When you cater to crazy people, you end up with a crazier country.
And you deserve to lose if you decide to cater to the crazy. That&#8217;s true on every side of the political aisle. All the American people want is some semblance of normalcy. That&#8217;s all they want. They&#8217;re begging for it. Some semblance of just being an adult with a normal set of values would be amazing from anyone.
But, instead, we&#8217;ve decided we&#8217;re going to elevate crazy on pretty much every side of the political aisle. It&#8217;s totally wild and insane. We&#8217;re tearing ourselves apart by elevating crazy.
I think there&#8217;s a reason why we are elevating crazy to this extent. And I think the real reason why we&#8217;re elevating crazy across the aisle is because we don&#8216;t have a centralizing set of values.
It used to be that the older generation would say to the younger generation, “Guys, you&#8217;re morons. You don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about. Let me give you some time-tested wisdom,” as Thomas Sowell has talked about in the realm of economics.
It’s true across all branches of knowledge. There are a few ways to gather data; controlled studies is one way, but even controlled studies are not going to be as good as time-tested wisdom used over the course of centuries.
This is why it is very important to transmit culture, rules, and values to your children. This is why religion has traditionally been an extremely useful preserve of actually maintaining cultural and systemic health.
When I teach my kids the rules and I say, “God says you should do X, Y, and Z,” I&#8217;m not just saying, “God says you should do X, Y, and Z because I read the Bible this morning.” I&#8217;m saying that God says, “Do X, Y, and Z because I have a transmitted history of cultural utility that is thousands of years long, and these rules have worked over the course of thousands of years, and I&#8217;m transmitting them to you.”
The proof of the godliness of the rules on a utilitarian level is that they work. The rules are useful; thus, it&#8217;s good proof that if God said them, He was right. And even on a utilitarian level, even if God didn&#8217;t say them, they would still be right.
But as religion has declined, as people are afraid, as parents fear inculcating values in their kids, a problem arises.
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There are some critiques that are made of classical liberalism along these lines, and those critiques are somewhat well-founded. There are conservatives who say the problem with classical liberalism — which suggests freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and so on — is that they can quickly lead to moral relativism if there is no centralizing, coherent set of values we all share.
That&#8217;s true. Liberalism can lead to moral relativism. The idea to “let a thousand flowers bloom” is fine as long as the flowers are within a certain set of parameters. To say all views are equivalent and thus liberalism is important, is wrong. Not all views are the same, and not all views are good. There are certainly very many bad views.
The rationale for liberalism is to restrict tyrants. Liberalism is a response to people who would shut down valuable speech.
But the roots of classical liberalism lie in a shared tradition of virtue. That&#8217;s true for any set of freedoms. Any set of freedoms has to exist within a set of broader rules.
Think about any game that you play. If you&#8217;re playing chess, you have the freedom to make any move that is within the rules on the board. If you just upturn the chessboard, that is no longer liberalism; you have taken the freedoms and extended them into a realm that defeats and destroys the freedoms.
There should be a shared set of rules and parameters in order for any of this to be upheld. What has happened in our culture is that religion and religious values, Judeo-Christian biblical values, used to be the shared basis for our culture, and then we could share a lot of freedom within those broad parameters. But as people have changed Judeo-Christian values, as fewer people go to a church or synagogue that actually teaches the Bible — some synagogues and churches are teaching the church of Karl Marx or the Church of John Dewey or the Church of FDR or the Church of Barack Obama or the Church of Joe Biden — religion has declined. As that happens, you let in the crazies, because once there&#8217;s no shared set of parameters, then any conspiracy theory at all gets through the door.
The only reason conspiracy theories end up getting a lot of traction is due to institutional distrust. Such institutional distrust has certainly been earned by, for example, the legacy media or the scientific community, which promote absolute lies on a fairly regular basis because they have a set of values and narratives that override the facts, such as the entire scientific community declaring that boys can be girls and girls can be boys. As this occurs, obviously institutional distrust is going to set in.
The converse of that is people who aren&#8217;t going to trust anything the government has to say when it is incompetent at so many tasks and also involves itself in your life in a myriad of ways. They have institutional distrust for the government and anything the government says they are not going to believe.
The major check on this used to be godly values. It used to be church. It used to be going out and touching grass, being with some real people, and discussing what&#8217;s rational and true. But as sources of truth and values decline, what fills the gap is a necessity to explain the world around you.
People have always wanted to explain the world around them, and they have historically had many tools to do so. One of those tools, the most important tool, was biblical religion in the West — the idea there is a God who stands above the creation of the universe, and there is a logic to His universe, and there is a set of moral rules that provide guidance for navigating through that universe. That is the basic religious principle of all biblical living.
But as that declines, people see a disconnected set of events so they immediately search for some sort of explanation for that disconnection.
This is why conspiracy theories thrive; when institutional trust declines and when biblical values — which offer an ultimate explanation for everything — decline, there&#8217;s nothing to fill the gap except for constant conspiratorialism.
That’s why there is this new push to explain everything through conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy because the world’s a puzzling place and people need an explanation. And the easy explanation is to make one up in your own head about how there is a group of people in a back room somewhere who are manipulating all the systems.
It can&#8217;t just be that life is totally chaotic and that there are a lot of people who are morons out there doing stupid things. It can&#8217;t be that. It has to be that there is actually something deep and nefarious going on.
And it&#8217;s every single story.
When a bridge collapses in Baltimore, the Left makes the claim it has something to do with dirty fuel and the Right makes the claim it has something to do with DEI.
I don&#8217;t know because I don&#8217;t know the facts yet. The facts are still coming out. But when the facts come out, we&#8217;ll know exactly why that happened.
Then weird conspiracy theories about Princess Kate surface when she goes missing. Yet it&#8217;s fairly obvious when a rather prominent person goes missing, it&#8217;s probably a health problem. But instead, there are just tons of conspiracy theories on all sides of the aisle.
And then when Princess Kate says she is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, a new slate of conspiracy theories arises. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/27/kate-middleton-video-cancer-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to the Washington Post, “Users on TikTok, X and Facebook shared videos pointing out alleged AI breadcrumbs, such as a ring disappearing and reappearing on Catherine’s hand. Others said her hair moves unnaturally, or that the bed of daffodils in the background is suspiciously still.”
The tendency of our society right now to buy into nearly every conspiracy theory and give them all a hearing without just saying, “Nope, that sounds stupid,” is a reflection of the complete decentralization of values — because now, you&#8217;ll be willing to hear pretty much anything.
“Is the CIA behind everything that you see and hear? Is it possible that the moon landing never happened?” These kinds of conspiracy theories are arising because of the vacuum of values. That vacuum of values is almost solely due to the decline of religion.
The decline of religious life in America is the single worst thing that&#8217;s happened to the United States since about 1950. It continues apace today. Yet all the secular institutions that were supposed to fill that gap have failed because, of course, they were always going to fail; no secular rationale can fill the explanation God plays in our lives.
So you end up with a bunch of fools running around suggesting their own supposedly plausible explanation for what is happening.
This is why the ultimate explanation, the most self-serving conspiracy theory of all and the one that has arisen on all sides of the political aisle, is a sense of victimization.
When you feel the world around you is chaotic and confused and discombobulated, when you feel like a victim, and then you look for an explanation as to why your failures are not your own fault, it must be because there’s someone who&#8217;s stopping you from succeeding.
And the hardest thing to understand in the world when you are failing is that perhaps it is your fault. Maybe you do need to change what you&#8217;re doing in your life. This is true for 90% of human problems, at least in a free West. There are certainly places in the world where tyranny abides, but that is not true in the United States of America.
Politicians always have a stake in engaging in a conspiracy theory because the beauty of being engaged in one is that the prophet is the person who promulgates it.
The person who promulgates the conspiracy theory is the person you&#8217;re supposed to listen to because they will guide you forward, they will help you, and they will alleviate all your problems. If you just give them enough power, they will fight it. They will destroy the Matrix. They will destroy all of what you&#8217;re seeing, and they will lead you free. It&#8217;ll be like Plato&#8217;s cave. They&#8217;ll come back from outside the cave, and they will lead you back toward the light.
But they never lead you toward the light because every failure can now be attributed to that same conspiracy. If they fail to lead you, if you buy into their conspiracy theory, and if you give them power and your life still does not get better, they just say it&#8217;s because the conspiracy is so damned powerful. There&#8217;s no way they can overcome it.
This is the danger of conspiratorial thinking, and it is filling up every cup that has been left empty by God, religion, and community. It&#8217;s filling up all the political cups right now.
It&#8217;s extremely dangerous.
The Left-wing brand is, of course, what Joe Biden is doing by suggesting that the system is rigged against a wide variety of people. But it&#8217;s also happening on the Right, where the suggestion is — without evidence in many cases — that the system is rigged.
Here&#8217;s the thing: There are situations in the United States where the system is rigged, but you can tell what they are — not because someone posited a conspiracy theory without any evidence whatsoever, just spitting out dumb conspiracy theories — but because people say it and they do it.
It is not a conspiracy theory, for example, to suggest that Asians are being discriminated against on college campuses. How do you know it? Because you can see it in the statistics, recruitment materials, documentation, and at all of the major colleges. That&#8217;s not a conspiracy theory.
What America needs to get back to normal is the same thing it always needed: church, community, and a fact-based, rational approach to politics. That&#8217;s all people need.
Maybe they don&#8217;t want it. Maybe it&#8217;s too easy in this day and age to jump immediately to some sort of narrative that explains why you&#8217;re a victim of the society in which you live in the freest, most prosperous society in the history of humanity.
But that&#8217;s not going to lead to a happy life.

