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Toddler-Eating Conspiracies and the Real (Boring) Conspiracies
from Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou) · #136
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minTim rants that conspiracy-obsessed people ignore real, provable scandals like private prisons because they're not as sensational as 'Hillary eating children,' and that the Clintons are Hicks-town functionaries, not secret puppet masters.
- 34:06Tim advises people obsessed with conspiracies to put down drugs and booze, turn off their phones, and actually live their lives.
- 34:46Real conspiracies exist—private prisons, financial fraud—but people only care about child-eating stories, not systemic exploitation of children by judges.
- 35:36The Clintons are hacky politicians and functionaries, not puppet masters; they can't even fill theaters anymore while conspiracy theorists still cast them as all-powerful.
- 36:57Tim argues that sober, rational analysis is more interesting than assuming everything is a conspiracy.
- 37:20When you lose the ability to think objectively, you become a raving lunatic—and some people make money doing it.