I used to have a coworker who claimed to believe the Earth is flat, the moon landing was faked, and Michele Obama is secretly a man. I could never tell if he was trolling me, or just an idiot. I don’t miss him.
When I was very young, my next-door neighbor told me he didn’t believe people could land on the moon. But then, he was born in 1869 and also didn’t understand how heavy airliners could stay in the air. He died in 1969, not long after the first astronauts did the moon landing. I hope the shock didn’t contribute to his “early demise.” (—
Some will believe anything but the truth. For example, some will claim that Bin Laden wasn’t killed by America’s forces, but they believe that him being killed by his fellow countrymen is what happened, and that he’s also still alive. They believe that the aircraft which struck the World Trade Center was a hologram, but at the same time that it existed but wasn’t a passenger jet, because there was no way it could be a passenger jet.
Conspiracy Beach in the State of Conspiracy. In other words, Texas. We should make them secede and never come back. If they think they have a border problem now, wait until after that happens. They’ll be begging to be allowed back in. 40% of them would flee the State upon secession, all the national businesses would leave in a matter of weeks, and all the migrants would no longer go there (so no maids, no janitors, no mechanics, no cashiers, no construction workers, no seasonal farm laborers). Oh and the biggest win for the country? Forfeiture of Social Security benefits. Oops, didn’t see that one coming? Wait, there’s more!
I love conspiracy theories. Some recent favorites are the moon is just a light in the sky, JFK Jr. is coming back and drinking urine prevents Covid. The last is silly because as we all know Covid doesn’t exist!! :-o
Of course we did land on the moon. But this comic encourages the idea that conspiracies don’t exist, and that is foolish. The more elaborate the plan is, the more unbelievable it seems.
Oddly enough, I have some compassion here. My grandfather, born in the closing years of the Nineteenth Century, went to his grave believing the moon landing never happened. It was more than the old gent could wrap his head around. It’s not that he was any sort of conspiracy theorist (although that term wouldn’t come around for several decades after his death). He was there when news of Kitty Hawk came around. He saw aircraft evolve from clumsy bi-planes and dirigibles of WWI (yes, he was a doughboy) to sleek jet liners. But man leaving the planet was a bridge too far for him. Gramps wasn’t a stupid man at all; he admitted he couldn’t articulate why he didn’t believe it. He just didn’t.
The moon landing was fake. After seeing the movie 2001, NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moon landing for them. However Kubrick, being such a stickler for accuracy, insisted on actually going to the moon with his crew and actors to film the fake moon landing….
If the moon landing was faked, the Russians would have found a way to.prove it by the end of 1969. And BTW, “staging” the photo is not the same thing as faking the actual mission.
Three things about the human species that keep conspiracies in vogue — an inability to say, “Oops, I was wrong;” an inability to accept responsibility for our actions (and lack of action) [e.g., ‘climate change doesn’t exist. What man does (changing landscapes, cutting down trees, polluting air and water, overfishing, plastics, etc.) doesn’t impact nature — it’s just ‘nature’ doing its thing]; and, a belief that there is always a super being/power that will swoop down and fix everything. After all, Superman was able to make the earth rotate backwards, reversing time, so he could save Lois Lane and Captain America went back in time to rewrite the rewrite of history.
A conspiracy theory math problem – If Osama bin Laden spent 5 years without going outside of a house with his 3 wives, which one of the 4 called the Navy Seals?
When conspiracy theorists plan a meeting, do they aspire to conspire?? It’s enough to make one perspire!! With that – I will retire from this quagmire – or just expire!
eastern.woods.metal over 2 years ago
Wiley, it’s not nice making fun of the mentally challenged
Jason Allen over 2 years ago
I used to have a coworker who claimed to believe the Earth is flat, the moon landing was faked, and Michele Obama is secretly a man. I could never tell if he was trolling me, or just an idiot. I don’t miss him.
