Fauci and Other NIH "Directors" Have Been Acting Without Any Actual Government Authorization

A House Committee says that Biden failed to legally reappoint the directors of the National Institutes of Health, so Fauci and his other clowns have been exercising government power without legal government authorization.

As Jonathan Turley says, "The result is an intriguing question of whether officials like Fauci were operating without authority while spending billions and implementing national health policies."

Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced intense scrutiny in the past over his testimony denying any funding of "gain-of-function" research at the Wuhan lab in China. However, the most serious question now may be whether Fauci was who he said he was in those hearings: the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
On Friday, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce issued a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra that raises the disturbing question of whether Fauci and 13 other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institute and center directors were unlawfully holding their offices for some period. Not only did these directors make sweeping policy changes for the nation but, in 2022 alone, they awarded more than $25 billion in federal biomedical grants.
The problem is the 21st Century Cures Act, passed in 2016. Section 2033 of that act is titled "Increasing Accountability at the National Institutes of Health," and it seeks to achieve greater accountability by requiring the HHS secretary to personally appoint those directors. For reasons the Biden administration has yet to explain, it appears to have ignored the law, according to the House committee. Under the five-year terms granted in 2016, these directors had to be reappointed by Becerra by December 2021. It is not clear if this task was delegated to the NIH director, but the law appears to be clear: There is no delegation; it must be Becerra who renews such appointments.
CNN's senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, once gushed that when "Dr. Fauci talks, he's just like a regular guy." It turns out she might have been more accurate than she thought -- because Fauci legally may have been just a "regular guy" giving out billions without authority.
What is equally baffling is that the House informed the administration that it was presumptively in violation of federal law. What followed were convoluted and confusing statements from the administration on a very simple question: Did Becerra appoint these directors?

He seems to have not appointed them -- and is now attempting to claim he can retroactively appoint them, though, of course, the law does not give him the power to go back in time to make appointments.

Posted by: Ace at 03:00 PM

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1 "At this point, what difference does it make?"

They should get a stamp made up that says that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 12, 2023 03:01 PM (YqDXo)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:02 PM (7Q7Ca)

3 Not Fauist!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 12, 2023 03:03 PM (krqg6)

4 The fact that Fauci still breathes oxygen on this planet is a real test of my faith........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:03 PM (7Q7Ca)

5 If they were being paid, wouldn't that mean they have to pay it back?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:04 PM (brAQZ)

6 What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife at July 12, 2023 03:05 PM (Akywl)

7 So Fauci was like Milton from Office Space, except evil.

Wonder what color stapler he used.

Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2023 03:05 PM (iG1Nf)

8 The really difficult political question would be based on "You have only x bullets. Whom do you use them on?"

Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:05 PM (brAQZ)

9 If they were being paid, wouldn't that mean they have to pay it back?
Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:04 PM (brAQZ)

They should be required to pay back the billions they gave away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:05 PM (7Q7Ca)

10
I wonder how tall Fauci's statues will be. Maybe a giant one in DC, and then smaller ones around the country.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:05 PM (oINRc)

11 The really difficult political question would be based on "You have only x bullets. Whom do you use them on?"
Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:05 PM (brAQZ)

We're running out of ammo, fat.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:06 PM (7Q7Ca)

12 It's not like this is keeping papers the government wants back or something.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:06 PM (krQz2)

13 So, the "Chief govies" are trying to hit the reset on the Playstation 5, for a do-over? Again, nothing will happen other than a sternly worded letter. Kabuki failure theatre.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at July 12, 2023 03:06 PM (uia9V)

14 Respectfully, so what? Aside from the bad optics for the handful of people who pay attention to the collapse of the Republic, they just do as they please in DC. There is no penalty phase. I apologize for this outburst ace..

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2023 03:06 PM (PCK5/)

15 If they weren't appointed doesn't that FINALLY mean they don't have immunity?

Posted by: Iris at July 12, 2023 03:06 PM (n3DL0)

16 He seems to have not appointed them -- and is now attempting to claim he can retroactively appoint them, though, of course, the law does not give him the power to go back in time to make appointments.

The DeLorean Loophole.

Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2023 03:07 PM (iG1Nf)

17 The really difficult political question would be based on "You have only x bullets. Whom do you use them on?"
Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:05 PM (brAQZ)
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A: Fauci * x

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:07 PM (krQz2)

18
They should be required to pay back the billions they gave away.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:05 PM (7Q7Ca)

The US federal government's ridiculously inflated figures say that something like 1M Americans "died from COVID." I'll work with that number.

Given that the US federal government cooked up COVID and the whole thing is their fault, I'm comfortable with the US federal government paying back that many lives.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:07 PM (oINRc)

19
The DeLorean Loophole.
Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2023 03:07 PM (iG1Nf)

Cocaine cars? I'm listening.....

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 12, 2023 03:07 PM (7Q7Ca)

20 10
I wonder how tall Fauci's statues will be. Maybe a giant one in DC, and then smaller ones around the country.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:05 PM (oINRc)
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I'm for over 100 stories high, so long as they are on top of him.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:07 PM (brAQZ)

21 Some days you're the fur jerkin, some days you're the genital sock.

Posted by: 496 at July 12, 2023 03:08 PM (xsLlg)

22 So, at what point did Fauci’s tenure become illegitimate?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:08 PM (xTRSc)

23 I'd like to go back to 1968 to appoint myself to be under Barbara Rhoades.

Posted by: Blue Ribbon Panel at July 12, 2023 03:08 PM (T0tUU)

24 If we're running out of 155mm shells due to Ukraine's consumption how in the hell are those canons still working? Methinks this story is sort of fucked up.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 12, 2023 03:08 PM (D8mow)

25 Maybe the IRS should look at Fauci's finances. Oh wait, never mind.

Posted by: dantesed at July 12, 2023 03:08 PM (HyroA)

26 I wonder how tall Fauci's statues will be. Maybe a giant one in DC, and then smaller ones around the country.

Put one in front of new cemeteries, since he helped to populate them.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 12, 2023 03:08 PM (CwhoI)

27 So, at what point did Fauci’s tenure become illegitimate?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:08 PM (xTRSc)

1982.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:08 PM (7Q7Ca)

28 As Jonathan Turley says, "The result is an intriguing question of whether officials like Fauci were operating without authority while spending billions and implementing national health policies."
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Probably. Not that it matters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:09 PM (t0OGg)

29 Even by my usual standard, I'm pissed off at DC today. I wish I had just one nuke.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:09 PM (brAQZ)

30 No moar Dagos running the nations health services.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 12, 2023 03:09 PM (D8mow)

31 So, at what point did Fauci’s tenure become illegitimate?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:08 PM (xTRSc)
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Or legitimate, for that matter.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:09 PM (krQz2)

32 Please tell me that this makes Fauci personally liable for the billions?

Lie to me if you must.

Posted by: I need it at July 12, 2023 03:09 PM (sh1GZ)

33
Even by my usual standard, I'm pissed off at DC today. I wish I had just one nuke.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:09 PM (brAQZ)

I say if any other country feels like nuking DC - and just DC - they get a pass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (oINRc)

34 Not only did these directors make sweeping policy changes for the nation but, in 2022 alone, they awarded more than $25 billion in federal biomedical grants.
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So the NIH can hand out "biomedical grants" like penny candy to the tune of $25 billion, but we couldn't scrounge up less than $10 billion for a border wall...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (t0OGg)

35 If we're running out of 155mm shells due to Ukraine's consumption how in the hell are those canons still working?
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They actually want missals.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (krqg6)

36 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (zc6wW)

37 My buddy can't work at the water treatment plant without a license. My cop friend can't do a thing without his annual renewals. My truck driver friend with hazmat certificates probably has more responsibility than either. And none of them make more than $60k or so, and probably have no budget obligations.

I'm a tad confused at how this isn't a crime.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (HuIGj)

38 17 The really difficult political question would be based on "You have only x bullets. Whom do you use them on?"

Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:05 PM (brAQZ)
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A: Fauci * x

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:07 PM (krQz2)

You use them on the true believers. The cowards can live as they'll switch to your side and you can feed them from the hand.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (KbCG3)

39 For reasons the Biden administration has yet to explain, it appears to have ignored the law, according to the House committee.
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Because fuck you and your laws. That's why.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (t0OGg)

40 I have always said Fauci belongs in jail and for a long long time.

Posted by: vic at July 12, 2023 03:11 PM (A5THL)

41 I say if any other country feels like nuking DC - and just DC - they get a pass.
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Add Manhattan and I'm onboard.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 12, 2023 03:11 PM (D8mow)

42 34 So the NIH can hand out "biomedical grants" like penny candy to the tune of $25 billion, but we couldn't scrounge up less than $10 billion for a border wall...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (t0OGg)

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I thought all of our roads were in disrepair?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:11 PM (LvTSG)

43 Fauci should sitting in a jail cell with his bunk mate Bubba.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at July 12, 2023 03:11 PM (VMFAF)

44 When in the course of human events, what difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2023 03:11 PM (KAi1n)

45 37 My buddy can't work at the water treatment plant without a license. My cop friend can't do a thing without his annual renewals. My truck driver friend with hazmat certificates probably has more responsibility than either. And none of them make more than $60k or so, and probably have no budget obligations.

I'm a tad confused at how this isn't a crime.
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (HuIGj)

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Fauci is somebody. Your buddies are little people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:11 PM (LvTSG)

46 What is equally baffling is that the House informed the administration that it was presumptively in violation of federal law. What followed were convoluted and confusing statements from the administration on a very simple question: Did Becerra appoint these directors?
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And?

I mean, what are you going to do about it? Impeach him? Cut his budget?

