Rand Paul roasts ruling class in annual 'Festivus Report'



Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky posted his 10th annual "Festivus Report" on Monday, continuing his decade-long tradition of airing his grievances about government waste.

In this year's report, Paul brought in the Christmas spirit and began by laying out his complaints on all things congressional.

"It’s hard to decide where to start these grievances," Paul said in the annual thread on X. "Every year, I think, there can’t be THAT many more can there? But when you’re surrounded by people in Congress every day, it’s not a problem at all."

'I was a one-man DOGE before DOGE was a gleam in the eyes of amped-up tech executives, and new media barons got behind the idea.'

"It's hard to decide where to start this year," Paul continued. "Fauci? Maybe. He may be gone, but he's not forgotten. Biden? Which one? Harris? Trump? CONGRESS? So many targets, so little attention span this morning. It might break 40 degrees here in Kentucky today, so this might all be canceled for golf."

Paul laid into Dr. Anthony Fauci, pointing to the House's attempt to hold him accountable. Although Fauci is still "walking around a free man," Paul mentioned his incoming chairmanship on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which has the subpoena power to "force [Fauci] to turn over everything he's been hiding."

"Even better, my good friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be in charge of HHS and happily receive the subpoena for other documents," Paul said. "Do you think he might be happy to turn them over? Merry Christmas and Happy Festivus, Tony."

Paul also set his sights on former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted earlier in the 118th Congress. As a result, McCarthy spent tens of millions on primary challengers against members of Congress who voted to vacate the speakership only to fail.

"Speaking of people who got run out of town but won't entirely go away, Happy Festivus to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy!" Paul said. "Kevin spent nearly $30 million trying to defeat conservatives who voted him out last year. But he only won one race when President Trump was also against his target. Basically, he completely and utterly failed. He lost races by 27 and 30 points. Speaker McCarthy proved as bad at running campaigns as he did the House. But he's still on my TV?! WHY?"

That being said, McCarthy was not the only speaker whom Paul called out. Although Speaker Mike Johnson narrowly avoided a government shutdown on Friday, Paul predicts that his speakership may be in jeopardy after the funding fiasco.

"I noted last year that I would be roasting the next speaker and the gang who put him in power by this Festivus," Paul said. "As usual, I am right. I want to be the first to congratulate former @SpeakerJohnson, who will be gone before DC gets warm again."

In the spirit of DOGE, Paul also published a 2024 government waste report that includes a $10,000 grant to support an ice skating show performed by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret focusing on climate change, $20 million on an Arabic spin-off of "Sesame Street," over $30,000 for breakdancing, and over $720,000 on wetland conservation projects for ducks in Mexico.

"I was a one-man DOGE before DOGE was a gleam in the eyes of amped-up tech executives, and new media barons got behind the idea," Paul said as he wrapped up his thread. "Don't get me wrong, I'm VERY happy they're here. I passed along 2,000 pages of waste to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in the interest of curbing government waste. Now, they don't have to work too hard to find what I've already found."

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‘It will seal his fate’: Rand Paul GOES OFF on rumor that Biden will pardon Dr. Fauci



Rumors have begun circulating that President Biden will issue preemptive pardons for many people he believes Donald Trump will go after as president — including Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“It doesn’t seem like you could do that, but they’ll try it anyway,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” tells guest Senator Rand Paul.

“I’ve sent referrals, criminal referrals, on Anthony Fauci twice to the Department of Justice without really a response. Merrick Garland hasn’t done his job; he’s probably been the most partisan attorney general we’ve ever had. I will send those referrals again if they preemptively pardon Anthony Fauci,” Paul explains.

“It will seal his fate as the architect, author, and godfather of the pandemic,” Paul continues. “He’s the one that funded it; he’s the one that funded the research in Wuhan; he’s the one that allowed the research not to be scrutinized.”


“There was a safety committee that was supposed to scrutinize dangerous research. It was set up because of fear of exactly this happening. There have been scientists talking about this for 20 years, worried that this is going to happen. Anthony Fauci sidestepped the safety committee and allowed this research to go on,” he explains.

