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TriTorch's avatar

"Assuming, that is, he actually shows and doesn’t pull some kind of trick like taking the Fifth"

Too late...

Breaking: Fauci Invokes the Fifth Amendment Before a Senate Committee, Accusing Rand Paul of Convening the Hearing Only to Put Him "Behind Bars" —The Bureau

If there is any justice this pathetic excuse for a man will one day find his head in a noose with his feet in crisco.

Valerie's avatar

I have a friend who believes the 5th was agreed to by both sides. Which sounds awful, but her further idea is that Rand Paul plans to sue him and make him spend all his ill-gotten gains defending himself for the rest of his life.

I don’t hate this theory. His reputation is already in tatters after the release of his diary, and we all know there won’t be any jail time or anything. So him dying poor and further being dragged through the courts and even more discovery won’t be a bad 2nd option.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

LMAO! Rand: Do you have that folder in front of you?

Fauci: I decline to answer based upon my rights under the 5th Amendment.

Paul: Let the record state that the witness refused to answer whether there's a folder in front of him based on his 5th Amendment right.

FedUpDeb's avatar

Since Fauci killed people’s all over the world, can’t they drag him into The Hague?

JudyC's avatar

It’s The Hague…they’re morally corrupt and compromised to the fullest. There will be no justice from The Hague…

Don Reed's avatar

07/29/26: Pfizer would be right over to the Hague with a blank check in no time flat to make sure that the verdict is "Innocent."

Ryan Gardner's avatar

With this immunity, Fauci had two choices. He could either testify truthfully...or... because he didn’t want to testify truthfully, risk a contempt charge....risk that prosecution.

Think about this…

Even with the immunity of a blanket pardon, Fauci CHOSE to risk the prosecution of a contempt charge rather then tell truths he could not be prosecuted for.

Hopefully, he will be charged with contempt.

Valerie's avatar

I feel nothing but contempt for him, does that count?

Skenny's avatar

"On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer because I will get in trouble if I continue to lie about stuff I've been pardoned for, and telling the truth is the absolute last thing I would consider doing.”

LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

🤗👏🏻Perfect translation!

Sara Goss's avatar

Be creative here. 111 times Tony said 5th. 111. There should be 111 contempt charges. I suggest the same application of the "novel" legal theories that were used to create federal charges against Pres Trump.

JudyC's avatar

Sadly, they’ll never pass contempt charges, proving ONCE AND FOR ALL, that Congress has NO power and is full of swamp creatures and is completely ineffective.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Excellent point as usual, Ryan! I said to my sister that he’s basically daring them to hold him in contempt and go through that process where apparently it’s far from a slam dunk especially if states are planning to sue him. Oh what a tangled web…

Mystic William's avatar

A foreign country or countries has to try him in absentia for murder.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Interesting idea, Mystic William. A group of private citizens in the Netherlands is suing Bill Gates, Albert Bourla, and Mark Rutte( their former prime minister) for misleading the public regarding the safety of the Covid shots. It’s a civil case. Could do something similar with Fauci…

Kevin's avatar

I'd honestly be happier still if they'd just drag him through the streets by one leg for a few miles, then switch to the other and drag him back.

But, as per usual NOTHING will happen to the slime.

LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

I am keeping Hope. Maybe, just maybe!

LouLou's avatar

Whoa! No mincing words there.🇺🇸 Steadfast convictions are strong in that one, they are. Thank you, Secretary of State Rubio.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

The US is not a member of that court. And it's a Woke court anyway.

FedUpDeb's avatar

I’m so grateful that we aren’t subject to that court. My point was that there are plenty of countries who were damaged by what Fauci and his band of merry miscreants did and they should drag him into court.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Did you hear Senator Scott ask him what color tie he was wearing? He took the Fifth.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yes. Fauci is the definition of a shitweasal

IR's avatar

This happens when you are a liar and lie about everything so the safest thing to do is to have the same answer for everything to make sure you don’t get lost in your own lies and don’t get caught lying.

Frontera Lupita's avatar

I thought it was Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri who asked Dr. Fauci the color of his tie?

Kim's avatar

Yes, it was Senator Josh Hawley. I heard it.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

You are right! I have no idea how Josh Hawley became Rick Scott in my head. They don't even look alike! LOL

Leo's avatar

Mary Ann, Yes, and that is an improper use of the Fifth, which may only be used under strict circumstances.

Man-i's avatar

yeah... its disgusting. his lawyers are idiots.

FedUpDeb's avatar

People. I hate autocorrect.

Don Reed's avatar

07/29/26: AutoWrong.

kittynana's avatar

@Ryan- others in the gallery laughed at that

Frontera Lupita's avatar

As a native of Commifornia who has stood by over the last ten years, and particularly the last 8 since Newscum has been the Governor and watched my beautiful state be taken over by a bunch of ‘f**king insane men and women of the Democrat Party. They control the State Legislature, they are in control in all of the major cities in CA.

This story in Vanity Fair, about this very much married woman’s ‘affair’ with her boss Gavin Newsom couldn’t be coming out at a better time!

Skeptical Actuary's avatar

That ought to be grounds to get him charged with contempt of congress.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

I couldn't agree more. Im thinking Rand is too smart not to have something up his sleeve. Today felt like a setup

LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

I get satisfaction from knowing that he has to write checks, big checks, for his lawyers.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

PAUL: "Dr. Fauci, would you like to at least answer this one question for us today...?"

FAUCI: "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline..."

PAUL: "The chairman has DENIED your assertion of privilege and directed you to ANSWER, but you nonetheless refuse and stand on privilege despite the existence of the pardon."

"It's AGAINST THE LAW to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions to your refusal to testify today."

I'm not confident there will be any punishment, but I do think Rand is setting him up for absolute beat-down.

At this point the best thing that can happen is making Fauci as a effing cockroach. a combination between Nero and Benedict Arnold.

Paul doesn't need him to answer. His history already did.

Graphite 🇨🇦's avatar

Fauci is looking so defeated every time he has to use the 'I cannot answer for fear that it will incriminate me' response - Hahaha

Rhonda Tenbrink's avatar

I thought the opposite. His arrogance was loud and proud! I hope he serves time in jail, at least for contempt and all his earnings are lost by being sue. May he die the death he gave so many!.

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

If there is a reckoning day for Fauci, let it be in a hospital room hooked up to a ventilator with flickering fluorescent lights and the smell of disinfectant. May the noise of beeping machines, clattering metal on metal and nurses chattering about their date Saturday night, flow down the hall like a sound tunnel at maximum decibel levels!

May he not be allowed to sleep because the patient in the bed next to his is forever crying in agony and pressing the call button to summon the nurse brigade! May he further suffer the indignity of being allergic to one of the 4 meds in his I.V. drip, so that every 4 hours he is forced to experience great pain and soil himself because the nursing staff has gossiped amongst themselves and concluded he is a difficult and annoying patient, therefore they no longer respond to his call button!

In other words, let him suffer the care standard of the medical profession like the rest of the people who find themselves in the hospital for an extended stay!

annademo's avatar

Nah, the cockroach will ask for, and get, a private room. With his own nurse(s).

Leo's avatar

Lisa, Is that a curse or a prayer?

DaveL's avatar

I hate to defend Fauci, but Rand Paul is wrong: there is no basis for suspending anyone’s protection under the Fifth Amendment. That’s why it’s written the way it was. And to think Madison started out opposed to a bill of rights, but thankfully changed his mind.

Just to be clear, I’d like nothing better than to see Fauci behind bars.

Matt L.'s avatar

How many times will Dr. Fauci invoke the 5th today? If there was a Polymarket for this I’d place $ on 666

Richard Whitney's avatar

I'm no lawyer (my husband is, but he's outside), but the point of the Fifth Amendment is to protect the accused from providing the government with information they can use to imprison, I'm pretty sure.

The government does this with less fortunate criminals, makes them immune from prosecution so that they can provide evidence.

In this case, the Top Criminal, Biden, already made him immune from prosecution, so he shouldn't be able to use the Fifth.

I will ask my husband when he's done with chores, but any other lawyer can feel free to expound.

Mrs. RW

DaveL's avatar

Don’t think that is complete, the big thing is to prevent self-incrimination. The ability to go after “bigger fish” would be a side-benefit in some cases. Interesting to see what your husband says.

Here’s the phrase in the Bill of Rights:

“… nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,…”

Richard Whitney's avatar

Well, he said some lawyer weasel word stuff, but I think he agreed with you.

And when I asked him how Fauci could be granted immunity from crimes he was not yet accused of, he said that that had not been ruled on yet, so there is no case law settling it. Well no, because the granting of pre-emptive pardons is a brand new, and outrageous, abuse of power, imo, so of course it hasn't been tested in court. Grrr.

Mrs. RW

Leo's avatar
Jul 29Edited

DaveL, Lawyer Aaron Siri broke down Fauci’s four key legal mistakes in pleading the fifth specifically addressing Sen. Hawley’s simplistic line of questioning:

“The 5th amendment can only be used when answering a question which would present real and appreciable danger. Thus, his use of the 5th during the hearing for questions that clearly don’t meet this standard, including about the color of his tie and what day of the week it is, reflects on its improper use during the hearing overall.”

Skeptical Actuary's avatar

Fauci invoked the FIFTH when asked if there was a binder in front of him. That's contempt.

Man-i's avatar

Fauci does not get 5th am. protection in front of congress. He is legally duty boound to explained to congress ( his employer) what he did and why. Aything less is obstruction

Jennie Corsi's avatar

We can’t know that Madison was not wrong to change his mind. Didn’t his fears with the bill of rights sort of come to pass? We now litigate on finer points of the meaning of each amendment, as the collective weight of a Constitution that limits granted powers to government is lessened by the accumulated assumptions of many over the years that it grants rights to us.

