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[Richard Smith]

And so it goes with no consequences.  Another MAGA conspiracy theory turns out to be true.  Where is Fauci?

"The Energy Department, which was previously undecided on the origin of the pandemic, now joins the FBI’s stance that the coronavirus likely spread due to a mishap at a Chinese laboratory, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress."

[Martin Weidmann]

And so it goes with no consequences.  Another MAGA conspiracy theory turns out to be true.  Where is Fauci?

"The Energy Department, which was previously undecided on the origin of the pandemic, now joins the FBI’s stance that the coronavirus likely spread due to a mishap at a Chinese laboratory, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress."

More right wing paranoia...  It has always been a possibility that something had gone wrong in the lab in China, but as the Chinese refused to cooperate there wasn't enough information either way to come to a conclusion based on actual evidence. Obviously, that didn't stop the extreme right wing media to jump to conclusions anyway. But even if there was a leak at a lab in China, how is that a conspiracy?

It's impossible to keep track of the multiple ludacris conspiracy theories of the MAGA cult, so please do tell, what exactly was/is the conspiracy you are talking about?

And what has Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief medical advisor to the President to do with the Energy Department or the FBI?   

[Richard Smith]

Ukraine Joe had another horrific week last week.  Inflation numbers are up, the stock market is crashing, billions more sent to Ukraine with no end in sight, he fell down the stairs of his plane again, the buffoon Mayor Pete humiliated his administration with a silly photo op visit to Ohio in which he met no one and fled before they knew he was even there, Biden's bribe of student load debt is set to be reviewed by the Supreme Court and likely overturned, and Old Joe, for some inexplicable reason, still refuses to visit the disaster scene in Ohio like a badge of honor despite flying halfway around the world to Ukraine (where he has been many times while VP).  Unreal.  Meanwhile Trump was welcomed like a hero in Ohio.  Magnificent.

[Richard Smith]

Over one million Americans dead from COVID and counting.  We were told by Fauci and the leftists that it didn't come from a lab and that it was a baseless conspiracy theory to even suggest.  In fact, you would be banned from social media for "disinformation" and called racist if you did so.  Fast forward to today, and we suddenly learn that the leftists always entertained the possibility of a lab leak.  Just like they apparently always entertained the possibility that Hunter's laptop wasn't the product of Russian disinformation.   Just because they said the exact opposite at the time and attributed any dissent to being racist or an insane conspiracy theorist is long forgotten. 

[Martin Weidmann]

Over one million Americans dead from COVID and counting.  We were told by Fauci and the leftists that it didn't come from a lab and that it was a baseless conspiracy theory to even suggest.  In fact, you would be banned from social media for "disinformation" and called racist if you did so.  Fast forward to today, and we suddenly learn that the leftists always entertained the possibility of a lab leak.  Just like they apparently always entertained the possibility that Hunter's laptop wasn't the product of Russian disinformation.   Just because they said the exact opposite at the time and attributed any dissent to being racist or an insane conspiracy theorist is long forgotten.

We were told by Fauci and the leftists that it didn't come from a lab

No we weren't. Why do you always have to make up stuff? They said from the beginning (under Trump, I might add) that there was no certainty where the virus came from. They wanted to investigate the lab in China, but the Chinese refused to cooperate.

that it was a baseless conspiracy theory to even suggest

At the time it was, because it was a claim for which there was no evidence either way. And there still isn't now. All the report says is that it is likely that the virus came from a Chinese lab. For reasonable people "likely" is hardly conclusive.

Fast forward to today, and we suddenly learn that the leftists always entertained the possibility of a lab leak. 

Wrong again. We don't learn that suddenly. Reasonable people have known that all along. it's only gullible cultists with an agenda who ignored it so they could have one more thing to complain about.

Just like they apparently always entertained the possibility that Hunter's laptop wasn't the product of Russian disinformation.

Democrats have always stated that the matter of Hunter Biden's laptop needed to be investigated and that one should wait for the outcome of that investigation before starting to make outrages claims. The message clearly never reached the right wingers or they simply ignored it.

But it seems that Grumpy is, yet again, completely unable to answer my questions. He calls it a conspiracy but can not say what exactly that conspiracy was/is and who was involved. It's duly noted...

The list of claims made by Richard that he can't substantiate is growing longer with every pathetic post he writes.

[Richard Smith]

Fauci: "No scientific evidence the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab."

[Richard Smith]

No leftist revisionist history is required.  The media and Fauci implied for years that it was a racist conspiracy theory to suggest that COVID originated in a lab.  They banned and/or chastised posters on social media who suggested that the virus originated in a lab as "disinformation" or "racist."  They didn't take a neutral approach that there was a lack of evidence either way and it was an issue in doubt.  They viciously attacked anyone who expressed any doubt that it was naturally occurring. 

[Martin Weidmann]

Fauci: "No scientific evidence the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab."

He was correct when he said it. There was no evidence because the Chinese did not cooperate. So what exactly is your problem.

No leftist revisionist history is required.  The media and Fauci implied for years that it was a racist conspiracy theory to suggest that COVID originated in a lab.  They banned and/or chastised posters on social media who suggested that the virus originated in a lab as "disinformation" or "racist."  They didn't take a neutral approach that there was a lack of evidence either way and it was an issue in doubt.  They viciously attacked anyone who expressed any doubt that it was naturally occurring. 

I'm not sure where you get the "racist" BS from, but it was indeed (and still is) a conspiracy theory to claim, without evidence, that one particular scenario was true, when nobody could and still can't prove it was/is indeed true. Spreading claims without evidence to back it up can indeed be and justly was considered disinformation.

There is more revisionism in this post than anything coming from the left. It is one thing to "express doubt" about something. It's something else entirely to claim that something did happen without being able to prove it. The last thing they needed in a pandemic was idiots making all sorts of wild claims to make the population, or at least part of it, feel insecure. That's what happened here!