#Who writes babylon bee series#

Anyway, he went on for a while, but it all boiled down to… it’s still the coronavirus, but now you’re totally going to catch it for real this time. “It’s really concerning,” said some scientist named… I dunno. I’m sure you’re rapt with attention about all this.

Some of them have brought up masks again. U.S.-Scientists now warn that the COVID-19 Delta Variant is, like, more contagious and also, like… other stuff about it. Here’s a piece of cutting wit from June 30, headlined “ Delta Variant Found To Be Twice As Virulent And Blah Blah Blah Whatever Who Cares At This Point”: But Dillon and the new team seem to believe in vaccine trutherism. Now, it’d be one thing if the Bee were just trying to make a couple bucks with irreverent merch. What sort of lifestyle brand is the new Bee? This kind:īecause nothing shows you’re doing the Kingdom’s purposes better than poking fun at vaccines, liberals, and pronouns all at once. Now it’s “News,” “Trending,” “Video,” “Podcast,” “Store,” and “Newsletter.” The site’s menu used to have categories about news, Christian living, celebrities, politics, and church. It didn’t happen overnight, but the site that used to run spoofs of churches with fog machines has gradually morphed into a MAGA entertainment node. At the time of the sale Ford said, “Seth, the new owner, is a successful businessman who uses his resources for Kingdom purposes. The site was founded by Adam Ford, but in late 2018 he sold the site to a “Christian entrepreneur” named Seth Dillon. These idiots don’t even know that the Babylon Bee is satire, so Trump never said there were very fine people on both sides at Charlottesville.

#Who writes babylon bee series#

The Bee was often labeled as fake news by mainstream fact-checking sites and this series of boners-the Bee is literally and intentionally fake news that is its whole reason for existing-made the Bee’s existence a convenient cudgel for people who were invested in undermining the very idea of fact checking. The Bee was founded seven months before Donald Trump took office and became popular mostly because many of the jokes were very funny-but also, if we can be honest, a little bit for purposes of lib-owning. Until a few years ago, the Babylon Bee was a niche humor site-the Onion for conservative Protestants.