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Ben Collins

3 Jan

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A few weeks ago, I went to an antivaxx protest at a school board in Stockton, CA.

It was put on by a woman who was at the Capitol on 1/6. She called it a “revolution.” Some protesters alongside her had no idea.

The meeting was wild. The protesters won.

This is Denise Aguilar, who runs the groups Mamalitia and Freedom Angels.

She was in D.C. on January 6th. After the riot, she said, “We stormed the Capitol, and patriots broke open the doors.”

Then: “We’re gonna keep going, especially in California.”

A year after 1/6, Aguilar was outside of San Joaquin County’s Board of Ed., pushing back against vaccines for kids.

She has no children in the school district.

“We figured out that going to the Capitol... doesn't do anything,” she told me. “It's all about local legislation.”

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Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

10 Dec 21

The harassment Ruby Freeman went through for just existing on security camera footage as an election worker is some of the worst I’ve ever seen.

Even Kanye’s publicist got in on this nightmare, which brings up a lot more questions than answers.

reuters.com/business/media…

Kanye West's publicist showed up at Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman's home and told her she was "in danger" and had "48 hours" to admit to a crime she didn't commit or "unknown subjects" would turn up at her home.

48 hours later was... January 6th.

reuters.com/business/media…

According to Freeman's lawsuit against The Gateway Pundit, people with bullhorns did show up and marauded around her house on foot and in vehicles on January 6th. By that point she had already fled her home at the advice of the FBI.

There's so much we don't know about the 6th.

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Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

2 Dec 21

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Today, two election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, sued Gateway Pundit, alleging the site instigated a “deluge of harassment and threats.”

What Freeman alleges happened to her in the last year is deeply disturbing and is worth reading.

Ruby Freeman is a retired 911 operator who ran a small business selling accessories.

With workers dropping out due to COVID, her daughter, Shaye Moss, asked her to help count ballots in Atlanta. Freeman signed on as a temp.

Weeks later, the FBI would tell her to flee her home.

The trouble started a month after the election.

On Dec. 3, a Trump campaign lawyer presented surveillance footage to Georgia’s State Senate, claiming someone who “had the name Ruby across her shirt somewhere" found a “suitcase” full of ballots from “underneath a table.”

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Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

12 Nov 21

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There is, finally, good news from the anti-vaccine beat.

It’s wrapped in some bad news.

The good: Mandates are working. Anti-vaxxers are exhausted, giving in and getting the shot.

The bad: They’re running home to “detox” in weird ways, hoping to “undo” it.

Antivaxxers on Facebook/TikTok are begging for advice on how to “detox” loved ones who got the shot.

They caved to mandates and want help from influencers.

Some say they’re doomed to death, infertility, or government tracking.

But others have “remedies.”

Like this:

On TikTok, anti-vaxxers have rallied around influencer Carrie Madej, who claims she can “detoxx the vaxx.”

Her solution? A bath with baking soda for “radiation” and epsom salt for “poisons.”

Then, she says, add Borax to clean out “nanotechnologies.”

(Don’t do this.)

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Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

5 Nov 21

It would be impossible to draw up a more stereotypical antivaxxer argument than the one being outlined by Aaron Rodgers today.

For someone who believes he's a "critical thinker," he sounds identical to every old lady in my Ivermectin Facebook groups and Q Telegram channels.

The only real difference between Aaron Rodgers and the Ivermectin Facebook groups is that he sounds... behind.

The IVM groups have largely moved on, adding a litany of other "cures" because Ivermectin, to them, doesn't fully "work" on Delta. The Joe Rogan Battery is old now.

Also, the "vaccines will make you infertile" thing is not new, but it has kicked up recently, in part because people aren't dropping dead en masse as they projected.

Most people have the shot, and there hasn't been a mass death event.

Infertility creep is the big boogeyman now.

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Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

2 Nov 21

So here's why this JFK Jr. meet-up is so weird, even by Q standards.

Most QAnon followers take its ostensible prophet, Q, at his word. They share and cite Q's 8kun posts like scripture, citing things like "Drop #1082."

Q has explicitly told his followers JFK Jr. is not alive.

The fact that people believe JFK Jr. is alive is, of course, Q's fault.

Here's the post that kicked off speculation JFK Jr. would reappear and become Trump's runningmate.

Q was referring to an assassination plot, but his followers think messianically.

Insert Zombie VP JFK Jr.

One day in December 2018, Q was clearly sick of how stupid and literal his followers were taking his intentionally vague, apocalyptic posts.

So Q point blank shut down a few conspiracy theories: No flat earth, no zombie JFK, Seth Rich is dead.

Also, elections are safe! Whoops!

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