Richard Whitney's avatar

The Constitution doesn't grant any rights to us. The Bill of Rights does.

The Constitution is just a blueprint for running the government.

Mrs. RW

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

The Constitution's body doesn't grant us rights per se as the Bill of Rights does, but it does so in a sort of back-handed way: it limits the scope and the reach of government by dividing the federal power into 3 branches, and one of those is further divided, and then again dividing federal from state power.

DaveL's avatar

True enough, Madison and Hamilton mulled this point in the Federalist Papers. If I remember right, Hamilton made the case that these rights were already implied in the Constitution (that they were trying to get approved). And was wary of “overspecifying” rights, running the danger of implied, unspecified rights. Which lead to litigation. But I’m still glad Madison changed his mind.

Richard Whitney's avatar

The story I heard was that the wealthy landowners who wrote the Constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation didn't want to put the rights in, but the people of the colonies refused to vote for it unless it was written down.

Otherwise, they would do what they did with Russia, and the "not one inch to the east" promise...."You didn't get it in writing".

So, thank our commoner forefathers for the Bill of Rights. It's the only thing we Americans have that keep us from the fate of the EU citizens.

We need to fight to keep it.

Mrs. RW

Mark Leone's avatar

It seems to me that the threat of state charges is a sufficient basis to plead the fifth, on the theory that it's at least possible to bring state charges for which there is no superceding federal charge. Too bad President Autopen didn't orchestrate a 50-state pardon while he was at it.

Lori's avatar

He is breaking the law and needs to be jailed. No further discussion needed.

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

This is likely why Rand Paul released Fauci's diaries. Another likely reason is to placate the masses, like throwing meat to the lions to ensure they are well fed and won't turn on the tamer when the curtain goes up.

Laura's avatar

Bread and circuses.

daverkb's avatar

Rand Paul, with respect to the 5th, uses the term 'privilege' (as per according to the above). But the 5th is not a privilege, it is a Right. This is a key difference in distinction to be recognized.

Privileges are state grants to do what one otherwise cannot do. Rights in the old American Law (Common Law based) are absolute, unalienable ... that is, non-transferable, not lapsing, and adhering to the natural person. The Rights of Liberty are God conferred Rights (not privileges by common use) and subject to the Absolute Sovereign alone. And thus Rights are absolute Higher Law. How do we know this? Because the language of historical usage tells us so. That is, the Rights of Liberty were stated as being not able to be 'infringed upon' nor 'trespassed against' by any agency of Man (government, for example). Knowing the difference between Rights and Civil Rights IS the way back home. It is also the reason why the atheistic humanists war continually against God.

However, Rand Paul could be entirely correct to use the term 'privilege' as referencing 'the 5th' and as I believe he is. This by implication could only mean the entire old American Law Order in use at the time of the original constitutional framings has been usurped in a clever bait and switch over extended time. If so, then a lot of the words may sound right, but by evidence seen are word-twisted into employments meant to deceive. To put it plainly, we are continually being gaslighted by a misuse of proper word meaning devoid of all historical standards of usage.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

such an incisive comment. thx, @daverkb

daverkb's avatar

Thanks for noticing and considering. For sure, 'something' is 'off' somewhere. And 'actions seen' by government 'officials' don't match what 'the template' (constitutions) should dictate by compliance. Probably like you, I get up daily and wonder 'what the hell' is going on. It is all so unbelievably abnormal and bat s#8t crazy.

We don't have a country. We are dispossessed. We are enslaved. Maybe if we stated from these simple truths, we would stand a chance. And I am so pissed that DJT turned Zionist NeoCon with Iran and has not ended the Ukraine war long ago as promised. Again I ask, "What the hell is going on." And I don't see things ending well. (Gulp!)

Mark Leone's avatar

His wife is going to ask him what he wants for dinner tonight, and he's going to say, "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline..."

Carrie's avatar

On the bright side… cockroach Fauci doesn’t get to spew insults at Rand like he has historically done in past congressional hearings. I get a little satisfaction that his choice to plead the 5th relegates him to listening without responding. No Fauci responses for lefties and jab lovers to celebrate.

Susie & Security's avatar

Ryan, I just learned there is a recent WSJ movie (The Lockdown Dissidents) and a 2024 documentary (Thank You, Dr. Fauci) about this. I don't think I'll waste my time on either but wanted to share.

See https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/the-lockdown-dissidents-vindicated/. It's a good article.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

this is a great article. american thinker is one of my fav publications.

thx for sharing!

Joseph Kaplan's avatar

He can be sued on civil charges. No pardon protection. He can be charged in state courts.

Stacy's avatar

My 12 year old son asked me that question this morning!! He wants to personally sue Fauci for elearning, masking, missed events, lockdowns . . . He’s dead serious. He wants retribution. Anyone know a good lawyer ???? 😂

TriTorch's avatar

I am sensing that this fine young man has some phenonmenal parents…

pretty-red, old guy's avatar

well, simply the fact he knows who Fauci "is" puts him in a league above many New Yorkers Johnny interviews on the street

for Portlanders: Fox's Jesse Watters Prime Time show often features Johnny interviewing New Yorkers and various beach-goers in Florida and New Joisy. Preferably female.

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

I would hope separate lawsuits would be filed against the Teacher's Unions, District and State officials, Federal and State Departments of Education, as all conspired to take advantage of the free money being handed out by the Federal Government! Just as the Legacy Media took Fauci's advice without real questions, when they should have consulted their own experts and databases full of Child Development and Medical studies!

It is as if we have a total disconnect between these Government's and the University Research and Libraries of knowledge they have been funding for centuries! Most college students can find this stuff in minutes, if it is assigned work or even if they are minimally curios!

Pam WP's avatar

I’m sure we can gather co-defendants!! To your son 🙌🙌

Mark Leone's avatar

Can you have a class action suit against an individual?

LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

Yes. A class action against Fauci would be great. He has millions of dollars and now makes over 350,000 a year annual income from pension, etc..

Susie & Security's avatar

Yup - as long as you have enough plaintiffs. Those won't be hard to find.

NOYB's avatar

I can help... I'll need $15,000 to get started.

pretty-red, old guy's avatar

made me laugh out loud. thank you!

Juju's avatar

Our states need to get busy with this!!!

Lori's avatar

He needs full destruction Valerie. Dying poor is not good enough. He is a mass serial killer. The worst in history along with his cohorts like Baric and Shi. There is no place on God's beautiful earth for him or his evil colleagues. They must suffer unimaginably and die.

LMWC's avatar

But we know by now that Congressional hearings are nothing but dramatic theater. Rand Paul knows that as well as anyone. MSM won’t cover the hearing at all because then they would have to speak of the diaries, which they won’t. I have very little hope for the DC swamp any longer. 84% of citizenry want only citizens to vote, a majority of that is Democratic voters. It goes across ethnic lines and yet you can not get one Democrat senator onboard and too many Republicans. There are no legitimate reasons, the Republicans give none whatsoever. Thune holds a giant finger to all of us and makes no apologies for screwing his own constituents. He and most of them care not at all for us. They don’t care if they lose the Senate. They are going on recess with NOTHING accomplished for the American people. How many Republicans are retiring at the end of 2026? And who replaces them? More of the same!

Fauci’s 5th amendment statement surprised no one.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

CNN has it on RN. I can’t believe it.

Sadly, I missed Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin— my

hero, ask AF whether he considered his six pulmonary infarctions may have stemmed from his stupid clot shots. DANG, I hate that I missed that part!

RN, it’s the usual. Many of them are wiping the floor with his diary pages. Then some smarmy dem gets on, like the NJ guy, Kim something… He kisses ass for 15 long minutes. The republicans are being semi-brutal. Most dems are being weenies.

Lori's avatar

I don't believe he got the jab nor the embolisms. Most would have died from that and he did not. But then again, Fauci is a disciple of Satan and Satan won't let him die.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I never thought he got the clot shot / stroke pokes though I watched him pretend to get one on Colbert. When I heard abt the infarctions, it made me second guess myself. Maybe he believed his own mantras and actually got it?

kittynana's avatar

@Lori- he probably DID have the infarcts. He would have had enough time to get help.

Donna E.'s avatar

Congressional Committees: Where crimes go to die quietly....

Skeptical Actuary's avatar

Here's a good summary:

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/fauci-stuns-congress-by-pleading

Interesting bits:

1) Fauci took the 5th when asked things like whether there was a binder on his desk, the color of his tie, if he knew what the 5th amendment WAS, etc.

2) Ron Johnson brought up the bit about Fauci having a pulmonary embolism, and the effectiveness of ivermectin. Fauci took the 5th.

3) Josh Hawley told of how Fauci had 8 different minions hunt for cash prizes for Fauci - on company time. Fauci won a $1 million cash prize from Israel.

Annette's avatar

Maybe the flea treatment Fauci gave the beagles would suffice for punishment?

Lori's avatar

not nearly enough for animal and human abuse for nearly 50 years.

Erin W's avatar

We could banish him to Greenland, at least.

Lori's avatar

Greenland does not deserve his satanic self. He needs utter destruction.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I'm thinking a deserted island far from any land mass and we drop him off with the clothes he wearing and a pack of cucumber seeds.

Skeptical Actuary's avatar

I think we have some uninhabited islands in Alaska he could be banished to, waaaay out in the Aleutians. Maybe there are some north of the mainland.

Alternately, there's one island in Hawaii that was used for target practice in WW2, that NO ONE is allowed to go on, probably because of contamination. We could make an exception for him.

