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Do you like conspiracy theories?

Who was really responsible for the JFK assassination? Theories abound: the Mafia, Castro, the CIA, LBJ. I have no idea, though I do harbor my own doubts that Oswald acted alone.

Was the World Trade Center an inside job to justify the Mideast war? I weigh in with a resounding No on that one but I do still have questions about the true motives behind the decision to invade Iraq.

Did Elvis fake his death? Is he still alive? Come on. Really? Why would he do that? And the king would be 88 this month. I’m certain he has left the building.

Was the 2020 election stolen from Trump? How did Biden get so many votes? There were a ton of Americans fed up with his antics as president then and with his constant whining since November 2020. Yeah, there’s a valid explanation for all those Biden votes.

But here’s a conspiracy theory passed on to me by a friend. I was going to give him credit until he told me he stole the idea from someone else so, I’ll just forward it to you unattributed, but nevertheless it’s probably a solid possibility worthy of further pondering. Here goes:

The very public (C-Span cameras rolled and panned the entire time, which is unique in itself) haggling, finger-pointing and accusations in a stuttering, stumbling effort to elect a Speaker of the House was an orchestrated effort by Repugnantcans to divert attention away from the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol.

Before you guffaw and chortle and snort at the very suggestion, let’s consider a few odd coincidences (I’m sure you’ve read at one time of another about all the weird events surrounding the JFK assassination):

It would take only a handful of Trump lackeys to get together to stage a “second insurrection” to disrupt media coverage of the Jan. 6 anniversary. My friend called it “three-dimensional chess, which Democrats are incapable of.” I love that quote, though I don’t know if it is original with my friend or if he lifted that from someone else as well. Regardless, it’s a great observation.

I believe the following quote is original with my friend because he sent it to me after he fessed up to borrowing the theory of deflection and obfuscation:

“So the most Trumpism members are defying Trump’s choice? And it (the attempts to elect a speaker) goes to midnight on the 6^th, including the crazy red cards to stop the adjournment. And the whole time (Kevin) McCarthy (who finally got the needed votes shortly after midnight [on the 7^th] is saying ‘COME TO PAPA!’ Not one fist-fight on the floor. It was rigged.

“It was a fait accompli.”

So, there you go. The man who has been screaming “rigged election” for more than two years has now pulled off a “rigged election” of his own.

And no one saw it coming. Well, almost no one.

There you go. Something to mull over while watching a cheesy Netflix movie.