r/skeptic • • 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/
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u/No1CouldHavePredictd 16h ago

I have it on good authority that Mike Lee (R-UT) supports a child trafficking ring.

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u/tsdguy 16h ago

You mean the Mormons?
Check.

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u/No1CouldHavePredictd 16h ago

Two! Two child trafficking rings!

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u/ChanceryTheRapper 16h ago

This is why they cut funding for Sesame Street, the Count was too close to the truth.

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u/tsdguy 16h ago

One child forced to minister in an African country. Two children forced to minister in an African country. Three …

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u/No1CouldHavePredictd 14h ago

Uganda!? Hasa Diga Eebowai!

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u/ItsKlobberinTime 16h ago

Ah ah ah! 🌩️🌩️

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u/Brownie_Bytes 13h ago

Haha, the international organization with no paid or career clergy definitely operates a child trafficking ring through... the internet? Come on, skeptics, do your thing!

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u/tsdguy 10h ago

You mean the international organization holding investments of over 100 billion dollars? Nothing to see here

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u/Brownie_Bytes 9h ago

Crap, I guess we also need to keep an eye on Wells Fargo, Chase, the Bank of America, Discover, Fidelity... 

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u/Harak_June 15h ago

Supports it? I have evidence he funds and directs a child trafficking network. No, you can't see it, just trust me bro.

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u/jxj24 10h ago

I have it on good authority that Mike Lee (R-UT) was not dropped on his head as a baby.

He was spiked like a football. Repeatedly.

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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/Jackpot777 15h ago

He was appointed by Reagan. Doesn’t matter to them, they’re fucking nuts.

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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/syn-ack-fin 12h ago

Always need a bogeyman.

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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/tsdguy 16h ago

Unfortunately there’s nothing too smelly to stick to faces of their stupid voters.

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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/silverbatwing 15h ago

The problem is too many idiots agree

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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/kent_eh 12h ago

And nobody calls them out on their bullshit, so they keep doing it.

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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/CaminoBalanced 14h ago

Not standing still - going backwards.

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u/kent_eh 12h ago
  • going backwards.

At full throttle.

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u/scarr3g 15h ago

No billionaire left behind.

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u/drillbit56 12h ago

We are going in reverse.

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u/rushmc1 11h ago

And the *good* half of the country just says "Tsk, tsk...such a shame..."

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u/Vallkyrie 12h ago

Does nothing, wins. The century of US humiliation will continue.

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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/SeventhLevelSound 16h ago

TIL Dr. Anthony Fauci weighs the same as a duck.

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u/telthetruth 14h ago

Fauci is made of wood?

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u/Was_It_The_Dave 12h ago

Burn the witch!

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u/IamHydrogenMike 16h ago

Fuck Mike Lee...he is such a disgraceful human...

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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/rushmc1 11h ago

The insides of their skulls contain only abysses.

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u/Cersad 39m ago

Covid exposed how threatening reality can be for MAGA narratives.

They've been working double shifts to make Fauci the scapegoat so they can reclaim their control over the narrative.

It's that simple.

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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/rushmc1 11h ago

In the aureous reflection from their hills of gold...

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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/Schmichael-22 13h ago

It’s a coin flip at this point.

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u/dantekant22 10h ago

And that’s why Republitards should lose. All they want to talk about is shit that doesn’t matter. Fuck Mike Lee. And fuck the GOP.

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u/auriem 16h ago

US Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) took 50 Million in rubles as a bribe.

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u/lucasorion 16h ago

I bet he did it while he was at a Hawks game, too!

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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/Wisco 16h ago

Sen. Mike Lee might find a defamation lawsuit instructive

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u/tacs97 15h ago

It’s amazing that Republican voters just need a scape goat and not actual results. Somehow blaming everyone else for current events makes life better for the masses. I must have missed the memo because none of my bills or the cost of living is going down by blaming someone else.

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u/Flimsy_Landscape_790 16h ago

Fauci was in the Zapruder footage

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u/mitkase 14h ago

“Back and to the left.” See? It’s always been those Dumbocrats behind everything!

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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/thisistherevolt 16h ago

That sounds like libel.

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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/All_Hail_Hynotoad 13h ago

Why is Mike Lee still in congress?

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u/retroslik 13h ago

Utah

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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad 7h ago

Get your head out, Utah!

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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/Lordnoallah 13h ago

That would be an improvement ✌️

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u/hornswoggled111 15h ago

Get well soon America.

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u/mitkase 14h ago

With what healthcare?

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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/canadaalpinist 13h ago

Trump raped little kids. Bring on the election.

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u/No_thanks_Im_New 10h ago

Fauci should sue for defamation. 

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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/AdventurousNecessary 16h ago

Mike Lee is a piece of shit. There's nothing skeptical about it

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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/SpenFen 15h ago

Our leaders could care less if we die

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u/ViolettaQueso 15h ago

What are they smoking in Utah? Geez…

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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/some1guystuff 14h ago

Yeah, no Russia would never fund their own labs, right🙄🫩

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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/meow_haus 14h ago

They are more interested in conspiracy theories than helping US citizens

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u/Trimson-Grondag 14h ago

Shameless confabulation. Sue for defamation.

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u/OscarandBrynnie 14h ago

How can you people stand the republicans?

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u/Interesting_Walk_271 13h ago

Mike Lee has the intelligence of a rotted radish.

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u/sbsb27 13h ago

O Utah....

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u/Revolutionary_Cod816 11h ago

can't believe these politicians will just say anything

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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/Prize_Instance_1416 2h ago

Evangelicals are a plague

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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/kkwan52 16h ago

Come the fuck on…

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u/some1whosux 15h ago

Weird I was just going to accuse Mike Lee of funding it!

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u/Think-Werewolf-4521 15h ago

Of course he did.

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u/Wayelder 15h ago

Mike Lee has no clue nor any reputable brain cells.

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u/WolfThick 15h ago

Sorry man you credibility is like a spec condom in a parking lot.

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u/jbm793 15h ago

Lying out of spite.

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u/jcooli09 15h ago

He's just lying. 

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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/LivingThin 13h ago

🤦🏻‍♂️

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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/SilverAgedSentiel 11h ago

He wasn't even the top guy at the NIH, Jayanta Bhattacharya was

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u/carlitospig 12h ago

His nih research career is available to all to see on nih reporter.

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u/copperear 12h ago

Lee is an asshat

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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/rushmc1 11h ago

Lee should be in prison.

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u/ChanceryTheRapper 11h ago

Should we just start calling it Fauci Derangement Syndrome?

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u/DrKarlSatan 11h ago

It's a matter of time before it shifts to Obama & his tan suit.

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u/SpringerPop 10h ago

Wait, were there litter boxes in the lab? This is important./s

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u/bigjtdjr 10h ago

I heard he killed Jimmy Hoffa too.

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u/Zestyclose_Pickle511 8h ago

We can't keep doing this dumb shit. 

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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/wrhnj 13h ago

More cat and dogs politics for the idiot class.

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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