Republicans go full Illuminati

[mia]

If you're fortunate enough not to be a regular consumer of Fox News, conservative talk radio, or the more colorful outposts of conspiracy theorizing popular on the right, you might think that Robert Mueller is an experienced prosecutor leading a methodical investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. At the end of that investigation, you probably think, Mueller will present his findings, there either will or won't be evidence of serious wrongdoing, some people might be indicted (a couple already have), and whatever the outcome of those criminal cases, our political system will have to sort out what to do about the whole matter, if anything.

But if you do watch Fox or listen to Rush Limbaugh or read websites like Breitbart, you're living in an entirely different reality, in which there's a massive and sinister conspiracy at work and the only appropriate response is to live every moment of every day on the verge of outright panic.

In this bizarre fantasy world, the FBI — as conservative an agency as you'll find in the federal government — is actually an organization committed to destroying Donald Trump, so gripped is it with pro-Democratic bias.

If you haven't been following this story, some of the strands that have absolutely consumed the right will sound unfamiliar and even ludicrous. There's the matter of text messages exchanged by an FBI agent and an FBI lawyer who were having an affair, in which — cover the children's ears — the two are revealed to not think particularly highly of Trump. Even though any reasonable reading of the messages shows the two doing anything but trying to subvert Trump — not to mention the fact that we aren't reading whatever texts were sent by the thousands of other people who work at the FBI — each message is examined with Talmudic care to find its hidden meanings and subtle implications, in the desperate hope that some ill will toward Trump might be found. The latest "revelation" came when a couple of congressmen rushed to Fox News to tell of a reference they found in a text to a "secret society." Egads! They don't know what it means, but it certainly couldn't be tongue in cheek. Is the FBI controlled by the Illuminati? The Freemasons? The Rosicrucians? Some powerful secret society so secret and powerful that it has prevented us all from even knowing what it's called?

But that's just the start....

http://theweek.com/articles/750337/republicans-full-illuminati

[Fred Sanders]

1. Sure, repeat a lie enough it becomes truth...but fact free conspiracy theories?

From a President* who shares these conspiracy theories of Foxxx.

Shitler is worser and worser every day.

[karynnj]

2. What is scary is that these extreme ideas have moved to the right wing mainstream

I blame the fact that the President gives credit to Alex Jones and gives WH press credentials to very extreme outlets -- and calls every thing that is mainstream "fake news".

[TheBlackAdder]

3. At this point, I just fuck with these freaks. I'll say I'm in it, tried several times to get in it..

or even say that I'm recruiting members, but you have to have a certain level of education and critical thinking.

If they come up with a conspiracy, such as chemtrails, as someone with a prior aeronautics background, I show why it's implausible to treat from altitude, as wind shifts direction every several thousand feet, and by the time atomized particles would reach the ground, it would travel several states over. There is no guarantee where agents would get disbursed. I tell them that it's really those Air National Guard helicopters doing it--spraying at 5AM, flying low while the air is calm so it ensures proper distributon.

Their heads explode on that one.