Rep. Madison Cawthorn vows: "We want to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci to the full ability of the law."

Cawthorne's entire resume is fabricated. But he possesses in abundance the sole qualification required of a GOP member. He’s a nasty little shit.

By the way, what crime did Fauci commit?

First problem is it was Jenna Ellis doing the interview. That pretty much says it all.

Dear Madison will be lucky to be in congress in 2023.

I wish that were the case, r3, but Sitler's seat appears safe in his archconservative North Carolina district. (Even though it includes the liberal oasis of Asheville).

Good lord, he’s an idiot.

Hate Wheels needs to go back to beating up foliage and date-raping co-eds. Those are the only things he excels at, other than lying, and he's not even in the top of the class at that for the GQP. Sad.

Actually, a scientist friend of mine said that Dr. Fauci was being evasive and potentially misleading. The NIH did fund the “gain of function” research in China that Senator Paul was asking about. For whatever reason, Fauci has dug himself into a hole, and has kept digging on this. He is, in fact, vulnerable. Unfortunate.

I know I will be attacked as a troll, but you’ll see.

Source, R7? Beside anecdotal, from your ass?

Where’s a sharpshooter when you need them.

Dr. Fauci ought to give it to this simpleton the way he did to Rand Paul earlier this week: "Senator Paul, you don't know what you're talking about."

They cut off this part of the interview.

For r8;

Except (full text at link)

The NIH decided the risk was worth it. In a potentially fateful decision, it funded work similar to Baric’s at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which soon used its own reverse-genetics technology to make numerous coronavirus chimeras.

Unnoticed by most, however, was a key difference that significantly shifted the risk calculation. The Chinese work was carried out at biosafety level 2 (BSL-2), a much lower tier than Baric’s BSL-3+.

What caused the covid-19 pandemic remains uncertain, and Shi says her lab never encountered the SARS-CoV-2 virus before the Wuhan outbreak. But now that US officials have said the possibility of a lab accident needs to be investigated, the spotlight has fallen on American funding of the Wuhan lab’s less safe research. Todaya chorus of scientists, including Baric, are coming forward to say this was a misstep. Even if there is no link to covid-19, allowing work on potentially dangerous bat viruses at BSL-2 is “an actual scandal,” says Michael Lin, a bioengineer at Stanford University.

The simmering concern that the US funded risky research in China burst into the national discussion on May 11, when Senator Rand Paul accused Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of funding “supervirus” research in the US and “making a huge mistake” by trading the know-how to China. Paul repeatedly confronted Fauci and demanded to know if he had funded gain-of-function research in that country. Fauci denied the accusation, stating categorically: “The NIH has not ever, and does not now, fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

The denial rests on the NIH’s specific definition of what was covered by the moratorium: work that would have deliberately enhanced SARS-like viruses, MERS, or flu by—for example—making them easier to spread through the air. The Chinese research did not have the specific goal of making the viruses more deadly, and rather than SARS itself, it used SARS’s close cousins, whose real-world risk to humans was unknown—in fact, determining the risk was the point of the research. Just as when you trade in part of a poker hand for fresh cards, there was no way of knowing whether the final chimeras would be stronger or weaker.

To sum up the text above: They funded research that most would consider “gain-of-function” research, but since it did not meet the definition of the type of gain-of-function research covered by the prohibition, Fauci is insisting it is not gain-of-function research.

[quote] if the GOP gains control of the House in 2022, he will "make sure that consequences are doled out" to Dr. Anthony Fauci: "We want to prosecute this guy to the full ability of the law."

The Congress possesses no independent prosecutorial authority. It can refer cases to the Justice Department, but that is it. There is no mechanism for Congress to prosecute anyone.

If they had that ability, Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff would have used it during the tRump years. Repeatedly and often.

The GOP always makes these grandiose promises of what they’ll do when they’re back in power and none of it ever comes to fruition.

“Once we’re in control of the House, we can secure the border.”

“Once we’re in control of the House, we can ban abortion.”

“Once we’re in control of the House, we can balance the budget.”

“Once we’re in control of the House, we can prosecute Hillary Clinton.”

I’d love to kick her in the pussy and then throw the boot away

Someone put arsenic in his diaper.

Can't one of you bitches roll Madison into traffic?

Pretty please!?

Is that desk an adjustable height? It should be lower so he doesn't look so wheelchairy.

THIS dummy?

Based hunk!

Fauci is no hero. He wasn't during AID, either. And he fumbled his responsibilities to his job and to the public, during the Trump administration.

Prosecute Dump for 600 000 deaths due to his dismissing it as a hoax!

Just because Reagan and Trump were criminals during deadly epidemics, doesn't mean Fauci was a brave, principled hero. He's OK. Why didn't he retire 15 years ago?

