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That is literally true. And that video proves it. Everyone who Maher cited as being on his side is old and White. Karl Marx, by the way, looks old and white. The 12 people Maher put in his "bad Commie" graphic all look younger. They are either women or not White, or both. Maher literally calls affluent White people stupid for raising their kids the wrong way. Mamdani is getting shit for ignoring the outer boroughs. And he's getting it from Black and Latino leaders. If only Blacks had voted, Cuomo would be Mayor today. That said, as Maher just proved, when you look at the leaders of this movement they are not old White men like Jim Carville. If my Sister In Cock is giving free blow jobs to Mamdani because of a rent freeze, that does not suggest this is mostly about helping entitled rich White DSA idiots advance their stupid ideas. Maher applauded the ideas of Democrats Tom Souzi and Adam Gray. Souzi actually wants to CUT corporate taxes. But he wants to do it as a reward for corporations giving 5 % of their stock to their workers. You can go either way on that. Giving the means of production to workers is literally communism. So Maher could attack Souzi and Gray as communists, too. Most Americans think Wall Street and billionaires are living their best lives while rent and homes are unaffordable. And kids in Africa die because Elon Musk wants more government money for himself. I agree with most Americans. We should raise corporate taxes. If it's the law, you don't have to bribe them. I've been in rant mode for days. So I'll shut up. I'm glad Maher is saying these things. If these insurgents want to win 50 % of the vote, they are going to have to explain themselves. Especially in swing states. And if they get elected, like Mamdani, they are going to have to prove it. I trust my Sister In Cock, who feels Mamdani is delivering the goods. I'll just never reveal which famous politicians I've given blow jobs to, 🤔

It's not that the bad dumb dog wants to kill you. It's not that the bad dumb dangerous dog wants you, or children, to die. It's not that @Barknaway smugly and ignorantly looks down on the poor nations of the world. And yet 1 million Americans did die. And not getting vaccinated is one reason America had a death rate over twice that of Canada, and 4 times that of Australia. It's not that the bad dumb dog wants children to die. But hundreds of thousands of kids in poor nations are dying - right now - thanks to Elon Musk. Even Joe Rogan admitted he's a "moron" and walked it back. But the bad dumb dog does not know the difference between opinion and facts. Even Elon Musk admits this, in a sideways way. He smugly laughed that when he decided to cut HIV and AIDS funding because of fraud he never documented, Bill Gates or somebody could have done something before these kids died. Musk is an engineer who builds space ships. Shouldn't Gates be able to stop food from rotting in warehouses, and immediately open back up the clinics that Musk closed in poor countries? If kids die, can't we just blame Bill Gates? Isn't Musk's brilliance and arrogance and evil something we all should admire? Of course the bad dumb dog does not believe in experts, other than Donald Trump and RFK, Jr. The bad dumb dog is so stupid and dangerous that he can not even use Google. Maybe Tik Tok should be required by law to automatically fact check really obviously stupid things people, including Trump, say on Tik Tok. That might help stop the spread of really stupid and dangerous bullshit. It might help slow down the spread of death, I asked AI if "injections" of "disinfectant" into the "lungs" can "knock out" COVID" in as quickly as "one minute." Those are the key words Trump used that stunned the entire planet. Try it yourself. Here is what AI said: No, injecting disinfectant into the lungs is not a cure for COVID-19 and is extremely dangerous and potentially fatal. [1, 2] Severe Medical Risks Destruction of Tissue: Disinfectants are designed to kill germs on hard surfaces, not inside living tissue. Lung Damage: Inhaling or injecting these chemicals causes immediate, severe chemical burns to the delicate airways and lung tissue. Systemic Poisoning: Entering household cleaners into the bloodstream leads to organ failure, toxic shock, and death. [1, 2, 3, 4] Expert Warnings Manufacturer Warnings: Following public speculation, Reckitt Benckiser, the manufacturer of Lysol and Dettol, issued an explicit statement warning that under no circumstances should their products be administered into the human body through injection, ingestion, or any other route. [1, 2] Global Health Authorities: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Mayo Clinic state clearly that while disinfectants kill viruses on external surfaces, they are highly toxic if used internally. [1, 2]

Isn't spreading lies from Robert Kennedy, Jr. and ignorance from Joe Rogan enough for one day? I thought @Barknaway showed us his true self! Doesn't the bad dumb dog get extra credit for being so stupid and dangerous that he is still spreading bullshit that Rogan himself has disavowed - twice? Rogan disavowed his own bad advice that young people should not be vaccinated for COVID, and his bad facts on the devastating and murderous impact of the USAID cuts on poor kids around the world. Rogan called himself a "moron". The bad dumb dog is still pushing the lies. It's not that the bad dumb dog is intentionally murderous. He doesn't want to see children die. Poor thing. He just can't help that he's loyal to liars, and stupid. In others words, I think the bad dumb dog was especially good and loyal and true today.