Karen's avatar

no beautiful Hawaii for him!! Even if contaminated! He deserves to freeze in Alaska with a flea cage on his face.

Valerie's avatar

I get it but you’re going to be sorely disappointed if that’s your expectation, I’m afraid.

Lori's avatar

The day will come, of this I have no doubt.

Mary Goodwin's avatar

Oh, i like this idea!

S.P.H.'s avatar

Sedate Fauci, cut his vocal chords, insert his head in a mesh cage of sand flies.

Cousin Clem's avatar

Paul is just using this for his own political boost. Both knew nothing would happen. Fauci gets to plead the 5th and nothing will happen to him. Paul gets to look like the dogged hero for a few political points but knew nothing would really come from the hearings. And we all get a distraction from the Iran show.

Kathryn Dewalt's avatar

He won't die poor... He's already old and he has a crap load of bucks💰

But someplace in that little man's ego, there's a trap door.

Ideally, he will regret his pernitious actions; and go to his knees in repentance. At least he could lift his head and look in the face of GOD without dread.

Realistically, however, he won't use that escape hatch, but will die unforgiven by the LORD GOD... and his Eternity will be horrendous!

I don't wish that for him... miserable toad that he is. But I see nothing, so far, that indicates sorrow or remorse.

c Anderson's avatar

A cover for the CCP involvement? Valerie! You may be on to something.

Valerie's avatar

That is not what I said at all…

c Anderson's avatar

If you didn’t mean that, you possibly are being played as a fool because the lab release and spread was done to impact the election. The proof was that thousands of Chinese nationals continued be flown into the US. You really believe the CCP cares about elderly Chinese citizens dying?

Lori's avatar

he is there and grinning, laughing, checking his watch and waving to friends in the chamber. He is evil beyond the pale.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Wouldn't be great to have access to Fauci's "Dear Diary" entry from tonight....

What a complete faQQot wussy.

Lori's avatar

Blumenthal is speaking now and once again, blaming Trump and kissing the demon's ass.

Skenny's avatar

Perhaps the most important takeaway from Fauci's perspective, after the "hearing," is that he is still Julia Roberts' hero.

Freedom Fox's avatar

I'll one-better you. The most important takeaway from Fauci's perspective is that the "hearing" is a scripted Flak, Chaff and Countermeasures strategy. To make inconvenient evidence of government corruption and evisceration of US Constitutional rights, human rights, *inalienable* rights go away. Var. Uniparty.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2017/03/21/the-washington-dc-uniparty-flak-chaff-and-countermeasures-strategy/

"A “Countermeasure” is a measure or action taken to counter or offset another one.

Politically speaking, the deployment of countermeasures is a tactic used by professional politicians in Washington DC to counter incoming public inquiry and protect themselves from anger expressed by the electorate.

Weaponized government takes action and creates victims. Beyond the strategy – the countermeasures are politicians assigned a role to control the incoming righteous inquiry from voters who find out about the weaponized or corrupt governmental action.

1.) The electorate become aware of a political issue or action; often illegal.

2.) The electorate become angry.

3.) DC needs to protect itself.

4.) Countermeasures are assigned and deployed to delay, obfuscate and create the illusion of investigation of the illegal governmental action.

5.) Electorate watch.

6.) Investigation goes nowhere.

7.) Countermeasure deployment successful.

Repeat.

The countermeasures are deployed to act as shiny distractions keeping the larger electorate satisfied something is being done. Countermeasures are designed to create investigations that go nowhere.

The goal is not resolution or justice; the goal is to deflect, create distraction and eventually dilute/diminish the outrage over time. Keep kicking the can until it rusts and simply falls apart.

Nothing to see here. Move along, move along now folks.

The political system in Washington DC has become so massive it is now capable of protecting itself. Any attempt to reduce the influence, scope or size of the system is considered a risk. The system is, in essence, protecting itself. Deep State is self-aware.

Political countermeasures are now deployed as human articles of self-preservation."

Dr. Howard's avatar

Not a pretty picture.

daverkb's avatar

You say one Lori is enough. But by your posting, we could use more!

Lori's avatar

People are becoming complacent bc the years have gone by since 2020. They want to move on and I say, not until he is stone cold.

daverkb's avatar

Complacency, this is an interesting thought. And it may seem plain, and even ordinary and simple to mention this, but depth of the dislocations ensuing astounds the mind!

First, what does the Bible say? It says "My people are destroyed by a lack of knowledge." And 'lack of knowledge' implies not knowing the truth about things, both as to general and specific applications. And so I say that an essential supportive component of complacency necessarily is to be had not knowing the truth about one's circumstance.

That is, if people knew the entire astonishing, the completely stark total displacement of their lives from all historical sense of know reality, they first would be shell shocked, but eventually also rudely jolted out of complacency.

Sheep and cattle go to slaughter, never comprehending their situation.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Sure, plead the Fifth. OJ also swore he'd find the real killer... right after his tee time....

David Nelson's avatar

Because--"It's Fauci," I'm going to go ahead and bet that even invoking his Fifth Amendment right is a damnable lie.

DaveL's avatar

How is it a “lie” if he in fact invoked it?

David Nelson's avatar

Okay, I'll bite. The idea intended was that Anthony Fauci is such a polished and habitual liar that one has to suspect that even any "obviously true" things he might say are--still--somehow--deeply--lies.

If Anthony Fauci swore, 'The sky is blue.', MANY of us would look for the lie...

My statement was more about hinting at the man's character. You hinted that you would take my bet, and I find that fair enough.

Skeptical Actuary's avatar

You have to claim an answer might incriminate yourself to invoke the fifth amendment.

When he invoked the fifth when asked whether there was a binder in front of him, he was claiming that answering that question might incriminate him. That's lying.

Karmy's avatar

We do know that he will face the final judge and at his advanced age it won’t be long. May he repent of his sins.

Kim's avatar

"Do not be deceived,, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap." Galatians 6:7; "But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms shall be proclaimed upon the housetops." Jesus in Luke 12:2-3.

God set up governments to punish evil not only for their wrongs but also for a deterrence to others. Without repentance, God's judgment is coming, too!

Susan V's avatar

The thought of Fauci repenting of his sin of the past 50 years in entering heaven rather than burning in hell for eternity is a real struggle to accept.

LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

Who murdered the most people? Fauci or Hitler?

Kevin's avatar

If I hear that bullshit one more time I am going to scream.

Karmy's avatar

I’m sorry that faith in God’s final judgment disturbs you. My faith protects me from the negative sin of hate. Why should I live with hate when all it does is destroy me. I refuse to give myself to the adversary; I denounce him. I will pray that you find peace.

Leo's avatar

Karmy, You got it! "... the negative sin of hate. Why should I live with hate when all it does is destroy me."

Kevin's avatar

It's nothing against you, I honestly wish you well. The problem is people believe this stuff, and consequently instead of turning the human garbage inside out while they are still breathing, they leave retribution to happen in the afterlife.... which also means that for those of us here still living get to watch the criminals do their routines over and over and over and over and over again because there is * N O T H I N G * here to physically prevent their behavior from happening again. And, extra bonus, because of this, more people see this lack of punishment, and they too engage in bad behavior. So once again, those of us among the living get to watch even MORE crime and corruption take place, without end, because everybody is waiting for something to happen in the afterlife, while here in this realm, it is now a living hell. Extra, extra, bonus, you 'theoretically' get penalized for checking out early when you finally get enough of the living hell here, waiting for the paradise that no one has proof of other than 'trust me bro'.

Do I think there is something on the other side, absolutely. But I'd stake my current life that it's not anything like what we've been told, by any religion.

Karmy's avatar

Kevin there is nothing I can do to change what is happening. Do I believe he should be punished for his evil, yes I do. But I have no control over it so I choose to believe that we all are going to be judged at the end of life. Eternity

Is a long time. I choose the positive path for my mental health.

David Nelson's avatar

But, we do know that he will face the final judge and at his advanced age it won’t be long. May he repent of his sins.

(I wanted to see if I could hear you through the substack thing.)

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

I like my reckoning better. you can find it above, under responses to Ryan Gardener's comment. Hint....it involves a hospital stay.

Johnny-O's avatar

Sasha Laytopova: The Fauci Show, Don't Take the Bait!

....In any case, I am not going to dignify that clown show. Here is my prediction - nothing will happen, beyond Rand Paul posturing and Fauci saying he can’t recall anything. Even if Fauci says something else, it doesn’t matter. No accountability, no justice for the victims and no change to how HHS is going to continue to lie to all of us while funding more of the same “fast-tracked” poisons, “countermeasures”, “preparedness”, etc. I am not black-pilling you, the truth is never “black” or “pill” - it is always valuable and liberating. I am simply going to use this opportunity to remind how important it is to not compromise it in exchange for a cheap thrill, no matter how much you want to smash Fauci’s smirk off his face.

No matter how vile and despicable Fauci is - and he is truly vile and despicable - “prosecuting” him for crimes that he didn’t commit is designed to fail. That’s exactly why Rand Paul is doing it. He is running a fake (very safe) prosecution show for his own political gain-of-function and with full approval of the real criminals - Trump and the Pandemic Preparedness crime cartel. The goal of this cartel and Paul’s “investigation” is to legitimize and forever enshrine the government’s self-assumed right to remove the civil rights and Constitutionally guaranteed protections under the doctrine of “pandemics”, whether claimed natural or “gain-of-function” derived. They want to keep all the illegal-laws and pseudo-legal powers they have obtained through Operation Covid in place in order to commit the same crimes in perpetuity.

