THE MORNING RANT: Kooks, Fringe Ideas, and Media Misclassification of Actual Scandals as “Conspiracy Theories”

We have a problem. There are delusional people pushing preposterous stories, which we used to label “conspiracy theories.” There are also partisan journalists, joined by liberal politicians, who label inconvenient scandals that harm the left’s agenda as being “conspiracy theories.”

So, I have two theses to posit today:

1) Because of the left’s misuse of the term “conspiracy theory,” there is a need for a new term for actual kookie theories.

2) It has become difficult to dismiss actual kookie “conspiracy theories,” because the left applied that term to so many truths that it sought to delegitimize. Quite simply, it is not outrageous to assume that anything the left calls a “conspiracy theory” is actually true.

The term “conspiracy theory” has been defanged because it is as ridiculously misused and overused as “racist,” “Nazi,” “fascist,” and “white supremacist.” Just like those other terms, conservatives now joke about being a “conspiracy theorist” because so many stories in the past decade that were framed as “conspiracies” have turned out to be true. We even joke, “What is the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth?” Answer: “About six months.”

There are abundant examples of this, including discussions about the provenance of the Covid virus. In the early 2020s, arguing that the virus originated in the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology was a forbidden “conspiracy theory” that would get a person deplatformed from social media, but it is now accepted as the almost certain source of the virus. Similarly, arguing that Covid “vaccines” did not prevent the contraction or transmission of the virus was also a deplatformable “conspiracy theory” that proved to be true.

The New York Post was deplatformed from Twitter for its reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop, while Facebook throttled posts that linked to that “conspiracy theory,” which of course was not a conspiracy theory at all. It was the truth, and those in government coordinating with media to bury the story knew it was true, which was an actual conspiracy.

Following Hurricane Helene’s flooding in North Carolina, there were allegations that FEMA employees in the field were withholding aid to those storm victims who were visibly Trump supporters. Government-funded PBS sought to quash those verifiably true allegations by calling them “conspiracy theories.”

“Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories Cloud Helene Recovery Efforts in Hard-hit Areas” [PBS – 10/05/2024]

The facts emerging from Hurricane Helene’s destruction are heartrending: Businesses and homes destroyed, whole communities nearly wiped out, hundreds of lives lost, hundreds of people missing. Yet this devastation and despair is not enough for the extremist groups, disinformation agents, hucksters and politicians who are exploiting the disaster to spread false claims and conspiracy theories about it and the government’s response. According to former President Donald Trump, the federal government is intentionally withholding aid to Republican disaster victims.

Now that Donald Trump is President and FEMA is answerable to him, the truth has come out. As reported by Matt Taibi at Racket News, ““Politicized distribution of hurricane aid money before the 2024 election was no ‘isolated incident,’ a Homeland Security follow-up report sadly concludes.”

But there are still fringe theories being promoted. Several conservative pundits whom I used to respect have gone off the deep end, including Candace Owens, who is now insinuating that Donald Trump was involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

“Candace Owens Hits a New Low, and Accuses Trump of Assassinating Charlie Kirk” [Townhall – 10/23/2025]

Mark Pulliam of Misrule of Law shared a recent piece of his about a candidate running for Tennessee State Senate, Gary Humble, who has some rather exotic views. Mr. Humble has been quoted as saying:

Do I believe that factions of our government coordinated with other foreign entities to attack Americans on 9/11? Yes.
Do I believe the CIA was involved? Yes.
Do I believe Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened? Yes.
Do I believe that the towers coming straight down in a straight line fashion was not the work of planes crashing into the buildings but a controlled demolition? Yes.
Do I believe that building 7, just next door, also fell during a controlled demolition, while the other two buildings purportedly fell because of airliners? Yes.
I believe those things, unequivocally.

In our correspondence, I expressed to Mark my frustration that it is hard for conservatives to find the words to write about fringe candidates who promote what we used to call “conspiracy theories” because of how the left has misused that term to slander any conservative who isn’t a RINO or controlled opposition.

What are your thoughts? What term do you use?

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2025 11:00 AM (xatjc)

2 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 27, 2025 11:01 AM (P5BPp)

3 first

Posted by: Perry Winkle at October 27, 2025 11:01 AM (Dulw0)

4 > We have a problem. There are delusional people pushing preposterous stories, which we used to label “conspiracy theories.”
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And no asylums for them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 27, 2025 11:01 AM (Q4IgG)

5 Biden Official Worked With Chinese Espionage Front To Undermine U.S. Tariff Negotiations

When President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, the Chinese Communist Party didn’t just retaliate with trade measures. It launched an information war, using American insiders to spread its narrative that tariffs were reckless and self-defeating. One of the most prominent voices in that campaign is Rick Waters, a former senior U.S. diplomat who once directed the State Department’s China House. Since leaving government, Waters has become a reliable messenger for Beijing’s preferred positions, appearing with CCP-linked influence groups and using Western media outlets to promote pro-China talking points that undermine Trump’s trade strategy.

Posted by: SMOD at October 27, 2025 11:02 AM (RHGPo)

6 Many democrats deserve to burn in Hell unless they sincerely repent

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2025 11:03 AM (bmcLt)

7 We have a problem. There are delusional people pushing preposterous stories, which we used to label “conspiracy theories.” There are also partisan journalists, joined by liberal politicians, who label inconvenient scandals that harm the left’s agenda as being “conspiracy theories.”

Thankfully, social media is destroying these "theories" by flooding the zone with the truth.

That's why the left has to come up with new stuff weekly.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:03 AM (UjDHi)

8 Asylums? They deserve Bedlam.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2025 11:03 AM (bmcLt)

9 What term do you use?

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Bullshit. I call it bullshit. If I'm feeling particularly spicy, I may call it horse shit or even panther piss.

It's all bullshit.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 27, 2025 11:05 AM (2J/Lj)

10 Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb.

Posted by: XTC at October 27, 2025 11:05 AM (UnA8+)

11 Bullshit. I call it bullshit. If I'm feeling particularly spicy, I may call it horse shit or even panther piss.

It's all bullshit.
Posted by: Madamemayhem

I like Col. Potter's phrase "horse hockey."

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

12 What followed was a data-driven takedown of the narrative that gerrymandering is solely a Republican problem. Schwarzenegger pointed to Massachusetts, where approximately 40% of voters supported Trump, yet the state sends zero Republicans to the House of Representatives. He then cited New Mexico, where 45% voted Republican, but again—zero GOP representatives made it to Congress.

Posted by: SMOD at October 27, 2025 11:06 AM (RHGPo)

13 Why do we still give Candy Owens any attention?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:06 AM (VYKOS)

14 Thankfully, social media is destroying these "theories" by flooding the zone with the truth.

That's why the left has to come up with new stuff weekly.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:03 AM (UjDHi)

It's also why the left went bat shit insane over Musk buying Twitter. They knew they wouldn't be able to control the message anymore and the truth would be out.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 27, 2025 11:07 AM (2J/Lj)

15 It’s just SOP for the left where they misuse /mis-define words for their benefit. We just had a post on that with 1984 being the Left’s instruction manual and illegal alien being termed a racist description.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:07 AM (EYmYM)

16 Willowed:

Here's the plan:

The Dems will be buying food for all of the rioters and their families (from all of the government slush funds they have set up, natch) so that they will come out and riot about losing their SNAP benefits.

It's just so crazy, it might work....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 11:08 AM (SRRAx)

17 My term? MORE leftist bullsh...

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at October 27, 2025 11:08 AM (JCLJi)

18 If people wanted me to give a rat's hindquarters about the dangers of conspiracy theories, they probably should not have spent the last 30 or so years lying to me. I've seen more conspiracy theories proven true than falsified at this point. So calling something a conspiracy theory is like calling someone a racist at this point: I don't care.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 11:08 AM (9FEtL)

19 Why do we still give Candy Owens any attention?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:06 AM (VYKOS)

Outrage gets clicks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 27, 2025 11:08 AM (ExV1e)

20 I’m surprised Trump hasn’t sued Owens.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:08 AM (EYmYM)

21 Morning.

What's wrong with just calling them "fucking retards"?

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 11:09 AM (N0R2b)

22 How will they vote? If they will vote unreservedly for the Trump agenda, they can believe whatever retarded shit they want. The left tolerates lunatics so long as they reliably advance the agenda. We need to do the same.

Posted by: DPICM at October 27, 2025 11:10 AM (M2VUX)

23 19 Why do we still give Candy Owens any attention?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:06 AM (VYKOS)

Outrage gets clicks.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 27, 2025 11:08 AM (ExV1e)

Because a tiny fraction of perpetually online people are in love with hating her.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 11:10 AM (9FEtL)

24 Kooks, Fringe Ideas, and Media Misclassification ...

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You're gonna need to be a LOT MOAR specific, Buck!

/Now, onto reading the content ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 27, 2025 11:10 AM (cXxcy)

25 You can't stop the signal, Mal.

Sooner or later the truth always wins.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 27, 2025 11:10 AM (viF8m)

26 I’m surprised Trump hasn’t sued Owens.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:08 AM (EYmYM)

Why give her an amplifier? She is a gnat on a fleas ass.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 27, 2025 11:10 AM (2J/Lj)

27 Time for 'conspiracy theories' to become facts....

What are we down to? Three months?

When the name calling starts, you're probably on to something.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 27, 2025 11:10 AM (Sco7b)

28 Candy wants to be the black Nick Fuentes. His thing now, in addition to his regular “Jews are the source of every problem on the planet” program, is that Trump has betrayed us and is a big poopy head. And that’s the path Candy is taking. It’s so fucking transparent. But I guess it works because it generates clicks and views.

What’s next? Melania is secretly a Jewish man? You know it’s coming. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:11 AM (VYKOS)

29 Best way to combat the Left’s claim of conspiracy theory is to prove the alleged theory is a fact.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:11 AM (EYmYM)

30 1) Because of the left’s misuse of the term “conspiracy theory,” there is a need for a new term for actual kookie theories.

Just asking questions?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

31 we still give Candy Owens any attention?"

Who's we, kemosabe?

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 11:11 AM (tubbA)

32 Also, Candace Owens was always a complete phony.

Just some grifter who took advantage of the conservative right's desperation to see a minority promoting conservative ideals.

Easy money.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 11:12 AM (N0R2b)

33
No pictures?

** reluctantly puts away crayons **

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 27, 2025 11:12 AM (xG4kz)

34 No more trust in institutions… they don’t deserve it, especially the media. So there we are we have to use common sense and think for ourselves…. I knew innately (just from my own common sense and experience) that all the prevailing covid “wisdom” at the time was bullshit: social distancing, masks, “vaccines” developed in 6-9 months… all grade A bullshit. I didn’t need an “expert” to help me figure it out. My mom is very wise… at the time (in the middle of it) she said: If these covid shots are so great they don’t have to force anyone to get them… people would be flocking to get them if they were so needed.

Likewise, Candace Owen’s lunacy is easy to see with plain old common sense…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 27, 2025 11:13 AM (xT8gx)

35 One of my teenage sons surprised me a couple days ago by telling me that (probably) Twin Towers were not brought down by the planes and it was a controlled demolition. Seems there are some new videos that point to this. I almost didn't know how to respond and suggested he look into it more deeply by reading independent opinions and analysis of numerous structural and demolition engineers, not some video l going around on TicToc or Instagram or whatever.

I could only think WTF? Where is this shit coming from now, after more that 20 years of debunking? It is the new Kennedy assassination.

Posted by: Ripley at October 27, 2025 11:13 AM (GUOwU)

36 Questionable Unproven Explanation.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:14 AM (EYmYM)

37 Why do we still give Candy Owens any attention?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Because there are still those who believe her, and we have to deal with those people. Better to know what's circulating than be blindsided from ignorance.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 27, 2025 11:14 AM (OUMaO)

38 Owens still gets attention because nobody wants to turn their back on crazy.

Posted by: American Hawkman at October 27, 2025 11:14 AM (9VDxG)

39 “Candace Owens Hits a New Low, and Accuses Trump of Assassinating Charlie Kirk” [Townhall – 10/23/2025]

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Remember: if you ridicule this barking mad lunatic, you're attacking free speech. Or, so I'm told.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 27, 2025 11:14 AM (xoNwm)

40 What's wrong with just calling them "fucking retards"?
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus

Why insult actual retards who contribute more to society than these people?