Oh, so you mean that you *won't* do those things? And so why are confused about getting the run around?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:11 PM (t0OGg)

47
Yeah. The "Law". Good one, Ace.

Posted by: Auspex at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (j4U/Z)

48 Obviously the solution here is to impeach Trump.

Again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (Q4IgG)

49 The United States of Clusterfuck

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (krQz2)

50 He seems to have not appointed them -- and is now attempting to claim he can retroactively appoint them, though, of course, the law does not give him the power to go back in time to make appointments.
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Power is power. Law is not power. Law is irrelevant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (t0OGg)

51 39 For reasons the Biden administration has yet to explain, it appears to have ignored the law, according to the House committee.
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Because fuck you and your laws. That's why.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (t0OGg)

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In 3 years, SCOTUS will rule this unconstitutional but not $1 of the grant money will get clawed back.

Victory!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (LvTSG)

52 If we're running out of 155mm shells due to Ukraine's consumption how in the hell are those canons still working?
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They actually want missals.
Posted by: andycanuck

:->
You sure showed hymn.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (KAi1n)

53 Fauci should sitting in a jail cell with his bunk mate Bubba.
Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at July 12, 2023 03:11 PM (VMFAF)

Fauci should be buried up to his neck having his bones cleaned by sand fleas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (7Q7Ca)

54
The Party wanted Fauci in his position. It's right in the US code. If the Party wants it, it's legal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (oINRc)

55 The US federal government's ridiculously inflated figures say that something like 1M Americans "died from COVID." I'll work with that number.

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How absurd.

25k tops. Probably not even that. Probably not even 10k.

When flu deaths drop from 50k to five or six, those deaths were simply marked in a different column.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (HuIGj)

56 Sooner or later, several hundred thousand of These People must be

======remainder of this rant has been pigeon-holed=====

pity the poor pigeons

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (dGRTS)

57 Ha, ha...

This is funny.

Don't know if it's true or not.

Meme wars:

https://tinyurl.com/yc2nxw6p

Posted by: pawn at July 12, 2023 03:13 PM (wsHtO)

58 So, at what point did Fauci’s tenure become illegitimate?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:08 PM (xTRSc)

1969, when he entered government. The guy has been a fraud since day one, hence I call him fraudci. He's the guy who said AZT was the way to treat HIV/AIDs. How many people were saved using that drug for HIV/AIDs...? Not many if any.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at July 12, 2023 03:13 PM (uia9V)

59 Obviously the solution here is to impeach Trump.

Again.
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I find that strangely satisfying.

Posted by: Wm. Kristol watching home videos at July 12, 2023 03:13 PM (sh1GZ)

60 If they were being paid, wouldn't that mean they have to pay it back?

I think they should be personally liable for all of the $25B in handouts.

You and I can't just write checks to cronies on the Federal account. (Well we could, but would be prosecuted for at least fraud)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2023 03:13 PM (p8A+W)

61 HA HA HA HA!

Acting like the "LAW" or "CONSTITUTION" matters.

That's cute. We are ruled by POWER, not law. The "law" is just the barest cover for it.

NOTHING will be done about this because there is no law. It's a farce.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 12, 2023 03:13 PM (JMAcK)

62 4 The fact that Fauci still breathes oxygen on this planet is a real test of my faith........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:03 PM (7Q7Ca)

The Devil takes care of his own.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2023 03:13 PM (oHd/0)

63 And so it begins.... "Fauci was Trump's guy all along!"

Took far longer than i expected to finally get rolling.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2023 03:13 PM (9UlRk)

64 Everything for the State, Nothing against the State…the coming new normal..

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2023 03:14 PM (PCK5/)

65 For reasons the Biden administration has yet to explain, it appears to have ignored the law, according to the House committee.
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Haven't you listened to Wray? It's an ongoing crime, so they cannot explain. Come back in 135 years.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:14 PM (brAQZ)

66 Not only did these directors make sweeping policy changes for the nation but, in 2022 alone, they awarded more than $25 billion in federal biomedical grants.

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How much is that per dead body?

Out: Per Capita.
In: Per Capital.

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 12, 2023 03:14 PM (zc6wW)

67 Fauci is somebody. Your buddies are little people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:11 PM (LvTSG)

The maps in D.C. show everything west of Virginia and east of California as Munchkin Land

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at July 12, 2023 03:15 PM (dzZCL)

68 Oops! Oopsie!

No intent so it's all good

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at July 12, 2023 03:15 PM (6I2Cp)

69 Reminds me of the scene in Miller's Crossing, Johnny Caspar has essentially taken over the city, and is making all kinds of decision, including tossing the mayor out of his own office, so Caspar can better manage affairs.

At one point, there are two very Italian looking fellas sitting in the corner, and Caspar has appointed them to some office or another, and while the mayor is trying to stutter his way through the bureaucratic reasons why this might be difficult, Caspar is having none of it. These two fellas are now the directors of this that or the other.

That's us, now. Tony Fauci is the little Italian guy, along with whatever other Goombas at NIH there are, and while Congress is trying to figure out how they have jobs, the mafia boss merely goes about his business, not worrying about bureaucratic mumbo jumbo.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:15 PM (dGCAG)

70 Men of lawlessness

Posted by: Methos at July 12, 2023 03:15 PM (kOpft)

71 So, have we "entered" the WROL phase for the "elites"? Just asking? Not joking.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at July 12, 2023 03:16 PM (uia9V)

72 He seems to have not appointed them -- and is now attempting to claim he can retroactively appoint them, though, of course, the law does not give him the power to go back in time to make appointments.

Posted by: Ace at 03:00 PM

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"The future is known, comrade -- it's the past that keeps changing!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 12, 2023 03:16 PM (zc6wW)

73 That's us, now. Tony Fauci is the little Italian guy, along with whatever other Goombas at NIH there are, and while Congress is trying to figure out how they have jobs, the mafia boss merely goes about his business, not worrying about bureaucratic mumbo jumbo.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:15 PM (dGCAG)
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"Always High-hattin' me!" -- Tony Fauci

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:17 PM (krQz2)

74 Spent the night at a satellite Emerg Dept. Lots of tests and a CT. Diverticulitis with perforation. Now in the ED of the main campus downtown awaiting a room. Prolly tomorrow afternoon. I might get to have something to eat and drink Fri. Maybe.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf, on no bread, no water rations at July 12, 2023 03:17 PM (tG6OF)

75 Please tell me that this makes Fauci personally liable for the billions?

Lie to me if you must.
Posted by: I need it at July 12, 2023 03:09 PM (sh1GZ)

Okay. Fauci will have to pay back the billions. And if he can't, his hanging will be televised nationally.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 12, 2023 03:17 PM (BdMk6)

76 Eh, it’s a tax.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:17 PM (xTRSc)

77 Shouldn't this open them up to a vast number of lawsuits?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 12, 2023 03:17 PM (5xURv)

78 Oh, Fauci... won't see him no more.

Posted by: The Deep State at July 12, 2023 03:17 PM (XqIlw)

79 Even more adults and norms. It’s a bukkake of adults and norms all over us.

Posted by: Crazy to be sane at July 12, 2023 03:17 PM (YtQPB)

80 He seems to have not appointed them -- and is now attempting to claim he can retroactively appoint them, though, of course, the law does not give him the power to go back in time to make appointments.

Posted by: Ace at 03:00 PM
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Looks like Joe called it.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at July 12, 2023 03:18 PM (krQz2)

81 My buddy can't work at the water treatment plant without a license. My cop friend can't do a thing without his annual renewals. My truck driver friend with hazmat certificates probably has more responsibility than either. And none of them make more than $60k or so, and probably have no budget obligations.

That's OK, illegals can drive with no license or insurance. If you watch any dashcam YT channels you'll notice such things have gone way up since 2020. It's funny when Europeans comment asking how that's possible and are told that they're racist for noticing.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 12, 2023 03:18 PM (ZGrMX)

82 So, have we "entered" the WROL phase for the "elites"? Just asking? Not joking.
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We've been there for a while. There is a period of time after you enter that phase, before the rest of the population actually realizes it has happened. The people running the show started this shit when they tried to run trump out of office, and there was no going back after they rigged the election and jailed anyone who protested.

Posted by: EVERY G'DAM YEAR IS WORSE at July 12, 2023 03:18 PM (sh1GZ)

83 Even more adults and norms. It’s a bukkake of adults and norms all over us.
Posted by: Crazy to be sane at July 12, 2023 03:17 PM (YtQPB)
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It is a Soviet mass grave of adults and norms all piled on top of each other.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (krQz2)

84 This just in:

NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (7Q7Ca)

85 We're all built up with progress
But sometimes I must confess
We can deal with rockets and dreams
But authority, what does it mean? Ain't nothing said
'Cause Freddie's dead

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Also a shit load of other people.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (FVME7)

86 The maps in D.C. show everything west of Virginia and east of California as Munchkin Land
Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits

Then which state represents the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (KAi1n)

87 Chris Rufo put together a good short video on the origin, funding, advancement, and present state of the tranny ideology movement. It's a good primer.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3u8xd7

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (R38qh)

88 But the Karens approved of Fauci, and that’s all that matters. So, it’s all good.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (xTRSc)

89
I wonder what the actual motive for not authorizing it was. It's not something everyone just overlooked. There has to be a reason it didn't happen. But what?

Most of the time, the Kremlinology isn't too difficult, but this one is puzzling.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (oINRc)

90 So a rogue or two at the NIH, nothing to see here...

What an immoral and lawless regime.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (zkTrQ)

91 Given that the US federal government cooked up COVID and the whole thing is their fault, I'm comfortable with the US federal government paying back that many lives.

In a true eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, life for a life manner.