Intellectually, I completely agree with you. Emotionally, it's a different story. I've had a bias about Jews pretty much my whole adult life. They tend to be empathetic. They tend to look out for underdogs. They tend to be fierce advocates of social justice. As I like to repeat, in the same way that Fauci likes his touches with stardom, I consider my mentor to be Paul Wellstone, a Jew and a famous and beloved progressive US Senator. I mostly knew him as a college professor, but one of my best friends ran his campaigns. He talked about his family background a lot. His grandparents fled anti-Semitism in Europe. He had a heart of gold and great values. And you could not understand his values without knowing about his family background. In the Senate he was a strong supporter of Israel, and a two state solution. That's typical for lots and lots of Jews I have been friends with and worked with as paid staff or volunteers on social justice causes. So using the term "Genocide Jew" seems odd, and frankly almost anti-Semitic. But I use it a lot these days. When I talk about my life experience with Jews, I have sorted out now in my mind that I am mostly talking about liberal American Jews. When I say "Genocide Jew", I refer to one specific individual. That said, the Genocide Jew gets elected and gets away with genocide because a lot of Israeli Jews keep voting for him. 68 % of Democrats now say "Israel is committing genocide against Palestinian civilians." That number blows my mind, even though I am one of the 68 %. 45 % of Independents say Israel is committing genocide. Perhaps more important, only 15 % of Independents say Israel is NOT committing genocide. The rest are undecided. This is just going to get uglier, and more awkward. Most Jewish members of Congress are Democrats. I think most Jews are Democrats. So I think it is important for Democrats to have this debate. Because on an emotional level it does have this feeling like it is being against Israel. Or, on a more personal level, being against these people I respect and admire. I have mixed feelings about what El-Sayed is saying. Precisely because, as you say, I have had a way of thinking about this my whole life. If El-Sayed wins the nomination, my guess is he will shift toward the center. Democrats can not equivocate about Israel's right to exist OR Palestinian's right to be free from genocide. On the face of it, these numbers about Democrats and Independents do not suggest El-Sayed is off on some extreme. If anything, they suggest why he is beating Stevens. Even 17 % of Republicans say Israel is committing genocide. Exactly half say Israel is NOT committing genocide. This is a problem for Republicans as well. Which I'm pretty sure JD Vance is aware of. Add the horrors in Iran. The Republican leaders of the US have a lot of deep problems that won't go away. Like Robert Pape says, thanks to Trump's stupidity I think there's a decent chance Iran will test a nuclear bomb while Trump is still President. I worry that this could split the Democratic Party. But I could build just as a strong a case that it will split the Republican Party. In a way it already has. Some Republicans do not want JD Vance to be their President. And this is part of the reason why. I think it's a plus that Democrats get to work this out now, in primaries and general elections. And we have some of the best Jewish Congressional leaders on this issue. It was catnip to me, as a liberal Democrat, when Warnock and Ossoff ran and won in Georgia. Lots of people thought a fiery Black preacher might be a riskier candidate in Georgia than a moderate White - aka the kind of Democratic candidates who lost for decades. The winning ticket was a Black and a Jew moving the South toward what I would call social justice. And grace. That is a very good part of America's DNA. I would not mind a Warnock/Ossoff ticket in 2028. But imagine an Ossoff/El-Sayed ticket. I'm not suggesting it. But it would be a very powerful thing to have a Jew and a Palestinian running together for President of the United States. Yeah, identity politics is now passe. But it would say something important about what Democrats stand for. Which is what so many Democrats want. And feel our party lacks right now. And both Ossoff and El-Sayed are talking about schools and kids in their own states. Then again, if El-Sayed wins the nomination and loses the election, and that means Democrats lose the Senate, the wrath of the Old Testament God will descend on democratic socialists. Plagues? Locusts? Hopefully we'll never know. 😉 But if he wins, I think El-Sayed can thank Donald Trump and his stupid war. Like I said above, the action is in the reaction.

Kids in Africa are dying right now, today, thanks to Elon Musk. The bad dumb dog does not know or care. Joe Rogan Admits Trump USAID Cuts Went Too Far In Bono Debate: ‘Got To Be a Way To Keep Aid and Not Fraud’ Again, I respect Bono for going on Rogan and taking on Rogan's complete ignorance. In this case, I can't say I respect Rogan. It was made very clear by the mainstream media that Rogan has replaced, at least for some people, that these cuts would have devastating consequences. They would kill people. Especially children. And they have. The reason people who listen to Joe Rogan don't know this is that Joe Rogan doesn't know it. I did watch as much of Joe Rogan as I could bear when this DOGE disaster was happening, just to see what he Rogan saying. He had zero facts. Zero, from what I could tell. He talked about Elon Musk like he was some Dark Knight hero, who was willing to selflessly "open the coffins" so we could "see the vampires inside". While Musk got all those nice government contacts, of course. It was just about that analytical. Blowhard opinion. Zero fact. Rogan now has zero facts to offer about the "massive fraud" DOGE was supposedly getting rid of. If instead DOGE unleashed massive death, well who could have known? This is not as bad as Elon Musk saying these DOGE cuts to AIDS victims caused zero deaths. That is truly an evil thing to say. Musk is ignorant about the impact of his actions because he wants to be. He considers his own living child to be dead, because the child is queer. In this case Rogan himself was not the source of a controversial statement or action, like when he said young people should not get vaccinated. He has every right to state his ignorant blow hard opinions. Obviously he has an audience that likes to hear it. And then later he'll basically say, "Oh, I was ignorant. I wish somebody had told me." He obviously does not see his job as understanding facts, and communicating them to viewers. Rogan flips and flops to get ratings. He knows he's not able to understand, let alone offer, reliable information. He knows he's a blowhard. Which means he won't last. He's a perfect blowhard for our age of populist cynicism and fact-free self destruction. And our bad dumb dog is not evil, either. He just likes to bark when he gets excited about lies and stupidity. The DOGE cuts are reversing decades of work by Bush 43 and Fauci, among others. Musk could care less. And all our bad dumb dog can do is bark. I'll admire Rogan a little if and when he admits he was wrong and ignorant. And when he calls for the restoral of life-savings medicines that he says never should have been cut. The bad dumb dog will never admit he was wrong. How could he? He's just a stupid and dangerous dog.

