Election years are called “the silly season” for a reason: Campaigns bring the lunacy out, especially on the right. But these statements by Republican politicians go way beyond normal election-year puffery and bombast: Example 1: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), on September 29, 2024, called Kama[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rightwing Conspiracy Theories’
Conspiracy mongers dust off sexual assault playbook against Walz
Sexual assault is a real thing, and sexual scandals have brought down many celebrities and powerful men. Perhaps the most infamous of these are financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison, and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, now languishing in prison. Donald Trump, who bragged that women allow f[...]
October 13th, 2024 - 4:33 pm § in Law and Courts
Covid-19 vaccine cards counterfeiter sentenced to prison
A federal judge sentenced a Salt Lake City man to 12 months in prison, 3 years of probation, and a $40,000 fine for counterfeiting Covid-19 vaccine cards. Nicholas Frank Sciotto, 34, pleaded guilty to printing and selling over 120,000 of the fake CDC cards during the height of the pandemic, when pro[...]
Fake hurricane photos
In the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton, we are reminded of two things: (1) Anybody can post anything on the internet, and (2) Republicans will believe it. NBC News reports (here) that Amy Kremer, a Republican National Committee member from Georgia, posted the photo at left on Oct. 3 with the ca[...]
J. D. Vance doesn’t care he provoked school bomb threats
J. D. Vance (photo, left) just keeps getting more odious. The man who wants to replace America’s democratic elites with an unelected conservative ruling elite that would impose unpopular policies on the American people (see story here) is unapologetic for the mayhem he unleashed on Springfield[...]
Kamala Harris’s earnings are only earrings
Republicans love conspiracy theories, and their latest is that Kamala Harris cheated during the debate by getting coaching from her earrings. It seems there’s a German company that makes earphones disguised as pearl earrings (see story here). But there’s only superficial resemblance betw[...]
July 28th, 2024 - 1:24 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
The company J. D. Vance keeps
Until recently J. D. Vance was best known as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” which critics have called “poverty porn” (see article here). Trump’s pick of Vance as his 2024 running mate, and potentially Vice President of the United States, has brought more scrutiny of t[...]
July 26th, 2024 - 8:01 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Trump pal threatens Tina Peters prosecutors with piano wire hangings
Tina Peters is a former Colorado county clerk indicted for election crimes whose trial is to begin on July 31, 2024. (See details here.) Patrick Byrne (photo, left) was a long-time CEO of Overstock.com, an e-commerce company, until he resigned because of an affair with a Russian spy. Nowadays heR[...]
GOPer demands Biden take drug test before debate
This is political theater, nothing more. It’s in the category of “believing something makes it true.” For example, “if Republicans believe elections are unfair, that makes them unfair.” The polite term for this is “logical fallacy;” the impolite term starts [...]
May 31st, 2024 - 8:17 pm § in Politics
“2000 Mules” conspiracy film pulled from circulation
2000 Mules, a debunked propaganda film falsely alleging ballot box stuffing in the 2020 election, has been pulled from circulation by its publisher and a companion book will not be published (read story here). Its creator, Dinesh D’Souza, is an ex-felon. He was convicted of making illegal camp[...]