“Why is the Congress rolling over and letting this Communist dictator destroy my country? Y’all know what he is and I know what he is. I want him out of the White House; he’s not a citizen; he could have been removed a long time ago…. “Ted [Cruz?] told me I’ve got to wait for the next election. I don’t think the country will be around for the next election. Obama tried to blow up a nuke in Charleston a few months ago! And the three admirals, and generals. He has totally destroyed our military. He’s fired all the generals and all the admirals that said they wouldn’t fire on the American people.”
There are few things I enjoy more than watching the unbalanced and unmedicated airing their conspriracy theories and generalized lunacy in a public forum. It’s been said that we all have a role; perhaps in the case of the intellectually deficient loons who call the Tea Party home that role is to serve as a cautionary tale That this latest iteration of the genius wing of the Tea Party is even more amusing than most only serves as cheap entertainment. That she probably votes should scare the Hell out of any lucid American. It certainly does me.
This being America, of course there’s a market for anyone and anything that someone else will buy…and there are plenty who’d believe that Barack Obama’s goal is to sodomize America before turning it over to his homosexual Islamofascist overlords. There are those who’d believe the Green Bay Packers are God’s Own Team if they’d heard it on Fox News Channel, WorldNet Daily, or InfoWars (or Breitbart, or the Daily Caller, or The Blaze, or…ad infinitum, ad nauseum). Once upon a time, we at least deluded ourselves into believing that truth was absolute. It was easy to do with so few sources of news and information available in those halcyon days before Da Interwebz. Now the truth is whatever anyone with an agenda needs it to be, because far too often the mere fact of saying something ipso facto makes it true to those disinclined to think and ask questions. This is the short explanation for the entire career of Dinesh D’Souza and Alex Jones.
Then again, who believes a silly story…like the President allegedly wanting to nuke Charleston? And whodathunk that Alex Jones would be behind it?
In September 2013, the conspiracy news site InfoWars published an “exclusive” story, citing “a high level source inside the military,” about the transfer of nuclear warheads to the East Coast. The story was shared nearly 25,000 times on Facebook, aided by a video introduction by Alex Jones and by a follow-up that quoted South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham’s worry that a military build-up would lead to nuclear weapons moving through the port of Charleston. “This ultimately reeks of yet another false flag being orchestrated by the United States government in order to send us into war,” Jones wrote in a follow-up.
In October 2013, the European Union Times - a “news” site that combines real stories with rumors - cited a “Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today” to report that a nuclear weapon had been detonated off of Charleston’s harbor, as proven by an Oct. 8 earthquake that happened hundreds of miles from the coast. This, according to the website, was a botched “false flag” attack, which was carried out, strangely, in the middle of the government shutdown. On Reddit, discussion swirled that the “false flag” attack led to the dismissal of US Navy Vice Admiral Tim Giardina, US Air Force Major General Michael Carey, Major General Charles M. Gurganus and Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant.
The story is so prima facie absurd that it’s difficult to know where to begin. First of all, the generals in question were cashiered for reasons having nothing to do with allegedly refusing to nukie Charleston. While Jones may get a woody from being able to “prove” a “false flag operations,” believing something to be true requires no grounding in reality. PROVING something to be true is all about reality…and Jones grip on reality is tenuous at best.
To call this an absurd conspiracy theory with not the slightest shred of truth to it would be something of an understatement. Than again, rare is the time I’m able to incorporate “the truth” and “Alex Jones” in the same sentence without laughing maniacally.
Greetings from our new idiocracy.