Posted by: NR Pax at October 27, 2025 11:14 AM (+4yJ5)

41 It is the new Kennedy assassination.
Posted by: Ripley

Except the Kennedy assassination was an actual conspiracy.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

42 Our youngest daughter, thanks to her disability, receives SNAP benefits. A few months ago, they cut her benefits in half.

From ~$137/month to ~$67/month.

They threatened to cut them even more last month - because she wasn't using the card.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 11:14 AM (SRRAx)

43 Owens still gets attention because nobody wants to turn their back on crazy.

She's easy on the eyes, and we all want to date her.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2025 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

44
We still give Candy Owens any attention?

You misspelled "ever" in that question

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 27, 2025 11:15 AM (xG4kz)

45 What’s next? Melania is secretly a Jewish man? You know it’s coming. lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Well... That ain't gonna fly. That is pure grade AA prime woman right there. I would do that bitchy "hate her because she's beautiful" thing but.... I don't care.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 27, 2025 11:15 AM (2J/Lj)

46 Got talked into it being lunch time

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2025 11:15 AM (xatjc)

47 8 Asylums? They deserve Bedlam.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2025 11:03 AM (bmcLt)

Interesting. Did you know the origin of the word Bedlam is a bastardization of Bethlehem, referring to the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, a mental hospital in London?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 27, 2025 11:15 AM (VSht7)

48 The origins of COVID seems like a distraction to me from much more important pandemic related issues. Lucy Liu put it rather well, I think:

I encourage you to, from time to time, and always in a respectful manner, question the lab theory as being the origin of the COVID virus. But allow me to convince you. And I promise you, here and now, no theory will be considered taboo…except, of course, the wanton disregard of our God-given rights in response to the virus.

The price you pay for shutting down the economy and debasing our currency in ways that would make even a central banker blush is, I collect your f——g head.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 27, 2025 11:16 AM (GPa4z)

49 What’s next? Melania is secretly a Jewish man? You know it’s coming. lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Well... That ain't gonna fly. That is pure grade AA prime woman right there. I would do that bitchy "hate her because she's beautiful" thing but.... I don't care.

It's a burden some of us must carry.

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at October 27, 2025 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

50 And I thought Candace was blaming the Jews for the assassination, last I checked. Is it that Trump is a cat's paw for Netanyahu's assassins now, or some other febrile nonsense?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 27, 2025 11:16 AM (xoNwm)

51 Some people, observing black swan events, think that any event so astounding must have a complicated and intrinsically evil explanation.

Occam's Razor is there for a reason.

That said, I believe there were 2 or more people shooting at a JFK in Dallas, 1963.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 11:16 AM (AOsQT)

52 Candace Owens was always a complete phony.

Just some grifter who took advantage of the conservative right's desperation to see a minority promoting conservative ideals.

Easy money.
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 11:12 AM (N0R2b)

There are a few others out there like her. Black conservative who is the most conservative conservative to ever conserve. On.every issue.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:17 AM (VYKOS)

53 8 Asylums? They deserve Bedlam.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2025 11:03 AM (bmcLt)

Interesting. Did you know the origin of the word Bedlam is a bastardization of Bethlehem, referring to the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, a mental hospital in London?
Posted by: tankdemon at October 27, 2025 11:15 AM (VSht7)

I thought bedlam was the Oklahoma - Oklahoma Oklahoma State football game… which will no longer be played because they’re in different conferences now

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 27, 2025 11:17 AM (xT8gx)

54 Why insult actual retards who contribute more to society than these people?
Posted by: NR Pax at October 27, 2025 11:14 AM (+4yJ5)

Ya know, that's a really valid point.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 11:17 AM (N0R2b)

55 Media destroyed the term “conspiracy theory “

Posted by: Don at October 27, 2025 11:17 AM (OeZKD)

56 Thx Buck. Very few of the leftists I know are turning away from the crazy. They keep posting about "fascist, racist, ballroom , islamaphobic, blah , blah , blah. " They have no idea how to get off that path even if they wanted to

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 27, 2025 11:18 AM (8RjCi)

57 Also, Candace Owens was always a complete phony.

Just some grifter who took advantage of the conservative right's desperation to see a minority promoting conservative ideals.

Easy money.
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 11:12 AM (N0R2b)

Nail, head. Fake conservative, never left the reservation, and her tiny mind cannot process complex thought.

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 11:18 AM (g47mK)

58 I would use
Marxists Propaganda BS

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2025 11:19 AM (sd2mN)

59 I wonder if some AI agent could find the first instance of a Democrat calling someone a 'nazi'.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 11:19 AM (AOsQT)

60 Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at October 27, 2025 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

Zip it, freak.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 27, 2025 11:19 AM (2J/Lj)

61 I don't think she's a grifter, or at least the grift isn't motivating this stuff. I think she's genuinely crazy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 27, 2025 11:19 AM (xoNwm)

62 there are plenty of serious black conservatives, pastors and so on, who are the real deal, but none get Iran support and Chinese amplification in social media, so they do not get pushed up ahead of everyone by the algorithms

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 11:20 AM (g47mK)

63 *nutbar*

as in: That person there is a nutbar.

Posted by: GMan at October 27, 2025 11:20 AM (GfWuY)

64 What does crazy Candace say about Trump’s new east wing ballroom. The best biggest most beautiful ballroom ever… fabulous, yuuggee

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 27, 2025 11:20 AM (xT8gx)

65 If she was a phony I doubt she’d go down this rabbit hole.

Posted by: Don at October 27, 2025 11:20 AM (OeZKD)

66 Tucker is all into “just asking questions” about 9/11 too.

There is obviously a market for this shit. They’re all tapping into it. From a business standpoint can’t fault them I guess.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:20 AM (VYKOS)

67 Quite simply, it is not outrageous to assume that anything the left calls a “conspiracy theory” is actually true.

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Me, repeatedly here and and elsewhere, over the past decade:

"Imma need some new conspiracy theories because all of the old ones keep coming true!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 27, 2025 11:20 AM (J4e9S)

68 Something happened to Candace once she got married and started popping out kids.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

69 That said, I believe there were 2 or more people shooting at a JFK in Dallas, 1963.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 11:16 AM (AOsQT)

I came to the opinion Oswald shot him after looking out the window of the depository.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:21 AM (EYmYM)

70 Just some grifter who took advantage of the conservative right's desperation to see a minority promoting conservative ideals.

Easy money.
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 11:12 AM (N0R2b)

There are a few others out there like her. Black conservative who is the most conservative conservative to ever conserve. On.every issue.

Tee hee.

Posted by: Michael Steels at October 27, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

71 Candace Owens, who is now insinuating that Donald Trump was involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Unless I missed some very unlikely context surrounding the video, Owens has apparently started saying that some people, such as Elon Musk, are not human, but rather robots or androids.

This is not conspiracy theory stuff. This is brain tumor-level. Further, it’s been a progression toward this. The symptoms are classic indicators of a real physical problem. This is getting as bad as Biden in that there appears to be no one in her life who cares enough to convince her to go in for a serious physical checkup.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 27, 2025 11:21 AM (EXyHK)

72 64 What does crazy Candace say about Trump’s new east wing ballroom. The best biggest most beautiful ballroom ever… fabulous, yuuggee
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 27, 2025 11:20 AM (xT8gx)

My guess: it’s all funded with Jew money and it’s a payoff so he can keep doing Netanyahu’s bidding.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:21 AM (VYKOS)

73 I believe in a JFK assassination conspiracy theory… I’m just not sure which one I believe

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 27, 2025 11:22 AM (xT8gx)

74 I thought bedlam was the Oklahoma - Oklahoma State football game… which will no longer be played because they’re in different conferences now
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 27, 2025 11:17 AM (xT8gx)

Just wait 20-25 years, and they will be back in the same conference again

Posted by: Texas vs. Texas A&M at October 27, 2025 11:22 AM (SRRAx)

75 Candy Owen doesn't look right in the recent pictures i've seem. She does not look well.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at October 27, 2025 11:22 AM (kTd/k)

76 Tucker is all into “just asking questions” about 9/11 too.

Finally putting the lie to the idea that there are no stupid questions.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

77 I believe those things, unequivocally.

In this house we obey the Law of Gravity.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:22 AM (jc0TO)

78 who seriously thinks that millions of subscribers or hits that fringe character like Candace Ovens gets are from the real people? if you do , I have a piece of land in LA to sell you; one can buy anything, especially with Iran or Qatar money, social media presence is on the menu and a very popular item

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 11:23 AM (g47mK)

79 Who possibly could be following Candice except those who H8 Trump?

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2025 11:23 AM (xatjc)

80 It's hard to be Humble.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 27, 2025 11:23 AM (pkeXY)

81 Distinguish between a genuine conspiracy theory (true or not) and a theory which is inconvenient. Eg, the Hunter Laptop story simply was NOT a "conspiracy theory" because, even if false, I never saw anyone make a claim about who was conspiring.

Personally, I'd just stick with "lie" or "exaggeration", depending on the case.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 27, 2025 11:23 AM (s0JqF)

82 The origins of COVID seems like a distraction to me from much more important pandemic related issues. Lucy Liu put it rather well, I think:

I encourage you to, from time to time, and always in a respectful manner, question the lab theory as being the origin of the COVID virus. But allow me to convince you. And I promise you, here and now, no theory will be considered taboo…except, of course, the wanton disregard of our God-given rights in response to the virus.

The price you pay for shutting down the economy and debasing our currency in ways that would make even a central banker blush is, I collect your f——g head.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 27, 2025 11:16 AM (GPa4z)
----
Kill Bill Volume 3?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 27, 2025 11:23 AM (4S2yc)

83 Looking back, why would you *ever* use a term some media twatwaffle insists on? For that matter, why would you bother with trying to categorize various ideas floating around? If it's valid eventually there will be enough evidence to support it ("parallel" evolution in Africa in South America resolved by plate tectonics, or asteroid bombardment of planets and moons); if not, it's merely entertainment and/or goofiness. Maybe part of being able to think critically is understanding this difference without name-calling or sneering.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM (ULPxl)

84 It is the new Kennedy assassination.
Posted by: Ripley

Except the Kennedy assassination was an actual conspiracy.
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Roger Stone floats the theory that LBJ was a serial killer. Seriously.

Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM (TN0g+)

85 Question: Remember the Pentagon? Remember it was penetrated by an aircraft? Remember the post-attack footage and films? If an aircraft - like the ones at the Twin Towers - did the penetration, then: WHERE are the breaches that would logically have been caused by the wings and engines penetrating the walls? WHERE are the engines and wheels and wing structural remnants? NONE of these things are viewable or visible in post-attack photos. Yes, I have considerered that they were removed - and logically, they would have been removed … eventually. The post-impact pictures were taken within 30 to 60 minutes after impact. Nothing. There. Where are the wheels, the wing impact marks on the building, and the engines post-impact? I'll wait …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM (ayRl+)

86 Wo ist mein Loffel?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM (W7XSX)

87 >>>We have a problem.

This pisses me off.

Aside from the timeworn all-knowing, all-seeing Jew conspiracy theories that so many latch on to, you have people with big megaphones broadcasting kooky crap for clicks, which causes real damage.

Two recent examples are Candace Owens asserting some sort of cabal (typically involving TPUSA people) in conspiracy to assassinate Charlie Kirk and Rogan doing the same.

I was just starting to give Rogan a little space to earn trust and that guy shoots himself in his stupid mouth pushing all kinds of crap from the uneducated and inexperienced to the uneducated, inexperienced, and gullible.

I hates them.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:25 AM (i24o9)

88 So Candace Owen is no longer a candidate to be Trump's press secretary?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at October 27, 2025 11:25 AM (kTd/k)

89 The term “conspiracy theory” has been defanged because it is as ridiculously misused and overused as “racist,” “Nazi,” “fascist,” and “white supremacist.”

--------------

Like every other term from Cancer to The Sun (and everything under it).