Leviathan could easily withstand an instant headcount reduction of one million. Would be a lot of chum in the oceans all at once though.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (p8A+W)

92 86 The maps in D.C. show everything west of Virginia and east of California as Munchkin Land
Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits

Then which state represents the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild?
Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (KAi1n)

And they still worry, because the Munchkins WERE Armed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (oHd/0)

93 He seems to have not appointed them -- and is now attempting to claim he can retroactively appoint them, though, of course, the law does not give him the power to go back in time to make appointments.

Signing something the next day is probably understandable. But not months.

Hint: When hour bureaucracy is so large you don't know wtf is going on...it's too large.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (e4fEA)

94 I think they should be personally liable for all of the $25B in handouts.

You and I can't just write checks to cronies on the Federal account. (Well we could, but would be prosecuted for at least fraud)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2023 03:13 PM (p8A+W)

I remember a few years ago the Government Accounting Office (GAO) was holding some sort of training or meeting or whatever in Vegas.

They spent something like half a mil on hookers and gambling and ancillary expenses.

Oops! So who does the accounting there? Who looks at the books?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (dGCAG)

95 To the angry letter writing room we go!!
- GOP

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (Rg4GQ)

96 Please tell me that this makes Fauci personally liable for the billions?

Lie to me if you must.
Posted by: I need it at July 12, 2023 03:09 PM (sh1GZ)

Okay. Fauci will have to pay back the billions. And if he can't, his hanging will be televised nationally.
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yes. . . yes . . . yes ... Yes YEEEs YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
*hammers table in the manner of meg ryan in diner scene*

Posted by: it has been achieved at July 12, 2023 03:21 PM (sh1GZ)

97 But the Karens approved of Fauci, and that’s all that matters. So, it’s all good.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (xTRSc)

Didn't People Magazine have him as 'Sexiest Man Alive' once?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:21 PM (7Q7Ca)

98
95 To the angry letter writing room we go!!
- GOP

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (Rg4GQ)

I swear someone has stock in paper and pens.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 12, 2023 03:21 PM (5xURv)

99 fauci. america's doctor. probably hasn't done any doctor type work in a couple of decades.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 12, 2023 03:21 PM (B1FKF)

100 The GOP won’t do anything about this because they and their cronies got a good chunk of that $25B. Not a majority but enough to make them shut up about it.

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:21 PM (Rg4GQ)

101 As Jonathan Turley says, "The result is an intriguing question of whether officials like Fauci were operating without authority while spending billions and implementing national health policies."

STATUS:
[ ] accepting
[ ] pissed off
[ ] really pissed off
[ ] burn-it-all-down
[X] intrigued

Are you not intrigued?

Posted by: Hands at July 12, 2023 03:22 PM (786Ro)

102 Iron Mike Golf, on no bread, no water rations

Oof.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 12, 2023 03:22 PM (ppBhU)

103 I wonder what the actual motive for not authorizing it was. It's not something everyone just overlooked. There has to be a reason it didn't happen. But what?

Most of the time, the Kremlinology isn't too difficult, but this one is puzzling.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (oINRc)
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This is one case where it's probably just simple incompetence. Unless someone TOLD Becerra that he needed to renew their appointment, he probably just assumed they were there indefinitely until someone (i.e., a new President) kicked them out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 12, 2023 03:22 PM (YIVH2)

104 He loved all the attention and magazine cover shoots. He even had an office shrine to himself....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 12, 2023 03:22 PM (bs+z0)

105 Leviathan could easily withstand an instant headcount reduction of one million. Would be a lot of chum in the oceans all at once though.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (p8A+W)

Conservative estimates of total gov spending (Fed, State, and Local) are North of 40% of GDP. That is 40% that creates no product. Mines no mineral. Makes nothing except friction to the economic system.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2023 03:23 PM (oHd/0)

106 This just in:

NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:19 P

Narrator: He's not wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 12, 2023 03:23 PM (FVJNG)

107 Are you not intrigued?
Posted by: Hands at July 12, 2023 03:22 PM (786Ro)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:23 PM (t0OGg)

108
The people running the show started this shit when they tried to run trump out of office, and there was no going back after they rigged the election and jailed anyone who protested.
Posted by: EVERY G'DAM YEAR IS WORSE at July 12, 2023 03:18 PM (sh1GZ)

Yup. The COVID lockdowns/Party sanctioned riots/coup was the Rubicon.

This thing ended in 2020, and everyone is now just trying to pretend this is still a functioning republic. I hope fewer are fooled by the shell game each day, but I think that's a pretty vain hope.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:23 PM (oINRc)

109 Even IF one million in the US died from Wuhan Flu, as a percentage of the population that is 1/3 of those who died of the Spanish Influenza.

And yet the US fought and helped win a world war at the same time.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2023 03:23 PM (zkTrQ)

110 This is like that guy in Office Space who was getting a paycheck years after he was fired.

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:23 PM (Rg4GQ)

111 In the before times, like 2004, a fuck up of this magnitude would result in some firings and some hearings that actually had an impact. Today, I doubt the story will make any of MSM newscasts. It is, more or less, business as usual at 1600 Penn Ave.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2023 03:23 PM (Q4IgG)

112 I remember a few years ago the Government Accounting Office (GAO) was holding some sort of training or meeting or whatever in Vegas.

They spent something like half a mil on hookers and gambling and ancillary expenses.

Oops! So who does the accounting there? Who looks at the books?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (dGCAG)
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Look, they had to experience shady shenanigans firsthand so they would know what to look for in other departments...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 12, 2023 03:23 PM (YIVH2)

113 i swear i remember fauci saying around march 2020 that no matter how many times you've been exposed to corona viruses in the past you won't have any immunity to this one because this is the 'novel corona virus'

sure wish i could find the actual quote. maybe i'll go sweep up for a while, back later, fellow gobbos

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (B1FKF)

114 Remember the Shirley Jackson story, "The Lottery"?

Why don't we do that EVERY DAY in DC?

Granted, 365 bureaucrats and politicians is a drop in the bucket, but at least it would be fun.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (brAQZ)

115 He loved all the attention and magazine cover shoots. He even had an office shrine to himself....
Posted by: It's me donna

Even Mueller didn't wish people a Mueller Christmas

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (KAi1n)

116 Didn't People Magazine have him as 'Sexiest Man Alive' once?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:21 PM (7Q7Ca)

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Ewww, did they?!

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (DRSnL)

117 I wonder what the actual motive for not authorizing it was. It's not something everyone just overlooked. There has to be a reason it didn't happen. But what?

Most of the time, the Kremlinology isn't too difficult, but this one is puzzling.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM (oINRc)

I'm gonna say Fauci was merely given a wide berth, regarding the legality of what he was and wasn't doing, so nobody thought to question whether any of them had any authority over him.

That, and Bill Gates and Co. may have merely said to whoever would have oversight, "Fauci is our man, he's untouchable," and everybody just nodded, touched their noses, winked, and went on letting Fauci go on stealing cigarette and beef carcass trucks.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (dGCAG)

118 Yes. An intriguing academic question about ultimate governmental authority which should stimulate much interesting debate. Hm. Hm.

These clowns.

Posted by: someguy at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (zDGjP)

119 Not to worry. The Eff Bee Eye will confiscate ace's posting time machine for long enough that Biden can retro-solve the error.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (mSaEG)

120 'Cause Freddie's dead

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Also a shit load of other people.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (FVME7)

You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/zFrz7sBWbyw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (7Q7Ca)

121 I'd like to see a video montage of all of Fauci and Co. appearances on the MSM sites after Dec. 2021, with chyrons below referring to the culprits as "just a regular guy".

Posted by: mrp at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (rj6Yv)

122 fauci. america's doctor. probably hasn't done any doctor type work in a couple of decades.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 12, 2023 03:21 PM (B1FKF)

He did an internship, and I believe a 1-year residency, and then off to the government. Yes, he has an MD, but he really never treated any patient as the number 1 attending physician. He's a fraud...

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at July 12, 2023 03:25 PM (uia9V)

123 Does this mean Sovreign Immunity is not in force? Or that Qualified Immunity is not a valid concern as Fauci et al may not have been legally placed in office?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2023 03:25 PM (xhaym)

124 No Controlling Legal Authority

🤷‍♂️

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at July 12, 2023 03:25 PM (WhX4C)

125 So the NIH can hand out "biomedical grants" like penny candy to the tune of $25 billion, but we couldn't scrounge up less than $10 billion for a border wall...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (t0OGg)

Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Snopes at July 12, 2023 03:25 PM (RilAR)

126 Not to worry. The Eff Bee Eye will confiscate ace's posting time machine for long enough that Biden can retro-solve the error.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (mSaEG)
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One BIG hole in that plan.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:25 PM (krQz2)

127
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Ewww, did they?!
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (DRSnL)

I seem to remember something stupid like that for some reason......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:26 PM (7Q7Ca)

128 the law does not give him the power to go back in time to make appointments.

Question: Is time travel legal or illegal? Or does it merely make an eagle ill?

Posted by: pookysgirl, asking important questions at July 12, 2023 03:26 PM (dtlDP)

129 Does this mean Sovreign Immunity is not in force? Or that Qualified Immunity is not a valid concern as Fauci et al may not have been legally placed in office?
Posted by: Kindltot

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Oooh, I like the way you think.

I'm sure it's a tax, though.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 12, 2023 03:26 PM (HuIGj)

130 So the NIH can hand out "biomedical grants" like penny candy to the tune of $25 billion, but we couldn't scrounge up less than $10 billion for a border wall...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (t0OGg)

Hmmm... wonder how much of that cash went to Ukraine Labs?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2023 03:26 PM (oHd/0)

131 Iron Mike Golf - sorry to hear about your malfunctioning guts. I have diverticulitis with occasional flare-ups, and it's no fun.

