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| Conspiracies Everywhere; What to Do? |
| 2026-09-08 |
| [Cynical Publius via X] I keep coming back in my mind to all of the "conspiracy theories" that have come true since 2016. I have told friends in the past: "The more you see, the more you see." It’s a delicate balance to be distrusting of most things without wandering into paranoia. I often believe the biggest damage that has been done to the country since 2016 is that anyone who is even slightly politically aware is now distrustful of everything, and I cannot say I blame them. The problem is, not everything is a conspiracy. Some things are the result of mere incompetence. Other things actually are what they appear to be. Some other things are, in fact, deep, dark government conspiracies. Having said that, I know that our nation’s recent history does warrant a sense of paranoia. Consider the things we now know to be true; below is a list of former "conspiracy theories" that we were right about all along: 1. The "Trump/Russia Collusion" hoax was a complete fabrication and a product of overt coordination between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DOJ/FBI. It was literally a coup attempt and remains probably the worst political scandal in U.S. history. 2. The Mueller Inquisition went forward even though the entire team knew the issues at the heart of it all were outright fabrications. Mueller’s team’s actual objective was to make it very difficult for Trump to enact his agenda in his first term—that was the real reason for the investigation's existence. 3. The first Trump impeachment was set up via illegal manipulation of whistleblower rules specifically for purposes of allowing a "whistleblower" to go after Trump based on hearsay alone. (And let’s not forget that Trump literally did nothing wrong and it was a perfect phone call, plus the impeachment was genuinely an attempt to coverup the Biden family’s role in preventing a thorough investigation of Hunter’s Ukrainian employer.) 4. COVID almost certainly came from a lab in Wuhan, China, and that’s what the CIA non-publicly believed while all the time we were being called racist conspiracy theorists for believing just that. Now we know. 5. The COVID vaccine was largely untested and the assurances that it was almost 100% effective and safe were outright lies that the CDC and the vaccine manufacturers knew were lies but peddled anyway. 6. January 6th was a Nancy Pelosi set-up that included a pre-planned "insurrection" narrative to be immediately peddled by the Democrat/Media Complex on January 7th. She even had her "filmmaker" daughter there to chronicle the "story" she invented and fostered herself. 7. Hunter’s laptop really was Hunter’s laptop, it was not "Russian disinformation," and the entire mass media suppressed all reporting on those facts so Biden could get elected. 8. Voting laws such as "No voter ID required," mail-in ballots, ballot drop boxes, weeks of early voting and "ballot harvesting" all are logically and verifiably practices that reduce election integrity. However, these laws are purposely and specifically designed to make fraud detection virtually impossible. 9. Non-governmental organizations have been the U.S. shadow government, pushing agendas the electorate specifically rejected, and they used a sort of NGO pseudo-money laundering scheme to hide who their true donors were, plus they got tax dollars to spread their woke hate. 10. USAID was a front for using taxpayer dollars to peddle woke policies in un-woke nations, and in many cases funding went to Democrat-run NGOs who received preferential award treatment. 11. An enormous portion of our tax dollars go to fund Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security fraud. 12. Congress is swarming with sex offenders, and we’re not supposed to ask questions. 13. The Southern Poverty Law Center was funding actual hate groups like the KKK, and the 2017 Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally was coordinated and paid for, at least in part, by the SPLC. The SPLC basically is the fire department that commits arson. 14. The entire United States government (including the U.S. military) weaponized the idea that "white supremacy" was the greatest threat to national security. This was based almost exclusively on reports from the SPLC, who were themselves funding marginalized "white supremacy" movements, thereby creating the threat they claimed to oppose. ****************** I said at the top: "The more you see, the more you see." There are two problems with this. First, we see so much that we become numb to it. Any one of the above list in years past would have been the scandal of the decade. But nowadays we are numb to it. We should not be. Our outrage must be real and constant. Second, so many bad things have emerged from the shadows that it is increasingly easy to become paranoid about ALL things. Not all things related to government are a hoax or a diabolical secret. The more we see, the more we see—but we cannot also hallucinate, since to do so weakens and discredits our cause. We must be ever vigilant, ever alert, but always thinking clearly. Realize too that there are influencers on the Right who will peddle false flag hoaxes as a way to discredit us in the times we really do uncover dirt. It is always an information war, and in war clear-headedness is often the deciding factor in victory. Let’s all be aggressively outraged and clear-headed, please. Discernment matters. |
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