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at were in the vaccination decision-making capacity. To which I say don't you think there's a little context missing to that? Do you think he just fired them because they liked vaccinations? Or do you think he fired them because they were actively trying to stop him from gathering more information about vaccinations? Or do you think they may have had some ties to the pharma companies they were try…

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've heard this story over the decades. Interesting. Engineering has it this time that some Chinese entity has developed a transparent coating for windows that would allow the window to become a solar power generator. Now is it just me or does this story come out once a year and has for my entire adult life? How many times have you heard somebody invented a window that will turn sun into energy and it'll be cost effective? I swear once a year for at least 30 years.

So is this one the real one? Nah. No probably not. I wouldn't bet on it.

So Rand Paul did an interview talking about Dr. Fauci and he said that the private emails show the lab leak theory was at least a 50/50 with him. He says that government officials were aware COVID likely leaked from a Wuhan lab but destroyed anyone who said so publicly. So Rand Paul says it's an extraordinary thing where in private they know that from the documents that they were very open to the fact leaning towards and in favor of the fact that the virus came from the lab. In public they were disdainful.

Is there a reason why that matters so much? There's something about the story that I'm missing. I get that Fauci shouldn't have been lying and I get that probably would have been better if we knew the right answer but did it make any difference in the end that we knew where it came from or we didn't know where it came from? Like as a practical matter would we have treated China differently? I don't know.

So I will acknowledge that Fauci h

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as to answer for that if he was lying to the public. But I'm not aware of how that hurt us. I mean you wouldn't want it to happen again right? But did it hurt us just in trust? Yeah. So yeah I'm agreeing that we'd have to do something about it. All right. Thomas Massie points out that Congress spends tens of millions of dollars on secret projects that can only be viewed in a secure room. And if y…

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