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[Fake Messiah]

This is the city of Roswell milking the the 1946 incident for tourism bucks. I'm sure they know exactly what their doing. A kook's money is as good as anyone else's.

At least they're not milking a Marian apparition. I mean that really gets ugly when people roll people who are on their deathbeds desperate for some last chance cure.

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Lauren Boebert Giggles Her Way Through Faked Moon Landing And A Few Other Top Conspiracy Theories

Boebert appeared on "Prime Time with Alex Stein," which, as MTN/Meidas News points out, is broadcast on Glenn Beck's right-friendly Blaze TV. Stein was rabble-rousing and teeing up the conspiracies like big old nutty softballs, and to her credit Boebert was giggling and messing with her hair the whole time, suggesting an ad hoc pact to spend the segment enthusiastically trolling the libs.

Still, the discussion was a masterclass in re-seeding conspiracy narratives in a way that serve the entertain-at-all-costs mandate of right-wing media while also reinforcing the familiar line that the government cannot be trusted.

In 2023, Joe Rogan and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen delved into a layered conspiracy theory about U.S. nuclear tests being faked. I say "layered" because Andreessen suggested that they were faked to intimidate the Russians – it was a clever psyop. Nothing was actually decimated by the blasts, and the survival of the footage is proof. How did the cameras keep running? How was the film not torched?

Boebert went with the flow on this one and then started babbling about submarines. Of course, it's not difficult to find out why the cameras survived – they were elaborately shielded. What was interesting about the exchange between Boebert and Stein was that while Stein was clearly just screwing around, Boebert had to play along with the conspiracy theory while simultaneously defending the Pentagon's decision to bomb Iran's totally, completely real nukes program.

The idea that the Moon landing was a hoax has been built from many pieces, and one that has some basis in fact is the allegation that the Van Allen radiation belts that surround Earth would have killed the Apollo 11 astronauts before they completed their journey. There were six "successful" crewed Moon landings, so they must all have been staged! But the Van Allen conspiracy angle isn't hard to dismiss – due to mission planning and spacecraft shielding, NASA ensured that the astronauts absorbed little more than a medical x-ray's worth of radiation.

Boebert and Stein topped it off with Tucker Carlson's bolstering of the theory that so-called "Building 7" at the World Trade Center must have collapsed as a result of a controlled demolition because it wasn't struck by a jet airliner on 9/11. It actually caught on fire and collapsed as a consequence of some thoroughly understandable structural failures.

Shockingly, Boebert and Stein failed to indulge in some comedy around the granddaddy of them all; somehow, the JFK assassination didn't come up.

https://www.jalopnik.com/1900804/lauren-...onspiracy/