The Left pollutes, corrupts, ruins, & destroys EVERYTHING it touches -- and apparently NOTHING is Sacred (except Death and Mass Graves & Misery) nor Off-Limits anymore ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 27, 2025 11:25 AM (mxcAE)

90 *nutbar*

as in: That person there is a nutbar.
Posted by: GMan

Personal favorite: nuttier than a squirrel turd.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:25 AM (UjDHi)

91 Bush was both an evil genius and an idiot.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:25 AM (EYmYM)

92 Never paid all that much attention to Candace Owens.

It would be interesting to know who is signing her paychecks.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 11:26 AM (SRRAx)

93 >>Distinguish between a genuine conspiracy theory (true or not) and a theory which is inconvenient. Eg, the Hunter Laptop story simply was NOT a "conspiracy theory" because, even if false, I never saw anyone make a claim about who was conspiring.

You didn't hear Democrats insisting that the laptop was Russian disinformation to hurt Biden and help Trump win the election?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 27, 2025 11:26 AM (viF8m)

94 I hates them.

This has the ring of truth, or power, whatever.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2025 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

95 Many here being 29 don’t quite realize how the yuuutes are embracing a lot of this nonsense. Nick Fuentes has gone from a fringe loon to the darling of podcasting. Joe Rogan talks about him glowingly nowadays. Tucker and Candy embracing his views are a symptom of a bigger problem.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:26 AM (VYKOS)

96 I love this Syrian Girl!
Probably disagree with her about 50 percent of the time,
but that's an exquisitely beautiful Aramean Babe. Maybe can do without the Miss Piggy noise, but that never stopped Kermit...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 27, 2025 11:26 AM (TGPs7)

97 Roger Stone floats the theory that LBJ was a serial killer. Seriously.
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM (TN0g+)

I'm listening

Posted by: Ian Faith at October 27, 2025 11:26 AM (0bjKf)

98 This ballroom freak out blitz is hilarious. FYI... I thought the White House already had a ballroom. It would have been a standard part of a mansion that big and used for that purpose (house of the head of state) during the time period in which it was designed and built. I wonder why they didn't do that. And why no one else did. The rebuild after the burning of DC would have been a good time to add that. It's very odd to me.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 27, 2025 11:27 AM (2J/Lj)

99 I'll wait …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM (ayRl+)

Flat-Earthers, Con-Trailers, and 9/11 Truthers. Oh my.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:27 AM (i24o9)

100 Has Candace endorsed Mamdani yet?

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 27, 2025 11:27 AM (NtAsh)

101 Roger Stone floats the theory that LBJ was a serial killer. Seriously.
Posted by: Crusader

58,220 at a minimum.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:27 AM (UjDHi)

102 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:25 AM (i24o9)

Rogan also started spurting the Left’s falsehoods about ICE and deportations.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:27 AM (EYmYM)

103 92 Never paid all that much attention to Candace Owens.

It would be interesting to know who is signing her paychecks.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 11:26 AM (SRRAx)

Not sure what is her story, but her behavior the last 1+ years she's become a loon. Definitely several fries short of a Happy Meal.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 27, 2025 11:27 AM (N39Ws)

104 I call those people "Nucking Futs"

Posted by: AlecK at October 27, 2025 11:28 AM (cMlC1)

105 The rebuild after the burning of DC would have been a good time to add that. It's very odd to me.

I think we can safely assume it was the Joos.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

106 Evil Fauci predicted a virus like they wanted Covid to be. The planning was long before it happened

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2025 11:28 AM (xatjc)

107 Are the Jews behind Owen's collapse?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at October 27, 2025 11:29 AM (kTd/k)

108 Where are the wheels, the wing impact marks on the building, and the engines post-impact? I'll wait …
Posted by: Dr_No at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM

Do I need to google this? Plenty of images are available.

https://tinyurl.com/y2d32eud

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:29 AM (jc0TO)

109 Who possibly could be following Candice except those who H8 Trump?

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2025 11:23 AM (xatjc)

Qanon-berts.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:30 AM (i24o9)

110 I thought that there was a ballroom in the WH already, but it wasn't big enough. So Trump is just building a bigger one.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 11:30 AM (77rzZ)

111 98 The rebuild after the burning of DC would have been a good time to add that. It's very odd to me.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 27, 2025 11:27 AM (2J/Lj)

======

I suspect that diplomatic parties were significantly smaller in the 1810s than today.

A diplomat, a personal secretary, and probably not a whole lot more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

112 Insty:
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Largest Federal Workers Union Urges Dems to Cave on Government Shutdown, Revealing Cracks in Coalition.

The nation’s largest federal workers’ union, the American Federation of Government Employees, is urging Democrats to concede the government shutdown fight and vote to reopen the government, revealing a significant fracture in the Democratic coalition as the shutdown nears the one-month mark.

The shutdown began 27 days ago after Democrats refused to back a clean government funding bill, demanding instead that Republicans extend temporary Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. But AFGE, a major ally to the Democratic party which represents 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers, now says it’s time for the party to give up on its demands.

“It’s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship,” AFGE President Everett Kelley said...

“It’s time for our leaders to start focusing on how to solve problems for the American people, rather than on who is going to get the blame for a shutdown that Americans dislike,” Kelley said.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2025 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

113 All is proceeding as we have foreseen.

Posted by: The Elders of Zion at October 27, 2025 11:30 AM (dyewR)

114 I thought that there was a ballroom in the WH already, but it wasn't big enough. So Trump is just building a bigger one.
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Trump will have the biggest ballroom of them all.

Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 11:30 AM (TN0g+)

115 Andrew Klavan pointed out that the media used to public lies that too months to prove wrong. But now they cannot get away with it. Mere seconds after some bullshit story is published, facts are exposed. And the lying liars that lie hate that.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 27, 2025 11:30 AM (W7XSX)

116 Joe Rogan is a good podcaster in that he listens to those who he interviews and he’s curious and asks decent questions… but honestly after you listen to him for awhile it’s pretty plan that he’s not particularly smart. He’s not dumb… but just kinda average IQ so he always seems to believe the last person he talked to

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 27, 2025 11:30 AM (xT8gx)

117 52 There are a few others out there like her. Black conservative who is the most conservative conservative to ever conserve. On.every issue.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:17 AM (VYKOS)

And the second they start getting harassed or criticized by a Groyper, they run home to the Left.

Posted by: XTC at October 27, 2025 11:31 AM (UnA8+)

118 I have theories about the largest mass shooting in the US that just seemed to disappear. Hint: Las Vegas...🤔🧐

Posted by: lin-duh: I'm offended! at October 27, 2025 11:31 AM (EneHm)

119 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:25 AM (i24o9)

Rogan also started spurting the Left’s falsehoods about ICE and deportations.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:27 AM (EYmYM)

*pulls out lapels in appreciation of my skepticism*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:31 AM (i24o9)

120 >Posted by: Dr_No at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM (ayRl+)
----

tell us what really happened. I need to know.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 11:31 AM (AOsQT)

121 It takes a spectacular sort of fool to believe that the twin towers were demolished by detonation. Good lord, the ignorance and stupidity in that is almost painful.

You have to gut a building for a controlled detonation. Literally everything out, all interior walls. It takes days to do a building that big, weeks even. You run wires and cables all over the place. Charges are very carefully placed in the building. Its not like Batman where the Joker somehow teleports bombs all over a hospital while its active and inexplicably nobody notices.

There is literally no possible way to do it without being noticed, and not just "someone might spot it" but incredibly, blatantly, painfully obvious.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:31 AM (dfIr7)

122 Are the Jews behind Owen's collapse?
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much

My people have been busy! Bwahahahaha.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 27, 2025 11:31 AM (NtAsh)

123 publish lies that took months to disprove.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 27, 2025 11:31 AM (W7XSX)

124 Biggest Conspiracy Theory of All:

#twoweeks

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 11:32 AM (A6iMD)

125 “It’s time for our leaders to start focusing on how to solve problems for the American people, rather than on who is going to get the blame for a shutdown that Americans dislike,” Kelley said.
Posted by: Archimedes

Oh, you poor deluded fool. America is already correctly blaming the democrats.

The truth is out there.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:32 AM (UjDHi)

126 The yuugeet biggest most luxurious ballroom you’ve ever seen. It’ll be incredible. Many people are saying it will be the best ballroom ever built.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:32 AM (VYKOS)

127 "I thought the White House already had a ballroom. It would have been a standard part of a mansion that big and used for that purpose (house of the head of state) during the time period in which it was designed and built. I wonder why they didn't do that. And why no one else did. The rebuild after the burning of DC would have been a good time to add that. It's very odd to me.
Posted by: Madamemayhem"

It is easily explained by the White House Ballroom conspiracy.

Posted by: Ripley at October 27, 2025 11:32 AM (GUOwU)

128 Planes not holograms did hit the towers, and almost certainly caused the collapses. But it doesn't mean there was no CIA involvement, in either "standing down" on security, or maybe even more malice in Building Seven.

I forget all the stories of what was kept in Building 7 that disappeared. Gold? Hard evidence of CIA crimes? Or some other important records? But given what we now know about DeepState's war on America and Liberty itself, kinda hard to believe they were NOT involved in some capacity.

There is that "normalcy bias" that makes us (or the masses) not want to believe elections can be rigged and our FBI are all patriotic loyalists, but the skeptics are growing in number and awareness.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 27, 2025 11:32 AM (vbXSk)

129 The greatest trick I ever pulled was convincing the world that I didn't exist.

Posted by: Sonobi at October 27, 2025 11:32 AM (jc0TO)

130 There is obviously a market for this shit.

Who created that market though? Not the people exploiting it. Our political and expert classes decided to commit suicide; they have no credibility and are not to believed most of the time. They did this. There have and always will be kooks on the fringes; the mainstream became so disreputable that the kooks have moved in next door and are indistinguishable. Candace Owens may be a lunatic or a grifter or both. How does that set her apart from most talking heads? Her bullshit is somewhat more outre? Sure, Ms. Macron has a penis is an odd story. But how much odder is it than the girls can have penises story the mainstream media has been pushing for years? It's like the National Enquirer casting shade on the Weekly World News's batboy coverage. None of this is a defense of Owens. But she's not much more unsavory and weird than network news.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 11:33 AM (9FEtL)

131 This is not going well for Chuck. When the largest union of government workers tells Democrarts to quit screwing around and do your job it's time to fold.

>>@AFGENational

>>It’s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship. Put every single federal worker back on the job with full back pay — today.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 27, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)

132 Is Dallas the only city with a book suppository?

Posted by: Uncle Remus at October 27, 2025 11:33 AM (oftw2)

133 There is literally no possible way to do it without being noticed, and not just "someone might spot it" but incredibly, blatantly, painfully obvious.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:31 AM (dfIr7)

Ahhhh but remember it was Jews who did it. They have the ability to become invisible and shape shift.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:33 AM (VYKOS)

134 There is literally no possible way to do it without being noticed, and not just "someone might spot it" but incredibly, blatantly, painfully obvious.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Hold our beers.
-- Louvre thieves

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

135 129 The greatest trick I ever pulled was convincing the world that I didn't exist.
Posted by: Sonobi at October 27, 2025 11:32 AM (jc0TO)

It's not that Sonobi didn't exist.

It's that King Harv killed it and ground it up into coffee.

Posted by: XTC at October 27, 2025 11:34 AM (UnA8+)

136 Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:29 AM (jc0TO)

Damn that just triggered my memory of
‘Let’s Roll’ . I just choked up a bit’

Pure American badass.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:34 AM (EYmYM)

137 I thought that there was a ballroom in the WH already, but it wasn't big enough. So Trump is just building a bigger one.

As presidential palaces from the time go, the White House is actually kind of small. When they have an event like a ballroom would host, they have to set up tents outside because there just isn't room inside. This is a project that presidents have wanted for nearly a century. Just like the Rose Garden rebuild, Clinton encouraged Bush to do this very project because the lawn got torn up by having events out there.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:34 AM (dfIr7)

138 Where are the wheels, the wing impact marks on the building, and the engines post-impact? I'll wait …
Posted by: Dr_No at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM (ayRl+)

Guys, why wasn't there a plane shaped hole left in the Pentagon the same way Wile E. Coyote left a Wile E. Coyote shaped hole every time he ran through a wall?

