"By week's end, a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe an absurd conspiracy theory ..."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Dinesh D'Souza has almost stopped flogging his movie to spread this. I first heard this on the "Curtis Sliwa Show" on WABC the other night.

Now, I gather, Elon Musk is using his new toy to spread the story.

The thread debunks the story, point by point.

You thought Pizzagate was off the scale? "We're going to need a bigger scale."

BelovedAnonymousHat Retweeted

1. By week’s end, a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe an absurd conspiracy theory positing that Paul Pelosi was assaulted by his leftist gay lover.

Allow me to explain.

Link to tweet

[dem4decades]

1. Already being written in the comment section of our local rightwing rag.

[sanatanadharma]

8. Don't they know the Devil made up the lie?

"You know the Devil made that up and whispered that lie first to make you believe what you are repeating so God will have to send you to hell!"

[KS Toronado]

2. At the very bottom of this OP is one of the tweets

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217300658

[dalton99a]

3. Elon Musk catapults the propaganda

[Takket]

4. yeah because if Paul Pelosi was actually living on the downlow......

he would totally go for a MAGAt. COME ON YOU IDIOTS!!!!!!!! I can't believe people buy this shit but I guess they'll buy anything if it fits a narrative they want to be true. It used to be news helped you create a worldview, now it is the other way around. You create a worldview, and someone provides you with news to fit it.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. This serves notice to any rogue & homophobic RW provacateur, your own peeps will call you gay.

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The shit you fear more than being called a Democrat is being nationally know as the thing you fear most.

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[central scrutinizer]

6. Wow, I figured they'd call it a false flag operation

But once again, they follow the MAGA bizarro world version of Occam’s Razor: among competing conspiracy theories, choose the one that is the most batshit crazy

[emulatorloo]

9. Great way to put it. N/T

[emulatorloo]

7. Wtf? These people are delusional. Thanks for posting this.

[underpants]

10. Thanks. I've been looking for this

Bookmarking here and on Twitter

[DFW]

11. I just generalize: A sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe ANY absurd conspiracy theory

This week isn't anything special.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the assailant communicated his intentions to a closed radical rightist circle of propagandists, who then set about preparing the avalanche of social media response lies timed for the mid-terms.

How's THAT for a conspiracy theory?