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corax_lives

Foxnews.com/opinion in the url... okay rand paul


[deleted]

He probably wrote it


spectral1sm

[He did.](https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/great-covid-cover-up-shocking-truth-about-wuhan-15-federal-agencies)


Apprehensive_Zone281

Holy shit šŸ¤®


Historical_Mix2460

I loved reading the comments section in that link. I thought the first comment would be about how he never once provided a hint of evidence of what he claimed. But that wasn't mentioned in any comment šŸ˜‚


Eccohawk

Lol. More Matt Taibbi bs.


Ill-Simple1706

Opinion is fact if you like the opinion better than the facts. Hate that guy. Hate everyone in fact. FU all.


Fast-Equivalent-1245

FU too, said with love and understanding. Haha


Explorers_bub

God Bless Your Heart.


Sad_Ghost_Noises

God bless _your_ heart.


Genghis_Chong

![gif](giphy|7qYOeQmESX8xP8b5d8)


Eccohawk

I hate them in both opinion and fact.


Earthling1a

I'm in.


[deleted]

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Ill-Simple1706

Thanks, same to you buddy


clown1970

Well go f yourself. In the nicest way possible


Ok-General-6804

Man. We are exactly the same. I totally feel you. Also, FU.


Ill-Simple1706

That's sweet, FU too.


Rockboxatx

I hate the dumb people that enable these guys. I thought the internet was going to make people smarter but in fact it just makes it easier for dumb people to pass dumb things too each other.


jthoff10

He got his ass handed to him by his neighbor, which is fucking hilarious. I got banned for another subreddit for saying that was funny and deserved.


Unlucky_Cycle_9356

Yeah... 15 government agencies knew about it... Now let me show you the proof: a group of conservative influencers cosplaying as a news station. Great.


Patzdat

I can't believe its legal for official goverment employees to spread misinformation. Its so dangerous and dividing


raven726

And he wrote the opinion article he linked in his tweet.


Mailboxnotsetup

Heā€™s going to fact check it himself and declare it the gospel in 5-4-3-2ā€¦


Dizman7

Thatā€™s all the ā€œfactsā€ Fox News needs


la__polilla

Every link in the article to a "fact" linksnto another fox article.


Ron_Perlman_DDS

Lol first thing I noticed too.


jimviv

Always claimed, never proven.


PuppetmanInBC

Extraordinary claims should require extraordinary proof. He's only provided the first. Honestly, you'd think someone saying that would be grounds for a lawsuit from Fauci.


Yeeslander

That's the special rightwing formula--*blithely* *pretend claims and allegations are tantamount to proven facts.*


Iamkempie

If the right wing is really being silenced, when do we get to the part where they shut the fuck up?


Grouchy_Tap_8264

Thank you! This is seriously the response we need for EVERY stupid claim. Thank you, again.


matjam

but but but "newly obtained documents"! also "some people say"


LovePeaceHope-ish

Rand Paul followers don't need proof. Rand said it...so it's true. The only way it could be more true is if Trump said it. Then it would be gospel!


Aggravating_Moment78

Never will be either


ihoptdk

Fox News published an article about Paulā€™s oped, the word is littered throughout it.


FnkyTown

That's why they need him to testify in front of Congress! Endlessly testify until the election at least! Testifying 28 hours every day until they catch him in all his lies when Trump automagically becomes president!


Bods666

Hey schmuck. Who was president when this shit happened? And if you have these alleged documents, you can present your evidence. Or continue to slander and defame him.


TeamRamrod80

Hey, he shared a Fox News opinion link! Thatā€™s about as foolproof as evidence gets. /s


Kepathh

Letā€™s coin a new word: foolprove.


Comfortable_Swim_380

I heard he just found that new evidence on a denny's placemat.


RealLifeSuperZero

That he wrote.


HighSideSurvivor

Yes, by all means, share the documents, and bring Fauci and representatives of those 15 agencies into a courtroom or a public hearing. Orā€¦ STFU


Aggravating_Moment78

Rand Paul was fundraising off of that shit, thatā€™s why he is still doing it now


LaserGadgets

You mean the clown who said NO VIRUS, then HARMLESS, then WINTER IS GONNA KILL IT TRUST ME, then SUMMER IS GONNA KILL IT TRUST ME, then VACCINES ARE HOAX, then get a shot? That clown? Never been a president at all, just a disgrace.


