My Little Conspiracy Theory: Stranger Things Have Happened [View all]

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My Little Conspiracy Theory: Stranger Things Have Happened
by Jaime O’Neill | November 18, 2024 - 6:27am

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It just reaches heretofore unlikely heights of incredulity to think that all of a sudden, a majority of Americans who took the trouble to vote had decided that things were so bad that we might as well turn the place over to a comic-book villain as a last resort. If he couldn’t fix it, as he said he and only he could the first time we made that mistake, then he must have a do-over attempt. That would be only fair. And if he and only he couldn't fix it, then just let him trash it; it couldn't have been worth saving, anyhow.

So, with the help of Putin, a handful of very rich men several of whom owned, among other things, big swathes of media, they could pull off the biggest and most nefarious long con ever conceived, and do it by selling the most overripe scenario ever concocted, a narrative so whacko and out there that its very implausibility would keep people from questioning it.

They were so convinced that their plan was going to work, they let Trump, the candidate, act like a clown and a madman as he went around to talk to the MAGAs, to tell them they didn’t have to vote, and also to tell them that would never have to vote again if he was elected. He told women he would be their protector, and as if that wasn’t bizarre enough when it was so well known that a big majority of American women were sure not going to buy that, he later added the chilling phrase “whether they like it or not.”

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But they had, after all, managed to stock the Supreme Court with people who had a very kinky view of the Constitution and the law. They had managed to take away "settled law" that granted women the right to decisions about their own bodies, and now we're all probably going to get RFK Jr. as the guy who'll decide what vaccines we can have. Or can't. Seem nuts to you? Well strange things are happening.

But stranger things have happened than my paranoid little conspiracy theory about an election being rigged from top to bottom by an international cabal of very powerful and wretchedly wealthy men aided by an army of clever and amoral techies. As implausible as that might seem.

Surely, it never happened. It's easier to believe that we're all just crazy now.