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses After Being Struck By Cargo Ship

Conspiracy Theories And Returning To Normal

Baltimore

Ben Shapiro

Christianity

Conspiracy Theory

Francis Scott Key Bridge

Jewish

Judeo-Christian Values

Readers Pass

We were right when we said Trump’s Russian collusion was a hoax, but they called that a conspiracy theory. 
We were right when we said COVID came from a Chinese lab, but they called that a conspiracy theory. 
We were right when we said Hunter’s incriminating laptop was real, and they called that a conspiracy theory. 
Now they’re trying to convince us it’s a conspiracy theory that Taylor Swift is a CIA agent trained to create a green screen psyop that looked like a successful music tour so she could then pretend to fall in love with Pfizer plant Travis Kelce while he disguised himself as a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs whom the deep state has constructed to win a make-believe Super Bowl choreographed by the same George Soros team that faked the World Trade Center attacks using the very crisis actors who pretended to land on the moon so that Taylor Swift could then endorse Joe Biden for re-election and the Democrat party could plausibly flood the polls with android Swiftie voters and steal yet another election from Donald Trump.
You can fool us once, my friend, but try to fool us a second time and we’ll start babbling gibberish and sticking our heads so far up our own asses we’ll be able to fart through our ears.
Clearly, Biden has found the key to winning back the voters. Yes, he&#8217;s in such a late stage of dementia his eyeballs roll around because even he can’t believe the unintelligible nonsense coming out of his mouth. He’s crammed our cities with unidentifiable illegal migrants, any hundred of whom could turn out to be terrorists. He’s encouraged tyrants to spread war throughout the world by his weakness and stupidity. But none of that matters, because he’s tweeting about Elmo, and who doesn’t love that ticklish little furball?
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And I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Oh, Klavan, you spritzing soda siphon of satiric silliness, where did you come up with the imaginative originality that allowed you to conceive of a president so idiotic he thought he could cheer up the country he’s demolishing by quoting a plush toy?
But no! I&#8217;m not making this up. With our soldiers being murdered and our border being invaded and with one war after another spinning out of control, Biden posted on X [and so help me I did not make up a single word of this] “I know how hard it is some days to sweep the clouds away and get to sunnier days. Our friend Elmo is right: We have to be there for each other.”
Don’t you feel better now? I know I do. Every time I start to despair about our crumbling nation, I hear that furry little red guy’s high-pitched giggle, and I think to myself, well, at least the president is too demented to know what’s happening so there’s still one person in the country who’s not depressed. If all the Americans who love Taylor Swift and all the Americans who love Sesame Street can just get together, we’ll soon be holding hands and singing the alphabet while sleeping with a seemingly endless series of gigolos. Either that or we’ll be singing about sleeping with gigolos while sitting with children who tickle us in order to hear us make that stupid giggling noise until you just want to remove the batteries while the child is in the bathroom and then gently explain to her when she comes out that Elmo won’t be giggling anymore because he’s gone to a better place.
In conclusion, with the West on the brink of destruction and World War III about to start, it’s time to stop messing around with nonsense like endorsements by pop stars and puppets, and turn to the serious business of making sure gay pornography is available to kindergartners. Otherwise, people are going to begin to get the idea that America is not a serious country.
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Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1166-taylor-swift-loves-president-elmo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour – Sao Paulo, Brazil

Is Taylor Swift A Psyop?

Andrew Klavan

Joe Biden

Satire

Sesame Street

Taylor Swift

Throughout my career, it’s become increasingly difficult to follow all the various things I get accused of being. Depending on what hour of the day it is, I may either be in the Illuminati or a Satanist. I’ve been accused of being tied to George Soros, in cahoots with Klaus Schwab, and connected to the World Economic Forum. I can’t even keep up with it all myself. There are people in this world — people even on the conservative side — who believe this nonsense. The problem with this is far bigger than there being false rumors circulating about me. The real problem is, people’s minds have been so bent, they distrust everything and everyone, and this mentality is hurting our cause.
For the record, I do not like George Soros. I believe he is an incredibly evil man. I have dedicated hours to trying to expose the ways in which he is using his money to corrupt the West. I believe he has an allegiance to the East, and I have questions about his childhood. His media arm has done numerous hit pieces on me from the very first time I appeared on the scene and they continue to do so, attempting to get me cancelled. Despite all these efforts, some people still believe I am somehow tied to George Soros. I was tagged in a picture with one of my best friends whose last name is Schwab, and I was immediately connected to Klaus Schwab — because, obviously, every person on the planet who has the last name Schwab must be related to Klaus Schwab. And because I was connected to Klaus Schwab, I was also related to the World Economic Forum and then also connected to George Soros.
Being accused of having a connection to Soros via the World Economic Forum via Schwab via my friend is not the first weird allegation that’s been made about me. Once, when I was filming my show with a studio audience, I paused in thought, looking to my left and folding my hands.
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I often look to the side when I’m thinking, and I’m very Talladega Nights, in the sense that I don’t know what to do with my hands. (But that, of course, would be too reasonable of a reason for that pose.) Someone grabbed a screenshot, and this image has been shared all over. According to this Tweet, what it actually means is that I’m a freemason deceiver shill, etc. 