Posted by: PabloD at July 12, 2023 03:27 PM (rUCBU)

132
It was The Guardian, it appears:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTwK1S-qSfa/

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:27 PM (oINRc)

133 Fauci should be sued for accepting a salary without authorization. Would be nice if he was also sued for all the unauthorized grants.

Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at July 12, 2023 03:27 PM (zSyrn)

134 I remember a few years ago the Government Accounting Office (GAO) was holding some sort of training or meeting or whatever in Vegas.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:20 PM

Sunny places for shady people.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 12, 2023 03:28 PM (FVJNG)

135 Let me repeat a point I made on an earlier thread:

I will add that the Constitution bans "cruel AND unusual punishments." Not "or." Any logician will tell you that means if we use them on all the agents of the deep state, it's OK. Cruel, yes, but common.

We need to get on it. I had Wray in mind, but Fausti will do as well.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:28 PM (brAQZ)

136 the law does not give him the power to go back in time to make appointments.
.......

What if you lent him your time machine?

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2023 03:28 PM (v0R5T)

137 It's okay, people. Joe said he went back in time and fixed it.

He says he drove a Delorean there.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:28 PM (krQz2)

138 They actually want missals.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (krqg6)

From your statement, are you implying the Ukrainians don't have a prayer?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2023 03:28 PM (xhaym)

139 Part of why Trump didn’t get wall money is he didn’t spread it around enough. He went in thinking how can I build it as cheap as possible and as good as possible. That doesn’t fly in SC. If the cost is $5b you need to spend $20B to make sure everyone has a taste. Like the mafia.

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:29 PM (Rg4GQ)

140
Fauci should be sued for accepting a salary without authorization. Would be nice if he was also sued for all the unauthorized grants.
Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at July 12, 2023 03:27 PM (zSyrn)

Yeah... and it would be nice if he were knouted to the point of death by a Cossack, who then chucked him into a pit full of specially trained rape dogs, while we're indulging these little daydreams of ours.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:29 PM (oINRc)

141 Are people still burning Fauci votive candles?
How did this vile little man get so popular?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 12, 2023 03:29 PM (VdGjU)

142 141 Are people still burning Fauci votive candles?
How did this vile little man get so popular?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 12, 2023 03:29 PM (VdGjU)

Mass Hysteria

Posted by: It's me donna at July 12, 2023 03:30 PM (bs+z0)

143 Well, it worked didn't it?

Posted by: Fauci, pocketing millions at July 12, 2023 03:30 PM (gKzkw)

144 Are people still burning Fauci votive candles?
How did this vile little man get so popular?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 12, 2023 03:29 PM (VdGjU)

It was the media reminding the people who's ACTUALLY in charge.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:30 PM (7Q7Ca)

145
How did this vile little man get so popular?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 12, 2023 03:29 PM (VdGjU)

Because most Americans were raised by their fucking TV sets, and they do what daddy tells them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:30 PM (oINRc)

146 141 Are people still burning Fauci votive candles?
How did this vile little man get so popular?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 12, 2023 03:29 PM (VdGjU)
________

The 81 million who voted for Biden love Fauci too.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:30 PM (brAQZ)

147 No standing!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Hawaii judges at July 12, 2023 03:31 PM (FtJkr)

148 Could Trump have fired Fauci? Is he a govt bureaucrat protected by unions or does he work at the pleasure of the president?

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:31 PM (Rg4GQ)

149 Mass Hysteria
Posted by: It's me donna
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Induced Mass Hysteria

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 12, 2023 03:31 PM (gKzkw)

150 Are people still burning Fauci votive candles?
How did this vile little man get so popular?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 12, 2023 03:29 PM (VdGjU)

People are stoopid and follow the crowd like sheep.

See Fauci, Tay Tay and Pickle Ball.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 12, 2023 03:31 PM (XqIlw)

151 Then which state represents the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild?
Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (KAi1n)

Colorado
Their Lollipops are pre-loaded

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at July 12, 2023 03:31 PM (dzZCL)

152 116 Didn't People Magazine have him as 'Sexiest Man Alive' once?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:21 PM (7Q7Ca)

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Ewww, did they?!
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (DRSnL)

I bet his publicists got him that gig, or he got it the same way the actors get it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 12, 2023 03:31 PM (uaGp1)

153 Well, at Nuremberg didn't they determine Hitler knew nothing about what his minions were doing? Same with Fau-Chi.

Posted by: Eromero at July 12, 2023 03:32 PM (Uv0D2)

154 It would stand to reason that, as a NIH whatever official, that Fauci would have been issued a certificate of appointment. A certificate of appointment would also include the expiration date, or at least the term of the appointment.

Posted by: mrp at July 12, 2023 03:32 PM (rj6Yv)

155 GOP: Well, we must have hearings and commissions and investigations and meetings and floor speeches and subpoenas and hearings and commissions and investigations and meetings and floor speeches and subpoenas and...

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at July 12, 2023 03:32 PM (PWI4f)

156 This truly demonstrates power.

No authority? So what? Doing it anyway. WHO IS GOING TO STOP ME?

No one? Well then I have the power to do what I am doing.

Posted by: blaster at July 12, 2023 03:32 PM (pwExq)

157 Could Trump have fired Fauci? Is he a govt bureaucrat protected by unions or does he work at the pleasure of the president?
Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:31 PM (Rg4GQ)

He had the power to fire him, but was warned that it would've been political suicide should he have done it.

Because the media runs everything and the left runs the media so, we're f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:32 PM (7Q7Ca)

158 I saw the Rape Dogs open for Glass Tiger at the Ex in '85.

Posted by: good show at July 12, 2023 03:33 PM (iG1Nf)

159 So the NIH can hand out "biomedical grants" like penny candy to the tune of $25 billion, but we couldn't scrounge up less than $10 billion for a border wall...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:10 PM (t0OGg)

It's complicated.

Posted by: Mitch "the turtle" McConnell at July 12, 2023 03:33 PM (BdMk6)

160 155 GOP: Well, we must have hearings and commissions and investigations and meetings and floor speeches and subpoenas and hearings and commissions and investigations and meetings and floor speeches and subpoenas and...
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at July 12, 202

Don’t forget me!!
- angry letter

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:33 PM (Rg4GQ)

161 I will add that the Constitution bans "cruel AND unusual punishments." Not "or." Any logician will tell you that means if we use them on all the agents of the deep state, it's OK. Cruel, yes, but common.

We need to get on it. I had Wray in mind, but Fausti will do as well.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 12, 2023 03:28 PM (brAQZ)

Originalism. Cruel and Unusual by the standards of when they passed the Constitution. So Hanging is AOK!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 12, 2023 03:33 PM (oHd/0)

162 He did an internship, and I believe a 1-year residency, and then off to the government. Yes, he has an MD, but he really never treated any patient as the number 1 attending physician. He's a fraud...
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at July 12, 2023 03:25 PM (uia9V)

Licenses have to be renewed. I'm assuming doctors have to do CEUs, and presumably have to demonstrate ability to do CPR on a practice dummy every few years.

Can you imagine this clown going through that? He has flunkies who do it, one flunky to do the chest compressions, one to do the breaths, and one to forge Tony's name on the certificate of completion.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:33 PM (dGCAG)

163 The most transparent, honest, and law-abiding Administration in history!

Posted by: Members of the Lapdog Media at July 12, 2023 03:34 PM (AMIL/)

164 160 155 GOP: Well, we must have hearings and commissions and investigations and meetings and floor speeches and subpoenas and hearings and commissions and investigations and meetings and floor speeches and subpoenas and...
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at July 12, 202

Don’t forget me!!
- angry letter
Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:33 PM (Rg4GQ)

Sorry, we are waiting for the IG report...

Posted by: Administration at July 12, 2023 03:34 PM (oHd/0)

165 How did this vile little man get so popular?
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Please allow us to introduce ourselves we are people of wealth and taste . . .

Posted by: The media misinformation complex at July 12, 2023 03:34 PM (sh1GZ)

166 I mean Trump could have put Fauci in the basement and made him file papers all day.

It's funny we have to pretend Fauci ever had any power at all for our Covid response.

This clown literally costs us trillions of dollars.

Posted by: Blago at July 12, 2023 03:34 PM (cOFom)

167 On another note... Wray says there were no FBI agents at the Capital on Jan 6th... That's a certain lie

Posted by: It's me donna at July 12, 2023 03:34 PM (bs+z0)

168 Let us be realistic here. Anthony Fauci is a smug, self- satified little bastard who, in ticklike fashion, attached himself to DC and sucked on the government for his entire career. He has no particular abilities, skills, or distinctions that merit his position. He is an apparatchik who insinuated himself to a position where he could cause incalculable damage… all for his narcissism.

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2023 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

169 Blah Blah and I just love Dr. Fauci! Blah Blah said it was Dr. Fauci who protected us older folks from certain death with his skills and advanced knowledge of lockdowns and has helped us stay alive so we can continue to bankrupt this country of ours with medicare and social security, which we paid into our whole lives and want every penny coming our way.

Thank You Dr. Fauci!

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Democrat Boomers at July 12, 2023 03:35 PM (XqIlw)

170
Licenses have to be renewed. I'm assuming doctors have to do CEUs, and presumably have to demonstrate ability to do CPR on a practice dummy every few years.

Can you imagine this clown going through that? He has flunkies who do it, one flunky to do the chest compressions, one to do the breaths, and one to forge Tony's name on the certificate of completion.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:33 PM

They have some of those continuing education conferences in nice locations, like hawaii or Disneyland.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 12, 2023 03:35 PM (uaGp1)

171 Off asshole sock

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 12, 2023 03:35 PM (BdMk6)

172 I never got that “Sexiest Man Alive” thing — they’d name a new one every year while the previous year’s dude was still, well, alive. Never made any sense to me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:35 PM (xTRSc)

173 Oh, and I STILL saw people wearing masks at the college campus this week.

Very few, but they were there. Mostly black, too. MAN they've been brainwashed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:36 PM (7Q7Ca)

174 Has Trump fired him on a Monday, Tuesday would have been msm meltdown. But by Wednesday they would have a new shiny toy to go after and everyone would have forgotten by Friday.

