Inspiring: Tucker Carlson Offered Money to Help a Banned Anti-Vaxx Conspiracy Theorist Sue Twitter

Wow. When this anti-mask, anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist bought completely suspended from Twitter, one Fox News host was there for him with the provide of money in hand: Tucker Carlson.

Contrarian conservative commentator Alex Berenson was down on his luck—not solely was his Reefer Madness-style guide that claims a hyperlink between marijuana and violent psychological sickness nearly universally panned by scientists, he subsequently pivoted to constructing a profession posting coronavirus misinformation on Twitter. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Berenson has develop into a right-wing celebrity and common Fox News fixture on the idea of his falsified claims that the pandemic is exaggerated, masks mandates are useless, and that vaccines are much more harmful than the virus. This weekend, one among his many tweets resulted in him getting banned from the platform. Damn!

Berenson was so bereft he even began posting from another Twitter account that was additionally promptly banned. He took to begging on his Substack for authorized recommendation on whether or not Twitter was legally allowed to do that (it clearly can) and in one other put up mulled a lawsuit demanding the reinstatement of his account (such circumstances have always failed and will continue to).

Thank god Fox News host and white nationalist Tucker Carlson, himself a covid-19 vaccine truther, was readily available to assist Berenson stand as much as this pathetically overdue enforcement of Twitter guidelines towards covid-19 disinformation injustice!

According to the Daily Beast, Berenson appeared on Carlson’s present on Monday night time to complain about his ban, pretending he had no thought why he was banned however speculating it needed to do with a tweet through which he claimed that coronavirus vaccines are “at best” a “therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile.” Despite each phrase of that being full rubbish, Berenson informed the host that “every statement I made in the tweet was totally accurate and defensible” and “if it gets to a jury we will find out what a jury has to say about that.”

Berenson added he believes he has “a First Amendment claim in that Twitter is sort of a modern town square,” the Daily Beast wrote, and that the corporate “defamed me by saying my information is inaccurate.” He additionally plugged his Substack, which is $60 a 12 months for annual members however encourages $300 a 12 months for “Founding Member” standing.

“I hope you sue the crap out of these totalitarians,” Carlson responded. “I hope you do, and if you do, I hope you come back and tell us how to buy popcorn and watch.”

After Berenson claimed that many individuals “want to be a part of this and fund the lawsuit,” Carlson instructed he might open up his personal pockets: “I want to fund it. I do. I mean that.” Berenson demurred, saying he’d moderately somebody who’s wealthy pay for it.

Wow! Inspiring. You can’t pretend this type of generosity, of us. Let’s all gradual clap for Alex, Tucker, and the novel coronavirus as they stroll down the aisle of friendship (absent, in fact, the estimated 4.5 million+ people are dead worldwide as a result of pandemic, together with 637,000 within the U.S. alone, lots of whom would likely be alive today in the event that they’d acquired one of many coronavirus vaccines Berenson retains making an attempt to scare folks about).