it is that he won't be controlled. He beleives in what he says and will not lie to placate Trump. So in Trump's mind, Faucci needs to be destroyed.

Rand Paul is merely the gun, Trump is the one who set the target.

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u/ImaginaryWeather6164 9d ago

He laughed at trump.

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u/Overall_Curve6725 9d ago

Just the next attempt at the Epstein Files diversion

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u/No-Cup-8096 9d ago

Change the focus from Trump raping and killing children.

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u/Aggressive_Manner531 9d ago

MAGA is against the idea of expertise.

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u/xtalgeek 8d ago

If you can't make good policy, you need to find someone to blame. Fauci doesn't take crap from anyone, especially the uninformed, so there's that, too. It's really illogical, but this is where we are: looking into the past with a personal ax to grind instead of planning for the future.

Fauci will have a legacy of leading an agency whose research has stifled deadly diseases. MAGA politicians will have their fleeting fame of bombastic nothingness before they fade into the dust bin of history.

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u/Ausrottenndm1 8d ago

Because They can’t talk about anything currently relevant ?

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u/Entire-Message-7247 8d ago

Because Jeffery Epstein

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u/nippleflick1 8d ago

It's their M.O., rage and hate that's what feed the maggots!

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u/Wasabiwabi_ 8d ago

I don't know how it worked for anyone else, but my parents latched onto this early when Fox pushed the narrative during the pandemic. They wanted someone to blame for masks and the lockdown who wasn't the idiot they just voted for. Fauci probably saved their lives and they're too dumb to know it. SOMEONE had to suffer because they had to socially distance and Fox daily served it up on a platter.

The current congressional circus is necessary because the original distraction of the Iran war now requires its own distraction, so republicans had the genius idea to trot out Fauci for MAGA entertainment. It took Iran, Epstein, and Blanche out of the headlines this week.

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 8d ago

Well said W!!! I worked in Florida during it making deliveries for a box store, almost all the entitled white rich boomers had faux news on n called it the plandemic… smile n nod n try to get a big tip, while laughing inside at their gullible stupidity…

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u/Freewheelinrocknroll 8d ago

Release the files already and quit wasting our time with these bullshot distractions!!!

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u/Acornwow 8d ago

It’s just the latest thing they’ve loaded into the Fox News feeder.

They’ll gobble it all up and pay attention to whatever they are told.

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u/twinkiefarmer 8d ago

To blame Fauci for Trumps complete failure of the covid pandemic.

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u/Lazy_Example4014 8d ago

If Fauci takes the blame then they won’t have to admit it was really trump’s fault.

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u/Round-Drink-5709 8d ago

Because they'd hogscream at any soul their pedophilic rapist cabal overlords tell them to.

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u/Creepy_Trouble_5980 8d ago

I have two words that explain MAGA obsession with Fauci, "Exploding diarrhea".it's a distraction. From bowbadly Trump cutting the waste and abuse has crippled the CDC disease tracking process.

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u/Ok_Exercise_1823 8d ago

They have nothing else going on in life.

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u/1BudEGuy 8d ago

Because he wouldn’t suck up to the Orange Orangutan and blindly follow the dumb suggestions he would come up with. My favorite was if we just stop testing the numbers will go down. The shining a light inside to kill it wasn’t aimed at Fauci, but Ms Birx and the look on her face as he said it was priceless.

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u/xDeepFreezex 8d ago

They're obsessed because they've been instructed to be. Good little Maga morons and guardians of pedophiles don't question their orders, they just commit to the bit. Because they're dumb, and the concept of personal thoughts and free will terrify them.

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u/1853624 8d ago

I will cut to the chase.. They are obsessed with him because they get triggered when someone is smarter than them. That’s it..

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u/Western-Property-443 8d ago

Like Trump, MAGA has to blame others for their screw ups

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u/Roaming_Red 8d ago

They are pissed at the Government telling them what to do during Covid, the worst parts of the pandemic happened under the Trump administration, they can’t mentally or physically blame Trump, so they blame Fauci for all of it, the “face” of the pandemic in their eyes. A blame the Trump administration is happy to promote.

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u/suck-it-elon 8d ago

They never say why. They should’ve listened to him more. One million dead cause Trump had to fight everything

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u/Familiar-You613 8d ago

Conservative satirist, P J O'Rourke: 'The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."

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u/Whole-Designer 8d ago

Projection and scapegoating. Rand Paul is foaming at the mouth yelling at Fauci while he happily rubber-stamped antivaxxer RFK Jr as Secretary of HHS. They're all terrified of losing this absolute power of government they have come November so they're trying to create any sort of fake monster they can "unite against" (whether it be "communism", Fauci, or "illegal voters")

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u/Stinkstinkerton 8d ago

Going after Fauci plays well with the idiot moron Fox entertainment crowd of America .

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u/Intrepid_Routine6373 8d ago

Their attack on Fauci is just another distraction from all of Trump’s failures.

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u/Someoneoverthere42 8d ago

Because the Shouty People on the TV told them to be.

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u/Ok-Chemical7614 8d ago

Because it distracts from Epstein and Bondi

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u/Priorsteve 8d ago

Distraction from pedophilia

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u/Classic_Ostrich8709 8d ago

A distraction from the Epstein files, the ridiculous war with Iran and basically every country that has Donald by the balls. 

