CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins

Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by tptacek on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:28PM (#42837427)

I don't think this was as boneheaded as you both do. I think the Cheney political legacy overall is odious, but none of Liz Cheney's recent supporters are there for her foreign policy; it's because she sacrificed her political career to stand up to Donald Trump, which is admirable, and because Trump took the bait and cast her as an enemy of the party, which raised her profile. The idea was that there was some material faction of the GOP that was persuadable by dint of Liz Cheney's mistreatment by GOP nominee.

The Cheney thing reminds me of people's attitudes towards John McCain. His history in the GOP: also not great. But in the end, he did have some principles; it's not unreasonable to celebrate them.

None of this is really germane to the thread, I just get irritable when directly partisan Democrat vs. Republican politics end up here.

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by camgunz on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:56AM (#42838873)

I'll mea culpa: I try pretty hard to not backseat campaign manage. My defense is I was posting after midnight and wine and I'm trying to find a balance between not suffering right wing talking points and offering olive branches. I do agree we should celebrate the kind of courage Cheney showed, especially given the kinds of threats she's experienced since.

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by biohcacker84 on Monday January 27, 2025 @11:21AM (#42842704)

And then Liz Cheney deleted evidence and was pardoned. While the Russian conspiracy was proven a lie. And the Hunter laptop was proven real. And almost all things Trump was charged with also turned out false.

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