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Kate Plummer
Dec 03, 2021
A Republican has been roasted after she tried to peddle a Covid conspiracy theory through the power of anagrams.
Posting on Twitter, Lavern Spicer – who ran for Congress in 2020 – sounded the alarm that delta and omicron rearranged make the words “media control” - and our apparent powers are news to us too.
She said:
FUN FACT: If you rearrange the letters of Delta and Omicron, you get MEDIA CONTROL 🤷🏾♀️— Lavern Spicer (@Lavern Spicer) 1638449100
It is not the first time conspiracy theorists have harnessed the power of anagrams to make the point that all is not as it seems. Recently, conspiracy theorists have been incensed by the fact that rearranging the letters omicron B makes the words “no Crimbo”. Coincidence? Almost certainly.
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In other word play news, poo lady Gillian McKeith, who agreed to drop her former “Dr” title in 2007 after her academic credentials were called into question, tweeted a bizarre acrostic this summer reading: “Certificate Of Vaccination I D,” adding: “Truth is always in plain sight,” suggesting that Covid is a hoax to get people doubled jabbed.
Meanwhile, Spicer was one of the Republicans who did a spit take about Big Bird getting jabbed.
Why are conspiracy theorists so obsessed with anagrams and poems and fictional characters?
Anyway, reacting to Spicer’s nonsense, people weren’t exactly taken in by her argument:
This is like when Jk tried to make an anagram of Voldemort https://t.co/UQ39cOlYpq— Daniel (@Daniel) 1638467234
@lavern_spicer Do you think the world is run like a movie, with evil villains unable to resist leaving clues just e… https://t.co/G67m8DSIkV— M.F. (@M.F.) 1638467995
'God Jesus' backwards sounds like sausage dog – WAKE UP SHEEPLE! https://t.co/e4gZ6knJTY— Andy Ryan (@Andy Ryan) 1638466761
And we would have got away with it too if it wasn’t for our love of anagrams https://t.co/YeEYAKUWCS— James Felton (@James Felton) 1638466655
@lavern_spicer If you were going to try and hatch a plan to take over the world's media, wouldn't you hide it better?— Stuart Kane 🏳️🌈🏴 (@Stuart Kane 🏳️🌈🏴) 1638481368
FUN FACT: if you rearrange the letters of ‘conspiracy theorist’ you get ‘cast-iron hypocrite’. 🤷🏼♀️ https://t.co/g0KsRILVO0— 𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 (@𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬) 1638519325
@lavern_spicer You also get EROTIC ALMOND, what's your point?— Dan 🏴🇪🇺 (@Dan 🏴🇪🇺) 1638467043
Oh dear. Doesn’t she know Lavern Spicer is an anagram for gullible crank?