I have a wide variety of Facebook friends. Many have beliefs similar to my own. Many believe other things. Sometimes very, um, interesting things.
One friend reposted something originally written by a fellow of whom I can’t find reference beyond his own FB page, kind of guy who claims to know a lot of things others don’t (because such things are being covered up, of course).
This fellow’s post reads, in part:
"CONFIRMED: THE CONGRESSMEN ABOARD THE TRAIN WERE SUPPOSED TO BE IN SESSION. THEY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HEADED TO A "RESORT" THAT DOUBLES AS A DOOMSDAY (COG) FACILITY. Adding to the credibility of the theory they were fleeing a threat is the fact that they had family members aboard the train, including children that should have been in school.
OVERWHELMINGLY PROBABLE: THEY RECEIVED DEATH THREATS OVER THE MEMO, AND WERE HEADING TO A SAFE PLACE WHEN THEY WERE STOPPED BY A STAGED "ACCIDENT"
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Even some Congressmen are now saying the accident had to have been staged, and that it was an attempt to kill a large number of congressmen who voted to release the memo. Large numbers of deaths would have occurred if the train did derail, (as planned) but with the will of God it mostly stayed on the tracks and none of the cars or engines tipped over. If that had happened at 70 MPH the results would have been devastating.
HEADS UP: Rogue factions in the United States government are attempting a violent coup with "plausible deniability. Fortunately only minor injuries happened, but having this end up being minor defies all probability, it was supposed to be a disaster and it was definitely, without question, not an accident"
(“Some” congressmen were not, regrettably, named.)
Now, I know Republicans are being trained to swallow nearly any cockamamie conspiracy theory that might prove useful to party leadership or FOX’s ratings, but this one has a new twist: it requires GOP congressoids to be either clairvoyants or time-travelers.
The annual GOP retreat was scheduled last year and announced in Roll Call on December 5 (www.rollcall.com/...). I imagine the fun train trip would have to be scheduled well in advance of the meeting, so it is reasonable to assume those details were solidified about the same time.
A month later, Mr. Nunes demanded classified FBI documents on which his famed memo was based. The memo itself appeared in mid-month.
But those all-seeing Republicans knew, six weeks earlier, that there would be a #Memo that the American People (or Russian bots) would demand be #Released. And they knew that voting to do so would put their lives at risk. So they made plans to shelter at Greebriar until…
… I have no idea. The Second Coming? The Comey Coup? Lunch?
There is a segment of our society that has become immune to factual information, for whom perception has been usurped utterly by confirmation bias. That, to me, is the greater train wreck.