I'll wait.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 11:34 AM (N0R2b)

139 > I thought that there was a ballroom in the WH already, but it wasn't big enough. So Trump is just building a bigger one.
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well, there is a room, East Room or Blue Room or something, where they have events, but seating is very limited.

https://tinyurl.com/38mvrtwb

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 11:34 AM (AOsQT)

140 Rogan also started spurting the Left’s falsehoods about ICE and deportations.

Posted by: the way I see it

Rogan has FU money. He doesn't give a shit about what he says.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:34 AM (UjDHi)

141 131 This is not going well for Chuck. When the largest union of government workers tells Democrarts to quit screwing around and do your job it's time to fold.

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And cook the patty first, fer chrissake!

Posted by: Culinary Workers Union Local No. 8 at October 27, 2025 11:35 AM (dyewR)

142 133 Ahhhh but remember it was Jews who did it. They have the ability to become invisible and shape shift.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:33 AM (VYKOS)

No wonder the Blacks and the Muslims are so insanely jealous of them.

Posted by: XTC at October 27, 2025 11:35 AM (UnA8+)

143 I do hope it's the biggest beautiful ball rm on the planet
And the Marxists will destroy it as soon as they can

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2025 11:35 AM (xatjc)

144
Like every other term from Cancer to The Sun

Sunspots are solar melanoma.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 27, 2025 11:35 AM (pkeXY)

145 86 Wo ist mein Loffel?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM (W7XSX)

Es gibt kein Loeffel.

Posted by: Das Kind von den Matrix at October 27, 2025 11:36 AM (PiwSw)

146 Ahhhh but remember it was Jews who did it. They have the ability to become invisible and shape shift.

And they have that time machine ACE uses.

Seriously though, good lord people. Every event that happens now, everyone is pulling apart like the Zapruder film. Back, and to the left! Just stop. Almost every single time, what you see and think happened, is what happened. There might be conspiracies behind it, but there's not a second shooter behind the grassy knoll at Butler Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:36 AM (dfIr7)

147 >I forget all the stories of what was kept in Building 7 that disappeared. Gold? Hard evidence of CIA crimes? Or some other important records?
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the Ark Of The Covenant, I heard

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 11:36 AM (AOsQT)

148 The thing about the true whack-a-doodles is that they are generally obviously whack-a-doodles, and thus self-expose. The issue (at least previously, to my mind) wasn't conspiracy theorists per se, but rather genuine possibilities/areas of inquiry being off limits for reasons of political expediency/correctness. I think Elon's solution of "community notes" is sufficient, versus the censorship regime of the past (including self-censorship via intimidation). So let the crazies, crazy, and the gas lighters gas light, but let the rest of us respond. The truth will always reveal itself eventually.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM (hlNLQ)

149 I forget all the stories of what was kept in Building 7 that disappeared. Gold? Hard evidence of CIA crimes? Or some other important records?

Secret extra recordings of the Beatles with Elvis

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM (dfIr7)

150 I had Kooks, Fringe Ideas, and Media Misclassification of Actual Scandals Moody Blues Album in 68

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM (r4pd5)

151 Rogan has FU money. He doesn't give a shit about what he says.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:34 AM (UjDHi)

One way to achieve FU money these days it seems: get hired by Texas A&M or LSU or similar as head football coach, coach horribly, get fired and walk away with $50M or more…. Nice gig if you can get it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM (xT8gx)

152 There is that "normalcy bias" that makes us (or the masses) not want to believe elections can be rigged and our FBI are all patriotic loyalists, but the skeptics are growing in number and awareness.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 27, 2025 11:32 AM (vbXSk)

======

A theory to which I subscribe is conspiracy theories are developed by the state department and the cia and pushed onto the public so that they can be eventually debunked, which the public then accepts as proof that the original state story was correct all along.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM (GPa4z)

153 When they have an event like a ballroom would host, they have to set up tents outside because there just isn't room inside. This is a project that presidents have wanted for nearly a century. Just like the Rose Garden rebuild, Clinton encouraged Bush to do this very project because the lawn got torn up by having events out there.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Here's the key:

Setting up a temporary tent gor an event costs $1 million +.

Look to see who owns the tent company and who they are "friends of".

That'll tell you why a ballroom was never built.

EVERYTHING is a scam.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM (UjDHi)

154 Seriously though, good lord people. Every event that happens now, everyone is pulling apart like the Zapruder film. Back, and to the left! Just stop. Almost every single time, what you see and think happened, is what happened. There might be conspiracies behind it, but there's not a second shooter behind the grassy knoll at Butler Pennsylvania.

Subterranean lizard people. Where do you come down on subterranean lizard people?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

155 It’s shows how retarded the 9/11 truthers are. They think it would take 3 sticks of dynamite casually placed in a bathroom to bring the towers down.

Look at the flamingo hotel that was taken down in Las Vegas. It was a months long effort to prep it for demolition. And that’s a 25 story hotel.

But TWO, 110 story buildings were detonated with nobody noticing the prep work? lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:38 AM (VYKOS)

156 Is Dallas the only city with a book suppository?
Posted by: Uncle Remus

A book suppository?

How do you fit that up your anus?

Is it a paperback suppository? A hardback book?

Ouch.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 27, 2025 11:38 AM (NtAsh)

157 Subterranean lizard people. Where do you come down on subterranean lizard people?

Some of my best friends are subterranean lizard people. Most of them post in the ONT…

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 27, 2025 11:38 AM (EXyHK)

158 91 Bush was both an evil genius and an idiot.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:25 AM (EYmYM)

And literally Hitler!

Posted by: Well, Chimpy McBushitler. Close enough. at October 27, 2025 11:39 AM (TbWk/)

159
Candace revealed herself as a kook a while back. She got on the "We faked going to the Moon bandwagon", and then my jaw dropped when she went Flat Earth curious.

She wasn't sayin the earth is flat, mind you, "just asking questions". At that point, I realized she had gone off in nutter land shore nuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 27, 2025 11:39 AM (w6EFb)

160 > This is not going well for Chuck. When the largest union of government workers tells Democrarts to quit screwing around and do your job it's time to fold.
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30 days +1 and it's "serious."

60 days +1 the shit gets real.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 27, 2025 11:39 AM (Q4IgG)

161 One way to achieve FU money these days it seems: get hired by Texas A&M or LSU or similar as head football coach, coach horribly, get fired and walk away with $50M or more…. Nice gig if you can get it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM

I am reading that the same guy hired both Kelly and Jimbo Fisher. Apparently negotiating good contracts are not his strength.

Posted by: Sonobi at October 27, 2025 11:39 AM (jc0TO)

162 The greatest trick I ever pulled was convincing the world that I didn't exist.
Posted by: Sonobi at October 27, 2025 11:32 AM (jc0TO)

It's not that Sonobi didn't exist.

It's that King Harv killed it and ground it up into coffee.
-------

While "Dance on Stilts" played in the background.

Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 11:39 AM (TN0g+)

163 @ 156: A book suppository? How do you fit that up your anus?
_____________________

e-Books …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 27, 2025 11:40 AM (ayRl+)

164 Look to see who owns the tent company and who they are "friends of".

Here's the tell:

The left is claiming that the entire project is corrupt, that bribery is involved, and Elizabeth Warrent launched an investigation into the secret dealings behind the scenes.

What is rule number one with the left?

whatever they accuse the right of doing, they are already doing, or would do in their place.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:40 AM (dfIr7)

165 154 Subterranean lizard people. Where do you come down on subterranean lizard people?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

How good are they in the sack?

Posted by: AWFL Wine Moms at October 27, 2025 11:40 AM (UnA8+)

166
The best part of the "Trump" ballroom blitz is Swallowswell demanding that all 2028 Dim candidates for President pledge to tear it down once they get elected.

The parallel optics to Gazans tearing down anything built -- especially new things -- by the Israelis when Israel ceded Gaza to them in the mid-2000s will sink them like a stone.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 27, 2025 11:40 AM (xG4kz)

167 Book suppositories make reading the results of your colonoscopy that much easier (or maybe I should have gone with "reading is fundament-al"

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 27, 2025 11:40 AM (hlNLQ)

168 Some of my best friends are subterranean lizard people. Most of them post in the ONT…
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 27, 2025 11:38 AM (EXyHK)

Or maybe they actually host ONTs??

Posted by: Doof at October 27, 2025 11:40 AM (QMAsf)

169 There is obviously a market for this shit.

Who created that market though? Not the people exploiting it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 11:33 AM (9FEtL)

That's exactly what THEY would have you believe.

Seriously. The market is simple human nature. It is easier (more inviting, more interesting) to accept that there is an assemblage of dark forces aligned against you, than to dig up boring facts, accept reality, and accept responsibility for your misjudgment, misadventures, and self-caused misfortunes.

THEY know this. THEY study it. THEY exploit it for their political and financial benefit.

COVID should have been the great reveal on this. Bronco Bama did not lift the ban on American propaganda efforts against Americans for naught.

N.B. This was intentionally written to sound like a grand conspiracy, but you don't need a conspiracy for people to act in their self-interests according to methods and procedures that are ingrained into an institution and system of operations such as the U.S. political system.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:41 AM (i24o9)

170 Yes ... err ... lizard people

Those bastards!

Posted by: Crab People at October 27, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)

171 I think Swallwell is a suppository.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at October 27, 2025 11:41 AM (kTd/k)

172 > The best part of the "Trump" ballroom blitz is Swallowswell demanding that all 2028 Dim candidates for President pledge to tear it down once they get elected.
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That's a metaphor.

The ballroom isn't all they're tear down.

Swalwell just doesn't realize it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 27, 2025 11:41 AM (Q4IgG)

173
Bring back Attack Watch!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 27, 2025 11:42 AM (xG4kz)

174 Bush was both an evil genius and an idiot.
Posted by: the way I see it

And literally Hitler!
Posted by: Well, Chimpy McBushitler. Close enough

And a good and noble man, a hero, a true American that shows how Republicans should behave and a president should act, now.

Its like the left on a big Reagan rehabilitation run now pretending he was all in on massive immigration.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:42 AM (dfIr7)

175 The penguin people are the ones that worry me.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

176 The conspiracy theory that I’m not in tune with the Right is Epstein’s suicide.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:43 AM (EYmYM)

177 What are your thoughts? What term do you use?

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OUT: "Conspiracy Theories."
IN: "Spoiler Alerts."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 27, 2025 11:43 AM (+Of5k)

178 Just joined the Ticketmaster "Waiting Room" for Rush tickets in Philly in August. Artist Presale happening at noon eastern time. Wish me luck!

Posted by: Doof at October 27, 2025 11:43 AM (QMAsf)

179 Its like the left on a big Reagan rehabilitation run now pretending he was all in on massive immigration.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:42 AM (dfIr7)

He also opposed tariffs.
/ Ontario

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 11:43 AM (VYKOS)

180 Or maybe they actually host ONTs??

It’s all in furtherance of the subterranean conversation.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 27, 2025 11:43 AM (EXyHK)

181 Candace revealed herself as a kook a while back. She got on the "We faked going to the Moon bandwagon", and then my jaw dropped when she went Flat Earth curious.

She wasn't sayin the earth is flat, mind you, "just asking questions". At that point, I realized she had gone off in nutter land shore nuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 27, 2025 11:39 AM (w6EFb

People who are scientifically illiterate will fall for almost any plausible explanation of things. In her case, I believe her pursuit of such things is a pursuit of clout/graft at almost any cost.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:43 AM (i24o9)

182 you don't need a conspiracy for people to act in their self-interests according to methods and procedures that are ingrained into an institution and system of operations such as the U.S. political system.

Correct. Nobody had to tell the Biden administration to be corrupt, abuse power, and violate the constitution. Its in their very nature. Obama didn't have to tell the IRS to go after his political enemies, they were inclined to do that without prompting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:44 AM (dfIr7)

183 171 I think Swallwell is a suppository.
Posted by: Still lurking up north,

Ewww. Who would want him up their ass?

On second thought...

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 27, 2025 11:44 AM (NtAsh)

184 None of this is a defense of Owens. But she's not much more unsavory and weird than network news.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 11:33 AM (9FEtL)

I have no intention of defending Owens, because I have no idea where she gets whatever information she's getting.

