{"id":135682,"date":"2017-12-16T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T21:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135682"},"modified":"2017-12-18T07:33:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:33:46","slug":"yes-alabama-bussed-illegal-voters-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/16\/yes-alabama-bussed-illegal-voters-conspiracy-theories.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, there are Alabama Bussed-In-Illegal-Voters Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course there are. Because it’s easier to imagine something effectively impossible (see attached take-down of what that would have taken, and the improbability of it being done not only successfully but without some bystander with a mobile phone taking a picture of the shenanigans), than to imaging that Your Obviously Blessed and God-Ordained Candidate could possibly lose.<\/p>\n

(And if he was God-Ordained, then the conspiracy <\/i>shouldn’t have worked<\/i><\/b>,<\/i> amirite? Or are you suggesting that George Soros is more powerful than God?)<\/p>\n

I mean, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. But “vigilance” means watching for what’s there, not spreading rumors about stuff that a few moments consideration demonstrates makes as much sense as “The Devil Stuffed the Ballot Boxes.”<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Kee Hinckley<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone takes apart the conspiracy theory of voters being bussed into Alabama (works for any of the many \u201cbussed voters\u201d theories).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\nUnrolled thread from @jonrog1<\/a><\/span>
\n1\/ Okay, you racist hack, apparently I have to do this every time. Like all conspiracy theories, this falls apart as soon as one asks “How?” 2\/ Let’s just go with the most popular right-wing conspiracy, George Soros (because, of course, you blame a J<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course there are. Because it’s easier to imagine something effectively impossible (see attached take-down of what that would have taken, and the improbability of it being done not only successfully but without some bystander with a mobile phone taking a picture of the shenanigans), than to imaging that Your Obviously Blessed and God-Ordained Candidate … Continue reading “Yes, there are Alabama Bussed-In-Illegal-Voters Conspiracy Theories”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,740,347],"tags":[1320,1275],"class_list":["post-135682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-race-racism","category-voting-rights","tag-roymoore","tag-votingrights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/roy-moore-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38562,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/24\/consider-my-reason-seduced.html","url_meta":{"origin":135682,"position":0},"title":"Consider my reason seduced","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 24-Aug-13 12:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"And amiability is just one of my lovely wife's charms.Reshared post from +WIST - Wish I'd Said ThatThere is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, criticLetter (21 Dec 1762)\u00a0More ... #qotd\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32815,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/thermal-inversion.html","url_meta":{"origin":135682,"position":1},"title":"Thermal inversion","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Mar-13 7:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sadly, one of the winter problems we have here in Denver -- a thermal inversion where colder air is keeping slightly warmer air down at the surface. 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