Show threadb҉3d ago

Before he joined the Trump administration last year, Christine was an Alabama-based urologist who specialized in penile implants. He has little public health experience and a history of far-right commentary and promoting conspiracy theories. He’s said the Covid pandemic led to a wider government plot to control people, compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany and suggested the Covid vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic.

He once hosted a YouTube show called “Erection Connection,” a professional YouTube series on erectile dysfunction for fellow urologists.

#maga #hucksters #fascism #grift #usPol #graft #sycophancy #Trump #Covid #classwar

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Dec 19

Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas coming around for one last chance for Avi Loeb to grasp some attention, the PT Barnum fuck that he is....

https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/interstellar-comet-3iatlas-heads-for-the-outer-solar-system-after-its-closest-approach-to-earth

#3IAtlas #Astrodon #SETI #PTBarnum #Hucksters #Space

Farewell, comet 3I/ATLAS! Interstellar visitor heads for the outer solar system after its closest approach to Earth

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system.

Space
John E Bartley III (D) K7AAY📎May 8, 2025
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-a-new-form-of-germ-theory #publichealth #medicine #science #hucksters #germs #dump #thump
The rise of a new form of germ theory denial

But did they have any underlying conditions?

Your Local Epidemiologist
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Feb 14, 2025

People still falling for the "crying statue" hustle are they?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/14/italian-mystic-may-face-trial-after-dna-match-with-bleeding-virgin-mary-statue

#Hucksters #Fraud #ConTrick

Italian ‘mystic’ may face trial after DNA match with blood on Virgin Mary statue

Allegations of fraud against Gisella Cardia, who drew pilgrims by claiming statue wept tears of blood

The Guardian
b҉Jan 20, 2025

CW: Joe Rogan in an elf costume endorsing the Telepathy Tapes https://loops.video/v/609Q71XBxN

#joeRogan #fascism #MAGA #usPol #stupidity #hucksters #TelepathyTapes #TheTelepathyTapes #Thule #Vril #WellnessGoners

Here’s everything I needed... - @b | Loops.video

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Chuck DarwinAug 15, 2024

Donald Trump fits into a long tradition of #hucksters who have preyed on Americans living in rural areas and small cities where regular entertainment has been limited.

I’m talking about carnivals and the carnival barkers. Their arrival in rural towns was anticipated with glee, predominantly in the 19th century but has continued to some degree to the present.

Donald Trump is a perfect example of this role as a huckster, who would lie and exaggerate to get people to pay for carnival tickets or to buy objects from the carnival booths.

He’s a figure well recognized by Americans outside of urban areas and that familiarity has made rural residents accept him more readily than city dwellers as a source of entertainment, the lies and exaggerations as part of his spiel.

“Hey ya, hey ya. Step right up and get your tickets for one of the best and most unusual shows ever in your county. See a one-legged tight-rope walker swallow swords while a hundred feet in the air. See Miss Betty Buxom perform her special dance revealing parts of her you wouldn’t believe.
And that’s only the beginning. We have forty other acts that will amaze you and have you coming back to see more. Our Trumpy-Dumpy Carnival show has been reviewed by the New York Times and Washington Post with four star ratings.
They’ve written that they’ve never seen a show like ours. And you have to see it to believe it. We’ve had larger crowds than any other carnival or circus.
https://themoderatevoice.com/the-eternal-carnival-barker/

The Eternal Carnival Barker – The Moderate Voice

SPQRJun 21, 2024
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI has no degree. He dropped out of Stanford University after two years. No Masters. No PhD. This guy is a fvcking joke. Him and Elmo, another academic fraud, are who people idolize in late stage capitalism! #technology #OpenAI #hucksters #AI #AGI #ML
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
Sam Altman: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

SPQRMay 18, 2024
The discovery of these frauds somehow never precipitates disillusionment. Rather than getting angry with marketers for tricking them, reporters are ventriloquized into repeating the marketing claim that these aren’t lies, they’re premature truths. Sure, today these are faked, but once the product is refined, the fakery will no longer be required.
#fraud #technology #AGI #SelfDrivingCars #marketing #hucksters
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-05-17-fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it-twenty-one-seconds-f8e89c5ccde6
You were promised a jetpack by liars - Cory Doctorow - Medium

TONIGHT (May 17) I’m in San Francisco at the Internet Archive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the Authors Alliance. As a science fiction writer, I find it weird that some sf tropes — like space…

Medium
My Head’s Exploding 🤯 💥Apr 17, 2024

Why is it that #Republicans just can’t seem to do the right thing with OPM (Other People’s Money, aka: Taxpayer’s Money, aka: our money)? #SarahHuckabeeSanders #LeturnGate #Liars #Cheaters #hucksterbee #Hucksters

https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/04/15/state-auditors-refer-lecterngate-findings-to-prosecutors-office

State auditors refer lecterngate findings to prosecutor’s office

The report details multiple apparent violations of state law related to the governor's spending.

Arkansas Times
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Dec 5, 2023

"The money raised by dubious methods was evidence of God’s blessing on the project, thereby sanctioning ever-more-dubious methods to raise ever more money."

#TimAlberta #evangelicals #MoralMajority #ReligiousRight #WhiteChristianNationalism #hucksters
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