Today, at 10:31 a.m. Eastern Time in Washington, D.C., the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing had already been underway for more than two hours when a relatively unknown Republican senator from Ohio, Bernie Moreno, erupted at the microphone.
"Who the fuck do you think you were for doing that? It is a total disgrace, what you did to this country," he shouted after recounting the story of a mother who had been arrested nearly six years earlier after refusing to comply with a local mask requirement while attending a middle-school football game during the global pandemic. His uncontrolled outburst should have been directed at the woman who knowingly broke the law. Instead, it was aimed at Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease physician who helped guide America through the deadliest public health crisis in more than a century while serving under President Donald J. Trump.
This whole event literally makes me ill. How can we show our support to Dr. Fauci?
In a just world, the hearing would be about how T let over a million Americans die ("excess deaths") by blocking or slow walking CDC and other public health recommendations.
I could not agree more. Heather put together a powerful and eloquent argument in favor of a great American hero and an indictment of the Trumpian dystopia of our nation in its 250th year. If I was still teaching young college students I would give it my students without comment for their consideration of where we are now as a country and the roots we must all try to regain. Thank you, Heather!
I well recall those news conferences with liar Trump—almost as if he didn’t believe it himself—recommending drinking bleach as a cure. Dr. Fauci often followed him, speaking truth that was helpful. Those who listened to Trump died. Those who followed Fauci’s advice survived. Fauci certainly developed a poker face during those vertiginous exercises.
Meanwhile Kushner gave much needed American medical equipment to Putin. A scientist I knew said that Russians developed COVID-19 in their bio-terror labs on the Black Sea.
Gosh I had forgotten Trump's "advice" about drinking bleach. What imbecile would say that? An ignoramus like Trump of course. It's almost laughable but gorgeous the fact that people died.
I remember those news conferences very well, too, with Trump pretending he had great ideas that should be acted on and Fauci being so dignified and not wanting to make Trump look ridiculous, even though he was!! ( Knows more about all sciences than anybody!)
Note to Bernie Moreno: the woman wasn’t arrested for failing to wear a mask, she was arrested for failing to comply with school policy and leave the football game when told to by a police officer. It was after she had been told she needed to leave when she began resisting arrest and another woman joined in. She was told by the officer that she was trespassing and if she continued to resist then she would be tased and escorted out.
Dr Fauci wasn’t even around when she resisted and refused to leave the game. So why were you yelling at him?
If you are going to lie and make false claims about what happened Congressman, please don’t do it in a Congressional hearing where members of Congress should be required to tell the truth when questioning someone. I was a former teacher and one of the last things we needed back in 2020 was parents setting a bad example for our students by refusing to comply with school policies in the middle of an emotionally charged event.
If there was someone sitting at a game holding an unsealed Petri dish filled with coronavirus and waving it around in the air, would you expect him to leave the game?
Bravo, Dr Fauci! It was clear during the Covid crisis that he was a fine person and who had the best handle on things and it wasn’t Trump who would come to the microphone and spout the most ridiculous ideas. Then he’d look at the scientists sitting at the side waiting for confirmation that he was so clever and insightful. It was laughable. And I’m not a medico or any sort of scientist. It is disgraceful how Fauci is being treated. Do they have such short memories? Did they not see the contrast that was so plain to see?
Can someone remind us of how many times he hid his crooked and depraved life behind pleading the protection of the fifth amendment? Well over 400, as I recall.
Am a constituent in the state of Ohio… God, Ohio turns out the most vile of Representatives from JD Vance, Gym Jordan, this Max Miller (who so happens to be Bernie Moreno’s ex-son n’ law), Jon Husted and this as$hole… am sure that there are many others that are missing from the list…
So yes we’ve hit a new low and the bar continues to get lower..
Dr. Fauci served with the NIH for 38 years, is one of the most important individuals that has worked on AIDS research, brought it to the forefront when Reagan as his homophobic self didn’t want to even want to admit it existed. From Ebola, to so many dangerous pathogens that there are too many to mention. He served all of us and was the voice we wanted to hear during the Covid pandemic. Nobody else’s. Because frankly the Orange-dimwit tried to ignore it, keep it from all of us because it would ruin his chances for reelection didn’t even want any of us to have a test to see how many additional cases were being recorded. He told us to drink bleach, to take Ivermectin that is a pill you give to a horse because they have parasites and worms or another pill hydroxychloroquine that helps with malaria another stinking parasite…. he had Covid why oh why did that toe tag seem to not get attached…
So Ohio do better…. Vote for better Representation… Honestly it’s just not Ohio it’s every state in this nation. We deserve more, we deserve better and if we don’t admit this then what do you think or any of us think who we will get the next time any of us select our Representatives?
Didn’t watch that entire theatre of CRAP today because there’s only so much we should take from this fascist lying regime… Honestly turned off the television when ghoul Fräulein Laura Ingraham sitting behind Fauci being her usual hag self decided to clap like a walrus in heat when the circus tried to rewrite everything that transpired six years ago… She brought some of her cohorts from that MAGA cult that also chimed in with their own clapping…
Want to know who were the first to get the COVID vaccine? Everyone of those Rethuglicans Senators sitting there. Everyone of those House Representatives. Also, Everyone at Fox network got vaccinated as soon as it was available.
