That period of time was one of intense competition between #MichaelCohen & Trump's longest-serving adviser, #RogerStone.
#Trump didn't ultimately run in the election in the following year. But he did plant the seeds for himself in the #GOP primary by vaulting to the top of the polls on the #birtherism#racist#ConspiracyTheory#lie that President Barack #Obama may not have been born in the United States.
What's the #ConspiracyTheorist explanation for #Building7? Like sure, if you believe it was made to come down artificially, why? If the point was to instill fear in the American people, weren't the #TwinTowers enough? Why did the government have to take down that little building, too?
For context, when this issue came up in 2011, #Trump was beginning to talk about running for president in the 2012 #Republican primary. He had been promoting the #birtherism#ConspiracyTheory lie about President #Obama’s, suggesting Obama was an illegitimate president, & was gaining traction in polls w/ [#WhiteSupremacists] as he did.
In 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine. It was about a man named Martel who works for the “deep state” in the far future as a mysterious “scanner,” or starship pilot, and whose mind is manipulated...
charges are falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments in lead up to 2016 election to #influence electorate
just one Trump supporter at the courthouse draped in a Trump flag.
#StormyDaniels's lawyer, #KeithDavidson, to return to stand. He negotiated the hush-money payment at the center of the case, & is expected to lay out details of the deal.
There truly is a conspiracy theory for just about everything. Is it aliens? Atlantis? Giants?
Just, why?
"Star Forts Are Military History, and the Base of Some Strange Conspiracy Theories - Examining why these ubiquitous, obsolete fortifications carry an air of mystery."
by Colin Dickey April 15, 2024
"...As massive structures meant to withstand direct hits from cannon fire, they’re formidable and not easily removed... What lies behind these structures, then, is a fully accessible but bizarrely complex archive of architecture and military history... We are doomed, it would seem, to be surrounded not just by structures that not only outlast us, but whose very nature eludes and confounds us.
...“the starforts that remain today, either intact or in ruins, were part of a far larger network of a lost civilisation [sic] that spanned pretty much—as far as we can tell—the entire Earth."
Outrageous that #NPR.org posted an article (not linked since it should not get clicks) titled "RFK Jr. may have missed a major opportunity with his VP pick" as if he were a serious political candidate worthy of public consideration and not a #ConspiracyTheory#AntiVax wackjob.
Please please please, #journalists and editors, do your job of helping society actually function better instead of allowing everything to collapse into ruin.
Just when you thought #Republicans couldn't get any dumber, they do this...
#TennesseeRepublicans, desperate to do anything other than improve the lives of their constituents, have latched onto yet another absurd and definitively debunked #conspiracyTheory. This time, they won't be helping their people so they can instead focus all their attention on preventing "#chemtrails", which literally don't exist. 🤦♂️✈️
Mary of Egypt reportedly converted to Christianity during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. One of the earliest pilgrim accounts of Jerusalem is that left behind by a Roman woman named Egeria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egeria_(pilgrim)
A medieval #conspiracytheory alleged that one of the popes was a woman! As reported in the 1200s, a woman in the 800s dressed as a man, was super smart, & eventually was elected pope, but after two years in office, she gave birth to a child and died. Reportedly "Pope Joan" was excluded from official lists of popes. Later stories claimed that a new pope must sit on a special chair and have his testicles fondled to demonstrate he's really a man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan #WomensHistoryMonth
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Every news site #AndyBiggs listed as his daily, go-to source is a #farRight nonsense publication, or an overt #conspiracyTheory site. It would be hilarious if he wasn't an elected official who's expected to have a well-rounded knowledge supported by objective, fact-based reporting. This clown is steeped in #rightWing misinformation, and poses a threat to the wellbeing of the nation. 🤡
This sort of attitude, elevating folk wisdom above educational achievement, underlies a lot of the problems in today's political arena: anti-vax, climate collapse denial, conspiracy theory nonsense, and rejection of historical facts both about their own history and that of the fairy tales and myths they pretend are literal truth.
Notice they call education a "patholigical" condition. This is a dangerous cult that values ignorance and feelings over science, history, and facts.
#FoxNews’s #HarrisFaulkner hosted a panel on Mon afternoon to discuss a #SNL sketch mocking #POTUS#Biden. In short order…things went in a different direction.
Faulkner turned to #JonathanKott, fmr aide to Sen #JoeManchin….
“I will say this,” Kott offered. “I would rather have a president who maybe has a stutter once in a while than one who spews #ConspiracyTheory, #racist nonsense & has dinner w/ #Nazis.”
The subjs were asked: Would you share these stories online?
The results seemed to defy #logic of modern #politics or #polarization. “There were many…who seemed willing to share any #ConspiracyTheory, regardless of the party…,” Petersen said. These participants didn’t seem like stable partisans of the left or right. They weren’t even negative partisans, who hated 1 side w/o feeling allegiance to the other. Above all, they seemed drawn to stories that undermined #trust in every system of #power.
MI State House Speaker Joe Tate (D) on Mon stripped an Oakland County #Republican lawmaker of his office staff & budget & cmte assignment for sharing a #racist population #ConspiracyTheory on social media.
"I believed, when I was talking on social media, I was being tracked by America."
In the second episode of Why Do You Hate Me, Marianna Spring speaks to a survivor of a mass shooting in Las Vegas who fell into a world of conspiracy theories.
Marianna Spring's short series 'Why Do You Hate Me?' about her experience of trolling and her investigation of the trolls and conspiracy-theorists she has encountered, is on BBC Sounds now.
#ClimateDiary Thursday, 1st February 2024. #Labour announce they will drop their flagship £28 billion annual green Investment pledge (reducing it by about two thirds).
It feels like the backlash against climate and #NetZero policies is gaining momentum everywhere. I hope I am wrong (and know good stuff is happening too - eg Biden halting LNG projects was pretty major), but that’s what it feels like.
@BroadforkForVictory i don’t know. It looks like the same as everything rlse they do, aping Tories aping right-wing loonies. All that pro car stuff Sunsk has been saying etc. fossil fuel industry has been very successful at soeing a lot of distrust of netzero, at first mainly #conspiracytheory stuff and people but it bow feels more mainstream. But not an expert, might be wrong about all this. Maybe Labour has other reasons but that’s what it feels like
The Sci-Fi Writer Who Invented Conspiracy Theory (www.theatlantic.com)
In 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine. It was about a man named Martel who works for the “deep state” in the far future as a mysterious “scanner,” or starship pilot, and whose mind is manipulated...