2,057 words
Part 1 available here and Part 3 here.
Now that I’ve explained why conspiracism is not an accurate way to understand various processes and agendas playing out in the world today, I’m not going to explain the logical errors with the conspiracist mindset in a general sense. Again, I don’t deny that conspiracies among powerful individuals exist and occur regularly. The issue is with making conspiracy foundational to one’s interpretation of the world and the belief that world events have been preplanned and are being orchestrated by a grand conspiracy. While conspiracists proclaim themselves as truth seekers and skeptics, conspiracism as a worldview is in fact reliant on a plethora of logical fallacies and preconceived biases on the part of its adherents.
The first problem with the logic of conspiracism is that it is heavily biased towards any explanation of an event which is simply not “mainstream” or “official.” To form objective understanding of truth on any given subject, one must be open to questioning one’s own presuppositions and coming to conclusions based on the balance of evidence available. Conspiracists don’t do this. They always uncritically assume that the “official” explanation of any given historic or current event must be incorrect and default to the position that conspiracy was involved regardless of the evidence. The burden of proof for them to accept an official narrative is impossibly high while the burden of proof required to get them to believe a conspiracy theory is ridiculously low.
They don’t come to their conclusions based on the balance of evidence, but only on the dogmatic assumption that mainstream narratives must always be false. They’ll take a ten second clip with pixels the size of dinner plates as irrefutable proof that a conspiracy must have occurred while ignoring a mountain of evidence suggesting the contrary. They show an extreme lack of skepticism toward alternative narratives, believing them based on the flimsiest of evidence solely because they are conspiratorial and not official. It’s common for conspiracists to launch into conspiracy theories on a breaking story while said event is still in process before anyone could possibly know what is happening. Such claims are just biased assumptions since they are made before sufficient evidence is available to perform a well-reasoned analysis.
You can buy Greg Johnson’s Against Imperialism here.
For instance, after the June 2024 Trump assassination attempt, the second the bullet was fired, the internet was immediately awash with conspiracists declaring with absolute certainty that they knew who was behind it. Right-wing conspiracists were saying it was planned by the Democrats while Left-wing conspiracists were saying that it was staged by Trump as a campaign ploy. The possibility that Thomas Matthew Crooks just did it himself was dismissed outright because of their arbitrary feelings that it was too “fishy.” Meanwhile, simply being able to imagine exterior forces having a motive was thought of as undeniable evidence that such actors must have been involved. After about two years, nothing concrete has emerged to suggest a broader conspiracy, yet this idea was simply taken as a given by conspiracists at the time.
It’s common for conspiracists to believe in multiple contradictory conspiratorial narratives simultaneously. Since they will believe almost anything as long as it’s not mainstream, they’ll often imbibe multiple conspiracies at once. There can only be one truth behind any event. If there exist multiple conspiracy theories on an event, even if the mainstream explanation is incorrect, all the alternative explanations except for one must also be incorrect. An explanation being conspiratorial, even if the mainstream explanation is questionable, shouldn’t automatically grant the theory credibility.
Let’s take Covid for example. I’m of the belief that, while Covid was a real virus, the severity of it was vastly overstated, meaning I would fall into a conspiratorial camp on this issue. If I had to put forth a theory in hindsight, I would say that what most likely happened was managerialism gone mad. The ruling class and prestigious institutions had so much faith in the power of managerial bureaucracy to counter the virus that they developed a dogmatic devotion to unworkable theoretical solutions which they pursued far beyond all practicality. I don’t believe the pandemic was preplanned, but that members of the elite class used it as an opportunity for profiteering and advancing other agendas such as digitalization and sustainable development. I believe the vaccine was ineffective and unnecessary and caused either injury or death to a number of people because it was rushed and part of a money grab by big pharma.
I’m open to the possibility that I am wrong, but this is what I now believe to be the most probable explanation of what happened. Although I do believe in one conspiratorial version of events, I do not believe in the countless other conspiratorial versions of events. I don’t believe that Covid was planned out years in advance, that the vaccine was part of some depopulation agenda, or that the goal was to implant computer chips in people’s bodies. I also acknowledge that my opinion on what happened is now somewhat different to what I thought was happening at the time. So, even if the official narrative was incorrect, credibility shouldn’t be blindly granted to any alternative explanation without scrutiny.
