Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Susan Linehan's avatar

Way back the last eon of 2016 election campaigning I reupped my acquaintance with theories ABOUT conspiracy theory. I've been studying them all my life since I first heard of the Protocols of the Elder of Zion, which was early on. I had grade school friends who were BORN in the Japanese camps, and there was no way I was going to believe that all Japanese living here were plotting against the US, no matter how often I watched Victory at Sea.

It is an absolute TRUISM that any of us can fall for conspiracy theories of one sort or another, and most of us do. Most of the time, the intelligent person toys and forgets even benign ones. But don't YOU deep down believe that DMV employees have to go through Marine Boot Camp training?

The place to stop toying is when you start not just believing but ACTING as if your pet conspiracy is true and actually explains something true about the world and causes you to DO something stupid. Your example is a good one: the answer to Wisconsin is not hovering over the computers, but simply getting everyone you know to vote.

Newsom is taking the right approach to the multiple conspiracy theories going on about the CA wildfires--he has ordered people to look into any that might have a glimmer of truth. WAS there anything fishy about choosing to fix that reservoir? Of course not: the non-fire season is when you do that even if the reservoir being "down" doesn't have much to do with fighting fires. But someone is going to come up with the receipts.

I doubt he will have to spend any taxpayer funds looking into those green, waterfilled tumbleweeds. Like the rapture, tumbleweeds only happen after death, as Tiedrich has pointed out.

Expand full comment
Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

I’m still at the ranting stage so my reply would be so ugly I would piss off everybody. LOL

One of my many neighbors who voted for Trump tried to be friendly today.

It did not go well for her. SCORCHED earth would be accurate.

Expand full comment
44 more comments...

No posts