But I think it's inaccurate to say she's crazy. She's got an agenda, I don't know what it is. She talks to people, and I don't know who they are.

I listened to her rant a couple times, and I got the impression she kinda went off the rails a bit, and didn't really mean to accuse the Trump admin of Charlie's murder. It was more a jab at them for possibly being part of the coverup.

Whatever. Those who now hate her though, I kinda think it means she's getting under people's skin, which seems to me her main purpose for doing what she's doing.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 11:45 AM (dGCAG)

185 175 The penguin people are the ones that worry me.
Posted by: Bulg

Noted in your Permanent Record.

Posted by: You Are On Thin Ice at October 27, 2025 11:46 AM (oftw2)

186 In her case, I believe her pursuit of such things is a pursuit of clout/graft at almost any cost.

It seems to me that to believe that her current “questionings” are the best way to achieve either clout or graft would make her crazier than if she actually believes those things.

Candace Owens could have had an easy, lucrative life among the institutional left if that’s all that’s driving her.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 27, 2025 11:46 AM (EXyHK)

187 OT: So 7 Eleven sponsored a concert in Vegas that became an anti-American screech festival. Well Fu*k You 7 Eleven. You will never see another dollar of mine.
Ever.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 27, 2025 11:47 AM (2WIwB)

188 The truth will always reveal itself eventually.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM (hlNLQ)

Yes, but the damage that is done in the meantime makes it harder to convince people of the truth after that.

People love juicy gossip -the crazier the better - and the truth just isn't very sexy.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 11:47 AM (SRRAx)

189 121 There is literally no possible way to do it without being noticed, and not just "someone might spot it" but incredibly, blatantly, painfully obvious.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:31 AM (dfIr7)

As I have seen other people point out, have you ever seen a controlled building demolition that didn't initiate at the base of the building?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 27, 2025 11:47 AM (VSht7)

190 The penguin people are the ones that worry me.
Posted by: Bulg

Noted in your Permanent Record.

Posted by: You Are On Thin Ice at October 27, 2025 11:46 AM (oftw2)

lol

I always wondered who kept those.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:47 AM (i24o9)

191 187

WTF?

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 27, 2025 11:48 AM (NtAsh)

192 One of my favorite freakouts on the left is that a billionaire has donated 130 million dollars to help pay the military's salary for a week or so (if that).

The left is losing its mind like a spider ran up their arm. HE'S BUYING THE MILITARY! THEY ARE A PRIVATE ARMY! HE'S BUYING INFLUENCE!!1!!1!!

So, which is it lefties?

Should the rich pay more or not?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:48 AM (dfIr7)

193 Hopefully Bad Bunny will do the celebratory dance off when Mamdani wins! So exciting!

Posted by: New York City Resident and SNAP recipient at October 27, 2025 11:48 AM (ReS4d)

194 Ewww. Who would want him up their ass?

On second thought...
Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 27, 2025 11:44 AM

Yoo hoo!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at October 27, 2025 11:49 AM (ySpAZ)

195 What term do you use?

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OUT: "Conspiracy Theories."
IN: "Spoiler Alerts."
Posted by: ShainS

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:49 AM (UjDHi)

196 Hopefully Bad Bunny will do the celebratory dance off when Mamdani wins! So exciting!
Posted by: New York City Resident and SNAP recipient at October 27, 2025 11:48 AM

IT'S ON!

Posted by: Crab People at October 27, 2025 11:49 AM (jc0TO)

197 178 Just joined the Ticketmaster "Waiting Room" for Rush tickets in Philly in August. Artist Presale happening at noon eastern time. Wish me luck!
Posted by: Doof

Best of luck. Most of their fans are in Assisted Living, so the die-off by concert time could work in your favor.

Posted by: Joan Lunden at October 27, 2025 11:50 AM (oftw2)

198 Candace Owens could have had an easy, lucrative life among the institutional left if that’s all that’s driving her

I think she's a combination of

1) She is trying to build an audience
2) She is trying to scoop everyone with hot stories Nobody Else Is Talking About
3) She is Being paid by people who want to push division and dissent on the right
4) She is a little loopy to begin with

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:50 AM (dfIr7)

199 188-true, and frustrating, but you can only think for yourself, and people get really attached to what they want to be true, versus what is, for a variety of reasons, ego being primary. I hope you are doing well- I've got you on my prayer list.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 27, 2025 11:50 AM (hlNLQ)

200 192 One of my favorite freakouts on the left is that a billionaire has donated 130 million dollars to help pay the military's salary for a week or so (if that).

The left is losing its mind like a spider ran up their arm. HE'S BUYING THE MILITARY! THEY ARE A PRIVATE ARMY! HE'S BUYING INFLUENCE!!1!!1!!

So, which is it lefties?

Should the rich pay more or not?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:48 AM (dfIr7)

======

Sounds like playing games with the military's paychecks is a bad idea.

Unless you play it like Caesar, of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

201 Candace revealed herself as a kook a while back. She got on the "We faked going to the Moon bandwagon", and then my jaw dropped when she went Flat Earth curious.

How's this for a conspiracy theory: Stanley Kubrick DID shoot a fake moon landing for the US government and it was in the can ready for release if the mission failed. The US could not afford that kind of international PR disaster while in the space race against the USSR. However there was no need for it because Apollo 11 was a success, and the film was scrapped even though rumors and speculation remain.

Posted by: Hey, why not? at October 27, 2025 11:51 AM (TbWk/)

202 Many democrats deserve to burn in Hell unless they sincerely repent

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 27, 2025 11:03 AM (bmcLt)

Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition #242- More is good, ALL is better.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 11:51 AM (snZF9)

203 I think Mamdani's speech all about how muslims were the real victims of 9/11 in NYC is the ultimate expression of how fallen that city has become in just over 2 decades.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:51 AM (dfIr7)

204 Candace revealed herself as a kook a while back. She got on the "We faked going to the Moon bandwagon", and then my jaw dropped when she went Flat Earth curious.

She wasn't sayin the earth is flat, mind you, "just asking questions". At that point, I realized she had gone off in nutter land shore nuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 27, 2025 11:39 AM (w6EFb)

That's a weak argument. The "just asking questions" jab is meant to shut people down who don't accept the accepted narratives for things. It's not an argument itself.

What questions are people supposed to ask? What questions are they NOT supposed to ask?

These days, it strikes me as self-evident the scientific industrial complex has lost its way, and defends itself against any attempts to challenge the "settled science" on damn near everything.

Fine. So you'll forgive me if I stop trusting ANYTHING you say.

Is the Earth flat? Probably not, but you fuckwits who call yourselves scientists opened the door for people to question you.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 11:51 AM (dGCAG)

205 None of this is a defense of Owens. But she's not much more unsavory and weird than network news.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 11:33 AM (9FEtL)

She is still not as bad as the "women" on The View.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 27, 2025 11:52 AM (VSht7)

206 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 11:51 AM (snZF9)

Dude, you have snizz in your hash!!

Posted by: Doof at October 27, 2025 11:52 AM (QMAsf)

207 That said, I believe there were 2 or more people shooting at a JFK in Dallas, 1963.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 11:16 AM (AOsQT)

There is, or was, an online JFK assassination simulator where you shoot from the book repository. Inspector was able to kill everyone in the car (plus a few more) in the allotted time. He's a good shot, but Oswald was a former Marine and should have been at least competent.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 27, 2025 11:52 AM (lFFaq)

208 People love juicy gossip -the crazier the better - and the truth just isn't very sexy.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Those types of people don't have enough going on in their personal lives so they have to manufacture stuff.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (UjDHi)

209 Many democrats deserve to burn in Hell unless they sincerely repent

We all do. Only the doing and dying of Jesus Christ saves us, not our nature or deeds. The only thing we bring to our salvation is the sin that made it necessary. Some of us are just more obviously deserving than others.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (dfIr7)

210 How's this for a conspiracy theory: Stanley Kubrick DID shoot a fake moon landing for the US government and it was in the can ready for release if the mission failed. The US could not afford that kind of international PR disaster while in the space race against the USSR. However there was no need for it because Apollo 11 was a success, and the film was scrapped even though rumors and speculation remain.
Posted by: Hey, why not? at October 27, 2025 11:51 AM (TbWk/)

That's pretty well accepted as fact.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (dGCAG)

211 The movie : Bullet Train
The character: The Wolf
The "actor": Bad Bunny

Love the movie, hated that character, laughed at his stupid demise. He was " singing" whatever the song was in the overly long back story of The Wolf.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (2J/Lj)

212 80 It's hard to be Humble.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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With a birthdate in every year.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (VkY89)

213 Bush was both an evil genius and an idiot.
Posted by: the way I see it

And literally Hitler!
Posted by: Well, Chimpy McBushitler. Close enough

And a good and noble man, a hero, a true American that shows how Republicans should behave and a president should act, now.

Its like the left on a big Reagan rehabilitation run now pretending he was all in on massive immigration.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:42 AM (dfIr7)

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One of the innumerable gifts that keeps on giving owing to The Literal Godsend that is President Donald J. Trump was his wrecking and breaking of the Worse-Than-Worthless Bushie Political "Dynasty" -- obviously now in hindsight yet another Deep State PsyOp, like Their Fellow Evil Communist Planted (SWIDT?) Puppets: Clintons, The DogEater, and The F. Joe Mugabe AutoPen Empire.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (VIh9j)

214
A big problem is this. We learn the "experts" and authorities are lying and/or totally wrong, and then try to cover it up and silence all those who question them.

This can lead to if "they" (ie experts, authorities on subjects beyond general lay knowledge) are lying/wrong then "everything must be wrong", and question everything.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (w6EFb)

215 If Owens is making money off of mentions, she's making bank off this site.

I understand the need to demonize her, but people like that thrive on being mentioned. The context isn't important.

OTOH the ridicule is pretty good.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (Q4IgG)

216 WTF?
Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 27, 2025 11:48 AM (NtAsh)

Some of the "stars" were Avril Lavigne, Blink-182, Weezer, Simple Plan, The Offspring, and The Used. They were eager to express support for Palestine and denounce President Donald Trump’s administration.
This was part of the “When We Were Young” concert series there.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (2WIwB)

217 Just joined the Ticketmaster "Waiting Room" for Rush tickets in Philly in August. Artist Presale happening at noon eastern time. Wish me luck!
Posted by: Doof

Good luck. Have they added any venues since first announcement?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (i24o9)

218 The subterranean Lizard People are a creation of Big Penguin to keep you distracted from the true existential menace posed by flightless waterfowl.

Posted by: Such evil as man has rarely seen at October 27, 2025 11:54 AM (TbWk/)

219 In the early 2020s, arguing that the virus originated in the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology was a forbidden “conspiracy theory” that would get a person deplatformed from social media, but it is now accepted as the almost certain source of the virus.
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Well it was "debunked" for that period.

What I call "temporarily debunked".

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 11:54 AM (krQz2)

220 That's pretty well accepted as fact.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM

Heh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:54 AM (jc0TO)

221 I don't know what it is, but something seriously went awry with the wiring in Candace Owens' brain. She sounds schizophrenic, and her disheveled look of late just makes it seem all the more plausible. She's gone 'round the bend.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 27, 2025 11:54 AM (qBdHI)

222 Dude, you have snizz in your hash!!
Posted by: Doof at October 27, 2025 11:52 AM

Probably better than having hash in your snizz, I guess, but we don't kink shame around here. Much.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 27, 2025 11:54 AM (ySpAZ)

223 You don’t do ‘just asking questions’ about insane theories or propositions.

You don’t enable mental illness.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:55 AM (EYmYM)

224 215 If Owens is making money off of mentions, she's making bank off this site.

I understand the need to demonize her, but people like that thrive on being mentioned. The context isn't important.

OTOH the ridicule is pretty good.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (Q4IgG)

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I guarantee you that no one makes money off being talked about on Minx 0.8 beta.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

225 How's this for a conspiracy theory: Stanley Kubrick DID shoot a fake moon landing for the US government and it was in the can ready for release if the mission failed. The US could not afford that kind of international PR disaster while in the space race against the USSR. However there was no need for it because Apollo 11 was a success, and the film was scrapped even though rumors and speculation remain.
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That's beautiful. For some reason after reading it I recalled the ending scenes of the original "Running Man".

Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 11:56 AM (TN0g+)

226 Good luck. Have they added any venues since first announcement?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (i24o9)

Yes, it's a full fledged tour now. I'm smack dab in the middle of DC (October) and Philly (August). Trying for both.

Posted by: Doof at October 27, 2025 11:56 AM (QMAsf)

227 The most interesting theory about the JFK assassination was that Oswald was trying to kill Connally, not Kennedy. He was pissed over his dishonorable discharge from the Corps.

I wouldn't exclude the possibility that he was trying to make it a twofer -- Connally for his personal animus, and Kennedy for his CIA handlers.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

228 Question: Remember the Pentagon? Remember it was penetrated by an aircraft? Remember the post-attack footage and films? If an aircraft - like the ones at the Twin Towers - did the penetration, then: WHERE are the breaches that would logically have been caused by the wings and engines penetrating the walls? WHERE are the engines and wheels and wing structural remnants? NONE of these things are viewable or visible in post-attack photos. Yes, I have considerered that they were removed - and logically, they would have been removed … eventually. The post-impact pictures were taken within 30 to 60 minutes after impact. Nothing. There. Where are the wheels, the wing impact marks on the building, and the engines post-impact? I'll wait …
Posted by: Dr_No at October 27, 2025 11:24 AM (ayRl+)

Yes, I'm here. I'm watching the bus your on plummeting to the bottom of the cliff.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 27, 2025 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)

229 Dude, you have snizz in your hash!!
Posted by: Doof at October 27, 2025 11:52 AM

Probably better than having hash in your snizz, I guess, but we don't kink shame around here. Much.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 27, 2025 11:54 AM (ySpAZ)

And you have spaz in your hash!

Posted by: Doof at October 27, 2025 11:56 AM (QMAsf)

230 Posted by: Diogenes at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (2WIwB)

Damn all the pop punk /skater stuff I liked.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 11:56 AM (EYmYM)

231 I guarantee you that no one makes money off being talked about on Minx 0.8 beta.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 11:55 AM

Money isn't everything.

Joe's Law: Trolls believe none of the things they post.

Joe's Corollary: Your disgust is their oxygen.

Joe's Conjecture: All trolls are Average Joe.

Joe's Tautology: Average Joe sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 11:56 AM (jc0TO)

232 But I think it's inaccurate to say she's crazy. She's got an agenda, I don't know what it is. She talks to people, and I don't know who they are.

Whoring for money and attention is an agenda. Maybe not mastermind level but it's still an agenda. A rather common one, at that.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 27, 2025 11:57 AM (OUMaO)

233 There is, or was, an online JFK assassination simulator where you shoot from the book repository. Inspector was able to kill everyone in the car (plus a few more) in the allotted time. He's a good shot, but Oswald was a former Marine and should have been at least competent.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

*Physics of injuries has entered the chat.

Also, to replicate, you have to use a craptastict Italian Carcano rifle, shooting a moving target down & away, and you only get one chance and you start cold. No warm ups. Just like LHO.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:57 AM (UjDHi)

234 The best part of the "Trump" ballroom blitz is Swallowswell demanding that all 2028 Dim candidates for President pledge to tear it down once they get elected.
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That's a metaphor.

The ballroom isn't all they're tear down.

Swalwell just doesn't realize it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 27, 2025 11:41 AM (Q4IgG)
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I told my wife this past weekend that the part of "Democrat" that fits is the "demo" part.

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 11:57 AM (krQz2)

235 And you have spaz in your hash!
Posted by: Doof at October 27, 2025 11:56 AM

I was wondering how long it would take for me to get shit about that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 27, 2025 11:57 AM (ySpAZ)

236 197 178 Just joined the Ticketmaster "Waiting Room" for Rush tickets in Philly in August. Artist Presale happening at noon eastern time. Wish me luck!
Posted by: Doof

Best of luck. Most of their fans are in Assisted Living, so the die-off by concert time could work in your favor.
Posted by: Joan Lunden at October 27, 2025 11:50 AM (oftw2)

That's just mean... 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 11:57 AM (SRRAx)

237 Is the Earth flat? Probably not, but you fuckwits who call yourselves scientists opened the door for people to question you.

Well that is the problem, isn't it? Science has so discredited its self and been so politicized and so willing to sacrifice good work and honest science for money, fame, and clout that now I start questioning everything I've been taught. IS water really made up of Hydrogen and oxygen? ARE we really living on a sphere?

Not because there's reason to believe any of that, but because science has been revealed to be packed with untrustworthy hacks. The field is no better than used car salesmen in their own way.

When a study showed that over half the "peer-reviewed" scientific studies published in the last 25 years could not be replicated, it leads one to doubt. When scientists keep reversing themselves in study after study "fat is bad for you. Fat is good for you. Fat will kill you. Fat gives you cancer. Fat helps fight cancer. Fat will give you immortality and the powers of the Incredible Hulk!" its difficult to trust them on anything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:57 AM (dfIr7)

238 Many conspiracy theories distract from finding out what really happened.

Example: "The twin towers fell faster than possible, so explosives must have been involved."

The towers had an unusual design with a hardened center that had the elevators. The floors hung from the center and the outside skin of the building.

When the heat melted the anchors, floor 86 would fall and hit floor 85 which also had weakened anchors. Etc. Etc. As this went it accelerated floor by floor with the bulit-up momentum from the cascade.

Because of the hardened center. the towers didn't fall over, but came straight down. Like an old school record player.

This distracted from the bombers all being from Saudi Arabia -- our nominal ally. Awkward

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 27, 2025 11:58 AM (DG5yQ)

239 I remember one of the pieces of "evidence" that there was a 9/11 demolition conspiracy was that there was an indoor picture of a room, with cardboard or boxes or something with the BB18 part number, which is a Littelfuse BB18 terminal for fuse holders, and someone took that to mean "dynamite fuse" instead of what it actually is used for: electrical fuses.

Posted by: fb at October 27, 2025 11:58 AM (JVEmw)

240 Is the Earth flat? Probably not, but you fuckwits who call yourselves scientists opened the door for people to question you.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 11:51 AM (dGCAG)

9/10 scientists agree with their funders. There is no funding in flat earth paranoia.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 11:58 AM (i24o9)

241 This guy laughs at the "taco" retards. A different take on OrangeManBad's far East travels:

https://is.gd/6iCMR7

Shanaka Anslem Perera
@shanaka86
OCTOBER 26, 2025: THE DAY AMERICA BECAME AN EMPIRE

While you watched TikTok, the United States just executed the greatest economic coup in human history.....

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 27, 2025 11:59 AM (ULPxl)

242 OK, but the mattress stores as money laundering sites is probably real, isn't it?

Posted by: Wally at October 27, 2025 11:59 AM (v6l91)

243
I told my wife this past weekend that the part of "Democrat" that fits is the "demo" part.
Posted by: Axeman

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The Demolitioncrats

And good morning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 27, 2025 11:59 AM (5e+/e)

244 This can lead to if "they" (ie experts, authorities on subjects beyond general lay knowledge) are lying/wrong then "everything must be wrong", and question everything.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (w6EFb)

At this point I consider it my civic duty to question everything.

So if you tell me the moon is made of cheese, I'm listening.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 11:59 AM (dGCAG)

245 The subterranean Lizard People are a creation of Big Penguin to keep you distracted from the true existential menace posed by flightless waterfowl.
Posted by: Such evil as man has rarely seen at October 27, 2025 11:54 AM (TbWk/)

Ahhh! The Apteryx has entered the chat.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 27, 2025 12:00 PM (2WIwB)

246 Yes, it's a full fledged tour now. I'm smack dab in the middle of DC (October) and Philly (August). Trying for both.

Posted by: Doof at October 27, 2025 11:56 AM (QMAsf)

Well then. I'll have to go looking. Thanks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 12:00 PM (i24o9)

247 the film was scrapped even though rumors and speculation remain.

Film buried deeper than "day the clown cried".

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 27, 2025 12:00 PM (hUvnA)

248 Ssssssssssssssss.

Posted by: The Slow Newsday Gorn at October 27, 2025 12:00 PM (jc0TO)

249 Whoring for money and attention is an agenda. Maybe not mastermind level but it's still an agenda. A rather common one, at that.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 27, 2025 11:57 AM (OUMaO)

Everybody whores for money. The question is, how much money are you getting for shaking your particular booty.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 12:00 PM (dGCAG)

250 Posted by: Ignoramus at October 27, 2025 11:58 AM (DG5yQ)

My ancillary theory is the towers would not have collapsed if they had used asbestos .

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 12:01 PM (EYmYM)

251 Just joined the Ticketmaster "Waiting Room" for Rush tickets in Philly in August. Artist Presale happening at noon eastern time. Wish me luck!
Posted by: Doof

Best of luck. Most of their fans are in Assisted Living, so the die-off by concert time could work in your favor.
Posted by: Joan Lunden at October 27, 2025 11:50 AM (oftw2)

That's just mean... 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

You just gotta love this place.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 12:01 PM (UjDHi)

252 Goddammit.

I got a tracking update on a package and the message I got was "left with individual." Problem is I live alone and I'm not at home.

I hope the mailman just clicked a wrong button on his device.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 12:01 PM (N0R2b)

253 "A theory to which I subscribe is conspiracy theories are developed by the state department and the cia and pushed onto the public so that they can be eventually debunked, which the public then accepts as proof that the original state story was correct all along."
Posted by: Oglebay

yes, that is why I used to suspect Alex Jones may have been their asset. The trick is to discern what elements are absurd "conspiracy theories" and which are the correct conspiracy theories. USA certainly has many conspiracies actively in motion by our DeepState (and other) enemies.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 27, 2025 12:01 PM (vbXSk)

254 I thought about trying to get tickets to the Rush show here in Philly, but then I noticed I have a dull plastic spoon right here on my desk and can use the back end to just directly assault my ear drums, so no need. (I tease, I tease, enjoy!)

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 27, 2025 12:02 PM (hlNLQ)

255 >>> 152

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A theory to which I subscribe is conspiracy theories are developed by the state department and the cia and pushed onto the public so that they can be eventually debunked, which the public then accepts as proof that the original state story was correct all along.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 27, 2025 11:37 AM (GPa4z)

This, too. Manipulators gotta manipulate.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 27, 2025 12:02 PM (ULPxl)

256 I am so stealing this. T-shirt catalog. Sarcasm, it's how I hug.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 27, 2025 12:02 PM (QGLzn)

257 OK, but the mattress stores as money laundering sites is probably real, isn't it?

Nah, you need a cash-heavy business to launder money. What mattress stores are is usually using loans to pay loans until you can't keep it up an burn the place down for insurance.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 12:02 PM (dfIr7)

258 My other law is :

There is no successful conspiracy theory with more than 10 people involved.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 12:02 PM (EYmYM)

259 Just joined the Ticketmaster "Waiting Room" for Rush tickets in Philly in August. Artist Presale happening at noon eastern time. Wish me luck!
Posted by: Doof

Best of luck. Most of their fans are in Assisted Living, so the die-off by concert time could work in your favor.
Posted by: Joan Lunden at October 27, 2025 11:50 AM (oftw2)

The grandkids will end up scalping them.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 12:03 PM (N0R2b)

260

Great ‘Overnight’ Replacement: The (Federal) Express Decline and Fall of Collierville, TN

https://t.ly/Uouc5

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 27, 2025 12:03 PM (pkeXY)

261 When a study showed that over half the "peer-reviewed" scientific studies published in the last 25 years could not be replicated, it leads one to doubt. When scientists keep reversing themselves in study after study "fat is bad for you. Fat is good for you. Fat will kill you. Fat gives you cancer. Fat helps fight cancer. Fat will give you immortality and the powers of the Incredible Hulk!" its difficult to trust them on anything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:57 AM (dfIr7)

I've been watching the Graham Hancock series questioning the "settled science" on how civilizations formed and when.

It now seems he was right to question the land bridge theory on how the Americas were first poopulated.

