Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), already infamous for his anti-vax antics, was torched Sunday, October 17, 2021, on MSNBC for telling Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, herself a piece of work, “that coronavirus vaccines are ‘experimental’ and ivermectin … is not being promoted as a COVI[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Conspiracy Theories’
October 17th, 2021 - 1:56 pm § in Politics
Idaho to audit ballots in all 50 states!
“Ten Idaho legislators … have signed a letter calling for an audit of 2020 election results in all 50 states,” a Spokane newspaper reports here. “The letter was originally written by Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Republican,” the story says, adding, “Rogers a[...]
GOP congressman visits school and tells kids to defy mask policy
A Republican congressman from Virginia is telling high school students to disobey their school’s mask policy and refuse to wear masks. Rep. Bob Good (bio here, photo below), who represents a mostly rural district abutting West Virginia, spoke to a high school government class on Thursday, October [...]
October 15th, 2021 - 7:03 pm § in Misc.
The Un-News: What didn’t happen the week of 10/15/21
The IRS didn’t begin monitoring all transactions involving bank accounts of more than $600. Denver airport restaurant employees didn’t strike, and the restaurants didn’t close. A recently vaccinated Delta Airlines pilot didn’t die during a flight. A 2018 study didn’t co[...]
Idaho recounts debunk fraud claims
“A hand recount of Bonner County’s 2020 ballots found eight more votes for former President Donald Trump and one more for President Joe Biden,” a Spokane newspaper reported on October 2, 2021. “The Idaho Secretary of State’s Office said … the nine ballots were attributed [...]
Idaho’s smackdown of an election conspiracy theory
The election conspiracies are absurd, and the people promoting them are crazy. It’s time to say so. Take, for example, Idaho, a deep-red state that voted 2-to-1 for Trump. That didn’t stop conspiracy promoters from claiming the vote tallies in all 44 counties were electronically manipula[...]
September 23rd, 2021 - 3:15 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump demands Texas vote “audit”
He’s claiming that “fraud” and “irregularities” occurred in a state he easily won. (Read story here.) Really? Yes. “Despite my big win in Texas, I hear Texans want an election audit! You know your fellow Texans have big questions about the November 2020 Election,” T[...]
The stupid stuff Trumpers believe
Better skip the salad dressing at your next outing in a no-masks-allowed restaurant. The government is sneaking vaccine into it. At least, that’s what rightwing conspiracy-mongers like Mike Flynn are saying now. Allow me to let you in on a closely-guarded liberal secret. If we’re going t[...]
“It’s been widely reported”
… in rightwing media that someone in the White House has a mute button to turn Biden off when he begins sounding senile. And a United States Senator was determined to get to the bottom of it. So he grilled Biden’s secretary of state about it in a Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Sen.[...]
He died for freedom
Not in Kabul. In Texas, a far deadlier place for Americans than Afghanistan ever was, or ever will be. According to Johns Hopkins University’s Covid Tracker data base (here), Covid-19 has infected over 3.5 million Texans, and killed 56,577 of them. That’s approaching, and likely will soo[...]