{"id":42628,"date":"2020-05-08T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42628"},"modified":"2020-05-08T00:55:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:55:15","slug":"this-conspiracy-is-laughable-but-not-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42628","title":{"rendered":"This conspiracy is laughable, but not funny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=AnthonyFauci%20%23MAGA%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fauci.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42549\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fauci-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fauci-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fauci-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fauci.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know how I feel about conspiracies. If not, I will tell you simply that I despise them. More to the point, I despise the rumor-mongering that accompanies the so-called &#8220;theories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is now a conspiracy bubbling up out there among The Trump Toadies who defend Donald Trump whenever they find a <em>cause celebre<\/em> to run into the ditch.<\/p>\n<p>Some of &#8217;em have latched on to some sort of goofy conspiracy involving Dr. Anthony Fauci, the world-renowned infectious disease expert who&#8217;s been a voice of reason and studied analysis among the members of the White House coronavirus pandemic task force.<\/p>\n<p>He has at times contradicted Trump&#8217;s assertions about the future of the pandemic and whether there is sufficient testing, or when we might have a vaccine available for general use.<\/p>\n<p>Now some of Trump&#8217;s cult followers suggest Fauci needs to be fired. They cite bogus reports of other doctors contradicting Fauci&#8217;s expert analysis. They accuse Fauci, and this is rich, of being in the hip pocket of &#8220;Big Pharma,&#8221; those pharmaceutical companies working feverishly to develop a vaccine to prevent the killer virus from taking more lives.<\/p>\n<p>These nimrods, dipsh***, know-nothings need to get a grip. They also need to keep their yappers shut.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fauci has served every president going back to Ronald Reagan. He is a brilliant physician and researcher. He needs to be heard. Fauci does not need to be vilified by idiots.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=AnthonyFauci%20%23MAGA%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how I feel about conspiracies. If not, I will tell you simply that I despise them. More to the point, I despise the rumor-mongering that accompanies the so-called &#8220;theories.&#8221; There is now a conspiracy bubbling up out there among The Trump Toadies who defend Donald Trump whenever they find a cause celebre to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This conspiracy is laughable, but not funny<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9238,9236,9261],"class_list":["post-42628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-anthony-fauci","tag-coronavirus","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42629,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42628\/revisions\/42629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}