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GOP -- The Party of Conspiracy Theorists

Splitting hairs.

While Jones has a devoted audience, the Left is full of kooks such as Michael Moore, Olberman, Colbert,and Krugman, and the things that come out of their mouths can be nearly as bad.

The difference, to my mind, is that while Jones is a known kook to the majority of Conservatives, the ones I listed are often thought of as "mainstream" by a large part of the Left. That's where the problem lies. The Left is quick to buy into their conspiracies, while the majority of conservatives roll their eyes at Jones.
Exactly what "CT" has Krugman ever created or repeated?
 
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Splitting hairs.

While Jones has a devoted audience, the Left is full of kooks such as Michael Moore, Olberman, Colbert,and Krugman, and the things that come out of their mouths can be nearly as bad.

The difference, to my mind, is that while Jones is a known kook to the majority of Conservatives, the ones I listed are often thought of as "mainstream" by a large part of the Left. That's where the problem lies. The Left is quick to buy into their conspiracies, while the majority of conservatives roll their eyes at Jones.
Exactly what "CT" has Krugman ever created or repeated?
 
Exactly. We have been right in the middle of the biggest CT in history--Trump collusion with Russia. So for the left to criticize the right for conspiracy theories is just comical. Then you have a guy in charge of both the Clinton and Trump investigations so rife with bias and partisan hatred that he has to be removed from his position by Mueller and the left sees nothing.

It's not "CT" if it actually happened. The only reason for your post is that you're changing the definition of "collusion" into something that nobody on the rest of the planet is using.
 
If you do not understand the flip side of the coin, odds are -- you're one of the inundated ones.

None of those people are anywhere close to a guy whose shtick is claiming that school shootings are false flags, that liberals are planning a 2nd Civil War, that 9/11 was an inside job etc. Alex Jones isn't a partisan...partisans exists on both sides of the aisle. If you think any of those guys are anything like Alex Jones...you're the inundated one....you don't even understand the difference between bat **** crazy and partisan.

I also think it's interesting you put a Nobel prize winning economist and comedian on that list as well. One is an academic who bases a lot of what he says on decades of being one of the top people in his field. The other is a comedian. Both are liberal but they are experts because they are REALLY good at their main jobs. Alex Jones main job is to stay stupid **** that becomes Republican conspiracy theories.
 
None of those people are anywhere close to a guy whose shtick is claiming that school shootings are false flags, that liberals are planning a 2nd Civil War, that 9/11 was an inside job etc. Alex Jones isn't a partisan...partisans exists on both sides of the aisle. If you think any of those guys are anything like Alex Jones...you're the inundated one....you don't even understand the difference between bat **** crazy and partisan.

I also think it's interesting you put a Nobel prize winning economist and comedian on that list as well. One is an academic who bases a lot of what he says on decades of being one of the top people in his field. The other is a comedian. Both are liberal but they are experts because they are REALLY good at their main jobs. Alex Jones main job is to stay stupid **** that becomes Republican conspiracy theories.

The specific type of conspiracy is less important than the ability to spread the conspiracy in a way listeners will believe.

People have long questioned how Krugman won the Nobel, but even if he deserved it then -- he no longer does today. He's become a partisan hack.
 
The Left have their kooks, but is there really an Alex Jones equivalent on the Left? What president has called in to a CT kook's radio show the day after getting elected besides Trump?

Member back when a majority of Democrats polled as being at least partial 9/11 Truthers? :) I 'member.

Conspiracy Theories are for those who want simple explanations with easily identifiable bad actors and to feel superior to others. That's a description not of one partisan side or another so much as it is an unfortunate description of large chunks of humanity.
 
Part II of II

Far from being a charismatic aberration to the GOP, Trump is the party base distilled into one person. Older. White. Paranoid. Frightened by uncomprehended change and patronizingly dismissive of actual experts who get it. Nursing countless grudges. Like his ardent base, he lives in a world of a collapsing U.S. with borders overrun by cartels, gangs, and terrorists, foreigners stealing all the jobs, Europe made into Saudi Arabia by secret al Qaeda and ISIS cells posing as refugees and creating no-go zones, immigrants imported en masse to vote for an Illuminati takeover of America, and erasing the nation’s white population.