The bad dumb dog celebrates lies. The bad dumb dog celebrates misinfornatiom. The bad dumb dog celebrates Elon Musk cutting programs to prevent death from AIDS. The bad dumb dog celebrates death of kids with AIDS. Now the bad dog wants to celebrate Joe Rogan being an "idiot". The bad dumb dog does not even understand the difference between fact and opinion. The bad dumb dog does not know or care when people have no fucking idea what are they talking about. The bad dumb dog just likes to bark. Why should a bad dumb dog care if children die? Joe Rogan Walks Back COVID-19 Comments "I am not a respected source of information," the Spotify podcast host said Thursday. The bad dumb dog is not evil. He is just dangerous and stupid. He does not even understand these simple distinctions It is a perfect example of why it is dangerous to pretend blowhard's opinions, which they have every right to state, are the same as facts. As my much prettier and younger Sister In Cock just stated, more brilliantly than I will, we all have opinions. And we all have assholes. I give credit to Fauci for taking Rogan on. And to Rogan for admitting that on this subject he spoke as an ignorant idiot who could cause harm. I assume he walked what he said back because he didn't want his words to kill people, even innocently. Our bad dumb dog can not even understand these things. He is stupid, and dangerous.

Trump dings longtime ally Jeanine Pirro for dropping Reflecting Pool vandalism case Lies and coverup. Lies and coverup. Lies and coverup. I was curious how Trump would react when Pirro dropped the case. I can't say I am surprised. Trump was pissed when even He Man Ass Licker Pete Hegseth wouldn't insist that Trump's lie - that we didn't burn Iranian school girls to death - was something that needed to be investigated., I'm guessing after a thorough investigation there was no chance in hell that Pirro could defend Trump Lie #1,629,045. Bitch! And that is being generous to Pirro. This is what she said before: And here's what former Olympic canoeist David Hearn said: Obviously both statements can't be true. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say a judge may lie for Trump in public. But she knows better than to make an ass of herself in court. Not that Trump would ever throw Pirro under the bus. This was all supposed to be about honoring America's 250th birthday. So it does seem to be fitting. Trump wants to Make America Prevaricate Again. He's losing more and more Republicans on that one. Even some of his staunchest allies. (Don't worry, President Genocide. You'll always have Hegseth.) David Hearn is no Anthony Fauci. But it fits a pattern. Lie, cover up, and tear down heroes and truth tellers. How American is that? No wonder Richard Nixon is making a rebound among Republicans. But there is some good news. We don't have to go back to the shit hole we can from. Thanks to Trump, we are already there.

Trump, under pressure on Iran, takes his Cabinet to the woods I'm not sure whether to view this as comedy or tragedy. It's obviously both. President Genocide nods off more and more every day. As @RockyRoadTravel noted, he's less dangerous when he's asleep. When he is awake, he says things even Pete Hegseth can't make up good lies about. About how we didn't burn Iranian school girls to death. And how the zealot Gay murdering theocrats will just "peter out" after half a century. LOL. Trump is visibly petering out after more than half a century. Maybe Trump thought the symbolism of Camp David would add seriousness to what could generously be called "deliberations" and "planning." But it really is putting lipstick on a pig named Trump. The advisors who told him this would go badly are now telling him how well things are going. And how much courage he has in between naps. Pete did say "courage" ten times, the article spells out. At least Pete has testosterone, and a Trumpian vocabulary. I should end here. But I will add thoughts about who and what Trump is really empowering. The action is always in the reaction, said Jewish Saul Alinsky. It is my opinion that Trump is making "democratic socialism" stronger. Whatever you want to call that movement, and whatever it really stands for, and whatever crazy ideas it has at the margin, I think two ideas are getting stronger by the day: 1) the economy is unfair and unaffordable to many if not most people, and 2) the Iran war is a very unpopular mistake, and we are losing. There is a new poll out today that shows El-Sayed will do a better job than Haley Stevens of beating his opponent. In this poll Stevens and Republican Rogers are neck and neck, and El-Sayed is three points ahead in the general election. Meanwhile, survey says he is over 10 points ahead of Stevens in the primary. I don't know if I buy that. The RCP poll average suggests the opposite, by a fraction. El-Sayed is 0.7 % behind Rogers, Stevens is 0.7 % ahead. In other words, it's a tossup. I will always wonder what would have happened in 2016 if Bernie Sanders, the voice of left wing populism, had run against Donald Trump, the voice of right wing populism. Looks like in 2024 we will get an approximate answer. Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania have been swing states for a long time. Wisconsin is near and dear to my heart. It's where my family always went on vacation. Wisconsin gave us Joe McCarthy. And then Bill Proxmire, an everyman liberal populist. I adored Bill Proxmire because he was the nation's anti-redlining and affordable homeownership champion. Had Proxmire been POTUS, I believe he would have stopped subprime. My conservative Dad loved Proxmire's "Golden Fleece" awards singling out small but stupid government boondoggles. Turns out most Americans think the Iran war is a big government boondoggle. It does not surprise me that Jim Carville is wetting his diapers about this. So am I. Even though I'll send money monthly to El-Sayed as soon as he wins a primary. Carville's boss Bill Clinton came closer than any US President to a two state solution. I blame that failure squarely on Arafat. And whether that is true or not, it is for sure true that Palestinians ended worse off and Israel ended better off, measured by power and wealth. Arafat was a shitty leader with no courage and no vision. Trump is the same. So it's more than risky for El-Sayed to frame this the way he is doing it. But we won't know how well it will work if we don't try. And Democratic voters are speaking with their votes: they seem to want to try. At lease in more urban areas and states. THIS is what President Genocide is making stronger. THIS is what the Genocide Jew is making stronger. Jim Carville is missing something. He says EVERY Democrat will have to explain what El-Sayed and other progressives mean. That is true. But it also means El-Sayed and like minded progressives will have to explain what THEY mean by "democratic socialism" or "Israel's right to exist." I brought up Proxmire because El-Sayed is actually running a Golden Fleece campaign. Part of what he's saying is the Genocide Jew is a government boondoggle. And we're better off spending our tax dollars on kids in Michigan. My conservative Dad, who grew up in Michigan, would probably agree with that idea. He's also running in a primary. My guess is if he wins the primary, the thing he says above that is buried inside an argument will probably become the argument: Most liberal Jews I know would probably say that's a pro-Israel statement. I'm not a Jew. But I do think America should defend Israel's right to exist. I think that statement is consistent with my beliefs. I think the Genocide Jew is Israel's worst enemy. And I think Trump is America's worst enemy. He is weakening America. He is making America lose again. This is Viet Nam. We'll learn soon what Michigan thinks.

