Fauci: 'Stunned' and 'Dismayed' That Trump Supporters Booed Booster Revelation

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was “stunned” on Sunday that former President Donald Trump was jeered by some of his supporters over the revelation that he had received a COVID-19 booster vaccination shot.

In recent days, the disgraced ex-president has made headlines over his support for the vaccines, which has resulted in loud criticism from many of the MAGA faithful who have actively embraced anti-vaccine rhetoric. During an event he co-hosted with former Fox News star Bill O’Reilly this month, Trump drew groans from the crowd for both enthusiastically endorsing the vaccine and noting he had recently been boosted.

Days later, in an interview with right-wing provocateur Candace Owens, Trump rebuked Owens’ anti-vax talking points, repeatedly noting that “the vaccine works” while encouraging viewers to get their shots. “Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get it, it’s a very minor form. People aren’t dying when they take the vaccine,” he declared.

Interviewing Fauci on Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s This Week, guest anchor Jonathan Karl noted that after Trump was booed by his fans he “really pushed back” against Owens’ suggestion that the COVID-19 vaccines aren’t effective or safe. At the same time, Karl wondered if the ex-president’s supporters will listen to his advice.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fauci-stunned-and-dismayed-that-trump-supporters-booed-booster-revelation/ar-AAS9W5e

[Initech]

1. How can you be "stunned"? That's exactly who those assholes are!

[Hekate]

2. Glad TFG is turning around, but it's too little, too late. He created a monster, thinking he alone...

…could control it, and now it is escaping his grasp.

[HUAJIAO]

4. I don't think he is actually 'turning around.' He's just running in a different direction to escape.

[Grasswire2]

5. Biden's words allowed Trump to think he might be considered a hero for the vaccine.

He sniffed the air, his mind wondering where the MOST applause lies.

We can almost see his thoughts. Will people value and praise me more if I change my tune?

He is manipulable. Putin knows this. Every shrink knows it.

[bahboo]

7. exactly...

[HUAJIAO]

3. As great a job that Fauci has done, I think he is really politically very naive.

And very naive about human nature and who and what these stupids really are.

For they are stupid..

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from “After Ten Years” in “Letters and Papers from Prison.”


Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.

Against stupidity we are defenseless.

Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.

For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.

Full Letter at link.

https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/12/bonhoeffer-on-stupidity/

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Precisely

If he's stunned, he's the only one.
The cult is so far off the rails that TFG isn't radical enough anymore.
Tens of millions know this. How could Fauci not?
Perhaps "disappointed" would have been more appropriate.

[HUAJIAO]

8. This isn't the first time he has mis-read the public and human nature.

[Boomerproud]

9. He is a man whose world is very narrow.

He doesn't seem to accept how the outside world, including media, have changed for the worst. We need a fighter in front of the cameras who takes on the liars and haters. He acts like he just doesn't understand.