The House of Representatives, with 435 members, is bound to have a few kooks. See, e.g., Mo Brooks, Louie Gohmert, and incoming freshman and QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Senate, on the other hand — historically an older, wiser, and more experienced body — has traditio[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Conspiracy Theories’
November 17th, 2020 - 5:42 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The bait Trumpsters swallow whole
“The US Army or maybe the intelligence community raided (there was no raid) the Frankfurt, Germany offices of a company (that has no Frankfurt offices) that tallies all votes in US elections (it does not do any tallying of votes, much less conduct any official tally of all votes in the US, which n[...]
The “dead” voters who aren’t dead
One of the favorite conspiracy theories of Trump supporters who falsely believe that Trump won the election (they can’t imagine anyone voting against him) is that “thousands of dead voters” voted for Biden. Reporters for the BBC, a U.K.-based global news organization, conducted an [...]
Debunking election conspiracy theories
The election is over, folks. Joe Biden won. The process of certifying the election and formally electing him isn’t over yet, but those are just formalities, and the result is inevitable: Biden will be our next president. If anyone reading this doesn’t want to accept this, that’s th[...]
November 4th, 2020 - 6:48 pm § in Politics
#SharpieGate is a false conspiracy theory
Trump supporters “are promoting a baseless conspiracy theory that poll workers tricked Trump voters by providing them with Sharpies to cast their votes, and then rejected the ballots due to the use of the marker,” Huffington Post reported. Read story here. Question: How would poll worker[...]
Is “Q” a child pornographer?
No one knows who the “Q” behind QAnon is, but Jim Watkins, owner of 8chan, is one of the suspects. Wikipedia says, “Some journalists and conspiracy theory researchers believe that Watkins knows the identity of, or that he himself is, ‘Q’, the person or group of people b[...]