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Clearly, I’m not vaccinated. I am very passionately against vaccines. I have an entire series dedicated to showing people vaccines have always been a scam for children. So getting pizza without a vaccine? Challenge accepted. We got someone to get us a whole pizza, and I took a picture to brag about managing to pull that off. Then suddenly the comments on Instagram had me somehow tied in with Pizzagate and the Clintons and then George Soros. Me. Candace Owens. I couldn’t even eat a slice of pizza trying to be funny to show how I skirted the law in New York City without people associating me with children being abused.
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What is happening now is that people who are on our side are no longer able to even see straight. And I understand the distrust. We have been lied to over and over again. There are huge questions that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-medias-cover-up-of-barack-obamas-alleged-illicit-gay-affairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have not been answered</a>. But when people are only promoting the worst evils for every single person, that is not helping our cause. It’s hurting it. As an example, I do not support Ron DeSantis being the next president of the United States. I think he is a great governor, but I also think he’s fake and has too much donor money. But what I say about him has nothing to do with whether I like him or not. Yet now, people seem to think if they don’t like someone, they’re being fraudulent so they need to smear them.
Vivek Ramaswamy is facing this right now because, years ago, a scholarship he was awarded to go to law school came from Soros. But context matters — if you care about the truth — and he has <a href="https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/vivek-ramaswamy-slams-3-lies-presidential-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained this in great detail</a>. I applied for every single scholarship I could get my hands on. When my guidance counselor said scholarships would reduce costs, I applied, I wrote essays, and I had no idea where the scholarship money was coming from. My family couldn’t afford to put me through college, and I was trying to get money any way I could. Wise students try to get as much money as possible. It doesn’t make them fundamentally dishonest human beings who don’t deserve to be in the discourse of politics, as some have labeled Ramaswamy.
You don’t have to like Ramaswamy, Trump, DeSantis, or even me. But we all need to be meaningful and sincere in our critiques. Can we at least be honest? Can we be real? If I get attacked, people should at least know that a girl who came from absolutely nothing wouldn’t be in the Illuminati because the truth is, she just doesn’t know what to do with her hands when she’s thinking. People have moved from the red pill to the black pill and are no longer able to process reality whatsoever. They believe that everything and everyone is corrupt. Everything is a conspiracy theory. But we must be realistic.
The Left watches the media and believes it to be reality and can’t think on their own. In the same way we say the Left is demented because they believe absolutely everything, we have a small segment on the Right that is becoming equally as demented because they believe absolutely nothing. It’s opposite sides of the same coin.
The black pill is becoming dangerous. And we need to get real. Otherwise, we are just hurting our movement, our cause, and ourselves.
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The Illuminati, Pizzagate, Schwab, And Soros: Are The Rumors About Me True?

Candace Owens

George Soros

Klaus Schwab

Pizzagate

World Economic Forum

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cia">CIA</a> documents indicate Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in a secret intelligence operation roughly three months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, an investigator claimed this week.
Jefferson Morley, a journalist and author, made the assertion during a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, less than two weeks before President Joe Biden&#8217;s December 15 deadline to release still-classified records related to the assassination.
“What the CIA is hiding is what they’ve always hidden, which is their sources and methods as they relate to Lee Harvey Oswald,” Morley said at the National Press Club, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jfk-assassination-lee-harvey-oswald-jefferson-morley-b2239997.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Independent</a>. “We’re talking about smoking-gun proof of a CIA operation involving Lee Harvey Oswald,&#8221; he added, asserting that it took place in the summer of 1963.
Kennedy was assassinated at the age of 46 on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Soon after, Oswald, a former Marine and onetime defector to the Soviet Union, was arrested and charged with the killings of Kennedy and Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit.
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Although Oswald denied killing Kennedy and claimed he was a &#8220;patsy,&#8221; he was never tried — Oswald was shot dead at the age of 24 on national television at the Dallas Police headquarters by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
The federal government has long claimed Oswald acted alone and was not tied to the CIA, but Morley says he and attorneys with the Mary Ferrell Foundation have received documents, via a lawsuit, that suggest the agency used Oswald for intelligence purposes in a secret operation approved by top CIA brass in the months leading up to the JFK assassination, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/new-documents-shed-light-cias-connection-lee-harvey-oswald-1765105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek reported</a>.
&#8220;This is an extraordinarily serious claim, and it has profound implications for the official story,&#8221; Morley said. &#8220;The CIA knew far more about the lone gunman than then they are admitting even today. So this story deserves the closest possible scrutiny.&#8221;
When Oswald returned the to the United States after his defection to the Soviet Union, he reportedly advocated on behalf of Castro and his communist regime at a time when Kennedy sought to oust the dictator during the height of the Cold War. Still-secret documents in the file of now-dead CIA agent George Joannides, who is known to have infiltrated pro-Cuban groups, could provide proof of an operation designed to discredit U.S. supporters of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Morley said, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jfk-assassination-lee-harvey-oswald-jefferson-morley-b2239997.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per the Independent</a>.
Morley is the vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, which in October sued Biden and the National Archives, <a href="https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/JFK_Records_Lawsuit.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusing the government</a> of failing to implement the 1992 JFK Records Act, even though tens of thousands of documents <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have already been released</a>.
Last fall, Biden ordered a delay in the planned release of all remaining JFK files, but allowed for an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/15/biden-administration-releases-previously-classified-jfk-assassination-files/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interim release in December 2021</a>, and set a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/10/22/memorandum-for-the-heads-of-executive-departments-and-agencies-on-the-temporary-certification-regarding-disclosure-of-information-in-certain-records-related-to-the-assassination-of-president-john-f-k/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 15, 2022, deadline for full disclosure</a> following a redactions process.

Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald Tied To CIA Before JFK Assassination, Investigator Claims

assassination

General

John F. Kennedy (JFK)

U.S.

