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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Sen Rand Paul wants to investigate origins of COVID-19
By BRUCE SCHREINER SMITHFIELD, Ky©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
Wage a vigorous review ?
What a buffoon.
stickman1760
Rand Paul is without doubt one of the biggest clowns in America politics.
dagon
“When President Trump said he wanted to ‘Make America Great Again,’ I said, ‘Amen,’" Paul said. "But let’s understand what made America great in the first place, and that’s freedom, constitutionally guaranteed liberty.”
Another GOP rep that got roasted by Trump but returned to express fealty.
And believes serving the American people is not with affordable health care or better infrastructure and investing in a better society.
But by throwing red meat to the most unhinged wing of his party by promising to investigate conspiracy theories that could better be done by the intelligence agencies he helped to discredit with the former president.
bass4funk
They always got along, happens between friends and colleagues sometimes
Not when we have staggering inflation and no money.
Funny, when Dems do it, it’s ok, but when the right launch investigations it’s a witch hunt and conspiracy theory? Well, we shall soon find out.
bass4funk
But so popular with libertarians
Bob Fosse
Who says “witch hunt” more? It’s your team.
We won’t “soon find out”.
You think this absolute clown show of a person will get to the bottom of the origins of the virus? Really?
Paul Rand will somehow stop talking about masks and Fauci and investigate the origins of COVID-19?
Beyond fantasy, but sadly not only the fools at Kentucky are falling for it.
Bob Fosse
Ms.? How odd.
Sure, you go with that.
2020hindsights
Rand Paul
Actually, no. We don't no where covid came from and we don't know where ebola came from, but the general consensus is that covid origin is zoonotic. Conspiracy theorists, like Rand Paul, may disagree. But when did we take advice from them?
Sven Asai
What general consensus? Of course it’s from that (or another similar) lab and contains those man made and applied ‘gained functions’. What do you all think why they have such strict measures in China, the vaccinations and restrictions elsewhere are still not successful, the vaccines still not adapted to new strains although us all being told it was so easy to develop, and also not even one of the missing link animal(s) of that crazy zoonosis theories still could be presented to public? Don’t trick yourself, and first of all don’t try to trick me!
lincolnman
I thought the far-right Repubs already knew where the virus originated - Chinese-made 5G network towers, right? That's why all the tin-foil-lined MAGA caps...
He must be some ophthalmologist - maybe he thinks religious-funded space lasers cause cataracts...
Paul is an utter joke...someone pin him down to see if he's been vaccinated and boosted with the "miracle" vaccine that is "safe and it works"...
https://www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-pandemic_trump-hails-approved-coronavirus-vaccine-medical-miracle/6199495.html
Blacklabel
Fauci: pandemic over.
White House; no it’s not.
Fauci: pandemic not over.
“The politics”
Alechz
Couldn't think of a sharper mind to lead the charge on this.
Equal parts cretin and grifter.
lincolnman
Trump: "The vaccine is a medical miracle, and frankly all of my supporters should take it - it's safe and it works"....
MAGA-world: Uh...hmmmm....well....er.....let's change the subject....
Algernon LaCroix
The leftists here would rather defend China than support Paul's desire for an investigation, simply because they despise him. Very clever.
virusrex
Then why is it that the experts whose job is to look at the evidence and interpret it have reached the opposite conclusion?
Sometimes I still get surprised about how openly and candidly US politicians try to manipulate the people by (apparently) supporting well debunked but still popular ideas just to get some political capital, the worst thing is that even if it is so obvious, it still seems to work.
bass4funk
And your team is the one that did the witch hunting for four years
Who knows, just like with the Russian investigation in the emails, we never know
When the Republicans are in power, yes.
Not fantasy, is there gonna be a lot of investigations on the Republicans take power, so Democrats need to be aware, and that’s why you have so many bailing shift
lincolnman
John McCain had it nailed in 2017 when he said Rand Paul "was working for Vladimir Putin"...
https://www.newsweek.com/resurfaced-video-mccain-saying-paul-working-putin-tops-560k-views-1702453
Now five years later, it's Paul and more than half of his Repub cohorts...and the previous President...
albaleo
I guess when you're overwhelmed with the complexity and vocabulary of scientific documents, everything overwhelmingly points to aliens/Chinese/Americans/liberals/conservatives/vegans/omnivores/them.
The words "zoonotic" caught my attention, so I googled and found the paper below. It actually suggests a different paradigm, but reading it made me sympathise somewhat with Rand Paul. Terms such as furin cleavage, viral envelope glycoproteins, metagenomic data, phylogenetically branching, molecular clock analyses, and sylvatic phase probably don't work too well in political campaigns. All I can say is that the evidence overwhelmingly points to my ignorance.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156713482100109X
bass4funk
It came from China, not exactly where in China we do not know, but it came from China start from there.
