Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination over 100 times during a contentious Senate hearing on Wednesday, July 29,

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Published: 2026-07-29
Author: Horse
Post Date: 2026-07-29 14:56:06 by Horse
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 Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination over 100 times during a contentious Senate hearing on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, refusing to answer questions regarding his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the virus's origins.  Appearing before the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the former NIAID director stated on the advice of counsel that he feared Rand Paul, the committee chairman, was attempting to create a "perjury trap" to prosecute him.

Fauci cited Paul's "unhinged obsession" with prosecuting him and the recent public release of his personal diary as evidence that the hearing's sole purpose was to vindicate pledges to see him "behind bars." Despite holding a preemptive pardon from former President Joe Biden covering federal actions through January 2025, Fauci's legal team argued he remained vulnerable to perjury charges if his testimony conflicted with past statements or faced potential state-level prosecution.

Senator Paul announced plans for a contempt of Congress vote next week in response to Fauci's refusal to testify, arguing that the presidential pardon eliminated any legitimate legal risk for the former health official.  The hearing featured chaotic exchanges, including the removal of Fauci's attorney, David Schertler, by security after he attempted to speak out of turn, while Democrats on the panel condemned the proceedings as a politically motivated waste of time.

  The core legal conflict driving Dr.  Anthony Fauci's silence is the interplay between his preemptive pardon and the risk of perjury.  Although former President Joe Biden issued a "full and unconditional" pardon covering Fauci's federal conduct through January 20, 2025, legal experts and Fauci's team argue this creates a specific vulnerability: a pardon removes the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination for the pardoned acts.

Consequently, if Fauci were to testify about events within the pardon's scope, he could be compelled to answer. If his testimony then conflicted with previous statements or documents (such as the recently released diaries), he could be prosecuted for perjury, a crime not covered by the pardon because it would be a new offense committed during the hearing.  Fauci’s team characterized Chairman Rand Paul's strategy as a deliberate attempt to engineer this scenario, forcing Fauci to either incriminate himself on past actions (if the pardon were invalid) or lie and face new perjury charges.

   Tensions escalated significantly just days before the hearing when Senator Paul released approximately 1,100 pages of Fauci's personal diary entries from 2019 to 2022.  These documents, obtained by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., detailed Fauci's private thoughts on the pandemic, his frustrations with administration officials, and his awareness of his own rising fame.

Fauci cited this release as definitive proof of Paul's "unhinged obsession" and intent to intimidate rather than legislate. He argued that the public dumping of private notes was designed to embarrass him and create a hostile environment where any testimony could be twisted. The diaries reportedly contain entries that contradict Fauci's past public statements regarding school closures and the origins of the virus, providing the factual basis Republicans hoped to use to trap him in a lie during live testimony.

  The hearing itself devolved into procedural conflict almost immediately. After Fauci read a brief opening statement invoking the Fifth Amendment, Senator Paul and other Republican members proceeded to ask questions anyway, forcing Fauci to repeatedly decline to answer.  The situation reached a breaking point when Fauci’s attorney, David Schertler, attempted to interject to reinforce the Fifth Amendment claim.  Paul ordered Schertler to remain silent, and when the attorney persisted, Paul directed security to physically escort him from the room, declaring, "You are not invited here for testimony."

Following the two-hour spectacle, where Fauci invoked his rights over 100 times without answering a single substantive question, Paul announced a formal vote on contempt of Congress scheduled for the following week.  While a contempt citation can lead to criminal prosecution or civil sanctions, legal analysts note that enforcing it against a witness legitimately invoking the Fifth Amendment is legally complex and historically difficult to sustain in court. Democrats on the committee uniformly condemned the hearing as a "waste of time" and a political stunt designed to generate headlines rather than oversight.

 

 (The above was from Brave Browser. You should give it a try. All I did was type in Fauci 5th Amendment today.) 

 

 

 

 

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#1: Horse    To: Horse (#0)

 

Larry Johnson LIVE  (WW III could break out in Iraq, Houthi, IRGC and US-Saudi conflict)

 

 

 

 

Horse posted on 2026-07-29 15:18:07   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Esso    To: Horse (#0)

 

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-29 18:34:18   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Horse    To: Esso (#2)

Hero? Who is this Jewish screwball?

Horse posted on 2026-07-29 19:27:05   Reply   Private Reply

#4: ghostrider    To: Esso (#2)

 

 

ghostrider posted on 2026-07-29 19:27:58   Reply   Private Reply

#5: Pinguinite    To: Horse (#0)

He was cited as the highest paid federal employee in US history, and he killed untold numbers of people in his covid actions.

