To Trump and his followers, Ashli Babbitt is a martyr who gave her life to “Stop the Steal” (not voluntarily, it should be noted). But what was this mythical, heroic figure like in real life? Ashli had left the military in 2016 after a combined 14 years in the Air Force and Air National [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Conspiracy Theories’
December 9th, 2021 - 1:04 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Party time for #Devin Nunes Cow!
In keeping with the general holiday spirit now pervading the land and shopping malls, Devin Nunes’ Cow, the famous mythical bovine, is celebrating the news that Nunes is leaving Congress “to join Donald Trump’s new social media network” — to run it, actually. Read story[...]
University of Washington Magazine, December 2021, article links
This is the official quarterly publication of the U.W. Alumni Association, and can be found online here. Articles in the current issue include: Legal Relief – A U.W. program works with prison inmates serving long sentences for crimes committed as juveniles to help them secure release and aid t[...]
Gateway Pundit is sued again, this time by election workers
Gateway Pundit, a far-right website that routinely publishes libels and promotes false conspiracy theories, is frequently sued. Wikipedia says (here) it “has a record of misidentifying perpetrators of shootings and terror attacks,” pointing out innocent persons by name, and provides mult[...]
November 30th, 2021 - 3:20 pm § in Donald Trump, Jews
The madness of QAnon crowds
It began November 2, when “hundreds of QAnon supporters gathered in Dallas at the site of John F. Kennedy’s assassination because they believed that John F. Kennedy Jr. would appear and announce the reinstatement of Donald Trump as president.” (See story here.) John F. Kennedy Jr. was [...]
November 26th, 2021 - 6:42 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
What election lawsuit? This is a pillow sale!
“Despite months of promising to file an explosive lawsuit that would ‘pull down’ the 2020 presidential election results and reinstate Donald Trump to the White House, pillow-monger Mike Lindell has instead turned his election-fraud-athon into a four-day sales promotion,” Huff[...]
November 25th, 2021 - 3:48 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Lara Trump says high turkey prices are a liberal plot to destroy America
“Lara Trump admitted that her claim of a leftwing plot against Thanksgiving ‘might seem a little funny and a little ridiculous’.” — The Guardian (story here). Click on image below. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Is Michael Flynn insane?
Is there a psychiatrist in the house? Michael Flynn, convicted liar and promoter of false conspiracy theories, now claims “global elites” are fixing to unleash a new virus on humanity because “their little plan with COVID” didn’t work. (Read story here.) Not because gov[...]
November 24th, 2021 - 8:13 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The origin of #StopTheSteal
Like a volcano bubbling underground, the #StopTheSteal hashtag had many wellsprings, but one in particular uncorked the eruption. “The edifice of #StopTheSteal was constructed on a foundation of false claims of widespread election fraud that predates Trump’s candidacy,” Mother Jones sa[...]
November 13th, 2021 - 11:45 am § in Health
Another one bites the dust
In February 2021, Jimmy DeYoung Sr., a religious broadcaster who pushed false vaccine conspiracy theories, invited on his show a guest named Sam Rohrer (profile here), who argued that “very few people who were infected lost their lives.” Dr. DeYoung Sr. (photo) just became one of [...]