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Imagine if the Trump administration hadn’t thrown out all the documents etc. that the Obama administration had compiled. That could possibly have made a great difference. Of course Fauci and others made mistakes. Covid was a novel disease and they had to learn as it went along.

But the MAGAts loved the cruelty!

To be fair the GOP does have a humiliation kink.

Really impressed with Dr. Fauci. He is my hero. He is intellectually superior to every single person in that room and for him to plead the fifth was absolute genius. 

I have the greatest respect for Dr Fauci!

Everything they do is a disgrace.

I have been ashamed of America before but that display of GOP Crisis Actors was abhorrent and made me sick!

They scrutinized the wrong man. They should investigate Trump’s Epstein files. Epstein is not just a political scandal — it is a criminal public health issue. When abuse is hidden, protected, and normalized, it becomes a danger to the whole society.

What America has become is a disgrace.

100% Fact !

The Fauci Senate hearing was a farce, a witch hunt and an embarrassment to America ... No US Citizen should be treated with such disrespect by our elected 🤬'representatives' They work for us❗️ We pay their salaries‼️ 🖕🏽Republicans

Rand Paul was rolled by his. Neighbor for a reason Must have been one heck of a brawl Not a featherweight special His face was punched well What was it about ? Tea Party was the before MAGA of goon therapists going pro

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Anthony Fauci is an American hero. He save millions of lives. Nothing these Republicans say will change that FACT. You know, facts that used to mean something. Rand Paul thinks he will win the 2028 Presidential election, but he is deceiving himself. What an f’ing lightweight & weirdo

It was nothing but political theater. For their audience of one. Just another episode for the reality show. Everything they do is for attention, headlines, ratings. #performancepolitics

They were feckin disgusting. Like petty bullies, who are and were on the wrong side. But are trying to deflect from their leader's abominations.

We’re TEAM FAUCI! F*CK🖕rand paul!!!

The Two Minute Hate

Scalp hunting

Reminded me of Zelensky's WH visit last year.

They tried boy did they look stupid

Rand Paul only wanted the attention for his performance against a man who helped 4 presidents and Americans with the exception of baby Trump and his bleach suggestion to get rid of covid.

Trump and republicans should have been charged with negligent homicide for killing a million-plus Americans with inaction and lies about COVID. From February to June, 60,000 people traveled to and from Wuhan, China.

Trump's Retribution Tour.

If the GOP wanted to find a way to make me hate them more, and to dispel any thoughts I had that they had any good in them at all, they found it.

They failed miserably. #GOPIdjits

It was INFURIATING

Why on earth would you think you could question our top medical professionals? You are no better than any other ignorant GOP member. JFC

Who gets to question them?

It was humiliating to us as a country. They’re a shameful embarrassment.

And in the proces they humiliated themselves. They showed the world how easily they are corrupted by the prospect of money and power, and how they sell out their (inter)national credibility for it.

Republicans don’t have that kind of power. They humiliated themselves not Dr Fauci

Congress. Repubs humiliated themselves. In the face of truth, history&facts,they continue to attack&lie for their mob boss - who squeezes this spineless crime syndicate until they “heel” for this criminal. They are as treasonous as he has shown himself to be.They deserve Nuremberg Trials!

Rand Paul did this because Dr. Fauci humiliated him during Covid with facts and science. He's had a bug up his butt ever since. If he hoped to remove that bug by humiliating Fauci, it didn't work. Paul just looked ignorant.....again.

“R” for revenge.

What they did to Dr. Fauci was utterly despicable. I have been filled with rage for what I witnessed and heard. He did nothing but save lives for our country and the world. People were dying, and Jared Kushner sent all our PPE to China while our medical personnel were dying.

When you try to humiliate a good person who has done the right thing, you create a martyr, and if the person is as healthy as Fauci appears to be, he's happy to be a martyr and to have sacrificed what he needed to sacrifice to do the good he has done.

Attempted. They failed because he pled the fifth.

"Look over here, America!!!!"

It was performative nonsense by both sides.

Trump & Co. assume everybody else also acts out of deceit and lust for money and fame, cause that's their MO. Unable to comprehend men who act out of integrity and duty.

It was an unnecessary attack by a bunch of empty headed republicans.

like when MAO PARADED the scholars and artists on their way to prison or worse...

Adam why did you vote for Trump bills and policies over 90% of the time you were in office? You were my Representative and you didn't represent my wishes at all, you were an utter disgrace and this anti-Trump turn is even more sickening after the help you gave him when you knew it was wrong.