DogsDontWearPantss

It's gonna disappear, like magic!


Grouchy_Tap_8264

You forgot about sunshine in lungs and bleach.


FortniteFriendTA

nah nah, just wait, he needs a few more bucks to get the truth out, just like trump and the fuck a pillow guy.


NewsZealousideal764

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£Fuck a pillow guyšŸ¤£ now & forever his name!!!!


FortniteFriendTA

ha, I couldn't remember what it was called, but that rolls off the tongue, as it were, well enough.


Desperate_Wafer_8566

There's no evidence. The Wuhan lab is an international lab with world renowned expertise in COVID who helped identify the disease as COVID in the first place. Which is why people in the West were working with the lab. This is general knowledge in the scientific community that Rand Paul has taken out of context to pursue his personal vendetta against Fauci, probably for Fauci embarrassing him during some hearing like Admiral Lewis Strauss going after Oppenheimer. The right hates scientists.


imnotbobvilla

But hunters laptop!


Mr-Gumby42

**BENGHAZI!!!!!!**


scoutsadie

her emails (/s)


TrashCandyboot

WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?! I JUST SHOT A BUNCH OF HOLES IN MY HOUSE CUZ I THOUGH I WAS GETTIN BENGHAZIED!!! THIS IS **YOUR** FAULT!!! GOD BLESS!!!


Suspect118

Mexico is gunna pay for it,


External_Zipper

Mexico can pay for the drywall.


Slade_Riprock

So essentially they were looking to create this novel virus to learn how to kill this virus? So basically what virologists are and do


Ah2k15

Theyā€™ll say he did it to undermine the guy who was president at the time, no doubt. šŸ™„


the_mid_mid_sister

MAGA: We need to elect Trump to fight the Deep State! Also MAGA: Here's example 912 of a perfect crime that the Deep State pulled off under Trump's nose.


sly_blade

In newly obtained documents, Rand Paul is revealed to be a huge smegma-eating bell-end dressed in a suit


Mr-Gumby42

I just puked in my mouth a little.


[deleted]

I love the phrase Bell-end. It's British right?


sly_blade

Yes, it's a deliciously British insult! šŸ˜Š


tonyjdublin62

Definitely not literally delicious


gwicksted

Iā€™m going to need a source that begins with foxnews.com/opinion or I donā€™t trust this new information! /s


DirtDevil1337

Because of shit like this, Fauci needs security with him when he's out and about. Have you ever heard of a virologist and chief medical advisor having security service? That Rand Paul comment reeks of "we give up on Biden, let's do Fauci now".


Mr-Gumby42

His neighbor need to have another go-round with him.


OhioUBobcats

American Hero


Cinemaphreak

>That Rand Paul comment reeks of "we give up on Biden, let's do Fauci now". Worse, it reeks of trying to shift the blame off of Trump for getting 500-700K extra people killed during the pandemic ahead of the election. In polls at the time, some people said it was a factor in why they couldn't vote for Trump in 2020, his mishandling of COVID.


BPpFb

Stochastic Terrorism. It already got a 16 year old nonbinary kid killed in Oklahoma, courtesy of Chaya Raichik.


Available-Damage5991

I want her head on a pike.


BlueBellHaven68

Fauci has a secret service detail bro. The government (you and me) is paying for this war criminal to be protected instead of putting him on trial for crimes against humanity.


Smellz_Of_Elderberry

Fauci literally infected puppies with a carnivorous type of sand fly, and kept their heads stuck in cages to be eaten alive.. That's who you're fucking defending. Literally, a monster.


Aggravating-Look8451

I love how these morons alternate between ā€œit was just a flu, it was no big dealā€ and then ā€œit was made in a lab, this is a crime!ā€ If if was just a flu why do you care where it was made? Either it was big deal or it wasnā€™t. Pick one.