The following speech was delivered at the University of Kentucky on Tuesday, November 1, 2022
When liberals are not calling conservatives “racists” and fascists and terrorists, they call us nuts and kooks and “conspiracy theorists,&#8221; which does not really mean anything but is nonetheless an effective slur. After “racist,” “conspiracy theorist” is probably the worst thing one can be called in our society. The moment one is labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” about everything he has to say ceases to be taken seriously — by the Left, certainly, but even by many in the center and on the Right. Yet, easy as it is to destroy someone with accusations of “conspiracy theorism”— the same as with accusations of “racism”— it is much easier to ruin someone’s reputation by calling him a conspiracy theorist than it is to define precisely what a “conspiracy theory” is.
A number of “conspiracy theories” have cropped up over the past few years regarding COVID. For instance, in the early days of COVID, there was the “conspiracy theory” that COVID most likely originated in a Chinese laboratory rather than in nature or in a bad bowl of bat soup. The established scientific and political authorities — Dr. Fauci at NIH, Rochelle Walensky at the CDC, Joe Biden at the White House, and many other, including the entire establishment media — all denounced this theory as crazy, absurd, scientifically impossible. Then, after a year and a half of denouncing it, when the evidence in support of it became undeniable, they quietly admitted it was true.
Once the authorities admitted that the virus likely came from the Chinese lab, another “conspiracy theory” cropped up: that is, the theory that the United States had actually funded the sort of research associated with viruses like COVID-19 at the very laboratory that likely leaked the virus. This “conspiracy theory” outraged the authorities. Not only did all of the supposedly serious, credible, scientific people in lab coats denounce this theory, but Dr. Fauci himself denied it under penalty of perjury before the U.S. Senate. But then a Freedom of Information Act request produced the receipts showing that the U.S. had in fact funded the risky research on bat coronaviruses with specific subgrants for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Who signed off on the funding? Dr. Fauci himself.
After that crazy COVID “conspiracy theory” turned out to be true, another one emerged: the crazy conspiracy theory that the COVID vaccines were neither totally safe nor particularly effective.
From the moment the vaccines became available to the public, the established authorities all insisted that they were safe and totally effective. Biden, Fauci, and Walensky all promised that the shots would prevent both infection and transmission of the virus. Biden promised, “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” Fauci assured us, “When people are vaccinated, they can feel safe that they are not going to get infected.” Walensky insisted, “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, do not get sick.” On the one side you had just about every established authority; on the other side, you had the “conspiracy theorists.” On both questions, the “conspiracy theorists” were entirely correct.
The authorities told us the vaccines were totally safe. They told us that reports of vaccine injuries were nothing but a crazy conspiracy theory. Then people starting coming down with blood clots, myocarditis, changes to women’s menstrual cycles. That last one, we were told by public health propagandists, was “scientifically impossible.” Then the so-called “conspiracy theory” turned out to be true and, according to recent studies, fairly widespread.
We could go on about the vindication of COVID “conspiracy theories” all night. We’ve barely scratched the surface. And that’s just COVID. That’s just one part of one example from just the past few years. But there are so many others. How about the conspiracy theory that Democrats rigged the 2020 election? Do you remember that crazy conspiracy theory: the notion that Democrats changed all the election rules, in some cases illegally, to disadvantage Trump and the Republicans in the leadup to the 2020 election? That, we were told, was the delusional thinking of tinfoil hat-clad lunatics. And then the liberals themselves admitted that they had done it. On February 4, 2021, when TIME magazine published a detailed account of the rigging, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election”:
<blockquote>In a way, Trump was right. […] There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. […] The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign…. […] Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks….</blockquote>
It’s right there, in black and white: not just a “conspiracy theory” but a confession…of a conspiracy. I suspect many people in this room could recite a litany of famous conspiracy theories that turned out to be true right off the top of their heads.
The Tuskegee experiments: starting in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service conspired with the Tuskegee Institute to create a fake medical program. The program purported to treat syphilis but instead administered dangerous chemicals and procedures to some 400 black male participants. Only in the ‘70s did the government cop to the conspiracy and pay out $10 million plus lifetime health benefits to the men it exploited.
How about the Nayirah testimony? In 1990, a 15-year-old girl using the pseudonym Nayirah testified before Congress that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi soldiers had taken Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and watched them die on the floor. This testimony was cited countless times by the Bush White House to justify American involvement in the Gulf War. Until it turned out that the story was completely made up. And not only was the story made up, but it was made up by a PR firm that worked with the Bush White House, and very likely it was made up in coordination with the White House itself.
How about the gay frogs? The gay frogs are my favorite “conspiracy theory” that turned out to be true. When Alex Jones claimed on his show that “they” were “turning the frickin’ frogs gay,” everyone made fun of him. But he was right. Regardless of anything else Alex Jones has ever said, they really were turning the frickin’ frogs gay. Actually, they were turning the frogs trans. A team out of Yale analyzed 21 ponds in suburban Connecticut and discovered that estrogenic waste in the water was turning them hermaphroditic. Not only was Jones’s “conspiracy theory” true; it did not go far enough.
Of course, any proper list of conspiracy theories that turned out to be true must necessarily include many mentions of the CIA. The CIA would not be doing its job if it weren’t well represented on such a list.
Beyond the usual fare of assassinating undesirable world leaders and covering it up, there are a number of conspiracies that took place on domestic soil as well. There was MK Ultra, the conspiracy of the CIA to ply unwitting Americans and Canadians with LSD and then to pay off hospitals, prisons, and universities to keep quiet about it. That conspiracy was not discovered until 1975, two years after CIA director Richard Helms ordered that all of the documents relating to the program be destroyed, though some 20,000 documents managed to survive.
There was Operation Mockingbird: the effective CIA campaign to control the messaging coming out of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS, and lots of other news outlets — relatively run-of-the-mill stuff. And then there was some less run-of-the-mill conspiracies, such as Operation Northwoods: a 1962 CIA proposal to launch a false flag attack on American military and civilian targets, blame it on Fidel Castro, and then channel the ensuing public outrage to justify war against Cuba. That particular conspiracy never went into effect — the Kennedy administration rejected it — but the Top Secret document outlining the proposal was declassified in 1997 and is available in plain English for anyone to read. Operation Northwoods is about as crazy a conspiracy theory as one could possibly come up; and yet it happens to be true.
Putting aside the CIA for a moment, we learned just yesterday about a new sort of Operation Mockingbird, this time out of the Department of Homeland Security. According to reporting from The Intercept, in the leadup to the 2020 election, Big Tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and others met on a monthly basis with the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and other government representatives. These meetings did not just concern tech security threats such as hacking; they concerned supposed “disinformation.” And by “disinformation,” I of course mean true information that damaged Democrats’ electoral prospects. Twitter and Facebook had direct portals for the government to request that inconvenient posts be censored as “disinformation.” According to documents filed in federal court in a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, two FBI agents — Elvis Chan and Laura Dehmlow — were involved in high-level communication with tech executives that “led to Facebook’s suppression” of the Hunter Biden laptop story. The Hunter Biden laptop story, suppressed by all the Big Tech platforms, which according to post-election polls singlehandedly could have swung the election to Trump.
It was a conspiracy, plain and simple. So if one observes these plain historical facts, does that make one a “conspiracy theorist”? I suppose it does: one is putting forward a theory about a conspiracy. But in the case of all the examples I just cited and countless others on top of that, one would be theorizing about conspiracies that indisputably occurred. When a conspiracy theory is demonstrably true, who could deny it? Only a fool, or a liar, or a coward. And I suspect it is the latter category that best describes most people in whom the phrase “conspiracy theory” still inspires fear and dread.
The sort of people who knew from the beginning that the official story on COVID’s origins didn’t really make a lot of sense. The people who suspected that the vaccines were probably not quite as safe and effective as we were told that they were. The people who sense intuitively that there were some serious structural shenanigans during the 2020 election — widespread mail-in ballots in contravention of the Pennsylvania state constitution, for instance. People who suspect all of those things but don’t dare raise the suggestion because they fear for their social media accounts or their jobs or just their social standing, which depends upon going along to get along. People who understand that the true function of the label “conspiracy theorist” is not to separate truth from fantasy but rather simply to get dissidents to shut up.
When did this fear of “conspiracy theorizing” begin? Not all that long ago, it turns out. A Google Ngram search reveals that the term “conspiracy theory” appeared pretty much nowhere in English literature until the mid-1930s, and it only really took off after 1950. The term “conspiracy theorist” is of an even more recent vintage, appearing basically nowhere until the mid-1960s and taking off only after 1990. 
I mentioned earlier that the term “conspiracy theorist” fulfills a similar function to the word “racist” — that is, it’s an accusation that, when successfully applied, completely destroys a man’s reputation in the public square. It’s a label that means little more than “this person is delusional, and you should not take anything he says seriously.” 
The word “racist” follows almost exactly the same pattern of usage. “Racism” and “racist” appeared basically nowhere in English until the mid-1930s, and they became popular only after 1950. In other words, these two terms of abuse — these linguistic weapons — only came into fashion during the era of the postwar liberal consensus, and during that entire time they have been used almost exclusively to attack conservatives.
Liberals have a much worse record on race, a much more perverse view of race, than conservatives do. Doesn’t matter. The stench of “racism” only ever sticks to the Right. Biden says Barack Obama is the first clean articulate black man in American politics — doesn’t matter. Democrats found and run the KKK for the entirety of its existence as an organization — doesn’t matter. But if a conservative criticizes George Soros, the single most prominent and prolific funder of far-left causes in the world, that conservative will instantly be labeled an anti-semite; if a conservative criticizes Barack Obama, he will instantly be called a “racist.” 
Same goes for “conspiracy theories.” Think of the absurd narratives that the mainstream liberal establishment has tried to sell to us in recent years. They told us for years on end that Donald Trump was a secret Russian asset because Vladimir Putin had a videotape of him urinating on prostitutes in Moscow. They repeated this ad nauseum on all of the most mainstream left-wing news outlets for years. Never mind that Trump was the most hardline president on Russia in my lifetime. Only president since Vladimir Putin’s rise to power on whose watch Putin did not invade a sovereign nation. Never mind that they could never produce even one shred of evidence. They just peddled that conspiracy theory for years and then, when it completely fell apart during the Mueller investigation, just moved on as if nothing had happened.
And yet the Left still has the audacity to accuse the Right increasingly of embracing conspiracy theories. Perhaps we are. But if there is a rise in “conspiracy theorizing” on the Right, it is not due to any defect in the rational faculties of conservatives; it is due to a rise in actual conspiracies on the Left. “Conspiracy theories” flourish when people lose trust in their political institutions, as we are seeing today. But the collapsing credibility of our institutions is not the fault of conservatives; it’s the fault of the liberals who have controlled those institutions for decades and run them into the ground. To be a “conspiracy theorist” during times of political order and transparency is kooky and ridiculous; but to be a conspiracy theorist during times of profuse conspiracy is rational and prudent. In an age such as ours, the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is often not the difference between delusion and fantasy. As our liberal ruling class has shown so clearly over the past few years, in an age such as ours, the real difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is usually about three to six months. Thank you very much.

