Hey, you remember that Arise USA! (QAnon/Anti-Vaxx) rally in Beaver County last month?
If you need a primer, there's a good rundown over at Talking Points Memo:
In between the assertions that 9/11 was an inside job, that Zionists aren’t real Jews and that satanic pedophilia fuels world commerce and politics, attendees at the “Arise USA!” tour in recent weeks have heard another pitch: We need to audit the 2020 election.
And so on.
We all know the stories of Robert David Steele's anti-semitism, the tour's anti-vaxx message, the links (via Steele's charges of "Satanic pedophilia") to QAnon and we all know about how the tour has run low on cash and he's now going solo but there's a new wrinkle in that story from TPM:
In recent days, the tour has fizzled out: Where once there were several custom-wrapped tour buses ferrying Steele, Mack and several others all around the country, there is now just Steele and his SUV. Where there were once packed fairgrounds, there are now sparsely attended get-togethers.
Wednesday’s event in Williamsburg, Virginia, according to Steele’s website, will be a low-key affair. “Robert will be at the purple couch at 4 pm and looks forward to a quiet conversation with whoever shows up, 7-10 expected,” the announcement reads.
What happened? Steele has spoken about the troubles on tour. In Kentucky last month, he said “we have expunged from this tour individuals who were Satanic, who were stealing from us.”
“We’ve overcome over $300,000 in theft through the diversion of donations,” he added.
Aww. Couldn't happen to a nicer crazie.
But here's the thing. This is the thing. The thing is here.
A little more than two weeks ago, I blogged on Senate Candidate Sean Parnell's participation in that rally.
Yesterday, I found the video of his speech.
Here's a screen shot:
That's Sean Parnell speaking in front of one of the (now unused) Arise USA! tour buses. The image if Robert David Steele clearly in the upper left hand corner of the image.
To be fair, the speech was a fairly standard stump speech - no mention of vaccines or election fraud and certainly no mention of any Satanic pedophiles running the Deep State.
But still, he was there. Sean Parnell spoke at a rally awash with the medical misinformation regarding Covid vaccines, of election fraud, of "Constitutional Counties" (whatever they are).
All run by an antisemitic nutcase who thinks NASA has a colony of enslaved children on the planet Mars.
Sean, my friend. You've famously said that if you don't denounce something you've endorsed it.
So...what about Robert David Steele? What about QAnon? What about all that anti-vaxx stuff? What about the NASA bullshit?
Your rules, Sean. Denounce or else you've endorsed.
Your call.
