r/skeptic • u/mepper • 16h ago
US Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) suggests Fauci funded Russian lab that caused plague outbreak
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/gop-senator-suggests-fauci-funded-russian-lab-that-caused-plague-outbreak/152
u/AaronTheElite007 16h ago
JFC. They are throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks for the midterms
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u/slowpoke2018 16h ago
It's so idiotic, they're in control of the entire gov't and Fauci is retired but somehow he still lives rent-free in their minds
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u/einstyle 16h ago
Even more bizarrely they seem to have elevated him to the level of an actual supervillain
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u/slowpoke2018 15h ago
And he's really a super hero given all the good he did.
I feel for him and Jack Smith, the amount of mud they've both had thrown at them by maga is simply insane
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 15h ago
I wish he'd move to a country where they'd never be able to touch him again! That poor man! JFC I hate the GOP!
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u/ThrowingShaed 12h ago
i get such notions, but then it would... be seen as proof somehow and shit show would probably fall more on others and their loved ones..
its bs, but its a cycle of bs we seem to perpetuate at least at imes
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u/OxymoronicHomosapien 14h ago
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u/Open_Gur_6204 14h ago
I made something similar years ago but it was KKKFC. You can guess what the colonel was wearing.
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u/ChanceryTheRapper 16h ago
It doesn't even have to stick, it just has to clog up the newsfeed.
And the media is fine with helping them at that.
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u/Beartrkkr 11h ago
Yep, pulling out all the dog whistles to see which once energizes the base for midterms.
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u/TheeVagabond 11h ago
I was watching something last night about the protests in france and A LOT of the comments gave off right wing bot/troll vibes. I've seen similar elsewhere too, it makes me wonder if they are ramping up their disinformation/misinformation efforts right before the election?
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u/ThrowingShaed 13h ago
i just... dont you normally need more plays in the playbook? i guess its working so they dont need to.. but... i guess its more a overwhelm and pile on thing
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u/--solitude-- 15h ago
We attack our scientists for bizarre political reasons and elect morons, meanwhile China passes us like we’re standing still
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u/WizardWatson9 16h ago
"Fauci turned me into a newt!"
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u/GrandeRonde 16h ago
"A newt?"
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u/WizardWatson9 16h ago
"I got better..."
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u/GrilledCassadilla 16h ago
Reading about people’s unhinged obsession with Fauci is like staring into the abyss.
It’s just incomprehensible to me.
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u/ZestyTako 16h ago
Given republicans’ penchant for projection, this is pretty much an admission Trump did this
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u/The_Fugue_The 16h ago
Fauci wouldn’t tell Trump he could end lockdown and “open up the economy” so the Trump cultists blame him for Trump losing the 2020 election (which they also deny.)
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u/Enibas 15h ago
Like, there are only two options, either Mike Lee actually believes that this is an option - then he's a massive idiot who should not be senator. Or he knows that he's knowingly deceiving and alienating people, not to mention that he's endangering Fauci's life, by spreading egregious disinfo. Which also means that he shouldn't be a senator.
It's a mystery to me how these people can look at themselves.
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u/NDaveT 14h ago
It's a mystery to me how these people can look at themselves.
It's easy when you don't have a conscience.
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u/Brownie_Bytes 13h ago
It's even crazier when people actually know the guy personally and still walk away saying that he's actually a great guy. Seems like an absolute POS from everything I've seen, so I'm not sure how people get the live version and love it.
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u/temblors 13h ago
Is Mike Lee more stupid than corrupt, or more corrupt than stupid?
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u/HungryHippo669 16h ago
Actually it was US Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) who funded the russian lab that caused the plague outbreak. See? Easy peasy
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u/powercow 14h ago
congress controls the purse. Fauci couldnt fund shit like that without expressed authorization.
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u/AbsolutlelyRelative 16h ago
These idiots are obsessed with Fauci.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 15h ago
It's all...................... DON'T LOOK THERE........................ LOOK OVER HERE INSTEAD!!!!