The next problem with the logic of conspiracism is that it always involves an enormous amount of confirmation bias. Conspiracists always arrive at conclusions which never contradict and always reaffirm their biases. Whatever theory they come up with on any given event is always colored by their preconceived political ideology. When they say they are “questioning the official narrative,” what conspiracists are really doing is selectively interpreting information in order to fit it into a framing which confirms their worldview. No conspiracist has ever “questioned the official narrative” and concluded that what occurred contradicts their fundamental beliefs.
For example, the QAnon conspiracy theory was that a cabal of satanic pedo elites are in league with the American Deep State, but that Donald Trump was waging a secret war to stop them. While QAnon’s framing was sensationalist, we do know that the Epstein trafficking network existed and had influence over a huge number of politicians and other important figures. However, there is enormous evidence that Donald Trump was involved with this network, not working against it. Why did the QAnon conspiracy theory posit that he had some kind of a plan to stop them? It’s because QAnon believers came from an American conservative ideological background, meaning Donald Trump’s hyperreal patriotic persona was appealing to them. So, the conspiracy theory was shaped to conform to their pre-existing political biases, not objective reality.
Another example can be found among many Left-wing conspiracists. Left-wing conspiracy theories usually involve wealthy capitalists and corporations conspiring against the masses for their own material gain. In addition to blaming the evils of capitalism, they also claim that the megarich perpetuate the supposed wrongs of “racism,” “sexism,” and “homophobia”. In reality, wealthy elites and major corporations have a long history of financially supporting progressive social causes such as mass immigration, anti-racism, feminism, and LGBT rights. A lot of funding for the Bolshevik Revolution came from Wall Street during WWI, the Civil Rights Movement had enormous financial support from the elite class in the 1960s, and the phenomenon of Woke Capital has been extremely widespread in the past fifteen years. Left-wing conspiracy theories always omit this reality because it would contradict the egalitarian ideological priors which their worldview is based on.
Conspiracists develop extreme tunnel vision as a result of their doctrinarism. They view all happenings as the result of a unitary grand conspiracy perpetrated by the boogieman of their chosen political ideology. They focus entirely on whoever they prejudge to be the ultimate villain and selectively construe world events into a narrative which places this single actor as the driving force behind everything which happens. As a result, they ignore the doings of every other actor, either writing them off as irrelevant or as a servant of their preferred bad guy.
Who do conspiracists of various political stripes blame for all of their gripes with the world? For the far-Left, it’s corporations and Western imperialism, for the center-Left, it’s Russia and MAGA, for the center-Right, it’s China and the WEF, and for the far-Right, it’s Israel and the Global American Empire. In reality, world events are not monocausal, but multicausal. Corporations, Russia, China, America, Israel, and the WEF all have agency of their own and impact world events independently of one another. Focusing on only one while disregarding the rest gives conspiracists an incomplete and overly simplistic understanding of the world.
An alternative though likewise false interpretation conspiracists often arrive at is that all of these influential entities are actually one and the same. They’ll claim that America, the EU, Ukraine, Israel, NATO, etc. are all the exact same thing and have no autonomous agency from one another. Depending on their ideological biases, they sometimes extend that grand conspiracy to include the UN, China, Russia, and more. They disregard any apparent conflict and dis-coordination between these various actors as a charade designed to hide the grand conspiracy which they are all involved in. They’ll claim that events like the Russia-Ukraine War, fallout between the Trump admin and the EU, or Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter are all staged to give the illusion of opposition when everything is actually being unanimously coordinated behind the scenes.
This makes their belief in conspiracism unfalsifiable. While the bar for what they accept as confirmation of their conspiracy theories is extremely low, any and all contradictory evidence is just written off as a ruse designed to hide the conspiracy, thus making it impossible to disprove in their minds. In order for a theory to be considered valid, the potential for it to be either verified or refuted must exist. The proclamation that a grand conspiracy exists and that anything which appears to refute this is just manufactured as part of the conspiracy does not meet the standard of falsifiability required. Thus, such claims should not be considered credible.
