10 CONSPIRACY THEORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NOW

The bucatini shortage recently reported by Newsweek is actually the result of a scheme by Nelson Bunker Hunt to corner the entire niche-pasta market. The supposedly “dead” oil billionaire, who tried to corner the silver market in the 1980’s, is on video telling his cronies, “after we get whatever price we ask for a pound of bucatini…we’re going after orecchiette! That’s Italian for ‘little ears.’ Bwahahaha!”

Vladimir Putin’s murderous, unsmiling persona actually conceals a murderous, unsmiling person.

The effort to make Americans wear masks is part of a vast medical-wing conspiracy to keep people from dying a horrible, suffocating death.

The move towards mail-in voting, extended early voting, and online voting are all part of an insidious conspiracy to make voting not such a pain in the ass.

The non-traditional, diverse casting of the costume drama “Bridgerton” is the result of a conspiracy to make stupid, uptight people feel oddly uncomfortable.

The actions of Georgia senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who used early inside information on the coming pandemic to make a windfall profit on the stock market by investing in online-conferencing and medical equipment companies, was part of a conspiracy to funnel millions of dollars to David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

The election of Joseph Biden Jr. to the U.S. presidency is nothing less than the fruit of a massive conspiracy by American voters, attempting to avoid four more years of stupid, venal, traitorous, and dangerously incompetent leadership.

My practice of staying at home as much as possible is part of an under-the-radar scheme to stay alive at least long enough to see The Combover Who Would Be King take a long, last helicopter ride out of town.

The charter flight of University of Texas students to a massive, crowded week-long party in Cabo San Lucas over Spring Break 2020, when the dangers of COVID were already known, was actually…just your usual college-student idiocy.

The fact that I have an entire closet stashed with cans of chili, bags of tortilla chips, and cases of beer is not as closely tied to the pandemic as you might think.

The Story of Abraham and Isaac and Zoom

THE SACRIFISE OF ABRAHAM OFFER SON ISAAC FAITH GOD PAINTING BY CARAVAGGIO REPRO

“Why You Can’t Meet God Over Zoom”—Title of an opinion piece in the N.Y. Times, Dec. 24th 2020

God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”—Genesis 22

ABRAHAM [GAZING AT HIS LAPTOP]: What am I supposed to do here? Do I need to download something?

ISAAC: I told you, Dad, just click the link!

ABRAHAM: The link, the link, where is the link?

ISAAC: It’s in that Email He sent you, jeez! Hurry up, Dad, He’s probably sitting around waiting for you to join!

ABRAHAM: Oh, something popped up, I think it’s working…

G-D: Good morning!

ABRAHAM: I can see You, Lord! Can You see me?

G-D: Hello?

ISAAC: You need to enable the audio, Dad!

ABRAHAM: Oh…Can you hear me now?

G-D: Hi, Abe old buddy!  Sorry we can’t do this in person, but with this COVID thing and all…

ABRAHAM, Right, no, it’s fine, I get it! Though I was kind of wondering, I mean, you are G-d Almighty and I would think that you couldn’t even get COVID, which I kind of have to believe that you came up with in the first place, being the Cause of All Things…

[SILENCE]

ABRAHAM: Uh, but whatever, ‘mysterious ways,’ right? Heh, heh…

[SILENCE]

ABRAHAM: Ok, I’ll just shut up for a minute.

G-D: Look, I need to ask a little favor from you…

ABRAHAM: Sure, big Guy, whatever I can do…

G-D: You ever been to Moriah?

ABRAHAM: Sure, that little town off mule path 39, right? There’s a food cart up there that does these awesome latkes…

G-D: So I’m gonna need you to head out there with some firewood…

ABRAHAM: Hang on, I better write this down…where did my stylus go?

G-D: It’s not that complicated. Just bring some firewood and a good sharp knife…

ABRAHAM: Can you wait just a sec? Someone’s at the hut opening…

[muffled voices]

ABRAHAM: Sorry about that…the guy came by to drop off my new plow, I’m so excited…have you seen the new bronze ones yet?

G-D: Um…obviously…

ABRAHAM: Oh right, OK. So I need to make a run over to that hill off mule path 39, bring firewood and a sharp knife…oh, I see where you’re going with this, I like it! I’m going to need, like, a lamb or something, right?

G-D: Yeah, about that…is Isaac still there?

ABRAHAM: Hey Isaac, get over here, son…

G-D: Yeah, why don’t you send him outside for a minute…I think one of your camel’s gotten loose…

ABRAHAM: But we don’t have any cam….