They should be prosecuted

Every person who attacked him better not go to Oncologist when they get cancer, or Orthopedic when they break a bone etc….since they don’t believe in it.

Really hope you end up the republican candidate for president someday. Might be the first time I ever vote for a federal republican politician.

Trump hates anyone with any bit of earned prestige.

Because admitting your gullibility killed your loved ones, is a redline for the weak minded and immoral? I'm guessing here, I don't really get it either. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #America

As a normal American I thought the Rs looked pathetic and thought the profanity was practiced. I was embarrassed that this is what they do to someone who spent their life in public service because they can’t blame the person who made the decisions.

I like that you quoted 'The True Believer.' Every American should read that book as it describes to a tee the maga cult. If you ask yourself, how can this happen here? Read that book. Bonus reading, Erich Fromm's, 'Escape From Freedom.'

They only humiliated themselves. Dr. Fauci is a selfless public servant and a brilliant scientist/doctor who has dedicated his life to helping people.

I think we are wasting an opportunity here talking about yesterday’s circus. You (you have tons of followers) should start showing all the clips where Trump was saying the virus was going to disappear in a few weeks, telling people to inject chlorine and all the famous unmasked people who died.

They way they treated Dr Fauci was disgusting. He deserves our utmost respect. He saved lives.

The only one humiliated was paul. He looked like a complete asshole. So he looked like himself

Are you really surprised? They acted like this when you were still in office as well.

And the Congressman with the dead rat toupee certainly humiliated himself.

The Republican Party has become nothing but Evil! I’m embarrassed to say I have been a Republican. I will now vote against anything a Republican wants to do for the rest of my life. We must hang this mill-stone around every Republican who supported this travesty. WE NEED JUSTICE! (Not Just-Us)

Denunciations reminiscent of Mao's China and Soviet "House Committees." Too extreme a comparison? Not really. GOP senators set a dangerous example for unhinged MAGAs. Some Senators called for the imprisonment of Fauci for invoking the 5th! The crazies have taken the rhetoric further. 

"Josh Hawley asked him what day it was & what color his tie & the carpet were." Hey! That's POS Josh Hawley! Haven't seen him since he abandoned Rep and Dem colleagues & ran for his life out of the Capitol on Jan6 after doing his part to help incite the violent assault with his raised POS fist!

It wasn't a humiliation ritual, it was an attempt at entrapment.

Yes it was and when we finally have our shit together and have decent people rep the Republicans and not mouth pieces for Trump/Russia we should bring them (Rand) before the house and question them and fine them or FIRE THEM for these clown court antics .. it's bullshit

Self-humiliation...

Correction: it was an ATTEMPTED humiliation ritual, in which they only humiliated themselves.

Absolutely and in the same time a big victory for Fauci!!!

The only entity humiliated was…

And a waste of taxpayer's money!!!!!

It was a distraction from Trump's illegal war, tanked economy, theft by him/GOPinsiders/cronies and the GOPs complicity with all of it you mean!!!! They should just say #ThankYouDrFauci Can't wait till the GOP is the ones in the hot seat being asked questions. Winter is Coming!!

Kangaroo court essentially

We had it all. A car dealer, an incompetent eye doctor, a traitorous interior jogger, a medicare fraudster, a cheese brained conspiracy moron, a knee pad wearing weak attorney who thinks m she's Perry Mason, and so on.

Nobody with an objective outlook bought into it.

He’s always looking for a new enemy to re-energize MAGA. First communists, now Fauci.

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The GOP has to be mean to everyone. that’s how they feel powerfull.

I appreciate Adam Kinzinger’s comments on the occasion when he questioned Dr. Fauci. That’s how those interviews should be conducted. Even if we are now getting shameful displays by these psychopathic, servile souls, it’s important that as many people as possible set the record strait. THANK YOU

but they all got their tv soundbites book deals coming! “I questioned Anthony Fauci under oath during COVID. I asked questions. He answered them. That's what congressional oversight is supposed to look like. What Republicans did to him this week wasn't oversight. It was a humiliation ritual”

“What color is your tie’” “What color is the carpet in front of you?” Don’t they get how stupid and petty that makes THEM look???

They may have intended to humiliate Fauci, but they really humiliated themselves. It was truly embarrassing to watch.

What I saw. Hawley who ignored his summons to appear. Saw Scott declare the 5th 100xs when arrested for Medicaid fraud Saw Rand Paul who is a Putin Puppet. I thought how Jordan, Biggs & Perry totally pooped on the law & Justice. Saw a debacle ordered by Trump who declared the 5th 450 times. I saw

Yeah and it wasn’t Fauci who looked like a complete plank by the end of it. Honestly, America, get a fucking grip.

