No, No, Don't Worry. Racism is Pretty Much Over.

[Dr. Medulla]

MAGA Michigan State lawmaker declares plane load of Gonzaga basketball players landing at Detroit airport for sweet 16 tournament are "invaders".

Maddock seemed particularly annoyed that the "invaders" in question were getting a special police escort.
"Happening right now," he wrote. "Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ ... feb5&ei=10

So that's the new terminology? Latinos are no longer "illegals," they're "invaders?"

[Sparky]

MAGA Michigan State lawmaker declares plane load of Gonzaga basketball players landing at Detroit airport for sweet 16 tournament are "invaders".

Maddock seemed particularly annoyed that the "invaders" in question were getting a special police escort.
"Happening right now," he wrote. "Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ ... feb5&ei=10

So that's the new terminology? Latinos are no longer "illegals," they're "invaders?"

Especially troubling was his response when someone had the nerve to correct him on his post. What an asshole.

One of Maddock's followers even informed him of his mistake, but the Michigan Republican replied by saying, "Sure kommie. Good talking point."

[Dr. Medulla]

MAGA Michigan State lawmaker declares plane load of Gonzaga basketball players landing at Detroit airport for sweet 16 tournament are "invaders".

Maddock seemed particularly annoyed that the "invaders" in question were getting a special police escort.
"Happening right now," he wrote. "Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ ... feb5&ei=10

So that's the new terminology? Latinos are no longer "illegals," they're "invaders?"

Especially troubling was his response when someone had the nerve to correct him on his post. What an asshole.

One of Maddock's followers even informed him of his mistake, but the Michigan Republican replied by saying, "Sure kommie. Good talking point."

Christ, they're all basically Birchers.

[Kory]

MAGA Michigan State lawmaker declares plane load of Gonzaga basketball players landing at Detroit airport for sweet 16 tournament are "invaders".

Maddock seemed particularly annoyed that the "invaders" in question were getting a special police escort.
"Happening right now," he wrote. "Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ ... feb5&ei=10

So that's the new terminology? Latinos are no longer "illegals," they're "invaders?"

Especially troubling was his response when someone had the nerve to correct him on his post. What an asshole.

One of Maddock's followers even informed him of his mistake, but the Michigan Republican replied by saying, "Sure kommie. Good talking point."

Christ, they're all basically Birchers.

Birch Barlow?

[Dr. Medulla]

MAGA Michigan State lawmaker declares plane load of Gonzaga basketball players landing at Detroit airport for sweet 16 tournament are "invaders".

Maddock seemed particularly annoyed that the "invaders" in question were getting a special police escort.
"Happening right now," he wrote. "Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ ... feb5&ei=10

So that's the new terminology? Latinos are no longer "illegals," they're "invaders?"

Especially troubling was his response when someone had the nerve to correct him on his post. What an asshole.

One of Maddock's followers even informed him of his mistake, but the Michigan Republican replied by saying, "Sure kommie. Good talking point."

Christ, they're all basically Birchers.

Birch Barlow?

John Birch Society. Absolutely insane paranoids from the 50s to around the 70s. I recently read a history of the Bircher movement and it was striking how much of their worldview has been normalized in the contemporary right. In the long run, they captured the party.

[Kory]

So that's the new terminology? Latinos are no longer "illegals," they're "invaders?"

Especially troubling was his response when someone had the nerve to correct him on his post. What an asshole.

One of Maddock's followers even informed him of his mistake, but the Michigan Republican replied by saying, "Sure kommie. Good talking point."

Christ, they're all basically Birchers.

Birch Barlow?

John Birch Society. Absolutely insane paranoids from the 50s to around the 70s. I recently read a history of the Bircher movement and it was striking how much of their worldview has been normalized in the contemporary right. In the long run, they captured the party.

People are so gullible. What we need is some leftwing conspiracy theories to balance it out.

[Dr. Medulla]

Especially troubling was his response when someone had the nerve to correct him on his post. What an asshole.

One of Maddock's followers even informed him of his mistake, but the Michigan Republican replied by saying, "Sure kommie. Good talking point."

Christ, they're all basically Birchers.

Birch Barlow?

John Birch Society. Absolutely insane paranoids from the 50s to around the 70s. I recently read a history of the Bircher movement and it was striking how much of their worldview has been normalized in the contemporary right. In the long run, they captured the party.

People are so gullible. What we need is some leftwing conspiracy theories to balance it out.

9/11 Truthers and lefty loons engaged in mental gymnastics to make Putin and Hamas as heroic gets you part way there.

[Kory]

Christ, they're all basically Birchers.

Birch Barlow?

John Birch Society. Absolutely insane paranoids from the 50s to around the 70s. I recently read a history of the Bircher movement and it was striking how much of their worldview has been normalized in the contemporary right. In the long run, they captured the party.

