Whoopi Goldberg's theory on Trump is the most bizarre one can imagine

The View's Whoopi Goldberg just added another gem to her long list of head-scratching hot takes, this time floating the idea that President Donald Trump kicked off military action against Iran purely as a shiny object to distract everyone from the heartbreaking disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie's mom, and those lingering Epstein files.

How the heck does that make any sense? I mean, what does the President have to do with a kidnapping and why would he want to distract from it?

During a recent episode, Goldberg [whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson] went bizarre conspiracy mode, insisting the public was being deliberately steered away from these other stories. "Well, I mean, it's just nutty as hell. It's nutty as hell," Caryn said.

She continued: “…Every day is something new. I was thinking about it yesterday because I thought, Well, okay, why haven't we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what's going on there? Why haven't we not been talking about the Epstein files? Because that's still there. This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.”

Co-host [Not-so] Sunny Hostin piled on with the classic line, saying, "It's a very 'wag the dog' feeling." 

Look, feelings about the ongoing conflict with Iran can run hot, fair enough, but the suggestion that Trump launched airstrikes and a broader military campaign just to bury coverage of an 84-year-old woman's abduction from her  Tucson home (now in its sixth week with massive media attention, a $1 million reward, and Savannah herself stepping away from the Today show to focus on the search) or the Epstein documents is the kind of logic that only makes sense if you're viewing the world through a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

This isn't Goldberg's first swing-and-miss on Iran, either. Last year she famously equated the lived experience of Black Americans in the U.S. to the brutal oppression faced by women under the Iranian regime, another take that aged like Blockbuster stock.

Sure, when the U.S. military unleashes over 5,000 strikes on enemy targets, it dominates headlines. That's just how it works. But the Guthrie case hasn't vanished; it's still getting wall-to-wall coverage, with daily updates, family pleas, investigations into damaged utility boxes and doorbell footage, and even international attention. 

The Epstein files are still bubbling in the background, as they have for years.

Goldberg knows, or at least should know, that wars don't erase other news; they just compete for oxygen. Yet TDS has a funny way of short-circuiting rational thought. When Trump is involved, suddenly the most basic cause-and-effect reasoning goes out the window, replaced by elaborate distraction theories that collapse under the slightest scrutiny.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, the conflict is ramping up even as Trump signals it could wrap soon.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Tuesday that Israel is "not seeking an endless war" and will coordinate with the United States on when to end the bombardment of the Iranian regime’s military and nuclear capabilities.

The airstrikes have hammered over 5,000 targets, gutting the regime's ability to sustain a fight. Whether you support the operation or not, spinning it as a ploy to hide a missing-person case or old scandal files is peak absurdity—and Goldberg served it up with a straight face. Classic View moment: lots of heat, zero light.

Meanwhile, Nancy Guthrie is still missing.

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State Dept. Price a no-show day after he got his butt handed to him by a reporter

The day after State Department mouthpiece, Ned Price, got his butt handed to him by Matt Lee of the Associated Press, he failed to show up for a press briefing. Price is the State Department press secretary and press briefings is his game, so what gives?

On Thursday Price was questioned by Lee who didn't let up with pursuing an answer to his probing about the existence of any evidence to back up Price's claim that the US suspects that Russia might release a fake propaganda video showing Ukraine attacking them and to which they need to respond. The evidence, according to Price, is the fact that Price is telling the press about the suspicion.  

So we are to believe Price because he said so, and if we don't, then somehow we are in bed with the Russians.

Lee wasn't having any of it. He compared Price's statement and lack of data to substantiate his claim akin to "Alex Jones territory."

But even Alex Jones might produce something more than just his words to back up his claims, whether what he produces is real or not, the latter being the case most often.

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Price refused to say whether such a video has already been created nor could he offer any tangible evidence that he would share from the podium because he's obviously doing what Brian Stelter does: making stuff up as he goes along.

So maybe Price had an upset tummy on Friday and couldn't make the presser or maybe he was told to stay away and avoid any possible followup questions on the topic. 

You make the call.

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Father of Sandy Hook victim awarded $450 K in defamation suit

Leonard Pozner, the father of the youngest victim in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Noah Pozner, 6, won a judgment for $450,000 in a defamation suit against the editor of a book claiming the massacre was faked.

A Wisconsin jury determined the amount to be paid to Pozner, a Jewish man whose son was among 26 people killed at the Connecticut school.

The award came after the judge ruled that Pozner had been defamed by James Fetzer and Mike Palecek, the editors of the book, "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook," claiming the government staged the killing to advance stronger gun control restrictions. According to the book, Pozner faked Noah's death certificate to advance the conspiracy. Thus making the book a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy.