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:37 PM (Rg4GQ)

175 173 Oh, and I STILL saw people wearing masks at the college campus this week.

Very few, but they were there. Mostly black, too. MAN they've been brainwashed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:36 PM (7Q7Ca)

Or felonious…

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2023 03:37 PM (PCK5/)

176 Oh, and I STILL saw people wearing masks at the college campus this week.

Very few, but they were there. Mostly black, too. MAN they've been brainwashed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:36 PM (7Q7Ca)
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Maskless is White Supremacy!

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:37 PM (krQz2)

177 BLS is doing all it can to head off any further rate hikes which will endanger smaller banks even more than they are

Posted by: REDACTED at July 12, 2023 03:37 PM (us2H3)

178 Oh, and I STILL saw people wearing masks at the college campus this week.

Very few, but they were there. Mostly black, too. MAN they've been brainwashed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:36 PM (7Q7Ca)
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Yep. We have a few professors (and students) that have been totally brainwashed into all mask all the time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 12, 2023 03:37 PM (YIVH2)

179 I never got that “Sexiest Man Alive” thing — they’d name a new one every year while the previous year’s dude was still, well, alive. Never made any sense to me.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:35 PM (xTRSc)

They'll come back and re-win a year or two later.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:37 PM (7Q7Ca)

180 Very few, but they were there. Mostly black, too. MAN they've been brainwashed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:36 PM (7Q7Ca)

They don't want to breath in any of those White Supremacist germs

Posted by: It's me donna at July 12, 2023 03:37 PM (bs+z0)

181 Off asshole sock
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 12, 2023 03:35 PM (BdMk6)
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I usually keep my socks on my feet, but to each their own...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 12, 2023 03:38 PM (YIVH2)

182 Very few, but they were there. Mostly black, too. MAN they've been brainwashed.

For a demographic that purportedly believes the government is an anti-black conspiracy they sure are compliant with government diktats.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 12, 2023 03:38 PM (ppBhU)

183 He had the power to fire him, but was warned that it would've been political suicide should he have done it.

Because the media runs everything and the left runs the media so, we're f*cked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:32 PM (7Q7Ca)

And Trump probably had someone he trusted, whispering in his ear "Fauci's one of us, he's a good guy."

No doubt one of those guys who are now going on television and saying Trump should be convicted of treason for having "classified" documents.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:38 PM (dGCAG)

184 Off asshole sock
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 12, 2023 03:35 PM (BdMk6)

It didn't come off.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (ppBhU)

185 182 Very few, but they were there. Mostly black, too. MAN they've been brainwashed.

For a demographic that purportedly believes the government is an anti-black conspiracy they sure are compliant with government diktats.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 12, 2023 03:38 PM (ppBhU)

But aren't they also one of the least vaccinated demos?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (KbCG3)

186
No doubt one of those guys who are now going on television and saying Trump should be convicted of treason for having "classified" documents.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:38 PM (dGCAG)

HIGHLY likely.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (7Q7Ca)

187 Retroactive?
Heck, Joe just needs to get that dial of destiny thingy that the Kathy Kennedy pedo-adjacent girl had in the latest Disney flop.

Then he'd go back in time, and do the deed (so to speak).

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (Rbu5d)

188 Off asshole sock
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 12, 2023 03:35 PM (BdMk6)
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I usually keep my socks on my feet, but to each their own...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 12, 2023 03:38 PM (YIVH2)
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Sounds like an innie.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (krQz2)

189 Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:33 PM

They have some of those continuing education conferences in nice locations, like hawaii or Disneyland.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 12, 2023 03:35 PM (uaGp1)

Epstein Island.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (dGCAG)

190 Oh, and I STILL saw people wearing masks at the college campus this week.

Very few, but they were there. Mostly black, too. MAN they've been brainwashed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:36 PM (7Q7Ca)
++++
The girl at the self checkout at Home Depot was wearing one. She stuck out like a sore thumb. Only person there.

And she is a young person, too. #permanentlyBroken

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (t0OGg)

191 172 I never got that “Sexiest Man Alive” thing — they’d name a new one every year while the previous year’s dude was still, well, alive. Never made any sense to me.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:35

It's publicist and agent driven is my guess. Whoever has a current movie they're promoting is going to win. The runners-up win the same way. Give my guy the win and I'll get you exclusives with my other clients. And gifts.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (uaGp1)

192 Mask wearing? The Tuskegee effect remains strong.

Posted by: It is known at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (Akywl)

193 168 Let us be realistic here. Anthony Fauci is a smug, self- satified little bastard who, in ticklike fashion, attached himself to DC and sucked on the government for his entire career. He has no particular abilities, skills, or distinctions that merit his position. He is an apparatchik who insinuated himself to a position where he could cause incalculable damage… all for his narcissism.
Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2023 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is THE SCIENCE you're talking about here.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (KbCG3)

194 So... open to prosecution? Without the writ, do they have any sort of protection?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (zZu0s)

195 Saw a woman with a mask on yesterday at Walmart. And $100 days she’s quadruple boosted too.

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (Rg4GQ)

196 Tbh unless we've reason to believe they wouldn't have been appointed, this sounds like a procedural hiccup.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (eYoxG)

197 190 The girl at the self checkout at Home Depot was wearing one. She stuck out like a sore thumb. Only person there.

And she is a young person, too. #permanentlyBroken
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (t0OGg)

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Was it a bedazzled personalized mask, or a shitty one-time use mask?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

198 I bet this was purposeful, to avoid the Congress having a chance to exercise oversight.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (xTC8T)

199 well, I.m open to moving the FIB but to Guam, no way

Posted by: Hank Johnson at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (us2H3)

200 No, no. The Sexiest Man Alive is Zelensky in uniform.

Posted by: Ben Stiller at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (v0R5T)

201
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Was it a bedazzled personalized mask, or a shitty one-time use mask?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

Every mask I saw was the shitty one time use mask, which was below the nose most of the time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (7Q7Ca)

202
I never got that “Sexiest Man Alive” thing — they’d name a new one every year while the previous year’s dude was still, well, alive. Never made any sense to me.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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I-uh, uh-I-uh,, th-t-th-think this is-uh,, is-uh s-s-somehow, about-uh,, about me

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (5hfjS)

203 the law does not give him the power to go back in time to make appointments.

tanned, rested, and read

Posted by: john titor at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (sGtp+)

204 This slender blonde in short shorts and a long jacket fully expects that nobody in government will ever be punished for anything:
https://is.gd/r5vuu8

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (t0OGg)

205 I never got that “Sexiest Man Alive” thing — they’d name a new one every year while the previous year’s dude was still, well, alive. Never made any sense to me.

Popular misconception. They sacrifice the winner at the end of the year. Then they raise them as zombies who serve the editor in chief of the magazine, who is Baron Samedi's right hand.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (ppBhU)

206 He did an internship, and I believe a 1-year residency, and then off to the government. Yes, he has an MD, but he really never treated any patient as the number 1 attending physician. He's a fraud...
==
Not exactly. Yes he had a 1-year internship. He also completed his residency which is another 3 years. So he is boarded in internal medicine. he never did a fellowship or additional training for infectious disease, nor immunology. He has a board cert if allergery immunology but its from back before you had to do fellowship training I think. Grandfathered. I ran the lab medicine - so I'm not sure how much clinical work he did. It would be hard to determine exactly, but it would not be as much as an infectious disease or internal medicine doctor who wasn't taking care of lab rats full time.

Posted by: Fauci is a psychopath at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (sh1GZ)

207 148 Could Trump have fired Fauci? Is he a govt bureaucrat protected by unions or does he work at the pleasure of the president?

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:31 PM (Rg4GQ)

Whether or not Trump could have fired Fauci is unimportant. What was important was taking advice from Fauci or not and giving him authority to do anything concrete concerning COVID. The Constitution does not state the President must act on advice from anyone.

Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (AMIL/)

208 Whatever happened to Scarf Lady, the other one who should be in jail?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (rLD7a)

209 He has no particular abilities, skills, or distinctions that merit his position. He is an apparatchik who insinuated himself to a position where he could cause incalculable damage… all for his narcissism.

That is an interesting new definition of Public Servant.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2023 03:42 PM (p8A+W)

210 Was it a bedazzled personalized mask, or a shitty one-time use mask?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (LvTSG)
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Fabric/permanent mask, but not bedazzled.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:42 PM (t0OGg)

211 Not a government official? No official immunity for you.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 12, 2023 03:42 PM (bNf8H)

212 Evil Fauci is another that UI can't wait until he gets to Hell

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2023 03:42 PM (xhxe8)

213 201

Every mask I saw was the shitty one time use mask, which was below the nose most of the time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (7Q7Ca)

Well better than a Hammer and Sickle forehead tattoo I guess…

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2023 03:42 PM (PCK5/)

214 Whatever happened to Scarf Lady, the other one who should be in jail?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (rLD7a)

She retired early and ran off with her ill-gotten goods.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:42 PM (7Q7Ca)

215 Effin' mid-level staffers in the Cincinnati office fell down on their job of routine administrative paperwork. We'll set up a Tickle Me Elmo file so this won't happen again.