I've made my point about this already, more than once. 🫢 But I have paid a lot of attention to this during the week. So I will ramble on. As I said in my first post, what bothers me more than anything is the intentional breeding of cynicism, as I see it. Maybe it is witless breeding of cynicism and mistrust. But these people like Mark Halperin and Rand Paul and Robert Kennedy Jr. ought to know better. They all claim to be or want to be or were "Washington Insiders." They all say they want transparency, which builds trust. So they should know that all they are doing is taking one of the few people most Americans still trust and admire and trying to tear him down. If they had a reason to do it, I'd be all for it. But they don't. I'm 100 % with Fauci on this. No one attacking Fauci is reporting that Fauci wrote in his notes in 2020 that Trump's public statements during COVID were "spewing nonsense" and a "true embarrassment." They focus on how Fauci did write that he was restricted from being on TV by Team Trump. The logical conclusion from the words on the page is that Fauci wanted to do his job, and spew facts on TV. Which he did. While 1 million Americans were dying. These so-called "journalists" and "leaders" are ignoring some facts and amplifying others to paint a completely distorted picture of reality. How MAGA! Across Partisans, Doctors Are the Most Trusted Source for Reliable Information on Health Issues; Fewer Trust Government Agencies and Officials I thought that was an interesting and actually somewhat hopeful survey. Just about half of Americans trust the CDC. No surprise, slightly more Democrats (58 %) than Republicans (49 %) do. No surprise, the vast majority of Republicans trust Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr. to provide "reliable information" on health issues. The vast majority of Democrats and Independents do not trust Trump or Kennedy. I'd call this healthy skepticism. The one thing I give Rand Paul credit for is that he has helped make "gain of function" a household word. He held a hearing on what kinda sorta sounds like a CIA coverup of bioweapons research. Maybe. Shining a spotlight on what research happened in Wuhan and what role the US government played made sense. Journalists should and did push back on Fauci's opinion that this was likely caused by a natural transfer from some animal to humans. Gary Peters' opening statement at The Pitchfork Hearing is worth a listen. Sen. Peters makes opening statement in Fauci hearing He notes that the Senate committee looked into this and learned from it, on a bipartisan basis. He also says this is now a backward looking partisan exercise in sharpening pitchforks around partisan crusades. He argues, and I agree, that Rand Paul is more interested in distorting truth than exposing truth. The claim that somehow Fauci was involved, directly or indirectly, in creating the virus he was responsible for dealing with is nonsense. In 2021 Tucker Carlson, being the intentionally deceptive piece of shit he is, claimed Fauci "created" COVID. Rand Paul is smart enough to add "may" and "could have" and "possibly" to any sentence he utters arguing Fauci is somehow culpable. Fauci is entitled to his opinion, which is that COVID did not originate from a lab leak. Both publicly and privately he continued to say some scientists disagree, and while "less probable than the alternatives" it can't be ruled out. Doubt is not deception, or a crime. Here's a very long fact check article about the issues Rand Paul is rightfully concerned about. One thing the length and detail makes clear is this is complicated, and nuanced. I'll amplify a few things that are opinions, but seem close to facts. One scientist says NIH is not going to fund gain of function research that makes viruses more lethal to humans. And they are certainly not going to do it China. That seems like common sense to me. Especially while Trump was President. Another scientist says that even if some experiment went awry in China, it can't be tied to the specific research NIH did fund that used a subcontract with Wuhan: I suspect Rand Paul knows this. Why he thinks Fauci should be thrown in jail, discredited, and humiliated is a good question. Why he won't let go of this crusade is a good question. Every President since Ronald Reagan said the opposite about Fauci, repeatedly and publicly. Even Donald Trump, at least when he thought it was politically expedient. Elon Musk is going to kill lots of kids in Africa that George W. Bush and Anthony Fauci have proven could be saved. Tom Tillis, to his credit, turned Trump against him by taking a stand on how Medicaid cuts would hurt people in North Carolina. These Trump people and ass lickers are cynical and power-hungry. Lacking an argument, he MAGA Pitchfork crowd focus on the claim that Fauci kept a diary to admire himself. Because he loves adulation. Including self-adulation. I don't even know if there is a "diary." Kennedy said the "diary" had to be pulled off 11 servers over the course of months. So they actually sound more like notes Fauci kept. No one who wants to attack him is talking about how often he wrote that the death threats against him and his family were very concerning. So the Tucker Carlsons will make up total bullshit about how Fauci created COVID. But when nitwits listen to this bullshit and threaten to kill Fauci, then they want to say Fauci just likes all the public and private adulation. They totally ignore statements like this: Nor did he like Trump "spewing nonsense" about Clorox. Who committed what crime here? Peggy Noonan just published an essay that, to me, reads like "1000 Points Of Libel." She tears Fauci down, too, focusing on how lots of people - like me - chose to admire him. Without mentioning that Fauci said again and again and again he did "not like this one bit." The diaries humanize him. He was no doubt both amused and honored by the sudden admiration. Who wouldn't be? People wanted heroes and truth. We sure as fuck were not getting that from President Clorox. And we now know for a fact that Fauci knew and wrote that Trump was "spewing nonsense" in his private notes. No wonder MAGA doesn't like or trust Fauci A so-called "journalist from The Atlantic just weighed in, too. And I think it confirms my theory. Petty and jealous journalists like Mark Halperin are just that: petty and jealous. In his rant against Fauci, here's what Mark Leibovich reported Fauci wrote after going to another "Washington A List" Party: Can anyone imagine Donald Trump ever writing that? Or being humble or introspective in any way? Like maybe before starting a stupid war that America has already lost and that is doing a massive amount of global harm? Here is what Mark Leibovich has to say about what sounds like, to me, Fauci's amusement and humility in the face of sudden fame. But also outright fear of things like death threats to his family. I'll take that as an admission of what this is really about: jealousy, and pettiness. The title of The Atlantic essay is "What The Fauci Diary Reveals About Washington." I think the title gets it right. What I just learned about Fauci really told me nothing new. But it did humanize him. What this reinforced about Washington is that it is chock full of petty and jealous people. Including journalists. Like Mark Halperin. His fall from grace was that some women claimed he rubbed his erect penis on them when all they wanted was an assignment, or a job. I'm all for redemption. I think Halperin was and is a very gifted journalist. But this proves he is also a petty, jealous, and tone deaf man.