Prosecution under a false theory not only ensures Fauci is safe, it also helps the crime cartel solidify its power and the lies on which they built their power - the “gain-of-function” narratives. It also makes mockery of the victims - those fake-diagnosed with “gain of function lab leaked bioweapon” and then trapped and murdered in the hospitals with remdesivir, narcotics, ventilators and with such utter depraved cruelty that would make Nazis blush. Yet, their voices are forever silenced with the “lab leak” narrative that large “health freedom” MAHA-aligned accounts are now trumpeting all over the internet! The Pandemic crime cartel couldn’t ask for better supporters than those who take the cheap “get Fauci” bait and endorse this lie.

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/fauci-will-not-be-prosecuted-gain

Johnny-O's avatar

Here is a summary of why Fauci will walk free and live happily ever after:

There was no lab leak and none are possible. Psychological and non-lethal chemical weapons were deployed to drive fear and achieve mass compliance with criminal acts of the US Government, their co-conspirators and foot soldiers, witting or unwitting.

There is no definition of GOF, there was no “GOF virus” and none are possible to make.

Bioweapons are indistinguishable from vaccines, and that’s the real reason Trump gave Fauci a Presidential award for Operation Warp Speed.

Fauci was not in charge of any covid policy decisions, the National Security Council under Trump 1.0 was in charge. Giving bad advice without decision making authority is not a crime. The fake prosecution of Fauci is designed to keep Fauci safe and these real perpetrators even safer.

Anything that Rand Paul claims as a GOF activity is indistinguishable from routine “infectious disease and vaccine/biologics research” conducted in 1000+ lab facilities in the US and 3000+ facilities world-wide. Thus, no crime or cover up can ever be proven.

Finally, Rand Paul and Fauci are both acting in a theatrical play as a hero and a villain characters. The hero is fighting against evil villain who is making GOF bioweapons in secret labs far away. The hero will defeat the villain by claiming the government must continue to invest into [totally fake] Pandemic Preparedness racket, and all the illegal laws, such as PREP Act, CARES Act, etc. that have been used to remove our rights. lie to the public, and kill and maim millions of people why deriving huge profits, should stay with no changes.

Quiltlady's avatar

I have seen that many on here dislike some of your posts. It takes a certain mindset to understand you. I appreciate your writing.

PapayaSF's avatar

Why would you a think a lab leak is not possible? There are numerous other documented examples. In this case it looks likely for technical reasons, and an intentional leak doesn’t make sense to me:. why release it in the city where they made it, leaving a big clue, instead of in the US where they needed it to fix the election? I suspect some janitor decided to make some extra money by not disposing of dead bats and instead sold them to the wet market.

About Fauci, why was he so eager to do this risky research in China? Was it just a devotion to science, or was there a darker motive? On some level did he sense that if there was a catastrophe, he could become a hero by leading the response to it?

Johnny-O's avatar

That is Sasha's work/writing. She's researched and written extensively about it and is way ahead of the curve.

As far as virus theory goes, I haven't dug into it, but recently saw even people like Mike Yeadon now question it....

Richard Whitney's avatar

The argument is that there is no such thing as viruses, therefore there can't be GOF on viruses.

I don't agree with that, but that is what they are saying.

The reason Fauci moved it to Wuhan is that they were already cooperating with the Wuhan Institute, and Obama put a moratorium on GOF on 3 viruses, including the corona virus, so they just took the US research and moved it to China. Or so they tell us. They were already cooperating with the Bat Lady.

It didn't really start in Wuhan, it was just identified in Wuhan. It was probably already circulating in the US before the Chinese identified it.

Remember the "vaping deaths"? Diagnosed by the ground glass appearance of the lungs? That was in the summer of 2019.

Then in January 2020, the Chinese notified the WHO of a new deadly virus, diagnosed by the ground glass appearance of the lungs of the victims.

And in the US, the vaping disease disappeared. And the cover-up commenced.

Mrs. RW

PapayaSF's avatar

Viruses are certainly real. We can see them with microscopes, we know how they’re built, and can build them. Saying they don’t exist is absurd.

Johnny-O's avatar

Well, Mike Yeadon was high up at Pfizer, and his world was turned upside down by the plandemic and he essentially turned into a whistleblower more or less. The fact he questions it gives me pause.

PonyBoy's avatar

Defending the little rat bastard I see.

Vermin tend to stay together.

Johnny-O's avatar

Wtf are you talking about? Try reading and comprehending

daverkb's avatar

This should have many more likes.

The fix was in before the Fake-demic fuse was lit. Right off I noticed that all responses and operations were pre-positioned, mapped out and in place before the Grand Announcements were made public.

And I was selling on eBay at the time. And it was amazing how those endless supplies of masks were available overnight, and endless supply chain of them. No production lags, no mask shortages. Only sellers ready with pre-stocked inventory. Therefore, my question was, "How did they know?"

Johnny-O's avatar

Yep, it was all already in place. But we are crazy conspiracy theorists for pointing out all these anomalies or coincidences.....sigh.

Rob's avatar

That's what the the Amendment is there for, the guy is evil but he is an American.

As a plus he doesn't trust the Biden autopen pardon either!

Richard Whitney's avatar

LOL, good points. But I'm pretty sure that the 5th applies to everyone being prosecuted in America, not just American citizens.

That is the point that some people brought up when the US was trying to extradite Julian Assange from the London dungeon, and bring him here to try him in a kangaroo court.

Maybe he'd be better off with some Constitutional protections?

Luckily, that wasn't tested, because I have little faith that the Constitution would have been followed.

Mrs. RW

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

True. As we saw and continue to see under Democrat leadership, the Constitution is often disregarded when inconvenient for their purpose.

Proberta's avatar

We will know if this is real or just a staged theatrical distraction by how many times we hear questions regarding C0vid vaxxine death numbers, Myocarditis clots, Turbo Cancer, and the self-assembling nanotechnology in the vaxxines.

Pam WP's avatar

I’d prefer upside down by the cahonies! 😡 At least I know he’ll go straight to the lake of 🔥 upon death.

M. Maria's avatar

There are no cahones with which to hang him.

John infinity N's's avatar

So Fauci shreds the constitution in 2020 but now pleads the 5th amendment

Skeptical Actuary's avatar

This is a good summary of the hearings. Ron Johnson brought up the fact that Fauci had 8 different employees working to nominate him for cash awards - on company time. One of those awards was a $1 million cash prize from Israel.

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/fauci-stuns-congress-by-pleading

Juju's avatar

The Democrat opening response made me so angry. It was pure “look over here!” tactics, shaming Paul for inconveniencing all of them and dredging up the past, leaving them out of the process by not disclosing his hand. They were making a new villain to deflect from Fauci. I can’t believe these slimey snakes are STILL defending Fauci, and in this manner.

I paused to simmer down and preferred to just come back and finish C&C article today. I’ll finish watching later. I need a shower first after the Democrat opening comments. I don’t care as much what Fauci does/doesn’t say, I care which message overpowers the hearing. Is the villain Fauci? Who is responsible for the death of millions and the harassment and oppression of three times that? Or is the villain Paul, for bucking standards and norms and misusing his position as chairman? 🤔🤔 hmmm such a close call - NOT. (And I’m not saying Paul is guilty of that, I’m giving the benefit of the doubt, using worse possible scenario, and even THEN it doesn’t hold a candle to the crimes of Fauci, and Senator Peters is the epitome of evil with his deflections.)

Sherrylyn Young's avatar

I love your posts, Juju, but here I will add something more. Fauci was NOT personally responsible for millions of deaths. WE WERE: the American public. All the people who bought into the lies and absurdities and COMPLIED! All the hopsital personnel who promoted the jab (and refused to take it themselves), who lied about civid morbidity (defining ANY respiratory illness as covid), lied about covid mortality (defining a covid death as anyone who died WITH covid), and then put patients on ventilator to increase the amount of covid money being paid to the hospitals. It was unconscionable. The school personnel who shut down our schools (and got covid money for doing it), pretended they were afraid of catching covid if they went back into the classrooms ( so the could continue zoom teaching from home), then masking our children (even the babies) long after it was shown children were pretty much not susseptible nor contageous. Claims that natural immunity was not as good as the jab, when every normally intelligent person should have known better. Pregnant women taking the "vaccine" when obstetricians had refused to give every other vaccine to pregnant women. No, Fauci was not responsible for the disaster. We were. And it scares the hell out of me to see how the public responded to all this, and makes me fear for our future.

Leo's avatar

Sherrylyn, But but but...Scapegoating has a loooong and popular history. Blame is Beautiful. "Look over there!"

Juju's avatar

All really, really good points. You’re right, there are many more that need to be held to account other than just Fauci.

axons007's avatar

I happen to think that's a fantastic reason to convene..... it's where he belongs for crimes against humanity. Certainly I support the 5th but sure do wish there was a way to make him talk. Those diary entries were a divine gifting to the public.

DaveL's avatar

How did the government end up with those diaries in the first place? Usually diaries are considered private.

Juju's avatar

They were written on government servers. 🤣 Yes, that’s how stupid he was. Or, arrogant and overly sure of himself.

Susie & Security's avatar

Whaaaaaaaat? I was curious about this as well. His arrogance overrides his stupidity. WHY DO STUPID WRITE THINGS DOWN???

Juju's avatar

In his delusional perspective, when you truly believe the world sees you as a savior, you fantasize about a future where you are seen as such, so everything you write down is coming from a perspective of everyone seeing you the same way Julia Roberts does and therefore what you are writing is adding to that construction of your legacy. Foolish

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

A Bill Clinton type for sure! Diddling a ditzy young intern in a service hall to the Oval office and when caught out, denying and having his wife try to sell the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" propaganda. Lol! As if Republicans were responsible for hiring staffers/ young female and interns for a horny Democrat President. As we all know, Bill Clinton has likes to use State Troopers to help him procure women.

