Conspiracy #1: Clinton’s body count
The conspiracy claims that there are two serial killers who crisscross the United States from Arkansas to Washington, D.C., to New York and back, possibly over a period of 50 years. Oddly enough, the two killers are two of the most well-known figures in the country and around the world: President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“Clinton Body Count” list called This list has been around since at least the mid-’90s, when Bill Clinton was first elected president in 1992. The list, which began when Clinton was an up-and-coming politician in Arkansas, includes essentially everyone who has ever been elected president. He was able to contact the couple and later died. Considering the number of people the Clintons probably met during their time as Arkansas’ first family, many of those people die regardless, not because the Clintons acted like Hannibal Lecter. That should probably be obvious.
This outlandish list took on new life after anti-Clinton Republicans in Congress began giving it serious consideration, and tragic events like the death of Clinton aide Vince Foster reinforced the nonsense claims. was used for.
In addition to debunking the exact fallacies of the conspiracy, it cost the Clinton family their way to victory in both the 2008 Democratic presidential primary and the 2016 presidential election, despite allegedly killing so many people. Considering the fact that he did not, that logic breaks down. After a cross-border murder, why did these two people, who could have crushed their path to the most important positions in the world, suddenly stop? Perhaps because the plot was nonsense?
Conspiracy #2: Obama’s “hidden hypnosis” of voters
After George W. Bush held the White House for eight years, the right had a hard time considering Barack Obama’s landslide victory in the 2008 presidential election. How should I explain it? In a word, it’s hypnosis.
During that election cycle, document An article titled “Investigation into the use of covert hypnosis in Obama’s speeches” goes viral, claiming that Obama used sophisticated hypnosis to seduce millions of people into voting for him. did. The document alleges that President Obama used spells such as “change is in the air” and “turn the page” for mind control.
But if Obama won in 2008 and 2012 thanks to his dastardly powers of suggestion, why didn’t he use his mind control powers in elections that Democrats lost? Why didn’t Obama lose his mind during the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, let alone 2016 and 2024? Hmm.
Conspiracy #3: Weather weapons exist, but only Democrats can use them.
In the real world, meteorologists understand how the weather forms and often make educated predictions of what will happen based on their data (although sometimes their predictions are wrong). ). But in the right-wing world, that’s an outdated way of thinking. That’s because the U.S. government has access to the kind of weather weapons that are usually the domain of the Avengers or the Justice League.
In 2013, he was on the right. conspiracy theorist and Alex Jones, a big fan of Donald Trump. I got an idea The federal government, then led by President Obama, allegedly deployed weather weapons to create tornadoes in Oklahoma.
Just a few months ago, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia claimed that President Joe Biden: was supervising A ferocious weather weapon in the southeast. Biden called the allegations “very stupid.”
But it’s even stupider. If weather weapons exist (and they don’t), then why do only Democratic presidents use them? Didn’t you use it? Or why didn’t former President George W. Bush use weather weapons to silence critics of the Iraq War under layers of snow and rain?
Conspiracy #4: President Obama’s Sharia State in the United States
When Obama took the oath of office, he was very different from any president in American history. The right-wingers, the first black president to be elected president, went wild with all kinds of conspiracies, but perhaps their favorite for eight years was that Obama would implement Sharia law.
This lie was based on the unsubstantiated notion that Obama was a closet Muslim due to his Kenyan family background. and, reportedly, as a crypto-Muslim. he was going to twist American law becomes a version of extremist Sharia law. like afghanistan Under the Taliban regime. But the right has had a very hard time explaining how President Obama would do this. Because the president doesn’t have a magic wand to turn all laws into religious orthodoxy.
The bigoted roots of this kind of thing are further undermined by the fact that Kenya, where Obama’s father was born, is not a Muslim-majority country, but is mostly Christian. 86%according to 2022 data from the Department of State). Also, Mr. Obama practical christian As president, he repeatedly appealed for religious coexistence and tolerance.
His Sharia law is not very good.
Plot #5: The Clintons’ sexual Christmas decorations
In the 1990s, there was a lot of money to be made in the conservative world by saying the craziest things possible about the Clintons (see serial murder case above). Enter Gary Aldrich, a disgruntled former FBI agent.
Aldrich said in his 1996 book, “Unlimited Access: FBI Agents Inside the Clinton White House.” claimed The team that decorated the White House Christmas tree included ornaments that resembled “drug paraphernalia” and a gingerbread man ornament with a “cock ring.”
Remember, these were the trees that were on display for White House visitors and the media, and were often photographed every Christmas season under Democratic and Republican presidents.
Of course, reporters covering the White House said they saw no such display, but they always believed the Clintons were sneaky hippies destroying the White House (even though they didn’t commit the murders). The people who believed it bought the lie.
The right tends to believe the worst, and conservative media sells it to them on a daily basis. No matter how easily a lie is debunked, no matter how many conspiracies exist, the right will believe it.
And they vote.
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