Category: conspiracy theory

Mr. President, Please Get Your Flu Shot!

Mike Rothschild

President Trump had his annual physical last Friday, and the results were revealed earlier this week. While it wasn’t quite the “healthiest man ever to exist in the universe” fiasco of the election, it gave rise to an instant conspiracy theory.

The “girther” movement saw the declaration that Trump was 6’3 and 239 pounds, and promptly decided it was a lie, based on a bunch of other people who are about 6’3 and 239 and don’t look a damn thing like Donald Trump.

Chatter about President Trump’s weight was deemed to be everything from an expected outgrowth of Trump tendency to lie about pretty much everything, to “hypocritical and ignorant” fat shaming.

While the “girth certificate” debate raged, I was disturbed by an actual omission in the president’s medical exam: we don’t know if he got his flu shot.

In fact, he almost certainly didn’t.

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The Hawaii False Alarm Was a False Flag, Because Obviously

Mike Rothschild1 Comment

This weekend, the good people of Hawaii had their long weekend interrupted by a message on their phones telling them they were about to die.

The false alarm sent by the state’s Emergency Management Agency warning of an incoming ballistic missile has been written about extensively, with articles covering everything from how it happened to an exact timeline of where President Trump was during the 38 minutes it took to send a follow message (spoiler: he was golfing.)

Of course, if you’re woke, you know all of those things are lies.

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A Look at that “Interesting” Flow Chart from MagaPill

Mike Rothschild

With conspiracy theory flow charts making their long-awaited comeback, it was only a matter of time before President Trump, who loves conspiracy theories significantly more than he loves charts, embraced them.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Trump’s insane tweeting took no rest, as the president did everything from attacking CNN International to declaring that he’s our favorite president.

But the tweet that got the most attention might have been one that retweeted a pro-Trump conspiracy site called MagaPill. The name is a combination of Trump’s signature catchphrase and a reference to the “red pill” that wakes people up out of the Matrix.

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A Conspiracy of Charts

Mike Rothschild2 Comments

Gawker didn’t do everything right, but when it really nailed something, that something really got nailed.

My favorite example was coining the term “chart brut” to describe the crude, mentally-impaired, MS Paint-made conspiracy pictures that popped up everywhere after the Boston Marathon bombing.

boston chart

You take a picture of something that “doesn’t add up” and add some red arrows, circles, and random bits of text to it, in order to draw our attention to…things. Toss in a few screen caps from Google and a Twitter handle, and the sheeple have been awoken.

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