In this quick hitter podcast Mike explains why people enjoy the idea of stupid and evil people running a conspiracy but also why that doesn't make much sense when you think about it. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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| Hello, everybody. | |
| Mike Reigns here for a quick solo podcast. | |
| I didn't know what I was going to talk about until I saw a post from some random guy on Twitter. | |
| Their name was Behold a Pale Horse, which lets you know they're a nut. | |
| And Behold a Pale Horse had a screenshot that indicated that the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to defeat the Houston Texans this weekend, or I should say on Monday night this week, in the wildcard weekend playoffs. | |
| And this was done to indicate that the NFL is rigged, that there's a script that all the players are following and the results are predetermined, much like the WWE. | |
| And this is something that people have really gotten invested in recently is the idea that sports are rigged. | |
| And this is very silly because the conspiracy would require hundreds, thousands, if not tens of thousands of people to be involved in the conspiracy. | |
| And also, don't know that the NBA would be rigging everything so that Oklahoma City could win a title because not a big market. | |
| I think if it was all rigged, the Knicks and Lakers would be winning a lot of championships. | |
| And they haven't won a lot recently. | |
| Lakers have only gotten one recently. | |
| And the Knicks never win the NBA title. | |
| So yeah. | |
| Maybe they should rig a little harder, a little better, because they don't know what they're doing with the rigging as it stands right now. | |
| So the thing about this kind of conspiracy theory is that it shows you a conspiracy theory that people love and that people really get invested in. | |
| And it's the conspiracy theory of the conspiratorial group that is both evil and stupid. | |
| People love the evil, stupid conspiracy theory because it makes them feel smart that they've uncovered the conspiracy and that the conspiracy is at its core being run by a bunch of bumbling morons, which makes them laughable. | |
| They're hilariously stupid and easy to thwart. | |
| And it is enjoyable to imagine yourself in a battle of wits against a buffoon. | |
| That's just hilarious. | |
| It's, oh, this powerful group is doing a thing, but they're actually very stupid. | |
| I can outsmart them and defeat them. | |
| The NFL left their script on Google for me to look at. | |
| Haha, got them. | |
| Oh, the dumb NFL. | |
| I've exposed the fact that their sport ball organization is all scripted and rigged. | |
| And you'll hear the stories about how the NFL is quote unquote registered as entertainment, which they'll never explain to you where they're registered or how they're registered. | |
| They just are. | |
| They're just registered for entertainment. | |
| And that means they're rigged and blah, blah, blah. | |
| But the evil, stupid conspiracy theory, it has its origin, or the reason why people enjoy it is because they see it as a transposition of our government. | |
| Because I'm pretty sure if you've listened to our podcast, you'd probably assume that I believe the Trump administration is evil and stupid. | |
| And you'd be right. | |
| That's definitely how I view them. | |
| And so your reaction will be, but Mike, you just said the evil, stupid conspiracy theory is dumb, yet you subscribe to a version of it already and you've just admitted it. | |
| But there's a difference. | |
| The Trump administration got elected into power and we know how that happened. | |
| The American people voted for this rather foolishly with a big assist from our corrupt media and so on and so forth. | |
| But this was all out in the open. | |
| This was all overt. | |
| We knew this was a thing that could happen and would happen if enough people went to their polling places and marked the square for Donald Trump. | |
| And guess what they did? | |
| So we're fucked. | |
| And the other thing is, is our government is a giant apparatus full of people. | |
| You've got all the, you've got the House and the Senate and all the different state congresses and governors and so on. | |
| So you're going to get a smorgasbord of stupid and evil people that are willing to get in front of a camera and say stupid and evil shit. | |
| And you, the person who doesn't care for those people, will react to that and go, oh my God, I can't believe how stupid and evil that guy is. | |
| He really sucks. | |
| I hate him. | |
| And that is how you should feel. | |
| We should all hate these people. | |
| But on the other side of the aisle, I'm sure plenty of Republicans would think that the Biden and Obama administrations were stupid and evil. | |
| Because ideology blinds people to the intellect of their enemies. | |
| And your opponent is a goddamn moron who's also committing treason against America. | |
| And it should be sent to Kitmo to pay for their crimes. | |
| So on and so forth. | |
| That's just how this works. | |
| The evil, stupid conspiracy theory. | |
| The problem is that the conspiracy theory around the evil stupid is that the evil stupid people are usually part of a successful organization that has been in existence for a long time. | |
| In our sports ball, evil, stupid conspiracy theory, our four major sports, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, they are somehow all rigged by the people that run these organizations to generate maximum betting profits or whatever and ratings and all that good stuff. | |
| And the people running these rigged organizations will screw up and leave their scripts laying on the ground for people to pick up and post to Google, but they never get caught in such a way that a game could be delegitimized and you could get a refund because you bet the wrong side. | |
