MAGA anti-vax dipshit Anchorage, Alaska mayor Dave Bronson ordered the 49th state’s largest city’s water public utility to shut off fluoridation in October before reversing five hours later upon learning he can’t actually do that, Alaska Public Media reports. Bronson’s office acknowledged the incident in a Tuesday statement, claiming he was protecting city workers from harmful effects of exposure to the fluoride supply, which “burned the eyes and throats of staff who handled it” but not why they weren’t using proper safety gear. Jon Cecil, president of the local public workers union, called bullshit on that claim, saying “No one has contacted us with any information related to potentially AMEA members being injured on the job at the AWWU water treatment plant”.

Regardless, Bronson backed off the order after finding out the city’s municipal code requires the public water supply to be fluoridated. He probably hoped the episode would go unreported since he looks like a complete asshole – again, since it came just weeks after he publicly called anti-vaxxers wearing yellow Judenstern badges a “nice tribute” to Holocaust victims before walking that back too. But surface it did, two months later thanks to the work of some intrepid bloggers.

Drinking water fluoridation is to paranoid right wing conspiracy theories what “Stairway to Heaven” is to hard rock. Sometimes it’s important for the old guard to bring back the classics and expose them to a new generation of young pups raised on insipid, manufactured pop hits like “Biden is a cyborg” and “the Chinese thermostats hacked the 2020 election”.