Lemme know how that works out for ya, Wheelie Dan.

“Lock him up!! Lock him—

Whaddaya mean a $10 fine?!”

[quote]They funded research that most would consider “gain-of-function” research,

Just stop is R13. There is no consensus that NIH funded gain of function research. There isn't even consensus about what constitutes gain of function research. Fauci made clear that the people up and down the chain ant NIH made the determination and Rand Paul keeps insisting not uh because he found someone who disagrees with the determination.

A difference of opinion among experts is not being "evasive and misleading" and it is certainly not perjury. And plenty of experts are weighing in to explain the disagreement.

I don't know if they can prosecute Fauci but they definitely have enough reason to fire him. He deliberately misled the public saying that the virus was "almost certainly" natural in origin, which in turn weaponized any dissent. The emails show that he had ulterior motives for declaring that lab leak theory wasn't credible. If that's not a smoking gun, I don't know what is. For me, that's enough not to trust him as a sole authority on anything.

[quote]If that's not a smoking gun, I don't know what is.

You’re right.

You don’t know what it is.

For r28

Both men were playing to the cameras, but many scientists think Paul actually does know what he’s talking about. One of them is Rutgers University microbiologist and biosafety expert Richard Ebright, whom Paul quoted as saying this research “matches, indeed epitomizes the definition of gain of function research.”

Other scientists, even those who believe the lab leak theory likely, argue that Fauci is technically correct, although they note that the official definition is so narrow it enables anyone to avoid the review process Fauci himself helped to establish. In other words, if the oversight system for reviewing risky research is almost never used, what good is it?

But it doesn’t matter which “gain of function” definition you prefer. What everyone can now see clearly is that NIH was collaborating on risky research with a Chinese lab that has zero transparency and zero accountability during a crisis — and no one in a position of power addressed that risk. Fauci is arguing the system worked. It didn’t. Even if the lab leak theory isn’t true, what’s clear is that we need more oversight of this risky research, both in the United States and in China.

R31 Perfect and airtight analysis. Thank you.

^it’s excerpt from linked column.

I certainly don’t think Fauci can be prosecuted. Cawthorn is a stooge. But it is incorrect to simply side with Fauci when he calls out Rand Paul as having no idea what he us talking about. There is a real problem here, and Fauci is not handling it well.

R34 Seeing him unravel is quite telling. The majority of us remember him being cool as a cucumber, the elder sage, the implacable voice of reason. Seeing him get so easily flustered is something to see.

This idiot says look at Fauci's hands, they are shaking while he keeps his hands out of camera sight the entire time. Projection much.

[quote]There is a real problem here, and Fauci is not handling it well.

Hprseshit.

Well at least you've gone from "most" to "many" R31. But the fact that you ascribe anything to Rand Paul other than a desperate need to distract from the failures of the prior administration tells me you don't know what you're talking about either. This is a dispute among experts about a very technical definition. Rand Paul isn't asking Fauci about the factors they use to evaluate gain of risk and whether they should be more stringent. He's not asking or doing anything remotely informative or reformative. He's throwing bombs for clicks and distraction.

R29, keep trying Boris.

Fauci's job is to be the mouthpiece for the government. Not the representative of any of us who live here. Nor for the scientists working at the NIH.

If the government's position is that it did not fund gain of function research, that's what Fauci will argue. He has spoken on behalf of Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and now Biden. He can twist anything and he cares less about what he is saying than he cares that it is him, and no one else, who is parked in front of the cameras saying it. He proved that when he held his tongue and kept his job while Trump was spewing nonsense.

Nobody cares about this issue.

He's extremely good-looking. It's just a fact that you can't deny.

I hope the Dems make the prosecution of Fauci a national issue in the off-year election next year. Elect Republicans if you want Fauci in prison. I’m sure that’s a winning issue.

He’s also just 26, R41. His good lucks will soon be his distant past.

I guess they've given up on ever finding Hunter Biden's hard drives.

Ass. Clown.

Great r41. Let him do gay fetish porn. He is completely useless as a Congressman, like pretty much every other Republican in Congress. There is literally no purpose to him in that institution. Nothing he wants to make better. No cause he stands for. No idea worth having. Nothing at all.

[quote]By the way, what crime did Fauci commit?

He wouldn't lie for Dump.

Exactly, r47. He was suppressive and glib.

He could go work for St. Jude's with Alex and Kaleb, R46. Think of all of the adowable bwankets Hate Wheels could foist on folks for their donations!

FYI.

Thank you, R50. Paul really ought to STFU.

He taught that tree a lesson!

[quote]He's extremely good-looking. It's just a fact that you can't deny.

Stupid comes in many packages.

[quote] Fauci is no hero. He wasn't during AID, either. And he fumbled his responsibilities to his job and to the public, during the Trump administration.