The bad dog celebrates lies. The bad dog celebrates Elon Musk. The bad dog celebrates death of kids with AIDS. PEPFAR funding cuts will lead to up to 74,000 excess HIV deaths in Africa by 2030, experts warn

The bad dog celebrates lies. The bad dog celebrates Elon Musk. The bad dog celebrates death of kids with AIDS. PEPFAR funding cuts will lead to up to 74,000 excess HIV deaths in Africa by 2030, experts warn

OH MY GOD! Our dumb lonely genocidal dog can write. All this time he's been hiding it from us! And I suppose it makes sense. Because when he does write, it just illustrates how fact free he is. What a dumb murderous dog! What a sad pathetic murderous dog! The sad pathetic murderous dog revels in lies. The sad pathetic murderous dog uses words to rationalize and defend utter murderous lies. I wish Elon Musk and Donald Trump could be prosecuted for mass murder. But cutting PEPFAR, programs put together by George W. Bush and Fauci, is not a prosecutable offense. It's just bad politics. And inhumane. But, actually, it is good politics for the sad pathetic murderous dog. He comes here to celebrate the lies and distortions and cruelty and death. Bad dog! Bad dog! No treats for you today. Just death! The bad dog celebrates lies. The bad dog celebrates Elon Musk. The bad dog celebrates death of kids with AIDS.

You had me at, "And THAT'S news?????"

Trump hasn't changed though! Faced with Blanche dilemma, Trump chooses revenge The president’s willingness to sacrifice his attorney general’s confirmation shows how deep his contempt for his enemies goes.

I'm wondering if this is one of the few positive side effects of the Iran War. Trump seems to have pivoted on Russia and Ukraine. And Europe. One positive side effect, in my mind, is it weakens Trump and underscores that, geez!, the US needs allies. Most Trump supporters probably see it differently: those ungrateful fucking Europeans! Trump makes clear constantly he feels that way, too. But he is enough of a realist to know he has a problem with the rest of the world. Even his friends on his Board of Peace LOL. The Europeans at some point will perhaps play some role safeguarding the Strait of Hormuz, if and when some peace or permanent ceasefire is negotiated. Trump in recent months has seemingly become more open to Ukraine, and Zelenskyy. I assume he's been told by European leaders that if you want our help with Iran, we need your help, too. Beyond that, I would say it's a kind of victory for Trump's idea that Europe should take the lead in its own defense. You can argue whether that is good or bad. But it seems to be happening. And there is this: Russia continues to aid Iran in war with US, Ukraine says Even though Miss Graham can no longer whisper that message in Trump's ear, in between her delightful ass licking, I am sure Trump is getting it. Vlad always had a legitimate bitch with his FIFA Peace Prize Winner pal Trump that you're arming my enemy. Well, now Vlad is too. In a way that probably helps take out US bases, not to mention US soldiers. Sucks for Vlad and Trump, who seem to be genuine peacemakers. 🫢 Meanwhile, China sits back and wins the long game. One can hope Americans would digest that when they think about ways in which Trump has Made America Great Again. But if they vote against Trump and his Republican submissives because they are pissed about gas and food prices and a new Forever War, that will be enough for me.

