“'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind.” William Shakespeare The evil of science deniers recently has been beyond the pale. Not content with killing the planet over climate change, and sowing doubt over vaccines the far-right conspiracy theorists have a new target to haunt the world with the crazy, the world's biodiversity. The raging denialists…
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Trump and his dunce of a son have a new Biden conspiracy theory — he's on DRUGS!
Whenever Donald Trump sits down with Judge Jeanine Pirro, I worry they’ll collapse into a cray-cray singularity from which neither light nor rational thought can escape. This was no exception: x “I think there's probably, possibly drugs involved. That's what I hear.” — during interview with Judge Jeanine, Trump casually accuses Joe Biden of using…
AZ-Sen: Rep. Paul Gosar (R) Pushes Conspiracy Theory That Dems Stole 2018 Election From McSally (R)
Dumb ass: Rep. Paul Gosar boosted a tweet Thursday from a conservative Arizona comedian who outlined a false conspiracy of how he thinks Democrats stole Arizona's 2018 Senate race won by Kyrsten Sinema. Gosar, R-Ariz., used his personal Twitter account to amplify the fringe view of a man who only identifies himself on social media as…
IA-Sen: Joni Ernst (R) Is Now Trying To Walk Back Repeating A QAnon Conspiracy Theory
So this happened earlier this week: Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported. As the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier wrote, Ernst said she was “so skeptical” of the official death count when asked by an…
KS-Sen: Roger Marshall (R) Has Sad About Facebook Taking Down His COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Post
Cry me a river: U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall is accusing Facebook of censorship after the social media giant removed a post from his account that promoted a conspiracy theory about federal reports of coronavirus deaths. In the comments that Marshall posted Sunday, he said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had “quietly updated” its…
TRUMPY the Conspiracy Clown Embraces Birtherism and QAnon
Of all the ways that Donald Trump has defiled the office of the presidency, among the most disturbing is his mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and the freak jobs who promote them. He frequently expresses his concurrence with bizarre and fantastical concoctions that range from cannibal child sex trafficking to staged mass murders. On Friday Trump…
a desperate Trump amplifies QAnon conspiracy theories perhaps rationalizing a Flynn pardon
Trump is just a free-rider doing QAnon retweets, continuing the proof of Trump unhingery, spreading chaos because bad news for him is coming on May Day. Using the latest FBI notes, Trump may be prepping the ground for a Michael Flynn pardon and is trying to get base attention even though Flynn remains guilty. The weirder…
Lindsey Graham: DOJ has created 'process' for Rudy to hand over Biden conspiracy theories
Wait, didn’t we just have a big impeachment trial over this? Oh, never mind. The culprits got away with it. Of course, this is a little like going back to the bank you robbed in broad daylight to collect the tellers’ wallets. The Department of “Justice” has created an official process for soliciting foreign interference…
Russian GRU hackers return for Trump's Ukraine conspiracy theory, interfering in 2020 election
The disinformation persists as Trump’s “perfect” shake down conversation with Ukraine president Zelensky only appears to be unrelated to the actual Russian hacking campaigns that helped elect him. They might also be on the path of “exonerating” him. We’ve returned to 2016, as the same Russian military intelligence GRU continues its campaign to help Trump in…
Russian GRU hackers return for Trump's Ukraine conspiracy theory, interfering in 2020 election
The disinformation persists as Trump’s “perfect” shake down conversation with Ukraine president Zelensky only appears to be unrelated to the actual Russian hacking campaigns that helped elect him. They might also be on the path of “exonerating” him. We’ve returned to 2016, as the same Russian military intelligence GRU continues its campaign to help Trump in…
CBC edited Trump out of its showing of Home Alone 2; Fox & Friends thinks it's a conspiracy
I envy the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. I wish I could edit Donald Trump out of my head. Unfortunately, I’m told very few insurance plans will approve that kind of surgery, no matter how many times I tell them it’s not really “elective.” So the CBC edited Trump out of its broadcast of Home Alone 2,…
The conspiracy theories are coming from inside the (White) House
It is a sad anniversary for #SandyHook but is also a reminder that nothing has changed about the spread of RWNJ CTs that conform to propaganda models. What happened in 2016 will likely repeat itself. If you haven’t yet read this Rand report, you should, because it helps explain the incessant repetition of GOP lies,…
Guilty Trump: conspiracy to commit Bribery and Extortion because he believes nonsense
George Kent reaffirmed Trump’s 2016 obsession and his 2020 objectives in his testimony. Trump still believes in debunked CTs, and the GOP witness list reflects that level of disinformation. One of the central defenses of President Trump’s actions regarding Ukraine is that he’s really just interested in rooting out corruption. Ukraine is a corrupt country, the…
Conspiracy! Treason! Espionage! FARA?: Your guide to laws for l'Affaire Russe
This is a quick hopefully audience-friendly guide to the main charges that will (and won’t!) play a part in prosecuting collusion with Russia. In particular, I want to highlight the requirements for proving each of these offenses, because that’s valuable for understanding Mueller’s strategy as the various parts of this saga start to come together. For those hoping…
