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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

That Ryan Grim clip is especially infuriating. How much did *anyone* know for sure in January 2020?

Kathleen Barrett's avatar

Let them die. They chose to follow idiots instead of scientists. I’m tired of feeling sorry for people in this cult. But I do see ICE has no problem with masks now but I bet none wore masks during Covid. Plus the orange messiah got the covid shot while telling his cult to inject bleach or ivermectin. I imagine the majority of people who died from Covid were in the cult and chose not to vaccinate. Mr worm brain Cocaine user without a medical or science degree is knowledgeable about vaccines, right? His mother vaccinated him so he’s protected. What the cult does won’t affect him. Yeah, let’s overwhelm the healthcare system with idiots who refuse vaccinations. How about hospitals and doctor offices refuse them care if they aren’t vaccinated. If docs can refuse Medicaid and Medicare patients, why not refuse unvaccinated people.

Skteach's avatar

My sister is just one story of a million Americans. Trump was her president, her words. She believed his misinformation. She didn’t believe Covid was real. She believed vaccines to be able. She didn’t listen to her daughter who pled with her to go to the doctors when she contracted Covid. She died at home from a pulmonary embolism brought on by Covid. Had she been vaccinated. Had she gone to the hospital she’d be alive today. Fauci was the voice of science and reason and he and other educated, dedicated health professionals saved lives even when our “president” did everything he could to cover it up. As far as I’m concerned the orange moron is responsible for every death in the US due to Covid.

Maxine Hunter's avatar

Susan you nailed it. These Fauci hearing were, indeed, "a dedicates-long slide into idiocy." No exaggeration that Paul's calling this hearing is/was the darkest day in Senate history. There is no limit to the bottomless pit of the Republican Senate's slime pool...Or is it just the shameful, jealous, spiteful behavior of Senator Paul rising to the top of that slime pit. Hope Paul is happy of the slime he poured over the Senate. Gag. Here! Here! To Dr. Fauci! We love all you have done for our country and the world in the study and development of vaccines and medicines to protect all of us.

Protect the Vote's avatar

Michigan: Where Big $$ Meets Morality

The Lever’s David Sirota(bit.ly/4gxOji1) sat down in a brief interview with Abdul El-Sayed to talk about his position on Israel and the antisemitism issue. Huge $$ amounts are being spent by AIPAC to disparage El-Sayed’s position, wanting to paint him into the corner of antisemitism. The fascist AIPAC view doesn’t equate to morality but El-Sayed fears that the Zionist movement itself will provoke antisemitism. He believes Judaism is divorced from Zionism but unfortunately they are equated.

So El-Sayed, an Egyptian, is against our taxpayer $$ going to all foreign governments that rob from our own domestic solvable issues, eg schools, infrastructure such as roads, and protection of our communities. For him it becomes a moral issue. He questions the US government policy that supports genocide by a foreign government while it doesn’t support its own needs at home. And that’s for any foreign government, not just the current fascist apartheid Israeli government running Israel now.

Of course the Zionists of the Democratic establishment are threatened by such a radical shift in foreign policy that would result in lack of US military aid to Israel. Democratic political consultants like Simon Rosenberg of the substack Hopium Chronicles, a self professed Zionist, has for years steered AIPAC $$ to Israeli supporting candidates and El-Sayed threatens the viability of those efforts.

Earthlinktadsulli's avatar

Yes, well done! This is deeply sad. In a way I feel this is another key story of our American Tragedy: decline through ignorance, greed, and hatred. The Republican brand of poison we continue to be fed for their own selfish benefit. It gets more and more difficult to remain optimistic in the face of this reality.

I work to get out the vote, hopeful for a turnaround, and, importantly, a reckoning.

Michele White's avatar

Excellent article. What a terrible time we all went through during the pandemic. Dr Fauci was and is the voice of reason. Bringing him before that senate committee was just another way to distract from the disastrous and fetid actions of this regime.

Bill Erickson's avatar

Why is anyone surprised what the MAGGOTS did to Dr. Fauci during the hearing? Taking their cue from Cheato, they blamed anyone to avoid admitting they were the guilty party. If anyone needed extra security it is shithead RFK jr. If we Americans succeed in taking over Congress in November, I hope the first order of business on January 21st will be the impeachment of Cheato, then the rest of the imbeciles in his cabinet can be disposed of (assuming brain dead Vance goes along with the majority).

