The same US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that has misinformed hundreds of millions of Americans (repeatedly) in the past few years has hired Baghdad Bob (or someone just like him) to warn us about misinformation on the internet.
You can stop the spread of misinformation! https://t.co/JcM10Oq5DY pic.twitter.com/bzc9J3E1XA
— U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) May 22, 2023
You are welcome to peruse our extensive library of FDA-originating misinformation here, but allow me to suggest a few keywords before you do. The FDA used the internet to lie or mislead about the COVID vaccines, their efficacy, safety, and side effects. For starters, They lied or misled the public about PCR tests, Comirnaty, boosters, the Bivalent booster, Molnupiravir, Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine, and Ivermectin.
They are still misleading on most or all of these items, to which we could add many more. Most of the dietary advice was crap, leading us to the obesity problem, which the culture warrior class has papered over as body positivity.
I’m not saying the FDA lies at the same level as the FBI or the CIA, but they are all part of the same Branch of government whose “passports” are full of weaponized progressive political booster shots.
Twitter, of course, had plenty to say about the FDA putting the same old whore in a new dress.
You mean misinformation like “Covid vaccines will stop the spread of Covid”?
Yeah, that one was a real problem.pic.twitter.com/OP7FsnQtdI
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) May 22, 2023
Excellent compilation in general, but the FDA and its Biden Admin handlers are serious. The Justice Department has an office of disinformation funded by Congress. We reported on that a few weeks ago. Congress is also peddling legislation to create a new agency overseeing big tech and social media. In the name of free speech, they will confine, corral, break, and compel it.
Too many people are getting a bit too free with the speech, and if the Feds can’t control the narrative, the truth about their lies will continue to leak out into the public.
The central planners can’t allow that, so the FDA is just doing its straight-faced part to rally the Left behind the threat of medical misinformation, even though most came from the FDA, the CD, politicians, and public health apparatchiks downstream.
They are serious about this. Just as serious as they are about grabbing guns. And while the US Supreme Court and a handful of lower Federal courts maintain bipartisan support for the First Amendment, we are never more than one election away from that changing. A super-majority Democrat congress would impeach Judges and Justices and replace them with those that might see things their way.
The judiciary is just another branch of the federal government, so it isn’t much to pin your hopes on, but at the moment, the Constitution has allies on The Bench. Any speech intimidating or controlling legislation has some hope of being overturned even when applied to private actors like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter; the Twitter files proved that.
We should expect more of this crap from the likes of the FDA and its bureaucratic cousins, and more often. And pushing back with a tweet, comment, blog post, or op-ed is excellent. But they are not the cure. We need active, persistent, unyielding involvement by a tireless mass of individuals longing to stay free – a people unwilling to trade liberty for the false promise of safety.
We need them to stand up and speak out, run for elected office at every level of government, and support those who do.
The FDA tweet that looks like a gag a sign. We are in game four of a best-of-seven, down 3-0. The team with the lead is not being stupid. They are getting cocky. They can smell victory. Why else, as your web of lies falls apart, would you create a rumor control web page? So that the media can find the approved narrative and keep that finger poked in the public eye.
We should expect more of these across the entire scope of the Executive Branch, mirrored in the Blue States or by progressives looking to take them over. It is a cancer, and the cure is more speech, right, wrong, or indifferent, as long as it’s free.