But commoners don't conjure that crap; it comes from commentators who, like Trump, capitalize on selling ideas to the people so incapable of explaining why their opinions find not universal approval that they turn to conspiracy theories rather than face being wrong. And that’s really what, IMO, it all comes down to. Conspiracy theories make people feel privy to secret knowledge “the sheeple” lack and precent the distress borne of having to alter one’s view by letting the believers say “I’m not wrong, it’s a lie perpetuated by a conspiracy against people like me!” Worse, a conspiracy theory gives its adherents an easy set of targets to blame for all their problems instead of having to navigate the slaty intricacies of ethics, law and economics.

Instead of being an impotent working stiff against the far too often greedy and reckless global elites who indirectly dictate one's fate and who have, over the past three decades, carefully created an all but uncrossable inequality chasm, conspiracy theory arms one with "the truth" to bring them all down in a burst of public rage and fury. Trump’s supporters thus find their bogeyman in minorities, SJWs, just as Know Nothings found it in Catholics and Irish immigrants, and -- abjuring Gowdin -- as Nazi Party faithful found it in Jews and Marxists.

This false simplicity coupled with the lack of having to reevaluate one’s views is a compelling message sold by countless "Alex Joneses" since the invention of mass media. We’re just more aware of it today because we’ve pretty much perfected mass media delivery. Conspiracy voters are not the new, catastrophic, democracy-eroding menace pundits present them to be; they’ve been with us since the advent of democratic nations, and while scandalous, bigotry-spewing politicians like Trump and Berlusconi are treated as some bizarre anomaly, they’re nothing new to history. They’re just parts of history that rhyme. That said, the conspiracy vote also encouraged witch hunts, war, and economic malaise as populist rage pursued its bogeymen instead of fixing real problems, so merely dismissing them as a historical recurrence and leaving it at that is every bit as much of a disservice as treating them like a fifth horseman of the apocalypse.

Unsurprisingly, neurology and political science research has found that extreme conservatism tends to lead to such views. Those who identify as more conservative tend to have a larger amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for processing fear and threat response. This tangentially corroborates what political scientist Oliver lays out in Enchanted America, that conservatism tends to be a more apprehensive belief system, drawing heavily on fears of threat. He also notes that intuitionists often tend to come from more conservative homes and have more authoritarian dispositions.


End of opening post.

Sadly, the left has seized the dream of impeaching Trump and sailing into a White House that is rightfully theirs. And yet as time goes on it is getting obvious to even the thickest tinfoil hats, that they are going to be running against Trump in 2024. (With a mighty slim bench at that!)

Maybe there longer missives create a catharsis for the TDS’ers.

The only election related indictments are another tranch of Russians giggling over vodka as Rosenstein reads his rogues list. So what is the remedy? Is Trump going to ask them to extradite them? Sheeeiiiittttt....

So flip your crazy switch on! Three, two, one....
 
But it didnt happen. There was no collusion between Trump and Russia.

we do not know that, yet; the investigation is yet to be completed

why are you so, impatient?

I fell really sorry for that kid pictured in your avatar; he must fell really bad being a victim of the GOP .........
 
That's all well and fine, but in the past couple of years, the Left has been fraught with conspiracy theories -- it seems as if they'll cling to any tale, no matter how far-fetched, as long as it shows Trump (or the GOP) in a bad light.

So -- #rightbackatcha.

Right, because Mueller indictments and guilty pleas are all made up by the Left . Your problem is that the truth is going to destroy your dear leader and your party with him. What Isaw in the hearings yesterday was FEAR. The Right is scared s---less and are getting really desperate. It was a disgusting clown show..
 
we do not know that, yet; the investigation is yet to be completed

why are you so, impatient?

I fell really sorry for that kid pictured in your avatar; he must fell really bad being a victim of the GOP .........

More evidence that the real tin foil hatters are all on the left.
 
More evidence that the real tin foil hatters are all on the left.

this, coming from a supporter of the Trump 'birther' movement? LOFL ..................

I really feel sorry for that poor kidnapped youth in your avatar photo ........
 
Right, because Mueller indictments and guilty pleas are all made up by the Left . Your problem is that the truth is going to destroy your dear leader and your party with him. What Isaw in the hearings yesterday was FEAR. The Right is scared s---less and are getting really desperate. It was a disgusting clown show..