We all know how our CDC and overall Health and Human Service Agency is going now. They really ought to change the name because there’s nobody at the top of that entire agency from the CDC, FDA, NIH, CMS that gives a crap of any Americans Health. If you missed it, this Trump regime, the CMS announced it will end a federal Medicare Part D premium subsidy program after 2026. While the move eliminates billions in government spending, it will increase monthly premiums for millions of older Americans on Medicare. We all know about the foodborne illnesses that is an outbreak going on and we really have no idea the source for Cyclospora. At this point it’s lettuce, cilantro, basil, parsley, and snow peas and what other foods are the source nobody can say, because there basically is a skeleton crew at the CDC. Then there’s the FDA that related food-safety sectors that absorbed deep job cuts, reducing overall FDA personnel significantly and scaling back foreign food safety inspections.
Midterms folks, make it “To Big To Rig” because at this point we are experiencing another day that ends in “y” of our crackerjack dystopian reality that we’ve given up even saying or asking — Can you believe this Shite?
I too saw the Fauci farce yesterday and was mortified at how low the country’s representations in Congress have fallen. It is as though these men (mostly men) and women have separated themselves from their state‘s objectives only to follow their own and Mr Trump’s egotistical agenda. Perhaps Mr. Paul would have been far more satisfied drinking bleach as Trump suggested, as a remedy to shield the country from COVID. Mr. Fauci along with scientists from all over the world, worked in unison to bring the infection to a close. Mr. Paul has a vendetta against scientists simply because he will never be one of them. He is a wannabe and like the now head of DOH a charlatan who is puffing himself up for a Trumpian pat on the head. If this insanity continues, the USA will reach the dangerous point of no return. The slippery slope becomes steeper day by day, but unfortunately it has not reached the stage which causes the majority to awaken and reverse the course.
Do I get the impression that the Senator from Ohio is a puppet of the orange one? As you say his anger should have been targeted towards the woman who refused to wear a mask at a football game during the pandemic. The Covid epidemic caught the whole world by surprise and I guess every country reacted differently. Here in the UK we only needed to wear masks inside and had to queue up outside supermarkets and were only allowed in a few at a time. I cannot recollect whether sporting events were cancelled or not. I received my first shot in January 2021.
Sorry to hear about your daughter's surgery. I hope she is recovering well.
This whole event literally makes me ill. How can we show our support to Dr. Fauci?
In a just world, the hearing would be about how T let over a million Americans die ("excess deaths") by blocking or slow walking CDC and other public health recommendations.
The scientific method is one of the most successful of all human institutions. It's debasement is a grave error
Thank you Heather for speaking the truth.
A recurring theme today - Don’t give up the ship. Captain James Lawrence, USS Chesapeake on June 1 1813
Amen, Amen, Amen!
I could not agree more. Heather put together a powerful and eloquent argument in favor of a great American hero and an indictment of the Trumpian dystopia of our nation in its 250th year. If I was still teaching young college students I would give it my students without comment for their consideration of where we are now as a country and the roots we must all try to regain. Thank you, Heather!
I well recall those news conferences with liar Trump—almost as if he didn’t believe it himself—recommending drinking bleach as a cure. Dr. Fauci often followed him, speaking truth that was helpful. Those who listened to Trump died. Those who followed Fauci’s advice survived. Fauci certainly developed a poker face during those vertiginous exercises.
Meanwhile Kushner gave much needed American medical equipment to Putin. A scientist I knew said that Russians developed COVID-19 in their bio-terror labs on the Black Sea.
Gosh I had forgotten Trump's "advice" about drinking bleach. What imbecile would say that? An ignoramus like Trump of course. It's almost laughable but gorgeous the fact that people died.
I remember those news conferences very well, too, with Trump pretending he had great ideas that should be acted on and Fauci being so dignified and not wanting to make Trump look ridiculous, even though he was!! ( Knows more about all sciences than anybody!)
Note to Bernie Moreno: the woman wasn’t arrested for failing to wear a mask, she was arrested for failing to comply with school policy and leave the football game when told to by a police officer. It was after she had been told she needed to leave when she began resisting arrest and another woman joined in. She was told by the officer that she was trespassing and if she continued to resist then she would be tased and escorted out.
Dr Fauci wasn’t even around when she resisted and refused to leave the game. So why were you yelling at him?
If you are going to lie and make false claims about what happened Congressman, please don’t do it in a Congressional hearing where members of Congress should be required to tell the truth when questioning someone. I was a former teacher and one of the last things we needed back in 2020 was parents setting a bad example for our students by refusing to comply with school policies in the middle of an emotionally charged event.
If there was someone sitting at a game holding an unsealed Petri dish filled with coronavirus and waving it around in the air, would you expect him to leave the game?
