{"id":30765,"date":"2023-02-13T06:58:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30765"},"modified":"2023-02-13T06:58:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T12:58:32","slug":"its-a-good-time-to-be-a-conspiracy-theorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/13\/its-a-good-time-to-be-a-conspiracy-theorist\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Good Time To Be a Conspiracy Theorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2023\/02\/u-s-military-shoots-down-fourth-high-altitude-object-this-one-over-lake-huron\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Military Shoots Down Fourth \u201cHigh-Altitude Object,\u201d This One Over Lake Huron<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who benefits from the United States using $400,000 missiles to shoot down balloons?<\/p>\n<p><em>China<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>How fast are we building replacement Sidewinders?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/objects-shot-down-over-could-29201007\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Objects shot down over US could be &#8216;alien or extraterrestrials&#8217;, Pentagon says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Who benefits from blaming aliens?  <em>China<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>More unhinged speculation <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/01\/you-want-conspiracy-theories-i-got-conspiracy-theories\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I&#8217;m sounding a lot like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Gertz\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Gertz<\/a> soundbites these days, but, hey, he&#8217;s had a pretty good run for 20 years sounding like Bill Gertz.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I would like to state for the tribunal that although these thoughts occur to me, I only halfway believe them.  But it&#8217;s getting halfier all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Military Shoots Down Fourth \u201cHigh-Altitude Object,\u201d This One Over Lake Huron Who benefits from the United States using $400,000 missiles to shoot down balloons? China. How fast are we building replacement Sidewinders? Objects shot down over US could be &#8216;alien or extraterrestrials&#8217;, Pentagon says. Who benefits from blaming aliens? China. (Link via Sarah Hoyt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30766,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30765\/revisions\/30766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}