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Eric Swalwell Simply Can't Resist Screaming Into the Wind

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Representative Eric Swalwell is losing his patience, everyone!

On Monday, the scandal-ridden representative tweeted out an angry (and quite contrived, if you ask me…there is nothing authentic about this man at all) rant about people who have chosen not to take the COVID vaccines. It was filled with righteous indignation. More than that, it was a peek into the absolute irrationality of the Cult o’ COVID members, who sincerely believe that with enough harassment and insults you can change the mind of a person who has already decided they do not wish to receive a COVID vaccine at this time.

There are no obstacles left to a vaccine. If you want it, you can have it. There are mandates, there are campaigns to marginalize and oppress the unvaccinated, there is a pop culture war to label anyone who doesn’t want this particular vaccine as “anti-vax”…the attempts to coerce the hesitant to get the COVID vaccine are endless and popular. It is safe to say that anyone left who isn’t vaccinated simply DOES NOT WANT IT. That’s it. If you haven’t convinced them to vaccinate by now, it’ll never happen. And yet weirdos like Swalwell simply can’t resist the hysterics, as if they make one bit of difference to those who have made up their minds. It’s screaming into the wind at this point, but that’s what progressives do best.

Let’s take a look at Swalwell’s diatribe.

Oh, you’re losing your COVID patience? Welcome to the club, Eric. Some of us have tried valiantly to be understanding of the irrational fears and hysteria surrounding the virus. After all, if all I watched was CNN, I, too, would be filled with fear and dread every single day. I’d be operating with a quarter of the science but 100% of the politics. It’s a recipe for terror. We would love to simply live and let live. It makes sense to preserve freedom — the freedom to isolate and the freedom to move about your life freely. If you are so scared of COVID that you think simply breathing the same air as people who have every vaccination but a COVID vaccination is akin to certain death, you absolutely should stay isolated and you have the right to do so. But these people have no sense of individual responsibility. So instead of simply taking their own precautions to protect themselves, according to the SCIENCE™, they demand we all live in abject fear, and they punish our children, our businesses, and our constitutional rights.

You know the cliche — if mamma ain’t happy, nobody is happy. Progressives want desperately to be your mommy…and they’re not happy right now. They’ll be damned if you are either. So yes, Eric. We’re all losing our patience with the madness surrounding this topic, but conservatives aren’t under the illusion we can change the minds of someone by insulting them. We understand that living in a free society means living with the tension of what we want versus what others want. We settle those tensions at the ballot box. We don’t stomp our feet and demand government take away the human rights of free Americans.

I love how Democrats are always moved to “blah blah blah” your constitutional rights away. As if they are meaningless. Eric is only half right here (which is more right than he is most of the time). Private businesses have the right to tell you that you can’t patronize their business…for some things. You can’t tell a black person they can’t eat at your lunch counter. You can’t tell a gay person they can’t stay at your hotel. That’s about as far as that goes. The government has no such right. They are completely ruled (supposedly) by the public standards of the Constitution. They are not allowed to discriminate against their own citizens. It is unsurprising that Eric doesn’t know this.

There is no “blah blah blah” in the American Constitution. It is quite clear. Individual liberty is sacrosanct. Full stop. It is very telling when a United States representative wants to “blah blah blah” that clarity away to suit their own notions of safety.

When Eric wants to protect his children, he’s a saint (and I’m sure his kids know all about his affair with a Chinese spy). When you want to protect your children you’re a “carnival barker.”

I actually reported this last tweet for misinformation. Somehow the left has been allowed to move the goalposts of COVID to pretend that being unvaccinated is certain death. It is not, and the SCIENCE™ supports that. The SCIENCE™ also gives no indication that unvaccinated people “create” new variants. That’s victim-blaming, Eric. Viruses create variants. Humans just contract them or they don’t. End of story. And the SCIENCE™ also tells us that right now, in many states and first-world nations, the amount of COVID hospitalizations among the vaccinated is surpassing that of the unvaccinated. So if you can still get and spread COVID even when you’re vaccinated, who exactly is responsible for the variants?

Those who have yet to be vaccinated against COVID are not changing their minds. They’ve already decided. They’ve had every opportunity to get the vaccine and they don’t want it. No amount of Twitter whining is going to change that. So if you are so terrified for your children because of the unvaccinated, you stay home.

The fact that Eric continues to go to work, socialize, and travel the country for work and pleasure tells me that he really isn’t worried for his children at all.

So what does that tell you?