He can talk which is sadly something that a lot in this current administration can do.
McCain got laughed at for that.
Well, that’s still not going to save the Dems. Why you guys love name calling is too funny.
Bob Fosse
I don’t have a team and don’t look at the world as a sports league. Go ahead, quote me and tell me which team I am. I just point out the dumb flag wavers, wouldn’t want to be one.
How original, what an unexpected response. So, your point is that it’s a waste of time?
Can’t they just say “witch hunt” and “what about (something)? and then predict some kind of future victory? Seems to be your only approach.
Blacklabel
You really can’t speak without cut and pastes of other peoples words, can you?? Kinda sad to be a slave to having to wait for someone else to speak and then hurrying to find someone else’s words to try to refute it.
no one is talking about Trump here.
TokyoLiving
The republiclowns are soooooo pathetic..
bass4funk
Good to know.
Not a conservative, that’s for darned sure.
Im proud to be one.
For the Dems, it was.
Not mine, the lefts approach, failed again and again.
lincolnman
More evidence Paul and his fellow NEOCON Repubs want us in a war with China...history repeats itself, elect a Repub, get ready for a war....
He can talk alright...spouting Kremlin talking points like a true puppet....
By who, you and MTG?
The party that needs saving is the one with their House minority leader getting caught on tape lying - multiple times...and who tried to stage a coup with "fraudulent electors and fake certification lists"....
Maybe we can get an explanation on those today?
bass4funk
Never has been, not one time did he advocate going to war with China.
Not him, but this President does seem to be afraid of Putin, wonder why?
And the rest of the country which dislikes the Washington establishment.
No, the Democrats, but nothing will save them this November.
Blacklabel
Considering this article is about Rand Paul and COVID not Kevin McCarthy and an election 2 years ago….nah.
plasticmonkey
I hope you realize to what you just subscribed.
Nowhere else in the world is inflation happening. The rest of the world is fine. Only in America does inflation exist. And you know why? Biden and far left socialist Dems!
By this point it is clear that Covid was created by a Chinese Communist Party lab. It was designed to destroy the West, but actually it is no worse than a common cold. This was proven true by Republicans who refuse vaccinations and masks. They don't get very sick and they certainly don't succumb. They are patriotic fighters.
This must be true since source is a veteran journalist with a fiercely nonpartisan pedigree.
lincolnman
He's already threatening them - read the article...
Definitely him - and Comrade Carlson...
Indeed - when that country is Russia...GOP = Gangsters for Putin....
Did you see where Hannity called Trump supporters "lunatics"....that's what he thinks of you...
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/29/politics/hannity-text-messages-meadows-trump-white-house/index.html
lincolnman
Well, at least they're consistent - no matter what the article, they refuse to explain those fraudulent electors and fake certification lists...because they can't....
Blacklabel
I will. Show me the article to comment on.
bass4funk
I did, he said, No such thing.
Cool, at least Carlson will ask questions the msm will not.
No, the Democrat and Republican elites
That old lie again. LOL
bass4funk
Thank you, now that wasn't so hard, right?
You are getting slightly warm.
lincolnman
You didn't....or you would have read this; “When we take over in November, I will be chairman of a committee and I will have subpoena power,” Paul said. “And we will get to the bottom of where this virus came from.” The senator, an eye surgeon, continued to offer his theory about the origins of the virus. "If you look at the evidence, overwhelmingly, not 100%, but overwhelmingly the evidence points to this virus being a leak from a lab,” Paul said.
There it is - war with China....
He asks questions fed to him from the Kremlin...interesting you're "cool" with that....quite telling...
Yep.....
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/14/kremlin-memos-russian-media-tucker-carlson-fox-news-mother-jones
It's in his e-mails...you probably won't want to read those either...LOL....
https://sports.yahoo.com/sean-hannity-slammed-lunatic-trump-002328989.html
lincolnman
You never have - in numerous articles when asked....sometimes as many as nine times in one article...
So why not do it now and "own a Lib"....
Or will this be another tap out...
bass4funk
I did.
Somewhere in China....Wuhan....
And a darn good one.
That is not a war, when a missile drops on Beijing then you call it that with certainty
No proof whatsoever.
Yeah, that old lie again. Lol
Media Matters at work again....
bass4funk
I have.
That has been already established
No reason to?? What?
bass4funk
Wow, now you guys are just stretching and moving through the dark....
nero
You mean he wants to go against Fauci, WHO, Facebook, China, Democrats and practically the entire cabal of super powerful elites ??
I wish him luck.