Conspiracy No. 1: The Clinton physique rely
In accordance with this conspiracy, there are a pair of serial killers which have been slicing a path throughout America from Arkansas, to Washington, D.C., to New York and again—and so they have been on a spree for most likely 50 years. Oddly sufficient, the 2 killers are two of probably the most well-known individuals not simply within the nation however in all the world: President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“The Clinton Body Count” is an inventory that has circulated since a minimum of the mid-’90s, across the time when Invoice Clinton was first elected president, in 1992. Ranging from his time as an up-and-coming politician in Arkansas, the record primarily contains each one who ever got here into contact with the couple and who later died. Contemplating the variety of individuals whom the Clintons probably met simply throughout their time as the primary household of Arkansas, it ought to most likely be clear to you that a lot of these individuals have been going to die regardless, and never as a result of the Clintons function like Hannibal Lecter.
The outlandish record took on a brand new life when anti-Clinton Republicans in Congress started to think about it severely, and tragic occasions just like the loss of life of Clinton aide Vince Foster have been used to bolster the nonsensical allegations.
Past the rigorous debunkings of the conspiracy, its logic fails when one considers the truth that, regardless of supposedly murdering so many individuals, the Clintons didn’t kill their technique to victory in both the 2008 Democrat presidential major or the 2016 presidential election. Why, unexpectedly, after their cross-country homicide spree, did the duo cease once they might kill their technique to a very powerful place on this planet? Perhaps as a result of the conspiracy was nonsense?
Conspiracy No. 2: Obama’s “hidden hypnosis” of voters
After eight years of George W. Bush within the White Home, the proper had a tough time reckoning with Barack Obama’s huge win within the 2008 presidential election. clarify it? One phrase: hypnosis.
Throughout that election cycle, a doc titled “An Examination of Obama’s Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches” circulated, claiming that Obama used superior hypnotic strategies to seduce tens of millions of individuals to vote for him. The doc alleged that Obama used incantations like “change is in the air” and “turn the page” to regulate minds.
But when Obama gained in 2008 and 2012 attributable to his dastardly powers of suggestion, why didn’t he use the facility of thoughts management in elections the place Democrats misplaced? Why didn’t Obama cloud minds within the 2010 or 2014 midterms, to say nothing of 2016 and 2024? Hmm.
Conspiracy No. 3: A climate weapon exists—however solely Democrats can use it
In the actual world, meteorologists perceive how climate kinds and infrequently make educated predictions—primarily based on information—about what is going to occur (although typically the predictions are fallacious!). However within the right-wing world, that’s an archaic mind-set as a result of the U.S. authorities has entry to the kind of climate weapon that’s normally within the area of The Avengers or Justice League.
Again in 2013, right-wing conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump superfan Alex Jones floated the concept that the federal authorities, then led by President Obama, had supposedly deployed a climate weapon to create a twister in Oklahoma.
Only a few months in the past, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia alleged that President Joe Biden had directed the nefarious climate weapon on the southeast. Discussing the allegation, Biden mentioned, “It’s so stupid.”
But it surely’s even dumber than that. If a climate weapon exists (it doesn’t), then why is it that solely Democratic presidents use it? Why didn’t Trump use it in opposition to The New York Instances or in opposition to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California? Or why didn’t former President George W. Bush wield the climate weapon to silence critics of the Iraq struggle beneath a layer of snow and/or rain?
Conspiracy No. 4: Obama’s United Sharia States of America
When he took the oath of workplace, Obama was very completely different from each earlier president in American historical past. As the primary Black particular person to be elected president, the proper went hog wild with each form of conspiracy, with maybe their favourite for eight years being that Obama would implement Sharia regulation.
This lie was primarily based on the unfounded notion that attributable to his household’s background in Kenya, Obama was a secret Muslim. And purportedly, as a secret Muslim, he meant to twist American legal guidelines to develop into a model of extremist Sharia regulation, like in Afghanistan below the Taliban. The proper had a really laborious time explaining how Obama would do that, although, as a result of the president doesn’t have a magic wand to transform all legal guidelines to spiritual orthodoxy.
The bigoted roots of this form of factor are additional undermined by the truth that Kenya, the birthplace of Obama’s father, isn’t a Muslim-majority nation however is generally Christian (almost 86%, in line with 2022 information from the State Division). Additionally, Obama is a practising Christian and, as president, repeatedly urged spiritual coexistence and tolerance.
Not very Sharia regulation of him.
Conspiracy No. 5: The Clintons’ sexual Christmas decor
Within the Nineteen Nineties, there was some huge cash to be made on this planet of conservatives by saying the craziest issues attainable concerning the Clintons (see the homicide spree above). Enter disgruntled former FBI agent Gary Aldrich.
In his 1996 guide, “Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House,” Aldrich claimed that the workforce adorning the White Home Christmas bushes put up ornaments resembling “drug paraphernalia” and a gingerbread man decoration with a “cock ring.”
Take into account, these have been the bushes on show for White Home guests and media—extremely photographed objects which are seen each Christmas season below each Democratic and Republican presidents.
For sure, reporters overlaying the White Home mentioned they noticed no such show—however the individuals who at all times believed the Clintons have been dastardly hippies destroying the White Home (once they weren’t doing homicide) purchased the lie.
The proper is predisposed to believing the worst, and conservative media sells it to them each day. Irrespective of how simply debunked or how on the market the conspiracy is, the proper will consider it.
They usually vote.