Juju's avatar

Buzz Patterson can attest to this

Johnny-O's avatar

It's not a diary. It was/is gov info. This is all a show, literally.

Erin Montgomery's avatar

He knew he was caught via his journal exposure.

Johnny-O's avatar

That's a lie. It was all public record. This is all orchestrated for the masses

Bard Joseph's avatar

"Thus the Drug Trust, while maintaining the Stalinist Communist Government in Russia, simultaneously maintained a Communist back up regime in the United States, the Trotskyite Movement, in case the Stalinist regime should fall."

Eustace Mullins

Murder By Injection.

Truth Seeker's avatar

There is absolutely no question of criminal intent by the elf.

Do not give this goon too much credit!! He simply did the bidding of the actual entity

all should fear. The legal system facilitates the criminality.

Consider F's lawyers... They are just doing their jobs, right?

They are arguabley even worse

Tonya's avatar

The government shouldn't fund ANY medical research. Problem solved.

Dr Linda's avatar

Especially since medical research is wrapped around drugs.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

The only thing more permanent than a bureaucrat's job is their ability to dodge a straight answer.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Unfortunately, with pharma a huge funder of campaigns, lobbying, and more, government will continue to fund medical research under various guises

If we can eliminate pharma lobbying, that will be the day.

But i honestly can’t see that happening. Too much money involved and everyone’s getting paid — but the common folk: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-ruling-class-of-the-united-states

Susie & Security's avatar

That, and pharma stock trading by lawmakers.

Johnny-O's avatar

Trump's chief of staff, some would say "boss" Susie Wiles is straight from Big Harma.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Yep! I called this out back in Feb 2025 that she was a character to watch: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/5-real-world-insights-from-a-tv-show

Colleen The Queen's avatar

Julie green ministries says she is a white wolf. And so is JD Vance. Both evil.

DQ's avatar

I despise her.

Chuck's avatar

Make GOF illegal, Congress, and sign it Mr. President. Then how it gets funded - private or public - doesn't matter. It's illegal. And full and complete prosecution of all cases. And I like both of Jeff's suggested penalties: 50 years, plus death penalty if anyone dies.

Richard Whitney's avatar

It already is illegal under the 1972 Bioweapons Treaty, which the US signed and ratified.

Mrs. RW

Susie & Security's avatar

Mrs. RW, my understanding is that the 1972 code applies only if you can prove it's a bioweapon - which isn't a cakewalk because GOF research is used for both civilian and military research.

And what is your husband doing outside in this unbearable heat?! 😉

Richard Whitney's avatar

Gain of function research is meant to increase a pathogen's lethality and/or transmissability. There is no civilian reason for that. The research is banned, not particular results.

Of course, the UN's WHO was pushing for an incredible escalation with their proposal that every country who finds a previously unknown pathogen must share it with bioweapon labs around the world. A breathtaking criminal proposal. The US is not the only country that ignores international law.

It has cooled off today, but he looks for eggs every morning, trying to beat the dogs and the snake to them. It's kind of funny, watching everyone head to the nests.

Mrs. RW

Deb's avatar

Agree!

Just another "excuse" to continue on with this horrific behavior and all the while telling the American taxpayers that everything is just fine! They know best!

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Nothing will happen because of this:

"When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."

-Hannah Arendt

Hate to be negative, but I'm a pragmatist.

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

We have seen this tactic before. School Districts and State Governments use it all the time.

Example... the Teachers' Union decides that keeping schools open is detrimental to their members' because some may get the virus. Therefore, they all ban together to disrupt the education of the children throughout the entire State! But none are punished, none are sued and all get paid as essential workers, though they do not run the risk that a grocery clerk, nurse, doctor nor janitor in a hospital does.

The children lose years of education and the teachers get a staycation, while saving on travel expenses, so the utility bill equals out. The District saves on utility bills, but must invest in cyclone fencing to create a prison effect to keep the neighborhood from enjoying the field for exercise and possibly to congregate to discuss the Plandemic in the safety of open air. Meanwhile the parents take all the responsibility for the education, pay higher utility bills, often must now pay a nanny or responsible adult to oversee the homeschooling to enable the parent to work in another part of the house without constant interruption, in order to pay the bills and keep a roof over the child and themselves!

Johnny-O's avatar

Ultimately, the finger needs to be pointed at those responsible, which Latypova points out some of the culprits in her piece yesterday:

PCC Meetings: Dr. Fauci attended daily Policy Coordination Committee (PCC) meetings, which were chaired by Anthony Ruggiero of the NSC. These meetings were the forum for deciding on initial measures like airport entry screenings for flights from Wuhan.

Stance on Travel Bans: NSC officials, particularly Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger, were the primary proponents of closing U.S. borders to travelers from China. While Dr. Fauci and Dr. Robert Redfield initially opposed these bans, the NSC continued to push for them throughout January 2020.

Coordination with Task Force: Key NSC figures, including National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien and Pottinger, were designated members of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force.

Schengen Area Restrictions: In March 2020, NSC Advisor Robert O’Brien weighed in alongside health officials to support restricting travel from the 26 European countries in the Schengen Area as infections there surged.

Debbie Birx: In February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx was announced as the new “coronavirus coordinator” within the NSC.

Raj Panjabi: He is identified as the NSC lead for pandemic preparedness. Dr. Fauci worked with him during the monkeypox outbreak to engage with LGBTQ+ activists, though Dr. Fauci later privately expressed concern that Panjabi seemed “over his head” in that role.

Beth Cameron: Serving as the NSC’s Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense, Cameron worked with Dr. Fauci on securing funding for pandemic preparedness and managing the U.S. relationship with the WHO.

The NSC was heavily involved in the Intelligence Community’s (IC) efforts to determine how COVID-19 began:

Investigative Tasking: Shortly after taking office, President Biden tasked the NSC and the IC to prepare a report on whether the virus emerged from human contact with an infected animal or a laboratory accident.

Briefings: Dr. Fauci attended high-level NSC briefings on the origins of the virus, noting that the NSC’s analysis leaned toward a natural “species jump,” which contrasted with some other agencies’ views.

Fauci was interacting with members of NSC but did not have decision-making authority:

Fauci attended multiple meetings involving the National Security Council (NSC), often in the context of policy coordination or high-level intelligence briefings. According to the journals, he participated in several different types of NSC-led meetings:

Policy Coordination Committee (PCC) Meetings: In the very early stages of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci attended daily PCC meetings. On January 16, 2020, he noted being in on a PCC meeting via the NIH SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) with the NSC, chaired by Anthony Ruggiero. He attended additional PCC meetings led by Ruggiero throughout late January to discuss airport screenings and travel restrictions.

Meetings with NSC Leadership: On January 27, 2020, he attended a White House meeting via SCIF led by Deputy Director of the NSC Matt Pottinger to discuss closing borders to travelers from China. On July 16, 2020, he participated in a teleconference with Pottinger and National Security Advisor Bob O’Brien regarding travel between the U.S. and Europe.

Interagency Policy Committee (iPC) Meetings: On April 22, 2021, Dr. Fauci participated in an iPC meeting chaired by Beth Cameron of the NSC to discuss funding for pandemic preparedness.

Intelligence and Origin Briefings: On July 1, 2021, he attended an “official briefing” with the NSC led by Beth Cameron and Maher Bitar (Senior Director for Intelligence Programs at NSC) to discuss the Intelligence Community’s report on the origins of COVID-19.

Principals Meetings: On September 2, 2021, he attended a “principals meeting” in the SCIF led by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to discuss the global response to the pandemic.

Use of the Defense Production Act by Trump to commandeer pharmaceutical and other corporations

The journals mention the Defense Production Act (DPA) several times, primarily as a tool for the federal government to compel the manufacturing of critical supplies and as a potential point of leverage in negotiations with pharmaceutical companies.

Initial Discussions: On March 17, 2020, the Coronavirus Task Force discussed the DPA and a possible Executive Order to implement it.

By March 27, 2020, President Trump invoked the DPA to require General Motors (GM) to manufacture ventilators to address nationwide shortages.

Peter Navarro was identified as the staff member tapped by the President to lead efforts in compelling private companies to meet the government’s needs under the Act.

Dr. Fauci noted in June 2020 that the DPA could serve as a “hammer” during negotiations with companies like Pfizer. He suggested the government could invoke the Act to dictate vaccine prices (proposing ~$25 per dose instead of $100) or even “take over” the company during the emergency.

In February 2021, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio begged for the invocation of the DPA or similar mechanisms because the city’s vaccine supply was not meeting demand.

Activists like Peter Staley and James Krellenstein repeatedly urged the Biden administration to use the DPA to:

Build new plants to produce unlimited amounts of vaccine, which would allow for rapid responses to new viral strains.

Force Moderna to allow the manufacturer Lonza to increase capacity specifically for low- and middle-income countries.

Establish “GoCo” (Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated) factories to deliver doses of NIAID-developed vaccines globally

Bgagnon's avatar

Yes, this is really the bottom line! However, suing the rat bast…. until he’s broke sounds like a possible alternative.

Leo's avatar

Ryan, Truth, by definition, is positive. You are not being "negative" by stating the truth.

Johnny-O's avatar

That reminded me of an interview I was listening to the other day. A veteran was sick and tired of all the gaslighting from the gov telling us how great everything is. He said, if everything is so great, why are the president's kids buying private islands with bunkers on them?

