RE: The Absurd GOP
April 23, 2025 at 7:21 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2025 at 7:21 am by Fake Messiah.)
Senate Republican Ron Johnson wants to hold hearings on a 9/11 conspiracy theory
A day after the Wisconsin Republican went on a far-right podcast promoting conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a spokesperson for Johnson said the lawmaker is currently seeking information and documentation in order to hold hearings on the event nearly 25 years later.
He would do so in his capacity as chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, one of Congress’s most storied and powerful panels with far-reaching jurisdiction that gives its chair wide latitude to probe a diverse array of matters.
In a podcast interview Tuesday with MAGA personality Benny Johnson, Ron Johnson asserted that one of the buildings around the World Trade Center complex in New York was brought down via “a controlled demolition” in the aftermath of the collapse of the twin towers.
Citing a documentary that promoted these conspiracy theories about the attack, Ron Johnson went on to say the investigation into the collapse conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is part of the Department of Commerce, was “corrupted.”
“What actually happened on 9/11? What do we know? What is being covered up?” he asked. “My guess is there’s an awful lot being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”
Ron Johnson, who also described the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as the subject of “a massive cover-up of exactly what happened,” acknowledged in his interview with Benny Johnson that he is considered “a conspiracy theorist.”
“But,” the Wisconsin senator added, “that’s how they keep things covered up.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22...y-00303156
A day after the Wisconsin Republican went on a far-right podcast promoting conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a spokesperson for Johnson said the lawmaker is currently seeking information and documentation in order to hold hearings on the event nearly 25 years later.
He would do so in his capacity as chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, one of Congress’s most storied and powerful panels with far-reaching jurisdiction that gives its chair wide latitude to probe a diverse array of matters.
In a podcast interview Tuesday with MAGA personality Benny Johnson, Ron Johnson asserted that one of the buildings around the World Trade Center complex in New York was brought down via “a controlled demolition” in the aftermath of the collapse of the twin towers.
Citing a documentary that promoted these conspiracy theories about the attack, Ron Johnson went on to say the investigation into the collapse conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is part of the Department of Commerce, was “corrupted.”
“What actually happened on 9/11? What do we know? What is being covered up?” he asked. “My guess is there’s an awful lot being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”
Ron Johnson, who also described the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as the subject of “a massive cover-up of exactly what happened,” acknowledged in his interview with Benny Johnson that he is considered “a conspiracy theorist.”
“But,” the Wisconsin senator added, “that’s how they keep things covered up.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22...y-00303156
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