Good to know. But couldn't he run for President of the United States instead?

I was curious so I spent a few more hours going down rabbit holes. Several other boring conclusions. 1. Maybe there was a CIA coverup. And there should be more oversight, regardless. I did not make it clear. That Rand Paul press release I posted above was from a May hearing with a CIA whistleblower, James Erdman. Not Fauci. Here's the whistleblower: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DYSRl_SRcJS/ Everything he says makes sense to me. The main complaint regards "CIA refusal to comply with lawful oversight". What a shocker! He says the CIA downplayed or dismissed analysis that a lab leak was the probable cause. So if they want more oversight of any part of the CIA, I'm all for that. It suggests, but does not prove, that maybe the CIA is funding bioterror research that they don't want to talk about publicly. Just a guess. The main bitch about Fauci is that he is alleged to have helped form a scientific consensus that Erdman, and Paul of course, don't agree with. The closest you can get to "Fauci lied" is this. If I assume the worst about Fauci, that he didn't want people - or Senators - looking into what kind of research his agency funded, he sure lost that fight. I know very little about China. Llike most Americans I suspect. But for some strange reason, for years I have known all kinds of things about bat research in Wuhan. I hope one thing that came out of 2020 was more oversight of these weird science experiments with possible bioterror weapons. And, by the way, 2020 could be child's play compared to what kind of bioterror tools AI might be able to create soon. Why don't we have more oversight of that, too? 2. There is no there there with a Fauci coverup. Rand Paul and the Wall Street Journal cite these facts to argue that Fauci put pressure on other scientists to change their views to conform to his dogma. https://www.paul.senate.gov/266583-2/ So what you have is one scientist who thinks maybe there is a 30 % chance of a lab leak. Another thinks maybe a 10 - 20 % chance. Fauci himself says publicly and privately it can't be ruled out. When four scientists write a paper, including these two, it concludes the virus was not created in a lab. It's fair to say maybe the paper should have expressed more doubt. Regardless of what any one paper said, there was a very public debate about the lab leak theory. Fetterman said at the hearing maybe we should not be so quick to label some ideas as "red" or "blue". That's true. Again, polls say something like 2 in 3 Americans believe the theory. Fauci himself said publicly and wrote in his private notes that he leaned to the idea of natural origin, and that "alternate theories were not equally probable." All this suggests you have scientists who have doubts, and don't feel 100 % certain. Including Fauci. Doubt is not a conspiracy. In science, it's a plus. 3. Rand Paul would better serve America by calling for Trump and Elon Musk to be prosecuted for mass murder. Elon Musk said in a recent interview that there were zero deaths due to DOGE cuts in health programs like PEPFAR. Why don't we have hearings on that? Here's what Google says. Sweeping U.S. foreign aid cuts and freezes to programs like PEPFAR and USAID driven by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have severely disrupted HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa. Predictive public health models estimate tens of thousands of excess HIV deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, with broader modeling tracking hundreds of thousands of total preventable deaths globally from suspended medical logistics Here's something Fauci said at a 2024 speech: AND THAT IS MY POINT! This started with a rant about Mark Halperin being jealous and petty. Our heroes are hollow. Our institutions suck. The media sucks. Maybe Mark Halperin would argue Fauci is just a publicity whore for saying he had something to do with saving the lives of millions of AIDS patients. I'm no fan of George W. Bush. But as Fauci says, that's a great example of what leaders and governments can and did do. But not this President. And not Elon Musk.

You missed it. The yapping dog already posted Black Fauci on a different thread. I love Black Fauci. I think Black Fauci should run for President in 2028. I told the yapping dog maybe Black Fauci could be Trump's Veep when Trump wins a 3td term in 2028. Or maybe Trump and Black Fauci could buy FIFA with Genocide-Adjacent Jarod. Remember. @Barknaway is good and loyal and true. And really fucking stupid. So I figured he'd just take it as a treat. It's actually really way too DEI for a MAGA dog, when you think about. A Black and a Jew? Sounds like Warnock and Ossoff to me. Fuck that shit! But with you, I'll let my guard down and tell ya what I really think. We should run Black Fauci as a Democrat. I think. It's like having Fauci, Eddie Murphy, and Rev. Warnock all on the same ticket. Maybe with a touch of Robert Kennedy, Jr. even. How could that idea go bad?