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The Difference Between A ‘Conspiracy Theory’ And The Truth

Michael Knowles

Politics

Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/michael-j-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> spoke at the University of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kentucky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kentucky</a> Tuesday night, delving into the world of “conspiracy theories,” or at least what the Left deems them to be.
Knowles’ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVVDWlrQDCI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a>, hosted by the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), highlighted how the Left and legacy media call conservatives wacky conspiracy theorists for opinions that many times turn out to be true. In the speech, Knowles gave examples of how he believes the legacy media and institutional elites use the negative term to silence views that oppose their narrative.
“After ‘racist,’ ‘conspiracy theorist’ is probably the single worst thing that you can be called in our society,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;The minute you get labeled a conspiracy theorist, pretty much everything that you have to say ceases to be taken seriously.”
The Daily Wire host then went into how so-called conspiracy theories during the early days of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> pandemic turned out to have some truth. Knowles mentioned that COVID originating in a Chinese lab in Wuhan was quickly dismissed as a ridiculous idea by the experts on the pandemic and the establishment media, but then months later, the experts admitted that the virus most likely came from the Wuhan lab. U.S. health experts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scientists-believed-coronavirus-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-but-top-u-s-official-warned-against-debate-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> did not want the lab leak theory to be discussed by the media so as not to harm “international harmony.”
Knowles gave more examples of conspiracy theories that have appeared to come true regarding gain-of-function research, COVID vaccines, “structural shenanigans in the 2020 election,” and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-tech-worked-closely-with-the-fbi-and-dhs-to-police-disinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Big Tech censorship</a> at the will of the federal government. The conservative talk show host also reminded his audience how the legacy media peddled the Trump-Russia conspiracy following the 2016 election, but just moved on after the theory <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clinton-campaign-just-made-stuff-up-about-trump-russia-former-fbi-intel-chief-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">couldn&#8217;t be proven</a>.
“The true function of the label ‘conspiracy theorist’ is not to separate truth from fantasy, but rather to simply get dissidents to shut up,” the host of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Michael Knowles Show</a>” commented, adding that the Left’s accusations of “conspiracy theorist” often “destroys a man’s label in the public square.”
“In an age such as ours, the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is often not the difference between delusion and reality,” Knowles concluded. “As our liberal ruling class has shown so clearly over the past few years, in an age such as ours, the real difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about three to six months.”

Michael Knowles Talks Conspiracy Theories In College Speech, How The Left Uses Label To ‘Get Dissidents To Shut Up’

