December 20, 2021 11:42 AM UTC

Joe Oltmann Thinks He Has Anthrax Now

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• by: Colorado Pols

Via reporter Heidi Beedle of the Colorado Springs Independent, we find Joe Oltmann of FEC United, Colorado’s leading promulgator of election conspiracy nuttery and armed militia-backed infiltration of the Colorado Republican Party, in a pickle that you should just read so we don’t have to explain it:

There’s a lot here, including what seems to be an implicit admission that COVID is a serious problem! This sometimes happens when the disease finally strikes close enough to home, and we wish Oltmann’s “patriot” friend a speedy recovery. Oltmann, who recently expressed his desire to hang Gov. Jared Polis and backslider Republicans, may not be the most ingratiating figure for sympathy but we don’t know his friend to judge.

What we really want to get back to, however, is this idea that Oltmann could be the victim of an “anthrax attack?” If that’s true, as readers will recall from the anthrax attacks on media and government offices in October of 2001, we assume Oltmann’s home is a Superfund site right now, with hazmat-geared first responders scrubbing everything down with bleach including Oltmann personally.

If that’s not happening then we have a plausible basis to doubt Oltmann’s claim to have been the victim of an “anthrax attack,” much like that mythical phone call that Oltmann claimed to be present for in which Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems supposedly promised the Board of Directors of Antifa they would “take care” of the election. At some point you’ve got to consider the possibility that Oltmann is not a reliable source.

From Joe Oltmann, the “Big Lie” about Dominion sprang. It has a life of its own now. Oltmann’s bogus accusations against Dominion are an essential element of the conspiracy theory embraced by a majority of Republicans in America that the 2020 election was stolen. Oltmann’s supporters have infiltrated county Republican parties as a deliberate strategy for taking over the Colorado GOP. Kristi Burton Brown, who left FEC United to run the state party, is now publicly at odds with Oltmann over Oltmann’s call to hang Gov. Polis–but it’s an open question who actually wields more power within the Colorado GOP today.

We wish everyone, even Joe Oltmann, a COVID and anthrax attack-free Christmas.

Just remember that one is much more plausible than the other.