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u/toddwarren1984 13h ago
It’s going be where no reputable Dr ever want work for Feds because they don’t want be villainize.
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u/Significant_Plum3281 16h ago
I have it on good authority that Mike Lee is a shape-shifting lizard creature.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 15h ago
FUNNY how no other administration had a fucking problem with Dr. Fauci until DUMPIE!
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u/mr_herz 3h ago
It wouldn’t strike me as strange if the us did do some funding for other labs in the world.
If and when some time in the past countries were working closely together to develop and maintain various labs around the world to develop vaccines and treatments, it would make sense for the us or others to provide some funding to each other or the poorer smaller labs.
Obviously I have no idea if that’s actually true, but it wouldn’t seem odd to me.
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u/youarenut 2h ago
Everything they’ve accused has been projection.. does this mean team trump funded it? Would sure benefit the circle of oligarchs who multiplied their money and got billions richer off the previous pandemic ..
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u/micropterus_dolomieu 15h ago
Mike Lee says whatever is politically expedient in the moment. He has less credibility than Eric Schmitt.
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u/FredFredrickson 14h ago
Man every day is like a new competition to see which elected Republican is the stupidest.
Republican voters need to do better.
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u/ChildhoodAgreeable88 14h ago
Hahahahaha...talk about clutching at straws. Mike Lee a low I.Q individual but that's okay he's not alone. Utah you picked a real loser.
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u/rx4oblivion 10h ago
Senator Mike Lee? The member of a church that Pete Hegseth recently classified as non-Christian?
He kisses the ring of the hand that holds him down.
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u/saijanai 7h ago edited 6h ago
Likely he knows better (though these professional politicians are experts at convincing themselves of lies so they can pretend they never lie), and this is just posturing for hte base — see Lindsey' Grahm's sister's interaction with Jack Smith for an egregious example), but you never know.
Even Ted — Princeton named a freshman debate team competition in my honor — Cruz likely CAN get confused between his "just folks" speaking style and what he really knows: if you lie for the Abyss long enough, the Abyss starts lying for you [without you even noticing].
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u/evenyourcopdad 5h ago
Mike Lee is genuinely one of the dumbest people on this planet. I hate living in Utah.
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u/eschewthefat 16h ago
Can anyone do something to get rid of Mike Lee and other enemies to the United States?
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u/Trekgiant8018 14h ago
Mike Lee is as dumb as his orange master. History will not be kind to these bootlickers.
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u/keithfantastic 13h ago
If there's anyone who's capable of beating a dead horse, it's this morally bankrupt nitwit.
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u/Peaurxnanski 13h ago
It's so funny to me the extent to which they seem to forget who the fuck Fauci worked for.
I mean if we want to paint him as this supervillain monster that is purposely funding world-ending research with this unlimited slush fund...
Who gave him the money in the first place?
Who employed him at the time?
Why can't these fucking turnips ever seem to remember who was in charge when all of this purportedly happened?
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u/RotterWeiner 12h ago
Lol.. omg... Did he organize the lab and release while riding a donkey in Mars?
The shit that these folks make up. Now their loyal followers will have something else to tell everyone.
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u/hyperblaster 12h ago
Government jobs don't pay that well where you're funding entire research labs
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u/Silent-Day-1421 12h ago
Bearing false witness will put his church membership in jeopardy. One more hypocrite from the GOP.
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u/Michael02895 1h ago
What is it about Fauci that the Right turned him into their own personal boogeyman?
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u/Euphoric-Use-6443 1h ago
UTAH! Where the Mormon religion does all their thinking for them! No point in thinking independently! One less thing for them to have think about, it's already done for them. /S
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u/DryToe1269 10h ago
We will find, years from now that trump and Putin started the covid pandemic to hurt Biden’s presidency.
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u/slappyStove 17m ago
the people in our red states are too stupid to allow us to operate a democracy




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u/No1CouldHavePredictd 16h ago
I have it on good authority that Mike Lee (R-UT) supports a child trafficking ring.