And your mother fumbled your birth by not aborting you.

[quote]He's extremely good-looking. It's just a fact that you can't deny.

Says you, R41, I don't see anything admirable or attractive about that godforsaken creature.

Remember, too, Luther was the most beautiful of the angels; you see where that got him.

Oh, dear, R55. I'm a heathen non-believer through and through but even I know the most beautiful angel was Lucifer, not Luther.

^ of course it is Lucifer referenced @ R55.

Spellcheck did that. I know it!

RollerNazi needs to roll back to hell.

R41 would gladly sharpen the blade of the guillotine that will slice off her head......IF the executioner is hot, that is.

I take it this cunt meant to say "to the full extent of the law", but OOPSIE! Paging Dr. Freud!

He was always an angry sicko, now he's an angry sicko stuck helplessly in a wheelchair. Law has more ability to wipe its ass than Sitler does. Sitler needs an adult changing station when he travels and a hired hand to dig the stool out of his rectum and change his piss bag. SO HAWT! Remember when ALL of the girls wanted to fuck you? (They didn't, you raped them) Now they all want to dig shit out of your asshole, (oh, but they don't) .

So, R61, are you suggesting that Cawthorn can take an entire fist?

r62, Painlessly, even!

He LOVES fist days.

His attendant...not so much.

R35 Fauci and his family have been under threat from yahoos for over year now (he's talked about having to get security for his family) at some point what's the point of keeping your cool. People like Paul are content to spout and create chaos. Trying to put the sole responsibility at his feet, is simply an exercise in finding a way to absolve Trump of all responsibility. Like the agitation prior to January 6th, Rand Paul is putting a target on Dr. Fauci's back, and not one simply of the DOJ. He and his ilk very clearly seem to be hoping for bodily harm to come to him.

I hate him so much.

That Cawthorn is doing anything other than playing video games in a basement is a disgrace. As for Ellis so much hypocrisy and ignorance in one person, she can't fade from the landscape soon enough. Although I guess she has been canny enough not to end up before a judge trying to sanction and disbar her.

We’re not surprised…

Fauci can still get it up, unlike Date Rape Maddie. That must really burn Hate Wheels up. You know, the upper parts that still have feeling, that is.

Paul is so hated his own neighbor beat the fuck out of him. He's "Mr. and Mrs. Goy" of his neighborhood, except HIS neighbor was cooler of temper and kicked the fuck out of him instead of shooting him full of holes and then offing himself.

Both Hate Wheels and Paul are total fucktards.

Someone should just roll him onto the subway tracks.

Where is Rand Paul's pugilistic neighbor when we need him? The abominable eye doctor is in need of Beat-Down Part II.

[quote] I don't know if they can prosecute Fauci but they definitely have enough reason to fire him.

Shut up, R29. Go back to Parler.

I’d love to push RollerNazi down a hill and watch him run over Rand Paul. Then, RNazi gets hit by a bus.

True r70. Fauci should've gone there. Saying, this is why your neighbors hate you and love to punch you in the face Senator.

Not mature, but would have been a fun moment.

Here are some things about science that may be of interest. Throughout biology, cellular functions are regulated by both activating and inhibitory mechanisms. In fact, some diseases are due to the LOSS of INHIBITORY mechanisms. So, if you make a "gain-of-function" mutation that increases an inhibitory mechanism, guess what, you get a LOSS of a biologic function. In other words, you made a gain-of-function mutation that caused a loss-of-function. Biology is so complex that sometimes what we hypothesize is an activating molecule turns out to be an inhibitory molecule, and vice-versa, or a combination of both both, depending on where inside a cell the molecule is or what the environment outside the cell is. In most biologic areas of research, activating mechanisms were discovered first and studied for many years. But then, more and more inhibitory functions were discovered. Hence, "gain-of-function" is now a rather vague term. Problems ensue when complex scientific mechanisms are reduced to sound-byte terms or phrases. Most scientists are humbled by the complexity of biology and motivated to keep doing scientific research to help understand the complexity better and hopefully improve human health.

Oh, this Rand Paul vs Fauci "gain of function" crap is what I heard another Trumpanzee parrot today. I guess they were supplied a list of new talking points. Something to add to that "current right wing talking points" thread.

R71 Never been to Parler but I'd be willing to bet that some of the graphic posts in this thread easily rivals theirs for depravity. Reading posts like R61 just makes me feel sad about the state of humanity.

Fauci/Streisand 2024

[quote]Reading posts like [R61] just makes me feel sad about the state of humanity.

Don't bother, R76. You're not a good judge of what's going on around you, so your sadness is all entirely misplaced. Go watch another episode of 'The Price is Right.'

These ‘fake politicians’ are an awful result of the ‘realty teevee’ president. Epic failures.