Fauci Takes Fifth 111 Times Because Answering Questions Would Force Him to Admit He's Not Actually a Deity

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a shocking development that has left half the country clutching their “In Fauci We Trust” prayer cards, Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times during his recent Senate grilling. 

Sources close to the hearing confirm the real reason wasn’t fear of perjury, it was sheer, unadulterated pride. The man simply could not bear watching his own golden statue melt under the harsh light of basic questions. 

Former Rolling Stone editor Matt Taibbi dug through the wreckage of Fauci’s July 29 appearance before the Senate Homeland Security Committee and discovered what many already suspected: America’s most celebrated public health rock star spent the pandemic treating the country like his personal arena tour. 

Diary entries paint a portrait of an egotistical asshat clown who demanded federal employees chase cash prizes for him between Zoom briefings, while casually noting that vaccinated people were still getting infected; details he somehow forgot to share with the flock still waiting for their next booster sacrament.

Taibbi observed that Fauci’s chaotic performance did precisely nothing to dent the religious devotion of the faithful Left. Science, the FBI, the CIA, and the entire intelligence community can whisper “lab leak” until they’re blue in the face; Fauci remains their false prophet, an invidious huckster-narcissist whose reckless experiments may have endangered the world. 

One does not simply question the high priest of “I Am Science.” 

Joe Biden’s blanket pardon, issued with the intellectual clarity of a man who once introduced his own shadow as a Cabinet member, somehow failed to cover this particular hearing. Perjury traps yawned open like the mouths of hungry interns. So Fauci took the Fifth. Legal strategy? Partially, but deeper analysis reveals the true motive: pure ego up his wazoo. 

Three hours of systematically dismantling his own temple was simply too much for a man who once believed the adoring media had permanently canonized him. The heart of the matter, as Taibbi noted, was the exquisite legal loophole left by the outgoing Obama administration in 2017. By redefining “potential pandemic pathogen” with the semantic precision of a leprechaun rewriting the rules of a drinking contest, officials created a glorious gray area. 

Suddenly, taking a bat virus that couldn’t infect bats, inserting twelve nucleotides to give it a furin cleavage site, and watching it become devastatingly transmissible to humans wasn’t “gain of function.” It was just creative virology. 

As former CDC Director Bob Redfield helpfully clarified, if you start with something that doesn’t hurt people and make it hurt people, congratulations, you’ve invented a brand-new category of research that definitely doesn’t count. 

Fauci’s diaries seethe with irritation at the “nonsense” in Congress over gain-of-function questions. In his mind, the funding never “likely” caused widespread human transmission, so everything was fine. Never mind the diary entry fretting that Dr. Zheng-Li Shi had been busily adapting spike proteins to human ACE2 receptors for years. Never mind that the virus that escaped Wuhan just happened to possess the exact engineered feature scientists had been discussing. Details, details. 

The important thing was that the paperwork looked clean. 

Taibbi concluded that half the country is still averting its eyes because one blue-state heartthrob sits at the center of the disaster. Investigating the greatest public health catastrophe in a century might require admitting their idol was fallible clusterfrack of a doctor, and that simply cannot be allowed. God help us when the next novel virus needs a little laboratory TLC. 

In the end, Fauci pleaded the Fifth not merely to avoid legal jeopardy, but to spare himself the humiliation of watching his carefully curated legacy go up in flames while he held the match. Sorry, Doc. The secret is out. The temple has fallen. And no amount of Fifth Amendment invocations can put the furin cleavage site back in the bottle.

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Twitter Files: Adam Schiff's office asked Twitter to suspend journalists they didn't like

The latest release of "Twitter Files" shared on Tuesday uncovered posts that revealed California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff's office asked the tech giant to suspend certain accounts that were critical of the left.

Substack journalist, Matt Taibbi reported that Twitter "received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned." In other words, those journalists who refused to slant their reporting to favor the Democrats should be silenced because that's how banana republics operate.

You may recall that Schiff publicly lied about former President Donald Trump regarding so called Russian collusion. He never admitted the lie nor apologized for spreading it, because, as Saul Alinsky said, "The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results." 

And that obviously includes lying.

An example Taibbi shared was a request sent to Twitter in November 2020 by Schiff's office. Schiff hoped the company would do something about  "alleged harassment from QAnon conspiracists" against Schiff's staff. One of the targets for removal was aide Sean Misko.

"Remove any and all content about Mr. Misko and other Committee staff from its service- to include quotes, retweets, and reactions to that content," the request to Twitter read. "Suspend the many accounts, including @GregRubini and @paulsperry, which have repeatedly promoted false QAnon conspiracies."

The office also asked Twitter to "stop the spread of future misinformation on Twitter" regarding committee staff and  "label and reduce the visibility of any content."

Taibbi wrote that the company initially declined to go along with Schiff's request saying "we don't do this," but noted that Sperry was later suspended.

It was also revealed that when Musk initially took over Twitter, the so called "Twitter Files" were vetted by the company's deputy general counsel Jim Baker. It was done without Musk's knowledge and involved the Hunter Biden story, which Baker covered up under the guise that " . . . we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked," adding, "it's reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted."

So the story got buried and Baker got fired.

Additionally, Taibbi reported, "Although several sources recalled hearing about a ‘general’ warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story." 

The second installment of the "Twitter Files" was published by The Free Press editor Bari Weiss. The posts revealed Twitter's "blacklisting" of prominent conservatives, including Fox News' Dan Bongino, Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, as well as Stanford University's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who opposed the COVID lockdowns and the groupthink during the pandemic.