G-D: Wanna bet?

ABRAHAM: Isaac, go play outside, the grownups need to talk for a sec…OK, we’re good, Man…

G-D: Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you…hello? Can you hear me?

ARCHANGEL: Looks like your Zoom session ended. I keep telling you to upgrade!

G-D: Think he heard me?

ARCHANGEL: Who knows. Guess we’ll find out!

Hey New Jersey, Can You Help a Texan Out?

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, has asked the Supreme Court to do something it has never done before: disenfranchise millions of voters in four states and reverse the results of the presidential election.-The New York Times, December 10 2020

Hey, excuse me, New Jersey, can I talk to you real quick? Don’t worry, I’m not asking for money, heh heh! I was wondering if you could help me out with a coupla problems we’re having down in Texas…

See, I just found out that Texas’ Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin because they voted for the wrong person for President. Awesome! I had no idea that one state could sue others in order to make them do their democracy the right way!

Anyway that got me started thinking about the possibilities. Cause the election process down here is pretty messed up. It might even be worse than Georgia!

Like did you know that straight-party-line voting, which used to be an option, is now banned in Texas? That means it takes a lot longer for each person to vote now. Have you ever stood in line outside a community center in Austin in October for an hour to do early voting? Your beer gets warm in the first 5 minutes!

And did you know, New Jersey, that our governor declared that there can be one and only one mail-in-ballot drop-off box per county? That includes Brewster County, which is twice the size of Delaware, and Harris County, which all by itself has about half the population of your fine state!

Messed up, right? But nothing that a little inter-state lawsuit couldn’t fix!

I was going to ask a state with more pull, like New York or California, but it’s so hard to get on their calendar, so I thought I’d try you for a change…oh god, I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean it like that! Don’t walk away, New Jersey, I’m begging you…

Cause did you know, New Jersey, that mail-in voting is only permitted for people over 65 or with severe medical conditions that prevent them from voting in person?

I know lawsuits are expensive, Nooj—can I call you Nooj? I might be able to kick in a couple of twenties.

And since you’re going to all that trouble, maybe you can toss a few more things into the filing? Like the gun shows…that’s where you can get an AK with cash down, no background check. Scary, right? And if you wouldn’t mind, we’re kind of falling behind the other states in the area of…the wacky tabacky, if you get my drift. I mean once AG Paxton manages to force Donald Trump down our throats, how are we supposed to get through another four years of that nightmare without nature’s little helper?

Thanks for helping a Texan out, New Jersey. And let me know if you ever need me to sue you too!

The Madman in the (White House) Attic

Place: West Wing, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.

Time: January 20, 2021, afternoon.

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES JOE BIDEN JR: Put the photos of Jill and the kids over there by that bronze buffalo thingy, and let me see, you can set the nuclear football in the corner over there…

CHIEF OF STAFF RON KLAIN: Yes sir…

POTUS: …and the hopes and dreams of a nation go in that drawer over there…[MUFFLED SOUND OF HEAVY FOOTSTEPS IN ANOTHER ROOM]…what the heck was that?

SECRET SERVICE AGENT: [DRAWING SIDEARM] Stand back sir, we’ll handle this.

[SIDE DOOR TO OVAL OFFICE IS FLUNG OPEN. A HULKING GHOST OF THE PAST WITH A LONG RED TIE LOOMS IN THE DOORWAY.]

GHOST OF THE PAST: Who is that strange man? Why is he sitting in my chair?

SSA: [TALKING INTO HIS WATCH] Situation in the Oval Office. Bonespur is loose. [To GHOST] It’s all right, Mr. President. This is…Joe, your [winks at POTUS]…new press secretary! Right, Joe?

POTUS: Oh, Godfrey Daniel. Yeah, sure man, whatever. I’m your new press secretary, ok?

GHOST: But I want Kayleigh! Where’s Kayleigh? Where’s all my stuff?

SSA: Your personal items have been transferred to…the new White House…where you’ll get to be President forever, remember?

GHOST [to POTUS]: I’m the President! Of America!

POTUS: uhh, sure, man…

GHOST: You know why I’m the President? Because everybody loves me! Like the suburban women! I asked them to love me, and now they all love me!

[ENTER FORMER FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP]: What’s goink on? How did he escape?

SSA: We think someone hid a file in his Whopper…

FORMER FIRST LADY: It must have been a pretty short file!

POTUS: Look, can we wrap this up? I need to get started on healing a broken nation….

