That viral poll about vaccine hesitancy is not all it seems. Confidence in vaccines has decreased recently but it’s not as tenuous as the Politico poll made out, because the question was poorly worded.
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Posts by Mike Wendling
With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻
Tucker Carlson, leader of the Paranoid Style, leans into Pizzagate. It might not be true BUT something seems up with that strange apparent code (true) AND nobody’s asking questions(false). Oh and “there’s no white person in America who drinks grape soda”.
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A picture I took at a grassroots pro-Trump rally in the Detroit suburbs two years ago.
Other than the man in the White House, what’s changed?
A reminder of what's true and false about Epstein and Pizzagate
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JD Vance mentioned Pizzagate and conspiracyland is losing its mind
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And an interesting take which argues, bad story, bad headline. The company could be full of shit
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Good story, bad headline.
It’s a shady marketing campaign, not a “psychological operation”
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Yep, was in the papers when the story broke
Private Eye on Scott Mills… and Anna Brees
Yeah that’s because she was largely trading on her work for the BBC. not a sin, I used to be in their full-time employ too. (For about 10x as long as anna but whatevs, I guess that just makes me brainwashed) But for a conspiracist it’s a tough needle to thread
She was right! Like a stopped clock
Anna Brees, formerly @breesanna on X, noted Covid conspiracist and one-time BBC journalist a while ago, reported Scott Mills to the BBC but nobody investigated. She was on to something for once and then suddenly deleted her account. The girl who cried wolf.
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Anti-vaxxers are whooping it up over Elon Musk’s promotion of propaganda from “Peter Sweden”. Here’s a tale of MAHA meeting Europe’s far-right on the ultimate radicalization timeline – and I traced it all the way to its original source.
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I'm making a radio doc about prediction markets. Are you a trader or do you know one? michael.wendling@bbc.co.uk
Sounds like a deal lol
When right-wing fact checkers feel compelled to call out Candace Owens over her Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories, you know all is not right in the MAGA character universe.
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Nobody was talking about this now everybody will be talking about this
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Something new is definitely happening here.
Conservatives are starting to cotton on but still don't entirely get it. The far-right folks aren't "putting the next generation of Republican leadership at risk" - they ARE the next generation.
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Generally: liberals are clueless about how to deal with this, conservatives deny there’s a problem, most in authority don’t really understand. Fathers and mothers (but mostly fathers) this is on us.
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You can only ride the tiger for so long.
The MAGA hivemind loves to use conspiracy theories to bash those libs, but conspiracy theories are now eating the movement from the inside
Ideologies can blind, and in this case “own the libs” made a lot of people stick their fingers in their ears and hum loudly.
Yet another story in a conservative publication fretting about conspiracy theories. It’s a trend.
The authors may have noticed that QAnon believers were among those rioting at the Capitol five years ago.
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Oh wait I’m sorry! It’s “none of the above”
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“Cracks have begun to emerge in the broad coalition of America's political right”
@wendling.bsky.social, author of Alt-Right, speaks on BBC Radio 4 about the MAGA Civil War:
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“Cracks have begun to emerge in the broad coalition of America's political right”
@wendling.bsky.social, author of Alt-Right, speaks on BBC Radio 4 about the MAGA Civil War:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Following the hack-and-leak of Kash Patel’s emails will there be:
A) uproar over “censorship”, a la Hunter Biden laptop?
B) conspiracy theories about a fictitious pedophile cabal, a la Pizzagate?
C) furious denials that Iran is interfering with US politics, a la “Russiagate”?