But the settled scientists still call him a kook and a fraud, and fight to have anyone who supports his theories from getting published or funded.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 12:03 PM (dGCAG)

262
Having an open mind is good. However, you don't want it to be so open your brain falls out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 27, 2025 12:03 PM (w6EFb)

263 Doof, is Rush coming to DC?

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

264 My other law is :

There is no successful conspiracy theory with more than 10 people involved.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 12:02 PM (EYmYM)

Covid 19.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 12:04 PM (dGCAG)

265 I got a tracking update on a package and the message I got was "left with individual." Problem is I live alone and I'm not at home.

I hope the mailman just clicked a wrong button on his device.
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 12:01 PM (N0R2b)

Have you checked your closets?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 27, 2025 12:04 PM (2WIwB)

266 I don't have my ducks in a row. I have squirrels and they are everywhere.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 27, 2025 12:04 PM (QGLzn)

267 poopulated

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 12:03 PM (dGCAG)

This made me laugh harder than it should have.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 12:05 PM (N0R2b)

268 There’s a Tesla “truck” in my neighborhood. I think it deserves a set of “truck nuts”, perhaps painted pink? Is there a good spot on the undercarriage where a nylon wire tie could be quickly placed?

Posted by: Fenderbender at October 27, 2025 12:05 PM (1FEc1)

269 258 My other law is :

There is no successful conspiracy theory with more than 10 people involved.

that's what we want you to think.

Posted by: the illuminati at October 27, 2025 12:05 PM (v3pYe)

270 Rush touring reminds me of the Who touring. There's two of you left, you're not the band any more. Someone needs money, and they're charging insane prices for tickets

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 12:05 PM (dfIr7)

271 Ahhh! The Apteryx has entered the chat.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 27, 2025 12:00 PM (2WIwB)

And the host of this site is a New Zealander. The pieces are falling into place, no?

Posted by: Another part of the puzzle at October 27, 2025 12:05 PM (TbWk/)

272 Erich von Däniken is just asking questions, when he isn't straight up lying.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

273 208 People love juicy gossip -the crazier the better - and the truth just isn't very sexy.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Those types of people don't have enough going on in their personal lives so they have to manufacture stuff.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:53 AM (UjDHi)

That, and/or their "real" lives are really messed up, so they use conspiracy theories to take their minds off of reality.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 12:06 PM (SRRAx)

274 237 Is the Earth flat? Probably not, but you fuckwits who call yourselves scientists opened the door for people to question you.

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Well that is the problem, isn't it? Science has so discredited its self and been so politicized and so willing to sacrifice good work and honest science for money, fame, and clout that now I start questioning everything I've been taught. IS water really made up of Hydrogen and oxygen? ARE we really living on a sphere?Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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Nail on the head. Even more so for doctors / medicine, which I think is MORE important: a lot of us can live without the input of scientists, but our health does have a good bit of correlation to our health care. And I wouldn't trust the average doctor as far as I could throw them at this point, with all the COVID worshipping and jab proselytizing they've done...

Posted by: bearski at October 27, 2025 12:06 PM (Bhsk7)

275 Have you checked your closets?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 27, 2025 12:04 PM (2WIwB)

Do you think there's a secret tunnel leading to one guy working on a computer ordering free entries to a contest sponsored by Frito-Lay?

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 12:06 PM (N0R2b)

276 "Replacement Theory" is another thing Corporate Party Media deride as a conspiracy theory. Yet back in the early 2000s, the Democrats published a book "The Emerging Democratic Majority" that described the idea of replacing Americans with left voting migrants not only as a legitimate strategy but a good thing.

Posted by: Massive Late Night Ballot Dump in Bergen County at October 27, 2025 12:06 PM (kY0De)

277 yes, that is why I used to suspect Alex Jones may have been their asset. The trick is to discern what elements are absurd "conspiracy theories" and which are the correct conspiracy theories. USA certainly has many conspiracies actively in motion by our DeepState (and other) enemies.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 27, 2025 12:01 PM (vbXSk)

I don't believe Jones is an asset, but I do believe he has fallen for more than one of the Deep State created conspiracies.

One problem is, if you go too far down these rabbit holes, and can drive you nuts. It's possible Candace falls into that category too. But I also don't believe she's wrong about the Macron shit.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 12:06 PM (dGCAG)

278 I got a tracking update on a package and the message I got was "left with individual." Problem is I live alone and I'm not at home.

Another two-sentence horror story!

Posted by: The Phantom Package at October 27, 2025 12:07 PM (TbWk/)

279 I got a tracking update on a package and the message I got was "left with individual." Problem is I live alone and I'm not at home.

I hope the mailman just clicked a wrong button on his device.
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus

Thanks for the free gift box, Robert, but why so many green dildoes?

Posted by: In a Pickle at October 27, 2025 12:07 PM (oftw2)

280 I rate conspiracy theories by likelihood. My #1 for the JFK hit is that Allen Dulles gave the order in an off-the-books operation.

JFK had fired CIA director Dulles over the Bay of Pigs fiasco and other sins.

Dulles had people hondling Lee Harvey and Marina. They got him the job at the Texas Book Depository before he arrived in Dallas. Easy to have a real shooter take the shots from the Depository and frame Oswald for it.

History doesn't repeat but it can rhyme. Dulles wanted a war over Cuba but was thwarted by JFK. LBJ gave him Vietnam.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 27, 2025 12:07 PM (DG5yQ)

281 Having an open mind is good. However, you don't want it to be so open your brain falls out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 27, 2025 12:03 PM (w6EFb)

Wow. I haven't heard that in years. One of my teachers in high school would say that. Thanks for the memory!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 27, 2025 12:07 PM (2J/Lj)

282 She wasn't sayin the earth is flat, mind you, "just asking questions". At that point, I realized she had gone off in nutter land shore nuff.
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I laugh so much at the "ice wall" thing.
Like somehow, Antarctica is this ... belt or something around the actual bigger Earth?
All the stupid, breathless "you can't go/get past."

Sure. OK.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 27, 2025 12:07 PM (6EDhb)

283 I saw the Monkeys on tour when it was just Mickey Dolan and Davy Jones. I don't know how copywrites work for bands. Could there have been four Beatles bands after the break up?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

284 I saw Rush many, many years ago. Miserable seats... behind the stage.

But an awesome view of Neil Peart doing his thing. I mean we were right above his kit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 27, 2025 12:08 PM (Q4IgG)

285 245 The subterranean Lizard People are a creation of Big Penguin to keep you distracted from the true existential menace posed by flightless waterfowl.
Posted by: Such evil as man has rarely seen at October 27, 2025 11:54 AM (TbWk/)

Ahhh! The Apteryx has entered the chat.

the apteryx is usually relegated to a footnote, designated by the apteryx asterisk.

Posted by: anachronda at October 27, 2025 12:08 PM (v3pYe)

286 poopulated

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 12:03 PM (dGCAG)

This made me laugh harder than it should have.
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 12:05 PM (N0R2b)

Thank you, if I ever decide to take my comedy career on the stage, you and I might be the only people there.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 12:08 PM (dGCAG)

287 284 I saw Rush many, many years ago. Miserable seats... behind the stage.

But an awesome view of Neil Peart doing his thing. I mean we were right above his kit.

not gonna check urban dictionary. wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: anachronda at October 27, 2025 12:09 PM (v3pYe)

288 Science has so discredited its self and been so politicized and so willing to sacrifice good work and honest science for money, fame, and clout that now I start questioning everything I've been taught.
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There are still real scientists doing real science but they have been drowned out by scienticians who mere wrap science language around political agendas. And are well compensated for that.

Posted by: Massive Late Night Ballot Dump in Bergen County at October 27, 2025 12:09 PM (AUkmP)

289 Thanks for the free gift box, Robert, but why so many green dildoes?
Posted by: In a Pickle at October 27, 2025 12:07 PM (oftw2)

Because green is my favorite color.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 12:09 PM (N0R2b)

290 275 Have you checked your closets?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 27, 2025 12:04 PM (2WIwB)

Do you think there's a secret tunnel leading to one guy working on a computer ordering free entries to a contest sponsored by Frito-Lay?
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 12:06 PM (N0R2b)

Lazlo!

Posted by: Popcorn everywhere at October 27, 2025 12:09 PM (TbWk/)

291

A fearful former President Joe Biden on Sunday night called these “dark days” under President Donald Trump, exhorting Americans to “get back up” and stand with late-night TV hosts as brave moral exemplars who “continue to shine a light on free speech.”

AP reports Biden, 82, was speaking publicly for the first time since completing a round of radiation therapy for an aggressive form of prostate cancer. He addressed an audience in Boston with his dire warnings after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 27, 2025 12:09 PM (pkeXY)

292 What mattress stores are is usually using loans to pay loans "

Yep. It's a subscription model. Gotta get a bundle of loans, then sell said loans, rinse, repeat.
The mattresses are just window dressing.

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 12:09 PM (tubbA)

293 283-no, some entity owns the name (generally), everyone else would have to tour under something else, but can sing the songs

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 27, 2025 12:09 PM (hlNLQ)

294 Rush tickets acquired! Oct 27, 2026 in DC.

Damn, next year's Texas MoMe will come and go before then.

Posted by: Doof at October 27, 2025 12:09 PM (QMAsf)

295 science for money, "

Chicks for free?

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 12:10 PM (tubbA)

296 Also, to replicate, you have to use a craptastict Italian Carcano rifle, shooting a moving target down & away, and you only get one chance and you start cold. No warm ups. Just like LHO.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 11:57 AM (UjDHi)

All that was part of the simulation. I did wonder about the injury physics though.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 27, 2025 12:10 PM (lFFaq)

297 It now seems he was right to question the land bridge theory on how the Americas were first poopulated.

Scientists refusing to listen to conflicting ideas is not new. They put the guy who discovered germs into an insane asylum. I mean I get it "you believe that tiny invisible creatures are making us all sick?" But they just refused to question their beliefs or listen to the evidence.

That attitude has not changed. People have careers and book sales and interviews and tenure etc. They don't want to lose that or have the embarrassment of being proven wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 12:10 PM (dfIr7)

298 Crab people and lizard people, man.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 27, 2025 12:10 PM (36PRH)

299 224 I guarantee you that no one makes money off being talked about on Minx 0.8 beta.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

That's just what a Fed Asset would want us to think.

Posted by: XTC at October 27, 2025 12:11 PM (UnA8+)

300 There are still real scientists doing real science but they have been drowned out by scienticians who mere wrap science language around political agendas. And are well compensated for that.

Why are you looking at me when you say that?

Posted by: Bill Nye The PseudoScience Guy at October 27, 2025 12:11 PM (luW68)

301 Lazlo!
Posted by: Popcorn everywhere at October 27, 2025 12:09 PM (TbWk/)

Great movie. It's wild Kilmer made it after Top Gun.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 27, 2025 12:11 PM (PiwSw)

302 I rate conspiracy theories by likelihood. My #1 for the JFK hit is that Allen Dulles gave the order in an off-the-books operation.

JFK had fired CIA director Dulles over the Bay of Pigs fiasco and other sins.

Dulles had people hondling Lee Harvey and Marina. They got him the job at the Texas Book Depository before he arrived in Dallas. Easy to have a real shooter take the shots from the Depository and frame Oswald for it.