One of the most egregious banning on the platform was the popular account Libs of TikTok, which never violated its "hateful conduct" policy but were suspended several times for allegedly doing so. The only thing that Libs of TikTok was guilty of was reposting the posts of idiots on the Left, thus showing the public how crazy the Left is.

Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter testified under oath to Congress in 2018 that the company did not censor or shadow-ban conservatives. He has never been indicted for lying.

Third, fourth and fifth installments of the "Twitter Files" focused on Trump's permanent suspension from the platform over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021. Taibbi wrote about how Twitter circulated tweets related to the election that were "flagged" by the FBI as being problematic. 

Independent reporter Michael Shellenberger wrote that Dorsey was "phoning it in" while on vacation at the time when his deputies were pushing to de-platform Trump. His former head of trust and safety [an oxymoron] Yoel Roth was leading the charge to get Trump thrown off Twitter and censor others over tweets about the 2020 election.

It was discovered that Roth met on a weekly basis with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the office of the Director of National Intelligence in the weeks leading up to the election.

Why the hell were the FBI and NIA getting involved in politics? And worse, why the hell are they violating the First Amendment rights of citizens? 

It seems like the only 'problematic' information they want to censor is the information that's a problem for them. Trump's tweets from Jan. 6 didn't violate any Twitter rules and staffers seemed to recognize that. But it was Vijaya Gadde, then-Twitter's head legal chief, who suggested that Trump's posts could be "coded incitement to further violence." 

Soon thereafter, Twitter's "scaled enforcement team" suggested that based on how Twitter interprets Trump's tweets, it could violate the violence incitement policies.

It's time for Adam Schiff and his band of Schiff-heads, to resign. Congress has no legal authority to make demands of the free speech of private companies.

That's bananas.

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Hollywood cancelling Oscars over sexual misconduct

After the Harvey Weinstein sex "mistakes" whereby he allegedly raped several women, exposed himself to dozens more, and basically acted as a douche bag, many people thought the Hollywood scandals would be ended at that point.

But it wasn't long when other women came forward who had stayed in the shadows for years, and they spoke out about the sexual misconduct of Ben Affleck, Dustin Hoffman, Matt Taibbi, Kevin Spacey, Bill O'Reilly, Mark Halperin, Chris Savino, James Toback (over 200 women came forward on him), John Besh, Andy Dick, Jeremy Piven and most recently, Brett Ratner.

Many of these alleged pigs have been fired from their current jobs and some may go on trial for illegal sexual misconduct.

In light of all the controversy, the Board of Governors of the Academy: President John Bailey, First Vice President Lois Burwell, Vice President Kathleen Kennedy, another Vice President Michael Tronick, yet another Vice President Nancy Utley, Treasurer Jim Gianopulos, Secretary David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson--I forgot what I was going to say. . . oh yeah, the board of Governors of the Academy Awards has decided to cancel the awards this year.

The reason the Board of Governors gave is that it appears there would be no male available to accept an Oscar this year as the actors will either be dealing with litigation, or had been fired from their role in whatever movie they were in.

And while President Trump was absolutely wrong and inappropriate regarding what he said about women, that isn't the same thing as rape, harassment or other form of sexual misconduct.

The Academy apologizes for any inconvenience to the actresses and the three innocent actors who thrive on praise.

Apparently, there is only one male actor who has never acted sexually inappropriate or engaged in sexual misconduct: Gabby Hayes.




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Matt Taibbi: fact equals fiction when writing, he writes

Matt Taibbi: sexual predator or just a liar?

You can't believe liberals when their lips are moving or when they're writing a hit piece.

Rolling Stone magazine "journalist" Matt Taibbi, 47, author of "Insane Clown President" was a big hit with his choir of anti-Trump leftists, but it turns out he's the one with the bike horn and seltzer bottle.

He wrote a memoir in 2000 detailing his time in Russia and his behavior toward Russian women there, but now he claims his memoir was a work of fictional "satire."

Busted.

The book talks about Taibbi's galavanting around Russia when he and colleague Mark Ames, worked for an English-language newspaper there. 

The book includes anecdotes in which he and Ames apparently mistreated and maybe even assaulted some of the women they encountered in Russia, according to Reuters.

The book, co-authored with Ames is titled: "The Exile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia." 

It refers to Russian women as being "usually available to the highest bidder" and willing to engage in "condomless sex," an excerpt published in the Chicago Reader published.

In a Facebook "Hail Mary" last week, Taibbi wrote that the memoir was really fictional and that his intent was to poke fun at the idea of Americans living in Russia. 

He just forgot to mention that at the time.

Taibbi suddenly canceled a scheduled appearance at a Chicago humanities festival after an interview gone bad with an NPR reporter was poorly received by liberals who still listen to NPR. The reporter asked Taibbi about the memoir.

"I regret many editorial decisions that I made back then [like printing the truth], and misogynistic language to describe many people and women in particular," the liar said. "I hope readers can forgive my poor judgment at that time."

Ames, the book's co-author, quickly followed up with a post saying the book was fictional [even though they lied to their readers in 2000 by passing it off as nonfiction].

"I never raped, harassed, assaulted anyone, and it sickens me that I'm dragged into having to make this sort of denial," Ames wrote, according to Reuters. [But mostly, it sickens him and Taibbi that they got caught.]

Aimee Levitt of the Chicago Reader, notes that Twitter users pointed out that the book contains a note at the beginning saying it was nonfictional.

The question is, which time did they lie?

Levitt writes: "To fail to acknowledge Taibbi's earlier work is to say that what he and Ames wrote about doing didn't matter, how those women felt didn't matter, and, by extension, to say we don't matter, and you, our female readers, don't matter. But we do. And you do."



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