Lastly, conspiracism is reliant on an extremely short memory among its adherents. The falsehoods of the theories put forth by conspiracists reveal themselves when one looks back at them in hindsight and how they have failed to materialize. As stated earlier, those of a conspiracist bent are sure to immediately declare any major event to be part of some kind of conspiracy as soon as it occurs. The proclamations they make at the time very rarely come into fruition, but they are able to bury these strikes against their credibility by putting out new conspiracies on more recent happenings.
For example, Alex Jones will immediately launch into a conspiracy theory the second a news story breaks. He declares that World War III has begun every single time a geopolitical incident occurs and also declares that a Civil War has begun at the slightest of domestic political flareups in America. He makes such incorrect predictions weekly. Obviously, he is wrong every single time, but he bombards his audience with such a relentless tide of conspiracist slop that by the time the dust settles on one story, and he is shown to have been incorrect, he is already doing the same sensationalist routine for the next story. As a result, his wildly incorrect claims are just forgotten.
The rare occasions in which Alex Jones is right about should not give him any significant degree of credibility. Conspiracists like to cherry pick the few times he was correct about something, while ignoring the fact that he is incorrect about 95% of the time. He is only right occasionally in the same sense that a broken clock is right twice a day. If a weatherman incorrectly predicted rain for 19 days in a row, him correctly predicting rain on the 20th day wouldn’t make him a good weatherman.
In her endless stream of podcasts on conspiracies revolving around the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens routinely contradicts herself from one week to the next. If one were to compare her most recent claims to those she had made a month or so earlier, glaring contradictions would be apparent. However, her audience does not question the continuity of any of her claims because the blatant falsehoods are buried under an endless tide of new content within days.
33 comments
Great article! I don’t have tunnel vision; it is the jews. 🙃
There he goes again.
OOPS! I meant Every. Single. Time. (smirk)
Does that include Masonic sorcery?
I don’t know anything about Masonic sorcery, to me it is the jews. 🙃
Well Holocaust revisionists such as Michael A. Hoffman and Bill Grimstad, AKA Jim Brandon (who worked for Rockwell) have alluded to Masonic high tech magic. They both knew James Shelby Downard with whom Hoffman co-authored “King Kill 33”.
Back in the 80’s Grimstad said the Illuminati was preparing the public for Alien Disclosure which happens to be in the news lately.
I don’t know how jew wise Downard was.
Downard was a paranoid schizophrenic. The enemy he was fighting was his personal version of the Illluminati, not any network that exists in the real world.
People like him don’t bother to research the actual history and doctrines of Freemasonry. Instead of learning the Cabala, they invent their own fantasy version of Freemasonic Occultism, sometimes relying on fringe Masonic authors like Manly P. Hall.
I don’t think Michael A. Hoffman II was ever a credible Holocaust Revisionist; he merely wrote a more or less decent book on the first (1985) Zündel Thoughtcrimes trial in Toronto, Canada.
In 1985, and again in 1988, a Germanophile Canadian publisher, Ernst Zündel was charged and twice convicted of “publishing false news,” i.e., propagating views on the Holocaust that Jews don’t like. This Orwellian law itself was eventually overturned.
Having never acquired Canadian citizenship, Zündel later did much time in prison in Canada fighting extradition to Germany for Thoughtcrimes ─ and when he acquired an American wife, he was then deported by the United States to Germany where he served a long prison sentence for Holocaust Denial.
The WWII historical author David Irving assisted the Defence in the second Zündel trial (1988) and Irving further recommended that politicians debate the findings of the expert report on the Nazi Gas-Chambers produced for the trial by the Holocaust Revisionist Prof. Robert Faurisson and Mr. Fred Leuchter, an expert on American execution hardware.
This was the beginning of Irving’s legal troubles as he found that he was soon labelled a Holocaust Denier ─ whatever that means ─ and his large catalog of WWII historical books were thereafter boycotted by Jewish publishing houses. Marxist historians typically denounced Mr. Irving as a falsifier of history, although this accusation has no merit, and a few like the military historian Sir John Keegan stood by the popular WWII author and historian.