Pinguinite posted on 2026-07-30 00:17:08   Reply   Private Reply

#6: Esso    To: Pinguinite (#5)

And he's gonna skate, free as a bird.
Half the country loves him, because 'ORANGE MAN BAD', as shown by the moron I posted above, and the Dem senators actions during the hearing.

The contempt of congress vote is next week, which will fail, but if it didn't, he'd be referred to the DOJ for prosecution, which they wouldn't.

Ironically, Biden/Fauchi killed far more leftists with their mandates. TDS is real, and deadly.

Esso posted on 2026-07-30 08:01:55   Reply   Private Reply

#7: Esso    To: ghostrider (#6)

>>...actions...<<

Upon reflection, 'fawning' would've been a much better choice of words.
The only Dem senator that was halfway serious was 'Shrek' Fetterman, but not much.

I have to get to the post office, again. Ugh.
I've got three or four branches about equidistant from me, but the only one directly accessible, due to construction, is the main branch downtown, in the Killing Zone.
I'm not in the mood for a firefight today, or a long road trip.

Maybe I'll look around and see what I'm gonna need for my guest this weekend and go to Kroger while I'm out and get that over with.
It's been awhile since I've found a good deal on steaks.

Esso posted on 2026-07-30 08:53:31   Reply   Private Reply

#8: Esso    To: All (#7)

 

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-30 09:02:23   Reply   Private Reply

#10: Esso    To: All (#9)

It's ironic that Fauchi is also gay. His 'wife' is a tranny.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-30 15:45:55   Reply   Private Reply

#11: Esso    To: All (#10)

This piece of Fauci's diary you would not believe. So pathetic.

 

 

 

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-30 16:09:51   Reply   Private Reply

#12: Esso    To: Dakmar, ghostrider (#11)

Mary's still alive bruthas.
Her disconnected lower colon [colostomy] and reattached thing is supposed to be working again.

Pooping out of my side would suck.

 

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-30 18:34:35   Reply   Private Reply

#13: Esso    To: All (#12)

 

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-30 21:28:29   Reply   Private Reply

#14: Esso    To: All (#13)

 

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-30 21:34:47   Reply   Private Reply

#15: Esso    To: All (#14)

I was giving McMurphy C. D, zinc, NyQuil and Durvet horse dewormer...

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-30 21:44:39   Reply   Private Reply

#16: ghostrider    To: Esso (#8)

I am betting my sister is watching cnn or one of the other stations not coving the fauci hearings, so she won't have to hear about shot that gave mom covid and a stroke and death. the last time I talked to my mom she was in a vegetative state, the last time I talked to my sister was when she put mom in the hospital when the shot got her. 

ghostrider posted on 2026-07-31 07:52:54   Reply   Private Reply

#17: Esso    To: ghostrider (#16)

Nuthin' going on worth posting that I can find today.
Even the Chick's podcast was boring this morning.

Sling Blade texted me this morning about 0530, probably after getting home from his Thursday night DJ gig at Tronic downtown.
We're gonna have to get together soon. The registration renewal for my cars came yesterday. Man, those really went up, was ~$35, now ~$120.
I'll need to get him the new tags when they get here for Red Truck.
Fauchi/Biden really screwed him when they shut down his company in 2021 over Covi.
I guess his other gig is repairing video games at an arcade.

I'm so bored, I'm tempted to go back to bed until Kim gets here tomorrow night.

Esso posted on 2026-07-31 11:05:03   Reply   Private Reply

#18: Esso    To: All (#17)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-31 11:33:07   Reply   Private Reply

#19: titorite    To: Horse (#0)

Note to remember, this is a congressional hearing, not a court .  And while DR evil the child cannibal, is entitled to the same constitutional rights as all under it, he is not being compelled to testify against himself nor does the day of the week or his favorite color have any fifth amendment protection and if we didn't live in tyranny. Something better would happen


But ever in Congress is a child eating cannibal or the are friends with the fiends and ok with their actions .

Any way you alive it , they are all guilty and they ain't gonna hang themselves  

titorite posted on 2026-07-31 12:13:19   Reply   Private Reply

#20: Pinguinite    To: Esso (#6)

Fauci served under Trump when the whole covid mess got started.