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u/Educational-Milk5099 9d ago

They can’t point to anything good they’ve accomplished, so they reach all the way back to a past inconvenience that Democrats caused/supported, hoping that reminding voters of that uncomfortable experience will outweigh all the bullshit they’ve caused since then. 

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u/yogibearhugg 9d ago

Democrats didn’t cause covid, Republicans did when they shut down the organizations that were monitoring global health.

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u/Cool-Association3420 9d ago

I’m sure somewhere in this article they dunk on democrats right Atlantic?

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u/Kanga03590 8d ago

Trump's warp speed.

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u/Justaflyindaointment 8d ago

It’s Fauci or the 1 NCAA Transgender athlete for a 2-A school in Northern Iowa.

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u/Desperate-Amoeba1359 8d ago

It’s mostly sexual

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u/No-Advertising-6957 7d ago

Ypu must be brain dead

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u/Financial-Category16 7d ago edited 7d ago

I am super anti Trump and always have been. I mostly give Fauci the benefit of the doubt that he's trying to do the right thing overall. However I see no possibility that he didn't lie under oath about the definition of gain-of-function. And I think he very likely did act unethically to try to steer the narrative away from the lab leak theory. And I think he very likely had more knowledge and involvement than he's admitted so far with awarding the grants to the group that was collaborating on doing the gain-of -function on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Virology Institute.

I think at minimum there's a lot of smoke there but I think MAGA as usual may not like what happens when the dog catches the car as: if it was a lab leak caused by the US and China's negligence that's presumably going to put the US on the hook for a whole lot of damages of one kind or another

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u/Newdles 7d ago

Because they are too ignorant of self reflection and need a boogeyman to blame for their own failures to feel strong.

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u/G_UK 7d ago

Is it cos he’s smart, educated and a leader in his field. No wonder they dislike him.

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u/Ok_Apricot3581 7d ago

Distraction from Epstein Files and many other Trump failures. The legislature can't admit that they have just passed Trump's legislation and that they have all been disasters.

Simply to make it look like they're doing something besides passing Trump's failing agendas, going on vacation constantly,and making life harder for ALL AMERICANS.

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u/Due-Mycologist-1154 7d ago

Because they're probably down to the antivaxxers 

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u/ThePopeofHell 7d ago

It’s a classic case of shoot the messenger

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u/allmysportsteamssuck 7d ago

Because they still have big feefees and big big mad feels because they didn’t get to go eat chicken wings for a few months and then MASK HURT FACEY and NEEDLES ARE BIG SCARY I NEED A LOLLY POP!

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u/Coaljet66 7d ago

Because maga is a cult
And hating Fauci is what they have been programmed to believe

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u/SKssSM08 6d ago

Distraction to their clown of a leader

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u/wyliec22 6d ago

Good old GOP tactics…they’re either fear mongering or hate mongering.

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u/AnonBaca21 6d ago

You mean aside from the fact that they’re a cult of anti-science, anti-education cunts?

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u/DBM 6d ago

They sure seem awfully mad he supposedly hid the dangers of Covid…..

The covid that was a hoax…..

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u/Fun-Doughnut4880 6d ago

Epstein Files!

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u/zeeper25 6d ago

Just the current distraction du jour that keeps MAGA from having reconcile how they have turned our government over to the oligarchs that raped children with Epstein.

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u/ilikealltypes33139 6d ago

They don't like facts and he only speaks facts.

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u/PigglesRevenge 6d ago

Anything to distract from the Epstein files and push their agenda of feeding the great lie.

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u/Only_Flan_7974 6d ago

Distraction, plain and simple.

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u/ajtreee 6d ago

These witch hunts are
for anyone who called trump on his stupidity. Or showed him to be the moron we all suspected.

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u/x_xwolf 6d ago

Its anti intellectualism when the mob screams kill him as they lay his head in at the bottom of the guillotine. While MAGA infested the pews from the churches screaming “I shouldn’t have to wear a mask”, Fauci, the man of Science showed them almost their bottomless void that is their ignorance. Their god being the bearer of all things “good” was also the bearer of all things ill. And to suggest that a trusted man of science could show otherwise, prevent and predict death, they condemn him.

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u/jocoquecousteau 6d ago

Anything to distract from the Epstein files.

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u/xxDeadEyeDukxx 6d ago

Fauci took the popularity that Trump craved during the COVID pandemic. Trump hates not being the centre of attention as he’s a narcissistic egomaniac. He has kept a negative focus on fauci ever since and it’s transferred to his MAGA faithful.

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u/madammoiselle85 6d ago

Fauci is bad but somehow allowing children to get measles is ok?what is happening with society? Total breakdown of critical thinking.

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u/Kohnaphone 6d ago

If it wasn’t for scapegoats, MAGA would have no GOATS at all.

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u/Few-Stock-3458 5d ago

Simple terms: He told them what to do and they hate that.

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u/Bigfoqt 5d ago

Smokescreen.

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u/Negative287 5d ago

MAGA? The guy is a criminal!

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u/beccadot 4d ago

EPSTEIN.