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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,951 posts)
Sun Jun 5, 2022, 11:56 AM Jun 2022

'Fauci Should Be Jailed'

'Fauci Should Be Jailed'

Republican candidate for Congress in the 8th calls for incarceration of medical advisor.



Karina Lipsman

By Michael Lee Pope

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

The Republican candidate for Congress in the 8th Congressional District is calling for President Biden's chief medical advisor to be "jailed," a comment she made during a recent candidates forum hosted by the Alexandria Republican City Committee earlier this month. Over the weekend, Karina Lipsman emerged from a Republican convention as the party's nominee this fall. She will face the winner of the Democratic primary on June 21, when four-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8) will face challenger Victoria Virasingh.

Lipsman's call for Fauci to be jailed came in response to a question about restoring trust in government and the media. She said that the media has been "silencing conservative voices for too long," and she expressed support for Elon Musk's possible purchase of Twitter. Turning her attention to the question of what could be done to restore trust in government, she said that as an immigrant from the Soviet Union she "never trusts the government." ...
"Fauci should be jailed. We all know that," said Lipsman, prompting applause from Alexandria Republicans. "We should do our own research."

Fauci has become a hated figure among certain elements of the right wing. During a recent rally in North Carolina, U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) also called for Fauci to be jailed. Similarly, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced the Fire Fauci Act, which suggests the chief medical advisor to the president "failed to provide Americans with accurate information" about the pandemic. That kind of rhetoric might work in some rural parts of North Carolina and Georgia, but it seems unlikely to work in the 8th Congressional District, where Biden won 78 percent of the vote in 2020.

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LIPSMAN RAISED significantly more money than any of her competitors for the Republican nomination, more than $65,000 according to campaign finance records. Her top contributor is Brian Johnson, vice president of Veterans Guardian who contributed $5,800. Other top contributors include cybersecurity consultant Charlie Platt of Arete Incident Response and Graham Abell, a student in Baltimore.

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'Fauci Should Be Jailed' (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 OP
God I wish the media could silence conservative voices. We hear all their noise Walleye Jun 2022 #1
She'll not do well in the 8th Yonnie3 Jun 2022 #2
"... the 8th Congressional District, where Biden won 78 percent of the vote in 2020." NT mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 #3
So Republicans run for office on an agenda of fabricated BULLSHIT! BlueJac Jun 2022 #4
This wacko should be jailed. GoldandSilver Jun 2022 #5
On what charge? NT mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 #6
It is a new concept in American law: Chainfire Jun 2022 #7
Thanks. It's really catching on at DU. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 #9
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness nt Shermann Jun 2022 #8
We're not a theocracy yet. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 #10
History repeats.... Chainfire Jun 2022 #11

Yonnie3

(18,112 posts)
2. She'll not do well in the 8th
Sun Jun 5, 2022, 12:02 PM
Jun 2022

Even with the "Fauci to be jailed" platform plank.

I think the 8th is +40 or 50 Dem.

BlueJac

(7,838 posts)
4. So Republicans run for office on an agenda of fabricated BULLSHIT!
Sun Jun 5, 2022, 12:05 PM
Jun 2022

The problem is the many idiots that believe it! What a fucked up country!

GoldandSilver

(186 posts)
5. This wacko should be jailed.
Sun Jun 5, 2022, 12:06 PM
Jun 2022

I hope there will be a fine art sculpture of Dr Fauci installed at the entrance to the NIH buildings. He dersrves a place in our history.

 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
7. It is a new concept in American law:
Sun Jun 5, 2022, 12:16 PM
Jun 2022

We don't like what he said so put him in jail. Always remember, and never forget, the second amendment is inviolable the first is variable.

 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
11. History repeats....
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 11:30 AM
Jun 2022

I am reading a really good biography about Albert Einstein, (Einstein His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson) In it we have quotes from Einstein discussing the $10,000 (a pile of money during the depression) bounty that the Nazis placed on his head. If he was captured they intended to hang him as a traitor. He wasn't far ahead of the Nazis when he got out of the country. The Nazis hated him for his "Jewish Science" and his refusal support the Party, and of course simply because he was Jewish. Einstein, with is wry sense of humor, commented that he didn't know his head was worth that much.


The Republican who attack Fauci are cut from the batch of same filthy cloth.

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