Pinguinite posted on 2026-07-31 13:45:05   Reply   Private Reply

#21: Esso    To: Pinguinite (#20)

Trump didn't force clot-shots on anybody, that would be be O'Biden/Fauchi/Gates.
Trump didn't throw the borders open letting millions of sick turd-worlders into the country, that was O'Biden.
Trump didn't lock down the country/economy, that was O'Biden/Fauchi.
Trump didn't force deadly treatment protocols like Remdesivir and ventilators on physicians, that was Fauchi/Birx/Gates.
Trump didn't suppress viable treatment options like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, that was all of O'Biden's freakshow.
Trump didn't suppress free speech on platforms like Twitter or strip the licenses of doctors who told the truth, that was the Dem's doing. 

Diary Bombshell: Obama Personally Coached Fauci on Beaglegate, Deployed His Fixer, and Weaponized the Washington Post to Try and Crush White Coat Waste

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/diary-bombshell-obama-personally-coached-fauci-beaglegate-deployed

 

 

 

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-31 19:09:00   Reply   Private Reply

#22: Esso    To: All (#21)

I smell Bill Gates.

BREAKING: FLORIDA IS BEING HIT WITH LEPROSY — AND PEOPLE ARE FREAKING OUT

A doctor explains that Florida health officials have just declared leprosy endemic in the state.

That means people are now regularly contracting the disease locally, not just bringing it from elsewhere.

Experts link the rise to armadillos, which carry the bacteria and can leave it in the soil. People who work with soil... gardeners, farmers, and others are at higher risk if they have cuts or breaks in the skin.

Cases have been increasing and the infection can take years to show symptoms.

An ancient disease is making a quiet comeback in Florida.

Why is an ancient disease suddenly becoming endemic in Florida right now... and why does the official explanation feel incomplete?

Armadillos.

 

Esso posted on 2026-07-31 19:20:56   Reply   Private Reply

#23: Pinguinite    To: Esso (#21)

I'm not at all putting everything related to Covid on Trump.  But it is not accurate to say Trump is completely fault free.

Fauci was Trump's man.  2020 Trump was president and he had Fauci making decisions for the rest of his term.  Trump also fast tracked the very mRNA vaxx that has killed so many people and, it seems, still to this day champions what's killed so many people as a wonderful product of American ingenuity.  

Trump has good qualities but he's routinely demonstrated a poor judge of character.  Did that during term 1 with full Deep State advocate John Bolton and also Fauci.

You are right Trump has never forced the clot shot on anyone.  He has maintained it should be voluntary.  That's good.  Same on free speech, so far as I know.  But he did fast track the vaxx, he did champion it as a great thing and he did have Fauci leading the charge. 

Pinguinite posted on 2026-07-31 22:09:54   Reply   Private Reply

#24: ghostrider    To: Esso (#22)

rat piss tops the charts for a dose of leprosy; highest levels of rat piss are found in women's restrooms open to retards sporting a penis. 

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#25: Prefrontal Vortex    To: Horse (#0)

Watching hearings is a harmless way to pass the time if you have nothing better to do

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-08-01 09:19:00   Reply   Private Reply

#26: Prefrontal Vortex    To: Esso (#21)

Trump put a medal on Fauci. Cope harder faggot.

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-08-01 09:21:08   Reply   Private Reply

#27: Esso    To: Pinguinite (#23)

>>...still to this day champions what's killed so many people as a wonderful product of American ingenuity.

Yeah, that's fkd-up as all get out. It makes me wince every time he does it. I don't get it, maybe it's his oversized ego. Even Dr. Robert Malone, the developer of mRNA technology never stood behind it.
Trump isn't a biomedical researcher, so he had to go along with what he was told. Blaming Trump for the clot-shots would be like blaming Dr. Kimmy. She had to go with what the medical/insurance industrial complex mandated.
I'm not happy with a lot of what Trump does, but the alternatives are really frightening, especially now that the libs are going all-in on communism.
He probably would've done better had the libs/deep state not tried to thwart him at every turn.
As for Fauchi, that MFer has been around killing people for forever, since Reagan, I think.
Remember the AIDS/AZT thing? Fauchi. Ironic, since he himself is a narcissistic homosexual.

 

This is Dr. Robert W. Malone. Remember him and how he tried to warn everyone about the COVID vaccine and the dangers of mRNA vaccines?

In 2021, Dr. Robert W. Malone ,the scientist widely credited with foundational work on mRNA technology ,publicly warned that the COVID mRNA shots were an experimental platform being rushed into billions of arms. He specifically raised alarms about potential long-term risks, including immune dysregulation, myocarditis, and other adverse effects that he said could become clearer within roughly 18 months of mass vaccination.

Instead of open scientific debate, Malone was swiftly labeled a “misinformation spreader.” He was banned or restricted on major social media platforms, attacked in mainstream media, and largely sidelined by the medical establishment. His appearances (including on Joe Rogan’s podcast) were met with coordinated efforts to discredit him rather than engage his data-driven concerns.