| But it turned out the game was rigged and we've admitted it was rigged. | |
| So now you get a refund because you weren't betting on a fair and square athletic competition, which is what you signed up for. | |
| You were betting on a WWE style performance. | |
| And it has yet to happen that we've caught that. | |
| Strangely, even though, again, we keep finding these scripts online. | |
| I remember it wasn't the Jake Paul, Anthony Joshua fight, but it was a fight before that where someone claimed they found the script of Jake Paul's next fight, which, yeah, they didn't. | |
| I think I went over that on the ancient podcast with Ellen Sarge because one of the things in that alleged script was that a guy's eye was going to swell shut, which it's really hard to fake a swollen eye. | |
| You've really got to take one for the team and catch a lot of punches to the eye to have your eyes swell shut or have makeup applied to your face in the corner to make it look like your eye swelled shut. | |
| But the point of the evil, stupid conspiracy theory is that these people are doing the thing they're doing, yet they are evil and stupid also. | |
| And this is the problem because in this situation, evil becomes a synonym for smart. | |
| And there you have the issue that you are now dealing with a smart and stupid conspiracy theory, which makes no sense. | |
| It is the sign eight of Umberto Echoes, signs of fascism, that the enemy is at the same time both too weak and too strong. | |
| And this is the fracture point. | |
| This is the failure point of the evil, stupid conspiracy theory is that the evil, stupid people pull it off. | |
| They get away with it. | |
| My favorite evil, stupid conspiracy theory is Mortal Error that claims a Secret Service agent accidentally shot Kennedy in the back of the head from the follow-up car with an AR-15 and then they got away with it. | |
| And just think about that. | |
| That conspiracy theory would have involved maybe a dozen Secret Service agents, maybe. | |
| And somehow these guys, these 12 morons, one of whom shot the president in the head in broad daylight, but then he and 11 of his buddies managed to browbeat the Dallas doctors at Parkland, the Dallas police themselves, many of whom saw the assassination happen. | |
| They were in the motorcade when the president got shot and they would have seen the Secret Service agent pop him and that they get all brow beaten into the silence. | |
| Every eye and ear witness is brow beaten in the silence. | |
| All evidence, all visual photographic evidence of the shooting of the president by the Secret Service agent is somehow altered or destroyed. | |
| They smuggle the body out of Parkland, tricking Lyndon Johnson into letting them do this. | |
| And then they get to Bethesda, where they intimidate the doctors there into not doing an autopsy properly so they can hide the fact that they killed the president. | |
| Then when the House Committee of Assassinations does some sort of testing, I think it's like radioactive. | |
| I don't know the exact terminology, but basically they use some sort of analysis to check all the fragments of the bullets that were in Kennedy's head. | |
| And they tested them and they all came out as the kind of same fragments you would have found in a bullet made for a Marinela Karkano rifle, not an AR-15. | |
| But obviously those Secret Service agents were able to fuck that testing up so they could get away with it some more. | |
| So there is your conspiracy theory in how it doesn't make sense. | |
| Because on the one hand, you have a group of people so stupid that one of them pulls out an AR-15 and accidentally shoots the guy he's trying to protect in the back of the head and kills him. | |
| But then they're so powerful and smart, they're able to hide that fact from the American people forever. | |
| They've pinned it on Oswald and they got away with it, which is amazing. | |
| This is the greatest evil and stupid conspiracy that has ever existed. | |
| And this is every conspiracy theory that you deal with that involves the Illuminati and all that good stuff is that it all boils down to evil, stupid, and it all makes no sense that it's evil and stupid. | |
| Because on the one hand, you have allegedly the people that have ruled the world for thousands of years, if not after Christ, even before Christ. | |
| We ruled the Illuminati ruled during the Roman Empire and all that kind of good stuff. | |
| Yet, this thousands of years old satanic death cult that's enslaved humanity for its entire existence in civilization, they can be exposed and defeated by a bunch of idiots on the internet who have collages of celebrities covering one eye when taking photographs, which shows the hidden truth. | |
| And boom, there you go. | |
| Illuminati, totally real, nailed it, got you, figured you out. | |
| Symbolism will be their downfall and all that other stuff. | |
| And that is again the evil, stupid thing. | |
| These people have ruled the world forever, yet they couldn't rig the voting machines in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, even though they were rigging the voting machines in California, which means nothing. | |
| It has no impact on the election at all. | |
| And they let Trump sneak one over Hill Dog and become the president. | |
| Oops doopsies. | |
| And the same thing with Kennedy. | |
| And if you are kind of merciful towards Reagan, Reagan was another mistake these idiots made. | |
| And yet, somehow, these people that have ruled the world for thousands of years just keep screwing up and letting people sneak into the presidency when they don't want them to. | |