Other than a decent effort telling the complicated story of the first Zündel trial, Hoffman II is a conspiracy theorist of the worst stripe. He converted to Sedevacantist Roman Catholicism, for what its worth, so sees Freemasonry everywhere. Surely in its own long and turgid history, the Latin Rite Church has never done any mystical networking nor collusive backbiting.
Hoffman II wrote a book published in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in 2019 called Adolf Hitler: Enemy of the German People.
I purchased Hoffman’s book on Hitler intending to write a review, but it was not worth the bother. This short book was as bad as a vanity project from any woke modern High School, and the author rarely made an original argument therein.
🙂
I have not read Hoffman on the Jewish Holocaust but his book They Were White and They Were Slaves is great.
https://counter-currents.com/2020/10/michael-hoffmans-they-were-white-they-were-slaves/
“For example, Alex Jones will immediately launch into a conspiracy theory the second a news story breaks.” The key thing to remember about Jones, is that selling fear porn is a business model. Alex Jones knows that he is lying to the public. This is not to say that Jones intentionally tries to mislead the public strictly for financial gain, because he obviously knows about jewish power in America, while bullsh!tting the public with “Fourth Reich Nazi” tales, or deflecting blame from White American traitors and jews, by blaming British inter-dimensional lizards. The twerp is a classic carny barker shyster, and an evil little sh!t.
The key thing to remember about Jones, is that selling fear porn is a business model.
The pornographer problem is significant outside the conspiratorial niche as well. Times of decline produce pornographers of doom who sell misery and hopelessness to their audiences to the point where the next tragedy of a small blonde butchered by a non becomes almost a guilty pleasure hit to this crowd. A peculiar kind of masochism which enables the so-called “doomscrolling”. I noticed a similar mechanism with niche accounts that occupy themselves with “mudshark-hate” or just plain misogyny. What should simply be sad and pitiful provides a weird stimulation to the crowd chortling about “paid tolls”. The desire to see the world burn becomes a consolation.
People fear vaccines polluting their blood, but their own minds start to drown in sewage of a world where there is no more certainty, trust and faith. Only peddlers pushing their merchandise to the desperate for clarity. People are not going to “wake up” at some point of this Kali Yuga, they will continue to dream nightmares instead and hope things return to “normal” at some point. Those who order the new normal into existence will weave new, more consoling dreams for the humble.
You wouldn’t know any books on the history of porn or related topics, would you? I’m unsure of purchasing Luke Ford’s A History of X.
Unfortunately not. Most of my knowledge comes from the Internet sources about the American pornographic industry and I haven’t made a deep dive into the subject.
Very good points here. I’ve made similar ones myself over time. It’s a total lack of fine tuning about everything. It’s a collapse into one kind of claim about ‘THEM’. And often the more exotic the claim, the more pleasing and apparently believable it is to some of these types. And indeed these claims are protected by their unfalsifiable nature.
But people also have initial feelings about events which I wouldn’t say are bad. It’s ok to have an initial suspicion about assassination attempts for instance. I also think it’s ok to keep an open mind on some of that stuff later. One can have an open mind without ‘belief’.
Also what’s the threshold of ‘crazy’ in covid? Really haven’t delved into this topic recently, but my understanding is the current verdict is the vaccines are “safe and effective” with a tiny risk to mostly young men, where it can cause some temporary heart problems. I never took it myself, and am aware of other voices on the topic that have a different view. Also how did covid appear ? It seems almost certain it was not natural and from a lab. We should try to understand what happened. And inevitably there’s different theories…
The other side of it is, as someone made a very good comment on part one, that this is people’s defense mechanism, this is how they understand the world and its issues. And we also discussed recently “Satanic Pedo Elite” theory, and I don’t have a problem with it as a popular understanding, a kind of device to describe stuff with, and as a motivational type concept.
The jab was worse than you might expect:
Young Hearts Parts 1-10 – Young Hearts failing since 2021 (bitchute.com)
There are at least 68 in the series now.
