The new birthers

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Remember the whole Obama birth certificate debacle? Now there's this:

Debunking the Hillary Clinton health conspiracy

"From Donald Trump and his top surrogates to the right-wing media and its engine rooms of outrage in the blogosphere, Hillary Clinton's opponents are ramping up efforts to sow doubt over the candidate's health."

I don't know if this is a concerted effort or it's just that The Donald picked up a conspiracy topic at random, then flamed it up as only he can, and his hacks duly followed suit. But one thing is for sure: right-wing folks sure as hell are extremely susceptible to, well, extremes. Conspiracy theories abound in that sort of mindset - the government is after them, it's all part of a grand global plan to subdue their freedoms and take their guns, etc.

For example, here's the great and awesome Alex Jones, his InfoWars site, and one of his devout followers making the case for Hillary's purported health problems:

Top Doctor: Concerns Over Hillary’s Health ‘Not a Conspiracy Theory’
"Rutgers University Professor of Medicine says Clinton should be assessed by an impartial panel of physicians"

Just how crackpot this is, I leave to you (not to mention discriminatory; a panel of physicians doing what - checking her teeth or something? probing her bodily orifices to the delight of the public?)

All this shows how desperate the right-wing is to come up with something, anything, that could derail the march of their opponents to another term in the White House, while completely ignoring their own problems on the right that has brought them to this predicament of theirs.

And hey, even if no one takes this proposal seriously and no health panel checks Hillary, there are always the 2nd Amendment Folks(tm) to take care of her, RIGHT???

Comments

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Maybe someone should troll Trump for his looks, too. The way he does with people. For instance, are we sure this thing on his head isn't a dead rare animal? When will he take responsibility for the rare species that he's been exterminating in order to maintain that toupee of his?

These are all pressing issues of great importance for society. You know, serious stuff for serious times.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Maybe someone should troll Trump

Why, Elizabeth Warren has been doing a great job there so far.

[mikeyxw.livejournal.com]

My take is that they're missing the mark on this one. Mr. Trump's VP, you know, watzhisname, seems like a better candidate than either Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton. I expect they'd see a bump in their poll numbers if they set out and then confirm rumors that Mr. Trump only has six months to live.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

ARE YOU MAKING THREATS TO MR TRUMP'S LIFE, MISTER??!?

[mikeyxw.livejournal.com]

No, just pointing out that dying would be about the best career move for Mr. Trump could make at this juncture.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

I actually think if he wins the election, then goes to Capitol Hill and instead of taking the oath says, "I was pulling your leg all this time, folks! I quit!", this would be the MOST EPIC moment in US history! It'd be written down in golden letters in all trolling manuals, which he'll then tweet and re-tweet over and over, and make profit from book sales for eternity!

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me... If the president-elect decides to quit, who becomes president? His VP?

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Sarah Palin.

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

Oh no!!! If that happens, I am moving to Canada! I may not be living in the US but I'm moving to Canada anyway!

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Admit it, you're doing it because of their PM who's hawt.

Thanks Obama!

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Me too, can I move to Canada too? Won't some elderly Canadian couple please adopt me?

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

Only if you promise to bring along your secret rakia recipe.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Where the hell did you learn about my secret rak..... oh wait. Every Bulgarian has a secret rakia recipe.

We may arrange something, then.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

oh wait. Every Bulgarian has a secret rakia recipe.

But some of them taste of sugared boot polish and fusel oil. Sorting between them and exporting the really good stuff looks like an opportunity. Premium rakia... 10 year old rakia.... Single bathtub barrel rakia. You know the score. :)

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Pfeh! Trump and profit. He'd more likely find some way to file for bankruptcy in that domain, too.

[luzribeiro.livejournal.com]

Six sounds like too much. (Whoops, did I say that aloud?)

[policraticus.livejournal.com]

Not that any of these numbskulls are right, but...

Any person running for President of the US who is over, say, 65 deserves extra scrutiny. They are taking on arguably the most high pressure, round-the-clock meat grinder of a job in the world, at an age when most people are fading into a quiet retirement.

She is 68.

Trump is already 70, he would be older than Reagan was when he was inaugurated. He deserves the same scrutiny, if not more since he is a man and more likely to drop dead suddenly.

[oportet.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't want to spend my final days being hated by half the country, with the other half heading in that direction too - and it's hard to understand how anyone else would - but that's just me.

Back in 2008, the right (in the primary) and the left (in the general) questioned McCains health, and he's stlll going.

I wasn't a big McCain fan though....when it comes to 2008 Republicans - I liked that Fred Thompson fella, no questions about his health at all (but still, if Republicans had to go through a semi-celebrity phase - why didn't they do it then?)

[drblasphlemy.livejournal.com]

Sure Alex Jones and his ilk are tinfoil-hatty but you cannot deny that Hillary has definitely been seen having a seizure and has spaced out on video. Desperate? Sure. But when she can get away with lying to congress and deleting classified information. Get away clean after wiping her sever "You mean with a cloth?" and been called by the FBI to be basically either an idiot not worthy to have a security clearance or a criminal not worthy to have a security clearance. Not even going into "Pay to Play" and the shit that is the Clinton foundation you go with what you have. Watch the video. Make up your own mind.

[garote]

Paraphrase: "Sure it's all garbage but you can't deny it's delicious!"

Oooooooh yes I can :D

[drblasphlemy.livejournal.com]

No more like "look with your own eyes and make your own decision". But by all means bury your head in the sand and be dismissive.

[garote]

Already looked; already decided.

[drblasphlemy.livejournal.com]

No? And what did you see? What exactly have you decided? So it doesn't look like she is having a seizure? How about here where her doctor is seen carrying a syringe next to Hillary and again she is clearly spacing out. I suppose that this is nothing as well yes?