People are so gullible. What we need is some leftwing conspiracy theories to balance it out.

9/11 Truthers and lefty loons engaged in mental gymnastics to make Putin and Hamas as heroic gets you part way there.

But that hasn't fixed anything so far. Could it be that conspiracy theories don't help anyone?

No, it's everyone else who is wrong.

[Dr. Medulla]

Birch Barlow?

John Birch Society. Absolutely insane paranoids from the 50s to around the 70s. I recently read a history of the Bircher movement and it was striking how much of their worldview has been normalized in the contemporary right. In the long run, they captured the party.

People are so gullible. What we need is some leftwing conspiracy theories to balance it out.

9/11 Truthers and lefty loons engaged in mental gymnastics to make Putin and Hamas as heroic gets you part way there.

But that hasn't fixed anything so far. Could it be that conspiracy theories don't help anyone?

No, it's everyone else who is wrong.

The problem is the sheeple keep breathing in the chem trails, which means they're too dumb to understand what's really happening.

[revbob]

John Birch Society. Absolutely insane paranoids from the 50s to around the 70s. I recently read a history of the Bircher movement and it was striking how much of their worldview has been normalized in the contemporary right. In the long run, they captured the party.

People are so gullible. What we need is some leftwing conspiracy theories to balance it out.

9/11 Truthers and lefty loons engaged in mental gymnastics to make Putin and Hamas as heroic gets you part way there.

But that hasn't fixed anything so far. Could it be that conspiracy theories don't help anyone?

No, it's everyone else who is wrong.

The problem is the sheeple keep breathing in the chem trails, which means they're too dumb to understand what's really happening.

That and the flouride in the water supply

[Dr. Medulla]

People are so gullible. What we need is some leftwing conspiracy theories to balance it out.

9/11 Truthers and lefty loons engaged in mental gymnastics to make Putin and Hamas as heroic gets you part way there.

But that hasn't fixed anything so far. Could it be that conspiracy theories don't help anyone?

No, it's everyone else who is wrong.

The problem is the sheeple keep breathing in the chem trails, which means they're too dumb to understand what's really happening.

That and the flouride in the water supply

I've met on more than one occasion people who believe that most brands of toothpaste have mind-controlling chemicals in them (presumably some variation of flouride). They used a brand—my memory is that it was Maclean's—that defied the Illuminati and was safe. Brave, defiant Maclean's, the lone hold-out to the global toothpaste mind-control conspiracy.

[Olaf]

9/11 Truthers and lefty loons engaged in mental gymnastics to make Putin and Hamas as heroic gets you part way there.

But that hasn't fixed anything so far. Could it be that conspiracy theories don't help anyone?

No, it's everyone else who is wrong.

The problem is the sheeple keep breathing in the chem trails, which means they're too dumb to understand what's really happening.

That and the flouride in the water supply

I've met on more than one occasion people who believe that most brands of toothpaste have mind-controlling chemicals in them (presumably some variation of flouride). They used a brand—my memory is that it was Maclean's—that defied the Illuminati and was safe. Brave, defiant Maclean's, the lone hold-out to the global toothpaste mind-control conspiracy.

"On more than one occasion?" Holy crap.

[Dr. Medulla]

I've met on more than one occasion people who believe that most brands of toothpaste have mind-controlling chemicals in them (presumably some variation of flouride). They used a brand—my memory is that it was Maclean's—that defied the Illuminati and was safe. Brave, defiant Maclean's, the lone hold-out to the global toothpaste mind-control conspiracy.

"On more than one occasion?" Holy crap.

Bavaria's got nothing on Western Canada.

[Flex]

One of the very first issues that I had to deal with when I was elected to town council was evaluating whether we wanted to keep added fluoride in our water supply. One council member hated it and got enough folks to at least have staff put it on some of our agendas for consideration. This was pre-pandemic when "believe science" or anti-science conspiracy views weren't subject to much partisan sorting and I was, ah, rather surprised at how many people on both council and in the public were pretty conspiracy minded about fluoride.

Fortunately there was enough public health backlash that the issue died on the vine after a few idiotic weeks of discussion.

[revbob]

One of the very first issues that I had to deal with when I was elected to town council was evaluating whether we wanted to keep added fluoride in our water supply. One council member hated it and got enough folks to at least have staff put it on some of our agendas for consideration. This was pre-pandemic when "believe science" or anti-science conspiracy views weren't subject to much partisan sorting and I was, ah, rather surprised at how many people on both council and in the public were pretty conspiracy minded about fluoride.

Fortunately there was enough public health backlash that the issue died on the vine after a few idiotic weeks of discussion.

I feel that's one of those conspiracy driven initiatives that comes up every so often