As for the lab origins, Rand Paul followed the money and grilled Fauci about it on the floor of the Senate.
Yes, Fauci’s great crime was actually this gain-of-function Frankenstein nonsense. Utter folly. And there seemed to be a smug collection of scientists investing in this pursuit.
Whatever happened, I don’t feel confident that the virus was natural in origin.
Really, always thought was bad. I never took it as I said. I was acquainted with someone who had some event shortly after taking it.My rough understanding, from what we know today is the these vaccines were considerably more dangerous than old style vaccines, but nowhere near enough to be what the hardcore doomers were saying. But I’m aware there’s people who continue to bring attention to new studies on this topic. Picture isn’t clear. Officially, almost nothing has shifted on that it seems. But medicine can be extremely reluctant to admit mistakes.
A few comments about Alex Jones. I’ve got lots to say about conspiracy theories, but I think it’s worth talking about him, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
I’ve been familiar with Alex Jones since the 90s, before the internet gave him a huge platform. I’m a little vague on details, but I was living in Texas near Austin and Waco a few years after the Branch Davidian fiasco. I remember Alex Jones front and center questioning the narrative. I think he may have been on public access TV or AM radio at the time, but I became familiar with him then. Make no mistake, HE WAS DOING A GOOD THING by questioning our elites and stirring up anger over the events of Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc. He appealed to anyone who questioned the behavior of both political parties and the growing authoritarianism all around us (ATF/FBI with military vehicles to attack the Davidian compound, military trained snipers killing the Weavers and their dogs).
In the early days of the internet, when YouTube first appeared and hosting sites started to spring up, Alex Jones going fertile ground to grow an audience and increase his profile as someone who wasn’t afraid to put himself at risk to expose unsavory things about our elites. Alex Jones became an adrenalized and unsanitized answer to Geraldo and Stossel. (Yes I know their tribal affiliation). Unlike those Jews, Jones was actually going places where our elites did not want cameras. Ever see Jones’s Bohemian Grove stunt? Now we can debate the real significance of Bohemian Grove all day long, but does anyone here disagree that our elites shouldn’t be doing weird s+*t like that? Or that people who present themselves as antagonistic in their public personas be all buddy buddy at these elite good old boy clubs.
So to that end, I owe Jones, and I think we all do, a lot of respect and appreciation. Yes, he was building a brand. Yes, he started to go off the rails by the mid/late 2000s with the 9/11 truther stuff, Columbine and later mass shootings, and every major event playing out as some false flag etc. I can’t even put my finger on when it went too far. I think probably the Sandy Hook think became a bridge too far. I myself found some aspects of Sandy Hook to be off, but my ultimate conclusion was that it was NOT staged, it was NOT actors, but even supposedly loving parents and community members became drunk with power and the attention they were receiving. People in that community who already leaned against white working class plebes having access to guns suddenly had a pulpit, and their behavior seemed odd. The Obama administration “didn’t let a tragedy go to waste”. They didn’t orchestrate it, but they used it in such a cynical way, that normal people felt like it was just completely off.
Jones would have been more credible if he had focused on the human nature that played out before us, rather than engaging in a form of human nature himself .
After listening to Alex Jones you begin to question everything, which may be the point. I enjoy his atomic outbursts. I recall he recently stated in an interview that he receives “transmissions”. I am not sure if he meant from God or something like voice to skull messages?
I agree that he may have gone too far with the sandy hook stuff but I felt bad that he lost in court.
Well I don’t really have a problem with the gist of Alex Jones’ stuff. It’s one kind of response to the jackboot of globalization, intrusive surveillance and unchecked commerce. At least it used to be, when I followed him years ago.
I don’t need to agree with his watered-down model of who’s responsible for all the worst problems. But it’s ok as a poetic device, like “Satanic pedophiles”. He’s also an on ramp to better stuff.
His stupid anti-nazi nonsense, and “Hitler was a pawn of bankers”, is tiresome though. I wonder if he really believes that, or it’s just camouflage.
