Tyler Durden, at Zero Hedge, is passing along a blog written by James Howard Kunstler. You know before you get started that this is going to be edgy because it comes from Tyler Durden, the mythical hero of Fight Club. Durden, if you remember, was opposed to practically everything in modern life and leads a underground group of dissatisfied males who fight each other to prove how manly they are. It is unsurprising then that this blog is full of conspiracy theories.

Even though I went into his blog with the expectations of conspiracy theories, I was astounded by the shear number Durden/Kunstler refers to in one blog. First, there is the Clinton Clan who bought off the Democratic National Committee in order to win the 2016 Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton. Then there are the neo-Marxist who’s only goal is to make everyone miserable because that is what Marxists do. They quite simply aren’t happy unless they are making someone somewhere miserable. Unbeknownst to me, the leader of the neo-Marxists is none other than Barack Obama who, while president, took over public education so that all white children would learn how perfectly awful the white race is. They also encouraging children, without telling their parents, of course, to change their gender.

Wait there is more.

The Obama Gang (also known as the neo-Marxist gang) doesn’t like the Clinton gang so the Obama Gang used Joe Biden to regain control of the Democratic Party. The neo-Marxist gang also want to strip the Middle Class of any assets in order to weaken any opposition to the eventual neo-Marxist take over of the country. Since Obama is actually in charge of the Biden Administration, he OK’d the destruction of the Middle Class because people were catching on to his bad behavior during his presidency. Since he couldn’t hide his misdeeds anymore, he has to distract the public. Destroying the American Middle Class is Obama’s choice of distraction. This neo-Marxist conspiracy also destroyed the Trump presidency when they released the COVID virus which allowed them to take some unconstitutional and illegal judicial actions rolled out during the the pandemic panic. The COVID crisis also allowed the neo-Marxists to hijack the 2020 election through mail-in voting. To boot, and I am assuming this is just for informational purposes only, a former drug addict says that Obama is actually gay and a junkie. What that has to do with the conspiracy, I don’t know how he does it all but I think it is pretty impressive that a drug addicted man could pull of such a complicated conspiracy.

Got it.

Give me a second here to catch my breath here as the shear volume of conspiracies has left me a little overwhelmed. I mean, for Christ’s sakes, all of these conspiracies going on in plain site and nobody is doing anything to stop them. The American Public is just rolling over while the neo-Marxists take over.

Where do I begin? Oh, Obama being a neo-Marxist is probably as good as any other place. Obama is clearly not a Marxist of any kind. He comes across as a moderate Democrat and a supporter of a regulated capitalist economy. He has done nothing to suggest that he wants to confiscate the middle class’ property or to send them to reeducation camps. He hangs out with billionaires who don’t seem the least bit afraid that he is going to line them up like the Romanovs.

Then the neo-Marxists released COVID on the American public in order to win the 2020 election. I find it difficult to believe because Kunstler/Durden provides absolutely no evidence to support this contention. I guess we are supposed to take it on trust but, I’m sorry Tyler, but with all of these conspiracy theories going around I find it difficult to believe anyone. Who’s to say you aren’t with the Clinton clan or a part of a neo-Marxist sleeper cell?

The evidence I have suggests COVID broke out in China and then Italy and Spain before winding its way to USA. So, if I am understanding this all correctly, the Chinese Communist government intentionally released a deadly disease on it’s own population in order that this deadly disease could eventually infect the American Public. In the impending crisis, governments the world over will institute strict healthcare practices which would allow the American government to institute mail in voting so that Biden could steal the 2020 election.

Since the Democrats are so adept at election shenanigans, or so the conservative press would have us believe, it seems like overkill. I mean they have been stealing elections successfully for years without releasing a deadly disease why would they take such a risk in 2020 in order to stuff the ballot box in Cook County. I get that neo-Marxists are horrible people and will stop at nothing to win an election but why take such drastic steps when letting the dead vote would have worked just as well without the attendant worldwide health panic. Why use an atomic bomb when a couple of well placed hand grenades would work just as well?

Given that conservatives think that Commies couldn’t tie their shoes without the help of good American capitalists, how can these secret cabals be so successful with such intricate and secret plans? I don’t know about you, but if Kunslter/Durden are correct, which clearly they aren’t, but for the sake of argument let’s suppose they are, then I am pretty impressed that these groups could know years in advance that they would need a mail-in ballot to win the 2020 election and to co-ordinate their efforts with the Chinese Communists to release the disease and National Health Services across the globe to end freedom as we know it. This is the biggest international co-ordination of resources since D-Day.

