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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Sarasota Became the Conspiracy Capital of the United States
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David Gilbert
@daithaigilbert
What do
Michael Flynn
Cyber Ninjas
Patrick Byrne
Charlie Kirk
have in common?
They all live in or are based in Sarasota Couty, Florida, which is currently ground zero for the war on school mask mandates.
How Sarasota Became the Conspiracy Capital of the United States
Conspiracists like Michael Flynn and the Cyber Ninjas have descended on Sarasota, where doctors recently signed 4,000 mask waivers for children with anti-vax parents.
vice.com
7:47 AM · Sep 20, 2021
David Gilbert
@daithaigilbert
What do
Michael Flynn
Cyber Ninjas
Patrick Byrne
Charlie Kirk
have in common?
They all live in or are based in Sarasota Couty, Florida, which is currently ground zero for the war on school mask mandates.
How Sarasota Became the Conspiracy Capital of the United States
Conspiracists like Michael Flynn and the Cyber Ninjas have descended on Sarasota, where doctors recently signed 4,000 mask waivers for children with anti-vax parents.
vice.com
7:47 AM · Sep 20, 2021
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78vvm/sarasota-florida-conspiracy-capital
The video opens like the trailer for a post-apocalyptic movie.
Theres doom-laden, bass-heavy music; drone footage of cars backed up as far as the eye can see; and hundreds of people queuing around the block. Then, a young girl appears on camera, looks straight down the lens, and says: My father sacrificed for your freedom.
But this isnt the latest dystopian movie from Roland Emmerich. Its a video from an event organized in Sarasota, Florida, last week, where organizers claim thousands of parents were able to get mask-mandate waivers signed for their children.
No one is willing to take credit for organizing the event, which took place at a picturesque wedding location near the city of Venice, but one person who is central to the event was disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
You can see the numbers of people that are here to learn about our health and the health tyranny we are facing in this country, Flynn said in the video taken at the event.
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How Sarasota Became the Conspiracy Capital of the United States (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2021
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EYESORE 9001
(25,988 posts)1. I was gonna remark that Scientology has HQ there
but it is in Clearwater instead. Still, it supports my hypothesis that very little good comes out of Florida.
bottomofthehill
(8,348 posts)2. Ringling Brothers closed and the needed a new Circus.
underpants
(182,904 posts)3. Lots of Florida Mans there
Deep State Witch
(10,459 posts)4. Lots of Old, Rich, White People
My MIL lives in Venice. There are a lot of old, rich, white people that live there. The prevailing attitude is "I got mine, f**k you." According to her, it's gotten worse since COVID, and it's bound to get worse now that the snowbirds are coming down to escape the "tyrannical" mask mandates in the Northeast.
We used to joke when we would go down there that the Democratic Club of Venice could hold it's meetings in a phone booth.