Michael Knowles Talks Conspiracy Theories In College Speech

COVID

Kentucky

Leftism

Legacy Media

New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, who dismissed criticism of bail reform by insisting to GOP gubernatorial opponent Lee Zeldin, “I don&#8217;t know why that&#8217;s so important to you,” said on Sunday that the GOP had created a “conspiracy” to make Americans feel they are less safe.
Hochul made her remarks when she was <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/31/hochul-says-republican-crime-concerns-are-a-conspiracy/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> by MSNBC’s Al Sharpton.
“These are master manipulators,” she charged. “They have this conspiracy going all across America trying to convince people in Democratic states that they’re not as safe. Well guess what? They’re also not only election deniers, they’re data deniers. The data shows that shootings and murders are down in our state by 15% even in New York City, down 20% on Long Island where Lee Zeldin comes from, and it’s the Republican states, where they have almost no restrictions on guns, because of the abundance of guns people are killing each other with more frequency. The safer places are the Democratic states,” she claimed.
“Murders were down by 14% in New York City compared with last year, but all other major crimes <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/04/bad-guns-run-amok-as-summer-crime-surges-in-nyc/">were up</a> — including a 33% rise in robberies, police <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-city.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statistics</a> show,” The New York Post noted.
Those statistics also showed an 11% increase in rape, a 14% increase in felonious assault, a 29% increase in burglary, and a nearly 39% increase in grand larceny.
Last week, Zeldin focused on bail reform in the state as he consistently attacked Hochul for supporting it.
Early in the debate, Zeldin attacked Hochul’s erstwhile support for cashless bail, saying, “Kathy Hochul supports cashless bail; as soon as it got implemented she was out bragging about it. She chose the champion of the Defund the Police movement and the architect of cashless bail, Brian Benjamin — yeah, that guy who got arrested and had to resign — that was her first big decision to make as lieutenant governor. We need to repeal cashless bail. &#8230; We need to make our streets safe again. I’m running to take back our streets and to support unapologetically our men and women in law enforcement.”
New York passed a major bail reform law in 2019 which barred cash bail unless there were a serious misdemeanor or felony. Defendants could not be held by judges based on whether the judge thought the defendant was dangerous. That law was reformed after public outcry in both 2020 and 2022.
Hochul had <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/24/new-york-democrats-bail-reform-00052207" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “We never said that the cause of crime in the state is because of bail reform. That is too simplistic. That is a political slogan.”
The NYPD <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p00056/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-july-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in August compared to July 2021, July 2022 found citywide shooting incidents had increased 13.4% and the number of murders citywide increased for the month by 34.3%.
That same month, Hochul <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2022/08/08/hochul-defends-bail-reform-as-zeldin-challenges-her-on-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “I will look at all the data. I’ve yet to see data that shows a correlation with a net increase in crime and the bail laws. Because it doesn’t exist in any other city.”
Later, Hochul mocked Zeldin for his focus on bail reform.
Zeldin prompted Hochul’s cavalier answer by declaring,  “I stated that the first day that I’m in office, I’m going to declare a crime emergency and suspend cashless bail and these other criminal laws because there is a crime emergency. My opponent thinks that right now, there’s a polio emergency going on but there’s not a crime emergency — different priorities that I’m hearing from people right now that are not being represented, from this governor who still to this moment, what are we, halfway through this debate? She still hasn’t talked about locking up anyone committing any crimes.”
“Anyone who commits a crime under our laws, especially with the change we made to bail, has consequences. I don&#8217;t know why that&#8217;s so important to you,” Hochul replied.
RELATED: <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/zeldin-attacks-hochul-for-supporting-cashless-bail/">Zeldin Attacks Hochul For Supporting Cashless Bail</a>

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Hochul Says GOP Has ‘Conspiracy’ To Make Americans Feel Unsafe

Hochul Says GOP Has 'Conspiracy' To Make Americans Feel Unsafe

Crime

Kathy Hochul

Lee Zeldin

New York

Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alexandria-ocasio-cortez">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) claimed Wednesday evening that U.S. Capitol Police officers or other actors working inside the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/us-capitol">Capitol building</a> assisted protesters during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot">January 6 riot</a> as they breached the facility in an effort to stop the certification of the Electoral College vote.
The congresswoman also said that, because the issue is unresolved, she has &#8220;never felt safe&#8221; at the Capitol. Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s remarks came just hours after a comedian crudely trolled her while she was entering the building.
In a video posted by Pablo Manríquez, a correspondent for Latino Rebels, AOC is heard sounding off to the camera, &#8220;&#8230;And that there were actual officers working with this? And we never got to the bottom of that, and we never got any answers about that? And to this day, we&#8217;re just supposed to pretend that that never happened? I have no idea what happened to the people on the inside, who were very clearly sympathetic with what was going on and opening doors wide open for that, and I&#8217;m supposed to sit here and pretend like none of that ever happened?&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@aoc</a> tells me she&#39;s never felt safe in the Capitol, citing reports of police and members of Congress working with insurrectionists on January 6th. Here&#39;s the video: <a href="https://t.co/9rxABsUI3L">pic.twitter.com/9rxABsUI3L</a>
&mdash; Pablo Manríquez (@PabloReports) <a href="https://twitter.com/PabloReports/status/1547414088363511808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Since January 6, 2021, reports have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/officers-calmly-posed-for-selfies-and-appeared-to-open-gates-for-protesters-during-the-madness-of-the-capitol-building-insurrection/articleshow/80165694.cms">surfaced</a> claiming that officers, in some instances, stood by as Trump-supporting protesters entered the Capitol — though the context for the reports is often unclear. At least one law enforcement officer <a href="https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520">allegedly</a> posed for a selfie with a protester inside the Capitol.
AOC went on to argue that officers who allegedly helped the protesters must be held &#8220;accountable&#8221; and that simply throwing taxpayer dollars at the issue would not improve the situation — thus continuing to place employees in the Capitol building at risk.
&#8220;And then right afterward, you have a massive, you know, you just have this idea that throwing money at that problem is going to make it go away without any accountability,&#8221; she said to the camera. &#8220;And so this is, this is where these things are breaking down. We&#8217;re not safe. And it&#8217;s not just about members of Congress not being safe. The food staff workers aren&#8217;t safe. the janitors aren&#8217;t safe — like we need to get to the bottom of this.&#8221;
The congresswoman also tweeted, &#8220;Remember how there was tons of footage and evidence of officers &amp; others inside on 1/6 supporting insurrectionists, but then everyone decided it was too politically risky to investigate thoroughly so they brushed under the rug and now we still have no idea who or what is safe?&#8221;
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Remember how there was tons of footage and evidence of officers &amp; others inside on 1/6 supporting insurrectionists, but then everyone decided it was too politically risky to investigate thoroughly so they brushed under the rug and now we still have no idea who or what is safe? <a href="https://t.co/eL8BZaANha">https://t.co/eL8BZaANha</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1547426024316616705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In reaction to AOC&#8217;s remarks, former advisor to the Trump campaign, Steve Cortes, tweeted, &#8220;Wait, so AOC says Capitol Police did, in fact, invite protestors into the building? One way to get to resolve all such issues? Release the tapes. All of them.&#8221;
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Wait, so AOC says Capitol Police did, in fact, invite protestors into the building?
One way to get to resolve all such issues? Release the tapes. All of them. <a href="https://t.co/3KNZab2HwG">pic.twitter.com/3KNZab2HwG</a>
&mdash; Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1547573569139314688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Activists on both sides have called for the January 6 Committee investigating the riot to release the thousands of hours of security footage from inside and surrounding the building to help clarify what exactly happened.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC

AOC Claims ‘Inside’ Government Actors Helped January 6 Protesters, Building Is Still Unsafe

Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says 'Inside' Government Actors Helped January 6 Protesters In Twitter Video

