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Anthony Fauci is defending his name before Congress today in response to allegations that he covered up the US government’s role in funding gain-of-function research in China that’s potentially linked to the outbreak of covid.
“Under my leadership, we were well positioned to respond to Covid-19,” the former director of the NIAID claimed in his opening remarks, touting his involvement with the response to HIV/AIDS. “The accusation being circulated that I influenced the scientists to change their minds [about lab leak] by bribing them with millions of dollars in grant money is absolutely false, and simply preposterous.”
Fauci’s opening statement: “Under my leadership, we were well positioned to respond to COVID…” pic.twitter.com/CL2OFGbBoh
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 3, 2024
The lab leak theory, once labelled racist misinformation, appears to be gaining traction even among Democrats, some of whom joined the GOP in questioning Fauci and his colleagues in recent weeks. It comes after unearthed emails revealed an explicit effort to delete emails to protect Fauci. A lab leak vibe shift appears to be well underway.
→ Donald J. Trump: poster-in-chief
He may have spurned Elon Musk’s X, but Donald Trump has joined a new social media platform: TikTok.
The former president, himself the owner of social media site Truth Social, quickly racked up 3.7 million followers on the platform — that’s more than ten times the followers of Joe Biden, who joined in February, for those keeping score. Trump’s first TikTok is a video of himself walking around a UFC fight, complete with roaring crowds and a Joe Rogan cameo.
@realdonaldtrump Launching my TikTok at @UFC ♬ original sound – President Donald J Trump
For the original poster behind instant classics like “covfefe”, “many such cases” and “fake news”, it’s only natural that he’d soar on Gen Z’s preferred social media outlet. His previous efforts to ban the app have been forgiven and forgotten.
→ Nayib Bukele: sci-fi aristocrat
Speaking of social media starlets, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele made a splash on X over the weekend with his dramatic new threads.
The long, high-collared coat with gold embroidery evoked memories of Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, though some were reminded instead of Michael Jackson, or some sort of intergalactic aristocrat or imperial leader of space.
Waittt no one told me Bukele is dressing like a sci-fi aristocrat now. Strong ‘holding the baronetcy of a minor feudal planet for the Imperium’ vibes. https://t.co/Nla7E5H8jI pic.twitter.com/QAxdF2AQzT
— Julian Waller (@JulianWaller) June 2, 2024
Bukele broke out the special outfit for his inauguration, an event attended by the who’s-who of the American Right, including Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr. El Salvador welcomes its new imperial overlord
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SubscribeDon’t underestimate Fauci. He’s one of the most experienced and powerful federal bureaucrats ever. He’ll dance, he’ll deflect, he’ll weep if he has to, but he’ll dodge the bullet.
BTW, he was head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for almost forty years. Never again should one person hold such a powerful position over any federal agency for so long.
Good to see some clips from the US Covid enquiry today. Fauci looking rather uncomfortable and his accusers certainly not holding back. An unfortunate contrast to our state sponsored whitewash.
You can usually tell the quality of a man by his enemies.
Tony Fauci is a saint by that measure!
Remind me not to have you measure things.
In 1985 34 million Americans watched the televised drama An Early Frost. It was the first mainstream media event that covered AIDS. The lead character is refused ambulance transportation because the paramedics are afraid of contracting the disease by touching him. A friend in the hospital dies of AIDS and his personal belongings are put in the trash because of fear of contamination. The person who told the world that AIDS could be contracted by touching someon, in fact by mere being in the same room, was Athony Fauci. His promotion of AZT killed tens of thousands people as the it was a letal treatment. 35 years later the same man tells the world that being in the same room with someone with a flu can kill you. In fact, relatives insisted on cremating the deceased out of fear for Covid, as could be seen from the heaps of coffins in Italy where traditionally the deceased are laid in earth. Many people could not attend the funerals from their beloved ones because of the bogus stories. Fauci is an evil quack. Exposed as a charlatan when he claimed to have found an HIV vaccine in the early nineties by two separate teams of scientists. And yet he can go on and tell us to spray alcohol on the seats of our chairs. He should receive capital punishment for crimes against humanity committed twice in a career of deceit. Listening to the representatives from the Democrat Party Fauci got one thing right about being in the same room with someone. A vile character is highly contagious.