NanceeM's avatar

We'll never get 67 votes in the Senate to remove him. We couldn't even get Republican Senators to reject outrageously unqualified appointees like Patel, Hegseth, Kennedy - people who put us all at risk.

Elizabeth's avatar

I think we did have a remembrance ceremony early in Biden's administration didn't we?

Angie's avatar

Republicans just look like fools. It's like an evolutionary inflection point and they are the Neanderthals, holed up in the last cave they can find. They're clinging to their precious pedophilia and their racism and their rapey sexism and their fairy tale stories about how men who beat their wives and children will all earn a special home in the sky, so long as they follow their greedy prosperity gospel. Outside the cave, higher forms of life are adapting and learning and living in the real world. I'm almost embarrassed for them, but I'm too busy laughing at how finished they are. Excited to see the GOP die off as a party. It's beyond time.

Martha's avatar

There is a lot to hate when I look at what this regime has done to our nation. But little has made me as genuinely furious as what is being done to Anthony Fauci - for the sin of trying to keep people alive. You have done a brilliant job of explaining the dynamics of this horrific situation. As for Ron Johnson, I am a Wisconsin resident and he embarrasses the hell out of me. The only thing missing from his publicity photos is his tinfoil hat.

James McConnel's avatar

We have witnessed a great injustice against Dr. Fauci to cover the tracks of Regime Leader Trump. MAGA Congressmen and their supporters in the field, including on the Left, should start wearing headbands, like the Japanese Kamikaze pilots, as they go on their suicide missions to keep Regime Leader Trump in place. These are distracting efforts from the real fact that Regime Leader Trump, Order of the Hero of the Epstein Files, is failing badly and visibly at everything he has set his hand to. These are people Democracy must come to some reconciliation with, must find a way to reintegrate without being poisoned in the process.

NanceeM's avatar

Every election cycle the Trumpists construct an enemy to run against. Remember CRT? Caravans of invaders crossing the border? DEI? Trans overtaking sports? One of them this year is Dr. Fauci. What a disgrace!

Jeff Lazar's avatar

Trump = The Ultimate Enshittification of the United States.

Jane in NC's avatar

I, for one, am sick of having republican problems and abuses dropped on the collective 'we' as though all of us are culpable for spreading the lies about COVID-19 and its treatment. The truth is that MOST of us learned exactly the right lessons about COVID, its handling and its treatment. Can we, for ONCE, put the blame where it lies? On republicans! Not 'we.'

Dr. Anthony Fauci is a lifelong public servant who deserved the award given to him by DONALD TRUMP, no less, for his steady, careful handling of a pandemic that Trump and his MAGA cult botched.

NanceeM's avatar

I'm not sure your "most of us" comment holds up now. The denial and disconnect from reality are deep and broad. At this point the open question is whether we can hold the "USA" together or need to fight for something new and separate. I have a sense it's the latter, but we should know soon.

Jane in NC's avatar

I agree with your point, Nancee, but 'most of us' aren't MAGA or MAHA cultists - although you might get a distorted impression about that given the amount of attention paid to the loudest and dumbest people among us.

NanceeM's avatar

Maybe they don't think of themselves that way, but polling suggests there may be majority agreement on some huge lies, like the 2020 election result and what happened on J6. The downward shift in vaccination rates indicates a significant decline in faith in established science as well. On some issues, the propaganda has been very effective, and the percentage of believers is way too high for comfort.

Koko in AZ's avatar

To this day I've never had Covid, thanks to following all of Fauci's recommendations.

Jane in NC's avatar

Same here, Koko! 👊

Carol Gamm's avatar

Thank you for your discussion of the Senate’s disgraceful treatment of Dr Fauci. If our democracy survives this test, we’ll have to deal with Congressional Republicans who have disgraced themselves and our country.

James Quinn's avatar

One can only wonder what a Trump diary would reveal… Wait, we don’t need one. Every time he opens his mouth he reveals just how wildly distorted his interior world is. Yet not one Republican will talk about that.

This article is correct. The Fauci hearing was never about COVID. Instead it is yet another demonstration of the Trump-driven Republican obsession with indicting SOMEBODY on ‘the other side’ for SOMETHING, ANYTHING in revenge for all that ‘lawfare’ against poor old Donald - the eternal innocent victim.