Conspiracy and Kooky thinking

[Painboy]

I would make the argument that Trump is just a symptom and has little to do with the cause. Whether he actually believes his BS, or it's all just a political tactic, this stuff has been around for awhile now and he just rode the wave into office.

[Mo]

I would make the argument that Trump is just a symptom and has little to do with the cause. Whether he actually believes his BS, or it's all just a political tactic, this stuff has been around for awhile now and he just rode the wave into office.

[Warren]

I would make the argument that Trump is just a symptom and has little to do with the cause. Whether he actually believes his BS, or it's all just a political tactic, this stuff has been around for awhile now and he just rode the wave into office.

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[Taktix®]

So Taktix® is the first one to make a conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories...

Though I should point out this should hardly be a conspiracy theory. This is the biggest smoke n' mirrors presidency of all time. Just this week, he tried to muddy the waters about the Russian ties with all the "Obama wiretapped me! Wah!" shit...

[Kolohe]

I would make the argument that Trump is just a symptom and has little to do with the cause. Whether he actually believes his BS, or it's all just a political tactic, this stuff has been around for awhile now and he just rode the wave into office.

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It's the porque no los dos? gif.

[fyodor]

So Taktix® is the first one to make a conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories...

Though I should point out this should hardly be a conspiracy theory. This is the biggest smoke n' mirrors presidency of all time. Just this week, he tried to muddy the waters about the Russian ties with all the "Obama wiretapped me! Wah!" shit...

I'm skeptical but willing to entertain the theory that Trump's Trumpisms are a part of a carefully thought out strategy to divert public attention one way or another.

I can see how the hysterical and unsupported nature of the Trumpisms may possibly encourage unsupported hysteria in the populace, though it's far from clear to me there's really any epidemic of such that's unique to our day and age.

All that said, Taktix, your original post on the subject seemed to be saying that Trump was also actively encouraging conspiracy theories amongst the populace, presumably behind the scenes, to aid in his diversion practices. Did I read you right on that? Cause that's where the turtles start raining down in my view....

[Taktix®]

So Taktix® is the first one to make a conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories...

Though I should point out this should hardly be a conspiracy theory. This is the biggest smoke n' mirrors presidency of all time. Just this week, he tried to muddy the waters about the Russian ties with all the "Obama wiretapped me! Wah!" shit...

I'm skeptical but willing to entertain the theory that Trump's Trumpisms are a part of a carefully thought out strategy to divert public attention one way or another.

I can see how the hysterical and unsupported nature of the Trumpisms may possibly encourage unsupported hysteria in the populace, though it's far from clear to me there's really any epidemic of such that's unique to our day and age.

All that said, Taktix, your original post on the subject seemed to be saying that Trump was also actively encouraging conspiracy theories amongst the populace, presumably behind the scenes, to aid in his diversion practices. Did I read you right on that? Cause that's where the turtles start raining down in my view....

I don't think it's turtle-droppin' crazy. His chief adviser, Steve Bannon, is an unapoligetic bold-faced propagandist and Breitbart "News" has published verifiably false conspiratorial "news" articles. And it's not some X-files-type, agents sneaking around in shadows conspiracy, it's right out in the open. There are recordings of Bannon suggesting putting agents into protest crowds to create chaos. Trumps been a birther and a truther, he tried to float the idea that Ted Cruz's dad was involved in the JFK assassination (right when Cruz was closest to overtaking him). Trump's deputy campaign manager, David Bossie, a peddler of many of the wildest Clinton conspiracy theories of the 1990s, once made a documentary alleging that Hillary Clinton had murdered a critic's cat.

I don't see why it's hard to believe they'd float theories to distract people, since major newspapers are reporting that he's doing that very thing right now, as we speak (well, type): http://www.salon.com/2017/03/23/confirm ... -theories/

EDIT: Also, Alex Jones being anything more that a cocktail joke.

[nicole]

Should have put this here as well as Light Laffs:

"Thread," as they say

[Jennifer]

Speaking of conspiracies ... I live under one of the flight paths leading to and from the Atlanta airport (though far enough away that you can't hear the planes, fortunately), and two of the last three places Jeff and I lived before that were also fairly close to airports, and it's occurred to me: if you're one of those people who think contrails are actually nefarious "chemtrails," how do you even function? Assuming you live anywhere other than the outermost sticks, I mean. Pretty much the only days I don't see contrails are when there are too many ordinary clouds obscuring the sky.