Which brings us to the real problem — the wasted effort to debunk conspiracy theories is taking people away from solving the real problems that COVID exposed. I am willing to listen if you say the medical community overreacted to COVID and we need to take the lessons we learned from this crisis and take different steps at the next pandemic. I am willing to talk and willing to change but if you want to peg this on an international Communist conspiracy, forget about it.

Newt Gingrich believes that Former President Barack Obama is running the Biden Presidency behind the scenes. Just in case you didn’t hear it, and I am sure because she wants to keep the American public informed on all the scuttlebutt in Washington, Megan Kelley passes along this little tidbit in a discussion she was having with another reporter. Neither one provided a bit of evidence that this was indeed what was happening. Never mind, it is vitally important to feed conspiracies to the hungry Right-Wing mob. They have difficulty holding up their pitchforks without a daily does of conspiracy.

Since they are purposefully vague about what Obama is actually doing, I am trying to identify what the actual problem is. If they mean that Biden is appointing the same people Obama worked with in his term. So what? Isn’t that standard operating procedures here? A new Democratic President will obviously use experienced Democratic operatives from a previous Democratic President in their appointments. If they are saying that Obama secretly jumps the White House fence every night so he can run the government while Biden sits drooling in his wheelchair, then I think they need to provide some details backing this speculation.

This innocent passing along of speculation because it it important for the public to know is just bull shit. The media loves it and, of course, will pass the scoop along with nary a second thought. They love controversy and if people provide them with controversies, they will publish it. Why, if people are talking about it, then it is news and it would be an absolute disservice to the American Public to keep such important information from them.

I don’t know about you but I am not sure passing along gossip counts as meaningful dialogue or responsible behavior. Perhaps one of the reasons that the American public holds the press and the government in such low regard is their questionable behavior in supplying the American Public with evidence about what they are saying.

For the record, I have absolutely no facts to back up what I am saying but I think it is really important to get this unsubstantiated information out there because it might be true and it is vitally important that the American Public weigh in on my idle speculation. It could be important or it could light a fuse to a keg of dynamite, who am I to judge, I am just telling you what I’ve heard.

I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person. For me, though, a little evidence is required for me to take the bait and don my aluminum foil hat. This doesn’t seem to bother Vivek Ramaswamy, extremely long shot Republican candidate for President. He doubts the 9-11 Commissions findings. He wants to know how many armed US government officials were on board the planes that crashed into the twin towers. He admits he doesn’t have any idea or any information about how many were on board. Facts don’t matter. He has questions and damn it they must be answered.

The 9-11 commission admits to one government official being on board and he did not carry a gun. This isn’t good enough for Ramaswamy though, he needs another commission to confirm this fact. Now, I would think, and I am just guessing here, but in the spreading conspiracy theory world that’s all you need really, an inkling and nothing more, so I am going to go out on a limb here, that if there was any government official with a gun on board that day, they would have used it to stop the high jackers who only had box cutters. That this new commission is unlikely to discover anything new is besides the point. Coming from a candidate who claims fiscal responsibility is important to him this seems odd but then the similarly fiscally minded Republicans wanted 10 investigations into Benghazi even though each commission had remarkably similar findings.

Now Newt Gingrich, and, of course, another person who absolutely wants to rein in government spending on wasteful projects, claims that Former President Barack Obama is actually in charge of the government and not Joe Biden. Given that the Republicans claim that Biden is a doddering old man who should be in an old age home and not the White House, you would think they would take some comfort that Obama, a much younger and vigorous man, was actually in charge but no the nefarious Obama, partnered with the always evil Hillary Clinton, are up to no good. This is Gingrich’s theory, all gut instincts and no facts, and it needs investigating.

What bothers me about these obvious attempts to grab the media’s attention is that the media willingly just gives it to them. It is a remarkably easy method. Just say something outrageous and if you are half way famous person — the media will go out of their way to spread whatever bullshit conspiracy the person is talking about. I don’t blame Ramaswamy and Gingrich. They want attention and they know what they have to do to get it.

The media’s behavior is disappointing to say the least and belies the Republican argument that the media is against them. The media isn’t for or against anyone or anything. All they want to do is to sell papers. They are devoid of positions for the most part. So if anyone wants attention, all they have to do is say something outrageous and the media will do the rest. And you see where this takes us — Donald Trump, who, by the way, is out of office, gets 24/7/365 day coverage while the environment burns. There is not stop coverage of trans children which affects less than 1% of the students in public education because Governor DeSantis thinks it is the number one problem for American Education. It is all a diversion from what really matters. But never mind, I understand that there are some problems with deck chairs sliding on the Titanic. The good news is the passengers all have free ice.