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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Rand Paul to char Homeland Security Committee
Date: 11/14/2024 1:31 PM
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He plans to use the slot to deep dive into the nation's COVID activities, including getting to the bottom of the gain of function research that went bad:

https://nypost.com/2024/11/14/us-news/rand-paul-to...

“I chose to chair this committee over another because I believe that, for the health of our republic, Congress must stand up once again for its constitutional role,” Paul (R-Ky.) said in an exclusive interview Wednesday. “This committee’s mission of oversight and investigations is critical to Congress reasserting itself.”

“I think we’re on the cusp of, really, the beginning of uncovering what happened with COVID,” the 61-year-old added.

After years of subpoenaing government agencies about research grants and funding related to the origins of the coronavirus, Paul believes his newfound power — coupled with a sympathetic president in the White House come Jan. 20 — will help promote transparency.


I'll never understand Fauci's defenders. This guy thought he was God, meddled with things through very questionable 3rd party agents, and helped cause a worldwide pandemic that killed millions. We'll be reaping the mental health whirlwind for decades to come thanks in part to him.

Before somebody tries to claim we didn't fund any such work at Wuhan, just stop.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/nih-offic...

“Dr. Tabak,” asked Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, “did NIH fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through [Manhattan-based nonprofit] EcoHealth [Alliance]?”

“It depends on your definition of gain-of-function research,” Tabak answered. “If you’re speaking about the generic term, yes, we did.”
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Author: BlueGrits   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Rand Paul to char Homeland Security Committee
Date: 11/14/2024 6:48 PM
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He plans to use the slot to deep dive into the nation's COVID activities

With all the howling about the border, you'd think that would be his overriding priority, instead it seems political witch hunts win out. As they say, it's less of a "Cabinet" than a junk drawer.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Rand Paul to char Homeland Security Committee
Date: 11/14/2024 7:45 PM
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With all the howling about the border, you'd think that would be his overriding priority

Were Biden or Harris in office, you might have a point. Since they’re not going to be, the plan is to do actual law enforcement on the borders.
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Author: Lapsody 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Rand Paul to char Homeland Security Committee
Date: 11/15/2024 9:27 AM
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He plans to use the slot to deep dive into the nation's COVID activities, including getting to the bottom of the gain of function research that went bad:


Ahh, a real witch hunt. Ya see Dope, there's no evidence at all gain of function (GoF) went bad. After all this time, the evidence shows the source is still that market in Wuham, and the source was natural. Last I read they finally processed the samples from that area of the market and found mixed among the different animal traces covid. It you want to be accurate that's the best we have and it's lost forever. We'll never know to 99.9999% certainty.

So it's you basic witch hunt, used as a distraction whenever they need it.

This guy thought he was God, meddled with things through very questionable 3rd party agents, and helped cause a worldwide pandemic that killed millions

It's very inaccurate to say he helped cause a world wide pandemic, because the evidence shows it's very highly likely that didn't happen. We'll never know for 100% certainty. But I don't think that happened.

Y'all just got your orders to attack Fauci and you follow orders.

SNIP And during a congressional hearing, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky implied that the National Institutes of Health had been funding such research at both the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Baric’s University of North Carolina lab, and that the two labs had been collaborating to make “superviruses.”
Baric released a statement clarifying that according to the NIH, the research in question did not qualify as gain-of-function, none of the SARS-like coronaviruses he’d used in the experiments were closely related to SARS-CoV-2 (the original virus behind the covid pandemic), and his collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been minimal. SNIP https://archive.is/w4lQ2#selection-437.69-445.325

An innuendo, an implication and you're off to the races at full gallop. It doesn't take much to plant a hook in you. I just take Christian Drosten's word for it that if he were going to try to engineer the virus the first thing would be to get rid of a very prominent part that's in the current virus. So he thinks it very unlikely. And using Occam's razor, the animal origin is the most likely.

But it doesn't make for titillating stories that create conspiracy theories and allow one to demonize a scientific civil servant who has devoted his life to helping us all out. And it looks like that happened to distract from Trump's gross incompetency. Trump lied to you - is that hard to believe?

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Author: EchotaSheeple   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Rand Paul to char Homeland Security Committee
Date: 11/15/2024 9:30 AM
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He's an intelligent guy. I dont have to agree with everything with him - I'm not a Sheeple 401K Taliban.

BUT.....

I'd love to be in the room when he has interaction with that mental midget trailer park queen - Secretary Kristi Noem.


I"m fine with taking care of the Trailer Trash. Trump gave them a place at the table, they gave him 100% sheeple-style support. BUT ----Homeland and Attorney General?

LOL this is gonna be fun.

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