If you are familiar with Loon Squad member Cory Bush, you know she hates white people and claims to be a nurse. There’s no doubt about her racism, but that nurse thing seems a little suspect. The Missouri democrat was apparently cured of COVID-19 by a faith-healing lunatic, despite her claim of being a medical professional. The party of science.
The Washington Free Beacon reported on this weird thing recently:
Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) spent years working as a faith healer for a religious group that claims to have resurrected the dead and cured thousands of people suffering from AIDS, cancer, paralysis, and other serious maladies—including Bush’s own severe case of coronavirus last year.
Bush did not have medical insurance when she was hospitalized with the virus last April, and she said her struggle illustrated the necessity of passing Medicare for All. Officials at her faith-healing church, however, said she was cured within 30 minutes after talking to the head pastor, Charles Ndifon, by phone from her hospital bed.
“Cori, she had COVID, and she called me from the hospital,” Ndifon, the presiding apostle of Kingdom Embassy International churches told the Washington Free Beacon. “And 30 minutes later, she was breathing. Healed. It was that simple.”
Ndifon—a Nigerian-born religious and leadership guru who runs a global network of apostolic churches headquartered in Rhode Island—said he first trained Bush to become a faith healer after she started attending his events in St. Louis in 2011. She started conducting healings and opened the St. Louis chapter of Ndifon’s Kingdom Embassy International church, he said. According to Ndifon’s teachings, illnesses are the result of demonic forces that must be expelled from the body.
“She continued having meetings even when I left St. Louis. She continued healing the sick, she would send the reports,” said Ndifon. “Once in a while, cases they can’t handle, they would send to me.”
Okay, that’s completely insane, but there’s a few details in there that got me thinking: Bush claims to be a nurse, so why didn’t she have insurance and why did she have a faith-healer “cure” her while she was in a hospital.
According to Bush’s twitter bio, she is a nurse:
And she tweets about it all the time:
Nurse Cori here to remind you to pause for a second. The past 72 hours have been draining. Take a moment for self care. We’re going to get through this together.
And when I get to Congress, I will fight to make mental healthcare free and accessible to all.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) November 5, 2020
Solidarity from Nurse Cori.
We’ve got to protect our healthcare heroes, not exploit them. https://t.co/5ikvfp4BjO
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) November 17, 2020
Wear 👏🏾 A 👏🏾 Mask 👏🏾
—Sincerely, an actual nurse https://t.co/X36Da65m5w
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) August 13, 2020
“An actual nurse” is defined as someone who works as a nurse, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. In Bush’s Wikipedia bio, there is no mention of her ever having been employed as a nurse. She is a pastor in the faith-healing nonsense church and has run for political office several times, but never a nurse.
Then, I found this thing from the National Women’s History Museum:
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown—an unarmed, African American teenager—was shot dead by a white police officer. Brown’s killing precipitated a series of protests that lasted approximately 400 days in the city. When Bush saw the protests, she thought she could help both as a registered nurse and as a pastor. Bush drove to Ferguson, where she and her colleagues from a mental-health clinic set up a tent to do grief-and-trauma work.
That’s her complete resumé in the nursing field. Doing “grief-and-trauma” work during Black lIves Matter riots. No wonder she didn’t have any health insurance.
There is also no evidence that she’s a registered nurse. She went to nursing school but never took a job as a nurse, which makes it unlikely that she was ever certified as a registered nurse. If she was a registered nurse, she could have had a lucrative career instead of being an unpaid activist and faith-healing charlatan.
Speaking of which, she never had COIVID-19 either. This is also from her Wikipedia page:
In March 2020, Bush contracted pneumonia. She was hospitalized twice; a test result for COVID-19 was negative. Bush telephoned Ndifon from her hospital bed for faith healing treatment, which, according to Ndifon, cured her within 30 minutes.
I know it must come to a shock to you that a member of AOC’s Loon Squad is a lying sack of shit.
Cory Bush calling herself a nurse is like me calling myself a hockey play because I used to play a little beer league pick-up. No, it’s worse because I actually played hockey while she has never done anything remotely resembling nursing.