“Then when it came forward that he had done it, he was like, ‘Oh, nothing to see here, we didn’t really do it. Oh, well, we funded EcoHealth, and they funded Wuhan, but oh, nothing to see here,’” he continues. “And then he had the gall to say it wasn’t gain-of-function and it wasn’t dangerous. That’s a lie.”

Which is why Paul doesn’t believe a presidential pardon will do much for Fauci at this point.

“If the president pardons him, I think it’ll just cement his role in history as being the architect of gain-of-function,” Paul tells Glenn, who believes that this is where Trump’s appointed FBI director, Kash Patel, can come in.

“I hope he releases just the raw evidence that has been gathered,” Glenn says. “You know, kind of like the Twitter files, where we can see all the stuff that has been classified that should be seen by the American people.”

“The FBI did do their job. They did a report, and they said that they thought COVID came from a lab, that the virus or the pandemic started with a lab leak, but they haven’t released their report. They’ve been told to declassify it,” Paul says, adding, “I truly believe Kash Patel will look at that.”

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Fauci admits there was no scientific evidence for 6-foot social distancing or masking children, concedes lab leak was 'possible'



Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted that there was no scientific evidence behind the 6-foot social distancing protocol or the guidelines for masking children, according to bombshell congressional testimony. Fauci also conceded that the lab leak theory is a "possible" explanation for the origins of COVID-19.

On Friday, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released 500 pages of transcripts of a congressional interview with Fauci that was conducted in January 2024.

During the interview, Fauci was asked if there were any scientific studies showing that the 6-foot social distancing guidelines were an effective deterrent to spreading the coronavirus.

Fauci – who was the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for nearly four decades – responded, "I was not aware of studies that in fact, that would be a very difficult study to do."

Fauci was a top leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force under former President Donald Trump and the Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.

Also during the congressional interview, Fauci was asked if he recalled "reviewing any studies or data supporting masking for children?"

He replied that he "might have," but added, "I don't recall specifically that I did."

Fauci was then questioned if he had seen any of the scientific studies showing children wearing masks suffered learning loss as well as speech and development issues.

Fauci answered, "No. But I believe that there are a lot of conflicting studies too, that there are those that say, yes, there is an impact, and there are those that say there's not. I still think that’s up in the air."

During the interview, Fauci was asked if he believed that the coronavirus had the origin of a "laboratory accident" or if the lab leak was a conspiracy theory.

"Well, it's a possibility. I think people have made conspiracy aspects from it. And I think you have to separate the two when you keep an open mind, that it could be a lab leak or it could be a natural occurrence," Fauci said.

He continued, "I've mentioned in this committee that I believe the evidence that I've seen weighs my opinion towards one, which is a natural occurrence, but I still leave an open mind. So I think that in and of itself isn't inherently a conspiracy theory, but some people spin off things from that that are kind of crazy."

The subcommittee asked if we'll ever know the origins of the COVID-19 virus, to which he replied that the lack of cooperation from the Chinese government "makes it less and less likely that we'll ever know."

The release of the transcripts arrived just days before Fauci is set to testify in his first public hearing since his retirement in December 2022.

Fauci will testify before the House's COVID Select Subcommittee on Monday.

Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) said in a statement: "Retirement from public service does not excuse Dr. Fauci from accountability to the American people. On June 3, Americans will have an opportunity to hear directly from Dr. Fauci about his role in overseeing our nation’s pandemic response, shaping pandemic-era polices, and promoting singular questionable narratives about the origins of COVID-19."

BlazeTV host Matt Kibbe and his fact-finding team at Free the People have spent months investigating the origins of COVID-19 and how Fauci may have been lying during the entire pandemic.

Kibbe explained how things could go south for Fauci.

"A lot of Fauci deputies are starting to talk," Kibbe stated. "We had a former NIH director announce in testimony that of course we were doing gain-of-function research. So pretty much a smoking gun."

Blaze Media recently released the new docuseries, "The Coverup," which Kibbe said the investigative series will "shine light on the shadowy government figures who caused so much pain and suffering with their tyrannical overreach during the pandemic."

He contended, "They would rather we not uncover what really happened. They want us to just move on. Unfortunately for them, I’m not going to let that happen."

Watch the gripping trailer for "The Coverup" below.

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