What’s Really Going On …

Those who believe in conspiracy theories are just people who ask questions and isn’t that what we all should be doing?

However, maybe it is not the questions that are the problem. Maybe it’s the answers our favourite wingnuts arrive at that might make us nervous.

For example:

– The severe snow that recently hit Texas was actually “fake” and “government generated” as part of a sinister plot instigated by shadowy “elites” including Bill Gates and Joe Biden. “This goes out to our government and Bill Gates. Thank you Bill Gates for trying to f***ing trick us that this is real snow,” a woman says in one video on the Internet, a video in which she proves the snow isn’t real.

– The Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol in Washington was organized by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, not by Republicans and certainly not by former president Donald Trump.

– Joe Biden is a robot, wearing a human-like face mask.

– Donald Trump is actually still president and executions are taking place on the lawns of the White House.

– Donald Trump and Joe Biden had surgery to swap faces so when you see Joe Biden behind the desk in the Oval Office, you are actually looking at Donald Trump, and vice versa.

– Donald Trump will be inaugurated this Thursday, March 4, as the 19th president of the United States.

And as odd as some of these conclusions are, it is comforting to know that at least some people are not falling for fake news like the rest of us do every day.

Thank heavens there are the solid beliefs of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene: Democrats are a cabal of Satanist pedophiles; the Rothschild family helped former California Gov. Jerry Brown build a space laser to burn down forests; members of the 2016 Clinton campaign sacrificed chickens to the pagan deity Moloch; and multiple school shootings have been “false flag” operations which used crisis actors.

Not to mention this oldy but goody: Democrats are running a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza shop.

A pizza shop that has no basement.

©2021 Jim Hagarty

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.