They used Sandy Hook to go after him. Whatever Jones’ faults and whatever wrongheaded views he expressed on that at the time, it was ridiculous. It was an attack on populism.
This must be said. All of the conspiratorial vitriol that has been directed at Erika Kirk ie accusations of playing a role in her husband’s death, follow the exact same precedent as the Jones lawsuit. Many of the people spreading hateful and conspiratorial accusations about her are Marxists/leftists. If Jones can be found liable, it seems all of these online pundits should be too.
Really, I don’t think anyone should be sued to oblivion because their ideas are offensive to the mainstream, or to supposed victims. Sure, Jones was off base by torturing those families. But those people put themselves front and center as public figures. They politicized their own children’s deaths. I find it apalling that white peole will throw themselves at every camera available to politicize a white person committing a mass shooting, but when a sub Saharan rapes and murders a college girl, or a high school boy at a track meet, they go out of their way to deflect blame on the sub. It’s insane.
Agree, they will always mysteriously make excuses and ‘find forgiveness’ for these useless violent animals.
I have to weigh in the false use of the term “conspiracy theory.” It has a specific meaning but used in a very overgeneralized way to the detriment of truth seeking. A “conspiracy theory” is a conjecture that 1) cannot be decided; 2) lacks evidence for that conjecture; and 3) explains away that lack of evidence, by claiming the truth is being willfully hidden. “There are alien bodies being stored in Area 54,” is a classic conspiracy theory: the proponents have no evidence, the state won’t allow the area to be inspected, and the lack of evidence is explained away by suggestions that the “government” doesn’t want to cause a panic, undermine faith in God, intends to reverse engineer their technology without our foes knowing, or such. That we all face final judgment in our afterlife is another such theory. After all, how can we believe in God if he shows up in Times Square every Tuesday?
That the Wuhan Virus was a lab-created virus that leaked was not a conspiracy theory. It was decidable, and, eventually, it was decided to be a true conjecture. Yet, those who promoted the lab-leak theory were derided as “conspiracy theorists.” Worse yet, the term “conspiracy theorist” was used suppress actual attempts to decide the correctness of that conjecture! Why should we investigate the claims of crackpot “conspiracists?”
That vaccines cause autism is not a “conspiracy theory.” It is decidable. We could study 200,000 infants giving half placeboes. Opponents of such studies claim that would be “unethical,” but that claim is bullshit. Tens of thousands of infants aren’t being vaccinated each year because their parents believe the conjecture. The study would either reassure or vindicate those parents. Either outcome would ethically save lives.
Those that embrace the term “conspiracy theorist,” are needlessly marginalizing themselves, especially when they offer decidable conjectures.
My answer to real “conspiracy theories,” is simply to note extraordinary claims require an extraordinary level
of proof. I, also, want to know why autism rates have skyrocketed.
The other fundamental objection I have is that often the salient question is not to ask whether, or not, the conspiracy theory formulation is true, but, rather, to ask if it might as well be true.
I reject the label conspiracy theorist. Since the late 90’s I’ve just understood that it’s more like the childhood game, “it’s Opposite Day.” Anything coming from the media, any politician, and 80% of everyone else is the opposite of the truth. Apply that filter and it works every time.
LBJ was a wheeler and dealer and smarter (or at least more skilled) than Jack in Congress, but I don’t think LBJ was really that smart.
LBJ was probably slightly worried being in Dallas himself, and for a long time he was suspicious that he wasn’t also a target. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover convinced the new President otherwise, and also that the Soviets were not involved with killing JFK.
Former Vice President Dick Nixon, an old Red-baiter, was in town for a corporate convention a few hours before JFK, and Oswald might have preferred to have taken a shot at him if the opportunity had presented itself.
Oswald just happened to be working at the Texas School Book Depository at Dealey Plaza where the President’s motorcade would pass, and Oswald had a few days notice to think about it.
Oswald had recently missed a shot by a few inches at Rightwing politician General Ted Walker at his posh home in Dallas, but the Dallas PD had no leads on that, and it wasn’t even a priority with the FBI. The Kennedies and LBJ hated General Walker.
