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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
What he’s saying: Paul has an “unhinged obsession with me,” and his motive for the hearing is to “get me to say something — anything — that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, quote, behind bars unquote,” Fauci said.
“Although it pains me to do so … under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions,” Fauci said.
I always assumed libertarians were people who didn’t want to call themselves republicans because republicans didn’t lean into pedophilia hard enough for them.
In the USA, libertarianism was invented after the New Deal in order to allow monopolies and other capital accumulation to occur without government interference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Libertarianism_in_the_United_States_(1943–1980s)