Good point.

CeeMcG's avatar

Exactly. We have dozens of diseases to cure, still! No real progress on Alzheimer’s, cancers, Parkinson’s, MS, etc. and yet we spend billions on finding ways to make existing diseases and viruses more deadly?? 🤦🏼‍♀️

Susan V's avatar

The cure is lifestyle changes eating clean food avoiding big Pharma drugs avoiding vaccines minimizing you’re toxic load via choices of makeup ,body care, laundry etc. When people change their lifestyle in their habits they will be no need for cures!

Susan V's avatar

YIKES sorry for all the grammatical errors/ typos- voice dictation sucks

Richard Whitney's avatar

Gain of function is already illegal under international, and national law. The US signed and ratified the 1972 Bioweapons and Chemical Weapons Treaty, which makes it national law under the Constitution. Nixon signed the law, and announced that Fort Dietrick would be shut down.

The fact that the government routinely ignores the law, and is allowed to get away with it, and the media never mentions the treaty, and neither do the people supposedly trying to hold the criminals responsible, is telling.

We are run by criminals who are murderers, and who spend our tax money coming up with better ways to kill people, livestock, and food crops.

Mrs. RW

Jackson74's avatar

Govt funding gain of function research in China sets an amazing bar of seeming implausibility for novelists to clear.

SB's avatar

You aren’t wrong. Look at NASA vs Musk. I started my career at JSC. I told everyone that space exploration would move a lot faster if done by private companies ie get the government middleman out of the way.

If someone like Musk came along and took over medical care, who knows?

Cynthia Alderman's avatar

And should protect us from those who do!

Alex Jacobson's avatar

Right. That way, the $500k life-saving treatment you need will only be available to the Billionaires Vagina Club.

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire,

And the greedy man curses and spurns the LORD.

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.

All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

His ways prosper at all times;

Your judgments are on high, out of his sight;

As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

He says to himself, “I will not be moved;

Throughout all generations I will not be in adversity.”

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;

Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

He sits in the lurking places of the villages;

In the hiding places he kills the innocent;

His eyes stealthily watch for the unfortunate.

. . .

Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,

Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

— Psalm 10:3-8; 15 LSB

✝️✝️✝️

Roger Beal's avatar

A perfect Scripture selection for Fauci Testifies Day. Thank you, Janice!

JasonT's avatar

“…and then I considered his latter end.” Accounts will be settled.

Lori's avatar

Boy, the authors of Psalms must have known Fauci and friends were coming to create mass murder and maiming-this was written for him and his ilk.

JasonT's avatar

There is nothing new under the sun.

Duncan A Turner's avatar

It is as if some Bible passages, in describing a particular pattern or archetype, were written to be newly prescient from time to time, almost able to be read as a "prophecy", discerned again by a reader as having new applicability in a new place, in a new era.

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

I think of it as peeling back the layers of the word and discovering yet another depth of meaning and application. His word is truly living and active.

Juju's avatar

Just about to reply with this!!! They had their Fauci’s then too

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

It is the wretched condition of the unredeemed soul.

faith1101's avatar

Habakkuk 2:1, 4; 3:17-19 &

The Unknown Giver and the Misused Gifts

(No. 2252)

INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD'S-DAY, APRIL 17, 1892.

DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON,

AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1890.

"For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. Therefore I wiil return, and take away My corn in the time thereof, and My wine in the season thereof, and will recover My wool and flax." Hosea 2:8,9.

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance

National Archives (.gov)

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov › files › ostp

PDF

“The Human Cognome Project,” a multidisciplinary effort to understand the structure, functions, and potential enhancement of the human mind.

482 pages

YES -- our tax dollars at "work"

Hana CL's avatar

God’s Holy Word never ceases to amaze me. Just as your post of Psalm 10 is spectacularly apropos for today, though written well over a thousand years ago. Bless you for your daily post of Scripture. 🤗🙏

Quiltlady's avatar

There is truly a passage or verse in scripture that fits anything happening on earth. excellent choice today.

Teresa Parmenter's avatar

Perfect scripture Janice! Thank you

Matt's avatar

Pitch perfect 😍

Leo's avatar

Words Beyond, What would Jesus say about those sinners?

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

“Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

— Revelation 22:12-13 LSB

Leo's avatar

Words Beyond, Nothing there about breaking any arms, including arms of the wicked and the evildoer...

James Goodrich's avatar

Again, another consequential election stolen by the communist/democrat party of America.

As Mamdani implements his communist policies in the financial capital of the world, New York City, major questions arise about his mayoral win in NYC. At this point, because of all the illegals that voted in the mayors race, the New York Board of Elections cannot confirm Mamdani is a mayor that legitimately won the election. They’re not even done reviewing the actual votes and have found more illegal votes than Mamdani’s margin of victory. They have found 230,000 illegal votes to date and his margin of victory was 207,000. This number of illegal votes could double by the time all is said and done, what an absolute injustice to real Americans!

What a disgrace that Thune is pushing for another 6 week vacation while the Save Act sits on a dusty shelf! Thunes vacation would purposely push the Save Act off to the middle of September, that much closer to the November election.

Mamdani just came out and said he’s going to open 5 grocery/convenient stores that will sell all of their products for 30% less than what the product actually cost. Grocery and convenient stores operate on a 2-3% profit margin, so this will inevitably kill similar private businesses in New York. Just thinking, when a government subsidizes businesses, forcefully selling products at a large discount, people will flock to those stores. Shelves in the state stores will go bare. Private stores unable to compete will close up. Soon the state will be forced to make the food producers sell their products at a loss and business owners who work their ass off are not going to stay in business to lose money, sound familiar? This happens over and over again in all communist socialist countries but the left is full of moronic followers that constantly want something for nothing. What they will end up with, along with all of us, is empty shelves and refrigerators at their own house. As always people will starve to death.

This is what you get when elections are stolen, IE Joe Biden. Look at the Fauci hearing today; an illegitimate president, Joe Biden, pardons a lying mass murderer, and no one, no one, is able to do anything to this murderer. As that once great communist philosopher once said, Barrack Hussein Obama, elections have consequences.

J.Goodrich

Susan Seas's avatar

Exactly the plan! Nobody but the Government will own anything! Grocery stores are just the next on the list! They already did it to Hotels. No locally owned anymore.

Karmy's avatar

I remember in the 1960’s people in communist Poland had to wait in line to buy what little food was available for sale.

Lydia Lozano's avatar

I think Mamdani's plan is going to blow up, but lots of damage will be done first. He is taxing bodegas and similar small stores and using that money to fund his Soviet-style groceries. Mamdani is making them pay for their own destruction. The small operators will go out of business in droves because they have been undercut. Tax revenues used to fund the Soviet grocery stores will disappear. Then Mandami will have to fine an alternate source of tax revenue. By that time any taxpayer with working brain parts will have fled. Then what does he do?

James Goodrich's avatar

He also just doxed every homeowner in New York City that owns a home that is valued at or over a million dollars, which in the city isn’t all that much. His obvious intention is to drive them out and replace with illegals or his fellow travelers which then can then move on in. Obama has been coaching him since long before the stolen election, so I’m sure he has more authoritarian tricks up his sleeve.

Lydia Lozano's avatar

This part was hilarious. Did you see the photos of the prominent doxees who had contributed to his campaign? There was a great one of Woody Allen looking like a deer in the headlights. Anna Wintour, Cynthia Nixon. More at google image search. https://tinyurl.com/4m67nnb3

CMCM's avatar

I have to admit this part of it is enjoyable to watch. I'm waiting to hear Robert DeNiro's comments.

Herodotus II's avatar

Loved seeing Hanoi Cynthia in the crosshairs...

Susie & Security's avatar

Cynthia Nixon looks like a ghost - white as a sheet.

Anne Emerson Hall's avatar

I was fascinated to read that the list wasn’t 34,000 properties, but 906,000!

Sunnydaze's avatar

That’s the plan. Inflict as much damage as possible and walk away free….there will be no consequences to them that do the inflicting. Case in point - Fraudcci. Byeden. Obummer. Etc etc.

CMCM's avatar

Mandami is too stupid to understand the mess he is creating and definitely too stupid to fix it.

Lydia Lozano's avatar

As are the people who are "advising" him.

Susie & Security's avatar

I actually think he knows exactly what he is doing. The invaders take over low-level municipal positions on the school board and city council, then move up to state elections, then infiltrate federal roles.

Little by little, the bird builds its nest.

Lydia Lozano's avatar

But even Stalin eventually turned on Trotsky.

RJ Rambler's avatar

Every sin is consequential.

RJ Rambler's avatar

Maybe he's waiting on Mitch. 😡

Herodotus II's avatar

Forceful essay, James, thank you. Elections do indeed have consequences. And the upshot is: Vote! Please! Tell your friends! Work your region! VOTE!!

Barbara Lee's avatar

I have a suggestion for New York FP (for profit) grocers: everyone get together and add 30% to everything the government grocery’s will offer. GG (government grocery) price is pegged to the retail price that the for profit grocers posts. Then FP groceries offer 30% discount on those items if they shop with them. Make this a zero sum game. If government stores smell a rat and give a deeper discount, change your retail price accordingly.

Kim's avatar

All the illegals that voted need to be fined and deported. The taxpayer should not have to pay for that many people to be sentenced to prison even though that is the usual punishment and what they deserve.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

dear Lord, please help me not to HATE. Please

Matt's avatar

Hate what God hates, love what He loves

Lori's avatar

You are better than I am Ryan. I will always loathe Fauci and all those involved around him. These are pure literal demons walking amongst us that will do this all again if they have the chance. Each and every single one of them need to be destroyed. I refuse to pray for demons or to forgive them or not loathe them. We are to repel demons and all those protecting Fauci are literal demons in skin suits. Demons exist and we are seeing them up front and personal.