Gov. John Connally had beaten Gen. Walker at the polls and the Governor traded on his being a “moderate” Democrat. Oswald got a two-fer when one of his Six-Floor Window shots wounded both the President and the Governor.
Btw, the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas is an excellent reasource for all things Kennedy Aassassination. They have oral histories collected from just about everybody involved, including tangentially. Also, the 2007 Vincent Bugliosi tome on the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, has just about every detail that you could ever want on the case. Highly recommended.
🙂
A case in point is the JFK assassination. People are so frantic to find some big shadowy Evil behind it that they’ll twist logic and reality out of shape rather than admit that Lee Harvey Oswald did it all by his little self.
There was nothing whatever about that assassination that Oswald could not have handled. He worked in the Book Depository, so he had access. He is known to have bought a Carcano rifle, which were available dirt-cheap back then (oh, happy days!) and he was a retired Marine, which meant that he was a trained shooter. He had hard-Left views, had protested JFK’s policies toward Cuba, and had tried shooting a well-known right-wing figure earlier. Motive, means, opportunity. He was also the only person who split out of the Book Depository after the shooting and before the cops came, and shot a cop who tried to arrest him. This shows consciousness of guilt.
Yes, he said “I’m a patsy!” BFD! Criminals have been known to lie their asses off about their crimes when they’re collared.
I will admit that I think LBJ wasn’t sorry about the assassination at all in private. He was in a lot of trouble over the Bobby Baker scandal, and if JFK had lived, LBJ might have been the first Veep to be impeached and removed from office. Getting JFK to ride through Dallas, where there were lots of people who hated his guts and guns were ubiquitous, in an open-topped car, strikes me as an action by someone who hoped what happened would happen. But that doesn’t rise to the level of a conspiracy.
Very true. LBJ was at least as much of a scumbag as Saint Jack ─ but this does not mean that the Vice President somehow killed the President. The Feds in Dallas were far more interested in keeping an eye on Klansmen rather than Commie anarchists like Lee Harvey Oswald, and didn’t even have a current address on the former Soviet defector at the time.
🙂
I’m not saying for a second LBJ had JFK killed. It was more like setting him up in a situation where being killed was very likely. LBJ probably thought that if it happened, it’d be a Klansman or someone like that.
LBJ was a wheeler and dealer and smarter (or at least more skilled) than Jack in Congress, but I don’t think LBJ was really that smart.
LBJ was probably slightly worried being in Dallas himself, and for a long time he was suspicious that he wasn’t also a target. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover convinced the new President otherwise, and also that the Soviets were not involved with killing JFK.
Former Vice President Dick Nixon, an old Red-baiter, was in town for a corporate convention a few hours before JFK, and Oswald might have preferred to have taken a shot at him if the opportunity had presented itself.
Oswald just happened to be working at the Texas School Book Depository at Dealey Plaza where the President’s motorcade would pass, and Oswald had a few days notice to think about it.
Oswald had recently missed a shot by a few inches at Rightwing politician General Ted Walker at his posh home in Dallas, but the Dallas PD had no leads on that, and it wasn’t even a priority with the FBI. The Kennedies and LBJ hated General Walker.
Gov. John Connolly had beaten Gen. Walker at the polls and the Governor traded on his being a “moderate” Democrat. Oswald got a two-fer when one of his Six-Floor Window shots wounded both the President and the Governor.
Btw, the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas is an excellent reasource for all things Kennedy Aassassination. They have oral histories collected from just about everybody involved, including tangentially. Also, the 2007 Vincent Bugliosi tome on the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, has just about every detail that you could ever want on the case. Highly recommended.
🙂
I couldn’t care less about what Alex Jones or Candace Owens have to say about anything. Michael Hoffman is a nutcase Catholic. 33 years ago I remember his request of Dr. Pierce to remove him from the National Alliance mailing list because NA was “too anti-Christian.”
Uncle Semantic asked: March 28, 2026 You wouldn’t know any books on the history of porn or related topics, would you?…
—
Unc, you do not need a book to learn about the history of porn. Just check out this 3-parter at nationalvanguard.org “Pornography as Jewish Activism and Terrorism, part 3” or this one at the same site, “Jews Are Proud of Their Pornography ”
Warning, the second piece contains this warning: Some of the language and images evoked by this piece are disgusting, and children should not be permitted to read it.
