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Twitter CEO Elon Musk is still doing his best to shake the powers that be to their core. On Thursday, the CEO took to Twitter to respond to a list of conspiracies shared by musician Zuby that, he claimed, had all been found to be true.
The fact is that no, not all of these conspiracy theories were debunked, but Musk agreed with the musician.
“What are the biggest media lies of the last few years?” Zuby said before listing “-Covid-19 (all of it) -Jan 6 ‘insurrection’ -‘safe and effective’ jab -Jussie Smollett -Bubba Wallace -Covington hoax -Kyle Rittenhouse story -‘Very fine people’ hoax -‘drinking bleach’ -‘horse dewormer’ -Russian collusion -Ghost of Kyiv -Hunter Biden laptop -‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill -Twitter collapse post-Elon -Nord Stream pipeline -‘Transitory’ inflation -Men can get pregnant -BLM narrative -‘2 weeks to flatten the curve’ -Blaming Russia for missile that landed in Poland.”
“This list is not exhaustive… Kinda crazy to see it laid out like this. And people have the nerve to call ME a ‘conspiracy theorist’. I didn’t promote any of these. Mainstream media has the misinformation game on lock. I can’t compete,” he said.
Again not all of these conspiracy theories have been debunked, but many have and Musk noticed.
“We are running out of ‘conspiracies’ that turned out to be true! Can someone manufacture a few more? The shelf is almost empty,” he said.
We are running out of “conspiracies” that turned out to be true!
Can someone manufacture a few more? The shelf is almost empty.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 9, 2023
But it is not the first time this week Musk made powerful enemies.
Musk tore into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after the senator took a stand against Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“With regard to the presentation on Fox News last night, I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of the Capitol Police about what happened on January 6th,” Sen. McConnell said to reporters on Tuesday.
He was referencing a statement issued by the Capitol Police that shredded Carlson and the footage he showed.
The chief of the U.S. Capitol Police issued a memo to his staff on Tuesday following the airing of previously unseen security footage by Fox News host Tucker Carlson which showed police officers appearing to stand passively as a large crowd entered the Capitol on January 6.
Police Chief Tom Manger condemned the comments made during the airing of the footage on Carlson’s Monday night program, stating that it was “filled with offensive and misleading conclusions” about the riot of January 6, 2021, when a group of people breached the U.S. Capitol building, causing disruptions to lawmakers who were in the process of certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
“The program conveniently cherry-picked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video,” Manger claimed. “The commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.”
NEW – Capitol Police chief Thomas Manger sends internal memo this am saying Carlson’s report was “filled with offensive and misleading conclusions” about Jan. 6 and says the “opinion program” never reached out with appropriate context. Reporting w/ @rachelvscott pic.twitter.com/BrnD0n4IN1
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) March 7, 2023
Manger specifically objected to a segment that featured Capitol Police officers guiding Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman,” through the Capitol building and Tucker Carlson’s portrayal of them as “tour guides.”
He also expressed concern about Carlson’s emphasis on Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who a medical examiner found had died of natural causes after suffering a stroke a day after the January 6 incident while protecting the Capitol, the Daily Wire reported.
The New York Times initially reported on January 8 that Sicknick was killed by a rioter wielding a fire extinguisher during the riot. However, the paper retracted the story five weeks later after the D.C. medical examiner stated that Sicknick had died of natural causes a day after the event. Other outlets also erroneously reported that Sicknick was beaten to death.
Nonetheless, both Sicknick’s family and the police believe that his death was related to the riot.
Video of Sicknick appearing to lead people out of the Capitol building after “he was supposedly murdered outside overturns the single-most powerful and politically useful lie the Democrats have told us about January 6,” Carlson noted.
Manger noted that Capitol Police “maintains, as anyone with common sense would, that had Officer Sicknick not fought valiantly for hours on the day he was violently assaulted, Officer Sicknick would not have died the next day.”
In his memo, Manger thanked and praised members of the Capitol Police force, commending their efforts on January 6. “You fought like hell on January 6 and risked your lives to protect the Constitution and everything this country stands for,” he wrote. “You, along with our law enforcement partners, saved every member of Congress and their staff.”