Fetzer, 78, is described on his Wikipedia page as "a former professor of the professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a conspiracy theorist." In the 1990s he promoted JFK's assassination conspiracy theories and later the 911 conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial, just to name a few. In a display of clear irony, he called the judgment "absurd" and plans to appeal, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Palacek, whose fanboy is Howard Zinn,  has already settled with Pozner for an undisclosed amount, according to The New York Times.

Noah Pozner

Pozner is a party to multiple lawsuits against those who claim the massacre was faked, including the execrable Alex Jones, the online provocateur and conspiracy theorist who runs Infowars. 

Jones has also made claims to the effect that the parents of Sandy Hook victims are part of a plot to take away firearms. He has also made claims that the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11, 2001 attacks and the moon landings were all government planned scams and that big businesses have colluded to create a  "New World Order" through "manufactured economic crises, sophisticated surveillance tech and inside-job terror attacks that fuel exploitable hysteria".

In other words, Jones is one of the most prolific liars in the nation.

It's a good thing these people are holding their stinky feet to the fire.

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Obviously=Comatose pushes victimhood conspiracy theory about POTUS

Hostage photo
"Nancy, blink twice if you're okay"

Socialist Rep. Sandy Cortez [aka Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] a New York Dumbocrat, is promoting an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. She suggests, without a shred of evidence that President Trump was purposely trying to get her assassinated.

The low-functioning socialist made her crazy claim on Twitter after a police officer reportedly posted on Facebook that Ocasio-Cortez "needs a round--and I don't mean the kind she used to serve." Anyone with firearms experience knows that a round is a round of ammo containing a shell and a bullet.

Democrats love to promote themselves as victims, either a victim of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and early childhood experiences. Of course, there are more areas of victimhood they use, but the list is too long for the purposes of this post.

Sandy Cortez [a name she used before becoming the youngest and least intelligent congresswoman[ claimed with no evidence whatsoever:

"This is Trump’s goal when he uses targeted language & threatens elected officials who don’t agree w/ his political agenda. It’s authoritarian behavior. The President is sowing violence. He’s creating an environment where people can get hurt & he claims plausible deniability.

But Sandy compared ICE facilities as a "concentration camp" and recently a far-left domestic terrorist attacked an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington and used her "concentration camp" rhetoric in his manifesto to justify his attack. Not surprisingly, Cortez has repeatedly refused to denounce the terrorist attack on ICE, which she has repeatedly demonized. So here we have irrefutable evidence that Cortez's words were used to inspire a terrorist attack, and nothing more than Cortez's word to claim Trump is inspiring her assassination.

This is not the first time that Ocasio-Cortez has made wildly unsubstantiated bull crap claims like this.

Just a few weeks ago she suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was targeting her because Pelosi wanted her to get "death threats."

People who support AOC must be willfully blind or stupid or both.

"It's singling out four individuals, and knowing the media environment that we're operating in, knowing the amount of death threats that we get, knowing the amount of concentration of attention," Ocasio-Cortez told CNN's Manu Raju. "I think it's just worth asking why."

Boo-hoo. 

Blaming anyone for a violent act by somebody else, is wrong. No conservatives with a brain blamed Bernie Sanders for the domestic terror attack at the Alexandria, VA baseball field by a Sanders supporter.

Often short on facts, and always short on wisdom, AOC has repeatedly promoted conspiracy theories that have no basis in reality. From her claim in March about a "far-right" conspiracy that targeted her using a "dark-money internet operation" and a cable news "propaganda machine," to her empty claims about people on both sides of the aisle that want her removed from Congress, AOC is never shy of playing the "Woe is Me" card.

It will be wonderful if she becomes a one-term wonder.

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Counterfeit News Network's April Ryan tweets article about Trump running child-trafficking ring

April Ryan, a Counterfeit News Network (CNN) contributor and White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Network, is being slammed for telling her 336,000 Twitter followers about a story in The Root that asks if Trump's administration is dealing in child trafficking.

Seriously. 

Melania Trump rightly criticized Ryan for the tweet and others went on Twitter to do the same.

Stephanie Grisham is the Press Secretary and Communications Director for the First Lady, Melania Trump.

"If you're a journalist w many followers & a @CNNPolitics contributor...is it ok to retweet any headline you want, regardless of if it's true?" Grisham tweeted, adding that "The core purpose of a journalist is to research, document, write, & present the news in an honest, ethical, & unbiased way."