Whether one agrees with every claim he made, the episode remains a striking case study: a scientist who helped invent the technology was punished for questioning its rapid, universal deployment. History will judge how accurate his 18-month warnings turned out to be.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ I think History has already judged. It’s the ones they don’t want you to hear that you really need to listen to !

https://x.com/ironcanary/status/2082797315316691085

 

 

 

 

 

 

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#28: Esso    To: ghostrider (#24)

Looks like it's gonna be a rainy weekend. We need it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where no mushroom has gone before.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at...

The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power.

Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually.

That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made...

Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept.

There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it:

"Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

 

BREAKING: The Trump administration has been put on notice that if they don't repeal the tariffs, Canada will launch Kotex-6 rockets to Florida and absorb all the water out of the pool at mar-a-lago.

 

 

MAXINE WATERS HAS BEEN A PATIENT AT A LONG-TERM ALZHEIMER’S FACILITY FOR NEARLY FOUR MONTHS — “SHE DOESN’T REMEMBER HER OWN NAME MOST DAYS!”

They’re hiding her in plain sight.

Sources at a Los Angeles long-term Alzheimer’s facility in San Recto confirm that U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters has been a patient there for nearly four months. According to staff, “She doesn’t remember her own name most days.”Even more damning: she’s being listed under the false name “Alexandra Josephine Barron” to keep the truth quiet.

There is no way a member of Congress who can no longer recognize her own name should still be casting votes or listed as an active representative. The Democrat leadership has been covering this up while continuing to use her seat.

This is the real state of the party that claims to care about “democracy.”

 

 

 

 

 

Two doors, as God intended.

 

 

 

Esso posted on 2026-08-01 13:30:23   Reply   Private Reply

#29: Pinguinite    To: Esso (#27)

I don't get it, maybe it's his oversized ego.

His ego is the biggest ego I think most people have ever witnessed.  No question there and that was obvious to me 10 years ago when I thought he would save the world.  

Trump at the end of term 1 was in a no-win political situation.  Had he accurately stated that covid was overblown and vaccines, ACTUAL vaccines instead of the mRNA gene therapy, would take time which we know know would have been the correct call, he would have been blamed for doing nothing while the "epidemic" swept the country and world, and say he has blood on his hands.  He instead did *something*, pushing out a treatment/"cure" for covid which was a disaster, and ironically, it's the dems that have embraced Trump's mRNA product while R's generally shun it.  So for political reasons, the dems will refuse to reverse the mRNA stance because they don't want to admit being wrong, and R's won't condemn it because it's got Trump's MAGA signature on it.

On Fauci, I'll grant Trump could also be given a pass because so little was known about Fauci pre-2020.  His whole history re: AIDS was unknown.

And of course all the money that's connected to it means the medical establishment will not admit to being wrong either.

One of the drivers of Trump's thinking in all things is he's a pro-America patriot.  He will always default to American ingenuity being the best in the world and hesitate to ever question it.  If the exact same clot shot was made by Russia or China, he'd be with us right now pointing out how it kills people.  But because it was "Made in the USA", it got Trump's rubber stamp of approval and in his mind, questioning it would be hating America.  That is what drives Trump's decision making too often.  Ego and misplaced pride.  And a lousy judge of character.

Pinguinite posted on 2026-08-01 15:05:18   Reply   Private Reply

#30: Esso    To: Pinguinite (#29)

I think Trump has been extraordinarily patient with the Deep-State, MSM and the libtards, so far. I would have been renditioning them to CIA 'black sites' for disposal if I was him.
He went from being America's 'Golden Boy' to public enemy number one when he ran for office the first time. Deep-State was threatened.

The 'Mad Mullahs' in Iran aren't getting the benefit of the doubt so much. I'm surprised he hasn't nuked them yet.
I looked at a report today that intimated that the Iranian regime might be starting to crack and return to the negotiating table. It's too soon to tell.
I know what the muzz is like. If Trump 'nuked Iran, paved it and painted it green', I wouldn't have a problem with it.

 

Esso posted on 2026-08-01 17:28:31   Reply   Private Reply

#31: Pinguinite    To: Esso (#30)

I think Trump has actually BECOME the Deep State.  2 words: Epstein Files.  6 million documents or files, years in the running, Jeffrey Epstein convicted, but by some miracle, in spite of all the child sex trafficking Epstein is known to have done, he never actually had any customers?  Seriously?  How do you sex traffic children, or anything else, without customers?  

