How NOT To Do a Conspiracy Theory Video

This TikTok video is so mind-numbingly stupid that it begs for deconstruction.

Conspiracy theories have been around for centuries, but the explosion of social media has amplified them exponentially. Some conspiracy theories, of course, have proven to be true. But many, if not most, are nothing more than paranoid people expounding on things they don't understand.

@lovemycountry32, TikTok
We don't know her real name. 

As in this TikTok video, made by a woman who insinuates that the major renovation project of a Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. is proof of sinister goings-on by mysterious nogoodniks. In short, she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about.

The  building is the William McChesney Martin, Jr. Building (the "Martin Building"), dedicated in 1974. It's been undergoing a multi-year modernization, and the outside of the structure is full of construction equipment and fencing. There is nothing strange about it.

The woman who made the video and posted it to TikTok on Sept. 8, 2921 calls herself "lovemycountry326." While she technically qualifies as a "citizen reporter," she has no idea how to be a citizen journalist. 

Let's watch the video and then break it down into all of its gloriously inept elements.

"So," she said, "this is [zooms in] you can see right there, this is the Federal Reserve." [zooms back out] 

Note: She never tells us which city this Federal Reserve is in. There are 12 of them around the U.S.

"Okay, so I've showed [sic] you guys pictures of this before, uhm, but it's interesting because I got a nudge to come back and do a live to show you and I'm glad that I did because I just met one of the guys here and sat and had like a 15-minute conversation with him. And it was a very good conversation, uhm, and he is going to get me some information."

Obama's Weaponized IRS and Dept. of Justice

May 14, 2013 - The Obama Administration scandals just keep coming. The bungling of the Benghazi tragedy, and events leading up to it, was enough to make the administration scramble for cover and excuses. Within the past week, however, we've learned that the Department of Justice used a secret subpoena to snag Associated Press phone records of reporters and editors, and that the IRS improperly targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny in 2011 and 2012. These abuses of power have a lot of people upset, including quite a few Democrats.

One of those Democrats is former Clinton Administration attorney Howard Fineman had harsh criticism for the Obama Administration. He was a guest today on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show (video, left).

Fineman spoke about the AP phone records. "Every possible thing that DoJ could have done wrong, they did wrong in this case. Widely overbroad, in terms of the people whose records they got, no notice whatsoever, before or til long after the fact. No evidence that they exhausted other ways to find the information. One of the key things you have to do is look for other ways to find the information before you do this, and they apparently slapped it on quickly, did it very broadly, and the DoJ guidelines say at the top 'our goal here is to be as unintrusive to the press, as protective of the press as we possibly can be.' So, they violated both the letter and the spirit of their own guidelines in doing this. The question is 'Why?'"

Why? Willful abuse of power for political gain might well be the answer, and Fineman himself has said in the past that the Obama Administration is not above using government agencies as weapons. He said that Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a good example of such abuse.

Tim Geithner, "Gigantic Fool"

One of the things Liberals and Democrats loved to repeat ad nauseum for eight years was the myth that the whole world hated the United States because George W. Bush was president. I'm not going to get into a discussion about how stupid that was, as simply demonstrated by the alliances that continued to flourish, the trade that continued to transact, and the millions of new immigrants (legal and illegal) that continued to pour into The Great Satan during Bush's tenure. But how is the Left treating the fact that much of the world thinks Obama's Treasury Secretary, tax cheat Tim Geithner, is a fool? Golly, not a word. We're not hearing them say, "Oh, the world thinks we're stupid because of Tim Geithner." Instead, we hear folks such as Paul Keating, Australia’s 24th Prime Minister (1991 to 1996) refer to Geithner as "a gigantic fool." Keating accuses Geithner of tarnishing the reputation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), of screwing up Asian economies and even a leader to lose power. "Gigantic fool" might be putting mildly. Tim Geithner is a dangerous idiot. The full article about Keating's remarks about Tim Geithner can be found at The Syndey Morning Herald's website. Chicago News Bench RSS Feed Cool Stuff...

Updated: Tim Geithner Causes Stock Dump

Even as the Stimulus Package passed today, Golden Boy Tim Geithner, our nation's new Treasury Secretary and Tax Cheat, is acquiring a new tarnish. For starters, his idiot policies caused the stock market to take a dump today. UPDATE: We originally posted this at 3:27 pm, EST. Michelle Malkin got this up a couple of hours later: Tax cheat wonder boy Geithner is a laughingstock. Barack Obama, then, is also a laughing stock. Obama picked Geithner. Obama lauded him as brilliant. We now see that the unethical Geithner, while not a stupid man, is not the saviour that Our Lord Barack promised us he is. Or was, or would be. Or could be. Breitbart weighed in, too: N.Y. stocks tumble on skepticism over economic plans+ Seems Geithner, who was hyped by Democrats prior to his confirmation as the Only Man Who Can Save Us, is not the man who can save us. To wit, this breaking news: Stocks tumbled 3 percent on Tuesday as bank shares slid on concerns that a plan to shore up the financial sector unveiled by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner may not be enough to loosen up credit and contain the deepening recession. Indexes slumped immediately following Geithner's announcement of a plan to mop up $500 billion in spoiled assets from the beleaguered banking system. (Washington Post...) What? Geithner's genius master plan, whatever the hell that is, isn't working?!? That's right, it AIN'T WORKING! The newly named Financial Stability Plan expands some of the lending and equity capital investing mandates under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), adds the creation of a "public-private partnership" to buy troubled assets from banks, and will put the 15 largest U.S. banks through a rigorous regulatory stress test before allowing them to tap additional federal bailout money. The market reaction? Investors dumped bank stocks. (Forbes...) Genius, pure frikking genius. Si, se pueda! CNB RSS Feed