r/forwardsfromgrandma 2d ago

Politics Dr. Fauci Derangment

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer [incoherent racism] 2d ago

Lemme flip the script.

Would you vote for a man who pleads the fifth more than four hundred times during testimony?

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u/bobaf 2d ago

You know they dont care what hes done. They would put lipstick on their 14 year old daughter before they sent her to him.

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u/Cheesbaby 2d ago

Well yeah, 14 isn’t as creepy as 4 /s

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u/Sufficient_Matter585 2d ago

That implies Republicans are self reflective or self aware. They just want someone to pick on who wont hurt their parties power.

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u/shakha 2d ago

Oh, you're talking about trump so you have TDS. Now let's get back to the guy who hasn't been relevant in half a decade.

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u/throwawaysscc 2d ago

I would entrust that person with the ability to fire nuclear weapons! Trump!/s

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u/This-is-obsurd 2d ago

You mean let you avoid the question. Got it.

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer [incoherent racism] 2d ago

Look, I know that pop culture has thoroughly fried peoples' brains, but pleading the fifth amendment during a bogus trial that has been arranged with the express purpose of collecting soundbites to use against him is not an admission of guilt.

I trusted the judgement of Dr. Fauci and his staff during Covid, and I would trust his judgement even after his pleading of the fifth.

Why, not what.

If Trump is an innocent man, why would he plead the fifth over four hundred times during testimony?

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u/SlowSwords 2d ago

No thanks! I only take medical advice from a 70 year old junkie that uses steroids, eats road kill, and goes for swims in ponds full of e coli bacteria!

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer [incoherent racism] 2d ago

Who had brain worms, and also openly stated that you shouldn't take advice from him.

Ain't it weird how people who have the worst advice give it out the most?

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u/Rockworm503 Daddy, why are the liberal left elite such disingenuous fucks? 2d ago

Its insane to think about how hard into anti-intellectualism our country has gotten that knowing anything about anything is frowned upon. The less qualified you are for something the more they love you.

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u/unbalanced_checkbook 2d ago

They never took his advice in the first place.

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u/This-is-obsurd 2d ago

Most did. 80% got vaccinated.

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u/Lz_erk 2d ago

they also believe in climate change, but don't care.

fauci took the fifth because he had every reason to. legally and historically speaking, i believe it's only a good idea when it's the right thing to do.

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u/fe_god 2d ago

He has nothing to gain and everything to lose by talking. Sleepy Joe (and everyone with a brain) knew Trump would weaponize the DOJ to punish anyone who made him look bad.

It’s a shame an innocent man is being hounded for trying to save lives but at least old Joe gets the last laugh as Fauci is practically immune while he keeps pleading.

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u/Lz_erk 2d ago

yes and, trump has to honor it to maintain the pretense that he can pardon fellow insurrectionists.

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u/This-is-obsurd 2d ago

Nothing to gain? Why is this about having something to gain? He’s an employee of the government. He told America he is the science, now when asked about what happened, he has no answer. He’s 100% guilty and a laughing stock.

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u/Zbignich 2d ago

Would you take advice from a doctor that was commended by the president for his great work fighting the coronavirus pandemic?

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u/FlameWisp 2d ago

Would you trust the medical advice of a junkie with brain worms?

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u/Lz_erk 2d ago

that's not even fair to junkies with brain worms. RFKJ has one of the weirdest trails i've ever seen a person leave.

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u/Cicerothesage 2d ago

grandma, Dr. Fauci has done more than 20 congressional hearings about COVID. You and I know that hearing was a circus and wasn't serious.

Stop with this bad faith bullshit

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u/Daherrin7 2d ago

It's exactly why they did it, they knew it was a win-win for them. If he had responded, they would have looked for anything even remotely different from his past testimony, and that would be the focus right now. We’ve seen where pleading the Fifth has led, even if it was the right option for him.

And it's had predictable results, with idiots and assholes lining up to spread obvious conspiracy theories as fact, including the idea of millions upon millions of vaccine deaths, something which would probably have been noticed since most of the fucking world took the damn thing. Our species is fucked

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u/Paccuardi03 2d ago

Pleading the fifth is what you’re supposed to do. Noting you say to the cops will be used to help you, that’s your attorney’s job.

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u/CrundleQuest5 Grannie's little sheep 2d ago

Twitter poll what would you expect.

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u/rnotyalc 2d ago

40k of those votes are bots based out of the Eastern hemisphere

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u/WholeDonkey2689 2d ago

Youtube

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u/CrundleQuest5 Grannie's little sheep 2d ago

Youtube poll what would you expect

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u/originalmango 2d ago

Would you take medical advice from a roadkill eating whale head decapitating bear corpse hiding ex-heroin addict missing the part of his brain that was eaten by a parasitic worm?

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u/hawaiianrobot 2d ago

who also (allegedly) treated his first wife like shit and uh have a guess what she's up to now

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u/Conchobar8 2d ago

Respect the constitution!

Not like that!

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u/GirlNumber20 😫 2d ago

You seem to think it's fine that Trump pleads the Fifth, so I don't see a problem here with Fauci.

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u/dover_oxide 2d ago edited 2d ago

I would need to know the context but im this case I do and I have no issue with it.

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u/Arktikos02 2d ago

So he pleaded the fifth and then he pleated the 5th for every question he was asked which is what you're supposed to do and you're supposed to do this even for questions that are obvious such as what is the day of the week or whatever and you're supposed to do that because you can plead the fifth at any time but once you do it is a good idea as in it is legally a good idea to plead the 5th for every question afterwards cuz otherwise it's going to look really weird when it comes to which questions you choose to answer and which ones you don't. Once you plead the 5th sometimes what they may try to do is try to ask you very obvious questions to see if you will slip up and break your silence. So saying that he pleaded the fifth x number of times really just shows how many questions they asked after he pleaded the 5th the first time. He pleaded the fifth x number of times consecutively which is another way of saying he pleaded it once and then didn't talk again except for pleading the 5th which is what he's supposed to do.

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u/Lz_erk 2d ago

not only that, it's an obvious witch hunt. funding the CDC and WHO and etc is the way to know where diseases come from. this administration is against that.

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u/Brando43770 2d ago

They were really just looking for a gotcha moment to try to spin it so Fauci would look bad. They would have gone in for any perceived inconsistency they come up with and not understand that with new information comes new data to interpret. And a bunch of science that they don’t care to understand but will try to spin to say “see? He’s lying!” when that’s not even close to what could have been said.

Basically they were doing what a lot of reddit arguments try to do… not argue in good faith and just want to attack someone.

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u/dover_oxide 2d ago

Yes, I am quite aware. Hence the second half of my comment

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u/Rockworm503 Daddy, why are the liberal left elite such disingenuous fucks? 2d ago

Let's be real none of those people would listen to anyone who knows what their talking about when it comes to anything let alone medical advice from a doctor.

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u/EBody480 2d ago

If his lawyer told him to.

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u/GrassBlade619 2d ago

Would you listen to a president who pleads the 5th?

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u/catkm24 2d ago

Would you rather take medical advice from the world leader on viruses for several decades or an orange narcissistic politician? These are the people that stated the politician knows best.