The headline in The Root article was titled: "Is the Trump administration running a child-trafficking ring or nah? Follow me down the rabbit hole."

Ryan tweeted the article without comment. The Root is an online magazine dealing with the African-American culture.

The Root's political editor Jason Johnson asks why should "alt-righters" have all the fun peddling disproven and unfounded conspiracy theories. He then suggests one of his own.

"Now it turns out that the Trump administration may have an equally implausible conspiracy on its hands: Is the administration involved in child sex trafficking or just white nationalism? Follow me down the rabbit hold and see for yourself," Johnson writes.

Many questioned on Twitter how Ryan, a supposedly "professional" journalist could associate herself with such a story. Well, she was already slammed for saying that Melania Trump was not culturally American.

But I have a theory.

When Ryan was a child growing up in Baltimore, her parents were involved in child sex trafficking and this left an indelible scar on a child who only sought love from her distant parents, both of whom voted Republican.

Her father who refused to pay attention to her but instead took kindly to several young Caucasian girls, created an intense jealousy in her which was expressed as fierce animosity toward father figures [think a US president, for example] and white people.

That's my conspiracy theory and I'm sticking to it.

"This is a horrid excuse for journalism," Tweeted Carmine Sabia, a Christian journalist in New Jersey. "To quasi accuse the president of the United States of running a child trafficking ring is low even for her."

The Root is owned by Univision and CEO Randy Falco was highly critical of Trump during the presidential campaign. 

I know my conspiracy theory is a load of crap, but it's clear that Ryan either did not check out the article in The Root, or checked it out, tweeted it to her followers who she hoped would believe it, and said nothing to implicate her endorsement of the trash.

Ryan is a trash reporter for a pair of trash media outlets that never err on the side of Trump, but always errs against him. 

Not every "fake news" claim made by Trump is valid, but there are plenty enough of them to discredit the mainstream media, and they are losing their audience. 



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BIG UPDATE: Rogue planet heading toward Brooklyn etc.

Actual fake photo of Nibiru

Don't buy any green bananas because if conspiracy theorists are correct, as they always are (in their own minds), a rogue planet that goes by the name Nibiru (aka Planet X) is heading our way like a bat out of hell.

Schools across the world are having children hiding under their desks for protection, much like they did in the 1950s when we worried that Russia was going to nuke us. Those desks were the last vestige of protection for the kids.

The time of impact is to be during this weekend, so you can forget about any Thanksgiving plans you may have had and find a good, solid public school desk to hide under.

Conspiracy theorists say  Nibiru will screw up Earth's orbit on Sunday and bring about a series of huge earthquakes that could bring back the dinosaurs and kill the rest of life. The only creatures that stands a remote chance of survival is the standard cockroach and the doodlebug.

Nibiru was originally scheduled to destroy our world on September 23, according to a crazy Christian "numerologist," whose numerical count was evidently off. This expert "numerologist" said the rogue planet was actually going to collide with Earth, not just do a fly-by.

But lo and behold, that day came and went and nothing. Nada. Zilch.

Now "theorists" (who make their living serving fries and burgers) say that Nibiru will come so close to Earth that it will smell our fear and screw up our gravitational forces. 

It will not only bring fire and brimstone, it will cause the seas to rise and farts to smell like flowers.

Nibiru is a make believe planet located on the outer edges of our solar system (aka "The Outer Limits") and orbits the sun every 3,600 years or so. Some "theorists" believe its gravitational influences have caused Alex Jones to defraud fans out of more money than he deserves. They also think Nibiru has already caused havoc with other planets hundreds of years ago and now it's our turn.

It's also claimed by these "scientists" that this make believe planet sends plasmatic energy particles through our solar system and this energy can disrupt the core flows of the earth and cause dangerous climate change known as global warming (aka the "Al Jazeera Gore Effect").

NASA disagrees.

"There is no credible evidence whatever for the existence of Nibiru," Dr. David Morrison said. Morrison is an actual scientist with NASA and spoke to the U.K's Daily Express, which used to be a Thai takeout joint in London. "There are no pictures, no tracking, no astronomical observations."

Alex Jones disagrees.

Sounding a bit like he recently gargled with heavy-gauge steel wool, Jones said of NASA: "What do those charlatans know? They put 'Doctor' in front of their names and we're supposed to believe them? Bull! I know Nibiru is on its way--I can feel it . . .  It's out there, and it's out to get us. Folks, all we can do now is pray and get under our desks."

Now go have a banana.

UPDATE: It missed.