I remember one day shortly after Jeff and I moved in together -- this was in East Windsor, Connecticut, not far from Bradley International Airport -- whatever conditions are good for making contrails must've reached 100-percent efficiency that day: the air was crisp and the sky a brilliant blue, not a single "natural" cloud to be seen, but the entire sky was criss-crossed with contrails at almost right angles to each other; I remember Jeff wondering what the area's original Indian inhabitants from centuries ago would've made of the sky, and I suggested that maybe the Sky Goddess was weaving a giant basket directly over our heads. It actually looked pretty cool ... but if you thought those white lines were actually some horrible mind-control drug or whatever the chemtrailers like to claim, it would've been almost as terrifying as a mushroom cloud on a nearby horizon. If I thought those sky lines were poison, I'd've hidden in my house with all the doors and windows shut.

[Highway]

There are rarely contrails where I live. Sometimes the flight path route this way, but that won't produce contrails either, because those aren't high altitude flights. Sometimes we'll get a few from traffic going past the area, but it's not too hard to find plenty of places to live, not even that far off the beaten path, where airplanes aren't really overhead much.

[Eric the .5b]

Speaking of conspiracies ... I live under one of the flight paths leading to and from the Atlanta airport (though far enough away that you can't hear the planes, fortunately), and two of the last three places Jeff and I lived before that were also fairly close to airports, and it's occurred to me: if you're one of those people who think contrails are actually nefarious "chemtrails," how do you even function? Assuming you live anywhere other than the outermost sticks, I mean. Pretty much the only days I don't see contrails are when there are too many ordinary clouds obscuring the sky.

Maybe they're incurious people who never looked much at the sky. Kinda like those people who think the moon only shows at night. But then, some paranoid points up at a plane leaving a contrail and gives them a cock and bull story about mind-control chemicals. Suddenly, they have a new fear?

I don't know.

[dbcooper]

Should have put this here as well as Light Laffs:

"Thread," as they say

His twitter stream of the protest is hilarious. These fucking people!

[Sandy]

I tried to read what "loosh" was (see pics downthread on Twitter) and, other than bearing the hallmarks of pseudocatholic NRx "dark enlightenment," I couldn't keep going. Something about onion murder.

[dhex]

the fuck your feelings t shirts are kinda rad.

[fyodor]

the fuck your feelings t shirts are kinda rad.

Yeah that pic brings a smile to my face.

Someone ripping up an American flag in front of those folks and watching them lose their shit would make me smile even more!

[dbcooper]

It's the Alex Jones/Enya mashup you've been waiting for.

[JasonL]

Lolol

[Warren]

I feel like I could have never seen that and not have lost anything.

[Hugh Akston]

Guy Fieri outed as Pizzagate co-conspirator

To the ordinary viewer, Fieri’s Comet Ping Pong coverage looks no different from any other episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. He samples the sauce, cracks a bunch of corny jokes, hammily challenges Alefantis to a fight if he doesn’t hand over the ‘za. But if you’re versed in the supposed secret language of elite child abusers, even an episode of a daytime cooking show can start to look like a confession. “Would you like some pedophilia with that Guy?” reads the since-edited description on one YouTube clip of the episode. “I know oysters and clams are part of the a code word but i cant remember what it means,” reads another, referencing a clip from the episode in which Alefantis cooks a pizza with clams. “Drugs,viagra,undeveloped organ?”

“Fuck you Guy,” a commenter weighted in on the latter video. “Say hello to your secret friends the podestas and the Clintons you fat pig.”

[nicole]

"oysters and clams are part of the a code word but i cant remember what it means"

[JasonL]

This is the best one I can remember. What the hell is happening.

[thoreau]

This is the best one I can remember. What the hell is happening.

Don't worry. I doubt that more than a third of the Cabinet buys into this theory.

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[lunchstealer]

somebody needs to make a pedo-bear-wearing-a-guy-fieri-mask-gif stat

[Mo]

somebody needs to make a pedo-bear-wearing-a-guy-fieri-mask-gif stat

Or just give him a goatee and frosted tips

[nicole]

Infowars founder and host Alex Jones is “playing a character,” his lawyer argued during a recent custody hearing surrounding his three children.

“He is a performance artist,” Jones's attorney, Randall Wilhite, argued to a Texas judge, according to a report in the Austin American-Statesman.

Jones, a supporter of President Trump, is the owner and operator of popular websites Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com. He is best known for pushing unfounded conspiracy theories, including that the U.S. government was behind the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

He also claims U.S. moon landings were faked and that the government faked the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting using actors.
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Jones is battling his ex-wife, Kelly Jones, for custody of their 14-year-old son and two daughters, aged 12 and 9.

“He’s not a stable person. He says he wants to break Alec Baldwin’s neck. He wants [Jennifer Lopez] to get raped,” Kelly Jones said in court, according to the American-Statesman.

“He broadcasts from home. The children are there, watching him broadcast.”

Over the next two weeks, a jury will be asked to ascertain if Jones's on-air persona is different from his off-air persona, and if he's fit to be a parent.

Several segments from Jones's show has been played to the jury.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/32907 ... ays-lawyer