schadenfreude alert: Vaccine Conspiracy Theorist Rick Wiles Hospitalized With COVID-19

[tenderfoot]

Conservative pastor Rick Wiles has apparently fallen ill with COVID-19 after condemning the vaccines that fight the disease, baselessly claiming they're being used to carry out a "global genocide."

Wiles—the founder of the conspiracy-promoting TruNews website and the senior pastor of Flowing Streams Church in Florida—asserted on this show in late April that he would not get vaccinated against COVID-19 and would survive the "global genocide."

"I am not going to be vaccinated," he said. "I'm going to be one of the survivors. I'm going to survive the genocide.

He added, "You and I are witnessing the first global mass murder and it's being led by Satan's team on the planet. You must survive it. Do not be vaccinated."

Then this week, TruNews, in a post to its official Gab account, noted that there was a COVID-19 outbreak at Wiles' church and asked for prayers.

"Flowing Streams is experiencing a sudden cluster of flu and Covid among some employees and their relatives. Rick Wiles made the decision tonight to close the offices and studios until a TBA date next week," the Gab post explained. "Our team needs to tend to sick family members. Please pray for your TruNews team."

Link to tweet

On Saturday, TruNews made a follow-up post, urging supporters to pray specifically for Wiles. "URGENT REQUEST - please be praying for Rick Wiles right now," the organization wrote. "Please repost so that there's an army of people praying."

https://www.newsweek.com/pastor-rick-wiles-apparently-has-covid-after-refusing-vaccines-he-called-global-genocide-1596221

[dalton99a]

1. Go to the light. Go.

Dumbass

[malaise]

14. Nicely played

[SMC22307]

22. Perfect.

[dixiechiken1]

39. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! 🤣

[live love laugh]

69. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Vinca]

2. Good.

[TheBlackAdder]

36. "I'm going to be one of the survivors. I'm going to survive the genocide." Me thinks God has a say.

.

As a pastor, he challenges God.

If he lives, it was God's will. If he dies, God was calling him home.

.

[SoCalDavidS]

3. Please God, If There's A Chance You Exist....

PLEASE Rid The Earth Of This Creature Now!

[hatrack]

4. I could almost be persuaded to pray in the matter of Rick Wiles

If you get my drift . . . .

[Iggo]

33. If he's counting on prayer, he's halfway there.

Know’m say’n?

[Layzeebeaver]

46. only a few thoughts

no prayers.

[liberal_mama]

40. I read an interesting book that said around 20% of prayers were negative

[The Unmitigated Gall]

5. Catastrophic stupidity and smug shittery

Apparently was God’s plan for you.

[tanyev]

6. Well, he was partly right.

"a lot of stupid people will be killed off."

[smirkymonkey]

7. Heh heh!

[NCjack]

16. If the Rickster dies, I will support his nomination for the Darwin Award.

[Mr. Evil]

30. I second that (e)motion.

[sop]

8. The Covid pandemic has reached the stage where most of the people contracting and dying from

this virus are the ones who most vehemently rejected taking the vaccine. I'd like to feel more compassion for these imbeciles, but it's not easy.

[KS Toronado]

31. I feel absolutely no compassion for these imbeciles

They were warned, warned, & warned but chose to follow their hero's Qrump's advise.

[Lovie777]

9. Anti-Vaxxers and COVID-19 deniers have a new talking point . . .

"fight till death and if you succumb to COVID-19, you fought well, hero"



march on.

[lindysalsagal]

73. I'm sorry to say I know a couple people who really are choosing to fight their friends

and lose out on their most important opportunities and friends in order to adhere to this voodoo.

[Yavin4]

10. A lot of the anti-vaxxers are looking to score very cheap political points with the

conspiracy theory crowd. It's easy money, and you can quickly build a following without a shred of evidence for your claims.

[Paladin]

11. Worst possible wishes to Rick Wiles. (nt)

[superpatriotman]

12. Can't rec enough

Or fast enough

[struggle4progress]

13. "Help! I'm another victim of the worldwide Jewish space laser conspiracy!"

https://hillreporter.com/antisemitic-bigot-rick-wiles-says-americans-are-oppressed-by-jewish-tyrants-100311

[malaise]

15. Any word on Paula White

she's suddenly gone all quiet

[dalton99a]

17. She is still alive - and asking for (more) money

[malaise]

18. Blest be the tithes and all that

let us prey stuff! Ah well.