GHOST: [AGITATED] I’m so confused…what’s he talking about? What’s happening? I’m the President!

FORMER FIRST LADY: Yes darlink, of course you are, and you always will be. And now we’re going to take you to the hosp… to the new White House…

GHOST: The new White House?

FFL: Yes, and it’s so much better than this old place! You can play golf, and hold rallies, and make phone calls to radio stations, and go tweet tweet tweet, all day long!

GHOST: Will my friends be there?

FFL: Your who?

GHOST: Like Billy Barr and Kellyanne and Mikey Pence and Kimmie Il-Jung…

FFL: You’ll have new friends now, and they’ll all be wearing clean white coats…you remember how much you hate germs?

POTUS: This is all great fun, but can we just get him the heck out of here? I got enough on my plate, without putting up with a demented megalomaniac who thinks the universe revolves around him!

FFL: Tell me about it!

Why Did Trump Lose? No, Really, I Want to Know…

The only way we can lose this election is if they cheat. OK, that’s the only way.—President Donald Trump, speaking on 60 Minutes, October 18 2020

Biden wins presidency, Trump denied second term in White House, Fox News projects—headline on foxnews.com, November 7 2020

Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, despite claims by President Trump and his campaign’s legal team.—foxnews.com, December 1 2020

 There’s been so much hand-wringing on the left since the election, that it’s surprising we don’t have a rash of broken wrists. Why were the polls so far off? Why was the election even close? Why did the Dems fail to take the Senate, not to mention losing ground in the House?

This is a rather skewed way of looking at things, considering that we won the top prize of the presidency by as many electoral votes as Trump won it four years ago, and with a whopping 5-million-vote popular-vote margin; retained our majority in the House; and at the very least narrowed the gap in the Senate by a seat.

Liberals won the presidency and the other side lost, so why should they engage in rhetorical self-flagellation?  More to the point, why aren’t conservatives asking themselves why they lost?

The president himself declared before the election that he could not possibly lose, except through a fraudulent election. And millions of my conservative fellow Americans apparently believed him and still do.

But now even Attorney General William “it’s not Russia, but the Russia investigation, that needs investigatin’” Barr is publicly declaring that fraud did not decide the election.

Well then, what happened?

No, I’m asking you, my MAGA- or KAG-cap-wearing friend. Or rather, suggesting that you ask yourself.

If Donald Trump was in fact the great American hope, the swamp cleaner-outer, the wily businessman, the builder of walls to keep out those scary brown people, the bringer-back of jobs, the stander-upper to China, the shutter-outer of the Muslim immigrants you hate, the one who made America so great again that your campaign slogan was “Keep America Great”…with four years to demonstrate his prowess on all fronts…then how could the man possibly lose?

You can’t blame the election outcome on the economy. Trump was the business-comeback genius, that’s why we elected him in the first place, remember? We all know Biden never met a payroll. And as Trump never tired of telling us, the economy was doing great before the COVID virus struck (or didn’t strike, depending on your beliefs). What’s wrong with us…don’t we like a strong economy?

You can’t blame it on COVID. We all saw the President doing everything in his power to shield us, the American people, from harmful governmental restrictions. He personally set the example by declining to wear a mask until after he got infected, and then heroically ripping it off in front of the cameras. He kept up our morale by continually promising us that the epidemic was overblown and practically over anyway. Why didn’t that resonate with more voters?

You can’t blame it on “the mainstream media.” The president had the full-throated support of Fox News, the cable news outlet with the most viewership in the country by far. You can’t get more mainstream than that. Fox presented your point of view 24 by 7 by 4 long years. And last I checked, one didn’t need to be a card-carrying member of the Tea Party to watch Fox News. Why weren’t more people listening?

And as A.G. Barr has said, you can’t blame it on fraud.

So what the hell happened? I really want to know.

I have my own ideas about why Trump lost the election, and by such a large margin. But I don’t think you really want to hear them, they tend to be a bit…critical. They have to do with a certain mean-spiritedness in the White House, and about incompetence, stupidity, arrogance and corruption in thought, policy and executive action. But those are just my own inconsequential opinions.

No, I think the important thing is for you to ask yourselves, why did our can’t-lose hero lose?

Now, if you still think this election was a fraud, or a fluke, or maybe just the result of poor messaging, or not enough money…and if you can’t wait for 2024 so that Donald Trump can run again, or if not him then Ivanka, or Eric, or Don Jr….that’s your business, my Republican friends. Frankly, nothing would make me happier. But first, you might want to ask yourself some searching questions about what really happened this time around.