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Capitol Hill

Capitol Riot

Democratic Party

Donald Trump

January 6

January 6 Committee

Tucked away in the Northeast Georgia Mountains once stood a mysterious set of five 19-foot granite stones with 10 guidelines inscribed in eight languages known as “America’s Stonehenge” that suggested humanity maintain itself by keeping the population under 500 million people in perpetual balance with nature.
Formally known as the Georgia Guidestones, the 240,000-pound slabs of granite stood near the city of Elberton for over 40 years until a mysterious <a href="https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1544803568146063360">explosion</a> occurred early Wednesday morning. The detonation damaged a large portion of the structure the point that <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1544810411811553280">construction crews</a> had no choice but to finish the job.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation <a href="https://twitter.com/GBI_GA/status/1544712938476421122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1544712938476421122%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fnation%2F2022%2F07%2F06%2Fgeorgia-guidestones-explosion-police-say-monument-damaged-bombing%2F7823958001%2F">said</a> preliminary information indicates that unknown individuals detonated an explosive device at around 4 a.m. on Wednesday. Elbert County Sheriff’s Office authorities were the first on the scene to discover the explosion significantly damaged one of the four stones. 
As of Wednesday afternoon, the cause of the explosion remains under investigation, and authorities have not arrested or identified any suspects.
The monument&#8217;s beginnings were as big a mystery as its demise.
In 1980, a man using the pseudonym Robert C. Christian constructed “America’s Stonehenge” to function as a compass, calendar, and clock. Yet the origins and its purpose remain a puzzle, as no one knows the true identity of the man or group who sponsored the Guidestones. 
Aside from the Guidestone’s first message, which more or less promoted a global depopulation agenda, the other nine “instructions” were universal self-help recommendations.
The stones encouraged humanity to guide reproduction wisely through improving fitness and diversity, bring humanity together using a living new language, and rule with passion, faith, tradition, and reason. Other guidelines called for protecting people and nations with fair laws and just courts while letting all countries rule internally and resolve external disputes in a world court. 
“Avoid petty laws and useless officials,” one guideline read.
Another stone&#8217;s inscription called for balancing personal rights with social duties, followed by a rule to prize truth, beauty, and love by seeking harmony with the infinite.
And finally, it said, “Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.”
Each stone translated the guidelines into eight modern languages: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. 
And inscribed on the sides near the top, the exhibit had the names of four ancient languages — Babylonian cuneiform, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian Hieroglyphics. 
In the aftermath of the explosion, the Internet teemed with theories about who or what caused Guidestones to be reduced to rubble. 
Earlier this year, during Georgia’s gubernatorial primary, Republican candidate Kandiss Taylor brought attention to the Guidestones, claiming the stones were part of a “Luciferian cabal” and promising to destroy the monument if elected. 
Taylor weighed in on Twitter following the explosion.
“God is God all by Himself,” Taylor <a href="https://twitter.com/KandissTaylor/status/1544691940083507204">said</a>. “He can do ANYTHING He wants to do. That includes striking down Satanic Guidestones.”
But the monuments never amounted to more than &#8220;a tourist attraction,” Christopher Kubas, of the Elberton Granite Association that maintains the Georgia Guidestones, told <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/active-police-investigation-shuts-down-roads-around-mysterious-georgia-monument/SYW477PW45AOBLMS56PWSWSDXQ/">WSB-TV</a>.
“It’s sad,” Kubas said. “Not just for Elberton and Elbert County, but I’m sad for the United States and the world.&#8221; 
“These were tourist attractions, and it was not uncommon for people from around the world to be up here at any given time,” he added.
Regardless of its origins and intent, the monument attracted around 20,000 visitors a year.

