American Rorschach

There’s so much good in Catherine Thompson’s write up on the different far-right theories about just why President Obama is plotting the military takeover of Texas and the rest of the Southwest and just what he plans to do with it after he takes it over. My theory that he’s going to establish Obamacare exchanges by force if the Supreme Court throws out subsidies doesn’t seem to have caught on at all. But by far the best – and I mean best – is the theory that the mysteriously shuttered Walmart big box locations are being prepped to serve as staging areas for the Chinese troops Obama brings in to take away people’s guns or transit points for the US occupation army with underground tunnels connecting the different locations. When I first talked to Katie’s editor about the piece I was told that part of the theory was that the shuttered Walmarts were going to be used as detention centers for patriots. And I thought, wtf?: is this whole thing just one big lay up for critical theory professors with too much time on their hands? (We’ve got constitutional conservative patriots on aisle 9, LOTS OF ‘EM!) Alas, it turns out the detention center part wasn’t true. Which is to say, not true in the sense that it was not a bona fide conspiracy theory/fantasy we were able to find in our research but rather a miscommunication among TPM editors. And that’s unfortunate because it should be true. But there’s so much other good stuff in Catherine’s piece you should read it right now.