Mark Twain famously opined, “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth has put on its boots.” Lies not only travel fast, they lodge in peoples’ minds. It’s a lot easier to learn the truth the first time than to learn a lie and have to unlearn it. Mark Twain also said, “It’s a lot easier to con people than to convince them they’ve been conned.” One of the premiere con jobs that have taken place in this Era of Trump is that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a grifting demon — which make perfect sense when you realize that the ultimate grifting demon in this country is the one who fostered the lie originally. Dr. Fauci was in Congress today getting venomously vilified by Marjorie Taylor Greene. In particular, she pushed the conspiracy theory about killing dogs. Listen to what California Congressman Robert Garcia had to say about this, because it is noteworthy, and then read what you should tell idiot MAGAs the next time they quote Marge and claim that Dr. Fauci tortures dogs for kicks.
.@reprobertgarcia quotes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and says, "This is so crazy and irresponsible." pic.twitter.com/0McCzVG61E
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 3, 2024
Everything you ever wanted to know about #BeagleGate is summarized by FactCheck.Org. This cuts to the case.
NIAID said it did not fund the study in question. [The one MTG refers to as “torturing dogs.”]
“The images of beagles were drawn from a manuscript published in July 2021 in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The manuscript mistakenly cited support from NIAID, when in fact NIAID did not support this specific research shown in the images of the beagles being circulated,” the NIAID said in a statement a spokesperson emailed to us.
Indeed, on Oct. 26, the journal issued a correction, saying, “The US National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust did not provide any funding for this research and any such claim was made in error.”
However, the NIAID said it did fund a separate project in Tunisia that studied a vaccine to prevent leishmaniasis.
“In the NIAID-supported study, twelve dogs were immunized with the experimental vaccine at the Pasteur Institute of Tunis, and then let out in an enclosed open space during the day, during high sandfly season in an area of Tunisia considered to be hyper-endemic for canine leishmaniasis. The goal of the research was to determine if the experimental vaccine prevented the dogs from becoming infected in a natural setting,” the NIAID said in its statement.
The NIAID also acknowledged that another leishmaniasis study, which the White Coat Waste Project has written about, was conducted at NIAID laboratories in 2016.
The agency’s statement said, “dogs were the necessary animal model for the research, and the researchers ensured that the dogs experienced no discomfort.”
This is the article that will shut down the conspiracy theory. Also read a PolitiZoom piece that took off from Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s reporting on this madness. Show that to your MAGA friends as well. This cry to incarcerate Dr. Fauci started as early as 2021 and MAGAs were suggesting at that time that “he should be sodomized every day of his incarceration.”
Once again I say that we can’t live with two separate narratives of reality. I don’t know how to stop it, though, with right-wing media making money like it does. As long as there’s a buck to be made, dishonorable people will take to the airwaves and lie and that includes Donald Trump’s children and their spouses.
I also think it’s incumbent upon the Democrats to do copious ads which debunk Trump and MAGA lies. People can only make an intelligent decision at the polls if they know the truth. Although as polarized as our politics is right now, maybe it’s too late for that. Voting is always a visceral process, that’s nothing new, and maybe with all the high drama Trump has generated, maybe that’s what will determine the election, is peoples’ guts. I still believe we need to saturate the airwaves with an expose of all the lies Americans are being told right now.
It’s not just about Trump not getting back in office. As many elected Republicans as there are out there now, lying their butts off in Congress, like you saw today, they need to be replaced as well.
“They apparently believe that if they just lie nonstop that the entire electorate will become enraged and vote Republican.”
But not if the lies are proved to be lies. Then their ‘policy’ fails.
Just to be clear, with our advancements in computers/AI/etc., experimentation using animals is cruel and quite frankly torture. Unfortunately, we have not yet rid science/medicine of this behavior. That said, until research is successfully accomplished with only A.I., etc., it can’t be proven empirically that this can actually be done 100% of the time. There are labs that are proving it can be done and hopefully word will get out and we’ll start seeing labs getting that 100% mark. When the word gets out if the laws on the planet don’t keep up with the technology, then we have to either shut down the labs or get rid of the pols not fixing the problem utilizing legislatively.
Please don’t go on about just how important it is for humans to be cured of what ever the f*ck disease (often brought on by their behavior) they have–it isn’t. I’ll never forget what one of my professors said in lecture (Environmental Engineering)-famines, diseases, disasters are not bad things since they lower the population and there are way too many people for this planet to support–this was back in the late ’80’s f.f.s.
I don’t disagree. The problem with this CT is that Fauci is accused, once more, of doing something he’s absolutely not doing. I feel so sorry for that good man. Maybe I should write him a sympathy card or something.