Posted by: Xavier Becerra at July 12, 2023 03:42 PM (4I/2K)

216 Tbh unless we've reason to believe they wouldn't have been appointed, this sounds like a procedural hiccup.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (eYoxG)

Sorry but "I forgot" doesn't seem to be a winning argument.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 12, 2023 03:43 PM (AiZBA)

217 notice the list that G Maxwell was supposed to released has been shuttered

Posted by: Hank Johnson at July 12, 2023 03:43 PM (us2H3)

218 Scarf lady?
Deborah Birx.
Or as Rush referred to her: Team Scarf.

Posted by: I miss Rush at July 12, 2023 03:44 PM (Akywl)

219
And she is a young person, too. #permanentlyBroken
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:39 PM (t0OGg)

At that age? yeah, fer sure.

Mom's friend is permanently broken, too. But I do think for a lot of the Masks Forever crowd (Karen), it's just impossible for them to let go of it.

It was too perfect. An immediately visible indicator that says "I am a Good Person and you are a Garbage Person and the world must do as I say or I WILL GO TO THE WORLD'S MANAGER RIGHT NOW!"

That shining moment, Karen's halcyon Day of Wine & More Wine, may have passed - but she can put on the mask and remember the good times.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:44 PM (oINRc)

220 What was important was taking advice from Fauci or not and giving him authority to do anything concrete concerning COVID. The Constitution does not state the President must act on advice from anyone.
Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (AMIL/)

A most excellent point.

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:44 PM (Rg4GQ)

221 I took my dad to the doctor yesterday. The nurse would pull her paper mask back up over her nose every minute or so.

Posted by: fd 6.4.0beta at July 12, 2023 03:44 PM (iayUP)

222 148 Could Trump have fired Fauci? Is he a govt bureaucrat protected by unions or does he work at the pleasure of the president?
Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:31 PM (Rg4GQ)

He wasn't fireable from being director at NIAID. He might've had some other hat that was removeable.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:44 PM (eYoxG)

223 This country, in fact the whole "Western World", has mutated into a weird Nazi/Mafia/Spook hybrid that still pretends to be what it was so that perhaps the dull normals won't catch on yet

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 12, 2023 03:45 PM (JV1D2)

224 notice the list that G Maxwell was supposed to released has been shuttered

I think the WH is using it to send out invitations to the next large scale WH party.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2023 03:45 PM (p8A+W)

225 219 That shining moment, Karen's halcyon Day of Wine & More Wine, may have passed - but she can put on the mask and remember the good times.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 03:44 PM (oINRc)

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"And if we give them abortion on demand, maybe they'll vote for us!"
-The GOP

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:45 PM (LvTSG)

226 Posted by: Fauci is a psychopath at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (sh1GZ)
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thank you for those facts

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 12, 2023 03:45 PM (xTC8T)

227 I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts! It wasn't my fault! I swear to God!

Posted by: Xavier Becerra at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (4I/2K)

228 You can’t fire me, I don’t even really work here!

- Dr. Fauci the Science

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (JTwsP)

229 Appointments are just a formality. Chill people. It's fine.

- Some junta mouthpiece tomorrow

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (Q4IgG)

230 Fauci is an evil troll.

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (PzBTm)

231 Don't these agencies have legal oversight on site? Like lawyers and shit to make sure the t's are crossed and i's dotted?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (0chEi)

232 Billion$, eh?

If fauci had a lockbox and hand to literally handout the money with gnome like claws the criminal aspects would be obvious.,.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (ak8qn)

233

There was a glitch in the payroll department.

Let 'em keep their red staplers.

Posted by: Auspex at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (j4U/Z)

234 Tbh unless we've reason to believe they wouldn't have been appointed, this sounds like a procedural hiccup.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (eYoxG)

Then all of government is a "procedural hiccup." Those in positions of power are only elected, nominated and confirmed, or appointed, with some level of oversight, somewhere that leads back to the people.

If this guy can hold this job, doing this much damage to the country, and it's merely a "procedural hiccup," then it becomes essentially Stalin's dictum: One death, a tragedy. A million deaths, a statistic.

And we're all just one nod away from being taken out of our homes at night, tried in secret, sentenced, and walked down to a basement room with a drain in the center of the floor... ultimately followed with a bill being sent to our relatives for the bullet.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (dGCAG)

235 Wakes up from nap. Ah geesh. Fauci. Biden. What illegal shit have they been up to today? Fauci, acting with out authority, handed out how much money? Geesh. Because Biden is complete fuck up? Geesh. I am going to the pub.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (jpYnl)

236 I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts! It wasn't my fault! I swear to God!
Posted by: Xavier Becerra at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (4I/2K)
++++
Always perfect.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (t0OGg)

237 Does this mean Sovreign Immunity is not in force? Or that Qualified Immunity is not a valid concern as Fauci et al may not have been legally placed in office?
Posted by: Kindltot

Now THAT's an intriguing question!

Posted by: Earl Scheib at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (cPGH3)

238 So Michigan is one step closer:

The House Elections Committee in Lansing recently approved House Bill 156, legislation which would enroll Michigan in the so-called “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,” which could soon be taken up on the House Floor.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (5xURv)

239 My neighbors on both sides of me are bigly big liberals. But oddly enough neither of them did the mask or general isolation thing for too long. I found that interesting.

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (Rg4GQ)

240 Tranheuser-Busch update:

Costco stores not planning to restock Bud Light once cases on hand are sold out.

https://tinyurl.com/2eu2v7ck

Posted by: Dr. T at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (jGGMD)

241 228 You can’t fire me, I don’t even really work here!

- Dr. Fauci the Science
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (JTwsP)

That's what makes this so hard.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (KbCG3)

242 The Constitution does not state the President must act on advice from anyone.

Nor does the Constitution state the President can act out on such advice no matter the origin.

The President does not have authority over the daily lives of anyone. He had zero authority to mandate lockdowns, masks, social distancing or vaxxing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (p8A+W)

243 The old days, when you would see the paper petri dishes known as masks floating through the skies, entangled in the trees. One of the sleazier Indian Casinos in the area had a big receptacle for them outside the door. When overflowing, it remained overflowing, allowing the breezes to decorate the area. It was also one of those giant trash cans with the ashtray on top, and all the local hobos would snag totally not contaminated butts from it. They should have studied the urban outdoorsmen for immunity.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 12, 2023 03:48 PM (rLD7a)

244 216 Tbh unless we've reason to believe they wouldn't have been appointed, this sounds like a procedural hiccup.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:40 PM (eYoxG)

Sorry but "I forgot" doesn't seem to be a winning argument.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 12, 2023 03:43 PM (AiZBA)

It's the difference between "failed to file all appropriate paperwork" and "fraud". So makes a big difference money-wise or accountability-wise.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:48 PM (eYoxG)

245 I am going to the pub.
Posted by: Lost In Space at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (jpYnl)

Wish I could. Dell is still here, accomplishing nothing. Not the tech on site's fault, but.......4 hours and counting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:48 PM (7Q7Ca)

246 Karen's halcyon Day of Wine & More Wine, may have passed - but she can put on the mask and remember the good times.
==
Hey, that's a lot of pathos. Like Tolstoy or Brecht.

Posted by: And truth at July 12, 2023 03:48 PM (sh1GZ)

247 I am sure the medical field have all been brainwashed, see off duty medical ( from what they are wearing) and often they are still masked up
Heros work there

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2023 03:49 PM (xhxe8)

248 Don't these agencies have legal oversight on site? Like lawyers and shit to make sure the t's are crossed and i's dotted?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (0chEi)
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You know they do. That's why I think this was done on purpose, and to avoid the oversight circus.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 12, 2023 03:49 PM (xTC8T)

249 Sorry but "I forgot" doesn't seem to be a winning argument.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 12, 2023 03:43 PM (AiZBA)

It's the difference between "failed to file all appropriate paperwork" and "fraud". So makes a big difference money-wise or accountability-wise.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Unless the rethuglicans are gonna get off their asses and start executing people, it's just mental masturbation.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2023 03:49 PM (mcv3z)

250 Bercerra isn't even a citizen.
Republicans are the stupid party.

Posted by: torabora at July 12, 2023 03:50 PM (OUiUM)

251 https://tinyurl.com/2eu2v7ck
Posted by: Dr. T at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (jGGMD)

Costco is making me fear for my life. The only answer is a trip to the Bahamas to swim with the dolphins*, H8RZ!

*and give the dolphins monkeypox of course

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at July 12, 2023 03:50 PM (oINRc)

252 Come on, Ace -- you need to be unburdened by what has been

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2023 03:50 PM (StUJj)

253 Does this mean Sovreign Immunity is not in force? Or that Qualified Immunity is not a valid concern as Fauci et al may not have been legally placed in office?
Posted by: Kindltot

Now THAT's an intriguing question!
Posted by: Earl Scheib at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (cPGH3)
====================
$29 buys you a shiny new lawsuit! Come on down!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 12, 2023 03:51 PM (xTC8T)

254 But dancing nurses!

Posted by: Good times at July 12, 2023 03:51 PM (Akywl)

255 Don't these agencies have legal oversight on site? Like lawyers and shit to make sure the t's are crossed and i's dotted?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (0chEi)
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You know they do. That's why I think this was done on purpose, and to avoid the oversight circus.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

They know it. They know we know it. They are standing there effectively saying, "what are you going to do about it?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2023 03:51 PM (mcv3z)

256 It's the difference between "failed to file all appropriate paperwork" and "fraud". So makes a big difference money-wise or accountability-wise.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:48 PM (eYoxG)

I think we all know which one of the two this will be filed.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 12, 2023 03:51 PM (BdMk6)

257 Chris Rufo put together a good short video on the origin, funding, advancement, and present state of the tranny ideology movement. It's a good primer.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3u8xd7
Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (R38qh)
******
Excellent video.
Chris Rufo does great work.

