While federal officials angrily complain that “online falsehoods are complicating the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton,” Elon Musk uses his social media to spread them, Politico reported the day before Milton slams into Tampa Bay (read story here). He’s echoing the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Conspiracy Theories’
September 9th, 2024 - 5:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
I can’t prove J. D. Vance kidnaps and eats cats
Nor does he have any evidence that Haitian immigrants kidnap and eat cats, but that doesn’t keep him from saying they do (see story here). Why is he doing it? Huffington Post said (here) that “it appears Vance was responding to a collection of rumors and baseless internet posts related t[...]
July 16th, 2024 - 1:37 am § in Donald Trump, Misc.
Who is Johnathan Willis?
“Johnathan Willis” is a fictional Secret Service agent in a widely circulated internet hoax designed to feed a false narrative that the Biden administration was behind the Trump assassination attempt. On July 14, 2024, a day after the Pennsylvania rally shooting that wounded Trump, a pos[...]
April 10th, 2023 - 11:24 pm § in Health
Tiffany Dover isn’t dead
Tiffany Dover, a Tennessee hospital nurse, fainted after receiving one of the first Covid-19 vaccine shots (first video clip below). She has a long history of fainting spells, and the vaccine shot had nothing to do with it. It’s a result of an underlying medical condition. But anti-vaccine con[...]
December 30th, 2022 - 12:46 pm § in Health
Research confirms GOPers were sucker-punched by anti-vaxxers
It’s true! Science denial kills! It shouldn’t be hard to figure out that if you jump off a cliff, you’re going to splatter, but lots of gullible Republicans did just that during the pandemic. Flipping off reality obviously is unhealthy, but people do it. Research confirms higher de[...]
December 1st, 2022 - 6:36 pm § in Law and Courts
Covid-19 widow suing Dr. Fauci has to prove her case
And that could be very difficult. Leann Dykes, of Kansas City, who lost her husband to Covid-19 in November 2020, before there were vaccines, is suing Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health for wrongful death. To hold them liable for his death, she has to prove (a) they were neglige[...]
November 1st, 2022 - 12:50 am § in Law and Courts
Profit drives conspiracy theories
Why are there so many conspiracy theories? Because promoting them is a lucrative business. Here in the U.S., conspiracy theorist Alex Jones of “Infowars” made millions from calling the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax, and the victims’ families “crisis actors.” A jury decided[...]
October 3rd, 2022 - 8:51 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Why would a doctor say schools make kids pee in “litter boxes”?
Because he’s a candidate, that’s why. Scott Jensen (photo, left) isn’t a stupid man. He’s a man who wants to get elected governor of Minnesota, and because he’s running as a Republican, he thinks he has to say stupid things. Jensen, 67, grew up in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.[...]
No, Rep. Greene didn’t audition for American Idol and flop
A rumor is circulating that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a GOP clown posing as a legislator, auditioned for American Idol under an alias in 2002 and was rejected following an awful performance (see story here). The person in the audition video that recently surfaced (watch it below) certainly[...]
August 7th, 2022 - 10:31 pm § in Politics
What to say to someone being silly
“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Saturday said ‘no one can convince’ her that the rioters behind the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol were not anti-fascist protesters.” Read story here. No one can convince me she isn’t a moon rock made of green cheese. Return to[...]