A STORY LITTLE TOLD OF is that of Jews in Hollywood’s seedier cousin, the adult film industry. Perhaps we’d prefer to pretend that the ‘triple-exthnics’ didn’t exist, but there’s no getting away from the fact that secular Jews have played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role throughout the adult film industry in America. Jewish involvement in pornography has a long history in the United States, as Jews have helped to transform a fringe subculture into what has become a primary constituent of Americana. These are the ‘true blue Jews’.
Smut Peddlers
Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes overlapping) groups: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make up only two per cent of the American population, they have been prominent in pornography. Many erotica dealers in the book trade between 1890 and 1940 were immigrant Jews of German origin. According to Jay A. Gertzman, author of Bookleggers and Smuthounds:The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), ‘Jews were prominent in the distribution of gallantiana [fiction on erotic themes and books of dirty jokes and ballads], avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and flagitious materials’.
In the postwar era, America’s most notorious pornographer was Reuben Sturman, the ‘Walt Disney of Porn’. According to the US Department of Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled most of the pornography circulating in the country. Born in 1924, Sturman grew up in Cleveland’s East Side. Initially, he sold comics and magazines, but when he realized sex magazines produced twenty times the revenue of comic books, he moved exclusively into porn, eventually producing his own titles and setting up retail stores. By the end of the 1960s, Sturman ranked at the top of adult magazine distributors and by the mid-70s he owned over 200 adult bookstores. Sturman also introduced updated versions of the traditional peepshow booth (typically a dark room with a small colour TV on which the viewer can view X-rated videos). It was said that Sturman did not simply control the adult-entertainment industry; he was the industry. Eventually he was convicted of tax evasion and other crimes and died, disgraced, in prison in 1997. His son, David, continued running the family business.
The contemporary incarnation of Sturman is 43-year-old Jewish Clevelander Steven Hirsch, who has been described as ‘the Donald Trump of porno’. The link between the two is Steve’s father, Fred, who was a stockbroker-cum-lieutenant to Sturman. Today Hirsch runs the Vivid Entertainment Group, which has been called the Microsoft of the porn world, the top producer of ‘adult’ films in the US. His specialty was to import mainstream marketing techniques into the porn business. Indeed, Vivid parallels the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in its exclusive contracts to porn stars who are hired and moulded by Hirsch….
Read more about the history of porn and “related topics” at the links.
Joseph Paul Franklin didn’t claim to be against porn per say, just the interracial kind which is why he shot Larry Flynt (who was not Jewish). The sad thing about JPF was that he disavowed his racist views near the end of his life.
Gam: March 30, 2026 Joseph Paul Franklin didn’t claim to be against porn per say, just the interracial kind which is why he shot Larry Flynt (who was not Jewish). The sad thing about JPF was that he disavowed his racist views near the end of his life.
—
Flynt wasn’t a Jew, but promoted interracial porn with his Hustler magazine. You can say he paid the price for that.
JPF executed more than 20 interracial couples, Negroes and Jews. Flynt and a few others survived. JPF may have eventually disavowed his racist views, but that may have been because he adopted some batshit crazy Christian views prior to being executed by the State.
Remove duplicate comment
I’m into food porn and whenever I’m looking at cookbooks, especially baking, I notice a lot of Jewish authors. I am guessing it’s because there are jews in high places in publishing houses and they are in a position to publish their fellow tribesmen. But with their business acumen and networking, they manage to seemingly corner every industry, especially in the area of human vice/appetites. I’m sure everyone has seen porn at some time or another. It’s been around at least since the temples of Bacchus. Today you don’t have to visit a brothel or temple to observe paintings depicting sexual acts.
If you have a Subscriber access,
simply login first to see your comment auto-approved.
Note on comments privacy & moderation
Your email is never published nor shared.
Comments are moderated. If you don't see your comment, please be patient. If approved, it will appear here soon. Do not post your comment a second time.