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re: Tim Burchett: Bill Gates is behind the massive increase in ticks

Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:27 pm to
Posted by billjamin
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:27 pm to
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he is either an idiot or playing to idiots.

Both being true is most likely.
Posted by Mobile Patriot
Mobile
Member since Aug 2024
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:27 pm to
If a sitting member of Congress accused me of doing something like that, and it wasn't true, I would sue the crap out of em. Bill knows discovery wouldn't be kind to him.
Posted by Bamafig
Member since Nov 2018
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:29 pm to
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Burchett is nuts or these are bs reports.


I’m starting to believe this guy has a screw loose.
Posted by geoag58
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:33 pm to
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What if I told you the species of tick they use don't threaten humans and don't feed on humans, and that the species has never been known or proven to carry or spread Lyme disease?


I'd call you a liar then because I have pulled lonestar ticks off my own body.

Posted by jnethe1
Pearland
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:46 pm to
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Well, there you go. Bill Gates isn't releasing these things. Just because some jerk-off ethicists suggest it might be acceptable doesnt mean they're out there doing it.


Did not say he was doing it. But to simply dismiss things because they seem extremely unlikely doesn’t make sense at all in the context of leftists. They have repeatedly demonstrated their propensity for violence and their inability to be impartial.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:47 pm to
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I'd call you a liar then because I have pulled lonestar ticks off my own body.

You said some things, congratulations! All you did was prove you don't know much, but you did it!
Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:49 pm to
Interesting that this thread is getting more pushback/skepticism than a lot of these usually do. Do you think it's the “pilots dropping millions of ticks” part specifically that people aren’t buying, or are people getting exhausted from every weird thing online immediately becoming a giant coordinated operation? or dubious of Burchett specifically? all of that?
Posted by SallysHuman
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:52 pm to
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people getting exhausted


It is exhausting.

However tiresome... there are no shortage of people who know better than us plebes... and some have the wherewithal to execute their ideas.

Setting ticks aside... you are aware of "ideas" to dim the sunlight, right? Talk about the potential, no, guarantee- of a cascade of ill effects damning populations near and far.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:53 pm to
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Do you think it's the “pilots dropping millions of ticks” part specifically that people aren’t buying,

One of the main videos that these types are using shows a "tick" box that a guy flips over with his toe. Under that box were what people claim to be "ticks", nevermind that those "ticks" sat world records for the fastest moving ticks ever seen or looked a whole lot like ants.
Posted by TigerDoc
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:59 pm to
I do think there’s probably a difference between “powerful people sometimes pursue risky technocratic ideas” and “there is currently a massive covert tick deployment operation happening all over North America” (e.g. Legend's observations seem worth considering). It feels like online discourse collapses those categories together pretty quickly sometimes.
Posted by SallysHuman
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 10:06 pm to
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I do think there’s probably a difference between “powerful people sometimes pursue risky technocratic ideas” and “there is currently a massive covert tick deployment operation happening all over North America”


The "idea" of such an operation has already been floated.

It's not an impossible endeavor, just highly unethical.

Add to that the desire- stated by BG himself- to infuse "vaccine" into foods so as to overcome "resistance" of those who would shun shots.

All of the ingredients are present. Idea, practical possibility, willingness, urge to overcome dissenters... I put nothing past them. Maybe the cake hasn't been baked yet, but the ingredients are on the shelf and the oven is warm.

Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11880 posts
Posted on 5/21/26 at 10:07 pm to
That’s kind of what I mean. I think people are increasingly willing to entertain “there are powerful people pursuing weird/risky ideas” while also still having a functioning BS detector for evidence that looks sloppy or cartoonish once you actually examine it. A lot of these things probably get shared and emotionally processed way faster than they get closely inspected.
This post was edited on 5/21/26 at 10:09 pm
Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11880 posts
Posted on 5/21/26 at 10:12 pm to
yeah, I think this is where a lot of the tension online comes from now. People see enough real examples of elite/technocratic overreach that “nothing is impossible” starts to feel emotionally true. But if we lose the distinction between “I could imagine this happening” and “there’s good evidence this is happening”, things can get sideways pretty fast.
Posted by SallysHuman
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Member since Jan 2025
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 10:20 pm to
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But if we lose the distinction between “I could imagine this happening” and “there’s good evidence this is happening”, things can get sideways pretty fast.


It's late, I'm going to bed soon and don't wanna go looking everything up... but, off the top of my head, let's compile some evidence that this is not unbelievable.

1. BG and others find meat eating to be "bad".

2. BG is already into engineering insects (mosquitoes).

3. BG has already opined on ways to bend human obedience to his considered will (infusing vaccine into food).

There... just three pieces of evidence to show that inflicting Alpha Gal, or other issues, is not entirely "ridiculous".

Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11880 posts
Posted on 5/21/26 at 10:25 pm to
Point taken. I actually think this is the more useful framing. There’s a difference between “this is so absurd it can be dismissed outright” and
“there is strong evidence this specific operation is occurring”. A lot of modern discourse seems to live in the giant blurry territory between those two things.

The hard part is figuring out what standards people should use in that middle territory without either becoming completely gullible or completely dismissive.

Know you're going to bed (g'night and thanks for the good responses), so your question is for the room - what do y’all think those standards should be?
Posted by Boomer65
Norman
Member since Sep 2022
1291 posts
Posted on 5/21/26 at 10:26 pm to
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It’s stuff like this that makes it very hard for me to believe that the president has full control of the government.


Government? It’s laughable to even call it “Government” these days. The President doesn’t have much power either. The Elites do.
Posted by SallysHuman
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 10:32 pm to
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Know you're going to bed (g'night and thanks for the good responses), so your question is for the room - what do y’all think those standards should be?


I don't have to think long or look this one up.

The standard should always be informed consent. Period.

Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11880 posts
Posted on 5/21/26 at 10:37 pm to
I agree on informed consent as an ethical standard for institutions/governments/etc. I was thinking more about standards for us as citizens trying to figure out what’s true in that murky middle ground between “totally impossible” and “definitely proven”, especially in confusing and misleading digital environments like OP arises in.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
75307 posts
Posted on 5/21/26 at 10:39 pm to
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A lot of these things probably get shared and emotionally processed way faster than they get closely inspected.

I think it was the state of Missouri that put in a lot of effort to track down and investigate the reports of tick boxes. They used wildlife and fisheries and other agencies. So far, I don't think anyone has come through with a viable "tick box" or other evidence that proves anything. They've solicited the public — the same public that made the initial reports — but nothing viable has come from it.
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
80112 posts
Posted on 5/21/26 at 10:43 pm to
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What if I told you absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence?
So, I have no evidence you aren't into bestiality. I know you had a dog. I know some people have no ethical qualms about having sex with dogs. So you are likely into bestiality if we are using similar logic to what's been posted in this thread.
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