Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt.
In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said any effort to compel him to appear before a Senate subcommittee, after a contentious July 29 hearing, would be to "impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes.”
Sheesh, leave that man alone.
It’s so sad that they’re still harping on this, and it’s disgusting how they pile on him now that they have the power.
He should quote Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley:
Thanks for asking. I’m going to put this as delicately as I know how. You can chortle my balls.
When I call my dog, he comes and I kick him, he doesn’t come again the second time I call him.
This should have been obvious from the moment the fascists invited Zelensky to the white house, and brought him straight into a room to ambush him in-front of the media.
Everything fascists do is in bad faith. They do not care about the truth or the meaning of words. It’s all a performance to disinform and misdirect.
Its sad they think their ambush was any kind of gotcha for the Zell, they embarassed the shit out of themselves.
I still jokingly ask if someone even said thank you when presented with a basic reasonable inquiry I cant answer or want to humorosly rebuff
You probably shouldn’t kick your dog.
And you definitely shouldn’t let a rabid dog named Rand Paul get close enough to bite again.
These people are like dogs that hate the veterinarian because they don’t like taking medicine. You can understand a dog not understanding anything about medicine, but people in elected office? I’d say it’s shameful behaviour, but these people know no shame.
It’s probably an attempt to distract from the economy and the Iran war.
If I were a dog I’d be more worried about him checking my temperature.
I’ve never had a dog so much as flinch for a shot.
weirdest witch hunt, feel bad for the guy and his family
Not all that weird when you understand their emotional state. Well, okay, they are weird, but at least it is explainable…
I don’t get their strategy here. The current administration is what’s causing all the food issues and measles outbreaks. Fauci has nothing to do with it.
They don’t care about that.
Fauci knows things and is intelligent, made Donvict look stupid and he is the face of being told to do things that the conservative Karens didn’t want to do: lockdowns, social distancing, wearing masks, and getting vaccinated.
There is no strategy, only hatred directed towards people who happened to be right when they were wrong.
It’s ego all the way down.
Right now Republicans have no real wins that they can campaign on, and the ones that they can are unpopular even amongst their base. They have to drum up controversy and draw the spotlights to something, and this is the best they’ve got.
Distraction from their own record. Release the Epstein files and stop protecting the child rapist in the White House.
Bring him in and rake him over the coals. Let the dems scream and holler.
Then when legitimate criminals of the current admin are brought in they will claim that the dems got all fussy with fauci so why are they doing this now.
Which will rally their base and strengthen their vote.
They have to keep their fiction up, that the 2020 election was stolen, that Fauci somehow did worse than the president, and on and on.
If I were him (which I’m not), I wouldn’t appear before any political panels after what they did to him the first thing. All the panellists want is sound bites to make him look bad.
If only it were just sound bites.
They want to put him in prison because that’s what the nutjobs in their base want. They can (and have before) combed through testimony to find any discrepancies to charge people with perjury. They would do the same with Fauci, except Biden granted a pardon to Fauci. But that pardon wouldn’t cover any new testimony Fauci gives.
So their plan was to bring in Fauci, ask him a bunch of questions, if even a single word can be interpreted to mean anything that could be considered false, then they charge him for perjury.
Which is why Fauci took the 5th on every question last time. It’s not that he’s done anything incriminating (he was pardoned anyway) it’s that he knows the point of the whole exercise is to incriminate him with perjury.
It’s not that he’s done anything incriminating (he was pardoned anyway).
This assumption is too strong. Imagine making this same statement about Jan 6th rioters.
They want him executed. They’re horny for their enemies to be put to death by the state.
(which I’m not)
“My ‘I’m not Dr. Fauci’ T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt”
They’re trying to make Trump and the GOP’s complete fuckup of covid his fault.
This regime is a fucking circus.
Dr Fauci, you seem like a sensible person.
Come to NZ we like sensible people here.
Which parties are rising over there?
Far right extremism seems to be on the rise everywhere.
That’s the hardest thing for me to wrap my head around. How are people so shitty fucking everywhere?
The recent rise in the far right in western countries is probably a combination of American influence and the massive growth in immigration. There have always been fascists and neo-nazis in these countries, but they have grown in popularity due to American influence and rising immigration.
The growth of English as a lingua franca on the internet has created a lot of cultural and political exchange between the US and western countries. The consistent parade of jingoism, fascism, and white supremecy in the US has inspired similar far-right movements in these countries. The US was an apartheid state only 60 years ago, and the civil rights movement ended in political violence, with MLK and Malcolm X being assassinated. That’s not to say American culture is evil or that the world shouldn’t have cultural exchange with the US, but problems that the US has failed to address have spilled over to the rest of the world.
The spike in immigration, caused by cheap transportation, the Internet, Schengen, and the Arab Spring, has also helped trigger far right thinking in Europe and other western countries.
Because conditions are getting worse. People are being stretched thin, so they’re looking for a radical change. And the far right is promising radical improvements, even if those promises are full of shit. It also doesn’t help that many leftists have made a sport out of purity testing, pushing away many people who skew left in their political opinions but don’t follow the hive mind.
I think it’s just been too long since a lot of people have been exposed to the horrors of conflict. I think wars tend to harden a people and make them more conservative and insular, and then in the peace they remember how awful the war was for their parent or something and swing the other way. But eventually that awful feeling goes away and everyone wants to see who has the biggest dick all over again.
Propaganda, which is a form of highly-crafted group emotional manipulation much more than it is any form of informational content, has a LOT to do with enabling and perpetuating emotion-based thinking, which in turn enables this lurch to the right which benefits only a scarce few among us, who are the ones paying for all the emotion-triggering propaganda.
Mexico and Brazil beg to differ.
Is there, like, double jeopardy protection on contempt of congress charges?