Paul, Cotton, and Cruz Go to Town on Fauci's Egomania

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NIH director Dr. Anthony Fauci hit the Sunday shows to talk about the new Omicron variant of COVID. But on “Face the Nation” with Margaret Brennan, he dropped all pretense and showed not only what an egomaniac and Democratic partisan he truly was when he declared that he represented science and that senators who dared to question him were attacking science.

In the process, Fauci tried to smear an elected U.S. senator, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to deflect from questions that Cruz raised about his actions.

“Yeah. I have to laugh at that,” he snorted. “I should be prosecuted? What happened on Jan. 6, Senator?”

Fauci went on to claim that the people questioning him were “really criticizing science because I represent science.” He claimed they were doing something “dangerous” because it might “damage science.”

“And if you’re attacking me, you’re really attacking science. I mean, everybody knows that,” Fauci claimed.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) ripped apart Fauci’s hubris and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) demanded that Fauci answer the question about his lying about gain-of-function research.

But they weren’t quite done with Fauci’s egomania yet. Paul, Cruz, and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) all hit Fox shows and eviscerated Fauci more, making some other important points in the process about his tirade.

“When a government bureaucrat has the audacity and the arrogance to say they represent all of science, we should be running the other way,” Paul told host Pete Hegseth. “It conjures up images of the Medieval Church and their repression of science. Science has nothing to do with having obedience to any kind of government dogma.”

Cotton blasted the smearing of Cruz by someone who’s supposed to be a non-partisan in his position.

“It’s just another example of the incompetence of the Biden administration. They think Tony Fauci remains a credible and impartial messenger about the Wuhan coronavirus. You saw this weekend, he went out and became an open partisan—attacking a sitting United States senator who is democratically elected by the people, as are the other 99 senators—as a—nothing but a bureaucrat, who works for those people who democratically elected 100 senators, attacking him in a partisan way. This is not Tony Fauci changing or turning over a new leaf; this is who he has been from the very beginning. And it is a simple fact that he testified to Congress, by the way, that he did not fund—through his agency—gain-of-function research in the Wuhan labs, making the coronaviruses there more dangerous and more transmissible. Yet his agency has since acknowledged that they did, in fact, did fund that gain-of-function research.”

Then Cruz once again finished Fauci off for how partisan he has been, “Dr. Fauci, I think, is the most dangerous bureaucrat in the history of the country … he’s been dishonest, he’s been political, he’s been partisan, and the American people know it.”

But then he pointed out a more general problem in regard to Fauci: the failure of the media — and in this case Margaret Brennan — to hold Fauci to account for his actions.

“Instead of asking him the simple question: ‘You stated that we don’t fund gain of function research, the NIH stated. We do fund gain of function research. They can’t both be true. And if you lied to Congress, it’s a felony. She didn’t press him on that,” Cruz said. “And the reason this matters is there is a lot of circumstantial evidence to suggest that the U.S. government participated in funding research modifying coronaviruses that could well have led to COVID 19. And if that’s true, that is stunning and indefensible.”

That’s the greater question that they don’t want anyone to get to because they don’t want to answer it. It’s the question on which the media should be pressing Fauci and the Biden administration because the American people are owed those answers. But the media isn’t even troubled by his claims to be “science” or his raw partisan smear job effort against Cruz. They should be querying Joe Biden as to why Fauci is still employed when he acts like this (not to mention when he’s been wrong so often). Instead, members of the media are just lapping up everything he says like obedient sheep, whether it makes sense or not.

But a reckoning may be coming for Fauci when the Republicans take back the Congress and he will finally have to answer.

Cruz Drops the Question That Just Skewers Fauci

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Yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci dropped the mask and lost all pretense of objectivity when he was asked about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wanting to have him prosecuted. Senators want him investigated by the Department of Justice for lying about gain-of-function research, a topic that our Scott Hounsell has covered in great detail.

Fauci’s response showed what an authoritarian partisan hack he truly is.

First, instead of actually trying to justify his actions, he took a nasty false shot at Cruz.

“Yeah. I have to laugh at that,” he deflected. “I should be prosecuted? What happened on Jan. 6, Senator?”

Fauci went on to claim that the people questioning him were “really criticizing science because I represent science.” He claimed they were doing something “dangerous” because it might “damage science.”

“And if you’re attacking me, you’re really attacking science. I mean, everybody knows that,” Fauci claimed.

