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The Fauci hate from Trumpets is absolutely bizarre. Trump hired Fauci for his Corona virus task force. Trump could have fired him at any time.

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Sacrificial scapegoats are foundational for fascist leaders.

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Yes, but Fauci dared to use his expertise to tell trump he was wrong, instead of just doing everything trump told him to do.

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That’s what’s hilarious and also scary about this whole thing. Trump, wanting to score easy points and get a quick win, read a sign about hospital cleaning procedures and stepped up to a podium and basically said “we’re looking into things with bleach and injecting light to cure the disease.”

And Fauci, doing his job, was like “please be safe, socially distance, and wear masks while we work to get a safe and effective vaccine.”

And people lost their fucking minds.

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That was such an uncomfortable situation. I don’t remember the lady’s name, Susan something? Anyways, whomever was in charge at the time, he was trying to get her to agree that his insane ramblings was what they were actively working on and she looked like she just wanted to melt into the chair. You could see on everyone’s face that trump was a petty schoolyard bully, who would punish anyone who dared speak of reality instead of living in his own ignorant castle of lies.

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So let me get this straight, a lady in Texas upsets an insurance company and gets arrested for threats. Someone makes, hangs, then posts this and it’s fine?

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“threats”

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You don’t need to be a Christian to question the mental stability of someone who decorates their home with lynched effigies of people they hate.

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But saying 3 little words to a random call center agent is considered terrorism? Fuck our legal system.

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It was the 2 words that came after those 3 that got her into trouble.

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So I’m confused, is saying you want the elite to die something the right-wing talking heads are in favour of, or is it beyond the pale? Because they’ve gotten awfully inconsistent about this one in the past few weeks.

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Only certain members

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Isn’t there a hotline we can call now to report stuff like this?

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You referring to Luigi? I thought even republicans were supporting him. (Voters anyway.)

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The tweet in question came from a (former?) US Republican congressman. Derrick Evans. He was also there on Jan 6 if a cursory Internet search is to be believed.

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