Clown Car VI: Hello, Goodbye. On to 2024.

[bernie14]

Unhinged TX Democrats lose optics battle with feeble 'flee-a-buster'

First, Texas Democrats abandoned their jobs. Fled the state. They're the minority party and elections (we've been told often) have consequences. But no matter: Private planes departed Texas for Washington, D.C. On said planes, the super-serious lawmakers on a mission to save democracy decided to start taking and posting scores of positively giddy selfies on social media that portrayed themselves as spelling-challenged,

maskless fugitives

Sixth Texas Democrat in DC tests positive for COVID, and boycott isn’t going quite as planned

Clown car? Nooo...clown planes and buses

 

[Berzerker]

thats not good, fully vaccinated people on a plane and 5 out of what, 20?

yikes, I think indoor masks are coming back

 

[FriendlyFire]

Gaslight <---- we are here now

Fauci to Sen. Rand Paul: 'You do not know what you're talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially'
“Senator Paul, you do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you’re talking about,” Fauci said to Paul when the Kentucky Republican suggested that the US’s top infectious-disease expert had been dishonest about whether the National Institutes of Health funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. Paul effectively accused Fauci of lying to Congress about research in China on coronaviruses.

“I totally resent the lie you are now propagating, senator,” Fauci went on to say to Paul. “Those viruses are molecularly impossible to result in SARS-CoV-2.” Fauci added, “You are implying what we did was responsible for the deaths of individuals. If anybody is lying here, senator, it is you.”

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/...-about-2021-7?utm_source=reddit.com&r=US&IR=T

 

[FriendlyFire]

Clown car? Nooo...clown planes and buses

I loled

“Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?” wrote Trump Jr., who caught COVID-19 in November after his father, then-president Donald Trump, was hospitalized for the ailment

 

[Arakhor]

Unhinged TX Democrats lose optics battle with feeble 'flee-a-buster'

I would wager that they've only lost the "optics battle" amongst people who already oppose them.

 

[bernie14]

I would wager that they've only lost the "optics battle" amongst people who already oppose them.

I don't doubt it given widespread ignorance

 

[El_Machinae]

The actual grant applications could be analyzed by any biologist, and just tell us whether Paul is lying or Fauci is .... it's not hard at all

 

[FriendlyFire]

The actual grant applications could be analyzed by any biologist, and just tell us whether Paul is lying or Fauci is .... it's not hard at all

I though every single western country had already analyzed the virus to see if it was genetically modified for gain of function
Including the US back more then a year and a half ago when this was first suggested ?

 

[FriendlyFire]

Fact check: Obama administration did not send $3.7 million to Wuhan lab
The original five-year grant was reapproved by the Trump administration in July 2019
“The U.S. federal government checks whether it is OK to work with places like the Wuhan Institute of Virology. We never work with any lab or organization unless it has been preapproved by the U.S. government and/or its agencies,”
In the grant approved in 2014, about $133,000 was sent to the institute in the first four years and about $66,000 in the past year. In the second grant approved in 2019, about $76,000 was budgeted for the Wuhan Institute, though no money was sent before the grant's termination.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...tion-did-not-send-3-7-m-wuhan-lab/3061490001/

Thanks Obama

 

[El_Machinae]

I though every single western country had already analyzed the virus to see if it was genetically modified for gain of function
Including the US back more then a year and a half ago when this was first suggested ?

There are many ways to genetically modify a virus, it's mostly the amount of effort and funding required. It's totally possible to get a virus to gain function without biochemical fingerprints ... heck, that's what happens in nature, it's just harder.

If there was a devoted set of experiments designed to build something like our current virus, I'd not be surprised that someone could do it. But, you'd expect to see a papertrail. And in any nation that punishes people, you'd then expect obfuscation of that papertrail.

 

[Ferocitus]

Republican congressman bulldozes cannabis grows of Hmong farmers in California
A California Republican congressman released videos this week of himself bulldozing unlicensed
cannabis grows in a remote part of the state, a move local Hmong farmers say is likely to stoke
racial tensions that have escalated during a major wildfire that continues to burn in the area.
...
“I love the smell of diesel power in the afternoon. It smells like victory,” LaMalfa says in one
of the videos, playing off a quote from the Vietnam War movie "Apocalypse Now."
...
Most Hmong Americans came to the United States as refugees in the late 1970s in the wake of the
Vietnam War. Thousands of Laotian Hmongs fled to Thailand after the war before resettling in the
United States after being persecuted by the Laotian government for their perceived support of
the Americans.
...
Members of the Hmong community have also filed a federal lawsuit against the Siskiyou County
Sheriff's Office and other law enforcement agencies claiming that they violated farmers’ due
process and unlawful search and seizure rights.

They organized rallies last week in the county seat of Yreka demanding justice for Hawj and
protesting a local ordinance that prevents water from being shipped into the Mount Shasta area.
They say this prevents farmers from growing food crops and bathing.
https://www.politico.com/states/cal...-grows-of-hmong-farmers-in-california-1388879

 

[FriendlyFire]

You will NEVER GUESS in a BAZILLION YEARS where the trail leads.
This is the most hilarious of all outcome. The only thing missing is for the MAGAs to storm the lab looking for clues and get bitten by a bat.

‘Gain-of-function’ research: What it is and who is doing it in North Carolina
Gain-of-function research has been done in North Carolina, most notably at the lab of UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Ralph Baric.
Baric has used gain-of-function techniques to show how coronaviruses could evolve to infect humans and to test new vaccine methods to neutralize them.
the COVID-19 outbreak, showed coronaviruses in bats were capable of directly infecting humans rather than evolving in another animal first.
But even at Baric’s lab, accidents have happened, including a researcher being bitten by an infected mouse.

Gain-of-function research has gone on for years and involves experiments that take viruses, or other organisms, and alters their genetic make-up to gain a new ability. In viruses, this can mean making it more transmissible or perhaps more deadly.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article252922828.html

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Mousyman, Mousyman!
Does whatever a mouse he can.
Whiskers and a lot of fleas
Catches thieves, just like cheese.
Look out! Here comes the Mousyman!

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

*ucker Carlson's questions about January 6th answered.

 

[Takhisis]

Is your S key broken?

 

[El_Machinae]

De*initely one o* his keys is broken

 

[Broken_Erika]

US court rules asylum seekers must stay in Mexico
The US Supreme Court has ordered President Joe Biden to reinstate a policy of making asylum seekers stay in Mexico while claims are processed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58325228

 

[Samson]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58325228

But Mexico is about the safest country in the world, what could possibly go wrong.

I had to check, 13th highest per capita Intentional homicide rate out of 230 countries (29.07/100,000). Lesotho and South Africa the only countries outside of the Americas that are higher. Man the americas are dangerous places. Afghanistan less than a quarter (6.66/100,000).

 

[Birdjaguar]

I have Mexican friends who won't even go to Mexico.

 

[Takhisis]

Serious question: why would they?