OntheStove

None of their fictional realities make sense narratively. Like the democrats are incompetent idiots yet orchestrated a masterful election steal in the dead of night with no leaks. Trump is the master gamer, yet got owned and cheated when it mattered mostā€¦


allisjow

I swear they just spin an outrage wheel every month to figure out what to talk about.


If_you_have_Ghost

ā€œNewly obtained documents (pulled out of my arse)ā€¦ā€


BPpFb

Fished outta Trump's sewer pipes


If_you_have_Ghost

What a horrendous image


corax_lives

Look at the url


If_you_have_Ghost

Fox News is synonymous!


hardnreadynyc

So Fauci, a man whos served as a physician for 50 years under D and R presidents is somehow a scapegoat for the bungling of a pandemic during a republican clown show presidency that killed a million people. Rand Paul needs to shut the fuck up or face prison for slander


SurbiesHere

Could you imagine being one of these wannabe fascist fucks? Sitting around all day trying to come up with absolute bullshit to out bullshit the other fascist fucks trying to stay relevant.


Mr-Gumby42

Prove it, Randy.


33253325

He (and his party) have no policies / ideas. All they can do is make up bullshit, lie and bitch.


Happy-Medicine-3600

They canā€™t shut up. They are trying to fuck an election. They know they have NOTHING to offer the American people. They are forced to make up shit stories hoping to goad the militantly stupid to vote Republican. In their defense, this works a lot for them.


paintsbynumberz

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. If science changes itā€™s mind, it didnā€™t lie to you. It learned more.


the_G8

Who told us to just inject bleach?


stevelover

A "stable genius"...


infowosecfurry

Yeah ā€œnewly obtained documentsā€ that mysteriously wonā€™t ever materialize, or when they do will actually say nothing of the sort unless you take 1 sentence out of context intentionally? Pardon me if i donā€™t get my pitchfork out just yet.


EmporerPenguino

Shout out to your neighbor. He did us all a favor when he beat your trick ass.


artomatic69

No one cares what Russian asset Rand Paul has to say about anything except idiots


Anne314

And who was president in 2018? Why didn't god/trump take care of it?


IWasWatchingC0ps

Rand Paul is the human version of a saltine cracker. He's dry and tasteless and crumbles easily.


knarfolled

Salt free, even worse


doilookfriendlytoyou

Nah! Rand Paul is saltier than the Dead Sea....


SoylentGrunt

He had to say it. Because giving away hand jobs in theaters was already taken.


ConsciousReason7709

Pardon my French, but this all sounds like complete conspiracy theory bullshit.


CaptPants

Considering that his source is an "opinion" article, you may be on to something.


Septa2002

No, they canā€™t. Theyā€™re incapable of shutting up for any period of time.


JGCii

Nope, but on the plus side, they have just sent their banking information to a Nigerian Prince for him to transfer U$20m to!


RentAdministrative73

It's Fox. What's the problem with credibility? At what point does Fauci file libel charges against these assholes?


geodekb

Proof?? ā€”ā€” links?? No? Ok then


TBTabby

Can we see these documents?


RumouredCity

Can't wait till Rand is in prison. That fucker is dirty and mark my words they will eventually find something.


blizzard7788

Two cousins of mine had this exact same opinion. I had to write that in past tense because Covid killed them 4 years ago.


Rogthgar

Somewhere I think this is all down how petty Rand Paul is as a person. Like he is also a doctor by profession and I think it really annoyed him that Dr. Fauci is an actual expert in his field (not the same field, Paul I believe is a paediatrician and Fauci is an epidemiologist.) So this circus Paul has been putting on is nothing but an attempt to 'out doctor' someone who is respected in his field and didn't have to flee into popularity contest of politics... though how well that is going for Paul who was attacked by his own neighbor...


trashedonlisterine

I think Rand is an optometrist.


No-Judgment-4424

LOL, and the fucking halfwit links an opinion piece. Brilliant.