I'm on a big old rant. So I will post three more things to make three points. 1. COVID vaccines were like the World Cup. It's a world thing. So you see there the US, the UK, Germany, Sweden, and China. If we are talking leaders in modern technologies, nothing on that list is a surprise. It speaks to global collaboration. I do think it is one of Trump's greatest achievements, even if it happened as much despite as because of him. 2. Fauci was at the center of saving lives all over the world. That's exactly what I expected to find, and it took like one minute. It's a Canadian study about how the vaccines played out in Canada. At the end of the day, it had less to do with whether you were Canadian or American, and more to do with whether you were vaccinated. The US had about 3600 COVD deaths for every 1 million people. That made the US #16 in death tolls of all nations, I think. Way higher than average. I'm guessing I could find vaccine-averse parts of Canada that had higher death rates than pro-vaccine counties in Northern California. That said, Canada's COVID death rate was about 1400 COVID deaths for every 1 million people. So, yeah. America did this to itself. Like I said, it was an interesting and tragic combination of MAGA people in red states or counties, but also poor Blacks and Hispanics with less access to health care. I said it above, but this is worth repeating. This is where Halperin literally sucks and fails as a journalist. The whole point about Fauci and TV is that Fauci's job, like Deborah Birx, was to be very public. They were both on TV a lot, and they both urged people to get vaccinated. Not to inject Clorox in their bodies. Especially older people. Turns out being on TV helps. So Halperin's jealous and petty accusation that Fauci just had a big ego and liked to see his face on TV is really shitty journalism. Australia was an interesting case. In the end, they had about 960 deaths per million. So they did better than most nations at keeping people alive. What was interesting is they could, and did, simply close the gates. To vastly oversimplify. But when they did open the gates, even a lot of older vaccinated people died. So some of it simply had to do with age. 3. A century ago, this was devastating to young people and young families. That's a remarkable and tragic fact that no one talked much about. The Spanish flu targeted young adults for reasons I'm not sure anyone still completely understands. But in one year, thanks to so many young adults dying, the average life span in the US dropped by 12 years in 1918. Then it rebounded just as quickly. The "sharp" drop from 2020 to 2021 was small ball by comparison. And now life spans are higher than ever. I am really in a minority on this one. But I would argue these facts speak for themselves. What happened with COVID, to me, was an example of what government can do when you have good science and global collaboration. The numbers speak for themselves. COVID was a disaster. One bad outcome we still have is lower test scores because young kids lost part of their education. So you can argue government leaders dropped balls. But, overall, we came out so much better than we did a century ago. And at least some of that had to do with government and science, I think. So I just reject Halperin and Paul's message that this is an example of how our institutions and leaders suck. And if we want to attack leaders who suck, I'd put Trump before Fauci. Call me a liberal Democrat!

Chairman Paul Delivers Opening Remarks During Whistleblower Hearing on the Multi-Agency Cover-Up of COVID-19 and Gain-of-Function Research I really won't try to guess what Rand Paul's motivation is. To give him the benefit of the doubt, the majority of Americans (and maybe the majority of most people on the planet) believe in something like the lab leak theory The main thing I think is that if there was a lab leak, it's the same as the Kennedy assassination. It was covered up. And we will never know for sure. It is one more thing that undermines trust in government, institutions, and leaders. And both Rand Paul and Mark Halperin are throwing fuel on that fire, in ways that look petty and jealous to me. The CIA comes into this, just like they did with the JFK assassination. There probably is "stuff" there about covert operations and biological weapons and funding for research they don't want us to know about. The CIA, Paul says, also thinks there was a lab leak. So if the CIA and a majority of Americans think there was a lab leak, maybe there was. Fauci was NOT head of the CIA. Paul says this: Note the words "may have". Paul does not know. He is fishing. So if there is a "there" there, that is where it is. And this is not new. Paul has been making this claim for years. Fauci knew something. Fauci lied. Fauci is somehow at the center of some vast government conspiracy. It's kind of foolish. I can tell you I have actually choreographed hearings where the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who by definition is someone to fear, rubbed the noses of redlining banks in shit. It helped us to create billions of dollars in "public/private partnerships". So even the idea that poor Rand Paul has no idea and no power to prove what his own government knew or did is kind of insane to me. And if there is some secret hidden, I'd be looking at the CIA. More likely, the secret was hidden by China. I think that is what most people, including Trump, think. So let me offer two journal entries, both by Anthony Fauci. If there was a journal entry like that in Fauci's diary, I think Rand Paul would be putting that on X. Instead, here is an actual journal entry: To oversimplify, six days after what Paul labels as this "infamous" phone call that has something to do with a cover up, Fauci is telling himself in his own diary that he doesn't have a fucking clue where the virus started. I think the words on the page exonerate Fauci, and humanize him. It may be that Fauci is smart enough to think that. Maybe he has gamed out that he trusts the majority of Americans who trust him. Let them read my words. Let them know what I was thinking. I have more faith in Americans than this dipshit Rand Paul and his conspiracy theories. I'll tell Rand Paul to go fuck himself. If that is what Fauci is thinking, I am on his side. But unlike my MUCH younger and MORE beautiful Sister In Cock, I will never reveal - even in my diary - how I show Fauci my appreciation. 😉 My rant is that it pisses me off that people like Paul and Halperin just want to tear down institutions and leaders. At least it feels that way to me. Especially right now, when President Shit Hole has literally fucked up a century of coalition building with NATO and Europe and Canada and Australia and (name a country) and started this loser war in Iran. As my Sister In Cock, who is truly more lovely than me, noted, shouldn't we be talking about that?

No. We are fucked.

