Inspired by RJ’s article on gaslighting, I’m going to go ahead and throw another conspiracy at you involving blood sucking government parasites.

This is my review of OSHO Ales from the Crypt Cake Eater:

After spending three years going from calling COVID the China Virus because its the virus that came from China and listening to talking heads in the government and media going from the virus came from a lab leaks, animal origins, weird animal origins, then wet markets, then to discussion of anything outside the the wet market theory being nothing but naked racism, to okay maybe it was a lab leak, to no its still probably not a lab leak (TW:  “To be sure”)—have we done this before?

Probably.  Anyone ever spending any amount of time outdoors in a humid environment or at the very least owned a dog, has come across the scourge of ticks.  Ticks spread a boriella bacterial infection known as, Lyme Disease.  Described nearly flawlessly by Principal Skinner on the Simpsons.

The spread vector being a mundane pest that easily spreads itself via contact with other mammals like deer and particularly domesticated mammals like dogs makes it the perfect cover for a bacterial toxin that makes even the healthiest person feel like complete, utter shit…but perhaps not kill him.  In our world where conspiracy is just a foreshadowed common knowledge once it is no longer vital to the security state, this sounds all too convenient.

Turns out pre-pandemic this was actually a widely accepted theory among scientists:

While the PIADC claims that its facility “does not and has not performed research on Lyme Disease”, we should keep in mind that the existence of biological warfare experiments on Plum Island during the Cold War era was denied for decades by the U.S. government. In 1993, however, when Newsday unearthed previously classified documents proving that such experiments had taken place, the U.S. government’s denials were revealed to the world to have been a lie. As also confirmed by the New York Times, the documents uncovered by Newsdaycontained plans to disrupt the Soviet economy by spreading diseases to kill its livestock. In view of this history, any modern-day denials relating to the activities of PIADC should clearly be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.

Erich Traub

I know what you’re thinking, it can’t be a real conspiracy if there are no Nazis involved:

Carroll alleges that Erich Traub, a notorious Nazi scientist and virologist, had visited the PIADC laboratory on at least three occasions during the 1950s and that he may have performed outdoor field tests with poisoned ticks. According to Carroll, research with ticks was still ongoing at the Plum Island facility around the time of the 1975 Lyme disease outbreak.

Other writers have made similar assertions. In their 2008 book ‘The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century’, Glen Yeadon and John Hawkins describe how, during WWII, Traub had served as lab chief at Insel Riems, a secret Nazi biological warfare facility in the Baltic Sea. Working directly under Heinrich Himmler, feared head of the SS, the Nazi Party’s paramilitary arm, Traub’s role apparently involved packaging weaponized foot-and-mouth disease virus for dispersal from a Luftwaffe bomber onto cattle and reindeer in Russia.

Perfection.

 

I feel bad about reviewing this one.  Its made by a small chain of severely overpriced burger/sandwich restaurants gastropubs in the Phoenix area and this is one from 2021 no less.  Sorry, even I doubt I can find it anymore, although apparently there’s a market for their empty cans for the artwork.  Which might be the most absurd thing I linked here.  This is from a series from a brewmaster that specializes in barrel aged beers, affectionately known as “the Cryptkeeper”.  He looks almost nothing like the HBO character.  His non-peanut butter version pictured above is a straight forward whiskey backed imperial stout that might be just a bit heavy on the chocolate.  Its was pretty solid so I’m not about to complain other than I shouldn’t have had it on as hot a day that I did. OSHO Ales from the Crypt Cake Eater:  4.1/5  12.8% ABV

 

*fine…here’s the link to the Rush song.