If only the people of Illinois knew what they were voting for when they elected Pritzker.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2023 03:51 PM (NpAcC)

258 256 It's the difference between "failed to file all appropriate paperwork" and "fraud". So makes a big difference money-wise or accountability-wise.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:48 PM (eYoxG)

I think we all know which one of the two this will be filed.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 12, 2023 03:51 PM (BdMk6)

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"No malicious intent."
-The DOJ and every court

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:52 PM (LvTSG)

259 Thanks, Pablo. It's new to me.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf, on no bread, no water rations at July 12, 2023 03:52 PM (tG6OF)

260 Dang.
Forgot I had that ugly sock on...

Posted by: MkY at July 12, 2023 03:52 PM (cPGH3)

261 I know, too much time in the Indian Casinos, but I was black booked at one for improper mask wear (and maybe telling the tribal cop he was looking for an excuse to use that Glock). Good times. The exposed nose knows.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 12, 2023 03:52 PM (rLD7a)

262 Costco stores not planning to restock Bud Light once cases on hand are sold out.

https://tinyurl.com/2eu2v7ck
Posted by: Dr. T at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (jGGMD)

So, sometime in 2026?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:52 PM (dGCAG)

263 262 Costco stores not planning to restock Bud Light once cases on hand are sold out.

https://tinyurl.com/2eu2v7ck
Posted by: Dr. T at July 12, 2023 03:47 PM (jGGMD)

So, sometime in 2026?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:52 PM (dGCAG)

Probably once they hit sale by date.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 12, 2023 03:53 PM (5xURv)

264 Would not the people who ctually dispersed the funds also have committed a crime?

As well as those who received the stolen funds.

I keed. I keed.

Posted by: Not a fed at July 12, 2023 03:53 PM (m9Acq)

265
Evil Fauci is another that UI can't wait until he gets to Hell

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2023 03:42 PM

Here you go, from American Thinker:

Recall that Abu-Jumal was initially sentenced to death but managed, after intense lobbying, to get his sentence commuted to life in prison without parole. Only a presidential pardon can get him out. Obama is his last and only chance.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014
/10/will_obama_pardon_copkiller_mumia.html

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 12, 2023 03:53 PM (enJYY)

266 248 Don't these agencies have legal oversight on site? Like lawyers and shit to make sure the t's are crossed and i's dotted?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 12, 2023 03:46 PM (0chEi)
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You know they do. That's why I think this was done on purpose, and to avoid the oversight circus.
------------
True, but the axe now falls on the lawyers with one job to do, rite?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 12, 2023 03:53 PM (DmtxH)

267 Come on, Ace -- you need to be unburdened by what has been
Posted by: Doof
==
If the vice president of the united states was kneeling at his feet offering a free "unburdening" ACE would resolutely refuse, pointing to his shelf of power and say that all his old records will stay on the shelf until further notice.

Posted by: So, there's that at July 12, 2023 03:54 PM (sh1GZ)

268 If only the people of Illinois knew what they were voting for when they elected Pritzker.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2023 03:51 PM (NpAcC)
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Take one good look at it/him and anyone with a brain had to know they were voting for the apocalypse.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 12, 2023 03:54 PM (xTC8T)

269
If only the people of Illinois knew what they were voting for when they elected Pritzker.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2023 03:51 PM (NpAcC)

HA! The only way they wouldn't have elected him is if he ran as a Republican.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2023 03:54 PM (7Q7Ca)

270 Yeah. The "Law". Good one, Ace.
Posted by: Auspex at July 12, 2023 03:12 PM (j4U/Z)

Agree. The way Ace wrote that I thought he-- for just quick moment--was serious.
The 'law' left town and ain't coming back until the Marxist ballot manufacturing and selection-election process is defeated..
. .

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 12, 2023 03:54 PM (7nmJa)

271 But aren't they also one of the least vaccinated demos?

If you believe the CDC's data (but why should we?), the difference between whites and blacks isn't all that much:

https://tinyurl.com/4xucymx5

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 12, 2023 03:55 PM (ppBhU)

272 I still don’t quite understand this. Fauci was legally appointed to the position back in the eighties, right? Then, in 2016, Congress passed this law that said he had to be reappointed by the HHS Secretary by 2021, right? So, at the height of the scandemic in 2020, he was still legally in his position, and only started occupying it illegally at some point in 2021, by which time he had already committed most of his villainous acts.

So, I’m not really getting what all the fuss is about here. What am I missing?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:55 PM (xTRSc)

273
Anyone who buys Bud Light after it's 'sell-by' date deserves the explosive diarrhea sure to result. Which (looks at watch) is rapidly approaching.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 12, 2023 03:55 PM (enJYY)

274
Not to worry. The Eff Bee Eye will confiscate ace's posting time machine for long enough that Biden can retro-solve the error.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 12, 2023 03:24 PM (mSaEG)
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One BIG hole in that plan.
Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:25 PM (krQz2)

Yeah, Ewoks get pissy when someone snakes their stuff.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 12, 2023 03:56 PM (n+4am)

275 Looting the corpse stage -- Check

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 12, 2023 03:56 PM (u82oZ)

276 They know it. They know we know it. They are standing there effectively saying, "what are you going to do about it?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2023 03:51 PM (mcv3z)
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We're to busy with donor meetings to worry about this.

Posted by: Kevin Luntz-McCarthy at July 12, 2023 03:56 PM (xTC8T)

277 256 It's the difference between "failed to file all appropriate paperwork" and "fraud". So makes a big difference money-wise or accountability-wise.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:48 PM (eYoxG)

I think we all know which one of the two this will be filed.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 12, 2023 03:51 PM (BdMk6)

Well I think it's hard to make the case that Becerra didn't intend to maintain these officials at their posts. He did after all sign paperwork to appoint them after discovering he had failed to sign the appropriate paperwork appointing them.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:56 PM (eYoxG)

278 If only the people of Illinois knew what they were voting for when they elected Pritzker.
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If only they knew that Jennifer Pritzker and Bill Ayers recruited, groomed and inserted Obama into the IL and US Senate?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 12, 2023 03:56 PM (0chEi)

279 272 I still don’t quite understand this. Fauci was legally appointed to the position back in the eighties, right? Then, in 2016, Congress passed this law that said he had to be reappointed by the HHS Secretary by 2021, right? So, at the height of the scandemic in 2020, he was still legally in his position, and only started occupying it illegally at some point in 2021, by which time he had already committed most of his villainous acts.

So, I’m not really getting what all the fuss is about here. What am I missing?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:55 PM (xTRSc)

Biden's guy failed to sign appointment paperwork he was supposed to sign. That's it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:57 PM (eYoxG)

280 Anyone who buys Bud Light after it's 'sell-by' date deserves the explosive diarrhea sure to result. Which (looks at watch) is rapidly approaching.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 12, 2023 03:55 PM (enJYY)

Here's an idea, since we don't have anymore ammo to send them, how's about we send all our expired Butt Lite to Ukraine?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:57 PM (dGCAG)

281 notice the list that G Maxwell was supposed to released has been shuttered
Posted by: Hank Johnson at July 12, 2023 03:43 PM (us2H3)
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It's a mystery that will go down for the ages who was on that list.

We may never know.

Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:58 PM (krQz2)

282 if you buy a 30 pack of Bud Light at Costco, is it attached to five more 30 packs?

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2023 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

283 So they can be sued and can't claim qualified immunity, I would say.

Posted by: Bud Norton at July 12, 2023 03:58 PM (6cOMd)

284 Biden's guy failed to sign appointment paperwork he was supposed to sign. That's it.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy -

Reminds me of a long-ago SCOTUS case.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2023 03:58 PM (KAi1n)

285 279 Right. But it only matters from 2021 on.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 03:58 PM (xTRSc)

286 279
Biden's guy failed to sign appointment paperwork he was supposed to sign. That's it.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:57 PM (eYoxG)

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And gave away billions of dollars he wasn't legally allowed to do without that paperwork.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:58 PM (LvTSG)

287 Here's an idea, since we don't have anymore ammo to send them, how's about we send all our expired Butt Lite to Ukraine?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 12, 2023 03:57 PM

And have them declare war on us?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 12, 2023 03:59 PM (FVJNG)

288 The H&HS IG should issue a significant audit finding concerning the procedural failure on re-appointments.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 12, 2023 03:59 PM (4I/2K)

289 I saw The Urban Outdoorsmen open for The FabulousThunderbirds at Oktoberfest in New Braunfels around '86.

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 12, 2023 04:00 PM (QNdPI)

290 278 If only the people of Illinois would have had Mike Ditka as a Senate choice (shoe in) and Barky would have spent his days in Springfield and certain Chicago bath houses. Mike would probably not have been much, the Mike Ditka Truth in Kielbasi Ingredients Bill, but a step up. I will never forgive Mike for turning down the chance.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 12, 2023 04:00 PM (rLD7a)

291
You ever have to tell one of your kids "quit the constant tattling. I don't need to hear bout every infraction your brother ever does?"

That (particularly bitchy) little kid mentality of just watching for any reason to go tell on someone and get them in trouble? Karen never outgrew that. She did it day in and out at restaurants, grocery stores, and beauty salons, but COVID allowed her to do it to all of society.

Distancing, masking, and lockdown requirements were like a second childhood for her. I'm sure Karen thinks every day "I hope COVID comes back."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 04:00 PM (oINRc)

292 So my kid* likes to do impressions. Went to a ballgame recently and he trotted out his Harry Carey which is good, but he hasn't done for quite a while.
"... A Cub fan AAAAND A BUD MAN" He couldn't understand why nobody joined in or laughed. I couldn't explain it to him.