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

We can hate evil. He is pure evil, and lived off the government dole his entre life. And that life needs to end soon.

Now, IF the man confessed his sins, and admitted to lies and murders, AND asked forgiveness, THEN I would have to forgive him. But he still needs to face execution no matter what.

But he is an extreme egomaniacal narcissist, even now, pretending to be the victim.

Lori's avatar

He nor his ilk will ever confess their sins bc they are demons. Until we all realize these are literal demons walking on earth for which there is no forgiveness, we will keep saying they will confess their sins and be forgiven. That is not possible-demons never do.

Lori's avatar

I will say it again Dave, he is NOT a man, he is a demon in a skin suit.

Juju's avatar

Just like there are losers among real humans, the demons have their own losers too. Fauci is an example of that. Killary, OBummer, and Pelosi are examples of their more skilled spirits. Mamdani is new to their platform and I cannot tell yet if he’s a loser or a skilled actor. I do get the feeling that he has the potential to be the most frightening power fifty years from now, and we all will be able to say we knew him when he was just an evil pup. Hopefully God’s hand in America will push him out of governance completely

Pam WP's avatar

I agree. I have to pray harder because it can’t stand the feeling of hate and I can’t stand the feeling of injustice.

Lori's avatar

It is just fine to hate the walking demon Fauci. He is NOT a man; don't be fooled. He is a literal demon.

shayne's avatar

I'm waiting for someone to hate him so much, they do the "thing" to him like the Italian did the "thing" to the insurance boss.......

Lori's avatar

me too but I actually want him to suffer unimaginably so he can't die fast. I want Fauci and all that protected him to suffer and feel the pain of every person who died, was maimed, children that lost their lives to the jabs and those that suffer today like Cody Hudson and Maddie de Garay, those dying alone and those that suffered and could not breathe bc Ivermec and Hydroxychloroquine were denied.

shayne's avatar

I can't disagree with you, Lori....👏

Anne Emerson Hall's avatar

Have you read that the Iranians have threatened to assassinate Melania and Barron Trump?? Let’s not encourage such heinous acts, even against those we personally loathe for good reason.

Lori's avatar

you destroy demons, you do not let them linger. fauci is a real demon and his father is satan.

RJ Rambler's avatar

Amos 5:15 (ESV) Hate evil, and love good,

and establish justice in the gate;

it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts,

will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Ecc 3:8 ...a time to love, and a time to hate;a time for war, and a time for peace

Leviticus 19:14 (ESV) ...fear your God: I am the LORD. 15 “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. 16 You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD. 17 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

Marlene Swann's avatar

I am yearning to see some “frank reasoning” between Fauci and Paul. It is not unscriptural to judge rightly. Great point, RJ.

Kim's avatar

Amen! Words of life and truth!

Susan Daniels's avatar

I can't do it. You are a better person than I am. He did too much harm.

Jan's avatar

I feel no obligation to forgive rank and murderous evil since Fauci has no plans to repent in this life.

RJ Rambler's avatar

Forgiveness is for the brothers who ask for it. We must be prepared in our hearts and minds to give it when asked for. Even if confessed sin is forgiven there are still lawful judgements and consequences to prove it and boundaries to protect all. God demands just judgement and consequences. Sinful men distort God's loving design.

Jan's avatar

Thanks. He is EVIL. My sister died from the jab. I was disowned by a sister. My granddaughter was groomed for trans online at home while not at school where she belonged and her parents were suffering the stress of job loss during the horrific lockdowns. She now he, will live a shorter life. I don’t believe in karma, but Gods judgement is righteous and delivered in His time. I can only pray it is coming in my lifetime. Soon.

RJ Rambler's avatar

😩🙏🏼 every tear is saved and we shall be where there will be no more lies or tears. He is ABLE.

Lisa Runquist's avatar

The one who has been sinned against is the only one that can forgive. For those who were murdered we have no right to forgive- and it will be hard for the murderer to ask the murdered for forgiveness.

Jan's avatar

That is scriptural. The consequences of the deaths roll out for generations. A mother gone. A grandson taken. Futures ripped away. Trauma changes lives. A husband even denied a funeral (my neighbor) Those consequences deserve justice and an opportunity also for forgiveness. My family was damaged. My sister died soon after her first shot. I was close to her for our 72 years together. The lockdowns and shots caused irreparable damage to my granddaughter. We absolutely know this sociopath narcissist will never seek forgiveness.

Jessica Libolt's avatar

“I hate double-minded people, but I love your law.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭119‬:‭113‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Teresa Parmenter's avatar

I struggle every day with hate. My prayer as well

Susie & Security's avatar

I'm surprised at my lack of hate and emotion today. But you know what? I've been working on reading the Bible in one year, and I'm quite sure that's the difference. God's Word brings peace, as does my renewed trust in the Holy Spirit to guide my thoughts. 🙏🏼

PrayerWarrior's avatar

Truly

I force myself to say heavily dislike but I struggle on fauci and Newsome

I mean the egos are so disgusting and narcissistic

Imagine power hungry over being humans

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

That's the battle I am having, too.

Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Please God, we need to see some sort of justice in regard to the covid genocide.

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

He claimed Rand Paul wants to put him behind bars. WE want him dead. I want to see him executed.

Tiny basket of deplorable's avatar

Yes Kathleen Janoski, my prayer as well. Remdesivir took my mom. I’m trying not to hate the lilly livered doctors that went along with the damn protocols. I will never ever trust the medical community even as an RN.

Susie & Security's avatar

This breaks my heart. May God bless you and keep you. May He fill you with peace and love.

RJ Rambler's avatar

That ppl can guard their righteous anger and keep themselves from murdering IS a work of God!

Lori's avatar

I got on my hands and knees this morning and begged God to intercede for justice.

Kimberly Bacon's avatar

I thought you couldn’t plead the 5th if you were pardoned?

Todd's avatar

A person who has received and accepted a presidential pardon generally cannot invoke the Fifth Amendment to refuse to answer questions about the pardoned federal offenses during Senate (or other congressional) testimony.

Why This Is the Case

The Fifth Amendment protects individuals from being "compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." This privilege applies only when truthful testimony could expose the person to a realistic risk of criminal prosecution (or related penalties).

A presidential pardon (under Article II of the Constitution) forgives federal offenses, removing the possibility of federal prosecution for those crimes. Legally, the pardoned person "stands with respect to such offense as if it had never been committed" for purposes of federal jeopardy.

Key Supreme Court precedent:

Brown v. Walker (1896) — The Court held that a witness who has received a pardon cannot invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege for matters covered by the pardon, because there is no longer any danger of incrimination.

This principle is analogous to grants of immunity or expired statutes of limitations: once the risk of prosecution is eliminated, the privilege disappears.

In a Senate hearing or other congressional investigation, a subpoenaed witness who has been pardoned can be compelled to testify. Refusal could lead to contempt of Congress proceedings. Important Limitations and Nuances Acceptance is required — A pardon must be accepted to take effect (per Burdick v. United States, 1915). Someone can refuse a pardon specifically to preserve their Fifth Amendment rights.

Federal vs. state crimes — Presidential pardons cover only federal offenses ("offences against the United States"). If testimony could expose the person to state prosecution (where statutes of limitations haven't run), they may still invoke the Fifth for that risk.

New crimes — Perjury (lying under oath) or other new offenses during testimony are not covered by a prior pardon.

Scope of the pardon — It must actually cover the relevant conduct. Broad or preemptive pardons (e.g., for a range of potential offenses in a time period) are more likely to eliminate the privilege for related questions.

Congressional context — Congress can still subpoena and question pardoned individuals; the pardon removes criminal jeopardy but not the obligation to respond to valid legislative subpoenas (subject to other privileges like executive privilege in rare cases).

In short, the pardon eliminates the legal jeopardy that the Fifth Amendment is designed to protect against for federal matters, shifting the person from "potential defendant" to "immune witness" on those topics. This has been discussed in contexts involving high-profile pardons and potential future congressional testimony.

Todd's avatar

Anthony Fauci has not refused the pardon. President Biden issued Fauci a preemptive pardon on January 19, 2025 (his last full day in office). It covers any potential federal offenses from January 1, 2014, onward related to Fauci’s roles in the NIAID, White House COVID-19 efforts, or as Chief Medical Advisor.

Fauci’s Response

Fauci publicly welcomed and accepted the pardon while emphasizing that he had committed no crime. In statements to media outlets (including ABC News and others), he said: “I really truly appreciate the action President Biden has taken today on my behalf... Let me be perfectly clear... I have committed no crime... [but] the mere articulation of these baseless threats... create immeasurable and intolerable distress for me and my family.”

He described the pardon as relieving stress from politically motivated threats, without admitting guilt.Context on Recent Events As of July 2026, Fauci has been subpoenaed for Senate testimony (e.g., before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee) and reportedly invoked the Fifth Amendment on advice of counsel, citing risks like potential perjury claims (which may not be fully covered by the pardon).

There is no public record or report of him refusing the pardon itself. Legal experts note that accepting it generally removes Fifth Amendment protections for covered federal matters (as there is no longer a risk of prosecution), though new crimes (e.g., lying under oath) or state-level risks could differ.

Fauci’s position has been consistent: gratitude for the protection, paired with insistence on his innocence.