Scorpio Premium Member over 2 years ago
So that is where all those flerfer, space denialist, moon landing conspiracy nuts get their “evidence”
braindead Premium Member over 2 years ago
And Obama was born in Kenya.
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Just don’t trip over all the widespread undetectable voter fraud.
Cornelius Noodleman over 2 years ago
I always heard that the moon landings were filmed in my uncle’s garage.
Enter.Name.Here over 2 years ago
And if you listen closely you can literally hear the bullsh.t ooze out of his flat-Earther grampa.
Bilan over 2 years ago
THOSE BIRDS ARE NOT REAL!
LeftCoastKen Premium Member over 2 years ago
A day at the Q-Anon beach.
PraiseofFolly over 2 years ago
When I was very young, my next-door neighbor told me he didn’t believe people could land on the moon. But then, he was born in 1869 and also didn’t understand how heavy airliners could stay in the air. He died in 1969, not long after the first astronauts did the moon landing. I hope the shock didn’t contribute to his “early demise.” (—
HidariMak over 2 years ago
Some will believe anything but the truth. For example, some will claim that Bin Laden wasn’t killed by America’s forces, but they believe that him being killed by his fellow countrymen is what happened, and that he’s also still alive. They believe that the aircraft which struck the World Trade Center was a hologram, but at the same time that it existed but wasn’t a passenger jet, because there was no way it could be a passenger jet.
nosirrom over 2 years ago
He still doesn’t believe the pizza shop doesn’t have a basement.
Isenthor1978 over 2 years ago
Conspiracy Beach in the State of Conspiracy. In other words, Texas. We should make them secede and never come back. If they think they have a border problem now, wait until after that happens. They’ll be begging to be allowed back in. 40% of them would flee the State upon secession, all the national businesses would leave in a matter of weeks, and all the migrants would no longer go there (so no maids, no janitors, no mechanics, no cashiers, no construction workers, no seasonal farm laborers). Oh and the biggest win for the country? Forfeiture of Social Security benefits. Oops, didn’t see that one coming? Wait, there’s more!
Ermine Notyours over 2 years ago
Will a crab come out and pinch him on the ear?
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 2 years ago
The government faked the moon landing in a conspiracy binding hundreds if not thousands of people.
Also, the government is comically inept at everything it does.
I see no difficulty in reconciling these views.
keenanthelibrarian over 2 years ago
Well of course it was. Doesn’t everyone know that?
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 2 years ago
I love conspiracy theories. Some recent favorites are the moon is just a light in the sky, JFK Jr. is coming back and drinking urine prevents Covid. The last is silly because as we all know Covid doesn’t exist!! :-o
dot-the-I over 2 years ago
The conspiracy-minded lightkeeper there constantly flashes three dots, three dashes, three dots.
PoochFan over 2 years ago
Of course we did land on the moon. But this comic encourages the idea that conspiracies don’t exist, and that is foolish. The more elaborate the plan is, the more unbelievable it seems.
dflak over 2 years ago
I didn’t know FOX News had a streaming service.
Can't Sleep over 2 years ago
I miss the days before the internet, when reality was real, and stupidity wasn’t contagious.
Masterskrain over 2 years ago
No, Dad, that’s the sound of the air rushing through the empty spaces between your ears….
Count Olaf Premium Member over 2 years ago
Or “It is all caused by global warming or Donald Trump”.
davidthoms1 over 2 years ago
The fake landing must be true! Candace Owens said it was!