No, you saw what you wanted to see. Nothing Mueller has uncovered touches trump. But dont let facts disrupt your CT madness.
 
this, coming from a supporter of the Trump 'birther' movement? LOFL ..................

I really feel sorry for that poor kidnapped youth in your avatar photo ........

You go run along and find evidence of me supporting the 'birther' nonsense.
 
You go run along and find evidence of me supporting the 'birther' nonsense.

you support everything Trump ever supported; he prolly even bought Stormy a good bra ............. you supported those TWO things too .........
 
you support everything Trump ever supported; he prolly even bought Stormy a good bra ............. you supported those TWO things too .........

When you are done lying and actually want to post something intelligent, honest and mature, let me know.
 
When you are done lying and actually want to post something intelligent, honest and mature, let me know.

oh; just run away like a Trump supporter will always do ..........
 
you support everything Trump ever supported; he prolly even bought Stormy a good bra ............. you supported those TWO things too .........

Cuban, you probably should disabuse yourself of the line that says Fletch ascribed to the "birther" BS having any legitimacy. He may be a Trumpkin, but I don't think one'll find content from him that suggests he construes the "birther" claim is anything other than foolishness. If you want to give him grief, fine, but you have to do so on some basis that's supported by fact or by cogent induction from extant facts (stuff he's actually said and/or illogic in the stuff he's actually said).
 
Right, because Mueller indictments and guilty pleas are all made up by the Left . Your problem is that the truth is going to destroy your dear leader and your party with him. What Isaw in the hearings yesterday was FEAR. The Right is scared s---less and are getting really desperate. It was a disgusting clown show..

I really don't think the Right is scared. None of Mueller's indictments have anything to do with linking Trump (himself) will the Russian attempt to influence the election. And, no one has shown that Russia even had any measurable influence in swaying voters.

To date -- the Mueller investigation is basically a non-story.
 
I really don't think the Right is scared. None of Mueller's indictments have anything to do with linking Trump (himself) will the Russian attempt to influence the election. And, no one has shown that Russia even had any measurable influence in swaying voters.

To date -- the Mueller investigation is basically a non-story.

I think Trump and republicans would be worried if among these many indictments of Russians, there were some indictments of members of the Trump team. So far, there has been zero link established by Mueller between the numerous indictments of Russians and anyone in the Trump camp. The entire 'collusion' narrative has been a giant CT for two years now and the majority of people on the left are still buying it.
 
I think Trump and republicans would be worried if among these many indictments of Russians, there were some indictments of members of the Trump team. So far, there has been zero link established by Mueller between the numerous indictments of Russians and anyone in the Trump camp. The entire 'collusion' narrative has been a giant CT for two years now and the majority of people on the left are still buying it.

An when that happens, and it will happen as sure as July follows June, what poor excuses will Trumpkins then cling to?

Watch this space to find out.
 
But it didnt happen. There was no collusion between Trump and Russia.

No, it quite specifically did happen. Multiple times. But you don't care because you voted for Trump to burn the country down.
 
I really don't think the Right is scared. None of Mueller's indictments have anything to do with linking Trump (himself) will the Russian attempt to influence the election. And, no one has shown that Russia even had any measurable influence in swaying voters.

To date -- the Mueller investigation is basically a non-story.

LOL Keep telling yourself that. Read the indictments and you will see a connection with the Trump campaign being built. The detail in these indictment are clues.
Guccifer 2.0 communicated with someone in contact with the Trump campaign.

Trump or his associates could be in more of a pickle, however, if it were revealed that they had foreknowledge of the Russian hacking—and here Mueller again drops clues. According to the indictment, a figure posing as Guccifer 2.0 communicated with “a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign.” In August 2016, the indictment says, “Guccifer 2.0” wrote to this person, “Thank u for writing back . . . do u find anyt[h]ing interesting in the docs i posted?” Two days later, they said, “please tell me if i can help u anyhow . . . it would be a great pleasure to me.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/clues-in-muellers-indictment-point-to-collusion
 
You go run along and find evidence of me supporting the 'birther' nonsense.

If you like Trump, you liked his birther nonsense at least on a visceral level. It also shows you don't mind a serial liar being President.
 
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