[gohuskies]

19. Pastor Wiles is obviously bring 'called home'

Another Magat sucker punched by Fat Nixon and Gov. DeathSentence.

[Ferryboat]

20. God has sense of humor

[Blue Owl]

21. Served cold...

[llashram]

23. oh well

[Crunchy Frog]

24. Oh, I'm praying alright. Darwin and karma, do your thing!

[ornotna]

25. Be careful what you wish for

They may not want my prayers.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. I'll Just Say It

I hope he dies from it. I also hope his stupidity takes nobody else with him.

[dawg day]

49. This reminds me of the last days of Herman Cain--

The frantic call for "prayers"-
On Saturday, TruNews made a follow-up post, urging supporters to pray specifically for Wiles. "URGENT REQUEST - please be praying for Rick Wiles right now," the organization wrote. "Please repost so that there's an army of people praying."

[ProfessorGAC]

59. SMH

I'd think praying one doesn't get it makes more sense than praying not to die AFTER one has caught a deadly infection.
That is, if you believe in that praying stuff.

[dawg day]

68. I wonder if they've ever heard:

"God helps those who help themselves ... by wearing a mask and getting a vaccine."

[riversedge]

27. Lady Justice rules.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

28. I'm going to laugh so hard if this guy dies from Covid-19

In a diabolical, rubbing hands together, Mr. Burns sort of way.

Put another way, I'm not wishing him death but I would read his obituary with great amusement.

I also wanted to ask ... is TFG a member of the Flowing Streams church?

[SergeStorms]

54. Not unless....

there's a photo-op and grift money involved. TFG doesn't do church unless there's something in it for him.

[GoCubsGo]

29. Well, he's right about "a lot of stupid people will be killed off."

He just didn't understand that it could be him and his congregation.

[TNNurse]

32. Pray for him???

I have chores, hard labor chores, I would rather do. I do not like the idea that I do not care what happens to another human being, but in this case, I do not. He had access to prevent this and chose ignorance.

[Lucky Luciano]

34. Oh I'm praying alright! Maybe not the prayer they're after though! 😂

[Johnny2X2X]

35. It's better if he dies

His garbage anti vaccine propaganda is killing people. If he dies maybe less people will die.

[NBachers]

37. He was such a threat to the global genocidists that they finally got him.

[Vogon_Glory]

38. So Rick Wiles caught the COVID virus

Preacher Wiles’ diatribes against the virus were reckless and irresponsible and all too likely endangered the lives and health of the people in his congregation as well as his other followers.

I have little sympathy for him: I hope he’s going through a teaching moment and is learning first-hand the effects of his blathering. I fear that his getting of wisdom (assuming it’s occurring) is too late for the people sickened or dead because of his say-so.

[johnthewoodworker]

41. I love when God takes the scientifically impaired.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

58. If there is a doG, ... and it may not be her/it/him taking the guy. . . . nt

[lindysalsagal]

74. I asked my catholic friend why god doesn't just turn off covid.

She looked terrified that I might be right: He's either a total effing bastard, or HE"S NOT THERE>

[Bernardo de La Paz]

76. After chat w priest, she'll punt: "It's all doG's plan. HE moves in mysterious ways."

It's the stock answer to get around the conundrum you pose.

Plays into the confidence scheme: If it is a good thing, then "doG is watching over you". If something bad happens, then punt.

It's like this. Maybe doG needed to kill Herman Cain and a couple of others, but multiple car accidents were problematic in some other way, so he sent a pandemic and oops, a bunch of other people got killed. Oh too bad, but it is all for doG's wonderful beneficial plan for those who are truly saved, ...

... for those who donate regularly and generously, perhaps?

[Evolve Dammit]

42. What a dipshit. And the flock doles out their hard-earned money to swallow it all. nt

[SarcasticSatyr]

43. I noticed online that his idiot followers are asking for prayers for him ..

but they're specifically not mentioning that he has covid ...