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Exactly. Absolutely right. Listen as closely as you can. Tell me every word you hear the shell speak.
brucer31245 over 2 years ago
PLEASE, Wiley. Don’t give such people your space or time.
rossevrymn over 2 years ago
opspecial, ultra ammosexual, kat and alfred brown, let’s explore for the opportunity for common ground. Did the moon landing occur?:
dandye over 2 years ago
Right! I found one shell that just kept repeating RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA!
sandpiper over 2 years ago
don’t have to go to beach for that. Many many after dinner tv news and talk shows will do that for you.
jrgtr42 over 2 years ago
“buuuuut, I don’t hear anything…”
Bookworm over 2 years ago
Oddly enough, I have some compassion here. My grandfather, born in the closing years of the Nineteenth Century, went to his grave believing the moon landing never happened. It was more than the old gent could wrap his head around. It’s not that he was any sort of conspiracy theorist (although that term wouldn’t come around for several decades after his death). He was there when news of Kitty Hawk came around. He saw aircraft evolve from clumsy bi-planes and dirigibles of WWI (yes, he was a doughboy) to sleek jet liners. But man leaving the planet was a bridge too far for him. Gramps wasn’t a stupid man at all; he admitted he couldn’t articulate why he didn’t believe it. He just didn’t.
scottbruce over 2 years ago
And a senile old man hiding in a basement can win a presidential election.
timinwsac Premium Member over 2 years ago
And, if you look out at the horizon, that sailboat will soon fall off the edge of the world.
thelordthygod666 over 2 years ago
Historic Facts: Nero did not fiddle while Rome burned. Richard III was not a humpback. Trump lost the 2020 election bigly and fairly.
mourdac Premium Member over 2 years ago
Conspiracy beach is reached after taking a trip down D’Nial.
mistercatworks over 2 years ago
“No, Daddy. This is what I’m hearing, ‘Sailor Moon to Lighthouse 1. Do you have Hawaii Shorts in your sights?’”
Realimaginary1 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Which one(s)? Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, or 17??
jimboklein over 2 years ago
The moon landing was fake. After seeing the movie 2001, NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moon landing for them. However Kubrick, being such a stickler for accuracy, insisted on actually going to the moon with his crew and actors to film the fake moon landing….
awcoffman over 2 years ago
If the moon landing was faked, the Russians would have found a way to.prove it by the end of 1969. And BTW, “staging” the photo is not the same thing as faking the actual mission.
GreenT267 over 2 years ago
Three things about the human species that keep conspiracies in vogue — an inability to say, “Oops, I was wrong;” an inability to accept responsibility for our actions (and lack of action) [e.g., ‘climate change doesn’t exist. What man does (changing landscapes, cutting down trees, polluting air and water, overfishing, plastics, etc.) doesn’t impact nature — it’s just ‘nature’ doing its thing]; and, a belief that there is always a super being/power that will swoop down and fix everything. After all, Superman was able to make the earth rotate backwards, reversing time, so he could save Lois Lane and Captain America went back in time to rewrite the rewrite of history.
KEA over 2 years ago
grooming
Display over 2 years ago
Conspiracy bingo https://imgur.com/gallery/DAlfu9Q
mindjob over 2 years ago
You can’t hear nothing in the vacuum of space, try again Wiley
rdublu over 2 years ago
Rudy? Is that you?
Display over 2 years ago
A conspiracy theory math problem – If Osama bin Laden spent 5 years without going outside of a house with his 3 wives, which one of the 4 called the Navy Seals?
198.23.5.11 over 2 years ago
The last time I put a shell to my ear,I heard a GEICO commercial
boltjenkins1 over 2 years ago
The island of the Q
anomaly over 2 years ago
It’s just the air whistling through your skull.
po'dawg over 2 years ago
Wait until the Moon people tell the Chinese people to never come back.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 2 years ago
And of course, the conspiracy theory about “Global Warming” is obviously “Fake News.”
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 2 years ago
Ah, a ‘shell phone.’ Obviously lost by a memaid.
locake over 2 years ago
That is ron desantis on the beach in Florida.
Mediatech over 2 years ago
Do they know who shot JR?
AlienHillbilly over 2 years ago
When conspiracy theorists plan a meeting, do they aspire to conspire?? It’s enough to make one perspire!! With that – I will retire from this quagmire – or just expire!