Conspiracy theory roundup: “Ron Johnson’s priorities are backwards, and he’s a silly man.” Plus: Bioweapon deployed in Texas.
Having achieved the dream of an executive branch that does all of the work while Republicans in the legislative branch collects paychecks, Republicans in congress have more time to indulge in their favorite hobbies. In addition to molesting the local population of snakeheads, there’s digging long-debunked conspiracy theories out of the garbage and toddling off to share them with Benny Plagiarism.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said this week that he wants to hold congressional hearings on a debunked conspiracy theory about the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that there are “an awful lot of questions” about the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history.
“There’s an awful lot of questions,” Johnson, the chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said Monday in an interview on the conservative activist Benny Johnson’s podcast.
“What actually happened on 9/11? What do we know? What is being covered up?” Johnson said of the 2001 attacks. “My guess is there’s an awful lot being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”
Part of Ron’s problem is he is so ignorant he doesn’t understand how fire works. And rather than figure out fire, how does it work? he believes that the Bush II government hid the real reason a building that was on fire for several hours fell down. The other problem is he’s a massive johnsonhead. This makes him prime presidential material according the GOP.
Real people with real lives and a work ethic don’t have time for this shit.
John Feal, a demolition supervisor at Ground Zero in New York and longtime advocate for first responders, called Johnson’s remarks “silly and pathetic.”
“If Ron Johnson really wants to know what happened on 9/11, I can meet with him,” Feal told CNN in an interview Wednesday. “I’ll let him know that innocent lives were lost on 9/11. Heroes died racing towards those innocent lives, and subsequently, 137,000 people are now sick because of the aftermath of 9/11.”
Feal said he’ll be in D.C. on Tuesday to advocate against the Trump administration’s cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program, and said that’s what Johnson should be questioning.
“Ron Johnson’s priorities are backwards, and he’s a silly man,” Feal said.
I popped Feal’s name in the search engine and one of the things I saw was a billet doux on Xitter in which he sends an FU to Kennedy and Presidents MuskTrump. You can read a bit more about a man who ticks most of the right wing’s boxes for manly mantasticness here. (He’s disqualified from full mantasticness because he stands up for other people and he supported Harris.)
In other, even more reckless conspiracy theory news, some of HHS Secretary Kennedy’s Make Kids Die of Preventable Diseases Again pals are blaming the measles outbreak they worked so hard to achieve on a biological attack.
“I’m not going to be careful by calling it a virus,” Willis said in the measles webinar. “I’m going to call it what it is, and that is a bioweapon, and my belief after interviewing these families is that this has been manipulated and targeted towards a community that is a threat because of their natural way of living.”
Now, if a normal person with a functioning moral compass thought that someone really and truly deployed a bioweapon in the U.S. they would be screaming for help. And several state and federal agencies would respond, including the HHS. But the freaks who want more kids to get sick have slop to sell. So more kids get sick. So they can sell more slop. And the HHS is helmed by a slug of a man who is probably getting a cut.
The webinar was hosted by Rebel Lion, the supplement company that Willis cofounded.
Rebel Lion. Get it? Actually, do those clowns hear how that name sounds?
On the website, and prominently featured under the webinar, Willis sells and recommends a “measles treatment and prevention protocol” full of supplements and tools on the site.
Even their fake care plan is assbackwards. According to the article the snake oil kit costs hundreds of dollars. Meanwhile, measles/mumps/rubella vaccinations for children are covered by insurance thanks to the ACA. Or have the supremes ganked that yet? I assume most adults who receive a top up shot have to pay some or all of the cost. If you know different and wouldn’t mind doing so, please say so in the comments.
What’s in the kit? Lies, bullshit and profit$.
On the webinar, Bartlett pushed unproven measles treatments like the steroid budesonide and the antibiotic clarithromycin. He also urged viewers to buy a range of pseudoscientific treatments. Along with mouthwash, supplemental oxygen, and a few other items, the measles protocol includes Rebel Lion’s own Fierce Immunity capsules, which cost $50 for a single bottle and contain a blend of five supplements available off the shelf that the company claims have been formulated with a supposed AI technology known as Swarm Intelligence.
Swarm IntelligenceTM. A massive leap forward in computer programming? Or a string of science fictiony words deployed by a conartist to rook the rubes?
Swarm Intelligence was created by Anton Fliri, who says he has worked as a cancer researcher at Pfizer in the past. Fliri told Willis in a webinar last August that unlike regular AI, his technology “is the natural form of intelligence, that’s the way our brain works, that’s the way our body works and it doesn’t hallucinate because everything we are doing is based on reality, based on the real evidence.”
I think it is the latter. I also think these ghouls have more treatment first, prevention second kits assembled for all sorts of diseases. Buy the complete MMR pack and get a 10% discount!
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