MAGA Rube Alert: QAnon Scamsters Profit Off Nutty 'Venom in the Water' Theory

[Celerity]

One man’s claim that the CDC put cobra venom in the water inspired another man to sell filters to make sure tap water stays venom free.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hucksters-profit-off-nutty-venom-in-the-water-theory



Conspiracy theorists have seized on a widespread hoax about snake venom in the water supply as an opportunity to hawk their products, even as the retired chiropractor behind the theory scrambles to distance himself from it.

Last week, far-right conspiracy theory communities went wild for a quasi-documentary produced by fringe online talk show host and former bounty hunter Stew Peters. The video, entitled “Watch the Water” after a QAnon catchphrase, features Peters interviewing retired chiropractor Bryan Ardis about his theory that the CDC planted king cobra venom in Covid-19 vaccines and the water supply in order to transfer Satanic DNA to unsuspecting people.

Ardis’s evidence for the venom theory is thin. Among other things, he claimed he got the idea for snake venom in the water supply from a fortune cookie and by watching a 2016 episode of NBC’s The Blacklist, in which a character played by James Spader suspects he’s been poisoned with venom. While The Blacklist is fictional, Ardis felt the episode carried some significance into the real world. “They are using the water systems because they can target specific demographics,” Ardis said.

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Since its release, Watch the Water has racked up millions of views and been embraced by a number of pro-Trump conspiracy theorists. It’s also become a business opportunity for people like Pennsylvania QAnon promoter Phil Godlewski, who launched a website named after the video to sell water filtration devices. Some of the filtration equipment bundles from manufacturer Seychelle on the site cost hundreds of dollars — a small price to pay, according to Godlewski, who warned his fans that the possibility of cobra snake water planted in tap water meant they should stop drinking water until they can filter it out.

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https://rumble.com/v10mnew-live-world-premiere-watch-the-water.html

[Emile]

1. I just smoked some weed and came inside and read this crazy shit.

Talk about entertainment!

[Celerity]

2. Cobra Lips?

https://www.leafly.com/strains/cobra-lips

[multigraincracker]

3. How long will they milk the cobra venom story?

It will come back to bite them in the butt.

[3Hotdogs]

5. -- as long as it keeps generating $$$.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Snake Charming Pyramid Marketing scam if I ever heard of one

[Walleye]

6. Not that easy to contaminate the water supply. There is so much volume it would be completely dilute

[ret5hd]

7. homeopathic snake venom

also, water has memory dontcha know!?!?