Really? Since when did Fauci become the inviolate, unquestioned God of Science? As I said last night, his very comment is not even what science is. Science is inherently about questioning and evolving your thought based upon testing theories, not shutting down questions through authoritarian dictate. It’s as if he doesn’t even understand that.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) took him to the cleaners and hung him out to dry with his response, chastising him for his “absolute hubris.”

“It’s astounding and alarming that a public health bureaucrat would even think to claim such a thing, especially one who has worked so hard to ignore the science of natural immunity,” Paul tweeted. Indeed, it’s dangerous when you have a bureaucrat in such a position, wielding such power, thinking he is unquestionable.

Then, Cruz responded and completely took Fauci apart. In lawyer-like fashion, Cruz eviscerated Fauci in a simple clear way in five tweets.

Fauci is an unelected technocrat who has distorted science and facts in order to exercise authoritarian control over millions of Americans.

He lives in a liberal world where his smug “I REPRESENT science” attitude is praised.

Here are the facts:

(1) On May 11, Fauci testified before a Senate Committee that “the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

(2) On October 20, NIH wrote they funded an experiment at the Wuhan lab testing if “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.” That is gain of function research.

(3) Fauci’s statement and the NIH’s October 20 letter cannot both be true. The statements are directly contradictory.

(4) 18 USC 1001 makes it felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison, to lie to Congress.

No amount of ad hominem insults parroting Democrat talking points will get Fauci out of this contradiction.

Fauci either needs to address the substance—in detail, with specific factual corroboration—or DOJ should consider prosecuting him for making false statements to Congress.

No deflection, no “I represent science.” No hiding behind liberal talking points while pretending to be objective. Answer the question.

The bottom line is that for too long, the fate of the country has been put in the hands of unelected bureaucrats like Fauci, who aren’t concerned about the harm they have been doing. Nor have they been required to justify their actions or been held accountable, including for the many, many times they have been wrong. They want to continue to play this control game and won’t rule out new lockdowns, even over a new variant that they know very little about.

Fauci is not answering that question that Cruz raised, indeed, he isn’t even acknowledging that Cruz raised it, he’s trying to obscure it with a partisan attack and deflection about how he’s “science.” That tells us everything we need to know right there.

Anthony Fauci Is Extremely Invested in People Not Finding out COVID-19's Origin

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The original theory concerning the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic was that it came from a wet market in Wuhan, China. However, most experts believe that this theory no longer holds, and most of the evidence points to a lab leak of some sort from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Originally, the roles were reversed. Many saw the lab leak theory as a conspiracy theory from conservatives while people who were actually following the evidence that was publicly available noted that it wasn’t so far-fetched. Multiple reports by various media outlets intending to cover this up by saying “We were just following the information we had at the time!” ignore the outright hostility they maintained toward anyone who suggested the lab leak theory was more plausible.

But one of the interesting (and horrifying) tidbits that came out about this particular lab is the involvement of the United States government — and, more directly, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s involvement. RedState’s own Scott Hounsell has worked brilliantly on breaking a lot of this information down (you can find all of his reporting here). Fauci has now been caught lying to Rand Paul and the rest of the country over the gain-of-function research that the U.S. helped pay for and that Fauci appears to have directly overseen.

Before I continue, I need to clarify something: Saying the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan is not the same as saying the virus was created by the Chinese government. A lot of the evidence seems to suggest that the virus did occur naturally in bats and that this facility in Wuhan was studying it. The introduction of gain-of-function research, however, suggests that some tampering was done to test the possibilities of the virus’ effect on humans, should it jump species in some way. The National Institute of Health confirmed via a document release that, despite what Fauci claimed, the U.S. did have a hand in funding this research.

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That makes this weekend’s appearance on Face the Nation by Fauci much more notable, because it’s very clear that he does not want Americans to find out the role that the NIH — and, by extension, he — played in the pandemic. From his interview with Margaret Brennan, after he talked about the wet market originally:

Brennan told him that “Beijing acknowledges now that they don’t think it originated in that market,” but Fauci disagreed.

“It may not have originated in the market, but it certainly could have. I mean, I don’t think that they admitted that it didn’t originate in the market. I think they’re saying they don’t know how it originated.”

Gao Fu, director of China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in May 2020 that he did not believe the Wuhan wet market is where COVID-19 began.

Brennan argued that “the place of origin was not within the market itself.”

Fauci disagreed: “I don’t think you can say that. I think you could say we don’t know how and where it originated. There are wet markets in Wuhan that are ample opportunity for a virus to jump from an animal that gets brought in from all parts of China that are very closely related physically to bat enclaves and caves and come to the market.”

