ConservativeConspiracyTheories

Ron DeSantis once again bet on a miracle COVID-19 cure that doesn't work—and vows to use it, anyway

Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis has been trying to make a name for himself as a Republican willing to be a Worse Donald Trump, and he hasn’t been missing a single beat lately in trying to …

Tue Jan 25, 2022

Trump's election-nullifying lawyer wanted to attack Germany to secretly rescue the, um, CIA chief

Donald Trump-loyal “attorney” Sidney Powell is one of the members of the Republican election-sabotage team who pushed the wildest, and most obviously false, hoaxes to justify Republican demands that …

Tue Nov 16, 2021

In Montana, conservative propaganda shows how close the nation has teetered toward fascism

Here’s an entire New York Times story about a genuinely bad, malevolent person. It’s not framed that way, of course, because Neutrality, but the Times tossed a reporter in the direction of …

Sun Oct 31, 2021

The QAnon movement was always based on neo-Nazi conspiracies. Now the mask is slipping

We have noted in the past that the “QAnon” movement is not a set of new conspiracy theories, but a recasting of some of the most popular neo-Nazi, white supremacist, antisemitic themes of …

Mon Oct 18, 2021

Facebook is still a cesspool of pandemic hoaxes, and it's killing people

Earlier in the year, Media Matters reported on the presence of dozens of Facebook groups promoting the newest hoax cure in the COVID-19 pandemic: ivermectin. Primarily used to fight parasites in …

Sun Oct 3, 2021

With each passing month, COVID-19 becomes an increasingly Republican pandemic

The New York Times has an updated look at the status of vaccinations and pandemic deaths in the United States, and with the help of the latest pretty charts and grim statistics we can see that the new …

Mon Sep 27, 2021

Florida remains screwed as DeSantis picks hydroxychloroquine-supporting quack as new surgeon general

Florida has a new state surgeon general today, and I’m sure everybody is itching to know who Gov. Ron DeSantis—the man who devoted himself to attacking pandemic safety measures as a means of …

Wed Sep 22, 2021

Republicans again look to undermine democracy rather than tolerate Republican election losses

Proving yet again that Republicans are now looking to delegitimize elections themselves rather than tolerate an America that might vote against them, Republican candidate and-of-course weird …

Tue Sep 14, 2021

Fauci has had about enough of Rand Paul's clownery: 'If anybody is lying here, it is you.'

Dr. Anthony Fauci is a top government infectious disease expert and one of the top public figures in the federal government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. Sen. Rand Paul is an insincere and …

Tue Jul 20, 2021

DeSantis stokes far-right conspiracy theories as he yet again tries to out-fascist Trump

Anything Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis does can be explained in one sentence: He wants to be president. In today’s version of Republicanism, that means stoking any conspiracy theory the base …

Thu Jun 24, 2021

Forced to apologize for past remarks, Marjorie Taylor Greene speedruns the Holocaust Museum

On Monday, Republican conspiracy theorist and friend to congressional sex trafficking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the Holocaust Museum. By “visited the Holocaust Museum,” we mean …

Tue Jun 15, 2021

Actual election experts challenge incompetent Arizona 'audit' team: 'Put up or shut up'

As the Republican so-called “audit” of Maricopa County’s election results slithers its way to an eventual close, actual election experts remain uniform in their belief that the …

Thu Jun 10, 2021

Even federal judges are referencing far-right conspiracy theories to overturn our laws

It should be noted, yet again, that being an actual, bonafide judge in the United States of America requires no qualifications whatsoever. You either are appointed as a judge or win an election to …

Mon Jun 7, 2021

Texas spent another 22,000 hours hunting for 'election fraud' and didn't find a damn thing

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton remains indicted for securities fraud, a status he has held since 2015 as everyone in the state apparently conspires to slow walk his trial into the next millennium. …

Wed Jun 2, 2021

Michael Flynn says Myanmar-styled coup 'should' happen here, then denies saying it

Over the weekend, the now-pardoned traitor Michael Flynn appeared at a QAnon-themed event in Dallas, Texas, where he once again seemed to support the notion of a violent pro-Trump rebellion to topple …

Tue Jun 1, 2021

Just when the Arizona Republican election 'audit' couldn't get any worse, it somehow does

The Arizona Republican “recount” of Dear Orange Leader’s presidential election loss continues, and continues to be the Fyre Festival of fascist conspiracy peddling. It is the …

Fri May 7, 2021