Fox News and Tom Cotton are now suggesting Fauci should be locked up

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

They are actively trying to get Fauci killed.

[JohnSJ]

1. What always seems to be missing from these conversations is trump's elimination of a key public

health position in China to help detect disease outbreaks:

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S

There really needs to be push back on the fox lies and misrepresentations

[Mad_Machine76]

3. +1

Never let people try to dump everything on Fauci or burnish Trump's image on COVID.

[JohnSJ]

5. It is infuriating

[Mad_Machine76]

2. On what charges? Have charges been filed?

[dawg day]

12. Charges? Are you kidding?

Trump doesn't like him! In his lackeys' view, that is all that's needed to put someone in jail.

[Throck]

4. SSDD................

[Lovie777]

6. I'm still a believer that the republicans are planning a coup ..........

even tho they do not have the full military on their side.

At least 98.9 of my friends and family feel the same way. We are not alone in this opinion.

[Haggard Celine]

14. I think so, too.

I do have hope, though, that the feds are keeping up with what they're doing and won't be surprised by them again. I think Biden has the SecDef preparing for it. After all, Biden's getting briefed every day about the latest threats.

[ananda]

7. Totally insane. This will backfire against them...

Just as it did when Fauci was in the Trump firing line.

[njhoneybadger]

8. There is not one shred of human decency left in these people.

They've become nothing but terrorists.

[Baked Potato]

9. Coupled with Graham's assertions that T***p would have won

if the COVID “truths” were known, they are spinning up an election year fallback attack against the Democrats. All the lawsuits were lost, the “audits” are laughable, 1/6 is horrible for them, Russia/Ukraine flopped, and T***p is teetering on full meltdown. Repubs are going off on Fauci because Joe Biden holds him up high. I think this one will just fizzle out.

Their faithful allegiance to T***p is only to keep his followers corralled and engaged. T***p energized a near dead Party and with him gone they are wilting faster than lil Rudy. Cotton wants to be Prez. He can’t do it with issues. It would only work with violence.

[dawg day]

10. They really are pernicious-

Fauci didn't get everything right in this unprecedented crisis. But he managed somehow to make it less bad than it would have been if Trump were entirely in charge.

And good grief, he's a doctor, a scientist. He wanted more than anything to save people and end this disease.

TRUMP DIDN'T CARE ABOUT US AND THE PEOPLE DYING AND GETTING SICK.

And Cotton and Fox News think (or say they think this-- they're completely disingenuous cynical perverters of even their own reality) that Fauci is the one who should be in jail, and that Trump should be back in the White House?

[brush]

15. The only misstep of Fauci's was early on advising no masks as they...

were in short supply and should be left for the healthcare workers. He of course corrected that once supplies were plentiful.

This whole attack on Fauci is to try to shift blame to him from trump. It's so weak and has no chance of succeeding. Everyone knows how badly trump bungled the covid response.

[dawg day]

17. And Fauci is so obviously everything Trump is not

Brilliant, compassionate, wise, and disciplined.

Weird how the right-wingers are so unerring in their horrific judgment.

[Yavin4]

18. No one on the planet got everything thing right because it wasn't possible to do so.

It just wasn't possible to gather enough information fast enough to make every call correctly. And given how utterly horrible Trump was, made things even worse. It's hard to imagine a worse person to be the leader than Trump.

Heck, I honestly think that Bush II would have been better.

[brush]

21. You're right. Our nation had the worst luck ever having the worst...

president ever in the WH went covid struck. He was totally our of his depth and bungled the response so badly it's almost beyond belief. In fact, most wouldn't believe it if we hadn't lived it.

And even W would've handle it better. His staff wasn't a complete mashup of nepotist, arrogant know-nothings and right winger incompetents. Not completely at least.

[droidamus2]

11. There game is

I have thought for years that one of the rights propaganda ploys is to do their best to make sure the left has no 'heroes'. When ever anybody rises up from the left a la Bernie, AOC, Omar, etc they immediately attack and lie and do everything to tear them apart in the public eye. From their point of view the left gets no heroes and the left gets no wins no matter how much it hurts the country.

[Baked Potato]

24. Yes, agreed.

[sarisataka]

13. Everyday I am so glad we allowed Cotton

To run unopposed. After all how important is one Senate seat?

[Botany]

16. Dr. Fauci is 80 years old or almost 80 he could very well be comfortably retired now but instead ...

... he choose to put his ass on the line to try to save us and the world from the C-19 pandemic that in a large part
was caused by D. Trump's greed and stupidity but these motherfuckers are without shame and or honor and now
they are trying to blame this nightmare on the man who has been working non stop to help us?

Good god in Butter! Fauci discovered the retrovirus that causes AIDs and when a French scientist wanted to
take credit for it Fauci was like fine take credit for it and then he went on to develop the "drug cocktail" to
treat HIV which later on became the drugs needed to keep HIV from becoming a death sentence

[Moostache]

23. Why not?

They are also the same people trying to blame the Capitol Police for getting beat up by 'tourists'...

Clearly there is no bar too low for them to fail to clear at this point. I am starting to study US history from 1835 through 1860 again, very closely.

[Botany]

25. The disinformation in America now is toxic and it has gotten even worse after the election.

Going after Dr. Fauci now is like what Joe McCarthy did in the 1950s in going after George C. Marshall,
the man who helped win WW II, and then rebuild post war Europe. We have had a 90% reduction in the
infection rate for C-19 since Biden's inauguration and yet "they" are fighting this good work in order to
pursue a political agenda.

Right now I am losing two long time friends as they being sucked into some right wing crap.

[OrlandoDem2]

19. Because that's not extreme. No. They're so mainstream middle of the road.

Insert sarcasm

[Vinca]

20. Those on the right can't grasp the concept that a person's thoughts on a subject might

change as more facts are known about the subject. I think they've latched onto Fauci as a target because they've failed so miserably turning Joe Biden into the bad guy. They're going after Kamala, too, which is really dumb since it will definitely cost them female voters and voters of color.

[bdamomma]

22. I think

that Fox and Cotton should be locked up.

[andym]

26. Their game is scapegoating anyone who does anything to oppose their hero: Trump

Even if that person is apolitical like Fauci. Fox News is their name and demonizing is their game. It's like Orwell's 1984 and daily two minutes of hate vented against current the enemy of the people.

[onecaliberal]

27. But that orange fucking pig who killed 800,000 people should be free.