Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse.

The astrology influencer and “divine healer” who went by the name Danielle Ayoka online called the upcoming astronomical event “the epitome of spiritual warfare” and told people they needed to “pick a side,” in posts on X on April 4.

Less than three days later, in the early morning before the partial solar eclipse, Johnson left a trail of tragedy in her wake: her partner stabbed to death in the kitchen of the family apartment in Woodland Hills, her 8-month-old baby dead after being pushed from Johnson’s moving Porsche Cayenne on the 405, and Johnson herself dead after crashing her car on Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach.

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    Mother who pushed kids from moving car, killed partner was a crazy fucking bitch.

    I hate when they throw in superfluous words to make the title sound more intelligent

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    Under the Ayoka moniker, Johnson issued a torrent of antisemitic screeds, conspiracy theories and alarmist warnings on Thursday and Friday. These included a repost of a debunked apocryphal speech attributed to Ben Franklin about how Jewish people “depreciated” societies wherever they settled, a video about Jews promoting pedophilia in the entertainment industry, and unproven theories about the origin of COVID-19.

    This is qanon shit. Don’t know why OP didn’t include it in their excerpts of the article.

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      I didn’t include it because it wasn’t in the first three paragraphs. My excerpt is literally the beginning of the article.

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    I mean, that wasn’t a conspiracy theory, her religion lead her to do that. Raving about the apocalypse and trying to get raptured and shit

    The nutjobs are the real idealists, and yet they always hate the left wing and support the me-me-me guys. What gives?

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    At least she was kind enough to get herself killed in the process. Fucking nutters are on conspiracy steroids since the pan.

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        She also offered a $6.99 per month home purifying cleanse that stripped people’s residences of “stagnant energy,” citing better sleep and an increased “vibration” as some of the benefits. Activating the service was simple: purchase the cleanse, get a piece of paper and title it “home purifying cleanse” and write your address on it. Then tuck it away in a safe place, she wrote.

        Definitely a grifter.

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      Reminds me of that flat-earther Behind The Curve documentary. Such conspiracy theorist and woowoo believers basically fall into the grifted, and the grifters. Those outcast and outsiders who lack critical-thinking skills and who find community in like-minded eccentrics, and the ones just exploiting the gullible for money.

      Similar with maga cult, too.

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    Those poor babies. Who the fuck throws an 8 month old and 9 year old out of a moving vehicle on the freeway?! What a monster. I hope that 9 year old girl is able to heal from this… by some miracle. Such a senseless tragedy.

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      They won’t. People don’t recover from things like this. Just hope they can find a loving relative to live with and come to terms with it later.

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    with more than 100,000 followers on X who liked her increasingly worrying messages.

    It’s all happening on X!

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        Yeah, I was mainly just mocking Linda Yaccarino’s attempt to force “It’s all happening on X” as a catchphrase while the site spirals down the drain. That being said, while the amount of crazy and hatred seems to be going up on every platform, X seems to be outperforming most other sites at becoming a toxic cesspit.