History doesn't repeat but it can rhyme. Dulles wanted a war over Cuba but was thwarted by JFK. LBJ gave him Vietnam.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 27, 2025 12:07 PM (DG5yQ)

I'm warming to the idea that CIA was working directly with the Mafia to get the job done. They started working together to try to get Castro, and just transferred some of their hitters to take out JFK after they failed several times to get Castro.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 12:11 PM (dGCAG)

303 Posted by: Ignoramus at October 27, 2025 12:07 PM (DG5yQ)

Oswald shot Tippit too. Or is the theory that wasn’t him either?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 12:11 PM (EYmYM)

304 This ballroom freak out blitz is hilarious. FYI... I thought the White House already had a ballroom. It would have been a standard part of a mansion that big and used for that purpose (house of the head of state) during the time period in which it was designed and built. I wonder why they didn't do that. And why no one else did. The rebuild after the burning of DC would have been a good time to add that. It's very odd to me.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

The White House has a smallish ballroom that seats 200. This new ballroom is to seat 600. For over a hundred years US Presidents have been wanting a larger ballroom. Trump is building it, without taxpayer money.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 27, 2025 12:12 PM (ZVgZ4)

305 277 yes, that is why I used to suspect Alex Jones may have been their asset. The trick is to discern what elements are absurd "conspiracy theories" and which are the correct conspiracy theories. USA certainly has many conspiracies actively in motion by our DeepState (and other) enemies.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 27, 2025 12:01 PM (vbXSk)

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I don't believe Jones is an asset, but I do believe he has fallen for more than one of the Deep State created conspiracies. One problem is, if you go too far down these rabbit holes, and can drive you nuts. It's possible Candace falls into that category too. But I also don't believe she's wrong about the Macron shit. Posted by: BurtTC

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This whole debate is interesting IMHO. I mean, I love Buck, but with this article (and not uncommon on this site), he's basically saying HIS proven conspiracy theories are fact and the others are kooks. I don't like it, but it would not be hard for me to believe the deep state & defense industry were inside players on 9/11. Bin Laden & jihadists still did it, but were people aware and otherwise enabled it to advance an agenda... It wouldn't surprise me, at least

Posted by: bearski at October 27, 2025 12:12 PM (Bhsk7)

306 My FIL has been watching AI generated Facebook videos and is convinced that the 3IAtlas Comet is bringing a reptilian invasion.

Posted by: Massive Late Night Ballot Dump in Bergen County at October 27, 2025 12:12 PM (cL7dm)

307 I saw an interview with Sammy Hagar- he did some sort of biopic on his Van Halen years, but "Van Halen" would not allow any of its music to be used. Of course, Sammy can still sing them in concert though. DLR too.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 27, 2025 12:12 PM (hlNLQ)

308 244 At this point I consider it my civic duty to question everything.

So if you tell me the moon is made of cheese, I'm listening.

wensleydale?

Posted by: wallace at October 27, 2025 12:12 PM (v3pYe)

309 300 There are still real scientists doing real science but they have been drowned out by scienticians who mere wrap science language around political agendas. And are well compensated for that.

Why are you looking at me when you say that?
Posted by: Bill Nye The PseudoScience Guy at October 27, 2025 12:11 PM (luW6

Dat's right, White Boy, he lookin' at you!

Posted by: Neil deGrasse Tyson at October 27, 2025 12:12 PM (PiwSw)

310
Rush tickets acquired! Oct 27, 2026 in DC.

They found a way to resurrect Rush Limbaugh?!?!

Cool!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 27, 2025 12:12 PM (iJfKG)

311 Nood Muslim Brotherhood

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 27, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)

312 I know Sammy and Michael Anthony toured as "Chickenfoot"- a reference to VHs logo.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 27, 2025 12:13 PM (hlNLQ)

313 Oswald shot Tippit too"

Tippecanoe and Tyler too?

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 12:13 PM (tubbA)

314
"Science advances one funeral at a time." -- Max Planck.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 27, 2025 12:13 PM (w6EFb)

315 So the conspirators had reasons to kill Kennedy. Did they accomplish anything they wanted as a result of Kennedy not being President? Or is the theory it was just revenge?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 12:13 PM (EYmYM)

316 The Ewok-In-Chief is awake.

NOOD!

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

317 There is no successful conspiracy theory with more than 10 people involved.
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I generally applaud that--you are correct that the more that are involved the more have to remain silent...forever.

The JFK Assassination seems to be the exception that proves the rule.

Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 12:14 PM (TN0g+)

318 imho, "Conspiracy Theories" are mostly psych ops that keep the masses busy, constantly pitting one side against the other..

Interesting article; more study needed.
>The National Institute of Health, National Library of Medicine, The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
Karen M Douglas, Robbie M Sutton, Aleksandra Cichocka1
Copyright and License information
PMCID: PMC5724570 PMID: 29276345
7 December 2017

>The Pink News, What is a psyop and why are right-wing conspiracy theorists obsessed with them?
Apr 08 2024, Written by Amelia Hansford

>NY times, A Theory About Conspiracy Theories
In a new study, psychologists tried to get a handle on the personality types that might be prone to outlandish beliefs. Sept 28, 2020

>'Scientific American, Mar 1, 2019, People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features'

Baseless theories threaten our safety and democracy. It turns out that specific emotions make people prone to such thinking.
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But keeps a lot of people in grants, teaching, writing, etc.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 27, 2025 12:14 PM (NFX2v)

319 And Gary Humble is correct

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 27, 2025 12:14 PM (xcxpd)

320 Scientists refusing to listen to conflicting ideas is not new. They put the guy who discovered germs into an insane asylum. I mean I get it "you believe that tiny invisible creatures are making us all sick?" But they just refused to question their beliefs or listen to the evidence.

That attitude has not changed. People have careers and book sales and interviews and tenure etc. They don't want to lose that or have the embarrassment of being proven wrong.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 12:10 PM (dfIr7)

There was the business of Copernicus, although I seem to recall the notion that he was persecuted by the Church was something of an exaggeration.

Also Socrates. Who, I still don't get why he offed himself, but yeah.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 12:14 PM (dGCAG)

321 Does anyone dispute that Oswald pulled a pistol on policeman Bob Carroll and others at the time of his arrest?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 12:14 PM (jc0TO)

322 Rush touring reminds me of the Who touring. There's two of you left, you're not the band any more. Someone needs money, and they're charging insane prices for tickets.

Be nice if Bad Bunny joined RUSH and they became Bad Bunny RUSH.

I would buy tickets! So cool!

Posted by: New York City Resident and SNAP recipient at October 27, 2025 12:15 PM (ReS4d)

323 Crap, Rush is playing at the "Climate Pledge Arena."

1) Now I'll have to consider buying at least three tickets.

2) What kind of commie asshole retard names their venue "Climate Pledge Arena?" I may justify skipping it just for that reason. Dickheads.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 12:15 PM (i24o9)

324 Yes, TiFW, that is what they will do. We had WIC and NYS would cut our amount if we didn’t spend more. Wife bought more and more dried beans to keep up the subsidy.

Posted by: Accomack at October 27, 2025 12:15 PM (pEBE0)

325 So if you tell me the moon is made of cheese, I'm listening.

wensleydale?
Posted by: wallace at October 27, 2025 12:12 PM

Stilton.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 12:15 PM (jc0TO)

326 wensleydale?
Posted by: wallace at October 27, 2025 12:12 PM (v3pYe)

Heh. Willowed, but I get the reference.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 12:15 PM (dGCAG)

327 A theory to which I subscribe is conspiracy theories are developed by the state department and the cia and pushed onto the public so that they can be eventually debunked, which the public then accepts as proof that the original state story was correct all along."
Posted by: Oglebay
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I have long suspected that some are created by the IC to be debunked.

But, that would mean that only *some* are.

Covid broke me of my knee-jerk blanching at "conspiracy theories".

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 12:16 PM (krQz2)

328 And Gary Humble is correct
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 27, 2025 12:14 PM (xcxpd)

I wish I didn’t read this.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 27, 2025 12:16 PM (EYmYM)

329 Where are the wheels, the wing impact marks on the building, and the engines post-impact? I'll wait …
Posted by: Dr_No

... are you expecting the holes in the buildings to be a perfect outline of the airplane's front silhouette like in the cartoons?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 27, 2025 12:17 PM (a+4eV)

330 One of my teenage sons surprised me a couple days ago by telling me that (probably) Twin Towers were not brought down by the planes and it was a controlled demolition. Seems there are some new videos that point to this.
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Yeah, i dont understand it, but some people are convinced by things they see on the internet. My wife, who is an MD at one point was all in on this. I would talk to her about it rationally and she would get angry. It wasnt until she spouted that fire couldnt melt steel that the whole thing collapsed. It took a while to remind her of the fire triangle, point out that i can raise or lower the temp of my big green egg just by controlling the amount of airflow that it clicked and she got embarrassed. Its a emotional locking on to an explanation that is more controllable (you can vote out your own govt) cause than war by islamists.

Posted by: The trauma of the event causes a defense mechanism... at October 27, 2025 12:18 PM (9iMwI)

331 Climatistas have been well funded when they followed the government line about climate change. A lot of people who should know better even think the current government approved “consensus” is true. Science doesn’t work on consensus but on what can be proven true in the lab or field. The coasts should have been flooded by now were the claims of the climatistas correct. Beachfront property still sells at a premium.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 27, 2025 12:18 PM (ZVgZ4)

332 It wasnt until she spouted that fire couldnt melt steel that the whole thing collapsed.
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I wonder if *anybody* in Pittsburgh believed that.

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 12:22 PM (krQz2)

333 Climatistas have been well funded when they followed the government line about climate change.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 27, 2025 12:18 PM (ZVgZ4)

Its a emotional locking on to an explanation that is more controllable (you can vote out your own govt) cause than war by islamists.

Posted by: The trauma of the event causes a defense mechanism... at October 27, 2025 12:18 PM (9iMwI)

They got the climate zealots when they were young and scared the crap out of them with their climate doom. It is easier to scare someone into something than it is to convince them to rationally abandon their irrational fears.

That asymmetry is well-known at this point, and THEY (both sides, really) exploit it readily.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 12:24 PM (i24o9)

334 Who cares if Macron married a tranny? Candace Owen's has had a serious mental breakdown and needs professional help. Where is her family or friends for an imyervention?

Posted by: Megthered at October 27, 2025 12:32 PM (NHKs8)

335 BALLROOM CHATTER
Quoting the Washington Post Editorial Board: "... privately, many alumni of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long-overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating ... It is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties..."

Posted by: Kathy at October 27, 2025 12:36 PM (zuKcR)

336 189 121 There is literally no possible way to do it without being noticed, and not just "someone might spot it" but incredibly, blatantly, painfully obvious.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 27, 2025 11:31 AM (dfIr7)

As I have seen other people point out, have you ever seen a controlled building demolition that didn't initiate at the base of the building?
Posted by: tankdemon at October 27, 2025 11:47 AM (VSht7)

That is part of the conspiracy theories. Contractor(s) were working weekends for weeks or months beforehand - came in Friday nights and were cleaned up and gone by each Monday morning. Survivors and first responders on the ground floor when the buildings came down reportedly said there were lobby explosions preceding the collapse.

Posted by: Advo at October 27, 2025 12:57 PM (jO4mz)

337 Pre-Scamdemic, or even pre-Trump 2015, I would have thought a guy like Mr. Humble was kooky. Now I have a very different view on things based on the incomplete information our 'government' has 'provided'.

Conspiracy theory(invented by the Culinary Institute of America(CIA)) = fragmentary government information.

For me 11/22/1963 was the day that truth died into fragments.

As Rogan recently said: "We just don't know."

Posted by: Danimal28 at October 27, 2025 02:53 PM (1E4GV)

338 Two points. The left manipulates via narrative. Every strategy they have requires a truth-distorting narrative that emotionally manipulates the base and provides an attack vector for the politicians. But, because they always overuse their terms (racist, homophobe, islamophobe, sexist, patriarchy, conspiracy theory, etc.), they are voiced to develop new ones (transphobe, Nazi, fascist).
Second point; the left undercuts its opposition by character assassination. They never seek to argue on policy or merits, even when they might have a case to make. This is why the left focuses so much energy to take over schools. A well-educated person sees right through their lies.

Posted by: IanDeal at October 27, 2025 03:15 PM (KU7MJ)

339 I have a psychologist friend and I've heard him refer to some of his clients as being "RFN". Now it's not difficult to decode that acronym, so I propose it be applied to a particular class of misinformation.

Posted by: profligatewaste at October 27, 2025 03:51 PM (/OH4u)

340 If you had told me five years ago that the government would lie to the public about a disease, shut down the economy, arrest anyone that dared not comply, then push a vaccine that didn't work, have people lose their jobs for noncompliance, and all based on no science at all-- I would have called you a crazy nut.

Now? 9/11 an inside job? Maybe. Grassy knoll? Why not?

I won't live long enough to ever trust the US government again.

Posted by: Frank Noone at October 27, 2025 05:26 PM (75cud)

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