[Firestorm49]

44. Well bless his heart. 😊

[PA Democrat]

45. This POS also said that people wearing masks were "modern day Nazis."

“In Nazi Germany, the Nazis made the Jews wear marks,” Wiles said in a video clip flagged by Right Wing Watch. “They put a mark on the Jews to identify the Jews. What’s happening now is the reverse: the mask is the mark that you are part of the Nazis, and not wearing the mask is an indication that you are resisting the new nazism.”

https://deadstate.org/rick-wiles-wearing-a-mask-is-the-mark-of-the-nazis/

So the Covid-19 vaccine is the work of "satan's team" to commit genocide and wearing a mask makes you a Nazi. Wow.

[dawg day]

48. I bet he's wearing a mask now...

in his hospital bed.

[dawg day]

47. A cluster of "flu and Covid," huh?

Flu: This is a 95 percent decrease from cumulative count of cases at the end of the 2019-2020 flu season.

If they also have a flu cluster going on, well, that's just more evidence of how helpful the Covid restrictions were for those of us smart enough to follow them.

[Captain Zero]

70. There's no flu cluster with it, just sounds better than saying THEY HAVE A HUGE COVID 19 PROBLEM

AT THIS CHURCH !

[uponit7771]

71. +1

[LetMyPeopleVote]

50. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

[LiberalFighter]

51. Asking for prayers from me? They better be careful what they wish for.

[demtenjeep]

52. May Rush greet you

to your end

[csziggy]

53. "I'm going to be one of the survivors."

That reminds me of a local candidate that ran for County Commission on a platform that said she would be a survivor "just like my namesake Virginia Dare."

Virginia Dare was the first white child born in the Roanoke Colony. You know, the colony that disappeared with little trace. It is not known what became of Virginia Dare but chances are that she did NOT survive.

[Crowman2009]

55. Well they've always whined about how superior heaven is and that this world is shit.

So let them take that voyage to the choir invisible since they can't stop throwing a fit about how things aren't going their way in the so-called culture war.

[mountain grammy]

56. Go on to heaven now Rick..

they need you there.

[titanicdave]

57. ...."As yes sew........

......"so shall ye reap"......'Nuff said....

[Botany]

60. If he is really sick he shouldn't take the monoclonal antibodies treatment because ...

... it is made from ground up dead babies. I hope he dies. I am tired of these stupid mother fuckers
who claim to know God or microbiology or what have you because they want to make a public health/
medical/science problem about right vs left politics.

[FakeNoose]

64. Funny how it doesn't matter to any of them

... that Chump wasted no time getting the monoclonal antibodies. Chump is also fully vaccinated, so what's the problem with these a-holes?

[Botany]

65. They are without shame.

What happened to the republican party that valued intelligence and love for America and
Americans? Trump raped woman, paid off porn stars, is married to a Slovenian Sex Worker
who entered America illegally, he hired undocumented workers to build and run his golf
courses, has grifted millions from America as President as he got > 3/4 of a million
Americans killed by C-19, and then he tried to overthrow the US Govt. by violence. Fox News
and its ilk is a cancer on the country I love. And this right wing dumb ass is exhibit 1 A.
I hope he dies a long and brutal death. I have had it with these assholes.

[uponit7771]

72. +1

[kimbutgar]

61. Why am I not hoping for a karmic payback for his lies?

[GulfCoast66]

62. I pray his illness is short lived...

[lindysalsagal]

75. I see what you did, there.

[SweetieD]

63. Unfortunately there will be a lot of people like this. People who are hardcore anti-vax and also

think Covid isn't that bad.

With things opening up, everyone, even the non-vaxxed, are out mingling with no masks no protections or anything thinking COVID is over.

[Generic Brad]

66. I've got a lot of thoughts for him

As for prayers - I'm still mulling that part over.

[MineralMan]

67. A man who trusts that Jesus will save him...

But Jesus has been nowhere to be seen for a couple of millennia. However science has saved many millions of people since then. Maybe that's Jesus's work. Maybe not. Lots of luck, dude...