Strategerist vs. the conspiracies

Recently, I've been noticing Free Republic getting more conspiratorial. Where once they were all about minimizing some facts and exaggerating others, nowadays they have their own parallel world where details reveal secret Muslim conspiracies.

They're linking to World Net Daily and Glenn Beck more and more, and the threads have hundreds of replies.

I'm not sure exactly the reason. Some of it is probably the loss of hope, after getting so apocalyptic after Obama's reelection. Then gun control became an issue, and the NRA does not shy away from paranoid antics. THen there was another terrorist attack, with confused initial news reports. And, of course, there's a Freepathon on, which always involves ramping up the crazy some. All this mixed to make the always rather conspiratorial content at Free Republic explode lately. The majority of their posts are parsing Boston bombing pictures, or the latest on Benghazi, or some birther lawsuit.

I'm not sure if this is reflected elsewhere on the Right these days, but what Freepers demand, the wingnuts supply! Certainly Representatives Bachman and Goehmert have been responding. The only question is whether this will pass. I think it will; there are other sites that do the conspiracy crap. Free Republic has a niche in partisan hatred, and I figure it will return there. But I could be wrong - there's always something new for Freepers to jump on (e.g. Syria), so this may be self-perpetuating...

Anyway, what better way to look at where they are than check out Strategerist's labors these days?

DHS Ammo purchases:

DHS ammo purchases were lower in 2012 than in 2011, and lower in 2011 than in 2010.

Ammo shortages are ENTIRELY the result of post-Newtown panic buying, panic buying as a result of news of ammo shortages, panic buying because of idiotic, false articles about huge DHS ammo purchases, and then more panic buying because of news of even larger ammo shortages.

That Saudi guy cleared of the bombing:

The only reason he was peripherally associated with the marathon bombing is because a large group of morons decided he was. That's not actually being peripherally associated.

Syria is proof Bush was right about Iraq

Wasn’t there a theory that said Iraq’s chemical weapons were moved to Syria prior to US invasion? Is there any way we can find out the origin of the gas used like they can with nuclear material?

It's exceedingly unlikely one could do so, and it's overwhelmingly likely that any chemical weapons in Syria were produced in Syria in their own well-documented massive chemical weapons production facilities they've had since the 1970s.

More Boston hilarity:

It’s really fun now that you have competing fabrications from Wing Nut Daily (Iranian Agents) and DUMBKA (Saudi agents).

I love this exchange:

I believe "I don't believe in coincidences" is one of the dumbest phrases in the English language.

cuban leaf replies:

I stopped believing in coincidences when I became a Christian in 1981. Time has tested the validity of that change of perspective and rewarded me handsomely.

See, God HIMSELF is a Conspiracy, so if you aren't a paranoid lunatic, you aren't a real Christian!