Trump is protecting them and doing so without any apology or excuse.  Arguments that the files implicate Dems and not Rs fall short, obviously.  Why would Trump protect Dems?  Arguments that Biden & Obama didn't prosecute them also fall short. We KNOW they are Deep State.  That's no reason for Trump to do the same!  

No, I could give Trump some benefit of a doubt on covid and Fauci as I did above, but not protecting Epstein's clients?  No, never.  MTG reported Trump telling her directly that if the files were fully investigated, his friends would get hurt. And I could picture Trump saying something like that.  He told Netanyahu that he should be thankful because he (Trump) helped keep him out of jail.  Those are not exactly the words of someone that is seeking justice. Those are the words of someone who's protecting criminal allies.

Iran has been on the Deep State's shit list since 1979, when Iranians had somewhat of a minor repeat of the French Revolution, but to their credit, at least didn't kill any of the hostages.  They got fed up with 25 years of rule under a Deep State appointed Shah, put in power by the CIA in 1953 for the purpose of exploiting Iranian oil and who also stood accused of crimes against the Iranian people.  Guilty or innocent?  Who knows, but Carter protected him in spite of the accusations.  Could Carter have actually gone ahead and extradited him?  Probably not.  Politically impossible.  Was the hostage taking the wrong solution for the Iranians?  Sure it was, just like it is when anyone does, including Israel, Hamas, North Korea, China and the USA, the last of which has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world.  The US has a routine record of regime change operations and that reputation persists in my part of the world.  They did it in Ukraine too.  It happened under Obama's watch but that was still America.

Buddy, I hear you when you talk about the clot shots and all the corruption behind it.  It's all through the medical industry, from hospitals, big pharma medical corps, big media, big tech and gov regulatory agencies like the CDC and NIH.  But I don't quite understand your not seeing the same corruption when it comes to US gov foreign policy.  You consider Iran guilty as accused.  Me?  I see American Deep State corruption in both places.  All places, actually.  Where there's big money there's corruption.  And whatever good qualities Trump had and maybe still has today, those qualities are apparently not strong enough to withstand the corruption of power.

I know you got very bad personal experience going back to 82 and you blame Islam for it.  Can't criticize the sentiment as I don't have your experience to prove I'd do better.  Sure there are militant Islamic killers that would kill people out of extremist religious beliefs.  And I've no doubt there are more of those in Islam than there are Christianity or Hinduism, but history shows that Christians have indeed killed innocents in the name of Jesus.  So fine, Islam is surely worse in that regard, I'm not ready to say Islam is worse than Zionist-Judaism.  Huge swaths of Israelis have proven to have this sick mentality about killing anyone who stands in their way of acquiring more property, more land.  Israelis are also the best in the world when it comes to propaganda and manipulation of media and political heads globally, and putting bombs in pagers.  They know how to do that. They know how to make things like 911 and Oct 7 happen so it favors their political benefit.

There are good Muslims.  And good Israelis.  There always are at least SOME.  It's not about religion.  It's about politics and power.  And I don't see the current war with Iran having anything to do with religion.  Iranians could rise up tomorrow and throw the Islamic Mullahs out of power and turn it into a Republic with the exact same election system as the USA, and if they did, do you think the sanctions would end?  No, it wouldn't.  It would depend on who Iranians elected.  The US doesn't care about the system of gov in Iran representing the people.  If the US did, we wouldn't be buddy-buddy with Saudi Arabia which is a prehistoric monarchy.  Doesn't even pretend to have elections.  Israel sure doesn't care about the government.  Israel doesn't want Iran being a regional power.  They want it to collapse into civil war because then it would stop being a regional power, allowing Israel to operate with impunity as it takes Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon and Syria too.  That's what the war is ultimately about.  Religion?  No, it's not about that at all.  That's just the excuse.

I'm rambling now.  I'll end by saying I find the whole ME situation quite depressing.  Genocide being carried out and enabled / rubber stamped by US politicians whom Israel has corruptly put into power and done so with US taxpayer money.  Genius operation, really.  As much as you despise Iran, I despise Israel and probably moreso.  That human beings could be brought mentally to support genocide shows a clear defect in the human species.  Grew up being taught regularly that genocide is a bad thing and being told how inhumane the Nazis were, and led to believe the human race is PERMANENTLY beyond such depravity (assuming Nazi Germany was as bad as we've been taught which is now questionable).  And here we are again.  Maybe the current genocide should serve as evidence that 1940's genocide against Jews COULD HAVE happened.  It's proving human depravity is indeed possible.


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