*he is autistic

Posted by: So, there's that at July 12, 2023 04:00 PM (sh1GZ)

293
Posted by: mrp at July 12, 2023 03:32 PM

Sent you a thank you at end of prior thread. 40% off was too good a deal to resist. About $700 in savings. AC200 MAX, and 350 watt solar panel.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 12, 2023 04:01 PM (enJYY)

294 Chris Rufo put together a good short video on the origin, funding, advancement, and present state of the tranny ideology movement. It's a good primer.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3u8xd7
Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2023 03:19 PM (R38qh)
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I knew a lot of this, but not the Detroit thing. Oy vey. These are profoundly evil people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 12, 2023 04:01 PM (t0OGg)

295 Anyone who buys Bud Light after it's 'sell-by' date deserves the explosive diarrhea sure to result. Which (looks at watch) is rapidly approaching.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

If they'd discount it to a quarter a can, I'd buy it.

I can't find reactive targets that cheap. Hot, expired beer, shaken, not stirred, then hit with a .223....

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2023 04:01 PM (mcv3z)

296 220 What was important was taking advice from Fauci or not and giving him authority to do anything concrete concerning COVID. The Constitution does not state the President must act on advice from anyone.
Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2023 03:41 PM (AMIL/)

A most excellent point.
Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:44 PM (Rg4GQ)

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President Trump had the CDC recommend (note not order) social distancing. The impositions from Trump were nonexistent.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 12, 2023 04:02 PM (RSqGO)

297 If only the people of Illinois would have had Mike Ditka as a Senate choice (shoe in) and Barky would have spent his days in Springfield and certain Chicago bath houses. Mike would probably not have been much, the Mike Ditka Truth in Kielbasi Ingredients Bill, but a step up. I will never forgive Mike for turning down the chance.

If Ditka had run, the media would've either magically found some dirt they shouldn't legally have on him or just plain claimed he was a white supremacist. And it's not like Cook County didn't invent fortified elections.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 12, 2023 04:02 PM (ZGrMX)

298 if you buy a 30 pack of Bud Light at Costco, is it attached to five more 30 packs?

That and a couple of summer dresses to wear while drinking it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2023 04:02 PM (p8A+W)

299 291 That (particularly bitchy) little kid mentality of just watching for any reason to go tell on someone and get them in trouble? Karen never outgrew that. She did it day in and out at restaurants, grocery stores, and beauty salons, but COVID allowed her to do it to all of society.

Distancing, masking, and lockdown requirements were like a second childhood for her. I'm sure Karen thinks every day "I hope COVID comes back."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2023 04:00 PM (oINRc)

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It's a weird thing to balance, to be honest.

"Yeah, Junior did something bad, but Second Junior, it's not that important."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 04:02 PM (LvTSG)

300 Friend of miner's kid had college orientation this past week.

He had to do a Privilege Walk where they walked a long way in a group and kept having to answer questions and they would get steps ahead if the answer was yes.

It ended with all the black people in the back. And that was supposed to prove something.

Hilarious. His roommate who was black apologized to him for it later.

They also brought out a bunch of trannies to make sure everyone there was sensitive to and accepting of trannies. Insanity.

Posted by: ... at July 12, 2023 04:02 PM (RgYWC)

301 This thing ended in 2020, and everyone is now just trying to pretend this is still a functioning republic. I hope fewer are fooled by the shell game each day, but I think that's a pretty vain hope.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

It got all back to normal the day they pulled the troops out of DC...The rubes accepted to coup and the junta accepted that the rubes accepted the coup on that day.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 12, 2023 04:02 PM (ak8qn)

302 286 279
Biden's guy failed to sign appointment paperwork he was supposed to sign. That's it.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:57 PM (eYoxG)

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And gave away billions of dollars he wasn't legally allowed to do without that paperwork.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 03:58 PM (LvTSG)

Problem is, this is like a company having an employee spend money to buy them equipment but then finding out the employee wasn't properly employed.

1. The company still intends to buy the equipment and still wants the equipment
2. The company still wants the employee

So once you go through the entire legal process to sort it out, you arrive at the same point as previously. There's nobody to litigate for a different outcome. Returning and then immediately regranting the money doesn't do anything here.

It'd be a different matter if there had been changes in the administration, but not at this point.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 04:03 PM (eYoxG)

303 So highest paid government employees doesn't work for the government?

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2023 04:03 PM (xhxe8)

304 President Trump had the CDC recommend (note not order) social distancing.

Knowing full well how The Telephone Game works and that State and County health officials would transmogrify the "recommend" to "require".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2023 04:03 PM (p8A+W)

305 They also brought out a bunch of trannies to make sure everyone there was sensitive to and accepting of trannies. Insanity.
Posted by: ...

I'd kiss the Uni goodbye.

Posted by: MkY at July 12, 2023 04:03 PM (cPGH3)

306 160 155 GOP: Well, we must have hearings and commissions and investigations and meetings and floor speeches and subpoenas and hearings and commissions and investigations and meetings and floor speeches and subpoenas and...
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at July 12, 202

Don’t forget me!!
- angry letter
Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 03:33 PM (Rg4GQ)

The JIM JORDAN and CHUCK GRASSLEY angry letters are can't miss Kabuki theater.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 12, 2023 04:03 PM (7nmJa)

307 300 Ellipsis, what college was that?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 04:04 PM (xTRSc)

308 NOOD Wray

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 12, 2023 04:04 PM (AiZBA)

309 Chaser: He's not going to that idiot college

Posted by: ... at July 12, 2023 04:04 PM (RgYWC)

310 302 It'd be a different matter if there had been changes in the administration, but not at this point.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 04:03 PM (eYoxG)

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Don't get me wrong. I don't expect anything to come of this.

But it's a bit more than a paperwork issue. It's just a new wrinkle in the general lawlessness, any example which would be good enough to send people to jail over the past...decades. Just the newest example in a long pattern.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 12, 2023 04:05 PM (LvTSG)

311 Ellipsis, what college was that?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2023 04:04 PM (xTRSc)

Not sure. It's in the Northeast.

Posted by: ... at July 12, 2023 04:05 PM (RgYWC)

312
Here in Pennsylvania the Secretary of State got fired for not advertising some amendment to the state constitution in the required counties newspapers. Not for 'certifying' the 2020 election where ~70,000 more ballots were cast then voters.

They made absolutely certain that was the reason. Not that she got down on her hands and knees and begged to be fired so that she didn't have to spend the rest of her life in a courtroom defending that outrageous decision. No way.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 12, 2023 04:05 PM (enJYY)

313
Well I think it's hard to make the case that Becerra didn't intend to maintain these officials at their posts. He did after all sign paperwork to appoint them after discovering he had failed to sign the appropriate paperwork appointing them.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:56 PM (eYoxG)

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Intention doesn’t meant shit when it comes to delegation of authority.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 12, 2023 04:06 PM (RSqGO)

314 If Ditka had run, the media would've either magically found some dirt they shouldn't legally have on him or just plain claimed he was a white supremacist.
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In that state, they way it works is, before you declare, they show you a folder of what they have on you. Then when you run, its your fault your reputation gets ruined, not theirs. Ditka probably didn't have much of a choice. Somebody asked him to dinner. An old friend. Hey buddy, I can't tell you how I got this but I thought you should see it. He passed him a folder. Inside was the oppo research.

Posted by: So, there's that at July 12, 2023 04:07 PM (sh1GZ)

315 Re Mumia Abu-Jamal, how could Obama pardon him? He was convicted in state court of state crimes (murdering a city cop). Not a federal crime.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 12, 2023 04:07 PM (XMwZJ)

316 had to do a Privilege Walk where they walked a long way in a group and kept having to answer questions and they would get steps ahead if the answer was yes.

It ended with all the black people in the back. And that was supposed to prove something.

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Was one of the questions “do you show up on time” cuz apparently doing so is a sign of white supremacy,

Posted by: Montec at July 12, 2023 04:09 PM (Rg4GQ)

317 notice the list that G Maxwell was supposed to released has been shuttered
Posted by: Hank Johnson at July 12, 2023 03:43 PM (us2H3)
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It's a mystery that will go down for the ages who was on that list.

We may never know.
Posted by: Axeman at July 12, 2023 03:58 PM (krQz2)
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So, you're saying Hunter Biden is on the list?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 12, 2023 04:10 PM (r/ZFc)

318 313
Well I think it's hard to make the case that Becerra didn't intend to maintain these officials at their posts. He did after all sign paperwork to appoint them after discovering he had failed to sign the appropriate paperwork appointing them.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 03:56 PM (eYoxG)

———-

Intention doesn’t meant shit when it comes to delegation of authority.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 12, 2023 04:06 PM (RSqGO)

Intention is the only grounds to argue something needs to be done about the money.

That is an agent had been disbursing money against the will of the party that had rights over the funds.

They were as far as we can tell disbursing money in line with the will of the party with rights over the funds, and that party has no interest in contesting the grants. So there's literally nothing to fight over here. If Becerra wanted to revoke some of those grants or something maybe he could leverage something out of the technicality, but we have no reason to believe he does.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2023 04:10 PM (eYoxG)

319

Anchor Steam used to have a nice, malty flavor to it; the last one I had a year ago not so much.

Two Hearted used to be inconsistent but has been better since Larry Bell sold out.

Centennial from Founders is your safest bet. Brewed with Grand Rapids city water, so you get your fluoride dose with every bottle.

Posted by: Auspex at July 12, 2023 04:11 PM (j4U/Z)

320 He seems to have not appointed them -- and is now attempting to claim he can retroactively appoint them, though, of course, the law does not give him the power to go back in time to make appointments.

Posted by Ace at 03:00

The law? They are the law, and until such time as I see some real pushback against over reach by the executive branch I'll believe they can do any damn thing they want and do with impunity.
As Crowder would say, change my mind.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 12, 2023 04:12 PM (FCbAQ)

321 Dr. Fauci his movie Bombed and so has he

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 12, 2023 05:38 PM (wGqjj)

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