Fauci is far more politician than health expert at this point. The twisting of words and phrases to dodge criticism is extremely suspicious at best. Here, he is trying to keep the interview’s focus on the wet market theory, trying to exhaust that conversation in order to avoid any tougher questions about the origins of the virus.

There are very few credible people, at this point, who believe the wet market is the more likely origin of the virus. That Fauci is pushing that theory at all is telling. He is either not a credible person or he is attempting to deflect and hide. Or, as my former colleague Moe Lane might say, “Embrace the healing power of ‘and’.”

What’s really happening is this: Fauci has become rather addicted to the media spotlight in the last couple of years. The media has treated him like a king and he has used that to pontificate rather than stick to the actual science. But the problem is that his musings on what’s best for us are being taken as actual science by a media establishment that is so traumatized from a combination of Donald Trump and the pandemic that they can’t see the problems with the things Fauci has been saying.

Be prepared for another lockdown? That’s absolute insanity. The previous lockdown was a major contributor to the current economic crisis. There is no way the U.S. economy could handle that, especially when the evidence on the new variant in South Africa suggests the cases are very mild.

It is well past time for Fauci to go. He is doing more to damage the public’s confidence in the fight against the virus and the strength of the vaccines than the virus itself. If you want America to truly return to a sense of normalcy, even as the virus transitions from “pandemic” to “endemic,” Fauci needs to be given a rather forceful suggestion to retire.

Dr. Fauci Brings up January 6th and Ted Cruz in Incredibly Bizarre Interview Exchange

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The highest-paid man in the US government, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was on TV again this weekend, doing a sit-down interview with CBS News’ Margaret Brennan. RedState has already reported on some of the absurdities previously released, but they truly saved the good stuff for Sunday.

In what can only be described as an incredibly bizarre exchange, Fauci brings up January 6th and declares that attacks on him are attacks on science itself. This man’s ego knows no bounds.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Senator Cruz told the attorney general you should be prosecuted.

DR. FAUCI: Yeah. I have to laugh at that. I should be prosecuted? What happened on Jan. 6, senator?

MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you think that this is about making you a scapegoat to deflect–

DR. FAUCI: Of course-

MARGARET BRENNAN: –From President Trump?

DR. FAUCI: Of course, you have to be asleep not to figure that one out.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, there are a lot of Republican senators taking aim at this. I mean–

DR. FAUCI: That’s OK, I’m just going to do my job and I’m going to be saving lives and they’re going to be lying.

The mention of prosecution has to do with the fact that Fauci pretty clearly lied to Congress when he insisted that the NIH had not funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Documents were later released that showed that they had done so, though the government rushed to change definitions online to try to cover themselves. In short, Rand Paul was right, and last I checked, lying to Congress is a crime. That’s why Ted Cruz suggested that Fauci should be prosecuted.

Yet, instead of offering some kind of salient defense of his past falsehoods, Fauci says to ask Ted Cruz about January 6th. What does Cruz have to do with January 6th? The answer is absolutely nothing. Cruz did not have any contact with anyone who entered the Capitol Building that day, nor did he do anything but condemn their actions.

And is the good doctor just unaware that lots of people are, in fact, being harshly prosecuted over January 6th? Ironically, by bringing that up to snark at Cruz, Fauci is making an affirmative case for his own prosecution. It also shows that he is every bit the far-left conspiracy theorist some have suspected.

That kind of idiotic response from Fauci completely gives away who he is (not that it’s been previously a secret). This guy is a politician, through and through. There’s a reason he started attacking Donald Trump in the months leading up to the 2020 election. He knew that he had to keep his seat at the table, and he was more than happy to suck up to Democrats to make sure that happened.

But, it’s more than that. Fauci himself is a rabid liberal and always has been. The assertions of the last several years, where he’s been painted as some kind of unbiased public servant, were always nonsense.

But perhaps the most absurd thing Fauci says here is that attacking him amounts to attacking science. This is a man who has lied multiple times throughout the pandemic. Even past that, he’s been wrong more times than I can keep track of. Yet, he wants to assert that any questioning of him is an attack on the institution of science itself? That’s a tyrannical notion that assumes he is simply above reproach and should never be held accountable. Any government official with that attitude deserves to be fired immediately, not lauded as an “expert.”

Yet, the legend of Fauci lives on, at least within the press and Democrat circles. This guy is a menace to society and a draining leech on the taxpayers who keep paying his salary. That he made it out of the Trump era without being fired will always be one of the former president’s biggest mistakes.