Georgia Guidestones at sunset

Mysterious Explosion Destroys ‘America’s Stonehenge,’ Crews Demolish Remains

Mysterious Explosion Destroys 'America’s Stonehenge,' Crews Demolish Remains

Georgia

Globalism

Russian President Vladamir Putin once again is prompting concerns about his health.
At a church service on Sunday in Moscow, Putin appeared to be unsteady and fidgety, at times biting his lips and making awkward faces.
&#8220;Fresh theories surrounding Vladimir Putin’s health are circulating after a recent appearance by the Russian president showed him biting his lips, fidgeting and appearing unsteady,&#8221; Sky News <a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/global-affairs/video-of-unsteady-vladimir-putin-fuels-rumours-about-secret-ailing-health/video/a1333f1bdef264e4ee7789ae6a4ed3f6">reported</a>. &#8220;Mr Putin’s appearance at a church service has now sparked rumours that he is unwell after he seemed unable to stand still during the service.&#8221;
Putin&#8217;s latest appearance follows another last week, when the 69 year old appeared bloated as he firmly gripped a table during a Kremlin meeting with his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu. Both men appeared in ill health, with Shoigu slurring his words following a stroke he suffered earlier this year.
&#8220;Putin&#8217;s meeting with Shoigu today shows both depressed &amp; seemingly in bad health. Shoigu has to read his comments to Putin &amp; slurs badly, suggesting that the rumors of his heart attack are likely. He sits badly. Poor performance. Worth watching,&#8221; Anders Åslund wrote on Twitter.
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Putin&#39;s meeting with Shoigu today shows both depressed &amp; seemingly in bad health. Shoigu has to read his comments to Putin &amp; slurs badly, suggesting that the rumors of his heart attack are likely. He sits badly. Poor performance. Worth watching.<a href="https://t.co/SHRRxZxbJf">https://t.co/SHRRxZxbJf</a>
&mdash; Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) <a href="https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1517170667552223232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In another video, Putin&#8217;s hand tremors seem clearly visible.
<blockquote class="reddit-card" > <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/u9788j/this_is_the_clearest_clip_where_you_see_putins/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share">This is the clearest clip where you see Putin&#8217;s hand and leg tremors!</a> from <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/">UkraineWarVideoReport</a> </blockquote>
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&#8220;Former UK politician Louise Mensch said the footage appeared to back earlier reports that &#8216;Vladimir Putin has Parkinson’s disease,'&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/25/putin-appears-fidgety-at-church-service-during-illness-rumors/">reported</a>. &#8220;Other reports have suggested that Putin has recently had 35 secret meetings with a cancer doctor — and has become so paranoid about his health that he has turned to unconventional therapies.&#8221;
&#8220;PS: I reported, Vladimir Putin has Parkinson’s disease and here you can see him gripping the table so that his shaking hand is not visible but he cannot stop his foot from tapping,&#8221; Mensch wrote on Twitter.
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10748825/Putin-looks-unsteady-Easter-church-service-footage-showing-biting-lip-fidgeting.html">reported</a> that Putin also &#8216;Appeared to chew the insides of his mouth, shifting uncomfortably, adding to a swirl of commentary that the pressure of Russian setbacks over the war in Ukraine was getting to him. A dry mouth can be a symptom of Parkinson&#8217;s Disease — a condition which the Kremlin was forced to deny Putin was suffering from last year.&#8221;
The Mail also <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10750825/Russia-accused-FAKING-Putins-Easter-service-visit.html">offered</a> another theory, this one from conspiracy buffs.
&#8220;Questions have emerged on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin really attended an Orthodox Easter service in Moscow this past weekend after pictures issued by the Kremlin bore a startling resemblance to images from last year. The images, purportedly taken one year apart, appear to show Putin dressed in the same suit and look extremely similar — the only clearly discernible difference being the colour of his tie.&#8221;
&#8220;But images and video footage of the event have been seized upon by opposition media in Russia and Ukraine, suggesting the new clips were faked from last year&#8217;s service on May 2, 2021,&#8221; the Mail reported.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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What&#8217;s a conspiracy theory that you believe in? We&#8217;ve all got at least one. For example, Apple sending out a bug to all of its devices before they drop a new iPhone. For years, we were all told that we were crazy and it was just in our head. Our phones weren&#8217;t really slowing down. Until last year, when Apple agreed to settle for $500 million for a claim that they intentionally slowed down the performance of older phones to encourage customers to buy newer models. 
Another &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; that I fully believe in: the flu shot causes the flu. I don&#8217;t care how many doctors say it doesn’t, or how many degrees those doctors have. I don&#8217;t care if you received a Ph.D. in each and every flu variant. Every time in my life that I have gotten a flu shot, I have gotten the flu, until about 13 years ago when I said that I was no longer going to get the flu shot. And guess what? For 13 whole years, I didn&#8217;t get the flu. 
Now, for moms and dads out there, you&#8217;re going to love this one. How about the &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; regarding the correlation between babies teething and spiking a fever? Every expert and doctor on the web says that that&#8217;s a myth. The fever is not at all related to teething. It&#8217;s just that every parent in the entire world will tell you otherwise. When babies teeth, they spike a fever, and they get a runny nose. 
There&#8217;s even a conspiracy theory about the term “conspiracy theory.” It&#8217;s the idea that the term was first introduced by the CIA in the 1960s to disqualify those who questioned the official version of the Kennedy assassination. In fact, in 1963, the year Kennedy was shot, did you know that the CIA launched a program known as Operation Mockingbird? They enlisted four hundred American journalists — as well as journalists around the world — to manipulate public opinion by spreading propaganda. Now, why would they do that after Kennedy&#8217;s assassination? The program, by the way, has never been officially discontinued. 
I want you to really think about that. How many mockingbirds do you think are out there today trying to throw you off the government&#8217;s trail? To that effect, the term “conspiracy theory” is meant to be a disciplinary device. If you commit a thought crime, by recognizing that perhaps the corruption runs much deeper and darker than we could have ever imagined, then you&#8217;ll be painted as a wacky Aunt. 
But what if your Aunt&#8217;s not so wacky? Could the lies really be so deep and so dark as to suggest that our very own government orchestrated the assassination of JFK, a sitting president? I don&#8217;t know, that one seems pretty far-fetched. At least it did seem far fetched until our government just kept delaying and delaying the promised release of the JFK files. In fact, they were supposed to be released this year again. And Joe Biden said, &#8216;No, actually, we can&#8217;t because of COVID 19.&#8217; He said, “temporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military, defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.” What? What could possibly be in the JFK files that would threaten our intelligence operations? What lies were told to the public? 
Today, we have mockingbirds who are effectively telling us every day that we&#8217;re all going to die unless we do exactly as the government says. We had to stay home, forfeit our businesses, mask our children, inject ourselves with new mRNA technology vaccines — not once, but twice — in order to return to normal. Of course, normal never came. They kept masking our children, and they extended vaccination to our small children, who have an approximately 0% chance of dying from the virus. But the mockingbirds want you to know that you should trust the experts anyway, even though they lied about virtually everything, even though it never went back to normal, even though the vaccines did not give the vaccinated their freedoms back. 
Now, the mockingbirds are telling you to get a booster and beyond that, a fourth shot — also, a booster will be ready in 100 days to combat the fourth or fifth variant. I don&#8217;t know what omicron is. Honestly, I lost count. But the conspiracy theorists on the other hand, the ones that you should not be listening to because they&#8217;re &#8216;anti-science,&#8217; they&#8217;ve been telling you that things were never going to return to normal, that the government is using COVID to usher in a new global totalitarian world order that is going to give them control over every area of your life down, down to how many people you are allowed to have in your home during the holidays. 
The conspiracy theorists, the ones that you should not listen to, have been telling you that this was an intentional pandemic planned for years among the most powerful people and corporations in the world. So I guess my question for you at this juncture is who do you believe? How many variants and boosters will it take for you to see what is right in front of you?
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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After news broke Wednesday that tech entrepreneur John McAfee, the founder of the McAfee antivirus software company, was found dead following a suspected suicide in a Spanish jail cell while awaiting extradition to the United States, Twitter users were quick to dig through the tech mogul’s social media feed.
Several posts stood out, leading many to suggest that the cause of McAfee’s death remains far from certain.
Soon after his arrest, McAfee tweeted from a Barcelona jail cell and directly referenced the conspiracy theories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death.
“I am content in here. I have friends,” McAfee tweeted on October 15, 2020. “The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.”
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I am content in here. I have friends.
The food is good. All is well. 
Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.
&mdash; John McAfee (@officialmcafee) <a href="https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1316801215083225096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Almost one year earlier, McAfee posted another cryptic tweet.
“Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: ‘We&#8217;re coming for you McAfee! We&#8217;re going to kill yourself,’” McAfee wrote on November 30, 2019. “I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn&#8217;t. I was whackd. Check my right arm.”
Included in the post was a picture of a tattoo on McAfee’s upper right arm which read, “$WHACKD.”
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Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: &quot;We&#39;re coming for you McAfee! We&#39;re going to kill yourself&quot;. I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn&#39;t. I was whackd. Check my right arm.<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24WHACKD&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$WHACKD</a> available only on <a href="https://t.co/HdSEYi9krq">https://t.co/HdSEYi9krq</a>🙂 <a href="https://t.co/rJ0Vi2Hpjj">pic.twitter.com/rJ0Vi2Hpjj</a>
&mdash; John McAfee (@officialmcafee) <a href="https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1200864283766251521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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According to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/john-mcafee-tweet-2020-surfaces-saying-if-he-dies-jail-its-not-suicide-1603546">Newsweek</a>, “Approximately an hour after his death was announced, McAfee&#8217;s official Instagram posted an image of a bold letter ‘Q.’”
Donald Trump Jr. posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1408006093322784773">poll</a> to Twitter on Thursday morning, asking his followers, “Did John McAfee kill himself?” The poll options were “Yes,” and “He was Epsteined.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-anti-virus-millionaire-john-mcafee-found-dead-from-suicide-in-spanish-prison-hours-after-extradition-order-report">The Daily Wire</a> reported on Wednesday, “Police sources told Spain’s <a href="https://elpais.com/economia/2021-06-23/el-fundador-del-antivirus-mcafee-john-mcafee-se-suicida-en-una-prision-de-barcelona.html?ssm=TW_CC">El Pais</a> newspaper that McAfee was found dead in his cell in Barcelona’s Brians 2 prison, located in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires, with the Catalan Department of Justice reporting that ‘everything points to a suicide.’”
The news came just hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite McAfee to the United States, where he faced financial charges including tax evasion, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/eccentric-tech-mogul-john-mcafee-will-be-extradited-to-us/">New York Post</a>.
“The extradition was approved by the high court in the country and revealed in a court filing on Wednesday that was reviewed by Reuters,” the Post noted.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-virus-software-mogul-john-mcafee-arrested-in-spain-charged-for-hiding-cryptocurrency-yacht">The Daily Wire</a> reported in October that McAfee had been arrested “and charged with tax evasion, allegedly earning millions in income from promoting cryptocurrencies.”
The indictment alleged that McAfee, 75 at the time, evaded U.S. taxes by having his income “paid into bank accounts and cryptocurrency accounts in the names of others, while also using the names of others to conceal ownership of property and assets including a yacht,” CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/tech/john-mcafee-tax-evasion-sec-cryptocurrency/index.html">reported</a> in October.
As The Daily Wire stated, “The Justice Department (DOJ) announced the charges after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it has filed civil charges against McAfee, alleging he made more than $23 million in undisclosed compensation by recommending seven cryptocurrency offerings on Twitter that the SEC claims were false or misleading.”

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