| And when they do 9-11, they leave all these clues for Alex Jones and the rest of those schmucks to find. | |
| But they don't get caught for it. | |
| They never get actually called to account. | |
| They never get arrested. | |
| They never get put on trial. | |
| They never get exposed for what they did on 9-11. | |
| It's just you and your friends who know the secret truth of what happened on 9-11. | |
| And that makes you feel smart because you know what really happened. | |
| You outwitted this evil, stupid conspiracy theory. | |
| You were able to see what really happened and how those bumbling buffoons did the bad thing, but they weren't able to fool you. | |
| Oh, no, you're a special boy. | |
| Oh, who's a special boy? | |
| Let me let me pinch your cheeks and tussle your hair. | |
| You smart kid. | |
| You sure showed the new world order who the man was. | |
| And that's what's so gratifying about this conspiracy theory is that you beat it. | |
| You won. | |
| You're the best. | |
| And they're so powerful. | |
| They run Hollywood. | |
| They run the entertainment industry. | |
| When Trump's not the president, they run the government. | |
| The bad people that secretly rule the world and have enslaved humanity. | |
| They do all that stuff. | |
| But you, you, the moron on the internet and your moron buddies, you cracked the code. | |
| You figured out what they were really up to. | |
| You got ahead of the game and now you can tell your family and friends and everybody else that gets within earshot of you of, I am the truth teller. | |
| I am the knower of knowers. | |
| I am the seer of seers. | |
| I expose the new world order for the terrible crimes they committed. | |
| And everyone can look at you and go, well, you haven't, because they're still around, still criming, still doing bad things. | |
| And then you just sort of have to say, well, we're getting around to it. | |
| Patriots in control. | |
| Watch the water. | |
| And so on and so forth. | |
| And that is something that Q did bring up. | |
| That is something that Q leaned into to further the arrogance of the in-group against their enemies. | |
| It's in a lot of the Q drops. | |
| These people are stupid. | |
| It's a thing that Q liked to say constantly to remind his audience that we're smarter. | |
| We're better than them. | |
| And Q would state that these people are sick and that we are up against pure evil. | |
| Q loved to frame these things that way. | |
| And so you have the evil, stupid conspiracy theory inside of QAnon itself that we're fighting a monolithic evil that is terrible, but also incompetent. | |
| They don't know what they're doing. | |
| That's why Trump's five steps ahead of them. | |
| That's why he's dunking on them constantly. | |
| That's why he's beating them so badly. | |
| And that's why the great awakening is inevitable. | |
| And very soon the storm will be upon us. | |
| And that's the mentality. | |
| That's the mindset that QAnon fills its followers with, that they know better. | |
| They see the truth. | |
| And that's intoxicating. | |
| It's awesome to be smarter than everybody else. | |
| It's really cool to have the secret knowledge. | |
| I was a Kennedy assassination nut for forever. | |
| I totally believed in the conspiracy. | |
| Even when I was starting my QAnon debunking career on Twitter and stuff, I still was more than happy to argue for conspiracy. | |
| Just eventually at some point, I was like, you know, it's really hard to argue Oswald and conspiracy at the same time while you're debunking all these conspiracy theories. | |
| And also, guess what? | |
| The case against Oswald's really good. | |
| So I should probably just go with that because why not follow logic to its conclusion? | |
| And again, stupid evil. | |
| It's what the Warren Commission, those bumbling fools, Lyndon Johnson, all that stuff. | |
| It's great to hate your government and think they're a bunch of morons who killed the president. | |
| And you know they killed the president. | |
| You know they pulled off 9-11. | |
| You know they stole the 2020 election. | |
| You know they unleashed COVID upon us. | |
| You know the secret truth about all these people, but your dumb family and friends, ah, eventually they'll come around to it. | |
| Eventually they'll figure out that I'm right. | |
| And when they do, boy howdy, I am going to be the bell of the ball. | |
| I'm going to be the king of the neighborhood once my family and friends come around and acknowledge that I, Smart Emic SmartPants, was truly the greatest of them all. | |
| And I sussed out the fact that the world is run by stupid and evil people, Which it is, but they're not a shadowy conspiracy theory that runs Hollywood and everything else and did both world war war did both world wars, killed Kennedy, did 9-11 and all the rest of it. | |
| Because if they did all of that, they're probably pretty smart. | |
| And that's the push-pull. | |
| That's the tug of war about this whole thing is that you want to believe that your enemy is powerful, but you also want to believe that they can be defeated because they are not smart. | |
| They're not as powerful as they make themselves out to be. | |
| Because while wealth and status and the infrastructure of the Illuminati is helpful, the actual people running things currently are stupid and we can beat them. | |
| Let's go. | |
| Let's go. | |
| Patriots. | |
| We got this. | |
| So yeah. | |
| So that's the evil and stupid conspiracy theory and why it's catnip for people, why it's so enjoyable. | |
| We'll get into our crazy world. | |
| That pod, the current events pod will probably be up between Friday and Sunday this week. | |
| And boy howdy, that will be a big one. | |
| So yeah, I hope you enjoyed this. | |
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