Fringe right-wing media figures are pushing baseless conspiracy theories that the recent deadly mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, were “false flag” operations orchestrated by the United States government to take away civil rights from American citizens.
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"Fringe right-wing media figures are pushing baseless conspiracy theories that the recent deadly mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, were “false flag” operations orchestrated by the United States government to take away civil rights from American citizens. Alex Jones’ show on Infowars, claimed the Buffalo grocery store shooting [and Uvalde shooting] were staged events. Jones attempted to link the Buffalo shooting to the Unabomber, pushing the conspiracy theory that the unabomber worked for the CIA. Militia-linked radio host and right-wing extremist Pete Santilli claimed during his May 27 radio show that the CIA and FBI radicalized, hypnotized, and indoctrinated the shooter through his computer screen via “mind control” and “screen flicker technology” to commit the shooting.
White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes asserted that the police waited for the shooting to end before entering the classroom in order to push a “gun control agenda". Former Infowars host, QAnon conspiracy theorist, and failed congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine declared that the shooting was “yet another false flag” to target white conservatives who live stream events and wear tactical gear. QAnon conspiracy theorist, antisemite, and failed congressional candidate Lauren Witzke suggested that the Uvalde mass shooting was a false flag operation intended to “change the public narrative” around Texas’ politics because “Hispanics are starting to lean more conservative."
Now, this is when "other Conservatives" rush out to say...nobody believes that, those guys are just on the fringe.....yet, the woman in that clip was the 2020 Senatorial GOP NOMINEE...that means she won her primary...that isn't "fringe"...that is mainstream.....and we all know that time and time and time and time and time again on this very message-board...the MAINSTREAM conservative reaction to just about every mass shooting going back to Sandy Hook is always something to the effect of -- false flag, a staged attack by Dems for gun control, or just yell Woke- Leftist BLM Antifa-Tranny in the mirror 5 times and hope it all goes away...why is this so prevalent among right-wingers?? This need to just claim, the police/government just routinely stages false flag shootings just for the **** of it.... How can right-wingers believe that about the police, but clutch their pearls at the idea that the police would ever kill unarmed people just for the **** of it?? Are you saying the same cops you give every benefit of a doubt to, when they gun down some 12 yr unarmed kid -- are also so untrustworthy that you would believe they would murder a bunch of 12 yr old kids; just because they are in a classroom? Doesn't it hurt to have such cognitive dissonance??
How can right-wingers just claim courts look the other way because of some nefarious conspiracy to stage the murder of innocent children - but those same right-wingers clutch their pearls at the suggestion of those same courts having systemic racial and socio-economic bias in it?? It's almost like Conservatives are so consumed with making up absolute bullshit to be outraged about (as if 19 kids being murdered isn't outrage enough) -- that they are WILLFULLY ignoring ACTUAL ISSUES that could be getting addressed.....I am inclined to think that if it weren't for folks like Alex Jones and QAnon nuts, the CIA would have had to invent them...for the purpose of distraction......the QAnon nuts are actually helping the CIA/FBI more than they realize....probably by design....And I just want to re-iterate something...one of these QAnon morons literally said that the flicker from a computer screen made someone attempt to murder their grandmother, then go to a school and murder kids....and he is taken seriously by Trumpers....how is that not a mental illness?
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