I'll respond to this separately than your first post, which is more complicated and interesting. Note that I said "back in 2021" or so. I was not trying to defend Trump. I agree with your points. All you need is the Clorox moment to prove what an asshole Trump is and was. The first poll in 2021 supports my point. Biden was viewed as a much more stable leader. Poor Joe. If he had only been a bit younger, and voluntarily been a one term President. That said, I do think of the COVID vaccine as one of Trump's biggest accomplishments. It happened under his leadership. It is a sign of how fucked up MAGA is that instead of praising Trump for that, they go after Fauci with pitchforks. And this is a matter of life and death. They literally died to defend the idea that these vaccines are bullshit. The second poll excludes 2020 or 2021. But if I hunt, or you do, I am certain around 2021 there were polls that showed global opinion of China got really low around COVID, because of a global belief in a coverup. So I think by 2021 when the vaccines were getting out all over the world it is true that the US under Biden looked better, and China under Xi and a seeming COVID coverup looked worse. Again, I know your point was about The Great Incompetent. And I agree. I will now bring in for a few paragraphs a rant from a different post about Iran. Because, to me, this is even more tragic. And it could have even more fatal consequences. Piers Morgan did this great interview where you had these two US generals, one a Bush-era hawk and the other a Democrat who ran a successful air war to stop a genocide in Kosovo. They both made great arguments that we can't let Iran get a nuclear bomb. The President ought to be able to rally the nation and the world. I don't disagree, in theory. But we have the precedent of Bush 43 and Iraq, which was a disaster - after he at least tried to rally the nation and the world. Trump didn't even try. And his own Veep and Secretary of State told him this intelligence you are getting from The Genocide Jew is bullshit. And this will be a disaster. N.O.F.U.C.K.I.N.G.I.M.P.U.L.S.E.C.O.N.T.R.O.L. So during this debate Piers Morgan set up Robert Pape says if we continue down this escalation trap with Iran we are flirting with economic disaster. Recession. Depression. And the whole world will blame the US for it. You could see the generals shaking their heads. And I don't disagree with the generals, on military strategy. It won't be a better world when Tehran can nuke New York or London. But this is the difference between a general and a political scientist. Pape is right. That poll about China and the US above proves it. China is winning and the US is losing. And we deserve to lose. Pape thinks if Democrats win in November they will starve the war to death, just like VietNam in 1974. I hope so. I am sending money to Democrats every month. But solving THAT problem does not solve the nuclear problem. Trump may go down in history as the strategic idiot who empowered Iran to have nukes. And maybe the Strait of Hormuz, too. So, yes. America is a shit hole. And Trump is President Shit Hole. And the best hope now is we avoid even worse disasters. There are many Americans like me who appreciate the fact that leaders from places like Mexico and Canada are being clever and smart about trying to keep this from going too far off the rails. That is what friends and allies are for.

Or read Rand Paul's X. To me, that proves Fauci's case. This is a petty and personal attack. I do have mixed feelings about this. It is never a good thing when someone refuses to answer questions of members of Congress. There are threats that they will try to get for Fauci for THAT. I'm not a lawyer, but I think Fauci's lawyers probably knew what they were doing. I said it above and I will repeat it. Fauci has proven he is the kind of savvy bureaucrat who could survive and thrive under seven Presidents of both parties. He has testified hundreds of times and never before taken the 5th. And he explained why he did it this time. You guys are trying to entrap me, and use anything I say to try to support your baseless theories. And throw me in jail if you can. So fuck you. I am keeping my mouth shut. The image above suggests Rand Paul has no case. If there were secret meetings with the Chinese government or Epstein files that showed Fauci knew there was a lab leak in Wuhan and he was covering it up, Rand Paul would put that on his X. And I would agree with Rand Paul that the American people and the world have the right to know. As of today, a majority of Americans do think COVID did originate from a lab leak. I personally think it's possible. But China will make sure we never know. Unrelated point. Back in 2021 or so, America looked good and China looked bad. Frankly, I'm a patriot. So I liked that. The world thought China birthed a virus and covered it up. The US, under Trump, and as part of a global initiative, quickly came up with a vaccine that I think saved countless lives. Fauci was at the heart of that. Now it is the opposite. The US looks like shit. And we deserve to look like shit. We start stupid wars that raise the price of food and gas all over the world. Because we have a strategic midget with no impulse control as our leader. So Rand Paul looks like one more part of this stinky pile of shit. He ain't got nothing on Fauci. Paul released Fauci's diary to intimidate Fauci, in Fauci's words. I don't think it was Fauci's intention. There is some stuff in it about COVID, and not Barbara Streisand. At one point early on he says something about how the Wuhan wet market has to be an accelerator, not the cause. But the virus had to jump from animals to humans somewhere, he wrote. To me, that probably discredits any theory that Fauci is hiding something about some gain of function project he knew about or funded that went awry. You could build a paranoid theory that somehow Fauci constructed a fake diary full of bullshit and lies knowing that years later Rand Paul would get the diary and release it. So it cleverly suggests Fauci really didn't know where this virus came from, and he was speculating in his own diary. Team MAGA would like the conspiracy theory. Trust no one. Institutions suck. Tear them down. Or, you could believe Fauci is just telling the truth. And he's gonna tell Rand Paul to go fuck himself. You mistake me for my MUCH more beautiful and MUCH younger Sister In Cock, I think. She will publicly brag about her liaisons with sexy public officials, like Mayor Mamdani. I'm just not a kiss and tell kind of gal. 😉

I LOVE BLACK FAUCI!!!!! 💞💞💞 CAN WE HAVE A REUNITE? LIKE BLACK FAUCI AND BLACK TRUMP? MAYBE BLACK FAUCI CAN BE BLACK TRUMP'S VEEP IN TRUMP'S 3RD TERM? OR AT LEAST TEAM UP WITH GENOCIDE JAROD AND THE SAUDIS AND BUY FIFA? BEATS THE RATINGS ON THAT CLOROX SHIT!

I'm sorry. I'm slow, and I get confused. Was this before or after we are going to make a deal with really reasonable people that are going to give Trump everything he asks for, so it's a huge victory for Trump? I'm not as smart as my yapping dog. I can never tell which is which. 🤔