Timothy Birdnow

Over at Zero Hedge we have an article about a story by Nick Sorter in which a staff member at an Ohio mental health clinic claimed James Talarico was in their hospital for cracking under the campaign trail pressure. The story does not stand up to scrutiny; Talarico was seen the day before he was allegedly discharged from said hospital.

First, who go all the way to Ohio for treatment? I get it; he wouldn't want to be spotted in the state of Texas, but why Ohio?

Second, Hippa laws are very strict and no responsible healthcare provider would dare risk their jobs in disclosing this.

So the question becomes who did it and why.

I suspect the Democrats did it. I suspect they want to gin up sympathy for the 'Rico and having a big pile-on would do just that.

Of course Mr. Talarico owes the people of Texas an explanation that makes sense; the flu wouldn't prevent him using a telephone or skyping. He didn't need to be on long, just say "I'm o.k. folks and will always level with you". His mysterious disappearance was giving Ken Paxton a lot of ammo; it had to be dealt with.

They way to deal with it is to gin up a controversy that can be proven false and get a pile-on. Sorter got suckered by the Democrats I suspect.

But it is still a case of "where's 'Rico?" Ken Paxton can ride this thing without joining in with a conspiracy theory.

I've long argued conspiracies are real and happen regularly in politics. I''ve also long argued the powers that be use them as a weapon, multiply them, so as to paint legitimate conspiracy theorists as kooks. But we now know the truth about Covid, for instance, and for a long time those who believed it was a lab leak were tarnished as kooks and nuts. But we had the last laugh (well, sort of.)

But for every correct conspiracy theory there are dozens of fakes and the media promotes them in many ways because they provide cover for the ruling class.

This particular one looks very suspicious. He may well have been in a loonie bin (it's where he belongs, frankly) but not this one and not in the way this happened. To paraphrase Michael Corleone in Godfather 3 "our true conspiracy has yet to show it's face".

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