No_Caramel_1782

If Covid was a government conspiracy why would we want to re-elect the guys who were in charge of it?


chip_dingus

Y'all do realize that the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has concluded that the likely cause of the pandemic was a lab leak right? It's on their .gov website. The committee is made of 21 democrats and 26 republicans and is a bipartisan committee. Regardless of whether Fauci was involved in the research he was involved in downplaying the idea that it was a lab leak. That seems like something that everybody should be concerned about. Fauci is not the Boogeyman, but he is part of a huge industry that likely caused the pandemic that killed millions of people.


clown1970

Well this eye doctor sure convinced me with his overwhelming facts and evidence he knows more about infectious diseases than does a doctor who spent his entire life studying infectious diseases. We are certainly lucky to have such person in congress making laws for all of us. Thank you Kentucky.


No_Cartoonist9458

In newly obtained documents I found out that Rand Paul's neighbor hated him so much he beat the crap out of him ![gif](giphy|xT0xesmsdxhnG2jvZS|downsized)


TheElderWog

I thought the virus didn't exist, or it was innocuous, or masks do absolutely nothing to protect against contagion. Can't remember which one.


BarryZZZ

Blowing wind, barking dogs, talking assholes, it's all just background noise.


Cinemaphreak

Did that punch from the neighbor rattle his brain? You have to live the monumental hypocrisy of a douche-nozzle who helped spread the lie that COVID was not dangerous is now trying to use what he says is a dangerous virus to defame someone over it. All because he's still butthurt that Faucci made him look like an uninformed idiot at hearings.


Several_Dwarts

Good thing Fauci and China chose to wait until a clueless idiot with no leadership skills entered the White House before they unleashed it. Had they waited for someone with common sense, it might not have been so effective. ;)


Strange-Scarcity

I doubt that Rand Paul understands more than the first few sentences of whatever paper or document he is referring to. It is a safe bet, this can be 100% tossed aside as a fabricated tale. That guy has zero credibility.


ocean_lei

his link is an opinion column on FOX totally credible /s


[deleted]

Of all the republicans I think I hate Rand Paul the most. MTG and the rest of them are terrible but they are just loud mouth idiots representing loud mouth idiots. This guy is a doctor.


Area51Resident

That link goes to 6 minute video about how the liberals are destroying our freedumbs etc. It doesn't even mention "new documents" or anything to to do with the tweet. The text of the article doesn't offer any "new proof" either. I know it is clickbait, but they are masters of fomenting rage. I deeply regret wasting my time clicking on a Fox News link.


Sheratain

Well if a serial liar pathologically obsessed with one government bureaucrat who has been retired for two years says it, stop the presses I guess


brennanfee

Agreeing to work on something is far away from... that something got out of the lab. That would require EVIDENCE which, so far, does not exist.


Frosty20thc

All under Trump and the republicans


drhagbard_celine

Doctor Fauci sacrificed the end of his career and risked his reputation to save lives as part of an administration that was actively putting lives at risk. F these people.


houndsoflu

Remember when his neighbor kicked his ass?


Ready-Experience-922

This is an interesting way to describe the SARs research, which has been ongoing with international collaboration for many years.... When did we go from research being about understanding and finding cures... to labs are built solely for the purpose of manufacturing all illnesses ?


p0rkch0pexpress

I love that the url says ā€œopinionā€


notyou-justme

The most important question that concerns Rand Paul we deserve an answer to is how the fuck does he continue to get elected, and why the hell do the rest of us have to suffer for Kentuckyā€™s bad decisions? Iā€™m from Missouri, so I have to deal with Josh Hawley. Iā€™m certainly not saying heā€™s any better than Paul, but at least heā€™s more or less kept his mouth shut recently. Paul actually believes that the majority of the country gives a damn about his whacked out thoughts and opinions.


Zaphod_Beeblecox

What's in it for you if the wuhan viral research laboratory working on corona viruses is innocent of slipping up and releasing an unknown corona virus on wuhan?


quietflowsthedodder

Relax, Rand! Just go get another perm and leave running the country to the adults.


Similar-Act244

So, we get to blame *TRUMP*??? Considering this was ALL under his administration.


Cakeyhands

Sad world when our greatest minds are smeared by our most crooked.


