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First there were the animal testing attacks which were awful and misleading.
I just saw another one even worse. Its a picture of a bloodied baby and accusations about scientific testing on poor immigrant children in the foster system. I don't have a link and I don't want to put it up here anyway.
It was absolutely awful.
Why now?
brooklynite
(93,873 posts)NewHendoLib
(59,940 posts)SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)I'm not sure why this question has to even be asked. They will continue attacking Dr. Fauci for the rest of his life, and they don't need a legitimate reason. Like the prior poster said, It's What They Do.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)other than the RW fringe, nobody is listening to that crap.
Doesn't reduce the danger to the man from some idiot buying the Qanon bullshit, of course, but other than that Fauci still polls pretty well, I believe.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,085 posts)A reader outside of the US messaged me today and asked me to explain the Rights incessant attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci.
From his vantage point some thousands of miles away, he couldnt understand exactly what was behind the seemingly daily hashtag campaigns calling for his firing, blaming him for the pandemic, and inventing all manner of supposed smoking gun evidence, that within a few hours proves to be nothing but manufactured myths than soon dissolve in the raking light of any kind of actual scrutiny.
For those not here on the ground in the States, its probably difficult to comprehend how we ended up here: how tens of millions of Americans and the lions share of one of its political parties has found a mortal enemy in one of its most respected public health experts, but its actually quite simple:
Antony Fauci has sinned against their God.
He had the heretical audacity to oppose their unhinged orange MAGA messiah, and that is simply not something religious zealots tolerate.
Much more at link.
Pavlovitz nailed it.
underpants
(182,279 posts)I remember watching this - Trump alluded to the Deep State - and I knew Dr. Fauci was going to be attacked from that point forward
leftyladyfrommo
(18,816 posts)The mandates are having a positive effect and the cases are dropping at least for now.
I don't know how Fauci stands it.
Bev54
(9,963 posts)yardwork
(61,418 posts)I'm afraid that some of the missing children separated at the border by the Trump administration might be trafficked.
Initech
(99,915 posts)And the next they hate Fauci for testing on poor immigrant children? I cannot keep up with their batshit and it's quite the steaming load.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,816 posts)just eat this stuff up.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,816 posts)They may have taken it down. It was really bad. It made Fauci out to be just like the doctors in Nazi Germany that were running experiments on children. It was something about tests in 2002 or 2003. Not all that long ago. I didn't read the whole thing because it was just too sickening.
There still is a lot of stuff on animal testing. Someone in Congress got ahold of that and is running with it. PETA had gotten involved.
That will last until it comes out that every medical facility and research lab in the country does animal testing. And most of us and most people's pets are alive today because of it.
Ohio Joe
(21,656 posts)Dr. Fauci has been the face of science and facts... Two things the right hates.