Political Conspiracy Theories.

[The Chosen One]

I think it's a function of which party happens to be in power. During G-Dub's reign of America we got a bunch of conspiracies from the left. Now with Obama's reign we are getting them from the right.

Yes and No Wes.

Obama is the first President elected in the age of social media. Facebook boomed 2007 and onwards. So he was the first President to win and run elections with social media being a huge factor.

And with that, find me something comparable from the left to GWB, as Obama being the muslim communist dictator. The "article" i linked, there's youtube video and people in the comments section with insane comments. And this isn't the first time I've seen that, I've seen that float around Limbaugh's radio shows, Beck's, etc.

Both Presidents have had their portraits with Hitler's mustache on them. The left just thought Bush was an idiot and inept on things, where as the fringe right legitimately thinks Obama is this character they want him to be.

During the whole birther movement, not one major Republican leader tried to derail it, they only ignored it or answered they didn't know. It gave the birther movement more credibility than it should've had, inviting Donald Trump to go all out.

The part that worries me, is these people no longer view it as a conspiracy theory (in regards to POTUS), they think it's the factual truth. When I posted that article on my Facebook, I had one of my fringe right people respond with:


"That's rich. you have a hard time excepting everyone elses bull**** while you cling to obamas like it was the holy grail.Regardless of how outside of the law he gets,you just go right into denial mode when the undisputed facts are right in front of you.Undying admiration for someone doesn't cancel out their lawlessness."


And when this person talks about undisputed facts, he references the Obama Foreign Student Visa at Columbia University, or the snapshot of Obama not saluting the flag when they were actually playing Hail to the Chief. He says Obama is the most anti-American President ever, does things that will purposely make us a muslim country as he pointed out. And the part that worries me, is his attitude is no different than what I read from thousands of other people on the web, and if you just exponent that... you know there are probably tens of millions of people with that attitude that don't post on social media.

[57Brave]

Still haven't seen a conspiracy theory emanating from mainstream (D) on the scale of "birtherism" or Whitewater.
Any others shown are either fringe of either side or just not verifiable. (Obama's college records or Clinton drug smuggling) (Kennedy dalliances)


Halliburton,voter list purge, Bush military record, Cheney shadow government etc etc etc -- are all documented.


Of course LBJ ws in cahoots with Brown and Root back in the day -- there is one (R) can sink their teeth into. But, B&R are now Halliburton and is really a part of Texas lore

[sturg33]

Oh yeah... I also don't believe that Obama killed Bin Laden... I think Bin Laden was dead years before.

[weso1]

This is just a simple case of selective memory and reasoning. Next pub president will have just as much conspiracy surrounding him and Sav will be sitting on the sidelines with his ears covered and his eyes closed.

[yeezus]

FOX news spews constantly that Obama is anti-American and there to basically screw white people.
It's hilarious and so, so, so sad at the same time.

[AerchAngel]

FOX news spews constantly that Obama is anti-American and there to basically screw white people.
It's hilarious and so, so, so sad at the same time.

That is hilarious because he screws the Blacks even more. " Vote for me and I will improve your lives. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!"


Equal opportunity president......screwing both sides.

I like that.

[AerchAngel]

Find me a list of tea party candidates that haven't said something totally out there.

You mean this quote, which has lead to problems today?


“We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it,”

[AerchAngel]

Find me a list of tea party candidates that haven't said something totally out there.

And don't get me started on our Commander in Chief. He has so many totally out there comments, it would fill a page, with this being #1:

"If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it."

[57Brave]

“We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it,”


Couldn't the same be said of any baseball trade or free agent signing.
As in --- last March asking Wren if BJ would be a .300 hitter with 30 HR.

Often things on paper are not understod until they become reality. Oh, there is that word in a discussion about "political conspiracies". with a room full of <.......> ' s. Reality

[sturg33]

“We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it,”


Couldn't the same be said of any baseball trade or free agent signing.
As in --- last March asking Wren if BJ would be a .300 hitter with 30 HR.

Often things on paper are not understod until they become reality. Oh, there is that word in a discussion about "political conspiracies". with a room full of <.......> ' s. Reality

LOL. I've seen it all.

If you haven't read the bill, your vote should be an automatic "NO"

[AerchAngel]

LOL. I've seen it all.

If you haven't read the bill, your vote should be an automatic "NO"

Liberals do not have any common sense. I guess you didn't get that memo.

Just think about all the crap that has happened the last few years? They just don't think things through. Perhaps why a lot of them might be getting up out of their seats in the next election. If they aren't going to read bills, let the President run rough shod over them without them voicing a dissent, they don't deserve to be elected nor vote for any bills. The populace is finally seeing it and now we are stuck with something that should have been read and dissected before becoming a law.

[yeezus]

Yeah, republicans ooze common sense.

[zitothebrave]

Oh yeah... I also don't believe that Obama killed Bin Laden... I think Bin Laden was dead years before.

No effin way. Do you really think Bush would let anyone else take credit for that?

[zitothebrave]

“We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it,”


Couldn't the same be said of any baseball trade or free agent signing.
As in --- last March asking Wren if BJ would be a .300 hitter with 30 HR.

Often things on paper are not understod until they become reality. Oh, there is that word in a discussion about "political conspiracies". with a room full of <.......> ' s. Reality

[57Brave]

Well Z , let me rephrase. "There are known - knowns and there are unknown - knowns" :)

A hint to some , Congresspeople (federal,state and local) do not read bills. Their staff reads bills and summarizes their content.
That is why we pay them so much. Our Congresspeople raise money, apear on posters and go on Sunday morning talk shows. Unless of course you name is Elizabeth Warren

[zitothebrave]

And that's the problem, you have people passing laws they don't understand what's going on. Just because it's "accepted" doesn't mean that it should be what we want. If you can't do your job, get someone else to do it.

[AerchAngel]

And that's the problem, you have people passing laws they don't understand what's going on. Just because it's "accepted" doesn't mean that it should be what we want. If you can't do your job, get someone else to do it.

Exactly

[The Chosen One]

And that's the problem, you have people passing laws they don't understand what's going on. Just because it's "accepted" doesn't mean that it should be what we want. If you can't do your job, get someone else to do it.

I felt the same way about the patriot act.

[AerchAngel]

Yeah, republicans ooze common sense.

More so than liberals. The only person with common sense in that administration is Billary, who should have been our president. White teeth Biden has none and our president definitely doesn't have any.


But the Republicans do oozes their fair share of idiots though, Palin, Cruz, Santorum and Bachmann. Liberals equivalent are Pelosi and Reid, so I guess Republican 4 idiots is more than the Democrats 2 idiots.

[AerchAngel]

I felt the same way about the patriot act.

But people KNEW what was in the Patriot Act. There is a big difference and last I heard we aren't having issues with the Patriot Act, we just think it is a stupid Act, both sides do. Unlike Obamination Care, no one knew what was in it and because of that we are still having issues. Do you think if they had any common sense, wait, they don't, to try and dissect it first and bring it out when there is less kinks instead of this gaggle of a mess?

Common sense....a foreign word to Pelosi and Reid.