Bravo, Dr Fauci! It was clear during the Covid crisis that he was a fine person and who had the best handle on things and it wasn’t Trump who would come to the microphone and spout the most ridiculous ideas. Then he’d look at the scientists sitting at the side waiting for confirmation that he was so clever and insightful. It was laughable. And I’m not a medico or any sort of scientist. It is disgraceful how Fauci is being treated. Do they have such short memories? Did they not see the contrast that was so plain to see?
Thank you for covering this and providing the context necessary to fully understand what is happening.
Can someone remind us of how many times he hid his crooked and depraved life behind pleading the protection of the fifth amendment? Well over 400, as I recall.
In my haste to post, I omitted the vital detail. I was of course referring to trump.
Thank you Heather.
Am a constituent in the state of Ohio… God, Ohio turns out the most vile of Representatives from JD Vance, Gym Jordan, this Max Miller (who so happens to be Bernie Moreno’s ex-son n’ law), Jon Husted and this as$hole… am sure that there are many others that are missing from the list…
So yes we’ve hit a new low and the bar continues to get lower..
My take on my Senator Bernie Moreno.
https://tamwarn.substack.com/p/bernie-moreno-who-the-fuk-do-you?r=viplr&utm_medium=ios
Dr. Fauci served with the NIH for 38 years, is one of the most important individuals that has worked on AIDS research, brought it to the forefront when Reagan as his homophobic self didn’t want to even want to admit it existed. From Ebola, to so many dangerous pathogens that there are too many to mention. He served all of us and was the voice we wanted to hear during the Covid pandemic. Nobody else’s. Because frankly the Orange-dimwit tried to ignore it, keep it from all of us because it would ruin his chances for reelection didn’t even want any of us to have a test to see how many additional cases were being recorded. He told us to drink bleach, to take Ivermectin that is a pill you give to a horse because they have parasites and worms or another pill hydroxychloroquine that helps with malaria another stinking parasite…. he had Covid why oh why did that toe tag seem to not get attached…
So Ohio do better…. Vote for better Representation… Honestly it’s just not Ohio it’s every state in this nation. We deserve more, we deserve better and if we don’t admit this then what do you think or any of us think who we will get the next time any of us select our Representatives?
Didn’t watch that entire theatre of CRAP today because there’s only so much we should take from this fascist lying regime… Honestly turned off the television when ghoul Fräulein Laura Ingraham sitting behind Fauci being her usual hag self decided to clap like a walrus in heat when the circus tried to rewrite everything that transpired six years ago… She brought some of her cohorts from that MAGA cult that also chimed in with their own clapping…
Want to know who were the first to get the COVID vaccine? Everyone of those Rethuglicans Senators sitting there. Everyone of those House Representatives. Also, Everyone at Fox network got vaccinated as soon as it was available.
We all know how our CDC and overall Health and Human Service Agency is going now. They really ought to change the name because there’s nobody at the top of that entire agency from the CDC, FDA, NIH, CMS that gives a crap of any Americans Health. If you missed it, this Trump regime, the CMS announced it will end a federal Medicare Part D premium subsidy program after 2026. While the move eliminates billions in government spending, it will increase monthly premiums for millions of older Americans on Medicare. We all know about the foodborne illnesses that is an outbreak going on and we really have no idea the source for Cyclospora. At this point it’s lettuce, cilantro, basil, parsley, and snow peas and what other foods are the source nobody can say, because there basically is a skeleton crew at the CDC. Then there’s the FDA that related food-safety sectors that absorbed deep job cuts, reducing overall FDA personnel significantly and scaling back foreign food safety inspections.
Midterms folks, make it “To Big To Rig” because at this point we are experiencing another day that ends in “y” of our crackerjack dystopian reality that we’ve given up even saying or asking — Can you believe this Shite?
We need a Big Blue Tsunami of a bath….
Sorry I don't know how the word gorgeous appeared. The sentence should end, but for the fact that people died.
I too saw the Fauci farce yesterday and was mortified at how low the country’s representations in Congress have fallen. It is as though these men (mostly men) and women have separated themselves from their state‘s objectives only to follow their own and Mr Trump’s egotistical agenda. Perhaps Mr. Paul would have been far more satisfied drinking bleach as Trump suggested, as a remedy to shield the country from COVID. Mr. Fauci along with scientists from all over the world, worked in unison to bring the infection to a close. Mr. Paul has a vendetta against scientists simply because he will never be one of them. He is a wannabe and like the now head of DOH a charlatan who is puffing himself up for a Trumpian pat on the head. If this insanity continues, the USA will reach the dangerous point of no return. The slippery slope becomes steeper day by day, but unfortunately it has not reached the stage which causes the majority to awaken and reverse the course.
Do I get the impression that the Senator from Ohio is a puppet of the orange one? As you say his anger should have been targeted towards the woman who refused to wear a mask at a football game during the pandemic. The Covid epidemic caught the whole world by surprise and I guess every country reacted differently. Here in the UK we only needed to wear masks inside and had to queue up outside supermarkets and were only allowed in a few at a time. I cannot recollect whether sporting events were cancelled or not. I received my first shot in January 2021.
Sorry to hear about your daughter's surgery. I hope she is recovering well.