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captain queeg

(10,456 posts) Tue May 14, 2024, 06:50 PM May 14

I've always discounted the idea of a grand conspiracy, mostly because I find it hard believe so many different people [View all]

could coordinate their efforts or have a common goal. But watching the rethugs march in lock step I can’t help but wonder. And I find it hard to believe trump is pulling the strings, he’s more of a useful idiot. Which leads me to wonder if there is sinister master mind or dark cabal guiding it all. That’s not sounding so far fetched these days.

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I've always discounted the idea of a grand conspiracy, mostly because I find it hard believe so many different people [View all] captain queeg May 14 OP

Is there a formal cabal? No Metaphorical May 14 #1

There are key players. Irish_Dem May 14 #6

"And funded." That part. That right there. nt crickets May 14 #13

Agreed. And now there's a $22 million budget to implement Project 2025. summer_in_TX May 15 #19

Yes. Very sad situation. Irish_Dem May 15 #20

Well, arguably Hitler's Third Reich was a grand conspiracy, so I give considerable pause to the premise... hlthe2b May 14 #2

Two fiction books bucolic_frolic May 14 #3

Matarese Circle is my favorite Ludlum book. NewHendoLib May 14 #4

I've heard that before, I must read it. bucolic_frolic May 14 #8

Long my favorite as well. kairos12 May 14 #11

It is obviously a well funded and planned operation. Irish_Dem May 14 #5

Putin, via the paid-off Repugs? Evangelicals via the unknown? Corporate via big bucks? Talitha May 14 #15

China, Saudi, Iran, North Korea, world billionaires. Irish_Dem May 14 #16

Been thinking snowybirdie May 14 #7

I figure traitor is blase about the outcomes Marthe48 May 14 #10

more like a mass delusion. mopinko May 14 #9

Well funded think tanks drmeow May 14 #12

If people have a common cause, the ways to support that cause are obvious, and they can act in the open... Silent3 May 14 #14

Probably some quiet guy named Murgatroyd who collects potato bugs for a hobby Ping Tung May 14 #17

The difference being: "conspiracies" are supposedly secret and under the radar. brooklynite May 14 #18