Tiny basket of deplorable's avatar

Thank you Todd for those details

Juju's avatar

“If testimony could expose the person to state prosecution (where statutes of limitations haven't run), they may still invoke the Fifth for that risk.” So it looks like this is why he took the fifth.

What does “compel him to answer” look like in our kangaroo hearings? I never saw this part occur. Lol

Susie & Security's avatar

This is why I wasn't excited about him facing the fire today. My gut said he will get away with it. "Nothing to see here, folks!"

I wonder how much he pays his personal security detail? If it's any consolation, he knows he's probably a target and will spend the rest of his life hiding from the public. Unless his enormous Ego tells him it's safe outside.

Juju's avatar

I honestly don’t believe they fear being a target the same way conservatives do. They know we don’t behave the same way they do. That’s where their arrogance comes from. Who among us wouldn’t love having personal security everywhere we went at someone else’s expense? There’s lots of great reasons to have security. He’s just using the excuse of Covid haters as his reason to need it, milking being “a victim” when in reality he’s not really scared, he just wants the luxury offerings.

Playfulatheart's avatar

But his pardon would not save him from a perjury charge today.

Beckadee's avatar

Rand Paul is talking about that- they are voting next week on contempt. Another point made is the pardon does not cover states from going after him. Hopefully a handful of states will proceed, and he will have to lawyer up

Skeptical Actuary's avatar

I think he can invoke the 5th since he is vulnerable to prosecution by the states.

However, invoking the fifth on questions like "Is there a binder in front of you?" is either contempt or perjury in my mind. I say perjury because when one invokes the fifth they say outright that answering might incriminate them.

Sunnydaze's avatar

Suddenly the Constitution matters to the cockroach lying criminal - when he can hide behind it. The Constitution did not matter to fraudcci when fraudcci was violating every citizen in Americas constitutional rights. VOID THE FAKE PARDON by proving biden was a cognitively MIA pretend president - oh wait Hur did that already.

Get this done one way or another!

Susie & Security's avatar

I'm not holding my breath on this one, Sunny. God hates deceit, arrogance, and murder. He will dole out justice in His timing, and that's where I get my comfort and peace regarding this gross injustice.

Sunnydaze's avatar

Appreciate Ryan’s comment. I didn’t know I could have so much hate for evil and malicious evildoers. I have to trust Gods vengeance.

Gym+Fritz's avatar

Fauci may be the greatest criminal ever, and yet the system enables him to avoid the rightful consequences of his actions, sort of like Soros, and the Biden’s.

J. Lincoln's avatar

...and the Clintons, Obama, etc.

Johnny-O's avatar

You forgot the Trumps, Kushners, Espteins....the list is very very very long

Deb's avatar

And it continues on... the very writings by the HHS give a very good indication that it is business as usual!!!!

shayne's avatar

Good happy hump day..... I see Dr. Cockroach is taking the 5th... Such a coward.

Susan Seas's avatar

So much for the “he can’t plead the 5th because of his pardon” crowd. 🫤🤬

Debbie Wagner's avatar

That’s what I thought! WTH!! 🤷🏻‍♀️

CCPatriot470's avatar

Watching the human cockroach now. They just kicked his attorney out of the hearing.

Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Fauci refuses to answer any questions.

Pleads the 5th.

Dr Linda's avatar

What a cowardly A**

Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I swear I have some form of covid PTSD. Just remembering the draconian mitigation tactics the VA used. Especially the push to get me to take the covid DeathVax.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

Kathleen, we all do. After biden did his executive order that any company that takes medicare, employees had to jab. Thank God for Jeff, I did a religious exemption. But than I was targeted because the jabbed folks wore a badge that said vaccinated. HIPPA didn't exist. I still get upset over the insanity. I told my co-workers that it reminded me of the yellow star the Jews had to wear. Several of them took off their badges.

Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The covid trauma will never go away.

Pat Wetzel's avatar

We need to learn from it and not let it ever happen again,.

Susan Seas's avatar

I think I do too!! I can’t even hear about it or see a mask without having some kind of mental reaction. 😭

LMWC's avatar

The mask thing still gets me. How everyone just fell in line. We masked babies! I wonder often if people realize how awful that was. Or if they simply memory hole it under “we didn’t know”…

Jan's avatar

Saw a masked driver yesterday. I was jolted back in time. Unpleasantly.

Susan Seas's avatar

I remind myself to feel sorry for them, but…

Pam WP's avatar

Same. I lost my job, church, friends, etc. I heard God’s voice telling me to stand strong. Glad I protected myself and my kids from the jab. My youngest was affected by the school closings. My oldest never got his college graduation. 😡

Juju's avatar

My youngest didn’t get his HS graduation and had to spend his first 1.5 years of college in our basement.

Dr Linda's avatar

Did they succeed in getting you to take the poison shot?

I hope not but I get it.

One of my 85 year yoga students whose wife died in early covid was convinced by the VA to take a shot. She never would have ket him.

The VA is despicable. They are so opportunistic.

Kathleen Janoski's avatar

No, I never took the covid DeathVax.

Still makes me angry how they tried to bully and intimidate me.

Dr Linda's avatar

I am so glad.

They are still bullying, as you well know.

Debbie Wagner's avatar

I thought that if you had immunity you had to testify. Fauci has a full pardon from the cabbage head. Why isn’t he forced to answer?

Kristin Maguire's avatar

The "pardon" doesn't extend to individual state's prosecution.

Susie & Security's avatar

Right. ChatGPT explains it this way:

* If a person received a full, valid presidential pardon covering the conduct in question, they generally cannot invoke the Fifth Amendment based on fear of federal prosecution for that pardoned conduct, because there is no longer a realistic risk of federal self-incrimination.

* However, they may still invoke the Fifth if truthful answers could expose them to:

* State criminal charges (a presidential pardon does not cover state crimes).

* Federal crimes not covered by the pardon.

* Other criminal conduct revealed by their testimony

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Thank you, a short summary. Let's hope someone can find other federal crimes not covered, or state charges filed.

But the keyword above is "valid". It was not a valid pardon.

CMCM's avatar

I heard a couple of legal analysts mention that Fauci took the Fifth because he didn't want to say anything the states can use, because ultimately some states are going to go after him.

Susie & Security's avatar

That's exactly why. It didn't take Newsweek long to produce an analysis. This American Thinker article sums it all up nicely:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/the-lockdown-dissidents-vindicated/

LMWC's avatar

The 5th. A loophole that has grown to the size of a tractor trailer allowing political criminals who we all know are guilty to smugly advertise their invincibility over all us peons. Kind of like preemptive presidential pardons.

Susie & Security's avatar

Yeh, perhaps Congress will consider changing the law to remove preemptive pardons.

Debbie Wagner's avatar

Then the states need to sue him into bankruptcy. Imagine defending a law suit in every state, or at least the red states. He would spend the rest of his days broke, in a witness chair. 😡

CMCM's avatar

Sen. Josh Hawley today put it out there that Fauci has $12 million, and he got a cool million in goodies during Covid. I hope everyone who lost their jobs and businesses hear that.

Susie & Security's avatar

Yesterday I read about the $1m reward he nominated himself for…and won. It’s in the diary.

Debbie Wagner's avatar

I heard that today. This point needs to be emphasized over and over again. It will get the attention of many people. He got rich because of his lies while everyone else suffered. Despicable! 😡

Tom Cashman's avatar

Thank You Kristin... that explains it. It will be interesting to see which state goes after him first.

J. Lincoln's avatar

Topping off the list of states least likely to go after Fauci: Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Vermont....(there's more).

Lori's avatar

I pray Ladapo goes after him first.

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Maybe we in Illinois can use a class action suit against him. I'm sure the corrupt state itself will do nothing. And Pritzker needs to be in prison as well.

LMWC's avatar

About half the states are now considered blue. Those states will never sue.

Skeptical Actuary's avatar

Fear of state prosecution is a valid reason to take the 5th on real questions.

Invoking the 5th when asked about the color of his tie smacks of contempt, or perjury.

Lori's avatar

And Senators like Kim and Blumenthal and Hassan are kissing his ass and are endorsing gain of fx research. Kim is on now and literally endorsing it.

Cathy's avatar

I was getting nauseous listening to bloomenthal. Literally nauseous

Lori's avatar

so was I and giving them all the finger, lol!

Matt's avatar

Thank you Jeff for watching daily at His doors👇🏻

How blessed is the man who hears me,

To watch daily at my doors,

To keep watch at my doorposts.

“For he who finds me finds life

And obtains favor from Yahweh.

“But he who sins against me does violence to his own soul;

All those who hate me love death.

Proverbs 8:34-36

Susan Daniels's avatar

I predicted that Fauci would take the Fifth during the Senate hearing. I know a weasel when I see one. He was required to do it with every question and could not take a blanket Fifth.

J. Lincoln's avatar

Obama will intermingle the Fifth with the always effective Race Card.

TRM's avatar

Last time he was under oath it was "I don't remember" 175 times LOL. I don't know what people were expecting. Confessions? Just more theatre IMHO

Skeptical Actuary's avatar

I think it was "I don't recall". Ever notice how they use that language in court, not in real life? Is that code for "I'm not saying"?

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

How many times did that happen? I didn't watch.

Susie & Security's avatar

ChatGPT:

As of the latest reporting today, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during the Senate hearing.

Some reports have given a more specific count of 111 times, but that number has not yet been consistently confirmed by all major news organizations.

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

I read awhile ago that he took the Fifth 111 times.

wit's avatar

Polls show everyone hates the MSM but they still seem to be effectively controlling the populace.

Richard Whitney's avatar

The media may not always be able to tell us what to think, but they are strikingly successful in telling us what to think about."

Michael Parenti

Mrs. RW