Yes. Two points. If this were true Joan Rivers and conspiracy sites would not be the only sources. [For example, Obama's fabricated birth certificate. There was an inside whistleblower who said it was common knowledge that Obama had no original HI LFBC. Gov. Abercrombie also confirmed this fact.]
Second, not everything a comedienne says is literal truth. Sometimes they are just being funny/entertaining.
CIA invited the term "conspiracy theorist" to discredit anyone with both plausible and implausible explanations for things that didn't fit the narrative. They paid the author of James Bond to create an iconic character that made intelligence agents look cool, the good guys. Not a conspiracy guy at all, but I'm against "farfetched" but mildly open to plausible theories. No I don't believe in Q either. I don't know anything about Alex Jones either.
Edit: also I will say I don't frequent conspiracy sites, I've seen too many people that once shown the rabbit hole, go down it and never come back out.
The CIA appropriated the term but they did not invent it.
The first usage I could find was from 1870, The Journal of mental science: Volume 16 - Page 141
The theory of Dr. Sankey as to the manner in which these injuries to the chest occurred in asylums deserved our careful attention. It was at least more plausible that the conspiracy theory of Mr. Charles Beade, and the precautionary measure suggested by Dr. Sankey of using a padded waistcoat in recent cases of mania with general paralysis—in which mental condition nearly all these cases under discussion were—seemed to him of practical value.
I believe in many theories that are labeled 'conspiracy.' The difference between me and certain other conspiracy theorists is that I do require some evidence. 'Because I can envision in my mind that it could be like that/could have happened that way,' is not evidence.
Re Michelle Obama. The turquoise dress pic is straight up strange. I have a couple of vague ideas about it but nothing definite. All I can say affirmatively is that, 'It can only mean that Michelle is a man,' is not true. That's called "the fallacy of too few options." There are three or four possible explanations, at least.
I saw, and read very carefully, the discussion of two master-class seamstresses re the Ellen DeGeneres video. Both were one hundred percent certain that poor sewing/design of the pants was at fault. Not knowing, myself, a sewing machine from a hole in the ground, I cannot say. But again I note, we have at least two possible explanations.
I like your answer. So given the seamstress theory, how does that explain the floppy thing in Michelles dress flopping around in the dancing video. Dude jeans have a hump there but don't flop around like a dick. The seamstress thing doesn't explain, that thing reminded me of a dude, going commando, in a dress.
I only vaguely recall that video. I tried to find some freeze frames of it and all I could find was the Ellen DeGeneres stuff. Could I trouble you for a link?
Yes. Two points. If this were true Joan Rivers and conspiracy sites would not be the only sources. [For example, Obama's fabricated birth certificate. There was an inside whistleblower who said it was common knowledge that Obama had no original HI LFBC. Gov. Abercrombie also confirmed this fact.]
Second, not everything a comedienne says is literal truth. Sometimes they are just being funny/entertaining.
CIA invited the term "conspiracy theorist" to discredit anyone with both plausible and implausible explanations for things that didn't fit the narrative. They paid the author of James Bond to create an iconic character that made intelligence agents look cool, the good guys. Not a conspiracy guy at all, but I'm against "farfetched" but mildly open to plausible theories. No I don't believe in Q either. I don't know anything about Alex Jones either.
Edit: also I will say I don't frequent conspiracy sites, I've seen too many people that once shown the rabbit hole, go down it and never come back out.
The CIA appropriated the term but they did not invent it.
The first usage I could find was from 1870, The Journal of mental science: Volume 16 - Page 141
The theory of Dr. Sankey as to the manner in which these injuries to the chest occurred in asylums deserved our careful attention. It was at least more plausible that the conspiracy theory of Mr. Charles Beade, and the precautionary measure suggested by Dr. Sankey of using a padded waistcoat in recent cases of mania with general paralysis—in which mental condition nearly all these cases under discussion were—seemed to him of practical value.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-the-cia-invented-the-term-conspiracy-theory-in-1967-with-memo-1035-960.960/
I believe in many theories that are labeled 'conspiracy.' The difference between me and certain other conspiracy theorists is that I do require some evidence. 'Because I can envision in my mind that it could be like that/could have happened that way,' is not evidence.
Re Michelle Obama. The turquoise dress pic is straight up strange. I have a couple of vague ideas about it but nothing definite. All I can say affirmatively is that, 'It can only mean that Michelle is a man,' is not true. That's called "the fallacy of too few options." There are three or four possible explanations, at least.
I saw, and read very carefully, the discussion of two master-class seamstresses re the Ellen DeGeneres video. Both were one hundred percent certain that poor sewing/design of the pants was at fault. Not knowing, myself, a sewing machine from a hole in the ground, I cannot say. But again I note, we have at least two possible explanations.
I like your answer. So given the seamstress theory, how does that explain the floppy thing in Michelles dress flopping around in the dancing video. Dude jeans have a hump there but don't flop around like a dick. The seamstress thing doesn't explain, that thing reminded me of a dude, going commando, in a dress.
I only vaguely recall that video. I tried to find some freeze frames of it and all I could find was the Ellen DeGeneres stuff. Could I trouble you for a link?
Hawaiian Long Form Birth Certificate
Something about HI (Hawaii) L..(dunno).F...(dunno) Birth Certificate.