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Some conspiracy theories might be true

I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am not a big fan of Alex Jones because he makes everything sound like a conspiracy--like Jesus had help moving the stone away from in front of the cave he was placed in after being taken off the cross.

But there is something about the $400 million in ransom money the Obama administration paid Iran for the release of four hostages.

Yes, I called it ransom money because anyone with an IQ about room temperature knows that a 37 year old debt being paid the same day as a hostage release is proof the Democrats think the American people are stupid. They're only half right and it's the left who are that believe them.

However, the Justice Department is saying that they didn't want the money released to Iran on the same day the hostages were to be set free because it was bad optics and the public would see the money as ransom cash.

Now here's my conspiracy theory: what if (all conspiracy theories should begin with a "what if" beginning) the Justice Department was told to communicate their concerns about the optics of the transaction to the State Department as a way of legitimizing the deal? 

In other words, by the DoJ saying sending the money the same day looks bad, that in itself makes the deal sound legitimate. Then ,when the State Department responds to the DoJ with a "hell no, it's a go," it makes it seem as if the State Department just messed up and the deal was kosher. 

After all, it isn't a stretch that the State Department messes up--they hired Marie Harf, John Kirby and Lurch Kerry.

"Oh gee, Department of Justice--you were right this time--we should have waited to send the money."

But it was ransom money--let's not lose sight of that.

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"Good Night Malaysian Three-Seven-Zero"

They lied to us. The Malaysian government claimed that the last words they heard from the missing jet aircraft were: "All right, good night." But now there has been a new claim by the Malaysian government saying that the last words were actually: "Good night, Malaysian three-seven-zero."

This is not a small thing in the scheme of things. This information is mind-boggling because if they are saying that they lied to begin with, I am pretty sure they are still lying. In fact, who's to say that the last words weren't coming from a Pakistani who was screaming: "The plane is mine. Allahu Akhbar infidel dogs!"? Who's to say they didn't land the jet on a small uncharted island, covered it up, and converted the passengers to Islam and got them all personalized suicide vests?

I don't have a theory because even if I did, it matters not one iota what people think--it only matters what they know. And we don't know. We have theories, experts, and even a couple of conspiracy theorists like good ole dependable, Alex Jones. 

Ole Alex thinks there are a number of possibilities such as the jet's "Squawk" code was swapped with a Gulfstream private jet which then cut out. But then wouldn't there be a missing Gulfstream? Boggles the mind. Jones also believes, like a few "experts" that the jet dropped to 12,000 feet due to a cabin pressure emergency and maybe it was too late and the plane went zombie. 

One thing is for certain; if the pilot or co-pilot didn't say "All right, good night," but instead uttered the words, "Good night, Malaysian three-seven-zero," we know there must be something afoot. I believe, and Alex Jones might concur, that when the pilot said those frightening words, he was saying goodnight to MH 370 itself and not ground control.

Or maybe not.

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G.W.'s Plot to Deplete Saudi Oil Reserves

A guy my wife works with goes to his mosque regularly. He told a tale to my wife that he revealed was told to him by his imam, and he fully believes the story is true. You decide for yourself as to whether this person is a complete idiot, or simply a partial idiot when it comes to his "religious" beliefs.

According to the imam, George W. Bush has a plan to deplete Saudi Arabia of its oil. Bush is sneaking helicopters into the country and loading them with oil, then flying the choppers back to Texas, and burying the oil below ground so that it isn't spotted by, um, oil spotters, I guess.

This is the kind of anti-American crap they teach Muslims at mosque. BUT THEY BELIEVE IT! Perhaps this is why there is a serious deficit of Nobel Prizes in Physics winners amongst the Islamic community.

In order to pull this off (for whatever reason) a huge helicopter would be needed. I would suggest the Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion. It can carry a payload of 30,000 pounds per trip. 

Unfortunately for George W. Bush, the distance from Saudi Arabia is 7933 miles and the cruising range (loaded) of the CH-53E is 621 miles, which means it would need to refuel about 13 times, much of it being the ocean, to make it all the way to Texas. The trip, if there was no stopping to fuel, would take about 46 hours flying "balls to the wall." Obviously, in order to accomplish this incredible feat, the craft would need to be refueled in the air, which would end up costing a bit of money beyond what 30,000 pounds of oil could fetch on the black oil market, not to mention the cost of helicopter fuel (it holds 2277 gallons and requires 13 refills to make the trip, remember) and the salaries of the crew who would be flying for almost two full days.

The cost to fly the oil to the states would be more than the cost of the oil--that's why oil is transported by ship, not air.

In other words, it's ridiculous to think this imam has any greater credibility than the "religion" he spouts.



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