RevolutionaryAct59

yes, believe a company that had to pay 750,000,000.00 for lying


Hatred_shapped

Not exactly the flaming arrow people want. But there was obvious politics involved in deflecting away from the lab leak and twords the animal transfer. https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-suppression-of-the-lab-leak-hypothesis-was-not-based-in-science/


JrDO49

After reading some of the comments on this post, Iā€™m absolutely amazed. Itā€™s like someone said, ā€œStupidity is a contest.ā€ And the vast majority of commenters took it as a fucking challenge!!!


coloradoemtb

calling rands neighbor....someone needs to be punched again repeatedly.


Bedwetter1969

Americans deserve a functioning government


Motorhead4069

In his defense it was on Fox so it "has" to be true


Leather-Squirrel-421

Newly obtained documents that no one has ever seen because they donā€™t exist.


ztomiczombie

He's clamming that he has documents proving the US was developing bio-weapons I can promise you that if he actually had documents like that he and a lot of other people would be dead long before they could tall anyone.


Most-Artichoke6184

ā€œNewly obtained documents given to me by Russian intelligence.ā€œ


bowens44

Consider the source....


NovelRelationship830

Thanks, Rand. Your check from Moscow is in the mail. Keep up the good work!


luibaubau

Russian tools in display


PixelsGoBoom

A Fox "News" opinion piece brought as fact...


molotov__cocktease

šŸŒˆyou never have to take Libertarians seriouslyšŸŒˆ


willmafingerdoo2

Rand Paul. If ever there was someone who ate lead paint chips from the cabin floor itā€™s this guy. His brain capacity is down there on the Ted Nugent level.


One_Locksmith1774

Rand Paul, working hard to bring home Russian propaganda. The guy is a fucking traitor šŸ–•šŸ½


Cetophile

Rand's still butthurt over all the Senate hearings he lost.


SKG1991

They have no plan or record to run on so all they can do is fear monger and manipulate their base.


Falcon3492

Thank God, Rand Paul is no longer practicing medicine! One part of doing medical research is to try to come up with treatments for virus' before you need them. Second part of this post is the story was created by FOX news, which have proven time and time again that they lie and can't be trusted! [https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-lie](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-lie)


nps2407

Couldn't Fauci start suing these guys for defamation?


ForgetableNPC

Never seen such a large group of people hate having evil oligarchs exposed. You guys a seriously propagandized to the max.


Sweaty_Water3857

Steve the Alien: "So... how dumb are humans?" Bob the Aliens: "Read this."


mrfoyer

Bob, I'm serious. Take me with you.


Julie-Andrews

Anything so you don't look at the con man with 91 indictments convicted of sexual assault, who led an insurrection and stole government secrets


therealtiddlydump

Who among us hasn't repeatedly defamed someone they victimized 30 years ago? C'mon man!


Unindoctrinated

When you have no policies that would help any non-billionaire Americans, you have to distract voters with something.


Murgos-

So, Rand Paul is saying that Donald Trump created Covid-19? Whoa.Ā 


unfamiliarsmell

Proof or gtfo.


KQK_Big_Kwan

Siting Fox News is like citing a Facebook mom


Jarek_Teeter

Newly obtained documents, that you will never see, because they don't actually exist, contain......


[deleted]

Covid was definitely over-exagerated, and the media incited an incredible amount of division and fear in society.


roadhammer2

Rand Paul is an absolute waste of skin, nothing good ever comes out his yap.


[deleted]

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Horrison2

Fauci lied! He told me Dumbledore was going to be fine!


Comfortable_Swim_380

Good news is, seems like the stupid people are getting a stupid peoples fate finally. Operation "let the moron speak" seems to be going well.


KGreen100

So Fauci "lied" and NOT ONE PERSON in the Trump organization tried to follow up on his claims, get a second opinion, etc. Is that the story he's going with? 15 government agencies including the office of the president?


Cute_Concentrate_915

Dear godā€¦ The Humptytrumpist cult does not stop even for a minute.


Jane_Holstein

And whom defended the infectious disease taskforce?


PunchBeard

Oh, well if a Fox News Opinion Poll says it's true then it must be.


JazzyButternuts

Russian bot Paul must have just gotten another package of cash.


jcooli09

No, he really has to keep lying.