"Humiliation ritual" sounds a lot like psychological abuse. That was Trump's upbringing; that's who Trump is. Abuse probably reminds him of home. He did the same thing to Zelensky during the stupid, suit meeting. Can't someone get some therapy for Trump?These hearings are like watching a psych ward.

I voted Republican my entire life up until the orange conman. Never again. Today's Republicans are anti-American, anti-science, anti-truth, psychopathic liars.

To be fair, trump & pals have to blame SOMEONE, so why not Fauci? In 2020, trump said ‘I don’t take any responsibility at all’ for lack of access to Covid testing & blamed Obama. And focusing on Covid & the 2020 election now in 2026 deflects from our current problems that he’d rather ignore.

The questions asked were not seeking answers but asked as an attempted character assassination. This display highlighted just how weak the senators asking the questions are. When you have no backbone, no knowledge, no class you do the only thing you are capable of, you attack.

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What I don't get is why MAGA thinks this was his 1st time in front of Congress since 2020. It wasn't which is why he pled the 5th because it's the same shitty accusations & the same shitty questions he has been asked time & time again. Someone ask Donny about releasing his taxes and watch him shit.

The total capitulation of the Senate has been breathtaking. I can’t believe I told my friends in 2016 not to worry. I was sure they wouldn’t tolerate his BS long. They went all in with the impeachment votes. They should be persona non grata when this is over.

Especially since he was key to our survival. He put his life on the line for people around the world and made life liveable for AIDS patients worldwide. Fuck republican bullshit as far as they were concerned the could die and they would celebrate.

Rand Paul is trying to increase sales of the book he wrote about Fauci.

Do you think that if the Chinese Communist Party knew there was a containment breach they would tell us? Are you that incomprehensively naïve? I call your Substack piece and raise you with mine.  open.substack.com/pub/mikemari...

A humiliation ritual that Dr. Fauci did not participate in.

Rand Paul is a disgrace to Medical Science. These vax deniers and their families and constituents ALL benefitted from Dr. Fauci's brilliance in the shadow of the MOST ignorant man on earth.

It was a Soviet style witch hunt.

If Rand Paul wasn’t an ignorant ass, he would have no personality at all.

Sub-human Republican Senators

Thank you Dr Fauci for saving lives. My family appreciates you.

And he was not humiliated at all...he went through the same ritual that MAGAts were doing to providers/staff throughout the country over their COVID BULL SHIT...

Reminded me of Roland Freisler's theater of public humiliation: Check out this video, "roland freisler" share.google/PNszSs2QgYWF...

THAT'S why the PUTRID, ANTI-AMERICAN, MAGAts hate Fauci. He shined a spotlight on Von Shitzinpantz's horrible response to the pandemic! Not sure why Rand Paul has such a hard-on for the good Dr. If there is or was any evidence of Fauci covering up for money,blah,blah, Paul would've been all over it!

Did you ask him if he supported gain of function research at Wuhan? I’m fine with how he handled the pandemic overall, but did think he was deceptive in how he answered this question in his congressional testimony years ago.

It was also fascist style propaganda

They're horrible people. If we were all like them, we'd be extinct.

They ended up humiliating themselves & exposing their stupidity.

Funny thing...the only ones who were humiliated were the morons asking stupid questions!

Pure distraction from the grand old pedophile party and their repeat rapist pedophile. Protecting the pedophile makes everyone of you a pedophile. You will live with that for eternity as GOD is the witness. As Jesus repeated hypocrites.

Agree with everything you say here, but I take issue w/ridiculing people who drove alone wearing masks. We did that when going to pick up immune-compromised friends & relatives, which is pretty much anyone in cancer treatment. You can’t let them get into a “capsule” full of trapped germs.

they seem to have forgotten that Fauci was an ADVISOR to the POTUS...he wasn't POTUS, he couldn't do anything other than ADVISE...Trump was the one who made and all decisions... ALL fallout is on Trump....

The chairman wrote a book about the witness. Guess the Chairman was attempting to increase his book sales for his own personal profit as well as digging for statements or evidence that would protect him from libel.

It worked. All Republicans were humiliated.

I don't know what it's going to take for me to internalize the idea that you are one of the good guys. You spent so many years being a bad guy. Then again, back when you were a bad guy, all that took was being wrong about taking care of people. Now, it's about whether or not democracy survives.

I'm guessing that the congressional Republicans are immune from slander lawsuits. How about all of the right wing television hosts?

Trust me I know that

They're in office for personal power and amassing of wealth. No other reason.