At what point do conspiracy theories go too far?

Things I have learned: (1.) The shooter is best friends with the Vice President and his wife, and (2.) A Fox News correspondent made sure the K9 officer didn't interfere with the shooter as he removed the gun from his coat - - after guests moved from the red carpet through security to the ballroom.

It all makes sense. If the assassination attempt must be fake.

(Notes: A woman who looked like the VP's wife was at an event with the shooter in 2017 and Trey Yingst says he was reaching to shake hands with photographers near the red carpet).

All the people who think the assassination attempt was fake also believe that Apollo 11 was fake. Why is that?

This is an interesting video for other people.

Apollo 11 Almost Never Left the Moon

Think Piece for the Weekend

by Michael Smith, who is also moving!

Enemy Maintenance
Democrats are working overtime to manufacture enemies and keep their armies of straw men alive.

“For me to be right, you must always be wrong no matter what” seems to be the mechanics behind a lot of sociopolitical turmoil these days, and it is often utilized by people who intentionally twist positions, most that their opponents never held, simply are not true, consist of terms that have been redefined to fit, situations that have been recontextualized, or they just never happened so they can be “right.”

It happened to me this week when a person attacked me for things I never said, I never did, I never believed, nor have I ever espoused—and no matter how much direct, objective, and in some cases, publicly known, evidence I presented, he just would not accept any of it. His entire package of grievances was a neatly tied up box of manipulated rhetoric, things taken out of context, false memories and mythmaking that was completely and totally false.

WEEKEND

The Week in Pictures: More Illegal Aliens - - From Outer Space

People ridiculed President Trump in his first term when he founded the Space Force as a new branch of the military. Well who’s laughing now? True, it might seem that building a wall against alien incursions is impossible, but didn’t Star Trek solve this decades ago with modulated shields? And we’re already long past making analogies between the Administrative State and The Borg. And this, you see, is why I have to re-appear here, because let’s face it, John is just weak (by his own admission) about sci-fi-pop-cul. Meanwhile, the Persian Gulf ceasefire punctuated with “kinetic activity” continues. And oh yeah—Spirit Airlines died. I suspect this is not a coincidence. I’ll bet it was an alien front all along, and Trump’s Space Force is on it!

Dance

Watch Bob Fosse's snake performance in "The Little Prince" from 1974 and tell me you don't see Michael Jackson's entire dance career born in real time.

Wild to see the source material...pic.twitter.com/CmsAJpiS68

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 8, 2026

Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

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