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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 08:45 PM Mar 2020

Ever have your intuition, radar go off that someone is an asshole?

Getting that with Fauci. Hope I am 100% wrong. But anytime we all put 100% faith in what one guy thinks/says...my immediate reaction/nature tells me "get another and another opinion.".

Kick in the fact he's affiliated with MF45. And he seems like a showboat. Might be our 2020 "Brownie."

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Ever have your intuition, radar go off that someone is an asshole? (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 OP
Yeah, watch where you set your expectations of you end with another Mueller. Thomas Hurt Mar 2020 #1
Yes...expect the worst! Sad many of us will ever be Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #3
Mueller did what he felt he could do within the law. nt coti Mar 2020 #14
If it's coming from any agency ... stillcool Mar 2020 #2
Worked on govt contracts. The only censorship I saw Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #5
Sometimes I think... stillcool Mar 2020 #11
My sense is that Fauci is a good person. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #4
Well stated MT! I get the impression he loves the Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #6
He has a stellar reputation, starting with HIV/AIDS - Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #9
I don't trust anyone connected with the fucking moron. BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #7
Me either. Are we hardcore tinfoilhats? Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #13
No, we learn and remember. Older and wiser. BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #15
Ha! Why Biden is so perfect....the pure antithesis of Dipshit. Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #21
There's a book..... dixiegrrrrl Mar 2020 #8
Thanks! Never heard of it..will look up! Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #22
I thought Trump was an asshole 30 years ago nt doc03 Mar 2020 #10
Think I've asked you this before, but how/why? Did you Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #16
I live in Ohio, I just remember him on TV "The Donald" always promoting doc03 Mar 2020 #17
You and your mom - very astute ! Jeez my mom was Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #20
I have the same sense... VarryOn Mar 2020 #12
Yeah, I get that from certain OPs and social media posts and whatnot. SMC22307 Mar 2020 #18
Yup..great resume. Playing devil's advocate ..I haven't Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #19

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
2. If it's coming from any agency ...
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 08:52 PM
Mar 2020

of the federal government, it's suspect, and can not be assumed to be factual. I don't care who it is.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
5. Worked on govt contracts. The only censorship I saw
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 08:57 PM
Mar 2020

was pronouncements from Bush to not discuss X, Y, or Z. The people themselves are great. Smart, kind and dilligent. But they HAVE to follow orders ( like military).

I can only imagine what it's like with Dipshit in charge.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
11. Sometimes I think...
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:11 PM
Mar 2020

by the time we get past the con, there won't be anything left but empty buildings. My imagination is not my friend.

Ms. Toad

(34,069 posts)
4. My sense is that Fauci is a good person.
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 08:57 PM
Mar 2020

I believe he thinks he is more useful public, as a whole, if he can stay in his position. So he is choosing to make very few corrections of what Trump is saying. But I think he has seriously misjudged how much faith Americans have in him - and becasue of this the harm his failure to publicly contradict Trump is doing to the country.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
6. Well stated MT! I get the impression he loves the
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:00 PM
Mar 2020

Last edited Fri Mar 20, 2020, 12:18 AM - Edit history (1)

limelight. Geez, isn't he tired yet? He's everywhere. Liking limelight doesn't necessarily mean he's bullshitting though.

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
7. I don't trust anyone connected with the fucking moron.
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:01 PM
Mar 2020

I don't trust the CDC either. They have all been muffled by tRump. I trust my blue state govt with this though.

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
15. No, we learn and remember. Older and wiser.
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:54 PM
Mar 2020

Last edited Thu Mar 19, 2020, 11:15 PM - Edit history (1)

Unlike too many Americans who have the memeory of a gnat and NEVER learn, even from their own mistakes that have harmed them.

https://images.app.goo.gl/WYWRA6jnSf9e1Gz2A

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
8. There's a book.....
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:03 PM
Mar 2020


About the Aids epidemic, written by Randy Schiltz, before died.

There's quite a bit about the politicizing and turf wars that went on
During that time.
Fauci does not come off well, in my memory of reading it 40 some years
ago.

Book is AND THE BAND PLAYED ON.

It was later made into a movie which did not do it full justice.

doc03

(35,332 posts)
17. I live in Ohio, I just remember him on TV "The Donald" always promoting
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 10:06 PM
Mar 2020

himself and his damn Atlantic City casino. My mother that passed away in 2012 literally couldn't look at him.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
20. You and your mom - very astute ! Jeez my mom was
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 11:03 PM
Mar 2020

all aflutter walking in NYC, seeing him, and saying the people actually jumped in the gutter because he and his entourage were walking by.

 

VarryOn

(2,343 posts)
12. I have the same sense...
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:32 PM
Mar 2020

But, he seems to be to very knowledgeable, passionate about his field, and has few equals. He also seems to be someone who doesnt care about the politics and rather serves the American people, not the politicans.i also dont think he'd sugar coat anything he tells the the president. He's supposedly a straight shooter. I'm a fan

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
18. Yeah, I get that from certain OPs and social media posts and whatnot.
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 10:07 PM
Mar 2020

Fauci has been "affiliated" with every president since Reagan. Of course he's "affiliated" with MF45 -- he's director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
19. Yup..great resume. Playing devil's advocate ..I haven't
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 10:57 PM
Mar 2020

heard Presidents Obama, Carter or Clinton come out recently and say "trust this guy".

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